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Speaker 2: late because the Dodgers got worked over by the Giants.
Speaker 2: None of the regulars were out there in the lineup
Speaker 2: at Yoshiyamamoto did throw three innings, his final appearance in
Speaker 2: spring training before he leaves for the World Baseball Classic.
Speaker 2: We'll have two more Dodger games this weekend, Cubs tomorrow,
Speaker 2: Angels on Sunday. Both will be first pitch, twelve five
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Speaker 1: Very exciting scheduled talk as we hurl forward, we will
Speaker 1: talk to David Vase live from camel Back Ranch. He's
Speaker 1: got Dave Roberts and J. D. Martinez tonight. We will
Speaker 1: do that in the very next segment. But right now,
Speaker 1: it is what you been waiting for. While you're watching
Speaker 1: the Lakers stare at each other in disdain on the bench,
Speaker 1: you're thinking what I'm thinking? What would Matt Smith, the
Speaker 1: voice of the Bolts have to say about this? What
Speaker 1: would Matt Smith do? W WD And we don't have
Speaker 1: to ask that question any longer. We no longer have
Speaker 1: to wonder. Now we will know. It's time for the
Speaker 1: top story of the well.
Speaker 2: As discussed a little bit a half hour ago, I
Speaker 2: would submit it's over. It is completely and totally over,
Speaker 2: which really is a wild thing to think, because for
Speaker 2: people like Lon Rosen and Andrew Friedman and Tony Bennett
Speaker 2: and Mark Walter to really drill down into this Lakers
Speaker 2: team this offseason, they likely will recognize that a central
Speaker 2: component of its failure is too much clutch sports, too
Speaker 2: much jabron lames, too much bad energy, bad juju, bad karma,
Speaker 2: bad basketball, coursing through the concourses, and the foundation.
Speaker 1: Like a stanch matt in the bowels of.
Speaker 2: The arena that you can't get rid of no matter
Speaker 2: what you tried, no matter how many arm and hammer
Speaker 2: baking soda boxes you open, the stench stays. What is
Speaker 2: the foundation of this ten billion dollar franchise? And many
Speaker 2: people when you hear the B word after a number
Speaker 2: ten billion dollar, try to compare corporate culture to team
Speaker 2: performance is as nine ten billion dollars is nothing. Nadi, Apple,
Speaker 2: Google are in the three to four trillion dollar range.
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, I saw, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: how about this pe if the people are really interested,
Speaker 2: which I'm guessing they're not, but I decided to take
Speaker 2: two minutes to look it up. Where it coward With
Speaker 2: exactly ten billion dollars of market cap, the Lakers are
Speaker 2: the equivalent of Avans, a French fleet managing operational car
Speaker 2: leasing company ranked two thousand and fiftieth in the corporate
Speaker 2: market cap counting rankings.
Speaker 1: Hey, that's a proud rental company.
Speaker 2: Okay, you know what, pe It is not to compare
Speaker 2: the Lakers to Ivans, because they've got three and a
Speaker 2: half million vehicles, fourteen thousand employees, and they are the
Speaker 2: number one fleet leasing company in Europe. Tim Albertson, their CEO,
Speaker 2: probably has a solid work culture foundation, probably has fourteen
Speaker 2: thousand bodies pulling the rope in the same direction, and
Speaker 2: that has led to their impressive run, growing from a
Speaker 2: six billion dollar market cap in twenty nineteen to its
Speaker 2: current twenty twenty six ten billion dollar number. Are the
Speaker 2: Lakers growing No? Are they sinking?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: The Lakers are stagnant. They are the same team they
Speaker 2: have been for the last six years. And in corporate culture,
Speaker 2: that is death.
Speaker 1: What's the common denominator there, Matt.
