July 14, 2025 • 46 mins
Dodgers beat writer, Jack Harris joins us from All-Star festivities in Atlanta and talks about the first half of the season. The Dodger Stadium gondola may be a reality if the folks in Sacramento get their way
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Now don't we continue on Fred Rogan Rodney Pete on
AM five to seventy LA Sports All Star Break, time
games tomorrow, Home Run Derby is tonight.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Cal Rawley, what a year he's had. All Man's killing it.
Thirty eight bombs, Fred, thirty eight bombs before the All
Star Break for a catcher. That's incredible. He's having a
great year. We're going to talk more about that.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
But now with the All Star Break, it gives us
a chance to visit with someone who never talks about baseball,
Dan Moik, because he talks about basketball, Dan of course
writing for the Athletic. Now, Dan, thank you for coming.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
On, guys, Rodney, welcome home. Sorry I have no voice.
This is day guys, Day six in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
For me?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
What this sounds like?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Day six?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Is it one hundred and twenty?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yet if I left my hotel room, I would know.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Well, because you're working hard.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
We're our way, We're on our way out here in
a little bit. But yes it is, uh, it's warm.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
What's the Summer League been like this year? Dan? Good? Crowds?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Oh yeah, really exciting. You know, I got a chance
to watch Cooper Flag play twice. Saw Dylan Harper play.
You know, I think you know Hanson Yang from Portland,
big crowds for him, really fun player, really fun passer.
You know, I think the way basketball is being played
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right now, with talent, with space, with pace, you can
kind of I mean, sometimes some of the games are
pretty ugly, and these games do get pretty ugly. The
Lakers want a really ugly game the other day. But
I think there is like you can kind of like
you can see enough of some of these guys, and you're, like,
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you should be excited about Cooper Flagg if you're an
Ever fan, like, like, it's it's pretty obvious. You can
tell he knows how to play basketball, Like the Charlotte
Hornets should be pretty excited about their rookies, like they
know how to play basketball. You can tell, you can
see it. You don't want to make any huge decisions
or proclamations about summer week, but it's it's been fun,
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it's been it's been long, and I look forward to
getting home tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Dan, Dan, A couple couple of things I want to
ask you about that because I agree with you with
with Cooper Flag it shows, you know, watching him his
freshman year at Duke was, you know, the fundamentals were there.
How much do you think it benefits a guy going
to college, even if it's for one year, to get
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that different type of tutelage and get that those fundamentals
honed in and as opposed to a kid coming out
of high school trying to skip it and you know,
go g le, go across the water somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Rodye. As someone who was in college for nine years
like myself, I think, you know, I can tell you
it is very helpful for me. You know, I don't know.
I think it's you know, different strokes for different folks
at the stuff. I think for him. You know what's
so interesting markuper Flag is that like if we went
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by like birth certificate right like he should be going
into freshman or could be going into freshman year college
right now, right, But there's a guy, as a kid
who reclassified, moved up a year, you know, just really
really ready, it seems like for what's in front of him.
And I think, you know, being on the top of
a scouting report like like you know, with more sophistication,
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with older, more physical defenders, different things like that like
that you know he saw in college basketball for a year. Yeah,
I think that it doesn't hurt. Would he have gotten
the same thing had he been playing you know, he
can't play directly in the NBA, but like if you're
playing in you know, overtime a lead or if he
was playing in Australia maybe you know, you know, it's
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worked for other people, you know, it doesn't work for everyone.
I think the Lakers have a player around their summer
league team right now, Darius Baisley, who you know, took
a million dollar internship with New Balance instead of going
to Syracuse and was still a first round pick, but
you know, hasn't really found his footing in the league
trying to do that. You know, the Lakers is kind
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of a run the floor defender athlete. He's put all right,
you know, but would that have changed if he stood
around and played zone at Syracuse for a year. I
have no idea, you know, I don't think it's It's
not a one side fits all for this. I think
what worked for refleg I think being at Duke, being
kind of in the eye of the storm, being asked
to form, meeting those expectations, and now being had, you know,
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coming into the end of day where there are a
lot of expectations for him. I mean, maybe he's already
even a little unfair for some of this stuff, but like,
you know, he seems like he's got the goods.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, did you see I watched a little cliff. I
haven't watched a whole lot of Summer League, but the
clip of Ronnie guarding Cooper flag? And how how was that?
How was that match up? Man? Because the one clip
that everybody's you know, talking about is and you know
Ronnie got called for a foul but he was being
him up a little bit and then Cooper flag it
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hits one in his face.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It was it was really fun. That gave us really fun,
a lot of energy in the building, and like that
moment had a lot of energy in it. You know,
I think, Ronnie, did you know how this grownie's six
inches shorter and Cooper flag Flag's a really big kid.
I think, you know, if you're looking for the little
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things to like from what you've seen from Ronnie James
and and you know that's part of my job. Uh,
I'd point to what happened as New Orleans where you
know they played Jeremy Sears. Uh, you know, rookie point guard.
I think you played at Art Oklahoma last year. I
think anyway, you know, big part of the talkin's future,
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and Bronnie and the Lakers really harassed him into a
really bad shooting night, and at the end of the game,
like the fourth quarter, like those dudes got kind of
tangled up, and you could like you could hear Bronnie
like going at him, like talking, you know, and I
think as they try to like figure out what kind
of player that he is. I mean, like that's a
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thing you hear sometimes is like maybe is he like
too nice? Is he too shy? Like you know, you
want him to be aggressive, and like you know, like
can a kid can a kid like that really be
like a dog? Yeah? I know it's a lot of euphemisms,
but it was good to see him like get a
little grimy out there, you know what I mean. Like
I thought, now he looks so much more comfortable on
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the basketball. He I think it was conditioning. All that
stuff has to still level up, but he's playing on hard.
He's doing the right things. Certainly doesn't look out of
place in summer League. What that means for his prospects
on the main roster very to be determined.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
All right, Dan Espn wanted to talk to Lebron.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Lebron passed on that people are saying that means something
to me, it means it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Lebron didn't want to talk to him. It doesn't.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I would, I'd try to talk to Lebron James Stewart.
He walked breakfast, my hands and what's up? And walked,
So my feelings were not hurt. I think. I think no,
like you asked, that's the job, right, you know, and
why watched Dave walk up to him and you know,
present him the opportunity to make some news and Lebron passed,
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And I look, it's really hard to know exactly what's
going on right now. If this is like a full
on Cold war, if this is posturing, if this is
like maybe it's just what it looks like too, you know.
And to me, what it looks like is you have
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a team that's planning for a future without Lebron James,
because that's what you do when you have a one
soon to be forty one year old on an expiring contract,
and you have a player in Lebron James who's forty
one years old who is still really freaking good and
as an All NBA player and you know, in any
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reasonable situation, and like most reasonable situations, would be a partner,
says he plays, and as the Lakers try to figure
out what's the right thing to do around Luka Dacic,
like there could be a world where it's not Lebron James,
or it's certainly not killing Lebron James, a max you know,
fifty five million dollars, sixty million dollars contract, and so
I think I think like those that's what it looks
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like to me. You know, are there other things that
player certainly and other things we're going to learn, certainly,
but but it seems to me like that's face to
be that. I do think that if like the idea
here is that you know, Lebron wants to win a
championship and he wants to look around at places where
he would want to play, that are better situations. I
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think the Lakers were really good last year with Luka Dacic,
Austin Reeves, Ruyma, Lebron James. When those guys played, they
were really really good. You know, they're gonna miss Dorian
Fidney Smith, but you know Dendre eight, and I think
is going to have a good year.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I believe in it. I think oh wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
what did you say believe it? You said DeAndre Ayton's
going to have a good year. Wait, fred Ft, I
ignored that. I ignored that. It's one of his favorite
players there, Dan Wiki, I.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Know, I know, I know. I think it's like, like
it's like everything in life, right timing in situation is everything.
The Lakers are getting Deander Eton at the right time
and it's a good situation for him. Are there going
to be days where we guys where we talk and
we're going to talk about DeAndre Ayton's effort, his focus. Absolutely,
we're gonna talk about it. It's going to come up.
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It's that on it today. But I think that you know, again,
what they needed out of that position. He should be
just fine if as long as it's available, like, he
should be just fine. And so I think they're going
to be a pretty good basketball team. And I'm not
totally sure that there is. They better went out there.
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And also, by the way, I mean, look, Lebron James
had the option too to go somewhere else if you
wanted you have to be like that also said something
too that not that he necessarily full on wants to
play for the Lakers, but it does tell me that
he wants to play. He wants to be paid fifty
five million dollars to play for the Lakers, because that
was the decision he made.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, fifty five million dollars to play for the Lakers
or go somewhere. I'll play. The fifty five million dollars
is guarantee. Is guaranteed money. Yeah, what what else? I mean?
