Ohtani hit homerun #30 last night while Michael Conforto drove in a couple of runs for the Dodgers in their win over the White Sox. DeAndre Ayton watch continues as the Lakers are still in search for a center. Does the WNBA player vote for the all-star game reveal that Caitlyn Clark's peers are jealous of her?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Why there we go. Fred Rogan and big Ben Maller
will join us soon, sitting in for Rodney Today on
AM five to seventy LA Sports. So it'd be good
to have been on the program three hour show for
is Today one o'clock hour, Mark Medina, Fox Sports Radio
insider NBA Wise two o'clock David Vassa from the stadium.
A couple of things were keeping an eye on today.
Number one, DeAndre Yton, what will happen and when? When
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will he sign? He's going to be waived, meaning he
is free to go do whatever he wants. And of
course the team's mentioned most likely to jump in on
that are the Lakers and Indiana Pacers. I'm the only
person in Los Angeles, by the way, that thinks this
is a very bad idea. I'm the only guy I
know that. And if the Lakers sign him and he's great,
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my bad. I'll own it. But I think character counts
and attitude means things. And a guy that has struggled
in the two places he has been in attitude wise,
I don't know if that's a great fit. I just don't.
I don't know if that's the kind of person you
want on your team. Maybe it will be different now,
maybe he will be a different player now, maybe he
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will have grown, but he hadn't grown in Portland. And
by the way, he was hurt an awful lot. But
where on that. Kevin is keeping an eye on it.
If and when something happens, we will let you know.
Tonight at the stadium, Clayton Kershaw goes for careers strikeout
number three thousand. Think about that for a second career
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strike out number three thousand. And we've had the conversation
here on the air about where he is in the
minds of people nationally. I don't know if he is
as respected nationally as he should be as one of
the greats. And we are going to talk about that
on the program today as well. Okay, so last night
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it was over before it started. Dodgers did what they
were supposed to do. They beat up on the White Sox.
No major accomplishment when the games are supposed to win
and show. Hey, Otani launched a ball. I mean it
looked like it was a moonshot and the minute he
hit it, it was gone. The crowd went crazy and for
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a split second I thought to myself, do we really
appreciate we know he's a superstar. We know he puts
people in the seats. We got all that. We know
he's probably the most visible athlete in the world right
now because of how he is perceived in Japan and Asia.
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All right, we got that too, We got all that.
But if you just cut that back for a second
and you think about what he has done. Thirty home
runs before the All Star break, and really, when you
watch him play, he gives the impression that it is effortless.
That's just who he is, that's just what he does.
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And just for a second, can you sit back and think,
my god, how good is he? I know he's at
I know everybody knows him. I know he can pitch.
I got all that. We know all that. But if
you just take a second and step back and think
how good is he? When you really think about it,
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there's nothing he can't do. Thirty home runs before the
All Star Break. I know going into the season, some said, oh,
this guy will never hit fifty home runs again, that
won't happen. Thirty home runs before the All Star Brenk.
So we know he can hit, we know he can run,
and certainly, now although we did know it, it has
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been confirmed he can pitch. I just think we should
consider ourselves pretty lucky, pretty lucky to have someone like
that in Los Angeles that not only can you watch,
but you can root for on a team that is beloved. Ben,
what do you think about TONI?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Well, listen, what's not to like? Fred?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
We're battling gremlins over here, but Toni's been amazing. If
he about the Dodgers too, Like, I still get the
sense they're not playing as well as they can, and
yet they're running away with the division. But o Toani's
been amazing. He's on pace for what fifty six home
runs now? So I mean he's been as advertised, it's
been been wonderful. It's been glorious to watch. And teams
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are actually still pitching to him. They're starting to pitch
around Aaron Judge and some of these other guys. And
when will Otani get that treatment or are the Dodgers
so good Fred? They will not be pitching around Otani
because of what they have behind him.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah, well look at it like this. First, you're gonna
put the leadoff guy on? Yeah, all right, so there's
number one, number two, Go ahead, put him on, no problem, yeah,
you have an MVP behind him and an MVP behind him,
so let's take your poison, right. You make a mistake
to him, Ben, and it is like, oh, wow, he
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hit that ball so far last night.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah no, I know.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
As a pitcher, it's like, well, it's great he's pitching,
but he's so dominant it. As a as a hitter,
it's like he's the next seven eight years of Otani
hitting the ball and hitting, you know, forty five plus
home runs a year for the Dodgers. You remember, for
the old days, they never had guys hit forty or
more home runs with the Dodgers back in the old day.
And now it's everyone's hitting, you know, a bunch of
home runs all over the place. It's insane, but it's great.
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They're they're running away with the division now, and yet
they're still not playing as well as they can't play.
I get this, I'm watching. I mean, does that workman
like win over the White Sox last night and all that.
So it's a solid situation to be in. And as
you said at the beginning, when they picked up all
these players in the off season, many of them who
haven't even played yet Fred much at all, because they're hurt.
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It's all about what you do in October. It's like,
it doesn't matter they won one hundred and twenty games.
It's you can't go out and loose to the Diamondbacks
in the first round of the playoffs like they did
a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
So you know you can't. I mean, the journey is fun.
So as I said at the beginning of the year,
sit back and enjoy this journey. Watch Otani. You don't
see growth in guys. It really revel in it. But
all said and done, we will worry about it in October.
But the journey is fun. The journey is fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Well. I do worry when they lose freight.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I do get upset, even though I know it doesn't
matter until the playoffs start and all that stuff. I
do like to have the daily annoyance. If they don't
play well, it gets upsetting. But so I can be
annoyed when they don't. When they win, it's like I
don't really care because it's you know, it's not until
October when they lose, though I can be upset.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
So I have that ability.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I have that skill on a daily basis to be
annoyed when they don't play well, you know, a couple
times a week they'll lose. I get upset, and then
when they win, it's like it doesn't really matter to me,
and that's fine. They one who cares. You know, they're
supposed to win. But when they lose or the bullpen
comes in and pukes all over the mouth, I can
then get upset. But then I realize at the end
of the month, the trade deadline and the Dodgers, you
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know they're gonna make I know they've got a bunch
of guys out with injury and all that, but they're
gonna add some.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Relief pitchers like they usually do.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
They'll they'll switch it up because the bullpen's gas because
they've been using so many of them in these bullpen
games and all that.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
So they're gonna look totally different, not totally.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Remember they're gonna have two or three editions post July
thirty first, at the trade deadline.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
No, they'll make a move. They'll definitely make more than one.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
This is the golden ear of Dodger baseball. You gotta
make moves every every year. You gotta add to the team.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You got Andrew Freeman didn't want to do that, man, right,
he wanted to do all of the shopping before the
season started.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Well, you do fine tuning for it. You know.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
It's like you get the car, but you gotta get
the new tires on the car. You know, sometimes the
things inside. Were got to fix it up, some spark
plugs or something like that.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You make, make some moves.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
You got the base of the car, but you got
to add on to it a little bit.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Well, as they add one piece, they may add. And
last night he got to hit Michael Confordo. So congratulations,
that's pretty cool. Nobody says he doesn't try. Nobody says
he's not in it. Nobody says he's not working hard.
But it's pretty sad when we have to celebrate. Well,
I gotta hit.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah cool.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Well, and I saw he had a couple of hits
over like the last month, So I went I went
back and I looked Fred because nothing we don't do
but due diligence on this show. And so I went
back and so I thought, he's playing better at Confordo,
right if I well, it seems like he's playing better.
He's actually getting some RBIs and whatnot. So I went
back and looked the last seventeen games, Confordo's batting two
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h five. There you go, But that's compared to what
he's like, I think on the season, he's hitting like
one sixty. So that's forty points high, forty five points higher.
And he's he's had a few months. But when you
when you were at the like the White Sox tonight
against the Dodgers, it's like, that's the Confordo's in the lineup,
that's the automatic, that's the pitcher spot in the old
baseball back in the day. Right, Yeah, you gotta get
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Canfordo out because most of the other guys are hitting.
So that's the weak link, right there is Michael Confordo,
who's got what three home runs is June fifth and
ten RBIs loo kind of.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Like this since June fifth, he's got three home runs
and ten RBI's. Yeah, so that makes you start to
wonder as we begin July here in the trade deadline approaches,
if you're Andrew Friedman, is he actually hitting?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Now?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Do we need to go out and get a left
handed stick because three home runs ten RBIs in a
month much better than it was.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I don't trust him. Fred at all. He's not. He's
not in my bubble of trust. I don't.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I know, no, not everyone can be hitting. I realized
that you're not gonna have everyone hitting all that.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
But he's been.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
We're as you said, we're in July now, I mean,
it's not it's getting late. We're past the midway point
of the season. And as they like to say in baseball,
you are what your stats say, you are right, and the.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Conford, Oh, this is who he is this year. I don't.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I don't unless there's some kind of magic beans he
can get a hold of it. I don't see him
changing dramatically. But if he can just drive in some runs,
I mean, he's not gonna I don't think he's gonna
bat three hundred the rest of the year or whatever.
But if you can just bat two fifty and drive
in some runs, and then I can hear people say, well,
that's an old your boomer, you're an old guy. I'm
talking about batting average. But god, he's so bad. He's
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been so terrible this year, Fred, you gotta be better
than that.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
My goodness, horrible boomer you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I know everyone gets up sat No, I talk about
batting you got to talk about the nerd stats.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Fred. You know that's batting average is a dated stat.
It really hated. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yeah, it's all about exit exit V low and what
else is it about.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
It's spin ray on the fishing. That's a big one.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah. Yeah, I love the exit velocity because I was
able to watch baseball for like my entire life.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Up until a couple of years ago. I didn't even
know what the exit velocity was. I had no idea.
