Speaker 1: And we continue on Fred Rogan Rodney Pete on five
Speaker 1: seventy LA Sports, The Big Friday Show where anything goes
Speaker 1: and it is the start of a big weekend for
Speaker 1: the Dodgers against the Blue Jays. Let us bring on
Speaker 1: the man in the Big Chair. Are you back from
Speaker 1: London yet? Ned?
Speaker 2: Yes, I am got back last night. I actually had
Speaker 2: another stop, but yeah, I got back last night.
Speaker 1: So you must be just all screwed up time wise.
Speaker 2: No, I don't even think about it. I just keep going.
Speaker 2: What the heck? Right? You know you're talking.
Speaker 1: You're talking to Ned Collettie.
Speaker 2: I've never had a nine to five gig, really, so
Speaker 2: don't I don't know. I sleep when I get tired
Speaker 2: and I stay out the rest of the time.
Speaker 1: All right, So you're back, and you're back at a
Speaker 1: critical time. The Dodgers need you, Ned, They need you
Speaker 1: in town.
Speaker 2: Since you you're going out there this weekend. The sheer
Speaker 2: amount of bits.
Speaker 3: All right, when you're going, you're going tomorrow, maybe going
Speaker 3: on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Okay, so go tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Let me know if you go to mar let me know.
Speaker 2: I'm there, kid, all right, all right, all right.
Speaker 1: So you're in the big chair and the team is
Speaker 1: in first place, but doesn't look like a first place team,
Speaker 1: So what do you think and what do you do?
Speaker 2: Ned, Well, there's nothing much you can do. Trade that
Speaker 2: lone wise, obviously that's in the past. So you've got
Speaker 2: some players obviously that have been hurt. Some have been
Speaker 2: hurt for a while, so you don't necessarily know what
Speaker 2: you're going to get when they do come back, or
Speaker 2: if they're going to come back at one hundred percent
Speaker 2: and be ready to go. But it takes time to adjustice.
Speaker 2: It's the best baseball league in the world, so you
Speaker 2: get to play it by here a little bit, and
Speaker 2: you're going to have to hope that some of the
Speaker 2: guys that have struggled that they figure it out, and
Speaker 2: some of the guys that have been unhealthy that they
Speaker 2: that they get healthy. How much you can do at
Speaker 2: this point except put people in a position to succeed.
Speaker 2: I think Dave Ravis does a great job with that.
Speaker 2: And so you play the cards you've been dealt. There's
Speaker 2: no doubt they've been getting dealt great cards. Now, guys,
Speaker 2: besides they're hurt, and besides a few guys slumping, you know,
Speaker 2: the talent is definitely there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no doubt. And you talk about guys that
Speaker 1: are slumping.
Speaker 3: Obviously, Mookie Betts has been the talk pretty much the
Speaker 3: whole season, and everybody's got an opinion need and I'm
Speaker 3: sure Mookie's tired of hearing about it. He's even saying,
Speaker 3: I don't know what else I can do. I'm in
Speaker 3: the cage. I'm doing everything I can. Uh, it's just
Speaker 3: you know, baseball and you know this net. Sometimes it's
Speaker 3: just sports. But what what do you do? Do you
Speaker 3: start tweaking it? You start? I mean, I know they
Speaker 3: messed with him leading off and then going back to
Speaker 3: hitting second. Do you move him even further down the lineup?
Speaker 3: And does that take pressure off of him? I seem
Speaker 3: to think I don't know if that does or not.
Speaker 3: Because he's a guy who's been there and done that
Speaker 3: for so long. I don't know if moving him down
Speaker 3: does really anything.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't think it does. I think he's
Speaker 2: he's use pressure. He's used to playing a big moments.
Speaker 2: He's done it for a long long time and successful.
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's hard to expind sometimes when a
Speaker 2: guy gets gets in a in a fog like as
Speaker 2: he said, the other day, you know this is this
Speaker 2: is not just since the beginning of the season. He
Speaker 2: felt that he could have been a little bit stronger
Speaker 2: the last few weeks of last year. So it's been
Speaker 2: a prolonged situation. I think sometimes and I don't know
Speaker 2: him well enough to really do anything but speculated. I guess.
Speaker 2: You know, the longer you go in an adult drum,
Speaker 2: sometimes the tougher it gets a pull out of it
Speaker 2: because you end up thinking about so many different things,
Speaker 2: and I think if you go back to just what
Speaker 2: made you successful? How were you when you were at
Speaker 2: your best, what were you thinking? How you know? How
Speaker 2: how did this work? How did that work? And then
Speaker 2: you forget about looking at the scoreboard to see what
Speaker 2: your average is or what you've been doing lately. You
Speaker 2: just taking it sounds cliche. You just take a pitch
Speaker 2: to pitch and you do what you're what you're used
Speaker 2: to doing, and sometimes I can pull you out. You know,
Speaker 2: he doesn't have to hit three thirty to be a
Speaker 2: great player. He's a great player. So you know what,
Speaker 2: you take a pitch by pitch it bad, by a
Speaker 2: fat you know, you get you could get a win
Speaker 2: a big game by going one for four, one for five,
Speaker 2: or making a great play in the field, or going
Speaker 2: first or third or first a home many ways to
Speaker 2: win a game. So you got to take it as
Speaker 2: it is. That you look at it every day doesn't
Speaker 2: help you. But at some point in time, you got
Speaker 2: to forget about what the scoreboard says batting average and
Speaker 2: things like that. Just concentrate on what you know how
Speaker 2: to do best and be able to execute it.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing that nobody forgot how to hit. You know,
Speaker 1: guys that have struggled Mookie included this year, nobody forgot
Speaker 1: how to hit. It's not like they woke up and go,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I what do I do up here?
