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Speaker 7: First thing P is part and parcel of my having
Speaker 7: to be in the car for a couple hours today
Speaker 7: making my way up to the bolt for the Jim
Speaker 7: Harbaugh Joe Ortiz Press five were as your questions the press.
Speaker 7: I think our friend Pop was the star. He certainly
Speaker 7: asked the most questions. There was another gentleman who asked
Speaker 7: probably two and a half minute questions that didn't seem
Speaker 7: to be questions, but statements that went nowhere and came
Speaker 7: with answers like, yeah, we we would like to win
Speaker 7: the Super Bowl now as well, Yes we would like
Speaker 7: to do that, but.
Speaker 3: We would also like to win.
Speaker 7: Yeah, like are you do you guys feel like you
Speaker 7: have the immediate need to win the Super Bowl right now?
Speaker 7: Through that was like the last five seconds of a
Speaker 7: two minute question. Yes, yes, we do. We do in
Speaker 7: Fackfield that way, I'm in the car and I got
Speaker 7: the radio, the sports talk radio on there, the Sirius
Speaker 7: XM sports talk radio, well the Colin Cowhard of course
Speaker 7: sports and that went to commercial. So when that happened,
Speaker 7: I popped over and I heard some folks digging in
Speaker 7: deep impassioned pick a side conversation surrounding the Ben Johnson
Speaker 7: Matt Lafleur post game handshake from Sunday Night Football. So
Speaker 7: we're talking four days ago.
Speaker 3: Two coaches talking a lot of ass.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Ben Johnson going into the locker room post game
Speaker 7: after the greatest, well, the largest deficit overcome in a
Speaker 7: playoff victory by the Bears, decades of dominance by the Packers,
Speaker 7: after decades of dominance the Bears into the late eighties,
Speaker 7: was supplanted by the Brett Favre, Aaron Rodgers, Jordan Love,
Speaker 7: three decades of dominance, perhaps signaling an end, but a
Speaker 7: big victory over the Packers chock full of emotion, Ben
Speaker 7: Johnson if you missed it, rushes to midfield, shakes the
Speaker 7: hand of Matt Lafleur quickly while screaming, lets eff and
Speaker 7: go to a player of his that he coaches that
Speaker 7: was standing right next to him. And then in the
Speaker 7: postgame press, well the post game, addressed to the team
Speaker 7: that was micd up and filmed for their social media feed,
Speaker 7: said to his team f the Packers, Oh wow and team.
Speaker 7: So I was like, whatever topic on.
Speaker 3: The I remember there was a thing about Harbass screaming
Speaker 3: and yelling about the USC and how we owns USC
Speaker 3: rights Stan Stanford and somebody heard it through the door.
Speaker 3: It's like, who cares talk to your team? Leave people? Right?
Speaker 3: So I figured out, whatever, what do you think coaches
Speaker 3: say in real life? Like, what do you think it's football?
Speaker 3: These guys, it's not the United Nation.
Speaker 7: I think they're quoting Chaucer and freaking postgame locker room.
Speaker 7: Well maybe you would be if you were a head coach.
Speaker 3: But this reminds me, this loss that we've taken to
Speaker 3: Calu reminds me of the wife of Bath.
Speaker 7: But then I get home and obviously my phone is
Speaker 7: listening to me or something like that, because it doesn't
Speaker 7: make any other sense that this would show up. I
Speaker 7: don't listen to the Scott van Pelt podcast, but it
Speaker 7: shows up in my Twitter timeline. I'm like, oh, is
Speaker 7: this some old ass? And I'm like, no, it's from today.
Speaker 7: These guys are from last night, last night or today,
Speaker 7: I can't remember. These two guys are talking about it
Speaker 7: four days after the fact, and they're hot taking this
Speaker 7: thing as well.
Speaker 4: What Ben Johnson has effectively done is said, from this
Speaker 4: point moving forward me you, this is what we're doing.
Speaker 4: You hate us, we'll meet that. As long as you're there,
Speaker 4: we cannot beat you by enough. Ever you want to
Speaker 4: throw out civility and how you're going to act in
Speaker 4: a handshake for ten seconds, we can do that too,
Speaker 4: as long as you're there. And so to be screaming
Speaker 4: in Laflour's face as you're doing the blow by handshake,
Speaker 4: then screaming F you whatever else. All I'm saying is I,
Speaker 4: as a neutral observer, that's fly by me. But if
Speaker 4: I'm the Packers, Okay, buddy, You've won nothing in your
Speaker 4: life to be acting like this, But this is what
Speaker 4: you want to do, You got it?
