Speaker 1: Oh yes, and we continue on this hour. Yes, and
Speaker 1: we ah, we do have one more pair of tickets
Speaker 1: to give away this hour as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we do. Stay tuned. We're gonna give those away soon.
Speaker 3: We're not fooling around Rodney, Not today, nobody, not on
Speaker 3: a day where Tanner Scott was a stud the night
Speaker 3: before he was. You know what I think? Honestly, I
Speaker 3: think last night cemented his appearance in the All Star Game.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm gonna comment on that, Freddie, what is
Speaker 2: wrong with you?
Speaker 3: But wait, there's even better news. Tanner Scott is on
Speaker 3: Dan Wyke's fantasy team. We were going to talk some
Speaker 3: basketball with Dan, but let's just start with this from
Speaker 3: the La Times.
Speaker 4: Dan.
Speaker 3: Whykey, So last night was a big night for you.
Speaker 5: Dan, Yeah, it was really good news for my fantasy team.
Speaker 5: I feel like it's like one of the things I
Speaker 5: think I heard someone once say that your fantasy team
Speaker 5: and your dreams and what happened in your dreams are
Speaker 5: two things no one else ever wants to talk about.
Speaker 5: You tell people I had a crazy dream of ust
Speaker 5: like guys also, but yeah, well I did have a
Speaker 5: crazy Drebus and tennis. Scott got outs we did shut
Speaker 5: it down on the tenth big win for my squad.
Speaker 1: Well, let me ask that Dan, what did you think
Speaker 1: and you had a good dream, what you think saw
Speaker 1: him on the mound?
Speaker 5: First off, I was actually sleeping, literally I was.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 5: I had one of those nights you guys know when
Speaker 5: you got young kids and stuff like that, and you
Speaker 5: do the whole like bedtime routine, like we sat down,
Speaker 5: we read a story, we laid down, did that whole thing,
Speaker 5: and I crashed out. I woke up at like eleven
Speaker 5: o'clock in my kid's bed, really so so I didn't
Speaker 5: see I remember. I will say though, I.
Speaker 6: Will say I am.
Speaker 5: I am as close as I've ever been as an
Speaker 5: adult to becoming a Dodgers fan, like full on that,
Speaker 5: Like I've been a White Sox fan my whole life.
Speaker 5: It is a miserable life. It is not fun. They're
Speaker 5: a terrible organization. I went to a Dodger in the other day.
Speaker 5: But it's just like, why why am I not doing this?
Speaker 5: They should just be what I do I for, if
Speaker 5: not for me, for my kids. Yes, like let that
Speaker 5: let them enjoy otany, Let them enjoy MOVI and Freddy
Speaker 5: Freeman instead of making them get excited about some slant
Speaker 5: hitting infield like two eighty guy that the White Sox
Speaker 5: got for you know, the cy young Derrick Cruche Like, like,
Speaker 5: what am I doing? So my fandom is close? And
Speaker 5: you know what, Ronney, if the if the Bears can
Speaker 5: figure out Taylor Williams, I may.
Speaker 4: Have to find a new NFL team too, totally done.
Speaker 2: Oh You're gonna leave Chicago permanent.
Speaker 5: And I've got dreams and I've got dreams to talk
Speaker 5: about ever ride else too, by the way, if the
Speaker 5: real problem is my family, see my real favorite sports teams.
Speaker 2: Danny, but Danny, don't do.
Speaker 5: Don't Once said I had dream that my my pillow
Speaker 5: eight me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 3: No, you didn't dream that, didn't.
Speaker 4: I don't dream all right?
Speaker 2: Fine? Yeah? Because do you remember your dreams? Are you
Speaker 2: able to remember.
Speaker 5: Your dreams periodically? Not that often though, it's mostly just
Speaker 5: exhaustion and blink space.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you remember your dreams?
Speaker 3: Can you recall sometimes?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Do you do you have any reoccurrerent? Do you have
Speaker 5: any reoccurring once.
Speaker 2: Years ago? Yes? No longer I do.
Speaker 1: I still get dropped out of a helicopter in the
Speaker 1: middle of pitch black night in the middle of the
Speaker 1: ocean where you cannot see land, so you don't you
Speaker 1: don't know which way to swim. Yeah, like a navy seal,
Speaker 1: you don't know which way to swim. You don't know
Speaker 1: where the shore is. And I get kidnapped and dropped
Speaker 1: out there and I have to find my way back.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, and I'm just swimming and swimming and swimming
Speaker 1: and swimming, and then.
Speaker 5: I always have I'm always trying to still graduate college.
Speaker 4: Is that?
Speaker 5: It's that and like like there's been a discovery that
Speaker 5: I didn't take, like some specific class and I have
Speaker 5: to redo it. Is the one is the reoccurring one.
Speaker 2: That I have? Do you wake up in a sweat?
Speaker 5: It's always just like very odd. It's just like a
Speaker 5: very odd like like you know, wondering like where your
Speaker 5: oceanography homework is.
Speaker 4: It's a strange show.
Speaker 2: Is it the same course that you didn't you forgot
Speaker 2: to take.
Speaker 5: That you No, it's it's usually it's usually.
Speaker 4: Something very bizarre. But no, that's my recurring trip.
Speaker 3: All right. But here's the thing. So you have these
Speaker 3: reoccurring dreams. Do you ever go to the Book of
Speaker 3: Dreams and what they mean.
