Bill Plunkett hops on to preview the 2nd half of the Dodgers' season and talk about what their biggest needs are as the trade deadline approacehes. The Angels are 4 games out of the AL wildcard, but is it fools gold? Somehow the subject of body odor and bad breath came up and we asked: Do people who smell, know that they smell!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Aren't we continue on Fred Rogan Rodney Peak, The Big
Friday Show on AM five seventy LA Sports. Dodgers are
back at the stadium tonight. Yes, tickets are tough to
come by. I will tell you that. Have you had
problems getting done? Well, you don't have any problems getting
Dodger tickets. But do you think most people have had
problems getting Dodger tickets this year?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yeah? Probably, probably, it's a little bit. I think it's
a little bit more scarce than what it's been in
the past, and probably a little bit more pricey than
what it's what it's been in the past. You know,
I've checked a couple of times on secondary markets a
few times, and it's more definitely more pricey than it's
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been in the past for sure.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
All right, Well, a man that gets to go for free.
I didn't know this till recently. Bill Plunkett, the OC Register,
a friend of the show. Good to have him on.
I didn't realize that your father was Jim Plunkett.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Bill, you didn't realize that because it's not accurate.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Fred, just throw that out there, just to be Fred Brogan.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, there is there is a gym in the family.
I have a nephew named Jim, but no super Bowls.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
No super Bowls. Wow, Fred, I don't know. Well, yeah, yeah,
that that was That was out of the blue. I
was like, wait a minute, I didn't know that either, right,
God in the world are we talking about. I'm yes,
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I'm gonna see him at family reunions from here on out. Bill, Okay,
second half of the season starts for the Dodgers. You
know they they they ended on a good note in
San Francisco. All Star Break happens, they come back. Now
they're gonna get glass. Now I was going to get
on the mound. They're going to start to get some
guys back. What do you what do you foresee for
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the Dodgers. Fred has thrown it out there that in
the first half, with all the injuries for the Dodgers,
other teams have had their opportunities, They've had their chances
and they missed the boat. The Dodgers are still five
and a half games up with all the injuries, and
now they're getting guys back, and look out, how do
you see it?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I think that's pretty accurate. I was looking writing some
some mid season stuff and it fell to me like
you know, they've always been a pretty good second half team.
So I went back and looked at the numbers, and yeah,
they've won at a higher rate after the break than
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before in all but one year under Dave Roberts. You know,
the second half winning percentages, I think it was in
the six sixty range, meaning they were winning two out
of every three in the second half. And I think
there's a couple of reasons for that. One, you front
load the injuries and you get guys back in the
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second half. That tends to be the way it's gone
for them. And two, I think they always have such
a deep roster that starts to take its toll and
show itself in the second half when they move away
from these other teams that maybe aren't as deep and
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can't absorb things the way the Dodgers do. And finally,
I think they start to see October. You know, it's
hard to tell yourself in April, May and June that
winning those series are critical, But because the long range
view for this team is always how is it going
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to play in October? Well, now, from now through the
end of the season, you can see October. You can
feel it coming. So I think all of that. You
put all that together, and yeah, they're going to be
a strong second half team.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
And that's why Bill I point out the Tanner Scott
dilemma because and I said this earlier in the week.
Now it's real. Now you got to be where we
need to be. And I don't know how much you
can keep trotting him out there. Rodney says, let him
go to the middle of August. It's fine. Then we'll
figure it out. But I think there's a point where
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he's got to get right. And I don't know if
it's getting right by putting her in that same position
every game? Am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Or how do you get right? How do you get
right if you don't?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah? I know.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Can you get right in the sixth inning?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah? Ritt?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Can you Well you're still pitching, Yeah, but you're not
putting a high leverage situation.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Yeah, it is not the same.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I don't need the two of you to yell at me. Okay,
it was a suggestion.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I heard you. I heard you, you know, calling for
offense at the trade deadline. All right, that makes in
some sense. But I think Bullpen's got to be number
one in Tanner Scott's performance as part of that. You know,
going into the season, they had the deepest pitching staff
anybody had ever seen. The starting rotation that they expected
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to have looks like they're going to have by August.
Starting rotation should be Snell Glass now, Yamamoto, kersha Otani. Yeah,
that's fine, you don't have to worry about that. The
bullpen that they thought they would have, though, included Evan Phillips,
Michael Kopek, Blake Trynan, Tanner Scott, and Kirby Yates. Well,
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Phillips is out, Kopek maybe back in September, Trynan should
be coming back soon. Scott and Yeates have not pitched
the way they were expected to pitch. So I think
you got to go out at the deadline and rebuild
the five headed, you know, bullpen monster you thought you
were going to have by getting another guy of that
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level of the Evans, Phillips, Blake Trying and you know
Tanner Scott when he's good of that level. So I
think that's where you got to be looking right now.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
So, so, and that being said, do you you continue
on with Michael Conforto and right and hopefully breaks out
of a slump that he's had for half the season
and wait for you know, a Mounsie to come back
from and thank god his injury was an ending a
season injury and kyk those guys to come back and
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not so much be so concerned about the offense.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yeah, I think that's a secondary problem. That's uh. Conforto
needs to be replaced. I think they gave him plenty
of time to show that he could turn it around,
and he really hasn't. So if you you can find
somebody out there, great, I think that's your second second priority,
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though I don't think it's as important and is the bullpen.
You know, the offense is going to be fine. It
already has been, even with Mookie Betts having the worst
season of his career, Freddie Freeman slumping for over a month,
and Confordo being the drag at the bottom of the
lineup that he has been. So I don't think they're
very worried about the offense. Now, if you can go
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out and get somebody, you know the names like Jared
Duran from the Red Sox. If the Red Sox decide
to tear it all down, yeah, you go make that
move if you can. I threw out the name Cedric Mullins.
Pretty good outfielder with the Orioles. He's had a couple
of good years, nothing outrageous this year, and he's a
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free agent at the end of the year, so it
kind of fits you can get him. You would assume
it wouldn't cost you a whole lot, But again, that's
all second priority behind the bullpen.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
To me, Bill Plunkett, I'll see register with us. Fred
Rogan Rodney p on a five to seventy LA Sports.
We talked Roddie and I talked about, you know, Tommy
Edmond unn really hit, not having a great hitting here.
My point was, he doesn't really have a terrific regular season.
He seems to hit pretty well in the playoffs. That
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being said, and where the roster is right now, do
you think we'll see more of Kim here in the
second half?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, until munths he's back, I think you will. Because
he's a left handed bat. If Edmond's playing third base,
then that opens the door for Kim at second base.
He's come back to earth a little bit the last
few weeks. I know everybody got excited about him at first.
The Dodgers clearly don't trust him to hit left handed. Pitching,
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so he's kind of limited that way, but he gives
them something that they haven't really had in October, and
that's a guy who can create offense with his legs.
