7/11 H1: Dodgers lose to Phillies again; Berhalter fired by USMNT; Haiku

The Dodgers lost to the Phillies as defensive mishaps hurt Gavin Stone. Greg Berhalter was fired by the US Mens Soccer Federation. Vic the Brick haiku

Episode Transcript

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All right, let's go Fred RoganRodney p on five seventy LA Sports.
We've got a big one hour showtoday. Some housekeeping off the top.
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about. Barnesay, Austin Barnes willbe at the Hollywood Park show. The
show. Prior to this, wehad key A Hernandez. That's when the

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security guy with a gun was there. Before that, we had Bruce our
Grattarol and the security guy with agun was there. So for Austin Barnes,
I have a sense that the securityguy with a gun will be there
as well. That's the that's thekind of crowds we're getting. Not that
anybody's becoming unruly, but there areso many people that we have to keep

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people in check and under control.July twenty second, be there, Hollywood
Park. We are so thrilled thatAustin Barnes will join us on the show,
and we invite you to be apart of it. So get your
butt down there, Get down there, damn it right that was going on
exactly, get down there. Okay, one hour show today and let's just

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get settered with this shoddy defense failsGavin Stone last night. Rodney. Uh
yeah, yeah, I guess youcould say that. And it wasn't his
best out in either, you know, I believe, but but yeah,
defense didn't didn't do him any favors, uh, Freddy yesterday and look they

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they the Dodgers are hitting a teamthat's uh that's getting healthy and hitting their
stride while the Dodgers are trying tofigure out their health on a daily basis,
and not to make any excuses,because you got a plan whether you're
hurt or not. But it justit's just different times for these two different
these two teams, and the Philliesare are are hot with their guys coming

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back, you know, they getSchwarber and and Harper coming back, and
even before that they were playing well. So look, say it's the right
time or the wrong time, whateverit is. At this point in the
season, the Phillies are playing betterthan Dodgers. I don't think it's any
shot that they have beaten them twogames in a row. Yeah, and

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they beat him, but defensively,that was not good last night. No.
I thought Gavin Stone was fine,not his best, outing out his
worst, but he just didn't getany help Bobby Miller. Now let's get
into this. You know, DaveRoberts said after the game the other day
that he's not making pitches, andfor Dave Roberts to say something like that,

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you can tell the guy's irritated becausehe doesn't do that kind of thing.
Well, what do you think,Well, you got to make pitches.
When the manager says that, youthink, uh oh, something's going
on. And something was at theend of the yesterday show, Kevin just
jumped in real quick because we're onlyon for an hour and talked about the
fact that Bobby Miller had been sentdown. Dave Roberts calls it a reset.

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Now, I don't think it's apunishment. I think it's a reset.
They have seen something, Rodney,and they have seen enough, and
that's what happened here. They've justseen enough and they need him to go
down and work on it. Soit's not a punny. He's not getting
punished. They need him, butthey need him badly enough to go down

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and fix this. Would you agree, Oh, yeah, yeah, it's
it's it's not complicated. That's someparadox Fred Ruby Cube that we got to
try to figure out and use ourbrain power. It's very simple. He's
not the same since he came backfrom the injury, and that's clear.
It's clear to the novice of fansthat he is not the same Bobby Miller

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as we saw to start the seasonor even last year. There's some things
that he needs to work on,and we talked about this, and David
Bassey has mentioned this about sometimes witha young picture and a picture that is
gifted as Bobby Miller is. Sometimesyou can overdo it, and sometimes you
can try too hard to fix aissue or a problem, and in essence,

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you're not fixing it, you're makingit worse. And I believe that's
the case with Bobby Miller, isthat in his effort to kind of correct
himself or correct what has been happeningto him as of late or since he
came back from the injury, he'sactually made it worse because now he's trying
to art, he's trying to overthrow, he's trying to throw one hundred and
five instead of keeping it at ninetyseven and hitting hiss spots. And that