Speaker 2: No, do you know what that?
Speaker 3: You don't know what yours means? Dan Rodnie, do you
Speaker 3: know what yours means?
Speaker 2: No? I don't want to get that deep into it.
Speaker 3: I really do you want me to look it up
Speaker 3: right now?
Speaker 2: No? I don't.
Speaker 5: I'm good.
Speaker 2: I want to know. I don't want to if it's
Speaker 2: a good thing.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 5: It is the type of thing Fred people say, like
Speaker 5: the best exercise you can do right, And I've spent
Speaker 5: a lot of time actually thinking about this, but thet
Speaker 5: as someone who travels a lot, the best exercise you
Speaker 5: can do on the road is swim. You can swim
Speaker 5: laps right because you only have to bring one piece
Speaker 5: of workout clothing the swim trunks, provided you're not going
Speaker 5: to like European pools or something like that, but like
Speaker 5: one piece of clothing and you can do it anywhere
Speaker 5: and it drives. You can do it the next day, right,
Speaker 5: and it's it's a full body workouts, great.
Speaker 4: At in your joints.
Speaker 5: I have no desire to spend ten to twenty minutes
Speaker 5: up with my own thoughts like that swimming laps. That's
Speaker 5: like it's too quiet, too much time. I don't need
Speaker 5: to know what's going out in my head. I'm best distracted.
Speaker 5: I don't want to know.
Speaker 4: I don't want to know. I don't I don't want
Speaker 4: to know what.
Speaker 2: I farborate either. Look at Fred, stop looking it up, Fred,
Speaker 2: nobody wants to know.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to read it. I don't care. I
Speaker 3: just want to see. Maybe it's a really good thing.
Speaker 3: If it is, i'll tell you. If not, I won't
Speaker 3: say it. Are you really anything with the NBA Finals? Dan?
Speaker 3: Besides watching?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm just going to kind of take it
Speaker 5: in and I think, like it's it's sort of you know,
Speaker 5: from my my perspective and from the job perspective. Right,
Speaker 5: as always, it's usually pretty reactionary. Teams are pretty reactionary
Speaker 5: to what plays out in front of them. What can
Speaker 5: be sort of learned behavior from the teams that made it, Like,
Speaker 5: what can be copied different things like that. I think,
Speaker 5: you know, really really interesting contrasts and styles. I believe
Speaker 5: this is sort of the new NBA, Like, like I
Speaker 5: think it's I mean, it's not shocking to say that
Speaker 5: we're in a we're in a time of parody in
Speaker 5: the league. It felt like a couple of years ago
Speaker 5: that Denver would be there every year. They had the
Speaker 5: best player, they had the perfect team around him. They
Speaker 5: have been back, you know, and I think it was
Speaker 5: Dallas last year. It felt like, oh my god, Dallas,
Speaker 5: you know, like that team is totally different now. And
Speaker 5: while the Thunder feels sort of inevitable for a stretch
Speaker 5: and they are in a better position than most to
Speaker 5: like turn this into a multi year thing, there's some
Speaker 5: all over the league, like we know so many chances
Speaker 5: these guys are going to get, and I think it's
Speaker 5: going to be a really exciting series that in terms
Speaker 5: of style teams that we don't normally see on this
Speaker 5: stage and my hunches that we will learn that the
Speaker 5: Thunder as their record has showed us all Yurope and
Speaker 5: their point differential have showed us that they are the
Speaker 5: best team in the NBA and will be a worthy champion.
Speaker 5: But it'll be fun to see these markets that that
Speaker 5: don't normally get the shan get the shine.
Speaker 2: Yeahs W, I think it's good.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned it, you know, it's a copycat league
Speaker 1: and pretty much all the sports, it's just what we're
Speaker 1: going to start seeing, uh, And it was very evident
Speaker 1: you know, the two teams did it right. They have depth, right,
Speaker 1: and they actually play defense what they're known for. And
Speaker 1: and we saw the flip of that with with the
Speaker 1: Lakers having no depth, no big man, and not playing
Speaker 1: a whole lot of defense. Are we going to see
Speaker 1: that be more of an emphasis going forward from the
Speaker 1: other teams?
Speaker 5: I mean, I think I think with both of these teams, like,
Speaker 5: I think that's a little reduction, Runny. I mean, I think,
Speaker 5: you know, I think what both of these teams are
Speaker 5: is like they play to their strengths right, And that's
Speaker 5: what with the second apron and the CBA rules and
Speaker 5: the limitations you have on spending, you're you're not going
Speaker 5: to be able to build a perfect team. So what
Speaker 5: you have to do is you have to build the
Speaker 5: right The type of team that can hide its weakness
Speaker 5: is best, and I think and find ways to do
Speaker 5: it right. And in Indiana a team that that is okay,
Speaker 5: I would say defensively, not a great, great defensive team,
Speaker 5: but good enough. Like what they do is they have
Speaker 5: a player and Marys Halliburton who initiates offense and does
Speaker 5: it without turning the ball over, and they do it
Speaker 5: at a time in the league when you know, I
Speaker 5: was talking to some executives about this yesterday. It is
Speaker 5: like basketball can be complicated, but sometimes it's just about
Speaker 5: creating more opportunities to score.
Speaker 4: Than the other team.
Speaker 5: You know, that was one of the things J. J.
