All right, let's go. Fred Rogan Rodney Pete at a five seventy LA
Sports Big three hour program for US Today. Rodney, how are you hey?
Uh yeah, yeah, throwback Thursday, Freddie, I'm feeling good,
feeling good, feeling sharp. A lot of things happening in the sports world,
NBA, NHL, Dodgers on a slide. I mean, what do
you want to start with, Fred, Well, first of all, we
were off yesterday, and really it had been better if we had been on
and the Dodgers wouldn't have played. There you go, they should have been
off. Well, check that they were off. They were off. We
were all off yesterday. So we did a podcast yesterday. And if you
didn't hear the podcast, and by the way, if you didn't hear the
podcast, why why we do the podcast Because we've been told we're killing it,
So we do a podcast when we're not on the air. And during
the podcast we had a major announcement. Do you know what the announcement is?
Did you hear what the announcement? Is you talking to me? Are
you talking to me? Are you talking to our fabulous listeners there who love
to come join us when we ever we go on remote. Fred. Well,
yeah, and here's the deal. We are going to Hollywood Park on
Monday. Granted and had a lot of notice, we understand that. But
because we have a loyal group that always shows up for the Hollywood Park shows
Monday noon to three Hollywood Park Casino in Inglewood, We're going to be given
a sweet tickets. First. The tickets will be into suite and if you're
in the suite, that's sweet. So you will be in the AM five
seventy Sweet. We're giving away sweet tickets. You'll see the Dodgers in person.
That'll be cool. You can't win them if you don't show up.
But the big news, and we didn't have it confirmed yesterday, but we
have it confirmed now. One of my favorite Dodgers is going to be there
between one thirty and two thirty. We've got the time now cemented. And
when they acquired this guy, I thought that was a brilliant move. I've
never backed down one bit. He's going to be there, take pictures,
sign autographs, meet the people. Our buddy, the Bazooka, Brucet Grattarol
will be there. He will be on the show. Yes, yes,
Bazuka. Bazuka is coming on the show. Yeah he is. He at
Fred, from the moment he got here, you were a champion of his
and he talked about how much you liked him. He loved his style,
his personalities. He said that guy. I love that guy. And here
we are some years later, Fred, we finally get your guy to come
visit us at Hollywood Park. So Monday, the show starts at noon.
You know, the advice is always get there a little early because at times
it could be standing room only, and at times you can invite your whole
family and twenty five friends and they'll be seats. But what I'm saying is
this. What I'm saying is this, you should get there early. Will
be there three hours giving away sweet tickets, and Bruce Star Graderol will be
our special guest in person at Hollywood Park on Monday. Get down to Inglewood.
Yes, be a part of it. Be a part of it.
We look forward to seeing you. Okay. So, as Rodney so aptly
put, we were off yesterday, and apparently so were the Dodgers. That
was not good. Young Landed Knack deserved better. He got hit a couple
of times. Overall pitched very well, but that potent lineup has not been
able to break through, and yesterday they were shut out. I mean,
we can just all be honest. There's no panic. There's no panic.
But this is right now with this team, it's pretty ugly. As they're
trying to figure out what to do, as they're trying to get guys out
of slums. They've got pictures that have been hurt that will come back,
but there's no other way to look at it. Really, that's ugly.
I mean, Washington Beach a couple of times, come on, what Washington
Beach? Come on? So you know, yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's it's listen, listen. It is still early, and there are some
bright spots. As you mentioned, you take out the first inning of yesterday's
game. He pitched a fantastic game. I thought, yeah, yeah,
And the Bats are not going to be that cold, at least down in
the lineup. They're not gonna be that cold all year long. They're gonna,
you know, they're gonna jockey with positions, They're gonna jockey with things
down there. Different. You know, people that are getting felt out right
now. Excuse my lack of a better phrase, but it's all gonna be
fine. It really is there's too much talent, and at some point the
talent starts to rise and will rise and this thing will come together. But
it still is somewhat of a feeling out process. Right. It still is
like that first three or four rounds of a boxing match where you you know,
you're throwing that jab, Keep throwing that jab, Keep throwing that jab.
He may hit you a couple of times. You know, he may
catch them ribs, right, he may catch that jaw a little bit.
