Speaker 1: What up.
Speaker 2: It's Rogan and Rodney a five seventy LA Sports. You
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Speaker 2: it's Jonas Knox right here, and it's you guys there,
Speaker 2: and we are in for those two here on a Friday.
Speaker 2: As we get you talking Dodgers, we're gonna get all
Speaker 2: the latest on the NFL rumblings from around the league,
Speaker 2: especially locally here and Jason Smith, I know you've got
Speaker 2: a little bit of a bone to pick with the
Speaker 2: presentation of the Olympics, which I feel is an outrage
Speaker 2: in a disgrace, But apparently you're gonna go there early
Speaker 2: on in the show.
Speaker 1: Now, wait a minute, where's your famous Everyone is spitting
Speaker 1: in the face of everybody else like that, that's normally
Speaker 1: your thing.
Speaker 2: You want me to dust that off? Not a problem. Hey,
Speaker 2: For those of you wondering why Fred Rogan is not
Speaker 2: here right now, it's because he is spitting in your face.
Speaker 2: As a listener. He has told you to go screw yourself.
Speaker 2: I'm too good to be here on a Friday. He
Speaker 2: is long gone, and so it's Jason and I hanging
Speaker 2: out with you here on a Friday afternoon in July.
Speaker 1: But you know, here's the thing. You say July, and
Speaker 1: there's the magic there's a magic word, Jonas, because you
Speaker 1: say July. But I'm in a Christmas mood because I'm
Speaker 1: watching the opening ceremonies to the Olympics, and it feels
Speaker 1: like I'm watching the Marina del Ray boat parade.
Speaker 2: It does it integrets me.
Speaker 1: Really, it's the same thing. Like, look you're talking to
Speaker 1: a god. Look I'm a Marina del Ray boat Parade veteran, right,
Speaker 1: Like you know, I go back a ways, like with
Speaker 1: the Marina del Ray boat parade, and it just looks
Speaker 1: like the same thing. Here come the boats and people
Speaker 1: are waving to everybody on the side. And here come
Speaker 1: the boats and everybody's waving the people who are watching.
Speaker 1: It's the Marina del Ray bat Parade.
Speaker 2: I would argue the Marina del Rey boat parade is
Speaker 2: better because of the lights, Like this is in the
Speaker 2: middle of the day and so it just it doesn't
Speaker 2: look as pretty and the presentation isn't as nice as
Speaker 2: it is in Marina del Rey because of the Christmas
Speaker 2: lights and everything. Like I had a buddy who lived
Speaker 2: in Marina Delray for years and he would always sit
Speaker 2: out on his patio and he would see the lights
Speaker 2: and it was fantastic. This is just kind of like,
Speaker 2: all right, here we go, Like it's like a bunch
Speaker 2: of cruise ships that are lining up to be cleaned. Like,
Speaker 2: it doesn't look the same as the Marina del Rey
Speaker 2: boat parade from that standpoint, So I think you had
Speaker 2: it better than the Olympians did.
Speaker 1: Now that's a hot take, because what you're saying is
Speaker 1: the lights of the Marina del Rey boat parade are
Speaker 1: more impressive than Paris, which nickname is the city of Lights.
Speaker 1: So Marina del Rey lights greater than Paris City of Lights.
Speaker 2: Well, listen, put that in line with a list of
Speaker 2: bones to pick that I have with the Olympics. Because A,
Speaker 2: then do this at night. Why are we doing it
Speaker 2: in the middle of the day. If it's a city
Speaker 2: of lights, why are we doing it in the middle
Speaker 2: of the day. Doesn't make any sense, So do it
Speaker 2: at night. B. Why were there already events that have
Speaker 2: taken place and happened before the opening ceremonies. It's not
Speaker 2: the opening ceremonies. If events are already taking place there's
Speaker 2: a sushi place not far from my house and they
Speaker 2: say happy hour all day. Well, if it's happy hour
Speaker 2: all date, it's not happy hour. It's just your regular prices. Like,
Speaker 2: why why give it a title if you're just gonna
Speaker 2: go against it? So opening ceremonies. Yet, I was watching
Speaker 2: handball women's handball yesterday morning while I was doing the
Speaker 2: show on Fox Sports Radio. So there's that. And Andy
Speaker 2: can't drink at any of these events. That's that to
Speaker 2: me get with the times. I can understand that you're
Speaker 2: worried about people throwing bottles out onto the onto the
Speaker 2: playing field and whatnot. But there's a reason why we've
Speaker 2: grown up. Put it in some plastic cups and let
Speaker 2: these people have a couple of cocktails, lick the lid
Speaker 2: a little bit and watch some of these events while
Speaker 2: they're paying all those prices for it.
Speaker 1: Well, clearly they wanted a soft opening to the Olympics. Hey,
Speaker 1: you know, let's make sure we get people watching before.
Speaker 1: You know, we don't want to just give you the open.
Speaker 1: Let's have a soft open. Let's open our doors for
Speaker 1: a little bit. See if we get some traffic people
Speaker 1: talking about the Olympics let's get that Canadian drone controversy, spygate,
Speaker 1: Michigan scandal going. Let's juice things up with that. Then
Speaker 1: we hit them with the opening ceremonies and now it's
Speaker 1: not now we haven't hit on our hands. And who's
Speaker 1: just a soft opening? Yeah to it?
Speaker 2: And also, who's got the guts to jump in the
Speaker 2: water that apparently can't be cleaned that they're worried about
Speaker 2: from a sanitary standpoint, So yes, have we've.
Speaker 1: Seen the mayor since the mayor jumped in the water. Hey,
Speaker 1: I don't worry it's I don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: It feels it feels like that's a problem. It feels
Speaker 2: like that's a major problem. But nonetheless, the Olympics are here,
Speaker 2: opening ceremonies are going on, and we're going to have,
Speaker 2: you know, several days of people learning about events they
Speaker 2: didn't know existed. But the coverage and all that will
Speaker 2: be fun to monitor throughout the course of the next
Speaker 2: couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: But of course, caring so much about it, caring so
Speaker 1: much about the event, I didn't even know about it.
Speaker 1: Nine o'clock this morning. We have to win.
Speaker 2: We have to win this equestrian all the other great
Speaker 2: events that are out there, which to me, I mean
Speaker 2: equestrians basically you know, horse racing, except you know, you
Speaker 2: don't have like degenerate flunky gamblers who just got out
Speaker 2: of jail, sitting rail side smacking a pamphlet against their
Speaker 2: leg because they bet everything they own in the family
Speaker 2: mortgage on the number two horse. So it feels like
Speaker 2: it doesn't have as much of an edge. But those
Speaker 2: are the Olympics. We got bigger conversations that have in
Speaker 2: this town. Ronnie Fossio, Take it away.
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Speaker 2: Is Coachella Valley's best bet all right, Jason Smith. The Dodgers,
Speaker 2: with a trade deadline approaching, have got some things they've
Speaker 2: got to figure out. They got to make some moves now.
