Speaker 1: Oh yes, and we keep it moving. Final hour on
Speaker 1: the show, Jonas knocked in for Fred Rogan, much much,
Speaker 1: much appreciated. My brother.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I got thoughts after what I just heard. Oh,
Speaker 2: I mean, well, oh you getting tossed out of your
Speaker 2: son's baseball game, because you are even like.
Speaker 1: I was hot, man, I was hot, brother.
Speaker 2: How long ago was that did that take?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, let's see, he was a twelve year old,
Speaker 1: so it was he's twenty. Yeah, soil about ten years ago.
Speaker 2: So ten years later, you still remember.
Speaker 1: Every detail, every detail about.
Speaker 2: The ball down the line, the shock flying.
Speaker 1: Dock flying world. Do you not see the shock flying?
Speaker 2: Deadpoll? A second time hits a home run? And you
Speaker 2: couldn't just let.
Speaker 1: That go, let it go on, couldn't let it go?
Speaker 2: Was that effing fair? And the guy ran you?
Speaker 1: He ran me? Now. The beauty of that, though, was
Speaker 1: the I can't even call it a crowd. I mean
Speaker 1: it was his parents and families. But they enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: They laughed at it. Oh my god, I definitely laughed
Speaker 1: at it. But my wife rode me forever. He wasn't there,
Speaker 1: he wasn't there. My son was mortified. He was like, oh,
Speaker 1: my god. He was mortified. He was so embarrassed, and
Speaker 1: I was I felt bad for him because, you know,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, the the other his
Speaker 1: teammates were loving it because I was, you know, just
Speaker 1: being I was obnoxious, but I was just being stand
Speaker 1: up and it was it was kind of in the moment,
Speaker 1: it was like kind of hardcore. But so his teammates
Speaker 1: were like, yeah, your dad is cool, your dad is right,
Speaker 1: and he was like, oh no, that was why why
Speaker 1: why would you do that to me?
Speaker 2: Did you ever see the ump who threw you out
Speaker 2: of the game after that? Did you ever see him
Speaker 2: call another game? I wonder if I've always wondered about
Speaker 2: this with when it comes to umpires, especially umpires, I
Speaker 2: wonder if part of them kind of walks around with
Speaker 2: a badge of honor, like, oh, that Hall of Famer
Speaker 2: I saw him out. Yeah, and I swear to god,
Speaker 2: I wonder if that guy somewhere listens to a five
Speaker 2: seven and he's like, oh, yeah, you know Rogan and
Speaker 2: Rodney huh yeah, Rodney got tossed.
Speaker 1: And him, oh yeah, a story probably went crazy from
Speaker 1: his perspectives. Yeah, I've gotten his grill. Yeah, that Rodney
Speaker 1: Pete I got all up in his grill and then
Speaker 1: tossed him. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, my my son is four years old. He
Speaker 2: played his first season of T ball, and like full disclosure,
Speaker 2: I get emotional watching him, like not even like, I'm
Speaker 2: just so proud of him when he gets a hit,
Speaker 2: when he does something, because he loves baseball so much.
Speaker 2: He loves playing. My wife looked at me one time,
Speaker 2: like his final game. So they had one final game
Speaker 2: and you know, he's sitting off a tee, but he
Speaker 2: piped a ball opposite field and he's running around and
Speaker 2: he's like full ham. He's sliding when he doesn't need
Speaker 2: to slide. He's doing he's doing all the celebrations around
Speaker 2: because his favorite player is Pete Crow arms Strong of
Speaker 2: the Cubs. He loves Pee Crow Armstrong. So he's doing
Speaker 2: the raise the roof, he's doing like all that's And
Speaker 2: so my wife looks over at me and she's like,
Speaker 2: are you crying? And I'm like, I'm just so happy
Speaker 2: and proud of him, and she said, like, babe, it's
Speaker 2: T ball. Like I'm thinking to myself, if I'm like
Speaker 2: this and he's four, what am I going to be
Speaker 2: like if he hits a ball down the line that
Speaker 2: hits the.
