WEBVTT - A Frogman Friday (Hour 2) 4/10/26 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:04.200 On air at AM five seventy LA Sports and on 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.960 demand on the iHeartRadio app. This is the Petros and 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:11.440 Money Show. You are one of the kind, hosted by 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:14.720 Petros Papaday guests left school after sixth grade. Look at 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.800 them and the voice of the Bolts Mat Money Smith. 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:21.000 The answer is on money. There is nothing you can do. 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:25.680 You know it's coming. This is the Petros and Money Show. 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:29.280 On the home of your world champion Los Angeles Dodgers. 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:32.280 Make us your top preset on the iHeartRadio app. 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:42.000 Are you in sixth grade? Yeah? We stand aloof the 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:47.080 scars remaining like cliffs which had been repped asunder. 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:49.760 Me utes. 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:52.640 Petros in Money AM five seventy LA Sports Live everywhere 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:55.920 on the iHeartRadio app. Dodger Baseball Tonight from the gallping 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:59.920 Ford Broadcast booths seven o'clock. First pitch, Tyler Glass Now 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:02.960 Dodgers on deck at six. It is show Hail Tiny 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:06.240 Gray's Game Bobblehead Night. Everyone gets one number one of 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:09.280 two commemorating that performance in Game four of the NLCS 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:12.720 Homer three times struck out ten. Don't freak out, don't 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:15.440 run anybody over, don't get road raged. 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:17.360 But you might get a bibble, you might get asked out. 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:20.720 You will not get asked by You will not There 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:21.480 will be no asking. 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:24.240 You heard what that lady said, Ronnie. You've heard what 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:28.160 she said. She said that you better leave early. What 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:30.319 do you think just a few minutes. I mean people 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:32.199 are concerned about it. I Ronnie, I know you've got 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:36.520 shorted on the bubblehead last time, but just my recommendation. 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:39.360 No, it is fifty four thousand. 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:41.960 Maybe you should leave like a few minutes earlier, just 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:43.360 in case this time around two. 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:45.440 What do you think? 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:46.199 What do you think? 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:49.320 What a what a great idea? All right, let's do 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:54.520 the word of the day, his words, the word of 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:58.840 the day Public service announcement for my alma mater. God, 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:02.000 what a recruited classic number one. Just love it. We're 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:07.800 number one off season party you but this is my 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:10.800 favorite off season party at USC. The forty fifth Annual 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:16.680 Swim with Mike Mike Niholt, provided scholarships for three hundred 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:20.680 and twenty two physically challenged athletes and one hundred and 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:25.160 sixty three universities across forty seven states, is set for 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:31.040 tomorrow at the Aquatic Center at USC. This year, coincides 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:34.480 with usse's They always do something. If they're smart, they 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:38.280 usually figure out a way to juxtapose it with spring football, 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.760 and they've done that. It will coincide with the USC's 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:45.239 football team's fan appreciation Day where you can watch them 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:49.519 not prepare to be physical on the football field and 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:52.240 not practice nine on seven. Is that something I want 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:55.920 to see? Sure, especially if you love an offseason party. 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:56.480 Do what? 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.280 But the whole Trojan football team will be at the 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.880 festivities at Swim with Mike and eleven, So they'll practice 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:04.520 early and then they'll make their way over there all 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:06.959 sweaty and jump in the pool. In addition to the 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:11.560 football team, there'll be a morning swim clinic at eight am, 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:16.200 Photos with the Horse Traveler at ten I'm a Boy, 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:21.240 the Trojan Marching Band, the Spirit of Troy Sensational performance 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:28.919 at eleven thirty Spirit Squad. We'll have the biggest splash competition, Fight, Fight, 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:32.400 Fight all that's the dudes. If it was the Song 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:36.560 Girls splash competition, Oh it's not the Song Girls. The 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:41.960 Spirit Squad Matt the Annual Wheelchair Basketball Tournament Final at 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:45.040 Line Center at one where Charles White used to hold 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:49.440 court putting his knees in everybody's chest, the wheelchair people, No, 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:54.600 just the normal. I mean just say, that's a little as. 