The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: The Sphere of Ignorance (feat. Amin Elhassan and Felipe Esparza)

Episode Date: February 3, 2025

Amin Elhassan swoops in to save our basketball coverage on what he is referring to as the biggest trade in NBA history. He discusses the dynamics between Rich Paul's work as Anthony Davis' agent and his friendship with LeBron James, Kyrie as a trojan horse in Dallas, something the Mavericks must know that they're not telling us, and the reach this trade had outside of the sports world. He also tries to explain how Dallas ended up making this move. Then, comedian Felipe Esparza joins the show to discuss his origin story as a comedian, working at Dodgers Stadium, his story as it relates to the American Dream, and why the nerves he feels over releasing his new special are different than you might think. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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get there by by midnight i was stunned to hear mike ryan be interested in this although I do understand adding at least a couple of hours to your trip if you don't want to deal just with the airport getting to the airport bothering with people at the airport this is adding ten hours to my trip I think there's just a lot in the news as to why you'd want to avoid airports and airplanes get it I've gotten way more scared of air travel over the last couple years. Hmm. You want to make the drive or what do you think? Me

and you? Road trip? You would never do that. I would do it. He's considering it. He was considering. No, I know Mike might. No, Stugatz was considering just driving up after the flight. He doesn't mind wasting a little money. I mean he does that every day and go home. He'll just keep driving. We are going to get to Felipe Esparza in a second but not before we bring in Amin Alhassan our regular NBA insider. You could check him out in a renewed and refurbished oddball with Izzy Gutierrez. What are you making faces about? Why are you making, what's the matter? Who's Felipe Esparza?

He's a comedian, he's got three Netflix specials. What's the matter with, okay. I honestly thought it was a baseball player. I was like, what baseball player? Did something happen in baseball where they got this guy coming on? I thought maybe, I don't know, maybe New Marlin or something.

All right, so put it on the poll at Lebatard Show. Philippa Sparza, New Marlin or a new comedian? Now we have to ask him if he knows who Amino Hasson is. Yeah, okay, we will do that in a second. I mean, what were your thoughts from all you've read and consumed? This is a lot of consensus here. Give me some answers to some questions.

Incompetence by the Mavericks? Why would you not go to all the teams and see what you could get? Well first I'd like to start off by calling you an absolute fraud because there's no way you go to the bathroom for number two and you're not on your phone. What are you doing?

You're just alone with your thoughts during that time? Thank you. You're lying. A newspaper maybe, if you tell me, I still pick up the paper. No, there are books in the bathroom. There are physical books. Okay, okay. I stand corrected.

You're rereading these books? Have you finished them? Did you get new books? And when you're done with them. I'm in the middle of like seven different books. What do you do with them when they're done? Because you can't donate bathroom books. You need one book you've read on the toilet.

Sometimes I could take that out of there, sometimes I can't. If you're reading seven books, Dan, you're not reading one, I mean. Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Can we spell it booth? I mean, go ahead please. Okay, so, you know, obviously I got notified of this and my buddy who let me know said

this is the biggest trade in NBA history. And I wanted to fight back and say, no, no, that's not true. We're just being prison at the moment. And I thought about it like, this is the biggest trade in NBA history because we've never had two superstar players in their primes and Anthony Davis, yes, is still in his prime getting traded for one another midseason like that let alone Completely caught off guard for the entirety of the league. I want to thank Rob Palinka and

Nico Harrison for showing everybody that you don't have to Whisper hey, I think we're about to do this deal You should go out and tweet and see what the public think. No, do your business behind closed doors. All these leaks that we've accepted as this is just how things are nowadays in the internet age, nope, there's still people who can keep secrets. And by the way, you know who one of those people are? Danny Ainge, because he was the third person in this deal. Danny Ainge made this happen by being that kind of stowaway zone where Jalen

