WEBVTT - A Frogman Friday (Hour 3) 2-27-26 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.720 How's the stream stream commencing broadcasting on AM five to 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:06.920 seventy LA Sports and streaming on the iHeartRadio while. 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:09.520 The longest running afternoon sports show in the city. 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:14.240 No congratulations necessary. All traces of Fred Rogan have been removed. 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:19.119 This is petros in Money, Thank You, Thank You, hosted 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:22.880 by Petros Papadakas terrible person, He's the worst and Matt 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:28.200 money Smith. The pipes, the pipes, the pipe. Don't miss 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:28.840 an episode. 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:29.560 We're with you. 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:32.880 Yeah, follow the petros In Money Show wherever you get 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:39.960 your podcasts now Here's Petros Papadacus and Matt money Smith. Okay, 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:44.600 shucking down at nine. I want winning, I want people 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:48.239 that want to win. Now. You won't apologize to him? No, 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:56.280 look at him? Is crazy? You said it? 0:00:56.440 --> 0:01:03.000 Mon, excuse me, excuse me, excuse excuse me. 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:09.919 No force on earth can stop an idea whose time 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:10.839 has come. 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.240 Well me us Petrosen Money a five seventy early sports 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.440 libe everywhere on the iHeartRadio app on a couple minutes 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.959 late because the Dodgers got worked over by the Giants. 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:23.800 None of the regulars were out there in the lineup 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:28.440 at Yoshiyamamoto did throw three innings, his final appearance in 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:32.080 spring training before he leaves for the World Baseball Classic. 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.800 We'll have two more Dodger games this weekend, Cubs tomorrow, 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:39.839 Angels on Sunday. Both will be first pitch, twelve five 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:41.400 pm contests. 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:46.440 Very exciting scheduled talk as we hurl forward, we will 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:51.000 talk to David Vase live from camel Back Ranch. He's 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:54.480 got Dave Roberts and J. D. Martinez tonight. We will 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:59.000 do that in the very next segment. But right now, 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:01.680 it is what you been waiting for. While you're watching 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:06.960 the Lakers stare at each other in disdain on the bench, 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:10.639 you're thinking what I'm thinking? What would Matt Smith, the 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:14.200 voice of the Bolts have to say about this? What 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:19.920 would Matt Smith do? W WD And we don't have 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:23.840 to ask that question any longer. We no longer have 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:31.480 to wonder. Now we will know. It's time for the 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:36.120 top story of the well. 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:40.080 As discussed a little bit a half hour ago, I 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:46.000 would submit it's over. It is completely and totally over, 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:51.960 which really is a wild thing to think, because for 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:57.240 people like Lon Rosen and Andrew Friedman and Tony Bennett 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.960 and Mark Walter to really drill down into this Lakers 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:07.800 team this offseason, they likely will recognize that a central 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:12.400 component of its failure is too much clutch sports, too 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:19.359 much jabron lames, too much bad energy, bad juju, bad karma, 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:25.440 bad basketball, coursing through the concourses, and the foundation. 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.360 Like a stanch matt in the bowels of. 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:30.840 The arena that you can't get rid of no matter 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.079 what you tried, no matter how many arm and hammer 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:38.440 baking soda boxes you open, the stench stays. What is 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:43.640 the foundation of this ten billion dollar franchise? And many 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.320 people when you hear the B word after a number 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:52.200 ten billion dollar, try to compare corporate culture to team 0:03:52.680 --> 0:04:01.360 performance is as nine ten billion dollars is nothing. Nadi, Apple, 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:06.280 Google are in the three to four trillion dollar range. 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.720 As a matter of fact, I saw, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:13.160 how about this pe if the people are really interested, 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:15.360 which I'm guessing they're not, but I decided to take 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:20.479 two minutes to look it up. Where it coward With 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.720 exactly ten billion dollars of market cap, the Lakers are 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:29.920 the equivalent of Avans, a French fleet managing operational car 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:34.200 leasing company ranked two thousand and fiftieth in the corporate 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.640 market cap counting rankings. 