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Speaker 3: Baseball Itch Three Things Thursday. Football football start with the Rams.
Speaker 3: A lot going on here?
Speaker 2: What do you think about Roki Sasaki stank? Would you
Speaker 2: leave them up?
Speaker 3: What do you think? Tell me now? Uh, Pooka is
Speaker 3: in rehab. You get sideways. You're accused of saying f
Speaker 3: the Jews and biting a lady. And there's well a
Speaker 3: bite mark to prove it that follows your bite pattern.
Speaker 2: Check the record. There was some horseplay, you know there was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the lawyer had to admit. Yeah, that's that's our,
Speaker 3: that's ours. That's definitely I recognize those teeth. You're absolutely
Speaker 3: right working on a deal with in Visiline right now.
Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, how do you try to
Speaker 3: take some of that heat off?
Speaker 2: I'll go to rehab. Leave me alone.
Speaker 3: Dealing with something over here? How insensitive can you be?
Speaker 3: Lawyer says it has nothing to do with the bite
Speaker 3: that they acknowledged the slur there was that they deny some.
Speaker 2: Horse play, and no one said anything about our Jewish friend.
Speaker 3: He says, of course, there is no connection that Pouka
Speaker 3: has already been at the Malibu spot. Where are you
Speaker 3: going to rehab Malibu? Of course?
Speaker 2: Where else where else the one where you can hook
Speaker 2: up with Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears.
Speaker 3: It says he has already been at the Malibu self
Speaker 3: improvement spot, that he is scheduled to be there a
Speaker 3: while longer. So here on the Petro Some Money Show,
Speaker 3: we hope that that lawyer is sincere, that Pooka is
Speaker 3: trying to better himself.
Speaker 2: Well, if it's a drug, it's got to be cocaine,
Speaker 2: because if you're smoked out, you're not biting anybody. If
Speaker 2: you're on opioids, you're not biting anybody. I mean maybe
Speaker 2: if you're methed out. But math to me doesn't scream
Speaker 2: NFL wide receiver. So and you're not leaning over like
Speaker 2: the San Francisco people that are super de fantail. Yeah,
Speaker 2: to me, it screams the white horse. I was thinking
Speaker 2: acid just thought she was a big hot dog. He's
Speaker 2: gonna take a nice to me. It's cocaine. Cocaine after
Speaker 2: the Jews with the bite, that's cocaine, Matt.
Speaker 3: The good news, well, the good news is that Pooka
Speaker 3: is really trying to make himself better. The good news
Speaker 3: is it gives the Rams a hell of a break
Speaker 3: on having to sign him to an extension right now.
Speaker 3: Can't be handing over one hundred and sixty million bucks
Speaker 3: to a guy he's riding that white horse. He's trying
Speaker 3: to get right, he's got a lawsuit hanging over his head.
Speaker 3: Acknowledges that it was a bite, perhaps horseplay, perhaps a
Speaker 3: little more than that. So the Rams catch a break.
Speaker 3: Play it out, enjoy your five million dollar twenty twenty
Speaker 3: six salary if you manage to make it through the
Speaker 3: whole year, and then we'll revisit this next season. They can,
Speaker 3: of course franchise tag him. It's twenty eight million bucks
Speaker 3: this year. That's going to jump over thirty million season.
Speaker 3: But as sure as helling one hundred and sixty million
Speaker 3: bucks with a hundred million guaranteed, they certainly want to
Speaker 3: give this thing one more season, in particularly one more
Speaker 3: offseason before pulling that trigger. So a huge win for
Speaker 3: the Rams on this one that they do not have
Speaker 3: to thread the needle as to whether or not he's
Speaker 3: going to hold out. They obviously have Super Bowl ambitions
Speaker 3: the way they've spent money trading of a first round
Speaker 3: draft pick. Can't afford to have him holding out, but
Speaker 3: can't be holding out when he's in rehab and is
Speaker 3: dealing with this negative pr at this particular moment. Also
Speaker 3: to the Rams at the owners meetings, they're accused of
Speaker 3: playing dirty pool.
Speaker 2: It us have something to do with Sean McVay being
Speaker 2: at the pool while everybody else was taking a picture. No, okay,
Speaker 2: this has to do with Kyle shanmcaus I thought we
Speaker 2: already cleared that up the other.
Speaker 3: Day, genuinely upset that he didn't make the head coach
Speaker 3: picture and Todd Monk and I was just getting my
Speaker 3: haircut for the picture.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Kyle Shanahan joined the PFT crew at the league meetings
Speaker 3: in Arizona, and he says he knows for a fact
Speaker 3: the Rams were playing dirty pool and it ain't supposed.
Speaker 2: To work that way. Shanny called out his old guy.
Speaker 3: His old pal, part of the young guy crew, and
Speaker 3: he was doing it with Lafleur sitting at the desk
Speaker 3: with him by GC exactly right, the young guy crew
Speaker 3: here he is. Matt Lafleur is at that desk too,
Speaker 3: the head coach for the Packers, and they're both getting
Speaker 3: a hell of it. Well, Laffour is laughing about it.
Speaker 3: Shanahan seems genuinely pissed off that his team's got to
Speaker 3: go to Australia.
