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And we continue on Fred Rogan Rodney
Pete on a five seventy l A Sports

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this hour. We will not have
sensuality. We will have spirituality. Big

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will join us sensuality, didn't you? Yeah, I don't know why I

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said that. What's that? A
good weekend for it? I can't remember

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it? And it was good?
Thank you? All right? So they

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will be on later. Uh.
And also we're going to be joined by

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Law Murray from the Athletic and Law
Murray uh covered the Clippers. UH kind

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of goodbye news conference there there,
end of the end of the season sale

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news conference. Right, Well,
we put we put the wraps on it,

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and uh we move forward. And
you know, there's talk that the

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Clippers are going to be doing some
things here during this off season, so

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we need to talk about that.
I also find it interesting that we're out

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of Phoenix. Is Frank Vogel is
gonna survive, but he's gonna have a

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whole new coaching staff. Oh lord, I hate that. That is one

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thing I hate the most about this
are profession sports and whether it be NFL,

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MLB, NBA. I just hate
NHL. I hate if you're going

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to im parcels always said it the
basket. He said this with players that

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if you want me to cook the
meal, you got to let me buy

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the groceries, right, you know. And for an organization to hand pick

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a head coach's coaching staff, it's
absolutely absurd and ridiculous. You have to

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you have to know the personalities that
are coaching with you. You have to

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know that that person has got your
back. You have to know that you

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and that person are on the same
page. You don't know there's there's history,

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especially nowadays, there's history with with
all of coaches. It's a fraternity,

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just like it is with players.
Coaches have a fraternity. You know

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who's who, you know what's what, And who's to say that that one

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coach Frank Vogel doesn't have beef with
a coach that they want to hire,

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right, and they don't see eye
to eye. So I think it's the

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horrible idea for an organization to handcuff
a head coach by dictating to them who

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their assistant coach is going to be. Yeah, well that's what they're going

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to do. In Phoenix. Let's
find out what the Clippers are going to

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do. Bring on Law Murray from
the athletic. Hey, law thanks for

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jumping on here. Hey, thanks
for having me. It's good to be

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with you guys for the first time. All right, So, so you

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know they've had the big end of
the season conversation. What do you take

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away from it? My takeaway is
that it's very easy to say what the

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team would ideally like to do going
into next season, going into this next

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era of the into it don't easy
doesn't exactly means simple. Easy doesn't exactly

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mean it's going to get done.
And I think that just the sheer mass

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of all the things that you have
to cover as far as just business,

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and that's if you want to retain
everybody, if you want to run it

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back. I mean, even that's
a hard decision to come by considering what

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you've done over the past three years
or what's been done to you more likely

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or more accurately, but just to
retain the status quote, there's a lot

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of business to its end. To
that, Lawrence Frank acknowledged. And then

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there's the fact that, okay,
so what are you going to do if

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those things break down? They can't
even get to that part of the discussion

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yet. So we spent a half
hour going back and forth about the very

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difficult realities that the only Clippers face
going forward. And some of those difficult

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realities are are what law is it? Is it about just hardening Paul Joy?

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Where they going to do with those
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It's definitely deeper. But if it
was just what to do with your

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you know, two of your three
best players, that would be hard alone.

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I think look across the NBA and
here's thirty NBA teams. Eight of

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them are still playing. If you
had to tell them, Okay, so

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your second and third best players contracts
are either expiring or has a player option,

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and they have the option to pick
up that last deal or not.

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That's a lot, you know,
that's a lot for that would be a

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lot for teams to have to chew
on. So the Clippers have that.

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But then it's also one of those
guys that's been with your team for five

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years. The other guy has been
with your team for what six months?

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You have to determine, you know, what's the value of bringing every everybody

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back. But then there's more than
that. It's the fact that you sign

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your best player to an extension and
he wasn't available to finish your season for

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the fourth time in four years.
You have to consider that Jason Kids just

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signed a contract extension this morning,
the Dallas Mavericks head coach who led his

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team over the Clippers to get to
the second round. And I'll bring up

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Jason because that's by my account,
about eight head coaches who have signed contract

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extensions, and tie Toron Lou's not
one of them. That's a big deal

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because Toron has established himself as a
plus head coach. It's really naive to

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thinks you're going to upgrade on On
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seriously gotten a deal done with him
yet? How long is that going to

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take, especially considering in the other
things you have to take care of.