Back in the old days when Piazza was hitting home,
I have no.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Idea what the exit velocity was, no idea. I still
enjoyed it, I guess, I mean I might.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Maybe my my younger days were robbed.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I was robbed of the essence of the great nerd
stats that we have today.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
But my goodness, the.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Thing I don't get, and I want to ask Oral
when he comes on. I don't understand this. You're sitting
in the broadcast booth. Here's the pitch, Well, that was
a forest seamer. How can you tell that from up there?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
No, I agree with how do they know? Yeah, well,
I encouraganize her. I can see a little bit, but
I don't know. Yeah, I tend to be on your side.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
My other thing I remember, friend, when I used to
be in the locker room all height back in the
old days, and they'd ask the writers would ask me
what pitch was that? And sometimes the hitter wouldn't even
know what pitch it was, you know, they but they
always had to come up with an answer.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I have to asked what pitch it was?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
You go, oh, it was a back door slide or whatever,
but you got to come up with an answer.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
But yeah, I think a lot of it's just you.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Know, certain pitches you can If it's a curveball, you
obviously know it's a curveball.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
But other than that, it's just a little bit of movement.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
You're sitting in the press box. The difference between a curveball, well,
a big curveball, you can tell a slider and a sweeper.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
What's the difference?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
How can you tell from up there? How how can
they be looking from up there and re lies in
one second? Oh that was a two seam slider.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Well, Fred, As I learned Fred long ago, if you
don't know the answer, just sound like you know the answer.
People will think you know the answer, right. If you
just say, hey, that was a slider. Boom people eyes,
you must know it's a slider, no question about it.
Just fake it till you make it, Fred, just say
you know that was a lollipop or whatever, curveball.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Whatever, so boom done, make it up.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Who's gonna Who's gonna I'm sure there's somebody out there,
you know, modern days, But who's gonna say, Well, no,
you you're calling the wrong pitches.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Nobody knows. You're sitting there here, you're drinking a beer,
watching a game on TV or whatever. At the game,
You're gonna know what pitch it is. Come on.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
And that being said, you know, we have a bit
of trouble getting on the air, but you're here. How
are you? I haven't talked in a while. What's been show?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
If it's been fine? Fred, you know, doing the doing
the late night show. I had one of my listeners
came by from from Boston. I said, Farmington, Mass showed
up last night. I actually got in trouble with the
building security at Fox Sports Radio because this guy showed
up at three o'clock in the afternoon for some reason.
And of course I'm on at night, and so he
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showed up and I'm getting I get a text, like
one of your listeners this yere.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I didn't invite him.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I'm not even there, and so I had to deal
with that yesterday. But he was he was fine, he
was nice. He showed up last night. And but things
are going well. Show's doing well, things are going well.
Actually did go to a Dodger game against the Giants
with marlins Man, my friend marlins Man, he's the that's
your buddy, that's my buddy. Yeah, he listens in Miami.
He's got a wildlife. He's up late at night and
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all that stuff. But he's become friends. He's a listener
to the Overnight Show. And so when he's in town now,
normally Fred he invites beautiful women to sit with him,
but every once in a while he'll invite an ugly
radio guy.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
And he invites me.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Every so often, So we hang out, We bond, and
I can hang out with all the rich people behind
the home place.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Great for it.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Yeah, the high rollers seats. I've seen Ben sitting down
there with Marlin's man at the past.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah. Yeah, Kevin oh Man. I walk in there, people like,
why are you here?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
You know you don't belong here, you know, there's Scott
Boris over there. There's some Hollywood moguls over in this
here's my fat ass walking in there. My god, but
everyone's been nice when I show up there a couple
of times a year.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Maybe, hey, Ben, I'd like to buffet down there.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Oh my god, it's it's it's in any kind of
food you possibly want. They've got the dessert, all the cupcakes,
the the cookies, the ice, Oh my god, friend, and
it's uh, the finest foods you could possibly I don't
know how anyone goes out and watches the game. I
would just, you know, back in my old days, when
you knew me, Fred, back in the old day, I
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would just be in there eating. I'd be like a
cow grazing the entire day there. But yeah, it's it's
the next level. If you ever have a chance, if
you've never been behind home played, I know, maybe once
you know it's expensive, but my goodness, they treat you
like a king down there.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
It is a different world. You have someone, you have
someone a server at your seat, so you can get
up and go inside and eat, do something, or you
can tell your friend to come on over and they'll
bring it to you. It's great. The only so I've
made a I don't know. We in our house, we
would go on these baseball trips. My wife loves baseball,
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and we always try to go to the dugout club
in every city.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Now, I've always said, and I've told her, Dodger Stadium
dug out club major League Baseball by far to me,
the best, the best done. Sure, and we travel around. Now.
I like Washington. Washington was good, but not like Dodger Stadium.
I like the Mets. The Mets was good, but not
like Dodger Stadium. The one place, the one And I
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don't know if you've been there or not that either
as close or Mike Trumpet a little bit is Yankee Stadium?
Have you ever been there?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I've been to Yankee Stadium. I've not been to the
dugout club.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I've no.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I will tell you fred I have a cousin that
she lives in Connecticut, but she gets Yankee tickets. Some
of the big clients there were for the Yankee So
she'll get tickets behind home plate and she literally will
not actually watch the games. She'll just be like a
seafood bar and whatever down there. Yes, yeah, she's told
me about it. I said, she told me she was
going to a Yankee game, and so I said, how
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was the game?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
So I don't know. I didn't. I mean I was
eating I didn't you know it was downstairs?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
If you go there, so I want you to think
of if you have a favorite seafood place, a favorite
steak place, a favorite sushi place, whatever you think that is.
You know, Nobu if you're a Nobu person, or Mastros
if you're a Mastros person, whatever seafood place. When you
go there, it's like twelve restaurants in one and I'm
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not I'm saying, oh, what do you want? A file?
A sure, no problem. I've never seen anything like that.
You know what, I'd like some crab legs. Well, why
don't you take six? Don't even give it a second thought.
I'd like some sushi. What would you like? I'll just
roll for you right here. I have never seen anything
like that place. Dodgers is very good. It's not as
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big as the one at Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah, uh, Doctor.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Stadium, I think is more intimate. I'd like the feel
of it, and I love the food there.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
But Yankee Stadium there was you know, there was. That's
a I say relatively. You know, it was probably twenty
five years old. Are twenty years old? Is it fifteen
fifteen to twenty somebody that's been around for like twenty
years or so, a little less than that. But Dodger Stadium,
they just gutted the buying home play, right, They just
said to create space buying on play where they have
a little walkway where Mike Brito stood with his radar gun.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Exactly, That's exactly what happened. Yeah, like Brito in the
radar gun. Yeah. So so Dodger Stadium's beautiful. Yankee Stadium
is something else. The other one you gotta try, Yeah,
I mean I've been to a lot of them.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
The other one you got to try is the Mets. Now,
I'd love City Field. I thought that was one of
the best experiences I've had in sports. It's not Dodger Stadium.
So please, I'm not saying the Mets are better. I'm not,
but I'm saying if you just travel around and look
at things, but what City Field? What they do? So
they have the club, you eat, you know, you get
your drinks and everything. You go sit down. Let's say, Ben,
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you want a pizza, but they don't have pizza in
the club. Yeah, you have an app. You order the
pizza from wherever it is in the stadium. They go
and bring it to you and it's all included.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
That's nice. It's great.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yeah, whatever you want in the stadium, you just hit
this app.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
You know what I'm thinking. I'm thinking roastbe sandwich. Oh
they don't have in the club. Hit the button, they
bring it to you. It was great.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Now, where's the worst behind home plate experience for? Is
there a ball?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Like, doesn't really have that right, Well, that was going
to be number one on the hit parade.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yeah, okay, Fenway doesn't have it. They have a little room,
so I always like where you get to eat ahead
of time. That's like part of the experience. Sure, they
have like a little room and I'm gonna room. You
go sit in the little room. And a lot of
these clubs, by the way, because the tickets are so expensive,
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food comes with it. That's part of the allure of
buying the seats. Yeah, not at that way. They didn't
and they didn't have a lot of options.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Really, they didn't. How do they not include the food?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
They didn't and another place that I liked the stadium
a lot with San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Oh beautiful.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yeah, but they don't have one there. You get to
go into the area where the seats are, but then
they have stands that you pay for food, so it'd
be like you're up on the next level. Yes, with
concession stands.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
They don't have that sit down kind of field. They
had a little room you sat in, but it wasn't
very good with like pretzels.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Now, what about that? For me? The greatest view team sucks.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
The Pittsburgh Ballpark is insane the way they did that
with the bridges in the background. Do they they don't
have any fans though, So do they really need a
VIP club behind home played in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
We went there, We were in that one one time.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
You were okay yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
And a couple of things. First, it is gigantic. I
mean it is huge. It's like five rooms, it's so big. Yeah,
So I don't think it ever fills up because it
is just gigantic.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Well, someday, Fred when the Pirates are good again.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Some day, food was good, Yeah, food was good. Didn't
fill up. So it was a really hot day and
we were sitting behind on plate. And by the way,
you're right. The ballpark gorgeous and the view is incredible, Ben.
And you walk across the bridge and what people do
there is they put a lock on the bridge, right,
they put a lock on it with their initials.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
And we did that.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Oh cool. So I don't know if it will still
be there or not. Anyway, So I go in and
it's a really hot day and I'm like, God, it's
like I'm burning. I need suntan oil. I need something.
So I go in to buy it, and I walk
up to the people and I go, hey, do you
guys have any suntan oil? And a woman says hey, Fred,
I said, excuse me, says oh yeah, I'm from la
Let me give you some of mine.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
And you didn't have, didn't Jay Leno getting a dust
up in Pittsburgh the when he fell down they said
he fell down or whatever.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Wasn't that in Pittsburgh. You didn't get what he was.
Nobody harassed you, right, Fred?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
No, no, no, I have to tell you. I think
Pittsburgh is kind of a hidden gem. I think it's
a great city.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I agree, I've been there in years but when I
was there, it was I thought it was nice.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
They cleaned it up pretty good. I heard it had
been terrible back in the day, but it was, Yeah,
it was great. You know, a good financial area there.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
So pretty well we had a good time. Okay, we'll
talk more about the Dodgers coming up later in the show.
So we are on watch right now, Ben and I
got to get your take on this, uh pre agency NBA.
DeAndre Ayton will hand up with the Lakers. Is that
a good pick up? We need to talk about that next.
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Speaker 1 (22:14):
Big Ben in today for Rodney. All right, soonere on standby, Kevin.
I know you're checking any word on DeAndre Yaton and
where he may end up. Any update, not a damn thing.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
I know he clears waivers here in a couple of hours.
