WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:03.080 And we continue on Fred Rogan Rodney Pete on five 2 00:00:03.200 --> 00:00:08.640 seventy LA Sports, The Big Friday Show where anything goes 3 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:11.359 and it is the start of a big weekend for 4 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:13.720 the Dodgers against the Blue Jays. Let us bring on 5 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:17.559 the man in the Big Chair. Are you back from 6 00:00:17.879 --> 00:00:18.719 London yet? Ned? 7 00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:22.719 Yes, I am got back last night. I actually had 8 00:00:22.760 --> 00:00:24.719 another stop, but yeah, I got back last night. 9 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:27.480 So you must be just all screwed up time wise. 10 00:00:28.399 --> 00:00:30.719 No, I don't even think about it. I just keep going. 11 00:00:30.839 --> 00:00:32.920 What the heck? Right? You know you're talking. 12 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:35.600 You're talking to Ned Collettie. 13 00:00:37.119 --> 00:00:39.640 I've never had a nine to five gig, really, so 14 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:41.640 don't I don't know. I sleep when I get tired 15 00:00:41.679 --> 00:00:43.079 and I stay out the rest of the time. 16 00:00:43.679 --> 00:00:46.359 All right, So you're back, and you're back at a 17 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:48.600 critical time. The Dodgers need you, Ned, They need you 18 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:49.840 in town. 19 00:00:50.079 --> 00:00:52.920 Since you you're going out there this weekend. The sheer 20 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:53.719 amount of bits. 21 00:00:53.719 --> 00:00:56.960 All right, when you're going, you're going tomorrow, maybe going 22 00:00:56.960 --> 00:00:57.600 on Sunday. 23 00:00:57.759 --> 00:00:59.560 Okay, so go tomorrow. 24 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:01.079 Let me know if you go to mar let me know. 25 00:01:01.119 --> 00:01:03.079 I'm there, kid, all right, all right, all right. 26 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:06.280 So you're in the big chair and the team is 27 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:08.799 in first place, but doesn't look like a first place team, 28 00:01:09.239 --> 00:01:11.319 So what do you think and what do you do? 29 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:15.680 Ned, Well, there's nothing much you can do. Trade that 30 00:01:15.799 --> 00:01:19.560 lone wise, obviously that's in the past. So you've got 31 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:21.879 some players obviously that have been hurt. Some have been 32 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:24.200 hurt for a while, so you don't necessarily know what 33 00:01:24.239 --> 00:01:26.159 you're going to get when they do come back, or 34 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:28.840 if they're going to come back at one hundred percent 35 00:01:28.920 --> 00:01:31.239 and be ready to go. But it takes time to adjustice. 36 00:01:31.480 --> 00:01:34.400 It's the best baseball league in the world, so you 37 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:36.000 get to play it by here a little bit, and 38 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:38.079 you're going to have to hope that some of the 39 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:40.480 guys that have struggled that they figure it out, and 40 00:01:40.519 --> 00:01:43.040 some of the guys that have been unhealthy that they 41 00:01:43.519 --> 00:01:45.959 that they get healthy. How much you can do at 42 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:48.920 this point except put people in a position to succeed. 43 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:51.159 I think Dave Ravis does a great job with that. 44 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:54.599 And so you play the cards you've been dealt. There's 45 00:01:54.599 --> 00:01:57.200 no doubt they've been getting dealt great cards. Now, guys, 46 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:01.079 besides they're hurt, and besides a few guys slumping, you know, 47 00:02:01.159 --> 00:02:03.159 the talent is definitely there. 48 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:06.959 Yeah, no, no doubt. And you talk about guys that 49 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:07.439 are slumping. 50 00:02:07.480 --> 00:02:10.960 Obviously, Mookie Betts has been the talk pretty much the 51 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:14.599 whole season, and everybody's got an opinion need and I'm 52 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:17.560 sure Mookie's tired of hearing about it. He's even saying, 53 00:02:17.599 --> 00:02:19.000 I don't know what else I can do. I'm in 54 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:21.639 the cage. I'm doing everything I can. Uh, it's just 55 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:24.199 you know, baseball and you know this net. Sometimes it's 56 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:29.159 just sports. But what what do you do? Do you 57 00:02:29.199 --> 00:02:31.319 start tweaking it? You start? I mean, I know they 58 00:02:31.439 --> 00:02:33.759 messed with him leading off and then going back to 59 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:37.800 hitting second. Do you move him even further down the lineup? 