If he's in the lineup and he can get on base,
he can steal a steal, second, go to third on
a ground ball, score on a flyout. You need those
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kind of manufactured runs in October. And I guess Mooki
was that kind of guy back in twenty twenty. He
was pretty important in the postseason. I don't think they
have anybody like that since then.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, how do you keep ramping up Otani? Do you
eight pitch three innings before the break? Do you keep
him going upwards until you get to October and get
him to five, six, maybe seven innings up until then?
Are you slow playing?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
If it's me he's pitching, he's been so good. I
don't know how they resist the temptation, but I think
they will. I don't think I would be willing to
bet that we don't see Otani pitch beyond five innings
at all during the regular season. Maybe in October if
he's got it rolling in a start, they let him
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go deeper than that. But they don't have any reason
or any motivation to push him during the regular season,
so I think maybe by September we see him going
five innings. I don't see him going much beyond that.
It's you know, it's it's it's a nice problem to have,
but I think the prime directive in the front office's
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mind is not to do anything with Otani the pitcher
that risks Otani the hitter. They don't, you know, the
more he pitches, the more something strange can happen. And
he's out of the lineup as a hitter, so I
don't think they want to push that envelope at all.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
And he's not hitting it. He's really not hitting what
he's pitching now, you know what I mean. It's not
like he's he's doing both, but he's not really hitting
what he's pitching. Now.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Yeah, he's I think it's two oh nine batting average
since that first start against the Padres, And it's like
which came first in particular the egg. Was he slumping
because he's pitching or was it just gonna happen anyway,
because everybody around him certainly wasn't hitting. You know, Mookie
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and Freddie have been slumping even longer. Tayoscar has been
slumping even longer. So all of that has an effect
on how teams pitch show Hey, but you know, talking
to some of the Japanese reporters that have covered him
longer than I have, it's kind of a thing where
he doesn't hit the day after he pitches. That's when
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it usually shows. And I think the Angels gave him
that day off on a regular basis during his years
pitching there. I don't think the Dodgers are willing to
do that. They still want him in the line hitter
the one second I will say about show Hayes year
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last year such a fantastic year. He's not going to
match that. But he hasn't had the hot streaks that
he had last year when he moved into the leadoff
spot after Mookie got hurt in June. He went on
a tear late in the year when he had that
fifty to fifty game in Miami that was part of
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about a ten games stretch where nobody could get him out.
So he's been good, he just hasn't had that red
hot stretch yet.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah, where do you see the rest of the National League?
Look the Dodgers went to kind of a gauntlet actually
before the All Star Break and played some pretty tough
teams that probably will be there at the end of
the road. They got Milwaukee tonight, which I think is
you know, they were one of the hottest teams in
baseball before the All Star Break. The Phillies looked like
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they're gonna They're gonna be there. We think the Mets
are not sure about, you know, if Atlanta can make
a run, but it seems like the Giants will be there,
the Patters will be there. Who do you feel in
the National League, not just the Division, will be the
biggest threat to the Dodgers going forward.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yeah, I think it's the Phillies and the Cups. Cubs
offense is terrific, it really is, so you know, they
can match them, you know, run for run there. And
the Phillies whenever the Dodgers played in their ballpark, they
just they get beat. They just don't play well in
Philly for whatever reason. And I think Philly's got a
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pretty complete roster too, So those are the two to me.
I think the Dodgers put themselves in pretty good position
in the Division before September gets here. If looking ahead
at the schedule. We go on a three city trip
next week Boston, Cincinnati, Tampa, and then for the next
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I think it's four weeks. They're in California for all
but four games, and the four games that they play
outside the state are in Colorado, which is fairly favorable
their location to play with the Rockies being what they are,
so August should be a fairly easy month and they
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should have put things in pretty good shape by the
time September gets here.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
All right, well, Bill, thank you for the time. Thank
you for jumping on.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
We really appreciate it anytime. I'm you know, my grandpa
Jym says I should do radio more often.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Appreciated.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
But I'm gonna tell him you called him grandpa.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
All right, there he goes Bill Plunkett. OC Register. Dodgers
return to the stadium tonight. They take on the Brewers
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(15:08):
Do not forget we have a pair of tickets for
Tuesday's game Dodgers game at the stadium. We will give
those away between now and three o'clock and when we
come back. I'm thinking this team has a decision to make,
but after looking at things, I'm not so sure there's
any decision to make.
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Speaker 2 (15:42):
That's right, girls are players to fred.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Rodney Pete, Fred Rogan on a fabulous Friday. As we
wrap this thing up, Freddie, come on.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
So we've talked about the trade deadline, we've talked about
what the Dodgers might do, what they should do, and
that brings us to a topic of conversation we always
have around this time of year. But it's with the angels.
What should they do? Where are they? When you look
at the angels? What do you see? So let's start
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with this, and Kevin, you are the laughing Kevin, you
are the resident angel expert. You have to own it.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Oh my god, it's an expert, Ernie. But yes, yes,
what's up?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Fine, You're four games out of the wild card right now.
What do you think do you think if you're the
Angels four games out, we can do it? What do
you think?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
No?
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Absolutely not. And I feel like we've had this discussion
three or four times over the last five years, with
the exception of last year when they were just god
awful and it didn't matter when they were out of
it by this time. This happens every year. They feel
like they are just good enough to be hanging around
the final wild card spot right around deadline time, which
is about what ten days away something like that, and
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it tells already, no, you got All you have to
do is have already somewhat believe that he has a
chance and he's gonna go for it. This happens every
single time.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
So you think in their mind for out they got
a shot. Absolutely Okay, Well, then nothing's gonna change.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Wouldn't most teams, I think, I mean most teams if
you're you know, look, if you're being honest and just
seeing how this thing has played out the last ten years,
if you want to be that honest, but even the
last five or six you're good enough to kind of
hang around a little bit, but all the numbers, even
the advanced stats like they have like a negative sixty
run differential. That's right, negative sixty. So you believe you're
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gonna be able to carry that throughout the remainder of
the season and still be a contender or do you
think that's an aberration? Most likely an aberration, but they
don't see it that way. They're probably just looking at
and say, we're four games out.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
We're right there, Kevin. Do you think the only way that.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Changes happen and different direction happens is already sells a.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Team or operates differently what you want?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
That won't Yeah, so Leopard don't change his spots over
so many you know, obviously over so many years, he's
not gonna change. So the only way the Angels become
any way, part of a conversation, is if he sells
the team and they gut everything.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Basically, because even if lightning continues to strike and they
draft these guys and after less than a year in
the miners, they come up and they start making an impact,
is that really going to lend itself to long term
winning winning championships? I would highly doubt it. Look at
the Dodgers that people talk about all the money that
they spend on free agency and trades and all that,
they still have the best infrastructure in sports, or at
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least the Major League baseball guys they call up from
the minor league, so in the midst of all these
injuries they can sustain it. It hasn't guaranteed them championships,
but it's put them in the race. The Angels have
one of the worst minor league system in baseball and
a half for years at this point, and they've tried
to cover it up by going out and signing guys
the big name contracts, and most of those don't end
up working.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
It's like they put band aids on situations, right They
one year they'll go crazy and free agency and sign
all these big names that you're like, you know, they
greet grabs headlines, but they they they grabbed the wrong guys.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
It's like your.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Hamilton's and you know Pooholtz at the end of his career.
