WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:03.919 Dodger's on the air on A five seventy today. So Rodney and I Aron 2 00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:07.559 with a bonus content podcast, and we're doing it for you. Yes, 3 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:12.000 yes, that's why we're going for you. That's right. We know what 4 00:00:12.039 --> 00:00:15.599 you think. We hear it all the time. We're killing it. We're 5 00:00:15.640 --> 00:00:19.960 killing it. Since we're killing it, we thought we gotta we got to 6 00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:22.559 be with you today at least for a little bit. Yeah, we do, 7 00:00:22.719 --> 00:00:26.559 all right. Can I start with something here? Uh, I got 8 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:28.800 in trouble. I got in trouble. I got in trouble. No, 9 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:30.960 no, no, stop it, I got in trouble, trouble, I 10 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:34.119 got in trouble. Oh yeah, I really got in trouble, did you. 11 00:00:35.039 --> 00:00:38.119 That's a that's a I feel for you because that's not a good feeling. 12 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:42.039 I've been there several times in you know, different situations and you feel 13 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:45.679 like I'm in trouble. Yeah, I got in trouble. I got in 14 00:00:45.679 --> 00:00:48.399 trouble. Okay, tell me tell me how you got in trouble. Well, 15 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:53.640 it's the kind of trouble that you've gotten into. Oh, it's the 16 00:00:53.759 --> 00:00:59.719 kind of trouble that you've experienced that you've shared. Okay, I know your 17 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:03.600 wife listens to the show all the time. Now, and I can raise 18 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:07.280 the curtain a little bit because sometimes we're in studios. Sometimes we're in different 19 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:10.760 places. Yeah, well we're in different places. We can see each other, 20 00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:14.000 so people think we're in the studio together. Correct. I can also 21 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:18.640 see your wife come running in from the door over your shoulder, yes, 22 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:22.200 right, and I can and I can see her talking to you, or 23 00:01:22.239 --> 00:01:26.000 I can see in a break where you turn your head right and you just 24 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:32.120 start nodding and acknowledging. I've seen that many times. Correct. All right, 25 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:36.040 So yesterday I am sitting in the house. I don't know, it's 26 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:42.159 about six o'clock, maybe a little earlier. My wife, Rachelle says, 27 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:46.760 hey, you know I heard the show today. I was in the car. 28 00:01:47.239 --> 00:01:49.680 I said, oh, good, good, you know great. Now 29 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:53.239 she doesn't listen often, because back in the day she would listen all the 30 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:59.280 time, and she would call me and yell at me. I'm serious. 31 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:01.879 Today I was working at a ticket today, I said, Dodger Stadium is 32 00:02:01.879 --> 00:02:07.280 a dump and we should blow it up. And then I did a segment 33 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:12.159 called blow or no Blow. She calls me in a break I pick up. 34 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:15.000 I think oh, she thinks this is funny. My ears were blistering 35 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:19.120 after that phone call, because she goes, that's where I grew up. 36 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:22.199 Those are my childhood memories. What the hell are you talking about? Don't 37 00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:25.280 do that again? All right, no problem, So she says to me, 38 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:29.280 yeah, I was listening to you guys. I said, oh, 39 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:31.879 great, good, good good. She goes, what is your problem? 40 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:34.960 I said, what do you mean? What is my problem? She goes, 41 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:40.360 what is wrong with you? I said about what? Don't you ever 42 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:53.919 talk about the Kings like that again? Oh? Yeah, oh my god, 43 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:59.360 She goes, don't you ever talk about the Kings like that again? 44 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:00.280 I said, well, I was being honest. She goes, I don't 45 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:06.639 care. I don't care if you're being honest. I really don't care. 46 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:10.599 Don't you do it? She was serious. Don't you do it? She 47 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:15.840 says, I don't care what you say about anyone, anyone, because now 48 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:19.599 she's upset, right now, she's getting it. I don't even listen to 49 00:03:19.639 --> 00:03:23.680 you, guys. I don't even listen to you, which of course she 50 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:27.960 does, right, you know, yes, yes, I don't even waste 51 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:31.719 time with you too. But if I do listen, I do want to 52 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:37.520 say you ever do that again, And she goes, I am serious, 53 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:42.599 Fred, and I won't. I won't. She's no, I'm not kidding. 