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Alright, let's go Fred rug and
Rodney Pete on seventy LA Sports the Friday

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Show, where we normally don't really
care very much. I mean, we'll

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put in the effort today, Rodney, because we're here, but we normally

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don't even care on Fridays. We've
got a lot to get to and of

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course the big news, the NBA
All Star Game is upon used. Yes,

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all right, Well, how does
that make you feel? I'm excited

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for it? How does that make
you feel? I'm very excited about the

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All Star Game this year? Are
you really? I am? I am

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due? Tell well, you know
it's twenty twenty four. Yeah, you

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know we were anticipating this break for
both of our teams here locally. Yeah,

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the trade deadline that's coming gone.
Sure, this marks the beginning of

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the second half of the season,
Okay, or the end of the first,

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however you want to look at it, sure, if you'd rather,

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right, real, I just want
to see some great athletes do some acrobatic

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work on the court at off,
right, that's what the All Star Game

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is all about. Well, the
All Star Game is a complete waste of

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time. No, that's what the
All Star Game is all about. And

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by the way I think it now, it now occupies a mantle and this

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is hard to admit. It occupies
the mantle of worst All Star Game.

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Ooh. It is eclipsed the Pro
Bowl, which no longer exists because the

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NFL at least figured out no one
cares, no one wants to get hurt

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and it doesn't mean anything. So
thank god they got rid of that.

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The skills competent, well, that's
just obsolete. Now there's not any reason

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for any of that except they get
paid. The NFL does hockey. You

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play three on three. But I
mean, quite honestly, if you remember

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the old ice capage show Holiday on
ice, there was Disney on ice and

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Holiday on ice, it's on a
holiday on ice. Everybody's nice, get

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up, get down, don't get
hurt, no reason to really shoot the

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putt that hard, keep it moving, Let's get out of here. So

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that's the NHL All Star Game,
Major League Baseball's All Star Game. It

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leaves. Yeah, it's become that. And they produced it differently. I

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mean they mic the players, which
is fascinating. How about the year Alec

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Manoa. I think if Toronto was
pitching and they had a mic during the

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game that was yeah, right,
So I mean they're doing things to give

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it more production value and don't get
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And again, remember if you go
to the game, you go, oh

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my god, I went to the
All Star Game and I can tell all

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my friends. But when you get
there you realize, aside from going to

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the game, that these are made
for TV events anyway. Everything is constructed

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for television. The home run derva
Dodgers Stadium, you know, depending on

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where you were sitting, you couldn't
see anything. I mean you could see

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him hit the ball, but then
there were interviews that took place and a

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stage came out and if you were
in the wrong place, you couldn't see

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it. They're made for TV events. So now we get to the NBA

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All Star Game. It is just
awful. Every year they try something new

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to make it more interesting. But
the only thing you could do to make

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the NBA All Star Game more interesting
is actually how the players want to play.

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And they actually do not want to
play. Oh so you're telling me

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the hockey guys want to play no, and I'm saying that's bad. Baseball

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players want to play well, at
least from a television football guys don't want

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to play. Yeah, from a
television perspective, just a baseball broadcast and

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presentation is better. Yeah. I
don't know who's playing, who's not playing,

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but it looks better. It's easier
to watch. Yeah, but he

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just said, you know, players
want to play. None of those players

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want to play. Okay, Well, they enjoy being you know, invited

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and you know, awarded an All
Star of parents, but they don't want

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to play. They would rather be
in Camcon or on vacation, to take

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those days off with their family or
girlfriends or ever. So none of those

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guys really want to play in any
sport. Well, you know, years

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ago, years ago, the NBA, Kobe Bryant, you know, d

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Wade broke his nose, Kobe yelled
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things like that. Uh yeah,
I mean there was a time the Baseball

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All Star Game where Pete Rose cold
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They played it meant something doesn't mean
anything anymore. It just doesn't mean

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anything anymore. And I just think
the NBA is worst by far. I

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mean, because you can really tell
watching the worst in the NFL. The

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NFL is terrible fit. No,
the NFL doesn't exist anymore. That would

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have won, but it played no
longer football. No, football doesn't even

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exist anymore. You're counting that out, so you don't even count in the

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NFL. No, because it's done, thankfully, thank god, it's done.

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So that's finished. Uh, baseball
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competition, and you know what,
it's fine now. I used to really

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love it. I think it's okay
now, But the bottom line is that

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the game is just a debacle,
and you know it goes in the TV

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package, so you have to do
it. I think you just get rid

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of it just the end. No
reason, no reason at all. No

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one cares. It's abundantly obvious watching
them. It's just that go care in

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person. People care. I don't
think watching it, you know, it's

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not the watch like it used to
be. As Oh well, I think

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people that play in the game run
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do great shots, take great shots
and wile the crowd. But there's no

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defense. It doesn't come on,
Rodney, come on, it's it's a

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defense. No, of course,
No, no, no, people,

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guys, I just said, guys
don't care. Guys don't care about it,

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you know. But once you are, you know, out there,

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actually out there, you are trying
to do something. You are trying to

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do, you know, a crazy
dunk, you're trying to you know,

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you're trying to play to the crowd, all that kind of stuff. But

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it's the days of it being competitive
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But I still like the three win
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You know, it's hit or missed
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Benning who you get involved in it. But I still like three point and

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I feel like that even the skills
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game is what it is. The
game hasn't been competitive for twenty years.

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They went back to an East West
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they did that a couple of years
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guys did play a little hard when
they were winning, you know, doing

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the tournament format and you know,
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That was actually pretty competitive and it
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I liked it. It was better. It was better. It's still bad.

