November 21, 2025 • 50 mins
Matt is joined by Dave Dameshek for 4 hours of Great Sports Talk. BFF Don MacLean on the Lakers front office shakeup, the Clippers and UCLA hoops. Why has Matt Smith abandoned his Chicago roots and will Shek let his kids grow up to be LA sports fans?
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So Dave Dabishek is here.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
What a pleasure, what a time to join you. It's
the optimal time. It is the Friday before Thanksgiving week,
and you know what that means.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
A lot of Thanksgiving talk between the two of us. Well,
so holiday Ah, I'm more than happy to jump in
on that. But also more importantly, or more broadly speaking,
we're in the sweet spot on the calendar anytime sporting calendar.
I'm talking about in the game of life. The game
of life. Well that's why I said thanks, Okay, I
shouldn't interrupt you because I know you never know what
(02:08):
turn you're gonna take or what straight away you're going
to open it up and haul ass down. So I'm
just gonna let you go.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Did you if you're within the sound of our voices.
Are you on your way out of work? Are you
already out? Are you done? Guess what you made it?
Then twenty twenty five, the worst of it is already
over for you.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
From here on.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Out, the rest of the calendar year, you're encouraged to
booze at work, maybe leave work early, maybe get to
work late. Because you stop off for a morning belt.
You get to take a lot more days off. They
just give them to you off for the holidays, or
you can cash in on some of your vacation time
some of the time when you're at work, or if
you're young enough, still at school. A lot of the
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classes are not going to be normal. It's going to
be party time, presents coming, presents, going. Oh, it's the
best time of the year.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
There we go. See, I should have just kept my
mouth shut. You put it so perfectly. You're absolutely right, Dave.
You get a half day Wednesday, the rest of the
week off. Football every single day Thursday now with the
Black Friday Game, impactful games, rivalry games on Saturday. That's
our UCLA usc game, and of course the duel and
the Desert and the Egg Bowl and all of those
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other things happen, and that Saturday. In college football professional
football playoff spots could be decided based on the outcome
of games this coming Sunday. Now, the NBA is boring
as all hell as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Don't watch. That's not important to be checking that out
right now.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yes, I'm a football calendar. We really got some good
things going.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
We definitely do. And it is a very consequential Week
twelve upcoming here. We'll dig in on that. You're off
with the Chargers play by play, so you can really
lean into your roots. You can watch the Chicago Bears.
There are many photos floating around of a young Matt
money Smith wearing a Walter Payton jersey. There there are
front of a Christmas tree on the south side.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I had a Walter Payton jersey when I was a
little kid, and it was the the old one that
had the three quarter sleeves on it, you know, so
it wasn't really like an official jersey. It was like
the one you would buy at Sears Roebuck, you know,
that was the knockoff. And then I believe I had
a Jim McMahon jersey.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I've seen you in the nine jersey as well.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yeah, those were the two that I had when I
was a little kid, and then I had the and
I think the I think the Jim McMahon jersey might
have come in the hutch play set if I ran
the helmet with the helmet, yeah, that may be how
I had the number nine.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
That's a fun game to play. Can you name every
team's representative from against say nineteen eighty two and nineteen
eighty four ish? What was who was the chosen figure?
The thirty two, the eighty eight for Lynn Swan if
you were a Steelers guy with the Jack Lambert obviously
with Tony Thorpe set for the Cowboys. Speaking of the Cowboys,
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I don't want to jump over what I was.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
You know what, Let me do this real quick, just real,
real quick, and then you can get right back to it.
Your company, man, I want to mention you got a shill. Well,
it's a big one because we're talking about the NFL,
and the NFL chose the Petros and Honey Show all
right for their grand prize, for their big grand prize
drawing that we're going to pull today. Every single day
this week, including today, we are going to give away
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and gave away one hundred dollars NFL Shop gift card.
Now we've got four winners. We'll get one more today.
We're going to do that in the four o'clock hour,
and then in the five o'clock hour, we are going
to pull that grand prize winner. That grand prize winner
is going to get a two night's day at Resorts World,
Las Vegas and a four pack to see Raiders Broncos
at Allegiant Stadium on December seventh. So Resorts World, if
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you've ever been there, you know, victory lap starts in
the lap of luxury, premium rooms, bold flavors, and knights
that play to win. That's what Resorts World is football,
and it's a reminder to watch Good Morning Football overtime
weekdays at four pm. I know you watch every single
day Fox eleven Plus with Kyle Brandt, Jamie Erdahl, and
Manti Tale. Manti joined us a little bit earlier this week.
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That was a sensational conversation with Notre Dame in the
college play.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Let's not get sidetracked with that because I think that
consumes the next nine hours, whether we're whether we're on that.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
To your point, I said, Tony Dorset would be the
Cowboys rep And you said, speaking of the Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Well, I was going to say, not skipping over what
is a deeply important for the teams that are trying
to get into the best possible spot or just get
into the January NFL tournament upcoming here. I mean Bucks
and Rams is huge here. You know, both of those
teams probably are going to get in. I don't know
if the Bucks definitely do.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
If they drop this one, the Panthers really going to
win the South? What other team could possibly win the
NFC South than the Bucks? Like, not the Falcons. Well, people,
it's the Panthers. But they blew that game against the
Saints that really dealt them.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
That's that's why I look at the Bucks like, eh.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Well, I say all the time, you know they people
always talk about life is short, life is also long.
That also applies to a pro football season. Certainly you
feel like, oh, it's gone so fast, and sure it has,
but also things happen that people don't fully notice. We
signed off somewhere around late September on the Bucks being
a contender for the Super Bowl. If you've been paying
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attention to them, they ain't great. The Rams are really
coming to deepy. Oh yeah, that was a big conversation
a couple few weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
It's Matthew Stafford in the Rams.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
That was also the conversation on one around one Daniel Jones,
who has the Chiefs this weekend important to Chargers fans
of course, and Broncos fans within the sound of our
voice too, because.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Big win for the Bolts last night with the Texans
taking out the Bills.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Absolutely if the Colts. If you look at it, it's
kind of eight nine teams trying to squeeze into those
seven spots available in the AFC. And I'll tell you
the Steelers better not lose to your bears. Are They're
in some real jeopardy of missing out. You can go
through a number of games, and perhaps we will over
the course of this, but I was going to mention
about America's alleged team. The Dallas Cowboys are part of
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a trio of games that you may hold up as
the best Thanksgiving trio of games that we've seen in
the last couple of decades.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I mean this coming Thanksgi. We're not talking about Cowboys
ego on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
I'm talking about No, I'm cat coming the first.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Day, we're jumping to the bird and you got a
ten am, you got a one pm, and now we
got the five pm for Thanksgiving Day. Yeah, you're talking
about the trio.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
And you go, I mean, let whether the Chiefs win
or lose this Sunday they play in Big d and
if the Cowboys, and I kind of think they are
going to beat the Eagles given the way the Eagles
have been tracked, a messing, a little bit of messing
with fire, and I feel like Dallas.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
They really kind of solidified itself with the returning to
Kobe Dean, and it just feels like you can't run
on them anymore.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I hear you. But on the other side of that,
on the other side of that, I don't want to
get sidetracked too far away from Los Angeles right out
of the gate here. But you do wonder looking at
the NFL, was Jerry Jones right to not sign Micah Parsons.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Well, look, it's a one game sample and it was
against the Raiders, who are terrible. But Quinn Williams is
dominant himself. Announced reminded everyone that you remember when Quinn
Williams was the guy that everyone said was yeah, there's
Aaron Jones with then chest right behind Aaron Jones, there's
Chris Jones, and there's Aaron Donald. I'm sorry Aaron Donald.
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Right behind him is is Chris Jones, and this Quinn
Williams and Quinn might be better than like That was
an actual conversation.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
The effect for the first twenty years of this millennium
were do not sign any New England Patriots because if
you expect them to perform on the level that they
did in Foxborough, it's fools gold. It doesn't transfer. Chargers
learned that with JC Jackson, right, well, so many teams
did horrible. The opposite is true with the Jets. If
you got to like a guy, you liked them come
out of school. But the Jets drafted him like a
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little get him because he's been he has the stake
of the Jets on him. You can't hold that against him.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Right, So you got Chiefs Cowboys the afternoon one could well,
if Joe Burrow's healthy and he's going to be playing,
that's the night one. Yeah, that's the night one is
Dangles Baltimore.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
That's deeply important for the Chargers and Steelers and Texan
in Broncos and everybody.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
You said you said eight or nine, it's eleven, like
that's this year. The AFC is now I'm not not
by my team. Right, So you've got four division winners
right right now as it stands, Colts, Patriots, Steelers, and Broncos.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Right, Colts lose, Let me just say this to you.
Colts lose to the Chiefs, which obviously there their favorite
to lose that game. Beware the Jacksonville Jaguars the pleasure
of no, They're going to prove my point now. So
there's your four winners right now, here's your wild card Chargers, right, Bill's, Jags, Texans, Ravens, Chiefs.
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That's eleven already, that's ten. We're now with ten teams
and i haven't even gotten to the there's one more
that I'm forgetting. Well, what's wild is is the inversion
of what you think are the best teams. You have
the Broncos and Patriots, who nobody thinks are the two
actual best.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Tis ten. It's ten teams fighting for seven spots. Three
are going right now. The wildcard teams are the Chargers, Bills,
and Jags, meaning the Texans, Chiefs, and Ravens are currently
on the outside. Looking in well, and I suspect that
a lot of those teams are, or at least one
or two of those teams are going to overtake who's
in front of them in the standings right now, I
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do think the Ravens are going to surpass the Steelers.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
That doesn't give another Steelers out. Yeah, the Steelers are,
They'll be out, not in the playoffs. Look, if they
lose to the Bears, this would be a big one.
It might swing some things. But they still have after
this one Buffalo at Detroit and two more with the Ravens.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I mean they could, you know, not ideal.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
They're tracking towards nine to eight with the loss to
the Bears, or maybe even eight to nine, and that
might spell the end for Mike Tomlin, which would be something.
In the meantime, speaking of those Steelers, I don't want
to get ugly. I just was celebrating where we are
on the calendar and all of that. But a couple
of Sunday nights ago, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Was absolutely wrecked by the Chargers.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
The Steelers did it was an embarrassment. Yeah I didn't.
I didn't show up. I protected you on Claude Van
damashek Yeah, zero for nine on third class half fool.
You know that doesn't really understand the world. Rodgers scared
as as any man in his forties or an old
man is more aware of his mortality than a twenty
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three year old. So of course, display Peyton and Brady
and anyone else of that age. When he sees a
sizeable guy running towards him very fast, his move is
to turtle or to get rid of the ball so
he doesn't take a smack. So that's Aaron Rodgers. And
now now he's a broken left wrist. How's he going
to defend himself. How's he's gonna throw the ball away?
