Speaker 1: Here we go, fred Rogan, Rodney Peach at five seventy
Speaker 1: LA Sports a big three hour show for us today.
Speaker 1: Coming up at one o'clock, Nick Nixon, who is retiring
Speaker 1: as voice of the Kings. He succeeded Bob Miller. Of course,
Speaker 1: Nick was a longtime radio broadcaster, then moved into the
Speaker 1: TV booth and dead did a simulcast. He's retiring after
Speaker 1: this year, and here's going to join us, coming up
Speaker 1: at one. David Vassalby in the program today at two
Speaker 1: o'clock Rodney, all right, you're ready to go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go. Come on, it's a hop day, Freddy,
Speaker 2: it's a hop day. Pity, let's go. All right.
Speaker 1: One hockey note off the top. King's beat Seattle last
Speaker 1: night doesn't matter. Kings now have the home ice advantage
Speaker 1: to play Edmonton and that series will start at the
Speaker 1: Crypt Sunday night at six thirty.
Speaker 2: That is good news. But this is not so.
Speaker 1: In that Edmonton game the other night, Darnell Nurse noted
Speaker 1: thug and Goon jumped on the back of Quentin Byfield
Speaker 1: and then crosschack his head into the ice. Did he
Speaker 1: hit him with a sledgehammer? No, but he certainly did it.
Speaker 1: It was apparent Byfield left the game. Well, the NHL
Speaker 1: was spoken, and you can't do that in hockey. So
Speaker 1: they're sitting in for one game. One Now, this is
Speaker 1: not the first time Darnell Nurse has done something like that.
Speaker 1: He's a dirty player.
Speaker 2: One game. That doesn't work for me.
Speaker 1: Sorry, what do you want them to be suspended for
Speaker 1: a friend the rest of the season? Oh, come on,
Speaker 1: come on, come on, you gotta let the players play
Speaker 1: for it. You don't want to. You don't want to.
Speaker 3: You don't want to suspend guys as you enter the playoffs, ready,
Speaker 3: you want them to be at full strength. Let's just
Speaker 3: go my guys against your guys. Let's go. Let's not
Speaker 3: throw guys out. Let's not toss Luca Dantage with ten
Speaker 3: minutes or seven minutes to go in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3: Come on, we don't do that. Let the players play,
Speaker 3: let the stars be stars, and let him play one
Speaker 3: game suspension, that's fine, getting back out.
Speaker 2: We want him, We want him.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying we don't want him, but what I
Speaker 1: am saying is he's a dirty player, and at some
Speaker 1: point someone has to stand.
Speaker 2: Up and go that is enough. Darnell.
Speaker 1: We've had enough and one game does not work for me.
Speaker 1: It simply does not work. He deserves more than one
Speaker 1: game because he's going to.
Speaker 2: Do it again. Watch him. Watch him. If you go
Speaker 2: to the game, watch him. Just keep your eye on him.
Speaker 2: You'll see what he does. He's dirty and.
Speaker 1: He's spend it before fit. How many times is he
Speaker 1: a multiple, multiple or repeat offender? I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: I just looked it up.
Speaker 4: He's been suspended four times his career.
Speaker 1: In his career, Rodney, Yes, yeah, what are you saying
Speaker 1: if he was suspended four times this season to be different? Yeah,
Speaker 1: suspended four times.
Speaker 2: It would be different if it was in one season.
Speaker 1: He's a he's a hard nose, playing on the edge
Speaker 1: kind of guy.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: You don't want to suspend some guy some guy for
Speaker 1: the playoffs. You want all your guys there, if they're
Speaker 1: healthy enough to play, you want them all playing. There
Speaker 1: needs to be some sort of do you want to win?
Speaker 2: Like that rant?
Speaker 1: No, listen, whether he plays or not, whatever, he shouldn't play.
Speaker 2: That's my point.
Speaker 1: No matter who they are playing against, he shouldn't play.
Speaker 1: Even if they weren't opening against the Kings, he shouldn't
Speaker 1: play there should be a consequence to the behavior.
Speaker 2: Kevin.
Speaker 1: You said he was suspended four times, right, you look correct?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay, do we know for how many games or we
Speaker 1: just know it was four times.
Speaker 4: I have every instance lined up here. So in March
Speaker 4: of sixteen, suspended three games for being the aggressor in
Speaker 4: a fight with the Santos A Sharks. All right, penalized
Speaker 4: for starting the fight before dropping gloves. In twenty twenty two,
Speaker 4: but that was in twenty sixteen, and twenty twenty two
Speaker 4: suspended one game for a headbutting Philip to know in
Speaker 4: the playoffs, remember that, you remember that very well. Yeah,
Speaker 4: twenty twenty three suspended one game for instigating a fight
Speaker 4: in the final five minutes of a game against Vegas.
Speaker 4: And then, of course the most recent one for Quentin Buyfield,
Speaker 4: that which came down last night.
Speaker 1: And you think one game is gonna suffice for him?
Speaker 2: You think one game is enough?
Speaker 4: Yes, the rest of the season is a little excessive,
Speaker 4: Fred though, I mean, you'd have to come out and
Speaker 4: literally start waylaying a guy with your stick, or do
Speaker 4: something like malice of the Palace status to be suspended
Speaker 4: for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: Okay, but what should the penalty be for a guy's
Speaker 1: on the ice and you hit him in the head,
Speaker 1: you cross check him into the head and his helmet
Speaker 1: goes onto the ice, what should that be?
Speaker 2: Is that? Okay? That should be a fine and in
Speaker 2: the game suspit okay?
Speaker 1: And Buyfield did not play last night. So one of
Speaker 1: two reasons A maybe because he's actually hurt. B Because
Speaker 1: if he played, maybe they wouldn't have suspended him at all.
