Speaker 1: Thanks, Ronnie.
Speaker 2: Hey, it's Monday.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's a Monday in November.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: It got a little chilly last week, but now the
Speaker 1: sun is shining and it's warm and it's wide. We
Speaker 1: live in southern California because it's beautiful out and it
Speaker 1: will be beautiful all the way through Thanksgiving and through
Speaker 1: Christmas and the holidays and everything that you can think of.
Speaker 1: It is Monday. Got a lot to unpack. Fred Rogan
Speaker 1: is out, but my man Ben Mollin is in the
Speaker 1: house today.
Speaker 2: Benny, Ben, this is the first.
Speaker 3: I've worked with Fred a few times, but I've not
Speaker 3: worked with you first. So this is the maiden Boy,
Speaker 3: how can I possibly screw this up?
Speaker 2: Fine?
Speaker 3: I will try not to screw it up, Rodney, I
Speaker 3: will attend to stay the course. Okay, I was actually
Speaker 3: I was at the Charger game last night. I'll say
Speaker 3: that later when, yes, when Eric is in here and
Speaker 3: all that stuff. But I was there and it actually
Speaker 3: felt like a Charger home game. I've been to a
Speaker 3: lot of Charger games. It didn't normally it does not
Speaker 3: feel like that. Is that more of a testimony over
Speaker 3: the lack of people from Cincinnati that live in southern
Speaker 3: California or I don't know, but there were more many
Speaker 3: more Charger fans than Bango fans.
Speaker 2: That is kind of cool.
Speaker 1: That is encouraging if you are a Charger fan, you're
Speaker 1: a LA resident, because you don't want to see that.
Speaker 1: I don't even I don't even care, Ben, And we
Speaker 1: will get into it a lot more when Eric Dickerson
Speaker 1: joins the show at one o'clock for NFL Spotlight the
Speaker 1: Ford NFL Spotlight at one to three. But I think
Speaker 1: it is also a you know, a good thing for
Speaker 1: LA people in general, LA fans in general, because that
Speaker 1: is the rap Ben. That is the rap on LA
Speaker 1: is that uh LA fans are front runners and only
Speaker 1: if you're doing well and teams come into LA, whether
Speaker 1: it be so Fi, We're not so much Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 1: but it could be some other places, even even the
Speaker 1: Coliseum of the Rosebow from time to time that they'll
Speaker 1: get drowned out by the opposing teams that come into town.
Speaker 1: So that was that's that's kind of encouraging to hear that.
Speaker 1: The Chargers and and by the way, as we mentioned,
Speaker 1: we'll get into it, but by the way, the Chargers
Speaker 1: are kind of slowly kind of grooving into being a
Speaker 1: really good team that's about to be a playoff team. Bennie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they are.
Speaker 3: Looking like a playoff team, though I am confused, and
Speaker 3: I only get too much into it now because I
Speaker 3: know there's other stuff we have to talk about. But
Speaker 3: we'll get to it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: The Charge w win that game last night and everyone's like, well,
Speaker 3: it's a culture change and all that, but they win
Speaker 3: it because the idiot kicker for the Bengals missus two kicks. Yeah,
Speaker 3: is that really a culture change? Was it just they
Speaker 3: were worse than you were. You know, we'll get we'll
Speaker 3: get to it. How about that the Tyson fight?
Speaker 1: Oh, let's talk about that.
Speaker 2: We got to take it off.
Speaker 3: Now. Do you have a party, Robbie, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Did you have a fight party? Like old school fight party?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Ben, You know, normally I would either either have the
Speaker 1: party or go to go to a party. I wasn't
Speaker 1: sure you know what I was gonna do. Uh this
Speaker 1: this weekend obviously, uh SC and Nebraska was homecomings. Had
Speaker 1: a lot of friends that that were coming in town
Speaker 1: that lived out of state that were coming back for homecoming.
Speaker 1: Is kind of a tradition thing that that that most
Speaker 1: most schools do. Most schools will have their homecoming and
Speaker 1: people will come back and visit, whether they live out
Speaker 1: of town or from there. And even when I say
Speaker 1: live out of town, there's a lot of folks that
Speaker 1: live in San Diego, Orange County that come up for
Speaker 1: homecoming and that's like the one game that they go to.
Speaker 1: So there's there's a little bit of a reunion that
Speaker 1: you get to see some some people that you haven't
Speaker 1: seen in a long time. And that was that was
Speaker 1: the case on Saturday. And thank god USC came out
Speaker 1: with a win, and we'll talk about that too, but uh,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of getting themselves right beating a Nebraska team,
Speaker 1: which is a you know, not they're not great, but
Speaker 1: to get that win at home with a new starting
Speaker 1: quarterback and the new era, it looks like it's starting
Speaker 1: to begin at USC. It was good, But going to
Speaker 1: the to the the Tyson Fight the night before, I
Speaker 1: was I was looking forward to it. I didn't want
Speaker 1: to go to any big parties because I didn't want
Speaker 1: to be let down. I don't want to be let
Speaker 1: down by by the by the fight itself. I mean,
Speaker 1: the hype obviously is the hype. It's on Netflix. You know,
Speaker 1: it got postponed from back in July and then got
Speaker 1: you know, moved to November. There were questions about Mike
Speaker 1: and his health and was he going to be able
Speaker 1: to be and and be ready to go and and
Speaker 1: whether this was stage or fixed or all of those
Speaker 1: kind of things. So I didn't get into the big
Speaker 1: party thing, and at least for me hosting it, I didn't.
Speaker 1: And then you know, I did get invited to a
Speaker 1: couple of little parties, but I just wanted to watch
Speaker 1: it and kind of be quiet with my My son
Speaker 1: came over and we just we we watched that thing, man,
Speaker 1: and I was thoroughly, thoroughly, thoroughly just disappointed.
Speaker 3: You didn't like watching statues.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it was disappointing, you know, And everybody
Speaker 1: tried to make comparisons to Oh, look, you know certain
Speaker 1: guys can do this at fifties. George Foreman came back
Speaker 1: and did it. You know, this is the first time,
Speaker 1: you know, Dave Paul's going to really fight somebody that's
Speaker 1: like legitimate and can legitimize his little boxing career. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: he fought a fifty eight year old Mike Tyson, who
Speaker 1: yes in the Instagram and TikTok clips can look great
Speaker 1: and look like he is a fierce Mike Tyson of
Speaker 1: the nineties. But man, after the second round, there were
Speaker 1: no legs left to Mike Tyson and I felt.
Speaker 2: That, yeah, he had four minutes. He was a four
Speaker 2: minute man. That was it.