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So how he's gonna do it against the bear? So
back to that Sunday night game, the Chargers dominated. I
think if you are a Bolts fan, you probably a
car really Smith, I loved.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
It, touchdown Chargers one.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Yeah, that was said that all the time, over and over,
and Daniel Jeremi was like, I told you about Justin Herbert.
I told you he was going to be the best
of them all and all that kind of crap. Whenever
he claims after the fact. Anyway, but I'm sure you
were having a wonderful time, as were the people who
weren't waiving terrible towels in the stadium that night. I
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was glad I didn't go, you know, I I there
would have been a price was quite substantial. Yeah, that
would have been a terrible night. There was the Gills,
John and Koschek wanted to go. I said, I got
a hunch about this one. I don't think we should bother,
and we didn't.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
That's that's a topic that I can continue to address
over and over again. Just the great dist service you
did to your son that.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Yeah, I should have made him a Chargers fan. He'd
be much happier.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Should have madehi a Dodger fan. He's allowed to do
whatever a Laker fan, a Charger or Rams fan. You
know why because he was born in Los Angeles, he
was raised in Los Angeles. His pals at school are
all showing up and talking about the Laker game from
the night before and the Kings winning the Stanley Cup
back to back years. That's what they're all talking about.
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They're talking about Justin Herbert.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
He's been around to celebrate a couple of Cups won
by the Black and Gold.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
How many games did he see the Black and Gold
play the year they won the Cup.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
At least a couple Okay, they make their swing through
so cowo.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
You could have taken them to twenty Kings games. You
could have season tickets to the Kings and the It
could be enjoying, you know, like the.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Real fans like Snoop Dog he loves it. Yeah, that's who.
That would be, my contemporary, Just.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
An old man and his son and sharing the moments
that you and your dad shared because you were a
kid growing up in Pittsburgh going to see the Panthers,
going to see the Steelers, going You went to the games,
and those are the memories.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
We go to the games too. We didn't go to
this one, and we dodged a bullet. As it turned out,
I was quite wise to steer him. I didn't know
that roots were meaningless.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Tore they are meaningless.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Yes, Kate, let me get this straight.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Check.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Your son is born in Los Angeles. Yes, raised in
Los Angeles, educated in Los Angeles, play.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
High school football in Los Angeles with a bunch of
football playing buddies.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
And you're forcing him to be a Pittsburgh fan.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
I won't be represented like that. That's that's ugly from
both of you. I know you put it.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
No, you put it on him, you put you had
him in Steelers ones eaes and you had him in
Pittsburgh Penguin sweaters when he was a little kid.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Oh yeah, what what a disgrace to the colors of
the city. It is now. Listen, he's he's his own
free will.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
It's not his free will to please his old man.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
He wants a cheer for another pro football team. He
just can't do it within my four on that bus.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
He wants the approval of his old man. Old man
to go look at my luck.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Come on, well, listen, he has a terrible town. He
owns one.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I owned no reason for him to have one.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Well guess what you know?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
What him of those chains that bind him.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I'm not going to do it and instead tend to
your own house.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I do.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I got it. But you know how excited I didn't
talk about your girls?
Speaker 5 (16:01):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
My girls love baseball. They're big Dodger fans. You know
how excited they've been these last ten years. They celebrated.
And I was sitting on the couch watching Game seven
or Game six with my daughter. Game seven, I watched
in Nashville because were on the road with the Titans.
But I'm watching watching the game with my daughter.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
She's all like the movie with Vigo Mortensen where he
was a bad guy who's like a gangster murderer Green Book.
No not no, he was like a murder and then
he goes to some small town. Yeah, and then the
mobsters come to get him. He's like, I left that
life behind. That's Matt money Smith. He's he's ashamed of
his roots. He doesn't want anybody to know. He's Oh no,
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I'm on the surfboard.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
He's he's robbing out Chicago in nineteen ninety one, I
was seventeen years old.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
I've been here for thirty three years, thirty years out
in the ocean, like yes, like like he's layered Hamlet the.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Second I run the South side of Chicago again until
nineteen ninety one? Would I hang on to that when
I've got the glorious Dodger Stadium and the boys in
blue for the boys in summer and daughters that love
going to the ballpark.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
In January of nineteen eighty six, was it a special day?
Was it a special year? In fact? With you and
your old man, my brothers. When the Chicago Bears whipped
all but the Dolphins.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Barely remember it. I'm not kidding. I remember it, but
not like it with some sort not like I not
like I remember well.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Ironic, iron they see.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
But that's the interesting thing about championships is you think
it's gonna be this seminal moment of your your sporting
you know, your sporting fandom, and it just, I don't know,
it just ends up kind of being like, aw, all right,
well that happened. Now what are we going to do?
Speaker 4 (17:50):
You speak for yourself if that's how it resonates it.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I did go out and celebrate in the streets when
I was a Laker season ticket holder in two thousand,
because I went to damn near every single regular season
game in almost every I think I went to every
single postseason game, including the historic one against Portland, the
coming back from seventeen down in the fourth, the Kobe shack,
and when they won the title that year, a pal
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and I went into the streets and celebrate them.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
I loved that Lakers rally in the fourth quarter. I
remember it well. They stopped posting Rashid Wallace, who was
killing them the whole game and the Lakers overcame out
it hipp and melted down. I listen, I can live
in the moment and enjoy what's going on locally, I said,
all right, I mean listen, I said before we even
started the show, I was thrilled for Tim Kits on
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a human level because I knew he was rejoicing when
the Dodgers got.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Over, by the way, mostly because he was pulling checks.
I mean, he gets paid for the day.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Kate, are you going to defend yourself?
Speaker 6 (18:53):
I appreciate it, Shack, you did text me, and I
do appreciate that. It was heartfelt, and I really do appreciate.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
But am I right?
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Cats?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
No, give me, give me that's all. Give me a percentage,
gravy percent percentage of you that was happy as a
Dodger fan, for your girls, for the family, for your
for young Tim Kates cheering on his Dodgers, and percentage
that was excited because you knew you were going to
get an extra couple bucks because you're covering the parade
and there's a couple more days.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
I mean sixty to forty.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah, wait, what's the sixty you choose?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Which one? I mean, I got a lot of money. Sheck,
you get paid per day. You know it's a Christmas season.
He's seventeen extra games, seventeen games of paychecks.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
A full month of scam. It was like twenty six shows.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
That's like putting gravy on a delicious turkey. Though, you
get the If you get to talk about your beloved
baseball team every day professionally, you're getting whatever your favorite
meat of the is.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
That turkey is the meat. You know that the turkey
meat is the cash in his pocket because he's putting
meat on the table.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Care for this? I don't care for He hated people
like I have no rooting interest anymore. I just like
I just like the best personalities. That's who I root for.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Then quit. Then you shouldn't be.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Allowed to do it any mean quit you don't actually
enjoy the subject matter anymore.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I love the abject matter, but it doesn't have to
emotionally move me anymore. Like I.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
When I say so, that's the performance when you go
touch down, chargio, you don't mean it.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I do. No, that's the charge you were talking about.
You know how am I fired up for the Bears
versus Steelers? Not in the least like I legitimately have
not had a single emotional bone in my body for
any Chicago sporting team for at least fifteen.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
You were a White Sox kid, though, right I was.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I should have been, but I was not. I was
a Cubs kid because my grandma raised me and she
couldn't drive, so we would just spend afternoons out of
school together watching the Cubs on WGN because they played
all day games.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
When they got over the hump, finally, my mom.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Cried tears of sadness when she said, aren't you excited?
And I said, I gotta be honest with you. I'm
not like I wish I'm trying to. I said, I'm
really like trying to emotionally feel this right now, and
nothing's happening. Like it's not working for me.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
You're so marinated in booze now you're you're you're immune
to human emotion.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
It truly was. It was the Lakers and the Kings
that did it to me.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
You know, Oh, I remember when the Kings won their Cup.
I said something about it would have been better in
the purple and gold, and you said, buzz kill.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
That sounds right, sounds right now. When I when the
Blackhawks and the Kings were tangling in the conference finals,
and and my mother was, you know, and Tony Zudoc
was saying.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Don't say you did. Don't say you're rooting for the King.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Said mom, I don't give a good goddamn about the Blackhawks.
As far as I'm concerned, they can get swept. You know,
I got the Kings. Look, Robata and I are like this.
You know these rob Blake and I we play golf together.
I mean, come on, what do you think I'm cheering
for that?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Trump's the ties, the roots that go back by decades.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Not even close. I can hardly remember making those little
napkin boats at Chicago Stadium and dropping away out the
third deck.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
You're a lack of boat. Now, your lack of regard
for history apparently has bled into the Los Angeles Chargers
social media team because they have no understanding of history.
What do you mean, Well, right after that victory, the housing,
the disgracing of the Pittsburgh Steelers before the football nation,
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in the moments immediately after, they decided on purpose to
let the football gods and everybody else know that they
think they're above law. I'm not a superstitious man. But
I understand fact somebody or some people your colleagues over
there with the charger.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
They are award winning I've heard our award winning social
media team led by the great Megan Julian.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Well, listen, she or her team made a mistake that
the guys between the lines are going to pay for
them the rest of this season.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
And you laugh if you want. Don McLain is joining
us in five minutes.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Okay, right after they took to Twitter and they posted
a picture of the terrible towel and underneath it wrote, whoa,
this is worthless. What happened the next Sunday? What happened
was seven days later, Jacks, Oh no, you didn't lose
the law. You got humiliated. Do you think that's some coincidence?
(23:30):
Get ready for more, fran I hope the social media
jibe was hysterical and worth it because you can go
out TJ houshman Zada and the Jaguars and any and
the tent Titans. You mess with the terrible stack tree,
one hundred percent rate of failure of poking the bear,
or well not saying now that's ironic because it's the
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bears who the Steelers are playing. You know what I'm
getting at. You made a mistake and now justin.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Herb Grizzly, I made that up? What does that mean?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
So we put the over under on. What's that waking
up a sleeping giant?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
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Speaker 4 (24:10):
Us Undermine, bitten by my own snake or bear.
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Lebron James, and all things NBA, not to mention UCLA basketball.
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his second unit and saying it's not a message that
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at seven thirty pm on Big ten Network. He'll be
there court side calling it. Dave Damaschek in for p
and joining us now like he knows every Friday at
the Great Don McClain, what's happening, Don, how's it going guys?