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Brian Windhorst bitter old man. No
I'm not. I'm just realistic.

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That has nothing to do with me
being bitter or old. It's just a

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true statement. It ain't worst in
the NFL. Well, yeah, because

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that doesn't exist anymore. It does
exist. Stop saying that, what play

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a flag football game? That doesn't
even count. I'm talking about the Pro

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Bowl game, that's all. I'm
talking Pro Bowl. Play a flag football

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Pro Bowl game? You know what? That is so irrelevant. I don't

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even mention it anymore. It is
so nothing, it's not even worth bringing

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up or addressing. But you know, Brian windhorse suggested, Hey, maybe

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maybe if they offered a financial incentive
to these guys. Oh I'm sorry,

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say shake gil Just Alexander. I
misread this. Shake gil Just Alexander from

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the Thunder said that if you offered
a financial component, maybe it would motivate

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guys to play. How about this
everybody in the winning team gets five hundred

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thousand dollars. How about that season
that Dan season tournament? Right? You

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know what I say to that?
And I understand times have changed and everybody's

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entitled to their opinion. This is
to represent the league. You know this

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is to represent the league the All
Star Game. This kind of comes with

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the cost of doing business if we
actually have to pay you to care about

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the All Star Game. This is
about being an ambassador for the NBA and

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showing up, putting on a show. And it's not a show because it's

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so bad. Putting on a show
and helping some people enjoy the sport.

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We put argue that's what it is, though, Fred, it is a

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show. It's not a competitive game. But it's a show. But it's

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a bad shoot. It's a show
that would close high line the high flying

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dunks. If you're an eight ten
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year old kid and you see these
crazy dunks, Yeah, that kid gets

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excited about that. Frett, Maybe
not you, but the young kid does.

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Okay, there is an argument to
be made that we're not the right

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demographic for these things, specifically the
NBA All Star Game, so it wouldn't

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appeal to us anyway. True,
and we got to be competitive in the

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past. I got to tell some
of the younger generation, if you're fifteen

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and under, you don't have that
reference of Jordan and Kobe or you know,

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Doctor or Dominique and Larry Bird going
at it, are on the same

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team going at against Magic and career. You don't have that reference when it

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was competitive, or the NFL Pro
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weren't crazy like they are now,
and twenty five grand meant a lot to

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a guy in the fourth quarter when
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grand as opposed to running ten.
You know, those fourth quarters in the

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Pro Bowl got pretty competitive at that
point. So, but the money is

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so crazy right now, it doesn't
the incentive is not there in terms of

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money. Yeah, anyway, it's
still bad, thank you, It's still

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bad. And I just think it's
a waste of a weekend. How about

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you give everybody the weekend off and
somehow figure out to keep the TV money

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the same. In other words,
we'll call it the February break, and

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in the break, everybody gets five
six days off, however long it is,

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Go relax, do whatever you're gonna
do. We'll see in a week.

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How about we try that. The
only reason this exists is because of

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TV and the money. That's it. Otherwise it wouldn't exist anymore. It's

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a promotion for the for the NBA
as well their product you don't think those

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cities do well when the NBA comes
to town for the All Star Weekend.

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Absolutely they do. I think the
absolutely do so more benefits than than pleasing.

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You frey it. They're not pleasing
a lot of people. They're pleased

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in Indianapolis. Well, yeah,
well they they need to be. What

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else are they going to be pleased
about. They're in Indianapolis, for God's

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sake. They can be hit by
lightning at any moment. Well, you

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know how the lightning is there.
You know how bad the weather can get

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in the Midwest. Yes, Eric
Dickerson, I think he's the Grand Marshal

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of the NBA All Star Weekend in
Indianapolis. I'll tell you what guy they're

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paying. Then I'll tell you one
guy they're paying. Eric Dickerson. Yes,

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if he's applying to India to be
the grand Marshal of anything. I

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don't think he's ever stepped foot in
Indianapolis since he retired. I think you're

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right. Didn't he tell us that? I think he said something to that

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effect. He tries to avoid it
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pretty good paycheck. Then good.
All right, So we're at the midway

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point or pasted it. But the
All Star Break Lakers Clippers, Rodney give

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the Lakers a grade Ooh if you
got to take it into totality of what

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the Lakers did and leading up to
this when they six out of eight that

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they won the finish to go into
this break, I'm going to give them.

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I'm going to give them a B
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Yeah, I'm going to be They
did win. You can't be diminished.

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They did win the nd season tournament, which you Freddy, you cried

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and begged and screamed and kicked and
said it would be great. They should

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do it. They do it in
Europe and and soccer, and the teams

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in NBA and Baseball SD Incorporated over
here do an nd season tournament. The

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NBA listened to you. The Lakers
won it, and you got to respect

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that and give it some love because
that's part of the first half of the

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season. Okay, So you gave
him a B. Yeah, I am

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going to give them a C plus. That's terrible. Well, what do

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you mean it's terrible? What do
you mean that's terrible? I just said,

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you cried and begs for the n
season tournament and you got it and

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the Lakers won it, and yet
you still give it them a C.

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Yeah, because you know they're they're
barely uh, they're barely above water here,

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they're starting to come together. Yeah. Account Okay, Well no I

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can't. I just have to talk
about what was. We'll give them a

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new grade when the season is over. But it wasn't really what we expected.

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No, No, what does the
n season tournament count for? It?

