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and let's start this hour with Sam
Blum from The Athletic and Sam, thanks

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for jumping on, Thanks for having
me. All right, let's get into

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the Angels. I know Aider Moreno
had an exclusive interview with the OC News

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Group yesterday, the Southern California News
Group, but he basically said he was

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never going to sell the team.
Now, Sam, you reported on this.

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Do you believe that? I mean, it's yeah, I mean,

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first off, I mean this exclusive
interview. I think it's interesting. You

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know, we're all there and he
goes and hand picks the reporter, and

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it's it is clear he wants to
control his message and control who's asking questions

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to some extent, and you know, kind of how it goes how it

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all goes down. I think,
do I think he's gonna sell the team?

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No, I mean, he made
that fairly clear, and I got

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to ask him that directly too,
and and you know, he said he's

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not selling, and I tend to
believe that, and I'm pretty sure that's

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why he wanted to speak yesterday to
the extent that he did. He wanted.

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There's been a lot of speculation,
you know, just kind of in

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the ether, that that he would
be interested possibly in selling after last year

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and after the you know, Otani's
departure, and I kind of all the

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chaos that's really continued to surround this
team in the last year since he decided

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he was going to take the team
off the market. And so I think

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at this point, you know,
he's made it clear. I mean,

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he wants to stay there for the
long term. And I believe he told

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Jeff and he told the Redister that
you know, if there was a ridiculous

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offer that came along, maybe would
you know, change his mind. You

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know, he's a businessman and so
yeah, like I guess a great offer

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could possibly you know, he changed
the calculus for him, but at this

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point, I don't think he's selling, and you know, puts the Angels

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in a difficult position because you know, his ownership over the last two decades

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has not led to fruitful results,
and if anything, it's they're going in

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the opposite direction. And you know, as you mentioned, you know we

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grew up today. A lot of
this is detailing all the uncertainties that confuse

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around the Angels long term, and
with Ray Moreno in charge, I don't

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necessarily think those questions are going to
be answered soon or at all. See,

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Sam, That's exactly why he didn't
pick you to do the interview,

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because if you had asked him,
as he's selling the team and he said

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no, you would have followed up
with well, why the hell not?

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Then if you would have responded,
you would have followed up with yeah,

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but in the last two decades it's
been awful. Why would you put people

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through that? See, that's what
you would have said, Sam, And

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that's why he didn't pick you for
the interview. I tend to I gonna

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want to give myself with trouble here. So I appreciate your comments and I

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like it, Sam, I like
it. But Saam, come on,

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Sam, he was never gonna sell
the team when he but he took bids

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and he took in and people were
talking about who's the guy the group,

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the guy was gonna buy the I
mean, it went down a road,

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right, he was gonna sell.
And now he said he never wanted to

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sell the team. It's it's it's
just if a long line of like confusing,

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head scratching controversies and you know,
chaos is just is come to define

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this franchise. And I mean,
for as much as they want to sell,

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you know, and they have good
young players, right, they have

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players that are worth pay money to
see they can be good. You could

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look at their roster and say,
man, there is a foundation there,

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and I do believe that. But
the and that's why I think this makes

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why it makes this whole thing so
much more frustrating, because there is a

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team there that if they invested in
big free agents, they invested in player

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development, if they invested, you
know, in scouting and facilities and in

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all the things that make a franchise
in the modern day era of baseball.

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Good, then there's no reason why
the Angels can't be a championship contender,

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be just as good as the Dodgers
be, you know, a big market

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franchise that compete every single year.
There's no reason. The only reason that

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it doesn't happen is because they do
not invest in the areas they need to,

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like every other, you know,
competent franchise tends to do. So

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it's like, yeah, why is
he not? Why why did you right?

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He's going back and forth like it's
it's confusing. It's I think the

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fan and the fans, you know, they have no idea what's happening.

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They're always just kind of you know, contemplating and trying to figure out what

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he's thinking, what he's doing.
And so at least he came out and

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said something. I'll give him credit
for that, but uh, at the

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end of the day's there's no real
explanation as to where they're going from here

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or how they're going to end up
ever become a championship for sending team.

