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And we continue on Fred Rogan Rodney
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All right, So, uh,
the A's were playing the Yankees today,

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and you know, you know the
old line umpires have rabbit ears.

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Well, honey, dude, Wendelstadt
is a major league umpire and his father,

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Harry was a long time major league
father son duel Right, Okay,

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right, Harry's Wendt and uh,
Aaron Boone has a reputation for goating and

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baiting the umpires. Hey, what
you're doing about Aaron Boone for me?

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I know you know him very well. So anyway, I understand, and

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he was not in the wrong here. So they're playing that's true. He

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got tossed a lot last year.
So anyway, they're playing Oakland today,

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and all of a sudden, from
the direction of the Yankee bullpen, what

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are the fans, somebody screams out, that's a BS call. Somebody screamed

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that out. Hunter Wendelstadt, the
umpire, turned to Aaron Boone and said,

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you're out of the game. Aaron
Boone said it wasn't even me,

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it was one of the fans,
and Wendelstead said, I don't care who

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said it, You're out of the
game. One of the fans yelled and

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he threw out Aaron Boone and even
after protests, they still threw him out,

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threw him out. So, yeah, was the guy in the crowd

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here, He goes, I don't
care who it was, You're out of

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the game. That's not good.
They gotta be some kind of verification because

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that now that that happened, Yeah, that guy's gonna be planted behind the

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dugout and started yelling like throwing their
voice been triloquist, you're gonna come to

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the games now, throwing their voice. Oh you, and and the manager's

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gonna get thrown out or a player
gets thrown out, say Manny Machado,

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or somebody's walking back and somebody imitates
Manny's voice and he throws it back to

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the umpire. Yeah, there you
go. That's it for you. I

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don't care who said it. He
can't go off of that. That's terrible.

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It is terrible us. You can't
do that many Chatto is a Dodger

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stadium. Yeah you can throw him
out. That'd be fantastic. Yeah,

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right, just throw But but did
they appeal or they I mean, I

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know it just happened today, but
that can't they can't go on? Well,

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the only appeal is this, I
didn't say it. Well, they

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got to go to the vid.
You well, that's put the video on

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him. See if he moved his
lips. Well, if they have a

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camera, if they have a camera, cameras everywhere, Fred, you know

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that, boy, don't I Yeah, you better watch yourself there. Camera's

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everywhere here as well, everywhere.
How does that happen? I'm still I'm

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dumbfounded on that. I know,
I know, you know what when you

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have a reputation professional sports? Last
year your your man. Aaron Boone developed

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a bit of a reputation with the
umpires. Yes, uh, you know,

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challenged them a few times, a
little bit. I'm surprised to even

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I thought he was just going to
explode as a human being. I mean

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last year it was so tough on
him and the relationship we have with the

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umpire. So this guy, here's
one thing in boom. Maybe they have

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past history. Maybe, but you
used to be an umpire. Did you

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have past the three week guys?
And you're like, oh, he's got

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a reputation, So I'm he's got
a short least today. The only guy

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I had to run was mister Laird, Mister Lair, mister Laird. I

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was mister Lared. I was eleven. I was eleven, and I was

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working the minor leagues in the Little
League as I you know, continued my

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growth to the Little League World Series. So I'm eleven, I'm working the

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miners and this guy would not shut
up, and he yelled at everybody,

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I mean all the time. All
the time he would yell, and everybody

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was intimidated, and nobody would would, you know, do anything. So

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I'm eleven years old now and I'm
umping the plate. I mean, he's

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yelling at adults and everybody's like,
oh god, he's mad. So he

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started yelling at me. I took
off my mask. I'm eleven years old.

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I looked at him. I said, were you talking to me?

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And he said something else like I
was. You know how he get I

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go, You're gone just like that. I'm eleven year old kid runs like

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a forty year old man. You're
gone, and everybody got happened. Everybody

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got quiet. Then you heard this
gone. So that was it. Mister

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l was embarrassed. Mister Lard.
Yeah, he put his tail between his

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legs and get out of here.
Get out of here. Your story,

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walking laird. That's all right.
Uh well, let's see. Hopefully the

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Lakers will have a better story to
tell tonight after what happened in the first

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game in Denver. Let's bring on
our insider with the Lakers in Denver,

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Dan White and Dan good afternoon to
you guys. I too was a youth

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umpire, and I too had a
I had a catchmas well as an umpire.

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They used to complain about the size
of my strike zone right because it

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was gigantic. Oh, you show
their sankles, and whenever anybody would complain,

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I would say, they don't pay
me by the hour. Well,

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you wanted the kids they hit,
Dan, you just wanted the kids to

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get Yeah, that's exactly what I
did. You wanted to strikes out there,

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give me, give me the all
cash payment as quickly as possible.

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That's what I wanted. Perfect all
right, Dan? Uh? You said

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before the Lakers open against Denver.
Yeah, they can beat them, They

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can beat the Nuggets, but everything's
got to go right. They've got to

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play nearly perfect. Okay, Well
things did go right for a while,

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and then they weren't playing nearly perfect
anymore, and now they find themselves down

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all one. How do you see
the game tonight? Well, I mean,

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I think I think you can look
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I think the I do want to
sort of dispel the notion that they played

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a good game in Game one.
I don't think they played particularly good.

