March 31, 2026 • 41 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
All right, San Diego and Southern California, John Schaeffer and
Sammy Long with you to kick off this two PM hour,
and we've got a lot of announcements over the course
of the next couple of hours here on San Diego
Sports seven sixty. First of all, Sammy's been doing an
amazing job. Thank you for all your health these last like, man,
I loved being with you.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
It's been fun. By the way, they're like, did did
you hear that? Brent?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
The audio? Me too?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It sounds all it sounds all screwy.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Was it okay?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
With Fletch for two hours now?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
It's sounding good with fle Yeah, it's that? Is it?
That mic? It is?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
It's like modulated somehow? All right, great, all right, that's
a really good start. All right, So here's what's happening
in the two o'clock hour. Okay, you're gonna use a
different microphone. I think it might be over here too, Brent.
I'm not sure it's all right. Okay, it's okay over here.
Hit that right there. Yeah, we gotta have engineering coming here,
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so there's never a dull mark.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
We got a new microphone. Never use this one for
all right.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I'm hearing that too, Brent in my all right, you
got it. Anyway, Samy's been hanging out right on San
Diego Sports seven sixty filling in Obviously. We've had a
situation where I've been doing a solo afternoon show, but
Sammy's been helping out obviously for months on end at
this point, and today we're announcing the two o'clock hour
moving forward, each and every weekday on San Diego Sports
(01:22):
seven sixty is going to be not co hosted by
Sammy Long. It's going to be hosted by Sammy Long.
It's going Long with Sammy Long weekdays from two to
three on San Diego Sports seven sixty. So, first of all, Sammy,
thank you for everything you've done personally for me the
last three months.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Come out.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
And secondly, congratulations man, because you're to be doing this
each and every week.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
It's trippy being on with you because you're the only
reason I'm actually here. You actually helped me get the
job in the first place. With Fledge, So it is
a very very cool moment. So thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Originally it all worked out.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
It all worked out, but it's been Yeah, it's been
fun being on with you for the last couple of months,
and then you have a big announcement at three o'clock.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Are not done.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
There's an announcement that follows the announcement that is coming
at three pm, so be here for that. But each
and every weekday from two to three, Samy's gonna have
you for one full hour all oftentimes hop in in
the final segment in that two forty five range, you
will typically have a guest with you. You're gonna delve
into two thirty every day two thirty every day. You're
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gonna delve into San Diego sports topics as well, obviously
each and every day. And I'm excited for you because
I know we've got in the zone with you and
Fletch each and every day from twelve to two. Then
you're gonna hang out from two to three, and then
stay tuned for three pm on if you think you
know what's happening at three pm. Seven zero four seven
zero started with the word team. If you have any guesses?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
There have been some good guesses today, have there? There
have been.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Anyway, what's the what's the best guess and what's the worst?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I mean, uh, there's been some Rich Oremberger's Oh some
rich Orberger some rich Omberger talk.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Okay, there has.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Been somehow that all three of us are just gonna
be on for like eight hours a day, right, yeah,
just all four of us the brand. I'm all we
were just gonna do like like from like ten to
ten to six.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Right, that was a big one we've had. Uh, it's
pretty good.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
There's been there's been some going some people have gotten
close on a few of these, and but we haven't.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
We haven't read those.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Okay, Well, if you think you know what's happening at
three pm, you could text us seven zero four seven
zero started with the word team, but again each and
every weekday here on San Diego Sports seven sixty going
long with Sammy Long. Sammy, of course is well, you
were raised in San Diego, you're an Aztech, you've been
on seven sixty here for a year plus. And where
are you going with the conversation buying large year today?
(03:42):
I mean, there's a ton to get into it. There's
the Padres opening weekend March Madness. I mean, there's a lot.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
So we're gonna start with the Patres. I'd love you
stay with this segment. We'll get into that coming up
at two fifteen to eighteen. We're gonna get into March madness.
Is is the Cinderella Do Cinderella stories make March madness?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Because this year we don't. We don't get one.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
We've had some unbelievable comebacks with Yukon yesterday over Duke
and but there there's a pretty blue blooded final four.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
So we're gonna get into that. Would love to hear.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
We have a special guest at two thirty China Iglesias
from ninety three three we'll be stopping by nice talking
talking everything local and then two forty five.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
We will get to the big tas for for John
at three.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Okay, so that's what's coming up over the next hour.
I will say this when when it comes to Padres conversation,
they go one and two, as you guys were talking about,
they get the giants obviously tonight. What's interesting, and I'll
probably talk about this later today, is that you've got
these first time managers under microscopes and you always want
to get off to a good start. No matter who
your manager is, you want to get off. If Tony
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Laruss is your manager, you want to get off to
a good start. But you got the Padres who played
a good team in Detroit and lost two out of three.
You have the Giants who have scored one run run
in three games.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Is you either a manager talking about how after day
one he's like, the best thing about major League Baseball
is you get to just try it all again tomorrow.
Not the best quote coming out of the Bay, I
wouldn't say, considering that the Giants are a story program.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
But John, I don't know about you. I know you'll
get into a three. I was.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
We talked so much the last couple of months about
starting pitching, and that certainly is a problem. It was
nice seeing Randy Vasquez have a great outing. Michael King
numbers were a little inflated, but I thought overall had
a decent outing. You know, Paveta certainly wasn't his finest
hour Day one. But the bats are the only thing.
I don't want to overreact because I know it's three games.
I know people are going to go if they went
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three and oh if they went zero and three. But
scoring seven runs at home over a span of three
days is a little alarming considering they were ranked toward
the bottom and power last year. It's just like, why
are the bats taking so long at home. I know
it's great pitching coming from the Tigers, but you would
have at at least liked to see one of those
games them have an offensive firework showing.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, it's interesting because again, like we said after Opening Day,
where like everything's magnified off, like people are going to
react Opening Day and pretend like that was like a
two month thing for Nick Pavetta. They won't think as
much about his second start. The casual fan will be like,
oh man, Nick Pavetta's not having the same year as
he had last year. Like, well, hold on, that was
only Opening Day, and you're right with the perception reality,
you'd like to you'd like to swing the bats better
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just because of what played out last year. Now, I
would say when you're facing scooble Valdez Flairty, that's about
as good as you're gonna face over stretch. And seven
runs in three games isn't the best. But they did
get a win. I think they have one multi run
inning and that was as a result of an error.
So yeah, I circled this series and been like, well,
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you hope it's not more the same. You hope that
in these three games you don't score six or seven runs.
You'd like to think you score hopefully ten or fifteen
runs or more than that, and win two out of three.
This to me again, it's so early obviously, Sammy, but
you don't want to start the year with back to
back losing series at home.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
That's what I would say.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Right, That's why I thought, if overall, if this series
was played in Detroit and they went one and two,
I think you'd be a little like, all right, you're
playing team that has World Series aspirations, excellent pitching as
you were talking about, and they won the series at home.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Okay, that was a little disappointing for me.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Is how you come out The stadium's rock and the
city's rock, and we were down there Thursday for Opening
Day and it was on fire, and it just felt
a little lacklusser. Now, they got it back on Saturday,
probably should have won Friday. Ustrada had the meltdown to
get into you know, Stam and leave them into Long
But I am with you. It feels like, despite the
fact that it's the second series of the year, taking
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on a Giants team, you need to win this series.
Like if they lose this series, then you're going, okay,
then there are big problems here because last year when
they started at fourteen and three, the kind of underlying
thing about that, we thought they had a tough schedule
to start because we all thought the Braves were gonna
be good when they opened with the Braves. The Braves
ended up being terrible, and they played a pretty subpar
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schedule for the first three weeks of that season. I mean,
this season, you play the Tigers, the Giants obviously, but
we'll see the visional opponent. You got the Red Sox,
like you got some series coming up, the Pirates. Even
though you'll see schemes, you'll see crochet for the Red Sox,
it just feels like you can't we can only play
the it's early cards so long, like you don't want
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to see this thing snowball, where then you're looking up
in the standings and you're just clawing back the entire season.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
What's interesting is the point you made about the meeting
fourteen and three. I kind of for a moment had
forgotten where it's like if you lose tonight when you're
one and three and.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
A year ago you were fourteen and three.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Now we do have to always preface anything with baseball
that it isn't even a marathon. It's like an ultra marathon.
I mean, now, does anyone want to start four in
eight or nine and fifteen?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
And it opens up questions.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And again I think it opens up the idea that
will did you make the right higher for example with
your manager, but you get start four and eight and
win ninety nine games, you could start eight and four
and win sixty nine games. You know, So again you
want to get out of the gates because it's the
perception that had your team's playing well, Now I'm going
to pay attention and I'm I'm vested in the success
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of this team. And then you look at it from
this prism as well. You see the Dodgers going three
and oh. Again, everyone knows the Dodgers are good. They've
went back to back World Series, But like, are you serious,
We're a weekend into the season. I look at the NLS.
Nobody's done anything other than La. You got LA's three
and oh, Dodgers are one and two.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Everyone else to three.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
It's like, again, it's.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Only one series. But I'm with you in the general
idea that you don't want to leave Petco come Wednesday
night and be two and four, having lost this series
two games to one.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Yeah, and the crazy thing about the Dodgers is, I
mean you also take the Dodgers out of it. We
know the Dodgers are making the playoffs. They're an unbelievable
team that has very few holes on it. It's the
crazy thing about all three of those games, they were
losing the Diamondbacks in every single one of those games, right,
those were all comeback wins. It just goes to show
you the depth of the Dodgers that they can. You
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feel like it's the seventh eighth inning. The bats haven't
been there, and they just have so much talent they
can turn on any time. So you also take the
Dodgers out of it in that I don't want to
say the divisions out of reach three games in the season,
but to reasonably pick that either the Giants or the
Diamondbacks or the Potteries are going to win the division,
there's a reason they give you pretty good odds in
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Vegas about that. Whereas it's like focusing on the other teams.