Speaker 1: I don't understand how to do this anymore. No one
Speaker 1: has forgotten anything. It's just no, they've all kind of
Speaker 1: been in this same spot and they can't get out
Speaker 1: of it, like all at the same time. That's the problem.
Speaker 2: Well, you see that a lot in sport. I mean
Speaker 2: you do see where where one one person or two
Speaker 2: people slump and suddenly got the whole team an adultrum.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you're starting pitcher ro pitch great, and the next
Speaker 2: guy will pitch great. You know, sometimes it's just you know,
Speaker 2: one begets the other, and I think that that's a
Speaker 2: piece of it too. But there's not much you're going
Speaker 2: to be able to do a change wise right now.
Speaker 2: You're going to have to live with with who you are.
Speaker 2: I mean, you've got it. You've got many, many great
Speaker 2: talented players that have all done it before, and you
Speaker 2: got to you just got to play it out. I
Speaker 2: know that's tough to do. It's tough to watch, it's
Speaker 2: tough to be a fan, and tough to to sit
Speaker 2: where we said, but that's the game. That's the nature
Speaker 2: of the sport, of any sport, and sometimes you just
Speaker 2: got to play it out. And you know, I mean
Speaker 2: look at Max Munsey, you know, look where he was
Speaker 2: at the beginning of the season, and look and look
Speaker 2: what he's done since and how much they missed him.
Speaker 2: And Booby comes back and off he goes. That's sports, guys.
Speaker 2: That's so that's how it goes. Sometimes tough to watch,
Speaker 2: but that's why. That's why every day is different. Every
Speaker 2: game is different. Every day you got a chance to
Speaker 2: learn something. Every day you got a chance to win
Speaker 2: a game. But every day you got a chance to
Speaker 2: just dip a little bit deeper. In the into the
Speaker 2: funk Man.
Speaker 1: I said this earlier.
Speaker 3: I just think that they've got especially now that they're
Speaker 3: getting healthy again, especially the pitching staff, and they're getting
Speaker 3: them guys like you just mentioned Munzie back. There's just
Speaker 3: too much talent for them to stay where they are,
Speaker 3: stay as stagnant as they are. At some point, I
Speaker 3: do believe they're going to make a run. How do
Speaker 3: you feel about them making a run or getting it
Speaker 3: kind of turned around?
Speaker 2: Well, the time to make the run is actually a
Speaker 2: little bit later in the year, right, I mean, it's
Speaker 2: you know, you would you rather, you know, would we
Speaker 2: rather having ten games up right now and and two
Speaker 2: games up at the end of the season and have
Speaker 2: everybody wondering, hey, what do we got going on now? No,
Speaker 2: you got it. You got to pace yourself. And again
Speaker 2: this is all easier said than done. But the time
Speaker 2: to get hot is coming. It ain't here, and it
Speaker 2: may not even be here right now. And you've got
Speaker 2: a bunch of talent, You've got a pitching staff that
Speaker 2: is starting to work its way back, and again you
Speaker 2: don't know what you're going to get the first few
Speaker 2: times out, and you hope that the player is completely
Speaker 2: healthy when they come back that they're not just telling
Speaker 2: you that they feel great, because if that happens too
Speaker 2: and they're not one hundred percent or close to it.
Speaker 2: But you're gonna have to play it out. And the
Speaker 2: key thing is for this team, and I don't think
Speaker 2: there's any doubt they're going to make the playoffs, so
Speaker 2: we can. You know you're going to get to October.
Speaker 2: What you do with that month writes to history of
Speaker 2: this club for a long time. This is all all drama,
Speaker 2: and this is all like leading up to it, but
Speaker 2: October is the month. You know if you want one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifteen games and won a division by thirty
Speaker 2: and then you know you struggle when you got to October.
Speaker 2: That's all anybody's going to care about. All this stuff
Speaker 2: will be forgotten by the time you get to October,
Speaker 2: and you got to live with it and you got
Speaker 2: to try and figure out your way out of it.
Speaker 2: And everybody gets tested through adversity, no matter if it's
Speaker 2: in life for in sport, and how you react to
Speaker 2: and how you react to to figuring out how you
Speaker 2: adjust to what you've been up to. And that's where
Speaker 2: they're at right now. In some cases.
Speaker 1: See I said earlier basically the same thing last year.
Speaker 1: It's not like the club didn't go through adversity last year.
Speaker 1: It's not like they didn't have to deal with things.