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:56.440 I wouldn't have put it past Se Dubb. I mean, 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:57.960 you know, Ce Dubb would have put his knees in 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:02.000 anybody's just in a matter if you're a paraplegic. But but, 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:05.120 but no, we would just play basketball in the off season. 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:05.280 There. 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:07.480 Swim with Mike has been held since nineteen eighty one, 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:12.320 and it is now blossomed to satellite sites across the country. 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:15.600 It's about Mike Niholt, the All American swimmer who is 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:18.719 paralyzed in a motorcycle accident. But it changed his life 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:20.880 and he's done a lot of great charities for physically 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:23.680 challenged athletes. I've been part of it this event over 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.640 the years many times as a football player, as a 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.520 media guy. I raced in a swim race the one 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:31.480 legged Nick egg Batani. 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:37.760 Nick Nick, Nick egg Batani, He's a demon on wheels. 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:42.200 He's a guy with a prosthetic leg. Right, let's see 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:42.919 what Nick. 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:48.279 Still? Yeah, Nick Eggbatani. I raced him at the Swim 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:52.000 with Mike event years ago, and and one you won. 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:54.400 I tried not to, but I couldn't tell where he was. 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.360 I'm not that good of a swimmer, and I couldn't 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:58.160 look over and chlorine is in my you know, I 0:04:58.160 --> 0:04:59.720 don't get in the pool allow with the lanes. 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:07.640 Batani, he's a dude with a prostatic leg. He's still 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.760 lass hard. Let's find out what the cask Sick. 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.520 Went from being a one legged where you see la 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:18.840 football offensive lineman, to a one legged guy to a 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:24.320 one legged like pilate super instructor in the West Hollywood, 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:27.359 and then pop star. He went into the pop world 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.960 and became like a singer for a little while. You know, 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:33.560 Nick is really cut a wide swath in life. He's 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:38.200 a dude with a prosthetic leg. You stack hard, no legs, 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:39.839 but he still. 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:48.240 Batani. He's a dude with a prostatic legs. He's still 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.120 last hard. Let's find out with the cast Sick. 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:53.960 You know, before you raised him, some thought he was 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:58.360 gonna swim circles around him. That's incredibly insensitive to him. 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:03.839 He swams straight. Tim It's only got one leg, but 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:08.080 he still swim straight. I, on the other hand, but 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.240 I won. I didn't want to win. 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.120 I want people that wanted I was getting tired and 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:17.160 I wanted to finish. I heard you beat him by 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:20.400 like ten lengths, like you were out and drying off. 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:24.680 Any time on Nick, anytime these people want to go on. 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:26.520 I did a bunch of cupping before, so I was 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:31.280 all like Phelps, all cupped out. I cut my shot. 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:32.240 I did a lot of cups. 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.440 You know, I had to get some blood there. It's 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.320 time for the numbering. 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:40.920 Here's my number, number of the day, gonna swim with Mike. 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:41.960 It's a great event. 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:47.840 And number of the day. Nine. The entire league, the 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:51.559 entire association, the National Basketball Association Aasian is playing tonight 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:56.719 in Sunday, and there are some playoff implications. The Eastern 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:01.120 Conference spots five through nine are in a changeable right now. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.640 So quite exciting, it is what they're telling us. 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:05.400 It's a heart of a chump. 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.520 And I uh when looking at what the Lakers Phoenix 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:10.960 big one for the Lakers. Slide to the five with 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:12.760 a loss, maybe hold on to the four with a win. 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.840 The winner of the Portland Clippers game will be the 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:22.560 eight seed. But of the fifteen games, p nine of 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:27.440 them have lines of ten and a half points or higher. 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:32.720 Five of those nine are fifteen and a half point favorites. 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.960 The NBA or higher is not that entertaining. 