I guess the good kind of thing three games in
is that, I mean, the Diamondbacks are own three. The
Giants are own three, so you have a little bit
of leeway here. It just does feel like a big
game tonight. The next two games feel big because we're
seeing Walker Buler for the first time, We're seeing Marquez
for the first time. You there's question marks at the
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top of the rotation. Hopefully Nick Povetta that was just
a you know, first day on the job and had
a rough outing. But if what's going to be more
depressing outside of the record is if Marquez and Buehler
get lit up the next two games and then you're going,
where do you go from here? Are you immediately on
the phone with Lucas gi Alito, like.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Like what what? What?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
What are the repercussions of them having two bad games
and with the repercussions of them having two solid games
over the next two nights.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I mean, it is insane that it fangrafts and take
it for whatever it's worth. They already give the Dodgers
a ninety five percent chance of winning the division.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
The three game.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
That's ridiculous. It's not even April.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
It's not even April, and they're given a ninety five
percent chance of winning the division. It's it's on the
Padres again to prove some of the metrics and the
analytics wrong. You know that they've been projected all off
season by a number of different outlets, including something like
a Fangraft Zips projection. It's like an eighty win team.
They gotta go out and play better than that. And
the first weekend again didn't go probably the way they
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hoped it would, taking out a Giants team that's still
looking for its first win. Let's see how it plays
out as the Padres settle in, you get a turn
or two through the rotation, and let's see how it
settles them.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
It does.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
To your point about the the microcosm of one game
on opening Day, it's funny how you have such a
long season and yet opening day, like Aaron.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Judge goes what over four? Over five?
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Yeah, the final two games, he was actually unbelievable. Over
the weekend, no one's talking about that. Andon's talking about
Aaron Judge.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
You're right.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Everyone watched the opening night and goes, Okay, Aaron Judge,
you know, doesn't perform in the biggest moments, so certainly
certainly interesting next couple of days here for the Patres.
Excited to see what happens, John, You're the best. You
We got big announcement.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
At three, but the earlier announcement if you missed it
ten minutes ago Going Long with Sammy Long weekdays from
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Speaker 2 (12:25):
What do you got coming up next?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I got coming up next.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
We're getting into March Madness, so unbelievable, unbelievable game yesterday,
the nineteen point comeback by Yukon. We're gonna get in
Texas now seven zero four seven zero. Start your message
with team once again seven zero four seven zero. Start
your message with team. What is the tournament better without
Cinderella's in the Cinderella stories? Or does it take college
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basketball and March Madness down a step? We're getting into
that next coming up next on Going Long with Sammy Long.
Welcome back to Going Long with Sammy Long. Was John
Shaffer a few minutes ago and the again, remember big
announcement at three o'clock with John Shaffer. I want to
make sure you tune in for all that they got.
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They got a special announcement at Texas seven zero four
seven zero. Start your message with a team about what
you think that is about with me. We got Brent Sperry,
the man, the voice you've heard for forever.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
On this station. Brent, what's up, dude? How you doing?
What's going on? We got a lot to talk about.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
So we're gonna be We're gonna be doing this every
day from two to three. Now it's let's go to March.
Madden were talking about the pottery is marsh Madden is
it was kind of a boring elait eight outside of
yesterday's game, outside of Yukon against against Duke, because that game,
I mean, most of the game was pretty bad, and
then you have that nineteen point comeback and Yukon at
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the at the end. But it got me thinking, it's like,
so you got two one seeds in Arizona, Michigan and
then Yukon and Illinois, who's a two and a three?
Is it better for college basketball that you don't have Cinderellas?
Because I mean, the only there wasn't even really a
Cinderella this year. The only team that was a quote
unexpected upset in the first round was High Point as
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a twelve seed. And even twelve seeds in the tournament,
they always say every year you pick a twelve seed
over a five. You had VCU double digit get to
win Texas few other teams, but Texas goes on a run.
Can we really call Texas to Cinderella? And when they're
playing in the SEC and then played all the top talent.
We didn't have a Saint Peter's, We didn't have a
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UNBC or Fairleigh Dickinson, a school that you don't even
know where they are on the map, and yet they're
beating a team that is completely recognizable. Because when I
first look at him, like, I think, I'm excited for
this weekend, the final four in that I think Michigan
and Arizona are the two best teams so far this year,
and it's just going to be a great basketball game period.
And then Illinois and Yukon. I think all the money's
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coming in on Yukon. But Illinois is certainly a live dog.
You know, took apart Houston a few rounds ago. But
it does fun yourself, Like I don't know about you, Brett,
but me personally, since I don't have a dog in
this fight, santy Go Say is not in it, I
guess I'm kind of interested this weekend to just root
against Yu Kong I'm not a fan of Dan Hurley
and I'm not a fan of Connecticut, but like the
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casual fan to tune in the final four this weekend.
Does no Cinderella stories make you like want to tune in?
Or is it more just I'm a tune in becaus
the final four?
Speaker 5 (15:24):
It doesn't matter for me once they get to the
final four. For me, the Cinderellas are more about, you know,
the first weekend and maybe like that Thursday Friday of
the second weekend. It's not necessarily you know, the final
four because with the exception of you know, I brought
up Friday, you know Butler, you know, coming within an
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eyelash of making that half court shot to win the game,
most of them don't make it that far.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
So that's why my.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Whole thing was like, if the tournament goes chalk, I
don't mind if it's chalk in the final four. It's
just getting to the final four. That's the part that
gets boring when it just goes chalk.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
But we don't.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
We didn't need it this weekend because Duke lost. If
Duke would have won, then there would have been more
of a case for it. But most of the country
outside of the You know, the Durham area hates.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Duke so right, and I'm with you.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
I'm not a Dan Hurley fan either, but when I
have to compare the two basketball evils.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I will root for Yukon over Duke every single day
of the week.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
You had to the The hay washing was certainly high
yesterday just for around the country. But I like the
point you make about like Cinderella's are fun and it's
especially on the first weekend in that this team that
you know the great so we saw Georgia State years
ago hit that game winner when his dad was the coach,
like it are, there are stories that people can get behind,
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especially when you don't the NFL. Nothing's bigger than the brand.
I mean, you can have the Jaguars play and you know,
you know, the Bears are a huge brand, but the
Cardinals and people are going to watch because it's just
it's it's the brand of the NFL. Nothing's bigger than that.
But if your school's not in it, I think that
it does. Like to your point, the Cinderella's run out rarely,
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we've only seen the lowest possible seed to win the
NCAA Tournament is an eight seat. That was Villanova in
nineteen eighty five. So for as much as everyone wants
to go, oh, you don't have Cinderellas, it's not the same.
It's it's like they don't end up winning the tournament.
And for every Saint Peter's they have a great three
game run, they get blasted in the Elite eight. So
I think it adds. It adds a lot that we're
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excited about a Cinderella and there's a story you can
just get behind. But I'm with you. I think also,
like gambling has taken over the sports world in a
lot of ways, a lot of people just get into
it based on gambling who may not care. Look at
these spreads this weekend. Illinois is a two and a
half point favorite. That's that's basically a pickup game. Michigan
is minus one and a half. That's a pickup game
against Arizona. I think you just get great basketball matchups
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this weekend, And had there been a twelve seed or
a thirteen seed in it, that spread would be maybe
sixteen if they're playing in Arizona, or eighteen, And it
just I think creates a lack of buzz unless the
upset actually happens.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
You know, you use the Cinderella term, you know Cinderella.
You know, everyone forgets that Cinderella had to go home
at midnight. She didn't get to go to the after party.
The final four is the after party. You know, Cinderella
gets to go to the lead eight and then after
that they take their ass home. They usually don't get
to go to the Final four. So that's why we
don't really need the Cinderellas once we get the Final four.
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We need them leading up because, like I said, if
it just goes from you know that first Thursday all
the way to the Final four as planned and as predicted,
that's boring.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
You know, I think I nobody needs that.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I think it does hurt this last weekend, Like we
didn't see a Sweet sixteen in a lead day where
there was some Cinderella run a five as texting in
was Iowa to Texas not considered a Cinderella.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
No way.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
They expand and helps them making it more competitive in
later rounds. I don't think expansion necessarily helps. I mean,
because expanding the tournament, you're just having a disparity. In
the Sweet sixteen, the school with the lowest nil money
was Iowa six point two million, and that's still that's
over six million dollars in their school in the Big Ten.
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So I think you can't really call Iowa schools in
the Big Ten or Texas in the SEC a cinderella story.
When I think in college football, the expansion of the playoff,
in the fact that there's not three five star quarterbacks
sitting on the bench at Ohio State where I can
go to Nebraska or I can go to another school
and go be a starter, I think the nil actually helps.
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Whereas college basketball, I think it really just makes the
rich get richer. And now there's even a bigger gap
because the bench players getting paid millions of dollars in
at school like Siena that has no budget. Even though
they hung with Duke. You saw in the second half,
they had nothing against the Blue Devils.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Look, I'm with you, Texas and all them. They have
way too much money. In order to be a Cinderella,
you either have to be from a mid major or
you have to be from like the bottom of a
big conference. Like if Northwestern or something would go to
the Final four, So I would count that as a
cinderella because Northwestern doesn't go to the finals in anything,
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so that would be an upset. And so, yeah, you
can't have as much money as Texas does in all sports.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
It's not just football and basketball.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
And then you know, want people just because they have
an eleven seed next to their name think that they're
the underdog when you know their net worth of their
team is worth like, you know, half of the Mountain
West Conference exactly.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
All right, Coming up next, we got the Man, the Myth,
the legend from Channel ninety three to three. He's got
he's got his purple and gold hat on. I love
it already. Chino Aglacy is stopping by. He's gonna be
in the hot seat. Coming up next on Going Long
with Sammy Long. Welcome back to Going Long with Sammy Long.
