WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:03.640 Here we go, fred Rogan, Rodney Peach at five seventy 2 00:00:03.799 --> 00:00:06.240 LA Sports a big three hour show for us today. 3 00:00:06.679 --> 00:00:09.279 Coming up at one o'clock, Nick Nixon, who is retiring 4 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:12.960 as voice of the Kings. He succeeded Bob Miller. Of course, 5 00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:16.239 Nick was a longtime radio broadcaster, then moved into the 6 00:00:16.280 --> 00:00:20.079 TV booth and dead did a simulcast. He's retiring after 7 00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:22.280 this year, and here's going to join us, coming up 8 00:00:22.280 --> 00:00:25.679 at one. David Vassalby in the program today at two 9 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:27.800 o'clock Rodney, all right, you're ready to go. 10 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:31.960 Yeah, let's go. Come on, it's a hop day, Freddy, 11 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:36.960 it's a hop day. Pity, let's go. All right. 12 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:40.320 One hockey note off the top. King's beat Seattle last 13 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:42.920 night doesn't matter. Kings now have the home ice advantage 14 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:45.719 to play Edmonton and that series will start at the 15 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:47.600 Crypt Sunday night at six thirty. 16 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:51.439 That is good news. But this is not so. 17 00:00:51.560 --> 00:00:54.679 In that Edmonton game the other night, Darnell Nurse noted 18 00:00:54.759 --> 00:00:59.200 thug and Goon jumped on the back of Quentin Byfield 19 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:03.600 and then crosschack his head into the ice. Did he 20 00:01:03.679 --> 00:01:07.400 hit him with a sledgehammer? No, but he certainly did it. 21 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:10.760 It was apparent Byfield left the game. Well, the NHL 22 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:15.120 was spoken, and you can't do that in hockey. So 23 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:19.599 they're sitting in for one game. One Now, this is 24 00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:21.799 not the first time Darnell Nurse has done something like that. 25 00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:23.439 He's a dirty player. 26 00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:27.879 One game. That doesn't work for me. 27 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:31.920 Sorry, what do you want them to be suspended for 28 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:35.159 a friend the rest of the season? Oh, come on, 29 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:38.760 come on, come on, you gotta let the players play 30 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:41.480 for it. You don't want to. You don't want to. 31 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:44.760 You don't want to suspend guys as you enter the playoffs, ready, 32 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:46.719 you want them to be at full strength. Let's just 33 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:49.159 go my guys against your guys. Let's go. Let's not 34 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:53.640 throw guys out. Let's not toss Luca Dantage with ten 35 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:55.959 minutes or seven minutes to go in the fourth quarter. 36 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:59.079 Come on, we don't do that. Let the players play, 37 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:01.879 let the stars be stars, and let him play one 38 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:04.200 game suspension, that's fine, getting back out. 39 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:06.640 We want him, We want him. 40 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:08.639 I'm not saying we don't want him, but what I 41 00:02:08.639 --> 00:02:10.919 am saying is he's a dirty player, and at some 42 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:12.400 point someone has to stand. 43 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:13.560 Up and go that is enough. Darnell. 44 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:17.960 We've had enough and one game does not work for me. 45 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:21.199 It simply does not work. He deserves more than one 46 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:22.520 game because he's going to. 47 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:26.719 Do it again. Watch him. Watch him. If you go 48 00:02:26.759 --> 00:02:28.960 to the game, watch him. Just keep your eye on him. 49 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:32.479 You'll see what he does. He's dirty and. 50 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:35.719 He's spend it before fit. How many times is he 51 00:02:36.280 --> 00:02:39.800 a multiple, multiple or repeat offender? I mean, come on, 52 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:41.439 I just looked it up. 53 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:45.159 He's been suspended four times his career. 