And we continue on Fred Rogan Rodney Pete from Crony's in Newberry Park on a
five to seventy LA Sports one hour to go. The crowd still here.
We have more to give away. The games are on TV. The beer
is cold, the food is great. We love coming to Crony's. Dave
and Christine Folds are good friends of ours. They have a number of them
in the area. They went and see me Valley, Ventura Agra where else,
Dave, what I miss is cam Real exactly, Newbury Park, see
me Valley and Agora Hills and joining us, oh vicklebyond later with the haikup.
We'll have that as well. We'll have some spirituality. But Dave Folds
joined us on the show and thanks for having us back this year. Well,
let me tell you, I think this is gonna be an annual thing
for the March madness. We have you know, Fred here and Ron here
and keV and you guys are just the greatest and this is a tradition and
we have how let's hear for the guys everybody, all right, Yeah,
you know, you know Crony's is a family restaurant with a sports theme.
Like you said, we have five locations. We're all about the community.
Although we make you know, the best sandwiches and burgers. I think,
what do you think? Gang pretty good? And how about those Buffalo Way
very good coldest beer in town. Ladies and gentlemen and uh and we're just
you know, the reason why we we do well is because we have a
relationship with the with the community, with the schools, with the youth sports,
adult sports and everything like that. So so we just have a good
time here. You are a natural man, You're like the natural MC of
the area. Man. You're so comfortable, so comfortable in the mic.
Dude, go to Rodney. I've been doing this a long time. You
know. I know I look very young. Yes you do, yes,
but but you sure no, you do look young. I look I look
like Fred's older older brother. But but no, we you know that's we.
We do prizes all the time and we're always on the microphone. My
partner Lyle Chuck and Dave. We we also you know, at the five
different locations, we we just engage with the people and it's genuine too.
The word cronies, I don't know if you know this, Fred means friends.
Yeah, I heard that you know, Fred just walked away. He's
just letting me just go. You know, hey, you you have any
questions, you know, this is your spot. That's that's how we do
your thing. This is your place, man, you know. So we
would go to uh Europe, uh and we went together one year where the
boys played on this all all Star team. This guy at All Star play
basketball. We played against professional teams. Was that the Morocco trip that was
That's where they threw the monkey out. Let me tell you please for those
that don't know, can you please tell them the monkey story where Fred got
But we're both gonna, we're both gonna do this. Listen, So we
in between games, our families get to tour the country. Hold on,
Fred will tell you. And then you're gonna. You're gonna and we just
see different things that you probably only see on like these these day great race
shows and things like that, and so and so there was someone trying to
promote their animals and show what's all about Fred. Why don't you tell them
what happened? All right? I just want to say this. So while
we were on this trip, and I'll finish the story. While we were
on this trip, for whatever reason, and I don't know why. Anytime
there was a team dinner or anything, they'd always come up and say,
hey, give a speech. Always, and they would look at me and
I'd go, let Dave do it. Dave would go up and start,
and right in the middle, he'd give me the microphone and all right,
Fred, go ahead, just like you did right here. That's my go
to single time we would be asked to give these speech and I'd say,
I don't want to say anything, but dude, Fred. The funny thing
is the locals in these different countries they would say, hey, this guy
was that guy Fred, he's good. He should probably do this professionally.
Oh Jesus. All right. So anyway, we're in this marketplace in Morocco,
and what they tell you to do, and of course I have a
tendency not to listen, do not look or get too close to anyone,
or they're going to ask you for money. Okay. So we're standing over
here and I say, oh God, look there's monkeys and monkeys are doing
tricks. So I get a little closer and no one's stopping me, and
they're right in the middle of this marketplace. So now I get pretty close.
One of the guys grabs the monkey from the ground, runs at me
and throws the monkey at me, literally throws it like this. I caught
the monkey because he threw it at me. The guy comes over and sticks
out his hand and says, okay, pay me, and I'm like,
I'm not paying you at me. So I caught the monkey, and I
don't like monkeys. So then another guy walks over the way with him.