Speaker 1: Jock in a call foul, and then right back and
Speaker 1: bombs one. Yeah. You you would go absolutely nuts, nuts,
Speaker 1: You're done. You're doing this at four right now at
Speaker 1: T ball?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah. I can't even because because I was
Speaker 2: talking to Petros a couple of weeks ago. He was
Speaker 2: telling a story about how he went to his neighbors
Speaker 2: were like, hey, you know, come by the game. There
Speaker 2: was a little league game. It was like a championship game,
Speaker 2: and Petros was sitting there watching, as you know, this
Speaker 2: team was imploding on the mound and these parents are
Speaker 2: devastated for their kids. Meanwhile, on the opposite side the
Speaker 2: opposing teams fans and parents are bumping chess and high
Speaker 2: fiving and doing it. Petros is looking around, that's going
Speaker 2: what is going on here?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: It was amazing to see how into it people get
Speaker 2: it just these small time events. Uh, but once you
Speaker 2: once their family involved, it takes on a different it does.
Speaker 1: You can tell yourself all you want, you know, driving
Speaker 1: your kid to to warm up or to drop them
Speaker 1: off before the game, and before the game he's out.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna sit there and just be calm. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to do anything. I'm not going to say anything.
Speaker 1: And you can't help it. You just can't help it, Okay,
Speaker 1: can't help it. Cher, I can't. I couldn't help Hey,
Speaker 1: you know he's up up at the plate. Hey, hey,
Speaker 1: be ready for the fastball. Be ready for I mean
Speaker 1: you can't, you can't help it. Be ready to hit,
Speaker 1: be ready to hit.
Speaker 2: It, just like the whole the whole being. And I've
Speaker 2: heard other people say that, were you more nervous? Are
Speaker 2: you more nervous watching your kids? I never understood that
Speaker 2: because I thought, man, you'd like, look, I don't know,
Speaker 2: why would you ever be. I never get nervous doing radio.
Speaker 2: I never get nervous ever. One time you do it enough.
Speaker 1: And it's.
Speaker 2: If he when he's swinging the bat off a t
Speaker 2: he's four years old. There's kids that like, look like
Speaker 2: they just learned to walk an hour ago. He's four
Speaker 2: years old. And all I'm thinking, and I'm I'm nervous, thinking, man,
Speaker 2: please hit this ball in the air, because if he
Speaker 2: hits a ground ball, he's not gonna be happy and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to wear it the rest of the day.
Speaker 2: He's gonna be pissed. He's that competitive, please hit it
Speaker 2: in there. And I'm nervous and I never get nervous,
Speaker 2: and I'm nervous watching him play T ball. When you're
Speaker 2: a parent, everything.
Speaker 1: Changes, Everything changes. Yeah, you wear every emotion of them
Speaker 1: and more, Kevin, you coming coming, Vin, It is coming,
Speaker 1: all right. So, so there's there's some talk out there
Speaker 1: and and there there's a lot of talk obviously with
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. Obviously there's talk about possible you know,
Speaker 1: we we we talked about this with Bob Nightingale about
Speaker 1: work stoppage and you know, salary cap. Is there going
Speaker 1: to be a cap? Is gonna be a floor with
Speaker 1: the players want with the MLB wants. Another issue is
Speaker 1: does MLB accommodate the players and allow them to play
Speaker 1: in the Olympics, which will be here in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Baseball is back into the Olympics now, and obviously it
Speaker 1: is in the summer, and so there's talk of how
Speaker 1: do we make this work? And the latest from Rob
Speaker 1: Manfred is I'd like them to play, but we're not
Speaker 1: moving the All Star Game. We're not going to move
Speaker 1: the All Star Game to accommodate the Olympics, and I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know if it's a good idea
Speaker 1: for the players to play in the Olympics. All of
Speaker 1: most of the player I just didn't say all because
Speaker 1: I don't know all of them, but most of the
Speaker 1: players that have been asked say they want to play
Speaker 1: for their respective countries. Yeah, you know, kind of like
Speaker 1: the WBC. It's a it turned into the The WBC
Speaker 1: turned into a big time hit.
Speaker 2: It's awesome, it is.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: And to see like remember when it was otaniut Yeah,
Speaker 2: those are you know, teammates at the time, and they're
Speaker 2: going against each other, yes, and you just see the
Speaker 2: pride that they have for it.
Speaker 1: The Dominican versus Cuba, I mean Dominican versus Venezuela. All
Speaker 1: those games were so so good, so good.
