Speaker 1: All right, we continue on Fred Rogan, Rodney Pete on
Speaker 1: a five seventy LA Sports. Kind of odd because we're
Speaker 1: actually doing a full show today, but that's the way
Speaker 1: it goes. When the Dodgers are home, they are back
Speaker 1: in town. They'll take on the Cubs, they'll take on
Speaker 1: the Rockies, and Yamamoto will go for the Dodgers tonight,
Speaker 1: said Zaki will go for the Dodgers tomorrow. Both of
Speaker 1: those pitchers have already seen the Cubs this year in Tokyo.
Speaker 1: And it's I think good for the Dodgers to be back.
Speaker 1: I think give them what happened on the East coast,
Speaker 1: it was just a blur and now they're back. And
Speaker 1: back with them is our good friend David Vassy, who's
Speaker 1: at the stadium. Welcome home, Dave. Good afternoon.
Speaker 2: Oh it's so great to be back in LA.
Speaker 3: It was a not.
Speaker 2: Fun road trip for the Dodgers record wise, and certainly
Speaker 2: not fun to have to try to function in thirty
Speaker 2: six degree type weather. So very happy to be back,
Speaker 2: and conditions will be much better for Tis now when
Speaker 2: he pitches on Sunday Night baseball.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I can't wait for that, Dave. But yeah,
Speaker 3: and I I kind of mentioned Dave that that yes
Speaker 3: it was. It was. First of all, it was cold
Speaker 3: back there. They were on a trip, and it just
Speaker 3: looked from afar like they might have been a little
Speaker 3: fatigue from you know, the start of the season, the
Speaker 3: spring training, going to Japan, all the things that are happening,
Speaker 3: and and then winning games like they did to start
Speaker 3: the season. It just felt like there was a little
Speaker 3: fatigue factor when they went back to Philadelphia in to Washington.
Speaker 3: Did you feel that at all or were it just
Speaker 3: they just didn't play well? Well?
Speaker 2: I think number one, they just didn't play well. But
Speaker 2: that comes from maybe what you're talking about, Rodney, where
Speaker 2: there's some sort of emotional letdown after the whirlwind of
Speaker 2: the start of the season, coming into spring training early
Speaker 2: as world champions, then going to Tokyo with the Otani
Speaker 2: World Tour, then coming back home and obviously everybody's celebrating
Speaker 2: you with the ring ceremony and everything that goes along
Speaker 2: with it. So I feel like for the position players,
Speaker 2: maybe there's something to that. But still, when you take
Speaker 2: a step back, it could have been overcome by better
Speaker 2: starting pitching. Because Dustin Man and Yamamoto were the only
Speaker 2: two guys on that six game trip that actually gave
Speaker 2: the bullpens some support. Outside of that, you had guys
Speaker 2: going two or three innings. Sazaki went four plus He's
Speaker 2: a work in progress. We understand that. But if they
Speaker 2: would have got better starting pitching, they certainly would have
Speaker 2: had a better trip.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was surprised overall watching Dave that they would
Speaker 1: fall behind so so often, and it was just and
Speaker 1: of course they than not.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers have more come from behind victories than any
Speaker 2: other team in baseball, and it just felt like they
Speaker 2: were from the first inning on and the first three
Speaker 2: innings playing from behind and scoring four runs in that
Speaker 2: last game certainly was a big reason why they won
Speaker 2: that last game in Washington, d C.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, but that's that's been there, Like you said,
Speaker 3: that's their mo has been coming from behind, and that's
Speaker 3: sometimes that that is a little bit taxing. You mentioned
Speaker 3: the starting pitching Dave and other in Dustin May. Is
Speaker 3: that a concern or is it just something that you've
Speaker 3: that they just chalk it up to the road trip
Speaker 3: and they'll get it back on track.
