Speaker 1: Let's get back to Dirty Work with Copes and d
Speaker 1: Pop live from fifty eight Social at Oracle Park before
Speaker 1: Tonight's Giants game on the Sports Leader.
Speaker 2: Dirty Work on a Friday afternoon at I'm coupling Deep
Speaker 2: Pop with you from the patio at fifty eight Social
Speaker 2: Giants and the Tigers tonight seven fifteen first pitch six
Speaker 2: to fifteen pre game. But first we got to cack
Speaker 2: in with our guy. Marcus Thompson, of the athletic best
Speaker 2: sports rider in the country, joins us.
Speaker 3: Each and every Friday here on Dirty Work. What's up, Marcus?
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 4: Marcus?
Speaker 3: Where are you all at at the at the ballpark?
Speaker 4: We're here today? Who knows tomorrow?
Speaker 3: Who knows from now? We're here?
Speaker 1: Okay, I just heard the noise and the background. I'm like,
Speaker 1: where are they a high show? What's going on?
Speaker 2: That was when you heard the sirens a couple weeks ago? Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was more such show? Like, man, So what's up
Speaker 2: with you?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 3: We've had an uneventful week? What are you up to?
Speaker 1: Similarly uneventful? Similarly chill? How about we can just say chill.
Speaker 1: How about we go with that chilling, very chill week?
Speaker 4: All right, very very different for us this week. I'd say.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yes, indeed, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that has been I don't know, go ahead,
Speaker 2: go ahead, No, I would like to hear your questions.
Speaker 2: I was gonna like shift gears to sports. But if
Speaker 2: you had something else, you can you can hit that.
Speaker 1: I mean, no matter what you said, I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: you know what I want to say. You can go
Speaker 1: to gears, you go to sports all you want to Uh,
Speaker 1: it's your Your week has been very disheartening. Yeah, especially
Speaker 1: as an outsider looking in. Uh, I definitely want to
Speaker 1: give a huge uh shout out to a legend in
Speaker 1: our profession and Greg Papa and just reading about what
Speaker 1: he's going through was simultaneously like heartwarming and heartbreaking. Uh So,
Speaker 1: my thoughts and my desire to talk is kind of
Speaker 1: limited to Greg Papa, who, more than anything, really just
Speaker 1: deserves the Bay Areas unflinching and unyielding support. If you're
Speaker 1: a sports fan out here and you've ever heard his
Speaker 1: voice in a moment, if you've ever been around him,
Speaker 1: if you ever benefited from him, if you ever just
Speaker 1: got a chance to get a dose of his swag,
Speaker 1: then we should all be companies and fans alike in
Speaker 1: support of Greg Papa. So that's all I really want
Speaker 1: to say today. How about that?
Speaker 5: Nope, I appreciate that, man, and I appreciate your reaching
Speaker 5: out to me. And yeah, would you say that our
Speaker 5: swag is comparable though me and my father's I would.
Speaker 1: I would say, I say, every time I see you,
Speaker 1: I get the same sense of you know, you could
Speaker 1: have been flying any era that I get from your father.
Speaker 1: Like sometimes I call you Greg because I think y'all
Speaker 1: the same person. That's how. But the swag is similar, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, you're clearly your daddy's son, right, like the
Speaker 1: French coach you wear, the trench coach you wear, the cologne,
Speaker 1: that meat that gets around the corner before you do.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, the uh and and the
Speaker 1: charming voice. Yeah, yeah, you know. I mean, you're playing
Speaker 1: in your pop swag. I'm just putting on you. I'm
Speaker 1: just imagining this world where you are like your father
Speaker 1: and swag. So I'm trying to paint the picture for
Speaker 1: the audience of what Derek looks like with a black
Speaker 1: trench coat on, and you know, and.
Speaker 3: Right, I was like, I'm over.
Speaker 2: Here thinking about Willie Brown, Bro, you're telling me about Pop.
Speaker 2: I was like, will you just starving tray? What's happening here?
Speaker 1: Listen? Man? You don't know man, that that that overcoat,
Speaker 1: that car Yeah, I don't know about the day at
Speaker 1: the Raider Stadium, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was a little more like a cheat coat as well.
Speaker 1: I would wear what I'm saying, yeah, and what well,
Speaker 1: what do you call it then? A car coat, an overcoat?
