September 11, 2025 • 41 mins
Blake Snell continued the run of dominance of Dodgers starting pitching last night as they shutout Colorado 9-0. Is this team finally turning into what many fans thought they would be? Kelly Stafford said that trade rumors surrounding her husband in the offseason caused their kids to be bullied.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, here we go, Fred Rogan, Rodney Pete on
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Speaker 2 (00:38):
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Speaker 1 (00:45):
Absolutely, we look forward to seeing you on Monday. It'll
be a great time. And you can just settle in
there and hang around for Monday night football if you
so choose. But it is up to you, and we
want to see everybody down there now. Last night, the
Dodgers put it on Colorado. You gotta beat the teams
you're supposed to beat. So when that regard mission accomplished,
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Blake Snell looked great and the offense was firing on
all cylinders. So the question becomes again, are these the
real Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Rodney, Oh, I think they're showing up. Fred. I think
they're showing up like the real Slim Shady, absolutely, and
showing up at the right time. The right guys are
getting hot. I told you my boy, Snell Zilla, he's
gonna find himself. He's healthy now, Boy, he looked unhittable.
We talked about it yesterday about the Dodgers World Series
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and him getting pulled in that game. When he was
dominating the Dodgers, it looked the same way where he
dominated the Colorado Rockies. Now, I know it's the Rockies,
and everybody want to say it's the Rockies. Got the
worst team in baseball, and ah blah blah, blah blah.
You still gotta pitch, you still gotta hit your spots,
you still gotta get guys out. And he did it
in spectacular fashion last night. I thought he was on
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and probably one of the best he's had this season. Fred.
So going into October, Man, they're they're getting right. Mookie
Betts remains on fire. We love to see that. And
our man tail our man tail. I think he's healthy again.
I think he's feeling it. I think he heard all
year long how he was not the same guy and
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what happened to him, and they need to replace him,
they need to bench him, and all that kind of stuff.
And he's back smiling again. I love it. I love it,
and and that, uh, and then the others too. Andy
Paes is hitting the ball again, and it's good to
see Tommy Evans back in there. Max Months. He's gonna
get it going, trust me, he's gonna get it going
here soon. So I think this is a team right
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now as teams are are watching it, and we're gonna
get a lot and we're gonna know a lot in
this San Francisco series though, we're gonna really find out,
you know, are they really back? But I feel it's
going in the right direction. Fred, Okay, a couple of things.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
First, valid point, you know, don't don't just just missed
the fact they played Colorado. Yeah, as a matter of fact,
maybe really appreciate it. Why because the Dodgers have been
awful against bad teams. So this is a bit of
a difference here. The Dodgers have been awful against bad teams.
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That has been their downfall. So now at least they're
beating bad teams. The Padres lost again. They must be
apoplectic down there. They you know, how frustrating for them.
They're so close they can touch them, and with every
step they get further away. So now the Dodgers are
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three games up. Offensively, Mookie Betts is hitting at the
right time. Baseball is a long year. It's a novel,
not a short story. And he's hitting when he needs
to hit. Okay, that's good. Tayo Hernandez seems to be
catching fire. Now, that's good. The starting pitching, and that's
how the team was built. It was constructed with starting pitching.
(04:02):
Given what happened last year and everybody got hurt, they
went out and got as many good starting pitchers as
they could because I understand what it takes in the playoffs.
Now they're healthy, now you see. You know, it's funny,
and we'll see how this all plays out. You know,
right now they are going to be starting in that
wild card round at best of three. I don't like
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that very much. I don't think they can catch the Phillies.
You don't think so, I don't know. I think so
they play them. They go head to head too, I know,
we'll see. Right now, I'm thinking they're going to start
in the wildcard. But last year, if you remember the playoffs,
you had pitchers from the bullpen starting games. There were
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bullpen games, so all you figured is you needed starting pitchers,
so they went and got them. Problem was they didn't hit. Yeah,
some bullpen hiccups, but I really think the problem has
been they haven't hit. I know the bullpen has given
up some games, but now the starters seem to be
where they're at. Hitting is starting to come around. Tommy
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edmund was back in the lineup. You see what they're
supposed to be. Max Munsey is in the lineup. You
get the sense of what they are. And they got
Colorado at the right time. Let's put it like that,
is they've gotten healthier. They got Colorado at the right time.
So there are three games up. Everybody's got to be
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feeling great as you ride the rollercoaster to the postseason.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
So that in that scenario in your philosophy, that there
are four games behind the Phillies right now, right for
that second second seed in the International League, there're three
games up on San Diego by that rational, so there's
no way San Diego can catch the Dodgers, now, huh, No,
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just a difference of one game. If they were only
behind the Phillies three games, they got a chance. But
because there are four games behind the Phillies, they don't
have a chance. They still got what sixteen games, fifteen
games left? If they go in a heater, Fred, they
sweep the Giants and come on Phillies and they take
two out of three for them.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Phillies, You don't that be nice?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
They're still you don't think they still got a shot?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
That would be nice.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
And if that's the case, do you think San Diego's
got a shot to win the West? They don't.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Okay, I actually don't think San Diego has a shot
to win the West. I really think san Diego may
get jumped by the Giants.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Dodgers better play well, Yeah, san Diego may get jumped
by the Giants.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
It's getting very very interesting right now.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
But nonetheless, good couple of games here for the Dodgers.
Is this a concern? I don't know. Will Smith scratched
last night, swelling in the right hand. I'll say this, whatever,
I would not rush him at all. Let him get well,
they're fine back there. Let him get well, because you're really.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Gonna hear his bat. They're play flying back there right now.
I know the I know the young kid came up
and got a big hit last night. What are you saying?
They're fine back there?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
You know what? You need somebody serviceable at this point.
Play good defense, Play good defense, don't rush. Will Smith
play good defense.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
But he's there, any of their only catcher right now?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Yeah, so he better play good defense.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
They're flying back there, doesn't mean they're fine back there.
They need some depth. They don't have to bring up
another catcher. Well, here's the thing. You know the Dodgers,
you play multiple positions. So I think Kimmel'll get ready
back there now, Okay, okay, all right, put Micky roll
back there. You know what? Hey, hey, hey, hey, when
you let's let's talk about Miggey row real quick, all right?
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Has there been a more consistent Dodger, I mean, for
the entire season than Miggy Rowe Given the role that
he has played. He is not an everyday player. He
plays third base, shortstop, second base, and has been consistent.
He hit the ball more consistently than he's done, you know,
certainly last year, but better than most most guys in
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the starting A lot of that play every day. I've
been impressed by Miggie row He's he's he is. Definitely
I see why they Dodgers have him on the team because,
number one, he's versatile, he's a positive influence. He's a
leader in that clubhouse. But importantly, right now, he has
been He has been dependable in all aspect, offensively and defensive.
We knew that he could do defensively, but man, man,
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he is. He has played extremely well. You know, and
speaking of speaking of you know where where we go
catcher wise, I believe you know Alex Call actually played
catcher before so he could get behind the dish or
did he Yeah, he was a high school catcher, I believe. Yeah.
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Even Dave Roberts, I think, commented, if we are an emergency,
Alex Call could play catch.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I want to see Alex Paul catch.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Maybe they throw him back their a game just in case.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
You know me, let's get him in there, put him
in that'd be great. Hello. Yeah, Alex, Oh, it's been
seven years.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
You start getting your starting to night, get in there
darting to night. But it's been good, it's been good.
