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Speaker 5: How's it going, Dave, It's going great? Games are underway today.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers played their third game. They had the home
Speaker 5: opener today and the most eventful part of these three
Speaker 5: games so far has been the return of Alex Vesia,
Speaker 5: who pitched in his first game albeit spring training Cactus League,
Speaker 5: since last year's NLCS, and he got a standing ovation
Speaker 5: from the fans here at camel Back Ranch that were
Speaker 5: in attendance, and after he came off the mound, he
Speaker 5: got a standing ovation from his own dugout after a
Speaker 5: scoreless inning, had a chance to catch up with Vessia
Speaker 5: after he came out of the game, and he came
Speaker 5: up to me in the clubhouse and he said, you
Speaker 5: already talk some baseball. I said, let's do it. And
Speaker 5: he talked about just the emotions and the emotions specifically
Speaker 5: in that dugout when he came off the mound.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I mean, honestly, like I came in a dugout,
Speaker 6: I was just hyped. I got three outs, you know,
Speaker 6: and then everybody was just telling me good job and whatnot.
Speaker 2: You know, it was a little overwhelming. And then talked
Speaker 2: with Mark and Connor and yeah, I'm just trying to
Speaker 2: take it all in.
Speaker 5: He did a good job. He did not get emotional
Speaker 5: when he was speaking to us today. It was mostly
Speaker 5: about baseball and just how baseball has been so therapeutic.
Speaker 5: And he told me that he's not going to really
Speaker 5: talk about obviously the tragedy that took place during the
Speaker 5: World Series, but he says he's encouraged his teammates and
Speaker 5: he hasn't shied away from his teammates asking him questions
Speaker 5: about what he's gone through. But publicly he's still not
Speaker 5: ready to do all that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, totally understandable. I'm sure he's excited to talk baseball
Speaker 2: with you, Dave, with everybody around there and get back
Speaker 2: to work. It's what he is. He's a professional baseball player.
Speaker 2: It's what he does does day in and day out.
Speaker 2: Other professional baseball players. Dave that got on the mound
Speaker 2: today Landon Nack, Kyle Hurt, couple names, you know, Kyle Hurt,
Speaker 2: someone we hadn't really heard from in a while. Why
Speaker 2: don't we start there kind of how how do you
Speaker 2: see his spring training going, his immediate future? And I
Speaker 2: think NAC is some of me kind of to keep
Speaker 2: forgetting about and we sort of forget about how valuable
Speaker 2: he's been for this team the last couple seasons.
Speaker 5: Yeah, whenever they've needed a spot start, or when he's
Speaker 5: had an opener and they bring him in to piggyback
Speaker 5: that opener, he's done it willingly. It was kind of
Speaker 5: a down year for him last year. Whenever he did
Speaker 5: get those two opportunities far and few between, he didn't
Speaker 5: really perform well. So I feel like he this spring
Speaker 5: is an opportunity for him to re establish himself. He
Speaker 5: no longer has those birthing hips anymore, petros, He's lost
Speaker 5: a lot of weight, so he's put in the work
Speaker 5: during the off season. But look, it's a challenge for
Speaker 5: him and for Bobby Miller. They're kind of in the
Speaker 5: same spot that Tony Gonslin and Dustin May were in.
Speaker 5: They were the guys, the next wave of guys, but
Speaker 5: other pitchers like Emmitt Shean and Gavin Stone and now
Speaker 5: River Ryan seemingly are lapping those guys, so they've got
Speaker 5: to re establish themselves.
Speaker 3: Dave, after you made international news with what you talked
Speaker 3: to Oltani about, do you think he'll pitch in the WBC?
Speaker 3: After what he told you out of his face?
Speaker 5: He has not said no, So he has left door
Speaker 5: open purposely. Even when I asked him over the weekend,
Speaker 5: threw that scenario out at him, he did not shut
Speaker 5: me down and say no, I'm not pitching. He has
Speaker 5: left the door open, which has brought a lot of
Speaker 5: intrigue to whether or not if it is a similar
Speaker 5: scenario as it was four years ago, Japan three outs
Speaker 5: away from winning the World Baseball Classic, him facing the
Speaker 5: best of the best team USA had. Can you I
Speaker 5: can envision an Tawi versus Judge type of face off
Speaker 5: if it came down to that. So if you're asking
Speaker 5: my opinion, Petros, because he hasn't ruled it out, I
Speaker 5: would say yes, I definitely could see him pitching the
Speaker 5: last inning of the World Baseball Classic if it was
Speaker 5: a close game.
