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All right, there we go,fred Rogan Rodney peaked on se La Sports,
a big three hour show. We'refired up today, Rodney, Yes,
come on, come on, it'sMonday, July eight hot. Hey,
how was your fourth of July orto July? Was good? Freddy?
It was good. I didn't runfive miles like you. I did
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a whole lot of nothing, reallydid. I did a whole lot of
nothing. I don't get it.I don't really sleep in. I'm not
a sleep in kind of guy.And even though I enjoy it, but
for two of those days I sleptin, Freddy, and it was good.
See sleep You don't realize it,Yeah, you do, you really
do. Sleep is underrated. Ithink people, you know, people need
to understand that every time you goto a doctor you get a check up,
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that that one of the top threethings they say is are you getting
enough sleep? And it's so importantfor your body to function on a regular
basis. We're such a go,go, go now society that everything's up,
we gotta go, we gotta needit now. I gotta go,
go, go go, and wedon't take time for ourselves. But you
got to do that, and Idid that this past weekend, Fred,
Well, good for you. Howmany hours do you normally sleep? Normally?
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I'm a six seven hour guy atnight. I want to get eight,
but I just can't. I can't. I either wake up early and
just can't go back. Or sometimeseven if I but even if I go
to bed late, which I trynot to, at the same time I
get up. So if I goto bed at say ten o'clock, I'm
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up at five thirty six. IfI go to bed at midnight one o'clock
in the morning, I'm still leftfive thirty six. It's the body clock
just gets up. I don't think, honestly, I have ever slept eight
hours of my life, and I'mnot exaggerating. I do not think I've
ever slept eight hours. When Iwas a Channel four, I'd sleep five
and a half hours, five anda half hours every day. That's why
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I look like I've been dragged behinda truck blog miles death. But I
slept five and a half hours.Ye. Well, when you were at
Channel four, when you get donewith eleven thirty yep, eleven forty five
whatever, and then you get outof there, you wouldn't get home to
what midnight twelve thirty and then yep, yep, trying to while out after
that. Yeah, yeah, Icould fall asleep fast. The problem was
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I'd get up early, yeah,and then doing the radio every day,
you know, we get up earlyto start preparing for the radio show,
right right, Yeah, I don't. I honest to god, I've not
had eight hours of sleep in mylife. Now. If I go six,
I've had a great night. IfI go six, I've had a
great night. Yeah. Sometimes I'llhit like six forty five. But that's
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it. It's very unhealthy, itreally is. It is. Now do
you do you nap? Are youa napper? Can you nap fifteen minutes?
I'm a fifteen minute nap guy.Really, I'm like a horse.
I can fall asleep standing up.Oh that you can't fifteen minutes now,
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I can't. I can't if Iif I'm napping, I'm trying to get
a nap in. It's got tobe at least thirty at least thirty otherwise
I'm groggy and it doesn't it doesn'tdo me any good. But I'll get
at least thirty in and it's theexact opposite for me. I don't know
if our listeners are like this,fifteen minutes, I'm good to go.
Thirty Now I'm groggy because now Ifall in asleep. Uh huh, fifteen,
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I'm up. I'm ready to goat fifteen. Aren't you like watching
the clock and going, oh,this is ten minutes, now it's twelve.
I'm almost I gotta go. Assoon as you close your eyes,
you almost got to get right backup, Rodney, I could fall asleep
in thirty seconds right now. Icould do that. I have had ability.
But then I'll be up in fifteenminutes. So it's kind of like
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an internal clock that I've always had. You know, and our listeners.
You work for a living, oryou have worked for a living, and
you know what those days are likeif you really think about it. They
have it right. In Europe.Europe is very different than we are here.
You know. Europe. You stayup really late, you sleep in,
you get up, you do alittle something, you take a nap,
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you get back up and go.Europe is different than we are here.