Speaker 2: It's a great question, Pee, because if we look through cliches,
Speaker 2: the types that you'll see on corporate culture posters and
Speaker 2: the pisser. The motivational quotes include, you're not getting better,
Speaker 2: you're getting worse. You're either at the table or you're
Speaker 2: on the menu. If you're not growing, you're dying. And
Speaker 2: the Lakers are violating every last one of them. This
Speaker 2: teamp with Lebron James over those six years has been
Speaker 2: exactly this. What they are today is what they have
Speaker 2: been since their run to their Mickey Mouse Championship Mickey Mouse.
Speaker 2: Whoa because it was in Orlando at Disney World.
Speaker 1: Yeah you heard, Sam Amy. I was there, give them
Speaker 1: the flowers. I was there. I'm sam Amck. I was there. Uh.
Speaker 2: The one run to the conference finals in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: three would have felt more like a breakout from their
Speaker 2: stagnation had they not been swept by the Nuggets, who
Speaker 2: went on to win the NBA Finals. And as much well,
Speaker 2: I guess and much like you regularly point to the
Speaker 2: struggles of USC football. If Oregon can be a perennial contender,
Speaker 2: if Indiana can win the freaking conference in the National Championship,
Speaker 2: if Penn State, if Michigan, if Ohio State, if Washington
Speaker 2: can all make playoff runs in the time that you
Speaker 2: has made zero, something stinks at the top. Last year
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City Thunder, year before Dallas Mavericks, year before Denver Nuggets,
Speaker 2: year before Golden State Warriors, year before Phoenix Suns. That
Speaker 2: is five different teams one third of the Western Conference
Speaker 2: has represented the Western Conference in the NBA Finals, while
Speaker 2: the Lakers have managed to win exactly two playoff series
Speaker 2: over that time frame. Two playoff series wins. In twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one, the Phoenix Suns had one All NBA player,
Speaker 2: Chris Paul on the second team. In twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: the Nuggets had one All NBA player, Nikola Jokic second team.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty four, the Mavericks had one All NBA
Speaker 2: player Luca first team, and last year, the Oklahoma City
Speaker 2: Thunder had two All NBA players Shaye the MVP and
Speaker 2: Jalen Williams third team. Oh the Warriors had one Steph Curry,
Speaker 2: All NBA player. Cared to wonder what the Lakers had
Speaker 2: happening over that same stretch. It's a rhetorical question. It's
Speaker 2: the question you're gonna tell me, you asked, asked earlier. Yes,
Speaker 2: Jabron Lanes from twenty twenty one through last season was
Speaker 2: an All NBA player second Team, third Team, third Team,
Speaker 2: third team, second team, and in twenty twenty four they
Speaker 2: had two. Anthony Davis was a second team All NBA player,
Speaker 2: meaning they either had as many superstars as every other
Speaker 2: team that went to the finals, and in one year
Speaker 2: they even had two.
Speaker 1: But now they got Johnny Brahms, Zach.
Speaker 2: Oh, look out of it, Johnny brains. They had one
Speaker 2: of the ten or fifteen best players in the league
Speaker 2: and could not win a single playoff series. Now that
Speaker 2: is a failure somewhere based on the other evidence we
Speaker 2: have sitting in front of us, and that is five
Speaker 2: different teams managed to make the NBA Finals in that
Speaker 2: same timeframe with the exact same number of all NBA players.
Speaker 2: So I guess to spin it back to corporate culture.
Speaker 2: The stock price is stagnant, if it's sliding, someone's getting fired,
Speaker 2: new blood is being brought in. You are searching relentlessly
Speaker 2: for what the central cause of concern might be. And
Speaker 2: there could be a number of people you could point to.
Speaker 2: So if we put it on the Lakers, is it
Speaker 2: all the way at the top? Is it the CEO?
Speaker 2: Is it Genie Buss for being two hands off from
Speaker 2: letting Lebron or Rob Polinka an underlean run this thing
Speaker 2: into the ground. Is it on Rob Polinka for constructing
Speaker 2: a roster devoid of consistent competitors, of killers of stat chasers.
Speaker 2: Is it on JJ Reddick at the management level because
Speaker 2: he doesn't have the gravity to rally the employees the
Speaker 2: jobs to push a talent like Lebron or Luca. But
Speaker 2: no surprise, p We're gonna come back to Jabron Lames.