Speaker 2: You know him better than anyone, Dave. I think we'd
Speaker 2: all agree that, Yes, I don't think there's any question
Speaker 2: he would want that ball, he would want to pitch.
Speaker 2: But kind of where is he? You know that, I
Speaker 2: know Dave Roberts was talking about you just kind of
Speaker 2: got to get these guys to that point where you're
Speaker 2: comfortable that they're stretched and they're built up and they're okay,
Speaker 2: you know, throwing with that sort of intensity and velocity.
Speaker 2: Is Is it pretty much consensus that Otani is there?
Speaker 2: I know I've read some national articles that you know,
Speaker 2: he should be one of the favorites for the cy
Speaker 2: Young this year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the odds are really good forty to one for
Speaker 5: show Heo Tani to win the National League cy Young Award.
Speaker 5: I would say that that's a pretty good bet if
Speaker 5: you were going to do something like that. But where
Speaker 5: he's at is a better spot than he was at
Speaker 5: at the end of last season, because he told in
Speaker 5: interviews in Japanese, he said that he never felt like
Speaker 5: he had his true command of his fastball, and that's
Speaker 5: why we would see him rear back and throw one
Speaker 5: hundred and one miles an hour at times, because he
Speaker 5: didn't feel like he had the command to spot his fastball.
Speaker 5: So I asked him yesterday as well whether or not
Speaker 5: the command is where it wants to be, and he
Speaker 5: said he was much happier with his command, but it
Speaker 5: still needs some work and he has left camp. He
Speaker 5: is joining Team Japan now, but the plan is for
Speaker 5: him to throw live vps and also have a couple
Speaker 5: of bullpen sessions while he's from the team.
Speaker 3: You have Freddy Freeman on and Miggy tonight, one of
Speaker 3: those guys Freddy and Mookie and Munsey and so on
Speaker 3: gonna start playing, Dave.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So yesterday in Peoria, Miguel Rojas played, Will Smith played,
Speaker 5: Freddie Freeman is going to play tomorrow, and Max Munsey
Speaker 5: told me he's planning on playing his first game on Thursday.
Speaker 4: Moos bets.
Speaker 5: It seems like they're staggering these guys going to play
Speaker 5: on Wednesday, and there's no injury issue. It's just the
Speaker 5: workload management. Six weeks this year of spring training, and
Speaker 5: the way Freddie Freeman and Max Munsey have explained it
Speaker 5: to me is the front office, Dave Roberts themselves have
Speaker 5: mapped out a plan to get basically fifty at bats
Speaker 5: and that's not all going to come in the first
Speaker 5: three games, So they've mapped it out where these guys
Speaker 5: get somewhere between. I mean, Munsey and Freddy had precise
Speaker 5: numbers for me, So I'm just going to say somewhere
Speaker 5: between forty five and fifty five innings or forty five
Speaker 5: and fifty five played appearances for them in the Cactus League.
Speaker 2: Forgive my ignorance, Dave if there has been an update,
Speaker 2: and I haven't seen it, but he is an old
Speaker 2: pal of yours, and he was invited to play in
Speaker 2: the WBC. Is he just kind of sharpening his knives
Speaker 2: and getting his chops ready to call baseball from the
Speaker 2: studio or is Clayton Kershaw really going to do this
Speaker 2: WBC thing and do you expect to see him out there.
Speaker 5: No, he's really doing it. The way it's going to
Speaker 5: play out, the way it's been explained to me is
Speaker 5: if there's a blowout game. Because Mark de Rosa and
Speaker 5: Andy Pettitt, who's the pitching coach, they have strict restrictions
Speaker 5: on how many innings they could use these guys when
Speaker 5: they can use them. So that's why a guy like
Speaker 5: Kershaw fit perfectly because he's not with the team anymore.
Speaker 5: There are no team restrictions. So in the first round
Speaker 5: or in another round, if it's a blowout or they
Speaker 5: need to eat up some innings, that's where he comes
Speaker 5: into play. They laid out that scenario for him and
Speaker 5: he was good with it. So there's even a chance
Speaker 5: that you may not even see him pitch, only if necessary.
Speaker 5: So that's the way it is, and we'll see, as
Speaker 5: he called his body the last couple of years, whether
Speaker 5: or not that carcass can be trotted out there.
Speaker 3: Oh Dave, did you speaking to trot and the carcass around?
Speaker 3: Did you make it back to the car store this
Speaker 3: weekend or no DNA cards?