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happens, and sometimes you got it. And it's not a like you said,
it's not a punishment. It's notto humble him, it's not to
do anything like that. It's toput him down in the minor leagues,
work on a few things, getyourself corrected, get yourself right, and
then we'll bring you back. Yeah, that's what it is. And it's
a good opportunity as well with theAll Star break coming up. Let him

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get down there, get a coupleof starts in and get himself turned around.
No pressure, just fix it andthen we'll see after the all start,
right. I think that's what happenedwith Bobby Miller to ask Hernandez is
in the Home Run Derby. Ithink that is really cool, and you
know why, because he wants tobe in the Home run Derby. Yeah.

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A lot of guys look at thisas oh my god, really I
have to do this. No,they want me to do this. Oh
god, I don't want to doit. Fine, if you make me,
I'll do it. He wants todo it, and I think that's
really cool. Well, now mostguys want to do it if they're in
it. You know, guys,you know you can't twist guy's arms to

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be in the Home Run Derby anymore. They used to do it for for
ratings and TV. We need youin here. You're the star base of
the league. We want you inthis. But now it's guys that want
to do it. You remember,was it a few years back Mets guy
Peter Alonzo. Yeah, Peter Alonzowas lobbying. It was begging to be

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a part of it, and theywas show shots of him, you know,
in between batters and in between asession. He's in the in the
dugout and he's like pacing back andforth, he's meditating. He took it
so seriously that people were like,what is what is wrong with this guy?
He ended up winning it, andit was something that it was a

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dream of his to do. I'msure since it was a little kid,
and he was able to do it. So for some guys, that's it's
a big deal. It's a it'sa bucket list, it's a check check
the box situation. And I'm surefor ta Oscar, given the year that
he's had, this was an opportunityfor him to check that box. Yeah.
And the thing is, I thinkwith him, and maybe with everybody,

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but more specifically, all he needsis one or two and then he's
off and running. I believe thatwith him. You know what that one
or two? What oh you'm talkingabout? What if he gets off to
a good start, just get oneor two home runs out of the belt.
Yeah, yeah, then then Ithink he's going I think the key
and for some guys it's not.I think for him, get off to
a good start, and that's notimpossible, by the way, that's very

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probable, that's very doable. Andif he does that, that's gonna be
fun and it'd be great for him. What an incredible year. Uh you
know the story he wanted to be. Don't give me that. Don't give
me that. Oh go ahead,Oh no, I'm not gonna do that.
No, he wanted the big giveme to broke the swing. He's
gonna break his swing. He's notgonna be the same player if he And

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and by the way, we'll saythis right now before this even happens.
If for some reason Taoscar cools offafter the All Star break, it won't
be because he was participated in thehome run derby, right, It won't
be because of that. It'll bebecause he cooled off. It won't because

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he took some swings in the homerun derby and that messed up his swing.
And now he's that same guy.Don't buy it, never never did,
never will. Yeah, I hearthat. I think it did mess
some guy swings up though, honestly, but nonetheless I don't think it'll be
a problem for him. And uh, you know, he wanted the long
term deal. He did not havea great year in Seattle. The year

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prior he had a very good yearin Toronto. He did not have a
good year in Seattle, wanted thelong term deal. Nobody was biting.
Nobody was giving him the long termdeal in the Big Bucks because of what
happened in Seattle. He signs theone year deal here. I don't think
Dodger fans knew how important that signingwas going to be. The Dodgers knew
they paid him over twenty million bucks. Yeah, but I don't think fans

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knew how important that would be.And he said when he came, all
I wanted somebody to just work withme, you know, just help me
get my head screwed on right,get me back to where I was.
And they've done that. Because hecould hit in Toronto, he could really
hit. He just did knit wellin Seattle. But that colored the market

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for him. So the Dodgers werethe recipients and they gave him the one
year deal. Come on down.And as I said, I don't think
most fans understood what that signing meant. But the minute they sign him,
he was a left fielder. Therewas no platoon, there was no days
off. He was a left fielder, and they rolled the dice. They

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knew what he was, They knewwhat he was last year, and they
thought they could get him back towhere he was the years prior, and
they did. And now he findshimself in the home run Derby, which
is just terrific. It's terrific forhim. I hope he wins it.
And on top of that, anall time great guy, great great person.