Their depth what do you think they do or what
do you think they should do with uh? And how
they should play Kim.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
He's got to get at bats at first. I think
you gotta get him at bats.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
What did Dave say after the game last night? Tails
improved defensively in right field, so they're going to keep
him there. So pie Has will play left ed middle,
play center. I don't know, let's play. Let's play Kim
at second base. Yeah, just get him some at bats,
maybe against right handed pictures. Put him in, let him go,
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let's see him in there.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I'd love to see him. Just let him play second
base for a good series and maybe yeah, maybe it
is the Giants that they let him play and just
get him at bats, at bats, at bats. He is
a guy that obviously on the basis he's going to
be a weapon that they can use and maybe they're thinking,
you know, a pinch runner and the late innings at
a key moment in the game. But I think if
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you keep getting him at bats, he is also can
be a weapon at the plate. He certainly is playing
pretty good defense, at least he was before he got hurt.
But I think he's to me, he's like he's an
X factor that I think you got to find a
way to get him in the game, maybe starting him
and letting him play second base. And if there's issues
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or whatever, Mickey Roe is always ready to go, so
but let him play. Let him play as much as
possible to ride out this rest of the season. I
agree with you one hundred percent. He's a game changer.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
He, to be honest with you, mm hmm, cannot take
your eyes off on when he's on the field because
anything could happen. First, defensively, he is a wizard. He's
magical playing defense. Now will probably commit seven errors, but
he is magical playing defense. He's fun to watch. He
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gets to the ball, he can make the plays. He
can certainly impact the game or change the game if
he's on base. We know that as well. And with
that speed, would it be awful if he butted a
couple of times and beat it out got on base, right,
I don't think it would. I think it would help,
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It would be fantastic. It just throws another element that
you've got to think about. When he comes to the plate.
You know, here's a kid, Oh we can get him
out and he's butting on you. And now the third
baseman's got to play in he can beat out a
lot of infield singles. So you know, when you look
at this team and you get you know, Tommy Edmonds
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back in center field, and you can move Piz to left,
which is, you know, is what Dave Roberts said. He's
gonna keep tailing right for now, but they can flip flop.
I think they can move Paz to right and Tail
can go to left. But now you've got Tommy Edmond
who needs to play the rest of the season at
center field, which they say that he's probably gonna do.
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That's a pretty good defensive lineup now again with Edmunds
roman center field, I think it helps Pahes. I think
that pressure was on Piez. Centerfield is obviously it's like shortstop.
You get all the plays you got to make the
place it's a different animal. So Tommy Edmonds being out
there and then you got Kim at second base, I
just it becomes now the team that we thought they
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were to start the season, how dangerous they can be
one through nine and not just hitting home runs but
getting on base. Now you're looking at Edmunds down at
the bottom, Kim at the bottom of the lineup and
Otani at the top.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Those guys getting on base for him, so he's not
coming up most of the time with nobody on base.
This this is a this is something that could be
scary for these team. And we'll see again. The proof's
going to be in the pudding as they play a
really good team in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah, and uh right, everything you said is true. I'm
just hoping that there is consistency here. Okay, they beat
up on Rocky pitching. Now let's see what they do
against the Giants, because that really is gonna be it again.
If they hit, they're gonna win. If they don't hit,
they're gonna lose. You go, well, of course that's the
way it is. No, not really. I mean, they'll lose
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one run games if they're not hitting. But if they're hitting,
they're gonna they're really gonna beat people. And that's how
the team was built. What you're seeing is what was built.
Now you still have to consider the bullpen. Kirby H's
pitch last night. You does it look like he's laboring
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a little bit, So it's not just me.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yeah, a little bit, little bit. And he's another guy
that puts a lot of emotion on his sleeves, and
and you can feel it when he's when he's not
as sharp. But yeah, it feels like he's working extra hard,
extra extra hard when he's out there right now.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, just to do the easy stuff, just to do
what he's supposed to do. It looks like he's working
extra hard so that, you know, down the road, decisions
will have to be made about who's on the playoff
roster and who's going to be on that pitching staff.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I mean if he wasn't on there, it'd be an
enormous slap in the face to him.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
One of the best closers in the game last year.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, And you know, sometimes momentum affects everybody. You know,
when things are going bad, things tend to go bad
for others. And when things start to go good, then
you start to get your confidence back again. So maybe
that can happen as the Dodgers feel they're starting to
get healthy and getting more confident right now, and maybe
that rolls over to uh to Kirby Eights and even
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Tanner Scott.
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Speaker 1 (16:19):
Okay, So we know kids can be cruel, right, Well,
for that matter, adults can be cruel too, But we
know kids can be cruel. I want to tell you
a story. Tell me what you think of this, Rodney, Right, So,
there was talk that Matthew Stafford would not be with
the Rams this year. If you remember correctly, you know
he was talking to the Raiders, maybe the Giants. In
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the end, he ended up exactly where he was supposed
to be with the Rams, and you wonder, you know,
when word leaks out about talks like that, it's all posturing,
it's all positioning, just trying to let everybody know and
maybe put more pressure on the Rams. I don't think
he was going anywhere. I think he was going to
be right here and this is where he should be
playing for Sean McVay. But anyway, when that was rumors
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were circulating that he might leave. Kelly Stafford said her
kids were being bullied at school because of the trade rumors.
She said other kids were telling the Stafford's children they
were going to have to move, but they were going
to have to move because of Kelly. When there was
speculation of Matthew getting traded this past year, there was
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a headline that his wife was the problem, and that
was the reason the kids at school were picking on them,
being like, you're going to have to move because your
mom's an issue, she's too loud and whatever. The Stafford's
daughter did come home and asked Kelly if they had
to move because the Rams don't like you. Now she
just told that story on a podcast. What do you
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think of that story?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I don't think I've ever heard anyone suggest a guy
was going to be traded because the organization didn't like
his wife.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
First, Oh, you've never been alive very long. What are
you talking about.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
There's always wait a minute, tell me a player that's
been traded because the organization traded because but it wasn't
the case, Fredd.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
You just said it's rumors. It's rumors, and we have
social media like no other. No, she said. Her kids
asked her that, no, I know that, Fred. It's rumors though,
that's what people were telling the kids. Oh, it's because
your wife. No one said the Rams are going to trade,
or no one from any organization said, oh, we're thinking
about trading because of his wife. This is just people speculating.
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People say, oh that the people that don't like her
may have been out there saying it, and then the
kids heard their parents say it because they maybe didn't
like Kelly. It happens all the time if you've got
an outspoken spouse, father, whomever. We see it all the time.
You know, Brenda Warner. Back in the day, Kurt Warner's
wife was was always out there and very outspoken, and
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there were a lot of things said about her. You know,
it was the Halliburton's dad. I mean, it goes on
and on, Kevin Durant, it's moll. Family members get it
as well, and people often speculate, well, that's the reason
they need to get rid of them. So it's not
out of the ordinary, but it's unfortunate that it has
to trickle down through the kids. Yeah, that is you've
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not heard that before ever, that family members or people
talk and speculate those because his brother or his mother
or his dad is too involved and so and so
it is too involved, so we got to get rid
of them. It never comes from the team, never comes
from the team. It's always some fan that wants to
thinks they're there in to know.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
And that's my point, and that's the point here. I
don't think a team has ever traded someone, but may
you may know. You probably do know far more about
this than I do. I don't think a team has
ever traded someone because of their family member. Their family
member might be an annoyance to the team, but if
somebody is good, I don't think they get traded because
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of a family member. Can you ever remember that happening?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
No? No, not once, not once. So yeah, I don't.