Speaker 5: I did not make it out to Rip Night, but
Speaker 5: I saw all the viral instagrams. Mike Trout did show
Speaker 5: up at the same place he showed up last year
Speaker 5: in Scottsdale, smell Villa, Jack Dryer, Will kleinb All came
Speaker 5: to that one in Peoria. But I kept it simple, Petros.
Speaker 5: I had to pick up, you know, long term groceries
Speaker 5: at Target, and they had an aisle full of tops
Speaker 5: baseball cards, so I picked a few. You had your
Speaker 5: own rip Night, Hey, I got a secret hideaway in
Speaker 5: the Glendale. Oh, Jack Dryers right there. He just he's
Speaker 5: a big card Oh man, I've given away my secret.
Speaker 5: Where to find the cards? He knows, he knows now
Speaker 5: the target in Glendale, Arizona. Oh no, he's always lingering
Speaker 5: when somebody's talking baseball cards. He always wants to know.
Speaker 5: He's always trying to get that edge.
Speaker 2: So think about this. What's the name of the card
Speaker 2: shop again, Dave DNA.
Speaker 5: Yeah, tryer knows.
Speaker 2: Dave Say is a bigger celebrity and welcomed at DNA
Speaker 2: Cards in Arizona than Tim Kates is in his own hometown,
Speaker 2: where he shops frequently at his Burbank card shop, hundreds
Speaker 2: of miles away. Dave Assay welcomed with open arms, and
Speaker 2: yet Tim Kates continues to promote his local shop. It's
Speaker 2: terrible that almost slams the door in his face every
Speaker 2: time he tries to walk in.
Speaker 3: Broddie Jams is supposed to be there and he canceled.
Speaker 5: Hey, I've walked over to Jack Dryer and the Dodger
Speaker 5: parking lot. This is usually off limits. You don't have
Speaker 5: cost players in the parking lot. But Jack Dryer was
Speaker 5: lingering to hear my baseball card secrets. So have you
Speaker 5: pulled any valuable twenty twenty six baseball cards one on ones.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we pulled a James Wood one of one out
Speaker 6: of a diamond pristine diamond Premier. Yeah, had ten diamonds
Speaker 6: on it and auto.
Speaker 4: It was a nice card.
Speaker 5: So when you say we did you give that away
Speaker 5: or is it in the dryer family?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 6: No, no, So I opened it for the Players Collective
Speaker 6: through the PA. So we opened it, but then they're
Speaker 6: gonna box the back up graded at PSA and then
Speaker 6: auction it off.
Speaker 5: So I unfortunately didn't get to keep it. Oh, there
Speaker 5: we go. So now you found my secret at Target
Speaker 5: in Glendale.
Speaker 2: You know I've.
Speaker 6: Actually bought cards before there, so I agree about that pole.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 5: Dyer, great guy. He's a big part of the Dodger
Speaker 5: bullpen last year. He's going to be a big part
Speaker 5: of it this year. He's still got a number, a
Speaker 5: jersey number like eighty six. He's ah, he's well more
Speaker 5: respected than eighty six. Are you changing your jersey number
Speaker 5: this year?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 6: I found out I'm I'm the only Dodger to ever
Speaker 6: wear at number eighty six, and so that's pretty special
Speaker 6: to me.
Speaker 2: I thing I'll keep it.
Speaker 5: Beautiful, beautiful. All right, Jack Dryer is my guy.
Speaker 3: There, he goes, wow, how about that.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of fantastic there's a lot of guys
Speaker 5: collecting cards now, so I'll get cars. Yeah, I can't
Speaker 5: do better than Jack Dryers, So well, let's just leave
Speaker 5: it there.
Speaker 3: No, you're working hard, Dave. We appreciate the hard work
Speaker 3: for our show, and we can't wait for Freddy and
Speaker 3: MIGGI tonight on Dodger Talk at seven o'clock.
Speaker 2: You're then talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 3: There goes Day from camel Back Ranch, where there's always
Speaker 3: somebody popping up, especially if they're gonna talk baseball cars.
Speaker 2: Gotta have a private rip party.
Speaker 3: Nobody cares more about baseball cards than Dave and the
Speaker 3: Dodger's bullpen.
Speaker 2: He's got like those little starting lineup figures surrounding a table.
Speaker 2: Oh hey, petro Garu, let's get a look to see
Speaker 2: what we were.
Speaker 3: The three priorities of the Dodger bullpen, one supporting each other,
Speaker 3: two energy drinks, three ripping packs.
