WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:04.200 And we're off and running. On a Thursday afternoon, It's 2 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:08.839 the Rogan and Rodney Show minus Rogan and Rodney, as 3 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:11.119 the eight oh five and the eight one eight are 4 00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:15.480 taking over the Blowtorch A five seventy LA Sports Tim 5 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:19.800 Kats along with the great Jonas Knox here from noon 6 00:00:19.839 --> 00:00:20.320 to three today. 7 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:22.079 What's up, Jonas? Oh man, this is gonna be a 8 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:24.199 lot of fun. By the way, Who's who who gets 9 00:00:24.199 --> 00:00:26.519 to be here? Are you Fred? Or you Rodney? I 10 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:29.399 was told I was Fred. I don't want to be Fred, 11 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:31.679 but unfortunately I have to be Fred today. Yeah, but 12 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:33.719 you were a much better athlete than be I think 13 00:00:33.719 --> 00:00:35.640 you should be I think you should be Rodney. Yeah, 14 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:38.159 I think you should be Rodney. I'll be Fred. Well, 15 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:40.200 I'll take one for the team. Nobody wants to be Fred, 16 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:43.960 so I'll do it. This is a long time coming, Jonas. 17 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:47.719 The two of us doing great sports talk here in 18 00:00:47.759 --> 00:00:51.600 Los Angeles, in southern California, two guys from the area, 19 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:55.200 two guys that know LA sports better than anybody else 20 00:00:55.520 --> 00:00:59.439 here in this building, and we're together finally. Yeah. 21 00:00:59.439 --> 00:01:02.159 I mean listen, this isn't like, you know, somebody who 22 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:04.920 grew up on eight mile like Fred and was a 23 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:08.000 die hard Tigers fan when he was a kid, you know, 24 00:01:08.079 --> 00:01:11.040 walking around with some cecil field or blow up doll 25 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:14.560 in his closet. And then he comes out here, tour 26 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:16.879 it to Phoenix and starts hanging out in Phoenix, and 27 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:19.799 then he makes his trek over to to Luca Lake 28 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:21.640 and then thinks he can take this place over for 29 00:01:21.719 --> 00:01:24.239 four plus decades. No, no, no, no, no no. We are 30 00:01:24.280 --> 00:01:27.319 born and raised here in southern California. That's right, that's 31 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:28.120 the way it should be. 32 00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:31.599 Absolutely talking LA sports from two guys born and raised 33 00:01:31.599 --> 00:01:33.640 here in southern California. We got a busy three hours. 34 00:01:33.719 --> 00:01:36.200 Jonas Vinnie Bontignor is gonna join us next hour. Dylan 35 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:38.959 Hernandez from the La Times was at the Baseball Winter 36 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:41.879 Meetings along with our own David Vesey in Dallas. The 37 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:45.040 last three plus days. A lot happened, but also a 38 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:48.239 lot didn't happen in Dallas, which we're gonna get into. 39 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:51.480 We're gonna get into the whole Bill Belichick situation at 40 00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:54.239 North Carolina. And he had his press conference about an 41 00:01:54.239 --> 00:01:57.719 hour ago and didn't really say much as expected from 42 00:01:57.760 --> 00:02:01.280 Bill Belichick. But I'm just glad we're both here together. 43 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:05.799 You work three am to six am on two Joe's 44 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:07.400 and a cup of but is it. 45 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:09.000 Two pros and a cup of Joe's? So you probably 46 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:10.599 had it better the first time, to be honest, with 47 00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:13.439 two pros and a cup of joe so you're light 48 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:16.520 on sleep. I woke up this morning feeling like Cameron 49 00:02:16.599 --> 00:02:21.520 Fry from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Here comes Kevin Figures, 50 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:24.199 texting me like Ferris Bueller, saying are we going? 51 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:26.120 Are you coming? Can you do the show? And I 52 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:29.560 was dead to the world. I was absolutely out this morning. 