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Speaker 1: more on the Lakers. Bill Plaski the LA Times joins
Speaker 1: the show and Bill, thank you for joining us and.
Speaker 2: It's a crazy time for the Lakers, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll tell you something right off the top. Uh,
Speaker 1: they have reconstructed the roster. I think they're giving fans hope.
Speaker 1: What do you think.
Speaker 2: I think it's huge, I think, but I think the hope,
Speaker 2: the hope is not for this year though. I got
Speaker 2: to cuture Laker fans. Mark Williams is a nice kid,
Speaker 2: but Ad dropped forty two and twenty three on the
Speaker 2: last time he played about last week. He was ripped
Speaker 2: for his effort by the Charlotte broadcast just two days ago.
Speaker 2: He's been a completely underachiever. So I worry that Rob
Speaker 2: Plinker took a big swim with this when hitting Mark Williams.
Speaker 2: But I think for the future, with Luca and gain
Speaker 2: Ad out of here, it's huge. The next step and
Speaker 2: I know you're not going to probably agree with me
Speaker 2: on this, Rodney, the next step has got to be
Speaker 2: Lebron's got to opt out after this year and give
Speaker 2: him more space and more room to more flexibility to
Speaker 2: make this Lucas team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not I'm not disagreeing with that.
Speaker 4: I think that if they're going to rebuild, they got
Speaker 4: to rebuild but I think what I've been saying is
Speaker 4: that to your point of just Laker fans, you got
Speaker 4: pumpy breakes a little bit because it's it's not gonna,
Speaker 4: first of all, happen overnight. And secondly, we got to
Speaker 4: be sure that that first of all, Luca's going to
Speaker 4: be around. You gotta sign again and is he Is
Speaker 4: he the guy that you want to build around. He's
Speaker 4: a super talented I mean super talented like we've never
Speaker 4: seen before scores mind you of the way Larry Bird
Speaker 4: used to score at will on people. So tremendous talent.
Speaker 4: But there's a reason they shift him out of Dallas. Bill,
Speaker 4: there's a reason motivates him.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking this, this is tremendous motivation for him. You
Speaker 2: could tell when the press conference on Tuesday he was
Speaker 2: very motivated. This, This is exactly what he needs to
Speaker 2: get off his butt, was the way get in shape,
Speaker 2: being the leader he can be. I think this he
Speaker 2: wants to prove the Gallas they that they're wrong. He
Speaker 2: wants to prove the whole NBA, NBA that they were wrong.
Speaker 2: This is perfect with Luca. So I'm not worried about
Speaker 2: Luke at all. I think he's gonna be just fine.
Speaker 2: He's gonna be a great leader. There was such a
Speaker 2: great move. It's it's an incredible move. It's incredible, they
Speaker 2: got it great. It's just just incredible. But again, that's
Speaker 2: not capa the last big move. I say it again,
Speaker 2: You don't.
Speaker 3: You don't think Mark Williams.
Speaker 4: You don't think Mark Williams is the guy kind of
Speaker 4: compliments him going forward.
Speaker 2: He would be if he played more, if he played harder,
Speaker 2: if you played defense. Again, AD dropped forty two and
Speaker 2: twenty three armers just last week in Charlotte. So I
Speaker 2: mean he's not He's only average, like twenty games of
Speaker 2: the year, and it's three years there in the league.
Speaker 2: He hasn't he hasn't proven to have the stamina or
Speaker 2: the physical capability. Is estallis. He almost had another AD,
Speaker 2: but a lot worse. So I worried about him. I
Speaker 2: worry about Mark Williams. I wonder about giving up Dalton connect.
