7/11 H1: Dodgers head to San Francisco before the break; Bronny vs Flagg; Snake hunting?

Should the Dodgers rest some starters heading into this final series against the Giants? Did Bronny vs Cooper Flagg live up to the hype? Also, would you pay $25 to wrangle snakes?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:08):
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Adam Auslin in for Fred Rogan and Rodney Pete today
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Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah, especially because people have been upset with us as
of late, since it's been like three months since we've
done an FNA podcast.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
It's been a while. You're right. Good things come to
those who wait.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
We're now on the air here at least for one day,
filling in for Fred Rodney.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
H We'll see if they invite us back later. We'll
have to see on that. We got a lot coming
up on the show today. I'll start off by not
burying the lead. We do have Dodger tickets to give away.
Dodger tickets to Dodger's Cardinals on August fourth, a pair
just for you will give away at some point during
today's show, wouldn't well that don't really know and I'm
being dead serious. I really don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
You kind of know though, Oh I'm looking at it
on the rundown.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
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gotta line to Mene. We know, but you don't. So
keep listening here to Rogan and Rodney on AM five
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point today through the show, h Dan Waki, we'll talk
to some Lakers at the Summer League, our friend. A
lot of hoopla last night between Brownie and Cooper Flagg uh.

(01:27):
And obviously some news came out this morning for ESPN
article about Luka Doncic and secret meetings with Rob Polinka
and Lebron. James wasn't involved so much to get into.
With Dan Wakey coming up on a one o'clock hour,
as well as our friend Bill Plunkett, we'll talk some
Dodgers coming up in the two o'clock hour from the
OOC Register as they get set for a big series
against San Francisco.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Bill Plunkett was coming on with us before it was
cool the true everyone else realized he sounded like Sam
Elliott with his voice on the phone, and he has
a really good connection.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
I don't know if it's a landline. We can ask him.
A little bit later, he was coming on the fn
A podcast. It really was, and he didn't us once
he made it big like Ian Rappaport did. Oh we're
still talking about that. Oh, we're still talking about that.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Oh there's a reason he got hit in the face
with that football exactly because in the very next year.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
He would not come back on the f and A podcast.
It was a bad karma. Well, we had a direct
line to Ian. He was a friend of the show.
He came on the podcast multiple times, so we used
to reach out to him directly. Then all of a sudden,
I reached out to Hey, Ian, uh, I want to
come on and talk some NFL off season with us
on the FNA podcast. I see the little dots on
the reply. Yeah, I'll talk to NFL Network PR and

(02:31):
I'll get back to you.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
He at least said that he did well.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
At least didn't give us the rich gain and lose
my numbers. So he need hit us with that one.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Oh, it's Tim Case in the building exactly.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Now Tim Kates is going to be out there with
Petroson Matt by the way, I Rancho Kook and this
is very exciting. Second tour stop for PMS out in
Ratchacukamonga at September's with a chance for you to meet
Joe Kelly.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
I mean before he's back on the mouth for the Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Right well, I mean the way things are looking right
maybe the way their bullpen is cauld still hit one hundred,
he possibly could. I wonder if he.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Brings his skateboarding and with him or just all he's around.
Like Joe Kelly, people still love him, you know.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
What, Vassay. He took a lot of calls last night
on Dodger Talk from people who loved Joe Kelly, and
Vassay even asked the question, like, what exactly did Joe
Kelly do to make you love him so much? He
didn't say it in a negative way, but if you
think of his highlights as a Dodger pitcher, the Poudy
face against the Astros again during the COVID season, where
we'ren't even any fans in the stands, isn't that like
a mural? Though?

Speaker 2 (03:24):
In La like it's that big of a deal. They
went over the figure eight Elliott Smith mural with with
that one. I mean, come on, that Poudy faces legendary.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
He dressed up in the Mariachi costume, which is a
lot of people love.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, obviously, he ingratiated himself well, and he threw heat.
And while sometimes he was an adventure as Fred would
like to say, sometimes he was a little bit wild
out there wild thing, we still embraced him well.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
I think one reason why people loved him so much
is because he was just unabashedly honest. He was himself
and he actually he was aggressive. You know, the Dodgers.
I think a lot of criticism they get from a
lot of people is they're too nice, quote unquote, they're
too professional and workmanlike. And there's nothing wrong with that.
I think that's the temperament that you should have in
a season as long as Major League Baseball is. I
don't think you should have a bunch of fiery guys
who are emotional and ride emotional ways. That's not the

(04:11):
way to conduct yourself in a sport like baseball.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Although during a time like this, I think some people
might want to see him a little bit more upset.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Out there someone in there. It's a little bit of
a fire under their asses. Yeah, you know, I think
we're waiting for that. And Joe Kelly was that guy.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Joe Kelly, Yeah, brought not just heat with his throwing,
with his pitches, but because he could fire up the
clubhouse a little bit. And there was an emotional aspect
to him because winning that World Series in twenty twenty
as well.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
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Speaker 1 (05:29):
Adam San Francisco Giants, by the way, who are now
firmly back in the division race. Dodgers with a five
game division lead as we get towards the All Star
Break with three games remaining against San Francisco before we
get to the break, the way things are going right now,
all of a sudden, I remember Tim Kates on Dodger
Talk a couple of weeks ago saying the Dodgers can
go into the All Star Break with a ten eleven
to twelve game lead.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
About that, Yeah, what happened? Five game lead? Well, now
I know they've lost six in a row. I know
things look bleak. It looks gram, it looks like while
in the moment, you're in this never ending tail spin
with Blue and Kit and the rest of the game
from the cartoon back in the nineties. But it's not

(06:10):
like that. It's really not.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Oh no, they're actually you're the ray of sunshine over here.
They're on pace to do exactly what they did last season,
because last year they struggled in a very similar way,
right before the All Star Break, last twelve games, they
were four and eight. They lost five of their last
six games post All Star Break after I mean they
had worst runs after the All Star break where they

