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Speaker 2: breaking news.
Speaker 3: Well, we had fifty years to celebrate with brother Jim Hill.
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Speaker 2: A big thank you to brother Jim Jim Hill. Bob
Speaker 2: Nightingale will join us in the very next segment to
Speaker 2: talk about the bloodbath as it was headlined in the
Speaker 2: USA Today where he works, that is looming for twenty
Speaker 2: twenty seven, and really more importantly about the circumstances surrounding
Speaker 2: the stepping down of thefor the mlbpa's president, Tony Clark.
Speaker 3: Why did he step down?
Speaker 2: Matt financial some financial chicanery surrounding.
Speaker 3: No, that's not why, Matt. Well, you know, don't you
Speaker 3: tell the real story, Matt.
Speaker 2: You know, sometimes your brother marries a hot lady and
Speaker 2: the hot lady likes the the younger or the older
Speaker 2: brother and not the husband, and weird things happen because
Speaker 2: you're around each other a lot.
Speaker 3: That's a good thing, right, No, it's.
Speaker 2: Not a good thing. And next thing you know, you're
Speaker 2: banging your sister a law in the AMLBPA offices, like
Speaker 2: because you gave her.
Speaker 3: We have we have some sound from Clark walking in
Speaker 3: on on a Tuesday.
Speaker 5: Don't hump people at the jam, don't don't hunt people
Speaker 5: at the jam. Don't hump people at church. Don't hunt
Speaker 5: people in your neighborhood. Hey, don't hunt your friends spouses. Okay, guys,
Speaker 5: we always use hump Day as a midweek reminder to
Speaker 5: keep it clean.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's not Wednesday, but I think that a day
Speaker 3: early on a two ed of mono Tuesday appropriate with
Speaker 3: Tony Clark hooking up with.
Speaker 6: His right what day is it? It is freaking hump Day.
Speaker 6: Hump Day is the day that we think about what
Speaker 6: we're doing in our life, think about choices we're making.
Speaker 6: And I'm not talking about big like life altern choices.
Speaker 6: I'm talking about the little, tiny choices, the daily choices
Speaker 6: that turn into big life alterned choices. So when we
Speaker 6: talk about hump Day, we talk about that you should
Speaker 6: only be humping your person. Okay, you should only be
Speaker 6: humping the person that you are in a life commit
Speaker 6: relationship with.
Speaker 5: Don't hump people at the gym.
Speaker 2: Don't It is funny that she, uh, you know, now
Speaker 2: that we know a little bit more in the last
Speaker 2: few years about soaking and jump humpers, that she does
Speaker 2: choose to use the verb hump as youth is a
Speaker 2: for efen Well on hump Day. So you think it's
Speaker 2: just a product of it being Wednesday. And she said
Speaker 2: hump day as opposed to there being.
Speaker 3: Jump humpers or do you think hump is like is
Speaker 3: like the Mormon Utah's word for intercourse.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm thinking. It's the euphem misery.
Speaker 3: Oh you know what, Let's listen to the first one
Speaker 3: all the way through.
Speaker 5: Don't hump people at the gym, don't hump people at church,
Speaker 5: don't have people in your neighborhood. Okay, don't hump your
Speaker 5: friend's spouses.
Speaker 3: Okay, you guys.
Speaker 5: We always use hump Day as a midweek reminder to
Speaker 5: keep it clean, okay, for lots of reasons. Number one,
Speaker 5: you got to look at that person in the mirror
Speaker 5: every day and go, you know what, you're a good person.
Speaker 5: Way to go girl, Way to keep it clean. Also
Speaker 5: because we don't want anything crawling on us down there.
Speaker 5: That's very scary. And then have a little bit of
Speaker 5: fear of Hell. Okay, maybe God, maybe he might be
Speaker 5: mad at yet keep it clean today people. And then
Speaker 5: I don't because I also really like Mike. I mean,
Speaker 5: he's my dude, he's my guy. He's the one that
Speaker 5: I chose to be with forever. So I'm just not
Speaker 5: going to do that to him, because I think he's
Speaker 5: pretty awesome, even though he's sometimes.
Speaker 3: I like Mike Puzzo. So that's what happened. Look, even
Speaker 3: though you're in charge of the Baseball Players Union, even
Speaker 3: though you have a lot of responsibility, that doesn't your
Speaker 3: sister and lost haunches around the office can't get you excited,
Speaker 3: And next thing you know, you're in.
Speaker 2: At the office here at the MLBPA.
Speaker 3: I just slipped and fell and found myself in them
Speaker 3: haunches entranched in the haunch. All right, Matt, it happens
Speaker 3: terrible rainstorm here in La that you're missing. It's nice today,
Speaker 3: but it's supposed to rain like a hell again tonight.