Speaker 2: And look, if you know anything about the history of
Speaker 2: boxing Puerto Rico Mexico, that's always alway spicy. Always there's
Speaker 2: always like there's a true rivalry. Yes, and you look,
Speaker 2: you see it. Even with the Gold Cup. You know,
Speaker 2: the USA you know, rolled out their CE team. Some
Speaker 2: were calling it against Mexico, and you saw how fired
Speaker 2: up people got for that. The WBC that's another one
Speaker 2: of those Major League Baseball stumbled upon and you realize, oh,
Speaker 2: this is awesome. This is really a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: You see, the stands are packed. People are fired up
Speaker 2: for it, and I don't know why. I guess the
Speaker 2: only drawback would be if the best players want to
Speaker 2: play for their respected countries, then you would have a
Speaker 2: watered down version of that All Star Game. Would would
Speaker 2: be my understand If that's the case, you're not going
Speaker 2: to cancel it, you know, But.
Speaker 1: It's the it's like, it's like we're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 1: have a standoff, right. It feels like and if you're
Speaker 1: the look, the Olympics happens once every four years, agreed,
Speaker 1: and and you know the All Star Game is every year, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so if you got to move the All Star Game
Speaker 1: up or back or whenever you move it, that's an
Speaker 1: easier move than telling the Olympics, oh, if it coincides
Speaker 1: with the All Star Game, our players are not going
Speaker 1: to play because we're not going to move the All
Speaker 1: Star Game.
Speaker 2: I mean, players should have the opportunity to make that
Speaker 2: choice for themselves. And I could understand why because you're
Speaker 2: hearing stuff, you know, in the NFL about flag football.
Speaker 2: Oh you know, you know our players are players in
Speaker 2: the NFL going to play flag football and all this stuff,
Speaker 2: and they're lining it up to where it'll happen before
Speaker 2: training camps start. And you know, I just players should
Speaker 2: have that opportunity and should have that right because I
Speaker 2: can understand from an owner's standpoint, you don't want your
Speaker 2: guy getting injured. If you're paying that guy, you don't
Speaker 2: want him getting injured doing something other than what he's
Speaker 2: being paid for. You know, it's like any other off
Speaker 2: season activity.
Speaker 1: But from me, do we want one Soto going to
Speaker 1: play for Dominican and I get two weeks or ten
Speaker 1: days for the Dominican and get hurt down there?
Speaker 2: Or But from a big from a big picture standpoint
Speaker 2: for the growth of the game, I only see upside letting.
Speaker 1: Them only participants. I agree.
Speaker 2: So that that's that's why I wonder. And by the way,
Speaker 2: how long has baseball been out of the Olympics? Has it?
Speaker 2: Has it been out for a while? It came back
Speaker 2: I think not this past cycle, but the cycle before that,
Speaker 2: and then before that it was gone for like eight years.
Speaker 2: It keeps coming and going for whatever reason. I don't
Speaker 2: know what, Kevin, You got to be careful using the
Speaker 2: term cycle it comes to baseball because people steroids. I
Speaker 2: just don't want to, you know, like I don't want
Speaker 2: to want to he meant he meant hit. For the
Speaker 2: second I was thinking something else.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so it's coming gone and and and and
Speaker 1: now that it's uh that it's back. But the but
Speaker 1: the game and where baseball is, which is which is
Speaker 1: really weird that that Manfred is not really taking every
Speaker 1: effort or making every effort to make this happen because
Speaker 1: of what just happened in Japan when the Dodgers went
Speaker 1: and played the Cubs in Japan, and this game is
Speaker 1: so global now and you've got you know, Korea is
Speaker 1: a force. The Japan team obviously who won it, uh
Speaker 1: won the w b C is a is a force. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the the Dominican Puerto Rico, Mexican teams, Venezuela teams are
Speaker 1: going to be a force. It's going to be very
Speaker 1: very competitive. Why not embrace that if you're major League Baseball, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, if you're all about let's grow this sport, let's
Speaker 2: get as many eyeballs on it as possible. I don't
Speaker 2: know why you would be against it, you know, like, well,
Speaker 2: we're not going to cancel the All Star Game. Oh okay,
Speaker 2: I mean I get it.