Speaker 2: They did make a move earlier today. James Paxton, the
Speaker 2: basically only healthy starter the Dodgers have had all season long,
Speaker 2: who they dfa'd a couple of days ago. He has
Speaker 2: been sent to the Boston Red Sox. In return, they
Speaker 2: bring back minor league infielder Moises Bolivar on Friday. He's
Speaker 2: seventeen years old and that's about as much as I
Speaker 2: know about him. So he has been brought into the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Randy A.
Speaker 2: Rose Arena, who they were looking at as a potential
Speaker 2: trade target, he is gone. He's in Seattle now. So
Speaker 2: with that being said, the Dodgers are sitting here where
Speaker 2: a few days before the trade deadline, a minor move,
Speaker 2: one move that went by the wayside, and we wait
Speaker 2: to see how LA approaches this trade deadline here in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Well, let's deal with with with James Paxson. First. It
Speaker 1: just happened earlier today, and this was a gift for
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. Anytime you dfa someone and you wind up
Speaker 1: getting something at whatever it is, it doesn't matter whether
Speaker 1: it's stocking a soda machine for three years like in Moneyball.
Speaker 1: Hey what we got for James Paxton. Paxson was a
Speaker 1: guy who his record looked good, but he walked way
Speaker 1: too many people, and he wasn't going even five. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't even go five innings, right, So you have
Speaker 1: other people that can say, hey, that wist walk less
Speaker 1: and hopefully they'll be able to go five innings. Kershow
Speaker 1: hasn't pitched in a year nearly when five innings in
Speaker 1: his first start. So I get it. I get making
Speaker 1: room and trying to figure things out. And you know
Speaker 1: they they had to make room for river Ryine on
Speaker 1: the on the forty man roster. So I get it.
Speaker 1: This is a trade that hey, look, whatever happens happens.
Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of people upset at the
Speaker 1: Arosa Raina deal when the Rose Raina trade broke. Last
Speaker 1: night on my show, it was all why didn't we
Speaker 1: get a Rosa Raina? Why did we get them? Why
Speaker 1: didn't we get him? And I just say, you know,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers have enough hitting. I get it. I get it.
Speaker 1: Most most guys they bring up from the miners they
Speaker 1: hit three point fifty for the rest of the season,
Speaker 1: and it's boy, this guy's a superstar. I'm not worried
Speaker 1: about the hitting. The pitching is a huge deal. Not
Speaker 1: that they needed to keep James Paxson, But wow, you
Speaker 1: really need something because the deadline's coming up, and my
Speaker 1: concern for the Dodgers is like it at ten, not
Speaker 1: from making the playoffs, but because this is a World
Speaker 1: Series or busty for them like that, you're all in
Speaker 1: on Otani, who's having an MVP season. You need to
Speaker 1: be in the World Series. And the way the starting
Speaker 1: pitching looks right now, it's glassnow and Kershaw who pitched
Speaker 1: four two thirds innings yesterday, because everybody else you have
Speaker 1: no idea, right, Yamamoto may come back in September. Anytime
Speaker 1: you say, hey, we're looking for this guy to come
Speaker 1: back near the end of the year. Maybe yeah, that
Speaker 1: is that really gonna happen. No, Walker Bueler may never
Speaker 1: be the same. You know, he's got another couple of
Speaker 1: starts and he's trying to figure out. He says he's
Speaker 1: figured out what's going on with the mechanically, but who knows.
Speaker 1: Bobby Miller's got another start in the miners tonight. Before
Speaker 1: they make a decision. You can't keep relying on, Hey,
Speaker 1: these guys are coming back. Maybe they're coming back. They
Speaker 1: need to go get two starting pitchers at the deadline.
Speaker 1: Two there's not a lot out there. That's why my
Speaker 1: concern is out of ten because it's not like there's
Speaker 1: a pitching rich environment. We can go get Verlander, we
Speaker 1: can go get shirts who we can go get So
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of guys out there, So they
Speaker 1: need two starters in a market that doesn't have a
Speaker 1: lot of starting pitching. Hence why my concern is about
Speaker 1: of a ten.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know'd be sweet for the Dodgers. I
Speaker 2: was thinking about this if they just said, you know what,
Speaker 2: f it, why don't we just get healthy, because it
Speaker 2: feels like that's the best path for them. If you
Speaker 2: could get Yamamoto back at some point and he's healthy,
Speaker 2: If you could get Walker Bueller at I mean, you're
Speaker 2: shoveling dirt on his career, which I can't even believe
Speaker 2: that that's a Fred Rogan move. But Walker Bueller, if
Speaker 2: you could get him back, that would be ideal. If
Speaker 2: you could get some of the guys back, Mookie bets all, like,
Speaker 2: I feel like I would be a little bit more
Speaker 2: confident in this team as opposed to having to go
Speaker 2: chase big time names at the deadline and who knows.
Speaker 2: Like we were talking earlier this week with Jack Harris,
Speaker 2: It's like, who knows who they're willing to part with?
Speaker 2: From a minor league standpoint, everybody knows they're loaded in
Speaker 2: the miners. Who knows who they're willing to walk with
Speaker 2: if they look at a player like a Crochet or
Speaker 2: there's been talks maybe a Justin Steele could be available,
Speaker 2: depending on what the Cubs decide to do. Nico Horner's
Speaker 2: Name's been thrown out there. There's a real chance that
Speaker 2: maybe there's not a big time blockbuster move, and maybe
Speaker 2: the best approach is let's wait to see if we
Speaker 2: can get some of these guys back. This was the
Speaker 2: team we thought we were going to field at the
Speaker 2: start of the year. I don't know why I get
Speaker 2: this impression, and I know that your concern level for
Speaker 2: them is a ten. I just get good vibes about
Speaker 2: this team this year. I don't know why I shouldn't.
Speaker 2: They're riddled with injuries, They've had bad luck on that front.
Speaker 2: There's something about this team. I have a good feeling
Speaker 2: into the postseason. I think they're gonna get healthier. I
Speaker 2: just don't foresee a big time blockbuster move out there,
Speaker 2: like we've seen them pull off in the past.
Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing. You just you know all the
Speaker 1: people coming back. Hey, those are all people we can
Speaker 1: look at. But you said, if, like four times, if
Speaker 1: Yamamoto comes back, if Miller is good, if Clayton Kershaw
Speaker 1: continues to be continues to progress and is good, if
Speaker 1: Walker Buehler can get back to being himself, that's a
Speaker 1: lot of chances. Like if you're talking about if for
Speaker 1: one player, boy, Hey, if Yamamoto comes back, Okay, that's
Speaker 1: what that's great. You wonder that you have everything else,
Speaker 1: but you really don't have anything else. And I mean,
Speaker 1: and look, and there's not a lot of guys out there.
Speaker 1: Crochet is out there, and the guy's twenty five, and
Speaker 1: he wants the moon, right, he wants a contract extension
Speaker 1: if he's going to pitch in October. Like how insane
Speaker 1: is that this is the best guy on the market.
Speaker 1: You can get him out of Chicago. Who are gonna
Speaker 1: lose one hundred and twenty five games this year? And
Speaker 1: he says, Oh, if I'm gonna pitch in October, I
Speaker 1: need a contract extension. Wait what Like not even lebron
Speaker 1: and Bronni would try to pull something off like that,
Speaker 1: and he's the number one guy.