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Yeah, I'm getting ready to get in the car. We'll
see if I have anything left in the tank. After
last night's ball game down at the Galen Center, that
was wild.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
What happened? Share it with us.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Triplet game winner at the buzzer from three down two
for the win for USC.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Early season college basketball. Don McClain is all over it.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Now.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Let's start there then, Don because mc cronin said that
he doesn't believe in messaging, he doesn't believe in doghouses. Yeah,
the last game, no Donovan dent out there, Trent Perry
to start the game instead it was the twos and
he said, look, these guys just played better in practice.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Your thoughts, well, they may have. I wasn't at practice,
but they may have played better at practice. But it's
more about and look, even though he says it's not
a message, it was a message to the players that
we need to get off to better starts. And defensively,
they just did won and they took Arizona to the wire,
but they just haven't had the same urgency, the same
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tensity on the defensive end, especially the start game. So
I think that was why he did it. The interesting
thing will be who he starts tonight because that second
group I mean second Medo State's not very good, but
they got off to they shut him out for the
first I think four and a half minutes that starting
group on Tuesday, and then there's a little bit of
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drop off in the second half. So it'll it'll be
interesting to see when we when we get to PAULI tonight,
who's starting.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Don. We've been over this already, so we don't need
to rehash it once again. But of course it's nice
to reconnect with donal Klin since.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
This is going on.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
He broke my heart when I thought he might come
to play on the on the banks of the Three Rivers.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
He came. I watched him playing time You're here and
Don joins us.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
His recruitment was still hanging in the balance when he
played in the Dapper Dan Tournament.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
And what was it, nineteen eighty eight, eighty eight, that's right, that's.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Right now, that Calipari that was recruiting you.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Calipari was an assistant for Paul Evans at that time.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Paul Evans.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
And Dave. I think I've told you this that that
tells you how good of a recruiter is no offense
to anybody from Pittsburgh, how good of a recruiter Calipari
is that he can get a white kid from southern
California to even visit Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Ah, you would have been the missing piece. But anyway,
let's talk about the here and now. Calipari. I don't
know how many analytics he's applying here, but the word
on the street is as they take over more and more,
and it's I guess, sort of old, an old story
at this point that the Lakers are lagging a little
behind the rest of the league. How say you, are
you aware of this and how important do you think
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it is for them to catch up?
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Well, it's interesting because JJ redd it kind of strikes
me as an analytics guy, and so maybe that was
the case in the past.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
I'm not in that locker room. I'm not in those meetings,
but you know, everybody's got their own opinion on analytics
and how much they should be used. I'm involved with
it in the pre draft process that I do in
the spring with the CAA, who I work for. They
have an analytics department when it comes to recruiting players,
and players they already have that are in the NBA,
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and so I think everybody chooses how much they want
to use analytics in terms of evaluation, in terms of performance,
in terms of on the court, who plays, what, how
many minutes. I'm of the opinion that it's somewhere in
the middle. Like I don't think you should ignore all analytics,
but I don't. I think if you're only using analytics,
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you're probably going to miss some stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
It's a salary cap league, don It's an intricate salary
cap league because of the penalties for first aprin, second apron,
all that sort of stuff. Like what do you think,
what do you suspect Andrew Friedman in far hanziety you're
going to try to dig into try to figure out
what the Lakers are doing right or aren't doing right.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Yeah, that's a good question, And you know, I think
that's kind of my point. And it'll be interesting to
see what happens with two baseball guys coming into basketball
in how they can apply what they've used to a
great deal of success with the Dodgers into professional basketball.
I mean, I think, and I may be speaking way
out of turn here, but I feel like analytics is
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way more applied to baseball than basketball, or should be
at least from where I sit in what little I
know about it. But it doesn't hurt to have guys
that who have had success in another sport come and
take a look at what you're doing in your sport.
You know, they've done so well with the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
It just feels a little bit like a computer is
making the difference. And I think that's unsatisfying on a
visceral level for diehard sports fans. But what do the analytics,
or more importantly, what does Don McClain say about LaMelo
ball perhaps being.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
A fit for the Clippers?
Speaker 4 (30:50):
They obviously goes without saying have not gotten off to
a great start. Is you know LaMelo is now dissatisfied
in his situation. Any possibility of that happening, I mean.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
There's always a possibility. And here's the thing, Dave, that
that analytics doesn't measure, and this is where I have
a problem with people that only rely on analytics. Doesn't
measure heart, doesn't measure toughness, doesn't measure how you are
in the locker room, doesn't measure how good of a
teammate you are, doesn't measure how coachable you are. And
so when you rely on oh, well, LaMelo does this,
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this and this and this is what the numbers say,
and you bring it. And I'm not saying he's going
to I'm just saying it's the possibility. You bring him
into your locker room and he and he and he
puts it up in flames because of his personality. And
this is for any player. And that's why when you
solely rely on analytics, you're walking a slippery slope because
there's so much more that goes into it than just
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what the numbers say on the court.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
But do they need to do something that might feel
a little rash to try and salvage this season?
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (31:54):
And I said this last week. You weren't there obviously, Dave.
But it just it's it's the same old thing for
the Clippers. There's always something, always something, and he usually
revolves around Kawhi Leonard and he's not playing and they'll
say we're waiting for him to get back, just like
they said for the last six or seven years, and
it just goes round and round. So yeah, bringing LaMelo
ball and yeah, maybe that'll help, but it ain't gonna
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change what's been happening for the last you know, five
to seven years. When Kawhi and PG came. It was,
it's it's it's. It had been one thing after another,
and it's still one thing after another.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
And if it keeps getting worse. The fact that there's
an unprotected lottery pick headed to Oklahoma City in.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
This draft, holy holy.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Right if Boozer's on that team or Demands or one
of those guys, my god.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Yeah, well yeah yeah, And you know, again, that's just
another fallout from the failed PG Kawhi thing that like
they celebrated when those two game like they were gonna
win multiple championships and they've been to the Western Conference
Finals once and pg's gone yea and so or all theirs.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
That when I saw that today unprotected and they're four
and ten with the fourth worst or tied for the
fourth worst number of wins in the league, that's that's
absolutely terrifying considering.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
And by the way, Matt, this is a really good
draft this year, yeah, really good.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
To the to the Lakers done and Lebron's return twelve assists,
one turnover, said that it was laughable that anybody questioned
whether or not he'd figure out how to fit in
that he can fit in anywhere. Don't know, if you
had a chance to watch the game against Utah or
if you saw the highlights or whatever. But look, he
looked great. He was moving the ball, you know, from
the corner, from the mid post, and it looked fantastic
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when he and Luca were out there. But then I
looked at the plus minus and it was kind of weird.
It was minus eleven when he and Luca were on
the court and plus seventeen when it was Lebron no Luca,
plus seventeen Luca no Lebron. I know it's one game,
but do you think there is something to that because
they're both so good with the ball in their hands.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
Uh, maybe I think that's something to keep an eye on.
But I do think, and I think I said this
to you a p a few weeks ago, that I
hope that this was the approach that Lebron would take
that not just come in there and you know, not
kick Luca to the side, but try and outduel him
or score as many as him. He kind of took
a back seat and became a facilitator in a ball mover.
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And you know, I think if it's going to work,
really work a long term with the Lakers, I think
that's how it's going to have to be. It's Luca's world,
Lebron's playing in it, and he's helping not only Luca
but the rest of the team with his IQ. And
that doesn't get talked about enough how smart Lebron James is.
Whether you like him or not, you can't deny that
he is one of the smartest basketball players that's ever played.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
I'm glad you brought it up in that way because intellectually,
I'm sure Lebron James, and if he can remove the
ego of who he is and has been in the league,
understands that Luca should be the main man on the team.
But obviously heavyweight boxers have a hard time calling it
quits when obviously done for them. Quarterbacks who are one
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time superstars have a hard time repressing the desire to
be the difference in an offense, to be more of
a passenger like Peyton Manning when they won the Super
Bowl a decade or so ago. How hard do you
imagine that is for Lebron right now to accept.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
Well, I think Lebron is well aware obviously of his legacy,
and I think what his motivation would be if it
stays the way it is is to win another championship,
and that supersedes everything. When you're done playing, people remember
your career for what you did, not really so much individually,
but how many championships you won. And that's across the board.
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And I think that is Lebron's motivation is if somehow
this Laker team could position themselves to make a run
in the playoffs and potentially win a championship, he could
walk away having done that in his last year. And
I think that probably in his mind, I'm sure outweighs
anything number, you know, totals anything like that.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Any concern about defensively, it's fifteen games or sixteen games
and now, yeah, sixteen games, and I think and they
have some of the worst paint metrics, some of the
worst defensive metrics out there, and any concern about that done.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
Yeah, I mean, I think we're far enough in that,
you know, are they going to get better? Do they
do they make some moves before the deadline or at
the deadline to get better defensively, because that's a thing
like everyone talks about the thunder and SGA and home
grin and their offense and all that, but they're really
good defensively, and so if the Lakers are going to
challenge them and make a run in the playoffs, they're
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going to have to get better defensively.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Was it you're doing? Probably, we'll let you go on
this down you're doing Presbyterian? You got to hit the
road and get down to Paully. Was it Presbyterian that
knocked off Ucla in one of these early contests a
few years back? This is this a Presbyterian team? That said,
do I remember that correctly? I was trying to remember
the early season game that.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
Got there's it's been a few along the way. It's
not Presbyterian. UCLA actually beat him by fifteen I think,
I don't know, fifteen years ago or something like that.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
I remember a game what you're talking about.
Speaker 5 (37:10):
I'm trying to think of who it is?
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Too early?
Speaker 7 (37:13):
You know who it was?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Who was it?
Speaker 5 (37:14):
You know it was? It was Belmont, Belmont.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
There you go, it was Belmont.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
They show up in the tourney once in a blue moon.
It feels like, you know, there was a game played.
I believe early season. Paully Pavilion was the scene. Nineteen
ninety one, the UCLA Bruins destroyed the highly rated Indiana Hoosiers.
Then in the final eight, you're going to do that.
They were in the same region.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
You're really going to do this.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
The same Indiana Hoosiers showed up to the same UCLA
Bruins and damage. Yet got his revenge. He's against McClain
for not going to Pitt. He was on the I
saw what I have two basketball teams I rooted for
in college.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
Well the year before that, Pitt came into Paulie and
we beat him by one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
I'm nice to say about Brian Shorter and Sean Miller
in the game.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
We appreciate it. Don have a great call tonight, Big
ten Network, UCLA Presbyterian. Check it out. He'll be on
the call a seven thirty tip. Thanks Tom.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
All right, guys, have a good weeknd too.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
There he goes. He puts up with so much of
your craft, and he does not put up with anybody's craft.
It's hilarious to me every time because you're typically in
on Fridays, Patrus is doing football games, so more often
than that that's the day that he's gone. When I
love it, and it's look, damn a check on Fridays
is a treat for all the folks stuck in this
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guyshit here.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
For him, I was, I was, I was optimistic. I
was impressionable. He could be the missing piece, this long
stretch of a center. He could shoot. Who had seen
anything like that in nineteen eighty eight?