Speaker 5: Reddick said about the Lakers, and it was true. They
Speaker 5: didn't get enough rebounds. They turned the ball over too
Speaker 5: much against Minnesota, but Timberls had more chances to score
Speaker 5: than they did well. Tyres Tylerburton never turns the ball over,
Speaker 5: and I think that is a huge factor in this series.
Speaker 5: And if they're able to continue to generate offensive opportunities
Speaker 5: and do it at the speed at which they do,
Speaker 5: because that's they don't let the playoffs slow them down.
Speaker 5: The Thunder maybe the ones that's been able to do it,
Speaker 5: but the Knicks couldn't do it, Cleveland couldn't do it.
Speaker 5: They play fast like that is their advantage, and they
Speaker 5: are built around their advantages. The Thunder's advantages are you know,
Speaker 5: they're able to create They're able to create mismatches off
Speaker 5: the dribbles, shake gills with Alexander uh they have incredible
Speaker 5: defensive tenacity and they make open shops. I think you
Speaker 5: just got to kind of be who you are. Like
Speaker 5: the Lakers aren't gonna be able to build a pacers
Speaker 5: out roster right like they have luka Ocic, they Lebron James,
Speaker 5: they have Austin Reeves like like that that is their core.
Speaker 5: They have to find the right players around those three
Speaker 5: to maximize their strengths right, which are primarily offensively, and
Speaker 5: hide their deficiencies which show up on the defensive end.
Speaker 5: And I think that it's like that's not some you know,
Speaker 5: aha moment lesson, but that that's that's the NBA. Now,
Speaker 5: that's what you have to do it and you can't
Speaker 5: be wrong, Like you just can't be you can't you
Speaker 5: can't sign a player like gave Vincent to the mid
Speaker 5: level exception and Gave Vincent is a good BASKETBLL player.
Speaker 5: He's not played well for the Lakers. He's a good
Speaker 5: basketball player. His strengths don't fit like offensively, he needs
Speaker 5: the ball more like that is he's in. He's more
Speaker 5: of a rhythm point guard, you know, not really a
Speaker 5: point guard, but like he's a he's more of a creator.
Speaker 4: With the basketball.
Speaker 5: He's not gonna get the basketball a lot on the
Speaker 5: team with le Bron, James Austin, he's certainly not on
Speaker 5: one with with Luca Agit Stu. So it's like, you know,
Speaker 5: when you have a player who you use one of
Speaker 5: your few weapons to go a a player and he
Speaker 5: doesn't fit your version of the roster, like that's that's
Speaker 5: hard to overcome. And I think, you know, the Lakers
Speaker 5: in this summer, it's gonna be a real challenge. But
Speaker 5: the task is, you know, to find with limited with
Speaker 5: limited means and free agency, to find the right players,
Speaker 5: that's it, and then to also use you know, the
Speaker 5: assets they do have a first round pick, some swaps
Speaker 5: don't connect, whatever it may be, some expiring contracts to
Speaker 5: now like go get the right kinds of players that
Speaker 5: can make your core even stronger. And you know, I
Speaker 5: think I think you've got to be the best version
Speaker 5: of yourself. And I don't think the Lakers were necessarily
Speaker 5: even that far off from that part of it. So
Speaker 5: I don't think you have to do it exactly like
Speaker 5: the PACER's exactly. It's the thunder. You just have to
Speaker 5: do it the way that that that suits your roster best.
Speaker 3: Dan Wykey is whethers all right? You hear Tom Thibodeau
Speaker 3: has fired, and you thought.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was surprised at you know, I was surprised
Speaker 5: at the timing, not surprised as the result. There have
Speaker 5: been kind of rumblings in you know, NBA circles for
Speaker 5: a few weeks you know, uh, at the end of
Speaker 5: the regular season that it was like, you know, they
Speaker 5: need to have a good playoff run from to keep
Speaker 5: your job. Well, they had a good playoff run, and
Speaker 5: so that part of it is surprising. It's just a
Speaker 5: reminder that, like a lot of this stuff, sometimes it's
Speaker 5: like these.
Speaker 4: Jobs are like they kind of come with term moments.
Speaker 5: They just sort of do. When you hear an organization
Speaker 5: say like we need a new voice, and what they're
Speaker 5: really saying is that, you know, we've heard enough, We've
Speaker 5: done things in the same way for too long.
Speaker 4: And like we just have to try something different.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's smart in this case, again, a
Speaker 5: team that I don't think was that far off from
Speaker 5: being where it needed to be, a team that really
Speaker 5: would have benefited from another year, I think together trying
Speaker 5: to maximize the talented pieces and a team that could
Speaker 5: that could you know, quite frankly like develop a little
Speaker 5: better now. Look, the criticisms with TIBs today are the
Speaker 5: same that they've always been. Plays guys too much, runs
Speaker 5: them into the ground, they're not ready for the playoffs,
Speaker 5: or or they burn out eventually in the playoffs they
Speaker 5: get broken down. That's been true for a long time.
Speaker 5: But no team that's fired Tibbs has been immediately better.