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Nothing for four wins? Four or
five wins, that's it. Okay,

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that's what account of it. For
a guy that begged for it and

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loved it and thought it is the
best thing since Slice Bride, I did

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like it. And a team that
is local team wins it is great inaugural

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one, and you can't give them
any kind of love or respect for doing

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that. I'm giving them loving respect. That was great, and that's why

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they got a C plus instead of
a scene. All right, what do

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you give the Clippers. I'm giving
the Clippers a B plus. Yeah,

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I'm giving a B plus. They've
been pretty steady and they've said they've stayed

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healthy. So yeah, I'm giving
them a B plus. You know,

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I'm giving them a B plus.
Two I think are great for the Clippers

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is correct. I think you're great
for the Lakers is incorrect. But I'm

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giving them a B plus because they
are very close to being an A.

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You know, they had that that
period of struggles when Harden got there all

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of his suddenly he became the system
and everybody figured that out, and they

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just went out a tear. They're
one of the best teams in the NBA,

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and quite frankly, I don't want
even jinx them. I don't want

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to jink them because you know,
are you anything gonna happen, Kevin?

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Are we hearing Fred give James Harden
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also struggle why why a B plus
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my question to both of you,
Well, what more? What more would

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you ask them to do at this
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based on your expectations coming into the
season and where they sit. Now,

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what are they sitting. They're sitting
number two in the West threat Yeah,

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in the midst of having that that
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with James Harden and still the second
best. And that is why that is

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why it's a B plus and not
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because of the start. Got to
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that's what I'm saying too, you
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Uh yeah, And that knocked him
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imagine if they had been playing like
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they just played a little i mean
halfway decent, they'd be three four the

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West. Yeah, well, they
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if they played at the clip they've
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easily exactly. All right, Well, the saltya Adam Ausland is going to

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join us. He'll be coming out
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into that. All right, this
is exciting today. We'll end this week

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strong because we have Ned Koletti coming
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has been in the chair. He
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knows what it's like to have a
roster with great expectation. And we'll get

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to that when we come back.
Hey, it is Friday, it is

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Rodney Pete, it is Fred Rogan
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Can you tell by the music?
Oh? Yeah, he loves it.

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Let's bring him on right now,
the man in the big chair as

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we get ready to go to this
baseball season. It's our pound, Ned

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Collledding. Ned, how are you
hey, gentlemen. Good to hear your

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voice, Good to hear that tune? You know what? Yesterday was the

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fifty seventh anniversary of Chicago's first gig
fifty seven years ago. Yesterday, Good

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Time did their first gig fifty seven
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Crazy. Oh you guys been we're
doing well. Ned, All right,

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let's go spring training. Let's go
when you're in the big chair and you

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have a club like the Dodgers have. What are you thinking? I'm thinking

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I don't want to hear from the
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spring will be determined. The least
amount of conversations I had with medical,

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the better it'll be. But you
know, you just you got a lot

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of veterans, You got a lot
of guys that you can you know,

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they'll come along at their own pace. They know what's at stake. They

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know where the bodies are at,
they know where the conditioning is at.

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You let them. You let them
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when they're ready to go. So
when you get to Korea, you're ready,

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and then you're going to have a
few days after that to regroup and

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then you get after it again.
Hey man. There's been obviously a lot

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of superstars that that played in Major
League Baseball over the years, and a

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lot of great players. But but
Otani it's just a it's a different animal.

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I think because of the time and
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with the media attention, with social
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a lot of guys in the past
didn't have to deal with a lot of

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that and we do now. Uh
what do the Dodgers and it's players and

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the whole organization. You think they
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some of them, you know,
some of the pitfalls that may occur or

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happen their way. Well, I
think the media coverage, because he's also

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a global star, I think the
media coverage is going to be global,

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and I think you're going to have
so many more people looking for people's time,

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looking for interviews, looking at them
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be ramped up, more so than
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of the organization, maybe in the
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the history of American sport. It's
just that big. So you're going to

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have so much more media coverage,
so much more attention, and some of

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it is going to overflow into other
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your organization. People are going to
be looking for any angle that they can

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have, so you have to be
ready for that. Those people who maybe

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haven't dealt with the media a whole
lot, players front office are probably going

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to get more media attention. And
this next year and the years to follow,

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this just won't be a twelve month
or deal either. This will go

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for the decade, and I think
you have to be aware of that,

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and you have to be aware of
distraction and make sure you stay focused in

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on what you're trying to accomplish.
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toughest places to play. I think
people think it's just laid back and easy

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going, great fan base, all
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because of the lifestyle, because of
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area. You got to keep your
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those cities. The people on the
outside will help you keep your focus

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because they'll be getting on you if
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But here it's a little bit different, and I think you got to kind

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of maybe mix that into your thought
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You're already under it, and when
each passing day that lights is going

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to get brighter till you get till
the end of October. Ned Rodney and

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I both agree on there that they
need the Dodgers need to make a run

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of the playoffs. I know we
got to play the whole regular season,

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but they've got to make a run
into the playoffs. They have to make

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a statement. I'm not saying they
have to win it, but they've got

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to be there. And if they're
not, do you think that could be

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problematic for Dave Roberts Well. I
never really liked this question because I think

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that there's so much that goes into
the managing of it. I understand the

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question because the question comes up in
every sport. I think he's done a

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terrific job. I think his managerial
style is very strong. I think his

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ability to relate the players has been
excellent. It's not the same day and

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age where manager just write down the
lineup card and it works on a few

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fun has the coaches working on fundamentals. There's a lot more to it than

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that. So I think if things
go haywire, certainly he's going to be

