1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,400 Speaker 1: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller 2 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:09,039 Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. 4 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:11,399 Speaker 1: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller 5 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific 6 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:17,960 Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. 7 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:23,799 Speaker 1: If you thought more hours a day, minutes a week 8 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of the 9 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: Old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats crackheads 10 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:34,160 Speaker 1: in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich pill 11 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:38,680 Speaker 1: poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes, break 12 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:42,520 Speaker 1: free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller 13 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 1: starts right now under the big top we go. The 14 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 1: weekend kicks off with another edition of The Fifth Hour 15 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 1: with Ben Maller Still Standing, Still Standing, and we're back 16 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 1: at it again. We're gonna have a conversation with a 17 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:05,319 Speaker 1: friend of ours coming up, but some news we must 18 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: take care of here first. Joining us this week back 19 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 1: from suspension. We'll get more to this on the Saturday podcast. 20 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 1: But unfortunately, to the complaints of many West of the 21 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:32,760 Speaker 1: four oh five, David Gascon. That's from the crazy time. Yeah, 22 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:37,040 Speaker 1: I'm alive, I'm ready, I'm rocking and run. I drove 23 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 1: to work. I'm like you. It's a great fucking day 24 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. Yeah, okay, this is the point out 25 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 1: here that where have you gone? Ryan McBain, We all 26 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 1: miss you. Where have you gone? He's gone? I kicked 27 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: his ass out, all six ft five pounds of them. Yeah, 28 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 1: he did a great job. He deserves credit. The podcast 29 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 1: has never sounded better with I am McBaine producing the podcast. 30 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: Just dominating performances. Good. I heard you had some guests 31 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 1: on that were not above the age of eighty the 32 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. It's a good job by you. Legends, 33 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:15,919 Speaker 1: legends of the game, legends are and they don't age you. 34 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 1: They do not and unlike you, I do not have 35 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: an age bias. I I love to learn and not 36 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 1: have an age bias from my elder I love to 37 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 1: learn from my elders. Tommy John it's a firecracker, right o. 38 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 1: Tommy was wild. It was unfiltered, unfettered, like you know normally, 39 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:41,920 Speaker 1: I'll be one of the throwaway questions we all do 40 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 1: it is, Hey, how are you doing right? How are 41 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 1: you doing? Now? Most people take the how you're doing questions. 42 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 1: I'm doing good. Thanks for asking. I asked Tommy John 43 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 1: how he was doing. He then proceeded to tell me 44 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: that he almost died from COVID. He was paralleled. Uh, 45 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,639 Speaker 1: he had some illness that he had, he was paralyzed. 46 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 1: His wife saved his life. He went in all the 47 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 1: details like he's just like throw everything out there. Was 48 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: not expecting that. It was not expecting that. But he 49 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 1: was great. Tommy was wonderful, and I do think you 50 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:18,360 Speaker 1: should be in the Hall of Fame. We talked about that. 51 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 1: But well, he's got two eight once they claimed because 52 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 1: he pitched so long and that that's not impressive. But 53 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 1: he pointed out that he has the most and I 54 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 1: didn't realize this. I looked it up. He's not it's 55 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 1: not blowing smoke. Tommy John has the most not no 56 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: decisions in baseball history. And so you figure if he 57 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: want half of those no decisions, or even a third 58 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: of those no decisions, he would have been way over 59 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 1: three d winds and therefore hall of Famer. But I 60 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: to me, it's closed. But then when you talk about 61 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 1: the impact that he's had as the guinea pig Tommy 62 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 1: John surgery and how many Hall of Fame pitchers have 63 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 1: had their career saved because of Tommy John. To me, 64 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 1: that puts you in the Hall of Fame one thousand percent. 65 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's various ways that guys getting the 66 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 1: Hall of Fames. Like Dick vital Is in the Hall 67 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 1: of Fame. I don't think he's anything to be celebrated 68 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 1: on the you know, for you know, immortality. But Tommy John, yes, 69 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 1: like that, you specifically have a surgery named after you 70 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 1: to ramp up your your miles per hour. And the 71 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 1: other counter argument to that is that, well, it would 72 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 1: you rather be in the Hall of Fame in a 73 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:35,040 Speaker 1: dusty museum in Cooperstown and then people forget about you 74 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 1: or like Tommy John for a hundred years. As long 75 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:43,480 Speaker 1: as this surgery is a thing, his name will be 76 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 1: mentioned in news stories on the internet and radio and television. 77 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 1: So and so had Tommy John surgery. Yeah, it's like 78 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:54,920 Speaker 1: Luke Garrick, right, Luke Garrick's been gone for a million years. 79 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 1: I was a very that's a very bad as. As 80 00:04:57,480 --> 00:04:59,720 Speaker 1: Tommy pointed out, he'd rather have the surgery than they 81 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 1: and it's like Lou Garrick had but uh, you know, 82 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 1: we still mentioned Lou Garret's name quite a bit and 83 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: people are diagnosed with that terrible illness. Yeah, not sad, 84 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 1: but yeah, it's kind of wild, wild and crazy Weld 85 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: And you know what's wild and crazy, the great Rob Parker. 86 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 1: And we have an opportunity now to catch up with 87 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: the man, the myth, the legend. He's our teammate, he's 88 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: our brother of teammate. Here. We're all in the same family, 89 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 1: the same umbrella at Fox Sports Radio. You see him 90 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 1: on TV. He's a professor, he's a writer, he does 91 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 1: it all. And I gotta tell you, Rob, You're like, 92 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 1: it's like, where's wald Forget, where's Walda? Where's Rob? I've 93 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: been following you as you have traversed the United States 94 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 1: on this amazing summer vacation. How many towns, Rob, have 95 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:51,360 Speaker 1: you visited? This is unbelievable. It has been a been 96 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:55,040 Speaker 1: It's been great. Um, you know, obviously we were locked down. 97 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 1: So I have friends all over worked all over the country. 