54 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:49.319 In his career, Rodney, Yes, yeah, what are you saying 55 00:02:49.319 --> 00:02:52.120 if he was suspended four times this season to be different? Yeah, 56 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:54.120 suspended four times. 57 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:55.759 It would be different if it was in one season. 58 00:02:56.240 --> 00:03:01.240 He's a he's a hard nose, playing on the edge 59 00:03:01.319 --> 00:03:03.039 kind of guy. 60 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:03.560 Right. 61 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:06.240 You don't want to suspend some guy some guy for 62 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:11.680 the playoffs. You want all your guys there, if they're 63 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:14.759 healthy enough to play, you want them all playing. There 64 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:16.919 needs to be some sort of do you want to win? 65 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:17.680 Like that rant? 66 00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:23.360 No, listen, whether he plays or not, whatever, he shouldn't play. 67 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:24.319 That's my point. 68 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:27.159 No matter who they are playing against, he shouldn't play. 69 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:30.080 Even if they weren't opening against the Kings, he shouldn't 70 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:33.520 play there should be a consequence to the behavior. 71 00:03:33.800 --> 00:03:34.039 Kevin. 72 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:36.560 You said he was suspended four times, right, you look correct? 73 00:03:36.680 --> 00:03:36.919 Yes? 74 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:39.039 Okay, do we know for how many games or we 75 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:40.240 just know it was four times. 76 00:03:40.639 --> 00:03:43.240 I have every instance lined up here. So in March 77 00:03:43.240 --> 00:03:45.919 of sixteen, suspended three games for being the aggressor in 78 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:48.840 a fight with the Santos A Sharks. All right, penalized 79 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:53.080 for starting the fight before dropping gloves. In twenty twenty two, 80 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:55.199 but that was in twenty sixteen, and twenty twenty two 81 00:03:55.240 --> 00:03:57.280 suspended one game for a headbutting Philip to know in 82 00:03:57.319 --> 00:03:59.960 the playoffs, remember that, you remember that very well. Yeah, 83 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:03.479 twenty twenty three suspended one game for instigating a fight 84 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:05.960 in the final five minutes of a game against Vegas. 85 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:08.560 And then, of course the most recent one for Quentin Buyfield, 86 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:09.680 that which came down last night. 87 00:04:11.719 --> 00:04:15.039 And you think one game is gonna suffice for him? 88 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:16.439 You think one game is enough? 89 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:20.040 Yes, the rest of the season is a little excessive, 90 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:22.279 Fred though, I mean, you'd have to come out and 91 00:04:22.319 --> 00:04:24.480 literally start waylaying a guy with your stick, or do 92 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:27.240 something like malice of the Palace status to be suspended 93 00:04:27.240 --> 00:04:28.079 for the rest of the season. 94 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:31.240 Okay, but what should the penalty be for a guy's 95 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:32.759 on the ice and you hit him in the head, 96 00:04:32.839 --> 00:04:36.560 you cross check him into the head and his helmet 97 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:38.160 goes onto the ice, what should that be? 98 00:04:38.759 --> 00:04:41.720 Is that? Okay? That should be a fine and in 99 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:43.920 the game suspit okay? 100 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:47.120 And Buyfield did not play last night. So one of 101 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:51.680 two reasons A maybe because he's actually hurt. B Because 102 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:54.279 if he played, maybe they wouldn't have suspended him at all. 103 00:04:54.360 --> 00:04:58.279 But let's say he's actually hurt. You know, in hockey, 104 00:04:58.759 --> 00:05:00.959 and I've always said this, and there was a train 105 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:04.120 of thought many years ago, because it is a context sport, 106 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:07.319 it's very physical and guys can be dirty and hockey, 107 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:11.800 how about this. You are suspended as long as the 108 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:13.959 guy you knocked out is out of action. 109 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:15.519 Okay. 110 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:19.519 So if Byfield misses four games, so do you. If 111 00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:22.519 Buyfield comes back in two games, so do you. It's 112 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:23.160 not going to be. 113 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:26.759 Based on who got hurt and that you were the perpetrator. 