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never uh sat on a couch more over the last four days but actually more on the bed every documentary you could possibly think of I got it cranked out so whatever you need just let me know what well you missed the best one you told us you haven’t watched clip yet no I have not seen haven’t seen clip yet I’ll catch up on that uh right after the show’s done I’ll go right back in there and get in there what have you what have you been checking out um that good huhuh wow never heard of that yeah okay never mind forget I asked yeah never mind here’s the thing here’s the thing Trev here’s the thing sometimes you get into uh let’s say a lot of mine have uh some of them are politics oriented some of them have certain uh things to do with certain countries that are run a certain way um let’s see what other uh Avenues I went down a lot of uh let’s just say a lot of news type of uh a lot of news type of um uh documentaries we’ll call it that way okay super fun way to spend just something where you don’t feel well you just want to dig into the state of the world sounds like a nice relaxing uh couple of days you do a rabbit hole for like uh an hour I did like a 4day rabbit hole on everything that’s wrong with the world when you’re kep going when you’re feeling lousy why don’t you want all just like Scooby-Doo reruns and The Brady Bunch and just chill out and be mindless and the price is right right there you go yeah just something easy yeah that didn’t happen yeah that didn’t happen maybe it could have been all the I had uh kind of a few different kind of thlu I was on maybe that was taking me down different path the world I don’t know what it was maybe it was the meds maybe it was that sounds incredibly unpleasant I was going to say I being sick is is bad enough and then you double down on the state of the universe that sounds aw um I did start watching uh I think you guys had mentioned this a little bit at one point and I’m behind on it so I’m starting from the beginning started watching full swing on Amazon oh it’s not bad it’s not bad yeah I it’s I like it it it’s it’s funny I’m I want to hear why you like it because I I watch golf I follow the PGA Tour I I have followed the the politics of live versus PGA and all of those things and I find it interesting because I love golf but that you are not a golfer and don’t watch golf that you like that is is interesting to me so I I know most of you’re right I I don’t watch golf but I know the names like Roy maroy okay I know that I know um um Jordan spe like I I know some of these guys it’s not like I don’t know him Scotty sheffler I don’t know much about him I just I like that there’s some storylines there I like that I get to know tell me what they are because I don’t know what they are what do you mean like they’re the least interesting human beings walking the face of the Earth like I understand the politics of the two tours is interesting but the Rory’s got a little bit of heat on him I like Rory cuz he he will say things and well there’s some stuff going on in Rory’s life right now that I’m very interested in I like that a lot like I like that he’s doing that but those guys to me are just as dull as the day is long so it’s not it’s not that they have I’m not watching Dennis Rodman’s life I’m not watching and I and I know that I’m not I think it’s more the fact that okay I know that these players are um who’s the dude that was ranked 70th and got into the US Open Joel Damon okay that that’s exactly okay I I don’t know anything about this guy I liked his story and you know he had some personal stuff in his life that happen now all of a sudden you find yourself rooting for him when he’s in the US Open Championship he’s leading at he’s on the top of the leaderboard going into the weekend it added something to me that I don’t know the players right and and I think anytime you know anything about these players it makes a little bit more interesting em you perked up when I said Rory Mary of late how how so I know you’re not a golf person but I’m on the internet but that’s why that’s what I’m getting at that where did the Rory mroy Amanda balonus thing cross your path uh I think just I mean I follow several uh sports related funny things and I’ve just been seeing the behind the scenes of so there’s a analyst on the Amanda balonus oh she’s all over the uh she’s over she’s all over and she’s really good at what she does and she is a gol reporter SL interhost on the PGA tour coverage of kind of like a Malik Andrews uh I would say more like a Tom raldi kind of situation um and and she’s very good at what she does she’s she works for CBS mostly and she’s also very beautiful and and uh Rory maroy two weeks ago month tops just out of nowhere filed for divorce everybody’s like whoa and like Rory and his wife have been like connected yes very public very public and then uh this most recent tournament up in Canada the Canadian open the RBC open in can I love that we get to talk golf this is so exciting it has nothing to do with golf and then they appear to be enjoying one another’s company after the uh telecast Amanda and Roy I have no idea you can if you’re single you can do that he filed for divorce and TMZ posted some pictures of them embracing yeah and H does that mean what do you mean what what’s going on here I mean there’s they’re embracing where at the tournament well that’s not very secretive well he doesn’t have to B doesn’t have to be a secret he’s not married anymore could mean nothing could mean nothing could mean that she really liked his seven iron into number 14 could could have meant that yeah who knows that’s a golf way to put it that’s a golf way to put it right there I’ve also seen like the images of them like parting ways like on the the you know I’m assuming they have a studio desk for uh CVS and you know her just talking to him but like talking after the uh show goes to break yeah and just you know chatting like uh very close friends with Chad yes so it’s exciting and you know that that that’s the number one story in the golf world not the P not live it’s terrific is that going to end up making uh story lines we’ll find out I would if it’s it’s full swing season three out I was going to say full swing there they’re two seasons in are you caught up in it or not not no I I I I’ve I’ve watched them both okay yeah all right I’m about halfway through the first season yeah well that that first season was two years ago th this the the season two was last year’s golf season so they’re I’m assuming they’re doing it a third year season one just the live live golf thing it was the initial split okay yeah yeah I’m still watching where an polter is basically making a decision of if he’s going is he not like I’m I’m behind definitely behind on that well it’s funny because the whole thing kind of spun back around again that when it first happened there was it was World War three right that the two sides were sniping each other like crazy the temperatures have come way down everybody’s calmed calmed significantly and it looks like a a Reconciliation is imminent but it’s felt that way for about six month that’s the golf of it all that’s not interesting these these these scandalous hugging is what I’m here for and the really bad picture of tiger from last oh my gosh have you seen this Al Jesus Lord where I it’s cuz I went from full swing to Wars in different countries and then back to skip that skip the wars in different countries Tiger’s at a poker table looking old old but by the way we’re going to get to this it’s is a very sore subject for me all of a sudden um Embrace looking a little disoriented is that fair M yeah but still yolked oh very very strong like almost like a football player big but but his he looked a little glassy eyed shall we say he was very disassociative yes like you can see that he is checked out behind the eyes and just staring at the uh table I’m not sure what game they were playing he did a poker game so maybe he had chilling out and having a good time but it looked his hairline does not look great he he there’s a reason you rarely see him without a hat on he had a queen Jack and he wanted to hold want nobody to know it’s like okay my it sound like a queen Jack is a good hand if you’re just getting introduced to Tiger Woods in like the last two years if you’re for some reason you just became conscious in the last two years the two things that you would get from Tiger Woods is the big dog meme yeah that’s pretty great also kind of checked itish uh Tiger Woods and then uh this this poker meme yeah this was interesting this is this is not tiger winning the Masters in fist pumping and uh no that’s he’s still the B name in golf hasn’t been competitive in quite some time but he’s he’s everything in that Universe at that point just shave it off brother yeah shave off the head we’re good everybody knows you you’re you’re in good shape all right speaking of this and and I’m I’m going to send you something really quick so Al’s Al’s on his secret compound today so but I you need to see this so you know what we’re talking about um somebody sent me my pal J St sent me this what up um and it’s picture of me Al I’ll post this uh online too so everybody can see it um it’s a picture of me shortly after I started here at 710 okay which is about nine nine years and three months or so ago okay I sent it to youall you should have it here in a second 2015 it’s 2015 so is that the same time as like clipped roughly yeah not yeah really yourself in that I think bomber bought the team in 2015 yeah it was the the CLI the whole clip the Donald Sterling incident the the tape and V savano with her welders mask and walking around doing crazy stuff that was 2014 and I was at a different station at that point but I’d been I’ve been here going on 10 years this is the beginning of my 10th year you I’m looking at you right now something come to mind when you look at that picture perhaps can you again please oh yeah my bad so um tell me tell me your first reaction when you see that picture well I first off I have no idea what you’re doing as far as your facial expression that’s the first thing of you look shocked about something yep um no facial hair obviously uh you’re you’re clean shaven right there yep got some uh got some pretty good hair still on the uh on top okay now we’re getting warmer keep going some pretty good hair still on the top there um you’re also flabbergasted in this photo no no I’m surprised again it’s a screen grab so it could have been mid Expressions but but yes I look perplexed shall we say yeah still the same headphones we know that you had those for a while we had them for a while yeah one ear as always okay less gray definitely less gray now you’ve hit the two most important things okay no glasses yeah no glasses yes yep okay well you say like kind of no zoom in on there’s not a lot of gray in there there’s some there’s some by the exposed ear yeah a little but nothing like we’re dealing with now and it’s the beginnings of the thinning on top yes so this is about what 80 years ago do you know what this looks like see I knew I shouldn’t have sent it to I think I know what happened I think you got a text and I think Susan said hey just ah heads up I have a feeling Michael might want to go to Oregon and that’s the look on your face oh yeah this is very memeable look I I I look at myself every day in the mirror right when I brush my teeth when I when I comb my hair when I you know I shave or whatever it is I I I see when you do your affirmations when I do my daily affirmations of course no doubt about it I saw this picture and then I look at I what the hell happened to me like I I’ve I’ve turned into an old man in in the span of a day like I I I aged 10 years because I looked at an old picture like I there’s pictures around the house that I see of myself that from a long time ago and I feel like I’m relatively like that this one hit me like a I’m I’m not bald I’m beginning to Bald I don’t have a ton of gray hair I don’t have glasses I don’t have a Gray beard I don’t look like uh somebody hit me in the face and my eyes are swollen you could correct this you could correct this in 30 minutes you get some contacts on you throw on a hat and you shave I’m not no well that’s it you know the shave is an interesting idea because I’m a little leaner than I was a few months ago I could potentially shave and and look a little young I may try that no no why not no why it does not look better you don’t think so I don’t think so why not if he shaves it doesn’t look better it does not look better why you look because we’ve seen it because you’ve shaved it you look different yeah you look different because like when remember when Kelly you tried to shave your mustache well sometimes you’ll clip it and you’ll you’ll mess it up and you have to start over I think that this version of Travis Rogers is more roate for the age that you are than this version Travis Rogers I think is offputting I’m going to go to the store I’m going to buy a bunch of hair dye I’m going to get my teeth capped i’mna do what did in episode two of start wearing who’s the uh what’s the brand like Ed Hardy what was the dazle stuff yeah start getting on get some Botox okay we can really get one of Chris’s shirts where you only button from like you button from the CH from the belly button stop buttoning from the belly B just leave it all open so here’s what you need to do you need to up your skin care you need to get some Korean uh sunscreen because it’s the better we I disagree you get BOTOX put into your uh your forehead cuz I see a line there not doing that keep going you can get good Botox it’s La you get good told you about the dermatologist I went to see it looked like he came in looked like he’d given himself a face lift in the lobby you don’t get to have to do everything you can do a little bit it was now they have sale right now they have a sale on Botox you should you can micro needle your eyes because you got little under eyes I need something I can do in 30 seconds by myself oh you you put the cucumbers on your eyes from there two covers on the eyes yeah look I I need a whole regimen I need a I did post it on Twitter and I said caption this wrong answers only well we’ll see we we’ll see don’t forget tickets are on sale right now for Mandy’s 3 at the Commerce Casino it is is coming up really soon Saturday June 22nd the biggest party we throw all year long here at 710 we’ll find out which show will take home the Champa and nuts trophy for show of the Year slee you weren’t here yesterday we came up with a slogan for the traven slea show okay what is it we don’t hate you we don’t hate you because we take calls we interact with you on Twitter we have askle you’re part of one of our and we’re here love you all and we’re here yeah the in the words of Mike funes we are here along the way I got an 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premiere and EM you caught the first two episodes on Hulu last night yeah I did yeah it’s I think you’re GNA love it I I really do it’s if if you liked winning time I think you’ll like this it’s obviously a different story to tell it’s losing time it’s it’s losing time for sure and the performances with I I think a couple of very nitpicky kind of exceptions are terrific in particular Lawrence Fishburn as Doc and Kell Patrick hman she’s terrific she’s terrific and think Kelly o coin as Andy Roser is terrific too so who’s that character again like can you explain to me he’s the team president he’s he’s that kind of the guy kind of goes around and like really stressed out yes okay got it yeah that’s Kelly o coin he was in the America he’s been in a million things but I think he’s terrific in it too and Ed O’Neal is great did was I do you agree with what I said yesterday M about Ed O’Neal is such a famous actor Al that when when you watch him for me and and so is Lawrence Fishburn to be sure but I don’t know with Lawrence Fishburn you just kind of immediately accept him as the character he’s playing Ed O’Neal is Ed O’Neal the entire time he does a great job as Sterling but I I’m just seeing I’m seeing Jay from Modern Family I just I he does a great performance and he makes Sterling as weird and as creepy as he probably was but I’m seeing Ed O’Neal the whole time it’s like evil Jay from Modern Family because it’s like a older man younger woman thing because I mean Gloria isn’t like a super younger woman she’s still she’s very much an adult woman catrick Coleman and uh V is a younger woman than that but it’s just it does feel like a little bit of the evil version of that but can he’s such a good actor that you still see Donald Sterling but you see a little Flex of Ed O’Neal yeah I was supposed to be there on Monday as well so obviously I wasn’t able to go but I’m excited to get caught up I’ll get caught up today I’ll make sure that I uh that I do that obviously support Ramona as well so a surprise Cameo from someone that’s there twice and I’m just like what did that actually happen were they actually friends I don’t want to spoil it for people who haven’t seen it yet but I was like oh that was interesting yeah yeah well I think you could say who it is right okay Lavar Burton there twice and I don’t know why he’s as Lavar Burton he’s not playing a character he abouted so well no micro blading it it was well because depending on your age you’ve encountered Lavar Burton as you know the actor from Roots You encountered him from the Reading Rainbow you uh it’s just there there’s a million different versions of Lavar Burton that you’ve you’ve run into and then he’s just playing himself and he’s in a sauna with Doc Rivers you’re like okay I wasn’t ready for this this is this is a little uh unexpected but it’s I I’m excited for you to see it out so we can talk about it because it’s uh it’s really really good before we move on Lakers coaches in it too JJ reck he is he actually is very prominent in the first few episodes by the way that’s a very and JJ reic is a handsome in real life he’s a handsome person TV movie JJ reick the guy whoever that actor is that’s playing reel he’s he’s like the most handsome man in the world it’s pretty good to have a a model play you not bad um was I right about that yeah no you’re right he he is too attracted to play JJ I think that like you could have had like I think it needed to be a little gruffer I know that he doesn’t have a beard at this point in time in his playing career but needs to be a little more Rough Around the Edges than like super pretty boy like he was super pretty boy in this and also their their like you caller response in the bus after the second episode is pretty funny uh with his role but anyway um I saw I puted out a photo of Travis the photo of Travis from nine years ago that your friend sent to you J Ste bad guy yeah was like friend and quotation marks and I put out there caption this wrong answers only so I’m going to read you some of the captions that we’ve seen so far okay so uh this is from Frey he says the face you make when they don’t have sushi at Alberts had two roles yesterday that is that’s our definition of a P1 somebody that knows that you care that much about the sushi at Albert I went yesterday and uh believe you they had the spicy tuna which sometimes they have sometimes they don’t it’s my favorite one and they had two of them I’m like I’m going to treat myself I’m going to double Alberts