Fred and so far, other than the Lakers, the only
other team I've seen with a lot of serious interest
quote unquote is Indiana. Well, of course lost their starting
senter to Milwaukee. So that's the latest on that.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Okay. Al Horford also a possibility for the Lakers, right.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Yes, although I've not seen or heard anything on that
front over the last few hours.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Okay, So Ben, the talk for the Lakers is DeAndre
eight and former number one pick, kind of flamed out
in Phoenix, didn't do himself any favors in Portland, buys himself,
just wants out of Portland, and they say, good go.
He takes pennies on the dollar to get out, and
they couldn't have been happier. They'd have paid him everything
to go. What do you think of DeAndre Ayton as Aker?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Well, I'm not high on DeAndre Ayton.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Fred I think we're gonna line up on this one
because I ran to the other night when Portland the
story came out Portland was gonna buy him out of
his contract.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
It's uh. I mean, he has built a reputation where
if you don't watch.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Him day in and day out, you think DeAndre Ayton's
pretty good because the stats he was the number one
overall pick and all that stuff. But for the the
Trailblazers to be okay with That was who they got
for Damian Lillard. That was like the one of the
main pieces they got in that trade for Damian Lillard
for two years later, for them just to say we're good,
we don't need you anymore, we're better off without you.
That is an indictment of DeAndre Ayton. And if you're
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trying to win, I would If you're trying to get stats,
I would bring Ayton in. If you're trying to win,
I would not touch him. I think his reputation precedes
him here that he's not a winning player. That he
puts up stats, but he doesn't help you be a
better team. You're not gonna win. He's a box score guy,
but when you need a bucket late in the game.
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But we saw this, you're you know you're from Arizona.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Fred famously his sonsficionado.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
How many how many empty empty games did DeAndre eight
and a half for the Suns? And that was a
good team. You know, the Blazers were bad. You say, wow,
it was just bad. It doesn't matter whatever. He couldn't
do anything because the team was bad. But in Phoenix
they had good players and he still would vanish in
in games, you know, key moments in the fourth quarter
of games.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I wouldn't if I'm trying to win, I don't.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
I don't mess around with Yeah, I just know like
his attitude. And you know it's and I got called
on on this the other day. It's the name game.
Oh he's available, let's go get him. I don't know,
and I know Lebron. Rich Paul made the comment, you know,
we'd like to win now, which, yeah, Rich, everybody's trying
to win.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
You've said the same thing every year. I think it's
hard for Lebron to find himself in the second chair.
He's not in the lead chair anymore. And now they're
just talking to talk. And somebody asked me the other
day what he's think he'll start the season with the Lakers.
Do you think he would agree to a deal. To
be honest with you, I think it'd be great if
they could trade him. The problem is there's no where
to trade them. There are only like three or four
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teams that could actually take them because of his salary.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Yeah, well, if Lebron really.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Raised the ruckus Fred, they would find a team because
he is box office and still, you know, you bring
a little bit of rasmataz with Lebron. Whether we like
him or not, he brings that. Obviously, he's the one
of the all time greats. So there is a world
in the multiverse where Lebron.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Ends up getting traded. I don't think that we're at
that point.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
And I believe Lebron's just making it all about Lebron,
and as always, he wants us talking about him, and
we're doing it Fred, We're talking about Lebron.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
But ultimately I don't think he wants to believe the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I mean, we can question how Luca got here, but
he's one of the top ten players in basketball, and
now Lebron gets to play with him, and so why would.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
You want to leave that if you're a Lebron.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
I mean, Luca's he's got he's got weaknesses, but he's wonderful,
So why would you want to go somewhere else?
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Makes no sense?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Isn't it funny? Just think about what you just said.
Luca is one of the top ten players in basketball
and Lebron gets to play with him. Now, just think
about that. Yeah, nobody gets to say that very often
about Lebron. It's Lebron is Lebron and Luca gets to
play with him. No, it's different now. It's different. Now
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it's lucas one of the top ten guys. Lebron, you
should be honored controlled to play with him. It's not
about Lebron, that's my point. It's about Luca.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Well, and even if you look at Lebron's career like
Dwayne Wade, fine, Chris bott but Lebron was better than
those guys at the time they played together, and in
Cleveland he was better than Kyrie Irvan. Clearly there was
a point of demarcation. Lebron was better than those guys.
Like Luca's better than Lebron at this point, does anyone
disagree with that? Like, Luca's better than Lebron, an older
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version of Lebron. So this is the first time in
his career he's gonna play with somebody who's clearly better
than him, like Lebron and his prime was better than
Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh and Miami, and better than
Kyrie and Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
But this is it now, you know, how is he
gonna handle that?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Well?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
As you said, Freddy's pouting through Rich Paul, not Lebron.
He always has plausible deniability. He said, I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
It was Rich Paul and I didn't say it. Rich
Paul said it, And it's not my fault. Rich Paul's
the guy, and he's the one. He's Rich Paul's got
shams on one phone, he's got the other insider. I mean,
he's all they do is feed stuff to the insider crowd.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Well, we'll see what the Lakers do. I'm still rooting
for Al Horford if he's available, that's the guy. Go
get Al Horford.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
You want how old is Al Horford at this point? Fred?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Al Horford?
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Thirty nine?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Fred, So they have something in common with Lebron.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Yeah, yeah, but they're gonna get icy hot together in
the right Yeah yeah, do the icy hot thing and all.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
That, set around and play p knuckle together on the
on the flights.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Well, you know the rumor, Fred, because Mike Brown was
hired with the Knicks today the form the Laker coach
Mike Brown. So, of course the diabolical New York media
connecting the dots, saying, well, who did Mike Brown.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Coach in Cleveland? Lebron? There you go.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
So they're saying, well, maybe Lebron will want to coach
play for the Knicks. But Lebron's always avoided New York.
I thought he didn't want to play for James Dolan,
so why would he want to go there? And plus
Mike Brown, Mike Brown's.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Just a guy. He's just a coach.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
He's nothing spectacular, right, nice guy. Everyone loves Mike Brown,
but he's not a great.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Thing, ben is.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Mike Brown got kind of a kind of a bad
shot here. I mean, he won, he was one where
he's been. What is it about him that he can't
stick around?
Speaker 6 (28:42):
He never should have been gone in Sacramento ever, Yeah,
he was just so poorly well, they had at one
point de Aaron Fox and Tyr Saliburton and traded both
of them away while while he was coaching Mike Brown.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
So he did get a raw deal there. But no,
everyone says he's a great guy, Mike Brown. We talked
to him.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
He's not, but I guess he rubs at some point.
His act wears out, like all these guys. But to me,
that's a downgrade.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Though.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
If I'm a New York fan, I'm like Tom Thibodau
is a better coach than than Mike Brown.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
But the whole Lebron connection to New York. I don't.
I don't think it's gonna happen, but they're throwing it
out there. Well, it's good clickbait.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Fred Lebron to the Knicks for what, Karl Anthony Towns
or something like that. But the Lakers want Karl Anthony Towns.
There's another guy talking about DeAndre Ayton. Karl Anthony Towns
has a similar reputation as a guy that vanishes in
big moments. When he was in Minnesota and even this
year with the Knicks, there were times he vanished. Is
that a guy you want for Lebron?
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Do you think if Lebron all right, two years ago,
if the Lakers move Lebron or the thought Lebron is leaving,
I think the fan base would be very concerned. Oh no,
Lebron can't go. Oh my god, no, I would say.
Two years ago at least people would say, oh, oh no,
this is bad. If Lebron went today, if they made
a move or he decided I want out, given that
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Luca is here, I mean, fans would go, oh, that's
too bad Lebron left. But do you think there'd be
this oh no, we can't let him go. We'll really
be in trouble now.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I got even got the sense a couple of years ago,
Fred from the people I know, and I'm surrounded by
Laker people that work at our place and all that stuff.
So no, there's still the Kobe loyalists, right that Lebron
even though he's been a Laker all these years, second
most of years more than Miami, he's been with the
Lakers more than it was with Heat and close to
Cleveland time, that he's never really been a Laker. That
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it's you know, he's just kind of passing through and
he came to LA because of the entertainment stuff that
the city offers.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
But it's not it's not really a Laker, you know,
and he's really what he's done has been fine, but
it's not.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
The level of Kobe. He'll never be Kobe. He'll never
get to that level no matter what. And it's just
it's just a transient, like a basketball hobo. Lebrono go
play for the Knicks or somebody will go back to
Cleveland and that'll be that and you know, we'll move on.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah, So should the Lakers put a statue of Lebron
out in front?
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Well, you're asking me I'm anti statue, Fred, so I'm
team no statue.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Will they He'll get two statues, not one, but two?
Why not?
Speaker 3 (31:19):
There are so many statues outside of that arena, Fred,
It's like a mausoleum out there. Oh my goodness, it's unbelievable.
I mean, are you Are you getting a statue?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Fred?
Speaker 5 (31:29):
Out there?
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Are they gonna get You're the dean of La Sports
fread they should give you a statue out there.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Oscar de la Hoyer just nudged me out he got one.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
It was neck and neck right there.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
All right, let me ask you this, Yes, Fred, should
the Lakers retire as jersey whatever number it is?
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Again, I'm anti retired jerseys. I think you should not retire.
I think jersey retirements are out of control.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Will the Lakers, Well, that's a good question because Jeanie
Buss is selling the team right and so Mark Walter
is coming in and it's usually something you do. My
theory has always been you retire numbers when you're trying
to get some some sentimentality. When you don't have a
good team on the field or the court, you retire
the number. You bring back the good old day. Like
I if Genie Buss is still controlling the Lakers, and
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she's gonna supposed to be around.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
I think they will retire the number. I wouldn't. I
would not retire Lebron's. But what about you, Fred, Do
you think Lebron gets his number retired? Oh my god? Yeah, James,
James Worthy and Kobe and all those guys.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Of course, absolutely, Genie will do it in a heartbeat.
I don't think it should be. By the way, all right,
will he be remembered? How will Lebron when his career
is over? How will he be remembered? What team did
he play for?
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Oh? Cleveland?
Speaker 5 (32:40):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Withoul Miami behind Cleveland too, I think the Lakers are third,
even though Lebron's been with the Lakers longer than Miami.
I think the the heatles how how big that was
when Lebron formed that team with Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
I think that's still and the one more than the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
So people will remember that because Cleveland and then the Calves,
Calves and then the Heat and then the Lakers third.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
I would agree one hundred percent. So if that's the case,
why would you retire his jersey? If you're the Lakers
because he's not gonna be remembered for playing for the Lakers. Yeah,
what's gonna have ever playing for Miami more than the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Well, I think for a lot of people that would
be the case. What's gonna happen eventually? Fred? When these
teams like the Yankees and the Lakers run out of numbers?