Speaker 2: You know, Dave, I've been collicking cars for a while. Okay,
Speaker 2: up at a target too. Okay, I know about that
Speaker 2: honey hole. Yeah, got your little honey hole there, brother,
Speaker 2: ye pull ten diamonds. They're gonna get it great. That's
Speaker 2: sort it did.
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Speaker 2: Story of it. Well, this is going to get somewhere
Speaker 2: recognizable for those that are regular listeners to the Petros
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Speaker 2: we think.
Speaker 3: You got your crossbow pointed to Derek Carr's nuts right now,
Speaker 3: not yet, but he retires.
Speaker 2: Oh and it's coming.
Speaker 3: Well, I heard that's what he's That's what he's trepidacious about.
Speaker 3: He's kind of like, you know, I'd love to take
Speaker 3: twenty million dollars from somebody or whatever and play quarterback
Speaker 3: one more year for a great franchise like the Steelers
Speaker 3: or something and be set up for absolute and total.
Speaker 2: Dominance, legacy shifting pe.
Speaker 3: But there's a guy in LA who works for the
Speaker 3: Chargers that does not like me, makes fun of my accent,
Speaker 3: makes fun of the fact that I threw it away
Speaker 3: once on fourth down twice.
Speaker 2: Twice. Okay, if it's not about Derek Carr. Pat Riley
Speaker 2: is eighty.
Speaker 3: He makes fun of Bakersfield and says it sucks.
Speaker 2: I love Bakersfield. It's incredible. Pistachios forever. Pat Riley is
Speaker 2: adp Yes he is. He has seen it all he
Speaker 2: has got. He looks a great He's a great. Look
Speaker 2: at eighty two, he sure is.
Speaker 3: He looks better than most all except for Magic and
Speaker 3: Worthy and Byron. Maybe I mean he looks. He looks
Speaker 3: better than most all of his ex players.
Speaker 2: Looks great. He's got nothing he needs to sell like
Speaker 2: someone else we're going to talk about here. His legacy
Speaker 2: is intact. It is ridiculous. Intact. He is one of
Speaker 2: the greatest coaches. He is one of the greatest gms.
Speaker 2: He is one of the greatest team presidents to have
Speaker 2: ever been part of the NBA. There is nothing that
Speaker 2: he is doing or could do well. I guess there
Speaker 2: are some things that could tarnish it from a personal standpoint,
Speaker 2: but in terms of the business, which I do not anticipate,
Speaker 2: but there is no denying that you can pick whatever
Speaker 2: flavor you want and sell him as one of the
Speaker 2: greatest of all time. Many forget that he was actually
Speaker 2: a player for nearly a decade with the San Diego Rockets.
Speaker 2: Because of winning time, we know that he was a laker.
Speaker 2: In the seventy five season, he averaged eleven points in
Speaker 2: twenty two minutes per game. But of course it was
Speaker 2: the coaching. The coaching in a dominant era. As dominant
Speaker 2: an era, you'll know single franchise.
Speaker 3: You'll know when you're getting the fist. But no, you're right, Matt.
Speaker 3: Once he became a coach, there was the sky was
Speaker 3: the limit.
Speaker 2: He needed to get fisted by chick first to understand.
Speaker 3: Oh, you'll know sooner or later. After a while, you
Speaker 3: won't even have to look over here. You'll know when
Speaker 3: you're getting to fit.
Speaker 2: A dominant force. Were the Showtime Lakers, arguably in thea's
Speaker 2: toughest decade the eighties. Coaching a team with that much talent,
Speaker 2: with those dominant personalities multiple players, you could make the
Speaker 2: case were the greatest of all time at best and
Speaker 2: at worst the greatest of all time at their position.
Speaker 2: Kareem Magic not to mention our dear friend James Worthy
Speaker 2: keeping a number one overall pick, who is in the
Speaker 2: conversation as a league MVP year in and year out,
Speaker 2: and yet he is third in the pecking order of
Speaker 2: a dominant team that is on one of the most
Speaker 2: ridiculous pre expansion runs in the history of the league.
Speaker 2: In eight seasons, pat Riley went to the finals seven
Speaker 2: times in eight years, only missed the playoffs once in
Speaker 2: those eight years, and won four titles, seven trips to
Speaker 2: the finals, four titles, won sixty three games. After his
Speaker 2: final year when he was chasing the three peat in
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety and then later out of here. Of course,
Speaker 2: what he's done.
Speaker 3: Why do I believe Matt was It almost like he
Speaker 3: got pushed out by the guys that were up there celebrating.