Speaker 2: I think overall they have enough talent to be able
Speaker 2: to get back on track. But if you look at it,
Speaker 2: the last two games in DC, Blake Snell was supposed
Speaker 2: to start the night Robleski gave up eight runs. He's
Speaker 2: on the I L and whenever you're talking about shoulder,
Speaker 2: you know you can't just dismiss that. So you hope
Speaker 2: that he's able to come back after missing a couple
Speaker 2: of starts. Landon Knack's going to be better. You would
Speaker 2: think he's probably going to get us start next week
Speaker 2: against the Rockies. But the guy tonight is the anchor
Speaker 2: of the staff, and I feel like he's not getting
Speaker 2: enough attention. I picked him to win the nl Cy
Speaker 2: young Maybe that's why I'm singing his praises. But he
Speaker 2: has backed up all my talks so far in the
Speaker 2: first three starts that he's had, and Yamamoto and Dustin
Speaker 2: may have been the two best starters the Dodgers have
Speaker 2: had so far.
Speaker 1: Update Andy Pye has so you know, and Jack Harris
Speaker 1: just wrote it seems the club is pleased that he's
Speaker 1: coming out of whatever he was going through, and the
Speaker 1: Dodgers are really patient with everybody. But just give them
Speaker 1: the way things started. Was there a possibility in your
Speaker 1: mind they could have sent him down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's always that possibility, but the Dodgers
Speaker 2: don't make decisions. After thirteen games. He needed to get better.
Speaker 2: And when I say better doesn't mean hitting home runs.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers eight to nine hitters have been getting on
Speaker 2: at a three hundred clip. That's not something that is
Speaker 2: sustainable for the Dodgers. They're going to look to upgrade that,
Speaker 2: whether it's from within or outside if it continues, because
Speaker 2: last year it was such a big part of turning
Speaker 2: the lineup over for Otani, Bets and Freeman, and so
Speaker 2: far we haven't seen that consistently. And Paz understands what
Speaker 2: his job is is to see pitches when he's sitting
Speaker 2: ninth and to get on base, not necessarily to hit
Speaker 2: home runs. And as far as the defense goes, if
Speaker 2: you look at the metrics, he's a below par center
Speaker 2: fielder and that's not his best position. He's a corner
Speaker 2: outfielder and he's trying to get better playing that position.
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of moving parts right now that
Speaker 2: I feel makes this Dodger team a little unsettled with
Speaker 2: the way they've lined up their defense.
Speaker 3: Dave. I mean, look, they're ten and four coming back home,
Speaker 3: you know, and the Padres are off to a good start.
Speaker 3: The Giants are off to a good star. A lot
Speaker 3: of people believe that the Diamondbacks would be there in
Speaker 3: the end as well. When you look at this division,
Speaker 3: a lot of people are saying this might be the
Speaker 3: best division in baseball right now. Who do you feel
Speaker 3: like is going to be the Dodgers' biggest threat as
Speaker 3: the season progresses.
Speaker 2: Well, if the Padres stay healthy, I think they are.
Speaker 2: But if you're talking about a team that could be
Speaker 2: a formidable challenge in the postseason, especially a seven game series,
Speaker 2: it would be the Phillies just by the mere fact.
Speaker 2: Look at the record. The Phillies have beaten the Dodgers
Speaker 2: nine out of the last eleven times they have faced
Speaker 2: each other. Their starting pitchings are really good. They have
Speaker 2: the offense that could slug with the Dodgers. So even
Speaker 2: last year, you know, talking a buster only on the
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk off Day show yesterday, we all forget for
Speaker 2: the majority of the season last year the Phillies were
Speaker 2: considered the best team in baseball. They just have that
Speaker 2: all or nothing type of offense that went got upset
Speaker 2: by the Mets. In a short series the Dodgers, I
Speaker 2: know strangers to that. So to me, it's the Padres
Speaker 2: or Phillies that are the toughest matchup for the Dodgers, Dave.
Speaker 1: When you don't have them, sometimes you don't think about them.
Speaker 1: What Freddy Freeman is back tonight? How much of a difference.
Speaker 2: I'm the only guy that has Dave Roberts on the
Speaker 2: road trip about Freddie Freeman. How could anybody just dismiss
Speaker 2: his absence? But he's back tonight. It's his bubblehead night
Speaker 2: for the walk off grand slamming Game one of the
Speaker 2: World Series last year. And if anybody's listening that is
Speaker 2: trying to get in line at Dodgers Stadium tonight, take
Speaker 2: a deep breath at sale. Everybody will get one. As
Speaker 2: I was coming in today at one forty five, fans
Speaker 2: were lined up on the sidewalk. Cars were parked outside
Speaker 2: of the gates. Stop panicking. The Dodgers understand the demand.
