September 12, 2025 • 47 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, let's do it, Fred Rogan, Rodney Pete A
five to seventy LA Sports the Big Friday Show, and
if it's a big Friday, it's a big three hour
program today, big big three hour program. Now, before we
get into the show today, Rodney, I think we have
to put everyone on high alert because there are things
to give away, business to take care of, and food
(00:21):
and drink Monday at BJ's Restaurant and brew House in Downey.
We are there from noon to three, if I remember correctly,
And it's been a while since we've been in Downey
because they don't let us out very often. But if
I remember correctly, the Downey shows are usually pretty full.
Am I right about that? You're right, Fred, You're absolutely right.
They're always packed to Downey. We love DOWNI my home
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away from home. Okay, that was a bit severe, but nonetheless,
the shows usually do pretty well in Downey. So our
recommendation is get there little early, get there eleven thirty
if you want a seat in the bar area so
you can really be part of the show. We're giving
away Dodger tickets, We're given away football tickets, We're given
away Bjy's gift cards, and who knows what else. Who
(01:07):
knows what else we're given away, and we'll also play
one of our live games and give somebody an opportunity
to win there. So Monday, BJ's Restaurant in brew House
in Downey noon to three.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
We hope to.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
See everybody there. I assure you it will be a
much quicker drive than it was to Irvine.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
You think a little bit, a little bit if you
had gone to the Irvine show and guy, we were
going to Bjays and it was a cool destination once
you got there. But man, the trick, the trick down there, Fred.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I think something that hurt us, and we should have
mentioned it ahead of time. And it's our bad that
if you were coming from the valley or the Los
Angeles area, you should have left two days early. I
think that that that definitely would have affected things a
little more.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Booked the hotel tonight before or something like that.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah, just get in there and settle in, make a
weekend out of it, and come to the show down.
He'll be easier, it'll be quicker. We'll see everybody Monday,
Bjays in Downey. Any business you would like to get
to before we begin, Uh No, let's go all right,
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Speaker 1 (02:43):
Alright, so now we got the Dodgers and the Giants,
the official real rival. In the minds of many of
the Dodgers, these games matter, These games mean something. San
Francisco is on the outside looking into the wild Card,
but not dead. So if they were able to get
over on the Dodgers and two of the three or
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sweep them, they are very much alive in this Rodney
h Doctors start the night two and a half up
on the Padres.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Wasn't it you? Fred had said early in the season,
when the Giants were really hot, that that won't last. Yes,
it will fail and falter and they won't be a
part of this at the end of the day. Yes,
do you want to revisit that statement, or you still
believe that they have no shot. I do not want
to revisit it. And the way I set it up
was for fodder because I still believe they got no shot.
(03:32):
Oh quite frankly, I don't think they have a shot.
They had a nice run. No, they're done. They're not
going to catch the pot. I'm not a shot at
the wild card at all, because you know, the Mets
are flailing easily. Mets are flailing, yep, yep. You know
the Cubbies are still playing well, but Mets are flailing. Padres,
(03:52):
They're they're riding knocking on the Padres door. They do
they play? Do they play the Padres anymore? By the way,
do we know that? I don't know that. But anyway,
they played the Dodgers seven times, So yeah, that's a
it is. It's going to it's going to be heated.
They are you happy that the Dodgers are going up
there to start because they come back here next weekend
(04:14):
to play the Giants again. But this this series is
up in San Francisco and that place is gonna be rocking.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Before you answer that question, just to have you know,
pay off what you were asking Rodney. They do not
play the Padres. They have the doc the two series
against the Dodgers, the three this weekend and then the
four next weekend. They play Arizona. Saint Louis and Colorado
are the other three teams on their schedule, so it's
not necessarily murderer's row. So if they do decent against
the Dodgers, I think they have a pretty favorable schedule
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to be potentially in that wildcard mix their freend.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah they do, Freddy. Okay, Arizona's Saint Louis and Colorado
and Colorado, and we all know about Colorado.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, but you know what we do know about Colorado
except it wasn't too long ago Colorado beat the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
True, So so yeah, that was in the Dodgers. That
was that was, That was early on. Now Colorado's got
those moving vans are parked out in front of the stadium.
Now in Colorado, those guys are those guys, lockers are
already half empty of already thinks boxes are at in
front of the lockers getting ready to load up for
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the for the for the off season right now. So
it's just the moving vans are there. Freddy they're already
parked there. They've already been rented. We got a date,
that's what Colorado had a date back in June.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
And it'll be even more so because that's the final
series of the regular season. So those guys are going
to be even more so. One two, three can coon
by the time we get there. The last last series
of the season for the Giants is the Colorado Rockies,
and that's in San Francisco. So there's no field advantage
there for Colorado either.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
All them California boys are gonna have them, you know. Instead,
you know, no, when you get on with a carry
on bag when you travel, you know, you take a
care well sometimes if a long road trip, you take it,
you know, a big bag. But they're gonna have eight bags.
Guys gonna have eight bags going to San Francisco if
you live in California. Yeah, they won't even go Blifornian offset,
they won't go back to Colorado, right, Yeah, they might
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have the moving van travel before they travel, meet them
in San Francisco and say hey, after the game, Hey,
we're driving down to uh, we're driving down to Newport Beach. Baby,
We're driving down to Manhattan Beach. Just bring everything with you.
I'll meet you there exactly. Well, that does change things
(06:30):
a little bit in the final series. I hate to say.
I actually did that one year with the Lions and
we were we were out of it early, and uh,
San Francisco was our last game. And I packed up
to like two bag, two big bags and put them
on the plane, and people like, what are you doing?
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I said, I'm going from San Francisco. I'm going back
down to La. Man, I'm not going back to Detroit
right now after this game. I'm going. I'm going. I'm
going home. And and I did, and just you know,
went back to Detroit like a month later to get
the rest of my things. But I was like, ready
to go. Did you rent a car or did you fly? Oh? No,
(07:10):
I flew, I flew, I flew. I didn't. I didn't
take everything frand I just took enough clothes that I
had in Detroit that I needed in LA when I
got there. So I packed a couple bags, knowing that
I wasn't going back to Detroit anytime soon. And how
did people feel about you taking that approach? Well, ready,
I didn't really care. They didn't care. I mean, Wayne
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Faun's at the time. He didn't. He didn't really care me.
He knew, you know, and he actually said it. He
was the one that opened the door. I didn't. I
didn't know it was even doable. He opened the door. Hey, anybody, uh,
just let us know if you're not going to travel
back with us after the game. He said that during
the week, so he knew. He knew a lot of
players lived out west and we were traveling out west,
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which is, you know, was a long trip. So if
guys wanted to just stay or be with their families afterwards,
then they could. We had a few Northern California guys
and a few guys in Arizona and in Southern California
guys too, So there was I wasn't. I wasn't the
only one. There were. There were several of us that
just dyed after the game. Did you lose the game?
We did? We did. It was a hard fought game,
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but in fact it was it was It was interesting
because it was the game. It was actually the game
that Joe Montana returned, you know from I think he
had back surgery or whatever. It was his first game back,
and then the next year he was traded to Kansas City.
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But yeah, it was his first game back.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So his first game back, you get beat, the game
is over, shower in the one of these okay guys,
thanks and out.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It was like that. Uh, actually no, because I had
some friends on the forty nine ers, So I spent
the night in San Francisco. We had a good time,
and then uh, the next day I went down to
l a good season. Everybody you see you later one, two, three,
can't coon. We're out. But we were. We were out.
We were out of it like probably you know, a
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month before that, so we knew we weren't going to playoffs.
So it was you know, play it out and see
how it was, see how it goes. But it was
kind of cool. It was kind of cool. And you
know at the time that time of the year, you know,
different guys are playing, and Rookie is a good friend
of mine. It was his first start at corner, and uh,
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he was one of those you know, it's a cocky
rookie thought he was better than what he really was
and and you know, thought he should be playing all
season long, and blah blah blah. And and then finally,
as you know, as the season kind of got going
and we're at the end and looked like we're not
gonna make it. They started giving a lot of the
young guys some playing time and he got to play
corn in that game and start. That was his first start,
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and unfortunately for the kid, Fred he had to line
up against Jerry Rice and Jerry Rice with Joe Montana
coming back for his first game, they weren't going to
take it easy, and he proceeded to catch thirteen balls
for like two hundred and thirty yards on him. So
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not a welcome to the NFL that I think he
was thinking about.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
All right, when the game is over, that kid, what
do you say to that kid? How does that kid feel?
Welcome to the NFL. That's what you say. That's what
you say, welcome to the NFL.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Maybe he's humbled a little bit now you say, you know, hey,
get him next time, Champ. No, you know, he you know,
you feel bad for the kid because he was you know,
they were going at him a little bit, and but
sometimes you need to be humbled. But he, you know,
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he recovered and he ended up having a nice career
in the league. Actually, he played like I think, I
think like ten years in league after that. So but
sometimes it takes something like that to kind of humble
you know, and you to know if you're a star
in college, it's a different ballgame when you get to
the pros. When you were playing, if you didn't know
somebody's name, who're trying to remember, wouldn't you walk up
to him, go, hey, chief, a champ, a big guy,
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go the people, what's up old twenty three? How you doing, buddy,
that's a big fellaw hey champ. Yeah, you would think,
but you know that would be early, like in training
camp you would, but I certainly made it a point
because it's quarterback. You got to know everybody on the team,
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offense and defense and special teams. But yeah, that first
that first week of training camp. Yeah, you uh, there's
several new faces that you got to get to know. Yeah,
you do. Coaches, even coaches. Coaches were the worst. Coaches
were worse than players. You know, we all hung out together.