And I would say those people seemmore relaxed where Europe. Oh yeah,
well you know what they do andyou know this fred for traveling people
in Europe take time. They taketime for the little things, right,
They take time for whether it bebreakfast, and certainly they take time for
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lunch. I mean, it's notuncommon for Europeans to take two hours for
lunch and really take that time outof the day. And in certain countries
they take the afternoon off and havean hour or two for siesta and take
nap time. You know, you'llnotice sometimes you'll be out if you're on
vacation. Over there, a lotof the shops and stores are closed at
like three o'clock eat to five.They're closed because people are either napping or
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they're taking that time off in theafternoon, so they really and then you
know, and dinner, they spendtime at dinners. None of these like
forty five quick minute lunches or dinners. It's it's definitely sitting down two hours
conversations and then after dinner they're walking. They're walking after dinner, you know,
people are getting up and they're walkingaround after dinner and to walk off
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what they just date. But it'smore of enjoying the little things in life,
I think over there than it ishere here, where it's thirty minutes
for lunch. You got to goand get back right something quick. We're
a fast food society. Get somereal quick and get back into your desk
or your cubicle whatever. You know. You only get thirty you know where
it's over there. It's no go. Take your time, take your time,
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sit down, enjoy yourself, ordera meal out of a conversation,
then get back to work. Ido want to say one thing about the
fourth. So somebody comes up andshows me a video and they say,
look how incredible this looks. It'sthe city of Los Angeles on the fourth
of July, and it's an aerialshot. I think Channel seven had it,
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to be honest with you, Andit's this aerial shot and right there
were fireworks going off everywhere in thesky. Yeah, I saw that.
I saw that, and I meanlike every every like mile and a half
there was an explosion of fireworks.But I mean the picture was breathtaking.
And the guy says, what doyou think of this? I said,
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well, if memory serves correct,I think ninety five percent of those people
are shooting off those fireworks illegally.It could be you know, they showed
that during the Dodger game. Theytook a video shot when it got dark
and they were showing the city ofLa and you could see the different pockets
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of La where the fireworks are goingoff, and it was you thought it
was fake because it was so manyof them were going off. But you're
right. I agree with you.I think would you say seventy five percent,
you say ninety percent? Would yousay I said about ninety or illegal?
Ninety percent? Yeah, I wouldsay the same thing. Ninety percent
were definitely illegal. I mean,you can't be shooting those off in your
front yard unless I forgotten something aboutliving in La. Right, don't they
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warn you to do that, notto do it? Don't do it?
You know, safety hazard, there'sfires everywhere, and yeah, people still
do it. I mean the factthat the fourth fell on Thursday and then
people had a long weekend. Fireworksis still going off in our neighborhood,
and you know, yesterday people werestill shooting them off. I guess getting
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rid of the last remnants of thefireworks that they bought for the fourth.
But yeah, they were still goingoff on Saturday and Sunday. And as
a man to the point where like, okay, now, if somebody wanted
to do some crime, they couldkind of mask it with the fireworks and
nobody would think it was a gunor anything. See now that that is
a very criminal mind. That isthe mind of a criminal. Because if
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you're a criminal and you thought thatway, maybe you could pull it off.
Yeah you think you got to thinklike a criminal to catch a criminal.
Well, there you go, thereyou go. Never really crossed my
mind. But okay, uh soall right Dodgers. Uh, well they're
headed to the East coast today.Wrap things up with Milwaukee yesterday. But
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it's amazing six All Stars six Now, I could make the argument maybe there
should have been seven. Maybe GavinStone should have made the All Star team.
Uh, but it was Tyler Glassnew. Gavin Stone has a better record,
but I think glass Now it doesif he doesn't lead to majors and
strikeouts, he's right there. Andmaybe that was the difference because Gavin Stone
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has Look, he's been the Dodgersbest picture. I'm not saying Tyler Glasnew
hasn't been, but Gavin Stone hasbeen the best picture on the Dodgers.
And I think leading up to theselast well last two starts for glass Now,
he's really been the guy. Soif you look at and and and
Gavin Stone. I think his iskind of a result of not people not
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knowing who he is really and thenjust kind of figuring him out, whereas
Glass now I think has been known. He signed the big offseason contract,
he became the Dodgers' ace, youknow, for the first half of the
season. Yes, he struggled inthe last couple of starts, but I
think for the most part, peoplelooked at the Dodgers, say who's the
ace. It's Tyler Glassna, he'sbeen the stopper. He's been the ace,
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and when you go needed to goget a win, he's been that
guy. So his name has beenout there longer, and frankly, yeah,
if you had to say who's theace, it would beat Tyler Glass.
Now. So I think he's welldeserved to be on the All Star
team. But yeah, sometimes it'sharder when you don't have that name to
really break in and go, yeah, he's definitely an All Star, especially
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if you have somebody else on theteam that's in your position, that's pitching,
that is actually going to be anAll Star. Yeah, so Gavin
Stone is left off. But theone thing I think Dodger fans are happy
about is Tiaskar hernandis made the team? Yes, well deserved. He wanted
to be there. He wanted tobe there and he earned that right.
