Hour 3 –Childhood Trauma, Clayton Kershaw

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Speaker 3: And Seaton was telling.

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Speaker 2: Us he's going to be in Indianapolis, He's going to be in Saint Louis, he's going to be in Denver, then he goes to Vegas. We're going to be doing a couple of shows in Vegas Formula one and we're talking about breakfast places. And then as I'm walking back in to sit down to get ready to start the final hour seeing and goes, man, I'm gonna try to sneak in a Saint Elmo's in Indianapolis had the shrimp cocktail.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if I'd like it, but I had.

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Speaker 2: If I'm in there and I smell it, that horse radish. You got to be ready for that because it'll blow your hairpiece off.

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Speaker 3: I guess.

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Speaker 4: See.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it is a the horse the cocktail sauce. There is a like proper punch in the face.

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Speaker 2: My nose started running and just thinking about that because when we went in there for the Super Bowl and we were sitting there and I went and I like horse radis, and I went, wow, this is powerful.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: See, it's one of those weird things too, where like you eat it, it punches you square in the face and you're like, oh my god, wa and I'm like, I think I want to do that again. And then you run through your entire little dish of shrimp cocktail and it is a punch in the face. It surprises you somehow every single time, even though you're ready for it, but man, is it good?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Poly the Colts, now that the NFL outlawed smelling salts, the culture have Saint Elmo's sauce on the sidelines, and you know, the linebacker wants to go in. He just has a big thing a dip.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, but it you know, it's such a legendary restaurant. But still everybody talks about the shrimp cocktail. And I'm like, but then I got there, and then I go, I gotta do it. I gotta do it. There's certain things that you do when you get to certain places where you may not want to do it, but you're there and you go, all right, I'll do it. And that's one of those where Saint Elmo's having that cocktail.

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Speaker 3: Saw.

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Speaker 6: Yes, Paul, there's a lot of roadside places when you drive around America. There's one and a big german our guy has been there. I've been there as well, called the Big Texan Steak Ranch. It's an Amarillo, Texas and it's right off I forty Like you could throw a baseball to it and it looks just big, huge, and they had like this seventy two ounce steak and you sit at a table and people gather around you and if you you win. I don't know what you win, but it's it's everything you want in a roadside kitschy place.

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Speaker 2: But is that you finish the steak then you get it for free. I don't think it's free.

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Speaker 6: But you go on like a wall of fame, get like a like gear and stuff like that. The bathroom, the the urinals and stuff like that. They're cut out in the shape of Texas, like where you wash your hands. They're the marbles cut out in the state of shape of Texas.

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Speaker 3: Very cool and be uncomfortable to sit on the toilet though, I think if it's cut out, but you'd be proud thanks like Texas. Yes, Todd, that sounds like a good time.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure this audience will have places where you know if you go to those places that it's an experience, not necessarily a positive experience, but it's an experience there, Yes, Mormon.

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Speaker 7: That's like south of the Border in South Carolina. I don't know if it's a great experience, but it's an experience. It's just not restaurants. But you guys, ever been south of the Border. No, it's in South Carolina.

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Speaker 6: I mean it is.

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Speaker 7: I can't even explain this place. It's like Peewee's Big Adventure come to life. You guys never been to. It's right off the highway. It's it's South Carolina.

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Speaker 3: So it's an amusement park.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't even know what to call it.

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Speaker 6: I'm looking at now. It's like a motor inn from the sixties. It's very kitchy, like spaceships on the Okay, it looks like something out of a you know, Peewee's movie, exactly what he's saying.

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Speaker 2: But I like, what is it Sesame Street or Sesame Park in Pennsylvania Hershey's Park.

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Speaker 3: Is that what it is?

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Speaker 8: I thought of.

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Speaker 3: There's like a Sesame.

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Speaker 5: Place, Sesame place in Hershey Park. Yeah, there's I think they're separate. Oh they are, Okay, I'm not sure. Maybe they're together. I'm not sure, but they are two different places, even if they are the same.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I remember taking the family there and you're like floating down these log flumes or something, and I'm like, there's a whole lot of kids here. I don't know if I want to be wading into the water here and just saying yeah, yes, Tom.

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Speaker 9: Are you a big giant chocolate bar guy, or were you, as a kid see one of those giant things that you would get like at Hershey Park, Todd.

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Speaker 3: You know my childhood, we couldn't had the.

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Speaker 9: One thin piece of Bolognay. Yeah, all the more reason why, you know, if you had an opportunity to dive into a big chocolate bar.

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Speaker 3: So you're rubbing it in.

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Speaker 9: No, I'm saying that I would have really impressed kids if you had like a big crackle or mister goodbar, which you're usually a little miniatures, and you got like some life size crackle. That would be fun.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I didn't go to the Hrshey plant. There's a tour there, but I think my kids did you know? It's like, nah, I'm good, Yes, Marv, is.