Speaker 2: You know, you never know, you never would know what
Speaker 2: it waits, what things are in front of you, but
Speaker 2: things are behind. But before we get to what was
Speaker 2: exactly in front of him, p the other basketball mech
Speaker 2: on the East Coast what he did in Miami, considering
Speaker 2: it was essentially an expansion franchise that had maybe a
Speaker 2: modicum of small success before he showed up the piece
Speaker 2: together a team led by Tim Hardaway and Alonzo Morning
Speaker 2: that was way better than the talent suggested it should be.
Speaker 2: Was just a small sliver of what he accomplished during
Speaker 2: his time in New York. And while it never ended
Speaker 2: with a championship, that he had teams with Greg Anthony
Speaker 2: and Charlie Ward and Charles Smith and Anthony May in
Speaker 2: John Stark's granted, Patrick Ewing's one of the all time
Speaker 2: great centers, but the supporting cast that they surrounded Ewing
Speaker 2: with had no business making it to the conference finals
Speaker 2: every single year and giving the Bulls everything they could
Speaker 2: handle in each of those series. It was a true
Speaker 2: coaching masterclass in competition. While dealing with inferior talent, fifty
Speaker 2: six wins per season with those Nicks rosters. Of course,
Speaker 2: made the finals the year Jordan cut out bs call
Speaker 2: on Pippin with Hubert Davis, but that's a sidebar. But
Speaker 2: went to the finals, lost it on some boneheaded play
Speaker 2: by John Starks. And as we said, of course, taken
Speaker 2: over in Miami was no walk in the park. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's got hard Away, pulls him over, pulls down Alonso Morning.
Speaker 2: But he's surrounding those guys again with players like Bimbo Coles,
Speaker 2: White Guy, Rex Chapman, Quinn Haydon. But again they averaged
Speaker 2: fifty wins per season. Took him nine years to get
Speaker 2: to that final in which they won with Shaquille. Tell
Speaker 2: me how my ass taste with Dwayne Wade, who was
Speaker 2: the MVP of those NBA Finals. By the way, think
Speaker 2: about that Wade Finals MVP, the first ever title for Miami. No,
Speaker 2: no Lebron saved Dwayne Wade. What's the matter with you?
Speaker 2: First ever? Don't say that, don't blaspheing first ever NBA champions.
Speaker 3: That's trees against King Matt first ever. P You're gonna
Speaker 3: get nailed by the King.
Speaker 2: He's gonna try, King's gonna try to nail me here.
Speaker 3: The reason that they made that beautiful statue with Dwayne
Speaker 3: Wade is because he had so much success at at Miami. Man,
Speaker 3: it's a hell of a statue, and we don't need
Speaker 3: to get LeBatard on to tell us ith. Dwayne Wade
Speaker 3: averaged thirty five to eight and four in the finals
Speaker 3: in his second season, gets the hardware before Lebron, before Mellow.
Speaker 3: He's the guy, and four years later turns it over
Speaker 3: to Lebron twenty ten and Riley said it in his
Speaker 3: press conference.
Speaker 2: He didn't do it from the podium. Why because he's
Speaker 2: all class man the statue, unveiling, the podium speech, all
Speaker 2: class stuck with the Lakers, stuck with personal themes, you know,
Speaker 2: being around high level athletes, incredible competitors. What it taught him?
Speaker 2: What he thought he was able to teach them classy,
Speaker 2: classy statue speech, great and a good looking statue better
Speaker 2: than you may kidding. But that press conference, that's a
Speaker 2: different deal now, because you're gonna be asked questions and
Speaker 2: you're gonna answer questions. And of course it was inevitable.
Speaker 2: I think we all saw the tunnel walk from Lebron
Speaker 2: as he engaged, gave pat Riley a hug, gave his
Speaker 2: wife a hug, so he made his way out to
Speaker 2: the floor, but pat did not mince words when asked
Speaker 2: about Lebron said, well, we went to the finals, we
Speaker 2: won two championships, and let's see, here's here it is.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be selfish and say I wish I had
Speaker 2: had him for another six or eight years. Would have
Speaker 2: been great. We'll never know. Four trips to the finals
Speaker 2: in a row, two World Championships. It was an incredible run.
Speaker 2: And as a coach and somebody who really thought about
Speaker 2: how to build that particular team and had built it,
Speaker 2: I saw something that could have lasted eight to ten years.
