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Speaker 1: Smith against the Assault of Laughter Nothing Band, Hello everybody,
Speaker 1: and welcome once again to the final show of the.
Speaker 2: Week, Great Sports Talk.
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Speaker 1: to Jonas for pulling and Kevin figures and Ronnie for
Speaker 1: pulling them over the finish line. We have a lot
Speaker 1: going on and a great deal to promote here during
Speaker 1: the tour where Matt is out of town. We got
Speaker 1: a great deal to promote during the tour. What tour tour?
Speaker 1: The world Tour Guy we can't gue, we can't get tired.
Speaker 5: Sorry, I'm just distracted by the wipes and cleaning off
Speaker 5: the counter here in the studio. Another day of Fred's
Speaker 5: feed up on the counter, so I'm just trying to
Speaker 5: clean it all off.
Speaker 1: And you know, Tim, I saw the bottom of his shoes.
Speaker 1: They look particularly dirty today, so you probably did a
Speaker 1: good thing there. Disgusting all right, Well, get pet of
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Speaker 1: got Clippers, We've got Lakers. Pregame at six o'clock, tip
Speaker 1: off at seven. Should be an exciting game. Lamnium questionable.
Speaker 1: So that's the latest.
Speaker 5: Knees soreness already. I mean it's like he played back
Speaker 5: to back to back games this week.
Speaker 1: Or he doesn't want Kawhi to take it to him.
Speaker 1: Lebron very strategic regarding when he's gonna play and when
Speaker 1: he's not gonna be embarrassed by Victor Winnbanyama. So we
Speaker 1: will see what happens, but we'll have the action tonight
Speaker 1: on the air and even more exciting than many the
Speaker 1: first spring training Game of the Year will be here.
Speaker 1: The premiere sports product in the city of Los Angeles
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Speaker 1: Baseball and the city. And we will have the first
Speaker 1: spring training game Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound in Tempe
Speaker 1: versus the Angels in the cat this League tomorrow, first
Speaker 1: pitches at twelve ten. What Dave comes on the air
Speaker 1: at noon?
Speaker 5: Dave's on at eleven thirty AM with Morongo Casino Dodgers
Speaker 5: on tech of interview with the minor league player, injury
Speaker 5: updates and get you ready for first pitch.
Speaker 1: So forty minutes of a pregame show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean first pitches are usually
Speaker 5: twelve ten, twelve oh five, So.
Speaker 1: Cash me outside. Dave's got a lot of work to do,
Speaker 1: so that on Saturday and Sunday is very, very exciting,
Speaker 1: and Dave will join us in.
Speaker 2: The next hour thirty.
Speaker 1: Tim Kates has a soliloquy regarding the baseball world this hour,
Speaker 1: something that he's written called deer Baseball, much like the
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant did. He win an Academy Award for that
Speaker 1: Deer Basketball and then he passed away sadly tragically, of course.
Speaker 1: So we will have the Tim Kates Deer Baseball us
Speaker 1: what we say here manners, Yes, bait deer Baseball in
Speaker 1: the very next segment, Vassa the segment after that, and
Speaker 1: overall great sports talk, Great sports Talk, frog Man Friday first,
Speaker 1: or should we introduce Tim Kats?
Speaker 2: I think people know who I am now I like
Speaker 2: to play the song.
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 1: His junior year in high school, he did have a
Speaker 1: ricalcitrent era with an earring and smoking cigarettes and being
Speaker 1: a punk.
Speaker 2: I'm not your.
Speaker 1: Shaking down homeless people out front of Prince Donuts.
Speaker 2: We didn't have homeless people don'nut friend nineties.
Speaker 1: He was like one of those vampires and the lost boys.
Speaker 1: Just like the host of Aroango Casino Dodgers on college
Speaker 1: basketball and football encompassed me. You have the Raiders, our
Speaker 1: executive producer and co host all Week, Tim Kates has
Speaker 1: produced a lot of shows, producer a lot of shows.
Speaker 5: I'll c I F Baseball in ninety six, that's all
Speaker 5: so Mundays everybody was.
Speaker 1: Tim k At Tim Kates on Twitter. A big thank
Speaker 1: you to Tim and Ronnie all Week pulling the extra
Speaker 1: wait of course, during I mean I don't know how
Speaker 1: different it really was for you guys. But during the tour,
Speaker 1: what tour.
Speaker 5: The world tour, the world tours on our nation's capital. Tonight,
Speaker 5: Big show.
Speaker 1: Big show, Big show. Where is it?
Speaker 2: Don't know?
Speaker 1: Okay, big show, Thanks a lot for your health. Okay,
Speaker 1: it is a frog Man Friday, prog Man the heart
Speaker 1: plug Man, Jesus, the heart of a man is very
Speaker 1: much like to see. It has its storms, and has
Speaker 1: its tides and its depths, and it has its pearls too.
Speaker 1: On a Frogman Friday. The benches Somebody show enjoys celebrating
Speaker 1: the greatness of the sea and those of the protectors
Speaker 1: from it, Lifeguards, Coastguards, harbor patrol, let it avy. We
Speaker 1: also celebrate men of the sea, especially the great Mike
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Speaker 1: perhaps the greatest television show ever produced, Underwater Mercenary and
Speaker 1: Adventurer shot in Rancho Palas BURNY's Seahawks.