Brince Perry red in his update, the Lakers are back tonight,
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taking on maybe the worst basketball.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Team, maybe maybe the.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Washington Wizards, a team that is resting Trey Young, Anthony Davis,
and Keyshawn George, the only team of talent, by the way.
Joining me right now in the hot seat, Chino Aglaciers,
I can Channel ninety three three the man in the building.
This is like everyone in the building, this guy. This
guy's DJing so fi. I mean, this is this is
the man around here, and he can talk sports with
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the best of them.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
I'm just trying to stay busy, really, that's what that is.
I'm just trying to stay busy because if not, I'm
just gonna sit and you know, eat terribly and binge
watch stuff and whatever. So if I stay busy, then
don't I don't go down that bad road.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Bro. The Bullets fans, Yes, shout out to the Bullets.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
The Bullets fans are lucky that Luke is suspended because
if not, he would have gone for ninety tonight, isn't
it we okay?
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Hot take.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
I was looking at this game last night. I was like,
it's kind of crazy that Washington like a big market.
Like I get why the Kings have been terrible for years.
The Kings, it's hard. You're playing in the state with
the Lakers, with the Warriors, who become a national brand.
Like I get where it's hard to get players to
come in Sacramento. Why has Washington been so bad? You
(22:27):
think Washington, d C. It's a big market, it's a
big time sports city. You saw what happened with the
Commanders and Jayden and Daniels went on the runs at
the NFC title game, and yet they've been I mean,
the best team they've had in the last twenty five
years was John Wall and Bradley Beal and they never
got past second round.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
I'm going to answer this as a Raiders fan. It
comes down to ownership. It really comes down to the
structure of the ownership from top to bottom. Do people
want to show up and play there because of not
only the way they're treated, the facilities that are available,
you know, and the culture within the you know, the franchise.
(23:02):
You know, I feel for for for Clippers players. Man,
you get stuck in this you know hell, you know
they're in You're you're the little brother and you're you're
right now in the shadow of Kawhi Leonard, you know
what I mean. So I feel like that's that might
be the culture there in Washington.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
You know with whoever.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
I can't I can't tell you who's playing.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
There because nobody's BALI household name. We'll be leading the
charge for the Washington Wizards. Tonight, I say, go into
uh going to la uh so I said. I actually
went to a Wizard's game in December Wow, with those
ticket prices about ten dollars to get in, you know.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
I mean, look at the way that things are set
up in comparison. I saw something on social media earlier
today where if you're going to you know, uh, should
I say it or not a Dodgers game, you're gonna
spend four hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Oh yeah, parking is forty five bucks.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Just over the pavilion.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
And then you look at the way that the Angels
to get in, You're spending twenty bucks.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
And it's terrible. Yeah, you know it.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
Different experiences, way different experience when we when we.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Look at the Lakers though, so I'm a massive Lakers fan.
I know you are too. They're in that three spot.
It's crazy to think, well, when a month ago, yesterday, Yeah,
this team felt like there was not a lot of
hope in the sense of they couldn't be a team
over five hundred. They had beaten the Spurs way back
earlier in the year, they beat the Sixers, and then
they beat the Raptors twice, and every time they stepped
(24:31):
up in competition they would only lose, but they get mopped.
I mean Oklahoma City, Detroit, New York early and then
they go on this run where they beat New York, Minnesota,
Houston twice, taking on Denver, Orlando. It feels like one
after another, and now they're sitting here in the three spot,
and like, what are your expectations for the Lakers, because
they might have completely changed. I'm not sitting here sand championship.
(24:53):
I'm they're certainly at least the third best team in
the West. But I think where a month agout I
have said they get they're getting be in the first round.
I think they could win around and challenge one of
these two teams at the top.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
I agree with you.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
If they can stick with this three, they're what one
and a half ahead of four. The moment they dip,
and if they do, I feel like things could unravel.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
But who said it.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
It was Dirk Novisky that said, you're gonna go and
face the Lakers, and any one of these three guys
can go off on you ar fifteen. You know, Luca
and Lebron can go off and take over a game.
That's if things are working in that favor. You said
a month ago they were dejected during a timeout, look
like they weren't talking to each other. You know, somehow,
(25:38):
some way, something changed, chemistry changed, and all of a
sudden it's a different team. So I believe in exactly
what you say, get past that first round, but I
think it's kind of like it's a gamble after that,
Like I'm not sure how far they can go.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Does It does feel like because early on in the year,
it was just the Lakers could win pretty prettiest ish.
It was if they could score one hundred and thirty
points to try to outscore you and Luca have to
have forty, Reeves have to have forty in Lebron.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
But you can't win like that in the postseason. You can't.
You can't win series like that.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
So I think the last couple of weeks, when they
they're defensively responsible against Houston, against Minnesota, against teams that
try to beat you up physically, the Lakers were able
to do that. I have a little bit different mindset.
And again I'm not sitting here going they're better than
Oklahoma City or they're better than San Antonio.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
They're not. They're not.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
But I think if you look at every team in
the West, they do have the ability to what you
just said about their big three can score, can match
the scoring of a shay of a wemby of players
like that, we can't.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Play defense, but will will we can't play defense.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
I don't do you think the NBA, like Brent and
I talk about this a lot is the two big
NBA fans on the station.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
It's like.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
We've anointed every year there's been a different champion each
of the last what six years?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Six years it's been that we have seen a repeat champion.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
And it's like, well, we annoyed, we knew pints at Boston,
we annoyed when they won. We anointed the Denver Nuggets.
We anointed the Lakers when they won in twenty twenty.
In the following year, Sunday Sunday A lot didn't A lot, dude.
It's a good point. Yeah, And it feels like Oklahoma
City last year. It's now it's the thing of just
oklahom City's gonna rip off five of these but.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
They can, dude, like you think.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
So.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
I was in the Bay Area when the Warriors won
was it three and five years?
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Three and five?
Speaker 6 (27:26):
They won three and five years, and I would go
to those games as a basketball fan. I would go
and I would watch and it's the same kind of
energy that you see as a fan. I haven't been
to a Thunder games, so I can't tell you what
it's like in uh the arena, but it feels the same,
like these guys have the magic touch right now, you know,
(27:47):
so hopefully it you know, it changes soon. Yeah, you know,
because how long is Luca gonna hang around? How long
is Lebron going to hang around? You know, for for
the Lakers to to kind of turn it up. Who
are we going to get in the offseason?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
You know?
Speaker 6 (28:02):
But I feel like OKC is the one and who's
knocking on their doors is san Antonio and that alien
man it is.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Wenby's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
It just feels like with san Antonio having never been
there before, I think we could see a surprise in
the playoffs in Oklahoma City. It's like they're unbelievable and
I want to give them all the credit in the world.
They should be the favorite. They if you had to
pick a team, you pick Oklahoma City. They did get
taken into two game seven. So last year, this was
not a Kobe and Shack type run where they went
sixteen to one and only lost one game to Philly
(28:33):
back in the day. I mean they got taken in
Game seven by the Nuggets. I know they blasted them,
and in the Game seven, we'll never know they Tyres
Haliburn doesn't get hurt. Who knows what happens in that game.
You can playoffs and butts, you know, till we die.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
But who's this Tyres guy you speak of?
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Yeah, that is one of the great playoff runs of
all time, all Tyres Alburn.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
So we're convinced about the West, who's taking out the
Celtics in the East.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
That's a great point because I think I hate them
the worst because when you look at the Eastern Conference,
you're like, just like the Lakers. Because of the Lakers,
they always have pressure. Yeah, people always the second they're faltering,
they're gonna bash them.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Yep. This was the.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Knicks year because it was Tatum was hurt and Haliburn
was hurt, and they got close last year and they
lost in the Eastern Conference finals to the Pacers. And
now all of a sudden, you see the Pistons above them,
you see the Celtics above them, and you're like, are
the Knicks just kind of floating out here lifelessly? I
feel like the Knicks are like the Clippers.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
They're gonna get close enough, but they're never gonna They're
never gonna close the deal because it comes back to
what who wants to play for that guy?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Who wants to play for that owner?
Speaker 3 (29:46):
You know.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
So there's a lot of talent on that Nicks roster,
but I just feel like close Panosa Gar, They're never
gonna get close enough. And even if they do go
to the finals, do they know how to close out?
Do they have that experience? Just like you said with Wemby,
you know, does he have that experience to take it
to the next step?
Speaker 2 (30:03):
I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
You know, that Thunder roster, they've been there and they
can do it again and again and again if they
continue to play how they're playing.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
I think you're right.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Chino Iglaciers from Channel ninety three to three joining me
today on in the hot seat.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Now, Gino, you're a massive Raider fan.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Massive Okay, wait, we should hate each other because I'm
we die hard cheese fan.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
I'm a realist though when it comes to sports, So like, hey,
I might give you a hard time in the hallway,
but I know where greatness lies. I'm also here to
announce it in twenty twenty nine, come join us at
a Legian Stadium for the Super Bowl because it's it's official.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I don't know if you saw that it is official
twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
You can be DJ mant let's not put the cars.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Let's speak in two existence, but let's not put the
cart before the horse. As as far as the Raiders go,
I'm excited. I got friends they're like, oh, it's our year.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
I hate that. I hate that.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
You don't You can't tell until you see the product
on the field. Looks good on paper, you know, And
especially with all this talk talk about who is a
Greasy that's working with Mendoza now to you know.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
He's already studying the playbook, like because it's the worst
kept secret.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Obviously he's gonna be number one pick.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
Well, you know, the connection with Greasy Greasy was in Michigan.
