Speaker 1: Here we go, fred Rogan, Rodney Peat on Sports Today,
Speaker 1: Dodgers in Arizona. So we're only on for two hours. Boy,
Speaker 1: it's going to be a huge all game series this week, Oh.
Speaker 2: Freddy, I can't remember, and maybe you know because I
Speaker 2: can't remember in general, but a series this late in
Speaker 2: the year that means this much as this one does
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers going to Arizona, for both teams, I mean,
Speaker 2: I get it, you know. Sometimes it means a lot
Speaker 2: for one team going into it, but for both teams
Speaker 2: that are right in the thicket things at this late
Speaker 2: juncture in the season, you know, especially for the Dodgers
Speaker 2: who were so used and accustomed to running away with
Speaker 2: the division and being up by twelve to fifteen games
Speaker 2: at this point. But now it's a it's a dogfighting.
Speaker 2: We've talked all summer about is this going to be
Speaker 2: a good thing for the Dodgers that they are not
Speaker 2: running away with it and that they do have to
Speaker 2: treat every game as it's almost like a playoff game.
Speaker 2: And this is the start of it here in Arizona.
Speaker 2: So this is gonna be interesting.
Speaker 1: You know. Jonas was on the last couple of days
Speaker 1: he made a very good point. However, the rest of
Speaker 1: the season plays out, it's really gonna be determined by
Speaker 1: how will they play against Arizona in San Diego. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is the chance this weekend to give themselves a
Speaker 1: little distance and a little space. Last night they made
Speaker 1: it three out of four or two out of three,
Speaker 1: I should say, against the Orioles. And one thing I
Speaker 1: want to say for all of you people that thought
Speaker 1: Chris Taylor should have been deported after his ninth inning
Speaker 1: at bat against the Orioles. And I sat here and said,
Speaker 1: he's going to play. Yeah, he has to play. That's
Speaker 1: the only way they're going to figure out if he
Speaker 1: can play. No, you're wrong. He shouldn't be in there.
Speaker 1: He should have been pinch hit for he's got to play. Well.
Speaker 1: He played last night, didn't he? You're mad at him? Now? Set? Now?
Speaker 1: Should we trade him right now? Dfam, send him to
Speaker 1: the miners right now. He played last night? He looked
Speaker 1: okay there, didn't he? And that's why you cannot react
Speaker 1: that way. You can't. Yeah, fire Dave Roberts. Why would
Speaker 1: he let him hit? Because they have to see if
Speaker 1: he can Because he has to see if he can
Speaker 1: Rodney last night he hit I guess everything is okay.
Speaker 2: Now, all right, Well listen, Yes, it was a great
Speaker 2: night for Chris Taylor and for Dodgers to get him back.
Speaker 2: And in a lot of times, Fred, you know this,
Speaker 2: we talk about it all the time. You never know,
Speaker 2: you never know what somebody is going through, and you
Speaker 2: never know how bad an injury or the the effect
Speaker 2: and injury is going to have on your performance. But
Speaker 2: when he came back, yes, on the heels of Jason
Speaker 2: Hayward being DFAD and him just hitting a walk off
Speaker 2: or not even a walker but a home run. But
Speaker 2: the Dodgers ahead the day before sent a lot of
Speaker 2: bad taste in a lot of people's mouths, including mine, Fred.
Speaker 2: And you know, Chris Taylor is a you know, a
Speaker 2: family friend, and I love Chris Taylor and I've gotten
Speaker 2: to know him over the years and we all do
Speaker 2: you know, he's just a great guy. But what Jason
Speaker 2: Hayward did the night before and then to see the
Speaker 2: next day him being released just didn't sit right. And
Speaker 2: but unfortunately, that's baseball and that's business. So I don't
Speaker 2: know about you, but I was sitting there just man,
Speaker 2: holding my breath, and just rooting for Chris Taylor to
Speaker 2: come through and just come on, man, I wasn't even
Speaker 2: necessarily rooting from the I was rooting from just don't
Speaker 2: make it ugly, don't strike out bad, or don't make
Speaker 2: you know, just come on, just just make it somewhat
Speaker 2: palatable that we can watch, you know. And and he
Speaker 2: came true. So I was very very happy. And again,
Speaker 2: he's a guy that's had playoff experience.
Speaker 1: He's been there, he's done that.
Speaker 2: He's come up with big moments for the Dodgers over
Speaker 2: the years, and you're right, you gotta see what you got.
Speaker 2: You gotta see if he's back, because we've got a
Speaker 2: month and the playoffs start, and you got to know,
Speaker 2: are we going to get the Chris Taylor of old?
Speaker 2: Are we gonna get the Chris Taylor that we've seen
Speaker 2: the last year and a half.
Speaker 1: And if we have the Chris Taylor we've seen the
Speaker 1: last year and a half, then we have to make
Speaker 1: a decision. Ye, But we can't make any decision until
Speaker 1: we know, all right, so cross that one off the
Speaker 1: list at least for last night. The night before Walker
Speaker 1: Buehler pitched, Oh God, why would you send him out
Speaker 1: there struggling. I mean, we can't count on that guy,
Speaker 1: can we? All Right, you know what? He was okay
Speaker 1: last night? Here comes Bobby Miller. Oh god, what are
Speaker 1: we told?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: What are we gonna do? He couldn't find us. He
Speaker 1: couldn't hit water if he fell out of a boat.
Speaker 1: Talk to him, Tommy, couldn't. He couldn't hit the strike zone.
Speaker 1: He's all over the place. Uh, we don't know what
Speaker 1: we're gonna get with him. You better not let him
Speaker 1: pitch what he looked okay last night he did okay
Speaker 1: last night, Yes he did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, made one mistake that was pretty much it. But
Speaker 2: for the most part, Fred, he was sharp, he was good.