Speaker 6: This time I couldn't take Pete topside, not to a
Speaker 6: job was done. Instead, I gave him some of my
Speaker 6: hair and prayed that it would stole off the effects
Speaker 6: of oxygen poisoning. For a few minutes least. I don't
Speaker 6: know if Pete managed to keep going, but he did
Speaker 6: get every excuse in the world to quit and save
Speaker 6: his life, and he stayed.
Speaker 3: On a job.
Speaker 1: A lot of men, todd lights, everybody thirteen to five.
Speaker 1: What are you nuts? We still gotta take that, lorda man.
Speaker 1: You know what that's like these days.
Speaker 7: You got the Navy everywhere, you got frogmen, you got
Speaker 7: the e C two's with the satellite tracking, you got
Speaker 7: the bell two nine of salt choppers up the ass.
Speaker 1: We're losing one out of every nine loads. That's no
Speaker 1: duck walk anymore. Let me tell you, forget about money.
Speaker 1: What do you suggest that's reasonable? Dina rule, Dodgers are.
Speaker 3: Back your fire hard. That's a class.
Speaker 5: You know, Petrov's having a really good authority that there
Speaker 5: is a lot of people on the ten East right
Speaker 5: now making their way through the valley, on their way
Speaker 5: through blythe court side on the ten Freeway heading to
Speaker 5: Buckeye and then into the Valley of the Sun for
Speaker 5: spring training baseball.
Speaker 1: We are not among them no anymore now, And that's okay.
Speaker 1: I'm okay with that. But we will have a report
Speaker 1: from there. Are you gonna go out there. Yeah. Are
Speaker 1: you're gonna go out there a little bit, aren't you? Tim?
Speaker 1: I'll be uprout.
Speaker 5: I'll be out there for a couple of days next week,
Speaker 5: and then i'd be out there again at the end
Speaker 5: of the month. O, Mary.
Speaker 1: You're gonna use your nose to sniff around? Are you
Speaker 1: gonna shadow Vassay like Hartman?
Speaker 5: No, I'm not gonna shadow vass Come on, come, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna try to get to one or two games while
Speaker 5: we're out there. But yeah, it's fun. I know there's
Speaker 5: a lot of people heading out right now. There was
Speaker 5: a big accident on the tent east, so they're slowing
Speaker 5: things down a little bit. But that train of Dodger
Speaker 5: fans is on its way to Camelback Ranch for the
Speaker 5: opening weekend at the ranch there in Arizona, and.
Speaker 1: It is a different vibe. It's a different way to
Speaker 1: watch baseball. It's a different way to take in the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: If you're a big Dodger fan and you've never done
Speaker 1: anything like that, we would recommend it because it is
Speaker 1: pretty cool. And I guess that's pretty cool. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 5: You have to get there early. I mean, don't just
Speaker 5: go there for the game. If you've never experienced it,
Speaker 5: check it out. Get there a couple hours before first pitch,
Speaker 5: because the minor league and the guys who aren't even
Speaker 5: playing that day, and some of them who actually are
Speaker 5: playing that day, we're out there doing drills in the
Speaker 5: backfields and you can get pretty up close and personal
Speaker 5: and see these guys working out and going through drills,
Speaker 5: and you know who knows, they'll sign autographs for you.
Speaker 5: It's a really really cool, up close experience at spring training.
Speaker 1: Well, we do have this a follow up to a
Speaker 1: story that we've been following. We talked about it with
Speaker 1: Don McClain. There's an Instagram post about it on well
Speaker 1: that very site Instagram about the mc cronin situation about
Speaker 1: kicking his own player out though he did foul out,
Speaker 1: and about what he said to the Michigan State guy.
Speaker 1: We said, maybe not the greatest look, but if you
Speaker 1: know anything about mc cronin, this isn't very different than
Speaker 1: anything you've seen in the past. We have also discussed
Speaker 1: his gigantic buyout and so on and so forth. You
Speaker 1: could check yesterday's podcast that. But we did say there
Speaker 1: was going to be media availability today. I don't know
Speaker 1: how many cameras were there? Tim? Did you monitor that?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Go to Westwood did you like you used to with
Speaker 1: your little padd and pen and your and your Fedora
Speaker 1: with a press tag in it.
Speaker 2: And my DAT recorder.
Speaker 5: No, I was not out there, but I do know
Speaker 5: there was more cameras than usual for a weekly Mick
Speaker 5: Cronin powwow with the media before a game. But I
Speaker 5: don't think it was as crowded as I thought it
Speaker 5: was gonna be when it's all sent in.
Speaker 1: So here is Mick Cronin on that fateful night at
Speaker 1: East Lansing.
Speaker 8: First of all, I want you guys to know something
Speaker 8: I already apologized to Steve Okay. I thought that he
Speaker 8: took the guy out like the kid at Providence took
Speaker 8: the guy from Saint John's out.
Speaker 1: That's the only reason.