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Speaker 7: He giving you PTSD all over again? I didn't mean to no, Like, do you have a big Hershey chocolate bar? You're like, I didn't have chocolate as a kid.

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Speaker 3: No, you could still go back.

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Speaker 9: There even if it wasn't in your you know, youthful days. You go back there. You're a grandparent. Now take the grandchild and go experience all those things that you weren't able to do.

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Speaker 2: You're right, though, you try to make up for that yu as you get older, the things that you didn't have, but you want to make sure your kids say once again, I have a one of my older brothers is five nine, five ten, and so at the time I was six three, So I was getting hand me downs, but I couldn't fit into anything. You know, you always get your brother's stuff, and I and i'd have I went to what is called a Sadie Hawkins dance, and that's where the girl asked the guy. And I looked at the picture the other day and I swear to god, I had capri pants on before they were capri pants, and these were my brother's pants, and it looks it was sad and this is Jenny Batchy like this is this is the big time.

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Speaker 3: You know, she's asking me to dance. You know, all of a sudden, I show she had to.

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Speaker 2: Maybe she didn't think anything, but her parents probably thought, oh my god, look at this guy. And I had a shirt that was my brother's but it was a great looking shirt, but it came down just over my elbows. It's a long sleeve shirt. I walk in and you know, they're like, I look like a scarecrow. It's like pants are up high, shirt didn't fit.

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Speaker 3: See what you did, Todd. I apologize.

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Speaker 9: This was not supposed to be something that's gonna make you uncomfortable. But I do think you should take grandchildren to places like sessment place on herstry Punk.

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Speaker 2: No, I want their parents to take them there, do not. I do not those days of you know, you're only as happy as your unhappiest child, and somebody was always crying. When you have four kids, somebody was always crying. You know, you could have three they're having a great time, and then you have one that's miserable.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Point, But I thought the great part about being a grandparent is that it's one kid you're taking care of with your wife, and at the end of the day you give it back. It's like a rental car. You can treat it how you want, you have to clean up when you're done, give it back to hurts.

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Speaker 2: They do inspect the child though, when you give them back. I know my rental car, you know if there's a dent or a scratch, you know they're okay with that.

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Speaker 6: You prepay that coverage, built the tank.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, it is great to give the kids back, but you know, they're they're like, what six months in two and a half years, so it's a little more.

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Speaker 3: It's like when you.

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Speaker 2: If you're a grandparent and you look back and you go, how did you have the energy to do this? Because my wife says the same thing, you know, having four kids, and I was working second shift, and she goes, I don't know how I had the energy. I said, well, you were young, you didn't know any better, and they were your kids, so you have to you have no choice. Now it's like, oh my god, I try to keep up with them.

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Speaker 7: Yes, Morvin, this is the thing about grandparents, and I'm going through this with my son and my mom. The woman that my son knows this is not the woman that raised me. I don't know who this woman is. Wait, what do you You made him chicken at nine o'clock at night? Well, he said he was hungry. You told me to drink my spent once. Who is this lady? I was like, Lorenzo, this is a different Bridget than the one.

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Speaker 3: I think you need to let it go too. I think you need to let it go. I think everyone's got some childhood trauma somewhere. Yeah, yeah. I still remember my mom going out and cutting off a limb you know of yours? No, no, no, I'm sorry, that's stuff.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I went out to the tree and cut off like you know, it was a fresh what is it switch? Yes, and we knew. We knew we're in trouble when mom went out and got that. And you know what, you think back on what you did. I threw a stick and a guy was throwing dirt clods at me. I threw a stick. It went into his back wheel of his bike and he flipped over and he landed on his head.

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Speaker 6: You're defending yourself.

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Speaker 10: Yes.

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Speaker 2: I got home and I my mom goes upstairs. Now I knew that meant dad. I had to wait. I had to wait four hours for my dad to come home. Didn't And you know what, I was like, Mom, why don't you just do it? She goes, No, I told your father, and uh he knarked you out. Yeah that's why I to go up to the room. And it was trouble after that. Yeah, but I do. I do have great admiration for my two older brothers because when we got in trouble, my two older brothers would take the blows. So then my dad would be tired by the time he got to me. And I was like, you know, when you got spanked, and Mike and Bill took the blows and then they got to me, and then I you know, I think he eased off the accelerator.

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Speaker 6: A couple of batters protecting you to line up. They take some pictures off the picture, so he's worn out.