Speaker 2: What about Johnny Johnny Brames, he's just hanging out in
Speaker 2: the castodioid. He's cleaying the floors. Uh, it's not.
Speaker 1: Close, you know, it doesn't seem like it's.
Speaker 2: It's there is one constant, and it's a constant that
Speaker 2: will have to depart next year and likely will depart
Speaker 2: next year. And you just look at that final play
Speaker 2: last night. Lebron, who plays zero defense, is pointing out
Speaker 2: defensive assignments to Austin Reeves to stay with roy O'Neil,
Speaker 2: and he doesn't. He gets sucked in to Grayson Allen,
Speaker 2: who beat Luka Bandancic like a drum off the dribble.
Speaker 2: Reeves has zero chance to help on that play, yet
Speaker 2: he still leaves his man. But the only reason Roys
Speaker 2: O'Neil got the pass was because the guy who was
Speaker 2: barking out defensive assignments, the guy with four titles, the
Speaker 2: guy with multiple MVP trophies, got sucked in even worse
Speaker 2: and left Colin Gillespie, who could have taken a wide
Speaker 2: open corner three himself and had a wide open look
Speaker 2: for the win. And Reeves just followed suit with what
Speaker 2: Lebron was doing, collapsing to make it four defenders on
Speaker 2: one guy who had no chance at either a making
Speaker 2: that layup or the defenders had no chance in the
Speaker 2: case of Lebron, James and Austrievez of making an impact
Speaker 2: defensively on the play. Now there are a mountain of
Speaker 2: hater feeds out there. I enjoy them.
Speaker 1: They are my basketball shirpa to the lameness of Gabron Lambs.
Speaker 2: And some people might point out that they chance.
Speaker 1: So you watch Jabron Lambs, the more he lame, he
Speaker 1: is right.
Speaker 2: And people will say, well, they're cherry picking some of
Speaker 2: Jabron's worst moments, which is true. But when your worst
Speaker 2: moments are literally cherry picking for baskets and you're not
Speaker 2: getting back on defense for over fifteen seconds.
Speaker 1: But every once in a while he gets a cheap
Speaker 1: deuce though, Matt yes, and you don't see his teammates
Speaker 1: celebrating at all.
Speaker 2: They just seems when you're floating in the lane for
Speaker 2: cheap rebounds to pass stats. When you're pointing out somebody
Speaker 2: else's defensive assignment while totally blowing yours, it is deflating.
Speaker 2: It is truly deflating, and it is so much weight
Speaker 2: on top of a team that it feels like it's
Speaker 2: damn near impossible to climb out from under. Luca led
Speaker 2: a Dallas Mavericks team to the NBA Finals by playing
Speaker 2: some of the most incredible, inspired, magical basketball in the
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four playoffs, and he led a team with
Speaker 2: another future Hall of Famer, Kyrie, who was also great.
Speaker 2: But the rest of that team, if you include their
Speaker 2: starters and their rotation players in the playoffs, PJ Washington,
Speaker 2: Derek Jones, Junior Daniel Gafford. Their sixth man was a
Speaker 2: nineteen year old center, Derek Lively, and their other two
Speaker 2: rotation players were Josh Green and Maxi Kleeber. The team
Speaker 2: went to the NBA Finals because Luca was so freaking good,
Speaker 2: And that's what happens in the NBA. Individuals can carry
Speaker 2: you if they are that.
Speaker 1: Special, well, they've they'd make other people better. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: that's not what happens with your brother, Jabron Lambs.
Speaker 2: This current team has that same Luka, Doncic again, Luca Kyrie, PJ. Washington,
Speaker 2: Derek Jones, Daniel Gafford, nineteen year old Derek Lively, Josh Green,
Speaker 2: Maxi Kleeber. This team has Lebron, James, Luka, Doncic, Austin Reeves, Ruyachimura,
Speaker 2: DeAndre Ayton, Marcus Smart, Jake Laavia. Uh, it should be
Speaker 2: good enough.
