July 14, 2025 • 50 mins
What exactly is the grade for the Dodgers' first half as they enter the all star break with a 5 and half game lead over the Giants in the NL West? A man is accussed of being selfish after locking his fridge because co-workes kept stealing his lunch.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
No, I dia we go, Fred Rogan, Rodney Pete, I
ain't five seventy la sports before I even say welcome back.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I do want to thank Adam and Kevin. They sat
in for us on Friday. Yes, and you know I
got a call this morning from the boss. Let's get
the adults back on the air. Ha ha ha ha
Oh No, you did know you did? They rocked it.
They rocked it. I know, ka figuring Adam. They always
do their thing, and they do it right, and you
know they know what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Man. If if anybody does, those two, those two can
hold the fort down.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
They can and they actually did a very good job.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
So thanks to those guys for sitting in. All right.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I know we don't want to talk a lot about it,
but you're back. Let's hear about the trip as much
as you want to say. I am back.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I know it probably it seems like I've been gone
a month, but it for me, it was just yesterday
because it went so fast. But it As many of
our listeners know, I'm good friends with Magic and he
takes this trip. He's been doing it. I can't believe it, Fred,
He's been doing that trip for thirty two years now
two years, thirty two years. He's been on that trip
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every summer and it's you know, obviously it's grown over
the years, but he started doing it way back when,
and it started going out there for a week, and
then a week went to ten days, and ten days
went to two weeks, and then so on so on,
and now he's out there for six weeks. But his
generosity is it's unmatched because he not only invites Holly
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and me out there for you know, for ten twelve days,
he also invites other friends on the boat and shares
everything he can with his friends that he's known for
a long time. And I'm lucky and fortunate to be
in that family. And I appreciate him and Cookie so
much because they've been able to show Holly and I,
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you know, parts of the world that we wouldn't normally see,
and his generosity just it goes unmatched. But we had
a great time, Freddie, we really did. We were able
to relax. We started in Greece and then spent a
few days there and then went to Italy and the food.
I gained about twenty pounds over there, because you can't
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stop eating when you're in Italy. The food is incredible obviously,
and everything's real and authentic and freshly made. And and
then you know, spent time in Sicily, which was great
because I'm a big Godfather fan. It's nothing like fred
I think I said this maybe either the last time
or one of those time that was there, because we
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don't always go and stop in Sicily, but we did
this time. And the coolest part about stopping in Sicily
or even I think on just on the boat is
being in Sicily and watching The Godfather on the boat.
That was That's a that's a bucket list thing for
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me to be in sis because Godfather is one of
my all time favorite movies and and it is Magic's
favorite movie as well. And we had some other friends
on the boat as well that you know one you
really don't know them, but they're they're good friends of
Magics and good friends of ours as well. But everybody's
a Godfather fan. So the so the couples, the men
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go do their thing and on the boat at night
and after dinner and watching movies or watch a series,
and the women go to their little area and they
watched whatever they watch. And that night in Sicily, we
watched The Godfather and it just it gave it new meeting,
I should say, just being there watching it and brought
back and it just everybody's quoting the lines and it
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was incredible. And then we ended up in uh In,
uh In, France, and and and came home after that.
But it was a it was a good time and
it certainly went really really fast. But uh, I'm glad
I'm back because now you know, thank god I'm back
because the Dodgers now starting to win again. Yeah, they
were losing the whole time we were there. Nobody wanted
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to talk about it. Oh, by the way, did he
talk about the Lakers at all?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, a little bit. He talked about the Lakers and
and how excited Mark uh you know, is to be
a part of it is It's something that he's wanted.
And uh, I think the best part that he was
talking about was how he really, Mark meaning Mark Walters,
really developed a real good relationship with Genie Buss. And
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it wasn't it wasn't one of those hey, I'm just
I'm a billionaire, I want to come by your team.
It was he nurtured the relationship, he got to know her.
They became friends, and it's been in the works for
a while, and and and it wasn't obviously an easy
decision for Geenie. But I think especially I think that
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because it was such a family business and the bus
legacy is is something that's, uh that's really great, especially
here in Los Angeles, that she wasn't going to give
it up lightly, and she wanted to make sure that
it went to the right person. And I think Mark
showed her that he was the right person and he
was going to keep the tradition of the Lakers intact,
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and she felt very comfortable with him. But he was
saying that that Mark has had his eyes on the
Lakers for a while now.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
And any indication of when or how things may change
or you guys just talked in general terms.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, we didn't really get into how much you know
what's going to change or when when they do take over,
what's going to happen. I do know that he, you know,
was very I guess in those conversations he and Genie
that they were very conscious of the family that the
Lakers are, the people that have worked there, and keeping
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as many people into as possible, and obviously at the
end of the day. The goal is winning and they're
going to do what they need to do to win,
but they're going to take a very slow approach and
really analyze everything and then go from there. But it didn't.
We didn't really get into any details about what's going
to happen or any changes that have happened immediately. And
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I think that's kind of the way they did it
with the Dodgers too, Right. They came in and they
assessed everything, and then we decided to make the changes
that they did.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Right, So you mentioned you came back to Dodgers won
when they won on Saturday, there was one shot at
the end of the game. By the way, Otani looked great.
Let's start last. Yes, Otani looked great. Otani looked like
the a's of the staff. That was his best out
and he looked magnificent. His velocity was there, his control
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was there.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
That was fun.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
He went three innings fine, Thank god. Every time he
goes another running to get more excited, and he could
have gone more. He looked really really good, Rodney, No,
he looked great. He looked great. Like you said, everything
was working for him.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And when he when he topped it at one hundred
a couple of times, and it looked like it was
with very little effort throwing a hundred. And this guy
cameing off, you know, coming off Tommy John Surgery hitting
one hundred. It was very impressive. But I think even
more than that, there was bite to his breaking ball.
He was hitting his spots. He looked very He looked
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probably the most comfortable I've seen him look since he
started pitching again, which is a good sign. And now
we'll see how much longer they you know, they'll start
to let him go. But I thought it was good.
I was with you. I thought it was good that
he got three innings in before they all start breaking.
Now he can he can rest it and we'll see
what happens next time. But it was a great outing,
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and it was great. It's gonna be great for the
Dodgers and the Dodger fans to have him ready to
go in September October.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
So after they win Saturday. One moment, I still have
it in my mind watching on TV. To me, it
said everything they take a shot at Dave Roberts. He's
standing in the dugout. You know, his arms are normally
just hung over the railing and he's watching they get
the third out, and it was a great shot of him,
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and he sat there and he just kind of threw
his arms up like, oh, thank god, and kind of
chuckled and then shook everybody's hand. And I thought that
one moment, and maybe it didn't mean a lot to
a lot of people, but I thought that moment just
summed it up.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
They're confident.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
They were going through a really rough time and they
didn't look very good, and it was like day one as.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Went oh thank god.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
He never during this stretch was he panicked, freaked, you know,
oh God, the sky is falling. He just wrote it out.
And in baseball people will tell you the best managers
are the ones that are even keel every day because
it's such a long season, not too up, not too down,
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And that one moment was like, oh, finally, thank you.
I thought that was a great shot, and that kind
of summed up in the eye of this storm, the
Dodger's confidence. It's not like we're never gonna win again.
It's not like, oh my god, we're gonna lose first place.
They never thought that it was just a rough patch.
And I thought that one moment's just summed the whole
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thing up, like, Okay, we got there.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yeah, And there's a certain there's a level I mean,
and I'm sure the players and they downplay it, but
the fans don't. And the predictions that we had the
beginning of the season, you know, warrant that is that
the expectations are so high. Everybody believes because the payroll
is so high and they've got all these all stars,
that it's a foregone conclusion that they're right back in
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the World Series and gonna win it. But you still
got to play. As you mentioned, it's a long season.
You still got to play one hundred and sixty two games.
You got to get through them, and you've got to
get through them with the ups and downs, the ebbs
and flows, the injuries that the Dodgers have suffered, and
it's and it's not easy to go through just because
we're all human. There's not like, you know, they're aliens
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playing on the Dodgers that are gonna consistently do great
things every single day. They're all human. And there are
a lot of good baseball players around Major League Baseball
that are on different teams. You see teams are getting hot,
Milwaukee's getting hot, and Hackey, I think one seventh straight
they you know, put it to the Dodgers. So I mean,
there's some good teams out there. But all of that said,
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there's still five and a half games up in l West.
Even with the losing streak, even with the injuries, even
with all the bad play that they've they've shown over
the last two weeks, they're still up five games in
the National League West at the All Star break, and
they're gonna start to get guys back. So it's like,
to me, and I agree with you with the Dave
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Roberts thing that it was a really it was like,
oh my god, thank god we won that one. And
then Sunday was a bonus because he almost blown that one.
I think he would have went back to being putting
his head in an ice tub if they lost that
game after the performance of Yamamoto and then being up
two to nothing in the ninth and then here we
go and we'll get into that, but but yeah, winning
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that series was big. But going forward now it's like
watch out. It's like rest of baseball. You had your
opportunity to get us when you could have, and you didn't.
Take advantage of it. Now second half.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Here we come, uh talking about Sunday's game. I think
now the Tanner Scout situation has to be addressed. He
struggled early, then you thought he.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Got out of it.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah, okay, good. I mean we're paying this guy. He's
the closer, that's why he's here, and he fought his
way through it, and now he's the Tanner Scout we
all look forward to seeing, not the one that we
saw yesterday.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Though.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
That was demoralized. That was bad.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I mean, there's no other way to put it. I'm
not saying the guy's not out there trying.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
That was bad.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
You cannot blow that game. You cannot let that happen.
