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Speaker 5: Series champion Dodgers, who not pick up the divisional round
Speaker 5: until Saturday. Game one, show hailed Pawnee from the Galpin
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Speaker 2: Right around there.
Speaker 5: You'll get Dodgers on deck an hour before as the
Speaker 5: Dodgers try to defend their World Series championship against the
Speaker 5: one team that many say could be the largest obstacle
Speaker 5: on their path to the first repeat in a quarter
Speaker 5: century in the Major League.
Speaker 3: Wow, and they've lost to a lot of teams that
Speaker 3: are worse than that.
Speaker 2: True.
Speaker 3: In the postseason, we'll see what happens. You heard from
Speaker 3: Spilly He was not as confident as far as what
Speaker 3: we saw last night carrying.
Speaker 2: Over Destiny fuly team of Destiny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you talked about the fan ass and he
Speaker 3: basically told you, yeah, save that for after the game.
Speaker 2: Hey, maybe it's fantas yet, is okay?
Speaker 3: Well, the decks will be cleared on Sunday, so the
Speaker 3: Chargers will take on the Washington Commanders kick off at
Speaker 3: one twenty five. Matt will be here in La at
Speaker 3: one twenty five on kf I AM six forty with
Speaker 3: Shannon and Daniel Jeremiah. And we are happy that the
Speaker 3: Dodgers are moving on. Scam is moving on. There's gonna
Speaker 3: be another seriess doers ooops dolliers. Our boss is gonna
Speaker 3: make some money. There's a way to get Scam on
Speaker 3: the app on the Clipper streaming side. Why does Dan
Speaker 3: Patrick need that much help?
Speaker 5: Well, I think he swings a big stick pee, you know,
Speaker 5: and perhaps somebody, look, you got scam or you got DP.
Speaker 5: What are you gonna do in LA? It's not even close? Right,
Speaker 5: someone gets a little sensitive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean sorry that people are excited about the
Speaker 3: Dodgers for excuse us for living geez. Well, anyway, it
Speaker 3: is time for the final hour. Fun fast the fact.
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Speaker 5: edu slash coaching. Did you know in the nineteen forties
Speaker 5: the Phillies like almost and actually did sort of change
Speaker 5: their name to the Blue Jays. Interesting a fan contest
Speaker 5: was held to find a new nickname because the team
Speaker 5: was so terrible, had spent literal decades of losing, were
Speaker 5: a punchline to all the other Major League Baseball clubs.
Speaker 5: So missus Elizabeth Crooks submitted the name blue Jays, the
Speaker 5: team designed and actually used and had a blue Jay
Speaker 5: patch on their uniform for two seasons, but the uniform
Speaker 5: still said Phillies on the front. So while they were
Speaker 5: sort of the blue Jays, they weren't the blue Jays.
Speaker 5: And then they ended up winning the Pennan in nineteen
Speaker 5: fifty they did the blue Jay and leaned into the
Speaker 5: Phillies fully once again.
Speaker 3: It's interesting. Yesterday when we were walking around the stadium,
Speaker 3: I noticed and remembered that at the turn of the
Speaker 3: last century, the Brooklyn Dodgers were named the Brooklyn Superbus,
Speaker 3: which is a pretty interesting name.
Speaker 2: I kind of like it better than the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Oh come, man, the Superbas no hats and the Superbus.
Speaker 3: It is superb. How good are you? We're not good.
Speaker 3: See we're superb, that's how good. I was like, who
Speaker 3: the hell are the Superbus? I know they had the
Speaker 3: B on the hat, but the name of the team
Speaker 3: was the the Superbas.
Speaker 2: Or the in cred Ables in cray able.
Speaker 3: All right, it is time for criicckets. Everybody coming this crickets.
Speaker 2: Come make it quick, y'all.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, last night a very special night in the city.
Speaker 3: And to see you DoD Dodgers and Phillies in the
Speaker 3: NLDS Game one Sunday in the city of brotherly loved Lawyers.
Speaker 3: One of the greatest baseball players that any of us
Speaker 3: have ever seen. In fact, he is the greatest baseball
Speaker 3: player any of us have ever seen. It's hard not
Speaker 3: to take it for granted. Show Al Toddy, we'll be
Speaker 3: on the mound in the series opener. Here is Dave
Speaker 3: Roberts after the win versus the Reds last night, very
Speaker 3: happy while they were partying in the batting cages, not
Speaker 3: in the clubhouse area.
Speaker 6: You know, guys stayed positive, stayed within in themselves, kept
Speaker 6: taking good at bats, and you know, Yoshi stepped up,
Speaker 6: you know, once again, and Addison pitches that first inning,
Speaker 6: but you know he was locked in and for him
Speaker 6: to get us into the seventh was huge, and us
Speaker 6: tack on offensively, defensively, we're playing great, and you know
Speaker 6: it's good to see Rookie finish that game too.
Speaker 7: Is Rokie your closer now?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I trust and he's gonna be pitching and leverage. So
Speaker 6: that was you know, the more you pitch guys and
Speaker 6: play guys, you learn more. So like I said about Yamamoto,
Speaker 6: I don't think the moment's going to be too big
Speaker 6: for rookie.
Speaker 8: I mean every year is different. But how far do
Speaker 8: you think this team can go? And would you like
Speaker 8: to get back to the World Series and play the
Speaker 8: Yankees again?
Speaker 6: I think we can. We can win it all. I
Speaker 6: think we're equipped to do that. We certainly have the pedigree,
Speaker 6: we certainly have the hunger. We're playing great baseball, and
Speaker 6: in all honesty, I don't care who we play, I
Speaker 6: just want to, you know, be the last team standing.
