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and let's start this hour with Sam Blum from The Athletic and Sam, thanks
for jumping on, Thanks for having me. All right, let's get into
the Angels. I know Aider Moreno had an exclusive interview with the OC News
Group yesterday, the Southern California News Group, but he basically said he was
never going to sell the team. Now, Sam, you reported on this.
Do you believe that? I mean, it's yeah, I mean,
first off, I mean this exclusive interview. I think it's interesting. You
know, we're all there and he goes and hand picks the reporter, and
it's it is clear he wants to control his message and control who's asking questions
to some extent, and you know, kind of how it goes how it
all goes down. I think, do I think he's gonna sell the team?
No, I mean, he made that fairly clear, and I got
to ask him that directly too, and and you know, he said he's
not selling, and I tend to believe that, and I'm pretty sure that's
why he wanted to speak yesterday to the extent that he did. He wanted.
There's been a lot of speculation, you know, just kind of in
the ether, that that he would be interested possibly in selling after last year
and after the you know, Otani's departure, and I kind of all the
chaos that's really continued to surround this team in the last year since he decided
he was going to take the team off the market. And so I think
at this point, you know, he's made it clear. I mean,
he wants to stay there for the long term. And I believe he told
Jeff and he told the Redister that you know, if there was a ridiculous
offer that came along, maybe would you know, change his mind. You
know, he's a businessman and so yeah, like I guess a great offer
could possibly you know, he changed the calculus for him, but at this
point, I don't think he's selling, and you know, puts the Angels
in a difficult position because you know, his ownership over the last two decades
has not led to fruitful results, and if anything, it's they're going in
the opposite direction. And you know, as you mentioned, you know we
grew up today. A lot of this is detailing all the uncertainties that confuse
around the Angels long term, and with Ray Moreno in charge, I don't
necessarily think those questions are going to be answered soon or at all. See,
Sam, That's exactly why he didn't pick you to do the interview,
because if you had asked him, as he's selling the team and he said
no, you would have followed up with well, why the hell not?
Then if you would have responded, you would have followed up with yeah,
but in the last two decades it's been awful. Why would you put people
through that? See, that's what you would have said, Sam, And
that's why he didn't pick you for the interview. I tend to I gonna
want to give myself with trouble here. So I appreciate your comments and I
like it, Sam, I like it. But Saam, come on,
Sam, he was never gonna sell the team when he but he took bids
and he took in and people were talking about who's the guy the group,
the guy was gonna buy the I mean, it went down a road,
right, he was gonna sell. And now he said he never wanted to
sell the team. It's it's it's just if a long line of like confusing,
head scratching controversies and you know, chaos is just is come to define
this franchise. And I mean, for as much as they want to sell,
you know, and they have good young players, right, they have
players that are worth pay money to see they can be good. You could
look at their roster and say, man, there is a foundation there,
and I do believe that. But the and that's why I think this makes
why it makes this whole thing so much more frustrating, because there is a
team there that if they invested in big free agents, they invested in player
development, if they invested, you know, in scouting and facilities and in
all the things that make a franchise in the modern day era of baseball.
Good, then there's no reason why the Angels can't be a championship contender,
be just as good as the Dodgers be, you know, a big market
franchise that compete every single year. There's no reason. The only reason that
it doesn't happen is because they do not invest in the areas they need to,
like every other, you know, competent franchise tends to do. So
it's like, yeah, why is he not? Why why did you right?
He's going back and forth like it's it's confusing. It's I think the
fan and the fans, you know, they have no idea what's happening.
They're always just kind of you know, contemplating and trying to figure out what
he's thinking, what he's doing. And so at least he came out and
said something. I'll give him credit for that, but uh, at the
end of the day's there's no real explanation as to where they're going from here
or how they're going to end up ever become a championship for sending team.