Know he had some production, but at the end of
his career, you know Rendon, I mean, it just it's
just never works out, even manager wise. They got Joe
Madden in there and and they just seemed like they
would not allow him to tell them this is how
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you win, and he was up out of there in
a short stint.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Yeah, and I get it. It makes sense someone's going
to be that rigid about how they want to run things,
and clearly it's not been working, and they continue to
want to do it, sinking ship. I don't want out too.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
It's bad business. It's just bad business, and I and
I don't sort of. I feel badly for the people
in Orange County. First. I cannot, will not am incapable
of getting over the fact that Ardie Moreno put the
name Los Angeles in the Orange Counties team name Anaheim
Angels of Los Angeles. I think that is the ultimate
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slap in the face to everybody in Orange County, which,
by the way, probably more people want to live in
Orange County than Los Angeles County. It's beautiful. So I
thought that was just really disingenuous of him to do. Then,
if you just look at the way he's operated, I
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don't know. I don't operate a big business, but I'm
of the opinion that if something doesn't work, you have
to change the way you do it. If it's not working,
we need to change the way we do things. We
have to come at it from a different perspective, maybe
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bring people in that see things differently. And then what
you have to do is be willing to invest, because
if you're not willing to invest, nothing is really going
to change because again, your investment is an infrastructure. I mean,
I have worked for companies that are exactly what they
are because their investment is incorrect. Instead of investing in
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infrastructure and building this it's I like in it to
like this. They don't do fire prevention. They're firefighters. These
fires go up and they have to put them out,
but they could have all been prevented if they had
done things differently. That's sort of the angels. That's sort
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of how they do it.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
That's a better analogy than one I was going to
give when I say, you're basically just spraying perfume over funk.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Mmmmm.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Something might smell nice, but you're but you're covering up.
You know, you're covering up with deeper problem.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Funk is always gonna come through.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
You better watch yourself because they'll dump you again.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
I can, yeah, act like you didn't go to a
parliament concert back in the day, for it's wrong with you.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Oh let me tell you something.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
We walked through the airport in Paris coming back home
from my trip.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Let's just say yeah, some of those old school myths
are still true about Europeans and even the French. Sometimes
even the people in France that always shall we're on
a regular basis, and the and the perfume trying to
mask the funk. Yeah, yeah, it doesn't work. What are
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you saying they stink?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Yes? Is that what you're going with? Yes? Okay, well
you know, I'm sure you're not a fan. Well, of
course you're huge in Japan after the catch you made,
but maybe in Europe not so much so now since
you just told everybody they stink. Hey, we with all
of Europe.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
I just said, going through the airport in Paris, there
was a lot of funk going on. What do you
do when you run into somebody that honestly just hope
that you don't sit next to him on the plane.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
But I'm not even talking about in an airport. I
mean I've recently run into someone that did I tell
you this at the seventy six station on Hollywood Way.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Oh you know what you did tell the story, but
I don't think Rodney was here for it.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
So go on. Oh yeah, I walked in on Hollywood
Way and what is it Riverside or or or Olive anyway,
I walked into the seventy sixth station. It was a
Friday night if anybody wanted to know, just wanted to
get in and get a little gum or something, get
some gas. I walked in there and there was a guy.
My god, almost passed out. This guy it smelled like
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he had not not bathed or taken a shower in
two years. I mean, you could smell it, but what
are you saying? What do you do? And if you're
close enough to and anybody that's gone through this, if
you're close enough to smell it, yeah, what do you do?
I mean if you react? See here's the thing. If
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you react, if you then he realizes it. So you
don't want him to know that, you know, because that
could upset him. He obviously doesn't care or feel bad
because that's what he smells like. So I don't know.
So you kind of try.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
And I think they can't smell themselves, like do they
actually people smell themselves before they leave the house. Or
this wasn't a bum though Fred wasn't a bum. Person,
was just a regular person in the store that just
walked down or was in there when you came in.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah, maybe they're so used to the smell that they
think that is the smell.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Yeah, that your your your nose becomes numb to it.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
After a while, you wonder who are their friends. I
had someone on a we're on a set shooting part
of a show, and they provided us with the driver
and and and she it was a girl. And we
got into the car and was like, who who left
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food in the car overnight?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Smelled like bad onions? It was. It was horrible. And
then we got out and.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Came back and didn't smell it anymore. And then we
got into a different car, didn't smell it, got in
this actually got back into the same car with a
different driver, didn't smell it.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
And then the very next day.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
New day, in the morning, it was the same smell,
and we had to deductive reasoning it was her and
so it was bad. And I'm wondering, who are the
people around you that don't tell you.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
You smell a little bit? So are you saying that
onions were left in the car, or there was a
body part of hers that smelled like onions.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Body parts of hers that smelled like onions, bad onions,
or just our general some general body odor was bad.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Right, Yeah, somebody. It's not even a certain you know,
body part, it's just their overall aura, whatever you want
to call it just smells like it. And I think
a lot of people like that who chronically smell badly, Yeah,
they just don't They're numb to it at that point.
They don't realize it.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Again, who are their friends and who are the people
that they are hanging around that don't tell them they
just be careful, or that they had a friend he
was a player of ours in college and it went
for a year and I couldn't understand why nobody would
tell him, but he had the worst breath effort, right,
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And finally in the huddle it was like in training camp.
They were had to go, man, you gotta do something
with that breath. And it was just a collective thing
where everybody said it to him. But this is all
the way through, like, who's not saying anything to him
that his breath stinks on a regular basis, not just
you know, not everybody's gonna have fresh breath all day long,
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or you know, and have gum or mint with him.
But if you got chronic something, somebody around you's got
to let you know.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
He was ned Walk. He was ned walked Walk was
the basketball coach and Arizona State many years ago, many
years ago, and he was highly respected in the city
of Phoenix, even before the Sons were there. So ned
Walk was the man. And I finally got back to
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Phoenix and I started working there, and I went out
to interview Nedwalk. This is a guy I grew up
in Phoenix, you know, after moving there from Detroit, so
I knew who he was. And I was a young
cub reporter. It was like twenty one when I started
in Phoenix, so this is a pretty big deal for me.