54 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:46.280 I'm not kidding, and then she said this. She finished with this, 55 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:51.240 So I may not listen every day to you two, you know, 56 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:53.560 because now you're in it two. Yeah, of course right now. But 57 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:57.599 it's your fault too. We're one, we're one. Yes, I may 58 00:03:57.639 --> 00:04:01.520 not listen to you too. But I tell you this, I have people 59 00:04:01.560 --> 00:04:06.879 that to report to me. Uh huh, uh huh. Somebody's listening. 60 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:12.199 Somebody's listening. I will say, Fred, you know and we all know 61 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:15.639 that you you you love the Kings, you love hockey, and and we 62 00:04:15.719 --> 00:04:18.399 see your family goes to a lot of the Yeah, they do. And 63 00:04:19.439 --> 00:04:24.959 you've always been a hockey fan and and and a Kings fan. So I 64 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:30.160 would say yesterday because they you know, we talked about their exit interviews and 65 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:33.639 what they were talking about and the future of the Kings, and you were 66 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:42.959 not only verbally but visibly upset and irritated by what you were hearing from the 67 00:04:43.079 --> 00:04:47.839 King's management. I was, And and so from from that standpoint, if 68 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:51.160 I'm on the other end and I'm a King's fan, and I love my 69 00:04:51.319 --> 00:04:55.399 Kings, and I'm listening to you, especially if you're a family member, 70 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:59.120 kind of get where she's coming from. Let me trying to get where she's 71 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:01.240 coming from. Because you came at the Kings yesterday a little bit at him 72 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:04.040 a little bit, yeah, a little bit, A little bit. You 73 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:09.920 let him have it a little bit. They did not get a pass yesterday, 74 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:12.959 and you know what what? All right, let me just say this, 75 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:16.279 where do we cross the line the trip down the freeway when they were 76 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:21.959 torrents going to callabasses? Yes, all right, So I can't say another 77 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:26.800 word. I'm done. Don't you do it? I am You've already been 78 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:30.399 worn. I have You've been worn. So if you cross that line again 79 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:32.959 after you've been worn, I'm not doing it. That's a real problem. 80 00:05:32.959 --> 00:05:35.120 Then you're in real trouble. Yeah, well, you know what, so 81 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:40.480 were you? You didn't do anything. I'm aiding in a bed and I'm 82 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:43.759 allowing you to do it. You didn't even do anything, and you're in 83 00:05:43.879 --> 00:05:47.439 trouble. Guilty by association, that's me, all right? So uh NBA 84 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:51.240 playoffs, let's just touch on this. Okay. See last night lou Dort 85 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:56.680 playing against Dallas Can I tell you quick Blue Dort story? Yeah, because 86 00:05:56.680 --> 00:05:59.560 you know it. You're more intimate with it because he's he played it there 87 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:00.839 is on a State. Was there for a minute, Okay, So Jack 88 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:05.199 was there for a minute. And the year they were recruiting lou Dort, 89 00:06:05.480 --> 00:06:12.839 the assistant coach at Rashan Bruno calls me and he says, Hey, we're 90 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:15.000 recruiting this kid out of Canada, lou Dort. Can you do me a 91 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:17.680 favor? And I said, what's that? Can you sit on the set 92 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:23.160 like at NBC in Los Angeles and just say something like, hey, big 93 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:27.079 news, lou Dort is coming to America and word is he's going to end 94 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:30.439 up at Arizona State. Okay, So I did it for him, right, 95 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:34.120 Okay, So they put that in their presentation tape and they get lou 96 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:39.199 Dort. Now when he gets here, everybody thinks this guy is a complete 97 00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:43.399 stud. And Jack told me last night one time in practice once he had 98 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:46.839 to play against lou Dort. He said Dort flattened him like a pancake. 