7/10 H1: 6 straight L's for the Dodgers; Goff calls out the Rams

The Dodgers have lost 6 straight games. The All-Star break cant get here fast enough! Also, Jared Goff goes off on the Rams for the way they handled trading him to Detroit a few years back.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And away we go Rogan and Rodney on the blowtorch
AM five seven E LA Sports. No Fred, no Rodney. Instead,
you've got myself, Jonas Knox and you've got the great
Ben mallor what up?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (00:17):
We have a studio audience? Is that what we have?

Speaker 4 (00:19):
Because it's daytime, there's a studio audience. That's why we
have that.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yeah, you and I are not used to looking outside
and realizing that it's a daylight out that they're actually
there are no street lights on, there are not people
of the night walking around the Sherman Oaks studios just
sort of gallivanting around with spoons that have burnmarks on
the bottom, shopping carts and all the other things that
come along with it. So this is kind of a
unique setup for us here on AM five to seven

(00:45):
E LA Sports in for those guys well, and.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
I think, well, one of the last times we worked
together we don't do this very often, was the trade
deadline of last year and we were responsible for the
Dodgers winning the World Series. It's great because we were
on the air, Fred and Rodney were and they they
Dodgers hadn't made a trade and we ripped them and
then they made a trade right it right at the
end of the show, right before Petro some money. Remember
they made that trade with the Tigers.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Because of it, because of us, clearly, and you and
David Vasse had an on air Donnie Brook about uh
was it Edmund? I believe it was Edmund who was
the who was the pick up by the Dodgers that
you were questioning Dave on Like, listen, Tommy Edmond hasn't
even played this year. I mean, he's got you coming
off with surgery whatnot. And then they made the move
and got Jack Flaherty right at the deadline. So normally

(01:33):
when we're on the air, good stuff happens for the Dodgers.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
Yeah, right now, nothing good is happening for the Dodger
I like that.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
The analytics is like Jonah said, was like, wow, listen,
don't panic.

Speaker 5 (01:45):
Why not?

Speaker 3 (01:46):
I don't know. I mean, I don't blows right now.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
You see, I saw you know they have a stat
for everything, Jones, But they they had the mother of
all stats. This is the worst run the Dodgers vat
It was only six small sample size. This is the
worst run the Dogs. They have not been outscored by
this many runs since nineteen fifty eight. You know what
the price of gas was in nineteen fifty eight, thirty
cents a gallon the last time the Dodgers were this

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terrible for this, you know, six games. I mean, Joe,
they can't they can't do anything right right now.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Terrible.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
I mean, speaking to Tommy Edmond, I do have some
good news, Tommy Edmund, former cardinal. I know how you
feel about that organization, but we do have a pair
of tickets to the Dodgers Cardinals coming up on August fourth,
that we are going to give away sometime throughout the
course of this show.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
Okay, weird. You know you're on Drey today, Jonas. You
know you're doing daytime radio and you're giving stuff away.
You don't do that at two in the morning. We
don't do that.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
We don't give anything away, no, no, If anything, we
would give away a gift card at that liquor store
around the corner for the studio that the race is
out on a daily basis. But here's what I was
thinking about, because you ever had it to where a
song will be playing during a tragedy and it ruins
that song, no sure forever, because that song just triggers

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memories from the tragedy that took place, and I'm wondering
if it's appropriate. But are we going to get the
blame for the fact that the Dodgers have not had
a losing streak this long since twenty nineteen? And we're
the first voices in this time slot that people here
following another sweep, this time to the Brewers. Well, e
the ones that are gonna catch the heat because Fred

(03:27):
and Rodney aren't here.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
Well, no, I think the person and I spent some
time deliberating this the person responsible. So we're gonna blame
Dave Roberts. You're gonna blame the pitching, the bullpen. I
know we'll get to all that the offense isn't playing well.
I believe the person most responsible for the Dodgers sucking this.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
Week is David Vasse. That's who I.

Speaker 4 (03:47):
Believe is, responds, Well, you mentioned his name of Vessay.
I am told the Dodger Ministry of Defense and shrugs
and all that he is responsible for this.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Everything's gonna be fun.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
It's like the classic scene in the in the the
old movie there and everything's blowing up, so I had nothing.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
To see here, move on. You know, I was like, yeah,
you know Jones, we both do.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
You know, we have the shows every day and we
have to worry about today, right That's always been my philosophy.
You know, you worry about today's show, and right now
they're terrible. And I don't want to hear Dave Roberts
say they just need to play better.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
You know. You know what I would like And I'm
gonna go old school here. Uh.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
I want even if it's just for the cameras, I
would like Dave Roberts to come out, have an epic
lesorda like run just explode and go coach third base
on Friday in San Francisco and just say, you guys
blow and I'm gonna inspire you because you stink right now?

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Was it?

Speaker 6 (04:43):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (04:44):
What was it?

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Hal McCrae, who had the who had the meltdown in
the in the office postgames, Long john Yes, he's in
a pair of Long Johnson the guys throwing staplers and
three whole punchers around the He actually injured.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
One of the like literally the Royals beat writers got injured,
legitimately hurt because I got messed up.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
To imagine, like bass a covering Dave Roberts with a
meltdown and then Bass just has to wear a pro tractor.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Because it mind that would I listen? You gotta do something.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
And the problem is with the Giant series coming up,
if this continues, this is just about the worst way
you could possibly go into the All Star Break. Like,
this is exactly the worst way. What if they were
to go up to San Francisco and what if the
losing just kept on keeping on and they're losers of
nine straight and two of those series were against the

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Astros and war against the Giants.

Speaker 4 (05:43):
Yeah, I'm at the Yeah, well, if I was owning
the team, someone would lose their job.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
But I don't own the team. Unfortunately, how that kind
of money.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
But here's the thing too, I can't get over the
loss of the Astros.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
Like what are you doing? I mean that was they
were tips, tipping pitches, horrible weekend, embarrassing, and then you know,
Houston is not even that good.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
They went I got swept by the Cleveland Guardians when
they got back to Texas and you got swept by
that team. And I'm at the point if you look
at the I don't do list. As you know, Jones.
I don't do list, but if you look at the
big board.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
I actually have you say that as if there are
people in our business who do list.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
Oh no, no one would ever just do this radio
the laziest thing you could possibly do.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
No, no one would ever do that, not at this
company that does it go to.

Speaker 4 (06:34):
If you are filling in, you just make up some lists,
you know. Yeah, yeah, well we all went to sportscaster
clown College. There's certain lazy radio topics that you can
do and just come up.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
With the last yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:47):
Or I always love the holiday radio, which is the
worst radio. Holiday radio.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
Who would you like to go to Christmas dinner with you?
Who's been naughty? Who's been nice? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (06:56):
Oh my goodness, I heart a Christmas movie.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
Oh yeah, just disgusting, just rolling there, no prep, just boom,
let it, let it rip, and just let it go.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
But the Astros are at the very top there.