Yeah. No, well I had no choice because that the guy put the
snake around my neck, right, And it's true. The guy put a
snake around my neck and then he stuck out his hand. And if I
didn't ain't either one of them, he wouldn't have taken the stinky monkey away
or the snake off my neck. So I bought me forty bucks to get
out of there. It's forty bucks to get the monkey off of you.
And uh and then and then Fred, you had to put blinders on you.
You couldn't look at any vendors the rest of the day. No.
I was pulled aside. Remember they took me aside, and they said,
don't walk anywhere, and you have to stay over here on the side.
Why why did they pick you to throw the monkey at well, I mean
you had that look or I mean why you well, I had a look
of wonderment. Yes, he's walking around the ligood's eyes wide open. Oh
my god, look how beautiful this is. Look all these interesting things,
and all of a sudden, damn, you were a mark. He's a
mark, he said. I got that guy. And I'll tell you this.
It was about one hundred degrees and a monkey stunk, all right,
Just you know, you can file that away as well. That monkey had
not been bathed in about six weeks. Really, Christina was bad. It
was bad. Then I got yelled at it. It didn't go. You
should post those pictures on your site, you know, monkey. But it
was great, you know so. But anyway, you know, Cronies is
more than sports. That's what we're talking about sports. It's March madness here.
I just wanted to say that my bracket is still at ninety four point
eight percent of the highest in the country. Ladies and gentlemen. I'm just
saying, how do you know that? Because it says if you look at
your thing, I'll show you in a second. Right, Well, let
me tell you I believe I threw darts three darts Kentucky losing yesterday? I
did not who who had Kentucky not not or losing? You know what I'm
saying. Right, that's a breaker, you know, so everyone loses the
same amount that on that on that one game. But we have all the
games here, you guys watching them while you're doing this, Can you guys
a multitask because how many TVs we have in here? I have thirty TVs
just rocking? You know? Did I tell you that we have five locations?
Fred? I heard that day? Did I tell you about the Wing
special or winning wings? And we were all to these wonderful people over here.
We were giving bottles of our thirsty sauce, our homemade saw exactly.
It's good. You know what we're known for, Fred, what let me
tell you something. We are like Christine. We have the we listen,
we have to We have the coldest beer in town. We have we have
we have sub zero freezers of holding these these these schooners just waiting to be
the sponer schooners. It's like a large ship, right, I'm telling you.
And you know last year you did this with a with a non alcohol
baage though, But when when it's your birthday at Cronies, we sing Happy
Birthday to you, and by the time we're finishing the song, you must
be through with your brother. And if you're not, you have to buy
the house around That's right, you know what I'm saying. So we're gonna
do it. I want to die away from tradition. No, you know,
I mean, you do not want to break a tradition. So so
we're gonna hook you up in a couple of minutes man on cold beer,
because that's how we do it around here at Crony Sports. But I'm game.
I know you're game, dude. You're a gamer dude. That's all
I am. That's all I try to be. That's all. You're just
going to flow the people up, you hear. People came from people came
from far away. They did. We had some people from Pittsburgh over here.
My former baseball teammate John Riley, John on the hill. John could
bring it. Yeah, it was John pretty good. John was really good.
What year was that I didn't get a whole lot of balls hit to
me when John was on the hill. Really did you play? I played
third base. He was pitching all right. Yeah, he was our ace.
Well, I would think that when he was so good, sometimes the
only way people gotta get on bases bunch, so maybe the bunch a third
try. Did you play up or did you play played all? Yeah?
You so so so. You never played that in college though? Did you?
You did the way through? And how'd you do? Uh? I
had drafted three times, you know, Rodney b ladies in gentlemen. I
was telling Jesus, all right, good Dave, all right, well that's
what Crony is all about. Fred Duncton High School off two feet though,
that's destroy for another time. One of the owners of Cronies, his wife
christ Team. Thank you for having this time. I appreciate you, guys,
thank you so much for legitimizing Crony School. Scri alrighty, all right,
we're gonna do that beer for Rodney in a minute. I right,
come on down to Newbury Park Crony's. We're here till three o'clock more to
give away Fred Rogan Rodney pete On a five seventy LA Sports. My grandma
went there and she's always been Yeah, yes, he's always been big and
anything. SEC is just like bigtime schools. Right a, right out,
We are back at Crony Newberry Park. Let's go Rodney Pete, Fred Rogan.