Speaker 5: It just hasn't happened yet. Didn't happen in Chicago, didn't
Speaker 5: have in Minnesota. You know, we'll see here in New
Speaker 5: York because their timeline, like a lot of these teams,
Speaker 5: particularly in the Eastern Conference next year with no Jason Tatum,
Speaker 5: is now the timeline is now. Like like so, whoever
Speaker 5: you're going to hire New York has to be ready
Speaker 5: to go win now. And that that's not that's not
Speaker 5: these tasks.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 1: Anything with h them. You know you said it was
Speaker 1: bound to happen. You're not overly surprised about Tips. Is
Speaker 1: that the talk of maybe Michael Malone going to New
Speaker 1: York is it could be a reason why they did
Speaker 1: it till soon like.
Speaker 5: This, I think you you know, I was, I was
Speaker 5: with some NBA types yesterday and that was sort of
Speaker 5: the logic, was that you don't do this unless you know,
Speaker 5: unless you know that you're is like who you're replating,
Speaker 5: You're you're not doing this to open up a coaching search,
Speaker 5: is the general idea, right? Is that? So you know
Speaker 5: you should whether it's Michael Malone, whether it's Johnny Bryant
Speaker 5: who was a finalist in Phoenix for you know, Jordan
Speaker 5: not got that job former Lakers assistant guys. Uh, it's
Speaker 5: you know, Frank Vogel. I mean, like if you if
Speaker 5: you're talking like championship pedigree coaches, right, there's only so
Speaker 5: many who have done it. We're available. If that's kind
Speaker 5: of the road you're going, like, you better get on
Speaker 5: it quickly, especially if you had an offseason. So I wouldn't.
Speaker 5: I would not anticipate some long out, sort of dramatic
Speaker 5: mixed coaching search.
Speaker 3: Dan Adam Silver made the comment All Star Game this
Speaker 3: year USA against the World. He doesn't really know what
Speaker 3: that means, but he knows that's what's going to happen.
Speaker 2: What do you think.
Speaker 5: It's sort of like the only song that's left left
Speaker 5: to try to play, like we're running out of you know,
Speaker 5: we're sort of running out of options. My hunch is
Speaker 5: that it'll be good for a short amount of time,
Speaker 5: like the first year of it could be really fun.
Speaker 5: That game will be in Los Angeles, like, you know,
Speaker 5: it could be really exciting to see. You know, you've
Speaker 5: got teammates that are going to match up against you,
Speaker 5: like Lebron, James and Luca. You'll be on different teams
Speaker 5: and stuff like that. Uh, you know, like any of
Speaker 5: these things though, whether it's money, whether it's school yard
Speaker 5: draft picks, right like, ultimately, but the league has to
Speaker 5: the league kind of has to to figure out what
Speaker 5: it wants from its players, right, Like on one hand,
Speaker 5: you say, we need you to try and I believe
Speaker 5: this to actually be true that like you have to
Speaker 5: try Hotter in our Offstar game that you know, this
Speaker 5: is one of the few showcase products we have where
Speaker 5: casuals watch, like we don't want to see, you know,
Speaker 5: eighty three is jacked up, nobody playing any defense by
Speaker 5: like the middle of the first quarter, nobody trying, no excitement,
Speaker 5: Like that's not that's not what we want. So you
Speaker 5: introduce this as a way to like try to like
Speaker 5: you get, give it a joke jolt and it will.
Speaker 5: But at the same time too, like the league also
Speaker 5: tells players like, we need you to be available in
Speaker 5: the regular season. We need you to play every game.
Speaker 5: If you don't play x amount of games, you're not
Speaker 5: can make all NBA. Your roster bonuses are tied. This
Speaker 5: type of stuff. You know, in the Lakers case last year,
Speaker 5: for instance, like you're playing games on the Wednesday after
Speaker 5: the Alscar game, you know, or the Thursday right after that.
Speaker 5: There's not much of a real break if the players
Speaker 5: need one. So I do think there's mixed messaging in
Speaker 5: the players end of the day. I think the players
Speaker 5: should go play harder. Is sort of where it is
Speaker 5: that it's you know, is this gonna is this? Have
Speaker 5: they solved anything with this?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: I mean I was in Chicago the first year they
Speaker 5: did the target score and it was really really exciting.
Speaker 5: Remember like the Alcar game, is we played in Kobe
Speaker 5: Bryant's memory and for his legacy because Kobe tried hard
Speaker 5: in the Alcer game and everybody was gonna be inspired
Speaker 5: by like that spirit. I mean that lasted for a
Speaker 5: year and then nobody cared again. So my hunch is
Speaker 5: that there will be more of this, But sure, you know,
Speaker 5: bring Lee Green with out to say, God bless.
Speaker 4: The usaid before the game, I guess right to get
Speaker 4: those fans all excited.
Speaker 5: I got I don't know, I mean like like we
Speaker 5: like we might have a thin. It might be a moment.
Speaker 5: And look, produced is a good game, that's great, you know,
Speaker 5: but uh, you know, the format is what it is.
Speaker 5: It's it's it's a it's a tough one to totally
Speaker 5: you totally figure out.
Speaker 1: What about the real quick Dan, the word Jared Allen
Speaker 1: might be a possibility for the Lakers.
Speaker 2: What do you hear? And is that even a possibility?