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I mean, they had a pretty
bad second half, a disaster third quarter,

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you know, in a so so
second quarter. They played really well

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in the first quarter. That's that's
what I really did. Lebron James had

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a good first half. Anthony Davis
was good for some stretches, but they

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scored one hundred and three points.
You know, this is one of the

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best offenses in basketball, and they
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They missed a ton of threes,
they missed a bunch of layups. That

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they weren't good enough on that side
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that's easy ground to make up.
I think the feeling that they should feel

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is that they wasted an opportunity because
Denver didn't play well either. And and

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I think if if you leave that
game and you feel like, well we

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can if the Lakers can get that
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the series, they're gonna have a
pretty good chance. I think the feeling

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is though that you know, Michael
Porter Junior is going to shoot the ball

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better, Jamal Murray's gonna shoot the
ball better. Con Davis Caball Pope will

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play better. He was awesome in
the third quarter, was not very good

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around that, So you know,
is that going to be in Nicole Jokich's

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jokic So I think that's kind of
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in talking to some players today shoot
around and stuff, I mean, I

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think they they think I don't want
to say, are fairly confident. They

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know the tests. But you know, it's not like they felt like they

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threw their best punch and left Denver
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not how they feel. Yeah,
and you just mentioned that, you know,

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Denver didn't play particularly well, but
they can afford to do that.

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Denver can afford to not play well
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in the league. You know,
the Lakers have to be perfect and then

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and the problem is they have to
be really good for four quarters because if

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you're not, if you have one
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you pay. And I don't know
can the Lakers sustain what they did in

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the first quarter for four quarters.
I don't know if they can. I

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haven't seen it this year. Well, I mean, look, you do

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that you win by forty, right, like they're up by ten and that

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right Like, so you don't have
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what you can't do is you can't
you Lebron can't turn it over seven times.

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He can't have turnovers that lead to
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and that happened a couple of times. You know, you can't miss,

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you can't miss laps, you can't
miss dunks. You Dasiel Russell can't shoot

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six for twenty Yeah, the team
can't. Yeah, the team can't shoot

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twenty five percent from three, like
they will always lose. They would lose

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to Memphis if you shoot like that. Like that, that is one of

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the very the very real things about
modern basketball. So I think I came

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out of that game on Saturday like
they really squandered opportunity. And then I

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think watching the game, kind of
studying it a little bit more again,

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it was sort of like it's,
you know, you don't want to overreact

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to game ones. I think a
really interesting stat I too this the other

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day, but you know, the
last road team to win in this postseason

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was the Lakers in New Orleans.
Since then, every home team has won.

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And you know, winning on the
road this time of year is difficult.

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Uh, not every home team is
going to win their series. So

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there's still there's that old sort of
adage that the series doesn't started till the

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home team loses. You know,
the Lakers have a chance to night,

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like if they play well Denver doesn't
you you you split up here, then

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the narrative totally shif the pressure totally
shifts, and we're feeling very different.

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I just think it's it's strange because
guys, I don't know about you.

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I think it doesn't always feel like
when when I talk to fans or hear

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from fans, it doesn't feel like
they're down one. Oh. It feels

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like they're kind of more down nine
to zero. Yeah to denver Well and

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I think you touched on it.
And look, it got better during the

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season. It was bad in the
first half. Here we are in the

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playoffs again. D'Angelo Russell's got to
show up and hit. I mean it's

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pretty simple. Angela Russell and Austin
Reeves. They've got to perform and uh

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they become one of the three A
d lebron and and in that first game,

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Austin really one of those. One
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third. Somebody's gotta be the third. And D'Angelo had a bad game.

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I mean, there's no other way
to look at it. He's not knocking

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down those shots. That's kind of
where we were last year. And it

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doesn't matter if he struggled in the
first half, then got hot, wasn't

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traded. Now we love them.
Now the money's on the line Dan and

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he didn't perfor Yeah. Yeah,
I mean I think, you know,

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and I look up with some of
this sound Anthony Davis Lebron names too.

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I mean, I think the offense
got really stagnant. I think credit to

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Denver in the half court, a
really good defense performance from them. The

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Lakers forced I think the starting five
for Denver had one turnover combined. I

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believe that was a staid I saw, you know that that disrupts the Lakers

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offense. They don't need to force
a lot of turnovers, but they need

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to get out and transition and get
easy ones. That didn't happen after the

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first quarter. I think those are
types of Those are situations, you know,

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where you just get easy points and
that makes life easier on everybody.

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But but I think, yeah,
I mean, I think Delo's got to

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play better. I think Austin Reeves
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Ruey Hachimore has to be involved more
on what they're trying to do. I

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think he only took three shots.
I think Darmenham has to trust his bench

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more and they have to perform,
you know, like like like I said

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to you guys last week, like
I've written, a lot has to go

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right for the Lakers to win.
I don't think it is an insurmountable amount

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of things that have to go right. But I'm just not sure how close

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they were in Game one to that. You know, if if that's as

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good as they're going to play in
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Yeah, They're gonna lose quickly.
You know, I think there is there

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needs to be another level. I
mean, to me, the thing that

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I keep going back to was one
hundred and three points. You know,

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they lost what was it, one
fourteen? One oh three? Right,

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the Lakers are since the Ruy Hotchmer
in the starting lunup, I think we're

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the second or third most efficient offense
in the NBA. They play fast,

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they play with pace, they make
shots. They did not do any of

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that stuff after the first quarter.
And uh, it feels like to me,

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if you're just even a little better
on that side of the ball,

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that game is much much tighter.
And it was still fairly tight. I

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mean, it was a seven point
game in the fourth quarter. D'Angel Russell

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rushes three goes in and out.
It doesn't go in and And this is

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where you talking about playing perfect.
It feels like every time you make a

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mistake, Denver scores. Yeah,
that's just like that's what they do.

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That's the pressure they put on you. So there's a psychological element to this.