Speaker 3: And I actually I had a friend in town, not
Speaker 3: homecoming or anything, buddy. My mine was in town from Dallas,
Speaker 3: so we went out. But I was very rude, Roddy.
Speaker 3: I was watching on my phone. The power of Netflix,
Speaker 3: you know, is not a pay per view thing, so
Speaker 3: I can watch it.
Speaker 2: Wherever I want.
Speaker 3: So I I was my face was planted in the
Speaker 3: phone watching it.
Speaker 2: I actually planned to stay home and watch the fight.
Speaker 2: I'm glad I didn't because it was so It was
Speaker 2: so bad.
Speaker 3: It was exactly you know, you don't want to waste
Speaker 3: a Friday night and all that, So I watched it
Speaker 3: on my phone. I was anti social, but I'm introvert anyway, Rodney,
Speaker 3: so I don't really talk to him anyway. So I
Speaker 3: watched it on my phone and I was like, okay
Speaker 3: in my heart, you know, because we're kind of around.
Speaker 2: Same ajor, right. I was like, I wanted Tyson to win, right.
Speaker 3: I was like, this is I covered some Tyson fights
Speaker 3: back when I was early in my career and he
Speaker 3: was at the end of his boxing career, and I
Speaker 3: have fond memories of when I was was much younger,
Speaker 3: the you know badness man on the planet Iron Mike,
Speaker 3: and I thought, like, you know, some way, it's kind
Speaker 3: of like when I watched al Michaels do a game
Speaker 3: on TV. I flashed back to my childhood, right, because
Speaker 3: I grew up watching.
Speaker 2: Your head exactly right.
Speaker 3: So I think like I flashed back in time to
Speaker 3: when I was, you know, however old I was at
Speaker 3: that time. And so watching Tyson, I was like, oh man,
Speaker 3: this is gonna be awesome Mike Tyson. But then as
Speaker 3: as we got closer to the fight, I watched some
Speaker 3: of the sparring I don't know if you saw any
Speaker 3: of that leading up to the fight, and he just
Speaker 3: looked slow. He just looked like he didn't have anything.
Speaker 3: And it's a sparring match, that's that's supposed to be
Speaker 3: a sizzle reel.
Speaker 1: And and then and.
Speaker 3: Then you watch the fight and you're absolutely right, right,
Speaker 3: I mean two rounds in your Tyson won the first
Speaker 3: two rounds and then after that. I mean you look
Speaker 3: at the punch numbers, which aren't always accurate. Mike Tyson
Speaker 3: landed in eight rounds of boxing, Rodney.
Speaker 2: Do you see how many punches he landed.
Speaker 3: You see the stat eighteen punches in eight rounds. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he averaged two point twenty five punches. And I would
Speaker 3: argue if you saw on the glove, then oh, then
Speaker 3: those puffy gloves. They had the puffy gloves, which is
Speaker 3: you know, the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Was to distract him. Was it like the thirty six
Speaker 1: ounce gloves that they used. Yeah, they clubs eight ounce
Speaker 1: clubs that they used in that fight. I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know he was, Yeah, he was biting the gloves
Speaker 1: the whole fight. And it was again, you know, the
Speaker 1: hype before the fight, the slap, you know, at the
Speaker 1: way in, you're like, okay, this is on, and everybody
Speaker 1: believed that it was gonna be you know, Okay, you
Speaker 1: can say what you want about Mike, but man, he's
Speaker 1: a guy that you do not want to get in
Speaker 1: the ring because he will revert back to nineteen nineties.
Speaker 1: And I'm with you in the nineties. Going to a
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson fight was that was it. There were a
Speaker 1: lot of things, but it was must see, must go to.
Speaker 1: If you had a chance to go to Vegas and
Speaker 1: watch Mike Tyson fight, Ye, man, that was that was
Speaker 1: That was, That was it, and you better get there
Speaker 1: and get in your seats early because it could be
Speaker 1: over in one round, could be over in two rounds.
Speaker 1: And Mike was as dominant as there ever was from
Speaker 1: a heavyweight standpoint. We hadn't seen anything like that. And
Speaker 1: that's what you kind of hold on to as as
Speaker 1: people of a certain age like I am and like
Speaker 1: you mentioned, like you are, that you hold on to
Speaker 1: those memories that maybe there's gonna be a glimpse of that,
Speaker 1: maybe there's gonna be a moment where Mike can bring
Speaker 1: it back for a moment that he can show people
Speaker 1: that you can't get in the ring with Mike Tyson.
Speaker 1: You know, Mike is a real deal. This is not
Speaker 1: a joke. This is not one of those things where
Speaker 1: you can be a YouTuber and fighting UFC guys that
Speaker 1: are out of their prime and not at Boxing's not
Speaker 1: their number one skill set and you can beat those
Speaker 1: guys up, but now you're fighting Mike Tyson, and I
Speaker 1: don't care if he's fifty eight, sixty eight, thirty eight,
Speaker 1: whatever he is, He's still Mike Tyson. And a part
Speaker 1: of you was feeling that, please let that come out.
Speaker 1: At least for me, it was. I don't know about you,
Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, it was it. And it never did
Speaker 1: it never, it never reared its head. It never got
Speaker 1: to that point and there was there was never any
Speaker 1: danger for Jack Paul and that fight and almost was
Speaker 1: which I hate to say that Jake Paul took took
Speaker 1: pity on Mike Tyson.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I'm annoyed by Jake Paul. Roddy.
Speaker 3: I did I want someone to actually beat him up.
Speaker 3: He's very annoying to me. I do not I do
Speaker 3: not like to stick at all. And I will give
Speaker 3: Tyson and and Jake Paul their due.
Speaker 2: I hate doing that.
Speaker 3: But they in the lead up to the fight, and
Speaker 3: it's the old PT Barnum stuff. Without promotion, uh, something
Speaker 3: terrible happens, which is nothing. They were able to do
Speaker 3: a great job promoting the fight, right. They They did
Speaker 3: all the usual things in boxing where you mentioned Tyson
Speaker 3: slapping Jake Paul, which is a standard at the way
Speaker 3: in that's like the standard boxing stuff, you know, screaming.
Speaker 2: This that I'm gonna kill you, all that stuff.
Speaker 3: I mean that they had all of that, but ultimately,
Speaker 3: you know, Jake Paul is the whole boxing thing. He's
Speaker 3: a he's a guy that's found a hustle. And and
Speaker 3: I guess we're suckers because we we didn't pay for
Speaker 3: I mean, we pay for Netflix, Roddy, but I don't
Speaker 3: know that I would have paid for this if it
Speaker 3: had been you know, been charging for ye yeah, maybe
Speaker 3: I would have. But listen, Jake Paul made forty million
Speaker 3: dollars forty million, which I did the math on this.