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somebody that's going to come into greater
focus. At the same time, and

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I've known it for years in my
own my own career that if I'm going

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to make a managerial change, not
only do I have to be sure about

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making that first change, but I'd
better be ready with whoever is going to

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sit in that seat next, because
that person can't be doing the same And

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whatever I thought the misgivings were in
I'm the first person, the second one's

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got to be definitively stronger, and
sometimes you don't know that until they sit

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in that spot. So making the
first move is never easy, but really,

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to me, the second move,
you've got to be really, really

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sure of what you're doing. And
I agree they got to make a run

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in the postseason. You don't do
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not make it or go out in
one round and get swept. But I

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think that when you look at it, I think it's a it's a dynamic

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that takes great examining. For me
to make a move on a manager,

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the players would have had to quit
plan so to speak. They would have

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had to quit being fundamentally sound,
the presentation would have to lack all of

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that. Then, okay, then
I got to make a move. But

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if that's not the case, then
we've got to find other ways to make

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the club better. So I think
there's a lot of different viewpoints to look

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in at it. I would never
be quick to dismiss somebody of Dave Roberts's

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character, stature, experience, pedigree. I think he's one of the best.

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And yeah, we all can take
heat for those decisions because that's part

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of what makes sports special. But
at the same time, you got to

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you got to measure them all kind
of finally, because it's not just a

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cut and dry situation and mad because
we're gonna hear it. You know,

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as soon as the Dodger's going a
three game losing streak, there's gonna be

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questions, they're going to two game
loser streak, They're gonna be fire Dave

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Roberts. You know this is going
to be out there just the way some

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of the public is. Would you, if you're sitting there, would you

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ever come out early before the season
starts and say, and I don't know

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Dave's contract situation, I can't remember
what it is, but come out and

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say we're behind him and we've given
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he will be here for those two
three years, you know going forward.

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I know you can't guarantee because something
like you said, if players quit and

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you have no choice, but come
out and definitively say I'm taking this off

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the table. He's our manager for
at least the next two years or next

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three years. I don't know.
I think that I don't know that I

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would let the public or even the
media sway my my thoughts on it.

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They've been together a long time,
Andrew and Stan and they've they've been they've

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and Mark Walters, they've been in
this group for quite a while. They

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know each other very well. I
think it's important that the manager knows where

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he stands and knows how Andrew feels, and stand feels and Mark feels,

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and I would be surprised if he
didn't. I think that's the only thing

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you have to be sure of,
because I don't think a fan vote is

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ever going to get anybody fired.
I don't think a media uprising is ever

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going to get anybody fired. I
think I think you get you get let

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go when the players stop. Will
the players stopped playing as well as they

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can play? That that's what typically
typically leads to somebody's dismissal. So it's

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a it's more of a I guess
a focus view and on. Okay,

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who are the main characters here and
how do they feel about each other?

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What do they know? You know, I'm sure that they've been many,

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many conversations about the club and where
we're going and what I expect. I

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don't think there's anything that is in
crystal clear between the people of leadership there

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as so what we're doing, how
we're gonna do it now it's gonna get

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done, and what it's supposed to
look like. Right, Okay, So

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I get where you're saying, you're
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or the media dictate what you're going
to do. So even behind the

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scenes, behind the scenes, do
you have that conversation and be candid.

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Like you said, they've known each
other for a long time, work together

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for a long time, and I
believe they can have these kind of candid

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conversations. Do you go to Dave
and say, hey, Dave, you

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know the position we're in. Now, you're loaded. Now we got to

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do something big here. We got
to win it, We got to win

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it all. We don't win at
all, We might have to make a

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change. Do you say that or
do you let it play out and then

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wait until the end of the season
and make that decision. Well, when

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people ask me some of the mistakes
I made and some of the things I

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had to adjust to, one of
them was impatience. And what I mean

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by that is the decision you make. We all make decisions every day.

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Most of us will judge our own
decisions, or people will judge what we

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decide, whether it turned out didn't
turn out right wrong, Yes, no,

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trade, don't trade, sign,
don't sign. Whatever I learned early

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on in my Dodger days, probably
after a year of their being there and

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trying to change it rapidly, which
we did, But to continue to keep

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my foot on the pedal, so
to speak, that not only is it

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the decision you make, but more
importantly, it's when you make it.

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So I don't know enough Ridie to
say, well, this is what the

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kind of conversation I'd be having with
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I don't know that. I think
that when when you spend as much

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time as I'm sure Andrew does and
stand everybody else is saturated in the thought

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process of this organization, you know
you know when it's time to have that

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type of conversation because you don't want
to stir something up either, you know,

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and tell you really have to.
I think decision making is not only

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the decision you make, but when
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day almost and when you get to
trading deadlines and waiver claiming stuff like that,

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every minute, every hour can can
shape a decision somewhat differently. So

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I think that it's something that you
wait for the right point in time,

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and then maybe you wait a little
bit longer just to be sure. These

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are not easy moves, nor are
they without many ramifications and a lot of

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dominoes falling in either direction. So
it's something that I think you if you

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get to that point, you'll know
when that point is. But I don't

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get I'd have no idea if today's
that pointer, or labor days that point,

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or October versus that point. I
don't know, but I know my

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own thought process. And you know, the people who worked with me and

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for me, they knew we had
a deadline. I was going to use

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every couple of minutes to the end
to say yeay or nay, because every

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minute you got a chance to learn
something, see something, figure something else

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out, get clarity on something.
So when you make that decision, to

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me is as important as what you're
saying and the decision to make. And

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now I'm trying to remember when when
you were there. Don Mattingly was a

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manager, the club had been struggling. Ultimately they turned it around and went

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on that incredible run. But did
you have a conversation refresh my memory at

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some point saying look, Donnie,
I don't want to do this, but

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if things don't turn around, I
got to make a move. You know.