60 00:02:38.159 --> 00:02:40.719 And does that take pressure off of him? I seem 61 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:42.240 to think I don't know if that does or not. 62 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:43.960 Because he's a guy who's been there and done that 63 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:46.719 for so long. I don't know if moving him down 64 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:47.719 does really anything. 65 00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:51.840 I don't I don't think it does. I think he's 66 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:56.000 he's use pressure. He's used to playing a big moments. 67 00:02:56.159 --> 00:02:59.840 He's done it for a long long time and successful. 68 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:03.000 You know, it's it's hard to expind sometimes when a 69 00:03:03.080 --> 00:03:05.919 guy gets gets in a in a fog like as 70 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:08.319 he said, the other day, you know this is this 71 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:10.919 is not just since the beginning of the season. He 72 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:13.159 felt that he could have been a little bit stronger 73 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:16.639 the last few weeks of last year. So it's been 74 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:20.120 a prolonged situation. I think sometimes and I don't know 75 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:24.319 him well enough to really do anything but speculated. I guess. 76 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:27.680 You know, the longer you go in an adult drum, 77 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:30.719 sometimes the tougher it gets a pull out of it 78 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:33.879 because you end up thinking about so many different things, 79 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:35.759 and I think if you go back to just what 80 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:38.919 made you successful? How were you when you were at 81 00:03:38.919 --> 00:03:40.919 your best, what were you thinking? How you know? How 82 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:43.560 how did this work? How did that work? And then 83 00:03:43.639 --> 00:03:46.240 you forget about looking at the scoreboard to see what 84 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:49.199 your average is or what you've been doing lately. You 85 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:52.080 just taking it sounds cliche. You just take a pitch 86 00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:54.639 to pitch and you do what you're what you're used 87 00:03:54.680 --> 00:03:57.520 to doing, and sometimes I can pull you out. You know, 88 00:03:57.560 --> 00:03:59.840 he doesn't have to hit three thirty to be a 89 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:02.960 great player. He's a great player. So you know what, 90 00:04:03.039 --> 00:04:04.879 you take a pitch by pitch it bad, by a 91 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:07.960 fat you know, you get you could get a win 92 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:10.840 a big game by going one for four, one for five, 93 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:13.639 or making a great play in the field, or going 94 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:16.120 first or third or first a home many ways to 95 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:18.360 win a game. So you got to take it as 96 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:20.480 it is. That you look at it every day doesn't 97 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:22.399 help you. But at some point in time, you got 98 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:24.839 to forget about what the scoreboard says batting average and 99 00:04:24.879 --> 00:04:27.360 things like that. Just concentrate on what you know how 100 00:04:27.399 --> 00:04:29.839 to do best and be able to execute it. 101 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:34.079 Here's the thing that nobody forgot how to hit. You know, 102 00:04:34.199 --> 00:04:37.519 guys that have struggled Mookie included this year, nobody forgot 103 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:39.160 how to hit. It's not like they woke up and go, 104 00:04:39.240 --> 00:04:41.560 oh my god, I what do I do up here? 105 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:44.360 I don't understand how to do this anymore. No one 106 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:48.199 has forgotten anything. It's just no, they've all kind of 107 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:52.879 been in this same spot and they can't get out 108 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:56.839 of it, like all at the same time. That's the problem. 109 00:04:57.399 --> 00:04:59.360 Well, you see that a lot in sport. I mean 110 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:02.480 you do see where where one one person or two 111 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:06.160 people slump and suddenly got the whole team an adultrum. 