114 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:30.439 And if that guy is out for the season, you 115 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:33.079 got to be out for the season. Go to Cancun, 116 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:38.399 right if it's a you know, borderline dirty play. 117 00:05:38.519 --> 00:05:44.199 But and you hit him up top, but he rolls 118 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:44.720 his ankle. 119 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:50.439 If you are this season, if we can look at 120 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:55.800 this and say your direct action caused that, and it 121 00:05:55.839 --> 00:05:58.720 was not a clean play. Guy could roll his ankle 122 00:05:58.839 --> 00:06:00.879 and be checked into the board, it's a clean play. 123 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:03.439 But if we can see you took your stick and 124 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:05.199 hit somebody in the back of the head with it, 125 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:09.120 and that guy is out ten games. 126 00:06:09.879 --> 00:06:12.120 Bite my tongue. That can't happen for buyfield. But let's 127 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:14.439 say it did. Then you sit ten games. 128 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:18.319 Right, If you go into the board and the boards 129 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:21.600 and you're called for roughing and you hit somebody and 130 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:23.199 they separate their shoulder. 131 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:28.839 And they're out for eight weeks, you're out for eight weeks. 132 00:06:28.879 --> 00:06:33.399 If your action directly led to an injury, and we 133 00:06:33.560 --> 00:06:37.199 have the tape to be able to determine that. However 134 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:39.040 long he's out, you're out. 135 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:40.480 Make it fair. 136 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:44.680 And by the way, when you're out, you don't get 137 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:48.240 paid while he's out because you're hurt him he does. 138 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:53.439 Why don't we just do it like that? I think 139 00:06:53.519 --> 00:06:57.079 that's that makes all the sense in the world. You 140 00:06:57.240 --> 00:07:02.680 get what you gave. Guys out two weeks, guys out 141 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:08.000 two games, you're out two games. How about that? That 142 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:10.560 seems all liable and fair to me, only on a 143 00:07:11.319 --> 00:07:14.199 cheap shot, dirty type of play. So if he legally 144 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:16.879 checks you up into the boards and you get hurt, 145 00:07:16.879 --> 00:07:23.279 that's fine. That's fine dirty play. That's the penalty. We 146 00:07:23.560 --> 00:07:26.240 don't even need an office of discipline. We've just created 147 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:32.399 the discipline. Whatever you give, you get. If it's dirty, 148 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:36.680 and we know what it is. You hit somebody from behind, 149 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:40.279 they go down, that's dirty, then you get what what 150 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:43.319 you gave. However, many games are out, you're out. You 151 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:48.879 don't agree with that, Rodney, Okay, what happens if he's 152 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:51.079 not out? Bipill's not out a game? 153 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:52.360 Right, right? 154 00:07:52.399 --> 00:07:55.319 So right, so here's that thing. Then here's the thing, 155 00:07:55.399 --> 00:08:00.480 good question. Here's the thing. You get for a dirty 156 00:08:00.519 --> 00:08:06.079 play at least one game, So you're getting one no 157 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:11.360 matter what. Now the remainder will be determined on how 158 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:15.360 long the person is out that you hit. So you 159 00:08:15.399 --> 00:08:19.279 got a game. Let's say Buyfield played last night, so 160 00:08:19.399 --> 00:08:21.759 Nurse would get one game and be able to come back. 161 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:25.560 But let's say Buyfield miss four games, then Nurse has 162 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:28.800 to miss four games. You get at least one for 163 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:32.200 the act, and the remainder is determined on how long 164 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:37.240 that person will be out. 165 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:41.960 I really really really hate to say this, Fred, but 166 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:43.279 that kind of makes some sense. 