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:38.360 We have got a sixers minus eighteen and a half 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:44.320 in basketball, eighteen and a half is on the board 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:48.840 for tonight. With just fifteen teams playing, only six of 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:53.520 the fifteen are remotely competitive in single digits spreads. Charlotte 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:57.560 Detroit is likely not competitive, as Charlotte is favored because 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:59.200 the Pistons have locked up the one and will be 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:03.800 resting guys. Cleveland's playing without Donovan Mitchell, who cares about 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:08.520 Jazz versus Grizzlies. Minus three and a half. Of the 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:15.320 fifteen games tonight, you might have two legitimately compelling contests, 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:19.400 both featuring the Los Angeles teams. If you're really excited 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:22.520 about the four versus the five, or who's going to 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:26.440 be the eighth and who is going to be the nine, 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:28.720 there is a minus. 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.560 A major problem right for the NBA this year is 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:36.480 the scoring. Like the tanking twenty point losses constant. 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.920 Yeah, I think we had six twenty plus point losses 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:44.360 in one night two weeks ago. But to have a 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:48.079 minus eighteen and a half minus seventeen and a half 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:53.000 Celtics over the Pelicans tonight minus fifteen and a half. 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:57.000 Now Philly over the Pacers minus fifteen and a half, 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:01.640 Orlando over Chicago, eighteen and a half, Spurs over Dallas. 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:05.000 We asked James Worthy about it, because you know, they thought, 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.880 the people at Spectrum, obviously they thought that Laker thunder 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:12.360 game Crypto was going to be huge minus twenty and 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.600 they sent Worthy and Geeter out there and had Lebron's 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:20.679 Cleveland Lady and in Arrondo both brez back in El Segundo, 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.680 and they had a whole thing, and right before the 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.720 game it all collapsed, and Worthy still had to go 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:30.480 out there and wear it Arno for a forty point 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:31.000 loss or. 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:34.240 Whatever about Brownie. James played twenty minutes in the Lakers loose, 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.920 but he had a sweet slam. Dunk Man, he was 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.040 cutting down the floor and he had a sweet slam 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:40.680 in that game, even though they lost by forty. 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:41.760 Ye there was a highlight. 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.160 Minus eighteen and a half, minus fifteen and a half, 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:47.400 minus seventeen and a half, minus fifteen and a half, 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:51.480 minus ten and a half. Those are those are lines 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:55.280 that aren't just blowouts. Those are unwatchable games. And nine 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:57.360 of the fifteen tonight, have those lines. 0:09:58.840 --> 0:09:59.679 It's sad Matt. 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:00.320 It is said. 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:04.439 If I was no Speratu Adam Silver, I'd get out 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.280 of my coffin and do something about it. I'd stop 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.280 drinking all that andichrome and figure out how to handle business. 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:12.520 Then you might die if you get out of the coffin. 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.240 At least I said the league. Ye, Dave Stern's dead. 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:16.480 But he did great things. 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:16.720 For the league. 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:17.319 That's the truth. 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:17.640 He did. 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:18.920 And that's what's the most important. 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:19.280 The league. 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:24.760 The league, the league, just like Bo Scham Beckler, he says, Roddie, 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:26.880 this is. 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.640 The song of the day. 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:33.600 Today's song of the Day is called Home from James 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:37.480 Murphy and his New York City band LCD sound System 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:40.320 because the Petros and Money Show is live on a 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:44.520 frog Man Friday, distributing digital audio through your high fidelity 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:48.880 sound system as Great Sports Talk maximizes three hours of 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:52.520 AM radio. On the way to Dodger Baseball, having returned 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.640 home from a triumphant road trip to open up a 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.600 three game series with the Texas Rangers, an old friend, 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:02.200 Corey Seeker, and that'll begin with our good friend Tim 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:06.120 Kates and your Morongo Casino Dodgers on Deck program that 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:07.320 begins at six o'clock. 