Speaker 1: Then we continue on Fred Rogan, Jonas Knox for Rodney
Speaker 1: on a five seventy LA Sports. Later this hour we
Speaker 1: will welcome in the Man, the Met, the Legend, Vic,
Speaker 1: What the day we Haiku and uh, probably a sumo
Speaker 1: update Jonas.
Speaker 2: I mean, hopefully you're a little kinder to him that
Speaker 2: you have been this week.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about here? What do you mean?
Speaker 2: I just feel like, you know, he's got a he's
Speaker 2: got sort of a pace that he likes to keep
Speaker 2: when it comes to Sumo and Dodger's update and love
Speaker 2: and yesterday you wouldn't even let him get through the
Speaker 2: intros before you shut him down and insulted him. And
Speaker 2: it's like, I don't know if it had something to
Speaker 2: do with the callers who were asking how we were doing,
Speaker 2: because apparently that's an issue, So I don't know, It's
Speaker 2: just it's kind of a mixed bag what we've gotten
Speaker 2: with you here today so or this week. So hopefully
Speaker 2: you'll be a little nicer to him when.
Speaker 1: You come to well, we'll see, he'll be coming up
Speaker 1: later on in the hour. Now, let's walk him on
Speaker 1: from the La Times our buddy Dylan Hernandez, Dylan how
Speaker 1: are you today.
Speaker 3: I'm doing great.
Speaker 1: How are you guys doing doing well? We'll start with
Speaker 1: a question Jonas proposes, after watching the CUB series, do
Speaker 1: you feel differently about the Dodgers' chances?
Speaker 3: I do, just because of how good Yamamoto look, you know,
Speaker 3: he and I know it was just four innings, you know,
Speaker 3: that said, you know, and it was even it wasn't
Speaker 3: even just about the results. Just kind of to me,
Speaker 3: he just had a different kind of mound presence about him.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I think a lot of times when guys come from Japan,
Speaker 3: you know, they're kind of cognizant of the fact that like, hey,
Speaker 3: like I'm you know, I'm stepping up to like a
Speaker 3: superior level of competition. Let me prove that I can
Speaker 3: kind of hang. He really kind of came out with
Speaker 3: some swagger, kind of like, hey, you know what these
Speaker 3: guys have to hit me? Here it is, you know,
Speaker 3: and he probably felt a little bit backed into a corner,
Speaker 3: you know, And I just thought, for the first time
Speaker 3: this year, you kind of at least had the makings
Speaker 3: of a guy who could be like a legitimate number one,
Speaker 3: you know. And I understand, like, look, his command's not
Speaker 3: going to be like that great every single time. I
Speaker 3: mean he was really talking about like dotty, you know,
Speaker 3: the fastball, but he was just you know, that kind
Speaker 3: of makes me think, Okay, if they can keep now
Speaker 3: these a big IF's right, if they can keep them healthy,
Speaker 3: you know, kind of keep them, make sure he makes
Speaker 3: the next three, you know, his next three schedule starts
Speaker 3: in the regular season, get them stretched out. Now you
Speaker 3: start to kind of think, like, man, they might really
Speaker 3: have a chance here, you know, because Flarity's pitched well,
Speaker 3: you know, theoretically, you know, glass Now could figure into
Speaker 3: the mix or you know, whether it's Kershaw or somebody else,
Speaker 3: you know that you can kind of fill in the
Speaker 3: back end of the rotation. But you know what, really,
Speaker 3: what they've kind of been lacking in recent years is
Speaker 3: that clear cut number one. And to me again for
Speaker 3: the first time this year, I saw Yamamoto and I
Speaker 3: kind of thought, like, this is somebody who could be.
Speaker 2: That guy and so on the subject of the rotation,
Speaker 2: if it was your wish, how would that rotation look
Speaker 2: like heading into the postseason?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, ideally glass Now comes back
Speaker 3: and you know it's uh, You've got Yama Moto flarity
Speaker 3: Glass now in some order for that division series. You know,
Speaker 3: you're gonna need a fourth guy in the next round.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm not sure kind of where Buehler is
Speaker 3: right now. It's kind of that fourth spot. You know.
Speaker 3: If you've kind of gone with the Dodger's history, they've
Speaker 3: kind of liked to do you know, or maybe not
Speaker 3: like to, but they've you know, resorted to kind of
Speaker 3: bullpen type games in certain situations. You know, I am
Speaker 3: kind of more optimistic, I think, probably than most people
Speaker 3: are on the Clayton Curge Shop. Maybe I've just seen
Speaker 3: him too long, but you know, kind of from what
Speaker 3: I hear, right, this isn't a shoulder issue, this isn't
Speaker 3: a back issue. It's really just kind of about the toe.