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And I went out there with the Channel twelve KTA
then KTA R now KPNX Action News crew and we
went to Tempee and I set up this interview and
I walked up to him. He was standing in front
of me, and I introduced myself. He smiled. I asked
him the first question. I put the microphone up to
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his mouth. I thought the microphone was going to melt thought.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
I was like, oh, this is like a science fiction movie.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
It was like he was breathing fire. I thought, oh, no,
what do you do? It's the Great ned Walk, right.
So I'm thinking to myself, you know, this is just
an odd day, an aberration. You sit there and you
try to convince yourself no matter how bad it is,
no I'm wrong.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
It's not that bad. Yeah, it's not that bad. I'm
selling something else.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
It's like, get it, get it together, get yourself together.
This man is a legend. Okay. So I finished the interview.
Then you know, I have to sit down for fifteen
minutes because I was going to pass out from it,
and then I go back to the station. So two
weeks later, we go back out there because now there's
another store. Go out there. He's got you know, four
(29:28):
or three four cameras around him. Now it's not just
the one on one and in Phoenix in those days
that was it. You know, in La we go out
to cover something, it's like thirty cameras there, there was
like three or four and that was a lot. So
you were pretty close to the guy who was talking.
So we set up our microphone, our camera, We move
up here. He goes he says something. I swear to God,
(29:50):
I thought it was gonna be like it would like
blow me back thirty feet, you know, I would like
hoist me off the ground and I go flying back
into the wall. A cartoon. Yeah, like a cartoon, Like,
Oh God, it was the worst. I mean, may rest
in peace. It was the worst.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
Not to get off topic, but did you know that
Netwalk also became the baseball coach at Xavier after he
left Arizona State?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Did he?
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Yeah? First of all, he was at Arizona State from
nineteen fifty seven until nineteen eighty two. Oh, that's incredible.
And then he wasn't done. He wasn't done and coach
baseball at Xavier.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well, here's the thing. You understand why he was there
so long? Right?
Speaker 5 (30:31):
Why is that.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Because anytime they thought they were gonna let him go,
they'd call him into the room. They wouldn't. They didn't
want him to talk because they would have killed him.
So he kept the job, so he wouldn't speak anybody.
They couldn't tell him to go because they didn't want
to smell that. Rodney would call her number, I like
(30:54):
number five, Fred, let's go, let's go.
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Speaker 2 (31:12):
A beautiful week, a beautiful Friday, Rodney Pete, Fred Rogan,
Let's go all right.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Do we have a winner of the tickets?
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Peter and Pacoima.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Peter and Pacoima. There you go, double p You're going
to see the Dodgers Tuesday night against oh Taylor.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
Netta's bobblehead nights Minnesota and Minnesota. And I do think
we should point out because we've done this before. So
whether or not everybody gets a bobblehead Oprah style or
it's a certain amount of fans, the first forty thousand
fans in attendance will get a tail bobblehead. So if
you want one badly enough and you feel the need
to app to camp outside of Dodger Stadium to get in,
this will be one of those occasions to do that.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
If they're giving away forty thousand, you think you have
to campound Fred.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
People do a lot of weird things. Okay, I'm just
saying everybody who goes isnty.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Five could be forty seven thousand there tonight or that night, fred.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
Their capacity is what a little over fifty right, So
I mean it's not everybody, So ten people at ten
thousand people are gonna get asked out.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
So you know who's cheap.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
I don't know how you got from that to this,
but okay, on now.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
You wonder who's cheap. Cleveland Guardians years ago, we went
to a then Indian now Guardian game. Didn't realize it
was Francisco Lindor bobblehead night when he played in Cleveland. Now,
when he was in Cleveland, he was a pretty big deal.
So you're thinking, this is great, it's bobblehead night. So
(32:39):
we get there, but we go early, so we don't
know anything. We get there and we get the bobblehead.
We're walking around. It couldn't be fifteen minutes later. We're
there are two hours early. People go, oh no, they're
out of bibble heads. I said, how can they be
out of bobbleheads? They gave away like five thousand or
two thousand. It wasn't like thirty thousand, what's up with that?
(33:02):
What it means you're cheap? Wow?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
So this was this was not too long ago because
he was in Cleveland, what six years ago?
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Yeah, I mean yeah, that's fair. Yeah, I said, come on,
that's cheap. Could you imagine if the Dodgers said the
first fifteen hundred people in stadium seats fifty two thousand,
that'd be like in Colorado we have fifty thousand seats
the first five hundred people in. I mean, you can't
(33:34):
do that.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
It kind of defeats the purpose of doing a promotion.
What's the point unless it's a special ticket package. Were
only certain people that buy a certain amount of tickets
or tickets to a certain section where most stadiums do.
But outside of that, first of all, if it's something
that's really in high demand, you're really walking him in
a lot of roof raff outside the front gates of
the stadium and a bum's rush trying to get in.
If it's something that a lot of people won't really want.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
And if you're going to give that few away and
that really give it to the whole capacity or people
that want them, like a like you said Francisco Lindor
of superstar in Cleveland. And if you didn't do a
you should do like a raffle or a you know,
once you get into the stadium, check under your seat
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and you can win a Francisco Lindor. Not the people
that just come in the gate, the first fifteen hundred
people to come in the gate, do something.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Special with it.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Hey, if you are sitting in section blah blah blah,
you get the Francisco Lindor bubblehead, you know, But to
do it as a just coming in the gate for
the first whatever and somebody's stuck in traffic trying to
get there. They've got three kids that want to get
that Lindor is their favorite player, and they're trying to
get in there before the two thousand get in and
(34:50):
they just miss it by five hundred people.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Come on, Yeah, that was bad. We gave our Lindor
bible head to a little kid because they thought that
was the right thing to do. Well, I actually didn't.
I wanted to keep.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
It, so of course you did. I'm surprised by that one.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
You can see it like that.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
I have to do that with a woman who got
excited by snatching a foul ball away from a little girl.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
You know I'm not that guy. Geez, I'm not that guy.
All right, Well, it was the Friday Show and it
certainly was an interesting presentation. Today I'll say that, Rodney. Yes, yes,
never the things you'll see you. That's why you should
listen every day, because we're here to educate. I learned
something today. I didn't even realize you could do. I
(35:37):
did no idea that even existed. But to be fair,
apparently you won't even hear that on the podcast because
it was taken out of the show.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
To remain on the air, it had to be taken
out of the show. Appreciate it, Kevin and Ronnie, thank
you guys.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Again, it doesn't matter what it was. What it was.
When I suggested it should be a promo, that's when
Kevin yelled at me, and that was the end of
the whole conversation.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
Yell is strong.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
No, I think it was all right.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
That's fair.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Ohkad fine, Ronnie, thank you, great week. Really appreciate it.
