March 27, 2025 • 47 mins
Interestingly, the Clippers retweeted the Padres' opening day lineup with a "good luck this season" message. Ned Colletti joins us to talk competitive balance, the new Dodger clubhouse and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
All right, we continue on from Dodger Stadium, Dodger Opening Day,
twenty twenty five. Fred Rogan, Rodney Peinte on early today.
We'll be here till noon. Petrosen Money will jump on
here noon to three, then the pregame show and we'll
have the opening game.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
We want to thank Stan Cassen.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
For send by Yes, Stan, and also for being very
candid Stan Casten. He always tells it like it is,
but what a great insight into just a philosophy since
he's been here. When he came here, what he wanted
to do. And then you know, the thing that we
talk about all the time, Fred is ownership backing him
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and Andrew Friedman and what they wanted to accomplish. I
did think though, that he did take a shot at
you a little bit, and I'll say a little bit
that it was more severe than the shot I took
at you. When we got back on the year together
and we talked about you having a glove, I said,
oh my god, you look like you're twelve. Stand on
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the other hand, said you looked like an eight year old.
Yes he did, Yes, he did. I was holding an
eight year old's glove. By the way, as the helicopters
fly above Dodger Stadium. But no, I will say it again,
it was provided by the Tokyo Dome in that particular
section that you got a glove and a helmet to
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where during the game.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
So I did not bring my own glove to the stadium.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Fred, all right, you mentioned the helicopter. If you've been
to Dodger Stadium early on game days, and we're here
early today. But if you're here, you will see those
choppers law enforcement circling the stadium. And when you're sitting here,
you will always think, oh my god, they're right by
the lights.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
No, they're not. They're not that close to the lights.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
But they will be circling throughout the day and even
during a night game. You will see those choppers circle
periodically because they want this to be the most secure
location on a Los Angeles You're probably safer here than anywhere.
The way they patrol and circle with these choppers. They're
progressing along on the field. Now, I'll tell you what
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you could probably the way they're taking care of the grass,
you could probably play the Masters here.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Oh not even oh absolutely masters.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Wish they had manicured greens and fair ways like this,
the amount of time, and they haven't stopped Fred.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
They haven't stopped this one guy.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
He's been working on the dirt around the basis. We've
been here now for two hours and he's been doing it.
I don't know how much more work he can do
on this dirt around the basis. And they think about
this too. I mean, before you go in, Fred, they're
going to the Dodgers, and the Tigers are gonna come
out and hit batting practice and take infield, take ground
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balls on that dirt, and they're gonna go out and
do that's all over again before the game starts. They
must have the least satisfying, most frustrating job on the planet.
I have worked hours on this and within fifteen minutes
is completely destroyed. Yeah, all right, So if you check
social media and Kevin found this, you know it's opening
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day and there's a lot of excitement here in Los Angeles.
And the one thing you would expect, Rodney, is that
other LA teams would jump on board and be supportive
of the Dodgers. For example, when the Lakers open, you
would think that Dodgers might send something out and go
go loutsolutely. USC sends it out. Go Dodger, Go Dodgers.
So the Clippers did post today on x or Twitter
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for you living in the past.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
And it is a good luck go get them. This
is going to be the season. And you're thinking that's
really nice.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And the team that they are doing that for is
the Sandy Ago Padres.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Oh oh oh wait wait the more this just into us.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
They congratulated the San Diego Padres and they have congratulated
Oh wow, the Angels, the.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Los Angeles Angels.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
They have paffy opening day the clipp Padres and congratulations
to the Angels. I mean, this isn't even real. Are
you guys sure they didn't do anything for the Dodgers?
Come on, this is Are you sure that this is
not a fake account? They come on, guys, you got
check where can't be doing this if we're wrong Internet,
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Matt says, Padres Angels. They did not do anything for
the now. Maybe they will.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
They will.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I'm sure when they get the back last they will
include the Dodgers in their congratulations.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
How can you do that clip?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Come on, man, come on, come on, this is why.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
People say you're the Clippers. Please come on.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
You're talking about the world champions, the La Dodgers, the
team that everybody loves in this city, and you're going
to celebrate the Padres, their rival down south.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
The Padres and post.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
They're opening day lineup, and they posted the lineup, but
they also posted the lineup for the Angels.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Why wouldn't you meant you're on this radio showing you're
on the same station as the Dodger.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Now, when I'll say so, the Angels and the Padres
posted their lineups, and so the Clippers retweeted the official
lineup cards from the Angel's official account, and the Padres
official account said good luck.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
So my guess is when the Dodgers do post.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Their official opening day roster, the Clippers will then retweet
or whatever you call it now on X that and
say good luck.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Okay, all that being said the Angels, sure.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, you get the Angel, you get the Angels, But
the first one that came out was the Padres, what
are they doing?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
What are you doing? Clippers? What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Okay, well, maybe you could make this argument, No you can't.
Well let's try. Maybe you could make this argument. You know,
they played in San Diego before coming here.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
The originally they were the San Diego Clippers. That what
you're saying. No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
They played in San Diego before they came here, so
maybe they acknowledged that. But using that using that philosophy,
they should also be congratulating the Buffalo Bills because they
played in Buffalo before San Diego.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
So when the Bills roster.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Is finalized, maybe they should give them a shout out
as well.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Also, their G League team plays in San Diego.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Oh yes, so yes, that makes all kinds of sense, Fred, Yes,
I get it now, I am now, Fred, I get it.
I understand, Clippers, why you want to celebrate the Padres.
It's not the world champion Dodgers their opening day. I
understand why the first baseball tweet you put out or
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social media you put out is to hey, let's celebrate
the Padres and here's their opening day lineup.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I get it. I understand. You made it clear for
me now.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Fred, Well, I just wanted to try and then shed
some light on it because it did catch our attention early.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Kevin, You're probably right.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Once the Dodgers do reveal their lineup, I'm sure the
Clippers will retweet it.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
But yeah, it's just more.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Somebody's going to have a conversation at some point. I
would imagine this morning. You know, it's just kind of
like get it, just get it.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It's pretty simple. Just understand. Get it.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
That wasn't good. No, no, and the team said get it.
That's when we talk about this all the time. The
teams that come here and get it and understand how
you get it.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
You would never see. The Rams would never do that, right,
I mean, the Rams would never do that.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
The Lakers, Yeah, no, the Lakers would never do that,
never do that.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I I.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Don't get it.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Why didn't they just write, let's go Machado, it's gonna
be your year, guys, go get them. Just it's just
you know, understanding the market, not being tone.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Deaf, just getting it. You just gotta get it.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
And that's not getting it. It's just not understanding.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
The only.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
The only team you could almost kind of give a
pass to is the Chargers, maybe because they you know,
they came from San Diego, had a long standing history
in San Diego, came up to LA but.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
They wouldn't even do it.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
They would not even do it because they understand the
importance of this market. And they're in LA now, so
they would not do it, but you would almost give
them a path to say, hey, our former other league
mates to Padres, good luck on your season.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Even though we're in LA.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
We remember the times we had together in San Diego.
They could have done something. They wouldn't do that. Who
is making who is making the decisions?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
That's what's so funny about it. I gotta tell you something,
what in the Benedict Arnold is going on down here.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
The Clippers, and you know, what you're trying to do
on social media is capture that.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Future fan, that younger audience, those people.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
What you're trying to do is capture the people that
will sustain you in the market forever, the new fans,
the people that are going to jump on board your train.
And by doing that, I mean it's sacrilegious. With the Dodgers,
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the Dodgers that just won the World Series, the Dodgers
that are the talk of professional sports, the Dodgers who
are acknowledged as having the best front office and best
organization in professional sports.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
And you go, way to go Padres.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Oh yeah, way to go pad you know, and the
Dodgers are great librating the local, everything local, right, the
Dodger we just had standcasting on. He talks about their
involvement in the community and celebrating local businesses and local
organizations and things like that. They have a UCLA Night
in the USC night and they have all them, the
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Laker Night, all those. How's that Clipper Knight gonna go?
When is that Clipper Knight gonna happen here at Dodger Stadium?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Now? Oh my god, I don't understand. I mean, the
La Kings have Dodger Knight. The Dodgers have La King's Knight. Yes,
Do you.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Really think the La Kings would go, hey, go get
them Padres? Or No, there's a team I'm sorry, since
there's no team in San Diego. There's a team in
San Jose. Hey, good luck to you this year. Giants.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
We're in the NHL and there's a team up there,
go get them. I mean, they would never do that.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
If we had Kevin Demoff of the Rams on right
now and we told him we just said, hey, we
just want to something by you.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
You know, what do you think from a marketing perspective
of this approach?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
He would laugh for fifteen straight minutes, hundred percent for
fifteen straight minutes. He would laugh and go, I don't
even know what to say about something like that.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's and and listen, look between
Kevin and our guy Internet Matt, they have checked and
double checked and verified the accounts and all the it's
not we're not making this up.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
We didn't believe it to be fair. That's why we
asked him, are you are you sure about this?
