Alright, let's go Fred rug and Rodney Pete on seventy LA Sports the Friday
Show, where we normally don't really care very much. I mean, we'll
put in the effort today, Rodney, because we're here, but we normally
don't even care on Fridays. We've got a lot to get to and of
course the big news, the NBA All Star Game is upon used. Yes,
all right, Well, how does that make you feel? I'm excited
for it? How does that make you feel? I'm very excited about the
All Star Game this year? Are you really? I am? I am
due? Tell well, you know it's twenty twenty four. Yeah, you
know we were anticipating this break for both of our teams here locally. Yeah,
the trade deadline that's coming gone. Sure, this marks the beginning of
the second half of the season, Okay, or the end of the first,
however you want to look at it, sure, if you'd rather,
right, real, I just want to see some great athletes do some acrobatic
work on the court at off, right, that's what the All Star Game
is all about. Well, the All Star Game is a complete waste of
time. No, that's what the All Star Game is all about. And
by the way I think it now, it now occupies a mantle and this
is hard to admit. It occupies the mantle of worst All Star Game.
Ooh. It is eclipsed the Pro Bowl, which no longer exists because the
NFL at least figured out no one cares, no one wants to get hurt
and it doesn't mean anything. So thank god they got rid of that.
The skills competent, well, that's just obsolete. Now there's not any reason
for any of that except they get paid. The NFL does hockey. You
play three on three. But I mean, quite honestly, if you remember
the old ice capage show Holiday on ice, there was Disney on ice and
Holiday on ice, it's on a holiday on ice. Everybody's nice, get
up, get down, don't get hurt, no reason to really shoot the
putt that hard, keep it moving, Let's get out of here. So
that's the NHL All Star Game, Major League Baseball's All Star Game. It
leaves. Yeah, it's become that. And they produced it differently. I
mean they mic the players, which is fascinating. How about the year Alec
Manoa. I think if Toronto was pitching and they had a mic during the
game that was yeah, right, So I mean they're doing things to give
it more production value and don't get it makes it more interesting to watch.
And again, remember if you go to the game, you go, oh
my god, I went to the All Star Game and I can tell all
my friends. But when you get there you realize, aside from going to
the game, that these are made for TV events anyway. Everything is constructed
for television. The home run derva Dodgers Stadium, you know, depending on
where you were sitting, you couldn't see anything. I mean you could see
him hit the ball, but then there were interviews that took place and a
stage came out and if you were in the wrong place, you couldn't see
it. They're made for TV events. So now we get to the NBA
All Star Game. It is just awful. Every year they try something new
to make it more interesting. But the only thing you could do to make
the NBA All Star Game more interesting is actually how the players want to play.
And they actually do not want to play. Oh so you're telling me
the hockey guys want to play no, and I'm saying that's bad. Baseball
players want to play well, at least from a television football guys don't want
to play. Yeah, from a television perspective, just a baseball broadcast and
presentation is better. Yeah. I don't know who's playing, who's not playing,
but it looks better. It's easier to watch. Yeah, but he
just said, you know, players want to play. None of those players
want to play. Okay, Well, they enjoy being you know, invited
and you know, awarded an All Star of parents, but they don't want
to play. They would rather be in Camcon or on vacation, to take
those days off with their family or girlfriends or ever. So none of those
guys really want to play in any sport. Well, you know, years
ago, years ago, the NBA, Kobe Bryant, you know, d
Wade broke his nose, Kobe yelled at Lebron for shooting in the clutch,
things like that. Uh yeah, I mean there was a time the Baseball
All Star Game where Pete Rose cold crushed Ray Fosse and basically ended his career.
They played it meant something doesn't mean anything anymore. It just doesn't mean
anything anymore. And I just think the NBA is worst by far. I
mean, because you can really tell watching the worst in the NFL. The
NFL is terrible fit. No, the NFL doesn't exist anymore. That would
have won, but it played no longer football. No, football doesn't even
exist anymore. You're counting that out, so you don't even count in the
NFL. No, because it's done, thankfully, thank god, it's done.