Speaker 1: But let's say he's actually hurt. You know, in hockey,
Speaker 1: and I've always said this, and there was a train
Speaker 1: of thought many years ago, because it is a context sport,
Speaker 1: it's very physical and guys can be dirty and hockey,
Speaker 1: how about this. You are suspended as long as the
Speaker 1: guy you knocked out is out of action.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So if Byfield misses four games, so do you. If
Speaker 1: Buyfield comes back in two games, so do you. It's
Speaker 1: not going to be.
Speaker 2: Based on who got hurt and that you were the perpetrator.
Speaker 1: And if that guy is out for the season, you
Speaker 1: got to be out for the season. Go to Cancun,
Speaker 1: right if it's a you know, borderline dirty play.
Speaker 2: But and you hit him up top, but he rolls
Speaker 2: his ankle.
Speaker 1: If you are this season, if we can look at
Speaker 1: this and say your direct action caused that, and it
Speaker 1: was not a clean play. Guy could roll his ankle
Speaker 1: and be checked into the board, it's a clean play.
Speaker 1: But if we can see you took your stick and
Speaker 1: hit somebody in the back of the head with it,
Speaker 1: and that guy is out ten games.
Speaker 2: Bite my tongue. That can't happen for buyfield. But let's
Speaker 2: say it did. Then you sit ten games.
Speaker 1: Right, If you go into the board and the boards
Speaker 1: and you're called for roughing and you hit somebody and
Speaker 1: they separate their shoulder.
Speaker 2: And they're out for eight weeks, you're out for eight weeks.
Speaker 1: If your action directly led to an injury, and we
Speaker 1: have the tape to be able to determine that. However
Speaker 1: long he's out, you're out.
Speaker 2: Make it fair.
Speaker 1: And by the way, when you're out, you don't get
Speaker 1: paid while he's out because you're hurt him he does.
Speaker 1: Why don't we just do it like that? I think
Speaker 1: that's that makes all the sense in the world. You
Speaker 1: get what you gave. Guys out two weeks, guys out
Speaker 1: two games, you're out two games. How about that? That
Speaker 1: seems all liable and fair to me, only on a
Speaker 1: cheap shot, dirty type of play. So if he legally
Speaker 1: checks you up into the boards and you get hurt,
Speaker 1: that's fine. That's fine dirty play. That's the penalty. We
Speaker 1: don't even need an office of discipline. We've just created
Speaker 1: the discipline. Whatever you give, you get. If it's dirty,
Speaker 1: and we know what it is. You hit somebody from behind,
Speaker 1: they go down, that's dirty, then you get what what
Speaker 1: you gave. However, many games are out, you're out. You
Speaker 1: don't agree with that, Rodney, Okay, what happens if he's
Speaker 1: not out? Bipill's not out a game?
Speaker 2: Right, right?
Speaker 1: So right, so here's that thing. Then here's the thing,
Speaker 1: good question. Here's the thing. You get for a dirty
Speaker 1: play at least one game, So you're getting one no
Speaker 1: matter what. Now the remainder will be determined on how
Speaker 1: long the person is out that you hit. So you
Speaker 1: got a game. Let's say Buyfield played last night, so
Speaker 1: Nurse would get one game and be able to come back.
Speaker 1: But let's say Buyfield miss four games, then Nurse has
Speaker 1: to miss four games. You get at least one for
Speaker 1: the act, and the remainder is determined on how long
Speaker 1: that person will be out.
Speaker 3: I really really really hate to say this, Fred, but
Speaker 3: that kind of makes some sense.
Speaker 1: Kevin, Kevin, we should sign off right now. Our show
Speaker 1: is going to be nine minutes long today. I don't
Speaker 1: think I've ever heard right and say.
Speaker 2: That it's true. That makes sense to mark that tape,
Speaker 2: yeah for the archives.
Speaker 3: Yeah huh yeah, Yeah. I was sitting there trying to
Speaker 3: rack my brain about why it doesn't. It's the dumbest
Speaker 3: thing in the world, Fred, is what you know normally
Speaker 3: comes out of my mouth when you, yeah, go on
Speaker 3: these crazy stories and rants. But I just, uh, I
Speaker 3: couldn't find it. I couldn't find myself to say it
Speaker 3: because it technically it kind of it does make sense
Speaker 3: if you put a guy out dirty and and it's
Speaker 3: unfortunate for that team that you're gonna lose their guy
Speaker 3: for a week, two weeks, three games, ten games, whatever
Speaker 3: it may be. Yeah, and you should be penalized too.
Speaker 3: You should be penalized too, because it could be one
Speaker 3: of those things they go after one of your better
Speaker 3: players and cheap shots him.
Speaker 2: And and and and they you.
Speaker 3: Know, the guy is now he's out for two weeks,
Speaker 3: and he's more valuable to your team than the guy
Speaker 3: that did it to their team. And and you know
Speaker 3: the guy gets suspended for a game. Yeah it should
Speaker 3: last two weeks, but what happens if that is the case. Though,
Speaker 3: You know they like they used to do the Marty
Speaker 3: mcsorley's of the world where they.
Speaker 2: Would go and rough somebody up.
Speaker 3: And or you got a guy on the bench, you know,
Speaker 3: like they do in basketball, he just go go foul out.
Speaker 3: I don't care what you do. Just rough the guy up.
Speaker 3: You know what I want? Six files and four minutes.
Speaker 3: You better get that.
Speaker 2: Fouls. Use every one of them, Use them all, use
Speaker 2: them all.
Speaker 3: And they you know, they they take out Yannis, you know,
Speaker 3: is taken out by the twelfth man on the bench,
Speaker 3: and and Yannis misses time.