Your starter pitched a hell of a game. He did
exactly what he was supposed to do, and the Dodgers
got enough runs to win. All you've got to do
is come in here and shut it down. He blew
that save. He almost cost him that game. I think
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that would have been really demoralizing. Now, I think because
we kicked this around in the past. I mean, this
is not a pedro bias. I'm not suggesting that the
gate opens and everybody starts screaming no, it's not that.
But I gotta tell you, the margin of error, the
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length of the runway is much shorter now and you
can't have that. You cannot have that, and something has
to happen here. We talked about it in the past, Rodney,
maybe you take him out of those those high leverage situations.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Maybe you just do that, let him get his confidence back.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Well, he kind of fought back, he kind of did,
he battled and then he was okay, But man, you
cannot have that happen now because now here we go
into the second half, everybody's got to be locked and loaded.
And I just thought that was really bad yesterday.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah, it'll be interesting when we talked about and I
just mentioned, you know, getting guys back and when training
comes back and copek and we'll hope that sooner or
rather than later. But it doesn't look like that, yeah,
you know, And and it would have made it worse,
which actually it made it worse until the Dodgers came
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back and won. Is that. Yeahm Modo pitched a hell
of a game.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
He did.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
He pitched his ass off for seven innings. Even Vessia, right,
Vessia gets you know, some some high leverage outs and
you're going into the ninth with a two run league. Yeah,
you can't give it up to a pinchinter I know,
you know was a Mattos with that. Yeah, it just
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it really you can't make mistake like that. You really can't.
And you know, I know it's one pitch and you
know hitters they get paid too, and I always say that,
but this is your job is to be the closer
and when it's you know, been a problem. And in fact,
I think he leads the league now in blown saves,
which is ironic because I think he's in the top
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five and saves, which is crazy. I think he has
nineteen of them. But yeah, I agree with you that
they have to address it. I don't know you address
it right away right after the All Star break. I
think you still have some time with him. We'll see
how the rest of July and August goes, or at
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least to the mid August point and give him some shots.
But you know, it gets to be in mid August
and he's still struggling, then you really got to make
a decision. Because we've seen him work out of it, Fred,
we saw him have struggles and then get back to
where we thought, oh, that's the Tanner Scott that signed
a seventy two million dollar deal and in a blanket
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of an eye yesterday right back to oh my god,
what are we doing? And I don't know if it's
a confidence thing or it's just you know, he's just
missing his spots and is not on. You know, but
when you start blowing saves, it affects you more mentally
than it does physically.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
You got to remember, he has one job, exactly what.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
A pitcher has one job, you pitch, but a starter
has multiple innings to do it. Yeah, position players hit
and play defense. He has a exactly one job. He
is compensated to go out and shut it down. That
is his job, and that's why he's paid. You go, well,
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don't be unfair. I'm not being unfair. That's why he's paid.
He's paid to shut it down. That's his only job.
And if he's not shutting it down, that's a problem.
There's nowhere else for him to turn, not like he's
gonna pitch four innings as a starter and try to
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keep you in the game. That's the one job in baseball,
the one guy that everybody looks at and says, get
in there, this is it.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
We got a lead, go win it for us. And
the thing is, one thing you said, within that job
is to shut it down, yes, to keep that lead safe.
The job within the job is you can't give up
home runs. Can't give up home runs. And that was
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that was the downfall of Pedro bias. You remember he
went through that stretch. Was he come in, you know,
strike out one walk to and then all of a
sudden there's a three run homer. He would give up
home runs late in games which are just killers. You know.
It's one thing where you you know, you made a
team has to battle and go station station, get base
hit after base. It as a base it to beat you.
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But you get a walk and then you give up
a two run home run the game's tied. That's the
part that really can't happen. You cannot give up home
runs in that situation.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
All right, So now the first half has come to
a close. Uh so we have some time. Let's figure
out where are the Dodgers right now. I'll tell you
what I think. I think they've had a very good
first half. I think, quite frankly, there's no way the
should be in first place. I believe that if this
happened to any other team, they would be struggling to
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stay above water with the number of injuries that have occurred.
And we know the last week they've had a very
bad week. Luckily they won two heading into the break.
So what grade do you give the Dodgers right now?
Let's figure it out. I mean, you listen to the
show every day, You'll watch every game. You'll listen to
every game. You're invested. So now what grade do you
give them? Take into account the injuries. You can take
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into account that Mookie hasn't really hit. You can take
into account they haven't played well this last couple of weeks.
They won the last two, but I mean, be honest,
that's pretty bad. But before that they were pretty good.
So what grade do you give the Dodgers? Eight six
six nine eight seven two five seventy. I'm gonna give
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my grade right now? Oh what is it? A?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Really, there's no way they should be where they're at.
Absolutely no way. Rodney will get your grade after the break?
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Speaker 2 (19:19):
Oh yes, I'm back. We're back on a Monday, Roddy, Pete,
Fred Rogan, I want to hear your thoughts on the
first half All Star Break home run derby tonight. Aaron
Boone Dave Roberts are the managers of both the teams.
I was watching a little press conference earlier, Fred of
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Dave and Aaron talking about the lineups, and when you
look at that lineup of the National League, it is, uh,
it's impressive. It's really impressive. When you got Shoe a
Otani leading off and Francisco Lindor hitting eighth. Yeah, you
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got a little bit pop there, got a little pop,
got a little pop there. Manny Machado hitting fifth, you
got Freddie hitting fourth. I mean, come on, it's it's
pretty incredible. What I love though, is can tell Marte
Dave's hitting him third from Arizona. That's a pretty cool thing,
especially given all the craft that he had to go
through recently for him to make the All Star team,
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and then Dave hit him third. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Uh Okay, So what we're talking about now is give
the Dodgers a grade for the first half of the season.
I gave them an A. I think where they're at
is remarkable. I don't think they should be there. I
think any other team or any other organization would basically
be eliminated given the number of injuries, especially to the
pitching staff. So granted it ended in kind of a
rough way, they were covering a little bit at the
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end of the first half. I give them an A
eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Rodney, what grade do you give them? I'm gonna give
him a bee. Fred I gotta give him a B
because I think they would give themselves a B. They're
not where They're not where they they think they should be.
And despite the injuries, yes, you got to factor that in,
and they've had a ton of them, more than anybody
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any club in baseball, but they still have not played
up to their potential. And I believe that every one
of those guys on that team would say the same thing.
So I give them a B because you got to
have something to shoot for to get better at. And
so if I give them an A, then they think
they're almost perfect. So give them a B.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
All right, I think give them what happened, They are
almost perfect. So what you're saying is impossible to get
an A. If you then no, then they have nothing.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
To shoot for. No, given an A, they would it
would be they wouldn't have the lulls that they've had
so far, and there wouldn't be the rule, you know,
the room for improvement. Giving them an A says they're
playing perfect baseball, and despite the injuries, they're not. They
haven't been playing perfect baseball. Their defense has not been perfect,
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and you know, the things that are happening when they're
out there playing has not been perfect. Guys have been
in slumps. So you know, I don't think they're playing
their best baseball, which is why I can't give them
an A yet.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
All right, let's see what you think it's it's nine
eighty seven two five seventy. Let's go to Riverside Ish
Ish appreciate your holding. You give them a what.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Hey not from Fred Rodney. I'm gonna split the difference.
I'm gonna give them about a B plus. But I
definitely agree with what Rodney is saying in regard to
their play. It could definitely be better. And then, Fred,
I also hear you with the with the injuries, but
I think a B plus is a good market.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
It's fair.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yeah, it's fair, you know. To me, A is suggesting
that they're you know, I get what you're saying there.
They overcome, they're overcoming all the injuries. But still with that,
you know, I think their defense could be better. You know,
they're hitting and situational hitting could be better. There are
some things that they can improve on, and I think
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they would agree with that. That's fair.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I just think you guys are really great and on
a very difficult curve. I think I'm much more lenient
greater than you are.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
You are. You're like miss marsh in my fourth grade class.
He was very lenient with grades. Was she really? Yeah?
She was. If she liked you, she gave you the
benefit of the doubt. Fred, So if you showed up
and I was likable, yeah, exactly. Not like Florence Albright.
Florence was that nice. Well, I told you what happened
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with Florence Albright. Some time ago.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Yeah, Florence Albright. Albright was like the fourth grade teacher,
and she was an older lady with wire rimmed glasses
and wore a wig, and uh I remember I called
her Maddlin all right here on the show that was
back with Florence all And anyway, we went outside for
recess and the wind came and blew her wig off.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Oh no, and then missus crying. No.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
She started crying, I mean, and it looked like a
dead animal.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Somebody, if he had to run and get it, tried
to pick it up, but she couldn't because she was
like old and frail. And somebody ran after it, and
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
If they like like hit it with a stick or
something to stop it from blowing around. But then they
picked up the wig and went back, and at that
point it looked like a dead muskrat.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
And she tried to put it on her head. Then
she walked out and she cried, ah, poor missus Albright.