Yeah, and now he said,you know something, throw me in that
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home run derby. I'm ready tobe in there. Why not give me
a shot? I want to meanthe home run derby where most guys don't
want to, of course because theythink it'll screw up their swing or mess
with him mentally. He said,put me in a home run derby.
Oh, I'm ready knocked the ballin the park. And when you have
guys that don't want to do it, then why wouldn't you let him be?
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Is it me? Or is itlike Taskar is one of those guys
even if you told him, heythis could you know it's been a history.
There's been fifty percent of the guythat entered the home run derby they
struggled the second half of the year. Or there's a theory that it may
mess up your swing. Taskar isone of those guys. Is like it
wouldn't matter to him one way oranother. It's like, I'll do it.
It's not gonna mess up my swing. And if it does, have
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nothing to do with the home runderby. I'm you know, I'm just
gonna be me. And that's Ithink what he's so appealing about him is
that he's real. I think that'swhy the guy in the clubhouse love him.
But he's as just real as itcomes, and and he's like,
hey, I'll do it. Andyou know what, he's the type of
guy that would go out and winit too. You just you wouldn't be
surprised if he went out and justwent off and won it, kind of
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like Jack Peterson did that one yearwhen he went toe to toe with who
would he go toe to toe with? Blad Garrell Junior? I believe it
was. They went toe to toe, went the extra bats and and Jack
went off. It's like, youwouldn't be surprised. You weren't surprised when
he did it. And the samething with ta Oskar. He got into
the derby and and just all ofa sudden went off and start killing it.
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He'd be like, yeah, that'sTaskar. He does that. I
think it'd be great. I hopehe gets in at him. I hope
they'll let him go. It'll befun for him. And he just really
enjoys the game. I mean,that's that's what's happening here this year with
the Dodgers. Give him the struggleshe had last year in Seattle, this
year, he's enjoying the game again. He's having fun. Yeah, he's
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having looks like he's having fun.He's got he's not a good place,
it feels, you know. Andthat's so much of it, Fred is
when you're when you're unhappy at aplace, or the place is poorly run,
or it's not a good organization,and you're just miserable, you don't
like your teammates, whatever it maybe, it affects everything that you do.
And you know, we've heard thisfrom everybody that comes to the Dodgers'
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organization, how well run it is, how much the clubhouse is a friendly
place, and you got to creditDave Robbers for creating that environment down there.
But guys come here and they're happy. They enjoy playing baseball again.
Even guys that you think maybe inset the tail in or or they've had
some miserable years, they come tothe Dodgers and it's like something happens where
they feel like I'm a kid again. I love playing this game again,
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and taoskar is no different. Quickshout out to pardon me. Justin Roblinsky,
the rookie started yesterday, gave upto to run homers. But aside
from that first outing, his parentswere there. It was great to see
the shots of them. He recordeda strike out of my mom's gonna jump
off the off. The facade wasso happy. What a great feeling,
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you know, And it doesn't matterif you have kids, and when they
were little, you would drive themaround to all of the games and the
practices, and then you'd go watchthem right and they'd come home and tell
you about it. And when youdo that, boy or girl, whatever
sport, you really become invested.But here's the thing. Even a guy
that makes his Major league debut tohis family, that's that little kid.
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That's the little kid they used tosee in t ball or ayso soccer or
high school. That's that little kid. So when you see the parents there,
that's their little boy or it couldbe their little girl. And that's
why it means so much to them. You know, when they take the
shot to the family sitting in thecrowd and mom and dad, you know,
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pump their fist or clap or oneof them starts crying their journey the
parent's journey has been just like thekid's journey. Yeah, they've been on
that journey all along, and itmeans so much to see your kids succeed.
So I just thought that was terrificyesterday. Yeah, and you you
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it is you really, it reallyis. And I could. I can
even you feel it as as aas a player when you're out in the
field too, I could. Ican remember, you know, my mom
going to every single game when Iwas a kid, driving me to practice,
doing all those things. And thenwhen I got older and did make
it, and she would come tothe games and she was just as invested
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as she was when I was tenyears old. But I remember those things
and remembered how the sacrifices that yourparents make. So you're right, And
the hard part, Fred is whenyou're when you do get older and things
do get more real and you becomean adult and they can attack you any
which way. Fans nowadays, morethan ever, are ruthless. And I
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always worried where I put my momor where I put my family in the
stands, because there was always gonnabe people around that set some stuff and
didn't care who what family, evenif they knew the family section was here.