We are, you know, in the same locker room. You interact.
(12:04):
You get to know guys. Coaches, you know, they see
you on the practice fielding meetings. But like if you're
an offensive coach, you don't necessarily know the all the
linebackers that come into training camp and they're just calling Hey,
that fifty eight kid or whatever, you know, and they
they sometimes take half the season before they know who
is who. And some coaches, you know, use it as
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motivation for other players and talk about I, Hey, I'm
not gonna call you by the name until you make
the team. When you make the team, I'll start calling
you by your name other than that, you know, from
here until September you're fifty three. Nice. It's a cruel world.
(12:46):
It's a cruel world. You gotta have thick scanboy be
in a professional locker room. Okay.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
So with the Dodgers taking on the Giants, and the
Dodgers two and a half up on the Podres and
playing well by you never really know what's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
You never really know, right.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
You hope they stay consistent against a better opponent here,
but they're the athletic road to peace, and it says
the Dodzers are showing signs of weaknesses and the Giants
may be able to take advantage. The writer points out
that a big reason the Dodgers have struggled is because
of their lack of production from homegrown talent in the
wake of tough seasons by veterans. Here's the thing that's
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a really good piece to write two weeks ago. I
don't think it's a good piece to write right now
because what you're seeing, and again we'll see if it continues,
what you're seeing is the team playing the way it's
supposed to, albeit it was Colorado, but the way it's
supposed to and the way it's constructed. Starting pitching, Yamamoto
goes tonight, all right, they have the best starting pitching period,
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Let's not debate it. They've got the best and deepest
starting pitching. Number One rule in the playoffs, all of
the sudden guys are starting to hit. Now, is Tayo
Ornant is going to hit? Do what he did against Colorado?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Could that have been him emerging from the malaise he's
been in. Maybe maybe a little confidence, a little momentum.
And it really had come down to a question, Rodney,
of when were we going to start to see the
building of some momentum. Maybe that Colorado series is the
beginning of it.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Maybe and maybe you know, you know, look, we've we've
been fooled by this a little bit this season too,
right where we thought, okay, now they're back, they got
it going. But I will say even in those times
where you know, oh they got it going and it's
you know, July, they got it, had a great three
games and they did well. And you know, they played
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the Padres earlier and they did well against the Padres.
Now they're ready to go. All of those times they
really they did it, but they were not at full
strength physically and health wise. Now they are at full
strength health wise. So this is a different animal than
they've had all season long. And I think that this
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this is who the Dodgers are. This team that we
saw against Colorado is who the Dodgers are, at least
I'm I'm believing that. I'm hoping that. But it feels
to me like everybody is now taking a deep breath,
Go okay, we got we got our guys back. Everybody,
we got a full house. Now. Now now we're going
to show people who we are. You know. And when
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he says homegrown, I think he said what only Paz
and who else was the only one that that is doing?
She is doing anything? You forget about Will Smith? I
mean Will Smith. I know he said thirty under thirty,
but Will Smith just turned thirty, so he's discounting Will
Smith as a homegrown guy. Does having success. I guess
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he doesn't exist as a homegrown guy. Anybody have quantified
it by saying under thirty. But Will Smith is thirty,
so you got to throw him in a miss as
a as a homegrown guy. But yeah, it just feels
like it, and it is a different mindset. I can
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tell you that I've been on teams where we were
banged up, banged up, banged up, and then you get
your horses back and you're like, okay, you know, basically,
like you know with with the Dodgers, they played teams
so many times. With the NFL in your division, you
play teams twice. And I can remember several times we'll
play a team early in the year and they get
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after us or whatever, and then later in the year
when we're healthy, then we showed up and showed who
we really were. So I feel like that's that's what's
going to happen with the Dodgers, and and but it
will be a test because San Francisco absolutely has something
to play for and they're chasing a wild card bid,
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and it is the Dodgers as their rival. So I
here's here's my opinion. Fair, what do you think about
all of this talk for the last two three years
that San Diego is the Dodger's rival, San Diego is
the biggest rival the Dodger has San Diego Dodgers. That's
the best rivalry in sports, that's the best rivalry in baseball.
(17:08):
Blah blah blah blah blah. What do you think those
folks up north think about when they hear that, knowing
that for almost a century it's been the Giants and
the Dodgers as rivals, and now you're trying to insert
somebody else as the rival of the Dodgers. No, we
are the Dodgers' rival. Don't get it twisted. You think
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they have a little something in their crawl about that
here and that for the last three years.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I'm sure they do, because it marginalized them. It made
them feel small. This giant rivalry that had been going
on for years, all of a sudden wasn't quite as
important because there was somebody better, far better in those years,
and the games were far more intense and competitive when
the Dodgers and Padres played. So yeah, yeah, I think so.
I think kind of sticks in their crawl a little
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bit that they were reduced to the little kid table
at Thanksgiving and the Padres got to sit with the
big kids. They were at the table at the end
with the little chairs. Yeah, I'm sure that bothered them.
I'm sure bothered their fans. And it's interesting that the
Giants are playing the way they are because these are
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meaningful games. So consider this for a second. And you've
said up many times when you were playing at USC
you wanted UCLA to be good. You like that, you
wanted to beat them at their best, absolutely all right.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I don't know if fans feel that way. How do
you feel in a rivalry situation, so we'll use the
Giants this weekend. How do you feel when the rival's
really good, when the rival can beat you? Would you
rather have games like that or would you prefer that
you go out and just kill them? What's more? On
your team, they kill them, but you want to kill
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them when they're at their best. You want to kill
them in a divisional series or a game coming down
to the wire, who wins the division that's when that's
when it feels even sweeter, is when they think they're good,
and you think you're good, and you go head to
head and you beat up on a good team, but
when they're down, it's a win. A's against your rival,
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But it's not. It's not the same. You think it's
been the same. Dodgers beating the Giants as Dodgers beating
the Padres over the last couple of years is not
because the Padres are competitive and at any time the
Padres can beat and stack up against the Dodgers. That's
what you want. I think last when I was our
last that last game at USC playing UCLA, we were
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ranked second in the country. They were ranked sixth, and
that game was to decide who goes to the Rose Bowl.
And so that that intensity, that feeling that all the
atmosphere around it was. So he absolutely loved it. He
loved it, and I remember USC fan there's one year
that I think, I think Newhusl was coaching USC beat
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UCLA fifteen to nothing in one of those games, and
it was, yeah, it's whole hum. It's cool if you know,
rub it in their faces. But it didn't feel as
good as opposed to both teams being good. Okay, that's
the player's perspective. I wonder how the fans feel.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Yeah, I wonder if you're a fan, would you rather
this could go either way and it's going to be
really fulfilling if we beat them, or would you rather listen?
I don't need it to go either way. I just
want to win because we're close to the postseason.
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Speaker 1 (20:48):
So I'm gonna guess that some may agree with you, Rodney,
but the majority will say that's that's really good, Rodney, Great,
that's that's fantastic. It means a lot to you. But
we would rather.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Just murder them. Man, we don't care how good they are.
What about murdering? But the question is do you want
your rival to be good? Okay, let's do it like that. Yeah,
let's do it like that. It's like six nine eighty
seven two five seventy Do you want your rival to
be good? Let us know next?
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Speaker 2 (21:40):
Wow, that's right, it's Friday. We don't care. You ever
really listen to the lyrics of that song. Oh yeah,
it's pretty rough. She really doesn't care.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Not one bet. If I was her, I wouldn't either.
Can I just tell you about an email I got? Yes,
I checked my email and I got this email. I'm
gonna read it to you. Just tell me what you think.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
My name is mister Chang seven and Charlie. I'm from Portland, Oregon, USA.
I am the winner of the Powerball Jackpot lottery. I
won the sum of one point three billion Powerball lottery
on April twenty ninth, and I have voluntarily decided to
donate the sum of three million, six hundred thousand dollars
to you and other lucky winners selected. Three million, six
(22:31):
hundred thousand United States dollars has been donated to you.
Thank you, mister Chang seven and Charlie, I got that email?
What is that supposed to be? Let me see if
I got that same email? Can you check that? That's
like the Nigerian prints emails that used to go around.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
So I have three million, six hundred thousand dollars somewhere
I don't know where. Yeah, yeah, but wait, he said
April twenty ninth, when the recent one the one point
three billion dollar.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Power that could be right, So you know that could
have been a mistake. Yeah, yeah, but why would somebody
send out what do they want back?
Speaker 2 (23:07):
There's no link to click send one hundred thousand dollars
so you can access the three point six million for it.
That's how it works. Okay, So that'll be the next email. Yeah,
that'll be the next to email. If you send us,
it won't be one hundred times send us one thousand
dollars or ten thousand dollars. It'll be something minimal that
they think you can handle and send us one thousand
dollars and then we can access your account and send
(23:30):
you the three point six. But you gotta send it
soon otherwise you will forfeit the three point six.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
All right, I'm trying to figure out trying to figure
out what was that meaning? And now give them what
you said. I'll see. I'll see if that's the case, cause.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
That makes sense. They're not going to send that out
and expect nothing in return. No, No, hopefully there's not.