So that's finished. Uh, baseball like the three point in the skills
competition, and you know what, it's fine now. I used to really
love it. I think it's okay now, But the bottom line is that
the game is just a debacle, and you know it goes in the TV
package, so you have to do it. I think you just get rid
of it just the end. No reason, no reason at all. No
one cares. It's abundantly obvious watching them. It's just that go care in
person. People care. I don't think watching it, you know, it's
not the watch like it used to be. As Oh well, I think
people that play in the game run up and down the court and try to
do great shots, take great shots and wile the crowd. But there's no
defense. It doesn't come on, Rodney, come on, it's it's a
defense. No, of course, No, no, no, people,
guys, I just said, guys don't care. Guys don't care about it,
you know. But once you are, you know, out there,
actually out there, you are trying to do something. You are trying to
do, you know, a crazy dunk, you're trying to you know,
you're trying to play to the crowd, all that kind of stuff. But
it's the days of it being competitive are long gone. That's not happening anymore.
But I still like the three win competition, like the dunk contest.
You know, it's hit or missed sometimes some years with the dunk contest,
Benning who you get involved in it. But I still like three point and
I feel like that even the skills is not that bad. Yes, the
game is what it is. The game hasn't been competitive for twenty years.
They went back to an East West format this year because they tried. When
they did that a couple of years ago, it was entertaining and it was
guys did play a little hard when they were winning, you know, doing
the tournament format and you know, quarter by quarter and you're playing for charity.
That was actually pretty competitive and it was it was actually pretty good.
I liked it. It was better. It was better. It's still bad.
Brian Windhorst bitter old man. No I'm not. I'm just realistic.
That has nothing to do with me being bitter or old. It's just a
true statement. It ain't worst in the NFL. Well, yeah, because
that doesn't exist anymore. It does exist. Stop saying that, what play
a flag football game? That doesn't even count. I'm talking about the Pro
Bowl game, that's all. I'm talking Pro Bowl. Play a flag football
Pro Bowl game? You know what? That is so irrelevant. I don't
even mention it anymore. It is so nothing, it's not even worth bringing
up or addressing. But you know, Brian windhorse suggested, Hey, maybe
maybe if they offered a financial incentive to these guys. Oh I'm sorry,
say shake gil Just Alexander. I misread this. Shake gil Just Alexander from
the Thunder said that if you offered a financial component, maybe it would motivate
guys to play. How about this everybody in the winning team gets five hundred
thousand dollars. How about that season that Dan season tournament? Right? You
know what I say to that? And I understand times have changed and everybody's
entitled to their opinion. This is to represent the league. You know this
is to represent the league the All Star Game. This kind of comes with
the cost of doing business if we actually have to pay you to care about
the All Star Game. This is about being an ambassador for the NBA and
showing up, putting on a show. And it's not a show because it's
so bad. Putting on a show and helping some people enjoy the sport.
We put argue that's what it is, though, Fred, it is a
show. It's not a competitive game. But it's a show. But it's
a bad shoot. It's a show that would close high line the high flying
dunks. If you're an eight ten year old kid, you're an eight ten
year old kid and you see these crazy dunks, Yeah, that kid gets
excited about that. Frett, Maybe not you, but the young kid does.
Okay, there is an argument to be made that we're not the right
demographic for these things, specifically the NBA All Star Game, so it wouldn't
appeal to us anyway. True, and we got to be competitive in the
past. I got to tell some of the younger generation, if you're fifteen
and under, you don't have that reference of Jordan and Kobe or you know,
Doctor or Dominique and Larry Bird going at it, are on the same
team going at against Magic and career. You don't have that reference when it
was competitive, or the NFL Pro Bowl, when, yes, the salaries
weren't crazy like they are now, and twenty five grand meant a lot to
a guy in the fourth quarter when you had a chance to win twenty five
grand as opposed to running ten. You know, those fourth quarters in the
Pro Bowl got pretty competitive at that point. So, but the money is
so crazy right now, it doesn't the incentive is not there in terms of
money. Yeah, anyway, it's still bad, thank you, It's still
bad. And I just think it's a waste of a weekend. How about
you give everybody the weekend off and somehow figure out to keep the TV money
the same. In other words, we'll call it the February break, and
in the break, everybody gets five six days off, however long it is,
Go relax, do whatever you're gonna do. We'll see in a week.
How about we try that. The only reason this exists is because of
TV and the money. That's it. Otherwise it wouldn't exist anymore. It's
a promotion for the for the NBA as well their product you don't think those
cities do well when the NBA comes to town for the All Star Weekend.
Absolutely they do. I think the absolutely do so more benefits than than pleasing.