and Sushi myself yesterday so I did it was wonderful we got Dan on top here who says I got a double double of spicy tuner rolls he’s stacking tun on top of each other it was like I had never eaten in my life like I I don’t think you could have actually seen my hands moving like it was just a blur it looked like the Tasmanian devil stuffing sushi rolls into its face it was awful uh Daniel Topia says you put ketchup on tacos marcelus bad guy yeah bad guy for sure and then also this is still never understood that angle so weird there’s a couple that are of the same vein of trusting farts and then then he goes too far uh Allah an anniversary today that we’ll talk about later yeah well yeah we’ll talk about that namore says [Laughter] ioras good look I’m glad they’re just making fun of my face and not the fact that I’ve aged 140 years in uh in the last 10 so back to clip very quickly s JJ reick plays a very prominent role in in in the series obviously and certainly in the the first episode or two and JJ reck it seems almost certain at this point that he is uh going to be the next coach of the LA Lakers he was on Gojo and gock and was asked about uh you know his potential being the next coach of the of of the team I would say this uh my focus right now is on uh calling the NBA Finals I am so fortunate that I’m in this position and I get to call these finals with uh Doris and Mike and uh I mentioned the State Farm thing that I just did on YouTube my daytoday right now is consumed with calling games uh the 19 different podcasts I feel like I have uh my obligations to all of our partners uh so uh my focus is on the NBA Finals I will I will say that in terms of Shams that will be addressed uh once the season is over so I’ll just say that that that was nothing that was just one step shy of yeah I’m the coach I just can’t say it yet that that was the only thing missing from that comment was well of course I’m going to be the coach of the Lakers but we’re just going to let this thing play out and by the end of the month it’ll be official that’s the only thing missing I think uh a couple weeks ago you and I were talking about the only surprise left in all this is um is if somebody else was named the coach or if there was another favorite that all of a sudden popped up and it’s like hey you know what no JJ reck is not that’s not going to be a lock so but to hear it actually coming from JJ reck I’m with you that everything that he said that was a very political answer I’m focused just on the NBA Finals it almost sounded like uh I don’t know it it that’s definitely a players press conference SL coach’s press conference um and I get it too I I think if those that are saying you know why they just hire him as the coach what the hell are they waiting for he’s going to finish the NBA finals and then he’ll be announced probably at some point after that the head coach but nothing too surprising there but interesting for it to come directly from him there there’s a couple of other things going on that I think um did kind kind of takes you back to where they were and hopefully takes you to where they’re moving forward o over the next few seasons along the way uh th this was uh your friend Yovan bhha who was writing about this and he he mentioned a couple of things about reic that in particular are in contrast to the way that Darin ham approach the job that I want to get into next because I think it it is a a a good source of optimism for the Lakers moving forward and also a really big miss looking back that’s coming up next it’s traven slee 710 ESPN Sedano and cap for your afternoon Drive the fun way to drive home on 710 you so badly want to be a 1995 shock jock still I do and I’m just tired of it tell you what man I tell you what we’re going to go to Y crew man tell it out right now why do you have to put the business at risk why am I putting the business at risk man tell you what man we’re going to do some yly crew man you’re an idiot you are an idiot the LA afternoon takeover e e e e person dropped off food at your house twice in one day um I don’t great question Travis and SWA on 710 ESPN what are your symptoms Al are you are you uh runny nose post-nasal drip cough headache night sweats what do you got I feel like this is an ad for really sped up the Sy yeah right um no at this point I’m better I still got a cough and um but when I was sick just kind of your regular flu I couldn’t get out a bed I just had no energy nothing at all literally I would if I got got out of bed to go use the restom I came back I’m like did I just run a half marathon so you decided to unwind with watching the world burn not all of them but some of them is right in the background know where you’re watching over there like watch watch watch Plinko s watch the mountain climber game watch Seinfeld watch the I got Seinfeld no I got Seinfeld in Seinfeld was a part of the mix I told you I got full swing in the mix as well and then you know I’d Veer off a little bit sometimes I went from Kramer to some other things around the world are going on I guess Ukraine I guess in your defense there is a lot going on there there’s there’s a lot there’s a lot of things that uh you can get caught up on you can get caught up on to find out whether or not Al is going to win host of the Year backto back is Mace finally going to win the most coveted award at the mandes host of the year you find out on Saturday June 22nd at Commerce Casino vote for all the awards that we’re going to hand out right now at espnla.com click the voting page with the Normand legal logo vote early vote often and a special thanks to the LA offices of Joseph s Normand injury attorneys you can trust 2 and3 747 2000 you go back to back s you could be like the uh the Lakers be like Jorge you could be like well Jorge is just like he’s like the 27 Yankees he’s just ripping it off every year should have done Pat Riley after last year I should have just said and next year we’re going to do it again and then I look over what are you talking about exactly uh I so last segment I tweeted out a picture of Travis and I said Caption This Wrong aners only and it’s packed picture of Travis from 9 years ago uh when he first was here with uh 710 so here’s some of the Great captions the one from pory he says when you open the garage and still see the boxes from high school reunion after they promised to be cleared out so I okay that’s go go on I have something on that all right so another one is the face when Cody was picking his three item plate rice and beans that I like see like Cody I’m a very fond of Cody I think I think he’s very bright he’s very talented he’s a very hardworking guy and then we went right back to square one with that horrible horrible Chinese food combo that he had all right I have one more from melan matne says uh when Mr Belding found out Save By the Bell was getting cancelled it’s messed up so uh you’re a Mad Men person right em yeah so you know when they go to do the Cool Whip thing in the lab I haven’t rewatched it so okay explain it again Mr Belding is the scientist in this scene and he looks like he’s 900 years old when right now you look you look Saved by the Bell Guy Mr Belding is the principal of Bayside High he’s kind of a younger guy he’s like he’s the he’s the classic High School principal when you’re 16 and he’s probably 40 but you think he’s 60 but he looked 40 at the time he shows up in madman a few years later and he looks like he’s 107 and that’s what people think I look like yeah that’s not a that’s not a that’s not nice that’s not a good affiliation I told you what you need to do and we already talked about it you’re going to start changing your clothes you’re going to start wearing shirts where you keep the buttons open you’re going to shave uh you’re going to put on a ton of cologne we we got you the cologne I couldn’t stand to be around myself at that point the the the rest of it so check this Al I uh Emily what did you a week ago or so you asked me if I had an old DVD player right because uh um Pepe had given me some DVDs I thought I could play them the thing I have can’t play them so anyway I needed a DVD player to see that so she says to me do you have an old he’s got like seven different got a VCR I got a VCR I got a DVD player and so I I said yeah I yeah I I do I I need to I need to find it and so I kind of slipped my mind I forgot so she does the right thing and she texts me last night she says hey if you can take a look for that VCR and see if you can uh bring it in so this morning when Emily came in a VCR Circa 2002 or whatever yeah a VCR or CD player of the or DVD player of the time yeah and and so where was in my garage Al was basically the most inaccessible corner of the entire thing there was a punching bag there was shop backs there was giant buckets full of tennis balls how big is your garage enough to hold all of this stuff six car garage um and it also has room for a motor home there was uh a an end table there were several lamps a box fan and and the boxes of all of the high school reunion stuff that we’ve had in my garage for 20 years that Susan refuses to throw away I nearly killed myself trying to get you that DVD player so I just I just need you to understand that I’m in there Susan Susan comes out she goes what are you doing in here and it took all of my adult patients and 27 years of marriage to not explode at try not to kill myself because you won’t throw away nine boxes of sombreros that’s what I’m trying to do that’s what it was all going it was it was because I may have dropped something on my foot that hurt a little bit I may have kicked the box fan that I didn’t see behind the other box of of uh sombreros and everything else but it was a very tense moment in the Rogers household you didn’t have to do it I I I was I first of all once I started to get there yeah I I I had to stop because i’ I’d already blown up the garage even worse than it was I needed to finish the job I think what he’s trying to say is it’s not your fault M but it it did raise uh some more questions about what Susan’s got in the garage and if Susan is listening I want her to know I’m in full support of whatever she has in the garage and I’ll leave it there what it helped was there’s one less piece of stuff in my garage that you you can keep that I I okay maybe at someday when I get further into that corner I’ll just because I know there’s a remote for it I couldn’t find it in the I was doing it on one leg I you just be happy I don’t need to go to the deleted scenes or anything I’m just going to go straight to you’re going to have to actually go old school and get up and push the buttons on the front Okay all Good Luck Good Luck um JJ Ric according to yoan vhha checks many of the boxes on the Lakers extensive checklist for their next coach um I want to do this part first it says the franchise views reic as the candidate who can maximize the short-term Championship window with LeBron James and Anthony Davis but also Drive the long-term culture and sustainability of the Lakers into their next era I am so pleased to have read that final sentence I am so happy that somebody whether it’s a reporter who was given this piece of information from somebody inside the Lakers or who is looking at this as as an expert and saying this not only works in the short term for LeBron let’s go to try to do the best we can for him in the remaining years he has left but also this is somebody that can lead this team into whatever the next era of Laker basketball is culture and sustainability it was such a pleasant surprise to read about what comes next as opposed to what’s coming now I I don’t want to give too much credit to to that um to that statement there because I think you have no choice but to say that I mean it hadn’t said it in any of the other when they hired Darin ham they didn’t say it when they hired Franko they didn’t say it LeBron’s about to be 40 so you can’t be hiring a coach thinking that this is going to be when he’s 38 they were thinking that this was a fiveyear plan I mean that’s what I mean like LeBron didn’t get old yesterday he’s been an older player for nowday he didn’t get old yesterday but I just don’t want to give too much credit to that because I do feel like there’s no conversation to be had where I mean I I guess there is a scenario where you could say we’re just bringing in JJ reck for because his relationship with LeBron because we feel like he can help us right now now there’s no history towards that I don’t have a resume of JJ reck as a coach I could sit here and tell you damn that’s a great hire I mean he coached youth uh basketball come on look at that team H he did well the title I also can’t say that he’s going to be an awful coach because I I genuinely don’t know like I I literally have no idea I think that’s secondary I think I think what makes me excited about this that whether he’ll be good or not time will tell no nobody’s got a crystal ball but the fact that it maybe crossed someone’s mind that this may be good three four years from now is exciting to me because it feels like every decision they have made has been made with the is this good for today who cares about tomorrow that finally tomorrow was at least part of the process gives me hope yeah I I I’ll still and I again I I get the words and I get the thought process of it I’ll still have hesitation and part of that hesitation is when we say they’ve had six different coaches over the course of the last 13 years I I I don’t want to until I see a situation where we’re sitting here three years from now JJ reck is still the coach you feel like he’s the right coach and LeBron James has moved on from the NBA then I could sit there and feel more comfortable and be like hey you know what this Vision was there it was the right plan um I see the words I I I completely get I think it’s the right thing to say but I I’m going to continue to have some hesitation just because I don’t know what the plan’s going to be once LeBron is done and I I think all uh I think everything else is off the table once LeBron’s gone all right Al you have to put money on this significant amount of money that you have on whether or not JJ reick will be a good or a bad coach if he’ll be here in two years what are you going to say um be here in two years yes coach of Lakers I I think to make it more difficult I think you said will he be the head coach of the Lakers in three years because two years is kind of the average for all these NBA coaches have been with the Lakers three years is kind of the out it’s the that’s not the norm I think it was I think Trav you said this it was vogul and Luke I want to say were the two coaches here for three years okay set it at three years is going to be I’ll say he’s the coach of the Lakers in three years about four years I I I don’t think they have any choice at this point and I know that they can do whatever they want but the to go to your point about 4M or three LeBron James in the NBA three years from now even by this ridiculous standard that he has set seems a bridge too far right that he’s not going to be playing in the NBA at 43 years old who knows but that just seems like it’s exceptionally unlikely they will have had to have mve moved into the next era of Laker basketball whatever that era is at that point I don’t think you you rip another coach out and drop another one in to do that I really do think because of LeBron’s age because they’ve gone through them as often as they have over the last decade plus that he has more Runway than anybody that’s come before him in the last two or three coaches you think he’s going to be M they’re going to be magically patient like if they if they miss I think what happens is is the p patience gets automatically bought in because LeBron is going to be out right they just this we actually don’t have to mash the gas for the first time in forever we can give it another year or another year and especially look the Lakers are never going to be bad with LeBron James right so they’ll be okay he’s going to finally decide to retire go play with his son go to another whatever it is I I think ultimately he ends his career in a Laker uniform that’s a separate topic but I think what happens is when Anthony Davis becomes the the guy the guy that’s here assuming that he has even a a moderately workable relationship with ad will get the chance to usher in that new era of Laker basketball and it seems like that’s going to be ready I think I think what’s going to be as important is you got to show signs if because I I will tell you if JJ reck has a similar let’s just use darham as an example if you got playoff games where you got one of your top players saying there’s stretches where we don’t know what we’re doing on both sides of the floor uh you can’t have moments like that and I also feel like there’s not a world where that happens I just from knowing JJ knowing what he talks about knowing what everyone else talks about him I don’t think he’s not going to be prepared I I don’t think prepared is the question it’s just experience right like that this you could look at other coaches that walked into the league and again I I have no reason to think that JJ reick will not have success but I also don’t have a long resume I think the Lakers should take their chances on on this and we’ll see what happens it’s not like there’s an established coach that they could go get that they feel like oh my gosh uh this coach is on the market he’s not going to be on the market for the next 10 years I don’t think there’s a resume like that for anybody so I think it’s worth the risk I just also know that that job that Lakers position there are going to be times where you’re going to go through losing streaks or you’re gonna if if players are questioning the coach or the coaching staff uh let’s hope none of that stuff happens so going back to what you’re talking about prep operation and and I get experience he doesn’t have it you can’t fake it you got to you either have you’ve been through it or you haven’t right can’t fake experience what you can be is prepared and some of the reports about Darin and again I’ll go back to this there are no doubts about reck’s work ethic particularly in comparison to Ham’s one of the common internal complaints with ham was his lack of preparation conversely reic is obsessively structured and organized from dogmatically attempting 342 game speed shots every day during the offseason etc etc okay is is there a more damning criticism of anybody then hey you weren’t ready to come to work today and you’re dealing with the most intense professionals anybody think that LeBron James wasn’t prepared to come to work and you have a coach that wasn’t prepared to come to work every day how the hell was that guy letting the building if that’s the work ethic how was that not vetted out we can get into that coming up at 11 o’clock ask SLE coming up next It’s traven s 710 ESPN who wents to go to Mandy’s 3 at Commerce Casino me e e e e e like we do every Monday Wednesday Friday at 10:45 let’s get to it ask slee right now 877710 ESPN that’s the phone number if you would like to do and ask slee on the phone like this man who is batting lead off right now Francis in Glendale what’s up party people good morning party people he party people what you got good morning I have a couple quick hashtag ass Lee first have you ever been so wasted that you tried drunk dialing someone on the calculator app also last Friday when