We are having a good, good Friday. My man Dave did his
old one man stand up. Yeah he did, right, Oh, yeah
he did. He's a one man show. He is so one man's show
of course. All right. Uh so I think people here in the area
know Brady Smigel. He's a quarterback in Newberry Park. There you go,
and everybody does. And he is being looked at by very very good colleges
at this point. And you're a sophomore. You're completed just sophomore year,
you sir? All right? So, uh Brady, welcome to the show.
Were shit you hanging with us today? Thank you for having me?
Okay, wow, so you're one of the top guys in the country.
When you hear that, what do you think? Yeah, it's a blessing
for sure. Just trying to separate football and being a kid as much as
I can. Just scrolling on social media and seeing your face all over it's
definitely nerve wracking, but just trying to control it and just be a kid
as much as I can. Now, Brady, I'm I'm I'm an old
man. So it's it's a little. It was a little different for me
when I was coming out of high school because colleges could not approach you right
until your senior year. And now you're you're finishing, you finish up Yourselfhomer,
you're going into your junior year, correct, yes, sir, right,
So, but you've been contacted. You're out there working out for different
colleges already, right, some problem. What's that been like? Yeah,
it's cool, it's definitely hard. Like in January, we got a bunch
of schools coming through. So I'll just be in my math class or whatever
it is, and I'll be get in text for my dad like sell and
so schools there and you got to get signed out and they're waiting for you.
So it's definitely difficult. January. It's very cool having like big time
schools, like the head coach at Penn State just coming to your school and
being able to shake his hand. It's obviously an honor. But January is
definitely hard, just controlling school and wait, wait, wait, so they'll
show up, Hey, I'm here, and they want you to sign out
of class to go throw at like seventh or eight o'clock in the morning.
Yeah, it's definitely hard. Sometimes they'll tell me like a week before,
sometimes it's the night before. But sometimes I mean it's just right there.
Like one time I was studying for my Algebra two test. I'd like my
tutor at seven in the morning, and my dad calls me like so and
so they're here and they want to see you throw like now, and I'm
like, all right, well, looks like I'm gonna be retaking that test
next week, so all right, love it. So when you me with
the coaches, what are they saying to you? What's the pitch they're giving
you? Yeah, I mean they're kind of just trying to take on a
conversation. They're not really I mean the questions. It's more like just like
adults a kid, like I feel like I'm talking to my uncle. They're
kind of just interviewing me, seeing how my eye contact is, seeing how
respectful I am, seeing if I'm bringing up other kids, but really not
any serious questions. I feel like they're interviewing me on other stuff. Now,
you told me off there that you know, these workouts could happen at
any time, and right now you have some teammates that possibly could go to
some schools to play as well. And if a school comes and they're not
necessarily maybe it's a smaller school, they're not necessarily looking at you, but
they're looking at your teammates, you'll go out and throw for your teammates,
right, Yes, sir, for sure. We got a bunch of guys
undersize, some colleges say, but they have really good stats, or they
at really good speed, and they kind of just want to see them in
person. So if a smaller school comes through, I'm not gonna deny throwing
to them just because I got other kids on my team that are trying to
get looked auck as well. All right, So when schools are talking to
you, and I mean, you're in a fascinating place now, because,
as Rodney says, you're you're in a town without a sheriff, with nil
and opportunities that weren't available at least legally. When Rodney played what does that
mean that? What are you laughing at? Riley? He went to usc
Yeah, I don't know what I want to see. If you were listening
to know what I'm talking about now, I know I know nothing was happening
anyway. So you have those opportunities, how do you view that. Niyel.