(06:34):
lost seven of nine last season, and they still found
a way to win the World Series. Listen to this.
Last twenty six.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Games last season, before the All Star Break, they were
thirteen and thirteen.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
All right.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Now they're fourteen and nine since June fifteenth, over the
same date, they still have three games to go. At worst,
they'll be fourteen and twelve over their last twenty six games.
That's still better than them being five hundred their last
twenty six games before the All Star Break last season,
and what happened when they came out of it, they
won five straight immediately. The same thing could happen.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
It could well also different seasons, and you know this
covering the Clippers. I mean, they could have identical record
from the year before, but it might be the same
on paper, but it looks different. I think the issue
Dodger fans have now is there's literally nothing working in
their favor. Their starting staff is banged up, although getting
a little bit healthier. We'll talk about that in a
little bit. I mean their a bullpen is in total tatters.
As Victor Brick would say, I mean, who is their

(07:28):
best reliever at this point in time, Probably Vesia, Kk's
on the oh yeah, and by the way, key K
and Edmund and Taye. I don't know if Mooki's heard
or not, but he's certainly playing like he is. Tayal
could be back tonight, should be could be back tonight.
We'll see Freddy Freeman. And this is something Vasty's brought
up as well. He talked about it on Dodger Talk
last night. The fact that Freddy Freeman says he's healthy,

(07:50):
but you don't fall off a cliff and go from
hitting three to eighty to now hitting two hundred over
the past month out of nowhere. When we knew coming
into the season he was going to have to keep
managing that surgically repaired ankle from last playoffs. Guys that
has to be up aching them a little.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Bit, probably more banged up than they're letting on. They're
trying to tough it out. They're trying to get to
the All Star break and then recover. Of course, some
of these guys are going to be All Stars, So
I don't know how much time they're gonna get to recover,
but some at least it's a fair point. I just
think overall, you don't go from being the best team
in baseball a week ago to dumpster fire six days later,

(08:26):
seven days later. That's not how things work. It takes time.
And the Dodgers aren't gonna get that bad because the
roster says they won't, even with them being this banged up.
And I know guys with runners in scoring position against
Milwaukee one for nineteen and I have said they should
still be better in this scoring ten runs over the

(08:46):
last six games.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Even with the guys who have been out. You still
have Mookie, you still have Freddy, you still have showey
Oo Tani. We talked about this with fred on Monday Show.
Those guys still are still in the lineup. You expect
them to produce, and they just haven't been able to
do that.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
They look a little flat, a little stale, a little disinterested.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Maybe, so that's why they need Joe Kelly to come
in and fire one hundred miles not an hour fastball
at their heads. Is that what it is? It couldn't
hurt do something. I don't back to hardball. I guess
would heart if it landed.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
So if he's thrown at an Astro, maybe they could
have used him last week. And that was the problem
all along. They didn't have Joe Kelly against their arch enemy.
Now this is a team to me that they're in
a place like this, maybe because what Dave Roberts said
a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
He could see this coming. He did say that he
telegraphed this. They're playing those REGs of the league.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, while they were winning against bad teams. What do
we always say? It matters how you're playing and who
you're playing, it does. A win is not just a win.
You can beat up on Casey. You can beat up
on the Rockies, it doesn't matter. You can beat up
on the White Sox. And then there's this culture shock
almost when you're going up against better ball clubs, when
you're facing the Brewers, when you're facing the Astros, as

(09:56):
I mentioned, and they haven't got the competitive juices flowing,
they haven't met them intensity wise.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
Well that's the thing, shouldn't you at that? It's one
thing to like, all right, you can be in a
bit of a malaise and if you're playing the dregs
of the league likes Chicago White Sox. You can understand
maybe taking your foot off the gas pedal a little bit,
because you know you're so much better than them. You
can play at sixty percent and still get victories.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
They're playing it, can't find the gas pedal again. They're
founding the clutch and stoling out.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
Oh so this is the old Kobe Shaq to flip
the switch and the switches that the light doesn't turn
an on kind of situation. You know, it's not a
bad theory, you know. I think it's a combination of things.
It's not just that. I do think there's a bit
of a lack of intensity. But I don't think we
can underscore the fact that they've have a lot of
guys who they rely on who have been banged up.
You know, I can't act like not having Muncie, who,
by the way, was their hottest hitter at the time

(10:42):
that he got hurt, and now that he's on the
injured list for an extended period, that's going to affect you.
Tommy Yetman, one of their best clutch hitters, has been
dealing with injuries. Tayo Hernandez, one of their best clutch hitters.
Was amazing, was leading the National League in RBI I
think the first month and a half two months of
the season. Yeah, then that growing injury happened and he's
never been the same since. So you can only have
so much attrition before it starts to catch up with you.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
I'll say this, while I did point out that there's
no excuse for having three MVPs in the lineup like
they have, and that Mookie Bets quote that we got
on Monday or Tuesday saying, you know you can't replace
those guys. First of all, your main guys are there,
so there's no excuse in some respect. But you mentioned
Max Munsey. David Assay is talking about how important he

(11:25):
has been, and so I looked up some numbers. If
you go back to last season when Monsey was out
for three months with that oblique strain, where maybe it
was misdiagnosed at first, or they know what was going
on something the other day, and then all of a
sudden he's out for three months. Whatever it happens, but
they lost seven of their next eleven games immediately, and

(11:46):
they went from scoring five point four runs per game
with him to four point six runs per game. Without him,
it feels like it's happening again. Max Munsey is that critical,
that pivotal to this lineup because he offers so much
protection out there with that big bat and.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
He's on base two.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yeah, he's been their best hitter since June first, and
they're without that guy. While other guys were slumping, you
had Muncie will Smith who's still been hitting. Yeah, for
the most part, you had some other guys covering it up.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
As has been big for them. Yeah, those three guys
on the middle back end of the order have really
been carrying them during this entire slump situation with the
top three guys.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
It is alarming, though just to see o Tani and
Mookie maybe is a little bit more understandable because he's
having a down year. This isn't a slump. I mean,
this is more worrisome in some ways because it's not
just a week long slump for him. This is kind
of where he has been all season long at times.
But Freddy Freeman, he's got to be more banged up
and he's letting go on.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah. Well that kind of begs the question too, and
it's something that Dave is alluded to. And maybe we
can ask our listeners about this too. So you have
three games coming up in San Francisco this weekend before
the r Star break comes in. I can't say that
we know that Freddy Freeman is hurting, but I think
it's generally safe to say he's not one hundred percent,
because otherwise he wouldn't have just hit the skids like
he has the last month. Yea, do you potentially tinker