112 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:09.120 Sometimes you're starting pitcher ro pitch great, and the next 113 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:12.399 guy will pitch great. You know, sometimes it's just you know, 114 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:15.000 one begets the other, and I think that that's a 115 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:17.600 piece of it too. But there's not much you're going 116 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:20.240 to be able to do a change wise right now. 117 00:05:20.279 --> 00:05:22.079 You're going to have to live with with who you are. 118 00:05:22.120 --> 00:05:25.279 I mean, you've got it. You've got many, many great 119 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:28.800 talented players that have all done it before, and you 120 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:30.720 got to you just got to play it out. I 121 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:32.879 know that's tough to do. It's tough to watch, it's 122 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:35.439 tough to be a fan, and tough to to sit 123 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:38.800 where we said, but that's the game. That's the nature 124 00:05:38.839 --> 00:05:42.079 of the sport, of any sport, and sometimes you just 125 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:44.199 got to play it out. And you know, I mean 126 00:05:44.199 --> 00:05:46.399 look at Max Munsey, you know, look where he was 127 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:49.160 at the beginning of the season, and look and look 128 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:51.040 what he's done since and how much they missed him. 129 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:54.759 And Booby comes back and off he goes. That's sports, guys. 130 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:58.199 That's so that's how it goes. Sometimes tough to watch, 131 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:01.279 but that's why. That's why every day is different. Every 132 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:03.079 game is different. Every day you got a chance to 133 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:04.920 learn something. Every day you got a chance to win 134 00:06:04.959 --> 00:06:06.800 a game. But every day you got a chance to 135 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:09.720 just dip a little bit deeper. In the into the 136 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:11.319 funk Man. 137 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:12.240 I said this earlier. 138 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:15.120 I just think that they've got especially now that they're 139 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:18.240 getting healthy again, especially the pitching staff, and they're getting 140 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:21.639 them guys like you just mentioned Munzie back. There's just 141 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:24.439 too much talent for them to stay where they are, 142 00:06:24.519 --> 00:06:27.600 stay as stagnant as they are. At some point, I 143 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:29.600 do believe they're going to make a run. How do 144 00:06:29.639 --> 00:06:32.600 you feel about them making a run or getting it 145 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:33.560 kind of turned around? 146 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:36.800 Well, the time to make the run is actually a 147 00:06:36.839 --> 00:06:39.240 little bit later in the year, right, I mean, it's 148 00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:41.120 you know, you would you rather, you know, would we 149 00:06:41.240 --> 00:06:44.480 rather having ten games up right now and and two 150 00:06:44.519 --> 00:06:46.959 games up at the end of the season and have 151 00:06:47.240 --> 00:06:50.279 everybody wondering, hey, what do we got going on now? No, 152 00:06:50.399 --> 00:06:52.319 you got it. You got to pace yourself. And again 153 00:06:52.399 --> 00:06:54.800 this is all easier said than done. But the time 154 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:56.600 to get hot is coming. It ain't here, and it 155 00:06:56.639 --> 00:06:59.560 may not even be here right now. And you've got 156 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:01.959 a bunch of talent, You've got a pitching staff that 157 00:07:02.079 --> 00:07:04.399 is starting to work its way back, and again you 158 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:06.199 don't know what you're going to get the first few 159 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:09.319 times out, and you hope that the player is completely 160 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:11.680 healthy when they come back that they're not just telling 161 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:14.240 you that they feel great, because if that happens too 162 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:17.040 and they're not one hundred percent or close to it. 163 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:19.160 But you're gonna have to play it out. And the 164 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:22.399 key thing is for this team, and I don't think 165 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:24.759 there's any doubt they're going to make the playoffs, so 166 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:27.360 we can. You know you're going to get to October. 