Speaker 3: And you know, he spoke to reporters a couple of
Speaker 3: days ago and talked about how, you know, I guess
Speaker 3: one of the cleats on his right was like right
Speaker 3: under that toe, and so sketchers is working to get
Speaker 3: them kind of like a new set where right that
Speaker 3: cleat has moved, and I know they've kind of done
Speaker 3: different things with orthotics, and so you know, if he
Speaker 3: can go and you know, right, you don't need him
Speaker 3: to be vintage Clayton. You're right, you don't need seven
Speaker 3: innings from him. If you can get a good four
Speaker 3: or five innings out of him in a start, you know,
Speaker 3: I think that's like a pretty decent player rotation there.
Speaker 3: And you know, really, again, the big guys are what matter,
Speaker 3: right Yamamoto Glass, Now, I think you need at least
Speaker 3: one of those guys. And again i'd be I'm just
Speaker 3: kind of really optimistic on how that looked like based
Speaker 3: on how good Yamamoto Ion looked in his comeback start.
Speaker 2: I mean, I just I also wonder we were thrown
Speaker 2: around the idea of what does the closer situation look like?
Speaker 2: And we threw out Kope's name yesterday and then he
Speaker 2: goes out last night and could not find the strike zone.
Speaker 2: You could argue the Cubs probably bailed him out on
Speaker 2: the base pass with with you know, a couple of
Speaker 2: a couple of decisions there. But at this point, who
Speaker 2: do you trust to close out games? If if you've
Speaker 2: figured out the rotation, who do you trust on that
Speaker 2: back end? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean he is definitely their guy right now, right
Speaker 3: and he you know, he's going to be pitching to
Speaker 3: you know, kind of that heart of that order laden games, right,
Speaker 3: and so if it's you know, if the three four
Speaker 3: five hitters on the opposing team come up in the
Speaker 3: eighth inning, he'll pitch the eighth. If they're in the
Speaker 3: ninth inning, you'll kissed the ninth. But yeah, he's going
Speaker 3: to be kind of their their glue there, right, And
Speaker 3: so you know, I think you're kind of hoping at
Speaker 3: this point, you know, there are a couple of weeks
Speaker 3: left right in terms of time, maybe they can kind
Speaker 3: of get Grattarol going again. You know, he just came back,
Speaker 3: so uh but yeah, that is kind of a point
Speaker 3: of concern.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: Now, I do think they have like these you know,
Speaker 3: I don't want to call them like surplus, but you
Speaker 3: kind of have like these extra starter types.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure, you know, Bobby Miller is necessarily right,
Speaker 3: I don't think he's going to fit into their rotation plans.
Speaker 3: Walker Buehler. Maybe you run them out there, you know,
Speaker 3: in the next couple of weeks in a relief role
Speaker 3: and just kind of tell especially Bobby Miller, right, he's
Speaker 3: got this ridiculous arm. Just tell him, hey, just go
Speaker 3: out there, just go throw as hard as you can
Speaker 3: for that one inning. You know, all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: those hundreds could start becoming right one, those threes and stuff,
Speaker 3: and that that could change things.
Speaker 1: A little bit.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that is kind of a point of concern.
Speaker 3: But yeah, Kobak's definitely their guy back there.
Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned Bobby Miller. I think he's one bad
Speaker 1: start away from not making a playoff roster.
Speaker 3: Dylan, Oh yeah no, And at this point, I mean
Speaker 3: he's probably not even no there, right, you know, but again,
Speaker 3: like the I do, I have kind of been on
Speaker 3: this thing, you know, I know that there have been
Speaker 3: a lot of hopes that the organization have pinned on
Speaker 3: Bobby Miller. I you know, I think Fred, you and
Speaker 3: I spoke at like the trade deadline. Right, to me,
Speaker 3: that would have been a type of guy to trade
Speaker 3: because he's got this really high ceiling. I do kind
Speaker 3: of view his future probably more at this point as
Speaker 3: a reliever, you know, where you kind of don't really
Speaker 3: have to because again, the arm talent is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: That's as good un arm as I think we've seen
Speaker 3: here maybe ever. Right, I mean it's it's an easy hundred,
Speaker 3: you know, and you take a guy like that and
Speaker 3: you just tell him, hey, just forget about trying to
Speaker 3: get to the fIF sisinning. Just go out there one inning,
Speaker 3: throw as hard as you can. You know, that could
Speaker 3: add a few miles to the fastball and all of
Speaker 3: a sudden you have yourself a star closer. So that
Speaker 3: is something I would at least look into if I
Speaker 3: were the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: If the bats go cold, and I'm not saying cold
Speaker 2: as in last year one for twenty eight or whatever
Speaker 2: the numbers were, do you trust this pitching staff to
Speaker 2: be able to win them games? Like, do they have
Speaker 2: a guy that you go, well, that's a shutdown starter
Speaker 2: that even if the offense isn't there, they're going to
Speaker 2: keep them in games throughout.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So again, you know, I think I think Yamamoto
Speaker 3: is the guy, you know, and I'm basing this off
Speaker 3: beforeigning comeback start right, right, so you know, but to me,
Speaker 3: he kind of showed signs of that, and I do think,
Speaker 3: you know, again, this is a guy that they were
Speaker 3: describing when they signed him, right, and we just haven't
Speaker 3: seen this at all, Right, whether it was you know,
Speaker 3: early in the right early in the season. You know,
Speaker 3: I think you're right he picked a great game in
Speaker 3: Yankees Stadium that ultimately probably led to him getting injured.