Speaker 2: He was hitting his spots like That's one of the
Speaker 2: things that we talked about and reiterated with you know
Speaker 2: a lot of guys that are analyzing this game, Oral
Speaker 2: Herscheizer and and others talked about you can have velocity,
Speaker 2: you can get the velocity back. You can throw a hundred,
Speaker 2: but if you're throwing a hundred right down the middle,
Speaker 2: that's not gonna be effective. And and Kenny get command
Speaker 2: of his pitches, and he had that for the most
Speaker 2: part last night. With the exception of the of the
Speaker 2: the mistake, mistake that gave up a three run Homer.
Speaker 1: But man, he looked good. Fred, I was. I was
Speaker 1: very encouraged by Bobby Miller last night. So as concerned
Speaker 1: as everybody is, as concerned as they are. You're aware
Speaker 1: of the fact that the Dodgers went seven and two
Speaker 1: on the homestand are they are people aware of that? No?
Speaker 1: I don't think they are. I don't either. I don't either.
Speaker 4: Fred's got a serious victory lap two are going on
Speaker 4: right now or being right multiple times this week, And
Speaker 4: I don't blame them. Trendy, pull those receeats out. Let
Speaker 4: the people know their chest out, ye, your hair whatever.
Speaker 1: I know theys are over.
Speaker 2: You're right, though, Adam, You're right because uh you know,
Speaker 2: you know, we and Fred got beat up by by
Speaker 2: saying this is what we got, this is what we
Speaker 2: got to go to and beat up?
Speaker 1: Beat up? Aren't you being a little kind? Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: and beat up? I would say, nare like you were
Speaker 1: you were viscerated, would be you were pummeled under the ground,
Speaker 1: fred Man. No, I mean, look, we have not vacillated.
Speaker 1: We haven't vacillated all year. Long, and I think it's
Speaker 1: pretty exciting. Becaus a matter of fact, let's turn this
Speaker 1: now to the Spotlight twenty nine focus. All right, so
Speaker 1: we've talked about what was. Now let's get into what
Speaker 1: is These four games against Arizona. They mean a lot
Speaker 1: to both teams. I have to tell you, in my mind,
Speaker 1: going in, Arizona knows they desperately need these, desperately need
Speaker 1: these because if they lose these four games, they're basically
Speaker 1: they're shot. If they even have one at winning the
Speaker 1: division is done. If the Dodgers go three and one,
Speaker 1: I would suggest Arizona shot at winning the division is done.
Speaker 1: If they split the series, I would say Arizona shot
Speaker 1: at winning the division has decreased dramatically. So, Rodney, I
Speaker 1: think for Arizona this is a playoff series. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So you're saying that this is bigger for clearly bigger
Speaker 2: for Arizona than it is for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, honest out even without question. Yeah yeah, because the
Speaker 1: Dodgers are the hunted, Arizona is the hunters. Arizona. This
Speaker 1: will determine Arizona shot at winning the West right here,
Speaker 1: this is it. I don't care how it plays out,
Speaker 1: the rest of the way because actually in the division,
Speaker 1: these games kind of count to right you when they lose?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's double effect on it. But here's the thing.
Speaker 2: Do you think, given the fact of how they made
Speaker 2: it to the World Series last year, do you think
Speaker 2: that it matters to Arizona whether they win the division
Speaker 2: or not?
Speaker 1: Or is it just a matter of.
Speaker 2: Of we got to keep steady, We got to keep
Speaker 2: pace of where we are. If we win the division, great,
Speaker 2: if we don't, the only thing that matters is getting in,
Speaker 2: because we know if we get in we can make
Speaker 2: it all the way, which they did last year. So
Speaker 2: do you think that they even care about winning the division?
Speaker 2: I would say no.
Speaker 1: But but I think these four games, given how tight
Speaker 1: it is, remember what happened last year. The Dodgers just
Speaker 1: ran away with it again and then they were flat
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Right all right, yep? I think this
Speaker 1: year is a different story because it is so close,
Speaker 1: and I think this go round, this might psychologically give
Speaker 1: one or the other teams at advantage. I mean, the
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks came out of nowhere last year. Nobody expects you
Speaker 1: to do anything and boom there you are. Okay, great,
Speaker 1: but now people have placed expectations on them because they're
Speaker 1: playing so well, and that being the case, I think
Speaker 1: these games matter and I think they are so vital
Speaker 1: to the Diamondbacks. If the Dodgers beat them, with as
Speaker 1: close as the race is right now for the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: that is an enormous mental boost. You know, we these
Speaker 1: games are playoff games, So if the Dodgers beat them,
Speaker 1: I think it knocks Arizona back a step and I
Speaker 1: think it puts the Dodgers two steps ahead. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I really think these are critical games.
Speaker 2: And do you think that they have those conversations You
Speaker 2: think Dave Roberts has that those conversations with the players
Speaker 2: that these are these are meaningful, serious games. Right now,
Speaker 2: we're gonna make the playoffs, but we want to go
Speaker 2: into the playoffs with momentum, not only momentum, but knocking
Speaker 2: you know, knocking our division rival kind of on their
Speaker 2: heels and we may see him again, but the fact
Speaker 2: that we can beat up on him before the playoffs starts.
Speaker 2: Do you think that that Dave has that conversation with
Speaker 2: the team saying, yeah, this will do a mental damage
Speaker 2: on the Diamondbacks if we go in there and take
Speaker 2: three out of four.
