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We'll start with the Dodgers today, Rodney. And it's something you and
I talked about a couple of weeks ago, but now it's really starting to
come into focus. God, people are going to hate them this year.
I mean people are just going to hate their guts. They are going to
be the villains of baseball. And I suggest quite frankly the villains of professional
sports. Oh you went all the way there. They've got the target on
their back of professional sports. Yes, wow, it's jealousy. It's it's
pure and simple jealousy. What they've done is impossible, basically for anybody else
to do. They've just spent all the money they can't. Now, let's
say this, and I've said this numerous times, it doesn't matter how much
you spend, it's how you spend it. And the perfect example of that
is what happened with the Padres last year. That was just stupid. What
they did was stupid when they were doing stupid for you with the Padres,
I mean, let's get on that topic, because everything wasn't stupid. Okay,
Sander Bullgarts was stupid. That's the first one. Yes, Okay,
that's the big one. I know, I know that. I can't get
over that one. They didn't have to because they didn't have to. They
didn't have to. I mean, good player, good player for Boston for
years, good player. But is he one of those players that, oh
my god, we got to have him. No, and they paid him?
Oh they paid him, all right, they paid him, Yeah,
they did. And the minute they did that. That's when I started playing
the name game, going, this is ridiculous. I mean, Machado they
redid him. It's like, what are you doing down there? What are
you doing? Is gonna give you thirty dogs a year? I gotta go,
you gotta pay tatties because he is went healthy, a generational type of
talent. And and you know they they they had Blake's I mean what they
did down there should have probably worked. What they did is they spent an
awful lot of money the wrong way. Look at the Mats. Look at
Steve Cohen in the Mets. That's a disaster. He spent money and it
didn't work. It was just like God will grab anybody with a name,
and we think they can play my God. The Rangers and that ridiculous deal
they gave Jacob de Gram, a guy that is always heard. Yeah,
well but still still that was not wise. So what you do, what
you see are teams that, for whatever reason, at a given moment in
time, if in fact our owner decides that's it, I'm not putting on
with us anymore. We're going for it right now. Yeah, I mean
they are throwing money. Yeah, are people going to start looking at the
Phillies the same way because they throw money and they haven't won it. They've
been to one. You know, they got bounced this past year. I
mean, they they in the conversation, which is great, and they're they're
a team. Every year. It feels like they're going to be right in
the mix. But they haven't won it. Okay, but you know what,
they spent some money now, okay, but to that point, to
that point, I think it's fair. If you look at the Phillies,
don't you think they're gonna be in it? Yes, you do. Don't
you think they're gonna be in Unlike the Mets that you felt that they were
not gonna be in it, right, the Padres you thought they could be
okay, but you didn't think they'd be in it. But the Phillies,
Yeah, yeah, I think they're gonna be in it every year. So
that's money well spent. They're in the conversation, and at that point,
you know, it's a crapshoot. Is everybody healthy, is everybody hot at
the right time? But they're going to be in it Padres No, Mets,
No, it was poorly orchestrated. They made mistakes. They just threw
money at people. The Dodgers now did not just take a bushelful of money
and start throwing it around at Otani Junior slash Xander Bogart's. They went out
and got the two guys, Otani and Yamamoto. That's money. Well,
and I have to be honest, they probably weren't too long on Yamamoto.
That's me. It's not my money. I don't get to tell them how
to spend it. And if you're a fan, you love they made that
commitment. I think it's too many years, but nobody cares what I think.
Nonetheless, he's got an unbelievable training regiment. Fred, that's gonna make
him last fifteen years if need be so. Once you were your pretty little
head, and he'll be competing for Japan and the javelin throw in the Olympics.