Speaker 1: I think it made them stronger now. They went through
Speaker 1: it more so near the end and they caught that
Speaker 1: fire and built that momentum. But you talk about a
Speaker 1: team that has had to deal with adversity this year
Speaker 1: with the injuries that on its own would have demolished
Speaker 1: a lot of clubs and knocked them out for the
Speaker 1: whole season. Now that things of them are done right,
Speaker 1: and now if you look at the way they have
Speaker 1: played in the last month, and it hasn't been great,
Speaker 1: but they're still in first place. That's adversity. They have
Speaker 1: to deal with it as well. And I just believe
Speaker 1: it's not like flipping a switch. Oh the lights are
Speaker 1: on now we're back. But I do believe they are
Speaker 1: going to come out of this and catch fire. As
Speaker 1: you pointed out at the right time.
Speaker 2: Net, I would be far more surprised if they didn't
Speaker 2: than if they did. I mean, we all expect them too,
Speaker 2: and I think they expect themselves to do it as well.
Speaker 2: You know, the sport's not easy. San Diego has played
Speaker 2: probably as good as they can play for a while
Speaker 2: and they're still sitting two back. Okay, not quite as
Speaker 2: good a road team as they are at home, and
Speaker 2: we can say that about most teams. But it's you know,
Speaker 2: it's it's part of the deal. It's part of what
Speaker 2: you go through and part of the ups and downs
Speaker 2: of the season. But to go through everything they've got.
Speaker 2: If you took the names off the uniforms and you
Speaker 2: went back to April and you said, okay, so now
Speaker 2: we're sitting in August and here's a team that lost
Speaker 2: X number of starting pitchers, X number of believers, X
Speaker 2: number of position players. What place are they in? You say, well,
Speaker 2: they're out of it. They're not even in it, let
Speaker 2: alone competing for it. They're out of it. And I mean,
Speaker 2: we could you know, we pick out a team from
Speaker 2: a year ago that had the same thing happen to
Speaker 2: have to have a great year of the year before
Speaker 2: in Arizona, and you know, that's the that's the sport.
Speaker 2: But you know they have they have so many different
Speaker 2: options to be successful. And we've said this off and
Speaker 2: on for a couple of years now. One of the
Speaker 2: beauties of the of the way the team is constructed
Speaker 2: is there's not one player you count on it. There's
Speaker 2: a there's a lot of different options on a daily
Speaker 2: basis of guys coming through and you got to wait
Speaker 2: for it and you just wish it here. No you can't.
Speaker 2: You got to figure out your way through it. But
Speaker 2: you know, I think this weekend is a great test
Speaker 2: for them. Again, is it going to dictate how it
Speaker 2: goes the rest of the way. No, not necessarily, probably
Speaker 2: not at all. But I think, and we've talked about
Speaker 2: this too, when they have to play competitive teams and
Speaker 2: you're playing the best team in the America League right now,
Speaker 2: one of the best teams in the game, you know,
Speaker 2: how do you do? How do you do against them?
Speaker 2: And I think this is a good test for him.
Speaker 2: You've got it. You've got to stay sharp, and sometimes
Speaker 2: when you play teams that you can just run through,
Speaker 2: you know, it's tough to stay sharp for one hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty two games. So anyway, I think, yeah, he'll
Speaker 2: be fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it might be a good thing. They're playing the
Speaker 1: Blue Jays right now.
Speaker 3: As you mentioned, net Otani, I'm still just incredible what
Speaker 3: he's doing, and on the mound, I think he had
Speaker 3: one of his better days eight strikeouts and four innings
Speaker 3: and and then hit the home run. What do you
Speaker 3: make when people suggest that, Oh, I don't know if
Speaker 3: I would pitch him anymore or pull him back on
Speaker 3: the pitching because the hitting is more important than the pitching.
Speaker 3: What do you say to the folks that are suggesting.
Speaker 2: That, Well, I don't know anybody that's more saturated in
Speaker 2: the day to day of the Dodgers, and Andrew and
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts and the staffs for both and they know
Speaker 2: and show hey knows, they know more in that room
Speaker 2: than anybody than everybody on the outside combined. You can
Speaker 2: take a million people within a they don't know as
Speaker 2: much as five people sitting in that office. So they're
Speaker 2: gonna do what's best. They're gonna they take the long view.
Speaker 2: We've talked about that many times on the show. They
Speaker 2: take the long view. So are they gonna extend him
Speaker 2: out so that by the time they get to October
Speaker 2: he's at an innings limit and he can't really help
Speaker 2: in the playoffs? No, I think that they're gonna judiciously
Speaker 2: let it, let it out little by little and they
Speaker 2: continue to use it. And if they see that the
Speaker 2: pitching is affecting the hitting, they're gonna know. They're gonna
Speaker 2: know it. They're gonna know about the body language. They're
Speaker 2: gonna know by the conversations and the manager's office and
Speaker 2: the clubhouse. They just know and know. We can all
Speaker 2: take guesses, but you know, it's a guest firsus really knowing,
Speaker 2: and I'll go with their record. Go over anybody else
Speaker 2: who's taking the guests or making an opinion. They don't.
Speaker 2: The opinion is the opinion. But the people who are
Speaker 2: in it every day, they know where everybody on their
Speaker 2: club is at. They know who's finnicky, they know who's
Speaker 2: fighting through an injury, they know who's getting better, who
Speaker 2: is getting stronger, it was getting sharper, and they know
Speaker 2: who can do what. That's that's the beauty of the sport.