Speaker 4 (12:39):
The official Twitter account for the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah, official Twitter account for the Clippers. Yeah, because when
the old padres, how about that, when they told us,
We're like, no, no, no, no, no, We're not gonna go on. Look,
we do a good job of making ourselves look stupid.
We don't need you to help. How long do you
think it takes for them to say go Dodgers. How
long do you think it happened? Don't you think this?
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Do you think that they they put something out Go
Dodgers before we're off the air?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I mean, based on how this is stacking up, I
guess it depends on when the Dodgers actually make their
lineup public.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
So for four o'clock, first pitch, what is that?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Two?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I'll say that's what thirty one Padres first pitch is
one it's earlier.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
I believe they Uh, I can double check on that.
I'm not one hundred percent matter.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I'm just it doesn't I'm trying to give them a
benefit of a doubt a little bit. Yeah, I know,
let's find out when do the Padres and Angels start today.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
What Padres are a one ten first pitch at Petco? Okay,
so what makes sense? Their lineup will be out right
about now. The Angels, I know, are in Chicago against
the White Sox and they start also at one ten,
so same time for both.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Okay, still, so you know what, and we can get
the Angels, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
You just don't do that with the Podres.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Now with the rival, that's the issue. If the Ramsay
had just moved here, it would be kind weird. But
they say, all right, go Blues or whatever because they
know they have fans with Saint Louis or whatever. Has
no connection to LA. This is literally one of the
Dodgers' biggest rifles. That's the part that sticks. That makes
no that makes no sense whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
That's unbelievable. I'm baffled. I'm baffled by that who's running.
I'm not listening.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I'm not trying to get anybody fired or anything like that.
But somebody's gonna have a conversation with somebody here in
a minute.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
And if we called Steve Baumer right now and told
him this happened, do.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
You think he goes, oh, you know, we really support
the Padres, that's great.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Or do you think he go what the hell? Or
who did that? Who made that?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
This the ladder, Fred the ladder the talk, But we
wouldn't know because we never talked to the Clippers anyway.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Oh, I mean.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Ain't for a lack of trying.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
No, it's not.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Oh man, there's a difference. There's a reason, and we
talk about this all the time. There's a reason that
brands are the brands. There's a reason there's the Dodgers.
There's a reason, there's a Lakers. There's a reason there's
the Kings. There's a reason, there's a Rams.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
There's a reason.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
There's a reason, and it's from top to bottom, and
it goes all the way through the organization with one voice,
one message, and this is how we're going to do things.
And that's why they're continuously on top. Oh by the
way you mentioned the Kings, and we will start doing
hockey soon because we're getting to the playoffs, and that'll
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give me a chance to talk about how much we
all hate Edmonton and how they should be banned from
the league and you.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Should go them. There's a true disdain for Edmonton. Hate Edmonton.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
But yes, just one quick second here on Dodger opening Day,
because you're brought up the Kings. They're the best team
in the NHL at home. They cannot be beaten at home. Yes,
it is remarkable if they can't have whome ie advantage.
I've said this to people, Well, we might play Edmonton again.
I could care less. As long as you have whole
ice advantage. I don't see them losing a series. They
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are that good this year. If they have whole mice,
that's pretty exciting too. Oh my god, I love it.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I love it. Go Kings. Yeah, I'm sure the Clippers
wouldn't say that. They go shirks.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Okay, in the background, you can hear more noise because
now the man with the leaf blower is out there.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I don't know what this guy is blowing.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
There's not a speck of anything on the field, nothing,
and he is out there with a leaf blower working now,
and it's unbelievable how much maintenance is going on at
Dodger Stadium before the Dodgers or the Tigers take the
infield or hit batting practice or anything, or guys come
out to work out. All right, Well, we are going
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to be joined by Ned COLLETTI here in a couple
of minutes. It's Fred Rogan and I just got okay,
hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
We're not going anywhere. Wait wait, wait what I'm gonna
show you something? Way Dave Weees was kind enough to
go pick up my credential. Now, our credentials have our
pictures on them, and we don't submit our pictures, so
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oftentimes for honey, they use pictures from the past.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yes, I know, and I don't like it all at all.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
So you know, I do have pictures with the way
I look now, but those aren't used. But I would
like to show you the picture that they selected for
this year's credential.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Can me share it with you? Please? Please? Ah?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Wow, that's from nineteen seventy five and on top of
like rip Patino, but.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
On top of it, does it not seem like, with
all due respect, I have some look look at the
way my head is.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Yeah, you got a six head, that's how Yeah, you're.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
One of those. You're at the carnival in one of
those funny mirrors.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Look at that, Well.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
That photo has to be from like two thousand and
four something like that.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Look at that, that's nineteen eighty four. Nineteen eighty four.
This is where they found paid for.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Not ninety two thousand and four. Well, they thank you
for picking it up. Greatly appreciated. By the way, I'll
never be allowed anywhere because my photo looks nothing like
match you.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
That's not you as love credential day.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
What see yours? Well it's closer than mine, all right.
Net Coletti is going to join us here in a
couple of minutes. Fred Rogan and Rodney Pete live from
Dodger Stadium on a five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Oh yeah, we are in Blue Heaven. That's right, Blue Heaven.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
If you know you know Rodney Pete, Fred Rogan, opening Day,
Dodgers Stadium. We are live at Dodger Stadium while the
maintenance crew is still going. It's like that commercial still going.
They must have watered the dirt and the grass twenty
five times since we've been here, and cut it.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
There's a leaf flower.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
There are twenty people out here doing their thing, getting ready,
just getting ready for batting practice and fielding ground balls.
Sim then they'll do it all again, Rodney. Now it
makes sense. Now it all makes sense. You have this
one guy out here who has been watering the grass
for about two hours. Yes, he stops. The grass quickly grows.
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Then the guy with the lawnmower rolls over. It rolls
over and cuts the grass. Then he waters it again.
It grows. Then the guy rolls over and cuts it again.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Then they water the dirt to make sure it packs
it down so there's no bad hops. The dirt dry,
and then they got to water it again for it right,
because it got dry. Yes, all right, man that has
seen this for so many years, a guy that sat
at this very stadium and watch this process unfold. Let's
bring in the man in the big chair, our good
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friend Ned Kalatti, Ned, Happy opening.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Day, Happy opening day, gentlemen, and listening to that intro,
you want every great athlete, you want every great player
to have attention to detail. YouTube guys, that was some
attention to detail right there. It was an incredible attention
to detail.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Oh I love it, dan Net. Seriously, you know you've
done it for so many years. What what does Opening
Day mean to you?
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Oh gosh, it's it's it's like to me. It's really
kind of like the the December holidays. They all have
a It has a special feel to it. You know,
if you love the sport and you follow the sport,
the longer you followed it, it never waivers, it never
things out. It's always the most and moost special days
of the year. Baseball is so big for people. And
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when you think about Opening Day, and I know the
Dodtors are two and oer, but today is really like that.
The feel of Opening Day, there's nothing like it. And
I think that we could all sit back and think
of at least one and probably many memories that occurred
on this day. Can you figure out a memory from
May fifteenth or August sixth? Not necessary, I mean, let
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something really special happened. But when you think back to
Opening Day, everybody's got a thought, everybody's got a memory,
everybody can make a smile.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Hey Nett, I know what the Dodgers did during the
off season, besides putting them in a position to seriously
compete does not guarantee anything. We don't know how this
very long marathon will play out. But as they open
this season, as you observe the team they put together,
can you remember a team that was better constructed at
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every spot in your years in baseball as this one is.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
All things considered, I can't. The Yankees some great teams
at the turn of the last century, no doubt, and
there's been great teams here and there. But when you
start at the top, with the ownership, with Mark and
Tom standing magic and more than Andrew and his crew
and Dave robertson his staff, it's like, where do you
see a weakness or a timidness or a being satisfied
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with where you're at. That's one of the most amazing
things to me about watching this organization for the last
twenty years. Close up, there's money. Many tent teams go through. Akay,
we're really good, We're gonna start to really get paid players,
and you start to get a little bit, a little
bit lack of hunger starts to set in. It doesn't
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exist with this group, and it starts at its starts
with the ownership group that that calls Andrew, Hey, you
like this guy, go get them? You like this reliever,
go get them. You want to add here, go do it.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
You know.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
The the insatiable hunger for success and victory and championships
for the people of the Dodgers fan base and organization.
I believe it. And I'm not just saying this. I
think it's unmatched. I don't know what I've ever seen
an organization. Everybody will say they feel this way, but
hardly anybody, and in my memory, nobody has ever been
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able to show it the way they show it, walk
it and live it.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
No, you're absolutely right, Ned. I mean a lot of
teams and you know this. You win a World Series,
you win a Super Bowl, you win an NBA title,
all right, you you you fat cat it a little bit,
and you chill in the offseason. You're like, we want it,
so we gotta we got a cushion here to kind
of relax a little bit. And the Dodgers acted like
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they finished last in the division the way they went
about this offseason. And they're coming off a World Series
championship with the MVP going fifty to fifty in steals
and home runs, and they went crazy in the offseason
and signing guys like I can't believe we had a
terrible season.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I mean, have you seen anything like that?