Brady was a Michigan So okay, there's that connection. And
then within the Kubiak tree that you know, there's a
connection there too. I don't like to put the cart
before the horse in this in this situation, I want
to see it on the field, and you're not going
to see it in the first.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Few preseason games.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Week one.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I can tell you if I'm a believer, I.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Got to give you a Raiders a lot of credit though,
because a lot of teams try to that quote win
the offseason, don't actually win anything.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
But like the Raiders didn't go. The Raiders didn't go
with the splash signings.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
Like you're talking to a guy that had to sit
through that Cleveland Ferrells. You know, drafting has been ridiculous
other than when we did get Amari right, when we
did get a couple of these players throughout the you know,
the josh Jacob Abrams was not that guy though, like Leatherwood,
(32:08):
what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (32:10):
For a second?
Speaker 4 (32:10):
He was, he was the next guy and then he
just fell off the face of the earth. It's like
it was amazing by the way that Mike Mayock the
NFL draft, mean could not draft.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
That made no sense to me.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
But like the Raiders, why I got to get the
Raids a lot of credit, Like they signed Tyler Lennardbaum
and outside the diehard football fans, people go, oh okay, they
they focus on Mike Evans or Kenneth Walker and these
big signings from skill position players, but they're like investing
in Frando Mendoza, like.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Getting a franchise center is genius.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
You get you know, kway Walker at the linebacker spot
and to Kobe Dean, you get some big time tackler.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Crosby back.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
So okay, so he's back, let's not even entertaining, offers bro.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
It would have to be a super haul.
Speaker 6 (32:50):
But the way that Max has addressed it, he was
a gentleman about it to begin with, like, I'm not
gonna I'm not going to, you know, uh start a
problem here.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
I'm a raider, always a raider, YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
He knew something was happening behind the scenes, but didn't
make it a thing. I feel like that's a that
he's being a gentleman a businessman there, like cool, I'm
not going to rock the boat. But now that he's
back and he has a chip on his shoulder, how
would you not want him to stay? It would have
to be a dumb haul for the Raiders. Hey, here's
three ones. It's never gonna How can.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Max Crosby what Max Crosby's been able to do with
I mean terrible Raiders defense for years, they haven't got
the secondary right since how many they try to sign
Sean Smith a decade ago.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Try to get that right.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
I mean, what he has been able to do is
still dominate with a lack in the back end. And
now you have n Kobe Dean, Now you have Kwai
Walker like you got some pieces there along with trap
picks where I mean he, I mean you're talking about
defensive defensive player of the year candidate.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
I'm a fan of where we're headed. I still believe
we need an X receiver nowhere to be found right now. Uh,
Trey Tucker is not the guy. I feel like we
have the draft picks to go in and strengthen up
that offensive line. Who's the redheaded dude from the combine
(34:08):
with the mullet?
Speaker 3 (34:10):
I forget how to him?
Speaker 6 (34:13):
He reminds me of what's that pulling guard from the Colts,
Quinn Clinton Nelson, Quentin Nelson. If we can get someone
like him and just add depth to that, and then
if possibly Jacob Rodriguez, if he's still around from Texas Tech.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
You know.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Here today today, Jenny's Dunker.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Jenny, that guy Dunker is a monster.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
And that's the kind of guy that you add.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
To a line that has Linderbaum, that has Colton Miller
that that has JP J who hasn't found his spot
and is foaming at the mouth to find his spot.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
And then all you got to do is find the
right tackle.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
You know, if you if you can get the right
pieces in there and add depth, we're gonna have a
solid offensive line.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
We haven't had one since twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Nation getting excited nine one three.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
He just said that out loud, listen, get excited to
come in number two. I am okay with you beating
up on ten for in the Chargers all you want, okay,
I got always like the.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Other team you said, you said, Denver, what was that
other one?
Speaker 3 (35:22):
The Chargers? I don't know that one. Yeah, no one
knows that one. Nine one three is asking. She know,
we got to ask. What was it like? Djaying at
it sold out so far?
Speaker 6 (35:30):
You know, that was pretty insane because I got the
opportunity to DJ for for Fluffy at Dodger Stadium for
two sold out nights back to back, sixty five thousand
people for a period of like three hours at a time.
So I'm up there where people are getting to their seats.
I'm creating a vibe and that's all fun. This one
was surreal. I still can't believe it happened.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
It was.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
Forty minutes I was on stage and then the show
goes on, so I got to get up there, and
you know, I got people turned up a little bit.
Sofi is so huge that I'm looking towards the floor
and I see some people, but then you look towards
the top, because when you enter, you go right to
the top.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
It was pretty full up.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
There, so I would say ten, fifteen, twenty thousand people
as you know the night begins.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
It was pretty fun.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Your Sunston studio, you don't You got the coolest pops
in the world, right just djaying at so Fi casually
on a Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Come on, man, it's nothing. You're gonna be a.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Regular guest on this show. I'm going to force you
to do that. We'll run out of time. I was
gonna ask you about your Dodgers versus the potteris over
the weekend, but my Dodgers listen.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
I want to say that it was exciting to watch.
I'm glad the baseball is back. I'm a fan of
the game. I really enjoyed watching multiple games throughout the weekend,
just popping it on, watching a couple of innings going.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Man, we're back baseball. It really is.
Speaker 6 (36:57):
It felt great to watch that team come together on
the field that third out of the three games. I'm like, oh, well,
maybe they'll drop this one and then boom. You know,
I just feel like we need to change the trumpet player.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
By the way, how about how about Southern California with
Miller's walkout to Corn, which is.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Great and it's amazing, and went Diaz with the trumpet.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
I mean when the daughters and Patter's play, we're talking
about this game needs to just be closed so we
can get to the closers.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yeah, yeah, no, it was. It was fun to watch.
Speaker 6 (37:29):
And you know, the Corn song, to me, that might
end up being the walkout song of the year.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Yah, what a great selection.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
I think it will.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
China Man always channel ninety three to three. Of course,
you all know where he's at. Go go listen, come
up next, We're gonna round this thing out. Textas seven
zero four seven zero. Start your message with team. We
have a surprise announcement at three o'clock with John Schaeffer.
What is the surprise announcement we're talking about on the
other side coming up next on.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Going along with Sammy Long.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
Marsh Madness continues on San Diego Sports seven sixty well
upcoming Saturday and Monday afternoon when the Final four gets underway,
going along with Samy Long. It's gonna be every day
Monday through Friday, two to three. That was just Geena Mglecias.
He's actually gonna hop on every Monday. So every Monday
at two thirty, China will be hopping on you and
(38:23):
I are going to be doing a crossover at this time, yes,
every day. Yeah, but you have a big announcement. What
is is eight minutes away? Seven minutes away.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
We will it is an ann ascement that is probably
about three or four months of the making. So that
will lead you down the path of what the type
of announcement is.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
John's running for governor?
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Yeah, exactly, I guys, Josh Shaffer, it's not me leaving
the show. I'm not going anywhere, which is good. Yeah,
he's the best right knowledge. I'm not going anywhere. But yeah,
some positive developments, very positive developments with the show that
our listeners and viewers will find out more about in
five or ten minutes.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
Yeah, just five or ten minutes. I do think the
new era will be great. I'm very excited.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Yeah, I'm excited to be listening.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
I'm excited for the lineup changes that are happening right now.
You already know about in the Zone with you and
Fletch weekdays from twelve to two, and you guys have
been doing that for now?
Speaker 2 (39:20):
How long have you done that? To you? Thanks?
Speaker 4 (39:21):
Well, we had the we had like midday matchup. We
had like an hour when Bigger Shti and fudgersed on
the station. You and Jim so an hour and a half, sorry,
a year and a half kind of give or take all, right.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
So you're plus there and now we know about your
new show from two to three, yep, going along with
Sammy Long weekdays from two to three, and then we're
gonna learn more about what's going on in the afternoons.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
What are you talking about today?
Speaker 1 (39:44):
I mean, probably a lot of what you've been talking
about over the last thirty minutes as well, obviously the
first weekend in the books for the Padres and getting
ready for the Giants. We've got good guests on the
show today, including Kevin Acio, Padres insider at three thirty,
long time Giants radio voice Dave Fleming, Ray on the
show four pm.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
We'll tell you about a giveaway we have here today
as well.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
But talking Padres talking March Madness, talking with Dave Fleming
and Kevin Icey and getting people ready for uh what's
to come this week?
Speaker 3 (40:12):
The text line has, like I said, has had a
lot of guesses. You.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
We we had alleviate people early. We weren't responding to
them because we just wanted them all to come in.
But people thought you were leaving and we were like, no, no, no,
John Shaffer is not leaving the station, not yet.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
No yet.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
When he runs for governor, like Brent said, then he
will have to because of his campaign schedule. But no, man,
I'm really excited. I'm excited for the next week or so.
I'm excited more than just the next week or so. Yeah, people,
people are ready for me to stop talking so we
can hear what's going on in five minutes.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
No, that's not true. Maybe maybe, but that's all right.
That's that's kind of the business.
Speaker 4 (40:46):
How much how much importance are you placing Potter's Real
Quick on tonight?
Speaker 3 (40:50):
I know because we were all season is on the line. No,
this series with the Giants, the series of the Giants.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
You would just like to win, because I do think
that starting to and four at home isn't the greatest.
You know, you'd like to do better than that. It
doesn't mean you're gonna have a bad year or a
good year. I just hope they can get to the
road of three and three or better. That's not easy.
Giants are zero and three. I'm sure they have you know,
they're trying to win a series as well here on
the road, but you know, going to Boston, going to Pittsburghyah,
(41:18):
I'd like to see them play better than two and
four out of the gates.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
I'm curious to two rookie managers tonight. Yes, like that's
that's kind of a thing.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
If these games are close, are you know Pottery's and
Pottery's a great bullpen. Giants are pretty good pitching staff.
We'll see what happens, so these games could be close.
It's I'm curious when we get our first Craig Stamon moment,
whether it's a positive thing or a or a negative thing.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
We're just gonna get that over the next week or so.
But all right, that was going along with.