Speaker 5: I mean, I think he is. I I don't think
Speaker 5: they would trade Austin Reeves to get Jared Allen. So
Speaker 5: the question becomes, how do you get him?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 5: But I think he does a lot of the stuff
Speaker 5: that that you would like. It's a name that's made
Speaker 5: a lot of sense for them.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: Cleveland's willingness to move off of him has always been
Speaker 5: a little suspect. He's on a great contract. Guys had
Speaker 5: an all star type season, had a horrible playoff, you know,
Speaker 5: but does sort of the rim running, rim protection stuff
Speaker 5: you want from that job. And and look, I can
Speaker 5: tell you like I mean they have high aspirations for
Speaker 5: for this for whoever is going to play this position.
Speaker 5: Whether or not they're able to get there, we don't know,
Speaker 5: but it's like, you know, they're not They're not waiting
Speaker 5: for the season to end to go race out and
Speaker 5: sign you know, the backup center on the you know,
Speaker 5: the Utah Jazz to go fill that job. Like that's
Speaker 5: not where their mindset is. Like they're they're gonna they're
Speaker 5: gonna be aggressive. I'm a little skeptical that they'll be
Speaker 5: able to get a big deal done, but I think
Speaker 5: I think they believe they can get the right guy.
Speaker 5: And you know, there are only so many who do
Speaker 5: the kind of prototypical Lucas stuff, and Jared Allens one
Speaker 5: of them. I mean, he's a guy that they they
Speaker 5: absolutely should call on. He's a guy they should absolutely
Speaker 5: gage the price on. And you know, the question I
Speaker 5: would have is do they have enough to get him?
Speaker 5: That's the question if if Jared Allen's on the market,
Speaker 5: is there you know, is there an other team that
Speaker 5: would be able to do more than you know, a
Speaker 5: first round pick.
Speaker 4: Some swaps don't connect and expiring money.
Speaker 5: Like like is there a team that has more to
Speaker 5: offer and my hunch would be that there is, but
Speaker 5: the Lakers need to be in that mix if that
Speaker 5: indeed is a player that they can get at.
Speaker 3: Okay, damn, good stuff. I appreciate you coming on.
Speaker 5: Thanks for having me, guys. I appreciate it. I'm gonna go.
Speaker 5: I'll have dreams about the segment tests.
Speaker 3: All right, Dan, take it easy. Okay, should we do
Speaker 3: Dodger tickets now, Roddy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it, all right. We
Speaker 2: got to pay it into the stadium.
Speaker 3: Yeah, tonight Dodgers Mets. You win, you get the ticket.
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Speaker 1: On a hump Day, Wednesday, June fourth, Rodney Pete, Fred Rogan,
Speaker 1: who we got, Freddie?
Speaker 2: Who won?
Speaker 3: Jose and Londale's going. That's it, Jose and Londale, You're
Speaker 3: going to the game that I wait to go. You
Speaker 3: win the tickets, have a great time. Hopefully you see
Speaker 3: another great Tanner Scott outing. He's just on the bandwagon
Speaker 3: of Tanner Scott now. I think, honest to god, he's
Speaker 3: the greatest. Well, it might be a little much to say,
Speaker 3: but one of the greatest relievers in baseball history. Maybe
Speaker 3: it's a little over the top, but woman's last night
Speaker 3: spoke volumes to me, spoke town speaks. I listened to
Speaker 3: the ground, and I listened, and the ground told me
Speaker 3: he's back. Rodney Tanner Scott's back.
Speaker 2: Well, let's hope, So, fred let's hope. Though.
Speaker 1: I think he's got it, but he's got to streak
Speaker 1: a couple of these together.
Speaker 2: And then we can say he's back.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I hear you. I'm just telling you from
Speaker 3: where I said, how I see it. You go out
Speaker 3: there and do that last night against a team like
Speaker 3: the Mets. You're a guy that should be out there
Speaker 3: every single night.
Speaker 2: That's right. Well, and listen, the Mets and there are
Speaker 2: no sloughs that lineup. You know.
Speaker 1: You know, we talk about the Dodger, but that lineup
Speaker 1: is pretty good too. So yeah, you got to come
Speaker 1: with it if you're going to shut those guys down.
Speaker 1: And uh, but yeah, it'll be interesting. I think that
Speaker 1: this is also I know you said this was a
Speaker 1: must win last night, but I think, you know, winning
Speaker 1: one of these next two games is also a must
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers. They cannot lose three out of four
Speaker 1: to the Mets, and if they win three out of four,
Speaker 1: I think it's watch out, watch out world, because now
Speaker 1: they're about to go on a roll.
Speaker 3: Has one sobto bothered you? No, no, no, not like
Speaker 3: he's bothering a lot of folks, especially some met fans.
Speaker 2: But no, he doesn't bother.
Speaker 1: Me, you know, I think he Uh in what way
Speaker 1: would you say that that he's bothering you? Just on
Speaker 1: general principles, like what he's not doing anything that he
Speaker 1: didn't do for that when he was with the Nationals
Speaker 1: or the Yankees last year.
Speaker 3: I know, I just I don't like even at the
Speaker 3: I don't like watching.
Speaker 2: Him at the plate.
Speaker 1: There, I said, but that's not who he's always been
Speaker 1: do the stare down and do that whole thing.
Speaker 2: There's little antics.
Speaker 1: I think everybody knows that, so people don't get offended
Speaker 1: by it, because that's who he's always been, regardless of
Speaker 1: the team.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: But his helmet is too small, okay you no am?
Speaker 3: I the only one that will say it out loud.
Speaker 3: His helmet is too small and it drives me insane.