As constructed? Now, man Waki, where do you where do
you see the Lakers? And and the off season now
with Luca and Lebron h putting aside any I guess
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rumors that Lebron's unhappy, but you know he comes back.
All of that being said, the Lakers going into the
season this coming year optimistic, good, bad, indifferent, better Luca,
better Lebron, better combinations.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I've always pretty I'm always pretty indifferent. I'll tell you that.
But I I think I think with this seame, I mean,
I don't believe that the work is done. I think
they still need, you know, another defender, either somebody with
some length and some speed or some physicality, A name
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that comes up a lot, and when you talk about
the Lakers is Marcus Smart. You know, he's under contract
to Washington. The Wizards, you know, would have to buy
him out. I think for it to be realistic for
the Lakers, and there's no guarantee they're going to do that.
They have a lot of yards. It's it's you know,
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I think the Lakers have checked in on that a bunch,
and that's a guy that's monitoring but like looking for
you know, some more physicality that way from point of
tech descents. But you know, like I said, they were
a pretty good team last year with no training camp,
thrown together in the middle of the season. That's like
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a pretty seismic trade. And you know, like Luca, I
think physically obviously looks much better. You know, he was
gallavanting around Europe with Rodney. You tell us up, great,
he's just on the you know, on the on the
main deck of the Otwell Magic is on the peloton.
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Lucas just doing crunches right next to him. You know,
I think, like he looks good. Yeah, we'll see. I mean,
he's gonna play your row basket, but you know, he
looks up. He's in a better place. I've talked to
people close to him. I think mentally he's going to
be in a much better place this year. You know,
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he's had time to like really calibrate and I don't know, like,
like this team could be pretty good. You know, they
were the three seed. Now Houston got better. Certainly Denver
I think got better. It's gonna be tough that the
Thunder or the Thunder, and they'll have that championship slagger
this year. But you know, if you're asking me if
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the Lakers are in the top tier of contenders, I
would say no. If you ask me if they're in
the second tier, I'd say sure. But things are right,
you know they can be there. They're gonna have to
get a little lucky and they're gonna have to have
some stuff go right. But it should be a good
basketball team.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
All right, Dan, the name Bradley Beal, Lakers, Clippers or who.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I mean. The thought process is, if you know, the
expectation was at least said the last week that if
he gets bought out, he's going to go to the Clippers.
You know, now that hasn't happened yet, And as time
goes on and things don't happen. You know, other options
could present themselves. Then Clippers make the most sense. You know,
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they can pay him a little bit more, they can
offer from a starting spot after the Norman Powell trade.
That that just that that that seems like I mean,
when I talk to people here in Vegas, that seems
like a piece of business that to some extent like
has been you know, pretty well like fleshed out. But
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you know, you gotta it has to happen. I mean,
you know, the Lakers early in free agency were we're
linked pretty hard at the Anthony Meltain. You know, you
talk to other teams about that. You know, it seemed
like that was like a fade of complete Uh. It
certainly now looks like the Anthony Mountain is going to
sign with the Warriors. He hasn't yet, you know, so
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we'll see what happens. But like, like I think the
deal thing seemed like it seems like I would say,
assuming the buyout happens, it's the Clippers to lose them.
It feels like based on what I've heard. But you know,
I think that's the place that makes the most sense.
And you guys, that's a good basketball team too. That's
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a really good basket team. They've had it. They've had
a nice summer. I think they'll really miss Norman Powell,
but I like the size and John Collins, you know,
and like a lot of teams like that, they have
the firepower to compete.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, do you think do you think Bradley Beal makes
them a contender?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Yeah? Yeah, I think they're in the tier with the Lakers,
you know, I mean I like the reason I hesitate,
I mean, the thing that makes them the contender, honestly
fed is like is Kawhi Leonard healthy?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Like that?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Like that it's always a question. Yeah, that's that's That's
kind of the certain stop of it, you know for me,
is like if Kawhi Leonards hell, see, they're going to
be a contender. Like he's good enough to win you
playoff series. Uh, you know, he's that dominant of a player.
If he's not really right physically, you know, and there's
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a reason to always worry about that, then you're probably
in trouble. And I think that's that was true last year.
I think it'll be true again this year for them.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
The right well enjoy Vegas. Well, let's put it like
this survived Vegas how about.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
That, got guys any tip, any tips for the last
twenty four hours here?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Drink heavily, put it all on black.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Okay, you're both sounds like awful advice.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
For both of guys.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Good good, drunk and play or that. But you know
I said that. This is the exact words to me
when I told them, like, I got twenty hours up
in Vegas? What should I do?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
What you tell me? All right?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Dan?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Take it easy?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
All right? Take care guys.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Do people make too much money? Do athletes make too
much money? Let's talk about that next.
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Speaker 4 (17:24):
Yeah, come on, let's keep it moving on a Monday.
Roddy Pete, Fred Rogan. Oh we coming back with a
little tone. Look wild thing?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Okay, all star break. Thank you to Dan Woiki appreciate
you Dan. Sweating it out in Vegas, Fred, Vegas is
not fun in the summertime.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
No, especially with that this kind of advice. Drink heavily
and put it all on black. Yeah, we were friends.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
That's what he said. I tell you, guys, are my friends.
Tell me get drunk and bet ma Roulette.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah, that's what you don't want to do in Vegas
in the summer. Drink heavily. You know, when you're young,
you can pull that off. If you get older, don't
do it. I'm just warning you. That's not gonna be good.
Lots of alcohol in the heat is going to be
a bad combination for you. It's gonna be called dehydration.
That's what it will. That's what will happen to you.
So don't do that. Right, This is something people talk
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about all the time. I just found it interesting. Times
did a piece on it last week. SGA Shay Gilgess
Alexander makes seventy one million, twenty five dollars two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars a year, So he makes almost
seventy two million.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Dollars a year to play basketball. Yeah, seventy two million dollars.
Now you think to yourself, good lord, seventy two million
dollars a year to play basketball. And people do say
that these guys are way overpaid. It's way too much money.
It's ridiculous. The amount of money they make. You always
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make what the market will bear. You have to understand that.
You also have to understand that these guys are entertainers.
If Taylor Smith is Taylor Swift makes a billion dollars
on a tool, do you sit there and go, oh.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
No, she doesn't deserve that. That's too much money, right,
I'm not going to pay this? Yeah, you are sure
you are. You get paid with the market will bear.
And these athletes, besides being athletes that compete, they are
entertainers because you go to the game to be entertained.
You have to remember that if you weren't entertained, you
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wouldn't even be involved. So they are making money because
they generate money because they are stars. So when people
make the argument, oh they make too much money, tell
you what, I look at it like this in life,
I don't care who you are or what you do,
you don't make enough money. I think everybody should make
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more money. Quite frankly, no, a different story about taxes,
but I think that everybody should make more money. I
think everybody should make as much money as humanly possible.
Everybody is undervalued. Every single person that goes to work
works hard every day, does their job. Everybody, in my
mind is undervalued Rodney. So I think whatever they make,
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they make it because they deserve it.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
And the analogy you just gave about Taylor Swift was
right on, because nobody says anything about her or Beyonce
or anybody any entertainer that's doing this. Brad Pitt just
had f one come out that that movie's going to
make over billion dollars and he's going to get paid
because he produced it and did all that. Nobody talks
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about the CEO of American Express or the the the
owner of Paramount or anything like that. They don't talk
about the much money they make and executives they're making,
all the money that they're making at Google and all
those companies, Like the fiftieth person at Google is probably
making several billion dollars. So, you know, it just it
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makes no sense to me. We just saw the Lakers
get sold fred for ten billion dollars, ten billion dollars,
and you're telling me the player can't make seventy million
dollars a year. Ten billion dollars it's sold for right, right,
And we're seeing these escalating prices in all these sports
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teams that are being sold in the billions. And if
they're someone's paying a ten billion dollars for a franchise,
they're not trying to lose money, Fred, They're paying it
because they want to generate money or there is a
way for them to generate money because they own this
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particular process or product.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
It's funny you would bring that up like that, Rodney,
because Kevin just said to me, the Tampa Bay Rays
have been sold for one point seven billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Just happened.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
One point seven billion. What are the smallest markets? Yeah,
they went for almost two billion dollars. Tampa Bay. Yeah,
a team with no stadium, that's what the Dodgers went for.
But that's what the Dodgers went for.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Granted, you know, two billion dollars was what ten years ago,
fifteen year whatever it was they bought them, But still
two billion dollars was for the Dodgers, and Tampa Bay
don't even have a stadium right now, right, one point
seven billion?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Right, Think about that. I get people are upset with
the what the money athletes make.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I get it. I get it. But let me give you.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
My philosophy that everybody is underpaid, and I think you are.