Sure, now you know what he's coming with. And then that's when you
settle in and start going at him. So it still is that point and
still is that time for the Dodgers. I get it. It's frustrating because
you go into with the mindset that this team is going to be dominant.
We want this team to be dominant from start to finish, from start to
finish, wire to wire. We want to be the most dominant team in
baseball. Well that's not the case. That would be nice, but it's
not the case. What do you say, Freddie, It's a marathon,
not a sprint. That's exactly right. Yeah, so relax, it's not
great right now. But if this is like the bad and the worst it
can be. It's really going to be all right. Oh. I think
at the end of the day it will be. But I do have a
concern. Okay, okay, I knew it was coming. Yeah, and
we talked to we touched on this last year, and I just get this
sense when I watch. I'm getting the sense right now. You know,
the Dodgers are just too nice. They're too nice? What do I mean?
And I think we used this last year. When you look at the
Dodgers, observe them during the game, watch how they conduct themselves. It
looks as is these guys show up for work every day on time nine am,
smile on their face, all dressed in a suit, carry their briefcase
in, walk into the office, sit down, log out of the computer,
do their work, do it well, do it efficiently, nice to
everybody around. Never an hr problem here, five o'clock, get up,
walk out, go home, and do it again tomorrow. I don't see
and listen, I'm not saying you need a villain on your team. When
they're playing like this, you need somebody, And I'm not saying you need
this guy. Where's Manny Machado? A guy that looks like he's just gonna
kick your ass on for general reasons. Where's that guy got Joe Kelly?
Kelly? They got Joe Kelly. Joe Kelly pitches like every eight days,
and when he does, it's always an adventure. You don't know what's going
to happen. But Joe Kelly is that kind of guy. Where is the
other kind of guy like him? It's not Freddie Freeman, the nicest guy
on a planet. Mookie is fantastic. Sho Tani. We don't even know
what he's right. We don't know what he's saying. We have no idea.
We don't know Tascar Hernandez, we know months he can be that way.
He's got a little dog in him. Chris Taylor's nice. Gavin lux
is trying to figure out if he can stand in the club and hit James
Outman is terrific. Will Smith doesn't speak. If you just Jason Hayward's a
wonderful guy, but he's hurt. He'll be back. Uh. Keith k
got lucky the other night and then the ball hit his bat and went out
of the park. A that's true, Bomb, that's true. So the
point is, where is that guy? That guy where's c. J.
Abrams who let off for Washington. When you looked at him, you thought,
Oh, this guy go a little dog in him. Where's that guy.
I'll tell you a guy I think is like that, Rodney. I
think it's your guy, Mickey Rojas. I think he's got some dog in
him. I think he'll step up. I mean, I think he'll mix
it up when you say dog and they all have some dog in him.
Look, Mookie's got dog in him, Tony Comes. You're talking about a
villain. You're talking about somebody that that people can can hate a little bit
the other teams, can you know more feisty outwardly? Feisty outwardly? Because
you know, anybody says that that those those top three or four guys in
the lineup don't have dog in them that they know they've been watching, because
that's a different thing. And and and I hear what you're saying. I
hear what you're saying. You know, because a guy like Manny Machada,
who you love to hate but you love him when you're on when he's on
your team, kind of gives you that edge every day you go to the
ballpark, right edge. That's it. Rodney, Well, thank you.
I went three minutes and couldn't come up with a word. The edge.
Yeah, I hear what you're saying, and there is something to that.
There is something too when that guy steps up at the plate and everybody boos
him, the opposing crowd boos him and hates him and takes it for the
team, right, takes it for the team, And there's something too.
I think there's something to Every team kind of needs that that one guy or
two guys that can bring that to the table. And like you said,
Joe Kelly is that guy. But he's not in the lineup every day and
you don't see him but every fourth, fifth day, so he doesn't kind
of really work for what you're talking about. Yeah, he doesn't work.
And I think that, by far is the concern, at least my concern.
Talent is there. It's there and we know that and they will be
fine. But we talked about this last year as well in the playoffs.