Speaker 4 (07:12):
In fact, I did a rant on the Overnight Show,
which I believe I became a topic on local Houston
sports radio how much I loathe the Astros. But the
Dodger thing, I mean, they're not the key guys, aren't
hitting the bullpen. That's to me, that's the bigger concern.
Like you said, well, they'll play better. They're not gonna
lose every game, obviously, but if they do lose to

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the Giants this weekend, it is defcom one.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
But the bullpen, like the big addition.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
Everyone said they won the offseason, Jonas, they could not
say enough great things about all the players the Dodgers
picked up. They're the greatest team in baseball, all this stuff,
and the two big additions for me that I thought, well,
these look great if you look at the depth chart,
Tanner Scott and Kirby Yates, right, and these guys are

(08:00):
both among the worst in baseball in several key areas.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
And they're not fooling anyone.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
I mean, and we saw remember last year when they
when they won the World Series, and when we watched
baseball in the playoffs, the back end of that bullpen
and the eighth and ninth inning, that is, you gotta
win the eighth and the ninth inning, and games are
gonna be close, You're gonna have one run games, and
you gotta protect leads. And Tanner Scott has the one

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of the worst I'm not into the nerds status, Jonas,
but I'm just gonna give this to make my point
because it makes me look good. Worst barrel rate one
of the worst barrel rates and hard hit persons.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
I don't even know what those are, but that sounds bad.

Speaker 7 (08:38):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
And Kirby Yates is also in the lower percent tile
in both those categories. And that's just these are the guys.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
That damn barrel rate man, every time. That's the one
you look at by the way.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
I thought I thought Tanner Scott had turned a corner
because I remember, I'll give Bassay credit for this. On
there was a day game. It was I think it
was a Thursday. I remember I was driving to get
my hair and David vass went in on Tanner Scott
because he blew a game I think against the I
think it was the Guardians. If I'm not mistaken, I
might have that wrong, but I think it was the Guardians.

(09:10):
And I thought, Damn, Vassay's lighting this guy up like
he's lighting Tanner Scott up. I asked David Vassy about
that recently here when I was filling in, and he
used that as a way to take a shot at you,
and I he's.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Not right really where I said, well, you know, Dave.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
You know, I was gonna give you credit because you
were laying into Tanner Scott postgame. How did that interaction
work with him? When he saw him? Next, he goes, well,
I'm like you and Ben Mallor, I actually have to
see these guys every day.

Speaker 4 (09:42):
Well, he's got to see him. He can have brunch
with him. You know, you have bunch with them and uh,
you know, go to the the night clubs that are now.
People are sending me messages he here Jonas. They're like, well,
you're filling in for Fred and Roddy. I'm sures is
gonna come on here and face the music.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
I don't know where he is.

Speaker 4 (09:59):
He might be out and Rancho Cucamonga today because his
buddy Blake snails. I guess out on a rehab assignment.
So he might be out there making sure that Blake's
got a massage before he goes out and takes the mount.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
So I don't believe he'll be coming in. Unfortunately, what
is the solution here?

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Because obviously this front office is going to get aggressive,
especially if they continue to play like this before the
All Star break. I mean they're going to go out
and try and make a big time move. So what
are we thinking on the back end of the bullpen?
Raldus Chapman, all right, bringing a rounds Chapman, who's still
throwing one hundred and ten, are like, like, what's the
move that would please you that they could make that

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you would go, all right, let's get aggressive, let's outbid somebody,
and let's go get that guy.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
If we're going to turn things around.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
Well, they've definitely got to do something with the backside
of the bullpen. If this is the Tanner and we're
already in July tenth today and this is what you got,
I don't know how much is it going to change?
And we're three weeks away? Does that mean we're filling
in on the thirty first?

Speaker 3 (10:59):
Do we know? Yeah? I mean it feels like that's
our that's our lot in life.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
When that's our day, man, the trade deadline, Come on,
we are the greatest day.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
The greatest day of the summer in sportstock radio is
the trade deadline. And uh, I wouldn't.

Speaker 4 (11:13):
I don't think the Red Red Sox are actually like
the final wildcard team. I think I don't think they're
going to trade Chapman, nor do I necessarily want all
this Chapman he's also wild and all that stuff.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
I know who probably wants you.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
Know who, he wants his buddy from the Angels, ken
Lee Janssen.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Okay, I mean, which, which, by the way, much better
than I think a lot of people anticipated they were
going to be, uh, the the La Angels, you know,
I know, I know Kevin Figures was thrilled about that.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
He's a big They're average, sus the Angels are average.
That's pretty damn amazing considered in the last ten years.
I'll take average.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
Something that'll get that'll get you a banner hung up
there a rice place if anybody's if anybody been through there. Yeah,
they're still selling Otani merchandise there to try and to
make ends meet.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
So there's the Angel has been so bad lately, they're
actually throwing back. I think they're throwing like Brian Downing
merch out from the eighties. I think they've got because
they're one of the their throwback uniforms there, so I
think they're they got Doug Decinse stuff in the gift
shop there. You can check that out.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
So now I don't know if you happen to catch
this because you mentioned the Houston Astros. Yes, when I
promoted on social media that you and I were going
to be filling in for Fred and Rodney Fox Sports
Radio alum now a member of the Herd.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
Greg Tooey, No, I know. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:39):
Two, he's an astro apologist. He's a lap dog for
the Astros. I mean, I like the guy. No one's
perfect Jonas, that's his that's his mistake, that's his kryptonite.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
He's from Texas. I don't blame him.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Nobody ballshes Houston sports like Greg Tooey. Like you will
not find another Houston ballsher like Greg Tooey he ever
leaves the Games.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
Now Jones, if he ever leaves the Cow Show, he
can go work for the PR department of any Houston
professional sports team and be hired immediately.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
And any ill will he had towards anybody in the
state can root back to a rivalry that they have
with somebody that he roots for. But two, he sent
over a clip. But I'm not sure if you happened
to uh happen to take a peek at this. But
Max Munsey was responding to the claims because orl Herscheizer

(13:27):
threw it out, you know, and just said, you know,
I don't want to bring up old wounds, but you know,
I feel like they kind of know what's coming when
it comes to some of those games over the weekend
against against the Dodgers and between the Dodgers and the Astro.
So he was speaking with Aj Perzinski and Aircrats on
the most recent episode of Foul Territory and Max Montsey

(13:48):
had this to say, Oh so, yeah, so Maximum, we
will we will have that sound for you. But Max
Monty he had nothing to say Jonas Max had Max
Month see it basically, you wins. That sounds like my
Overnight show when I go to sound. That's right. Let

(14:11):
me tell you something. I feel like I just tipped
my pitches. Somebody just went four to eighty in the
power Alley.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
So, but but unfortunately Max Months, he says, there's no
conspiracy to be had. They were not cheating the Houston Astros.
And so now we're sitting in a place where the
Dodgers find themselves first time since twenty nineteen. They've lost
six straight, all sorts of questions about you know, what
do we do. We can't hit Mookie Bets, I don't know,

(14:44):
and I'll just try and play defensive Mookie Bets here,
Does it have anything to do with the fact that
he's been jerked around in with playing this position and
that position and this one and that one. How's the
guy supposed to do all that and still bowl three hundred?