I think if you work hard every day and you
do your job. I don't care what your job is,
you should get paid more money. Now, there's a whole
plan behind this where corporations, instead of paying taxes, would
pay you more money. Of course, the problem is and
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they're not paying the same kind of taxes, so the
way the country operates would have to be adjusted. Yeah,
take care of things, But I really think people are underpaid.
If I don't care what it is. If you can
make more, you should make more. If SGA can make
seventy two million dollars a year, good on him, Good
on him. I mean, look at Anthony Rendon. I think
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the guy made like two hundred and forty five million dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
It'll go down as a worst deal in Angel's history
for what what did he get paid for? But he
got it. Do I hold that against him? No, I
hold against him that he never played. Otani's making seventy million.
At the end of the day, is he worth seventy million.
I'll tell you one thing. I know the Dodgers think
he is well damn right, And.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
I'll tell you this to them, the Dodgers, when it's
all said and done, that was a bargain, a bargain.
That was a bargain. Jan Soda is making a lot
of money. I think that's a bad deal. It's good
for Juan Soto, it's great for him, it's bad for
the match. He won't pay for it, but Otani will
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pay for his It was very smart.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Uh. What's interesting is when you look at it and
you know it, but but go back to what The
stadium is filled. City Field is packed right on the regular. Yes,
and now it's not just because of Juan Soto, and
they were coming on with Lindor and and Alonso and
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all that, but Juan Soto just put it over the
top that that stadium will be packed for every game.
And what does that mean? Concessions, sales, jerseys, all those things.
He's not Otani, no, but the stadium is filled, the
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jerseys will sell. Is he worth seventy million a year
at the end of the day, Yeah, yeah, then it's
a good deal. Yeah, then it's a good deal. If
these worth seventy million dollars to the franchise, you don't
think that they sit back and their being counters. Go Okay,
let's the risk reward and let's see what this How
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we gonna generate money from this and Soto and maybe
we who knows what the you know, we talk about
the Dodgers a lot, right doing what they're doing in
Japan and Asia and all that with Otani. Who knows
what is going on in Dominican Republic? Who knows what
Juan Solo jerseys, Juan Sodo paraphernalia, Wan Sodo? Whatever is
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he from Dominican? Any Dominican? He is, Yes, what's going
on down there with their clinics, camps, all the stuff
that's going on down there, and what they're gonna have
him do in the offseason. Who knows what that is.
But they justify it and they paid it, and that
city field is packed.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
If they think he's worth seventy million, well, first they'll
pay him. And I don't know about Steve Cohen, because
he's crazy. He just wants to win. He'll do anything.
He'd spend any amount of money to win. There's that too.
But if they think from a business standpoint, he's worth
seventy million dollars a year, then that's a good deal.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
That's a market Now, Anthony Brendon, you're not getting any
return on that investment. That's a terrible deal. It's the
worst deal. And I think next year they're done with them.
They're done. Deshaun Watson and Cleveland. He didn't get anything
on that investment. That's a bad deal. That's work.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
That might be worse deal in sports. Yeah, that's an
awful deal. And you talk about Deshaun Watson. Here's the
funniest part of it. If you look at all of
these numbers, and they are truly astronomical, congratulations to everybody
that gets paid. The guys that probably should make the
most make the least. It's the NFL guys. True, they
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don't play as many games, I get that, but they
are at a higher risk of injury than anybody, and
they make the least money.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah. Look, I think I saw something that there was.
You know, we just talked about the baseball players making
this and basketball players and SGA getting seventy one million dollars.
Lebron we just talked about him making fifty five this
year and a number of guys are over fifty. There
are seven guys in the NFL and make over fifty seven,
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and they're all quarterbacks, all of them quarterbacks. But seven
guys make over fifty million dollars to your point of
looking Baseball, looking basketball, and the NFL is the pulling
up the rear. I mean, obviously hockey's pulling up the rear.
It's not as popular as all the other three sports.
But but football should be the one sport that that
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guys get paid the most.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yeah, and they get paid the least. Yeah, on a
comparative basis. I understand we played what seventeen games? Yeah,
but the point is.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
It, but it's the most popular sport, and it's the
most it is the most lucrative sport of the three
as well, which makes it even crazier. Yeah, and the
most dangerous sport. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I mean, look, anybody can get hurt at any time,
but if you're if you hit a bet. We got
a basketball player, a baseball player, and a football player,
and we got a bet who's got a higher chance
of getting hurt faster, I'm picking a football.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Guy on a time. Okay, Well, then they should be
paid for Well.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
That's the argument, and I'm not saying I agree with it.
But the argument the owner's use is because the injury
rate is so high in the NFL, we can't guarantee
money because we'd lose so much because so many guys
were got hurt so often, and we're guaranteeing all these
guys all this money. There's also the players Association, which
you've talked about at nause and with Eric.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
You know, Roddy's terrible.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
I mean, they're in the midst of a controversy right now,
you know, over the Deshaun Watson contract and and all that.
But that's the argument the owners use. We can't guarantee money.
It's all these guys because they get hurt so much.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Yeah, which is you know, and they've won that argument
over the years, which is crazy, which is why it's
still it's And we've got the worst union, and all
of those things are the worst. The worst union, the
worst healthcare, the worst everything of all the sports where
it's the most violent, and your chances of being injured
are the greatest, and and so it's it's it's a
(29:27):
definite imbalance because the NFL generates more revenue than Major
League Baseball and NBA combined. It's not even close what
the NFL does and revenue and and and and so
it's but again going back to the original thought, friend
(29:48):
of of athletes making this money if they're getting paid
that money, what do you think that people owning the
team are getting And I know a lot of owners
want to cry broke, but there's not you're not over
imagine like twenty years ago, like you said, I don't
(30:09):
know what was it. I don't know when they bought
the Dodgers to two billion dollars years ago. It's twenty twelve.
Twenty twelve, they bought them NBA teams? NBA teams, what
did who was the Phoenix Suns? I think they sold
for like four billion dollars. Yeah, it was, and the
Lakers went for ten less than ten years, it went
(30:33):
for ten billion dollars.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
I'm looking right now. The lowest valued MOB team according
to Forbes is the Memphis Grizzlies, and there were three
billion dollars. Yeah, they're the least valuable NBA franchise.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Least value. Jerry j bought that. Jerry Jones bought the
Dallas Cowboys for a little over one hundred million dollars.
Right when Palmer spent two billion dollars on the Clippers,
people thought this all went crazy. It went crazy. It's like,
what could you possibly be doing? When you buy a team,
you buy it.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
For appreciation of the asset, because you're gonna make your
money back and then something just you have enough money
to operate, operate along the successfully.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
In the intrum. Yeah, I can't believe Tampa Basel for
almost two billion dollars. Those guys they had to go.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
They had to go because they couldn't get a new
stadium built. They couldn't even negotiate anything. I wonder if
they'll stay there. I want to know more on that.
Speaker 7 (31:29):
Kevin the Athletic is reporting that the new ownership group
plans to keep it there.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Now.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
I feel like the new ownership group in Oklahoma City
said they planned to keep the team in Seattle when
it came to the SuperSonics and we saw what happen there.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Oh, the operative term is planned, correct, that's the word.
Speaker 7 (31:44):
That's the wording.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
That's what you say when you're buying the team, right,
and then things change whence you have the team. Well,
it didn't work out. Dan Kirky said the same thing.
I want to keep him in Saint Louis. I really do.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
It comes out of this. It's simple, Rodney, Here's what
it comes down to. I plan to keep him here. Great, right,
let's sit down and see if we can get what
we need out of the city, out of the state,
out of the county. Here's what I need. Keep them here, Well,
we can't do that. Well, I can't keep them here.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
I can't keep them here. What do you want from me?
I told you what my plan was. I tried you.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
You did it. You made me do this if you
just would have done what I asked. And by the way,
I've shown up with a gun and a mask because
I'm gonna rob you. So if you just let me
rob you, I'll keep the team here. But if you don't,
at least I planned to. That's what they say. That's
how they handle.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
It at the beginning.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Always yeah, always yeah, Just give me what I want.
You're not gonna do that. Well, jeez, I can't stay
I can't stay here. What do you want from me?
I can't. It's just business. You know what You did
this to me, You made me do this. So we're
(33:05):
looking at the Nashville rais huh oh, that's the market
to go to. You know that that's the place to go.
Would you make breakfast for your sister's kids. Let's talk
about that.
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Speaker 2 (33:36):
Oh yeah, come on, let's go. Let's keep it moving.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Here on a Monday, beautiful sunny Monday in southern California, Freddie,
All right, what do you do here?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Here's a question. Uh, oh, you know, hey, we have
to be there for family. We always have to be there, right,
family first? Fair, Yes, yes, yes, absolutely, here we go.