Where is that guy, that one guy, the guy that can shake it
up, maybe the villain, maybe the disruptor, maybe the instigator. Where
is that guy that when he pokes his head out of the duck out across
the field they will hold God, oh my god, that we don't know
if he's gonna yeah, you don't know if he's gonna hit a home run
or throw the bat at you. You don't know. Where's that guy at
That guy doesn't exist, that guy like Yas. That's exactly what I was
going to say. Now, granted he kind of spiraled the wrong way,
but that guy, there's no guy like that. That seems to be to
me a concern. And we talked about it last year in the playoffs too.
Where is that guy? I'm not talking about a guy when they get
a base hit and they do their little wiggle dance or their little whatever they
do now, and I mean, really, at this point, come on,
let's act tough. How are we act tough? That's their thing.
They're the nicest thing. They're the nicest guys. They really are the nicest
guys. Okay, well, let's not be so nice. Let's have a
little want it to be the Dodgers. Yeah, I want them to be
the feared Dodgers. I want them to be the hated Dodgers. It doesn't
make them bad human beings. It doesn't. It doesn't give the impression that
oh my god, you better lock the doors or coming to town. But
I mean a little something, a little oh, a little yea, look
like it's bothering you. And I know in one hundred and sixty two games
you can't cause you gotta stay even keel. I got that, I got
it. But a little frustration, a little that's what I'm asking for.
Yeah, especially when you're feeling like this time that it feels like a little
rut, right, it feels like a little lull. It feels like it
just and I'm going to say, is going through the motions. But when
you're in one hundred and sixty two games, there are periods of time where
you're just you're grinding through it, and it feels like they've hit that part
of the season already. And it's still early. We're not even through the
first month of the season. But it feels like they at that that kind
of that that dog days of of of a season. That's what it looks
like already. Yeah. Yeah, and again I don't know how you get
out of it, but there really is something to to what you're saying,
that that that yasil Pue, that guy can get in a fight at any
moment. You know that guy that's so edgy that he h by you not
even knowing it. He kind of gets you going and when you're at the
ballpark and getting the clubhouse right, just by his antics. He's the guy
that you know runs one hundred miles an hour in the right field and you
know it's gonna take somebody out without even thinking about it. At second base,
you know you're gonna get feisty with the umpire go yell at somebody's face.
You know that guy? Where is that guy? Yeah? I meant
that guy be on that team. I mean you mentioned Mickey Rojas. I
don't know if they have that kind of guy. I don't know if they
had that. You got to have that guy to win it all, No,
you don't. But but still in times like this, like you mentioned,
times like this, be sure nice to have you know that guy,
But I don't know who that guy is on this team. Yeah, you're
right, it's show Kelly. Yeah, I mean, but as an everyday
guy, who could it be? It's well, who could it be?
There's nobody it could be. I don't know. Maybe if Pa has has
a hot hat and starts hitting the ball, he looks like a guy to
get stirred up. But he's too young, too, Yeah, too young.
He looks too young. So who is he? It's Mounsey. Mounsey
could be the only guy like that. Yeah, he'll get it out of
the water. Yeah, he could be the only guy currently playing like that.
Yeah yeah, yeah, because everybody else is more. It's really business
like. Yeah, I'm telling you. They show up, they're on time,
they form at the highest level possible. But there's never a hiccup.
Nobody makes an off color remark. You don't go to HR. The boss
never has to call you in and say knock it off. It's straight down,
straight down Main Street. They got it. They're really good people,
and they're really good at what they do. But once in a while you
got to have some crazy man, some knucklehead, some guy shake it up,
shake it up with your little identity, gives you a little Yeah.
I mean in baseball, the season is so long, you've got to be
even keeled. You play so many games, so you can't have some lunatic
running around the whole time because it doesn't work. Because at the end of
the day, the law of averages that, yeah, right, the law
of Averages says you're gonna be fine, and they will be because they're the
best team. But it's just it seemed like that was missing last year and
as they have started off and then they lose to in Arona, Washington,
it seems like you need somebody, you know what, we're not hitting.
Kick somebody in the ass, brit Well, or I'm gonna go in there
and pick up the water cool and just throw it. I am so pissed.
Damn it. We got to hit you know something, something, anything,
So guys go, oh my god, I can't believe he's so mad.
Wow, we better yeah, do something, you know what I mean.
And maybe it's just me watching and maybe it means nothing for the players,
but it's just they're so even keeled, which is important, but they
just they could probably use one guy that just is a little little off,
a little loose cannon. Little loose cannon can is Yeah, like you said,
little you know, brings that little edge to the ballpark every day.