I don't. I've never heard of a team specifically trading
someone because of a family member.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
No.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
That's why when I read this, and that's why I
started by saying kids are cruel, I thought.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
That's that's that's that's the that's the norm nowadays. You know, kids,
there's so many stories of guys, you know, coming home
or or they play up a bad game and kids
at school tease the kids, the kids that the players
kids or their wife is at the grocery store and
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someone makes comments to the wife because someone played a
bad game. That that is that's happened since forty years
ago and up until this day. You know, people are
cruel out there, and then it trickles down to the kids.
The kids here the parents talking about it, and then oh,
we go to school with the stafford so ooh, I'm
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gonna say it to him when I get to school,
and kids are cruel, And so it happens. It happens
on a regular basis.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
You know, if you if you take many many years ago,
not everybody had a platform. Now Everybody has whatever platform
they want. Honestly, there's social media, you could podcast, everybody
could have a microphone. Everybody is basically a writer. And
you know, I guess you have to understand that if
you enter that fray, if you get into that arena,
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if you give it a shot. As my former boss
told me many years ago, fly above the clouds, sometimes
you get hit with lightning. It just happens. You can now,
you can't always avoid the lightning, and that obviously you know.
And Kelly Stafford's free to do whatever she wants. The
past is the past. But you fly above the clouds,
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you are going to get hit once in a while.
And I think that's that's what happened here. There's no
way the Rams would ever trade Matthew Stafford away because
they were mad at Kelly, and they're probably not mad
at Kelly at all.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
No, why because he has a podcast? No, No, it's ridiculous.
It's ridiculous to even think of that notion. But again,
kids are kids are cruel, but they get it from
their parents. I'm sure that you know they overhear their
parents talking about it, or somebody has it in for
Matthew Stafford or Kelly or whatever, and it trickles down
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to the kids. So you know, it's just it's just unfortunate.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Back when you were playing, did you have any teammates
with family members that caused a commotion or a ruckus.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
No, not necessarily ruckus, but there were several. Every team
has has that uncle or that cousin or that dad
that is around all the time, and sometimes it depends
on the player how quickly a team will escort that
person off the premises or out of the building or
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don't allow men there. Barry Sanders dad was always around,
and he was very opinionated, and yet you know, nobody
would dare kick him off the sidelines or tell him
not to come to practice. So yeah, there was always,
there's always Every team has that Barry Sanders dad was opinionated.
You always be there, Yes, smoking a cigar he would do.
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He would do interviews after games. Yeah, yeah, they need
to give Barry the ball more and I don't know
what they were doing in the second half. He would
stay stuff like that, So yeah, yeah, it happens. It happens.
There's oftentimes the family members feel as entitled as the
actual player and feel they have just look at this
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past year and Halliburton's dad and how involved he was. Now,
if there's ever a team that said, man, we gotta
we gotta do something about we gotta nip this in
the bud. No, you know, they're like, we don't like it,
but what are we going to do?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
And if you're someone like that, a wife, a father,
a friend, whoever you may be, an uncle, and and
you're around and people know it and you're stirring it up,
are you really doing for Tyrese Haliburton?
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Is he really doing his son a favor? He thinks
he is. That's that's the thing he thinks he is.
And you don't think that Tyresee has had conversations with
his dad telling him to chill out. Hey dad, you
got chill out and blah blah blah. But it's you know,
but it's his dad. So yeah, he's gonna be who
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he is. He's gonna be who it is. Chris Paul's brothers,
I remember, you know, would come to games and the
Jokers brothers, right, You don't think that they've called some
controversy in Denver or at games they were oftentimes almost
getting in fights in the stands, you know, are they
gonna tell them not to come to games?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Well, the only person that could ask them not to
come to games would be the Joker.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Yeah, the only one that would go to Joker and say, hey,
your your brothers, can you can you can you encourage
them not to come to the games because they're they're
being a little too loud and a little too reckless. Yeah, yeah,
I can encourage them. I encourage him to go to uh,
go to Oklahoma City games. Okay, when you trade me there, you.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Mean you couldn't take the position, Yell, let me talk
to him. They are a little out of control. It
would be more Okay, I'll talk to him. I'll tell
him to go to the games in Oklahoma City because
that's where you're trading me. You wouldn't just have a conversation.
I mean, it would be somewhat apparent if somebody was
just really causing a scene.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, but you know, family's family, and
so I don't even I would wonder if Denru would
even say anything to him. Be honest with you, I'm
sure you know he's seen some of the skirmishes and
some of the back and forth that his brothers have
had during games, and I'm sure they've had conversations, but
at the end of the day, he's like, you guys,
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do what you want to do.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
It was like Missus Westbrook. I told you about her. Yeah,
Missus Westbrook, Mile Westbrook. She brought the cow bell to
every game West Tide played every baseball game. She was
there with a cow bell. And let's put it like this,
It's not like we had overflowed crowds of those games,
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so if somebody was there, you could hear them right.
She'd sit right behind home plate when she would bang
that cow bell, and her son Bob would turn around
and go, mom, please, please stop with the cow bell,
and you know what she would do, bang it louder.
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Her son was asking her please, and she would bang
it louder. She wasn't going anywhere, and she wasn't going
to stop banging the cowbell.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
No. When Larry Smith was the coach of the USCU
my last two years there, there are oftentimes his wife,
and I love her, Cheryl Smith would come down if
it was like we had gotten some bad calls or
whatever and she didn't like the way the restaurant. She
would come down and be on the sidelines yelling at
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the refs. No, she wouldn't during the games. Oh yeah,
oh yeah, she would. She would let her voice be heard.
And we, I mean we as players, we were like, wow,
go go for it, yeer. But but yeah it didn't didn't.
Probably didn't sit well with them home later on. But
you know, what's he going to do? You know, she
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was an impulsive thing, and then she would come down
and just give it to never got a penalty, thank god,
but she would give it to the officials if they
were being you know, had many bad calls in a row. So, yeah,
it happens. It happens with family members. That's that's just
the way it is. But no team is really that
I ever remember that just got rid of someone or
(28:43):
traded someone because the family member was acting up, unless
that person was not instrumental to the team, and it
was like, oh yeah, it's not worth the headache, so
let's get rid of them. But I don't remember any
of that.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
So I remember when Barry Melrose was coaching the Kings
and they were playing at the Forum, and in the Forum,
the hallways were very narrow, and the players when you
would go down after the game, you'd be against the
wall and the players would walk right by you. I
think I think they were playing Edmonton and I'm down
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there getting ready to do postgame. So the media is
there and family members are in the same spot. We're
all against the walls on either side of these guys
walking down, and the officials also walk down this way
as well, so they saw everybody. Barry Melrose's wife is
the coach of the Kings, is standing against the wall
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and I think it was the officials. They walked by,
and she goes, you're a bunch of damn pigs. You're pigs.
She's screaming at the officials underneath as they're walking to
the locker room. Barry Melrose is wife the coach. Oh god,
oh no, First, don't make her mad, Do not make
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her mad. That's number one and number two, like Missus
Melrose really just screaming at him.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I heard it. I love it. I love it. Go ahead,
go ahead, Missus Melrose, give it to him all right.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
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Speaker 3 (32:21):
All right, and now from the court to the court
room with Jacob em Ronni Okay.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Now our weekly chat with our good friend Jacob and Ronnie. Jacob,
how are you today?