Speaker 1: All right, I am going to answer that question, but
Speaker 1: before I do, I'm going to ask you a question,
Speaker 1: because you actually know Dave Roberts pretty well, I have
Speaker 1: my answer no matter what you say. Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: Do you think he has that conversation. I think yes,
Speaker 2: I do. I think he does. I think he's very
Speaker 2: candid about and and and you know him too, Fritt,
Speaker 2: but I think he's very candid about where the team
Speaker 2: is right now and what the stakes are. I don't
Speaker 2: think he's a guy that sugarcoats things. I think he
Speaker 2: tells it how it is, even with you know, just
Speaker 2: quickly going going back to UH Jason Hayward situation, I
Speaker 2: don't think that caught anyone inside the immediate folks by surprise.
Speaker 2: I think that was talked about. I think Dave had
Speaker 2: a straight up one on one with UH with Jay
Speaker 2: hay and I think they they had a conversation that
Speaker 2: if this goes down this way, then this is what
Speaker 2: we're gonna do it. Just he's been that way in
Speaker 2: the past, So yes, I believe he has that conversation
Speaker 2: with the guys as they travel to Arizona, going, guys,
Speaker 2: we got a chance to knock them out the box.
Speaker 1: And we don't know.
Speaker 2: What this is gonna do to them psychologically, but man,
Speaker 2: if we go and crush them and and really take
Speaker 2: three out of four from these guys or sweep them,
Speaker 2: that will do big damage for them going into the playoffs.
Speaker 2: So yes, I do believe absolutely he has that conversation.
Speaker 1: After hearing that, I want to change my answer, but
Speaker 1: I won't, And I said I wouldn't. Wait, did I
Speaker 1: say I'm not gonna change my answer.
Speaker 4: You said, no, matter what Rodney said, You're not changing
Speaker 4: your answer.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go with my initial answer. No, I
Speaker 1: don't think he does. I think you might say, all right,
Speaker 1: let's get him, let's go get him, let's go get him. Game.
Speaker 2: Hey, we got a shot here, let's go get him.
Speaker 2: This is like April, so it's no big deal. April
Speaker 2: May game, no big deal. You think that's the conversation
Speaker 2: he has with the team.
Speaker 1: I think the conversation is we're here, Uh, we don
Speaker 1: what we have to do, Let's go get him. I
Speaker 1: do now Again, I told you I wouldn't change my answer.
Speaker 1: So that is my initial answer, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: stick with it. But He's alternative answer right after hearing
Speaker 1: what you had to say. I wish I could change,
Speaker 1: but I won't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just think, yeah, no, I just I just
Speaker 2: think it's different times, right. It's a long season, And
Speaker 2: Adam you can chime in too. I think it's a
Speaker 2: long season and situations change over a course of the season,
Speaker 2: and where you are now is different than where you
Speaker 2: were in May. And yes, you can look at it
Speaker 2: and Mango, this is another series against our arrival, our
Speaker 2: division opponent, and yes, we'd like to take three out
Speaker 2: of four. But at the end of the day, you know,
Speaker 2: we're going to see them again. We're going to see
Speaker 2: them again. We're going to see them again. But at
Speaker 2: this point, going there and they're building to create any
Speaker 2: kind of extra doubt in their mind that if we
Speaker 2: see you again, this is exactly what we're gonna do
Speaker 2: to you. I think you have that conversation, and I
Speaker 2: don't think and I'm not saying that that he has
Speaker 2: to have the conversation to to really remind guys of
Speaker 2: the gravitude of this gravity, you know, gravity of this situation.
Speaker 2: But I think it needs to be reiterated because I
Speaker 2: think every every player knows how big this series is.
Speaker 2: But sometimes coming from the manager going hey, fellas, come
Speaker 2: on now, this is this is this is where the
Speaker 2: rubber Messa road. Let's go knock these guys out of
Speaker 2: the box. And when they see us, and then if
Speaker 2: they happen to see us again in October, they know
Speaker 2: what they're in for. Well if you allow them, if
Speaker 2: you allow them to beat up on you. Right now,
Speaker 2: it's so recent in their minds, going we just beat
Speaker 2: them three out of four, we can do it again.
Speaker 4: And they've already won two of the three series they
Speaker 4: have played so far this season, Arizona, so they probably
Speaker 4: feel like we still have their number. We have the
Speaker 4: mental edge to me. If you go in trying to
Speaker 4: downplay the importance of this series, Fred, it.
Speaker 5: Almost looks a little weak, Yeah, a little soft.
Speaker 4: It looks like you're trying to guard yourself or set
Speaker 4: yourself up for disappointment, or at least ways to play
Speaker 4: it off like, ah, we didn't care. It wasn't the playoffs.
Speaker 4: If we don't win it, no no, no, no no.
Speaker 4: This is your chance to put them in the rear view.
Speaker 4: The Dodgers are four games up on them. You win
Speaker 4: three or four, it's over. The Dodgers have the division,
Speaker 4: and we don't know what San Diego's gonna do this weekend,
Speaker 4: but they need to get a little bit more of
Speaker 4: a cushion if they want to have at least an
Speaker 4: opportunity to rest some of these guys that have been
Speaker 4: beat up, or give guys.
Speaker 5: A little bit more time to return from injury.
Speaker 4: As much as we like them being battle tested right
Speaker 4: now and having to go through the gauntlet and go
Speaker 4: through the fire before the playoffs.
Speaker 5: Come, at some point you would like this to be decided.
Speaker 4: Maybe with two weeks left in the season, right, that
Speaker 4: would still be ideal, so you can line up guys
Speaker 4: and have them set rotation wise.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, we're not talking about eight ten year
Speaker 2: old kids that you got a sugarcoat or you try
Speaker 2: to hide something from everybody knows, So why not why
Speaker 2: not be up front and go, no, we got to
Speaker 2: knock these guys out of a box.