Do you look at a school now, I mean, do you expect
schools once it gets serious, because you're one of the top guys in the
country to come to you and say, all right, Brady, uh,
you know, here's your scholarship and we're gonna I want you to talk to
this guy because this guy here, he's going to hook you up. I
mean, are you expecting that kind of thing? What will you do if
it happens. Yeah, it's definitely interesting. There's a lot of factors that
go into a college, and that's just another add on to it. I'm
not saying that's like an important one to me. Just money is just another
add on. It's just a blessing being able to have college paid for and
have your own apartment with a couple of teammates and being able to play for
millions thousands of people on TV. So money's just to add on. It's
definitely not going to be the reason I go to a school. I think
it's just going to be there, just another add on. Like I said,
now, we obviously every school in the country is looking at you right
now when you're growing up, maybe not so much now because you're looking at
it through a different lens. But growing up, did you have your schools
that you were that you liked and possibly wanted to play for, and has
that changed? I mean, there's really not a dream school anymore. But
USC was obviously really cool just being local, forty five minutes away. My
grandma went there, so that was obviously really cool. I went there too.
Yeah, I know a lot shout my dad played in Arizona, so
just yeah, absolutely, just being in areas of the family whole life.
I got them in March Madness, so they were always just another school that
I love to wear their jersey on Saturdays. But right now it's really just
up for grabs, Okay. And if it's up for grabs, what are
you looking for in a school? I mean, there's so much but I
was talking right here, but I mean he was talking a lot about location,
and there's so much up for grabs with education, how they take care
of a player, relationships with the quarterback, coach, off, it's a
coordinator, head coach. There's I mean, I could go on and on.
That's why it's so much. That's it's such a hard decision. But
uh, I mean, the list just goes on and on. But we
were talking about location, and location is just not going to be the problem.
I don't care if I'm in the middle of nowhere. If the place
is right, it's right right now. When you look at your game,
is there anyone out there right now professionally that you look at and go that
my game kind of resembles this particular person. Is anyone out there that you
look at and say that, Yeah, I'd like to say, Josh Allen,
Yeah, not bad. Yeah. I get that question quite often,
So Josh Allen is my answer? Just a good arms show. So you're
fearless, you don't mind taking hits? Oh yeah, coordinator, I don't
really, I'm going deep pretty often. I love it. Yeah, I
just ask my off its coordinator. Okay, So in this process that you're
in now and as you enter your junior year, do you think a school
could catch your attention as early as this upcoming year and have you commit to
it? I mean yeah, I mean I'm just looking for the right spot.
Obviously. It's really cool for the schools that are interested in me early,
offering me earlier. And I mean I got a couple offers when I
was in eighth grade. I think it was our freshman year. Who offered
you an eighth grade or freshman year? University of Arizona was my first one,
so I got in the Filecats. Yeah, so that was my first
one. I went through coach Smith, Keith Smith, so that one's always
special. I'm never gonna forget my first one. But uh, I mean,
yeah, what I mean whatever fits me, right. I don't know
when that is gonna be the decision, but I mean, if you offer
me, then you got an opportunity. I guess now. You told me
you going into your junior year. You said you guys are gonna be a
senior heavy team this year. Right, Yes, so you guys are gonna
be loaded. You're gonna be pretty good this year. We're gonna be pretty
good this year. Give me more to No, you're gonna be a predicted
give me a prediction, man. I mean we're going into you like Joe
Namon. I'm not guaranteeing anything, but we're working pretty hard right now.
We've always been the smaller neighborhood school. Probably in warm ups, you think
you're gonna kick our butt, but uh, we're coached very well by my
dad and the staff. We got and uh, I think we Yeah,
shout out coach. I think we really are one and we work our butts
off every single day, and I think that's what makes us win games.
I'm trying to rob. It is Newberry, the Marmani League, Newberry Parker.
No, we're switching leagues every year. I don't really know we're switching
leagues. Yeah, you know what, You're so good. You can't be
controlled in one league. You don't know where you'll be next year. Okay,
well, thanks for doing this, man, you said, thank you.
I appreciate youngratulations on your success. Thank you so much. Fuck man,
I got my eye on you, looking out for you. I'm gonna
come to a few games this year. Two chick you out. Thank you
so much. Thanks for joining us, all right, Freddy's Michael Newberry park
quarterback. Pretty cool, Rodney? When cool? When you think back to,
uh, when you were in high school and the process in the recruiting
process. Let me get the right frame of mind. I think back that
far. Yeah, I understand. Yeah, a long time ago you took
your medications. I did, You're fine. Uh how different do you think
it is today compared to when you were playing? Uh? Well, it's
night and day, night and day nowadays, because there's so much attention.
