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And we continue on Fred Rugg and
Rodney Pete on a five to seventy LA

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sports housekeeping off the top. We
will see you Thursday in Englewood and Hollywood

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Park Casino. Key Hernandez and the
Dodgers will be our special guests. We

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are giving stuff away. I'm not
exactly sure what I'm thinking. There'll be

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some sweet tickets involved. There better
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be, but we'll get that information
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time, a good crowd. Last
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can make that argument. Yeah,
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All right, Dodgers back in Arizona
tonight. Did not last night strike

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out one time? Remarkable. Let's
bring on our man, David Vassa and

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Dave. Thanks for jumping on.
Hey, my pleasure, guys and doing

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Dodger talk. Last night for me
was therapy. I go down to interview

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Andy po has, I come back
up and I see the final score of

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the Laker game. So we had
a great Dodger talk for a full hour,

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and it distracted all of us from
the reality that the Nuggets are the

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Lakers. Daddy. Yeah, yeah, there are a lot of folks,

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Daddy, but definitely the Lakers eleven
of twelve or whatever it is, they

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definitely are. Oh, say Rodney, but take a break from that.

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Let's get back to the good stuff. Paz Man he is. He has

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been, as advertised, coming up
here. Maybe a little slow star,

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but he has been coming on like
gang Bucks. As David doesn't look like

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he's leaving the lineup anytime soon.
I don't believe he's leaving the lineup the

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rest of the season. Rodney.
That's how much I've been impressed by Andy

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po Has since the beginning of spring
training and talking to Landon Knack, who

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was teammates with him last year in
Oklahoma City. He just said he saw

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a maturation from pa Has when the
season started last year, and it's just

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all coming together for him at the
right time. Not only for him,

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but for the Dodgers. They needed
a guy like this because of Jason Hayward's

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injury, James Autman, and Chris
Taylor's slow start, and Andy pa Has

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certainly has filled that void. And
you know, he plays with such confidence.

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Dave, it looks like he's been
up here for a while. You

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know. I told him that after
the game. I said, You've only

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played what twelve fourteen major league games, but it feels like you've been here

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for two year years. And it's
just remarkable how he's so prepared. I

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think that's part of the reason why
it looks that way, Fred, just

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the preparation. And landonak also told
me that he's a baseball rat. He

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just continually consumes baseball. There are
no other distractions in his life, and

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it's just all coming together at the
right time for him and his career.

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Yeah, I mean it really feel. I mean, Fred and I were

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talking about this a couple of weeks
ago about you know, who's going to

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merge on the dodge, especially the
bottom half of that lineup, and who's

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going to have or be that guy
they may need a guy with some attitude.

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It feels like he hasn't vocally said
it, but it feels in Fred's

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a confidence, but it feels like
he plays with such a little bit of

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an edge. And maybe he will
never get vocalized that way from him because

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that's not who he is, but
he it feels that when you watch him

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play, there's a level of borderline
cocking. Is confidence from him? Am

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I off? Well? I would
say confidence. Definitely confident. And part

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of the reason why is because he's
playing the game for the right reasons.

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He's not playing it for fame or
social media branding. And he has not

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gotten too big of a head even
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that's part of all of this.
He's still keeping his head down. He

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knows that he still has a lot
to prove, and that's part of the

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reason why you see him play with
that edge. Dave, have you ever

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Well, I'm probably not, but
I'm going to say, have you ever

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in your years of covering the Dodgers
seeing a game where nobody's struck out?

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Well, I was covering the Dodgers
in a limited capacity in two thousand and

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six. That was the last time
a Dodger lineup never struck out in a

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game. August twenty eighth, two
thousand and six the Dodger Stadium against the

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Cincinnati Reds was the last time that
happened. And I really believe that this

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should be getting a lot more attention
because of the day and age. The

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Dodgers did not strike out. A
day and age in baseball where strikeouts are

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not a scarlet letter for players,
a day and age where three true outcomes

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has been dominating major League Baseball,
and they had to go and change the

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rules to try to bring it back
more to the center. So what the

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Dodgers did last night, especially being
a team that only a week ago was

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leading all of Major League Baseball with
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in a game. It was remarkable
and it was refreshing, and a lot

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of the players did not even realize
it, and really they shouldn't. That

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should be expected not to strike out, But Key k Hernandez was the only

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Dodger player that recognized they did not
strike out in the game, and that

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was in the bottom of the ninth
inning while he was playing defense in the

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outfield, he turned to look at
the K counter they have here at Chase