Speaker 2: How's that working?
Speaker 6: You don't get me started.
Speaker 2: I'm so glad. I'm so glad. It's though.
Speaker 6: They take a nineteen hour nap on the plane right
Speaker 6: out there, and I think when we get there, I'm
Speaker 6: like two days older. When we come back, I think
Speaker 6: it's like going in a time machine.
Speaker 2: Yeah Land at the time. I'm pretty sure the Rams
Speaker 2: lobbied for that game.
Speaker 6: Well, the fact they did bully the legal do right
Speaker 6: and let us play the Rams and Max since we
Speaker 6: got to go out of the country twice and they
Speaker 6: requested us, I'm requesting them in Mexico. Oh not that,
Speaker 6: not that that gives us an advantage.
Speaker 2: It's just fair to make them go out of the country.
Speaker 6: That would be great to have the games between the
Speaker 6: Rams of forty nine ers.
Speaker 2: I knew he might go this way when he brought
Speaker 2: it up. I knew it. I knew it, So he's
Speaker 2: ready for the right moment. Sorry, So I have brought
Speaker 2: this up a little bit.
Speaker 3: So you think the Rams have lobby because they're they're
Speaker 3: sick of seeing the forty nine ers dominate the crowd
Speaker 3: at so far.
Speaker 6: And I can get that, Yeah that would yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: I have to do a sign of cadence and have
Speaker 6: our home game at their stadium, so I get their ambitions,
Speaker 6: but they were rewarded that, so I'm just hoping we
Speaker 6: can get it before I get that. I love them
Speaker 6: to come to Mexico.
Speaker 3: So it's not supposed to be that way, and that's
Speaker 3: why he's so pissed off. The way it works is
Speaker 3: when you are tabbed as the home team to play internationally,
Speaker 3: you're allowed to block two games that you want to
Speaker 3: have played in your home stadium. Maybe it's one you
Speaker 3: know that's going to sell out, make you a bunch
Speaker 3: of money, and the other seven are open for the
Speaker 3: league to choose for. And Shanahan saying the Rams specifically said, yeah,
Speaker 3: we'll go to Australia, but you're giving us the forty
Speaker 3: nine Ers, and that did not sit well with him,
Speaker 3: which is why he wants to drag them down to
Speaker 3: Mexico City. Seems like a pretty easy trip. You kind
Speaker 3: of stay in the same time zone. I guess you're
Speaker 3: playing at altitude and you got to deal with a
Speaker 3: little bit of the customs thing. But I guess, I
Speaker 3: guess it makes sense. I had heard that the Chargers
Speaker 3: were in the mix for that as well, but ultimately
Speaker 3: they got their wish. They were heading to Australia with
Speaker 3: the forty nine ers and there's not a damn thing
Speaker 3: Kyle Shanahan or the forty nine ers can do about
Speaker 3: it except for lose two days on your way down.
Speaker 3: They go to a time warp on the way back.
Speaker 2: Things are better for them. And I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with that substation and it's not causing
Speaker 2: any of those injuries. Gonna rock down too Electric Avenue
Speaker 2: and it doesn't cause me injury.
Speaker 3: Sean McVeigh at the owners meetings and the same show. Actually, no,
Speaker 3: this is on different show. One of the other TV
Speaker 3: shows made a public plea that, unfortunately we know today
Speaker 3: fell on deaf Ears.
Speaker 7: But Kirk was awesome. He especially he's played at a
Speaker 7: high level. He's a starting quarterback in this league. Is
Speaker 7: just a matter of what's he looking for, what the
Speaker 7: situation is, and if there is, you know, some interest
Speaker 7: in us Kirk, come see us.
Speaker 2: Man public plea on our show.
Speaker 3: Thanks for giving me.
Speaker 2: That nug, Shawn, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Of course, Kirk, we now know, did not did not
Speaker 3: take the invitation from Sean McVay. Instead, he signed with
Speaker 3: the Raiders. Never mind the agent jerk job that Adam
Speaker 3: Schefter did announcing it is a five year, one hundred
Speaker 3: and seventy two million dollar deal for Kirk Cousins that
Speaker 3: is all voidable years. There is ten million dollars guaranteed
Speaker 3: in here, actually eleven point three million dollars guaranteed. They
Speaker 3: are paying Cousins nine of the ten million bucks this year,
Speaker 3: and then they guaranteed him ten million dollars for next year.
Speaker 3: So it's essentially a two year, twenty million dollars deal.
Speaker 3: But the Falcons still owe him ten million bucks this year,
Speaker 3: so they'll pick up beyond the veteran minimum. The rest
Speaker 3: of it is fluff, but a lot of people excited
Speaker 3: about this for the Raiders. A great guy, a corny
Speaker 3: kind of stiff white guy that.
Speaker 2: I think he'd be a great analyst.
Speaker 3: Yeah, seems like that's going to be in his future,
Speaker 3: but for now, still wants to play and took the
Speaker 3: Raiders gig because he thinks he's going to get the
Speaker 3: start opening day and very well can end up playing
Speaker 3: the entire year. Remember Tom Brady pretty much sat out
Speaker 3: his entire first year, which RW bledsoe. You had Patrick
Speaker 3: Mahonmes sit out the first year.