Yeah, yeah, you will. But going back to what you were
saying about early on about the Dodgers in the villain though, because it has
been so long that the Dodgers have been viewed as it's the historical classy Dodger
organization, right, and the Yankees are the evil empire. Yankees are the
villains. Yankees are the evil team, the bad team in the East,
the big bad East, all those things, and now you feel on a
dime. It is switched now to the Dodgers are the aided villainous team as
the Yankees, which were in the seventies and eighties. Well, because people
are just I mean, that's really the bottom line. If you're a medium
market team, you say, well, this cannot happen. We can't do
what. You're destroying the infrastructure of major League Baseball by spending. People hated
the Yankees because also they spent money, but also they had the villain as
the owner that went frants around in Steinbrenner, which added to all of that.
The Dodgers are you know, the nice Mark Walter and the Guga Nye
guys, very cool, very cool to be around. Right, how can
we be villains? And now you know I put we in there, how
can we be villains? Red? Yeah, Well they're villains. They're big
time villains. And I would I would suggest this that the trade Turner year,
when he was here for the full season, Yeah, Dodgers were approaching
villain status. Uh yeah with Sureser and straight Yeah, a little bit.
They were approaching that. You know that boy, these guys they're really loaded.
Okay, well that what the hell? So now when you go out
and get the two biggest names available, by the way, and let's not
just call them big names, there is proof of performance. You know what
Otani can do, and your sample size of Yamamoto is his work in the
Japanese League where he was lights out an MVP, their cy Young winner.
They went out and did it. They did what everybody wanted to do.
They did what most people couldn't afford to do, and every fan base which
their team could do right and that, and there's a jealousy right there and
there, and that's why you become the villain. Yeah, yeah, just
accept it. Accept it. You know what, take your medicine, you
know what, wear it, wear it, wear it and wear it proud,
Wear it proud. But but I still don't think it's going to get
to the point of the nastiness, ugliness the way that people felt about the
Yankees. Do you, Oh, I think they're gonna hate the Dodgers Rodney
to that level? Oh yeah, to that level, my god? Yes,
wow? Oh yeah, the trobinhood take from the rich and give to
the poor. Oh yeah, they're gonna hate the Dodgers. Yeah, but
the Dodgers don't have that evil feel to them like the like I said,
Yankees said stein Brenner, you know, for the evil Empire. Steinbrenner was
Darth Vader. Yep, right, who's the who's the Dodgers dars? Who's
the front man for the Dodgers to run this evil empire? And we're gonna
say it's Andrew Friedman as the the new Darth Vader, DALs mal or whatever
whatever the guy is. Now, who is the Who's who's that guy for
the Dodgers as Steinbrenner was the Darth Vader for the Yankees? Who is that
guy that? That guy doesn't exist? No, well, who is he?
No? Mark Mark Walter because he, like most people and players love
their owner to be kind of silent in the background a little bit. Okay,
most Dodger fans probably wouldn't know Mark Walter if you walk by. That's
like, you know, invisible. He usually is correct, which is what
players love. You know, owners that that are quiet in the background.
You know, you know him internally. But they don't have radio shows and
podcasts and talk about the team every single day and things of that nature and
and but the biggest thing is they spend money when they have to. That's
what you love, all right. So most people can't do that. Most
billionaires can't do that. They can't do both, right, Well, he
can. So if you just look at it from the front office, who
could the villain be? How do you have a villain on your team when
Magic Johnson is one of the owners? How Goold one of the most likable
people you'll ever meet in your life. Yeah, so who's the bad cop?
Get a good cup at BA? It's not Andrew Friedman. No,
I don't think so either. It's some people would believe it's Andrew Friedman,
but it's not because when you talk to him, he's so disarming that he
talks to everybody and he has no edge to him at all from a sarcastic
or mean spirited perspective. No, not outwardly, but I think he's he's
as tough as nails when it comes to negotiating. I'm sure he is.