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Field and there were no k's on
the board, and that's what got him

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thinking, and he shared it with
his fellow outfielders. But yeah, really

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a great night. And certainly,
you know, fans want to complain about

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too many strikeouts, Well how about
celebrating the fact your team did not strike

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out once in the game. Yeah, yeah, no doubt. I mean,

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like you said in the day and
age, where it's about you know,

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lonch agles and home runs and nobody
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That you have a game like this
and it's kind of a whole home Do

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players players like that too? Days? They bought in like strikeouts. If

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I strike out, you know,
four times in back to back games,

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and yet I hit two doubles in
those back to back games, I don't

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really care about the strikeouts. Is
it just become that way for players nowadays?

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Well, there's no shame in it, right, Rodney, There's no

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shame. There's no peer shame.
The organizations don't hold that against them.

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In the nineties early two thousands,
if you struck out one hundred times,

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there was a good chance you were
going to be sent down to the minor

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leagues if you did not have the
power numbers to match that. And consider

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this, Gary Sheffield, who I
believe should be in the Hall of Fame

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at over five hundred home runs in
his career, never struck out one hundred

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times in his career. Not once
in a single season. Did Gary Sheffield

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strike out one hundred times in a
season. But when you talk about the

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peer pressure of it now, there
isn't that. But Dave Roberts has been

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very vocal about the fact the last
three or four years he wants to see

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more contact. And we've talked about
Mookie Betts and this being his season.

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Well, he has set the tone
in a lot of different ways, and

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including in the strikeout department. Rookie
Betts going into tonight has not struck out

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in his last fifty seven plate appearances. Wow, So if the big boys

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are doing that, then obviously there's
a little bit higher expectation from the other

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guys. On the topic, of
strikeouts hitting overall, Gavin Lux does he

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seem now slowly to kind of be
rounding into where he wants to be?

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Well, the good news is fred
he's getting on bass. Is he where

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he wants to be? The simple
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he's still limited with his right knee
to kind of explode and really plant when

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he's in the batter's box. But
the good news is when he does play,

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he's not making mistakes at second base
and he's making some really nice plays.

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He does not have an error at
second base. We have seen no

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signs of any throwing issues from second
base. So that's the good news.

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Now that just need him to start
hitting. And he's not going to be

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in the starting lineup tonight. I
don't believe because there's another left hander on

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the mound in Jordan Montgomery talk about
hitting, Tioscar Hernandez, David Bassey.

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Did Dodgers expect him to be this
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he is being mister steady for this
team. I looked up the different

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stats and he's he's in the top
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How impressive has he been for the
Dodgers and are they are really aware of

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his contribution? Well, yeah,
they are, and he kind of solved

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a big problem for them. They
needed him. Where would they be without

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Taoscar Hernandez with James Outman and Chris
Taylor struggling with Hayward's injury, they really

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needed a player like Taoscar Hernandez,
not to platoon, but to play every

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day. And he's he's a guy
that sniffs out RBIs and what opposing teams

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are doing to him now is throwing
a lot of sliders and he's aware of

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it, and sometimes he's able to
hit him, sometimes he's not. And

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he is a two hundred strikeout player. The Dodgers are trying to get him

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not to swing and miss as much. But last night he came up with

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the Dodgers' first big extra base hit
with the bases loaded this season, coming

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into that fifth inning, when before
ta Oskar hit a two run double with

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the bases loaded, the Dodgers only
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and he and Pahz both delivered two
run doubles in the same inning with

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the bases loaded. So he's at
the top of RBIs and a week ago

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was leading the league in RBIs.
So he's definitely a run producer, but

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you have to be able to swallow
the fact he is going to strike out

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close to two hundred times day.
Before I let you go, I want

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to ask you about Chris Taylor.
You know you mentioned a couple of times

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obviously he's struggling when you were around
him. Can you see he feels that

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way? Is what is his attitude
on a daily basis, given how badly

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he's struggling. He's the most consistent
personality. You would not know if he

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was on a twenty game hit streak
or if he was zero for thirty.

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That's just who he is and that's
his personality. So yeah, the way

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he walks around, it's not like
he's keeping his head down and he's depressed.