Speaker 7: Just what have you seen out of the offense the
Speaker 7: last couple of nights to kind of keep piling on runs,
Speaker 7: finding different ways to score like they did kind of
Speaker 7: in and then the later innings today.
Speaker 6: I think that what we're seeing is, you know, winning pitches,
Speaker 6: using the whole field, fighting and you know, not trying
Speaker 6: to just slug. I think we're taking team at bats,
Speaker 6: situation Situationally, we've been fantastic and even roared at the bottom.
Speaker 6: You know, whether it's a sacrifice, the fight to slap
Speaker 6: an O two double to the other way to get
Speaker 6: on base. You know, we're just doing things, whether it's
Speaker 6: a sack fly, we're doing whatever it takes. Even show
Speaker 6: hey in the situation getting a guy over to allow
Speaker 6: set the stage for Mookie. So just team baseball, team at.
Speaker 7: Bets and then in that eighth inning, just kind of
Speaker 7: what were you seeing at an Emmett, What prompted you
Speaker 7: to kind of make the move there, and kind of
Speaker 7: how do you view him going forward after this?
Speaker 6: You know, I just yeah, I mean, I still I
Speaker 6: trust him. It was his first kind of real cracket
Speaker 6: kind of late leverage. He wasn't sharp, but I believe
Speaker 6: in him, I really do. And I think for me,
Speaker 6: is you know, to think that he can get through
Speaker 6: Benson although he had count leverage, to then feel like
Speaker 6: he can get through mcclaim, he would have been over
Speaker 6: thirty pitches, and I just didn't think the stuff was
Speaker 6: a sharp And so for me, I just kind of
Speaker 6: had a gut feeling that, you know, give Vessie a
Speaker 6: chance to get count leverage versus Andrew Hall or if
Speaker 6: they leave Benson in And I liked him against McClean
Speaker 6: and then Freedom, So that's kind of my thought. And
Speaker 6: you know, but Emmatt did a fine job. It's just
Speaker 6: kind of just it just wasn't sharp tonight.
Speaker 9: Mookie's turn around this year has just been kind of insane.
Speaker 9: Can you just kind of talk about what kind of
Speaker 9: player he is to have that start and then now
Speaker 9: come through like he always has and be one of
Speaker 9: the best players in the world.
Speaker 6: I think it started when he just kind of just
Speaker 6: gave up on chasing, you know, having a career year,
Speaker 6: you know, chasing an MVP or whatever it was. I
Speaker 6: think he just kind of was resolved to just let
Speaker 6: that go, play for the present and the future and
Speaker 6: play to help the team win. And I think that
Speaker 6: just took a little bit a lot of pressure off him,
Speaker 6: and then everything kind of unveiled and he got to
Speaker 6: be the player that he was and freed himself up.
Speaker 6: And so, yeah, he's playing fantastic baseball.
Speaker 5: That's a good amount of stuff, meaty, but full of
Speaker 5: great information.
Speaker 3: We need to have it. We need to get everybody
Speaker 3: ready for the Dodgers. JJ Reddick, says Lebron Jays Terryo
Speaker 3: Marcus Smarts. Kleeber will not play in the Laker preseason
Speaker 3: game tomorrow versus the Suns in Palm Desert.
Speaker 5: The hell I bought my great grandparents tickets to that.
Speaker 3: They will still see the premier player for your Los
Speaker 3: Angeles Lakers and the franchise player, which is Luka Doncic,
Speaker 3: face of the league.
Speaker 2: According to DeAndre Ayton.
Speaker 3: Could end up being a point of contention for a
Speaker 3: jealous and petty Lebron James and Lebron James camp.
Speaker 2: We can only hope.
Speaker 10: I know Lebron's battling a glute injury, but if I'm Genie,
Speaker 10: I can't be happy that we're going on this tour
Speaker 10: around Southern California Vegas, doing the whole preseason thing, putting
Speaker 10: the Lakers out there on display, and Lebron's gonna be
Speaker 10: riding the bench with the sun.
Speaker 3: Well, his son might pleasure.
Speaker 5: It's probably gonna play a lot, oh boy, And I
Speaker 5: would wonder, as he has shared on multiple podcasts and
Speaker 5: with multiple interviews, on multiple interviews, now is he going
Speaker 5: to be out there swinging the club in Palm Desert?
Speaker 5: Is it going to be trying to get out, you know,
Speaker 5: on one of those fancy courses all the Lakha or
Speaker 5: something of the Madison Club, one of those fancy.
Speaker 2: Morning side exclusive spots.
Speaker 5: Not good enough to play in an exhibition game for
Speaker 5: three minutes, but good enough the cruise around in play eighteen.
Speaker 3: Well, we'll see what happens with the Laker preseason tomorrow.
Speaker 11: In the desert, people said, if you ever get into
Speaker 11: the game and the Bob grab you is over it,
Speaker 11: Bud grab me. I definitely have it, man.
Speaker 3: I started.
Speaker 11: I literally started playing in July for the first time
Speaker 11: in my life, and I love everything about it. I
Speaker 11: think the best thing that I've gotten out of it,
Speaker 11: besides like the how competitive and hard it is and
Speaker 11: the mental challenge, which I love. Anything that's mentally challenging,
Speaker 11: I love. Well, how just you just get away from
Speaker 11: the world. You out there on the green, no phones,
Speaker 11: no phone. My phone stays in the cart the whole time.