Speaker 4 (32:33):
I am wonderful, good afternoon. How are you guys?
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Do it a well tastic? Jacob?
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Let me ask you a question. Somebody comes into your
office and they say, Jacob, I want to file suit
against Subway. I want to file suit against Subway because
they're serving a tuna sandwich that allegedly lacks tuna. Would
that be a case you would take?
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Well, you know, since since you know I'm actually, you know,
having tuna for lunch, what a great you know topic
to talk. But I'm at Langers and their tuna is
real tuna. But anytime somebody walks through the door and
wants us to file the lawsuit, of course, we always
ask for backup information and we investigate. So if somebody
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wants to file that lawsuit. I'm hoping that they have
something that they're going to show us that shows that
there's some credibility to the fact that you know that
tuna is not tuna, or we would investigate it because
you know, you know, you hear those things all the time.
But you find experts, you get involved, you look at it.
Where are they're coming up with such an allegation? And
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then we go forward. But we just don't file the
lawsuits just because somebody wants to say that tuna ain't tuna?
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Yeah, yeah, free it Does that happen to you? Is
that why you're saying it not enough tuna in your sandwich?
Speaker 1 (33:57):
No, I'm just Rodney someone like Jacob. How many people
call the law offices of Jacob I'm Rondie because they're
available twenty four to seven, and you should call from
the scene of an accident, by the way, But over
the years, how many people have come into you, Jacob
and said, listen, I want to sue for this, and
you just think, what are they possibly thinking? There's no case,
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no claim. Have you had a lot of.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Hundreds of week, yeah, hundreds a week. I mean, you know,
we obviously talk to a lot of people every day,
and you know, we get phone calls from people who
want to sue the principle of a school because she
talked to them the wrong way, or they want to sue,
you know, somebody at a grocery store. But you know,
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the factor of being available and I apologize with the
background noise. The factor of being available to talk to
people is that nobody really knows whether they their rights
have been violated unless they do talk to an attorney
who's willing to listen to them rather than brush them off.
I welcome those conversations. I welcome being able to listen
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to what people believe has gone wrong and give them,
you know, my personal opinion, and very often I tell
them that is just my personal opinion. You shouldn't, you know,
you shouldn't stop talking to other people if you believe
the opinion we gave you is not. Is that what
you wanted to hear?
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Yeah, I can only imagine how the phone lines light
up on a regular basis for you, Jacob. And speaking
of that, Jacob, I had a couple of meetings the
last couple of days in Beverly Hills and I live
in the Valley, So going over the hill at a
certain time of day is it's challenging. And I think
it's because you know, school's back in session now, so
now it's it's even more crowded when school starts, especially
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around the LA area and there's so many schools and
you see more traffic on the roads. Do you guys
see a spike once the school year starts for kids,
whether it be elementary, high school kids.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Oh, absolutely, when August the first week of August versus
the second week of August is just so different. But
also understand that, you know, when school starts, everybody who
has kids and has to get them to school has
to recalibrate their schedule. They have to get out of
the house sooner, you know, they have to be able
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to get to school sooner. They have to get to
work sooner, So everybody's rushing. So we definitely August and
September is definitely a time where we see a you
know spike in those type of aspects. But the other
part of it also remember is that as a weather changes,
we see a lot of you know changes and accidents
as well. You know where people are going, are people
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going more to the mountains. Are they going more to
the beach. You know, we've been around obviously for coming
up on twenty eight years. Many of our clients are
repeat clients, people who have had the pleasure in the
beginning of my uh, you know practice. So let's sake,
you know, handle a grandfather's case and now we're getting
the kids and their grand kids coming to us, which
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obviously is a compliment. But you know, accidents are something
that are happening every single day, and you know, being
able to be knowledgeable enough, whether it's during the school season,
whether it's during the summer, whether you're on a trip
here in Los Angeles and knowing what your rights are
is so important. So that's why we love people who
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are you know, not money ona people. They get on
a call immediately, they want to talk immediately, and they
want to know their rights immediately.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Jacob Our listeners love when you offer advice. This is
something you've talked about in the past. And I was
walking down into Local Lake over the weekend and the
sidewalk kind of buckles, and you know, somebody could fall
over the sidewalk and hurt themselves. So I want to
ask you about slips falls, maybe on the street, maybe
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at grocery stores or in commercial buildings.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
Yeah, so you know, slip and falls and trip and
falls are some of the highest number of increase we
get every day. And you know, whether you fall, you know,
on a sidewalk, that is a complete different analysis than
if you fall inside a grocery store. When it comes
to you know, sidewalks, a lot of the sidewalks in
La and the surrounded cities are messed up. And when
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somebody ends up falling, the first thing we do is
send an investigator out in order to measure what the
you know, rise and fall of that particular dangerous condition is.
And then there's a lot of factors that goes into that.
Is that an area you've been there for the first time.
If you're falling right outside of your house and the
sidewalk has buckled all the time, well, the chances of
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success is a lot less because you had notice of
that dangerous condition, You've known it's been out there, and
it's really more on you than the city of La
or city of San Bernardino or wherever that doesn't have
enough resources to fix it. But if you're falling or
slip and falling inside a grocery store. That's from ballgame.
And I think we've discussed this before, and why it's
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important to talk more about it is because we're seeing
the spike in people that have been falling at grocery stores.
And a lot of time when somebody slips and falls,
they get so embarrassed that they can't wait to get
up and get away from that spot, hoping nobody saw them.
But some of the most successful cases that we've had
are people who when they fall, they're not in a
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hurry to get up. They take their time, They pull
out their phone, They look at what they slip and fall,
you know, fell on. Could it be water on the floor,
Could it be a foreign substance from you know, the
refrigerator that you're walking by. They take a picture of that,
And for our listeners, it's important to always gather that evidence,
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especially since we all have phones now you can just
take a picture. Because an employee who works at a
grocery store, they have been trained that if somebody falls,
they will always come to you first. They will help
you get up, and once they do that, they put
you on a chair and the next step is clean
up whatever is there and get rid of the evidence.
And that's why it's so important for us to have
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our clients be knowledgeable to take that picture because it
has made differences of millions of dollars to injured clients
when they had that evidence versus they did not have
that evidence.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Got to do your own homework. You got to take
care of you off and then call you Yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
A lot of people, yeah, a lot of people don't
make a report that day. They just get up and leave.
I encourage everybody immediately call a manager and make a report,
get a documentation done. So there's a lot of steps
that we can, you know, talk to people if they
want to learn more about this, but just don't give
up your rights by just getting out, being embarrassed and leaving,
because then you may be completely completely you know, messing
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up any rights you have in terms of your medical
bills or pain and suffering. That then at that point
we can't do anything about.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
All right, Jacob, great advice. As always, Thanks for coming
on today.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
You guys have a great day.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
Okay, we'll have more information next hour about our upcoming
show and downy and when we come back. The man
in the big chair, Ned Colletti
All right, here we go, Fred Rogan, Rodney Pete on
a five to seventy LA sports two hour program for
US Today, and the Godfather Ned Colletti will be on
the program starting at one o'clock. Okay, Rodney, let's remind
everybody the countdown is on. Can't get here soon enough
for me. Monday, BJ's Restaurant in Brewe House in Downey.