Like I mentioned, I think you couldn't like there was a period of time
you couldn't talk to a high school kid until his senior year at a certain
point. I think, at a certain leveling when you're playing, like going
and maybe going into your senior year is when a college could contact you directly.
You can get letters, but nobody could come talk to you, so
that that was definitely different. And then the exposure and you know, and
and you know, everybody's got tapes on you and things like that. Uh,
it is so dramatically different. I mean, as much as as cool
as it is, I still I don't envy the decision that, you know,
a guy like Brady has to make because he's got everybody in the country
coming at him, and he's got to make that decision. And he's only
a sophomore going into his junior year and still's got two more years to play,
right, And so he's got a good nucleus around him that he can
focus on these next two years. Because when you get it, like he
said, people were coming at him when he was in eighth grade, right,
and for a lot of kids that can just blow them up and blow
their head up and go, I don't have to work anymore. But he's
surrounded by the right people where he's gonna continue to work. You know what
I find interesting. You know, I asked him the question about nil and
he goes, well, you know, money's not gonna be the determining factor.
Well, let's have that conversation again in a year and a half.
Seriously, let's have that conversation in a year and a half, because I
don't think you know, and maybe that's the standard answer and the correct answer
for everybody. That's not gonna that's not gonna make a difference for me.
I think it's gonna make a difference for everybody. It's gonna be a factor.
But I think that because of who he is and where he's gonna be
situated, and you know, amongst other quarterbacks in the league, I don't
think it's gonna be a dramatic difference between the say, the ten schools that
are recruiting them in terms of the money factor. They're all gonna have some
money to give to them. Oh so, big schools are all gonna be
in the ballpark, They're all going to be in the ballpark, I believe.
I mean, everybody's not gonna be Caleb Williams. No, but there's
gonna be kind of a level with top school and this kind of this is
the going rate. Yeah, I think it is. I mean it's gonna
be the going rate. I mean, you know, Michigan's not gonna be
outdone by Ohio State, and Ohio State's not gonna be outdone by Penn State,
and Penn State's not gonna be outdone by Texas. I mean, they're
all gonna be in the ballpark when it comes to a player like that.
So it'd be interesting the dynamic comes where one school is so dramatically different than
another one, then you really got to make a decision. All right.
Yeah, well we have to make a decision right now. Uh oh,
that decision is what are we ready for? Spirituality? Oh? Baby,
we need it, We definitely need it. We need it. And to
provide that spirituality, let's welcome on Victor Brick with the Daily Haikup at two
and Vic. Good afternoon from Crony's in newbury Park. Yeah, Crony's,
newbury Park. I'm feeling you. The top seeded sports grill in all of
Ventura County. Dave says, the coldest beer in town, y'all, and
he's right about that. Fred. I can hear that monkey story from Morocco
twenty four to seven, Fred Rogan, Boy, it never goes away,
the monkey story, and then the snake joined it. What a marketplace I
must have been in Morocco. Yeah, I gotta be honest with you,
Vic. It was really hot, somewhat dusty, and they didn't have one
thing I wanted to buy. No, no, not a piece of jewelry,
not a necklace, a bracelet, anything. Friend, you would have
run from that place. You had to see it. But once you saw
it, you'd seen it. One of the things you buy that you put
in the closet that you never see again, even if you buy it exactly.
Yeah, I mean I think they had like like a Gucci belt for
forty seven cents, Gucci with one seat. Guki has He sipped his birthday
brew Rodney Peach not yet bTB Wow, Crony's man. The reputation is growing.
It's beautiful. When Dave comes on, it's it's very exciting for me.
It's he throws down the vibration and I dig it, I dig that
about him. Well, when Dave comes on, it's his show, he's
doing the show. Vic, we're a guest on Dave show. I love
that. Transcending the eight oh five. It's Kevin Figures here, come on
now, I have you five before I take off here? Why not?