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And then the fact is you can
bring the head coach back, you can

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bring all the stars back. You
even have those guys reasonably healthy, which

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we saw them be reasonably healthy over
the course of the full season. What

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did that get you? Not a
top three seed. You're the oldest team

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in the league. There are still
clear ways that you need to improve the

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team. We saw that after the
Grammy trip, after the All Start break.

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How do you go about doing that? With limited resources, or how

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do you go about doing that while
potentially taking away a big piece of your

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core? Yeah, so what do
you do? Loll I mean, you

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know it's kind of a buzzkill,
as you'll laid it all out, So

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what do you do? It is, man, and it's hard. Like

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I'm around the team. You know, I'm not gonna you know, they

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ain't no stats for media, bro, but I mean people who followed me,

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ife you we've read my stories both
this year in the previous few years

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I've been around, so I've had
away everything, everything that the team does,

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and there's been a lot of successes, but there's been some really hard,

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hard valleys. So I'm glad I
don't have this job. Man.

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And you know what, if someone
wants to give it to me, I'll

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take the check with it. So
I'm just going to lay it out there.

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If I'm looking at it. You're
going into a new arena. So

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this isn't your normal well, you
know, run back playing downtown in La

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do the same things we've been doing
for past quarter century. It's like no,

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like you're trying to you're trying to
sell, you know, you're trying

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to get people to really be reinvested
and re energized by this team. Well,

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how do you do that while keeping
the status quo of something that fell

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far below expectations that you set five
years ago? And I think that you

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got to find a way to retain
your head coach and give him a reason

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to think things are going to be
different, no matter who might not be

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available at the end of the season. Paul, I think has given this

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franchise a great five years as far
as you know, being being an advocate

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for the LA Clippers as a franchise, being an LA guy, all those

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things. But I think it's going
to be easier to get something done with

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you games and the leverage that Paul
George has. I think it's going to

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be a matter of who blinks first, between the Clippers and what they're willing

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to offer and Paul and what he's
willing to sacrifice if he has to leave

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his hometown, his home market to
go somewhere else, especially if that somewhere

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else got some pictures way holder than
this one, and if that's where you

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arrive at, it's going to feel
like twenty seventeen when you reassigned Blake Griffin

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only to trade him when Chris Paul
did you a huge favorite by picking up

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his player option and you flip him
for players who helped you greatly in the

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short term and lou Will pat bed
Mantrez Harrow. So you know, it's

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almost like Paul George is the combination
of both of those guys, Chris Paul

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and Blake Griffin, Like, how
do you get something done where he feels

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like he can securely stay here,
or if that's not going to be the

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case, how do you use his
situation to, if not improve the team,

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at least change it laterally? So
specifically, what would you do?

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What would you do? Though?
What would you do if you're the Clippers?

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I was serious about the check man, Oh, I don't have a

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check. Fred may have a check
for you. But but if you did

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get that check, what would you
if I did get that If I if

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I got that check, I'm I'm
convincing Paul he's got to come back at

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the deal that you have. It's
just that simple. I don't think you

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can maximum. But I also think
that this team was really good for a

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significant stretch of the season, and
so I think Paul has to understand that

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he's not going to want to leave. Man, You're not going to want

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to leave your guys that you've been
building with. You're not going to want

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to leave. You know, everything
that you built here in La. There

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is some unfinished business that you spoke
on the restord of when you signed your

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last deal. And he's a player
who you know he should know by now

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the grass saying always greener on the
other side. So, I mean he's

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entering year fifteen. I think if
you're a Clippers, you guys got to

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put your hand, you got to
you gotta put that foot down and Katsuka

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haircut. I think James is probably
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I think for Paul, I think
it's like, look, if what

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matters to you is to be the
best kind of teammate and the and then

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be in the best situation possible.
I think that he's going to want to

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stay here and he's going to want
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Yeah, but what if he wants
to win and I think he feels he

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can win somewhere else. I'll tell
you what. The teams that are playing

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right now. The only one of
those teams that I think might have a

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real case for being able to even
start with Paul George is maybe Indiana and

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New York, and I don't think
those teams have enough to give the Clippers

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what they would want to give up
for Paul. And and at the same

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time, I don't even think those
teams really fit how Paul wants to play

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either. I don't think those markets
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So you can use the leverage,
but it's like, at the end of

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the day, and you know what, the end of the day is probably

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going to be sometime in late June, sometime in mid July, sometime in

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between then the end of the day, do you really want to do that

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to yourself? Do you really want
to say, all right, I'm going

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to go to Indiana and I'm going
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I don't I don't think. I
don't think he's going to really want to

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go back to that market. Do
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where TIS runs a much tighter shift
than anything here and you're just not going

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to see as many opportunities to impact
what you need to impact. I don't.