98 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:00,840 Speaker 1: So I love to get out in the summer. I 99 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:03,840 Speaker 1: love to go to ball games and and and and 100 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:06,359 Speaker 1: eat some good food and drink some beer with some 101 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 1: buddies in the stands, you know, where I'm not working. 102 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 1: So so I would say I've been to New York, UM, Philadelphia, UH, Atlanta, Denver, Washington, 103 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 1: d C. Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Richmond, Virginia. 104 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 1: It's been an epic ethnic summer. Have been to tens 105 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: that's more cities than I have visited like the last 106 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:43,480 Speaker 1: ten years. Rob, I mean, my my good. Now, now 107 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:45,839 Speaker 1: was this all planned out? Or was this like scattershot? 108 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 1: Did you have did you buy all the plane tickets before? 109 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 1: You just buy them as you win? Like that's a 110 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:54,080 Speaker 1: lot of travel there. You're a veteran traveler from your 111 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:56,600 Speaker 1: baseball writing days, right, so you're you know how to 112 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:58,559 Speaker 1: play the game. But did you have it all planned 113 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 1: out before you're just gonna wing it? Oh? Yeah, No, 114 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:05,720 Speaker 1: It's got to be planned out because you know me, guys, 115 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:08,040 Speaker 1: I'm always trying to save a buck. So I gotta 116 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 1: like I'm always trying to play on my trips, get 117 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 1: the cheapest flight available, you know, make it all fit. 118 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 1: Then it's gotta be you know, wrapped around ball games, 119 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 1: you know, Like that's the other part. So I just 120 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 1: can't show up to a city if if a team 121 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 1: is not playing. I want to at least if I'm 122 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 1: going to go to St. Louis, the Cardinals have to 123 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 1: be playing, you know what I mean. Or if I'm 124 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: going to Chicago, one of the two teams have to 125 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 1: be playing. So I had it all planned out, and um, 126 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 1: you know, I had to make a couple of adjustments 127 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 1: because sometimes these airlines, when you buy your ticket too 128 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 1: early in advance, they change the times and they don't 129 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 1: always work out. But it was epic. I ate more 130 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 1: food and champagne, and I was getting people tweeting saying, 131 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: what's your cholestero all level? Because every time I look, 132 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: you've got lobster and steak on your plate and you 133 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 1: know what I mean. So, uh, it was great. You're 134 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 1: the You're the ambassador, Robber. Everyone loves you that way. 135 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 1: How often did did people and you were in the crowd, 136 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 1: You're sitting in the fan, you're a man of the 137 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:12,240 Speaker 1: people there. How often did you get recognized where people like, hey, 138 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 1: that's Rob Parker, Wait a minute, what are you doing here? 139 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 1: It was it was, to be honest, Ben, I gotta 140 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 1: say this, It was amazing and how many people I 141 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 1: wanted to get a picture who recognized me just sitting 142 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 1: in the crowd with my buddies, you know what I mean, 143 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 1: who uh came? There were people. Now I'm gonna tell 144 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 1: you this. I was in d C the night of 145 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:39,200 Speaker 1: the shooting outside the stadium. I was inside the stadium, 146 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 1: and I'll tell you that story. But that night before 147 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 1: all hell broke loose, three fans via social media found 148 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:52,839 Speaker 1: you know song following my my feed that I was 149 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:57,280 Speaker 1: in the ballpark and said hey, what section are you 150 00:08:57,360 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 1: and can I come down and get a picture. I mean, 151 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 1: just nice people who are in the ballpark themselves, who 152 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,559 Speaker 1: just wanted to say hello and grab a picture. So 153 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:09,800 Speaker 1: so it was it was amazing how many people were 154 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 1: so nice and just wanted to say hello. But that 155 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 1: night was was unbelievable. We're having a great night. The 156 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:20,319 Speaker 1: padres were in town, tattoos was four for four at 157 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:23,440 Speaker 1: that point. It was a great night, comfortable, I don't know, 158 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:25,960 Speaker 1: the drinks were flowing, the hot dog three, you know, 159 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,840 Speaker 1: it was just perfect. And I'm there with three of 160 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 1: my buddies, who are the biggest baseball fans going. So 161 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 1: we're we're enjoying our time. My best friend Fred lives 162 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:38,680 Speaker 1: down in Maryland. So all of a sudden, we hear 163 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:42,480 Speaker 1: the shots, and I look at my friends and I'm like, dude, 164 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:45,680 Speaker 1: did you that that was Those were gun shots? You know, 165 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:49,439 Speaker 1: like it was no doubt in my mind that there 166 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:52,200 Speaker 1: were gun shots and not a car backfire and or whatever. 167 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 1: So I look up. We were sitting first base side, 168 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 1: so we had a clear shot of you know, uh, 169 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 1: the concourse level on the third base side. So I 170 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 1: look over to where I hear the shots, and then 171 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:09,720 Speaker 1: all of a sudden you see people running for their 172 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:14,200 Speaker 1: lives to the exit. I don't know, uh, dave or 173 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 1: been Have you guys ever been to the park in 174 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:21,080 Speaker 1: Washington or not? I have not been there. Okay, So 175 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 1: center field is like the main entrance in and out 176 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 1: right like where the subway is, and most people coming 177 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:31,200 Speaker 1: through center field, So people are running from the third 178 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 1: from third base to the center to center field to 179 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:37,840 Speaker 1: to the exits. So I'm like, what the what the 180 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 1: hell is going on? Then I looked down on the 181 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: field and they're no players, no umpire, nobody in the dugout. 