Hutz-Shafino ends up. You say this but still an act of either negligence or incompetence not to go to every team in the league to get the valuable asset that you have a maximum value, no? I think this is this is the part where it gets complicated, it gets tricky, because when you have a 25 year old face of the franchise, maybe perhaps one of the faces of the league, cornerstone superstar player, it's not like dangling Duncan Robinson in a deal, where it's like, oh, my name's in the rumors,

like, ah, you'll be fine. It doesn't work like that. That is, you'll be fine. It doesn't work like that. That is, you only get one shot of trading a guy like that. I mean, I was theorizing that if you're going to blindside him by taking $100 million away, you do not want anyone knowing that. Because also, if let's say the Lakers had said no, or if they had gotten to a place where the deal wasn't

going to get made, you want to be able to walk back into that workplace and not be super freaking awkward because you tried to trade the face of the franchise. The need for secrecy means you cannot go around talking to a bunch of people. And when you think about it in that regard, I understand, apparently they talked to two teams. One of them was the Lakers.

We don't know what the other team is. My theory is's it's Milwaukee and it's Yannis under the compo That's that's as I look through the caliber of players where this deal would work for Dallas listening to what Nico Harrison saying he prioritized in coming back in this deal and then a Superstar that you had to believe might be available. How many teams say no to Luka? To their best player for Luka? Give me the number of teams. Denver with Jokic, San Antonio with Wemba Nyama, Milwaukee with Giannis. Look, I think Golden State probably says no with Steph even though we'll say, well, Steph is 35 and this kid is 25 and has 10 more years. I don't think you can crater your franchise in that way.

And then there's another level of this, Dan, where it's like, I'll say no because I don't think Luca will stay. And I think Milwaukee is one of those places. Milwaukee knows that Giannis doesn't have a problem with the market. He doesn't have a problem with the weather. He doesn't have a problem with the weather. He doesn't have a problem with the lack of endorsements. Giannis' big issue in Milwaukee, if he has one, is when are we gonna win another championship?

And so to have that and know all of those things is way more important than the unknown of, maybe Luca will like it, maybe he won't. And so I think that there's a little bit of that at play as well. LeBron knows nothing. LeBron is at dinner and learns at dinner. Yeah so like that this is where it gets really complicated. He learned it at dinner. I don't believe LeBron learned from the internet. I just don't believe that. If the deal is done

and the deal was done in the middle of the game as I was told they consummated that deal pretty much they agreed to the final terms in the middle of that game rich Paul had known for 48 hours At that point once it's a done deal I think ritz tells LeBron maybe LeBron found out during dinner from rich You think rich is keeping that from LeBron for 48 hours as part of his agent duties. I Do and I think I think Dan for you, you have a very bad habit. I got to call you out on this. You lump Rich, LeBron and Maverick together all the time.

They are separate people. They're involved in separate business ventures. Sometimes they collaborate, sometimes they don't. So in making a point about Rich, Paul and LeBron, you said, and they're looking for $5 billion to invest in a rival, no, that's Maverick's thing. That's not Rich's thing and that's not LeBron's thing. But these are lifelong, but wait a minute, I mean- But Dan, Dan, Dan, should I associate on rival with you?

No, fair enough, fair enough, fair enough. But these are lifelong friends and these are business associates who have trafficked over lifelong friendships and their allegiances are going to be to each other over Anthony Davis or the billion dollar investors. I think Rich Paul is a professional. He takes his job very seriously. And as such, I think he does look out for his client, Anthony Davis, over his friend LeBron James

in that instance, especially, because the other part of this is not like they traded Anthony Davis for, again, let me stop picking on him, but like Duncan Robinson and Haywood Highsmith, right? Like they traded him for a superstar player, so. I mean, would you not agree that LeBron james and rich paul are the greatest of friends never get their great friends yes ok so you're telling me that rich paul is so

honorable he's gonna make sure to take care of the same climate client he pulled out of new orleans in order to get the brana fountain of youth in los angeles that is loyalty and it's going to be towards a job and his client and not to his uh... one of his best friends who who is also affected whose entire economy is affected by this he's the reason he has those clients though I mean hold on hold on do you think that LeBron benefit mortar more from Anthony Davis and Anthony Davis benefited from getting traded to the Lakers to play with LeBron is that what you're implying it worked