Here's a question. So a woman has two kids, and
the woman recently splits with her husband. Now you understand
(34:14):
this is traumatic, right, Okay, The kids are seven and four,
so the kids are little. The woman splits and has
nowhere to go. Thank god, she has a sister. She
says to her sister, can I move in? And the
kids are coming too? So what's her sister say? Of course,
(34:35):
of course you can move in. Come on, we're sisters.
You get in here. Okay, So the kids move in,
she moves in, and life begins. But she who has
just moved in with the kids apparently has not had
much sleep, so she stays in bed till like one
o'clock every day.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Every day she sleeps till like noon, one clip press.
She's feeling it. He's going through it. It's gonna get
over it, you know, tough on her right.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Well, just because she's sleeping til noon one o'clock doesn't
mean the seven and four year old are sleeping till
one o'clock. They're up right and early, and so is
the woman's sister, who said, come on in. So every day,
the woman's sister is now making the kids breakfast because
(35:27):
mom's asleep.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Mom's mom's getting it in.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Yeah, who knows what mom's doing, but we know mom's sleeping. Yeah,
So the sister is making breakfast. And now she has
decided that this is wrong. She should not have to
make the kids breakfast. She says, get up and take
care of your kids because the sister is making them
(35:54):
breakfast every day.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Who's right here, who's wrong? Okay, your family, it's your sister. Yeah.
There there is a period of time where if you're like, okay,
so I'm gonna play the role of the sister. That
(36:19):
allows my sister who just got divorced with the kids
coming in. Very good. Come on, come on to my house.
I got room, I got space. You can come stay
with me. I know you're going through a traumatic experience
in a tough time, so come on in, bring the kids.
I'll take care of you. You do you know, just
get yourself right. I know you're depressed. There has to
(36:40):
be a period of time and I'll do it. You know. Look,
whatever you need me to do, I got I still
got to live my life. I got my own life
going on, right. You know you're impeding on my life
and things I got going on. I got a job,
I got everything. Your kids are up, you're dealing with
depressed depression and you're upset. Okay, I'll take care of
(37:02):
the kid I'll cook them breakfast. There has to be
a time period, though, There has to be a a
a time in which you say, okay, I will do
this for the next thirty days. I'll cook the kids breakfast.
I'll take care of them in the morning until you
get up. But at some point you have to get
(37:22):
up and start reclaiming your life. Right, and you can't
sleep till one o'clock? Can I can? I throw the
north thing in? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:32):
When the sister makes the kids breakfast. They tell her
to make a different breakfast. We don't want to know,
Yeah they do. Oh no, here's ex some potatoes. No,
make something else. Spoiled kids. That'll changed how you look.
Spoiled kids. Then, yeah, okod good morning.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Here you go. Now we're not isn't no? Okay, then
don't eat that. Then don't eat because that's what that's
what's on the table. If you don't want it, don't
eat it. But I'm not cooking you another damn thing.
You're seven or four, you're gonna learn some discipline and
you're gonna learn some respect. And if you don't want
(38:13):
to eat what I cooked, then don't eat. How about that?
That's how I would handle it too. Yeah. Hell, i'd
make him get a job at four. Hey, Hey, I
got a cart out in the back and there's some
wheels on it. Just go make your elimonade stand, put
(38:34):
it out front. Go just do it. Yeah, go make
you some money, teach them some respect. Yeah, since they
got thirty days to go more. And then you got
to get up off your ass and let's go all right.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Next next segment, Jack Harris at the Times will join
us as we count down to the All Star Game
Home run Derby tonight.
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Speaker 2 (39:21):
Oh, bring It, bring it, MJ. Come on there it
is down the home stretch. Roddy, Pete, Fred Rogan, come
on on Monday. Home Run Derby getting ready to start soon.
I know, have you ever been to the home run
Derby in person? I have not. I have not. I've
(39:43):
been to the All Star Game a few times, but
I've not been to the home run Derby.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
I've been to the home run Derby. Let me tell
you something. It's made for TV event. I bet, I
bet it's forever right. It takes forever if you're there.
It takes forever if you're there. And when they had
at a Dodger Stadium, it was like one hundred and
thirty five degrees. It was like, oh god, it takes
(40:07):
forever when you're there, but a great TV event.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Yeah, so that'll be fun tonight. Okay, I want to
pass this along. Well, we'd like to pass it along
as a tip, and it's something just to keep in mind.
And we just ran across this today. Look, there are
certain things you can do to protect yourself, to ensure
that nothing bad is going to happen to you. And
(40:35):
one of the things you can do is to chew
your food. Please, chew your food. Chew your food thoroughly.
Now I know this because I almost choked twice on
chicken and I had to be heim linked. And the
problem was both times you had to be heim linked. Yeah,
where were you? Give me the backstory? Red Robin? Okay,
(40:58):
one time with that Red Robin. Who are you back?
Mall Back? Both kept both times Chicken? Who are you with? Rochelle?
I thought I was at mall Back? It's a restaurant
across the street, okay, Red Robin and Malbeck. Yeah, both
times chicken chicken like like fried chicken, baked chicken, chicken
(41:19):
chicken rap, so chicken rap. Yeah, you know, chicken comes
into a hundred different flavors in different ways, So what
kind of chicken was it? It was chicken alimalst choked
on twice?
Speaker 5 (41:32):
No oh wait yeah, okay, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
Awful. Could have been orange chicken, fried chicken, baked chicken.
Tick casts a role, I mean, what kind of ticket
rap with a ticket wrap? Yeah? Yeah right, so twice.
So here's here's the point. Here's the point. This is
the tip. Don't be like me, because I actually talked
(42:20):
to an autopsy technician. And do you want to know
what people die of? More than you would think? Choking?
Choking on food and this really yeah, choking on food. Wow,
here are the two things that the mortician suggested. Chew
(42:41):
your food carefully or don't get into a fight. Those
are the way people die by choking for getting into
a fight. Avoid fights, and avoid choking to your food. Yes, yeah,
I went to you know, I sometimes try to every
you know, kind of like every year you go through
(43:04):
the New Year's resolutions. I go through them every six
months where you've got to have a revelation. You think
I'm gonna do something something different. I gotta change up
my ways. I feel bad, I got to get better sleep.
I gotta do this, so I you know, I like
to take care of myself, and I go to sometimes
I go to these retreats and I go to healthy retreats,
and they talk about diet and they talk about, you know,
(43:27):
eating well and you know and exercising all those kind
of things and getting the right amount of fluids. But
they also talk about how you eat and regardless of
you eat, because people are gonna eat what they want.
You know. Sometimes people that the worst discipline we have
is people is eating our dietary habits. But regardless of
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what you eat, they talk about chewing your food and
chewing it thirty two times before you swallow. I've heard that. Yeah,
that helps your digestion, it helps everything break up and
all of those things where a lot of times we
don't do that. We take a big bite and we
take two bites and then we gobble it and swallow it.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
Yeah, that's what got me. They say, chew it thirty
two times. I took out the thirty I just.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Did it too. The more you chew it, the less
tasty it is. That's how I look at it. That's true.
I do too. You want to get it down real
quick because yeah, and the thing is, I mean, what
am I taking so much time for here. I'm hungry.
I want to eat. I gotta get in and get out.
That's all I'm saying is choked. So you choked? Who
(44:36):
gave you the Heimlich? Rachelle gave you the Heimlich? Yeah?
Both times? Yeah wow? Oh yeah, And.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
She'd be the last one that probably would want to
because I'm worth dead more than alive.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
So I mean, did you Warner? Did you see it
in your face? Your eyes? I mean, how did you know? Well?
She knows, there's no warning anybody like I can't breathe,
I can't do that. You got that look in your
eye like you're choking when you get to look. Yeah,
kids were there once. Yeah, everybody knows when you're choking. Yeah. Yeah,
(45:13):
it wasn't good. So anyway, chew your food please, and
don't get stabbed. Those are the chips from the uh
the autopsy technician. Chew your food and do not get stabbed.
Speaker 7 (45:23):
I do like her quote Fred, She says, don't ever
say these words to somebody.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (45:27):
Stab me?
Speaker 2 (45:28):
What are you gonna do? Shoot me?
Speaker 7 (45:30):
Because chances are they very well MIGHTE don't do that.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
What are you gonna do? Yeah, yeah, what are you
gonna do?
Speaker 1 (45:39):
And it's good we're talking about it because Katie is
in for Rannie today. And I know that Katie does
not chew her food. She doesn't, No, she does not.
She wolf it down, she wolf sit down. Yeah, so
Katie chew your food.
Speaker 7 (45:56):
She has no comment for either of you.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Katie see she's chewing right now. All right, Thank you Katie,
Thank you Kevin and Rodney. We get him tomorrow, yes,
sir
Speaker 3 (46:09):
M
Now don't we continue on Fred Rogan Rodney Pete on
AM five to seventy LA Sports All Star Break, time
games tomorrow, Home Run Derby is tonight.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Cal Rawley, what a year he's had. All Man's killing it.