Speaker 2: I love him. Can you guys love him?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that hurts. So I don't think I think
Speaker 2: Rob wanted a big band for Lebron. I think this
Speaker 2: is probably Lebron's consolation prize. Lebron Lebron can't be happy, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, he can't. He can't be thrilled. That's no
Speaker 2: longer his team, he's no w to call in the shots,
Speaker 2: he's no longer in charge for the first time in
Speaker 2: his life, right, this is Luka Dantic's team. Lebron can't
Speaker 2: be thrilled. So I think Rob is trying to tell him,
Speaker 2: we're going to compete while you're here. We're still trying
Speaker 2: to win a championship. I can't. I just don't believe
Speaker 2: listening to Lebron the other night saying he's he's here
Speaker 2: for now, he's he's committed for now. I can't believe.
Speaker 2: If they don't win this year, which they're not going to,
Speaker 2: I don't think he's still I don't think I don't
Speaker 2: see him staying around after this year.
Speaker 1: You know, we've kicked this around a little bit, and
Speaker 1: I made the same point you did. The Lakers now
Speaker 1: need to get on with it. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: it's it's remarkable that during.
Speaker 2: The season get on with it. I agree, that's a
Speaker 2: great way. That's ware way to put it.
Speaker 1: During the season, they've changed the entire complexion of the roster.
Speaker 1: Now good or bad right or wrong. During the season,
Speaker 1: they have said because of the moves they've made, like
Speaker 1: them or not, we're going this way now, we're going
Speaker 1: this way. That's done, and we're going the other way.
Speaker 1: And if that's the case with Lebron, you know, I
Speaker 1: think I think for him, and I said this to Rodney,
Speaker 1: go in another one. You've you deserve the right go
Speaker 1: you should, You've earned that. You are one of the
Speaker 1: greatest of all time. But as for the Lakers, let
Speaker 1: them get on with their business, let them go forward, now,
Speaker 1: let them move in a different direction. I'm not arguing.
Speaker 2: And I was surprised, as I was surprised. I know,
Speaker 2: Lebron's got his family here, it's businesses here, it's stuns here.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised he meant they didn't trade trade ad, he
Speaker 2: didn't askalt. I'm surprised he didn't try to get out
Speaker 2: before the trade deadline. I'm surprised he's I'm surprised he's
Speaker 2: still here, I really am. I know he's committed to
Speaker 2: LA he committed to his business and his family. He's
Speaker 2: a great family guy. Everybody loves him.
Speaker 4: But I think, I know, I think, I think, if if,
Speaker 4: if this thing didn't happen in the middle of the night.
Speaker 4: You might be right, but it happened so quickly that
Speaker 4: I don't think you know. And Lebron's not quite a
Speaker 4: knee jerk kind of guy, so I think he was.
Speaker 4: He is continuously for the rest of the season gonna
Speaker 4: weigh his options. But it was just I think the
Speaker 4: way it went down, and basically nobody knew uh the
Speaker 4: Luca ad trade, that it it hit everybody kind of
Speaker 4: by surprise that I would have been shocked if he
Speaker 4: did asked out at that point, because it just didn't
Speaker 4: give him the time. Now, if they had said and
Speaker 4: been negotiating and been talking about this for weeks, then
Speaker 4: maybe and then and then they completed it, then maybe yeah.
Speaker 4: But I wasn't shocked. I think he's weighing his option.
Speaker 4: He's got the wheels turning, and I'm sure he's gonna
Speaker 4: land someplace where they can win a title where they
Speaker 4: just need one player away something like that.
Speaker 2: Do you think Rob did it without Lebron's knowledge because
Speaker 2: he wanted Lebron to ask out? Do you think he
Speaker 2: was Do you think Polka had in his mind as
Speaker 2: I've been riding for two years, he was gonna do
Speaker 2: it an Ad and Lebron in one flop, and he
Speaker 2: thought this was the best way to do it, and
Speaker 2: Lebron didn't bite.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you something, Bill, Bill, I thought about
Speaker 1: that this morning. That actually popped in on my mind
Speaker 1: this morning. Given what he's done. I mean, they just
Speaker 1: changed the entire complexion of the team. There's a reason
Speaker 1: Lebron didn't know. There's a boom ad gone. Okay, here's Luca.