Speaker 1: Well, maybe it's a poke ball with a bad ingredient.
Speaker 1: Matt not to put a new analogy on your corporate
Speaker 1: stock analogy that you just but it does seem like
Speaker 1: everybody was. I mean, I know you can't judge the
Speaker 1: beginning of the season, which is a different time than
Speaker 1: later in the season, and durability and maturity and all
Speaker 1: those things come into play, but it felt like these
Speaker 1: guys knew how to play with a lot more joy
Speaker 1: and chemistry and got a lot more out of everybody
Speaker 1: when Lebron had sciatica.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a poisonous pill that is put into
Speaker 2: the mix. And I'm not saying they got to make
Speaker 2: the NBA Finals and damn near win it like the
Speaker 2: Mavericks did win a playoff series. It has been the
Speaker 2: same song every year, and it's a crappy song, get
Speaker 2: into the playoffs, flirt with the play in, maybe win
Speaker 2: a play in. Maybe you're the sixth seed and you
Speaker 2: don't have to crappy like that Songic.
Speaker 1: If you could only see the way that.
Speaker 2: She loves me, Yeah, I would like that crappy.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think it's ass. I think it's studio ass rock esque.
Speaker 2: You know, take your pick, seven Mary three, Tonic, Little
Speaker 2: Black Backpack. This is the story of a girl, Wait,
Speaker 2: crowd to river, drown the whole world. It's one of
Speaker 2: those you know, it's the Tony's possum kingdom.
Speaker 1: Wait, no, no, don't know. Now you're starting to you're
Speaker 1: starting to disparent some things that's getting up underneath the
Speaker 1: skit um.
Speaker 2: Uh, whatever it may be. When you start hearing these
Speaker 2: additions that Mark Walter is making, that Andrew Friedman and
Speaker 2: Farhan Ziety are digging their fingers into this thing. That
Speaker 2: Tony Bennett's gonna come and help with the draft, but
Speaker 2: he's not gonna have any say, He's just coming into consult. Uh.
Speaker 2: You gotta believe with Lon Rosen, who, of course most
Speaker 2: notable Magic Johnson's agent slash business partner. And then we
Speaker 2: know Magic left because he and Rob Polinka butted heads
Speaker 2: and that's why he just walked out the door. It
Speaker 2: just bodes for massive changes this offseason and the idea
Speaker 2: that Lebron James would be back, or even as far
Speaker 2: as I can tell that Rob Polinka is going to
Speaker 2: be back, I just I can't envision it. Not after
Speaker 2: six years of stagnation, zero growth, nothing different fighting for
Speaker 2: a six or a five seed. Just despondent and uninteresting
Speaker 2: play from your players from February through April and it
Speaker 2: just being too late once the postseason rolls around.
Speaker 1: Tony Bennett did have a quote toward Rob Polenka when
Speaker 1: they hired him, and he said, I want to be
Speaker 1: around to pick up the pieces when somebody breaks your heart.
Speaker 2: He's gonna get fired immediately. Yeah, right when we hit
Speaker 2: the offseason.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels like the Lakers are not run as
Speaker 1: well as the teams that are on the top. That's true.
Speaker 1: And we'll be back with David Vasse live from Camelback.
Speaker 1: He's got Dave Roberts tonight and JD. Martinez. Everybody's excited
Speaker 1: about the Dodger prospects. There are some complications with the
Speaker 1: World Baseball Classic but fingers crossed. Stay with us on
Speaker 1: a frog mad Friday.
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Speaker 1: Have Dodger talk, that's right, and a great Dodger talk
Speaker 1: with JD. Martinez, America's DHS. Vass likes to refer to
Speaker 1: him and the skipper of it all, holding it all
Speaker 1: together without the biggest star in sports show Heyo Tani
Speaker 1: in camp and the World Baseball Classic which complicates everybody's
Speaker 1: lives whenever it's around in the spring upon us it
Speaker 1: is David Maassey on Petroson Money Live from the Spring Training,
Speaker 1: the Home of the Dodge Off with an inside look
Speaker 1: at the Dodgers. This is the Vass Report with David Vasse,
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Speaker 1: his time in the desert and having the time of
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Speaker 1: it is David Vassay on the Petrosen Money Show. What's cracking? Dave?