You don't know what he's gonna do today. That's what I'm saying. They
don't have that guy. Yeah. Mmmm. It's really interesting point there,
Freddy, because there is something to be and I'm thinking like kind of now,
I'm thinking about teams that I've been on, there was we always had
that guy, at least a couple of them, you know, that would
bring in that certain level of I'll fight the whole team if you need me
to. You know, a man, Little Steve Smith, receiver from Carolina
was that guy for us when I played in Carolina. He was that guy
from the moment he got to the stadium, he was wired up and ready
to go and let you know about it. He was going to talk your
ear off and he was going to talk the other team's ear off too.
But you loved him because he was on your team. You know, he
had that little Napoleon complex where he was a small guy but a big heart
and played big and he was going to get under the other other team's skin
from the moment the gun sound. Yeah, yeah, that guy, that
guy the edge factor. You know, they can be that cocky guy,
that cocky guy tamping the home runs. Like you said once, he can
be that guy. He can be that guy. Ah yeah, but that's
not who the Dodgers are. That's not who they are. Maybe they need
to be a little of it, yeah, because you're told to check that
at the door when you get into that, when you put on that uniform.
And that's fine. Like I said, you can't be that way the
whole year long, and it's a very long season. But you know,
in the past, they've had the guy that jumps up on the dugout and
starts sticking out his tongue and dancing and waving and god, this is so
much fun. How about we have instead of that guy a different kind of
guy with a little edge. It looks like he's going to storm out of
the dugout at any moment. Yeah, yeah, I'm going back up and
thinking about who who could be that little edge? Yeah, you know,
at one point you could have said, like, but he has to play
morning. When he's playing, you know, it's you can't be that guy
sometimes when you're not playing well, struggling, it's tough. The ki Ki
has that kind of energy a little bit, but he's not in the lineup
every day and he's struggling. Jock Peterson was that it was kind of like
that guy a little bit, even though he's a little aloof Jock was a
little edgy. But the one that comes to mind so so big and vividly
pool isqueak. You know. It is the way he just approached every game
again, like he was such a loose can and you didn't know what it
was, what was gonna happen that day, which means the other team didn't
know either, Right, That's what it means, Just like I think think
Kevin. You mentioned before the show, Tommy Fam. I'm not saying he
signed Tommy Fam. Well, he just signed with the White Sox last week.
Okay, Well that's fine. You know, he basically punched Jock Peterson
over a fantasy football thing. That's the kind of guy you're talking about there,
Fret. I'm talking about a guy like that, just one of them,
someone who've asked, they suggested in the offseason that the Dodgers should sign.
So yeah, I'm just talking about one guy like that, one guy
that you're never sure what's gonna happen next. And I'm being honest, I
think I think they could use that. There's nothing wrong. They're the they're
the nicest, they're they're they're gonna win the West, they should win the
World Series. But when you're losing two in a row, and I don't
care if it's three weeks in or two months into Washington, come onlo,
somebody's got to do something. Somebody's got to say, guys, this is
not working for me. Let's get them and two to nothing with that lineup,
two to nothing to Washington. I mean, was Burlander on the hill?
Yeah, I mean Blander Schwartz, It was just like, come on
that that just wasn't They're just not gonna get it done. They're not gonna
get it done. It doesn't matter what point in the year. Come on,
guys, you can't hit them. Well what do you think though,
I mean you think that that they they themselves are in this like we are
good enough to to really look, we're gonna be there in the end.
Yeah, I don't care what anybody else. We're gonna be there in the
end. And there's a part of them said, let's get through. Let's
just get through these one sixty two because we're gonna be there in the end.
Sometimes you gotta play games with yourself. Sometimes you got to challenge yourself
within the game, within the season, you know, within the within the
team. I can remember in my baseball days, I we'd have competitions with
with teammates vividly remember Brett Boone who was on our team, my baseball team,
and that seat. We would have competitions every day about who's gonna get
more hits and have little side bets, who's gonna get the first hit,
who's gonna hit a home run? You know, go opposite way this this
is bad. I mean things like that that just kept you going. But
sometimes you gotta you gotta figure out the extra motivation in a long season,
like especially if you're a team that's so good that you know you're going to
be there in the end. But that's the problem. You got to play
it all the way through in order to get the old team hot at the
right time at the end. You can't just turn it on turn it off.