Speaker 2: He's dictating terms like he's the guy calling the ship.
Speaker 2: It's like when my kid tries to negotiate with me,
Speaker 2: when I tell him, hey, you got to pick up
Speaker 2: your monster trucks. He's like, well, no, no, no, I gotta
Speaker 2: do this. No, no, no, that's not how this works,
Speaker 2: Like you're not dictating to me. Ultimately ends up getting
Speaker 2: whatever he wants anyways, because I cave in easily. But yeah,
Speaker 2: that is funny how he's basically saying, well, I'm not
Speaker 2: pitching out of the bullpen. I need a contract extension.
Speaker 2: I need it to dude. Just you need to get
Speaker 2: the hell out of Chicago. The teams that just di
Speaker 2: you need to get somewhere and you could be a
Speaker 2: part of a Pennant race. So that is a kind
Speaker 2: of a funny aspect to all this stuff. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it's Look, the deadline's coming up around the corner. I
Speaker 2: don't know that Randya Rosarino was gonna be the end all,
Speaker 2: be all solve of whatever their issues are. And what's
Speaker 2: he gotten like two eighteen this year?
Speaker 1: Like yeah, but here's the thing. The last month and
Speaker 1: a half he's been great, Like the first month and
Speaker 1: a half he was, he's at like one oh five
Speaker 1: and now he's got it up to two. It sounds awful,
Speaker 1: but the last month and a half he's been fantastic.
Speaker 2: I So the Dodgers are sitting at this point, They're
Speaker 2: gonna obviously take calls, kick the tires on some names
Speaker 2: out there. Maybe they'll make a move, maybe not. Would
Speaker 2: you feel let's say the trade deadline comes and goes,
Speaker 2: they add a couple of small time pieces, but they
Speaker 2: don't add that big frontline starter. And the approach, which
Speaker 2: was part of the reason why James Paxton was designated
Speaker 2: for assignment over the weekend or on Monday, the approach is,
Speaker 2: we are going to trust that we're going to get better,
Speaker 2: healthier walker Bullers, fix the mechanics. How would your optimism
Speaker 2: level be for this team towards the back end of
Speaker 2: the season endo the postseason.
Speaker 1: Exactly the same? Mi Concerner be at a ten, I'd
Speaker 1: be exactly the same. They could walk into the first
Speaker 1: round of the playoffs and get buzzed like they did
Speaker 1: last year. I mean, like it's if you're talking about
Speaker 1: and I don't mean at this point you need those
Speaker 1: big front of the lot because they're not available. But
Speaker 1: if you can get a couple of really good pitchers
Speaker 1: that are gonna go six innings, I mean, that's what
Speaker 1: you need. That's all you need. You can't have guys
Speaker 1: going four innings every other outing and you're dusting the
Speaker 1: bullpen and trying to figure things out. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: not a recipe for success. If they do nothing, If
Speaker 1: they stand pat I would say the Dodgers have just
Speaker 1: a big a chances going to the World Series as
Speaker 1: they do getting knocked out in the first round by
Speaker 1: a team that's hot. That's a little bit deeper with
Speaker 1: starting pitching, because a lot of stuff equalizes when you
Speaker 1: get to that short series. So you know, if they
Speaker 1: don't make moves, if they don't try to bring in
Speaker 1: some sort of depth, if they're trying to bring in
Speaker 1: two more starting pitchers to be your second and third starters,
Speaker 1: a third and four starters, that's where I be because
Speaker 1: you're also talking about navigating the rest of the season now.
Speaker 1: So now you're gonna navigate the season without anybody new
Speaker 1: coming in, and these guys potentially coming back, they could
Speaker 1: come back and then get hurt again. I mean, how
Speaker 1: many teams you've seen now that are staying in it
Speaker 1: because I have six and seven starting pitchers and they
Speaker 1: lengthened guys out. You're gonna come out of the bullpen
Speaker 1: be along end. Oh no, we got an injury, You're
Speaker 1: sliding right back in. Like that's becoming the new way
Speaker 1: the teams do it. And it's not loading up with
Speaker 1: a superstar ace at one, two and three. It's let's
Speaker 1: have good pictures that can go five six innings, and
Speaker 1: if something happens and there's an injury, then you know,
Speaker 1: we can slide a guy right in and not have
Speaker 1: to miss anything like that. That's the strategy that's been working.
Speaker 2: This is why I defend Dave Roberts because people make
Speaker 2: it seem like, well, they've got this big payroll. They're
Speaker 2: gonna pay seven hundred million dollars for Otani, who's the
Speaker 2: greatest player in the history of the game. They're gonna
Speaker 2: add you know, Yamamoto glass, Now all these pieces, no
Speaker 2: more excuses for David for Dave Roberts, And I look
Speaker 2: at it and I go, this is kind of a
Speaker 2: pain in the ass to deal with, Like he's got
Speaker 2: a lot go on this year the mookie bets stuff.
Speaker 2: What do you do with the middle infield? Like you know,
Speaker 2: ta Oskar Hernandez. Nobody saw that coming. He's been huge
Speaker 2: for this team. Now, the pitching injuries, who you can
Speaker 2: depend on. You're bringing Kershaw back and we'll get into
Speaker 2: that conversation here eventually. But Kershaw comes back and it's
Speaker 2: in a limited role. So is it necessary, as Jack
Speaker 2: Harris pointed out, or is this somebody that you feel
Speaker 2: like is actually ready to go. I look at the
Speaker 2: job for Dave Roberts and I go, he's got a
Speaker 2: lot to try and juggle as they get ready for
Speaker 2: the postseason. On top of the fact that everybody is expecting, well,
Speaker 2: they're going to melt down or fall apart. He's going
Speaker 2: to make a bullpen move that's going to be the
Speaker 2: wrong move, and he's going to be the guy in
Speaker 2: the hot seat when if you're dealing with all of this.
Speaker 2: To me, he deserves a lot more credit than he
Speaker 2: gets for somebody that's been juggling all this state, even
Speaker 2: Keel the entire time, with everything thrown in his lap,
Speaker 2: trying to get ready for the postseason. I'm fascinated to
Speaker 2: see what reaction in this town is going to be
Speaker 2: depending on how they turn out in the postseason. On
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts, you know.
Speaker 1: You mentioned, you know, it's funny, you know who he
Speaker 1: reminds me of now getting to see his managerial career
Speaker 1: now for the better part of a decade, not just
Speaker 1: here's a couple of years, and what kind of lineup
Speaker 1: are they putting out there? And yes, every bullpen move
Speaker 1: he makes in the postseason is wrong. He should a
Speaker 1: lot of this guy. Of course, you can say that
Speaker 1: after someone gives up a three run homer, but you
Speaker 1: know who, he reminds me of a lot, and this
Speaker 1: is crazy. He reminds me a lot of Joe Tory,
Speaker 1: the way Tory was able to navigate that Yankee dynast.