you asked Legends addict if they had any sedale three memorabilia how hard did they laugh at you let’s take the last one first thank you so much much for Colin Francis um they had Trav how big was the section for sadale what was that about half the store I’d say right yeah because to the right side was all Dodger stuff to the left side was all sadale and then there was a small little corner that had Shaq and disrespectful that there was more Kobe memorabilia than C3 um okay so that one first the other one about drunk dialing uh using a calculator not done that before you know that that uh I’ve not done I’ve definitely done where I I remember back in the day I would call the wrong number on accident and just be like what the hell am I doing right now why don’t we just put the phone away let’s call it a day here you text some you text the wrong person that’s definitely happened before but not in uh not in recent memory so what I’ve done more often than not is I would think I’m setting up my alarm for the next morning but it’s the calculator because for some reason in my mind the icons look very similar and they’re kind of close to each other so I would like type in like you trying to add up 6:30 in the morning yeah I’ll type in 6:30 5 you know plus five plus five and I don’t have an alarm clock okay she sends an email to her alarm yeah exactly so take me through this and and this is not this is just my life Susan and I have been together since we were in high school so I don’t have a lot of exp I’m sure I called her on occasion when I’ve been out but this isn’t like the random shot in the dark or the x or anything like like this is is that just that’s just a write of Passage right where hey why I I’m out it’s late I’m just going to shoot my shot and see what happens that’s not yeah it happens more often than yeah would have you done it yeah I’ve done it people done what’s the success rate depending on yeah it’s Rel some of them some of those could be Chris Taylor’s batting average yeah exactly nothing’s that those some of those can be Mookie it depends it just depends it depends on your level it depends on their level uh I think I find it honestly a compliment if I get a drunk text from somebody it doesn’t have to be like a you up text or whatever like someone trying to think about me and they text me while they’re drunk I find it as a compliment and typically my drunk texts to my friends are just like telling them how much I love them as people uh oh I’ve done that I’ve done those where you usually it’s on things giving when I’m in a certain mood and I want to get away from all the people in my house for a few minutes and I’ll go sit in the backyard and just say I got a few texts that I need to send that’s typically what happens yeah I know but um but the U up what’s the success rate on that one out of 10 one out of five depending on the day of the week higher depending on the time of day higher it’s Friday you ever fired out a u up no U UPS in my uh recent uh in my recent life I kind of I don’t know I’m GNA have Susan go stay in a hotel and I can just text her you up and see what happens you can you can do like modern family where they wear the different name tags on Val oh Clive and uh I forget the other the uh not Victoria something like that it’ll it’ll come back to me all right let’s go to Darren Pollock who writes when Ramona Makes Her movie about Frank mccort selling the Dodgers quote dodging a MC bullet who should play Frank mccort who should play Frank mccort all right do you guys have any anybody in mind so what I did because I saw this uh tweet ahead of time and I was like oh maybe this will be a good one I I think I got a random one John Lithgow could be good maybe he’s a little older uh depend on that’s not bad he’s he’s a little too and he’s a little too tall like Frank mccort was not a tall person how would this could be awful Woody harelson how do you think that would work kind of lookwise is he really interesting funny no cuz I can’t take so I feel like Woody harson unless you think this is funny taking one of the crown jewels of Los Angeles sports and driving it into the ground to the point where people stopped going to Dodger games the Dodgers Drew three million people a year every year until that guy got his claws into it that’s funny wood he might have Woody might I think Woody harelson to me only screams like funny or like my dad because he kind of looks like my dad and so uh but I think not bad not bad this this is Michael Keon o that’s a really good call Michael ke just he looks like the guy from the founder just like that’s a really good call M Michael Keaton who also was a great actor would be able to pull that can also be SMY yeah yeah and Michael Keaton’s got some Michael Keaton can be funny not that that Frank McCord is but I I think this is the Big Challenge out when it comes to doing a show like winning time like clipped like anything that is something and and again we’re just talking about our universe and the sports universe but when you’re playing people that we know intimately I know exactly what Doc Rivers looks like I know exactly what Blake Griffin looks like and and Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul Jabar and Jerry Jerry uh uh bus right it has to at least be close enough to pull it off otherwise it’s like that’s not anything like Magic Johnson looked like and that guy looked ex Quincy Isaiah I think his name was was that guy looked exactly like Magic Johnson yeah it has a lot to do with we’ve talked about it and I know in sports too it’s like this is different it’s an executive this but it’s all right can can can the dude dribble a basketball yeah can are there parts of what we know that individual for uh can he throw a no look pass can he have a a hook shot like that stuff I know I’m I’m not telling you that they gotta it’s got to be perfect but it does have an you can edit around that a little bit you know my my uh preoccupation with guys that can’t play basic catch or swing a golf club you because you can’t edit around the swing but the lob and all the like I can get creative editing but when it’s a tight shot on Lawrence fishburn’s face it has to at least be a passing resemblance to Doc Rivers and and in clip they they nail almost all of those all right I got one from uh John Ferris and shout out to you John hope to see the Mandy 3 uh really excited to see you I still have your ask SLE mug that you gave us it’s still in my room so uh it’s on display but he asked in Hong Kong they eat lizard soup to cure cold would you rather eat lizard soup or just stay sick yeah I’ll probably stay sick yeah I’m gonna probably stay sick I there there’s certain things and I’m actually I’m I’m open to trying things uh lizard soup not on my list um I’m going to go ahead and take my chances with let’s fight this thing for a couple of days and I’ll be fine after a couple of days it it’s funny like I I know that you know different cultures different parts of the world all eat different things right that what looks crazy to us is just very normal to someone else and vice versa right that there some things that we do here like no we never in a million years eat I get all of that I’m okay I’d eat the lizard soup just don’t tell me it’s lizard soup before I eat it right like I I hey you you don’t feel well that’s how you walked into the restaurant there’s a a photo of the lizard Godzilla outside of the restaurant but if you ate it and you’re like yeah okay that wasn’t bad and then they said afterwards hey just so you know that was a lizard soup you’d be like oh okay and then maybe you don’t order it again but I wouldn’t be retroactively repulsed by it if I got through it if I took a bite of it and went like wait what is this this is terrible then don’t tell me just tell me it’s chicken that I don’t like tastes like chicken that’s the go-to right everything tastes like chicken was Darin ham unprepared that’s next It’s traven s 710 ESPN s priz pick is doing it again they are doing it all over again they are giving us a freebie heading into the NBA Finals you know what prize picks is you pick between two and six players and you decide whether you like more or less on their stat projections do you like more or less than a half a point for Jason Tatum I think there’s a pretty good chance that Jason Tatum will get a basket in the opening game of the NBA Finals prize picks is giving you the proverbial layup to get off to a great start but you got to put the app on your phone all it’s already got mine so I’m making my picks right now in the NBA Finals obviously starts tomorrow how about this okay take the Tatum pick it’s a half a point obviously that’s free money right there and then just got to decide all right let’s use Luca as an example more or less than 31 and a half points I know all Laker fans are rooting for the Mavs to win because we don’t want to see Boston get their 18th Championship well now you can watch the game and actually have some Stakes on the game at the same time Tatum Luca you could look at Jew holiday Chris Taps porzingis go look at all the MLB games going on just make make sure you download the app today use that code 710 for a first deposit match of up to $100 that’s code 710 on price picks for a deposit match of up to 100 bucks e e e e on 710 ESPN tra we we get anything official or oh yeah yeah that’s right we haven’t talked since then have we uh cpy official Michael is officially a mustang mustang yes I KN it’s a horse I sometimes I want to say stallion or Broncos or must yeah saw Pepe at the premiere that’s right so I I felt a little bad for Pepe because he was sitting in his seat inside the theater when Susan and I walked in and I see him and I I walk up to him to say hello but I’m back lit by the screen okay he can’t see who it is and so I say oh hey pppy how you doing say hi Mr Belding and and you could tell for for a good 10 seconds he didn’t recognize who it was and then he goes oh and then finally goes oh I I recognize your voice and we we had a very nice chat but it’s that terrible feeling Travis from the Travis and S show I said hey Pepe how you doing he goes good and then I said do you come to light he’s like oh and then you could tell it’s just that moment of Terror where you’re like yeah I don’t know who this person is and they clearly know me I I had a little a little moment of sympathy with Pepe okay so so we got we got calply that’s it it’s done it’s official he feels good about it the whole thing yeah yeah I I think so so this is how it went I was telling uh John and Steve this yesterday during Super Cross talk that the deadline was a couple of days ago that he had he had to make his choice and uh I was off Monday and and I told him I said hey uh you know today is kind of the day have you made up your mind on what you want to do yeah would you like to tell me and your mom what maybe you know you might uh Cal Poly okay great that sounds awesome Mike congratul it’s such a great accomplishment you worked really you know pumping him up yeah it’s cool so that’s what we got what’s going on he’s just he’s slow plays it he’s a teen yeah he’s 18 and he slow plays it but was there some hesitation was he I think he really wanted to go to Oregon for the football and and and the basketball and all of the sports that comes along with a big time school like that I think everything else tilted the other way and the economics certainly played a role he’s going to love it it it was great it it was you know what oh I think I just put two and two together you know sometimes the pieces all click together ask me what I did shortly after he told me that I didn’t even realize that one led to the next you did A Dance no not exactly but you’re not as far off as you might think had a sleeve of Oreos no the opposite in fact I did a 12 mile hike SLA 12 miles on Monday what you talking about yeah how about that I was feeling pretty I had a little bounce in my step I’m not going to lie hi to Petco I I I hike to uh top of the world in lagona Beach six there six back right yeah yeah yeah yeah just about it was uh it was I my legs feel like they’ve been beaten with baseball bats today it was good it was it was a really good one how’s the feet my feet are better but Susan saw the bottom of them last night she insists that we’re doing a pedicure tomorrow yeah take your shoes off let’s see you want to see no thank you 12 miles Al I’m very I’m very pleased with that 25,000 steps is that’s impressive yeah it was I took over the span of the last 4 days 12 steps 12 steps total I I didn’t even put it to but it was it was just a hey man I just saved a lot of money I’m going to go walk this off in celebration um you know what was our our test of you’re not feeling well what’s our test that we usually talk about eating drinking even before tra go a little it’s going to be an easy one what happens in the morning and if you don’t want that thing in the morning we got an issue coffee coffeee oh okay I’m with you now yeah you probably I for a second there yeah for a second there I’m now I’m on the trolley I got it no I no I didn’t like my setup because I’m like I’m taking this guy down a different path I just this is a new Dynamic for Al this is uh this is interesting to taking this guy path um yeah that was my that was my uh had like a sip of coffee and my I can’t have it I can’t that was my indication this was on uh I started feeling sick on Friday night but Saturday morning Saturday and Sunday I’m like I don’t want a cup of coffee how do you not want a cup of coffee you don’t feel good yeah that’s that’s the indication that’s the indicator it’s a pretty good one if the doctor ever ask why are you why do you think you’re sick coffee I didn’t want coffee tickets are on sale right now for M’s 3 at the Commerce Casino coming up just around the corner Saturday June 22nd the biggest party that we throw all year long here at 710 you’ll find out which show will take home the champagne and nuts trophy for the show of the year vote Travis and slee Plus Great giveaways and entertainment you can watch the bits come to life get your tickets right now espnla.com and click on the mandy3 logo and we will see you at the Mandy Awards Afterparty by the way for those who don’t know it’s at Masons so I’ll I’ll tweet out his home address a little bit later today Afterparty at Masons everyone’s invited so on lit yesterday s Chris said that basically the the venue that we’re going to be at the same place but in a different part of the Commerce Casino that basically they’re just going to flip on the lights and that’s where the Apper part is going to take place kind of right there there’s going be plenty of opportunities to get F and drink well you know mid we need a demver switch we can kind of go go back and forth live entertainment you do that tell me again the name of the band that’s going to play Tira Tira from yes you do that 100% you could stay there as long as you want just know that after when all that’s done as long as you want at Mason’s house after immediately after all right going back and talking about JJ reic which seems inevitable that he’s and by the way it’s felt like that for a few weeks and it felt like that for six months yeah it kind of has yeah um we’re getting closer and closer he he was on a podcast where he did not deny that it was you know in the in the universe and you know the stories are starting to come out a little bit about why they one of the reasons that they like him is that he is incredibly structured and organized that apparently is the opposite of what they just experienced with Darin ham again from buas piece it says there are no doubts about reck’s worth work ethic particularly in comparison to Ham’s one of the common internal complaints with ham was his lack of preparation conversely reic is obsessively structured and organized and they lay out some examples about that I I I can’t look sometimes you hire the wrong guy I get that and and nobody’s going to bat a thousand but I I can not imagine a a a criticism and maybe it’s just a Travis thing for me where if somebody said that guy doesn’t show up to work prepared every day like you can say I don’t like him you can say he’s a bad guy you can say he’s wrong he’s dumb he’s this but this showing up for work every day unprepared imagine trying to convince LeBron James that you want to do X Y or Z and he’s looking going bro I know you didn’t even do the work like what what a what a disaster and if if the overcorrection on that is somebody who’s prepared you know to a point of May maybe even over preparation if there is such a thing reic is looking more and more attractive if the last guy was as unprepared as it sounds like he may have been uh I don’t know man uh could this just be a let’s throw a little bit more on Darin ham let’s make our next candidate look even greater because we don’t the reason why I say it is and I’m not telling you I I by no means of I saying Darin was a great coach I think we knew what his flaws were we knew that you know what through two years which I hate to say this because I don’t think you should I think you really have a coaching job for two years and say hey that’s a good coach that’s a bad coach but I think every nobody was really arguing that the Lakers should move on from Darin ham yeah um but I could also look at it the other way and say all right well you guys hired the guy s i I don’t think it’s the other way I think it’s the way you know what I mean I when when hear this and look it it does not reflect well on Darin right it does not reflect well on Darin that the the the scuttlebutt coming out of his dismissal is yeah dude wasn’t put in the work that that especially for a firsttime coach that cannot be the reputation now like to your point maybe this is just kind of trying to yeah want to hear that I I would want to hear that five other times from five other sources before I say the dude wasn’t putting work fair fair enough but it let’s just for the sake of the conversation assume that this is true that’s an easy thing to find out if you are vetting potential candidate talk to the PE and and you know as an maybe as an assistant he was maybe he leaned on I I don’t know but that that seems to me an easy box to check is hey is this guy G to grind it out because I I’ll tell you a quick story and and I don’t know this person well but I’ve spent enough time with this person in social situations to tell this story and I don’t think that it would Eric muselman right who is a current college basketball coach and was a two-time head coach in the NBA Golden State Warriors Sacramento Kings and he had come from a background of basketball his dad was an NBA coach his dad was a longtime uh basketball person in and around every League that that that there is so Eric musman grew up in basketball and he got his first job as a head coach in the league with no he wasn’t a player in the NBA right he just kind of said and and I I remember asking him how in the world do you go into a locker room with NBA players ah and convince them that your ideas are the right ones that they’re going to work and that you can get Buy in from them and what he told me he goes you have to be right he goes they’re they’re going to do it at the beginning because you’re the head coach and they’re going to give you the respect of the role at the beginning but if you’re not doing the work and you’re not right and you’re not putting them in the positions to