Speaker 3: An overcoat? Yeah, an overcoat, that's good.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you called a trench coat when
Speaker 5: he when he has like a scarf underneath it.
Speaker 1: I feel like, if they go past your pockets, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: You're in the trenches if it goes past the pocket, yeah.
Speaker 2: Marcus on the umber, guess you know the swag, you know,
Speaker 2: the swaggiest thing that's ever been transferred from Greg Papa
Speaker 2: to Derek Papa. And I'm gonna put this out there.
Speaker 2: I don't know if Marcus even knows this. Greg has
Speaker 2: said on the air that Derek was conceived on the
Speaker 2: day that Dave Stewart threw a no header. I was like,
Speaker 2: that's the dopest thing ever he saw. Smoke Stewart throwing.
Speaker 2: He's like, I gotta I gotta make.
Speaker 4: One good lord.
Speaker 1: Wait wait old dang. For some reason I thought boring,
Speaker 1: but you said see oh man, so did the stare
Speaker 1: down happen? First? He's just lucky? And did he give
Speaker 1: me that glass?
Speaker 2: You know, we did the math, bro. It's like it's
Speaker 2: like nine months and four days too. It's like it's
Speaker 2: almost exact, and you get out of this business.
Speaker 1: Anyway, that was that was as like live as it
Speaker 1: gets because I was thinking birthday, birthday, and then Dawn,
Speaker 1: we can see you. I'm like, wait a second. Then
Speaker 1: I could just see him like tipping that cat waving
Speaker 1: them off, like Nope, nope, not that, not that. Don't
Speaker 1: wear that. Nope, no you wear that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, and you only get that if you're flying.
Speaker 3: You gotta be pop to do that. You know what
Speaker 3: I mean?
Speaker 2: You got it like yeah, we're Stu or Stu. Yeah
Speaker 2: smoke and so you I mean you mentioned it, dude.
Speaker 2: I was telling stories yesterday. I remember meeting Greg when
Speaker 2: I was when I was working at Boulevard Restaurant. I
Speaker 2: was telling everybody he left me tickets to a Raider game,
Speaker 2: and I thought, there's no way, these are actually here.
Speaker 2: And I was like, I'm a bart over there and
Speaker 2: he left me tickets two days later.
Speaker 3: Didn't even know me.
Speaker 2: I was like a host in a restaurant that he
Speaker 2: was at. But do you remember your first interaction with
Speaker 2: pop up or the first time that you really got
Speaker 2: to know him a little bit, either at the coliseum
Speaker 2: or beyond.
Speaker 1: Absolutely at the coliseum, here's how I knew all I
Speaker 1: needed to know right off the back. Yeah, like I
Speaker 1: obviously I knew who he was. I didn't know he
Speaker 1: knew who I was. But he said it as he
Speaker 1: walked up to me and he gave me adapt and
Speaker 1: it was so smooth, you know how, you know how
Speaker 1: sometimes it don't you know, like Derek, you might know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Sometimes you botch that. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying it can be very awkward. Man, It was
Speaker 1: so smooth and cool. I was like, man, this is
Speaker 1: exactly who I thought he was. It was just like
Speaker 1: it's a small gesture, but he was like Obama out there.
Speaker 3: It wasn't It.
Speaker 1: Wasn't a simple handshake neither. It was like a three
Speaker 1: parter with the have. I was like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: my guy right now.
Speaker 3: That's what we would call Derek. Let me tell her,
Speaker 3: that's what we would call giving some skin. Yeah you
Speaker 3: know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I'm saying on the black hand side,
Speaker 1: you feel me? Yeah there, Yes, you ain't never bumbled
Speaker 1: it there, you ain't never.
Speaker 5: You ain't never.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's what I thought.
Speaker 5: I'm not like I have him, but there's been times
Speaker 5: where people have been impressed.
Speaker 3: I've taught some people off guard.
Speaker 1: All fa Pops has never bundled it like he do
Speaker 1: hard than us.
Speaker 4: Fair enough, fair enough.
Speaker 2: He's a student of the game, as you know. In
Speaker 2: many rounds, in many many fastest Pop is a student
Speaker 2: of the game without question.
Speaker 4: Okay, you see, my dad's invited the cookout, but not
Speaker 4: so much meme.