out for both of them but no no no no no no no no no no no no but This was brought to be the the guy who helped LeBron age Dan you're not answering my question. I'm asking you do you think LeBron James Benefited more in his life his career his legacy from the addition of Anthony Davis then vice versa then Anthony Davis Benefited from getting to leave New Orleans to go be a Laker and play with LeBron James I do not Okay, so it wasn't about helping LeBron. Sure LeBron got helped sure LeBron's interests were served But it was about helping Anthony Davis Rich Paul was servicing his client Anthony Davis in that in that regard getting him out of a situation

For a franchise that wasn't winning from a small market to play with a superstar who was going to help elevate Anthony Davis. And as we look at it now, Anthony Davis is a top 75 player. Does that happen if he doesn't go to the Lakers? Because LeBron's still top 75, LeBron's still considered one of the greatest. We're still having LeBron versus Jordan arguments if Anthonyis never goes to the lakers but is the opposite to does andy davis get to be a top seventy five player if he doesn't leave new

orleans is that rhetorical i'd i agree with whatever your whatever you say uh... i wanted to ask you your thoughts on i i saw a clip from basketball illuminati that was referencing i think a band all over uh... trojan horse theory about Kyrie Irving going to the Mavericks to blow them up so that Luca could be so unhappy that he would end up back on the Lakers and I want to hear what your thoughts are on that. So on basketball Illuminati Ben Golliver just talked about Kyrie Irving

being a Trojan Trojan Horse. We're the ones that elevated to, and that's how Luca gets to be a Laker. And that episode dropped on February 23rd of 2023, I want to say. It was right after the All-Star game. And our whole theory about it was LeBron, as I, me and George Sadano came up with this years ago on LA radio, when LeBron first became a Laker, we warned the audience, the warned the audience, the Los Angeles audience, hey, this guy doesn't leave breadcrumbs, he leaves whole loaves of bread. And so Tom and I and Anthony Mays, we went back and we looked at like the all-star drafts,

because LeBron leaves whole loaves of bread. Who does he draft high in these all-star drafts? It tells you who he likes, who he really wants. He was always, he was, he took Anthony Davis number one overall in 2020 when Anthony Davis was a Pelican. There you go, that's a flag up. Now, Anthony Davis is his teammate, he takes him number one in each one of these drafts, but the next pick he takes is Luka Doncic.

And so, we made that connection there, we read the tea leaves, we connected the dots, we kept our third eye open. And so two years ago, we predicted that Luka Doncic would be a Dallas- That should be a victory lap. That is sports radio, my man. I think you should be victory lapping right now

while you're on your couch. I do believe we are underestimating Anthony Davis, though. Yes, he benefits from being LeBron's number two, but he's forever considered a number two because we never got to see him as the number one after New Orleans like and and I don't know that that's what we're gonna see now I think I I think you are you yourself for devaluing how good Anthony Davis is I am NOT I am so Balmonte said it best we need to stop pretending like Anthony Davis is Dale Davis, right?

Which is a great call, great pull by Bomani. He's right. Like this is an elite defensive player, all defensive team perennial, who is also an elite offensive player. There are not too many players in the league that we can say with certainty, this guy is both all NBA and all defensive team every year barring injury or something like that I'm just telling you with regards to who helped who LeBron helped Anthony Davis way more in terms of his legacy and how he's

looked at then vice versa what's the most interesting thing about all of this to you all of it there's something the Mavericks know about Luca that they're not telling us there is something there that we don't that and I'm not saying it's like oh it's medical or it's physical it might just be they felt strongly that he's not going to stay and this isn't the first time we've had this it's gonna sound like a ridiculous comparison given what happened afterward But once upon a time then Darren Williams was looked at as him and Chris Paul who was the best point guard in the league He was a franchise player and the jazz in the middle of the night traded him to Brooklyn

We didn't even know he was available and he had like a year and a half or two years left on his deal So wasn't even one of those he's gonna read a free agent You got to get something for him and at the time the Utah Jazz said look we are not confident that this guy is gonna stay and if he's not gonna stay we don't want to wait until we lose the leverage we want to go out there and do the deal that we want to do ahead of time and so they moved them this is like that times a million and so for me I'm thinking about that part of it. There's that part of it.