Speaker 6 (24:27):
No? Ever, That's that's what I mean. It's it's usually
a time Okay, hey we won, let's take a step
back and or let's just stay even and let's see
how it goes. We can we can rest on the
laurels of a championship. That's what I mean. I mean,
it doesn't exist to this group. It's like it's like
they are, you know, coming off a disappointing year where
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they won eighty two eighty three games. Yeah, and it's
not but that to me, I think it's it's it's
very very unique. And I don't think you could as
a fan, as an observer, as an employee there, or
a player there. I don't think you'll ever take it
for granted, especially the player situation where your best players
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continue to be your hardiest workers continue to be unsatisfied
with championships. Mookie Best shows up from Boston says, hey,
I'm here to win multiple titles. Okay. A lot of
people said that but look at what he does. That's
how he plays. You need me to play second, you
need me to play short? What do you need me
to do? How many superstar players have you ever heard say, Hey,
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whatever you need me to do? Yeah, for a day,
for a week, Okay, guys will do it for a year,
for two years. And it's that attitude as you go
through it. And John Sure hosts a Hall of Fame
GM from Atlanta Kansas City, and then Atlanta called me today,
I got the GM job and graduate and I said, John,
give me give me one piece of advice then that
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you know this isn't going to make me, you know,
challenge you, but that I can carry with me forever.
And he said, it's simple. Do you trust the player?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Simple?
Speaker 6 (26:07):
Honor, But when you think about it, do you trust
the player? It goes for your superstar, it goes for
the person trying to make the team, It goes for everybody.
Do you trust? You trust? And tell me, you know,
I don't need a name, because there is no name.
Who won the Dodgers? Do you not trust? You trust everybody?
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Can any other team say that?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Really?
Speaker 6 (26:30):
Say that? In the you know, in the in the
in the closure of a of an office where nobody
else can hear it. You think that they go, well,
I don't know if we can trust this guy. I
don't know if we can trust an effort, trust the process,
trust a hunger to win. I don't think you can
say that about any Dodger. I don't think you say
anybody anything in the minor leagues. So it's a special time.
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We'll talk about the specialists of opening Day. I'm marvel
at the specialists of the organ and how they go
about what they do. And it starts at the very,
very very top, you know.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
And it's interesting to me. Stan Casten was on. I
think the three of us have talked about this in
the past. It's such an incredibly unique situation because despite
the fact they want to win right now, they invest
in younger players that they're going to have down the
road as well. And I'm not necessarily talking about the
minor league system. Let's use Sazaki, let's use Yamamoto, Tommy
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Edmond will be here five years. They invest in young
guys that can play while maintaining success with the older players.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
And I don't know any teams that are able to
do that.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
It's like we're worrying about this year and then we'll
go to the miners. These guys are signing guys for
the major league roster that they expect to be here
for years, while still winning with the older players. I've
never seen anything like this.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
No, most organizations have to make choice at the deadline,
and they're usually trade prospects to stay in the race
and give them the playoffs and win around or two
rounds or a World Series. Yamamoto would have been the
number one pick in the nation to use it, the
number one pick easily the number one pick Sosaki. This
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would have been the number one pick in the nation
without a doubt. So you have a team that drafts
where they draft, which is at the end of rounds,
not just one round every round, draft late all the time.
Everybody else putting bunch is picking ahead of them for
years now, and then they go out and they not rebuild,
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but they support your most important category because without it
you can't win, and that's your pitching staff. With two
guys that would be top picks in any draft and
are really major league ready a little bit, so that
to me is like another of the marvels of the organization.
They have now put together a you know when when
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Snell is gone and Gladsnow's gone and Clayton's gone and
all these guys are gone, and as sad as that
will be, but they've got they've got a number one
and number two starter that are are really kids. Yeah,
those teams don't have just those two guys. Most teams
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in the league don't have those two, let alone everybody else.
So that goes in with the hunger to be successful,
to sustain success, to not rest on your bors, because
now they're back filling not just with guys with a hope,
but with the best that you can find. That to me,
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that's incredible.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Hey, ned As Fred Mitch, we had we had stand on.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
A little while ago, and you know, we were talking
about you know the rest of the league and how
you know it's perceived the die are doing X y
Z when you hear stuff like that, and and it's
all within the rules and the Dodgers have just been
able to do it better than other people. What do
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you think about the gripes? Do you hear like, oh,
we got to look at the CBA. Oh, we got
to look at the deferred money payment which has been
in place for years because the Dodgers have have done
it better than than than other people. Some of these
things that come about because the Dodgers now are winning.
And then again, as we just mentioned, signed players that
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that wanted to come here.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
How does that make you feel?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
And and what do you think about these other clubs
that are griping right now and the Dodgers are just
playing within the rules.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
It's a great George Harrison say, isn't it a pity?
Too bad? They haven't broken any rules. They've got to
live up to it. They've got to be able to
fund it, and then they do so because other people,
other ownership doesn't. I think there's probably the true owners,
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but they're not going to get involved in this type
of situation. And maybe they don't trust their front office
as much or the selection process or much, or maybe
they're satisfied. I have no idea, but I just think, hey,
you know what, it's too bad to feel their Wigan,
But guess what, We're going to come into your stadium
and we're going to sell it out. They won't all
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be wearing the colors of your team, but they'll be
wearing blue, a lot of them, and we're going to
come in and make you a pun of dough as well,
and just watch us because because we're on the run
and we're going to be on the run for a
long time. You know, I could sell the club. You know,
we're not breaking any rules. You can go back to
oh War World Series. Arizona won the World Series and
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if you look back at the stars of that team,
Jerry Colangelo, the OOS, very smart guy, did basketball for
a long time, really brilliant guy. Most of their star
players were fifty to fifty fifty today fifty to third.
And then m will be put into rules that you
had to be able to fund it because the union said,
oh wait a minute, Randy Johnson rulyans dollars, Mark Vay saying,
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I'm not sure you know.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but most.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Of them had fifty to fifty. So this isn't new.
It's just at larger dollars and it's gotten more of
a boundary to it because you've got to be able
to fund it in the year or so. So, you
know what, shame on anybody that could jealous Jealousy is
an awful thing, and to me, that's what it is.
That's what it is. You know, everybody's I don't know
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one franchise that has lost value. That's not only Scott
Boris now, but you know our franchise is losing value.
Our teams, you know that that sold for five hundred
million ten years ago. Are they now worth four hundred million,
three hundred million. No, they're probably worth even if they're terrible,
seven or eight or nine hundred million. So it's a
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it's a business that has been fortified, that is very
very very healthy, and and some people use that to
reinvest and they keep going. You know something else too,
that they just did the clubhouses a few years ago.
They've redone all of that for one hundred million. Look
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at the Look at the underneath the pavilion in left
and right field and center field. That area there was
unused area for for decades. It's huge. Another one hundred
million I think during the pandemic. So it's not like
they're they're just finding ways to skirt what they need
to do. They know they've got a great brand, and
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they accent and they don't rest on their laurels, and
they just keep going and going and going, and they're
they're they're running a race. They're leading by a laugh,
And now they look at everybody as they pass them
and they go, wait a minute, we're going to be
up by another laugh in another ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
What they do the thing I.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Don't understand the investment the franchise. It's not bad for baseball.
It's good for baseball. As you mentioned other owners, they
ought to be thanking the Dodgers and sending them flowers
because anytime the Dodgers come to town, those guys make
more money per game than they make at any point
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during the year.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
The Dodgers are.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
A gigantic draw. They're the biggest road draw in baseball.
Because of the Dodgers and what they have done with
Otana Yamamoto Suzaki, the way they have reconstructed Dodgers Stadium,
they have become one of the crown jewels, not of
Major League Baseball and not of American sport, but of
global sports. That's good for the game of baseball. That's
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good for every single owner. So when I hear these
guys complain. The owner of the Baltimore Orioles was at
some international finance conference and he brought up the inequity
in baseball and something has to change, and he some
giant global finance convention, and I'm thinking, you want to
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be sending these guys thank you notes. Thank you if
you've increased the value of my franchise, you made me
more money because I won't spend it, but you will.
And that's what galls me when I hear this stuff
all the time.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Ned the Orioles.
Speaker 6 (35:22):
At that conference, the.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Orioles were there, but the guy who owns the Orioles.
Speaker 6 (35:27):
Yeah, well you know what, and it's a new owner.
So this isn't directed at the new owner of the Orioles.
But look at the Orioles history in the international market.