What are they gonna do?
Speaker 3 (33:27):
We do? We know at some point that we were
not gonna be around Fred. But there's so many retired numbers,
Like shouldn't that be rare and appropriate?
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Like for the top one percent?
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Like there's so many number of retirements, what are they
are they gonna unretired? They got to unretire some numbers eventually, right.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Aren't the Yankees into the hundreds now? Seriously? Like number one, one, five?
Speaker 3 (33:49):
I don't think they're allowed to do that. They double
up though a lot of night. Well, Aaron Judge ninety nine,
his number is gonna be retired, that'll be done. And
then I don't think.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
You're allowed to wear three? Ditchit? Right? Can't do that?
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Well, that'll sol and they can't that'll solve everything? Thatsually
mean the first one O one, you know, number one
oh one in your program, but number one in your heart.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
I mean it's crazy when you think about it. They've
retired too many, uh Dodgers. Dodgers have strict rules, so
they haven't retired this money.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Yeah, I think that's the way it should be. Make it,
make it special, make it, make it where it really
stands out. When you retire everyone's number, who was on
a championship team and had, you know, just a cup
of coffee but won a championship.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
That's way too much.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Waito, I mean there are some if you look at
some of the retired number, it's insane for it. Like,
there's some guys that have a number of retired around
the NBA. You're like, who's I didn't even know, Like
I played for that team?
Speaker 2 (34:42):
What are we doing here? Ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Jealousy is a bad thing. Jealousy is a bad thing,
and some people just don't get it. We'll talk about
that next.
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What is it? It's the mafia, Fred, Shorely, come on even.
I know that Fred shoreline because Kevin just told me
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You did say everybody you got three to one here, Fred,
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That does sound like a media company like Shoreline Media,
doesn't it. It does sound like a media company.
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Who we need to go back to the audio. We
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Here we go, Fred, here we go, the first one. No,
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Is the one that counts. Fred. Yeah. Yeah, we weren't
listening when.
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I'm not looking rocking. Don't play it by Shoreline Media.
There is, but Ben, there is a shortline media.
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Is there? I'm sure there is.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
It sounds it sounds like the kind of the name
a media company you would have, right, like a like
a crossover ad agency, media company, multimedia, multi platform company,
right there?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Yes, I agree with you, righteah.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
So anyway, Caitlin Clark, when the w N players voted
for All Stars, she came.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
In ninth.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
A. Come on, Fred, it doesn't matter whether even if
she hadn't scored more than four points in a game,
she should be in the All Star game, not night
if that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Or these are the players votes, and it's really funny
when you look at it and look the WNBA is
where it's at today, right now currently because of Caitlyn Clark.
That doesn't diminish anything anybody did in the past.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Yes it does, Fred, nobody, Yes it does. Come on, listen.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Nobody paid any attention to the w NBA until Kitlyn Clark,
and even now when she doesn't play in games, no
one's paying attention. When she's playing in the game, people
pay attention. This was not a vote, Fred, this was
a message. We don't like you, we hate you, Kitlin Clark.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
There's no there's no debating.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
It's not about the purity. It's an all star game.
Who cares about the stats. It's about popularity in an
all star game. She's not popular Caitlin Clark among the
other women that play in the WNBA.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
They don't like her. They're annoyed by her. There's know
the way you can take this other than that.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
They're jealous pure exactly.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
I agree with yes it is. I don't care if
she turned the ball over and missed game. I don't
care about any of that.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
He's the reason that anyone's even paying attention to playing
in simply to the w NBA.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Is Kitling Clark. That's it?
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Yeah, that you know in the NBA. Let's be honest,
a lot of those guys aren't having the greatest years,
but they've been around in a while, you know. Put
them in at the All Star Game and it's a
conversation we have every year. Is he really should he
be there? Yeah? Everybody wants to see him. You know,
he's been around forever. The w NBA players for whatever reason,
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and it's got to be jealousy. That's the only thing
it can be. Cannot understand the importance of Caitlin Clark
to their league. They don't get it. If I was
every one of them, I would be thanking her every
chance I got. Because when people watch her, they're also
watching you. But if they don't watch her, they don't
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care about you. And I don't understand why they They
don't get that.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Bet Well, I think part of it is what Caitlin
Clark shows up.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Everyone else is just like wallpaper, right, all these other
other WNBA but nobody is like, nobody's paying attention to them,
and it's all about Kaitlin Clark and all that stuff.
And she didn't just arrive though she was like a
neutron bomb.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
When she showed up to the WM it was immediate,
like no one cared at all. People.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
And then now that we got people fred that are
pretending like they're insiders, you know they're into this, and
I laugh at that because no one paid hitch.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
I was at when the WNBA started.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
I was a young lad and I was actually at
the forum when they had the WNBA dispersal. Like I said,
I don't know, it's this expansion draft that the whole
league started, when like the sparks started and I was
assigned to cover it, and you know, I was there
and there's like three other people there, no one.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
It was no buzz, there was no juice, there was
nobody cared. And it's been that way ever.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Suddenly it hadn't changed up until Caitlyn Clark arrived. No
one paid attention to it. And for her to be
ninth is an embarrassment. I mean, think of all the
things that have happened, like even you know, I'll I'll
talk about I almost I'll talk about her. I don't
want to talk about other w NBA stories, but the
chartered flight thing, the fact that they're about to get
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massive salary increases with the new labor agreement when that
comes around. All this stuff is directly related to Caitlin
Clark and for her to be voted ninth is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
It's it's absolutely ridiculous disrespect.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Didn't they keep her off the alls are the Olympic team?
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Yeah, that's right. That that also happened.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Didn't that happen?
Speaker 2 (40:41):
We must stop the ghosting, Bred. We gotta stop the
ghosting of Caitlin Clark. This is not right, Fred, this
is not right. They're ghosting her. I mean, why my god.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
You know, it's like they can't understand.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
And I think I think they are well bred. I
think they understand. I just think they don't like the
They don't.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Like the story.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
They think of her as like an interloper, that that
it's not right and she's getting special treatment, that the
media likes her because of her story and all that stuff,
and they don't like it.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
So they're going mean girls, and they're mean. They are vicious.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
They are being mean.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
I agree they are.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
And look, maybe they don't get it, and maybe it's
a difference between men and women. And I don't profess
to be able to bridge the gap. I don't know,
but you know the way it works, who's ever the
most marketable or successful or for whatever reason, captures the
imagination of people. That person gets paid and gets attention.
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It's pretty simple. And because someone has been able to
do that, and perhaps you were not able to. Instead
of saying to the person that did, we're gonna ice
you out, we're gonna cut you out. As a matter
of fact, I don't like you.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
You don't do.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
What you should be saying is thank you because now
I will have an opportunity to be seen and maybe
I can take advantage as well. But they don't think
that way.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
Yeah, no, I listen to they all rising tide, raises
all votes just being around Caitlyn Clark, right.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
You know, we've seen some of.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
Her teammates have made a lot of money on social
media because they they're around Caitlin Clark and all that.
But just the as you said, the people that are
now paying attention and the amount of money that can
be made and to you know, disrespect and ghost her
and all that, like strategic sabotage of Caitlin Clark. Of
course it's not gonna work because you know, she's gonna
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get she'll be in the All.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Star Game and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
It's just ridiculous though, the ninth place place vote and
it's really no debate. It's a bleep in All Star Game.
You've seen the rating spread when in games she plays
in and games she doesn't play in, they lose over
fifty percent of their audience.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
It's more than that.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
It's even higher in some of the stories that have
been out there. So it doesn't make a lot of
sense to me.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
I don't think it's gonna change though, anytime soon. And
there listen, there are people in the NBA that are
jealous of the you know, Lebron or whatever. They don't
like the attention Lebron gets. But he's not being voted
out of the All Star Game, you know, by his peers.
That doesn't happen. That doesn't reach that level like it
has at this point in the w n B a
where they think she like skipped the line and they
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want to they want to pay give.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Her some payback.
Speaker 3 (43:30):
Caitlin Clark the rest of the w NBA players because
she cut to the front of the line. Well, she
deserves to be in the front of the line because.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
As you said, people want to watch your play. So
that's it. There's no there's no other opinion that matters.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
So this is terrible. But but I have to admit it,
and I know it's bad, okay, because I know we
have the Sparks here in LA. We have a w
NBA team. Yeah, all right, we're sitting here. I wasn't
even sure if they were still playing. I didn't know
if they'd already played championship.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
Oh no, they went to the schedule. Well I saw
they had like an in season Yeah, like why do
they need that?
Speaker 1 (44:14):
But I thought that was the championship. I didn't. That's
awful and I should know better. But you know why
I even know that despite the fact we have a
team in LA, because I listen. I watch for Caitlyn Clark.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
That's how I know.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
That's how I even knew there was Commissioner's Cup.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
Well, when I'm getting ready for the Overnight show, Fred,
I'm looking for stories. I'm scanning stories, and the only
like I'm gonna talk about a normal Wi Me sor
Kitlyn Clark. I know that that's worthy of some conversation.
Conversation and good news, Fred Lebron James has now entered
the chat. He has now chimed in giving his support
for Caitlin Clark and ripping the WNBA player. So now
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we've heard from Lebron, so we can all rest easy.
Now Lebron has chimed in on this, and he's very
supportive of Caitlyn Clark and he's ripping the other w
NBA players for voting her ninth in the All Star Games.
So Lebron has chimed in.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
So well did he add in that he wants Caitlin
Clark to win now like he wants to win now?
Not only is he man that they're not supported and
he's upset because they're not trying to win right now?
Speaker 3 (45:17):
Yes, yes, he's gonna wait for his agent to chime
in on that. Rich Paul he will issue that statement,
not Lebron, but that'll be a Rich Paul statement at
a later date.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
So all right, listen, we got news, got a pair
of Dodger tickets. The game will be fourth of July Friday.
What a way to celebrate the fourth ben fireworks, baby,
that's right, So we will give those tickets away between
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we come back. Fox Sports Radio, NBA insider Mark Madena
Why there we go. Fred Rogan and big Ben Maller
will join us soon, sitting in for Rodney Today on
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to have been on the program three hour show for
is Today one o'clock hour, Mark Medina, Fox Sports Radio
insider NBA Wise two o'clock David Vassa from the stadium.