Speaker 2: They didn't draft Brady with any expectation that he was
Speaker 2: going to become a great player. You draft Ferdy Mendoza.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think that was Brady's experience. He sat
Speaker 3: a year, felt like it really benefited him. It doesn't
Speaker 3: seem to happen anymore. The latest one we can remember
Speaker 3: was Patrick Mahomes getting drafted ninth overall and sitting for
Speaker 3: an entire season behind and.
Speaker 2: Alex Scarson sat behind kitt Now.
Speaker 3: Full year exactly. That's right as the number one overall pick.
Speaker 3: So that seems to be how they would prefer this
Speaker 3: to go. And Kirk Cousin's still plenty good enough to
Speaker 3: play good enough football to maybe make that happen. Finally,
Speaker 3: our third thing, Jim Harbaugh at the owners Meetings meeting
Speaker 3: with the assembled media, asked about life with Mike McDaniel,
Speaker 3: two quirky personalities, a lot of people wondering how they're
Speaker 3: going to get along. Here is his sort of analysis
Speaker 3: or his idea of how it's going so far. Learning
Speaker 3: offense from Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 8: They made the analogy about the making a better candle.
Speaker 8: You know, you don't make a better candle, make a
Speaker 8: light bulb, you know, And that's kind of that analogy
Speaker 8: makes sense to me, you know when I think of
Speaker 8: you know, the the many many meetings that we've had
Speaker 8: and Mike talking about offensive football.
Speaker 3: Don't need to make a better candle, you make a
Speaker 3: light bulb. That's what they're doing over in Elsigundo. They're
Speaker 3: turning candles into light bulbs.
Speaker 2: Felt like they had pretty good grasp on electricity before
Speaker 2: the statement was made.
Speaker 3: I was just burning the midnight oil.
Speaker 2: I guess, yeah, that was I mean, I didn't know
Speaker 2: that the Chargers offensive coordinator last year was like literally
Speaker 2: like a Geico caveman who couldn't even wipe his own
Speaker 2: ass loot like it felt like it. I mean I
Speaker 2: was sitting here like, oh my god, like this guy.
Speaker 2: He couldn't even speak. He just grunted into the Uh yeah,
Speaker 2: he just like an animal. Well, there you go. That
Speaker 2: is three things Thursday, and we'll be right back with
Speaker 2: USC head baseball coach Andy Stankowitz, who is doing a
Speaker 2: great job even though Dato Field is facing the wrong way.
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Speaker 2: Well, we could argue about that for a while, but
Speaker 2: Andy Stankowitz is our guest. He has woken up the
Speaker 2: sleeping giant that is USC Baseball. They're back at dato Field,
Speaker 2: facing the wrong way, but they're back. They're twenty seven
Speaker 2: and three on the season, rank number eight in the
Speaker 2: latest USA Today poll. After eleven years loping it up
Speaker 2: at Grand Canyon University, the Trojans have found a coach
Speaker 2: to fix their baseball program. Huge series at Jackie Robinson,
Speaker 2: three game weekend series taking on UCLA. Who's number one?
Speaker 2: It's all sold out? Andy Stegowitz joining us on your
Speaker 2: Southern California and Toyota Dieter celebrity hotline. USC baseball coach
Speaker 2: and a great Trojan coach. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 4: How are you DOUCHA great man? That's the heck of
Speaker 4: an intro man. Dang, I was impressive. Thank you.
Speaker 2: We've been waiting for USC baseball to come around for
Speaker 2: a while, coach, and it's a beautiful thing to see.
Speaker 2: And it's a really great thing when both programs in
Speaker 2: town have a good thing going. How much do you
Speaker 2: guys look forward to these matchups at Jackie Robinson and DADO.
Speaker 2: I know they're a big deal for the students, but
Speaker 2: sold out is pretty impressive.
Speaker 4: Well, I think yeah, I think it's big. I think
Speaker 4: I think he nailed it. I think, you know, trying to.
Speaker 4: But coach Avage has done over the years over that
Speaker 4: at UCLA has been pretty impressive. Obviously, he's done a
Speaker 4: fantastic job of building that program. We're on that cuff
Speaker 4: right trying to kind of trying to build it well
Speaker 4: and build it for the long haul. And I feel
Speaker 4: like we've made some good strides and so now you've
Speaker 4: got a chance to people are recognized. You know, it's
Speaker 4: southern California a little bit, right, and I'm talking about
Speaker 4: geography wise, right, what's happening here in Los Angeles? And
Speaker 4: so yeah, it'll be exciting match up. We've got two
Speaker 4: great programs. They've been incredibly consistent to do what they've done,
Speaker 4: start out as the one ranked team and to be
Speaker 4: able to hold onto that through I think halfway through
Speaker 4: the season pretty close. Well done by them, and we're
Speaker 4: we're ready to go though. Our boys are excited about
Speaker 4: about the challenge.
Speaker 3: Knocking on that door in twenty four coach, and then
Speaker 3: twenty five you get into the tournament, and then this
Speaker 3: year is can you carry over from once? Because you
Speaker 3: said it's a long term thing, right, you're building something,
Speaker 3: can you carry twenty four to twenty five, twenty five
Speaker 3: to twenty six years?
