Well, here we go and welcome to the Bonus Content Podcast, Rodney.
When the Dodgers play and they are in Washington on this very day, they
ask us to come on. They say, yes, do you have a
couple of minutes would you share some time with your friends and your your family
that listened to the program. And they say, well, there's one reason.
There's one reason why we want you to do the Bonus Content Podcast.
We ask them every time and they give us the same answer. People say,
you kill it, kill kill them. So we got to do it.
Got to be here with you today and then on May second, we
all have to come together. This is like a Kumbaya moment. We're back
at Hollywood Park. And you know something, when we go to Hollywood Park,
it means the world to us. We look forward to seeing you down
at Hollywood Park. Had a great show last Monday. So next week May
second, Yes, special guest star, not going to get any bigger than
this one and only. Yeah, Key k Hernandez key k kek coming to
hang out. I'm gonna hang out with us at Hollywood Park. I can't
think of a more on the current roster. Beloved player now just think about
him you know, Moki, Freddie Shoheo, Tani, Will Smith, Max
Munsey, who's been on one of our shows down there. I think from
a fan perspective, key K has got to be one of the favorite Dodgers.
Rodney, Yeah, I agree. I agree. You know, from
the time he was here before he left, when he came back, he
was welcome with open arms. I think this people root for key K.
You know, he's he's a grinder. I think he identifies with most fans
and those people that you know, he grinded his way to the major leagues.
He's plays every position, he never complains, he does whatever he's asked
of him, and people love that, and he gives everything he has and
he's come up big and some big moments for the Dodgers, So people don't
remember that. They don't forget that when it comes to people that perform in
a Dodger uniform. So, yeah, you're right, key K is definitely
one of the most beloved Dodges. All Right, So he's going to be
at the Hollywood Park show on May second, And because Kyk is so big
and we anticipate such a large crowd, we're going to make it very exclusive
It's something we've never done for one of our remote shows. So there's going
to be checks and balances for you to get in. And I can tell
you now sex and balances. That's right. There will be checks and balances.
And I can tell you now because we expect such an overwhelming crowd,
we will only seat four people, only four people, so you better get
there early. Only four people. We expect an overwhelming crowd. I really
think the place there'll be people standing out in the hall on May second,
and I'm that serious. You know where we sit, Rodney, Yeah,
in that room. Yeah, I think people will be standing by the bar
in the back in the hall. That's how many people will have for this
show with Keiki Hernandez only be able to sit for people. Huh. That's
why you better get there early. You better get there early. Listen,
You do what you want. You live your life. We're not your parents,
but we're just are just offering you the opportunity. Not your parents.
We're not your parents, we're not your moral compass. You live your life.
Okay, So Dodgers are wrapping things up, or by time you hear
this may have wrapped things up in Washington because we're doing the podcast because we
have them the game on the radio station in our time period. Twenty hitch
yesterday against all Right, So the last time they played the Nationals here,
they look awful. It was not even sugarcoated, not you were terrible.
Now they go there and they beat the hell out of them, all right,
they look like the Dodgers that everybody expects them to look like. I
mean, just it was a hit parade. It was a hit after hit
after hit. Sho hey goes the I mean it, it was one of
those, and every other hit was a double, you know. And but
that's kind of what people want to see from this team because the lineup can
be so potent, and when the bottom half is hitting like that, that's
what makes it extremely dangerous. You know. So where's the truth with the
Dodgers. Let's just think about it. So here they look awful against them.
There they just have been running over them. The truth lies in between.
The Dodgers weren't as bad as they were against the Nationals here, and
they're probably not as good as I are against the Nationals there. The truth
lies in between, and probably a little more toward. It's how they played
against them there. It's a question of who's pitching. Are the Dodgers hitting
all of a sudden You made the point, Rodney Bottom, throw of that
lineup all of a sudden, Boy, now they're hitting. They couldn't hit
their hat size for three weeks. They couldn't hit water if they fill out
of a boat words of timulusorda for three weeks. Oh, you put a
couple of hits together, the ball runs into the bat a few times,
you get a little more confidence, and now here's where you're at. Here's
where you're at. Right now. Now it seems to be working because a
couple of guys strung a couple of hits together. That's baseball. That's baseball.