They refuse to be involved in it. For a decade,
perhaps for years, they refused to do it. I want
to They called me in the interviewed me there for
a president of Baseball OPSI a few years ago, and
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I had all these questions for the previous ownership and
they just kind of said, well, you know, we haven't
done it. We're not going to do it then. So
that's you know, the Dodgers not invested in I mean,
what do we do? I mean, look at their track record,
look at what Dave done. And now they're calling out
somebody else who's being aggressive. I don't mean to pick
on the orders, but you know you brought them up
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as as you know how we're grapeful about this. Well
look at their international signings. How many times did they
they signed anybody before Michael IIAs got in there was years.
But again, you know what we should we should be
grateful for the time we are in with this organization
and how it goes. And one more thing about the
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international growth. The World Series in Japan had higher ratings
in America than America. And you had New York and
la that the two biggest cities with teams involved and
millions watching. But yet the Dodgers have grown the sport
and a lot of teams have grown the sport internationalie
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and including an Asian, but nobody has grown it like
the Dodgers have in the last couple of years. Nobody.
And I know people at the International MLB, you know,
and they they work with everybody and they try to
help everybody and they grow the game to go to
the game, but you know, they just they just shake
their head. It is is beyond the wildest comprehension what
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has taken place in the growth of baseball. Yeah, in Asia,
it's because of the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
No, just real quick follow up to that.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Fred and I were in Tokyo for that series, and
it's incredible, and you you know, look you were you
were doing it when you know, everybody was talking about
Dominican Republican in Mexico and Puerto Rico and Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
And and and a lot of the Latin.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Countries and and Major League Baseball has been brilliant at
you know, building these academies and building the presence there.
But the Dodgers broadened it out and really captured the
Asian market, which I mean it was incredible, net incredible
throughout the whole country. As you mentioned, more people watch
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that than they watched in the States.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
It was incredible.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
The not only just show hey, but the Dodger brand
internationally and in Asia. It's incredible. And do you think
that feeds into some of the I guess jealousy that
is going on with some of the other the other clubs.
Speaker 6 (38:25):
Yeah, but they had the chance to and they couldn't
pull it off. And and and it's not only that
they that the Dodgers spend money and invest but the
Dodgers are a destination. There's other teams that want to
show Hey, okay everybody. You know, some people going to Toronto.
Other teams wanted the player, but the player saw what
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the Dodgers do, who they are, were they play the
whole thing made that decision more than the Dodgers been
on Yamamoto, same thing. Sasaki wasn't even a money deal.
Everybody was going to pay relatively the same amount of
money off the International Fund. But you know what they're
they're the destination. Well you know the teams that are
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that are sending the blues about it, and what have
they done to make their place a destination? They you know,
they're not the Dodgers destination. They may be somewhat of
a destination, but they're not this team destination as a destination.
That's you know what that takes work. That takes a
lot of work, a lot of effort, and and hey,
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you got to tip your cap to to the Dodgers.
That's what they've done. That's what they've concentrated on, including
their marketing people who have done a tremendous job. You know,
before Otani, they probably had a plan to go after
that market and to really make it special. We've got
tours in Japanese. Now at Dodgers Stadium, Outsill, the team
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tours in English. It's a destination spot for people traveling
from Asia to California or to to North America. Think
about that. I thought, that's unbelievable, that this that, this
is what happened. But when you put her all together
and you're no business, no sports, and you know, the appetite,
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the global appetite for this particular franchise in this particular sport,
it's it's the master class. It's the absolute masterclass.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Well, Net, thank you, thank you for educating us as
a tenured professor. Ned, you have conducted a masterclass today.
It is greatly appreciated.
Speaker 6 (40:34):
I love being with you guys. We'll do it a
lot this summer hopefully.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (40:37):
Hey and Rodney, you know, don't don't ever give that
glove away.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Pretty sweet, thanks, Mat, I appreciate it. The globe is
going to go in a glass case.
Speaker 6 (40:51):
Well done, gentlemen, have fun today.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Thanks Ned, our good buddy, Ned Colletia. It's Fred Rogan,
Rodney Pete. We continued live from Dodger Stadium an opening
day LA Sports.
Speaker 7 (41:11):
Oh yeah, come on Opening day Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Rodney p. Fred Rogan. We're here early.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
As we uh kind of look out onto the field,
we see some of the players start to kind of
trickle out and start to warm up, start to get
loose a little bit, start stretching, throwing the ball around
a little bit. Some Dodger players, some uh Tiger players.
Then we see Jack Clarity. Watch Jack Clarity walk into
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the visitors clubhouse. Yeah, the screens are up on the
field now for batting practice. The cage is off to
the side. They'll move that it in and eventually guys
will start hitting. I see like four Dodger players out
there just jogging. Yeah, it looks like Suzaki out there jogging.
Oh that yeah, yeah, Hey, he knows you from Japan.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
He does, he does. He saw you make that play.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
He absolutely gave me love after I made that play.
That's what I'm talking about, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
we look at the press box still and Hernandez of
the Times is here. We see Bill Plashki in the hallway.
The ushers and service people are starting to assemble, going
over their pregame ritual. You know, they have a meeting too.
They have a meeting a pregame meeting as well. You
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know what they tell them, what they tell them, Do
what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
That's the meeting. Now.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
I do want to point something out as we continue
from Dodger Stadium, and it was a bit shocking to
me earlier, not quite as shocking as the fact that
the Clippers actually wished the San Diego.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Padres good luck on Twitter. That was the most shocking
thing of the day.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
We found they congratulate, didn't wish luck to the Padres.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
And the Angels.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
And you can make the comment, well, the Dodger lineup
isn't out yet, that's okay. You still should not give
the old rival of the Dodgers. Hey, guys, way to
go have a great year. But that was probably number one.
Number two was the unveiling of the Dodger season credentials,
which we were all able to get.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
Oh my godess.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
So when Dave weis and thank you, Dave just back
from Tokyo himself, when he was able to secure mine,
he gave it to me.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
And it looks nothing like me.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
I look somewhat bloated, very young, and someone who basically
was in need of some physical therapy. I mean it
did not resemble me at all. And I showed everybody
Rodney and they all started to laugh. But then we
got to this. You said, hey, look at mine, and
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I don't even know who that is. When we saw
your picture, Yeah, it was like one of those carnival
mirrors that you look into and it distorts your face,
and that's what mine looked like. But yeah, yours looked
like it was nineteen eighty three, Fred, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
And yours, you know, yours looked like it was twenty
five pounds ago. It did it?
Speaker 8 (44:18):
Did?
Speaker 2 (44:19):
It really did. It was a carnival, carnival picture.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
And I don't know where they got I guess they
pull off the Internet from random shots. I think they
close their eyes and say, let's just scroll and hit
Fred Rogan and then they close their eyes and point
their finger and say, we're going to use this picture,
or Rodney Pete, we're gonna use that picture of him.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
But how they got that?
Speaker 1 (44:43):
I would have liked to have got a call and
said submit a picture for your credential please.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
That could have been one way to handle. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
Now, if you think ours seem a little off, then
we were treated to Kevin figure. I in all the
years I've known you, I don't think you've ever looked
that way.
Speaker 4 (45:05):
No, I have this scraggly beard.
Speaker 3 (45:06):
Clearly when I took this photo, I was going through
a quarter life crisis or something.
Speaker 4 (45:09):
I have no idea where they found this.
Speaker 3 (45:13):
There was a point in time, maybe ten twelve years
ago where I had like this real scraggly beard going on.
Speaker 4 (45:18):
It was really weird. I was trying something different. It
clearly did not work.
Speaker 3 (45:21):
Somehow they got that photo and that has been permanently
used as my credential photo here at Dodger Stadium for
the last five years.
Speaker 2 (45:30):
It doesn't look anything like that, nothing like you kept.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
So then you think, okay, well maybe it was just
three guys, you know, maybe we drew the short straw.
Then we saw internet Matz photo. It was I didn't
see mats photo. I got to see mats foto, your photo,
Matt let me show.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
Oh my god, look at this man they use. They
used this stretch right, the stretch feature the camera.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Yeah lord, you know, to really help you understand what
it looks like. His head looks about.
Speaker 8 (46:06):
Two feet wide and no dimension, flat like the Hamburgler right,
just flat like like a pen hit him right in
the face and switched.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
His head out.
Speaker 1 (46:21):
So listen, if you if we never get back into
Dodger Stadium, there'll be a reason, and not because we're
not welcomed, but because our credential pictures look nothing like us.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
When they look at you, we're not letting you in.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
Who are you? It's going to be like this, who
are you? Where did you get that? Because that looks
nothing like it. Okay, so we have completed two hours
of our program. Coming up next hour, we have some
audio third base coach Dino Ebel. It is mind boggling
to consider what he is thinking about during the game,
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and he gives us some insight into that.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
So we're going to share that with you.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
Plus we're going to try to track down a couple
of our buddies over here in the press box to
come over live from Dodgers Stadium. Fred Rogan, Rodney Pete
Opening day for the Dodgers on a five seventy LA
Sports
All right, we continue on from Dodger Stadium, Dodger Opening Day,
twenty twenty five. Fred Rogan, Rodney Peinte on early today.