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:38.479 Hey, that's a proud rental company. 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.360 Okay, you know what, pe It is not to compare 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:44.640 the Lakers to Ivans, because they've got three and a 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:48.400 half million vehicles, fourteen thousand employees, and they are the 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.720 number one fleet leasing company in Europe. Tim Albertson, their CEO, 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:56.200 probably has a solid work culture foundation, probably has fourteen 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.279 thousand bodies pulling the rope in the same direction, and 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:03.279 that has led to their impressive run, growing from a 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:06.640 six billion dollar market cap in twenty nineteen to its 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:10.440 current twenty twenty six ten billion dollar number. Are the 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:14.200 Lakers growing No? Are they sinking? 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:15.039 No? 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:21.920 The Lakers are stagnant. They are the same team they 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:27.640 have been for the last six years. And in corporate culture, 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:29.279 that is death. 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:32.560 What's the common denominator there, Matt. 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:36.839 It's a great question, Pee, because if we look through cliches, 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:41.960 the types that you'll see on corporate culture posters and 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:46.960 the pisser. The motivational quotes include, you're not getting better, 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:50.440 you're getting worse. You're either at the table or you're 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:56.680 on the menu. If you're not growing, you're dying. And 0:05:56.760 --> 0:06:00.320 the Lakers are violating every last one of them. This 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:03.279 teamp with Lebron James over those six years has been 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:08.919 exactly this. What they are today is what they have 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:14.640 been since their run to their Mickey Mouse Championship Mickey Mouse. 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.800 Whoa because it was in Orlando at Disney World. 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:21.440 Yeah you heard, Sam Amy. I was there, give them 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:24.200 the flowers. I was there. I'm sam Amck. I was there. Uh. 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.559 The one run to the conference finals in twenty twenty 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:30.000 three would have felt more like a breakout from their 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:34.440 stagnation had they not been swept by the Nuggets, who 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:40.480 went on to win the NBA Finals. And as much well, 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:43.560 I guess and much like you regularly point to the 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:48.400 struggles of USC football. If Oregon can be a perennial contender, 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:52.200 if Indiana can win the freaking conference in the National Championship, 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:55.600 if Penn State, if Michigan, if Ohio State, if Washington 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.839 can all make playoff runs in the time that you 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:07.440 has made zero, something stinks at the top. Last year 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:13.880 Oklahoma City Thunder, year before Dallas Mavericks, year before Denver Nuggets, 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:18.400 year before Golden State Warriors, year before Phoenix Suns. That 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:24.320 is five different teams one third of the Western Conference 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:30.200 has represented the Western Conference in the NBA Finals, while 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:35.640 the Lakers have managed to win exactly two playoff series 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:42.680 over that time frame. Two playoff series wins. In twenty 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:47.080 twenty one, the Phoenix Suns had one All NBA player, 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.720 Chris Paul on the second team. In twenty twenty two, 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:54.440 the Nuggets had one All NBA player, Nikola Jokic second team. 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:59.120 In twenty twenty four, the Mavericks had one All NBA 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.800 player Luca first team, and last year, the Oklahoma City 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:08.480 Thunder had two All NBA players Shaye the MVP and 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.360 Jalen Williams third team. Oh the Warriors had one Steph Curry, 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:17.280 All NBA player. Cared to wonder what the Lakers had 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:21.680 happening over that same stretch. It's a rhetorical question. It's 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:25.680 the question you're gonna tell me, you asked, asked earlier. Yes, 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:33.480 Jabron Lanes from twenty twenty one through last season was 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:38.439 an All NBA player second Team, third Team, third Team, 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:42.000 third team, second team, and in twenty twenty four they 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:47.840 had two. Anthony Davis was a second team All NBA player, 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:53.560 meaning they either had as many superstars as every other 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.080 team that went to the finals, and in one year 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:57.320 they even had two. 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.120 But now they got Johnny Brahms, Zach. 