April 23, 2021 • 37 mins
Los Angeles sports media icon Fred Roggin is in for Chris, and he and Rob debate if Dodgers-Padres is the best rivalry in baseball right now, and tell us why it's clear that the Las Vegas Raiders made a mistake with Jon Gruden. Plus, the guys go head-to-head in this week's edition of Teichert's Tower of Trivia.
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s R. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Welcome into
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Flashback Friday, Rob Parker along with TV legend Fred Rogan
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Radio app. That's must listen to radio. All right, Fred,
let's talk baseball rivalries, rivalries in general. You know, there's
always certain rivalries we always talk about in sports, right yep,
and there's one that's budding. And Rob gee, it was
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a pole by es was it a pole or story
that ESPN did that just came out? It was a
column on ESPN dot com where they ranked the best
rivalries in baseball right now? Because right now, would you
say the Red Sox Yankees is kind of dead? Right?
Is that dead? Fred? Dead? Yes? No, no, that's never dead.
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No no, no no, no, Rob raies exists for a reason. Rob.
Here's the thing. Um, I know that ESPN and its
wisdom decided that the Padres and Dodgers were a rivalry.
No that's not a rivalry. Don't be a prisoner of
the moment. It's not. But wait a minute, Fred, is
that what they picked? Right? Rob? Ge as number one?
That is correct. It's not and it speaks to your
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point Yankees, right socks, that's a rivalry, Rob. It goes
back years. Both teams have won, both teams have been successful,
They've played each other in massive, important games. The Dodgers
and Padres. The Padres are the little kids at the
at the table Thanksgiving. They don't even sit with the
adult chet. They're down the road in San Diego. And
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the Dodgers rivals the Giants. They're the hated ones. Don't create. Oh,
this is a rivalry now why the Padres are having
a resurgence. They're much better, They're highly competitive. They're playing
against tonight at Dodgers Stadium. But there's no rivalry here.
The rivalry will come after years to The Lakers and
Clippers in Los Angeles have a rivalry. Well, the Clippers
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got better. It made the games more exciting, But no,
that's not their rival. The Lakers rivals the Boston Celtics.
But Fred, what your pooh poohing is? I believe that
the Padres. They were a budding rivalry and we saw
this the first weekend of the season. Was that No,
last weekend? Okay, last weekend, Fred, you know it, I
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know it. The Dodgers went to San Diego for a
three game series. Not only was their buzz and all
this talk about that series, the Dodgers set up their
pitching rotation so that their three best pitchers pitched that
weekend against this team that you're telling me it doesn't matter,
and then a little brothers and then a stepchild. The
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Dodgers will work their rotation so that they saw their
best three. And let me tell you something. In watching
that game Friday night, Fred, and you cannot deny it.
That April baseball game on a Friday night a week
ago felt like a playoff game. Am I overstating it
or not? You're being honest, you're being fair. Tell me,
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but tell me why that was such a big deal.
And the Padres are more than They put together a
nice team and they're competitive. They went out and they
signed Manny Machado for three hundred million. They have the
most exciting player. He might not be the best player,
but I'll say he's the most exciting player in baseball,
Fernando Tatis Jr. They went out the off season and
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they made moves, and they brought in three guys who
were either in the conversation for Cy Young or one
of Cy Young. I mean, they currently have the best
pitching staff in the National League, I think in baseball
E R. Ray Wise. So to say that it's just like,
well they're they're competitive now and it's gonna be fun. No,
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they are a real rival to the Dodgers. The Dodgers
are worried about the Giants. I know the history of
the Dodgers and the Giants, but right now, the budding history,
the budding rivalry in baseball right now, Dodgers, Padres. Dodgers
have won the division eight years in a row. I'm
picking the Padres this year. If the Padres win this division, Fred,
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will you say a rivalry is on we started developing.
I would say it's budding. I would say that, but
just because somebody's good one here. Now we have a rival.
The Padres are in the same division. The Padres improved
their club dramatically. The Padres actually couldn't be the second
best team in baseball. Give them all that now, sustain
it sustain it. That's what a rivalry is. People are
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prisoners of the moment. All of a sudden things have changed,
and now this is my rival or this is my enemy. Didn't.
I'm gonna argue your point then, So that means that
means Ohio State and Michigan aren't a rivalry. Isn't a
rivalry anymore? Right because Ohio State has owned Michigan the
last decade. Okay, well if Jim Harbaugh hasn't won one
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game against Ohio State, So according to your the way
you look at rivalries, it ain't a rivalry because Ohio
State owns Michigan. Why why is that a rivalry? No,
the rivalry between Ohio State and Michigan existed many years
ago and was built over time. So even if Ohio
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State is wiping them out to Michigan, that's still a
rival in college football. You tell me USC's biggest rival
the rivalry game. You might think it's UCLA. No, it's
I get it's Notre Dame. And that has been built
up over years years, Michigan Ohio State years. So you
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cannot sit here and say somebody got better. Now there
our arrival. That's not true. They're better, they've improved. If
you're a real sports fan and you're not caught up
as a prisoner of the moment, you know who your
team's rival is, and you also know who's good when
you play against them. They think difference there. I think
the Padres have leaped over the Giants. The Giants aren't
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arrival from the standpoint that the Dodgers have won the
division eight years in a row, that the Giants aren't
their arrival. They have been long term. I'm talking about
history wise, yes, but they're down. The Padres are up.
If the Dodgers want to win another division, they gotta
beat the Padres. It is all about the Padres. Now.
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That's the new rivalry, So Fred they can be I
get it history wise, the Giants and the Dodgers in
their rivalry that they both played in New York, they
both came to California. I get they're in the same division,
they're vying for the same thing. But the Padres have
jumped over the Giants the same way. When the Giants
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won those three World Series in what five or six years,
the Dodgers, I know, in name they were the arrivals,
but they couldn't compete with the Giants. Okay, So if
we use that as a litmus test, and first of all,
the Giants are two games ahead of the Padres in
the standings, that's all right, all right, we'll see. All right,
you're gonna base it off the first two and a
half weeks, but you're you're based in the rivalry off
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three games the teams have played. No, they've played four games.
That's two two, and easily Mookie Best doesn't make that catch.
They could have won that game. They could have won
game one that when an extra. It is the Padres
could be five three to one in this series. All right.
So look at it like this. If we got on
a plane right now and flew to San Francisco, yes, okay,
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and we asked people up there in baseball who are
the Giants rival they would say, to Gott's stay with me. Okay.
Then we fly back to Lax, we get out. We're
gonna drive by this strip clubs. We're not stopping rob
Then we're going to stop. I gonna get these girls
through school, are you kidding? I understand, But we're gonna
drive through and we're we're gonna walk around in Westwood
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and We're just gonna walk up to people and say
who are the Dodgers rivals? And they're gonna say the Giants.