But you know what, we don't see that public doesn't see that. Okay,
but you can only talk about the perception of the public, So it
can't be him. Is there going to be Dave Roberts. Dave Roberts remembers
everybody's name and every city he ever goes to. Right, And when you
Dave Robbers because you can't hate him as a person as a person, No,
people try to figure out and manufacture ways that they don't want to like
Dave Roberts. Right. I mean, who you gonna hate? Mark Pryor
He'll be the villain, the pitching coach, Bob Garren who sits next to
Dave, who is there to hate, but the team wreck Frank mccurt Just
for that role, Dodger fans sign up for about that. We just create
a role for Frank mccurt, a perfect role for you. Well, he
still kind of hated because he still owns part of the parking lot. Evil
step brother or whatever you want to call it. Right, So I'm just
saying I think as a whole, the idea of what they've done turns them
into the villains. I had a conversation I think I told you guys I
was talking to. Well, now I've had another one as a matter of
fact, with two people that at one point work for the Angels in their
front office, and they were just talking about how bad what the Dodgers have
done is for the game of baseball and how it destroys the competitive balance.
You know, in my argument to both of them, and the conversations were
individual woods. Well, first of all, you don't get that pass because
your team believes it's in Los Angeles. They put it in their name los
Angeles Angels of Anaheim. So don't pleat poverty and don't plead poor, because
if you want to play with the big kids, then act like it.
You don't get to turn around and go, well, they're ruining the whole
thing. Well, why the hell don't you ruin it? Why don't you
ruin the whole thing? If you want to play with them, then go
be like them, And if you want to be like them, then ruin
the competitive balance. So I don't buy that. Yeah, I don't buy
it either. And I always go back to when people say that, oh,
they've ruined the ruined baseball or ruin the competitive balance, I always throw
back at him. Said. The last team that repeated was the ninety eight
Yankees. I believe are two thousand Yankees. It's been twenty four years before
since a team has repeated as World champions, which means there's a different champion
every single year, So which lease you believe that you know someone different is
going to win a champion. So it's not like somebody's running off ten in
a row. It's, oh god, we can't beat them. It's not
like Alabama when their Heyday, when every year that you knew they were going
to be in the title game. No, it's not like that. Yes,
there's a there's a there's an upper echelon of teams that will kind of
always be in the conversation. But there's always going to be that team or
two that sneaks in in the Arizona boom, they go all the way.
So to say that there's not competitive balance or there's no competitiveness in in baseball,
it's just a ridiculous statement. The more I think about it, and
you know, we we have gone over this in the past, and and
these these guys I talked to and had the conversations because I made this argument,
if you can't if you can't play and you can't pay, then get
out. It's pretty simple. And they said, well, you have to
understand smaller markets don't generate the kind of revenue. And my response was I
don't really care. It's not my problem. If I own a team,
I'm in a win it. And if I can't afford that, well,
you'd have to spend your own money. Well, I guess you would,
wouldn't you. I guess you'd have to do that. If you bought the
guy forbid, you'd have to spend your own money. I you know,
I guess you might have to do that. Nobody begged you to buy the
team in the first place, right, I guess maybe that's that's what would
be required. Then you'll have to spend your own money. Well, we'll
lose money. I guess that's what is required here, and in the process
figure out a different way to do it. But if you want to play,
you have to pay. So when people complain about the competitive balance,
I could care less. No, I'm glad I live here, to be
honest with you. Yeah, but you know, if you're living in Kansas
City, Tampa, Tampa is in it every year. No, they're not
gonna win it because then they fall apart at the end because they don't have
enough veteran guys that know what they're doing. But they're in it every year.
They're no different than the Dodgers. When Tampa comes to town, you're
playing one of the best teams in baseball every single time, every time,
So Tampa can do it exactly. Stop bitching. If you're another club,
stop complaining about the competitive balance, because it is eminently doable. And there's
an abundance of good players, Yes there are, but you've got to identify
them, Rodney. You've got to find those good players. And when you
find them and you plug them in off and running, you go this competitive
balance stuff enough, just enough. If you can't win, stop complaining.
If you can't give yourself the best opportunity to win, stop complaining, Stop
lying to your fans. Figure it out. In a big market, you've
got to spend more money. It costs more to operate the team in Los
Angeles than a dozen cents Inna or Baltimore. You have to because there's so
much to do. You have to be top of mind, top of page.