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:05.200 Oh, look out of it, Johnny brains. They had one 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:08.720 of the ten or fifteen best players in the league 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:14.960 and could not win a single playoff series. Now that 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:20.040 is a failure somewhere based on the other evidence we 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.000 have sitting in front of us, and that is five 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.520 different teams managed to make the NBA Finals in that 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:29.560 same timeframe with the exact same number of all NBA players. 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:33.160 So I guess to spin it back to corporate culture. 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:39.000 The stock price is stagnant, if it's sliding, someone's getting fired, 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:43.960 new blood is being brought in. You are searching relentlessly 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:48.720 for what the central cause of concern might be. And 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:50.760 there could be a number of people you could point to. 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.480 So if we put it on the Lakers, is it 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:56.199 all the way at the top? Is it the CEO? 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.920 Is it Genie Buss for being two hands off from 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.640 letting Lebron or Rob Polinka an underlean run this thing 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:08.040 into the ground. Is it on Rob Polinka for constructing 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:14.800 a roster devoid of consistent competitors, of killers of stat chasers. 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:19.000 Is it on JJ Reddick at the management level because 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:22.599 he doesn't have the gravity to rally the employees the 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:29.000 jobs to push a talent like Lebron or Luca. But 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:33.439 no surprise, p We're gonna come back to Jabron Lames. 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:37.640 What about Johnny Johnny Brames, he's just hanging out in 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:42.679 the castodioid. He's cleaying the floors. Uh, it's not. 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:46.559 Close, you know, it doesn't seem like it's. 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:50.280 It's there is one constant, and it's a constant that 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:52.920 will have to depart next year and likely will depart 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:55.080 next year. And you just look at that final play 0:10:55.160 --> 0:11:01.160 last night. Lebron, who plays zero defense, is pointing out 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:05.920 defensive assignments to Austin Reeves to stay with roy O'Neil, 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:10.920 and he doesn't. He gets sucked in to Grayson Allen, 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:14.720 who beat Luka Bandancic like a drum off the dribble. 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:18.880 Reeves has zero chance to help on that play, yet 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:23.640 he still leaves his man. But the only reason Roys 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:27.480 O'Neil got the pass was because the guy who was 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:32.040 barking out defensive assignments, the guy with four titles, the 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:36.160 guy with multiple MVP trophies, got sucked in even worse 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:40.040 and left Colin Gillespie, who could have taken a wide 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.280 open corner three himself and had a wide open look 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:45.440 for the win. And Reeves just followed suit with what 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:50.800 Lebron was doing, collapsing to make it four defenders on 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:54.480 one guy who had no chance at either a making 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:58.240 that layup or the defenders had no chance in the 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:01.080 case of Lebron, James and Austrievez of making an impact 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:05.040 defensively on the play. Now there are a mountain of 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:08.199 hater feeds out there. I enjoy them. 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:16.280 They are my basketball shirpa to the lameness of Gabron Lambs. 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:18.640 And some people might point out that they chance. 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:20.800 So you watch Jabron Lambs, the more he lame, he 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:21.480 is right. 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:25.240 And people will say, well, they're cherry picking some of 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:31.480 Jabron's worst moments, which is true. But when your worst 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:37.640 moments are literally cherry picking for baskets and you're not 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:41.040 getting back on defense for over fifteen seconds. 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.199 But every once in a while he gets a cheap 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.360 deuce though, Matt yes, and you don't see his teammates 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:47.360 celebrating at all. 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:50.880 They just seems when you're floating in the lane for 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:55.160 cheap rebounds to pass stats. When you're pointing out somebody 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:59.960 else's defensive assignment while totally blowing yours, it is deflating. 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:07.280 It is truly deflating, and it is so much weight 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:11.160 on top of a team that it feels like it's 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:17.920 damn near impossible to climb out from under. Luca led 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:22.880 a Dallas Mavericks team to the NBA Finals by playing 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:29.560 some of the most incredible, inspired, magical basketball in the 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:33.080 twenty twenty four playoffs, and he led a team with 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:37.720 another future Hall of Famer, Kyrie, who was also great. 