Speaker 4: I believe so I think, yeah, I think that's part
Speaker 4: of the plan. I think you look at every coach
Speaker 4: Dato did. I'm not coach Dato. I'm not even doing
Speaker 4: it for a moment. Even try to pretend that that
Speaker 4: I'm nearly as good as coach data will coach Gillespie.
Speaker 4: The people that I admired as a young man, as
Speaker 4: a young player in southern California. I grew up in
Speaker 4: this area, so I knew what they had done. But
Speaker 4: they built it. They built it well. They built it
Speaker 4: from the ground up, and it tested strong, you know,
Speaker 4: and endured some times during some storms. We're just just
Speaker 4: wanted in the new stadium. It's helpful. I know, I
Speaker 4: know it's not. It's it's the configuration is different than
Speaker 4: in the past one. But it works. It looks fine
Speaker 4: and it's beautiful, and so I think that's part of
Speaker 4: the building process as well, and it helps some recruiting,
Speaker 4: and I think it's all. It's all part of it's
Speaker 4: trying to talked about first got here. We want to
Speaker 4: we want to have a presence in in in Suthern,
Speaker 4: California in college baseball. And I think the boys took
Speaker 4: that challenge to heart and the groom gep being able
Speaker 4: to step So.
Speaker 3: Last year you had one of the best players in
Speaker 3: spalling ethan Hedge. Its kind of your own sho hal
Speaker 3: Tani was your closer. It is your best hitter. When
Speaker 3: when you're looking to replace that, how do you how
Speaker 3: do you go about it, and is it something the
Speaker 3: players kind of do that they raise their hand to say,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be that guy this year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's hard. It's hard. I mean, you know, it's
Speaker 4: it's very it's difficult to have a two way guy
Speaker 4: at any level. I mean, with show Tony's done at
Speaker 4: the big level is crazy, but it's not easy. But
Speaker 4: he was a great, great arm great skilled young man,
Speaker 4: and he had the mental toughness to get on the
Speaker 4: mound late in the game and close out games. And
Speaker 4: that's not easy either, as you guys know, and so
Speaker 4: to try to find that again, it's difficult. But we
Speaker 4: certainly we recognized us with a lot of young men coming
Speaker 4: up from programs in high school that want opportunity to play,
Speaker 4: to do it two ways. And so we've done it,
Speaker 4: and there's a couple of guys here that have shown
Speaker 4: the desire to do it. And it may take a
Speaker 4: little bit more time for them to establish their mound
Speaker 4: presence and the presence in the battles box, but we
Speaker 4: certainly look at it. But you got it's hard to do.
Speaker 4: It's just it's just typical task. But you got to
Speaker 4: be really really good at one or the other, because
Speaker 4: if you just don't get the time, the practice time
Speaker 4: to really to do both sometimes and so one of
Speaker 4: those has got to come pretty pretty not necessarily easy,
Speaker 4: but a little more natural for you. And hedges too hard.
Speaker 4: You had a great sinker and a good fighter, and
Speaker 4: he was competitive. It wasn't like he had to throw
Speaker 4: a ton of bullpens in the in the midweek because
Speaker 4: he was too busy hitting anyways. So it worked for him.
Speaker 2: Andy Stankowitz our guest, the former Saint Paul High School swordsman,
Speaker 2: serving the Gateway Cities with his sword in basketball and baseball.
Speaker 2: And uh, of course you we we talked about GCU
Speaker 2: in the intro and and you had a great career
Speaker 2: there five times I think whack Coach of the Year
Speaker 2: for baseball. How different was your approach building that baseball program?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: As uh as it is at us. See how different
Speaker 2: does it have to be? Are the resources very different?
Speaker 2: Because you certainly have been able to do it where
Speaker 2: others have failed.
Speaker 4: Well, I appreciate it. No, I think, Betrick, it's really similar.
Speaker 4: I mean when I got to Grand Canyon, it was
Speaker 4: Division two and in the in the eighties they had
Speaker 4: won four national titles. They had a longtime coach there
Speaker 4: that had did it for a long time, when a
Speaker 4: lot of national titles at the NI level, and so
Speaker 4: it was I believe it. It was a really similar kind
Speaker 4: of when I looked at both programs, like, Okayle's so
Speaker 4: this isn't necessarily too new to me. I knew that
Speaker 4: we had when as a grand Cayne, It's like, Okay,
Speaker 4: this has been a great program in the past. What
Speaker 4: are we going to do? And I show us all
Speaker 4: the time. I was really fortunate I coached at ASU
Speaker 4: for three years under coach Murphy, who's now that Pat
Speaker 4: Murphy's not the head of the manager for the Brewers,
Speaker 4: And so I got a pretty good look at like
Speaker 4: college baseball when I got done playing professionally, Like, hey,
Speaker 4: how does this work? And I'd been at a college
Speaker 4: baseball for twenty four or five years pro ball as
Speaker 4: a player and then as a coach, and so I
Speaker 4: was able to kind of see his blueprint a little bit.
