WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:07.679 All right, we continue on Fred Rogan Rodney peaked on 2 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:10.800 a ive seventy LA Sports. If you missed any of 3 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:12.279 the first hour you want to hear it, go back 4 00:00:12.279 --> 00:00:14.759 and check out the podcast. Adam will put it up 5 00:00:14.759 --> 00:00:16.559 the minute we get off the air. Just download the 6 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:20.320 app iHeartRadio App and uh go back, check it out 7 00:00:20.399 --> 00:00:22.120 some of the interviews we've done in the past. If 8 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:24.640 you'd like to revisit those, they're up there. And if 9 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:26.320 you have the app, you can take the show wherever 10 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:29.679 you go live. But the key Rodney is to get 11 00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:31.320 the iHeartRadio app. 12 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:33.439 That's right, you get the app. 13 00:00:33.719 --> 00:00:36.240 You can listen to us no matter where you are 14 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:43.000 around the world. Well yeah, of course, yes, around the world. 15 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:46.039 That's why you're listen to us. Yeah, you've seen people 16 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:49.880 listen to the app red in Morocco. I'm Portugal. I 17 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:53.679 was sitting right there. Yeah, I'm sitting right there. Absolutely 18 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:57.000 I see people listening to the listening on the app. 19 00:00:57.560 --> 00:01:00.560 So for me, I know it works anywhere in the world. 20 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:08.959 Just download free iHeartRadio app. Okay, Dodger fans, how you feeling. 21 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:13.239 How you feeling right now? Let's check it out. Let's 22 00:01:13.239 --> 00:01:16.799 see where we're at. We're three games up on the padres, 23 00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:20.799 four games up on the Diamondbacks. How do you feel 24 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:23.040 right now? Because I know you didn't think it'd be 25 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:28.799 this way. You thought they'd mow everybody down. Also, Glass 26 00:01:28.840 --> 00:01:32.519 now goes back on the I l Freddy finger. He's 27 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:34.920 got Freddie finger. Freddie Freeman's got the finger. 28 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:36.560 Freddy Fingers. 29 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:42.400 What do we in the ping Pong's that movie Freddy Fingers? 30 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:49.319 Ping pong movie with somebody? 31 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:55.400 I mean it was crazy crazy dodgeball, Yes, yes, yes, 32 00:01:55.680 --> 00:02:01.280 Freddy Fingers. It was about Todd Green movie Terry Crews. 33 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:03.840 With Freddy Fingers. It was a great ping pong player 34 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:06.480 in a tournament. Got all right, Well, you know Freddy's 35 00:02:06.519 --> 00:02:08.479 got his finger, and we'll find out about that. 36 00:02:09.919 --> 00:02:12.199 So we'll find out. I'll find out. 37 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:15.560 Good, you find out. You can find out, Yes, I can, 38 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:19.280 so please find that out. Three games up on the padres, 39 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:23.319 four games up on Arizona. Uh, Dodger fans, how you 40 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:27.520 feeling right now? Are you concerned at all? Honestly? Are 41 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:31.199 you concerned? I think this is very good for them. 42 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:34.919 It's a bit mind numbing and nail biting, but I 43 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:37.560 think it's good for him. I like that they have 44 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:41.039 to fight this year because we've seen what happens when 45 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:44.800 they don't. Granted you don't need this litany of injuries, 46 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:51.000 but they're battling through it, they're dealing with it. And 47 00:02:51.039 --> 00:02:54.800 in that regard, Rodney, I think this is as painful 48 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:57.560 as it can be at times, not a bad thing. 49 00:02:57.680 --> 00:03:02.680 What do you think painful? Why is it painful? Balls 50 00:03:02.680 --> 00:03:04.159 of Fury is what it was called. 