You frey it. They're not pleasing a lot of people. They're pleased
in Indianapolis. Well, yeah, well they they need to be. What
else are they going to be pleased about. They're in Indianapolis, for God's
sake. They can be hit by lightning at any moment. Well, you
know how the lightning is there. You know how bad the weather can get
in the Midwest. Yes, Eric Dickerson, I think he's the Grand Marshal
of the NBA All Star Weekend in Indianapolis. I'll tell you what guy they're
paying. Then I'll tell you one guy they're paying. Eric Dickerson. Yes,
if he's applying to India to be the grand Marshal of anything. I
don't think he's ever stepped foot in Indianapolis since he retired. I think you're
right. Didn't he tell us that? I think he said something to that
effect. He tries to avoid it at all costs. That must be a
pretty good paycheck. Then good. All right, So we're at the midway
point or pasted it. But the All Star Break Lakers Clippers, Rodney give
the Lakers a grade Ooh if you got to take it into totality of what
the Lakers did and leading up to this when they six out of eight that
they won the finish to go into this break, I'm going to give them.
I'm going to give them a B on the first half of the season.
Yeah, I'm going to be They did win. You can't be diminished.
They did win the nd season tournament, which you Freddy, you cried
and begged and screamed and kicked and said it would be great. They should
do it. They do it in Europe and and soccer, and the teams
in NBA and Baseball SD Incorporated over here do an nd season tournament. The
NBA listened to you. The Lakers won it, and you got to respect
that and give it some love because that's part of the first half of the
season. Okay, So you gave him a B. Yeah, I am
going to give them a C plus. That's terrible. Well, what do
you mean it's terrible? What do you mean that's terrible? I just said,
you cried and begs for the n season tournament and you got it and
the Lakers won it, and yet you still give it them a C.
Yeah, because you know they're they're barely uh, they're barely above water here,
they're starting to come together. Yeah. Account Okay, Well no I
can't. I just have to talk about what was. We'll give them a
new grade when the season is over. But it wasn't really what we expected.
No, No, what does the n season tournament count for? It?
Nothing for four wins? Four or five wins, that's it. Okay,
that's what account of it. For a guy that begged for it and
loved it and thought it is the best thing since Slice Bride, I did
like it. And a team that is local team wins it is great inaugural
one, and you can't give them any kind of love or respect for doing
that. I'm giving them loving respect. That was great, and that's why
they got a C plus instead of a scene. All right, what do
you give the Clippers. I'm giving the Clippers a B plus. Yeah,
I'm giving a B plus. They've been pretty steady and they've said they've stayed
healthy. So yeah, I'm giving them a B plus. You know,
I'm giving them a B plus. Two I think are great for the Clippers
is correct. I think you're great for the Lakers is incorrect. But I'm
giving them a B plus because they are very close to being an A.
You know, they had that that period of struggles when Harden got there all
of his suddenly he became the system and everybody figured that out, and they
just went out a tear. They're one of the best teams in the NBA,
and quite frankly, I don't want even jinx them. I don't want
to jink them because you know, are you anything gonna happen, Kevin?
Are we hearing Fred give James Harden some love? Sounds like it. I
also struggle why why a B plus and not an A? Exactly? Is
my question to both of you, Well, what more? What more would
you ask them to do at this point in time? What more? Yeah,
based on your expectations coming into the season and where they sit. Now,
what are they sitting. They're sitting number two in the West threat Yeah,
in the midst of having that that really that long stretch where they struggle
with James Harden and still the second best. And that is why that is
why it's a B plus and not an A. Because of the slow start
because of the start. Got to take it in its totality and and basically
that's what I'm saying too, you have to take it in its totality.
Uh yeah, And that knocked him back a little bit. I mean,
imagine if they had been playing like that all the way halfway decent, if
they just played a little i mean halfway decent, they'd be three four the
West. Yeah, well, they probably have the best record in the league
if they played at the clip they've been playing at the last two months,
easily exactly. All right, Well, the saltya Adam Ausland is going to
join us. He'll be coming out about one o'clock and we will get more
into that. All right, this is exciting today. We'll end this week
strong because we have Ned Koletti coming on on a Friday. Okay, he
has been in the chair. He knows what spring training is like. He
knows what it's like to have a roster with great expectation. And we'll get
to that when we come back. Hey, it is Friday, it is
Rodney Pete, it is Fred Rogan and yeah, normally we do not care.