It'd be great if everybody got hot at the exact same time and stayed
that way for the whole year. It never happens that way. No,
it doesn't, No, it doesn't. But you definitely need a third of
that lineup to be hot all the time. Yeah, to pick up the
other half. Yeah. You know, most people feel that the top four
in that lineup, they're not going to get into many deep slumps. And
because they were hitting when the bottom half of the lineup wasn't hitting. They
were hitting, and the Dodgers were what five hundred basically, But it just
shows you, like you said, they lie somewhere somewhere in the middle of
when they played the Nationals here as opposed to when they played him there,
but probably leaning towards there. I'm not saying they're gonna get twenty hits every
single game, but double digit hits I think can be the norm for this
team on a regular basis. So old Tony's killing the ball, Yeah he
is. All right, here's what's sad. I'm gonna tell you what's sad.
You expect him to do it. So that being said, because you
expect it, and now he's doing it. Yeah, I expected that.
Yeah, I don't get too excited. Yeah, well it's almost it's the
Lebron James effect. Now, I mean to a younger to a different degree,
but it's Lebron in year twenty one, you know, scoring points and
triple doubles and things like that. At his age, it's like, Okay,
yeah, we expect Lebron. You got to play well, you expect
it. Oh, Tana, you're right, he comes up to the play.
You expect him. First of all, you expect him hit the ball
hard, and when he strikes out, you're a little shocked. You're disappoint
it, but you're a little shocked that he didn't hit any contact and get
it. Yeah, but a tremendous hit. It almost looked like it's a
beach ball coming up to him right now. It's so unfair to do to
the guy too. It's completely and totally unfair. What do you mean he
didn't get a hit? Yeah, and if he gets a hit, now,
Fred, if it's not a double or a home run over run,
it doesn't go to the gap because he leads the league in doubles, I
believe, And so if is that a double or a home run, it's
like it hit one hundred and thirteen mile an hour ball off the bat to
the right fielder on a one hop for a single base hit, and people
will be disappointed that it wasn't a Double's what the hell's with him? That's
his problem, man, that's not when we paid you. See. Yeah,
it's so unfair. But it's so true that all of a sudden,
the level of expectation has reached its point of no return, and I it's
it's even more bizarre because you expect him to do it, and we got
to see him play for the Angels obviously, because we can watch those games
in the market, so you know what he can do and you know what
he will do. I just I just don't get very excited about it.
To me, it's it's sort of yeah, about what he's supposed to do,
and yeah, I'm I'm the other way. I know it could be
like a matter of fact with him, but I still get excited when he
comes to the plate. It is, And really I'm throwing Will Smith in
that category too, because he's he's been phenomenal as well. But but you
have a four for five the night the other night he's he's hitting it.
But a lot of those guys will get overshadowed because Otani is on a tear
and Mookie's on a tear. I look at it like MOOKI and Mookie comes
up. It feels like there's a I think I talked about this before,
like within your team, there's always there's there's competition within within a team,
like how many hits you're gonna get today. It's just little things to keep
you going, especially in baseball. We did this in football with receivers,
we're talking about catches and touchdowns and how many yards you're gonna get per game,
and you know they would talk, you know, blank to each other
before the games. So I'm gonna get more than you. Baseball was definitely
I'm gonna get more hiss than you. I'm gonna hit more doubles. I'm
extra base hit all right, who has the most? And you talked about
that and the game is so long, the season is so long, so
you find those competitions within your teammates. I'm willing to bet that Mooki and
Otani and Freddy they got something going. Think yeah, because Mooki comes up,
he's on Fio. Tani comes up, Mooki hits a single, Tany
hits a double, Mooki hits to tell a double, Tani hits a home
run. I mean they've got it going right now. And a one to
two punch that people hate to see the top of the lineup. Yeah,
then that rings this. Freddy's not really going and that's what I was just
gonna say. He's coming around a little bit now. Yeah, Yeah,
i mean Freddy was hitting like two sixty nine a week ago. I'm thinking
well, they need to send him to the miners. He's got to go
down to Okay, see he can't be up here like this. Yes,
he's starting to come around a little bit. All right. There was a
play in the Angel game yesterday and uh, this speaks to replay Joe Adell.
I think ninth inning steals second base, Right, you want to put
this guy in scoring position. And if he's in scoring position, you got
a couple of shots to knock him in and we got a new ball game.
Here he goes and he slides. They put the tag on him.
The Empire goes, you're out, calls him out. It's close play,
Rodney close, all right. So they look at the ring plane. They
go, wait a minute, whoa, whoa, whoa, he's not out.
They can see it in the Angel dugout. You can see it when
they show it on the screen in the stadium. They challenge, let's go
back to New York. Let's get this right, this big play in the
game. We got a guy in the scoring position. So they go back
to the replay center. And the way it works there is they have an
umpire in the replay center and they do that because, uh, they're paying
them anyway, and the Empire say, we have to be in charge of
this. Once you take us out of the replay center, it'll be bad.