Speaker 1: I mean I just move it up. I don't three weeks.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know what sort of financial impact
Speaker 2: that hit that has on Major League Baseball. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: Obviously it's a big win for the city that's hoasting
Speaker 2: the All Star Game, and so that you know, that
Speaker 2: would that would hurt if you had to either get
Speaker 2: rid of it or whatnot. But I just feel like
Speaker 2: you can adjust and it doesn't have to be such
Speaker 2: a hard line stance, especially to your point, if this
Speaker 2: is something that comes up every four years, it's not
Speaker 2: like you have to worry about this every year, like
Speaker 2: you've got time to figure this out. You just adjust
Speaker 2: accordingly and make it to where you can get the
Speaker 2: best of both worlds, to where you can have your
Speaker 2: All Star Game event and you can have these guys
Speaker 2: be showcased in the Olympics and for a lot of
Speaker 2: those guys, man, look, you say whatever you want about
Speaker 2: Carmelo Anthony, Oh, you never won a title. He never
Speaker 2: won this dude guy won gold medals. Yeah, and like
Speaker 2: that still I think matters to a lot of people,
Speaker 2: and so if it's if it's an opportunity to grow
Speaker 2: the game on that front, much like the WBC, which
Speaker 2: has been awesome as we talked about, I don't know
Speaker 2: why there would be pushback on it, I really do.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't either. I don't either. And we're you know,
Speaker 1: we're just talking about the countries that we you know,
Speaker 1: kind of know that it's been you know, infiltrated in
Speaker 1: the MLB, like Puerto Rico and Dominican in Cuba and
Speaker 1: Venezuela and Mexico. But Australia has got a great baseball
Speaker 1: program down there. Now, some parts of Europe have great
Speaker 1: baseball programs.
Speaker 2: I think, isn't that doesn't Ned Colletti have a role
Speaker 2: in Italy?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes he does.
Speaker 2: He's the GM of the Italian WBC team. I love
Speaker 2: that so much. I love that song much.
Speaker 1: How do you think that?
Speaker 2: I just want to I want to, you know what, like,
Speaker 2: tell any one of those meetings, right, tell me you guys,
Speaker 2: you don't want to be in one of those meetings,
Speaker 2: Like I just I just want to know what those
Speaker 2: meetings are like because I'm picturing good fellas where they're
Speaker 2: making pasta in jail. They're shaving the garlic, you know,
Speaker 2: and they're showing him how to do it like that. Like,
Speaker 2: I love everything about Ned. I think it's awesome. I
Speaker 2: think it's so much fun.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that is great. I I've just got
Speaker 1: that picture in my mind. Ned. He's sitting around with
Speaker 1: like twenty six guys all right, telling stories as he's
Speaker 1: cooking pasta with the apron on to them. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: What do you want to do it?
Speaker 1: Hey, that guy comes up again? I want to I
Speaker 1: want to hit him right in, right in the temple.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Second half Dodgers getting ready to go
Speaker 1: this weekend. Let's talk about it.
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Speaker 2: And I'll say this, if you get a good enough
Speaker 2: and I might be in the minority on this, but
Speaker 2: if you get a good enough hot dog like one
Speaker 2: from the Doghouse, you don't need a whole hell of.
Speaker 1: A lot on it.
Speaker 2: No, really like if you have a if you have
Speaker 2: a good bun, you don't like, you really don't need
Speaker 2: and yeah, that that's it. If you if you have
Speaker 2: the sweet bread what like and the dog man, you
Speaker 2: could probably I've done what do you put? Okay, so
Speaker 2: I've done the because I figured this out the hard way.
Speaker 2: I've done the and I'll do this often. If we
Speaker 2: ever have hot dogs, I'll go sweet bread, the King's Hawaiian,
Speaker 2: I'll go the standard hot dog, and I might go
Speaker 2: just chopped up onions or just sliced talapanos and go
Speaker 2: that with less because you don't need it. Like if
Speaker 2: the bun is good enough, you don't need and if
Speaker 2: it's and if the bun is soft enough, you don't
Speaker 2: need anything else to add moisture to the dog, like,
Speaker 2: you're good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So as long as you don't put ketchup on
Speaker 1: a hot dog, I'm good with you. Agreed.
Speaker 2: Agreed, Yeah, agreed, And it takes away there's something about it,
Speaker 2: and you don't realize it because look, full disclosure. When
Speaker 2: I was a kid, if we had mac and cheese,
Speaker 2: like sometimes ketchup would find its way on mac and cheese.
Speaker 2: All right, And now I look at that as I'm older,
Speaker 2: and I go, you got to be ashamed of yourself.
Speaker 2: You got to be ashamed of yourselves.
Speaker 1: I'm with you.