Speaker 1: Then you know what you have to do there, See,
Speaker 1: now we have to expand the rule a little bit.
Speaker 1: So you're saying no seriously, So now you're saying you
Speaker 1: put the twelfth guy on the bench in you know,
Speaker 1: you see the coach talking to him. There's six minutes
Speaker 1: left in this quarter. You got six files. By the way,
Speaker 1: get the most of your time on the court because
Speaker 1: you're not going back in this is it for you? Yes,
Speaker 1: and I'm telling you you got six fouls go follow
Speaker 1: a minute. On the fifth foul, he takes out Yanna's.
Speaker 1: Yiannis is down in a heap. It's a dirty play.
Speaker 1: This guy's ejected. Yannis is going to miss how much time?
Speaker 2: Now? Four game or it's gonna miss two weeks. Now.
Speaker 1: We're aware of the fact that the twelfth man on
Speaker 1: the bench does not have the same skill set as Yanni's.
Speaker 1: So the Bucks in this case would get to pick
Speaker 1: the man that they had to sit for two weeks on
Speaker 1: the other team.
Speaker 3: Ah, okay, thet they get the choice, right.
Speaker 2: You hurt our guy.
Speaker 1: You hurt our guy, and certainly that guy we don't
Speaker 1: even care if he's on your team. So we have
Speaker 1: to pick somebody that we consider to be equal to
Speaker 1: our guy. And since you did it to us, we
Speaker 1: get to pick. I picked Kevin Durant. Feeding he's out
Speaker 1: for two weeks. Okay, okay. It's sort of like in
Speaker 1: hockey where the goalie commits a penalty and somebody serves
Speaker 1: it for him. Somebody has to serve this guy's suspension, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: how about that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah again, Freddy again you're making sense. What day
Speaker 3: is it today?
Speaker 1: A day that will never happen again, That's what day
Speaker 1: this is.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this.
Speaker 1: Let's look at football. Let's look at football. When you played,
Speaker 1: there were dirty plays, fair, yes, okay, And occasionally, as
Speaker 1: a result of one of those dirty players, somebody got hurt, right, okay.
Speaker 1: And if that person got hurt, that person could miss
Speaker 1: time to that point. Cheap shot, late hit, whatever, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: you got to take somebody out on the other side.
Speaker 1: You got to take somebody out on the other side.
Speaker 1: Now that I think about it, Let's say a linebacker.
Speaker 1: Cheap shots are running back of the running bats out.
Speaker 1: Running back is out for three weeks. Let's say that. Okay,
Speaker 1: the team that had the penalty or infraction committed against
Speaker 1: the Eagles. You're playing for the Eagles. Your running back
Speaker 1: is done. Linebacker on the Bears takes them out right, Okay,
Speaker 1: what do we do about this? Are we going to
Speaker 1: suspend the guy from the Bears. No, the Eagles get
Speaker 1: to pick. If the linebacker is an all Pro linebacker
Speaker 1: for the Bears, that guy sits. But what if it's
Speaker 1: some substitute they just put in, Then you might want
Speaker 1: to take out the Bears running back and you get
Speaker 1: to pick. You get to pick who sits. You get
Speaker 1: to pick who sits. You don't think that would clean
Speaker 1: things up?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, I think it would. And and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that would definitely clean things up because they would
Speaker 3: have to you know.
Speaker 1: They would obviously be a review reviewing body that reviews
Speaker 1: it to you know, determine if it was indeed a
Speaker 1: dirty play. And at that moment, yeah, okay, Eagles, pick
Speaker 1: whoever you want on the Bears.
Speaker 2: Is it for as long as our guys out.
Speaker 3: Or as long as our guys out. It could be
Speaker 3: late in the season. You're on a playoff run, right,
Speaker 3: I'm I'm picking your quarterback.
Speaker 2: Sit. No, but we'll have to quarterback slop.
Speaker 4: I'm absolutely pointing out that quarterback.
Speaker 2: You can't pick him, but you can pick anybody else.
Speaker 2: Pick anybody else on the team, and they have to sit.
Speaker 4: Let the stop, Like what if the player who gets hurt,
Speaker 4: the running back is not a star, they're just they're
Speaker 4: a backup or something like that. They get knocked out,
Speaker 4: and you know, they they might milk the injury a
Speaker 4: little bit and say, like, all right, if it's a
Speaker 4: division opponent, you know, and you know, say if the Eagles,
Speaker 4: let's let's just change the metric and say it's the
Speaker 4: Giants or something like that, and it's a division opponent,
Speaker 4: and we can take your star running back out. If
Speaker 4: Barkley was still on the Eagles and it was a
Speaker 4: backup on the other side for the Giants, maybe we
Speaker 4: have our backup running back who got injured, milking for
Speaker 4: a couple extra weeks and say, ah, you know what,
Speaker 4: your ankle's not right. I know it's been five weeks,
Speaker 4: but now it's still hurts.
Speaker 2: Don't it. It's still hurt.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, So less Saqua.
Speaker 2: Sit out for for a few more weeks. You can't
Speaker 2: do that, well, I believe you don't know that.
Speaker 4: You can't do any of this stuff I did.
Speaker 2: Were just spitballing this whole. By the way, do you
Speaker 2: know somebody.
Speaker 4: Would try to do that?
Speaker 2: They absolutely would.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say if I was a gem of a
Speaker 4: team or something like that, I wouldn't encourage it.
Speaker 2: To be honest with you. Listen, it hurts my.
Speaker 4: Opponent, it doesn't really hurt me that much because it's
Speaker 4: a third string running back they got injured.
Speaker 2: Most teams would do that.