Speaker 3: What else are they going to do? It's football? What
Speaker 3: else are they going to do to make it hard
Speaker 3: on him?
Speaker 7: Like, it's not like, can you imagine being in the
Speaker 7: atmosphere surrounded by sixty thousand fans that were staring at
Speaker 7: an eighteen point deficit? That thought once again? Here we
Speaker 7: are thirty years later and the Packers are still slapping
Speaker 7: us around. What a disaster and who cares about the season?
Speaker 7: And Caleb's developed whatever lost again to victory, knocking Jordan
Speaker 7: Love and the Packers out of the playoffs. People stay
Speaker 7: in for two hours after the game ended. He's freaking out.
Speaker 7: The whole city wants him to get him a double
Speaker 7: middle finger.
Speaker 3: An Johnson might be a bad guy. I don't know.
Speaker 3: He could be. You know, he could he could be
Speaker 3: a real blow hard coach or a hot dogger like
Speaker 3: Sirianni or that he certainly likes the camera and the
Speaker 3: mics and that's that's fine, But four days later, who
Speaker 3: can't It's right? Football? Like It always surprised me, Like,
Speaker 3: I call these coaches aren't like idiots, It's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's football, what do you they're coaches, They're they're crazy.
Speaker 2: That's two things.
Speaker 7: And then again, perhaps because our phones are always listening
Speaker 7: to us, I see a clip of your co workers,
Speaker 7: you're responsible for these guys on f S one doing
Speaker 7: a topic.
Speaker 3: Oh who, I'll give him a call. Was it Craig Carton?
Speaker 7: No, it was the right show, but it wasn't him.
Speaker 7: It was Greg jenny Is, the former Packer receiver and
Speaker 7: the host of the show, saying, hey, you know what
Speaker 7: Ben Johnson just did? Hey, you know what he just
Speaker 7: did over there? Put this puzzle together, Greg, Sean mcvayh
Speaker 7: and Matt Lafleur used to work on the same staff together.
Speaker 7: They're great friends. You don't think Sean McVay is gonna
Speaker 7: call up Matt Leafleur and Matt Lafleur is not gonna
Speaker 7: help his friend Sean game plan for Ben Johnson and
Speaker 7: the Bears. You don't think that's gonna happen. And you
Speaker 7: don't think Devonte Adams, the former Packer, is gonna is
Speaker 7: not gonna want to defend his former team and their
Speaker 7: honor from what was done to them, from that handshake
Speaker 7: and that postgame locker room speech. You really were doing
Speaker 7: this four days later.
Speaker 3: Items seems like a reach.
Speaker 7: If and it can go either way. If if Antonio
Speaker 7: Peers knocks off the Brandon Staley and the Chargers by
Speaker 7: hanging a sixty burger on him and say, is F
Speaker 7: the Chargers and F that dumb ass team, and I
Speaker 7: hope we do it every time. Yeah, that's what I
Speaker 7: would figure you would say. And vice versus ive. Jim
Speaker 7: Harboss sweeps the Broncos and says, F Sean Payton. That
Speaker 7: guy's a clown and he's mean to the media and
Speaker 7: I don't like him. And Bucket you know.
Speaker 3: About running Downhill, I don't really know much about it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's not all it's about nude, that's right.
Speaker 7: You don't, That's right, you don't. Green longback of this
Speaker 7: game as ability don Hill in the run games, is
Speaker 7: that the timing of it.
Speaker 2: Do you want him to attack Downhill?
Speaker 6: Is that you're like, what do you know about attacking
Speaker 6: Downhill in the run game?
Speaker 3: You don't know?
Speaker 7: All right, that's right, worst guy ever, And it's not
Speaker 7: surprising that he's a top five hang for Colin Coward
Speaker 7: by Yeah there answer piece of crap human being. Second
Speaker 7: thing p The other thing making the rounds online is
Speaker 7: uh the Haley Steinfeld was a Bronco fan. Photos of
Speaker 7: her in Bronco gear dabin doing all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 3: Get her uncle body by Jake take her out there
Speaker 3: to meet Carl Mecklenberg or something like. Hell, how did
Speaker 3: that happen?
Speaker 7: I think he took her out there to meet Jake
Speaker 7: Plumber and that tall drink of water from Memphis that
Speaker 7: was one of the worst first round picks ever. I
Speaker 7: can't remember his name. He was supposed to join us
Speaker 7: if we put Lee Steinberg on and then he never
Speaker 7: joined his Paxton Lynch. But yeah, guess what, guys, Ailey
Speaker 7: Steinfeld wasn't always married to the starting quarterback of the Bills.