No with this next guest we got coming on, we absolutely do care.
Can you tell by the music? Oh? Yeah, he loves it.
Let's bring him on right now, the man in the big chair as
we get ready to go to this baseball season. It's our pound, Ned
Collledding. Ned, how are you hey, gentlemen. Good to hear your
voice, Good to hear that tune? You know what? Yesterday was the
fifty seventh anniversary of Chicago's first gig fifty seven years ago. Yesterday, Good
Time did their first gig fifty seven years ago. Yep, February fifteen.
Crazy. Oh you guys been we're doing well. Ned, All right,
let's go spring training. Let's go when you're in the big chair and you
have a club like the Dodgers have. What are you thinking? I'm thinking
I don't want to hear from the trainer. Ah, that'll be how the
spring will be determined. The least amount of conversations I had with medical,
the better it'll be. But you know, you just you got a lot
of veterans, You got a lot of guys that you can you know,
they'll come along at their own pace. They know what's at stake. They
know where the bodies are at, they know where the conditioning is at.
You let them. You let them just kind of get into it when they're
when they're ready to go. So when you get to Korea, you're ready,
and then you're going to have a few days after that to regroup and
then you get after it again. Hey man. There's been obviously a lot
of superstars that that played in Major League Baseball over the years, and a
lot of great players. But but Otani it's just a it's a different animal.
Not so much that he's you know, better than everyone else, but
I think because of the time and era in which we live right now,
with the media attention, with social media that's out there. You know,
a lot of guys in the past didn't have to deal with a lot of
that and we do now. Uh what do the Dodgers and it's players and
the whole organization. You think they need to be looking out for too,
some of them, you know, some of the pitfalls that may occur or
happen their way. Well, I think the media coverage, because he's also
a global star, I think the media coverage is going to be global,
and I think you're going to have so many more people looking for people's time,
looking for interviews, looking at them all the time. It's going to
be ramped up, more so than at any other point in probably the history
of the organization, maybe in the history of the sport, maybe even in
the history of American sport. It's just that big. So you're going to
have so much more media coverage, so much more attention, and some of
it is going to overflow into other areas of your clubhouse, other areas of
your organization. People are going to be looking for any angle that they can
have, so you have to be ready for that. Those people who maybe
haven't dealt with the media a whole lot, players front office are probably going
to get more media attention. And this next year and the years to follow,
this just won't be a twelve month or deal either. This will go
for the decade, and I think you have to be aware of that,
and you have to be aware of distraction and make sure you stay focused in
on what you're trying to accomplish. You know, LA is one of the
toughest places to play. I think people think it's just laid back and easy
going, great fan base, all of that, But because of the weather,
because of the lifestyle, because of the beauty of the stadium and the
area. You got to keep your focus. New York, Boston, Philly,
those cities. The people on the outside will help you keep your focus
because they'll be getting on you if you're not doing what you're supposed to.
But here it's a little bit different, and I think you got to kind
of maybe mix that into your thought process because you will be under the microscope.
You're already under it, and when each passing day that lights is going
to get brighter till you get till the end of October. Ned Rodney and
I both agree on there that they need the Dodgers need to make a run
of the playoffs. I know we got to play the whole regular season,
but they've got to make a run into the playoffs. They have to make
a statement. I'm not saying they have to win it, but they've got
to be there. And if they're not, do you think that could be
problematic for Dave Roberts Well. I never really liked this question because I think
that there's so much that goes into the managing of it. I understand the
question because the question comes up in every sport. I think he's done a
terrific job. I think his managerial style is very strong. I think his
ability to relate the players has been excellent. It's not the same day and
age where manager just write down the lineup card and it works on a few
fun has the coaches working on fundamentals. There's a lot more to it than
that. So I think if things go haywire, certainly he's going to be
somebody that's going to come into greater focus. At the same time, and
I've known it for years in my own my own career that if I'm going
to make a managerial change, not only do I have to be sure about
making that first change, but I'd better be ready with whoever is going to
sit in that seat next, because that person can't be doing the same And
whatever I thought the misgivings were in I'm the first person, the second one's
got to be definitively stronger, and sometimes you don't know that until they sit
in that spot. So making the first move is never easy, but really,
to me, the second move, you've got to be really, really
sure of what you're doing. And I agree they got to make a run
in the postseason. You don't do what they've done and then you know,
not make it or go out in one round and get swept. But I
think that when you look at it, I think it's a it's a dynamic
that takes great examining. For me to make a move on a manager,
the players would have had to quit plan so to speak. They would have
had to quit being fundamentally sound, the presentation would have to lack all of
that. Then, okay, then I got to make a move. But
if that's not the case, then we've got to find other ways to make
the club better. So I think there's a lot of different viewpoints to look
in at it. I would never be quick to dismiss somebody of Dave Roberts's
character, stature, experience, pedigree. I think he's one of the best.