182 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 1: So I said to my friends, man, something's happening here. 183 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:48,960 Speaker 1: We need to. We need to get out of here. 184 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 1: So we decided to get up from our seats, head 185 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:54,800 Speaker 1: to the concourse and we're gonna walk out, you know, 186 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:57,960 Speaker 1: through the center field exit as well. So when we 187 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: get up and start walking on the concourse and we 188 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 1: turn left, all of a sudden, people are running towards 189 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 1: us and screaming like it's a horror movie. So I'm like, 190 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:13,800 Speaker 1: oh my god, there's a shooter in the ballpark. That's 191 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 1: exactly that's what I'm thinking. I'm fearful for my life. 192 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:20,560 Speaker 1: Me and my friends, we strong arm our way into 193 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 1: an office like the consent when they were ward the 194 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:26,120 Speaker 1: concessions out of like you know, keeping up with people. 195 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:30,440 Speaker 1: We push our way in. We wind up in a 196 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:35,079 Speaker 1: closet which like eight or nine people and in there, 197 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:38,040 Speaker 1: I swear to You've never been more scared my life. 198 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 1: We're thinking, do we need to push something up against 199 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:44,960 Speaker 1: the door in case the guy is trying you know, 200 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,200 Speaker 1: the shooter is trying to come in, and it's this 201 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: guy gonna kick the door and then shoot us all 202 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:52,960 Speaker 1: like for real. We had no idea. And when you 203 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,959 Speaker 1: see people running towards you, what else are you to think? Right? 204 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:00,959 Speaker 1: Why would you be running away from the exit? Yeah, 205 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:05,079 Speaker 1: that's crazy. And how long did you stay in there? Well, 206 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 1: twenty minutes, it felt like three hours. It was unbelievable. 207 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:11,280 Speaker 1: That was a young kid with his dad. They got 208 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 1: separated from his mom and sister. He's under the desk 209 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:18,080 Speaker 1: like a little boy. We're trying to talk to him 210 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 1: and say everything's gonna be all right. We just the 211 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:25,400 Speaker 1: whole time, we saw no police, no security, no announcements 212 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:29,199 Speaker 1: from the nationals, nothing like that, Like you're on your own, 213 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:33,080 Speaker 1: try to figure it out. And uh, it was a 214 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 1: scary scene. And eventually we saw we come out of 215 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 1: the closet and we're still waiting in the office and 216 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: then something flashes up on one of the TV screens 217 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 1: that it said, you know, everything is under control, you 218 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 1: can you can exit the stadium now. And then we 219 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 1: started to walk out. But what a what a what 220 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:55,840 Speaker 1: a crazy crazy night. Be sure to catch live editions 221 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 1: of The Ben Maller Show week days at two am 222 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 1: Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the 223 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:04,840 Speaker 1: I Heart Radio app. Be sure to catch live editions 224 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 1: of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern 225 00:13:07,559 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I 226 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: Heart Radio app. And so the shooting happened on the 227 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 1: third base side, as I remember, and it was they 228 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 1: said it was outside the ballpark, but it was right 229 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 1: near the ballpark. Is that what they claimed happened. Yeah, 230 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:26,040 Speaker 1: And you know, you know, there's no walls there, you know, 231 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 1: it's just like offending, so you can hear the shots. 232 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 1: And I'm sure if someone wanted to shoot into the stadium, 233 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 1: they could, you know what I mean, there's nothing, there's nothing. 234 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:40,840 Speaker 1: It's not like an enclosed stadium. It's it's open. So 235 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:43,720 Speaker 1: that's why people were fleeting because I'm sure they heard 236 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 1: the bullets and maybe even saw sparks, you know what 237 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 1: I mean, and thought someone was shooting into the stadium. 238 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:53,360 Speaker 1: Why they came running towards us. We had no idea 239 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:56,960 Speaker 1: because after we got out and we found out that, uh, 240 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,080 Speaker 1: there was not a shooting in the ballpark, and there 241 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 1: wasn't a gunman in the ballpark, and it was two 242 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 1: guys in cars shooting at each other outside. It's still 243 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 1: to me didn't make sense unless somebody yelled, you know, 244 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:12,520 Speaker 1: you know, if you've got a crowd and somebody yells, hey, 245 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 1: there's a shooter, or somebody starts to run, you know 246 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:18,840 Speaker 1: what I mean, other people are just gonna run. Yeah, 247 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 1: I remember when that that terrible shooting happened in Vegas 248 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:24,440 Speaker 1: or the guy in the window. There After that, there 249 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 1: were a lot of ballparks that were very concerned about 250 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:28,680 Speaker 1: you know, some something like you know what you described 251 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 1: might happen, happening or whatever. So it's it's wild. Yeah, 252 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 1: but you went back after that, you you you went 253 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 1: back to games and stuff, right, You're like, oh, yeah, 254 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 1: you know, I went to I went to, uh to 255 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 1: a White Sox game. I went to a Cardinals Cubs game. 256 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 1: I went to a Red Cardinals game. I mean, you know, 257 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 1: I mean baseball. To me, that's that's uh our utopia. 258 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:55,920 Speaker 1: It's a it's a great escape. It's a great place 259 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 1: to go. And we thank god haven't been involved in 260 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:01,840 Speaker 1: you know, off like that in the ballpark. And now 261 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: think about it now where uh, you know, years ago, 262 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 1: there was no as we know, you know, metal detectors 263 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 1: and all the stuff that we have now, so it's 264 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 1: safe as ever. And that's what my thought was, like, 265 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:17,720 Speaker 1: how in the world did the guy get a gun 266 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 1: into the building? Do you know what I mean, like 267 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: that was the thing because many years ago, yes, you 268 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 1: know that we could. I once I was covering the Knicks. No, 269 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:29,880 Speaker 1: it was it was it was the Knicks. And I'm 270 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 1: leaving Luguaria Airport and I'm late for the flight. I'm running. 271 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:37,800 Speaker 1: You know, this is no security, no no check nothing. 272 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 1: You just ran to your gate. I swear to you. 273 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:45,240 Speaker 1: The plane door had closed. I banged on the door 274 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:49,960 Speaker 1: and they let me in. They don't those things. Could 275 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:55,480 Speaker 1: you imagine that? Like that's how it can Yeah, well 276 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 1: that had to be even like when not eleven happened. 277 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 1: Every everything, but even before that, I mean there was security. 