Speaker 7: She grew up in Denver. She was a Bronco fan
Speaker 7: as a child.
Speaker 3: I thought she grew up in Tarzana.
Speaker 7: Is that right?
Speaker 3: Well, she could have had some time in Denver too.
Speaker 7: There are photos of her at a Bronco game in
Speaker 7: Bronco gear dabin, dancing and having a good old time,
Speaker 7: and tweets of her saying, let's go Broncos or something
Speaker 7: like that. Yeah, okay, she's married to the quarterback of
Speaker 7: the Bills. I don't think there's any conflict of interest
Speaker 7: about for whom she'll be rooting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think that's that big of a deal.
Speaker 3: So there's that there's a lot of stretching, Matt. They
Speaker 3: don't have much going.
Speaker 7: On, no exactly, So let's let's let the head coach
Speaker 7: of the Bears says, f the Packers, And apparently you're
Speaker 7: not supposed to do that. You're supposed to have some
Speaker 7: some level of civility in a post.
Speaker 3: That's not what you get every day. But at the
Speaker 3: same time, I mean, I don't think it's a salvation
Speaker 3: issue that we have to freak out about. That emotion
Speaker 3: overcame them in the moment.
Speaker 7: And Hailey Steinfeld could have been a Bronco fan in
Speaker 7: her youth. But I'm guessing it's not that big of
Speaker 7: a deal.
Speaker 3: Wait till somebody sends Jim Harbaugh a picture of you
Speaker 3: when you were nine and your Walter Payton Hutch uniform,
Speaker 3: Hutch outfit. He's gonna be very upset.
Speaker 7: They're gonna be like, what size was that toddler? How
Speaker 7: old were you there? I was like nine? What size?
Speaker 7: I think it was a size for.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it feels like they're trying to stretch their puzza
Speaker 3: across the whole week, you know, tall and over the water,
Speaker 3: like the Henry Ford Bridge at Long Beach. Just break
Speaker 3: down the game, guys, right, you know, tell me how
Speaker 3: they're gonna disguise a single high coverage. That's what I
Speaker 3: want to know.
Speaker 7: Steinfeld A goa.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well she was born in Tarzana and she came
Speaker 3: up in Thousand Oaks, a Gora area.
Speaker 7: Yes, how old is she? Twenty nine? So I guess
Speaker 7: maybe big Peyton Anny fan or something. She didn't go
Speaker 7: to high school. You know, she was an actress, right
Speaker 7: raheem Moore. Maybe big raheem Moore fan.
Speaker 3: Could have been Vance Joseph.
Speaker 7: Halfing the time of his life.
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Speaker 6: It's cooling great and believe it or not being here
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Speaker 3: with the uh the NBA, since it's hot on everybody's
Speaker 3: mind crazy times here in town. We ambushed James Worthy
Speaker 3: with it yesterday or he just didn't want to talk
Speaker 3: about it. But when you have a podcasting and Lebron's
Speaker 3: agent Rich Paul popping off on his own podcast with
Speaker 3: Max Kellerman. And here comes Austin Reeves agent stepping up
Speaker 3: in its faces on the on the sidelines in crypto.
Speaker 3: What do you make of this, Dawn? And this doesn't
Speaker 3: feel sustainable, but it's not necessarily new when it comes
Speaker 3: to Lebron.
Speaker 6: No, but here's the thing. If things were really going well,
Speaker 6: and they were playing at the level consistently that they're
Speaker 6: supposed to be playing at, the would be none of this.
Speaker 6: But the minute, the minute, things aren't going the way
Speaker 6: everyone thought that they should go. Now we start talking
Speaker 6: about trades, We talk about who they need to bring
Speaker 6: in and who you have to ship out to bring
Speaker 6: in that guy. And this is what happens. It's it's
Speaker 6: not just the Lakers, it's league wide that when you're
Speaker 6: underperforming expectations, this stuff starts.
Speaker 7: Going back to our conversation with Worthy yesterday, don just
Speaker 7: kind of pose it to you to maybe get a
Speaker 7: little bit more of an answer. Just I look at
Speaker 7: the Lakers and they're at what twenty ninth I think
Speaker 7: an opponent field goal percentage, twenty fourth in opponent three
Speaker 7: point percentage, King shot sixty five percent. I mean, teams
Speaker 7: are shooting forty nine percent on the field against this team. Like,
Speaker 7: to me, I've got to believe that that's like you
Speaker 7: have to do something. There's no way that can survive
Speaker 7: in the postseason.