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I just don't see that happening.
I really think Paul's got a hard

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decision to make about what it's going
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And I think the Clippers are going
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and not for him the entire peg, because they know that that's not

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that's gonna handstring everything that he try
and do going forward. When you look

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at the UH, when you look
at the current NBA and especially and specifically

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the West, there are a lot
of teams out there law that aren't going

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anywhere. They're young, and they're
up and coming. The Minnesota, Denver,

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Sacramento, even though they're out of
it, Sacramento. If if you're

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the Clippers and even the Lakers looking
at this now, it's a tough road.

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It's a tough path going forward.
And and and I hate to see

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it like you're talking about it.
With the Clippers, they're going into a

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new place. They can't blow this
whole thing up. And if you're the

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Lakers, you got the Lebron situation
hanging over your head, what do you

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do with him? For the Lakers
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market, the future is it's on
shaky round right now, isn't it?

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It is The thing that the Lakers
have the fall back on is they did

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win a title with their two best
players. It took some months off in

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a controlled environment to do it,
but they wanted nonetheless. And then last

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year they did make the conference title
run, even though they just fired the

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coach who let them to it.
So you know, they had some of

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those things to fall back on,
even with Lebron James, who was going

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to be forty next year, even
with Anthony Davis, who he was durable

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this year. But we all know
to deal with Ad. We saw it

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in the playoffs just now against the
Nuggets. They ignore him too much.

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Ad can make all of the shots
to one half and then they act like

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he's JaVale McGee in the next half. That's your foundation, And you know,

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there's some advantages to what the Lakers
have. At least the Clippers don't

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have those advantages. They don't have
really anything to fall back on. Their

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last playoff series win, their only
conference on appearance in franchise history. We're

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now three years removed from it.
This team that they put together to win

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a title hasn't been able to realize
any of that potential. And they're the

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Clippers are even older than the Lakers
are. The Clippers have even fewer usable

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pieces, fewer assets in the short
term, uh than than the Lakers do.

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That's a tough place to be.
And so the Western Conference. I

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wrote about it for Sunday Morning,
And you know, it's a little crazy

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to have two stories in a forty
eight hours span, but uh, that's

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what we do. It's not like
we're going to wait till next month to

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write about the Clippers in their state, state of the Western Conference. I'm

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pretty sure you all want to read
about the Clippers now and read about the

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Western Conference now. So I dressed
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the team still standing, they have
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going to be there. Luca Dantis
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standards in his twenties, Anthing Edwards
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still not even thirty years old yet, and they won. The Denver Nuggets

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have won. You look off the
teams that missed the playoffs, those teams

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have opportunities to improve and in quick
order. The Houston Rockets, I'm not

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even inspired by a lot of the
dudes on they squad and they still damn

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near doubled their win total. You
know, just basically on getting some professionals

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on the floor and getting a new
head coach. You probably knows what he's

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doing. The Sanatoian Spurs have a
literal alien on their team. Utah Jazz.

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They lost to the Mavericks. It's
like the Clippers did, but the

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Jazz are like, screw it,
we're blowing it up. And they got

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big tom picks for Donovan Mitchell and
Rudy Gobert Midu, two guys who are

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now in the semi finals with their
new teams. So the Clippers, it's

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tougher when you have the relationships that
the Clippers do. It's harder when it's

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like, you know, at least
Lop City, you had dudes that made

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it very clear that the chemistry wasn't
right, that they didn't get along as

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well as they should have. And
half of those dudes are in the media

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now so we hear about it every
week. That's not this team. You

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know, like this team they do
get along. They did there, they

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are from here. The connection does
run deeper. It's hard to break that

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up. It's a more emotional decision
and one that we're about to see this

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summer if they have the stomach for
some of those decisions. Long, great

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stuff, man, thanks for coming
on today with Yeah, man, thank

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you so much. Like I said, thee all season. But we're going

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to keep working, all right,
we'll talk to you again. Thanks,

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love all right. He was good, Rodney, Yeah, absolutely, good

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stuff. Man. He knows this
stuff. He's in it, man,

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And right, you know, and
there it is honestly for both teams,

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not just the Clippers, Lakers and
Clippers. Yeah, it's kind of the

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dilemma. Yeah, it's you're kind
of in the same spot here. You

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might get a little better, you
probably aren't gonna win, yeah, yeah,

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yeah, probably won't get worse.
You'll just kind of be there.