Then what we're gonna do is, because we're such good friends,
we're going on a road trip to San Diego and
we're gonna spend some time at the zoo. I was
gonna say, let's go to the zoo right while we're
down there. Yeah, and then we'll go to Sea World
after that. And then what we'll do is we'll walk
around in the gamp the gas Lamp district, and we're
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gonna ask people who are the Padre's rival, and they're
gonna say the Dodgers. And then they're going to say,
as a matter of fact, our rival is everybody in
Los Angeles, because we don't like Los Angeles because we
have an inferiority complex. No, even in that game one,
they would channing bat lad You have you heard that
during the game. Yeah. But the problem is it doesn't
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matter where any LA team goes in the country and
what their record is at a given time. You know,
in baseball, first pitch at speed LA. In basketball, you
throw off the ball, it's beat LA and hockey to
drop the Puck, they ll beat La. Everybody wants to
beat La. I'm sorry everybody can't be La. I'm sorry
everybody can't have that opportunity. You're more than welcome to
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come out. But since you don't, don't be a hater,
don't be jealous. And that's what this reeks up. Rob,
a man from Detroit who is a transplant to southern California,
And now you are. You are envious of what you've
missed your entire life, and that's why you're trying to
create this rivalry, Rob, And that's why you're saying it's
bigger than it is. It is big because the Padres
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are a real threat to win a division and I
think that that's why. All right, Fred, so answer me
this question. If this was just a regular series and
didn't matter and it has nothing to be worked up about,
why did the Dodgers alter their pitching rotation so that
they had three aces pitched in that series? Because they're
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playing a major league season right it's the second week
of the season. Fred, anybody could have started, They could
have started May in his normal spot series, and they
decided that they didn't want to do it. Bauert pitched
the third game, right, and k they could have started
may Orius and think just fine. But I'm saying they
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knew it was a big series. That's why, and that's
my point. You don't alter your starting rotation and put
your best guys in for an also ran or for
a team that doesn't matter. The Dodgers wanted to set
the tone to let the Padres know, don't come sniffing
around here for our NL West crown, we oldness, We
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run this, and they know that they are viable and
they are their real rivals. When we talk about the
twenty twenty one MLB season, great And I'll tell you this,
and I appreciate what you said, and I think you
make valid points. I don't think one person listening now
believes that. I don't think one person now believes that
that is any type of rivalry at all. Anybody listening
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in Los Angeles doesn't. I guarantee you that if they're
listening in San Diego, they do. And if they're listening
around the country and they listen to reason, they understand
why it's not all right. We want to hear from you.
No doubt is the Dodgers Padres a real rivalry and
if so, is it the best rivalry in baseball right now?
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Age seven, seven nine nine, six sixty three sixty nine,
or you can give us a better one. What do
you think is a better baseball rivalry than what we
have right now with the Dodgers and Padres. We'll continue
that conversation with you. Next, it is The Odd Couple
on a Funky Flashback Friday with Fred Rogan for Chris Broussard.
I'm Rob Parker right here on Fox Sports Radio. Sticking
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Stay America. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Odd Couple with Chris Broussard and Rob Parker weekdays at
seven pm Eastern, four pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio
and the iHeart Radio app. Oh Yeah, Funky Flashback Friday
on the I Couple, Rob Parker and Fred Rogan in
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for Chris Brussard, I'll telephone number eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. We're coming to you live from the
Fox Sports Radio studios and we're talking rivalries. ESPN at
this column about the Dodgers and Padres being the hottest
new rivalry in baseball. I tend to agree with that.
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Fred says, no way, no, how is it a rivalry
he's not buying it. We want to hear from you.
Is it the game's best rivalry right now? In base ball?
Dodgers and Padres are playing a four game series this
weekend Padres one game one, last night Game two US
tonight at Dodgers Stadium, and last weekend in San Diego,
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the Dodgers took two out of three. All right, Rob,
We're gonna get to the phones. I do want to say.
Raster tweets us and Raster listens to our local show
in Los Angeles Rogan Rodney, and he says, Fred, your
voice sounds different on the odd couple. Did you catch
a cold or the just technology difference? I was on
the radio in Los Angeles three hours ago. How different
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could my voice sound? Ross right soul? Find you sound
the same to me? I know, I know. In Ralphie, Boy,
listen to you here on the app on the radio app,
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Only the Dean of LA can point something up funny
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on selling his stuff on Twitter. Rob's laugh in the
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Odd Couple, copy Boy. Thanks, we appreciate the listening, no
doubt about it. And if you want to jump in
with me and Fred hit us up eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox. Let's go to Wisconsin. Marty, you're
on Fox Sports Radio the Odd Couple. What do you got?
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How are you doing? Fellows good? Hey, um, mister Parker,
I just need to advise you. You you need to
understand what the term rivalry means. Rivalry comes with history.
They I know, the Dodgers and the Padres have some history,
but what you're talking about is competition. San Diego is
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now a very competitive team. They haven't developed the rivalry yet.
If you look at Wisconsin sports, and I know that,
I know you're talking about baseball, but in Wisconsin we
have the Bears and the Packers. It's one hundred years
of history. We hate the Vikings, we hate the Vikings,
we respect the Bears, but there are their rival I
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get that. But then if using that about uh uh
and I and I went up to point about Michigan
and Ohio State. I mean Michigan have not have not,
It hasn't been competitive for a decade now, it doesn't
need to be competitive. We've been we've been beaten it.
There's like a drum for the past twenty five years.
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It's still it's still definitely arrival. It doesn't matter if
you win or Lewis if if If you're getting beat
for fifty years, you have fifty years of history. It's
the history that makes the rival the history part of it.
But I think their real rival, though, is the Padres,
not the Giants, and what is but what is the
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pres What is the Padres Gidgers history? It's wrong, Rob,
what's their history? No, but the history has coming, it's start,
it's starting. It's a budding rivalry. It's starting, it's starting it.
The Giants aren't their rivals now. The Giants are down.
The arrivals and some of the Dodgers brought that rivalry
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out from New York. The Padres and the Dodgers will
come rivalry, but they're too young to be called that. Marty, Marty,
appreciate you. You made a valid point. By the way,
it's good to see Marty agrees with me. Okay, let's
go to Phoenix, Kenny, you're on Fox Sports Radio. The
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odd Couple. How are you doing Kenny? Hey? Pretty good?
How about you guys doing good? Part of Phoenix? Are
you in Kenny? Where you at? So? I work in
like North Scottsville, but I live over here in North Filoria,
over by the Padres play. Okay, okay, because I was
born in Detroit, but I grew up in Phoenix. I
went to high school there. Oh wait, cool man, I
went to I played baseball a shadow Mountain. Okay, I
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went to West. They shut it down after I left,
made it a vocational school and they fumigated the place.
I bet, what do you got for? So? Fellas, So
we can sit and we can talk history. And I'm
from San Diego, right, so I'll give Dodgers credit for
the eight years. Yes, you know, the Giants had a
couple of years before that. Pods with boats, you know,
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we had a couple of years before that. We can
go through history all we want, but but but there's
there's also blood, and there's bad blood. And when when
you grew up in San Diego, when you grew up
in LA there's just bad blood. You know. We could
talk about when the Dodgers jump in the pool at
the Diamondback Stadium, there's some blood there, there's some history there.
So sometimes you go through eras where there's more bad blood.