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You could see it radiate when andwhen you're watching Dodger games and he's
in the clubhouse and he's the firstone out throwing the sunflower seeds when somebody
hits a home run. He's thefirst one congratulating somebody after they make a
good play. He has been very, very refreshing. And you mentioned,
you know, people didn't know,and that's the beauty of the Dodgers in
their organization is maybe the casual fandidn't know about Taascar Hernandez and and what

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he could mean to a team,but the Dodgers knew. The Dodgers knew
and went out and got him andgot him at a bargain, and he
is paying dividends for his service rightnow. And it's been, uh,
it's been great to see. Becauseyou said this, Fred, one can
argue that he is in the shortlist for most valuable players on this team.

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So far. I'm not taking anymore heat for that. I know
you got killed for it, butI yeah, but you know what's not
lying about it. It's it's notan unfair statement, not at all,
not at all. He has comethrough and clutch situations time and time again

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for this team. So no,it's not it's not out of the blue
to say or suggests that he hasbeen just as valuable as dare I say,
show Hey or Mookie. You knowyou're gonna incredibly valuable you get But

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I know if you just look atit objectively, but oh god, don't
do that. Did I just getsavaged? I did? Yeah, you
got killed. I got killed.My own wife said, what's wrong with
you? I dare you not thefirst words out of your mouth? How
dare it not be sho heo taniwithout even any question? How dare you?

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Freddy? Well, there are moreguys on the team than one.
Yeah, that was that wasn't allout of salt. I felt it the
death of my soul. Rob Manfredsays major league players are in favor of
the challenge system over full blown automatedstrike zone. He also said there's not

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a consensus on how the zone shouldbe placed based on each individual batter's height,
or based on where the camera sensorsare placed. Okay, let me
give you consensus about one thing.Thank you for that, Commissioner, greatly
appreciate your comments there. Oh God, let me give you a consensus out
of something. The umpiring is awful. The plate balls and strikes are awful.

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Not naming any names. Everybody's givingit their best shot. Everybody's doing
all they can. They're major leagumpires, they're human beings. They make mistakes,
they miss calls. It does notcompute any longer. It doesn't work
any longer. What about the humanelement? I don't know. What about
AI? I don't know. Youput a box in the screen. The

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ball's got to be in the box, pretty simple. It doesn't work in
our heads. Is that box thatbox a just every single player? Or
is that box just a uniform boxthat they just put up there in a
matter no matter it's it's if it'sJose Altuve or Aaron Judge. Is that

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box accurate for that? That's whatthe commissioner were saying. Is that box
accurate? How do we determine?So? The challenge system works better?
If you think we missed it.You just challenge it. If you get
it, you hold on simple,Okay, Then you got to dive into
how many challenges do you get?And do you get so many per inning?

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And when can they occur? Imean, how do you dive into
the details of that, because that'sgoing to be an issue too. Is
it like timeouts or challenges in footballor basketball where you can you know,
you get so many a half ordo you you know, how does that
work? What would be fair foryou if you were to implement this challenge
system every pitch, I challenge everyyou want the game to be seven hours

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long, then I want every pitchchallenge. You know what's interesting about this?
So we got a problem? What'sthe problem? The problem is played
on firing not great, not great, They're missing they're missing calls. Does
it seem worse this year? Yeah? Every year team's worse. I know,
I guess we say this every yearbecause we're right in it. But
it feels like, you know,and maybe with the departure of Angel Hernandez,