succeed if you’re not setting them up for Success they’re going to know really really quickly that you’re full of you know what and they’re going to check out and I think specifically LeBron in this case is a really good example of this so during the season you see him rolling his eyes when Darin tries to do a play you see them not paying attention sitting on the bench lost that because it but the thing is not getting back on defense when he uh complains about a foul yep right exactly and I think that LeBron I think above all values people that are really hard workers and up to a standard he might not like his coach all the time in might butt heads with his coach but he doesn’t roll his eyes and sit on the bench and not listen to his coach at all if that coach is as prepared as he is or trying to as he is here here’s the here’s the only thing I’d say and again I’m going to go back to what I said from the beginning I don’t disagree that Darin ham was not the right coach for the Lakers moving forward I don’t disagree with that I will point the finger at the front offense like you guys hired him so if you guys thought that he was going to be the right coach and and all the other ones if you guys thought he was going to be the right coach and didn’t work out I could only look at Darin so much to where I could also look at the front office and be like okay well if this wasn’t the right fit or hypothetically a report comes out this guy wasn’t ready to grind whatever the case is um that that’s on you guys to do your due diligence before he got the the actual job what I don’t think is particularly fair at this stage is well now everyone wants to take a shot at Darin to make JJ reick look like a better candidate that’s going to we’re going to find out about that over time and I don’t have the answer you don’t have the answer I’ll say this and I don’t know if I’ll have success or not I’m optimistic I really do think that there’s a real chance that he could be good at this I I am but what typically happens and I think that this is what you’re talking about right here s is why these stories are coming out the way that they are right now what typically happens is and I’ll go to football to start this B baseball same thing I got a guy that’s a hard ass right that’s up the player and and just constantly grinding them down very critical publicly and just grind grind grind grind grind and it would finally decide it’s not going to work the next guy you bring in is the proverbial players coach the guy that treats everybody like an adult it’s refreshing to be treated like a man and understand like a professional and all these things okay and you kind of vasolate between the two things that I’m gonna go hard ass I’m gonna go players coach I’m gonna go hard ass and play just back and forth right well Ric the one thing that we do know is that dude is meticulous that we do know that dude is about preparation that he’s about like he was saying in that one c i do 28 different podcasts he shoots 9,000 jumpers a day at game speed all he knows what he’s talking about he’s knows what he’s talking he is prepared you listen to that LeBron podcast the guy is a basketball Guru right that’s why I think he and LeBron connect that they look at it similarly and obsessively so that pendulum is swinging to that side it means it was probably on the other side to begin with I I I think that’s a lot why these stories start to come out like this I I think also you can be and we’ll find out and if JJ reck becomes a head coach I just I want to let’s make sure when we talk about this Lakers team they had issues I think the front office made decisions I think the roster had its flaws I think there were a lot of better teams in the Western Conference I think there are a lot of reasons why the Lakers didn’t get to where we were hoping they would get to and I don’t think it’s going to get any easier come next season now if you can adjust some stuff with your coach great gives you a little bit better of an opportunity I think the quote that you like the most that was part of this yovon thing that we were talking about of hey JJ reedit could be our coach today and he could also be our coach down the road I think is the most important thing and we’ll see what happens and if he’s prepared to do both hey here’s my plan for this season and maybe the next but here’s my plan for the next three or four that’s incredibly refreshing and that there is a plan in place that would be nice the rare early June baseball game that has actual meaning that’s next It’s travin s 710 ESPN e e e e e e e e [Music] SN so earlier in the show I posted a picture on my on Twitter and it was a picture of Travis about 9 years ago when he first started with 710 ESPN and it’s just him looking dumbfounded at the camera a screen grab from some portion of this that’s the least bit of the did I have a surpr eyes look on my face it’s said I look like I’m 17 so I have been reading I I tweeted out I said caption this wrong answers only and so so we’ve had funny captions all day so this one’s from Dan prta and it says when your kid can’t find their shoes again it’s another good one another one is all you got was brisket question mark question mark uh can I can I I I think I not a brisket fan like I know barbecue guy I the right things are fine um it’s not my first choice but the right but brisket I know that’s like the gold standard for barbecue people ribs and brisket those are the two things that you hang your hat on right I will eat the you know what out of some ribs love ribs BR P pork sure yeah pork shoulder absolutely Absol what don’t you like what don’t you like about tough there’s no so the meat itself doesn’t have enough fat in it I know it’s got that big fat cap that when you smoke it layer of it yeah but the meat itself is very lean and what makes meat taste good is all the fat that’s marbled in it that’s why wagu beef looks like a big slab of Crisco in the pan and it’s the most wonderful thing in the history of the world I love your descriptions man the way am I wrong you’re not but it’s just the way you’re like you’re like Clapper Vision when it 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assuming this when you know you have that type of player on the mound is it make kind of looser isn’t it easier for you to as a as a batter for the Dodgers we already know we got this we got to put up that many runs to go get a w doesn’t it make it shouldn’t it make it a little bit easier you would think your your thought process I think is the more logical one but the reality what what this and this is an extreme example of this but the reality is this is not super uncommon it’s the best pitcher on your team frequently gets really substandard run support because you know Tyler glas now has a bad day he’s up three that’s a bad day right if he has his normal day he gives up two or one and if he has a good day he gives up none so maybe you’re going up there being a little bit more selfish you’re trying to do a little bit more because you know you don’t have to grind out on that bat that if you’re going in facing Justin Verlander or whoever you’re you’re super locked in if you know that it’s going to ca it’s GNA you know you need to score seven or eight runs to win a game because your guy may be you may be on your fifth guy then we got to grind that back I got to get in the middle of the bullpen you’re not going to be nearly as selfish because like I said this is a super extreme example where he’s gone zero five games in a row but it’s not super uncommon it’s just it’s just bad luck it’s it’s almost a a weird reverse compliment like I’m so sure you’re not going to give any up I may try something in the batter box today that I might not otherwise I I I I know this kind of ties a little bit into it or not but we we’ve got a chance you and I were talking about this before uh we came on today they got under a 100 games left yeah and we’ve kind of watched you could tell the real teams in the NL it’s how about this Al do you know how many teams are over 500 in the National League four yeah I was GNA say I mean the pathetic Padres uh Angels just won their first Home Series this year because they took the first two against San Diego um that’s crazy and Padres are like the Wild Card th they’re the uh yeah I think it’s them St Louis and there’s about eight teams that are sitting here all within a couple games because everybody sucks other than the doli and the Brewers the Brewers right four teams over 500 um they faced Paul SK today Paul SK number one draft pick a year ago number one overall he is al electric I mean he took a no hitter in what the sixth inning neither his last start or the start before last okay he he’s he’s one of those guys he may be the best pitcher in baseball in a handful of years he’s he’s that talented of a guy and it’s I don’t know Dodgers play the Yankees this weekend so we’ll get a pretty good look at at two really good teams going at it uh at Yankee Stadium but getting the Dodgers against a guy that nasty is it’s a little something extra in the middle of the Season that you don’t get all that often to to see the Dodgers go up against a guy that has just got electric stuff I I there’s certain times during the year and it might die have anything to do with your team but it’s who’s on the other side um was it last year I want to say I can’t remember when De La Cruz came up yeah did he face the Dodgers first maybe but it might have been the Dodgers but I know it was it was early he played the Dodgers early in his career it was early on and it was like hey this is like you said you got 162 game grind there’s some games that are going to be excit Dodgers got the Yankees coming up here um over the okay that’s going to be fun you know that that’s an exciting series a game against the Pirates that doesn’t mean much but you got this dude that you know if we’re all talking about a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates he’s got to be pretty damn good I agree with you kind of adds a little bit of storyline to it and for the Dodgers who their offense has been pretty eh very uh mediocre average now you’re going up against U an elite pitcher like this would be fun to watch in their last 18 games they’ve scored fewer than four runs 13 times they’re not swinging the bats at all and and and having a guy that throws a hundred and can spot it and do what this SK guy can do is probably not the best recipe to get back on track and Emily what’s his uh girlfriend’s name I forget her I know who she is dun How Could You Forget Li I because I’m terrible with I’m good with faces bad with names do you know uh is it Libby Dunn liby dun liby dun do you know her Al I don’t I’m GNA look her up right now have you seen a viori commercial where there is a gymnast doing cartwheels on the beach in her viori clothing have you seen that commercial um because that’s her okay liby Dunn is one of the highest was one of the highest paid college athletes last year she was a gymnast for LSU I don’t know if she still is gymnast for LSU uh she’s very pretty very pretty very athletic and apparently there are a couple she’s very popular with uh young boys apparently so this one little kid uh was in the crowd and he was asked uh in a pirates game you know he was dressed up like Paul skin so he has a mustache on and everything and has a Paul skin Jersey Paul skin hat and so kid is asked hey uh what’s your favorite things about Paul SK and he says his mustache and Livy dun those are good answers and aun throw a third thing in there he throws 100 miles an hour and he’s pretty fun to watch Chuck of baseball Factor cap is coming up next it’s travin slee 710 ESPN e e e e e e it is Travis it’s new we’re here each weekday 10: a.m. to 1 p.m. and it’s time for Factor cap oh that’s cap that’s so cap dad everything I’ve said is a cap but I’m going to go fact first of all it’s not a cap it’s no it is a cap welcome to factor cap hi guys aloha aloha hey I’m always waiting for the response back I need to wait a second um so today’s vetri caps are going to be a little loose so we’ll we’ll see how it goes uh so this next one is going to come from a guy who’s actually referenced in clipped yesterday so uh a part that I was like I was the Le DiCaprio and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood thing I was like point at the screen like that guy so um Lavar Burton is talking to uh Doc Rivers and says oh you can live up in this area K lives there XYZ lives there and you’re talking to Lawrence fishbird who little meta yeah from the with uh Ki Reeves anyway so Kiana Reeves was on my timeline yesterday and an old video resurfaced from a press junket I’m assuming for John Wick because he looks like John Wiki uh in this John wikian uh yeah John Wick like uh in this and so he was asked what his perfect day was and this is Keo Reeves’s Perfect Day morning sex eat a great breakfast go for a motorcycle ride come back swim have more sex eat some more um hang out for a little bit maybe do some reading you know go see a movie have more sex go to the bar have a couple of drinks see some friends take a motorcycle ride get home hang out a little bit have more sex um that’s a pretty good day so this is the perfect day Travis f your cap well no cap it sounds exhausting come on Travis old guy TR you do you don’t listen to them go ahead four and two motorcycle nine years ago Travis maybe four is no I don’t think ever not four is an insane Mission that’s like like your Iron Man competition two two motorcycle rides is one motorcycle ride too many I like that he’s got multiple meals in there he got a book but a book that sounds very nice as well uh a swim sounds wonderful get to get to rejuvenate in a in a nice body of water four is what about his knees I mean that just it’s exhausting yeah exactly you need to leave a little bit of you don’t no you don’t you do if you’re on my show you do I promise but you also have Kiana Reeves’s home and so you have very nice things anyway Greg what do you think see that’s funny though that is funny it was funny uh yeah that sounds like a great day I mean yeah four times is a lot but it’s still but you know it’s exhausting but that’s you’re not having a perfect day every day but also he’s John Wick he has all the energy to have do that four times whatever’s got Jo the Navy Seals for a perfect day whatever he’s got to take whatever he’s got to do if you can have that be your day that is a perfect day 100% cap the hell first off let’s start with this anything that involves a motorcycle it’s not my day so I I have nothing to do with that so I can’t do that I think he has a motorcycle company which is why he probably put that a couple times okay completely Fair uh I don’t know if he has any other companies cuz he did something else more than four or five times a day um the other part of it too is yes there’s other features in the day that sound good that sound great that’s a part of the process Trav I’m with you my brother we don’t I mean I I don’t what am I uh becoming a ultra marathon runner that ain’t happening four times that’s that’s a lot of work right there um and then the last thing I would say is I didn’t hear anything about NBA TV the NBA channel I mean if we want the perfect day don’t tell me we’re not going to get a little bit of NBA action this part of the day so this is Capa for me I don’t know what the hell he’s talking about oh man the perfect day indeed the motorcycle ride is dope the having the drinks the one yeah yeah the motorcycle ride is dope his motorcycles are pretty cool too and they’re custom made to you like they measure you your arm length your legs everything so yeah he’s got a pretty cool motorcycle company uh four times not a problem right four times yourself the whole time brother you’re list BR if you’re listening text me a thumbs up or thumbs down God bless all of you perfect day indeed okay I’m Emily does it sound like a perfect day sounds like an amazing day again I think the motorcycle rides is like the real issue here um cuz it could be it could be to the friend’s house and swim book seeing a movie that’s important to me yeah all this is a beautiful perfect day my back already went out spend it with kiato who knows I don’t know if you know this or not but going to the movies is kind of fun like when I went on Monday night into the theater that was a wonderful night I should do that just a heads up you know they’re all open again I feel like someone told you to do that m i I just want to make sure that she knows that it’s really a nice way to kill a couple hours okay sounds great um all right so uh undrafted free agent kicker former uh Iowa kicker uh Harrison thicker kicker meis uh was a perfect 20 for2 on field goals throughout Camp uh with media yesterday he signed a three-year deal with Carolina and will make a strong push to be their K kicker next season uh that being said with how kickers have been in the news lately we need the thicker kicker uh Greg F cat uh fact the thicker kicker is going to be a really good he was the best player on on the he was their only offense he was all their he was their total offense so be good and to have a positive story about a kicker for once yeah it’s it’s nice it’s usually about other things that we don’t want to talk about and missing kicks so for a guy to actually hit his kicks we’ll have thicker kicker uh Dicker the kicker come on we got all these uh what do you think all right um I think fact I don’t know if I completely understand that we need the thicker kicker we need him I get we okay him individually I will take it yes I I’ll say fact I know there are some uh yeah some some storylines around uh kickers at the moment but I’m still caught up on four times that’s a lot that’s a lot of times a lot of times TR yeah for sure fact that kickers kickers are those things that you never talk about until something bad happens you make your kicks we cool good job next you know let’s get on go play some defense we only talk about kickers when they say something that raises eyebrows or they miss big kicks that the thicker kicker is in there and he’s knocking them back good for him and more kickers just more Justin Tucker let’s just make kicks and keep it moving what do you know about Scott Norwood right exactly the only thing you know about him is that Mike Vander jet is just an idiot our ID Our Idiot kicker gets liquored up and goes on television and he was he was off the team like eight seconds later that’s all you know kicker I like a fun kicker with a fun name uh Hy what do you think yeah kicking is easy I mean at least for me I I made it from when we did the combine Greg missed his four what’s your range I had a good kick you did have a good kick what’s your range I don’t know I’ve never a 35 yard field goal maybe yeah yeah that’s pretty long field goal yeah I think I can kick one a 35 yard you should have tried out for the Rams last year they needed one yeah Mah by the way I do want to talk about something chase Blackburn the special special teams coordinator said uh yesterday later in the show because I have thoughts um all right so a reclusive tribe in Amazon finally got hooked to the Internet thanks to Elon Musk uh this is quote only to be torn apart by social media a pornography addiction and the ERS complain so uh this tribe gets introduced to the internet for the first time they’re streaming right now right exactly they’re streaming the and slay show uh