Speaker 11: I check it from time to time. But it's just
Speaker 11: like I play my music. I'm out there with my guys,
Speaker 11: you out there and just in the world, and I
Speaker 11: can lose my mind into the game of golf.
Speaker 4: Media can't find you, Lebron.
Speaker 11: No, they can't find me. We gotta get it updated.
Speaker 4: Media can't find you, Lebron.
Speaker 3: That's worse than any of them. Golf.
Speaker 4: Media can't find you, Lebron.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's so good.
Speaker 4: Media can't find you. The media can't find you, Lebron.
Speaker 3: Lebron is the one that wants to find the media.
Speaker 3: Lebron's the one that puts out the workout videos and
Speaker 3: says all the stupid stuff.
Speaker 4: Media can't find you, Lebron.
Speaker 3: Geeter, guess who's in the media. Geter, Media can't find you, Lebron.
Speaker 3: The first number twenty four jersey worn by Kobe Bryant
Speaker 3: with the Lakers recently sold for eight and eighty nine thousand,
Speaker 3: including a buyer's premium at Sotheby's. Kolbe wore the jersey
Speaker 3: while posting twenty three points on one hundred and eighteen
Speaker 3: one hundred and twelve victory over the SuperSonics of all teams.
Speaker 3: How about that on November third, two thousand and six.
Speaker 3: It's autographed too, So it's not just the jersey you're
Speaker 3: gain it's an autograph from Kobe.
Speaker 5: It is the game warn So that's how you get
Speaker 5: to nine hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: Nine hundred though Thursday night game at Sulfi Tonight, Rams
Speaker 3: taking on the forty nine Ers. But what about the Chargers.
Speaker 2: Home game Sunday.
Speaker 5: After the loss to the Giants, they continue their tour
Speaker 5: of the NFC East. Jaden Daniels full participant in practice
Speaker 5: after missing the previous two. He'll be out there for
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Speaker 8: You want to learn from it and and grow and
Speaker 8: move forward and in a lot of areas that uh,
Speaker 8: that's where we we feel like we come out of
Speaker 8: that game, you know, chasing perfection and so continue to
Speaker 8: do that.
Speaker 1: What the big chapel threat or back.
Speaker 8: Uh, he's a great player. He's he's and all all
Speaker 8: facets of of quarterback play, you know, really really really
Speaker 8: good dual threat or uh just great really good threat.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's a twenty Memphis is both for herb to
Speaker 7: improve in terms of his speed and just his ability
Speaker 7: to get out.
Speaker 8: There's nothing there in terms of he's always had that talent.
Speaker 8: He's he's very athletic, and it impacts the game in
Speaker 8: a positive way for us.
Speaker 3: What can you say about his performance on Sunday being
Speaker 3: of course Sacks developing.
Speaker 8: Yeah, spectacular, Uh, the way he impacted the game and
Speaker 8: and just really really good, really consistent, you know, the
Speaker 8: four sacks, the pressures, the the way he impacted the game.
Speaker 8: Probably unfortunately got a little lost, you know, uh because
Speaker 8: we didn't win the game. But yeah, he was he
Speaker 8: was somebody that was, uh, you know, played really well.
Speaker 3: A little bit of an understated Jim Harbaugh. This week
Speaker 3: gonna be a great quarterback matchup. USC has a bye week,
Speaker 3: u c l A home on Saturday versus Penn State
Speaker 3: Nitney lyons Or only a twenty five and a half
Speaker 3: point favorite. Uh, that line might move though, now that
Speaker 3: the blueout has been announced.
Speaker 2: Could could go up the twenty seven and a half.
Speaker 3: I thought it would go the other way. But now
Speaker 3: this is what we had Don McClain on to talk about,
Speaker 3: and he's gonna come on in the next segment the
Speaker 3: NCUBLEA Tournament.
Speaker 12: Matt.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they have talked about expansion and it sounds like
Speaker 5: now it's gonna happen. It's not finalized, but the proposed
Speaker 5: format with the television partners is to expand from sixty
Speaker 5: eight to seventy six eight games expected, and they will
Speaker 5: add it to what is known as the First four.
Speaker 5: It'll become the First eight set of four games featuring
Speaker 5: the four lowest seeded automatic qualifiers and the last four
Speaker 5: at large teams in the NCAA tournament field. The new
Speaker 5: first twelve, actually they're going to add eight, would be
Speaker 5: referred to as the opening round, So you get twenty
Speaker 5: four teams playing in twelve games over the first two days.
Speaker 5: They would take place at two different sites, but a
Speaker 5: way to get out of what's really some pretty ho
Speaker 5: hum matchups in the first four might have one or
Speaker 5: two good ones in there to what could be a
Speaker 5: full on, full fledged get to Vegas a day early
Speaker 5: first round of the tournament.
Speaker 3: So we'll see how that plays out. And we haven't
Speaker 3: talked hockey well in weeks, maybe months, but here we are.
Speaker 3: Thanks for talking to hockey.
Speaker 5: The Anaheim Ducks have extended Jackson Lacon keep part of
Speaker 5: their rebuilding team and a long term contract extension Lacombe
Speaker 5: Lacombie Lacon twenty four sogn an eight year deal, however
Speaker 5: you pronounce his name, carries a nine million dollar average
Speaker 5: annual day that would sugest he's one of the best
Speaker 5: players in the league. It is the largest contract ever
Speaker 5: given out by the Anaheim Ducks.
Speaker 3: Congratulations to the Ducks. Maybe inspired by the Organ Ducks
Speaker 3: and the amount of money that they spend.