And yeah, we all can take heat for those decisions because that's part
of what makes sports special. But at the same time, you got to
you got to measure them all kind of finally, because it's not just a
cut and dry situation and mad because we're gonna hear it. You know,
as soon as the Dodger's going a three game losing streak, there's gonna be
questions, they're going to two game loser streak, They're gonna be fire Dave
Roberts. You know this is going to be out there just the way some
of the public is. Would you, if you're sitting there, would you
ever come out early before the season starts and say, and I don't know
Dave's contract situation, I can't remember what it is, but come out and
say we're behind him and we've given him a two or three year extension and
he will be here for those two three years, you know going forward.
I know you can't guarantee because something like you said, if players quit and
you have no choice, but come out and definitively say I'm taking this off
the table. He's our manager for at least the next two years or next
three years. I don't know. I think that I don't know that I
would let the public or even the media sway my my thoughts on it.
They've been together a long time, Andrew and Stan and they've they've been they've
and Mark Walters, they've been in this group for quite a while. They
know each other very well. I think it's important that the manager knows where
he stands and knows how Andrew feels, and stand feels and Mark feels,
and I would be surprised if he didn't. I think that's the only thing
you have to be sure of, because I don't think a fan vote is
ever going to get anybody fired. I don't think a media uprising is ever
going to get anybody fired. I think I think you get you get let
go when the players stop. Will the players stopped playing as well as they
can play? That that's what typically typically leads to somebody's dismissal. So it's
a it's more of a I guess a focus view and on. Okay,
who are the main characters here and how do they feel about each other?
What do they know? You know, I'm sure that they've been many,
many conversations about the club and where we're going and what I expect. I
don't think there's anything that is in crystal clear between the people of leadership there
as so what we're doing, how we're gonna do it now it's gonna get
done, and what it's supposed to look like. Right, Okay, So
I get where you're saying, you're not gonna let the public, the fans,
or the media dictate what you're going to do. So even behind the
scenes, behind the scenes, do you have that conversation and be candid.
Like you said, they've known each other for a long time, work together
for a long time, and I believe they can have these kind of candid
conversations. Do you go to Dave and say, hey, Dave, you
know the position we're in. Now, you're loaded. Now we got to
do something big here. We got to win it, We got to win
it all. We don't win at all, We might have to make a
change. Do you say that or do you let it play out and then
wait until the end of the season and make that decision. Well, when
people ask me some of the mistakes I made and some of the things I
had to adjust to, one of them was impatience. And what I mean
by that is the decision you make. We all make decisions every day.
Most of us will judge our own decisions, or people will judge what we
decide, whether it turned out didn't turn out right wrong, Yes, no,
trade, don't trade, sign, don't sign. Whatever I learned early
on in my Dodger days, probably after a year of their being there and
trying to change it rapidly, which we did, But to continue to keep
my foot on the pedal, so to speak, that not only is it
the decision you make, but more importantly, it's when you make it.
So I don't know enough Ridie to say, well, this is what the
kind of conversation I'd be having with Dave Roberts on our way over the career.
I don't know that. I think that when when you spend as much
time as I'm sure Andrew does and stand everybody else is saturated in the thought
process of this organization, you know you know when it's time to have that
type of conversation because you don't want to stir something up either, you know,
and tell you really have to. I think decision making is not only
the decision you make, but when you make it, and I think every
day almost and when you get to trading deadlines and waiver claiming stuff like that,
every minute, every hour can can shape a decision somewhat differently. So
I think that it's something that you wait for the right point in time,
and then maybe you wait a little bit longer just to be sure. These
are not easy moves, nor are they without many ramifications and a lot of
dominoes falling in either direction. So it's something that I think you if you
get to that point, you'll know when that point is. But I don't
get I'd have no idea if today's that pointer, or labor days that point,
or October versus that point. I don't know, but I know my
own thought process. And you know, the people who worked with me and
for me, they knew we had a deadline. I was going to use
every couple of minutes to the end to say yeay or nay, because every
minute you got a chance to learn something, see something, figure something else
out, get clarity on something. So when you make that decision, to
me is as important as what you're saying and the decision to make. And
now I'm trying to remember when when you were there. Don Mattingly was a
manager, the club had been struggling. Ultimately they turned it around and went
on that incredible run. But did you have a conversation refresh my memory at
some point saying look, Donnie, I don't want to do this, but
if things don't turn around, I got to make a move. You know.
