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Speaker 4: What a pleasure, what a time to join you. It's
Speaker 4: the optimal time. It is the Friday before Thanksgiving week,
Speaker 4: and you know what that means.
Speaker 3: A lot of Thanksgiving talk between the two of us. Well,
Speaker 3: so holiday Ah, I'm more than happy to jump in
Speaker 3: on that. But also more importantly, or more broadly speaking,
Speaker 3: we're in the sweet spot on the calendar anytime sporting calendar.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about in the game of life. The game
Speaker 3: of life. Well that's why I said thanks, Okay, I
Speaker 3: shouldn't interrupt you because I know you never know what
Speaker 3: turn you're gonna take or what straight away you're going
Speaker 3: to open it up and haul ass down. So I'm
Speaker 3: just gonna let you go.
Speaker 4: Did you if you're within the sound of our voices.
Speaker 4: Are you on your way out of work? Are you
Speaker 4: already out? Are you done? Guess what you made it?
Speaker 4: Then twenty twenty five, the worst of it is already
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Speaker 2: From here on.
Speaker 4: Out, the rest of the calendar year, you're encouraged to
Speaker 4: booze at work, maybe leave work early, maybe get to
Speaker 4: work late. Because you stop off for a morning belt.
Speaker 4: You get to take a lot more days off. They
Speaker 4: just give them to you off for the holidays, or
Speaker 4: you can cash in on some of your vacation time
Speaker 4: some of the time when you're at work, or if
Speaker 4: you're young enough, still at school. A lot of the
Speaker 4: classes are not going to be normal. It's going to
Speaker 4: be party time, presents coming, presents, going. Oh, it's the
Speaker 4: best time of the year.
Speaker 3: There we go. See, I should have just kept my
Speaker 3: mouth shut. You put it so perfectly. You're absolutely right, Dave.
Speaker 3: You get a half day Wednesday, the rest of the
Speaker 3: week off. Football every single day Thursday now with the
Speaker 3: Black Friday Game, impactful games, rivalry games on Saturday. That's
Speaker 3: our UCLA usc game, and of course the duel and
Speaker 3: the Desert and the Egg Bowl and all of those
Speaker 3: other things happen, and that Saturday. In college football professional
Speaker 3: football playoff spots could be decided based on the outcome
Speaker 3: of games this coming Sunday. Now, the NBA is boring
Speaker 3: as all hell as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 4: Don't watch. That's not important to be checking that out
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm a football calendar. We really got some good
Speaker 3: things going.
Speaker 4: We definitely do. And it is a very consequential Week
Speaker 4: twelve upcoming here. We'll dig in on that. You're off
Speaker 4: with the Chargers play by play, so you can really
Speaker 4: lean into your roots. You can watch the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 4: There are many photos floating around of a young Matt
Speaker 4: money Smith wearing a Walter Payton jersey. There there are
Speaker 4: front of a Christmas tree on the south side.
Speaker 3: I had a Walter Payton jersey when I was a
Speaker 3: little kid, and it was the the old one that
Speaker 3: had the three quarter sleeves on it, you know, so
Speaker 3: it wasn't really like an official jersey. It was like
Speaker 3: the one you would buy at Sears Roebuck, you know,
Speaker 3: that was the knockoff. And then I believe I had
Speaker 3: a Jim McMahon jersey.
Speaker 4: I've seen you in the nine jersey as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, those were the two that I had when I
Speaker 3: was a little kid, and then I had the and
Speaker 3: I think the I think the Jim McMahon jersey might
Speaker 3: have come in the hutch play set if I ran
Speaker 3: the helmet with the helmet, yeah, that may be how
Speaker 3: I had the number nine.
Speaker 4: That's a fun game to play. Can you name every
Speaker 4: team's representative from against say nineteen eighty two and nineteen
Speaker 4: eighty four ish? What was who was the chosen figure?
Speaker 4: The thirty two, the eighty eight for Lynn Swan if
Speaker 4: you were a Steelers guy with the Jack Lambert obviously
Speaker 4: with Tony Thorpe set for the Cowboys. Speaking of the Cowboys,
Speaker 4: I don't want to jump over what I was.
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Speaker 3: That was a sensational conversation with Notre Dame in the
Speaker 3: college play.
Speaker 4: Let's not get sidetracked with that because I think that
Speaker 4: consumes the next nine hours, whether we're whether we're on that.
Speaker 3: To your point, I said, Tony Dorset would be the
Speaker 3: Cowboys rep And you said, speaking of the Cowboys.
Speaker 4: Well, I was going to say, not skipping over what
Speaker 4: is a deeply important for the teams that are trying
Speaker 4: to get into the best possible spot or just get
Speaker 4: into the January NFL tournament upcoming here. I mean Bucks
Speaker 4: and Rams is huge here. You know, both of those
Speaker 4: teams probably are going to get in. I don't know
Speaker 4: if the Bucks definitely do.
Speaker 3: If they drop this one, the Panthers really going to
Speaker 3: win the South? What other team could possibly win the
Speaker 3: NFC South than the Bucks? Like, not the Falcons. Well, people,
Speaker 3: it's the Panthers. But they blew that game against the
Speaker 3: Saints that really dealt them.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: That's that's why I look at the Bucks like, eh.
Speaker 4: Well, I say all the time, you know they people
Speaker 4: always talk about life is short, life is also long.
Speaker 4: That also applies to a pro football season. Certainly you
Speaker 4: feel like, oh, it's gone so fast, and sure it has,
Speaker 4: but also things happen that people don't fully notice. We
Speaker 4: signed off somewhere around late September on the Bucks being
Speaker 4: a contender for the Super Bowl. If you've been paying
Speaker 4: attention to them, they ain't great. The Rams are really
Speaker 4: coming to deepy. Oh yeah, that was a big conversation
Speaker 4: a couple few weeks ago.
Speaker 3: It's Matthew Stafford in the Rams.
Speaker 4: That was also the conversation on one around one Daniel Jones,
Speaker 4: who has the Chiefs this weekend important to Chargers fans
Speaker 4: of course, and Broncos fans within the sound of our
Speaker 4: voice too, because.
Speaker 3: Big win for the Bolts last night with the Texans
Speaker 3: taking out the Bills.
Speaker 4: Absolutely if the Colts. If you look at it, it's
Speaker 4: kind of eight nine teams trying to squeeze into those
Speaker 4: seven spots available in the AFC. And I'll tell you
Speaker 4: the Steelers better not lose to your bears. Are They're
Speaker 4: in some real jeopardy of missing out. You can go
Speaker 4: through a number of games, and perhaps we will over
Speaker 4: the course of this, but I was going to mention
Speaker 4: about America's alleged team. The Dallas Cowboys are part of
Speaker 4: a trio of games that you may hold up as
Speaker 4: the best Thanksgiving trio of games that we've seen in
Speaker 4: the last couple of decades.
Speaker 3: I mean this coming Thanksgi. We're not talking about Cowboys
Speaker 3: ego on Sunday.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about No, I'm cat coming the first.