There was always those people and thefans that was just say degrading stuff
or bad stuff in front of familymembers, and it was just it could
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get so ugly. And I'm sureyou've heard a lot of stories of a
lot of guys wouldn't let their familiesgo to games in certain places just because
of that reason alone, because theywould have to hear the certain things in
the stands. But it was greatto see him yesterday. And yeah,
he gave up to two two runhome runs, but for the most part,
the kid, he's got some reallygood stuff. I mean, you
know, I think he'll find outreal quickly, which he did yesterday.
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Is when you when you make onemistake to major league hitters, and when
you make one mistake to a superstarlike Kristin Yelich, you made the mistake
and he's gonna he's gonna make youpay. He's gonna make you pay.
You could say, oh, itwas only one, Well that's all it
takes to superstar and to a majorleague hitter. And he made a couple
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of mistakes because otherwise I thought hepitched really well, I thought he's great
stuff, and even you know Mookiein the box. Yes, they're talking
about how difficult it is with aguy that you know he can change speeds
like he did going from throwing youknow, a ninety three mile an hour
fastball and then get some giddea upon it and get to ninety eight ninety
nine. That's that's a dramatic differenceand is very It's gonna work in his
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favor as he goes on and learnshow to pitch more. But again,
as a young guy making one mistake, you can get away with that in
double A, triple A, butBajor League Baseball, one mistake, I
don't care if it's two strikes onthe guy. A guy like Chris and
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Well, I'll say this, Lebronsaid, thank you. Look at you
smile. Rodney wonder what's behind?Ron said, thank you, thank you,
and we'll get to that. Ohyeah, come on, feel it.
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It's a July summer feeling. Rodneypet Fred Rogan on a Monday.
I hope you had a great,great holiday weekend, you know, Freddy,
I love I don't, I don't. I can't remember when the fourth
fell on like a Thursday, whereit made it such a long weekend,
because obviously, if you're at aplace where they give you the fourth off,
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it's more likely you're not going toget you know, I have to
go back into work on Friday,as we we didn't work on Friday,
so it was a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday weekend. And I
don't remember last time, but man, that was I didn't know what to
do with myself with that many daysoff, really, yeah, just hanging
out, Yeah, hanging out solike I should be doing something. I
was doing a whole lot of nothing. You know what's interesting about that?
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If you do what we do,all right, what you and I do,
and you've done this the majority ofyour life, I mean you've been
in entertainment, you've done this typeof thing. Obviously Holly has as well.
And I've done this since I waseighteen years old. When you do
this, yeah, when you geta day off, you're surprised because this
goes all the time. This goesevery day, you know, and in
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TV news there are no days offbecause it happens every single day. And
our show happens Monday through Friday,and sometimes we're on shorter periods of time
because of the Dodgers and stuff,but we work Monday through Friday. And
we also are people that have avery unique situation in our job. Anybody
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can show up for work ten minuteslate, you know, bad traffic,
right, Yeah, you know,I got out of the house late.
One of my kids were sick.Yeah, late, doctor's pointing around a
little later. I couldn't get there, Jobby, like whatever you said.
So I'm twenty five minutes late,right, and you know, but well,
hey, you know, try tobe here on time. But you
know, get in there and startwith us. You've got to be on
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time, yeah, right, youhave to be on time doing what we
do. There's no wiggle room.Can't show up six minutes flight, no
show has already started, right,and doing television news, you never can
be late. You've got to beon time. These are just a few
of the jobs where you If you'rea doctor and the surgery starts at seven
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am, you get started at sevento ten no harm, no foul.
Yeah, right, but you seeall the time, right, doctor,
you're there on time. But thedoctor comes strolling in. Hey, good
to see. I'll get with youin a minute. Let me get settled
in here, Let me get settled, get a cup of coffee, whatever
I'm gonna do, and then we'regoing to work with us. You got
to be on time all the time. There's no wiggle room for us.
And that's why when we have daysoff, you don't know what to do.