Speaker 4 (41:45):
Sammy long'sn BE weekdays Monday through Friday, John Schaeffer is
the man coming up next him. In a special announcement
to State, tune on the other side, I will be
back tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
See
All right, San Diego and Southern California, John Schaeffer and
Sammy Long with you to kick off this two PM hour,
and we've got a lot of announcements over the course
of the next couple of hours here on San Diego
Sports seven sixty. First of all, Sammy's been doing an
amazing job. Thank you for all your health these last like, man,
I loved being with you.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
It's been fun. By the way, they're like, did did
you hear that? Brent?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
The audio? Me too?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It sounds all it sounds all screwy.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Was it okay?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
With Fletch for two hours now?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
It's sounding good with fle Yeah, it's that? Is it?
That mic? It is?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
It's like modulated somehow? All right, great, all right, that's
a really good start. All right, So here's what's happening
in the two o'clock hour. Okay, you're gonna use a
different microphone. I think it might be over here too, Brent.
I'm not sure it's all right. Okay, it's okay over here.
Hit that right there. Yeah, we gotta have engineering coming here,
(00:57):
so there's never a dull mark.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
We got a new microphone. Never use this one for
all right.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
I'm hearing that too, Brent in my all right, you
got it. Anyway, Samy's been hanging out right on San
Diego Sports seven sixty filling in Obviously. We've had a
situation where I've been doing a solo afternoon show, but
Sammy's been helping out obviously for months on end at
this point, and today we're announcing the two o'clock hour
moving forward, each and every weekday on San Diego Sports
(01:22):
seven sixty is going to be not co hosted by
Sammy Long. It's going to be hosted by Sammy Long.
It's going Long with Sammy Long weekdays from two to
three on San Diego Sports seven sixty. So, first of all, Sammy,
thank you for everything you've done personally for me the
last three months.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Come out.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
And secondly, congratulations man, because you're to be doing this
each and every week.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
It's trippy being on with you because you're the only
reason I'm actually here. You actually helped me get the
job in the first place. With Fledge, So it is
a very very cool moment. So thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Originally it all worked out.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
It all worked out, but it's been Yeah, it's been
fun being on with you for the last couple of months,
and then you have a big announcement at three o'clock.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Are not done.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
There's an announcement that follows the announcement that is coming
at three pm, so be here for that. But each
and every weekday from two to three, Samy's gonna have
you for one full hour all oftentimes hop in in
the final segment in that two forty five range, you
will typically have a guest with you. You're gonna delve
into two thirty every day two thirty every day. You're
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gonna delve into San Diego sports topics as well, obviously
each and every day. And I'm excited for you because
I know we've got in the zone with you and
Fletch each and every day from twelve to two. Then
you're gonna hang out from two to three, and then
stay tuned for three pm on if you think you
know what's happening at three pm. Seven zero four seven
zero started with the word team. If you have any guesses?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
There have been some good guesses today, have there? There
have been.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Anyway, what's the what's the best guess and what's the worst?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I mean, uh, there's been some Rich Oremberger's Oh some
rich Orberger some rich Omberger talk.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Okay, there has.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Been somehow that all three of us are just gonna
be on for like eight hours a day, right, yeah,
just all four of us the brand. I'm all we
were just gonna do like like from like ten to
ten to six.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Right, that was a big one we've had. Uh, it's
pretty good.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
There's been there's been some going some people have gotten
close on a few of these, and but we haven't.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
We haven't read those.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Okay, Well, if you think you know what's happening at
three pm, you could text us seven zero four seven
zero started with the word team, but again each and
every weekday here on San Diego Sports seven sixty going
long with Sammy Long. Sammy, of course is well, you
were raised in San Diego, you're an Aztech, you've been
on seven sixty here for a year plus. And where
are you going with the conversation buying large year today?
(03:42):
I mean, there's a ton to get into it. There's
the Padres opening weekend March Madness. I mean, there's a lot.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
So we're gonna start with the Patres. I'd love you
stay with this segment. We'll get into that coming up
at two fifteen to eighteen. We're gonna get into March madness.
Is is the Cinderella Do Cinderella stories make March madness?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Because this year we don't. We don't get one.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
We've had some unbelievable comebacks with Yukon yesterday over Duke
and but there there's a pretty blue blooded final four.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
So we're gonna get into that. Would love to hear.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
We have a special guest at two thirty China Iglesias
from ninety three three we'll be stopping by nice talking
talking everything local and then two forty five.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
We will get to the big tas for for John
at three.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Okay, so that's what's coming up over the next hour.
I will say this when when it comes to Padres conversation,
they go one and two, as you guys were talking about,
they get the giants obviously tonight. What's interesting, and I'll
probably talk about this later today, is that you've got
these first time managers under microscopes and you always want
to get off to a good start. No matter who
your manager is, you want to get off. If Tony
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Laruss is your manager, you want to get off to
a good start. But you got the Padres who played
a good team in Detroit and lost two out of three.
You have the Giants who have scored one run run
in three games.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Is you either a manager talking about how after day
one he's like, the best thing about major League Baseball
is you get to just try it all again tomorrow.
Not the best quote coming out of the Bay, I
wouldn't say, considering that the Giants are a story program.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
But John, I don't know about you. I know you'll
get into a three. I was.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
We talked so much the last couple of months about
starting pitching, and that certainly is a problem. It was
nice seeing Randy Vasquez have a great outing. Michael King
numbers were a little inflated, but I thought overall had
a decent outing. You know, Paveta certainly wasn't his finest
hour Day one. But the bats are the only thing.
I don't want to overreact because I know it's three games.
I know people are going to go if they went
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three and oh if they went zero and three. But
scoring seven runs at home over a span of three
days is a little alarming considering they were ranked toward
the bottom and power last year. It's just like, why
are the bats taking so long at home. I know
it's great pitching coming from the Tigers, but you would
have at at least liked to see one of those
games them have an offensive firework showing.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, it's interesting because again, like we said after Opening Day,
where like everything's magnified off, like people are going to
react Opening Day and pretend like that was like a
two month thing for Nick Pavetta. They won't think as
much about his second start. The casual fan will be like,
oh man, Nick Pavetta's not having the same year as
he had last year. Like, well, hold on, that was
only Opening Day, and you're right with the perception reality,
you'd like to you'd like to swing the bats better
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just because of what played out last year. Now, I
would say when you're facing scooble Valdez Flairty, that's about
as good as you're gonna face over stretch. And seven
runs in three games isn't the best. But they did
get a win. I think they have one multi run
inning and that was as a result of an error.
So yeah, I circled this series and been like, well,
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you hope it's not more the same. You hope that
in these three games you don't score six or seven runs.
You'd like to think you score hopefully ten or fifteen
runs or more than that, and win two out of three.
This to me again, it's so early obviously, Sammy, but
you don't want to start the year with back to
back losing series at home.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
That's what I would say.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Right, That's why I thought, if overall, if this series
was played in Detroit and they went one and two,
I think you'd be a little like, all right, you're
playing team that has World Series aspirations, excellent pitching as
you were talking about, and they won the series at home.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Okay, that was a little disappointing for me.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Is how you come out The stadium's rock and the
city's rock, and we were down there Thursday for Opening
Day and it was on fire, and it just felt
a little lacklusser. Now, they got it back on Saturday,
probably should have won Friday. Ustrada had the meltdown to
get into you know, Stam and leave them into Long
But I am with you. It feels like, despite the
fact that it's the second series of the year, taking
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on a Giants team, you need to win this series.
Like if they lose this series, then you're going, okay,
then there are big problems here because last year when
they started at fourteen and three, the kind of underlying
thing about that, we thought they had a tough schedule
to start because we all thought the Braves were gonna
be good when they opened with the Braves. The Braves
ended up being terrible, and they played a pretty subpar
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schedule for the first three weeks of that season. I mean,
this season, you play the Tigers, the Giants obviously, but
we'll see the visional opponent. You got the Red Sox,
like you got some series coming up, the Pirates. Even
though you'll see schemes, you'll see crochet for the Red Sox,
it just feels like you can't we can only play
the it's early cards so long, like you don't want
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to see this thing snowball, where then you're looking up
in the standings and you're just clawing back the entire season.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
What's interesting is the point you made about the meeting
fourteen and three. I kind of for a moment had
forgotten where it's like if you lose tonight when you're
one and three and.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
A year ago you were fourteen and three.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Now we do have to always preface anything with baseball
that it isn't even a marathon. It's like an ultra marathon.
I mean, now, does anyone want to start four in
eight or nine and fifteen?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
And it opens up questions.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And again I think it opens up the idea that
will did you make the right higher for example with
your manager, but you get start four and eight and
win ninety nine games, you could start eight and four
and win sixty nine games. You know, So again you
want to get out of the gates because it's the
perception that had your team's playing well, Now I'm going
to pay attention and I'm I'm vested in the success
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of this team. And then you look at it from
this prism as well. You see the Dodgers going three
and oh. Again, everyone knows the Dodgers are good. They've
went back to back World Series, But like, are you serious,
We're a weekend into the season. I look at the NLS.
Nobody's done anything other than La. You got LA's three
and oh, Dodgers are one and two.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Everyone else to three.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
It's like, again, it's.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Only one series. But I'm with you in the general
idea that you don't want to leave Petco come Wednesday
night and be two and four, having lost this series
two games to one.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Yeah, and the crazy thing about the Dodgers is, I
mean you also take the Dodgers out of it. We
know the Dodgers are making the playoffs. They're an unbelievable
team that has very few holes on it. It's the
crazy thing about all three of those games, they were
losing the Diamondbacks in every single one of those games, right,
those were all comeback wins. It just goes to show
you the depth of the Dodgers that they can. You
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feel like it's the seventh eighth inning. The bats haven't
been there, and they just have so much talent they
can turn on any time. So you also take the
Dodgers out of it in that I don't want to
say the divisions out of reach three games in the season,
but to reasonably pick that either the Giants or the
Diamondbacks or the Potteries are going to win the division,
there's a reason they give you pretty good odds in
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Vegas about that. Whereas it's like focusing on the other teams.