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm doing good? Guys made the trip to Scottsdale. It
Speaker 3: was a sellout crowd at Scottsdale Stadium, but the Dodgers
Speaker 3: didn't really send any of their regulars to play, so
Speaker 3: really the headline act was Yoshi Yamamoto making his final
Speaker 3: Cactus League start before he joins Team Japan, and he
Speaker 3: pitched well, three scoreless innings, four strikeouts, did not walk
Speaker 3: a batter, so it seems like he's trending in the
Speaker 3: right direction for Japan and for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Dave, you mentioned they didn't bring any of their regulars,
Speaker 2: but I saw peace want to give credit where credit
Speaker 2: is due. I think it was Jack Harris that wrote
Speaker 2: about it in the California Post because of the injury
Speaker 2: to keyk that we should keep our eye on Santiago
Speaker 2: espiinal Is that just kind of share with us who
Speaker 2: he is why he might have an opportunity to break
Speaker 2: camp with this roster and what his role would be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mentioned that to Petro whoever he was filling
Speaker 3: in for you, Matt last week.
Speaker 2: My apology.
Speaker 3: Antiago Espinal is a guy that has a real chance
Speaker 3: to make this team because he's a right handed hitting
Speaker 3: third baseman. The Dodgers believe they can get his defense
Speaker 3: back to where it was a couple of years ago,
Speaker 3: and with Tommy Edman and keyk Hernandez starting the year
Speaker 3: on the injured list, he has a real chance to
Speaker 3: spell maximuncy against test the tough left East. And yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean he's teammates with ta Oscar Hernandez in Toronto.
Speaker 3: So that's the function of Espinal being a real possibility
Speaker 3: to be on the opening day roster.
Speaker 2: Now that you mentioned Yamamoto through well today he's leaving.
Speaker 2: We're not going to see him for a little while
Speaker 2: the party, I guess. Parting thoughts on any conversation that
Speaker 2: Dodgers have had with you with the media with Yamamoto,
Speaker 2: what he said on his way out the door about
Speaker 2: what his role might be, how he might be used,
Speaker 2: and how concerned Dodger fans should.
Speaker 3: Be I don't think Dodger fans should be concerned because
Speaker 3: Yamamoto has done a lot of preparation to get bigger
Speaker 3: and stronger and put on close to fifteen pounds in
Speaker 3: the lower half the legs to stay connected and strong
Speaker 3: to the ground. He continues to be at the top
Speaker 3: of the training of all pitchers in camp that even
Speaker 3: Muki Betts is trying to take some of his pitching
Speaker 3: techniques out to shortstop. But Yamamoto said on the way
Speaker 3: out today, because he is on his way to Japan
Speaker 3: now that the Dodgers and him have had extensive conversations
Speaker 3: about what his pitching limits should be. So obviously he's
Speaker 3: very aware of his responsibility with the Dodgers, but he's
Speaker 3: probably going to have some guardrails pitching for Team Japan
Speaker 3: because of what he alluded to as far as the
Speaker 3: conversations he's had and through his interpret or he said,
Speaker 3: they were very complicated conversations, so we didn't really get
Speaker 3: much details. But I guess Dodger fans should be at
Speaker 3: ease that he has been receptive to those conversations about
Speaker 3: what his limits should be out there.
Speaker 1: David Vasse is our guest. He's part of the show
Speaker 1: actually as our Dodger reporter on your Southern California Toyota
Speaker 1: Dealers Celebrity Hotline. The Yamamoto Mookie thing is that connected
Speaker 1: with the photos online a Yamamoto and his sense on
Speaker 1: Mooki's shoulders or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I had heard about this and then I guess
Speaker 3: a fan started to snap it and put it on Reddit. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Sinse YadA, who is Yamamoto's trainer, was on the shoulders
Speaker 3: of Mooki bets two days ago at Camelback Ranch and then.