A couple of things were keeping an eye on today.
Number one, DeAndre Yton, what will happen and when? When
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will he sign? He's going to be waived, meaning he
is free to go do whatever he wants. And of
course the team's mentioned most likely to jump in on
that are the Lakers and Indiana Pacers. I'm the only
person in Los Angeles, by the way, that thinks this
is a very bad idea. I'm the only guy I
know that. And if the Lakers sign him and he's great,
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my bad. I'll own it. But I think character counts
and attitude means things. And a guy that has struggled
in the two places he has been in attitude wise,
I don't know if that's a great fit. I just don't.
I don't know if that's the kind of person you
want on your team. Maybe it will be different now,
maybe he will be a different player now, maybe he
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will have grown, but he hadn't grown in Portland. And
by the way, he was hurt an awful lot. But
where on that. Kevin is keeping an eye on it.
If and when something happens, we will let you know.
Tonight at the stadium, Clayton Kershaw goes for careers strikeout
number three thousand. Think about that for a second career
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strike out number three thousand. And we've had the conversation
here on the air about where he is in the
minds of people nationally. I don't know if he is
as respected nationally as he should be as one of
the greats. And we are going to talk about that
on the program today as well. Okay, so last night
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it was over before it started. Dodgers did what they
were supposed to do. They beat up on the White Sox.
No major accomplishment when the games are supposed to win
and show. Hey, Otani launched a ball. I mean it
looked like it was a moonshot and the minute he
hit it, it was gone. The crowd went crazy and for
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a split second I thought to myself, do we really
appreciate we know he's a superstar. We know he puts
people in the seats. We got all that. We know
he's probably the most visible athlete in the world right
now because of how he is perceived in Japan and Asia.
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All right, we got that too, We got all that.
But if you just cut that back for a second
and you think about what he has done. Thirty home
runs before the All Star break, and really, when you
watch him play, he gives the impression that it is effortless.
That's just who he is, that's just what he does.
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And just for a second, can you sit back and think,
my god, how good is he? I know he's at
I know everybody knows him. I know he can pitch.
I got all that. We know all that. But if
you just take a second and step back and think
how good is he? When you really think about it,
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there's nothing he can't do. Thirty home runs before the
All Star Break. I know going into the season, some said, oh,
this guy will never hit fifty home runs again, that
won't happen. Thirty home runs before the All Star Brenk.
So we know he can hit, we know he can run,
and certainly, now although we did know it, it has
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been confirmed he can pitch. I just think we should
consider ourselves pretty lucky, pretty lucky to have someone like
that in Los Angeles that not only can you watch,
but you can root for on a team that is beloved. Ben,
what do you think about TONI?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Well, listen, what's not to like? Fred?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
We're battling gremlins over here, but Toni's been amazing. If
he about the Dodgers too, Like, I still get the
sense they're not playing as well as they can, and
yet they're running away with the division. But o Toani's
been amazing. He's on pace for what fifty six home
runs now? So I mean he's been as advertised, it's
been been wonderful. It's been glorious to watch. And teams
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are actually still pitching to him. They're starting to pitch
around Aaron Judge and some of these other guys. And
when will Otani get that treatment or are the Dodgers
so good Fred? They will not be pitching around Otani
because of what they have behind him.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah, well look at it like this. First, you're gonna
put the leadoff guy on? Yeah, all right, so there's
number one, number two, Go ahead, put him on, no problem, yeah,
you have an MVP behind him and an MVP behind him,
so let's take your poison, right. You make a mistake
to him, Ben, and it is like, oh, wow, he
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hit that ball so far last night.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah no, I know.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
As a pitcher, it's like, well, it's great he's pitching,
but he's so dominant it. As a as a hitter,
it's like he's the next seven eight years of Otani
hitting the ball and hitting, you know, forty five plus
home runs a year for the Dodgers. You remember, for
the old days, they never had guys hit forty or
more home runs with the Dodgers back in the old day.
And now it's everyone's hitting, you know, a bunch of
home runs all over the place. It's insane, but it's great.
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They're they're running away with the division now, and yet
they're still not playing as well as they can't play.
I get this, I'm watching. I mean, does that workman
like win over the White Sox last night and all that.
So it's a solid situation to be in. And as
you said at the beginning, when they picked up all
these players in the off season, many of them who
haven't even played yet Fred much at all, because they're hurt.
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It's all about what you do in October. It's like,
it doesn't matter they won one hundred and twenty games.
It's you can't go out and loose to the Diamondbacks
in the first round of the playoffs like they did
a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
So you know you can't. I mean, the journey is fun.
So as I said at the beginning of the year,
sit back and enjoy this journey. Watch Otani. You don't
see growth in guys. It really revel in it. But
all said and done, we will worry about it in October.
But the journey is fun. The journey is fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Well. I do worry when they lose freight.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I do get upset, even though I know it doesn't
matter until the playoffs start and all that stuff. I
do like to have the daily annoyance. If they don't
play well, it gets upsetting. But so I can be
annoyed when they don't. When they win, it's like I
don't really care because it's you know, it's not until
October when they lose, though I can be upset.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
So I have that ability.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I have that skill on a daily basis to be
annoyed when they don't play well, you know, a couple
times a week they'll lose. I get upset, and then
when they win, it's like it doesn't really matter to me,
and that's fine. They one who cares. You know, they're
supposed to win. But when they lose or the bullpen
comes in and pukes all over the mouth, I can
then get upset. But then I realize at the end
of the month, the trade deadline and the Dodgers, you
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know they're gonna make I know they've got a bunch
of guys out with injury and all that, but they're
gonna add some.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Relief pitchers like they usually do.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
They'll they'll switch it up because the bullpen's gas because
they've been using so many of them in these bullpen
games and all that.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
So they're gonna look totally different, not totally.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Remember they're gonna have two or three editions post July
thirty first, at the trade deadline.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
No, they'll make a move. They'll definitely make more than one.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
This is the golden ear of Dodger baseball. You gotta
make moves every every year. You gotta add to the team.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You got Andrew Freeman didn't want to do that, man, right,
he wanted to do all of the shopping before the
season started.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Well, you do fine tuning for it. You know.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
It's like you get the car, but you gotta get
the new tires on the car. You know, sometimes the
things inside. Were got to fix it up, some spark
plugs or something like that.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You make, make some moves.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
You got the base of the car, but you got
to add on to it a little bit.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Well, as they add one piece, they may add. And
last night he got to hit Michael Confordo. So congratulations,
that's pretty cool. Nobody says he doesn't try. Nobody says
he's not in it. Nobody says he's not working hard.
But it's pretty sad when we have to celebrate. Well,
I gotta hit.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah cool.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Well, and I saw he had a couple of hits
over like the last month, So I went I went
back and I looked Fred because nothing we don't do
but due diligence on this show. And so I went
back and so I thought, he's playing better at Confordo,
right if I well, it seems like he's playing better.
He's actually getting some RBIs and whatnot. So I went
back and looked the last seventeen games, Confordo's batting two
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h five. There you go, But that's compared to what
he's like, I think on the season, he's hitting like
one sixty. So that's forty points high, forty five points higher.
And he's he's had a few months. But when you
when you were at the like the White Sox tonight
against the Dodgers, it's like, that's the Confordo's in the lineup,
that's the automatic, that's the pitcher spot in the old
baseball back in the day. Right, Yeah, you gotta get
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Canfordo out because most of the other guys are hitting.
So that's the weak link, right there is Michael Confordo,
who's got what three home runs is June fifth and
ten RBIs loo kind of.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Like this since June fifth, he's got three home runs
and ten RBI's. Yeah, so that makes you start to
wonder as we begin July here in the trade deadline approaches,
if you're Andrew Friedman, is he actually hitting?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Now?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Do we need to go out and get a left
handed stick because three home runs ten RBIs in a
month much better than it was.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I don't trust him. Fred at all. He's not. He's
not in my bubble of trust. I don't.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I know, no, not everyone can be hitting. I realized
that you're not gonna have everyone hitting all that.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
But he's been.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
We're as you said, we're in July now, I mean,
it's not it's getting late. We're past the midway point
of the season. And as they like to say in baseball,
you are what your stats say, you are right, and the.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Conford, Oh, this is who he is this year. I don't.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I don't unless there's some kind of magic beans he
can get a hold of it. I don't see him
changing dramatically. But if he can just drive in some runs,
I mean, he's not gonna I don't think he's gonna
bat three hundred the rest of the year or whatever.
But if you can just bat two fifty and drive
in some runs, and then I can hear people say, well,
that's an old your boomer, you're an old guy. I'm
talking about batting average. But god, he's so bad. He's
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been so terrible this year, Fred, you gotta be better
than that.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
My goodness, horrible boomer you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I know everyone gets up sat No, I talk about
batting you got to talk about the nerd stats.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Fred. You know that's batting average is a dated stat.
It really hated. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yeah, it's all about exit exit V low and what
else is it about.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
It's spin ray on the fishing. That's a big one.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah. Yeah, I love the exit velocity because I was
able to watch baseball for like my entire life.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Up until a couple of years ago. I didn't even
know what the exit velocity was. I had no idea.
Back in the old days when Piazza was hitting home,
I have no.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Idea what the exit velocity was, no idea. I still
enjoyed it, I guess, I mean I might.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Maybe my my younger days were robbed.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I was robbed of the essence of the great nerd
stats that we have today.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
But my goodness, the.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Thing I don't get, and I want to ask Oral
when he comes on. I don't understand this. You're sitting
in the broadcast booth. Here's the pitch, Well, that was
a forest seamer. How can you tell that from up there?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
No, I agree with how do they know? Yeah, well,
I encouraganize her. I can see a little bit, but
I don't know. Yeah, I tend to be on your side.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
My other thing I remember, friend, when I used to
be in the locker room all height back in the
old days, and they'd ask the writers would ask me
what pitch was that? And sometimes the hitter wouldn't even
know what pitch it was, you know, they but they
always had to come up with an answer.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I have to asked what pitch it was?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
You go, oh, it was a back door slide or whatever,
but you got to come up with an answer.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
But yeah, I think a lot of it's just you.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Know, certain pitches you can If it's a curveball, you
obviously know it's a curveball.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
But other than that, it's just a little bit of movement.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
You're sitting in the press box. The difference between a curveball, well,
a big curveball, you can tell a slider and a sweeper.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
What's the difference?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
How can you tell from up there? How how can
they be looking from up there and re lies in
one second? Oh that was a two seam slider.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Well, Fred, As I learned Fred long ago, if you
don't know the answer, just sound like you know the answer.
