Speaker 1: And we continue on Fred Rogan Rodney Pete on AM
Speaker 1: five seventy LA Sports later this hour. Dodger fans, we'll
Speaker 1: open the phone lines. I'll be shocked if anybody says
Speaker 1: they're panicked. Shocked, but we will give you a chance
Speaker 1: to weigh in. Green, all good, Orange, I'm a little concerned.
Speaker 1: Red Now I'm panicked. That's coming up. But now let's
Speaker 1: bring on our good friend Dylan Hernandez from the Times
Speaker 1: and Dylan, good afternoon to you.
Speaker 2: Hey, good afternoon, you guys. How you guys doing good?
Speaker 1: Dylan? If we got the panic meter? Do you even
Speaker 1: need a panic meter for the Dodgers right now?
Speaker 2: I kind of think you do.
Speaker 3: Actually, you know, I mean I'm not panicked in terms
Speaker 3: of October, right I mean now, I think the problem
Speaker 3: now is, you know, is there going to be in October?
Speaker 2: You know, I think that right now. You know one
Speaker 2: thing I've always said, and I.
Speaker 3: Think I've said this on this program, you know a
Speaker 3: number of times over the years, is that at any
Speaker 3: given time, you know, the Dodgers have ten guys in
Speaker 3: their system who can beat the Rockies on a two
Speaker 3: day right, And you know a lot about getting into
Speaker 3: October is winning games like that, and you know the
Speaker 3: fact that they kind of got swept by like Anaheim
Speaker 3: that you know, I think obviously you know, the top
Speaker 3: end of the rotation, guys getting hurt again, that kind
Speaker 3: of happens.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: The one thing that's kind of separated the Dodgers over
Speaker 3: the years is that they've had the depth to withstand
Speaker 3: those losses.
Speaker 2: And right now, you.
Speaker 3: Know kind of those right, those kind of four A
Speaker 3: guys sort of speak that you know, you kind of
Speaker 3: bring up, you know, to kind of patch in holes. Uh,
Speaker 3: those have been right, those guys have not like performed
Speaker 3: really and just kind of going forward from here. You know,
Speaker 3: on one hand, you can say, Okay, there's all this
Speaker 3: time until October for guys to get right, and that
Speaker 3: is that's totally fair, right, that's totally true. At the
Speaker 3: same time, they're also like all these games that they
Speaker 3: kind of have to win, and you kind of look
Speaker 3: at the schedule right now, right, I mean, they're going
Speaker 3: to they have some tough games coming up. You know,
Speaker 3: they're going to go play the Mets, They're going to
Speaker 3: play the Guardians. You know, they got they're going to
Speaker 3: have San Diego a couple of times, they're going to
Speaker 3: get the giants coming up in the next month, and
Speaker 3: so you know, as I'm kind of looking at this
Speaker 3: pitching situation here, right, I mean, last now the starters
Speaker 3: is probably the guy that's gonna that's closest to returning,
Speaker 3: and he might be like a month out. You know,
Speaker 3: Snell's probably a little bit after that.
Speaker 2: Old Tani.
Speaker 3: We're not expecting to see after the All Star breaks.
Speaker 3: So you know, you're really gonna kind of have to
Speaker 3: count on some of these depths guys again, you know,
Speaker 3: the land and next of the world to really kind
Speaker 3: of come through for you, and they haven't done that yet.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I still think it's May twentieth in in you know,
Speaker 4: this was June twentieth, then maybe and they're at the
Speaker 4: situation and maybe, you know, I start to be having
Speaker 4: some concerns. But Billan, were you surprised at all about
Speaker 4: Austin Barton and Chris Taylor being let go?
Speaker 3: No, not really, I guess a little bit just in that,
Speaker 3: you know, I think, you know, I think the Dodgers
Speaker 3: have kind of done right by both of those guys, right,
Speaker 3: you know, the team obviously picked up Barnes's option before
Speaker 3: the season. You know, they were they were committed to him.
Speaker 3: You know, I think one kind of bad time for
Speaker 3: him was on the last road trip, you know, in Arizona.
Speaker 2: You know, he kind of too hot to throw it
Speaker 2: to second base.
Speaker 3: And I just think it kind of became obvious that
Speaker 3: kind of maybe from like a physical standpoint, right he
Speaker 3: he wasn't a major leaguer anymore, you know. I mean
Speaker 3: that said take nothing away from him. You know, he
Speaker 3: had a grade eleven year career, and I do think
Speaker 3: you know, he brought obviously something from like a game
Speaker 3: calling standpoint, you know, that was going to kind of
Speaker 3: maybe help some guys. But you know, you kind of
Speaker 3: saw the deterioration there, and you know, Taylor was kind
Speaker 3: of at the end of the right he was kind
Speaker 3: of the last guy on the roster. He was barely playing,
Speaker 3: you know. Kind of the one thing that I kind
Speaker 3: of thought was, you know, he was a couple of
Speaker 3: months away from kind of getting that ten years of
Speaker 3: service time, which I think gets you like a lifetime
Speaker 3: you know, health insurance or something. So I thought that
Speaker 3: they might want to kind of keep him around there.
Speaker 3: You know, Now my understanding was you know that he
Speaker 3: didn't want to kind of be you know, put on
Speaker 3: the phantom disabled list that he wants to play, and
Speaker 3: so you know he kind of forced the Dodger's hand there.
Speaker 2: So you know, yes and no.