Speaker 6: Right, But remember about this, I think a little while
Speaker 6: of a month ago or so, is it the scheme
Speaker 6: or the personnel? And to me, when you look at
Speaker 6: their roster, are you looking at a roster of really
Speaker 6: really good defenders. You got a guy that's over forty
Speaker 6: years old, you know, still a really really good player,
Speaker 6: But like, how good defensively is he? Luca's never been
Speaker 6: a good defensive player. And so I don't think it's
Speaker 6: on JJ Reddick that he should He can draw up
Speaker 6: some new schemes and all of a sudden the Lakers
Speaker 6: are going to be really good defensively and consistently good defensively.
Speaker 6: I think it's really about their personnel. And so you know,
Speaker 6: the other thing you can do is look at all, right, well,
Speaker 6: if we're not going to be a good defensive team,
Speaker 6: how can we score enough points to overwhelm our you know,
Speaker 6: inconsistent and not so great defense. And I'm not sure
Speaker 6: even though you have two of the greatest players in
Speaker 6: the league. I don't know if that's possible in this
Speaker 6: day and age of the NBA. Everyone can score. It's
Speaker 6: about who's really good defensively. Oklahoma City Thunder, the Celtics.
Speaker 6: You know, those teams defend and that's why they go.
Speaker 6: You know, they do great in the regular season and
Speaker 6: they go deep into the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a great a great point, you know, just
Speaker 7: outscore everybody, right, But they're seventh in the in the
Speaker 7: division or a seventh in the conference in scoring. Do
Speaker 7: you think they could Like do you look at this
Speaker 7: team and say, yeah, I could, I could see this
Speaker 7: being a one hundred and twenty five point per game
Speaker 7: scoring team.
Speaker 6: Is that?
Speaker 7: Is that real? Because look, they don't have Austin Reeves.
Speaker 7: They haven't had them for it feels like a month,
Speaker 7: So that could be a big difference in scoring. One
Speaker 7: hundred and fifteen versus one hundred and twenty five. Is
Speaker 7: that Do you think that's a path for them, you know,
Speaker 7: to win a championship by just outscoring everyone?
Speaker 6: Well, to me, Matt, and that's why I just said it,
Speaker 6: it feels like the only path. I don't think this
Speaker 6: team's ever going to be really good defensively. I just don't,
Speaker 6: you know, looking at their roster and who they have
Speaker 6: and the history of the personnel and what they've done
Speaker 6: and watching them play, I just don't think that they're
Speaker 6: going to be a great defensive team. And so, yeah,
Speaker 6: you get Reeves back, you get everyone back, what does
Speaker 6: it look like, can we score more? But you know
Speaker 6: that's a slippery slope because once you get into the playoffs,
Speaker 6: the game slows down, there's less possessions. No one's going
Speaker 6: to let you score one hundred and twenty five, and
Speaker 6: you have to rely on your defense. So we'll see
Speaker 6: as this continues. But I do think that JJ Reddick
Speaker 6: is a good younger coach, younger in the sense that
Speaker 6: he hasn't been a head coach a long time, and
Speaker 6: maybe there is something he can he can figure out
Speaker 6: on the defensive end. But I think it's really going
Speaker 6: to come down to they're just so dominant offensively. That's
Speaker 6: how they're going to win.
Speaker 3: The One and Only. Don McClain is our guest the
Speaker 3: Petro sand Muddy Show. We are talking basketball, and we
Speaker 3: ignored even asking about the Clippers for a long time
Speaker 3: because they were so bad. The run that we predicted
Speaker 3: they would never get on is happening. They're on a run.
Speaker 3: They're only like six games under five hundred right now,
Speaker 3: and they're playing much more consistently. I'm not exactly sure
Speaker 3: what happened. I can maybe get a lot of little healthier,
Speaker 3: But what's going on with the clip show don Why
Speaker 3: have they turned it around? And are they going to
Speaker 3: finally fulfill the expectations that they had during the preseason.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, you said it's six games under five hundred.
Speaker 6: We're not in that locker room. So we don't know
Speaker 6: why they were so underperforming expectations to begin with, So
Speaker 6: we don't know why all of a sudden they're playing better.