Speaker 3 (38:51):
Do you remember his recruitment in nineteen eighty eight? I
absolutely really like you heard that.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
You think I'm making that up. I went to see
him literally in the civic arena in the Dapper Dan
High School All Star Tournament. He was one of the
three biggest stars in it.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
Your old man was the team doctor. That's right, Yeah,
for basketball as well, right.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
For basketball and foot penguins.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Look at that what could have been? I'm sure he
has said he was just the all time leading scorer
in Don almost went to the final four, got close. Yeah,
you know, it's uh interesting, not ironic, but an interesting
coincidence that Don all time leading scorer packed ten Pac
(39:34):
twelve and then when UCLA became a member of the
Big Ten. You know who's got him by like four points?
Who cal Cheney? Wow?
Speaker 4 (39:44):
Bringing that bringing it on?
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Hum.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
There is that little head to head there between the
two of them.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
By the way, Lebron in his prime could rebound his
position and he would offset what he lacked around him
on those Calves teams at least. Right, Yeah, is he
now no longer that guy?
Speaker 3 (40:00):
He's old. He's just too old. You've all played the
I mean he still grass boards. He just won't play
a defense. He don't play a lick of defense. All right,
We got to finish that conversation we started in the
opening segment about what makes Dave a bad dad. That's next.
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McClain joined us, you were sharing with me how a
tweet from the Chargers' social media team was going to
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derail their season and was the cause for the Chargers
Justin Herbert to have his worst game as a professional
and the Chargers to fall apart against the Jags. This
was all due to a tweet about a towel.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
That's right, not any towel, the terrible towel. Look again,
I don't believe in voodoot. I'm more than happy to
open umbrella inside and otherwise, but also under a ladder.
There's a one hundred percent rate of failure when you
mess with it. It started, if I'm not mistaken with TJ.
Houschmann Zada of the Bengals, he tells a funny story
about this. Got into the hotel elevator in Pittsburgh and
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on his way down he saw Steelers fan carrying one
of those and he said, I'll give you two hundred
dollars for that, to which I've asked him, why the
hell would you pay two hundred dollars because it is
just a towel. After you think he negotiated with the fan,
you know you can't have it, And it was like, yeah,
that's right. You know your people up in Chicago they
throw everything. Well, no, if it goes into the standard,
(42:25):
they don't want it. I don't care how valuable that
thing is. Take it back. It's dirty. Why, you're right,
the real criminal was the one. I don't care how
much hushman Zada offered you for it. You shouldn't be
giving it over to him.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
But then again, Bucks, I can go buy one at
the on my way to the stadium and have a
hundred and.
Speaker 4 (42:43):
Now you've turned it over. But just exactly like the
Charger social media team, hushman Zada took it and shined
his shoes with it at the end of the game.
And that's the year Carson Palmer his knee blew out
and the Bengals never did anything. The Titans messed with it,
the Jags it recently. I'm just telling you, let's see
how the rest of the season goes here.
Speaker 3 (43:04):
I think it was just an opportunity to use the
Gravity Falls meme, you know, I mean, that's what the
kids like, one of my favorite shows.
Speaker 4 (43:12):
Maybe maybe they'll find the Iron.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
Copes official the Terrible Towel of Pittsburgh original. It's got
Akroscher Stadium, the Steelers logo, and then it's got Dipper
I think that's his name on the bottom saying this
is worthless.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
We'll see if gravity is joined with the Chargers in
their fall. I'll tell you why the end of the season.
Speaker 3 (43:31):
How about this? Go ahead about this Aaron Rodgers, after
getting his head caved in that entire game doesn't go
on that worthless garbage time touchdown drive. Maybe they don't
do the Terrible Towel meme. Maybe they're like, hey, classy, classy.
Speaker 4 (43:47):
Wait, they were sticking it to the forty something year
old mercenary with that with a terrible towel, as though
he has any allegiance.
Speaker 3 (43:54):
Mike Tomlin, Okaine. Yeah, let's go get this garbage time touchdown.
We're down twenty five to three, there's three minutes left
in the game. They don't want anyone to get hurt.
You know, let's just drive the field and suggest that
maybe this game wasn't as lopsided as zero for nine
on third down couple interceptions.
Speaker 4 (44:12):
Well, it's embarrassing. I'm not going to argue with you
about the state of the Steelers. They feel semi fraudulent,
and I love to talk about Week twelve NFL, these
critical games upcoming, But first before we dig in on
any of those, if at all, I do want to
say very quickly, if I can take it over, Man,
I texted you this. I love doing this show because
it's the one sports show I listened to in Los
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Angeles driving around local and Man, you torched Kawhi Leonard
on a level that I haven't heard very many people articulate.
And if he happened to catch it, he would probably
feel a little embarrassed. I'm sure he has a big ego,
But man, you and Petros do a as good a
job as anybody. When you set your gaze on whether
(44:54):
it's Trojan's football or Kawhi Leonard or otherwise you guys
are you guys are institution not just for being funny,
but you're as informed and insightful.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
As I My response, because it was right after the
Steeler game, Yeah, a couple of days fire and you
were like, man, was that a takedown? That was great?
And I wrote back, yeah, sorry about your guys. That
was it was you sass me.
Speaker 4 (45:15):
It wasn't. It wasn't at all.
Speaker 3 (45:17):
I think I sassed you. I don't.
Speaker 4 (45:19):
I don't think you extended no sympathy for my hard
day guy. Listen, I gotta tell you, I'm a little
disgusted by what they're doing, but I also have to
give a shout out. Even though he can't hear us
right now, he's over in Vegas. Maybe with our mutual
pole Dan Helly. It seems like they're yet quite a
bit a handsome duo, that's for sure. But Petros took
time out of his busy schedule at the request. I
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was the I was the middleman for this. Brad Venami,
the coach of Crespy. The the remarkable story. Sure, three
years ago, winless, this season, undefeated regular season. It was remarkable.
James Moffatt and uh and Chase Kerran and the rest
of the fellas John Claude, Van Damna Schet Contribute Swiss Army.
(46:01):
He plays it all man, he plays wherever he's need.
It's taught him in there. He's ready to roll. He
loves tight end. He really wanted to be a quarterback.
Who doesn't want to be a quarterback. But like I say, this,
Chase Kerran, who's a fifteen year old kid can sling it.
He often reminds me of remember in Mad Max Beyond
Thunderdome when Gibson goes into when Max goes into the
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actual Thunderdome and he's fighting the guy with the big
metal helmet, and then he knocks at master Blaster Master
Blaster and he knocks it off, and it turns out
there's a wee old man sitting on top. But but
the muscle is just a boy. That's how I feel,
right every time, every time the helmet comes off of
this fifteen year old who you watch sling in the ball.
I mean, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, really has a whip that
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is you are going to see in Division one. He
takes his helmet off and I say the same thing.
He's just a boy. Look at his face. It's jarring
to me. But Petros took time out of his schedule.
Coach Fanami said, man, we be great if Petros would
shout us out. And I said, funny because I was
just filling in for Petros and I shouted you you out,
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and he said, Petros, Petros is great. No, he didn't
even he didn't. He skipped right past it. He just
said Petros is real, funny guy. Man, he's he really
did it. So I said, fine, I'll ask and Petros
took time and and dropped the line to wish the
Celts well beautiful, which was very kind of him to do.
Because he is the voice of I think he is
as prominent a voice for LA and SoCal high school football.
Speaker 3 (47:30):
Yeah, it's not even close. Like I mean, if Eric
Sondheimer is the savant, the high school savant, the you know,
the old guard that's been doing it forever, he's arguably
the best high school sports reporter. I'm sure Texas has
got their old dog in Florida, you know, perhaps has there.
Sondheimer's incredible. The fact that he's done it as long
as he has is at an institution like the La Times.
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But yes, as far as voices go nobody. Petros loves
high school football and it pulled me into the world
of high school football because my kids were going to
my day and they were a powerhouse. And then befriended
Jason Negro at Bosco, so then I get invested there.
And then we've got friends and you know that we're
playing at losal that live in the neighborhoods. So now
I get invested in the Griffins. And tonight is going
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to be a special night. It is going to be
an incredible night in Division One. After the upset thanks
to the monsoon last week of Olu over Bosco, the
fact that we got Carson Palmer coaching Santa Margarita Volu,
and of all teams, you know, the Titan, the modern
day Monarchs unbeatable, and yet they've got to face their
(48:36):
kryptonite and Centennial who'll already beat them earlier this year.
Speaker 4 (48:40):
It's great, man. We're two old curmudgeons who've been around
for a minute now. And my experience at least has
taught me pro football players, even college football players, they
revere their college days. Pro football can be a job
some of the time for them, but there is nothing
like the memories that they have in high school football.
They will swim and talk to you as long as
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you want about their high school team. I have to
talk about Ronnie Fossio, looking him giving us keep it
like a secret built the spill Fossio.
Speaker 3 (49:11):
And by the way, we're not just the d one
place low CEU playing tonight too Big one Murray out
of Valley for the for the Griffs. So several times, yeah.
Speaker 4 (49:20):
I'm jealous. I wish I were going to another high
school playoff game the night. Well that's what happens when
you go undefeated and you get thrown into it. You
know what divisions you guys get thrown into?
Speaker 2 (49:29):
Way up?
Speaker 3 (49:30):
Yeah, it's wild. How its I have like the best
season that you've had forever, and then you're like, oh no,
we're just should.
Speaker 4 (49:37):
We have lost more?
Speaker 5 (49:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (49:38):
Exactly, Yeah, well I mean look at I mean, oh
lose different. It's Trinity League, so you know they're whatever.
Two and nine record isn't representative of how good of
a team they are. But still, yeah, it's I think
I was talking to DJ and he pointed out, you know,
his son's high school team went three and like nine
and got putt in the division below them and won
it all. And then the next year they ended up,
you know, going whatever put in the division up and
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got housed in the first round. It's just wild the
way they were.
Speaker 4 (50:03):
Cresby, Cresby undefeated, lost to a five and five team
in the first round. It was a close game, but
it was a victory to me that they got over
those bullies from Silesia. Boy, they brutes, but they took
air of business in that one. Everything was gravy after
that victory.
Speaker 3 (50:19):
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He's on the call. He's got UNLV versus somebody I
don't know who. Let me see you. What's he got.
He's got UNLV versus. That's Penn State, Minnesota, Hawaii. Oh,
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that's right, he's got Chang who's guided Hawaii to new heights.
Timmy Chang, the I believe Yes. He was the all
time passing yards leader in college football history until the
great Colt Brennan, who Saddle is no longer with US,
broke his record and is now coaching up as alma
mater eight and two Hawaii. I should say eight and
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two UNLV versus seven and three Hawaii. He's got a
good one tonight, little seven thirty PM kick for you
to check out, and then tomorrow he's got San Diego States.