I guess the good kind of thing three games in
is that, I mean, the Diamondbacks are own three. The
Giants are own three, so you have a little bit
of leeway here. It just does feel like a big
game tonight. The next two games feel big because we're
seeing Walker Buler for the first time, We're seeing Marquez
for the first time. You there's question marks at the
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top of the rotation. Hopefully Nick Povetta that was just
a you know, first day on the job and had
a rough outing. But if what's going to be more
depressing outside of the record is if Marquez and Buehler
get lit up the next two games and then you're going,
where do you go from here? Are you immediately on
the phone with Lucas gi Alito, like.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Like what what? What?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
What are the repercussions of them having two bad games
and with the repercussions of them having two solid games
over the next two nights.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I mean, it is insane that it fangrafts and take
it for whatever it's worth. They already give the Dodgers
a ninety five percent chance of winning the division.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
The three game.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
That's ridiculous. It's not even April.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
It's not even April, and they're given a ninety five
percent chance of winning the division. It's it's on the
Padres again to prove some of the metrics and the
analytics wrong. You know that they've been projected all off
season by a number of different outlets, including something like
a Fangraft Zips projection. It's like an eighty win team.
They gotta go out and play better than that. And
the first weekend again didn't go probably the way they
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hoped it would, taking out a Giants team that's still
looking for its first win. Let's see how it plays
out as the Padres settle in, you get a turn
or two through the rotation, and let's see how it
settles them.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
It does.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
To your point about the the microcosm of one game
on opening Day, it's funny how you have such a
long season and yet opening day, like Aaron.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Judge goes what over four? Over five?
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Yeah, the final two games, he was actually unbelievable. Over
the weekend, no one's talking about that. Andon's talking about
Aaron Judge.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
You're right.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Everyone watched the opening night and goes, Okay, Aaron Judge,
you know, doesn't perform in the biggest moments, so certainly
certainly interesting next couple of days here for the Patres.
Excited to see what happens, John, You're the best. You
We got big announcement.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
At three, but the earlier announcement if you missed it
ten minutes ago Going Long with Sammy Long weekdays from
two to three on San Diego Sports seven to sixty.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
What do you got coming up next?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I got coming up next.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
We're getting into March Madness, so unbelievable, unbelievable game yesterday,
the nineteen point comeback by Yukon. We're gonna get in
Texas now seven zero four seven zero. Start your message
with team once again seven zero four seven zero. Start
your message with team. What is the tournament better without
Cinderella's in the Cinderella stories? Or does it take college
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basketball and March Madness down a step? We're getting into
that next coming up next on Going Long with Sammy Long.
Welcome back to Going Long with Sammy Long. Was John
Shaffer a few minutes ago and the again, remember big
announcement at three o'clock with John Shaffer. I want to
make sure you tune in for all that they got.
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They got a special announcement at Texas seven zero four
seven zero. Start your message with a team about what
you think that is about with me. We got Brent Sperry,
the man, the voice you've heard for forever.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
On this station. Brent, what's up, dude? How you doing?
What's going on? We got a lot to talk about.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
So we're gonna be We're gonna be doing this every
day from two to three. Now it's let's go to March.
Madden were talking about the pottery is marsh Madden is
it was kind of a boring elait eight outside of
yesterday's game, outside of Yukon against against Duke, because that game,
I mean, most of the game was pretty bad, and
then you have that nineteen point comeback and Yukon at
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the at the end. But it got me thinking, it's like,
so you got two one seeds in Arizona, Michigan and
then Yukon and Illinois, who's a two and a three?
Is it better for college basketball that you don't have Cinderellas?
Because I mean, the only there wasn't even really a
Cinderella this year. The only team that was a quote
unexpected upset in the first round was High Point as
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a twelve seed. And even twelve seeds in the tournament,
they always say every year you pick a twelve seed
over a five. You had VCU double digit get to
win Texas few other teams, but Texas goes on a run.
Can we really call Texas to Cinderella? And when they're
playing in the SEC and then played all the top talent.
We didn't have a Saint Peter's, We didn't have a
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UNBC or Fairleigh Dickinson, a school that you don't even
know where they are on the map, and yet they're
beating a team that is completely recognizable. Because when I
first look at him, like, I think, I'm excited for
this weekend, the final four in that I think Michigan
and Arizona are the two best teams so far this year,
and it's just going to be a great basketball game period.
And then Illinois and Yukon. I think all the money's
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coming in on Yukon. But Illinois is certainly a live dog.
You know, took apart Houston a few rounds ago. But
it does fun yourself, Like I don't know about you, Brett,
but me personally, since I don't have a dog in
this fight, santy Go Say is not in it, I
guess I'm kind of interested this weekend to just root
against Yu Kong I'm not a fan of Dan Hurley
and I'm not a fan of Connecticut, but like the
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casual fan to tune in the final four this weekend.
Does no Cinderella stories make you like want to tune in?
Or is it more just I'm a tune in becaus
the final four?
Speaker 5 (15:24):
It doesn't matter for me once they get to the
final four. For me, the Cinderellas are more about, you know,
the first weekend and maybe like that Thursday Friday of
the second weekend. It's not necessarily you know, the final
four because with the exception of you know, I brought
up Friday, you know Butler, you know, coming within an
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eyelash of making that half court shot to win the game,
most of them don't make it that far.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
So that's why my.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Whole thing was like, if the tournament goes chalk, I
don't mind if it's chalk in the final four. It's
just getting to the final four. That's the part that
gets boring when it just goes chalk.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
But we don't.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
We didn't need it this weekend because Duke lost. If
Duke would have won, then there would have been more
of a case for it. But most of the country
outside of the You know, the Durham area hates.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Duke so right, and I'm with you.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
I'm not a Dan Hurley fan either, but when I
have to compare the two basketball evils.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I will root for Yukon over Duke every single day
of the week.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
You had to the The hay washing was certainly high
yesterday just for around the country. But I like the
point you make about like Cinderella's are fun and it's
especially on the first weekend in that this team that
you know the great so we saw Georgia State years
ago hit that game winner when his dad was the coach,
like it are, there are stories that people can get behind,
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especially when you don't the NFL. Nothing's bigger than the brand.
I mean, you can have the Jaguars play and you know,
you know, the Bears are a huge brand, but the
Cardinals and people are going to watch because it's just
it's it's the brand of the NFL. Nothing's bigger than that.
But if your school's not in it, I think that
it does. Like to your point, the Cinderella's run out rarely,
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we've only seen the lowest possible seed to win the
NCAA Tournament is an eight seat. That was Villanova in
nineteen eighty five. So for as much as everyone wants
to go, oh, you don't have Cinderellas, it's not the same.
It's it's like they don't end up winning the tournament.
And for every Saint Peter's they have a great three
game run, they get blasted in the Elite eight. So
I think it adds. It adds a lot that we're
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excited about a Cinderella and there's a story you can
just get behind. But I'm with you. I think also,
like gambling has taken over the sports world in a
lot of ways, a lot of people just get into
it based on gambling who may not care. Look at
these spreads this weekend. Illinois is a two and a
half point favorite. That's that's basically a pickup game. Michigan
is minus one and a half. That's a pickup game
against Arizona. I think you just get great basketball matchups
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this weekend, And had there been a twelve seed or
a thirteen seed in it, that spread would be maybe
sixteen if they're playing in Arizona, or eighteen, And it
just I think creates a lack of buzz unless the
upset actually happens.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
You know, you use the Cinderella term, you know Cinderella.
You know, everyone forgets that Cinderella had to go home
at midnight. She didn't get to go to the after party.
The final four is the after party. You know, Cinderella
gets to go to the lead eight and then after
that they take their ass home. They usually don't get
to go to the Final four. So that's why we
don't really need the Cinderellas once we get the Final four.
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We need them leading up because, like I said, if
it just goes from you know that first Thursday all
the way to the Final four as planned and as predicted,
that's boring.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
You know, I think I nobody needs that.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I think it does hurt this last weekend, Like we
didn't see a Sweet sixteen in a lead day where
there was some Cinderella run a five as texting in
was Iowa to Texas not considered a Cinderella.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
No way.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
They expand and helps them making it more competitive in
later rounds. I don't think expansion necessarily helps. I mean,
because expanding the tournament, you're just having a disparity. In
the Sweet sixteen, the school with the lowest nil money
was Iowa six point two million, and that's still that's
over six million dollars in their school in the Big Ten.
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So I think you can't really call Iowa schools in
the Big Ten or Texas in the SEC a cinderella story.
When I think in college football, the expansion of the playoff,
in the fact that there's not three five star quarterbacks
sitting on the bench at Ohio State where I can
go to Nebraska or I can go to another school
and go be a starter, I think the nil actually helps.
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Whereas college basketball, I think it really just makes the
rich get richer. And now there's even a bigger gap
because the bench players getting paid millions of dollars in
at school like Siena that has no budget. Even though
they hung with Duke. You saw in the second half,
they had nothing against the Blue Devils.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Look, I'm with you, Texas and all them. They have
way too much money. In order to be a Cinderella,
you either have to be from a mid major or
you have to be from like the bottom of a
big conference. Like if Northwestern or something would go to
the Final four, So I would count that as a
cinderella because Northwestern doesn't go to the finals in anything,
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so that would be an upset. And so, yeah, you
can't have as much money as Texas does in all sports.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
It's not just football and basketball.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
And then you know, want people just because they have
an eleven seed next to their name think that they're
the underdog when you know their net worth of their
team is worth like, you know, half of the Mountain
West Conference exactly.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
All right, Coming up next, we got the Man, the Myth,
the legend from Channel ninety three to three. He's got
he's got his purple and gold hat on. I love
it already. Chino Aglacy is stopping by. He's gonna be
in the hot seat. Coming up next on Going Long
with Sammy Long. Welcome back to Going Long with Sammy Long.