Speaker 2: I swear to god. That was very strange. I don't
Speaker 2: know why.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. The thing only must but yeah,
Speaker 1: onions and relish and everything, you can always do that
Speaker 1: you can put everything else, but don't put don't put
Speaker 1: ketchup on your hot dog.
Speaker 2: Agreed, Yeah, agreed?
Speaker 1: All right, So now all Star break, it's over. Dodgers.
Speaker 1: You know, again, we talked about this early in the
Speaker 1: week with Fred about grades of the dog. He gave
Speaker 1: them an A because they're five and a half games
Speaker 1: up given all of the injuries that they've had, it's
Speaker 1: pretty remarkable. I don't care what team you are. If
Speaker 1: you go through the injuries that the Dodgers have had
Speaker 1: and you're still five and a half games up in
Speaker 1: your division, it's it's pretty good. And you got to
Speaker 1: reward that. And I know Dodger fans don't want to
Speaker 1: believe that because they believe that the Dodgers should be
Speaker 1: twenty games up at this point. Yeah, but it's still
Speaker 1: pretty good. Second half, Jonas, what do you think has
Speaker 1: to happen for the Dodger or will happen for the Dodgers?
Speaker 1: And will they will they be active in the trade situation,
Speaker 1: trade deadline time or will they stay patent? Let those
Speaker 1: guys get healthy and and and roll the dice that
Speaker 1: they're going to get everybody back.
Speaker 2: You know, I wonder about that because if they if
Speaker 2: they make a move, Like there's certain organizations to where
Speaker 2: if they make a move on a player, you go, uh, oh,
Speaker 2: what do they know that we don't Tommy Edmund for example,
Speaker 2: Belichick did this in the NFL for years to where
Speaker 2: everyone's like, man, you're signing Wes Welker. Why and then
Speaker 2: lo and behold, oh yeah, that's why, like he knew
Speaker 2: he could see it. And so if they make a
Speaker 2: move on a player outside from your just your your
Speaker 2: standard big names that would be out there, whoever that
Speaker 2: could be you know Suarez from you know the Diamondbacks
Speaker 2: and all these guys, if they were to make a
Speaker 2: move on a player, I look at that as I
Speaker 2: trust that they recognize that's a guy that's a key
Speaker 2: part towards figuring out or at least adding depth to
Speaker 2: be able to figure out possible situations that come up
Speaker 2: later in the year. I just wonder if they look
Speaker 2: at it and go all right, going into the year,
Speaker 2: there was talk about a ten man rotation, that they
Speaker 2: were so deep when it came to pitching that there
Speaker 2: was a ten man rotation. Did they view the return
Speaker 2: of Otani at some point as their big deadline move
Speaker 2: when it comes to the rushing staff, and that's why
Speaker 2: I'm curious to see. Last year it felt like, you know, formality,
Speaker 2: they were going to make a move, and at the
Speaker 2: deadline they got edmund, they got flairity, They went out
Speaker 2: and got aggressive and you know, Bob Nightingale was talking
Speaker 2: about a bullpen arm do they go out and they
Speaker 2: get the bullpen. The other part of this, it throws
Speaker 2: a wrinkle into things, is that with the expanded wild card,
Speaker 2: you've got all these teams who think they've got a
Speaker 2: legitimate shot, and so maybe some of those teams on
Speaker 2: the fringe aren't going to be sellers. Maybe the you know,
Speaker 2: the quantity is lower this year because of how many
Speaker 2: teams have the potential, and it almost feels like the
Speaker 2: next week or so, which is crazy to say because
Speaker 2: we've had, you know, one hundred games played or whatever
Speaker 2: it is, the next week or so is going to
Speaker 2: determine whether or not, you know, a team is a
Speaker 2: buyer or a seller. And I think that kind of
Speaker 2: changes things. But it's always the moves under the radar
Speaker 2: that they make that I'm always fascinated by because you
Speaker 2: know that they've done their due diligence have done their research,
Speaker 2: and that's why they're making the make it.
Speaker 1: Right right it is it always is. And and but
Speaker 1: do you think that there are some big names out
Speaker 1: there that could be moved at the deadline that are
Speaker 1: I mean, not necessarily for the Dodgers, but in general,
Speaker 1: do you think there's some big names that are out
Speaker 1: there on teams that are you know, we talk about
Speaker 1: schemes that's not going to happen. Obviously Bob didn't think
Speaker 1: that was gonna happen either, But and I don't see
Speaker 1: that happen at least this year. But do you think
Speaker 1: there are other names out there that possibly could shock
Speaker 1: some people that oh my god, they moved him or
Speaker 1: they got him, and and all of a sudden they're
Speaker 1: a different team because they got this particular player.