278 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 1: It wasn't like it wasn't insane. They just asked if 279 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 1: you had you'd always had you remember they when you 280 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:11,040 Speaker 1: checked into the airport, there has anyone touched your bags? 281 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 1: If you have the bags may possession. That was always 282 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 1: like they asked you a couple of questions and that 283 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:17,720 Speaker 1: was like the but that was it. But there was 284 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 1: no other like security or anything. And and and that 285 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 1: was the case in ballparks forever. But now I feel 286 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 1: safe when I go to a ballpark or sporting event. 287 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:29,400 Speaker 1: It's the same thing. If I go into a club. 288 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 1: I want them to pack me down. Do you know 289 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 1: what I mean? I want to go to a metal detective. 290 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 1: I want to know I'm in a club and nobody 291 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 1: has a gun. Yeah, you wanna think you wanna at 292 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 1: least believe you're gonna be saying. So. Of all the 293 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:46,080 Speaker 1: ballparks you visited this summer, best ballpark food was blank. 294 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 1: Best ballpark food was commiskey. I'm that's not commisc what 295 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 1: is it? Guaranteed? Rate Park was pretty good? Uh, Cincinnati 296 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 1: was very good. No, I didn't have a chili dog. 297 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 1: I'm sorry it's not I did not. But but in Cincinnati. 298 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:11,359 Speaker 1: Have you guys been to Cincinnati once? Yeah? I was 299 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 1: there one time years ago, but I have not spent 300 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:14,960 Speaker 1: a lot of time there. You were, you were the 301 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 1: Reds beat guy. You lived there, right, that was your town, right? 302 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:21,160 Speaker 1: I lived there for for two years. And you got 303 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 1: that Montgomery in ribs. Oh my god, there's a boat 304 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 1: house and then there's the original restaurant. And of course 305 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:29,959 Speaker 1: I had some ribs, not at the ballpark, but I'm 306 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 1: selling that some great food I saw that. What makes 307 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 1: the Montgomery Ribs so much better? Why is that such 308 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 1: a wonderful place. That's better than all the other rib places. 309 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 1: You know, like it's it's it's house cook fall off 310 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 1: the meat, fall off the meat bone, you know, fall 311 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:50,320 Speaker 1: off the bone kind of thing. Very tender and just 312 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:52,080 Speaker 1: the sauce. You know, I don't know what they put 313 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:54,960 Speaker 1: in it, but it is delicious. You can you can 314 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:58,720 Speaker 1: you It's like you come back to Cincinnati, you definitely 315 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 1: want to get some ribs. And and they had a 316 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 1: they had an offshoot place up in Detroit, uh in 317 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:09,720 Speaker 1: suburban Detroit that used to feature the monk goom we 318 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 1: in ribs. And I used to get it there too, 319 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:14,280 Speaker 1: and they just I don't know, you know how something 320 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:18,160 Speaker 1: just tastes right, just taste good. That was That's the 321 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:20,399 Speaker 1: montgomer In. I don't I'm not. I don't have a 322 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 1: contract with them. I'm not an endorser for them, but 323 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:27,600 Speaker 1: I swear by their friend. Well and Rob, we we 324 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:30,480 Speaker 1: actually have the same diet, which will upset g you 325 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:33,280 Speaker 1: you as I understand it. You know we've nosed over here. 326 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 1: Is you like your your steak well done right, butterfly 327 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 1: cut or whatever. I'm the same way, yeah, medium, Well, 328 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:42,719 Speaker 1: I just take a little ben a little paint just 329 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 1: a little bit, but you got a butterfly cut it 330 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 1: so that it cooks day. You can't eat the meat 331 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 1: bleeding and all that. Yes, yes, but Rob, you and 332 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:57,160 Speaker 1: I are different compared to Ben. Ben likes his meat 333 00:18:57,359 --> 00:19:02,040 Speaker 1: charcoal black. I like it very you done? Yeah, oh, 334 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 1: you like it very well done. I say, I like 335 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:06,399 Speaker 1: I like my I don't want my steak to be 336 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:10,040 Speaker 1: Even when I get a hamburger, I order always say 337 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:13,359 Speaker 1: well done, but not burnt. There's a difference between like 338 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:15,879 Speaker 1: cooking it or just having a little bit of pink, 339 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:19,240 Speaker 1: you know, in the center, but not then you like 340 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:22,679 Speaker 1: it like you want to meet unrecognizable Yeah, well what 341 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 1: I do, Rob is I I'm not a vegetarian or 342 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:28,760 Speaker 1: vegan or whatever, but I like that. And I see 343 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:31,480 Speaker 1: the blood or any like, I think I'm actually eating 344 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:33,879 Speaker 1: an animal. When it's it looks like the tires on 345 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:36,920 Speaker 1: your car, I'm like, okay, it's you know, it's something else. 346 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:41,879 Speaker 1: So I've convinced my you know, or if it's or 347 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:43,639 Speaker 1: if you had a sandwich and it had a tail 348 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:50,720 Speaker 1: on it, you might take okay. Rob. With you traveling 349 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:53,719 Speaker 1: so much all these Major League Baseball parks, what do 350 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:56,359 Speaker 1: you feel like has the best I guess energy or 351 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 1: ambiance these days, because it feels like your fans obviously 352 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,360 Speaker 1: getting back in the stands and the Dodgers in Astro's 353 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:05,280 Speaker 1: the last couple of days, Chavez Ravine has been packed. 354 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:09,359 Speaker 1: What's it been like across the country? You know what 355 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 1: baseball is is back as far as fan was every 356 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,440 Speaker 1: game I went through the crowd, the stadiums were packed, 357 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 1: and you know, I think St. Louis is a baseball 358 00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 1: capital of the United States. I can't get over. Everybody's 359 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:29,040 Speaker 1: a Cardinals fan. They love the Cardinals. Everybody wears red. 360 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:31,920 Speaker 1: It's a small market. I think the car I think St. 361 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 1: Louis is a twenty three largest TV market, you know 362 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:37,880 Speaker 1: what I mean. But they don't run like a mid 363 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 1: market or a small market. They operate like a major 364 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 1: Like a major market. They try to win, and um, 365 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:49,760 Speaker 1: I'm impressed in any town that can run two football 366 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:52,920 Speaker 1: teams out of town. I got to declare as a 367 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 1: baseball capital of the United States and just think about 368 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 1: what St. Louis. The only thing that people in St. 369 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:01,920 Speaker 1: Louis care about it what the Cardinals and the Blues. 