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But the Lakers, for the Lakers, even though they're the bigger brand,

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they won a title. They as
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They are they are the Lakers.
Their fan base win loser, draw is

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gonna be there. Clippers, what
have you done for us? What have

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you done for us? And going
into a new dome, there's no excitement

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now going into the new place.
See, I guess yeah, but see

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and you and I I mean,
it's the wait, wait, wait,

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before I go, I hear what
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you say it. The excitement was, let's take a run at it.

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So, oh my god, next
year we just have one. Here we

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go. Next year, We're gonna
win this whole thing as we entered.

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It's not that feeling. It's not
that feeling. No, no, no,

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not even close. I think they
get see. I think you get

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a honeymoon period for a year here. And I've said this before and I

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know you don't agree, but I
think the building will sell itself for the

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first season, just the yeah of
it and oh I gotta go down there

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and see it, be there and
feel all of it. I think I

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think the building selves itself for year
one. Then you're I agree with that.

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I agree with that, but you're
not going to get you know,

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a crazy out pouring selling selling season
tickets out in thirty minutes like you would

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have if they would have made the
Western Conference Finals. Not at all.

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I agree. I agree. Yeah, I think both the teams have a

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dilemma. Spirituality is what we need, that's what we crave. Of course

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we do, and we will have
vic next to provide it. I'm gonna

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take a dale when and let him
pick up whatever. Yes, yes,

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Fred Rogan on a Monday, let's
keep it moving, Freddie, we need

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something, We really need something.
Sensuality. Yeah. Did you hear Katie?

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No? I did not, Katie. I don't know if I want

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to hear kat Oh. No.
So anyway, Ronnie rolls the music,

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We're gonna come back, would you
say? Katie said, who's ready for

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some sensuality? Katie dropped that that
inflection on the sensuality? She did?

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She can sell it like who's ready
for some sensuality? That's right? She

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can said she's a pro, A
pro is a voiceover artist. Yes,

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I don't know if she's a pro. Yeah, for Claire, find that

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friend. Oh my god. All
right, we're gonna be off the air

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in a minute. I know.
Let's bring on Vic to find out what's

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going on. Vic, Good afternoon. Was he sipping tequilas at Jalapeno pezz

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and Studio City last night celebrating Cinco
Demayo Sensual? Fred Rogan? Uh?

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Thanks, Vic, I don't really
like the cheese there. Maybe I'm the

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only guy at Jalapeno pezz. I
don't like the cheese. You don't like

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the cheese. I know, and
I should write order the same cheese all

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the time. Oh, I got
a case of dia one time. I

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didn't like it. I don't like
the cheese. Wow, no disrespect.

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We'll have to tell Pete about that. He was celebrating the sweet sweep of

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the Atlanta Braves, Rodney, Pete
faith in for Popper Kevin figures, Adam

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Marseling and Katie Newton, and she's
pumped for Jim Harbaugh's smash mouth football.

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Y'all? Bolt up? Why why
Katie? Why come on? Oh my

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god, next season, Katie?
Oh my god, that sounds so weak.

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No offense, Oh, bolt up, bolt up? No, No,

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Katie is loving her some Joe Ault
big boy. Yes, all protection,

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protection, Rodney. I'm the first
to admit I needed it. And

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he was at the Ravine on Saturday
night, rocking to the Max Monsey three

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home run barrage Roddie Fossio. He
got the hat trick, y'all. Yeah,

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Dodger fans, who are feeling you? What are you Forick? Sinko

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de Mayo Weekend Every game was unique
and singular and beautiful. You start with

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Friday night, yeap rookie Andy pa
Has, who's been sensational, wins the

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game with his fourth hit of the
game in the eleventh. A sensational at

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bats, but a pivotal moment.
Otanissan finally got a hit with a guy

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in scoring position on that night.
He was in a semi funk with runners