Brince Perry red in his update, the Lakers are back tonight,
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taking on maybe the worst basketball.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Team, maybe maybe the.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Washington Wizards, a team that is resting Trey Young, Anthony Davis,
and Keyshawn George, the only team of talent, by the way.
Joining me right now in the hot seat, Chino Aglaciers,
I can Channel ninety three three the man in the building.
This is like everyone in the building, this guy. This
guy's DJing so fi. I mean, this is this is
the man around here, and he can talk sports with
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the best of them.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
I'm just trying to stay busy, really, that's what that is.
I'm just trying to stay busy because if not, I'm
just gonna sit and you know, eat terribly and binge
watch stuff and whatever. So if I stay busy, then
don't I don't go down that bad road.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Bro. The Bullets fans, Yes, shout out to the Bullets.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
The Bullets fans are lucky that Luke is suspended because
if not, he would have gone for ninety tonight, isn't
it we okay?
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Hot take.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
I was looking at this game last night. I was like,
it's kind of crazy that Washington like a big market.
Like I get why the Kings have been terrible for years.
The Kings, it's hard. You're playing in the state with
the Lakers, with the Warriors, who become a national brand.
Like I get where it's hard to get players to
come in Sacramento. Why has Washington been so bad? You
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think Washington, d C. It's a big market, it's a
big time sports city. You saw what happened with the
Commanders and Jayden and Daniels went on the runs at
the NFC title game, and yet they've been I mean,
the best team they've had in the last twenty five
years was John Wall and Bradley Beal and they never
got past second round.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
I'm going to answer this as a Raiders fan. It
comes down to ownership. It really comes down to the
structure of the ownership from top to bottom. Do people
want to show up and play there because of not
only the way they're treated, the facilities that are available,
you know, and the culture within the you know, the franchise.
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You know, I feel for for for Clippers players. Man,
you get stuck in this you know hell, you know
they're in You're you're the little brother and you're you're
right now in the shadow of Kawhi Leonard, you know
what I mean. So I feel like that's that might
be the culture there in Washington.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
You know with whoever.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
I can't I can't tell you who's playing.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
There because nobody's BALI household name. We'll be leading the
charge for the Washington Wizards. Tonight, I say, go into
uh going to la uh so I said. I actually
went to a Wizard's game in December Wow, with those
ticket prices about ten dollars to get in, you know.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
I mean, look at the way that things are set
up in comparison. I saw something on social media earlier
today where if you're going to you know, uh, should
I say it or not a Dodgers game, you're gonna
spend four hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Oh yeah, parking is forty five bucks.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Just over the pavilion.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
And then you look at the way that the Angels
to get in, You're spending twenty bucks.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
And it's terrible. Yeah, you know it.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
Different experiences, way different experience when we when we.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Look at the Lakers though, so I'm a massive Lakers fan.
I know you are too. They're in that three spot.
It's crazy to think, well, when a month ago, yesterday, Yeah,
this team felt like there was not a lot of
hope in the sense of they couldn't be a team
over five hundred. They had beaten the Spurs way back
earlier in the year, they beat the Sixers, and then
they beat the Raptors twice, and every time they stepped
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up in competition they would only lose, but they get mopped.
I mean Oklahoma City, Detroit, New York early and then
they go on this run where they beat New York, Minnesota,
Houston twice, taking on Denver, Orlando. It feels like one
after another, and now they're sitting here in the three spot,
and like, what are your expectations for the Lakers, because
they might have completely changed. I'm not sitting here sand championship.
(24:53):
I'm they're certainly at least the third best team in
the West. But I think where a month agout I
have said they get they're getting be in the first round.
I think they could win around and challenge one of
these two teams at the top.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
I agree with you.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
If they can stick with this three, they're what one
and a half ahead of four. The moment they dip,
and if they do, I feel like things could unravel.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
But who said it.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
It was Dirk Novisky that said, you're gonna go and
face the Lakers, and any one of these three guys
can go off on you ar fifteen. You know, Luca
and Lebron can go off and take over a game.
That's if things are working in that favor. You said
a month ago they were dejected during a timeout, look
like they weren't talking to each other. You know, somehow,
(25:38):
some way, something changed, chemistry changed, and all of a
sudden it's a different team. So I believe in exactly
what you say, get past that first round, but I
think it's kind of like it's a gamble after that,
Like I'm not sure how far they can go.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Does It does feel like because early on in the year,
it was just the Lakers could win pretty prettiest ish.
It was if they could score one hundred and thirty
points to try to outscore you and Luca have to
have forty, Reeves have to have forty in Lebron.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
But you can't win like that in the postseason. You can't.
You can't win series like that.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
So I think the last couple of weeks, when they
they're defensively responsible against Houston, against Minnesota, against teams that
try to beat you up physically, the Lakers were able
to do that. I have a little bit different mindset.
And again I'm not sitting here going they're better than
Oklahoma City or they're better than San Antonio.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
They're not. They're not.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
But I think if you look at every team in
the West, they do have the ability to what you
just said about their big three can score, can match
the scoring of a shay of a wemby of players
like that, we can't.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Play defense, but will will we can't play defense.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
I don't do you think the NBA, like Brent and
I talk about this a lot is the two big
NBA fans on the station.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
It's like.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
We've anointed every year there's been a different champion each
of the last what six years?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Six years it's been that we have seen a repeat champion.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
And it's like, well, we annoyed, we knew pints at Boston,
we annoyed when they won. We anointed the Denver Nuggets.
We anointed the Lakers when they won in twenty twenty.
In the following year, Sunday Sunday A lot didn't A lot, dude.
It's a good point. Yeah, And it feels like Oklahoma
City last year. It's now it's the thing of just
oklahom City's gonna rip off five of these but.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
They can, dude, like you think.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
So.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
I was in the Bay Area when the Warriors won
was it three and five years?
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Three and five?
Speaker 6 (27:26):
They won three and five years, and I would go
to those games as a basketball fan. I would go
and I would watch and it's the same kind of
energy that you see as a fan. I haven't been
to a Thunder games, so I can't tell you what
it's like in uh the arena, but it feels the same,
like these guys have the magic touch right now, you know,
(27:47):
so hopefully it you know, it changes soon. Yeah, you know,
because how long is Luca gonna hang around? How long
is Lebron going to hang around? You know, for for
the Lakers to to kind of turn it up. Who
are we going to get in the offseason?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
You know?
Speaker 6 (28:02):
But I feel like OKC is the one and who's
knocking on their doors is san Antonio and that alien
man it is.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Wenby's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
It just feels like with san Antonio having never been
there before, I think we could see a surprise in
the playoffs in Oklahoma City. It's like they're unbelievable and
I want to give them all the credit in the world.
They should be the favorite. They if you had to
pick a team, you pick Oklahoma City. They did get
taken into two game seven. So last year, this was
not a Kobe and Shack type run where they went
sixteen to one and only lost one game to Philly
(28:33):
back in the day. I mean they got taken in
Game seven by the Nuggets. I know they blasted them,
and in the Game seven, we'll never know they Tyres
Haliburn doesn't get hurt. Who knows what happens in that game.
You can playoffs and butts, you know, till we die.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
But who's this Tyres guy you speak of?
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Yeah, that is one of the great playoff runs of
all time, all Tyres Alburn.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
So we're convinced about the West, who's taking out the
Celtics in the East.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
That's a great point because I think I hate them
the worst because when you look at the Eastern Conference,
you're like, just like the Lakers. Because of the Lakers,
they always have pressure. Yeah, people always the second they're faltering,
they're gonna bash them.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Yep. This was the.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Knicks year because it was Tatum was hurt and Haliburn
was hurt, and they got close last year and they
lost in the Eastern Conference finals to the Pacers. And
now all of a sudden, you see the Pistons above them,
you see the Celtics above them, and you're like, are
the Knicks just kind of floating out here lifelessly? I
feel like the Knicks are like the Clippers.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
They're gonna get close enough, but they're never gonna They're
never gonna close the deal because it comes back to
what who wants to play for that guy?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Who wants to play for that owner?
Speaker 3 (29:46):
You know.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
So there's a lot of talent on that Nicks roster,
but I just feel like close Panosa Gar, They're never
gonna get close enough. And even if they do go
to the finals, do they know how to close out?
Do they have that experience? Just like you said with Wemby,
you know, does he have that experience to take it
to the next step?
Speaker 2 (30:03):
I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
You know, that Thunder roster, they've been there and they
can do it again and again and again if they
continue to play how they're playing.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
I think you're right.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Chino Iglaciers from Channel ninety three to three joining me
today on in the hot seat.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Now, Gino, you're a massive Raider fan.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Massive Okay, wait, we should hate each other because I'm
we die hard cheese fan.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
I'm a realist though when it comes to sports, So like, hey,
I might give you a hard time in the hallway,
but I know where greatness lies. I'm also here to
announce it in twenty twenty nine, come join us at
a Legian Stadium for the Super Bowl because it's it's official.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I don't know if you saw that it is official
twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
You can be DJ mant let's not put the cars.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Let's speak in two existence, but let's not put the
cart before the horse. As as far as the Raiders go,
I'm excited. I got friends they're like, oh, it's our year.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
I hate that. I hate that.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
You don't You can't tell until you see the product
on the field. Looks good on paper, you know, And
especially with all this talk talk about who is a
Greasy that's working with Mendoza now to you know.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
He's already studying the playbook, like because it's the worst
kept secret.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Obviously he's gonna be number one pick.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
Well, you know, the connection with Greasy Greasy was in Michigan.