Is there like a link to click on there? No? Yeah,
because you know you don't click on those links nowadays anyway,
just opens you up for any kind of someone to
get into access to all your stuff. It's so scary
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that there's I mean, technology is good. I say this
about social media. Talent went out a sheriff. Same thing
with technology right now. There's so many smart technical people
and so many of us that are that we struggle
with technology and not as sharp and witty. But these
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people behind the scenes that create all of these devices
and create these algorithms and create these phones and apps
and all that kind of stuff, they have the ability
to really screw with someone if you're not careful. And
even if you are careful, it's it's still difficult. You
know the way things are going out right now. You
get all these spam calls, you get all these things
(24:49):
in your text, Hey click on this link, you owe this,
or click on this link to pay this and or
we just want to update your files, or we want
you you know, you want something, click on the link
and you click on the link, and it's just giving
them access to everything on your phone. And they pop
up all the time, and if you're not careful, like
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say someone elderly and they're just thinking, so, hey, somebody's
just trying to get in touch with me, and they
click on it. Now they've opened up their whole phone
and access to their passwords. And somebody's cleaned out their
bank account or or created has fouled and got a
mortgage on the on a house and in their name.
It is It is crazy how easy it is for
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some of these people out there to do stuff like that.
But yeah, that sounds like that does sound like the
the Nigerian prints of the eighties and nineties that used
to go around, those emails used to go around, Hey
send me, send me five thousand dollars and we've got
five million waiting for you.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
It's sort of like we talked about it. You know,
you get this text on your phone. Uh you drove
through the uh not the diamond lane?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
The the lane where you have to pay Toby. Yeah,
toll road. Yeah, hey, listen, you drove through the toll road.
Click this link and just you know, you can pay
what you owe.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
And you start thinking, when did I go to a
damn toll Exactly? Why did I go through a toll road?
You owe three hundred and forty dollars for the toll
you you know, click on the link to pay. Yeah,
he's thinking, I live in The only toll I think
I even remotely know is one down in Orange County.
(26:28):
Somewhere there's a toll roll down there somewhere Newport, down Newport. Yeah,
there's a toll roll down there. All right. I haven't
been down there and forever, so I don't or even
on that road. So why are they sending me this
for this toll? Pay? Yeah? I know it's scary, it is.
That is the one that everybody gets that. H m hmm.
(26:51):
All right. Do you want your rival to be good?
That's the question when you play them Dodgers and Giants.
Giants are good now competitively, do you would you rather
have your.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Rival be good? Or I'd rather just not even worry
about it. If they're bad, that's even better. Let's go
to Anthony in l a line to Anthony, what do
you want from the giants? You want them to be
good or just kill them?
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Well, first of all, good afternoon that both of you guys.
You'll enjoy listeners. Now, I want my opponent to be
at the best. So when I beat him down, he
had nothing to say, no damn things.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yes, French, that's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm
talking about. Yes, they ain't got nothing to say afterwards,
like oh my best player was out. Oh we were
you know, we were hurt. We had three players hurt
that game. No, I don't want to hear that.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Can I share one thing? But you when I played
for jeff When I played for jeff our pre much
excuse me, our arrival was Fremont Eye and I should
did enjoy beating them, but you know, unfortunately it got us.
Unfortunately they got us twice when I was a senior.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Okay, okay, So you went to Jefferson, Yeah, and Fremont
was the rival.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Yeah. Remember I'm the defensive end from the Navy.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Remember I do, Yes, yes, yes, you did? You gave
me the hat?
Speaker 5 (28:24):
I sure I gave him.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
You ahead, all right, I don't hear you all.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Right, Anthony, we have to go somebody. Anthony, all right,
thanks man, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Okay, do you want them to be at their best
or would you rather just eliminate them?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Just take them out fast?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Now here's someone who will always have some very important insight.
Mitch Mitch in New Jersey.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Hello, Mitch, how are you guys doing? Fred Roddy? Thanks
to taking my call you today?
Speaker 2 (29:05):
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (29:07):
Well, I'm not driving.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
I'll have you in speakerphone. I chill out.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
I don't see any more tweets send me.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
You don't have anything nice to say? My mom? What
we said?
Speaker 6 (29:15):
Those? Anything at all?
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Banks?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
All right, But I'm just saying you're full of life today, Mitch.
You're just full of excitement today.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
I'm sorry. Ed was seven years? And how long even?
Speaker 6 (29:28):
How long have you been working in the station?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
What the show?
Speaker 5 (29:32):
How long even?
Speaker 7 (29:33):
How long have you had the show?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
You show?
Speaker 5 (29:36):
You and Rodney replace?
Speaker 6 (29:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (29:38):
You replaced Bill Ryder? And what Rodney ten years?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Nineteen years? Nineteen years? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (29:47):
Well time for I remember the beast, I say, what Mitch?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Okay, you asked how long we've been doing the show?
We tell you? Why would you ask that, What was
the what was the reason for that?
Speaker 7 (30:01):
Just so it tells me how long I've been calling
you guys. I love you guys, Tim, Tim k Adam.
They was checking them out.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Remember.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Remember there was a time where you thought you'd been Mitch.
Remember a time you thought you'd been banned. You remember
that you thought you've been banned. Yeah, you never just
called too much, no, but you were never banned, Mitch.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
Yeah, it's over my head and that's usually it was,
you know, like everything it's on in your head.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Was that what those bells were? They were ringing in
your head?
Speaker 6 (30:36):
Did you hear what you're talking about?
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Didn't hear?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
What? Go ahead?
Speaker 5 (30:40):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
What do you want?
Speaker 6 (30:42):
I say?
Speaker 7 (30:43):
Just taking him as is no excuses. You play by
the same rules. You gotta spend money, you gotta sign
the right freasy and you had to keep your farm system,
you know, rich and get the talent. But I wish
there'd be a small talent that's homegrown to Dodgers. That's
just me, right, Do you guys have a nice weekend?
Speaker 2 (31:05):
YouTube? YouTube? And all right, don't don't listen to those
voices in your head, Mitch.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
All right, let's go to uh all right, friend, Zach,
Zach and Huntington Beach. We haven't heard from Zach in
a while. Zach, what do you want?
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (31:19):
I gotta follow Mitch.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Yeah, it's not easy. That's a tough one. Not gonna lie.
Speaker 8 (31:26):
You got sounds like he's sitting in a half the
hour a little early in Jersey right now.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I mean, didn't he sound full of energy today?
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (31:35):
Do you want your rival? Do you want your rival
to be the best? Think about?
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (31:40):
Four Dodgers giants, Finley walk off, Grand Slam, sent us
to the playoffs, sent the Giants package. That's how you
want it?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Okay, Rodney, when he's with you, absolutely pretty simply, he's
with you, of it. Zach knows what he's talking about. Man,
That's why he's sharp.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
He's all right, Zach, appreciate it, Rodney. Who do you
think should be the final word of this? Who do
you think will provide the most insight?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Because I think I know who it is. I don't
know you got a choice there, Yes, okay, I'll let
you pick it.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Ladies and gentlemen. To wrap this up, there is one
person that will provide insight.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Hey, I haven't I haven't. I haven't brought you on
here yet.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Isabelle, somebody who has been a lifelong Dodger fan, somebody
who listens to the radio station every day. Now, let's
bring Isabelle on the show.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Isabelle.
Speaker 9 (32:39):
Yes, Hey guys, how are you?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Where's Bell? How are you?
Speaker 9 (32:44):
Yes? I'm getting all the COVID but I'm fine. Hey
you guy? I okay. This beat the giants if they
can be good or bad. I just hate the giants.
They just beat them, man, they that's what I want.
I just hate them. It's good to be now. They're
just guying me crazy, so they can do whatever they want.
(33:04):
I don't care about the giants. I hate them metag
I hate the Podley so they can do eevery they
want after this after bullshitty is is old. So anyway,
so have a good weekend.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Guy, there you go.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
You heard Isabelle. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
You ever wonder why do you see people make the
decisions they do when you look at it, it's flawed
thinking from the beginning, and we'll talk about that next.
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Speaker 1 (35:14):
Let's go all right, are you gonna be out in
the Lacunyata area, La Kenyada, flint Ridge Tonight.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
You know, I hadn't planned it. Fred I often get
out there, but I hadn't planned going out there tonight
based on our notes this morning. All right, here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
If you don't need to go in that area, you
probably shouldn't go because it is going to be jam packed.