and you know they did what the internet does to you which is rot your brain and rot everything about you so this is exactly what you would assume would happen when a new place gets internet Al fatri cap fact yeah I I I look when when you have access to everything there’s something about and we’ve talked about this before when you you don’t have your phone for a couple of hours or you don’t have access to I know it doesn’t happen often but you don’t have access to Internet for a couple of hours like you actually are back in control of your brain you actually have control of like what you’re doing you’re not doing things just mindlessly fact I agree with that uh if you watch what I’ve been watching for the last four days uh on the TV I had no control of what was going on so fact Trav fact the more I think about it because here’s they this is a very uh remote civilization right where where they are our society I should say that where they’re they’re cut off from Air quotes the the modern world for all intents and purposes they’re deep inside the the Brazilian jungle Depot within an hour right um that they immediately decided let’s find if there’s porn here is boys type in things not how to you know clean water how like whatever it is you would think like they know how to do that already I understand but like to just the most basic human needs are I wonder if there’s people having sex on this thing and that that’s right what they go to is like that is our most lizard brain Instinct in the world so I’m I’m not suris it was the suggested in the search item right after ke is perfect day uh B so I think the question was like this is what you expected to happen right yeah this is what you would assume would happen so fact yeah it’s when you are like we we here this is a remote tribe we had kind of all happened slowly for us we just kind of got into AOL we were able to we had to dial in but then got on the phone it all happened they went from zero to everything and that is extremely overwhelming so I I absolutely remember and they’re like why why is my computer so slow I don’t understand what’s a virus why is this site doing this they’re watching stream East instead remember in Austin Powers when he just finally got everything and it was all right in front of him and he was just blasted on the TV you know that’s that’s what’s going to happen all right yeah I whoever showed them whoever showed them how the internet works is the one that’s going to be the culprate force showing them they say type in whatever you want here and they type in so like like for instance search this and that’s how it it’s just a snowball after that we’re we’re all the same we’re you know just kind of comforting do matter it is it absolutely is whether you are in a remote Society in the Brazilian Wilderness or you live in the valley you’re the same guy we’re all in like I wonder what’s going on over there yeah oh wow look at that uh M’s got thoughts on Chase Blackburn which I think is the first time anybody said that sentence out loud that’s coming up next it’s traven Lee 710 ESPN e e e e Rogers Alan SWA today has the same person dropped off food at your house twice in one day um I don’t great question Travis and SWA on 710 ESPN Al I don’t remember exactly what it was but it was something about it was a baseball weird baseball stat where any team that had beaten the Brewers in a series had gone up to win the World Series and you were unimpressed Emily was unimpressed Mason and irland R all like yeah Tre who cares that’s the dumbest thing prepare yourself because I think I have another one of these okay are you ready sure the Edmonton Oilers are in the Stanley Cup Final against the uh Florida Panthers which starts on Saturday first p and team to have a really good shot in a while yeah they’re terrific they have they they have two of the two or three best players in the league dry Sidle and McDavid are mcdavid’s the best dry Sid hle is pretty darn close but what’s weird okay this is not a hockey thing necessarily Corey Perry who’s a former MVP heart Trophy winner in the league okay but it’s been the the vast majority of his long career in the league with the Anaheim Ducks won a cup with the Ducks won an MVP Award with the Ducks okay Cory Perry is going to the Stanley Cup Final with his fifth different team okay okay guys have been to the Cup finals five times but never on five different teams okay it’s the it’s the record ever that is and he’s not like a good player an imp I shouldn’t say he’s not an impactful player the way that he used to be anymore he just keeps Landing in the right spot he got chased off of the Blackhawks this year because there were rumors of him and the top pick Conor Bard’s mother having a relationship of some sort remember the Blackhawks basically said Perry you got to get the hell out of here he end up he ends up in Edmonton and is in another Cup Final his fifth different team in the Cup finals that is so to me couple questions this one’s not as bad as the Brewers want okay good but I thought you had like a stat that was coming no like every game or you know he’s 0 and four so far no he’s won the cup okay is he won it do we know is he two and two is he it’s so he won with Anaheim um I think he won with Florida on one of those years he’s he’s been I he’s not was he with the blues or something he was with Florida he or excuse me Edmonton Anaheim um uh Florida not Florida Tampa um and I can’t even remember the other two maybe D St Louis name Corey Perry Cory Perry but this is like Vince Carter okay being the best player in the league for the first 10 years of his career and winning an MVP and and a Stanley Cup or an NBA championship and then towards the back end of his career like years 17 18 19 and 20 he goes to the NBA finals every year but on a different team every year that’s just so bizarre to me I don’t I don’t know if it’s just me but that seems really weird to me it’s it’s not bad what I just would like is during Super Cross talk I want you to set it up for the guys and just see if they’re impressed with it or not but here’s the I will just say this don’t don’t overhype it just kind of come in you know what’s kind of crazy guys and just do it kind of fast but I more I like it I know I understand that but I think the more you overhype it I was waiting for something at the end and there was nothing really that happened I thought maybe happened is he’s been on five different finals teams that’s really really so amazing here are the teams it’s Anaheim Ducks it’s the uh Dallas Stars Stars it’s the Montreal Canadians and then it’s the uh lightning and then it’s Edmonton yeah Brewer what’s the Brewer stat again I don’t remember I don’t remember the past five world series TR bre Nobody Knows the stat I don’t even know if you knew what the stat was when you were I I think I’m going back to I think it was I think if you beat the Brewers in the playoffs you ended up winning the World Series which is still amazing to me I don’t care what the rest of you guys no the Pro the problem is you also reached a point where you’re like well no it didn’t happen this year like you started poking some holes in your own argument no that’s not true that’s not true because I remember being I’m thinking you got to find a way to match up with the Brewers you got to find a way to beat the Brewers because if you do it’s a golden ticket to the World Series it’s every team that has beaten the Brewers in the postseason has moved on to the World Series there you go but they haven’t won the world Ser but they get to the World Series that’s got to the World Series so they might win one more series let’s two necessarily they could have to win two more or three more go this is these are things that keep me up let’s keep it I want to keep this because I’m really curious because you might blow them out you might blow their socks off at one at 110 I have one more thing about this too why doesn’t a team that’s in contention just take Corey Perry at the end of the year because he’s not very good anymore okay who cares just burning a but you think like is a good luck charm kind of because the hockey players I think are the most one of the most superstitious players b baseball and hockey are like this they’re right next to each other yeah like Conor McDavid wore the same suit four days in a row every every game guess what else happened they won they won exactly so look it’s only stupid if it doesn’t work like like crash Davis and bulm said if you think you’re pitching well because you’re wearing women’s underwear then you are it’s as simple as that all right so I I I taste this in my Factor cap and I also want to talk about this real quick if you don’t know the name Chase Blackburn that’s don’t that’s fine he is a special teams coordinator for the Los Angeles Rams and he’s been other places before I know he was the Panthers uh at one point in time because I worked on the All or nothing about the Carolina Panthers from 2018 and so I got familiar with Chase Blackburn as a person or as a character in this story so J Chase Blackburn was talking yesterday about uh the new kickoff rules and he said this uh about craziest ideas when he heard they got the new kickoff roll he says there’s some crazy ones I got to think of what the craziest is well I know Jared verse wants to go be a returner that’s an interest interesting one Jared verse the first first round pick for the Rams since Jared gof so fantastic go throw him out there in kicks fantastic my thought though is how does Chase Blackbird have a job because last season the Rams had an abysmal special teams and like it’s not just the kickers I know the kickers was a problem and if you don’t have a kicker you know that’s an issue they had uh a bad uh I’m sorry the Long Long Snapper and like The Who the their whole operation the punter Ethan Evans turned out to be a really good punter but he was a new holder you had a brand new kicker you had a brand new Long Snapper they they they had special teams issues up and down on coverage on kickoff on on all of it I was surprised that it went the way that it did and I wonder Al if it’s not just a Shawn McVey thing to where he’s not the guy that’s going to blow guys out every year like if you have a you miss something here and there I think he’s going to hold people accountable but he’s not going to he’s just been so good in developing head coaches and developing staff and turning this over that he’s not just going to hammer a guy who had a bad season because to your point am they certainly did and I mean it wasn’t fantastic with the Carolina Panthers before so it’s just it’s just interesting to me that you can have one of the worst special teams teams in the league and still be out here and so if we’ve talked about how whoever is going to figure out this kickoff thing is going to someone’s going to crack it open and be really uh advantageous thing for your team to earn points and that’s definitely not going to be the Rams with Chase Blackburn at the helm so here is my uh ticker this year how many times did I get angry at Chase Blackburn for some reason I know last year I mentioned uh who was the kicker that we didn’t have anymore Matt gay so I mentioned Matt gay almost every game oh no Matt gay would made that kick once a game yeah exactly so this year is going to be Chase Blackburn I’m calling it now all season I’m going to mentioned him what about bad timeouts also there okay yeah and using the up the entire bad timeouts using up the entirety of the play every time because I know that that we you saw last week with the evidence of Shawn McVey and Matthew Stafford’s ear so two things that I’m going to point out every single Rams game is terrible timeouts from Sha mcfe which I know he’s working on trying to fix and Chase Blackburn Al you should come when when the Rams are on the road and we’re doing the show from the uh the conference room here and Kirk and M and I we set up back there and we watch the game and Emily gets as animated in there as on bad timeout usage special teams mistakes than any fan in Sofi Stadium wonderful a bad Matthew Stafford interception when she comes in studio she’s like I hate it here I hate it here I hate Sports I hate it here I get she do you you don’t get as upset with them as you would with Pittsburgh no I do I I you get more upset at the Rams Steelers okay because I have hope in the Rams I have no hope with the Steelers the Steelers are going to be eight in in nine nine and eight they’re going to be they’re they got Russell Wilson you tell exactly what are you worried about weak into the playoffs they’re going to lose in the first round and they’re not even have a chance in that first round playoff game so I can’t get upset about them when they already know what’s going to happen the Rams they’re in flux the Rams the Rams are going to the playoffs they might or they might be terrible who knows they might uh speaking of upset LeBron James upset that he’s no longer teammates with Kyrie Irving that’s coming up next it’s traven slee 710 ESPN hey is your is your ride ready right is it time for you to take a look at that sticker are you past due is it time to get your ride serviced get yourself into your neighborhood Valene Instant Oil Change home of the 15-minute drive-through oil change because for over 30 years Vine’s been taking care of you they’ve been providing you quick and convenient Automotive Maintenance services for busy people just like you and me Valene you don’t even get out of the car you stay right there 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ESPN speaking of Allan SWA so going to repeat as host of the year or is Mason finally going to take you down for the most coveted award at the Mandy Awards we all will find out Saturday June 22nd at Commerce Casino you can vote for all the awards that we’re going to hang out right now at espnla.com click the voting page with the Normand legal logo vote early vote often special thanks to the law offices of Joseph s normont injury attorneys you can trust 213 747 2000 so the only two people I I think I got this right Jorge and Lindsay are the only backto back winners right I mean and uh radio tender has one back toback I’m giving her credit for that one too Ireland’s got most knowledgeable okay so John’s gone back to back Mt maybe funniest I think back to back okay so more than I I think Momo has been filling host of the Year back back okay oh so basically if you don’t repeat you’re a giant loser is basically what we’re getting at so so you got to you got to make sure that you take care of business people technically what they’ve done they’re two for two I’m only one for two so right now they’re undefeated they’re undefeated yeah they’re undefeated right you’re the reigning champ they’re undefeated they’re undefeated are you going to are you going to make your case remember from from the mandes to Masons just everybody knows that after party will be at Mason’s house and we’ll put out his address here shortly the do do better than funus make your case for your back-to-back uh host of the Year award come on you know me too well now you know me too well I can’t make the case people want to vote if they if they think that if they think I’m worthy enough for backto back then they should vote for me but if they don’t if that’s not in their heart if they feel like you know what let’s get Mason his first one then damn it give it to Mason if they feel like TJ is the best one out there then go vote for TJ this is this is a good campaign see this is funus pay attention to what he’s doing right here this is how you do it this is how if they feel it in their heart they should but otherwise this is very uh genuine this is a very slow this is very this is a very they feel like that’s what they want to do and they think it’s worthy enough great if they don’t then I think they got to go vote with their hearts I think you should start pandering to the other audiences too you know Pander the Mason Island audience you know I don’t know they’re all you know in senior living homes I’m assuming and then you Pander to sonano and Cath a circle of trolls and get someone over there you’ve got a little agism thing going on do I what that’s crazy Jesus you know me she bullies the elderly I respect them I have I I hold them in high esteem I just know where they’re at you’re just aware of their birth certific I’m aware of where they live and their birth certificate now much hair they have in their head uh Alan want to play this for you this is LeBron uh talking with JJ reck as a matter of fact on on his podcast or their podcast JJ’s contract is gonna be well I’m sure that came up after they turned the the recording equipment off like how many years you going to get bro I don’t know how many years you want yeah exactly I’m telling you how many years you’re going to get yeah exactly right uh here he is talking about uh his relationship with Kyrie Irving and uh the feelings he has for him right now seeing him go to the NBA finals listen I will call Kyrie the wizard all the time there was nothing on the basketball floor that Kyrie couldn’t do and sitting here watching it I’m like so happy and so proud and to watch him and continue his growth or whatever the case may be and at the same time I’m so mad at the same time that I am not his running mate anymore so I’m like to have a guy like Kyrie Irving as the ultimate wild card it’s like having a draw for in your hand every time someone deals you cars in Uno because of that wild card I have so many words to praise Kyrie that I end up with absolutely none because it’s just it’s so he’s the most gifted player the NBA has ever seen what’ you make of that Al I’m I’m not crazy about the I’m so mad at the same time that I’m not his running mate anymore it’s impossible not to take that quote and just you know have some certain thoughts about it I I get the praise that he’s given Kyrie he should Kyrie Irving hit I we’re GNA remember LeBron James of his entire resume of what LeBron James accomplished in his career and he may go down as the greatest player of all time and the all-time scoring and top five in assists I mean everything you could possibly think of what LeBron did Kyrie is very very very very involved in in my opinion is his greatest accomplishment want to chip in Cleveland of course right and it was Kyrie hitting the the on the road game seven three-pointer that won them the game and one of the most clutch shots in NBA history I think he has so much fond appreciation of what Kyrie’s doing today and he’s proud that this man is in the NBA finals going up against the Boston souths Kyrie’s got a lot of reason to do why Dallas is there I don’t understand the I’m so mad at the same time that I’m not his running mate anymore they haven’t been teammates for a long time you you’re currently playing with another franchise and another team and your running mate is Anthony Davis you’ve actually won an NBA championship since that time that you had with Kyrie Irving i I just don’t I I don’t really know what cuz cuz I could take that and say to myself I could and and this is LeBron saying it so if LeBron is saying it there immediately people are going to try to take stories and say well what’s that is he is he saying that he’s not crazy about his running mate now I don’t believe that but I’m saying someone can interpret interpret it that way can he be saying hey um fellas you know how I was trying to get Kyrie on