Speaker 8: I sent him to the locker room. I thought he
Speaker 8: literally made a dirty play and tried to wipe the
Speaker 8: guy out. Now I don't have the film. Once I
Speaker 8: saw the film, I mean he still got an F one.
Speaker 1: I mean Don mcclan did say, Don Claim did say
Speaker 1: if you're if you're playing soft all game, and that's
Speaker 1: probably what this guy was doing. And you're down twenty
Speaker 1: plus and now you're trying to act hard. That's what
Speaker 1: pissed Mick cronin off, and I still believe that to
Speaker 1: be true. But Mick thought that the foul from his perspective,
Speaker 1: was worse than it really was. That's what I'm picking
Speaker 1: up right now, not that Nick needs me to interpret,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just gonna back.
Speaker 8: Up to be honest with you. I don't even know
Speaker 8: if he deserved that when I watched it. You know,
Speaker 8: coaches thought the same thing when I communicated with him,
Speaker 8: But I thought he tried to wipe the guy out,
Speaker 8: which to me, you know, that's a bad play, Like
Speaker 8: you can't be down twenty five, you're getting your butt kicked.
Speaker 8: Don't try to take somebody out, hurt somebody on the
Speaker 8: other team, which is what I thought. Now I'm short,
Speaker 8: I was blocked him on the other end. Obviously their reaction.
Speaker 8: I thought he tried to crush this kid. I think
Speaker 8: it was cool. So anyway, I apologize to Steve. You know,
Speaker 8: you know, I'm trying to protect it, like I take
Speaker 8: it really serious. Like our guys don't get texts, our guys.
Speaker 8: We're not taking guys out in the air. You know,
Speaker 8: the brand is important to me, so but you know
Speaker 8: I was wrong. I apologize to like that being said.
Speaker 8: The brand's important to me, so I need to dial
Speaker 8: back some of my humor bends. So I apologize. You know,
Speaker 8: sometimes I'm too candid, like for example, talking about how
Speaker 8: bad our flight was after the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 2: I like his candidness, though, Petrols don't you.
Speaker 1: Well, we need it. If we don't have mc cronin
Speaker 1: being candid, then we don't have mc cronin speaks as
Speaker 1: a segment on the Petros and Money Show, And that's
Speaker 1: a great deal of content. And I mean every word
Speaker 1: of what I said yesterday. If this was a three
Speaker 1: hour show, I might be willing to part with mc cronin.
Speaker 1: Not that it has anything to do with me. I'm
Speaker 1: know Casey Wasserman in a lot of ways. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: I had a mustache, I'd be twisting with my fingers
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, not that I have any say I don't,
Speaker 1: but I'm not willing to part with Mick cronin while
Speaker 1: we have a four hour radio show on some days
Speaker 1: of the week. Now, if it's a three hour show,
Speaker 1: then we can discuss it. Because with that, we just
Speaker 1: don't need to cover UCLA basketball because they're not on
Speaker 1: the station anymore. And yes, I'm Matt Petty. I don't
Speaker 1: care about anything.
Speaker 2: Let's here for I'm lucky to coach here.
Speaker 8: And like my advice, I've said this to guys like,
Speaker 8: you know you can get older.
Speaker 1: You stop. It was that like the Don Martino used
Speaker 1: to say to Matt moment, like okay, you got a
Speaker 1: reel them big an. You know it gets a little.
Speaker 1: You just got a real biting Okay, you know what.
Speaker 1: I recognize that, don't reason.
Speaker 8: I'm lucky to coach here, and like my advice, I've
Speaker 8: said this to guys like, you know you can get older,
Speaker 8: loose all your hair, and I have to have facial
Speaker 8: air now because I don't want to look like mister clean.
Speaker 8: But you have to.
Speaker 1: You have to realize that little forest humor. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm still that guy you like.
Speaker 5: I mean, short reference, bald references.
Speaker 2: He's still trying.
Speaker 8: You have to realize, and I have to do a
Speaker 8: better job of this that in this climate, you've got
Speaker 8: to be careful with what you say.
Speaker 2: Because I'm not here.
Speaker 8: I'm a good fit here because I know I'm not
Speaker 8: bigger than the brand, and the brand matters here, the
Speaker 8: school matters. The last thing I want to do is
Speaker 8: bring negative publicity to our school, and sometimes because I don't.
Speaker 8: It's not about me. I don't care what people think
Speaker 8: about me. I need to do a better job knowing well,
Speaker 8: I am the coach here and I need to make
Speaker 8: sure I don't do anything to embarrass our school. So
Speaker 8: for that, I apologize, because that I don't want apologize
Speaker 8: to our people, school, students, you know, everybody in our community,
Speaker 8: because it's important you at these jobs. You gotta raise money,
Speaker 8: you got to be friends with donors. I mean, I
Speaker 8: believe in all that stuff. So as I tell you,
Speaker 8: like you know, I'm trying to protect our brand. I
Speaker 8: don't want our guys taking some guy out ways in
Speaker 8: the air down twenty five. That's bush league, not what happened.