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All right, Sam Blum of the
Athletic is with us. So so Sam,

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Sam, like we we just covered
a week and a half ago,

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two weeks ago, Dodger Big Dodger
fan Fest. It was crazy. It

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was wild. Yes, yeah,
you know you saw it. So what

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what is Ardie Morano? What does
he tell the Angel fan base? You

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just don't even do it. They
don't even do a fan fest, right,

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like, you know, it's what
do you tell the base? I

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mean, honestly, what he told
death in that story was I thought it

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was fairly interesting that he basically said
they're going to cut payroll, uh,

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just because you're not going to spend
money just for the sake of sending it.

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I mean, listen, I don't
necessarily think they need to go out

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and get a Bellinger or a or
you know, a Snell or a superstar

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player. They need to do is
to develop their players and and put together,

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you know, a competent foundation of
success. I mean that's everybody focuses

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on the you know, on the
free agents. I think that is the

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least of their concerns. It's just
it's a band aid. If they were

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to get a Snell or a Bellinger, maybe they'd win and get a couple

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of extra games. I don't I
don't know if think it puts them over

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the top. I really don't.
And so what do you tell the fans?

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I mean, I think you I
don't think he really I mean my

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read on it is is I think
he cares about you know, having drawing

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attendance and and and you know,
putting together you know, a form all

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game day experience. What it doesn't
care about putting together a championship contender.

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I had on I don't I yet
to see evidence of it. Uh,

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just just my assessment of this.
I mean, this is in order to

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really care about the fan base that
you have to project a vision for what

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it actually will take. And they
don't do that here. I mean they

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just you know, like his whole
explanation for not selling at the deadline and

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trading Otani was basically, well,
the fans they you know, they come

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to the ball games and they want
to see a superstar, and you know

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we had Otani boths like great.
You know, fans really want they want

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to see a winning team. They
don't want they don't know Otani's great.

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Everybody loves to see Otani, but
they want to see winners. You know,

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if you traded Otani the deadline and
made a tough choice, a choice

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that I think any smart baseball operations
executive would want to make Yeah. I

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mean, they've probably been a lot
better position right now. So it's but

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they're not right. They trade.
In fact, they traded away some of

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their best prospects, their two best
prospects of the White Sox, for players

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that they ended up, you know, putting on waivers a month later.

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So that being said, when you
look at the roster this year, I

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mean, realistically, and the guy's
not going to invest any more money,

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what kind of season can they have? Yeah? I would say this every

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year, Like I think if you, if you squit hard enough at the

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Angels roster every single year, you
could look and you can pick out Okay,

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there's the pathways to them being good. After the last season, I

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told myself, I'm never going to
project the Angels to be a winning team

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until they prove they can do it. So I mean, I'm not gonna

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do that. I'm not gonna sit
here and tell you I think they're gonna

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be good. To fight to predict
something, I'd probably predict somewhere in the

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range of seventy five to eighty wins. Even that is probably optimistic, and

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at the end of the day.
I mean, like you said, they

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won seventy three games last year,
and then they lost a player that,

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you know, the greatest player in
the sport, who is basically worth nine

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wins according to fan Grafts or Baseball
Reference or whatever. So I mean,

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at that point, I mean,
you're you're you're losing some good players and

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you're not adding enough. I mean, I think their bullpen they've done They've

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done some good work to building a
bullpen in this offseason, but they haven't

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really done anything else. You know, you're banking on guys who often get

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hurt, stinks healthy the whole year, like Rendo and and Trout and even

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some of the fringe guys and some
of the rotation pieces that you're just hoping

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have a bounce back season after a
really bad year last year. So they've

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won seventy three games two years in
a row and haven't had a winning seasons

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in twenty fifteen in fifteen years.
So at the end of the day,

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I mean, it's hard to predict
that they're going to be anything other than

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a you know, a below five
hundred club for the for the for a

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full decade now, and then to
add on top of that. How difficult

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is it going to be when you
look up the road and all of the