53 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:31.759 I had taken night quill last night. I got home 54 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:34.240 from sports in at La last night. My throat was 55 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:36.759 killing me. Feels like razor braids in my throat. And 56 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:38.680 I woke up to Kevin's text and I'm like, man, 57 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:41.479 I just can't do it. I just can't do it. 58 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:43.240 And as soon as I sent the text, I laid 59 00:02:43.240 --> 00:02:45.840 there and I thought about, wait a second. Jonas just 60 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:49.039 worked three hours from three am to six am, probably 61 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:51.960 working on little sleep. The guy works six days a 62 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:55.800 week and then during football season seven days a week. 63 00:02:55.879 --> 00:02:57.719 How am I supposed to just lay here with a 64 00:02:57.719 --> 00:03:00.919 little sore throat and some sniffles and say I can't 65 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:03.680 join Jonas from twelve to three today, so I slapped 66 00:03:03.719 --> 00:03:05.960 myself in the face. I took some of regan o' 67 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:08.599 oil and here I am okay. 68 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:10.199 Now let me ask you question how much of that 69 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:12.680 had to do with the fact that niq Will, much 70 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:17.120 like Booze great when you're having it, makes you feel good, 71 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:19.120 and then you wake up the next morning and you 72 00:03:19.159 --> 00:03:21.319 feel groggy. Because the last time I had Nike Will 73 00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:23.479 was the last time I'll have niq Will. It just 74 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:25.759 did not land well with me. I felt like craft 75 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:27.560 the next day and I had to walk away. No 76 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:30.240 offense to anybody from Nike Will who might be listening 77 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:32.800 to the show on the iHeartRadio app our apologies, but 78 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:34.919 I'm just letting you know, man, when you wear it 79 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:37.759 the next day after after you take niquill the night before, 80 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:39.039 you're going through it. 81 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:41.520 I felt good this morning, though, because I was able 82 00:03:41.560 --> 00:03:45.319 to sleep despite the stuff. He knows, the head feeling congested, 83 00:03:45.680 --> 00:03:48.319 the sore throat, the ichy body. Last night. I woke 84 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:51.199 up this morning, three of the four were gone, the 85 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:54.280 sore throat still lingers, and Jonas I got to tell 86 00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:57.400 you something that has saved me today in the last 87 00:03:57.479 --> 00:03:59.719 few months is a regan O oil. I don't even 88 00:03:59.719 --> 00:04:01.639 know if have you heard about this? No, I have 89 00:04:01.719 --> 00:04:03.479 no idea what that. Well. I don't want to chronic 90 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:05.439 taco myself. And that came back from a couple of 91 00:04:05.479 --> 00:04:07.360 years ago on the Petrols some money show on how 92 00:04:07.479 --> 00:04:09.840 was your Weekend? I talked about this taco place I 93 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:13.479 went to here in Burbank called chronic Tacos, and Matt 94 00:04:13.479 --> 00:04:15.479 and Petchels are like, dude, you're an idiot. It's all 95 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:18.240 over Orange County. Just because it just came to Burbank 96 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:21.040 and you just discovered it doesn't mean it's new. And 97 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:23.600 so now anytime somebody has something but it's already been 98 00:04:23.639 --> 00:04:26.040 around for a while, you get chronic taco. That's kind 99 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:26.720 of the right. 100 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:30.240 Yeah, but it's new to you, So that's the most important. 101 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:33.360 That's exactly. But if you bring up something on their 102 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:35.399 show that they already knew about or it's been around 103 00:04:35.399 --> 00:04:37.480 for a while, it's chronic taco. So I don't want 104 00:04:37.480 --> 00:04:40.399 a chronic taco myself with a Regano oil. But I 105 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:42.279 don't know how many other people out there listening you 106 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:46.000 can tweet at us. A Regano oil, you drop it 107 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:49.759 in your throat. It's an ointment. Little drop, It burns 108 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:53.279 and it feels so good. After a few minutes, your 109 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:56.240 sore throat is gone because of a regan O oil. 110 00:04:56.399 --> 00:05:00.040 Your breath smells, your throat is just on fire, I 111 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:02.639 mean like on fire, but you feel so good. 112 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:04.839 Well yeah, I mean I've never heard of that. I 113 00:05:05.079 --> 00:05:07.399 would look into that. And also just going back to 114 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:08.879 one thing that you said of it that well, he's 115 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:11.560 on lack of sleep or whatever, like this is Look, 116 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:13.720 you've had kids. I was just talking to Kevin Figures. 