Speaker 3: He landed seventy eight punches. This is the most amazing
Speaker 3: thing here, Rodney. So Jake Paul going against the guy
Speaker 3: and Tyson at this point camp move. He's in his
Speaker 3: late fifties, and Jake Paul threw two hundred seventy eight
Speaker 3: punches and landed seventy eight. That's less than thirty percent
Speaker 3: against an immovable object in Mike Tyson. But he made
Speaker 3: Jake Paul made five over five hundred thousand dollars per
Speaker 3: punch landed in that fact, and Tyson, he made even
Speaker 3: more because he only landed eighteen punches, so he made.
Speaker 1: Me what did did Mike make the same amount? No?
Speaker 3: He actually, well, according to what I read on the internet,
Speaker 3: and I'm never wrong about these things. In Los am
Speaker 3: Tyson made twenty million. But there's also there's some other
Speaker 3: money that could come in later. But Tyson twenty million.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 3: So he eighteen million punch. So that's one a little
Speaker 3: over one point one million per punch landed by Mike Tyson.
Speaker 2: And and so there you go. But Jake Paul, Who's
Speaker 2: he gonna fight next? Rodney?
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's the thing, you know, because this
Speaker 1: this for whatever thought process that that Jake Paul had,
Speaker 1: that this was going to give him, you know, credibility
Speaker 1: and boxing, it took a step back because it didn't.
Speaker 1: And and and I don't know where he goes other
Speaker 1: than fighting a top ten, top twelve contender in the
Speaker 1: heavwaweight division. You you can't go from what we just
Speaker 1: saw and expect to get any kind of legitimacy if
Speaker 1: you don't fight somebody real that's a real boxer, a
Speaker 1: real contender, and boxing is their science. It's not mixed
Speaker 1: martial arts, a guy that's hanging on it's a finishing
Speaker 1: his career in MMA, and and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: he wants to get in the ring and get that
Speaker 1: one last payday. It's got to be a guy that
Speaker 1: is a legitimate contender in boxing, a w B, a BC,
Speaker 1: whatever it may be, IBF. It's got to be one
Speaker 1: of those guys in order for it to be even
Speaker 1: credible for the next time, because I don't know who.
Speaker 1: First of all, yes, Netflix partnered with them and they
Speaker 1: made a lot of money and people tuned in and
Speaker 1: was great for Netflix and they hyped it up. But
Speaker 1: if this goes pay per view next time, I don't
Speaker 1: know who buys this unless it is a legitimate contender. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I don't think Rodny, based on my knowledge of this,
Speaker 3: that Jake Paul has any interest in being legit. He's
Speaker 3: in the interest of making money.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 3: He's making tons of money here and he's found a hustle,
Speaker 3: and I guess this pays better than being an.
Speaker 1: You don't think he wants to, you know, after this
Speaker 1: it is like the questions and the pride and all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. You don't think that he wants
Speaker 1: to let me just go fight somebody that's real, and
Speaker 1: I see this happening. He wants money grab.
Speaker 3: He wants the guy who's the other guy who can
Speaker 3: he can sellcready. Yeah, Connor McGregor's McGregor's a great showman.
Speaker 3: Remember that Mayweather McGregor. He was also a sham fight
Speaker 3: because Mayweather didn't.
Speaker 1: Do any.
Speaker 3: Exactly, yeah, exactly, Like he's like, all right, the bunny
Speaker 3: of the people have got their money's work and they
Speaker 3: Mayweather decided a box and and it was a disaster
Speaker 3: for for Connor McGregor at that point.
Speaker 2: But that the news conference.
Speaker 3: I remember doing the overnight show Rodney and we had
Speaker 3: so much fun with Connor McGregor, and they were doing
Speaker 3: that national tour around North America.
Speaker 2: It was so entertaining.
Speaker 1: Both of them are the same guy.
Speaker 2: It was so good. It was so any day.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, you put McGregor and Jake Paul together, that
Speaker 3: would be entertaining.
Speaker 2: That wouldn't be good boxing, No, it would be terrible boxing.
Speaker 2: But it doesn't matter. They'd make a lot of money.
Speaker 3: And and people said they questioned, and I talked about
Speaker 3: this a little bit last night last week. Rather we
Speaker 3: were talking about a previous show they did on the
Speaker 3: Overnight about the box and they were like, well, this
Speaker 3: Tyson things, it's ruining boxing. And you know, Rodney from
Speaker 3: from following the fight game over the years, this is
Speaker 3: what boxing is. Muhammad Ali at the end of his
Speaker 3: career fought a wrestler in Japan.
Speaker 2: Because he made a lot of money, right I mean.
Speaker 3: And two football guy at too Tall Jones became a
Speaker 3: boxer at one point and then went back to football.
Speaker 3: There's always been things like this where guys have have
Speaker 3: futzed around and and you know, people saying it's disrespectful. No,
Speaker 3: in the fact that people exactly and people fall for it,
Speaker 3: and I'll follow it. I openly admit I was not entertained.
Speaker 2: I did not. Do you have any stream issues, Rodney,
Speaker 2: I did not have any stream.
Speaker 1: Issues on it. I had it early on where it
Speaker 1: was buffering. I know a lot of people talked about
Speaker 1: the buffering. There were a bunch of jokes and memes
Speaker 1: and going around with the buffering thing. I had it
Speaker 1: early before the fight started, but after that I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't have any issues with it. It was it
Speaker 1: was clean.
Speaker 3: I got lucky. I did not have issues. I wish
Speaker 3: I did. I could have complained about Afflix, but I
Speaker 3: did not. I saw everyone else complaining. I was like,
Speaker 3: it was fine for me. I mean, I had no
Speaker 3: issue at all. So I don't know what happened. Where
Speaker 3: does Mike Tyson go from it? What does Mike Tyson
Speaker 3: take away from this? How does he go forward? Because
Speaker 3: he's gonna get asked. You know, Mike is out there.
Speaker 3: He's been very active on social media the last few years.
Speaker 3: You know, he's really rebranded himself and and people will
Speaker 3: love to see him and hear from him, and he
Speaker 3: and he goes on eight million different shows. How do
Speaker 3: you think he responds to this and and comes off
Speaker 3: of this performance.
Speaker 2: He'll just go is he making money? Hand over fist
Speaker 2: selling marijuana?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: YEA sold for him?
Speaker 3: You know it's great. This is good prom otion. He
Speaker 3: made some more money, and he'll go back to doing
Speaker 3: what are you doing? Maybe he can sell that. I
Speaker 3: saw the story about the toad venom. Maybe he can
Speaker 3: sell toad venom to the masses. Rodney, you can he
Speaker 3: commercially distribute toad venom to major stores around the country
Speaker 3: so we can all enjoy tod I'm sure you guys
Speaker 3: why talking to this last week, But the the Tyson
Speaker 3: Mike Tyson interview with that little girl, the kid reporter.