Speaker 3: You know, he threw a bunch of you know, that's
Speaker 3: say he didn't really look himself in terms of like
Speaker 3: he added a slider that you know, is a pitch
Speaker 3: that he tried to avoid throwing in Japan because he
Speaker 3: felt like, you know, it had hurt his arm. You know,
Speaker 3: his velocity was kind of up. You know, what I
Speaker 3: really liked about this last start was obviously you know
Speaker 3: he was he was obviously nervous and you know, probably
Speaker 3: juwic stup in those first couple of innings you know
Speaker 3: where we saw the night seven ninety eight. What I
Speaker 3: thought was great was that when the velocity kind of
Speaker 3: came down a little bit more to normal levels when
Speaker 3: he's throwing ninety five, he was still getting strikes with
Speaker 3: that pitch, right, he was still getting strikeouts with that
Speaker 3: off that fastball. And so you know, to me, he
Speaker 3: can be that guy. But yeah, you're right, you know,
Speaker 3: I think you're gonna want some kind of offense, you
Speaker 3: know from obviously if you don't score, that's going to
Speaker 3: be a problem. You know, what I do think is
Speaker 3: kind of great about the lineup right now is just
Speaker 3: it's you've got the three MVPs at the top and
Speaker 3: then you know, and that's why Paskar Hernandez coming back.
Speaker 3: It's so important because now all of a sudden, that
Speaker 3: ads length right and the fact that you know, in
Speaker 3: recent games, you know, you've had like you know, there's
Speaker 3: been games like months he's been hitting like seventh, which
Speaker 3: is just ridiculous, you know, and so that kind of
Speaker 3: gives you threats kind of all the way up and down. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, this is going to be a challenge, you know,
Speaker 3: because the one thing is is that there they the
Speaker 3: Dodgers are used to getting the buy you know, in
Speaker 3: the first round. Obviously you take that every single time.
Speaker 3: The challenge is, you know, I don't think that you know,
Speaker 3: not playing in that wildcard round, that doesn't affect the
Speaker 3: pitching as much as it does the hitting. You know,
Speaker 3: and they obviously tried to do things last year in
Speaker 3: terms of kind of playing stem games to make sure
Speaker 3: the bets stayed warm.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: Now this time I kind of think that just by
Speaker 3: the sheer volume of just kind of high end, you
Speaker 3: know hitters that they have that one of those guys
Speaker 3: at least going to kind of have to hit, and
Speaker 3: you know they always talk about hitting beings and tageous,
Speaker 3: so you know, maybe it might be a tawny one day,
Speaker 3: Coscar Hernandez the next. I mean, you still have Freeman
Speaker 3: events in there, you know, with Will Smith can kind
Speaker 3: of find it again. Obviously that gives you more length,
Speaker 3: you know, more options even there. So you know, I
Speaker 3: just kind of I really find it hard that this
Speaker 3: offense is going to be shut down completely the way
Speaker 3: it was last year.
Speaker 2: So in laying all that out, because there's so many
Speaker 2: unknowns and so many question marks, a lot of which
Speaker 2: I don't think that we anticipated them having at this
Speaker 2: point in the season, with the postseason right around the corner.
Speaker 2: Like how much pressure is there on Dave Roberts going
Speaker 2: into this year. I mean there's always pressure because he's
Speaker 2: the Dodgers manager. But Fred and I were talking about
Speaker 2: and I think he's done a hell of a job.
Speaker 2: But I wonder from people you talk to, is there
Speaker 2: if they don't get it done this year, he's got
Speaker 2: to go. Mentality with Dave Roberts.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's necessarily he has to go, you know,
Speaker 3: I don't think it's going to be, you know, if
Speaker 3: it doesn't work out, I don't you know, for him here.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's going to be one of those
Speaker 3: cases of well, you know, they lost because of Dave Roberts, right.
Speaker 3: I think it'll probably move be more or one of
Speaker 3: those things of, hey, he's kind of been around a while,
Speaker 3: you know, it just hasn't worked out for whatever reason.