Speaker 3 (15:01):
Okay? Yeah, well how about it? How about a two hundred? Joners,
how about the Mendoza line? Can you do it? I mean,
my god, And you know the Dodgers, they.

Speaker 4 (15:08):
Will swear on the Holy Baseball Bible that it's not
because Mookie Bets is playing shortstop. Well, you know you're
not getting return on investment, right Mookie Bets? Since June ninth,
I went and looked it up because I got a
lot of free time. Jonas last twenty seven games, Mookie
Bets is hitting one eighty seven for the Dodgers, one
eighty seven. He's on base percentages two thirty three. Now

(15:32):
the Dodgers have a winning record in that stretch. But
then not because of Mookie.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
I mean he's not.

Speaker 4 (15:36):
He's got two home runs the last twenty seven games
for the Dodgers, and Freddy Freeman also, and nobody wants
to talk about that either. But Freddy Freeman since the
beginning of June is also hitting under two hundred U.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
For the for the Dodgers. These guys are Staples.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
Well, it's it's like that playoff series against the Padres
and everyone was blaming Dave Roberts and it's like, dude,
if Freddy and MOOKI aren't hitting, what what do you
want to do?

Speaker 3 (16:00):
You think? O Taani wakes up right now, He's like,
wait a minute. I went back on the Angels, like,
what's going on? These guys aren't hitting? I mean, you know,
what the hell happened here? Yeah, Freddy free Trout, Mike Sorry, Yeah,
it's bad. It is it is. It is bad.

Speaker 4 (16:15):
But I want to go back to the Munthsy thing
because this is the thing that I love about the
people that support that despicable outfit from Houston. They're like,
we'll see and you know too, He's like, ah my
guy too. He's like, oh yeah see months he said
they're one of the astros.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
Word cheating. Okay, now let's go back to twenty seventeen.
Let's do that. How about that?

Speaker 4 (16:34):
Do we have any any excuses for twenty seventeen? No,
you have none, zero Zippo and as I the number
one tank Jonas that the people from Houston cannot stands.
I point out that jose Al Buves I like to
call him not a Hall of Famer. Not he will not,
even though he's got Hall of Fame numbers, will not
be in the Hall of Fame because he's a dirty,

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rotten cheater.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
He's got the most bogus MVP Award of all time.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
You disagree with that, George, He won the MVP Award,
did he Notine twenty seventeen Walt cheating?

Speaker 3 (17:03):
Yeah, Walchting cheating, didn't.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
Aaron Judge basically swear him off after that, like they
were supposed to be buddies. He was celebrating him, and
Aaron Judge realized, wait a second, this guy's cheating the
entire time. Guys wearing buzzers. He won't let people take
off his jersey because he's got some device, Like he's
on the movie Casino counting cards and his buddy's over
at the other at the other table, tell them which
is coming next.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah, the whole thing's bananas.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
Now, we do have on good authority Max Munsey on
the podcast there with aj Persinski and aircraft talking about
look basically saying, hey, the Astros got the better of us,
but there was nothing salacious going on there.

Speaker 5 (17:42):
This was from the eighteen to one game, in the
opener of the series or on the Dodgers broadcasts. Legendary
picture does a great job.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Quote.

Speaker 5 (17:51):
I don't want to open an old wound, but in
some ways they're swinging at these breaking balls like they
know what is coming.

Speaker 6 (17:56):
Your thoughts, well, do I think they know what was coming?

Speaker 3 (18:01):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (18:01):
Yes, I do? Do I think they were cheating to
get there? No, I think they had a tip on
the picture and that's on us to clean that up.
That's not cheating. That's part of the game. Good teams
are going to do that. So yes, I do think
they knew that what were coming, But it wasn't because
they were cheating. Is because you know, our picture had
a tip and we've we've addressed it, we've cleaned it
up hopefully, And you know, that's one of those things

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where you just have to always be careful about what
you're what you're doing out there. You don't want to
give anything away to the other team, and you know,
that's something that we take advantage of a lot of
times and you know, you just you have to find
a way to clean that up. And that's not cheating,
that's that's part of the game. That's uh, that's being
a smart baseball player, is what that is.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
So that was Max Munsey speaking on in the most
recent episode of Foul Territory, AJ Prasinski and Air Krats
talking about the or Herscheizer comment of you know, it's
almost as if they had the astros knows what know
what's coming.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
I don't. I don't disagree.

Speaker 8 (18:53):
No.

Speaker 4 (18:53):
One of my pet peeves jones with baseball in general
is when being around it in the past is like
anytime somebody goes out there and absolutely those chunks on
the mound, it's never that they just had a bad day.
It's always whether tipping their pitches or they were hurt.
It's never just yet, you played bad, you didn't have
a good performance. It's always something.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
There's always arm forearm discomfort, you know, something along those lines,
back tightness.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
Yeah, there's the go to of you know, injuries possible.

Speaker 4 (19:20):
It's never just accountability like, hey, I was just terrible,
And I don't disagree with what maximunts he said. I
don't disagree, but again, that doesn't for all, like two
wee who you mentioned Cowbird's guy, or it doesn't change
what happened in twenty seventeen. And I learned this from
all these protests we've had over the years. Shows no justice,
no peace, nobody. The players didn't get punished on the
astros so and al tub is still there. So I'm

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bitter about that. I the Dodgers got swept by them,
which assault in the wound and all that, and then
they go get swept by the Brewers. I mean, Mike,
it's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
What a terrible week.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
And also if you get caught, you lose the ability
to say we didn't cheat this time. No, no, no, you
opened yourself up to the criticism and everything should be
in question moving forward.

Speaker 3 (20:05):
That's how that works.

Speaker 4 (20:06):
Ye, No, exactly exactly. And the only thing two about
that is like they're like, well it's been you know.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
It's been eight years or whatever, what's wrong with you?
Move on? No, no, not moving on.