Speaker 3: Day, we're jumping to the bird and you got a
Speaker 3: ten am, you got a one pm, and now we
Speaker 3: got the five pm for Thanksgiving Day. Yeah, you're talking
Speaker 3: about the trio.
Speaker 4: And you go, I mean, let whether the Chiefs win
Speaker 4: or lose this Sunday they play in Big d and
Speaker 4: if the Cowboys, and I kind of think they are
Speaker 4: going to beat the Eagles given the way the Eagles
Speaker 4: have been tracked, a messing, a little bit of messing
Speaker 4: with fire, and I feel like Dallas.
Speaker 3: They really kind of solidified itself with the returning to
Speaker 3: Kobe Dean, and it just feels like you can't run
Speaker 3: on them anymore.
Speaker 4: I hear you. But on the other side of that,
Speaker 4: on the other side of that, I don't want to
Speaker 4: get sidetracked too far away from Los Angeles right out
Speaker 4: of the gate here. But you do wonder looking at
Speaker 4: the NFL, was Jerry Jones right to not sign Micah Parsons.
Speaker 3: Well, look, it's a one game sample and it was
Speaker 3: against the Raiders, who are terrible. But Quinn Williams is
Speaker 3: dominant himself. Announced reminded everyone that you remember when Quinn
Speaker 3: Williams was the guy that everyone said was yeah, there's
Speaker 3: Aaron Jones with then chest right behind Aaron Jones, there's
Speaker 3: Chris Jones, and there's Aaron Donald. I'm sorry Aaron Donald.
Speaker 3: Right behind him is is Chris Jones, and this Quinn
Speaker 3: Williams and Quinn might be better than like That was
Speaker 3: an actual conversation.
Speaker 4: The effect for the first twenty years of this millennium
Speaker 4: were do not sign any New England Patriots because if
Speaker 4: you expect them to perform on the level that they
Speaker 4: did in Foxborough, it's fools gold. It doesn't transfer. Chargers
Speaker 4: learned that with JC Jackson, right, well, so many teams
Speaker 4: did horrible. The opposite is true with the Jets. If
Speaker 4: you got to like a guy, you liked them come
Speaker 4: out of school. But the Jets drafted him like a
Speaker 4: little get him because he's been he has the stake
Speaker 4: of the Jets on him. You can't hold that against him.
Speaker 3: Right, So you got Chiefs Cowboys the afternoon one could well,
Speaker 3: if Joe Burrow's healthy and he's going to be playing,
Speaker 3: that's the night one. Yeah, that's the night one is
Speaker 3: Dangles Baltimore.
Speaker 4: That's deeply important for the Chargers and Steelers and Texan
Speaker 4: in Broncos and everybody.
Speaker 3: You said you said eight or nine, it's eleven, like
Speaker 3: that's this year. The AFC is now I'm not not
Speaker 3: by my team. Right, So you've got four division winners
Speaker 3: right right now as it stands, Colts, Patriots, Steelers, and Broncos.
Speaker 4: Right, Colts lose, Let me just say this to you.
Speaker 4: Colts lose to the Chiefs, which obviously there their favorite
Speaker 4: to lose that game. Beware the Jacksonville Jaguars the pleasure
Speaker 4: of no, They're going to prove my point now. So
Speaker 4: there's your four winners right now, here's your wild card Chargers, right, Bill's, Jags, Texans, Ravens, Chiefs.
Speaker 4: That's eleven already, that's ten. We're now with ten teams
Speaker 4: and i haven't even gotten to the there's one more
Speaker 4: that I'm forgetting. Well, what's wild is is the inversion
Speaker 4: of what you think are the best teams. You have
Speaker 4: the Broncos and Patriots, who nobody thinks are the two
Speaker 4: actual best.
Speaker 3: Tis ten. It's ten teams fighting for seven spots. Three
Speaker 3: are going right now. The wildcard teams are the Chargers, Bills,
Speaker 3: and Jags, meaning the Texans, Chiefs, and Ravens are currently
Speaker 3: on the outside. Looking in well, and I suspect that
Speaker 3: a lot of those teams are, or at least one
Speaker 3: or two of those teams are going to overtake who's
Speaker 3: in front of them in the standings right now, I
Speaker 3: do think the Ravens are going to surpass the Steelers.
Speaker 4: That doesn't give another Steelers out. Yeah, the Steelers are,
Speaker 4: They'll be out, not in the playoffs. Look, if they
Speaker 4: lose to the Bears, this would be a big one.
Speaker 4: It might swing some things. But they still have after
Speaker 4: this one Buffalo at Detroit and two more with the Ravens.
Speaker 3: I mean they could, you know, not ideal.
Speaker 4: They're tracking towards nine to eight with the loss to
Speaker 4: the Bears, or maybe even eight to nine, and that
Speaker 4: might spell the end for Mike Tomlin, which would be something.
Speaker 4: In the meantime, speaking of those Steelers, I don't want
Speaker 4: to get ugly. I just was celebrating where we are
Speaker 4: on the calendar and all of that. But a couple
Speaker 4: of Sunday nights ago, yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Was absolutely wrecked by the Chargers.
Speaker 4: The Steelers did it was an embarrassment. Yeah I didn't.
Speaker 4: I didn't show up. I protected you on Claude Van
Speaker 4: damashek Yeah, zero for nine on third class half fool.
Speaker 4: You know that doesn't really understand the world. Rodgers scared
Speaker 4: as as any man in his forties or an old
Speaker 4: man is more aware of his mortality than a twenty
Speaker 4: three year old. So of course, display Peyton and Brady
Speaker 4: and anyone else of that age. When he sees a
Speaker 4: sizeable guy running towards him very fast, his move is
Speaker 4: to turtle or to get rid of the ball so
Speaker 4: he doesn't take a smack. So that's Aaron Rodgers. And
Speaker 4: now now he's a broken left wrist. How's he going
Speaker 4: to defend himself. How's he's gonna throw the ball away?
Speaker 4: So how he's gonna do it against the bear? So
Speaker 4: back to that Sunday night game, the Chargers dominated. I
Speaker 4: think if you are a Bolts fan, you probably a
Speaker 4: car really Smith, I loved.
Speaker 3: It, touchdown Chargers one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was said that all the time, over and over,
Speaker 4: and Daniel Jeremi was like, I told you about Justin Herbert.
Speaker 4: I told you he was going to be the best
Speaker 4: of them all and all that kind of crap. Whenever
Speaker 4: he claims after the fact. Anyway, but I'm sure you
Speaker 4: were having a wonderful time, as were the people who
Speaker 4: weren't waiving terrible towels in the stadium that night. I
Speaker 4: was glad I didn't go, you know, I I there
Speaker 4: would have been a price was quite substantial. Yeah, that
Speaker 4: would have been a terrible night. There was the Gills,
Speaker 4: John and Koschek wanted to go. I said, I got
Speaker 4: a hunch about this one. I don't think we should bother,
Speaker 4: and we didn't.