It was in May I think of maybe two thirteen, and Hanley was
out. I think he had a broken figure. In the last couple of
innings of it. WBC ESCO hadn't gotten there yet. My recollection is right,
and we were struggling. We were maybe in last place. We were
maybe eight or nine games under five hundred, maybe ten or eleven back,
and everybody was doing exactly what we've been talking about. Donn He's gotta go,
Donny's gotta go, Donny's gotta go. And I hadn't seen our team
yet. I mean, we were not at full strength, and I thought
the effort was still pure. As long as the effort was strong, you
know, you've got to let him play out. And you know, I
talked to Donnie, I thought to Joe Tory, I always got Grady,
you were back my giant Day's Felipe Alt and Dusty. Not every day,
but you know, five days a week easily, sometimes seven. So everybody
kind of knew that they were gonna never be any surprises as to where we
were at. I'm sure I asked Donnie, how you think and how you're
feeling? What do you think about this? What do you think about that?
Just to continue to have his thought process, and every manager ever worked
with their thought press. Continue to think, continue to grind away and think
about where you're at, what you're doing, and what you're seeing and how
we can make it better. And then as you look back historically, I
think we ran off. I think that until a couple of years ago,
maybe the greatest sixty games stretch in the history of the organization. I mean
we were we won something in the forties and lost ten games or something and
turned it completely around. So you've got to have that patience, and it's
the toughest thing to have, especially in baseball, because you know, we're
not playing once a week. You're playing almost every day for six months,
so the evaluation of it is constant. So I had to also learn my
evaluation is going to come in very small increments. Nothing, nothing, spur
of the moment, nothing. I've watched this guy five straight games, you
can't hit. No, It's going to be in little increments to get to
those decisions. I'm sure I had conversations with all of about different things almost
every day. I felt my position was one that I had. You know,
I could see the game differently. I didn't. I saw it with
the division of today's important, this week's important, this month, next month,
a year from now, three years from now, five years from now.
A manager's viewpoint is typically today, damn. Maybe tomorrow, but they're
not worried about next season. So you know, I had to I had
to always kind of find conversations that would encourage hold them accountable and have them
hold players accountable and continue to figure out ways how do we get it marginally
better day to day, How do we take the last player on the roster
and get that player just a little bit better? How are we going to
do it? And so those conversations took place, continuing almost almost daily,
but everybody had a real good feel for where everybody was because you can't you
can't be surprising people in a business like this with something that they have no
idea this is even coming. It's not fair. Hey man, we've been
we've been talking. We even mentioned it earlier before we started with or wouldn't
started with you, about the attention O Tany's going to get. And it's
been talked about how many times he's gonna talk each week? Is he going
to talk every day? Is he going to talk after every game? When
is he going to talk? And it's been, you know, been mentioned
that it's going to be very limited and how often he talks to the media,
and that the Dodgers will have other players, you know, talking for
him or at least talking about him or answering questions when when his name comes
up if he's not available, and I'm saying, you know that that may
be finding Danny as as maybe ah, you know, to start start off
with. But eventually guys are going to get tired if they're constantly asked about
someone else. I mean, a guy goes out and say it, even
if it's a guy, And who's nicest guy in the world, Freddy Freeman.
If you go out and go four for four with two home runs and
and five RBIs uh And the first question is what do you think about show
his day? That's gonna rub some guys. That's gonna rub some guys the
w y Yeah, well that's that's kind of what part of my thought process
when our first first discussion today is that the coverage and the focus is going
to be greater than ever and there won't be spillover. There'll be conversations where
you know, Freddy or Mookie and Clayton whoever is going to be like,
you know, oh yeah, yeah, you know, how much how much
more can I talk about the situation? So it's that'll be a bit of
a test. But you know, the one thing that you know players can
do during BP, they can stand in the outfield and shag right, so
you know, nobody can get out there to them. They'll they'll be able
to measure this out a little bit. But there's no doubt that you'm not
focus that it's going to be on the organization and and kind of centered on
Otani. Uh, not completely, but a lot of it. It's gonna
it's gonna test people's patients on every front. But that's that's part of what
happens when you're when you're excellent, and that's part of what happens when you
know you have as many fans as this organization does, and the media and
everybody knew when when Otani came that you know, this is a global situation.