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:10.880 All right, during the break, Matt and I are gonna 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.240 do one of two things. We either are gonna take 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:16.160 Dave Wee's special o tawny bobblehead that he has before 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:16.800 everybody else. 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:19.000 I think he's gone. I think he's already a Dodger stadium. 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:24.360 We're gonna throw it into the freeway. Or we're gonna 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:26.880 lock hands and stare at each other's eyes all break 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:28.080 along on the rooftop. 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:29.440 I will kick that door down. 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:35.400 It's gonna be beautiful. Matt's gonna touch my hips lightly 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.840 with his fingertips, with his hair and a ponytail, because 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:45.240 it's long enough. It is, it's just long enough. 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:51.240 I'm saying we could share a spot in the spot. Yeah, 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.079 there could be an unflattering picture. 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:53.360 Of me take it. 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:57.720 And I'm not having him out all sporty sunglasses. 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.920 I don't think it's a big deal. I interlock hands 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:11.880 all the time, right, stay with us. It's not about 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:16.320 being gay or straight. It's about having a human connection. 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:20.520 But it's about being somebody else's emotional buttress. Yeah no, no, no, 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.400 it's not gross. But think about this excuse me, No, No, 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:27.160 seriously enough, think about it. Have you ever seen a 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.680 guy with a flat top in a more romantic setting 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:33.280 than that? No, I'm not trying to hurt anybody's feeting, 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:34.760 It's true. Have you ever seen a guy in a 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:38.559 flat top in a more romantic setting than that, staring 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:39.400 off into the beauty? 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:39.640 No? 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:42.320 A guy in a flat tops he's ready to kick 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.200 some ass. No, but now look at he's been disarmed, 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.960 a gentle giant of sorts, and he makes Diana feel 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.679 so small and dainty. And his big, rough NFL hands 0:12:54.559 --> 0:13:00.280 you do when he fondles her rocket breasts? And day 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:05.240 what you got them? All rocked up? Good missiled up 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:11.040 like the U. S. S Iowa pointed right at your head. 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:16.360 Right handle what rock I'm not handling? Got enough problems 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:19.959 will be you? No, it's not. I'm not hard at all. 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.400 And you're like bigging a brable, you know, just like 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:28.480 his way, like Frankenstein and the Bride of Frankenstein. Like 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.800 just holding out his arms. I'll stamp torn rotator cuffs 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:34.319 trying to hold her tenderly. 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:41.079 Money anytime. 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:51.600 Petro's papadacres that money spi. This is Petro send Money 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:52.720 on demand. 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:56.080 Petro said Money five seventy Sports Live everywhere on the 0:13:56.080 --> 0:14:01.000 iHeartRadio app Big Series this weekend in town, the EXAs Rangers, 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:08.840 Cory Seger and that other guy sameon Simeon. She still 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.040 on that team. I don't know. It's gotta be a 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.440 hell of a contest tonight because it's a tawny bobblehead night. 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:15.559 The greatest game ever, that's what we're talking about. 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:21.800 The seam head, Matt all over his roster supremacy all 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:28.960 over it. God, what roster knowledge, the one guy and Simpson. 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.960 Simpson, I you know, some people called him Seme and 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.040 then he was like, no, it's Sam and everyone's. 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.920 Like Nolan Ryan going tonight, still there. 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:47.120 Now with an inside look at the Dodgers. This is 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:49.760 the Vassie Report with David vasse. 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:54.440 Our Dodger reporter, superstar on the scene with the lean 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:59.960 David vass back in Los Angeles after his very especial 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:05.720 our trip to Washington, d C. Toronto where he did 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:09.680 excellent reporting and at great pregame interviews, and now he's 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:15.840 back and everybody's excited. David Vessey Spectrum Sports and at 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:18.960 MLB Network, but right here on Ni seventy LA Sports 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:21.080 our Dodger reporter. How's it going, Dave. 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:26.520 Matt, So, there is a world outside of seal Beach 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:30.240 at Dodger Stadium. But market Simeon was traded during the 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:33.920 off season to the Mets in exchange for another big 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:38.080 contract in Brandon Nemo because there were reports that Simeon 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:41.520 and Sieger did not get along. And sorry, the big 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:45.320 reunion is that Jack Peterson is back at Dodgers. 