Thirty eight bombs, Fred, thirty eight bombs before the All
Star Break for a catcher. That's incredible. He's having a
great year. We're going to talk more about that.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
But now with the All Star Break, it gives us
a chance to visit with someone who never talks about baseball,
Dan Moik, because he talks about basketball, Dan of course
writing for the Athletic. Now, Dan, thank you for coming.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
On, guys, Rodney, welcome home. Sorry I have no voice.
This is day guys, Day six in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
For me?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
What this sounds like?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Day six?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Is it one hundred and twenty?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yet if I left my hotel room, I would know.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Well, because you're working hard.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
We're our way, We're on our way out here in
a little bit. But yes it is, uh, it's warm.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
What's the Summer League been like this year? Dan? Good? Crowds?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Oh yeah, really exciting. You know, I got a chance
to watch Cooper Flag play twice. Saw Dylan Harper play.
You know, I think you know Hanson Yang from Portland,
big crowds for him, really fun player, really fun passer.
You know, I think the way basketball is being played
(01:25):
right now, with talent, with space, with pace, you can
kind of I mean, sometimes some of the games are
pretty ugly, and these games do get pretty ugly. The
Lakers want a really ugly game the other day. But
I think there is like you can kind of like
you can see enough of some of these guys, and you're, like,
(01:46):
you should be excited about Cooper Flagg if you're an
Ever fan, like, like, it's it's pretty obvious. You can
tell he knows how to play basketball, Like the Charlotte
Hornets should be pretty excited about their rookies, like they
know how to play basketball. You can tell, you can
see it. You don't want to make any huge decisions
or proclamations about summer week, but it's it's been fun,
(02:08):
it's been it's been long, and I look forward to
getting home tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Dan, Dan, A couple couple of things I want to
ask you about that because I agree with you with
with Cooper Flag it shows, you know, watching him his
freshman year at Duke was, you know, the fundamentals were there.
How much do you think it benefits a guy going
to college, even if it's for one year, to get
(02:34):
that different type of tutelage and get that those fundamentals
honed in and as opposed to a kid coming out
of high school trying to skip it and you know,
go g le, go across the water somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Rodye. As someone who was in college for nine years
like myself, I think, you know, I can tell you
it is very helpful for me. You know, I don't know.
I think it's you know, different strokes for different folks
at the stuff. I think for him. You know what's
so interesting markuper Flag is that like if we went
(03:13):
by like birth certificate right like he should be going
into freshman or could be going into freshman year college
right now, right, But there's a guy, as a kid
who reclassified, moved up a year, you know, just really
really ready, it seems like for what's in front of him.
And I think, you know, being on the top of
a scouting report like like you know, with more sophistication,
(03:35):
with older, more physical defenders, different things like that like
that you know he saw in college basketball for a year. Yeah,
I think that it doesn't hurt. Would he have gotten
the same thing had he been playing you know, he
can't play directly in the NBA, but like if you're
playing in you know, overtime a lead or if he
was playing in Australia maybe you know, you know, it's
(03:59):
worked for other people, you know, it doesn't work for everyone.
I think the Lakers have a player around their summer
league team right now, Darius Baisley, who you know, took
a million dollar internship with New Balance instead of going
to Syracuse and was still a first round pick, but
you know, hasn't really found his footing in the league
trying to do that. You know, the Lakers is kind
(04:20):
of a run the floor defender athlete. He's put all right,
you know, but would that have changed if he stood
around and played zone at Syracuse for a year. I
have no idea, you know, I don't think it's It's
not a one side fits all for this. I think
what worked for refleg I think being at Duke, being
kind of in the eye of the storm, being asked
to form, meeting those expectations, and now being had, you know,
(04:43):
coming into the end of day where there are a
lot of expectations for him. I mean, maybe he's already
even a little unfair for some of this stuff, but like,
you know, he seems like he's got the goods.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, did you see I watched a little cliff. I
haven't watched a whole lot of Summer League, but the
clip of Ronnie guarding Cooper flag? And how how was that?
How was that match up? Man? Because the one clip
that everybody's you know, talking about is and you know
Ronnie got called for a foul but he was being
him up a little bit and then Cooper flag it
(05:15):
hits one in his face.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It was it was really fun. That gave us really fun,
a lot of energy in the building, and like that
moment had a lot of energy in it. You know,
I think, Ronnie, did you know how this grownie's six
inches shorter and Cooper flag Flag's a really big kid.
I think, you know, if you're looking for the little
(05:39):
things to like from what you've seen from Ronnie James
and and you know that's part of my job. Uh,
I'd point to what happened as New Orleans where you
know they played Jeremy Sears. Uh, you know, rookie point guard.
I think you played at Art Oklahoma last year. I
think anyway, you know, big part of the talkin's future,
(06:03):
and Bronnie and the Lakers really harassed him into a
really bad shooting night, and at the end of the game,
like the fourth quarter, like those dudes got kind of
tangled up, and you could like you could hear Bronnie
like going at him, like talking, you know, and I
think as they try to like figure out what kind
of player that he is. I mean, like that's a
(06:24):
thing you hear sometimes is like maybe is he like
too nice? Is he too shy? Like you know, you
want him to be aggressive, and like you know, like
can a kid can a kid like that really be
like a dog? Yeah? I know it's a lot of euphemisms,
but it was good to see him like get a
little grimy out there, you know what I mean. Like
I thought, now he looks so much more comfortable on
(06:47):
the basketball. He I think it was conditioning. All that
stuff has to still level up, but he's playing on hard.
He's doing the right things. Certainly doesn't look out of
place in summer League. What that means for his prospects
on the main roster very to be determined.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
All right, Dan Espn wanted to talk to Lebron.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Lebron passed on that people are saying that means something
to me, it means it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Lebron didn't want to talk to him. It doesn't.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I would, I'd try to talk to Lebron James Stewart.
He walked breakfast, my hands and what's up? And walked,
So my feelings were not hurt. I think. I think no,
like you asked, that's the job, right, you know, and
why watched Dave walk up to him and you know,
present him the opportunity to make some news and Lebron passed,
(07:36):
And I look, it's really hard to know exactly what's
going on right now. If this is like a full
on Cold war, if this is posturing, if this is
like maybe it's just what it looks like too, you know.
And to me, what it looks like is you have
(07:58):
a team that's planning for a future without Lebron James,
because that's what you do when you have a one
soon to be forty one year old on an expiring contract,
and you have a player in Lebron James who's forty
one years old who is still really freaking good and
as an All NBA player and you know, in any
(08:18):
reasonable situation, and like most reasonable situations, would be a partner,
says he plays, and as the Lakers try to figure
out what's the right thing to do around Luka Dacic,
like there could be a world where it's not Lebron James,
or it's certainly not killing Lebron James, a max you know,
fifty five million dollars, sixty million dollars contract, and so
I think I think like those that's what it looks
(08:40):
like to me. You know, are there other things that
player certainly and other things we're going to learn, certainly,
but but it seems to me like that's face to
be that. I do think that if like the idea
here is that you know, Lebron wants to win a
championship and he wants to look around at places where
he would want to play, that are better situations. I
(09:03):
think the Lakers were really good last year with Luka Dacic,
Austin Reeves, Ruyma, Lebron James. When those guys played, they
were really really good. You know, they're gonna miss Dorian
Fidney Smith, but you know Dendre eight, and I think
is going to have a good year.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I believe in it. I think oh wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
what did you say believe it? You said DeAndre Ayton's
going to have a good year. Wait, fred Ft, I
ignored that. I ignored that. It's one of his favorite
players there, Dan Wiki, I.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Know, I know, I know. I think it's like, like
it's like everything in life, right timing in situation is everything.
The Lakers are getting Deander Eton at the right time
and it's a good situation for him. Are there going
to be days where we guys where we talk and
we're going to talk about DeAndre Ayton's effort, his focus. Absolutely,
we're gonna talk about it. It's going to come up.
(09:55):
It's that on it today. But I think that you know, again,
what they needed out of that position. He should be
just fine if as long as it's available, like, he
should be just fine. And so I think they're going
to be a pretty good basketball team. And I'm not
totally sure that there is. They better went out there.
(10:16):
And also, by the way, I mean, look, Lebron James
had the option too to go somewhere else if you
wanted you have to be like that also said something
too that not that he necessarily full on wants to
play for the Lakers, but it does tell me that
he wants to play. He wants to be paid fifty
five million dollars to play for the Lakers, because that
was the decision he made.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, fifty five million dollars to play for the Lakers
or go somewhere. I'll play. The fifty five million dollars
is guarantee. Is guaranteed money. Yeah, what what else? I mean?
As constructed? Now, man Waki, where do you where do
you see the Lakers? And and the off season now
with Luca and Lebron h putting aside any I guess
(11:02):
rumors that Lebron's unhappy, but you know he comes back.