Speaker 2: That's why everybody is going to get a bobblehead tonight,
Speaker 2: not just the first for fans.
Speaker 3: I love it, Dave Day, Dave so far what by
Speaker 3: the way, not goldy, Dave, You keep it real, man,
Speaker 3: That's what I love about you, Dave. What's so far
Speaker 3: in this early Dodger season? What first of all, what
Speaker 3: has impressed you about this season so far in this.
Speaker 2: Team the same thing that impressed me during the playoffs
Speaker 2: last year. Their bullpen. Their bullpen has been unbelievable. They've
Speaker 2: really picked up the slack where the starters really have
Speaker 2: fallen short, and not just one or two games, but
Speaker 2: multiple games. If you look at the innings pitched, the
Speaker 2: Dodger bullpen has pitched more innings than the Dodgers starters
Speaker 2: have through the first thirteen games of the season. So
Speaker 2: for me, the bullpen has been the shining light of
Speaker 2: this early part of the season. The Dodgers would not
Speaker 2: be ten and four without as well as the bullpen
Speaker 2: is pitched and position player wise, the two most consistent
Speaker 2: and difference maker players consistently have been Tommy Edmund and
Speaker 2: ta Oscar Hernandez.
Speaker 1: All Right, Dave, six o'clock, the pre game, the game
Speaker 1: at seven ten, Do you know who your a pregame
Speaker 1: guest is gonna be yet?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna catch up with Freddy Freeman, so you'll
Speaker 2: hear from him on the pregame show.
Speaker 1: Nice all right, Dave, thanks for jumping on. Have a
Speaker 1: good weekend you two guys. Thanks all right. You see,
Speaker 1: that's who David Vassay is. That's who Ddy Freeman comes
Speaker 1: back tonight, He's back. It's his bobblehead night. Who's Dave's guest,
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman boom? He is the authority? You know what
Speaker 1: I love? Honestly, if you check the blogs and you
Speaker 1: read stuff, everybody's trying to grab information and post things.
Speaker 1: And in fantasy sports, for example, you know, is your
Speaker 1: guy gonna play? Is he not gonna play? Do you
Speaker 1: know when it comes to the Dodgers. I think nationally
Speaker 1: nobody is as a source more than David Vassy nobody.
Speaker 1: It's he's always breaking the story first. He always has
Speaker 1: the information first. He's always credited all over the country.
Speaker 4: Well, unfortunately, Fred there are times he's not credited and
Speaker 4: they just take a quote or take a bite that
Speaker 4: he got from someone and just amalgamate it and don't
Speaker 4: even source it back to him, which is terrible because
Speaker 4: he gets. Most of these are exclusives that Dave only gets.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of these sites. I won't name any
Speaker 4: of them, but they know who they are who take
Speaker 4: things so I ever said on this radio station and
Speaker 4: amalgamate them and don't give us credit, and more specifically,
Speaker 4: don't give Dave credit. It's messed up.
Speaker 1: Well look, I mean I can appreciate Dave's anger, but
Speaker 1: I'm really pissed now because even if I didn't say it,
Speaker 1: I want the credit nationally, very true, because it's on
Speaker 1: the radio stations, right we should hear credit. But the
Speaker 1: truth is, I mean, David is the best at what
Speaker 1: he does. He's the guy that breaks everything. Listening right now,
Speaker 1: I don't think you know how how lucky you are
Speaker 1: to have a guy like him. If somebody has done
Speaker 1: this business for as long as I have, there are
Speaker 1: a few guys as good as Dave, breaking stories all
Speaker 1: over it and just brutally honest. So of course he'd
Speaker 1: have Freddie Freeman tonight. You would expect nothing less from Dave.
Speaker 1: Of course, some guys just don't learn. They just don't learn.
Speaker 5: And that's next, all.
Speaker 1: Right, fred Rogan, Rodney Pete La Sports. Big game for
Speaker 1: the Lakers tonight. Here's the bottom line. Beat Houston, beat Portland.
Speaker 1: Then you've got the third seed in the West. Beat
Speaker 1: them both, no problem, and that's probably where they'll end up.