Speaker 3: And you know, now again I would argue a lot
Speaker 3: of this is kind of a Rochester construction issue. But
Speaker 3: you know, just because he's been here so long, it
Speaker 3: kind of becomes one of these things, well, let's just
Speaker 3: bring in a new voice to kind of see how
Speaker 3: it works, right, And you know part of this there
Speaker 3: is a kind of a you know, business element to
Speaker 3: this too, right where I do think fans, you know,
Speaker 3: just that kind of year after year after you know,
Speaker 3: things kind of not working out, you know, uh, they
Speaker 3: kind of want change just for the sake of change.
Speaker 3: I don't think that's like a good way to go
Speaker 3: about things. And again I would argue, you know, this year,
Speaker 3: I mean when you think about all the things that
Speaker 3: have kind of gone wrong, right, and to me, this
Speaker 3: season is actually a lot of ways a reason why
Speaker 3: you do keep Dave Roberts around is I mean, everything
Speaker 3: that could go wrong almost has gone wrong at some point,
Speaker 3: and the fact that they're still in first place, at
Speaker 3: the fact that they still have a five game lead,
Speaker 3: the fact that it feels like business as usual even
Speaker 3: though it hasn't been at all. I do really think
Speaker 3: it's kind of a testament to kind of the environment
Speaker 3: that Dave Roberts has created and the expectations that he's
Speaker 3: kind of laid out for the team, you know. And
Speaker 3: I think ultimately, you know, again, you kind of you
Speaker 3: have these out account owners, right and like you know,
Speaker 3: where Mark Walter is obviously based in Chicago, He's not
Speaker 3: here every day, you know. And I think if you're
Speaker 3: the front office at this point, right, I mean, look,
Speaker 3: you let go of the manager, you're going to be next.
Speaker 3: I'm not really sure you're going to, you know, be
Speaker 3: rushing to bring the action any closer to you at
Speaker 3: this point. So I expect him to be back regardless
Speaker 3: of how this plays out. But yeah, you know, I
Speaker 3: think if it does happen, it'll be more just because
Speaker 3: he's been around so long and it's just like, Okay,
Speaker 3: let's bring in a new voice.
Speaker 1: Dylan Rnandez was so with the trade deadline, Flaherty comes in,
Speaker 1: Kopec comes in. I said, Uh, okay, that's great. Maybe
Speaker 1: the guy, the guy you really wanted was Tommy Edmund
Speaker 1: And uh it was kind of like when Trade Turner
Speaker 1: and Max Scherzer came here. Everybody was still over Max
Speaker 1: Shr's and I said, wait a minute, Trey Turner can play,
Speaker 1: all right. I think it's the same with Tommy Edmund.
Speaker 1: I think this is a guy, Dylan, that the Dodgers
Speaker 1: are going to want to keep around for years. Am
Speaker 1: I crazy?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: I don't think so, you know, because this is a
Speaker 3: guy that they have had their their eye on for
Speaker 3: a while, right, And this is the type of guy
Speaker 3: I think that, you know, one of the reasons this
Speaker 3: organization has been successful. It's kind of finding that type
Speaker 3: of guy, right. I mean, you know, you're talking about
Speaker 3: the month season. You know, I know Chris Taylor hasn't
Speaker 3: been great this year, but you know, they got it
Speaker 3: a lot out of Chris Taylor given where he came from,
Speaker 3: you know. And Edmund, I think it's like one of
Speaker 3: those guys they identified him, right, This was a guy
Speaker 3: that they wanted over the winter just couldn't get him.
Speaker 3: And yeah, he's got some pop in his bad right.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: The other day they you know, Roberts bad at him
Speaker 3: clean up get a couple of home runs, you know,
Speaker 3: obviously defensively, he cleans up a lot of things for them,
Speaker 3: you know. And I think, you know, that's kind of
Speaker 3: another kind of aspect here, right, I mean, it was
Speaker 3: highlighted the other night when you know, they butchered a
Speaker 3: bunch of plays, right what it was that, you know,
Speaker 3: two nights ago, you know. But yeah, I think, you know,
Speaker 3: I totally agree with you. That is the type of
Speaker 3: guy that kind of seems to kind of fit in here,
Speaker 3: type of like you know, unspoken glue guy. And yeah,
Speaker 3: I could definitely see him, you know, if the Dodgers
Speaker 3: can find a way to keep him here for a while.
Speaker 3: My guess is that they will.
Speaker 2: Who's an under the radar player on the Dodgers that
Speaker 2: maybe is going to be bigger in the postseason than
Speaker 2: people anticipate, that's not getting a lot of attention or
Speaker 2: coverage right now.
Speaker 3: You know, maybe Will Smith. You know, it's kind of
Speaker 3: weird to call him like under the risk that like
Speaker 3: he's an all star player, right, but you know, he
Speaker 3: kind of has seemed to have kind of worn down
Speaker 3: a little bit as the kind of the season's gone on.