All right, Sam Blum of the Athletic is with us. So so Sam,
Sam, like we we just covered a week and a half ago,
two weeks ago, Dodger Big Dodger fan Fest. It was crazy. It
was wild. Yes, yeah, you know you saw it. So what
what is Ardie Morano? What does he tell the Angel fan base? You
just don't even do it. They don't even do a fan fest, right,
like, you know, it's what do you tell the base? I
mean, honestly, what he told death in that story was I thought it
was fairly interesting that he basically said they're going to cut payroll, uh,
just because you're not going to spend money just for the sake of sending it.
I mean, listen, I don't necessarily think they need to go out
and get a Bellinger or a or you know, a Snell or a superstar
player. They need to do is to develop their players and and put together,
you know, a competent foundation of success. I mean that's everybody focuses
on the you know, on the free agents. I think that is the
least of their concerns. It's just it's a band aid. If they were
to get a Snell or a Bellinger, maybe they'd win and get a couple
of extra games. I don't I don't know if think it puts them over
the top. I really don't. And so what do you tell the fans?
I mean, I think you I don't think he really I mean my
read on it is is I think he cares about you know, having drawing
attendance and and and you know, putting together you know, a form all
game day experience. What it doesn't care about putting together a championship contender.
I had on I don't I yet to see evidence of it. Uh,
just just my assessment of this. I mean, this is in order to
really care about the fan base that you have to project a vision for what
it actually will take. And they don't do that here. I mean they
just you know, like his whole explanation for not selling at the deadline and
trading Otani was basically, well, the fans they you know, they come
to the ball games and they want to see a superstar, and you know
we had Otani boths like great. You know, fans really want they want
to see a winning team. They don't want they don't know Otani's great.
Everybody loves to see Otani, but they want to see winners. You know,
if you traded Otani the deadline and made a tough choice, a choice
that I think any smart baseball operations executive would want to make Yeah. I
mean, they've probably been a lot better position right now. So it's but
they're not right. They trade. In fact, they traded away some of
their best prospects, their two best prospects of the White Sox, for players
that they ended up, you know, putting on waivers a month later.
So that being said, when you look at the roster this year, I
mean, realistically, and the guy's not going to invest any more money,
what kind of season can they have? Yeah? I would say this every
year, Like I think if you, if you squit hard enough at the
Angels roster every single year, you could look and you can pick out Okay,
there's the pathways to them being good. After the last season, I
told myself, I'm never going to project the Angels to be a winning team
until they prove they can do it. So I mean, I'm not gonna
do that. I'm not gonna sit here and tell you I think they're gonna
be good. To fight to predict something, I'd probably predict somewhere in the
range of seventy five to eighty wins. Even that is probably optimistic, and
at the end of the day. I mean, like you said, they
won seventy three games last year, and then they lost a player that,
you know, the greatest player in the sport, who is basically worth nine
wins according to fan Grafts or Baseball Reference or whatever. So I mean,
at that point, I mean, you're you're you're losing some good players and
you're not adding enough. I mean, I think their bullpen they've done They've
done some good work to building a bullpen in this offseason, but they haven't
really done anything else. You know, you're banking on guys who often get
hurt, stinks healthy the whole year, like Rendo and and Trout and even
some of the fringe guys and some of the rotation pieces that you're just hoping
have a bounce back season after a really bad year last year. So they've
won seventy three games two years in a row and haven't had a winning seasons
in twenty fifteen in fifteen years. So at the end of the day,
I mean, it's hard to predict that they're going to be anything other than
a you know, a below five hundred club for the for the for a
full decade now, and then to add on top of that. How difficult
is it going to be when you look up the road and all of the
excitement, all of the eyeballs are on the Dodgers and what they're doing every
single night. I mean, that's got to be with the guy with the
player you had. Yeah, yeah, I mean, listen, I think
the Angels, I think I'm it's like an Angels fans. I think the
Angels like to at least already likes to view himself and likes to view his
team as being a rival to the Dodgers. And and that's partly why they're
called the Los Angeles Angels. For some reason. The Angels are not rivals
with the Dodgers, right. The Dodgers have won ten and of eleven division
titles. You know, they they've had some struggles in the postseason, but
at the end of the day, they're getting there every year. They're putting
themselves in position, they're developing players, they're running a completely competent operation from
top to bottom, with full well, fully staffed departments and everything that you
know a contending team needs in order to be good. That's why Otani went
there, if I had to guess, right, like, that's why he
went there. I mean it's not it's teven hundred million dollars is great,
But and then the other thing is why is already not willing to pay the
deferred money at this point? I mean, that's it's to me, it's
there's there's just there's no there was no thinking head. There is no you
know, plotting or planning, and yeah, it's gonna be painful. I
think for Angels fans to see what the Dodgers do, and you know,
who knows baseball is a weird game and anything can happen, anything can go
one way, break one way or the other, and you know, own
be there with much shocking thing on the planet if the Dodgers aren't as great
as everyone says and Angels aren't as bad as everyone says. But I think
for right now, in terms of the excitement, and I think in terms
of the overall just blueprint for how teams get built, the Didgors are a
million times ahead of where the angles are and Signy really close. You know.