370 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:06,200 Speaker 1: That's it. And they had they had an A B 371 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:08,879 Speaker 1: A team, Right, and whoever that's one of the great stories, right, 372 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:10,720 Speaker 1: whoever owned that St. Louis A B A team, They 373 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 1: still get a share of the NBA TV money grandfather did. Yeah, yeah, 374 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 1: they did it for a long time, like twenty five years. 375 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:21,679 Speaker 1: Finally the NBA was like, we can't continue this, so 376 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:25,640 Speaker 1: they made the guys settle for like an eight hundred 377 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:30,240 Speaker 1: an eight hundred million or five hundred million to any agreement, 378 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:33,919 Speaker 1: but it was put for forever. It was. It was 379 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 1: the most ridiculous contract that the NBA could have signed, 380 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:41,040 Speaker 1: where they were going to get, you know, a piece 381 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:44,159 Speaker 1: of the TV revenue forever. All they had to do 382 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 1: was keep their patent. There was the spirit of St. Louis. 383 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:51,920 Speaker 1: The guy's brothers owned the team and they were genuss 384 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 1: I mean to get them. But back then, guess what 385 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:58,679 Speaker 1: the TV revenue was. There was like a hundred and 386 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:02,639 Speaker 1: seventy five thousand a year. You have something, Yeah, nobody was, 387 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:05,280 Speaker 1: nobody was paying attention to. That's crazy, crazy, crazy, all right. 388 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 1: So you gotta talk some baseball. Rob can't rob hardcore baseball. 389 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:12,560 Speaker 1: So I heard, I heard that you have been trashing, 390 00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:16,680 Speaker 1: sullying the name of the Dodgers after they acquired Max 391 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 1: and trade Turner from the Nationals. Now, how is that 392 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:24,879 Speaker 1: a bad move? How? How how did the Dodgers do 393 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:29,199 Speaker 1: anything wrong? Rob? I'm not sure. All I said is 394 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 1: I think the Dodgers have turned into the evil Empire 395 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:35,400 Speaker 1: now that they've taken it over from the Yankees. They're 396 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:38,159 Speaker 1: the ones who have a payroll that's a hundred million 397 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:41,919 Speaker 1: more than the Yankees since when the Dodgers were counting 398 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:45,119 Speaker 1: Tenney's before and now all of a sudden, they don't 399 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 1: care what's going on. Who they want Trevor Bauer, here's 400 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:52,720 Speaker 1: forty million dollars. Whatever we want the National League, uh, 401 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: Cy Young will pay him. We want to go get Sherzer. 402 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:58,840 Speaker 1: They heard that the Padres were close, and they went 403 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:02,439 Speaker 1: out and said, well if you everybody, even Ben mallor 404 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 1: if you want them. You know, like anything, the Dodgers 405 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:09,120 Speaker 1: are now bullies. They run baseball. They whatever they want 406 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:13,320 Speaker 1: they get. But you you know, being a baseball guy, 407 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 1: that it doesn't make. It's not like the NBA where 408 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,879 Speaker 1: if you have if if Brooklyn hadn't and you you 409 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:20,560 Speaker 1: were all over the nets. But if they if the 410 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:22,920 Speaker 1: injuries hadn't happened, the Nets would have won the championship. 411 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:26,119 Speaker 1: I think we can all agree with so. But in 412 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:29,359 Speaker 1: baseball it does, and you can have the greatest team 413 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:32,639 Speaker 1: in baseball and because it's uh the way baseball set up, 414 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:36,040 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. You can still lose it that the 415 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:39,280 Speaker 1: team with the most talent doesn't win every year. So oh, 416 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 1: no doubt. I'm just saying, but the Dodgers have had 417 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:45,359 Speaker 1: a change in. What people used to hate about the 418 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,679 Speaker 1: Yankees is that, See, this is the thing. You know this, 419 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,200 Speaker 1: when you have a lot of money, you can cover 420 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 1: up and you can throw more money on bad money. 421 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:58,240 Speaker 1: You could cover up your mistakes. If your Kansas city 422 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,480 Speaker 1: and you signed somebody that doesn't work out, that's gonna 423 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:05,479 Speaker 1: hurt your franchise for a while. That's what big money 424 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,639 Speaker 1: team liked it. Though I'm not meta. I give them credit. 425 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,040 Speaker 1: They want to win again after that what was at 426 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,399 Speaker 1: thirty one or two year thirty one year drought or 427 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 1: whatever it was, or I did it yeah, yeah, no, 428 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:21,440 Speaker 1: And the way I look at it, because I was fine. 429 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:24,439 Speaker 1: When when you're talking about when Peter O'Malley, O'Malley family 430 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:28,639 Speaker 1: owned the team, they didn't spend any money. The ticket 431 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:31,080 Speaker 1: prices were very cheap, but they didn't spend any money. 432 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:34,640 Speaker 1: And then when Fox took over, they spent a lot 433 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,320 Speaker 1: of money, but the team wasn't very good. Even though 434 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:39,159 Speaker 1: they spent a lot of money. They went out and 435 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:42,359 Speaker 1: brought you know, big name player Gary Sheffield, Kevin Brown, 436 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 1: those guys, but they didn't win. And then when McCourt 437 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:48,480 Speaker 1: owned the team, they went cheap again, and then they 438 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:50,440 Speaker 1: didn't do anything. So the way I look at this 439 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 1: is not gonna last forever. At some point the Dodgers 440 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:54,960 Speaker 1: will be sold and somebody else by the team, and 441 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,400 Speaker 1: likely not. But I an't want to enjoy this rob 442 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 1: as someone that follows the Dodgers, because I know this 443 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:02,439 Speaker 1: is not the way it's going to be, you know, 444 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,560 Speaker 1: forever and ever. This is only a temporary situation where 445 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,440 Speaker 1: they're spending all this money because at some point they're 446 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,399 Speaker 1: gonna do you do the books, the bookkeeping, and be like, hey, 447 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:14,200 Speaker 1: wait a minute, what are we doing here? So right? 