Speaker 1: Mooki beholders like a rock concert, right.
Speaker 3: Literally on his shoulders like a rock concert. Mooki told
Speaker 3: me that he weighs one hundred and thirty pounds, So
Speaker 3: it's basically trying to strengthen the core, understand the lower
Speaker 3: half and how it's connected to the core to help,
Speaker 3: you know, just the throws, which is the longest throw
Speaker 3: in the infield from shortstop. And then Mooki started to
Speaker 3: take up throwing the javelin, so he said he's going
Speaker 3: to continue to use the javelin training to help him
Speaker 3: get better. He when I asked him exactly how this
Speaker 3: is going to help him, he said it was too
Speaker 3: complicated to explain to me, so obviously way over my head.
Speaker 3: So at least he's trying to find different ways at
Speaker 3: this stage of his career to just be inquisitive and
Speaker 3: curious about other ways to help him be better, to
Speaker 3: try to achieve winning a Gold Glove at shortstop.
Speaker 2: Dave, you talked about Hayesan Kim and perhaps potential, you know,
Speaker 2: fight to make the roster. Seems like he's hit pretty
Speaker 2: well in spring. Kind of where do you stand on that?
Speaker 2: As he is, like you said, all these people are
Speaker 2: leaving for the World Baseball Classic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he left a pretty good impression on Dave robertson
Speaker 3: the Dodgers yesterday because his last hit before we left
Speaker 3: for Team Korea was a home run. He's had an
Speaker 3: incredible spring. He looks more like a big league hitter.
Speaker 3: I would say that he's a version of Gavin Lux
Speaker 3: for the Dodgers from a couple of years ago. That
Speaker 3: brings that extra dimension of speed. So if he can
Speaker 3: continue to hit the way he has hit early in spring,
Speaker 3: the Dodgers are going to have a pretty good dynamic
Speaker 3: at second base to start the year, and he can
Speaker 3: also play the outfield. He made he looked more comfortable
Speaker 3: in center field a couple of games ago, so he
Speaker 3: seems to be a real option for them to start
Speaker 3: the year.
Speaker 1: The one and only David Vasse is our guest, always
Speaker 1: with the latest information. He's got Dave Roberts and JD. Martinez.
Speaker 1: Tonight we'll ask him about it. What's what's Tucker? I mean,
Speaker 1: I know it's not easy to to to notice Tucker.
Speaker 1: He seems like a guy likes to fly under the radar,
Speaker 1: and we've talked a lot about that, But what's he
Speaker 1: been like this spring? One of your interactions been like
Speaker 1: with the quiet man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean everything that you just describe Petros is
Speaker 3: what I've observed. He's a guy that wants to go
Speaker 3: under the radar. He's not really at his locker all
Speaker 3: that much when the media is in there. When you
Speaker 3: see him go from field to field, he's not a
Speaker 3: guy that you know, you notice out of the other
Speaker 3: superstars the Dodgers have. But when he takes his at
Speaker 3: bat during these games, you can understand how he is
Speaker 3: going to really help this Dodger lineup by getting on base,
Speaker 3: by bringing a professional approach and a guy that can
Speaker 3: do some damage hitting behind o'tawny. So he's a guy
Speaker 3: that doesn't want the attention. And it's starting to make
Speaker 3: more and more sense. Why, all things being equal, whether
Speaker 3: it was a long term contract in Toronto, you know,
Speaker 3: a difference of five million dollars annually with the Mets,
Speaker 3: why this was so attractive to him Because he's just
Speaker 3: one of many guys and doesn't need to shoulder the
Speaker 3: burden of being the guy front and center. So he
Speaker 3: does want to go under the radar and he just
Speaker 3: wants to play baseball. But yeah, very very under the
Speaker 3: radar type personality.