Speaker 2: That's the blessing and the curse of it. It's an
Speaker 2: everyday thing. You won't ever put it away. So I
Speaker 2: think that that they'll measure it as they go on
Speaker 2: and they'll make the best choice they can and they'll
Speaker 2: be party to it.
Speaker 1: All right, Net, thanks for coming on, really appreciate it today.
Speaker 2: All right, guys, always a pleasure, always a pleasure.
Speaker 1: Our good friend Ned Coletti, okay, be man of the
Speaker 1: big chair. Dodger fans, Let's do this Rodney. All right,
Speaker 1: you heard Ned, You've heard us talk about it. How
Speaker 1: are you feeling now as they wake up with this
Speaker 1: series against the Blue Jays? One do panic, meter, green good.
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Speaker 1: That's right. You know what happens on Friday? No, we don't.
Speaker 3: We really don't. At least Freddy certainly does it. Rodney Pete,
Speaker 3: Fred Rogan on a beautiful Friday. Let's go, all right,
Speaker 3: Panic time, Come on, let's.
Speaker 1: Go, let's do it. Panic Meter time eight six six
Speaker 1: nine eight seven two five seventy Green, No problem, All good, Orange.
Speaker 1: I'm a bit concerned. Red. We got big problems. I'm panicked.
Speaker 1: Big series against the Blue Jays tonight. How do you
Speaker 1: feel we haven't done the panic Have we even done
Speaker 1: the panic meter this year? We have once?
Speaker 5: It's been a while, Yeah we have.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, we did it once once.
Speaker 2: I think when they got swept by the Angels, he
Speaker 2: might have done it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which, by the way, they're coming up again here
Speaker 1: next week. Okay, well then we don't need to deal
Speaker 1: with that right now. Let's deal with this. Are you panicked?
Speaker 1: Are you not panicked? Here we go Alex and Menefee,
Speaker 1: thanks for holding. Where is your panic meter? And why? Hey?
Speaker 5: What's up Fred?
Speaker 6: What's up?
Speaker 7: Ronnie?
Speaker 2: My second meter?
Speaker 7: I'm at green right now.
Speaker 2: I mean, we we go through this every year, so
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 8: I think we're good.
Speaker 7: It's we gotta go.
Speaker 8: We gotta go through the through the down before we
Speaker 8: get the up.
Speaker 9: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: I just have a suggestion.
Speaker 7: Do you know if MOOKI when to go see the
Speaker 7: same doctor, the eye doctor that key k and uh
Speaker 7: Monkey Munsey win to go see, maybe maybe he needs
Speaker 7: to go do that.
Speaker 9: Mm.
Speaker 3: We talked about that. Thanks for the call. We talked
Speaker 3: about that, uh the other day. It's like that would
Speaker 3: be probably one of the first things as he's struggling
Speaker 3: to bring up. And so I'm sure they have and
Speaker 3: I'm sure they've dealt with it. No, you know what,
Speaker 3: thanks for the call, Alex, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. If they thought going to an eye
Speaker 1: doctor would make a difference, do you not think he
Speaker 1: would have already been at the eye doctor. To me,
Speaker 1: it's pretty simple. If going to the eye doctor was
Speaker 1: the key, he'd be there as a matter of fact.
Speaker 1: And I don't know nobody's saying he hasn't gone to
Speaker 1: the eye doctor.
Speaker 3: Right, But whatever you can think of, whatever we can
Speaker 3: think of, they've thought about it ten times and ten
Speaker 3: years before we have.
Speaker 1: I'm sure of it. Yeah, they are a little ahead
Speaker 1: of all of us. That's fair. All right, let's go
Speaker 1: to Long Beach. Emma is holding and Emma, where is
Speaker 1: your panic meter?
Speaker 10: Hi guys, Rodney and Fred. I love your show. You
Speaker 10: guys are great. I'm at Green.
Speaker 11: Orange because Green O's.
Speaker 10: These guys are yes. These guys are giving it all,
Speaker 10: And I just wanted to make a comment.
Speaker 9: When are they going to put.
Speaker 10: Rochyosaki in the bullpen? This young man is a fireball.
Speaker 10: He needs to get out there and work on it
Speaker 10: and get that confidence back, and you watch out. We
Speaker 10: were gonna come back strong, all right.
Speaker 1: I'm a thanks for the call creating your own color.
Speaker 1: By the way, we've never had anybody create green orange.
Speaker 1: I think I did that when I was like four
Speaker 1: years old. I can school green apple. Frank all right,
Speaker 1: thanks Emma. Thanks uh. Here's the thing about Tazaki, he's
Speaker 1: got the rehab star. Here's what I'll say about him
Speaker 1: going to the bullpen and that, and look, he is
Speaker 1: a fireballer, no question. And if you had a chance
Speaker 1: to see him pitch in person prior to when he
Speaker 1: went on the injured list, I gotta tell you he's nasty.
Speaker 1: When that stuff is on, he is nasty. And Rodney
Speaker 1: and I both saw him pitch in Japan. That guy's nasty.