Speaker 6: I said last week that I think it's fascinating that
Speaker 6: all of a sudden, Kawhi Leonard's getting thirty at night.
Speaker 6: You know, when things were so bad, and this is
Speaker 6: what's kind of brought it back. It's not just him,
Speaker 6: but you know, this is what he was brought to
Speaker 6: LA to do, is dominate and be one of the
Speaker 6: best players in the league. And he's you know, like
Speaker 6: I said last week, he's been in and out of
Speaker 6: the lineup. The load management that's that and the other,
Speaker 6: and he's finally putting together a run. And I think
Speaker 6: that's a big reason why the Clippers have been on
Speaker 6: a run. But you know, they dealt themselves a huge hole.
Speaker 6: So it'll be interesting to see, you know, when we
Speaker 6: get to March, as we approach the playoffs, where they're
Speaker 6: at in the standings and if they can get into
Speaker 6: at least the play in tournament.
Speaker 7: So I guess, you know, kind of picking it up
Speaker 7: where you know, we mentioned with the Lakers in terms
Speaker 7: of offense versus defense. You talked about what you thought
Speaker 7: this Clippers team could be defensively, what they might be,
Speaker 7: you know, going into the season before it completely unraveled.
Speaker 7: Those first twenty five thirty games, their top half of
Speaker 7: the league and opponent field goal percentage, and that numbers
Speaker 7: come way down on this eleven and two run. Do
Speaker 7: you think this is a team when you look at
Speaker 7: that personnel and how Tylu coaches, that could end up
Speaker 7: being like that dominant defensive team that nobody wants to
Speaker 7: tangle with in the postseason.
Speaker 6: Well, but that's the whole point, Matt. Why weren't they
Speaker 6: at the beginning of the year. Yeah, when we all
Speaker 6: thought that, why does it take thirty games or whatever
Speaker 6: it was for them to finally decide that we're going
Speaker 6: to be really good defensively. That's the part I don't get,
Speaker 6: and I guess that's professional sports, and in any sport,
Speaker 6: you know, the locker room, you know, the coming together
Speaker 6: and buying in and wanting to do it. Because yes,
Speaker 6: they've had a few injuries here and there, but like
Speaker 6: not enough to where you know, they started the season
Speaker 6: the way they did.
Speaker 7: Shifting down to the amateur ranks. You're up there, Colin Washington,
Speaker 7: Colin Oregon. Let's start obviously with UCLA. Trent Perry. He's
Speaker 7: been on a run, just had a monster game last night,
Speaker 7: thirty against Penn State. They got the win there, they
Speaker 7: win in Maryland. He's what I think, all double digits
Speaker 7: except that game against Iowa. Is he emerging to be
Speaker 7: that player that we thought he was going to be
Speaker 7: when he was a McDonald's All American and came in
Speaker 7: as a freshman.
Speaker 6: And you know what, I'm happy for him, Matt. He
Speaker 6: was in our gym a couple summers ago and you
Speaker 6: know he saw you know, he signed with FC originally.
Speaker 6: You know, Enfield leaves so he opens his recruitment winds
Speaker 6: up at UCLA. Well, UCLA last year had all these
Speaker 6: guards and that he was going to play behind. And
Speaker 6: you know, he got some opportunities and showed some flashes,
Speaker 6: but also showed some flashes of being a freshman. And
Speaker 6: he was frustrated and you know, talking to the dad
Speaker 6: and you know, figuring out and talking to Mick that
Speaker 6: you know, look, everyone's path in this game is different,
Speaker 6: no matter who you are McDonald's All American, Top one
Speaker 6: fifty kid, three star, two star, doesn't matter. Everyone's path
Speaker 6: is different. And he had to learn last year he
Speaker 6: had a good summer, he come back, he comes back.
Speaker 6: We knew he was going to have more of an
Speaker 6: opportunity and he's taken advantage of it. And that's how
Speaker 6: it works. Like it's almost like nowadays, if you're a
Speaker 6: McDonald's kid, if you're not a one and done first
Speaker 6: round pick, it's like a disappointment. Well that's there's only
Speaker 6: thirty picks in the first round, and not every kid
Speaker 6: that plays one year at college is going to be
Speaker 6: a first round pick. And so I think it's a
Speaker 6: good lesson for a lot of kids in watching Trent
Speaker 6: year that, Look, you had a really good high school career,
Speaker 6: you know, didn't play great last year in stretches, played
Speaker 6: well in some other stretches, but now he's finally playing
Speaker 6: well and in big games, in Big Ten games, and
Speaker 6: so I think I'm happy for him, and hopefully some
Speaker 6: other kids that are McDonald's are highly ranked or whatever
Speaker 6: they are, can kind of look at that and be like,
Speaker 6: you know, what everyone's path is different.