Let me tell you what's going on out there. Saint
Francis is hosting your Lakeanyada is hosting Crecenta Valley. All right,
So those are the two big high school games out
there local, Yes, in the same area.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Yeah, not a big deal. Why why is it? What's
what's the problem.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Well, what I'm saying is it's gonna be a lot
of traffic, Rodney, there's a lot of traffic going to
those games.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
It's big yet out there. Yeah, big, big games, those
two high school games. Yeah. Okay, Now, for some for
some reason, that's not all. That's not all.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
You got two major high school games that are both
going to draw really well in the area. Yeah, but
UCLA decided to schedule a Friday night game at the
Rose Bowl against New Mexico. A Friday night game the
same night, the area is going to be jammed.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
With high school football.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Here's my question to you, which of the three games,
the two high school games or UCLA, which of the
three games will have the worst attendance. It's unimaginable to
say what you might say.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
I know, I know, I know, I will I will
I would say that two high school games combined will
have more fans than the UCLA game Friday night.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
There it is okay. Now I want you to think
about this. You have a Division I college football team,
Big Ten team play New Mexico. The granted the team
is Owen two, hasn't looked good, look pretty dishoveled every game,
and despite the fact that it's only two games, I
would say ninety eight percent of the fans have already
lost faith in the team this year. We also know
(37:25):
the last time they played at the Rose Bowl, people
ran out of there in droves.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
It was so bad.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
And there's a sense that at some point when you
look down and they're playing there, if you took an
aerial view, it would look look like an ant colony.
When it came to the number of fans that were there,
and I'm not talking about a large one. The Rose
Ball seats one hundred thousand.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
It's going to be tight.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Why would you schedule the game on first if you're
UCLA in Los Angeles, because correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Traffic's pretty bad on Friday night. Yes, it's bad no
matter where you are on Friday night. So yeah, why
would you schedule that, Like if you're u C l
A knowing that all of your fans have to travel, right,
(38:14):
all of them have to travel, including your students, which
you know most schools the student section makes up a
large part of the fan base. But I don't know,
I don't know if that's the case with UCLA. But
(38:34):
traveling on a Friday night in l A, Yeah, not,
that's not a that's not a great idea.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
And you're coming from Westwood, so let's think about it.
Westwood to Pasadena. The kick is at seven. You don't
want to walk in at seven, fair, You want to
get there early, right, enjoy the atmosphere, cause let me
tell you, get settled in.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
You want to get there, Get settled in, be ready
for kickoff, right.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
And the good thing is if you go, you're gonna
have a lot of room, A.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Lot of space, you say, a lot of space.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
You're not gonna be crowded, crunched, You're not gonna have
to fight your way in. You're gonna have a lot
of space, so you might want to enjoy that space.
If you are leaving Westwood on Friday afternoon with a
seven o'clock kick at the Rose Bowl, what time will
you leave Westwood to be able to get there and
(39:30):
enjoy the pregame atmosphere and again, you'll have a lot
of room to enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
What time would you leave? Four o'clock? I was gonna
say four thirty? You might, yeah, because if you leave
a little bit later, you know, la' is that window
you know in the morning traffic, things like that afternoon traffic.
You know, if you miss a fifteen minute window, that
(39:56):
can cost you an hour and air on the earlier side.
So I'm saying four, all right, four, because I think
people are thinking, you know, I'm leaving work early on
a Friday, so I'm gonna get out of here at
four thirty. That's when traffic gets heady heavy, and so
you might miss that window of beating that real heavy
(40:19):
traffic if you leave a little bit earlier. All right,
So if you leave it four, what time you gotta
get there? Five fifteen, five thirty? No, No, You're gonna
get there at six thirty, if you leave at four.
If you leave at four from Westwood to Pasadena on
a Friday, on a Friday, thank god, the Dodgers are
(40:41):
out of town. I know and understand. The high school
games kick at seven as well. Right, So once you yeah,
once you get yeah, and you're leaving Westwood, So you
got to get through La first, yeah, and then as
you start to towards Pasadena, all those folks from downtown,
(41:03):
all those folks from wherever head it that way as well.
So the one ten to one, thirty, four to two
to ten, all of them gonna be packed. So you'd
leave at four o'clock for a seven o'clock game, it's
gonna take you two hours to get there, all right.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
So you get there at six, yeah, and exhausted from
the drive, and then you're gonna sit in there and
watch that. Then you're gonna sit in there and watch that,
and then what time you're gonna get out of there?
Speaker 2 (41:34):
Ten thirty? Well, based on the last home game, people
left early, so first quarter hope, it's hope it's competitive
enough and you slay wins that you stay to the end.
So yeah, you leave out of there at ten ten thirty.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
All right, so you're back to Westwood by eleven thirty. Yeah,
So your your Friday was spent from four thirty to
eleven thirty driving to the Rose Bowl to watch a
team that you don't think can win. And if you
go to the game and New.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
Mexico beats them, will you think you have wasted your
entire friday? Yes, yes you will. What do you think
the attendants will be tonight?
Speaker 5 (42:21):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (42:22):
Kevin, if you're there, you can play too, Ronnie, you
can play too. What do you think the attendants will be?
I'm saying thirty thousand. Oh you're gonna say thirty thousand. Yeah,
I'm saying thirty thousand because I think New Mexico fans
are coming. We'll count them. Yeah, got it? Okay, Kevin,
are you there? You want to play?
Speaker 4 (42:43):
Yes, it's funny. Brian Blackmore is in here. He said
eighteen thousand, and I was like, well, that's probably that's
probably higher than I would have guest, to be honest
with you. So the fact that Rodney said thirty.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
I'm trying to be generous. I was trying to be generous.
I actually said it earlier that the high school teams
combined will have more fans.
Speaker 4 (42:56):
Than Yeah, I'm probably feeling more like twelve twelve.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
Okay, Uh, does Blackamo want to play? Does he want
to come on and say.
Speaker 4 (43:04):
He just said sorry, he just said I said, he
said eighteen thousand.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
All right, Ronnie, you want to play? Yeah, I'm gonna
go at ten. I'll take one.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Damn Ronnie cold A lot of people want to get
out of New Mexico apparently, but not that many. You
know what I'm gonna say, Damn, Ronnie, that was cold blooded.
See Brian went eighteen. I think that's a pretty good guess.
But I can't use his guess. I'm gonna go. I'm
(43:36):
gonna I'm either gonna say seventeen or nineteen. It's like
the price is right. I don't want to be over
because I don't win the double showcase. I'm gonna go
over nineteen thousand. I think that'll be the attendance tonight
and the one hundred thousand seat Rose Bowl.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
Wow, that's gonna look bad. That's gonna look bad. Eighteen
and they I wonder what this is on is what
networking Network's Big ten network? Do you think they instruct
the Big ten network not to like pan the stadium. Yes,
(44:16):
and they do that. They accommodate that, right, they don't
pan the stadium.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
Oh no, I don't think UCLA will instruct them not to.
I think the big ten network will instruct itself.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't yee how empty
it is? Yeah, don't do that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
It's like last week the CBS pregame show was in
Green Bay to.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
Kick off the season.
Speaker 1 (44:39):
You know, JB and the guys were there, right, and
you They've got a low shot and you see the stage.
Now it's an afternoon game, but they're doing the show
in the morning, and behind the stage it looks like
there's people there for some reason. I don't know who's
directing that thing, but I promised you they were called in.
The guy said, you know, take the blimp. You see
(45:01):
this overhead shot down below. They made it look like, yeah,
there's a good sized crowd there. Take the blimp. Like
four people were there. It was awful. I don't know
who made that decision. Why somebody would make that decision.
Whoever is directing that on the network should never have
done that. It looked so cheesy and small time and
(45:23):
they got off that shot real fast, so they're not
going to take a shot where they're going to look bad.
But I'll tell you this, you go tonight, they lose,
you're one to nineteen thousand, You'll not go to another
game this year. I think this is a very important
game for them. If they look bad tonight, they will
have the worst attendance in the history of UCLA.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
Going forward for the remainder of the season. That's how
dire the situation is. Yeah, this is a must win
for them. This is a must win for UCLA.
Speaker 4 (45:56):
By the way, they're fifteen point favorites despite the fact
that they're zero and too. So you're right, they better
win because they're expected time in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (46:05):
Give didn't in Mexico go back? They played Michigan, didn't
they was it in Mexico? They played there? They opened
against Michigan, Yes, yeah, I mean gave him a run
for a minute and then yeah.
Speaker 4 (46:15):
I think they were down. I think they might have
been down by four at halftime or something like that.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
Yeah, yeah, so it was close for a minute. So
I mean, I get it, Mexico, but they better not lose.
They better not lose because you're right, Fred, that attendance
that we're predicting is going to be twenty thousand, eighteen thousand,
Ronnie said ten, which is hurtful. It'll be the worst
(46:38):
in school history going forward.
Speaker 4 (46:40):
So I just dug this up, by the way, and
I know we have to break. So they lost to
Utah to open the season. That's Utah's a quality opponent,
Big twelve form or Pac twelve all that. So the
announced attendants, according to Ben Bulsch, was thirty five thousand.
They said after people in the presspots kind of did
a little bit of a personal tally in talking to people,
was closer to twenty seven. So they got thirty five
for Utah, a big time quality opponent on a Saturday night.
(47:06):
So from thirty five, we're saying thirty for New Mexico
on a Friday at the rose Bow. No, yeah, the
baby lucky baby hitting backflips. If they can get thirty tonight.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
That's just bad, just bad, just bad. Well, you know,
it's a very important night for UCLAGS.
Speaker 2 (47:22):
We'll see what happens. All right, let's get into the NFL.
Let's get to it.
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All right, let's do it, Fred Rogan, Rodney Pete A
five to seventy LA Sports the Big Friday Show, and
if it's a big Friday, it's a big three hour
program today, big big three hour program. Now, before we
get into the show today, Rodney, I think we have
to put everyone on high alert because there are things
to give away, business to take care of, and food
(00:21):
and drink Monday at BJ's Restaurant and brew House in Downey.