99 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:51.680 He said he was a kid in a man's body. And when I saw 100 00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:57.439 him play at Arizona State, he was yeah, plays football on the basketball 101 00:06:57.439 --> 00:07:00.920 court. Yeah he does. Yeah, you know, so, so anyway, 102 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:03.040 he plays this one year at a issue. Everybody's excited. They think 103 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:08.199 he's going to be drafted into the NBA and he's not. He doesn't get 104 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:12.000 picked. He goes to the draft, Bobby Hurley is there and you can 105 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:15.319 see the visible disappointment because they're sitting there waiting and he doesn't get picked. 106 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:19.120 Anyway, he signs a two way deal with Oklahoma City, right, or 107 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:23.959 he signs a free agent deal with Oklahoma City, and the rest is history. 108 00:07:24.279 --> 00:07:28.199 Once they got a look at this guy and watch him play, and 109 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:30.560 you always say this, you know, you gotta have some dog in you. 110 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:36.600 He is the dog, yeah or everybody. Yeah, so once they 111 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:41.600 saw him, and now they signed him to like a ninety million dollar deal, 112 00:07:42.399 --> 00:07:46.079 right, yeah, so he's the real deal. And going into that 113 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:49.240 game against Dallas, Lucas said, there's one guy you don't want to defend 114 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:55.879 you in the NBA one one, and that guy's Lou Dort because he brings 115 00:07:55.920 --> 00:07:59.959 it every night. And boy did we see that last night in that game. 116 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:05.480 Yeah, you talk about being physical, and you mentioned it because you 117 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:07.959 gave a little history about what he was in college and a man's body. 118 00:08:09.319 --> 00:08:13.920 He's still that in the NBA, and he plays an aggressive nineteen eighties and 119 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:18.040 nineties style basketball where he's not afraid to put his hands on he's not afraid 120 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:22.560 to be physical, he's not afraid to get in your face. And you 121 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:28.120 know, what he did and how he aggressively played Daunches last night was incredible 122 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:30.879 and it showed it ended up. I mean, Luca was frustrated, he 123 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:33.559 couldn't get good shots off. He was limping up and down the courts like 124 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:39.080 he had been in a heavyweight fight last night. And if going forward is 125 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:41.039 going to be like that, then Dallas is going to have their hands full. 126 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:46.799 But he plays so aggressively. And that being said, Fred a lot 127 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:50.559 of people have been talking about how the refs are swallowing their whistle in the 128 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:54.399 playoffs. Now, you know, like they've called it one way throughout the 129 00:08:54.440 --> 00:09:00.879 regular season, and now you get to the postseason and they're letting things go 130 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:03.320 and we're seeing guys act out about it, Guys that normally get calls, 131 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:07.919 you know, getting frustrated about it. Luca was frustrated last night. A 132 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:11.440 lot of guys frustrated. Sjamal Murray was frustrated to the point where he threw 133 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:15.519 thousand heat pads on the court. I could not aren't calling anything. By 134 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:18.759 the way, I could not believe he was not suspended. I know they 135 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:22.360 gave him are hundred thousand dollars, Fine, no suspension, that's nothing. 136 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:26.039 Yeah, that's ridiculous. I was really surprised by that. I'm sorry, 137 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:28.480 go ahead, and I just had to say that. And I'm not you 138 00:09:28.519 --> 00:09:31.879 know, no, on that topic. I'm not for guys getting suspended, 139 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:35.000 especially in the playoffs. You know, you want to be at full strength. 