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You know what, oftentimes I doask my wife what you want me
to do? Anything? What doyou need done? You want to get
that? Say what? Get outof my face? Get out of my
hair? Right here? Why areyou here at the work? That's the
other side of it, right,I got that like five times over the
weekend. Aren't you on the air? I'm you supposed to be on the
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air. You have the show today? Right? Yeah? They turn around.
You're sitting on the couch, right, You're just sitting there. You
know, you're watching TV, you'rereading something on a table. You're sitting
there and you're doing this. I'llget that. What do you need,
I'll take care of it. Sure, I'll go over there. You want
me to go get something for youto a point where they go, yeah,
just go. But the problem iswhen you go, you know what
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they say, You're never here.You're never here, You're never here,
never round right when I need something, You're not here. Okay, I'm
here. Can you just go somewhere? Please? You just go? What
are you doing here? Oh?God? That reminds me like when I
was playing. Man, it getto be like this time of year right
now, because it would be likea week or two away from training camp,
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and you know, during the season, it would be God, you're
not available for us, because youknow, even even when you know she
would come and visit and hang outwith the kids, would come to see
me. If I'm playing in Phillyor or playing in Detroit or Carolina,
wherever I was, it would belike, you know, you're so much
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time is spent getting ready and playing, so you're you're physically and emotionally you're
not You're you're unavailable. So whenthe all season comes, you better be
right here. You're here's the kidsgo, do this, take them to
the park. You did it.But it gets to be July. It
would get to be July it's likein the time for training camp, any
time for you to get out ofhere. She would get so fed up
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with me. It's like, God, you gotta go, you just gotta
go, get out, Get outof here. I need a break from
you. Go to training camp,please, Like they don't want us around
too much. No, wells,right when you can't be there, they
want you. Yeah, when youcan be there, you're annoying them.
You're annoying them. Yeah, you'redriving them crazy. Yeah, get out
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of here. Get that you're drivingme crazy. Yeah. In there's something
you're supposed to be doing right now, go right. But it's like this,
good morning? Do you have tobe here now? I mean I
just said good morning. I'm gladto know I'm not the only one.
I don't think you and I arethe only ones period. All right,
Well, let's talk about lebron.He took three million less that he could
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have made. And you could makethe point, well, three million to
him is like three cents, itdoesn't matter. Three million dollars. That's
a lot of money. And hetook three million less so the Lakers could
stay under that that second apron andI have to tell you he didn't have
to do it. I'm not sureI thought he would do it, but
he did it. He did itto the for the organization. He did
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it so they could hopefully improve thatroster. But he did it. And
I think you got to give itto him because he did do it.
Yeah, I think you do.And and our good friend Dan Woyk's going
to come in and he can probablyexplain it a little bit better than I
can. But you know, asthings progress and the way the NBA is
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and it's progressing, as as areall sports, there's that first apron,
second apron, and get the detailsabout that. Like I said, Dan
will explain it. But it's abig deal to be underneath that second apron.
It allows you to do so manydifferent things that you would not be
able to do if you exceeded thatsecond apron. And so whether that number
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was three million, one million,five million, I think it was important
for the Lakers to be under that. And you know, short of it
being a dramatic number like okay,well we need to take you it needs
to take a forty million dollar haircutto get us under the second you know,
short of that, I think hewas going to do that where.
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You know, I think if itwas into single digits, even if it
was like seven million, he neededto take a cut to get him under
the second apron. I think hewould have did it. I think he
realizes that, you know, firstof all, it's gonna be uphill battle
for us to contend anyway. Andif I don't do this and we can't
sign anybody else that we can't bringin another free agent, then we got
no chance. We got no chance. So yeah, it was a good
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move on his part. Yeah,and I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say
this, and you might think Iwould, but I'm not going to.
Uh, there would be a trainof thought, well, you know what,
he did it because he's selfish,because the only thing he could do
to even have a shot was doingthis. I don't look at it that
way. I look at it likehe understands the situation. Yes, he
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wants to win, but I don'teven know in this scenario if it was
as much about him as it wasabout the organization and what he thought was
best for the organization. And Ithink that's why he did it. He
knows for the Lakers this was bad, so he did it. Now I
commend him. I think it's greathe did it. Yeah, I do
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too. And there there are peopleout there that wouldn't wouldn't have done that,
you know, there are people outthere that like, I'm getting mine
and the organization put themselves in thissituation, not me, So I,
you know, why should I haveto take a cut. And again,
he's certainly you know, and I'mnot in the every day of his finances
or anything like that, but hecertainly, you know, as we what
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we hear, he certainly can affordto take a three million dollar haircut.