We'll be here till noon. Petrosen Money will jump on
here noon to three, then the pregame show and we'll
have the opening game.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
We want to thank Stan Cassen.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
For send by Yes, Stan, and also for being very
candid Stan Casten. He always tells it like it is,
but what a great insight into just a philosophy since
he's been here. When he came here, what he wanted
to do. And then you know, the thing that we
talk about all the time, Fred is ownership backing him
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and Andrew Friedman and what they wanted to accomplish. I
did think though, that he did take a shot at
you a little bit, and I'll say a little bit
that it was more severe than the shot I took
at you. When we got back on the year together
and we talked about you having a glove, I said,
oh my god, you look like you're twelve. Stand on
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the other hand, said you looked like an eight year old.
Yes he did, Yes, he did. I was holding an
eight year old's glove. By the way, as the helicopters
fly above Dodger Stadium. But no, I will say it again,
it was provided by the Tokyo Dome in that particular
section that you got a glove and a helmet to
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where during the game.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
So I did not bring my own glove to the stadium.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Fred, all right, you mentioned the helicopter. If you've been
to Dodger Stadium early on game days, and we're here
early today. But if you're here, you will see those
choppers law enforcement circling the stadium. And when you're sitting here,
you will always think, oh my god, they're right by
the lights.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
No, they're not. They're not that close to the lights.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
But they will be circling throughout the day and even
during a night game. You will see those choppers circle
periodically because they want this to be the most secure
location on a Los Angeles You're probably safer here than anywhere.
The way they patrol and circle with these choppers. They're
progressing along on the field. Now, I'll tell you what
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you could probably the way they're taking care of the grass,
you could probably play the Masters here.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Oh not even oh absolutely masters.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Wish they had manicured greens and fair ways like this,
the amount of time, and they haven't stopped Fred.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
They haven't stopped this one guy.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
He's been working on the dirt around the basis. We've
been here now for two hours and he's been doing it.
I don't know how much more work he can do
on this dirt around the basis. And they think about
this too. I mean, before you go in, Fred, they're
going to the Dodgers, and the Tigers are gonna come
out and hit batting practice and take infield, take ground
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balls on that dirt, and they're gonna go out and
do that's all over again before the game starts. They
must have the least satisfying, most frustrating job on the planet.
I have worked hours on this and within fifteen minutes
is completely destroyed. Yeah, all right, So if you check
social media and Kevin found this, you know it's opening
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day and there's a lot of excitement here in Los Angeles.
And the one thing you would expect, Rodney, is that
other LA teams would jump on board and be supportive
of the Dodgers. For example, when the Lakers open, you
would think that Dodgers might send something out and go
go loutsolutely. USC sends it out. Go Dodger, Go Dodgers.
So the Clippers did post today on x or Twitter
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for you living in the past.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
And it is a good luck go get them. This
is going to be the season. And you're thinking that's
really nice.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And the team that they are doing that for is
the Sandy Ago Padres.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Oh oh oh wait wait the more this just into us.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
They congratulated the San Diego Padres and they have congratulated
Oh wow, the Angels, the.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Los Angeles Angels.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
They have paffy opening day the clipp Padres and congratulations
to the Angels. I mean, this isn't even real. Are
you guys sure they didn't do anything for the Dodgers?
Come on, this is Are you sure that this is
not a fake account? They come on, guys, you got
check where can't be doing this if we're wrong Internet,
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Matt says, Padres Angels. They did not do anything for
the now. Maybe they will.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
They will.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I'm sure when they get the back last they will
include the Dodgers in their congratulations.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
How can you do that clip?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Come on, man, come on, come on, this is why.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
People say you're the Clippers. Please come on.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
You're talking about the world champions, the La Dodgers, the
team that everybody loves in this city, and you're going
to celebrate the Padres, their rival down south.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
The Padres and post.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
They're opening day lineup, and they posted the lineup, but
they also posted the lineup for the Angels.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Why wouldn't you meant you're on this radio showing you're
on the same station as the Dodger.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Now, when I'll say so, the Angels and the Padres
posted their lineups, and so the Clippers retweeted the official
lineup cards from the Angel's official account, and the Padres
official account said good luck.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
So my guess is when the Dodgers do post.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Their official opening day roster, the Clippers will then retweet
or whatever you call it now on X that and
say good luck.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Okay, all that being said the Angels, sure.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, you get the Angel, you get the Angels, But
the first one that came out was the Padres, what
are they doing?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
What are you doing? Clippers? What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Okay, well, maybe you could make this argument, No you can't.
Well let's try. Maybe you could make this argument. You know,
they played in San Diego before coming here.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
The originally they were the San Diego Clippers. That what
you're saying. No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
They played in San Diego before they came here, so
maybe they acknowledged that. But using that using that philosophy,
they should also be congratulating the Buffalo Bills because they
played in Buffalo before San Diego.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
So when the Bills roster.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Is finalized, maybe they should give them a shout out
as well.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Also, their G League team plays in San Diego.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Oh yes, so yes, that makes all kinds of sense, Fred, Yes,
I get it now, I am now, Fred, I get it.
I understand, Clippers, why you want to celebrate the Padres.
It's not the world champion Dodgers their opening day. I
understand why the first baseball tweet you put out or
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social media you put out is to hey, let's celebrate
the Padres and here's their opening day lineup.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I get it. I understand. You made it clear for
me now.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Fred, Well, I just wanted to try and then shed
some light on it because it did catch our attention early.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Kevin, You're probably right.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Once the Dodgers do reveal their lineup, I'm sure the
Clippers will retweet it.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
But yeah, it's just more.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Somebody's going to have a conversation at some point. I
would imagine this morning. You know, it's just kind of
like get it, just get it.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It's pretty simple. Just understand. Get it.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
That wasn't good. No, no, and the team said get it.
That's when we talk about this all the time. The
teams that come here and get it and understand how
you get it.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
You would never see. The Rams would never do that, right,
I mean, the Rams would never do that.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
The Lakers, Yeah, no, the Lakers would never do that,
never do that.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I I.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Don't get it.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Why didn't they just write, let's go Machado, it's gonna
be your year, guys, go get them. Just it's just
you know, understanding the market, not being tone.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Deaf, just getting it. You just gotta get it.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
And that's not getting it. It's just not understanding.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
The only.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
The only team you could almost kind of give a
pass to is the Chargers, maybe because they you know,
they came from San Diego, had a long standing history
in San Diego, came up to LA but.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
They wouldn't even do it.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
They would not even do it because they understand the
importance of this market. And they're in LA now, so
they would not do it, but you would almost give
them a path to say, hey, our former other league
mates to Padres, good luck on your season.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Even though we're in LA.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
We remember the times we had together in San Diego.
They could have done something. They wouldn't do that. Who
is making who is making the decisions?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
That's what's so funny about it. I gotta tell you something,
what in the Benedict Arnold is going on down here.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
The Clippers, and you know, what you're trying to do
on social media is capture that.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Future fan, that younger audience, those people.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
What you're trying to do is capture the people that
will sustain you in the market forever, the new fans,
the people that are going to jump on board your train.
And by doing that, I mean it's sacrilegious. With the Dodgers,
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the Dodgers that just won the World Series, the Dodgers
that are the talk of professional sports, the Dodgers who
are acknowledged as having the best front office and best
organization in professional sports.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
And you go, way to go Padres.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Oh yeah, way to go pad you know, and the
Dodgers are great librating the local, everything local, right, the
Dodger we just had standcasting on. He talks about their
involvement in the community and celebrating local businesses and local
organizations and things like that. They have a UCLA Night
in the USC night and they have all them, the
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Laker Night, all those. How's that Clipper Knight gonna go?
When is that Clipper Knight gonna happen here at Dodger Stadium?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Now? Oh my god, I don't understand. I mean, the
La Kings have Dodger Knight. The Dodgers have La King's Knight. Yes,
Do you.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Really think the La Kings would go, hey, go get
them Padres? Or No, there's a team I'm sorry, since
there's no team in San Diego. There's a team in
San Jose. Hey, good luck to you this year. Giants.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
We're in the NHL and there's a team up there,
go get them. I mean, they would never do that.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
If we had Kevin Demoff of the Rams on right
now and we told him we just said, hey, we
just want to something by you.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
You know, what do you think from a marketing perspective
of this approach?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
He would laugh for fifteen straight minutes, hundred percent for
fifteen straight minutes. He would laugh and go, I don't
even know what to say about something like that.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's and and listen, look between
Kevin and our guy Internet Matt, they have checked and
double checked and verified the accounts and all the it's
not we're not making this up.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
We didn't believe it to be fair. That's why we
asked him, are you are you sure about this?
Speaker 4 (12:39):
The official Twitter account for the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah, official Twitter account for the Clippers. Yeah, because when
the old padres, how about that, when they told us,
We're like, no, no, no, no, no, We're not gonna go on. Look,
we do a good job of making ourselves look stupid.