Speaker 2: That's fair.
Speaker 3: Probably not who.
Speaker 10: Think spends more money? That's a great question. The Anaheim
Speaker 10: Ducks Are the Oregon Ducks the Organ Ducks?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you think so, though, No, I don't know. I mean, well,
Speaker 3: the Organ how much they spend in nil is not
Speaker 3: officially disclosed, so it's kind of hard to tell.
Speaker 5: The Anaheim Ducks in twenty twenty. No, it is definitely
Speaker 5: the Anaheim Ducks. They are going to spend eighty two
Speaker 5: million dollars on players for the twenty five to twenty
Speaker 5: six season. Do you think they would spend eighty two
Speaker 5: million bucks on players at Oregon?
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, maybe it's the Organ Duck.
Speaker 3: But I don't know. I don't know for sure. When
Speaker 3: I found out how much the long snapper made at
Speaker 3: Michigan State, my head almost rolled off my shoulder.
Speaker 2: He's a hell of a launch snapper though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but still, you know, guys did that for free
Speaker 3: for years, not anymore. You're right. We'll be right back
Speaker 3: with Don McClain on the new tournament expansion in the
Speaker 3: beginning of the Clipper season and the Lakers season and
Speaker 3: the NBA right here on AM FI seventy LA Sports
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Speaker 3: It's time to talk to our bff, the one and
Speaker 3: only Don McLain. He was here last Friday, did a
Speaker 3: great job filling in like he always does. Basketball is
Speaker 3: getting fired up, and there is news in the NCAA
Speaker 3: as well, not just Clippers and Lakers and everybody else
Speaker 3: getting started. He is the leading scorer in the history
Speaker 3: of the Pac twelve. You see him on the Big
Speaker 3: Ten Network at FS one. He also works at CAA.
Speaker 3: There is only one Don McClain. The next ass he
Speaker 3: kisses will be the first. The baron of Box Canyon,
Speaker 3: a decorated NBA player and once again the best friend
Speaker 3: of the Petros. Somebody show on He're Southern California Toyota
Speaker 3: Dealer celebrity hotline. What's cracking? Don? How are you here?
Speaker 12: We go with the Thursdays again?
Speaker 3: Tomorrow, We're sorry dog Tomorrow, we needed you today. Tomorrow
Speaker 3: is a Baseball Net prep.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I know, and I wonder. I'm wondering Pee and
Speaker 12: you and I talked about it off the ear if
Speaker 12: people have noticed that you've forgot not for good, but
Speaker 12: not including one of the top as I used to have.
Speaker 12: And I guess we should address it now that I'm
Speaker 12: no longer doing the Clipper shows. Unfortunately contract was renewed,
Speaker 12: and yes they're moving in a different direction. But I
Speaker 12: just want to say, you know, I work with so
Speaker 12: many great people on that show. I did it for
Speaker 12: over twenty years, starting with half John Heffner, who all
Speaker 12: your listeners know, Micah King and those guys in the
Speaker 12: front office, if you will, but a lot of camera people,
Speaker 12: people on air that I worked with, a lot of
Speaker 12: people behind the scenes. We did really good work for
Speaker 12: a long time. And as you guys know, the business
Speaker 12: is changing, and the Clipper shows have changed hands a
Speaker 12: couple of times already, and so not surprising that they're
Speaker 12: going in a different direction. But I just wanted to
Speaker 12: make sure that I thanked all those people that I
Speaker 12: work with for so long, especially Darryl Lewis, who produced
Speaker 12: that show for almost as long as I was on it.
Speaker 12: Did a great job and still continues to do a
Speaker 12: great job on angels and other stuff he does. But yeah,
Speaker 12: we're moving on. I won't miss the drive, but I'll
Speaker 12: miss a lot of the people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, out of yeah, I was going to say
Speaker 3: that drive down the one A line.
Speaker 5: It was one of the reasons to watch. It was
Speaker 5: really the main reason to watch Clipper basketball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, to watch Don McClain and his insights before and
Speaker 3: middle and after the game, and especially back when there
Speaker 3: was different left leadership and Don used to do the
Speaker 3: fourth quarter or do a different quarter with Ralph Lawler.
Speaker 3: A lot of stuff. What is your I mean, we're
Speaker 3: going to continue to talk and ask about the Clippers
Speaker 3: and the Lakers and all that here on the show.
Speaker 3: But what what, what do you think is the most
Speaker 3: impactful thing you'll remember about working there, working with all
Speaker 3: these different people, ownership changes, the whole crazy Donald Sterling story.
Speaker 12: You know, I've thought about it, Pee, and I think
Speaker 12: that that that one sticks out the most, was the
Speaker 12: ownership change in that whole ordeal with Donald Sterling and
Speaker 12: what happened and led to him being bounced out of
Speaker 12: the NBA and Steve Baldmer coming in. I think I'll
Speaker 12: remember that the most. I feel like those were you
Speaker 12: know we used to goof around a lot on that
Speaker 12: show in the early day, is because the Clippers weren't
Speaker 12: very good, and so yeah, we used to have free
Speaker 12: reign to do whatever we want. And it seemed like
Speaker 12: once Steve Balmer got involved, he got serious because he
Speaker 12: was spending money and bringing in good players, and they
Speaker 12: had Chris Paul and Lob City and all that stuff,
Speaker 12: and so it turned into more of a real basketball
Speaker 12: show at that point. But it doesn't mean it was
Speaker 12: better or worse. It just meant that it was more
Speaker 12: serious because the Clippers were contenders. Unfortunately they haven't gotten
Speaker 12: over the hump all these years, but it looks like
Speaker 12: they have a chance this year. But yeah, I remember
Speaker 12: a lot of that stuff, you know, from the playoff
Speaker 12: games and uh it. But really that that's the one
Speaker 12: time that really stands out if I think back over
Speaker 12: twenty years.