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.920 But the rest of that team, if you include their 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:48.040 starters and their rotation players in the playoffs, PJ Washington, 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:54.719 Derek Jones, Junior Daniel Gafford. Their sixth man was a 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:58.719 nineteen year old center, Derek Lively, and their other two 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:04.240 rotation players were Josh Green and Maxi Kleeber. The team 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:10.720 went to the NBA Finals because Luca was so freaking good, 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:15.680 And that's what happens in the NBA. Individuals can carry 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:17.920 you if they are that. 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:22.280 Special, well, they've they'd make other people better. Yeah, but 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:26.160 that's not what happens with your brother, Jabron Lambs. 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:34.440 This current team has that same Luka, Doncic again, Luca Kyrie, PJ. Washington, 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:40.520 Derek Jones, Daniel Gafford, nineteen year old Derek Lively, Josh Green, 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:49.800 Maxi Kleeber. This team has Lebron, James, Luka, Doncic, Austin Reeves, Ruyachimura, 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:57.200 DeAndre Ayton, Marcus Smart, Jake Laavia. Uh, it should be 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:57.720 good enough. 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:00.640 Well, maybe it's a poke ball with a bad ingredient. 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:04.680 Matt not to put a new analogy on your corporate 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:08.800 stock analogy that you just but it does seem like 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.000 everybody was. I mean, I know you can't judge the 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.600 beginning of the season, which is a different time than 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.520 later in the season, and durability and maturity and all 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:21.680 those things come into play, but it felt like these 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:23.720 guys knew how to play with a lot more joy 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:26.400 and chemistry and got a lot more out of everybody 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.000 when Lebron had sciatica. 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:35.880 Yeah, it is a poisonous pill that is put into 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:39.040 the mix. And I'm not saying they got to make 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:41.560 the NBA Finals and damn near win it like the 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:46.080 Mavericks did win a playoff series. It has been the 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:51.440 same song every year, and it's a crappy song, get 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:55.000 into the playoffs, flirt with the play in, maybe win 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:57.760 a play in. Maybe you're the sixth seed and you 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:01.600 don't have to crappy like that Songic. 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:05.560 If you could only see the way that. 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:09.040 She loves me, Yeah, I would like that crappy. 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:09.280 Yeah. 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:13.120 I think it's ass. I think it's studio ass rock esque. 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:18.320 You know, take your pick, seven Mary three, Tonic, Little 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:23.960 Black Backpack. This is the story of a girl, Wait, 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:26.800 crowd to river, drown the whole world. It's one of 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:30.480 those you know, it's the Tony's possum kingdom. 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.840 Wait, no, no, don't know. Now you're starting to you're 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:36.160 starting to disparent some things that's getting up underneath the 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:36.840 skit um. 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.440 Uh, whatever it may be. When you start hearing these 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.600 additions that Mark Walter is making, that Andrew Friedman and 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:48.840 Farhan Ziety are digging their fingers into this thing. That 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:50.880 Tony Bennett's gonna come and help with the draft, but 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:54.800 he's not gonna have any say, He's just coming into consult. Uh. 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:59.640 You gotta believe with Lon Rosen, who, of course most 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:06.439 notable Magic Johnson's agent slash business partner. And then we 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.040 know Magic left because he and Rob Polinka butted heads 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:11.879 and that's why he just walked out the door. It 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:17.359 just bodes for massive changes this offseason and the idea 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:20.640 that Lebron James would be back, or even as far 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:22.520 as I can tell that Rob Polinka is going to 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.040 be back, I just I can't envision it. Not after 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:31.080 six years of stagnation, zero growth, nothing different fighting for 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:36.760 a six or a five seed. Just despondent and uninteresting 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:41.480 play from your players from February through April and it 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.240 just being too late once the postseason rolls around. 