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excitement, all of the eyeballs are
on the Dodgers and what they're doing every

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single night. I mean, that's
got to be with the guy with the

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player you had. Yeah, yeah, I mean, listen, I think

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the Angels, I think I'm it's
like an Angels fans. I think the

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Angels like to at least already likes
to view himself and likes to view his

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team as being a rival to the
Dodgers. And and that's partly why they're

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called the Los Angeles Angels. For
some reason. The Angels are not rivals

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with the Dodgers, right. The
Dodgers have won ten and of eleven division

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titles. You know, they they've
had some struggles in the postseason, but

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at the end of the day,
they're getting there every year. They're putting

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themselves in position, they're developing players, they're running a completely competent operation from

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top to bottom, with full well, fully staffed departments and everything that you

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know a contending team needs in order
to be good. That's why Otani went

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there, if I had to guess, right, like, that's why he

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went there. I mean it's not
it's teven hundred million dollars is great,

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But and then the other thing is
why is already not willing to pay the

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deferred money at this point? I
mean, that's it's to me, it's

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there's there's just there's no there was
no thinking head. There is no you

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know, plotting or planning, and
yeah, it's gonna be painful. I

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think for Angels fans to see what
the Dodgers do, and you know,

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who knows baseball is a weird game
and anything can happen, anything can go

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one way, break one way or
the other, and you know, own

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be there with much shocking thing on
the planet if the Dodgers aren't as great

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as everyone says and Angels aren't as
bad as everyone says. But I think

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for right now, in terms of
the excitement, and I think in terms

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of the overall just blueprint for how
teams get built, the Didgors are a

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million times ahead of where the angles
are and Signy really close. You know.

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The thing I just can't get past
Sam, the thing I just can't.

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We're not gonna trade outon We're gonna
hold on to him. That's what

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we're gonna do Okay, great,
and then they get the last chance.

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All right, this is it.
Are you guys in? Here's the number?

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No, we're not in. How
can you say no? How can

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you say we're not in? If
you didn't trade him, why would you

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hold on to somebody and then not
sign him again? That's the thing I

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cannot figure out. And he's given
you and he's given you a team friendly

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deal exactly. That's the thing I
don't get. It's like and I mean,

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the one time I did get to
talk to already on the record was

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last spring, and I literally asked
him and I said, would you be

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willing to go over the luxury tax? Would you be willing to make the

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competitive offer that it will take to
retain o Tell? And he said yes,

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And you know that was that was
a pretty strong, forceful answer.

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And then it came time to actually
do it, to actually pay him,

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and they and Otani's agent Nesbiela,
Uh, you know, I asked this

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after a Toni's press conference, if
you know, if they if it came

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down to money, and it basically
did. Mean at the end of the

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day, they went back to the
Angels to to after the Dodgor's offer,

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they went back to them. I
don't know if Atani would have ever signed

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with the Angels or not, but
at the very least they were they were

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willing to engage them in a in
a you know, in a negotiation.

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It sounded like and the and the
Angels were like, no, we're not

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They just don't want to do the
deferred money. It sounds it sounds like

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and I just to me, it's
this is what it takes to retain the

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superstar. So I totally agree with
what you said. If you're not going

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to do that, and that's reasonable. If you don't want to pay seven

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hundred million dollars, you don't want
to do the deferred money, you don't

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want to do what it takes,
then you have to trade him because you

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have to be able to not let
him walk for nothing. And that is

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exactly what happened here. They let
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only that man had him on their
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season when he was hurt, which
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for that part, but all you
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could have seen it coming to some
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was not going to pan out the
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a tough spot, being just three
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so I think it's justifiable that they
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But at the end of the day, I mean they made They've made wrong

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moves every step of the way in
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deadline last year was the deadline before. It was the last offseason. It

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was a miss offseason. There's just
it's just a lot of missteps. And

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this is where this is where it
got him said. He's on there.