117 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:16.600 Kevin Figures is going through stuff. Everybody listening is going 118 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:19.879 through stuff like the lack of sleep conversation like I 119 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:21.600 don't ever want to be a part of because the 120 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:24.240 way I look at it, you know, we're blessed to 121 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:27.319 be able to have any job period and if you're working, 122 00:05:27.879 --> 00:05:30.079 like you know, be thankful that you that you have 123 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:32.519 the ability to work. But the fact that we get 124 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:34.879 to do it and we play grab ass and talk 125 00:05:34.920 --> 00:05:38.000 about you know, the winter meetings and Belichick take it 126 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:42.040 over at North Carolina and his personality and the Dodgers 127 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:44.199 and what the hell's going on with the Oscar Hernandez 128 00:05:44.199 --> 00:05:46.360 and all of a sudden, Cody Bellinger is on the 129 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:49.360 move potentially and everything else that goes along with it 130 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:51.399 like that, I just look at it and go a man, 131 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:53.920 like I would be doing this anyways, So I just 132 00:05:53.959 --> 00:05:55.160 do it on a little bit less sleep. 133 00:05:55.399 --> 00:05:58.000 You're making me feel really bad because about an hour 134 00:05:58.040 --> 00:06:00.600 ago I was still out. I actually thought about it, 135 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:02.519 took a shower, and I text Kevin like if you 136 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:05.600 need me, I'm in because I just didn't feel good. 137 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:08.560 And now you're making me feel like an absolutely idiot. 138 00:06:08.759 --> 00:06:13.000 And now but you do uh almost show. It's not 139 00:06:13.079 --> 00:06:15.959 like you haven't done shows on little sleep. You do scam. 140 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:18.920 You're working every single day. You're doing like when when 141 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:22.000 football seasons here, we got UCLA post game, like you 142 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:23.879 bust your I was telling Petros this the other I 143 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:28.040 was him tim buss his ass like he's always working hard. Uh, 144 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:31.040 especially during football season with UCLA and everything else that 145 00:06:31.079 --> 00:06:32.720 comes along with it. To no, man, I mean, look, 146 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:35.800 this is this is the life we chose. Sometimes we 147 00:06:35.879 --> 00:06:38.680 get thrown into you got to step in and you 148 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:41.560 know we called the this is the bullpen game for 149 00:06:41.639 --> 00:06:44.319 the Rogan and Rodney Show. Here, we'll call it that 150 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:47.279 today here on the show with Fred and Rodney both out. 151 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:49.279 And you know what, the bullpen games were successful for 152 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:53.120 the Dodgers, that helped them win a championship. We're gonna 153 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:54.480 help make this great today here on. 154 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:57.639 By the way, was it I was talking to Fred 155 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:01.360 about this last time? Was the the bullpen game? Was 156 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:05.240 that Mark Pryor's idea? Or was he the one who said, 157 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:07.279 all right, if you want to do a bullpen game, 158 00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:11.480 then I will strategize exactly how it could look if 159 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:13.480 we were to do a bullpen game? Like, whose idea 160 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:14.199 was it to go to it? 161 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:17.160 So frequently it's a collective effort, Jonas, It's not one 162 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:20.120 person making the decisions. It's not Dave Roberts making the 163 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:23.000 decisions or Mark Pryor making the pitching decisions. It's a 164 00:07:23.040 --> 00:07:26.120 collective effort from Andrew Freeman in the brain trust to 165 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:30.920 Connor McGinnis assistant pitching coach. It is everybody combined that 166 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:33.199 puts this together in the play together and they all 167 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:35.360 map it out on how it hopefully goes. And then 168 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:37.639 Dave Roberts is the one who's like that book, you know, 169 00:07:37.720 --> 00:07:39.600 choose your own adventure. He's the one who's supposed to 170 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:41.839 go to the next adventure depending on what's happening in 171 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:42.439 the games. 