167 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:30.040 What you do with that month writes to history of 168 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:34.519 this club for a long time. This is all all drama, 169 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:37.199 and this is all like leading up to it, but 170 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:39.600 October is the month. You know if you want one 171 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:43.399 hundred and fifteen games and won a division by thirty 172 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:46.759 and then you know you struggle when you got to October. 173 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:49.839 That's all anybody's going to care about. All this stuff 174 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:52.279 will be forgotten by the time you get to October, 175 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:53.879 and you got to live with it and you got 176 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:55.800 to try and figure out your way out of it. 177 00:07:56.199 --> 00:07:59.160 And everybody gets tested through adversity, no matter if it's 178 00:07:59.199 --> 00:08:03.000 in life for in sport, and how you react to 179 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:05.720 and how you react to to figuring out how you 180 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:09.120 adjust to what you've been up to. And that's where 181 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:10.560 they're at right now. In some cases. 182 00:08:10.680 --> 00:08:13.639 See I said earlier basically the same thing last year. 183 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:16.639 It's not like the club didn't go through adversity last year. 184 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:18.759 It's not like they didn't have to deal with things. 185 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:21.439 I think it made them stronger now. They went through 186 00:08:21.480 --> 00:08:24.839 it more so near the end and they caught that 187 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:28.439 fire and built that momentum. But you talk about a 188 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:31.040 team that has had to deal with adversity this year 189 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:35.399 with the injuries that on its own would have demolished 190 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:37.039 a lot of clubs and knocked them out for the 191 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:40.600 whole season. Now that things of them are done right, 192 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:43.519 and now if you look at the way they have 193 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:45.960 played in the last month, and it hasn't been great, 194 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:50.480 but they're still in first place. That's adversity. They have 195 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:54.519 to deal with it as well. And I just believe 196 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:57.399 it's not like flipping a switch. Oh the lights are 197 00:08:57.440 --> 00:09:00.840 on now we're back. But I do believe they are 198 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:04.039 going to come out of this and catch fire. As 199 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:05.960 you pointed out at the right time. 200 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:09.679 Net, I would be far more surprised if they didn't 201 00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:11.879 than if they did. I mean, we all expect them too, 202 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:14.679 and I think they expect themselves to do it as well. 203 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:17.759 You know, the sport's not easy. San Diego has played 204 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:20.840 probably as good as they can play for a while 205 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:24.480 and they're still sitting two back. Okay, not quite as 206 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:27.080 good a road team as they are at home, and 207 00:09:27.080 --> 00:09:30.120 we can say that about most teams. But it's you know, 208 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:32.360 it's it's part of the deal. It's part of what 209 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:34.840 you go through and part of the ups and downs 210 00:09:34.840 --> 00:09:37.639 of the season. But to go through everything they've got. 211 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:40.399 If you took the names off the uniforms and you 212 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:43.480 went back to April and you said, okay, so now 213 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:45.960 we're sitting in August and here's a team that lost 214 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:50.080 X number of starting pitchers, X number of believers, X 215 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:54.039 number of position players. What place are they in? You say, well, 216 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:56.440 they're out of it. They're not even in it, let 217 00:09:56.480 --> 00:09:59.120 alone competing for it. They're out of it. And I mean, 218 00:09:59.159 --> 00:10:00.919 we could you know, we pick out a team from 219 00:10:00.919 --> 00:10:02.759 a year ago that had the same thing happen to 220 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:04.440 have to have a great year of the year before 221 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:08.720 in Arizona, and you know, that's the that's the sport. 