Welcome back, Kevin, terrific. Say hello to Lauren and Oliver
for us. We'll do Rodney see Monday right on
Aren't we continue on Fred Rogan Rodney Peak, The Big
Friday Show on AM five seventy LA Sports. Dodgers are
back at the stadium tonight. Yes, tickets are tough to
come by. I will tell you that. Have you had
problems getting done? Well, you don't have any problems getting
Dodger tickets. But do you think most people have had
problems getting Dodger tickets this year?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yeah? Probably, probably, it's a little bit. I think it's
a little bit more scarce than what it's been in
the past, and probably a little bit more pricey than
what it's what it's been in the past. You know,
I've checked a couple of times on secondary markets a
few times, and it's more definitely more pricey than it's
(00:44):
been in the past for sure.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
All right, Well, a man that gets to go for free.
I didn't know this till recently. Bill Plunkett, the OC Register,
a friend of the show. Good to have him on.
I didn't realize that your father was Jim Plunkett.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Bill, you didn't realize that because it's not accurate.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Fred, just throw that out there, just to be Fred Brogan.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, there is there is a gym in the family.
I have a nephew named Jim, but no super Bowls.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
No super Bowls. Wow, Fred, I don't know. Well, yeah, yeah,
that that was That was out of the blue. I
was like, wait a minute, I didn't know that either, right,
God in the world are we talking about. I'm yes,
(01:43):
I'm gonna see him at family reunions from here on out. Bill, Okay,
second half of the season starts for the Dodgers. You
know they they they ended on a good note in
San Francisco. All Star Break happens, they come back. Now
they're gonna get glass. Now I was going to get
on the mound. They're going to start to get some
guys back. What do you what do you foresee for
(02:05):
the Dodgers. Fred has thrown it out there that in
the first half, with all the injuries for the Dodgers,
other teams have had their opportunities, They've had their chances
and they missed the boat. The Dodgers are still five
and a half games up with all the injuries, and
now they're getting guys back, and look out, how do
you see it?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I think that's pretty accurate. I was looking writing some
some mid season stuff and it fell to me like
you know, they've always been a pretty good second half team.
So I went back and looked at the numbers, and yeah,
they've won at a higher rate after the break than
(02:45):
before in all but one year under Dave Roberts. You know,
the second half winning percentages, I think it was in
the six sixty range, meaning they were winning two out
of every three in the second half. And I think
there's a couple of reasons for that. One, you front
load the injuries and you get guys back in the
(03:07):
second half. That tends to be the way it's gone
for them. And two, I think they always have such
a deep roster that starts to take its toll and
show itself in the second half when they move away
from these other teams that maybe aren't as deep and
(03:27):
can't absorb things the way the Dodgers do. And finally,
I think they start to see October. You know, it's
hard to tell yourself in April, May and June that
winning those series are critical, But because the long range
view for this team is always how is it going
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to play in October? Well, now, from now through the
end of the season, you can see October. You can
feel it coming. So I think all of that. You
put all that together, and yeah, they're going to be
a strong second half team.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
And that's why Bill I point out the Tanner Scott
dilemma because and I said this earlier in the week.
Now it's real. Now you got to be where we
need to be. And I don't know how much you
can keep trotting him out there. Rodney says, let him
go to the middle of August. It's fine. Then we'll
figure it out. But I think there's a point where
(04:22):
he's got to get right. And I don't know if
it's getting right by putting her in that same position
every game? Am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Or how do you get right? How do you get
right if you don't?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah? I know.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Can you get right in the sixth inning?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah? Ritt?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Can you Well you're still pitching, Yeah, but you're not
putting a high leverage situation.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Yeah, it is not the same.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I don't need the two of you to yell at me. Okay,
it was a suggestion.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I heard you. I heard you, you know, calling for
offense at the trade deadline. All right, that makes in
some sense. But I think Bullpen's got to be number
one in Tanner Scott's performance as part of that. You know,
going into the season, they had the deepest pitching staff
anybody had ever seen. The starting rotation that they expected
(05:15):
to have looks like they're going to have by August.
Starting rotation should be Snell Glass now, Yamamoto, kersha Otani. Yeah,
that's fine, you don't have to worry about that. The
bullpen that they thought they would have, though, included Evan Phillips,
Michael Kopek, Blake Trynan, Tanner Scott, and Kirby Yates. Well,
(05:39):
Phillips is out, Kopek maybe back in September, Trynan should
be coming back soon. Scott and Yeates have not pitched
the way they were expected to pitch. So I think
you got to go out at the deadline and rebuild
the five headed, you know, bullpen monster you thought you
were going to have by getting another guy of that
(06:02):
level of the Evans, Phillips, Blake Trying and you know
Tanner Scott when he's good of that level. So I
think that's where you got to be looking right now.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
So, so, and that being said, do you you continue
on with Michael Conforto and right and hopefully breaks out
of a slump that he's had for half the season
and wait for you know, a Mounsie to come back
from and thank god his injury was an ending a
season injury and kyk those guys to come back and
(06:34):
not so much be so concerned about the offense.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yeah, I think that's a secondary problem. That's uh. Conforto
needs to be replaced. I think they gave him plenty
of time to show that he could turn it around,
and he really hasn't. So if you you can find
somebody out there, great, I think that's your second second priority,
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though I don't think it's as important and is the bullpen.
You know, the offense is going to be fine. It
already has been, even with Mookie Betts having the worst
season of his career, Freddie Freeman slumping for over a month,
and Confordo being the drag at the bottom of the
lineup that he has been. So I don't think they're
very worried about the offense. Now, if you can go
(07:22):
out and get somebody, you know the names like Jared
Duran from the Red Sox. If the Red Sox decide
to tear it all down, yeah, you go make that
move if you can. I threw out the name Cedric Mullins.
Pretty good outfielder with the Orioles. He's had a couple
of good years, nothing outrageous this year, and he's a
(07:43):
free agent at the end of the year, so it
kind of fits you can get him. You would assume
it wouldn't cost you a whole lot, But again, that's
all second priority behind the bullpen.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
To me, Bill Plunkett, I'll see register with us. Fred
Rogan Rodney p on a five to seventy LA Sports.
We talked Roddie and I talked about, you know, Tommy
Edmond unn really hit, not having a great hitting here.
My point was, he doesn't really have a terrific regular season.
He seems to hit pretty well in the playoffs. That
(08:14):
being said, and where the roster is right now, do
you think we'll see more of Kim here in the
second half?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, until munths he's back, I think you will. Because
he's a left handed bat. If Edmond's playing third base,
then that opens the door for Kim at second base.
He's come back to earth a little bit the last
few weeks. I know everybody got excited about him at first.
The Dodgers clearly don't trust him to hit left handed. Pitching,
(08:42):
so he's kind of limited that way, but he gives
them something that they haven't really had in October, and
that's a guy who can create offense with his legs.
If he's in the lineup and he can get on base,
he can steal a steal, second, go to third on
a ground ball, score on a flyout. You need those
(09:05):
kind of manufactured runs in October. And I guess Mooki
was that kind of guy back in twenty twenty. He
was pretty important in the postseason. I don't think they
have anybody like that since then.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, how do you keep ramping up Otani? Do you
eight pitch three innings before the break? Do you keep
him going upwards until you get to October and get
him to five, six, maybe seven innings up until then?