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you know, it's kind of heightenedhow bad it's been. But it
feels like it's been really bad thisyear. Yeah, Yeah, it felt
bad last year, and you knowsomething, the year before, you know
what it felt bad. So ifit's bad every year, you've got to
do something. So seriously, howdo you do it? How do you
how do you manage the challenges?Because you don't want a team to challenge

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every single pitch obviously, Well whatyou do? What you do is this,
I don't know, give each teamsix challenges. When you use it,
you've used it. So if youget it, you don't retain it.
You use a challenge, that's it. You have five legs, so
if you get it correct, youdon't you lose it anyway. Right,

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you just got six, right,now you got five, Now you got
four. That's it. You getsix challenges, use them, lose them.
Let's move on until they can perfectthe automated strike zone, until they
can figure that out. And what'sinteresting is everything in life takes so damn
long. Everything takes long. Oh, we got to have a meeting or

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conversation. Well, let's think aboutit. Let's talk to this guy.
This guy will have a plan.No, no, let's bring him in.
We'll get over here and now we'regoing to discuss it with him.
Now, let's bring you in Whatdo you think about that? Who cares?
You got a problem? Fix it? Everybody sit on in a room,
whoever the stakeholders are in this andfigure it out. We're doing the
automated strike zone in two years.Fix it. Until then we have the

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challenge system go and the challenge systemshould should I mean the moment a team
says we want to challenge that pitch, they should know if it was a
striker or not, so it shouldn'ttake long at all. Like if the
Dodgers Dave Roberts says, it's apitch and it's clearly outside and they want
to challenge it. Because the technologythey should be able to say. Dave

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Robins goes, I want to challengethat pitch, and by before he gets
the pitch out of his mouth,they should know because they've already looked at
it. They should know if thatball was a striker or not. And
the uppark can go right away,Uh, got it wrong, miss the
challenge or yes, challenge upheld?Was a strike? Okay? And if

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you can do it that fast,and they're gonna use the technology they have,
right, because that's all they have, that technology. So if you're
gonna use it to challenge something,Why the hell don't you just use it?
The umpire is the fallback if forsome reason, the computer determines that
a guy pitch then it bounced andwent right over the middle of the plate,
that would be a ball, butthe automated strike zone thought it was

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a strike. Okay, the umpirethen can overrule that. The umpire can
make that decision. But why dowe have to challenge something If the technology
we use to determine if it's rightor wrong is the technology, why are
we even worrying about it? Whydon't we have to play? Why don't
we just have the players, youknow, have a joystick and just play
their positions on a video. Whydon't we have to play? Because you

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know, Aaron Judge is average,he's gonna hit forty five home runs a
year, he's gonna hit three hundred, So we just have him with a
joystick and we know he's gonna dothat, and then some games it's gonna
average out and Aaron Judge got hisjoystick. I want to hit this game.
I'm I hit this one, I'mgonna hit that one. Let's just
play it that way, Fred,Let's just play it as a video game.
So the players don't have to playeither. They can just maintain it.
Nobody gets hurt. Nobody gets hurt, Freddie. Everybody's healthy all season

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long. I like that. Nota word for me. That's all sports.
And just call it a day.Nobody gets hurt, you know,
don't don't come on, don't skirtthe issue. Don't skirt the issue.
Don't skirt it. The issue isif we're going to challenge it, how
we get to challenge Oh, we'regoing to use the technology. Well,

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if we're going to use the technology, then why don't we just use it?
Would you like that technology to beused all the time in football?
To first dot, we're not talkingabout football doesn't matter, Yes it does.
Technology, technology, It doesn't itright? Does technology balls and strikes?
Ball balls, first down catch ornot? I mean, what are

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we talking about. If we're goingto use it all across the board,
why not use it all across theboard? Technology? Use technology? And
if you can tell if a guywas in bounds or out of bounds in
football with technology, when I usethat all the time, officials don't need
to make a call. Let talktechnology make the call on the sideline whether
it's a first down or not,whether it's ses he's got two feet down
or not? Same thing baseball,strike safe? Is he out? Is