Speaker 3: Looks like you see a light pulling together in the
Speaker 3: Big Ten like you predicted they would last week. Don
Speaker 3: Are you surprised? Probably not since you predicted it. I mean,
Speaker 3: do you use that what you said? No?
Speaker 6: And look their schedule and look, we can talk all
Speaker 6: day about, you know, the four West Coast teams joining
Speaker 6: the Big Ten and what a disadvantage they have, and
Speaker 6: they do. It's clear's day, and I've talked all four
Speaker 6: head coaches about, you know, winning the regular season, and
Speaker 6: I don't think it's ever going to be possible just
Speaker 6: because of the travel that. I don't think Oregon, Washington
Speaker 6: SECLA will ever win the regular season title, just because
Speaker 6: they are at such a disadvantage compared to the travel
Speaker 6: of the original Big Ten members. But that doesn't mean
Speaker 6: you can't have a great year. That doesn't mean you
Speaker 6: can't win the Big Ten tournament, and that doesn't mean
Speaker 6: you can't make a Final four. But I think some
Speaker 6: of UCLA's stuff that we were talking about last week
Speaker 6: or the week before was a product of the schedule
Speaker 6: and of the travel. And UCLA is a good team.
Speaker 6: They're going to finish in the upper half of the
Speaker 6: Big Ten, They're going to make the NCAA tournament. So
Speaker 6: when you look at idy of their losses, you can't
Speaker 6: blame it solely on the travel, but it's certainly a
Speaker 6: factor when you have to go east for two, come
Speaker 6: home for one, and then go back to the East
Speaker 6: for two.
Speaker 7: Not ideal. But they did get that win against Maryland
Speaker 7: at home, and they're off to a good start before
Speaker 7: playing Ohio State this weekend. A level of concern. Don
Speaker 7: last one for you, I don't know, let's go one
Speaker 7: to ten. Donovan Dent zero for six. I think three
Speaker 7: of us last sixteen these last two games.
Speaker 6: You know, it's an interesting case study in the sense
Speaker 6: that Donovan Den's a forty percent shooter in New Mexico
Speaker 6: and he's got the team. You know, he's the best
Speaker 6: player on the team probably had complete freedom, but the
Speaker 6: expectation in New Mexico is far different than it is
Speaker 6: at UCLA, and I wonder, and I've never asked him,
Speaker 6: just because you know, you don't want to put things
Speaker 6: into players heads. You know, he knows he's not playing
Speaker 6: well or shooting it well, and so is it that
Speaker 6: he knows everyone knows how much money he got to
Speaker 6: come to UCLA and play, and the pressure that comes
Speaker 6: with that is it this is my last year in college.
Speaker 6: I have to impress the NBA people. I think it's
Speaker 6: partly that, but certainly if UCLA is going to go deep,
Speaker 6: he's got to figure it out because teams in the
Speaker 6: Big Ten will start adjusting, and I think they have.
Speaker 6: Like if you're shooting nine percent from the three point
Speaker 6: line and you're outside the three point line, I am
Speaker 6: literally staying to get the free throw line. Same, go ahead, dude,
Speaker 6: shoot it. And so we'll see if that continues or
Speaker 6: if it has started, if it continues, or if teams
Speaker 6: start to do that, because then you're playing four on five,
Speaker 6: which isn't gonna isn't gonna go well. But look makes
Speaker 6: a really good coach. I'm sure, they've talked a lot
Speaker 6: about it, and I'm hoping that for Donovan Dent's sake,
Speaker 6: there's one like one half where he makes two or
Speaker 6: three and he puts all this behind him because he's
Speaker 6: a really good player. He's just not shooting it well.
Speaker 3: Right now, He's gonna shoot his shot for two in
Speaker 3: the beautiful Northwest, the great Don McLean off until Michigan
Speaker 3: State versus Washington on Saturday, Don or Sunday. Jeez, have
Speaker 3: a great weekend and enjoy yourself out there.
Speaker 2: I will no rain, Yeah live mellon, All right.
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Speaker 3: What's going on? Dave?