Speaker 1: Let's go this is the crime.
Speaker 4: Yes, back in Arizona where Lance Lamb got up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you knew about law, you know about long
Speaker 1: ball lands. You know that was just as amo.
Speaker 5: So you said the Dodgers didn't know. We knew, but
Speaker 5: Dave Robertson everybody knew.
Speaker 1: But you know last year they were handcuffed.
Speaker 2: But still you had we had to witness it, right,
Speaker 2: So it's still fresh in people's minds. Oh, we lit up.
Speaker 2: We lit the Dodgers up. They don't look at it,
Speaker 2: and that's that we lit up, lance Lynn. We lit
Speaker 2: the Dodgers up, right, So yes, it has to be
Speaker 2: reiterated that this is a new season, new year. We
Speaker 2: are the big bad Dodgers coming to town. So get ready,
Speaker 2: and this is what you're going to see in October
Speaker 2: again too, Well.
Speaker 1: We'll find out if they're gonna see Clayton Kershaw on
Speaker 1: October because he goes tonight. And uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: think there's been more up than down with Clayton, but
Speaker 1: in a very small way, it's been a mixed bag,
Speaker 1: more up than down, but a mixed bag. I think
Speaker 1: tonight can be a statement game for him, Rodney.
Speaker 2: It it can, it can, Fred. But but again we're
Speaker 2: talking Clayton Kershaw's got such a big, vast body of
Speaker 2: work that if he does go out and happens to
Speaker 2: struggle a little bit, I don't think it has the
Speaker 2: impact of say, you know, Gavin Stone going out and struggling. Right,
Speaker 2: I don't think it has that kind of impact if
Speaker 2: if that happens, because he's a young kid and we're
Speaker 2: again on the verge of going into the playoffs, this
Speaker 2: could be his first you know, foray into the playoffs
Speaker 2: as a starter. It doesn't have the impact, and so
Speaker 2: it's it's Clayton who can come back and bounce back
Speaker 2: after a bad performance. But it may put some questions,
Speaker 2: maybe if I'm answering your question, may put some questions
Speaker 2: in your mind about how how we approach Clayton going
Speaker 2: into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think that's true. I think they
Speaker 1: I think they desperately need him to have a really
Speaker 1: good outing tonight. I think it's critical they desperately need
Speaker 1: him to have a good outing they form for him.
Speaker 2: Because they need him to be an impactful picture in
Speaker 2: the playoffs or for the psyche of him and the team,
Speaker 2: which you know kind of where are you leaning that?
Speaker 1: Why it's so important? Okay in this case, can I
Speaker 1: answer both? Yeah? Okay, I'm gonna answer both. I think, look,
Speaker 1: he's been there, he knows he has more experience than
Speaker 1: anybody there. But I think it's a boost for him,
Speaker 1: his psyche. I think it's good for him for the team,
Speaker 1: I think they will feel more comfortable and confident. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying he has to go strike every single picture out,
Speaker 1: every player he faces out, But what I am saying
Speaker 1: is that for him to get you the length you
Speaker 1: need and to keep you in the game, I think
Speaker 1: it's critical. I think it's critical for the thinking of
Speaker 1: the team. I think it's critical if other pictures aren't
Speaker 1: ready to go and he is forced to pitch in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I think it's critical when you are deciding
Speaker 1: if you can go with Gavin Stone or Clayton, who
Speaker 1: will you go with in the playoffs. I think that's
Speaker 1: why it's so critical tonight. Yeah, no, I can I
Speaker 1: see that. I see that.
Speaker 2: I see that because you know, guys won't say it,
Speaker 2: players won't say it, but they want to see too.
Speaker 2: They want to see if if Clayton's got it back,
Speaker 2: or how effective he can be because they all believe
Speaker 2: in him, right, it's just a matter of does he
Speaker 2: still have enough to get us through a particular game
Speaker 2: or in a big time situation, And they want to
Speaker 2: see it. They got to see it with their eyeballs.
Speaker 2: So I get that from from the other standpoint of
Speaker 2: the of the team wanting to see that and needing
Speaker 2: to see that.
Speaker 1: There's some importance there. All right, that's the spotlight on
Speaker 1: blue U hahuh. You know it, dude, It doesn't change.
Speaker 2: August thirtieth, February twenty eighth, April thirtieth.
Speaker 1: It don't matter, fred Friday, we don't care. We don't care.
Speaker 5: Fred bred definitely doesn't dunking on everyone.
Speaker 1: Now, tell me about it.
Speaker 5: Letting him know.
Speaker 1: Ye, let him on, Adam, ain't nobody got to see
Speaker 1: him for that.
Speaker 5: You deserve this. You deserve this.
Speaker 4: I think a weekend, let's say Chris Taylor comes up
Speaker 4: with another big hit in the playoffs.
Speaker 5: Let's say he makes the playoff roster.
Speaker 4: I say you do an apology tour where you just
Speaker 4: have fans call in that we're giving you so much
Speaker 4: grief about Chris Taylor and just get in line and
Speaker 4: apologize to you.
Speaker 6: Fred Ooh, you know, Freddy, he's being genuine because during
Speaker 6: the Clippers season, anytime people come after him and then
Speaker 6: he's proven right, Adam.
Speaker 3: It's just it's the whole show.
Speaker 4: You're saying I brought my arm pat myself on the
Speaker 4: back too much, both arms.
Speaker 1: Look at Katie, Look Katie coming out of.
Speaker 7: The wo's gonna call him out for this. I'm gonna
Speaker 7: call Adam Di Lodgery my clippers on here.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Well, look, I'm glad I was right.