Speaker 8: But the same goes for me. I got to make
Speaker 8: sure that I represent us in the right way. So
Speaker 8: that being said, we got a problem. Illinois is really good.
Speaker 1: So there's the self self deprecation card. He spoke for all.
Speaker 1: You're gonna play that card right down.
Speaker 5: He spoke for about twenty minutes to the media did
Speaker 5: not throw that card out there at He did not
Speaker 5: address the postgame interaction with him.
Speaker 1: Not directly, but he was, you know, he was. He
Speaker 1: was sort of referring, I'd probably do his behavior throughout
Speaker 1: the night a little self deprecation card. There's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with that. You know who's calling that Illinois game on
Speaker 1: Fox tomorrow, Tim Brando. I was just SI learned that
Speaker 1: toe tapping Timmy Bee and our friend Jim Jackson are
Speaker 1: calling that game at Polly tomorrow. And of course tim
Speaker 1: unique ability to make it about himself has already instagram
Speaker 1: posted out perhaps we can bring a smile to coach
Speaker 1: Cronin's face tomorrow, No way and Polly Pavilion Live on fire.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh, Timmy Brando.
Speaker 5: Making Jimmy b I thought it was well said by
Speaker 5: Mick though, you know, to say he's not bigger than
Speaker 5: the brand and to understand that a lot of these
Speaker 5: coaches have egos, petros, you know that, and for him
Speaker 5: to realize he is never ever going to be bigger
Speaker 5: than UCLA basketball. Uh, It's it says a lot about
Speaker 5: Mick to understand where he fits in and to apologize.
Speaker 5: Takes a big guy to sit there and apologize to
Speaker 5: the fan base, the players and everybody for your actions.
Speaker 1: You did and if he didn't, I don't think anything
Speaker 1: was gonna happen to him. But the aftermath of what happened,
Speaker 1: he looked at it and looked at the thing and
Speaker 1: probably did that without provocation. I could be wrong, but
Speaker 1: I just can't imagine Martin Jarmond calling up Mick Cronin
Speaker 1: and saying, hey, you need to apologize, no right, And
Speaker 1: I can't imagine Casey Wasserman.
Speaker 5: Mikes a grown ass man. He doesn't need anybody to
Speaker 5: tell him to apologize. He understands the moment and he
Speaker 5: was good at doing that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So that legacy has closed its door all while
Speaker 1: the tour has been on. What tour the world.
Speaker 2: Boom, the World Tour swep back.
Speaker 5: Now, what happens I UCLA tomorrow going up against those
Speaker 5: you know, big blockheaded Europeans on Illinois, a top ten
Speaker 5: team in the country by the way, on the Baux.
Speaker 1: The balk and five.
Speaker 5: What happens if they go out and they knock off Illinois.
Speaker 1: Well, that's what Don McClean said yesterday, Like what happens
Speaker 1: with the were people gonna say that? And I was
Speaker 1: just like, well, I don't know, but probably nothing. I mean,
Speaker 1: this story's gonna blow over once there's NBA games. It
Speaker 1: was always I mean, you could listen to any any
Speaker 1: Josh Lewin interview after they lose and Mick tearing that
Speaker 1: guy apart. And he's not some dork podcaster in East Lansing, Michigan.
Speaker 1: He's a play by an accomplished play by play guy
Speaker 1: who travels with and for U. C.
Speaker 4: L A.
Speaker 1: And Mick carves that guy up like a freaking Halloween pumpkin.
Speaker 5: You think Josh is at the airport right now, double
Speaker 5: Scotch cigarette in mouth, like, been there, done that before
Speaker 5: that one.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like being in you know when the
Speaker 1: guy next to you gets shot at Vietnam and you're like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I can't believe it wasn't me.
Speaker 2: Just like that.
Speaker 1: What I could have made it a Civil War reference, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the I went with Vietnam.
Speaker 5: I think UCLA rallies tomorrow. I think the fans show
Speaker 5: up and there's gonna be a blue out. I think
Speaker 5: Pauli's gonna be rocking, and I think they're gonna rally.
Speaker 1: Illinois is gonna bounce back from beating USC by forty
Speaker 1: to lose to UCLA, who's just locks back to back
Speaker 1: game by twenty plus.
Speaker 2: Somehow, some way they get it done.
Speaker 5: Petros Someway, I got believe in Mick. These guys are
Speaker 5: gonna rally around that.
Speaker 1: Obviously. I'd like to see that. You know, when Mick loses,
Speaker 1: all the all the freaking worms come out of the
Speaker 1: ground like the rain, like vassa. Let's be a boy, Mick.
Speaker 1: Let's going on. You know, I gotta deal with all
Speaker 1: that now.
Speaker 5: If they do lose tomorrow, and they could happen very well,
Speaker 5: they lose by twenty some again, that post game is
Speaker 5: gonna be him just grinning and kind of biting his
Speaker 5: teeth and like, yeah, you know what, guys just fought
Speaker 5: really hard.
Speaker 1: But that's why I had the henificial hair, because I
Speaker 1: look like mister clear to shut.
Speaker 2: I couldn't see what was happening.
Speaker 1: On guys, I can't believe it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good job, though.