And he is a Ventura highway of musica Ronnie Fossio. He loves scarecrows,
king flavor, Bloody pulled that out through a highway. Yes, well,
fellas, I love the way he broke down the situation with earlier. Yeah,
you feel about all this? I mean, we haven't got your take
on that. You know, the mind of otanis on. You've pointed that
out for years. You live in his head, he lives in yours.
You channel him, Vic, how do you feel about this? It's very
disturbing, It's very disappointing. Of course, I thought, uh Nightingale really
nailed it earlier, that this will be solved with a very very uh you
know light. I believe a penalty in that Otanis knows nothing of gambling.
I can tell you that his only life Wait wait, stop, and you
might be right, but how can you sit here and say, I can
tell you that he knows nothing of gambling nothing. I believe, I believe
that it is not his world. That was that was you know, his
interpreters world. Obviously, you know God lost in the rabbit hole. Vic.
He was at the win for seven hours straight about a year and a
half ago, on the blackjack table. Vic. I'm kidding, I'm kidding,
big. I know you're kidding. His essence is baseball. Let's face
it, twenty four to seven, that is Otani. I don't this is
this is not his world. I could say, again, how do you
know that, vig If you don't know judging from his his his lifestyle,
judging from his career, what lifestyle. We don't know anything about him solely
baseball. We know, we knew he had a dog, Papo in a
white Yeah, we know he was engaged, fick. You know something we
don't know? Come on, Vic, I believe he's and it's very well
documented that Otani's life is baseball and basically it's twenty four to seven. How
is he achieved to become basically, you know, the greatest player in baseball
today has been his focus on baseball. He's he's not interested in sidebars.
This O is pure baseball. I feel for, you know, for ip
A, his family. I feel for O. I feel for the Dodger
family. I have to, you know, to you know, to suffer
through this. You know, this investigation. Now, it's going to be
uncomfortable, but it will be done. It will be done right. And
I'm obviously I mean, in my mind I can't say I have incise information
on because you don't. All I could do is follow following his career religiously
and following his lifestyle religiously. You're like that guy in Korea that uh bought
the suits he wore, the car he drives, the shoes he wears.
He's like your religion to So basically his whole essence is baseball. Are you
worth me in that? Are with me on that? Yeah? Totally selfless
and totally selfless. Okay, VIC helping out a friend, helping out his
very good friend, Vic. Can I do anything he got? He got
caught in this chaos? All right, let me ask you one question then
we're gonna put it to bed. All right, here's the question. Do
you believe in? The interpreter said, Otani was helping him his good friend
pay off a four and a half million dollar debt. Do you believe that
or do you believe when the interpreter came back and said, Otani knew nothing
about it, I did this on my own and the implication was that he
stole the money somehow. Which do you believe? As a man that knows
the mind of Otani son, I believe Otani is totally clean. That is
my belief. Okay, but that wasn't the question. Otani probably is clean,
but which interpreter's story do you believe is correct? I don't know.
He flipped, you know when you flip and you flop like that after you
know, with a ninety minute interview. I don't know. I don't know
what to believe at this points. That's why, you know, the probe
will go on, the investigation will go on, and we'll get to the
you know, the heart of the matter. But do you believe do you
believe Otani knew anything about this gambling situation? I don't know. I don't
know. I think he was, I don't know what. At this point,
it's very very nebulous. I don't know, I don't know what to
All I know is I know and I we don't know what he knows.
We have to find out there. You could big golf. All right,
Uh, we'll be back and Vic will tell us what he believes he knows,
and also have the high coup from Croni's in Newberry Park. All right,
we're out back at Crony's. It's Friday. We don't care. Oh
they brought me. They brought my birthday beer. Oh yeah. And the
rule is I gotta do it before what before we get off the air?
Now, before we get off the air. That's the rule. Yeah,
that's gonna be the new rule. Yeah. But the happy birthdays, but
before the happy birthdays. But Vic is on, so we gotta live.