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But I'd expect a pretty god effort
from the Lakers tonight. I just

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think Denver's can be better too.
Yeah, coming back home O two and

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it can't afford to do that.
I hate to say must wins in a

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series that you know that's still early
like this, but it feels like a

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must win. Yeah yeah, I
mean, look, you can go down

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too and win a series as possible. It's just you don't want that climb

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to be that steep against the team
this could. You never know what will

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happen, right like, I mean, you know, ankles get sprained,

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all sorts of stuff, hamstrings,
you get pulled, like anything like that.

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A series can change in an instant, right. The Lakers were up

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to one on Phoenix a few years
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don't win another game like that.
Stuff does happen. You don't want to

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count on it. I mean,
I think you want to put yourself in

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the best possible position, and that's
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you gonna win both back in LA
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you know, and I think there's
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I mean the team is very focused. I think they are. I don't

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think they're tight. I don't really. They've been a very good back against

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the wall team this season too,
so I'm really curious to see how they

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respond today. I feel like they've
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we'll see, because I mean,
we're always on the verge of some forty

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five point triple double from Nikola Jokic. No, I mean, I'm not

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even being hyper uper like that's no
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let's flip over now talk about the
Clippers and Dallas and Dallas favor going

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in. No Kawhi, so no
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Right. So you know, the
feeling was the Clippers would get smacked

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right in the mouth, and they
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the mouth. Were you surprised?
I was? But I mean again,

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I think you know when you watch
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so important, right, and Dallas
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Harden got really hot, and they
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I mean, they didn't play great
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it's hard to play great basketball at
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so high in the first half.
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you have three stars, like like
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can carry an offense superstars. And
James Harden showed up and played great basketball

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at the time he way traditionally doesn't. And and I think it was a

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really good time. I mean I
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I thought it beats the Zoobots early. Yeah, really good in that

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game. And look, and you
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right, Like Kyrie and Luca are
going to make shots. The thing to

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be watching that series is that you've
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and they can score. Luka Doncic
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the league. James Harden has been
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to come. Pols's a tremendous,
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gonna be games in this series.
You just tip your hat. And I

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think there's an element of that from
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I think we'll see where they're at
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I thought Lively played pretty well in
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it's just, you know, I
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they just haven't been really good for
a couple of months. And it

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doesn't Dan doesn't it add to the
Clippers in terms of favorability because now the

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pressure to play Kawhi or to rush
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a couple of days now because I'm
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money, but winning that first game, the pressure to get Kawhi back in

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the lineup sooner rather than later just
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playing with Kawhi for a minute.
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I think on one hand they know
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other, I mean, I don't
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of the equation as to whether or
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I think singularly, he may he
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he goes or out than any other
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you. No, I don't I
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don't think their minds. I don't
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know they can win without Kauai.
I think they would rather obviously have him,

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you know, And I think this
gives them more confidence. But you

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know again, I mean they've been
down oh too to Dallas before and they

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have come back to win that series. Like that's the thing that has happened

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in the very recent past. Uh. You want to you want to get

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him back on the floor. You
want him to be right when he gets

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there. I think, you know, had they lost Game one, like

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you know, would there may have
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maybe I just think they're a really
mature team, Ronnie, And I think

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they kind of, you know,
their experience. They have a very experienced

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head coach, They've experienced players all
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got big picture thinking in this and
then they look and they are gonna be

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teams that lose in the first round
of this postseason. This will be The

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really interesting thing about about this year
in the West, there are teams that

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are gonna lose in the first year, the first round, the playoffs that

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have had great seasons, right,
Teams that have won twelve, thirteen to

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fourteen games more than they lost,
Teams that would normally feel like they had

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a successful year, that are going
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the end of April, and it's
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react to You know, you can
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in seven games or six games in
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conferences, Dan, were you surprised
at Minnesota took care of Phoenix the way

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they did. I'm not surprised.
I think Anthony Edwards is ready for the

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stage, and I mean you could
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the Timbrols have I mean, they've
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They've got a lot of size,
they have a lot of defenders on the

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perimeter, They've got experience with Mike
Conley. I think they're really well coached.

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They're deeper than the Suns. I
think Phoenix will play better too,

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you know, but but they really
put their foot on the gas in that

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game. Like I said, I
mean, I don't really think there was

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a result this weekend that surprised me. I mean, all the home teams

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won, right, it was kind
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the Pelicans played that the thunder tighter
than a lot of people expected. But

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otherwise, I mean, it kind
of all went to script so far.

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And I mean, you know it's
the high I mean, the higher ceased

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teams of if you hear players say
this on them, you know they've done

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what they've supposed to do. Like
I said, Like, I mean,

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there's the cliche, right, like
the series doesn't win n till a home

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team loses, and none of them
lost, but you know theyvan as it

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turns out. Matter did it feel
like okay, see was a number one

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seed though? No? I mean
I mean I think they're I mean they're

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so inexperienced, right, like,
I mean, they're so young. But

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I but I think Rodney, they're
a team that's going to get stronger as

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the close season goes on, Like
guys, they get more experience and stuff

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like that. I mean, look, they you know they had young players

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miss misshots, but then you had
shake Gillsess, Alexander hit huge ones,

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do a stretch right like chet Holmgren
miss a big free throw and stuff like

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that, and they you have some
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I think, like you know,
when it came to like money time,

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like Shay was as good as anybody
on the court, you know, and

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he's been one of the best players
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And like, I mean, they're
vulnerable, but I think they're vulnerable

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in the way that everybody in the
West is, maybe outside of Denver.