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:48.160 Tony Bennett did have a quote toward Rob Polenka when 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:50.000 they hired him, and he said, I want to be 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:56.359 around to pick up the pieces when somebody breaks your heart. 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:02.040 He's gonna get fired immediately. Yeah, right when we hit 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:02.680 the offseason. 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:05.280 Yeah, it feels like the Lakers are not run as 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:10.040 well as the teams that are on the top. That's true. 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:15.480 And we'll be back with David Vasse live from Camelback. 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:20.320 He's got Dave Roberts tonight and JD. Martinez. Everybody's excited 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:24.520 about the Dodger prospects. There are some complications with the 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:28.440 World Baseball Classic but fingers crossed. Stay with us on 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:29.840 a frog mad Friday. 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.480 Petro San Money Am five to seventy ELI Sports Live 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:37.440 everywhere on the iHeartRadio app got Dodger Baseball all weekend long, 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:40.960 just like we had today got handled by the Giants, 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:45.160 But tomorrow another opportunity to kick around the Cubs at 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:47.919 noon and then to take advantage of the Angels on 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:52.440 Sunday also at noon and tonight, Pete the people are gonna. 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:55.280 Have Dodger talk, that's right, and a great Dodger talk 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:59.639 with JD. Martinez, America's DHS. Vass likes to refer to 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.400 him and the skipper of it all, holding it all 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:06.679 together without the biggest star in sports show Heyo Tani 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:10.960 in camp and the World Baseball Classic which complicates everybody's 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:14.720 lives whenever it's around in the spring upon us it 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:20.280 is David Maassey on Petroson Money Live from the Spring Training, 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:26.160 the Home of the Dodge Off with an inside look 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:30.119 at the Dodgers. This is the Vass Report with David Vasse, 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:34.119 the one and only David Masse, making the most of 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:38.280 his time in the desert and having the time of 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:43.560 his life at Camelback Ranch. The Dodgers lose today, but 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:45.840 what does it matter. He's got a great show tonight 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:49.200 and he's laughing at all of US MLB network, Spectrum 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:52.159 Sports Net LA And right here on a five seventy, 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:56.520 it is David Vassay on the Petrosen Money Show. What's cracking? Dave? 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:56.960 How are you? 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:01.280 I'm doing good? Guys made the trip to Scottsdale. It 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:04.920 was a sellout crowd at Scottsdale Stadium, but the Dodgers 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:07.760 didn't really send any of their regulars to play, so 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:13.320 really the headline act was Yoshi Yamamoto making his final 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:17.320 Cactus League start before he joins Team Japan, and he 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:21.480 pitched well, three scoreless innings, four strikeouts, did not walk 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:24.480 a batter, so it seems like he's trending in the 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:27.679 right direction for Japan and for the Dodgers. 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:30.600 Dave, you mentioned they didn't bring any of their regulars, 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:33.399 but I saw peace want to give credit where credit 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:35.080 is due. I think it was Jack Harris that wrote 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:37.880 about it in the California Post because of the injury 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:41.080 to keyk that we should keep our eye on Santiago 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:43.760 espiinal Is that just kind of share with us who 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:46.399 he is why he might have an opportunity to break 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:48.879 camp with this roster and what his role would be. 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:54.040 Yeah, I mentioned that to Petro whoever he was filling 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:55.440 in for you, Matt last week. 0:20:55.800 --> 0:20:56.400 My apology. 0:20:56.520 --> 0:21:01.440 Antiago Espinal is a guy that has a real chance 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:04.159 to make this team because he's a right handed hitting 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:07.960 third baseman. The Dodgers believe they can get his defense 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:10.119 back to where it was a couple of years ago, 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:14.280 and with Tommy Edman and keyk Hernandez starting the year 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:17.840 on the injured list, he has a real chance to 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:22.560 spell maximuncy against test the tough left East. And yeah, 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:25.720 I mean he's teammates with ta Oscar Hernandez in Toronto. 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:31.280 So that's the function of Espinal being a real possibility 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:33.480 to be on the opening day roster. 