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Speaker 2: Any who, welcome to the program. I don't know how we got there. No, I think it was breakfast and Saint Elmo's that led us to getting spanked. Of course, God, if you chart this, how could this possibly be scripted? I'm maybe it should be, but it's not all right Seaton Pole. Question for the final hour of the program.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we got a couple of them up there right now. Which quarterback would you rather have someone feels particularly mean spirited? Which quarterback would you rather have? Tua or Kyler? Right now, sixty six percent of the audience are saying Kyler Yeah. And then which sport do you need to be the toughest to play? Your options are football, hockey, rugby, and then other. Right now, hockey is leading has about twice as many votes as rugby, which has about twice as many votes as football.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we were doing more mainstream, but yes, rugby is that's a brutal sport as well.

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Speaker 5: Wrestlers are very upset, loll that football made the list and not wrestling. I'm sorry, Pat, but you that the contact in football is different.

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Speaker 2: It's just you and somebody else wrestling. I mean it's it's different. I mean, okay, you get pulled in a lot of directions, all right, football, football.

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Speaker 3: They hurt you.

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Speaker 5: I'm not saying I want to fight a wrestler, no, no, no, no, but no, the contact in the sports is just I would.

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Speaker 3: Rather fight a football player than a wrestler, right.

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Speaker 10: Uh.

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Speaker 3: Dane in Texas, Hi, Dane, what's on your mind today?

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Speaker 8: Good morning, Dan?

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Speaker 3: How are you doing great?

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Speaker 8: Well? When you were talking about the world's toughest athletes, I think somebody already stole my thunder and said professional bull riding Tour. But uh, the one that did played football and rodeo was I think you remember him, Walt Garrison.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just to pin between your cheek and gum exactly.

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Speaker 8: Well he I was watching a special on him and he said, rodeo cowboying is the hardest thing you can do, and he said that the toughest man you ever met was Larry Mayhew.

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Speaker 3: Well, Larry's legend.

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Speaker 2: But if you're talking about being a rodeo clown as opposed to a rodeo a professional bull writer, I mean you got to be crazy to do both. But if I'm a bull writer, what's my goal? Eight seconds?

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Speaker 3: That's it. Now, when you get thrown, that's when you know the damage happens. But being a rodeo.

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Speaker 2: Clown, I unless my dad did it, and then his dad did it, and then my brothers did it.

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Speaker 3: Like that's crazy.

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Speaker 11: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Can imagine walking up to your guidance counselor, like law.

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Speaker 3: Engineering, accounting, I'm thinking rodeo clown.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm thinking bull riding.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: You know, I think I was probably called a clown when I was in high school by my guidance counselor. I'm over him saying, uh, yeah, I'm going to go to college. And he goes, why And I said, doesn't everybody go to college? He goes college isn't for everybody?

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: See, my high school guidance counselor sat me down and said, so are you even thinking about college? Are you just going to work?

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Speaker 3: For the city. Oh that's tough.

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Speaker 6: I mean, that's the fall job.

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Speaker 8: All right.

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Speaker 5: Well, I was thinking about college.

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Speaker 6: But maybe he was right. See I think he was I think he was right. Yes, bully, I went into my guidance counselor. He looks at my report card, he looks at my list of schools and there's a long pause. He goes, you should pair this down. That's all I said, you should pare this down.

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Speaker 2: Let's take a break here. I don't know what we just accomplished there, but hopefully we entertained you a little bit. Uh, we'll come back. Clayton Kershaw will join us. Recently retired Clayton Kershaw will join us. More of your phone calls as well. On this Thursday. We're back after this.

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Speaker 2: If Lebron wasn't coming back to the Lakers, could Luca average forty? And would that be a good thing if he averaged forty for the Lakers, Because in Lebron's absence, Luca is averaging forty eleven rebounds and nine assists. The Lakers are seven and two. But I don't know if you can keep up forty points at nine. He has the ball constantly, so you know you're gonna get points and assists from him. But if you didn't have a Lebron, do you think he could average? Because we've had guys average thirty five? Could he average forty?

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Speaker 7: Marvin No, I think it's just too much to average forty.

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Speaker 3: I think he can do.

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Speaker 7: Like you said, I think he can do thirty five, maybe thirty six.

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Speaker 2: Who who's got the highest average? Was it Mike at thirty six in a season?

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Speaker 3: No? Because that's wild at fifty, I.

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Speaker 6: Said, modern day, let's say since nineteen seventy five, I think Jordan had thirty seven point one one year.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I thought it was thirty six point one, but maybe it is thirty seven point one.

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Speaker 8: Checking.

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Speaker 2: But the energy it takes to do that, I don't care if you're high school or your college. It's certainly the NBA. The energy every night that you have to go out and get that, and everybody knows that they have to stop you. That's what makes it incredible when you see these guys and everybody's gearing up to stop you.