Speaker 5: I plot him for stepping up today and taking ownership
Speaker 5: from it again.
Speaker 1: He would have to break into a white, fat, white
Speaker 1: girl's apartment and take a knife to his own throat
Speaker 1: and threaten everybody. For me to say that's it. I'm
Speaker 1: out on me grown it.
Speaker 5: I tried that analogy last night until that moment I
Speaker 5: got the what are you talking about? And I had
Speaker 5: to explain Sharon More in Michigan and the head football coach.
Speaker 1: But the family didn't get it.
Speaker 2: They didn't understand the analogy that.
Speaker 1: No white were worried about what's going down in bah Rain.
Speaker 1: That's right, all right, We'll be right back with the
Speaker 1: Tim Kates monologue, Shakespearean moment, a plea to the powers
Speaker 1: that be in baseball. It's a frog Man Friday on
Speaker 1: the Petrosen Money Show, and we hope you're hanging in there.
Speaker 1: We'll be on until six. This is Petro Send money
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Speaker 5: Yeah, don't accuse me of there would be no podcast
Speaker 5: on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: Via PMS. They are there, buddy.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, this has been promoted for some days now
Speaker 1: because Tim Kates has been here all week putting in
Speaker 1: a lot of work and making sure the show doesn't
Speaker 1: miss a beat and properly posting that podcast that some
Speaker 1: people can't seem to refresh and find one person. So
Speaker 1: this is called what like your Kobe Bryant poem had
Speaker 1: of a buddy baseball here, I would drag one. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: not that kind of baseball. Petros was spring training underway.
Speaker 3: What is this called?
Speaker 1: Dear be baseball? This is your this is my literally,
Speaker 1: your plea to baseball for the twenty twenty sixth season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, plea to the big all right?
Speaker 1: I mean I don't want to sit here and screw
Speaker 1: it up, okay, all right? And and and get you
Speaker 1: into a defensive Ronnie Fossio type of move.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that as a run.
Speaker 5: Here on the eve of tomorrow's first spring training game
Speaker 5: between the Dodgers and the Angels in Tempe, Arizona, the
Speaker 5: national narrative is just all around the impending doom and
Speaker 5: gloom of next offseason and a labor stoppage. I have
Speaker 5: a plea, a plea to the owners and baseballs of
Speaker 5: Major League Baseball, do not do it. Major League Baseball
Speaker 5: is finally back. It's finally taken back the regions of
Speaker 5: popularity what it controlled for decades. The sport of baseball
Speaker 5: has so much momentum right now, why would you kill it?
Speaker 5: Seventy one million fans for three consecutive seasons have gone
Speaker 5: through the turnstiles, something we haven't seen in three decades.
Speaker 5: It's a revival of the game of baseball. League revenues
Speaker 5: have now surpassed twelve billion billion dollars annually. Franchise values
Speaker 5: continue to climb, even the Sacramento as media rights have
Speaker 5: gone through the roof. Now with NBC having Sunday Night
Speaker 5: Baseball in the game of the week. Baseball is not
Speaker 5: a shrinking enterprise. It's growing at growth that is fragile.
Speaker 5: Television ratings are climbing. Radio ratings are up. Streaming viewership
Speaker 5: has reached record highs. Nearly twenty billion minutes were watched
Speaker 5: last season. TikTok Instagram YouTube. Younger fans are coming to
Speaker 5: the game of baseball, the very demographic baseball once accused
Speaker 5: of losing. You've got them like a fish on a hook.
Speaker 5: You've got them billions of views, billions. Baseball is no
Speaker 5: longer fighting for relevance. They have it, and the momentum
Speaker 5: that you have built up is so important to keep owners.
Speaker 5: You don't have franchises just based on valuations in the
Speaker 5: hundreds of millions. We're in the billions now. You see
Speaker 5: media companies reinvest because they believe.
Speaker 1: In the product.
Speaker 5: A shutdown will tear down everything that the owners and
Speaker 5: players together have built up. You're earning in a system
Speaker 5: generating record revenues right now. Salaries, bonuses, marketing opportunities, endorsement power,
Speaker 5: all of it grows when the sport grows, and the
Speaker 5: sport is growing. You stop that and the spicket turns off.
Speaker 5: As far as money, the ninety four strike not just
Speaker 5: canceled the World Series and the season, it fractured a
Speaker 5: generation of fans that people like me, Petros, This generation
Speaker 5: and our kids are trying to build back up. You
Speaker 5: can't afford to fracture this again.
Speaker 1: Let's be honest.
Speaker 5: Well, Fletchle likes baseball cards. Fans don't want to hear
Speaker 5: about billionaires and millionaires fighting over our money and how
Speaker 5: they spend it or they invest it. They just want
Speaker 5: a product to watch. Every labor dispute centers on fair compensation,
Speaker 5: competitive balance, service time, luxury tax threshold, blah blah blah
Speaker 5: blah blah, revenues sharing great. These are all solvable problems.