Speaker 1: Then the question becomes who are they going to open
Speaker 1: the playoffs against? That at this time is undecided given
Speaker 1: the way things are, But I think for the Lakers
Speaker 1: overall to finish third in the conference. Be honest, and
Speaker 1: if you're a Laker fan and you fly the flags
Speaker 1: and you wear the jersey, you can't tell me you
Speaker 1: really thought that would happen. I didn't. I thought maybe
Speaker 1: maybe sick certainly the playing. But they have done it.
Speaker 1: They have done it, and the question now becomes who
Speaker 1: will they play. Will it be Golden State, Will it
Speaker 1: be the Clippers, Could it be Memphis? I guess if
Speaker 1: Denver go sideways, it could be them. So you really
Speaker 1: don't know. So these last two games, I don't think
Speaker 1: Houston's going to play anybody. They've got the second seat
Speaker 1: all wrapped up. They're locked in. Yeah, so why would
Speaker 1: you even risk it? Just let that be. So we
Speaker 1: don't know who the Lakers are going to end up playing.
Speaker 1: There's a possibility, depending on how it shakes out, they
Speaker 1: could meet the Clippers in the first round. That might
Speaker 1: be more of a battle than people think. Clippers have
Speaker 1: a very good roster. They have been hot of late.
Speaker 1: They have played good defense. Lakers ooh, when they play
Speaker 1: good defense are really tough. So that is a distinct possibility.
Speaker 1: And Memphis is still lurking. Memphis is seven right now,
Speaker 1: but they are tied with Golden State. Golden State owns
Speaker 1: the tide break, so we're not sure. We're not sure.
Speaker 1: But on the topic of Memphis, I don't understand something,
Speaker 1: and maybe Rodney you can set me straight on this.
Speaker 1: If you have a job, a very well paying job,
Speaker 1: and you do something that your employer considers embarrassing so
Speaker 1: much so they have a conversation with you about it,
Speaker 1: you tell them it won't happen again. It happens again.
Speaker 1: Now they suspend you for a while, they're taking your money.
Speaker 1: You come back and you tell them I got it.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm no fool. I've got it.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Thank you for allowing me to work through this. I understand.
Speaker 1: Then you go and you didn't do something as egregious
Speaker 1: as you did the first time, but certainly it's it's
Speaker 1: in the vicinity of the same kind of thing. Okay,
Speaker 1: So they warn you and they go, look, don't do
Speaker 1: that either. So then you come back and do that again.
Speaker 1: Then they find you, yes, and you go, no, I
Speaker 1: won't do that again. Then you come back and you
Speaker 1: try something else that's in the ballpark of what you did.
Speaker 1: I don't understand John Morant, I don't get it. So
Speaker 1: incredibly talented, so wonderful to watch, and seemingly from afar.
Speaker 1: Just a really nice guy. He seems happy, he seems fun,
Speaker 1: and he's certainly a ton of fun to watch. He
Speaker 1: puts people in the seats. Okay, we know what happened
Speaker 1: with him. The gun incident. The leak talks to him.
Speaker 1: He gets it. Yes, the gun incident. The league suspends him.
Speaker 1: He understands it. Then he's like doing the fingers, the
Speaker 1: finger guns, Pa, pa, po, I got you. The league
Speaker 1: tells him, don't do that. He gets it. He goes
Speaker 1: back out and he does the same thing with finger guns.
Speaker 1: They find him. He gets it. Now he's throwing hand grenades. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now he's like throwing hand grenades. What what am I missing?
Speaker 1: Or what is he missing? Why would you go back
Speaker 1: to something like that again? That is intentional, That is calculated.
Speaker 1: They've told you don't do that. It's not good for
Speaker 1: the league, for the image, and certainly more importantly, it's
Speaker 1: not good for you. And he does it again. Now
Speaker 1: he's doing that. Am I missing it? Or is he
Speaker 1: not getting it?
Speaker 3: He's not getting it. He is absolutely not getting it.
Speaker 3: I don't understand either. You're in a privileged situation and
Speaker 3: they've warned you. They've basically they've let you get away
Speaker 3: with it, is what they've done. They've let you get
Speaker 3: away with it. And maybe they enabled him to keep
Speaker 3: doing certain things without dropping a hammer harder, but they've
Speaker 3: enabled him to do it, and he is just I
Speaker 3: don't understand it either. How many warnings do you have
Speaker 3: to have? And is what kind of mentality you have
Speaker 3: to have? First of all, not do the gun thing.