So you know what I did, Oh God, what did
you do? Fred I got some oranges and took him
toward her house.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
You did, yeah, you know, you were nice, Freddy. Then
I was right. I was a nice little Freddy. I
took her.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Oranges, ah, and she was so happy. Well yeah, but
I mean you know she when she came outside, she
had both hands on her head. She wouldn't gonna let
that happen again. That thing like took off. Oh my god,
and that's what happened. I think a kid had a
stick and hit it like it kills me.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
It picked it up, Oh my god.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Sorry, fred So you had a teacher lose their hair
and you had a classmate lose their eyes. So did
you have a like a coach lose their leg or
something that flew off and a practice or something? What
else you got because these things always seem to happen
to you. So oh no, it's gotta be more well
when you think about it.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Okay, I had a teacher that lost her hair.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
A student of mine, a student I went to school with,
lost his eye.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
My principal only had one arm. Don Landy his brother
on the meat market. Right, Oh god, ed Ranshaw had
no fingers okay.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Right, they were blown off. Yep. And I worked for
the man with no legs. Willert you draft hide under
the desk and grab your ankles, right, Jesus spread that
all I had was the classmate that had one testicle. No,
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that's not something that.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I'll take her old Bill, Yeah, me one ball? Why
would they Why would you even know that? Why would
you only has one testicle?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Because I hate to say yeah, because.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
Because after pe, everybody who was trying to catch him
in the shower just to see if it was real,
and uh, I got to it. I got to a point,
we got so fed up and he said, stop staring
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at me.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Here, look it's real. I don't only have one. And
his name was Bill. Oh no, no, no, Chris, Chris, Chris, Chris.
You and the bowl?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Is that the kind of thing then?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
I don't know. I don't know what bread this was in.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Was this the kind of thing everybody then talks about?
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Yeah? Spread, Yeah, it spreads really fast. And what grade
was it?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Do you remember?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Sixth sixth grade? Sixth grade? Yeah? So did any of
the girls find the sound? Everybody knew? Okay, were they were?
They don't, I don't remember, you know, sixth grade. You know,
it's not like junior high high school. You're dating. Everybody's
dating each other and all that kind of stuff. But yeah,
the girls found out because everybody talks. You know, in
(27:44):
elementary school. You know, we came back from Pe. We
were shying after basketball game and Suku Suku only got
one one testicle. He's only got one ball.
Speaker 6 (27:55):
See this is where you when when high school does
come around, you gotta tell the parents. I gotta go
to a differ district. I can't go with the same
people I went to middle school with.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
This isn't gonna work. No, here's at least after a
while he embraced it. He just like went with it. No,
he didn't, you know, because no, wait, he would wait
for everybody to finish, and then he would shower last,
or try to jump in there real quick. And then,
you know, I don't even know how that rumor start
got out. I don't even know how it got out
because he was clearly trying to keep it a secret.
(28:25):
Well it did a bad job. Yeah, but you know,
there's always those kids. There's always those kids looking and
staring and doing crazy stuff. Hey man, what's wrong with
you down there?
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Well, then it's this somebody in locker who he's like, hey, hey,
look at this over here.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yeah, he runs into the corner and he's trying to
cover up. I was like, no, man, we already saw
it exactly exactly.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
That's how that goes.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
I'll tell you what's even more troubling to me about
the whole story. We didn't have showers anywhere and anything
until I got to high school.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
No, No, we did. If you were an after school
like yeah, yeah, if you had did any after school
sports or anything like that, then they had showers for you.
Plus we were we it was a six seven eighth
kind of a middle school, elementary school kind of combo.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
So yeah, no we didn't have Yeah, but that makes
me think. Remember when Roger Craig managed the Giants, He'd
put his uniform on his home and he would drive
to the stadium and leave in his uniform.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
He never changed at the stadium. I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yeah, Really, driving down the street he had his jersey.
He was training the.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Same thing on the road, like he would dress at
the hotel. I would assume.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
I did not, I would think, but I know at
home he did. H there were no showers for Roger
Craig at the stadium, just trying to get out of there.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Yeah, kind of like Rodney Dangerfield. Yeah, you don't shower
with the Fellas.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
No, okay, Gino on the app in Virginia, Gino, what
grade do you give these guys for the first half?
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Hey, jentlemen, we might be on delayed. Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
We got you go ahead, all right, good.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Hearing you guys, Good hearing you, guys. It got three
quick things that okay, yeah, go.
Speaker 8 (30:23):
Okay, mister playing Rogan, Okay, sometimes your looks slip Rock Rodney,
Huh what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Look, slip Rock, Yeah, I know, I know. Eighty percent
of your story. Eighty percent of your stories.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Are like.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
You have to think about it.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Uh, I just told the story.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
What do you have to think of the bad luck
slip Rock bred gave the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Because okay, no, no, no, no, no, I'll leave the
Dodger story real quick. Okay, all the stories you know,
I I follow you guys. You guys are my best guys.
You guys.
Speaker 8 (31:04):
Have I gotten my guys?
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Okay, I can't tell.
Speaker 8 (31:06):
But why do you tell are good? But eighty percent
of them are bad? Look?
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Step Rock, think about it?
Speaker 2 (31:13):
All right?
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Well, I'm not trying to chase you.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
No, I know you know?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
What is a story that that symbolized that. Tell me
one story I've said that would indicate I'm that.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Power.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
The entire story.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
What I do?
Speaker 3 (31:31):
I can tell you exactly what you said.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Don't go there.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I'm sixty five. Guys. Come on, come on, you want more?
You want more?
Speaker 2 (31:37):
What's the umpire story?
Speaker 3 (31:39):
What are you?
Speaker 2 (31:40):
What umpire story?
Speaker 9 (31:42):
The umpire when when you were young and you were coaching,
literally and you were an umpire and they didn't like
to call your your call or something like that, and
you were very controversial and a lot of people didn't
like it. I don't remember the call was, but you
were stinky at the plate.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Oh well, come on, Jesus, that's when we lost track
of the out to the Little League World Series.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Now that that's the real story.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
You lost that, not me, buddy, Okay, Ronnie Rodney Pete,
that that guy with one ball. I love a good story,
But how do you say the story without having calling
him mister balls? You call him mister Balls.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Called him Chris. We weren't that crewe man. We just
called him Chris.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I know, but this is sports. Sometimes you like that
in this seventies and eighties, come on now, anyways, and
they got over it. Yeah, that's how sports goes back then.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
I'm going to give the dog.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
A hard a hard d, a hard d because when
they come to the Dodgers that follow the stats, Mookie
and Freddie are sticking him up in the ask nothing
and a half Flddy Freeman three seventy two to four
in a month and a half. Something's going on. Anyways.
I love you guys, talk to you.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Later, all right, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Gino Schleplock bad rock is that.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
What he called me, slip rock from from the flints
from the bad luck the bad luck character.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yeah, yeah, I don't always have bad luck.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Well, you to talk about the animals. You have a
little bad luck with the animals. Fred You talk about
the animals and how they always bite you, snip at
you and do things to you. You're attracted to the animals,
and that's kind of bad luck.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
There's a difference between having bad luck and just not
having people like you. The animals don't like me, but
that's not bad luck.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
That is because it'll be one hundred people on the
beach and the one jellyfish will get you. That was
the worst. The jellyfish was the worst. Rodney, I am
telling you it was not fun. It isn't not fun
to be stung by a jellyfish.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
No, no, it is not. And you know what makes
you wonder, I'll just say this, why don't we even
have jellyfish? What's the purpose of the jellyfish? I don't
know what it is. They don't even produce jelly or
anything like that. Right when if you don't know, you
hear jellyfish, you go, oh my god, smuckers. Yeah, right,
that's where smuckers gets its jelly jellyfish.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Yes, that's their purpose. But no, it's not. See that's wrong.
I don't think we need them.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I think in the state of California, where they have
bills on everything, we should have a bill to get
rid of the jellyfish.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Why not? What purpose do they serve exactly? Are they
like cleaners? Like they clean up? You know, like certain
things like bees have a purpose. We wouldn't be living
if we didn't have bees.
Speaker 6 (34:49):
So apparently jellyfish act as both predators in prey. They
contribute to nutrient recycling in the oceans and even influence.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
The structure of food webs.
Speaker 6 (35:00):
So they do having an environmental.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Okay sod, and so they clean up the environment of
the ocean.
Speaker 6 (35:08):
They excrete waste and mucus, which provides food for bacteria
and their decaying bodies can sink to the seabed carry
nutrients to the deeper waters.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
You don't need them, That's what it tells me. It's
carrying nutrients.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
Fred, But you don't care about the ocean mucus, So
you don't care about the oceans.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
What it sounds like SpongeBob square Pants where he lives
at the bottom of the sea.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
So yeah, Fred wants squid word to die. Apparently, that's
what it sounds like to me. That's what I interpret
from that. Patrick, Bye, what the door hitching the ass?
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Bye?
Speaker 1 (35:38):
All right, let's go on to Northridge. Miguel, Miguel, what
grade do you give them?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Hey? Fredab me? How's it going?
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Hey? Good?
Speaker 3 (35:48):
So, as a former teacher, I'm gonna have to uh
grade the Dodgers in the three tier rubric. I'm gonna
start with a bee and then it's gonna be a
B plus and then a minus. And this is what
it means. The beat is obviously the individual player performance.
I mean, like the last caller said, it wasn't just
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MOOKI or Freddy, that are underperforming their metric. You have
Conforto edmin tails defense. I mean throughout the lineup is
all over the place, right aside from the injuries. I
would give them a B plus on the team performance.
I mean, we're only one game away from having the
top the best record in the Major League, So you
(36:31):
can't despite all of that. You know, we're we're riding
the stake of things. So you have to give them
a B plus nothing lower than that as a team performance.
The reason I say then a minus is because you know,
in the second half we were expected to have a
plethora of pitchers coming back. Snell Rokie. You have Glassanew
that's building up, you have you know, Otani's building up.
(36:58):
You know. So I think I think for the set
and half, it's you know, the expectations are going to
be back to just getting ready for for October.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
So Miguel, Miguel, Miguel, Miguel, what is the one grade?
Speaker 3 (37:12):
One grade? Then I would have to go in the middle.
B plus?
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Okay, thank you? Good plus? Yeah, all right, very good man?
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Well in Southgate, man, Well, what greade do you give them?