167 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:50.759 Kevin, Kevin, we should sign off right now. Our show 168 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:53.440 is going to be nine minutes long today. I don't 169 00:08:53.440 --> 00:08:54.919 think I've ever heard right and say. 170 00:08:54.720 --> 00:08:58.759 That it's true. That makes sense to mark that tape, 171 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:01.039 yeah for the archives. 172 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:05.559 Yeah huh yeah, Yeah. I was sitting there trying to 173 00:09:05.639 --> 00:09:08.919 rack my brain about why it doesn't. It's the dumbest 174 00:09:08.919 --> 00:09:11.279 thing in the world, Fred, is what you know normally 175 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:13.200 comes out of my mouth when you, yeah, go on 176 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:16.919 these crazy stories and rants. But I just, uh, I 177 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:20.000 couldn't find it. I couldn't find myself to say it 178 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:23.840 because it technically it kind of it does make sense 179 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:27.799 if you put a guy out dirty and and it's 180 00:09:27.879 --> 00:09:30.679 unfortunate for that team that you're gonna lose their guy 181 00:09:31.360 --> 00:09:35.240 for a week, two weeks, three games, ten games, whatever 182 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:38.799 it may be. Yeah, and you should be penalized too. 183 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:42.879 You should be penalized too, because it could be one 184 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:45.000 of those things they go after one of your better 185 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:46.679 players and cheap shots him. 186 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:50.399 And and and and they you. 187 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:53.320 Know, the guy is now he's out for two weeks, 188 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:58.279 and he's more valuable to your team than the guy 189 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:01.600 that did it to their team. And and you know 190 00:10:01.679 --> 00:10:05.080 the guy gets suspended for a game. Yeah it should 191 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:07.480 last two weeks, but what happens if that is the case. Though, 192 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:09.840 You know they like they used to do the Marty 193 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:11.519 mcsorley's of the world where they. 194 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:13.799 Would go and rough somebody up. 195 00:10:14.639 --> 00:10:16.799 And or you got a guy on the bench, you know, 196 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:19.639 like they do in basketball, he just go go foul out. 197 00:10:19.879 --> 00:10:22.279 I don't care what you do. Just rough the guy up. 198 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:25.600 You know what I want? Six files and four minutes. 199 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:26.320 You better get that. 200 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:29.759 Fouls. Use every one of them, Use them all, use 201 00:10:29.799 --> 00:10:30.240 them all. 202 00:10:30.519 --> 00:10:35.080 And they you know, they they take out Yannis, you know, 203 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:37.519 is taken out by the twelfth man on the bench, 204 00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:41.000 and and Yannis misses time. 205 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:43.440 Then you know what you have to do there, See, 206 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:45.399 now we have to expand the rule a little bit. 207 00:10:46.039 --> 00:10:49.240 So you're saying no seriously, So now you're saying you 208 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:52.279 put the twelfth guy on the bench in you know, 209 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:55.399 you see the coach talking to him. There's six minutes 210 00:10:55.480 --> 00:10:59.159 left in this quarter. You got six files. By the way, 211 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:03.000 get the most of your time on the court because 212 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:05.039 you're not going back in this is it for you? Yes, 213 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:08.960 and I'm telling you you got six fouls go follow 214 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:14.159 a minute. On the fifth foul, he takes out Yanna's. 215 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:20.159 Yiannis is down in a heap. It's a dirty play. 216 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:23.639 This guy's ejected. Yannis is going to miss how much time? 217 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:28.200 Now? Four game or it's gonna miss two weeks. Now. 218 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:30.519 We're aware of the fact that the twelfth man on 219 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:34.159 the bench does not have the same skill set as Yanni's. 220 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:39.039 So the Bucks in this case would get to pick 221 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:40.600 the man that they had to sit for two weeks on 222 00:11:40.639 --> 00:11:41.200 the other team. 223 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:49.480 Ah, okay, thet they get the choice, right. 