222 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:12.240 But you know they have they have so many different 223 00:10:12.320 --> 00:10:15.679 options to be successful. And we've said this off and 224 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:17.759 on for a couple of years now. One of the 225 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:20.159 beauties of the of the way the team is constructed 226 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:23.440 is there's not one player you count on it. There's 227 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:25.759 a there's a lot of different options on a daily 228 00:10:25.799 --> 00:10:28.960 basis of guys coming through and you got to wait 229 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:31.320 for it and you just wish it here. No you can't. 230 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:33.559 You got to figure out your way through it. But 231 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:36.399 you know, I think this weekend is a great test 232 00:10:36.440 --> 00:10:38.919 for them. Again, is it going to dictate how it 233 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:42.159 goes the rest of the way. No, not necessarily, probably 234 00:10:42.159 --> 00:10:44.840 not at all. But I think, and we've talked about 235 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:47.200 this too, when they have to play competitive teams and 236 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:49.399 you're playing the best team in the America League right now, 237 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:51.879 one of the best teams in the game, you know, 238 00:10:51.960 --> 00:10:54.000 how do you do? How do you do against them? 239 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:56.200 And I think this is a good test for him. 240 00:10:56.480 --> 00:10:59.480 You've got it. You've got to stay sharp, and sometimes 241 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:01.720 when you play teams that you can just run through, 242 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:04.480 you know, it's tough to stay sharp for one hundred 243 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:08.240 and sixty two games. So anyway, I think, yeah, he'll 244 00:11:08.279 --> 00:11:08.799 be fine. 245 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:11.840 Yeah, it might be a good thing. They're playing the 246 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:12.879 Blue Jays right now. 247 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:18.840 As you mentioned, net Otani, I'm still just incredible what 248 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:21.360 he's doing, and on the mound, I think he had 249 00:11:21.639 --> 00:11:25.720 one of his better days eight strikeouts and four innings 250 00:11:25.720 --> 00:11:28.600 and and then hit the home run. What do you 251 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:30.840 make when people suggest that, Oh, I don't know if 252 00:11:30.879 --> 00:11:33.200 I would pitch him anymore or pull him back on 253 00:11:33.240 --> 00:11:35.840 the pitching because the hitting is more important than the pitching. 254 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:40.200 What do you say to the folks that are suggesting. 255 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:43.759 That, Well, I don't know anybody that's more saturated in 256 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:46.639 the day to day of the Dodgers, and Andrew and 257 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:50.679 Dave Roberts and the staffs for both and they know 258 00:11:51.279 --> 00:11:55.120 and show hey knows, they know more in that room 259 00:11:55.200 --> 00:11:58.559 than anybody than everybody on the outside combined. You can 260 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:00.960 take a million people within a they don't know as 261 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:04.279 much as five people sitting in that office. So they're 262 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:07.879 gonna do what's best. They're gonna they take the long view. 263 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:10.679 We've talked about that many times on the show. They 264 00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:14.799 take the long view. So are they gonna extend him 265 00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:17.120 out so that by the time they get to October 266 00:12:17.159 --> 00:12:19.279 he's at an innings limit and he can't really help 267 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:22.639 in the playoffs? No, I think that they're gonna judiciously 268 00:12:23.320 --> 00:12:25.759 let it, let it out little by little and they 269 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:27.919 continue to use it. And if they see that the 270 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:31.440 pitching is affecting the hitting, they're gonna know. They're gonna 271 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:33.480 know it. They're gonna know about the body language. They're 272 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:36.279 gonna know by the conversations and the manager's office and 273 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:39.360 the clubhouse. They just know and know. We can all 274 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:42.919 take guesses, but you know, it's a guest firsus really knowing, 275 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:46.600 and I'll go with their record. Go over anybody else 276 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:49.279 who's taking the guests or making an opinion. They don't. 277 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:52.519 The opinion is the opinion. But the people who are 278 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:54.840 in it every day, they know where everybody on their 279 00:12:54.840 --> 00:12:57.320 club is at. They know who's finnicky, they know who's 280 00:12:57.320 --> 00:12:59.960 fighting through an injury, they know who's getting better, who 281 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:02.559 is getting stronger, it was getting sharper, and they know 282 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:05.080 who can do what. That's that's the beauty of the sport. 