Speaker 1: That's the future. We're going forward now, good bad, that's it. Okay,
Speaker 1: but we didn't tell Lebron. And after the season, Lebron
Speaker 1: can opt out. Somebody will pay him. If he demanded
Speaker 1: a trade. The Lakers wouldn't get much back for him
Speaker 1: of the open market, because, after all, he makes too
Speaker 1: much money. And who would give somebody a lot up
Speaker 1: or a forty year old guy. He's a piece that
Speaker 1: can help you in a title now, that's what he is.
Speaker 1: Very good, very good, but not the guy to build around.
Speaker 1: And I started thinking this morning maybe this was orchestrated.
Speaker 2: Oh, I think it possibly could have been. It was
Speaker 2: so weird. At the Tuesday press conference, it's the first
Speaker 2: press conference in seven years. There for everybody who's been
Speaker 2: head the press conference that Lebron wasn't either lurking in
Speaker 2: the background, lurking in the shadows, or his name was
Speaker 2: mentioned ten times, It wasn't mentioned as brilliant. It was
Speaker 2: mentioned once and only when a question was asked about it.
Speaker 2: He wasn't brought with the press conference. This is not
Speaker 2: his team anymore, and he's got to realize that. I'm
Speaker 2: sure obviously he does, and I think that impacts to
Speaker 2: move forward.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I I think that he did not know.
Speaker 4: I'm leaning that way, And I don't know if it
Speaker 4: was trying to do a package deal or not, but
Speaker 4: you couldn't have involved him because I think they would
Speaker 4: have run the risk of him trying to blow it up.
Speaker 2: Oh exactly.
Speaker 4: You know a boy. Yeah, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: ads his boy. They're the same agent and the whole deal.
Speaker 4: If they would have, you know, had this conversation with
Speaker 4: Lebron a week before it happens, I think that it
Speaker 4: could have got ugly.
Speaker 2: Clutch Sports has never been more powerless with the Lakers
Speaker 2: than it is right now, and I have to think
Speaker 2: I think that's a good thing. I trust Jeanie knows
Speaker 2: the organization she knows, she knows what's best for the Lakers.
Speaker 2: I trust her, and I trust play will do her bidding.
Speaker 2: I just I trust him more than I trust Flut Like,
Speaker 2: the Lakers are better hands. Now they're in Laker hands,
Speaker 2: and that's huge.
Speaker 1: You know, I had this conversation with Rodney the other
Speaker 1: day and it was really weird.
Speaker 3: Bill.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you felt this way. I always
Speaker 1: thought Lebron played for the Lakers, but he didn't seem
Speaker 1: like he was really a Laker.
Speaker 2: Now agree, all right?
Speaker 1: After this trade, Now Lebron is a Laker. It's not
Speaker 1: the Lakers and Lebron, it's it's Lebron is on the Lakers.
Speaker 1: Does that make sense?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes it make total sense. He's not separate,
Speaker 2: He's just He's just a piece that had to learn
Speaker 2: learn how to play with Luca? Did you learn how
Speaker 2: to play with Mark?
Speaker 3: Luca? Laker? Is Luca a Laker?
Speaker 2: Lucas so unhappy? Lucas Stop Luca. Luca. Luca's not happy
Speaker 2: to be here. You gotta know that, right. You can
Speaker 2: tell he's not through. He doesn't want to be here.
Speaker 4: Definitely not happy to be here. He's definitely not happy
Speaker 4: to be there. That's what I'm saying. It may not,
Speaker 4: it may not be.
Speaker 3: This summer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's really he's been humiliated publicly, naturally humiliated, and
Speaker 2: he's got to figure that out. And I think it's good.
Speaker 2: I think I'm glad. I wrote that he brings a
Speaker 2: lot of bad baggage. Was well, that's good because you
Speaker 2: want a superstar motivated, you want a superstar who wants
Speaker 2: to prove somebody wrong. And he's got a hell a
Speaker 2: lot of people to prove wrong right now. And that's
Speaker 2: a good thing.
Speaker 4: All right, that's a good thing, Bill. Or it could
Speaker 4: be a bad thing. You know, it could go either way.