Speaker 3: You know, just the fact that on one hand, you know,
Speaker 3: they kept these guys around for as long as they did,
Speaker 3: you know, would be kind of a little bit you know,
Speaker 3: you kind of question the timing a little bit of it,
Speaker 3: but you know the reality, you know, kind of going
Speaker 3: into kind of stuff like that about the pitching. They're
Speaker 3: in a race here, right, I mean, there there are
Speaker 3: other teams in this race, and I think those decisions
Speaker 3: reflect the urgency that the Dodgers have right now.
Speaker 1: And with James Outmann being sent down to the miners,
Speaker 1: I said to Rodney earlier, I don't know if we'll
Speaker 1: ever see him at Dodger Stadium again. I think he's
Speaker 1: available on a deal for minor leaguers. Do you agree?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know that said.
Speaker 3: Guys always get hurt, right, you know, you guys get
Speaker 3: sent down, you kind of never expect to see them again. Obviously,
Speaker 3: he's you know, he's got some athleticism. You know, we've
Speaker 3: seen him. You know, I think it was this rookie
Speaker 3: year where you know, he went through like a really
Speaker 3: bad slump and kind of right was able to kind
Speaker 3: of fight his way out of that. I think, you know,
Speaker 3: that's something you know, I agree that you know, he's
Speaker 3: sure he's a piece that you can throw into a trade.
Speaker 3: I'm not really sure any teams are going to be
Speaker 3: seeking James Outman, and so you know, obviously if you
Speaker 3: don't kind of get blown away or anything, he's he's
Speaker 3: kind of a nice piece to have just in case, again,
Speaker 3: somebody happens to go down in the future.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's kind of what I said, that he's a guy,
Speaker 4: he's first on the list to come right back up.
Speaker 4: He's been here before, especially if it's you know, it's
Speaker 4: late in the season, if it's September or something like that.
Speaker 4: And do you really want to bring someone who's not
Speaker 4: been up here before to fill a role because somebody
Speaker 4: got hurt, Whereas Autman has been up here before, so
Speaker 4: the experienced factor might might help them. Hey, Dylan, you
Speaker 4: just mentioned that Dodgers are in a race, and Andrew
Speaker 4: Friedman said that they're trying to win now. They are
Speaker 4: in a tough race. Of the teams in the West,
Speaker 4: outside obviously of the Rockies, who concerns you the most?
Speaker 4: I mean, is it the Padres or is it the
Speaker 4: Diamondbacks that still play with no fear when they play
Speaker 4: the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you know, Arizona they kind of don't
Speaker 3: have the pitching right, and in San Francisco is kind
Speaker 3: of on the opposite end of that, where their pitching
Speaker 3: has been pretty good, but they can't hit, you know,
Speaker 3: and so you kind of look at the balance of
Speaker 3: the teams. You know, probably San Diego obviously is the
Speaker 3: one that scares you.
Speaker 2: You know, obviously we've seen it kind of over the years.
Speaker 3: You know it kind of Machado there and Tatis just
Speaker 3: kind of right, they kind of ride their emotions right
Speaker 3: in a good way and in a bad way.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: We've seen that go really badly for them, you know,
Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, and you know last year
Speaker 3: we kind of saw that. Okay, you know what, they're
Speaker 3: riding in a good wave here. You know, they this
Speaker 3: is a team that can win a bunch of games
Speaker 3: in a row. So you know, to me, San Diego
Speaker 3: is kind of the team that they have to worry about.
Speaker 1: Okay, aside from the fact that San Diego is a
Speaker 1: team to worry about. We said this earlier as well.
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny. Before the season started, the only
Speaker 1: thing you heard was the Dodgers spent all this money,
Speaker 1: and the Dodgers were evil, and the Dodgers have the
Speaker 1: best team. We said, by the way, that doesn't ensure
Speaker 1: you win, but it certainly gives you a pretty good chance.
Speaker 1: As they've been going through what they've been going through,
Speaker 1: I've not heard one person talk about the money the
Speaker 1: Dodgers spent. It doesn't even seem to be relevant anymore.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: If they go on to win the World Series again,
Speaker 1: people will start right now, that's not even an issue.
Speaker 1: Do you find that interesting?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: And no.
Speaker 3: I mean it's you know, kind of I mean to me, right,
Speaker 3: this past off season was really like an extension of
Speaker 3: the previous one. And I think you're right, right, I mean,
Speaker 3: there's you know, how kind of you know, is who
Speaker 3: kind of what determines how good of a season you have,
Speaker 3: And if everybody gets hurt, well that's kind of a problem, right.
Speaker 1: I Mean.
Speaker 3: The one thing I do think that the Dodgers have
Speaker 3: kind of in their advantage right, is that Let's say
Speaker 3: some other team had you know, trader for glass now
Speaker 3: and signed Glass now to the type of extension the
Speaker 3: Dodgers did. You know, that's an albatross for pretty much
Speaker 3: every other team in Major League Baseball, maybe outside of
Speaker 3: the New York mess. You know, what do the Dodgers do.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like, Okay, well, we're not really sure
Speaker 3: you know, this this Glass out thing's ever going to
Speaker 3: work out. Let's go sign Blake Snell. Now, obviously that
Speaker 3: guy got hurt. You do kind of wonder going forward
Speaker 3: from here, right, you know, this coming off season. Not
Speaker 3: to look too far ahead, but you know, this coming
Speaker 3: off season, if if this looks like Snell is going
Speaker 3: to have some physical problems going forward, you know, do
Speaker 3: they have other you know, are they flush up with cash.