Speaker 4 (20:15):
I don't care the Dodgers can win the next five
World Series. I'm still gonna complain about that. I'm not
changing my tune on that. It's ridiculous and we didn't
even know about it till what member came out. I
think it was like January. Was it January February of
twenty nineteen. We didn't know about twenty seventeen. Obviously he
didn't know about it. I think in twenty eighteen, I
think it was twenty nineteen. I think the story came
out that they had cheated in the World Series against

(20:37):
the Dodgers. And you know, our friend, the bus driver, Roberto,
my old board are both are old board up. Roberto
still paying off, still paying off those World Series tickets
he bought from twenty seventeen. His poor little daughter won't
be able to go to college because because he's still
paying off the World Series tickets for twenty seventeen.

Speaker 9 (21:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
Yeah, Burno literally held the tooth Ferry at knife point
to try and get back some of that money he
spent on those tickets.

Speaker 3 (21:07):
I think.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
I think if you're the if you're an Astros fan
and you don't like the fact that this keeps getting
brought up, tough balls, man, you know there's probably some
guy who's who's convicted murderer.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
I got news for you.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
If years later you find out his neighbor's dead and
it's very suspicious. Guess who's getting looked at first. You
lose the ability to be able to complain and say no, no, no, no,
we were doing it on the up, but no, this
it was. It was all fair this time. No, everything
should be questioned moving forward because of how blatant it
was when had happened at that time.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
No, I agree, but I want what I want to
address though.

Speaker 4 (21:39):
I mean, I can spend all afternoon ranting about the
assural I think.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
They'll they'll take me out and throw me on the street.
Though if I do that, So.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
Like the Dodger thing, like, I want to get the
pulse of the people, because this is the station, this
is the this is no seriously, this is the real estate.
To get the pulse of the Dodger fan. Like, I
guess I'm old school. I guess I'm becoming an old
head Jonas maybe I like I get annoyed when I say,
I don't care how many games above five hundred the
Dodgers are and I don't care that they're in first place.
I look at the way they're playing right now, and

(22:07):
I want to puke in my mouth. And am I
get I don't get that sense from the New Age Dodgrophy.
I think they're just it's fine, don't worry about it.
I hope I'm wrong on that, because I would like
to hold them accountable every day.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
I get the sense there's no no concern. Everyone's fine
and all happy. Yeah, good got the World Series and
everything's fine. Yeah, it's no.

Speaker 4 (22:31):
This is supposed to be a dynasty. This is and
this way we were built. We were told the bill
of Goods, sold the bill of goods, that this was
like the greatest team of all time and all this stuff,
and certainly not the greatest team of all time. As
the season is taken shape right now, so I'm sure
there's people that have complaints, right, somebody wants to get
some stuff off.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Right listen, and you know, as somebody once told me,
you know, let's let's hear.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
From the unwashed.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
You know, a great radio personality one time eight six, seven, two,
five seventy Ben Mallard, Jonas Knox in for Fred and Rodney.
We'll call this a vent ten people can call in
and vent about the struggles of the Dodgers in the
midst of the worst losing streak they've had since twenty nineteen.

Speaker 4 (23:12):
Is this a safe space, Jonas, Is this a safe space?
I mean yeah, Flankey. We will see how this turns out.
But Ben and I are going to keep you company
here again. We are going to be giving away one
pair of Dodger tickets Dodgers Cardinals August fourth. That'll be
happening throughout the course of the show. It's also going

(23:32):
to be the return of It's Lit an oldie but
a goodie. We're going to have an hour two of
the program and Vinnie bon Signor is gonna stop by.
We've got all sorts of scandal, boy, the NFLPA Way
to go, guys, way to keep everything together there when
it comes to your side of the deal when it
comes to league handlings in the NFL. So all that
is yours here for Ben Mallard, Jonas knox In on

(23:54):
Rogan and Rodney on AM five to seventy LA Sports.
But Ben, as you said, it's the vent ten, we
are going to let the people speak their mind on
the struggle of the LA Dodgers eight six six nine
eight seven two five seventy eight six six nine eight
seven two five seventy. Ben Jonas in for the guys
here on AM five seventy LA Sports.

Speaker 8 (24:17):
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(24:37):
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He's Ben Mahler, I'm Jonas Knox in for the guys.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
Here.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
By the way, you can check out Rogan and Rodney
and everything on AM five seventy LA Sports and hear.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
It all on the iHeartRadio app as well.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
Coming up fifteen minutes from now, we are going to
tell you about how somebody who used to be a
star in this town decided to be very critical of
some current members of an organization in this town very recently,
so that came to light. We will have those tidbits
for you coming up here a little over fifteen minutes
from now. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
seventy is the phone number we gave it out to

(25:16):
you so that you could vent about these struggles for
the LA Dodgers.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
Does no one want event Jonas. Nobody wants to vent,
Nobody wants to complain. Here is that what's going on? See,
that's what I'm talking. This is the this is the problem.
People don't care. They're like, oh, it's fine.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
Tony and Santa Clarita, he's on the opposite end of that.
He's coming up with solutions, Tony, what do you want
to complain about?

Speaker 10 (25:38):
Hey, the pitching is good enough. It's the offense. They
need to find a slugger to play third base because
when Max Muzzy comes back, he has to go back
to second because you can't play third with a leg injury.
And they got to try Dalton Rushing in left field
to see if he could play left field.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
That would be it.

Speaker 10 (25:55):
The pitchers are good enough, it's all. The offense is
the problem.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
All right, So there we go, Tony Santa Clarita, all right,
let's got all.

Speaker 4 (26:01):
He's got the answer that, Max Munsey, how about you
put a cone at second base?

Speaker 3 (26:06):
Would you can you do that? Maybe just put a
tone out, an orange cone like from the five Freeway.
Just put that out there. Is that alright, no, you
know it, you know he does you know? Bring up again?

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy. Uh yeah,
I think I think now people are starting to uh,
starting to get the vibe here that it is okay,
it's okay to be critical of the current state of
the Dodgers.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
They need to make a move. By the way, how about.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
If you're one of these other organizations out there that
thought you were going to be buyers as well too
at the deadline realizing oh, now the Dodgers are definitely buyers.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
We got no shot.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
Because if there's if there's a name to be had
out there, the Dodgers more often than not, are the
are the the team that makes the move to get
the guy that that's on the market.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
Well, it should always be buyers. This should never the
Dodgers should never not be buyers. They should always be
adding players you're supposed to. That's the whole point of it.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
You're in contention, you're obviously one of the top teams
in baseball, even though they've sucked the last week.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
You always have to add, uh players you have to.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
Like before you know, third basement, I don't are they
gonna trade for Maximus is gonna be out for another
what another month and a half, two months? I mean
he just got hurt not that long ago, so he's
gonna be out for a while. So I don't somebody
brought up you run up other people, Robb Nolan Arenado.
I don't think that's realistic.

