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Petros fill a little under the weather, but I'll be okay.

You were saying great. Now we're all gonna get tell me I hope not. I hope not.

Everbody's gonna get sick. I blame Ronnie forgetting me sick.

Ronnie was sick over the weekend.

I'm still sick. I'm still trying to get over trying.

To bury the lead on us.

Yeah.

So now I'm gotten sick, a little bit of a head cold, but I'll be all right, I'll tough it through. You know, it could be worse, could be Sharon Moore right now?

Right? Yeah, but did you impregnate somebody here saying it could be worse? Well, yeah, but he could be worse. But like it's like he's been running from that problem for like a year. It feels like, you know, it's like is there something hanging over you? I mean we all have something hanging over.

Nothing hanging over me. Just the head cold, you know, a little bit of stuff in there.

Right, I mean, you know we could say that, like you could totally say I'm glad that I'm not Sharon More could be worse. Thys are bad, but look what happened to Sharon. Or that's a really bad day. I mean, it's been a bad forty eight hours for Sharon Man. Well, yeah, whenever you're pulling a legedly pulling a butter knife out of a drawer and threatening to kill yourself and somebody else with it. No, no, that's that's bad. But still I'm concerned about your head cold. I'll be okay, Just

Hunted T shirts? So no matter if you're a double X or a medium.

We got a T shirt and Kate's is thinking about how to sort those out as we speak. Also, I just pulled these out of the kitchen area in our office here on the fourth floor. And more prizes for the people. Well there's a stack. What like there's like at least fifty of these DVDs stacked up. I just took two because I don't like to be a hoarder. Is it the same thing? Different? They're all the same DVD. It's Pumpkins Sculpting with professional artist Terry Harden. What pumpkin Sculpting?

I mean, by the time we go to commercial in the next seven to eight minutes, there may be all gone.

I'm gonna go to the KFI podcast and podcasts because I'm sure she was on one of those shows. And Ronnie's very excited about this as well. I it seems running.

You know, Petros. I went in there earlier and I saw those DVDs that you speak of, and there are a couple of them, if I'm not mistaken, that are autographed.

There's one. There were two in.

There when I went in there earlier.

Well, somebody took it. There's at least one I saw that's personally autographed. I didn't want to be that persump. Somebody check Kevin Fingers back then.

That could be like a Grand prize. I mean it's autographed, right.

It is an autograph DVD. I don't know how much autograph dds go for on the market, but in the art world, I'm not exactly sharing. What is it Kate's Do.

You know any well known pumpkin pumpkin sculptors?

I think it's a regional thing.

Because I just looked it up and there are two that are just above everybody.

Is she one of them?

I'm not seeing Terry harden as one of them. Joye Kusama from Japan and Ray Villa Fane, who's really good at three D pumpkin carving, are the two biggest pumpkins.

Aren't all pumpkins three d's They're not two D or aren't they like all?

No, he's the pioneer in three D pumpkin art. Ray Villa Fane maybe makes a guest appearance and Pumpkins School. Check out her dreads Very cool, right, Pumpkins sculpting. Well, we got these to give away next Thursday as well.

Yes, And on the show tonight, we've got a lot. We've got an Only Kate's Cares, which is a huge moment for everybody. I don't think we're gonna have time to get I think we're gonna have time to get into it. We're gonna make sure it happens. H David Vassa is gonna join us, Gomes is going to join us. In the very next segment, we'll talk to Brandon Gomes

Well, right before the show started, I was the last man in and I saw two bodies, two shadows, walk in that direction. Now I hope fingers crossed. They were just going with these two. We have to give away these two I designated for our listener. But the auto, the auto DVD autographed one. I hope I don't find it in Burbank Sports Cars. I was there last night, helped close out the place. We'll be right back in ten minutes.

Brandon Gomes the Dodgers GM on, all the latest about your Los Angeles.

Do hey.

When Vass comes on, we got to ask him if Pingolore was at this press conference today? Oh great, call, right, I mean you stir up the Dodger hot Stoves.

Pylord, nobody's gone harder than Panoloor. You throw some more wood on that fire. Pingolare has made the stove very hot. Look at Freeman, Look at Goms. We'll talk to Goms next in his beard. It's gonna be a race for that autograph. Petro, some money continues on a frog Man Friday. We've made it even easier to take LA Sports with you this summer.