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:48.360 So those are your guys with Jack and Jock and 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:50.720 Sieger being back, that's cool. And who else. 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:54.360 That's right, Skip Schumacher, their manager. There was a line 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:58.360 of Dodgers going out to hug Skip Schumacher, we blew It, 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:01.760 nel Villa and y Edmond who spent time with him 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.520 when Skip was a coach with the Cardinals. So yeah, 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.920 there's a there's a lot of Dodger blood running through 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:09.400 those Rangers clubhouse. 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:11.920 What do you take away from the road trip? They've 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.800 nearly swept the whole thing. They had to come from behind. 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:18.520 They had some tit affairs, they had some blowouts. Five 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:22.440 and one pretty damn impressive, but it really could have 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:26.840 been should have been six and zero maybe. 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.920 Yeah, And for anybody that believes the Dodgers are just 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.600 coasting through the regular season. They weren't in that clubhouse 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:35.960 after that last game because guys were generally seething that 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:39.640 they let that one get away. Everybody from Jack Dryer 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.600 to Will Smith, even Dave Roberts, they felt like they 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:47.040 gave that one away. So these guys they understand that 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:49.840 everybody wants to beat them. They had that enemy tag, 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:53.840 you know, the introductions here at Dodger Stadium. Embrace being 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:57.680 the bad guy. So it definitely they know that when 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.000 they take the field, every team is trying to play 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:03.640 their best, pitch their best, and they're embracing that. But 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:08.159 here's the thing that concerns me to a certain extent 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:13.400 is what o'tanni had to say after that last game 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.720 in Toronto, where he sensed and felt like the team 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.080 was kind of dragging that day, last game of the 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:24.000 road trip physically mentally. That as we go through summer 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:26.200 is something to keep an eye on, because if you 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:29.959 think back to last year's World Series, that eighteen inning affair, 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:33.840 the Dodgers conceded after that that they were the team 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:37.880 that was dragging because of the miles on the players 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:41.280 that were playing to come back after an eighteen inning game. 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:43.800 The Blue Jays were the team with more life the 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.800 next two. So as the summer goes on, you know, 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.879 Dave Roberts always talks about keeping guys fresh. I feel 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:53.080 like this year, more than any other, he's going to 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:56.440 really have to keep you know, his mid thirty players, 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:58.640 and there's a lot of them fresher than what he's 0:17:58.640 --> 0:17:59.439 done in the past. 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:03.959 The one on all that, David Vassay is our guest, 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.960 David Vassay with the information that never stops. And you 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:10.320 talked to El Tani, didn't you, Dave, You had a 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:12.159 special conversation with him. 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.679 Yeah, I asked him. I asked him how he's feeling offensively. 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:19.320 We get so caught up now in Otani the pitcher, 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:24.280 but he really hasn't started to fire on all cylinders offensively. 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:26.680 He hit his first three home runs of the year 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:29.480 on this past road trip, which was a good sign. 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:31.720 But I asked him where he's feeling, how does he 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:34.359 feel at the plate? And he said he's just not 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:38.359 there yet. And he said in April, past aprils, he 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:41.760 just hasn't felt like himself and he's looking towards May. 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:44.000 So you know, I started to look to see whether 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:46.480 or not he hit two fifty two hundred with five 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:49.640 home runs in past aprils. That's not the case at all. 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:53.480 His April would be anybody else's great April. But for him, 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:55.919 the feeling at the plate, he just says that he 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:58.800 feels like he's a slow starter and he's looking to 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:00.640 really take off in the month of May. 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:03.879 We speaking of him pitching and hitting. What's going on 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:07.520 in Toronto between him and the manager and Dave Roberts 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:09.200 is getting all mad? What's the deal? 