Brady was a Michigan So okay, there's that connection. And
then within the Kubiak tree that you know, there's a
connection there too. I don't like to put the cart
before the horse in this in this situation, I want
to see it on the field, and you're not going
to see it in the first.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Few preseason games.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Week one.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I can tell you if I'm a believer, I.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Got to give you a Raiders a lot of credit though,
because a lot of teams try to that quote win
the offseason, don't actually win anything.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
But like the Raiders didn't go. The Raiders didn't go
with the splash signings.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
Like you're talking to a guy that had to sit
through that Cleveland Ferrells. You know, drafting has been ridiculous
other than when we did get Amari right, when we
did get a couple of these players throughout the you know,
the josh Jacob Abrams was not that guy though, like Leatherwood,
(32:08):
what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (32:10):
For a second?
Speaker 4 (32:10):
He was, he was the next guy and then he
just fell off the face of the earth. It's like
it was amazing by the way that Mike Mayock the
NFL draft, mean could not draft.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
That made no sense to me.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
But like the Raiders, why I got to get the
Raids a lot of credit, Like they signed Tyler Lennardbaum
and outside the diehard football fans, people go, oh okay, they
they focus on Mike Evans or Kenneth Walker and these
big signings from skill position players, but they're like investing
in Frando Mendoza, like.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Getting a franchise center is genius.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
You get you know, kway Walker at the linebacker spot
and to Kobe Dean, you get some big time tackler.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Crosby back.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
So okay, so he's back, let's not even entertaining, offers bro.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
It would have to be a super haul.
Speaker 6 (32:50):
But the way that Max has addressed it, he was
a gentleman about it to begin with, like, I'm not
gonna I'm not going to, you know, uh start a
problem here.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
I'm a raider, always a raider, YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
He knew something was happening behind the scenes, but didn't
make it a thing. I feel like that's a that
he's being a gentleman a businessman there, like cool, I'm
not going to rock the boat. But now that he's
back and he has a chip on his shoulder, how
would you not want him to stay? It would have
to be a dumb haul for the Raiders. Hey, here's
three ones. It's never gonna How can.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Max Crosby what Max Crosby's been able to do with
I mean terrible Raiders defense for years, they haven't got
the secondary right since how many they try to sign
Sean Smith a decade ago.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Try to get that right.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
I mean, what he has been able to do is
still dominate with a lack in the back end. And
now you have n Kobe Dean, Now you have Kwai
Walker like you got some pieces there along with trap
picks where I mean he, I mean you're talking about
defensive defensive player of the year candidate.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
I'm a fan of where we're headed. I still believe
we need an X receiver nowhere to be found right now. Uh,
Trey Tucker is not the guy. I feel like we
have the draft picks to go in and strengthen up
that offensive line. Who's the redheaded dude from the combine
(34:08):
with the mullet?
Speaker 3 (34:10):
I forget how to him?
Speaker 6 (34:13):
He reminds me of what's that pulling guard from the Colts,
Quinn Clinton Nelson, Quentin Nelson. If we can get someone
like him and just add depth to that, and then
if possibly Jacob Rodriguez, if he's still around from Texas Tech.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
You know.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Here today today, Jenny's Dunker.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Jenny, that guy Dunker is a monster.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
And that's the kind of guy that you add.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
To a line that has Linderbaum, that has Colton Miller
that that has JP J who hasn't found his spot
and is foaming at the mouth to find his spot.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
And then all you got to do is find the
right tackle.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
You know, if you if you can get the right
pieces in there and add depth, we're gonna have a
solid offensive line.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
We haven't had one since twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Nation getting excited nine one three.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
He just said that out loud, listen, get excited to
come in number two. I am okay with you beating
up on ten for in the Chargers all you want, okay,
I got always like the.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Other team you said, you said, Denver, what was that
other one?
Speaker 3 (35:22):
The Chargers? I don't know that one. Yeah, no one
knows that one. Nine one three is asking. She know,
we got to ask. What was it like? Djaying at
it sold out so far?
Speaker 6 (35:30):
You know, that was pretty insane because I got the
opportunity to DJ for for Fluffy at Dodger Stadium for
two sold out nights back to back, sixty five thousand
people for a period of like three hours at a time.
So I'm up there where people are getting to their seats.
I'm creating a vibe and that's all fun. This one
was surreal. I still can't believe it happened.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
It was.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
Forty minutes I was on stage and then the show
goes on, so I got to get up there, and
you know, I got people turned up a little bit.
Sofi is so huge that I'm looking towards the floor
and I see some people, but then you look towards
the top, because when you enter, you go right to
the top.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
It was pretty full up.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
There, so I would say ten, fifteen, twenty thousand people
as you know the night begins.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
It was pretty fun.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Your Sunston studio, you don't You got the coolest pops
in the world, right just djaying at so Fi casually
on a Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Come on, man, it's nothing. You're gonna be a.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Regular guest on this show. I'm going to force you
to do that. We'll run out of time. I was
gonna ask you about your Dodgers versus the potteris over
the weekend, but my Dodgers listen.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
I want to say that it was exciting to watch.
I'm glad the baseball is back. I'm a fan of
the game. I really enjoyed watching multiple games throughout the weekend,
just popping it on, watching a couple of innings going.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Man, we're back baseball. It really is.
Speaker 6 (36:57):
It felt great to watch that team come together on
the field that third out of the three games. I'm like, oh, well,
maybe they'll drop this one and then boom. You know,
I just feel like we need to change the trumpet player.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
By the way, how about how about Southern California with
Miller's walkout to Corn, which is.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Great and it's amazing, and went Diaz with the trumpet.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
I mean when the daughters and Patter's play, we're talking
about this game needs to just be closed so we
can get to the closers.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yeah, yeah, no, it was. It was fun to watch.
Speaker 6 (37:29):
And you know, the Corn song, to me, that might
end up being the walkout song of the year.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Yah, what a great selection.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
I think it will.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
China Man always channel ninety three to three. Of course,
you all know where he's at. Go go listen, come
up next, We're gonna round this thing out. Textas seven
zero four seven zero. Start your message with team. We
have a surprise announcement at three o'clock with John Schaeffer.
What is the surprise announcement we're talking about on the
other side coming up next on.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Going along with Sammy Long.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
Marsh Madness continues on San Diego Sports seven sixty well
upcoming Saturday and Monday afternoon when the Final four gets underway,
going along with Samy Long. It's gonna be every day
Monday through Friday, two to three. That was just Geena Mglecias.
He's actually gonna hop on every Monday. So every Monday
at two thirty, China will be hopping on you and
(38:23):
I are going to be doing a crossover at this time, yes,
every day. Yeah, but you have a big announcement. What
is is eight minutes away? Seven minutes away.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
We will it is an ann ascement that is probably
about three or four months of the making. So that
will lead you down the path of what the type
of announcement is.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
John's running for governor?
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Yeah, exactly, I guys, Josh Shaffer, it's not me leaving
the show. I'm not going anywhere, which is good. Yeah,
he's the best right knowledge. I'm not going anywhere. But yeah,
some positive developments, very positive developments with the show that
our listeners and viewers will find out more about in
five or ten minutes.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
Yeah, just five or ten minutes. I do think the
new era will be great. I'm very excited.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Yeah, I'm excited to be listening.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
I'm excited for the lineup changes that are happening right now.
You already know about in the Zone with you and
Fletch weekdays from twelve to two, and you guys have
been doing that for now?
Speaker 2 (39:20):
How long have you done that? To you? Thanks?
Speaker 4 (39:21):
Well, we had the we had like midday matchup. We
had like an hour when Bigger Shti and fudgersed on
the station. You and Jim so an hour and a half, sorry,
a year and a half kind of give or take all, right.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
So you're plus there and now we know about your
new show from two to three, yep, going along with
Sammy Long weekdays from two to three, and then we're
gonna learn more about what's going on in the afternoons.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
What are you talking about today?
Speaker 1 (39:44):
I mean, probably a lot of what you've been talking
about over the last thirty minutes as well, obviously the
first weekend in the books for the Padres and getting
ready for the Giants. We've got good guests on the
show today, including Kevin Acio, Padres insider at three thirty,
long time Giants radio voice Dave Fleming, Ray on the
show four pm.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
We'll tell you about a giveaway we have here today
as well.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
But talking Padres talking March Madness, talking with Dave Fleming
and Kevin Icey and getting people ready for uh what's
to come this week?
Speaker 3 (40:12):
The text line has, like I said, has had a
lot of guesses. You.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
We we had alleviate people early. We weren't responding to
them because we just wanted them all to come in.
But people thought you were leaving and we were like, no, no, no,
John Shaffer is not leaving the station, not yet.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
No yet.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
When he runs for governor, like Brent said, then he
will have to because of his campaign schedule. But no, man,
I'm really excited. I'm excited for the next week or so.
I'm excited more than just the next week or so. Yeah, people,
people are ready for me to stop talking so we
can hear what's going on in five minutes.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
No, that's not true. Maybe maybe, but that's all right.
That's that's kind of the business.
Speaker 4 (40:46):
How much how much importance are you placing Potter's Real
Quick on tonight?
Speaker 3 (40:50):
I know because we were all season is on the line. No,
this series with the Giants, the series of the Giants.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
You would just like to win, because I do think
that starting to and four at home isn't the greatest.
You know, you'd like to do better than that. It
doesn't mean you're gonna have a bad year or a
good year. I just hope they can get to the
road of three and three or better. That's not easy.
Giants are zero and three. I'm sure they have you know,
they're trying to win a series as well here on
the road, but you know, going to Boston, going to Pittsburghyah,
(41:18):
I'd like to see them play better than two and
four out of the gates.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
I'm curious to two rookie managers tonight. Yes, like that's
that's kind of a thing.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
If these games are close, are you know Pottery's and
Pottery's a great bullpen. Giants are pretty good pitching staff.
We'll see what happens, so these games could be close.
It's I'm curious when we get our first Craig Stamon moment,
whether it's a positive thing or a or a negative thing.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
We're just gonna get that over the next week or so.
But all right, that was going along with.
Speaker 4 (41:45):
Sammy long'sn BE weekdays Monday through Friday, John Schaeffer is
the man coming up next him. In a special announcement
to State, tune on the other side, I will be
back tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
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