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All Right, well, Dan,
great stuff as always. Uh, have

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fun tonight. Thanks should be a
good one. I'm looking forward to it.

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Well, I don't know if it'd
be a good one, but half

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fun. And I mean, you
know, we'll see play get to ogen

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way either way. I'll be home
tomorrow either way, you know, Like

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I said, it is Uh,
well, we'll know a little bit more.

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That's I think the most the most
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little hike in that altitude up there. No, thank you, I'm tired

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from talking. All right, there
goes our buddy, Dan Wykey. Thanks

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Dan. Uh, We're at Hollywood
Park in Inglewood. You know, we

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should do right now, give some
stuff away, Freddy, Let's give some

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stuff away. Who wants to go
see them out the Dodgers and Braids on

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May fifth and the A five seventy
sweet? Who wants to go to that

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game? Dodgers Braids. Oh,
we got four pairs of tickets. We

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will give our first pair away right
now, right now. It's fred Rogan

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Rodney peted a. Uh, Inglewood
Park and the casino, Yes, across

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the into a dome, Hollywood Park. Hollywood Park is see. I was

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gonna say a five to seventy,
but then we're going to do a break

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and then I screwed the whole thing
up, So we'll try it good.

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Hollywood Parkinsino across three in two a
dome down here in Inglewood, right next

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to Sofi. We're here till three
more pairs of sweet tickets for the Dodgers

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and Braves, more tickets to see
the Tom Brady Roast. We are also

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giving away Chef Morito gift baskets.
We invite you to come on down and

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be a part of the show on
a five seventy LA Sports Yes, Hollywood

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Parkinson the way you are on a
Monday. We welcome up, prit Yeah

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we did. Huh after the weekend. You had a good weekend. Now

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you had in Hollywood Parkasino Bruce Doc
ground Raw. Wasn't he great? What

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are you great? Last hour?
What I'm talking about set a home away

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from home? Yeah it is.
And we'll be here a couple more times

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this year, Hollywood, pot love
it. We're giving away more tickets,

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you know, for the Dodgers,
sweet and for the Tom Brady Roast.

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We'll be giving them away through three
o'clock. So if you're driving around anywhere

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and you'll go down by, come
on down, come visit us, Come

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visit us. All right. So
the Dodgers are off tonight, they've flown

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to Washington. The Lakers, we
know, will try to fight for survival

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in Denver against the Nuggets and the
Kings. And I am represented today.

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Yeah you. By the way,
you can hear every La King game on

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the La King's Audio Network on the
iHeartRadio app, Go Kings, Go King's

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open tonight in Edmonton, Yes,
against your favorite place. All right,

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let me say this, Let me
just say this. Everybody here and you

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know you can live your life,
you can do what you want. I'm

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not gonna judge you, but everybody
here should hate Edmonton. Everybody here should

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hate Edmonton. I'm gonna tell you
why tell yeah, Freddie, enlighten our

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crowd because some of them don't understand
why you have this hate for our friends

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up north. Okay, First of
all, it's the third time the Kings

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will see them in the first round. The third time, all right,

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Uh, previous two years Kings knocked
out trying to turn things around. Edmonton

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is a very dirty hockey team.
Why do you keep saying that Ford very

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dirty? Because why do you keep
saying that? Here's why because you well

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you might remember. I don't know, I don't know how many people here

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have followed hockey over the years.
But there was a guy that played for

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the Detroit Red Wings who Wayne Gretzky
said was the greatest player of all time,

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Gordie how Gordy Yeah, all right, well, Gordy Howe, and

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he was number nine, the big
guy played on the front line. Yep.

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You never wanted to go into the
corner with Gordy Howe because in the

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day things were a little different,
and they used to say Gordy how sharpened

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his elbows. Yeah, Gordy,
How you doing, Gordy, how you

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doing right? And he would take
you out. That's kind of Edmonton.

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They're chippy, they're dirty, they
try to get away with things. I

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guess it's you're supposed to try the
throw the other team off. There's a

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question about that. But you look
at this guy Nurse for Edmonton, dry

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sidles this even in the way you
say their names. He's just I don't

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like him. He just got a
hatred for him, you know. But

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in that hockey being chippy, being
aggressive, being trying to intimidate Connor.

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Every team's got those guys, right, Yeah, but Connor McDavid, for

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example, good player. You can
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player in the league. You can
make that argument. Yes, you know

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what, that's not a guy that
should be a dirty player. That guy

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should not be a dirty he's throwing
him dirty. Oh he was last year.

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There's no question about it. Is
he a dirty player? Did he

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make some dirty plays? Is there's
a difference? All right? You know

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what. I think he's made some
dirty plays which made him a dirty player

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in my mind. And the thing
is this, when you're a star,

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you don't do that. When you're
one of the best game players in the

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game. You don't do that.
You have people protect you. You don't

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go out there and start stuff because
eventually, basically you're gonna get your asking.

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So maybe a guy that didn't want
to be intimidated, h, well,

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now you can come at me,
because usually right you go at the

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stars, there's always a bully or
a protector for every team has. Yes,

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if you go after somebody, if
you go after let's get somebody's coming

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after you, right right. Maybe
he said I don't need someone to come

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after me. I got it myself. Yeah, I'm Conor McDavid. Yeah

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he doesn't know. You want to
cheap shot me, I'll cheap shot you.

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Yeah. He doesn't have it himself. He does not have it himself.