Speaker 5: So it's an interesting moment for them, don And you know,
Speaker 5: you're I don't know how this thing is going to
Speaker 5: get resolved. If it's going to get resolved, they don't
Speaker 5: want to talk about it. Uh Yet everybody continues to
Speaker 5: ask the questions. Do you think the league will come
Speaker 5: out and make some sort of definitive statement. Do you
Speaker 5: think they'll try to just ignore it and hope it
Speaker 5: goes away? Ultimately? How do you think it ends with
Speaker 5: the Clippers and Kawhi? And this Pablo Tory is not
Speaker 5: given up. Man, He's now tying charity checks of one
Speaker 5: point eight million to the Sandberg guy who ran the
Speaker 5: company's charity fund that tied directly to Kuhi. Like it's
Speaker 5: getting gnarly now.
Speaker 12: It is, Matt, But I just have this weird feeling
Speaker 12: that it just goes away. I mean, maybe there's enough
Speaker 12: evidence that Adam Silver gets put in the bind and
Speaker 12: he's got to come down with some with some punishment.
Speaker 12: But here's what I wonder, and we don't know because
Speaker 12: no one's really spoke on except for Cuban, but he's
Speaker 12: not an owner anymore. Is Adam Silver getting pressure from
Speaker 12: the other teams? That's the question, you know, is he
Speaker 12: getting pressure from all these teams? Say, wait a second,
Speaker 12: if they circumvented the cap, there has to be punishment
Speaker 12: or else we're going to do it. So that's the
Speaker 12: hard part in all this is what are all the
Speaker 12: other teams thinking and saying to the NBA in Adam Silver,
Speaker 12: Like you, there's enough evidence out there that you have
Speaker 12: to punish him. But we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3: Maybe Steve Bomber gives them somebody too.
Speaker 2: That would work.
Speaker 5: He's got enough of it, you know, maybe he could
Speaker 5: give the WNBA some money and then that way, you know,
Speaker 5: it's just kind of this three way deal.
Speaker 12: That works out exactly exactly.
Speaker 5: We were playing some sound from Laker Media Day last week.
Speaker 5: I don't know it was earlier this week. Actually it
Speaker 5: was DeAndre Ayton and he was talking about I don't
Speaker 5: know if you were listening to the show at the time,
Speaker 5: but the clip was basically ate and talking about the offense,
Speaker 5: and he said, well, you know, it's a two man games,
Speaker 5: it's me and Luca, And then he talked about how
Speaker 5: they were in the same draft and how lucas the
Speaker 5: face of the league and how his job is to
Speaker 5: make it easy for Luca. Do you think there's any
Speaker 5: that there could be any issue with Lebron and his
Speaker 5: Maxi Kleeber then came in and gave that same sort
Speaker 5: of thing and tried to circle back and bring up
Speaker 5: Lebron as well. Do you think that in his twenty
Speaker 5: third season, Lebron is the kind of person that would say, yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm forty years old, it's you know, this the guy?
Speaker 5: Or do you think that could be an issue for
Speaker 5: the Lakers.
Speaker 12: I don't think he's the kind of I don't think
Speaker 12: he's at the point in his career. Matt Well he'll
Speaker 12: come out and say anything. The question is in the
Speaker 12: locker room what's being said. But I do think this.
Speaker 12: I think Lebron, I mean, twenty three years is incredible
Speaker 12: for any guy in any sport to still be playing.
Speaker 12: I think what Lebron really wants and he's a smart
Speaker 12: guy what he wants is this to transition into Lucas team,
Speaker 12: but he wants to win going out. And I do
Speaker 12: think for all the and I've said this, and you
Speaker 12: guys have said it for years, how polarizing Lebron is.
Speaker 12: But I do think that, you know, listening to him
Speaker 12: all these years, I do, I would bet that that
Speaker 12: is his stance that, look, yeah, I'm not the main guy,
Speaker 12: Luca is, but let's win this thing before I retire.
Speaker 12: That has to be kind of his stance on all this.
Speaker 3: You've mentioned it, don don McLean joining us right now
Speaker 3: on Petrosen money. The Clippers do look pretty good, like
Speaker 3: that do all the time going into the season. We
Speaker 3: talk about the Lakers at nauseum. Everybody does which team
Speaker 3: looks better going into the season right now?
Speaker 12: I think the Clippers are, assuming everyone's healthy and ready
Speaker 12: to go. They're so deep. But what they did in
Speaker 12: the offseason with Beal and Brook, Lopez and John Collins,
Speaker 12: I mean they are deep one through fifteen pretty much,
Speaker 12: and so we know things go wrong. We know guys
Speaker 12: get hurt, we know guys' rest, we know all that.
Speaker 12: And if you have a really deep team, your margin
Speaker 12: for air becomes much bigger. And I just think the
Speaker 12: Clippers have a really big margin for air with the
Speaker 12: roster that they built in the improvement Zuba about how
Speaker 12: the good he's gotten hardened kind of not resurrected, but
Speaker 12: had a monster year last year, and so I just
Speaker 12: think they got all the pieces. But the biggest thing
Speaker 12: to me is the depth that they have across the board.