Speaker 4: It's not gonna be. It's not gonna be in the middle.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be he goes off because he's done. He
Speaker 4: does have that dog in him that he's got. He
Speaker 4: got a tremendous amount of fire in him, and he
Speaker 4: takes nothing from nobody. But also it could be one
Speaker 4: of those just a disaster where he's in the tank
Speaker 4: and he's pissed off and he's mad about the situation
Speaker 4: and it doesn't end well. I don't think it's gonna
Speaker 4: be average. I think it's one way or the other.
Speaker 2: I can't take that. I suffered through the Lakers so
Speaker 2: much the last few years. I can't take that. Don't
Speaker 2: say that, Ronnie, Just don't say that.
Speaker 3: I'm not even it's not gonna be a middle of
Speaker 3: the road.
Speaker 4: It's kind of pretty good. It's average, or it's better
Speaker 4: above average. I think it's either going to be great
Speaker 4: or it's going to be one of those. Man, I
Speaker 4: don't know about this.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna choose to think it's gonna be great
Speaker 2: because I'm so sick of Watsover Lakers and worried about
Speaker 2: him and ripping them and writing is your trade a
Speaker 2: D and right is your trade? Lebron and I like
Speaker 2: to write one time and they ought to keep somebody
Speaker 2: And I don't think I've written that in a while.
Speaker 2: So I hope hopefully this works out. Because Laker fans
Speaker 2: are so fit up, there's so they so want a
Speaker 2: chance in the championship again. I think they have one now,
Speaker 2: but it's not gonna be this year. Warning them it's
Speaker 2: not gonna be the Shore, They're not gonna beat up
Speaker 2: for the city. They're not gonna be Denver, They're not
Speaker 2: gonna be Houston. They're not gonna They're not gonna win
Speaker 2: it this year, but they got a chance in the future.
Speaker 2: And that's allybody can ask for.
Speaker 3: Agreed. All right, Bill, thanks for jumping on. We appreciate
Speaker 3: it today.
Speaker 2: Thank you, you got great. Thanks for having me see you.
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Speaker 1: the enemy, let's talk about it.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, come on, Freddy sing this with me?
Speaker 4: Yeah, righty beat fred Rogan throw back thirty y'all count
Speaker 4: it down, Count it down to Super Bowl Sunday. It's
Speaker 4: almost here. Yeah, your goal got Freddy? Who you got?
Speaker 4: You're going? I am going. I am going down there.
Speaker 4: And then you know, it was kind of up in
Speaker 4: the air whether I was going to go or not.
Speaker 3: And then.
Speaker 4: The right folks called with the right the right dollar
Speaker 4: them out, Freddie, and I am on a plane, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean.
Speaker 3: So I'm going down.
Speaker 4: There to hang out a few days and then uh, yeah,
Speaker 4: actually gonna gonna actually go to the game too.
Speaker 3: So New Orleans is a great town.
Speaker 4: I don't know, I've been watching you know, people down there,
Speaker 4: shows going on down there. It is crazy crowded down
Speaker 4: there now, I mean people go in that usually get
Speaker 4: to town now today Thursday usually the day most folks
Speaker 4: come to town in the Super Bowl week. But man,
Speaker 4: it's New Orleans is uh it's a great town. I'm
Speaker 4: just hoping that uh no, craziness goes off there in
Speaker 4: uh in New Orleans like it did during a college
Speaker 4: football playoffs.
Speaker 1: There are exactly three cities in America, three cities that
Speaker 1: if you survive them, you're lucky. There are three cities
Speaker 1: in this country. If you go to these cities for
Speaker 1: longer than a day, two days, and you survive, you're lucky.
Speaker 1: You come out alive, You've done a good job. You've
Speaker 1: made it. Those cities are New Orleans. If you go
Speaker 1: to New Orleans and you get out of there, you've
Speaker 1: done a good job. Because that is a party twenty
Speaker 1: four to seven.
Speaker 3: Yes it is.
Speaker 1: And you can find trouble wherever you want.