Speaker 4: You know what this is. I learned the college baseball
Speaker 4: game all over again for three years and under a
Speaker 4: guy that had done it really, really, really really well
Speaker 4: for a long time. And so I was I think
Speaker 4: take some of that into Grand Cayne and then implement
Speaker 4: some of that here as well.
Speaker 2: You mentioned Rod Dato, who we knew, and U and
Speaker 2: Mike Gillespie also, both of them gone, but but but
Speaker 2: both great men. My dad played for Mike Gillespie in
Speaker 2: high school at Rolling Hills High not well, but he played.
Speaker 2: Uh and uh. You know, there was such a thing,
Speaker 2: especially when I was at USC and Savage was a
Speaker 2: pitching coach under Mike. There was such a thing as
Speaker 2: West Coast baseball in college, you know, running everything out.
Speaker 2: I was just a certain culture of baseball and it
Speaker 2: feels like that still exists. Does that still exist among
Speaker 2: you guys UCLA, the teams that come in on Tuesdays
Speaker 2: to play you.
Speaker 4: Guys, Yeah, I think so. I think that we played
Speaker 4: Santa Barbara last night and then it was a great matchup,
Speaker 4: but it was back and forth. We're able to to
Speaker 4: get a win, but it's the fortune zero vines. Now,
Speaker 4: I will say this U c.
Speaker 3: L A.
Speaker 4: You know, when you think about West Coast baseball, you
Speaker 4: think about obviously throwing strikes and holding runners and and
Speaker 4: the small ball. With that lineup they got this year,
Speaker 4: you're not seeing a whole lot of a lot of
Speaker 4: giving up outs. I mean, it's just I looked at
Speaker 4: their line up here this morning and I was like, man,
Speaker 4: why why do I look at this? This is this
Speaker 4: is already giving me, giving me hives right now, and
Speaker 4: so so it just it's just part of it. I
Speaker 4: think that. I think you guys see this right. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I've been to the of the launch angle, and you know,
Speaker 4: just like analytics, you're seeing some teams that are kind
Speaker 4: of walking away from the sacrifice punt game and they
Speaker 4: hit a run game because they just don't want to
Speaker 4: give out outs. I don't I think that for us.
Speaker 4: I think we don't. We're not as offensive. I'd love
Speaker 4: to be a team that just throws a bunch of
Speaker 4: big boys up the batter's box and hit a bunch
Speaker 4: of doubles and homers, but we're not. We're not quite there.
Speaker 4: So we're probably going to be more of a small
Speaker 4: ball team than than others. So I still hold on
Speaker 4: to that. I played for coach of Gillespie in Alaska
Speaker 4: for two summers, had a great impact on my career
Speaker 4: in my life, and so you know, you guys know me.
Speaker 4: I'm not the biggest dude in the world. So I
Speaker 4: was able to survive in the game because I could
Speaker 4: do some of the little things. And so I'm just
Speaker 4: trying to get our giving men to understand it played
Speaker 4: great tea, right, and sometimes you just keep us surviving
Speaker 4: the next thing, you know, you you had a nice career.
Speaker 4: So I'm just trying to get them to understand that.
Speaker 3: Surviving in College Park and in Chicago in March, what's
Speaker 3: what's it been like in the Big ten and what's
Speaker 3: it like taking those road trips because it could be
Speaker 3: five degrees, it could be sixty five degrees. You have
Speaker 3: no idea in Chicago what it's going to be in March.
Speaker 4: Well, unfortunately it was about twenty five all three days
Speaker 4: and snowing. I wish we wish we'd had a sixty
Speaker 4: Eve been nice. It's it's different. I'm I'm not gonna
Speaker 4: say it and say, oh, you know, it's no big deal.
Speaker 4: There's there's there's baseball in snow and rain when it's
Speaker 4: thirty degrees is not the most comfortable feeling for either side.
Speaker 4: I mean it's for everybody, but it is it is.
Speaker 4: It is what it is, right, I don't know, we
Speaker 4: just keep filling the guys saying no excuses, right, We'll
Speaker 4: go where they tell us to go, and we're gonna
Speaker 4: play really good baseball. So I don't want to hear
Speaker 4: about the weather, and I want to hear about the rain.
Speaker 4: I don't whatever it is, just just just play hard
Speaker 4: and play the right way. And our guys have have
Speaker 4: responded really well. I think a lot of the Midwest
Speaker 4: schools are hoping that that the teams in the West
Speaker 4: had that way, and and they get you know, they
Speaker 4: get hindered by the weather. But I think it looks
Speaker 4: to me like all the West Coast teams have gone
Speaker 4: in those environments and stood tall and held ground and
Speaker 4: have done just fine.
Speaker 2: So you know, the Giants hired that Tony Botello from
Speaker 2: ten to see I know you know that. Uh, I've
Speaker 2: raised some eyebrows and the college ranks straight to the majors.
Speaker 2: Like you said, you're a guy who was with the
Speaker 2: in the major leagues and and doing that kind of
Speaker 2: even in Staten Island for like a quarter century. Uh,
Speaker 2: how different is it or is it getting more similar?
Speaker 2: And is that an aspiration of yours to manage.