Speaker 1: They obviously, you know, one championship for Dave Roberts and
Speaker 1: the Yankee you know, the Yankees won four, but every
Speaker 1: year world Series threat, they're in the World Series, they're
Speaker 1: deep in the playoffs, and there's different challenges with a
Speaker 1: superstar roster that has it's amount of turnover every year,
Speaker 1: getting the young players to come up, keeping them happy,
Speaker 1: knowing when you can kind of coddle a young superstar
Speaker 1: like Cody Bellinger when you know you need to kick
Speaker 1: him in the ass a little bit, like he that
Speaker 1: is a thankless job, and he is someone who has
Speaker 1: navigated these waters a lot like Joe Tory did. Every
Speaker 1: day is either it's lady or the time, it's everything
Speaker 1: is wonderful. Oh my god. The Dodger need to trade
Speaker 1: seven different guys, so it's a really difficult job. And
Speaker 1: after seeing him do it now for ten years, you
Speaker 1: realize he's been the perfect guy all along and it's
Speaker 1: just you know, hey, at some point, something's got to
Speaker 1: change in the playoffs. But you know, for him getting
Speaker 1: the team there and and performing, Yeah, he does not
Speaker 1: get the credit he deserves because that's kind of what
Speaker 1: he reminds me of.
Speaker 2: And no meltdowns, like no, no podium meltdowns, Like you're
Speaker 2: not seeing him throw anything. You're not seeing him like
Speaker 2: who was that Hal McCrae years ago who liked had
Speaker 2: a tantrum? Oh he turned over his desk, got oh yeah,
Speaker 2: like lou Panella fought Rob Dibble Like you're like, you
Speaker 2: haven't seen any of that from Dave Roberts. And all
Speaker 2: the guy's done is produce at a high level. They've
Speaker 2: got the World Series from twenty twenty. They are perennial threat,
Speaker 2: as you pointed out, and all he does is get criticism.
Speaker 2: This is the year Roberts is on the hot seat.
Speaker 2: If he doesn't get it done this year, he's gone.
Speaker 2: Just even Keel keeps calm the entire time. The guy
Speaker 2: deserves a little bit more credit than he gets.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: The biggest controversy he gets in too, is always, Hey,
Speaker 1: all right, Clayton Kershaw is starting and it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: the seventh or eighth inning, and you Roberts call somebody over, Hey,
Speaker 1: go down there and ask Clayton now he's doing See
Speaker 1: if he's okay for the ninth, if if he needs
Speaker 1: to come out just and then just come back and
Speaker 1: just really slide me. Tap me once. If he's ready
Speaker 1: to come out, tap me twice. He wants to go
Speaker 1: out there and pitch like that's the only bit of controversy.
Speaker 1: It's like, hey, just you know, I don't want to
Speaker 1: upset Clayton, So just go down there and find out
Speaker 1: how he's doing it.
Speaker 2: Come back and tell me, Oh man, it's gonna be
Speaker 2: it's gonna be fun to watch the trade deadline fast
Speaker 2: approaching here for the Dodgers moves to be made. One
Speaker 2: minor one, Randy A Rose Arena is gone, Hey, let
Speaker 2: him go, let him go, hang out in Seattle and
Speaker 2: deal with rain three hundred and sixty eight days of
Speaker 2: the year. Bottom line is Dodgers are gonna make some moves.
Speaker 2: Trade day, trade deadline rather right around the corner, and
Speaker 2: we will keep you up to speed here on A
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Speaker 2: Is it a we don't care Friday? That's how we're
Speaker 2: calling it. We don't care. Well, I officially don't care
Speaker 2: about the Olympics. I'll tell you that right now based
Speaker 2: on what I'm saying for these Olympics ceremonies.
Speaker 1: What he did? You bet on the parade and you're losing?
Speaker 1: Is that why? Like you have? You have this built
Speaker 1: in hate already for the Olympics.
Speaker 2: Hey, guy's got needs. Okay, a guy's got needs. I'm
Speaker 2: just a little bit upset with the opening ceremonies, but
Speaker 2: they are already be in games that are being played
Speaker 2: and happening and all that other fun stuff. But nonetheless,
Speaker 2: it is Rogan Rodney here on AM five to seventy
Speaker 2: LA Sports, Jason Smith, Jonas Knox in for the guys
Speaker 2: here on a Friday coming up in We'll call it
Speaker 2: a little over ten minutes from now here on AM
Speaker 2: five to seventy LA Sports, we are going to tell
Speaker 2: you about how somebody might have ruined their season in
Speaker 2: the NFL before it even started. We could already count
Speaker 2: two losses in the books for one team in the NFL,
Speaker 2: and we will get into that for you again a
Speaker 2: little over ten minutes from now so, Jason Smith, it
Speaker 2: was all smiles, even some tears. Yesterday at Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 2: Clayton Kershaw makes his return. Underwent the scope surgery over
Speaker 2: the offseason, He's missed several months, gets back out there,
Speaker 2: throws four innings. A little bit of a trouble early
Speaker 2: on in his performance, but nonetheless it was great to
Speaker 2: see him back out there, and considering what he's coming
Speaker 2: back from. You see the numbers, we can break it
Speaker 2: all down. Yeah, he didn't go nine innings, but first
Speaker 2: game back, I was pleasantly surprised with what I saw
Speaker 2: from Clayton Kershaw. Clearly not what he once was and
Speaker 2: probably never will be, but pleasantly surprised. And I think
Speaker 2: everybody there at Dodger Stadium was there yesterday as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I look at it like this as much as
Speaker 1: look my concern level. I told you at a ten
Speaker 1: because of starting pitching specifically for Clayton Kershaw. Okay, after
Speaker 1: seeing him yesterday swinging miss rate was okay, gave up
Speaker 1: a couple of runs in and out of trouble even
Speaker 1: he said, I can't go eight innings right now. But
Speaker 1: number one, you know he doesn't want to keep pitching
Speaker 1: in Rancho Kukamanga. I'm ready to come back. This's your measurine, right,
Speaker 1: I'm ready to come back.
Speaker 2: What's wrong with Rancho Kook.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you know, he's not one that's gonna
Speaker 1: make this big long Hey. When when I'm ready and
Speaker 1: I can get guys out in the Major, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1: Because I'm Clayton Kershaw Okay, I'm not gonna go there.
Speaker 1: I mean I watched Matt Kemp playing Rancho kou Kamanga once.
Speaker 1: I was like, he can't wait to get out of here.
Speaker 1: He can not wait to get out of it.
Speaker 2: But you almost can't.
Speaker 1: You can't.
Speaker 2: You can't have an attitude around the players that are
Speaker 2: there because then you you feel like a bit of
Speaker 2: a douche because it's like, oh, I'm too good for this,
Speaker 2: Like well, you're too good for it. This is all
Speaker 2: I got, buddy, Like I I least paper catering.
Speaker 1: I'm watching Kemp play center forcause when out there a
Speaker 1: friend of ours worked on the anniversary of the Sandlot
Speaker 1: and so say, we're having this whole big thing out there.
Speaker 1: We're showing the movie after and tickets you want to go,
Speaker 1: Yeah great, We brought my daughter. She loved it. And
Speaker 1: it happened to be one of Matt Kemp's rehab games.