Speaker 3: I still laugh at that. It's been a few day,
Speaker 3: but this kid reporter asked Tyson about his legacy. Tyson
Speaker 3: goes in this very ghoulish, macabre rats about it. We're
Speaker 3: just dust, And I mean it was very I mean,
Speaker 3: it was a little sweet little girl it.
Speaker 2: Tyson went.
Speaker 3: He went very dark at that moment, and it was
Speaker 3: I still a truggle.
Speaker 2: And he talked about.
Speaker 3: Almost dying after the fight back in June. Remember that
Speaker 3: medical situation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was like.
Speaker 3: He had a bunch of blood transfusions and it was
Speaker 3: much worse than had been.
Speaker 2: Reported and all that.
Speaker 3: So he's not gonna you can't imagine he's gonna do
Speaker 3: anything more with boxing at this point. He's fifty eight.
Speaker 1: And fifty eight and yeah, other than you know, one
Speaker 1: of these you know, two round whatever exhibition they might do,
Speaker 1: or the clinics or whatever he might but to do
Speaker 1: anything competitive after that, it was clear that he had
Speaker 1: no legs. Fifty eight caught up to him father time.
Speaker 1: As we everybody said, undefeated. I know that first hand.
Speaker 1: I tried to do some things with my kids and though, man,
Speaker 1: my mind is telling me I can do it, but
Speaker 1: but damn, I can't even I can't do it. I
Speaker 1: can't anger.
Speaker 3: The other thing too, Rodney is the thing that everyone
Speaker 3: was talking about. The viral moment from the fight was
Speaker 3: the locker room interview that Mike did when he was
Speaker 3: walking around and he showed me like that, You like, well,
Speaker 3: I mean, I've always wanted I always want to look
Speaker 3: at Rodney's bear took hs.
Speaker 2: I am honored that he showed me.
Speaker 3: And uh, how how upset you think he put the
Speaker 3: like the director at Netflix was Rodney, which because they
Speaker 3: didn't anticipate Mike walking away like that, probably.
Speaker 1: They did not know. I guarantee you they did not.
Speaker 1: They did not. That was not part of the package.
Speaker 1: That was not part of the interview or Mike turns around,
Speaker 1: kisses his son on the cheek and walks walks off
Speaker 1: off for the world to see.
Speaker 2: All all the backside of Mike.
Speaker 4: H No, that was that was definitely not part of
Speaker 4: the planet and it's Ben Mahler in form Fred Rogan
Speaker 4: on a Monday lots to get to just talked about
Speaker 4: some Mike Tyson, but we want to actually, you know,
Speaker 4: Eric Dickers is gonna join us at one o'clock.
Speaker 1: But I want to get into some Dodger talk, man,
Speaker 1: because obviously hot stove free agency talk and and what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen with the Dodgers after they just won the
Speaker 1: World Series. I want to get into, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of what they may do this offseason with you man,
Speaker 1: because they got a lot of options.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's some big meetings going on while we're
Speaker 3: doing this show, Rodnie at the Scott Boris Compound in
Speaker 3: Newport feature. I think you're actually at a hotel I
Speaker 3: heard in Newport.
Speaker 2: But there there's.
Speaker 3: A lot of meeting and greeting with Juan Soto.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Dodgers are involved in that. Yeah, we'll get
Speaker 2: into it.
Speaker 1: Yes, as I mentioned Ben Maler and for Fred Rogan,
Speaker 1: let's get into some Dodger talk. What's Walker Bueller gonna do?
Speaker 1: This kid Susaki from from Japan? Is he coming? He's done? Uh,
Speaker 1: he's cheap. You can get it for cheap right now.
Speaker 1: Did the Dodgers go after him or do they go
Speaker 1: a big name, big name pitcher like a Corbyn Burns
Speaker 1: or Blake Snell or Max Freed or something. This money money, Rodney,
Speaker 1: deep pockets.
Speaker 2: Give me some of that.
Speaker 1: I give me some of that. Hey, the man, Hey
Speaker 1: in five seventy l a sports right back at you.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, it is a Monday Rodney Pete and my man,
Speaker 5: Ben Miller, host of the Fox Sports Radio Sunday to Monday,
Speaker 5: eleven PM to three AM.
Speaker 1: Ben Miller on AM five seventy. That's right.
Speaker 3: See that sounds better than saying overnights. It sounds better three,
Speaker 3: not overnights. Baby, we're late night, eleven to three.
Speaker 1: I gotta ask you this though, Man's yes, yeah, Benny
Speaker 1: versus the penny.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's my baby, Benny versus the penny.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, yeah, Peacock, tell me about Benny versus the penny.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I used to do this bit on the radio
Speaker 3: back in the day, Rodney. I did it for for
Speaker 3: years on radio, and then a couple of years ago
Speaker 3: I got approached by one of the big executives at NBC.
Speaker 3: They say, hey, we like this, we want to make
Speaker 3: this a TV show. And I was like, are you kidding?
Speaker 3: I thought I was getting punked. I thought, and there's
Speaker 3: no way, right, there's no way, they're going to turn
Speaker 3: this thing into a TV show. And sure enough, one
Speaker 3: of the big executives over there is a big fan
Speaker 3: of the show and my overnight showing stuff, and he
Speaker 3: wanted to do it, and I said yes, and so
Speaker 3: I the last two years the show actually got picked
Speaker 3: up Rodney, which I thought, well, they'll give me the show,
Speaker 3: but once the show's broadcast, I'm not going to pick
Speaker 3: it up for a second season. There's no way. And
Speaker 3: they actually did. And so I do it every week.
Speaker 3: I go in. I spend a lot of my time handicapping.
Speaker 3: You know, you know you played in the NFL, so
Speaker 3: you know the ins and outs of it. But as
Speaker 3: an outsider, I handicapped the games. I tell you what
Speaker 3: should happen, and then I get all games. What are
Speaker 3: you picking? You jumping from sport to sport?
Speaker 2: No, No, it's all. It's all NFL, every NFL game.
Speaker 3: It's during the NFL season, so we we have shows
Speaker 3: schedule all the way till a week after the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: So it's it's just during football season.