Speaker 1: He can do things that will boggle your mind. But
Speaker 1: I think the concern, and we talked about it yesterday,
Speaker 1: given how I don't want to say wild, but not
Speaker 1: around the plate he was, I don't know. If that
Speaker 1: guy is a reliever. I think i'd let him start
Speaker 1: and work himself out of trouble. Now let's say he
Speaker 1: starts and he's lights out and they don't need him
Speaker 1: to start. Well, that's a different story. But I think
Speaker 1: there's work to be done there, Rodney, at least I
Speaker 1: would want to see him a couple of times before
Speaker 1: I put him right in a bullpen.
Speaker 3: And I said this before, I would maybe I agree
Speaker 3: with you if we didn't have you know, Glass now
Speaker 3: coming back from injury, and we'd he didn't have, you know,
Speaker 3: Otani starting his pitching, because those guys need they need
Speaker 3: starts as you get ready to get into October. And
Speaker 3: so if you put Suzaki in and he starts, then
Speaker 3: you're gonna take away from that. So I don't have
Speaker 3: a problem that now he's coming back, throw him in
Speaker 3: the bullpen. You don't have to throw him into high
Speaker 3: leverage situations right away either. You can put him in
Speaker 3: earlier and and and just let him work up to
Speaker 3: where you feel more confident in him.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Virginia. It's uh, let's say,
Speaker 1: about four thirty on the east coast. So I don't
Speaker 1: know if Gino's been drinking or not yet, but he's
Speaker 1: calling on the app, Gino, where is your panic meter?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 5: Guy, as soon as you answered my soon as answer
Speaker 5: my call, I opened the beer.
Speaker 1: How about that there is baby had a baby? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta be you gotta throw a couple back before
Speaker 1: you call us.
Speaker 2: Ill.
Speaker 5: I'll throw two more in.
Speaker 2: I came in jacket for you. And what kind of
Speaker 2: you drink? Corona?
Speaker 11: Fred?
Speaker 2: Are you cheating that cheap beer? Miller light? No?
Speaker 1: No, I'm a I'm a beer I'm a bourbon guy.
Speaker 1: I'm a bourbon guy.
Speaker 5: Bourbon all right, I'll throw a bourbon shot for you, man,
Speaker 5: do it, do it all right? If I get if
Speaker 5: I get messed up, it's on you. I'm calling you back, Hey,
Speaker 5: sax perfect, Green gentlemen, Green gentlemen. We just need our
Speaker 5: boat and to get their stuff together. And Mookie's benning
Speaker 5: it done. If we can get Otani just on base
Speaker 5: a little bit more, we'll be better. Home runs are
Speaker 5: not enough, but home runs are good.
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, we got thanks, appreciate it. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: with me. He already said.
Speaker 3: Get Otani on base a little bit more, Be a
Speaker 3: little bit more selective at the plate, take some walks.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, just get get somebody on base and knock
Speaker 1: him in. It's pretty simple. But you got to get
Speaker 1: on base first, he said, Otani, get on base. No,
Speaker 1: I heard that. I heard and you said last week.
Speaker 1: Maybe he should be more selective. Maybe he should actually
Speaker 1: walk once in a while. You don't have to hit
Speaker 1: the ball out of the park every time. No you don't, No,
Speaker 1: you don't. All right, go ahead, let's go down the
Speaker 1: street right here in Burbank. Richard is calling Richard. Thank
Speaker 1: you for calling Richard. Where's your meter at?
Speaker 8: It's kind of a hot orange?
Speaker 1: Got a hot old hot orange? Is that like? Is
Speaker 1: that like too orange? What kind of orange is that
Speaker 1: hot orange?
Speaker 8: I don't know, but I can feel it moldering. And
Speaker 8: I'll tell you my observations are not that profound. I
Speaker 8: think you can just look back a couple of series ago.
Speaker 8: That team, that Brewers team, showed us why we're likely
Speaker 8: going to run into trouble. We'll get in the playoffs
Speaker 8: one way or another. But those guys make contact. There's
Speaker 8: not a lot of slug on that team. There's not
Speaker 8: a lot of slug with these other teams, Cincinnati, the Twins,
Speaker 8: but those guys make contact.
Speaker 2: It just seems to me that.
Speaker 8: The Dodgers lack the ability to play that kind of baseball,
Speaker 8: and that kind of baseball is what seems to be
Speaker 8: winning baseball right now. I'm not worried about the pitching.
Speaker 8: I think it'll come back, but I see us trying
Speaker 8: to slug every time, you know, and all the promos
Speaker 8: for the Dodgers have on TV show nothing but home
Speaker 8: runs being hit. You know, I understand that that's an
Speaker 8: important part of the game and the fans eleven. But
Speaker 8: we need to make contact. I just don't think that's
Speaker 8: the culture of this team.
Speaker 1: All right, appreciate the call, Richard. Thanks. Here's the thing
Speaker 1: we and Richard, you know, to be honest, a couple
Speaker 1: of times every year we get that, we get that call,
Speaker 1: that exact call, launch angle, hitting the ball out of
Speaker 1: the park. The game has changed. But every year, and
Speaker 1: I remember in the World Series against the Red Sox Rodney,
Speaker 1: the calls were the Red Sox are moving guys around.
Speaker 1: We're swinging for the fences. And that's what Richard just said.