Speaker 1: And he's out there and it's like you can't even
Speaker 1: see him all the way out in center field because
Speaker 1: the lighting is so bad and like the grass is
Speaker 1: really high and it looks like a just like a
Speaker 1: you know, a stadium that you're saying to yourself, boy,
Speaker 1: here's Matt Kemp playing center field. Like if if if
Speaker 1: a UFO would could come down and beat him up,
Speaker 1: he would have said, yeah, come on, take me, I'm ready,
Speaker 1: I'm ready, get me out of here, get me out
Speaker 1: of you.
Speaker 2: And it was a Sandlot annimrocery.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like that was the game they showed Sandlot on
Speaker 1: on the big screen. TV's like the twenty fifth anniversar
Speaker 1: you ever whatever it was.
Speaker 2: By the way, did you say, I don't know how
Speaker 2: recent the video was, but you know, the kid who
Speaker 2: played Smalls in the Sandlot, so he's now an adult
Speaker 2: and apparently he's got some issues because there was some
Speaker 2: like ring doorbell camera that showed footage of him, like
Speaker 2: breaking a brick through his neighbor's windshield. Yeah, shirt off,
Speaker 2: complete slob, looks absolutely annihilated out of his mind. Apparently
Speaker 2: got arrested. I think he had to like check into rehab,
Speaker 2: and it really took away from the movie for me
Speaker 2: because I can no longer watch that movie because now
Speaker 2: I know the real ending. The real ending isn't Benny
Speaker 2: the Jet ends up playing it Dodger Stadium. It's Smalls
Speaker 2: turns into a full blown alcoholic and throws a brick
Speaker 2: through his neighbor's windshield. Like it's just the whole thing's
Speaker 2: disturbing though, So when you bring up the Sandlot, it
Speaker 2: kind of spoils it for me to be, well.
Speaker 1: Now you're killing me Smalls means something completely different. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know when the cop said that to me, they
Speaker 1: put him in the back of the car, killing me
Speaker 1: small Now.
Speaker 2: I'm almost positive he pulled like a machete out as well. Too,
Speaker 2: like he came ready to rock who knew?
Speaker 1: Like who knew? I'm ready to rock man man. Look,
Speaker 1: but Kershaw, this is the best thing I can and
Speaker 1: I think it's accurate and it's positive. Is that there
Speaker 1: is no reason to not be cautiously optimistic that he
Speaker 1: can be the best version of himself over the course
Speaker 1: of this season, because we see it now and this
Speaker 1: has become like a Ladder Day phenomenon in the last
Speaker 1: two or three years, where now older athletes like Kershaw
Speaker 1: lebron A d now in his early thirties, you expect injuries,
Speaker 1: like they're not going to make it through a whole season.
Speaker 1: You expect injuries, and the best thing you can hope
Speaker 1: for is that will the injury happen at a time
Speaker 1: where we can overcome it. Like if it happens at
Speaker 1: the end of the season going into the playoffs, well
Speaker 1: we're screwed. If it happens in the middle of the
Speaker 1: season and they're able to come back with a month
Speaker 1: and a half to go before the season ends, that's great.
Speaker 1: It happens at the beginning of the year, they come back,
Speaker 1: but it's like, you know the injury is gonna happen
Speaker 1: and when can you avoid it? Well, Kershaw had his
Speaker 1: injury last year, and now you know, if you had
Speaker 1: him from the beginning of the season, is he making
Speaker 1: thirty thirty five starts? Of course not. He's look great
Speaker 1: in April and May and then something. You know, all
Speaker 1: the innings that he's had are gonna creep up on
Speaker 1: him and it wouldn't be the same Clayton Kershaw. But
Speaker 1: now the timing of this really falls in line with
Speaker 1: the Dodgers because you're looking at twelve starts. Now you're
Speaker 1: looking at a Jacob de Grom, like, hey, can you
Speaker 1: make twelve starts this year and make a handful during
Speaker 1: the regular season and then be it your best in
Speaker 1: the playoffs? Can you peak and starts ten through fifteen
Speaker 1: or sixteen, because that's all you're counting on him for.
Speaker 1: So I almost feel like they had they had a
Speaker 1: great a time with dodging the injury, because now what
Speaker 1: you're asking to come back for isn't something yet you know, hey,
Speaker 1: eventually he's gonna wind up getting hurt, gonna be on
Speaker 1: the il. Can he come back? It's like, now you
Speaker 1: need him, Okay, let's have let's have twelve weeks that's
Speaker 1: what we need. We did twelve weeks of baseball and
Speaker 1: twelve to fifteen starts, and I think that's a very
Speaker 1: fortuitous thing for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: To see his wife crying. I think spoke volumes to
Speaker 2: me about how difficult the time since his last appearance
Speaker 2: has been. Because my thought on it was when there
Speaker 2: was conversations about him retiring, I said, there's no way
Speaker 2: in hell, if it's humanly physically possible, he's letting that
Speaker 2: be his last appearance as a Dodger. What happened in
Speaker 2: the postseason that was a disaster. And listen, he's had
Speaker 2: rough performances in the postseason, those have been documented. That
Speaker 2: was really bad. There's no way in hell he wants
Speaker 2: to let that be the final chapter of his career
Speaker 2: and to see her emotional like that. And I think
Speaker 2: he even talked about it with David Vasse after the game,
Speaker 2: where he was saying, yeah, you know, my wife and
Speaker 2: my family have had to put up with me for
Speaker 2: the past however many months. And I think a lot
Speaker 2: of that was it was really draining on him to know,
Speaker 2: first surgery of my career, all the injuries that he's had,
Speaker 2: He's never had a surgery before. This is the first
Speaker 2: one of his career, and his career was really in
Speaker 2: jeopardy had they done the full surgery. So they took
Speaker 2: this approach because they felt like it would give him
Speaker 2: a better chance to get on the field sooner and
Speaker 2: to see him out there it was almost like a
Speaker 2: sigh of relief for him. And it was his wife
Speaker 2: who just thought about all the moments, all the doubt
Speaker 2: that had crept in. So I'm with you whatever version
Speaker 2: you get from him, Yes, it's necessary. It's not going
Speaker 2: to be the Clayton Kershaw that we've seen, but I
Speaker 2: think he feels a sense of Okay, now I can
Speaker 2: kind of go out on my terms, maybe not having
Speaker 2: the injury going into last year melting down in the
Speaker 2: playoff game. To me, I looked at it and said,
Speaker 2: that's a good story. He's not going to be your as,
Speaker 2: but that's a good story to see him maybe close
Speaker 2: out the final chapter of his career of the Dodgers
Speaker 2: on his terms from a hell's standpoint, and in a
Speaker 2: better light than the six or whatever home runs he
Speaker 2: gave a blast postseason.
Speaker 1: Now, let me ask you this, because you saw how
Speaker 1: emotional it was I want to know at what point
Speaker 1: you would take the over. If I said to you,
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw, the number of starts he has the rest
Speaker 1: of his career before he retires. If I said thirty,
Speaker 1: would you take the over? Thirty starts the rest of
Speaker 1: his career untill he hangs up, would you take the over?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: If I said twenty five, would you take the over? No?
Speaker 1: If I said twenty, would you take the over? Yes?