Is it a Darren Williams thing where it's like, we gotta get out ahead of this? Or is this a, and this is an extreme example again, Zion Williamson thing, right? Think about Zion Williamson after like his second year. If the Pelicans were like, he's great, he's awesome. This is an elite talent but I don't know I think we're gonna be stuck in this cycle of him never getting in shape

and and then you know playing and getting shape and then playing great and then getting hurt again and then he's out of shape and we have to pay him all of this money and our franchise is stagnant because it all hinges on whether this guy is ever going to take that part of it seriously if the the Pel kids that made the decision in year two we would have killed them for trading him. Now we look at it and we look at the crater that is New Orleans and we're like yeah kind of in retrospect he's hitching your sales to this guy may have hamstrung you from building something complete and I look at Dallas and I'm saying maybe that's part of the equation as well.

But either way, there's something there that we're not getting when we just say, oh my God, I can't believe it was just Anthony Davis in one pick. I mean, do you think the deal gets done if the Mavs demand Bronnie? No, no deal. No, that's when, that's when Rich Paul

picks up the phone and calls LeBron. He doesn't call Bronnie, by the way. He calls LeBron I'm gonna call the spa see you later. I mean good talking to you All right, Kanye tweeted about it, by the way That's how big a deal this was You guys realize that Kanye was in the middle of a rant. Yeah, and then and then like midway through He's like I don't watch sports, but apparently like Luca just got that's a crap to tell you that

This deal was so big it cut through the sphere of ignorance That surrounds Kanye west and I mean that term in every way so we can all agree Kanye should be the bellwether for all of these things and the nation's attention. Thank you. I mean that is the Ultimate arbiter the ultimate arbiter Yes, that his ignorance was pierced by this deal. Look miles Garrett ain't moving that meat needle like that Yeah, right. I had a different Kanye algorithm last night Hey folks, it's Mike Ryan it is big game week and I've got just the thing to make your big game time a Miller time from fireside conversations of football Sundays I've got just the thing to make your big game time a Miller Time!

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heard, correct me if I'm wrong here, Jeremy trying to partake in a fourth Zagacki and I am here for a future where I am surrounded by a chorus of clucking Zagacki. Stugats! You know what it means when you have four Zagackis dead. You don't have one. This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats! I mean, Al Hassan was really disrespectful, but also a little bit right when he says, I don't know who Philippe Esparza is, but he sounds like a shortstop. He sounds like a baseball player.

That does sound more like a baseball player than a comedian, but he is selling out tour dates across the country. It's currently the At My Leisure leisure tour he has one of the top comedy podcast here for about a decade what's up fool and he's got three specials that are streaming on netflix and max he's got another one coming out on netflix raging fool that uh... streams globally here next month or next week actually so philippe thank you for joining us he's also a giant sports fan so just you you wake up this morning at the, you wake up this morning,

or you wake up yesterday morning to the news, or at night, you hear that Luka Doccich is a member of your Lakers, and your thoughts were what? And thank you for joining us, by the way. My thoughts were, who is Luka Docc? Okay. Yep.