Speaker 2: That is pat Riley. But I mean that would have
Speaker 2: been too much. Dwayne Wade have been too much. Pat
Speaker 2: pat Riley built that team. It's the genius of pat
Speaker 2: Riley convincing these players to take a lesser role, to
Speaker 2: shed some salary in order to get the right role
Speaker 2: players around them. To get Chris Bosch, a perennial All Star,
Speaker 2: Dwayne Wade, a former Finals MVP, to take a back
Speaker 2: seat to Lebron, who had not won a championship until
Speaker 2: he paired with Dwayne Wade and Lebron When asked about
Speaker 2: Riley's comments, got a little testy, got a little salty,
Speaker 2: a little kurt, a little short.
Speaker 3: A little salty, like the Canadian hockey team, like, yeah,
Speaker 3: everybody saw what happened out there. The better team is that.
Speaker 2: I saw you get handed a stuffed animal with your
Speaker 2: silver metal You losers. Yeah, he Holzer quote. I never
Speaker 2: said I'm gonna go there four years and decide to
Speaker 2: go somewhere else. It's just how the car played, just
Speaker 2: how the what what, just how the cards were played.
Speaker 3: Oh for real.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's human nature to look back and say
Speaker 2: what could have been? That's part of life. I thought
Speaker 2: the four years we had were great. Obviously, Uh why
Speaker 2: relitig because in case you forgot it was what we're
Speaker 2: currently saying that was not necessarily macro compared to the
Speaker 2: micro of chasing a triple double up twenty with two
Speaker 2: minutes left in a game against one of the worst
Speaker 2: teams in the league. But it is certainly shopping in
Speaker 2: the same aisle. It's I've been to the finals four consecutive.
Speaker 3: Trying to get it. If it wasn't for this mother ever.
Speaker 1: A r.
Speaker 2: I. I've been to the Finals for four years. I've
Speaker 2: won two titles. I was the Finals MVP in both.
Speaker 2: I've been All NBA First Team and basically acknowledged as
Speaker 2: the best player in basketball each of these four years.
Speaker 2: But I don't like these people saying that I needed
Speaker 2: to do it with Dwayne Wade, and I needed Wade,
Speaker 2: and maybe Wade is better, and maybe Wade is sacrificing
Speaker 2: too much. I don't like hearing that, because this should
Speaker 2: have been enough to put me firmly in the conversation
Speaker 2: with Michael Jordan, and it's not. So I got to
Speaker 2: go back to Cleveland because I've got to try to
Speaker 2: win the city of Cleveland their first ever professional team
Speaker 2: title in over half a century.
Speaker 3: Somebody write a heartfelt Leonardisports Illustrated. Dammit, I can't do it.
Speaker 3: Can you help you? My school can read.
Speaker 2: I'm going to open up a sweet store in a
Speaker 2: mall in Akron. I'm going to come back to Cleveland.
Speaker 2: And when I win in Cleveland, never mind the circumstances
Speaker 2: of being down three to one and suspensions here and
Speaker 2: nut punches there. That's neither here nor there. Never mind
Speaker 2: the Kyrie. He has turned into one of the most
Speaker 2: clutch performers and all of the NBA and maybe the
Speaker 2: best one on one player going. No, I Lebron James
Speaker 2: won a title for the city of Cleveland, Everybody, and
Speaker 2: that is not something I could have possibly done in
Speaker 2: Miami despite had, like pat Riley said, sticking around for
Speaker 2: another their six years. I would say it's fair to
Speaker 2: suggest that they would have won at least two more titles.
Speaker 2: Maybe he would have matched his his NBA championships, if not,
Speaker 2: probably surpassed them. Considering the genius of pat Riley and
Speaker 2: how he's been able to draft, no matter what his
Speaker 2: draft position is, quality players, finding guys like Duncan Robinson,
Speaker 2: undrafted guys that become the best three point shooters in
Speaker 2: the league. Having a great coach and Eric Spolstra continuity. Nah,
Speaker 2: what fun is that? Nobody's gonna give me credit for
Speaker 2: that win in five titles with Dwayne Wade and Chris
Speaker 2: bosh heck, and know, I've got to go to Cleveland
Speaker 2: and I've got to win a title for that city
Speaker 2: and then they'll put me in the conversation with short.
Speaker 3: But after that, he went on a podcast to tell
Speaker 3: everybody that there that right there that made.