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You know, he's playing in their
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are sitting here, you know,
with with a team that could really use

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a couple of really good players.
Sam. We appreciate you coming on always

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great Thanks man, of course anytime. Guys, I appreciate having me all

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right, Sam Blemo the athletic.
Yeah, that's ahead scratcher that it just

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that, you know what, for
as long as we do the show together,

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I will never figure that out.
We're not moving this guy because he

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is the team and you better believe
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well you didn't trade him. You
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have got those pieces. Every By
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so nobody has to listen to us. But universally everybody said trade him.

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All right, you didn't do it. Here we go. It's your chance.

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Right now. Are you in or
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be out. You can't be out, you just can't. That will go

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down into one of our most confounding
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Los Angeles sports. Seriously, and
I've been here a long time, just

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one of the most confounding decisions.
That's probably now that I think nothing for

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you know what, that might be
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list. And when you talk about
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and I think most people acknowledge it
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all right, you know, and
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think of the confounding blunders in LA
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When we come back, Vick will have

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spirituality. Oh my god, Oh
my goodness. Yes, Rogan will see

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you again. Oh that was good, Ronnie, that's a good one.

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You know who can sing this?
Just keep this queued up, Ronnie,

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just keep this queued up because I
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or just friends. Uh, let's
let's bring Vic on with spirituality, the

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daily haikup, and then let's take
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nail it. So here he comes, Vic the brick and Vic, good

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afternoon. Go get him, big, Go get him. Oh yeah,

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Vicky, you know this, Ronnie
turned out? When will I see again?

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You're at the wrong point. That's
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friends? Vic? That's the question. Is this the beginning? Where is

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this the beginning? Or is this
the end? Vic? It's the beginning.

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It's the beginning of a beautiful thing. Will I see you again?

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You again? When will I see
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see you again? You get it? Get it? Oh that's beautiful.

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It's really a love song. Yeah, and there's still plenty of love after

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Valentine's Day, Fred Rogan, Hello, Vic, A big smooch to you.

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Thank you, Fred. When when
I see you again? How's the

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desert? Everything good in the desert. Big things are fine, everything's great.

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Thank you. You know I was
with Rodney yesterday. We were together.

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Where did iHeart? I know it's
very odd, unique and singular.

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Yes, yes, Vick, Yes, well he is love twenty four to

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seven. He is Rodney Pete and
his love Allah Captain and to Neil,

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We'll keep us together. Do that
to one can never get in. Come

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on now, Oh I said,
you can love some captain in Toil.

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Uh huh remember Captain and to Neil
on Soul train. That was freaky,

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but I loved it. They had
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Yeah they did. Don King knew
the Great Don king Don like Don Cornelias.

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I was about to say, Don
King, I miss something? Did

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I miss something with the captain?
I was so enthralled with captain to deal.

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The Great Don Cornelius the Don King
thesaurus. You ever see the Don

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King thesaurus? I haven't seen,
though it's ever growing, I'm sure.

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Now, can you pull that up
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see if it exists on YouTube.
We did a bit. It had to

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be geez, what thirty five years
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Don King Thesaurus. Yeah, it
says all credit goes to Fred Rogan in

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the Hall of Shame. Let me
cue this up. Yeah, you got

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to hear Don King thesaurus because that
was funny. Don King's hair, of

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course is legendary. And I remember
he had a condo on Wilship Boulevard many

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years ago. I'm not sure if
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it. We did an interview with
Don and I said, Don, I've

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got to just touch your hair please. Your hair is such energy vic of

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course you could touch my hair.
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I said, okay, Don,
I'm going in. I'm gonna I'm

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gonna touch your hair. You know. We hare the TV cameras rolling and

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I felt Don's hair. There was
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I mean the way it stood straight
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Then you grabbed it and made it
your beard. Well, I didn't go

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that far, but I felt an
amazing energy, an amazing surge from from

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Don's hair. Hey, Vik,
you want to hear the Don King posaurus?