This isn't somebody who went to U C. L A or USC and
just you know has been in La their whole life. No, this has
got worldwide baseball interest and growth to it in sports and marketing and global branding
interest to it. That's uh, you know, it's to me, it's
the maybe in my career, my lifetime. It's tough for me to think
of a deal with more ramification. Almost all of them positive than this deal
and the Dodgers organization coupled together, put together, I think it's I think
it's phenomenal, but it's it's also large. It's huge in the scope of
it, in the reach of it is unlike anything we've ever seen. Well,
Ned, you're large, You're huge, and we love seeing you.
So thank you for coming on today. Always a pleasure, gentlemen. I'm
gonna stop buying one of these days and spend the hour. Comes over the
time, come over and see you. Always welcome, Ned, you know
that. Thank you, guys, you talk to you. Ned. Flavor
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Rodney? Let's do it all right? Eight six sixty nine, eight
seven seventy First caller Kevin Oll pick yep, put you on the air and
we'll see if you can knock them off today. Oh yes, Today's afternoon
Delight is training Season by Dua Lipa. The song is the latest single from
the pop stars forthcoming third studio album, which will be released later this year.
I've been talking about the song, she said, I've been on a
string of bad dates and the last one was the final straw. And while
it is obviously about that feeling when you are just absolutely done telling people men
men, specifically in this case, how to date you write, it is
also about my training season being over and me growing with every experience. I've
never felt more confident, clear, or empowered again. Today's afternoon Delight is
training season. I do a leap. You don't want to train them fellas?
No more for it, Sam and Torrens are you there? Yes,
sir, all right, We're gonna play who dis and who dis? Know
it? Yell it out. There are no restrictions. You have a challenge.
Use it, it's upheld, you retain it. Use it, it's
denied. You locked out of the next question. You got the rule?
Sam, Yes, this is actually the rubber match for me. I took
down Rodney once he got me the second time. This is the rubber match.
Oh, okay, let's go. What about Ronnie? Did he ever
come for the title. I'm coming for the title. Ronnie didn't get one
on you. Damn Ronnie, you got me. I got you and who
it is you got me to know? You're squad. I'm taking you down
again. Rodney. Okay, let's go, Ronnie. Are you even going
to compete? I guess I'm just an ancillary figure in this competition between Rodney
and Sam from Torrance? But nevertheless, I'm hearing ready to go. Okay,
upset, Ronnie gonna whoop everybody's ass to date. That's what I'm thinking.
Let's go. I made eight Pro Bowls in my Hall of Fame football
career. Eric Dickerson No, Joe Montana, Joe Brett, Favre Rn them
wrong a lot, No, Travis Kelsey, Adrian Peters said Smith No,
Adam No. I love the league in rushing yards four times and in rushing
touchdowns three times. Thomlinson No. EMMITTT. Smith, Yes, Ronnie,
I said EMMITTT. Smith. You did? Kevin? Did you hear that?
Rother said Smith? He did? Say, all right, you got
it? Sorry, come on now. It must have got lost in all
the everybody who all the banter? Yeah, Rodney, Rodney's on the board.
I made twelve All Star teams in my Hall of Fame basketball career.
Twelve. David Robinson both the wrong. James No, Tony Parker, no,
the Big No, No, Doc Rivers, No No. I'm a
three time NBA champ and two time Finals MVP. sEH Curry Curry no,
Kawhi Leonard, Kevin Durant Why Leonard No, Dwayne Wade Shah No, uh
Lebron James No. I won three consecutive regular season NBA MVP awards in the
Angel Jordan, David Robinson No, Doctor j Johnson No, Kareem James Worthy,
Larry Bird, Larry Bird is correct, Ryrie Burd almost, Sam almost
the best. Sammy almost is right there. We said, everybody but Larry
Bird. Here's your next one. I'm a Pro Football Hall of Famer despite
being drafted in the seventh round. Tom no I No. I won three
Super Bowl titles in my career. Oh three, No, not three?