We don't need you to help. How long do you
think it takes for them to say go Dodgers. How
long do you think it happened? Don't you think this?
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Do you think that they they put something out Go
Dodgers before we're off the air?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I mean, based on how this is stacking up, I
guess it depends on when the Dodgers actually make their
lineup public.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
So for four o'clock, first pitch, what is that?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Two?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I'll say that's what thirty one Padres first pitch is
one it's earlier.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
I believe they Uh, I can double check on that.
I'm not one hundred percent matter.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I'm just it doesn't I'm trying to give them a
benefit of a doubt a little bit. Yeah, I know,
let's find out when do the Padres and Angels start today.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
What Padres are a one ten first pitch at Petco? Okay,
so what makes sense? Their lineup will be out right
about now. The Angels, I know, are in Chicago against
the White Sox and they start also at one ten,
so same time for both.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Okay, still, so you know what, and we can get
the Angels, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
You just don't do that with the Podres.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Now with the rival, that's the issue. If the Ramsay
had just moved here, it would be kind weird. But
they say, all right, go Blues or whatever because they
know they have fans with Saint Louis or whatever. Has
no connection to LA. This is literally one of the
Dodgers' biggest rifles. That's the part that sticks. That makes
no that makes no sense whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
That's unbelievable. I'm baffled. I'm baffled by that who's running.
I'm not listening.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I'm not trying to get anybody fired or anything like that.
But somebody's gonna have a conversation with somebody here in
a minute.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
And if we called Steve Baumer right now and told
him this happened, do.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
You think he goes, oh, you know, we really support
the Padres, that's great.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Or do you think he go what the hell? Or
who did that? Who made that?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
This the ladder, Fred the ladder the talk, But we
wouldn't know because we never talked to the Clippers anyway.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Oh, I mean.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Ain't for a lack of trying.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
No, it's not.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Oh man, there's a difference. There's a reason, and we
talk about this all the time. There's a reason that
brands are the brands. There's a reason there's the Dodgers.
There's a reason, there's a Lakers. There's a reason there's
the Kings. There's a reason, there's a Rams.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
There's a reason.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
There's a reason, and it's from top to bottom, and
it goes all the way through the organization with one voice,
one message, and this is how we're going to do things.
And that's why they're continuously on top. Oh by the
way you mentioned the Kings, and we will start doing
hockey soon because we're getting to the playoffs, and that'll
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give me a chance to talk about how much we
all hate Edmonton and how they should be banned from
the league and you.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Should go them. There's a true disdain for Edmonton. Hate Edmonton.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
But yes, just one quick second here on Dodger opening Day,
because you're brought up the Kings. They're the best team
in the NHL at home. They cannot be beaten at home. Yes,
it is remarkable if they can't have whome ie advantage.
I've said this to people, Well, we might play Edmonton again.
I could care less. As long as you have whole
ice advantage. I don't see them losing a series. They
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are that good this year. If they have whole mice,
that's pretty exciting too. Oh my god, I love it.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I love it. Go Kings. Yeah, I'm sure the Clippers
wouldn't say that. They go shirks.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Okay, in the background, you can hear more noise because
now the man with the leaf blower is out there.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I don't know what this guy is blowing.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
There's not a speck of anything on the field, nothing,
and he is out there with a leaf blower working now,
and it's unbelievable how much maintenance is going on at
Dodger Stadium before the Dodgers or the Tigers take the
infield or hit batting practice or anything, or guys come
out to work out. All right, Well, we are going
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to be joined by Ned COLLETTI here in a couple
of minutes. It's Fred Rogan and I just got okay,
hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
We're not going anywhere. Wait wait, wait what I'm gonna
show you something? Way Dave Weees was kind enough to
go pick up my credential. Now, our credentials have our
pictures on them, and we don't submit our pictures, so
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oftentimes for honey, they use pictures from the past.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yes, I know, and I don't like it all at all.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
So you know, I do have pictures with the way
I look now, but those aren't used. But I would
like to show you the picture that they selected for
this year's credential.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Can me share it with you? Please? Please? Ah?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Wow, that's from nineteen seventy five and on top of
like rip Patino, but.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
On top of it, does it not seem like, with
all due respect, I have some look look at the
way my head is.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Yeah, you got a six head, that's how Yeah, you're.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
One of those. You're at the carnival in one of
those funny mirrors.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Look at that, Well.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
That photo has to be from like two thousand and
four something like that.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Look at that, that's nineteen eighty four. Nineteen eighty four.
This is where they found paid for.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Not ninety two thousand and four. Well, they thank you
for picking it up. Greatly appreciated. By the way, I'll
never be allowed anywhere because my photo looks nothing like
match you.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
That's not you as love credential day.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
What see yours? Well it's closer than mine, all right.
Net Coletti is going to join us here in a
couple of minutes. Fred Rogan and Rodney Pete live from
Dodger Stadium on a five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Oh yeah, we are in Blue Heaven. That's right, Blue Heaven.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
If you know you know Rodney Pete, Fred Rogan, opening Day,
Dodgers Stadium. We are live at Dodger Stadium while the
maintenance crew is still going. It's like that commercial still going.
They must have watered the dirt and the grass twenty
five times since we've been here, and cut it.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
There's a leaf flower.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
There are twenty people out here doing their thing, getting ready,
just getting ready for batting practice and fielding ground balls.
Sim then they'll do it all again, Rodney. Now it
makes sense. Now it all makes sense. You have this
one guy out here who has been watering the grass
for about two hours. Yes, he stops. The grass quickly grows.
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Then the guy with the lawnmower rolls over. It rolls
over and cuts the grass. Then he waters it again.
It grows. Then the guy rolls over and cuts it again.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Then they water the dirt to make sure it packs
it down so there's no bad hops. The dirt dry,
and then they got to water it again for it right,
because it got dry. Yes, all right, man that has
seen this for so many years, a guy that sat
at this very stadium and watch this process unfold. Let's
bring in the man in the big chair, our good
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friend Ned Kalatti, Ned, Happy opening.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Day, Happy opening day, gentlemen, and listening to that intro,
you want every great athlete, you want every great player
to have attention to detail. YouTube guys, that was some
attention to detail right there. It was an incredible attention
to detail.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Oh I love it, dan Net. Seriously, you know you've
done it for so many years. What what does Opening
Day mean to you?
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Oh gosh, it's it's it's like to me. It's really
kind of like the the December holidays. They all have
a It has a special feel to it. You know,
if you love the sport and you follow the sport,
the longer you followed it, it never waivers, it never
things out. It's always the most and moost special days
of the year. Baseball is so big for people. And
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when you think about Opening Day, and I know the
Dodtors are two and oer, but today is really like that.
The feel of Opening Day, there's nothing like it. And
I think that we could all sit back and think
of at least one and probably many memories that occurred
on this day. Can you figure out a memory from
May fifteenth or August sixth? Not necessary, I mean, let
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something really special happened. But when you think back to
Opening Day, everybody's got a thought, everybody's got a memory,
everybody can make a smile.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Hey Nett, I know what the Dodgers did during the
off season, besides putting them in a position to seriously
compete does not guarantee anything. We don't know how this
very long marathon will play out. But as they open
this season, as you observe the team they put together,
can you remember a team that was better constructed at
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every spot in your years in baseball as this one is.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
All things considered, I can't. The Yankees some great teams
at the turn of the last century, no doubt, and
there's been great teams here and there. But when you
start at the top, with the ownership, with Mark and
Tom standing magic and more than Andrew and his crew
and Dave robertson his staff, it's like, where do you
see a weakness or a timidness or a being satisfied
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with where you're at. That's one of the most amazing
things to me about watching this organization for the last
twenty years. Close up, there's money. Many tent teams go through. Akay,
we're really good, We're gonna start to really get paid players,
and you start to get a little bit, a little
bit lack of hunger starts to set in. It doesn't
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exist with this group, and it starts at its starts
with the ownership group that that calls Andrew, Hey, you
like this guy, go get them? You like this reliever,
go get them. You want to add here, go do it.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
You know.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
The the insatiable hunger for success and victory and championships
for the people of the Dodgers fan base and organization.
I believe it. And I'm not just saying this. I
think it's unmatched. I don't know what I've ever seen
an organization. Everybody will say they feel this way, but
hardly anybody, and in my memory, nobody has ever been
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able to show it the way they show it, walk
it and live it.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
No, you're absolutely right, Ned. I mean a lot of
teams and you know this. You win a World Series,
you win a Super Bowl, you win an NBA title,
all right, you you you fat cat it a little bit,
and you chill in the offseason. You're like, we want it,
so we gotta we got a cushion here to kind
of relax a little bit. And the Dodgers acted like
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they finished last in the division the way they went
about this offseason. And they're coming off a World Series
championship with the MVP going fifty to fifty in steals
and home runs, and they went crazy in the offseason
and signing guys like I can't believe we had a
terrible season.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I mean, have you seen anything like that?