Speaker 3: It's a seasonal show and we flip the penny up
Speaker 3: in the air and if it lands on heads, it's
Speaker 3: the home team's strategy. Yeah, well that's the penny, but no,
Speaker 3: my strategy. No, no, here's the problem. So I spend
Speaker 3: I do the overnight show during the week, and then
Speaker 3: after the show around wrapping around the show, I spent
Speaker 3: a lot of my free time obsessing over trends and numbers,
Speaker 3: and I look at it and then I go out
Speaker 3: and I challenge myself. I pick every game against the
Speaker 3: point spread, and then I determine, you know, what I
Speaker 3: think is gonna happen. I give my picks, and then
Speaker 3: the penny. We flip the penny up. One of the
Speaker 3: executives at the network flips the penny up, and that's
Speaker 3: the pennies picks and I'm.
Speaker 2: Getting smoked, Rodney, I'm getting I'm.
Speaker 3: Getting destroyed by an inadamant object. It's so embarrassing, like
Speaker 3: I'm like, what am I doing here? Why am I
Speaker 3: wasting my time handicapping these NFL games? And it went,
Speaker 3: you just flip a penny up in the air, and
Speaker 3: like things that should happen don't happen. It's very very right. Sometimes, Oh,
Speaker 3: the paty has been great this year. You actually have
Speaker 3: won money if you take in the pays advice. But
Speaker 3: the season is not.
Speaker 2: Over, Rodney.
Speaker 1: It's not a game left.
Speaker 3: Yeah, We've still got many weeks to go. I did
Speaker 3: very well in the playoffs last year. I actually won
Speaker 3: last year. But this year, I am I'm embarrassing my
Speaker 3: ask you, Benny, let me ask you this.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I mean, because you just mentioned you spend
Speaker 1: a lot of time handicapping, looking up stats, injury reports,
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. Yeah, are you? And I
Speaker 1: always I When I played, I was amazed, and even
Speaker 1: more so now that I'm retired, amaze how accurate Vegas
Speaker 1: is when it comes to picking these games and how
Speaker 1: close the lines are. Are you amazed at that? Or
Speaker 1: is it a science that?
Speaker 3: I mean?
Speaker 1: How do they get it so right most of the time.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't want to go deep state conspiracy Rodney
Speaker 3: and say it's all it's just some funny business going on,
Speaker 3: but it is.
Speaker 2: It is they.
Speaker 3: They they're maestros of it the way they've been able
Speaker 3: to They're always within And I wait.
Speaker 1: Wait before you say that, because I say that, you
Speaker 1: say I want to get a conspiracy because I can
Speaker 1: say this from from a guy that plays, Yeah, that
Speaker 1: there was no like And I was a guy who
Speaker 1: played in the position and quarterback that could control a
Speaker 1: lot of things and control what was going on. And
Speaker 1: I never never would get you know, beforehand, someone talked
Speaker 1: to me, Oh, this the line is three, it's probably
Speaker 1: gonna be three. That's where it's gonna be, and blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. You guys are gonna do this and the
Speaker 1: defense is going to do that. But it was so
Speaker 1: accurate that you would think, man, they got somebody on
Speaker 1: the inside, but really in essence because again from a
Speaker 1: guy that played was in there, there was nobody on
Speaker 1: the inside. But they figured it out of how to
Speaker 1: create these lines and get it right. Most of the time, yeah.
Speaker 3: They're always within a few points of the points spread,
Speaker 3: except usually there's one or two games a week that's
Speaker 3: a blowout that's lopsided they get wrong. But other than that,
Speaker 3: everything is pretty much within the margins. And it's the
Speaker 3: thing about it that blows me away is you base this.
Speaker 3: A lot of the handicapping that I do and more
Speaker 3: those people do is based on what has happened. And
Speaker 3: as the old sportscaster Dick Stockton told me years ago,
Speaker 3: say his stats tell you what has happened, not what's
Speaker 3: going to happen. But you make these picks based on
Speaker 3: what has happened, and then there's all these other variables,
Speaker 3: as you know, Rodney playing quarterback for the lines back,
Speaker 3: and then guys get hurt. You know, you have backups
Speaker 3: coming in and yet they're still within the number most
Speaker 3: of the time.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 3: It is wild, and it's it's a little hobby that
Speaker 3: I've had here handicapping the games, and I had some
Speaker 3: really good.
Speaker 2: Years just on radio late at night.
Speaker 3: I did it on the podcast for a while, but
Speaker 3: I've done it on TV the last two years. And
Speaker 3: I won last year, but I was not impressive. I
Speaker 3: did not meet my standards. And this year I'm doing
Speaker 3: the Walk of Shame on a weekly basis fun. It's
Speaker 3: very embarrassing to me that just yet, I feel like,
Speaker 3: what am I doing. I spent all my time handicapping
Speaker 3: these games and all that, and then our things happened. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and there's some pillars that I have that I've used
Speaker 3: over the years. Or you know, anytime the divisional games
Speaker 3: seven points or more, you take the underdog. Usually things
Speaker 3: like that, these divisional games usually close, and those things
Speaker 3: have usually worked out for me. But Yeah, it's a
Speaker 3: it's a weekly struggle. And every week I'm optimistic though, righting.
Speaker 3: Every week i walk into that TV studio over at Universal,
Speaker 3: I'm like, Oh, this is gonna be this is gonna
Speaker 3: be my week, this is it. And then I walk
Speaker 3: and by the end of the weekend, I got my
Speaker 3: my tail between my legs and I'm like, what.
Speaker 2: A loser I am.
Speaker 1: It doesn't it doesn't go A week doesn't go by
Speaker 1: if I'm even you know, I'm a homebody nowadays, but
Speaker 1: I don't get out that whole you know, a whole lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when I do, we doesn't go by. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: somebody's running up to me. I who you like this
Speaker 1: week with the Rams cover? Where what about sc got cover?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't have no idea, you know,
Speaker 1: go with my gut and tell you where my heart is.
Speaker 1: But but I have no idea. But yet these guys
Speaker 1: absolutely know. Man, it's uh, it's it's pretty incredible. I
Speaker 1: won't pick your bank brain about that a little bit later.