Speaker 2: I mean, I would say, look, the big one was Devers,
Speaker 2: Like I don't know, I don't know anybody saw that
Speaker 2: that was going to happen the way that it did,
Speaker 2: but that ended up happening. I kind of kicked around
Speaker 2: just because I knew it. Would you know, give Ben
Speaker 2: Maller a little bit of a red ass. Last week,
Speaker 2: I said, you know, months he's going to be out
Speaker 2: for a little while here. Maybe they're looking to add
Speaker 2: at third base, and maybe Alex Bregman could be a possibility.
Speaker 2: I don't know, And of course you know that he
Speaker 2: got a kick out of that. But I mean, if
Speaker 2: you're looking at third base, Suarez from the Diamondbacks is
Speaker 2: one of the most under the radar home run hitters
Speaker 2: that we've seen, Guy mashes Bay. He's four home runs
Speaker 2: in a game earlier this year. He's got thirty one
Speaker 2: at the break, which is crazy. Cal Rawley's got thirty
Speaker 2: thirty eight or whatever it is, which which is even
Speaker 2: more bananas. But maybe that's a move. And if you believe,
Speaker 2: like Nightingale believes, and a lot of people believe that
Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks are finished, maybe and Joe Davis and John
Speaker 2: Smoltz brought this up that yeah, they could. There's pieces
Speaker 2: there in Arizona, like there are pieces of Yead and
Speaker 2: so if you're looking to add a bat, that would
Speaker 2: be a name that you could look at. I just
Speaker 2: don't know if the Dodgers view the price being too
Speaker 2: steep for their liking, and do they think that Mounsy's
Speaker 2: going to be impacted for the entire season or he
Speaker 2: comes back and he's ready to go right off the bat.
Speaker 1: Are the Diamondbacks looking at it as this is a
Speaker 1: aberration and we struggled, But we've got a good young
Speaker 1: nucleus that we don't want to give up the farm
Speaker 1: or we're not going to give up our key players
Speaker 1: that have help us get there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you know, you wonder, you know, inside
Speaker 2: the division, not that that stopped teams from making deals before,
Speaker 2: but inside the division to really want to give that
Speaker 2: guy up to somebody else. I mean, it's it's it's
Speaker 2: going to be really, really fascinating because I don't know
Speaker 2: that there's a huge name that's out there. Al Contra
Speaker 2: from Florida, from Miami rather has been talked about as
Speaker 2: one of the names that could be had. But you know,
Speaker 2: when he's pitching, well, he's potentially as good as there is,
Speaker 2: but there's been question marks there. So I just wonder
Speaker 2: if they look at it and go, let's try and
Speaker 2: get healthy perfectly, That's what I'm thinking about.
Speaker 1: I think that's that's the dance, right, do we roll
Speaker 1: the dice on us getting healthy? Because if we're healthy,
Speaker 1: we've got all the guys we need. We don't need anybody.
Speaker 2: And also, look, I mean, what's going on with Mookie Vetts? Like,
Speaker 2: what's what's going like?
Speaker 1: Right? You got to believe it can't continue, Yes, struggles
Speaker 1: can't continue. You got to get it turned around.
Speaker 2: Like Freeman, you know, has been in this slump and
Speaker 2: been in out of this slump, and you look at
Speaker 2: that and go. And Dave Roberts even made the comment
Speaker 2: recently where he was like, look, I just trust the player.
Speaker 2: I trust the sample size we've it. Like, you don't
Speaker 2: just stay in a slump that long if you are
Speaker 2: the player that you are the you know, Mookie starts
Speaker 2: to produce all of a sudden that helps out significantly,
Speaker 2: you know. Freeman's more like, I just I think that
Speaker 2: there's answers on the roster now, as opposed to maybe
Speaker 2: some of the answers that are out there elsewhere and
Speaker 2: teams that may or may not want to part ways
Speaker 2: because they either think that hey, we could be in
Speaker 2: this thing, you know, in a couple of weeks with
Speaker 2: it an opportunity to get to the wild card or
Speaker 2: be you know, we're just not going to give up
Speaker 2: a guy, you know, for bottom barrel prices when we
Speaker 2: feel like we can raid somebody's farm system for a
Speaker 2: big addition.