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Speaker 6: Yes, Paul Jordan. It was his third year in the league. He was twenty three years old. He avers thirty six seven point one. He took twenty eight shots per game, and only one of those shots was a three. He averaged less than one to three attempted per game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I wonder how much you know, three point shooting he would do because he wasn't a deep shooter, but he was a mid range jumper. He would probably have to expand. Knowing Jordan, he would want to expand, you know, his perimeter play and be out there shooting.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Yes, Marvin.

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Speaker 7: That same season he won Defensive Player of the Year. This is the greatest player ever. That's the greatest season ever nineteen eighty. Michael Jordan is the best player who ever lived.

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Speaker 2: Well, okay, modern Wilt's the greatest. If you look at numbers, Wilt's numbers are Babe Ruthian. But we we we acknowledged Babe ruth. We don't acknowledge wilts numbers because that's where we go. He's playing against a bunch of plumbers and electricians, or at least JJ Reddick was say that, yes.

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Speaker 6: It would be like Opatani won the MVP for hitting in the Cy Young for pitching. That would be what it's akin to.

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Speaker 3: Mm hmm.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of pitching, Clayton Kershaw, the recently retired three time Cy Young winner and a future Hall of Famer. We spoke to him yesterday and the first question I asked was, how's retirement.

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Speaker 4: Day one? Pretty good? Yeah, so far, so good.

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Speaker 2: You know what's gonna happen though, You know how your body adapts to certain times of the year. Oh yeah, you know, come February, you're gonna be bringing the kids outside, You're gonna get loose, you're in a long tossing and all of that. So get ready for that because you're gonna face that. Plus everybody's gonna be out of the house and you're gonna be like, what am I doing?

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Speaker 14: Yeah, everybody says, there are a lot of guys that I talked to you said, opening day is the day where you're like, man, I'm not there. You know, it's a weird. So I Opening Day is gonna be a weird one. But to be fair, I haven't been it's spring training in a couple of years.

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Speaker 4: I've kind of.

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Speaker 14: Planned some surgeries pretty well, so kind of miss spring training, So that'll be that won't be too new for me.

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Speaker 3: What was this World Series like as opposed to the other ones?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean last.

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Speaker 14: Year was really cool because we got the parade, you know, I think, you know, after the COVID World Series not getting to do the parade or anything, and then getting to do that last year. It was kind of a celebration of almost two world series, you know, and so that that was awesome. But for me personally to be a part of this one more than I was last year and to get to see you know, just to feel feel a little bit more a part of it, and then the parade this year was insane. It was it was so much bigger, so much longer, so many people, and that's just really special. You know, your last one to get to kind of celebrate with the fans and you know, tell them thank you, tell them how much they you know, supported us and our team and me personally for so long.

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Speaker 4: And it was just so fun. Man, it was so cool.

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Speaker 2: The importance of having your kids at an age where they can appreciate seeing dad out there.

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Speaker 3: How important was that to you?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm thankful for that.

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Speaker 10: You know.

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Speaker 14: My oldest three I think will definitely, I don't know, do you remember stuff when you're five?

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Speaker 4: I think you do?

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Speaker 14: Yeah, my my, it's close. But at least my oldest too, I think, had a blast. You know, my oldest son, Charlie got to be in the dugout a lot this year, got to be in the you know, shag BP do all the stuff, and so he was super invested in it this year. And I'm thankful that will remember me that I had a job.

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Speaker 4: At some point.

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Speaker 14: You know, it'll be good. It was just it was so fun and memorable. And I mean, my wife rock stars. She's pregnant right now and traveling from Toronto to Dallas and school back to La to Toronto I mean, just doing it all. So it was It's good to be home and good to get to celebrate with the fans too.

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Speaker 2: Have you seen the video of your wife in the stands when you're on the mound.

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Speaker 14: Oh my god, she's not a reliever wife. Then she's a starter wife. That's just that's just too much stress to not know when you're coming in and to get to do all that. But yeah, I think she was. She was feeling it, uh to say the least.

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Speaker 3: Okay, but are you nervous in that moment?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I mean for sure. I think I think we all are.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you allow yourself to get like you have to play a mind game that I got to be confident. I can't have any doubt or be nervous.

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Speaker 4: I think you have both, though I think it's not doubt, like you're you're confident you can do your job.

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Speaker 14: But you know, warming up in the pen, hearing that phone ring kind of all new stuff for me. It's like that phone rings, it's like an adrenaline pump, you know, And so you know, all that running in, trying to feel your legs and trying to execute pitches and all that, you know, at the end of the day, I'm just so glad I got that out because that was the last time I ever pitched, and you know, it could have gone sideways.

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Speaker 4: So I'm just glad.

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Speaker 14: I'm just glad I got that last out, and I thought it was going to be a bigger out, but we end up playing like seven more.

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Speaker 4: Innings, you know, so I think, uh, it's just it was.

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Speaker 14: A crazy game. And like I said last time, I Dodger stated to pitch it was awesome.