Speaker 2: To go out and get another guy or is there
Speaker 2: a limit to this?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: Because if there is a limit to this, you know,
Speaker 3: I do think kind of what's happening this season is
Speaker 3: a little bit disconcerting in terms of going forward because
Speaker 3: they could limit them in terms of like what they
Speaker 3: can do. But yeah, you know, I think you're absolutely
Speaker 3: right just that, Yeah, Baseball, it's it's not.
Speaker 2: Like other sports.
Speaker 3: You know, usually you know, another sports, you just kind
Speaker 3: of get the best players things that will just kind
Speaker 3: of work out for you. Uh you know, I well,
Speaker 3: I guess I would say more about the Dodgers situation.
Speaker 3: Their money allows them to kind of paper over their mistakes,
Speaker 3: and that's definitely what they've done over the years.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, Dylan, what do you make of an automated
Speaker 1: strike zone?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm kind of one of those like human element type guys, right.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I you know, I grew up like.
Speaker 3: Playing soccer and watching soccer and stuff, and I'm not
Speaker 3: a big fan for other vaar stuff, you know, I'm
Speaker 3: I don't mind diving in a lot of sports, you know,
Speaker 3: so I don't really like like the replay element of that,
Speaker 3: you know what. But you know, I guess now, you know,
Speaker 3: with the I guess with just how big sports betting
Speaker 3: has become, maybe it's become that much more important, right
Speaker 3: they you do get that in because you know, I
Speaker 3: do think you would look at the first right, I mean,
Speaker 3: if you know, let's just say baseball eventually gained the
Speaker 3: reputation of like a soccer or a boxing where you know,
Speaker 3: there's some of nefarious stuff going on. We'll be watching
Speaker 3: these games a lot differently, right and you know, little
Speaker 3: pitch outside here gets called for a strikes.
Speaker 2: You kind of wonder what's going on. And you know
Speaker 2: now that.
Speaker 3: I guess now that I'm kind of saying this out loud, Yeah,
Speaker 3: because of the gambling element. I do think that you
Speaker 3: need to get this maybe as consistent as possible.
Speaker 1: Delan Hernandez of The Times is with us. All right, Dellan,
Speaker 1: let's just shift over for one quick second. Talk some Lakers.
Speaker 1: Given the way things ended and now they need a
Speaker 1: big man. Do you think they will be appreciably different
Speaker 1: next year?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: I mean, I think there's obviously going to be pressure
Speaker 3: for them to do that. You know, I think there's
Speaker 3: they do kind of have this window right where it's
Speaker 3: they have Luca and Lebron, you know, I mean you
Speaker 3: can you can look at it kind of the Luca timeline,
Speaker 3: and okay, they have time to kind.
Speaker 5: Of do this. You know.
Speaker 3: It's interesting because I do think, you know, kind of
Speaker 3: put Rob Helnka's you know, I would say both his
Speaker 3: strength and maybe his weakness is kind of that he
Speaker 3: has He's patient, you know, and right every trade deadline.
Speaker 2: The truth is, you know, and all that bit is.
Speaker 3: That I'm kind of bagging the drab lebron times running
Speaker 3: out do something, do something, you know what, And had
Speaker 3: they maybe done that.
Speaker 2: Maybe they wouldn't have been in a position to get Luca.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: But I do kind of think here, now that you
Speaker 3: got those two guys, there is kind of this pressure
Speaker 3: to maximize this window, you know them kind of right
Speaker 3: avoiding that Mark Williams trade at the end, you do
Speaker 3: kind of wonder.
Speaker 2: Right, did that cost them?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: Should they have kind of gone for it despite you know,
Speaker 3: what they saw? That was kind of tough, you know.
Speaker 3: But I do think that there's kind of pressure, And yeah,
Speaker 3: I do kind of think that they will get that
Speaker 3: big man eventually.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you mentioned Luca Lebron Many talks about Austin Reeves
Speaker 4: and they should move him to get another big man.
Speaker 4: And do you believe that Austin Reeves is untouchable, which
Speaker 4: a lot of people are saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that kind of seems to be right.
Speaker 3: I think I think ownership really likes Austin Reeves, right,
Speaker 3: so that that kind of sees us to be entirely
Speaker 3: a basketball decision, right.
Speaker 2: You know, I think that that's kind of tough.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: I think when you kind of step back and kind
Speaker 3: of look at the team that they have. I mean,
Speaker 3: you have a forty year old Lebron James, you have
Speaker 3: a Luca Dnsis who's not a great defender, and you
Speaker 3: got Reeves out there who's also not a great defender.
Speaker 3: It makes it kind of tough to some people, you know,
Speaker 3: I think, and I think it'll come down to the deal, right.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think it's going to be one of
Speaker 3: those things where, you know, if you can kind of
Speaker 3: convince ownership that hey, this is a move that's going
Speaker 3: to get us to the championship level, then I think
Speaker 3: it happens.
Speaker 2: But if it's.
Speaker 3: Something a little bit below that, you know, and it's
Speaker 3: right because if you're you know, it's just like what
Speaker 3: they other job, right, you go to your boss and
Speaker 3: you say, hey, I think if we do this, we're
Speaker 3: going to get better. It's coming on how much of
Speaker 3: your reputation and your job security are you willing to
Speaker 3: stake on that? And so it's really gonna have to
Speaker 3: be a game changing type move. My guess is that
Speaker 3: it's not.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know. I find it hard to
Speaker 2: believe that they're gonna you know.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be something that's not off on our radar.