Speaker 1: Yeah, are you are you worried about Danner Scott.
Speaker 2: I'm worried about if he has another bad outing, what
Speaker 2: David Assay is going to do to him. That's what
Speaker 2: I'm worried about. I mean, like that's like between David
Speaker 2: and Fred, they both they will double team him. But like,
Speaker 2: you know, it's funny. So the Sunday game was a
Speaker 2: perfect example. Yeah, David, Yeah, Fred and David Like that
Speaker 2: is you know, for two guys that don't get along,
Speaker 2: they get along. They just don't know it, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. But like for a Sunday's game, for example,
Speaker 2: Tanner Scott goes out there, gives up this, gives up
Speaker 2: the save, and you're looking at it, going, oh Christ,
Speaker 2: here they go. And then James Autman of all people,
Speaker 2: makes that play on deals and saves the game, like
Speaker 2: literally saves the game. So you you look at that
Speaker 2: and you're like, they're so deep that even guys that
Speaker 2: everybody recognizes as yeah he was off to a hot
Speaker 2: start when he came up here, but he'll be included
Speaker 2: in a trade. He's not going to be back. Even
Speaker 2: that guy comes up with a play here or there.
Speaker 2: That helps them to make the play on Sunday. So
Speaker 2: when you have that much depth and that much potential
Speaker 2: talent on your roster, it gives you so much more flexibility,
Speaker 2: but it also makes your decisions that much harder because
Speaker 2: you don't know who to part with. So it'll be interesting, man,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be an interesting.
Speaker 1: Deadthe I just think you can't. And Fred's ready to
Speaker 1: deal him and get rid of him or change him
Speaker 1: up and all that. I just don't think because the
Speaker 1: Dodgers are the Dodgers, and they have the luxury of
Speaker 1: being five and a half games up that they don't
Speaker 1: have to panic. No, they don't have to panic. And look,
Speaker 1: Tanner Scott, he's had a rough go. Let's let's be honest,
Speaker 1: all right, right he is. I think he's the top
Speaker 1: of the league and blown saves and he's had a
Speaker 1: rough way to go, But that's not who he is
Speaker 1: at the end of the day. At some point, I
Speaker 1: gotta believe that he is going to figure it out,
Speaker 1: turn it around and be back to the Tanner Scott,
Speaker 1: the guy that they signed for seventy two million dollars. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and so and if this was you know,
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks or the Padres that are sitting there in
Speaker 1: third place, going we gotta make we gotta make some move,
Speaker 1: we gotta Well then yeah, you might make a move
Speaker 1: at it. But the Rogers are five and a half
Speaker 1: games up. You don't have to panic with Tanner Scott
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: You know what's you know what's interesting too about the
Speaker 2: Dodgers is that any other organization, say the Diamondbacks that
Speaker 2: just won a World Series last year, say the Padres
Speaker 2: just won a World Series last year, and whatever, we
Speaker 2: got one. We're good, man, we got one, like you know,
Speaker 2: like you've seen like the Marlins won won two World
Speaker 2: Series and literally emptied the chamber on their team, on
Speaker 2: their roster afterward they won. There's a god, we got one.
Speaker 2: We're good here, Like the Cubs. Cubs won a World
Speaker 2: Series and it was like the next dynasty gone, Like
Speaker 2: everybody's gone that was on the team.
Speaker 1: Thinking about Hobby Byers is an All Stars.
Speaker 2: At a third position, you know, like Schwarber was on
Speaker 2: the team.
Speaker 1: He just won m VP.
Speaker 2: It comes like, now we don't need we got our
Speaker 2: one week series. Yeah, I tell me about it. Like
Speaker 2: Chris Bryant was the MVP, all those guys, uh, you know,
Speaker 2: Kyle Hendrix, like all those guys that were part of
Speaker 2: that team at Yeah, so all of them. You see
Speaker 2: how you see how some of these organizations work. And
Speaker 2: what's what's amazing about the Dodgers is that of anybody,
Speaker 2: they could be sitting back and kind of kicking their
Speaker 2: feet up and going, we don't need to be aggressive
Speaker 2: at the deadline. We don't need to do it, make
Speaker 2: a move at the deadline. We can just listen. We
Speaker 2: got our World Series. We're gonna roll the dice and
Speaker 2: try and get healthy and see where we go from there.