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Speaker 2: Dave Roberts said that you were probably coming in in game seven.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, So I had no idea there was one out.

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Speaker 14: So when Kirk grounded into that double play, I thought I was coming in the game like tie game, Uh, extra innings. I'm pitching with two outs, and I Lefty up to bat, and then Bardo, our bullpen coach, just said, hey, we just want to you know, I had.

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Speaker 4: No idea, no idea.

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Speaker 3: That was amazing though, So he's a delayed reaction.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, I just I didn't believe at first, and then yeah, I turned around, saw everybody out there and ran.

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Speaker 4: Out there and got to celebrate again. Man, just amazing.

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Speaker 2: Talking to the Dodgers, Clayton Kershaw no the former Dodger Clayton Kershaw or Dodger unemployed.

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Speaker 3: What are you going to do the rest of your life?

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Speaker 4: I don't know, man.

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Speaker 14: You know, I've got a lot of kids, so obviously I'll do that for a while. And I love baseball, I do. I love baseball. I have a passion for it. I feel like I can help in some regard in some way, but I have no idea what that looks like. I obviously don't, you know, feel the need or want to travel too much right now. So you know, there's some cush gigs out there, you know, some special assistant jobs and different things like that that if the Dodgers are gracious enough to let me do that at some point, I think I'd definitely be interested in that. But you know, we have a baby coming in December, and everybody says I have to figure out how to play golf, so.

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Speaker 4: Maybe I'll try that.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I really don't have any idea. It's kind of nice, though, the no plan plan.

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Speaker 2: It's gotta be weird, though. You're watching the ninth inning from the bullpen. Yeah, yeah, so you don't even have comfort, you don't have company, it's just you and the bullpen catcher.

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Speaker 3: I'm guessing.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean, you know, there's a few guys, a few of us left down there. But hey, what an amazing what Yama did. I mean, that was I don't think I don't know if you'll ever see that again in baseball. It is like a guy that pitched Game six come in and not just get one or two outs, but go too and I think it was two and two thirds or something. So it just just incredible, superhuman stuff from Yama. And there's a lot of guys that went out of their comfort zones for us to win this World Series.

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Speaker 4: And I think that's what makes the Dodgers so special.

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Speaker 8: Man.

00:24:39
Speaker 14: A lot of superstars, obviously, but a lot of guys willing to go above and beyond to help us.

00:24:43
Speaker 4: Which is really cool.

00:24:45
Speaker 2: Yamamoto, I said this to your manager, former manager. He reminded me of Pedro Martinez, similar size. Yeah, and just feels like he can throw every single day.

00:24:56
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:24:56
Speaker 14: I mean I cannot believe what he did and how I mean, I don't know how he felt the next day, but for him to do that, man, just like and he's you know, he's been on the Japanese schedule, you know, coming over from Japan, and then even this year, you know, Doc protected him a lot, you know, basically pitching on a weak rest for six days the whole time. So for him with no days to go out there and do it, I'm thankful for Y'ama.

00:25:22
Speaker 4: He got me one more World Series. So thank you Yama. It was amazing.

00:25:25
Speaker 3: Did you ever pitch to Otani? Yeah with the Angels.

00:25:31
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:25:31
Speaker 14: Check the numbers. Damn check the numbers. I never gave up a hit to show me and I will have that for the rest of my life. I think he was like, oh, for ten or eleven or something.

00:25:40
Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah, yeah, you don't rub that in, do you.

00:25:45
Speaker 4: I haven't told him yet. I didn't know how he would take it.

00:25:47
Speaker 2: But I got the numbers. He's oer for eleven with four strikeouts.

00:25:53
Speaker 4: Yeah it feels good.

00:25:54
Speaker 3: He owned the greatest player in the history of the sport.

00:25:58
Speaker 4: Yeah it feels great. I'll take that all day.

00:26:01
Speaker 2: Did anybody ever ask you how to pitch him knowing your success?

00:26:06
Speaker 4: I mean guys asked me on our team.

00:26:07
Speaker 14: Obviously, I would never say anything to anybody else, but I think I just you can't throw middle speed pitches, and unfortunately, now that's all I throw is middle speed.

00:26:17
Speaker 4: I don't know if that would very well now.

00:26:19
Speaker 14: But man, those like the slider change up mid eighties, upper eighties, I don't care how good it is. I don't feel confident throwing that stuff. So you gotta throw really hard or throw soft.

00:26:30
Speaker 2: Like okay, but at what point do you know, I can't do this. I can't fool people like I can't be Clayton Kershel anymore.

00:26:39
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think over the course of this season, I really started to feel it more like I was able to pitch okay, you know, and I had a decent season, which I'm super thankful for, and I was healthy for it. But you know, sometimes you look up there and I was.