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he in? Technology? Do itall every single play? No, nobody
wants that. Step you well,I don't know about that. I really
don't know about that. Well youheard the players. Players don't want it.
Yeah, but the players, theplayers, rightly or wrongly, are
paid to compete in this giant TVshow which has becomes sports, and it's

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got to It's just it's got toregister with people watching. That's really the
whole game nowtet is and I'm okaywith it. I'm okay with the challenge.
I just don't want it happening allthe time because there is and I
think they is coming from the players. There is a certain human element and
I know you hate hearing that.There's a human element to the game that

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And so from a player standpoint,yeah, you may get upset about
it. You may not like it, you may not like the particular call.

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But I think the reason why mostplayers say let's just do challenge system
as out of instead of automated,is because they do, deep down want
to have that human element to thegame. And I'm okay with that.
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we come back. You know,somebody's always got to get it. Somebody
got it all right. US men'ssoccer team did not perform as people at
Hope. Somebody's always got to getit. Somebody got it. The coach
is done pretty simple, Greg Burhalterout and here's why. Because you don't

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have many opportunities when you are coachinga team like that. It's not like
you're coaching in the NFL or theNBA or the NHL, or you're managing
a Major League baseball there are afinite number of games. It's always as
if you are playing in March Madnessand you need to win, and if
you don't win in a short samplesize, you lose, and if you
lose, your out. Being anational coach in this country is a very

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difficult job, very difficult job becausethere are not a lot of opportunities and
maybe anywhere, Rodney, that's fair, maybe anywhere, but there aren't a
lot of opportunities, and there aren'ta lot of games, and every game
means more. Every game doubles inimportance. It's not like you're playing in
the NBA and you lose on Tuesdayin December, well we'll get them on

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Friday. A bad performance in thesetournaments means you're basically eliminated, and they
had to do what they had todo. Yeah, and it's harder than
coaching a Major League baseball or basketballteam or even the MLS team, because

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you get, you know, youget the guys that are playing elsewhere around
the world, and then you gotto come together you know, rather quickly
to get chemistry and all those typeof things together. And I don't know
how it works in other countries,but I did hear that. You know,
their national type of program is it'sit's an ongoing People have been there

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for years, people are running it, are there for years. The coach
is usually there for you. Andso for for us, you know,
you're plucking guys that are playing forManchester City or they're playing in La Liga.
They're they're you know, they're they'rethey're playing for Saint German in France.
I mean it's just they're playing allover and then you got to come
together. It's a difficult thing fora coach. Fred. Yeah, so

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US men's soccer will try to takea step forward. The important thing is
on the world stage, you've gotto win because it's so hard. It's
so hard. Yeah, why stillnot for the man to catch up?
It's because it's still not our game. We're still behind. We're still behind.
That's why are we behind? Though? I mean I get that,

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but how are we behind? Othercountries have more training? Is it the
players or is it because in thiscountry the best athletes don't play. So
it's the could be as well,it's not our game. Yeah, it's
not. I mean, look allright, let's look at basketball for example.

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Yeah, can we make the argumentthat the players coming out of Europe
are as good as the players inthis country on the whole or plucking a
few, No, well a few, yeah, there's a few that can

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compete with the players over here.But as a as a whole, no,
look at just look what's gonna happen. But everybody said, oh,
well, the Europeans they've caught up. Oh you know the jokers not playing
with Luca and Wimby. They're noton the same ta. They're all from
different countries. So when you stackit up as the US, they just
played Canada, you know, theUS plays France. You know France.