Speaker 4: In the bid Well? It is it is. It's different.
Speaker 4: Here's the difference. In pro ball. There's a lot more
Speaker 4: people to manage. And I think I think Toyn Vittella
Speaker 4: would even probably admit that, there's the college game. You've
Speaker 4: got your staff, and you've got you know, it's a
Speaker 4: staff of four or five, and you get your players.
Speaker 4: And so now when you get into the pro game,
Speaker 4: there's a lot more coming at you, and you've got
Speaker 4: to manage a lot of more people and making sure
Speaker 4: that you know it's they're on the right page and
Speaker 4: pages you and vice versa. And so that's the difference.
Speaker 4: And then in this game, I can, I'll see this.
Speaker 2: I can.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying that the pro guys aren't coachable, but
Speaker 4: but man I can. I can kind of tell a
Speaker 4: guy what I how I want him to do it,
Speaker 4: and tell me, hey, this is what you're gonna do
Speaker 4: it this way now. In the pro game, sometimes, even
Speaker 4: when I managed in a single egg, there was moments
Speaker 4: where like I would pinch it a kid and and
Speaker 4: I would get, you know, I get I get a
Speaker 4: phone call that night saying, hey, why'd you pinch it
Speaker 4: for this guy? I'm like, well, because he's two for
Speaker 4: he's two for thirty two. He's about ready to jump
Speaker 4: off a bridge, that's why. And and they're like, don't
Speaker 4: do that, don't do that ever again because he's a prospect, right,
Speaker 4: and you're just like, okay, okay, I got it, I
Speaker 4: got it. So a lot of times your your hands
Speaker 4: are tied in the pro game, where the guy signs
Speaker 4: for me and our staff we make decisions to who plays.
Speaker 4: I don't know if that that holds true in Pro
Speaker 4: Bowl anymore, where the manager, the Jim Lelands of the
Speaker 4: world say I'm going to play this guy because I
Speaker 4: want to play him. I'm I'm the manager, and I'm
Speaker 4: going to run this ball club. I don't know, and
Speaker 4: I don't know. I've been out of a post side
Speaker 4: for a while, but it seems like there's not as
Speaker 4: much freedom for managers to do what they want to do.
Speaker 4: So and I could be wrong, but that's what that's what.
Speaker 4: That's observation. I kind of seen.
Speaker 3: Jim Leland make that decision while smoking a Winston too.
Speaker 3: Last thing for your coach.
Speaker 4: Yeah you would, Yeah, Then.
Speaker 3: You start the season with with eighteen straight wins. Kind
Speaker 3: of what'd you if you learned anything about your team
Speaker 3: after that first loss, because I know you' rattled off
Speaker 3: a bunch of wins after that first loss.
Speaker 2: Was that was that.
Speaker 3: Kind of a I don't know if it's pivot point
Speaker 3: or what point of inflection. Was there anything that kind
Speaker 3: of came out of that seeing how your team responded
Speaker 3: to that first out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think what I what I felt like was
Speaker 4: like when we got to that that nice little win streak,
Speaker 4: I would tell you, guys, do you still like we're
Speaker 4: doing anything crazy special? Like, no, just playing this, don't strikes,
Speaker 4: playing good defense, put the ball and play. It wasn't
Speaker 4: like we were like just malling people. We were just
Speaker 4: we were just really really intense full and focused on
Speaker 4: playing really good baseball. And we happened to run off
Speaker 4: eighteen straight and then then we lost one, And I
Speaker 4: think I'm like, Okay, we lost one, So so do
Speaker 4: we panic or why don't we just keep doing what
Speaker 4: we've done? Right? Don't don't change the plan. The plan
Speaker 4: is is try to keep it as simple as we
Speaker 4: can because it's a hard game, and just just those strikes,
Speaker 4: play really good defense, put the ball and play, and
Speaker 4: be a great teammate and we'll see where it goes.
Speaker 4: And so I think that we lost. It was like, okay,
Speaker 4: we lost, Okay, let's just let's go back to don't
Speaker 4: change anything. I mean, we're playing a great program this
Speaker 4: weekend and I can't. We can't change our our style.
Speaker 4: This is what we got to keep doing. What we've
Speaker 4: been doing. Now, it's got to be it's got to
Speaker 4: be really really on tasks because they're so good. But
Speaker 4: we're not going to change it and we're not going
Speaker 4: to have a different approach because of who we're playing.
Speaker 4: We gotta we gotta really constrain what we do well.
Speaker 2: Everybody's batting from the other side this week great Handy Stiglitz,
Speaker 2: Jackie Robinson Stadium, three game weekend series. It's gonna pop
Speaker 2: off usc U c l A both at the top
Speaker 2: of the college baseball world. And that's a wonderful thing. Coach,
Speaker 2: what a great conversation. Thank you so much for joining us,
Speaker 2: and good luck this year. We'll be watching and rooting
Speaker 2: for you and we hope to catch up again.
Speaker 4: All right, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2: Fight on, Fight on is right, Fight on, Fight on,
Speaker 2: and fight on, Fight on, Fight on, Fight Out. We'll
Speaker 2: be back with more. Petro send money on this Crunchy
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Speaker 6: Ah.