Very good. So you're not that big of a sports fan then. I'm not big of a, I like the Lakers, but I'm one of those people mad at Like I still root for the Clippers, you know, you could be gonna root for your for your arm your stepson You know, but I love the Lakers man, and I don't really know who that person is. I'm sorry. Oh, that's okay I got I got bad information on your team. He's he's on the Lakers Do you know who Amin Elhassan is because I mean well if you don't know who Luca

Don't know why there's no way Illegally from Ukraine No, that's that's not exactly come on a sports visa to stay in this country. Are you a Dodger fan? Are you not about your bad bro? I threw out the first pitch. I used to stop pop course there I threw out the first pitch. I used to sell popcorns there. I insulted Reggie Jackson one time in Oakland, California by mistake because I was too nervous to meet the greatest player of all time. I shook his hand and when he squeezed it, the first thing out of my mouth to Reggie

Jackson was when I was a little kid, my father and I, we saw Bob Wild strike you out in the World Series. How old were you? I was 30 bro. Bob Walsh. I was 30 when I saw him when I told him that but I was a kid when I saw that. Stugats I don't think was Bob Walsh I think was Bob Welch I think he said. Bob Welch yeah. Okay I heard it as Wok, I'm sorry. Bob Wok, great picture for the pirates though. Thank you. I thought that that would be your wheelhouse for sure. Didn't you work at Dodger Stadium?

Yes, I used to make hot dogs and popcorn and I used to sell souvenirs around the stand. Your story's kinda crazy, right? I mean, you talk about all this stuff in your special. You don't keep very much out of it. Your journey, was it funny while it was happening? Because some of the stuff feels like it wasn't that funny. A lot of my stuff was really sad and heartbreaking,

but I didn't have a therapist, or my mom would just say, get over it. So stand-up comedy was like the only therapy where I could just release it and let it go. Well, what are we talking about there, though? Because for the people who don't know your story, we're talking about deportation how many times? Just start there on how you got to this country.

Oh, the first time we got in this man's car, and I don't know who that was, my mother and I and my two other brothers, and we already passed, we already passed gold bro, we passed the border, we were waiting for $200 like Monopoly but then we are halfway down like by San Clemente, California there was like a border checkpoint that the sheriffs of Sacramento had, there were like many men I guess, but they were stopping the freeway and they were randomly stopping people.

We were already in America, we were already in. But then they caught us and they took our driver, I don't know who that was, probably like a Mexican Uber driver, Wild E Coyote, and they let him go because he was American, and they took us to a detention center. My mom was separated from us and then we just ate sandwiches and watched Bugs Bunny cartoons and the next day we walked to the gate and we were back in Mexico. But the third time, the third time

my aunt she dressed up my little brother like a little girl and he was potty now and we borrowed my cousin, we used my cousin's passport and we got to America. Yeah, some people come out of the closet, my brother came out of the country. These stories obviously are not being told by many people on the standup comedy tour. How unlikely is your story, the idea that you have comedy specials?

Like, does that even register with you, the the idea being able to make this kind of career with your freedom when you know you're remembering the time you're in America you're close to your dreams and your dreams probably didn't look exactly like this yes and I didn't know this when we crossed the board and all that like my parents didn't like child love they're like they were not like a coach they were not prepping us like all right you're gonna be a girl you're gonna be this guy and so we didn't know we just chose we're in work in a standing little kids and my mom would just tell us after school don't talk to

nobody just run home I wonder you can laugh at some of this stuff but you see where we are in the country right now at a Raptors game. And the Canadian people are supposed to be polite. They're booing the national anthem. The things that America, the things that America. The things that America is doing is landing poorly and they are making stories like yours and people like you, the other.

You do what with that politically as you live in the middle of it, but are grateful for what this country provides or has provided Yes, and I just became a US citizen three months ago. Congratulations. Yes It's funny because my parents they became US citizens before me. It just took me a while I feel great man. Like I feel like I Joke about it now, but I feel like now I could commit crimes without the fear of deportation.