Speaker 8 (37:23):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Good afternoon, gentlemen. I would give him. Rodney, Hey, Kevin,
great show on Fridy. Don't go let him teat you
out of that. Appreciate him. I'll give him a B
plus because of the bulk. I know the boat our
starting pitcher is that uh with all the injuries, but
uh uh wasn't going to be blown a lot of fade.
(37:46):
We could be a little higher. We're the I guess
we're the second worst team and blown shades in the league. Yeah,
we gotta cut that down, all right, thanks.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Man, Well appreciate it. So everybody's right there, Rodney B
B plus.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Yeah, yeah, b B plus. You're the only eight.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Oh, we got one more. I'll do Terry, Terry Laguna Woods,
Come on, Terry, what grade you give them?
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Gonna be plus?
Speaker 10 (38:11):
I thought i'd call in and save you guys from
your elementary conversation going on before you before you got
as bad as our radio announcers got you back to
the game.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
But anyway, I appreciate.
Speaker 5 (38:26):
It.
Speaker 10 (38:27):
I'm meant to say too that I've been a a
spran of years for it for many many years, so
I never call in or anything. But I had a
second and I was motivated because uh, I'm a big
Dodgers fan too and sort of hate. I love what
they're really doing in the scheme of things, but that
could be better. Because of that, I think that we're
(38:50):
just blowing it. One of the reasons we're blowing at
I think we've killed some of the spirit of the team.
I know, uh, Roberts is going to be a Hall
of Fame manager and everything, and you can't knock him.
He's done so well for some of the years, but
he might be getting old or something, and we need
some more.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
We need some r well.
Speaker 10 (39:10):
I'm talking about the way he decides to use his
pitchers out.
Speaker 5 (39:13):
Of the bullpen.
Speaker 10 (39:14):
But mostly I think he killed things by taking Mookie
out of the leadoff. He's a leadoff guy and that's
his whole spirit. And I think how he goes to
team to know too, you know, show Hey is so great.
It could be good anywhere. Okay, he's going to be pitching.
He's not going to be able to go to the
leadoff anyway.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
All right, goodbye, Terry, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
A lot of people feel that way, though, I'll give
Terry that there are people that'd like to see Mooki
lead off again. Mooki needs to do something because Moki
is struggling.
Speaker 11 (39:44):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know if it's the leadoff playing shortstop,
the demands of playing shortstop.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
There's something going on.
Speaker 11 (39:53):
But more than that, I think it's Mookie got off
to a bad start with the illness to start the
season and he's working himself back from that, you know.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
So you know, we'll see he'll beelce back.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Here's the question, what would you do? Every day you
bring food to your office. You have a refrigerator in
your office. You put the food in the refrigerator. During
the day, people come in and steal the food.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
What do you do?
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Speaker 2 (40:44):
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Speaker 1 (41:33):
All right, here's the question put yourself in this position.
Actually happened. Every day when the guy goes to work,
he brings some food, maybe his lunch and maybe a
couple of snacks. And oftentimes in businesses there are little refrigerators.
This guy just happened to have one in his office.
But it's not like his office was a forge, so
people could walk in and out of his office. Everybody
(41:55):
knew where the refrigerator was, and everybody knew this guy
put food in there.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
From home.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
So he goes through the refrigerator during the day and
he thinks, huh, didn't I bring let's say, grapes.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
The grapes were gone? You know?
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Did I bring apples? I thought I did. The apples
were gone. And it turns out that there are people
during the day going in and stealing the food that
he brings and running away with.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
It and eating it.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
So the guy figures out that people are stealing his food.
So he comes up with a plant and here's the plan.
He puts a lock on the refrigerator so he can
get in.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
It's a community. It's a community refrigerator in his office. Oh,
only in his office. Okay.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
He puts a lock on it because he doesn't want
people eating his food.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Fair m.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
The people can plain and say he's being selfish. He's
being selfish because he doesn't want them eating his food.
So they've called him selfish now because he's protecting his
own food. Rodney, do you think he's being selfish or smart?
Speaker 2 (43:11):
Oh, he's being smart. He's being smart. Look if it's well,
first of all, it's a bad thing. If it if
the food that he's putting in a refrigerator that's in
his office and people are coming in taking it, that's
that's that's a bad deal. Can't have that. And if
(43:31):
you find out I get this because community. You know,
refrigerators we you know, we have fridgers at at at
studios in Burbank. You know, you go in and people
can put stuff in there and usually people label stuff
and put it, put their name on it and say
this is mine and whatever. And most people are courteous.
(43:53):
But there I know there are people are sometimes Oh
there's Demali in there. I'm a grab one of those.
Nobody will know. I'm not saying that I've done that
or anything like that. Fred, But but yeah, in a
community fridge. But if it's in this office, and if
people are still coming in and getting it, I don't
have a problem with him putting a lock on it
and say I'm not gonna have that. I brought this in.
(44:14):
I spent my time, my money to bring food for
the day, for my lunch or for snacks, and people
are taking it out of my fridge. I am I'm
not gonna have that. I'll put a lock on it
for sure.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
And you know, I think you bring up a good
point because I'm not going to say that I've never
stolen anything out of a refrigerator somebody had because I have.
I'm not gonna lie I have.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Now, sometimes in doing that, I saw things I never
wish I saw, but I saw them when I went
into their office and stole it. I used to steal
a Mountain beat from John Beard's refrigerator every night when
he was the anchor Channel four. I go on there
at nine thirty at night, walk in. Huh, grab a
mountain dew. Walk out?
Speaker 2 (44:54):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (44:54):
I walked in at nine thirty?
Speaker 2 (44:55):
Bad call.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
Probably should have not just walked in, saw some things
I wish I hadn't seen in his office.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
And backed out. Okay, you should wait. So you got
comfortable going into his office getting a mountain dew. Yes,
every night at nine thirty, Every night at nine thirty. Yes,
that was the deal to do. And he now said,
opened his office. I had a key, so I opened it. Oh,
so it was locked. The office was locked. No, I
would open it up with a key and go get
a mountain dew steal it every night. And then one
(45:28):
particular night you went in. Yeah, and he saw something
you shouldn't have saw.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
No, I shouldn't have seen him. It probably shouldn't have
been going on there.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
What was it?
Speaker 1 (45:39):
I'm I'm just gonna say this. Some people were getting
friendly with each other.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
Stop it. But no, that's true. You you had the key,
you open up the door. You didn't know when you
were opening up the door, you didn't hear anything in there,
and andything going on?
Speaker 1 (46:02):
Because I would do the exact same thing every night,
because I know we wouldn't be back at nine point thirty.
So I would go land and I'd steal a mountain dew.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
Now would he ever say anything to you, Hey, I'm
missing some mountain Dew's anybody taking my mountain dew's I'm missing.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
Some No, because I was very I was very stealth.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
Would you replace the mountain dews?
Speaker 1 (46:19):
Occasionally?
Speaker 2 (46:19):
I would okay, to be fair.
Speaker 1 (46:22):
So on this one particular night, I opened the door,
I walk in, I go oh yee, and I look
to my right and let's just say, there was an
activity going on on the couch. So now I have
a decision to make in his office?
Speaker 2 (46:38):
Yes, yeah, and was it him? It was his office,
That's what I'll say. Okay, all right, So I see
this activity going on as I was wondering how many
people got keys to his office. You know it had
been you know.
Speaker 1 (46:52):
I think to him and me. So anyway, there's an
activity going on in the office. So I see it,
and now I have a problem because I'm watching something
I shouldn't see. The lights are off, but I see it.
Now I have a decision to make. He looks at
(47:13):
me from his position, from his vantage point, it makes
eye contact I'm going, God, damn, what am I gonna do?
I mean, if I run out and close the door
real fast, it will be too obvious that I shouldn't
have been in here, and then it will cause a disturbance.
Speaker 2 (47:30):
So in that split second, I made a decision.
Speaker 1 (47:34):
I'm just going to go in and steal the mountain
dew and act is if nothing is happening. I don't
see anything, I don't know anything. So I walk in.
When I look to my right, I see an activity
going on. But I go to the refrigerator, I take
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the mountain do I back out slowly and I close
it or the other person in there didn't realize I
had even made an appearance. They were involved in the activity.
I didn't say a word, and it was never spoken of.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
That's true. But did you say he you made eye
contact with him? Yes? Yes, And and so when you
opened the door and saw this activity happening, yes, paused,
I did made eye contact with him, Yes, And then
it made the decision to keep going to get the
mountain dew. Yes, in the moment, in the moment, in
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that in that bad moment, you have to make a decision.
That was the decision I made so I had nothing
to see here. I'm just going to get my mount
dupe right in your mind, right, act like nothing happened.
I just that it was bad enough to steal it.
That was bad enough on its own, yeah, But given
what I had witnessed stealing it was nothing.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
That was like nothing, And I thought it was better
to act like I was just stealing something than to
react to what I saw, because if I had reacted
to what I saw, then it would have become a thing.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
So did they hear you come in and then try
to be quiet because you said the lights were off? Right?
So did they try to be quiet or did they
go who's coming in here? Right? That's fair in the
that's good sounds just like John Beard, by the way, exactly.
(49:32):
But the way I.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
Would do it, I would do it so quietly every night.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
Every night.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
I would go so quietly, and he was in a
position to see me. The other person was engaging in
an activity, so that person didn't.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
See me, so she was They seem away from you,
is what you're saying. Fred. That's fair. Okay, that's fair. Okay,
don't steal. That's about them, Okay.