The thing I just can't get past Sam, the thing I just can't.
We're not gonna trade outon We're gonna hold on to him. That's what
we're gonna do Okay, great, and then they get the last chance.
All right, this is it. Are you guys in? Here's the number?
No, we're not in. How can you say no? How can
you say we're not in? If you didn't trade him, why would you
hold on to somebody and then not sign him again? That's the thing I
cannot figure out. And he's given you and he's given you a team friendly
deal exactly. That's the thing I don't get. It's like and I mean,
the one time I did get to talk to already on the record was
last spring, and I literally asked him and I said, would you be
willing to go over the luxury tax? Would you be willing to make the
competitive offer that it will take to retain o Tell? And he said yes,
And you know that was that was a pretty strong, forceful answer.
And then it came time to actually do it, to actually pay him,
and they and Otani's agent Nesbiela, Uh, you know, I asked this
after a Toni's press conference, if you know, if they if it came
down to money, and it basically did. Mean at the end of the
day, they went back to the Angels to to after the Dodgor's offer,
they went back to them. I don't know if Atani would have ever signed
with the Angels or not, but at the very least they were they were
willing to engage them in a in a you know, in a negotiation.
It sounded like and the and the Angels were like, no, we're not
They just don't want to do the deferred money. It sounds it sounds like
and I just to me, it's this is what it takes to retain the
superstar. So I totally agree with what you said. If you're not going
to do that, and that's reasonable. If you don't want to pay seven
hundred million dollars, you don't want to do the deferred money, you don't
want to do what it takes, then you have to trade him because you
have to be able to not let him walk for nothing. And that is
exactly what happened here. They let a superstar walk for nothing, and not
only that man had him on their roster for the last two months of the
season when he was hurt, which I mean, you can't blame the answers
for that part, but all you can do is is you know, you
could have seen it coming to some extent that that. It was just it
was not going to pan out the way they wanted. The Angles were in
a tough spot, being just three games out of a playoff spot last year,
so I think it's justifiable that they you know, didn't trade him.
But at the end of the day, I mean they made They've made wrong
moves every step of the way in this process. And it wasn't justed to
deadline last year was the deadline before. It was the last offseason. It
was a miss offseason. There's just it's just a lot of missteps. And
this is where this is where it got him said. He's on there.
You know, he's playing in their market for the Dodgers, and the Angels
are sitting here, you know, with with a team that could really use
a couple of really good players. Sam. We appreciate you coming on always
great Thanks man, of course anytime. Guys, I appreciate having me all
right, Sam Blemo the athletic. Yeah, that's ahead scratcher that it just
that, you know what, for as long as we do the show together,
I will never figure that out. We're not moving this guy because he
is the team and you better believe that he's going to be here. Okay,
well you didn't trade him. You should have traded him. You should
have got those pieces. Every By the way, we don't own it,
so nobody has to listen to us. But universally everybody said trade him.