this team and you guys didn’t listen to me I’m upset at the office or at the front office that that’s the case I think it’s possible not to think that a quote like that someone will interpret it a certain way I think that all of the things that you mentioned like is he upset with the Lakers is he upset with his current teammates the these are reasonable questions to ask after hearing or or or more more to the point reading the quote but when I listen to it and and when I I I was listening to the exchange this and and you know me well enough to know I love looking for hidden meaning in things and with LeBron James you don’t have to look real hard to find hidden meaning in things because he he is very uh strategic he he’s the maybe no one has done it more obviously and frequently than he has whether it’s the crown whatever it is the the clock or The Hourglass hourglass that’s what it was um he does I’m gonna give him some Grace in this one I I really I I didn’t it didn’t register like that for me at all what it what it registered to me as was a guy talking about a an an old teammate almost like an old friend that you hadn’t seen in a while you hadn’t been with in a while it’s like man I love that guy man I miss being I I love being around that guy man I just it just tears me up that I don’t get to spend more time with an old friend and that Sports is obviously very different and that’s why we kind of add meaning to a lot of these things that I don’t think necessarily have a ton of meeting I love hidden meetings I love trying to decode LeBron ‘s you know cryptography that he puts out of these things I really just think he was trying to show Kyrie a whole bunch of love I don’t think there was shade directed at anybody in those comments I just it just doesn’t feel like it’s there to me this this is what I think would be the difference if a year and a half ago we weren’t having a conversation sure that Kyrie wants out of Brooklyn and the Lakers were not rumored to potentially make a deal we did this a week ago once uh Dallas punched their ticket to the NBA finals you and I were having the conversation and I I was telling you that I’m getting a lot of people saying um you know the Lakers made a mistake and they should have went out and got Kyrie Irving this and that I I got no issues with Kyrie not being a Los Angeles Laker because how the hell were you supposed to know either at the trade deadline a year and a half ago that Kyrie was going to come here and all of a sudden everything was going to be okay or in the offseason go offer this guy a three plus deal I think uh Dallas offered him three years and 120 million I got no issue that that the Lakers didn’t didn’t go after Kyrie Irving who would have thought that that um that he’d have done what he did with the Dallas Mavericks but I think because of those connections I think because there are close ties to the franchise Kyrie Irving was watching a he went one of these uh I think it was last year he went to a Laker playoff game like giving indications it felt like that he wanted to be a Los Angeles Laker that’s the only reason why I look at the quote a little bit different I almost feel like you and I are switched you’re right because I would usually say guys there’s nothing here we’re trying to make something of it and I’m also not trying to make a claim that he’s talking specifically to it I just think it’s tough to not think anything of it I think the most cynical reading of this as and believe me I love cynicism I I I’m unfortunately a cynical person I I I just kind of how I see the world is he his cynicism or his criticism is based in I didn’t push hard enough to get what I wanted at the time because I I I still have a very hard time going back and may maybe the maybe the the the frustration that the Nets just wouldn’t do it for whatever reason whether they didn’t want to deal with the Lakers whether they didn’t want to give Kyrie what he wants whatever their motivation was Almost Doesn’t Matter good enough uh package perhaps and and maybe it just wasn’t enough coming back the other way but this was did I make my feelings clear enough to everyone involved that you need to do this this is the best player they and B and sing that song as loudly as you can and maybe he didn’t and now he’s trying to rewrite history a little bit like hey man you know I I did want it when maybe he actually didn’t go as aggressively as they want it may have had nothing to do with that that’s why I think because I think what you said M and I think some of the reasons that you’ve brought up Al there just wasn’t they didn’t have enough stuff to get that deal done nobody runed Russell Westbrook the two picks that they have like whether regardless of the specifics of it this just felt like me saying man I love that guy that’s all it felt like to me here are the layers the layers two of just to kind of add some context if we go back a little bit remember who was on Brooklyn it was Kevin Durant so if you’re trading Russell Westbrook back to Kevin Durant on the Brooklyn Nets I think there was a very Brooklyn side of it like okay we don’t want to do that either let’s add another layer to it this was just coming off the Lakers just went swinging for Russell Westbrook and failed miserably and now you’re going to go take another shot at another player that think of Kyrie when he was in Brooklyn and what his stock was at that time what the storylines were around Kyrie Irving I think the franchise was making a right decision by saying okay we we don’t want to play with this we don’t want to mess with this or maybe they just didn’t have enough coming back but I I don’t I again I’m not saying that this might not have been a calculated thing this could have just came out of his mouth when he’s talking about the podcast but him saying I’m mad at the same time that I’m not running think he was throwing Heat at the Lakers was this a you guys blew this I told you he was the guy and you didn’t do it was that was that what you’re seeing and hearing I think it could I I don’t think there’s a direct shot saying I don’t think that quote is hey did you guys just hear this I don’t think that but I do think that there is a little bit of a uh you can easily make that you can interpret it that way em did you hear that cuz I just I I didn’t I did not hear Heat at the Lakers I heard I love that guy and I want the world to know it I think maybe it’s more of LeBron evaluating like maybe why he he maybe he wanted to be longer with Kyrie maybe I I don’t know like going back to the Cleveland times maybe I don’t know maybe just talking about his guy but I don’t know I’m coming back to like because sometimes when you go look their relationship was mutually beneficial right they they both got what they needed from each other at that time but it obviously the relationship obviously changed and Kyrie wanted to have his own team and if the reporting was accurate and I believe that it was that LeBron became frustrated with Kyrie that’s just like this just isn’t working the way they used to relationships change and evolve and you need to go away to realize that you need each other or that you love each other and these sort of things and it’s been what is it been out five six years since they’ve been teammates something like that yeah it’s been a while it’s been a while right that’s a long time six with just the Lakers so yeah so they okay so it’s been a long time since they were sharing real estate together in a locker room together in a plane together and hotel tell and on all the things that you learn to love someone and learn to become deeply frustrated by someone and maybe it’s just enough time has gone by man I love that guy well Kyrie wasn’t you know how Al talked about how Kyrie was at the playoff games last year Kyrie wasn’t hopping on a podcast talking about how much you loved LeBron but he did say that LeBron when he was in Boston that he reached out to LeBron and said hey I can appreciate your leadership role in Cleveland much more now now that that’s being tasked to me and and he did not thrive in that role and it took him some time to understand it and again you could tell they got a good relationship we’re all different people five years every you’re you’re if you’re not a different person after a 5 years span of time you’re not doing life right I do think what you’re saying is it’s not unlike when LeBron tweets about Anthony Edwards and LeBron tweets about other people that he’s watching if he’s watching a game he likes to give praise to guys that are showing up and doing a good job doesn’t mean necessarily that he wants Anthony Edwards to come hop on his team right now Al you got one of your Padres kicked out of baseball for life I have to kick out a couple more guys with the way these guys are playing we’ll see who s wants to kick out of baseball forever coming up next it’s tra s 710 ESPN e e e e e e ESPN this is the midm morning spectacular live from LA Live Travis and SWA on 710 ESPN Al if you asked Morales for some extra M’s tickets I was trying to get a a handful for my my buddies and I was stri striking out I know he likes you better than me so I was hoping that I like 10 you need 10 I got you I’ll get a couple just tell them to show up on the day yeah just you know I I just I just want to have a few in my pocket to distribute to my buddies I would actually say hey I I would kind of give them a range say I need 10 to 20 I’ll let you know I’ll give you back what I don’t use I’ll let you know around 4 pm on that Saturday if you would like to go to the mandes you need to get online right now because tickets are on sale for Mandy 3 at the Commerce Casino it’s coming up on the 22nd of this month Saturday June 22 the biggest party we throw all year long we’ll find out which show will take home the champagne and nuts trophy for show of the Year Travis and SLA vote for us Plus Great giveaways and entertainment watch the bits come to life get your tickets right now espnla.com click the mandy3 logo and we will see you at the Mandy Awards live music s open fire cooking these are all things Open Flame yeah yeah got a goodie bag too goodie back two drink tickets with your ticket you get two drink tickets you want a martini bam Martini you want a cold beer bam cold beer out my pocket I mean if you if you’re in uh anywhere in Southern California and you kind of go out of your way to listen to the station come come hang out with us for a night it’ll be good everybody that’s come always uh appreciate it so come hang out and you can watch Al go back to back maybe the show gets our first one maybe Emily gets her first one let’s get the show one yeah yeah I’d rather get the show one get M1 we don’t hate you we don’t hate you that’s I think that’s a very compelling message to deliver to our audience apparently I Hate Old People I Don’t Hate Old People you hate the elderly and we already know I don’t hate right now fighting it is not helping your case I don’t hate old people I have great respect for uh the elderly in our community I just want put that out there I just know where they are would you agree with the statement that she bullies me frequently about my Advanced age absolutely uh I don’t even like the question part of it I don’t even understand like that’s not even a question there’s nobody that nobody that listens to our show would ever question that she does not do that to I was trying to have a moment with the the team here okay and uh the picture that Emily tweeted out earlier my my friend Jay St sent me the other day he’s like hey I don’t I don’t know how he found it but he saw it and sent it to me and I was struck at how young I looked in the picture it’s it’s only 9 years old it’s not that it’s a long time ago but it’s not that long ago so in that picture n i was 43 years old okay this the way that I look now does not feel like 52 it feels like 10 and two and I was in my feelings a little bit and and you guys tell me I don’t feel like I’m the most emotional person in the world I feel like I’m reasonably steady I know we all have good days and bad days but emotional wck that I was feeling bad about myself in that moment and the Glee on her face when she saw the picture like just the the absolute excitement in knowing what was going to come up that day what did you want me to say oh no you look fine you look great I don’t think you’ve aged to day you you just decided to both feet just jump on me with both feet I’m just telling you that’s that’s how I took that the noise she made too she’s like oh why would you make that noise Beard’s pretty the two keep beard why are you so why are you so adamant about that I’m more I like I I like everybody with beards better I just generally speaking you’re I think people look better with beards they feel like they look too young without a beard I think you should look your age and I think that people don’t look too young without a beard say you shave it tomorrow show up with no beard oh speaking of tomorrow is Em’s birthday and SLE you know what we should do uh so Thursdays we draft sometime in the 12:00 hour yep at noon at at noon occasion Al occasionally at other times and Friday if Andy’s here we Emily’s hatred of the elderly no don’t put that on there I don’t want that out there on ESPN Los Angeles dislike contempt dislike I have great respect for the elderly we should draft things that we know Emily dislikes oh that’s good what do you think and you can also guess at some stuff maybe I I actually do dis likee the I haven’t brought it up yeah well I don’t think the are pretty good our list our list of what Emily hates the most just throw a dart then uh you down well how is she going to do it well she knows what she hates yeah I know maybe I don’t get the first person in the draft you’re right if you don’t get Russell Wilson first or Aaron Rogers and obviously keep it appropriate yes yes sure sure yeah that’s interesting let’s do it I like that let’s do it um epe guilty pled guilty he he could the maximum sentence he could serve is 33 years probably won’t get 33 years but sounds like he’s going to do some time the Dodgers as quickly as humanly possible said okay cool we’re done baseball is humanly as okay cool this is over and then simultaneously a Padre’s utility man and some low-level minor Leaguers uh the Padre’s guy marona suspended for Life the minor leager suspended for one year we saw what happened with jonte Porter we’ve seen uh the head coach at Alabama the baseball coach at Alabama was quickly dismissed from hisob job because of some gambling improprieties along the way and it just feels like this is the new normal where gambling in the Sports World are going to collide in a bad in a bad way pretty periodically okay so this is and I think we’ll put the bow on this because I don’t know how much is going to come up again if there’s some journalists out there and reporters that want to figure out a different theory on this on all ears but I will never fully believe the whole epe and show story I’m with you I just won’t I mean if we’re just gonna pretend 17 mil went missing and nothing to see here it’s a croca you know what for me but um I understand how the world works and how power works and and we’ll see what happens there but I think what I think’s more interesting is like you mentioned you know yesterday I’m I’m looking on my phone and I’m looking I’m like there’s a dude in a Pittsburgh Pirates Jersey and it says Padres player bet or whatever this a couple days ago whatever it was I was trying to put the piece I I don’t know who the player is so I I’m I just know that okay this isn’t a player that um is playing every day for the San Diego Padres but it for me I think what was the more interesting thing is it’s coming and what I mean by it’s coming is what is Major League Baseball or the NFL or the NBA going to do when they have a player that everybody knows that you know the reports come out this isn’t a hey this was through a third party or this or that whatever the case is and we’re looking at it it’s like that dude’s an Allstar and he bet on basketball tell you cannot tell me that that’s not going to happen here in the next couple of years and listen I get it this is all part of a business a lot has changed in the gambling world over the last couple of years use us as an example we talk about prize picks there’s a mult multiple others that are out there of course the fanduels the underdog fantasy they’re everywhere and it’s so easy to get on your phone and to start betting at any time you’re going to tell me that we’re going to we’re be sitting here five years from now when we’re not talking about a player who’s a significant player in the league I’m telling you he doesn’t have to go be an MVP but a significant player that’s facing a ban in baseball or football or basketball isn’t it just a matter of time until it happens oh yeah oh yeah and and it’s not it’s basically alcohol right that that this because you’re you’re right it’s this idea where this guy from the Padres or epe mahara or any of these guys and then you turn around and there’s a fandal commercial a prize piix commercial and they’re everywhere but you know people abuse drugs and and you turn around there’s a beer commercial there’s there’s all of these things that some people are not going to know how to do it within reason some people are not going to know know how to do it uh responsibly and if you’re a baseball player the rule isn’t you can’t gamble the rule is you can’t gamble on baseball sure and and there are some guys that are just never going to be able to stop at anywhere they know whatever that Line in the Sand is they’re going to blow right past it every time but you’re right especially if they feel like they got an upper hand in the sport that they’re a professional in well like for instance this Marone guy was terrible at this right he gambled about $150,000 on baseball and had a 5% winning percentage okay he was he was terrible at it so you can kind of look at it a I don’t know who the hell that guy is he’s never in games he doesn’t play and oh by the way every bet he’s making didn’t hit so what the hell does he know what he’s doing but what’s going to happen to your point out it’s going to be the starting point guard it’s going to be the left tackle it’s going to be the uh short stop right the guy who can swing it the guy who maybe does in at a rate that maybe is a little bit out of the norm and now what happens is this stuff was illegitimate the the reason Tim donie was so terrifying for the NBA wasn’t that one of their players or one of their referees I should say had a gambling problem or was doing these things it’s that it would render the sport illegitimate is it the NBA or is it the WWE right right and so that’s where the real not that guys want guys will always have addiction issues whether it’s drugs whether it’s alcohol whether it’s it’s gambling whether it’s sex or what food what whatever it may be you all all of these things can be the the thing that grabs you and you can’t get away from it it’s what does it do how long does it go which games did they play in hey what the hell happened right there what do you mean that ball went through his wickets that guy’s a a two-time gold Glover how did he miss that one that’s that’s the great fear is that a situation like that pops up some guy named marona who none of us know it’s like oh yeah get him out of here who cares what if it is a name that we know what