Speaker 1 (50:18):
Now I don't know everybody seems in basketball to be
talking about Lebron. We're not really talking a lot about them,
but apparently everybody is, so, Dan Woike, you'll join us
next
No, I dia we go, Fred Rogan, Rodney Pete, I
ain't five seventy la sports before I even say welcome back.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I do want to thank Adam and Kevin. They sat
in for us on Friday. Yes, and you know I
got a call this morning from the boss. Let's get
the adults back on the air. Ha ha ha ha
Oh No, you did know you did? They rocked it.
They rocked it. I know, ka figuring Adam. They always
do their thing, and they do it right, and you
know they know what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Man. If if anybody does, those two, those two can
hold the fort down.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
They can and they actually did a very good job.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
So thanks to those guys for sitting in. All right.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I know we don't want to talk a lot about it,
but you're back. Let's hear about the trip as much
as you want to say. I am back.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I know it probably it seems like I've been gone
a month, but it for me, it was just yesterday
because it went so fast. But it As many of
our listeners know, I'm good friends with Magic and he
takes this trip. He's been doing it. I can't believe it, Fred,
He's been doing that trip for thirty two years now
two years, thirty two years. He's been on that trip
(01:06):
every summer and it's you know, obviously it's grown over
the years, but he started doing it way back when,
and it started going out there for a week, and
then a week went to ten days, and ten days
went to two weeks, and then so on so on,
and now he's out there for six weeks. But his
generosity is it's unmatched because he not only invites Holly
(01:28):
and me out there for you know, for ten twelve days,
he also invites other friends on the boat and shares
everything he can with his friends that he's known for
a long time. And I'm lucky and fortunate to be
in that family. And I appreciate him and Cookie so
much because they've been able to show Holly and I,
(01:52):
you know, parts of the world that we wouldn't normally see,
and his generosity just it goes unmatched. But we had
a great time, Freddie, we really did. We were able
to relax. We started in Greece and then spent a
few days there and then went to Italy and the food.
I gained about twenty pounds over there, because you can't
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stop eating when you're in Italy. The food is incredible obviously,
and everything's real and authentic and freshly made. And and
then you know, spent time in Sicily, which was great
because I'm a big Godfather fan. It's nothing like fred
I think I said this maybe either the last time
or one of those time that was there, because we
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don't always go and stop in Sicily, but we did
this time. And the coolest part about stopping in Sicily
or even I think on just on the boat is
being in Sicily and watching The Godfather on the boat.
That was That's a that's a bucket list thing for
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me to be in sis because Godfather is one of
my all time favorite movies and and it is Magic's
favorite movie as well. And we had some other friends
on the boat as well that you know one you
really don't know them, but they're they're good friends of
Magics and good friends of ours as well. But everybody's
a Godfather fan. So the so the couples, the men
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go do their thing and on the boat at night
and after dinner and watching movies or watch a series,
and the women go to their little area and they
watched whatever they watch. And that night in Sicily, we
watched The Godfather and it just it gave it new meeting,
I should say, just being there watching it and brought
back and it just everybody's quoting the lines and it
(03:41):
was incredible. And then we ended up in uh In,
uh In, France, and and and came home after that.
But it was a it was a good time and
it certainly went really really fast. But uh, I'm glad
I'm back because now you know, thank god I'm back
because the Dodgers now starting to win again. Yeah, they
were losing the whole time we were there. Nobody wanted
(04:03):
to talk about it. Oh, by the way, did he
talk about the Lakers at all?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, a little bit. He talked about the Lakers and
and how excited Mark uh you know, is to be
a part of it is It's something that he's wanted.
And uh, I think the best part that he was
talking about was how he really, Mark meaning Mark Walters,
really developed a real good relationship with Genie Buss. And
(04:31):
it wasn't it wasn't one of those hey, I'm just
I'm a billionaire, I want to come by your team.
It was he nurtured the relationship, he got to know her.
They became friends, and it's been in the works for
a while, and and and it wasn't obviously an easy
decision for Geenie. But I think especially I think that
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because it was such a family business and the bus
legacy is is something that's, uh that's really great, especially
here in Los Angeles, that she wasn't going to give
it up lightly, and she wanted to make sure that
it went to the right person. And I think Mark
showed her that he was the right person and he
was going to keep the tradition of the Lakers intact,
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and she felt very comfortable with him. But he was
saying that that Mark has had his eyes on the
Lakers for a while now.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
And any indication of when or how things may change
or you guys just talked in general terms.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, we didn't really get into how much you know
what's going to change or when when they do take over,
what's going to happen. I do know that he, you know,
was very I guess in those conversations he and Genie
that they were very conscious of the family that the
Lakers are, the people that have worked there, and keeping
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as many people into as possible, and obviously at the
end of the day. The goal is winning and they're
going to do what they need to do to win,
but they're going to take a very slow approach and
really analyze everything and then go from there. But it didn't.
We didn't really get into any details about what's going
to happen or any changes that have happened immediately. And
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I think that's kind of the way they did it
with the Dodgers too, Right. They came in and they
assessed everything, and then we decided to make the changes
that they did.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Right, So you mentioned you came back to Dodgers won
when they won on Saturday, there was one shot at
the end of the game. By the way, Otani looked great.
Let's start last. Yes, Otani looked great. Otani looked like
the a's of the staff. That was his best out
and he looked magnificent. His velocity was there, his control
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was there.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
That was fun.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
He went three innings fine, Thank god. Every time he
goes another running to get more excited, and he could
have gone more. He looked really really good, Rodney, No,
he looked great. He looked great. Like you said, everything
was working for him.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And when he when he topped it at one hundred
a couple of times, and it looked like it was
with very little effort throwing a hundred. And this guy
cameing off, you know, coming off Tommy John Surgery hitting
one hundred. It was very impressive. But I think even
more than that, there was bite to his breaking ball.
He was hitting his spots. He looked very He looked
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probably the most comfortable I've seen him look since he
started pitching again, which is a good sign. And now
we'll see how much longer they you know, they'll start
to let him go. But I thought it was good.
I was with you. I thought it was good that
he got three innings in before they all start breaking.
Now he can he can rest it and we'll see
what happens next time. But it was a great outing,
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and it was great. It's gonna be great for the
Dodgers and the Dodger fans to have him ready to
go in September October.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
So after they win Saturday. One moment, I still have
it in my mind watching on TV. To me, it
said everything they take a shot at Dave Roberts. He's
standing in the dugout. You know, his arms are normally
just hung over the railing and he's watching they get
the third out, and it was a great shot of him,
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and he sat there and he just kind of threw
his arms up like, oh, thank god, and kind of
chuckled and then shook everybody's hand. And I thought that
one moment, and maybe it didn't mean a lot to
a lot of people, but I thought that moment just
summed it up.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
They're confident.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
They were going through a really rough time and they
didn't look very good, and it was like day one as.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Went oh thank god.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
He never during this stretch was he panicked, freaked, you know,
oh God, the sky is falling. He just wrote it out.
And in baseball people will tell you the best managers
are the ones that are even keel every day because
it's such a long season, not too up, not too down,
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And that one moment was like, oh, finally, thank you.
I thought that was a great shot, and that kind
of summed up in the eye of this storm, the
Dodger's confidence. It's not like we're never gonna win again.
It's not like, oh my god, we're gonna lose first place.
They never thought that it was just a rough patch.
And I thought that one moment's just summed the whole
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thing up, like, Okay, we got there.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yeah, And there's a certain there's a level I mean,
and I'm sure the players and they downplay it, but
the fans don't. And the predictions that we had the
beginning of the season, you know, warrant that is that
the expectations are so high. Everybody believes because the payroll
is so high and they've got all these all stars,
that it's a foregone conclusion that they're right back in
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the World Series and gonna win it. But you still
got to play. As you mentioned, it's a long season.
You still got to play one hundred and sixty two games.
You got to get through them, and you've got to
get through them with the ups and downs, the ebbs
and flows, the injuries that the Dodgers have suffered, and
it's and it's not easy to go through just because
we're all human. There's not like, you know, they're aliens
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playing on the Dodgers that are gonna consistently do great
things every single day. They're all human. And there are
a lot of good baseball players around Major League Baseball
that are on different teams. You see teams are getting hot,
Milwaukee's getting hot, and Hackey, I think one seventh straight
they you know, put it to the Dodgers. So I mean,
there's some good teams out there. But all of that said,
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there's still five and a half games up in l West.
Even with the losing streak, even with the injuries, even
with all the bad play that they've they've shown over
the last two weeks, they're still up five games in
the National League West at the All Star break, and
they're gonna start to get guys back. So it's like,
to me, and I agree with you with the Dave
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Roberts thing that it was a really it was like,
oh my god, thank god we won that one. And
then Sunday was a bonus because he almost blown that one.
I think he would have went back to being putting
his head in an ice tub if they lost that
game after the performance of Yamamoto and then being up
two to nothing in the ninth and then here we
go and we'll get into that, but but yeah, winning
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that series was big. But going forward now it's like
watch out. It's like rest of baseball. You had your
opportunity to get us when you could have, and you didn't.
Take advantage of it. Now second half.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Here we come, uh talking about Sunday's game. I think
now the Tanner Scout situation has to be addressed. He
struggled early, then you thought he.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Got out of it.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah, okay, good. I mean we're paying this guy. He's
the closer, that's why he's here, and he fought his
way through it, and now he's the Tanner Scout we
all look forward to seeing, not the one that we
saw yesterday.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Though.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
That was demoralized. That was bad.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I mean, there's no other way to put it. I'm
not saying the guy's not out there trying.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
That was bad.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
You cannot blow that game. You cannot let that happen.