Speaker 2: Me the goat exactly right, Yes, just in case you
Speaker 2: missed it. We were down three to one to a
Speaker 2: team that had won the prior to titles, and I
Speaker 2: had the iconic play the block, the full court rundown
Speaker 2: block that saved the contest, and I brought the title
Speaker 2: to Cleveland. So now I'm the goat. Wait a minute,
Speaker 2: I'm not What do I do now? I again, I'll
Speaker 2: go to the Lakers and ruin that franchise for the
Speaker 2: next eight years, forcing to make a bunch of trades.
Speaker 2: Have the media wax not it wouldn't be waxing poetic.
Speaker 2: It would be waxing ball wasshik for me about all
Speaker 2: the things they're not doing to help me out while
Speaker 2: I chase this triple double at forty one years old
Speaker 2: in a meaningless game up twenty after taking the night
Speaker 2: before off for load management with two minutes left.
Speaker 3: I mean, why would you want to come back to
Speaker 3: la a town that's been you know, openly racist to
Speaker 3: you seeing it in the media, right, you know, back
Speaker 3: when he was playing against the Warriors.
Speaker 2: That's right, it's exactly right not to mention what they
Speaker 2: did to his place there.
Speaker 3: You know, that racially motivated hate toward really rich black
Speaker 3: people in Beverly Hills. That happens all the time.
Speaker 2: I don't forget about what happened to his house in Brentwood, know,
Speaker 2: or wherever the hell that was. Yeah, that's the Holmby Hills,
Speaker 2: Holmby Hills. I saw it. No I didn't. That's right.
Speaker 2: They said they washed it off before I could get there.
Speaker 2: I thought I saw it.
Speaker 3: You think Riley's been holding in this aggression.
Speaker 2: Yes, I do, and I do like that it was
Speaker 2: just a subtle jab. It wasn't Oh yeah, he burned
Speaker 2: us guys. Never, he's never satiated. He's always chasing it.
Speaker 2: As Lebron said himself.
Speaker 3: His thirst is never quenched.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's it's it's it's it's inevitable. And if they
Speaker 2: play a team with with just a lick of defense
Speaker 2: like the Celtics had over the weekend and humiliated.
Speaker 3: Them, doesn't Lebron like feel like a kid that the
Speaker 3: Lakers want out of their house so they can make
Speaker 3: it into an office or like a m Yes, like
Speaker 3: they're just and it's like this holding pattern of months.
Speaker 3: You know, it's like dude, I can't wait. You know
Speaker 3: you have like the paint and the tarp yea like
Speaker 3: set outside the door, like for women leaves.
Speaker 2: You've got a job, You're making money. Now, don't you
Speaker 2: want to go live with your pals? You know, get
Speaker 2: a get a three bedroom apartment downtown and I hang
Speaker 2: out with the guys instead of here with mom and dad.
Speaker 2: What do you think? Go on on your own?
Speaker 3: I told you this is my last year here.
Speaker 2: That's a great, great call. So thank you pat Riley
Speaker 2: for being classy. Well just giving us the most subtle
Speaker 2: of digs at lebron before finding your way out of town.
Speaker 3: Well you look at at least against the Celtics.
Speaker 2: Listen. I got a lot of respect for Jalen Brown,
Speaker 2: except for that s he said about Bronnie. What the truth?
Speaker 3: Hey, Jalen Brown knows what it's like to be discriminated
Speaker 3: against in the West Side as well.
Speaker 2: Okay, he does.
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Speaker 3: Matt, as you know, we had the lunar New Year recently,
Speaker 3: and it is the year of the fire horse, as
Speaker 3: the year of the snake shed its skin.
Speaker 2: While you were on tour, did you look up your
Speaker 2: your year? I know, the wife looked up ours.
Speaker 3: Yeah, i'd been. I looked. It might be the horse
Speaker 3: or a rhinoceros or some kind of platypus, don't I
Speaker 3: don't remember. Somebody did look up my year, but I
Speaker 3: don't remember. But right now it is the flaming, galloping
Speaker 3: horse of the this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a lot better than the water rocks. I
Speaker 2: can tell you that.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't think, you know, maybe that's why you
Speaker 3: like water so much. Maybe it's a parallel of course too.
Speaker 3: I'm a horse Monday, and I am a horse. And
Speaker 3: also you know they have lion dancers when they have
Speaker 3: the Lunar New Year. Yes, featured on the floor at
Speaker 3: Moroango Casino Resort and Spa this month, bringing what luck
Speaker 3: and a rip roaring good time. But in Thailand, the
Speaker 3: lion dancers took on a new role, Matt. And before
Speaker 3: you start talking about lady boys and I know that's
Speaker 3: where your mind.