Are you slow playing?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
If it's me he's pitching, he's been so good. I
don't know how they resist the temptation, but I think
they will. I don't think I would be willing to
bet that we don't see Otani pitch beyond five innings
at all during the regular season. Maybe in October if
he's got it rolling in a start, they let him
(10:02):
go deeper than that. But they don't have any reason
or any motivation to push him during the regular season,
so I think maybe by September we see him going
five innings. I don't see him going much beyond that.
It's you know, it's it's it's a nice problem to have,
but I think the prime directive in the front office's
(10:26):
mind is not to do anything with Otani the pitcher
that risks Otani the hitter. They don't, you know, the
more he pitches, the more something strange can happen. And
he's out of the lineup as a hitter, so I
don't think they want to push that envelope at all.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
And he's not hitting it. He's really not hitting what
he's pitching now, you know what I mean. It's not
like he's he's doing both, but he's not really hitting
what he's pitching. Now.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Yeah, he's I think it's two oh nine batting average
since that first start against the Padres, And it's like
which came first in particular the egg. Was he slumping
because he's pitching or was it just gonna happen anyway,
because everybody around him certainly wasn't hitting. You know, Mookie
(11:20):
and Freddie have been slumping even longer. Tayoscar has been
slumping even longer. So all of that has an effect
on how teams pitch show Hey, but you know, talking
to some of the Japanese reporters that have covered him
longer than I have, it's kind of a thing where
he doesn't hit the day after he pitches. That's when
(11:45):
it usually shows. And I think the Angels gave him
that day off on a regular basis during his years
pitching there. I don't think the Dodgers are willing to
do that. They still want him in the line hitter
the one second I will say about show Hayes year
(12:05):
last year such a fantastic year. He's not going to
match that. But he hasn't had the hot streaks that
he had last year when he moved into the leadoff
spot after Mookie got hurt in June. He went on
a tear late in the year when he had that
fifty to fifty game in Miami that was part of
(12:27):
about a ten games stretch where nobody could get him out.
So he's been good, he just hasn't had that red
hot stretch yet.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah, where do you see the rest of the National League?
Look the Dodgers went to kind of a gauntlet actually
before the All Star Break and played some pretty tough
teams that probably will be there at the end of
the road. They got Milwaukee tonight, which I think is
you know, they were one of the hottest teams in
baseball before the All Star Break. The Phillies looked like
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they're gonna They're gonna be there. We think the Mets
are not sure about, you know, if Atlanta can make
a run, but it seems like the Giants will be there,
the Patters will be there. Who do you feel in
the National League, not just the Division, will be the
biggest threat to the Dodgers going forward.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yeah, I think it's the Phillies and the Cups. Cubs
offense is terrific, it really is, so you know, they
can match them, you know, run for run there. And
the Phillies whenever the Dodgers played in their ballpark, they
just they get beat. They just don't play well in
Philly for whatever reason. And I think Philly's got a
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pretty complete roster too, So those are the two to me.
I think the Dodgers put themselves in pretty good position
in the Division before September gets here. If looking ahead
at the schedule. We go on a three city trip
next week Boston, Cincinnati, Tampa, and then for the next
(14:01):
I think it's four weeks. They're in California for all
but four games, and the four games that they play
outside the state are in Colorado, which is fairly favorable
their location to play with the Rockies being what they are,
so August should be a fairly easy month and they
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should have put things in pretty good shape by the
time September gets here.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
All right, well, Bill, thank you for the time. Thank
you for jumping on.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
We really appreciate it anytime. I'm you know, my grandpa
Jym says I should do radio more often.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Appreciated.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
But I'm gonna tell him you called him grandpa.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
All right, there he goes Bill Plunkett. OC Register. Dodgers
return to the stadium tonight. They take on the Brewers
first pitch at seven. Listen to all Dodger games and
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(15:08):
Do not forget we have a pair of tickets for
Tuesday's game Dodgers game at the stadium. We will give
those away between now and three o'clock and when we
come back. I'm thinking this team has a decision to make,
but after looking at things, I'm not so sure there's
any decision to make.
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Speaker 2 (15:42):
That's right, girls are players to fred.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Rodney Pete, Fred Rogan on a fabulous Friday. As we
wrap this thing up, Freddie, come on.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
So we've talked about the trade deadline, we've talked about
what the Dodgers might do, what they should do, and
that brings us to a topic of conversation we always
have around this time of year. But it's with the angels.
What should they do? Where are they? When you look
at the angels? What do you see? So let's start
(16:16):
with this, and Kevin, you are the laughing Kevin, you
are the resident angel expert. You have to own it.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Oh my god, it's an expert, Ernie. But yes, yes,
what's up?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Fine, You're four games out of the wild card right now.
What do you think do you think if you're the
Angels four games out, we can do it? What do
you think?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
No?
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Absolutely not. And I feel like we've had this discussion
three or four times over the last five years, with
the exception of last year when they were just god
awful and it didn't matter when they were out of
it by this time. This happens every year. They feel
like they are just good enough to be hanging around
the final wild card spot right around deadline time, which
is about what ten days away something like that, and
(17:09):
it tells already, no, you got All you have to
do is have already somewhat believe that he has a
chance and he's gonna go for it. This happens every
single time.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
So you think in their mind for out they got
a shot. Absolutely Okay, Well, then nothing's gonna change.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Wouldn't most teams, I think, I mean most teams if
you're you know, look, if you're being honest and just
seeing how this thing has played out the last ten years,
if you want to be that honest, but even the
last five or six you're good enough to kind of
hang around a little bit, but all the numbers, even
the advanced stats like they have like a negative sixty
run differential. That's right, negative sixty. So you believe you're
(17:46):
gonna be able to carry that throughout the remainder of
the season and still be a contender or do you
think that's an aberration? Most likely an aberration, but they
don't see it that way. They're probably just looking at
and say, we're four games out.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
We're right there, Kevin. Do you think the only way that.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Changes happen and different direction happens is already sells a.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Team or operates differently what you want?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
That won't Yeah, so Leopard don't change his spots over
so many you know, obviously over so many years, he's
not gonna change. So the only way the Angels become
any way, part of a conversation, is if he sells
the team and they gut everything.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Basically, because even if lightning continues to strike and they
draft these guys and after less than a year in
the miners, they come up and they start making an impact,
is that really going to lend itself to long term
winning winning championships? I would highly doubt it. Look at
the Dodgers that people talk about all the money that
they spend on free agency and trades and all that,
they still have the best infrastructure in sports, or at
(18:48):
least the Major League baseball guys they call up from
the minor league, so in the midst of all these
injuries they can sustain it. It hasn't guaranteed them championships,
but it's put them in the race. The Angels have
one of the worst minor league system in baseball and
a half for years at this point, and they've tried
to cover it up by going out and signing guys
the big name contracts, and most of those don't end
up working.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
It's like they put band aids on situations, right They
one year they'll go crazy and free agency and sign
all these big names that you're like, you know, they
greet grabs headlines, but they they they grabbed the wrong guys.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
It's like your.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Hamilton's and you know Pooholtz at the end of his career.