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:12.399 Yeah, last year from what I. 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:13.760 Ended, I remember a little bit of. 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:17.760 That they were upset last year during the World Series 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:20.040 when he was pitching, that he was taking an extra 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:23.040 amount of time to come back out after, you know, 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:27.480 being on the basis or being on deck. Ken Rosenthal 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:29.720 talked to people there on the Blue Jay side that 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:33.240 said in the last game that o'tani pitched the day 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:37.760 before yesterday, George Springer wasn't complaining. The Blue Jays weren't complaining. 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:40.280 They were just trying to get clarification on why he 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:43.000 gets extra time, which is a fair question. They weren't 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:46.040 trying to protest, even though Dave Roberts was kind of 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:49.520 shaking his head muttering to himself in the dugout, and 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:51.919 he said after the game that teams just have to 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:54.800 give Otani a little bit of grace because he's doing 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:57.800 something nobody is doing in the game or ever's done 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:01.160 in the game, especially with a pitch clock and play. 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:06.760 Dave shifting to something considerably less exciting than sho hey Otani. 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:09.080 But and I know we've already asked about him, and 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:11.640 maybe you're already tired of hearing his name, but if 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:16.280 you could walk us through again, how did how did 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:20.520 the Dodgers' most exciting minor leaguer that continually gets raved 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:23.760 about in all the baseball spots, James Tibbs? How did 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:27.000 they manage to acquire this guy from the Red Sox 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:29.720 and steal yet another what it looks like prospect? Again? 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:31.400 Why did the Red Sox give this guy. 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:37.320 Up for five starts of dustin May? That's they got 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:41.439 James Tibbs and Zach Erhart, who really made an impression. 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:44.960 Two guys at are major league outfielders for five months 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:49.960 of dustin May. And basically that's Craig Breslow. The Red 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:52.720 Sox GM feeling the pressure and the heat over there 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:56.560 to make a move. Tibbs was discussed in a few 0:20:56.640 --> 0:21:00.240 other trade discussions, and I don't know why. I know 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:02.800 the Red Sox have a lot of outfielders, a surplus 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:05.919 of outfielders, but they gave away a really good player 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:09.439 for five months of Dustin May. He was acquired by 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:12.439 the Red Sox in the Rafael Devers trade. He was 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:14.960 a first round pick of the Giants out of Florida 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:18.200 State a couple of years ago, and the Giants traded 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:21.320 him to the Red Sox as part of the Dever's trade. 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:24.600 And you know, Boston flipped him and he's thriving with 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:25.280 the Dodgers. 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:27.600 He's not that I mean, he's not old, he's not young. 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:30.520 He's twenty three, he's almost twenty four. Like, do you 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:32.119 think we see him this year? And the guy's got 0:21:32.160 --> 0:21:33.720 seven home runs in twelve games. 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:37.560 Yeah, for sure. Andrew Friedman told me in spring training 0:21:37.600 --> 0:21:39.800 he's the first in line. He's starting in Triple A. 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:43.159 So if somebody goes down in the outfield, he's going 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:45.919 to be the guy that they call up. But he 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:48.240 has to wait his turn. This outfield's pretty full and 0:21:48.520 --> 0:21:49.800 very productive right now. 0:21:50.640 --> 0:21:54.160 The one and only David Vasse is our guest, and 0:21:54.200 --> 0:21:58.440 he will be all over the Dodgers tonight, who are 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:01.159 off to a great start, There's no doubt about it. 0:22:01.200 --> 0:22:03.280 And they didn't even have to start in Korea or 0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:07.120 Japan to prove it. Dave, how far are the Dodgers 0:22:07.119 --> 0:22:09.880 ahead of what you what else you've seen? I mean, 0:22:09.920 --> 0:22:12.160 obviously we don't We don't even know who's on the Rangers. 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:15.560 But you, on the other hand, only know half. 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:16.840 Of the guys that were on the Rangers. You know, 0:22:16.920 --> 0:22:18.560 at least I knew that Singer was still. 0:22:18.400 --> 0:22:20.879 There, Sieger and sam and Sammy. 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:23.960 And Sammy and. 0:22:23.840 --> 0:22:25.600 Twenty sixth of the Rangers. 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:27.560 Right, that's all I go, Well, the gram now we 0:22:27.640 --> 0:22:30.520 know that. Come on, Dave, tell us, Dave, I got two. 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:33.280 How far ahead are the Dodgers of the other jibbronis 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:36.720 in the league? Well, just in their own division. 0:22:37.000 --> 0:22:40.399