(13:07):
with sitting him down, not for one for the entire series,
sit him for the entire series. Yes, he's going to
play in the All Star Game in Atlanta, we know that,
but you're talking about what he's in the field once.
Maybe he gets a couple of at bats. Dave Roberts
is the manager, so he's not gonna leave Freddy Freeman
out there for seven innings in an All Star Game.
He knows how important he is to the Dodgers. Yeah,

(13:28):
the sacrifice of knowing, all right, if we get potentially
get swept by the Giants, we're coming out of the
break with just a two game lead in the National
League West. Versus if we go in guns blazing and
leave our guys in they haven't performing that well anyway.
We still might get swept going into the All Star break,
and now a guy like Freddy Freeman who's been banged
up or Tail who's been banged up, didn't get requisite
rest that they could have been taken advantage of before

(13:50):
the start of the second half of the season. It's
a fair question, Bob Quiz hot shot.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
I'll say this, though we've talked about they didn't wake
up against the Houston Astros, they didn't wake up against
Milwaukee Brewers. If there is one team that should be
able to get their attention, it is required they beat them.
In the first series this season in LA it's the
San Francisco San Francisco Giants, and I think there's more

(14:15):
to this series, obviously for the Giants, because if they
sweep the Dodgers, which God forbid, it would be down
to a two game lead in the NL West.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
By the way, the way the Dodgers are playing now,
you can see it happening.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
They got Logan versus Dustin May. The Giants are favorites
in this game tonight. You know how you know how
often the Dodgers are underdogs in a game rare?

Speaker 1 (14:44):
It is really rare.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
And that speaks to how poorly they've been playing. But
I almost feel like you got to apply some tough
love here and say, you know what.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
I know, you guys are banged up.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
I know this is some real adversity, the most adversity
we have faced all season long by far. But there
are gonna be time later on, maybe in a playoff
series where you gotta dig deep and you gotta find
those sports cliches. Yeah, and you got to refuse to
lose out there, and maybe even though it's still July,
you want to play Freddie Freeman and see if he

(15:13):
can gut it out and be gritty like he was
in the World Series this weekend against the Giants. I mean,
if you sit him, I can't see it being the
entire soies.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
I don't either. I think if they do sit him,
it might be for a game there you go. You know,
they play tonight. Then I believe they have back to
back day games on Saturday and Sunday. So maybe you
play him tonight, Maybe he sits on Saturday, you play
him on Sunday, and then he plays in the All
Star Game. I think it's I think it's a lot
to ask to sit him for the entire series. But
I do think some combination of Freddy Tayo, even Mookie

(15:43):
if he's not hurt, even if it's just between the ears,
give these guys a bit of a breather who.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
Can play shortstop. Though if MOOKI best anybody, Oh oh, so,
he could conceivably be moved right interesting, they can.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
Move him back to right field, which and this is
something Beasts mentioned as well, that he thinks like this. No, well,
no he doesn't, but he I think last night was
the first time I think he kind of came close
to admitting that it's an issue. Uh oh. He thinks
that Mookie's offensive struggles are affecting him defensively, and he's
been good defensively at shortstop, but you know, not the
second coming of you know, he's not a great gold

(16:17):
glove shortstop. Yeah. So if your offense is affecting your defense,
and your defense is good but not great to begin with,
so now you're a subpar offensively and your subpar defensively,
and if that's the case, you're a net negative for
the ball club all the way around at that point.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Not exactly Omarvis scale there at the moment, but I
get Vassay's point was he was good there the first
half of last season and he was sitting well, didn't
seem to affect his bat. Then eventually it stole down.
You moved to right field the second half of last
season or somewhere around there, and he caught fire. Is
it worth shaking things up again at this point or

(16:54):
does it feel like you're panicking then and you want
to remain calm and cool and not have that fire
of Joe Kelly as we spoke of earlier.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
I'm I'm inclined to leave Mooki at short and kind
of let him figure it out. He's too good of
a player again, sans injury, which were led to believe he's.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
Fine in illness, Yeah, and illness for earlier.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
In the year that he I mean we're talking, I
mean that was April. I was the start of the season, March.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
Has he put on that weight again? Is it the
same type of weight? Is it that good weight?

Speaker 1 (17:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (17:22):
Lean muscle mask Kevin what's the BMI on him?

Speaker 1 (17:25):
Wasn't the biggest guy to begin with, So I'm sure none.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
Of that helps get Mooki a Dexas gam Yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
At a certain point, did you gotta feel like you
gotta stop using that as an excuse or a reason
or whatever you want to call it, and just say
the guy just isn't playing well, and Mooki knows it,
by the way, So this kind of I think him
not getting a legend of the All Star team is
the best thing that could have happened to him. Gives
her some time to actually get off of his feet,
get baseball out of his mind, reset for the second
half of the season, and maybe that can give him

(17:50):
a little bit of a boost.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
Again, we saw this happen last year. They stalled out
right before the All Star break and then won five
in a row coming out of it. The same thing
can have happen again. Now we're this many guys hitting
this poorly or this many guys. I think Mooki, Otani
and Freeman are hitting like what ninety six over the
last six games. That's baffling to see talent like that

(18:12):
struggle to this degree.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
That's almost as bad as Michael confordo by himself. Almost.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Now that's a different conversation, but it also is a
Dodgers conversation, and maybe one they're having in the front
office right now about him.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
Well, that's the problem too, because you're talking about sitting
guys and giving him rest. What the hell are you
putting in confordo Estuary Ruiz who can run a thousand
miles an hour but can't swing the bat. I need
more has than Kim. I should get more playing time. Well,
at this point, he's gonna have to because they're running
out of guys to put out there. If all these
guys are banged up, kid is going to be forced
to be put in there. Let me ask you this.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
If you put Mooki in right now or even a
week from now, and his bat still doesn't wake up,
then what's the move?