Speaker 3: This is probably, you know, in some ways one of
Speaker 3: the most challenging stretch of his career. And you know, again,
Speaker 3: just because there's so many other big names in the
Speaker 3: Dodgers lineup, you're kind of like, I think there's kind
Speaker 3: of this expectation. Okay, you know, they can they can
Speaker 3: win without him kind of hitting. But you know, when
Speaker 3: this guy's on, I mean, he is a tremendous offensive catcher.
Speaker 3: You know. I do think he's also kind of made
Speaker 3: improvements behind the plate, you know, both in terms of
Speaker 3: pitch calling and just kind of receiving. So yeah, I think,
Speaker 3: you know, if they if there, if this is, if
Speaker 3: this thing kind of goes all the way, he's going
Speaker 3: to be a big part of it for sure.
Speaker 1: All Right, Dylan, appreciate you jumping on. Thanks for the
Speaker 1: time today.
Speaker 3: All now, thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, there goes our buddy, Dylan Hernandez. At the time.
Speaker 1: So when I said, has your view changed, you know,
Speaker 1: you said in the first hour, yeah, I'm concerned. I
Speaker 1: asked Dylan, has his view changed? He goes, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: more encouraged than ever. I think you're the issue.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, My whole point was it just seems like
Speaker 2: every game this series, another threat hopped up. Yeah, like
Speaker 2: you feel good about Yamamoto. Man, what a start, and
Speaker 2: then you go, oh god, defensively they could struggle at times,
Speaker 2: and then it's like, yeah, but you know, at least
Speaker 2: the bats are getting hot, and you know they've they've
Speaker 2: figured it out, and you know, in this game and
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmond's rolling and then oh god, the closer almost
Speaker 2: had a meltdown on the mouth. Like it just it
Speaker 2: just felt like there were things that popped up and
Speaker 2: a lot of this is gonna get sorted out. They're
Speaker 2: going to Atlanta for a four game series. You know,
Speaker 2: if you come away winning three or four at Atlanta,
Speaker 2: that's a wrap. Folks, Like you're probably you've probably iced
Speaker 2: the division out if you haven't already, and they're going
Speaker 2: to be rolling and then they've got you know, San
Speaker 2: Diego and those games don't mean as much, you know,
Speaker 2: coming up next to in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: So I'm just trying to listen. I just want to
Speaker 2: make sure we get everything covered here all right, So
Speaker 2: there are no surprises, and so none of the callers
Speaker 2: call up and piss you off and put you in
Speaker 2: a bad mood and then you in turn take it
Speaker 2: out on Vic. That's the whole thing I'm trying to
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Speaker 2: Man Greg Townsend. I remember him.
Speaker 1: Boy, he's a big boy, great player. He really was
Speaker 1: good guy too, really good guy.
Speaker 2: Oh he's hell of a career. Like if you I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't if you would argue Hall of Fame, but
Speaker 2: he's got one hundred and nine and a half sacks
Speaker 2: in his career. Like, he's got the All Pros, he's
Speaker 2: got a Super Bowl. I mean, jeez, I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: that's a pretty impressive run there, Fred for your Raiders.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, he was not under the radar. I'll say that.
Speaker 1: Earlier we talked about the new PAC twelve, which is
Speaker 1: going to become the Pack six. I just got an alert.
Speaker 1: Two more teams want to join the new Pack. If
Speaker 1: they can. No, they'd have to get out of their
Speaker 1: current deal, their current conference alignment. Yeah, but if they could,
Speaker 1: they would. That's Kellen Stanford who just left.
Speaker 2: I mean, who just left. This is why I'm over it.
Speaker 2: I just I can't deal with this crap anymore. Like
Speaker 2: figure it. I'm so tired of conference realignment. I'm sick
Speaker 2: of it. I'm tired. It's like we can't just like
Speaker 2: settle on one thing in college football without We've got
Speaker 2: to add in different elements to try and change the
Speaker 2: whole thing up. It's like, are we going to expand
Speaker 2: the fourteen playoff? Okay, fine, we'll do a twelve team.
Speaker 2: We haven't even done the twelve team playoff and people
Speaker 2: have already looked into well, why don't we just do
Speaker 2: as sixteen afterward? Can we just like establish some ground
Speaker 2: here and do that first before we start adding everything else.
Speaker 2: We're look, what three weeks into the college football season
Speaker 2: and now the Pac twelve decides they want to go
Speaker 2: ahead and add some other teams. And now it's Callen Stanford,
Speaker 2: who let just I'm done with it, man, Like enough,
Speaker 2: I just want to know what's the plan. Let's stick
Speaker 2: with it, and then let's just go with that.
Speaker 1: Well, no matter where Callen Stanford end up, it doesn't
Speaker 1: affect us in Los Angeles because they're basically dead, does anyway? Jesus,
Speaker 1: what does that mean?