Speaker 2: Dave, What are we to take away from our dear
Speaker 2: friend John Hayman writing that if they were to institute
Speaker 2: a salary cap, it would look something like a floor
Speaker 2: of one hundred forty million and a ceiling of two
Speaker 2: hundred sixty million. What do we take away from that?
Speaker 3: I think all of this salary cap just goes back
Speaker 3: to owners wanting to, you know, improve the perconercentage of
Speaker 3: valuations of their franchise and get it closer to where
Speaker 3: the NBA and the NFL is the one thing that
Speaker 3: everybody ignores when it comes to the Dodgers' spending power
Speaker 3: is the fact that the salary cap is not going
Speaker 3: to stop the Dodgers from continuing to be on the
Speaker 3: cutting edge of technology and infrastructure that they have built
Speaker 3: for their players at the major league level and also
Speaker 3: in the minor league level. That's where the money that
Speaker 3: the Dodgers have, the wherewithal they have that has made
Speaker 3: a huge difference even before they signed Otani, and a
Speaker 3: salary cap is not going to stop that.
Speaker 1: David Messe everybody, what can we look forward to tonight,
Speaker 1: Dave with Dave Roberts and JD Martinez? Is there a
Speaker 1: preview you can give us of.
Speaker 3: Some kind I can I can? Last year, JD Martinez
Speaker 3: helped Mookie Betts get his season back on track in
Speaker 3: September when we were in Florida, and you might be
Speaker 3: surprised by what JD had to say about how much
Speaker 3: he helped Mooky and how many times he helped MOOKI.
Speaker 3: And also he's out here on the West Coast. He's
Speaker 3: going to be participating in a celebrity pickleball tournament out
Speaker 3: there in Lakinta on Monday. That's why it worked time
Speaker 3: wise to have him on the show tonight. And also
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts talks about, you know the mentality of this
Speaker 3: team that's not really shying away when you say the
Speaker 3: phrase three feet, they're actually embracing it. So looking forward
Speaker 3: to having Dave on Dodger Talk for the first time
Speaker 3: basically since last year.
Speaker 1: Wonderful stuff. Dave, thank you for your contribution and we'll
Speaker 1: be looking forward to it. At about an hour and
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, Dodger Talk with David Vassa beautiful indeed. Tony Bruno,
Speaker 1: thank you, Dave.
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Speaker 1: All right, Matt, I did promise everybody that I would
Speaker 1: do this story again because you're here, because it's very
Speaker 1: prevalent to you. I don't think we would have I mean,
Speaker 1: Rogan and Rodney did the story, which disappointed. Oh no, well,
Speaker 1: what I mean. You know sometimes stories overlap, some form
Speaker 1: of it. Some form of those stories do overlap. Do
Speaker 1: you think we'll ever had Soonica, No or any form
Speaker 1: of it. No, okay, Uh, you've probably seen the story, Matt,
Speaker 1: because it's a day old. But you must address it.
Speaker 1: People are starting to text me and ask me about
Speaker 1: addressing it. The Atlanta Hawks on Monday in Atlanta, which
Speaker 1: is of course where they are for their home game
Speaker 1: against the Orlando Magic, are unveiling the very first NBA
Speaker 1: collaboration with a strip club. That strip club is Magic City,
Speaker 1: famous on the Petrosen Money Show, because Matt money Smith
Speaker 1: of course, went there allegedly thinking that famous kitch. It's alleged,
Speaker 1: that's alleged, thinking that the famous kitchen in Atlanta at
Speaker 1: the Magic City, the famous the eleven Pepper Wings, was
Speaker 1: a separate entity than the actual strip club, or they
Speaker 1: had like a separate place for food, which of course
Speaker 1: they do not and never have.
Speaker 2: But now they give you your wings right there in
Speaker 2: the strip club.