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He's just the same guy. He's
working tirelessly to try to figure things

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out. Whether or not that comes
to fruition, I don't know, but

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his demeanor has remained the same.
All right, Well, Dave, thank

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you for your demeanor today. I
thought it was very pleasant. Yeah,

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I feel like we're on a good
spot here, guys. I think it's

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better when I'm in a different state
all right, d have a good day

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day. You're the man. Thank
you, guys. Thanks well there you

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Dave and put a smile on our
face a little bit. Yeah, uh,

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all right. Should we have just
like a cathartic segment here, let

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people weigh in on what they think
the Lakers should do. We'll do it.

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Why not? Fright? Why not? We are about the people?

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Why not? All right? Eight
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Uh. If in fact you have
the plan for the Lakers, we'll do

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one segment, that's it. But
if you have the plan, you know

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it needs to be done. The
changes you would make eight six six nine

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eighty seven two five seventy Buckle up, it's time for trapping on a M.

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Five seventy l a sports Hm.
Let's keep this spread going, Freddy,

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come on now, Rodney, Pat
fred Rogan beautiful Tuesday. Yeah it

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is all right. Laker fans,
Laker fans, what do you think?

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What changes should be made? Who
do you blame? What do you want

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them to do? Let's take a
couple of quick calls at eight sixty six

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nine eight seven two five seventy uh, Primo in South Central thanks for holding

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what do you think, Hi,
guys, I think that that first.

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Let me just say, I'm a
guy with kind of a little edge,

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so I but but you gotta be
you gotta be tough, but you gotta

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be smart, you have to be
Really that one thing we lost, and

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I'm a homer, so I thought
the rest made some more bad calls.

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A Primo, Primo, Primo,
Primo, just give it to us.

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What should they do? What I
wanted to say, is the coach,

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coach Ham out there gapping and hugging
and smiling and talking to players on Denver

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team who might be his friends,
people he might have lunch with, while

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we're in a battle. That does
not look good for the Laker team.

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That looks bad. That was the
worst thing of the whole game for me

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last night. All right, thanks, Primo, appreciate the call. Primo

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really didn't tell us what he thought
should be done. But Primo was just

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upset that Darvinham was hugging everybody.
Primo didn't like that. Yeah, all

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right, let's go to Solomon.
Solomon, go ahead, Yeah, I

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got four things exactly to handle the
Lakers or help them at least maybe get

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over the hump of Denver number one, you need a big backup for Anthony

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Davis. The man is gassed in
the fourth quarter. He has no help

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down load. The Lakers are too
small. They need a big coming off

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the bench. They need a dog
coming off the bench from their bench.

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That's the second thing. Third thing
is you need a consistent third score on

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their starting five, not d low
mister seesaw. You need a consistent third

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score. And fourth, I want
to see a shrewd experienced coach that knows

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how to you know, in game
adjustments can change a game plan definitely and

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quickly. All right, Solomon,
thanks appreciate the call. Kaya We've had

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two callers so far. Rodney,
Yeah, I did with the big man

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because I think part of that is
true. I mean, you see Anthony

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Davis, and he's got to do
it on both ends. And I don't

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think he gets enough credit. Now. Everybody wants to talk about Rudy Gobert

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and all those things. He's a
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it, had a great year and
this and that. None of those guys

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do what Anthony Davis does on both
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has been I know it's been overlooked
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about injuries, but he has been
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and doesn't get enough credit. But
I think he's right about having another big

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because you remember when they could rotate
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quick point. Develle McGee in there
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have some rem protection. It was
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just don't think A d is getting
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people aren't even talking about him for
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let's go to Joe real quick.
Joe, you're on three things.

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One, you here Danny Hurley.
He's gonna be in a pro sooner or

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later. He's the Nick Saven of
college basketball. The guy knows what he's

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doing. That would be a tremendous
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you have to get rid of let
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up. You need a wing that
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You get. You got Trey Young
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uh, you know, the Lakers
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go and and let him go and
he holds the ball to all right,

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they let Joe go, all right, Joel, thanks, at least Joe

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got to something. I let Lebron
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Lebron and get Devin Booker. Right, Devin Booker replaces Lebron. Right,

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that's right. He wants That's what
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was the other thing he wanted to
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wouldn't there, very simple, right, simple, like Dan Hurley is really

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going to translate to to the NBA. Dan Hurley in the NBA, you

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know his antics and everything works in
college. Fly saban didn't work, and

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he mentioned saban. Fly Saban didn't
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college stuff to the professional sports.
It just doesn't work. Rick Patino found

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that out. Yeah he did,
didn't he? Yeah he did, Yeah

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he did. Let's have some spirituality, Rodney, let's go. We need

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it. We gotta have it.
Especially after that. So to provide that,

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we welcome on Victor Brick with the
Daily Haiku and Vic, good afternoon

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to you. Is he ready to
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Freight Rogan not exactly sure, Vic, Something's got to happen. He

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preaches patience and continuity. Rodney Pete
a TB. He's in for Poppa Kevin

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figures today his clippers are still bawling. Adam Auslin, Oh, Luca,

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give me nightmares, y'all? How
about Kyrie? Also? Yeah, I

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mean they lost or whatever. What
Listen, they're gonna They're gonna get their

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points and his musica will take Lakers
fans from the Denver devastation into hope.