Speaker 1: Not only is he invited to the cookout, he bringing
Speaker 1: the dish and we eat it. You know what I'm saying, like, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: ain't no raisins in a potato salad. He want to
Speaker 1: bring here, gonna bring some Metalian food that we all love.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't know me have this, but it's good.
Speaker 1: Let's go within it, let's have it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's the guy that when somebody's got to go
Speaker 2: to the bathroom. The dude on the girl has to
Speaker 2: go to the bathroom. He's like, pop, come work this
Speaker 2: for him, to watch this for me? Dude, you know
Speaker 2: he trust him to watch the grill.
Speaker 4: Watch it, but he's not doing anything on it. I
Speaker 4: know my father and the grill grill himself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wouldn't picture him on the grill. That's too
Speaker 1: much sweat.
Speaker 4: Yeah, too much, it'll it'll miss.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's tough to be in a car code
Speaker 1: at the grill.
Speaker 3: You know what I just over there?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, switching gears real quick.
Speaker 5: Marcus, what was your reaction to Kevin duran and Klay
Speaker 5: Thompson here?
Speaker 3: He told you what he wanted to talk about, But
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 4: I can't bring this up briefly.
Speaker 1: Sure you could bring it up. Sure, absolutely, you can
Speaker 1: bring it up. Finishing questions.
Speaker 5: Okay, what'd you think of Klay Thompson and Kevin Durants
Speaker 5: exchange on social media this past week?
Speaker 1: You know, I actually thought it was impressive. How Like,
Speaker 1: for all these years, Greg Papa was a raider guy
Speaker 1: and tradition to like call in forty nine ers games
Speaker 1: like and he came up with a call and it
Speaker 1: was awkward. He's missed the Raider, So for him to
Speaker 1: make this transition, to me, it was all about expertise, right.
Speaker 1: It was like, you all know, I cover a bunch
Speaker 1: of sports, right like, so that's as somebody who does it.
Speaker 1: It is incredibly difficult. But for him to just ingratiate
Speaker 1: himself in Niner culture the way he did, to turn
Speaker 1: those calls and make them as you know, impactful as
Speaker 1: all those years were the Raiders where he was like
Speaker 1: the facto GM anyway, right like that to me is
Speaker 1: one of the most precious, impressive things you'll see in
Speaker 1: our profession. And it certainly helps that the Raiders were
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas right like they're gone or not having
Speaker 1: presence anymore. But after seeing that and listening to that,
Speaker 1: I just I just never imagined that day, Like twenty
Speaker 1: years ago. You're not thinking Greg Papa is going to
Speaker 1: be the voice of the forty nine ers one day.
Speaker 1: It just sounds weird, right.
Speaker 3: It's just it doesn't feel weird anymore now. Dude.
Speaker 2: I grew up in the East, you know, just like
Speaker 2: you manifest that seems so weird kind of work different
Speaker 2: for you. But I wasn't a Raider fan, But I
Speaker 2: thought it was a little weird at first. Now I
Speaker 2: don't even really think about it. I really don't.
Speaker 5: Okay, I get what you want wanna answer to day Marcus,
Speaker 5: So I'll ask you.
Speaker 1: I'll ask you this question.
Speaker 4: I'll ask you this question.
Speaker 5: No no, no no no no no.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay.
Speaker 5: So years ago, your guy Tim Kawakami asked my dad
Speaker 5: about this whole rumor that he was going to be
Speaker 5: the general manager of the Raiders, had Al Davis stuck around,
Speaker 5: So obviously things didn't happen.
Speaker 4: What if well if if, I'll say it alive obviously yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So it was like on his call, right, He's like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm out right.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: He's like, no, I don't think. I think I'm gonnax
Speaker 3: it on my own.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna check out. I'll check it out. Yeah okay.
Speaker 5: So, like, what do you think the Bay Area's reaction
Speaker 5: would have been if Greg Poppa, after years of being
Speaker 5: a play by play guy, was introduced as general manager
Speaker 5: of president of football Operations for the Raiders.