Speaker 3: His words, The word of the day. Today's word of
Speaker 3: the day is wamo, Matt. The floods are really having
Speaker 3: their way with the wamos. The recent floods in Los
Speaker 3: Angeles made a pair of waymos wear it on melrose
Speaker 3: Onlookers captured videos self driving cars stuck horribly in flood
Speaker 3: waters yesterday as heavy rains dell used the city. Wasn't
Speaker 3: clear if there were passengers stuck inside the vehicles or
Speaker 3: if they eventually made their way out and waited their
Speaker 3: way to the sidewalk. One of the cars was seen
Speaker 3: with his caution lights on as it sat near the
Speaker 3: Internet section of Melrose and will Cox.
Speaker 2: It's just not moving. This is they don't know what
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 3: This, yeah, I mean yeah, you know, like they tell
Speaker 3: people like, if you think it's kind of deep, don't
Speaker 3: drive up in there. And I mean, if you're a
Speaker 3: person and you can't make that decision, how the waymos
Speaker 3: supposed to make the decision? Or the Filipino guy on
Speaker 3: the joystick all the way back in Manila, which you uncovered.
Speaker 3: That's an unbelievable uncovering that you pulled out last week.
Speaker 3: And that's that's truly. That was really the kind of
Speaker 3: the straw that stirred it for me was to think, like, okay,
Speaker 3: because I told the guys that on two pros and
Speaker 3: a cup of Joe, because they had a weimo experience
Speaker 3: in San Francisco when they were in the Super Bowl together.
Speaker 3: Oh really yeah, all three of those idiots, Jonas, LeVar
Speaker 3: and Brady and I said in the air yesterday, I
Speaker 3: mean LaVar and Brady are I mean, LaVar is huge,
Speaker 3: Brady's big. Brady's a really big guy, and Jonas isn't small.
Speaker 3: He just you know, dressed like Dracula. And I guess
Speaker 3: Jonas got really lippy with the Waimo and tried to
Speaker 3: start a fight with its AI voice.
Speaker 2: Well that's probably not good.
Speaker 3: Well that's what happened. But anyway, they got through that.
Speaker 3: But I was able to tell them because of your story.
Speaker 3: I said, well, guess what Matt Smith revealed this yesterday.
Speaker 3: There's a guy in the Philippines and a joystick that
Speaker 3: didn't appreciate very much what drack Jonas Knox was saying
Speaker 3: to him behind the behind the passenger seat or wherever
Speaker 3: he was in that Weimo. But the rain has caused
Speaker 3: a lot of waymos. There's more weaymos stuck in the
Speaker 3: Wilshire Boulevard yesterday. And Weimo previously touted its weather capabilities,
Speaker 3: telling somebody last month that they closely monitor the conditions
Speaker 3: of weather and cities where it operates, and they adjust
Speaker 3: their operations accordingly. Well, welcome to La when it rains
Speaker 3: a whole bunch Weimo you are, sl.
Speaker 2: So Kfi posted on their social media last night. Guys
Speaker 2: Lebray and Olympic for weamos blocking lanes yesterday during the
Speaker 2: day because of flooding.
Speaker 3: Feels like the weymos can't handle the rain. We are idiot.
Speaker 3: LA drivers handle the rain a lot better than those weaymos.
Speaker 3: Huh yeah, what a shock.
Speaker 2: And our public and the public perception of our ability
Speaker 2: to navigate in the rain is not good. But guess what.
Speaker 2: The robots really suck all right.
Speaker 3: And one of those food delivery things sunk too in
Speaker 3: West Hollywood trying to deliver food to somebody. So the
Speaker 3: rain is really kicking people's ass out there. And just
Speaker 3: remember that a person behind the wheel is probably better
Speaker 3: than a waimo. In the city of Los Angeles, I
Speaker 3: think we're coming to that conclusion as the weeks right. Well, yeah,
Speaker 3: because what happens when there's unrest downtown in that one
Speaker 3: block where everybody gets mad they go burn the weaymos.
Speaker 3: What happens when it rains, the waymos drown? What happens
Speaker 3: in Santa Monica, the waymos beep all night and drive
Speaker 3: people crazier than they already are out there.
Speaker 2: I feel like it's in that negative, That's.
Speaker 3: What I'm saying, Matt. When is there been out now
Speaker 3: somebody did point out the other day that you know,
Speaker 3: we're not women, and of course we all have women
Speaker 3: in our families, are very close to us. But creepy
Speaker 3: driver is a thing, and sometimes ladies would rather just
Speaker 3: be in a car yeah and sink and die in
Speaker 3: Awaymo than be in a car with a creepy Armenian game.
Speaker 3: Fair point, I mean, doesn't have to be Armenia. But
Speaker 3: you you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I do know exactly what you're a know it very well.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So so still though, Matt, it could be in
Speaker 3: that negative, especially in the La Rain. It's certainly a
Speaker 3: bad situation with these Weymoult cars. I don't know what's
Speaker 3: next with the Weaymos, but the latest is that they're
Speaker 3: drowning in the.