Speaker 3: That's that's a topic that I can continue to address
Speaker 3: over and over again. Just the great dist service you
Speaker 3: did to your son that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I should have made him a Chargers fan. He'd
Speaker 4: be much happier.
Speaker 3: Should have madehi a Dodger fan. He's allowed to do
Speaker 3: whatever a Laker fan, a Charger or Rams fan. You
Speaker 3: know why because he was born in Los Angeles, he
Speaker 3: was raised in Los Angeles. His pals at school are
Speaker 3: all showing up and talking about the Laker game from
Speaker 3: the night before and the Kings winning the Stanley Cup
Speaker 3: back to back years. That's what they're all talking about.
Speaker 3: They're talking about Justin Herbert.
Speaker 4: He's been around to celebrate a couple of Cups won
Speaker 4: by the Black and Gold.
Speaker 3: How many games did he see the Black and Gold
Speaker 3: play the year they won the Cup.
Speaker 4: At least a couple Okay, they make their swing through
Speaker 4: so cowo.
Speaker 3: You could have taken them to twenty Kings games. You
Speaker 3: could have season tickets to the Kings and the It
Speaker 3: could be enjoying, you know, like the.
Speaker 4: Real fans like Snoop Dog he loves it. Yeah, that's who.
Speaker 4: That would be, my contemporary, Just.
Speaker 3: An old man and his son and sharing the moments
Speaker 3: that you and your dad shared because you were a
Speaker 3: kid growing up in Pittsburgh going to see the Panthers,
Speaker 3: going to see the Steelers, going You went to the games,
Speaker 3: and those are the memories.
Speaker 4: We go to the games too. We didn't go to
Speaker 4: this one, and we dodged a bullet. As it turned out,
Speaker 4: I was quite wise to steer him. I didn't know
Speaker 4: that roots were meaningless.
Speaker 3: Tore they are meaningless.
Speaker 6: Yes, Kate, let me get this straight.
Speaker 5: Check.
Speaker 6: Your son is born in Los Angeles. Yes, raised in
Speaker 6: Los Angeles, educated in Los Angeles, play.
Speaker 3: High school football in Los Angeles with a bunch of
Speaker 3: football playing buddies.
Speaker 6: And you're forcing him to be a Pittsburgh fan.
Speaker 4: I won't be represented like that. That's that's ugly from
Speaker 4: both of you. I know you put it.
Speaker 3: No, you put it on him, you put you had
Speaker 3: him in Steelers ones eaes and you had him in
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh Penguin sweaters when he was a little kid.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, what what a disgrace to the colors of
Speaker 4: the city. It is now. Listen, he's he's his own
Speaker 4: free will.
Speaker 3: It's not his free will to please his old man.
Speaker 4: He wants a cheer for another pro football team. He
Speaker 4: just can't do it within my four on that bus.
Speaker 3: He wants the approval of his old man. Old man
Speaker 3: to go look at my luck.
Speaker 4: Come on, well, listen, he has a terrible town. He
Speaker 4: owns one.
Speaker 3: I owned no reason for him to have one.
Speaker 4: Well guess what you know?
Speaker 3: What him of those chains that bind him.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to do it and instead tend to
Speaker 4: your own house.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 3: I got it. But you know how excited I didn't
Speaker 3: talk about your girls?
Speaker 5: What do you mean?
Speaker 3: My girls love baseball. They're big Dodger fans. You know
Speaker 3: how excited they've been these last ten years. They celebrated.
Speaker 3: And I was sitting on the couch watching Game seven
Speaker 3: or Game six with my daughter. Game seven, I watched
Speaker 3: in Nashville because were on the road with the Titans.
Speaker 3: But I'm watching watching the game with my daughter.
Speaker 4: She's all like the movie with Vigo Mortensen where he
Speaker 4: was a bad guy who's like a gangster murderer Green Book.
Speaker 4: No not no, he was like a murder and then
Speaker 4: he goes to some small town. Yeah, and then the
Speaker 4: mobsters come to get him. He's like, I left that
Speaker 4: life behind. That's Matt money Smith. He's he's ashamed of
Speaker 4: his roots. He doesn't want anybody to know. He's Oh no,
Speaker 4: I'm on the surfboard.
Speaker 3: He's he's robbing out Chicago in nineteen ninety one, I
Speaker 3: was seventeen years old.
Speaker 4: I've been here for thirty three years, thirty years out
Speaker 4: in the ocean, like yes, like like he's layered Hamlet the.
Speaker 3: Second I run the South side of Chicago again until
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety one? Would I hang on to that when
Speaker 3: I've got the glorious Dodger Stadium and the boys in
Speaker 3: blue for the boys in summer and daughters that love
Speaker 3: going to the ballpark.
Speaker 4: In January of nineteen eighty six, was it a special day?
Speaker 4: Was it a special year? In fact? With you and
Speaker 4: your old man, my brothers. When the Chicago Bears whipped
Speaker 4: all but the Dolphins.
Speaker 3: Barely remember it. I'm not kidding. I remember it, but
Speaker 3: not like it with some sort not like I not
Speaker 3: like I remember well.
Speaker 4: Ironic, iron they see.
Speaker 3: But that's the interesting thing about championships is you think
Speaker 3: it's gonna be this seminal moment of your your sporting
Speaker 3: you know, your sporting fandom, and it just, I don't know,
Speaker 3: it just ends up kind of being like, aw, all right,
Speaker 3: well that happened. Now what are we going to do?
Speaker 4: You speak for yourself if that's how it resonates it.
Speaker 3: I did go out and celebrate in the streets when
Speaker 3: I was a Laker season ticket holder in two thousand,
Speaker 3: because I went to damn near every single regular season
Speaker 3: game in almost every I think I went to every
Speaker 3: single postseason game, including the historic one against Portland, the
Speaker 3: coming back from seventeen down in the fourth, the Kobe shack,
Speaker 3: and when they won the title that year, a pal
Speaker 3: and I went into the streets and celebrate them.
Speaker 4: I loved that Lakers rally in the fourth quarter. I
Speaker 4: remember it well. They stopped posting Rashid Wallace, who was
Speaker 4: killing them the whole game and the Lakers overcame out
Speaker 4: it hipp and melted down. I listen, I can live
Speaker 4: in the moment and enjoy what's going on locally, I said,
Speaker 4: all right, I mean listen, I said before we even
Speaker 4: started the show, I was thrilled for Tim Kits on
Speaker 4: a human level because I knew he was rejoicing when
Speaker 4: the Dodgers got.
Speaker 3: Over, by the way, mostly because he was pulling checks.
Speaker 3: I mean, he gets paid for the day.
Speaker 4: Kate, are you going to defend yourself?
Speaker 6: I appreciate it, Shack, you did text me, and I
Speaker 6: do appreciate that. It was heartfelt, and I really do appreciate.
Speaker 3: But am I right?
Speaker 5: Cats?