Speaker 1: But I think what we all are happy about is
Speaker 1: that Chris Taylor played well. At the end of the day,
Speaker 1: that's all Dodger fan wants. Who's ever on the field
Speaker 1: performs he did, So give it a little time. I've
Speaker 1: got a feeling I can be wrong. You'll probably see
Speaker 1: him at a game against Arizona. I've got a feeling that's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. You got a feeling, don't you think, Rodney?
Speaker 2: Of course, come on, yes, absolutely absolutely, he's got to play.
Speaker 1: We've got what.
Speaker 2: Thirty twenty eight more days, I don't know how many
Speaker 2: games in that span, but he's got to get in
Speaker 2: as much playing time as possible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've got to see what they have. All right, Uh,
Speaker 1: let's play a little know your squad. Craig and Arcadia,
Speaker 1: are you there?
Speaker 5: Yes, I am.
Speaker 1: How you doing today?
Speaker 3: Pretty good?
Speaker 8: Pretty good?
Speaker 1: All right? This is a great day for you because
Speaker 1: we're gonna play Know your Clippers. How about that includes
Speaker 1: the Buffalo braves.
Speaker 5: Oh, I don't know about that, but I'll baby.
Speaker 2: Come on, everybody's in the same boat on Nybody knows
Speaker 2: about them buffalo braids.
Speaker 1: Katie knows, don't you, Katie.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they moved to San Diego, became the Clippers, and
Speaker 7: then we're stolen by La like every other San Diego
Speaker 7: team except Wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, wow, Katie got the first answer. Good job, kat
Speaker 1: I'm not wrong. No, you're right, You're right. Hey, you
Speaker 1: know your squad? Do you give you a question five charity?
Speaker 1: You have one answer before you give you all five choices.
Speaker 1: You're locked up. You have a challenge. Use your challenge.
Speaker 1: It's upheld. You retain your challenge. Use your challenge. It's denied.
Speaker 1: You're locked out of the next question. Craig, you got that.
Speaker 2: I got it.
Speaker 1: Good luck. Here we go. Doc Rivers holds the franchise
Speaker 1: record for most wins by a head coach of three
Speaker 1: fifty six, who is second career wins with two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifteen. Mike Dunleavy, Bill Fitch, Finny del Negro, Jack
Speaker 1: Ramsey or Jalen Ramsey, Nope, Fitch, Nope, Brady Levy, Mike
Speaker 1: Dunlevy or Rodney's correct. Wow, I had to go to
Speaker 1: the well for that one. See, Craig, I thought you
Speaker 1: were going to get that one when everybody initially missed.
Speaker 1: I thought you'd say Dunlevy.
Speaker 3: It's hard to remember sometimes.
Speaker 2: He said, next one, let's go, friend, stop talking with
Speaker 2: the commentary of Gee.
Speaker 1: He said, Wow, I'm trying to give him a break. Here,
Speaker 1: here's the next one. Cluppers won their first playoff series
Speaker 1: in two thousand and six when they beat the Nugets
Speaker 1: in five games in the first round. Who is their
Speaker 1: leading scorer in that series at seventeen point eight points
Speaker 1: per game? Corey mcgetty, Sam Cassell, Katino Mobley, Elton Brand
Speaker 1: or Elton Johns Elan Elton Brand is correct? Rodney? Wow,
Speaker 1: Rodney all over that one.
Speaker 2: I know my Boston braids, I mean my Buffalo braids.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that a Clipper thing. Yeah, but Elton Brand
Speaker 1: played for the Clippers. Oh oh okay, yeah about that. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, this is honestly I just want to say, Adam,
Speaker 1: I want to acknowledge you here and today's know your squad.
Speaker 1: Why is that Because it's the first day that I've
Speaker 1: gotten all six questions sent to me.
Speaker 4: So you should acknowledge yourself. But it's the first day
Speaker 4: you figured out how to print all six.
Speaker 1: Wow. Is that a praise of Adam or is that
Speaker 1: a shot at Adam? Well, I thought it was. I
Speaker 1: thought it was high praise. To be quite honest, I
Speaker 1: think it was a shot.
Speaker 4: Just tried to backhand compliment.
Speaker 5: The hell did Brad?
Speaker 4: You know those emails contained all six don't do this now.
Speaker 1: Listen, I listen what they contained, Adam? What ended up
Speaker 1: in my hand or two different things?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well you got somebody the copy burglar or something.
Speaker 4: Somebody's been stealing them off the cove the fax machine
Speaker 4: from me.
Speaker 2: A little strange that you would bring that back up, Fred,
Speaker 2: knowing that.
Speaker 4: This is how good Fred's feeling today, This is how
Speaker 4: confident Fred is. Yeah, he's talking jump to everybody.
Speaker 5: This guy.
Speaker 2: Interesting, Fred, if you would bring that back up when
Speaker 2: Adam the man we know Adam, it was very thorough
Speaker 2: as receipts and could could uh could really do some
Speaker 2: damage to you, Fred.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you still wanted to throw it out there.
Speaker 4: I know where the bodies are buried, all of them.
Speaker 1: Listen, I'm just saying, good job. That's all I said.
Speaker 1: That Is that really all you're saying.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying, f off, that's my boy.
Speaker 1: My boy, that's my boy. Double a. Here's a note.
Speaker 1: But you don't give a damn who you are, Fred,
Speaker 1: I understand that Clippers want a franchise worst nine games
Speaker 1: in the ninety eight ninety nine season. Who is their
Speaker 1: leading scorer that season with an average of sixteen point
Speaker 1: eight points per game? Maurice Taylor, Leman, Murray, Michael Ollowa, Candy,
Speaker 1: Rodney Rogers or Roy Rogers Taylor. Yes, Katie, Katie.