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You know they got Wimby, theygot some other players, but in all
those but they don't have the otherinternational players on their team Slovenia. You
think, how's the US going todo against them? Right, They're gonna
blow them out. So it's Idon't think they have caught up. It
feels that way because you've got Europeansuperstars in our league now, But as

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a whole, no, no,they haven't caught up. Can part of
it to be that basketball, theAAU circuit is probably bigger, more profitable,
has better athletes than the Ayso,I don't think that's I mean,
I think that's a big issue becauseinternationally, these kids are being trained by
age of seven eight years old tobe on the national team in tens.
We just don't have that sort ofsupport out here like they do internationally.

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Yeah, I Kevin, I agree. Yeah. Yeah. You hear about
the back the kids basketball at tenyears old or whatever, twelve years old
traveling the world, you know frombasketball standpoint, even baseball traveling the world,
but you don't hear much of thecompetition from from like you said,
ayso soccer kids competing on the worldstage at ten years old like you do

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basketball, because there's you know thistravel basketball to go all over the globe
now at a very very young age, and it is the sport, as
I'm saying, it's the fallback.Soccer is the fallback for kids that don't
like football or play basketball or evenplay baseball. Now, I don't your
kids play soccer or no, Rodney, they did, they did, Yeah,

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they stopped when they were ten.Okay, fair so our kids played
soccer as well. You start inaysh And by the way, if you
have little little kids, it's greatexercise, it really is. It's great
they're outside, their coordination skills getbetter. Uh and when the kids are
real little, it's cute. Butit gets to a point, as it

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does with youth baseball or youth basketball, that the kids that are talented oftentimes
move into the club division. Yeah. Right, So in basketball it's aau
in baseball it's travel, and insoccer it's club. Now that really is
where they start refining their skills andyou figure out who they are or if

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they're going to play. So I'lluse Jack as an example because I'd lived
through this. Jack was really goodas a soccer player, really good,
fast, athletic, he was good. And really if he chosen to play
soccer instead of basketball at his heightbecause he's six feet tall, if he
chosen to play soccer, he couldhave played in the MLS. Maybe he

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was that kind of athlete. Imean, he could have played basketball in
Europe. All right. He gotto about that age Rodney, ten to
eleven. Yeah, he said,I'm done, I'm done, right,
It was right at that exact age. Yeah, I'm done. I want
to play basketball now right, right, And that's the focus here, right,

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And that's why I think I wouldyou know, safe to say that
again. The and it's either that, right. The kids that are like
Jack, they're often at a youngerplayer in other sports, and in this
country, you're gonna gravitate if you'regood at basketball, that's gonna be that's
gonna be your choice. I'm gonnago play basketball, And the same thing

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with the kids that you know becomeOkay, I play soccer and I played
football. I'm good enough. I'mgonna play football because you're gonna First of
all, you're gonna you're gonna gravitatethere because that's the excitement in this country.
But also coaches are gonna kind ofpush you towards football as opposed to
push you towards soccer, which isgoing back to saying that the best athletes
once they get past ten twelve yearsold are playing football, baseball, and

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basketball as opposed to playing soccer,whereas the best athletes in Europe are all
playing soccer. I mean, thenthere's some basketball players too, but for
the most part, they're playing Eventhe basketball players are playing soccer to a
very old age. As a matterof fact, I think you can say,
not only the best athletes in Europe, but the athletes in the world
except for here, are playing soccerand that's the difference. That's what they

(30:03):
grow up with. So the UnitedStates men's team, you can argue,
is at a disadvantage from the verybeginning. Yeah, it's kind of like
it's kind of like a Triple Ateam playing against the major league team.
And not that the Triple A guysdon't give it everything they have. They

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probably could compete for a little bit, right, right, that's exactly right.
But they're the Triple A guys.Doesn't mean they're not talented, doesn't
mean they're not better than any ofthe other guys. Triple A guys,
they're that good, but they're notmajor leaguers, and eventually the major leaguers
are gonna win. Sure, theTriple A guys can get them once in

(30:47):
a while, and you can thenmake the argument, well, if the
coach or the manager had done somethingdifferently with the Triple A guys, maybe
they would have been there. Butif you think about it, they're gonna
give it their best shot, right, it's like in the Olympics, you
just put it out, Slovenia isgonna play. If they play the US,

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They're gonna give it their best shot. They'll maybe be in the game
for a while, but that's gonnahappen. Yeah, it's gonna come out
in the end. Yeah. Yeah. And that's kind of where they're at,
I think, And that's that's thereason things are the way they are.