People will think you know the answer, right. If you
just say, hey, that was a slider. Boom people eyes,
you must know it's a slider, no question about it.
Just fake it till you make it, Fred, just say
you know that was a lollipop or whatever, curveball.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Whatever, so boom done, make it up.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Who's gonna Who's gonna I'm sure there's somebody out there,
you know, modern days, But who's gonna say, Well, no,
you you're calling the wrong pitches.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Nobody knows. You're sitting there here, you're drinking a beer,
watching a game on TV or whatever. At the game,
You're gonna know what pitch it is. Come on.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
And that being said, you know, we have a bit
of trouble getting on the air, but you're here. How
are you? I haven't talked in a while. What's been show?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
If it's been fine? Fred, you know, doing the doing
the late night show. I had one of my listeners
came by from from Boston. I said, Farmington, Mass showed
up last night. I actually got in trouble with the
building security at Fox Sports Radio because this guy showed
up at three o'clock in the afternoon for some reason.
And of course I'm on at night, and so he
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showed up and I'm getting I get a text, like
one of your listeners this yere.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I didn't invite him.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I'm not even there, and so I had to deal
with that yesterday. But he was he was fine, he
was nice. He showed up last night. And but things
are going well. Show's doing well, things are going well.
Actually did go to a Dodger game against the Giants
with marlins Man, my friend marlins Man, he's the that's
your buddy, that's my buddy. Yeah, he listens in Miami.
He's got a wildlife. He's up late at night and
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all that stuff. But he's become friends. He's a listener
to the Overnight Show. And so when he's in town now,
normally Fred he invites beautiful women to sit with him,
but every once in a while he'll invite an ugly
radio guy.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
And he invites me.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Every so often, So we hang out, We bond, and
I can hang out with all the rich people behind
the home place.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Great for it.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Yeah, the high rollers seats. I've seen Ben sitting down
there with Marlin's man at the past.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah. Yeah, Kevin oh Man. I walk in there, people like,
why are you here?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
You know you don't belong here, you know, there's Scott
Boris over there. There's some Hollywood moguls over in this
here's my fat ass walking in there. My god, but
everyone's been nice when I show up there a couple
of times a year.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Maybe, hey, Ben, I'd like to buffet down there.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Oh my god, it's it's it's in any kind of
food you possibly want. They've got the dessert, all the cupcakes,
the the cookies, the ice, Oh my god, friend, and
it's uh, the finest foods you could possibly I don't
know how anyone goes out and watches the game. I
would just, you know, back in my old days, when
you knew me, Fred, back in the old day, I
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would just be in there eating. I'd be like a
cow grazing the entire day there. But yeah, it's it's
the next level. If you ever have a chance, if
you've never been behind home played, I know, maybe once
you know it's expensive, but my goodness, they treat you
like a king down there.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
It is a different world. You have someone, you have
someone a server at your seat, so you can get
up and go inside and eat, do something, or you
can tell your friend to come on over and they'll
bring it to you. It's great. The only so I've
made a I don't know. We in our house, we
would go on these baseball trips. My wife loves baseball,
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and we always try to go to the dugout club
in every city.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Now, I've always said, and I've told her, Dodger Stadium
dug out club major League Baseball by far to me,
the best, the best done. Sure, and we travel around. Now.
I like Washington. Washington was good, but not like Dodger Stadium.
I like the Mets. The Mets was good, but not
like Dodger Stadium. The one place, the one And I
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don't know if you've been there or not that either
as close or Mike Trumpet a little bit is Yankee Stadium?
Have you ever been there?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I've been to Yankee Stadium. I've not been to the
dugout club.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I've no.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I will tell you fred I have a cousin that
she lives in Connecticut, but she gets Yankee tickets. Some
of the big clients there were for the Yankee So
she'll get tickets behind home plate and she literally will
not actually watch the games. She'll just be like a
seafood bar and whatever down there. Yes, yeah, she's told
me about it. I said, she told me she was
going to a Yankee game, and so I said, how
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was the game?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
So I don't know. I didn't. I mean I was
eating I didn't you know it was downstairs?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
If you go there, so I want you to think
of if you have a favorite seafood place, a favorite
steak place, a favorite sushi place, whatever you think that is.
You know, Nobu if you're a Nobu person, or Mastros
if you're a Mastros person, whatever seafood place. When you
go there, it's like twelve restaurants in one and I'm
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not I'm saying, oh, what do you want? A file?
A sure, no problem. I've never seen anything like that.
You know what, I'd like some crab legs. Well, why
don't you take six? Don't even give it a second thought.
I'd like some sushi. What would you like? I'll just
roll for you right here. I have never seen anything
like that place. Dodgers is very good. It's not as
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big as the one at Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah, uh, Doctor.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Stadium, I think is more intimate. I'd like the feel
of it, and I love the food there.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
But Yankee Stadium there was you know, there was. That's
a I say relatively. You know, it was probably twenty
five years old. Are twenty years old? Is it fifteen
fifteen to twenty somebody that's been around for like twenty
years or so, a little less than that. But Dodger Stadium,
they just gutted the buying home play, right, They just
said to create space buying on play where they have
a little walkway where Mike Brito stood with his radar gun.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Exactly, That's exactly what happened. Yeah, like Brito in the
radar gun. Yeah. So so Dodger Stadium's beautiful. Yankee Stadium
is something else. The other one you gotta try, Yeah,
I mean I've been to a lot of them.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
The other one you got to try is the Mets. Now,
I'd love City Field. I thought that was one of
the best experiences I've had in sports. It's not Dodger Stadium.
So please, I'm not saying the Mets are better. I'm not,
but I'm saying if you just travel around and look
at things, but what City Field? What they do? So
they have the club, you eat, you know, you get
your drinks and everything. You go sit down. Let's say, Ben,
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you want a pizza, but they don't have pizza in
the club. Yeah, you have an app. You order the
pizza from wherever it is in the stadium. They go
and bring it to you and it's all included.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
That's nice. It's great.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yeah, whatever you want in the stadium, you just hit
this app.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
You know what I'm thinking. I'm thinking roastbe sandwich. Oh
they don't have in the club. Hit the button, they
bring it to you. It was great.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Now, where's the worst behind home plate experience for? Is
there a ball?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Like, doesn't really have that right, Well, that was going
to be number one on the hit parade.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yeah, okay, Fenway doesn't have it. They have a little room,
so I always like where you get to eat ahead
of time. That's like part of the experience. Sure, they
have like a little room and I'm gonna room. You
go sit in the little room. And a lot of
these clubs, by the way, because the tickets are so expensive,
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food comes with it. That's part of the allure of
buying the seats. Yeah, not at that way. They didn't
and they didn't have a lot of options.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Really, they didn't. How do they not include the food?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
They didn't and another place that I liked the stadium
a lot with San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Oh beautiful.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yeah, but they don't have one there. You get to
go into the area where the seats are, but then
they have stands that you pay for food, so it'd
be like you're up on the next level. Yes, with
concession stands.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
They don't have that sit down kind of field. They
had a little room you sat in, but it wasn't
very good with like pretzels.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Now, what about that? For me? The greatest view team sucks.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
The Pittsburgh Ballpark is insane the way they did that
with the bridges in the background. Do they they don't
have any fans though, So do they really need a
VIP club behind home played in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
We went there, We were in that one one time.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
You were okay yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
And a couple of things. First, it is gigantic. I
mean it is huge. It's like five rooms, it's so big. Yeah,
So I don't think it ever fills up because it
is just gigantic.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Well, someday, Fred when the Pirates are good again.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Some day, food was good, Yeah, food was good. Didn't
fill up. So it was a really hot day and
we were sitting behind on plate. And by the way,
you're right. The ballpark gorgeous and the view is incredible, Ben.
And you walk across the bridge and what people do
there is they put a lock on the bridge, right,
they put a lock on it with their initials.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
And we did that.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Oh cool. So I don't know if it will still
be there or not. Anyway, So I go in and
it's a really hot day and I'm like, God, it's
like I'm burning. I need suntan oil. I need something.
So I go in to buy it, and I walk
up to the people and I go, hey, do you
guys have any suntan oil? And a woman says hey, Fred,
I said, excuse me, says oh yeah, I'm from la
Let me give you some of mine.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
And you didn't have, didn't Jay Leno getting a dust
up in Pittsburgh the when he fell down they said
he fell down or whatever.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Wasn't that in Pittsburgh. You didn't get what he was.
Nobody harassed you, right, Fred?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
No, no, no, I have to tell you. I think
Pittsburgh is kind of a hidden gem. I think it's
a great city.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I agree, I've been there in years but when I
was there, it was I thought it was nice.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
They cleaned it up pretty good. I heard it had
been terrible back in the day, but it was, Yeah,
it was great. You know, a good financial area there.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
So pretty well we had a good time. Okay, we'll
talk more about the Dodgers coming up later in the show.
So we are on watch right now, Ben and I
got to get your take on this, uh pre agency NBA.
DeAndre Ayton will hand up with the Lakers. Is that
a good pick up? We need to talk about that next.
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Speaker 1 (22:14):
Big Ben in today for Rodney. All right, soonere on standby, Kevin.
I know you're checking any word on DeAndre Yaton and
where he may end up. Any update, not a damn thing.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
I know he clears waivers here in a couple of hours.
Fred and so far, other than the Lakers, the only
other team I've seen with a lot of serious interest
quote unquote is Indiana. Well, of course lost their starting
senter to Milwaukee. So that's the latest on that.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Okay. Al Horford also a possibility for the Lakers, right.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Yes, although I've not seen or heard anything on that
front over the last few hours.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Okay, So Ben, the talk for the Lakers is DeAndre
eight and former number one pick, kind of flamed out
in Phoenix, didn't do himself any favors in Portland, buys himself,
just wants out of Portland, and they say, good go.