Speaker 1 (18:55):
See like that could be your last that's the break
glass case of emerging.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yeah, because then it's scary if it doesn't help, right.
That's why I think they may be waiting still.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yeah, and I have no issues with leaving Muki at short.
I do think they give Freddy one, maybe even two
of these games off in San Francisco. I know you
want to talk a big picture. The problem is, yes,
he did this in the postseason. I'll worry about the
postseason when the postseason gets here, and I want him
to be as healthy as possible when that time comes,
so I don't want to play around with something like this,

(19:26):
well right now in July when I don't have to,
we're going into the All Star Break, limping into the
All Star Break almost literally at this point in time.
I do think when it comes to him and when
it comes to Tayo Hernandez, I think it would benefit
the two of them and the club as a whole,
even if it means you might have to sacrifice having
a bit of a weaker lineup out there this weekend,
giving those guys a little bit of extra rest so

(19:47):
you know they have more time to get themselves right
for the second half.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
I just worry if you continue being uncompetitive out there,
like if you're giving in to the fatigue, or at
least the perception could be that, or guys could take
it that way. I don't know if I loved I
know this.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
May be a hot take.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
I'm no Jason McIntyre, but I don't know if I
loved that Yamamoto was taken out in the first inning.
I know he was at forty one pitches, no, I
know he only got two outs, But did that set
the tone a little bit in that series against Milwaukee?
Like how many times do you say, ah, we're good,
we don't really need this one, and then you can't
find that gas pedal again, as I mentioned earlier, you

(20:26):
can't find that sense of urgency. It's still early enough
in the season to not have to worry about things
like that, right, Truly, no doubt, I'm not concerned about
the Dodgers. They're still gonna win the division. But it
could literally go from you being up five games to
sweeping the series, being up eight, sure, absolutely, or only
being up two on the Giants, and the second half

(20:47):
of the season is a complete battle for the division
with your with the hated ones, like this could be
a big swing series in some ways, like it's not nothing.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
No, I agree. I agree with that, and I understand
both sides of the argument. I just feel health is
wealth at this point in time for them, And even
if you get swept, you still have a two game
lead in the division. Obviously, it's a lot tighter than
you'd like it to be. And by no means are
you conceding the series at that point in time. You're
looking at the bigger picture. It's almost like an NBA
load management look. At this point in time, I know that. No, No,

(21:18):
of course you don't. You your clipper hat nothing about
load management. So I think I'm sacrificing the injury management. Kevin,
how dar you're knowing about the future. Excuse me? Well,
I do want to get Dodger fans' take on this
to see what they think, because a lot of fans
I've been concerned about the health of guys like Tayo
and Freddie Freeman and todmy Yemen and the like. We
know it's a big series against San Francis Francisco coming

(21:39):
up this weekend. I just want to know what the
emphasis is for you guys as fans. Do you think
it's important to get guys like Tao and Freddie Freeman
some extra rest, get them off their legs, even though
you know it might give the Dodgers set them at
a disadvantage in San Francisco? Or do you want to
go balls to the wall, guns blazing, try to sweep
the hated ones and get into the All Star break
with an eight game lead, even though even with your

(22:02):
full fully healthy quote unquote all your full lineup of
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Speaker 2 (24:19):
They definitely don't care today, No, they absolutely don't.

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Somebody doesn't because they let us do Thisthna Cotton. It's
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AM five seventy LA Sports eight sixty six nine eighty
seven two five seventy. If you want to chime in
on the Dodgers taking on San Francisco this weekend, are
you swear you resting some of your starters like Freddy Freeman,

(24:44):
like Tayo Hernandez were a little bit banged up. Or
do you go guns blazing trying to sweep this series
and have an eight game lead going into the All
Star break? Who do we have Adam?

Speaker 2 (24:53):
I mean, you can go guns blazing and still lose.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
That is true. That's what they've been doing. It's tough.
That's my point.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
Tony Clarita, I think he's a regular here, Tony, what's up?
You're on Rogan Rodney with Adam and Kevin today?

Speaker 4 (25:06):
I think I think not only do they need to
do the full lineup, they need to make a trade
this weekend. They can't be waiting two weeks because someone
may take the player they want and they need a
week to get the player to get settled in Los Angeles.
So he has the All Star break to get settled,
and also they got to move Otani to clean up.
I think it's the Japanese broadcasters who want Otani to

(25:27):
lead off because they want to run like five minutes
of commercials before it's his time to hit. And if
he's like cleanup, they may not be able to do that.
But even if even if the top three hitters get out,
he'll lead off the second ending so they can still
do their five minutes of commercials. We're all about the
broadcaster wants Otani to lead off.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
He's the best player in baseball, Tony want him to
get more at bats. I think that might be the
big reason.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
Yeah, that he wants you want runners on base when
it's his first A bad he's got the top three
hitters in front of him.

Speaker 3 (25:55):
Yea.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
And thank you for the call, Tony. We appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
Man.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
Yeah, the bottom of the order, the guys have to
be able to get on base. I don't I highly
hardly believe that Dave Roberts and Andrew Friedman and Brandon
Gomes are sitting there saying, yeah, I know we got
these Japanese broadcasters and media write people who say, we
really got to put Oltani at the leadoff spot so
they can get more spots in. Something tells you that
doesn't really factor into their decision making and how they're
stacking the line up.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Tony, you know, the one thing, the one song I
don't have because it's so played out in the instant
replay machine is the X Files do doo for the
conspiracy theory there and shout out Mark Snow who did
that song? Who orchestrated? He passed as of late rip.
But yeah, I think we'll stay away from the Coles