That was really holding me back from being an arch criminal, papi. You do your specials in Spanish or English, and English, what language are you funnier in? You know what, I think I'm funnier in Spanish, because I think in Spanish, but I speak in English. So when I went to Mexico to try out the Spanish it was different from America man like getting I realized that what three percent of the words that I was saying here in

America that are Spanish are not Spanish words. They're like stuff that immigrants have messed made up man over the years it's like like pochua, but in Spanish, you know? Is it Spanglish? Like what are you talking about? Like sandwiching? Bro, it's like, I don't know how to say the word breaks growing up, like fix my breaks. So we would just add a little like white people

when they don't know a Spanish word, they add an O at the end, you know, like your son or have not done his homework or okay, O. You know? So that's fair, you know, okay. Oh, you know That's fair, you know, they're trying, you know, they're trying to blend in right for the Mexicans some Latinos in the West Coast We had an a s After every word or a es in front of a s like give me a sprite, you know or fix my break Okay, so a breaks well, like what's break?

What does break become or was it breakfast that you were Okay, so at breaks? What does break become? Or was it breakfast that you were talking about? You said breaks, right? Breaks ended up being like A-S, so I fixed my brecas, and when I said it in Mexico, choro silence, bro. They treated me like I have blue eyes and blonde hair over there. When you have a special coming out,

what is the feeling? Because again, Raging Fool comes out February 11th. Is it nervous, excitement, relief? You've been working on this material for a long time, yes? I'm nervous because once it airs, I can't do those jokes no more because people are gonna say, oh man, he's doing a same joke on a special.

So I gotta hurry up and start writing new jokes. So that's the hard part. Yeah, I can't be going up there. It's not like when you're a singer man, and people want to hear Doja Cat they want to hear her hit they want to hear it over and over they want it, you know But I can't do that. I gotta go out there and do some crowd work and come up with new material Like I have a bit where I say that I'm I'm getting older, you know, I went to a doctor for a health checkup He said I'm gonna need a blood sample, a urine sample,

a semen sample, and a stool sample. My doctor, you're lucky. I got all that in my underwear right now. Oh no. That's right. Wait a minute, you're a dentist, you pervert! You can't say that again. Yeah, that's it, it's over.

It's a funny way to describe your special, the idea that it's over and then you have to start all over at the bottom of the mountain. So basically, on February 11, it's not a day of delight and celebration that your special comes out. It's the warning that you have to get back to work. Hurry up.

You've got a blank slate. Slate, you idiot. Yeah, I do. I don't want to go up there. Because I remember when my first special came out, I didn't know that you had to go write new material I thought you could be like um Rodney Dangerfield or just do the same material over and over hey no respect but there was like people who knew who are who love my stand-up who

are in the front and every time I talk they were lip-syncing what I was saying so they were talking with me. It was like a sing-along. Yeah, Kent, that's when you know the stuff has, it's time to redo it. But when you're driving over the border, what are you dreaming of doing in this country? Like how unusual is a career in comedy from where you were?

Oh man, almost impossible. Like my father was an immigrant. He worked like eight and 60 hours a week. My mom worked cleaning houses and we were always home alone. And when I told my father, my father found out that I was doing stand-up comedy and not having a job and not going to community college. He was very upset, man. He was more upset because I think a lot of parents when you went on, the kids have a wild dream or a wild career. They're not there.

They're seeing themselves themselves in that position. Like when I told my dad found out a stand-up comedian, he put himself at a stand-up comedian and it got he got scared for me. Like, no, don't do that. Keep your job at UPS one day. You'll be a driver. Yeah, that makes it's safer isn't it? Yeah because it's already what can Brown do for you? Roy Wood Jr. is a friend of the show he recently told a story on another podcast about how you taught him about kindness and friendship

on after you beat him on last comic standing and he said he and the other comics weren't nice to you and that for a while the only person that would talk to you on tour after that was the bus driver what do you remember about all of that oh man those guys were all bitter because they got they lost to a Mexican and um and I ended up winning two hundred fifty thousand dollars but I should have told them on the bus, if I would have been talking to them, hey bro, I didn't really win $250,000. They got me for child support the next day.