Speaker 3: That was the only name I recognize.
Speaker 1: It's Katie, Katy.
Speaker 3: I want to pat my own.
Speaker 1: Yay, do you even know who that is? Katie? No?
Speaker 3: But I know that I recognize the name.
Speaker 1: You do.
Speaker 3: That was the only name.
Speaker 2: I risk you recognize the name Taylor or you didn't
Speaker 2: recognize a full name, the full.
Speaker 3: Name one of my good friends.
Speaker 7: She has been a Clippers fan since day one, so
Speaker 7: you know.
Speaker 1: Okay, more than some day one. How old is she.
Speaker 7: She's well, I mean since she was day one. You
Speaker 7: know her parents are Clippers fans, the whole family of yet.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, which of these players is the career
Speaker 1: leader in scoring average while wearing a Clippers Slash Braves uniform? McAdoo,
Speaker 1: World be free, Dominique Wilkins, Blake Griffin or Blake Shelton.
Speaker 1: I'm McAdoo. No, we'll be free. World be free, Rodney,
Speaker 1: That's right, Craig. Did you say that too? No?
Speaker 4: I said Wilkins?
Speaker 1: All right, all right, Craig, I want you to guy.
Speaker 1: Freddy tried to give it to you quick. I tried.
Speaker 1: You know what I know, and that would really piss
Speaker 1: you off. I know, Rodney. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: How you get you want you don't want charity, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Craig don't want no charity. Fred he doesn't want charity.
Speaker 2: He just wants to win it. Well, let's see if
Speaker 2: he wins this one. Which of these Clippers Slash Braves
Speaker 2: players holds the franchise record for most total rebounds in
Speaker 2: a single season with twelve hundred and twenty six schwet Nader,
Speaker 2: Elmore Smith, DeAndre Jordan, Bob McAdoo or Bob Schmidt Jordan.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Katie.
Speaker 7: That was another one where I'm like, I think that
Speaker 7: name sounds familiar, he says.
Speaker 1: He said, do it with confidence. Oh my god, I.
Speaker 3: Mean if you say it with confidence at least even.
Speaker 1: If you're wrong. Katie absolute, absolutely.
Speaker 5: And what's the score here, Fred?
Speaker 1: It's Rodney three Katie two.
Speaker 7: The most points I think I've ever gotten. No, I
Speaker 7: won this one when I was charging.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is the final question. Katie can actually
Speaker 1: tie coming This would be one of the most shocking
Speaker 1: developments in the history of the show. If and know
Speaker 1: your clippers Katie finishes tied. Here we go. Which of
Speaker 1: these players holds the franchise record for tuneovers committed with
Speaker 1: twelve hundred and fifty eight Chris Paul? Like Griffin or Nixon,
Speaker 1: Ron Harper or Ron Swanson? No, No, Nixon, No, the
Speaker 1: other one that doesn't countin.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, we've all forgotten the list we have.
Speaker 1: What is the question? Which of these players holds the
Speaker 1: franchise record for turnovers committed with twelve hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: Chris Paul? No, Oh, yes, there it is.
Speaker 3: I said that earlier.
Speaker 1: Who said that? Greig said it? Creig?
Speaker 2: Well, Craig got it? What ago, Craig, You're on the board.
Speaker 2: Craig is on the board. There is no shutout, and
Speaker 2: Daddy was sorry, Katie, I wanted I wanted Katy to tie.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 5: Sorry?
Speaker 1: Who what? What? What? What what did you.
Speaker 2: Say, Craig, Oh, I wanted I wanted Katy to tie.
Speaker 1: You want someone?
Speaker 3: They just wanted you to be knocked off your pedestal
Speaker 3: a little bit. You know, you always win, never lose.
Speaker 1: Damn, Daddy, you don't like that. I don't like it
Speaker 1: at all. I don't know if calling him daddy, I
Speaker 1: don't daddy. Don't like that.
Speaker 3: You don't like that. I don't know the way you're
Speaker 3: saying said that very comfortably.
Speaker 2: Trained him, well trained him. Well, Katie, good call on that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I like call him dad. Oh, Katie, Katie,
Speaker 1: you're the best. All right? I want it all right.
Speaker 3: I thought that was your hand signal.
Speaker 1: That's fine, Greig, thanks for listening, man, have a great
Speaker 1: labor day weekend. All right, one o'clock, All right, one o'clock.
Speaker 1: Write it down, Write it down in ink. Tommy Edmund
Speaker 1: of the Dodgers will join the show.
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Speaker 1: Yes, sir, all right, Rodney, I want to talk about
Speaker 1: something now. I think you've heard about it, and it
Speaker 1: really upsets me and I cannot be any more honest
Speaker 1: about this. And there are a number of reasons why
Speaker 1: this is just such a tragedy, and perhaps you listening
Speaker 1: have experienced something like this in your life so you
Speaker 1: can appreciate it. So. Johnny Goodeau is known as Johnny
Speaker 1: Hockey's thirty one years old. He was playing for the
Speaker 1: Columbus Blue Jackets, and if you follow hockey, you remember
Speaker 1: that he made his name with the Calgary Flames. His brother, Matthew,
Speaker 1: is twenty nine years old, married and expecting a child.