What do we have or we've got stuff. We've got stuff.
(00:24):
We got stuff, yeah we do. We've got stuff. We've
got Dodger tickets, We've got football tickets, so we have
got you covered. We are ready to roll. We've got
DJ's gift cards.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, yeah, lots of stuff. Come on down yep.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Absolutely, we look forward to seeing you on Monday. It'll
be a great time. And you can just settle in
there and hang around for Monday night football if you
so choose. But it is up to you, and we
want to see everybody down there now. Last night, the
Dodgers put it on Colorado. You gotta beat the teams
you're supposed to beat. So when that regard mission accomplished,
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Blake Snell looked great and the offense was firing on
all cylinders. So the question becomes again, are these the
real Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Rodney, Oh, I think they're showing up. Fred. I think
they're showing up like the real Slim Shady, absolutely, and
showing up at the right time. The right guys are
getting hot. I told you my boy, Snell Zilla, he's
gonna find himself. He's healthy now, Boy, he looked unhittable.
We talked about it yesterday about the Dodgers World Series
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and him getting pulled in that game. When he was
dominating the Dodgers, it looked the same way where he
dominated the Colorado Rockies. Now, I know it's the Rockies,
and everybody want to say it's the Rockies. Got the
worst team in baseball, and ah blah blah, blah blah.
You still gotta pitch, you still gotta hit your spots,
you still gotta get guys out. And he did it
in spectacular fashion last night. I thought he was on
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and probably one of the best he's had this season. Fred.
So going into October, Man, they're they're getting right. Mookie
Betts remains on fire. We love to see that. And
our man tail our man tail. I think he's healthy again.
I think he's feeling it. I think he heard all
year long how he was not the same guy and
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what happened to him, and they need to replace him,
they need to bench him, and all that kind of stuff.
And he's back smiling again. I love it. I love it,
and and that, uh, and then the others too. Andy
Paes is hitting the ball again, and it's good to
see Tommy Evans back in there. Max Months. He's gonna
get it going, trust me, he's gonna get it going
here soon. So I think this is a team right
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now as teams are are watching it, and we're gonna
get a lot and we're gonna know a lot in
this San Francisco series though, we're gonna really find out,
you know, are they really back? But I feel it's
going in the right direction. Fred, Okay, a couple of things.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
First, valid point, you know, don't don't just just missed
the fact they played Colorado. Yeah, as a matter of fact,
maybe really appreciate it. Why because the Dodgers have been
awful against bad teams. So this is a bit of
a difference here. The Dodgers have been awful against bad teams.
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That has been their downfall. So now at least they're
beating bad teams. The Padres lost again. They must be
apoplectic down there. They you know, how frustrating for them.
They're so close they can touch them, and with every
step they get further away. So now the Dodgers are
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three games up. Offensively, Mookie Betts is hitting at the
right time. Baseball is a long year. It's a novel,
not a short story. And he's hitting when he needs
to hit. Okay, that's good. Tayo Hernandez seems to be
catching fire. Now, that's good. The starting pitching, and that's
how the team was built. It was constructed with starting pitching.
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Given what happened last year and everybody got hurt, they
went out and got as many good starting pitchers as
they could because I understand what it takes in the playoffs.
Now they're healthy, now you see. You know, it's funny,
and we'll see how this all plays out. You know,
right now they are going to be starting in that
wild card round at best of three. I don't like
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that very much. I don't think they can catch the Phillies.
You don't think so, I don't know. I think so
they play them. They go head to head too, I know,
we'll see. Right now, I'm thinking they're going to start
in the wildcard. But last year, if you remember the playoffs,
you had pitchers from the bullpen starting games. There were
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bullpen games, so all you figured is you needed starting pitchers,
so they went and got them. Problem was they didn't hit. Yeah,
some bullpen hiccups, but I really think the problem has
been they haven't hit. I know the bullpen has given
up some games, but now the starters seem to be
where they're at. Hitting is starting to come around. Tommy
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edmund was back in the lineup. You see what they're
supposed to be. Max Munsey is in the lineup. You
get the sense of what they are. And they got
Colorado at the right time. Let's put it like that,
is they've gotten healthier. They got Colorado at the right time.
So there are three games up. Everybody's got to be
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feeling great as you ride the rollercoaster to the postseason.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
So that in that scenario in your philosophy, that there
are four games behind the Phillies right now, right for
that second second seed in the International League, there're three
games up on San Diego by that rational, so there's
no way San Diego can catch the Dodgers, now, huh, No,
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just a difference of one game. If they were only
behind the Phillies three games, they got a chance. But
because there are four games behind the Phillies, they don't
have a chance. They still got what sixteen games, fifteen
games left? If they go in a heater, Fred, they
sweep the Giants and come on Phillies and they take
two out of three for them.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Phillies, You don't that be nice?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
They're still you don't think they still got a shot?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
That would be nice.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
And if that's the case, do you think San Diego's
got a shot to win the West? They don't.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Okay, I actually don't think San Diego has a shot
to win the West. I really think san Diego may
get jumped by the Giants.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Dodgers better play well, Yeah, san Diego may get jumped
by the Giants.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
It's getting very very interesting right now.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
But nonetheless, good couple of games here for the Dodgers.
Is this a concern? I don't know. Will Smith scratched
last night, swelling in the right hand. I'll say this, whatever,
I would not rush him at all. Let him get well,
they're fine back there. Let him get well, because you're really.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Gonna hear his bat. They're play flying back there right now.
I know the I know the young kid came up
and got a big hit last night. What are you saying?
They're fine back there?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
You know what? You need somebody serviceable at this point.
Play good defense, Play good defense, don't rush. Will Smith
play good defense.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
But he's there, any of their only catcher right now?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Yeah, so he better play good defense.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
They're flying back there, doesn't mean they're fine back there.
They need some depth. They don't have to bring up
another catcher. Well, here's the thing. You know the Dodgers,
you play multiple positions. So I think Kimmel'll get ready
back there now, Okay, okay, all right, put Micky roll
back there. You know what? Hey, hey, hey, hey, when
you let's let's talk about Miggey row real quick, all right?
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Has there been a more consistent Dodger, I mean, for
the entire season than Miggy Rowe Given the role that
he has played. He is not an everyday player. He
plays third base, shortstop, second base, and has been consistent.
He hit the ball more consistently than he's done, you know,
certainly last year, but better than most most guys in
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the starting A lot of that play every day. I've
been impressed by Miggie row He's he's he is. Definitely
I see why they Dodgers have him on the team because,
number one, he's versatile, he's a positive influence. He's a
leader in that clubhouse. But importantly, right now, he has
been He has been dependable in all aspect, offensively and defensive.
We knew that he could do defensively, but man, man,
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he is. He has played extremely well. You know, and
speaking of speaking of you know where where we go
catcher wise, I believe you know Alex Call actually played
catcher before so he could get behind the dish or
did he Yeah, he was a high school catcher, I believe. Yeah.
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Even Dave Roberts, I think, commented, if we are an emergency,
Alex Call could play catch.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I want to see Alex Paul catch.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Maybe they throw him back their a game just in case.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
You know me, let's get him in there, put him
in that'd be great. Hello. Yeah, Alex, Oh, it's been
seven years.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
You start getting your starting to night, get in there
darting to night. But it's been good, it's been good.