51 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:10.719 By the way the movie. Uh yeah, Well it depends 52 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:12.919 if it's painful. If you if you did like you mentioned, 53 00:03:12.919 --> 00:03:15.599 if if fans were out there thinking this was gonna 54 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:18.520 be a runaway and mowing them down and Dodgers gonna 55 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:20.280 just run away with the World Series, which a lot 56 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:22.599 of people believe. Soon does they signed show hal Tani 57 00:03:22.639 --> 00:03:25.639 it is like this World Series, it's an easy win. 58 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:28.520 Just book it, bet it, do all the things. Now 59 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:30.879 you still got to play. You still got to play. 60 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:34.360 And I think you know now more than ever. Baseball 61 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:38.960 when it comes to parody, is as good as any league. 62 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:43.000 And you can go from worse to first in a heartbeat. Uh, 63 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:47.560 in this league. And so to simply just think, because 64 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:51.280 Otani is on the Dodgers that they were just gonna 65 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:54.400 be twenty games up in the division and and roll 66 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:56.919 through the playoffs and roll through the World Series. 67 00:03:57.039 --> 00:03:58.719 Not gonna happen. Not gonna happen. 68 00:03:58.759 --> 00:04:03.240 He's one guy, and he can hit eighty home runs 69 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:06.719 right and have the best year ever of any individual players. 70 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:08.479 But if the rest of the team is not there, 71 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:12.360 or they suffer a number of injuries like they have, 72 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:15.280 then you're not gonna win the World Series. One guy 73 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:16.959 can't do it in a team sport. If he was 74 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:20.079 playing tennis, then you know, yeah, you can put your 75 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:22.759 money on Otani. But but right now, it's a team 76 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:25.600 sport and you need it. You need pitching, you need catching, 77 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:28.959 you need guys to hit in front of and behind 78 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:33.959 sho Heyo Tani. So there's no foregone conclusion. But if 79 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:36.519 you if that was your mindset, then yeah, you're disappointed. 80 00:04:37.160 --> 00:04:40.519 If you were realistic that this is a long season 81 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:45.519 and baseball is competitive as it's ever been, then you're 82 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:48.160 happy that the Dodgers are still in first place, but 83 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:49.839 you know that it's gonna be competitive. 84 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:51.720 Yeah. 85 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:54.480 You always said when you were playing at USC you 86 00:04:54.519 --> 00:04:58.360 didn't want any gimmes, you didn't want any layups. You 87 00:04:58.480 --> 00:05:00.920 enjoyed it when it was difficult, isn't that right? 88 00:05:01.399 --> 00:05:01.720 Yeah? 89 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:03.639 It made us fight, It made us You mean, I 90 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:05.879 don't want the game to be over in the first quarter. 91 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:08.480 I mean, you know, when you're in it, Yeah, those 92 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:10.920 are those are fun times because you're blowing somebody out 93 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:13.279 and you get you know, your some of your buddies 94 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:15.959 that are backups, get to go play extensive periods of time. 95 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:19.240 But for the most part, you want to be challenged. 96 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:21.959 You want to be challenged all the way through, and 97 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:23.839 you have to make, you know, play your best to 98 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:27.800 win because that makes you better in the long run, 99 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:29.839 and it makes you better at the end of the season. 100 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:33.279 So if you have cake walks all the way through 101 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:35.759 and then all of a sudden you're throwing up against 102 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:37.360 a team that's pretty good or is just as good 103 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:41.160 as you, it's tough to turn it back on. So 104 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:43.519 you want it to be in a lot of ways. 105 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:45.759 It's good to be in a dog fight down the stretch. 106 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:49.959 You know, even with this dog fight, they are seventy 107 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:52.720 three and fifty two, The Phillies are seventy three and 108 00:05:52.759 --> 00:05:56.439 fifty one. The Brewers are seventy two and fifty two. 109 00:05:56.759 --> 00:05:58.600 By the way, after what we saw in Milwaukee. I 110 00:05:58.600 --> 00:06:00.839 think the Dodgers can beat the Brewers. Granted the Brewers 111 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:03.959 got a couple, but that was an implosion of the bullpen. 