Speaker 3: At every turn, Absolutely you can.
Speaker 1: The food is incredible, there's no shortage of drinks. So
Speaker 1: if you've got to New Orleans and we talked to
Speaker 1: you Monday and you're okay, congratulations, you made.
Speaker 3: It, I'm going.
Speaker 4: I'm going and coming back and going straight to the
Speaker 4: doctor Fred our guy, because the food I'm about to eat.
Speaker 3: I don't drink, but food I'm about to eat.
Speaker 4: Is going to make my blood pressure just boil over, Fred,
Speaker 4: because it's everything's fried, dried and laid to the side.
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna kill it though, I'm gonna kill that
Speaker 4: in New Orleans food.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: So anyway, tell our guy hello. I will when you
Speaker 1: see him on Monday. Good New Orleans is one of
Speaker 1: the cities. Number two.
Speaker 3: What's the other city here? There's a total of three.
Speaker 1: Now I'll give you another city, Nashville. If you go
Speaker 1: to Nashville and get out of there, okay, you've done
Speaker 1: a terrific job. Nashville is New Orleans. Not with that food,
Speaker 1: but Nashville nine in the morning, bars are open, live
Speaker 1: music's being played, and you can just start drinking at
Speaker 1: nine am. I'm sure some places don't even close. You
Speaker 1: walk down the street and it's like you're on Bourbon Street.
Speaker 1: You are, you are in it. So if you go
Speaker 1: to Nashville and you make it out of there, congratulations,
Speaker 1: you've done it. And lastly on the list, in no
Speaker 1: specific order, of course, is Vegas. If you spend more
Speaker 1: than a day or two in Vegas and get out
Speaker 1: of there, okay, then you again have accomplished something incredibly
Speaker 1: wonderful because those are three cities that are designed for
Speaker 1: you to lose your mind. Those are three cities designed
Speaker 1: for anything goes whenever you want it to go. Those
Speaker 1: are the three cities in this country. Now I might
Speaker 1: be missing so and people that have traveled perhaps no more.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure Pullman, Washington is very much like that.
Speaker 1: Oh Pullman is crazy this time of year, friend, yeah, Pullman.
Speaker 3: Sure.
Speaker 4: You know what else is crazy this time of the year,
Speaker 4: This this weekend that coincides with football.
Speaker 3: What in the Super Bowl is Phoenix, Arizona. Phoenix Arizona.
Speaker 3: Waste is the Waste Management Open. If you have not
Speaker 3: been to the Waste Management Open on the PGA tour,
Speaker 3: you're missing out on one of the craziest best events
Speaker 3: there is.
Speaker 5: Now, didn't they exact think we talked about this last
Speaker 5: year guys too, like they have to change a bunch
Speaker 5: of rules because they got so rowdy last year. People
Speaker 5: were like throwing beers at players and it was a
Speaker 5: whole thing. So they like, I know, it's kind of
Speaker 5: like a free form and you can heckle the players
Speaker 5: and all that. There's like a designated alcohol area or something.
Speaker 5: Now you can't just walk around the course drinking and
Speaker 5: start throwing beers at people because it's got way to
Speaker 5: out of hand.
Speaker 1: Last year, people got drunk and were rolling down hills. Right,
Speaker 1: I think somebody ended up in the sandtrap. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the best. And see, that's the way I think
Speaker 1: golf needs to be.
Speaker 6: What I was gonna say, fresh shouldn't every tournament be
Speaker 6: that way?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: They really should.
Speaker 6: Change the rules for everything else and make them like that.
Speaker 1: Right, And I actually brought that up to some people
Speaker 1: at one point and they said, you're insane. I don't
Speaker 1: think I'm insane. Granted, you probably don't want anybody yelling
Speaker 1: and during your back swing or when you're putting.
Speaker 3: Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Every other
Speaker 3: sports has crowd noying, you got to deal with it.
Speaker 3: Why not have it in golf?