We are there from noon to three, if I remember correctly,
And it's been a while since we've been in Downey
because they don't let us out very often. But if
I remember correctly, the Downey shows are usually pretty full.
Am I right about that? You're right, Fred, You're absolutely right.
They're always packed to Downey. We love DOWNI my home
(00:44):
away from home. Okay, that was a bit severe, but nonetheless,
the shows usually do pretty well in Downey. So our
recommendation is get there little early, get there eleven thirty
if you want a seat in the bar area so
you can really be part of the show. We're giving
away Dodger tickets, We're given away football tickets, We're given
away Bjy's gift cards, and who knows what else. Who
(01:07):
knows what else we're given away, and we'll also play
one of our live games and give somebody an opportunity
to win there. So Monday, BJ's Restaurant in brew House
in Downey noon to three.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
We hope to.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
See everybody there. I assure you it will be a
much quicker drive than it was to Irvine.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
You think a little bit, a little bit if you
had gone to the Irvine show and guy, we were
going to Bjays and it was a cool destination once
you got there. But man, the trick, the trick down there, Fred.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I think something that hurt us, and we should have
mentioned it ahead of time. And it's our bad that
if you were coming from the valley or the Los
Angeles area, you should have left two days early. I
think that that that definitely would have affected things a
little more.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Booked the hotel tonight before or something like that.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah, just get in there and settle in, make a
weekend out of it, and come to the show down.
He'll be easier, it'll be quicker. We'll see everybody Monday,
Bjays in Downey. Any business you would like to get
to before we begin, Uh No, let's go all right,
Ronnie roll It.
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Speaker 1 (02:43):
Alright, so now we got the Dodgers and the Giants,
the official real rival. In the minds of many of
the Dodgers, these games matter, These games mean something. San
Francisco is on the outside looking into the wild Card,
but not dead. So if they were able to get
over on the Dodgers and two of the three or
(03:03):
sweep them, they are very much alive in this Rodney
h Doctors start the night two and a half up
on the Padres.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Wasn't it you? Fred had said early in the season,
when the Giants were really hot, that that won't last. Yes,
it will fail and falter and they won't be a
part of this at the end of the day. Yes,
do you want to revisit that statement, or you still
believe that they have no shot. I do not want
to revisit it. And the way I set it up
was for fodder because I still believe they got no shot.
(03:32):
Oh quite frankly, I don't think they have a shot.
They had a nice run. No, they're done. They're not
going to catch the pot. I'm not a shot at
the wild card at all, because you know, the Mets
are flailing easily. Mets are flailing, yep, yep. You know
the Cubbies are still playing well, but Mets are flailing. Padres,
(03:52):
They're they're riding knocking on the Padres door. They do
they play? Do they play the Padres anymore? By the way,
do we know that? I don't know that. But anyway,
they played the Dodgers seven times, So yeah, that's a
it is. It's going to it's going to be heated.
They are you happy that the Dodgers are going up
there to start because they come back here next weekend
(04:14):
to play the Giants again. But this this series is
up in San Francisco and that place is gonna be rocking.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Before you answer that question, just to have you know,
pay off what you were asking Rodney. They do not
play the Padres. They have the doc the two series
against the Dodgers, the three this weekend and then the
four next weekend. They play Arizona. Saint Louis and Colorado
are the other three teams on their schedule, so it's
not necessarily murderer's row. So if they do decent against
the Dodgers, I think they have a pretty favorable schedule
(04:41):
to be potentially in that wildcard mix their freend.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah they do, Freddy. Okay, Arizona's Saint Louis and Colorado
and Colorado, and we all know about Colorado.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, but you know what we do know about Colorado
except it wasn't too long ago Colorado beat the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
True, So so yeah, that was in the Dodgers. That
was that was, That was early on. Now Colorado's got
those moving vans are parked out in front of the stadium.
Now in Colorado, those guys are those guys, lockers are
already half empty of already thinks boxes are at in
front of the lockers getting ready to load up for
(05:18):
the for the for the off season right now. So
it's just the moving vans are there. Freddy they're already
parked there. They've already been rented. We got a date,
that's what Colorado had a date back in June.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
And it'll be even more so because that's the final
series of the regular season. So those guys are going
to be even more so. One two, three can coon
by the time we get there. The last last series
of the season for the Giants is the Colorado Rockies,
and that's in San Francisco. So there's no field advantage
there for Colorado either.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
All them California boys are gonna have them, you know. Instead,
you know, no, when you get on with a carry
on bag when you travel, you know, you take a
care well sometimes if a long road trip, you take it,
you know, a big bag. But they're gonna have eight bags.
Guys gonna have eight bags going to San Francisco if
you live in California. Yeah, they won't even go Blifornian offset,
they won't go back to Colorado, right, Yeah, they might
(06:08):
have the moving van travel before they travel, meet them
in San Francisco and say hey, after the game, Hey,
we're driving down to uh, we're driving down to Newport Beach. Baby,
We're driving down to Manhattan Beach. Just bring everything with you.
I'll meet you there exactly. Well, that does change things
(06:30):
a little bit in the final series. I hate to say.
I actually did that one year with the Lions and
we were we were out of it early, and uh,
San Francisco was our last game. And I packed up
to like two bag, two big bags and put them
on the plane, and people like, what are you doing?
(06:50):
I said, I'm going from San Francisco. I'm going back
down to La. Man, I'm not going back to Detroit
right now after this game. I'm going. I'm going. I'm
going home. And and I did, and just you know,
went back to Detroit like a month later to get
the rest of my things. But I was like, ready
to go. Did you rent a car or did you fly? Oh? No,
(07:10):
I flew, I flew, I flew. I didn't. I didn't
take everything frand I just took enough clothes that I
had in Detroit that I needed in LA when I
got there. So I packed a couple bags, knowing that
I wasn't going back to Detroit anytime soon. And how
did people feel about you taking that approach? Well, ready,
I didn't really care. They didn't care. I mean, Wayne
(07:36):
Faun's at the time. He didn't. He didn't really care me.
He knew, you know, and he actually said it. He
was the one that opened the door. I didn't. I
didn't know it was even doable. He opened the door. Hey, anybody, uh,
just let us know if you're not going to travel
back with us after the game. He said that during
the week, so he knew. He knew a lot of
players lived out west and we were traveling out west,
(07:58):
which is, you know, was a long trip. So if
guys wanted to just stay or be with their families afterwards,
then they could. We had a few Northern California guys
and a few guys in Arizona and in Southern California
guys too, So there was I wasn't. I wasn't the
only one. There were. There were several of us that
just dyed after the game. Did you lose the game?
We did? We did. It was a hard fought game,
(08:21):
but in fact it was it was It was interesting
because it was the game. It was actually the game
that Joe Montana returned, you know from I think he
had back surgery or whatever. It was his first game back,
and then the next year he was traded to Kansas City.
(08:42):
But yeah, it was his first game back.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So his first game back, you get beat, the game
is over, shower in the one of these okay guys,
thanks and out.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It was like that. Uh, actually no, because I had
some friends on the forty nine ers, So I spent
the night in San Francisco. We had a good time,
and then uh, the next day I went down to
l a good season. Everybody you see you later one, two, three,
can't coon. We're out. But we were. We were out.
We were out of it like probably you know, a
(09:20):
month before that, so we knew we weren't going to playoffs.
So it was you know, play it out and see
how it was, see how it goes. But it was
kind of cool. It was kind of cool. And you
know at the time that time of the year, you know,
different guys are playing, and Rookie is a good friend
of mine. It was his first start at corner, and uh,
(09:41):
he was one of those you know, it's a cocky
rookie thought he was better than what he really was
and and you know, thought he should be playing all
season long, and blah blah blah. And and then finally,
as you know, as the season kind of got going
and we're at the end and looked like we're not
gonna make it. They started giving a lot of the
young guys some playing time and he got to play
corn in that game and start. That was his first start,
(10:03):
and unfortunately for the kid, Fred he had to line
up against Jerry Rice and Jerry Rice with Joe Montana
coming back for his first game, they weren't going to
take it easy, and he proceeded to catch thirteen balls
for like two hundred and thirty yards on him. So
(10:24):
not a welcome to the NFL that I think he
was thinking about.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
All right, when the game is over, that kid, what
do you say to that kid? How does that kid feel?
Welcome to the NFL. That's what you say. That's what
you say, welcome to the NFL.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Maybe he's humbled a little bit now you say, you know, hey,
get him next time, Champ. No, you know, he you know,
you feel bad for the kid because he was you know,
they were going at him a little bit, and but
sometimes you need to be humbled. But he, you know,
(10:57):
he recovered and he ended up having a nice career
in the league. Actually, he played like I think, I
think like ten years in league after that. So but
sometimes it takes something like that to kind of humble
you know, and you to know if you're a star
in college, it's a different ballgame when you get to
the pros. When you were playing, if you didn't know
somebody's name, who're trying to remember, wouldn't you walk up
to him, go, hey, chief, a champ, a big guy,
(11:21):
go the people, what's up old twenty three? How you doing, buddy,
that's a big fellaw hey champ. Yeah, you would think,
but you know that would be early, like in training
camp you would, but I certainly made it a point
because it's quarterback. You got to know everybody on the team,
(11:41):
offense and defense and special teams. But yeah, that first
that first week of training camp. Yeah, you uh, there's
several new faces that you got to get to know. Yeah,
you do. Coaches, even coaches. Coaches were the worst. Coaches
were worse than players. You know, we all hung out together.