All right, you didn't do it. Here we go. It's your chance.
Right now. Are you in or out? We're out. You can't
be out. You can't be out, you just can't. That will go
down into one of our most confounding decisions, I think in the history of
Los Angeles sports. Seriously, and I've been here a long time, just
one of the most confounding decisions. That's probably now that I think nothing for
you know what, that might be number one, that might now top the
list. And when you talk about the great sports moments in LA history,
and I think most people acknowledge it was Kirk Gibson's home in the World Series,
all right, you know, and there's so many, But when you
think of the confounding blunders in LA sports history, I think the Angels have
just assumed the mantle and probably will never be surpassed. They they own the
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spirituality. Oh my god, Oh my goodness. Yes, Rogan will see
you again. Oh that was good, Ronnie, that's a good one.
You know who can sing this? Just keep this queued up, Ronnie,
just keep this queued up because I know exactly who'll be able to sing it
or just friends. Uh, let's let's bring Vic on with spirituality, the
daily haikup, and then let's take a crack at this because I know he'll
nail it. So here he comes, Vic the brick and Vic, good
afternoon. Go get him, big, Go get him. Oh yeah,
Vicky, you know this, Ronnie turned out? When will I see again?
You're at the wrong point. That's a great song. Are we just
friends? Vic? That's the question. Is this the beginning? Where is
this the beginning? Or is this the end? Vic? It's the beginning.
It's the beginning of a beautiful thing. Will I see you again?
You again? When will I see you again? Yeah? Where will I
see you again? You get it? Get it? Oh that's beautiful.
It's really a love song. Yeah, and there's still plenty of love after
Valentine's Day, Fred Rogan, Hello, Vic, A big smooch to you.
Thank you, Fred. When when I see you again? How's the
desert? Everything good in the desert. Big things are fine, everything's great.
Thank you. You know I was with Rodney yesterday. We were together.
Where did iHeart? I know it's very odd, unique and singular.
Yes, yes, Vick, Yes, well he is love twenty four to
seven. He is Rodney Pete and his love Allah Captain and to Neil,
We'll keep us together. Do that to one can never get in. Come
on now, Oh I said, you can love some captain in Toil.
Uh huh remember Captain and to Neil on Soul train. That was freaky,
but I loved it. They had a lot of soul Captain and Toil.
Yeah they did. Don King knew the Great Don king Don like Don Cornelias.
I was about to say, Don King, I miss something? Did
I miss something with the captain? I was so enthralled with captain to deal.
The Great Don Cornelius the Don King thesaurus. You ever see the Don
King thesaurus? I haven't seen, though it's ever growing, I'm sure.
Now, can you pull that up on YouTube? Type in Don King thesaurus
see if it exists on YouTube. We did a bit. It had to
be geez, what thirty five years ago? Maybe longer? I thought,
Don King Thesaurus. Yeah, it says all credit goes to Fred Rogan in
the Hall of Shame. Let me cue this up. Yeah, you got
to hear Don King thesaurus because that was funny. Don King's hair, of
course is legendary. And I remember he had a condo on Wilship Boulevard many
years ago. I'm not sure if he still has it. And we did
it. We did an interview with Don and I said, Don, I've
got to just touch your hair please. Your hair is such energy vic of
course you could touch my hair. Yeah, so I talked, you know,
I said, okay, Don, I'm going in. I'm gonna I'm
gonna touch your hair. You know. We hare the TV cameras rolling and
I felt Don's hair. There was there was an amazing energy to his hair.
I mean the way it stood straight up. It was so beautiful.
Then you grabbed it and made it your beard. Well, I didn't go
that far, but I felt an amazing energy, an amazing surge from from
Don's hair. Hey, Vik, you want to hear the Don King posaurus?