140 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:37.240 You want to see teams at their full strength. But that what he 141 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:43.360 did, throwing something on the court, that's unacceptable. That's unacceptable for the 142 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:48.200 danger of the guys playing for your own team. It was and it was 143 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:50.039 an own teammate, Casey p who picked it up and threw it off. 144 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:54.799 I imagine if he steps on it and rolls an anchor pulls a groin or 145 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:58.480 whatever may happen, cannot do that. So yeah, I was shocked that 146 00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:03.000 he didn't get game or two. Here's the thing about the officiating in the 147 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:05.960 playoffs, and by the way, they're letting it go until they don't. 148 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:11.320 They're letting it happen until they don't look at the screen. At the end 149 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:16.399 of the Pacers Knicks game, they're letting everything go until they don't right, 150 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:18.480 which is a problem though, So how are you gonna call it? And 151 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:24.159 that's really the question. I like letting the players decide the game. And 152 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:26.879 honestly, the reason they cleaned it up is because guys are just getting cold 153 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:31.000 cocked and knocked all around. And I mean it could have turned into brawls 154 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:35.600 like back in the eighties when the Lakers and Celtics played. But you have 155 00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:41.600 to be consistent in what you do. You have to be You can't sit 156 00:10:41.639 --> 00:10:43.039 there and turn around in the playoffs and go all right, now we're gonna 157 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:46.000 let it go. We're gonna let you guys decide it. Well, what 158 00:10:46.039 --> 00:10:52.120 does that mean for the regular season the officials decided it, not the players, 159 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:56.840 what does it mean? And also a problem in the playoffs. And 160 00:10:56.240 --> 00:11:00.799 if you watch the NBA, you know they don't play any defense during the 161 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:05.000 regular season. Now in the playoffs, everybody plays defense, right, So 162 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:09.919 now it's going to get physical. Now it's going to get really hard because 163 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:15.279 they are up on you so and they're going to use their bodies. There's 164 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:18.000 got to be a consistent way to do it. The problem with the NBA 165 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:24.200 is the game is so fast and so physical. Where do you draw the 166 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:28.279 line. Where do you draw the line as an official? Where do you 167 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:33.519 draw the line as a league? Well? Do you think that there was 168 00:11:33.559 --> 00:11:37.600 an official mandate coming down from Adam Silver or the head of officials saying, 169 00:11:37.639 --> 00:11:41.919 hey, let's let them play a little bit more in the playoffs, So 170 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:45.720 it became a league wide situation in the playoffs? You think that happened. 171 00:11:45.799 --> 00:11:48.279 I just think that's how they call it in the playoffs. Is an unwritten 172 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:54.200 rule? You think it's just individual individual groups or individual referee teams got together 173 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:56.120 and just did their own things that we're going to call it a little bit, 174 00:11:56.159 --> 00:11:58.919 We're not going to call it so tight. I think it's I think 175 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:05.120 it's the unwritten rule. In the Clipper series against Dallas, in that insanity, 176 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:07.720 I mean, somebody should have been arrested for what was going on in 177 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:11.840 that series. Guys are flying all over the place, ramming into each other, 178 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:15.240 and Kyrie Irving has called for a foul, a foul he committed, 179 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:18.360 I might add, and he looks up and I remember watching this, he 180 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:22.159 goes, come on, man, it's the playoffs. Here's the NBA playoffs. 181 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:26.600 You can't call that now, you can't. You either call it or 182 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:31.200 you don't call it. Yeah. The flip side of that, though, 183 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:33.759 is is he may have said that, but they're guys getting away with certain 184 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:37.960 things. Certain guys play a certain way. James Harden played a certain way, 185 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:41.200 right, he would get calls, he would force the official to make 186 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:43.960 calls and force fowls. Luca plays that way. So if you play that 187 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:48.159 way all season long and you're getting those little tiki tach fowls that you draw 188 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:52.080 a guy in and you're you know, you're getting a charge or you're getting 189 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:54.679 a you know, and one, and then those things are not called in 190 00:12:54.759 --> 00:13:00.559 the postseason, then then they become very frustrating to you because like, Okay, 191 00:13:00.600 --> 00:13:01.840 this is the way I played all season long, and now