112 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:08.519 I think the Dodgers can beat the Brewers. I think 113 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:10.199 it's fine. I really do. 114 00:06:10.600 --> 00:06:10.800 Yeah. 115 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:13.560 And that's what people forget, I think is that that's 116 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:16.279 not if they if not the best record, second best 117 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:18.959 record in the National League, right they're right behind the Phillies. Yeah, 118 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:24.480 and then they're right behind the best record in baseball 119 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:29.399 as well. So it's not like they with all the 120 00:06:29.399 --> 00:06:32.399 injuries and all the things they've gone through, they're still 121 00:06:32.439 --> 00:06:35.079 at the top of Major League Baseball in terms of 122 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:38.000 winning best record. And so that has to say a 123 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:42.560 lot about the you know about this team, because perception 124 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:46.279 is that there's like ten teams better than the Dodgers 125 00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:49.279 right now, the way they're playing, like that have better records, 126 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:53.360 and that's not the case. No, And that's my point, Rochnie. 127 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:55.680 If you look at That's why I started by saying, 128 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:59.759 how you feeling Dodger fans? Right the perception is, oh god, 129 00:07:00.920 --> 00:07:03.399 I mean, this has turning out to be a pretty 130 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:06.639 disappointing year because you have all of these players and 131 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:08.519 they spent all this money and you should be running 132 00:07:08.519 --> 00:07:11.759 over everybody. Truth of the matter is they've been so 133 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:15.079 banged up and dinged up all year. No matter who 134 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:16.920 they have on the roster, they probably shouldn't be where 135 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:20.560 they're at. They probably should not be right in it 136 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:24.160 like this. I have to tell you, if you look 137 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:26.879 at a series of injuries on any other ball club, 138 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:32.000 I mean, and there have been multiple numerous long term 139 00:07:32.040 --> 00:07:34.759 injuries on this team, they wouldn't be where they're at. 140 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:37.160 They wouldn't have the same russ A Dodger. No other 141 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:40.279 team would be where they at. That team if you 142 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:44.800 had a team pitching staff hit like this, stars like 143 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:49.199 major stars on their roster, hit like this with injuries, 144 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:52.639 you know, there you call it what you want. One 145 00:07:52.680 --> 00:07:56.319 A one A one Moki Bett's been out for a 146 00:07:56.360 --> 00:08:01.319 month over a month out and then again your pitching 147 00:08:01.319 --> 00:08:03.519 staff and then other guys. You don't have your your 148 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:07.279 thirty five home run third baseman, that's that's not been 149 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:09.079 in the line up all season long. You can't tell 150 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:12.920 me that you're gonna still be in first place. Not 151 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:16.639 many teams would be. Not many things would be. So 152 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:20.519 you know, I know, we live in a luxury out 153 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:23.120 here with the Dodgers, and I know it. You know, 154 00:08:23.199 --> 00:08:25.560 for fans, it doesn't matter until you get to October, 155 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:29.160 which is you know again, why are we talking about 156 00:08:29.160 --> 00:08:29.839 regular season for it? 157 00:08:29.879 --> 00:08:31.000 Because it doesn't matter. 