Speaker 3 (27:25):
Okay. I don't think they're gonna get him. I know
he's from here and all that, from Warrange County Eltoral
High School.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
By the way, I mean have a I do have
a name. I'm going to give you a third base
coming up here on. Let me guess Jose Ramirez. No,
not Jose Ramirez. First, I want to give you Peter
and Corona. Peter in Corona, you were with us on
the Blowtorch and five seventy l A Sports, Ben Mallard,
Jonas Noch top Pete.

Speaker 7 (27:47):
Yeah, hey, guys, Mookie is the fifth best option at
short stop.

Speaker 10 (27:54):
Tommy's better, Kim's better, Miggy's better, Keith Cage better Mookie.

Speaker 7 (27:58):
If he just goes back to the altfield, he'll get again.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
That's it. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, is he gonna
get like a special bat or something to hit with?

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Or I thought he was gonna I thought he was
gonna name off sasar As tours as well too. I
thought that name was gonna pop.

Speaker 4 (28:14):
How far back do you want to go, great Dodger
shortstops of the past for a thousand?

Speaker 3 (28:19):
Is Mark Grizzl available? Oh yeah? Try to spell that, Joe,
could you spell that without googling it? Or no shot?
No chance right, no shot.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
By the way, we do have Aladdin who is listening
in Redlands here. You have a laddind Can you help us?
Can you park that magic carpet? And can you help us?
Please come up with a solution for houd. The Dodgers
can fix this mess.

Speaker 7 (28:43):
They're currently in the fellas. Just a reminder, this is
a This is a marathon, not a race.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (28:49):
As soon as we make playoffs, everybody will be back,
everybody we need. Do we really need to go out
there and give up our young guys or something that
we're gonna keep for the rest of the season, or
you know, possibly not sign Uh. We got who was
at Reynolds that doesn't want to come to l A
and play third? Like you know, I think we're okay.
I will say Freddie Freeman does not look comfortable at

(29:11):
the plate. He's swinging that stuff that doesn't it's not
like him. And something's up there. And then Mookie Bets,
I mean he it'll come. You'll be fine. Everybody, the guys,
these are professionals. That's why they're there, that's why they
get hi the big bucks. And we are gonna be
just fine. Do we are? We running into a big,
a big downhill right now? Absolutely? But you know what,

(29:34):
two Dodger fans, you stick with your team no matter what.
And we've been here before, and you know what, that's
We're gonna take this break, come back from the All
Star break, and we're gonna Hey, we're gonna be just fine.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
Aliddin, Aliddin that you you would be a terrible talk
show host. Uh you that would? I mean my guy?

Speaker 1 (29:50):
Uh? By the way, by the way, he brings up
Brian Reynolds. So Brian Reynolds doesn't want to play in
Canada and New York or California, Ben, I'm to take
a guest here.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
You know, I think I know who you're voted for.
I think I know possibly, yeah, yeah, they bet possibly yeah.

Speaker 5 (30:12):
No.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
I love that that cat Aladdin? Right, Can you imagine
like Jonas. You know we do the radio shows like
things aren't going well and.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
Say listen, just wait till the end of the year.

Speaker 4 (30:21):
I mean, I know no one's listening right now, but
to wait till the or if you're like a sales guy,
right you're a sale You're in sales, and you're like.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
Well, I haven't sold anything, but it's the long game.
I will sell something by the end of the year.
By the way, it's radio. I don't even know if
I'm gonna be here exactly.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
Man, it's time for that. We know you have to
worry about today. You can't because I could also align
is like everything could be fine. They're professionals, but I
can also say, well, it's not fine and it's gonna
only get worse. If you want to be the you know,
doomsday prophecies guy, I'm not there yet, but you know,
you can't just assume everything's gonna be all right. And
this is the again, this is the year. We talk

(30:57):
about it every time I step in here. This is
the greatest era of Dodger baseball that all never happened
in my lifetime. So add to it, add to it,
get somebody else, make some moves at the deadline.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
Now, we do have Chris who is live on the
scene zoom A seven in Malibu, Chris who is listening
no doubt on the iHeartRadio app. Chris, what do you
got for is how we fixing the Dodgers problems?

Speaker 9 (31:21):
Okay, first of all, I'm on the I five driving
south the San Diego sell It's some liquor. But anyways,
this is how saball the Dodgers. Yeah, the same thing.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
The Dodgers.

Speaker 9 (31:33):
If you look at their records, they have a losing
record against teams over five hundred, so that's a major problem.
They're beating up a lot of tomato cans, They're beating
up a lot of Colorado's, the White Sox, these teams
those that's not a good measure for how they're doing.
First of all, they have the best right fielder in

(31:55):
baseball playing short stuff. Now, why are we doing that?
Why don't we Puty Vets back in right field where
he's comfortable, He'll get better find a short sup I
would have had. I'd rather have Mickey Rojas playing shortstop
and have him play right field. That's the first problem.
The second problem is I hate to say it because

(32:16):
David Basset loves the guy, but Blake Snou's been of us.
The guy hasn't pitched a single game since they paid
him all that money, and Snell has a history of
pitching will be good in one year and not so
good in the next. So honestly, I don't really have
a solution except for playing the right players in the

(32:38):
right position. We'll fix this. What do you think Black
and Drag talk to me?

Speaker 1 (32:42):
Well, listen, well, Black and Drag is when LeVar and
I are hosting together, because am I wait a minute,
do I need to hold on?

Speaker 3 (32:50):
I mean it is radio. You could be black if
you want. I mean, yes, you know why not? I
could be if you want, if you want that.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
Ben works the Overnight too, so you some could consider
him d a But yeah, now I would say this,
he doesn't have a solution, but I bet he feels better.
I bet he feels better because he got he got
he got to vent a little bit and complain about
the current state of a team that just won a
World Series.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
And we won't know though.

Speaker 4 (33:16):
I want to know kind of alcohol, what kind of
booze he's selling in San Diego, That's what I want
to know.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
Yeah, high end. You know, I think he's originally from Malibu,
so maybe there's like high end booze and all that,
and I don't know. Hey, the Dodgers, though, he is right.
The Dodgers are two games under.

Speaker 4 (33:31):
Five hundred against teams that have a winning record this
year too under there a sub five hundred team against
the top teams in baseball, and against the bad teams
they kill everyone. They're twenty games above five hundred.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
Which might be a problem considering the teams you meet
in the playoffs are usually above five hundred.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
No, no, I think that. No, the Dodgers can play
the Rockies in the first round.