does that do to the sport what does that do to the legitimacy what does that do to the business of baseball basketball football hockey that’s the part that gets super complicated yeah and and I think ultimately at the end of the day every one of these businesses are saying to themselves and it’s all the entities entities the networks the leagues will take our chances and they’re going to take their chances because they know how much you know obviously is coming in just from this at the same time I think what you just said about this is the fear that all these Sports should have and by the way we know what’s going on right now in college football college basketball nil money Who the hell’s involved in a lot of that money it’s hard to kind of track I mean it it’s it’s also that that’s in itself is another thing but what you just said I think is the most important thing if any of the any of these leagues get into a situation where they’re having this issue and now you’re questioning the Integrity of the game that’s not something that you could just kind of walk back and you can do a little quick little presser and somebody comes in and reads a statement that’s uh that’s a difficult one to overcome hot and cold coming up next is Travis s 710 ESPN hey guys John Ireland here to build a winning team you have e e e e e e take it away producer M all right who’s hot and I’ve been waiting to talk about it all day stop me if I’m going on too long about this I’m so freaking excited so Traders season 3 cast has been announced today what is Traders Traders is a peacock original it’s like a peacock original reality Series where a group um they get all these reality shows basically it’s the reality show Avengers all the best characters like an allstar game yeah from All These reality shows together in one place and they play um a game called Traders it’s basically very similar to if you guys played um Mafia when it was in the hype uh uh there are there are two or three traitors and everyone else are faithful and try to figure out who the Traders are before they kill everybody quote unquote kill it you just get a knowe and they get kick off the show right uh and there’s prize at the end and but basically you’re seeing all these people that you wouldn’t ever see interact with each other interact with each other so like parvity from survivors interacting with um fedra from Real Housewives why are you making people up um I’m not okay so here is the list of the cast of Trader season 3 so even if you don’t watch all these reality TV shows you’ll find somebody that you like can I just say before you go through the list I am almost done scrolling through the entire list yeah Trav I’ve never seen one of these people in my life okay have fun all right so there’s Rob Mariano Boston Rob okay from Survivor who could forget there’s darinda medley the real house of New York City uh crelle Strauss selling Sunset Britney Haynes Big Brother Danielle Haynes Reese Big Brother uh Bob the drag queen RuPaul’s Drag Race amazing can’t wait for Bob to be there uh Wells Adams uh Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise I think I think I get the picture yeah okay Bachelor par she’s not done there’s 14 more there there’s Gabby Wy The Bachelorette amazing uh Tony from Survivor two-time winner Tony uh Jeremy Collins Survivor Carolyn from Survivor I love her um also Zack Efron’s brother who dated Britney Spears is going to be on it okay uh uh Mr Efron Dylan Efron that that part is quasi interesting to me it’s going to be and then and then Alan Cummings host said has what’s the name of this selling Sunset woman uh selling Sunset woman is crelle stous spell crelle c h r i s h e l l stous Trav has a home in the market in the area that he’s been trying to get rid of for a while so he’d love to contact her exactly but um it’s hosted by Alan Cummings in uh Scotland and they go to this big Scottish Castle and it’s it’s so campy it’s so over the top and I can’t wait I this this is probably not the right time to ask this question and and if if the answer is I can’t explain it to you in less than 30 seconds well I I will come into your office afterwards and you can try to do it why should I care about any of these people because they’re engaging the way that they’re they are on these reality shows is they are the best of the best of the people that we care about if you watch them they are the they jump off the page they’re cunning they they have interesting characteristics about them so these are not just like nobody’s in the reality show world these are like the I’m glad you had the qualifier in there top my jaw was open I was texting Janice Garcia who’s our one of our former uh employees uh co-workers here hello Janice uh and because she works for NBC so this is literally the The Avengers thing you think I I the comparison you made I think is right that if you are a Marvel person The Avengers is the the thing you’re looking forward to cuz they’re all in the same place this is your you’re like the Scarlet Witch is talking to the Black Panther like what are we doing here 1992 dream team right here that’s me saying rob is talking to Bob the drab Queen like what are we doing here let just put it to you this way I’m happy that you’re happy it’s so exciting it was one of the most streamed things last year on on anywhere I believe you okay sure this is go off Queen this is this is why we are anybody out there who’s a reality show fan is going to love it your wives are going to love it it’s going to be great what’s our slogan or before a new slogan yeah who cares who cares we don’t we don’t hate you and who cares all right so what’s called is uh Jeopardy so we past couple weeks we’ve had like funy uh answers from reality show games uh come up uh the wheel The Wheel of Fortune uh up was the last one yeah that’s what it was game yeah yeah up the butt know we can use euphemisms we don’t have she took the filter off and then this is uh Jeopardy last night and uh what comes up I have to explain a little bit because it makes it even more obvious it is 21st century Sports and it’s the last the most valuable question uh the highest value of question and it’s a picture and it’s a picture of Russell Westbrook but as a thunder as a with Oklahoma City Thunder so this is the piece of sound and here’s the last clue in 21st century sports with Oklahoma City this master of the triple double became the first back-to-back MVP of the NBA All-Star game since the 1950s Adriana who is Durant sorry now who is his teammate Russell Westbrook and I did not cut that that is the amount of Silence that there was there no one even attempted another one so uh Russell Westbrook took an out right there so I have a couple questions here number one I the typical Jeopardy contestant is not your typical sports fan that those that that VIN diagram doesn’t have a ton of overlap there’s a little bit and W Russell Westbrook is probably just outside the thing that somebody might get like LeBron James they’re gonna get Steph Curry they’re gonna get Tiger Woods they’re gonna get they’re gonna get Shani yeah there Kobe for sure Westbrook’s just outside that thing where if you are the most casual of sports fans you might not know that’s number one number two if this is the most difficult of the sports questions and for all four of us this is the proverb it’s a layup it’s beyond easy are all of those other categories as easy if you happen to know those things like if you are an opera fan are all those questions that easy po pobles are they all because if that’s the hard Sports question that’s really easy now I don’t know like for instance this category pops up on Jeopardy all the time I love Jeopardy the Bible I don’t know any of the answers okay I I don’t but are they that easy are all the categories that easy if you have even just a small working knowledge of the categories I don’t know maybe I don’t think so I I I think we’ve kind of said this before a lot in Jeopardy that do well it’s because they know they don’t have to be a master in one it’s like you got to know a little bit of everything and well actually no that would make then that would make the case then that that uh like I don’t need to know like I need to know the 10 most popular bible stories I need to know the 10 most popular operas I need to know 10 most popular music artists right now that’s what I’m saying like the Russell Westbrook is not a deep cut if you are a even a moderate sports fan you get it you have to be super super casual not to know it yeah yeah I I I I could see where you come from there that’s probably that’s probably I I think it leans more towards those questions have to be they have to be more towards I guess that level that you’re talking about with uh with Russ in comparison to other categories I want to talk more about the trader season 3 because honestly call Janice I want you to talk about it but start at 11:5 this is big news guys they hadish I think you should go on a rant it was like the NFL schedule release but it was for Trader season 3 and it was Allan [ __ ] sitting down and telling us who every person was I still can’t believe Zack Eon oh I forgot the biggest one Tom sandal is on it Sandy Scandal you you never even heard about Tom sandal Scandal uh Vander pump rules oh Vander pump rules yeah never heard go I feel like the lady who didn’t know Russell Westbrook all of a sudden yeah uh Kevin Durant Tom S Hall’s a big deal to who to a lot of people blew up yet last year he was not saying he’s not popular I’m saying that big deal is relative do you remember that guy big deal you’re right about that let’s not use the word big deal so loosely he on his girlfriend a long time do you need Janice’s phone number cuz I have it I can give it to you you can call her so I brought it up a I think a couple weeks AG maybe a month ago FaceTime at 115 uh where he said that he had more hate than OJ had like people hated him more than OJ he just is like did he kill three people I know that’s why I brought it up before and then I don’t think we brought it up because like who’s Tom sandal and anyway Tom sandall’s on it who’s hot who’s cold is brought to you by nextg nextg the AC heat and plumbing company and SoCal sports fans call 8333 nextg 8333 neex genen or visit NextGen Aon plumbing and Gabby’s on it and Wells is on it I can’t believe that they only have Carolyn is one of the newer AOS Survivor players on it which is kind of crazy hey Ma life may not always go as the Playbook intended but the e e e e e e you good you guys any more questions for me about reality TV show because it’s amazing I can’t believe you guys are not GNA be ready when Boston Rob and Tony go after each other here’s what I can tell you for sure S I think I speak for both of us on this or hey can you pod down her mic yeah I make sure this connected I will not know anything about that in then other than what you tell me about it I okay it will never cross my radar you can make up anything do you cu the names we know are not real the names that you just said are not real sounds like a old like an old west villain oh Cincinnati Joe’s in town he killed three men Boston Rob sounds a littleit like that but what I want Travis here’s what I want you to do I want you to watch One Singular episode so that you can ask me questions about it so when it comes out I think maybe it comes out like later this year okay I want you to watch the pilot episode and I want you to H write down that’s that’s your homework I want you to write down questions for me about good show all right all right I I’m going to have more questions about clip I I need to go and take in the second episode I didn’t get a chance to do it last night but just uh SLE that’s your homework assignment to be are you coming in tomorrow um I’m going to come in Monday Monday okay John you have a big smile on your Face’s the only thing I don’t want to do I just want to spread uh little little things going on here so I cannot believe you idiots don’t know who Tom sandal is have no idea who that is exactly seriously do you not know anything about Vander pump I know that she’s a woman even that you know Lisa I know Lisa Vanderpump is a woman that’s the extent of my knowledge all right so basically s have you seen it no have not seen it so basically Lisa R pump owns a bunch of restaurants in Beverly Hills and all the people that she hire are exceptionally good-look all of them the men the women everybody and so Sandoval was living with one of these really good he’s he’s one of the guy bartenders good-looking dude was living with he’s an employee of hers right they all are okay all of them are so he was living with this girl Ariana who is you know i’ I’d say Ariana is pretty pretty hot wouldn’t you agree am yes very hot okay so she just had the lead in Chicago on Broadway oh all right so the whole time sanal is living with Ariana nine years they lived together he was sleeping with another girl that works with him and it all blew up and I mean when I say it blew up it was all over everything I don’t know how you guys didn’t see this because was it on was it on the NBA network do you ever watch Bravo I watched Bravo when they had reer runs of the Western Wing but now that it’s on Max I don’t have to go over that anymore right did Scott Van did Scott Van Pelt talk about it at all I would bet Scott Van Pelt knows who Tom sandal is see John I didn’t even watch van pump rules until Scandal happened and I I have to know about the story so tra can I ask a stupid question yeah absolutely how how does Tom is his name Tom sandal Tom S by the way he’s best friends with a guy named Tom Schwarz and they own one of Lisa’s restaurants which is called TomTom it’s in West Hollywood and if you’re wondering yes I’ve been there more than once have you been to Sir a bunch okay hold on hold on we’re getting we’re getting too far a field right here I need to be sing I’m looking up Tom Tom on Yelp right now sand ofal was in a long-term relationship with one person living with her yeah living with her Ariana Ariana Maddox carrying on an affair with a second person who also works at the restaurant whose name is Rachel but she told everybody her name was Rael to be sexier okay so Rael and Tom are caring on an affair yeah and this is all televised oh yeah well no no I mean I mean that’s not much it came out and the way he got caught is sand ofal among his many talents besides being a bartender is the lead singer of a band is he any good no but that that doesn’t stop them from putting him on TV okay and by the way s you asked an intering or maybe you Trav you asked why should I care about these people do you remember George castan’s answer because it’s on TV yes that’s why that’s why you care why am I watching this because it’s because it’s on TV okay well John are John are you as excited about I’m assuming then this Allstar cast of all this no I don’t watch traitors but I love Alan [ __ ] who you would love it okay I’ll I’ll check it out because Emily I don’t watch Survivor and a majority of those people are on Survivor right no so the majority of the people that I brought up are Survivor because I like Survivor fedra do you know who fedra is yeah from Real Housewives so she was a Trader last year and nearly won really so so it’s a lot of Real Housewives it’s a lot it’s a good mix of Big Brother Survivor let me see if I can bring this these shows that you’re talking about when you say somebody won is there I know the Survivor you win a bunch of money Trader they you win money yeah all these shows you basically win money but the the let me see if I can bring this home in a way that you and SLE will appreciate why are you interested in clipped what do you like about that subject matter because I find the dynamic of power and race and misogyny and sex very compelling that’s Vander pump rules and that’s also Survivor that is but but these people do not have dominion over people that I’m interested in like for instance the the clip story yeah it had that Donald Sterling had agency over a basketball team or in a sport that I have interested Lisa care what happens at Vanderpump house well but she controls her life she’s the Donald Sterling in this story yeah but they can go work at Chili’s if they want they don’t want to because then they won’t be on TV exactly and and Emily I think the reason that excuse me we care about him is because they’re all really good-look they’re good-looking and they have interesting drama they say they fight they have say stupid things and they’re just interesting to watch the reactions tra you’ll appreciate this Emily I don’t think I’ve ever told you this story so L I’ve never seen you so fired up L’s em has to be so excited that John came in basically saving her on this right no so it’s it’s a a day before birthday the uh Emily one night my my wife Lisa’s family is all from Idaho they came out here for the holidays three four years ago the only thing they wanted to do was go to sir that’s the name of the restaurant where which is one of leis of Vander pumps restaurants that um comes up on the show so we go to sir and Ken Lisa’s husband is walking around with Jiggy her dog who’s kind of famous I swear to you I think Jiggy may have been stuffed at this point like wasn’t wasn’t opening his eyes wasn’t making any motions and all and and so Ken comes over to the table I go hey Ken and like my my Lisa’s brother and his wife are ecstatic that they’re meeting Ken okay they they they can’t believe it and I went I I didn’t have the guts to ask him if Jiggy was still a lot when you go into sir is it cir sir s s you know what that stands for sexy Urban restaurant okay when you’re in it’s also next door to where I swim are you as a guy or are you John Ireland voice of the Lakers no I didn’t I I pulled no strings to get in okay okay and so we go and then you know who Peter is the guy that’s a bartender SL manager at sir course so he comes up to me somebody tells Peter that I’m somebody he comes up to me and he goes you’re John right I go yeah he goes yeah my my weight staff’s all going crazy back there cuz there’re a bunch of Laker fans and I go well listen man if you ever want to go to a game let me know he goes zero interest I can I tell you how much I respect that I love that answer give them to somebody that would enjoy that is just terrific Marcus Grant is in uh for mace today Marcus do you Marcus do you watch any reality TV yeah turn turn my mic on right um yeah I I I don’t actively watch it but my wife watched a lot of them I have dated people in the past before I got married who watched a lot of them so I am aware it has register with you yes it has Marcus it has completely eluded Travis and slee they have no not only do they have no reference point they didn’t know who Tom sandal was so I know when Emily brought it up I know Tom sandal I know the the basics I was hearing you get into depth of Scandal like I know I just know the the surface level version of it right I still think that’s a madeup name I still think this is a prank on on Trav just Google just Google it it’ll like you’ll get a 100,000 entries on this so I was like I went to Sir once and this was like early on in these shows history like it was just starting to get super popular but it was on television it was on television it was on TV it was on the on the TV you could watch it with your eyeballs I went and I went to sir and look I I went to the bar um old ordered myself an old fashion and