Speaker 5: Riding high still on my victory parade. You know, you
Speaker 5: guys are in very dangerous territory. You're becoming everything that
Speaker 5: you said you would not as you took the Sokows
Speaker 5: Sports Broadcasters defeat into day two. Very Hartman esque. You
Speaker 5: may be next to be inducted into the Hall of
Speaker 5: Fame if you keep it going.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 7: That is one path, Dave. The other path is we
Speaker 7: will never be invited back to see I thought that
Speaker 7: after my dad got.
Speaker 3: Drunk and yelled at the at the podium, but they
Speaker 3: inmighted me back every year.
Speaker 2: That'll go one of two.
Speaker 5: See you guys. Something you know during the Civil war there.
Speaker 7: And it's not a train for those of you.
Speaker 5: Let me tell you guys something. Have you ever heard
Speaker 5: there was actually a civil war in this country?
Speaker 3: Thank you, Dave. Dave the big news today is that
Speaker 3: your buddy Clayton Kershaw before he gets into broadcasting, which
Speaker 3: you told us all about a couple of interviews ago. Uh,
Speaker 3: he is going to pitch in the World Baseball Classic,
Speaker 3: probably against the third world country with unmatched uniforms, but
Speaker 3: he is going to pitch. What did you make of this?
Speaker 3: And did you know about this before everybody else?
Speaker 5: I knew about it last week. I started to get
Speaker 5: some word that this was going to happen, But not
Speaker 5: my place again to jump Kershaw or the World Baseball
Speaker 5: Classic people, And basically you know, everybody's talking about Kershaw
Speaker 5: versus Otani Team Japan against Team USA in the finals,
Speaker 5: a la Otani versus trout. That's absolutely not why he's
Speaker 5: on the team or will be in the game in
Speaker 5: those type of situations. He and Mark de Rosa have
Speaker 5: a vision of being the guy that you know in
Speaker 5: the first couple of rounds where pitchers have limits from
Speaker 5: their teams that if they do end up in a
Speaker 5: situation where they need innings or they need a long reliever,
Speaker 5: Kershaw can be that guy because he does not have
Speaker 5: the shackles of having to answer to any major League team.
Speaker 5: So it was Mark de Rosa's idea. That's why he's
Speaker 5: going to be on the show tonight to start it
Speaker 5: at seven o'clock. It was not Kershaw's idea. This was
Speaker 5: all Arc DeRosa's idea, and Kershaw accepted.
Speaker 7: So, Dave, I understand your position, But it's not like
Speaker 7: it's football. Guys aren't getting hurt every single game. Are
Speaker 7: you coming around the idea of embracing the World Baseball Classic.
Speaker 5: It's a nice novelty, Matt.
Speaker 2: It's a nice novelty, Dave.
Speaker 7: It's it's the America's only won at once. It's the
Speaker 7: great American pastime.
Speaker 5: Japan's wanted to get to the finals. Once it gets
Speaker 5: to the finals, I'm intrigued.
Speaker 7: Intrigued, not excited, just intrigued.
Speaker 5: Intrigued, boy, I'm more excited about Opening Day at Dodgers Stadium,
Speaker 5: Dodger Snakes, Nolan Arenado going up against Yamamoto. I would
Speaker 5: imagine if you can find time between the Dodgers and
Speaker 5: Team Japan. Wow.
Speaker 7: That's because it's important to him. The World Baseball it's
Speaker 7: important to Japan. It's why they've won A three times.
Speaker 3: Have you sparred with a lot of people verbally over
Speaker 3: the dub u BC or is it just a David
Speaker 3: Vess versus Max.
Speaker 5: I actually believe in this circumstance, Matt is in the minority.
Speaker 5: Uh more people side with me.
Speaker 7: Well, like based inside baseball, people are fans.
Speaker 5: I feel like both. I feel like both.
Speaker 7: Everybody interesting you. Well, John Paul speaks like six languages,
Speaker 7: so it's just a real stroke of myself for him, Like, hey,
Speaker 7: look at me. I'm in the Italian dugout, I'm in
Speaker 7: the Spains as the Spain dug out. I'm in Mexico's doug.
Speaker 7: I mean, come on, we know what that's all about.
Speaker 5: Well, Mark DeRos is gonna come on the show that
Speaker 5: that just shows you. I am giving it validity. The
Speaker 5: Rose is going to start the show tonight as the
Speaker 5: Team USA manager for the World Baseball Classic.
Speaker 3: The one and only David Vese. He's got DeRosa even
Speaker 3: though he doesn't believe in his cause. Uh what's going on?
Speaker 3: Anything new about Tucker? Anything new about Cody Bellinger. I
Speaker 3: feel like we're in a real holding pattern over lax here.