And the Dodgers have done that, and yeah, and look at them
again, there's enough players out there. Look, will Smith was not the
first pick in the draft. The other teams had opportunities to get Will Smith.
People had looks at Max Munsey. Max Munsey played for the Oakland A's
Max Munsey bounced around. Other teams had opportunities to get Max Munsey, you
know, so identifying players developing players is another point that you always make of
how to spend money. And these two execs that you talked about down south,
if you probably got in a conversation with them about spending money and farm
system, that's where you start. Bottom of the hour. We'll play Little
Who Discs. Give you a check. Katie's in today, right, Yes,
she is right, So we'll give a chance to play Rodney and Katie.
Katy's really good at who dis yeh, she is. I'm just saying
this is one of your better games. Oh he saw that look on his
face too when he said that Katy, ah Man, I would Katie,
if I could, I would. And when we come back, let me
ask you, if you see something, do you expect it to be what
you see? Because apparently in the NBA now they don't. We'll get into
it. Come on, let's keep it going, baby. It's January,
y'all. Twenty twenty four. Rodney Pete bred Rogan, Yes, everybody dance
now. Mike Rabel got it today. Fred I didn't see that yet.
Yeah, Mike Rabel from the Titans got it today. A lot of people
speculating this he's gonna go to New England and that's gonna be the way Belichick
gets out. But he can coach Rodney. No, he's a great coach.
I believe he really is. And if you talk to most of the
uh you know, words or verbiage or noise coming out of Tennessee as all
the players love him, love him as a coach. You know, obviously
the last couple of years at quarterback injuries, if you kind of handcuffed him
a little bit. But definitely he can coach. And again, like I
said, players like him. Well you know, for him, it'll be
a breath of a breath of fresh air. Actually, you know, maybe
a chance to exhale. I would think if you're in a situation and uh,
you know, you're having quarterback injuries, eventually you start bang your head
against the wall. Mm hmmm hm. I agree. And then and then
you see Derrick Henry didn't waste any time after the game and grabbing the microphone
say fans, thank you very much. It's been a wonderful ride. I'm
not retiring, but uh, it doesn't look like I'm gonna be back here
in Tennessee. So that was kind of strange that he did it, did
it that way and so vocal. It was very I mean, he isn't
not a guy unless he says something that I haven't heard that he's retiring anything
like that. But he was very adamant, and to do it that way,
I guess. I guess you got to assume that they had conversations.
Hey, Derek, we're not bringing you back in any circumstances, So you
want to say you're goodbye, Say you're goodbyes. All right, Clippers of
beat Phoenix last night. Shockingly, I guess Kawhi wasn't really in that minutes
restriction. That's amazing that three minutes they saved the night before. I made
all the difference for him last night. Look at you, Freddie, look
at you stirring that pot. Well, come on, Rodney, that three
minutes that was the difference that paid all the difference. We saw you.
Listen, I got no argue that that I'm with you in there. If
the closed ball game and we're talking, minutes restriction is a difference, and
I'm a difference maker like I am Kawhi, I'm in at crunch time,
coach, I'm love you, Tyler, little whatever, doctor, Come on,
man, I'm I'm put me in the game, or not even that,
I'm just walking to the scores table. Yeah, it's kind of like
Kobe. Yeah, Kobe checked himself into Victor Webbin Yama did that last week?
Pop himself into a game? Yes, pops, Like, what the
hell are you doing? Forget who it was? A picture was telling the
story about about one of his managers. He had one at a time that
came out to go get him, like late in the game, came to
go get him. He said, straight up, unless you bringing Cy Young
out of that, turn your ass around and walk back to the dug out.
I ain't coming out of this gate. Yeah, sometimes you gotta stand
up if you're this guy. Hey, no, Hey, let's go win
this thing. Yeah, Kevin pulled the Doug roll round. That'd be good.
I haven't Oh you got good? All right? So, uh don't
you remember when Tommy the Soda wants to take Doug Row out of the game.