Not him? He won three? Yes, it is career. Steve Young,
Kurt Warner no, Jye Nova No. Oh, well, I hold
the I hold the NFL record for most receiving yards in a single game by
a tight end with two hundred and fourteen. Kellen Winslow. No, Rob
Gonkowski, no, Tony Jason Witten. No, yes, yes it is.
No, it's not, yes it is, it is not j novichk
Okay, it wasn't the last time. No, No, you say it
place. It's still no needed another clue here, Fred, come on,
last clue? Oh no, no, yep, last clue, barl No.
I am the former co host of Undisputed f S one Sharp. I
think that was Rodney. I think yeah, I said it. I said
it twice. I'm you said a third. Sam, Relax, Why are
you sitting there like a bump on a log? Fred? It comes to
delays again, Man, the freaking delays. Man. No, I'm I'm
calling for a booth. Calling for a booth, all right, stand by?
All right? Yeah, because I think that was really close. Now,
granted half the time I can't hear, but I think that was pretty
close. Sam. So we got to go booth because I thought you got
it. Everybody else thought Rodney got it. All right, let's hear it.
I am the former co host of Undisputed f S one. Daddy one
S one. Oh, sound like Sam and Rodney said it at the same
time to me, I got it, bro I got it. Wow?
What say you? Fred? What say me? I thought, you know
you are on the side of what Kevin said because it was really tight.
I thought Sam got in a fraction earl. Let's hear it again and the
former co host of Undisputed f S one. No, No, Rodney,
you were No, you did. I don't think you got that. I
think it was Sam Rodney Rodney. I have to you know what, I
have to retract what I said previously to Sam. I think Sam did get
it. Co host of Disputed f S one. That's me disputed adult.
Let's see he said it first? He did Ronny? I mean Rodney,
Wow, Sam, you get it. It's leved you got it. Here's
the next one. Let's go. I had eleven All Star teams in my
Hall of Fame basketball career. Kobe Bryant, Matthew Johnson, Steve No,
No, I love the league in scoring four times and then steals three times,
Magic Johnson. Who do you have, Rodney, Michael Jordan's No,
Scottie Pippen, Kobe Bryant, no, Michael Cooper, No. I was
Jason Kidd, No, I was Ellen, I samn Sam, all right,
here's where we're at. As to Ronnie has one, Rodney has one,
here's the next one? I mean five All Star teams in my Hall
of Fame basketball career, Vince car Thompson, both and wrong? Where's Rodney?
I don't know what Rodney's doing. Is Rodney playing under protest? Rodney?
Are you playing under protest? I'm not playing under protest? What protest?
I'm not protesting anything. I don't hear Rodney guessing. Yeah, Rodney,
you're usually like one of the first people to guess you're really mad.
Doesn't really matter there, ron What doesn't matter. Just keep it moving.
Fred william I was a two time All Packed ten selection while playing at UCLA.
Kevin Loves No, Josh No, Don McClain, Russell Westbrook, No,
Kareem Bill Walton. Prior to Steph Curry, many people regarded me as
the best three point shooter of all time? Did I get that one?
First? Want a booth review that one? Fred? No? No,
no, no, you got that one? Christ all right, Sam's got
to Rodney's got to. Rodney's got one. Final question? Bad here in
son of a. All right, I made fourteen All Star teams in my
NBA career. Kobe Bryant, No magic names Worthy, Jay Dirk, Nevinski,
big funnel member, Tony Parker. No, I'm only one of seven
players to lead the league in both scoring and assists at some point in their
careers. No, I've won, Johnson, No, Josh, No,
I've won all alone. No, kids, I won one NBA title as
a player and eight as an executive. Jerry West, Yes, did I
get there first? Did that get their first or not? I don't.
I don't know. I think so did that get their first? Fred?
You got their first? Okay? Good? Hey Rodney, Rodney loud,
sad with you, we love it, sad, loud with your chest.
Fred, No, never have, never have. Sammy, I love you,
Sam, I love you brother, all right? So, Uh Rodney
wins? Uh? Sam and and Ronnie third shocker its specially seven off,
best of three. I like that, Sam, I think that I like
I like that. Sam. Come on back with some mo sol t A.
Adam Auslin jumps on here after the break, talk about the Lakers.
We'll give them grades Lakers Clippers, and talk about the NBA All Star Game,