158 00:08:32.279 --> 00:08:35.919 Actually doesn't just get to the playoffs. Yeah, actually I 159 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:38.440 would seriously. I mean, that's why last now we talked 160 00:08:38.440 --> 00:08:40.399 about it in hour one. That's why he said to him, Look, 161 00:08:40.440 --> 00:08:44.000 I feel something in my arm. I can go, but 162 00:08:44.120 --> 00:08:46.919 I need to let you guys know that because I'll 163 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:49.039 go out there and pitch. I'm not saying I don't 164 00:08:49.039 --> 00:08:52.279 want to go, but at least you should know. And 165 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:54.519 then when thank you for telling us you're not going anywhere, 166 00:08:55.279 --> 00:08:58.279 we're putting you on the injured list, immediately let that 167 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:02.799 arm rest. We can't risk what's coming down the road. 168 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:05.919 I respect that. I respect that decision on his part. 169 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:09.000 I'll tell you something else. I don't know about Freddie 170 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:15.879 finger Freeman, but however it goes, don't push it. We're fine. 171 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:18.919 Don't push it because he'll play, you know, and he 172 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:20.120 had a broken leg and he'd play. 173 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:20.679 He doesn't care. 174 00:09:22.080 --> 00:09:24.679 So we'll see how that MRI or that cat scan 175 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:27.480 goes today on his finger and if you don't have 176 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:30.960 it before too, maybe David Vasse will. All right, Dodger 177 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:34.120 fans eight six six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy, 178 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:36.200 we're not playing the panic meter game here. How do 179 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:38.919 you feel? I mean, you're with this team every day, 180 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:42.000 listen to the radio show all the time. You know 181 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:46.000 the Dodgers are top of mind in the market. So 182 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:51.039 how do you feel right now? Do you have concerns 183 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:53.879 or can you look at it and go I can't 184 00:09:53.879 --> 00:09:55.399 even believe they're in first place. 185 00:09:56.440 --> 00:09:57.200 I can't even. 186 00:09:57.039 --> 00:10:01.120 Believe where they're at. It is pretty remarkable. So give 187 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:09.240 us a call eight six six, and then I'm going 188 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:12.440 to read the prisoner letter. I'm doing it this song. Yes, yes, 189 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:16.759 reading the letter. So Dodger fans, give us a call. 190 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:24.519 Then we'll get to the letter. It's a beautiful, beautiful 191 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:30.600 Southern California Monday that it is Roddy Pete, Fred Rogan. 192 00:10:30.679 --> 00:10:36.679 I gotta say this, Fred, Rest in peace to my 193 00:10:36.720 --> 00:10:39.440 good friend mister Phil Donahue. 194 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:42.559 Who passed away. Yeah, yeah, Phil Donahue. 195 00:10:42.639 --> 00:10:48.440 I got to know him Fred, like in the last well, 196 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:50.039 I've known it for a while, but I got to 197 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:52.039 really know him in the last five years hurt him 198 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:56.720 and Marvel Thomas and U spent spent some time with 199 00:10:56.799 --> 00:11:00.000 him at dinner with him a few times, and uh, 200 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:05.600 just a good man passed away. So you know, prayers 201 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:09.320 and thoughts and everything to tomorrow and all of the 202 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:13.480 Donahue clan and their families. So Phil Donahue was eighty 203 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:16.720 eight yep. And if you're a certain generation you know this, 204 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:19.399 and if you're not, you don't. But this will take 205 00:11:19.440 --> 00:11:23.399 you back a few years before Oprah Winfrey. There was 206 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:30.320 one afternoon daytime talk show that killed it basically, that dominated, 207 00:11:30.440 --> 00:11:31.639 and that was Phil Donahue. 208 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:32.720 It was. 209 00:11:34.360 --> 00:11:39.360 Right, absolutely, it was topic driven. But what he would 210 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:44.159 do is he would have callers call the TV show 211 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:48.879 is the caller there? And they got to ask questions, right, 212 00:11:49.879 --> 00:11:53.120 They got to ask questions of the of the guests, 213 00:11:53.759 --> 00:11:56.559 and the audience asked questions as well. And it was 214 00:11:56.639 --> 00:12:00.000 so incredibly dominant. And if you had Phil Donna Hue 215 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:04.200 on your station in the afternoon, yeah you won. The 216 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:09.320 numbers were enormous. And all of a sudden, this woman 217 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:14.960 on a Baltimore somebody says, you know, she's pretty good. 218 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:20.039 She's in Baltimore, Baltimore. I said, Yeah, people really like 219 00:12:20.120 --> 00:12:23.879 her there. Yeah, she's a local girl, a local girl. Yeah, 220 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:30.679 let's see what happens. That was Oprah Winfrey. And that 221 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:34.879 then because Phil Donnie who had dominated for so many years, 222 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:36.799 and he endorsed Oprah. 