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And the Oilers started off very slowly. Their coach who they replaced,

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looked like a twelve year old kid. So then they brought in a new

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coach and the team caught fire.
This is a very critical time for the

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Kings. They've got to get out
of the first round this year. They

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have to advance. They cannot be
knocked out again. You cannot use the

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excuse, well it's Edmonton, because
you've got to be better than they are

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at this point. Maybe the tide
turns, maybe things change, but they've

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got to get out of this round
this year or I think you are going

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to see some changes. You think
it's going to like a cleanhouse change.

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00:26:51.359 --> 00:26:53.599
I think you have to look at
the general manager. I think you have

406
00:26:53.680 --> 00:26:56.880
to look at what he's put together
and say, Okay, it's good,

407
00:26:57.039 --> 00:27:02.720
not good enough. Kings went through
this entire rebuilding period where they were awful,

408
00:27:02.960 --> 00:27:06.279
awful, aftter have won the Cups. They finally got things turned around.

409
00:27:06.359 --> 00:27:07.640
They went for it, they got
to the playoffs, they got to

410
00:27:07.720 --> 00:27:11.680
the playoffs last year. You got
to advance. Now you have to and

411
00:27:11.799 --> 00:27:15.240
you can't chalk it up to bad
luck of the job drawing Edmonton in the

412
00:27:15.319 --> 00:27:18.880
first round. No. Pierre Luke
Dubois, who has been on the show

413
00:27:19.039 --> 00:27:22.720
and was a terrific guy and had
a great story to tell. When he

414
00:27:22.880 --> 00:27:26.440
was in Winnipeg and Columbus, people
said he never played up to his potential.

415
00:27:26.880 --> 00:27:30.720
He was a little soft. He
never did what had to be done.

416
00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:33.359
So the King's trade for him,
because he has all the skill in

417
00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:37.200
the world. They bring him in
here and they pay him. Yeah,

418
00:27:37.240 --> 00:27:38.599
I mean, this is it.
Yeah, he's got a big money,

419
00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:42.759
long term deal, and here with
the Kings, he's as flat as a

420
00:27:42.839 --> 00:27:48.160
pancake as he was in Winnipeg and
Columbus. That could prove to be a

421
00:27:48.759 --> 00:27:53.920
critical mistake unless he wakes up tonight. There are no indications that he will

422
00:27:55.519 --> 00:27:59.559
because he hasn't, but perhaps now
when the lights are a little brighter,

423
00:28:00.119 --> 00:28:03.279
he will. That has been a
problem for the Kings, a major problem.

424
00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:07.680
They didn't so that's going to get
the GM fired. That could undo

425
00:28:07.799 --> 00:28:11.079
Rob Blake right there, because when
you pay him all the money you paid

426
00:28:11.160 --> 00:28:14.240
him, that means you have no
money for anybody else. They're pressed against

427
00:28:14.279 --> 00:28:18.000
the cap. It's a hard cap. There's nowhere for him to go.

428
00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:19.799
So you got to go with what
you got. And he didn't believe what

429
00:28:19.880 --> 00:28:22.759
he saw. He thought he could
change him, which a lot of GMS

430
00:28:22.839 --> 00:28:26.920
do, a lot of teams do. He struggled over here. We bring

431
00:28:27.039 --> 00:28:30.400
him into our building, we can
change it, we can bring out the

432
00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:33.440
best in him. And that didn't
happen. Right Well, that's happened three

433
00:28:33.519 --> 00:28:37.519
times now. Yeah, as we
would say in hockey, it's the hat

434
00:28:37.599 --> 00:28:42.319
trick. Three times they've tried three
times, it hasn't happened. Hopefully they

435
00:28:42.440 --> 00:28:45.880
turned it around tonight so the Kings
again. You can hear it on the

436
00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:53.799
iHeartRadio app the LA King's Audio Network
YEP are tonight Wednesday in Edmonton, Friday,

437
00:28:55.440 --> 00:28:59.039
Sunday back here at the Crypt and
hopefully when they get back they'll have

438
00:28:59.119 --> 00:29:03.359
a lead in this series because I'm
telling you they desperately need it. I

439
00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:07.000
just want to touch on this real
quick. US see spring football, the

440
00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:10.720
big spring game, big spring game. Yeah, what happened was that nobody

441
00:29:10.799 --> 00:29:14.680
was there. Nobody was aware at
the spring game. I was there or

442
00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:21.960
how many people were there, I
don't know, five thousand maybe being generous,

443
00:29:22.119 --> 00:29:25.200
being generous, Yeah, but we
don't do I mean, spring games

444
00:29:25.799 --> 00:29:29.000
at USC has never been a thing. It's never been a thing like it

445
00:29:29.119 --> 00:29:33.640
is at Ohio State or Alabama or
Michigan or things like that, where it's

446
00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:37.039
like a big to do and big
deal. People got better things to do

447
00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:41.880
in the spring in LA Then going
to a college spring game, it's not

448
00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:45.920
happening. I don't care if your
SC's winning back to back national titles.

449
00:29:45.960 --> 00:29:49.119
There was never a crowd at spring
games. It's just not something that you

450
00:29:49.240 --> 00:29:53.319
do. So I'm not looking at
the old Ohio State at one hundred thousand

451
00:29:53.359 --> 00:30:00.359
and we only had five being generous, What does that mean? A more

452
00:30:00.519 --> 00:30:03.960
smirk on your face like that,
I mean more people than you did.

453
00:30:03.039 --> 00:30:04.920
That's what it means. That's what
it means. That's what. How many

454
00:30:04.920 --> 00:30:08.039
wins and loss does that mean?
Well, I don't know none. How

455
00:30:08.079 --> 00:30:12.200
about that you mean none for the
season. Yeah, it doesn't mean anything.