Speaker 1: Hey, man, how you feeling. Oh my god, I have
Speaker 1: a bruise on my leg. I'm gonna be out for
Speaker 1: three more weeks. But it's only Kevin if it's if
Speaker 1: it's a dirty play, if he gets injured in the
Speaker 1: course of the game and there's nothing dirty about it,
Speaker 1: then no, it's fine.
Speaker 4: Even if it's a dirt it's a dirty play that
Speaker 4: the player gets injured. But if you can actually pick
Speaker 4: the other person on the other side, and the other
Speaker 4: person is generally speaking, deemed to be a more impactful
Speaker 4: player for that other team, you will absolutely pick them.
Speaker 4: And I'm just saying there are certain people that would say,
Speaker 4: you know what, let's let him sound an addition a
Speaker 4: week or two, let him miss an additional week.
Speaker 1: Absolute that would definitely happen if you will go, wait, man,
Speaker 1: we play them in three weeks again. Vision all point,
Speaker 1: we play them in three weeks, so make sure that
Speaker 1: injured last four weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to.
Speaker 3: Milk that an extra week so we don't see him
Speaker 3: by the time we play them again.
Speaker 4: And that's not hard to do, right, you know, like
Speaker 4: an extra week or two is fine. Now for talking
Speaker 4: about a national an extra month all right for a
Speaker 4: Naples tweak, Okay, sure, but you get another and one
Speaker 4: game obviously makes a big difference when you're only playing
Speaker 4: seventeen of them, so you know what you're suggesting.
Speaker 1: So the guy gets hurt on a dirty play and
Speaker 1: he's the backup running back. So now the Eagles get
Speaker 1: to pick whoever they're going to take out for the
Speaker 1: Bears or the Giants. So the guy that gets hurt,
Speaker 1: they examine him on Monday. This is your kind of thinking, Kevin.
Speaker 1: They examine him on Monday and say, you know what,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to give it a little time and
Speaker 1: we're gonna re examine it. And then by Thursday, using
Speaker 1: your thinking, the press release comes out. We're going to
Speaker 1: do exploratory surgery.
Speaker 2: And we don't know when he'll be back.
Speaker 4: You know what it is, right, No, this is what
Speaker 4: it is. It's like, oh, you know what he's day
Speaker 4: to day. We'll give him, you know, a couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: He needs to rest it a little bit, and then
Speaker 4: two weeks later it's like, oh my god, then he
Speaker 4: needs the exploratory surgery. It's a resting And this stuff happened.
Speaker 4: This happened with Freddy Freeman. The offseason, I rested my
Speaker 4: ankle for a few weeks. I thought it would be great,
Speaker 4: and it's like, you know what, I needed a procedure.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's not Oh that happens all the time.
Speaker 1: But it has to be in a dirty play, No, sure, Sure,
Speaker 1: if a guy gets hurt, it's different. I think that
Speaker 1: I honestly, And the Starnell Nurse thing got me thinking
Speaker 1: this morning. I think that corrects this. And especially in hockey, Uh,
Speaker 1: where these guys you know, just line you up and
Speaker 1: tee off. I mean I remember Nurse and Tono when
Speaker 1: he was suspended a couple of years ago. I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, come on, that doesn't work because oftentimes the
Speaker 1: guy that gets hurt is out longer than a guy suspended.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, most of the time it happens that way.
Speaker 2: Is that fair?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean no, it's not fair. But but you're
Speaker 3: right about that. Oftentimes it's the guy that uh that
Speaker 3: you know, took the brunt of the cheap shot that
Speaker 3: ends up being out longer.
Speaker 2: All right, well, this is just something to consider. No.
Speaker 4: Sorry, Well, we'll get Gary Bettman on the hook and
Speaker 4: talk to him about that. Fred him see what he
Speaker 4: thinks about that?
Speaker 2: Can you call him? Sure?
Speaker 1: If we brought Gary Bettman on and I asked him
Speaker 1: that question, and we've had him on before, I don't
Speaker 1: know if he well, first, he probably wouldn't say a
Speaker 1: word for like three minutes. Therefore, we would think he
Speaker 1: hung up. When present hung up, he pressed me sitting there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he pressed the new button and started laughing before
Speaker 4: he jumped back on the phone.
Speaker 2: Right, Oh, it's that movie.
Speaker 3: You know, guy's talking to his kids and he pretends
Speaker 3: like he did facetimeed froze the phone froze, gotta go.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: You know what Nick Mixon is going to be on
Speaker 1: at one o'clock.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's ask him what he thinks about that.
Speaker 1: I mean, he has seen more hockey than anybody. Well, no,
Speaker 1: if've seen more hockey than him, but he has seen
Speaker 1: almost as much as I have. He's older than me,
Speaker 1: but I think I started watching before he did. So
Speaker 1: we will discuss it with someone that does it for
Speaker 1: a living coming up at one o'clock.
Speaker 2: Okay, so last.
Speaker 1: Night Dodgers, when we know that, but was a big
Speaker 1: question answered in the minds of the fans.
Speaker 2: Let's get into that next.
Speaker 3: That's right, home of the world champion Dodges on a
Speaker 3: hump day, Rodney Pete, Fred Rogan, and today you might
Speaker 3: want to mark on your calendar because in our opening
Speaker 3: segment fred Fred actually made some sense of a rule
Speaker 3: and he'd like to implement. Found it a bit shocking
Speaker 3: that I truly pretty much agree with him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what I think we'll do is every day for
Speaker 1: a week, we'll rerun that segment.
Speaker 2: At some point.