Speaker 2: What's your problem?
Speaker 1: I've got no problem. Why I hate Cal?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 1: Seriously?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Because Cal? Because Cal forced UCLA to pay him bag
Speaker 1: money to go to the Big Ten. Because Cal whined
Speaker 1: like a bunch of babies. So the Board of Regents
Speaker 1: in the state of California said, oh, you can't go
Speaker 1: to the Big Ten unless you give Cal some of
Speaker 1: that money because they didn't want Cal because Cal blows geez.
Speaker 1: But Cal whined and UCLA, who made its own deal
Speaker 1: and rightfully so. Now how they do in the Big Ten,
Speaker 1: that's another question. But they earned the right to make
Speaker 1: that deal. Now they have to give some of their
Speaker 1: money to Cal because poort Cal was upset because you
Speaker 1: Sela left and didn't tell Cal first and give them
Speaker 1: a chance to go when nobody wanted Cal. Anyway, go
Speaker 1: back and play with Boise State. Now, go back, go
Speaker 1: back to the pack that you let fifteen seconds ago,
Speaker 1: and go play with Boise State in San Diego State.
Speaker 2: Damn, Fred, I didn't know you were just fired up
Speaker 2: about it. I didn't know we had a gripe against Cal.
Speaker 1: Well, my problem with Cal is this, it's ransom. It's ransom.
Speaker 1: They held them for ransom, and I think that's wrong.
Speaker 1: I mean, if the Big Ten was looking for the
Speaker 1: school that produced the best nuclear scientists, Ucla probably wouldn't
Speaker 1: be invited, but it would be Cal. And then would
Speaker 1: Cal have to pay Ucla because the Big ten wanted
Speaker 1: the nuclear scientists. No, they wouldn't pay him that's Cal's problem.
Speaker 1: It's their problem. Their athletic program blows geez, but it
Speaker 1: does and it is and that's the problem. So deal
Speaker 1: with it. Stop whining, go back, go play in the
Speaker 1: new pack whatever it is. Now. You enjoyed going to
Speaker 1: pull them in Washington. Then it's quite apparent when you
Speaker 1: were in the old PAC twelve. Go back and play again.
Speaker 2: I didn't know we were in attack mode today. I
Speaker 2: thought we were going to finish off the show and
Speaker 2: everybody was going to be in a pleasant mood. And
Speaker 2: then here we are, you attacking cow who didn't do
Speaker 2: anything to you. I mean, they're just minding their own business.
Speaker 2: They see an opportunity to maybe come back, and instead
Speaker 2: of letting them back in, you got to stomp them
Speaker 2: out here live on the air. No, it's fortune.
Speaker 1: Come back, come back, come back to the conference. Nobody
Speaker 1: watches come back. You're gonna get blown out in the East.
Speaker 1: Come back here there, you got your wish. And then
Speaker 1: when you go back to the PAC twelve, give UCLA
Speaker 1: back its money. Then then we'll be square and everything
Speaker 1: will be whole.
Speaker 2: So you're sticking up for UCLA in this, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well I'm sticking up I'm sticking up for UCLA, and
Speaker 1: I'm sticking up for the fact that col acted like
Speaker 1: a bunch of whiners, and the California Board of Regents said,
Speaker 1: Oh no, this is unfair, unfair to who? Who's it
Speaker 1: unfair to who? Why don't you give Santa Barbara money, Ucla?
Speaker 1: Why don't you give cal State Northridge money? Unfair to
Speaker 1: them too? No, just a cow, just a cow once
Speaker 1: you get Fresno State money. No, just to count, that's
Speaker 1: what it is. You gotta get cow money. Awful? Wow?
Speaker 2: True, good for you. How about you see Santa Cruz
Speaker 2: the banana slugs. Why did you give the slugs a
Speaker 2: couple of doles?
Speaker 1: Why don't we do that? Give them some money too? Oh,
Speaker 1: it's not unfair to them. Who's an unfair to cow? Oh?
Speaker 1: Just unfair to cow? Want you give all the money
Speaker 1: to everybody? But you don't have to do that. That's absurd. Well,
Speaker 1: who do we have to give it to cow? Just
Speaker 1: give it to cow. That's wrong, that's wrong, honest. But
Speaker 1: do you feel better now?
Speaker 3: Not?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 1: All right, let's do this real quick. So look, you're
Speaker 1: you're in a beer league, you're in an amateur league.
Speaker 1: You're an adult league. You know, sometimes you need players,
Speaker 1: and really, what are the rules of the adult league.
Speaker 1: If you bring a couple of ringers in here or there,
Speaker 1: it's fine, everybody gets what it is. You just go
Speaker 1: out right up and down, try to win some games
Speaker 1: more competitive than others. Yeah, there's a hockey team. They
Speaker 1: need a goalie for the playoffs. Whatever reason they need
Speaker 1: a goalie. Maybe their guy got sick, maybe he had
Speaker 1: to go out of town for work. They need a goalie.