Speaker 2: Streets, troading in the streets. Number of the day, number
Speaker 2: of the day is, let's see eighteen fifteen, five hundred thousand,
Speaker 2: one hundred thousand. Those are the wind totals and the
Speaker 2: fines from the Utah Jazz and the Indiana Pacers.
Speaker 3: Are we talking about We're talking about some basketball aggression.
Speaker 2: Matt talking about. No, no basketball aggressions. We're talking about
Speaker 2: basketball tanking is what we are talking about.
Speaker 3: When when my team won't win a game. You know
Speaker 3: what I always say at the end of the year,
Speaker 3: tanks for nothing.
Speaker 2: And that is something that the Jazz and Pacers have
Speaker 2: done to an extent that Adamson found it necessary to
Speaker 2: find them a considerable sum of money for what he
Speaker 2: believed was the practice of not playing healthy players and
Speaker 2: an effort to lose more games and increase the chances
Speaker 2: that they will be in position to draft Cam Boozer
Speaker 2: or Debansta or one of these standout players. And what
Speaker 2: is expected to be a hell of a draft, like
Speaker 2: a three player draft, the kid from Kansas, the Bansta
Speaker 2: from Deep Byu, and cam Boozer from Duke. And that
Speaker 2: is why they expect it to get worse. And so
Speaker 2: consider this the first salvo fired by Silver in an
Speaker 2: effort to let the teams know a financial penalties and
Speaker 2: maybe even be draft pick penalties if you are not competitive. Well.
Speaker 2: Mark Cuban never want to hold his tongue. He is
Speaker 2: still an owner of the Mavericks. He's not the majority owner,
Speaker 2: but like Genie Buss, he still has a percentage. After
Speaker 2: selling to the Vegas Folk. Folks decided to take to
Speaker 2: his Twitter page to push back against the NBA, pointing
Speaker 2: out that tanking is a necessity, that as someone who
Speaker 2: decided to tank back in the prior to the draft
Speaker 2: in which they netted Luka Doncic, it was done with
Speaker 2: the intent of trying to get a high enough pick
Speaker 2: to make a run at Trey Young or Luca or
Speaker 2: one of these top these topics in that draft, and
Speaker 2: that's the only way you'll dig out of not being
Speaker 2: a competitive basketball team. The problem with the position that
Speaker 2: he takes, and it's, you know, one of those I'm
Speaker 2: gonna I'm gonna write on a one thousand word tweet and
Speaker 2: you're all going to consume it, is that he essentially
Speaker 2: makes the point that Adam Silver is making and why
Speaker 2: tanking is such a problem because you are artificially trying
Speaker 2: to You are deliberately and artificially lowering the status of
Speaker 2: your team to suggest that you are earning one of
Speaker 2: those three or four top picks because your team is
Speaker 2: so bad. The idea of the lottery is you draft
Speaker 2: a great player and now you're back in the mix.
Speaker 2: And parody is great for the sport, but it's artificial,
Speaker 2: it is intentional. You're not the third worst team in
Speaker 2: the league because you're the third worst team. You're the
Speaker 2: third worst team because you decided to sit a bunch
Speaker 2: of guys when you would have been the seventh or
Speaker 2: eighth worst team had you just played everybody. So moving forward,
Speaker 2: because people come to me for these sort of answers.
Speaker 3: I certainly do. I want to know what they're really
Speaker 3: thinking about when they're tanking.
Speaker 2: Can we can we tank it for nothing? Can we
Speaker 2: can we just flatten? As they like to say the
Speaker 2: lottery odds. See, you don't get a fourteen percent chance
Speaker 2: of the number one pick if you have the first, second,
Speaker 2: or third worst record, and it drops to eight percent,
Speaker 2: and then four percent and then one percent. How about
Speaker 2: all the teams that don't make the playoffs, and I
Speaker 2: mean even the play in teams. The eighteen worst teams
Speaker 2: have the exact same opportunity at the number one pick
Speaker 2: as any other team. I assume that would be a
Speaker 2: very quick fix to tanking. If you, you and the
Speaker 2: other eighteen teams have a one in eighteen chance of
Speaker 2: landing the number one pick, the problem solved all as well.
Speaker 2: Draw the entire eighteen picks, first one through eighteen. Pull
Speaker 2: them all for all eighteen teams and then we will
Speaker 2: have a much more competitive NBA. Did that make any
Speaker 2: sense or did I feel like this sounded a lot
Speaker 2: better when I was kind of hammering out the details
Speaker 2: of this then it did.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, Matt, You know you can ask Phil
Speaker 3: Collins or any of those guys that have been on
Speaker 3: a world tour. It is not easy, you know what
Speaker 3: tour on the world tour.
Speaker 2: But I think you have the time to think about
Speaker 2: these things. You know, you're a loon in the subway,
Speaker 2: you're alone in the car. You got a four hours
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: I don't know how the NBA is going to figure
Speaker 3: out they're tanking for for tanking for Nootson tanks for
Speaker 3: nothing stuff.