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It was in May I think of
maybe two thirteen, and Hanley was

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out. I think he had a
broken figure. In the last couple of

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innings of it. WBC ESCO hadn't
gotten there yet. My recollection is right,

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and we were struggling. We were
maybe in last place. We were

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maybe eight or nine games under five
hundred, maybe ten or eleven back,

408
00:29:11.599 --> 00:29:17.839
and everybody was doing exactly what we've
been talking about. Donn He's gotta go,

409
00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:22.400
Donny's gotta go, Donny's gotta go. And I hadn't seen our team

410
00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:26.640
yet. I mean, we were
not at full strength, and I thought

411
00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:30.960
the effort was still pure. As
long as the effort was strong, you

412
00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:33.640
know, you've got to let him
play out. And you know, I

413
00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:37.079
talked to Donnie, I thought to
Joe Tory, I always got Grady,

414
00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:41.720
you were back my giant Day's Felipe
Alt and Dusty. Not every day,

415
00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:45.160
but you know, five days a
week easily, sometimes seven. So everybody

416
00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:48.799
kind of knew that they were gonna
never be any surprises as to where we

417
00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:52.880
were at. I'm sure I asked
Donnie, how you think and how you're

418
00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:55.200
feeling? What do you think about
this? What do you think about that?

419
00:29:55.960 --> 00:30:00.559
Just to continue to have his thought
process, and every manager ever worked

420
00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:04.680
with their thought press. Continue to
think, continue to grind away and think

421
00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:08.240
about where you're at, what you're
doing, and what you're seeing and how

422
00:30:08.240 --> 00:30:11.640
we can make it better. And
then as you look back historically, I

423
00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:15.359
think we ran off. I think
that until a couple of years ago,

424
00:30:17.279 --> 00:30:21.880
maybe the greatest sixty games stretch in
the history of the organization. I mean

425
00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:26.839
we were we won something in the
forties and lost ten games or something and

426
00:30:26.920 --> 00:30:30.319
turned it completely around. So you've
got to have that patience, and it's

427
00:30:30.359 --> 00:30:33.920
the toughest thing to have, especially
in baseball, because you know, we're

428
00:30:33.960 --> 00:30:38.680
not playing once a week. You're
playing almost every day for six months,

429
00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:44.480
so the evaluation of it is constant. So I had to also learn my

430
00:30:44.599 --> 00:30:48.640
evaluation is going to come in very
small increments. Nothing, nothing, spur

431
00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:52.039
of the moment, nothing. I've
watched this guy five straight games, you

432
00:30:52.119 --> 00:30:56.960
can't hit. No, It's going
to be in little increments to get to

433
00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:00.160
those decisions. I'm sure I had
conversations with all of about different things almost

434
00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:04.039
every day. I felt my position
was one that I had. You know,

435
00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:08.640
I could see the game differently.
I didn't. I saw it with

436
00:31:08.759 --> 00:31:14.759
the division of today's important, this
week's important, this month, next month,

437
00:31:14.920 --> 00:31:17.519
a year from now, three years
from now, five years from now.

438
00:31:17.960 --> 00:31:22.440
A manager's viewpoint is typically today,
damn. Maybe tomorrow, but they're

439
00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:26.799
not worried about next season. So
you know, I had to I had

440
00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:33.440
to always kind of find conversations that
would encourage hold them accountable and have them

441
00:31:33.559 --> 00:31:38.920
hold players accountable and continue to figure
out ways how do we get it marginally

442
00:31:40.039 --> 00:31:45.000
better day to day, How do
we take the last player on the roster

443
00:31:45.079 --> 00:31:48.319
and get that player just a little
bit better? How are we going to

444
00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:52.720
do it? And so those conversations
took place, continuing almost almost daily,

445
00:31:53.160 --> 00:31:57.240
but everybody had a real good feel
for where everybody was because you can't you

446
00:31:57.279 --> 00:32:02.200
can't be surprising people in a business
like this with something that they have no

447
00:32:02.279 --> 00:32:07.920
idea this is even coming. It's
not fair. Hey man, we've been

448
00:32:08.079 --> 00:32:12.440
we've been talking. We even mentioned
it earlier before we started with or wouldn't

449
00:32:12.440 --> 00:32:15.680
started with you, about the attention
O Tany's going to get. And it's

450
00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:19.880
been talked about how many times he's
gonna talk each week? Is he going

451
00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:22.440
to talk every day? Is he
going to talk after every game? When

452
00:32:22.559 --> 00:32:24.480
is he going to talk? And
it's been, you know, been mentioned

453
00:32:24.480 --> 00:32:29.279
that it's going to be very limited
and how often he talks to the media,

454
00:32:29.599 --> 00:32:35.960
and that the Dodgers will have other
players, you know, talking for

455
00:32:36.079 --> 00:32:38.920
him or at least talking about him
or answering questions when when his name comes

456
00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:45.039
up if he's not available, and
I'm saying, you know that that may

457
00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:49.759
be finding Danny as as maybe ah, you know, to start start off

458
00:32:49.799 --> 00:32:55.359
with. But eventually guys are going
to get tired if they're constantly asked about

459
00:32:55.359 --> 00:32:58.839
someone else. I mean, a
guy goes out and say it, even

460
00:32:58.880 --> 00:33:00.640
if it's a guy, And who's
nicest guy in the world, Freddy Freeman.