172 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:45.199 It is kind of amazing how the conversation around Dave 173 00:07:45.279 --> 00:07:50.560 Roberts has chained though, oh right, every single offseason it 174 00:07:50.680 --> 00:07:53.439 was he's got to go, Dave Roberts can't get it done, 175 00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:56.120 blah blah blah blah blah. And I think, you know, 176 00:07:56.160 --> 00:07:58.800 we talked about it whenever I was filling in. By 177 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:00.759 far and away, I think the best job he's done 178 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:03.519 as a Dodgers manager this year, dealing and having to 179 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:06.399 navigate all the injuries and everything else that came along 180 00:08:06.439 --> 00:08:10.040 with it. He was steady the entire time. You never 181 00:08:10.120 --> 00:08:13.560 heard a complaint, You never heard just steadied the entire season. 182 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:17.040 Got to the postseason, they were putting difficult spots, elimination 183 00:08:17.160 --> 00:08:21.600 games against the Padres, bullpen games. You never knew who 184 00:08:21.680 --> 00:08:23.199 was going to be out there from one minute to 185 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:25.720 the next. You had injuries pop up, you had Freddie 186 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:29.639 Freeman's injury, and he was the constant throughout the entire year. 187 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:31.680 And so now it is nice seeing him kind of 188 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:33.639 get his flowers that he should have gotten a long 189 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:36.200 time ago. How about the victory laugh for Dave Roberts 190 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:39.279 last night speaking to the Boy Scouts of America. He 191 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:41.840 was at the Winter meetings in Dallas before that. He's 192 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:44.799 over at Okinawa, Japan, going back home to where he 193 00:08:44.879 --> 00:08:47.600 was born to get his flowers from the people over there. 194 00:08:47.759 --> 00:08:50.679 He had a family vacation over in Europe right after 195 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:54.039 the World Series. He has been celebrated everywhere he has 196 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:58.080 gone across the globe. And you're right, he's won fifth 197 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:01.879 inneen away from not maybe a World Series or not 198 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:04.320 maybe going out as we thought it was in Game 199 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:05.879 five and the way they did in New York winning 200 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:09.360 that game. But man, how about Baseball America Yeshua getting 201 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:12.039 it right naming him the manager of the Year in 202 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:15.120 twenty twenty four because of everything he did from the 203 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:17.840 start of the season through the postseason. The Manager of 204 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:20.279 the Year award given out by the writers is a 205 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:23.399 regular season award, and because he's on, you know, managing 206 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:25.720 such a great team, Jonas, he'll never win that award, 207 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:29.200 like Phil Jackson only won it once in his entire career. Well, 208 00:09:29.240 --> 00:09:32.120 and he deserved it from the sense that people can 209 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:34.000 look at it and maybe push back and say, well, 210 00:09:34.039 --> 00:09:36.080 I mean with all that talent, of course they should 211 00:09:36.120 --> 00:09:39.559 win games. Dude, you didn't know who was going from 212 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:42.879 day to day, Like you had no idea like Mookie 213 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:46.440 Bets maximun See, like you could go through the starting 214 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:49.240 nine on a day to day basis and find who 215 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:51.840 was healthy the entire year, like who didn't have something 216 00:09:51.879 --> 00:09:54.679 pop up or missed a significant amount of time. So 217 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:57.600 the fact that he was able to sort of you know, 218 00:09:57.679 --> 00:10:00.559 play the strings right, plays cards right now, vigate all 219 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:04.000 that he absolutely deserves it, and then to go off 220 00:10:04.120 --> 00:10:07.919 and finish it off in the postseason, Man the moon 221 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:11.159 in this town when they were down to the Padres 222 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:14.080 that Sunday night game where the Padres were just raining 223 00:10:14.200 --> 00:10:17.440 home runs, like everyone thought it was a foregone conclusion, like, 224 00:10:17.559 --> 00:10:20.840 oh it's over, They're gonna lose again. Dave Roberts is 225 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:22.279 going to be the one to wear it like this. 226 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:24.440 I mean, this is a disgrace. How do you not 227 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:27.200 have your team ready? And then next thing, you know, 228 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:30.200 he starts talking about you know, Manny Machado throwing a 229 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:32.919 ball at him, and that stirred things up and you're 230 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:34.600 looking at it and go, oh boy, he's getting really 231 00:10:34.639 --> 00:10:37.440 desperate now and they just took off from there and 232 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:40.879 never looked back. Like it's a wild conclusion to a 233 00:10:40.919 --> 00:10:42.960 wild tenure with the Dodgers. So good for him. He 234 00:10:42.960 --> 00:10:43.759 should be celebrated. 