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Oh he's a mighty bench. It's
kicking flavor. Yeah, look at me.

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I'm still a wreck. The Lakers
obviously, in that game last night

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in Denver, they played well,
but they got Jamal Murray again three point

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six seconds left and Murray says,
I got your calf muscle right here and

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buried yet another last second dagger.
He's a Laker killer, y'all. I

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mean, the Purple and Gold were
this close to forging the game six a

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lot of guts in Denver, but
missing those free throws and forgetting how to

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rebound in the last two minutes.
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To execute the play of the game. I know everyone's gonna say,

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Murray that floating Jay in the paint. I say the play of the game

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was the Lakers of three guys underglass
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there's Gordon getting the rebound, shooting
it out. I think it was the

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porter for the three. That was
the dagger before the dagger. It was

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the dagger before the dagger, exactly. Okay, how do you forget how

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to rebound? The last two minutes? Rebounded again not easy to remember,

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of course, losing Anthony Davis heart
hurt bad. You know, the the

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shoulder sting. How did we take
into the locker room? You know it

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was early third quarter? When when
he when he got when you got stung?

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And then, Vig was your phone
ringing? Its Lakers fans. They

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were up in arms. I want
to know what happened. I'm trying to

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give some clarity. No, I
understand, But then who was really on

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the phone. It was probably a
phony phone call. What was it?

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Big? A phony phone call?
Fred, Every time your phone rings,

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you say it's a phony phone call. It can't always be a phony phone

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call. Vick, who do you
think it was really was it, Brother

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Bob. Brother Bob lamented with me
earlier this morning. Oh okay, so

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it wasn't he Lord of deal.
Yeah, Brother Bob's okay, ninety three

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years fresh, creative and free,
go ahead, brother Bob, and Brother

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Bob is with me in a lot
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viable third option for the next run
next year, because again you can't repeat

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what's going on. They're gonna lose
again to Denver next year if they,

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if they, if they don't shake
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caller I know he mentioned early,
which was which was a little you know,

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a little while, but you know, d book from the Phoenix Suns

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is getting a lot of love.
Last year of his contract makes about forty

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four million dollars a year. Devin
Booker. All right, more thoughts on

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Devin Booker as we continue. Oh
yeah, well, let's keep that moving.

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Rodney Pete bred Rogan back the break, Jacobs, Yes, sir,

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come on, Vic wrapping up the
Lakers obviously in flux. I want to

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give some mad love to Lebron James. Last night he really had a sensational

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game. Thirty points, eleven assists, nine boards, force steals, and

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you know he's coming back. There's
fifty one point four million reasons Lebron comes

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back to the Lakers next year.
And again Ad you know, dragged,

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dragging his battered body back, you
know, despite the stinger, the numbness,

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you know, threw out his shoulder
in his back to be you know,

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to be with the fellas. I
thought that was a very noteworthy.

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He played through paint a lot this
year. So Anthony had a really sensational

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season. But again, who's the
third scorer? Again? D book?

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In my book, who would be
an amazing get from the Phoenix Suns contractor

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is up this year? He has
the option he makes forty four million.

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Kobe Disciple. I don't know if
he's available, but I would go after

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that a lot this year. I
don't care. There is no dependable third

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scorer in the Lakers. Yes,
their Achilles Heel, I mean, Hachi

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Morrison, Austin Reeves, you don't
know. And in a playoff series against

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the world champion Nuggets, you need
to know you got to have a dependable

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third scorer, and there was no. He's signed for like five more years.

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Vic, I don't think he's going
anywhere. What the hell are you

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talking about getting rid of Lebron for
bookers and not having them together? He

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was talking about getting rid of Lebron
and and bringing in the book. But

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yeah, he's he's locked up for
a minute. Then you gotta maybe entice

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the sons of the trade. I
don't you need an explosive third score.