Speaker 1: I think that's the way to handle it. It doesn't
Speaker 1: happen very old, So I'm going to memorialize that. Right,
Speaker 1: Dodger fans, here's a deal. I'm not trying to be mean,
Speaker 1: but you know who you are. You know who you are,
Speaker 1: and heading into this season, I know that there was
Speaker 1: probably more than a small group of fans that wondered,
Speaker 1: why is Chris Taylor still here? Let's just be honest,
Speaker 1: let's be fair. You know that's true, you know, and
Speaker 1: for some of you, you wanted him traded, others wanted
Speaker 1: him just dfaid, and some of you wanted him to
Speaker 1: quit the game altogether, which, of course none of that
Speaker 1: was going to happen. And as I talked to people
Speaker 1: at times who were wondering about Chris Taylor. I said,
Speaker 1: he's got a year left on his deal. Let's see
Speaker 1: what he does. They're not giving up on Chris Taylor.
Speaker 1: It's not going to happen. You have to remember there
Speaker 1: was a time where Chris Taylor was very productive. It
Speaker 1: made a great difference and that's why they signed him
Speaker 1: to the deal. Got hurt and things were never the same.
Speaker 1: So last night, let's talk about it. He made a
Speaker 1: diving catch in center field and an RBI single. I
Speaker 1: know it's the Rockies, I got it. We all know
Speaker 1: it's still a major league team. Diving catch, good play, defensively,
Speaker 1: RBI single. Rodney Should the Dodgers give him a few
Speaker 1: more reps to really see what he can do? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I absolutely believe so. At first, you know they're gonna
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna have to as they try to
Speaker 1: continue to get everybody healthy. But I do, I've and
Speaker 1: we said this.
Speaker 3: You know, it's a it's a tough it's a tough
Speaker 3: situation because we do remember how valuable Chris Taylor has
Speaker 3: been for this team over the years. He's made some
Speaker 3: big time plays offensively and defensively. The play he made
Speaker 3: in Milwaukee, we went up, you know, on the wall
Speaker 3: and caught it on the track, had some big hits
Speaker 3: over the years as well. So it just looks like
Speaker 3: in the last couple of games, though, Fredd, it looks
Speaker 3: like he is I'm not gonna say he's all the
Speaker 3: way back, but it looks like he is playing with
Speaker 3: a lot more confidence and feeling like he's starting to
Speaker 3: get into somewhat of a rhythm. And you only get
Speaker 3: that by playing. I would hate for him to, you know,
Speaker 3: have this kind of okay resurgence and and all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, he sits for three weeks and doesn't play,
Speaker 3: and then he plays one game, and then he sits
Speaker 3: for another five games, and then he doesn't play again,
Speaker 3: and the only time he gets in is the pitch
Speaker 3: hitting the ninth and it just you can't ever get
Speaker 3: into a rhythm like that. And I know it's hard
Speaker 3: because there's a lot of players that you know, want
Speaker 3: and need and deserve playing time. But I still think
Speaker 3: he can play, and and I'm happy for him because
Speaker 3: he's a guy that you definitely root for.
Speaker 1: Front Yeah, yeah, you do root for him, and you
Speaker 1: just have to think back, which is hard for people.
Speaker 1: He didn't forget how to play baseball because he played
Speaker 1: it pretty well here for a while. He didn't forget it,
Speaker 1: didn't the skill set didn't leave his body suddenly.
Speaker 2: He just struggled.
Speaker 1: And I really think you got to see what you
Speaker 1: have with him.
Speaker 2: You have to.
Speaker 1: It's the final year of his deal, so you've got
Speaker 1: to let him play. And if he develops in that
Speaker 1: rhythm you're talking about Rodney, then you have someone who's
Speaker 1: going to be a contributor. But you know, if you
Speaker 1: let him play and the struggles from last year and
Speaker 1: don't forget at the end of last year, he started
Speaker 1: to come out of it a little bit. But if
Speaker 1: those struggles from earlier last year are back and persist,
Speaker 1: then you may have to make a decision down the road,
Speaker 1: But not now, not at this moment. He can't be
Speaker 1: as pedro Baiez was when they opened a bullpen game.
Speaker 2: Everyone knows.
Speaker 1: Oh god, no and Kenley, both of them got it.
Speaker 1: If you remember, it was terrible. You can't look at
Speaker 1: it like he's at the plate. Oh god, no, you
Speaker 1: can't do that. That that that's counterproductive. That doesn't work.
Speaker 1: Somebody touched me last night and said they heard the
Speaker 1: show they were at the Dodger game last night, and
Speaker 1: they were trying to generate the kind of excitement and
Speaker 1: enthusiasm as we described in San Diego the night before.
Speaker 1: The problem was I felt he was like alone on
Speaker 1: an island doing it. He said, But I'm trying now,
Speaker 1: I'm working on it out here. But I thought that
Speaker 1: was funny because I'm trying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3: And a big part of it is that, you know,
Speaker 3: obviously playing the Rockies, you know, and it's not it's
Speaker 3: hard to get up for the Rockies really, even for
Speaker 3: even for the players. Sometimes, you know, the Rockies coming
Speaker 3: to town, and and it's it's not conscious, it's you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's a it's an involuntary response that your body has.
Speaker 3: It's like, oh, playing the Rockies, Oh oh yeah. And
Speaker 3: you know I may not get to the stadium four
Speaker 3: hours early for the Rockies.
Speaker 2: You know, it's the Rockies. You know.
Speaker 3: This is where I get This is where I get
Speaker 3: back on track against the Rockies.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: But it was hard. I was at the game last night,
Speaker 3: and and you know, there was early in the game,
Speaker 3: I think they're there. People were excited, obviously, Jackie Robinson
Speaker 3: day and and and the things that they did, everybody
Speaker 3: wearing forty two. Such a cool, cool way to celebrate him.