Speaker 3: No, give me, give me that's all. Give me a percentage,
Speaker 3: gravy percent percentage of you that was happy as a
Speaker 3: Dodger fan, for your girls, for the family, for your
Speaker 3: for young Tim Kates cheering on his Dodgers, and percentage
Speaker 3: that was excited because you knew you were going to
Speaker 3: get an extra couple bucks because you're covering the parade
Speaker 3: and there's a couple more days.
Speaker 6: I mean sixty to forty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wait, what's the sixty you choose?
Speaker 3: Which one? I mean, I got a lot of money. Sheck,
Speaker 3: you get paid per day. You know it's a Christmas season.
Speaker 3: He's seventeen extra games, seventeen games of paychecks.
Speaker 6: A full month of scam. It was like twenty six shows.
Speaker 4: That's like putting gravy on a delicious turkey. Though, you
Speaker 4: get the If you get to talk about your beloved
Speaker 4: baseball team every day professionally, you're getting whatever your favorite
Speaker 4: meat of the is.
Speaker 3: That turkey is the meat. You know that the turkey
Speaker 3: meat is the cash in his pocket because he's putting
Speaker 3: meat on the table.
Speaker 4: Care for this? I don't care for He hated people
Speaker 4: like I have no rooting interest anymore. I just like
Speaker 4: I just like the best personalities. That's who I root for.
Speaker 2: Then quit. Then you shouldn't be.
Speaker 4: Allowed to do it any mean quit you don't actually
Speaker 4: enjoy the subject matter anymore.
Speaker 3: I love the abject matter, but it doesn't have to
Speaker 3: emotionally move me anymore. Like I.
Speaker 4: When I say so, that's the performance when you go
Speaker 4: touch down, chargio, you don't mean it.
Speaker 3: I do. No, that's the charge you were talking about.
Speaker 3: You know how am I fired up for the Bears
Speaker 3: versus Steelers? Not in the least like I legitimately have
Speaker 3: not had a single emotional bone in my body for
Speaker 3: any Chicago sporting team for at least fifteen.
Speaker 4: You were a White Sox kid, though, right I was.
Speaker 3: I should have been, but I was not. I was
Speaker 3: a Cubs kid because my grandma raised me and she
Speaker 3: couldn't drive, so we would just spend afternoons out of
Speaker 3: school together watching the Cubs on WGN because they played
Speaker 3: all day games.
Speaker 4: When they got over the hump, finally, my mom.
Speaker 3: Cried tears of sadness when she said, aren't you excited?
Speaker 3: And I said, I gotta be honest with you. I'm
Speaker 3: not like I wish I'm trying to. I said, I'm
Speaker 3: really like trying to emotionally feel this right now, and
Speaker 3: nothing's happening. Like it's not working for me.
Speaker 4: You're so marinated in booze now you're you're you're immune
Speaker 4: to human emotion.
Speaker 3: It truly was. It was the Lakers and the Kings
Speaker 3: that did it to me.
Speaker 4: You know, Oh, I remember when the Kings won their Cup.
Speaker 4: I said something about it would have been better in
Speaker 4: the purple and gold, and you said, buzz kill.
Speaker 3: That sounds right, sounds right now. When I when the
Speaker 3: Blackhawks and the Kings were tangling in the conference finals,
Speaker 3: and and my mother was, you know, and Tony Zudoc
Speaker 3: was saying.
Speaker 4: Don't say you did. Don't say you're rooting for the King.
Speaker 3: Said mom, I don't give a good goddamn about the Blackhawks.
Speaker 3: As far as I'm concerned, they can get swept. You know,
Speaker 3: I got the Kings. Look, Robata and I are like this.
Speaker 3: You know these rob Blake and I we play golf together.
Speaker 3: I mean, come on, what do you think I'm cheering
Speaker 3: for that?
Speaker 4: Trump's the ties, the roots that go back by decades.
Speaker 3: Not even close. I can hardly remember making those little
Speaker 3: napkin boats at Chicago Stadium and dropping away out the
Speaker 3: third deck.
Speaker 4: You're a lack of boat. Now, your lack of regard
Speaker 4: for history apparently has bled into the Los Angeles Chargers
Speaker 4: social media team because they have no understanding of history.
Speaker 4: What do you mean, Well, right after that victory, the housing,
Speaker 4: the disgracing of the Pittsburgh Steelers before the football nation,
Speaker 4: in the moments immediately after, they decided on purpose to
Speaker 4: let the football gods and everybody else know that they
Speaker 4: think they're above law. I'm not a superstitious man. But
Speaker 4: I understand fact somebody or some people your colleagues over
Speaker 4: there with the charger.
Speaker 3: They are award winning I've heard our award winning social
Speaker 3: media team led by the great Megan Julian.
Speaker 4: Well, listen, she or her team made a mistake that
Speaker 4: the guys between the lines are going to pay for
Speaker 4: them the rest of this season.
Speaker 3: And you laugh if you want. Don McLain is joining
Speaker 3: us in five minutes.
Speaker 4: Okay, right after they took to Twitter and they posted
Speaker 4: a picture of the terrible towel and underneath it wrote, whoa,
Speaker 4: this is worthless. What happened the next Sunday? What happened
Speaker 4: was seven days later, Jacks, Oh no, you didn't lose
Speaker 4: the law. You got humiliated. Do you think that's some coincidence?
Speaker 4: Get ready for more, fran I hope the social media
Speaker 4: jibe was hysterical and worth it because you can go
Speaker 4: out TJ houshman Zada and the Jaguars and any and
Speaker 4: the tent Titans. You mess with the terrible stack tree,
Speaker 4: one hundred percent rate of failure of poking the bear,
Speaker 4: or well not saying now that's ironic because it's the
Speaker 4: bears who the Steelers are playing. You know what I'm
Speaker 4: getting at. You made a mistake and now justin.
Speaker 3: Herb Grizzly, I made that up? What does that mean?
Speaker 4: So we put the over under on. What's that waking
Speaker 4: up a sleeping giant?
Speaker 3: Sleeping giant? Yeah, well, all right, we're gonna break. Don
Speaker 3: McLean's gonna join.
Speaker 4: Us Undermine, bitten by my own snake or bear.
Speaker 3: Don McClain will join us Big News Today. Andrew Friedman
Speaker 3: far han Ziety going to consult the Lakers front office
Speaker 3: Little Dodger Laker Synergy, as they are now both owned
Speaker 3: by the same man. Mark Walter get into that with
Speaker 3: Don McLain, the four and eleven Clippers, the return of
Speaker 3: Lebron James, and all things NBA, not to mention UCLA basketball.
Speaker 3: McK cronin already sent it an early message by starting
Speaker 3: his second unit and saying it's not a message that
Speaker 3: was sent. We'll get into all that with dmac next.
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Speaker 3: the Great Don McClain, what's happening, Don, how's it going guys?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm getting ready to get in the car. We'll
Speaker 5: see if I have anything left in the tank. After
Speaker 5: last night's ball game down at the Galen Center, that
Speaker 5: was wild.
Speaker 3: What happened? Share it with us.
Speaker 5: Triplet game winner at the buzzer from three down two
Speaker 5: for the win for USC.