Speaker 1: You have to go in, and that went in and
Speaker 1: he stayed in like a roach Motel I was with
Speaker 1: other people. Yeah, exactly right. So it's a likely story
Speaker 1: that if Pat O'Brien still worked here would be ide
Speaker 1: what you do. I'm gonna call you what. But they're
Speaker 1: gonna do a Magic City Monday in a strip club
Speaker 1: NBA team collaboration. There's gonna be Magic City sweatshirts, Atlanta Hawks,
Speaker 1: Magic City collaboration with the peach on it for an ass. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be.
Speaker 2: Seems like the NBA would shut this down.
Speaker 1: Ti the rapper playing halftime. Also, the Atlanta as F
Speaker 1: podcast is going to go. And of course the wings.
Speaker 1: I mean, Matt, this is your opportunity to get those
Speaker 1: wings without the strippers, the Lemon Pepper, Sweet Lou Williams wings.
Speaker 1: Who was there when you were there.
Speaker 2: Without he was at the end of the bar.
Speaker 1: The strippers. Now, I imagine when TI performs, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: some chicks with big asses wiggling around. But you will oh,
Speaker 1: a little bit, but they will. They'll have clothes on.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's always dancers. You don't think the Atlanta
Speaker 1: Hawks have the dancers.
Speaker 2: I'm just shying. Do you think they'll be doing strip
Speaker 2: club like dancing?
Speaker 1: Don't they? Anyway, I guess they do. Have you seen
Speaker 1: the Clipper Spirit anytime recently? I have not. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: they look like the chicks dancing and the freaking expendable
Speaker 1: or the replacements. But anyway, Matt, I thought you would
Speaker 1: be excited about this. It's a great opportunity to get
Speaker 1: out in the community at Atlanta, one of your favorite cities, Buckhead, Bankhead,
Speaker 1: the Old deal In and outside the perimeter and enjoy
Speaker 1: Magic City Monday. And yeah, apparently Adam Silver is six
Speaker 1: feet underground in his coffin and does not know. I
Speaker 1: do not know how this got through, but through it is,
Speaker 1: and it's popping off. Matt. It's lit, as the kids
Speaker 1: would say, and we're.
Speaker 2: Going to take advantage of this. What an opportunity. Kevin Stefanski,
Speaker 2: white guy, head coach of the Atlanta Falcons, you know,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, to show everybody how black he Oh great,
Speaker 2: call is a white guy here? I am looking at
Speaker 2: the eating these lemon pepper wings and I'm gonna creep
Speaker 2: up on the backside of this lady Dan.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, rub myself on a chick like like Dave
Speaker 1: Roberts an ice cube.
Speaker 2: Check me out.
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts is gonna be on Dodgy Talk tonight. Still
Speaker 1: has an addressed rubbing his ass and I cubes thigh.
Speaker 1: I'm too scared to ask.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too.
Speaker 1: Yeah I did it. Uh yeah, I rub my ass
Speaker 1: on his thigh. So anyway, I hope Magic City Monday
Speaker 1: pops off. I will monitor it on social media and
Speaker 1: looking forward to.
Speaker 2: Is it like every magic Is it every Monday game?
Speaker 2: Movie forward at home?
Speaker 1: No? No, it's like a one time. Just like they're gonna
Speaker 1: have bar elegance Thursday at the Clipper game and they're
Speaker 1: giving out T shirts with c section scarlk. You don't
Speaker 1: like like Kanye's go team.
Speaker 2: It's got the little scar right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be sweet. Some stretch marks too in
Speaker 1: the hip are just real low on the shut. Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you. That's the same segment as we did with
Speaker 1: Don McClay, but we did have to learn Matt somebody
Speaker 1: who actually loves Magic City's wings so much.
Speaker 2: I've been to Magic City. I did not consume the wing.
Speaker 2: You know what else you like in the back that
Speaker 2: it wasn't a kitchen takeout whin.
Speaker 1: Though, enormous black ass. That's what he also want.
Speaker 2: Everybody knows that.
Speaker 1: Tell him something they don't know.
Speaker 2: Man, everybody knows that I'm into enormous black ass.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back.
Speaker 2: I love it.
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