Speaker 3: And there was some excitement in the UH in the atmosphere,
Speaker 3: but but again not not not even close to to
Speaker 3: what's happening in in UH in San Diego, UH at
Speaker 3: the moment. And again again like we just said about
Speaker 3: the Rockies, you know, they're playing the Cubs, which as
Speaker 3: the excitement too, because the Cup are going to bring
Speaker 3: their flavor and their fans and it's you know, probably
Speaker 3: getting into it in the stands, and and that just
Speaker 3: livens it up. You know, I guarantee you we play
Speaker 3: the Padres, that we play the Giants, it'll be a
Speaker 3: little bit more electricity in Dodger Stadium than it is
Speaker 3: against the Rockies.
Speaker 2: That's fair. That's fair.
Speaker 1: Tonight, as the fund and festivities continue against what ales
Speaker 1: of the Rockies, Bobby Miller will be back. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think this will be very interesting to see.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Look, before he got hurt, be honest, he looked like
Speaker 1: a guy that would be top of the rotation for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he came back, he just couldn't find it again.
Speaker 1: His first start since last September. So far, six starts
Speaker 1: at okac, he's allowed six hits and twelve innings pitched.
Speaker 2: That'll work. That'll work.
Speaker 3: Twelve innings, six hits, ye total, Yeah, that'll definitely work.
Speaker 3: And hopefully he has found it and I think it's
Speaker 3: good that he is again, as you mentioned, no cure
Speaker 3: for any kind of helmen like playing the Rockies, and
Speaker 3: hopefully he can get it back, because you're right, Fred,
Speaker 3: when he burst on the scene, there was the excitement
Speaker 3: for him was much like the excitement when Walker Buehler
Speaker 3: broke in. You know, electric arm, guy could throw you know,
Speaker 3: one hundred and had had that attitude strutting around the
Speaker 3: mound and you know, you loved what you saw. It's like,
Speaker 3: this guy is going to be the ace at some
Speaker 3: point of this squad. And again, you know, injuries and
Speaker 3: you know coming back, whether you come back too soon
Speaker 3: or not. But he certainly was not the same after
Speaker 3: the injury. And then you know, confidence goes into it
Speaker 3: and plays a role, and he lost some of that
Speaker 3: and then did not even make the postseason roster. So
Speaker 3: hopefully he can get it back, because he is when
Speaker 3: he's on, he's got some electric stuff to an already
Speaker 3: loaded pitching staff.
Speaker 1: One more shout out. It seems like the forgotten man.
Speaker 1: Think about this. He seems like, I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: his name, the forgotten man. When you think of the
Speaker 1: Dodgers and their lineup, a guy that was hurt last
Speaker 1: year but apparently isn't hurt this year is Will Smith.
Speaker 2: When do we say Will Smith when you just.
Speaker 1: Talk about, let's look at the Dodger lineup, Let's let's
Speaker 1: talk about these guys can hit. I don't think we
Speaker 1: ever mentioned Will Smith.
Speaker 3: No, we really don't, are we do, But it's it's
Speaker 3: after we mentioned Taoscar. It's after we mentioned it's even
Speaker 3: after we mentioned Max Munsey.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's after we mentioned Tommy Edmond. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And when it isn't there's nobody hotter than Will Smith.
Speaker 1: I mean, I wouldn't say he's necessarily carrying the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: but he's certainly he's certainly keeping them in the hunt
Speaker 1: and had big hits when they needed them. And he
Speaker 1: has ten other He's ten for thirteen with runners in
Speaker 1: scoring position. We didn't take that. Everybody would take that.
Speaker 1: Imagine if everybody was like that, he's ten for thirteen.
Speaker 1: He's having a really good start to the season, and
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, he just seems to be an afterthought.
Speaker 1: And I think it's because last year was not his
Speaker 1: most dynamic hitting season. But again, no one knew that
Speaker 1: he was hurt and it was playing through something. And
Speaker 1: I think that happens all the time, Rodney. You look
Speaker 1: at a guy and he's like, what's wrong with him?
Speaker 1: What happened to him? And then you realize, no, he
Speaker 1: was hurt for half the season and didn't say anything,
Speaker 1: just gutting it out and trying to get through it.
Speaker 1: So this is great for the Dodgers. I mean, if
Speaker 1: Will Smith keeps sitting like this and then everybody gets
Speaker 1: back in rhythm here, that makes that lineup even more dynamic,
Speaker 1: war potent, more scary for opposing pictures.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, if you remember, I mean you talk
Speaker 3: about we just talk about Chris Taylor having big moments
Speaker 3: for the Dodgers. Will Smith has had some huge moments
Speaker 3: as the Dodgers have been in the playoffs the last
Speaker 3: few years. And but you're right when you look at
Speaker 3: that lineup and you start talking about the lineup, and
Speaker 3: we talk about this all the time, murderers Row they
Speaker 3: got these guys, this guy, they say, oh, yeah, they
Speaker 3: got Will Smith too, right, It's not like he's not
Speaker 3: top of mind when it comes to that, which you
Speaker 3: actually should because he's been steady.
Speaker 2: But I think you're right.
Speaker 3: Last you know, last year with the injury and coming
Speaker 3: back from all of that, it's just he wasn't quite
Speaker 3: the same.
Speaker 1: But he is off to a hot, hot, hot start
Speaker 1: right now and hopefully can keep it up. The five
Speaker 1: second rule. Now when I say that, what do you
Speaker 1: think the five second rule? Let's talk about it next.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, come on, yeah, that don't make you your head.
Speaker 2: I don't know what does.
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Speaker 1: Remember this kid when you were young, Maybe you did
Speaker 1: this with your kids as well. I remember when I
Speaker 1: was young, and if you're eating, if you're carrying any
Speaker 1: kind of food, and it fell and it fell on
Speaker 1: the ground.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's all think.