Speaker 2: That's a crunchy group to me.
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Speaker 3: Well, we are your gearhead show of record, alternators, manifolds,
Speaker 3: disc versus drum breaks. We do it all here daily.
Speaker 2: I don't know what any of those things are you do.
Speaker 3: Don't you play dumb on me. You know your carbs
Speaker 3: and headers carburetor Walter Chrysler would have been one hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty one today see the American dream man. Humble beginnings,
Speaker 3: hard work, a bright mind turned him into one of
Speaker 3: the most influential figures in the history of this great nation.
Speaker 3: Born no hope, Well, Migo, Kansas, might as well.
Speaker 2: Just die there on that as well. Right down the
Speaker 2: side of the road.
Speaker 3: That girl playing in the dirt and Baker, she's got
Speaker 3: no hope, no chance. Walt's journey came at a time
Speaker 3: when railroads and machinery and automobiles were reshaping our nation's
Speaker 3: economy and our identity. Chrysler. It's weird to say Chrysler
Speaker 3: and talk about an individual Walter Chrysler. But he started
Speaker 3: in the railroad industry a machinist. He excelled constantly tingering, tinkering.
Speaker 3: His skill with a curiosity quickly caught the attention of
Speaker 3: his bosses. He climbed the ranks all the way to
Speaker 3: the executive level. He was incredibly successful. He was well respected.
Speaker 3: But you know, a wandering eye. He wasn't a skirt chaser. No,
Speaker 3: he had a fascination with automobiles, which at the time
Speaker 3: were a new invention and by no means a sure thing.
Speaker 3: Early nineteen hundreds, Chrysler stunned his bosses, his family, his friends.
Speaker 3: When he left his railroad positioned to join fledgling and
Speaker 3: struggling auto manufacturer Buick. Without Chrysler, we may have never
Speaker 3: known the Electra, the Park Avenue, the Grand National. Because
Speaker 3: it was Chrysler's leadership, his engineering insights that turned things
Speaker 3: around almost immediately.
Speaker 9: Where would Billy Ocean be today? You'd be driving solo.
Speaker 9: You still be chasing skirts, yeah, driving alone? Right, but
Speaker 9: not in a Buick. No, some Chinese automobile is what
Speaker 9: he'd be. With his engineering background, he did not just
Speaker 9: manage from the office, but like Pete Carroll out on
Speaker 9: the football field, throwing those passes to his players, really
Speaker 9: getting into the thick of it.
Speaker 2: Man, he immersed himself in the mechanics.
Speaker 3: I need you to appreciate that analogy of car production
Speaker 3: here in the respect of his workers, engineers. He established Buick,
Speaker 3: and he was in high demand. Every struggling, failing automaker
Speaker 3: threw a ton of money at him to come turn
Speaker 3: around their product. Instead, he opted to build a car
Speaker 3: of his own. Nineteen twenty five, he found the Chrysler Corporation,
Speaker 3: and he wasn't just making cars, he was changing the
Speaker 3: way they've worked Man started with innovation with performance, but
Speaker 3: he also insisted on making his cars at a price
Speaker 3: point where the middle class cult afford this new American luxury.
Speaker 3: He introduced high compression engine stuff you talk about all
Speaker 3: the time, hydraulic breaks, oh my favorite, new standards for safety, efficiency,
Speaker 3: and Chrysler quickly became the bell of the ball for
Speaker 3: that mat class that was eager for reliable and modern
Speaker 3: transportation and economical.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want to.
Speaker 3: Travel behind this horse taking a crap every time I'm
Speaker 3: going to work. He expanded his company by acquiring the
Speaker 3: Dodge Brothers.
Speaker 2: I'd rather get this giant metal death box that has
Speaker 2: a spike in the middle of the steering wheel so
Speaker 2: when I and I'm not gonna wear my seat, bounce
Speaker 2: when I break, and it's just spike right into my forehead.
Speaker 2: That's that's what you want.
Speaker 3: You might have to be quick. He bought Dodge in
Speaker 3: twenty eight and he also launched Plymouth the same year,
Speaker 3: range of vehicles for everyone. Multi brand approach allowed him
Speaker 3: to compete directly with the larger rivals became one of
Speaker 3: the top automakers in the country. Beyond automobiles, he of
Speaker 3: course financed the construction of the Chrysler Building in the
Speaker 3: Big Town. Upon its completion in nineteen thirty, it was
Speaker 3: the tallest building in the world, a symbol of ambition,
Speaker 3: progress and the spirit of modern industry.
Speaker 2: Promethean. Yes.
Speaker 3: And of course here in La we know the Chrysler
Speaker 3: Building zoned by doctor Jerry Buss traded it to Jack
Speaker 3: Kent Cook for the Lakers. I'll give you the Chrysler building,
Speaker 3: you give me the Lakers. Hey, I'll throw in twenty
Speaker 3: horse twenty one. I talked to Joe Anne and we
Speaker 3: had a deal. And you should have never been born, Jesse.
Speaker 3: He retired sadly in thirty six to spend time with
Speaker 3: his wife and his child. It was his child in
Speaker 3: sweet Some people just kind of work man, you know.