Speaker 6 (24:27):
No? Ever, That's that's what I mean. It's it's usually
a time Okay, hey we won, let's take a step
back and or let's just stay even and let's see
how it goes. We can we can rest on the
laurels of a championship. That's what I mean. I mean,
it doesn't exist to this group. It's like it's like
they are, you know, coming off a disappointing year where
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they won eighty two eighty three games. Yeah, and it's
not but that to me, I think it's it's it's
very very unique. And I don't think you could as
a fan, as an observer, as an employee there, or
a player there. I don't think you'll ever take it
for granted, especially the player situation where your best players
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continue to be your hardiest workers continue to be unsatisfied
with championships. Mookie Best shows up from Boston says, hey,
I'm here to win multiple titles. Okay. A lot of
people said that but look at what he does. That's
how he plays. You need me to play second, you
need me to play short? What do you need me
to do? How many superstar players have you ever heard say, Hey,
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whatever you need me to do? Yeah, for a day,
for a week, Okay, guys will do it for a year,
for two years. And it's that attitude as you go
through it. And John Sure hosts a Hall of Fame
GM from Atlanta Kansas City, and then Atlanta called me today,
I got the GM job and graduate and I said, John,
give me give me one piece of advice then that
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you know this isn't going to make me, you know,
challenge you, but that I can carry with me forever.
And he said, it's simple. Do you trust the player?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Simple?
Speaker 6 (26:07):
Honor, But when you think about it, do you trust
the player? It goes for your superstar, it goes for
the person trying to make the team, It goes for everybody.
Do you trust? You trust? And tell me, you know,
I don't need a name, because there is no name.
Who won the Dodgers? Do you not trust? You trust everybody?
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Can any other team say that?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Really?
Speaker 6 (26:30):
Say that? In the you know, in the in the
in the closure of a of an office where nobody
else can hear it. You think that they go, well,
I don't know if we can trust this guy. I
don't know if we can trust an effort, trust the process,
trust a hunger to win. I don't think you can
say that about any Dodger. I don't think you say
anybody anything in the minor leagues. So it's a special time.
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We'll talk about the specialists of opening Day. I'm marvel
at the specialists of the organ and how they go
about what they do. And it starts at the very,
very very top, you know.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
And it's interesting to me. Stan Casten was on. I
think the three of us have talked about this in
the past. It's such an incredibly unique situation because despite
the fact they want to win right now, they invest
in younger players that they're going to have down the
road as well. And I'm not necessarily talking about the
minor league system. Let's use Sazaki, let's use Yamamoto, Tommy
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Edmond will be here five years. They invest in young
guys that can play while maintaining success with the older players.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
And I don't know any teams that are able to
do that.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
It's like we're worrying about this year and then we'll
go to the miners. These guys are signing guys for
the major league roster that they expect to be here
for years, while still winning with the older players. I've
never seen anything like this.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
No, most organizations have to make choice at the deadline,
and they're usually trade prospects to stay in the race
and give them the playoffs and win around or two
rounds or a World Series. Yamamoto would have been the
number one pick in the nation to use it, the
number one pick easily the number one pick Sosaki. This
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would have been the number one pick in the nation
without a doubt. So you have a team that drafts
where they draft, which is at the end of rounds,
not just one round every round, draft late all the time.
Everybody else putting bunch is picking ahead of them for
years now, and then they go out and they not rebuild,
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but they support your most important category because without it
you can't win, and that's your pitching staff. With two
guys that would be top picks in any draft and
are really major league ready a little bit, so that
to me is like another of the marvels of the organization.
They have now put together a you know when when
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Snell is gone and Gladsnow's gone and Clayton's gone and
all these guys are gone, and as sad as that
will be, but they've got they've got a number one
and number two starter that are are really kids. Yeah,
those teams don't have just those two guys. Most teams
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in the league don't have those two, let alone everybody else.
So that goes in with the hunger to be successful,
to sustain success, to not rest on your bors, because
now they're back filling not just with guys with a hope,
but with the best that you can find. That to me,
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that's incredible.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Hey, ned As Fred Mitch, we had we had stand on.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
A little while ago, and you know, we were talking
about you know the rest of the league and how
you know it's perceived the die are doing X y
Z when you hear stuff like that, and and it's
all within the rules and the Dodgers have just been
able to do it better than other people. What do
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you think about the gripes? Do you hear like, oh,
we got to look at the CBA. Oh, we got
to look at the deferred money payment which has been
in place for years because the Dodgers have have done
it better than than than other people. Some of these
things that come about because the Dodgers now are winning.
And then again, as we just mentioned, signed players that
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that wanted to come here.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
How does that make you feel?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
And and what do you think about these other clubs
that are griping right now and the Dodgers are just
playing within the rules.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
It's a great George Harrison say, isn't it a pity?
Too bad? They haven't broken any rules. They've got to
live up to it. They've got to be able to
fund it, and then they do so because other people,
other ownership doesn't. I think there's probably the true owners,
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but they're not going to get involved in this type
of situation. And maybe they don't trust their front office
as much or the selection process or much, or maybe
they're satisfied. I have no idea, but I just think, hey,
you know what, it's too bad to feel their Wigan,
But guess what, We're going to come into your stadium
and we're going to sell it out. They won't all
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be wearing the colors of your team, but they'll be
wearing blue, a lot of them, and we're going to
come in and make you a pun of dough as well,
and just watch us because because we're on the run
and we're going to be on the run for a
long time. You know, I could sell the club. You know,
we're not breaking any rules. You can go back to
oh War World Series. Arizona won the World Series and
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if you look back at the stars of that team,
Jerry Colangelo, the OOS, very smart guy, did basketball for
a long time, really brilliant guy. Most of their star
players were fifty to fifty fifty today fifty to third.
And then m will be put into rules that you
had to be able to fund it because the union said,
oh wait a minute, Randy Johnson rulyans dollars, Mark Vay saying,
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I'm not sure you know.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but most.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Of them had fifty to fifty. So this isn't new.
It's just at larger dollars and it's gotten more of
a boundary to it because you've got to be able
to fund it in the year or so. So, you
know what, shame on anybody that could jealous Jealousy is
an awful thing, and to me, that's what it is.
That's what it is. You know, everybody's I don't know
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one franchise that has lost value. That's not only Scott
Boris now, but you know our franchise is losing value.
Our teams, you know that that sold for five hundred
million ten years ago. Are they now worth four hundred million,
three hundred million. No, they're probably worth even if they're terrible,
seven or eight or nine hundred million. So it's a
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it's a business that has been fortified, that is very
very very healthy, and and some people use that to
reinvest and they keep going. You know something else too,
that they just did the clubhouses a few years ago.
They've redone all of that for one hundred million. Look
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at the Look at the underneath the pavilion in left
and right field and center field. That area there was
unused area for for decades. It's huge. Another one hundred
million I think during the pandemic. So it's not like
they're they're just finding ways to skirt what they need
to do. They know they've got a great brand, and
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they accent and they don't rest on their laurels, and
they just keep going and going and going, and they're
they're they're running a race. They're leading by a laugh,
And now they look at everybody as they pass them
and they go, wait a minute, we're going to be
up by another laugh in another ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
What they do the thing I.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Don't understand the investment the franchise. It's not bad for baseball.
It's good for baseball. As you mentioned other owners, they
ought to be thanking the Dodgers and sending them flowers
because anytime the Dodgers come to town, those guys make
more money per game than they make at any point
(34:21):
during the year.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
The Dodgers are.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
A gigantic draw. They're the biggest road draw in baseball.
Because of the Dodgers and what they have done with
Otana Yamamoto Suzaki, the way they have reconstructed Dodgers Stadium,
they have become one of the crown jewels, not of
Major League Baseball and not of American sport, but of
global sports. That's good for the game of baseball. That's
(34:44):
good for every single owner. So when I hear these
guys complain. The owner of the Baltimore Orioles was at
some international finance conference and he brought up the inequity
in baseball and something has to change, and he some
giant global finance convention, and I'm thinking, you want to
(35:06):
be sending these guys thank you notes. Thank you if
you've increased the value of my franchise, you made me
more money because I won't spend it, but you will.
And that's what galls me when I hear this stuff
all the time.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Ned the Orioles.
Speaker 6 (35:22):
At that conference, the.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Orioles were there, but the guy who owns the Orioles.
Speaker 6 (35:27):
Yeah, well you know what, and it's a new owner.
So this isn't directed at the new owner of the Orioles.
But look at the Orioles history in the international market.