Speaker 1: Vinet Bryce Young's helmet when he was a rookie, that
Speaker 1: helmet was way too big.
Speaker 2: Now he's saying, uh.
Speaker 6: I can't say. I can't say that that's necessarily stood
Speaker 6: out to me. Fred, And even if it had, I
Speaker 6: don't know if that's a big issue. Still a great player,
Speaker 6: I don't care. Well, first of was you rather he
Speaker 6: looked like Bartolo Colon up there and swing through his
Speaker 6: heels and have the helmet fall off of his head
Speaker 6: every time? Is that what you want to see? That's
Speaker 6: what Fred wants.
Speaker 3: I'm just telling you. I want to watch tonight and
Speaker 3: then tell me is his helmet too small?
Speaker 2: Because it is? Well, he grew on his hair, Freddy.
Speaker 1: He's letting his hair grow, so maybe that may be
Speaker 1: a little bit issue of why it looks like that.
Speaker 3: Okay, but then he needs a bigger helmet. It's safety issue. Now,
Speaker 3: I'm serious riding it looks like you guys weren't a Yamaica.
Speaker 2: No, stop it, stop it, Fred, stop it.
Speaker 1: You're not wearing them damn Yamaica.
Speaker 3: Hey, that's where I draw the line. Buster. If you
Speaker 3: want to say that, then I'm not putting up with it.
Speaker 3: What was that? Just watch tonight? That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 6: Did Wan Soto have a bad week in your fantasy
Speaker 6: playoffs a couple of years ago or something? To Fred,
Speaker 6: because that's that's kind of what I'm thinking right now.
Speaker 6: Did you have this indebta against Wan Soda for some reason?
Speaker 2: No, he did not have a bad him.
Speaker 3: I don't have an end for him every time.
Speaker 2: He just kids said that out of the blue.
Speaker 1: On so it'll bother you came on the air saying,
Speaker 1: so why would he?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I just run through the wrong way. I'm really glad
Speaker 3: the Dodgers didn't sign him. I am.
Speaker 1: So he does bother you. He does rub you the
Speaker 1: wrong way, and you don't know why. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but it can't be just because you think his helmet's
Speaker 1: too small. I don't like his attitude.
Speaker 3: I don't like when he goes up there every time
Speaker 3: he's like, oh, I'm gonna fake bunt the first pitch.
Speaker 3: Who I mean, do it or don't?
Speaker 6: Part of his gazemanship, fred That's what he's doing. He's
Speaker 6: he's part of his strategy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you like he's acting like a little kid Freddi.
Speaker 2: You don't like that part.
Speaker 3: No, I don't be like Freddie Freeman. Go up and
Speaker 3: do your business. Go take care of your business. Be
Speaker 3: like Otani.
Speaker 6: So not that there's anything wrong with Freddie or Atani.
Speaker 6: Those guys are phenomenal in her own way. But you're
Speaker 6: basically saying, Sodo, don't play with any emotion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what you're saying.
Speaker 6: Basically, bring your hard hat, a hard helmet that barely
Speaker 6: fits your head.
Speaker 2: You know what I can't. I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't stand O'tani saying hello to everyone when he
Speaker 1: gets up to the plate.
Speaker 2: That just rubs me the wrong way. I hate that, Fred.
Speaker 6: Why he always waving to them?
Speaker 2: Yea?
Speaker 6: Why you gonna be so damn.
Speaker 1: Nice manager of the other team. Why way saying hi
Speaker 1: to the catcher? Come on, your enemies, Why are you
Speaker 1: doing that? How are you doing that? Oh Tani, somebody.
Speaker 3: Said that, I'd say, well, I disagreed dramatically because I
Speaker 3: think it's a sign of professionalism and I respect it greatly.
Speaker 3: I think everybody should be like that. Oh no, what
Speaker 3: do we playing? Patty Cakes and Tilly winks. It's a
Speaker 3: competitive game'd be smiling and chippy with the other team,
Speaker 3: and hey, how you doing waving? How's your how's your
Speaker 3: how's your ankle?
Speaker 2: Bob? Hey you good? How's that gallbladder? Oh? It's fine,
Speaker 2: how you doing bladder?
Speaker 3: See?
Speaker 6: Fred, this is why people in your house call you
Speaker 6: the old head, because see people like Rodney and I
Speaker 6: want to see like the WBC or the Dominican Republic
Speaker 6: is playing drums and having music and flares in the
Speaker 6: stands and all.
Speaker 2: That that flipping and all of that.
Speaker 6: Fred wants to take us back to the nineteen fifties
Speaker 6: that was like here, crumbs, Jack didn't the blank?
Speaker 2: What you want? How that again?
Speaker 6: Marlboro? O, Mom, that's what you want, Fred, break out
Speaker 6: the old rag time piano.
Speaker 2: U ball game, ball game.
Speaker 3: No, that's not what I want, by the way, And
Speaker 3: you know I don't look at things like that.
Speaker 6: I am That's why I'm surprised that you're looking at
Speaker 6: it like this.
Speaker 2: Pull your bridges up, son?
Speaker 3: Is it just me? Or does one showed one so
Speaker 3: to look like when he's hitting hands like a case
Speaker 3: of the shakes, does he No, he's like moving all around.