We've seen that doesn't work. Well, just a thought, Okay,
bad man, Fred, that's right? Well what did Miko call me?
Bandana? Fred? Bandana? Fred? That's right? You know, get
you in the dug out there, Fred, I'm surfacing. I'm rising like
a phoenix. Play a little know your squad eight six six ninety seven two
five seventy. The squad today is the Dodgers. First caller Kevin picture up
puts you in the air. You're playing Rodney and Ronnie. Uh uh uh
yeah, I see you, Rodney, Pete, Fred Rogan on a throwback
Thursday. Look, Curtis Mayfield. Ah you Freddy, Yeah, let's go.
Let's do this. Why don't you breathe that bad boy, be that
bad man, Fred? Come on, we gotta shake it up, Rodney,
gotta shake it up a little bit. That's all I'm saying. Shake
it up. Yeah. Hey, Christin Riverside, are you there? I
am? How you doing today? All right? How about you doing well?
Thanks for asking. Appreciate that, appreciate it. We're gonna play.
Know your squad. Give you a question of five choices. You answer before
I give you all five choices. You are locked out. You have a
challenge. Okay, use your challenge. It's upheld. You retain it.
Use your chair, elegent. It's denied. You're not. You're locked out
of the next question. You got all that? Got it? All right?
Running you running good afternoon, Rogan in Rodney and I am ready to
play this game. Let's see if you know your Dodgers today. Who holds
the LA Dodger record for most wild pitches in a single season with twenty Darren
Dryford, Hideo no Mo Sandy colfax Al Downing or Al Bundy Sandy no Gryford?
How about new Ryford Sandy coax Al Downing no bod no good? Uh
TODAYO Ronnie got in their front. Ronnie got in there. Nobody knew that
one though, Well Ronnie knew it running. Are you sure he got in
there first? Oh? I don't think I did, Chris. Why don't
you challenge? Oh? Let's find out? Uh yeah that I'm locked down
right? Not if you get it? Not? If you get right,
don't do it? You know what I got a challenge? Roll the dice,
Chris, I love it. Let's do it. Oh no, no,
no, no, no, no you are you really going to challenge?
Not? If not? He give me a little hint there, mister
Rogan, Chris, it's up to you, Chris. In my opinion,
I don't Hey, I listened to the radio. I don't know to your
Sean mcvayh doesn't ask you know the official does what to behoove me to challenge
this call? What do you think you challenging? Are you're not? Chris?
What are you doing? Uh? Ol river run give me a little
bit, Hey, you come too far. You got to do it now.
Chris, You're three quarters of the way there. I'll challenge, I'll
challenge. Oh my god. Okay, all right, no good today,
O Chris. Nope, that's over. That's all right. Hey, okay,
all right, what you went for? Thirty seconds ahead you, Chris,
So you are locked out of this question? Kenley Jansen, Eric Kanye
one and two for most saves and franchise history. Who has the third most
saves in Dodger history? Todd Warrel, Jim Brewer, Jay Howell, Jeff
Shaw or Jeff Foxworthy Jeff Shaw, God Warrell. Ronnie is correct, Jeff
Foxworthy. You know it's it's already done. Ronnie is corrected. It's Jeff
Shaw. All right, Chris, you're back. All right, there we
go. Dodgers beat the Braves by the score of four to three in Game
seven of the twenty twenty n LCS. Who hit to go ahead home run
and the seventh inning to give the Dodgers the four to three lead in that
game Cory Seger, Cody Bellinger, Max Munsey, Jack Peterson, Jacques Coustaudy,
Jeff Peterson. Okay, so the one thing I can confirm is Chris,
you didn't get it because you had the wrong answer. Now, okay,
to me, Rodney and Ronnie were very close. I'm calling for a
booth sound. It was that close. I agree, So let's get the
booth in and make a decision. Let's hear it. Cody Bellinger, Max
Munsey, Jack Peterson, Jacques Cousteau. Oh, Daddy Peterson, Jacques Cousteau,
Cody. You know what, Honestly, it might have been you,
Rodney. I think I got him a little bit, just a little bit.