Speaker 2: But I would also have an eye towards my kid's
Speaker 2: piggy bank, because I would probably need to take money
Speaker 2: out of there to try and make up for losing
Speaker 2: that fat I'm look, I'm I'm with you.
Speaker 1: And so twenty's the magic number for the over under.
Speaker 1: Then twenty's the magic number the number of starts he
Speaker 1: has left in his career. Yes, yeah, I think that's
Speaker 1: because you're talking about whatever he has this year, yes,
Speaker 1: and then whatever he has next year, most likely, which
Speaker 1: is a bit because another big injury, and you know
Speaker 1: how many you know, how much long can you keep
Speaker 1: doing this and and how many can you write him
Speaker 1: down for next year? I think between twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: Like that's the sweets, that's the number for how many
Speaker 1: starts he has.
Speaker 2: Left and I would ask you this, they won a
Speaker 2: World Series this year, is he coming back?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think he retires in the in the
Speaker 1: in the in the in the celebration on the field,
Speaker 1: like he takes the trophy and leaves with it, because
Speaker 1: because I do.
Speaker 2: I do wonder if there's some of that as well too, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, we won the World Series in twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: but you didn't get all the moments afterwards because of COVID,
Speaker 2: because of where it was. I wonder if he looks
Speaker 2: at it like, man, if I could win a World
Speaker 2: Series and go out with a better look than I
Speaker 2: had last year in the playoffs, but I can win
Speaker 2: that World Series, we can have the parade and just
Speaker 2: sort of have the big celebration. He's got nothing else
Speaker 2: left to prove, Like he's a first ballot Hall of Famer,
Speaker 2: he'll have two rings at that point. He can go
Speaker 2: out on his terms. He doesn't have to fight back
Speaker 2: to come back from the injuries, he doesn't have to
Speaker 2: perform at at a lower level than he has been
Speaker 2: in his peak and in his prime. I think if
Speaker 2: they win a World Series, he's done after this year.
Speaker 1: Oh, Yeah, no, he, like I said, he grabs the
Speaker 1: trophy and he Jason Tatum is like, I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: gonna steal this from everybody, not let anybody else touch it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take photos with it now. I may not
Speaker 1: be the MVP, but this is my trophy. I got
Speaker 1: no because because then then you say, Okay, he goes
Speaker 1: out the way nobody else can. You don't know what
Speaker 1: the rest of his future is gonna be. Is he
Speaker 1: gonna come back for one more year for a farewell?
Speaker 1: You know, that's not how it works in baseball, especially
Speaker 1: with starting pitchers, doesn't work that way. So yeah, he would,
Speaker 1: he would go right away, and then it would be
Speaker 1: then the bit, is he the best left handed pitcher
Speaker 1: in the history of the game. Yeah, Like, clearly he's
Speaker 1: the best of the last fifty years. And you're going
Speaker 1: back to Sandy Kofax when his career cut short when
Speaker 1: he was thirty. I mean, this is how far you're
Speaker 1: going back to find somebody a left handed pitcher better
Speaker 1: than Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 2: And if he pitch as well in the postseason, which
Speaker 2: would kind of exercise some of the demons from all
Speaker 2: the narratives surrounding him in the past. If he could
Speaker 2: put together a couple of decent performances in the postseason,
Speaker 2: it's a hell of a way to go out, man,
Speaker 2: And just but to see him out there yesterday, I'm
Speaker 2: looking at the numbers, I'm like, yeah, he only threw
Speaker 2: four innings, but I mean he's probably pretty happy with
Speaker 2: that based on where he was, and they'll slowly ramp
Speaker 2: him up, you know, as they get to the sea.
Speaker 2: And the fact that look, Nick Ahmed burned his former
Speaker 2: team with the go ahead home run in the eighth
Speaker 2: sho hey, Otani's been absolutely fantastic and being able to
Speaker 2: deliver them that win yesterday. So that was fun to
Speaker 2: see him do it against the Giants. And quietly, you know,
Speaker 2: while everybody's concerned about the trade deadline, six and one
Speaker 2: post All Star break, I mean, it could be a
Speaker 2: lot worse, Jason, Right, There's a lot of teams that
Speaker 2: would kill for six and one at any point in
Speaker 2: the season, and the Dodgers are six and one post
Speaker 2: All Star break and getting ready to make a couple
Speaker 2: of moves at the deadline.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know, and you're right, and for any
Speaker 1: other team would say I'd love to have their problems, right,
Speaker 1: But for the Dodgers, it's unfortunately they are judged better
Speaker 1: and harsher than everybody else because of the team they
Speaker 1: put together. Where if this isn't a World Series appearance,
Speaker 1: like that's a failure and that's a lot to live
Speaker 1: with every single year, and that's the Dodgers have lived
Speaker 1: with for the better part of the last decade. So yeah,
Speaker 1: the whole concern I have for this where they are,
Speaker 1: it's it's not about getting in the play It's not
Speaker 1: about winning the NL West, because they'll win the West
Speaker 1: and they'll you know, hopefully of what you know, avoid
Speaker 1: what they can avoid the matchups they don't want. But
Speaker 1: this is about getting to the World Series. And if
Speaker 1: you say, okay, our main starters are Glass now, and
Speaker 1: then we have a Kershaw who was maybe seventy percent
Speaker 1: of what he was at his peak, and you got
Speaker 1: question mark, question mark, question mark, that's what the big
Speaker 1: deal is. You know, if you if you come back
Speaker 1: and say it's Glass now and then you have a
Speaker 1: couple and then Kershaw's your third guy or your fourth guy,
Speaker 1: or someone who can start one game in the in
Speaker 1: in a playoff round, because you get get an extra
Speaker 1: day's rest for people. Suddenly, then I feel a hell
Speaker 1: of a lot better about the Dodgers than I do
Speaker 1: going in, only because this is about World Series, not
Speaker 1: about hey, getting into the playoffs, which you know ninety
Speaker 1: percent of the other teams are going, oh yeah, I'd
Speaker 1: love to have all the Dodger problem love to get in.
Speaker 1: There'd love to be twenty games over five hundred running
Speaker 1: away with a division. But it's okay, But remember that's
Speaker 1: not your victory. You know, you're not popping champagne. The
Speaker 1: Dodgers aren't popping champagne last day of the regular season
Speaker 1: because we won another NL West. This is something that
Speaker 1: is supposedly, you know, hopefully three or four weeks later
Speaker 1: they're talking about bigger champagne.
Speaker 2: Well, you're gonna be popping some hofey later on tonight
Speaker 2: because the Dodgers take on the Astros tonight with first
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Speaker 1: I think Rodney Pete's one of those cameos, right, probably, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, if he's not, let's just say he is.
Speaker 1: Oh you missed him.
Speaker 2: Just got him on the yacht. He just went to
Speaker 2: the yacht and found him there and just said him.
Speaker 1: And Holly just waving to people. Hey, how you guys
Speaker 1: doing all right? Great?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes sense, so you know, get it.