Speaker 5: The it's not depth, but it's I guess it's a
Speaker 5: collection of either a past accomplishments. Right with the Lakers
Speaker 5: when because to me I look at it, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 5: that they really needed Marcus Smart. So is Marcus Smart
Speaker 5: still the player that I think he is done a
Speaker 5: former Defensive Player of the Year because they need that
Speaker 5: so desperately since nobody else is playing any defense on
Speaker 5: the perimeter. And I mean, like we talked about before
Speaker 5: when they signed eight and I was like, man, I
Speaker 5: remember that Ayton and that can be really good if
Speaker 5: he gets his head on right. Yeah, more likely or
Speaker 5: less likely that those are the guys we are going
Speaker 5: to see.
Speaker 3: See.
Speaker 12: Here's the thing, man, there's guys that are good defenders
Speaker 12: that aren't talked about as being really good defenders. Why
Speaker 12: because they're in a culture of non defense. And I'm
Speaker 12: not saying that's the Lakers right now, but my point
Speaker 12: is if your culture across the board in that locker room,
Speaker 12: starting with the head coach, is we are going to guard.
Speaker 12: We're going to be a good defensive team, then you
Speaker 12: get the best out of guys on the defensive end,
Speaker 12: even guys that aren't known as good defenders. If everyone
Speaker 12: else is guarding and you're the only one that isn't, well,
Speaker 12: either you're not going to play or you're going to
Speaker 12: really guard. And so I think it's important for JJ
Speaker 12: Reddick to set the tone that, look, we got enough
Speaker 12: offense with all these guys, we have to be really
Speaker 12: good defensively. And if that's the case, I think a
Speaker 12: guy like Marcus Smart could raise back to the level
Speaker 12: that he was at at one point as a defender.
Speaker 5: Don McLain with us see believe it or not. While
Speaker 5: we are in the midst of the Dodgers march to
Speaker 5: a World Series championship, basketball is back. The Lakers are
Speaker 5: doing their standard barnstorming tour the Desert Vegas, Santa Barbara,
Speaker 5: all that sort of thing. The Clippers will get going
Speaker 5: in about a week. Is it the usual. Is it
Speaker 5: the Celtics in the East, Is it the Thunder in
Speaker 5: the West, or do you think it's a little more
Speaker 5: wide open and it's not that similar.
Speaker 12: I think the East is wide open. I mean wide
Speaker 12: open because no Jason Tatum, he's saying it may come
Speaker 12: back this year, but it ain't going to be like
Speaker 12: before the All Star Break. I wouldn't imagine. So I
Speaker 12: think Cleveland's got a really good chance. I think Orlando
Speaker 12: improved themselves this offseason. The West is hard. I mean
Speaker 12: you have to say that the thunder of the Favorite,
Speaker 12: but like the Clippers got better, the Lakers got better,
Speaker 12: teams have gotten better, the Warriors even got better. And
Speaker 12: so yes, yes, the Thunder of the Favorite right now.
Speaker 12: But I think the West is going to be incredibly competitive,
Speaker 12: and I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't the Thunder
Speaker 12: the number one seed in the West.
Speaker 3: Down by the time you stop calling college basketball games,
Speaker 3: the tournament's going to have more teams than are playing
Speaker 3: in Division One. They're expanding the tournament. It looks like
Speaker 3: they're talking about expanding the tournament even more. I don't
Speaker 3: know if these neutral site arenas are going to attract
Speaker 3: fans for you know, the fortieth seed. But what do
Speaker 3: you make I mean, obviously there's money to be made
Speaker 3: with postseason college sports. We see it with the football playoff,
Speaker 3: and the tournament is a huge money maker. But is
Speaker 3: this watering it down too much?
Speaker 12: Well, you just said it.
Speaker 2: Pee.
Speaker 12: They don't care. They don't care if it waters it
Speaker 12: down or not. They're going to make money off the
Speaker 12: TV deal. Even if ten people show up to these
Speaker 12: regional sites, they're still getting the TV money and that's
Speaker 12: all they care about. And so it's unfortunate that that's
Speaker 12: what it's come to in all of college sports, that
Speaker 12: we don't care what the product really is as long
Speaker 12: as we can make more money. But the tournament as
Speaker 12: perfect as it is. You know, I think that the
Speaker 12: first four in games are fine, but now you're stretching
Speaker 12: it to even more of those.
Speaker 3: A separate tournament for the tournament.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, like it doesn't make any sense. We all
Speaker 12: know why they're doing it, but you know, what's the fallout?
Speaker 12: Are people not going to watch it? Probably not? So
Speaker 12: why not we go ahead and do it? Make more
Speaker 12: TV money?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I think you know, the way that it's being described
Speaker 5: is that it would be twelve games, Like the opening
Speaker 5: round isn't four, it's twelve. So it's a full on
Speaker 5: two day, six games a day, And I guess the
Speaker 5: one is I'm trying to sort. I don't know if
Speaker 5: you want to call it putting lipstick on a pig
Speaker 5: or glasses half full. I do feel don and I
Speaker 5: don't know if you would agree. I feel like college
Speaker 5: basketball is better. You know, the money that these guys
Speaker 5: are getting paid. Some guys are staying back. It feels
Speaker 5: like we got more teams that are a little bit better.
Speaker 5: I really thought the tournament was incredibly compelling this last year.
Speaker 5: Do you think that's fair, Like, hey, maybe more games
Speaker 5: because I feel like it's a better product than we
Speaker 5: had when these guys were all one and done and
Speaker 5: it was.