Yeah, all right, Yes, Rodney's on the board. On the
board. Here's the next one. Who holds a team record for most are
behind a single season with one fifty three. Roy Campanella, Matt camp Duke
Snyder, Tommy Davis or Sammy Davis, Tommy Davis, Tommy Davis, Ronnie,
Renie Fossio, Ronnie killing It. Two questions to go. Last time
the Dodgers missed the playoffs was in twenty twelve. Clayton Kershaw led the team
and wins that season with fourteen. Who was second on the team and wins
with twelve, Aaron Harang, Chris Capuano, Chad Billings, link Ted Lilly
or Ted Laston Ted Lily ed Ryan Rodney got in ahead of Chris. Chris
Capuana was the answer, Yeah, Chris, you want to do? You
want to challenge that one? He's already used the challenge, he said,
fifty seconds behind on that one. Okay, all right, so here we
go. It's the final question. Battle. Oh Chris, wait a battle?
No, he's in it. I like his competitiveness. Yeah, yeah,
or as Dave Roberts would say, I like his compete, like his
compete. All right, Final question. Sean Green holds a franchise record for
the most home runs in a single season with forty nine. Who was second
in team history with forty eight home runs in a single season. Cody Bellinger,
Adrian Beltray, Duke Snyder, Gary Sheffield or Gary Busey No, Cody
bell who'd you have? Chris Duke? No, Cody Bellinger No, Mike
Piazza No, Dave Hansen, Duke Snyder. I forgot that. Forgot the
choices Fred, Yeah, Mike Piazza no, the Eric Carrows no, the
other choice no, the last choice no, Gary No. The only one
you haven't mentioned is Gary Busey. Did he play with the Dodgers forty eight.
That one year, didn't he? Uh? Okay, Chuck Connors the
rifleman. He was a Dodger, a Brooklyn Dodger. All right, here's
the deal. All star third baseman Ronse Hall of Fame, recent Hall of
Fame third BA Adrian Beltrait, Brodney Cody Bellinger at forty seven seven. It
was one off, okay, all right, Chris, listen, good try
today man, way to be in there and fight for it. All right,
Thank you, guys, I'm a good one. You can I ask
Can I ask Rodney a question? Real quick? Is that? Okay?
Hey, Rodney? Did you have a first base coach? Client? Yeah?
When you played for client? Yep? Did all right? Sure did?
All right. We don't have to say what he did. What he
did for a living. He was my supervisor when I write it out,
doing what he did? Okay, yeah, no, it means nothing.
But I just I was curious if he actually coached you. Yes he did,
Yes, he did. We had a lot of fun. Right,
very very very good person, very good person. Yes, yes, thanks
for missing that, Chris. And if you happen to run by him or
run into him, tell him. I said, hello, will do.
Thank you. You guys have a good one. Chrishay. So what does
this guy do for a living? You can't say, Kris didn want to
say, well, what is it? You know? I do know?
Well what do you do? What's the big spread? Oh? No,
stay tuned. Is he the founder of only Fans or something? Hey?
Hey, hey, you call it a successful businessman right there? Not the
father? All right, anyway, here here's the bottom line. We're gonna
pay for that on the other side. All right, good, we want
to hear that, and we're gonna pay for everything ourselves. Is that good?
No, it's not. We still don't want you. We'll explain.
Uh huh ah. I love throw Back Thursday's baby It's in that mood today.
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of Afternoon Delight is ABC by the Jackson Five. You know it truly said
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So things become so convoluted and screwed up. The stadium in Glendale says,
you're not paying your rent. You're not paying your rent. You're out.
We're kicking you out. You're not paying you're out. Now, I've
never heard of that. Yeah, I've never heard of an arena kicking a
team out. You're out. Pay your rent for it. Okay. So
then they go, look, we got a problem here. We got to
figure this out. And really, there's nowhere to play because you're not going
to play where the Phoenix Suns play. It's bad for hockey. The site
lines and that's where they used to play. So they come up with a
plan. The plan is they're going to play at Arizona State University in an
arena that seats five thousand. An NHL team is going to play in an
arena that seats five thousand. Because the big, big plan is this,
they are going to build an entertainment district in Tampee and they're going to pay
for it. By the way, the club, they're going to build an
arena they're going to build an entertainment district, and they just need the land.