(26:38):
then for Dowg, Yeah, we'll get back to him later
in the hour.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
I will say he's not crazy to suggest that shoe
Haal Tony could move out of the leadoff spot.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
If Mookie was hitting better, be an easy decision.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
There's that too, Muki and Freddie and anybody that you
would put in front of him. Vasse brought this that
up on Dodger Talk last night as well, that having
your best player or just whoever the leadoff hitter is.
There was a giant study that was on last season,
and I forget the name of the person that ass
a reference. Basically, it amounted to thirty three more at
bats in a regular season to have a certain player

(27:09):
now thirty three over the course of one hundred and
sixty two games. I wouldn't say it's wholly insignificant, but
it's fairly insignificant if you're talking. I mean, look at
Otani now, he has what thirty one home runs, and
he has like sixty RBI or something like that. It's
hard to be at forty.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
If he started, he's gonna have more RBIs if he
was behind Muki, if he was behind Freddy, I think
he's fine. I don't know if that's the issue. Look,
I wouldn't be shopped right now if there was some
change to the lineup because of how much they're struggling.
We were talking about Freddy Freeman just being out of it.
But if they just reshuffled some things with the same names.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
Sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't really amount to
much of anything. But I do think getting Otani in
more situations where he has the opportunity to drive in
runs would not be a bad thing for the Dodger
brass to look at. And if it's a difference of
thirty three extra at bats, I don't know if that's
necessarily worth it. Knowing the kount of power and the
the game changing hit or that he is, so I
would consider moving him to third or clean up at

(28:04):
that point.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
You know, I have my own hot take coming up
a little bit later about the Dodgers in this hour.
I'm ashamed to call it a hot take. Some may
not see it that way, but I want to talk
about Clayton Kershaw being on the All Star team. There's
more to talk about with that, trust me. But there
was something else that happened yesterday last night, Kevin, with
the Dodgers being off. My guy Murat Saffen is no longer.

(28:28):
I mean he's well retired by it now. I have
a watch, Dolls. He's still still going Ratha now he
only French Open. He shows up, He's he's the legend
selection in the French Open, like Clayton Kershaw was the
legend selection in the All Star Game.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah, he was Roger Feder's kryptonite. Federick could beat everybody
except a doll. There for a while that that was
the thing.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
It's been a while. It's been since Agacy came in
here and had that book open and came out with
Petro some money while they were looking at Poorn.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
That one time.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
It was really awkward. So you guys want to interview me.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
He just I forgot about the door. It happened to me.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
Okay, they weren't looking at they weren't looking at that.
They were looking at silicone junk.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
I don't know what it was was, mister skin. That
was the thing for a while. Fight a real show,
just referencing.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
You know, it's just a funny moment with Andre Agassie.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
That's all.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
So what happened last night, we already lost his Harry
would have pulled it out. No one was paying attention
to Bronnie James. Oh, everybody was locked in on that.
Not just Bronnie James. I mean Bronnie James versus the
number one pick in the draft.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
See, isn't it more about that? And maybe I'm wrong.
I don't want to come off as a bron Bronie hater.
I supported him, I had no issues with him. I
don't have no major issues with lebron But this whole
thing last night was billed as Bronnie James versus Cooper Flag.
And I'm not saying Bronnie doesn't have his share of
supporter still, I know he does. But isn't it more
about Cooper Flag and people wanting to see him and

(29:48):
people wanted to see Bronnie James, Or maybe I'm wrong.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
There is a Heatles like thing among the youth with
Bronnie James that still remains, and it trips me out,
and I think about TikTok generation and how different things are,
Like I work with Carlo Jimenez, who's on the younger
side and still one of the best play by play
announcers in the game, does so with the Clippers and

(30:12):
his social media and the little snappy videos that he
puts together that are so well done and are so
over my head. Yet I'm walking around with him outside
into a dome and all these kids are coming up
and they know him not just from the radio, from
TikTok different and the NBA. It is a highlights driven

(30:35):
league in a low less driven league, and some of
that is Brody James on both sides. But there's just
so many more ways that you can interact with people
now it's less about the game and so short and
sweet videos like this, and just having a guy that
young in the league who has this story behind him
of being the son of maybe the greatest player of

(30:57):
all time. The kids look at him, I think like
like mic or something like.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
It's zact what he gives you? What I can do
it because it's like, what does he really done to
overly impress you? I will say this, he made giant
leaps from where he started last year to how he
finished last year. He looks worlds better now. He still
has a long way to go, it does, but he
looks a lot better than he did when he first
ended into the Summer League last season. But with that,
he's not necessarily making some ginormous highlight plays that make

(31:22):
you like, wow you and he has fast break dunk
was good, but saw he was Steve Francs at five
to ten, jumping above the rim with his neck over
the rim and dunking on people like it's He's turned
himself into potentially a solid backup rotation NBA player LaMelo
Ball was what was he the second or third overall
pick in the draft. He was one of these first
TikTok generation players who had all the handles that can

(31:42):
shoot from anywhere. But it was warranted because he was
a top three pick. Yeah, and if he's healthy, which
he rarely ever, is can be a borderline All star
type of talent at the very least playing with Charlotte.
I that's different.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
The point is you can be popular without being good
at anything. Nowadays, well, yea, listen to us filling in today, right,
you have to argue whether or not we're actually popular.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
That's the thinking of a not a surf song now popular. Look,
it's just different.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
And the way they follow him around in the G
League when he's actually out there with his team in
the summer league for Lakers games. I just haven't seen
anything like it from a player. I mean, maybe Tebow
because he wasn't playing much. But even Tebow he eventually
was for the Denver Broncos.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
Okay, he at least had a phenomenal legacy that came
in from college.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
Totally different. I just mean, yeah, So, I've never seen
anything like it. I've never seen anything like somebody who
has done so little and maybe he will, but the
fifty fifth pick having groupies that are just not a
it's different. It's it's just a different level of popularity
that I've seen.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
So wait, so are the Lakers then justified for not
having him travel with the g LEA team last year?
Because of the rumors were there was like a Beatles
like following and they didn't want him distracting away.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
I think him getting reps should override any of that stuff.
Agree that's too important to care about that, And I
think they'd also like that, like it's good pub for
the Lakers. I think that's one of the reasons they
did it. They acquiesced Lebron and Clutch Sports to bring
him in. And I don't have an issue with it.
And I'm rooting for Broby James in some ways because