It'll be bad because that means anybody can sit in the replace center,
not us, and we lose a job. So I guess the empire back
there was Carlos Torres, all right, he looks at the play. Now.
While he's looking at the play, and they have multiple angles, they're
looking at the plane Anaheim as well, and here's what they determine. Yeah,
it looks like he's safe because he was. But the umpire and the
replay center decides we're not going to overturn that he's out. He's out,
Well, how can he be out if we're looking at it. Granted it's
close, yes, but you can clearly see he's out, clearly. No,
you can clearly see safe. Safe, yes, safe, yes,
and clearly see it. You can clearly see he's safe. Now. It's
close, but you can clearly see it. But that's why you go to
replay, because it close plays they may get it wrong. And that's my
point about you can never know more. The people watching can never know more
than the people doing it. It doesn't equate. It doesn't work, It
doesn't make sense. NBA. Let's go to the replay. Let's take a
look. Man, they got it in the head, but we're not gonna
call that foul, right man? This he's safe. He is safe.
No, he's out. It doesn't make any sense. And here's what I
think the problem is. You think they're respecting the the refs and empires on
the field. Yeah, more so than they ever have. Yeah. And
I think that's why they in Major League Baseball have an umpire in the replay
center. Because here's what I would suggest. It might seem a bit extreme.
I don't think it is. I'd get rid of the empire in the
replay center. I wouldn't have one, or they can sit in the corner.
I would have, like, I don't know, kids, and I
wouldn't have an eight year old child. Kids. I would have let's say,
let's say twenty twenty year old kids, and they would be assigned to
sit there and watch the games. They have nothing, no vested interest,
but they're gonna sit and watch. Oh we got to replay. The umpire
comes over, stands over the kid's shoulder, and the kid watches and he
goes he's out. Al, he's safe. We don't need to discuss it.
There's no conversation necessary. Hold the kid, fifteen, all right,
fifteen to twenty. It's fine. Kids did look at the screen all the
time, screams yes, you know, they're gamers, things like that.
They'll look at I need two looks at this. Boom boom, he's out,
boom boom, me safe. I don't need Carlos Taurus standing here discussing
it with anybody. I can see it for myself. And that's another thing.
We don't need any discussion. You know, while we got to take
a look at this and take a look at this, and take a look
at it. Listen, it doesn't take that longer look at anything. Give
me the angles, let me see him. They all come into the replay
center. Give me that, Give me that, Give me that. That
takes ten seconds, That takes ten seconds, that takes ten seconds. It's
thirty seconds. Any safe, safe, telling me safe DoD They're saying they
shouldn't have to get on the headset the umpires on the field during the game,
shouldn't. Well, the only time they should get on the headset is
just to find out if he's out of safe right, because it should be
already. If it's a close play, they should already review it. So
by the time a team says, hey, I want to review that.
I want to review that, they've already looked at it. They've already determined
whether or not he was Safer out, and all the guys got to do.
Oh, you want to review it, Okay, let me make a
call. Safer out, heat out. Yeah, that's exactly what it should
be. That quick, It should be that quick. You know. It's
like in the NBA the guy puts on the headset and they're over there looking
at the little monitor, and then they're talking to the replay people, and
it's what are you doing once it leaves your hands? See, here's the
thing. Once it leaves the field of play's hands. Yeah, you're out
of it. Everybody's out of it now. I don't care what you think,
referee Jones, umpire Smith. It doesn't matter. Once it leaves the
field of play, you're done. You're out. We'll handle it. We're
not gonna discuss it. There's not gonna be a conversation. You don't have
to offer your opinion when it's left you It comes to us. We're big
brother. Boom, do what done? Move on, We don't have a
discussor yeah, no, I'm with you. It was speed it up number
one, and then it would it would eliminate the timeframe because the discussions take
time. Yeah, if it leaves you, if it's that close you you
made a call that a team wants to review, then it has it's left
your hands. Don't you think that would work all to the all to the
replay booth. Yeah, yeah, NFL. All right, we're gonna challenge
that. Officially, you have to run down to the to the video booth
anymore. No, they all got headsets now right, Okay, well how
about this. Let me take another look at it. No, you've already
had your crack at it. It's over, you know what I mean.
Why do you get in here and really check it out? Yeah, let
me get out of the hood and look at it. Yeah no, no,
no, no, no, you've lost your chance. Once that red
flag is thrown in football, it goes right to the replay booth. Yeah.