Speaker 3: Early season college basketball. Don McClain is all over it.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: Let's start there then, Don because mc cronin said that
Speaker 3: he doesn't believe in messaging, he doesn't believe in doghouses. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the last game, no Donovan dent out there, Trent Perry
Speaker 3: to start the game instead it was the twos and
Speaker 3: he said, look, these guys just played better in practice.
Speaker 5: Your thoughts, well, they may have. I wasn't at practice,
Speaker 5: but they may have played better at practice. But it's
Speaker 5: more about and look, even though he says it's not
Speaker 5: a message, it was a message to the players that
Speaker 5: we need to get off to better starts. And defensively,
Speaker 5: they just did won and they took Arizona to the wire,
Speaker 5: but they just haven't had the same urgency, the same
Speaker 5: tensity on the defensive end, especially the start game. So
Speaker 5: I think that was why he did it. The interesting
Speaker 5: thing will be who he starts tonight because that second
Speaker 5: group I mean second Medo State's not very good, but
Speaker 5: they got off to they shut him out for the
Speaker 5: first I think four and a half minutes that starting
Speaker 5: group on Tuesday, and then there's a little bit of
Speaker 5: drop off in the second half. So it'll it'll be
Speaker 5: interesting to see when we when we get to PAULI tonight,
Speaker 5: who's starting.
Speaker 4: Don. We've been over this already, so we don't need
Speaker 4: to rehash it once again. But of course it's nice
Speaker 4: to reconnect with donal Klin since.
Speaker 3: This is going on.
Speaker 4: He broke my heart when I thought he might come
Speaker 4: to play on the on the banks of the Three Rivers.
Speaker 3: He came. I watched him playing time You're here and
Speaker 3: Don joins us.
Speaker 4: His recruitment was still hanging in the balance when he
Speaker 4: played in the Dapper Dan Tournament.
Speaker 2: And what was it, nineteen eighty eight, eighty eight, that's right, that's.
Speaker 3: Right now, that Calipari that was recruiting you.
Speaker 5: Calipari was an assistant for Paul Evans at that time.
Speaker 4: Paul Evans.
Speaker 5: And Dave. I think I've told you this that that
Speaker 5: tells you how good of a recruiter is no offense
Speaker 5: to anybody from Pittsburgh, how good of a recruiter Calipari
Speaker 5: is that he can get a white kid from southern
Speaker 5: California to even visit Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4: Ah, you would have been the missing piece. But anyway,
Speaker 4: let's talk about the here and now. Calipari. I don't
Speaker 4: know how many analytics he's applying here, but the word
Speaker 4: on the street is as they take over more and more,
Speaker 4: and it's I guess, sort of old, an old story
Speaker 4: at this point that the Lakers are lagging a little
Speaker 4: behind the rest of the league. How say you, are
Speaker 4: you aware of this and how important do you think
Speaker 4: it is for them to catch up?
Speaker 5: Well, it's interesting because JJ redd it kind of strikes
Speaker 5: me as an analytics guy, and so maybe that was
Speaker 5: the case in the past.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I'm not in that locker room. I'm not in those meetings,
Speaker 5: but you know, everybody's got their own opinion on analytics
Speaker 5: and how much they should be used. I'm involved with
Speaker 5: it in the pre draft process that I do in
Speaker 5: the spring with the CAA, who I work for. They
Speaker 5: have an analytics department when it comes to recruiting players,
Speaker 5: and players they already have that are in the NBA,
Speaker 5: and so I think everybody chooses how much they want
Speaker 5: to use analytics in terms of evaluation, in terms of performance,
Speaker 5: in terms of on the court, who plays, what, how
Speaker 5: many minutes. I'm of the opinion that it's somewhere in
Speaker 5: the middle. Like I don't think you should ignore all analytics,
Speaker 5: but I don't. I think if you're only using analytics,
Speaker 5: you're probably going to miss some stuff.
Speaker 3: It's a salary cap league, don It's an intricate salary
Speaker 3: cap league because of the penalties for first aprin, second apron,
Speaker 3: all that sort of stuff. Like what do you think,
Speaker 3: what do you suspect Andrew Friedman in far hanziety you're
Speaker 3: going to try to dig into try to figure out
Speaker 3: what the Lakers are doing right or aren't doing right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a good question, And you know, I think
Speaker 5: that's kind of my point. And it'll be interesting to
Speaker 5: see what happens with two baseball guys coming into basketball
Speaker 5: in how they can apply what they've used to a
Speaker 5: great deal of success with the Dodgers into professional basketball.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think, and I may be speaking way
Speaker 5: out of turn here, but I feel like analytics is
Speaker 5: way more applied to baseball than basketball, or should be
Speaker 5: at least from where I sit in what little I
Speaker 5: know about it. But it doesn't hurt to have guys
Speaker 5: that who have had success in another sport come and
Speaker 5: take a look at what you're doing in your sport.
Speaker 5: You know, they've done so well with the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: It just feels a little bit like a computer is
Speaker 4: making the difference. And I think that's unsatisfying on a
Speaker 4: visceral level for diehard sports fans. But what do the analytics,
Speaker 4: or more importantly, what does Don McClain say about LaMelo
Speaker 4: ball perhaps being.
Speaker 2: A fit for the Clippers?
Speaker 4: They obviously goes without saying have not gotten off to
Speaker 4: a great start. Is you know LaMelo is now dissatisfied
Speaker 4: in his situation. Any possibility of that happening, I mean.
Speaker 5: There's always a possibility. And here's the thing, Dave, that
Speaker 5: that analytics doesn't measure, and this is where I have
Speaker 5: a problem with people that only rely on analytics. Doesn't
Speaker 5: measure heart, doesn't measure toughness, doesn't measure how you are
Speaker 5: in the locker room, doesn't measure how good of a
Speaker 5: teammate you are, doesn't measure how coachable you are. And
Speaker 5: so when you rely on oh, well, LaMelo does this,
Speaker 5: this and this and this is what the numbers say,
Speaker 5: and you bring it. And I'm not saying he's going
Speaker 5: to I'm just saying it's the possibility. You bring him
Speaker 5: into your locker room and he and he and he
Speaker 5: puts it up in flames because of his personality. And
Speaker 5: this is for any player. And that's why when you
Speaker 5: solely rely on analytics, you're walking a slippery slope because
Speaker 5: there's so much more that goes into it than just
Speaker 5: what the numbers say on the court.
Speaker 4: But do they need to do something that might feel
Speaker 4: a little rash to try and salvage this season?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 5: And I said this last week. You weren't there obviously, Dave.
Speaker 5: But it just it's it's the same old thing for
Speaker 5: the Clippers. There's always something, always something, and he usually
Speaker 5: revolves around Kawhi Leonard and he's not playing and they'll
Speaker 5: say we're waiting for him to get back, just like
Speaker 5: they said for the last six or seven years, and
Speaker 5: it just goes round and round. So yeah, bringing LaMelo
Speaker 5: ball and yeah, maybe that'll help, but it ain't gonna
Speaker 5: change what's been happening for the last you know, five
Speaker 5: to seven years. When Kawhi and PG came. It was,
Speaker 5: it's it's it's. It had been one thing after another,
Speaker 5: and it's still one thing after another.