He takes pennies on the dollar to get out, and
they couldn't have been happier. They'd have paid him everything
to go. What do you think of DeAndre Ayton as Aker?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Well, I'm not high on DeAndre Ayton.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Fred I think we're gonna line up on this one
because I ran to the other night when Portland the
story came out Portland was gonna buy him out of
his contract.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
It's uh. I mean, he has built a reputation where
if you don't watch.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Him day in and day out, you think DeAndre Ayton's
pretty good because the stats he was the number one
overall pick and all that stuff. But for the the
Trailblazers to be okay with That was who they got
for Damian Lillard. That was like the one of the
main pieces they got in that trade for Damian Lillard
for two years later, for them just to say we're good,
we don't need you anymore, we're better off without you.
That is an indictment of DeAndre Ayton. And if you're
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trying to win, I would If you're trying to get stats,
I would bring Ayton in. If you're trying to win,
I would not touch him. I think his reputation precedes
him here that he's not a winning player. That he
puts up stats, but he doesn't help you be a
better team. You're not gonna win. He's a box score guy,
but when you need a bucket late in the game.
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But we saw this, you're you know you're from Arizona.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Fred famously his sonsficionado.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
How many how many empty empty games did DeAndre eight
and a half for the Suns? And that was a
good team. You know, the Blazers were bad. You say, wow,
it was just bad. It doesn't matter whatever. He couldn't
do anything because the team was bad. But in Phoenix
they had good players and he still would vanish in
in games, you know, key moments in the fourth quarter
of games.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I wouldn't if I'm trying to win, I don't.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
I don't mess around with Yeah, I just know like
his attitude. And you know it's and I got called
on on this the other day. It's the name game.
Oh he's available, let's go get him. I don't know,
and I know Lebron. Rich Paul made the comment, you know,
we'd like to win now, which, yeah, Rich, everybody's trying
to win.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
You've said the same thing every year. I think it's
hard for Lebron to find himself in the second chair.
He's not in the lead chair anymore. And now they're
just talking to talk. And somebody asked me the other
day what he's think he'll start the season with the Lakers.
Do you think he would agree to a deal. To
be honest with you, I think it'd be great if
they could trade him. The problem is there's no where
to trade them. There are only like three or four
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teams that could actually take them because of his salary.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Yeah, well, if Lebron really.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Raised the ruckus Fred, they would find a team because
he is box office and still, you know, you bring
a little bit of rasmataz with Lebron. Whether we like
him or not, he brings that. Obviously, he's the one
of the all time greats. So there is a world
in the multiverse where Lebron.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Ends up getting traded. I don't think that we're at
that point.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
And I believe Lebron's just making it all about Lebron,
and as always, he wants us talking about him, and
we're doing it Fred, We're talking about Lebron.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
But ultimately I don't think he wants to believe the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I mean, we can question how Luca got here, but
he's one of the top ten players in basketball, and
now Lebron gets to play with him, and so why would.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
You want to leave that if you're a Lebron.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
I mean, Luca's he's got he's got weaknesses, but he's wonderful,
So why would you want to go somewhere else?
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Makes no sense?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Isn't it funny? Just think about what you just said.
Luca is one of the top ten players in basketball
and Lebron gets to play with him. Now, just think
about that. Yeah, nobody gets to say that very often
about Lebron. It's Lebron is Lebron and Luca gets to
play with him. No, it's different now. It's different. Now
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it's lucas one of the top ten guys. Lebron, you
should be honored controlled to play with him. It's not
about Lebron, that's my point. It's about Luca.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Well, and even if you look at Lebron's career like
Dwayne Wade, fine, Chris bott but Lebron was better than
those guys at the time they played together, and in
Cleveland he was better than Kyrie Irvan. Clearly there was
a point of demarcation. Lebron was better than those guys.
Like Luca's better than Lebron at this point, does anyone
disagree with that? Like, Luca's better than Lebron, an older
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version of Lebron. So this is the first time in
his career he's gonna play with somebody who's clearly better
than him, like Lebron and his prime was better than
Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh and Miami, and better than
Kyrie and Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
But this is it now, you know, how is he
gonna handle that?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Well?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
As you said, Freddy's pouting through Rich Paul, not Lebron.
He always has plausible deniability. He said, I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
It was Rich Paul and I didn't say it. Rich
Paul said it, And it's not my fault. Rich Paul's
the guy, and he's the one. He's Rich Paul's got
shams on one phone, he's got the other insider. I mean,
he's all they do is feed stuff to the insider crowd.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Well, we'll see what the Lakers do. I'm still rooting
for Al Horford if he's available, that's the guy. Go
get Al Horford.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
You want how old is Al Horford at this point? Fred?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Al Horford?
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Thirty nine?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Fred, So they have something in common with Lebron.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Yeah, yeah, but they're gonna get icy hot together in
the right Yeah yeah, do the icy hot thing and all.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
That, set around and play p knuckle together on the
on the flights.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Well, you know the rumor, Fred, because Mike Brown was
hired with the Knicks today the form the Laker coach
Mike Brown. So, of course the diabolical New York media
connecting the dots, saying, well, who did Mike Brown.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Coach in Cleveland? Lebron? There you go.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
So they're saying, well, maybe Lebron will want to coach
play for the Knicks. But Lebron's always avoided New York.
I thought he didn't want to play for James Dolan,
so why would he want to go there? And plus
Mike Brown, Mike Brown's.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Just a guy. He's just a coach.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
He's nothing spectacular, right, nice guy. Everyone loves Mike Brown,
but he's not a great.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Thing, ben is.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Mike Brown got kind of a kind of a bad
shot here. I mean, he won, he was one where
he's been. What is it about him that he can't
stick around?
Speaker 6 (28:42):
He never should have been gone in Sacramento ever, Yeah,
he was just so poorly well, they had at one
point de Aaron Fox and Tyr Saliburton and traded both
of them away while while he was coaching Mike Brown.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
So he did get a raw deal there. But no,
everyone says he's a great guy, Mike Brown. We talked
to him.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
He's not, but I guess he rubs at some point.
His act wears out, like all these guys. But to me,
that's a downgrade.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Though.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
If I'm a New York fan, I'm like Tom Thibodau
is a better coach than than Mike Brown.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
But the whole Lebron connection to New York. I don't.
I don't think it's gonna happen, but they're throwing it
out there. Well, it's good clickbait.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Fred Lebron to the Knicks for what, Karl Anthony Towns
or something like that. But the Lakers want Karl Anthony Towns.
There's another guy talking about DeAndre Ayton. Karl Anthony Towns
has a similar reputation as a guy that vanishes in
big moments. When he was in Minnesota and even this
year with the Knicks, there were times he vanished. Is
that a guy you want for Lebron?
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Do you think if Lebron all right, two years ago,
if the Lakers move Lebron or the thought Lebron is leaving,
I think the fan base would be very concerned. Oh no,
Lebron can't go. Oh my god, no, I would say.
Two years ago at least people would say, oh, oh no,
this is bad. If Lebron went today, if they made
a move or he decided I want out, given that
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Luca is here, I mean, fans would go, oh, that's
too bad Lebron left. But do you think there'd be
this oh no, we can't let him go. We'll really
be in trouble now.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I got even got the sense a couple of years ago,
Fred from the people I know, and I'm surrounded by
Laker people that work at our place and all that stuff.
So no, there's still the Kobe loyalists, right that Lebron
even though he's been a Laker all these years, second
most of years more than Miami, he's been with the
Lakers more than it was with Heat and close to
Cleveland time, that he's never really been a Laker. That
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it's you know, he's just kind of passing through and
he came to LA because of the entertainment stuff that
the city offers.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
But it's not it's not really a Laker, you know,
and he's really what he's done has been fine, but
it's not.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
The level of Kobe. He'll never be Kobe. He'll never
get to that level no matter what. And it's just
it's just a transient, like a basketball hobo. Lebrono go
play for the Knicks or somebody will go back to
Cleveland and that'll be that and you know, we'll move on.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah, So should the Lakers put a statue of Lebron
out in front?
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Well, you're asking me I'm anti statue, Fred, so I'm
team no statue.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Will they He'll get two statues, not one, but two?
Why not?
Speaker 3 (31:19):
There are so many statues outside of that arena, Fred,
It's like a mausoleum out there. Oh my goodness, it's unbelievable.
I mean, are you Are you getting a statue?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Fred?
Speaker 5 (31:29):
Out there?
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Are they gonna get You're the dean of La Sports
fread they should give you a statue out there.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Oscar de la Hoyer just nudged me out he got one.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
It was neck and neck right there.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
All right, let me ask you this, Yes, Fred, should
the Lakers retire as jersey whatever number it is?
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Again, I'm anti retired jerseys. I think you should not retire.
I think jersey retirements are out of control.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Will the Lakers, Well, that's a good question because Jeanie
Buss is selling the team right and so Mark Walter
is coming in and it's usually something you do. My
theory has always been you retire numbers when you're trying
to get some some sentimentality. When you don't have a
good team on the field or the court, you retire
the number. You bring back the good old day. Like
I if Genie Buss is still controlling the Lakers, and
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she's gonna supposed to be around.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
I think they will retire the number. I wouldn't. I
would not retire Lebron's. But what about you, Fred, Do
you think Lebron gets his number retired? Oh my god? Yeah, James,
James Worthy and Kobe and all those guys.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Of course, absolutely, Genie will do it in a heartbeat.
I don't think it should be. By the way, all right,
will he be remembered? How will Lebron when his career
is over? How will he be remembered? What team did
he play for?
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Oh? Cleveland?
Speaker 5 (32:40):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Withoul Miami behind Cleveland too, I think the Lakers are third,
even though Lebron's been with the Lakers longer than Miami.
I think the the heatles how how big that was
when Lebron formed that team with Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
I think that's still and the one more than the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
So people will remember that because Cleveland and then the Calves,
Calves and then the Heat and then the Lakers third.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
I would agree one hundred percent. So if that's the case,
why would you retire his jersey? If you're the Lakers
because he's not gonna be remembered for playing for the Lakers. Yeah,
what's gonna have ever playing for Miami more than the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Well, I think for a lot of people that would
be the case. What's gonna happen eventually? Fred? When these
teams like the Yankees and the Lakers run out of numbers?
What are they gonna do?
Speaker 3 (33:27):
We do? We know at some point that we were
not gonna be around Fred. But there's so many retired numbers,
Like shouldn't that be rare and appropriate?
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Like for the top one percent?
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Like there's so many number of retirements, what are they
are they gonna unretired? They got to unretire some numbers eventually, right.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Aren't the Yankees into the hundreds now? Seriously? Like number one, one, five?