Speaker 6: And in other news, all right, you guys, what is
Speaker 6: it is freaking hump Day?
Speaker 3: Now this text, Matt says, And this is a great question.
Speaker 3: So in Utah, does hump day just mean sex day
Speaker 3: and have nothing to do with it being in the
Speaker 3: middle of the week. Can a lifelong committed couple have
Speaker 3: multiple hump days?
Speaker 6: All right, you guys, what day is it? It is
Speaker 6: freaking hunt day?
Speaker 2: Yeah, go hump your special person. Just only hump only
Speaker 2: your special person.
Speaker 3: Because if you hump someone else you're going to hell
Speaker 3: or you're getting a disease.
Speaker 2: Yeah, someone's going to crawl around down there.
Speaker 3: No, Matt, I understood that completely. Tanking is a bad look.
Speaker 3: But everybody does it when they're in that position.
Speaker 2: So let's remove them from being able to do it
Speaker 2: or being motivated to do it. Problem solved.
Speaker 3: How do we block.
Speaker 2: Block what.
Speaker 3: They're sees from tanking? There's a tanking diaphragm.
Speaker 2: Believe it's with a sponge.
Speaker 3: You know, you don't hear about the sponge or the diaphragm, and.
Speaker 2: You don't you just do you know what? And I
Speaker 2: would say, I'd love to pretend like I'm that old
Speaker 2: or or the girls that we were we were having
Speaker 2: relations with were committed to that approach. I did not
Speaker 2: have to deal with a sponge nor a diaphragm in
Speaker 2: my day. It was simply.
Speaker 3: That plastic might have just been way up there.
Speaker 6: Right, That's what day is it? It is freaking hump day.
Speaker 6: Hump Day is the day sponge about what we're doing
Speaker 6: in our life. Think about choices we're making. And I'm
Speaker 6: not talking about big, like life altering choices. I'm talking
Speaker 6: about the little, tiny, choices, the daily choices that turn
Speaker 6: into big life alterned choices. So when we talk about
Speaker 6: home day, we talk about that you should only be
Speaker 6: humping your person. Okay, you should only be humping the
Speaker 6: person that you were in a life commit relationship with,
Speaker 6: not people that you meet online, not neighbors, not other
Speaker 6: people's husbands or spouses or wives. You guys, those kind
Speaker 6: of things just bring a lot to people.
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Speaker 2: Damn right, you ought to go see the mone.
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Speaker 3: Bob, are we ready? We are ready, and we're grateful
Speaker 3: for this man coming on today and joining us. A
Speaker 3: lot to process with the lakersitch, I mean, excuse me,
Speaker 3: the baseball situation and the MLB and the Yes, lots
Speaker 3: of process with the with the players union, but joining
Speaker 3: us right now. A great man, always thoughtful USA today.
Speaker 3: Hell I remember when he worked for the La Times.
Speaker 3: A baseball voice that is unparalleled, and he's got spring
Speaker 3: training going on now, A lot of news to break,
Speaker 3: a lot to cover. It is Bob Nightingale in Arizona
Speaker 3: on your Southern California Toyota Dealer Celebrity Hotline on the
Speaker 3: Petros and Money Show. What's cracking, Bob? How are you?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Doing great? And we are We're concerned, Bob. You know
Speaker 3: when there's no I know you're concerned because if there's
Speaker 3: no baseball, what are you gonna write about? A bunch
Speaker 3: of finance. That's annoying. But you know, when there's no baseball,
Speaker 3: Matt and I got to do four hours a day
Speaker 3: under the hot sun with our whole and our plow.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's a lot of radio to do if
Speaker 3: there's no baseball season. We're concerned how bad is this
Speaker 3: situation likely to be? And there's so much money to
Speaker 3: be made, it's hard to imagine that these guys will
Speaker 3: just sit out and not make it.
Speaker 9: No, I mean, it could be like we had the
Speaker 9: last time. It was a nine nine day lockout, and
Speaker 9: uh spring springs spring trainings started late, but do not
Speaker 9: miss any games, so I can see the same thing.
Speaker 9: Just you may reduce spring training to a couple of
Speaker 9: weeks and uh, you know, and start a little bit late.
Speaker 9: But it's hard to see that it's gonna last. It'll
Speaker 9: lasts more than a few months. Uh, you know, I
Speaker 9: do think we'll get to the point. I think everyy's
Speaker 9: you know, pretty much predicting, like, Okay, we're definitely having
Speaker 9: a lockout, but how long will it last? And with
Speaker 9: the money being made on both sides, that's why I
Speaker 9: know one's really predicting, Like I can't see them wiping
Speaker 9: out half a season or a full season.
Speaker 2: I get.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: The one thing we keep hearing is the term non starter.
Speaker 2: A salary cap is a non starter for the players.
Speaker 2: A without a salary cap as a non starter for
Speaker 2: the owners, Like is are they really non starters? Is
Speaker 2: there no middle ground? Is this is one side going
Speaker 2: to have to acquiesce to the other.