00:26:53
Speaker 14: Throwing you know, eighty seven eighty eight mile an hour fastballs, and I felt healthy, felt completely healthy, and you know, I just it just felt like it was the right time, Like this was not gonna work for that much longer. And so in the day and age that we have now of velocity, like even ninety one ninety two is not potentially enough, Like you can get away with it as a starter if you know what you're doing. But it just didn't really feel like I had I had enough in the tank to do it for one more year. And you know, Ellena, even going into the season where like, hey, this kind of feels like the last one.

00:27:29
Speaker 4: And so.

00:27:31
Speaker 14: You know, this last month, knowing that it was over and getting to do this the way it was, just couldn't write a better script.

00:27:36
Speaker 4: Man, It's unbelievable.

00:27:38
Speaker 2: If you were going to name your soon to be born baby after one of your teammates, former teammates, who would it be.

00:27:44
Speaker 14: Well, I'm having a girl, but if I was having a boy, I guess the question is who do I like the most man?

00:27:56
Speaker 4: Right now? Maybe Yoshinobu, Maybe.

00:28:02
Speaker 3: Just Yoshi?

00:28:04
Speaker 14: Right, yeah, yeah, you go Yoshi. I was a big Mario Kart fan growing up. You go Yoshi.

00:28:09
Speaker 2: Hey, congratulations, And I still go back. I get people during COVID when you were in your office and you were showing how you grip. I mean you were our first zoom guest, and when you showed us all of your pitches. I still have people saying how much they appreciated that and learned from that. And I always go back to that, because do you have a baseball by you here?

00:28:34
Speaker 4: Yeah, give me fifteen seconds. Oh wait, nope, I got one, got it.

00:28:38
Speaker 2: Okay, give me the grip of your last pitch as a major leaguer.

00:28:43
Speaker 4: All right, I was a slider.

00:28:44
Speaker 14: I threw all sliders because basically my fastball on the slider are the same pitch.

00:28:48
Speaker 4: So I just.

00:28:50
Speaker 14: So I just kind of did this as like a forcing grip, but I just get the top.

00:28:55
Speaker 4: I think this is like a I think he opened beer cans with this.

00:29:00
Speaker 3: You might be using that a lot, Yeah, I might.

00:29:03
Speaker 14: I just kind of angle my fingers so it's it's literally like a fastball with a slight angle of the fingers. And yeah, I threw that slider the most of any pitch for the last few years and.

00:29:16
Speaker 4: Save my career. Got to stick around a little longer.

00:29:19
Speaker 2: Well, congrats, congrats with the baby coming up and in retirement, we appreciate your time, Clayton.

00:29:24
Speaker 4: Thanks then always falling man, I appreciate.

00:29:26
Speaker 2: It, Clayton Kershaw. Imagine retiring at age thirty seven. Here I am sixty nine years of age and kind of you know, trying to work, shopping, trying to figure it out. But yeah, thirty seven, and he realizes, you know what, he did before at a very high level. You can't do anymore. You can't fool him anymore. And when your slider is the same speed as your fastball, you know you're in trouble because you need to have a little bit of that separation, because if you're going to deliver, you're fastball and slider and it's all going to look the same, but it's going to be you know, five seven miles an hour slower with your slider. You know, that's that's what makes you great. And then you bring that curveball in there as well, but you know, not throwing hard. And he knew it and that's why he was coming in.

00:30:19
Speaker 9: Yes, Tod, if you were able to retire before the age of forty or for the whole room, what would you immediately do with that? To be that young and to kind of not have to worry about money and you're just do whatever.

00:30:29
Speaker 3: But you have to retire, right, So you're saying that you have to retire.

00:30:35
Speaker 9: Yeah, so thirty seven and you're financially able to do that, but you're done, and now you've got the whole rest of your life and you're not working anymore.

00:30:41
Speaker 3: You're retired. I'd be miserable. I'd be miserable.

00:30:45
Speaker 2: And you know these guys, so how much of his life has been holding that baseball. Let's say he started at six and he's thirty, so thirty one years, thirty one of his it's thirty seven years. He's a baseball player, and now you're a former baseball player. And it's all about its routine. With these athletes, especially a pitcher, you know, this is what I do on this day, this is what they're doing this day. Then it's this day. Then I get ready to pitch, and then I started all over again. That routine is what you love. It's like me coming to work. It's Monday through Friday. It's up at a certain time. It's in here, what we do before the show, what we do after the show. It's the routine of that that you miss.

00:31:31
Speaker 6: Yeah, Paulin, I think baseball would be the toughest sport to retire from because in baseball, you get to go to the ballpark every day home away. You're either sitting there watching the game, get ready to bet bat. You're not sitting in meetings and practicing. The other sports seem like more of a grind, like football, but baseball you get to go to a ballpark and be outside generally almost every day. That would be impossible to replace.