Speaker 4: I think that should and at the very least maybe
Speaker 4: like every other tournament is like that where you can
Speaker 4: you can yell and scream. But but I think it's
Speaker 4: certain tournament they have more like the Phoenix Open. Have
Speaker 4: more tournaments like that that. I'm certainly all the you know,
Speaker 4: most of the players would want to show up. You
Speaker 4: wouldn't have You wouldn't have a problem getting those guys
Speaker 4: to show up to those tournaments. But yeah, I think
Speaker 4: I think the golf's to revisit that whether you crowd
Speaker 4: can have noise or should have noise.
Speaker 5: How could an NBA player in Game seven of the
Speaker 5: NBA Finals stand at the free throw line with people
Speaker 5: screaming and throwing thundersticks and all sorts of stuff, God forbid,
Speaker 5: at the at the thirteenth hold, somebody yells something while
Speaker 5: someone's in their backswing.
Speaker 6: This just doesn't make sense to me.
Speaker 1: No, I understand, I understand. I think the traditionalists would
Speaker 1: have a problem with it. But I love you, you
Speaker 1: know me. I love anything that's new and different. I
Speaker 1: think it should be a free for all. I think
Speaker 1: tennis should be the same way. I think people should
Speaker 1: absolutely be able to lose their mind. I think it
Speaker 1: should turn into the World Baseball Classic. Oh, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think wimbled I think the US should be the World
Speaker 1: Baseball Classic. People bringing drums and chanting.
Speaker 3: Singing and yelling and screaming the whole nine innings. It's
Speaker 3: been great.
Speaker 1: That's what we need more of. That would see. That
Speaker 1: would address a number of issues with golf, and it
Speaker 1: would address a number of issues with tennis. Both sports
Speaker 1: are trying to figure out ways to attract a bigger
Speaker 1: audience now or at the very least hold on to
Speaker 1: what they have, and the feeling is are just too
Speaker 1: many events period, too many golf tournaments where the top
Speaker 1: players don't play. Same thing with the NBA, same thing
Speaker 1: in everything. When you have a lot of something, it
Speaker 1: doesn't create a scarcity. The NFL is perfect because there
Speaker 1: are only so many games. But when you're playing one
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty two games in baseball, unless you're the
Speaker 1: Dodgers and you want them to play three hundred, but
Speaker 1: that's probably too many games. In the NBA, it's way
Speaker 1: too many games. Probably in hockey it's way too many games.
Speaker 1: You just don't have that sense of urgency and importance
Speaker 1: when there are that many games. Now, it can't change.
Speaker 1: We know that because of television and media rites deals.
Speaker 1: But in golf they're talking about reducing the number of
Speaker 1: tournaments and they're saying live in the PGA, it's convoluting everything.
Speaker 3: Tennis.
Speaker 1: They just think there are too many tournaments, too many,
Speaker 1: so if you have fewer, they mean more. But I
Speaker 1: think if you had the same number and treated everything
Speaker 1: like the waste Management Open, it'd be great.
Speaker 3: Hey, listen, you didn't get any argument from me. I
Speaker 3: think it's great.
Speaker 4: I love that Phoenix opened, and to a certain extent,
Speaker 4: I think the players do.
Speaker 3: You're right here there are, Fred.
Speaker 4: There's going to be those traditionalists, those older cats that no,
Speaker 4: please be quiet. What are they gonna do with all
Speaker 4: the retired men and women that walk around the golf
Speaker 4: course with the quiet signs?
Speaker 3: What are gonna do with them? Fred?
Speaker 1: They'd have a heart attack. You know what, I think
Speaker 1: everybody should be given an air worn. When somebody is
Speaker 1: running feet out right to the left to win the tournament,
Speaker 1: hit the air horn.
Speaker 6: It'd be pretty funny, but it'd be pretty messed up too.
Speaker 3: I don't know if they everybody.
Speaker 4: You know, every player's got their heckling crowd that follows
Speaker 4: them around with their own little shirts and stuff like that,
Speaker 4: like you said, air horns and all that, and you
Speaker 4: know it's it's it's a close match, and you tell
Speaker 4: your your your army or your crew member.