223 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:37.159 Yeah. 224 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:40.679 Oh, he was such a good guy. Yeah, he embraced her, 225 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:43.840 endorsed her as coming on. And she credits a lot, 226 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:48.720 a lot of her success to being accepted by Phil 227 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:52.360 Donnie Donahue and what he was able to like first 228 00:12:52.360 --> 00:12:57.320 of all, pioneering that whole genre of TV right, but 229 00:12:57.519 --> 00:13:01.519 also opening the door for her her and endorsing her 230 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:06.480 at a time where look, male driven, male dominated. And 231 00:13:06.519 --> 00:13:09.000 then there's a woman out of Baltimore, as you mentioned, 232 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:10.720 not only a woman, but a black woman out of 233 00:13:10.759 --> 00:13:14.440 Baltimore that they're gonna give this shot to. And Oprah 234 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:16.919 took it and ran with it. But yeah, she uh, 235 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:21.000 she credits him for just giving her that endorsement because 236 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:23.600 without that, you know, who knows where her career would 237 00:13:23.639 --> 00:13:24.080 have gone. 238 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:24.600 Yeah. 239 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:27.200 And and let me add this, a black woman out 240 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:31.679 of Baltimore that in the day didn't really look like 241 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:37.480 anybody that would get a TV show. Yes, right, yes, yes, 242 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:38.320 you know what I mean. 243 00:13:38.360 --> 00:13:39.159 Oprah was heavy. 244 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:43.840 Yeah, it wasn't the uh let's get this, uh you know, 245 00:13:44.279 --> 00:13:49.159 fitness model type, this pageant winner type, that's uh you 246 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:52.399 know this this weather girl type looks and and we 247 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:55.480 can just put her on and it'll be great visuals 248 00:13:55.519 --> 00:13:57.080 and and then she'll do well. 249 00:13:57.159 --> 00:13:59.879 Now, she was different than that. Absolutely. 250 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:04.679 She was the ordinary, everyday woman for people, and she 251 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:08.559 killed it. And I think, not to belabor it, but 252 00:14:08.600 --> 00:14:13.759 I actually think that changed the trajectory of television. When 253 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:17.440 Oprah Winfrey became the star people thought you would be. 254 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:21.159 That changed the entire game. No longer did you have 255 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:24.240 to look like that fitness model right, right. It was 256 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:27.639 more who you were and what you projected and a 257 00:14:27.799 --> 00:14:29.519 warmth and a relatability. 258 00:14:29.480 --> 00:14:29.679 Yeah. 259 00:14:29.759 --> 00:14:33.080 It became about substance, right, Yeah, which from a male standpoint, 260 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:36.679 it was about substance, right, Because those those shows that 261 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:39.000 Donahue did back in the day, I mean he did 262 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:43.720 everything from you know, from entertainment to sports to political 263 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:46.240 memory had he had the white supremacist on one time, 264 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:50.559 he had Nazis on, He had you know, political enemies 265 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:52.679 going at it back and forth on the show. And 266 00:14:52.720 --> 00:14:55.759 then like you mentioned, he had callers, callers call into 267 00:14:55.879 --> 00:14:59.799 the show and the audience members asking questions of the guests, 268 00:14:59.799 --> 00:15:02.679 and it uh yeah, no, he changed it, and then 269 00:15:02.759 --> 00:15:06.120 Oprah took it to a whole different level. Yeah, rest 270 00:15:06.120 --> 00:15:09.600 in peace. All right, Let's let's find out how Dodger 271 00:15:09.639 --> 00:15:12.720 fans are feeling. Frank and look presenta thank you for 272 00:15:12.879 --> 00:15:16.240 holding on. Uh, when you really look at this season 273 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:17.600 to this point, what do you think? 