We are, you know, in the same locker room. You interact.
(12:04):
You get to know guys. Coaches, you know, they see
you on the practice fielding meetings. But like if you're
an offensive coach, you don't necessarily know the all the
linebackers that come into training camp and they're just calling Hey,
that fifty eight kid or whatever, you know, and they
they sometimes take half the season before they know who
is who. And some coaches, you know, use it as
(12:24):
motivation for other players and talk about I, Hey, I'm
not gonna call you by the name until you make
the team. When you make the team, I'll start calling
you by your name other than that, you know, from
here until September you're fifty three. Nice. It's a cruel world.
(12:46):
It's a cruel world. You gotta have thick scanboy be
in a professional locker room. Okay.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
So with the Dodgers taking on the Giants, and the
Dodgers two and a half up on the Podres and
playing well by you never really know what's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
You never really know, right.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
You hope they stay consistent against a better opponent here,
but they're the athletic road to peace, and it says
the Dodzers are showing signs of weaknesses and the Giants
may be able to take advantage. The writer points out
that a big reason the Dodgers have struggled is because
of their lack of production from homegrown talent in the
wake of tough seasons by veterans. Here's the thing that's
(13:25):
a really good piece to write two weeks ago. I
don't think it's a good piece to write right now
because what you're seeing, and again we'll see if it continues,
what you're seeing is the team playing the way it's
supposed to, albeit it was Colorado, but the way it's
supposed to and the way it's constructed. Starting pitching, Yamamoto
goes tonight, all right, they have the best starting pitching period,
(13:47):
Let's not debate it. They've got the best and deepest
starting pitching. Number One rule in the playoffs, all of
the sudden guys are starting to hit. Now, is Tayo
Ornant is going to hit? Do what he did against Colorado?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Could that have been him emerging from the malaise he's
been in. Maybe maybe a little confidence, a little momentum.
And it really had come down to a question, Rodney,
of when were we going to start to see the
building of some momentum. Maybe that Colorado series is the
beginning of it.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Maybe and maybe you know, you know, look, we've we've
been fooled by this a little bit this season too,
right where we thought, okay, now they're back, they got
it going. But I will say even in those times
where you know, oh they got it going and it's
you know, July, they got it, had a great three
games and they did well. And you know, they played
(14:42):
the Padres earlier and they did well against the Padres.
Now they're ready to go. All of those times they
really they did it, but they were not at full
strength physically and health wise. Now they are at full
strength health wise. So this is a different animal than
they've had all season long. And I think that this
(15:03):
this is who the Dodgers are. This team that we
saw against Colorado is who the Dodgers are, at least
I'm I'm believing that. I'm hoping that. But it feels
to me like everybody is now taking a deep breath,
Go okay, we got we got our guys back. Everybody,
we got a full house. Now. Now now we're going
to show people who we are. You know. And when
(15:25):
he says homegrown, I think he said what only Paz
and who else was the only one that that is doing?
She is doing anything? You forget about Will Smith? I
mean Will Smith. I know he said thirty under thirty,
but Will Smith just turned thirty, so he's discounting Will
Smith as a homegrown guy. Does having success. I guess
(15:45):
he doesn't exist as a homegrown guy. Anybody have quantified
it by saying under thirty. But Will Smith is thirty,
so you got to throw him in a miss as
a as a homegrown guy. But yeah, it just feels
like it, and it is a different mindset. I can
(16:05):
tell you that I've been on teams where we were
banged up, banged up, banged up, and then you get
your horses back and you're like, okay, you know, basically,
like you know with with the Dodgers, they played teams
so many times. With the NFL in your division, you
play teams twice. And I can remember several times we'll
play a team early in the year and they get
(16:26):
after us or whatever, and then later in the year
when we're healthy, then we showed up and showed who
we really were. So I feel like that's that's what's
going to happen with the Dodgers, and and but it
will be a test because San Francisco absolutely has something
to play for and they're chasing a wild card bid,
(16:47):
and it is the Dodgers as their rival. So I
here's here's my opinion. Fair, what do you think about
all of this talk for the last two three years
that San Diego is the Dodger's rival, San Diego is
the biggest rival the Dodger has San Diego Dodgers. That's
the best rivalry in sports, that's the best rivalry in baseball.
(17:08):
Blah blah blah blah blah. What do you think those
folks up north think about when they hear that, knowing
that for almost a century it's been the Giants and
the Dodgers as rivals, and now you're trying to insert
somebody else as the rival of the Dodgers. No, we
are the Dodgers' rival. Don't get it twisted. You think
(17:30):
they have a little something in their crawl about that
here and that for the last three years.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I'm sure they do, because it marginalized them. It made
them feel small. This giant rivalry that had been going
on for years, all of a sudden wasn't quite as
important because there was somebody better, far better in those years,
and the games were far more intense and competitive when
the Dodgers and Padres played. So yeah, yeah, I think so.
I think kind of sticks in their crawl a little
(17:56):
bit that they were reduced to the little kid table
at Thanksgiving and the Padres got to sit with the
big kids. They were at the table at the end
with the little chairs. Yeah, I'm sure that bothered them.
I'm sure bothered their fans. And it's interesting that the
Giants are playing the way they are because these are
(18:17):
meaningful games. So consider this for a second. And you've
said up many times when you were playing at USC
you wanted UCLA to be good. You like that, you
wanted to beat them at their best, absolutely all right.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I don't know if fans feel that way. How do
you feel in a rivalry situation, so we'll use the
Giants this weekend. How do you feel when the rival's
really good, when the rival can beat you? Would you
rather have games like that or would you prefer that
you go out and just kill them? What's more? On
your team, they kill them, but you want to kill
(18:50):
them when they're at their best. You want to kill
them in a divisional series or a game coming down
to the wire, who wins the division that's when that's
when it feels even sweeter, is when they think they're good,
and you think you're good, and you go head to
head and you beat up on a good team, but
when they're down, it's a win. A's against your rival,
(19:11):
But it's not. It's not the same. You think it's
been the same. Dodgers beating the Giants as Dodgers beating
the Padres over the last couple of years is not
because the Padres are competitive and at any time the
Padres can beat and stack up against the Dodgers. That's
what you want. I think last when I was our
last that last game at USC playing UCLA, we were
(19:32):
ranked second in the country. They were ranked sixth, and
that game was to decide who goes to the Rose Bowl.
And so that that intensity, that feeling that all the
atmosphere around it was. So he absolutely loved it. He
loved it, and I remember USC fan there's one year
that I think, I think Newhusl was coaching USC beat
(19:54):
UCLA fifteen to nothing in one of those games, and
it was, yeah, it's whole hum. It's cool if you know,
rub it in their faces. But it didn't feel as
good as opposed to both teams being good. Okay, that's
the player's perspective. I wonder how the fans feel.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Yeah, I wonder if you're a fan, would you rather
this could go either way and it's going to be
really fulfilling if we beat them, or would you rather listen?
I don't need it to go either way. I just
want to win because we're close to the postseason.
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So I'm gonna guess that some may agree with you, Rodney,
but the majority will say that's that's really good, Rodney, Great,
that's that's fantastic. It means a lot to you. But
we would rather.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Just murder them. Man, we don't care how good they are.
What about murdering? But the question is do you want
your rival to be good? Okay, let's do it like that. Yeah,
let's do it like that. It's like six nine eighty
seven two five seventy Do you want your rival to
be good? Let us know next?
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Speaker 2 (21:40):
Wow, that's right, it's Friday. We don't care. You ever
really listen to the lyrics of that song. Oh yeah,
it's pretty rough. She really doesn't care.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Not one bet. If I was her, I wouldn't either.
Can I just tell you about an email I got? Yes,
I checked my email and I got this email. I'm
gonna read it to you. Just tell me what you think.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
My name is mister Chang seven and Charlie. I'm from Portland, Oregon, USA.
I am the winner of the Powerball Jackpot lottery. I
won the sum of one point three billion Powerball lottery
on April twenty ninth, and I have voluntarily decided to
donate the sum of three million, six hundred thousand dollars
to you and other lucky winners selected. Three million, six
(22:31):
hundred thousand United States dollars has been donated to you.
Thank you, mister Chang seven and Charlie, I got that email?
What is that supposed to be? Let me see if
I got that same email? Can you check that? That's
like the Nigerian prints emails that used to go around.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
So I have three million, six hundred thousand dollars somewhere
I don't know where. Yeah, yeah, but wait, he said
April twenty ninth, when the recent one the one point
three billion dollar.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Power that could be right, So you know that could
have been a mistake. Yeah, yeah, but why would somebody
send out what do they want back?
Speaker 2 (23:07):
There's no link to click send one hundred thousand dollars
so you can access the three point six million for it.