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Welcome back, everybody, Petra send money on AM five seventy LA Sports On a Frogman Friday, your home of the back to back World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers. Tim kaits co hosting today and it was a big day over at Dodger Stadium. Always fun in the off season or in the hot stove. Dodger fans have learned to celebrate new signings and think favorably upon the future because

Doing well? Guys? Thanks for having me.

Oh, it's fabulous to have you. Just give us a little idea of how this took shape With Edwin Diaz, it felt like it caught a lot of people, especially stupid people like us, off guard.

Yeah, I mean, going into the off season obviously looking for ways to add to what's already a really talented roster. So there's not you know, there's only so many names that you know makes sense as far as like really impactful additions like this, so you know, keep in touch, but not sure how it was all going to play out.

What was it about Edwin in particular, or what was it that you guys circled him on your board and wanted him to be that back into the bullpen kind of guy.

Yeah, I mean the track record of dominant and having done it on the biggest stage obviously in New York, and then also being it firsthand in the postseason.

That's first and foremost.

And then you know, you start digging on the just the person and the character and what he brings to the table and from a clubhouse perspective and mentoring younger guys in his ability to go out there and take the ball like whenever the team asks in order to help him win. You know, really selfless type guy that fits in with our other superstars with no ego, so

Once we get down to it.

Last year, you guys made a splash and free agency with the bullpen as well with Kirby Yates Tanner Scott. Tanner Scott didn't have certainly the season you guys had expected him to have, And he'll be the first person to say that, what do you guys expect out of Tanner Scott and how he can kind of fit in and piece together with Edwin Diaz at the back end of that bullpen.

Yeah, I think, you know, talking to Tanner recently and you know, just throughout the season, fully expect him to come back to his previous dominance as well and feel like it's a great, you know, another great piece to have in our pen to go along with a bunch of other guys who have who've done it once again, have a track record of just being really hard to hit, and he's going to be another important piece to us, you know, trying to go out and win another championship.

Gomer.

When you guys go to Orlando for the Winter meetings, how are the Dodgers received by everybody else around Major League Baseball? You know, if you look on social media, you guys are the evil Empire the now, But you go to Orlando and the Baseball Winter Meetings when the Dodgers walk in and those quarters at Polos are being warred with that Dodger logo on it. How are the Dodgers seen around Baseball and Orlando when you guys are at the Winter Meetings?

Is back to back world champs?

I'm not really sure.

I think we have a lot of really good relationships across across the game, and you know, I think the Winter Meetings, everybody knows that you're there to go and try to make your team.

As good as possible.

And you know, obviously it's great coming off back to back championships, but nothing, you know, taking nothing for granted and continuing to try to grind and do everything we can to go out and put the best team out there again.

And you guys certainly do that. And there's always trade rumors going on this time of the year, and you guys are all together. I mean, we think of the Dodgers as this global organization and you guys are, but you guys all work together, are in contact together. How do you guys deal with some of your own players being named in trade rumors? Is that uncomfortable?

Yeah?

I mean some of this stuff that comes out there is like, wow, that's that's in Brandon know we were doing that or I didn't know that guy was being talked about. So I think a lot of it's funny.

You know.

Obviously, if there's any concern, we will just reach out to the player agent specifically.

But you know, you.

Can't help what's put out there, and a lot of it, the vast majority of it is just made up. So, you know, I think it's really important to maintain good relationships with our players and keep the lines of communication open when when things like that pop out there, to make sure there's no you know, the game of assumptions can be dangerous.

Brandon, with a closer now signed going into twenty twenty six, what else are you guys as a front office looking for for this this roster in twenty twenty six? What what are the other needs that maybe you guys are looking at to address.

Yeah, I'm not sure as much needs with you know, we have so much versatility and already really talented roster. It's being you know, patient and you know, continuing to assess.

What's available to whether it's a hey, this is another you know impact you.

Know, quote unquote splashy mover or is this just another like good move to help us win baseball games and round out a roster and you know, giving us different options both now and in the future.

So I think there's a.

Lot of just kind of assessing what's available and looking at our own roster internally and how to make it as strong as possible and built to you know, be successful both in the regular season, which means you have to have a lot of really good players in depth, and then also in the postseason and how to you know, strike that balance.