Speaker 5: They require transparency though between both sides. They require financial clarity,
Speaker 5: good faith negotiations. There are solutions of competitive balance, tax
Speaker 5: with escalators and floor protections. Fans don't want to hear
Speaker 5: about this stuff. Though seventy one million people have filled
Speaker 5: your bullparks and your wallets the last three years. There's
Speaker 5: no line on a spreadsheet that could just be erased.
Speaker 5: There's a reason the fans buy the tickets, They watch
Speaker 5: and listen to your broadcast, and they love baseball. Again,
Speaker 5: Entertain them, don't turn them away. It's not just about money.
Speaker 5: Your stewards to the game of baseball. If you protect
Speaker 5: the game revenues will continue to climb, Franchise values will
Speaker 5: continue to skyrocket, Salaries for you players will continue to grow,
Speaker 5: and ticket prices for us will continue to go up.
Speaker 2: But we'll deal with it.
Speaker 5: If you halt this and you stop it and we
Speaker 5: have no baseball in twenty twenty seven, you're gonna lose
Speaker 5: a generation again and you may not get them back.
Speaker 5: Your partners in the same investment, act like it. It's
Speaker 5: our money that you're getting and pocketing. Divvy it up,
Speaker 5: figure it out, protect the game, keep the momentum going,
Speaker 5: and keep the games on the field after twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5: Do not let a labor stoppage to find this era
Speaker 5: that should instead be remembered for baseball's renaissance in the
Speaker 5: twenty twenties.
Speaker 2: Thank you, wow.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a very impactful speech.
Speaker 5: Was that to the owners, To both the owners and
Speaker 5: the players, petros, because they're equally in this together. Try
Speaker 5: to figure it out.
Speaker 1: And all of the those things are accurate. Baseball has
Speaker 1: surged past the NBA locally and nationally and in a
Speaker 1: lot of places, we should say, and especially locally here
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. I believe the Dodgers have surged past
Speaker 1: the Lakers, even though now the primary owner of the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: the guy that controls the Guggenheim Group, Mark Walter, owns
Speaker 1: the Lakers, so who knows what the future holds there.
Speaker 1: But baseball has their moment back, yep. And it took
Speaker 1: a long time. But I remember after the strike was
Speaker 1: what seasons ninety four? Yeah, and then ninety eight was
Speaker 1: Mark McGuire and Sosa steroids yep, bringing baseball back, and
Speaker 1: then we had the Barry Bonds era and so on
Speaker 1: and so forth. But the NBA, certainly in this town,
Speaker 1: surpassed baseball at that point, and the Dodgers weren't as relevant,
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. And they I don't know
Speaker 1: how much momentum they lose though. If they lose like
Speaker 1: twenty games or something like we had in the past, right.
Speaker 5: That's not the end of the world. Something long will
Speaker 5: hurt the game. Something that's short and can be remedying.
Speaker 5: I think we can get over it. But let's keep
Speaker 5: in mind New York, LA, Chicago, the big markets are thriving,
Speaker 5: and I get at Pittsburgh, the smaller markets Minneapolis where
Speaker 5: they don't have the TV money and revenue from all
Speaker 5: the advertising.
Speaker 2: It's different.
Speaker 5: I get it, you're at a different level, but you
Speaker 5: do get an influx of money based on the luxury tax.
Speaker 5: You do get money in your pocket and a check
Speaker 5: written to you every single year from the other owners
Speaker 5: to elevate your product.
Speaker 2: Start doing it, figure it out.
Speaker 5: The fans don't need to be the ones to try
Speaker 5: to figure those Let's have grown people in the room,
Speaker 5: the owners and the players Association figure this out for
Speaker 5: the betterment of the game.
Speaker 1: Well, I certainly hope they're able to do.
Speaker 5: That, acause I'm not going through a season, Petros with
Speaker 5: this looming. I mean, one hundred and sixty two games
Speaker 5: over the next six and a half months and then
Speaker 5: a postseason, and every day we're gonna have to hear
Speaker 5: about this. It's gonna get nauseating, and you're gonna tick
Speaker 5: off the fans. You're gonna piss them off every day
Speaker 5: hearing about doom and gloom on what lies ahead.
Speaker 1: It is already kind of nauseating, isn't it.
Speaker 2: It's not even March.
Speaker 1: We haven't even started the spring training games yet, right,
Speaker 1: and it's already a big topic. And maybe it's because
Speaker 1: the games haven't started.
Speaker 5: Well, it's because everybody's pointing the finger at LA. Everybody
Speaker 5: wants to point the finger the Dodgers, saying you are
Speaker 5: the ones that are causing this. You are gonna be
Speaker 5: the evil ones that cause the demise of baseball. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 5: they're the ones keeping it afloat, folks.
Speaker 1: They are the most popular team in baseball. But it
Speaker 1: is interesting. I don't understand things very well, and you're
Speaker 1: right about one thing, which is I don't want to
Speaker 1: hear about escalators and revenue sharing with the players and
Speaker 1: salary caps. I don't want I don't want to have
Speaker 1: to discuss those things. I don't want to have to
Speaker 1: bring on guests to do ten minutes on financial talk.