Your starter pitched a hell of a game. He did
exactly what he was supposed to do, and the Dodgers
got enough runs to win. All you've got to do
is come in here and shut it down. He blew
that save. He almost cost him that game. I think
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that would have been really demoralizing. Now, I think because
we kicked this around in the past. I mean, this
is not a pedro bias. I'm not suggesting that the
gate opens and everybody starts screaming no, it's not that.
But I gotta tell you, the margin of error, the
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length of the runway is much shorter now and you
can't have that. You cannot have that, and something has
to happen here. We talked about it in the past, Rodney,
maybe you take him out of those those high leverage situations.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Maybe you just do that, let him get his confidence back.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Well, he kind of fought back, he kind of did,
he battled and then he was okay, But man, you
cannot have that happen now because now here we go
into the second half, everybody's got to be locked and loaded.
And I just thought that was really bad yesterday.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah, it'll be interesting when we talked about and I
just mentioned, you know, getting guys back and when training
comes back and copek and we'll hope that sooner or
rather than later. But it doesn't look like that, yeah,
you know, And and it would have made it worse,
which actually it made it worse until the Dodgers came
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back and won. Is that. Yeahm Modo pitched a hell
of a game.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
He did.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
He pitched his ass off for seven innings. Even Vessia, right,
Vessia gets you know, some some high leverage outs and
you're going into the ninth with a two run league. Yeah,
you can't give it up to a pinchinter I know,
you know was a Mattos with that. Yeah, it just
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it really you can't make mistake like that. You really can't.
And you know, I know it's one pitch and you
know hitters they get paid too, and I always say that,
but this is your job is to be the closer
and when it's you know, been a problem. And in fact,
I think he leads the league now in blown saves,
which is ironic because I think he's in the top
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five and saves, which is crazy. I think he has
nineteen of them. But yeah, I agree with you that
they have to address it. I don't know you address
it right away right after the All Star break. I
think you still have some time with him. We'll see
how the rest of July and August goes, or at
(15:02):
least to the mid August point and give him some shots.
But you know, it gets to be in mid August
and he's still struggling, then you really got to make
a decision. Because we've seen him work out of it, Fred,
we saw him have struggles and then get back to
where we thought, oh, that's the Tanner Scott that signed
a seventy two million dollar deal and in a blanket
(15:24):
of an eye yesterday right back to oh my god,
what are we doing? And I don't know if it's
a confidence thing or it's just you know, he's just
missing his spots and is not on. You know, but
when you start blowing saves, it affects you more mentally
than it does physically.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
You got to remember, he has one job, exactly what.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
A pitcher has one job, you pitch, but a starter
has multiple innings to do it. Yeah, position players hit
and play defense. He has a exactly one job. He
is compensated to go out and shut it down. That
is his job, and that's why he's paid. You go, well,
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don't be unfair. I'm not being unfair. That's why he's paid.
He's paid to shut it down. That's his only job.
And if he's not shutting it down, that's a problem.
There's nowhere else for him to turn, not like he's
gonna pitch four innings as a starter and try to
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keep you in the game. That's the one job in baseball,
the one guy that everybody looks at and says, get
in there, this is it.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
We got a lead, go win it for us. And
the thing is, one thing you said, within that job
is to shut it down, yes, to keep that lead safe.
The job within the job is you can't give up
home runs. Can't give up home runs. And that was
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that was the downfall of Pedro bias. You remember he
went through that stretch. Was he come in, you know,
strike out one walk to and then all of a
sudden there's a three run homer. He would give up
home runs late in games which are just killers. You know.
It's one thing where you you know, you made a
team has to battle and go station station, get base
hit after base. It as a base it to beat you.
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But you get a walk and then you give up
a two run home run the game's tied. That's the
part that really can't happen. You cannot give up home
runs in that situation.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
All right, So now the first half has come to
a close. Uh so we have some time. Let's figure
out where are the Dodgers right now. I'll tell you
what I think. I think they've had a very good
first half. I think, quite frankly, there's no way the
should be in first place. I believe that if this
happened to any other team, they would be struggling to
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stay above water with the number of injuries that have occurred.
And we know the last week they've had a very
bad week. Luckily they won two heading into the break.
So what grade do you give the Dodgers right now?
Let's figure it out. I mean, you listen to the
show every day, You'll watch every game. You'll listen to
every game. You're invested. So now what grade do you
give them? Take into account the injuries. You can take
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into account that Mookie hasn't really hit. You can take
into account they haven't played well this last couple of weeks.
They won the last two, but I mean, be honest,
that's pretty bad. But before that they were pretty good.
So what grade do you give the Dodgers? Eight six
six nine eight seven two five seventy. I'm gonna give
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my grade right now? Oh what is it? A?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Really, there's no way they should be where they're at.
Absolutely no way. Rodney will get your grade after the break?
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Speaker 2 (19:19):
Oh yes, I'm back. We're back on a Monday, Roddy, Pete,
Fred Rogan, I want to hear your thoughts on the
first half All Star Break home run derby tonight. Aaron
Boone Dave Roberts are the managers of both the teams.
I was watching a little press conference earlier, Fred of
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Dave and Aaron talking about the lineups, and when you
look at that lineup of the National League, it is, uh,
it's impressive. It's really impressive. When you got Shoe a
Otani leading off and Francisco Lindor hitting eighth. Yeah, you
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got a little bit pop there, got a little pop,
got a little pop there. Manny Machado hitting fifth, you
got Freddie hitting fourth. I mean, come on, it's it's
pretty incredible. What I love though, is can tell Marte
Dave's hitting him third from Arizona. That's a pretty cool thing,
especially given all the craft that he had to go
through recently for him to make the All Star team,
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and then Dave hit him third. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Uh Okay, So what we're talking about now is give
the Dodgers a grade for the first half of the season.
I gave them an A. I think where they're at
is remarkable. I don't think they should be there. I
think any other team or any other organization would basically
be eliminated given the number of injuries, especially to the
pitching staff. So granted it ended in kind of a
rough way, they were covering a little bit at the
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end of the first half. I give them an A
eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Rodney, what grade do you give them? I'm gonna give
him a bee. Fred I gotta give him a B
because I think they would give themselves a B. They're
not where They're not where they they think they should be.
And despite the injuries, yes, you got to factor that in,
and they've had a ton of them, more than anybody
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any club in baseball, but they still have not played
up to their potential. And I believe that every one
of those guys on that team would say the same thing.
So I give them a B because you got to
have something to shoot for to get better at. And
so if I give them an A, then they think
they're almost perfect. So give them a B.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
All right, I think give them what happened, They are
almost perfect. So what you're saying is impossible to get
an A. If you then no, then they have nothing.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
To shoot for. No, given an A, they would it
would be they wouldn't have the lulls that they've had
so far, and there wouldn't be the rule, you know,
the room for improvement. Giving them an A says they're
playing perfect baseball, and despite the injuries, they're not. They
haven't been playing perfect baseball. Their defense has not been perfect,
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and you know, the things that are happening when they're
out there playing has not been perfect. Guys have been
in slumps. So you know, I don't think they're playing
their best baseball, which is why I can't give them
an A yet.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
All right, let's see what you think it's it's nine
eighty seven two five seventy. Let's go to Riverside Ish
Ish appreciate your holding. You give them a what.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Hey not from Fred Rodney. I'm gonna split the difference.
I'm gonna give them about a B plus. But I
definitely agree with what Rodney is saying in regard to
their play. It could definitely be better. And then, Fred,
I also hear you with the with the injuries, but
I think a B plus is a good market.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
It's fair.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yeah, it's fair, you know. To me, A is suggesting
that they're you know, I get what you're saying there.
They overcome, they're overcoming all the injuries. But still with that,
you know, I think their defense could be better. You know,
they're hitting and situational hitting could be better. There are
some things that they can improve on, and I think
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they would agree with that. That's fair.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I just think you guys are really great and on
a very difficult curve. I think I'm much more lenient
greater than you are.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
You are. You're like miss marsh in my fourth grade class.
He was very lenient with grades. Was she really? Yeah?
She was. If she liked you, she gave you the
benefit of the doubt. Fred, So if you showed up
and I was likable, yeah, exactly. Not like Florence Albright.
Florence was that nice. Well, I told you what happened
(23:35):
with Florence Albright. Some time ago.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Yeah, Florence Albright. Albright was like the fourth grade teacher,
and she was an older lady with wire rimmed glasses
and wore a wig, and uh I remember I called
her Maddlin all right here on the show that was
back with Florence all And anyway, we went outside for
recess and the wind came and blew her wig off.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Oh no, and then missus crying. No.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
She started crying, I mean, and it looked like a
dead animal.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Somebody, if he had to run and get it, tried
to pick it up, but she couldn't because she was
like old and frail. And somebody ran after it, and
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
If they like like hit it with a stick or
something to stop it from blowing around. But then they
picked up the wig and went back, and at that
point it looked like a dead muskrat.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
And she tried to put it on her head. Then
she walked out and she cried, ah, poor missus Albright.