Brandon Goms joining us right now on the Petros and Money Show. Dodgers GM A man who wields power, are over one of the great franchises from the history of sports going through a golden age right now. But no matter how gold in the age has goals. Do you guys take calls on like Christmas Eve and Christmas Day? In New Year's Day? Does the stove remain hot on these certain like does any does anybody take a day off when it comes to the holidays and the stove?

Yeah, I mean we certainly try to. My wife might disagree with me, but yeah, that's the goal. There needs to be at some point some unplugging and put the phone down, and as you could, it's the type of job that really it's you could always be digging on players or looking at somebody else, and so at a certain point think okay, let's we're gonna put this down

Brandon's certainly a lot to talk the last couple of days about maybe a potential blockbuster deal that could be out there and made between the Dodgers and a northern another organization in Major League Baseball. Certainly you can't say anything, we all understand that. But would the Dodgers be in the market for a front of the rotation left hander if one was out there?

Yeah, I mean, I don't know if that's necessarily or pressing a pressing need at this point. So I think we said with everything we do, we're we're having conversations and finding ways to you know, trying to figure out if this is something that makes sense for us, both in the short term and long term. And some things play out and some things don't. So I think how we function is like be open on everything and if it makes sense ultimately we'll do it.

Finally, since there's so many players on your team that are from other countries, especially Japan, and some of the most important players Heroic Coofax like Yoshinobu Yamamoto, shoe O Tani, Roki Sasaki, and the World Baseball Classic is coming up. How many conversations do you have with those guys or the Japanese government. I mean, I don't know if you call their prime minister or I mean, how does it work.

Yeah, there's a formal process that you have to go through with Major League Baseball and then the PA and having conversations. So those things take some time, and like anything we do, we have the conversations with the player and figure out, you know what what ultimately is the

Final thing for me, Brandon, as a forward pitch of yourself, and a player. Have you had a chance to just step back in the last six weeks since the end of the World Series and kind of digest what happened in that World series, from the eighteen Inni Marathon game to the appearances that guys made from the Willkleines of the world, to what Yamamoto did to Game six, the catches, Game seven, the catch and the outfield, the home runs, I mean, the dramatics of it all. We may never

Uh yeah, I mean, I think obviously, you get done with the parade and then your.

Body tells you no, Moss and.

I get sick immediately, and then you know, you start having different conversations with people, or you.

Know, over the winter meetings, we're having dinner.

With all of us and Doc and everyone and just like recalling like, oh man, you know the months he can on the line drive the Yama bunt play, like you start going through all those things that you know, get a little less recognition than.

Some of the other plays. So you know, it's usually over over.

Dinner and you know, unplugging for a bit, you start to rehash some of the crazy moments and and really appreciate what what that world series was and obviously ending up on the on.

The better side of it is great for us.

But I think just from a baseball perspective, taking a step back like really good for the game and for fans all across the country and world.

Straightforward, honest and entertaining stuff from the great Brandon Goalmes. We appreciate your time today. We know you're very busy people, and take some time out and talk to our listeners and the fans is always much appreciated. Have a wonderful holiday, mister Gomes, and we will talk to you soon. And good luck with all endeavors.

Awesome, Thank you guys. I'd be holidays to you too.

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I'm going joined his Laker reports during Patrick and the Colin Coward every Day.

Fabulous.

All right, Kates, Yeah, we're looking at you here. I like to put together a couple of stories that we have, an F.

One report and a college whip still the com La Bowl quick hits, fun fact. I mean, we got a lot of content till seven o'clock.

Yeah, but sometimes we don't have time to get to stories, or maybe there's stories that I think I only care about.

Okay, it's a little occ And now for a segment that I've already lost interest in before this open is finished.

Only all right, I got two of them real quick.

I'll get to the last time we heard and Saw from Lindsey Vaughn.

Okay, the Skier, Yes, the Downhills get photos with Tiger Woods.

Yes, she was breaking up with hockey player Pecan pk Subon. She dated him after she dated Tiger Woods, who, of course, as you just alluded to, back in twenty seventeen, made news when her phone was hacked and naked pictures of her and Tiger Woods were.

Leaked to the web. She made the crossover.