Speaker 9: Well, yeah, let's see who blinks first. And I'm sure
Speaker 9: the you know, I'm sure the owners are you know,
Speaker 9: MLB is going to say at least listen to us.
Speaker 9: And they're big thing is say, if there's a salary cap,
Speaker 9: you know, the players who make more money, Uh so
Speaker 9: of the franchises have not gone up and by you
Speaker 9: like the yetter sports. And I think that's where the
Speaker 9: owners say, way, now, why are we the only sport
Speaker 9: without one? And then the players are argue, of course
Speaker 9: that hey, everyone's making tons of money. Now why a
Speaker 9: buck the system? I mean, when you have a you know,
Speaker 9: if you have a salary cap, you know you're not
Speaker 9: gonna be giving you know, you can't give it Kyle
Speaker 9: Tucker sixty million dollars a year or a you know,
Speaker 9: one soda seven sixty five or a tanis seven hundred,
Speaker 9: so you know, maybe they might mess around with the
Speaker 9: fer money, say why now some of thefer money it's
Speaker 9: after them, but still got to count towards your leisure techs.
Speaker 3: Bob Nightingale is our guest. He is a great baseball
Speaker 3: rider and a powerful base ball voice. I mean, for
Speaker 3: fifteen years, Bob, I'm sure every single column you ever
Speaker 3: wrote or newspiece or article regarding the players union and
Speaker 3: stuff mentioned Tony Clark. I mean, this guy's been a
Speaker 3: big voice for a long time. I know that there's
Speaker 3: been some extracurriculars in the story, but ultimately, what is
Speaker 3: not having Tony Clark around mean or not mean for
Speaker 3: the future? Does it really affect things either way?
Speaker 9: The the effects is that the owners and you know
Speaker 9: MMB office like Tony Clark, their respect to him. They thought,
Speaker 9: you know, you could reason with him. Where his leading negotiator,
Speaker 9: you know, Bruce Meyer. They've had a really tough relationship
Speaker 9: with him, and it's been them in the crossroads for
Speaker 9: a long time. So now he'd have you know, he
Speaker 9: may not have full authority. You know, we'll see, you know,
Speaker 9: who gets the job. You know, they may leave Bruce
Speaker 9: Meyer just as leading negotiator and hire promote someone from
Speaker 9: within the office as to be the union chief least
Speaker 9: an interim basis. But in my mind is you're still
Speaker 9: going to have the principal player is involved, just without
Speaker 9: Tony Clark, who you know, they enjoyed dealing with. They
Speaker 9: just thought it was easier and they could deal with Tony,
Speaker 9: you know, than it was with or is with Bruce.
Speaker 2: Meyer, Bob Nightingale with us. You can follow him on
Speaker 2: Twitter at b Nightingale. He does it for the USA Today.
Speaker 2: That is where the article posted way early this morning
Speaker 2: about the stepping down of Tony Clark or the resignation
Speaker 2: of Tony Clark and what that might mean for baseball
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty seven. Twenty twenty six is upon us.
Speaker 2: Does it feel severely tilted nationally for twenty twenty six? Bob?
Speaker 2: It's not like the Dodgers had a walk in the
Speaker 2: park and the World Series. I mean, you can make
Speaker 2: a case that they probably should have lost that World
Speaker 2: Series as opposed to the miraculous way they won it.
Speaker 2: Does it feel like twenty twenty six is even more
Speaker 2: in their favor or do you feel comfortable making a
Speaker 2: case for a handful of these teams.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean exactly right. I mean they could have
Speaker 9: easily lost two years ago to the Podres when they're down,
Speaker 9: you know, two games and one I had to do
Speaker 9: a bullpen game. Freddie Freeman was in the lineup, you know,
Speaker 9: came back when the next two uh, you know, they
Speaker 9: were fortunate to get past the Philadelphia Phillies. Remember when
Speaker 9: the throwing air but a young pitcher and uh they
Speaker 9: could have been having a game five uh in Philadelphia
Speaker 9: or anything could have happened. Uh So yeah, I mean
Speaker 9: anything can happen the postseason. But you know, as you
Speaker 9: sit here, you say, okay, what what team for sure
Speaker 9: is gonna win the division? You know, you got to
Speaker 9: say that the Dodgers, I mean they're the one locked
Speaker 9: to win the division, not lockdown, you know, win the
Speaker 9: World Series. But you know it's a deep roster, it's
Speaker 9: older roster. Uh made a lot of sense to them
Speaker 9: to Sagan Tucker. You know, maybe not to sixty million
Speaker 9: dollars a year, but in a sense where you know,
Speaker 9: get a young para, you know, legs in the outfield,
Speaker 9: good solid hitter and his personality, you know, just laid back,
Speaker 9: you kind and it fits in you can let everybody
Speaker 9: else you talk to me and things like.