All of that being said, the Lakers going into the
season this coming year optimistic, good, bad, indifferent, better Luca,
better Lebron, better combinations.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I've always pretty I'm always pretty indifferent. I'll tell you that.
But I I think I think with this seame, I mean,
I don't believe that the work is done. I think
they still need, you know, another defender, either somebody with
some length and some speed or some physicality, A name
(11:40):
that comes up a lot, and when you talk about
the Lakers is Marcus Smart. You know, he's under contract
to Washington. The Wizards, you know, would have to buy
him out. I think for it to be realistic for
the Lakers, and there's no guarantee they're going to do that.
They have a lot of yards. It's it's you know,
(12:01):
I think the Lakers have checked in on that a bunch,
and that's a guy that's monitoring but like looking for
you know, some more physicality that way from point of
tech descents. But you know, like I said, they were
a pretty good team last year with no training camp,
thrown together in the middle of the season. That's like
(12:23):
a pretty seismic trade. And you know, like Luca, I
think physically obviously looks much better. You know, he was
gallavanting around Europe with Rodney. You tell us up, great,
he's just on the you know, on the on the
main deck of the Otwell Magic is on the peloton.
(12:45):
Lucas just doing crunches right next to him. You know,
I think, like he looks good. Yeah, we'll see. I mean,
he's gonna play your row basket, but you know, he
looks up. He's in a better place. I've talked to
people close to him. I think mentally he's going to
be in a much better place this year. You know,
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he's had time to like really calibrate and I don't know, like,
like this team could be pretty good. You know, they
were the three seed. Now Houston got better. Certainly Denver
I think got better. It's gonna be tough that the
Thunder or the Thunder, and they'll have that championship slagger
this year. But you know, if you're asking me if
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the Lakers are in the top tier of contenders, I
would say no. If you ask me if they're in
the second tier, I'd say sure. But things are right,
you know they can be there. They're gonna have to
get a little lucky and they're gonna have to have
some stuff go right. But it should be a good
basketball team.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
All right, Dan, the name Bradley Beal, Lakers, Clippers or who.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I mean. The thought process is, if you know, the
expectation was at least said the last week that if
he gets bought out, he's going to go to the Clippers.
You know, now that hasn't happened yet, And as time
goes on and things don't happen. You know, other options
could present themselves. Then Clippers make the most sense. You know,
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they can pay him a little bit more, they can
offer from a starting spot after the Norman Powell trade.
That that just that that that seems like I mean,
when I talk to people here in Vegas, that seems
like a piece of business that to some extent like
has been you know, pretty well like fleshed out. But
(14:35):
you know, you gotta it has to happen. I mean,
you know, the Lakers early in free agency were we're
linked pretty hard at the Anthony Meltain. You know, you
talk to other teams about that. You know, it seemed
like that was like a fade of complete Uh. It
certainly now looks like the Anthony Mountain is going to
sign with the Warriors. He hasn't yet, you know, so
(14:55):
we'll see what happens. But like, like I think the
deal thing seemed like it seems like I would say,
assuming the buyout happens, it's the Clippers to lose them.
It feels like based on what I've heard. But you know,
I think that's the place that makes the most sense.
And you guys, that's a good basketball team too. That's
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a really good basket team. They've had it. They've had
a nice summer. I think they'll really miss Norman Powell,
but I like the size and John Collins, you know,
and like a lot of teams like that, they have
the firepower to compete.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, do you think do you think Bradley Beal makes
them a contender?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Yeah? Yeah, I think they're in the tier with the Lakers,
you know, I mean I like the reason I hesitate,
I mean, the thing that makes them the contender, honestly
fed is like is Kawhi Leonard healthy?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Like that?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Like that it's always a question. Yeah, that's that's That's
kind of the certain stop of it, you know for me,
is like if Kawhi Leonards hell, see, they're going to
be a contender. Like he's good enough to win you
playoff series. Uh, you know, he's that dominant of a player.
If he's not really right physically, you know, and there's
(16:13):
a reason to always worry about that, then you're probably
in trouble. And I think that's that was true last year.
I think it'll be true again this year for them.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
The right well enjoy Vegas. Well, let's put it like
this survived Vegas how about.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
That, got guys any tip, any tips for the last
twenty four hours here?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Drink heavily, put it all on black.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Okay, you're both sounds like awful advice.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
For both of guys.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Good good, drunk and play or that. But you know
I said that. This is the exact words to me
when I told them, like, I got twenty hours up
in Vegas? What should I do?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
What you tell me? All right?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Dan?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Take it easy?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
All right? Take care guys.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Do people make too much money? Do athletes make too
much money? Let's talk about that next.
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Speaker 4 (17:24):
Yeah, come on, let's keep it moving on a Monday.
Roddy Pete, Fred Rogan. Oh we coming back with a
little tone. Look wild thing?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Okay, all star break. Thank you to Dan Woiki appreciate
you Dan. Sweating it out in Vegas, Fred, Vegas is
not fun in the summertime.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
No, especially with that this kind of advice. Drink heavily
and put it all on black. Yeah, we were friends.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
That's what he said. I tell you, guys, are my friends.
Tell me get drunk and bet ma Roulette.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah, that's what you don't want to do in Vegas
in the summer. Drink heavily. You know, when you're young,
you can pull that off. If you get older, don't
do it. I'm just warning you. That's not gonna be good.
Lots of alcohol in the heat is going to be
a bad combination for you. It's gonna be called dehydration.
That's what it will. That's what will happen to you.
So don't do that. Right, This is something people talk
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about all the time. I just found it interesting. Times
did a piece on it last week. SGA Shay Gilgess
Alexander makes seventy one million, twenty five dollars two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars a year, So he makes almost
seventy two million.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Dollars a year to play basketball. Yeah, seventy two million dollars.
Now you think to yourself, good lord, seventy two million
dollars a year to play basketball. And people do say
that these guys are way overpaid. It's way too much money.
It's ridiculous. The amount of money they make. You always
(19:01):
make what the market will bear. You have to understand that.
You also have to understand that these guys are entertainers.
If Taylor Smith is Taylor Swift makes a billion dollars
on a tool, do you sit there and go, oh.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
No, she doesn't deserve that. That's too much money, right,
I'm not going to pay this? Yeah, you are sure
you are. You get paid with the market will bear.
And these athletes, besides being athletes that compete, they are
entertainers because you go to the game to be entertained.
You have to remember that if you weren't entertained, you
(19:35):
wouldn't even be involved. So they are making money because
they generate money because they are stars. So when people
make the argument, oh they make too much money, tell
you what, I look at it like this in life,
I don't care who you are or what you do,
you don't make enough money. I think everybody should make
(19:57):
more money. Quite frankly, no, a different story about taxes,
but I think that everybody should make more money. I
think everybody should make as much money as humanly possible.
Everybody is undervalued. Every single person that goes to work
works hard every day, does their job. Everybody, in my
mind is undervalued Rodney. So I think whatever they make,
(20:19):
they make it because they deserve it.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
And the analogy you just gave about Taylor Swift was
right on, because nobody says anything about her or Beyonce
or anybody any entertainer that's doing this. Brad Pitt just
had f one come out that that movie's going to
make over billion dollars and he's going to get paid
because he produced it and did all that. Nobody talks
(20:48):
about the CEO of American Express or the the the
owner of Paramount or anything like that. They don't talk
about the much money they make and executives they're making,
all the money that they're making at Google and all
those companies, Like the fiftieth person at Google is probably
making several billion dollars. So, you know, it just it
(21:15):
makes no sense to me. We just saw the Lakers
get sold fred for ten billion dollars, ten billion dollars,
and you're telling me the player can't make seventy million
dollars a year. Ten billion dollars it's sold for right, right,
And we're seeing these escalating prices in all these sports
(21:38):
teams that are being sold in the billions. And if
they're someone's paying a ten billion dollars for a franchise,
they're not trying to lose money, Fred, They're paying it
because they want to generate money or there is a
way for them to generate money because they own this
(22:00):
particular process or product.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
It's funny you would bring that up like that, Rodney,
because Kevin just said to me, the Tampa Bay Rays
have been sold for one point seven billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Just happened.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
One point seven billion. What are the smallest markets? Yeah,
they went for almost two billion dollars. Tampa Bay. Yeah,
a team with no stadium, that's what the Dodgers went for.
But that's what the Dodgers went for.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Granted, you know, two billion dollars was what ten years ago,
fifteen year whatever it was they bought them, But still
two billion dollars was for the Dodgers, and Tampa Bay
don't even have a stadium right now, right, one point
seven billion?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Right, Think about that. I get people are upset with
the what the money athletes make.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I get it. I get it. But let me give you.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
My philosophy that everybody is underpaid, and I think you are.