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Yeah, I'm sure the son's wanting
to do business with the Lakers. I'm

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sure that's just on the horizon.
But what's on the horizon for the Clippers

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double A is Kawhi Lennon is out
for tomorrow night's game. Thank god?

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Was that was that your shot back
of me Vic's the world? Thank god?

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I'm just saying for this series,
let them go with what they're doing

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for this series. I don't listen
to that. The beer says they got

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the blueprint to beat Dallas. He's
got to get thirty three and Paul George's

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got to get thirty three. That's
all, and the rest of the Clippers

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step up. But I'm not concerned
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They've played without Kawhi, They've won
without Kawhi. They got the blueprint Meanwhile,

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the Dodgers have the blueprint for victory. Talking about not striking out for

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the first time in eighteen years in
a game which was unbelievable, great production

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yesterday. You're not just from you
know, the rookie. You know,

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you know Andy Pye has been unbelievable, and you know ta Oscar sensational RBI

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machine. How about Key Key Hernandez
with the double. We'll be seeing ky

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K Thursday Hollywood Park Casino. Ki
K with a big double and Will Smith

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All Star America's catcher. That ball
he hit the dead center was like four

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hundred and for thirty feet. That
was nuts. It was a bomb,

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Vic, it was a bomb.
So Mookie's hitting three seventy seven, O

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Twani three forty one, Freddy at
three or four, Will Smith three sixty

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three, and Pie has it to
ninety eight. The bullpen has been air

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tight. Hardy Vessier, the Vessier
rebirth. He's pitching beautifully. Joe Kelly

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Ellen Marriotchi looked myste last night.
Phillips again to save we lost Ryan Brazier.

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Yeah, some freaky injury. I'm
not even sure what happened pregame,

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he strained something, but the bullpen
has been unbelievable, and tonight the Knack's

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going against Montgomery landon Knack, Morong
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Tim Kates first pitch six forty.
Right here, I am five seventy LA

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Sports. What a road trip this
is. This is a magnificent road trip.

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I can't think of a greater road
trip so far. Yeah, but

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it's been good, right rolling one. Well, they haven't had a lot

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of road trips yet, VIC,
but where they were before the road trip,

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Remember they destroyed the Mets the last
game of the homestand got some momentum

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and the team just needed to get
out of LA and then when they did,

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they just exploded. Yeah. A
lot of Billy's on tour. Billie

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Eilish, she's back on the road. They hit Me Hard and soft tour

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triggers September twenty ninth in Quebec and
Billy is back home in La December fifteen,

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sixteen seventeen at the Kia Forum and
another Billy Billy Joel Piano man Ronnie

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hit me one hundred and one straight
Cellouse at Madison Square Garden and Billy sang

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Uptown Girl to his former bride,
Christy Brinkley. She was in the audience

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at Madison Square Garden rocking it.
This was a just a great moment in

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rock and roll that he sang to
his former wife. Well, their whole

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marriage was beautiful. Writing uptown Girl
for Christy Brinkley, and there's Christie like

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what's forty years later at MSG rocking
out to with their daughter Alexa Ray was

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also there jamming with their Christy Brinkley
is seventy I believe she is. I

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mean Billy's seventy four. Still rock
and roll to me, man, still

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rock and roll, rock and roll. That was one of the coolest videos

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really because you know Billy Joel,
it's not a great dancer, but there

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he is with Christy Brinkley and suddenly
here he looked like a great dancer in

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the video. Wait over that bring
is too big to the source thread.

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Yes, and I got a quote
bar show one of his most famous high

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cools. It's dedicated to the Lakers
elimination, which was a tough run.

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But again, as Lebron says,
I tipped my lid to the Denver Nuggets,

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they executed again down the stretch.
What else is new deja vu and

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a disastrous day javu for the Lakers. And i might be screaming in the

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wilderness, but I'm going with Devon
Hair another year. I'm not ousting Devin

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Ham because of the you know outcries
well that no one knows who's actually doing

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the way screaming no, no,
no, no, You're right. You

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can keep Devinham for another year.
What about Darvinham coach his brother. I'm

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taking all the Hams all right,
Damn Samwich everything there it is. This

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is from bhow right Hi, cool
for you on this Tuesday, April the

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thirtieth Summer Grass the only remains of
soldiers' dreams. I'm feeling you from there.

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It is wrapping it up with Boshow. Well done, Vicke, simple,

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Yeah, that's that's what we needed
today, Ronnie, thank you,

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Adam, thanks for filling in for
Kevin Rodney. Another another two hours tomorrow.

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Let's get ready, right on,
right on,