Speaker 1: What's your I think I actually think it would have
Speaker 1: been like more fitting than you see kind of these
Speaker 1: things now right, uh, Like like remember when Bob Myers
Speaker 1: was an agent and to being a germannager, we were like,
Speaker 1: I don't know this is gonna work. Like it felt
Speaker 1: weird that I mean, you know, because obviously we didn't
Speaker 1: really know Bob Myris at that point, so it's like,
Speaker 1: what can this agent do with no experience. I think
Speaker 1: that would have been Greg pop Up becoming the general manager,
Speaker 1: like he already felt like the team for a lot
Speaker 1: of us who just grew up with the voice like
Speaker 1: his command for the team, like like that's how we
Speaker 1: would learn about football. It was it was Greg pop
Speaker 1: on Raiders, it was Jim Barne that don't work, like
Speaker 1: you learned about the team and not just what was
Speaker 1: happening with the game. So I think it would have
Speaker 1: been a little bit more seamless than I imagine, Like
Speaker 1: it would be like if you know, Adam Goldman just
Speaker 1: became like Mike Dunley's number two, he'd be like, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? Right? Like what happened? So I think
Speaker 1: it would have been actually fine. I think people would
Speaker 1: have been shocked. But what was the Raiders suscept anyway?
Speaker 1: Who were they going to get another retread that wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna do a good job, like yeah, like you you
Speaker 1: probably could, You probably would have got more supportives, like, hey, trying,
Speaker 1: We're trying everything at this.
Speaker 2: Point, Marcus Thompson of the Athletic Jointes, each and every
Speaker 2: week here on dry work, that's all.
Speaker 3: We got for you, Marcus.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you making time for us, and then this
Speaker 2: hasn't been fun this week for any of us.
Speaker 3: So and I know your connection.
Speaker 2: To the Bay Area and to the East Band, to
Speaker 2: Greg Pop individually, So really, man, I do appreciate you.
Speaker 3: You're making time.
Speaker 1: Hey, I'll tell you what, man, I'm not gonna be
Speaker 1: as classy about it. I'm dropping names, I'm telling stories.
Speaker 1: I'm just just so y'all know, let's get this on
Speaker 1: the record, like you put me in these type of spots,
Speaker 1: I won't be smiling. I'll be like it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a tell all book, like you want to treat me
Speaker 1: like this, Okay, Yeah, I write that down.
Speaker 3: Like I said, Man, it's crazy.
Speaker 2: It's not as crazy as firing somebody with cancer, but
Speaker 2: it is crazy, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: It is out there.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not going out with class.
Speaker 2: I just want yeah, man, so it's almost like sor
Speaker 2: I'll say it, but you did it. So anyway, Mark,
Speaker 2: ain't that bad. Marcus Thompson of the Athletic for now
Speaker 2: joins us every Friday. We'll talk to you soon, Marcus.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it, all right.
Speaker 2: Marcus Thompson of the Athletic, he joins us each and
Speaker 2: every week. Though that's a he's a trenches guy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Marcus Thompson isn't in the trenches.
Speaker 1: Guy with us. Man.
Speaker 3: I love that guy.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: Guys look up for me so much of my career.
Speaker 3: I always love and respect that guy. All right, we're
Speaker 3: gonna take a quick break. Members of the Filter as
Speaker 3: showing up here at fifty eight. So so we got
Speaker 3: a getting dirty with the filth. Oh yeah, tell me.
Speaker 2: You're waiting about an hour at five point forty five.
Speaker 2: You can sit down and now you're good.
Speaker 3: You can cheer. You're the one. You're the one cheering,
Speaker 3: so yeah, more power to you.
Speaker 5: If everybody else is booming it, throwing tomatoes at it,
Speaker 5: we'll we'll get dirty with the filth in about an hour.
Speaker 3: Derek wants you to sit down and ask us one
Speaker 3: question apiece.
Speaker 4: One question.
Speaker 2: One quest question and get it ready. Yeah, one question.
Speaker 2: We will do that a bit later. But you know
Speaker 2: what this is, dude. It's a Friday and we have
Speaker 2: to work overtime. You know what that means. What's that
Speaker 2: we're playing a replay of an interview?
Speaker 4: Nice?
Speaker 3: Yeah, dude, you know who's great? Rich?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 2: He joined us each and every Thursday. He's so great.
Speaker 2: Eight you'll hear it again next. It's thirty work. It's
Speaker 2: a Friday from fifty eighth Social and it's only here
Speaker 2: on the replay Leader