461
00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:05.359
If you go out and go four
for four with two home runs and

462
00:33:05.359 --> 00:33:09.160
and five RBIs uh And the first
question is what do you think about show

463
00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:13.799
his day? That's gonna rub some
guys. That's gonna rub some guys the

464
00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:21.680
w y Yeah, well that's that's
kind of what part of my thought process

465
00:33:21.960 --> 00:33:27.960
when our first first discussion today is
that the coverage and the focus is going

466
00:33:28.039 --> 00:33:31.720
to be greater than ever and there
won't be spillover. There'll be conversations where

467
00:33:32.200 --> 00:33:37.079
you know, Freddy or Mookie and
Clayton whoever is going to be like,

468
00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:39.039
you know, oh yeah, yeah, you know, how much how much

469
00:33:39.119 --> 00:33:45.799
more can I talk about the situation? So it's that'll be a bit of

470
00:33:45.799 --> 00:33:50.440
a test. But you know,
the one thing that you know players can

471
00:33:50.480 --> 00:33:54.799
do during BP, they can stand
in the outfield and shag right, so

472
00:33:55.200 --> 00:33:59.559
you know, nobody can get out
there to them. They'll they'll be able

473
00:33:59.640 --> 00:34:01.240
to measure this out a little bit. But there's no doubt that you'm not

474
00:34:01.519 --> 00:34:07.319
focus that it's going to be on
the organization and and kind of centered on

475
00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:10.559
Otani. Uh, not completely,
but a lot of it. It's gonna

476
00:34:10.639 --> 00:34:16.039
it's gonna test people's patients on every
front. But that's that's part of what

477
00:34:16.159 --> 00:34:21.840
happens when you're when you're excellent,
and that's part of what happens when you

478
00:34:21.880 --> 00:34:25.760
know you have as many fans as
this organization does, and the media and

479
00:34:25.840 --> 00:34:31.559
everybody knew when when Otani came that
you know, this is a global situation.

480
00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:36.400
This isn't somebody who went to U
C. L A or USC and

481
00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:38.519
just you know has been in La
their whole life. No, this has

482
00:34:38.559 --> 00:34:46.840
got worldwide baseball interest and growth to
it in sports and marketing and global branding

483
00:34:47.039 --> 00:34:52.440
interest to it. That's uh,
you know, it's to me, it's

484
00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:57.559
the maybe in my career, my
lifetime. It's tough for me to think

485
00:34:57.639 --> 00:35:04.360
of a deal with more ramification.
Almost all of them positive than this deal

486
00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:08.760
and the Dodgers organization coupled together,
put together, I think it's I think

487
00:35:08.760 --> 00:35:14.400
it's phenomenal, but it's it's also
large. It's huge in the scope of

488
00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:20.079
it, in the reach of it
is unlike anything we've ever seen. Well,

489
00:35:20.119 --> 00:35:22.400
Ned, you're large, You're huge, and we love seeing you.

490
00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:25.079
So thank you for coming on today. Always a pleasure, gentlemen. I'm

491
00:35:25.039 --> 00:35:29.599
gonna stop buying one of these days
and spend the hour. Comes over the

492
00:35:29.679 --> 00:35:34.599
time, come over and see you. Always welcome, Ned, you know

493
00:35:34.679 --> 00:35:38.920
that. Thank you, guys,
you talk to you. Ned. Flavor

494
00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:44.760
Explosion my art to supermarkets thanks to
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495
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496
00:35:51.239 --> 00:35:54.119
salty a. Adam Auslin joins us
next hour, get into the Clippers and

497
00:35:54.199 --> 00:35:59.519
Lakers at the All Star break up
next with play Little Who dis you ready?

498
00:35:59.559 --> 00:36:01.599
Rodney? Let's do it all right? Eight six sixty nine, eight

499
00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:06.599
seven seventy First caller Kevin Oll pick
yep, put you on the air and

500
00:36:06.599 --> 00:36:19.039
we'll see if you can knock them
off today. Oh yes, Today's afternoon

501
00:36:19.119 --> 00:36:25.079
Delight is training Season by Dua Lipa. The song is the latest single from

502
00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:30.039
the pop stars forthcoming third studio album, which will be released later this year.

503
00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:34.320
I've been talking about the song,
she said, I've been on a

504
00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:39.159
string of bad dates and the last
one was the final straw. And while

505
00:36:39.400 --> 00:36:45.639
it is obviously about that feeling when
you are just absolutely done telling people men

506
00:36:46.119 --> 00:36:51.039
men, specifically in this case,
how to date you write, it is

507
00:36:51.119 --> 00:36:55.519
also about my training season being over
and me growing with every experience. I've

508
00:36:55.639 --> 00:37:02.639
never felt more confident, clear,
or empowered again. Today's afternoon Delight is

509
00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:09.440
training season. I do a leap. You don't want to train them fellas?

510
00:37:09.519 --> 00:37:21.880
No more for it, Sam and
Torrens are you there? Yes,

511
00:37:21.920 --> 00:37:24.800
sir, all right, We're gonna
play who dis and who dis? Know

512
00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:30.079
it? Yell it out. There
are no restrictions. You have a challenge.

513
00:37:30.199 --> 00:37:31.320
Use it, it's upheld, you
retain it. Use it, it's

514
00:37:31.360 --> 00:37:34.480
denied. You locked out of the
next question. You got the rule?