Speaker 1: Back now, or think what you do with your kids.
Speaker 1: Somebody's carrying something, piece of food falls on the ground
Speaker 1: and you or the kids or whoever picks it up
Speaker 1: real fast, picks it up real fast. It wasn't down
Speaker 1: there very long, but you grab it and pick it up.
Speaker 1: What do you do?
Speaker 2: What do you do?
Speaker 1: What did your parents tell you? I remember the old
Speaker 1: five second rule?
Speaker 2: Right? Whop? Ok? I got it. It's fine.
Speaker 3: It's the five second rule. Yes, you remember that, of
Speaker 3: course I do. I actually still do it. I still
Speaker 3: do it. Yeah, five second rule. For sure. You know
Speaker 3: it can't be anything. Nothing bad can happen if you
Speaker 3: drop it on the ground. For five seconds and you
Speaker 3: pick it up, right, nothing, Come on, Well, apparently it
Speaker 3: can't happen. Apparently it is a problem. Oh no, new researcher,
Speaker 3: it's fred I don't know even know if I want
Speaker 3: to know this.
Speaker 2: Well, no, it's pretty simple.
Speaker 1: According to new research, scientists looked into it, and if
Speaker 1: you drop something on the ground and you wait two
Speaker 1: seconds to pick it up, according to this, it's still
Speaker 1: not good. If you drop something on the ground, just
Speaker 1: put it like this. According to this, it is dead
Speaker 1: to you. There is no reason for you to even
Speaker 1: consider picking it up. If you drop something, that's it.
Speaker 1: It's over.
Speaker 2: Now. I don't know if I subscribe to that theory.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you're saying, no matter what, if it
Speaker 1: hits the ground, it's gonna be a one second.
Speaker 2: It's done soon as over the ground is done. Right,
Speaker 2: it's done. It could be the cleanest ground or cleanest
Speaker 2: floor in the world, it doesn't matter. It's over.
Speaker 1: You should not eat it. I mean, I remember as
Speaker 1: a kid one time I got a hot dog at
Speaker 1: Tiger Stadium. I was really excited about this hot dog
Speaker 1: and I was walking away and I dropped it and
Speaker 1: I was so excited to get this hot dog. I
Speaker 1: was a little kid, and I looked down at that thing,
Speaker 1: and I had to make a decision. Do I pick
Speaker 1: it up because I really wanted that hot talk or
Speaker 1: do I let it go? And the hot dog was
Speaker 1: like seventy five cents and I'd spend all my money.
Speaker 1: So the guy who gave me the hot dog is
Speaker 1: staring at me, staring at me, staring at the hot dog,
Speaker 1: trying to make a decision. He then says, let me
Speaker 1: give you another one. It spared me. It spared me
Speaker 1: the decision of whether I was going to pick up
Speaker 1: that hot dog at Tiger Stadium or not. Rodney, I
Speaker 1: think I would have you got it, picked up the
Speaker 1: hot dog. Yeah, yeah, no doubt, no doubt. But you
Speaker 1: wasted time by staring at it determining whether you're going
Speaker 1: to pick it up or not. I was in a
Speaker 1: state of shock. It's like something just happened and you
Speaker 1: can't believe it. You can't react. You just have to
Speaker 1: stare at it. Yeah, but pick it up, person, stare
Speaker 1: at it, because I do that. You know, you pick
Speaker 1: it up right away and you look at it and go.
Speaker 2: Should I still eat this? Should I do it? Let me,
Speaker 2: twist it around, let me see if anything happened to it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll eat it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think you're making a mistake for
Speaker 1: even twisting it around.
Speaker 2: If you go for it, you go right, You don't.
Speaker 2: You don't have time. I want to debate it, right. No,
Speaker 2: you're in or you're out. Now, it's good.
Speaker 1: We have Kevin here because he has the youngest child
Speaker 1: of our group, and we'll see what they plan on
Speaker 1: doing with Oliver. So, Kevin, what will your Lauren's plan
Speaker 1: b with Oliver in the event he dropped something?
Speaker 4: Oh, you pick it right back up and give it
Speaker 4: to him. Well, the way I look at it, too,
Speaker 4: is the world is way too oversanitize these days. So
Speaker 4: especially when someone as that young with a developing immune system,
Speaker 4: I want him exposed to as many things as possible
Speaker 4: within reason. If he drops his spoon on the floor
Speaker 4: for a quarter of a second, just pick it up
Speaker 4: and put it right back in the bowl and let
Speaker 4: him keep eating.
Speaker 2: I gonna kill Let me be fine.
Speaker 1: Obviously, you do not believe in the research project we just.
Speaker 2: Talked about what they know scientistic.
Speaker 3: Somebody gives you something like if somebody's cooking something for you,
Speaker 3: making something for you, like you just said, fed that
Speaker 3: hot dog. Yeah, and it probably was back in the
Speaker 3: day where people didn't wear gloves when they cooked.
Speaker 2: Oh no, they just they just gave it.
Speaker 3: To you and you ate it and you didn't care
Speaker 3: where if they had just went to the bathroom or
Speaker 3: they were scratching themselves somewhere. That guy made that hot
Speaker 3: dog handed it to you, and you don't know way
Speaker 3: those hands have been.
Speaker 2: That's worse than dropping it on the ground.
Speaker 4: It really is.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, If you go to a restaurant,
Speaker 1: do you want the chef to wear gloves?
Speaker 2: Do you care? I?
Speaker 3: Usually, I probably I don't care because I'm trusting that
Speaker 3: the chef has washed his hands and has done the
Speaker 3: necessary things to prepare my meal. Yea, So I'm not
Speaker 3: I'm not necessarily inspecting the chef for wearing gloves or not,
Speaker 3: because I again, I'm I'm I'm expecting him to do
Speaker 3: the necessary things.