Speaker 2: That, Baba Tursa, just kind of the way the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are built. We know the players have their talking points
Speaker 2: from the union. They don't want a salary cap, so
Speaker 2: they're gonna you know what Bryce Harp or what Manny
Speaker 2: Machado said, this is great. We think the Dodgers are great.
Speaker 2: We love that they're spending money. You mentioned you think
Speaker 2: that the players could make more money perhaps if there
Speaker 2: was a salary cap. Do you think the players, if
Speaker 2: not given the talking points from the union, are okay
Speaker 2: with what the Dodgers are doing. Do you think they're
Speaker 2: not okay with what the not the owners, but I
Speaker 2: mean straight players. Do you think they like the way
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are operating?
Speaker 9: I do? You know, It's like we talk to players,
Speaker 9: ask many much how that's their day and in Mike's
Speaker 9: troud and of course you know Bryce Harper talked about it.
Speaker 9: But just the fact that they want their own their
Speaker 9: owners to do the same thing. I mean, obviously a
Speaker 9: too much of Milwaukee Brewers can't spill like the Dodgers.
Speaker 9: They don't have those kind of resources, And you know,
Speaker 9: the Dodgers have the big TV advantage, you know, get
Speaker 9: about three hundred thirty million dollars a year where teams
Speaker 9: are making about twenty five million dollars a year local TV.
Speaker 9: But so yeah, I think the players anything else is
Speaker 9: more jealous. You're like, oh, man, I wish I played
Speaker 9: for a team like that that would spend that kind
Speaker 9: of money and you know, spend one hundred and fifty
Speaker 9: million dollars on lungture taxes and not blank because they're
Speaker 9: making that kind of money. So you know where the
Speaker 9: owners are saying, wave, man, Now our fans feel like
Speaker 9: we don't have a chance. You know, we haven't had
Speaker 9: a you can't see worlds back in twenty fifteen was
Speaker 9: the last you know, bottom half a team in payroll
Speaker 9: that won the World Series. But then you say, you
Speaker 9: know what, why why the Milwaukee Brewers in the playoffs
Speaker 9: every year? You know why was Tampa Bay? That's a
Speaker 9: juggernut in the Al East. So if you have a
Speaker 9: shirt front office, you can still you know, do things
Speaker 9: like that. You know, the Dodgers only have their money.
Speaker 9: They do have, you know, a brilliant front office and
Speaker 9: do things right.
Speaker 3: Bob Nightingale. Ladies and gentlemen, he's out there riding the rains.
Speaker 3: You can check his column in the USA today. He's
Speaker 3: in Arizona writing all about spring training and a day
Speaker 3: that started with wow, I wonder what financial reason this
Speaker 3: Tony Clark guy stepped down for uh, and then ended
Speaker 3: with looks like the sister in law. So not easy
Speaker 3: to be Bob Nightingale on a day like today, trying
Speaker 3: to follow the news. Not easy at all. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean I saw a picture of the wife. I'm still
Speaker 3: trying to find the sister in law, the great. We're
Speaker 3: reporters here, Bob.
Speaker 9: I used to confuse it to you. I really did,
Speaker 9: because they uh, you know, you know, their sisters and
Speaker 9: so yeah, there were a lot of events together and
Speaker 9: stuff like that. So yeah, I remember they used to,
Speaker 9: you know, make fun of me, like, oh, you keep
Speaker 9: getting this confused.
Speaker 3: You know. Not the only one, Bob, Not the only one,
Speaker 3: the Great Bob Nightingale. We all wish, just like a
Speaker 3: lot of people wish they could play for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: We all wish we were tall and strong and beloved
Speaker 3: coast to coast like Bob Nightingale with his beautiful quill
Speaker 3: writing his pros. Thank you Bob, and have a wonderful,
Speaker 3: wonderful week. Thanks for doing it on short notice. We
Speaker 3: know is a wild day.
Speaker 9: Uh sure, my pleasure. Thank you guys.
Speaker 3: Takes care there he goes, Bob, Are we ready? How
Speaker 3: about the nugget at the end, Matt, Yeah, I used.
Speaker 2: To get him confused. They're sisters. They look just the same,
Speaker 2: looks like.
Speaker 3: Old white Beard. Got him confused too. Is that Tony
Speaker 3: Clark's excuse? Like you know, but I was confused.
Speaker 2: She looks just like you, sweetheart, And when I'm away
Speaker 2: from you, I can't get enough of you.
Speaker 3: Her hair is on the other side, Tony, I.
Speaker 2: Gotta get a little bit of her.
Speaker 3: Well. Thank you for listening. Happy Fat Tuesday. A big
Speaker 3: thanks to Bob Nightingale and brother Jim. It's a three
Speaker 3: guest day. We woke up this morning with crickets we
Speaker 3: didn't know about the sister in law. David Vesse joined
Speaker 3: us neck. This is Petros Money on demand.
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Speaker 3: how's it going and what's going on today out there? Now?