448 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 1: I mean, if you tell baseball fans that the Dodgers 449 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 1: pay roll is to ninety million and the Yankees is 450 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:24,440 Speaker 1: two hundred, isn't that a little shocking? Come on, let's 451 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 1: just unch a little shock by the big difference. Yeah, well, 452 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:33,560 Speaker 1: they've Dodgers have been handing out massive contracts. I think 453 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,359 Speaker 1: if you visit Dodger Stadium, Rob, you could get twenty 454 00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:38,800 Speaker 1: million a year at least just by if you talk 455 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:43,400 Speaker 1: to me, and I would take it, Rob. I wanted 456 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,040 Speaker 1: to ask you, speaking of taking it, what's up with 457 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,879 Speaker 1: the Mets. I covered him and I've watched him over 458 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:52,840 Speaker 1: the last two years. But Kumar Rocker was a beast 459 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 1: for Vanderbilt. And for him to go on round number 460 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:58,840 Speaker 1: one to the New York Mets and then for them 461 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:00,960 Speaker 1: to pull the rip cord on on him because of 462 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 1: elbow concerns. Is that more on Rocker and him not 463 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:09,960 Speaker 1: disclosing information that's putting into his arm or do you 464 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 1: think that's on the Mets? And do you think they 465 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 1: did him dirty? You know what people are asking, and 466 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:19,159 Speaker 1: I think they just want to say the Mets are 467 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 1: penny pictures. But I don't. I don't believe that because 468 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:27,119 Speaker 1: if their owners, the owner has two or three billion dollars, right, 469 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,440 Speaker 1: they got an owner with money. There's no reason why 470 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 1: this guy is a is a dynamic picture. There's no 471 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:36,440 Speaker 1: way that they were hoping he's gonna be the next 472 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 1: White Gooden, you know what I mean, Like seriously of 473 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:42,879 Speaker 1: that caliber. We saw the guy picture complete game. Was 474 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,639 Speaker 1: it extralyting no hitter in the college world. I mean, dude, 475 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,480 Speaker 1: you can't be any better than that. But is his 476 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:52,639 Speaker 1: velocity did go down last year, and there's some concern 477 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 1: and and I think that you know, when you're gonna 478 00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 1: make a financial commitment, that's why you have doctors. I 479 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:02,359 Speaker 1: don't think it is over money. I just it's hard 480 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,320 Speaker 1: for me to believe that a guy that with that money. 481 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 1: They just gave Lindora a gazillion dollars. Okay, look so 482 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:15,880 Speaker 1: so it can't be over over six or ten million dollars. 483 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:19,240 Speaker 1: You just gave somebody three sixty, right, I just don't 484 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,959 Speaker 1: I don't buy that. I saw what the Angels did 485 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:26,719 Speaker 1: two years ago with Otani, and he had elbow concerns 486 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:32,639 Speaker 1: and the Angels didn't care. Yeah, but the difference is 487 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:36,200 Speaker 1: Otani if if the elbow wasn't issue, he could still 488 00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 1: hit not as a picture, you know what I'm saying, 489 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:42,520 Speaker 1: Like I hear you, but but you have to there 490 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,720 Speaker 1: had to be some issue. I don't believe they didn't 491 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:49,359 Speaker 1: sign him over money. I just that's just that's the 492 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:53,120 Speaker 1: guy you want, right, He's electric, he can sell tickets, 493 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:58,240 Speaker 1: he's he's he's all you're looking for, right, I just 494 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,440 Speaker 1: why would you do that? And then uh and then 495 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:05,720 Speaker 1: have a two or three billion dollar owner and then uh, 496 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,600 Speaker 1: you know, pull back on ten million dollars. I don't 497 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 1: believe that. And then I also say, you see, Scott 498 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:15,240 Speaker 1: Borrows came out after that, and of course he's the agent, 499 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 1: and he ripped Baseball and said that he actually brought 500 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,199 Speaker 1: up an interesting point that it's one of these these 501 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 1: situations where I the player doesn't sign Boris. His argument 502 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 1: is they need to The rule, he says, is unjust 503 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,000 Speaker 1: and all that, and that the like Rockers should have 504 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:34,880 Speaker 1: an opportunity to sign with another team. And there's there's 505 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,120 Speaker 1: no chance Baseball is gonna do that, right Rob, I mean, 506 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,640 Speaker 1: because then you just have to know who will not 507 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:41,800 Speaker 1: sign because they don't want to play for a team 508 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:44,160 Speaker 1: that drafts them, and then you know, wait and sign 509 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 1: with the team that they want to play for, right, right, 510 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:50,600 Speaker 1: then you're gonna have an issue absolutely. Otherwise, then don't 511 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:52,840 Speaker 1: need for a draft that there would be no need 512 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:55,920 Speaker 1: for a draft, right if that if that were the case, 513 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 1: and you could balk at the team and just say, well, 514 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,320 Speaker 1: I don't want to play there, or I'm injured, and 515 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you're healthy for the team 516 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:06,600 Speaker 1: you want to play for, Right So so yeah, I don't. 517 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 1: I don't think that that's going to happen or change 518 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 1: anytime soon. Yeah. Now, as far as you know right now, 519 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,440 Speaker 1: he's snapped. We're in early August, so you you've try 520 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,400 Speaker 1: You've seen more teams in person than I have this 521 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 1: this summer, so I've got now. I still believe the 522 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,560 Speaker 1: Dodgers will finish ahead of the Giants. They have. They've 523 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:28,320 Speaker 1: been wobbly, the Dodgers this year, even though they've got 524 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,960 Speaker 1: all that talent, if injuries, they have not performed up 525 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:32,880 Speaker 1: to my expectations. Evenly have a good record. I think 526 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:34,680 Speaker 1: they will catch the Giants, But if you look at 527 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,760 Speaker 1: the playoffs, the Podres have fallen off to the side here, 528 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,440 Speaker 1: even though they're still looking at a playoff spot in 529 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 1: the National League. I still say the Dodgers, and I 530 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:46,720 Speaker 1: think the way it's looking now in the American League, 531 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:49,080 Speaker 1: tell me if I'm crazy here, just it's the White 532 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,520 Speaker 1: Sox and everybody else I'm not buying. I know the 533 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:54,320 Speaker 1: Red Sox have a great record, but that's to me, 534 00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,400 Speaker 1: that's a smoking mirrors team, the Red Sox. So I 535 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:01,040 Speaker 1: think it's it's if it it, it's in the top teams. 536 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,120 Speaker 1: To me, it's the Dodgers in the White Sox in 537 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:05,760 Speaker 1: the in the World Series where I think just spot on. 538 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:07,560 Speaker 1: When it comes to the White Sox, I think by 539 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 1: far they're the best team. They loaded, they got a 540 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:13,240 Speaker 1: great team. I was against Tony LaRussa getting that job. 541 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 1: I thought that was talk about the good old boy network. 