So Dave Dabishek is here.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
What a pleasure, what a time to join you. It's
the optimal time. It is the Friday before Thanksgiving week,
and you know what that means.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
A lot of Thanksgiving talk between the two of us. Well,
so holiday Ah, I'm more than happy to jump in
on that. But also more importantly, or more broadly speaking,
we're in the sweet spot on the calendar anytime sporting calendar.
I'm talking about in the game of life. The game
of life. Well that's why I said thanks, Okay, I
shouldn't interrupt you because I know you never know what
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turn you're gonna take or what straight away you're going
to open it up and haul ass down. So I'm
just gonna let you go.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Did you if you're within the sound of our voices.
Are you on your way out of work? Are you
already out? Are you done? Guess what you made it?
Then twenty twenty five, the worst of it is already
over for you.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
From here on.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Out, the rest of the calendar year, you're encouraged to
booze at work, maybe leave work early, maybe get to
work late. Because you stop off for a morning belt.
You get to take a lot more days off. They
just give them to you off for the holidays, or
you can cash in on some of your vacation time
some of the time when you're at work, or if
you're young enough, still at school. A lot of the
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classes are not going to be normal. It's going to
be party time, presents coming, presents, going. Oh, it's the
best time of the year.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
There we go. See, I should have just kept my
mouth shut. You put it so perfectly. You're absolutely right, Dave.
You get a half day Wednesday, the rest of the
week off. Football every single day Thursday now with the
Black Friday Game, impactful games, rivalry games on Saturday. That's
our UCLA usc game, and of course the duel and
the Desert and the Egg Bowl and all of those
(03:16):
other things happen, and that Saturday. In college football professional
football playoff spots could be decided based on the outcome
of games this coming Sunday. Now, the NBA is boring
as all hell as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Don't watch. That's not important to be checking that out
right now.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yes, I'm a football calendar. We really got some good
things going.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
We definitely do. And it is a very consequential Week
twelve upcoming here. We'll dig in on that. You're off
with the Chargers play by play, so you can really
lean into your roots. You can watch the Chicago Bears.
There are many photos floating around of a young Matt
money Smith wearing a Walter Payton jersey. There there are
front of a Christmas tree on the south side.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I had a Walter Payton jersey when I was a
little kid, and it was the the old one that
had the three quarter sleeves on it, you know, so
it wasn't really like an official jersey. It was like
the one you would buy at Sears Roebuck, you know,
that was the knockoff. And then I believe I had
a Jim McMahon jersey.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I've seen you in the nine jersey as well.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yeah, those were the two that I had when I
was a little kid, and then I had the and
I think the I think the Jim McMahon jersey might
have come in the hutch play set if I ran
the helmet with the helmet, yeah, that may be how
I had the number nine.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
That's a fun game to play. Can you name every
team's representative from against say nineteen eighty two and nineteen
eighty four ish? What was who was the chosen figure?
The thirty two, the eighty eight for Lynn Swan if
you were a Steelers guy with the Jack Lambert obviously
with Tony Thorpe set for the Cowboys. Speaking of the Cowboys,
(04:47):
I don't want to jump over what I was.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
You know what, Let me do this real quick, just real,
real quick, and then you can get right back to it.
Your company, man, I want to mention you got a shill. Well,
it's a big one because we're talking about the NFL,
and the NFL chose the Petros and Honey Show all
right for their grand prize, for their big grand prize
drawing that we're going to pull today. Every single day
this week, including today, we are going to give away
(05:08):
and gave away one hundred dollars NFL Shop gift card.
Now we've got four winners. We'll get one more today.
We're going to do that in the four o'clock hour,
and then in the five o'clock hour, we are going
to pull that grand prize winner. That grand prize winner
is going to get a two night's day at Resorts World,
Las Vegas and a four pack to see Raiders Broncos
at Allegiant Stadium on December seventh. So Resorts World, if
(05:32):
you've ever been there, you know, victory lap starts in
the lap of luxury, premium rooms, bold flavors, and knights
that play to win. That's what Resorts World is football,
and it's a reminder to watch Good Morning Football overtime
weekdays at four pm. I know you watch every single
day Fox eleven Plus with Kyle Brandt, Jamie Erdahl, and
Manti Tale. Manti joined us a little bit earlier this week.
(05:52):
That was a sensational conversation with Notre Dame in the
college play.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Let's not get sidetracked with that because I think that
consumes the next nine hours, whether we're whether we're on that.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
To your point, I said, Tony Dorset would be the
Cowboys rep And you said, speaking of the Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Well, I was going to say, not skipping over what
is a deeply important for the teams that are trying
to get into the best possible spot or just get
into the January NFL tournament upcoming here. I mean Bucks
and Rams is huge here. You know, both of those
teams probably are going to get in. I don't know
if the Bucks definitely do.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
If they drop this one, the Panthers really going to
win the South? What other team could possibly win the
NFC South than the Bucks? Like, not the Falcons. Well, people,
it's the Panthers. But they blew that game against the
Saints that really dealt them.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
That's that's why I look at the Bucks like, eh.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Well, I say all the time, you know they people
always talk about life is short, life is also long.
That also applies to a pro football season. Certainly you
feel like, oh, it's gone so fast, and sure it has,
but also things happen that people don't fully notice. We
signed off somewhere around late September on the Bucks being
a contender for the Super Bowl. If you've been paying
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attention to them, they ain't great. The Rams are really
coming to deepy. Oh yeah, that was a big conversation
a couple few weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
It's Matthew Stafford in the Rams.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
That was also the conversation on one around one Daniel Jones,
who has the Chiefs this weekend important to Chargers fans
of course, and Broncos fans within the sound of our
voice too, because.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Big win for the Bolts last night with the Texans
taking out the Bills.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Absolutely if the Colts. If you look at it, it's
kind of eight nine teams trying to squeeze into those
seven spots available in the AFC. And I'll tell you
the Steelers better not lose to your bears. Are They're
in some real jeopardy of missing out. You can go
through a number of games, and perhaps we will over
the course of this, but I was going to mention
about America's alleged team. The Dallas Cowboys are part of
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a trio of games that you may hold up as
the best Thanksgiving trio of games that we've seen in
the last couple of decades.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I mean this coming Thanksgi. We're not talking about Cowboys
ego on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
I'm talking about No, I'm cat coming the first.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Day, we're jumping to the bird and you got a
ten am, you got a one pm, and now we
got the five pm for Thanksgiving Day. Yeah, you're talking
about the trio.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
And you go, I mean, let whether the Chiefs win
or lose this Sunday they play in Big d and
if the Cowboys, and I kind of think they are
going to beat the Eagles given the way the Eagles
have been tracked, a messing, a little bit of messing
with fire, and I feel like Dallas.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
They really kind of solidified itself with the returning to
Kobe Dean, and it just feels like you can't run
on them anymore.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I hear you. But on the other side of that,
on the other side of that, I don't want to
get sidetracked too far away from Los Angeles right out
of the gate here. But you do wonder looking at
the NFL, was Jerry Jones right to not sign Micah Parsons.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Well, look, it's a one game sample and it was
against the Raiders, who are terrible. But Quinn Williams is
dominant himself. Announced reminded everyone that you remember when Quinn
Williams was the guy that everyone said was yeah, there's
Aaron Jones with then chest right behind Aaron Jones, there's
Chris Jones, and there's Aaron Donald. I'm sorry Aaron Donald.
(09:11):
Right behind him is is Chris Jones, and this Quinn
Williams and Quinn might be better than like That was
an actual conversation.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
The effect for the first twenty years of this millennium
were do not sign any New England Patriots because if
you expect them to perform on the level that they
did in Foxborough, it's fools gold. It doesn't transfer. Chargers
learned that with JC Jackson, right, well, so many teams
did horrible. The opposite is true with the Jets. If
you got to like a guy, you liked them come
out of school. But the Jets drafted him like a
(09:40):
little get him because he's been he has the stake
of the Jets on him. You can't hold that against him.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Right, So you got Chiefs Cowboys the afternoon one could well,
if Joe Burrow's healthy and he's going to be playing,
that's the night one. Yeah, that's the night one is
Dangles Baltimore.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
That's deeply important for the Chargers and Steelers and Texan
in Broncos and everybody.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
You said you said eight or nine, it's eleven, like
that's this year. The AFC is now I'm not not
by my team. Right, So you've got four division winners
right right now as it stands, Colts, Patriots, Steelers, and Broncos.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Right, Colts lose, Let me just say this to you.
Colts lose to the Chiefs, which obviously there their favorite
to lose that game. Beware the Jacksonville Jaguars the pleasure
of no, They're going to prove my point now. So
there's your four winners right now, here's your wild card Chargers, right, Bill's, Jags, Texans, Ravens, Chiefs.
(10:40):
That's eleven already, that's ten. We're now with ten teams
and i haven't even gotten to the there's one more
that I'm forgetting. Well, what's wild is is the inversion
of what you think are the best teams. You have
the Broncos and Patriots, who nobody thinks are the two
actual best.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Tis ten. It's ten teams fighting for seven spots. Three
are going right now. The wildcard teams are the Chargers, Bills,
and Jags, meaning the Texans, Chiefs, and Ravens are currently
on the outside. Looking in well, and I suspect that
a lot of those teams are, or at least one
or two of those teams are going to overtake who's
in front of them in the standings right now, I
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do think the Ravens are going to surpass the Steelers.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
That doesn't give another Steelers out. Yeah, the Steelers are,
They'll be out, not in the playoffs. Look, if they
lose to the Bears, this would be a big one.
It might swing some things. But they still have after
this one Buffalo at Detroit and two more with the Ravens.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I mean they could, you know, not ideal.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
They're tracking towards nine to eight with the loss to
the Bears, or maybe even eight to nine, and that
might spell the end for Mike Tomlin, which would be something.
In the meantime, speaking of those Steelers, I don't want
to get ugly. I just was celebrating where we are
on the calendar and all of that. But a couple
of Sunday nights ago, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Was absolutely wrecked by the Chargers.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
The Steelers did it was an embarrassment. Yeah I didn't.
I didn't show up. I protected you on Claude Van
damashek Yeah, zero for nine on third class half fool.
You know that doesn't really understand the world. Rodgers scared
as as any man in his forties or an old
man is more aware of his mortality than a twenty
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three year old. So of course, display Peyton and Brady
and anyone else of that age. When he sees a
sizeable guy running towards him very fast, his move is
to turtle or to get rid of the ball so
he doesn't take a smack. So that's Aaron Rodgers. And
now now he's a broken left wrist. How's he going
to defend himself. How's he's gonna throw the ball away?