Speaker 1: They post something on Facebook. Hey, we're just saying, anybody
Speaker 1: play goalie, show up eight o'clock games at nine and
Speaker 1: come help us out. You know, we're in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: This guy walks in. Guy walks in. Maybe some people know,
Speaker 1: maybe some people don't, puts on the pads, goes out,
Speaker 1: skates pretty well. Interesting, you know, little pregame warm up. Wow,
Speaker 1: this guy looks like he can play. He's pretty good.
Speaker 1: He is former NHL goalie Roberto Lawano. Oh yeah, he
Speaker 1: shows up in a Beer League game.
Speaker 2: Guy, just seeen eaton pasta out of the Stanley Cup
Speaker 2: because the Panthers won it and he's a part of
Speaker 2: the front office there, right.
Speaker 1: He shows up, puts on his pads. He goes, let's
Speaker 1: play that win the championship. Thank you. Good for him,
Speaker 1: Roberto Lawando showed up to play.
Speaker 2: I mean, good for him. But did anybody score on him?
Speaker 2: I would hope not.
Speaker 1: Because I don't four two They won four two.
Speaker 2: Okay, so somebody did score on yeah. Wow. Well, I mean, look,
Speaker 2: you'd at least they you give up a couple of goals.
Speaker 2: Not ideal, but yeah, they won the game. And I
Speaker 2: would also say this, that is a real thing where
Speaker 2: people will bring in a ringer, Like I remember I
Speaker 2: was we were playing pick up basketball at the Thousand
Speaker 2: Oaks Community Center, sure years and years ago, over by
Speaker 2: Thousand Oaks High School, and I remember this guy walks
Speaker 2: in and it was almost like they pretended like the
Speaker 2: other team pretended like they didn't know him, and like,
Speaker 2: all right, well, I guess he can play. And I
Speaker 2: kind of thought something was funny. And I start telling
Speaker 2: the guys I'm playing, like, hey, this doesn't seem like
Speaker 2: something about this seems fishy, Like why why would it
Speaker 2: seem fishy? He just happens to be here. I'm like, okay, well,
Speaker 2: how about the fact that like he's six ' six
Speaker 2: really good and not white, Like, how about that? Maybe
Speaker 2: that's a dead giveaway that there's something that's not, you know,
Speaker 2: not on the up. Guy destroyed us.
Speaker 1: Or maybe the guy just moved into the neighborhood.
Speaker 2: No, my ass, the guy destroyed us. Like I got
Speaker 2: posterized at one point like there was nothing you could do.
Speaker 2: So yeah, to your point, ringers in a beer league
Speaker 2: or a pickup league, not outside the realm of possibilities.
Speaker 2: But if you're gonna do one, do Roberta Lauongo? All right?
Speaker 2: Bring him in to try and get a big one
Speaker 2: in a playoff game. Good for him. That was solid,
Speaker 2: just a down to earth guy.
Speaker 1: Yep, showing up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got Who's who showed in the Facebook post?
Speaker 2: Like Who's like, hey, would you would you be thinking
Speaker 2: about doing this? And he's like, yeah, screw why not.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe he was looking for recipes for
Speaker 1: Tamali's on Facebook and then he just saw the act.
Speaker 1: Wait what you know everybody posts recipes on Facebook.
Speaker 2: Why do you have Roberta Lauongo looking for Tamali's.
Speaker 1: You don't know what he likes? See, okay, he played
Speaker 1: in Florida. I mean, you don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe he was looking for just a recipe for checking palmersant.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: And by the way, everybody knows Tomali seasons not for
Speaker 2: like another two months, so so.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that. Yeah, all right, let's have some spirituality.
Speaker 1: Let's bring on Brick with brick, Let's bring on Vic
Speaker 1: with the daily haikup. Come on, Victor, brick.
Speaker 4: His mantra, get me to Blue October and everything's gonna
Speaker 4: be all right.
Speaker 2: I really I can't do it anymore. Man, it's so rude.
Speaker 2: Except rude.
Speaker 1: We just want to give him his full time, So
Speaker 1: don't tease him and then go to break. Jonas is
Speaker 1: in today for Rodney, and let's get Vic back on
Speaker 1: here real quick. Come on, vict.
Speaker 4: I'm telling you that Dodgers Cubs game last night. Look
Speaker 4: at me.
Speaker 2: I'm still a wreck.
Speaker 4: Survive the feisty covey But then MoU local first ding
Speaker 4: I mean Bobby Miller gives up two. Then Otani number
Speaker 4: forty seven, tay Oscar Hernandez welcome back the Way of
Speaker 4: Tay with a single, and then power for the People.