Listen to this good. I don't give you feel good for minutes up
there. I don't give a give a ship doggie. Well, I may
be wrong, but that's my goddamn job. I'll make the food decisions here.
I'll make the food decisions here. Okay, yesterday, I don't give
up. I'm making decisions. Give your food. Shut I told you you're
talking about it, and I want to say safe talking about his side.
This is not the first thing talking about. It's great for you to be
standing out here talking to me like that. I feel good. I would
give Doug. I'm the man that you're the team. I gotta make the
and I'll make him to the best of my ability, but I'll make it.
Maybe that's the Maybe that's the conversation Tylerhwi Kawai the other night. Maybe
that's how it went. Yeah, I don't care how many tim shifts you've
got there, Kawhi, Leonard, get your ass on the bench. I
gotta make this decision. But when I wanted to touch on so they won
and Lakers play tonight. Answer raptors, all right, did you see the
play in the Boston game last night? I did not actually tweeted about it.
I did not, all right, And the X he xed about it?
Oh, he ked about it? Okay, bank that picture for me.
Fred bottom line is a Celtic player goes up to shoot late in the
game. Uh, he's hit in the head. He's hit in the head.
He goes up, defender comes up and hits him in ahead. They
don't call a foul. Okay, they challenge it. All right, you
see the video. He hits him in the head. He got him in
the head, got him from behind in the head. They look at it
and go, no foul, no foul. Lebroncods what even what? It
doesn't work. Replay doesn't work if after watching it most people don't come to
the same conclusion. If you're sitting and your eye see something, you've seen
it, right, You've seen it. You just saw it. How in
the world, after looking at something, can it be seen differently than the
way the majority of people see it. It's impossible. Everybody sees this and
you go, oh my god, a guy get hit in the head.
All right, well, they slowed it down. We saw it. The
officials, the people back in New York, they have the exact same ability
to see it. So if they look at it and go, we now,
we don't think so. But everybody can see he got hit in the
head. That's a problem. It doesn't work. I meant, you've got
the reps there and you got New York looking at it, and they still
couldn't make the call. Well, well, first of all, they need
to all of them take the on court officials out of it. Yes,
right, that that's on the field in the NFL, on the court in
the NBA. What it happen in the XFL, you said, Kevin,
the sky judges. Yeah, they had a sky judge who can immediately tell
the officials in their ear Nope, we're not going to review that, or
we should review that, or that was a bad call. Let's go ahead
and change it and keep on moving. It wasn't even a discussion. The
sky judge saw it, made the call, and they kept on moving.
Yeah. I like that. I mean in baseball, what they do They
go back to the control center and the empire stand there and they got their
little earplug in and they're listening, and I tell them this is what it
is. Move on, Yeah, move on. We don't need you to
look the monitor. We don't need you to make a decision. We got
it. We have all the technology in front of them. I mean,
yeah, they don't have a you know, a seventy year old man running
the length of a football field to get under her a tent to tetter see
if it's inbounds or out of bounds, like the NFL does. That's so
ridiculous to me sometimes that that little tent that he's got to look into is
at the other end of the field and they got to run all the way
down to the other end of the field to look at it to make a
decision. Yeah, just get it from New York and say call it today.
You don't even have to move right, nobody has to do anything.
So why why in the world do they continue to do this? And that's
a perfect example obviously, guys hitting the head it's a foul. No it's
not, because we've now decided it's not. And maybe we have to jump
to fire our call. And I'm sure at the beginning of replay officials were
skeptical and thought, oh god, if they overturn it, it's bad on
me. No, everybody acknowledges every game is played in a split second.
Lightning pigs that part right, and your human beings. And we'll also make
the call that you get them right more than you get them wrong. We'll
acknowledge that because you are pros. But occasionally you're going to miss, and
if you miss, there's no shame in it. Let's get it right and
keep moving. Where do you land on refs doing a quick press conference after
the game. I'm not against I'm not against it, not that you have
all reporters in there, but it's a like a five minute with the refs
and they answer a series of questions that are submitted by the sports writers or
whoever. But they have that. They have the pool reporter after every game,
and they do it right after every single game, and they get But
but how are the questions posed to them? Well, I think the pool
reporter talks to all of his colleagues and it says, what are you thinking
on that call? Or what did you make on that the Celtic player got
hit in the head and you guys looked at it and didn't make a call?