Speaker 3: And if it keeps getting worse. The fact that there's
Speaker 3: an unprotected lottery pick headed to Oklahoma City in.
Speaker 5: This draft, holy holy.
Speaker 3: Right if Boozer's on that team or Demands or one
Speaker 3: of those guys, my god.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well yeah yeah, And you know, again, that's just
Speaker 5: another fallout from the failed PG Kawhi thing that like
Speaker 5: they celebrated when those two game like they were gonna
Speaker 5: win multiple championships and they've been to the Western Conference
Speaker 5: Finals once and pg's gone yea and so or all theirs.
Speaker 3: That when I saw that today unprotected and they're four
Speaker 3: and ten with the fourth worst or tied for the
Speaker 3: fourth worst number of wins in the league, that's that's
Speaker 3: absolutely terrifying considering.
Speaker 5: And by the way, Matt, this is a really good
Speaker 5: draft this year, yeah, really good.
Speaker 3: To the to the Lakers done and Lebron's return twelve assists,
Speaker 3: one turnover, said that it was laughable that anybody questioned
Speaker 3: whether or not he'd figure out how to fit in
Speaker 3: that he can fit in anywhere. Don't know, if you
Speaker 3: had a chance to watch the game against Utah or
Speaker 3: if you saw the highlights or whatever. But look, he
Speaker 3: looked great. He was moving the ball, you know, from
Speaker 3: the corner, from the mid post, and it looked fantastic
Speaker 3: when he and Luca were out there. But then I
Speaker 3: looked at the plus minus and it was kind of weird.
Speaker 3: It was minus eleven when he and Luca were on
Speaker 3: the court and plus seventeen when it was Lebron no Luca,
Speaker 3: plus seventeen Luca no Lebron. I know it's one game,
Speaker 3: but do you think there is something to that because
Speaker 3: they're both so good with the ball in their hands.
Speaker 7: Uh, maybe I think that's something to keep an eye on.
Speaker 7: But I do think, and I think I said this
Speaker 7: to you a p a few weeks ago, that I
Speaker 7: hope that this was the approach that Lebron would take
Speaker 7: that not just come in there and you know, not
Speaker 7: kick Luca to the side, but try and outduel him
Speaker 7: or score as many as him. He kind of took
Speaker 7: a back seat and became a facilitator in a ball mover.
Speaker 7: And you know, I think if it's going to work,
Speaker 7: really work a long term with the Lakers, I think
Speaker 7: that's how it's going to have to be. It's Luca's world,
Speaker 7: Lebron's playing in it, and he's helping not only Luca
Speaker 7: but the rest of the team with his IQ. And
Speaker 7: that doesn't get talked about enough how smart Lebron James is.
Speaker 7: Whether you like him or not, you can't deny that
Speaker 7: he is one of the smartest basketball players that's ever played.
Speaker 4: I'm glad you brought it up in that way because intellectually,
Speaker 4: I'm sure Lebron James, and if he can remove the
Speaker 4: ego of who he is and has been in the league,
Speaker 4: understands that Luca should be the main man on the team.
Speaker 4: But obviously heavyweight boxers have a hard time calling it
Speaker 4: quits when obviously done for them. Quarterbacks who are one
Speaker 4: time superstars have a hard time repressing the desire to
Speaker 4: be the difference in an offense, to be more of
Speaker 4: a passenger like Peyton Manning when they won the Super
Speaker 4: Bowl a decade or so ago. How hard do you
Speaker 4: imagine that is for Lebron right now to accept.
Speaker 5: Well, I think Lebron is well aware obviously of his legacy,
Speaker 5: and I think what his motivation would be if it
Speaker 5: stays the way it is is to win another championship,
Speaker 5: and that supersedes everything. When you're done playing, people remember
Speaker 5: your career for what you did, not really so much individually,
Speaker 5: but how many championships you won. And that's across the board.
Speaker 5: And I think that is Lebron's motivation is if somehow
Speaker 5: this Laker team could position themselves to make a run
Speaker 5: in the playoffs and potentially win a championship, he could
Speaker 5: walk away having done that in his last year. And
Speaker 5: I think that probably in his mind, I'm sure outweighs
Speaker 5: anything number, you know, totals anything like that.
Speaker 3: Any concern about defensively, it's fifteen games or sixteen games
Speaker 3: and now, yeah, sixteen games, and I think and they
Speaker 3: have some of the worst paint metrics, some of the
Speaker 3: worst defensive metrics out there, and any concern about that done.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I think we're far enough in that,
Speaker 5: you know, are they going to get better? Do they
Speaker 5: do they make some moves before the deadline or at
Speaker 5: the deadline to get better defensively, because that's a thing
Speaker 5: like everyone talks about the thunder and SGA and home
Speaker 5: grin and their offense and all that, but they're really
Speaker 5: good defensively, and so if the Lakers are going to
Speaker 5: challenge them and make a run in the playoffs, they're
Speaker 5: going to have to get better defensively.
Speaker 3: Was it you're doing? Probably, we'll let you go on
Speaker 3: this down you're doing Presbyterian? You got to hit the
Speaker 3: road and get down to Paully. Was it Presbyterian that
Speaker 3: knocked off Ucla in one of these early contests a
Speaker 3: few years back? This is this a Presbyterian team? That said,
Speaker 3: do I remember that correctly? I was trying to remember
Speaker 3: the early season game that.
Speaker 5: Got there's it's been a few along the way. It's
Speaker 5: not Presbyterian. UCLA actually beat him by fifteen I think,
Speaker 5: I don't know, fifteen years ago or something like that.
Speaker 4: I remember a game what you're talking about.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to think of who it is?
Speaker 2: Too early?
Speaker 7: You know who it was?
Speaker 3: Who was it?
Speaker 5: You know it was? It was Belmont, Belmont.
Speaker 3: There you go, it was Belmont.
Speaker 4: They show up in the tourney once in a blue moon.
Speaker 4: It feels like, you know, there was a game played.
Speaker 4: I believe early season. Paully Pavilion was the scene. Nineteen
Speaker 4: ninety one, the UCLA Bruins destroyed the highly rated Indiana Hoosiers.
Speaker 4: Then in the final eight, you're going to do that.
Speaker 4: They were in the same region.
Speaker 3: You're really going to do this.
Speaker 4: The same Indiana Hoosiers showed up to the same UCLA
Speaker 4: Bruins and damage. Yet got his revenge. He's against McClain
Speaker 4: for not going to Pitt. He was on the I
Speaker 4: saw what I have two basketball teams I rooted for
Speaker 4: in college.
Speaker 5: Well the year before that, Pitt came into Paulie and
Speaker 5: we beat him by one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 4: I'm nice to say about Brian Shorter and Sean Miller
Speaker 4: in the game.