Their depth what do you think they do or what
do you think they should do with uh? And how
they should play Kim.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
He's got to get at bats at first. I think
you gotta get him at bats.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
What did Dave say after the game last night? Tails
improved defensively in right field, so they're going to keep
him there. So pie Has will play left ed middle,
play center. I don't know, let's play. Let's play Kim
at second base. Yeah, just get him some at bats,
maybe against right handed pictures. Put him in, let him go,
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let's see him in there.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I'd love to see him. Just let him play second
base for a good series and maybe yeah, maybe it
is the Giants that they let him play and just
get him at bats, at bats, at bats. He is
a guy that obviously on the basis he's going to
be a weapon that they can use and maybe they're thinking,
you know, a pinch runner and the late innings at
a key moment in the game. But I think if
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you keep getting him at bats, he is also can
be a weapon at the plate. He certainly is playing
pretty good defense, at least he was before he got hurt.
But I think he's to me, he's like he's an
X factor that I think you got to find a
way to get him in the game, maybe starting him
and letting him play second base. And if there's issues
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or whatever, Mickey Roe is always ready to go, so
but let him play. Let him play as much as
possible to ride out this rest of the season. I
agree with you one hundred percent. He's a game changer.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
He, to be honest with you, mm hmm, cannot take
your eyes off on when he's on the field because
anything could happen. First, defensively, he is a wizard. He's
magical playing defense. Now will probably commit seven errors, but
he is magical playing defense. He's fun to watch. He
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gets to the ball, he can make the plays. He
can certainly impact the game or change the game if
he's on base. We know that as well. And with
that speed, would it be awful if he butted a
couple of times and beat it out got on base, right,
I don't think it would. I think it would help,
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It would be fantastic. It just throws another element that
you've got to think about. When he comes to the plate.
You know, here's a kid, Oh we can get him
out and he's butting on you. And now the third
baseman's got to play in he can beat out a
lot of infield singles. So you know, when you look
at this team and you get you know, Tommy Edmonds
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back in center field, and you can move Piz to left,
which is, you know, is what Dave Roberts said. He's
gonna keep tailing right for now, but they can flip flop.
I think they can move Paz to right and Tail
can go to left. But now you've got Tommy Edmond
who needs to play the rest of the season at
center field, which they say that he's probably gonna do.
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That's a pretty good defensive lineup now again with Edmunds
roman center field, I think it helps Pahes. I think
that pressure was on Piez. Centerfield is obviously it's like shortstop.
You get all the plays you got to make the
place it's a different animal. So Tommy Edmonds being out
there and then you got Kim at second base, I
just it becomes now the team that we thought they
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were to start the season, how dangerous they can be
one through nine and not just hitting home runs but
getting on base. Now you're looking at Edmunds down at
the bottom, Kim at the bottom of the lineup and
Otani at the top.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Those guys getting on base for him, so he's not
coming up most of the time with nobody on base.
This this is a this is something that could be
scary for these team. And we'll see again. The proof's
going to be in the pudding as they play a
really good team in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah, and uh right, everything you said is true. I'm
just hoping that there is consistency here. Okay, they beat
up on Rocky pitching. Now let's see what they do
against the Giants, because that really is gonna be it again.
If they hit, they're gonna win. If they don't hit,
they're gonna lose. You go, well, of course that's the
way it is. No, not really. I mean, they'll lose
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one run games if they're not hitting. But if they're hitting,
they're gonna they're really gonna beat people. And that's how
the team was built. What you're seeing is what was built.
Now you still have to consider the bullpen. Kirby H's
pitch last night. You does it look like he's laboring
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a little bit, So it's not just me.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yeah, a little bit, little bit. And he's another guy
that puts a lot of emotion on his sleeves, and
and you can feel it when he's when he's not
as sharp. But yeah, it feels like he's working extra hard,
extra extra hard when he's out there right now.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, just to do the easy stuff, just to do
what he's supposed to do. It looks like he's working
extra hard so that, you know, down the road, decisions
will have to be made about who's on the playoff
roster and who's going to be on that pitching staff.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I mean if he wasn't on there, it'd be an
enormous slap in the face to him.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
One of the best closers in the game last year.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, And you know, sometimes momentum affects everybody. You know,
when things are going bad, things tend to go bad
for others. And when things start to go good, then
you start to get your confidence back again. So maybe
that can happen as the Dodgers feel they're starting to
get healthy and getting more confident right now, and maybe
that rolls over to uh to Kirby Eights and even
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Speaker 1 (16:19):
Okay, So we know kids can be cruel, right, Well,
for that matter, adults can be cruel too, But we
know kids can be cruel. I want to tell you
a story. Tell me what you think of this, Rodney, Right, So,
there was talk that Matthew Stafford would not be with
the Rams this year. If you remember correctly, you know
he was talking to the Raiders, maybe the Giants. In
(16:40):
the end, he ended up exactly where he was supposed
to be with the Rams, and you wonder, you know,
when word leaks out about talks like that, it's all posturing,
it's all positioning, just trying to let everybody know and
maybe put more pressure on the Rams. I don't think
he was going anywhere. I think he was going to
be right here and this is where he should be
playing for Sean McVay. But anyway, when that was rumors
(17:05):
were circulating that he might leave. Kelly Stafford said her
kids were being bullied at school because of the trade rumors.
She said other kids were telling the Stafford's children they
were going to have to move, but they were going
to have to move because of Kelly. When there was
speculation of Matthew getting traded this past year, there was
(17:26):
a headline that his wife was the problem, and that
was the reason the kids at school were picking on them,
being like, you're going to have to move because your
mom's an issue, she's too loud and whatever. The Stafford's
daughter did come home and asked Kelly if they had
to move because the Rams don't like you. Now she
just told that story on a podcast. What do you
(17:49):
think of that story?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I don't think I've ever heard anyone suggest a guy
was going to be traded because the organization didn't like
his wife.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
First, Oh, you've never been alive very long. What are
you talking about.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
There's always wait a minute, tell me a player that's
been traded because the organization traded because but it wasn't
the case, Fredd.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
You just said it's rumors. It's rumors, and we have
social media like no other. No, she said. Her kids
asked her that, no, I know that, Fred. It's rumors though,
that's what people were telling the kids. Oh, it's because
your wife. No one said the Rams are going to trade,
or no one from any organization said, oh, we're thinking
about trading because of his wife. This is just people speculating.
(18:32):
People say, oh that the people that don't like her
may have been out there saying it, and then the
kids heard their parents say it because they maybe didn't
like Kelly. It happens all the time if you've got
an outspoken spouse, father, whomever. We see it all the time.
You know, Brenda Warner. Back in the day, Kurt Warner's
wife was was always out there and very outspoken, and
(18:52):
there were a lot of things said about her. You know,
it was the Halliburton's dad. I mean, it goes on
and on, Kevin Durant, it's moll. Family members get it
as well, and people often speculate, well, that's the reason
they need to get rid of them. So it's not
out of the ordinary, but it's unfortunate that it has
to trickle down through the kids. Yeah, that is you've
(19:14):
not heard that before ever, that family members or people
talk and speculate those because his brother or his mother
or his dad is too involved and so and so
it is too involved, so we got to get rid
of them. It never comes from the team, never comes
from the team. It's always some fan that wants to
thinks they're there in to know.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
And that's my point, and that's the point here. I
don't think a team has ever traded someone, but may
you may know. You probably do know far more about
this than I do. I don't think a team has
ever traded someone because of their family member. Their family
member might be an annoyance to the team, but if
somebody is good, I don't think they get traded because
(19:56):
of a family member. Can you ever remember that happening?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
No? No, not once, not once. So yeah, I don't.