Speaker 6: No, he does. After he takes a pitch, he does
Speaker 6: a little wiggle before he steps out. Thanks, I noticed it,
Speaker 6: But it doesn't bother me. Who cares. That's what he does.
Speaker 6: Used to step out of the box and unbuckle every
Speaker 6: single piece of furniture or whatever that he's wearing, and
Speaker 6: then step back in. I have a problem with that either. Whatever,
Speaker 6: that's what guys do.
Speaker 1: Undo his batting gloves every time and then get back
Speaker 1: in and every.
Speaker 2: Pitch, every single one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's part of his thing. That's his routine. That's
Speaker 1: how I got him going.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you look at what Soto does. Again,
Speaker 3: maybe it's just me. But I think a lot of
Speaker 3: people agree with me.
Speaker 2: No, they don't.
Speaker 3: I think No, I think a lot too.
Speaker 1: We don't have time to take calls today. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: they don't agree with you. Every one of them would
Speaker 1: not agree with Yeah, I'm gonna tell you this and
Speaker 1: you can write this down and inc.
Speaker 3: We could take three hours of calls tomorrow about this topic,
Speaker 3: and I think everybody would agree. But we don't have
Speaker 3: a show tomorrow because the Dodgers are playing, So you'll
Speaker 3: just have to take my word for it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're saving grace there, Fred, because you know how
Speaker 6: this would go, by the way how this always goes.
Speaker 6: And then after we take fifteen calls, we disagree with
Speaker 6: Fred says, See, I told you everyone agrees with me.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Well, and that's because, to be quite honest, you guys
Speaker 3: hear what you want to hear.
Speaker 2: I'd listen to people. Oh is that it?
Speaker 6: You listen to what they're not saying? Is that what
Speaker 6: it is?
Speaker 3: For us?
Speaker 1: When Kevin rewinds the tape and plays it back, we
Speaker 1: still hear what we want to hear.
Speaker 6: At that point, Rodney, I docked with the tape. You
Speaker 6: know I used it. It was AI Fred, AI callers,
Speaker 6: That's what it was.
Speaker 3: Hey, can we do an AI person segment?
Speaker 2: Kevin? What do you mean?
Speaker 3: Can I make like an AI talking person and let
Speaker 3: the person do a segment.
Speaker 6: An entire segment?
Speaker 3: Well, they only talk for like eight seconds.
Speaker 6: Maybe you might ever remember this fan. So back when
Speaker 6: we first started with your show, I don't know if
Speaker 6: Rodney was here yet or not, remember where we were
Speaker 6: talking about doing automated game reports in the NBA. It
Speaker 6: was Mark Cuban's idea way back when, and we actually
Speaker 6: started doing that. An automated game report.
Speaker 3: Wasn't that with Google Voice?
Speaker 6: It was I don't know if it was Google Voice.
Speaker 6: It was a different online platform, and I would basically
Speaker 6: te you know, pull back the curtain. Jay Stu was
Speaker 6: still producing at the time. I was on the board,
Speaker 6: but I would actually type up and make up these
Speaker 6: fake game reports, type them up, and it was an
Speaker 6: AI voice that would actually speak to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 6: We couldn't staff the Clipper Laker game last night, so
Speaker 6: we actually had our automated reporter check in and I
Speaker 6: will type in the most I will type in the
Speaker 6: most ridiculous things.
Speaker 3: Can we do that Friday? Sure?
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 3: Can you write one for Friday?
Speaker 2: But aren't we had sketchers? Are you gonna be able
Speaker 2: to do that when we're there?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 6: Yeah, we can can't do it Friday, and we can
Speaker 6: find a way to make it work.
Speaker 3: We should do one of those on Friday. That would
Speaker 3: be very funny. All right, Yeah, and we mostly get
Speaker 3: them for the Clipper games. Kevin Imber. Yes, we didn't
Speaker 3: do real Clipper coverage.
Speaker 2: That's so horrible.
Speaker 3: We had an AHI voice.
Speaker 2: That's horrible.
Speaker 3: You wrote them.
Speaker 2: Yes, we need more of that stuff.
Speaker 6: I'll see if I can dig up some of the
Speaker 6: old ones to give like an example of how they
Speaker 6: used to sound. Oh, I have to save somewhere. Okay,
Speaker 6: well look in the archive.
Speaker 3: All right, let's see if we can find that. All right,
Speaker 3: so we already gave the tickets away, but here's a reminder. Friday,
Speaker 3: we're gonna be at Sketchers. You know exactly where Sketchers is.
Speaker 3: It is on pH at Crenshaw in Torrents. We're gonna
Speaker 3: be there starting at noon, noon to two. We have
Speaker 3: ten pairs of doctor tickets to give away. We will
Speaker 3: give them away on the air. You cannot call. You
Speaker 3: have to be there. And if you are there, you
Speaker 3: will be one of many because the first thousands will
Speaker 3: score a free Sketcher's tote or a hat. We've got
Speaker 3: swagged to give away. We've got those tickets to give away.
Speaker 3: And if that's not enough, how about this for a
Speaker 3: limited time by two pairs and get a third pair
Speaker 3: of Sketchers free.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, sir.
Speaker 3: And when I say that, I'm not talking about okay,
Speaker 3: you buy these two irregular price, and the third one
Speaker 3: are like little baby shoes.
Speaker 2: They're real shoes.
Speaker 3: Why like little Why would you even say that?