Speaker 1: We have enough of that in our own lives. Trying
Speaker 1: to keep ourselves afloat. It's not what the fans want,
Speaker 1: it's not what anyone wants. It's not what we want
Speaker 1: to cover. I want vass A trying to do pushups
Speaker 1: while Max Munsey stands there with his gut hanging out.
Speaker 1: That's the story that I want to cover. Of course,
Speaker 1: we all want to see athletes perform and everybody do
Speaker 1: what they're supposed to do. And you're right, Tim, From
Speaker 1: the perspective of a guy like you, baseball is your passion.
Speaker 1: You work in baseball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a livelihood. I don't want to see them
Speaker 2: on striker all.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, you don't want to see that, and
Speaker 1: you don't want to talk about it either. It is
Speaker 1: kind of funny. We had the whole college football season
Speaker 1: and I am so stupid that I can't relate to
Speaker 1: anything other than through the lens of college football, which
Speaker 1: is why I'm bringing this up now. But we had
Speaker 1: the whole college football season go by, and we never
Speaker 1: really got into talking about the players and the games
Speaker 1: because James Franklin got fired so early. The conversation was
Speaker 1: about coaches leaving and coaches getting bought out, and who's
Speaker 1: going to get the Penn State job and all these
Speaker 1: huge jobs that kept opening up week in and week
Speaker 1: out with major firings really early in the season, including UCLA.
Speaker 1: As college football went on, and we never really got
Speaker 1: to celebrate. The whole reason we're here is because of
Speaker 1: the competition on the field. And it happened, and it
Speaker 1: was a great year for Indiana, and Indiana was a
Speaker 1: great story and it ended up being a feel good
Speaker 1: story in Ferdie Mendoza, much like the Dodgers are keeping
Speaker 1: everything afloat. You know, Indiana kind of did that, So
Speaker 1: we'll see if we have that kind of year in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. But you're right, it is a terrible distraction
Speaker 1: for a time where baseball should be celebrating themselves for
Speaker 1: finally digging themselves out of a hole and getting back
Speaker 1: to second place in America.
Speaker 5: The only economics that people want to talk about in baseball,
Speaker 5: if you're going to a stadium, or cost of parking,
Speaker 5: cost of a ticket, in the cost of food, that's
Speaker 5: all they care about. They don't want to know how
Speaker 5: much you're making, how much you're putting in your pocket.
Speaker 5: Owners and Players Association, they don't care.
Speaker 1: It did take us a while to find out how
Speaker 1: much that Tomahawk steak costs at Dodger Stadium during the playoffs,
Speaker 1: the one that was in the outfield. It was worth
Speaker 1: every penny though it was like three hundred and sixty.
Speaker 1: It did take us a while though, to figure that out.
Speaker 1: That was not it. That was a real detective work
Speaker 1: at a place where we sort of work. So there
Speaker 1: is the deer Baseball by Tim Kaite seize the moment, baseball.
Speaker 1: Don't show your ass when you should be showing your
Speaker 1: bicep Clippers Lakers tonight and we will start those games
Speaker 1: in earnest tomorrow on A seventy Dodgers versus A's First
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Speaker 1: It's Petro sent Money on M five, seventy LA Sports
Speaker 1: Clippers Lakers at six, Dodgers Angels. Tim Kates is deer
Speaker 1: baseball soliloquy shocking.
Speaker 5: I went on Twitter and not a lot of negative reaction.
Speaker 5: In fact, no negative reaction to that.
Speaker 1: Well, lucky for you, Tim, there's the secret TEXTU. So
Speaker 1: if you're looking for some negative reaction.
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Speaker 1: Really expected Kates to wrap that up with San Dimas
Speaker 1: High School Football rules and San Dimas High School Football
Speaker 1: does rule. The poem Dear Baseball by Tim Kates, sponsored
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Speaker 1: Pe make it stop. Kate's just getting more and more
Speaker 1: excited as the week goes on, and it was all
Speaker 1: capped off with his baseball soliloquy today you got him.
Speaker 1: I was gonna go to Don Kucko's in Burbank tonight,
Speaker 1: but I'm afraid I'll hear Kate say, Hey, Carlos, anyone
Speaker 1: that hurt my baseball speech today? Oh?
Speaker 2: Buy him a margarita attector.
Speaker 5: By the way, And I don't know who's bartending, not
Speaker 5: if it's Ernie or Thomas, but tell mysello, are you
Speaker 5: gonna be out there and be like, hey, anybody here
Speaker 5: for speech? I may just sit at the bar and
Speaker 5: look around and just start talking to somebody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, close your eyes, you might recognize me. Is Tim
Speaker 1: reading straight off chat GPT? That was Ai Kate's He's
Speaker 1: fooling no one? Did you Ai that? I'm not there? No?
Speaker 1: Was I just talking to a bot that whole last segment?
Speaker 2: Yes, you were Petrose and hate that.
Speaker 1: Hey, Pee, what's the point of this Tim Kate's soliloquy?
Speaker 1: The owners aren't listening to this, lol? Yes they are.
Speaker 2: I like to think they are.
Speaker 1: You don't know, dude, our show is widely listened to
Speaker 1: by many very rich and powerful people.