Speaker 2: Go, it's not. I'm just thinking of the neck movement
Speaker 2: of those lion dancers, you know, get back and forth, tilty,
Speaker 2: going going.
Speaker 3: I want to say that we saw a lion dancer
Speaker 3: dancing around on the casino floor at the Bicycle, but
Speaker 3: that could have been my imagination.
Speaker 2: I was concentrating on the individual that was asleep on
Speaker 2: the couch.
Speaker 3: Marshall dances, I like, I love that place for.
Speaker 2: Christian his girlfriend dusting him.
Speaker 3: Oh, Wendy with an H and a D and three.
Speaker 2: I yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, the lion dancers, Matt, are everywhere in the Asian
Speaker 3: world during this time of year and in all the
Speaker 3: casinos in the area. Cops and Bangkok tracked a burglar
Speaker 3: while dressed as a giant red and gold lion during
Speaker 3: the Lunar New Year celebration, an officer in a giant
Speaker 3: apron mache lionhead leapt out at the suspect from under
Speaker 3: the head and pinned him in front of a temple.
Speaker 3: The temple Non Thaboua. The guy they caught and the
Speaker 3: reason they had to go full lion dance regalia was
Speaker 3: such a prolific burglar in Thailand that he had taken
Speaker 3: at least two million bot worth of stuff, how muny
Speaker 3: and bought how much is two million bot baht? Matt?
Speaker 2: How much is two million bought bahd?
Speaker 3: Not as much as you'd think, but certainly nothing to
Speaker 3: sneeze at forty seven.
Speaker 2: G's okay, that's pretty freaking healthy.
Speaker 3: And this burglar broke in. He was so hard to catch.
Speaker 3: He broke into the police commander home in Bangkok three
Speaker 3: times this month and they couldn't get him. Guys on
Speaker 3: a GTA last stand bender but the lion costume cop
Speaker 3: but the lion head on got him. So when you're
Speaker 3: at Marongo, if you're a shady character and that lion
Speaker 3: gets up close to you and you're counting cards out
Speaker 3: of the shoe or whatever, or if you're cursing out
Speaker 3: somebody at Wallburger's are acting disorderly and drunk on the floor.
Speaker 3: Don't be shocked. If a Marongo cop, tribal cop or
Speaker 3: Cabazon PD whatever they have, hops out from from behind
Speaker 3: the lion head and makes a move could happen.
Speaker 2: That would be something if if you know, when we
Speaker 2: go out to Marongo and we love our partnership with Marongo,
Speaker 2: we love our you know, you're hanging out on the
Speaker 2: uh on the stage we get to perform. There's video
Speaker 2: poker and a and a bartender in front of us
Speaker 2: there to say, listen, guys, you want to stick around
Speaker 2: after the show, make you a little lion dancer. Now,
Speaker 2: I think I'd be up for it. Yeah, see seeing
Speaker 2: if I could get my like Merton Hanks on, you know.
Speaker 3: Run it up the flag, polsy who salutes it, get
Speaker 3: your head rocking back and forth. I understand, Matt.
Speaker 7: Would this fly like in an amusement park, say you
Speaker 7: went to like Knots and all of a sudden the
Speaker 7: cowboys like, no, you're really under arrest, partner, all of.
Speaker 3: A sudden, some confusion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I might get socked in the face.
Speaker 3: If the Princess Jasmin at Disneyland put a knee in
Speaker 3: the small of your back and was like, some people
Speaker 3: might be into.
Speaker 2: That, dude, it's the perfect croun. How'd you get busted?
Speaker 3: The princess Jasmin man jumped off a flying carpet and
Speaker 3: took it to me, breaking Jafar and that note just
Speaker 3: pecked me down. So a crazy move out there in
Speaker 3: Thailand that you might see on the casino floor at
Speaker 3: Marango Casino. If you're counting cards out of the shoe.
Speaker 2: That's a good heads up to our criminals. Two pee.
Speaker 2: You know, just because that lion dancer is dancing around
Speaker 2: doesn't mean he's just giving out or she's giving out
Speaker 2: a bunch of free chicks.
Speaker 3: Right, somebody might pop out the bottom and get your ass,
Speaker 3: slap you around, just like that burglar in Bangkok. All right,
Speaker 3: we got another hour of great oriental stock still to come.
Speaker 3: It is an oriental city, Matt, filled with people who
Speaker 3: are Asian, okay, and oriental stuff like carpets and lamps music.
Speaker 3: That's right, brothels, that's what's in the brothels, Matt. They
Speaker 3: got chicks too. She's hard to tell. We'll be back.
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