Speaker 3: Palmer had the Arnie's army, and then you just follow
Speaker 3: him around.
Speaker 4: You tell that Crey, hey, uh, Roy, Michaelroy's he's uh,
Speaker 4: he's only one stroke behind me. Man, he's on sixteen
Speaker 4: right now, Go heckle him. Go, And you send a
Speaker 4: crew over there just to heckle Rory till he can
Speaker 4: miss a shot.
Speaker 3: A man.
Speaker 5: I love it that Rory makes it and he turns
Speaker 5: around and gives him like the you know, the crotch
Speaker 5: chop or something like.
Speaker 6: You tell me that wouldn't be entertaining.
Speaker 1: That'd be great, It would be the best. Can I
Speaker 1: just tell you something? So if you've been to a
Speaker 1: golf tournament, I'll make this real quick, you know, and
Speaker 1: you have to stay along the ropes and you can't
Speaker 1: go inside the ropes, right. So recently I went to
Speaker 1: a golf tournament and it was the American Express Tournament
Speaker 1: out in Lakingto. So I'm walking around and I don't
Speaker 1: really know where I'm at because this tournament is on
Speaker 1: PGA West and there are homes surrounding it everywhere, So
Speaker 1: if you're in one of the houses, you just start
Speaker 1: walking around.
Speaker 3: You don't even have to pay.
Speaker 1: So I'm walking around. All of a sudden, I'm standing
Speaker 1: in a place and I'm looking around and there's nobody
Speaker 1: near me. I am right next to the green. I'm
Speaker 1: like a caddy.
Speaker 3: Oh god.
Speaker 1: So people are now looking at me like what are
Speaker 1: you doing there? And of course I take the position
Speaker 1: I should be here, so I just kind of look
Speaker 1: them off. Do you know I actually walked in a
Speaker 1: pairing of golfers for like two holes like.
Speaker 3: I was in.
Speaker 4: This is the same you wandering into a locker room, Freddie. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you can't help yourself. But once I started, I here's
Speaker 4: the problem. Once I started, I didn't know how to
Speaker 4: get out. You know, when you're in, if you run out,
Speaker 4: you look guilty. So if you stay in, it.
Speaker 3: Looks like walking with the golfers in the in the
Speaker 3: in the pairing. Yeah, just walking with a group of
Speaker 3: two or three or four guys. It was tight. You
Speaker 3: were just walking with them.
Speaker 4: Did you have a glove in your back pocket just
Speaker 4: to act like you could play the part a little bit?
Speaker 3: No, but I can't.
Speaker 1: But I didn't make eye contact with anybody and just
Speaker 1: kind of kept my head down because a minute somebody
Speaker 1: made eye contact with me, they go, what are you doing?
Speaker 4: So I just acted like I belong there. It was
Speaker 4: this guy walking with us. He didn't have a he
Speaker 4: didn't have a golf bag. Where's his clubs?
Speaker 1: They must have thought I was someone's agent or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know what they talked about. I just kept moving,
Speaker 1: and then when I could conveniently back out, I did.
Speaker 4: Only you would find yourself behind the ropes walking down
Speaker 4: the street and uh, walking down the f away with
Speaker 4: two actual players.
Speaker 1: I just I became confused and that I didn't want
Speaker 1: to look guilty. All right, when we come back, Do
Speaker 1: you help the enemy? Let's do it now? Yeah? Is
Speaker 1: you Darvash the enemy? We'll try to figure that out.
Speaker 1: All you want to know why you can't always believe
Speaker 1: what you hear? You know, you're always trying to be manipulated.