224 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:50.399 You hurt our guy. 225 00:11:51.399 --> 00:11:54.200 You hurt our guy, and certainly that guy we don't 226 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:56.559 even care if he's on your team. So we have 227 00:11:56.600 --> 00:11:59.279 to pick somebody that we consider to be equal to 228 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:02.120 our guy. And since you did it to us, we 229 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:06.559 get to pick. I picked Kevin Durant. Feeding he's out 230 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:10.480 for two weeks. Okay, okay. It's sort of like in 231 00:12:10.519 --> 00:12:12.879 hockey where the goalie commits a penalty and somebody serves 232 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:18.600 it for him. Somebody has to serve this guy's suspension, right, Okay, 233 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:19.399 how about that? 234 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:22.720 Yeah? 235 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:27.200 Yeah, yeah again, Freddy again you're making sense. What day 236 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:27.840 is it today? 237 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:31.960 A day that will never happen again, That's what day 238 00:12:32.039 --> 00:12:32.360 this is. 239 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:35.000 Let me ask you this. 240 00:12:36.039 --> 00:12:39.879 Let's look at football. Let's look at football. When you played, 241 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:45.080 there were dirty plays, fair, yes, okay, And occasionally, as 242 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:49.399 a result of one of those dirty players, somebody got hurt, right, okay. 243 00:12:49.559 --> 00:12:52.679 And if that person got hurt, that person could miss 244 00:12:52.679 --> 00:13:00.360 time to that point. Cheap shot, late hit, whatever, Yeah, okay, 245 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:02.799 you got to take somebody out on the other side. 246 00:13:04.159 --> 00:13:05.679 You got to take somebody out on the other side. 247 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:09.080 Now that I think about it, Let's say a linebacker. 248 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:11.639 Cheap shots are running back of the running bats out. 249 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:15.120 Running back is out for three weeks. Let's say that. Okay, 250 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:20.320 the team that had the penalty or infraction committed against 251 00:13:20.919 --> 00:13:24.720 the Eagles. You're playing for the Eagles. Your running back 252 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:29.519 is done. Linebacker on the Bears takes them out right, Okay, 253 00:13:29.559 --> 00:13:31.279 what do we do about this? Are we going to 254 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:34.200 suspend the guy from the Bears. No, the Eagles get 255 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:38.480 to pick. If the linebacker is an all Pro linebacker 256 00:13:38.519 --> 00:13:42.799 for the Bears, that guy sits. But what if it's 257 00:13:42.799 --> 00:13:47.039 some substitute they just put in, Then you might want 258 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:50.600 to take out the Bears running back and you get 259 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:53.799 to pick. You get to pick who sits. You get 260 00:13:53.799 --> 00:13:55.720 to pick who sits. You don't think that would clean 261 00:13:55.759 --> 00:13:56.200 things up? 262 00:13:57.399 --> 00:14:02.519 Oh yeah, no, I think it would. And and. 263 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:07.879 Yeah, that would definitely clean things up because they would 264 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:08.440 have to you know. 265 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:15.080 They would obviously be a review reviewing body that reviews 266 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:18.679 it to you know, determine if it was indeed a 267 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:26.120 dirty play. And at that moment, yeah, okay, Eagles, pick 268 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:27.240 whoever you want on the Bears. 269 00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:30.240 Is it for as long as our guys out. 270 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:33.120 Or as long as our guys out. It could be 271 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:36.559 late in the season. You're on a playoff run, right, 272 00:14:36.919 --> 00:14:39.399 I'm I'm picking your quarterback. 273 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:44.879 Sit. No, but we'll have to quarterback slop. 274 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:46.879 I'm absolutely pointing out that quarterback. 