456
00:30:12.279 --> 00:30:15.519
Well, you'll find out. Yeah, we'll find out. Yeah,

457
00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:17.559
the team that you don't win in
the spring, Fred, Yeah, well

458
00:30:17.599 --> 00:30:19.039
let's find out if the team that
draws the most in the spring wins in

459
00:30:19.119 --> 00:30:22.599
the fall. Yeah, there it
is. Then we got to change our

460
00:30:22.640 --> 00:30:23.960
ways. They got to change your
ways. What'd you see in the game,

461
00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:26.759
by the way, I didn't because
I socialized the whole time. Perfect,

462
00:30:32.160 --> 00:30:33.799
Yeah, let me break it down
off. No, I uh,

463
00:30:34.319 --> 00:30:40.079
it was like a reunion basically for
Yeah, it really was. They you

464
00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:44.960
know, it felt like usc is
kind of going back to remember when Pete

465
00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:51.519
Carroll came in. There was a
bad taste with a lot of former players

466
00:30:51.599 --> 00:30:56.359
alums that we weren't welcome back,
that they didn't bring us down to campus.

467
00:30:56.759 --> 00:30:59.319
They didn't allow us to go to
practice. They didn't want us to

468
00:30:59.319 --> 00:31:02.720
talk to the team or talk to
the players or anything like that. After

469
00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:04.880
Pete Carroll lot before Pete Carroll got
there, before before he got there,

470
00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:08.480
and Pete came in and said,
wait a minute, I'm walking around here

471
00:31:08.519 --> 00:31:14.359
at all I'm seeing you know,
Marcus Dallen and Troy Polamalu and blah blah

472
00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:18.640
blah, and you know Roddy Lott
and all these names and pictures. Why

473
00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:21.839
are these guys not hanging out.
Why are these guys not talking to the

474
00:31:21.880 --> 00:31:23.839
team, Because a lot of these
guys went to school there because they want

475
00:31:23.880 --> 00:31:29.519
to be the next whatever. And
he brought everybody back, brought everybody and

476
00:31:29.599 --> 00:31:34.240
you remember that time there was no
NFL team in lac The UFC was the

477
00:31:34.359 --> 00:31:40.279
NFL team, and it was it
was like going it was like going to

478
00:31:40.400 --> 00:31:44.799
the Lakers showtime Lakers going and being
at the USC games on the sidelines.

479
00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:48.119
It was like that. And he
brought the players back. So that feeling

480
00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:52.559
now it feels like it's that again. So on Saturday at spring gre game,

481
00:31:52.640 --> 00:31:56.200
there were a lot of former players
from different eras that were there hanging

482
00:31:56.240 --> 00:32:00.359
out talking about where we need to
go and moving to the Big ten because

483
00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:06.799
it it is, it is the
tradition of USC that we pride ourselves and

484
00:32:06.880 --> 00:32:09.880
talk about all the time, but
yet sometimes we don't embrace it. So

485
00:32:10.400 --> 00:32:13.480
Jen Cohen, I got to give
it up. She's the new ad.

486
00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:17.000
She's doing a great job so far. It's really circling the wagons and bringing

487
00:32:17.119 --> 00:32:21.759
back the pride of USC and we're
gonna need it. We're gonna need it

488
00:32:21.839 --> 00:32:24.319
going into the Big ten for it's
gonna be a challenge, but it's gonna

489
00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:29.799
be okay. But from what I
did see and did just kind of get

490
00:32:29.880 --> 00:32:37.319
the the sense is that which I
love is that there is a real sense

491
00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:45.359
of urgency about defense, well about
the defense and where it has been the

492
00:32:45.480 --> 00:32:49.400
last few years. And the defense. I mean, if you read some

493
00:32:49.519 --> 00:32:52.920
of the stuff, the defense looked
great that you know, several interceptions and

494
00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:55.599
they did some good things and the
defense outshined the offense. And people will

495
00:32:55.640 --> 00:32:59.880
say, well, Miller Mass struggled
in the spring game. Yeah, it's

496
00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:05.240
spring game. But the emphasis and
the way the players are talking about the

497
00:33:05.400 --> 00:33:09.319
pride of defense, knowing where they
were last year and how bad they were,

498
00:33:09.759 --> 00:33:13.720
they're not running from it. They're
talking about it, which is a

499
00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:15.359
good thing. Now you've got to
be about it. You got to be

500
00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:22.079
about it on Saturdays starting in the
fall. But I got a sense there

501
00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:27.039
was a come to Jesus moment for
this team this spring about we can't just

502
00:33:27.160 --> 00:33:29.799
roll the helmet out there and think
we're gonna be okay. Yeah, I

503
00:33:29.880 --> 00:33:35.480
was gonna say, given that the
Big Ten is going to be challenging to

504
00:33:35.599 --> 00:33:38.000
be fair, to say the least, it's going to be challenging. Do

505
00:33:38.119 --> 00:33:46.319
you think they have any real idea
how challenging it's going to be. No,

506
00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:50.759
because I think anytime you start something
new, you're going to run into

507
00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:55.640
things that you're not expecting or you
thought you knew but you didn't. I

508
00:33:55.720 --> 00:34:01.799
don't think they're going to be surprised
by the Ohio State, or Michigan or

509
00:34:01.839 --> 00:34:06.240
even Penn State for that matter.
I think where the surprise will come in

510
00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:09.079
is when they go to Iowa or
they go to Wisconsin. You know,

511
00:34:09.599 --> 00:34:17.320
they go to even an Illinois and
see the type of intensity and support that

512
00:34:17.480 --> 00:34:22.239
those schools have when there's you know, one hundred thousand people at the stadium