I'm not 192 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:05.960 getting that call, and it's not always easy for that player to adjust on 193 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:11.000 the fly in one series, and that seems to be a problem with some 194 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:15.240 of these guys. I agree with one hundred percent. Yeah, I agree 195 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:20.720 the playoffs are a different animal, but there needs to be a consistent way 196 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:24.639 to officiate NBA basketball. You know what, if you're gonna if you're gonna 197 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:28.759 let it go into playoffs, let it go in the regular season, right, 198 00:13:28.840 --> 00:13:33.480 let it go, let's mix it up a little bit. But if 199 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:37.240 you're gonna call it during the regular season, you gotta call it the playoffs 200 00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:39.720 too. Yeah, which is better? You think if you had to choose 201 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:43.320 calling it tight in the regular season and then letting it go in the playoffs 202 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:48.480 or calling it loose in the regular season and tightening it up in the playoffs, 203 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:52.840 I know what's easier. The easiest thing to do is call it tight 204 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:56.759 all the way through. You don't have that option. I'm giving you two 205 00:13:56.799 --> 00:14:01.639 options, because they're they're doing it now. They're calling it loose, looser 206 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:05.600 in the in the playoffs than they did in the regular season. Would you 207 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:07.639 rather them call it loose all season long and then when the playoffs hit, 208 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:13.440 let's call it tight. Or we're calling it tight all season long and then 209 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:16.679 the playoffs we're gonna let you play. All right. So if those are 210 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:18.960 my only two options, yes, all right, I'm gonna take the second 211 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:22.559 one. Let them play in the playoffs. Yeah, if those are my 212 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:28.399 only two options. The reality is you gotta call it the same way all 213 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:33.399 the time. So it's how you adjusted the regular season, That's what this 214 00:14:33.639 --> 00:14:35.519 is. How are we gonna call the regular season? We're gonna let them 215 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:39.080 go, then we're gonna let them go. If you let them go, 216 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:43.679 it's so much more difficult to officiate the game because all the lines are blurred. 217 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:46.559 What is a foul? What isn't a foul? Right? You know? 218 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:50.600 And then it really comes down to how hard you hit somebody? Yeah? 219 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:54.480 Right, yeah it does. It's like are you calling baseball? Are 220 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:56.960 you calling the outside pitch or you're not calling the outside pitch? What are 221 00:14:56.960 --> 00:15:00.399 we doing? And then you get to the playoffs and then I giving it 222 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:03.879 to you, right, you know, it's it's similar. You gotta be 223 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:09.600 consistent. But that's the hard part. And I don't know, and I 224 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:11.960 like you said, it's unwritten rule, but I think there's in conversations in 225 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:16.440 back alleys and before games, officials get together and say, hey, we're 226 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:18.200 gonna let him play to night. We're gonna let him play to night. 227 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:22.480 Let's let's see if it's closed, let it go, you know, And 228 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:26.360 guys are going into the game thinking I'm gonna get this call I'm gonna draw 229 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:28.799 four fouls on so and so and get him fouled out and that doesn't happen. 230 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:31.960 You know, that made me think I know an NFL official. I 231 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:35.320 know a couple, but I was talking to one. I cannot use his 232 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:37.200 name, all right, because that would be bad. Yeah, all right, 233 00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:41.080 yeah, don't do it. A referee, a referee. And he 234 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:46.039 was telling me that when he sits down with his crew, he basically tells 235 00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:50.360 him this is not going to be flagg day out here. Yeah, let 236 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:54.720 him know, let him play, Let him play. If it's egregious, 237 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:58.000 go for it. If not, I don't want to see a hundred flags 238 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:02.159 out here, everybody turning around on throwing your flag. Let these guys play. 239 00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:04.639 And he told me he has that meeting with his crew. He's a 240 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:11.120 veteran. He has that meeting with his crew before every game. Does he 241 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:14.080 ever go the other way? I mean he says every time, hey, 242 00:16:14.120 --> 00:16:15.000 let them play. I don't want to see a hundred flag? Got there? 