275 00:14:49.799 --> 00:14:51.600 You can't pick him, but you can pick anybody else. 276 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:55.480 Pick anybody else on the team, and they have to sit. 277 00:14:57.720 --> 00:14:59.799 Let the stop, Like what if the player who gets hurt, 278 00:14:59.799 --> 00:15:01.600 the running back is not a star, they're just they're 279 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:03.720 a backup or something like that. They get knocked out, 280 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:08.759 and you know, they they might milk the injury a 281 00:15:08.799 --> 00:15:10.159 little bit and say, like, all right, if it's a 282 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:14.240 division opponent, you know, and you know, say if the Eagles, 283 00:15:14.279 --> 00:15:16.000 let's let's just change the metric and say it's the 284 00:15:16.039 --> 00:15:18.200 Giants or something like that, and it's a division opponent, 285 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:20.960 and we can take your star running back out. If 286 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:22.519 Barkley was still on the Eagles and it was a 287 00:15:22.519 --> 00:15:26.200 backup on the other side for the Giants, maybe we 288 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:28.240 have our backup running back who got injured, milking for 289 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:29.720 a couple extra weeks and say, ah, you know what, 290 00:15:29.720 --> 00:15:32.279 your ankle's not right. I know it's been five weeks, 291 00:15:32.279 --> 00:15:33.399 but now it's still hurts. 292 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:35.039 Don't it. It's still hurt. 293 00:15:34.879 --> 00:15:37.159 Right, Yeah, So less Saqua. 294 00:15:36.879 --> 00:15:38.600 Sit out for for a few more weeks. You can't 295 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:40.759 do that, well, I believe you don't know that. 296 00:15:40.879 --> 00:15:42.240 You can't do any of this stuff I did. 297 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:45.120 Were just spitballing this whole. By the way, do you 298 00:15:45.200 --> 00:15:45.960 know somebody. 299 00:15:45.759 --> 00:15:46.480 Would try to do that? 300 00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:48.000 They absolutely would. 301 00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:50.720 I wouldn't say if I was a gem of a 302 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:52.519 team or something like that, I wouldn't encourage it. 303 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:55.080 To be honest with you. Listen, it hurts my. 304 00:15:55.080 --> 00:15:57.240 Opponent, it doesn't really hurt me that much because it's 305 00:15:57.240 --> 00:15:58.960 a third string running back they got injured. 306 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:00.960 Most teams would do that. 307 00:16:01.320 --> 00:16:03.480 Hey, man, how you feeling. Oh my god, I have 308 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:05.720 a bruise on my leg. I'm gonna be out for 309 00:16:05.720 --> 00:16:11.519 three more weeks. But it's only Kevin if it's if 310 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:14.720 it's a dirty play, if he gets injured in the 311 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:16.919 course of the game and there's nothing dirty about it, 312 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:18.200 then no, it's fine. 313 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:19.879 Even if it's a dirt it's a dirty play that 314 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:22.399 the player gets injured. But if you can actually pick 315 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:24.120 the other person on the other side, and the other 316 00:16:24.200 --> 00:16:28.159 person is generally speaking, deemed to be a more impactful 317 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:31.399 player for that other team, you will absolutely pick them. 318 00:16:31.480 --> 00:16:34.120 And I'm just saying there are certain people that would say, 319 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:36.519 you know what, let's let him sound an addition a 320 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:39.440 week or two, let him miss an additional week. 321 00:16:39.480 --> 00:16:45.440 Absolute that would definitely happen if you will go, wait, man, 322 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:49.039 we play them in three weeks again. Vision all point, 323 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:51.440 we play them in three weeks, so make sure that 324 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:52.720 injured last four weeks. 325 00:16:54.240 --> 00:16:54.840 Yeah, we're going to. 326 00:16:54.840 --> 00:16:57.159 Milk that an extra week so we don't see him 327 00:16:57.200 --> 00:16:58.440 by the time we play them again. 328 00:16:58.600 --> 00:17:00.120 And that's not hard to do, right, you know, like 329 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:01.919 an extra week or two is fine. Now for talking 330 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:03.960 about a national an extra month all right for a 331 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:07.440 Naples tweak, Okay, sure, but you get another and one 332 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:09.640 game obviously makes a big difference when you're only playing 333 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:12.519 seventeen of them, so you know what you're suggesting. 334 00:17:13.119 --> 00:17:15.640 So the guy gets hurt on a dirty play and 335 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:19.079 he's the backup running back. So now the Eagles get 336 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:20.559 to pick whoever they're going to take out for the 337 00:17:20.559 --> 00:17:24.319 Bears or the Giants. So the guy that gets hurt, 338 00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:27.799 they examine him on Monday. This is your kind of thinking, Kevin. 