They refuse to be involved in it. For a decade,
perhaps for years, they refused to do it. I want
to They called me in the interviewed me there for
a president of Baseball OPSI a few years ago, and
(35:49):
I had all these questions for the previous ownership and
they just kind of said, well, you know, we haven't
done it. We're not going to do it then. So
that's you know, the Dodgers not invested in I mean,
what do we do? I mean, look at their track record,
look at what Dave done. And now they're calling out
somebody else who's being aggressive. I don't mean to pick
on the orders, but you know you brought them up
(36:11):
as as you know how we're grapeful about this. Well
look at their international signings. How many times did they
they signed anybody before Michael IIAs got in there was years.
But again, you know what we should we should be
grateful for the time we are in with this organization
and how it goes. And one more thing about the
(36:33):
international growth. The World Series in Japan had higher ratings
in America than America. And you had New York and
la that the two biggest cities with teams involved and
millions watching. But yet the Dodgers have grown the sport
and a lot of teams have grown the sport internationalie
(36:54):
and including an Asian, but nobody has grown it like
the Dodgers have in the last couple of years. Nobody.
And I know people at the International MLB, you know,
and they they work with everybody and they try to
help everybody and they grow the game to go to
the game, but you know, they just they just shake
their head. It is is beyond the wildest comprehension what
(37:18):
has taken place in the growth of baseball. Yeah, in Asia,
it's because of the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
No, just real quick follow up to that.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Fred and I were in Tokyo for that series, and
it's incredible, and you you know, look you were you
were doing it when you know, everybody was talking about
Dominican Republican in Mexico and Puerto Rico and Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
And and and a lot of the Latin.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Countries and and Major League Baseball has been brilliant at
you know, building these academies and building the presence there.
But the Dodgers broadened it out and really captured the
Asian market, which I mean it was incredible, net incredible
throughout the whole country. As you mentioned, more people watch
(38:02):
that than they watched in the States.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
It was incredible.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
The not only just show hey, but the Dodger brand
internationally and in Asia. It's incredible. And do you think
that feeds into some of the I guess jealousy that
is going on with some of the other the other clubs.
Speaker 6 (38:25):
Yeah, but they had the chance to and they couldn't
pull it off. And and and it's not only that
they that the Dodgers spend money and invest but the
Dodgers are a destination. There's other teams that want to
show Hey, okay everybody. You know, some people going to Toronto.
Other teams wanted the player, but the player saw what
(38:46):
the Dodgers do, who they are, were they play the
whole thing made that decision more than the Dodgers been
on Yamamoto, same thing. Sasaki wasn't even a money deal.
Everybody was going to pay relatively the same amount of
money off the International Fund. But you know what they're
they're the destination. Well you know the teams that are
(39:06):
that are sending the blues about it, and what have
they done to make their place a destination? They you know,
they're not the Dodgers destination. They may be somewhat of
a destination, but they're not this team destination as a destination.
That's you know what that takes work. That takes a
lot of work, a lot of effort, and and hey,
(39:28):
you got to tip your cap to to the Dodgers.
That's what they've done. That's what they've concentrated on, including
their marketing people who have done a tremendous job. You know,
before Otani, they probably had a plan to go after
that market and to really make it special. We've got
tours in Japanese. Now at Dodgers Stadium, Outsill, the team
(39:50):
tours in English. It's a destination spot for people traveling
from Asia to California or to to North America. Think
about that. I thought, that's unbelievable, that this that, this
is what happened. But when you put her all together
and you're no business, no sports, and you know, the appetite,
(40:11):
the global appetite for this particular franchise in this particular sport,
it's it's the master class. It's the absolute masterclass.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Well, Net, thank you, thank you for educating us as
a tenured professor. Ned, you have conducted a masterclass today.
It is greatly appreciated.
Speaker 6 (40:34):
I love being with you guys. We'll do it a
lot this summer hopefully.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (40:37):
Hey and Rodney, you know, don't don't ever give that
glove away.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Pretty sweet, thanks, Mat, I appreciate it. The globe is
going to go in a glass case.
Speaker 6 (40:51):
Well done, gentlemen, have fun today.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Thanks Ned, our good buddy, Ned Colletia. It's Fred Rogan,
Rodney Pete. We continued live from Dodger Stadium an opening
day LA Sports.
Speaker 7 (41:11):
Oh yeah, come on Opening day Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Rodney p. Fred Rogan. We're here early.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
As we uh kind of look out onto the field,
we see some of the players start to kind of
trickle out and start to warm up, start to get
loose a little bit, start stretching, throwing the ball around
a little bit. Some Dodger players, some uh Tiger players.
Then we see Jack Clarity. Watch Jack Clarity walk into
(41:52):
the visitors clubhouse. Yeah, the screens are up on the
field now for batting practice. The cage is off to
the side. They'll move that it in and eventually guys
will start hitting. I see like four Dodger players out
there just jogging. Yeah, it looks like Suzaki out there jogging.
Oh that yeah, yeah, Hey, he knows you from Japan.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
He does, he does. He saw you make that play.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
He absolutely gave me love after I made that play.
That's what I'm talking about, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
we look at the press box still and Hernandez of
the Times is here. We see Bill Plashki in the hallway.
The ushers and service people are starting to assemble, going
over their pregame ritual. You know, they have a meeting too.
They have a meeting a pregame meeting as well. You
(42:38):
know what they tell them, what they tell them, Do
what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
That's the meeting. Now.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
I do want to point something out as we continue
from Dodger Stadium, and it was a bit shocking to
me earlier, not quite as shocking as the fact that
the Clippers actually wished the San Diego.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Padres good luck on Twitter. That was the most shocking
thing of the day.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
We found they congratulate, didn't wish luck to the Padres.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
And the Angels.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
And you can make the comment, well, the Dodger lineup
isn't out yet, that's okay. You still should not give
the old rival of the Dodgers. Hey, guys, way to
go have a great year. But that was probably number one.
Number two was the unveiling of the Dodger season credentials,
which we were all able to get.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
Oh my godess.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
So when Dave weis and thank you, Dave just back
from Tokyo himself, when he was able to secure mine,
he gave it to me.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
And it looks nothing like me.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
I look somewhat bloated, very young, and someone who basically
was in need of some physical therapy. I mean it
did not resemble me at all. And I showed everybody
Rodney and they all started to laugh. But then we
got to this. You said, hey, look at mine, and
(43:58):
I don't even know who that is. When we saw
your picture, Yeah, it was like one of those carnival
mirrors that you look into and it distorts your face,
and that's what mine looked like. But yeah, yours looked
like it was nineteen eighty three, Fred, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
And yours, you know, yours looked like it was twenty
five pounds ago. It did it?
Speaker 8 (44:18):
Did?
Speaker 2 (44:19):
It really did. It was a carnival, carnival picture.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
And I don't know where they got I guess they
pull off the Internet from random shots. I think they
close their eyes and say, let's just scroll and hit
Fred Rogan and then they close their eyes and point
their finger and say, we're going to use this picture,
or Rodney Pete, we're gonna use that picture of him.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
But how they got that?
Speaker 1 (44:43):
I would have liked to have got a call and
said submit a picture for your credential please.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
That could have been one way to handle. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
Now, if you think ours seem a little off, then
we were treated to Kevin figure. I in all the
years I've known you, I don't think you've ever looked
that way.
Speaker 4 (45:05):
No, I have this scraggly beard.
Speaker 3 (45:06):
Clearly when I took this photo, I was going through
a quarter life crisis or something.
Speaker 4 (45:09):
I have no idea where they found this.
Speaker 3 (45:13):
There was a point in time, maybe ten twelve years
ago where I had like this real scraggly beard going on.
Speaker 4 (45:18):
It was really weird. I was trying something different. It
clearly did not work.
Speaker 3 (45:21):
Somehow they got that photo and that has been permanently
used as my credential photo here at Dodger Stadium for
the last five years.
Speaker 2 (45:30):
It doesn't look anything like that, nothing like you kept.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
So then you think, okay, well maybe it was just
three guys, you know, maybe we drew the short straw.
Then we saw internet Matz photo. It was I didn't
see mats photo. I got to see mats foto, your photo,
Matt let me show.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
Oh my god, look at this man they use. They
used this stretch right, the stretch feature the camera.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Yeah lord, you know, to really help you understand what
it looks like. His head looks about.
Speaker 8 (46:06):
Two feet wide and no dimension, flat like the Hamburgler right,
just flat like like a pen hit him right in
the face and switched.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
His head out.
Speaker 1 (46:21):
So listen, if you if we never get back into
Dodger Stadium, there'll be a reason, and not because we're
not welcomed, but because our credential pictures look nothing like us.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
When they look at you, we're not letting you in.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
Who are you? It's going to be like this, who
are you? Where did you get that? Because that looks
nothing like it. Okay, so we have completed two hours
of our program. Coming up next hour, we have some
audio third base coach Dino Ebel. It is mind boggling
to consider what he is thinking about during the game,
(47:01):
and he gives us some insight into that.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
So we're going to share that with you.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
Plus we're going to try to track down a couple
of our buddies over here in the press box to
come over live from Dodgers Stadium. Fred Rogan, Rodney Pete
Opening day for the Dodgers on a five seventy LA
Sports
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