(12:36):
So how he's gonna do it against the bear? So
back to that Sunday night game, the Chargers dominated. I
think if you are a Bolts fan, you probably a
car really Smith, I loved.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
It, touchdown Chargers one.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Yeah, that was said that all the time, over and over,
and Daniel Jeremi was like, I told you about Justin Herbert.
I told you he was going to be the best
of them all and all that kind of crap. Whenever
he claims after the fact. Anyway, but I'm sure you
were having a wonderful time, as were the people who
weren't waiving terrible towels in the stadium that night. I
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was glad I didn't go, you know, I I there
would have been a price was quite substantial. Yeah, that
would have been a terrible night. There was the Gills,
John and Koschek wanted to go. I said, I got
a hunch about this one. I don't think we should bother,
and we didn't.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
That's that's a topic that I can continue to address
over and over again. Just the great dist service you
did to your son that.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Yeah, I should have made him a Chargers fan. He'd
be much happier.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Should have madehi a Dodger fan. He's allowed to do
whatever a Laker fan, a Charger or Rams fan. You
know why because he was born in Los Angeles, he
was raised in Los Angeles. His pals at school are
all showing up and talking about the Laker game from
the night before and the Kings winning the Stanley Cup
back to back years. That's what they're all talking about.
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They're talking about Justin Herbert.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
He's been around to celebrate a couple of Cups won
by the Black and Gold.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
How many games did he see the Black and Gold
play the year they won the Cup.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
At least a couple Okay, they make their swing through
so cowo.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
You could have taken them to twenty Kings games. You
could have season tickets to the Kings and the It
could be enjoying, you know, like the.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Real fans like Snoop Dog he loves it. Yeah, that's who.
That would be, my contemporary, Just.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
An old man and his son and sharing the moments
that you and your dad shared because you were a
kid growing up in Pittsburgh going to see the Panthers,
going to see the Steelers, going You went to the games,
and those are the memories.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
We go to the games too. We didn't go to
this one, and we dodged a bullet. As it turned out,
I was quite wise to steer him. I didn't know
that roots were meaningless.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Tore they are meaningless.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Yes, Kate, let me get this straight.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Check.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Your son is born in Los Angeles. Yes, raised in
Los Angeles, educated in Los Angeles, play.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
High school football in Los Angeles with a bunch of
football playing buddies.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
And you're forcing him to be a Pittsburgh fan.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
I won't be represented like that. That's that's ugly from
both of you. I know you put it.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
No, you put it on him, you put you had
him in Steelers ones eaes and you had him in
Pittsburgh Penguin sweaters when he was a little kid.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Oh yeah, what what a disgrace to the colors of
the city. It is now. Listen, he's he's his own
free will.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
It's not his free will to please his old man.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
He wants a cheer for another pro football team. He
just can't do it within my four on that bus.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
He wants the approval of his old man. Old man
to go look at my luck.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Come on, well, listen, he has a terrible town. He
owns one.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I owned no reason for him to have one.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Well guess what you know?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
What him of those chains that bind him.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I'm not going to do it and instead tend to
your own house.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I do.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I got it. But you know how excited I didn't
talk about your girls?
Speaker 5 (16:01):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
My girls love baseball. They're big Dodger fans. You know
how excited they've been these last ten years. They celebrated.
And I was sitting on the couch watching Game seven
or Game six with my daughter. Game seven, I watched
in Nashville because were on the road with the Titans.
But I'm watching watching the game with my daughter.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
She's all like the movie with Vigo Mortensen where he
was a bad guy who's like a gangster murderer Green Book.
No not no, he was like a murder and then
he goes to some small town. Yeah, and then the
mobsters come to get him. He's like, I left that
life behind. That's Matt money Smith. He's he's ashamed of
his roots. He doesn't want anybody to know. He's Oh no,
(16:38):
I'm on the surfboard.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
He's he's robbing out Chicago in nineteen ninety one, I
was seventeen years old.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
I've been here for thirty three years, thirty years out
in the ocean, like yes, like like he's layered Hamlet the.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Second I run the South side of Chicago again until
nineteen ninety one? Would I hang on to that when
I've got the glorious Dodger Stadium and the boys in
blue for the boys in summer and daughters that love
going to the ballpark.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
In January of nineteen eighty six, was it a special day?
Was it a special year? In fact? With you and
your old man, my brothers. When the Chicago Bears whipped
all but the Dolphins.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Barely remember it. I'm not kidding. I remember it, but
not like it with some sort not like I not
like I remember well.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Ironic, iron they see.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
But that's the interesting thing about championships is you think
it's gonna be this seminal moment of your your sporting
you know, your sporting fandom, and it just, I don't know,
it just ends up kind of being like, aw, all right,
well that happened. Now what are we going to do?
Speaker 4 (17:50):
You speak for yourself if that's how it resonates it.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I did go out and celebrate in the streets when
I was a Laker season ticket holder in two thousand,
because I went to damn near every single regular season
game in almost every I think I went to every
single postseason game, including the historic one against Portland, the
coming back from seventeen down in the fourth, the Kobe shack,
and when they won the title that year, a pal
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and I went into the streets and celebrate them.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
I loved that Lakers rally in the fourth quarter. I
remember it well. They stopped posting Rashid Wallace, who was
killing them the whole game and the Lakers overcame out
it hipp and melted down. I listen, I can live
in the moment and enjoy what's going on locally, I said,
all right, I mean listen, I said before we even
started the show, I was thrilled for Tim Kits on
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a human level because I knew he was rejoicing when
the Dodgers got.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Over, by the way, mostly because he was pulling checks.
I mean, he gets paid for the day.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Kate, are you going to defend yourself?
Speaker 6 (18:53):
I appreciate it, Shack, you did text me, and I
do appreciate that. It was heartfelt, and I really do appreciate.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
But am I right?
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Cats?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
No, give me, give me that's all. Give me a percentage,
gravy percent percentage of you that was happy as a
Dodger fan, for your girls, for the family, for your
for young Tim Kates cheering on his Dodgers, and percentage
that was excited because you knew you were going to
get an extra couple bucks because you're covering the parade
and there's a couple more days.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
I mean sixty to forty.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah, wait, what's the sixty you choose?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Which one? I mean, I got a lot of money. Sheck,
you get paid per day. You know it's a Christmas season.
He's seventeen extra games, seventeen games of paychecks.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
A full month of scam. It was like twenty six shows.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
That's like putting gravy on a delicious turkey. Though, you
get the If you get to talk about your beloved
baseball team every day professionally, you're getting whatever your favorite
meat of the is.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
That turkey is the meat. You know that the turkey
meat is the cash in his pocket because he's putting
meat on the table.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Care for this? I don't care for He hated people
like I have no rooting interest anymore. I just like
I just like the best personalities. That's who I root for.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Then quit. Then you shouldn't be.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Allowed to do it any mean quit you don't actually
enjoy the subject matter anymore.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I love the abject matter, but it doesn't have to
emotionally move me anymore. Like I.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
When I say so, that's the performance when you go
touch down, chargio, you don't mean it.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I do. No, that's the charge you were talking about.
You know how am I fired up for the Bears
versus Steelers? Not in the least like I legitimately have
not had a single emotional bone in my body for
any Chicago sporting team for at least fifteen.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
You were a White Sox kid, though, right I was.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I should have been, but I was not. I was
a Cubs kid because my grandma raised me and she
couldn't drive, so we would just spend afternoons out of
school together watching the Cubs on WGN because they played
all day games.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
When they got over the hump, finally, my mom.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Cried tears of sadness when she said, aren't you excited?
And I said, I gotta be honest with you. I'm
not like I wish I'm trying to. I said, I'm
really like trying to emotionally feel this right now, and
nothing's happening. Like it's not working for me.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
You're so marinated in booze now you're you're you're immune
to human emotion.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
It truly was. It was the Lakers and the Kings
that did it to me.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
You know, Oh, I remember when the Kings won their Cup.
I said something about it would have been better in
the purple and gold, and you said, buzz kill.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
That sounds right, sounds right now. When I when the
Blackhawks and the Kings were tangling in the conference finals,
and and my mother was, you know, and Tony Zudoc
was saying.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Don't say you did. Don't say you're rooting for the King.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Said mom, I don't give a good goddamn about the Blackhawks.
As far as I'm concerned, they can get swept. You know,
I got the Kings. Look, Robata and I are like this.
You know these rob Blake and I we play golf together.
I mean, come on, what do you think I'm cheering
for that?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Trump's the ties, the roots that go back by decades.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Not even close. I can hardly remember making those little
napkin boats at Chicago Stadium and dropping away out the
third deck.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
You're a lack of boat. Now, your lack of regard
for history apparently has bled into the Los Angeles Chargers
social media team because they have no understanding of history.
What do you mean, Well, right after that victory, the housing,
the disgracing of the Pittsburgh Steelers before the football nation,
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in the moments immediately after, they decided on purpose to
let the football gods and everybody else know that they
think they're above law. I'm not a superstitious man. But
I understand fact somebody or some people your colleagues over
there with the charger.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
They are award winning I've heard our award winning social
media team led by the great Megan Julian.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Well, listen, she or her team made a mistake that
the guys between the lines are going to pay for
them the rest of this season.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
And you laugh if you want. Don McLain is joining
us in five minutes.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Okay, right after they took to Twitter and they posted
a picture of the terrible towel and underneath it wrote, whoa,
this is worthless. What happened the next Sunday? What happened
was seven days later, Jacks, Oh no, you didn't lose
the law. You got humiliated. Do you think that's some coincidence?
(23:30):
Get ready for more, fran I hope the social media
jibe was hysterical and worth it because you can go
out TJ houshman Zada and the Jaguars and any and
the tent Titans. You mess with the terrible stack tree,
one hundred percent rate of failure of poking the bear,
or well not saying now that's ironic because it's the
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bears who the Steelers are playing. You know what I'm
getting at. You made a mistake and now justin.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Herb Grizzly, I made that up? What does that mean?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
So we put the over under on. What's that waking
up a sleeping giant?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Sleeping giant? Yeah, well, all right, we're gonna break. Don
McLean's gonna join.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Us Undermine, bitten by my own snake or bear.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Don McClain will join us Big News Today. Andrew Friedman
far han Ziety going to consult the Lakers front office
Little Dodger Laker Synergy, as they are now both owned
by the same man. Mark Walter get into that with
Don McLain, the four and eleven Clippers, the return of
Lebron James, and all things NBA, not to mention UCLA basketball.
(24:36):
McK cronin already sent it an early message by starting
his second unit and saying it's not a message that
was sent. We'll get into all that with dmac next.
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he's on the call number nineteen UCLA vers Presbyterian Tonight
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at seven thirty pm on Big ten Network. He'll be
there court side calling it. Dave Damaschek in for p
and joining us now like he knows every Friday at
the Great Don McClain, what's happening, Don, how's it going guys?