Speaker 12: Just but this is like an hour conversation mat you
Speaker 12: know what I mean. It's like there's so many different
Speaker 12: angles and ways to look at it. Is it better
Speaker 12: that college basketball players are making over a million dollars
Speaker 12: a year? Some would say yes, some would say no.
Speaker 12: I do think you're right in the sense that it's
Speaker 12: more competitive. Teams are better because you're playing with twenty
Speaker 12: two and twenty three year olds. You're not playing with
Speaker 12: eighteen year olds. So their experience, of matter how many
Speaker 12: schools they've already been at, they understand college basketball because
Speaker 12: been in it for four or five years, and so
Speaker 12: that seems like it's going to continue. They're talking about
Speaker 12: having this new five years no matter what. So you
Speaker 12: don't have to have a grad year. There's no more
Speaker 12: COVID year. So now if you get five years, like,
Speaker 12: everybody's going to be old, especial if you're making money.
Speaker 12: And so I think from that, just what you said, Matt,
Speaker 12: that standpoint, I think the product is better because you
Speaker 12: have guys that have been in college for longer.
Speaker 3: Great stuff. The product's always better when Don McClain joins
Speaker 3: the show, especially on a Thursday. True, well, I don't
Speaker 3: know if it feels that way. Don enjoy the playoffs
Speaker 3: and we'll talk next week. Thanks a lot for doing it, Okay, guys,
Speaker 3: classy stuff on the Clippers too.
Speaker 2: Indeed, you know me, I wouldn't have been classy. I'd
Speaker 2: have been petty.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 2: That's a true statement.
Speaker 3: I haven't handled the challenge thing that well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would have thought you'd have been a little
Speaker 5: more gracious they are celebrating twenty years.
Speaker 3: You know, yeah, where's my where's my gratitude?
Speaker 2: Just to ask Mario, He'll tell you.
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Speaker 3: that that was some very interesting pushback that we received yesterday.
Speaker 3: And the pushback was he.
Speaker 5: Ill can see well, I think, uh, you know, you
Speaker 5: have a David Vass that's wagging his thing in our
Speaker 5: face for a while. You're catching strays on that front,
Speaker 5: and uh, you have a Dodger victory everybody's feeling pretty good.
Speaker 5: I think it opens the door for some dragon of
Speaker 5: the d across the dirt.
Speaker 3: Let me walk in like a rooster. I am styling
Speaker 3: seven innings, nine strikeouts, winning game one. Whoo whoo. It
Speaker 3: really was, yeah and amazing.
Speaker 5: He took a he took a soda bottle level stream
Speaker 5: to the face from Blake trying.
Speaker 3: Oh, it was unbelievable.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was a fire rose of shame.
Speaker 3: We're playing it on spots on Sports Center.
Speaker 5: It was so it was a fire hose of champagne
Speaker 5: to his face from trying, and it's definitely warning.
Speaker 2: I mean it was like we truly was.
Speaker 5: We've discussed it like it was like watching a woody
Speaker 5: woodpecker or bugs Bunny show where this.
Speaker 3: What he said when he did it. There's your exclusive time.
Speaker 2: Say explain.
Speaker 3: You know a lot of frustration and that bullpen matters.
Speaker 3: So what a great day for the Dodgers yesterday. We'll
Speaker 3: have four hours again tomorrow that starts at three o'clock
Speaker 3: and the series begins on Saturday. But don't forget scam
Speaker 3: tomorrow at six a m. Tim Kates and Steve Sacks
Speaker 3: getting you ready with a cheese steak taste test or
Speaker 3: some kind of Philly Philly accent comparison.
Speaker 2: That's a good.
Speaker 5: One, like a Rocky impersonation.
Speaker 3: But right now it is time for the Dead Guy Birthday.
Speaker 5: That Dead Guy pe one of the better ones. Jack
Speaker 5: Parsons happy would have been one hundred and eleventh to
Speaker 5: the and we've done him before, but god, I love
Speaker 5: the story. American rocket scientist, inventor, occultist. Parsons born, raised,
Speaker 5: died in Los Angeles. He was born Marvel white Side Parsons,
Speaker 5: but he went by Jack. I should have done that.
Speaker 5: I always wanted to be a Jack. I don't know
Speaker 5: how you get Jack out of Marvel or white Side,
Speaker 5: but he did. From a young age, he was way
Speaker 5: into science fiction and space and the idea of traveling
Speaker 5: to space, and he wanted to build rockets that could
Speaker 5: reach the stars. And remember, back then it's pre Space Program,
Speaker 5: nineteen twenties, nineteen thirties, it was a foolish thought that
Speaker 5: rockets were anything more than a fantasy. But nineteen thirties
Speaker 5: Jack Parsons began building and testing rocket engines with a
Speaker 5: couple pals in Pasadena, like in a field, testing a rocket,
Speaker 5: launching it to the skies, just a couple of dudes.
Speaker 5: He never earned a college degree. His skills, though, in
Speaker 5: chemistry and explosives made him and earned him entry into
Speaker 5: the scientist community, where he was very respected. He was
Speaker 5: the co founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which we
Speaker 5: obviously know, well, we got some listeners in there, just there.
Speaker 3: In a flint Ridge locket Yatamas.
Speaker 5: Now JPL of course still and later would help build
Speaker 5: rockets for NASA. He also helped start a company called Aerojet,
Speaker 5: which made rocket engines for the US military. So despite
Speaker 5: the lack of education, this dude knew what he was doing.
Speaker 5: Parsons made a lot of important discoveries in rocket science.
Speaker 5: His work basically laid the foundation for the space race
Speaker 5: and future space exploration.