(33:23):
he never asked for any of this stuff, and he's
handled all of this immaculately, just am perfect.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
He's been great. He even I even he had a
quote the Laker practice facility earlier this week when they said,
you know, how's your game progressed? How do you want
to get on the floor. What do you need to do?
He says, I need to be a minist defensively. That's
how I'm going to make my difference, make cut my
teeth in the NBA. He said he knows that he's
not going to necessarily be some star point guard or whatever.
He's going to be able to get minutes by being

(33:47):
a really good defensive player, and that's where he needs
to do the most work and where he needs to improve.
So he at least has the perspective of the kind
of player he needs to be in order to be
a productive NBA player. So I respect the fact that
he has that self awareness because a lot of players
is age with that sort of hype. Granted, fifty fifth
overall pick have a different outlook on that.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
His problem right now in any guy's young guys problem
in summer league is if you do well, cool, you're
supposed to. We're not giving you many props or pats
on the back for that. If you don't do well,
it's alarm bell. So it's kind of a lose lose.
You can't win this situation. Last night, he hit his
first two shots and missed his last six right and
went two of eight with eight points. His first two shots, notably,

(34:31):
he hit over Cooper Flag. They were matched up against
one another a few different times.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
To beat him up pretty decently.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
On one post up Ronnie James not getting that lebron
whistle so far because the foul they called on him.
I thought that was good defense against Cooper Flag, and
I think Cooper was fine with it. Yeah, it's pretty
ticky tech let us play and Eddie hit the jumper
in his face.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
But even within that, the fact that people are going
gaga over the fact that he hit a couple of
shots in Summer League and beat up an eighteen year
old Cooper Flag who's probably going to be phenomenal. The
fact that we're going crazy over that.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
To tell you something, the price of admission to that game,
the average ticket price was two twenty three. I think
maybe it was sixty forty Cooper Flagg versus Bronny, but
I think there were a lot of people there because
it's the Lakers, because it's Bronnie. I still think like
he carries that with him for now. I don't know
when that's gonna faseuse how long.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Is that gonna last. If he spends another year as
the fifth guard off the bench and comes in garbage
time and score seventeen points in a fifty point blowout,
eventually the candle light's gonna burn out.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
It's funny because neither of those guys were close to
being the best players in that game. By the way,
Ryan Nemhar, brother of Caser Andrew Nemhard, had twenty one efficiently,
and it was Cooper Flagg struggling and calling himself out
afterwards for going five of twenty one with just ten points.
So he has ten points, Bronni has eight. There's not

(35:53):
a lot to extrapolate a Summer League games because they're
so chaotic at times and discombobulated and there's not much
structure that you shouldn't make any grandiose, long reaching conclusions
about things like this. I'll say this, though Cooper Flagg
looked the part even though he was five of twenty.

Speaker 1 (36:10):
Well, you see the skill set to be that big,
to have that sort of handle shot probably needs a
little bit of work. But I mean the fact that
the Dallas Mavericks be able to add him to the
roster that they already have. Granted they have some injury
issues and who knows if Kyrie will be able to
rejoin him this year or not.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
If they get healthy, they could be a contender in
the weastly without question. They have something different with their
front line with Daniel Gafford, with Lively d with a
d A lot of teams are it's progressing or going
back to that trend of having more bigs out there.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
Clippers are doing that. They've done that with the way
the off season they have.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
Brook Lopez, they bring in John Collins the Lakers. They
could probably still use a little bit more size, but
they're still working.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
Jackson.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
I mean, I heard they got a guy who's in
the class of.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
Jo kicch Are you really doing this?

Speaker 2 (37:01):
And he's in the same class of Jokic, Giannis and
Anthony Davis in getting DeAndre Aydon. I heard he's right
at that level. With his fifteen and ten empty calorie
numbers that he posted with the Portland Trail Pleasures and
with his disgruntledness that remained with him back in his
Phoenix days. I heard, he's right there. He's so closer,

(37:22):
not even close. He's he's there.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
He's with the Giants. Yeah, he just needs to be
with a winning organization. That was the only difference. They're
standing on his shoulders Andre Ayden, because he never played
with the winning franchise before and got to the NBA
Finals with the Phoenix Suns. You know how, God knows,
he was putting up twenty six and fifteen like those
players he was compared to when he played in Phoenix.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
So that is a shockingly stupid take, and maybe it
was just so we could talk about it today and
people would bring up Jason McIntyre. But at some point,
I remember Petro was talking about this back in the day,
regarding diva wide receivers who did a lot of yapping
and a lot of talking and it worked when they

(38:00):
were still superstars on the field. He was talking about
Ohio Sinco, I think, and and eventually as their talent
started to fade, all that talk kind of turns into
white noise. I'm hoping some of these crazy hot takes
like this people just tune them out too, because nobody
is getting smarter listening to people say DeAndre Aydon is

(38:20):
in the same class as Jokic and Giannis and Anthony
Davis and.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
Embiid MVPs, MVPs, well embiide today probably Okay, I'm taking
a shot at a guy. I'm sorry, I don't mean.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
Yeah, we divert from Bronnie. Let's make sure we get
back to the focal point of the Summer League.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
Now.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
We mentioned Cooper Flagg looking the part Ronnie to James
to me, it's even awkward in Summer League at times
because of his size and you see smaller guards in
summer league a lot more. This is when they have
their time to shine. There was this guy Xavier Moon
who was like a Canadian MVP in their basketball league,
who was with the Clip on a two way for

(39:00):
a while, who was really skilled and in a different
era I think would have been a really good NBA player.
But the problem is in today's era, they match up
hunt so much more. And if you leave a guy
out there that's small Isaiah Thomas, I mean, he had
that big run in twenty seventeen, but even he had
his own flaws in the playoffs that were exposed and