I'd love that. Go ahead, Yeah, But the chemistry here of
Bob, Aaron and I coming together to work in unanimity, friendship and zeo,
it is unsurpassed in the imagine this world. Now you can be a
master of the King's English. That's right, Don King's English, because for
a limited times you can articulate extemporaneously. Put the davelof there on that I'm
the president, Don King. How about the you can find ways and means
to circumvent abiding matther law, and it would be uphill anywhere in his country
he has the don kings of Saurus can turn you into an earl of alliteration,
a duke of discourse, a veritable vice roy ebrivasity, Jesus says again
and scored a cootie of top. You need a word for dear, fear
not Don King might say disquietude, apprehensivity, anxietasity. Need a word for
outbursts? How about paroxism, convulsification. I'll might one make an inquisition regarding
the acquisition of this voluminous treasury of treacle. I'll kind of get dun King
to Serrus. Simply assimilate and absorb the information now being presented to you on
your video presentation unit. We're sorry, inquiries from English teachers cannot be accepted.
The don Kings of Saurus acquire one fourth wily not available were prohibited by
law. And then don't you ever forget it? Don't you ever forget?
This is a great country. Brilliant, that's great. Fred is all brilliant.
The only thing missing is from k tail Oh god, we used to
call it from fred coo fred co Oh yeah, oh god, that was.
I just laughed listening to that. God that was. That is a
brilliant, brilliant bit. Well, thanks to Don King for making that happen.
Now, his command of the English language is untenable, unreachable. It's
only in his realm. It's command of the language. And so it's real.
It's wonderful, really is. It's it's incredible talent. And when I
talk good loving and I asked my family doctor just what I had, and
he said good loving. It's Roddy Fossio a prescription for a high coup.
Y'all. Come on now, you guys mentioned one hundred and three and a
half wins for the Dodgers as the vegas projection over or under. But let's
face it, it's all about the Dodgers camel back ranch. It has never
been like this, The electricity, the buzz is really it's so off the
hook with Otani sign you have a Moto sogn you're glass now and all all
the the fresh talent to go along with the incredible foundation that has previously existed
for all these years. So what's over one hundred Japanese media members and of
course every moment of Otani sign you have a motor soign is recorded and chronicled.
But I love what Dave Roberts said. I just loved it, and
it's so true when the first full squad workout came together yesterday and Dave Roberts
with the mantra, embrace the idea that people are coming after us, and
to paraphrase the sense, embrace the idea that people are coming after us.
In other words, leave your front door and confront ten thousand enemies because everybody
wants a piece of the azul got to bring that vital energy total thos ds
total those notice and just to keep it claro. Embrace the moment, Fellas,
flip it, twist it and reverse it, as the fabulous Missy Elliott
would sing. I mean they are ready, they are ready to rock.
If any team can embrace this kind of attention, were on a global level.
It's the Dodgers, so it's still early, is of course spring training,
but what a great vibration coming out of come back rage. No,
yeah, it's reverberating throughout the country. It is throughout the baseball worldfread yeah.
I mean to imagine what's going on in Japan. I know, Roder,
your son is living in Japan. I know he's Yeah, he must
be giving you some some reports. What's going on in the vibe is crazy,
Vick. They already he was already a god over there, but the
fact that he's wearing the blue people are going nuts. There's not a day
goes by. There's not an o Tani report reference to Otani. He's on
billboards all over the city of Tokyo and all over the country. It is
just a mad mad love affair bigger than it ever was before, simply because
he moved forty miles north and wearing the blue and looks so good in the
Dodger uniform, doesn't it. Just Yeah, I mean he's a he's a
he's a large dude man. Remember he said sixty four. Yeah, I
think he is. He's much bigger. Just a wonderful sight to see in
a Dodger uniform and again signs limited interviews is really no big deal. You
know, as it's pointed out, the Dodgers have to make one day a
week o Tani Day where he could spend time with the press. Well,
it kind of is a big deal, VIC, because everybody's answering questions for
him now exactly, So you have to formulate, you know, a game
plan for Otoni Son, you know, once a week it's all you need.
No, Vic, people are asking his teammates questions about him every day.