So you know what I did, Oh God, what did
you do? Fred I got some oranges and took him
toward her house.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
You did, yeah, you know, you were nice, Freddy. Then
I was right. I was a nice little Freddy. I
took her.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Oranges, ah, and she was so happy. Well yeah, but
I mean you know she when she came outside, she
had both hands on her head. She wouldn't gonna let
that happen again. That thing like took off. Oh my god,
and that's what happened. I think a kid had a
stick and hit it like it kills me.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
It picked it up, Oh my god.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Sorry, fred So you had a teacher lose their hair
and you had a classmate lose their eyes. So did
you have a like a coach lose their leg or
something that flew off and a practice or something? What
else you got because these things always seem to happen
to you. So oh no, it's gotta be more well
when you think about it.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Okay, I had a teacher that lost her hair.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
A student of mine, a student I went to school with,
lost his eye.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
My principal only had one arm. Don Landy his brother
on the meat market. Right, Oh god, ed Ranshaw had
no fingers okay.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Right, they were blown off. Yep. And I worked for
the man with no legs. Willert you draft hide under
the desk and grab your ankles, right, Jesus spread that
all I had was the classmate that had one testicle. No,
(26:14):
that's not something that.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I'll take her old Bill, Yeah, me one ball? Why
would they Why would you even know that? Why would
you only has one testicle?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Because I hate to say yeah, because.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
Because after pe, everybody who was trying to catch him
in the shower just to see if it was real,
and uh, I got to it. I got to a point,
we got so fed up and he said, stop staring
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at me.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Here, look it's real. I don't only have one. And
his name was Bill. Oh no, no, no, Chris, Chris, Chris, Chris.
You and the bowl?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Is that the kind of thing then?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
I don't know. I don't know what bread this was in.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Was this the kind of thing everybody then talks about?
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Yeah? Spread, Yeah, it spreads really fast. And what grade
was it?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Do you remember?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Sixth sixth grade? Sixth grade? Yeah? So did any of
the girls find the sound? Everybody knew? Okay, were they were?
They don't, I don't remember, you know, sixth grade. You know,
it's not like junior high high school. You're dating. Everybody's
dating each other and all that kind of stuff. But yeah,
the girls found out because everybody talks. You know, in
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elementary school. You know, we came back from Pe. We
were shying after basketball game and Suku Suku only got
one one testicle. He's only got one ball.
Speaker 6 (27:55):
See this is where you when when high school does
come around, you gotta tell the parents. I gotta go
to a differ district. I can't go with the same
people I went to middle school with.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
This isn't gonna work. No, here's at least after a
while he embraced it. He just like went with it. No,
he didn't, you know, because no, wait, he would wait
for everybody to finish, and then he would shower last,
or try to jump in there real quick. And then,
you know, I don't even know how that rumor start
got out. I don't even know how it got out
because he was clearly trying to keep it a secret.
(28:25):
Well it did a bad job. Yeah, but you know,
there's always those kids. There's always those kids looking and
staring and doing crazy stuff. Hey man, what's wrong with
you down there?
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Well, then it's this somebody in locker who he's like, hey, hey,
look at this over here.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yeah, he runs into the corner and he's trying to
cover up. I was like, no, man, we already saw
it exactly exactly.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
That's how that goes.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
I'll tell you what's even more troubling to me about
the whole story. We didn't have showers anywhere and anything
until I got to high school.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
No, No, we did. If you were an after school
like yeah, yeah, if you had did any after school
sports or anything like that, then they had showers for you.
Plus we were we it was a six seven eighth
kind of a middle school, elementary school kind of combo.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
So yeah, no we didn't have Yeah, but that makes
me think. Remember when Roger Craig managed the Giants, He'd
put his uniform on his home and he would drive
to the stadium and leave in his uniform.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
He never changed at the stadium. I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yeah, Really, driving down the street he had his jersey.
He was training the.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Same thing on the road, like he would dress at
the hotel. I would assume.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
I did not, I would think, but I know at
home he did. H there were no showers for Roger
Craig at the stadium, just trying to get out of there.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Yeah, kind of like Rodney Dangerfield. Yeah, you don't shower
with the Fellas.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
No, okay, Gino on the app in Virginia, Gino, what
grade do you give these guys for the first half?
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Hey, jentlemen, we might be on delayed. Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
We got you go ahead, all right, good.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Hearing you guys, Good hearing you, guys. It got three
quick things that okay, yeah, go.
Speaker 8 (30:23):
Okay, mister playing Rogan, Okay, sometimes your looks slip Rock Rodney,
Huh what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Look, slip Rock, Yeah, I know, I know. Eighty percent
of your story. Eighty percent of your stories.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Are like.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
You have to think about it.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Uh, I just told the story.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
What do you have to think of the bad luck
slip Rock bred gave the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Because okay, no, no, no, no, no, I'll leave the
Dodger story real quick. Okay, all the stories you know,
I I follow you guys. You guys are my best guys.
You guys.
Speaker 8 (31:04):
Have I gotten my guys?
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Okay, I can't tell.
Speaker 8 (31:06):
But why do you tell are good? But eighty percent
of them are bad? Look?
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Step Rock, think about it?
Speaker 2 (31:13):
All right?
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Well, I'm not trying to chase you.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
No, I know you know?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
What is a story that that symbolized that. Tell me
one story I've said that would indicate I'm that.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Power.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
The entire story.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
What I do?
Speaker 3 (31:31):
I can tell you exactly what you said.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Don't go there.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I'm sixty five. Guys. Come on, come on, you want more?
You want more?
Speaker 2 (31:37):
What's the umpire story?
Speaker 3 (31:39):
What are you?
Speaker 2 (31:40):
What umpire story?
Speaker 9 (31:42):
The umpire when when you were young and you were coaching,
literally and you were an umpire and they didn't like
to call your your call or something like that, and
you were very controversial and a lot of people didn't
like it. I don't remember the call was, but you
were stinky at the plate.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Oh well, come on, Jesus, that's when we lost track
of the out to the Little League World Series.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Now that that's the real story.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
You lost that, not me, buddy, Okay, Ronnie Rodney Pete,
that that guy with one ball. I love a good story,
But how do you say the story without having calling
him mister balls? You call him mister Balls.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Called him Chris. We weren't that crewe man. We just
called him Chris.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I know, but this is sports. Sometimes you like that
in this seventies and eighties, come on now, anyways, and
they got over it. Yeah, that's how sports goes back then.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
I'm going to give the dog.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
A hard a hard d, a hard d because when
they come to the Dodgers that follow the stats, Mookie
and Freddie are sticking him up in the ask nothing
and a half Flddy Freeman three seventy two to four
in a month and a half. Something's going on. Anyways.
I love you guys, talk to you.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Later, all right, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Gino Schleplock bad rock is that.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
What he called me, slip rock from from the flints
from the bad luck the bad luck character.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yeah, yeah, I don't always have bad luck.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Well, you to talk about the animals. You have a
little bad luck with the animals. Fred You talk about
the animals and how they always bite you, snip at
you and do things to you. You're attracted to the animals,
and that's kind of bad luck.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
There's a difference between having bad luck and just not
having people like you. The animals don't like me, but
that's not bad luck.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
That is because it'll be one hundred people on the
beach and the one jellyfish will get you. That was
the worst. The jellyfish was the worst. Rodney, I am
telling you it was not fun. It isn't not fun
to be stung by a jellyfish.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
No, no, it is not. And you know what makes
you wonder, I'll just say this, why don't we even
have jellyfish? What's the purpose of the jellyfish? I don't
know what it is. They don't even produce jelly or
anything like that. Right when if you don't know, you
hear jellyfish, you go, oh my god, smuckers. Yeah, right,
that's where smuckers gets its jelly jellyfish.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Yes, that's their purpose. But no, it's not. See that's wrong.
I don't think we need them.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I think in the state of California, where they have
bills on everything, we should have a bill to get
rid of the jellyfish.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Why not? What purpose do they serve exactly? Are they
like cleaners? Like they clean up? You know, like certain
things like bees have a purpose. We wouldn't be living
if we didn't have bees.
Speaker 6 (34:49):
So apparently jellyfish act as both predators in prey. They
contribute to nutrient recycling in the oceans and even influence.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
The structure of food webs.
Speaker 6 (35:00):
So they do having an environmental.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Okay sod, and so they clean up the environment of
the ocean.
Speaker 6 (35:08):
They excrete waste and mucus, which provides food for bacteria
and their decaying bodies can sink to the seabed carry
nutrients to the deeper waters.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
You don't need them, That's what it tells me. It's
carrying nutrients.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
Fred, But you don't care about the ocean mucus, So
you don't care about the oceans.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
What it sounds like SpongeBob square Pants where he lives
at the bottom of the sea.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
So yeah, Fred wants squid word to die. Apparently, that's
what it sounds like to me. That's what I interpret
from that. Patrick, Bye, what the door hitching the ass?
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Bye?
Speaker 1 (35:38):
All right, let's go on to Northridge. Miguel, Miguel, what
grade do you give them?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Hey? Fredab me? How's it going?
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Hey? Good?
Speaker 3 (35:48):
So, as a former teacher, I'm gonna have to uh
grade the Dodgers in the three tier rubric. I'm gonna
start with a bee and then it's gonna be a
B plus and then a minus. And this is what
it means. The beat is obviously the individual player performance.
I mean, like the last caller said, it wasn't just
(36:08):
MOOKI or Freddy, that are underperforming their metric. You have
Conforto edmin tails defense. I mean throughout the lineup is
all over the place, right aside from the injuries. I
would give them a B plus on the team performance.
I mean, we're only one game away from having the
top the best record in the Major League, So you
(36:31):
can't despite all of that. You know, we're we're riding
the stake of things. So you have to give them
a B plus nothing lower than that as a team performance.
The reason I say then a minus is because you know,
in the second half we were expected to have a
plethora of pitchers coming back. Snell Rokie. You have Glassanew
that's building up, you have you know, Otani's building up.
(36:58):
You know. So I think I think for the set
and half, it's you know, the expectations are going to
be back to just getting ready for for October.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
So Miguel, Miguel, Miguel, Miguel, what is the one grade?
Speaker 3 (37:12):
One grade? Then I would have to go in the middle.
B plus?
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Okay, thank you? Good plus? Yeah, all right, very good man?
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Well in Southgate, man, Well, what greade do you give them?