(39:21):
then unfortunately had the hip injury. There are some outliers
here and there. You could say Steph Curry is Steph Curry.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
He's such a greater shooter ever, like I would the
problem Brownie's not like tiny. You're not gonna put him
in your pocket. He has a decent wing span. Like
I think I said this last year. I don't know
if we were doing the show at one point in time,
but I don't know if it was on the podcast
or here of FSR. I forget where I said it,
but his comp if he's gonna make it, Pat Beverley
can you be a beast defensively, can you learn to

(39:47):
be a good catching shoot, outside shooter. You're not gonna
you're a point guard only in position, but you're not
actually running the offense with the ball in your hands.
You are an off ball guard who defends the the
one and the two on the other side. If you
get sweat. You were enough of a bulldog and a
scrapper like he did last night against Cooper Flag to
muscle up bigger defenders. That's where he's gonna make his money.
If he can be Pat Beverley, who, by the way,

(40:09):
was a late second round pick international guy and carved
out a niche in the NBA and had a great career.
I think that's probably the ceiling for Bronnie. And if
that's his ceiling, that's phenomenal. You are a rotation, rotational
maybe even a starter, depending on what team you play
for and how it stacked. I mean, that'd be amazing.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
That would be applauded, it'd be a rousing success. Yeah,
it would be one of the better late round, second
round picks in NBA history if he turned into Pat Bev.
Pat Bev, though was getting fourteen points per game his
freshman year to us in college.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
Yes, he was a great scorer. Pat Bev was.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
In high school like a thirty five forty point a
game guy in Chicago, like he had much more to
his game that he showed. And then said, Oh, the
only way I can make it in this league, though,
if I sacrifice scoring and lean into playing hard and
giving that effort on the defensive end. And by the way,
it's not just all effort. And he would tell you
this too, well, maybe eighty or ninety percent. There's some

(41:03):
instincts there for sure. And if he got his dad's
instincts on the defensive end, he may not.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
Be that good there.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
Now.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
Lebron was very good on the defensive end in his
prime and could have had a Defensive Player of the
Year award when marcusolt took it from him. But this
is something where and maybe we'll get to this sound
a little bit later. I think he has fatal flaws.
It's not his fault. It's not that he isn't put
in the work. It's because of his lack of size.

(41:28):
Because Pat Bev is out of the league right now. Yep,
he could be Davion Mitchell, who just got a new
contract with the Miami Heat. He was a high draft
pick out of Baylor. He's already on his third team now,
but it is so much easier to not just speaking
to the fatal flaws of him, but it is so
much easier in today's league with the matchup, hunting to

(41:50):
exploit guys and Brownie James will be you better be
able to defend and shoot, And right now, I don't
think he's close to elite at either of those things,
and he had to get there eventually. If he's gonna
stay alone.

Speaker 1 (42:02):
Well, he's certainly gotten better as an outside shooter. I
can say that for SURET jump shot looks way better
now than it did last year. And that's just the year.
And he's only twenty, so I'll give him time, so
he definitely has time on the side.

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(43:14):
Kevin Figures Adam Alston in for Rogan and Rodney on
AM five to seventy LA Sports. Coming up next hour,
Dan Wiki from the Athletic Our NBA Inside are going
to join us talk about what we just talked about
for the last seemed like forty five minutes. Those are
more like ten. But I don't know what it is
about Bronnie and just all the hype around him.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
We just perpetuated, we did. Yeah, we lean onto why
are people talking about him so much? Then forty five
minutes later we were done with the segment.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
We'll talk about Bronnie, we'll talk about the Laker off
season and outlook, we'll talk about the Clippers and what
they've done. Cooper Flagg sweeping the Summer League, which is
exciting to see, even with this fire for twenty he
looked really good out there. Look, the skill set is incredible,
the real deal.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
I mean, nobody should be surprised. He played the Team
USA Select team from last summer that won gold.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
In the player zone. Yeah, yeah, he's like.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
That, and I think he's more like Jason Tatum than
Kevin Garnett in some ways. But you know, you can
you can put your own comps on Cooper.

Speaker 1 (44:07):
I could see that. Yeah. I hope he'll be a
little more consistent. Well there's that, you know, get healthy,
Jason Jason Tatum, Yes, yes, very frustrating player though, Jason
Tatum for any Celtic fan out there who knows that.
So I know you're not a fan of snakes.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
Adam, Well, I'm fascinated with them, but I also hate them.

Speaker 1 (44:24):
You keep your distance, Oh.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
Don't tread on them.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
Well, what if you have a chance to make ten
thousand dollars though? Okay, all you have to do is
go down to Florida. I don't know if i'd go
to Florida, Kevin, I'm sweating just talking about Florida right now.
To be honest with you, stop there. But if you
paid twenty five dollars, so no, I said, yes, you

(44:48):
get you're able to win money, but you also have
to put in some money on this as well. You
paid twenty five bucks, the state will give you the
opportunity to be able to go out and catch pythons.
Pythons in the Everglades, that's right, don't they have?

Speaker 2 (45:01):
I feel like we did a story on this in
geek News one time on the FNA pods, okay, where
there was some crossbreeding between pythons and anaconda and it
was all turning into a sci fi movie like thirty
years from now.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
At least the baby snakes.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
Are gonna be grown up and more aggressive and bigger
than ever.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
Well, that has happened to a certain degree, not to
the point where they're eating John Voight and all that.
It just hasn't gotten to that point of size of
an anaconda.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
He still had the wherewithal the wink though, that was
pretty cool right before you get eaten by the snake.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
John.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
Do I hear that that terrible movie is getting remade intacondas?

Speaker 1 (45:33):
Yes? Did I hear about that? Or am I making
that up in my head?