He'll make that up in a differentway if he just has, you know,
go and sign some autographs, youcan make that up. But but
yeah, I think you're right.I think he looked at it as and
the Lakers came to him and I'msure and said, you know, we
need we need help. Can youdo this for us? And he said
absolutely, let's let's do it.If that's going to help us, then
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I'm willing to do it. ClassyAnd and I'm the first one to say
when something isn't that was classy.That was a solid move. As for
let's take a couple of minutes andtalk about Bronnie and his summer league debut
and all the focus of surrounding Bronni. Here's the thing we should all stop
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that. We should stop doing that. We just should stop because he's a
kid that probably is a little aheadof his timeline for whatever reason, his
dad played in the NBA. Lakerstook him. He's getting paid. That's
great, but come on, youcannot scrutinize every move he makes. You
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cannot do that. Well, Ihad four points in a summer league debut
means absolutely nothing. Even lebron said, that means absolutely nothing. Let him
learn, let him see if hecan do it, let him become a
player. But we cannot scrutinize everythinghe does. We can't because it's just
so unfair to him. And he'snot going to be a contributor this year.
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Let him learn. That's what Ihave to say about that. And
that's all you can say. Imean, look, do we want to
go back to the Lakers winning theSummer League a few years back, Lonzo
Ball and the expectations and everything andthe hype that that brought with it.
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It means nothing right now. Imean, he has got a lot of
learning to do certainly didn't play theminutes that a lot of guys did in
college. He is in the NBAnow, and to expect something dramatic to
happen overnight, it's just not gonnahappen. It's not gonna happen. And
to your point, you know,the impact that he's going to have on
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the wins and losses for this teamthis year is not going to be what
people think, or you know,some people may expect it to be.
It's not going to be significant.His role is not going to be significant.
So just accept that. But youknow, spread there'll still be those
people. See why they wasted apick fifty five on him and Zee summer
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League he was you know, theymade two shots and he's already got a
knee issue, and oh my god, and why did they waste it?
And again I keep going back tothis, and a man double A did
the homework on it. Of allthe fifty fifth picks over the last ten
years, one saw significant minutes andit's still really in the NBA. The
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others are plan overseas G League,not even in the league. So to
say that that fifty fifth pick isgoing to be so instrumental just go do
your history and do your homework,because it's not now we're hoping that Bronnie
developing into something and could be specialand could and make a difference in this
league. We hope. But let'sget off the they wasted fifty fifth pick
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on Ronnie James because at that pickit's still a shot in the dark and
it could be a crapshoot. Andnow the upside to him, I still
believe is very high. I stilldon't think we've seen the best of him.
I think he can grow. Ireally do. When you have that
kind of athletic ability, you know, anything could happen. And he is
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as good an athlete when he stepson the court. He's as good an
athlete as anybody on the court.Now, there's some things that he needs
to refine and tune up and getbetter at, but just pure athletic ability.
And most coaches will tell you,give me that athlete where I can
mold and I can teach and Ican groom and I can help him grow.
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I'll take that over a guy that'sgot limitations and he can only shoot,
and then what else can he do? So yeah, just wait,
just be patient. I mean that'snot scrutinized the guy too much. If
any other team had picked him besidesthe Lakers, think about this for a
second. If Orlando picked him,I don't know whoever, Charlotte picked him,
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somebody picked him, it wouldn't bethat big of a deal. He'd
be a kid taken in the secondround with Lebron jameson and I'll see what
he does. Yeah, but itwould have been an hype. It would
have been an initial hype, butit would have died out quick, yeah
quick now. But because it wasthe Lakers and all the conversation a couple
of years back about Lebron wanting toplay with us, that's what this is
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about. That's why it is theway it is. You know, Bronni
didn't play well at USC, buthe recovered from a heart attack. Yeah,
you know, he scored four pointsa game. No, that kid
doesn't get picked in the NBA aftera year like that, But he did
because he's brought to James. ButI would suggest if he went anywhere else,
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anywhere, anybody wanted to roll thedice take a shot on him.