Speaker 3: First of all, you're you're you're in the NBA. Why
Speaker 3: do you get well, First of all, you don't need
Speaker 3: to carry guns, and if you get caught, then you
Speaker 3: don't need to do it again and again and again.
Speaker 3: And then to do the symbolism of pointing the fingers
Speaker 3: as a gun at he pointed at the bench of somebody,
Speaker 3: I forget who they're playing, and and then can and
Speaker 3: then they tell you not to do it, you get
Speaker 3: fined for it, and you do it again, and then
Speaker 3: instead of doing the guns. Once you they tell you
Speaker 3: not to do, you do a grenade. I mean, I
Speaker 3: don't know. I don't know the mentality. I don't I
Speaker 3: don't get it. I don't understand. Is he trying to
Speaker 3: get kicked out of the league and get banned from
Speaker 3: the league. He's such a talented player, But is he trying.
Speaker 3: It's like he is absolutely trying. All the patients of
Speaker 3: Adam Silver in the league. He does not have to
Speaker 3: kick him out. He doesn't get it.
Speaker 1: It's this odd, bizarre sense of entitlement that he can
Speaker 1: do whatever he wants and it doesn't matter if it's
Speaker 1: bad for the league's image. And you know, well who
Speaker 1: cares about the league's image? Oh no, that's all the
Speaker 1: league cares about. That's the only thing you sell is
Speaker 1: who you are and how you are perceived. And if
Speaker 1: we've told you not to do that because it makes
Speaker 1: you look bad, well apparently you're bigger than anything or everyone,
Speaker 1: so you'll do whatever you want. Okay, now we're telling
Speaker 1: you don't do it because it makes us look bad.
Speaker 1: It's bad for us, it's bad for business. It's not funny,
Speaker 1: it's not cute. People aren't going to say, Oh man jah,
Speaker 1: you know he goes against the grain. No, what is
Speaker 1: going to happen at some point, because I'm sure they'll
Speaker 1: tell him, don't do that. There's gonna be a point
Speaker 1: where they're going to say, and that is it. You
Speaker 1: can understand. We are gonna sit you, yep, where you're
Speaker 1: going to be done. Sorry for the Grizzlies franchise, Sorry
Speaker 1: for you, but you're not getting it. And it's not
Speaker 1: like they're asking him. Here's what we need you to do.
Speaker 1: I mean to make this good. We need you to
Speaker 1: scale the matter horn. We need you to swim the
Speaker 1: English channel. We need you not to eat for forty
Speaker 1: days and forty nights. No one's telling him that. No
Speaker 1: one's telling him, hey, you better be in bed every
Speaker 1: night at seven point thirty, mister, or you're grounded. Nobody's
Speaker 1: telling him that. Now what are they saying to him?
Speaker 1: Stop with guns, stop with violence, Stop acting like you're
Speaker 1: throwing a grenade. There's nothing else you can do. There
Speaker 1: is nothing else you can come up with to celebrate nothing.
Speaker 1: There is nothing on the planet that you can come
Speaker 1: up with to indicate you got the other team or
Speaker 1: you made a great play. Nothing the only symbols that
Speaker 1: anyone ever use are guns and grenades. That's it. I mean, obviously,
Speaker 1: since everybody does it, it's very difficult for him to change.
Speaker 1: Although I don't see anyone else doing that, No one.
Speaker 1: I've not seen Larry Bird throw a grenade. I didn't
Speaker 1: see that, Magic Pa, gotcha. I didn't see that. No,
Speaker 1: I don't remember Cobe doing that. No, I don't remember
Speaker 1: Lebron doing that. No, why would he do that? What
Speaker 1: does it take for him to understand it's bad business,
Speaker 1: it's bad for the image of the league.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's got to be. I mean, it's at the
Speaker 3: point where it is zero tolerance. Now. It's just like
Speaker 3: you have crossed that line. You've crossed that line, and
Speaker 3: I would not be shocked if they come down hard
Speaker 3: on him, and probably should Otherwise he's never gonna get it.
Speaker 3: Take away you know, the thing that you from outside
Speaker 3: looking at and think the most important to him is
Speaker 3: his career in playing basketball, because he's done it since
Speaker 3: he was a little kid, and he's very talented at it.