Speaker 2 (45:36):
No, intellectual property is always being remade. They don't want
to do anything new. It makes sense. There were already
two sequels to it. The White Lotus Flower I think
was one of them. They did it just for vtb
oh I totally missed out.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
It was good. But yes, there's been cross breeding. There
was a hurricane that came in I think in the
early nineties that brought in a wave of snakes that
then started cross breeding with the native snakes. And now
there's a super snake.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
It wasn't shark Nato. It was snake with the hurricane. Absolutely,
that's what it was.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
So now there's an overpopulation of all of these pythons kill.
I mean yes, I mean legally, yes, legally, I guess humanly, However,
however you do that.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
It's not going to be like the Simpsons episode We'll
Sticks on Whacking Days, which was one of the best.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
It was one of the best episodes. They had whole song,
they had the children's choir, it was amazing. So I
don't know if they have an attire ensemble like that
for this. But if you want to pay twenty five
dollars and go down to Florida, you can jump in
and have a chance to win ten thousand dollars if
you wrangle the most snakes.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
And wrangel is killed. That means kill or just put
them in a bag.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
I think you actually have to kill them.

Speaker 5 (46:44):
Anyway, you guys were talking about, Sorry Kevin, you guys
were talking about Anaconda's Right and the remake of the
movie Anacondas starring Ice Cube. Well, there is going to
be a release of the remake of Anaconda's starring Jack
Black and Paul Rudd coming out this December.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (47:01):
I mean then, yeah, this is like the Jumanji Things
spin off? Is it in the same world?

Speaker 5 (47:07):
So he was in Jumanji, Jack Black. He was in
King Kong, right.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
And you got ant Man in there. Yeah, he was
in that King Kong two thousand and seven by Peter Jackson.
I think it was Where's ice Cube? At least get
his son in there. He was the main character in
the first.

Speaker 1 (47:22):
I think he lived. Yeah, I think he lived. Yeah, Yeah,
he did on there too, him and j Loo. Look, okay,
they were the only ones. Owen Wilson Gone, believe it
or not, was in that.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
Owen Wilson's in the first Anaconda in the mid nineties,
which is kind of weird to think about.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
Now. Wow.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
Uh, Vince Vaughan is in Jurassic Park Lost World in
a serious role.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
Well, that's right, I forgot about that. Just so many
Jurassic Parks they all kind of run together at this point.
For me. I saw the most recent one. What'd you think?
Let me tell you about it, Kevin. It was bad.
Wonder what now, didn't they bring back all the originals?
Like Laura Dern's in there again?

Speaker 2 (47:54):
Right, he was in the third Jurassic World. Alan Grant
was in there. Okay, something the mill all right, but
they're all that's that's what they're like, well, you know
all these new Jurassic parks.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
Well, how many machinations, like what's left dinosaurs in space? Like,
what's for them to do?

Speaker 3 (48:12):
Well?

Speaker 1 (48:13):
This one have the dinosaurs in the snow or something
like that. Isn't that what it is?

Speaker 2 (48:16):
That's the direction they should have gone. That would have
made sense, that wouldn't have killed the dinosaurs at all.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
I definitely saw like an ad for something where there
are raptors and a t rex in the snow.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
Maybe that was the third one. Okay, this one, the
big draw was they're gonna be mutant dinosaurs crossbreeds in there,
and they look worse than ever. They look stupider than
ever they were. There was like a pterodactyl crossbred with
a raptor, Like it's bad. There was one that looked
like it had the alien head, the Zeno morph from Aliens,
Like it's I almost walked out, I said, I tweeted

(48:49):
while I was in the theater. This was last Friday night. Okay, God,
I hope the Clippers make a move right now so
I can leave this damn movie and get on Clippers talk.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
But that is one big pilish. Now, do you know
what the other reviews have been what the Rotten Tomato
ranking is.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
They're with me this time, they're with me fifty.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
That's bad Rotten Tomatoes for the New Jurassic World.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
I mean, if a movie's bad, they usually still give
it like a sixty five. And this is below that.
This is getting the F minus territory here, wow, where
it should be. Well good, No, Jeff gold Bloom either.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
I can save my uh oh yeah, Jeff Golblum was
in one of the remakes too, right, he was that
they brought back.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
I guess I can't grab the reunion guys.

Speaker 1 (49:27):
I guess they can't bring back Samuel Jackson because he
died in the first one, right.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
Well, he did and he died, and I think, pretty
we didn't really see it but horrifically, but maybe it
was my favorite character.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
Yeah, that's kind of a weird one actually.

Speaker 5 (49:41):
I mean, apparently they could grab Samuel L. Jackson's DNA
and recreate him in some form.

Speaker 1 (49:47):
That's a good point.

Speaker 5 (49:50):
There's an idea for you.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
Ronnie, tell me about the Flea circus while you're haulf here.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
Oh, you know, they can they can bring Samuel Jackson
to put him in the Anaconda movie. You know, I'm
tired of these snakes? Why not? Now?

Speaker 2 (50:03):
That would be the crossover I'm looking he survives snakes
on a plane that way?

Speaker 1 (50:07):
I don't remember. I did see it, but I don't
quite remember. Did that have Kevin hartin it? I think
f a podcast plane. Not a bad movie? Underrated, very underrated.
So is Tom Arnold? Tom Arnolds in there? Monique? Yeah? Snoop?

(50:29):
I think was the pilot. He was Dad from Friday, right, yep?
I mean Pops, all right. I think we've exhausted, But
how do we get from snakes to hear? I have not.
We went from snakes to dinosaurs that it's it's a
whole thing.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
Were just I don't think the.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
Dodgers are playing the Diamondbacks in that. I think it's
I think it's the giants.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
Still speaking of snakes, coming up next, Yeah, some news
around the Lakers that came out this morning. Bike right
up between Ramonda shell Burn and uh Brian Winhorse.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
Who's the snake in this scenario, Kevin?

Speaker 1 (51:04):
I don't know. There's secret meetings that steakhouses that don't
involve a certain forty year old superstar that still wears
purple and gold. I don't know. Some snakes in the grass.
Possibly all right is Kevin figures Adam Wilson on an
M five to seventy LA Sports Again, keep listening. Got
those Dodger tickets to give away at some point between
now and three o'clock Dodger's Cardinals on August fourth, ASA
six ninety seven, two five seventy will be the number

(51:26):
to call when that time comes. But coming up next,
we got some Laker news M five seventy LA Sports.
Kevin figures Adam Wilson in for Rogan and Rodney