Give us the land, doing with anything with it anyway, and you
give us a land, we'll cover everything. You just got to sit back,
relax and watch the magic, because all of a sudden there'll be more
jobs and it'll be great and we'll develop this piece of land and we'll cover
the whole thing. They go, all right, good, let's put it
on the ballot. Let's put on the ballot. Let's se what the voters
think. They put it on the ballot, and the voters go, no,
you're not No, we don't want you. Okay, let me go
a look what we're gonna do now is there's a piece of land in Phoenix
that's up for auction and it's sixty three million dollars. We're gonna buy that
land. If we win the auction, we're gonna buy that land and we're
gonna build an entertainment district and the Coyotes will survive. Then they realize they
can't afford that land, they can't buy the land, they're not gonna win
the auction, and because they got kicked out of their arena to start with
for not paying their rent and because then the people in Timpe wouldn't say,
go ahead, build, it'll be good for all of us. And now,
because they can't win the auction, the Coyotes are moving to Salt Lake
City. And the way it's gonna work is the league is gonna pay the
owners of the Coyotes a billion dollars and take over the team for like ten
seconds, they're gonna turn out, yeah and turn around, it's already been
set and sell the team to this guy in Salt Lake that owns the Jazz
for one point three billion dollars. Then they're gonna take the three hundred million
and split it up amongst all the owners. Goodbye to hockey in Phoenix,
and thanks for playing, does say, but if we ever expand again,
yes, you guys will be top of the list. Okay, Phoenix will
be top of the list again. That's what they said. No, now
let's go step further. Phoenix. That's not confused, people, And Phoenix
is not like Cleveland who lost the football team and and the Browns and the
city of Cleveland so passionate about football they demanded to have it back. I
don't know if Phoenix is a you know the bed of hockey fans in Phoenix
that are dying to have hockey back in Phoenix, and we want it right
back here. Let's go step further. So you know the Diamondbacks are I'll
threatening to leave and they're threatening to leave because the lifespan of a stadium is
twenty five years. Okay, if you're not aware of that, it is.
And at twenty five years you got to start doing things, which goes
by quick by the way it flies. Yes, it flies. So you
go, well, we have to upgrade the stadium. Maybe we need more
luxury box things like that. Now, let me tell you what you really
need. Plumbing. The plumbing starts to go after twenty five years. Infrastructure
things start to fall apart after twenty five years. So aside from the fact
that you want to go and get to a stadium where you can generate more
revenue with a luxuries, more sweets and things like that, you got to
make sure this thing doesn't fall apart. Go down to Anaheim. That'll answer
any questions you have. Yeah, go down there and see what that's like.
All right, So they say we need to improve this Maricopa County City
of Phoenix. You know, we need like two hundred million bucks and it's
we're good to go. We'll fix this pop up and you know we love
you and no, no, and the diamond beat, what do you mean?
No, No, we're not doing it. We're not fixing it up.
We're not giving you the money to fix it up. Well, we'll
spend a little, you spend a little. No, we're not doing that
either. We're not going to do that. So now they are closer to
leaving than you think they are. So that would mean Phoenix would lose hockey
and baseball because the taxpayers aren't going to pay for it. They're just not
going to go for it. They're done with that kind of stuff. If
you can't pay, you shouldn't play. Yeah, so Phoenix, which is
a good sized market, could lose their major league baseball team and they've now
lost hockey. And to be honest with you, the only team that resonates
in Phoenix and Rodney and I both know this the Suns. Then, did
did you hear this? So you know, Kansas City is not going to
help the Chiefs now or the Royals, right, and you know, and
that kind of knocked the Chiefs back on their heels, because you would think
if anybody would be willing to help a professional team, it'd be the people
that's saying Kansas City that has the Chiefs have done so well for meant so
much. Anyway, the mayor of Dallas comes out and goes, you know,
the Chiefs actually started in Dallas. They did the Dallas Texans, right,
so good new mar Hunt, right, good news. I officially welcome
them back to Dallas. The Chiefs should move back to Dallas, and now
we'll have two teams in Dallas. Never happened, never ever in life?
Right, that ever happened. The Mayor of Dallas should be impeached for making
that state Yeah, because that could do one of the stupidest things. Do
you really think, well, first of all, do you really think Jerry
Jones is gonna go Yeah, no problem. You know at and T Stadium.