Speaker 3: Take that away from him, you think he would start
Speaker 3: to get it. But but something else is going on
Speaker 3: for it. Something else is going on with him that
Speaker 3: allows him or makes him continue doing something, you know,
Speaker 3: some of the same things.
Speaker 1: I mean, you never want it to be like this.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. Does Adam Silver call the Grizzlies
Speaker 1: and say, you know, on you're off? They have Jah
Speaker 1: fly in here too, on New York. We want to
Speaker 1: sit down with him again, and he flies in and
Speaker 1: he sits down. Adam Silver is there? League Council is there?
Speaker 1: Just not Adam so League attorneys. I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: his agents there too. What's that conversation?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 1: Okay, John, listen, you know we talked about you having
Speaker 1: a real gun. You still had one, all right. Then
Speaker 1: we find you and we suspended you, and you promise
Speaker 1: you wouldn't do that anymore. You got it? Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: Now you're doing like finger guns, which is a symbol
Speaker 1: of the real gun. So we told you to stop
Speaker 1: doing that. But then you did it again and we
Speaker 1: find you. Okay, but then you decided you wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1: So now you're throwing hand grenades. Okay, you really can't
Speaker 1: do that. So here's what we've done. Maybe it's on us,
Speaker 1: Maybe we've done a poor job of explaining our position.
Speaker 1: So here's ten pages of all the things you can't do.
Speaker 1: We would think you would get it. We would think
Speaker 1: you would understand, you would appreciate the gravity of the
Speaker 1: situation and quite honestly get the spirit of what we're saying.
Speaker 1: But now we have to write everything down that you
Speaker 1: can't do. Because what happens is in real business. If
Speaker 1: you're working in an office situation, you know the way
Speaker 1: it works, right, Uh, you got a minute. We gotta
Speaker 1: have a talk. I don't think you're performing. You know
Speaker 1: you're not doing what you're supposed to do, or you
Speaker 1: know you're making people uncomfortable here in the office. So
Speaker 1: we have to have this conversation where hr and here.
Speaker 1: We've written this. We're going to hand it to you.
Speaker 1: We need you to sign it. It states what we
Speaker 1: talked about and what our expectations are, and it says
Speaker 1: if any of the things listed on this paper are continued,
Speaker 1: further disciplinary action up and including termination could occur. That's
Speaker 1: just how business operates. Yeah, okay, now you sign it.
Speaker 1: You've signed the paper. They read it to you out loud,
Speaker 1: they make you read it, you sign it. They've got
Speaker 1: it in their hand. So the next time you do
Speaker 1: the thing they told you not to do, you're fired.
Speaker 1: The next time you say the thing they told you
Speaker 1: not to say, you're fired. That's how it works in
Speaker 1: the real world of business. So it's kind of like,
Speaker 1: is that going to happen here? Come on in and
Speaker 1: sit down. Okay, Now we've given you the written warning,
Speaker 1: and the written warning is always the final warning. When
Speaker 1: you get the written warning, you're one step out the
Speaker 1: door anyway, because a good possibility you'll never recover whatever
Speaker 1: stupid thing you've been doing they told you not to do,
Speaker 1: you'll do it again. And they know that when you
Speaker 1: get the written warning, you might as well just leave
Speaker 1: because you're not going to be able to turn it around.
Speaker 1: Because that's always the court of last resort, is that
Speaker 1: what they have to do with him, give him the
Speaker 1: old written warning. Sign this okay, And because you're not
Speaker 1: really understanding, here's forty things you're not allowed to do.
Speaker 3: Forty forty things.
Speaker 1: There's forty things. Well, I didn't throw a hand grenade,
Speaker 1: but you know I took out a sword my new
Speaker 1: move and stabbed somebody. Okay, you can't do that. We
Speaker 1: can't have you do that, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: we can't Well you know, it's like I got a
Speaker 1: ball and chain started swinging around my head and somebody
Speaker 1: was gonna get hit in the head with it. Well,
Speaker 1: you can't do that either. We can't let you do that.
Speaker 1: It seems to me things have to be specifically spelled
Speaker 1: out for him so he'll understand what he can't do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's really a shame. It's a shame. I mean,
Speaker 3: there's a fraction of society, a very small percentage, that
Speaker 3: has the ability to play in the NBA, and he's
Speaker 3: basically throwing it away because I it's going to come
Speaker 3: a last straw at some point real quick, because they
Speaker 3: can't have it, and they've given him every single opportunity
Speaker 3: to stop.