Speaker 4 (33:50):
They'll play the Pirates in the second round, the National
League Championship Series up against the Nations.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
That'll be Chris Bryant's return game.

Speaker 4 (33:58):
And then the Marlins will play possibly, if not, maybe
they can play they play Athletics or the White Sox
in the World Series.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
They'll be good.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
I mean, we do have Johnny who's listening in South Central. Johnny,
you want to vent you got a solution for the
current state of the Dodgers here with Ben Maller.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
Jonas knocks in for Rogan and Rodney.

Speaker 7 (34:16):
I agree with everyone.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
We need to get Mookie back in his original position
because he is being shortstop. He's getting in his head.
Last year we moved him back to right and he
started batting. We went to the World Series. I really
think we need to play Kim every day because that
guy is he can hit, he can run, he can
steal bases. We need that guy more than some of

(34:39):
these slower guys. And then we need to get our
pictures back to show Hey, he handled the Astros and
as soon as he was out, they scored twenty runs
on us, almost twenty runs. So where we got our
bullpen guys pitching for us. We need our elite guys back,
and I think we can handle everyone else after that.

Speaker 4 (34:59):
Yeah, I do the Mookie Bets thing like he does
seem when you watch him play shortstop.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
It's not very smooth. It's very choppy.

Speaker 4 (35:06):
Do you get that sense, Like when I'm watching the Dodgers,
it's like, oh, when the balls hit to him, it's
like a bumpy ride.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
It's not. It doesn't feel smooth to.

Speaker 7 (35:13):
Me, like the guy.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
The guy at one point was considered the best player
in baseball, and now it's to the point where he's
not even the best player in his team, and he's
being moved around at different spots all over the lineup,
and then he dealt with the injury last year. Yeah,
it just it feels like they've kind of thrown him
out there and say, oh, we'll figure this out on
the fly, and maybe he just can't.

Speaker 4 (35:36):
I mean, well, yeah, I mean he was hitting, and
it'd be obviously in the in the dimension in the
multiverse Jones where Mookie's playing like he did in the
past and he's playing shortstop. That's great that Dodgers are
obviously a much better team. But when he's awkward at
shortstop and he's not hitting and it's just a disaster,
it's like you got to do something, especially when Freddy
Freeman is not hitting either.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
By the way, and the calling made the point earlier,
something going on with Freddy Freeman. He does look uncomfortable,
like when you watch him, it seems like there's something
going on to where it I don't know what the
hell it is. I don't know if he's you know,
something popped up recently, but he doesn't want to miss
any time again. But it does feel like he's he's
in some sort of pain when he's out there.

Speaker 4 (36:16):
So anybody can have a bad month. He's betting one
eighty eight Freddy Freeman in the last thirty one games,
one eighty eight. I mean, like, whoa wait a minute,
hold on a second. I can get somebody out of
the Mexican League to come in. Oh, let's come on,
let's go legend.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
By the way, Isabelle is in Anaheim listening here on
AM five seventy l A Sports Isabelle, what's happening.

Speaker 11 (36:43):
Hey Dane, how are you guys?

Speaker 1 (36:46):
We're good now. Unlike Ben, we don't mind. We are
Unlike Fred, we don't mind when you ask how we're doing.

Speaker 3 (36:52):
We don't. We don't mind that Fred takes it, takes
it as a personal insult. Well, I'm annoyed by that,
but I like.

Speaker 11 (36:58):
Anyway. And I am so sick of everybody blaming this
a murky Let be honestly, do you know why he moved?
He didn't need to save his blade? Okay, And I
I say, look in my mookie bit did it. It's
not murky problems the whole team. It's a team game,
the guide. And I'm so sick of people blamers. I'm

(37:21):
gave robber anybody the body? Nine is the garden made?
Where did the garden? The garden went to this last year?
And they want the championships? So gad to friend this
need to calm down. I'm so sick of everybody blame
is unrookie. It's not his fault. And the pretty the

(37:43):
working for pready his echos here bothering him. I don't
care where anybody's there. That why he's uncomfortable, and show
him he's in the game. He sleep, he has a
baby now, so so.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
Blame the baby. Man, it's the baby. It's not it's
the baby. Hey.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
You know what, though, at least those are outside the
box ideas as to why some of the struggles are happening.
Thank you Isabelle, Thank you as loyal listener of a
M five to seven LA Sports Spreading sunshine.

Speaker 4 (38:13):
What is sunshine because it's during the daytime and all that,
but breaking the darkness that we try to provide here
Isabelle's a comforting voice as is here right, She's awesome.

Speaker 3 (38:22):
Everything okay? Butterflies, rainbows, lollipops?

Speaker 7 (38:26):
Is that what?

Speaker 3 (38:27):
Peaches and creams? Something like that?

Speaker 1 (38:29):
Mark in La will be the last caller to vent
here about the current state, last callers mark before we
go to break mark, what do you got for us?

Speaker 3 (38:38):
Finished?

Speaker 7 (38:38):
Strong baby, last caller? I got the most points and
you got me the last caller. That's okay. Hey, nobody
said about Michael Kaporto being almost a ninety percent out.
Why don't they get rid of him and put it
in put Kim? I mean, Kim can hit steel base,
is much better than before. He's an automatic out.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
By the way, how about how about that that's a
good way to summon U. Ninety percent of the time
when he comes up, it's an out. Yeah, you imagine that.
It's like the intro.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
Now your season's going ninety percent of the time, it's
an out when I'm at the plate.

Speaker 3 (39:11):
But he looks jonas like he knows what he's doing.
He does look not the results are not there, but
he looks.

Speaker 4 (39:17):
Like he should be really good. Looks like he was
good with the Mets years ago. All right, kind of
shouldn't know what he's doing, You really know what he's doing?
Like the results have been terrible. Yeah, yeah, it's uh,
that's only pointy. I thought he had more We only Oh,
he's streaming profanity, right, I mean Mark you there, Mark No,

(39:37):
he's gone look at that. Now he's streaming forfanity at
us more points.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
My god, he decided to, uh, you know, take a
shift to Michael Conforto on the air and point out
his struggles.

Speaker 3 (39:50):
That was he's a solid one seventy five hit.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Well, look it is Ben Mallard Jonas Knox in for
Rogan Rodney here on a five to seventy LA Sports.
So if you have, if you have further critiques on
how the Dodgers can get this thing figured out, maybe
you could go ahead and fill us in. At some
point during the course of the show eight sixty six
nine eight seven two five seventy. I was going to
bring up this because we were talking about third base options.