Speaker 1: We're swinging for the fences and everybody else is just
Speaker 1: moving guys around. I think the concern here is when
Speaker 1: the Dodgers get somebody on base, they're having trouble moving
Speaker 1: them in, you know what I mean. Yeah, that's the problem.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if that comes from swinging for
Speaker 1: the fences or they're just not moving the guys around.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're you know, scoring or hitting with runners in
Speaker 3: scoring position is abysmal, and it has been during this stretch.
Speaker 3: So whether it's a home run or just a base hit.
Speaker 3: But but but say that's that's not when the Dodgers
Speaker 3: are going good, that's what they do. They they make
Speaker 3: the pictures work and sometimes they go station to station.
Speaker 3: So this you suggest that that's not what their philosophy is.
Speaker 3: That's that's not true. Yes, you see the home runs,
Speaker 3: but their philosophy is to move the guy and and
Speaker 3: pass the baton to the next one. All right, Robert Lahabra,
Speaker 3: thanks for holding appreciate it. Where's your panic meter?
Speaker 7: It's on, Orange, guys, great to be on.
Speaker 1: Thank you Orange.
Speaker 9: Why are we good?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I'm assuming some gardening work. If you hear that,
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. Go ahead. I told him to stop. Hey,
Speaker 1: quick cut that out. I'm looking around here going and
Speaker 1: somebody outside that's right outside my window. It's unfortunate, that's
Speaker 1: all right. You gotta at that time. Great, go ahead,
Speaker 1: me on mute, Kevin, put me on mute.
Speaker 7: No, I say orange, And please don't confuse that with
Speaker 7: not being a fan. I'm just trying to figure out
Speaker 7: ways to make it work, that's all.
Speaker 1: Now, if you're a fan, you can say Orange, Robert.
Speaker 1: It's fine, that's real. You can't.
Speaker 7: Is it a coincidence that Mookie's in his slump and
Speaker 7: uh not playing in right field.
Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough, thanks, Robert, appreciate it. We'll answer that
Speaker 1: for you. That is another uh generally considered observation. Maybe
Speaker 1: if you put them in right field, gotta be on
Speaker 1: all right, Yeah, I'll say this. Do you think if
Speaker 1: they believed putting Mooki in right field would make a difference,
Speaker 1: they would put Mooky in right field? I kind of do.
Speaker 1: I do believe that they would put Mooky in right
Speaker 1: field if they thought it would make it difference.
Speaker 3: Fans want to see it. Fans want to see it
Speaker 3: because I believe it's true. Just let him play there
Speaker 3: for a series and right field, I guarantee you it'll
Speaker 3: be a difference. You know, they just want to see it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, of course they've talked about it. I'm sure
Speaker 3: they've talked about it over and over. And you know,
Speaker 3: without mook in with Mooki about whether or not going
Speaker 3: back to the right field, they're very open with their
Speaker 3: communication with their players.
Speaker 1: So that has been a conversation.
Speaker 3: And I again, like everybody that we've had on expert
Speaker 3: wise and part of the Dodgers or whoever, doesn't believe
Speaker 3: Mooki going the right field is going to make a difference.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go Mark in La Mark, appreciate your holding.
Speaker 1: Where's your meter?
Speaker 6: Hey, guys, I'm green. I think they're going to explode,
Speaker 6: and they're going to explode at the right time. Okay,
Speaker 6: But I got two concerns. That guy, the gentleman that
Speaker 6: came on first, he said that MOOKI needs the glasses.
Speaker 6: Muki doesn't need the glasses. I don't think any of
Speaker 6: the players need glasses. I think the umpires behind the
Speaker 6: place he'd mega glasses. Because it looks like Stevie Wonder's
Speaker 6: calling balls and strikes on half of these games. I mean,
Speaker 6: it's ridiculous with the strikes on. And number two is
Speaker 6: if you look at the Dodgers in the last two
Speaker 6: or three months when they were like use Max Monsey
Speaker 6: as an example. Max Munsey, I don't know how many
Speaker 6: times it goes three and two. He waits for his pitch,
Speaker 6: and he waits and he makes him pitch. Of the
Speaker 6: last two and three months, the Dodgers have been swinging
Speaker 6: on the first pitch, on the second pitch, and they're
Speaker 6: getting out and it's ridiculous. And I think that's huge
Speaker 6: compared to what they were used to doing.
Speaker 1: Huge, Thanks Mark. And the other question the other question, Okay,
Speaker 1: try to cut Mark off. Go ahead, Mark one more.
Speaker 6: Mark off, quick question with you. Why are they playing
Speaker 6: so many of these American League teams?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 6: Why did they switch?
Speaker 1: Why did they switch?
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're playing No, No, that was the deal they
Speaker 5: did what.
Speaker 3: Two years ago or last year where they stopped playing
Speaker 3: because they were playing the Giants nineteen times and they
Speaker 3: were playing the Padres nineteen times, so they wanted to
Speaker 3: spread it out and play more of the league as
Speaker 3: opposed to just playing so many games within.
Speaker 11: The division trying to grow it.