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And right now, when the Dodgers come down to San
Diego and when the Pods go up there, when I'm
kind of talking about the players in the field, I'm
talking about the fans in the stands, and that rivalry
or those fans in those stands has been there forever.
And just because we've been a little brother for a minute,
don't don't think our fans haven't been showing up and
this rivalry is in the stands just as much as
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it is on the field. That's a great call. I
can't argue with that, right, can you argue with that?
There there is a there's a fan rivalry between the
two cities. No, well, the fan rivalry is this, And Kenny,
since you grew up in San Diego, you spent time there.
You know this. The people in San Diego don't like
the people in Los Angeles. They're jealous. But the people
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lost ange against the people in San Diego. Nothing's nice
in San Diego. Beautiful. It's beautiful, you know what. And
as we say, it's nice to spend a weekend there.
Oh wow, look at you, Fred seven seven nine five.
It is a great city. Thanks Kenny. Let's do Sean
and Sacramento. Real quick, Sean, you're on Fox Sports Radio,
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the odd couple. What do you got my uncle from
another mother? Man? Always great to have Freddy Fingers on
the afternoon. So Man, welcome back. Brother. Appreciate that, no doubt.
So my take, real quick man, Hey Fred, as much
as I respect you, man, you sound like the classic
old get off my long guy, Man, there's room, hold on,
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hold on, We got tape of Fred. This is earlier
today struggling. Hey, go damn kids, get off my lone. Okay,
go ahead, Sean. Man a little little late, but shout
out Tison. But my thing is, Man, the reason why
LA feels like they have no rival, or they have
one or two rivals, it is because it's an elitest city. Man.
They feel like nobody else is as good as them
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sports lives. They'll never admit to anybody trying to compete
with them. But you guys gotta look like the last
caller said the fire on the field man Machado Man
trying to get his get back on the team that
let him go. Let him welk the fact that they're
signing all the big names are in the off seiling,
while the Dodgers are staying stagnant or semi stagnant or
picking up some old trash guys that are no longer
relevant side of the game anymore. This is great for
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the game, man. This is the reason why we need
to have more rivalries like this, getting the young guys
into it. Like the guy said earlier that that called
in Robinson inspiring guys to get back into the MLB
rival It reads like this is going to keep the
game going for another hundred years. Yeah, but here's Sean.
I don't have to be an old guy saying get
off my line to tell you the truth. There's a
difference between I'm just being a crank and I'm telling
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you the truth. This could become a rivalry if the
Padres continue to play like this for number of years,
if they win a Division, if they beat the Dodgers,
if they win a World Series, if suddenly over a
period of time they are equal to the Dodgers or better,
then you say, okay, now we've got a rivalry before that.
Expect that. But at the same time, are we supposed
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to wait two more years for this rival wey to block, right,
it's happening exactly, but you know, Sean, you don't get
to So what is now? What is it? What is
it called blossom? What are you calling now? What the
Dodgers and Padres? A what? Just a weekend series? It's
a big series this weekend. Why it's April? Why is
this a big series? It's April because they're two very
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good teams. If the Dodgers or any team, if the
top two teams in the American League were playing, that
wouldn't necessarily mean it's a rivalry, but it would mean
that's a big series. That's a big, big series. All right,
I want to I got a I got a tweet
from a guy at Anything Goes ninety nine. Okay, well,
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this is a rivalries Duke North Carolina, Raven Steelers, Orioles, Pirates, Yankees,
Red Sox, Lakers, Celtics, Penguins, Capitals, all those are right,
all rivalries. But but I I didn't hear Dodgers. Yeah,
I think he missed that. I don't know what I
think Anything goes? You blew that one? Where was the
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Dodgers and Padres? That's a rivalry. All right, here we
go for at Tishert's Tower of Trivia's next. This is
your maiden voyage on this game. It'll be a lot
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Apple Podcasts or ever you get your podcast. And now
you know what Fred, Here we go. It's for Tysher's
Tower of Trivia and no no ladies and gentlemen, vegans
and metis kale, hip lovers, ruffle chip lovers. It's time.
This game is so easy for tight shirts. Tower of Trivia.
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It is Tish's Tower of Trivia, the game that proves
you don't even gotta like sports to work in sports media.
Fred has proved that for forty years. Okay, thank you now, Fred,
it's a very easy game to play. I don't want
to break the round that much time. But it's just
like the game password. So you got one word clues
to help Alex guess these answers that are all very
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easy we think sports questions, and since you are dean
of LA Sports, we decided all of these questions would
be LA sports related. Okay, okay, all right, So Rob
gets first crack as he is the home team Rob.
Question number one again, given Alex the clue to help
him guest the correct answer, one word Rob. It just
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might be the worst name in American sports history. This
MLB team calls themselves the Los Angeles Blank of Anaheim. Rob.
One word clue for Alex Fischer, Devil's Devil's Angels. Right,
wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait one second,
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what this might be? Are you kidding me? That was
the questions? That was the question. You have the question
in your email, Fred, let's go. Okay, here we go
number two again. It gets it's easy in the beginning,
it gets tougher as you go up the Tower question
number two for Fred the Great one. Wayne gret Scheme
played hockey for this Lost Angelis franchise. Their mascot is
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the Blank Fred one word clue to help Alex Crown
King Kings is correct. I was gonna say, Queen a boy.
That's a good one too. All right, See, very easy,
Fred gets it. You prove on now level number three
of the tower. I think the hints are a little
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simple here. That's the Remember, Alexi is not like sports.
I could care less freend Yeah, okay, Fred, freddie So
you know Alex has been pokemoning it hard all show,
the whole show. He has not been being attention to
the show we're doing right now, but he's happy to
be here. That's you and program director Scott as well.
That's all right. Here he goes level three, Rob Parker
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back to you. We're all tied up ten points. Apiece.
USC has won seven Heisman's in their school's history, but
their most recent winner had his trophy stripped for violating
NT double A rules. The player who lost his heisman
is Reggie Blank. Oh man, Yeah, you're telling me, afro
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uh Jack, that is incorrect. All right, Fred, your chance
to steal for nine points. I know what you meant, Rob,
guy who lost it. I had something else, but I
want to keep the show. Yes, I was gonna you
Fred the Reggie blank Um shrubbery, fricking Rob shrubbery, Yes, shrubbery.
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Uh uh Miller, Miller eight points. Now let's see um
afro shrubbery. Uh Man. Let's say, um, this is hard.
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Uh got um mop afro? Mom, that's the terrible clue. Rob.
Just don't even try to answer that in confusion. Yeah,
that's bad. But I'm trying to think of if Rob
said he could have got fired if he gave me
another clue. And I know Rob's dirty, and I think
I have an idea. Now it's probably it's probably bush right,
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an idea. What I was going, Look the strawberry. That
was a good clue for us, I like, and I
was trying to say afro like, you know, like a
bushy or whatever, and then I was thinking mop like
a mop top, like you got a lot of hair.