(40:14):
I mean, there is some speculation that maybe Alex Bregman
could be available. Just saying there is some speculation. If
you were really kind, I would rather play demons.

Speaker 4 (40:24):
I would rather play eight on eight position players on
the field than nine if it's Bregman.

Speaker 3 (40:30):
I don't want no.

Speaker 4 (40:31):
I'm not just saying I want to play a man short, Okay,
I want to have an empty spot at third base
if it's Bregman. No, nothing to do with that guy,
that swarm.

Speaker 8 (40:41):
No, so.

Speaker 3 (40:44):
Not at the right price. There is no right price.
I don't want the guy.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
What if they said, we'll give you Alex Bregman for
James Outman straight up listen, they could give me the
Charles River I don't want. I don't want. You know,
you know, you know Kershaw would do the deal based
on how he yelled it. James Outman in the outfield recently, that.

Speaker 4 (41:03):
Album is gonna be He'll be gone. I don't doubt
that he's going to be gone. And they they're gonna
make some No, Bregman's not gonna come. They have not
the core guy. Now they've they've added there have been
players that have played for the Dodgers that were on
the twenty seventeen Astros.

Speaker 3 (41:17):
But you can't Bregman, Springer and Altuve, no chance, zero chants. Yeah,
those guys do it off. You can't. Now those guys
are done. It is. It is Ben Mallard.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
Jonas knocks in for Rogan and Rodney here on AM
five to seventy l A Sports. You can listen to
the show as always on the iHeartRadio app. But somebody
who was a star in this town. They've got some critiques,
some complaints themselves about somebody currently a champion in this town.
Find out who we're talking about next year on AM
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Speaker 1 (42:05):
It's Rogan and Rodney and five to seven of the
LA Sports. He's Ben Malar. I'm Jonas Knox in for
the guys. Coming up, we'll call it about ten minutes
from now. We are going to have an oldie but
a goodie back on the show. Then the triumphant return.

Speaker 3 (42:20):
It's lit.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
So where are you going to light it up with
the great Kevin figures coming up here in about ten
minutes from now. By the way, Ben, I don't know
if you saw the critique from one Jared Goff. He's
part of the Netflix Quarterback show that's currently going on
because that's what Netflix needed, another show, because they don't
have enough shows going on when you go to the

(42:44):
app there, but he discussed the decision by the Rams
to trade him to the Lions and said the following quote.
Three weeks after the last game of the season, get
a call from Sean and really did not expect anything.
He lets me know they're trading me to and I'm like, whoa, Okay,
all right, what the hell, what's happening? I would say

(43:04):
about thirty seconds after that phone call, it was on Twitter.
You feel like you've been betrayed or you feel like
you're not wanted. And I think for me, ultimately, it
was the fact that there was not a conversation had
and there wasn't like a hey, we're thinking of moving
on type thing. There was nothing. Goff continued. You wish
that it wasn't such a blind side and that there
was some sort of maturity I guess to have that conversation,

(43:27):
to be able to let me know what was going
on and how things went down and why this is happening.
It was my first real taste of true adversity. And
your career is kind of at a fork in the road.
That from Jared Goff talking about the trade from the
La Rams.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
Yeah, first of all, I love the.

Speaker 4 (43:43):
Fact Jonas that he's spilling his guts here, like he's
in confessional or something on the Netflix and all that.
But was he the only person that did not realize
the disdain that Sean McVay had for him while he
was playing, Like was he so obtuse Jared Goff when
he was playing for them, Like he didn't realize like
the body.

Speaker 3 (44:02):
Language and it was just not going well.

Speaker 4 (44:05):
And and now he's like, it's a he's he's taking
some shots at the Rams. Since he went to the
Lions and all that, he should be the happiest guy
in the world. Because if he had stayed with the Rams, Uh, he.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
Would he would have been out. I don't know he'd
been out of the NFL, but he would not be
in the position he's in now.

Speaker 4 (44:20):
He's he's beloved in Detroit, Jared Goff and you know,
he's the guy that was the quarterback when the Lions
came out of the darkness and all that.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
And so they love him there and he's still upset.

Speaker 4 (44:30):
That tells you he wanted to stay with the Rams,
even though if you look at his career arc, it
was going the wrong direction. He was not the McVeigh.
He was out of the bubble of trust with Sean
McVay and Golf. Wasn't there a playoff game at the
end there where he could have played?

Speaker 1 (44:47):
And they went with the backup, and yeah, so so
John Wafford, remember him, Yes, the guy, the guy looks
like Gary oldman, John Wafford.

Speaker 3 (44:55):
They gave him the start.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
And the only reason Golf came in and played because
it was at Seattle, is because Wafford got injured either
pregame or on like the first game of the of
the first play of the game, Golf came in to
get to his credit. They actually won that game, and
then they lost the next week to Green Bay at Lambeau.
And that's when Aaron Donald had some shoulder issue or
something like that. But yeah, it was like like you

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started hearing rumblings in town about how him and Golf
weren't Sean mcmah and Golf weren't speaking, they weren't getting
along anymore.

Speaker 3 (45:26):
And then all of a sudden.

Speaker 4 (45:29):
And Golf, this sounds like Lebron or Aaron Rodgers level
passive aggressive stuff from Jared Goff, doesn't it. He got
that vibe, that passion aggressive vibe to it, like he's
he's trying to prove something. But he doesn't want to
admit that, you know, he actually needed to be traded.
I think the only surprise would be this Jonas. The
only defense I would have for Jared Goff is that

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nobody in town thought he could be traded.

Speaker 3 (45:52):
They thought considering how he was playing.

Speaker 4 (45:55):
With the Rams, and it wasn't particularly great near the
end there, and with the contract he had. I remember
there were there were NFL gurus like that contract's unmovable.
No one's gonna take Jared Goff's contract. There were two
contracts at that time, Jared Goff and then Carson Wentz
with Philadelphia. No one's gonna take those contracts. Both of
them ended up being traded, but Jared Goff in particular,

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it was like the whole body language with McVeigh. He
wasn't playing well, he had the massive contract. I think
the Rams, the reason they didn't tell Golf that he
could be traded is because they thought no one was
dumb enough to trade for him. And then the Lions
are like, all right, well we'll give you Matthew Stafford,
and the Rams would make that trade. Jonas ten out
of ten times, twelve out of ten times. They won

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a Super Bowl with Matthew Stafford. Have the Lions won
a Super Bowl with Jared Goff. They've been good enough
the last couple of years. You didn'tit that right, even
though you're a Bears got the Lions have been good
enough to be a super Bowl team, but they haven't
gotten there.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
Yeah, and they had the meltdown against the Niners in
the NFC title game.