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Yeah, I'm getting ready to get in the car. We'll
see if I have anything left in the tank. After
last night's ball game down at the Galen Center, that
was wild.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
What happened? Share it with us.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Triplet game winner at the buzzer from three down two
for the win for USC.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Early season college basketball. Don McClain is all over it.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Now.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Let's start there then, Don because mc cronin said that
he doesn't believe in messaging, he doesn't believe in doghouses. Yeah,
the last game, no Donovan dent out there, Trent Perry
to start the game instead it was the twos and
he said, look, these guys just played better in practice.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Your thoughts, well, they may have. I wasn't at practice,
but they may have played better at practice. But it's
more about and look, even though he says it's not
a message, it was a message to the players that
we need to get off to better starts. And defensively,
they just did won and they took Arizona to the wire,
but they just haven't had the same urgency, the same
(27:00):
tensity on the defensive end, especially the start game. So
I think that was why he did it. The interesting
thing will be who he starts tonight because that second
group I mean second Medo State's not very good, but
they got off to they shut him out for the
first I think four and a half minutes that starting
group on Tuesday, and then there's a little bit of
(27:20):
drop off in the second half. So it'll it'll be
interesting to see when we when we get to PAULI tonight,
who's starting.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Don. We've been over this already, so we don't need
to rehash it once again. But of course it's nice
to reconnect with donal Klin since.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
This is going on.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
He broke my heart when I thought he might come
to play on the on the banks of the Three Rivers.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
He came. I watched him playing time You're here and
Don joins us.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
His recruitment was still hanging in the balance when he
played in the Dapper Dan Tournament.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
And what was it, nineteen eighty eight, eighty eight, that's right, that's.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Right now, that Calipari that was recruiting you.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Calipari was an assistant for Paul Evans at that time.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Paul Evans.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
And Dave. I think I've told you this that that
tells you how good of a recruiter is no offense
to anybody from Pittsburgh, how good of a recruiter Calipari
is that he can get a white kid from southern
California to even visit Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Ah, you would have been the missing piece. But anyway,
let's talk about the here and now. Calipari. I don't
know how many analytics he's applying here, but the word
on the street is as they take over more and more,
and it's I guess, sort of old, an old story
at this point that the Lakers are lagging a little
behind the rest of the league. How say you, are
you aware of this and how important do you think
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it is for them to catch up?
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Well, it's interesting because JJ redd it kind of strikes
me as an analytics guy, and so maybe that was
the case in the past.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
I'm not in that locker room. I'm not in those meetings,
but you know, everybody's got their own opinion on analytics
and how much they should be used. I'm involved with
it in the pre draft process that I do in
the spring with the CAA, who I work for. They
have an analytics department when it comes to recruiting players,
and players they already have that are in the NBA,
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and so I think everybody chooses how much they want
to use analytics in terms of evaluation, in terms of performance,
in terms of on the court, who plays, what, how
many minutes. I'm of the opinion that it's somewhere in
the middle. Like I don't think you should ignore all analytics,
but I don't. I think if you're only using analytics,
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you're probably going to miss some stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
It's a salary cap league, don It's an intricate salary
cap league because of the penalties for first aprin, second apron,
all that sort of stuff. Like what do you think,
what do you suspect Andrew Friedman in far hanziety you're
going to try to dig into try to figure out
what the Lakers are doing right or aren't doing right.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Yeah, that's a good question, And you know, I think
that's kind of my point. And it'll be interesting to
see what happens with two baseball guys coming into basketball
in how they can apply what they've used to a
great deal of success with the Dodgers into professional basketball.
I mean, I think, and I may be speaking way
out of turn here, but I feel like analytics is
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way more applied to baseball than basketball, or should be
at least from where I sit in what little I
know about it. But it doesn't hurt to have guys
that who have had success in another sport come and
take a look at what you're doing in your sport.
You know, they've done so well with the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
It just feels a little bit like a computer is
making the difference. And I think that's unsatisfying on a
visceral level for diehard sports fans. But what do the analytics,
or more importantly, what does Don McClain say about LaMelo
ball perhaps being.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
A fit for the Clippers?
Speaker 4 (30:50):
They obviously goes without saying have not gotten off to
a great start. Is you know LaMelo is now dissatisfied
in his situation. Any possibility of that happening, I mean.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
There's always a possibility. And here's the thing, Dave, that
that analytics doesn't measure, and this is where I have
a problem with people that only rely on analytics. Doesn't
measure heart, doesn't measure toughness, doesn't measure how you are
in the locker room, doesn't measure how good of a
teammate you are, doesn't measure how coachable you are. And
so when you rely on oh, well, LaMelo does this,
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this and this and this is what the numbers say,
and you bring it. And I'm not saying he's going
to I'm just saying it's the possibility. You bring him
into your locker room and he and he and he
puts it up in flames because of his personality. And
this is for any player. And that's why when you
solely rely on analytics, you're walking a slippery slope because
there's so much more that goes into it than just
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what the numbers say on the court.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
But do they need to do something that might feel
a little rash to try and salvage this season?
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (31:54):
And I said this last week. You weren't there obviously, Dave.
But it just it's it's the same old thing for
the Clippers. There's always something, always something, and he usually
revolves around Kawhi Leonard and he's not playing and they'll
say we're waiting for him to get back, just like
they said for the last six or seven years, and
it just goes round and round. So yeah, bringing LaMelo
ball and yeah, maybe that'll help, but it ain't gonna
(32:16):
change what's been happening for the last you know, five
to seven years. When Kawhi and PG came. It was,
it's it's it's. It had been one thing after another,
and it's still one thing after another.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
And if it keeps getting worse. The fact that there's
an unprotected lottery pick headed to Oklahoma City in.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
This draft, holy holy.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Right if Boozer's on that team or Demands or one
of those guys, my god.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Yeah, well yeah yeah, And you know, again, that's just
another fallout from the failed PG Kawhi thing that like
they celebrated when those two game like they were gonna
win multiple championships and they've been to the Western Conference
Finals once and pg's gone yea and so or all theirs.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
That when I saw that today unprotected and they're four
and ten with the fourth worst or tied for the
fourth worst number of wins in the league, that's that's
absolutely terrifying considering.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
And by the way, Matt, this is a really good
draft this year, yeah, really good.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
To the to the Lakers done and Lebron's return twelve assists,
one turnover, said that it was laughable that anybody questioned
whether or not he'd figure out how to fit in
that he can fit in anywhere. Don't know, if you
had a chance to watch the game against Utah or
if you saw the highlights or whatever. But look, he
looked great. He was moving the ball, you know, from
the corner, from the mid post, and it looked fantastic
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when he and Luca were out there. But then I
looked at the plus minus and it was kind of weird.
It was minus eleven when he and Luca were on
the court and plus seventeen when it was Lebron no Luca,
plus seventeen Luca no Lebron. I know it's one game,
but do you think there is something to that because
they're both so good with the ball in their hands.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
Uh, maybe I think that's something to keep an eye on.
But I do think, and I think I said this
to you a p a few weeks ago, that I
hope that this was the approach that Lebron would take
that not just come in there and you know, not
kick Luca to the side, but try and outduel him
or score as many as him. He kind of took
a back seat and became a facilitator in a ball mover.
(34:18):
And you know, I think if it's going to work,
really work a long term with the Lakers, I think
that's how it's going to have to be. It's Luca's world,
Lebron's playing in it, and he's helping not only Luca
but the rest of the team with his IQ. And
that doesn't get talked about enough how smart Lebron James is.
Whether you like him or not, you can't deny that
he is one of the smartest basketball players that's ever played.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
I'm glad you brought it up in that way because intellectually,
I'm sure Lebron James, and if he can remove the
ego of who he is and has been in the league,
understands that Luca should be the main man on the team.
But obviously heavyweight boxers have a hard time calling it
quits when obviously done for them. Quarterbacks who are one
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time superstars have a hard time repressing the desire to
be the difference in an offense, to be more of
a passenger like Peyton Manning when they won the Super
Bowl a decade or so ago. How hard do you
imagine that is for Lebron right now to accept.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
Well, I think Lebron is well aware obviously of his legacy,
and I think what his motivation would be if it
stays the way it is is to win another championship,
and that supersedes everything. When you're done playing, people remember
your career for what you did, not really so much individually,
but how many championships you won. And that's across the board.
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And I think that is Lebron's motivation is if somehow
this Laker team could position themselves to make a run
in the playoffs and potentially win a championship, he could
walk away having done that in his last year. And
I think that probably in his mind, I'm sure outweighs
anything number, you know, totals anything like that.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Any concern about defensively, it's fifteen games or sixteen games
and now, yeah, sixteen games, and I think and they
have some of the worst paint metrics, some of the
worst defensive metrics out there, and any concern about that done.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
Yeah, I mean, I think we're far enough in that,
you know, are they going to get better? Do they
do they make some moves before the deadline or at
the deadline to get better defensively, because that's a thing
like everyone talks about the thunder and SGA and home
grin and their offense and all that, but they're really
good defensively, and so if the Lakers are going to
challenge them and make a run in the playoffs, they're
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going to have to get better defensively.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Was it you're doing? Probably, we'll let you go on
this down you're doing Presbyterian? You got to hit the
road and get down to Paully. Was it Presbyterian that
knocked off Ucla in one of these early contests a
few years back? This is this a Presbyterian team? That said,
do I remember that correctly? I was trying to remember
the early season game that.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
Got there's it's been a few along the way. It's
not Presbyterian. UCLA actually beat him by fifteen I think,
I don't know, fifteen years ago or something like that.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
I remember a game what you're talking about.
Speaker 5 (37:10):
I'm trying to think of who it is?
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Too early?
Speaker 7 (37:13):
You know who it was?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Who was it?
Speaker 5 (37:14):
You know it was? It was Belmont, Belmont.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
There you go, it was Belmont.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
They show up in the tourney once in a blue moon.
It feels like, you know, there was a game played.
I believe early season. Paully Pavilion was the scene. Nineteen
ninety one, the UCLA Bruins destroyed the highly rated Indiana Hoosiers.
Then in the final eight, you're going to do that.
They were in the same region.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
You're really going to do this.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
The same Indiana Hoosiers showed up to the same UCLA
Bruins and damage. Yet got his revenge. He's against McClain
for not going to Pitt. He was on the I
saw what I have two basketball teams I rooted for
in college.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
Well the year before that, Pitt came into Paulie and
we beat him by one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
I'm nice to say about Brian Shorter and Sean Miller
in the game.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
We appreciate it. Don have a great call tonight, Big
ten Network, UCLA Presbyterian. Check it out. He'll be on
the call a seven thirty tip. Thanks Tom.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
All right, guys, have a good weeknd too.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
There he goes. He puts up with so much of
your craft, and he does not put up with anybody's craft.