515
00:37:34.599 --> 00:37:38.000
Sam, Yes, this is actually
the rubber match for me. I took

516
00:37:38.039 --> 00:37:43.440
down Rodney once he got me the
second time. This is the rubber match.

517
00:37:43.800 --> 00:37:47.519
Oh, okay, let's go.
What about Ronnie? Did he ever

518
00:37:47.599 --> 00:37:52.440
come for the title. I'm coming
for the title. Ronnie didn't get one

519
00:37:52.519 --> 00:37:55.119
on you. Damn Ronnie, you
got me. I got you and who

520
00:37:55.119 --> 00:37:59.320
it is you got me to know? You're squad. I'm taking you down

521
00:37:59.360 --> 00:38:02.559
again. Rodney. Okay, let's
go, Ronnie. Are you even going

522
00:38:02.599 --> 00:38:07.320
to compete? I guess I'm just
an ancillary figure in this competition between Rodney

523
00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:12.840
and Sam from Torrance? But nevertheless, I'm hearing ready to go. Okay,

524
00:38:13.039 --> 00:38:19.079
upset, Ronnie gonna whoop everybody's ass
to date. That's what I'm thinking.

525
00:38:19.639 --> 00:38:22.920
Let's go. I made eight Pro
Bowls in my Hall of Fame football

526
00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:30.480
career. Eric Dickerson No, Joe
Montana, Joe Brett, Favre Rn them

527
00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:36.000
wrong a lot, No, Travis
Kelsey, Adrian Peters said Smith No,

528
00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:45.360
Adam No. I love the league
in rushing yards four times and in rushing

529
00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:51.199
touchdowns three times. Thomlinson No.
EMMITTT. Smith, Yes, Ronnie,

530
00:38:51.679 --> 00:38:54.320
I said EMMITTT. Smith. You
did? Kevin? Did you hear that?

531
00:38:57.880 --> 00:39:00.440
Rother said Smith? He did?
Say, all right, you got

532
00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:04.079
it? Sorry, come on now. It must have got lost in all

533
00:39:04.159 --> 00:39:08.159
the everybody who all the banter?
Yeah, Rodney, Rodney's on the board.

534
00:39:09.360 --> 00:39:13.199
I made twelve All Star teams in
my Hall of Fame basketball career.

535
00:39:14.360 --> 00:39:20.119
Twelve. David Robinson both the wrong. James No, Tony Parker, no,

536
00:39:20.920 --> 00:39:28.199
the Big No, No, Doc
Rivers, No No. I'm a

537
00:39:28.239 --> 00:39:32.760
three time NBA champ and two time
Finals MVP. sEH Curry Curry no,

538
00:39:34.559 --> 00:39:42.360
Kawhi Leonard, Kevin Durant Why Leonard
No, Dwayne Wade Shah No, uh

539
00:39:43.239 --> 00:39:49.760
Lebron James No. I won three
consecutive regular season NBA MVP awards in the

540
00:39:49.800 --> 00:39:57.760
Angel Jordan, David Robinson No,
Doctor j Johnson No, Kareem James Worthy,

541
00:39:58.039 --> 00:40:04.000
Larry Bird, Larry Bird is correct, Ryrie Burd almost, Sam almost

542
00:40:05.199 --> 00:40:09.440
the best. Sammy almost is right
there. We said, everybody but Larry

543
00:40:09.519 --> 00:40:15.679
Bird. Here's your next one.
I'm a Pro Football Hall of Famer despite

544
00:40:15.800 --> 00:40:25.960
being drafted in the seventh round.
Tom no I No. I won three

545
00:40:27.440 --> 00:40:31.559
Super Bowl titles in my career.
Oh three, No, not three?

546
00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:37.519
Not him? He won three?
Yes, it is career. Steve Young,

547
00:40:37.519 --> 00:40:45.079
Kurt Warner no, Jye Nova No. Oh, well, I hold

548
00:40:45.119 --> 00:40:47.639
the I hold the NFL record for
most receiving yards in a single game by

549
00:40:47.679 --> 00:40:52.360
a tight end with two hundred and
fourteen. Kellen Winslow. No, Rob

550
00:40:52.440 --> 00:40:59.920
Gonkowski, no, Tony Jason Witten. No, yes, yes it is.

551
00:41:00.320 --> 00:41:02.280
No, it's not, yes it
is, it is not j novichk

552
00:41:02.719 --> 00:41:07.280
Okay, it wasn't the last time. No, No, you say it

553
00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:10.119
place. It's still no needed another
clue here, Fred, come on,

554
00:41:10.280 --> 00:41:16.039
last clue? Oh no, no, yep, last clue, barl No.

555
00:41:16.920 --> 00:41:22.760
I am the former co host of
Undisputed f S one Sharp. I

556
00:41:22.840 --> 00:41:28.800
think that was Rodney. I think
yeah, I said it. I said

557
00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:34.719
it twice. I'm you said a
third. Sam, Relax, Why are

558
00:41:34.760 --> 00:41:38.280
you sitting there like a bump on
a log? Fred? It comes to

559
00:41:38.320 --> 00:41:42.800
delays again, Man, the freaking
delays. Man. No, I'm I'm

560
00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:46.599
calling for a booth. Calling for
a booth, all right, stand by?

561
00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:51.960
All right? Yeah, because I
think that was really close. Now,

562
00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:54.039
granted half the time I can't hear, but I think that was pretty

563
00:41:54.039 --> 00:41:58.360
close. Sam. So we got
to go booth because I thought you got

564
00:41:58.400 --> 00:42:00.159
it. Everybody else thought Rodney got
it. All right, let's hear it.