Oh, I understand that. I think that would that would dissipate if
atony Son had one day a week specifically where he would speak. I don't
think it'll dissipate at all. Well, the excitement will be there obviously twenty
four to seven. But you can't expect a tiny son every day to hold
court. I mean it's possible he might talk more. I mean he had
that policy that he put an institute it for himself with the Angels, But
the reporting I've seen it really hasn't been reported one way or the other.
How often he will or won't speak to the Dodger media or to the daily
media that covers the Dodgers. If I played for a terrible team with the
Angels, I only want to talk once a week two, So that could
be part of it. What do you want me to say? We suck
yesterday, we suck today, we go suck tomorrow, but damn it,
I play my best. Well you want the guy to say so, Kevin
Oh, being honest? Okay, Fike, I feel your pay No.
As an Angel fan, I understand what you're going through. This is this
is a rough spring training, first time in seven years without O Tony Son
in ten p at Diablo, and suddenly you're just dealing with rebuilding basically and
reloading, well not even reloading, just rebuilding. I mean the Angels haven't
reloaded in fifteen years. Yeah, so I understand your frustration and all Angels
fans frustration. I mean, it's basically troudy and pray that Rendon doesn't doesn't
get injured. Again. They're not quite the Oakland A's, but it sure
seems that way, not that far off. It's so insane because there's still
talent in the free agency market just out there that would immediately help them.
Yeah, but Addie Moreno said he's cutting the payroll. They're not just going
to spend money to spend it, Vic. But they need pitching. I
mean, but they've needed pitching for it for you know, for a decade
and a half. All right, Yeah, you'll have to continue. We
need to hear about the pitching they need, and we'll get to that and
the high coups. We continue, and book Vick knows this one too.
Hey, Roddy p Fred Rogan Vic the brick Jacobs come on now, you
know, and boogie, Yeah, turn it up, Ronnie, let him
go boogie won the land. Oh come on, that's not the one,
Okay, come on, Vick, boogie, boogie, oogie, y'all.
Boogie that might be the wrong one. Get up in boogie y'all. Well
you know who's getting up and boogieing at at the Riviera today. Yeah,
you're a man Tiger Woods. Tiger Woods. He's the host of the tournament,
and you've mentioned for the past two days, what an uh an awesome
responsibility that is. I mean, my god, every morning he has to
serve everybody breakfast as the host of the tournament. I think he actually prepares
meals for the entire field and then he plays as the host. It's an
awesome responsibility, big And he's also caddying for Patrick Cantley. I mean,
there's a lot going. He's multitasking Fred. Through sixteen holes, Tiger Woods
is won over at the Genesis Invitational today. Got off to a great start
with a birdie and a couple of bogies and basically back and forth over paw
level par under paw and now he's won over through sixteen holes. Here's about
nine shots back of Cantley, the former brut but the beautiful weather, Pacific
Palisades, sensational terment and Tiger went over and fellas briefly and pain and anguish
and angst for all angel fans again you mentioned it are these staying pat He's
not going to pay for more free agents, so good luck, good look
in Anaheim and you know again, hopefully Ren Dollan stays healthy. Lakers sensational
run. Remember Hatchie morris On with the career high thirty six and bliss out
on the brow. Anthony Davis, again playing at an MVP level, had
thirty five. First time in twenty years since Shaq and Kobe, Kobe and
Shaq, that two Lakers score over thirty five in Utah. I found that
pretty amazing. It is amazing because history dictates the Jazz rise up and beat
the Lakers in Utah, and the Lakers don't play well in sold Lake City.
You know there's no tranquility at the tabernacle. But last night listened to
oh wait wait wait, wait, wait wait wait wait, time out,
there's no tranquility. He thought he'd stake that one in. Yeah, you're
riding off of that Don King vibe from last segment there. I'm inspired by
Don King. No tranquility at the tabert that one from you, Vic,
Yeah, that's a good absolutely Listen, it was a fabulous run again.