I don't. I've never heard of a team specifically trading
someone because of a family member.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
No.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
That's why when I read this, and that's why I
started by saying kids are cruel, I thought.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
That's that's that's that's the that's the norm nowadays. You know, kids,
there's so many stories of guys, you know, coming home
or or they play up a bad game and kids
at school tease the kids, the kids that the players
kids or their wife is at the grocery store and
(20:45):
someone makes comments to the wife because someone played a
bad game. That that is that's happened since forty years
ago and up until this day. You know, people are
cruel out there, and then it trickles down to the kids.
The kids here the parents talking about it, and then oh,
we go to school with the stafford so ooh, I'm
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gonna say it to him when I get to school,
and kids are cruel, And so it happens. It happens
on a regular basis.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
You know, if you if you take many many years ago,
not everybody had a platform. Now Everybody has whatever platform
they want. Honestly, there's social media, you could podcast, everybody
could have a microphone. Everybody is basically a writer. And
you know, I guess you have to understand that if
you enter that fray, if you get into that arena,
(21:36):
if you give it a shot. As my former boss
told me many years ago, fly above the clouds, sometimes
you get hit with lightning. It just happens. You can now,
you can't always avoid the lightning, and that obviously you know.
And Kelly Stafford's free to do whatever she wants. The
past is the past. But you fly above the clouds,
(22:00):
you are going to get hit once in a while.
And I think that's that's what happened here. There's no
way the Rams would ever trade Matthew Stafford away because
they were mad at Kelly, and they're probably not mad
at Kelly at all.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
No, why because he has a podcast? No, No, it's ridiculous.
It's ridiculous to even think of that notion. But again,
kids are kids are cruel, but they get it from
their parents. I'm sure that you know they overhear their
parents talking about it, or somebody has it in for
Matthew Stafford or Kelly or whatever, and it trickles down
(22:39):
to the kids. So you know, it's just it's just unfortunate.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Back when you were playing, did you have any teammates
with family members that caused a commotion or a ruckus.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
No, not necessarily ruckus, but there were several. Every team
has has that uncle or that cousin or that dad
that is around all the time, and sometimes it depends
on the player how quickly a team will escort that
person off the premises or out of the building or
(23:18):
don't allow men there. Barry Sanders dad was always around,
and he was very opinionated, and yet you know, nobody
would dare kick him off the sidelines or tell him
not to come to practice. So yeah, there was always,
there's always Every team has that Barry Sanders dad was opinionated.
You always be there, Yes, smoking a cigar he would do.
(23:43):
He would do interviews after games. Yeah, yeah, they need
to give Barry the ball more and I don't know
what they were doing in the second half. He would
stay stuff like that, So yeah, yeah, it happens. It happens.
There's oftentimes the family members feel as entitled as the
actual player and feel they have just look at this
(24:07):
past year and Halliburton's dad and how involved he was. Now,
if there's ever a team that said, man, we gotta
we gotta do something about we gotta nip this in
the bud. No, you know, they're like, we don't like it,
but what are we going to do?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
And if you're someone like that, a wife, a father,
a friend, whoever you may be, an uncle, and and
you're around and people know it and you're stirring it up,
are you really doing for Tyrese Haliburton?
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Is he really doing his son a favor? He thinks
he is. That's that's the thing he thinks he is.
And you don't think that Tyresee has had conversations with
his dad telling him to chill out. Hey dad, you
got chill out and blah blah blah. But it's you know,
but it's his dad. So yeah, he's gonna be who
(25:02):
he is. He's gonna be who it is. Chris Paul's brothers,
I remember, you know, would come to games and the
Jokers brothers, right, You don't think that they've called some
controversy in Denver or at games they were oftentimes almost
getting in fights in the stands, you know, are they
gonna tell them not to come to games?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Well, the only person that could ask them not to
come to games would be the Joker.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Yeah, the only one that would go to Joker and say, hey,
your your brothers, can you can you can you encourage
them not to come to the games because they're they're
being a little too loud and a little too reckless. Yeah, yeah,
I can encourage them. I encourage him to go to uh,
go to Oklahoma City games. Okay, when you trade me there, you.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Mean you couldn't take the position, Yell, let me talk
to him. They are a little out of control. It
would be more Okay, I'll talk to him. I'll tell
him to go to the games in Oklahoma City because
that's where you're trading me. You wouldn't just have a conversation.
I mean, it would be somewhat apparent if somebody was
just really causing a scene.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, but you know, family's family, and
so I don't even I would wonder if Denru would
even say anything to him. Be honest with you, I'm
sure you know he's seen some of the skirmishes and
some of the back and forth that his brothers have
had during games, and I'm sure they've had conversations, but
at the end of the day, he's like, you guys,
(26:44):
do what you want to do.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
It was like Missus Westbrook. I told you about her. Yeah,
Missus Westbrook, Mile Westbrook. She brought the cow bell to
every game West Tide played every baseball game. She was
there with a cow bell. And let's put it like this,
It's not like we had overflowed crowds of those games,
(27:05):
so if somebody was there, you could hear them right.
She'd sit right behind home plate when she would bang
that cow bell, and her son Bob would turn around
and go, mom, please, please stop with the cow bell,
and you know what she would do, bang it louder.
(27:30):
Her son was asking her please, and she would bang
it louder. She wasn't going anywhere, and she wasn't going
to stop banging the cowbell.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
No. When Larry Smith was the coach of the USCU
my last two years there, there are oftentimes his wife,
and I love her, Cheryl Smith would come down if
it was like we had gotten some bad calls or
whatever and she didn't like the way the restaurant. She
would come down and be on the sidelines yelling at
(28:00):
the refs. No, she wouldn't during the games. Oh yeah,
oh yeah, she would. She would let her voice be heard.
And we, I mean we as players, we were like, wow,
go go for it, yeer. But but yeah it didn't didn't.
Probably didn't sit well with them home later on. But
you know, what's he going to do? You know, she
(28:20):
was an impulsive thing, and then she would come down
and just give it to never got a penalty, thank god,
but she would give it to the officials if they
were being you know, had many bad calls in a row. So, yeah,
it happens. It happens with family members. That's that's just
the way it is. But no team is really that
I ever remember that just got rid of someone or
(28:43):
traded someone because the family member was acting up, unless
that person was not instrumental to the team, and it
was like, oh yeah, it's not worth the headache, so
let's get rid of them. But I don't remember any
of that.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
So I remember when Barry Melrose was coaching the Kings
and they were playing at the Forum, and in the Forum,
the hallways were very narrow, and the players when you
would go down after the game, you'd be against the
wall and the players would walk right by you. I
think I think they were playing Edmonton and I'm down
(29:16):
there getting ready to do postgame. So the media is
there and family members are in the same spot. We're
all against the walls on either side of these guys
walking down, and the officials also walk down this way
as well, so they saw everybody. Barry Melrose's wife is
the coach of the Kings, is standing against the wall
(29:38):
and I think it was the officials. They walked by,
and she goes, you're a bunch of damn pigs. You're pigs.
She's screaming at the officials underneath as they're walking to
the locker room. Barry Melrose is wife the coach. Oh god,
oh no, First, don't make her mad, Do not make
(29:59):
her mad. That's number one and number two, like Missus
Melrose really just screaming at him.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I heard it. I love it. I love it. Go ahead,
go ahead, Missus Melrose, give it to him all right.