Speaker 1: Yep, thanks Mark, appreciate it. You know I'm here in
Speaker 1: the gardener. Did I ever tell you the story about
Speaker 1: my mother my grandmother?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: I never told you that. All right, No, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do that in the next segment. My mother and my
Speaker 1: grandmother were garden. They fire a gardener right now. You
Speaker 1: don't have to, Yeah, you don't have to. He's got
Speaker 1: to get the bushes perfectly, perfectly trimmed. We know how
Speaker 1: you are there. You walk outside. Hey, I'm a tyrant.
Speaker 1: I told you I did. That's what I wanted to
Speaker 1: look like, all right, let's go Steven, Santa Fe Springs.
Speaker 1: Come on, Steve. Oh, Steve, Steve's meter is not good, Rodney,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Fellows.
Speaker 2: I love your show.
Speaker 1: Thank you. There's no accounting for take Steve, but thank you.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 11: I'm kind of uh in the orange red right now.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 11: I was checking out the injury reports last night for
Speaker 11: all the teams, and I noticed a lot of the Dodgers,
Speaker 11: a lot are going to be coming back the pictures.
Speaker 11: But the Podreys have four players on the injured list
Speaker 11: and two are coming back in the next light week.
Speaker 11: You're perry loaded, man, I'm kind of scared.
Speaker 1: Don't be scared. Don't be scared, Steve scared, Well, don't
Speaker 1: be scared.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 11: It's uh, yeah, I know. Well, I'm a Dodger fan.
Speaker 11: I love the Dodgers, right yeah, yeah, I know. Well
Speaker 11: I'm a little worried.
Speaker 1: How all right? And another thing, you cannot create your
Speaker 1: own color of orange red, your orange or red sea.
Speaker 1: You cannot be orange red. It's like somebody was orange,
Speaker 1: all right, and that's fine.
Speaker 11: Let's say orange. Let's say orange. But don't be surprised
Speaker 11: at the pods Rays catch him this weekend. All right,
Speaker 11: they got the Red Sox.
Speaker 2: That's gonna tell Okay.
Speaker 1: Anyway, all right, goodbye, Steve, thank you, thank you. All Right,
Speaker 1: let's do Lisa and Chatsworth. Lisa, you're on orange too.
Speaker 9: Yes, I'm a little bit on orange, but for different reasons.
Speaker 9: I really don't like our outfield right now. I think
Speaker 9: a lot of a couple of them are kind of slow.
Speaker 2: They're not very good. You know. Conforto, I know.
Speaker 9: He's had offensive struggles, but he's also not very good
Speaker 9: in the outfield. I do like the guy that I
Speaker 9: do like the new guy that they brought in, that guy,
Speaker 9: Alex call I think he's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 9: And as for Mookie, okay, here's another take. Okay, he
Speaker 9: lost twenty five pounds at the beginning of the season, right,
Speaker 9: you can't get that back. That's muscle he locked. It's
Speaker 9: not just you could go eat a couple of pizzas
Speaker 9: then you get it. I think that's a lot of it.
Speaker 9: You know, he hits the fly ball that usually goes
Speaker 9: out and now it's to the warning truck.
Speaker 1: You know, it's weird when I ate a couple of
Speaker 1: pizzas leads. So I don't get muscle. I just get fat.
Speaker 9: I'm just saying so, you know, I don't think Mookie's
Speaker 9: gonna get it back this season, you know, so I
Speaker 9: think he needs to take a different strategy than just
Speaker 9: trying to hit it hard. You know, maybe try to
Speaker 9: hit it in a place where they're not.
Speaker 1: Thanks, Lisa, I appreciate it, Lisa, you're the best. Not
Speaker 1: try to hit it hard. I don't know what's the alternative. Well,
Speaker 1: she said hit it where they're not, but soft, Well,
Speaker 1: don't hit it hard, just hit it where they're not, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, I would suggest, yes, they try to
Speaker 1: do that and hit it hard at the same time. Okay,
Speaker 1: Jacob in el hambro last one, Jacob your meters on Orange?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm on Orange. Man, I'm right here slapping together,
Speaker 2: damn Sandwich trying to get it together. Man. I hope
Speaker 2: I hope that.
Speaker 12: Uh you know, if we can't take this series against
Speaker 12: the Jays, maybe uh you know, the Padre is coming
Speaker 12: to town to let us spark up, you know, to
Speaker 12: get some to get some positive.
Speaker 5: Attitude, you know, some aggressive momentum going. Yeah, you know
Speaker 5: for our boy groom Blue.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, we got you we got
Speaker 1: your thanks, Jacob appreciate it.
Speaker 3: As he's saying he might need the Padres to kind
Speaker 3: of give him some little, little little little motivation, little
Speaker 3: little anger playing the arrival might get him going a
Speaker 3: little bit. Yeah, be nice if they developed that anger tonight. Yeah,
Speaker 3: why wait for the Padres developer tonight. Okay, So anyway,
Speaker 3: if if you have been listening, there's a I would say,
Speaker 3: pretty good possibility. You did understand there was a gardener working.
Speaker 3: And one thing we believe that at a five seventy,
Speaker 3: we want our lawns manicured.
Speaker 8: All.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes we do. But that will lead to the story.
Speaker 1: And I don't think i've told it, Kevin. If I
Speaker 1: told the story of my mother and grandmother gardening, I
Speaker 1: don't recall that one.