Speaker 1: Every day he is off, yo, and when when you
Speaker 1: and I fill in at different times. Every time, you know,
Speaker 1: Kevin figures calls us, hey, you know Rodney's off, Like
Speaker 1: like when Fred is off, I'm picturing Fred like running
Speaker 1: around in Palm Springs doing a whole bunch of stuff
Speaker 1: and just trying to stay cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Every time, Oh Rodney's off, I'm just picturing him on
Speaker 1: a yacht somewhere. Just yeah, I'm off today, I'm on
Speaker 1: a yacht and I'm hanging out and we're just doing
Speaker 1: like like the what I picture from. Both of those
Speaker 1: guys are incredibly different from them.
Speaker 2: All two different social lives, yeah, in social circles. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, completely different guys. Now, did you know
Speaker 2: that Fred is actually on the East Coast on a
Speaker 2: baseball tour, So he's going to be seeing your Mets,
Speaker 2: like he's going to see them. That's part of his vacation.
Speaker 2: So he'll be on the East Coast. Scene three, I
Speaker 2: think you're seeing like the the Phillies, the Mets, and
Speaker 2: somebody else. Like he didn't see the he doesn't want
Speaker 2: to see the Yankees because he's already been there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the Red Sox or the other one. So he's seen
Speaker 2: the Phillies, the Mets, and the Red Sox. That's his vacation. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: Rodney's on a yacht yeah of course.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, so just like can you get that TMZ
Speaker 1: video from like Far Away Going when they zoom in
Speaker 1: and here's Rodney just standing there with a glasses, champagne,
Speaker 1: no shirt on of course, no shirt, you know, swim trunks. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I need today off, guys.
Speaker 2: He's gott caviare and the champagne going and the Crystal
Speaker 2: and Fred's eating nachos out of a plastic baseball helmet,
Speaker 2: Like like, that's the difference between Fred and Rodney if
Speaker 2: you needed to know what their time away from he was, like,
Speaker 2: you know what, I was thinking about this as well too,
Speaker 2: with the Dodgers obviously being in Houston, do you think
Speaker 2: fans like, because we know Dodger fans hate the Astros,
Speaker 2: do you think Astros fans hate the Dodgers? Because if
Speaker 2: they do, why, Like, like, what are you pissed about?
Speaker 2: Like Dodger fans and the Dodgers are the ones that
Speaker 2: should be upset. It's like the guy who robs your
Speaker 2: house and then gets pissed that you hit him in
Speaker 2: the face, So what are you doing that for? Like
Speaker 2: the whold on a second, like this, that's not how
Speaker 2: this works. I just wonder what the reception is like
Speaker 2: they're still all these years later after the cheating scandal
Speaker 2: in the World Series.
Speaker 1: Oh, you know, they just hate everybody. They they hate
Speaker 1: they hate everybody. It's wait a minute, we cheated for
Speaker 1: all those years in one two World Series we kind
Speaker 1: of said we were sorry, that's not enough. Oh now
Speaker 1: it's us against the world, Like that's what the Astros
Speaker 1: have done. Oh now it's us against the one. You
Speaker 1: didn't get any punishment at it. Well, you pet the
Speaker 1: World series rings? What it talking about? What do you
Speaker 1: mean you? Oh now you hate it. We kind of
Speaker 1: said we were sorry. We're not really sorry because we won.
Speaker 1: But oh now you have Okay, now we're us against
Speaker 1: the world. Now everybody hates us because we're not here.
Speaker 1: Let's galvanize this and use this as a moment where
Speaker 1: you can rise up and win another World Series.
Speaker 2: Like I just like none of it, Like I just
Speaker 2: think about it. Go that's probably still happening. And it's
Speaker 2: it's it's the most bizarre thing in the world because
Speaker 2: you're the one that made the mistake. You're the one
Speaker 2: that committed the crime. You're the one that's upset. It's like, okay,
Speaker 2: well I guess that's just how it works. So again,
Speaker 2: Dodgers in uh in Houston and I take on the Astro.
Speaker 1: So there's gonna be people, you you know, like you
Speaker 1: get those those obituaries once in a while, and and
Speaker 1: someone will say in a biture, hey, you know, blah
Speaker 1: blah blah, so and so was this and this and
Speaker 1: the last line is always and and he was always
Speaker 1: very upset that the Dodgers didn't give Brad Penny more
Speaker 1: of a chance, you know, or something really rare. There's
Speaker 1: gonna be obituaries in thirty forty years from people and
Speaker 1: it's gonna say blah blah blah this, this, this this,
Speaker 1: And he never got over the fact that the Astros
Speaker 1: cheated in one two World Series, like that's how long
Speaker 1: this is. Of course, this is gonna fester with baseball things.
Speaker 2: Of course, listen, it's why we love sports. People hold
Speaker 2: on to grudges. There's nothing better now, speaking of grudges,
Speaker 2: speaking of rivalries, Raiders Chiefs is a great rivalry. Now,
Speaker 2: the Raiders have had some good moments against the Chiefs recently,
Speaker 2: mostly in the regular season, not in the postseason, because
Speaker 2: they generally don't make the playoffs. The Chiefs do, and
Speaker 2: they're winning Super Bowls nowadays. So the Raiders had a
Speaker 2: Kermitt the Frog doll at practice or some crap like that,
Speaker 2: and they said that Patrick Mahomes sounds like Kermit the Frog.
Speaker 2: Now I would push back on that from this standpoint.
Speaker 2: I think he sounds like a mix between Kermit the
Speaker 2: Frog and Louis Armstrong. All right, that's the way if
Speaker 2: we really want to break this down Patrick Mahomes and
Speaker 2: how he sounds, That's that's what I would go with.
Speaker 2: But you know, Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs saw it.
Speaker 2: Andy Reid made a comment and said, well, you know,
Speaker 2: we don't really play with puppets here. That was sort
Speaker 2: of his dig at the at the Raiders. You know,
Speaker 2: we don't really play with with any puppets here at
Speaker 2: at camp. And then Patrick Mahomes said, it's still early
Speaker 2: in the year. It'll get handled when he gets handled.
Speaker 2: So have the Raiders already guaranteed themselves in what's kind
Speaker 2: of a kind of an important year for the Raiders
Speaker 2: there in Las Vegas since they've moved on and DeVante
Speaker 2: Adams wants to be happy or else he wants to
Speaker 2: be out, have the Raiders already guaranteed themselves two losses
Speaker 2: this upcoming year against the Chiefs little motivation.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Maybe they guaranteed like like eight losses
Speaker 1: the next four years. Okay, you know, because is Mahome's
Speaker 1: gonna forget they had a puppet of me at camp
Speaker 1: that time. Every time he goes out there. You know
Speaker 1: what I didn't know what to do.
Speaker 4: At least it's something I'm dealing with where it's not
Speaker 4: my brother, it's not my wife, it's not all kinds
Speaker 4: of stuff happening.
Speaker 1: At least I can go out and I can handle
Speaker 1: touchdowns gonna happen? Now?
Speaker 2: Is that fat out?
Speaker 1: That sounds like fat Albert? Oh? Man, that's a pretty
Speaker 1: good mom. It's a tough one because he's always got
Speaker 1: no voice. He's like the Doc Rivers the NFL, that's all.