Speaker 5: I think getting so sick of talking about Kyle Tucker
Speaker 5: every day because I don't believe he's on that elite level.
Speaker 5: I know he's a really good player, but make a
Speaker 5: decision already. If it's going to be the blue Jays,
Speaker 5: then take their offer. It's very obvious at this point
Speaker 5: the blue Jays are offering him a long term deal,
Speaker 5: while the Mets are offering reportedly fifty million dollars of
Speaker 5: the year for four years. I'm still convinced the Dodgers
Speaker 5: are hanging around for less than four years, partly because
Speaker 5: they don't want to go eight years or five years
Speaker 5: with the player that quite honestly, his reputation has kind
Speaker 5: of taken a hit as far as not loving the
Speaker 5: game of baseball. So I feel like that's part of
Speaker 5: the Dodgers' apprehension. And another part of it is they
Speaker 5: they have the oldest average team age wise and don't
Speaker 5: want to hand out another eight year plus contract to
Speaker 5: Kyle Tucker. And I feel like the Blue Jays, the Mets,
Speaker 5: the Dodgers are all there. It's just time for Tucker
Speaker 5: to make a decision. Let us get on with our lives.
Speaker 7: Someone that would allow us to pause our lives Dave
Speaker 7: had he become available, Should he become available, isterk Skubele,
Speaker 7: what do you make I mean, Josh Donaldson calling the
Speaker 7: Tigers a trash organization nineteen million versus thirty two million.
Speaker 7: They say that they gave the figure to Boris wanted
Speaker 7: to maybe get him somewhere into twenty five. It sounds
Speaker 7: like what it would have been the biggest number single
Speaker 7: season increase, most ever paid to a pitcher. Is this
Speaker 7: just Boris trying to force their hand and get him
Speaker 7: out of there. Should we read anything into this besides
Speaker 7: trying to extract as much money as possible for a
Speaker 7: client for a single year.
Speaker 5: This tells you that Scott Boris is trying to set
Speaker 5: new records with trek Skouble. Because it's an arbiter, if
Speaker 5: it does go to arbitration, you don't get to pick
Speaker 5: in between. It's either the arbiter picking the Tigers number
Speaker 5: or picking the number that Boris submitted, which was thirty
Speaker 5: two million dollars. There's no meeting in the middle once
Speaker 5: you get to an arbiter. What this tells me is,
Speaker 5: you know, David Price has the record for the highest arbitration.
Speaker 5: You know eligible pitcher, Scott Boors wants to break that
Speaker 5: record by a long way. And that tells me Scott
Speaker 5: Boris wants to break the record of Yamamoto's record setting
Speaker 5: contract and certainly blowpass what he got Garret Cole, which
Speaker 5: was a record at that time before Yama Moto superseded
Speaker 5: it by one more million dollars. So it just tells
Speaker 5: me Scott Boris is setting the tone for free agency
Speaker 5: that he is going to make Trek Schooble the richest
Speaker 5: paid pitcher in baseball history.
Speaker 3: He is the most decorated broadcaster in m FI seventy history.
Speaker 3: David Vase, he has Durosa on and he's got Dalton
Speaker 3: rushing Tonight. Dodger Talk starts at seven, Dave, our best
Speaker 3: to you and your greatness. Congratulations.
Speaker 5: You guys are continuing to mock me. You mocked my
Speaker 5: interview with the great yesterday.
Speaker 7: You know we a we celebrated it, and in our defense,
Speaker 7: I mean yes we did. We said we can't get
Speaker 7: We said we can't get a two time cy Young
Speaker 7: Award winner to call up the show. At the same time,
Speaker 7: you can acknowledge that is a little bit the delivery
Speaker 7: was comical, Dave. You can at least acknowledge, Hey, that.
Speaker 5: That's the way smell Zilla speaks. We wanted to do
Speaker 5: uh this, you want Mike Trudell interviewing this guy and
Speaker 5: him turning into a robot. No, she probably what's gonna be.
Speaker 5: You're gonna be you know you're gonna be here for
Speaker 5: another ninety five.
Speaker 3: Not five.
Speaker 2: Head.
Speaker 5: I didn't want to break it to him. I don't
Speaker 5: think Amachiane's gonna keep me around.
Speaker 3: He might, No, Dave, you never know, you never know.
Speaker 3: You and she had my getting pretty tight and he
Speaker 3: had a hell of a play to the big league names. Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, d have a great show tonight, and thank
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