I don't think it would be thekind of scrutiny he may face by coming
here now now, and he willcontinue to face it, you know,
and everybody's going to lead up tothat moment whatever it is that they either
bring him up or he's on theroster and he's on the bench, and
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then there's that moment where he andlebron A on the court at the same
time. That is going to bewhat everybody's gonna be waiting for, you
know, regardless of the kind ofseason the Lakers have, and it will
be a moment. It will bea magical moment. But I think that
up until then, it will bea lot of scrutiny. It'll be more
watched G League Summer League games thanever before, just like it was with
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the draft, the most coveted secondround pick there ever was in the draft.
It'll be like that for the Bronniwatching the G League or the Bronnie
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Lana del Ray. All right,and now from the court to the court
Room with Jacob m Ronnie. AllRight, our weekly chat with our friend
Jacob and Ronnie. Jacob, Happybelated fourth, How are you? Thank
you? Happy belated for It's goodto be getting on with you guys on
a Monday rather than our usual Tuesday. Yeah. Why is that? Well,
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it seems like you know, programmingwants being on Monday, So i'm
here. Oh that's right. Weleave an hour tomorrow. Oh yeah,
George shows the rest of the week. Why the Dodger's on the road,
Freddie, Yeah, that's right.Well, good Jacob, We're glad you're
on today. Well, speaking ofthe fourth Jacob, sorry, Freddie cut
you off. Go ahead, Youstay a busy man. We talk about
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you being busy on the phone allthe time. Man, How was this
fourth is it? Is it differentthan the normal or usually the fourth of
July because we warned our listeners allthe time to be careful on the roads.
How is it at your office?Yes, you know, the fourth
as a whole usually is not veryvery crazy. But the Monday's right after
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a holiday like that are because usually, you know, people are always waiting
until they go back to work inorder to call in. You know,
people who haven't dealt with us inthe past usually like to wait. Our
people you know, who have beenwith us or are returning clients always call
us the moment a problem occurs.But Mondays are very busy, and this
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Monday, you know, has beenno different. Unfortunately, there's been a
lot of people, you know whoneed our guidance and our consultation, Jacob,
fireworks accidents or no, you know, unfortunately, we we have dealt
with those before. Actually, Ispoke to a family today where, you
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know, they were the neighbor ofsomebody who was you know, doing fireworks,
and the fireworks ended up coming intotheir house and basically, unfortunately,
unfortunately, you know, put theirwhole backyard on fire. So, you
know, as much as you know, we keep seeing these pictures and these
videos about how dangerous it is,it does not deter you know, does
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not deter people from doing it,but doing it in a safe manner and
doesn't fail. Every single year weget some of the oddest type of damages.
Think, you know, a lotof times you hope that it's not
to a person, but you geta lot of property that is damaged because
of fireworks. Wow. Wow,yeah, people, Why is it?
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It feels like it's gotten even worsethan it's been in the best with ford
Fred earlier. It's like the factthat for the Fourth landed on Thursday,
give people the full weekend to reallycelebrate the Fourth, and I was here
in fireworks both Saturday and Sunday andwatching them go off all weekend long,
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even after the fourth, Diacob.It's just people taking liberties now. Yeah,
And I got to tell you,I mean, the fireworks are everywhere,
and it's interesting because, you know, on for the July Thursday night,
I went to the Rose Bowl towatch LAFC versus Galaxy. What an
amazing, exciting game. And rightafter the game, you know, there
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was fireworks at the Rose Bowl.But then when we came out into the
parking lot, everybody was doing theirown fireworks and it was just so dangerous
because you're, you know, inthe middle of the cards. People are,
you know, doing this fireworks.Security coming from the left, coming
from the right. I mean,I know it's fun and everything, but
you know, it just seems likeevery year it becomes bigger and bigger,
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and people are trying to do moreand more of it. Everyone tries to
do it, you know, astep higher, and everybody wants to do
something crazier. So you know,it's fine as long as they're safe.
But unfortunately, you know, thesefireworks, especially the bootleg things that people
are buying, and not always safe. Hey, Jake, let's talk some
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like since you are a proud partner, Lebron took less to say to stay
under the second apron. I actuallythought that was a very generous gesture on
his part. I did not thinkit was selfish so that they could build
a better team around him. Iactually think he just wanted to help the
organization. What do you think,listen, I mean, I'm sure he's
trying to help the organization. Imean, this could be his last contract.
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He's got a one plus one.There's not even a guarantee that he'll
maybe play two. You know,this year is big for him, and
you know, the sad thing aboutit is is that no matter who they
went after, they came up emptyand obviously, as Laker fans best,
frustrating, but we know the frontoffice is trying to do everything they can.