Speaker 10: Everything is great, guys. Today was the first official full
Speaker 10: squad workout for the Dodgers, and that means Dave Roberts
Speaker 10: had the room with the entire Big League camp for
Speaker 10: their morning meeting, and from what I was told, they
Speaker 10: showed highlights of their World Series win over the Blue
Speaker 10: Jays and also had newcomers Kyle Tucker and Edwin Diaz
Speaker 10: step up in front of the crowd and say something
Speaker 10: to their new teammates. So a good tone was set
Speaker 10: by all accounts. So we're often running here at camel Back.
Speaker 2: Dave just kind of give us an idea because we
Speaker 2: asked you about it last week when Jeff Passing decided
Speaker 2: to write the article. Is there any just I'm not
Speaker 2: saying players or anything like that, but do you feel
Speaker 2: as though there is any I don't know, dark cloud,
Speaker 2: if that's the right word or not. Or is there
Speaker 2: any chatter about next year's CBA? Is that going to
Speaker 2: haunt us all spring training?
Speaker 10: Honestly, it's not even been talked about here at camel
Speaker 10: Back Ranch. I mean, everybody's focused on the celebration of
Speaker 10: the back to back champions. I mean there is four
Speaker 10: or five deep fans here at Camelback Ranch since last Friday.
Speaker 10: It just seems like it's talked about by people that
Speaker 10: are not within these walls, unless the players asked about it.
Speaker 10: And quite frankly, no player that I've been around has
Speaker 10: been really asked about it. I asked Blake Trenon about
Speaker 10: it when he was on Dodger Talk last night, and basically,
Speaker 10: they don't really care. It's just seems like everybody that's
Speaker 10: on the Dodgers is echoing what Manny Machado and Bryce
Speaker 10: Harper had to say yesterday, that they're happy to be
Speaker 10: on this side, and it's just trying to do the
Speaker 10: best you can to win every year, and they're just
Speaker 10: grateful that again, the Dodgers management doubled down on back
Speaker 10: to back championships to go out and sign the best
Speaker 10: available outfielder and the best available closer. So it's weird.
Speaker 10: And before I got here, it seemed like that was
Speaker 10: something that was talked about virtually every day in our stratosphere.
Speaker 10: But once you's here, it's not really a thing.
Speaker 2: Right on, Yeah, as it should be. Near the back
Speaker 2: to back World Series champions we've seen it like each
Speaker 2: of the last couple of years. Right two years ago,
Speaker 2: Yamamoto Otanian spring training excitement through the roof last year,
Speaker 2: they got Blake Snell, a lot of excitement around spring training.
Speaker 2: Give us an idea of you know, kind of what
Speaker 2: the arrival of Edwin and Kyle Tucker, what kind of
Speaker 2: energy that's fed into this.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Kyle Tucker. I was talking to Chris Woodward today
Speaker 10: and he was saying that when he managed for the
Speaker 10: Rangers in series against the Astros. He said there was
Speaker 10: one three game series that they played against the Astros,
Speaker 10: and Tucker had a stamp on every single win in
Speaker 10: a different way, whether it was thrown out a runner
Speaker 10: from right field, whether it was getting a big hit
Speaker 10: or hitting a home run. He's that type of player
Speaker 10: and he believes that he's going to fit in perfectly,
Speaker 10: and he has that even temper. I know there's been
Speaker 10: a lot talked about, you know, his desire to play
Speaker 10: the game of baseball or if he has that burning
Speaker 10: passion inside of him, and Chris Woodward told me that
Speaker 10: he just doesn't show it like other players do. And
Speaker 10: you can make whatever you want out of a guy
Speaker 10: that hasn't even keeled demeanor, but usually in baseball that's
Speaker 10: a good thing. Not to get too high or get
Speaker 10: too low. And he likened his demeanor to aready demens.
Speaker 10: After his strikeout, he's not going to throw his bad
Speaker 10: or throw his helmet, but he's gonna find a way
Speaker 10: to be better the next time.
Speaker 3: One and only David Vesse on your Southern California Toyota
Speaker 3: Dealer Celebrity Hotline talking from Camelback Ranch on the Petros
Speaker 3: and Money shown out today. I don't know how many
Speaker 3: of these you've been through? Was the Dave Roberts inspirational
Speaker 3: speech day to the team, which you know, if you're
Speaker 3: a guy like Max Munsey, who you've got on tonight,
Speaker 3: he's been there for a lot of these. How does
Speaker 3: Dave spice this up? Dave, is there anything? Do you
Speaker 3: sit in a locker hiding and to listen to this?
Speaker 3: How is this whole thing play out a year in
Speaker 3: and year out? Dave Roberts has been the manager of
Speaker 3: the Dodgers an awful long time now.
Speaker 10: Right, and he's had the same group of players for
Speaker 10: the last four years or so. So I think he's
Speaker 10: opened it up. Like I mentioned to other players to speak.
Speaker 10: Not only did Tucker and Diaz, but Mookie Bett said
Speaker 10: something and Miguel Roja said something on top of them,
Speaker 10: showing you know, a highlight package of the World Series.