Very attractive woman made the crossover from a downhill Olympic skier to a pop culture figure since she dated a hockey player and a golf superstar. Well, she's back at forty one years old to do what Lindsey Vaughn after major knee surgery four years ago forced her to retire in her leg like fall off almost right, she like

All right, do I have to Where is the Winter Olympics in February. It's in Italy. That's what I read. Okay, Milano, Cortina. So it's in Milan. Okay, Olympics twenty twenty six. Okay, so it's in like the Alps, the Italian Alps.

Very cool, She's that's a great comeback story. We're talking about phlip Rivers coming back at the age of forty four. Gonna start for the Colts this weekend in Indianapolis. And here Lindsey Vaughn after major, yeah, major knee surgery, dating a hockey player. She's part older by the way of the LAFC. She's like a very small minority owner in the LAFC Football Club. And of course her relationship with Tiger Woods from twenty fourteen to twenty seventeen during Tiger's heyday as.

Well, not really his heyday. He's pretty post getting hit upside the head by his wife with the golf club. Okay, he was still pretty good. All right, Well, okay, I can't say that I care about you about that.

Okay, all right, here's another one tomorrow. You'll get signed about this one tomorrow, the one hundred and twenty six meeting between Army and Navy. Yeah, Baltimore, have more on this later. I hope you're not stealing my st We'll find out. Maybe I'm not the only one who cares about it. A sold out M and T Bank Stadium tomorrow. Where's that Baltimore, Baltimore right next to Camden Yards?

All right, right there? I've been there and they don't often play this on campus in West Point or Annapolis.

There is a statue of the great Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis. That's awesome right outside MNT Bank State looking at Camden Yards across the parking lot. Okay, tomorrow, the great site of the Brigade of Midshipmen and the Court of Cadets. They're going to march in from Camden Yards parking lot through the Ravens walking into the stadium. It is tradition like no other. The uniforms are both great. We talked about for the last few weeks how great Army and Navy.

The unis look awesome. They'll be all the the political brass will be there, the great history.

The history, the pomp and circumstance. It's fantastic. The cadets there are three special the midship eats that you can get tomorrow at M and t Bank Stadium in Baltimore. At the concession stands. First, burnt in tank nachos, a cardboard Army tank filled with nacho chips, cheese, all the toppings, and smoked beef brisket burnt in. Okay, that's kind of tall. I saw this tank. It looks pretty sweet.

It is pretty sweet.

The second one, I'm gonna tweet out the picture of it here in a second on Petro some money chicken tenders in a humby or a carrier. They have a humby for the army, and they got a carrier for the Navy that you can eat your chicken tenders and your dippings in as well.

Okay.

And the third one's pretty cool. Crab destroyer nachos, which look awesome for thirty bucks.

A lot of crabmeat available in Maryland. It's a cardboard or paper Navy destroyer with kettle chips paired with Maryland crab dip, sweet corn, pico de gayo, creamy queso blanco. Old Bay, Old Bays. You know what that is, no clue, It's it's like the the lowry season salt of Baltimore.

Old Bay, topped lump crabs and Fresno Chiles.

Topped with lump crabs and Fresno Chiles, so it's a little West Coast flavor crab nachos in this. And a destroyer which is a chef huge navy destroyer, not the one from Star Wars, but boat no and it is pretty cool looking. It is pretty good sized destroyer for thirty bucks. So I'm gonna retweet a picture of these

The Afternoon Show from ninety two point three, the Cruise Show not Cruise. His crew were in the kitchen during this last break getting some food from the vendie machines, and I said, hey, back away, that's my autograph copy of the dvd.

Oh, there was some set tripping in there. Like the Jets and the Sharks. So I grabbed me the Jets. There the sharks. Is that the one snapping their fingers? So there you go. Little only Kid's cares.

That's it.

Food at the Army at a time, Army Navy foods a third story. And Lindsey Vaughan is back in scheme check her out the Olympics. I'm sure they'll make a big deal about her return.

I'm sure they will. I covered her for all those Olympics. I remember when I was working at the Korean station and Fred had to go to the last Olympics in Italy. Back when Fred was feeling his oats a little bit more. He wasn't even in today, was he. No? No, no, it was Adam. So maybe he's down at bertz Burger's. Maybe maybe he's sculpting a pumpkin. Well, you better have a DVD to help him out. Maybe he's churning his