Speaker 3 (33:49):
I don't think they're allowed to do that. They double
up though a lot of night. Well, Aaron Judge ninety nine,
his number is gonna be retired, that'll be done. And
then I don't think.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
You're allowed to wear three? Ditchit? Right? Can't do that?
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Well, that'll sol and they can't that'll solve everything? Thatsually
mean the first one O one, you know, number one
oh one in your program, but number one in your heart.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
I mean it's crazy when you think about it. They've
retired too many, uh Dodgers. Dodgers have strict rules, so
they haven't retired this money.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Yeah, I think that's the way it should be. Make it,
make it special, make it, make it where it really
stands out. When you retire everyone's number, who was on
a championship team and had, you know, just a cup
of coffee but won a championship.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
That's way too much.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Waito, I mean there are some if you look at
some of the retired number, it's insane for it. Like,
there's some guys that have a number of retired around
the NBA. You're like, who's I didn't even know, Like
I played for that team?
Speaker 2 (34:42):
What are we doing here? Ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Jealousy is a bad thing. Jealousy is a bad thing,
and some people just don't get it. We'll talk about
that next.
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Speaker 2 (35:35):
Your lexicon? Fred? Right there? You listen to this all
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Speaker 1 (35:40):
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Speaker 4 (35:47):
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Speaker 3 (35:49):
What is it? It's the mafia, Fred, Shorely, come on even.
I know that Fred shoreline because Kevin just told me
a shoreline mafia.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
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Speaker 2 (35:58):
No, I didn't you want me to pull the tape
for it. Fred. I'll about your twenty dollars right now?
You did say everybody you got three to one here, Fred,
twenty dollars right?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
And I really because I said charline mafia at first.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
That does sound like a media company like Shoreline Media,
doesn't it. It does sound like a media company.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
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Speaker 2 (36:19):
Who we need to go back to the audio. We
have to play the audio, the very first one.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Last.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Here we go, Fred, here we go, the first one. No,
the last one.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
I'm saying the last one.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Is the one that counts. Fred. Yeah. Yeah, we weren't
listening when.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
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on the last one. You're right rocking by Shoreline that
I'm not looking rocking. Don't play it by Shoreline Media.
There is, but Ben, there is a shortline media.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Is there? I'm sure there is.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
It sounds it sounds like the kind of the name
a media company you would have, right, like a like
a crossover ad agency, media company, multimedia, multi platform company,
right there?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Yes, I agree with you, righteah.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
So anyway, Caitlin Clark, when the w N players voted
for All Stars, she came.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
In ninth.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
A. Come on, Fred, it doesn't matter whether even if
she hadn't scored more than four points in a game,
she should be in the All Star game, not night
if that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Or these are the players votes, and it's really funny
when you look at it and look the WNBA is
where it's at today, right now currently because of Caitlyn Clark.
That doesn't diminish anything anybody did in the past.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Yes it does, Fred, nobody, Yes it does. Come on, listen.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
Nobody paid any attention to the w NBA until Kitlyn Clark,
and even now when she doesn't play in games, no
one's paying attention. When she's playing in the game, people
pay attention. This was not a vote, Fred, this was
a message. We don't like you, we hate you, Kitlin Clark.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
There's no there's no debating.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
It's not about the purity. It's an all star game.
Who cares about the stats. It's about popularity in an
all star game. She's not popular Caitlin Clark among the
other women that play in the WNBA.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
They don't like her. They're annoyed by her. There's know
the way you can take this other than that.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
They're jealous pure exactly.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
I agree with yes it is. I don't care if
she turned the ball over and missed game. I don't
care about any of that.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
He's the reason that anyone's even paying attention to playing
in simply to the w NBA.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Is Kitling Clark. That's it?
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Yeah, that you know in the NBA. Let's be honest,
a lot of those guys aren't having the greatest years,
but they've been around in a while, you know. Put
them in at the All Star Game and it's a
conversation we have every year. Is he really should he
be there? Yeah? Everybody wants to see him. You know,
he's been around forever. The w NBA players for whatever reason,
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and it's got to be jealousy. That's the only thing
it can be. Cannot understand the importance of Caitlin Clark
to their league. They don't get it. If I was
every one of them, I would be thanking her every
chance I got. Because when people watch her, they're also
watching you. But if they don't watch her, they don't
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care about you. And I don't understand why they They
don't get that.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Bet Well, I think part of it is what Caitlin
Clark shows up.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Everyone else is just like wallpaper, right, all these other
other WNBA but nobody is like, nobody's paying attention to them,
and it's all about Kaitlin Clark and all that stuff.
And she didn't just arrive though she was like a
neutron bomb.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
When she showed up to the WM it was immediate,
like no one cared at all. People.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
And then now that we got people fred that are
pretending like they're insiders, you know they're into this, and
I laugh at that because no one paid hitch.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
I was at when the WNBA started.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
I was a young lad and I was actually at
the forum when they had the WNBA dispersal. Like I said,
I don't know, it's this expansion draft that the whole
league started, when like the sparks started and I was
assigned to cover it, and you know, I was there
and there's like three other people there, no one.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
It was no buzz, there was no juice, there was
nobody cared. And it's been that way ever.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Suddenly it hadn't changed up until Caitlyn Clark arrived. No
one paid attention to it. And for her to be
ninth is an embarrassment. I mean, think of all the
things that have happened, like even you know, I'll I'll
talk about I almost I'll talk about her. I don't
want to talk about other w NBA stories, but the
chartered flight thing, the fact that they're about to get
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massive salary increases with the new labor agreement when that
comes around. All this stuff is directly related to Caitlin
Clark and for her to be voted ninth is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
It's it's absolutely ridiculous disrespect.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Didn't they keep her off the alls are the Olympic team?
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Yeah, that's right. That that also happened.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Didn't that happen?
Speaker 2 (40:41):
We must stop the ghosting, Bred. We gotta stop the
ghosting of Caitlin Clark. This is not right, Fred, this
is not right. They're ghosting her. I mean, why my god.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
You know, it's like they can't understand.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
And I think I think they are well bred. I
think they understand. I just think they don't like the
They don't.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Like the story.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
They think of her as like an interloper, that that
it's not right and she's getting special treatment, that the
media likes her because of her story and all that stuff,
and they don't like it.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
So they're going mean girls, and they're mean. They are vicious.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
They are being mean.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
I agree they are.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
And look, maybe they don't get it, and maybe it's
a difference between men and women. And I don't profess
to be able to bridge the gap. I don't know,
but you know the way it works, who's ever the
most marketable or successful or for whatever reason, captures the
imagination of people. That person gets paid and gets attention.
(41:43):
It's pretty simple. And because someone has been able to
do that, and perhaps you were not able to. Instead
of saying to the person that did, we're gonna ice
you out, we're gonna cut you out. As a matter
of fact, I don't like you.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
You don't do.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
What you should be saying is thank you because now
I will have an opportunity to be seen and maybe
I can take advantage as well. But they don't think
that way.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
Yeah, no, I listen to they all rising tide, raises
all votes just being around Caitlyn Clark, right.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
You know, we've seen some of.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
Her teammates have made a lot of money on social
media because they they're around Caitlin Clark and all that.
But just the as you said, the people that are
now paying attention and the amount of money that can
be made and to you know, disrespect and ghost her
and all that, like strategic sabotage of Caitlin Clark. Of
course it's not gonna work because you know, she's gonna
(42:42):
get she'll be in the All.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Star Game and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
It's just ridiculous though, the ninth place place vote and
it's really no debate. It's a bleep in All Star Game.
You've seen the rating spread when in games she plays
in and games she doesn't play in, they lose over
fifty percent of their audience.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
It's more than that.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
It's even higher in some of the stories that have
been out there. So it doesn't make a lot of
sense to me.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
I don't think it's gonna change though, anytime soon. And
there listen, there are people in the NBA that are
jealous of the you know, Lebron or whatever. They don't
like the attention Lebron gets. But he's not being voted
out of the All Star Game, you know, by his peers.
That doesn't happen. That doesn't reach that level like it
has at this point in the w n B a
where they think she like skipped the line and they
(43:28):
want to they want to pay give.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Her some payback.
Speaker 3 (43:30):
Caitlin Clark the rest of the w NBA players because
she cut to the front of the line. Well, she
deserves to be in the front of the line because.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
As you said, people want to watch your play. So
that's it. There's no there's no other opinion that matters.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
So this is terrible. But but I have to admit it,
and I know it's bad, okay, because I know we
have the Sparks here in LA. We have a w
NBA team. Yeah, all right, we're sitting here. I wasn't
even sure if they were still playing. I didn't know
if they'd already played championship.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
Oh no, they went to the schedule. Well I saw
they had like an in season Yeah, like why do
they need that?
Speaker 1 (44:14):
But I thought that was the championship. I didn't. That's
awful and I should know better. But you know why
I even know that despite the fact we have a
team in LA, because I listen. I watch for Caitlyn Clark.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
That's how I know.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
That's how I even knew there was Commissioner's Cup.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
Well, when I'm getting ready for the Overnight show, Fred,
I'm looking for stories. I'm scanning stories, and the only
like I'm gonna talk about a normal Wi Me sor
Kitlyn Clark. I know that that's worthy of some conversation.
Conversation and good news, Fred Lebron James has now entered
the chat. He has now chimed in giving his support
for Caitlin Clark and ripping the WNBA player. So now
(44:52):
we've heard from Lebron, so we can all rest easy.
Now Lebron has chimed in on this, and he's very
supportive of Caitlyn Clark and he's ripping the other w
NBA players for voting her ninth in the All Star Games.
So Lebron has chimed in.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
So well did he add in that he wants Caitlin
Clark to win now like he wants to win now?
Not only is he man that they're not supported and
he's upset because they're not trying to win right now?
Speaker 3 (45:17):
Yes, yes, he's gonna wait for his agent to chime
in on that. Rich Paul he will issue that statement,
not Lebron, but that'll be a Rich Paul statement at
a later date.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
So all right, listen, we got news, got a pair
of Dodger tickets. The game will be fourth of July Friday.
What a way to celebrate the fourth ben fireworks, baby,
that's right, So we will give those tickets away between
now and three o'clock, one pair Dodgers playing the Astros
and th Those tickets will be available to you when
we come back. Fox Sports Radio, NBA insider Mark Madena
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