Speaker 3 (46:54):
That's again they should have won.

Speaker 1 (46:55):
They got put in a clown suit by Washington at
home last year in a play playoff game, and now
they lose all their both their coordinators, and now you
wonder how that's gonna affect them moving forward. Yeah, I
look at it, I go I can understand why it's
a sore spot for golf because he felt blindsided. Sean
mcvays even admitted that he probably should have handled it
a little better, So I can understand why he looks

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at it and goes it's a little bit of a
sore spot, especially when you see them go and win
the Super Bowl the next year, like like that's what
made it even worse. But if you're Jared Goff, he
was never going to be loved in this town the
way that he's loved in Detroit.

Speaker 4 (47:30):
Ever, jonas Matthew Stafford won the Super Bowl, he's not
as loved here as Jared GoF is with the Lions.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
He didn't want anything.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
You had politicians show up to the parade in Saint Louis,
Rams Jerseys know what.

Speaker 3 (47:44):
It was My entire my entire life.

Speaker 4 (47:46):
Like the only time you watch the Lions is on Thanksgiving,
right because they play, they're forced to play on Thanksgiving
and all that.

Speaker 3 (47:51):
But uh, you watch it like Local Detroit TV. Jared
Goff's doing all kinds of commercials.

Speaker 4 (47:56):
He's doing all the stuff star yeah, like here, like
Aker guys get that, right, I mean, that's what he's
getting and Dodger guys get it here. But he's getting
it with the Lions. You would not get that if
you had stayed as the Rams quarterback and all that.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
So it worked out better for everybody involved, it really did.

Speaker 4 (48:12):
And then Golf's like, I know it's good for the
TV show, but he's treating McVeigh like you know, McVeigh stole.

Speaker 3 (48:17):
His lunch money or something like that, and unfollowed him
on social media. It's like, come on, little too emotional
for me.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
Yeah, I mean, and listen everything worked out, he got paid,
and and he's going to at some point because it's
the Lions. They're going to put his number up, retire
his number there in Detroit and kind of be selling.
But he was never going to get that sort of
treatment from La.

Speaker 3 (48:36):
So listen, the.

Speaker 4 (48:36):
Rams gave him a great contract. The Lions have given
him another contract.

Speaker 3 (48:40):
Like, it's so good for him.

Speaker 4 (48:41):
He's apparently he's got you know, he's married now, he's
got a lot of good things going on. Jered, No,
I do the whole grudge thing. I've lost gigs. You
know that you've lost jobs. Jonas, We've lost jobs, and
I do like to hold the grudge, but I move
on too. I like, I you have stuff to do here.
But it seems like golfs this is in the back
of his head at all times, like this is this

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is motivating him, and this is driving Jared Goff and
the Rams are better off.

Speaker 3 (49:07):
They made the right movement. They made the right move.
And who knows how long Stafford's gonna play.

Speaker 4 (49:12):
Maybe he plays one more year or two more years,
but it's probably not more than two more years, and
then they'll go out and have to get some other
quarterback with the rams and all that.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
But we can talk about that another time. But I'm
fine with it. And I'm sure the people at Netflix,
you think they were a little aroused there. We got
a store here, we got something.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
I mean, yeah, you had Kirk Cousins complaining, Joe Burrow
talking about his batmobile. Yeah, they've done a lot for themselves. Well,
Kirk Cousins is.

Speaker 4 (49:37):
The It's like he's some kind of weird How do
you the guy Cousins is the most regular guy, despite
making a gazillion dollars playing quarterback in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (49:48):
When when he was playing for the Vikings, I had
on the Overnight Show. We had a guy call up
that worked at a raising canes in Minnesota. Cousins would
go in there after practice to buy the family dinner
raising cans. Well, Tom Brady's eating a kale salad.

Speaker 4 (50:03):
Uh, you know with the Patriots and and uh and
and and and he's out there Cousins buying the the
caneiac combo on his way home.

Speaker 1 (50:11):
Kirk, you got all that money, can't you have a
real addiction? Like drugs are alcohol like, like be a
grown up for Christ's sake, Enough with this raisin cane stuff.

Speaker 4 (50:20):
Yeah, yeah, come on now, yeah, I for you, that
would be a drug, Jonas. If if you were eating
fried chicken, that would be a kin defenanyl.

Speaker 3 (50:29):
You know, I've never you know, I've never had raisin canes.
You can no. I love it now.

Speaker 4 (50:33):
Some people, some people are team Chick fil A and
all that, but I'm team raising Canes because when I
was a kid, I always loved the chicken figure Jonas,
and I said, someday I'll be an adult and I'm
going to open a line of fast food restaurants that'll
sell chicken fingers.

Speaker 1 (50:47):
You know where you used to have a great fried chicken.
A supermarket that used to be the go to for
my mom because KFC was too expensive.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
You go to the supermarket. Let me tell you something.
There's a legendary spot.

Speaker 4 (50:59):
I tell we talked every once in a while when
I worked at the old Am eleven fifty in Burbach.
There at Burbank across the street, right next to one
of those big office towers near where Warner Brothers was
this bar called Dults, and all the all the radio
stations for both major radio companies were in those two buildings.

Speaker 3 (51:17):
This goes back, you know, thirty years we would all
go into there that it was like a little bar,
corner bar there, restaurant bar. Everyone would go in there
and everyone ordered the chicken fingers. It was amazing. And
that place went out of business.

Speaker 4 (51:30):
And thirty years later, Jonas, I still complained that I
cannot get my hands on that recipe. I mean, everyone
in time, it was amazing. It was back like we
would go in there, Jonas after the Actually we used
to go before the show because I did a night
show back then at at night with the great Dave Smith,
and we would we were going there, and it was
like the people for that were taping shows at the

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different studios. This was back when like the thing of
the show, like Seinfeld was on Drew Carey Show. These
were like the big shows back then. They were I'll
go in there and eat the chicken figures. Amazing, that's
what I miss.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
And all these years later, you've got your own chicken
fingers named after you. And that's right Kansas City, baby,
I can't get in here in LA. But in Kansas
City the ben mallor chicken figures at the landing, that's
great location.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
In Liberty, Missouri. I think I've got a urinal cake
with my picture on it somewhere.

Speaker 4 (52:17):
If that helps anybody, Well, you earned that, Joe. I
heard stories about how you earned that.

Speaker 3 (52:24):
The hard way.

Speaker 8 (52:25):
Ben.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
It is Rogan Irani here on AM five seventy LA Sports.
He's Ben Mallard. I'm Jonas Knox coming up next here.
We are going to have an oldie, but a goodie
rising from the ashes. It's lit here on AM five
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