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It has not been a very fruitfulfree agency for us. But I'm
glad that Lebron took a couple ofmillion less still allow them to stay under,
you know, under the second apronof being the first, which still
allows them to make some moves andhopefully, you know, I mean there's
still traits to be made. There'sstill you know, guys out there that
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you know can come in and bea role player, but no big splashes,
and I don't think any of usreally thought they were going to be
big splashes, and even the guyslike Clay Thompson or DeMar DeRozan. You
know, I was really excited aboutClay. I was, you know,
texting back and forth trying to figureout what, you know, Michael's influence,
his dad's influence was going to beon it. But obviously, you
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know, Clay didn't want to bein La He thought it was too much
like San Francisco and decided to goto Dallas. I know a lot of
people thought that's a better fit forhim anyways, but as a selfish Laker
fan, I would have liked themto be here. But you know,
there's still there's still trades to memade. You know, there's still players
that may pop up, but youknow, we'll see, we'll see,
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yeah, and Jacob. You know, a lot of times fans don't really
understand that it's not always just aseasy go get this guy, go get
that guy to work for you.And with the way the salary cap is
and with the first and second apronthe way it is now, you can't
just go sign someone. You know, somebody say, oh, we should
have got Paul George, Well,Paul George signed for two hundred and twenty
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something million dollars and a four yearLakers don't have that to be able to
offer someone like that. So tome sometimes I'll tell you it's frustrating to
me that. Let you know,some of the fans that take just think
that they can just go sign anybodylike you mentioned Clay Well. If Clay
is getting offered more money in anotheryear from another team, as an individual,
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you're going to take that. So, you know, I think Rode
as you just said it, Ithink there's two points I want to make
about that. Number One, bothClay and DeRozan got three year contracts.
Yeah, where we're sitting, didwe really want to pay either of them
three years and have to be dealingwith those salaries for three years? I
would say the answer to that is, now, from the other side of
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it, I think you understand whatnew salary cap that Rob keeps saying,
Rob Palnka keeps saying is more difficult. This is the first time that a
sixth team trade was facilitated. Thatmeans all those people that even did you
know, make a you know,make a sign and trade needed the help
of another team. All six teamshad to be involved with Clay and a
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bunch of other people just to beable to make the numbers work. So
it's obvious that the NBA is makingit much much more difficult for teams to
just go out there and just signanybody they want, which is even more
reason to say that, you know, you got to start rebuilding and you
got to stay, you know,bringing people like Daltin Connects and people like
that and hopefully build your future.And obviously the most exciting thing that's occurred
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so far in the summer is Daltinconnect falling to us, and I'm excited
to see him contribute because you know, the guy's twenty three and he can
step in immediately and contribute. SoI am excited to see him play for
Jacobarrow Listener's love when you you offerthose some advice. And I was just
wondering a hit and run accident that'shorrible to be involved in. But are
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things different if you're involved in that? Yeah, you know they're terrible.
Fred. You know, when someone'sinvolved in a hit and run, there's
a number of things they have tothink about. Number One, when somebody
hits you and runs, you should, in a safe manner, try to
at least get the license plate,get a picture or something, because that's
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the only way after you make apolice report, the police can hopefully track
them down. The other problem ismost of these cars that are doing hit
and runs don't have insurance. Soyou know, I talk often about encouraging
our listeners to go out there andbuy uninsured motorists add that to their insurance
policy. But something that's crazy isthat even if you have an insured motorists
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and you get hit by somebody asa hit and run, unless you can
track them down and actually have informationthat you could put on a police report
or some insurance companies are not honoringthe uninsured motorists because they say you have
not identified who hits you and ran, which is crazy to me. If
I can identify who hit me andran, what do I need you for?
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So it is important as a listenerto understand that even if you're involved
in a hit and run, youdefinitely need to go out there and file
the police report, give the descriptionof the car that hits you. Hopefully,
if you get the license plate oreven a couple of numbers, that
is needed before your own insurance policyeven if you have uninsured motorist kicks in
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and protect you and pays for yourdamages. All right, great advice as
always, Jacob, thanks for jumpingon today, My pleasure. Guys.
Take care all right, our buddyJacob and Ronnie. As we continue,
Dan White, you will join us. He's a team Usay's workout and practice.
He'll join us from there. Hetalked to Lebron yesterday about giving some
money back, and he's also beenkeeping an eye on Brownnie