That last terrible. Sorry. If you get this one, Fred,
you'll be in the lead. Okay. Level four. When Chris
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Paul and Blake Griffin played together, the Clippers were known
around the league then as the lob Blank Clippers said,
Mop Metropolis a city that is correct. I have a
change at the top tower trivia Fred Rogan twenty to
eighteen over Rob Parker, the defending champion. Rob, here we go,
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number five. I think I may have done this one
before Mop, Here we Go. The Lakers played a fast
break style of basketball back in the eighties, highlighted by
Magic Johnson, and so they were affectionately known as the
Blank Lakers. HBO. Max, that isn't correct. I tried for
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you there, Rob, I'm gonna go with popend. So I
was going with that, right, Okay, I know it's not
a great clue. I tried no with Bush. I was
gonna say tush on the last one. So I know
what you're doing, right, all right? Fred? Nine points on
the line here if you get this nine points all right? Max,
was a good attempt. No, it was, Oh, I just
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give it. You don't have to read it again. The
Blank Lakers back in the eighties, The Blank Lakers circus
circus HBO show like Showtime show that is correctly take
it Showtime that the whole thing, Yes, HBO. You know
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you want to go boy? All right? Rob? Now you
you're behind now twenty nine to eighteen, so you have
to excuse me. No, it's not even your turn, Fred's turn.
If Fred gets this, it's over. It's a rap. Rob
cannot statistically come back level number six types tower trivia.
Fred Rogan, the greatest coach in college basketball history, comes
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from UCLA Go Bruins. His name John R. Blank chomp,
chop Uh, Bobby, you said John R. Yes, R is
the middle. Initially, John, do not google it on your phone.
I have no phone. You're in front of me, John
arch chop uh. I'm just kind of trying to connect
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the dots here for your friend. I'm trying. It's better
than mop. Just think oh three two shop one cut
times out? Okay now, no, all right, here we go,
Alex concentrate, Okay right now, Rob morning, Oh god, oh
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my god, my god, Rob, Oh my gosh. Time No
that it corrects? Oh my god, what oh my gosh. Okay, ready,
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I'm trying. Yeah yeah, just Rob, Wow, all right, here's
the clue. Ready, I'm trying. All right, would Rob? Did
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you really try with nights? Really? Is it? Wood path? Well?
Thank you, Fred, get the wind, thank you. Oh Steve
de Seger is so upset he left the studio right now.
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Way to go, Rob, you cleared out the room. I
can't believe you said that morning. My Morning Couple coming
up on a fucking flashback Friday right here on What's Radio,
he said, Mop. Be sure to catch live editions of
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much fun. Fred Rogan in for Chris Broussard Rob Parker
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with coming to you live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
And nobody pulled the plug on my uh, Mike, so
I guess I'm still doing the show. Fred. Everything good.
That was quite the ambitious clue you gave. I gonna
tell you what that is actually a really good game
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to play, Rob. That was fun. It was going to
tell our guy, who you know very well, that is
our show in Los Angeles and he's on overnights with
Jonas Knox. Yeah, k figure is is uh priceless. He's
the best. I'm gonna tell him. We need to uh
We need to steal that one because that was good.
That was fun, right, Yeah, it's a lot of fun
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and I think people can get into it with deaf. Yeah,
it was good. Hasn't been fun? Is uh? Chucky's tenure
at as coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, John Gruden?
What is he making a gazillion dollars? Right? Fred? Is
that what the contract called for? Like a yes times ten? Right?
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Unbelievable coach contract for a coach, haven't They haven't made
the playoffs in the three years up and down traded
away some of the best players that the Raiders have
now team and now right now, what are they talking
about now? Rob G? Nobody's a bigger Raiders fan than
Rob G. Rob G. Now what they're talking about? The
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quarterback that they don't like Derek Carr? They want to
move off with Derek Carr. What's the latest with the Raiders. Yeah,
they have been in a love hate relationship with Derek
Carr since John Gruten got there, and the speculation has been,
for a minute, they're gonna move on when they get
a chance, and so Ian Rapperbort The NFL Network reported
that while the Raiders are not expected to trade up
and get one of these quarterbacks in the draft. They
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are quote doing their homework on all of them, so
if one of them falls, they are prepared to take
him if he's there. Rob, didn't we hear the exact
same thing last year? This lovely relationship with Derek Carr
and John Gruden. We heard the exact same thing last year. Yeah,
but is that good for a quarterback? What? It's? What?
It's the same old, same old, Fred. I mean, has
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John Gouon done a good job to you there? I
think he's done the best job he can do. I Look,
when you pay a guy one hundred million dollars over
ten years, you know you expect him to ride in
on a magic carpet. They added a playoff spot last
year they beat the Chiefs. I mean they had a
couple of moments, but it was nothing that they could sustain.
I think he's done a terrible job there. I don't
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know if he's done a terrible job. I look at
it like this, The question is is he doing a
good enough job fast enough? Look, he was put into
place for a couple of reasons. Mark Davis always loved
him and said if he ever had a chance to
hire him. He was gonna hire him, so he hired him.
Number two. They were moving to Las Vegas. He had
to have an ambassador, somebody, big name, big personality that
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could actually help integrate them into the market. He did that.
I'll give you this, but let's just talk about John
Gruon's history, which was he took over Tony Dungee's team,
right because Tony couldn't get over to Hump. He won
a Super Bowl. But after that, go look at his record, Fred,
It wasn't good in Tampa Bay. He hasn't in the
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last i'd say three or four years in Tampa Bay
and three years with the Raiders. I don't think they
made the playoffs. Like, he hasn't been a good coach
for it a long time. And I get there was
a long TV career in the middle of that, but
he hasn't won anything in a long time as a coach.
He's a name, he's a personality. He's bigger than life.
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That's why they hired him. People would follow him. He
would help extend the Raider brand. No, he hasn't rob
Has he won enough yet? The answer is no. Has
he tried to rebuild a roster with Mike Mayott. The
answer is yes. Is this a big year for him?
I believe it is. What do you think I think
is he gonna get fired if he doesn't win? No?
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So you think he's gonna be ten years no matter what.
He don't have to make the playoffs one time, and
and Davis is going to keep them just because he's
in love with them. Well, that's a big check to
writing a fifty million dollar check to somebody to say goodbye.
I look at it like this, Is this an important year? Yes?
Is it to make it or break it? Ear? No,
they better be good, they better be close, They better
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knock on the door, and hopefully they can get in
even if they don't. I think he's fine this year.
All right, Well, let's take this time to thank mister
Fred Rogan for filling in for Chris Broussard. Fred, outstanding
as always. You know we appreciate you. Uh, you're not
only a true professional and a living legend. Seriously, and
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I don't throw that around up lightly. For guy to
do local TV in a market like Los Angeles, you
could be at local a forty year guy in Wilkesbury, Pennsylvania, Fred,
But not in Los Angeles. You know how many sportscasts
have come through this town in forty years, About a million,
no doubt. So thanks so much. Have a great weekend everybody.
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Radio app. That's must listen to radio. All right, Fred,
let's talk baseball rivalries, rivalries in general. You know, there's
always certain rivalries we always talk about in sports, right yep,
and there's one that's budding. And Rob gee, it was
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a pole by es was it a pole or story
that ESPN did that just came out? It was a
column on ESPN dot com where they ranked the best
rivalries in baseball right now? Because right now, would you
say the Red Sox Yankees is kind of dead? Right?