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I'd love that. Go ahead,
Yeah, But the chemistry here of

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Bob, Aaron and I coming together
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it is unsurpassed in the imagine this
world. Now you can be a

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master of the King's English. That's
right, Don King's English, because for

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a limited times you can articulate extemporaneously. Put the davelof there on that I'm

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the president, Don King. How
about the you can find ways and means

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to circumvent abiding matther law, and
it would be uphill anywhere in his country

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he has the don kings of Saurus
can turn you into an earl of alliteration,

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a duke of discourse, a veritable
vice roy ebrivasity, Jesus says again

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and scored a cootie of top.
You need a word for dear, fear

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not Don King might say disquietude,
apprehensivity, anxietasity. Need a word for

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outbursts? How about paroxism, convulsification. I'll might one make an inquisition regarding

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the acquisition of this voluminous treasury of
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to Serrus. Simply assimilate and absorb
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your video presentation unit. We're sorry, inquiries from English teachers cannot be accepted.

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The don Kings of Saurus acquire one
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law. And then don't you ever
forget it? Don't you ever forget?

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This is a great country. Brilliant, that's great. Fred is all brilliant.

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The only thing missing is from k
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call it from fred coo fred co
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I just laughed listening to that.
God that was. That is a

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brilliant, brilliant bit. Well,
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Now, his command of the English
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only in his realm. It's command
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It's wonderful, really is. It's
it's incredible talent. And when I

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talk good loving and I asked my
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he said good loving. It's Roddy
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Y'all. Come on now, you
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half wins for the Dodgers as the
vegas projection over or under. But let's

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face it, it's all about the
Dodgers camel back ranch. It has never

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been like this, The electricity,
the buzz is really it's so off the

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hook with Otani sign you have a
Moto sogn you're glass now and all all

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the the fresh talent to go along
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for all these years. So what's
over one hundred Japanese media members and of

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course every moment of Otani sign you
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But I love what Dave Roberts said. I just loved it, and

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it's so true when the first full
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with the mantra, embrace the idea
that people are coming after us, and

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to paraphrase the sense, embrace the
idea that people are coming after us.

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In other words, leave your front
door and confront ten thousand enemies because everybody

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wants a piece of the azul got
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total those notice and just to keep
it claro. Embrace the moment, Fellas,

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flip it, twist it and reverse
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would sing. I mean they are
ready, they are ready to rock.

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If any team can embrace this kind
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It's the Dodgers, so it's still
early, is of course spring training,

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but what a great vibration coming out
of come back rage. No,

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yeah, it's reverberating throughout the country. It is throughout the baseball worldfread yeah.

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I mean to imagine what's going on
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your son is living in Japan.
I know he's Yeah, he must

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be giving you some some reports.
What's going on in the vibe is crazy,

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Vick. They already he was already
a god over there, but the

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fact that he's wearing the blue people
are going nuts. There's not a day

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goes by. There's not an o
Tani report reference to Otani. He's on

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billboards all over the city of Tokyo
and all over the country. It is

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just a mad mad love affair bigger
than it ever was before, simply because

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he moved forty miles north and wearing
the blue and looks so good in the

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Dodger uniform, doesn't it. Just
Yeah, I mean he's a he's a

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he's a large dude man. Remember
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think he is. He's much bigger. Just a wonderful sight to see in

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a Dodger uniform and again signs limited
interviews is really no big deal. You

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know, as it's pointed out,
the Dodgers have to make one day a

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week o Tani Day where he could
spend time with the press. Well,

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it kind of is a big deal, VIC, because everybody's answering questions for

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him now exactly, So you have
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plan for Otoni Son, you know, once a week it's all you need.

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No, Vic, people are asking
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Oh, I understand that. I
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atony Son had one day a week
specifically where he would speak. I don't

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think it'll dissipate at all. Well, the excitement will be there obviously twenty

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four to seven. But you can't
expect a tiny son every day to hold

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court. I mean it's possible he
might talk more. I mean he had

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that policy that he put an institute
it for himself with the Angels, But

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the reporting I've seen it really hasn't
been reported one way or the other.

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How often he will or won't speak
to the Dodger media or to the daily

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media that covers the Dodgers. If
I played for a terrible team with the

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Angels, I only want to talk
once a week two, So that could

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be part of it. What do
you want me to say? We suck

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yesterday, we suck today, we
go suck tomorrow, but damn it,

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I play my best. Well you
want the guy to say so, Kevin

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Oh, being honest? Okay,
Fike, I feel your pay No.