Speaker 8 (37:23):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Good afternoon, gentlemen. I would give him. Rodney, Hey, Kevin,
great show on Fridy. Don't go let him teat you
out of that. Appreciate him. I'll give him a B
plus because of the bulk. I know the boat our
starting pitcher is that uh with all the injuries, but
uh uh wasn't going to be blown a lot of fade.
(37:46):
We could be a little higher. We're the I guess
we're the second worst team and blown shades in the league. Yeah,
we gotta cut that down, all right, thanks.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Man, Well appreciate it. So everybody's right there, Rodney B
B plus.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Yeah, yeah, b B plus. You're the only eight.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Oh, we got one more. I'll do Terry, Terry Laguna Woods,
Come on, Terry, what grade you give them?
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Gonna be plus?
Speaker 10 (38:11):
I thought i'd call in and save you guys from
your elementary conversation going on before you before you got
as bad as our radio announcers got you back to
the game.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
But anyway, I appreciate.
Speaker 5 (38:26):
It.
Speaker 10 (38:27):
I'm meant to say too that I've been a a
spran of years for it for many many years, so
I never call in or anything. But I had a
second and I was motivated because uh, I'm a big
Dodgers fan too and sort of hate. I love what
they're really doing in the scheme of things, but that
could be better. Because of that, I think that we're
(38:50):
just blowing it. One of the reasons we're blowing at
I think we've killed some of the spirit of the team.
I know, uh, Roberts is going to be a Hall
of Fame manager and everything, and you can't knock him.
He's done so well for some of the years, but
he might be getting old or something, and we need
some more.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
We need some r well.
Speaker 10 (39:10):
I'm talking about the way he decides to use his
pitchers out.
Speaker 5 (39:13):
Of the bullpen.
Speaker 10 (39:14):
But mostly I think he killed things by taking Mookie
out of the leadoff. He's a leadoff guy and that's
his whole spirit. And I think how he goes to
team to know too, you know, show Hey is so great.
It could be good anywhere. Okay, he's going to be pitching.
He's not going to be able to go to the
leadoff anyway.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
All right, goodbye, Terry, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
A lot of people feel that way, though, I'll give
Terry that there are people that'd like to see Mooki
lead off again. Mooki needs to do something because Moki
is struggling.
Speaker 11 (39:44):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know if it's the leadoff playing shortstop,
the demands of playing shortstop.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
There's something going on.
Speaker 11 (39:53):
But more than that, I think it's Mookie got off
to a bad start with the illness to start the
season and he's working himself back from that, you know.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
So you know, we'll see he'll beelce back.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Here's the question, what would you do? Every day you
bring food to your office. You have a refrigerator in
your office. You put the food in the refrigerator. During
the day, people come in and steal the food.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
What do you do?
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This song is one of fourteenth tracks that appears on
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Speaker 1 (41:33):
All right, here's the question put yourself in this position.
Actually happened. Every day when the guy goes to work,
he brings some food, maybe his lunch and maybe a
couple of snacks. And oftentimes in businesses there are little refrigerators.
This guy just happened to have one in his office.
But it's not like his office was a forge, so
people could walk in and out of his office. Everybody
(41:55):
knew where the refrigerator was, and everybody knew this guy
put food in there.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
From home.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
So he goes through the refrigerator during the day and
he thinks, huh, didn't I bring let's say, grapes.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
The grapes were gone? You know?
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Did I bring apples? I thought I did. The apples
were gone. And it turns out that there are people
during the day going in and stealing the food that
he brings and running away with.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
It and eating it.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
So the guy figures out that people are stealing his food.
So he comes up with a plant and here's the plan.
He puts a lock on the refrigerator so he can
get in.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
It's a community. It's a community refrigerator in his office. Oh,
only in his office. Okay.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
He puts a lock on it because he doesn't want
people eating his food.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Fair m.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
The people can plain and say he's being selfish. He's
being selfish because he doesn't want them eating his food.
So they've called him selfish now because he's protecting his
own food. Rodney, do you think he's being selfish or smart?
Speaker 2 (43:11):
Oh, he's being smart. He's being smart. Look if it's well,
first of all, it's a bad thing. If it if
the food that he's putting in a refrigerator that's in
his office and people are coming in taking it, that's
that's that's a bad deal. Can't have that. And if
(43:31):
you find out I get this because community. You know,
refrigerators we you know, we have fridgers at at at
studios in Burbank. You know, you go in and people
can put stuff in there and usually people label stuff
and put it, put their name on it and say
this is mine and whatever. And most people are courteous.
(43:53):
But there I know there are people are sometimes Oh
there's Demali in there. I'm a grab one of those.
Nobody will know. I'm not saying that I've done that
or anything like that. Fred, But but yeah, in a
community fridge. But if it's in this office, and if
people are still coming in and getting it, I don't
have a problem with him putting a lock on it
and say I'm not gonna have that. I brought this in.
(44:14):
I spent my time, my money to bring food for
the day, for my lunch or for snacks, and people
are taking it out of my fridge. I am I'm
not gonna have that. I'll put a lock on it
for sure.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
And you know, I think you bring up a good
point because I'm not going to say that I've never
stolen anything out of a refrigerator somebody had because I have.
I'm not gonna lie I have.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Now, sometimes in doing that, I saw things I never
wish I saw, but I saw them when I went
into their office and stole it. I used to steal
a Mountain beat from John Beard's refrigerator every night when
he was the anchor Channel four. I go on there
at nine thirty at night, walk in. Huh, grab a
mountain dew. Walk out?
Speaker 2 (44:54):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (44:54):
I walked in at nine thirty?
Speaker 2 (44:55):
Bad call.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
Probably should have not just walked in, saw some things
I wish I hadn't seen in his office.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
And backed out. Okay, you should wait. So you got
comfortable going into his office getting a mountain dew. Yes,
every night at nine thirty, Every night at nine thirty. Yes,
that was the deal to do. And he now said,
opened his office. I had a key, so I opened it. Oh,
so it was locked. The office was locked. No, I
would open it up with a key and go get
a mountain dew steal it every night. And then one
(45:28):
particular night you went in. Yeah, and he saw something
you shouldn't have saw.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
No, I shouldn't have seen him. It probably shouldn't have
been going on there.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
What was it?
Speaker 1 (45:39):
I'm I'm just gonna say this. Some people were getting
friendly with each other.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
Stop it. But no, that's true. You you had the key,
you open up the door. You didn't know when you
were opening up the door, you didn't hear anything in there,
and andything going on?
Speaker 1 (46:02):
Because I would do the exact same thing every night,
because I know we wouldn't be back at nine point thirty.
So I would go land and I'd steal a mountain dew.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
Now would he ever say anything to you, Hey, I'm
missing some mountain Dew's anybody taking my mountain dew's I'm missing.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
Some No, because I was very I was very stealth.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
Would you replace the mountain dews?
Speaker 1 (46:19):
Occasionally?
Speaker 2 (46:19):
I would okay, to be fair.
Speaker 1 (46:22):
So on this one particular night, I opened the door,
I walk in, I go oh yee, and I look
to my right and let's just say, there was an
activity going on on the couch. So now I have
a decision to make in his office?
Speaker 2 (46:38):
Yes, yeah, and was it him? It was his office,
That's what I'll say. Okay, all right, So I see
this activity going on as I was wondering how many
people got keys to his office. You know it had
been you know.
Speaker 1 (46:52):
I think to him and me. So anyway, there's an
activity going on in the office. So I see it,
and now I have a problem because I'm watching something
I shouldn't see. The lights are off, but I see it.
Now I have a decision to make. He looks at
(47:13):
me from his position, from his vantage point, it makes
eye contact I'm going, God, damn, what am I gonna do?
I mean, if I run out and close the door
real fast, it will be too obvious that I shouldn't
have been in here, and then it will cause a disturbance.
Speaker 2 (47:30):
So in that split second, I made a decision.
Speaker 1 (47:34):
I'm just going to go in and steal the mountain
dew and act is if nothing is happening. I don't
see anything, I don't know anything. So I walk in.
When I look to my right, I see an activity
going on. But I go to the refrigerator, I take
(47:55):
the mountain do I back out slowly and I close
it or the other person in there didn't realize I
had even made an appearance. They were involved in the activity.
I didn't say a word, and it was never spoken of.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
That's true. But did you say he you made eye
contact with him? Yes? Yes, And and so when you
opened the door and saw this activity happening, yes, paused,
I did made eye contact with him, Yes, And then
it made the decision to keep going to get the
mountain dew. Yes, in the moment, in the moment, in
(48:39):
that in that bad moment, you have to make a decision.
That was the decision I made so I had nothing
to see here. I'm just going to get my mount
dupe right in your mind, right, act like nothing happened.
I just that it was bad enough to steal it.
That was bad enough on its own, yeah, But given
what I had witnessed stealing it was nothing.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
That was like nothing, And I thought it was better
to act like I was just stealing something than to
react to what I saw, because if I had reacted
to what I saw, then it would have become a thing.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
So did they hear you come in and then try
to be quiet because you said the lights were off? Right?
So did they try to be quiet or did they
go who's coming in here? Right? That's fair in the
that's good sounds just like John Beard, by the way, exactly.
(49:32):
But the way I.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
Would do it, I would do it so quietly every night.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
Every night.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
I would go so quietly, and he was in a
position to see me. The other person was engaging in
an activity, so that person didn't.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
See me, so she was They seem away from you,
is what you're saying. Fred. That's fair. Okay, that's fair. Okay,
don't steal. That's about them, Okay.
Speaker 1 (50:18):
Now I don't know everybody seems in basketball to be
talking about Lebron. We're not really talking a lot about them,
but apparently everybody is, so, Dan Woike, you'll join us
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