It's hilarious to me every time because you're typically in
on Fridays, Patrus is doing football games, so more often
than that that's the day that he's gone. When I
love it, and it's look, damn a check on Fridays
is a treat for all the folks stuck in this
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guyshit here.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
For him, I was, I was, I was optimistic. I
was impressionable. He could be the missing piece, this long
stretch of a center. He could shoot. Who had seen
anything like that in nineteen eighty eight?
Speaker 3 (38:51):
Do you remember his recruitment in nineteen eighty eight? I
absolutely really like you heard that.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
You think I'm making that up. I went to see
him literally in the civic arena in the Dapper Dan
High School All Star Tournament. He was one of the
three biggest stars in it.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
Your old man was the team doctor. That's right, Yeah,
for basketball as well, right.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
For basketball and foot penguins.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Look at that what could have been? I'm sure he
has said he was just the all time leading scorer
in Don almost went to the final four, got close. Yeah,
you know, it's uh interesting, not ironic, but an interesting
coincidence that Don all time leading scorer packed ten Pac
(39:34):
twelve and then when UCLA became a member of the
Big Ten. You know who's got him by like four points?
Who cal Cheney? Wow?
Speaker 4 (39:44):
Bringing that bringing it on?
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Hum.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
There is that little head to head there between the
two of them.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
By the way, Lebron in his prime could rebound his
position and he would offset what he lacked around him
on those Calves teams at least. Right, Yeah, is he
now no longer that guy?
Speaker 3 (40:00):
He's old. He's just too old. You've all played the
I mean he still grass boards. He just won't play
a defense. He don't play a lick of defense. All right,
We got to finish that conversation we started in the
opening segment about what makes Dave a bad dad. That's next.
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McClain joined us, you were sharing with me how a
tweet from the Chargers' social media team was going to
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derail their season and was the cause for the Chargers
Justin Herbert to have his worst game as a professional
and the Chargers to fall apart against the Jags. This
was all due to a tweet about a towel.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
That's right, not any towel, the terrible towel. Look again,
I don't believe in voodoot. I'm more than happy to
open umbrella inside and otherwise, but also under a ladder.
There's a one hundred percent rate of failure when you
mess with it. It started, if I'm not mistaken with TJ.
Houschmann Zada of the Bengals, he tells a funny story
about this. Got into the hotel elevator in Pittsburgh and
(42:02):
on his way down he saw Steelers fan carrying one
of those and he said, I'll give you two hundred
dollars for that, to which I've asked him, why the
hell would you pay two hundred dollars because it is
just a towel. After you think he negotiated with the fan,
you know you can't have it, And it was like, yeah,
that's right. You know your people up in Chicago they
throw everything. Well, no, if it goes into the standard,
(42:25):
they don't want it. I don't care how valuable that
thing is. Take it back. It's dirty. Why, you're right,
the real criminal was the one. I don't care how
much hushman Zada offered you for it. You shouldn't be
giving it over to him.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
But then again, Bucks, I can go buy one at
the on my way to the stadium and have a
hundred and.
Speaker 4 (42:43):
Now you've turned it over. But just exactly like the
Charger social media team, hushman Zada took it and shined
his shoes with it at the end of the game.
And that's the year Carson Palmer his knee blew out
and the Bengals never did anything. The Titans messed with it,
the Jags it recently. I'm just telling you, let's see
how the rest of the season goes here.
Speaker 3 (43:04):
I think it was just an opportunity to use the
Gravity Falls meme, you know, I mean, that's what the
kids like, one of my favorite shows.
Speaker 4 (43:12):
Maybe maybe they'll find the Iron.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
Copes official the Terrible Towel of Pittsburgh original. It's got
Akroscher Stadium, the Steelers logo, and then it's got Dipper
I think that's his name on the bottom saying this
is worthless.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
We'll see if gravity is joined with the Chargers in
their fall. I'll tell you why the end of the season.
Speaker 3 (43:31):
How about this? Go ahead about this Aaron Rodgers, after
getting his head caved in that entire game doesn't go
on that worthless garbage time touchdown drive. Maybe they don't
do the Terrible Towel meme. Maybe they're like, hey, classy, classy.
Speaker 4 (43:47):
Wait, they were sticking it to the forty something year
old mercenary with that with a terrible towel, as though
he has any allegiance.
Speaker 3 (43:54):
Mike Tomlin, Okaine. Yeah, let's go get this garbage time touchdown.
We're down twenty five to three, there's three minutes left
in the game. They don't want anyone to get hurt.
You know, let's just drive the field and suggest that
maybe this game wasn't as lopsided as zero for nine
on third down couple interceptions.
Speaker 4 (44:12):
Well, it's embarrassing. I'm not going to argue with you
about the state of the Steelers. They feel semi fraudulent,
and I love to talk about Week twelve NFL, these
critical games upcoming, But first before we dig in on
any of those, if at all, I do want to
say very quickly, if I can take it over, Man,
I texted you this. I love doing this show because
it's the one sports show I listened to in Los
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Angeles driving around local and Man, you torched Kawhi Leonard
on a level that I haven't heard very many people articulate.
And if he happened to catch it, he would probably
feel a little embarrassed. I'm sure he has a big ego,
But man, you and Petros do a as good a
job as anybody. When you set your gaze on whether
(44:54):
it's Trojan's football or Kawhi Leonard or otherwise you guys
are you guys are institution not just for being funny,
but you're as informed and insightful.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
As I My response, because it was right after the
Steeler game, Yeah, a couple of days fire and you
were like, man, was that a takedown? That was great?
And I wrote back, yeah, sorry about your guys. That
was it was you sass me.
Speaker 4 (45:15):
It wasn't. It wasn't at all.
Speaker 3 (45:17):
I think I sassed you. I don't.
Speaker 4 (45:19):
I don't think you extended no sympathy for my hard
day guy. Listen, I gotta tell you, I'm a little
disgusted by what they're doing, but I also have to
give a shout out. Even though he can't hear us
right now, he's over in Vegas. Maybe with our mutual
pole Dan Helly. It seems like they're yet quite a
bit a handsome duo, that's for sure. But Petros took
time out of his busy schedule at the request. I
(45:40):
was the I was the middleman for this. Brad Venami,
the coach of Crespy. The the remarkable story. Sure, three
years ago, winless, this season, undefeated regular season. It was remarkable.
James Moffatt and uh and Chase Kerran and the rest
of the fellas John Claude, Van Damna Schet Contribute Swiss Army.
(46:01):
He plays it all man, he plays wherever he's need.
It's taught him in there. He's ready to roll. He
loves tight end. He really wanted to be a quarterback.
Who doesn't want to be a quarterback. But like I say, this,
Chase Kerran, who's a fifteen year old kid can sling it.
He often reminds me of remember in Mad Max Beyond
Thunderdome when Gibson goes into when Max goes into the
(46:24):
actual Thunderdome and he's fighting the guy with the big
metal helmet, and then he knocks at master Blaster Master
Blaster and he knocks it off, and it turns out
there's a wee old man sitting on top. But but
the muscle is just a boy. That's how I feel,
right every time, every time the helmet comes off of
this fifteen year old who you watch sling in the ball.
I mean, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, really has a whip that
(46:46):
is you are going to see in Division one. He
takes his helmet off and I say the same thing.
He's just a boy. Look at his face. It's jarring
to me. But Petros took time out of his schedule.
Coach Fanami said, man, we be great if Petros would
shout us out. And I said, funny because I was
just filling in for Petros and I shouted you you out,
(47:06):
and he said, Petros, Petros is great. No, he didn't
even he didn't. He skipped right past it. He just
said Petros is real, funny guy. Man, he's he really
did it. So I said, fine, I'll ask and Petros
took time and and dropped the line to wish the
Celts well beautiful, which was very kind of him to do.
Because he is the voice of I think he is
as prominent a voice for LA and SoCal high school football.
Speaker 3 (47:30):
Yeah, it's not even close. Like I mean, if Eric
Sondheimer is the savant, the high school savant, the you know,
the old guard that's been doing it forever, he's arguably
the best high school sports reporter. I'm sure Texas has
got their old dog in Florida, you know, perhaps has there.
Sondheimer's incredible. The fact that he's done it as long
as he has is at an institution like the La Times.
(47:52):
But yes, as far as voices go nobody. Petros loves
high school football and it pulled me into the world
of high school football because my kids were going to
my day and they were a powerhouse. And then befriended
Jason Negro at Bosco, so then I get invested there.
And then we've got friends and you know that we're
playing at losal that live in the neighborhoods. So now
I get invested in the Griffins. And tonight is going
(48:14):
to be a special night. It is going to be
an incredible night in Division One. After the upset thanks
to the monsoon last week of Olu over Bosco, the
fact that we got Carson Palmer coaching Santa Margarita Volu,
and of all teams, you know, the Titan, the modern
day Monarchs unbeatable, and yet they've got to face their
(48:36):
kryptonite and Centennial who'll already beat them earlier this year.
Speaker 4 (48:40):
It's great, man. We're two old curmudgeons who've been around
for a minute now. And my experience at least has
taught me pro football players, even college football players, they
revere their college days. Pro football can be a job
some of the time for them, but there is nothing
like the memories that they have in high school football.
They will swim and talk to you as long as
(49:01):
you want about their high school team. I have to
talk about Ronnie Fossio, looking him giving us keep it
like a secret built the spill Fossio.
Speaker 3 (49:11):
And by the way, we're not just the d one
place low CEU playing tonight too Big one Murray out
of Valley for the for the Griffs. So several times, yeah.
Speaker 4 (49:20):
I'm jealous. I wish I were going to another high
school playoff game the night. Well that's what happens when
you go undefeated and you get thrown into it. You
know what divisions you guys get thrown into?
Speaker 2 (49:29):
Way up?
Speaker 3 (49:30):
Yeah, it's wild. How its I have like the best
season that you've had forever, and then you're like, oh no,
we're just should.
Speaker 4 (49:37):
We have lost more?
Speaker 5 (49:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (49:38):
Exactly, Yeah, well I mean look at I mean, oh
lose different. It's Trinity League, so you know they're whatever.
Two and nine record isn't representative of how good of
a team they are. But still, yeah, it's I think
I was talking to DJ and he pointed out, you know,
his son's high school team went three and like nine
and got putt in the division below them and won
it all. And then the next year they ended up,
you know, going whatever put in the division up and
(50:00):
got housed in the first round. It's just wild the
way they were.
Speaker 4 (50:03):
Cresby, Cresby undefeated, lost to a five and five team
in the first round. It was a close game, but
it was a victory to me that they got over
those bullies from Silesia. Boy, they brutes, but they took
air of business in that one. Everything was gravy after
that victory.
Speaker 3 (50:19):
We'll be back your word number song of the day,
uh Dave damascheck in for p here on a five
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