I think if you work hard every day and you
do your job. I don't care what your job is,
you should get paid more money. Now, there's a whole
plan behind this where corporations, instead of paying taxes, would
pay you more money. Of course, the problem is and
(23:09):
they're not paying the same kind of taxes, so the
way the country operates would have to be adjusted. Yeah,
take care of things, But I really think people are underpaid.
If I don't care what it is. If you can
make more, you should make more. If SGA can make
seventy two million dollars a year, good on him, Good
on him. I mean, look at Anthony Rendon. I think
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the guy made like two hundred and forty five million dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
It'll go down as a worst deal in Angel's history
for what what did he get paid for? But he
got it. Do I hold that against him? No, I
hold against him that he never played. Otani's making seventy million.
At the end of the day, is he worth seventy million.
I'll tell you one thing. I know the Dodgers think
he is well damn right, And.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
I'll tell you this to them, the Dodgers, when it's
all said and done, that was a bargain, a bargain.
That was a bargain. Jan Soda is making a lot
of money. I think that's a bad deal. It's good
for Juan Soto, it's great for him, it's bad for
the match. He won't pay for it, but Otani will
(24:16):
pay for his It was very smart.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Uh. What's interesting is when you look at it and
you know it, but but go back to what The
stadium is filled. City Field is packed right on the regular. Yes,
and now it's not just because of Juan Soto, and
they were coming on with Lindor and and Alonso and
(24:41):
all that, but Juan Soto just put it over the
top that that stadium will be packed for every game.
And what does that mean? Concessions, sales, jerseys, all those things.
He's not Otani, no, but the stadium is filled, the
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jerseys will sell. Is he worth seventy million a year
at the end of the day, Yeah, yeah, then it's
a good deal. Yeah, then it's a good deal. If
these worth seventy million dollars to the franchise, you don't
think that they sit back and their being counters. Go Okay,
let's the risk reward and let's see what this How
(25:23):
we gonna generate money from this and Soto and maybe
we who knows what the you know, we talk about
the Dodgers a lot, right doing what they're doing in
Japan and Asia and all that with Otani. Who knows
what is going on in Dominican Republic? Who knows what
Juan Solo jerseys, Juan Sodo paraphernalia, Wan Sodo? Whatever is
(25:44):
he from Dominican? Any Dominican? He is, Yes, what's going
on down there with their clinics, camps, all the stuff
that's going on down there, and what they're gonna have
him do in the offseason. Who knows what that is.
But they justify it and they paid it, and that
city field is packed.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
If they think he's worth seventy million, well, first they'll
pay him. And I don't know about Steve Cohen, because
he's crazy. He just wants to win. He'll do anything.
He'd spend any amount of money to win. There's that too.
But if they think from a business standpoint, he's worth
seventy million dollars a year, then that's a good deal.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
That's a market Now, Anthony Brendon, you're not getting any
return on that investment. That's a terrible deal. It's the
worst deal. And I think next year they're done with them.
They're done. Deshaun Watson and Cleveland. He didn't get anything
on that investment. That's a bad deal. That's work.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
That might be worse deal in sports. Yeah, that's an
awful deal. And you talk about Deshaun Watson. Here's the
funniest part of it. If you look at all of
these numbers, and they are truly astronomical, congratulations to everybody
that gets paid. The guys that probably should make the
most make the least. It's the NFL guys. True, they
(27:00):
don't play as many games, I get that, but they
are at a higher risk of injury than anybody, and
they make the least money.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah. Look, I think I saw something that there was.
You know, we just talked about the baseball players making
this and basketball players and SGA getting seventy one million dollars.
Lebron we just talked about him making fifty five this
year and a number of guys are over fifty. There
are seven guys in the NFL and make over fifty seven,
(27:32):
and they're all quarterbacks, all of them quarterbacks. But seven
guys make over fifty million dollars to your point of
looking Baseball, looking basketball, and the NFL is the pulling
up the rear. I mean, obviously hockey's pulling up the rear.
It's not as popular as all the other three sports.
But but football should be the one sport that that
(27:53):
guys get paid the most.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yeah, and they get paid the least. Yeah, on a
comparative basis. I understand we played what seventeen games? Yeah,
but the point is.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
It, but it's the most popular sport, and it's the
most it is the most lucrative sport of the three
as well, which makes it even crazier. Yeah, and the
most dangerous sport. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I mean, look, anybody can get hurt at any time,
but if you're if you hit a bet. We got
a basketball player, a baseball player, and a football player,
and we got a bet who's got a higher chance
of getting hurt faster, I'm picking a football.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Guy on a time. Okay, Well, then they should be
paid for Well.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
That's the argument, and I'm not saying I agree with it.
But the argument the owner's use is because the injury
rate is so high in the NFL, we can't guarantee
money because we'd lose so much because so many guys
were got hurt so often, and we're guaranteeing all these
guys all this money. There's also the players Association, which
you've talked about at nause and with Eric.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
You know, Roddy's terrible.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
I mean, they're in the midst of a controversy right now,
you know, over the Deshaun Watson contract and and all that.
But that's the argument the owners use. We can't guarantee money.
It's all these guys because they get hurt so much.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Yeah, which is you know, and they've won that argument
over the years, which is crazy, which is why it's
still it's And we've got the worst union, and all
of those things are the worst. The worst union, the
worst healthcare, the worst everything of all the sports where
it's the most violent, and your chances of being injured
are the greatest, and and so it's it's it's a
(29:27):
definite imbalance because the NFL generates more revenue than Major
League Baseball and NBA combined. It's not even close what
the NFL does and revenue and and and and so
it's but again going back to the original thought, friend
(29:48):
of of athletes making this money if they're getting paid
that money, what do you think that people owning the
team are getting And I know a lot of owners
want to cry broke, but there's not you're not over
imagine like twenty years ago, like you said, I don't
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know what was it. I don't know when they bought
the Dodgers to two billion dollars years ago. It's twenty twelve.
Twenty twelve, they bought them NBA teams? NBA teams, what
did who was the Phoenix Suns? I think they sold
for like four billion dollars. Yeah, it was, and the
Lakers went for ten less than ten years, it went
(30:33):
for ten billion dollars.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
I'm looking right now. The lowest valued MOB team according
to Forbes is the Memphis Grizzlies, and there were three
billion dollars. Yeah, they're the least valuable NBA franchise.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Least value. Jerry j bought that. Jerry Jones bought the
Dallas Cowboys for a little over one hundred million dollars.
Right when Palmer spent two billion dollars on the Clippers,
people thought this all went crazy. It went crazy. It's like,
what could you possibly be doing? When you buy a team,
you buy it.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
For appreciation of the asset, because you're gonna make your
money back and then something just you have enough money
to operate, operate along the successfully.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
In the intrum. Yeah, I can't believe Tampa Basel for
almost two billion dollars. Those guys they had to go.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
They had to go because they couldn't get a new
stadium built. They couldn't even negotiate anything. I wonder if
they'll stay there. I want to know more on that.
Speaker 7 (31:29):
Kevin the Athletic is reporting that the new ownership group
plans to keep it there.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Now.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
I feel like the new ownership group in Oklahoma City
said they planned to keep the team in Seattle when
it came to the SuperSonics and we saw what happen there.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Oh, the operative term is planned, correct, that's the word.
Speaker 7 (31:44):
That's the wording.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
That's what you say when you're buying the team, right,
and then things change whence you have the team. Well,
it didn't work out. Dan Kirky said the same thing.
I want to keep him in Saint Louis. I really do.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
It comes out of this. It's simple, Rodney, Here's what
it comes down to. I plan to keep him here. Great, right,
let's sit down and see if we can get what
we need out of the city, out of the state,
out of the county. Here's what I need. Keep them here, Well,
we can't do that. Well, I can't keep them here.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
I can't keep them here. What do you want from me?
I told you what my plan was. I tried you.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
You did it. You made me do this if you
just would have done what I asked. And by the way,
I've shown up with a gun and a mask because
I'm gonna rob you. So if you just let me
rob you, I'll keep the team here. But if you don't,
at least I planned to. That's what they say. That's
how they handle.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
It at the beginning.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Always yeah, always yeah, Just give me what I want.
You're not gonna do that. Well, jeez, I can't stay
I can't stay here. What do you want from me?
I can't. It's just business. You know what You did
this to me, You made me do this. So we're
(33:05):
looking at the Nashville rais huh oh, that's the market
to go to. You know that that's the place to go.
Would you make breakfast for your sister's kids. Let's talk
about that.
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Speaker 2 (33:36):
Oh yeah, come on, let's go. Let's keep it moving.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Here on a Monday, beautiful sunny Monday in southern California, Freddie,
All right, what do you do here?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Here's a question. Uh, oh, you know, hey, we have
to be there for family. We always have to be there, right,
family first? Fair, Yes, yes, yes, absolutely, here we go.