Speaker 1: I don't even know where that that's like, that's like
Speaker 1: the one Soto out of the blue.
Speaker 2: Why would you even say the third pair of baby shoes?
Speaker 3: Because people don't think they would actually get a third
Speaker 3: pair free. They think there'd be a catch. These are
Speaker 3: not like once worn shoes, right, like a demo when
Speaker 3: you buy a car.
Speaker 1: You think somebody who's actually thinking, oh if he's doing
Speaker 1: a promotion for buy two shoes get one free. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: that third shoe probably is some baby shoes. Nobody thinking
Speaker 1: like except for you.
Speaker 3: I'm just trying. I'm just trying to avoid any problems
Speaker 3: when we get there. That's it, and we're gonna have
Speaker 3: special guest star. Butnoyd Benjamin, who's going to have fish
Speaker 3: with lots of tartar sauce. Kevin suggests we buy the
Speaker 3: fish at Whole Foods.
Speaker 1: Gotta have it ready made that you're gonna have, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to cook it. If you can buy it there,
Speaker 1: but you're gonna have to cook it.
Speaker 6: I just said that was the nearest store. There's a
Speaker 6: Trader Joe's that's not that far from there as well,
Speaker 6: but again you'd have to cook it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Should we just get him raw fish and let them
Speaker 1: cooking the fish market somewhere around the corner.
Speaker 3: Should we should we go like to Long Johnson or
Speaker 3: should we get him like raw fish?
Speaker 6: I feel like you would appreciate fish that he can
Speaker 6: eat on site.
Speaker 2: You get some regular fish.
Speaker 1: Let's find out what what fish store fish market is
Speaker 1: close by that you can have it made.
Speaker 6: I mean, there's an Islands in that shopping center across
Speaker 6: the way. Maybe get him a fish sandwich or something
Speaker 6: from there. Islands has fish. I don't know if it's
Speaker 6: kind of fish he's looking for, but they have it.
Speaker 3: He just wants a nice piece of fish. We have
Speaker 3: a lot of tartar sauce.
Speaker 2: That's it. Huh. Maybe I don't know. You can go
Speaker 2: to doing soul food, get him some catfish.
Speaker 6: We're talking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, is there a place down there for that?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 6: No, there's no there's no kitchen over there. No, no, no,
Speaker 6: you gotta go to Inglewood for that.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, he went on Crenshaw, but we got to
Speaker 3: go somewhere that's open at eleven in the morning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's think on it. Nobody out there
Speaker 1: got any suggestions, let us know, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Fish by the Sketchers on pch and Crunch on torns. Okay,
Speaker 3: we'll take your suggestions and we'll wrap it up after this.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, come on, let's bring it on home. Freddie Rodney, Pete,
Speaker 1: Fred Rogan on a hump day.
Speaker 2: Let's go. All right.
Speaker 3: A couple of things we were talking about, these AI
Speaker 3: generated kind of game stories we did years ago. When
Speaker 3: I came back to the station and Kevin, you went
Speaker 3: into the archive, found one in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so this is from January of twenty seventeen, the Lakers.
Speaker 2: And this was the bad Well what was here then?
Speaker 6: I think that was I think you may have just
Speaker 6: started Rodney at that point. So this is the Lakers
Speaker 6: with D'Angelo Russell and Jordan Clarkson, and they were winning
Speaker 6: like sixteen games a year, and this is a game
Speaker 6: I guess they when they played San Antonio and this
Speaker 6: is when Kawhi and Tim dunkin. They might have even
Speaker 6: gone to the finals that year. So here's one of
Speaker 6: the game quote unquote game recaps that we that we did.
Speaker 8: Thursday night in San Antonio. The Spurs defeated the Los
Speaker 8: Angeles Lakers by the score of one hundred and thirty
Speaker 8: four to ninety four. Wait, seriously, the Lakers lost by
Speaker 8: forty points. Damn son. I know y'all are rebuilding, but
Speaker 8: this is embarrassing. Kawhi Leonards scored thirty one points in
Speaker 8: just three quarters of action. Well, former Laker Pau Gasol
Speaker 8: scored twenty two points with nine rebounds and six assists.
Speaker 8: Think the Lakers could have used him in this game.
Speaker 8: I'd read off some of the Lakers stats, but why
Speaker 8: bother They got straight up fitch slapped. The only positive
Speaker 8: thing that happened to the Lakers is that the game
Speaker 8: actually ended.
Speaker 3: Kevin, we got to start doing that.
Speaker 2: Was funny. And what.
Speaker 6: I would I typed those up and I will put
Speaker 6: them into the automated system and it would voice them.
Speaker 3: Yes, oh yeah, we got to start doing those again.
Speaker 6: Jason Stewart is listening, by the way. He wanted to
Speaker 6: make sure that everyone knew that it was his idea.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we gotta start doing those. Well, then we'll get
Speaker 3: them sponsored.
Speaker 6: Well, let's not get crazy for ye all right?
Speaker 3: Uh fish bonds, grill and Torrents just right around the
Speaker 3: corner from sketchers. Okay, okay, this bond's grill, Fish Bonds, grill.
Speaker 3: Keep that in mind for Benoit's Friday Fish. All right, Ronnie,
Speaker 3: thank you, Kevin. Terrific work, Rodden. We're off tomorrow. We'll
Speaker 3: see Friday at Sketchers right on, right on,