Speaker 5: I like to think Derek Hall, the president and of
Speaker 5: the Arizona Diambacks's podcasting, They're like, you know what, Kats
Speaker 5: is right, Let's just put all this stuff behind us.
Speaker 5: Let's just come together.
Speaker 1: We are the stewards of this sport. What were we thinking?
Speaker 1: How could we let this unrest consume us?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: I could totally see that Timothy's pledge was a nuanced take.
Speaker 1: It was not a simpleton's take. And kudos to Kate's
Speaker 1: that was one million percent true. I wish those fat
Speaker 1: cat owners could hear that, and the players the player,
Speaker 1: but that's not what the tech said.
Speaker 2: Oh anything, he goes on both sides.
Speaker 1: First time, I've agreed with Kate's on much of anything.
Speaker 1: But I'm guessing the owners haven't had anything to do
Speaker 1: with the growth of MLB. They're idiots. Half of MLB's
Speaker 1: growth is the incompetence of the NBA. Bing That's that Now,
Speaker 1: that is a good That is a hot text.
Speaker 2: Also love it.
Speaker 1: Stop the show immediately and present the twenty twenty six
Speaker 1: Golden Michael Ward to Tim Kate's, Oh that one, I
Speaker 1: appreciate that in the winter is no, No, it's just
Speaker 1: a text. My dad gave it to me yesterday anyway
Speaker 1: at the billionaires meetings. What I'm just saying, my dad
Speaker 1: texts me every day like this is great? Who thinks dad?
Speaker 1: At the billionaires meetings. NFL owners laugh at the MLB
Speaker 1: owners because they haven't crushed the union like they have.
Speaker 1: That is the truth.
Speaker 2: That is no guaranteed contracts for you guys.
Speaker 1: They have crushed crushed the NFL union because football players.
Speaker 1: Even though baseball players are galactically stupid, football players are
Speaker 1: even dumber when you dangle half pads and helmets and
Speaker 1: no pads practices. They'll play for free if they don't
Speaker 1: have to practice in full pads. Hey p Tel Kate's
Speaker 1: and I totally agree on these annoying people taking up
Speaker 1: curling like it's the first time it's in the Olympics.
Speaker 2: Lame right, But.
Speaker 1: Also let them know I found a new great food
Speaker 1: spot just opened, Chronic Taco Sir. I think there's still
Speaker 1: a Chronic Tacos in Glenn.
Speaker 5: The one in Bourbane closed down, couldn't survive couldn't survive
Speaker 5: the cuckos one hundred yards away.
Speaker 1: Tim Kats, Dear Baseball, more like dear God, Dear God.
Speaker 1: I hope you got the letter bus No no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: I don't know what we ever got into it.
Speaker 1: But okay, Oh, Isabelle since five clapping emojis?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is the wow man freaked out? Tell Tim? I agree
Speaker 1: with him?
Speaker 2: Well you did also tell me? Is he with the text?
Speaker 2: I agree with you, Tim? So you did tell me?
Speaker 1: Oh? Okay? Is Tim going to the Unwritten Law show
Speaker 1: tonight in Anaheim? Didn't you know that Unwritten Law was playing?
Speaker 2: I did not know they were playing tonight. I'm not going. No,
Speaker 2: it's too farm a drive.
Speaker 1: But don't you want to go strut like John Travolta
Speaker 1: at the end of staying alive after your baseball ball.
Speaker 5: I'm too old for that to go out to a
Speaker 5: show and drive to Anaheim and get back at eleven
Speaker 5: o'clock midnight and away.
Speaker 1: All right, Well there's your reaction to Tim Kits Dear Baseball.
Speaker 5: It went better than I thought. I thought it would
Speaker 5: just be all hatred from the textos. And I'm sure
Speaker 5: you have filtered at Petros and I appreciate that well.
Speaker 1: I would say that it was. There was a reaction,
Speaker 1: and some people really loved it and some people did not.
Speaker 2: Hey, you know what got people thinking, that's all that matters, right.
Speaker 1: And this one says we all should give Tim credit
Speaker 1: for overcoming his fear of eating fish.
Speaker 2: This is true.
Speaker 5: I'm not a big fish guy, though in my old age,
Speaker 5: I'm starting to get into fish tacos.
Speaker 1: So there's the chronic tacos over here, near to the
Speaker 1: Total Wine on Hawthorne Boulevard and Torrance.
Speaker 2: When you say over here, I don't know where you're pointing.
Speaker 1: I'd beat at the South Bank, okay, where I live.
Speaker 5: You said over here, and I'm looking out the window,
Speaker 5: like where over here?
Speaker 1: That's the latest on Dim Kates's Dear Baseball, And do
Speaker 1: you know what Dave's going to be on in the
Speaker 1: next hour, And we'll ask him what he thinks. Maybe
Speaker 1: we'll play him some clips.
Speaker 2: This could go either way with Dave, depending on how
Speaker 2: he's feeling.
Speaker 1: We'll see. I mean, he's probably hadn't been out there
Speaker 1: that long. He's probably not that bad of a mode.
Speaker 1: We'll do your word number song of the day coming
Speaker 1: up there