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As an Angel fan, I understand
what you're going through. This is this

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is a rough spring training, first
time in seven years without O Tony Son

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in ten p at Diablo, and
suddenly you're just dealing with rebuilding basically and

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reloading, well not even reloading,
just rebuilding. I mean the Angels haven't

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reloaded in fifteen years. Yeah,
so I understand your frustration and all Angels

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fans frustration. I mean, it's
basically troudy and pray that Rendon doesn't doesn't

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get injured. Again. They're not
quite the Oakland A's, but it sure

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seems that way, not that far
off. It's so insane because there's still

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talent in the free agency market just
out there that would immediately help them.

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Yeah, but Addie Moreno said he's
cutting the payroll. They're not just going

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to spend money to spend it,
Vic. But they need pitching. I

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mean, but they've needed pitching for
it for you know, for a decade

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and a half. All right,
Yeah, you'll have to continue. We

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need to hear about the pitching they
need, and we'll get to that and

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the high coups. We continue,
and book Vick knows this one too.

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Hey, Roddy p Fred Rogan Vic
the brick Jacobs come on now, you

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know, and boogie, Yeah,
turn it up, Ronnie, let him

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go boogie won the land. Oh
come on, that's not the one,

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Okay, come on, Vick,
boogie, boogie, oogie, y'all.

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Boogie that might be the wrong one. Get up in boogie y'all. Well

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you know who's getting up and boogieing
at at the Riviera today. Yeah,

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you're a man Tiger Woods. Tiger
Woods. He's the host of the tournament,

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and you've mentioned for the past two
days, what an uh an awesome

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responsibility that is. I mean,
my god, every morning he has to

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serve everybody breakfast as the host of
the tournament. I think he actually prepares

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meals for the entire field and then
he plays as the host. It's an

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awesome responsibility, big And he's also
caddying for Patrick Cantley. I mean,

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there's a lot going. He's multitasking
Fred. Through sixteen holes, Tiger Woods

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is won over at the Genesis Invitational
today. Got off to a great start

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with a birdie and a couple of
bogies and basically back and forth over paw

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level par under paw and now he's
won over through sixteen holes. Here's about

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nine shots back of Cantley, the
former brut but the beautiful weather, Pacific

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Palisades, sensational terment and Tiger went
over and fellas briefly and pain and anguish

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and angst for all angel fans again
you mentioned it are these staying pat He's

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not going to pay for more free
agents, so good luck, good look

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in Anaheim and you know again,
hopefully Ren Dollan stays healthy. Lakers sensational

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run. Remember Hatchie morris On with
the career high thirty six and bliss out

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on the brow. Anthony Davis,
again playing at an MVP level, had

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thirty five. First time in twenty
years since Shaq and Kobe, Kobe and

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Shaq, that two Lakers score over
thirty five in Utah. I found that

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pretty amazing. It is amazing because
history dictates the Jazz rise up and beat

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the Lakers in Utah, and the
Lakers don't play well in sold Lake City.

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You know there's no tranquility at the
tabernacle. But last night listened to

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oh wait wait wait, wait,
wait wait wait wait, time out,

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there's no tranquility. He thought he'd
stake that one in. Yeah, you're

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riding off of that Don King vibe
from last segment there. I'm inspired by

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Don King. No tranquility at the
tabert that one from you, Vic,

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Yeah, that's a good absolutely Listen, it was a fabulous run again.

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Kudo's Hachi Morrison. But how about
d'angela Russell career high seventeen assists. I'm

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the balls moving around, man.
How can we don't call hi D'Angelo russell

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Son. No, boy, it's
not Japanese for it. Come on,

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fred Hevic, can I tell you
something? Of course? Elevate your wing

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Merito's chicken wings, hot seasoning, Chapotle

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your wings with Chef Meurrito at Bayarta
today. The chef is you, that's

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right. Tell you what? They
got some spices over there, Vic,

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that's Chef Merito. I've had them. No, that's station. I have

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a Vata supermarket right down the block
for me. That's why that's where I

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go. Do you have a Valarta
supermarket as well? Vyota supermarket right down

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the block? I know, but
there isn't there also a Blerta. I

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don't believe there is, Frett,
no Yota. What are you doing for

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it? Jeez? Are you guys
just loving Spencer Dinwitty? Last night?