Speaker 2: But a big butt well what happened.
Speaker 5: Not brilliant scientist, but he was also a bit rebellious
Speaker 5: and a little weird.
Speaker 3: A guy that builds rockets and is brilliant is a
Speaker 3: little rebellious and weird. Who would have guessed he had
Speaker 3: a like a guy that has a rocket that comes
Speaker 3: back to Earth and caught by two giant robot arms.
Speaker 5: A little weird. He had a deep interest in the occult.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, way into the supernatural.
Speaker 3: Is this the guy with the weird church in Silver Lake?
Speaker 5: This is our guy? Was that became close with l
Speaker 5: Ron Hubbard. That's how we know Parsons. He joined a
Speaker 5: group called the Ordo templey Orienteese the teachings of p
Speaker 5: Aleister Crowley, the famous controversial occultist. He believed that science
Speaker 5: magic and science and magic could work together. Exploring both
Speaker 5: would help people reach their full potential. And it was
Speaker 5: nineteen forty five when he meets l. Ron Hubbard, the
Speaker 5: science fiction writer. Of course, for those that don't know,
Speaker 5: I'm sure everybody does, but he's the founder of the
Speaker 5: Church of Scientology. Hubbard also interested in the occult. He
Speaker 5: and Parsons become close friends. They do magic together, series
Speaker 5: of ceremonies called Babylon Working. Parsons believe they were going
Speaker 5: to summon a powerful goddess to bring a new age
Speaker 5: into the world. This is what you're dealing with in science. Anyway,
Speaker 5: he trusted Hubbard. He entered a business deal basically gave
Speaker 5: him all of his money and sadly, his girlfriend, Sarah Northrop.
Speaker 5: They were investing in a boat selling company, but Hubbard
Speaker 5: disappeared with the loot with Sarah. It crushed Parsons emotionally, financially.
Speaker 5: Tried to sue to get his money back, couldn't and basically,
Speaker 5: even though he continued to work in rocketry and magic,
Speaker 5: he could not find stable work. The word was out
Speaker 5: that he was a weird ho hanging out with Hubbard
Speaker 5: into the occult, and the government, of course at that time,
Speaker 5: suspicious of people for anything, let alone people that were
Speaker 5: into the occult. He died in fifty two at thirty
Speaker 5: seven years old, when his laboratory or he exploded during
Speaker 5: an accident. Some though, say that Hubbard did it, and
Speaker 5: that's what some say. They say, maybe maybe Jack Parsons
Speaker 5: was murdered.
Speaker 3: Wow, what a weird story.
Speaker 5: That would have been one hundred fourteen today. But that's
Speaker 5: Jack Parsons JP of JPL, that's the dude. That is
Speaker 5: basically it's jet propulsion, but it was also Jack Parsons laboratory.
Speaker 3: Well for the Alive Guy. Singer songwriter out of Athens, Alabama,
Speaker 3: Britney Howard is only thirty seven years old. She got
Speaker 3: started pretty young as far as being an everybody's line
Speaker 3: of sight, a right tackle of a woman, half black.
Speaker 3: Family home was in a junkyard and the family home
Speaker 3: once burned down due to a lightning strike. She had
Speaker 3: an older sister that died when she was young, which
Speaker 3: is sad from retinal blastoma, but the sister taught her
Speaker 3: piano and poetry. Brittany Howard also had the disease retnal
Speaker 3: blastoma like her sister, but survived with partial blindness in
Speaker 3: one eye. She went to East Limestone High in Athens,
Speaker 3: where she met what would be the bassist for her
Speaker 3: first band, The Alabama Shaks, Zach Cockrell, and after high school,
Speaker 3: she went into the workforce, becoming a male carrier, a
Speaker 3: postman postperson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know. I think you had it,
Speaker 2: first postal.
Speaker 3: Carrier, then a full time career in music as the
Speaker 3: lead singer of Alabama Shaks. Alabama Shaks took off after
Speaker 3: playing bars and doing covers. Their first album of original
Speaker 3: stuff twenty two twelve was Boys and Girls and became
Speaker 3: an indie crossover hit, and their next album was very good,
Speaker 3: the sophomore effort, but they only have and that sounded color.
Speaker 3: Alabama Shakes only has two albums. She was in various
Speaker 3: other projects. Two solo albums. She has a band called
Speaker 3: Thunderbitch and a hardcore punk project called Kumite or Kumaite
Speaker 3: that started from earlier this year. I have not heard, yeah,
Speaker 3: a hardcore punk project. Have you heard Thunderbitch? That one's
Speaker 3: on heavy rotation in the car?
Speaker 5: I do not think I have heard that either. I
Speaker 5: do love the Alabama Shakes and.
Speaker 3: Just two albums. They haven't done anything for ten years
Speaker 3: that's been solo. She won a Grammy for Best Rock
Speaker 3: Song in twenty twenty one, a solo song. She hails
Speaker 3: from the Aisle and was married to a lady, but
Speaker 3: only for a year. It's hard to be married to
Speaker 3: an alignment.
Speaker 5: I always felt like she bears a resemblance to Rashaun Slater.
Speaker 5: He's a left tackle, so you think she's more of
Speaker 5: a right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you like her on the right side. Her kickback
Speaker 3: is not as strongest. Big lady and a great singer.
Speaker 3: Seems like a nice person. Don't forget to wake up
Speaker 3: early and get your Dodger fixed with scam as we
Speaker 3: got Dodgers, Killy Saturday and great sports talk till then,
Speaker 3: have a great night, everybody, mon Sir,