Speaker 3: I think if if Reevesays gets traded, it's gonna have
Speaker 3: to be of that magnitude.
Speaker 1: All right, Dylan, thank you, appreciate it as always, and
Speaker 1: have a great week.
Speaker 2: And you guys, thank you for having me on.
Speaker 1: Okay, there goes our buddy, Dylan Hernandez. Now here's the question,
Speaker 1: Dodger fans. You heard Dylan. Dylan had a bit more
Speaker 1: concern than we did. But uh, are you concerned at
Speaker 1: all right now about what's happening with the team. They've
Speaker 1: dropped four straight. They look terrible against the Angels last night,
Speaker 1: they were sheld early, couldn't come back. Uh eight six
Speaker 1: six nine, eight seven two five seventy. So, Dodger fans,
Speaker 1: we haven't done this yet. This year. We'll open the
Speaker 1: phone lines. We're gonna go with the panic meter. Green, allgood,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? Nothing to see here? Shut up? Orange.
Speaker 1: You know I'm a little bit worried about what's happening here. Red,
Speaker 1: I have real concerns. Eight sixty six nine eight seven
Speaker 1: two five seventy Naura. Let's fire up the old panic meter,
Speaker 1: Rodney and see what people have to say. Let's go
Speaker 1: bred Rug and Rodney pen on AM five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 1: You understand why we're playing that. It's the team h Cheers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and today we lost George went seventy six years old,
Speaker 1: the lovable character from Cheers, Norm the guy that sat
Speaker 1: at the bar. And if you remember when Norms used
Speaker 1: to be one of our partners, we would run that Norms.
Speaker 1: And that was because everybody would do that when Norm
Speaker 1: or George went walked into the bar at Cheer, big
Speaker 1: lovable everybody like George went seventy six years old. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Cheers was a part of Americana. There are
Speaker 1: some iconic television shows and generationally, you know, certain things
Speaker 1: stick out to you. But certainly a show like Cheers,
Speaker 1: I think transcends generations. Rodney, and it is one of
Speaker 1: the most viewed television shows in history.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's uh, yeah, it's it's one of those that
Speaker 4: had a great run to it. The characters were fantastic,
Speaker 4: you know, you know, you know the show's iconic. When
Speaker 4: they they give you the final episode of X Y
Speaker 4: z show. Right, it don't just go off the air.
Speaker 4: This will be the final episode of Tiers. Remember the
Speaker 4: final episode of Mash you know, and and Teers was
Speaker 4: one of those shows, and it created a lot of
Speaker 4: stars came from that show. So but again, yeah, George
Speaker 4: went the lovable character and I don't know, I mean,
Speaker 4: you got to be almost under rock if you lived
Speaker 4: in the eighties and nineties and not no nor from Cheers.
Speaker 1: The thing is so Cheers at its final episode, it
Speaker 1: was on NBC. Then they had this great idea they
Speaker 1: were going to go live to the actual Cheers Bar
Speaker 1: in Boston. Have you ever been there, Rodney? I have, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: me too. Yeah, it's small, very it's small. They're going
Speaker 1: to go live to the Cheers Bar and they're going
Speaker 1: to have the cast there and they're actually going to
Speaker 1: be sitting in the bar and they're going to do
Speaker 1: like a half hour show. On paper. That sounded brilliant
Speaker 1: on paper, you thought, now that was good. This is
Speaker 1: going to be a killer. They didn't anticipate that the
Speaker 1: people would start drinking. They were in a bar. They
Speaker 1: did that thing, and even a cast members, we're just
Speaker 1: a little toasted. Let's hear it down a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh it was great. It was really really funny. Okay,
Speaker 1: so now let's get to some calls, and the question
Speaker 1: is Dodger fans green, good? Orange? Man, I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit worried. Red. Oh my god, I'm panicked. Where are
Speaker 1: you with your panic meter? Let's see is anybody gonna
Speaker 1: do anything but green? Well, let's find out. We'll go
Speaker 1: to the ninety one pre way justin appreciate your holding
Speaker 1: drive safely. You're on the air.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I'm green all the way. They've got
Speaker 7: three MVPs. We had crabby pitch last year, still did
Speaker 7: it with Yamamoto. And plus the season's got about six
Speaker 7: months left before you would make the playoffs. So if
Speaker 7: you're not green, you're just a worried person.
Speaker 1: Yeah's right. If you're not green, you're a worried person.
Speaker 1: Maybe if you're not green, you must cry out for help.
Speaker 1: Because really, I thought he summed that up pretty honestly. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't think we have quite six more months of baseball,
Speaker 4: but we got a lot of months left. But he's right, No,
Speaker 4: he's right. It's just it's way too early to beat Panny.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go down to Anaheim. Kenny, all right,
Speaker 1: thanks for holding Kenny. Are you from Anaheim?
Speaker 2: Yes, I am all right.
Speaker 1: That being said, you're from Anaheim. How did you feel
Speaker 1: about the angel sweeping the Dodgers?
Speaker 2: It hurt. It sucked to see.
Speaker 8: I will say Saturday night was a little bittersweet seeing
Speaker 8: Kershaw fight through four innings and having Candley come out
Speaker 8: in the ninth suck to Lewis, but it was a
Speaker 8: little bittersweet, that's all.