Know he had some production, but at the end of
his career, you know Rendon, I mean, it just it's
just never works out, even manager wise. They got Joe
Madden in there and and they just seemed like they
would not allow him to tell them this is how
(19:43):
you win, and he was up out of there in
a short stint.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Yeah, and I get it. It makes sense someone's going
to be that rigid about how they want to run things,
and clearly it's not been working, and they continue to
want to do it, sinking ship. I don't want out too.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
It's bad business. It's just bad business, and I and
I don't sort of. I feel badly for the people
in Orange County. First. I cannot, will not am incapable
of getting over the fact that Ardie Moreno put the
name Los Angeles in the Orange Counties team name Anaheim
Angels of Los Angeles. I think that is the ultimate
(20:23):
slap in the face to everybody in Orange County, which,
by the way, probably more people want to live in
Orange County than Los Angeles County. It's beautiful. So I
thought that was just really disingenuous of him to do. Then,
if you just look at the way he's operated, I
(20:43):
don't know. I don't operate a big business, but I'm
of the opinion that if something doesn't work, you have
to change the way you do it. If it's not working,
we need to change the way we do things. We
have to come at it from a different perspective, maybe
(21:06):
bring people in that see things differently. And then what
you have to do is be willing to invest, because
if you're not willing to invest, nothing is really going
to change because again, your investment is an infrastructure. I mean,
I have worked for companies that are exactly what they
are because their investment is incorrect. Instead of investing in
(21:31):
infrastructure and building this it's I like in it to
like this. They don't do fire prevention. They're firefighters. These
fires go up and they have to put them out,
but they could have all been prevented if they had
done things differently. That's sort of the angels. That's sort
(21:54):
of how they do it.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
That's a better analogy than one I was going to
give when I say, you're basically just spraying perfume over funk.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Mmmmm.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Something might smell nice, but you're but you're covering up.
You know, you're covering up with deeper problem.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Funk is always gonna come through.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
You better watch yourself because they'll dump you again.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
I can, yeah, act like you didn't go to a
parliament concert back in the day, for it's wrong with you.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Oh let me tell you something.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
We walked through the airport in Paris coming back home
from my trip.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Let's just say yeah, some of those old school myths
are still true about Europeans and even the French. Sometimes
even the people in France that always shall we're on
a regular basis, and the and the perfume trying to
mask the funk. Yeah, yeah, it doesn't work. What are
(23:04):
you saying they stink?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Yes? Is that what you're going with? Yes? Okay, well
you know, I'm sure you're not a fan. Well, of
course you're huge in Japan after the catch you made,
but maybe in Europe not so much so now since
you just told everybody they stink. Hey, we with all
of Europe.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
I just said, going through the airport in Paris, there
was a lot of funk going on. What do you
do when you run into somebody that honestly just hope
that you don't sit next to him on the plane.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
But I'm not even talking about in an airport. I
mean I've recently run into someone that did I tell
you this at the seventy six station on Hollywood Way.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Oh you know what you did tell the story, but
I don't think Rodney was here for it.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
So go on. Oh yeah, I walked in on Hollywood
Way and what is it Riverside or or or Olive anyway,
I walked into the seventy sixth station. It was a
Friday night if anybody wanted to know, just wanted to
get in and get a little gum or something, get
some gas. I walked in there and there was a guy.
My god, almost passed out. This guy it smelled like
(24:11):
he had not not bathed or taken a shower in
two years. I mean, you could smell it, but what
are you saying? What do you do? And if you're
close enough to and anybody that's gone through this, if
you're close enough to smell it, yeah, what do you do?
I mean if you react? See here's the thing. If
(24:32):
you react, if you then he realizes it. So you
don't want him to know that, you know, because that
could upset him. He obviously doesn't care or feel bad
because that's what he smells like. So I don't know.
So you kind of try.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
And I think they can't smell themselves, like do they
actually people smell themselves before they leave the house. Or
this wasn't a bum though Fred wasn't a bum. Person,
was just a regular person in the store that just
walked down or was in there when you came in.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah, maybe they're so used to the smell that they
think that is the smell.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Yeah, that your your your nose becomes numb to it.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
After a while, you wonder who are their friends. I
had someone on a we're on a set shooting part
of a show, and they provided us with the driver
and and and she it was a girl. And we
got into the car and was like, who who left
(25:36):
food in the car overnight?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Smelled like bad onions? It was. It was horrible. And
then we got out and.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Came back and didn't smell it anymore. And then we
got into a different car, didn't smell it, got in
this actually got back into the same car with a
different driver, didn't smell it.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
And then the very next day.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
New day, in the morning, it was the same smell,
and we had to deductive reasoning it was her and
so it was bad. And I'm wondering, who are the
people around you that don't tell you.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
You smell a little bit? So are you saying that
onions were left in the car, or there was a
body part of hers that smelled like onions.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Body parts of hers that smelled like onions, bad onions,
or just our general some general body odor was bad.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Right, Yeah, somebody. It's not even a certain you know,
body part, it's just their overall aura, whatever you want
to call it just smells like it. And I think
a lot of people like that who chronically smell badly, Yeah,
they just don't They're numb to it at that point.
They don't realize it.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Again, who are their friends and who are the people
that they are hanging around that don't tell them they
just be careful, or that they had a friend he
was a player of ours in college and it went
for a year and I couldn't understand why nobody would
tell him, but he had the worst breath effort, right,
(27:06):
And finally in the huddle it was like in training camp.
They were had to go, man, you gotta do something
with that breath. And it was just a collective thing
where everybody said it to him. But this is all
the way through, like, who's not saying anything to him
that his breath stinks on a regular basis, not just
you know, not everybody's gonna have fresh breath all day long,
(27:27):
or you know, and have gum or mint with him.
But if you got chronic something, somebody around you's got
to let you know.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
He was ned Walk. He was ned walked Walk was
the basketball coach and Arizona State many years ago, many
years ago, and he was highly respected in the city
of Phoenix, even before the Sons were there. So ned
Walk was the man. And I finally got back to
(27:56):
Phoenix and I started working there, and I went out
to interview Nedwalk. This is a guy I grew up
in Phoenix, you know, after moving there from Detroit, so
I knew who he was. And I was a young
cub reporter. It was like twenty one when I started
in Phoenix, so this is a pretty big deal for me.