Is that dead? Fred? Dead? Yes? No, no, that's never dead.
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No no, no no, no, Rob raies exists for a reason. Rob.
Here's the thing. Um, I know that ESPN and its
wisdom decided that the Padres and Dodgers were a rivalry.
No that's not a rivalry. Don't be a prisoner of
the moment. It's not. But wait a minute, Fred, is
that what they picked? Right? Rob? Ge as number one?
That is correct. It's not and it speaks to your
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point Yankees, right socks, that's a rivalry, Rob. It goes
back years. Both teams have won, both teams have been successful,
They've played each other in massive, important games. The Dodgers
and Padres. The Padres are the little kids at the
at the table Thanksgiving. They don't even sit with the
adult chet. They're down the road in San Diego. And
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the Dodgers rivals the Giants. They're the hated ones. Don't create. Oh,
this is a rivalry now why the Padres are having
a resurgence. They're much better, They're highly competitive. They're playing
against tonight at Dodgers Stadium. But there's no rivalry here.
The rivalry will come after years to The Lakers and
Clippers in Los Angeles have a rivalry. Well, the Clippers
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got better. It made the games more exciting, But no,
that's not their rival. The Lakers rivals the Boston Celtics.
But Fred, what your pooh poohing is? I believe that
the Padres. They were a budding rivalry and we saw
this the first weekend of the season. Was that No,
last weekend? Okay, last weekend, Fred, you know it, I
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know it. The Dodgers went to San Diego for a
three game series. Not only was their buzz and all
this talk about that series, the Dodgers set up their
pitching rotation so that their three best pitchers pitched that
weekend against this team that you're telling me it doesn't matter,
and then a little brothers and then a stepchild. The
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Dodgers will work their rotation so that they saw their
best three. And let me tell you something. In watching
that game Friday night, Fred, and you cannot deny it.
That April baseball game on a Friday night a week
ago felt like a playoff game. Am I overstating it
or not? You're being honest, you're being fair. Tell me,
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but tell me why that was such a big deal.
And the Padres are more than They put together a
nice team and they're competitive. They went out and they
signed Manny Machado for three hundred million. They have the
most exciting player. He might not be the best player,
but I'll say he's the most exciting player in baseball,
Fernando Tatis Jr. They went out the off season and
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they made moves, and they brought in three guys who
were either in the conversation for Cy Young or one
of Cy Young. I mean, they currently have the best
pitching staff in the National League, I think in baseball
E R. Ray Wise. So to say that it's just like,
well they're they're competitive now and it's gonna be fun. No,
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they are a real rival to the Dodgers. The Dodgers
are worried about the Giants. I know the history of
the Dodgers and the Giants, but right now, the budding history,
the budding rivalry in baseball right now, Dodgers, Padres. Dodgers
have won the division eight years in a row. I'm
picking the Padres this year. If the Padres win this division, Fred,
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will you say a rivalry is on we started developing.
I would say it's budding. I would say that, but
just because somebody's good one here. Now we have a rival.
The Padres are in the same division. The Padres improved
their club dramatically. The Padres actually couldn't be the second
best team in baseball. Give them all that now, sustain
it sustain it. That's what a rivalry is. People are
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prisoners of the moment. All of a sudden things have changed,
and now this is my rival or this is my enemy. Didn't.
I'm gonna argue your point then, So that means that
means Ohio State and Michigan aren't a rivalry. Isn't a
rivalry anymore? Right because Ohio State has owned Michigan the
last decade. Okay, well if Jim Harbaugh hasn't won one
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game against Ohio State, So according to your the way
you look at rivalries, it ain't a rivalry because Ohio
State owns Michigan. Why why is that a rivalry? No,
the rivalry between Ohio State and Michigan existed many years
ago and was built over time. So even if Ohio
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State is wiping them out to Michigan, that's still a
rival in college football. You tell me USC's biggest rival
the rivalry game. You might think it's UCLA. No, it's
I get it's Notre Dame. And that has been built
up over years years, Michigan Ohio State years. So you
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cannot sit here and say somebody got better. Now there
our arrival. That's not true. They're better, they've improved. If
you're a real sports fan and you're not caught up
as a prisoner of the moment, you know who your
team's rival is, and you also know who's good when
you play against them. They think difference there. I think
the Padres have leaped over the Giants. The Giants aren't
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arrival from the standpoint that the Dodgers have won the
division eight years in a row, that the Giants aren't
their arrival. They have been long term. I'm talking about
history wise, yes, but they're down. The Padres are up.
If the Dodgers want to win another division, they gotta
beat the Padres. It is all about the Padres. Now.
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That's the new rivalry, So Fred they can be I
get it history wise, the Giants and the Dodgers in
their rivalry that they both played in New York, they
both came to California. I get they're in the same division,
they're vying for the same thing. But the Padres have
jumped over the Giants the same way. When the Giants
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won those three World Series in what five or six years,
the Dodgers, I know, in name they were the arrivals,
but they couldn't compete with the Giants. Okay, So if
we use that as a litmus test, and first of all,
the Giants are two games ahead of the Padres in
the standings, that's all right, all right, we'll see. All right,
you're gonna base it off the first two and a
half weeks, but you're you're based in the rivalry off
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three games the teams have played. No, they've played four games.
That's two two, and easily Mookie Best doesn't make that catch.
They could have won that game. They could have won
game one that when an extra. It is the Padres
could be five three to one in this series. All right.
So look at it like this. If we got on
a plane right now and flew to San Francisco, yes, okay,
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and we asked people up there in baseball who are
the Giants rival they would say, to Gott's stay with me. Okay.
Then we fly back to Lax, we get out. We're
gonna drive by this strip clubs. We're not stopping rob
Then we're going to stop. I gonna get these girls
through school, are you kidding? I understand, But we're gonna
drive through and we're we're gonna walk around in Westwood
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and We're just gonna walk up to people and say
who are the Dodgers rivals? And they're gonna say the Giants.