Speaker 5: I'll say.
Speaker 1: All right, so your panic meter is where.
Speaker 5: Free?
Speaker 8: We're okay, And I'll say this, we're still in first place.
Speaker 8: I decided we were green and we're fine before I
Speaker 8: even checked the standings, and I just checked them right now,
Speaker 8: we're still in first place. Like Bill Burr said about
Speaker 8: the United States Army in World War Two, we're gonna
Speaker 8: end up McDonald's in the rest of the league. With
Speaker 8: just more deaths, more pitching, they'll find a way.
Speaker 1: We're fine, Okay. I remember that from World War two?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Oh okay, in some history books. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that was a big World War two slogan.
Speaker 1: We're going to McDonald's them.
Speaker 9: Oh, I thought you were on the front lines there, Fred.
Speaker 1: That's no, you didn't Phil Murray and Stripes. Fred, that's right.
Speaker 1: I thought I was in the front lines going on
Speaker 1: with let's go to Rosemead. Polo. Polo's on the phone, Hey, Polo,
Speaker 1: what's going on?
Speaker 10: Hey? Uh well, I guess it looks like everybody's saying green.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 10: I was gonna say green, but you know what, just
Speaker 10: to be doubled up, kid, Oh, I'll say what orange
Speaker 10: with the next one? Orange?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Orange?
Speaker 10: You know, sure, why not right now? Right now, I'll
Speaker 10: put that disclaimer right now? Yeah, sure, why not? It's
Speaker 10: a four game losing streak. We only had one, I
Speaker 10: believe four game losing streak last year. Now it's it
Speaker 10: goes past that. The yeah, but again it's all now,
Speaker 10: it's you know overall, Hey, we're good, all.
Speaker 1: Right, okay, said we're good. But he's just doing it
Speaker 1: for to be different, right, Well, he wanted to be
Speaker 1: Double's advocate. Yeah, okay, here is someone who always is optimistic.
Speaker 1: By the way, what's your panic meter? Eight six six,
Speaker 1: nine eighty seven two five seventy. But here is someone
Speaker 1: who was always optimistic. You can hear it in this
Speaker 1: person's voice. And understand it very clearly when they say it.
Speaker 1: We go back to Anaheim and welcome on, Isabelle. Isabelle,
Speaker 1: what is your panic meter?
Speaker 6: Hey plays by money coin some champion. I'm at week now,
Speaker 6: but I know I'm fine. You guys, we are still
Speaker 6: in first place. I mean with the guy you said
Speaker 6: right now, you know it's not like we are in atak. Yeah,
Speaker 6: it's first, lad In, trust me. I hate this. I
Speaker 6: even hated this weekend. Credit. It's just this weekend. I
Speaker 6: hate the Angels, EdWay, I'm pertady, but yeah, they'll be fine.
Speaker 6: He'll be fine.
Speaker 4: So wow, Okay, Yeah, that guttural sound you made concerned
Speaker 4: all of us, Isabelle.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I'm fine, idea okay, yeah, I think I
Speaker 6: hate the angel so much anyway, and living in Anaheider
Speaker 6: and out there anyway.
Speaker 2: We have a good day, all right, you too?
Speaker 1: There goes Isabelle. I told you when she speaks, there
Speaker 1: is no question you know exactly where she stands. Although
Speaker 1: I have to be honest, and the years that a
Speaker 1: Bell has been calling the program, I've never heard of
Speaker 1: that sort of guttural emission that exploded from her during
Speaker 1: her conversation Rodney this nice, nice deed for you to
Speaker 1: point that out right, Well, you appreciate that.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 1: I I think it was an emotional thing. That's what
Speaker 1: I think it was. I think it was emotion, pure
Speaker 1: unbridled emotion. Okay, let's go to a San Jacinto Russ. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: oh uh, Joy for just a minute. It's about blas,
Speaker 1: it's about flax, all right, serious, okay, okay, all right, okay,
Speaker 1: A joy in Alpine, A Joy? Where's your meter?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 11: First, Briand I just got to say the next the
Speaker 11: next show might go after you for going after throwing it.
Speaker 1: Will, yes, they will.
Speaker 5: It is he that.
Speaker 4: Good?
Speaker 1: No? Joy? This is good? Do they do? They put
Speaker 1: her on for a long periods of time.
Speaker 11: I think they had it on for her birthday last time,
Speaker 11: and they had her on for a bit, had on
Speaker 11: for a bit.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we do wish your happy birthday. Sure, you
Speaker 1: know what, we wish your belated happy birthday. That's just
Speaker 1: as good.
Speaker 2: There you go, there you go.
Speaker 11: That makes so worth. You're in the green. Now you're
Speaker 11: in the green too.
Speaker 1: Thank you?
Speaker 11: No, but I think we're in the green.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 11: I have a runny joke with my unfortunate Yankee cousins
Speaker 11: pre Independence Day, post Independence Day. You guys have stayed
Speaker 11: in multiple times. We haven't been told yet that any
Speaker 11: of these injuries are major in the Pigeon staff. Let's
Speaker 11: wait for them to come back. You guys clearly stayed
Speaker 11: at it earlier. You know, we get them back then
Speaker 11: it's a whole different ballpark and we got time to go.
Speaker 11: We're still in first place.