235 00:10:43.759 --> 00:10:45.840 It was cool hearing Andrew Freeman last night on Dodger 236 00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:48.840 Talk with David Veasse from Dallas, and Dave askedon what's 237 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:53.440 it like being Andrew Freeman walking through the lobby of 238 00:10:53.519 --> 00:10:56.919 the Winter meetings now as opposed to like the last 239 00:10:56.919 --> 00:10:59.440 two years or years in which he came close to 240 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:02.639 winning a World Series and didn't, And he said it 241 00:11:02.759 --> 00:11:05.080 was awesome. I mean you walk around, people look at 242 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:08.440 you differently, people recognize you because of what your team 243 00:11:08.639 --> 00:11:09.000 just did. 244 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:13.720 I mean, look, there's been a lot of knocks on 245 00:11:13.799 --> 00:11:16.039 the Dodgers as far as okay, well they've never won 246 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:19.120 a legitimate World Series, and you know, the twenty twenty 247 00:11:19.200 --> 00:11:22.519 season didn't count, like you can't take anything from him 248 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:25.840 this time, and now they're just like what a luxury 249 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:28.360 to have to where it's like, all right, we've already 250 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:31.559 taken care of a big need, you know, another pitcher, 251 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:34.559 another arm on the team. We've already gotten that done. 252 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:36.159 And then you just go to the winter meetings, and 253 00:11:36.200 --> 00:11:38.120 it's like, all right, let's let's try and figure out 254 00:11:38.279 --> 00:11:40.320 whether or not we can keep tail, whether or not 255 00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:42.480 we can you know Sasaki is going to be in 256 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:45.000 the mix, which it feels like that still looks like 257 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:47.320 it's the most likely occurrence it's going to take place. 258 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:49.600 And then he just kind of cruises around and goes, yeah, 259 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:51.360 I still got the best team in baseball. Not a 260 00:11:51.399 --> 00:11:51.840 bad look. 261 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:54.440 We were kicking it around on Access Sportsnet Dodgers last 262 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:57.320 night on Sports at LA about what other teams so 263 00:11:57.480 --> 00:12:02.360 far Jonas have caught up or closed the gap on 264 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:06.039 the Dodgers since the World Series? Are there teams that 265 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:08.759 have done something in free agency so far? And it's 266 00:12:08.759 --> 00:12:10.960 still early, we haven't got to the holidays yet, but 267 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:13.799 has anybody closed the gap just a little bit? Has 268 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:17.200 anybody gotten closer? Like the Giants signing William Doomas and 269 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:19.919 maybe Corbyn Burns signing with the Giants now, that would 270 00:12:19.919 --> 00:12:23.000 close the gap a little bit in the division. And 271 00:12:23.159 --> 00:12:25.519 the more and more I thought about it, the gap 272 00:12:25.559 --> 00:12:29.159 hasn't closed because, Yeahjan Soto's gone to the Mets, Garrett 273 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:32.000 Crochet has gone to the Red Sox. Max Fried's gone 274 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:34.879 to the Yankees. But the Dodgers brought in Blake SNeW 275 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:39.360 so they matched those moves. And then they signed Michael CONFORDO, okay, 276 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:42.360 you know that's a good signing, and they bring back 277 00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:44.960 Blake trying it, and they signed Tommy Evan to extension. 278 00:12:45.159 --> 00:12:47.559 So all these other moves that teams are making Jonas 279 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:51.440 trying to close the gap. The Dodgers just keep widening 280 00:12:51.440 --> 00:12:53.120 themselves from everybody else in baseball. 