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:37.560 Now that you mentioned Yamamoto through well today he's leaving. 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:39.200 We're not going to see him for a little while 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:44.359 the party, I guess. Parting thoughts on any conversation that 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:47.840 Dodgers have had with you with the media with Yamamoto, 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:50.480 what he said on his way out the door about 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:52.960 what his role might be, how he might be used, 0:21:53.000 --> 0:21:55.119 and how concerned Dodger fans should. 0:21:54.880 --> 0:21:59.800 Be I don't think Dodger fans should be concerned because 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:04.439 Yamamoto has done a lot of preparation to get bigger 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:09.119 and stronger and put on close to fifteen pounds in 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:12.159 the lower half the legs to stay connected and strong 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:18.200 to the ground. He continues to be at the top 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:21.880 of the training of all pitchers in camp that even 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:25.800 Muki Betts is trying to take some of his pitching 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:31.360 techniques out to shortstop. But Yamamoto said on the way 0:22:31.400 --> 0:22:34.479 out today, because he is on his way to Japan 0:22:34.640 --> 0:22:40.119 now that the Dodgers and him have had extensive conversations 0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:45.520 about what his pitching limits should be. So obviously he's 0:22:45.640 --> 0:22:50.240 very aware of his responsibility with the Dodgers, but he's 0:22:50.359 --> 0:22:53.919 probably going to have some guardrails pitching for Team Japan 0:22:54.080 --> 0:22:57.159 because of what he alluded to as far as the 0:22:57.200 --> 0:23:00.680 conversations he's had and through his interpret or he said, 0:23:00.720 --> 0:23:04.720 they were very complicated conversations, so we didn't really get 0:23:04.800 --> 0:23:08.360 much details. But I guess Dodger fans should be at 0:23:08.359 --> 0:23:12.560 ease that he has been receptive to those conversations about 0:23:12.800 --> 0:23:15.119 what his limits should be out there. 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:19.399 David Vasse is our guest. He's part of the show 0:23:19.640 --> 0:23:23.800 actually as our Dodger reporter on your Southern California Toyota 0:23:23.840 --> 0:23:29.520 Dealers Celebrity Hotline. The Yamamoto Mookie thing is that connected 0:23:29.560 --> 0:23:33.520 with the photos online a Yamamoto and his sense on 0:23:33.680 --> 0:23:35.199 Mooki's shoulders or something. 0:23:36.760 --> 0:23:39.119 Yeah, I had heard about this and then I guess 0:23:39.240 --> 0:23:43.080 a fan started to snap it and put it on Reddit. Yeah. 0:23:43.119 --> 0:23:49.520 Sinse YadA, who is Yamamoto's trainer, was on the shoulders 0:23:49.520 --> 0:23:54.360 of Mooki bets two days ago at Camelback Ranch and then. 0:23:54.440 --> 0:23:57.880 Mooki beholders like a rock concert, right. 0:23:58.720 --> 0:24:02.440 Literally on his shoulders like a rock concert. Mooki told 0:24:02.520 --> 0:24:05.640 me that he weighs one hundred and thirty pounds, So 0:24:06.160 --> 0:24:10.439 it's basically trying to strengthen the core, understand the lower 0:24:10.480 --> 0:24:12.800 half and how it's connected to the core to help, 0:24:13.200 --> 0:24:17.040 you know, just the throws, which is the longest throw 0:24:17.240 --> 0:24:21.159 in the infield from shortstop. And then Mooki started to 0:24:21.200 --> 0:24:24.120 take up throwing the javelin, so he said he's going 0:24:24.160 --> 0:24:28.560 to continue to use the javelin training to help him 0:24:28.680 --> 0:24:31.280 get better. He when I asked him exactly how this 0:24:31.440 --> 0:24:33.040 is going to help him, he said it was too 0:24:33.080 --> 0:24:36.920 complicated to explain to me, so obviously way over my head. 0:24:37.600 --> 0:24:41.040 So at least he's trying to find different ways at 0:24:41.040 --> 0:24:45.119 this stage of his career to just be inquisitive and 0:24:45.200 --> 0:24:48.639 curious about other ways to help him be better, to 0:24:48.800 --> 0:24:51.679 try to achieve winning a Gold Glove at shortstop. 0:24:52.200 --> 0:24:57.080 Dave, you talked about Hayesan Kim and perhaps potential, you know, 0:24:57.840 --> 0:25:00.840 fight to make the roster. Seems like he's hit pretty 0:25:00.840 --> 0:25:03.399 well in spring. Kind of where do you stand on that? 0:25:03.480 --> 0:25:05.399 As he is, like you said, all these people are 0:25:05.480 --> 0:25:07.040 leaving for the World Baseball Classic. 0:25:08.160 --> 0:25:11.560 Yeah, he left a pretty good impression on Dave robertson 0:25:11.600 --> 0:25:15.520 the Dodgers yesterday because his last hit before we left 0:25:15.560 --> 0:25:19.680 for Team Korea was a home run. He's had an 0:25:19.680 --> 0:25:22.520 incredible spring. He looks more like a big league hitter. 0:25:23.040 --> 0:25:26.200 I would say that he's a version of Gavin Lux 0:25:26.280 --> 0:25:29.080 for the Dodgers from a couple of years ago. That 0:25:29.520 --> 0:25:33.040 brings that extra dimension of speed. So if he can 0:25:33.080 --> 0:25:36.720 continue to hit the way he has hit early in spring, 0:25:37.359 --> 0:25:40.240 the Dodgers are going to have a pretty good dynamic 0:25:40.280 --> 0:25:42.880 at second base to start the year, and he can 0:25:42.920 --> 0:25:46.600 also play the outfield. He made he looked more comfortable 0:25:46.600 --> 0:25:49.760 in center field a couple of games ago, so he 0:25:49.840 --> 0:25:52.320 seems to be a real option for them to start 0:25:52.359 --> 0:25:52.720 the year. 0:25:53.640 --> 0:25:58.560 The one and only David Vasse is our guest, always 0:25:58.640 --> 0:26:02.720 with the latest information. He's got Dave Roberts and JD. Martinez. 0:26:02.760 --> 0:26:06.680 Tonight we'll ask him about it. What's what's Tucker? I mean, 0:26:06.720 --> 0:26:10.359 I know it's not easy to to to notice Tucker. 0:26:10.400 --> 0:26:12.399 He seems like a guy likes to fly under the radar, 0:26:12.440 --> 0:26:14.720 and we've talked a lot about that, But what's he 0:26:14.800 --> 0:26:17.280 been like this spring? One of your interactions been like 0:26:17.640 --> 0:26:18.640 with the quiet man. 0:26:20.280 --> 0:26:23.520 Yeah, I mean everything that you just describe Petros is 0:26:23.560 --> 0:26:26.480 what I've observed. He's a guy that wants to go 0:26:26.560 --> 0:26:29.680 under the radar. He's not really at his locker all 0:26:29.720 --> 0:26:33.560 that much when the media is in there. When you 0:26:33.600 --> 0:26:36.119