Speaker 1: It's always like, what do you do? How is your
Speaker 1: voice still like this? Like? I know you're barking out
Speaker 1: signals all the time, but at some point during the
Speaker 1: off season, don't you have like nice rich base levels
Speaker 1: in your voice when you're talking? And there no? So no,
Speaker 1: it's what's happened? What's going? So I'm telling it how
Speaker 1: it goes. Just get really excited up in the air. Ye,
Speaker 1: So do we have?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 2: You and I would would be experts on this because
Speaker 2: we do a lot of radio. We talk on the
Speaker 2: air a lot. When's the last time you lost your voice?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: This laft this past weekend?
Speaker 2: Did you really?
Speaker 1: I was? I would you know? I came back to
Speaker 1: had vacation and I came back. We went to London,
Speaker 1: we went to Scotland, and you know, in Scotland in
Speaker 1: the summer, it's like forty degrees, so it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: you saw the Open Championship, like we're running around in
Speaker 1: fleece and and warm pants. I'm like, it's the middle
Speaker 1: of bleep in July. Man. So I came back a
Speaker 1: little bit of a cold. Okay, that's fine. And then
Speaker 1: I was kind of feeling it on Friday night. The
Speaker 1: boy my voice little horse, but okay. And and now
Speaker 1: now I sound like a kid who goes to the
Speaker 1: store for ear medicine all the time. So I have
Speaker 1: an allergy to dogs and cats, and we dog sat
Speaker 1: one of our friend's pets over the weekend. And sometimes
Speaker 1: once in a while if I use my inhaler, it
Speaker 1: it really affects my voice. It's like just whatever it is.
Speaker 1: They say, once you hit fifty, you gotta have a
Speaker 1: different kind of of of of mix and your inhaler. Okay, great,
Speaker 1: And so I took it, and my voice just like
Speaker 1: I had no power in it. Like anytime if I
Speaker 1: would try to really get high in nut it was
Speaker 1: it was I was up here like this, I can't
Speaker 1: do it. I can't do it. So I couldn't work
Speaker 1: on Monday. So I was sick on Monday and rich
Speaker 1: Ornberger filled in for me, and it was it's scary
Speaker 1: when that happens, but at least I knew this is
Speaker 1: gonna be very temporary and it'll be back to normal.
Speaker 1: And it was back to normal the next day.
Speaker 2: But for the most part, if you do a double
Speaker 2: like you're doing two shows in a day, like you
Speaker 2: do quite often or something like that, for the most part,
Speaker 2: your voice stands up correct. I mean, like you're good
Speaker 2: to go. So like if your Doc Rivers or Patrick mahomes, like,
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to tell them how to handle their
Speaker 2: off seasons, but like don't you get with like a
Speaker 2: vocal coach and be like, hey, so what's your secret?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Like like I'm tired of
Speaker 2: having a throat lodgeings in my mouth at all times
Speaker 2: because I can't feel what's going on. Like I learned
Speaker 2: from doing singing lessons, you go from the diaphragm right.
Speaker 2: There's a reason why opera singers look like they're fat.
Speaker 2: It's because their mid sections are so strong. Because that's
Speaker 2: where you belt everything from. So it's like, Hey, Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 2: You've already got the throwing motion down, You've got all
Speaker 2: the mechanics, You've got every gift in the world you
Speaker 2: could possibly want. Doc Rivers, you've got an NBA championship.
Speaker 2: All right, You've somehow figured out a way to be
Speaker 2: a TV guy for an hour and a half and
Speaker 2: then get another head coaching job during the off season.
Speaker 2: Why not work on maintaining your voice so that people
Speaker 2: can actually hear what the hell you say, so that
Speaker 2: you knoweople aren't calling you Kermit the Frog at training
Speaker 2: camp in Las Vegas. Well, it feels like that would
Speaker 2: be the approach.
Speaker 4: This is Patrick Mahomes for bigelow t It coach your throat.
Speaker 4: It's not a lot of caffeine. It works out great, Hey, Doc,
Speaker 4: you tell him right? Oh yeah, no, my voice is
Speaker 4: up here. It's much higher. People are gonna blame me
Speaker 4: if this tea doesn't work, But it's not my fault.
Speaker 4: It's never it's not my fault. I didn't have Giannis.
Speaker 1: I don't know the cut cut cut cut, Doc, just
Speaker 1: just just read what's on the prompter.
Speaker 2: Ye.
Speaker 1: No, but people are gonna blame me for the They're
Speaker 1: gonna blame me for the bucks. They're gonna blame me
Speaker 1: for the sixers. I gotta get this at doc, Doc,
Speaker 1: just just read what's in front of you, Doc, Just read,
Speaker 1: just read that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and if you need any help, we'll
Speaker 2: walk you through it like this, and you know, we
Speaker 2: will walk you through all this stuff. Get you ready,
Speaker 2: you know, you just gotta go from the diaphragm, you know.
Speaker 2: And also another thing as well too, try and stay
Speaker 2: away from dairy that'll mess up your vocal cords. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and spicy foods. I made the mistake of getting mango
Speaker 2: hobbin aro boneless wings from Buffalo Wild Rings, which is
Speaker 2: across the street from uh the Fox Sports Radio studios
Speaker 2: and the Gallery in Sherman Oaks, and tried to do
Speaker 2: an update afterwards. Oh, it was an abomination. I can't like,
Speaker 2: I can't even believe. But kay, it was so bad
Speaker 2: because I couldn't find my mouth was numb, I couldn't
Speaker 2: find my words. So like you just you go through
Speaker 2: these things and you realize, all right, maybe don't take
Speaker 2: that approach, so just you know, keep it as clean
Speaker 2: as possible and then maybe next time the Raiders want
Speaker 2: to have something to bully Patrick Mahomes on, which, by
Speaker 2: the way, the Raiders, listen, you've got bigger issues, dude,
Speaker 2: Like yeah, I mean, what the hell like I do?
Speaker 2: I wonder if they look at it and go, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe we shouldn't have traded Derek Carr or gotten rid
Speaker 2: of Derek Carr. You know, maybe, you know, maybe we
Speaker 2: could have had a better solution here to keep DeVante
Speaker 2: happy in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: I think they should say, hey, listen, guys, you know
Speaker 1: that we're trotting out either Aid O'Connell or Gardner Minshew
Speaker 1: against Mahomes in two games this year. Okay, you guys
Speaker 1: know that, right, Okay, just so you know, right, you
Speaker 1: don't have Josh Jacobs anymore, just so you know that, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: you know this is going on. You know we're not
Speaker 1: gonna have Devanta Adams with that second game because we're
Speaker 1: going to trade him by Halloween and he's going to
Speaker 1: be a New York Jet. You guys understand all of
Speaker 1: this when you want to make fun of Patrick Mahomes, right, which.
Speaker 2: By the way, how is there no tampering charges on
Speaker 2: the Jets at this point? I mean like it is
Speaker 2: so blatant.
Speaker 1: Boomer Issiasin is not employed by the Jets. That's fair.
Speaker 1: Dan is not employed. That's fair.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's all right, Yeah, you're right. Listen, Let's Boomer
Speaker 2: is employed by the Giants. I stand corrected. It is
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