Speaker 10: So I believe that's the way he works around having
Speaker 10: his message fall on deaf year. See, let's the players
Speaker 10: do the talking. So that's how he ran it today.
Speaker 2: Andrew Freeman lets the gomer do the talking from time
Speaker 2: to time, but he didn't meet with the media today.
Speaker 2: Day the president of Baseball OPS kind of if you
Speaker 2: can give us a summary or what you learned, if
Speaker 2: there's anything you pulled out of that conversation.
Speaker 10: Yeah, the biggest thing for me I have not had
Speaker 10: a chance to talk to Andrew about just his feelings
Speaker 10: about Yamamoto and Otani leaving camp to go play for
Speaker 10: Team Japan in the World Baseball Classic, And today I
Speaker 10: had the opportunity to ask him whether or not he's
Speaker 10: had a conversation with Yamamoto and Otani to keep the
Speaker 10: guardrails up even when they're playing Team Japan.
Speaker 11: Not really, because I know them and I know that
Speaker 11: once you know the first pitch and Samurai Japan against Taiwan,
Speaker 11: I just know the level of intensity that they will have,
Speaker 11: and so it's more just making sure the work up
Speaker 11: to this point that we're putting them in the best
Speaker 11: positions to go take on that kind of intense atmosphere.
Speaker 11: And then obviously the build up with Yoshinobu and where
Speaker 11: he's at pitch count wise. What we're able to get
Speaker 11: him to here will help inform a little bit of
Speaker 11: you know, what that workload looks like. But so it's
Speaker 11: more about just the work going in.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 11: It is impossible to tell those guys to dial it
Speaker 11: back into any way, and nor would I do that.
Speaker 11: We've talked to Samurai Japan, We've talked to Show. Hey,
Speaker 11: I think everyone understands.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and Andrew was cut off by some over Zeliz
Speaker 10: California Post columnist trying to take over the press conference,
Speaker 10: but nonetheless, Dave Roberts. Nonetheless, Dave Roberts kind of laid
Speaker 10: out the plan for those two guys before they leave.
Speaker 10: Otani and Yamamoto did face hitters today. Otani will not
Speaker 10: pitch in a Cactus League game before he leaves for
Speaker 10: Team Japan. Andrew Friedman said that once he returns, they're
Speaker 10: planning on having Otani pitch in the Freeway Series. Yam Mamoto,
Speaker 10: the plan for him is to pitch in a Cactus
Speaker 10: League game before he does leave for Team Japan's training camp.
Speaker 3: What about t Oscar Dave, you caught up with him as.
Speaker 10: Well, Yeah. I've been following tay Oscar all off season,
Speaker 10: and everybody saw the work that he put in this offseason.
Speaker 10: We've been talking about it now and today was the
Speaker 10: first day that he actually stood in front of his
Speaker 10: locker to answer the questions about the motivating factor to
Speaker 10: basically transform his body, and it's noticeable.
Speaker 3: He said.
Speaker 10: The motivating factor though, is because he wants to be
Speaker 10: a better outfielder and one of his goals is to
Speaker 10: win the Gold Glove in left field.
Speaker 2: I wanted to go home have in one of those
Speaker 2: gold glove, been working really hard for it, and let's
Speaker 2: see what happens this year.
Speaker 3: Be like Mookie Betts. All right, Dave, Well, other than
Speaker 3: that the push up contest, I don't know why you're
Speaker 3: expected to be a push up mavin at almost fifty
Speaker 3: years old amongst a bunch of professional athletes waste amount
Speaker 3: of push up, David. Here's Max Munty on Dodger social media.
Speaker 3: I guess you guys are gonna hash that out tonight.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we're gonna hash that out tonight and monthly. From
Speaker 10: across Field one. As I was standing between Field one
Speaker 10: and Field two, was calling me out in front of
Speaker 10: the fans for some push ups. I said, Hey, I'll
Speaker 10: get right here on this dirt, muddy road between field
Speaker 10: one and field two to get some push ups for
Speaker 10: this interview. But luckily he did not force me to
Speaker 10: do any pushups to get the interview tonight.
Speaker 2: Very much looking forward to it as valuable a contributor
Speaker 2: as any on these back to back World Series wins
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers. You'll hear that coming up at seven o'clock. Dave.
Speaker 2: We appreciate. Enjoy the rest of your time. Well, we'll
Speaker 2: talk to you every day, dammit. Enjoy Glenn Dale's on
Speaker 2: a team.
Speaker 3: You know, the Dodgers are like, yeah, Dave, Like he's
Speaker 3: like one of the guys and Walker Buelers down in
Speaker 3: San Diego and he's just thinking about making the team.
Speaker 3: Vessay is already on the rocks. Waste him on a
Speaker 3: push it, David Bam. All right, Dan a guy, thank you.
Speaker 3: See there he goes David vess And we'll be back
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