542 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:21,200 Speaker 1: I know, he's friends with the owner, he's retired, he's 543 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,200 Speaker 1: you know, I mean, you know, I thought this was 544 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:27,480 Speaker 1: gonna be a disaster because on opening day. You heard 545 00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:31,680 Speaker 1: what happened right on opening day at the ballpark? Yeah, 546 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 1: did not? Did you hear what happened with Tony? Know? Well, Tony, 547 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:36,960 Speaker 1: there was a couple of times in April and May 548 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,480 Speaker 1: where they were the guys that LaRusso is not gonna 549 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:41,280 Speaker 1: make it through the season. They were like, he's gonna 550 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 1: be out of here. He messed up opening day. Opening 551 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:50,560 Speaker 1: day when when the White Sox uh took the field, 552 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,760 Speaker 1: Tony LaRusso walked up to the top step of the 553 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 1: dugout and he yelled out, hey, you damn kids, get up, 554 00:30:56,800 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 1: my lord. Uh how it took me away to get there, 555 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:14,800 Speaker 1: but we got there. We got there. How great? Is uh? 556 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,720 Speaker 1: Is uh? The like Ryan Storf? He's so he was 557 00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:21,640 Speaker 1: so bitter all these years that he fired LaRussa and 558 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 1: let LaRussa go like and it's like the early eighties 559 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:26,840 Speaker 1: that it doesn't matter LaRussa at his age, he still 560 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,760 Speaker 1: wanted to hire LaRussa again. No matter what. LaRussa could 561 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,680 Speaker 1: do anything, and the owners got his back and he's 562 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:35,960 Speaker 1: going to continue as the obviously White Six have a 563 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:37,800 Speaker 1: good team. But it didn't matter like all these people 564 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,920 Speaker 1: were criticizing LaRussa and you know, Rob, as long as 565 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:45,200 Speaker 1: the boss likes you, that's all that matters, right, That's it, 566 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,120 Speaker 1: and that that is really that is the perfect example. 567 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,560 Speaker 1: I remember Larussia got busted for d u Y right 568 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:55,320 Speaker 1: before that they knew they vouched for him, right, they 569 00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:59,320 Speaker 1: act like they didn't care. Nowadays you can d u 570 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,640 Speaker 1: Y and stuff that that that that reflects negatively, you 571 00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 1: know what I mean, and it hurts people. But but 572 00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:08,640 Speaker 1: Tony seemed like, as long as the owner loves you 573 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:12,040 Speaker 1: and whatnot, he's going to be good. But uh, we'll see. 574 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:13,640 Speaker 1: I mean, they already had a good team. They made 575 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,080 Speaker 1: the playoffs last year. You remember they lost the aids 576 00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,040 Speaker 1: UM and I thought they were a good team last 577 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,480 Speaker 1: year and they've gotten better, so I expect them. I 578 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:24,720 Speaker 1: don't know. I'm sticking with and I know the Padres 579 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:27,160 Speaker 1: have had a lot of injuries and other stuff, But 580 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:30,520 Speaker 1: I say that the Dodgers don't catch the Giants. I 581 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,320 Speaker 1: said that the Dodgers and Padres meeting the one game 582 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:38,480 Speaker 1: wild Card, and the Padres beat the Dodgers, and the 583 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:42,480 Speaker 1: Padres beat the Giants ultimately because they get their pieces 584 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,200 Speaker 1: back and they get healthy again. And I'll go with 585 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:49,040 Speaker 1: the Padres and the White Sox well as a bold prediction. 586 00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:53,560 Speaker 1: Fernando Tatis is all banged up. He's got his shoulder problem, 587 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:56,680 Speaker 1: this problem. He's unbelievable. I know he is. He not 588 00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,680 Speaker 1: an incredible player, come on, though, he's fun to watch. 589 00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,200 Speaker 1: There's so many good players like you can look at. 590 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:05,280 Speaker 1: Uh in Fernando Tda Junior Vladimir Guerrero Junior with the 591 00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,720 Speaker 1: Blue Jays is awesome. That was a lot of there's 592 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:09,360 Speaker 1: a lot of good young players. Now, Rob, I know 593 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:11,720 Speaker 1: it's not sexy, but why do you think nobody's talking 594 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:13,840 Speaker 1: about Tampa Bay. I mean, they have one of the 595 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:16,200 Speaker 1: best run differentials in Major League Baseball. They don't have 596 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,000 Speaker 1: a starting pitcher with ten wins or more, but their 597 00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:23,360 Speaker 1: first in the American League East standings. Because because that's 598 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:27,720 Speaker 1: that's a bad franchise and a bad location, and baseball 599 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:30,520 Speaker 1: has gotten it wrong with Tampa Bay. You know, Tampa 600 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,560 Speaker 1: was great for spring training. They need they needed to 601 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,880 Speaker 1: have one team in Florida, not in Miami. And you 602 00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,280 Speaker 1: know Miami. You know, you know many football games I 603 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:43,280 Speaker 1: covered uh Lyon's Dolphins down in Miami where they couldn't 604 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,680 Speaker 1: sell out. I mean, I just can't like like people 605 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:49,440 Speaker 1: talk about Miami and Sports Town. I think it's awful. 606 00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:54,760 Speaker 1: Um but I I think, um, baseball should have had 607 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,000 Speaker 1: one team in Florida, and that team should have been 608 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,640 Speaker 1: in Orlando, should have been at Disney. And about this, 609 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,479 Speaker 1: like when all those people, you know, you make your 610 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:06,320 Speaker 1: trip to Disney for four days or whatever, for a 611 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:08,600 Speaker 1: week with the kids, one of those or two of 612 00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:10,759 Speaker 1: those nights would be a baseball game. You would have 613 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,799 Speaker 1: and people would could could figure out one of my 614 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:15,799 Speaker 1: team playing down there, Do you know what I mean 615 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,600 Speaker 1: when you with your trip? Yeah, I think that would 616 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:20,759 Speaker 1: have been the best thing. I don't know what they 617 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,239 Speaker 1: were thinking. It's it's also it's like Vegas right with 618 00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:25,880 Speaker 1: it's a destined people go to now Raider game that 619 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,200 Speaker 1: they will this year once the crowds are allowed back 620 00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,879 Speaker 1: in the Yeah, I don't even think the Raiders gonna 621 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,759 Speaker 1: have a home field to so to speak, because of 622 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:37,680 Speaker 1: all the people like if right, if your team is 623 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:41,640 Speaker 1: gonna be there, you'll scalp the tickets, right and people 624 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:44,399 Speaker 1: who own it will will sell them. It's like being 625 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,080 Speaker 1: at a Charger game. You know it's gonna be bad 626 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,520 Speaker 1: at the chart now can you rob the Charges? And 627 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:51,560 Speaker 1: they've got fans this year and they played in this 628 00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:54,399 Speaker 1: little soccer stadium and there were you know, there's a few, 629 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,279 Speaker 1: you know a few few