274 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:19.320 Well? 275 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:23.039 I think that in the pitching stuff is pretty amazing, 276 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:23.960 even with all of us. 277 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:28.000 Guy is Mookie Bett? 278 00:15:29.039 --> 00:15:30.679 Yeah, yeah, you know what. 279 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:32.720 I think Frank's got a bad connection, right, let him 280 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:37.960 all right, let's go to Tarzana, Ken and Tarzana, how 281 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:38.720 do you feel. 282 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:42.960 With all the injuries we've had. I feel just fine. 283 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:46.559 And I agree with you guys in terms of, uh, 284 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:49.960 the lack of urgency the Dodgers have had in most 285 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:54.200 of the previous postseasons. I'd like to see a little 286 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:56.799 bit more fighting this year. I like the fact that 287 00:15:57.120 --> 00:16:00.840 we're kind of in a race and it's close. If 288 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:05.240 you look at baseball playoffs compared to other sports, it's 289 00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:07.840 just much more of a crap shoot. There's one hundred 290 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:10.480 and sixty two games, of course, but to win the 291 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:14.559 World series, it's only eleven or thirteen. St're talking maybe 292 00:16:14.840 --> 00:16:17.600 seven to eight percent. Compare that to the NBA and 293 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:21.080 AHL you got up in sixteen or eighty two, NFL 294 00:16:21.519 --> 00:16:24.639 three or four versus seventeen. So you're not really getting 295 00:16:24.639 --> 00:16:26.840 a good sample size if you want to go through 296 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:31.600 all the Hall of famers, look at May's Morgan's Bonds 297 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:34.200 had a great series in two thousand and two the Into, 298 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:36.879 but before that he did nothing. You go all the 299 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:38.080 way back to Ty Cobb. 300 00:16:38.399 --> 00:16:41.000 All right, Robinson, Ken, I don't think you have to 301 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:41.879 go back to Ty Cobb. 302 00:16:42.320 --> 00:16:42.519 Ken. 303 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:44.799 I think we're good. I don't I think when we 304 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:47.960 hit Ty Cobb, I think it your point. 305 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:50.320 Yeah, oh, thanks for a call. But you here what 306 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:53.039 you appreciate it? It is it is. It is a 307 00:16:53.679 --> 00:16:55.600 you know, he's ad. 308 00:16:55.679 --> 00:16:57.720 It's a crapshoot when you get to the playoffs in 309 00:16:57.759 --> 00:17:01.159 baseball because it's a team that that really gets hot. 310 00:17:01.279 --> 00:17:03.960 In basketball, in the seven game series, the better team 311 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:08.759 is usually gonna win, you know. And but in baseball, 312 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:11.640 you know, a hot team with the hot pitcher or 313 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:14.799 tot two pitchers, as Arizona showed last year with a 314 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:17.880 hot leadoff hitter and Carol, it could take you all 315 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:20.640 the way to the World Series, so anything can happen. 316 00:17:20.680 --> 00:17:23.960 You just got to be playing your good baseball in October. 317 00:17:24.440 --> 00:17:28.200 Chris and Diamond Bar, how are you feeling good? Ford? 318 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:32.599 Hey, Rodney, how you guys doing good? I'm concerned one 319 00:17:32.680 --> 00:17:35.400 being a student take a holder. I'm concerned because you 320 00:17:35.480 --> 00:17:37.839 know what, we got all these great players on our team. 321 00:17:37.839 --> 00:17:40.680 We have all stars, but our bullpen's being overworked and 322 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:43.799 are we really getting the right matchups? But Rodney, you 323 00:17:43.839 --> 00:17:45.799 can probably attest to as being the athlete that you 324 00:17:45.880 --> 00:17:48.359 were when you play great teams, the great players, you 325 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:49.680 got to step up your game and I think the 326 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:52.519 Padres in Arizona are just doing that. They're stepping up 327 00:17:52.519 --> 00:17:54.839 their game to match the Dodgers, to push us to 328 00:17:54.960 --> 00:17:57.200 be even better. But the problem is is with our 329 00:17:57.240 --> 00:18:02.319 bullpen overworks, with Joe Kelly sca gatterall going back on 330 00:18:02.359 --> 00:18:04.640 the DL, you know what do we do? So am 331 00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:06.839 I concerned? Yes, But at the end of the day, 332 00:18:06.880 --> 00:18:08.799 it's a marathon, not a sprint. I think we're gonna 333 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:10.759 come out on top. But I agree with you guys 334 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:12.400 as just you know, we got to cross our fingers 335 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:14.920 and hope we do what's right. But I like cup 336 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:18.039 check it back as a closer, right, but I think 337 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:19.920 we need to get Phillips and the Hutson the break. 