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in scoring position when he sent the
game to extras with that single up the

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middle. I believe that was a
turning point in otani san season. Well,

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I don't know about that turning point
in the season, Vick. Is

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that what you're saying right now?
I'm saying that was a very clutch,

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clutch single. What you said,
Vic, you said it was the turning

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point in his season. I believe
it may have been the game tying hit

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up game tying hit up the middle
in may change. It could have turned

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o tiny sun around from what killing
it, but not to runners in scoring

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position. It was this weekend where
he really had to break out the break

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that weekend for the Mount Fuji of
mas Forte. All right, then,

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of course Saturday night, Roddy Fascio
in the house monthly, the three homers,

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the first Uno dos trace homers in
the game for the funky mony.

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Well, is that because Ronnie was
there and months he wanted to impress him,

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didn't hurt? Yeah, I'll roll
with that. Then Otani had a

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solo shot. Well, Pa hez
and glass now has been so unbelievable with

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the seven strong ten k's first six
game winner in baseball. Glass now is

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the ace and pitching, you know, my mind, blowing outings every time

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out. And that night Otani broke
Dave Roberts record for most darger home runs

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by a Japanese born player. And
how about Otani before the game gifting Dave

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Roberts with a toy purple Porsche.
How cool was that? Well, if

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you collect toy cool, they was
one the real thing. Yeah, we'll

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give me this toy. Well,
Dave planted the seed with Otis, and

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otanis on planted the seed. Well, we get to the World Series,

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we win the World Series, I'll
be thinking about it. So the seed

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has been has been planted. What's
he thinking about? Maybe another Porsche he

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may be gifting. He may be
gifting the sense, say a real Porsche.

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Who knows? Let a play out? And then of course yesterday look

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at me. I'm still kavelinge again
again him pritt, Oh my god,

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look at him, he's coaveling.
Yes, I'm crying because we've got Mukie

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Mooki has been unbelievable, but yesterday
belonged to Altani Sun two homers, two

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singles. He now is a major
league leading ten homers in the thirty five

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games. Lots of extra base hits. He has twenty five extra base hits

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in the thirty five games. Ol
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Thank god, four for four yesterday, hitting now three six four.

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Thank god he delivered that shot up
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that thing it turned that. It
was a relief now that moment because he's

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having a great season, but that
game, t that was the moment.

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It was a palpable burden lifted.
Was it palpable? It was palpable to

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feel it, but yes, it
was unbelievable for a tiny Sun. That

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second home run four hundred and sixty
four feet. It traveled to howl and

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raised Fried Chicken in Chinatown, who
wrote that you're telling me tioscar Hernandez ask

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God number number eight man and the
bullet assist from right field to get Olson

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going for a double. And there's
Mookie with the wonderful tag. I mean,

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there was so many beautiful elements.
I'm crying because we got Mookie.

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All right. Nick will continue his
rundown with the weekend activities at the stadium

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when we come back. Oh hey, it's a Monday and we need it

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if we need to finish his strong
Rodney, Pete, Fred Rogan and Vic

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the brick Dicobs come on, Vic, Yeah, let's go. Vict.

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So many beautiful Dodger moments over the
weekend. Oh my god, he is

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going to continue. Blake trying on
one, two, three, eighth.

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We haven't seen Blake in a couple
of years. He pitched beautifully, Yes

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he did. Grove isn't a groove? Groove and a groove? Yeah,

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the only the only bummer, you
know, a lockdown relief Pitture has been

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unbelievable. Ep Evan Phillips hamstring.
He's out for a couple of weeks.

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Yeah, that sucks. That's a
tough one. That's a tough one.

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So maybe more endings from Mel Mariachi, Joe Kelly, who whose stuff has

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been crazy hard. But you're getting
trying him back. Of course. Tonight,

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Walker Buller, what are you looking
for for? Walker Buller? Vic,

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what are you looking for? Eighty
pitchers? Five innings? Again,

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you guys touched upon it. Just
stay healthy, you know, get into

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all the you know, control some
quadrants most importantly, you know, use

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your repertoire. Yes, but five
innings, max, because we need we

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need Walker in October man kind of
easiest way back into it. Huh,

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exactly. Don't forget Morongo Casino.
Dodgers on Deck at six with Tim Kates,

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Yes, and Walker's much anticipated first
pitch on Star Wars nights at seven

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ish. Listen right here this electric
season. By the way, Vic,

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did you did you happen to see
or you Fred happened to see the Star

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Wars night at the Angel Stadium?
I did not? No. Pretty spectacular,

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was it? Oh yeah, you
know it really was. I gotta

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give it up. It was pretty
spectacular. A you know, a battle

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with the stormtroopers on the drones.
It's pretty good. It's pretty good.