Then what we're gonna do is, because we're such good friends,
we're going on a road trip to San Diego and
we're gonna spend some time at the zoo. I was
gonna say, let's go to the zoo right while we're
down there. Yeah, and then we'll go to Sea World
after that. And then what we'll do is we'll walk
around in the gamp the gas Lamp district, and we're
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gonna ask people who are the Padre's rival, and they're
gonna say the Dodgers. And then they're going to say,
as a matter of fact, our rival is everybody in
Los Angeles, because we don't like Los Angeles because we
have an inferiority complex. No, even in that game one,
they would channing bat lad You have you heard that
during the game. Yeah. But the problem is it doesn't
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matter where any LA team goes in the country and
what their record is at a given time. You know,
in baseball, first pitch at speed LA. In basketball, you
throw off the ball, it's beat LA and hockey to
drop the Puck, they ll beat La. Everybody wants to
beat La. I'm sorry everybody can't be La. I'm sorry
everybody can't have that opportunity. You're more than welcome to
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come out. But since you don't, don't be a hater,
don't be jealous. And that's what this reeks up. Rob,
a man from Detroit who is a transplant to southern California,
And now you are. You are envious of what you've
missed your entire life, and that's why you're trying to
create this rivalry, Rob, And that's why you're saying it's
bigger than it is. It is big because the Padres
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are a real threat to win a division and I
think that that's why. All right, Fred, so answer me
this question. If this was just a regular series and
didn't matter and it has nothing to be worked up about,
why did the Dodgers alter their pitching rotation so that
they had three aces pitched in that series? Because they're
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playing a major league season right it's the second week
of the season. Fred, anybody could have started, They could
have started May in his normal spot series, and they
decided that they didn't want to do it. Bauert pitched
the third game, right, and k they could have started
may Orius and think just fine. But I'm saying they
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knew it was a big series. That's why, and that's
my point. You don't alter your starting rotation and put
your best guys in for an also ran or for
a team that doesn't matter. The Dodgers wanted to set
the tone to let the Padres know, don't come sniffing
around here for our NL West crown, we oldness, We
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run this, and they know that they are viable and
they are their real rivals. When we talk about the
twenty twenty one MLB season, great And I'll tell you this,
and I appreciate what you said, and I think you
make valid points. I don't think one person listening now
believes that. I don't think one person now believes that
that is any type of rivalry at all. Anybody listening
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in Los Angeles doesn't. I guarantee you that if they're
listening in San Diego, they do. And if they're listening
around the country and they listen to reason, they understand
why it's not all right. We want to hear from you.
No doubt is the Dodgers Padres a real rivalry and
if so, is it the best rivalry in baseball right now?
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Age seven, seven nine nine, six sixty three sixty nine,
or you can give us a better one. What do
you think is a better baseball rivalry than what we
have right now with the Dodgers and Padres. We'll continue
that conversation with you. Next, it is The Odd Couple
on a Funky Flashback Friday with Fred Rogan for Chris Broussard.
I'm Rob Parker right here on Fox Sports Radio. Sticking
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Stay America. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Odd Couple with Chris Broussard and Rob Parker weekdays at
seven pm Eastern, four pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio
and the iHeart Radio app. Oh Yeah, Funky Flashback Friday
on the I Couple, Rob Parker and Fred Rogan in
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for Chris Brussard, I'll telephone number eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. We're coming to you live from the
Fox Sports Radio studios and we're talking rivalries. ESPN at
this column about the Dodgers and Padres being the hottest
new rivalry in baseball. I tend to agree with that.
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Fred says, no way, no, how is it a rivalry
he's not buying it. We want to hear from you.
Is it the game's best rivalry right now? In base ball?
Dodgers and Padres are playing a four game series this
weekend Padres one game one, last night Game two US
tonight at Dodgers Stadium, and last weekend in San Diego,
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the Dodgers took two out of three. All right, Rob,
We're gonna get to the phones. I do want to say.
Raster tweets us and Raster listens to our local show
in Los Angeles Rogan Rodney, and he says, Fred, your
voice sounds different on the odd couple. Did you catch
a cold or the just technology difference? I was on
the radio in Los Angeles three hours ago. How different
(14:31):
could my voice sound? Ross right soul? Find you sound
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Odd Couple, copy Boy. Thanks, we appreciate the listening, no
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with me and Fred hit us up eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox. Let's go to Wisconsin. Marty, you're
on Fox Sports Radio the Odd Couple. What do you got?
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How are you doing? Fellows good? Hey, um, mister Parker,
I just need to advise you. You you need to
understand what the term rivalry means. Rivalry comes with history.
They I know, the Dodgers and the Padres have some history,
but what you're talking about is competition. San Diego is
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now a very competitive team. They haven't developed the rivalry yet.
If you look at Wisconsin sports, and I know that,
I know you're talking about baseball, but in Wisconsin we
have the Bears and the Packers. It's one hundred years
of history. We hate the Vikings, we hate the Vikings,
we respect the Bears, but there are their rival I
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get that. But then if using that about uh uh
and I and I went up to point about Michigan
and Ohio State. I mean Michigan have not have not,
It hasn't been competitive for a decade now, it doesn't
need to be competitive. We've been we've been beaten it.
There's like a drum for the past twenty five years.
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It's still it's still definitely arrival. It doesn't matter if
you win or Lewis if if If you're getting beat
for fifty years, you have fifty years of history. It's
the history that makes the rival the history part of it.
But I think their real rival, though, is the Padres,
not the Giants, and what is but what is the
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pres What is the Padres Gidgers history? It's wrong, Rob,
what's their history? No, but the history has coming, it's start,
it's starting. It's a budding rivalry. It's starting, it's starting it.
The Giants aren't their rivals now. The Giants are down.
The arrivals and some of the Dodgers brought that rivalry
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out from New York. The Padres and the Dodgers will
come rivalry, but they're too young to be called that. Marty, Marty,
appreciate you. You made a valid point. By the way,
it's good to see Marty agrees with me. Okay, let's
go to Phoenix, Kenny, you're on Fox Sports Radio. The
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odd Couple. How are you doing Kenny? Hey? Pretty good?
How about you guys doing good? Part of Phoenix? Are
you in Kenny? Where you at? So? I work in
like North Scottsville, but I live over here in North Filoria,
over by the Padres play. Okay, okay, because I was
born in Detroit, but I grew up in Phoenix. I
went to high school there. Oh wait, cool man, I
went to I played baseball a shadow Mountain. Okay, I
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went to West. They shut it down after I left,
made it a vocational school and they fumigated the place.
I bet, what do you got for? So? Fellas, So
we can sit and we can talk history. And I'm
from San Diego, right, so I'll give Dodgers credit for
the eight years. Yes, you know, the Giants had a
couple of years before that. Pods with boats, you know,
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we had a couple of years before that. We can
go through history all we want, but but but there's
there's also blood, and there's bad blood. And when when
you grew up in San Diego, when you grew up
in LA there's just bad blood. You know. We could
talk about when the Dodgers jump in the pool at
the Diamondback Stadium, there's some blood there, there's some history there.
So sometimes you go through eras where there's more bad blood.
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And right now, when the Dodgers come down to San
Diego and when the Pods go up there, when I'm
kind of talking about the players in the field, I'm
talking about the fans in the stands, and that rivalry
or those fans in those stands has been there forever.
And just because we've been a little brother for a minute,
don't don't think our fans haven't been showing up and
this rivalry is in the stands just as much as
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it is on the field. That's a great call. I
can't argue with that, right, can you argue with that?
There there is a there's a fan rivalry between the
two cities. No, well, the fan rivalry is this, And Kenny,
since you grew up in San Diego, you spent time there.
You know this. The people in San Diego don't like
the people in Los Angeles. They're jealous. But the people
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lost ange against the people in San Diego. Nothing's nice
in San Diego. Beautiful. It's beautiful, you know what. And
as we say, it's nice to spend a weekend there.
Oh wow, look at you, Fred seven seven nine five.
It is a great city. Thanks Kenny. Let's do Sean
and Sacramento. Real quick, Sean, you're on Fox Sports Radio,
(19:31):
the odd couple. What do you got my uncle from
another mother? Man? Always great to have Freddy Fingers on
the afternoon. So Man, welcome back. Brother. Appreciate that, no doubt.