That's how it works. Okay, So that'll be the next email. Yeah,
that'll be the next to email. If you send us,
it won't be one hundred times send us one thousand
dollars or ten thousand dollars. It'll be something minimal that
they think you can handle and send us one thousand
dollars and then we can access your account and send
(23:30):
you the three point six. But you gotta send it
soon otherwise you will forfeit the three point six.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
All right, I'm trying to figure out trying to figure
out what was that meaning? And now give them what
you said. I'll see. I'll see if that's the case, cause.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
That makes sense. They're not going to send that out
and expect nothing in return. No, No, hopefully there's not.
Is there like a link to click on there? No? Yeah,
because you know you don't click on those links nowadays anyway,
just opens you up for any kind of someone to
get into access to all your stuff. It's so scary
(24:06):
that there's I mean, technology is good. I say this
about social media. Talent went out a sheriff. Same thing
with technology right now. There's so many smart technical people
and so many of us that are that we struggle
with technology and not as sharp and witty. But these
(24:27):
people behind the scenes that create all of these devices
and create these algorithms and create these phones and apps
and all that kind of stuff, they have the ability
to really screw with someone if you're not careful. And
even if you are careful, it's it's still difficult. You
know the way things are going out right now. You
get all these spam calls, you get all these things
(24:49):
in your text, Hey click on this link, you owe this,
or click on this link to pay this and or
we just want to update your files, or we want
you you know, you want something, click on the link
and you click on the link, and it's just giving
them access to everything on your phone. And they pop
up all the time, and if you're not careful, like
(25:10):
say someone elderly and they're just thinking, so, hey, somebody's
just trying to get in touch with me, and they
click on it. Now they've opened up their whole phone
and access to their passwords. And somebody's cleaned out their
bank account or or created has fouled and got a
mortgage on the on a house and in their name.
It is It is crazy how easy it is for
(25:32):
some of these people out there to do stuff like that.
But yeah, that sounds like that does sound like the
the Nigerian prints of the eighties and nineties that used
to go around, those emails used to go around, Hey
send me, send me five thousand dollars and we've got
five million waiting for you.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
It's sort of like we talked about it. You know,
you get this text on your phone. Uh you drove
through the uh not the diamond lane?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
The the lane where you have to pay Toby. Yeah,
toll road. Yeah, hey, listen, you drove through the toll road.
Click this link and just you know, you can pay
what you owe.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
And you start thinking, when did I go to a
damn toll Exactly? Why did I go through a toll road?
You owe three hundred and forty dollars for the toll
you you know, click on the link to pay. Yeah,
he's thinking, I live in The only toll I think
I even remotely know is one down in Orange County.
(26:28):
Somewhere there's a toll roll down there somewhere Newport, down Newport. Yeah,
there's a toll roll down there. All right. I haven't
been down there and forever, so I don't or even
on that road. So why are they sending me this
for this toll? Pay? Yeah? I know it's scary, it is.
That is the one that everybody gets that. H m hmm.
(26:51):
All right. Do you want your rival to be good?
That's the question when you play them Dodgers and Giants.
Giants are good now competitively, do you would you rather
have your.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Rival be good? Or I'd rather just not even worry
about it. If they're bad, that's even better. Let's go
to Anthony in l a line to Anthony, what do
you want from the giants? You want them to be
good or just kill them?
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Well, first of all, good afternoon that both of you guys.
You'll enjoy listeners. Now, I want my opponent to be
at the best. So when I beat him down, he
had nothing to say, no damn things.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yes, French, that's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm
talking about. Yes, they ain't got nothing to say afterwards,
like oh my best player was out. Oh we were
you know, we were hurt. We had three players hurt
that game. No, I don't want to hear that.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Can I share one thing? But you when I played
for jeff When I played for jeff our pre much
excuse me, our arrival was Fremont Eye and I should
did enjoy beating them, but you know, unfortunately it got us.
Unfortunately they got us twice when I was a senior.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Okay, okay, So you went to Jefferson, Yeah, and Fremont
was the rival.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Yeah. Remember I'm the defensive end from the Navy.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Remember I do, Yes, yes, yes, you did? You gave
me the hat?
Speaker 5 (28:24):
I sure I gave him.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
You ahead, all right, I don't hear you all.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Right, Anthony, we have to go somebody. Anthony, all right,
thanks man, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Okay, do you want them to be at their best
or would you rather just eliminate them?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Just take them out fast?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Now here's someone who will always have some very important insight.
Mitch Mitch in New Jersey.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Hello, Mitch, how are you guys doing? Fred Roddy? Thanks
to taking my call you today?
Speaker 2 (29:05):
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (29:07):
Well, I'm not driving.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
I'll have you in speakerphone. I chill out.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
I don't see any more tweets send me.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
You don't have anything nice to say? My mom? What
we said?
Speaker 6 (29:15):
Those? Anything at all?
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Banks?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
All right, But I'm just saying you're full of life today, Mitch.
You're just full of excitement today.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
I'm sorry. Ed was seven years? And how long even?
Speaker 6 (29:28):
How long have you been working in the station?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
What the show?
Speaker 5 (29:32):
How long even?
Speaker 7 (29:33):
How long have you had the show?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
You show?
Speaker 5 (29:36):
You and Rodney replace?
Speaker 6 (29:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (29:38):
You replaced Bill Ryder? And what Rodney ten years?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Nineteen years? Nineteen years? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (29:47):
Well time for I remember the beast, I say, what Mitch?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Okay, you asked how long we've been doing the show?
We tell you? Why would you ask that, What was
the what was the reason for that?
Speaker 7 (30:01):
Just so it tells me how long I've been calling
you guys. I love you guys, Tim, Tim k Adam.
They was checking them out.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Remember.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Remember there was a time where you thought you'd been Mitch.
Remember a time you thought you'd been banned. You remember
that you thought you've been banned. Yeah, you never just
called too much, no, but you were never banned, Mitch.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
Yeah, it's over my head and that's usually it was,
you know, like everything it's on in your head.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Was that what those bells were? They were ringing in
your head?
Speaker 6 (30:36):
Did you hear what you're talking about?
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Didn't hear?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
What? Go ahead?
Speaker 5 (30:40):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
What do you want?
Speaker 6 (30:42):
I say?
Speaker 7 (30:43):
Just taking him as is no excuses. You play by
the same rules. You gotta spend money, you gotta sign
the right freasy and you had to keep your farm system,
you know, rich and get the talent. But I wish
there'd be a small talent that's homegrown to Dodgers. That's
just me, right, Do you guys have a nice weekend?
Speaker 2 (31:05):
YouTube? YouTube? And all right, don't don't listen to those
voices in your head, Mitch.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
All right, let's go to uh all right, friend, Zach,
Zach and Huntington Beach. We haven't heard from Zach in
a while. Zach, what do you want?
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (31:19):
I gotta follow Mitch.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Yeah, it's not easy. That's a tough one. Not gonna lie.
Speaker 8 (31:26):
You got sounds like he's sitting in a half the
hour a little early in Jersey right now.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I mean, didn't he sound full of energy today?
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (31:35):
Do you want your rival? Do you want your rival
to be the best? Think about?
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (31:40):
Four Dodgers giants, Finley walk off, Grand Slam, sent us
to the playoffs, sent the Giants package. That's how you
want it?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Okay, Rodney, when he's with you, absolutely pretty simply, he's
with you, of it. Zach knows what he's talking about. Man,
That's why he's sharp.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
He's all right, Zach, appreciate it, Rodney. Who do you
think should be the final word of this? Who do
you think will provide the most insight?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Because I think I know who it is. I don't
know you got a choice there, Yes, okay, I'll let
you pick it.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Ladies and gentlemen. To wrap this up, there is one
person that will provide insight.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Hey, I haven't I haven't. I haven't brought you on
here yet.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Isabelle, somebody who has been a lifelong Dodger fan, somebody
who listens to the radio station every day. Now, let's
bring Isabelle on the show.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Isabelle.
Speaker 9 (32:39):
Yes, Hey guys, how are you?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Where's Bell? How are you?
Speaker 9 (32:44):
Yes? I'm getting all the COVID but I'm fine. Hey
you guy? I okay. This beat the giants if they
can be good or bad. I just hate the giants.
They just beat them, man, they that's what I want.
I just hate them. It's good to be now. They're
just guying me crazy, so they can do whatever they want.
(33:04):
I don't care about the giants. I hate them metag
I hate the Podley so they can do eevery they
want after this after bullshitty is is old. So anyway,
so have a good weekend.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Guy, there you go.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
You heard Isabelle. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
You ever wonder why do you see people make the
decisions they do when you look at it, it's flawed
thinking from the beginning, and we'll talk about that next.
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Speaker 1 (35:14):
Let's go all right, are you gonna be out in
the Lacunyata area, La Kenyada, flint Ridge Tonight.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
You know, I hadn't planned it. Fred I often get
out there, but I hadn't planned going out there tonight
based on our notes this morning. All right, here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
If you don't need to go in that area, you
probably shouldn't go because it is going to be jam packed.