243 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:18.840 Or does he say these two teams are very aggressive, they don't like 244 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:22.799 each other. Let's say let's tighten it up. They send a message early 245 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:26.679 on. You know, he never said he did that. But he works 246 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:29.799 a lot of playoff games. I mean, he's a big time and he 247 00:16:29.799 --> 00:16:33.440 said it was working a game. And you know that's an all star crew. 248 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:37.240 That's not his crew, right, it's the highest graded people. So 249 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:41.679 it's a new crew. So he has the conversation before the game and he 250 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:44.960 says, all right, guys, you know, here's how we kind of 251 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:47.759 like to do it. Let's do our jobs today. Let's get out there. 252 00:16:47.799 --> 00:16:51.000 But I don't want to see this be flag day. He told me 253 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:56.759 one guy and the crew probably threw five flags in the first half. He 254 00:16:56.840 --> 00:17:00.000 told me, so, one guy, I think five flags on the first 255 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:04.680 half. They sit down at halftime, he walked up to the guy, 256 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:10.680 goes, what are you doing? What are you doing? What is this? 257 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:15.720 Why do you keep throwing flags? I mean, if it happens, 258 00:17:15.799 --> 00:17:18.799 call it, But if I mean, this is ridiculous, stop let them 259 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:25.279 play. And I thought that was really interesting that that was. And this 260 00:17:25.480 --> 00:17:29.319 one guy, every time he turned around was throwing his flag. I mean, 261 00:17:29.319 --> 00:17:30.960 it's like he's in the playoffs and this is big for him. Yeah, 262 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:34.319 I'm doing I'm gonna make my name today. And he throws the flag. 263 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:37.960 So he had to talk him to at halftime. Did he change his 264 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:40.519 tune a little bit in the second half or no, he said there weren't 265 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:42.039 as many flags. I'll put it like that. No, I bet I'm 266 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:45.400 gonna have to talk to this guy. I bet going into halftime it's like, 267 00:17:45.839 --> 00:17:49.599 and didn't I just have that conversation with these mother you know what I 268 00:17:49.640 --> 00:17:52.920 mean? And now the guy's throwing twenty flags. He thinks he's on TV 269 00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:56.440 because his grandma's gonna see him or somebody's gonna see him. Come on, 270 00:17:56.960 --> 00:18:02.519 I have a conversation with that guy. The other reps are looking at him, 271 00:18:02.559 --> 00:18:06.400 going, what are you doing? Can you imagine? Yeah, you 272 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:08.319 know, it's like the guy in the NBA game, and I love in 273 00:18:08.359 --> 00:18:14.039 the NBA, where you know somebody will obviously miss one, obviously, and 274 00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:17.680 the way they officiate, they look at zones of the court right, you 275 00:18:17.720 --> 00:18:21.200 look left, you look right, I'll look over here, you know, 276 00:18:21.240 --> 00:18:25.680 So if something happens in the zone you're you're not watching, maybe you didn't 277 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:27.599 see it. I gotta tell you, I think about sixty percent of the 278 00:18:27.640 --> 00:18:33.000 time you do, but you don't call it. You don't call it because 279 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:38.319 it's not your zone. And I know those guys, you know, they 280 00:18:38.359 --> 00:18:42.079 see it. They see it. Yeah, I mean sometimes wait, they're 281 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:45.559 waiting for the other person to call it, and if he doesn't call it, 282 00:18:45.559 --> 00:18:56.000 he's that's exactly right, you know on your toes. But man, 283 00:18:56.359 --> 00:18:59.480 you call that right, You got to call that. And the NBA. 284 00:18:59.640 --> 00:19:03.839 The other thing is they really don't ask for help. They only ask for 285 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:07.279 help with the balls out of bounds. That's it, that's right. You 286 00:19:07.319 --> 00:19:11.759 know you would think that that that with three officials and so much going on, 287 00:19:11.799 --> 00:19:14.000 that they would ask for help more. But you're right. The only 288 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:15.559 time you see them look at each other is when the balls out of bounds? 