Speaker 1: There's an art form to manipulating people, getting them to
Speaker 1: believe what you want them to believe. And there are
Speaker 1: some people that are really really good at it. They
Speaker 1: are pros at putting out a message and trying to
Speaker 1: get you to buy it. Now, let's go back to
Speaker 1: the Roki Sazaki situation. As the countdown was occurring and
Speaker 1: he was going to make a decision about what Klubby
Speaker 1: was going to sign with. What was one of the
Speaker 1: major arguments, Well, one of them was he's going to
Speaker 1: pick the Podres. Now, if we really thought about it,
Speaker 1: that wasn't going to happen. For all the reasons why
Speaker 1: it didn't happen, Given everything he said and what he wanted,
Speaker 1: there was one place to go, and it was the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: But oh, it could be the Padres. You know what
Speaker 1: could happen. And oftentimes when that occurs, it's an agent
Speaker 1: or somebody or a strategist trying to plant information to
Speaker 1: try to sway people and at times even sway those
Speaker 1: who are making the decisions. So one of the big
Speaker 1: reasons was he wanted to work with you Darvish. He
Speaker 1: admired him, He was his mentor, and you Darvish was
Speaker 1: the guy that would make the difference. You Darvish was
Speaker 1: the individual that Sazaki would be basically bonded with, and
Speaker 1: Darvish would help him, and that's why he would pick
Speaker 1: the Padres, which of course was not true, because then
Speaker 1: he would have signed a contract with you, Darvish and
Speaker 1: not the Padres. Anyway, to show you what kind of
Speaker 1: person Darvish is, to show you why initially those reports
Speaker 1: were so fake. Darvis has now come out and said, look,
Speaker 1: I know that he signed with the Dodgers. I understand that,
Speaker 1: but there are things bigger than who he signed with.
Speaker 1: And that being the case, I am saying now that
Speaker 1: I am still willing to help him even though he
Speaker 1: plays for the Dodgers. I will still be there for him.
Speaker 1: I will mentor him, I will offer him advice, I
Speaker 1: will take his calls. It would be as if he
Speaker 1: was on the team with me. But because he's not
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that I'm throwing him kicking him to the curb.
Speaker 1: I'm there for him. That is classy, that is big time.
Speaker 1: He didn't need to go play for the Padres to
Speaker 1: be near you, Darvish, because you Darvish is a quality guy,
Speaker 1: and said, I'll still help him. You know, if I'm
Speaker 1: his mentor, then I will be there for him. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm sure the two of them are not going to
Speaker 1: have a conversation before they play the Dodgers, no matter
Speaker 1: when they speak. I'm sure it's not going to be okay, rookie,
Speaker 1: you're pitching tomorrow night against us, let me give you
Speaker 1: some tips. That's not going to happen. But Darvish is older,
Speaker 1: he's been around, and he takes his relationship with Sazaki
Speaker 1: very seriously. Darvish thought the Padres, by the way, did
Speaker 1: a great job in their presentation to try to get
Speaker 1: him to go to San Diego. And I'm sure they did.
Speaker 1: We know the Blue Jays did a magnificent job in
Speaker 1: their presentation. It didn't matter. He was always coming to
Speaker 1: the Dodgers for all the reasons he listed. I want
Speaker 1: to be the best I can be. I want to
Speaker 1: be in a place where they'll make me better. I
Speaker 1: want to be in a place where I'll have a
Speaker 1: chance to win all the time. Well, there was no
Speaker 1: other place. I mean, certainly the Padres don't have the
Speaker 1: analytics and the infrastructure of the Dodgers, and honestly, we
Speaker 1: don't know what the Blue Jays have, but we can
Speaker 1: only assume it's not the Dodgers. But really, as Sazaki
Speaker 1: goes through his rookie year, and there's so much more
Speaker 1: to it than a twenty three year old kid going
Speaker 1: out to the mound every sixth day, learning to travel,
Speaker 1: understanding what it's like to be a major leaguer, taking
Speaker 1: care of yourself, all of those things you Darvish will
Speaker 1: be there for him. It's really a very very classy gesture.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean we're still not going to beat the tar
Speaker 1: out of the Padres, but still it really was a
Speaker 1: very classy gesture. All right, Ronnie, thank you for a
Speaker 1: great day. Really appreciate it. Kevin, good work as well. Rodney.
Speaker 1: Safe flight to New Orleans and we'll all talk tomorrow.