Right, you can say that what the hell are you thinking? Right?
Well, the pool reporter can do that. But all the but I
was getting, it's like, is that accessible to everybody that wants to see?
Yes? Yeah, that information. Then the pool reporter comes out and
goes, this is what he said, and everybody gets that. But there's
no is there a like there should be a site. We could go right
to what he what he what was his answer for that player or what was
his description or why he made that call? Well, I think what happens
is when they come out, somebody will tweet it immediately. I do think
that. I think that. Yeah, I want to hear him explain it.
Okay that they don't do I want to hear. I want to hear
Brad Allen explain why he said seventy eligible instead of sixty eight. Okay,
maybe what they do then the pool reporter they also sent a camera, yes,
in each in each stadium, and the one guy gets to ask the
questions. That's fine, yeah, but then uh the official is recorded and
then you know, broadcast. I like that could it be? And you
tell me the officials really want to be anonymous anyway? Some most do,
right, There are others that, hey, this is my time to shine.
Check me out baby, Sunday afternoon one, I will be on TV.
Oh yeah, officials roll that way, Fred? When you played,
were there the officials like the officials that were full of themselves? Absolutely all
right? Tell me hearin about their their uniform as much as as as players
did. There's official that he wasn't a referee. He was as he was.
I want to say, he was a back judge. So he's in
the middle of the field and get seen sometimes the line judge. You know,
those guys on the sidelines, they don't really get seen as much,
but the back judge of the field judge. I mean, they're getting seen.
And this guy would be fixing his uniform, his referee uniform every play,
every player was his socks. It was to the point where he's bending
down. We saw it on tape and this is when I was with the
Raiders. We saw it on tape where he's bending down fixing his sock as
the play's going on, not once spread but multiple times during the game that
he's fixing a part of his referee uniform and the ball had already been snapped
and he had moved. So yes, yes, there are people like I'm
gonna be on TV tomorrow, this is my moment, and uh, watch
out for me, Watch out for me? Can you tape the game for
me? When when you would deal with the guys in the hats, the
referees, the white hats. Were there guys like that as referees, not
so much. No, most of most of them were really professional. And
and because you know, you know this, they all work so hard to
get to that point, to become the referee, because you're the leader of
that group. So I never really never really saw it from those guys.
Those guys were, for the most part, for the most part, they
were good. There was one I can't remember his name right now, but
he was just just mad at the world. Should never have been a referee,
and and and he and he reffed a long time. Again, I
can't remember his name, but he reffed a long time. And in fact,
he might be he might be one of those analysts that are on the
shows now, you know, because every game has got a referee in the
booth for the broadcast. But just you know, even just asking, you
know, for simple things, can I get a measurement? Can I get
you know, what's uh is that time? Right? We need to you
know, can I get the twenty five second clock to reset? Everything was
absolutely not No, No, you cannot, no, you cannot. I'm
windy, Rodney, I'm winding right now, I'm winding. I mean,
everything was a bark like I was asking him for his firstborn child. No,
you cannot have a measurement. No, was it Jerry Austin? That
might have been him, because he seems like the type. Is he the
long tall kind of he's a tall guy. He was with a four letter
I don't know if he's still there or not. They've cycled through some of
there. I'm gonna tell you exactly, okay, because there was John John
Perry, Jeans Sterotor, I know those guys. God, he it might
have been him, Jerry Austin. Yeah, I'm gonna look him up.
Yeah, yeah, look him up, Rodney, look him up. If
that was the guy. If it was him, man, he he boy,
he just woke up mad at the world. What was he ever?
Pleasant? No? Not even before the games. You know you joke around
with these guys before the games and just you know, you kid him like
I said, you know, you tell hey, you know seventy five.