Speaker 3: We appreciate it. Don have a great call tonight, Big
Speaker 3: ten Network, UCLA Presbyterian. Check it out. He'll be on
Speaker 3: the call a seven thirty tip. Thanks Tom.
Speaker 5: All right, guys, have a good weeknd too.
Speaker 3: There he goes. He puts up with so much of
Speaker 3: your craft, and he does not put up with anybody's craft.
Speaker 3: It's hilarious to me every time because you're typically in
Speaker 3: on Fridays, Patrus is doing football games, so more often
Speaker 3: than that that's the day that he's gone. When I
Speaker 3: love it, and it's look, damn a check on Fridays
Speaker 3: is a treat for all the folks stuck in this
Speaker 3: guyshit here.
Speaker 4: For him, I was, I was, I was optimistic. I
Speaker 4: was impressionable. He could be the missing piece, this long
Speaker 4: stretch of a center. He could shoot. Who had seen
Speaker 4: anything like that in nineteen eighty eight?
Speaker 3: Do you remember his recruitment in nineteen eighty eight? I
Speaker 3: absolutely really like you heard that.
Speaker 4: You think I'm making that up. I went to see
Speaker 4: him literally in the civic arena in the Dapper Dan
Speaker 4: High School All Star Tournament. He was one of the
Speaker 4: three biggest stars in it.
Speaker 3: Your old man was the team doctor. That's right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: for basketball as well, right.
Speaker 4: For basketball and foot penguins.
Speaker 3: Look at that what could have been? I'm sure he
Speaker 3: has said he was just the all time leading scorer
Speaker 3: in Don almost went to the final four, got close. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, it's uh interesting, not ironic, but an interesting
Speaker 3: coincidence that Don all time leading scorer packed ten Pac
Speaker 3: twelve and then when UCLA became a member of the
Speaker 3: Big Ten. You know who's got him by like four points?
Speaker 3: Who cal Cheney? Wow?
Speaker 4: Bringing that bringing it on?
Speaker 1: Hum.
Speaker 3: There is that little head to head there between the
Speaker 3: two of them.
Speaker 4: By the way, Lebron in his prime could rebound his
Speaker 4: position and he would offset what he lacked around him
Speaker 4: on those Calves teams at least. Right, Yeah, is he
Speaker 4: now no longer that guy?
Speaker 3: He's old. He's just too old. You've all played the
Speaker 3: I mean he still grass boards. He just won't play
Speaker 3: a defense. He don't play a lick of defense. All right,
Speaker 3: We got to finish that conversation we started in the
Speaker 3: opening segment about what makes Dave a bad dad. That's next.
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Speaker 3: McClain joined us, you were sharing with me how a
Speaker 3: tweet from the Chargers' social media team was going to
Speaker 3: derail their season and was the cause for the Chargers
Speaker 3: Justin Herbert to have his worst game as a professional
Speaker 3: and the Chargers to fall apart against the Jags. This
Speaker 3: was all due to a tweet about a towel.
Speaker 4: That's right, not any towel, the terrible towel. Look again,
Speaker 4: I don't believe in voodoot. I'm more than happy to
Speaker 4: open umbrella inside and otherwise, but also under a ladder.
Speaker 4: There's a one hundred percent rate of failure when you
Speaker 4: mess with it. It started, if I'm not mistaken with TJ.
Speaker 4: Houschmann Zada of the Bengals, he tells a funny story
Speaker 4: about this. Got into the hotel elevator in Pittsburgh and
Speaker 4: on his way down he saw Steelers fan carrying one
Speaker 4: of those and he said, I'll give you two hundred
Speaker 4: dollars for that, to which I've asked him, why the
Speaker 4: hell would you pay two hundred dollars because it is
Speaker 4: just a towel. After you think he negotiated with the fan,
Speaker 4: you know you can't have it, And it was like, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's right. You know your people up in Chicago they
Speaker 4: throw everything. Well, no, if it goes into the standard,
Speaker 4: they don't want it. I don't care how valuable that
Speaker 4: thing is. Take it back. It's dirty. Why, you're right,
Speaker 4: the real criminal was the one. I don't care how
Speaker 4: much hushman Zada offered you for it. You shouldn't be
Speaker 4: giving it over to him.
Speaker 3: But then again, Bucks, I can go buy one at
Speaker 3: the on my way to the stadium and have a
Speaker 3: hundred and.
Speaker 4: Now you've turned it over. But just exactly like the
Speaker 4: Charger social media team, hushman Zada took it and shined
Speaker 4: his shoes with it at the end of the game.
Speaker 4: And that's the year Carson Palmer his knee blew out
Speaker 4: and the Bengals never did anything. The Titans messed with it,
Speaker 4: the Jags it recently. I'm just telling you, let's see
Speaker 4: how the rest of the season goes here.
Speaker 3: I think it was just an opportunity to use the
Speaker 3: Gravity Falls meme, you know, I mean, that's what the
Speaker 3: kids like, one of my favorite shows.
Speaker 4: Maybe maybe they'll find the Iron.
Speaker 3: Copes official the Terrible Towel of Pittsburgh original. It's got
Speaker 3: Akroscher Stadium, the Steelers logo, and then it's got Dipper
Speaker 3: I think that's his name on the bottom saying this
Speaker 3: is worthless.
Speaker 4: We'll see if gravity is joined with the Chargers in
Speaker 4: their fall. I'll tell you why the end of the season.
Speaker 3: How about this? Go ahead about this Aaron Rodgers, after
Speaker 3: getting his head caved in that entire game doesn't go
Speaker 3: on that worthless garbage time touchdown drive. Maybe they don't
Speaker 3: do the Terrible Towel meme. Maybe they're like, hey, classy, classy.
Speaker 4: Wait, they were sticking it to the forty something year
Speaker 4: old mercenary with that with a terrible towel, as though
Speaker 4: he has any allegiance.
Speaker 3: Mike Tomlin, Okaine. Yeah, let's go get this garbage time touchdown.
Speaker 3: We're down twenty five to three, there's three minutes left
Speaker 3: in the game. They don't want anyone to get hurt.
Speaker 3: You know, let's just drive the field and suggest that
Speaker 3: maybe this game wasn't as lopsided as zero for nine
Speaker 3: on third down couple interceptions.
Speaker 4: Well, it's embarrassing. I'm not going to argue with you
Speaker 4: about the state of the Steelers. They feel semi fraudulent,
Speaker 4: and I love to talk about Week twelve NFL, these
Speaker 4: critical games upcoming, But first before we dig in on
Speaker 4: any of those, if at all, I do want to
Speaker 4: say very quickly, if I can take it over, Man,
Speaker 4: I texted you this. I love doing this show because
Speaker 4: it's the one sports show I listened to in Los
Speaker 4: Angeles driving around local and Man, you torched Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 4: on a level that I haven't heard very many people articulate.