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All right, and now from the court to the court
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Now our weekly chat with our good friend Jacob and Ronnie. Jacob,
how are you today?
Speaker 4 (32:33):
I am wonderful, good afternoon. How are you guys?
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Do it a well tastic? Jacob?
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Let me ask you a question. Somebody comes into your
office and they say, Jacob, I want to file suit
against Subway. I want to file suit against Subway because
they're serving a tuna sandwich that allegedly lacks tuna. Would
that be a case you would take?
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Well, you know, since since you know I'm actually, you know,
having tuna for lunch, what a great you know topic
to talk. But I'm at Langers and their tuna is
real tuna. But anytime somebody walks through the door and
wants us to file the lawsuit, of course, we always
ask for backup information and we investigate. So if somebody
(33:23):
wants to file that lawsuit. I'm hoping that they have
something that they're going to show us that shows that
there's some credibility to the fact that you know that
tuna is not tuna, or we would investigate it because
you know, you know, you hear those things all the time.
But you find experts, you get involved, you look at it.
Where are they're coming up with such an allegation? And
(33:45):
then we go forward. But we just don't file the
lawsuits just because somebody wants to say that tuna ain't tuna?
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Yeah, yeah, free it Does that happen to you? Is
that why you're saying it not enough tuna in your sandwich?
Speaker 1 (33:57):
No, I'm just Rodney someone like Jacob. How many people
call the law offices of Jacob I'm Rondie because they're
available twenty four to seven, and you should call from
the scene of an accident, by the way, But over
the years, how many people have come into you, Jacob
and said, listen, I want to sue for this, and
you just think, what are they possibly thinking? There's no case,
(34:19):
no claim. Have you had a lot of.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Hundreds of week, yeah, hundreds a week. I mean, you know,
we obviously talk to a lot of people every day,
and you know, we get phone calls from people who
want to sue the principle of a school because she
talked to them the wrong way, or they want to sue,
you know, somebody at a grocery store. But you know,
(34:43):
the factor of being available and I apologize with the
background noise. The factor of being available to talk to
people is that nobody really knows whether they their rights
have been violated unless they do talk to an attorney
who's willing to listen to them rather than brush them off.
I welcome those conversations. I welcome being able to listen
(35:04):
to what people believe has gone wrong and give them,
you know, my personal opinion, and very often I tell
them that is just my personal opinion. You shouldn't, you know,
you shouldn't stop talking to other people if you believe
the opinion we gave you is not. Is that what
you wanted to hear?
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Yeah, I can only imagine how the phone lines light
up on a regular basis for you, Jacob. And speaking
of that, Jacob, I had a couple of meetings the
last couple of days in Beverly Hills and I live
in the Valley, So going over the hill at a
certain time of day is it's challenging. And I think
it's because you know, school's back in session now, so
now it's it's even more crowded when school starts, especially
(35:46):
around the LA area and there's so many schools and
you see more traffic on the roads. Do you guys
see a spike once the school year starts for kids,
whether it be elementary, high school kids.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Oh, absolutely, when August the first week of August versus
the second week of August is just so different. But
also understand that, you know, when school starts, everybody who
has kids and has to get them to school has
to recalibrate their schedule. They have to get out of
the house sooner, you know, they have to be able
(36:18):
to get to school sooner. They have to get to
work sooner, So everybody's rushing. So we definitely August and
September is definitely a time where we see a you
know spike in those type of aspects. But the other
part of it also remember is that as a weather changes,
we see a lot of you know changes and accidents
as well. You know where people are going, are people
(36:40):
going more to the mountains. Are they going more to
the beach. You know, we've been around obviously for coming
up on twenty eight years. Many of our clients are
repeat clients, people who have had the pleasure in the
beginning of my uh, you know practice. So let's sake,
you know, handle a grandfather's case and now we're getting
the kids and their grand kids coming to us, which
(37:01):
obviously is a compliment. But you know, accidents are something
that are happening every single day, and you know, being
able to be knowledgeable enough, whether it's during the school season,
whether it's during the summer, whether you're on a trip
here in Los Angeles and knowing what your rights are
is so important. So that's why we love people who
(37:22):
are you know, not money ona people. They get on
a call immediately, they want to talk immediately, and they
want to know their rights immediately.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Jacob Our listeners love when you offer advice. This is
something you've talked about in the past. And I was
walking down into Local Lake over the weekend and the
sidewalk kind of buckles, and you know, somebody could fall
over the sidewalk and hurt themselves. So I want to
ask you about slips falls, maybe on the street, maybe
(37:53):
at grocery stores or in commercial buildings.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
Yeah, so you know, slip and falls and trip and
falls are some of the highest number of increase we
get every day. And you know, whether you fall, you know,
on a sidewalk, that is a complete different analysis than
if you fall inside a grocery store. When it comes
to you know, sidewalks, a lot of the sidewalks in
La and the surrounded cities are messed up. And when
(38:19):
somebody ends up falling, the first thing we do is
send an investigator out in order to measure what the
you know, rise and fall of that particular dangerous condition is.
And then there's a lot of factors that goes into that.
Is that an area you've been there for the first time.
If you're falling right outside of your house and the
sidewalk has buckled all the time, well, the chances of
(38:41):
success is a lot less because you had notice of
that dangerous condition, You've known it's been out there, and
it's really more on you than the city of La
or city of San Bernardino or wherever that doesn't have
enough resources to fix it. But if you're falling or
slip and falling inside a grocery store. That's from ballgame.
And I think we've discussed this before, and why it's
(39:03):
important to talk more about it is because we're seeing
the spike in people that have been falling at grocery stores.
And a lot of time when somebody slips and falls,
they get so embarrassed that they can't wait to get
up and get away from that spot, hoping nobody saw them.
But some of the most successful cases that we've had
are people who when they fall, they're not in a
(39:26):
hurry to get up. They take their time, They pull
out their phone, They look at what they slip and fall,
you know, fell on. Could it be water on the floor,
Could it be a foreign substance from you know, the
refrigerator that you're walking by. They take a picture of that,
And for our listeners, it's important to always gather that evidence,
(39:46):
especially since we all have phones now you can just
take a picture. Because an employee who works at a
grocery store, they have been trained that if somebody falls,
they will always come to you first. They will help
you get up, and once they do that, they put
you on a chair and the next step is clean
up whatever is there and get rid of the evidence.
And that's why it's so important for us to have
(40:08):
our clients be knowledgeable to take that picture because it
has made differences of millions of dollars to injured clients
when they had that evidence versus they did not have
that evidence.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Got to do your own homework. You got to take
care of you off and then call you Yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
A lot of people, yeah, a lot of people don't
make a report that day. They just get up and leave.
I encourage everybody immediately call a manager and make a report,
get a documentation done. So there's a lot of steps
that we can, you know, talk to people if they
want to learn more about this, but just don't give
up your rights by just getting out, being embarrassed and leaving,
because then you may be completely completely you know, messing
(40:48):
up any rights you have in terms of your medical
bills or pain and suffering. That then at that point
we can't do anything about.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
All right, Jacob, great advice. As always, Thanks for coming
on today.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
You guys have a great day.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
Okay, we'll have more information next hour about our upcoming
show and downy and when we come back. The man
in the big chair, Ned Colletti
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