Well, they got two teams in LA. You can put another team
right here. I'm good, Yeah, I'm good with that. I'm good
with that. Yeah. Who is the yeah right now, the most powerful
owner and has been for a while in the NFL. I think he was
going to allow another team not only to come into Texas, but to come
into Dallas. Are you kidding me? After all the money he spent in
the Dallas area, you're gonna let another NFL. He ran people out of
San Antonio. Remember that big picture of the years there were different teams.
Oh, we're going to San Antonio expansion, san Antonio, san Antonio playing
said that was all Jerry not letting that happen. He was not letting the
team go to San Antonio, and certainly not in Dallas. You're right.
How can the mayor of Dallas fix his mouth to even say something like that
with the historic Cowboys being right there? I mean, I don't know.
If he's up for reelection, he can just forget it. He must not
be. He must not be because to say something as stupid as that,
he will not get re elected number one, and all that campaign money he
was hoping to get, he ain't getting anything. No donations coming his way.
Maybe, oh man, maybe in Dallas if you're elucteds for a lifetime
term, because that's the only way this guy surviving. Only way, here's
the thing, only way, and we've touched on it. If you're a
fan, I think you appreciate it. People are sick and tired of funding
owners' stadiums. They're sick of it. They don't want their tax money used
to fund a stadium where the owner profits. Sure, it creates jobs,
but overall it's the owner making the money. Yeah. The Phoenix situation is
even more bizarre because they said we'll pay for everything, and the voter still
said, no, get the hell out of here, we don't want you.
Can you imagine that would be like in Oakland, Rodney, the owner
of the a's finally decides, well, which he did in Vegas basically,
but he decides, Look, City of Oakland, County of Alameda, whatever
the other third municipality is, I got this. I need nothing from you.
I don't want anything. I will take care of the whole thing.
Just give me that land. Give me a land. I'll pay for everything.
I'll build an entertainment district that'll create jobs. It's gonna be the best
thing ever. I got it. It's give me that land. Cost you
nothing. Oh, let's put it on the ballot. They put it on
the ballot. And if people go, no, we're not giving you the
light, they're they're in essence saying we don't. We're not doing this anymore.
We're not doing anything else. Are they saying that and're not gonna do
anywhere? Are they saying that because we don't trust you, you're going to
try to sneak it in somehow, some way and extra tax here and there,
and it's really the fundest stadium that we're not gonna pay for. Look
on that topic. I was reading this, I know we got a break.
I was reading, you know, the Olympics here coming up in twenty
twenty eight. The big pitch is it'll be privately funded. And that's what
they did back in eighty forward. Peter you bright you were off was the
big deal. Yeah, he changed the world kind of the model. I
was reading the other day. They're in trouble. There's privately funded the Olympics.
Yeah, they're way behind, billions of dollars. It's sponsorships and things.
You know, who's going to eat that? You and me city,
Yep, we're going to eat it. Yeah, we're gonna eat it.
The city will make them whole. But I thought, oh my gosh,
they are really behind. And when they announced they we're going to do it
a certain way, I thought, now they got it, they know how
to do this. They're way way behind and it's public money. And here's
the thing, I do believe people are sick and tired of funding these things.
Yeah, I agree, the Olympics greed stadium's this that Why am I?
Why am I paying for that? Yeah? And as much as you
like you said, the shelf life of a stadium is twenty five years.
As much as people love shiny new things and new toys, if your team
is good, they're gonna show up. They're gonna come to the stadium.
They're gonna come. The Rams played at the Coliseum before they even renovated the
Coliseum. Yep. I mean they were getting seventy five thousand folks there at
the stadium, and especially the year that they a couple of years that they
had when they went unrolled to the playoffs. But you're right, people are
like, I'm not going to fund a five billion dollar stadium. Why why
are we doing this? Why? You know, I'll still go watch the
game, didn't matter. But that's only put money in these owners pockets.
The new stadium means more revenue for them, more suits, more all those
things. So yeah, I think you're right. The people are just fed
up. We're not going to do this anymore. All right, as we
continue this afternoon, David vas Say will join us during the two o'clock hour,
and our buddy Dan Wike here come the NBA playoffs. He will jump on next