289 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:18.599 Which ways are going? Who's got it right? And they teach you 290 00:19:18.680 --> 00:19:22.720 in these referee clinics, because I saw one one time with guys that wanted 291 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:26.960 to go to Division one college basketball. So they they send them out there 292 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:30.759 in groups and they start working these games. You know, there are scrimmage 293 00:19:30.799 --> 00:19:37.400 games and stuff. Do you know if you and and somebody got downgraded and 294 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:41.640 lost a chance to work Division one because of this? Do you know if 295 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:48.240 you see a call that the guy misses or he makes, and you know 296 00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:55.599 it's wrong, and you show any kind of expression like you know, just 297 00:19:55.680 --> 00:20:00.680 your face the slightest thing. Yeah, you're downgraded, Really, you're downgraded. 298 00:20:00.759 --> 00:20:03.920 Yeah, I saw a guy hill the other guy up. Don't show 299 00:20:03.960 --> 00:20:07.359 the other guy up. You can't do it. You're like a mummy. 300 00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:11.839 You can't do anything. Wow. That is one thing to be, you 301 00:20:11.839 --> 00:20:17.599 know, talk to afterwards, but to be downgraded because you make a gesture 302 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:19.559 I have an expression on your face. Wow, that's a little much. 303 00:20:19.640 --> 00:20:26.839 And the guy that got downgraded flinched the slightest bit. If you weren't staring 304 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:30.920 directly at him, you would have never seen it. But they were staring 305 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:34.160 directly at him, right, And I heard the conversation and cameras going on, 306 00:20:34.279 --> 00:20:37.279 Yeah, it's like, so you can't do that, all right? 307 00:20:37.319 --> 00:20:42.839 Max Munsey Grand Slam last night, still on a tear boy. He is 308 00:20:42.920 --> 00:20:51.400 on fire. He is on fire and Grand slamming the first. This team 309 00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:55.400 We're gonna find ourselves saying this very often this whole season. Fred is that 310 00:20:56.359 --> 00:20:59.200 this team And we've said this before, they got so many ways to beat 311 00:20:59.240 --> 00:21:04.240 you, but man, it is you don't know where it's coming from. 312 00:21:06.279 --> 00:21:08.759 That's the thing. You don't know where it's coming from. Who's gonna be 313 00:21:08.799 --> 00:21:14.039 hot tonight, and it's because it's gonna be somebody. Somebody's gonna have a 314 00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:19.000 hot hand, if not more than one. Scary. This lineup very scary. 315 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:23.920 And then you got Yamamoto pitching like he did well. He's still not 316 00:21:25.039 --> 00:21:29.599 at his best. See here's the thing about Yamamoto, and it's really interesting 317 00:21:29.640 --> 00:21:32.240 in my mind. I don't know how Dodger fans feel about it. And 318 00:21:32.279 --> 00:21:33.920 we talked about it a little bit on the show the other day. Oh 319 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:38.519 Tani, he's not a look at me guy. He's just not mm hmm. 320 00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:47.480 I mean he is having a spectacular start to his season in the most 321 00:21:47.680 --> 00:21:52.319 unassuming, don't look at me way. And we said at the beginning that 322 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:55.920 there's an expectation who's gonna play well. I mean, the guy's playing out 323 00:21:55.920 --> 00:21:59.279 of his mind. But that's how he plays. If you watch him with 324 00:21:59.319 --> 00:22:03.279 the Angels, you knew that that's how he plays. So so he is 325 00:22:03.319 --> 00:22:11.039 having this unassuming monster start to a season. Ya, I'm a Moto is 326 00:22:11.079 --> 00:22:15.119 the exact same way. Yeah. Yeah, he got beat up in Korea 327 00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:21.599 and he got slapped around in spring training. Now look at him just quietly 328 00:22:22.079 --> 00:22:26.759 moving along, just keeps going. No look at me. I mean last 329 00:22:26.839 --> 00:22:30.119 night, now granted he was pitching against Miami, Yeah, but still eight 330 00:22:30.319 --> 00:22:34.359 he went eight, He went eight innings. Yeah, I mean, he's 331 00:22:34.599 --> 00:22:42.400 just just motoring along solid. Only two mistakes, you know, lead off 332 00:22:42.440 --> 00:22:45.799 hitter and then you know what happened in the third or whatever, another home 333 00:22:45.880 --> 00:22:49.559 run. But other than that, he was lights out. He was lights 334 00:22:49.599 --> 00:22:53.359 out, and he's pitching with so much confident But you're right, it's not 335 00:22:53.480 --> 00:22:59.480 a a look what I'm doing. It's like, this is what I'm supposed 336 00:22:59.480 --> 00:23:00.640 to do. I'm gonna do it, do my job. I just show 337 00:23:00.720 --> 00:23:04.359 up and go to work, show up, go to where he's the Dodgers. 338 00:23:04.559 --> 00:23:07.960 They all get to the office at nine, nine am with their briefcases. 339 00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:12.279 They sit out, they just do their thing, and they're out at 340 00:23:12.319 --> 00:23:17.759 five. Yeah, see you tomorrow, everybody. I'm I'm talking in the 341 00:23:17.839 --> 00:23:21.599 morning exactly, and they all fall fall in line. You know. I 342 00:23:21.680 --> 00:23:25.359 think it's you know, look, we we we we get to know these 343 00:23:25.400 --> 00:23:27.279 guys and we're we're happy for him. We were sad for him when they're 344 00:23:27.319 --> 00:23:32.079 in slumps. You know, we were talking about James Outman and then him 345 00:23:32.079 --> 00:23:34.799 breaking out. Hitting the home run was a big deal. Gavin Lux hit 346 00:23:34.880 --> 00:23:38.559 one yesterday was a big deal because he had a slow start to the season. 