So my take, real quick man, Hey Fred, as much
as I respect you, man, you sound like the classic
old get off my long guy, Man, there's room, hold on,
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hold on, We got tape of Fred. This is earlier
today struggling. Hey, go damn kids, get off my lone. Okay,
go ahead, Sean. Man a little little late, but shout
out Tison. But my thing is, Man, the reason why
LA feels like they have no rival, or they have
one or two rivals, it is because it's an elitest city. Man.
They feel like nobody else is as good as them
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sports lives. They'll never admit to anybody trying to compete
with them. But you guys gotta look like the last
caller said the fire on the field man Machado Man
trying to get his get back on the team that
let him go. Let him welk the fact that they're
signing all the big names are in the off seiling,
while the Dodgers are staying stagnant or semi stagnant or
picking up some old trash guys that are no longer
relevant side of the game anymore. This is great for
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the game, man. This is the reason why we need
to have more rivalries like this, getting the young guys
into it. Like the guy said earlier that that called
in Robinson inspiring guys to get back into the MLB
rival It reads like this is going to keep the
game going for another hundred years. Yeah, but here's Sean.
I don't have to be an old guy saying get
off my line to tell you the truth. There's a
difference between I'm just being a crank and I'm telling
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you the truth. This could become a rivalry if the
Padres continue to play like this for number of years,
if they win a Division, if they beat the Dodgers,
if they win a World Series, if suddenly over a
period of time they are equal to the Dodgers or better,
then you say, okay, now we've got a rivalry before that.
Expect that. But at the same time, are we supposed
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to wait two more years for this rival wey to block, right,
it's happening exactly, but you know, Sean, you don't get
to So what is now? What is it? What is
it called blossom? What are you calling now? What the
Dodgers and Padres? A what? Just a weekend series? It's
a big series this weekend. Why it's April? Why is
this a big series? It's April because they're two very
(21:38):
good teams. If the Dodgers or any team, if the
top two teams in the American League were playing, that
wouldn't necessarily mean it's a rivalry, but it would mean
that's a big series. That's a big, big series. All right,
I want to I got a I got a tweet
from a guy at Anything Goes ninety nine. Okay, well,
(21:59):
this is a rivalries Duke North Carolina, Raven Steelers, Orioles, Pirates, Yankees,
Red Sox, Lakers, Celtics, Penguins, Capitals, all those are right,
all rivalries. But but I I didn't hear Dodgers. Yeah,
I think he missed that. I don't know what I
think Anything goes? You blew that one? Where was the
(22:21):
Dodgers and Padres? That's a rivalry. All right, here we
go for at Tishert's Tower of Trivia's next. This is
your maiden voyage on this game. It'll be a lot
of fun. But first, Fox Sports Radio has the best
sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our
shows at Fox Sports Radio dot com and within the
iHeartRadio app search FSR to listen live. Hey, I'm Doug Gottlie.
(22:48):
The podcast is called All Ball. We usually talk all
basketball all the time, but it's more about the stories
about what made these people love their sport and all
the interesting interactions along the way. We talked to coaches,
we talked to players, We tell you stories. You download it,
you listen to it. I think you'll like it. Listen
to All Ball with Doug golib on the iHeartRadio app,
(23:11):
Apple Podcasts or ever you get your podcast. And now
you know what Fred, Here we go. It's for Tysher's
Tower of Trivia and no no ladies and gentlemen, vegans
and metis kale, hip lovers, ruffle chip lovers. It's time.
This game is so easy for tight shirts. Tower of Trivia.
(23:35):
It is Tish's Tower of Trivia, the game that proves
you don't even gotta like sports to work in sports media.
Fred has proved that for forty years. Okay, thank you now, Fred,
it's a very easy game to play. I don't want
to break the round that much time. But it's just
like the game password. So you got one word clues
to help Alex guess these answers that are all very
(23:57):
easy we think sports questions, and since you are dean
of LA Sports, we decided all of these questions would
be LA sports related. Okay, okay, all right, So Rob
gets first crack as he is the home team Rob.
Question number one again, given Alex the clue to help
him guest the correct answer, one word Rob. It just
(24:17):
might be the worst name in American sports history. This
MLB team calls themselves the Los Angeles Blank of Anaheim. Rob.
One word clue for Alex Fischer, Devil's Devil's Angels. Right,
wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait one second,
(24:39):
what this might be? Are you kidding me? That was
the questions? That was the question. You have the question
in your email, Fred, let's go. Okay, here we go
number two again. It gets it's easy in the beginning,
it gets tougher as you go up the Tower question
number two for Fred the Great one. Wayne gret Scheme
played hockey for this Lost Angelis franchise. Their mascot is
(25:02):
the Blank Fred one word clue to help Alex Crown
King Kings is correct. I was gonna say, Queen a boy.
That's a good one too. All right, See, very easy,
Fred gets it. You prove on now level number three
of the tower. I think the hints are a little
(25:23):
simple here. That's the Remember, Alexi is not like sports.
I could care less freend Yeah, okay, Fred, freddie So
you know Alex has been pokemoning it hard all show,
the whole show. He has not been being attention to
the show we're doing right now, but he's happy to
be here. That's you and program director Scott as well.
That's all right. Here he goes level three, Rob Parker
(25:44):
back to you. We're all tied up ten points. Apiece.
USC has won seven Heisman's in their school's history, but
their most recent winner had his trophy stripped for violating
NT double A rules. The player who lost his heisman
is Reggie Blank. Oh man, Yeah, you're telling me, afro
(26:05):
uh Jack, that is incorrect. All right, Fred, your chance
to steal for nine points. I know what you meant, Rob,
guy who lost it. I had something else, but I
want to keep the show. Yes, I was gonna you
Fred the Reggie blank Um shrubbery, fricking Rob shrubbery, Yes, shrubbery.
(26:36):
Uh uh Miller, Miller eight points. Now let's see um
afro shrubbery. Uh Man. Let's say, um, this is hard.
(27:03):
Uh got um mop afro? Mom, that's the terrible clue. Rob.
Just don't even try to answer that in confusion. Yeah,
that's bad. But I'm trying to think of if Rob
said he could have got fired if he gave me
another clue. And I know Rob's dirty, and I think
I have an idea. Now it's probably it's probably bush right,
(27:26):
an idea. What I was going, Look the strawberry. That
was a good clue for us, I like, and I
was trying to say afro like, you know, like a
bushy or whatever, and then I was thinking mop like
a mop top, like you got a lot of hair.