00:31:53
Speaker 2: And you get to if you're a pitcher, starting pitcher, you get to sit there for four days. You just watch baseball.

00:31:59
Speaker 5: It's long today.

00:32:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's see George and Arizona. Hi, George, what's on your mind today?

00:32:12
Speaker 12: Oh?

00:32:13
Speaker 15: Dangs morning? And then that's things to taking my call. I appreciate it. Yeah. I want to talk about Kyler Murray because I'm here in Arizona and we get to see him all the time. But I would take him over to him for a couple of reasons. Number one, he's more mobile than Tua. And you know, I went back and I looked at his years at Oklahoma and one of the advantages he had then he's throwing the ball to ceedee lamb.

00:32:38
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yes, yes yeah.

00:32:41
Speaker 2: If you're playing at a really good program, chances are they've got really good receivers and a really good offensive line and a really good running back.

00:32:49
Speaker 3: That's the difference chance. Marvin, Thank you, George.

00:32:52
Speaker 7: I would say about Johnny Manziel, I mean, Mike Evans, he needed an arm on that hies mean or something or shared high. Yes, any situation. You know what, let me just throw it. Mike Evans is down there somewhere.

00:33:04
Speaker 2: And you know, at the time, I didn't realize that he was such a bailout for Johnny Manziel And I kept going, man manziel Is, he's exciting, He's gonna win the Heisman. But this dude, every time he needed somebody to catch the ball, he just threw it up for Mike Evans.

00:33:20
Speaker 3: And Mike Evans is the one going to the Hall of Fame.

00:33:22
Speaker 5: Still making quarterbacks look good.

00:33:23
Speaker 3: Ye see it?

00:33:24
Speaker 6: Whoa okay, say his name, say his face?

00:33:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, a little baker man.

00:33:30
Speaker 5: He's still making quotaman winners.

00:33:33
Speaker 2: How about we take a break glass call for phone calls what we learned once in store tomorrow right after this.

00:33:38
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00:33:50
Speaker 2: Even if you don't have a dog in the fight, you're rooting for the Raiders if they're going to lose, that they lose by less than ten points. The betting line is nine and a half. If the Broncos don't cover that Fritzy has to wear a Mark Davis wig tomorrow.

00:34:06
Speaker 3: It's a big spread for a division game, it is.

00:34:09
Speaker 9: I was surprised by that, that it'd be more like in the six and a half ballpark.

00:34:12
Speaker 3: Uh oh, are you calling out Vegas here?

00:34:14
Speaker 9: I'm calling out Vegas a little bit. And division games and the history of these teams, and I just I don't know. Ten points for a division games a lot.

00:34:20
Speaker 2: If the Broncos don't win by ten or more, thought has to wear the Mark Davis hair piece.

00:34:26
Speaker 9: The other question is, well, the Broncos score ten in the first three quarters, are they gonna wait to score thirty in the fourth?

00:34:31
Speaker 2: Let's see, Uh, Jason in Texas, hy Jason, what's on your mind today?

00:34:37
Speaker 15: Hey? Dan?

00:34:37
Speaker 16: Dan EDT's appreciate the call? Uh six foot two twenty five. I was, as I do, missing you guys every morning. I also listened to some of the afternoon drive on the way home out here in Texas, and yesterday I was lost in the left lane just listened to everyone bang on the Cowboys much deserved. When I found out that I was the source of a incident, I had a guy come up beside me flip me off and go past. Because I was camping in the left lane. I thought, oh boy, here we go. Take my medicine, scoot over to the middle lane, and realize that I cause a pre incident.

00:35:16
Speaker 2: Thank you, Jason. Don't be a passle. That's I think what everybody has to understand. Berry in Long Island, Hi Berry, welcome back, Good.

00:35:27
Speaker 11: Morning, Good morning, check bro. You were talking about roadside attractions before and on my trek back to Long Island, about two hours or so west of Saint Louis, I stopped at the Uranus Fudge Factory and General Stewart no kidding, And it's just as childish and juvenile and funny as you think it would be. The best fudge comes from Uranus. They asked you how you like your fudge packed? And in the parking lot it says, plenty of parking in the rear.

00:36:03
Speaker 3: Thank you, Barry, Thank you Berry.

00:36:05
Speaker 5: It feels like that joke is yeah, they're kind of running with a joke there.

00:36:09
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think there was a theme there Urinus. Yeah. Uh, Sam and Denver Hi Sam follow that.

00:36:21
Speaker 13: That's a tough tough a couple of tough ones to follow with the precident that had me that had me rolling first time long time five eight one sixty five. So I just had to follow Polly's uh getting beat by well both getting beat by a girl or some wrestling anecdotes. I grew up in Iowa, obviously mecca of wrestling. Yeah, I thought I wanted to be a wrestler real bad. One of my first seventh grade.