We gotta get We gotta let Vic. It's not about after the off the
air, Fred, it's about the birthday. Saw. I gotta drink it
before the Here's what we're gonna do. First, we want to thank bond
Projects dot Com for the merge because every time we come, Christine gets us
something, and we got jerseys today with our names on them. It is
great Bond Project out Com, thank you very much. Uh, Beck,
Okay, we're gonna have to throw a little bit of a curveball at you
no, because we need Vic to do the high coup. Yes, so
we can then do the birthday song so you can drink your beer. We
can do that after all you want to do when we get off there,
Yeah, we'll do it after Okay, back there, all right, we
don't have to throw We don't have to throw a curveball. Bick called hitting
my nil money for Brady real quick? Is that what you're doing? Yeah?
Okay, got them a couple I gotta tell you what a couple of
dollars. I gotta be honest with you. I got a feel in Penn
staves for coming. I think you have to that a little bit more.
Yeah, yeah, I agree, all right, I go ahead big.
The salient point I want to make is we must now support Otani Sohn remember
his iron will severely tested in South Korea. He gets there. There's the
love fest, Then there is the bomb hoax, then the Ippimus Well horror
gambling mess, allegations that old Tony's friend and interpreter ripped off Otani for millions
to pay gambling debts to a not so kosher o C bookie. So that's
the story you believe. No, I wanted to lay down the fact right
now, the support for Otani is urgent and I believe is necessary. He
must empty his mind and clear the clutter, clear it, and we must
support OLTONI san right now. All right, it's gonna be hectic. Let's
face it's gonna be hectic, but we must give all our love to Altani.
Son. Okay, no distraction, but it's a bit of a distraction,
said, We got to eliminate the destruction. That's what Big is talking
about exactly. I think defense will do that. I think they'll they'll eliminate
that distraction when they're getting ready. Well, Fred Fix not happy about you,
Fred Rodney. This journey of the Dodger season has been unbelievable, and
it's we've only played two games. It's just going to be an amazing season
for the Azul. Well, it's not much of a journey yet, Vic,
Well, the journey to Sounds, I mean, it's only two games,
but it was pretty wild and Soul the Soul series was pretty wild.
What did you think of Yamamoto? Vic, It's gonna take time. It's
a process, yes, he said, he is it twenty five years old.
He has to go through a lot of a lot of change, yes,
but the Dodgers, the Dodgers coaching staff is fabulous and the work through
it. Obviously, the Dodgers defense has to has to get more air tight.
Yeah, I mean to get up the five runs. But you know,
if months he gets that the ground ball that went for a double they
called the double it was you know, obviously he butchered the ground ball at
the line, But that don't change that. Now the defense, the defense
is going to tighten up. The Dodgers will the Dodgers will be fine defense.
That's what it is. Do you think you'd get comfortable going out of
the stretch now, vic, I believe so. I thought Nightingale made a
great point that everyone steals anyway. What's the difference if your if your stretches,
you're a great stretch, you're a mediocre stretch. Some people are gonna
steal on you. In the in this new in the brave new world of
baseball, people are stealing. That's why he should go with what we suggested
the other day in the podcast. Anybody that reaches first base immediately goes to
third. He never pitches from the stretch. He never has to. If
you go to first base, just keep going. We're not even gonna make
a play on you. Yeah, it's the o John Lester. Just don't
even look at first even be there. Who just gomed And when you get
the third I'll pitch out of the wind up and it'll be fine. Maybe
they take that approach vic. Yeah, the stretch is overrated, overrated,
man, but you know it's not overrated the height. We get to the
source, yes, yes, the source. This is from Bussan. Okay,
he's on the he's on the mount Rushmore of haiku artists. Yes,
show Issa and shiki. All right, yeah, here we go. Yeah,
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Okay, feeling not even want a way to wrap up the way that isn't
even whatever. That was the ancient ones, the ancient ones. Craig,
thank you, good job on the equipment. Everybody could hear today. You
know he's as good as that gheart smiling, smile. He's thinking about his
rats at home. It's fine, David, thank you, thank you,
yes, yes, all right, go ahead, start Dave. We want
to thank Ronnie back in the studio. Thank you, Ronnie Kevin, thank
you so much. We're wishing Rodney happy birthday now when he's got a drink
of beer. Go ahead. How a terrific weekend. Petros and Money are next.