Speaker 1: And the other thing he doesn't get And I'm not
Speaker 1: sure how much money he makes, Kevin, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you know off the top of your head, because
Speaker 1: I know you know everybody's salary, But what do you
Speaker 1: make thirty five to forty million a year? We'll just
Speaker 1: guess right now, because in the NBA everybody is paid
Speaker 1: insane amounts of money.
Speaker 4: You are pretty close thirty six point seven so basically
Speaker 4: forty million, yes.
Speaker 1: Okay, makes forty million bucks a year. I understand you
Speaker 1: played basketball your whole life and it's everything to you,
Speaker 1: and you'll have that chance to go out in the
Speaker 1: park and play. Just not for forty million dollars a year.
Speaker 1: You're telling me he can't stop for forty million dollars
Speaker 1: a year. That's insane. If you don't stop, I'm not
Speaker 1: giving you forty million dollars. But you can play Direct
Speaker 1: League all you want, no problem. You can play basketball
Speaker 1: all day long, just not for forty million dollars. I
Speaker 1: think that would be a pretty good deterrent to stop.
Speaker 1: I think that would be that would tell me, you
Speaker 1: know what I don't. I don't need to do the
Speaker 1: fake guns in the grenade. It's okay. I can buy
Speaker 1: a whole box of grenades and then throw them in
Speaker 1: my neighborhood for forty million dollars. I don't have to
Speaker 1: do a fake one here. I don't have to do
Speaker 1: what they're asking me not to do. But you're right, Rodney,
Speaker 1: Tom will tell and we'll see if he gets Let's
Speaker 1: put it like this, he's either gonna get it or
Speaker 1: he's gonna get it. Hey, fifty years at full speed,
Speaker 1: the accurate grand Prix of Long Beach celebrates it's fiftieth
Speaker 1: anniversary this weekend. Tickets at GPL dot com. And we're
Speaker 1: back to put a button on this.
Speaker 3: Right home, Rodney b. Fred Rogan on a Friday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Dodgers again tonight Cubs. Yammoto goes for
Speaker 1: the Dodgers petrow some money, you'll take you up to
Speaker 1: the pregame show at six. David Vatsay's pregame show guests
Speaker 1: will be Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 3: He is back.
Speaker 1: It is also Freddie Freeman Bobblehead Night. And if you
Speaker 1: are at the stadium listening on the app, and many
Speaker 1: of you do as you are waiting in line, Dave
Speaker 1: has suggested, do not show up and storm the stadium.
Speaker 1: Apparently everybody gets a bobblehead. This is not There are
Speaker 1: two thousand bibbleheads, and you better get there because people
Speaker 1: have been there for hours and it's hot. Everybody likes
Speaker 1: to get a little sun, Vitamin D very health. But
Speaker 1: you probably don't have to get there quite as early
Speaker 1: because you're going to get a bobblehead. Yes, which is
Speaker 1: encouraging news for those of you who have not left yet.
Speaker 1: And again it's Friday, and you know traffic is bad, Well,
Speaker 1: so i'd leave pretty soon, you know what.
Speaker 4: So you just take back everything you just said, get
Speaker 4: there right now, saying.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know it's Friday. So I live fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes from the stadium right Friday. If I go, it's
Speaker 1: forty minutes. I'm going the same exact route. If I
Speaker 1: go on a Friday for a seven o'clock game, it's
Speaker 1: forty minutes. If I go any other night, it's fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: So maybe leave a little earlier. But you don't have
Speaker 1: to be in line right now. But if you are
Speaker 1: on line right now, there's absolutely nothing you can do
Speaker 1: about it. So just make the best of it and
Speaker 1: keep it on the radio station for petros and money.
Speaker 3: Next.
Speaker 1: Okay, Ronnie, thank you, thank you for just a terrific week.
Speaker 1: Really appreciate everything you've done. Kevin. Yeah, well, thanks Ronnie, Kevin,
Speaker 1: good job. Thank you as well, Rodney. Have a terrific weekend,
Speaker 1: and we do it again Monday.
Speaker 3: Right home.