Let me tell you what's going on out there. Saint
Francis is hosting your Lakeanyada is hosting Crecenta Valley. All right,
So those are the two big high school games out
there local, Yes, in the same area.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Yeah, not a big deal. Why why is it? What's
what's the problem.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Well, what I'm saying is it's gonna be a lot
of traffic, Rodney, there's a lot of traffic going to
those games.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
It's big yet out there. Yeah, big, big games, those
two high school games. Yeah. Okay, Now, for some for
some reason, that's not all. That's not all.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
You got two major high school games that are both
going to draw really well in the area. Yeah, but
UCLA decided to schedule a Friday night game at the
Rose Bowl against New Mexico. A Friday night game the
same night, the area is going to be jammed.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
With high school football.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Here's my question to you, which of the three games,
the two high school games or UCLA, which of the
three games will have the worst attendance. It's unimaginable to
say what you might say.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
I know, I know, I know, I will I will
I would say that two high school games combined will
have more fans than the UCLA game Friday night.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
There it is okay. Now I want you to think
about this. You have a Division I college football team,
Big Ten team play New Mexico. The granted the team
is Owen two, hasn't looked good, look pretty dishoveled every game,
and despite the fact that it's only two games, I
would say ninety eight percent of the fans have already
lost faith in the team this year. We also know
(37:25):
the last time they played at the Rose Bowl, people
ran out of there in droves.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
It was so bad.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
And there's a sense that at some point when you
look down and they're playing there, if you took an
aerial view, it would look look like an ant colony.
When it came to the number of fans that were there,
and I'm not talking about a large one. The Rose
Ball seats one hundred thousand.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
It's going to be tight.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Why would you schedule the game on first if you're
UCLA in Los Angeles, because correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Traffic's pretty bad on Friday night. Yes, it's bad no
matter where you are on Friday night. So yeah, why
would you schedule that, Like if you're u C l
A knowing that all of your fans have to travel, right,
(38:14):
all of them have to travel, including your students, which
you know most schools the student section makes up a
large part of the fan base. But I don't know,
I don't know if that's the case with UCLA. But
(38:34):
traveling on a Friday night in l A, Yeah, not,
that's not a that's not a great idea.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
And you're coming from Westwood, so let's think about it.
Westwood to Pasadena. The kick is at seven. You don't
want to walk in at seven, fair, You want to
get there early, right, enjoy the atmosphere, cause let me
tell you, get settled in.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
You want to get there, Get settled in, be ready
for kickoff, right.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
And the good thing is if you go, you're gonna
have a lot of room, A.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Lot of space, you say, a lot of space.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
You're not gonna be crowded, crunched, You're not gonna have
to fight your way in. You're gonna have a lot
of space, so you might want to enjoy that space.
If you are leaving Westwood on Friday afternoon with a
seven o'clock kick at the Rose Bowl, what time will
you leave Westwood to be able to get there and
(39:30):
enjoy the pregame atmosphere and again, you'll have a lot
of room to enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
What time would you leave? Four o'clock? I was gonna
say four thirty? You might, yeah, because if you leave
a little bit later, you know, la' is that window
you know in the morning traffic, things like that afternoon traffic.
You know, if you miss a fifteen minute window, that
(39:56):
can cost you an hour and air on the earlier side.
So I'm saying four, all right, four, because I think
people are thinking, you know, I'm leaving work early on
a Friday, so I'm gonna get out of here at
four thirty. That's when traffic gets heady heavy, and so
you might miss that window of beating that real heavy
(40:19):
traffic if you leave a little bit earlier. All right,
So if you leave it four, what time you gotta
get there? Five fifteen, five thirty? No, No, You're gonna
get there at six thirty, if you leave at four.
If you leave at four from Westwood to Pasadena on
a Friday, on a Friday, thank god, the Dodgers are
(40:41):
out of town. I know and understand. The high school
games kick at seven as well. Right, So once you yeah,
once you get yeah, and you're leaving Westwood, So you
got to get through La first, yeah, and then as
you start to towards Pasadena, all those folks from downtown,
(41:03):
all those folks from wherever head it that way as well.
So the one ten to one, thirty, four to two
to ten, all of them gonna be packed. So you'd
leave at four o'clock for a seven o'clock game, it's
gonna take you two hours to get there, all right.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
So you get there at six, yeah, and exhausted from
the drive, and then you're gonna sit in there and
watch that. Then you're gonna sit in there and watch that,
and then what time you're gonna get out of there?
Speaker 2 (41:34):
Ten thirty? Well, based on the last home game, people
left early, so first quarter hope, it's hope it's competitive
enough and you slay wins that you stay to the end.
So yeah, you leave out of there at ten ten thirty.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
All right, so you're back to Westwood by eleven thirty. Yeah,
So your your Friday was spent from four thirty to
eleven thirty driving to the Rose Bowl to watch a
team that you don't think can win. And if you
go to the game and New.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
Mexico beats them, will you think you have wasted your
entire friday? Yes, yes you will. What do you think
the attendants will be tonight?
Speaker 5 (42:21):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (42:22):
Kevin, if you're there, you can play too, Ronnie, you
can play too. What do you think the attendants will be?
I'm saying thirty thousand. Oh you're gonna say thirty thousand. Yeah,
I'm saying thirty thousand because I think New Mexico fans
are coming. We'll count them. Yeah, got it? Okay, Kevin,
are you there? You want to play?
Speaker 4 (42:43):
Yes, it's funny. Brian Blackmore is in here. He said
eighteen thousand, and I was like, well, that's probably that's
probably higher than I would have guest, to be honest
with you. So the fact that Rodney said thirty.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
I'm trying to be generous. I was trying to be generous.
I actually said it earlier that the high school teams
combined will have more fans.
Speaker 4 (42:56):
Than Yeah, I'm probably feeling more like twelve twelve.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
Okay, Uh, does Blackamo want to play? Does he want
to come on and say.
Speaker 4 (43:04):
He just said sorry, he just said I said, he
said eighteen thousand.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
All right, Ronnie, you want to play? Yeah, I'm gonna
go at ten. I'll take one.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Damn Ronnie cold A lot of people want to get
out of New Mexico apparently, but not that many. You
know what I'm gonna say, Damn, Ronnie, that was cold blooded.
See Brian went eighteen. I think that's a pretty good guess.
But I can't use his guess. I'm gonna go. I'm
(43:36):
gonna I'm either gonna say seventeen or nineteen. It's like
the price is right. I don't want to be over
because I don't win the double showcase. I'm gonna go
over nineteen thousand. I think that'll be the attendance tonight
and the one hundred thousand seat Rose Bowl.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
Wow, that's gonna look bad. That's gonna look bad. Eighteen
and they I wonder what this is on is what
networking Network's Big ten network? Do you think they instruct
the Big ten network not to like pan the stadium. Yes,
(44:16):
and they do that. They accommodate that, right, they don't
pan the stadium.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
Oh no, I don't think UCLA will instruct them not to.
I think the big ten network will instruct itself.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't yee how empty
it is? Yeah, don't do that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
It's like last week the CBS pregame show was in
Green Bay to.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
Kick off the season.
Speaker 1 (44:39):
You know, JB and the guys were there, right, and
you They've got a low shot and you see the stage.
Now it's an afternoon game, but they're doing the show
in the morning, and behind the stage it looks like
there's people there for some reason. I don't know who's
directing that thing, but I promised you they were called in.
The guy said, you know, take the blimp. You see
(45:01):
this overhead shot down below. They made it look like, yeah,
there's a good sized crowd there. Take the blimp. Like
four people were there. It was awful. I don't know
who made that decision. Why somebody would make that decision.
Whoever is directing that on the network should never have
done that. It looked so cheesy and small time and
(45:23):
they got off that shot real fast, so they're not
going to take a shot where they're going to look bad.
But I'll tell you this, you go tonight, they lose,
you're one to nineteen thousand, You'll not go to another
game this year. I think this is a very important
game for them. If they look bad tonight, they will
have the worst attendance in the history of UCLA.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
Going forward for the remainder of the season. That's how
dire the situation is. Yeah, this is a must win
for them. This is a must win for UCLA.
Speaker 4 (45:56):
By the way, they're fifteen point favorites despite the fact
that they're zero and too. So you're right, they better
win because they're expected time in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (46:05):
Give didn't in Mexico go back? They played Michigan, didn't
they was it in Mexico? They played there? They opened
against Michigan, Yes, yeah, I mean gave him a run
for a minute and then yeah.
Speaker 4 (46:15):
I think they were down. I think they might have
been down by four at halftime or something like that.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
Yeah, yeah, so it was close for a minute. So
I mean, I get it, Mexico, but they better not lose.
They better not lose because you're right, Fred, that attendance
that we're predicting is going to be twenty thousand, eighteen thousand,
Ronnie said ten, which is hurtful. It'll be the worst
(46:38):
in school history going forward.
Speaker 4 (46:40):
So I just dug this up, by the way, and
I know we have to break. So they lost to
Utah to open the season. That's Utah's a quality opponent,
Big twelve form or Pac twelve all that. So the
announced attendants, according to Ben Bulsch, was thirty five thousand.
They said after people in the presspots kind of did
a little bit of a personal tally in talking to people,
was closer to twenty seven. So they got thirty five
for Utah, a big time quality opponent on a Saturday night.
(47:06):
So from thirty five, we're saying thirty for New Mexico
on a Friday at the rose Bow. No, yeah, the
baby lucky baby hitting backflips. If they can get thirty tonight.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
That's just bad, just bad, just bad. Well, you know,
it's a very important night for UCLAGS.
Speaker 2 (47:22):
We'll see what happens. All right, let's get into the NFL.
Let's get to it.
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