Kudo's Hachi Morrison. But how about d'angela Russell career high seventeen assists. I'm
the balls moving around, man. How can we don't call hi D'Angelo russell
Son. No, boy, it's not Japanese for it. Come on,
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that's Chef Merito. I've had them. No, that's station. I have
a Vata supermarket right down the block for me. That's why that's where I
go. Do you have a Valarta supermarket as well? Vyota supermarket right down
the block? I know, but there isn't there also a Blerta. I
don't believe there is, Frett, no Yota. What are you doing for
it? Jeez? Are you guys just loving Spencer Dinwitty? Last night?
We were in love with him two games? Yeah, I know it's a
small sample size, but already he's he's contributing scoring, and he's feel he's
feeling the flow of the Lakers. Already I'm very very happy with Spencer dinwitdy
Well, yeah, for two games. Let's give it a little time.
He's got to be good, but let's just give it a little time.
Vick. Well, they've won six or seven, sixteen of twenty one,
thirty and twenty six coming into the All Star break and they're balling for de
Hammond. They're kicking tokus and having fun. I mean, did you guys
see how Chimura and then with he partying on the bench last night in Salt
Lake City? That is rare stuff, y'all is rare? Is it rare?
On partying on a bench in Salt Lake Yes? In victory? Absolutely?
You mean a park bench? Otherwise why would it be rare? Yeah,
people don't see the lake or bench. Fred, Guys celebrating and being
happy that they're winning, going to blowout in an NBA game, I feel
like that's not Salt Lake City. No, why you're not. You're not
allowed to celebrate in Salt Lake City. They don't do it much. Fred.
Over the years, how many times have the Lakers blown out the jests?
You can count them on one on one hand. Are you saying Lakers
don't celebrate? Are you just saying people don't I'm saying the Lakers don't beat
Utah much in Utah. To blow them out was what was? Uh?
Who's worthy of having some fun? I thought there was a rule against that
that That's what I took from it. Mm hmm, Well there's no rule
against it. Fair but if you could, if you can crush a Utah
team in their own house in Salt Lake, you deserve to celebrate. And
the Lakers did. I was happy to see that. But how about the
Clippers with no Kawhi forty four points in the fourth quarter. Listen special love
to Norman Powell. On Saturday, Norman was bleeding profusely on the Crypto dot
Com floor against Detroit, got some stitches, got really a vicious elbow to
the head, and Norman is back a couple of days later, scoring twenty
one points up in San Francisco last night, leading the charge in the fourth
quarter. Give it up for Norman Powell, former bruin. Norman. You
moved me, m Norman moved you? Yes, go ahead, Norman.
So the Clippers are now thirty six and seventeen, fellas number three in the
West going into the All Star break, and that was a feisty game.
How about t Lou getting thrown out of the game last night? Yeah,
very physical man. I'm glad Plumbley's on my squad. I dig Plumbly,
He's aggressive. All love his size. You go Plumbly, Mason Plumby,
Man, know what he loves more than anything, Mason Plumbly, don't say
it. Don't you like to go to the He wants to go to the
source. Friend, gotta do it. Well, this is all about those
beautiful bald eagles. Fred w. Loking so much emotion up in Big Bear
one hundred and forty five feet above Big Bear Mountain. This is who wrote
I wrote the high coop for the for the eagles. Fred, all right,
I'm not talking Don Henley and Timothy B. Schmanton Joe Walsh. No,
I'm talking about the bald eagles. Yes, go something like this is
high coop for you. On this Thursday, February the fifteenth, Jackie and
Shadow bonding bald eagles tending to their eggs high above Big Bear, and the
world is watching. I'm feeling you for the bald Eagles, y'all. Y'all
hope someone passes that along to Jackie in shadow because I know they'll appreciate it.
Yeah they are, Yeah they are. Yeah, all right, Rony
wad Job the Bald Eagles. Yeah, well, somebody had to pay tribute
to him and fix the guy. Absolutely, all right, Kevin, thank
you, and Rodney. We rub up the week tomorrow right home,