Speaker 1: Johnny's married as well. Matthew plays in the minors, so
Speaker 1: they both play hockey. They're a hockey family and Johnny
Speaker 1: good Gudroau signed a huge deal and you know the
Speaker 1: name if you follow hockey, all right. Their sister, their
Speaker 1: sister was supposed to be married today. They were groomsmen
Speaker 1: in the wedding. So they had flown back to the
Speaker 1: East Coast a couple of days before. Well, they're both athletes,
Speaker 1: both in great shape, both take care of themselves, and
Speaker 1: last night they went out on a bike ride, great exercise.
Speaker 1: They know the area, they're there for their sister's wedding,
Speaker 1: and it's during this bike ride. So they're on the
Speaker 1: right side of the road, the right lane, where they're
Speaker 1: supposed to be. Apparently someone decides, I'm going to pass
Speaker 1: on the right. Now, we know that you're I supposed
Speaker 1: to do that. Right, You don't pass on the right,
Speaker 1: you pass on the left. No, this person decided they
Speaker 1: were going to pass on the right. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: this person told police he had five or six peers,
Speaker 1: five or six peers, He's going to pass on the right,
Speaker 1: and he did. Oh, he passed on the right. He
Speaker 1: passed on the right, ran them both over and killed him.
Speaker 1: Johnny Gudreau his brother thirty one twenty nine, both hockey players.
Speaker 1: Therefore his sister's wedding got passed on the right ran
Speaker 1: them over and killed him. And I can't tell you,
Speaker 1: and I don't mean to preach. I can't tell you
Speaker 1: how much that upsets me. It would upset me if
Speaker 1: it happened to anybody. But obviously these two people are
Speaker 1: pretty well known. Imagine the devastation that family feels. They
Speaker 1: are there for their sister's wedding, They are both finally tuned,
Speaker 1: professional athletes, all of them have everything in the world
Speaker 1: to look forward to. And somebody decides that somebody is
Speaker 1: forty three years old, who'd had five or six peers
Speaker 1: that they were going to pass on the right because
Speaker 1: they believed the truck in front of them or the
Speaker 1: vehicle in front of them was trying to block them,
Speaker 1: hit them both and killed them drunk driving. And you
Speaker 1: probably know somebody in your life that has gone through
Speaker 1: something like this. What an incredible tragedy. You shouldn't be driving, Higgins,
Speaker 1: after five or six beers. You shouldn't be driving. If
Speaker 1: you choose to drive, you shouldn't be passing on the
Speaker 1: right side of the road. An entire family devastated because
Speaker 1: somebody chose to do that. I think it is cruel.
Speaker 1: I think it is callous. I think it is selfish.
Speaker 1: I think it is heartless. Oh, obviously he's been charged
Speaker 1: and he'll obviously be convicted. What does that do to
Speaker 1: the goodrou family If this guy ends up in prison,
Speaker 1: Let's say ten years, I don't know, five years, twenty years, Okay,
Speaker 1: what does that do to the Goodrow family? Wives, lost husbands, kids,
Speaker 1: lost fathers. What does that do to them? Just a
Speaker 1: selfish act, so unnecessary, And I'm Rodney, I'm sorry. I
Speaker 1: didn't even know these two guys, but it just really
Speaker 1: really upsets me. Yeah, it's uh.
Speaker 2: I read this story as well and this morning, and
Speaker 2: it was just devastating. To your point. I didn't know
Speaker 2: these guys, but all accounts that they they loved and
Speaker 2: lived life, fans loved them. And two brothers. Imagine that
Speaker 2: two brothers coming back for their sister's wedding, just coming
Speaker 2: back for a joyous celebration of their sister getting married,
Speaker 2: and they go for a bike ride at night, and
Speaker 2: someone who decides that I can make it home, or
Speaker 2: I can make it somewhere. You're having five six beers
Speaker 2: and drinking and getting behind the wheel. Ended their life
Speaker 2: and created tragedy within that family that will never go away,
Speaker 2: will never ever go away.
Speaker 1: And it is a.
Speaker 2: Heartbreaking, it is absolutely heartbreaking, ego, from being one of
Speaker 2: the most celebrated and joyous moments of someone's life to being,
Speaker 2: depending on how you look at it, where you're coming from,
Speaker 2: one of the worst, if not the worst moments in
Speaker 2: that family's life, in all of their lives. So, you know, unbelievable,
Speaker 2: unbelievable for the you know, the Gadrill family and all
Speaker 2: of them. Obviously, it doesn't do justice just to say
Speaker 2: hearts and prayers and thoughts and all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 2: because there's nothing and bringing them back.
Speaker 1: It's just a tragic situation. Fred. And you hate to
Speaker 1: hear you hate to hear this.
Speaker 2: About some something like this that's a census act that
Speaker 2: could be avoided if people just did the right thing,
Speaker 2: if they just did the right thing. And you know,
Speaker 2: their rules and their laws for reasons, and it's a
Speaker 2: it's a shame. So it's like you said, I don't
Speaker 2: know them. You don't know them, but this one hit.
Speaker 2: It hit hard for me too. It hard.
Speaker 1: No one is trying to be your moral compass. I'm
Speaker 1: not Rodney's not. You live your life, You make your
Speaker 1: own choices. You can do whatever you want. And I
Speaker 1: always like to say, do whatever you want as long
Speaker 1: as you don't hurt somebody. If you do whatever you want,
Speaker 1: you don't hurt anybody, that's fantastic. If it seems od
Speaker 1: or it seems strange, I don't care. If you're not
Speaker 1: hurting anybody, you live your life. But I think we
Speaker 1: talk about this today as we approach the Labor Day weekend.