513
00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:29.360
in Iowa, you know, rooting
for Iowah haw Gys. You didn't get

514
00:34:29.360 --> 00:34:32.320
that at Oregon State, right,
you know, the Keezer state. You

515
00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:37.280
didn't get that at Washington State.
You may got you may have seen thirty

516
00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:40.079
thousand people in the stands here.
You go to No Northwestern, there's gonna

517
00:34:40.079 --> 00:34:45.639
be a crowd. So I think
that's what's going to be something that's gonna

518
00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:47.880
be surprising to them. But they
know how good Ohio State is, they

519
00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:51.760
know how good Michigan is. They're
not gonna be surprised by that. It's

520
00:34:51.840 --> 00:34:54.880
just the rest of the conference is
going to be a surprise. And also

521
00:34:55.079 --> 00:35:00.320
I think that some of the big
ten folks are gonna be surprised when they

522
00:35:00.320 --> 00:35:02.039
got to go to Washington to play, or they got to go to Oregon

523
00:35:02.119 --> 00:35:06.599
to play, right, because they've
seen that team to come out to Oregon

524
00:35:06.679 --> 00:35:09.079
and come out to Washington got the
doors blown off them. So it's gonna

525
00:35:09.079 --> 00:35:15.039
be a transition for everybody. Okay, when we come back, is it

526
00:35:15.159 --> 00:35:19.320
karma or is he snake bit?
Oh? Fred Rogan, Rodney Pete,

527
00:35:19.320 --> 00:35:22.760
we are alive at Hollywood Park to
see all we got stuff to give away.

528
00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:25.639
Let's do it right now. We've
got another pair of tickets right now.

529
00:35:27.599 --> 00:35:30.000
Netflix roast of Tom Brady on Bay
fifth. So somebody is gonna go,

530
00:35:30.199 --> 00:35:35.000
are you roasting him? To the
Netflix roast to Tom Brady on May

531
00:35:35.119 --> 00:35:37.039
fifth. Get your tickets out,
we'll start calling the numbers. We still

532
00:35:37.079 --> 00:35:39.960
have tickets to give away to the
Dodgers. Sweet all of it. As

533
00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:44.400
we continue from Hollywood Park, Fred
Rogan, Rodney Pete on a five seventy

534
00:35:44.559 --> 00:35:54.639
l A sports. Oh yeah,
we're back. We're back, Hollywood Park,

535
00:35:54.639 --> 00:35:59.800
Casino, Inglewood, Inglewood, Inglewood, up to no good? That's

536
00:35:59.880 --> 00:36:04.960
right, Ingle would all right.
So if you remember what three years ago,

537
00:36:05.000 --> 00:36:08.719
I believe Anthony Rendon was a free
agent, had a very big season

538
00:36:08.760 --> 00:36:13.639
with the Washington Nationales, won the
title, beat our Dodgers here. He

539
00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:17.440
had a great series. They didn't. And if you remember, the Dodgers

540
00:36:17.480 --> 00:36:22.960
were very interested in Anthony Rendon,
and it's highly unusual for them not to

541
00:36:22.039 --> 00:36:24.920
get somebody they were interested in.
So they made a run at him,

542
00:36:25.880 --> 00:36:30.000
and as the story goes, the
Dodgers put forth a very good offer,

543
00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:36.079
but Rendon decided he didn't want to
play in Los Angeles. He didn't want

544
00:36:36.119 --> 00:36:39.039
to be in the city of Hollywood. It was scared. He didn't like

545
00:36:39.119 --> 00:36:43.119
what it represented. He was scared. He's not a Hollywood guy. Now,

546
00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:45.000
of course we all know, by
the way a show of hands here

547
00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:52.119
today in Inglewood, who lives in
Hollywood? Exactly exactly? I mean,

548
00:36:52.159 --> 00:36:59.519
maybe somebody lives in Glendora or Alhambra
or Sherman Oates or Valencia or cama Rio

549
00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:06.400
or Huntington Beachis or Whittier or Calabasas. There you go, all right,

550
00:37:06.719 --> 00:37:08.400
Whittier, there you go, go, see vic and the Zendome. But

551
00:37:08.519 --> 00:37:13.920
the thing is this, everybody doesn't
live in Hollywood. But that was his

552
00:37:14.079 --> 00:37:20.079
reasoning. So he basically walked away
from whatever possible offer the Dodgers were going

553
00:37:20.119 --> 00:37:22.960
to make. And they were going
to make an offer, a real good

554
00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:25.519
off. Yeah, they had zeroed
in on him. So then he decided,

555
00:37:25.599 --> 00:37:30.320
look, the place for me is
Orange County. That's where I should

556
00:37:30.360 --> 00:37:37.400
be. Now we've learned since that
time that part of his philosophy is his

557
00:37:37.559 --> 00:37:40.480
family is its priority, which it
should be. Baseball is his job.

558
00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:45.440
He's not going to worry too much
about it, which everybody thought was pretty

559
00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:52.679
odd given his injury history with the
Angels. I mean, he used his

560
00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:57.679
inside voice. Outside. That's what
he did. And the thing is we

561
00:37:57.800 --> 00:38:01.119
didn't even really remember he was on
the als because he'd been hurt so much.