Speaker 4: And if he happened to catch it, he would probably
Speaker 4: feel a little embarrassed. I'm sure he has a big ego,
Speaker 4: But man, you and Petros do a as good a
Speaker 4: job as anybody. When you set your gaze on whether
Speaker 4: it's Trojan's football or Kawhi Leonard or otherwise you guys
Speaker 4: are you guys are institution not just for being funny,
Speaker 4: but you're as informed and insightful.
Speaker 3: As I My response, because it was right after the
Speaker 3: Steeler game, Yeah, a couple of days fire and you
Speaker 3: were like, man, was that a takedown? That was great?
Speaker 3: And I wrote back, yeah, sorry about your guys. That
Speaker 3: was it was you sass me.
Speaker 4: It wasn't. It wasn't at all.
Speaker 3: I think I sassed you. I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't think you extended no sympathy for my hard
Speaker 4: day guy. Listen, I gotta tell you, I'm a little
Speaker 4: disgusted by what they're doing, but I also have to
Speaker 4: give a shout out. Even though he can't hear us
Speaker 4: right now, he's over in Vegas. Maybe with our mutual
Speaker 4: pole Dan Helly. It seems like they're yet quite a
Speaker 4: bit a handsome duo, that's for sure. But Petros took
Speaker 4: time out of his busy schedule at the request. I
Speaker 4: was the I was the middleman for this. Brad Venami,
Speaker 4: the coach of Crespy. The the remarkable story. Sure, three
Speaker 4: years ago, winless, this season, undefeated regular season. It was remarkable.
Speaker 4: James Moffatt and uh and Chase Kerran and the rest
Speaker 4: of the fellas John Claude, Van Damna Schet Contribute Swiss Army.
Speaker 4: He plays it all man, he plays wherever he's need.
Speaker 4: It's taught him in there. He's ready to roll. He
Speaker 4: loves tight end. He really wanted to be a quarterback.
Speaker 4: Who doesn't want to be a quarterback. But like I say, this,
Speaker 4: Chase Kerran, who's a fifteen year old kid can sling it.
Speaker 4: He often reminds me of remember in Mad Max Beyond
Speaker 4: Thunderdome when Gibson goes into when Max goes into the
Speaker 4: actual Thunderdome and he's fighting the guy with the big
Speaker 4: metal helmet, and then he knocks at master Blaster Master
Speaker 4: Blaster and he knocks it off, and it turns out
Speaker 4: there's a wee old man sitting on top. But but
Speaker 4: the muscle is just a boy. That's how I feel,
Speaker 4: right every time, every time the helmet comes off of
Speaker 4: this fifteen year old who you watch sling in the ball.
Speaker 4: I mean, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, really has a whip that
Speaker 4: is you are going to see in Division one. He
Speaker 4: takes his helmet off and I say the same thing.
Speaker 4: He's just a boy. Look at his face. It's jarring
Speaker 4: to me. But Petros took time out of his schedule.
Speaker 4: Coach Fanami said, man, we be great if Petros would
Speaker 4: shout us out. And I said, funny because I was
Speaker 4: just filling in for Petros and I shouted you you out,
Speaker 4: and he said, Petros, Petros is great. No, he didn't
Speaker 4: even he didn't. He skipped right past it. He just
Speaker 4: said Petros is real, funny guy. Man, he's he really
Speaker 4: did it. So I said, fine, I'll ask and Petros
Speaker 4: took time and and dropped the line to wish the
Speaker 4: Celts well beautiful, which was very kind of him to do.
Speaker 4: Because he is the voice of I think he is
Speaker 4: as prominent a voice for LA and SoCal high school football.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not even close. Like I mean, if Eric
Speaker 3: Sondheimer is the savant, the high school savant, the you know,
Speaker 3: the old guard that's been doing it forever, he's arguably
Speaker 3: the best high school sports reporter. I'm sure Texas has
Speaker 3: got their old dog in Florida, you know, perhaps has there.
Speaker 3: Sondheimer's incredible. The fact that he's done it as long
Speaker 3: as he has is at an institution like the La Times.
Speaker 3: But yes, as far as voices go nobody. Petros loves
Speaker 3: high school football and it pulled me into the world
Speaker 3: of high school football because my kids were going to
Speaker 3: my day and they were a powerhouse. And then befriended
Speaker 3: Jason Negro at Bosco, so then I get invested there.
Speaker 3: And then we've got friends and you know that we're
Speaker 3: playing at losal that live in the neighborhoods. So now
Speaker 3: I get invested in the Griffins. And tonight is going
Speaker 3: to be a special night. It is going to be
Speaker 3: an incredible night in Division One. After the upset thanks
Speaker 3: to the monsoon last week of Olu over Bosco, the
Speaker 3: fact that we got Carson Palmer coaching Santa Margarita Volu,
Speaker 3: and of all teams, you know, the Titan, the modern
Speaker 3: day Monarchs unbeatable, and yet they've got to face their
Speaker 3: kryptonite and Centennial who'll already beat them earlier this year.
Speaker 4: It's great, man. We're two old curmudgeons who've been around
Speaker 4: for a minute now. And my experience at least has
Speaker 4: taught me pro football players, even college football players, they
Speaker 4: revere their college days. Pro football can be a job
Speaker 4: some of the time for them, but there is nothing
Speaker 4: like the memories that they have in high school football.
Speaker 4: They will swim and talk to you as long as
Speaker 4: you want about their high school team. I have to
Speaker 4: talk about Ronnie Fossio, looking him giving us keep it
Speaker 4: like a secret built the spill Fossio.
Speaker 3: And by the way, we're not just the d one
Speaker 3: place low CEU playing tonight too Big one Murray out
Speaker 3: of Valley for the for the Griffs. So several times, yeah.
Speaker 4: I'm jealous. I wish I were going to another high
Speaker 4: school playoff game the night. Well that's what happens when
Speaker 4: you go undefeated and you get thrown into it. You
Speaker 4: know what divisions you guys get thrown into?
Speaker 2: Way up?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's wild. How its I have like the best
Speaker 3: season that you've had forever, and then you're like, oh no,
Speaker 3: we're just should.
Speaker 4: We have lost more?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Exactly, Yeah, well I mean look at I mean, oh
Speaker 3: lose different. It's Trinity League, so you know they're whatever.
Speaker 3: Two and nine record isn't representative of how good of
Speaker 3: a team they are. But still, yeah, it's I think
Speaker 3: I was talking to DJ and he pointed out, you know,
Speaker 3: his son's high school team went three and like nine
Speaker 3: and got putt in the division below them and won
Speaker 3: it all. And then the next year they ended up,
Speaker 3: you know, going whatever put in the division up and
Speaker 3: got housed in the first round. It's just wild the
Speaker 3: way they were.
Speaker 4: Cresby, Cresby undefeated, lost to a five and five team
Speaker 4: in the first round. It was a close game, but
Speaker 4: it was a victory to me that they got over
Speaker 4: those bullies from Silesia. Boy, they brutes, but they took
Speaker 4: air of business in that one. Everything was gravy after
Speaker 4: that victory.
Speaker 3: We'll be back your word number song of the day,
Speaker 3: uh Dave damascheck in for p here on a five
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