565
00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:13.360
I am the former co host of
Undisputed f S one. Daddy one

566
00:42:15.159 --> 00:42:17.719
S one. Oh, sound like
Sam and Rodney said it at the same

567
00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:22.840
time to me, I got it, bro I got it. Wow?

568
00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:27.800
What say you? Fred? What
say me? I thought, you know

569
00:42:27.920 --> 00:42:30.880
you are on the side of what
Kevin said because it was really tight.

570
00:42:30.079 --> 00:42:35.119
I thought Sam got in a fraction
earl. Let's hear it again and the

571
00:42:35.199 --> 00:42:45.119
former co host of Undisputed f S
one. No, No, Rodney,

572
00:42:45.159 --> 00:42:50.000
you were No, you did.
I don't think you got that. I

573
00:42:50.079 --> 00:42:53.639
think it was Sam Rodney Rodney.
I have to you know what, I

574
00:42:53.760 --> 00:42:58.320
have to retract what I said previously
to Sam. I think Sam did get

575
00:42:58.360 --> 00:43:04.840
it. Co host of Disputed f
S one. That's me disputed adult.

576
00:43:04.880 --> 00:43:09.039
Let's see he said it first?
He did Ronny? I mean Rodney,

577
00:43:09.159 --> 00:43:15.280
Wow, Sam, you get it. It's leved you got it. Here's

578
00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:17.599
the next one. Let's go.
I had eleven All Star teams in my

579
00:43:17.679 --> 00:43:28.679
Hall of Fame basketball career. Kobe
Bryant, Matthew Johnson, Steve No,

580
00:43:30.800 --> 00:43:35.760
No, I love the league in
scoring four times and then steals three times,

581
00:43:36.880 --> 00:43:42.159
Magic Johnson. Who do you have, Rodney, Michael Jordan's No,

582
00:43:42.840 --> 00:43:47.840
Scottie Pippen, Kobe Bryant, no, Michael Cooper, No. I was

583
00:43:49.719 --> 00:43:58.119
Jason Kidd, No, I was
Ellen, I samn Sam, all right,

584
00:43:58.159 --> 00:44:01.440
here's where we're at. As to
Ronnie has one, Rodney has one,

585
00:44:01.519 --> 00:44:05.559
here's the next one? I mean
five All Star teams in my Hall

586
00:44:05.559 --> 00:44:14.360
of Fame basketball career, Vince car
Thompson, both and wrong? Where's Rodney?

587
00:44:15.039 --> 00:44:19.960
I don't know what Rodney's doing.
Is Rodney playing under protest? Rodney?

588
00:44:19.960 --> 00:44:24.960
Are you playing under protest? I'm
not playing under protest? What protest?

589
00:44:25.039 --> 00:44:30.800
I'm not protesting anything. I don't
hear Rodney guessing. Yeah, Rodney,

590
00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:32.719
you're usually like one of the first
people to guess you're really mad.

591
00:44:32.920 --> 00:44:40.079
Doesn't really matter there, ron What
doesn't matter. Just keep it moving.

592
00:44:40.159 --> 00:44:46.920
Fred william I was a two time
All Packed ten selection while playing at UCLA.

593
00:44:50.280 --> 00:44:58.519
Kevin Loves No, Josh No,
Don McClain, Russell Westbrook, No,

594
00:44:59.519 --> 00:45:04.159
Kareem Bill Walton. Prior to Steph
Curry, many people regarded me as

595
00:45:04.199 --> 00:45:08.920
the best three point shooter of all
time? Did I get that one?

596
00:45:09.039 --> 00:45:14.119
First? Want a booth review that
one? Fred? No? No,

597
00:45:14.239 --> 00:45:16.719
no, no, you got that
one? Christ all right, Sam's got

598
00:45:16.760 --> 00:45:21.159
to Rodney's got to. Rodney's got
one. Final question? Bad here in

599
00:45:21.360 --> 00:45:24.639
son of a. All right,
I made fourteen All Star teams in my

600
00:45:24.760 --> 00:45:35.360
NBA career. Kobe Bryant, No
magic names Worthy, Jay Dirk, Nevinski,

601
00:45:36.480 --> 00:45:40.800
big funnel member, Tony Parker.
No, I'm only one of seven

602
00:45:40.880 --> 00:45:45.079
players to lead the league in both
scoring and assists at some point in their

603
00:45:45.159 --> 00:45:55.960
careers. No, I've won,
Johnson, No, Josh, No,

604
00:45:57.760 --> 00:46:04.119
I've won all alone. No,
kids, I won one NBA title as

605
00:46:04.119 --> 00:46:09.119
a player and eight as an executive. Jerry West, Yes, did I

606
00:46:09.239 --> 00:46:12.760
get there first? Did that get
their first or not? I don't.

607
00:46:12.760 --> 00:46:15.199
I don't know. I think so
did that get their first? Fred?

608
00:46:15.559 --> 00:46:20.440
You got their first? Okay?
Good? Hey Rodney, Rodney loud,

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sad with you, we love it, sad, loud with your chest.

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Fred, No, never have,
never have. Sammy, I love you,

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Sam, I love you brother,
all right? So, Uh Rodney

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wins? Uh? Sam and and
Ronnie third shocker its specially seven off,

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best of three. I like that, Sam, I think that I like

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I like that. Sam. Come
on back with some mo sol t A.

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Adam Auslin jumps on here after the
break, talk about the Lakers.

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We'll give them grades Lakers Clippers,
and talk about the NBA All Star Game,