338 00:18:20.200 --> 00:18:23.359 But I just think that Arizona and everybody's stepping up 339 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:24.720 their games to push us to be better. 340 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:27.119 All right, Chris, appreciate it. Thanks for calling. 341 00:18:27.319 --> 00:18:28.319 Yeah, thanks for calling, Chris. 342 00:18:28.400 --> 00:18:32.039 Youah, No, he's absolutely right that you know, no matter 343 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:34.519 what happened last year and the Diamondbacks making it to 344 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:37.319 the World Series and beating the Dodgers, everybody still looks 345 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:39.480 at the Dodgers as the cream of the crop. They 346 00:18:39.480 --> 00:18:41.200 still look at the Dodgers as a team to be 347 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:44.359 And we say it all the time. Fret, when the 348 00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:46.599 Dodgers play somebody, they're going to get their best. When 349 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:48.720 Dodgers play the Padres, they better be ready to play 350 00:18:48.759 --> 00:18:50.400 because the Padre is gonna play their best. 351 00:18:50.759 --> 00:18:52.359 And the same thing with the Diamondbacks. 352 00:18:52.599 --> 00:18:56.559 They're gonna get everybody's best because everybody wants to knock 353 00:18:56.599 --> 00:18:59.720 off the Dodgers, And so you have to be ready 354 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:02.680 to play. If your Dodgers, even if you beat somebody 355 00:19:02.759 --> 00:19:06.079 twelve out of thirteen times during the regular season, you 356 00:19:06.119 --> 00:19:08.480 get them in the playoffs. The Padres make the playoffs, 357 00:19:08.559 --> 00:19:11.440 it's gonna be a dog fight, especially going back down 358 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:13.279 there to San Diego to play. It's gonna be a 359 00:19:13.319 --> 00:19:16.079 dog fight in Arizona to play the Diamondbacks if they 360 00:19:16.200 --> 00:19:19.240 meet him in the end of the playoffs. So it's 361 00:19:19.319 --> 00:19:21.599 because they're the Dodgers and they wear the blue that 362 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:25.319 everybody gets ready for you. All right, well here he comes. 363 00:19:25.599 --> 00:19:26.799 Let's bring out Mitch. 364 00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:32.079 Rich Are you there, Yes, how do you guys doing? 365 00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:35.200 All right? Hold on, hold on, Mitch stop, stop, Mitch stop. 366 00:19:35.559 --> 00:19:39.359 It's so I read did you send out a tweet 367 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:42.559 that you were banned from all shows or something? Did 368 00:19:42.599 --> 00:19:43.519 you send that tweet out? 369 00:19:44.799 --> 00:19:46.680 See, that was me. I'll be on the sun. 370 00:19:47.160 --> 00:19:47.640 That was me. 371 00:19:47.960 --> 00:19:50.400 That's the feeling like it. I don't know, I guess 372 00:19:51.119 --> 00:19:53.119 we wait a minute. Feeling what wait? 373 00:19:53.200 --> 00:19:55.799 Wait, you said you've been banned from all shows. 374 00:19:57.039 --> 00:19:58.480 It feels like that was that right? 375 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:00.200 No, you said you weren't. I know. 376 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:04.240 Look, yeah, that comes from my head. 377 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:07.880 Who comes from your head? You said it comes from 378 00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:09.799 your head? Mitch is in your head? 379 00:20:09.839 --> 00:20:12.400 That that's just my that's my good feeling. 380 00:20:13.240 --> 00:20:15.240 Well, what do you mean, who's banned? 381 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:17.160 You, and I'd like to know who banned you from 382 00:20:17.200 --> 00:20:19.640 all and I don't think you were just talking about us. 383 00:20:20.200 --> 00:20:22.799 I think you said all shows. Who's banned you? 384 00:20:24.559 --> 00:20:27.079 It seems like Dave Dave. 385 00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:31.680 Banned you because he said Mitch your band? Did he 386 00:20:31.720 --> 00:20:32.880 say Mitch your banned? 387 00:20:35.160 --> 00:20:35.319 No? 388 00:20:35.359 --> 00:20:37.519 But if you don't answer a tweeter or a call, 389 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:40.200 I don't, I won't. I guess I shouldn't call it 390 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:41.440 once a week. That's too much. 391 00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:45.000 How much do you call? How much do you call? 392 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:49.519 I have? I'm I'm jailsy, I donnan here you am? 393 00:20:49.519 --> 00:20:53.200 I don't think called a lot? You're right? And I 394 00:20:53.319 --> 00:20:54.920 used to be Tarzana when I looked there for two 395 00:20:54.960 --> 00:20:57.960 years and the eighties there wasn't even sports on sports 396 00:20:58.000 --> 00:20:58.960 radio in those days? 397 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:03.160 We or do we not keep get you on as 398 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:05.640 much as we can't? You're on more than anybody else. 399 00:21:08.079 --> 00:21:11.920 What are we talking about? Dave and Tim are right? 400 00:21:12.279 --> 00:21:14.599 I give I should give other people a chance. Then 401 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:18.000