That last terrible. Sorry. If you get this one, Fred,
you'll be in the lead. Okay. Level four. When Chris
(27:48):
Paul and Blake Griffin played together, the Clippers were known
around the league then as the lob Blank Clippers said,
Mop Metropolis a city that is correct. I have a
change at the top tower trivia Fred Rogan twenty to
eighteen over Rob Parker, the defending champion. Rob, here we go,
(28:12):
number five. I think I may have done this one
before Mop, Here we Go. The Lakers played a fast
break style of basketball back in the eighties, highlighted by
Magic Johnson, and so they were affectionately known as the
Blank Lakers. HBO. Max, that isn't correct. I tried for
(28:36):
you there, Rob, I'm gonna go with popend. So I
was going with that, right, Okay, I know it's not
a great clue. I tried no with Bush. I was
gonna say tush on the last one. So I know
what you're doing, right, all right? Fred? Nine points on
the line here if you get this nine points all right? Max,
was a good attempt. No, it was, Oh, I just
(28:58):
give it. You don't have to read it again. The
Blank Lakers back in the eighties, The Blank Lakers circus
circus HBO show like Showtime show that is correctly take
it Showtime that the whole thing, Yes, HBO. You know
(29:20):
you want to go boy? All right? Rob? Now you
you're behind now twenty nine to eighteen, so you have
to excuse me. No, it's not even your turn, Fred's turn.
If Fred gets this, it's over. It's a rap. Rob
cannot statistically come back level number six types tower trivia.
Fred Rogan, the greatest coach in college basketball history, comes
(29:40):
from UCLA Go Bruins. His name John R. Blank chomp,
chop Uh, Bobby, you said John R. Yes, R is
the middle. Initially, John, do not google it on your phone.
I have no phone. You're in front of me, John
arch chop uh. I'm just kind of trying to connect
(30:04):
the dots here for your friend. I'm trying. It's better
than mop. Just think oh three two shop one cut
times out? Okay now, no, all right, here we go,
Alex concentrate, Okay right now, Rob morning, Oh god, oh
(30:26):
my god, my god, Rob, Oh my gosh. Time No
that it corrects? Oh my god, what oh my gosh. Okay, ready,
(30:48):
I'm trying. Yeah yeah, just Rob, Wow, all right, here's
the clue. Ready, I'm trying. All right, would Rob? Did
(31:10):
you really try with nights? Really? Is it? Wood path? Well?
Thank you, Fred, get the wind, thank you. Oh Steve
de Seger is so upset he left the studio right now.
(31:32):
Way to go, Rob, you cleared out the room. I
can't believe you said that morning. My Morning Couple coming
up on a fucking flashback Friday right here on What's Radio,
he said, Mop. Be sure to catch live editions of
(31:53):
The Odd Couple with Chris Broussard and Rob Parker weekdays
at seven pm Eastern, four pm Pacific on Sports Radio
and the iHeart Radio app. It is The Odd Couple
on a funky flashback Friday, wrapping up another one, so
much fun. Fred Rogan in for Chris Broussard Rob Parker
(32:14):
with coming to you live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
And nobody pulled the plug on my uh, Mike, so
I guess I'm still doing the show. Fred. Everything good.
That was quite the ambitious clue you gave. I gonna
tell you what that is actually a really good game
(32:35):
to play, Rob. That was fun. It was going to
tell our guy, who you know very well, that is
our show in Los Angeles and he's on overnights with
Jonas Knox. Yeah, k figure is is uh priceless. He's
the best. I'm gonna tell him. We need to uh
We need to steal that one because that was good.
That was fun, right, Yeah, it's a lot of fun
(32:57):
and I think people can get into it with deaf. Yeah,
it was good. Hasn't been fun? Is uh? Chucky's tenure
at as coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, John Gruden?
What is he making a gazillion dollars? Right? Fred? Is
that what the contract called for? Like a yes times ten? Right?
(33:19):
Unbelievable coach contract for a coach, haven't They haven't made
the playoffs in the three years up and down traded
away some of the best players that the Raiders have
now team and now right now, what are they talking
about now? Rob G? Nobody's a bigger Raiders fan than
Rob G. Rob G. Now what they're talking about? The
(33:40):
quarterback that they don't like Derek Carr? They want to
move off with Derek Carr. What's the latest with the Raiders. Yeah,
they have been in a love hate relationship with Derek
Carr since John Gruten got there, and the speculation has been,
for a minute, they're gonna move on when they get
a chance, and so Ian Rapperbort The NFL Network reported
that while the Raiders are not expected to trade up
and get one of these quarterbacks in the draft. They
(34:01):
are quote doing their homework on all of them, so
if one of them falls, they are prepared to take
him if he's there. Rob, didn't we hear the exact
same thing last year? This lovely relationship with Derek Carr
and John Gruden. We heard the exact same thing last year. Yeah,
but is that good for a quarterback? What? It's? What?
It's the same old, same old, Fred. I mean, has
(34:24):
John Gouon done a good job to you there? I
think he's done the best job he can do. I Look,
when you pay a guy one hundred million dollars over
ten years, you know you expect him to ride in
on a magic carpet. They added a playoff spot last
year they beat the Chiefs. I mean they had a
couple of moments, but it was nothing that they could sustain.
I think he's done a terrible job there. I don't
(34:46):
know if he's done a terrible job. I look at
it like this, The question is is he doing a
good enough job fast enough? Look, he was put into
place for a couple of reasons. Mark Davis always loved
him and said if he ever had a chance to
hire him. He was gonna hire him, so he hired him.
Number two. They were moving to Las Vegas. He had
to have an ambassador, somebody, big name, big personality that
(35:07):
could actually help integrate them into the market. He did that.
I'll give you this, but let's just talk about John
Gruon's history, which was he took over Tony Dungee's team,
right because Tony couldn't get over to Hump. He won
a Super Bowl. But after that, go look at his record, Fred,
It wasn't good in Tampa Bay. He hasn't in the
(35:28):
last i'd say three or four years in Tampa Bay
and three years with the Raiders. I don't think they
made the playoffs. Like, he hasn't been a good coach
for it a long time. And I get there was
a long TV career in the middle of that, but
he hasn't won anything in a long time as a coach.
He's a name, he's a personality. He's bigger than life.
(35:50):
That's why they hired him. People would follow him. He
would help extend the Raider brand. No, he hasn't rob
Has he won enough yet? The answer is no. Has
he tried to rebuild a roster with Mike Mayott. The
answer is yes. Is this a big year for him?
I believe it is. What do you think I think
is he gonna get fired if he doesn't win? No?
(36:12):
So you think he's gonna be ten years no matter what.
He don't have to make the playoffs one time, and
and Davis is going to keep them just because he's
in love with them. Well, that's a big check to
writing a fifty million dollar check to somebody to say goodbye.
I look at it like this, Is this an important year? Yes?
Is it to make it or break it? Ear? No,
they better be good, they better be close, They better
(36:34):
knock on the door, and hopefully they can get in
even if they don't. I think he's fine this year.
All right, Well, let's take this time to thank mister
Fred Rogan for filling in for Chris Broussard. Fred, outstanding
as always. You know we appreciate you. Uh, you're not
only a true professional and a living legend. Seriously, and
(36:57):
I don't throw that around up lightly. For guy to
do local TV in a market like Los Angeles, you
could be at local a forty year guy in Wilkesbury, Pennsylvania, Fred,
But not in Los Angeles. You know how many sportscasts
have come through this town in forty years, About a million,
no doubt. So thanks so much. Have a great weekend everybody.
(37:17):
It easy I couple. We'll be back on Monday, so
you know what, you two come back
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