Here's a question. So a woman has two kids, and
the woman recently splits with her husband. Now you understand
(34:14):
this is traumatic, right, Okay, The kids are seven and four,
so the kids are little. The woman splits and has
nowhere to go. Thank god, she has a sister. She
says to her sister, can I move in? And the
kids are coming too? So what's her sister say? Of course,
(34:35):
of course you can move in. Come on, we're sisters.
You get in here. Okay, So the kids move in,
she moves in, and life begins. But she who has
just moved in with the kids apparently has not had
much sleep, so she stays in bed till like one
o'clock every day.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Every day she sleeps till like noon, one clip press.
She's feeling it. He's going through it. It's gonna get
over it, you know, tough on her right.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Well, just because she's sleeping til noon one o'clock doesn't
mean the seven and four year old are sleeping till
one o'clock. They're up right and early, and so is
the woman's sister, who said, come on in. So every day,
the woman's sister is now making the kids breakfast because
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mom's asleep.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Mom's mom's getting it in.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Yeah, who knows what mom's doing, but we know mom's sleeping. Yeah,
So the sister is making breakfast. And now she has
decided that this is wrong. She should not have to
make the kids breakfast. She says, get up and take
care of your kids because the sister is making them
(35:54):
breakfast every day.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Who's right here, who's wrong? Okay, your family, it's your sister. Yeah.
There there is a period of time where if you're like, okay,
so I'm gonna play the role of the sister. That
(36:19):
allows my sister who just got divorced with the kids
coming in. Very good. Come on, come on to my house.
I got room, I got space. You can come stay
with me. I know you're going through a traumatic experience
in a tough time, so come on in, bring the kids.
I'll take care of you. You do you know, just
get yourself right. I know you're depressed. There has to
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be a period of time and I'll do it. You know. Look,
whatever you need me to do, I got I still
got to live my life. I got my own life
going on, right. You know you're impeding on my life
and things I got going on. I got a job,
I got everything. Your kids are up, you're dealing with
depressed depression and you're upset. Okay, I'll take care of
(37:02):
the kid I'll cook them breakfast. There has to be
a time period, though, There has to be a a
a time in which you say, okay, I will do
this for the next thirty days. I'll cook the kids breakfast.
I'll take care of them in the morning until you
get up. But at some point you have to get
(37:22):
up and start reclaiming your life. Right, and you can't
sleep till one o'clock? Can I can? I throw the
north thing in? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:32):
When the sister makes the kids breakfast. They tell her
to make a different breakfast. We don't want to know,
Yeah they do. Oh no, here's ex some potatoes. No,
make something else. Spoiled kids. That'll changed how you look.
Spoiled kids. Then, yeah, okod good morning.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Here you go. Now we're not isn't no? Okay, then
don't eat that. Then don't eat because that's what that's
what's on the table. If you don't want it, don't
eat it. But I'm not cooking you another damn thing.
You're seven or four, you're gonna learn some discipline and
you're gonna learn some respect. And if you don't want
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to eat what I cooked, then don't eat. How about that?
That's how I would handle it too. Yeah. Hell, i'd
make him get a job at four. Hey, Hey, I
got a cart out in the back and there's some
wheels on it. Just go make your elimonade stand, put
(38:34):
it out front. Go just do it. Yeah, go make
you some money, teach them some respect. Yeah, since they
got thirty days to go more. And then you got
to get up off your ass and let's go all right.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Next next segment, Jack Harris at the Times will join
us as we count down to the All Star Game
Home run Derby tonight.
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Speaker 2 (39:21):
Oh, bring It, bring it, MJ. Come on there it
is down the home stretch. Roddy, Pete, Fred Rogan, come
on on Monday. Home Run Derby getting ready to start soon.
I know, have you ever been to the home run
Derby in person? I have not. I have not. I've
(39:43):
been to the All Star Game a few times, but
I've not been to the home run Derby.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
I've been to the home run Derby. Let me tell
you something. It's made for TV event. I bet, I
bet it's forever right. It takes forever if you're there.
It takes forever if you're there. And when they had
at a Dodger Stadium, it was like one hundred and
thirty five degrees. It was like, oh god, it takes
(40:07):
forever when you're there, but a great TV event.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Yeah, so that'll be fun tonight. Okay, I want to
pass this along. Well, we'd like to pass it along
as a tip, and it's something just to keep in mind.
And we just ran across this today. Look, there are
certain things you can do to protect yourself, to ensure
that nothing bad is going to happen to you. And
(40:35):
one of the things you can do is to chew
your food. Please, chew your food. Chew your food thoroughly.
Now I know this because I almost choked twice on
chicken and I had to be heim linked. And the
problem was both times you had to be heim linked. Yeah,
where were you? Give me the backstory? Red Robin? Okay,
(40:58):
one time with that Red Robin. Who are you back?
Mall Back? Both kept both times Chicken? Who are you with? Rochelle?
I thought I was at mall Back? It's a restaurant
across the street, okay, Red Robin and Malbeck. Yeah, both
times chicken chicken like like fried chicken, baked chicken, chicken
(41:19):
chicken rap, so chicken rap. Yeah, you know, chicken comes
into a hundred different flavors in different ways, So what
kind of chicken was it? It was chicken alimalst choked
on twice?
Speaker 5 (41:32):
No oh wait yeah, okay, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
Awful. Could have been orange chicken, fried chicken, baked chicken.
Tick casts a role, I mean, what kind of ticket
rap with a ticket wrap? Yeah? Yeah right, so twice.
So here's here's the point. Here's the point. This is
the tip. Don't be like me, because I actually talked
(42:20):
to an autopsy technician. And do you want to know
what people die of? More than you would think? Choking?
Choking on food and this really yeah, choking on food. Wow,
here are the two things that the mortician suggested. Chew
(42:41):
your food carefully or don't get into a fight. Those
are the way people die by choking for getting into
a fight. Avoid fights, and avoid choking to your food. Yes, yeah,
I went to you know, I sometimes try to every
you know, kind of like every year you go through
(43:04):
the New Year's resolutions. I go through them every six
months where you've got to have a revelation. You think
I'm gonna do something something different. I gotta change up
my ways. I feel bad, I got to get better sleep.
I gotta do this, so I you know, I like
to take care of myself, and I go to sometimes
I go to these retreats and I go to healthy retreats,
and they talk about diet and they talk about, you know,
(43:27):
eating well and you know and exercising all those kind
of things and getting the right amount of fluids. But
they also talk about how you eat and regardless of
you eat, because people are gonna eat what they want.
You know. Sometimes people that the worst discipline we have
is people is eating our dietary habits. But regardless of
(43:50):
what you eat, they talk about chewing your food and
chewing it thirty two times before you swallow. I've heard that. Yeah,
that helps your digestion, it helps everything break up and
all of those things where a lot of times we
don't do that. We take a big bite and we
take two bites and then we gobble it and swallow it.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
Yeah, that's what got me. They say, chew it thirty
two times. I took out the thirty I just.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Did it too. The more you chew it, the less
tasty it is. That's how I look at it. That's true.
I do too. You want to get it down real
quick because yeah, and the thing is, I mean, what
am I taking so much time for here. I'm hungry.
I want to eat. I gotta get in and get out.
That's all I'm saying is choked. So you choked? Who
(44:36):
gave you the Heimlich? Rachelle gave you the Heimlich? Yeah?
Both times? Yeah wow? Oh yeah, And.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
She'd be the last one that probably would want to
because I'm worth dead more than alive.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
So I mean, did you Warner? Did you see it
in your face? Your eyes? I mean, how did you know? Well?
She knows, there's no warning anybody like I can't breathe,
I can't do that. You got that look in your
eye like you're choking when you get to look. Yeah,
kids were there once. Yeah, everybody knows when you're choking. Yeah. Yeah,
(45:13):
it wasn't good. So anyway, chew your food please, and
don't get stabbed. Those are the chips from the uh
the autopsy technician. Chew your food and do not get stabbed.
Speaker 7 (45:23):
I do like her quote Fred, She says, don't ever
say these words to somebody.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (45:27):
Stab me?
Speaker 2 (45:28):
What are you gonna do? Shoot me?
Speaker 7 (45:30):
Because chances are they very well MIGHTE don't do that.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
What are you gonna do? Yeah, yeah, what are you
gonna do?
Speaker 1 (45:39):
And it's good we're talking about it because Katie is
in for Rannie today. And I know that Katie does
not chew her food. She doesn't, No, she does not.
She wolf it down, she wolf sit down. Yeah, so
Katie chew your food.
Speaker 7 (45:56):
She has no comment for either of you.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Katie see she's chewing right now. All right, Thank you Katie,
Thank you Kevin and Rodney. We get him tomorrow, yes,
sir
Speaker 3 (46:09):
M
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