My baby mama ended up winning. She became the last baby mama standing. But you were nice to them though, none of this came out. I'm nice to everybody, man. Everywhere I went, people were giving me stuff. There were people wearing my, it was hard for them because I guess they've been on TV before and they had TV credits I guess. They're known in the East Coast, but me I'm known in the West Coast. I've been doing stand up longer than them, but they

never heard of me. But I was building like an underground following and I had a lot of jokes and my jokes were short I had no no story they were like boom boom boom punchline like I had I had a joke where I say I met a woman last night she said I'll sleep over your house who can't have any sex I said all right tomorrow morning we'll have breakfast you can't eat no sex. I said, alright, tomorrow morning, we'll have breakfast. You can't eat no food. Boom. You know, and I said that uh the police pulled me over. They asked me, do you have anything inside illegal? I looked at my cousin. I ran boom. You know, I have a bunch of Buds. I was like, I was like,

I was like, Muhammad Ali bro. Ropey rope was jokes. I love the boom like you're boxing. Yeah, my father, my father was a boxer. My grandfather, they were boxers bro. They used to box tomatoes, grapes, oranges and California. I apologize. It took me this

long to realize this but Felipe, you and Dan look exactly the same. Felipe, I'm sorry. You and Dan look exactly alike. I mean you do. Well, there is a picture of me from the pandemic. Yes, very Cuban. Look at it, bro. We both look like Salma Hayek.

I will tell the people again that Felipe is on his nationwide tour. What do you want people to know, Felipe, about what it is that you're doing? Is it Raging Fool that you want them to check out are you prouder of at my leisure like what is your what do you view as your career achievement of the moment oh man go watch raging fool on Netflix I watch it a bunch of times clip cut up the clips put them up on tiktok you want you know bootlegged do whatever you want with it it It's all for you, man That's very generous of you. Thank you

Spread the love. Yes, we will spread the Mexican love. Thank you, sir. We appreciate your time on the show Thank you for taking it. Thank you for having me man. Let's go Dodgers I'm a big Raider fan even though we're over a decade. Yeah, I asked you only the Lakers Go ahead. I'm sorry. Do you know who Pete Carroll is? Oh yeah, man. We could have Pete Carroll, 10 Pete Carroll. We still have the same team though. Yeah, that's part of the problem.

We are over a decade, bro. You got to understand, bro. You got to be a team that shows up and ready to play every Sunday. The fans are more prepared. Look at the way they're dressed. They're cross-dressing. they're wearing black and silver. I mean, we're the only fans that have a, we have a wave with a boo in it.

Ah, boo. Yeah, that's 22 years without a playoff victory, but your Dodgers are cheating. Yeah, man. The Dodgers, man, we're the best. People say we're cheating, but we're just LA, bro. We're the best. Okay, but you're cheating. we're just LA, bro. We're the best. OK, but you're cheating.

It's not fair that you get to buy all the players. And just because you get to hold up your fingers, LA is the best, you're still cheating. It's not right what you're doing to baseball. Well, that's the way it is, bro. Back in the day, the Yankees had all the money, and they won all the World Series. And it's just sad because I remember when the Braves had the best five players in the league and they never won a game because they couldn't afford to get hitters.

Yeah, that is part of the problem. But you have all of them. And you have the one that pitches and hits. You have the one that does both of those things. Thank you, Felipe. Good talking to you. The angels didn't want to pay on the money, bro. They didn't want to get rid of Trout. $2 million.

They want to keep Orange County all wide. They don't want the bail the money, bro. They don't want to give it a trout. Two million dollars. They want to keep Orange County all white. They don't want the Tito in the team. Deferred payments, two million dollars for Otani. Get out of here, goodbye. Shout out to my boy from the California, the angels, Joe Adele, that's my man. Okay, but they weren't the California angels. They were California angels 10 years ago.

Oh, they're going to go back, bro. They're going to change the owner is Mexican. Yep. He's going to change the team. The owner, he's the first Mexican, bro, to have white people out in the fields. Opposite. All right, get out of here. Goodbye. Good talking to you. See you later.

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