Speaker 1: All right, there, you go appreciate it a joy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no worries right now. No worries. I don't see why
Speaker 1: anyone would be concerned at this point except the person
Speaker 1: that said I'll be Devil's advocate and just be concerned.
Speaker 1: You just have to understand fans in this city are
Speaker 1: unlike fans in most places because you have ridden this
Speaker 1: wave and you did it last year, and you saw
Speaker 1: when they hit the beach and we're still standing, and
Speaker 1: you know they're going to be ups and downs. Also,
Speaker 1: if you're a Dodger fan, you are well aware of
Speaker 1: the fact that they suffer injuries, and certainly to their
Speaker 1: pictures in the past, you were trying to figure out
Speaker 1: what happened because all of the young guys in the
Speaker 1: system would come up and suddenly they were hurt. This year,
Speaker 1: Blake Snell didn't come up in the system. Rookie Sazaki
Speaker 1: has been here for ten minutes. So these are just
Speaker 1: other kinds of arm injuries. Tyler Glassnell, that's a different story.
Speaker 1: But you have to remember Rodney when the Dodgers signed him, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they knew that he had problems. He had had problems
Speaker 1: in the past. Yeah, they knew his history in Tampa.
Speaker 4: So yeah, they knew what they were getting and they
Speaker 4: were just, you know, just hoping that they could, you know,
Speaker 4: get the better version, the healthier version of him, and
Speaker 4: keep it going. But unfortunately, the last couple of years
Speaker 4: he's suffered those injuries.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go down to Anaheim. Hector was holding, we
Speaker 1: have a lot of people in Anaheim that listen to
Speaker 1: the show. They're kind of down there in Angel territory.
Speaker 1: So Hector appreciate you holding. Where's your panic meter at?
Speaker 12: So I'm saying red. If you look at the next
Speaker 12: thirty games because of the teams we have to play with.
Speaker 12: If you're looking at the All Star break, it should
Speaker 12: be orange. If you're looking at October, it's green. But
Speaker 12: the next thirty days, thirty games are so important for
Speaker 12: the Dodgers. The starting pitching needs at least give us
Speaker 12: five innings, if not six, whenever you can. Today's the
Speaker 12: big day with yamam little pitching, because there's not all
Speaker 12: the pressure goes on the bullpen, and the bullpen can't
Speaker 12: seem to hold it. They're tired. You're using fresh new
Speaker 12: arms that we that most Dodger offense may may not
Speaker 12: have heard of at the beginning of the season, like
Speaker 12: Luis Garcia, Servino Sour. I mean, it's it's tough, so
Speaker 12: right right now, over the next thirty days, also break
Speaker 12: orange October green, We'll be fine.
Speaker 1: All right, appreciate that, Thanks so much. All Let's go
Speaker 1: to Fullerton, Antonio. You're on a five seventy LA Sports
Speaker 1: and you're thinking, what all good?
Speaker 5: Oh, we're all.
Speaker 2: Good over here. But I think I might as well
Speaker 2: piggyback right off what Hector just said earlier. He's right.
Speaker 2: These next couple of days, these games are very important.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of work to do, but the Dodgers
Speaker 3: are just such a great organization that they got this
Speaker 3: green light all the way.
Speaker 1: All right, great Gabriel and the LBC Gabriel for calling.
Speaker 1: Thanks for holding. Go ahead.
Speaker 13: Hey, how's it going, Rogan Rodney?
Speaker 5: Thank you good Michael.
Speaker 13: All My panic meter is orange. You know, I'm I'm
Speaker 13: a little concerned, but not overly concerned, you know, like
Speaker 13: many have touched on. Last year, we had a lot
Speaker 13: of injuries throughout the season. Yamamoto was out for three months.
Speaker 13: And it's funny, Fred, you had said too, like why
Speaker 13: our why aren't our pitchers just always getting hurt? And
Speaker 13: you know when when this comes up this time of year,
Speaker 13: it's like, Okay, here we go again. But the only
Speaker 13: thing that will make me worry a little bit is
Speaker 13: we're losing some games that we should be winning. And
Speaker 13: in a tight n ol West race. You know, I
Speaker 13: hope that doesn't come to hurt us at the end.
Speaker 13: So Orange, you know, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 1: Nice, Gabriel appreciate that.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: Two more, we'll go to Dwarte. Spencer is holding. Spencer
Speaker 1: you think all is good? Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're green.
Speaker 9: I think Dave's got such a good idea of how
Speaker 9: the roster works that you know, he's been able to
Speaker 9: tiptoe around all these injuries for so many years that
Speaker 9: I mean, if it comes down to the end of
Speaker 9: the season and we're not looking good. Then it gets
Speaker 9: a little spooky. But hey, Fred, I got a question
Speaker 9: for you. What why are you big league?
Speaker 2: And Izzy? Huh what?
Speaker 10: Okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah you heard that too, didn't you heard that?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Come on, come on, Rodnie, you gotta put him in
Speaker 9: his place.
Speaker 11: That's the biggest Dodger fan in Los Angeles. And you're going, okay,
Speaker 11: doing all the dad.
Speaker 1: Com Yeah yeah, yeah, him called him that.
Speaker 9: What I was doing got about to l a great
Speaker 9: is the best we got?
Speaker 1: No, I'm not question no he.
Speaker 2: Dare you?
Speaker 1: Okay, let's okay, Yeah, I'm not questioning.
Speaker 2: And okay, yeah, okay, Fred.