Speaker 2: And something tells me, of all the teams that are
Speaker 2: going to be kicking the tires and trying to make
Speaker 2: a move, they're gonna be the ones. They're always the
Speaker 2: most aggressive, and because of that they get rewarded for
Speaker 2: it every year.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent. Man, all right, we'll be back to
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Speaker 1: Ah. Yes, it's been a great hump day, Rodney pet
Speaker 1: Jonas knocks, it's been good, Jonas. You sent me something
Speaker 1: early this morning man that I don't want to end
Speaker 1: it on a down note, man, but you sent me
Speaker 1: something that I want to say. It's an up note
Speaker 1: because I got to mention it because it's an incredible
Speaker 1: feat of this one hundred and fourteen year old gentleman.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred and fourteen years old Indian guy, one
Speaker 2: hundred and fourteen years old. His nickname is the Turban
Speaker 2: Tornado Urban Tornado, which is one of the great nicknames
Speaker 2: of all time. Definitely, definitely in the top five the
Speaker 2: guys of Buck fourteen and he started running marathons at
Speaker 2: eighty nine years old. We were talking about the WAA.
Speaker 2: He started at age ninety nine. Started at eighty nine
Speaker 2: years old, so it wasn't like a runner in his
Speaker 2: old life. Who knows he started eighty nine years old.
Speaker 2: We were talking about the Olympics earlier. I think he
Speaker 2: was the flag bearer for or. He was the torch
Speaker 2: bearer for the or carrier, right, Yeah, yeah, he actually
Speaker 2: he was friends with Jesse Owens. That is correct, but no,
Speaker 2: he so he was. He represented India as part of
Speaker 2: the Olympics as well. I don't know if he participated
Speaker 2: obviously because of the age, but he was. Like he's
Speaker 2: a legend in India because one hundred and fourteen years old,
Speaker 2: runs marathons, walking across the street, gets killed by a
Speaker 2: hit and run at one hundred and fourteen. Think about
Speaker 2: all the crap that he's all the crap, all the pandemics,
Speaker 2: all the world wars, all everything that he's lived through
Speaker 2: in his life. He was born in nineteen eleven, okay and.
Speaker 1: Nineteen eleven, both World War wars. Yea, every every war.
Speaker 2: How many pandemics, Like, how many pandemics he's seen that
Speaker 2: he's like all covidel I mean, he's lived through everything. Assassination,
Speaker 2: like he's seen it all. And at one hundred and
Speaker 2: fourteen years old. Wow, guy's crossing the street and some
Speaker 2: dumb ass hits him with the car and then just
Speaker 2: drives off.
Speaker 1: Like what it's like.
Speaker 2: If I were him, I'd be so pissed me. I
Speaker 2: would be so pissed that bad whoever hit him all
Speaker 2: and it was a hit and run, hit and run
Speaker 2: just just took off. And then LeVar Yarrington we were
Speaker 2: talking about this morning and Levar's like, well, listen, at
Speaker 2: one hundred and fourteen years old, you know he could
Speaker 2: have got him with like the side mirror and uh
Speaker 2: and you know not even meant to hit a var
Speaker 2: Come on, man, And I'm like, like, like, LaVar's got
Speaker 2: like the like the guy put his windshield.
Speaker 1: Put it.
Speaker 2: It's like LaVar's got it, Like the guy put his
Speaker 2: windshield wipers on and the dude disappear because he's one
Speaker 2: hundred and fourteen. But nonetheless, so it just goes to
Speaker 2: show you anybody that's like making an excuse for not
Speaker 2: getting into shape. At eighty nine, this guy started running.
Speaker 1: Marathons and ever since.
Speaker 2: And the Turbine Tornado urbing, what a great name.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable but again yeah, to go out like that as
Speaker 1: just horrible or it sucks, but well, you know, Jonas,
Speaker 1: thanks for man, thanks for stepping in man as you
Speaker 1: always do. Brother. You're always great to fill in man.
Speaker 1: Always good to talk to you and hang out with
Speaker 1: you brother always.
Speaker 2: No listen, I'm a fan, I always have been. I
Speaker 2: appreciate you guys. Letting me be a part of it
Speaker 2: as always, and then you and Ronnie and Kevin make
Speaker 2: it easy so it's always right on, right on. Thank
Speaker 2: you guys, Ronnie, Kevin, thank you very much and we
Speaker 2: will talk to you tomorrow