Speaker 1: It's a long weekend. There will be barbecues, people will
Speaker 1: be drinking, and you should do that. You should absolutely
Speaker 1: do that, and you should enjoy it with your friends
Speaker 1: and your family. But if you do choose to drink,
Speaker 1: if you do make that decision, then remember the story
Speaker 1: we just told you right now. Remember that story. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Or if you're also a friend, if you're if you're
Speaker 2: if you're in that situation and you're the friend, or
Speaker 2: you're there and and you have a friend that decides, hey, listen,
Speaker 2: I'm going home or I'm I'm gonna leave or I'm
Speaker 2: going somewhere, and you're the friend on standby, be that guy,
Speaker 2: be that person that stands up and stands in and says, listen,
Speaker 2: give me the keys, I'll drive, or we'll find it.
Speaker 2: We'll put you in an uber. There's so many ways
Speaker 2: to avoid this. There's so many ways to get from
Speaker 2: point A to point B nowadays with a click of
Speaker 2: an app that you don't have to get buy in
Speaker 2: the wheel and if it takes sometimes, you know, if
Speaker 2: you're over here, you're you're just stand up and say no, now, man.
Speaker 2: You know you had a couple, man, So no big deal.
Speaker 2: I'll drive you home, or let me let me, let
Speaker 2: me put you in over and and we'll get you home.
Speaker 1: As simple as that it really is.
Speaker 2: And unfortunately, so many people and too many people don't
Speaker 2: want to utilize the uh, the opportunities that are right
Speaker 2: there in front of us.
Speaker 1: Rodney, I have to tell you, I'll just be really
Speaker 1: honest with you. I go out, and I've been out
Speaker 1: with my kids. I have a glass of wine. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to deny that. I'm also pretty sure I'm
Speaker 1: not drunk. I've had a glass of wine. Okay, you
Speaker 1: know what Jack, Josh or Haley say to me, I've
Speaker 1: had one glass of wine. We're driving, Yeah, we're driving.
Speaker 1: I've had one glass of wine. I'm not drunk. Dad,
Speaker 1: you had one. We're driving. My own kids, we got it,
Speaker 1: and I'll tell them sometimes now I'm fine, don't what
Speaker 1: are you talking about? I'm driving my own kids. Tell
Speaker 1: me that, and I've had a glass of wine. If
Speaker 1: my kids can tell me that, and I give them
Speaker 1: the keys, why can't everybody just be real about what
Speaker 1: they're going through, where they're at, how they feel. If
Speaker 1: somebody offers, if you've even had one beer, one glass
Speaker 1: of wine, whatever, and somebody goes, I'll drive and they
Speaker 1: haven't had a drink, why don't you let them drive?
Speaker 1: To me, it's pretty simple, very simple. And the reason
Speaker 1: this really bothered me is last night Josh parks his car.
Speaker 1: He was at the house in Tuluca Lake and he
Speaker 1: parks it on the street. He goes out at about
Speaker 1: nine point thirty and the back left side of his
Speaker 1: car is gone. It has been smashed, smashed, taken off.
Speaker 1: The car was parked. Somebody side swipe from and sideswipe
Speaker 1: from pretty heavily. He didn't know he didn't know. He
Speaker 1: came out of the house and a couple of friends
Speaker 1: were at the house and he came out of the house.
Speaker 1: He didn't know. He goes, oh my god, he's standing
Speaker 1: there looking at it, and somebody drives by and says,
Speaker 1: I know who did it. Oh, I saw it. Wow,
Speaker 1: I saw it. And you know what. The person who
Speaker 1: did it lived on the next street, and the guy
Speaker 1: drove them there. They called the police, by the way.
Speaker 1: The guy drove them there, and they looked at that car,
Speaker 1: that car that hit his. It didn't even have a
Speaker 1: front tire anymore. It was that bad. It was that bad.
Speaker 1: And they looked at that and they thought to themselves,
Speaker 1: and I don't know the answer to this, how could
Speaker 1: that happen? Well, to me, there's one way that happened.
Speaker 1: Somebody had been drinking, because you wouldn't side swife a
Speaker 1: car on the side of the road that would then
Speaker 1: say anything about it, and just part well, it's let's
Speaker 1: put it like this. It's being resolved. It's being resolved.
Speaker 2: But a note, no note or anything, huh no, nothing, no, no,
Speaker 2: no note saying hey, listen, I hit your car, outsides wiped.
Speaker 2: You call me and we'll get it taken care of
Speaker 2: that which is the natural should be the natural sensitive, simple,
Speaker 2: you know, simple thing to do. Yet there was no note.
Speaker 1: There was nothing except a picture today of the car
Speaker 1: being towed off and it could be totalled. And then
Speaker 1: so I had that last night and woke up this
Speaker 1: morning to the Goudreau story, and I thought, you know what,
Speaker 1: everybody needs to just catch take a breath here, just
Speaker 1: take a second. We all know how to behave we
Speaker 1: all know how to act. A car that is destroyed
Speaker 1: with nobody in it is very different than two people
Speaker 1: who have lost their lives. But the principle remains the same.
Speaker 1: If you're drinking, don't drive. It's Labor day weekend. Take
Speaker 1: care of yourself more importantly, take care of everyone around you.
Speaker 1: If you're going to be selfish, then do something to yourself.
Speaker 1: Don't do it to anybody else. Because that one, that
Speaker 1: story there, I think that one's going to stay with us.
Speaker 1: All right, now, we're all right. I just had to
Speaker 1: I had to get that podcast. No, no, it hurts, hurts,
Speaker 1: and one hurts. All right. When we come back, we'll uh,
Speaker 1: we'll change it up. Timmy Edmund of the Dodgers. Damn.
Speaker 1: I buried the lead. Oh, I bury the lead. We
Speaker 1: have Tommy Edmond joining the show at one o'clock. What yeah,
Speaker 1: Tommy's coming home. I buried the lead. We have to