Speaker 1: But but but let's let's go get into the Dodgers man,
Speaker 1: because you and I haven't had a chance to really
Speaker 1: do brief and talk about that and maybe we'll you know,
Speaker 1: throw in some calls here because here we are hot
Speaker 1: stove free agent time. Dodgers just win the World Series.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are like, well, why why are
Speaker 1: we making noise in the offseason when you just won
Speaker 1: the World Series? Just bring everybody back and call it
Speaker 1: a day and and and try to win another one
Speaker 1: the next year. But that's not how it works. You know, Guys,
Speaker 1: contracts are up. Guys contracts may be coming up. There
Speaker 1: are guys that you may need that even though you
Speaker 1: want it, are a little bit of a weakness for
Speaker 1: your team. So you you want to try to improve
Speaker 1: to continue this. Uh I'm gonna call it dynasty yet,
Speaker 1: but it kind of contruved. You know, can can continue
Speaker 1: this wave that you had of making the playoffs every
Speaker 1: single year and possibly win in the World Series. That
Speaker 1: being said, are are you a guy that goes and
Speaker 1: and really tries to be aggressive like the Dodgers can
Speaker 1: be when they had all the money and free agency,
Speaker 1: or do you don't play the name game because Fred
Speaker 1: hates the name game, you know, as you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: and try to keep your team intact regardless of who's
Speaker 1: out there, like a Wan Soto or whomever else might
Speaker 1: be out there. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I growing up a Dodger fan. They never spent
Speaker 3: that much money, Roddy, So I always like, I love
Speaker 3: the fact that we're now in the goldilocks here for
Speaker 3: the Dodgers, that they are the what the Yankees used
Speaker 3: to be when George Steinbrenner owned the Yankees. His kids
Speaker 3: aren't to say, but that's what's essentially what the Dodgers are.
Speaker 3: They've got, you know, anyone they want, they can pretty
Speaker 3: much get because of the TV deal and the fans
Speaker 3: that have supported the team so much.
Speaker 2: So I love this.
Speaker 3: I don't want to poo poo this, but.
Speaker 2: The fact that they did win the World Series.
Speaker 3: It was like Tommy Edmund and you know Walker Buehler
Speaker 3: who had two Tommy John operations and went out there,
Speaker 3: you know Tony because he was hurt or whatever.
Speaker 2: He didn't play that great in the World Series.
Speaker 3: It was pretty bad in the World Series and they
Speaker 3: still won the championship. And that's usually what ends up
Speaker 3: happening when they When they won back in the COVID
Speaker 3: year in twenty twenty, there were guys that stepped up.
Speaker 3: Ay Hernandez and some other guys that year. So, but
Speaker 3: you'd rather have the big name players. I mean, from
Speaker 3: a talk radio standpoint, Rodney, it makes our job more
Speaker 3: fun to have interesting characters to talk about and all that.
Speaker 2: So I fully support it.
Speaker 3: I love they have endless amounts of money because I
Speaker 3: know this is not gonna last forever. At some point
Speaker 3: they're gonna ownership, whether it's this ownership or they sell
Speaker 3: the team, whatever, They'll be like, you know, we're not
Speaker 3: gonna spend the money anymore.
Speaker 2: So I want to enjoy this. I want to soak
Speaker 2: all this up.
Speaker 1: He's great, do you I've been on the soapbox about
Speaker 1: this forever that you know. As much as I am
Speaker 1: a huge Dodger fan, have been for a long time.
Speaker 1: Love my Dodger, love the Dodger fans, But the Dodger
Speaker 1: fans are are spoiled in the essence that the Dodgers
Speaker 1: are in the playoffs every single year. They may, you know,
Speaker 1: people want to fire everybody. Obviously, the Dave Roberts fire
Speaker 1: ever happens every other week in this town. But they
Speaker 1: are in the playoffs. In the conversation every single year,
Speaker 1: and you can't say that about other teams around the League,
Speaker 1: maybe other than the Yankees, and and uh and now
Speaker 1: you know where Steve Cohen owns the Mets, He's gonna
Speaker 1: try to make them as relevant as possible. But you
Speaker 1: see other even iconic franchises like the Boston Red Sox
Speaker 1: win a World Series and they're gonna they ship out
Speaker 1: Mookie Betts and they get rid of everybody else and
Speaker 1: say we're gonna lose for the next five years and
Speaker 1: then we'll try to get it back. Not the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: They continuously are in the conversation and and the Dodger
Speaker 1: fans sometimes, you know, I don't think are appreciative of
Speaker 1: what they have and ownership and the way the Dodgers
Speaker 1: have maintained this level of excellence of being in that
Speaker 1: conversation and win a title every single year.
Speaker 2: See, I'm gonna.
Speaker 3: Defend the fans, right because the fans job is not
Speaker 3: to appreciate. The fans job is to expect.
Speaker 2: More and more and more and more and more.
Speaker 3: And uh, listen, the Dodgers of all the fans, like
Speaker 3: the Lakers have you know much demise me.
Speaker 2: I'm a I'm a Clipper, guy.
Speaker 3: Rodney, I'm not a lay But the Lakers have support.
Speaker 3: But no one, no one has more support in this
Speaker 3: town than the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: It's not even just like taking over. You saw the
Speaker 1: parade and you knew, okay, yeah it's a smashing Dodgers
Speaker 1: and then everybody else.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like like as far as like some of the
Speaker 3: moves in the you know, the offseason they're gonna make.
Speaker 3: Walker Buehler is the one that's a lot, you know,
Speaker 3: a lot of getting a lot of buzz right now,
Speaker 3: Walker Buehler.
Speaker 2: There's a bunch of teams.
Speaker 3: That are attempting to to swow or wig I should say, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, to get get Walker Buhler to come to
Speaker 3: their their team. And you know, he's been linked to
Speaker 3: the Braves and the Cubs and a bunch of other teams.
Speaker 3: This this last couple of weeks here as free agency
Speaker 3: gets going in baseball, and I got an unpopular pan.
Speaker 3: I love Walker Buhler. Last year, have you not loved me?
Speaker 3: He didn't running the World Series and no earned runs
Speaker 3: in the World Series and was a key factor in
Speaker 3: them winning the championship. But if he left, I'd be
Speaker 3: okay with that. I don't know that he can sustain.
Speaker 3: I would bet against him sustaining that during the regular season.
Speaker 3: But he was the most dominant Dodger postseason pitcher that
Speaker 3: we've seen in many years.
Speaker 2: And they're in the.
Speaker 3: Playoffs every year, Rodney. But to see a guy dominate
Speaker 3: like Walker Butler did at the end there was awesome.
Speaker 3: It reminded me the last couple of appearances of Madison
Speaker 3: Bumgarden of the Giants when they were winning the World
Speaker 3: Series every other year, and how dominant he was. Bueller
Speaker 3: was great and wonderful. But if he wants to go
Speaker 3: he's from the South. If he wants to go play
Speaker 3: for the Braves or whatever, go to the Cubs. More
Speaker 3: power to you. Knock it out of the park. Hope
Speaker 3: he gets paid a ton of money.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So but you're you're saying you're you you'll
Speaker 1: be okay yeah with them, not really. I don't only
Speaker 1: say aggressively, but be competitive in the Walker Bueler sweepstakes.
Speaker 1: You'll be okay letting him walk.