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Angels are coming around, Fred,
are they coming around? Oh? Yeah?

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Okay? Off the field, yeah, Willie Calhoun is hitting clean up

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the former Dodger. Yes, show, Hey, you escaped and the nickel

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time, My brother, that team
is spiraling into hardball. Hell they have

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no listen, what ten years without
a playoff, no pitching, I mean

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the story continues. Yeah. Yeah, are they like eight games back already

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and it's already Uh oh they're in
last place. Yeah, it's done.

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It's like the Angels have done already. Yeah. Meantime, Otani's breaking records

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and hitting almost four hundred, you
know, the Otani factor. Let's not

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forget you know what he's been through
emotionally, you know, with that's it,

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Dick, Imagine imagine his mindset.
How still Otani Shan's mind is to

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go through obviously, a whole new
team, the Dodgers, the contract,

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the ripoff, you know, newly
married to you know, the beautiful Mamiko,

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and yet he's hitting, you know, lights out, so focused and

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so furious, so you got to
give it up. You know. Otani's

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baseball skills are unbelievable, but his
iron will is sensational. The mindset is

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sensational. Moushin no mind right,
muga no ego, And guys, are

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you're excited about the freshest college football
bowl game Arizona? Ronnie hit me,

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Snoop Dogg and Doctor Dre. They
got the Gin and Juice Bowl the official

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name. Get this Snoop Dogg Arizona
Ball presented by Gin and Juice, by

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Dre and Snoop Wow. Do O
Double G says it will be a game

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they experience like never before, this
Gin and Juice, the Gin and Juice

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Bawl. They're gonna throw down the
greatest halftime show maybe in college football history.

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Is your phone ringing? It could
be de O Double G saying this

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is gonna be a bowl like no
other. The Dog is calling you big.

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I mean, I'm what player is
gonna skip the Snoop and Dre Bowl

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Game. Everyone's gonna represent everybody coming
mind on my money, money on my

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mind, Snoop and Dre in the
college football Bowl business. And I dig

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that about that. You guys watched
the Derby. I did Mystic dan mistic

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dan Alli went to the derby.
Did you snuck out? Yeah, she

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snuck out and went to the derby
on me. Yeah, she enjoyed it.

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She said that the people watching at
the Derby is like no other.

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You know how Jim Nance always says
that about the Masters. Yeah, she

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said the people watching at the derby
was incredible, incredible, great atmosphere.

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You had Holly there, you had
Aaron Rodgers, yes, Travis Kelce,

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yes, Inglewoods own Lisa Leslie was
there. Yes she was. I'm a

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photo finish. That was just nuts. And listen, we're gonna give some

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mad love to all volleyball squads.
USC Women's Beach Volleyball four P VIC,

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four P. Nasty dynasty in the
sand. I was gonna save it to

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the end, but big four P
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on the beach, Queen's of the
Beach, four pete four in a

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row. That's unheard of. Meanwhile, Women's Volleyball, Beach Volleyball, congratulations

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to VIC, fight on Vick.
Yeah and with that, you know what

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it leads to VIC. Well before
we get to the source. Fred,

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also u c l A men's volleyball, they repeat this back to back volleyball

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champs of congratulations to all vulnerable squads. Yeah, that that gets us to

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the source. Fred, this is
for Los Lakers. Ooh Lakers, this

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high cool for you on this Monday, made the six Los Lakers. Who's

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next, Lou Reddick? Maybe Wooden
also Shaquille. The great path has no

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path. I'm feeling you. My
dog courses, My dog courses, James

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Worthy. Wouldn't he be an amazing
coach James Worthy? No, I would

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put him right in the mix.
He's not in the mix. No,

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all right, Ronnie, thank you, great job today, Katie. Thanks

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for sitting in for Adam. Who
would sit in for Kevin? Oh you're

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back tomorrow? Outstaatey Hi, it's
me Katie. Yes, all right,

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Rodny, we'll get him tomorrow,
right ho