Speaker 2: So you don't care. I don't care either. I don't care.
Speaker 2: I really don't.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you care, then you probably shouldn't go
Speaker 3: to go eating in one of some of the restaurants
Speaker 3: in Japan because they're fixing sushi.
Speaker 2: They're fixing things for you.
Speaker 3: They're not wearing necessarily wearing gloves, not all of my
Speaker 3: wearing gloves, and a lot of it is you know,
Speaker 3: working with their hands, preparing something for you.
Speaker 2: We went to a place and the guy shoved it
Speaker 2: down my mouth. Okay, yeah, really hope for me to
Speaker 2: hear that. A great place.
Speaker 3: Wagoo Mafya was one of the It's a very popular
Speaker 3: place in Tokyo and and just a small place.
Speaker 2: Chef is quite a character.
Speaker 3: If you do get an opportunity to go back to
Speaker 3: Tokyo or go to Tokyo, gotta go to Wagoo Mafia
Speaker 3: and the Wagoo beef. The stick that they make is
Speaker 3: just ridiculous. And they do the wasabi challenges and all
Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. But yeah, no, they make it
Speaker 3: and they they can do everything with Wagoo beef that
Speaker 3: you can only imagine in your dreams. And it's so good.
Speaker 3: But yeah, he makes these little sliders or he makes
Speaker 3: something else with it.
Speaker 2: He makes it tartar.
Speaker 3: I mean, he does a lot of things with it
Speaker 3: and throws the withabi on it and then shoves it
Speaker 3: in your mouth.
Speaker 2: And you don't think about it eating.
Speaker 4: Now, what if it bounces off lip, it hits the floor,
Speaker 4: they're riding here, you're picking it up and eat it?
Speaker 1: There it is? Did I did I tell you guys
Speaker 1: about what happened when I went to dinner one night there?
Speaker 1: Not to belabor this, but you know, and everybody at
Speaker 1: one point or another in.
Speaker 2: Their life has to deal with this.
Speaker 1: We go to this place where with these people, we
Speaker 1: walk in and it's not a regular table.
Speaker 2: It's you have to like sit down.
Speaker 3: Uh huh like ill like like across your across your
Speaker 3: legs and right it's small underneath.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't do that. I gotta stretch my legs out. Okay.
Speaker 1: So I see this and I'm thinking to myself, this
Speaker 1: is going to be challenging. Now, for most people, you
Speaker 1: just sit down on the floor. But at point, it's
Speaker 1: sometime in your life you may get to a point
Speaker 1: where that's that's going to be a bit challenging just
Speaker 1: to gracefully do that. And when you get to that
Speaker 1: point in your life, you'll know, trust me. So I'm
Speaker 1: looking at this and I'm thinking, oh my god, what
Speaker 1: am I gonna do here? Because I mean, this could
Speaker 1: go either way. The simplest task could go either way,
Speaker 1: could be smooth and easy or be a catastrophe. So
Speaker 1: when no one's looking, I kind of maneuver myself and
Speaker 1: now I'm seated, and I am so happy I'm seated.
Speaker 1: I am there. I have done it and now will
Speaker 1: enjoy a good meal that led to the next part
Speaker 1: of it. Now I have to get up. Now I
Speaker 1: have to get up. There was hard enough, or I
Speaker 1: have a meal to go to leave, to leave, okay,
Speaker 1: so it's time to get up, and everybody's gotten up,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, all right, this, this is not going
Speaker 1: to be good. I have to come up with a
Speaker 1: plan to sort of gracefully get up without anybody knowing
Speaker 1: that given the position I'm in right now, it could
Speaker 1: be a problem. And you certainly don't want to say
Speaker 1: to the guy next year, hey, Rod, you.
Speaker 2: Give me a hand. You don't want to do that, right,
Speaker 2: They don't want to buy getting a way for it.
Speaker 2: Don't let pride get in the way of it.
Speaker 1: Man, come on, all right, but here's what I did,
Speaker 1: And you guys can write this down because you may
Speaker 1: need this one day.
Speaker 2: I'm sitting there, I'm thinking I got a problem. So
Speaker 2: what I do ensure.
Speaker 1: It seemed a bit extreme at the moment, but it
Speaker 1: worked out quite nicely. I kind of pushed myself back
Speaker 1: and then.
Speaker 2: I kind of rolled on my side, so I kind
Speaker 2: of just rolled to my knees and stood up.
Speaker 1: No one really saw that, and I gotta be honest,
Speaker 1: Actually some people did, and it wasn't quite as graceful
Speaker 1: as I pointed out.
Speaker 2: You probably you thought it was incredibly graceful.
Speaker 1: In my mind, yeah, I thought I was never getting up,
Speaker 1: So anything that happened after that, I felt fine.
Speaker 2: And how long was dinner?
Speaker 3: You know, if dinner's more than thirty minutes, then and
Speaker 3: you're sitting down there that long. Of course, for those
Speaker 3: of us at a certain age, it becomes more and
Speaker 3: more difficult, and that clock keeps ticking in your mind,
Speaker 3: going down. I've been down here for thirty five, forty
Speaker 3: five fifty Damn, I've been down here for an hour.
Speaker 3: I started thinking about how I'm not gonna get up
Speaker 3: from this day. That's exactly you start thinking about. Right, See,
Speaker 3: he was looking, who's looking? Who's looking? Let me let
Speaker 3: everybody else get up first, let me get thinks exactly.
Speaker 1: So here here's the thing dinner lasted an hour, and
Speaker 1: then it took me two hours to get up, and
Speaker 1: then everything was fine. Then in the evening went quite sparkling.
Speaker 2: Okay.
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