00:36:51
Speaker 10: Matches was against a a one legged young gentleman and it's uh, it ended poorly for Sam sou anyway, I just had had to say a quick anecdote about that and go Broncos.

00:37:08
Speaker 13: But boyl boy, don't cover that spread.

00:37:11
Speaker 15: We got to see Fritzy.

00:37:12
Speaker 3: Tomorrow in that way. Thank you, Sam Arnaldo in Charlotte Arnaldo.

00:37:20
Speaker 8: Uh five eleven solid ish.

00:37:28
Speaker 17: So Dan, every hear you bless us with a sneaky NBA team that that only you would watch because they're usually not very good, but they are fun and they're up and coming, and I think I got a team here for you to look out for this year. They're not going to be great, but they are going to be a lot of fun. That's Chicago Splitters, Trailblazers. They're young, they're flun They played a different brand of basketball, a bunch of white guys from Europe on the team. And uh and they got Drew holiday school Anderson. I know he's hurt right now, but they were fun. They beat the thunder last night. What do you think, Dan, oh, I don't know.

00:38:04
Speaker 2: I just wondered about the whole Chauncey Billups situation there. But thank you, thank you for letting me know. It got a lot of white European players.

00:38:12
Speaker 6: Which is redundant. The Trailblazers, Dan, Your Blazers are five and three?

00:38:17
Speaker 3: All right?

00:38:19
Speaker 6: This day and sports history, Paul, the first college football game was played in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It was a combination of soccer rules and new football rules. It was Princeton lost to Rutgers six to four.

00:38:33
Speaker 3: Well that's when Rutgers became a football powerhouse.

00:38:36
Speaker 6: Right, and they covered the half point spread. The inventor of basketball eighteen sixty one, James Naismith was born. And how about this for their Dodgers fans. Nineteen seventy four, Mike Marshall became the first relief pitcher to win the cy Young and the Raiders were allowed to change their town and change their name. In nineteen eighty two, they won their lawsuit. That's it.

00:38:57
Speaker 3: But they were still the Raiders.

00:38:59
Speaker 6: Yeah, they went for from Oakland to Los Angeles, but the Supreme Court, it went all the way to the Supreme Court. They let them move. The NFL did not have control.

00:39:07
Speaker 2: Didn't they go to Carson? Did they go to Carson, California? Time the Raiders?

00:39:14
Speaker 9: I don't know if it was Carson.

00:39:16
Speaker 3: For some reason that just came to mind. It might be right.

00:39:18
Speaker 9: I'm not sure.

00:39:19
Speaker 3: Okay, did the Raiders?

00:39:21
Speaker 6: I got them going from Oakland to Los Angeles, to Oakland again and now to base.

00:39:26
Speaker 9: Okay, un let's have some practice facility in Carson.

00:39:29
Speaker 3: No, I don't know that's possible. I could be making it up. Tone it's interesting.

00:39:32
Speaker 9: Why not?

00:39:33
Speaker 3: No, you can't just make it up.

00:39:35
Speaker 6: And ninety five, Art Modell, owner of the Browns, announced plans to move his team to Baltimore.

00:39:40
Speaker 2: Dark Day Dun dun final results of the pol Question Seaton. Oh, by the way, DraftKings just sent me the odds for the number one overall pick this upcoming season, number one pick in the NFL.

00:40:00
Speaker 6: Paul Bernanda Mendoza of Indiana.

00:40:03
Speaker 5: No.

00:40:05
Speaker 3: Marvin the quarterback out of Oregon, Dante Moore, Yes, he's fourth on the list.

00:40:14
Speaker 2: Ty Simpson Alabama. Wow, that's the number one overall. You know, you start to look at these quarterbacks and you go, all right, not everybody's coming out, but it's Ty Simpson, Fernando Mendoza, Leonora's Sellers, Dante Moore, uh Seaton Finally results pole question.

00:40:35
Speaker 5: Speaking of quarterbacks, which quarterback would you rather have?

00:40:38
Speaker 3: Right now?

00:40:38
Speaker 5: Sixty six percent of the audience would rather have Kyler And the sport in which you need to be the toughest to play hockey running away with that. Then there's rugby and football or somewhere in there, but hockey far and away.

00:40:52
Speaker 3: Todd, what did I learn today?

00:40:54
Speaker 9: Clayton Kershaw never gave him a hit to show hey Otani he went oh for eleven with four k's.

00:40:58
Speaker 2: Although Otani did get a base hit off him in an All Star game and then Kershaw picked him off. Thanks for joining us, pleasure to serve you for Fritzie Seat and Marv Paulie years truly and the VRGS have a great day.