You lay on the fields as an opportunity to say anything. You can
grab a bite to eat, you go over to the side. Yeah,
no, need to you run the length of the field to the little video
screen. The guy's like, oh damn, video screens at the other end
of the field. Idiots are the challenge. Fag I got to run sixty
yards now, But don't you think that would be a much more efficient system?
I do. I do, because if we're gonna have it, let's
use it the right way. Yeah. I mean, technology is so fast.
You can get all the replays right away, you're seeing it. You
can make a decision. You can tell of a guy safer out in three
seconds. Yeah. And the thing is this, if you're on with them,
well, you don't have to defend anything. It's like when you played
football. What was the word? The line? The eye and the sky
don't lie. Yeah, they're watching their cameras now we can see it.
So you know, you don't have to explain why you did what you did
because it's irrelevant at this point. If you did it right, good,
If not, we're going to fix it. So the Angels really did get
screwed on that. Oh in hockey, you know they go to the replay.
Let me ask you so much. I've got an iPad. You've got
an iPad, Rodney, we love them. You know, we work with
them and they're big. Yeah. Okay, the NHL goes to replay,
so their replay room is in Toronto. The referees or the linesman skate over,
depending on what the call is, put on the headset and they get
to watch it on an iPad. Why does it look like an iPad mini?
Why can't they afford big screen that today? Really they don't need the
big iPad? Well, the good news. The good news is this,
it's really easy to see the puck on TV. It's the most difficult sport
to watch on television unless you really know it because you can't see the punk.
So why would you give them like iPad minis? All right, we're
gonna review this and it's really important. Let me go over here and get
my phone out, and I'm not talking about one of the big phones like
a mini phone. What are you doing? Let me get my readers out
too, right, let me get my readers in my phone and I'm gonna
look at this and you're not gonna question me. Why can't you get a
bigger screen? That's the more that's even more annoying. We're going to replay.
Where's a big screen? Why would you look at something that's small.
This is very important spring for the big iPad pro. You don't have to
go with the four years ago model mini. Give up big screen so people
can see it. Have you noticed that that just drives me crazy? It
does. Well, they haven't complained about it. Fed they don't need it.
They don't know good you know what. They don't know what they need
to complain about because they're afraid to lose their job. I will speak out
for them. I will do them a favor. All right, all right,
Kings won last night. They won it overtime and Coppatar, after Quentin
Byfield just touched the puck and didn't really know if he was trying to just
clear it down, somehow deflected it right to Copatar, who had a quick
breakaway and scored. It was the game the Kings desperately needed, desperately needed,
big hated Edmonton. Oh my god. So they came out in the
first period. They looked pretty good. Second period, they kind of laid
an egg. Third period, they fought back and forth, get to Old
for time and win. It was huge. Get them over a hump.
They get to come home now. So now you're a best of five and
you've got home ice. Yeah. Uh. I would say one of the
most important wins for that franchise in years. If they go down two up
there, and they very well could have, that would have been they're in
trouble, they're in trouble, that would have been it'd have been done.
But they did win. Uh. Cam Talbot made a spectacular safe they win.
I think they can. They got it, They got it. What
they gotta do they gotta I mean they got two here at home. Yeah,
I mean got at least get one for sure. But but yeah,
you know, uh, Edmondson's had their number two. So this this is
big. The fact that they got one back there is very huge because you're
right, if two would have felt like the Lakers coming back oh two to
Denver. Rodney guys were hurt, so people had to play extra minutes on
shifts. But it was really a great effort. It was. It was
just a terrific effort. And now they're Friday Sunday here, Yeah, Friday
Sunday. Okay, Friday Sunday here go, Kings Go, Go, Kings
Go. The crypt is gonna be rocking, Yeah, it is. You're
gonna be rocking for the Lakers tonight too. I'm wondering after tonight, are
we gonna be give them their last rites or are they gonna be okay?
Oh yeah, if they don't get one, if they don't get this tonight,
they're not getting one. Oh do you think that'll be it? Yeah?
Like if they if they if they don't get this, they're gonna get
swept. They gotta get this one because if they go down three, it'll
be the same thing as last year. Here we go again. We can't
beat these guys, even though we had them beat can't beat them, can't
beat them there, can't beat them here. Hopefully this is a This is
one of those games where the team comes in flat a little bit, Thenver
comes in a little flat, and the Lakers go, we got our backs
against the wall. We gotta we gotta win this one. If they don't,
it's over. Yeah. I think you certainly get one. I'm saying
they don't get one. If they lose this one, that'll be bad.
Yeah, that'll be bad. All right. Thank you for listening to the
Bonus Content Podcast. We are back on the air tomorrow for a riveting one
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