Speaker 4: Edmund Smith Munsey on Max's Bobblehead Night, go back to
Speaker 4: back to back later on Otani a big two run single,
Speaker 4: Luxei a large Jobbi single, but then the Bellinger michiganas
Speaker 4: for the three run homer, game is tied. It's back
Speaker 4: and forth as Evan flowers in and yang, and there's
Speaker 4: Edmund Tommy with a two run blast. He slugs a
Speaker 4: pair of homers on back to back games. Are you
Speaker 4: kidding me? Imagine if Tommy had a sprint trading, then
Speaker 4: Copack Copack is wild walking three guys. I mean my
Speaker 4: beloved bride, Yuko left the room saying it's my fault.
Speaker 4: It's my fault. I told you it's not your fault.
Speaker 1: What does she do? She left the room.
Speaker 4: If you couldn't take it, Copeck was wild. You know
Speaker 4: at three walks the Dodgers walk ten guys. I said,
Speaker 4: don't worry, Copeck will settle in. And then Suzuki tried
Speaker 4: to steal third and Will Smith nailed them.
Speaker 1: What a sue decision by Suzuki?
Speaker 2: Down you man. They cost themselves on the base paths twice.
Speaker 1: So you're down. You need runs? What are you doing?
Speaker 4: Well? Thank you Suzuki Domo Arigatto for that blunder gigantic
Speaker 4: upshot Dodgers, win Otani San home run number forty seven
Speaker 4: for forty eight stolen bases, Return of the Way of
Speaker 4: tay tay Oscar a couple of hits, and Tommy Edmund
Speaker 4: home run binge onto Atlanta with landon knack tomorrow.
Speaker 1: You know where that leads us to.
Speaker 4: Well, before we get to the source for it. Quick
Speaker 4: Sumo day four updated. All right, all right, Takeyasu the
Speaker 4: bear loses to Nishkigi. Takeyasa's gonna bear back. He drops it.
Speaker 4: Two and two. Midori Fuji the little guy, great move
Speaker 4: by the edge, but there was a mona wee the monowhee.
Speaker 4: The judges had to confer and they either validate the
Speaker 4: call on the dojo or they overturn it. The judges
Speaker 4: confirmed the call. Tomawashi beats Midori Fuji.
Speaker 1: When you say, when you say the little guy, what
Speaker 1: is he like five to four?
Speaker 4: No, he's like five eight, maybe two fifty. Another mona
Speaker 4: week with Aura and Wakataka kage an Aura and the
Speaker 4: pink Mowashi went out and Wakataka Kagi picks up the
Speaker 4: wind because another mono e, as a judge is confirmed,
Speaker 4: showed eye beats Waka Takahu showed eye is four and oh,
Speaker 4: he says, get me my old don He's hungry all
Speaker 4: the time. He wants to eat. He's four and oh.
Speaker 4: I'll show you losers again, this time to the Flying
Speaker 4: Monkey Toby Zaru. The fivery Mongolian loses his balance in
Speaker 4: the ring, upset as Toby Zarro beats, I'll show you
Speaker 4: and quickly. You guys watched the VMA's last night, the
Speaker 4: Video Music Awards.
Speaker 1: But you know that leads us to right.
Speaker 4: But I just want to give some love. It was
Speaker 4: an Elmont, New York last night on Long Island, Taylor Swift.
Speaker 4: The big video of the Year ties Beyonce now with
Speaker 4: thirty VMAs or thirty Video Music Awards. So that's a
Speaker 4: that's a beautiful thing. Another beautiful thing is a high
Speaker 4: code for you. On the stir Stay September the twelfth.
Speaker 4: It's from kick Kayu. K i hey a yu kei
Speaker 4: kayu ki kayu go something like this This autumn day
Speaker 4: is done a single solitary owl smiles at the setting sun.
Speaker 4: Woooo kick Kayu, I'm feeling you.
Speaker 1: Ki Kaya did not make that. Yeah, no, we know
Speaker 1: Kikaya did not make that sound awesome is it. Huh
Speaker 1: is it autumn? Is this autumn?
Speaker 2: No? Not yet?
Speaker 1: But why imber doing an autumn hiku? Fred? You know what.
Speaker 1: I hate to break the bad news to you, but
Speaker 1: we are in autumn. Really this autumn?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I thought autumn was the twenty first or twenty second.
Speaker 2: I mean, who carest wave left?
Speaker 4: Man? What's that heat wave left?
Speaker 1: That's taught him all right? Even taught him all right?
Speaker 1: Who Thank you vig Ron, A great job. Thank you Adam,
Speaker 1: wonderful filling in for Kevin and Jonah. Thanks for the week.
Speaker 1: Really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Listen, I appreciate you guys having me. Let's do it
Speaker 2: again next week. What do you say, Fred?
Speaker 1: Got it? Let's do it