562
00:38:01.719 --> 00:38:07.000
He's still getting paid. So this
year, he's healthy and he comes

563
00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:14.039
back and he gets off to the
worst imaginable start. I don't think he

564
00:38:14.119 --> 00:38:15.920
got a hit in his first twenty
twenty nine at bats. Yeah, I

565
00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:21.400
can't remember when it was. Oh, oh for nineteen, Oh for nineteen

566
00:38:21.480 --> 00:38:24.719
This guy making thirty five million dollars
a year that barely played finally is healthy,

567
00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:29.800
comes back and he's over for nineteen. Yeah. Well, you know,

568
00:38:29.960 --> 00:38:31.800
once in a while, the ball
is going to hit your bat,

569
00:38:32.719 --> 00:38:35.960
and when it does, you get
a hit. Yeah. And it was

570
00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:38.239
suggested that they give him the tray
turner treatment. Oh, give him the

571
00:38:38.239 --> 00:38:42.480
standing ovation, Yeah, to help
to help little Owen. Yeah, to

572
00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:46.599
help little Owen. So eventually the
ball hit the bat, He got a

573
00:38:46.679 --> 00:38:50.480
hit, got a couple of hits, And now you're looking at him and

574
00:38:50.559 --> 00:38:54.119
going, Okay, maybe we've misjudged
him. Maybe he's the guy everybody thought

575
00:38:54.159 --> 00:38:57.960
he would be three and a half
years ago before he got hurt and basically

576
00:38:58.079 --> 00:39:02.480
never played, just tore his hamstring. Now he heard himself again, but

577
00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:07.559
he pulled it. I don't think
he tore it. Well, you know

578
00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:09.440
what, it's a pool for everybody
else A good point. That's a good

579
00:39:09.440 --> 00:39:13.159
point, right, And you know
the amount of time he's gonna be off

580
00:39:13.280 --> 00:39:16.239
is like a tiar that's right.
Is it ten days with him? Who

581
00:39:16.440 --> 00:39:21.840
really knows if it's ten days with
him? Yeah, we're not exaggerating either.

582
00:39:21.880 --> 00:39:24.000
I think that, you know,
we may be a little somebody you

583
00:39:24.039 --> 00:39:27.159
know, might look at you feed
as you've been a little harsh, a

584
00:39:27.199 --> 00:39:30.239
little hard on Sure Anthony Rondeau,
maybe, but you're not. I don't

585
00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:32.920
think I am either. No,
you're not. I don't think so either.

586
00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:39.159
Uh. The Dodgers really, congratulations
to Andrew Friedman. Sometimes signings are

587
00:39:39.239 --> 00:39:43.199
better when they're not signed, and
that was the best non sign they ever

588
00:39:43.320 --> 00:39:46.159
had. But for somebody to say, I just you know, it's not

589
00:39:46.360 --> 00:39:50.199
like Hollywood. I don't like to
play in Hollywood. I can't handle the

590
00:39:50.239 --> 00:39:53.199
Holly. I don't like it,
or whatever the exact quote. I think

591
00:39:53.239 --> 00:39:58.519
when people think about California, they
think of the straight Hollywood glamour lifestyle,

592
00:39:58.679 --> 00:40:01.639
whole bunch of flashes and some much
paparazzi. But everyone said down here,

593
00:40:02.119 --> 00:40:06.719
down here being Orange County. That's
the complete opposite. That was his exact

594
00:40:06.800 --> 00:40:09.599
quote. Yeah, so Dodgers are
Hollywood paparazzi. Hey, you guys are

595
00:40:09.639 --> 00:40:15.519
surrounded by paparazzi here in Englewood today. My god, wow, you know

596
00:40:15.559 --> 00:40:17.800
what that says to me? He's
scared of the big time. That's how

597
00:40:17.840 --> 00:40:21.840
it reads to me. Yeah,
that's what it says. Yeah, he's

598
00:40:21.840 --> 00:40:23.079
scared. You don't want to play
in a big time, then just say

599
00:40:23.079 --> 00:40:25.480
I don't want to play in a
big time. Yeah, just say that

600
00:40:25.559 --> 00:40:28.840
and say, hey, you know
what, not for me, I'm a

601
00:40:28.920 --> 00:40:31.480
Kansas City guy. Conversely, Otani
said, I want the big time.

602
00:40:32.159 --> 00:40:36.079
That's right, this is great.
I want to go with the lights of

603
00:40:36.119 --> 00:40:37.840
the Brothers. That was the little
Brothers down there in Orange County, and

604
00:40:37.880 --> 00:40:40.400
let me play with the big boys. It probably works in his favor though,

605
00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:44.199
because imagine if he was performing like
this, having all these injuries,

606
00:40:44.239 --> 00:40:46.719
and he had signed with the Dodgers, what he would be getting as opposed

607
00:40:46.760 --> 00:40:50.679
to the Angels. That's what he
couldn't handle. Correct, That's what that's

608
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what it is. When it went
bad, and Dodger fans are real,

609
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they ain't. They're gonna let him
have it a little bit. He couldn't

610
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handle that a little bit. He
gets de destroyed. Bill Platskis and Dylan

611
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Ornandez of the world. Yeah,
you would not be able to handle them.

612
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No, no, you come up
here. You gotta be ready to

613
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go. And apparently he wasn't.
So I hope he's icing his hamstring.

614
00:41:09.760 --> 00:41:14.039
He's casting them checks. That's right, you find a lot of ice.

615
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All right, here's a question,
because we're down here for another hour.

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Who wants to go see the Dodgers
and Marlins on May sixth and the A

617
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five seventy Yeah, yeah, yeah, hands are up, hands go up.

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By the way, we have two
more this plus two more pairs of

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those tickets to give away. Boy, oh boy, we're giving here till

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three o'clock. Come on down to
Hollywood Park at Anglewood, Fred Rogan,

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Rodney Pete, get your tickets out
here. We go on a five seventy

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