Speaker 1: I'm not, but you gotta I mean, you know, Mitch
Speaker 1: is a different story.
Speaker 2: Now, come on, Mitch is a nerd?
Speaker 6: Is the queen of Buena Park?
Speaker 2: How dare you pray? Don't you step to the queen?
Speaker 1: Ok? Sorry, all spent your I apologize, all right, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Don't apologize to me, apologize to the queen.
Speaker 1: I already I already said happy belated birthday to the Queen.
Speaker 9: I know she had an adult though, I think goodbye goodness.
Speaker 1: All right, let's let's wrap it up with ed in
Speaker 1: East Vale, Ed, go ahead, what's going on?
Speaker 3: Guys?
Speaker 5: Rodney?
Speaker 14: First of all, First of all, your son is an inspiration.
Speaker 14: We have two autistic grandsons, and I look at our
Speaker 14: J and I just I get choked up when I
Speaker 14: think about what he's doing. And I'm just so impressed
Speaker 14: with what you and Holly do with him, and what
Speaker 14: a great young man he is.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it, man, Thanks for saying that.
Speaker 14: No, dude, r J inspires so many people. Just so
Speaker 14: you know, I can't talk about it without crying, but
Speaker 14: really really dazzled. You guys are great friends. You and
Speaker 14: I went to SC together.
Speaker 13: You wouldn't remember me.
Speaker 14: I definitely remember you and said when you were working
Speaker 14: with TJ that Fred was your TJ. Eighteen years ago,
Speaker 14: you get James Denton in studio with you, and I
Speaker 14: was running the Fullerton Flyers, and I call it in
Speaker 14: and we got Jamie to come on and eventually became
Speaker 14: an owner of our team. And my reason for the
Speaker 14: call in response to your question is in my early
Speaker 14: baseball we won a championship that year and it is
Speaker 14: hard to come back and repeat. I've been orange on
Speaker 14: the Dodgers since the beginning, not that I don't believe
Speaker 14: in the moves, and not that I don't believe in
Speaker 14: this team that you guys know, it's been twenty five
Speaker 14: years since anybody's done it. So I worry about the
Speaker 14: systemic issues with the pitching, the injuries that's been going
Speaker 14: on for years. There's something going on where the Dodgers,
Speaker 14: more than anyone, have all these injuries, and I worry
Speaker 14: that if our pitching doesn't get right. And the optimist
Speaker 14: in me says we will, but the realist in me worries.
Speaker 14: So I'm orange as much as I'm a diehard Dodger
Speaker 14: fan and I want to be green, I worry that
Speaker 14: the pitching won't hold up. So that's my response. And again,
Speaker 14: r J, thank you and Fred.
Speaker 1: Good to reconnect that great talking to you.
Speaker 4: That was very much absolutely absolutely yeah, thank you for
Speaker 4: saying that it. Yeah, yeah, you look at it from AFAR.
Speaker 4: I mean, we're in it every day, but you look
Speaker 4: at it from AFAR You're like, what's going on with
Speaker 4: the Dodger pitching In the last few years. It's been
Speaker 4: and I don't know the stats right off the top
Speaker 4: of my head, but more injuries to the pitching staff
Speaker 4: than any other team out there.
Speaker 1: It just feels that way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And is it something that's going on
Speaker 4: the way they're doing it, I don't know, but it's
Speaker 4: very very strange that year after year after year there's
Speaker 4: the pitching issues.
Speaker 1: Well, they're looking into it. During the offseason. They conducted
Speaker 1: a study. Neil Alatroge was involved, Yeah, Andrew Fraeman was involved,
Speaker 1: Brandon Golmes was involved, and they're trying to come up
Speaker 1: with the reasons why those guys got hurt. But again,
Speaker 1: this year is a little different. Again, Sazakti just got here,
Speaker 1: so they didn't do anything. Blake Snell, they didn't do anything.
Speaker 1: It wasn't because of the way they taught them to
Speaker 1: pitch or anything. Last now we know he was hurt,
Speaker 1: but it was hurt for a got here, then it
Speaker 1: was healthy. I don't know if he's if he's even
Speaker 1: made it through a season not getting hurt. U Yammoto
Speaker 1: had a sore arm last year. He's okay this year.
Speaker 1: So I think this year is a little different because
Speaker 1: these guys haven't come up through the Dodger system, and
Speaker 1: not that the Dodger system is wrong, but they looked
Speaker 1: at it and I don't know. I don't think they
Speaker 1: published all of the findings of that report yet, but
Speaker 1: you can rest assured the Dodgers know there was a
Speaker 1: situation and they have been looking into it. Ken looks
Speaker 1: be deceiving. That's next.
Speaker 15: Oh, Roddy p Fred Rogan and just just a big
Speaker 15: shout out all they called in, especially our good friend Isabelle,
Speaker 15: and just want to give her some love.
Speaker 4: Because I don't know. She heard Fred mumbling while she
Speaker 4: was talking. I was just admiring what she was saying. Yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 4: he loves he she knows that.
Speaker 1: I know all he does. Okay, so there's some concern
Speaker 1: for Bill Bolichick, you think, Yeah, there's some concern. New
Speaker 1: York Times report came out and in there it was
Speaker 1: suggested that he is now and not confirmed, but suggested
Speaker 1: that he is now engaged to his girlfriend, Jordan Hudson.