He likes to hold a lot. Keep an eye on that cat. You
know last time he hit me low? Come on, come on now,
Yes, yes, yes, yes, it was Jerry Austin, Yes,
one hundred percent. He's just one of those who look at a picture.
He looks like he's a chap ass. It's so funny. You picked him
right out of the hat. Absolutely, one hundred percent. Jerry Austen,
Yep, Jerry was not. Jerry was not the friendliest of guy's. Boy.
Jerry was just no you not, no, no, Rodney. Did
you ever say to him on the ball Jerry calm down? Yeah, oh
after the game, like if we were in victory and we're winning, yeah,
I would. I would joke and tease with him. Jerrik, can
you relax now, now you can relax a little bit. Jared Game's over
would not say a word. Did he work Super bowls? Kevin? I
mean, he was around for a long time, and imagine he would.
I'm sure he did at some point. He was wrapped from eighty two to
two thousand and seven. I'd imagine you wouldn't work that long without working a
Super Bowl or two, right, right, right? Yeah? Yeah,
a lot of them. You know, most of the guys were pretty we're
pretty friendly. Johnny Greer was the friendliest guys. He looked friendly. Yeah,
Johnny was very very friendly and just have conversations with both. Was he
not one of the first black referees? And I think he probably was.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because he was older when I played, so
yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, he was very friendly with like,
hey, hey, even when he couldn't do something for you is how
Oh come on, Rodnie, you know I can't do that for you.
You know, I'll check it out and I you know I can't do that.
Come on, Johnny, you gotta call that holding Johnny's he's laying on
me, Johnny, I can't. I can't even get up for the two
minute drill. This guy's laying on me. Johnny called it, I know.
And then he would have a conversation with the other guy, Richard,
Hey, ditt, come on, now, you gotta get off him.
You gotta get off him, you know. So he would keep that that
rapport going throughout the game, you know, even when guys were going at
him and yelling at him. You know, he's one of those refs that
that the opposite of those those either referees or umpires that are so quick to
give you a technical or so quick to throw you out of the game.
It have to be a lot for a guy like Johnny to throw a penalty
on you, or even for him to get upset because he understood the hit
the heat of the battle, and guys are just in the middle of the
battle, and this could really affect the outcome of the game. Not so
much maybe the outcome, but that situation can affect. If I throw a
fifteen yard penalty right now on this guy, then that changes the complexion of
the game at this moment. I don't want to do that if I don't
have to. So he would give guys the benefit of the doubt if they
were yelling and screaming at him. Yeah, but Jerry Austin would never no.
No, he had one hand on the whistle and other hand on the
flag. Ready to go, Katie, this is terrible news. I think
we're gon we're gonna have to move. Who did Oh? Oh, no,
No, I know, I know you were looking forward to it.
We'll try to get it in later. H top of the album one o'clock,
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good friend Jacob and Ronnie and Jacob, how are you today? I'm doing
wonderful. How are you, gentlemen? Doing well? Jacobing well? Doing
well, doing well. Just saw a report come down that before darvinham moved
D'Angelo Russell to the bench, he had a conversation with Anthony Davis and lebron
about it. I get that. I respect that that he went to those
two and said, what do you think, Jacob, how do you feel
about that? I mean, this regime all the way, it's from you
know, Ropelinka coming in and uh, you know last coach Frank Vogel and
even Darvin. I mean, it's you know, the way the Lakers operate
now, which is nice? Is they include their superstars and all their decision
making. So you know, there's not a surprise to any of us.
And there's nothing wrong with that. I mean, I know people want to
make a big deal about it, but I've been on several teams where you
know that the coaching staff or even sometimes a GM would would just call on
information or call on a conversation to see what different players thought about a certain
move that they were going to make, especially if it involved you know,
rotation or something on the court. Of course, you want your players involved
in that, especially your your superstar guys. So what are you talking about?