Speaker 3: Well because of the injury history and and the other
Speaker 3: thing is, I know greedy Dodgers will as a Dodger supporter,
Speaker 3: they will just go sign somebody else. Roddy, Right, So
Speaker 3: you have Walker Leaves they'll whether it's Corbyn Burns who
Speaker 3: I don't know. If I'm all all in on Corbyn Burns,
Speaker 3: I think that's that's risky business based on his age
Speaker 3: and what could happen going forward.
Speaker 2: So, uh, you know the.
Speaker 3: Picture from Japan, I mean there's there's they're going to
Speaker 3: sign someone, whether they you know, whoever it might be,
Speaker 3: and they'll they'll be a'll be a good pictures, likely healthier.
Speaker 3: The other thing that's frustrating Roddney, I don't want to
Speaker 3: get into that here is that whoever they sign, it's
Speaker 3: like last year they made all his moves and Glass
Speaker 3: now wasn't even there in the playoffs because he got hurt.
Speaker 3: So it's like, you sign these guys, you trade for
Speaker 3: these guys, and you don't even know if they're gonna
Speaker 3: be there by the time October comes around. And this
Speaker 3: Dodger team that won the World Series, they had more
Speaker 3: players on the injured list, it seemed, than they had
Speaker 3: who were actually on the field and they still won.
Speaker 3: So but they all the big name like many of
Speaker 3: the big names weren't even o there.
Speaker 2: They weren't even playing. So we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 3: But I love the fact that this is continuing on
Speaker 3: here the Dodgers ownership fully committed to bringing in the
Speaker 3: top players and they're not just resting on their laurels,
Speaker 3: like hey, wait, wait won now two World Series. We're
Speaker 3: no longer the Atlanta Braves of the Knights were better
Speaker 3: than that, and they're like, no, they want more. They're greed.
Speaker 3: You gotta be greedy, ridy, right, you gotta. It's like
Speaker 3: me back in the day. It's a buffet. You gotta
Speaker 3: be greedy, man, you gotta go for it.
Speaker 1: I love it, Yeah, absolutely, yes, But what does that
Speaker 1: greed end? And as uh as they say, you're a
Speaker 1: gambling man? Yeah, sure, all money not good money. And
Speaker 1: we'll get into that when we come back. Oh yes,
Speaker 1: Today's afternoon Delight is Texas by Blake Shelton. The country
Speaker 1: star dropped this single last weekend, and what is its
Speaker 1: first release since leaving Warner Music for the BMG Music label.
Speaker 1: The singer said that his time off from recording music
Speaker 1: and being a judge on the Voice reinvigorated him. When
Speaker 1: talking about the song, he said, the thing that struck
Speaker 1: me about Texas immediately was how different it sounded from me.
Speaker 1: And I'm always looking to push myself else. I think
Speaker 1: there's something really special about this record and important for
Speaker 1: me again. Today's Afternoon Delight is Texas by Blake Shelton.
Speaker 1: Uh Ben Mahler joins us, spreads out, Hey Ben so
Speaker 1: staying with the Dodgers. Yes, and by the way, Eric Dickerson.
Speaker 1: Dickerson is going to join us for the Ford NFL
Speaker 1: Spotlight coming up at the top of the hour at
Speaker 1: one o'clock and we'll get into the Rams charge and
Speaker 1: the rest of the NFL. But right now, going back
Speaker 1: to the Dodgers, there's some there's a obviously a lot
Speaker 1: of name's been thrown out there about who the Dodgers
Speaker 1: may bring in the free agency. We talked about some
Speaker 1: of the pitchers. One name comes up and has been
Speaker 1: coming up is Carlos Korea. Now they the Dodgers have
Speaker 1: already said that Mooki is moving back to the infill
Speaker 1: and most believe that he's going to move back to
Speaker 1: second base. We did the uh he played, you know
Speaker 1: a lot of games that shortstop, got injured and then
Speaker 1: went back to right field. But they are saying that
Speaker 1: he's gonna come back to the n FILM. Most believe
Speaker 1: that he's gonna come back and play second base, which
Speaker 1: leaves a lot of questions for guys like Gavin Lux,
Speaker 1: Key k even Chris Taylor, Uh, what's that gonna look
Speaker 1: like going forward? And then a couple other names. Willia
Speaker 1: Domas has come up as as far as the Dodgers
Speaker 1: bringing them in play shortstop full time. You know, obviously
Speaker 1: we love Mickey Rowe, but he had his share of
Speaker 1: injuries last year and wasn't able to play in the
Speaker 1: postseason as much as uh as he to have liked.
Speaker 1: And then another name, Carlos Carre is starting to pop up.
Speaker 1: When you hear that name as a Dodger fan, and
Speaker 1: as many Dodger fans are out there, you know, and
Speaker 1: I could, I guess I could feel their stomach starting
Speaker 1: to turn a little bit. But when you hear Carlos
Speaker 1: care or anybody from that Astros team that beat the
Speaker 1: Dodgers in well that cheated.
Speaker 2: They did beat them.
Speaker 1: Rodney, Yeah, when you hear names like that, Carlos Korea
Speaker 1: possibly the Dodgers looking at how does that make you feel?
Speaker 3: I don't believe it. I think I do not believe that.
Speaker 3: I know they've won now two World Series since twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: I get that. It makes me want to puke in
Speaker 2: my mouth.
Speaker 3: Carlos Correa was one of the headliners on that cheating episode.
Speaker 3: The back and forth between him and some of the
Speaker 3: other guys on the cheat they both went really oh yeah,
Speaker 3: they definitely went at it. But I want nothing to
Speaker 3: do with Carlos Korea.
Speaker 2: Keep them away.
Speaker 3: There are plenty of other options. If you're the Dodgers,
Speaker 3: do not open up that wound again. You do not
Speaker 3: want to. You don't want to touch any of those
Speaker 3: guys that were part of the twenty seventeen Astros, the
Speaker 3: core of it, Altuve and Bregman and those guys. I
Speaker 3: want nothing to do with those guys. I don't care
Speaker 3: if it's been seven or eight years, whatever it's going
Speaker 3: to be by next year. I want nothing to do
Speaker 3: with those guys. And the Dodgers. I don't believe they
Speaker 3: think this is fake. I know I saw the story
Speaker 3: over the weekend. I don't buy it. I think that
Speaker 3: was started by Correa and his camp to try to
Speaker 3: get out of Minnesota or whatever. But I do not
Speaker 3: believe they're gonna now they are gonna trade a bunch
Speaker 3: of guys right because as you said, Mookie Betts is
Speaker 3: gonna go back to the infield, and so there's a
Speaker 3: numbers game there where Gavin Lux likely is on the
Speaker 3: outside unless they move him somewhere else, and they you'll
Speaker 3: move him, change, have him changed positions, so he's likely
Speaker 3: gonna get traded and they're gonna have to fortify the bullpen.