281 00:12:53.399 --> 00:12:55.919 Well, like the one team last year going into the 282 00:12:56.000 --> 00:13:00.519 regular season that was it on par with them as 283 00:13:00.519 --> 00:13:02.559 far as some of the betting odds in certain places 284 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:05.200 was the Atlanta Braves because everyone thought Atlanta, that's a 285 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:08.879 deep roster. They've got the staff, the bullpen, they've got 286 00:13:08.879 --> 00:13:11.519 all that talent. And then they just got crippled with 287 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:14.039 injuries last year and nothing went right for him and 288 00:13:14.399 --> 00:13:17.879 everybody seemed to go down and fall apart, especially down 289 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:20.519 the back end of the season. And then you're like, 290 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:22.679 all right, well, maybe Atlanta bounces back. They're not gonna 291 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:24.879 have the injury misfortunate that they had. Then they just 292 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:28.720 lost Max Freed, so okay, so now what So yeah, 293 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:31.000 I'm with you. I think the gap is widened. The 294 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:33.639 team that I think still will make some noise, But 295 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:35.799 just because they play them so tough, now is San 296 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:38.440 Diego Like, that's just always going to be a good matchup. 297 00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:41.600 And if you're Major League Baseball and you've got a 298 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:44.960 pair of balls and half a brain, you put Dodgers 299 00:13:45.039 --> 00:13:48.399 Padres in as many primetime games as you possibly can. 300 00:13:48.879 --> 00:13:50.720 Do what you did with the Yankees and the Red 301 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:53.159 Sox for years and years and years when you were 302 00:13:53.159 --> 00:13:56.559 shoving them down everybody's throat. Make that the matchup because 303 00:13:56.600 --> 00:13:59.600 that team plays them well every single time. Don't have 304 00:13:59.639 --> 00:14:02.000 to like them, don't have to be a fan of 305 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:04.759 how the Padres do it or Fernando tattoos sticking his 306 00:14:04.840 --> 00:14:06.879 tongue out at fans when they're up to one in 307 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:09.440 a series in the playoffs. But the fact is that's 308 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:12.399 a great, compelling matchup every single time, and that should 309 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:14.639 be featured as many times as possible if they can. 310 00:14:14.759 --> 00:14:16.879 I'm trying to go off memory here, but I don't 311 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:20.679 think they play the Padres until a couple of months 312 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:23.679 into the season. I don't see him in April looking 313 00:14:23.720 --> 00:14:26.080 in May. They don't play them in May of twenty 314 00:14:26.120 --> 00:14:29.000 twenty five, they don't face them unless I miss them. 315 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:32.559 They don't face them until June ninth, tenth, and eleventh, 316 00:14:32.639 --> 00:14:37.240 a Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in San Diego. And one 317 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:39.960 of those is a getaway day one o'clock in the 318 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:42.679 afternoon Wednesday, Dodgers Padres. 319 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:44.600 Come on, Yeah, it's a lost time. 320 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:47.519 Oh then they come back to Dodgers Stadium a week 321 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:50.720 later and play them for four more. They're gonna play 322 00:14:50.840 --> 00:14:54.559 seven of the thirteen head to head meetings Dodgers and 323 00:14:54.639 --> 00:14:59.320 Padres in a two week span in June. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 324 00:14:59.559 --> 00:15:03.279 come back to Dodger Stadium and guess what Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 325 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:07.240 Thursday at the Revine. Yeah, that's a missed off weekday games. 326 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:10.279 Come yeah, that's a missed opportunity. I mean, look, it's 327 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:12.399 good for Will the NFL ever do this, Jonas? 328 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:14.720 No, No, the NFL. I mean, look at what's happening 329 00:15:14.759 --> 00:15:17.559 to the Kansas City Chiefs. They're playing, you know, the Chiefs, 330 00:15:17.720 --> 00:15:21.240 the Ravens, and the Steelers are all playing three games 331 00:15:21.240 --> 00:15:23.840 in eleven days. Because the NFL's got to the NFL's 332 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:25.679 got to make sure they get you know, the Netflix 333 00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:27.559 Christmas games in right, you know, you got to you 334 00:15:27.559 --> 00:15:29.600 gotta feed that beast. And so when it comes to this, 335 00:15:29.679 --> 00:15:31.879 Major League Baseball is like, no, listen, it's more important 336 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:33.320 for us to worry about which teams are going to 337 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:35.360 send over to Japan to start off the air than 338 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:39.440 it is really counting, especially that time of year when 339 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:43.919 you have an opportunity to showcase teams in better spots, 340 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:46.519 like you've got one of those games at one o'clock 341 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:49.240 in the afternoon on a Wednesday. That's that's a blown 342 00:15:49.279 --> 00:15:51.240 opportunity by Major League Baseball. 