Speaker 2: Oh that killed him?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's dead. Two years later, hey, man, fire up
Speaker 3: the le baron, drop the top, polish the wood panels
Speaker 3: on the side, and cruise the top. Cruise the palm
Speaker 3: spring strip here in spring break. Huh, that's what you
Speaker 3: need to do in your eighty three le baron drop top.
Speaker 2: See the gaze. Yeah, huh, I love. I don't have
Speaker 2: an old man and an old baron, and I'm going
Speaker 2: over the rainbow sidewalking.
Speaker 3: I guess, guess what's gonna happen. Be You're gonna look
Speaker 3: at one of those young men, maybe some Daisy Dukes,
Speaker 3: and you're gonna say, hey, you get into get into
Speaker 3: my car.
Speaker 2: Say Bruce Matt beating out Quavo. Unlike Lebron, we had
Speaker 2: no idea about Quavo really and beating out Kirsten Dunst's husband,
Speaker 2: Jesse Plemons. Oh, I didn't know they were a couple.
Speaker 2: They've been together for quite some time. I believe ever
Speaker 2: since their appearance together on the second season of Fargo.
Speaker 2: She's got some big bazooms. Yeah, she does. Beating out
Speaker 2: all those people. Is another prolific actor. Linda Hunt from
Speaker 2: New Jersey. She's eighty one today. She's four foot nine,
Speaker 2: that's short. Her father was an oil man, her mom
Speaker 2: a piano teacher. She went to DePaul the Art Institute
Speaker 2: of Chicago. Les She has a hyper pit Petua Terry
Speaker 2: dwarf Ism again. She's four nine. Became a star stage
Speaker 2: actress and then entered the film and TV world in
Speaker 2: the mid seventies. She made her big film debut in
Speaker 2: Robert Altman's Popeye as Miss Oxheart. Two years later, she
Speaker 2: co starred as and this is her pivotal role as
Speaker 2: Billy Kwan in the Year of Living Dangerously, alongside Mel
Speaker 2: Gibson and Sigourney Weaver. She won an Academy Award for
Speaker 2: this performance in nineteen eighty three, and she was the
Speaker 2: only person to ever win or the first person to
Speaker 2: ever win an Academy Award playing the opposite sex. She
Speaker 2: played a guy, a little Chinese guy, and that was
Speaker 2: an Academy Award. First. She was in David Lynch's Dune
Speaker 2: loved her in Kindergarten Cop in nineteen ninety It's not
Speaker 2: a tumor.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna list all these roles and then I'm gonna
Speaker 3: tell you I loved her.
Speaker 2: I did. She was some Kindergarten Cops, one of my favorites,
Speaker 2: and I thought she brought that perfect mix to the
Speaker 2: role of humor and believable sternness impassivity. In nineteen ninety one,
Speaker 2: she was in a Richard Greco movie called If Looks
Speaker 2: Could Kill I Love Crico. See you waited all that
Speaker 2: time she is on NCISLA. I think that's a recurring role,
Speaker 2: but I don't watch those shows. Yet because I have
Speaker 2: a brain. Yet so far she was on the practice
Speaker 2: and without a trace, done lots of voice work. She
Speaker 2: hails from the Aisle of Lesbos. I can see that
Speaker 2: has a longtime wife in psychotherapist Karen Klein. She's involved
Speaker 2: with animals, helping, often with animals like b One in
Speaker 2: Burbank or Blondie. Oh yeah, the dead bear in Monrovia. No,
Speaker 2: but she was there for those Bearserhaps we wouldn't be
Speaker 2: talking about him the way we talk about him today.
Speaker 2: She had a bad car accident and missed a year
Speaker 2: of ncis interesting lady. Here she is with opposite Mel
Speaker 2: Gibson in the Year of Living dangerously, playing the role
Speaker 2: of the little Chinese guy Billy Kwan can't it's.
Speaker 8: Me bloody story and I can't you understand that?
Speaker 4: Don't you understand?
Speaker 8: You've lost Jill?
Speaker 3: What are you told me?
Speaker 5: You?
Speaker 4: And now I'm taking her back?
Speaker 7: Do you understand? For christ sake, you're mad, little bastard.
Speaker 4: You think you can control people's lives just because you
Speaker 4: got him in your bloody files.
Speaker 5: I believe in you.
Speaker 4: I thought you wouldn't, Man of Fly, That's why I
Speaker 4: gave you the stories.
Speaker 6: You think are so important.
Speaker 5: I made you see things.
Speaker 4: I made you feel something about what you're right. I
Speaker 4: gave you my trust, so did Ji. I've cruel over there.
Speaker 2: And I thought that music came from the karate Kid
Speaker 2: part too, but it turned out it was the year
Speaker 2: of Livinon with Van Guellies, the great composer. We'll be
Speaker 2: back with the wrap up of the show. We'll do
Speaker 2: the fun fat and your quick hits, and we'll be
Speaker 2: back tomorrow at a normal time, three o'clock. Well, we'll
Speaker 2: be on after the Dodgers play the Washington Nationals at
Speaker 2: Nationals Park Dodgers on Deck at nine am tomorrow