Speaker 1: She's twenty forty seventy two. But now that was suggested
Speaker 1: and suddenly people became like a little freaked out by this.
Speaker 1: His family and friends are concerned that she basically has
Speaker 1: just cast a spell over him. She's controlling all of
Speaker 1: his stuff away from football. She's not going to be
Speaker 1: in the huddle calling plays. But she has become the
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick brand manager. She is making deals, she is
Speaker 1: stopping deals.
Speaker 13: And.
Speaker 1: She is very, very ingrained in Bill Belichick's world, Rodney,
Speaker 1: should people be concerned for Bill Belichick? Do you have
Speaker 1: concerns about Bill Belichick? Well, first off, I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't claim to know too much about his relationship
Speaker 4: with Jordan other than there's a big age gap.
Speaker 1: And I think that she.
Speaker 4: I think he Someone was reported that he went to she.
Speaker 4: I guess she's still like a beauty pageant girl. She
Speaker 4: was running for second runner up in Miss Maine and
Speaker 4: Miss Maine, and and he was sitting next to her
Speaker 4: forty nine year old father.
Speaker 1: Correct. I guess, So that's a little weird. That's a
Speaker 1: little weird.
Speaker 4: I will say, like I said, I don't know the
Speaker 4: ins and outs of their relationship, and I don't think
Speaker 4: anybody really does until there's a lot of speculation. But
Speaker 4: it was a little cringey when she was in the
Speaker 4: background of that CBS Morning interview and basically was given
Speaker 4: the thumbs up, thumbs down, we're not talking about this,
Speaker 4: We're not talking about that, basically directing the whole interview
Speaker 4: from the couch, not all the way off camera, by
Speaker 4: the way, you could kind of see her and she
Speaker 4: was chiming in along the way.
Speaker 1: And you just don't.
Speaker 4: All the years of seeing and hearing Bill Belichick and
Speaker 4: the way he has been, you know, in control of situations,
Speaker 4: to see him again from afar that he is not
Speaker 4: in control of his life or his narrative. It feels
Speaker 4: very very strange and weird.
Speaker 1: It does seem weird, yeah, and it really seems weird.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean to make it an age thing,
Speaker 1: but you have someone who is highly successful and accomplished
Speaker 1: to what they do, made an awful lot of money
Speaker 1: doing it, and a champion seventy two years old, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden it appears that someone twenty four
Speaker 1: has now captured anything he does and is making the
Speaker 1: decisions on it. I don't know. And maybe she's a
Speaker 1: brilliant business person and wise beyond her years, but I'm
Speaker 1: thinking at a certain point, experience does have something to
Speaker 1: do with the way you operate. And Bill Belichick is
Speaker 1: operated in the public eye for years. For Jordan, she
Speaker 1: has burst into the public eye given her relationship with Bill,
Speaker 1: and the concern here is that people are worried that
Speaker 1: she has now just basically put him in a trance
Speaker 1: and whatever she says goes. I mean, she's not going
Speaker 1: to be calling plays at North Carolina. She's not going
Speaker 1: to come out of the huddle, I know.
Speaker 4: Like people suggesting that she's in meetings and stuff like that, She's.
Speaker 1: Not going to do that. No, she's not going to
Speaker 1: be at North Carolina next to him. No.
Speaker 4: North Carolina had to come out. I guess they were
Speaker 4: reported that they say she's not welcome on campus or
Speaker 4: something like that, and then they had to come out
Speaker 4: with the statements that we never said that and we
Speaker 4: love her. Yeah, I don't care. If you know, if
Speaker 4: she's a she's a savant. At twenty four years old.
Speaker 4: You do not have the life experience. You just don't.
Speaker 4: You don't have life experience that he has, or even
Speaker 4: some things that are going on in the world or
Speaker 4: the business world that he's involved in, and that only
Speaker 4: comes from living. That only comes from living, and so
Speaker 4: she doesn't quite have that. So to turn that over
Speaker 4: to someone that young who doesn't have that kind of experience,
Speaker 4: I think for the people close to him and the
Speaker 4: people around him, it's a little frightening.
Speaker 1: All right, here's a question, then, won't go to break?
Speaker 1: Here's a question. What will happen first? North Carolina will
Speaker 1: when the National College Football Playoff? That's option one or
Speaker 1: option two? Bill Belichick, Mary's Jordan Hudson. What will happen first?
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick marries Jordan? That's right.
Speaker 4: Here comes to ride, here comes to pride. I think
Speaker 4: you never win a championship in North Carolina?
Speaker 1: All right? How about this? Do you think you will
Speaker 1: marry her? Yeah? I do? Oh God, not, I do?
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 1: I can't believe you said that. I do. You don't think?
Speaker 1: You don't think outside voice with that? You should just
Speaker 1: think to yourself, yeah he will, but your answer should
Speaker 1: be no, there's no way.
Speaker 4: But you just know came unfortunately. I gotta be real
Speaker 4: about it, Fred, and I think he will. I think
Speaker 4: he is what they call sprung. Okay, all right, he's sprung.
Speaker 4: Uh So what Kevin put is Kevin put in a note?
Speaker 2: Don't say it?
Speaker 3: I know what I wrote in the rundown.
Speaker 1: You gotta break run?
Speaker 11: Yeahs.
Speaker 1: The wader of either of you have noticed that. By
Speaker 1: the way, why don't you want right need to say?
Speaker 1: You know pro your eyes only, you know. Okay, when
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