283 00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:07.639 That's the blessing and the curse of it. It's an 284 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:11.320 everyday thing. You won't ever put it away. So I 285 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:13.960 think that that they'll measure it as they go on 286 00:13:14.120 --> 00:13:17.200 and they'll make the best choice they can and they'll 287 00:13:17.240 --> 00:13:18.000 be party to it. 288 00:13:18.759 --> 00:13:22.519 All right, Net, thanks for coming on, really appreciate it today. 289 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:25.440 All right, guys, always a pleasure, always a pleasure. 290 00:13:25.559 --> 00:13:28.240 Our good friend Ned Coletti, okay, be man of the 291 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:31.080 big chair. Dodger fans, Let's do this Rodney. All right, 292 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:34.399 you heard Ned, You've heard us talk about it. How 293 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:38.320 are you feeling now as they wake up with this 294 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:41.960 series against the Blue Jays? One do panic, meter, green good. 295 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:46.799 Let's do it all right, Green good, Orange, concerned, red panic, 296 00:13:47.399 --> 00:13:52.399 Green good, Orange, concerned red panic eight six six nine 297 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:54.399 eight seven two five seventy. We'll take your calls in 298 00:13:54.440 --> 00:13:57.600 the next segment tomorrow. Take your picture with world champion 299 00:13:57.679 --> 00:14:00.879 Mickey Rojas. Loving to noon at Rea Money Transfer inside 300 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:04.840 Superior Grocers on Huntington Park at sixty ten Pacific Boulevard. 301 00:14:05.159 --> 00:14:07.600 David Vass'll be there with a live broadcast from ten 302 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:09.840 to noon. 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We are streaming Matt Dodger 312 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:51.679 Talk with David Vasse, the Dodger Podcast of Record, Clipper 313 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:54.159 Talk with auDA Musk, follow us all and many more. 314 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:56.600 Just go to AM five to seventy LA Sports on 315 00:14:56.679 --> 00:14:57.799 the iHeartRadio app. 316 00:15:02.159 --> 00:15:09.120 That's right. You know what happens on Friday? No, we don't. 317 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:14.279 We really don't. At least Freddy certainly does it. Rodney Pete, 318 00:15:14.279 --> 00:15:17.159 Fred Rogan on a beautiful Friday. Let's go, all right, 319 00:15:17.279 --> 00:15:20.159 Panic time, Come on, let's. 320 00:15:19.960 --> 00:15:22.679 Go, let's do it. Panic Meter time eight six six 321 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:27.080 nine eight seven two five seventy Green, No problem, All good, Orange. 322 00:15:27.120 --> 00:15:30.840 I'm a bit concerned. Red. We got big problems. I'm panicked. 323 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:33.720 Big series against the Blue Jays tonight. How do you 324 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:36.120 feel we haven't done the panic Have we even done 325 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:38.480 the panic meter this year? We have once? 326 00:15:38.600 --> 00:15:39.919 It's been a while, Yeah we have. 327 00:15:40.320 --> 00:15:42.799 Yeah, Okay, we did it once once. 328 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:44.919 I think when they got swept by the Angels, he 329 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:45.480 might have done it. 330 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:47.759 Yeah, which, by the way, they're coming up again here 331 00:15:47.799 --> 00:15:52.720 next week. Okay, well then we don't need to deal 332 00:15:52.799 --> 00:15:55.480 with that right now. Let's deal with this. Are you panicked? 333 00:15:55.600 --> 00:15:59.000 Are you not panicked? Here we go Alex and Menefee, 334 00:15:59.159 --> 00:16:03.279 thanks for holding. Where is your panic meter? And why? Hey? 335 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:03.840 What's up Fred? 336 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:04.279 What's up? 337 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:04.679 Ronnie? 338 00:16:05.240 --> 00:16:05.960 My second meter? 