Jax made my old fashion no okay back up this is a person that I need to be aware of Serial reality show addict like the guy’s been on four different reality shows he’s probably 50 aren’t you just an actor at this point basically and not a not a very good one but I’m surprised marus because most of the time I’ve gone into those places and I really I had Sheena once as a waitress but most of the time I don’t see anybody so I mean like I said this was early on so you know they probably still actually had to work there um Jax made my old fashioned worst old fashioned ever I bet yeah I bet they probably couldn’t do it too sweet uh it was like super bitter oh too much bitter and what’s interesting too is these the reason these shows I don’t know if you’re the same as me but the reason these shows are attractive is I swear this is true you watch this and you will feel no matter what’s going on in your life you’ll feel better about yourself because these people are all trained Bachelor Love is Blind right this kind of goes back to something we were talking about earlier I unfortunately I am who I am and I’m a cynical person right okay I just it’s how it’s how I’m wired I I I can’t help it I I I try not to be but my default set is cynicism okay I just assume it’s all bull you know what I assume that it isn’t their real life that they’re they’re putting on a point yes and I I can’t I can’t suspend disbelief long enough to go oh at least I’m not that because that’s just somebody doing a thing on TV that I find uninteresting so I’ll give you an example of somebody on Vanderpump that I find somewhat fascinating okay this girl Sheena Is Famous great names because um Ed Cibrian an actor really good-looking dude was married to em it was Brandy Glenville right I’m not sure and Sheena had an affair with cban she was really goodlooking had an affair with cban and broke him up all right so she’s she’s actually famous for being the other woman and then she gets she’s already been married twice I don’t even think she’s 30 you know it’s this she these people are all modern day Elizabeth tlor you way deeper in the Bravo Cinematic Universe than I’ve ever been I was just going to tell tell them the same thing like I there two things that I’ve seen John get wildly animated for Lakers and this star driven town and V these are star in town these people are stars trout no it makes sense I I’ve learned a lot of it by osmosis like I I’ve know more about probably the Real Housewives of Atlanta and pic that I ever cared to yeah but that’s my like that’s my my wife watches it I walk through the room I sit on the couch I see some of it so do you know fedra cuz she’s in Traders yes I watched I watched she was actually very good on the Traders she was really good she she was a Trad real people yeah I’m this is just a whole slice of American life that has bypassed the two of you well you know so you did you get introduced to this because of Lisa or did you just other way around other she introduced it to her because Marcus what you’re talking about I think is the way that maybe I might have bumped into it by osmosis I guarantee you Susan knows some of these people she probably does because she’s more online than I am but she she would admit it she doesn’t watch show like Su and I watch TV together most nights she she does not watch these shows did you watch any of them guard Kyrie did you watch the second clipped episode not yet it is so good Marcus have you seen it yet I have not seen it yet no it’s on my list I finally talked to Ramona today you know she’s her world has crumbled because her father passed away last week at the exact same time this show is taking she’s doing way better she’s actually like pretty much back to herself she’s taking she’s going to take the rest of this week off and then um next week she’ll come on and she’ll get us some of the people from the show and she’s going to actually cover the NBA Finals but um yeah I I was talking to her today and they Trav it’s this is like if you watch Breaking Bad sure um Breaking Bad builds like a ladder the first season is good the second season’s better third season when uh John Carlo espito comes in Gus Fring it takes off and then the fourth and fifth seasons are in the stratosphere sure that when you see the second episode of clip game on man really it’s better than the first was good the second one is better well let me let me just tell you how ends it ends with v leaking the tape to TMZ and Sterling is convinced it’s no big deal he doesn’t realize Andy Roser shows up at Sterling’s house and and says we got to talk and Sterling goes if I wanted to talk to you I would answer the 15 phone calls you left me I have no he goes you’re not getting the gravity of this yeah I want to come back we need to play stage let’s do a little Super Cross talk Bonk d kpn a710 Los Angeles krdc 1110 Pasadena Los Angeles k26 CX 99.1 FM Pasa Los Angeles it’s the greatest segment in LA Sports Radio history radio hist oh my god when the shows come together for Magic on the radio it belon grow stronger Super Cross talk are we ready for Mason and Ireland to join Travis and sne Super Cross talk begins super cross talk presented by In-N-Out Burger In-N-Out that’s what a hamburger is all about it’s time for Super Cross all right so I now have three things on my afternoon agenda okay I’m going to watch Paul SK pitch against the Dodgers of course yeah 345 got to watch that I’m going to go take my my daily walk because if the second I stop I’m never going to start again you got it so I got it so I got to do that and I need to watch episode two of clipped because I saw the premiere on Monday night with with folks and we were talking about on Super Cross talk yesterday Marcus and obviously worked for the clippers for a period of time and had some interactions with with Sterling and what you just said about how episode two ends where the tape breaks right TMZ has it yep and he thinks eh I and everybody everybody Trav is trying to convey to him the seriousness of this and it eludes him that that’s the part that when we were talking about it yesterday that just doesn’t land with me in any meaningful way that even somebody who clearly is maybe in early stages of Dementia or whatever it was that he was dealing with but you dealt with him long before this yeah to be so oblivious to the way that the I understand we all have blind spots to how other but to that degree to say something as explosive as he did and have zero understanding of what that means well I don’t think so just because to listen to the tape to hear it the way he says it is just like so nonchalant was he not thinking he was having a private conversation at that point did I don’t think he cared yeah to to Marx’s point I don’t think he knew he was being recorded but that’s the real guy and when you he would said that into in a hot mic right but no no no when you hear it Trav he is trying to rationalize and by the way in episode two and this won’t spoil anything rather than just hearing the tape they actually take you in the room where they have the conversation so you see it play out in real time and they the Seth Burton the pr guy who was in here last week because Seth now works for lafc uh Seth goes to Doc and says you need I need to make you aware of something there’s going to be a tape between V Sano how long was the tape SW circulating before it went public she sent it to Andy Roser okay and so to to basically send a warning shot to the Clippers stop messing with me here’s what I’ve got they were taking away her tickets they weren’t returning her phone calls she basically said at one point she goes let the games begin because she knows what she’s got so she sends the tape to Roser and Andy who I know does exactly what you should do if you’re the president of NBA team he drives over to Sterling’s house to have this conversation in person Sterling tries to dismiss him dismiss him and Shelly is sitting in the other room and shell hears Andy trying to explain to Donald Sterling you don’t realize that this this is crippling and it could change your life forever and Sterling looks at the two of them and goes what is wrong with you people it’s gossip it’s nothing this nothing is going to come of this I don’t do whatever you want with the tape and and Andy’s like Donald you you have to let me play it for you he goes I don’t need to hear it and shelle goes come in the kitchen and play it for me Shel hears it and goes on offense she knew she knew exactly what she said we’ve got to pay her off to to not release this and before they get to that point she sends it to TMZ and that’s how it ends go Emily I think that goes back to Marcus what you said right that it was so nonchalant right like the and and I haven’t got a chance to watch yeah I was planning to go on Monday and just been sick for a couple days it is so uncomfortable to to hear him say it but to Marcus’s point the way he says it is so of somebody that’s so does not realize he’s a racist I understand he’s a racist I understand that he either doesn’t care or doesn’t know maybe both like I I get that but you would know not to say that to somebody public at one point but even privately you wouldn’t say what he says but here’s what he says at one point she says to him what do you have against black people you imploy an entire team of black people that are trying to win you a championship and he said who do you think gives them what they have me I give them food I give them cars I give them clothing and you go oh God this is a plantation mentality this guy doesn’t get it and and and she goes so I don’t understand why where’s this hatred coming from and he said I just don’t understand why you have to be with him in public th this is why I think this series and and like winning time and some other things along the way that I like so much is that if you can suck me into the story that I already know the story I know I know how it’s like it’s why we were all crazy about all the OJ program we all knew what was going to happen it didn’t matter there was a new OJ thing that dropped over the weekend on Lifetime that I watched all three with all three Brown sisters yes I watched all of it so did I and I knew every part of these stories maybe a little fact here or there quote here or there but when you can tell a story that we all we all know Donald Sterling loses the Clippers we we know we know how it ends like there really aren’t any spoilers in any meaningful way and to still be able to kind of keep you on the edge of your seat and get you fired up like this is awesome not having seen it how is Ed O’Neal as Donald Sterling stunning um I I knew Donald Sterling I was worked for him for three years right um his mannerisms his Cadence of speaking my Trav you said it yesterday Marcus my biggest worry with this and I said it to Ramona before they even started filming it is I hope they don’t run away from how weird Donald Sterling actually is he’s the weirdest rich guy I’ve ever met which is saying a lot right and not only not only do they not stay they lean into it and Ed O’Neal I I cannot believe he says he never met Sterling and didn’t know him he had to watch it the four main characters Marcus are casted so incredibly well and when I see the four it’s Ed O’Neal as Donald Sterling it’s uh cleopatrick Coleman as V stano Lawrence Fishburn as doy’s great and Jackie Weaver is so good as shelle Sterling I’ve met Shelly several times I said this for RONA today 10 minutes into this I forgot I was watching an actress I thought I was watching Shelly I agree with 95% of what he said my you asked about Ed O’Neal yeah the Jackie Weaver character A+ Lawrence Fishburn Doc Rivers A+ cleopatrick Coleman A+ Ed O’Neal is so famous to me you know what I mean like it’s hard to check out that that’s Ed O’Neal and that’s Al Bundy That’s the guy from Modern Family that was sort of my thing is that like at least watching I say watching the the trailers and the clips I’ve seen like I can start to see Donald Sterling at least a little bit but I I think you’ll dive in I did I did have a fear of like will this just be J pritchet but more but racist it’s not quite that but it like for whatever reason and maybe it’s because Lawrence Fishburn has been in so many different things you’ve seen him play so many different roles that you just okay that’s Doc Rivers and I don’t know Shelly Sterling like what she looks like necessarily well and and Jackie actually sounds like her so that’s an easy one to kind of jump into V stano had the welders mask on half the time I barely remember in episode two you will learn the origin of the Mask so but I’ve seen Ed O’Neal on TV for 35 40 years it’s hard not to see that that guy and he’s terrific in it is the cast so far I know it’s early on John you probably winning time cast how they had I’ll tell you the difference basketball players the the players in winning time the guy they got to play Quincy Isaiah the guy they got to play Magic and the guy who played Kareem was amazing Solomon Hughes I think is the guy who played Kareem are perfect the players are a little bit of a stretch like the guy playing Chris Paul the guy playing Blake Griffin the guy playing DeAndre Jordan don’t look exactly like him don’t sound like him so you’ve got to suspend disbelief for they nailed Alvin Gentry they nailed and they nailed and they nailed JJ reck the kid the guy who plays reic actually obviously watch tape of reic cuz his mannerisms his the way he’s playing you can tell this guy played basketball no one has ever going to nail basketball casting in the way that whoever cast the Larry Bird guy in winning time oh yeah that that that is the most uncanny not only because he looks like bird which I don’t know about I haven’t how you find someone I’ve never seen anybody look like Larry Bird other than Larry Bird and that guy so they found him he could shoot like bird like the way he moved his body was like bird yeah I I just I I don’t know why I think some of it had to do with the pandemic I don’t know why winning time wasn’t renewed for another season because I I thought it was great I know that it didn’t help that in the beginning the people associated with the Lakers dismissed it Matt magic said watch my dock jeie said watch my dock the winning time people said just watch it and see what you think by the end jeie embraced it but I I think that it it didn’t have any momentum clip is great everybody’s going to love it how did uh Emily do for you guys yesterday killed it and she won game of games you didn’t tell me that part em yeah I did what was the topic uh it was Donald it was C and I hadn’t even seen the episodes of that point time so I just but all the questions were you wouldn’t have had to watch the show Marcus like you you would have done fine at it it was all questions about stuff one of the ones I would have if I would watched the show beforehand would have been helpful Donald Sterling’s real last name because because at the white party they say they Donald T Sterling right and so T would have got an I knew that Sterling was not his last his I gave him three choices tokowitz Horowitz rabinovitz tokowitz tooz tokowitz was his name yeah the and then he changed it all right so I don’t know if you remember this or not this was a year or two ago M probably two years ago are we going where I think we’re going yeah so you and mace were doing the show and I had a stat that I really liked that Al had no interest in that you had no interest in that Mason had no interest in what was the St it was the one anybody that still don’t know fully no I got it now anybody who has beaten the Milwaukee Brewers in the playoffs has ultimately ended up in the World Series okay I thought that was just the and you gave me that look right there that’s the one okay I have another one for you today okay this is deeply interesting to me maybe only you maybe only me maybe only me but I’m gonna try again the Edmonton Oilers will play in the Stanley Cup finals starting on Saturday against the uh Florida Panthers first first Finals for Conor McDavid right correct yeah Cory Perry is on the Edmonton Oilers yep Cory Perry is a former MVP of the NHL and former Anheim duck former anim two doors down from my mother in coron there go Stanley Cup champion with the Anaheim Ducks this will Mark the fifth different team that Cory Perry has been on that has reached the Stanley Cup Final that’s an NHL record so you’re telling me Robert Ory I was say was he on five different teams he was on three different teams but he won seven rings okay but but this is five separate and and four of them have come at the end of his career where he’s just hopped around on a new team basically the only re there was a scandal in Chicago the only reason he’s in Edmonton is because he got ran out of Chicago because he was allegedly doing something inappropriate with the top prospect’s mother which they have all denied they’ve all denied it even even like Cory denied it Conor denied it everybody has denied team denied it they also sent him home and never let him come back yeah he did something so something Happ is this another one of those this is just me thanks five different teams I think that’s kind of impressive I mean the name that com is uh is is Will Smith the the pitcher Will Smith not the catcher cuz they go like three or four World Series in a row with different teams I think it was like Braves Astros Rangers think you’re right I think you’re right but like three years in a row with three different teams he ended up in the World Series Cory Perry had been played for the Ducks for like 12 or 13 years played for him forever and then he just started bouncing around and anyway this is this is another one of those times yeah I’m actually excited about the Stanley Cup Final I think it’s going to be good they got two of the three or four best players in the whole league yeah okay so here’s a stat equal to yours that you you probably won’t be impressed with try me out 11 years in a row 11 the team that wins the president trophy which is the team that has the most regular season points yep has failed to make the finals 11 years so it’s like if you have the best record it’s almost counter it’s almost counterproductive to you winning the cup right like the Kings when they won the cup were never even a number one seed and they won twice they were an eight seed one of those Seasons anyway there’s got to be like a reason for that though right like you’re just kind of coasting in whereas like you know if you if you if you have to fight to get into the playoff like you’re in playoff mode for a while yeah right but so but how do you I mean do you lean into that stat if you’re if you’re winning and you have the best record do you maybe sit guys and try and back into the second best record let’s make sure let’s go on a five game losing streak you don’t have to worry about the team that has a first match record they’re not getting in the finals I can’t wait to find out what fires you up as much as reality TV next well that was unexpected surprise I think Emily runs deeper than I do like I watch Bravo stuff like below deck Vanderpump Rules Real Housewives I’m not as into Survivor Big Brother you know those typ things I watched The Challenge yeah is that the Fred Rogan show it used to be I watch that before they ushered Fred into an early retirement just TV business for you right Supercross talk is brought to you by Inn out in- and out