Speaker 3: And I saw the story that Gradarol is gonna be
Speaker 3: out for half the season after you shoulder Surgier. Last
Speaker 3: last week he came out, so you know, you're gonna
Speaker 3: have to shuffle the bullpen yet again. So they'll they'll
Speaker 3: trade some of those guys for relief pitchers. I like
Speaker 3: Tommy Edmond. I put him out there. Tommy Edmond was
Speaker 3: great in the plus. That's the kind of guy that
Speaker 3: that you want to have.
Speaker 2: In the plus.
Speaker 3: He's not he's a big not a big money guy, Rodney,
Speaker 3: but we saw him in the NLCS when he absolutely
Speaker 3: dominated against the Mets.
Speaker 1: So uh and and and you know, as you jas,
Speaker 1: obviously you got you know, getting older, got you got
Speaker 1: got injured, got banged up and was injured, you know
Speaker 1: a lot of the postseason. But you're okay with having
Speaker 1: you know, maybe bringing bringing you know, having him there
Speaker 1: along with the Tommy Edmond that could be your regular shortstop.
Speaker 1: And you guys, you know they the Dodgers live with
Speaker 1: those two guys as your regular shortstop and let Mookie
Speaker 1: play play second base. It's still you know, obviously, like
Speaker 1: you mentioned, leaves uh leaves Gavin Lux out of the cold,
Speaker 1: but as shortstop, that wouldn't be a bad combination. Have
Speaker 1: those two guys play shortstop throughout the season.
Speaker 2: But it would not.
Speaker 3: And the other thing too, we have to remember and
Speaker 3: we've learned this last few years and it's been this
Speaker 3: way for a long time at baseball. They identify an
Speaker 3: issue in the offseason, but it's really for the first half.
Speaker 3: Whatever moves they make you for the first half because
Speaker 3: then the trade deadline, they've got to fortify the roster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they've got to bring new players in.
Speaker 3: So you're really building the roster for late March, early
Speaker 3: April until the trade deadline, which is in some times
Speaker 3: it was a.
Speaker 1: Different name, if it was a different name other than
Speaker 1: Carlos Correa, would you be okay with them entertaining bringing
Speaker 1: in and a guy of that quality because he is
Speaker 1: top shelf when it comes to shortstops in this league,
Speaker 1: would you be okay with them looking at him?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Listen, there's other infield, Willia Domas. I'm fine with
Speaker 3: Willia Domas. Like will William Domas is a good ballplayer,
Speaker 3: and I think he'd fit in well with the Dodgers
Speaker 3: if they were to bring him in here. And he's
Speaker 3: a name that has been tossed around. He played pretty
Speaker 3: well for Milwaukee last year. He's right around I think
Speaker 3: he's almost thirty or close to it or something like that.
Speaker 2: So a guy like that, yeah, I'd be fine with.
Speaker 3: And he doesn't, you know, see Rodney, he doesn't have
Speaker 3: the cooties of Carlos Cara. That's I kid, Okay, my
Speaker 3: boardop at the time.
Speaker 2: Roberto is now a fine bus driver.
Speaker 3: He's still paying off his World Series. Take us in
Speaker 3: twenty seventeen to watch the team from Houston cheat in
Speaker 3: the World Series.
Speaker 1: It still bothers me bad task. It's one thing to
Speaker 1: have the bad taste right in your mouth about that team.
Speaker 1: But he, like you mentioned, he was one of the
Speaker 1: more vocal guys about throwing it in the Dodger's face
Speaker 1: or anybody else's face about them cheating. There was no remorse,
Speaker 1: There was no like you know, listen, it was no no,
Speaker 1: he was, he was, he went, he doubled down on
Speaker 1: it didn't matter. We want any way.
Speaker 2: Well, he was walking.
Speaker 3: Around like a peacock rider. It was like he was
Speaker 3: look at me. He had all the arrogance and Shulman
Speaker 3: ship and all that. I mean, there was no sense of, well,
Speaker 3: maybe I screwed this up, maybe this was not should
Speaker 3: be quiet? Yeah, exactly to just be quiet. He got
Speaker 3: on megaphone, it was going to how annoys. He's like
Speaker 3: a professional wrestler from back to the day Rodney.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, absolutely so. So in that respect, what do
Speaker 1: you feel about like Alex Bregman, who's one of the
Speaker 1: big you know, free agents out there. He's an ass,
Speaker 1: was on that team the whole deal, but not as
Speaker 1: arrogant as.
Speaker 3: He but he's right there, cut out of the same clothing.
Speaker 3: I want nothing to do with Bregman, no to do again.
Speaker 3: Let him go play wherever, go to Toronto like another
Speaker 3: cheating asscro went the world series MVP of that that
Speaker 3: you're playing the outfit of the bitches. But listen, I
Speaker 3: don't want any of those guys, And to me, none
Speaker 3: of them are in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: Rodney.
Speaker 3: People talk about al Tuba is Hall of Famer. I
Speaker 3: wouldn't put him in. You know, you don't put Pete
Speaker 3: Rose in for cheat. This was a fixing World series
Speaker 3: of the Astros. There's some of these steroid guys. I
Speaker 3: don't want to get in that conversation with Bonds and
Speaker 3: Clemens can't get in the Hall of Fame. Altuba shouldn't
Speaker 3: get in the Hall of Fame. I think he's the
Speaker 3: only one this really got a shot to go in
Speaker 3: the Hall of Fame. As far as the position players
Speaker 3: on that team, yeah, L two and from the twenty
Speaker 3: seventeenth I don't and Bregman almost saying.
Speaker 2: He's all of it. I don't. I don't.
Speaker 3: It doesn't seem like a Hall of Famer to me.
Speaker 3: But in all candor, though, there's so many other guys
Speaker 3: out there. You don't need to bring in Bregman or
Speaker 3: care or any of these guys. Go get somebody else.
Speaker 3: There's plenty of other players that are either younger or
Speaker 3: just as good and uh, and go out and get
Speaker 3: one of those.
Speaker 2: Guys, Benny.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, Man, don't need them, don't need them.
Speaker 2: Don't want them, don't need them. We don't need them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right. On the other side, man, let's get
Speaker 1: into some football. We'll bring in the Hall of Famer
Speaker 1: Eric Dickerson for that Ford NFL spotlight and talk about
Speaker 1: the Rams and they're winning. Chargers hold on after trying
Speaker 1: to be doing what the Chargers always do is blowing
Speaker 1: a lead. But they didn't do it. We'll get into
Speaker 1: all of that on the other side, AM five seven,
Speaker 1: the LA Sports