It is coming coming from a coming from somebody who knows a lot more
about things like that than I do. Why do you want to make something
out of it? For it? No, I'm not making anything out of
it. I actually liked it. Yeah, yeah, you can't make of
this though, take up this this whole talk and we said this, We've
been talking about this a little bit. But Darvinham coming coming under fire now.
I mean they just won the nd season tournament, I know, but
want to poo pull it, but they had a nice run to do that.
They've they've kind of struggled a bit since then, a lot of bit,
I should say since then. But the call for the man job or
he should be fired or be on the hot seat, to me is ridiculous.
What are your thoughts, Listen, It's just it's it's just what comes
with, you know, being the head coach of you know, the best
brand in the world. Right there's always going to be pressure with it.
What occurs outside, you know, when we're talking about it on the radio
or when someone's giving a comment to it on TVs obviously somewhat different than what's
going on inside the organization. I like the fact that you know, Darvinham
is focused. You know, obviously he has said and so has the Lakers
brass that they have confidence in what he's doing. And you know, one
of the best things that's come out in the past few week so that we
finally beat the Clippers, and I was at the game and it was a
great game, and uh, you know, you're hoping that they're going to
be able to parlay that and a couple of other more wins before you go
into the All Star break and you just kind of get back on track.
I think that's what's most important right now. Jacob I know you're the likeer
guy, but you were at that game and you watched it. Could you
believe they took Kawhi Leonard out at the end of the game. I'm not
authorized to say anything about what the Clippers do. Wow, I like the
result, that's all that matters. And I like that dunk the lebron hadge.
Yes, it's just incredible to see this this this man and how you
know he just continues to excel himself and now that was just a beautiful thing.
Jacob Our listeners love when you offer advice. I want to ask you
a question. If you're injured in an accident, you hire an turn,
you want to receive updates. At least I would, But sadly that's not
always the case, is it. Well, it's not the case, and
I think it's important. You know, obviously, I have a lot of
colleagues that are in my industry law that are very good at what they do.
But you know, just like in any industry, you have people that
are good at what they do, you also have the opposite. And I
think it's important for our listeners to understand what their rights are and to not
feel like they're asking for too much and often when people come to my office
for a you know, free second opinion for me or my team to look
over a current case that's going on, the first complaint is I've never spoken
to my attorney, or I've never met with my attorney, or even worse
than that, when I called to talk to my attorney, somebody else is
only giving me updates. And I think what I kind of want to do
is make sure that you know, as a consumer, as a client,
you understand that, you know, when you hire our firm, when you
hire an attorney, you're hiring the attorney. You're not hiring the employees.
Obviously. You know, we have over one hundred and you know, thirty
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result of what we do. But the representation comes from the attorney. And
anytime, you know, even when I'm in an you know, out of
the office, I'm in a deposition today, when a client wants to reach
me, they text me. When the client wants to reach me, I
make myself available to them, you know, within a matter of reasonable time
so I can answer their question. You know, many people who come to
me for a second opinion say that they feel like they're asking for too much
when they ask to talk to their attorneys. And I want you to know
that that is a right that you have. That is a right that you
should exercise. And if you're not getting that right, then you may not
be in with the right firm and you should look at your other options.
Makes sense to me, absolutely, absolutely, all right, Jacob knowledge.
Guys. We got to give knowledge knowledge around all day. That's right,
twenty twenty four. We got to throw it around knowledge, all right,
all right, will you be you be spitting knowledge? Oh no, no,
no, no, no, no, no no. Stay in your
lane is twenty twenty four to two. Stay in your lane. Friend,
My bad, My bad, my bad, friend, Jacob. Thanks,
great talking to you. Thanks guys, have a good day, you too.
Okay, next hour, right at the top of the hour, David
Vasel, jump on, let's talk about the villains and maybe take some calls
on that later on in the hour. Also, Rodney, I found something
on TikTok. Oh. Of course you did, yeah, because you know
I'm very much in tune with TikTok. Yes you are. And anyway,
uh, someone did a parody about Matt Stafford, Matthew Stafford, Okay,
as they get ready to go back to Detroit, So we're gonna play that too,