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So can they get better though?Can they compete on the world it
gets? And why is it thatthe women can and the men can't?
Fair question? Maybe because women wellthey do play basketball, yeah, they
do play bass. Maybe there's noreal big time like softball league that the

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women can go to, right theonly thing that women can do really professionally
is individual sport. They golf andtennis and swimming or play basketball at the
highest level. Softball. There's notreally a big time professional softball league,
you know, and they don't playfootball, so you know, volleyball is

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what it is, you know,but it's not that for the women.
So it's they continue probably continue playingsoccer longer than the men continue playing soccer.
Right, Like we just talked aboutwith Jack at ten eleven, years
always said I'm out playing basketball,whereas a lot of times the women will
continue playing soccer through high school.Yeah, if they feel they have the
aptitude for it. Yeah, yeah, I buy that. All right.

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He listen, you're a jumping jack. Flash, you're a gas gas gas.
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Lake. Yes, they're all likeeleven years old, fourteen years old,
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gonna open for the Stones. Arethey all named Linda, The Linda Linders,
the Linda Linda's. Are they allnamed Linda just like the Ramones right
now? Oh? The Linda Linders. No, we we know that part,

(38:39):
but you're saying. The hiku isfrom the Master Hi Coup writer by
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in the midst of this crazy season. Everyone, Stay cool, stay hydrated.

(39:00):
Yeah, it's from Matsuo Bar show. Yeah, talking about bind weed.
You guys familiar with bind weed?What is what's bind weed? Bind
weed? It's a perennial funnel shapedflower. Glory family you smoke that.

(39:22):
No, it's it's a weed.It's the most problematic, problematic weed for
the for a crops. It's visitedoften by swifties. By swifties, I
know they got down like that.All right, thanks Swifties. She's kind
of like crab grass Vic. Whenshe invades, you can't get rid of
her, Like what is this?Is this something you buy at a dispensary

(39:45):
or is it something that grows andit's a weed and is destructive. It's
a weed, Fred, and it'svery harmful to crops. So it's kind
of a is it hallucinogenic in nature? Vic? Because I think that's what
Fred is asking like a mushroom?No, all right, it's a perennial,

(40:09):
perennial funnel shaped flower. And thehigh Cup is about the weeds.
That's what show is into. WhenI you know, I quote I quote
The Great Bus Show, all rightabout the weeds, about bind weeds,
bind b I n D. That'swhat I thought he said, Ronnie,

(40:31):
I thought he said buying. Ijust got that right now, like buying
weed, vics about buying weedy.I think we all heard that. Thank
you, roll one up on thestarsday, July the eleventh. Hey,
kids, the bind weeds are inbloom. Let's peel gorge. Feeling you

(40:59):
show you sure that? Now weknow what is the other words to get
the bind weeds. Let's go tothe gorge. Can't you just call the
gardener and have him come and takecare of your lawn the gorts the gorts.

(41:20):
Yeah, I don't know. I'ma fan of calling the kids to
clear out the weeds. That soundslike a legal child labor there, Vic,
I don't know if I can geton board with that. Throw all
the vamp who got on you.It's clearing the fields. Oh that's what
they're calling it, all right,come help me clear the fields. Sure,
we'll get you some orange slices afterwardsfor me. You're well worth your

(41:42):
work there, little Johnny, Ronnie, thank you, Kevin. Great job,
Rodney. We get an hour andtomorrow, so we'll do it then, right,