339 00:17:28.359 --> 00:17:30.079 They examine him on Monday and say, you know what, 340 00:17:30.119 --> 00:17:31.640 we're gonna have to give it a little time and 341 00:17:31.640 --> 00:17:35.240 we're gonna re examine it. And then by Thursday, using 342 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:38.400 your thinking, the press release comes out. We're going to 343 00:17:38.440 --> 00:17:43.279 do exploratory surgery. 344 00:17:41.519 --> 00:17:42.920 And we don't know when he'll be back. 345 00:17:44.759 --> 00:17:46.440 You know what it is, right, No, this is what 346 00:17:46.559 --> 00:17:48.119 it is. It's like, oh, you know what he's day 347 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:50.400 to day. We'll give him, you know, a couple of weeks. 348 00:17:50.440 --> 00:17:52.119 He needs to rest it a little bit, and then 349 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:54.160 two weeks later it's like, oh my god, then he 350 00:17:54.200 --> 00:17:58.880 needs the exploratory surgery. It's a resting And this stuff happened. 351 00:17:58.920 --> 00:18:01.240 This happened with Freddy Freeman. The offseason, I rested my 352 00:18:01.279 --> 00:18:03.079 ankle for a few weeks. I thought it would be great, 353 00:18:03.079 --> 00:18:04.920 and it's like, you know what, I needed a procedure. 354 00:18:05.720 --> 00:18:08.000 I mean, that's not Oh that happens all the time. 355 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:12.400 But it has to be in a dirty play, No, sure, Sure, 356 00:18:12.799 --> 00:18:15.200 if a guy gets hurt, it's different. I think that 357 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:17.359 I honestly, And the Starnell Nurse thing got me thinking 358 00:18:17.400 --> 00:18:23.240 this morning. I think that corrects this. And especially in hockey, Uh, 359 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:26.400 where these guys you know, just line you up and 360 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:30.680 tee off. I mean I remember Nurse and Tono when 361 00:18:30.720 --> 00:18:33.079 he was suspended a couple of years ago. I mean, 362 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:38.279 come on, come on, that doesn't work because oftentimes the 363 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:41.240 guy that gets hurt is out longer than a guy suspended. 364 00:18:42.359 --> 00:18:44.519 Oh yeah, most of the time it happens that way. 365 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:45.200 Is that fair? 366 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:49.319 Yeah, I mean no, it's not fair. But but you're 367 00:18:49.359 --> 00:18:53.920 right about that. Oftentimes it's the guy that uh that 368 00:18:54.720 --> 00:18:57.799 you know, took the brunt of the cheap shot that 369 00:18:58.079 --> 00:18:59.519 ends up being out longer. 370 00:19:01.119 --> 00:19:03.079 All right, well, this is just something to consider. No. 371 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:05.559 Sorry, Well, we'll get Gary Bettman on the hook and 372 00:19:05.759 --> 00:19:08.000 talk to him about that. Fred him see what he 373 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:08.640 thinks about that? 374 00:19:09.039 --> 00:19:10.039 Can you call him? Sure? 375 00:19:10.759 --> 00:19:14.039 If we brought Gary Bettman on and I asked him 376 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:17.960 that question, and we've had him on before, I don't 377 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:20.200 know if he well, first, he probably wouldn't say a 378 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:23.759 word for like three minutes. Therefore, we would think he 379 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:27.119 hung up. When present hung up, he pressed me sitting there. 380 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:29.119 Yeah, he pressed the new button and started laughing before 381 00:19:29.160 --> 00:19:31.039 he jumped back on the phone. 382 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:32.200 Right, Oh, it's that movie. 383 00:19:32.440 --> 00:19:35.440 You know, guy's talking to his kids and he pretends 384 00:19:35.480 --> 00:19:46.839 like he did facetimeed froze the phone froze, gotta go. 385 00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:50.000 Oh my god. 386 00:19:50.240 --> 00:19:51.720 You know what Nick Mixon is going to be on 387 00:19:51.759 --> 00:19:52.400 at one o'clock. 388 00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:54.359 Yeah, let's ask him what he thinks about that. 389 00:19:54.559 --> 00:19:57.200 I mean, he has seen more hockey than anybody. Well, no, 390 00:19:57.279 --> 00:19:59.359 if've seen more hockey than him, but he has seen 391 00:19:59.359 --> 00:20:01.960 almost as much as I have. He's older than me, 392 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:03.960 but I think I started watching before he did. So 393 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:07.000 we will discuss it with someone that does it for 394 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:08.359 a living coming up at one o'clock. 395 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:11.839 Okay, so last. 396 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:14.880 Night Dodgers, when we know that, but was a big 397 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:17.559 question answered in the minds of the fans. 398 00:20:18.039 --> 00:20:19.039 Let's get into that next. 399 00:20:20.559 --> 00:20:25.440 That's right, home of the world champion Dodges on a 400 00:20:25.480 --> 00:20:33.079 hump day, Rodney Pete, Fred Rogan, and today you might 401 00:20:33.119 --> 00:20:36.960