seats compared to it, they're 630 00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:58,080 Speaker 1: gonna have six how many seats are at that stadium 631 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:03,320 Speaker 1: in Inglewood, sixt it's a humongous. They got the super 632 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:06,880 Speaker 1: Bowl there and it's gonna be Arrowhead Stadium West Like 633 00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,439 Speaker 1: it's gonna be even worse than it was before. It's 634 00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:12,759 Speaker 1: it's bad. No, I agree, And it's a beautiful place 635 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,680 Speaker 1: from what I see, and I can't wait. But you know, 636 00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:17,759 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go online and get me a section, I 637 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:22,279 Speaker 1: mean a seat. Uh capacity seventy thousand before the super Bowl. 638 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,400 Speaker 1: They're gonna have it up to a hundred thousand. Wow. 639 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:29,960 Speaker 1: So it's beautiful thousand people. Now the big question is 640 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:31,919 Speaker 1: will I be allowed to go to radio road? Rob. 641 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,120 Speaker 1: I've never been allowed at radio road for a Super Bowl. 642 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:39,880 Speaker 1: Never been allowed, well, I never never. Never. They've always 643 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:41,799 Speaker 1: said I had to hold down the fort, you know, 644 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,359 Speaker 1: and and do the overnight back here. But uh, I 645 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,279 Speaker 1: gotta go this year. It's in it's in l A 646 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:49,600 Speaker 1: radio row. I gotta go l A. Yeah, you're going. 647 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:54,160 Speaker 1: You're going. Absolutely the last time, the last time we were, 648 00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:57,080 Speaker 1: and we were we in Miami, Chris and I what 649 00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:00,720 Speaker 1: a shocker, Will arguing on the air and the people 650 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,960 Speaker 1: from I don't know serious X and put up a 651 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,560 Speaker 1: billboard message saying, hey Chris and Rob, keep it down 652 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:11,600 Speaker 1: over there because we are about something the radio road 653 00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:15,120 Speaker 1: everybody heard of. You're the odd couple was supposed to do. 654 00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:20,520 Speaker 1: That's part of the deal exactly, exactly. You know that, Rob, 655 00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:23,080 Speaker 1: as we wrapped this thing up. I know you're doing 656 00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:26,520 Speaker 1: Inside the Parker. Um, you're a weekly podcast and you 657 00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:30,279 Speaker 1: got to MLB brow. How's that going for you? It's 658 00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:33,200 Speaker 1: going really well. It really is get a chance to 659 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:37,000 Speaker 1: take a look. We cover black and brown major league ers, 660 00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:39,840 Speaker 1: and you know, we just try to get people another 661 00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:43,040 Speaker 1: look at the players who they are, uh you know, 662 00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:46,400 Speaker 1: where they're from, what they're into, you know. So we 663 00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:50,160 Speaker 1: don't cover games, we cover just the black and brown players. 664 00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:54,080 Speaker 1: And the reception has been great, UM, and the the 665 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,480 Speaker 1: site is growing every day. I'm really proud of it, 666 00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:59,400 Speaker 1: and we're developing people. We we we have one of 667 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:03,440 Speaker 1: our first interns, um. She started We only started to 668 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:07,200 Speaker 1: site April one, and she graduated from college, intern with 669 00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:08,960 Speaker 1: us for a couple of months and already got her 670 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,839 Speaker 1: first full time job. So that's the kind of stuff 671 00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:13,400 Speaker 1: I'm proud of, you know what I mean that I 672 00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:17,640 Speaker 1: can help develop future black and brown baseball writers as 673 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,759 Speaker 1: well as got some of that at USC to right. 674 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:26,320 Speaker 1: That's right, Professor, Yah, Yeah, that's great. I love teaching, 675 00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:29,360 Speaker 1: I really do. USC has been a great experience, so 676 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:32,279 Speaker 1: I'm I'm appreciative all right, I know, we gotta go 677 00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:37,680 Speaker 1: Robert quickly. Here. Lebron the other day complaining about the criticism. 678 00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:41,000 Speaker 1: I can't. I mean, I know this is just t ball. 679 00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:42,600 Speaker 1: It's up for you here, but I mean, what is 680 00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,439 Speaker 1: Lebron doing? Serious? I mean, the Lakers have had a season. 681 00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,080 Speaker 1: What are they doing? But but he made it like 682 00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,759 Speaker 1: people are going out of their way because they think 683 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,319 Speaker 1: the team's old. I mean, like, like, I just don't 684 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,880 Speaker 1: even get it. Like, and if you're Lebron, what do 685 00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,400 Speaker 1: you care? So what if somebody didn't think it's a 686 00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:01,759 Speaker 1: good rosh for a good team. I don't know why 687 00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,719 Speaker 1: he's so bent out of shape. Nobody took aim at 688 00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:07,520 Speaker 1: him personally. Dude, you just hire I mean, you just 689 00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:10,200 Speaker 1: filled the roster with five or six guys thirty five 690 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:14,440 Speaker 1: or older. What NB eight? What NBA team is winning 691 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:17,839 Speaker 1: a championship that way? I just you can't keep young 692 00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:23,800 Speaker 1: guys healthy. Can you look at young all the injury 693 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,279 Speaker 1: and you really fully expect that this team is going 694 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:27,880 Speaker 1: to be healthy come the end of the season, to 695 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,960 Speaker 1: come on, this is not possible. Yeah. My theory is 696 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,439 Speaker 1: the reason he's so upset is because it's personal, because 697 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,640 Speaker 1: he's actually he's admitting by complaining that he's the one 698 00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:39,640 Speaker 1: picking the players, and so that's all right, he's the 699 00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:42,080 Speaker 1: general manager, right yeah, yeah, And so this is a 700 00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:45,200 Speaker 1: personal attack at him because he's the guy that wanted 701 00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:47,920 Speaker 1: to play with Westbrook and Carmelo Anthony and wanted these 702 00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:51,239 Speaker 1: guys to join him in anyway. I know, you gotta go. Rob. 703 00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:53,560 Speaker 1: We love you, man, You're the best the odd couple 704 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:55,880 Speaker 1: obviously for our brother on Fox Sports Radio. There a 705 00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:59,920 Speaker 1: teammate on Fox Sports Radio. And we will we can. 706 00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:01,680 Speaker 1: We gotta have a meal at some point here too. 707 00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:03,799 Speaker 1: We gotta get together. Yeah, now I'm ready for that, 708 00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,799 Speaker 1: matter of fact, definitely. And Ben Man, tell your wife, 709 00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,439 Speaker 1: I said. Aaron tell Us said, hello, And I hope 710 00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,960 Speaker 1: that we get all get together soon. Okay, all right, 711 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:13,839 Speaker 1: well we'll make it happy, all right, Thank you, Rob? 712 00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,680 Speaker 1: All right, all right, miss a gascon. You guys all right, 713 00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:19,320 Speaker 1: take care. Thanks for