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We were in love with him two
games? Yeah, I know it's a

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small sample size, but already he's
he's contributing scoring, and he's feel he's

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feeling the flow of the Lakers.
Already I'm very very happy with Spencer dinwitdy

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Well, yeah, for two games. Let's give it a little time.

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He's got to be good, but
let's just give it a little time.

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Vick. Well, they've won six
or seven, sixteen of twenty one,

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thirty and twenty six coming into the
All Star break and they're balling for de

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Hammond. They're kicking tokus and having
fun. I mean, did you guys

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see how Chimura and then with he
partying on the bench last night in Salt

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Lake City? That is rare stuff, y'all is rare? Is it rare?

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On partying on a bench in Salt
Lake Yes? In victory? Absolutely?

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You mean a park bench? Otherwise
why would it be rare? Yeah,

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people don't see the lake or bench. Fred, Guys celebrating and being

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happy that they're winning, going to
blowout in an NBA game, I feel

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like that's not Salt Lake City.
No, why you're not. You're not

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allowed to celebrate in Salt Lake City. They don't do it much. Fred.

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Over the years, how many times
have the Lakers blown out the jests?

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You can count them on one on
one hand. Are you saying Lakers

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don't celebrate? Are you just saying
people don't I'm saying the Lakers don't beat

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Utah much in Utah. To blow
them out was what was? Uh?

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Who's worthy of having some fun?
I thought there was a rule against that

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that That's what I took from it. Mm hmm, Well there's no rule

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against it. Fair but if you
could, if you can crush a Utah

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team in their own house in Salt
Lake, you deserve to celebrate. And

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the Lakers did. I was happy
to see that. But how about the

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Clippers with no Kawhi forty four points
in the fourth quarter. Listen special love

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to Norman Powell. On Saturday,
Norman was bleeding profusely on the Crypto dot

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Com floor against Detroit, got some
stitches, got really a vicious elbow to

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the head, and Norman is back
a couple of days later, scoring twenty

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one points up in San Francisco last
night, leading the charge in the fourth

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quarter. Give it up for Norman
Powell, former bruin. Norman. You

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moved me, m Norman moved you? Yes, go ahead, Norman.

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So the Clippers are now thirty six
and seventeen, fellas number three in the

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West going into the All Star break, and that was a feisty game.

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How about t Lou getting thrown out
of the game last night? Yeah,

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very physical man. I'm glad Plumbley's
on my squad. I dig Plumbly,

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He's aggressive. All love his size. You go Plumbly, Mason Plumby,

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Man, know what he loves more
than anything, Mason Plumbly, don't say

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it. Don't you like to go
to the He wants to go to the

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source. Friend, gotta do it. Well, this is all about those

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beautiful bald eagles. Fred w.
Loking so much emotion up in Big Bear

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one hundred and forty five feet above
Big Bear Mountain. This is who wrote

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I wrote the high coop for the
for the eagles. Fred, all right,

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I'm not talking Don Henley and Timothy
B. Schmanton Joe Walsh. No,

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I'm talking about the bald eagles.
Yes, go something like this is

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high coop for you. On this
Thursday, February the fifteenth, Jackie and

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Shadow bonding bald eagles tending to their
eggs high above Big Bear, and the

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world is watching. I'm feeling you
for the bald Eagles, y'all. Y'all

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hope someone passes that along to Jackie
in shadow because I know they'll appreciate it.

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Yeah they are, Yeah they are. Yeah, all right, Rony

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wad Job the Bald Eagles. Yeah, well, somebody had to pay tribute

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to him and fix the guy.
Absolutely, all right, Kevin, thank

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you, and Rodney. We rub
up the week tomorrow right home,