339 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:07.000 I'm at green right now. 340 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:09.600 I mean, we we go through this every year, so 341 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:10.919 I mean. 342 00:16:10.840 --> 00:16:11.600 I think we're good. 343 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:12.480 It's we gotta go. 344 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:14.759 We gotta go through the through the down before we 345 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:15.159 get the up. 346 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:15.679 Do you know what I mean? 347 00:16:17.559 --> 00:16:19.159 I just have a suggestion. 348 00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:23.360 Do you know if MOOKI when to go see the 349 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:26.120 same doctor, the eye doctor that key k and uh 350 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:29.159 Monkey Munsey win to go see, maybe maybe he needs 351 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:29.639 to go do that. 352 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:31.000 Mm. 353 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:34.639 We talked about that. Thanks for the call. We talked 354 00:16:34.639 --> 00:16:38.360 about that, uh the other day. It's like that would 355 00:16:38.639 --> 00:16:41.639 be probably one of the first things as he's struggling 356 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:45.240 to bring up. And so I'm sure they have and 357 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:47.759 I'm sure they've dealt with it. No, you know what, 358 00:16:48.120 --> 00:16:49.559 thanks for the call, Alex, appreciate it. 359 00:16:50.039 --> 00:16:50.159 Uh. 360 00:16:50.519 --> 00:16:53.200 Here's the thing. If they thought going to an eye 361 00:16:53.240 --> 00:16:55.960 doctor would make a difference, do you not think he 362 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:59.440 would have already been at the eye doctor. To me, 363 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:04.920 it's pretty simple. If going to the eye doctor was 364 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:08.440 the key, he'd be there as a matter of fact. 365 00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:11.519 And I don't know nobody's saying he hasn't gone to 366 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:12.680 the eye doctor. 367 00:17:13.359 --> 00:17:16.799 Right, But whatever you can think of, whatever we can 368 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:21.400 think of, they've thought about it ten times and ten 369 00:17:22.039 --> 00:17:22.880 years before we have. 370 00:17:24.319 --> 00:17:27.079 I'm sure of it. Yeah, they are a little ahead 371 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:29.480 of all of us. That's fair. All right, let's go 372 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:33.920 to Long Beach. Emma is holding and Emma, where is 373 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:34.759 your panic meter? 374 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:39.440 Hi guys, Rodney and Fred. I love your show. You 375 00:17:39.519 --> 00:17:42.519 guys are great. I'm at Green. 376 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:45.720 Orange because Green O's. 377 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:49.319 These guys are yes. These guys are giving it all, 378 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:51.519 And I just wanted to make a comment. 379 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:53.799 When are they going to put. 380 00:17:53.759 --> 00:17:59.119 Rochyosaki in the bullpen? This young man is a fireball. 381 00:17:59.799 --> 00:18:02.319 He needs to get out there and work on it 382 00:18:02.440 --> 00:18:05.640 and get that confidence back, and you watch out. We 383 00:18:05.799 --> 00:18:08.440 were gonna come back strong, all right. 384 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:10.559 I'm a thanks for the call creating your own color. 385 00:18:10.599 --> 00:18:14.000 By the way, we've never had anybody create green orange. 386 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:17.240 I think I did that when I was like four 387 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:20.759 years old. I can school green apple. Frank all right, 388 00:18:20.880 --> 00:18:24.359 thanks Emma. Thanks uh. Here's the thing about Tazaki, he's 389 00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:26.640 got the rehab star. Here's what I'll say about him 390 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:29.160 going to the bullpen and that, and look, he is 391 00:18:29.640 --> 00:18:33.160 a fireballer, no question. And if you had a chance 392 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:36.440 to see him pitch in person prior to when he 393 00:18:36.599 --> 00:18:39.279 went on the injured list, I gotta tell you he's nasty. 394 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:43.680 When that stuff is on, he is nasty. And Rodney 395 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:47.200 and I both saw him pitch in Japan. That guy's nasty. 396 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:51.000 He can do things that will boggle your mind. But 397 00:18:51.079 --> 00:18:53.160 I think the concern, and we talked about it yesterday, 398 00:18:54.680 --> 00:19:00.599 given how I don't want to say wild, but not 399 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:04.160 around the plate he was, I don't know. If that 400 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:08.559 guy is a reliever. I think i'd let him start 401 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:12.039