Speaker 2: No, you told me about your grandmother's fancy man who
Speaker 2: you called uncle Jack or something, Uncle Louis.
Speaker 1: That's what was.
Speaker 13: I think I've heard this story, Fred, it's just where
Speaker 13: it's yeah Louis. But un I think he told this
Speaker 13: story on the air like Lois. Sorry, Rodney, Yeah, it
Speaker 13: was Uncle Louis, grandma's fancy man, Uncle Louie, who was
Speaker 13: my uncle. But I didn't he was uncle Louis. Then
Speaker 13: I was like fourteen years old. I said, how are
Speaker 13: you my uncle? And he goes, I'm not your uncle,
Speaker 13: I'm your grandmother's boyfriend. I thought it was my uncle
Speaker 13: until I was like fourteen. Okay, So I have told
Speaker 13: the story like three times about the gardening, so I'm
Speaker 13: not going to tell it.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to do it. What happened was my
Speaker 1: mother my grandmother were out.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I was going to tell it in the next segment.
Speaker 1: I'm doing right. Oh oh, come on tell it, Fred, No, no, no,
Speaker 1: my mother all right, well when we come back. But yes, Ronnie,
Speaker 1: you are correct. It is the Crooked Finger. It is
Speaker 1: the Crooked Finger story that'll be next.
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Speaker 3: Fred Rogan on a Friday, we don't care. I had
Speaker 3: words with the gardeners outside. Frett Are you talking to him?
Speaker 3: I did they sit here at AM five seventy. We
Speaker 3: like to keep it clean, all right, So we're not
Speaker 3: gonna stop working for you.
Speaker 1: No, no, we go. I'll tell you the story real quick,
Speaker 1: because then David Vassay is coming on top of the hour.
Speaker 1: Years ago, my mother was outside and she's got this
Speaker 1: electric hedge clipper, do you remember the story, And she's
Speaker 1: trimming the only ander bushes only andander bushes are very
Speaker 1: large and they get very bushy. And my mother's outside
Speaker 1: and she's using this electric hedge clip and she's trimming
Speaker 1: the oliander bushes. My grandmother comes out and says, Irene,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna help you, and my mother goes, MA, don't
Speaker 1: don't help me. I got it. There's no reason to
Speaker 1: help me. I got the electric hedge clipper here, and
Speaker 1: I'm trimming the oiander bushes. So my grandmother says, no,
Speaker 1: I want to help, and she stands off to the side.
Speaker 1: So anyway, my mother's trimming the bushes. My grandmother sticks
Speaker 1: her hand in to pull out one of the bushes,
Speaker 1: one of the limbs that my mother is trimmed, and
Speaker 1: my grandmother just says, that's it, that's it, And my
Speaker 1: mother goes, what's it, ma, And my grandmother goes, you
Speaker 1: cut off my finger, and you did it on purpose.
Speaker 1: You told me not to help. I stuck my hand
Speaker 1: and you cut off my finger with the electric hedge clipper.
Speaker 1: And my mother goes, what are you talking about. My
Speaker 1: grandmother pulls her hand out and she's holding her finger.
Speaker 1: My mother cut off my grandmother's finger for real, for real.
Speaker 1: My grandmother is in sense. My mother goes, oh, my god, mo,
Speaker 1: we have to go to the hospital. My grandmother goes,
Speaker 1: I will not go to the hospital with anybody that
Speaker 1: cut off my finger. She's holding her finger. She walks
Speaker 1: next door. She knocks on the neighbor's door, and she says.
Speaker 1: The neighbor answers. She goes, hello, will you take me
Speaker 1: to the hospital? Look, my daughter cut off my finger.
Speaker 1: She would not go with my mother. They go to
Speaker 1: the hospital they saw on my grandmother's finger. My grandmother
Speaker 1: comes home. She's not quite as upset. My mother had
Speaker 1: gone and witnessed all of this, and now it's fine,
Speaker 1: except my grandmother's finger grow. They sewed it on kind
Speaker 1: of incorrectly. So, you know, if she's pointing forward her
Speaker 1: fingers to the right, you know what I mean, It's
Speaker 1: like she thinks she's pointing at you, but her fingers
Speaker 1: actually pointed to the side, and that's when she used
Speaker 1: to say to me, and she used to wave her
Speaker 1: finger at me. One of these days, Fred, you and
Speaker 1: I are going to have a talk. But the problem
Speaker 1: was she was always pointing to the right side and
Speaker 1: she was never pointing directly at me. Because my mother
Speaker 1: cut off her finger, and that was the gardening story.
Speaker 3: Yet wait, she went in to grab the in the
Speaker 3: bushes and your mom didn't didn't see her there with
Speaker 3: their hand in the bushes.
Speaker 1: Exactly cut off her finger. Wow. Right, And that's why
Speaker 1: you have professional gardeners at your house because the last
Speaker 1: thing we would want to happen is you to cut
Speaker 1: off Holly's finger. Yeah, that would not be good. That
Speaker 1: would not be good because then she would definitely tell you.
Speaker 1: One of these days, Rodney, you and I are going
Speaker 1: to have a conversation. Okay, when we come back out
Speaker 1: to Dodger Stadium and we go, David Vassay will be
Speaker 1: standing by