347 00:23:38.599 --> 00:23:41.680 He's starting to pick it up a little bit, but you're rooting for 348 00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:45.400 him, and you just know that up and down this lineup, no matter 349 00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:51.960 who they put in there, it's a scary lineup for the opponents because you're 350 00:23:52.039 --> 00:23:55.880 never you can never relax if you're the opposing team, especially if you're an 351 00:23:55.880 --> 00:24:02.400 opposing pitcher. Mm hmm. You cannot roll under any circumstance. No, 352 00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:06.960 yeah, you relax. It's a grand Slam to Max Muntsey, Yeah you 353 00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:11.400 relax. And Tiasca Hernandez is hitting a three run home run. You know, 354 00:24:11.480 --> 00:24:15.319 you can't ever relax against this lineup. I look up and they got 355 00:24:15.400 --> 00:24:18.240 runners on and Gavin Lux is doing this thing, and oh wait, Mookie's 356 00:24:18.279 --> 00:24:23.799 on deck again. It doesn't feel like Mookie Betts is on deck like twenty 357 00:24:23.799 --> 00:24:27.160 five times a game, I know. And how about lu shetting Hallways on 358 00:24:27.160 --> 00:24:30.799 deck? And how about like shitting home run last night? Yes, yes, 359 00:24:32.200 --> 00:24:34.240 it's big, big. You know, like I said, we root 360 00:24:34.319 --> 00:24:37.759 for these guys that are struggling early. Now they're starting to come around. 361 00:24:38.480 --> 00:24:42.839 And seven eighth nights, which we talked a lot about early in the season 362 00:24:42.920 --> 00:24:47.839 in April six seven, eighth ninth hitters were not pulling their weight. Well, 363 00:24:48.359 --> 00:24:55.640 they start getting going. Man is nowhere to hide in this lineup. 364 00:24:55.880 --> 00:25:00.559 Long season earlier, we saw the bottom of the order not hitting, and 365 00:25:00.640 --> 00:25:02.400 you know, you're like, oh God, what's going to happen. Well, 366 00:25:02.400 --> 00:25:06.000 here's what's going to happen there. Everybody's going to go through cycles. 367 00:25:06.240 --> 00:25:11.160 Hopefully the top three cycle up most of the time, but everybody's going to 368 00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:15.039 go through cycles and peaks and valleys. And what you're hoping is with nine 369 00:25:15.079 --> 00:25:21.480 guys, six of them are good at some point or another in that lineup, 370 00:25:21.519 --> 00:25:25.319 because then you got it. So the bottom half struggled. Now the 371 00:25:25.319 --> 00:25:29.920 bottom half is good. You put pie Has in there, picked it right 372 00:25:29.960 --> 00:25:36.400 up. Jason Hayward will be back soon. Yep, yeah it is. 373 00:25:36.440 --> 00:25:40.240 There's no weaknesses, no weakness because you know you like you said you normally 374 00:25:40.240 --> 00:25:42.480 and a lot of teams like, okay, I get those you know through 375 00:25:42.519 --> 00:25:45.599 three hitters, and these are the three bad boys on that team. I 376 00:25:45.640 --> 00:25:49.960 can I'm safe for the next six Yep. Here you're not, yep, 377 00:25:51.559 --> 00:25:56.200 I mean, and we another quiet guy then not a me. Guys. 378 00:25:56.200 --> 00:26:00.440 Will Smith, he's sitting there hitting number four, right, and you can't 379 00:26:00.440 --> 00:26:03.640 really say top three anymore because you got to really say top four because he's 380 00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:07.319 the best hitting catcher in the league and he's got so much offense and potential 381 00:26:07.839 --> 00:26:11.799 that you can't you can't fall asleep on him, and so you can't get 382 00:26:11.839 --> 00:26:14.200 through the top three of the line up and go, Okay, we're good, 383 00:26:14.960 --> 00:26:15.920 now, I can I can kind of rest a little bit. No, 384 00:26:18.319 --> 00:26:22.000 you still got Will Smith, you got Max Munsey, you got Anders, 385 00:26:22.799 --> 00:26:26.559 you know, you got Gavin Lexis on now you got Paz. I 386 00:26:26.599 --> 00:26:32.680 mean, there's nowhere to hide in this lineup. No, And you know, 387 00:26:32.759 --> 00:26:36.480 Dodger fans whole they keep it going. They'll wrap it up against the 388 00:26:36.519 --> 00:26:41.200 Marlins and then they'll they'll move on and Rodney. As we wrap up today, 389 00:26:42.759 --> 00:26:48.200 may I please share a fun fact? Yes, just as we wrap 390 00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:53.400 up the Bonus Content podcast. Theodore Roosevelt had a pet hyena named Bill. 391 00:26:55.400 --> 00:26:57.559 He also had other pets, a one legged rooster, a badger, a 392 00:26:57.599 --> 00:27:07.119 pony, and a small bear m hyena. He did that named Bill, 393 00:27:08.440 --> 00:27:14.200 name Bill, and then then attacked the rooster, not to my knowledge. 394 00:27:14.519 --> 00:27:17.960 Okay, not to my knowledge. There's your fun fact of the day, 395 00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:21.640 Theodore Roosevelt. I had no idea. Well, that's why we're here. 396 00:27:21.759 --> 00:27:25.400 I'm pondering that thought. That's why we kill it. Yeah, we have 397 00:27:25.440 --> 00:27:29.039 stuff that other people don't. Right off, Freddy, all right, that's 398 00:27:29.079 --> 00:27:32.480 it for the Bonus Content podcast. We appreciate you listening, and we'll talk 399 00:27:32.519 --> 00:27:33.279 to you again tomorrow.