343 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:53.679 Outside of the NCAA tournament, and maybe if the Lakers 344 00:15:53.679 --> 00:15:56.720 make the playoffs, which quite frankly that may not happen. 345 00:15:57.360 --> 00:16:01.120 Los Angeles, Southern California is going to be baseball centric 346 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:04.799 from spring training all the way through October, and the 347 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:08.399 fact that they don't play the Padres until June is 348 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:11.679 pretty unbelievable. He is Jonas Knox. I'm Tim Kates in 349 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:14.399 for Rogan and Ronnie on this Thursday afternoon. The Baseball 350 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:18.440 Winner meetings have wrapped up, The Dodgers have made their moves, 351 00:16:18.519 --> 00:16:20.759 other teams around baseball made their moves, and right now 352 00:16:20.799 --> 00:16:24.960 as we speak, Jonas Juan Soto is being introduced to 353 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:28.639 the New York media in Queens at his introductory press 354 00:16:28.679 --> 00:16:32.399 conference with the Mets. And guess who's sitting shotgun right 355 00:16:32.519 --> 00:16:36.759 next to Juan Soto. Oh, Scotty b Scotty Bee. Yes, 356 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:39.879 Scott Boris is agent sitting right next to him. The 357 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:43.159 last time we saw Scott Boris was at Dodger Stadium 358 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:45.759 a week and a half ago. Oh yeah, for the 359 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:48.639 Blake Snell press conference, in which how many questions did 360 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:49.759 Scott Boris get? 361 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:51.559 Settle zero? 362 00:16:52.559 --> 00:16:55.320 Just sat there the entire time. And here he is 363 00:16:55.399 --> 00:16:58.480 sitting on the podium again, next to Juan Soto and 364 00:16:58.639 --> 00:17:01.279 his seven hundred and sixty five million dollar contract. 365 00:17:01.679 --> 00:17:03.559 Now I'm just wondering is he got the same outfit 366 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:05.519 as he had a Dodger Stadium, Because I was telling 367 00:17:05.839 --> 00:17:09.559 Fred and Kevin he looked like cousin Eddie from Christmas vacation. 368 00:17:09.799 --> 00:17:12.200 He had that blue that blue leisure suit, you know 369 00:17:12.240 --> 00:17:14.519 what I mean. I was just waiting for him to 370 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:17.880 pull out like a a moose glass and start drinking 371 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:20.519 eggnog during the entire events. I'm trying to get some 372 00:17:20.839 --> 00:17:23.720 visuals of Scott Boris here sitting next to Wan so 373 00:17:23.880 --> 00:17:26.720 who By the way, credit to Scott Boris. I think 374 00:17:26.759 --> 00:17:30.000 there was a lot of people who just assumed that, listen, 375 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:33.119 his time has passed, his strategy has passed. This whole 376 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:35.640 You remember it was the Bors four last year that 377 00:17:35.839 --> 00:17:37.480 you know, they all had to wait till late, and 378 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:40.960 people thought the way that he goes about his business 379 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:43.519 is not the way it's done nowadays. And you have 380 00:17:43.640 --> 00:17:47.079 Blake Snell get what he got. Juan Soto got seven 381 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:51.359 hundred and sixty five million dollars, which is and if 382 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:54.599 you're a Yankee fan and you're pissed off at Juan Soto, 383 00:17:55.119 --> 00:17:57.720 you should be thankful. The best player on your team 384 00:17:57.799 --> 00:18:00.200 is Aaron Judge. You were just about to give Juan 385 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:03.480 Soto four hundred million dollars more than the best player 386 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:05.640 on your team. You got out of that with the 387 00:18:05.720 --> 00:18:09.000 ability to go add in different places, Like Juan Soto 388 00:18:09.079 --> 00:18:12.400 is a great player. I don't think he's an Otani 389 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:15.240 type that moves the needle from you know, from a 390 00:18:15.559 --> 00:18:19.559 a buzz and an interest level. From that standpoint, it 391 00:18:19.640 --> 00:18:21.559 makes it interesting in New York because of the bad 392 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:25.519 blood that'll be there. But dude, fifteen years jesus, I 393 00:18:25.559 --> 00:18:27.279 mean Scott Boris is getting paid. 394 00:18:27.799 --> 00:18:30.000 How would that have gone over though, with Aaron Judge 395 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:32.519 knowing that Juan Sota would have got paid more than 396 00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:34.960 him and they were gonna start giving him a suite 397 00:18:35.160 --> 00:18:37.359 if they would have caved into his demands that he wanted, 398 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:40.079 which we hear about now after the fact, I can't 399 00:18:40.119 --> 00:18:42.200 imagine that would have sat very well with Aaron Judge, 400 00:18:42.200 --> 00:18:45.240 who's supposed to be the leader mister Yankee now here 401 00:18:45.279 --> 00:18:48.079