(28:17):
And I went out there with the Channel twelve KTA
then KTA R now KPNX Action News crew and we
went to Tempee and I set up this interview and
I walked up to him. He was standing in front
of me, and I introduced myself. He smiled. I asked
him the first question. I put the microphone up to
(28:37):
his mouth. I thought the microphone was going to melt thought.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
I was like, oh, this is like a science fiction movie.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
It was like he was breathing fire. I thought, oh, no,
what do you do? It's the Great ned Walk, right.
So I'm thinking to myself, you know, this is just
an odd day, an aberration. You sit there and you
try to convince yourself no matter how bad it is,
no I'm wrong.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
It's not that bad. Yeah, it's not that bad. I'm
selling something else.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
It's like, get it, get it together, get yourself together.
This man is a legend. Okay. So I finished the interview.
Then you know, I have to sit down for fifteen
minutes because I was going to pass out from it,
and then I go back to the station. So two
weeks later, we go back out there because now there's
another store. Go out there. He's got you know, four
(29:28):
or three four cameras around him. Now it's not just
the one on one and in Phoenix in those days
that was it. You know, in La we go out
to cover something, it's like thirty cameras there, there was
like three or four and that was a lot. So
you were pretty close to the guy who was talking.
So we set up our microphone, our camera, We move
up here. He goes he says something. I swear to God,
(29:50):
I thought it was gonna be like it would like
blow me back thirty feet, you know, I would like
hoist me off the ground and I go flying back
into the wall. A cartoon. Yeah, like a cartoon, Like,
Oh God, it was the worst. I mean, may rest
in peace. It was the worst.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
Not to get off topic, but did you know that
Netwalk also became the baseball coach at Xavier after he
left Arizona State?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Did he?
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Yeah? First of all, he was at Arizona State from
nineteen fifty seven until nineteen eighty two. Oh, that's incredible.
And then he wasn't done. He wasn't done and coach
baseball at Xavier.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well, here's the thing. You understand why he was there
so long? Right?
Speaker 5 (30:31):
Why is that.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Because anytime they thought they were gonna let him go,
they'd call him into the room. They wouldn't. They didn't
want him to talk because they would have killed him.
So he kept the job, so he wouldn't speak anybody.
They couldn't tell him to go because they didn't want
to smell that. Rodney would call her number, I like
(30:54):
number five, Fred, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
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Speaker 2 (31:12):
A beautiful week, a beautiful Friday, Rodney Pete, Fred Rogan,
Let's go all right.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Do we have a winner of the tickets?
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Peter and Pacoima.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Peter and Pacoima. There you go, double p You're going
to see the Dodgers Tuesday night against oh Taylor.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
Netta's bobblehead nights Minnesota and Minnesota. And I do think
we should point out because we've done this before. So
whether or not everybody gets a bobblehead Oprah style or
it's a certain amount of fans, the first forty thousand
fans in attendance will get a tail bobblehead. So if
you want one badly enough and you feel the need
to app to camp outside of Dodger Stadium to get in,
this will be one of those occasions to do that.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
If they're giving away forty thousand, you think you have
to campound Fred.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
People do a lot of weird things. Okay, I'm just
saying everybody who goes isnty.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Five could be forty seven thousand there tonight or that night, fred.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
Their capacity is what a little over fifty right, So
I mean it's not everybody, So ten people at ten
thousand people are gonna get asked out.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
So you know who's cheap.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
I don't know how you got from that to this,
but okay, on now.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
You wonder who's cheap. Cleveland Guardians years ago, we went
to a then Indian now Guardian game. Didn't realize it
was Francisco Lindor bobblehead night when he played in Cleveland. Now,
when he was in Cleveland, he was a pretty big deal.
So you're thinking, this is great, it's bobblehead night. So
(32:39):
we get there, but we go early, so we don't
know anything. We get there and we get the bobblehead.
We're walking around. It couldn't be fifteen minutes later. We're
there are two hours early. People go, oh no, they're
out of bibble heads. I said, how can they be
out of bobbleheads? They gave away like five thousand or
two thousand. It wasn't like thirty thousand, what's up with that?
(33:02):
What it means you're cheap? Wow?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
So this was this was not too long ago because
he was in Cleveland, what six years ago?
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Yeah, I mean yeah, that's fair. Yeah, I said, come on,
that's cheap. Could you imagine if the Dodgers said the
first fifteen hundred people in stadium seats fifty two thousand,
that'd be like in Colorado we have fifty thousand seats
the first five hundred people in. I mean, you can't
(33:34):
do that.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
It kind of defeats the purpose of doing a promotion.
What's the point unless it's a special ticket package. Were
only certain people that buy a certain amount of tickets
or tickets to a certain section where most stadiums do.
But outside of that, first of all, if it's something
that's really in high demand, you're really walking him in
a lot of roof raff outside the front gates of
the stadium and a bum's rush trying to get in.
If it's something that a lot of people won't really want.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
And if you're going to give that few away and
that really give it to the whole capacity or people
that want them, like a like you said Francisco Lindor
of superstar in Cleveland. And if you didn't do a
you should do like a raffle or a you know,
once you get into the stadium, check under your seat
(34:18):
and you can win a Francisco Lindor. Not the people
that just come in the gate, the first fifteen hundred
people to come in the gate, do something.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Special with it.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Hey, if you are sitting in section blah blah blah,
you get the Francisco Lindor bubblehead, you know, But to
do it as a just coming in the gate for
the first whatever and somebody's stuck in traffic trying to
get there. They've got three kids that want to get
that Lindor is their favorite player, and they're trying to
get in there before the two thousand get in and
(34:50):
they just miss it by five hundred people.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Come on, Yeah, that was bad. We gave our Lindor
bible head to a little kid because they thought that
was the right thing to do. Well, I actually didn't.
I wanted to keep.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
It, so of course you did. I'm surprised by that one.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
You can see it like that.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
I have to do that with a woman who got
excited by snatching a foul ball away from a little girl.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
You know I'm not that guy. Geez, I'm not that guy.
All right, Well, it was the Friday Show and it
certainly was an interesting presentation. Today I'll say that, Rodney. Yes, yes,
never the things you'll see you. That's why you should
listen every day, because we're here to educate. I learned
something today. I didn't even realize you could do. I
(35:37):
did no idea that even existed. But to be fair,
apparently you won't even hear that on the podcast because
it was taken out of the show.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
To remain on the air, it had to be taken
out of the show. Appreciate it, Kevin and Ronnie, thank
you guys.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Again, it doesn't matter what it was. What it was.
When I suggested it should be a promo, that's when
Kevin yelled at me, and that was the end of
the whole conversation.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
Yell is strong.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
No, I think it was all right.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
That's fair.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Ohkad fine, Ronnie, thank you, great week. Really appreciate it.
Welcome back, Kevin, terrific. Say hello to Lauren and Oliver
for us. We'll do Rodney see Monday right on
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