September 29, 2025 • 33 mins
The Raiders lost to the Bears on a blocked field goal (4 turnovers by the offense didnt help). Rowdieness at the Ryder Cup. USC lost a heartbreaker at Illinois while UCLA came up short at Northwestern.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
We continue on the Gang. Is here a two hour
program for us today.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Don't forget.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
We are giving away tickets for Dodgers and Red's Game
one wild Card at the stadium tomorrow night between now
and two o'clock. And they'll be giving tickets away each end,
every hour all day long, so you'll have a chance
to go out there. Eric, did you enjoy my response
to your teach?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
God?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Fred?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
You cold? Fred? So they got Fred. They tell the
listeners what I what? I what I just said to
talk about what you sent? I just sent Fred a
meme that's with the guy Mitchell I can't think of
his first name. The places for the coach to receive
it number ten and it says Rams play of the week.
(00:44):
Fred say, I cult he like oh Man and his
coach Rams play of the week. That's so funny. Boy,
Are you glad? I'm too glad. We played with no
social media.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Oh they'd been killing up. I mean they'd been killing
somebody killing you know, banger. Think about all the Jerry
curl means with the.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Goggles and everything else, you know, especially after the game.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
If the Jerry kill was in kind of wild Yes, how.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Many times did they sing soul glow at you as
you walked off the field.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
There what soul glow wasn't out yet. Soul Glow was
not out yet. The movie wasn't out yet.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Thankfully for you, probably thankfully for me.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Is right.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yes, I already had to cut down before I had,
I had to trim down. Yeah, damn, Fred, you are
cold blooded, though, Man, you just stayed out, said cut
the cat? What funny trying to? Friend said, I cut him.
I cut him, I cut him.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Come on, man, the.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Man, Hey, you know what that And I heard you
guys said earlier, and you played, so I'm obviously wrong.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I'm wrong. I'll admit it. You played, you know, but
that kind of play is not like doing an interception.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
But for it, it wasn't a bad play. You know.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
He's probably like, you know, it happened to me, and
you know and think it never happened ever in my
NFL in my playing career. I went for a touchdown
I think were playing the Redskins, went to cross over
the goal line, got hit, it knocked out the back
of the end zone. So I thought, you know, we
got the ball in the one and it came and
I didn't even know the rule. I'm like, what we
lost the ball? Said yeah, I mean because it went
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out the back of the end zone. So it was
pretty much the same kind of play. Because I was
explaining to people at the game because they didn't know
what happened, I said, he didn't cross the goal line,
I says, he said, don't get the ball back? I
said no at the one I said no. When you
got the ball and it goes out the back of
the end zone, I said, hate.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
You know that that is actually on the ballot as
a changing the for that to change that rum change.
Instead of giving it to the other team, they're thinking
about giving it back to the team back and they're
losing yards from where they losing, but not losing the
ball that they've been talking about. They've been talking about
that actually for a couple of years now.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
If the ball had gone out on the side at
the one yard line, you retain the possession, right, But
it goes through the end zone.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
It's a touch bag.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, and the other team get the ball at the
ball they get they get they get the ball.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, they get the ball, all right?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
How about the Raiders yesterday? How about that the special
teams again at the end of the game. The week
before it was bad, it was really bad. Yesterday they
turned the ball over four times. They still got a
shot against the Bears. They go for the game tying
field goal and it's blocked. They lose second straight week.
(03:44):
Greater special teams make major mistakes. If your Pete Carroll
and you're losing with special teams, what do you do?
I mean, special team are costing them?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Well, that's where that's where you have a special team's coach.
And that's if they have a specialty have a you
know coach for Spath, that's what they coached special teams.
So they have some problems in their special teams. I mean,
you have to tighten that up. Even even the Rams
a couple of weeks ago, two weeks ago, the same thing.
You have to tighten that up. You know that is
special teams can lose your football game as easy as
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a fumble for a running back, interception. All that because
you're talking about dropping punts or black field goals. It's
like the game last night the Cowboys and in the
Packers game, those two points to me change that game,
I said, I said, I said, the two points gonna
come back to Hunt, I said.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Because it's about to be fourteen and nothing right now,
it's thirteen to two. Now now the momentum, it didn't matter,
it was only two points now that momentum. It just
gave Dallas life after that because.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
They had changed It's none change it. But but going back,
go ahead right now? Yeah, do you to your point, Fred?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Yeah, special teams are very critical, and I know everybody
likes to focus on offense defense, but it is.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
It is very, very important.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
But you can't go crazy because look, look what's happened
already in the league. Rams lost a game because special teams.
Tampa Bay basically lost that game. They lost all the
momentum when that punt got blocked in the first quarter
with the Eagles, right and they scored a touchdown, and
it's helping the Eagles win. Their special team is positive
for them. It's a negative for the Raiders. And you know,
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sometimes it's on most of the time, it's on individuals
a lot of times sometimes it's it's on the end
of it. But sometimes it is a scheme. And I
think with the Raiders, I think it's more individual, you know,
and even with but I think that there's there's a
certain scheme that the Eagles have that is confusing people,
(05:53):
which is why I think they got the block on
the Rams, and they got the block in the next
week against Tampa Bay. But that's why you have special
team's coaches to iron that up. But you can't go
too crazy on it. It's still early in the season.
If you Pete car.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Right, it's certain. Let me ask you a question, right,
because I mean, so I know that one of the
new rules is with the center. Can the center block?
I know they can't hit the singers many of you
the old days, they could crush the center. Yeah, you
know he's trying to hike the ball and he's and
he's getting crushed on fields and right on field goals
and punts. But now can't can he even block?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Is he? Is he a blocked? You can't line up
over the center.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Guys can't line up over the center and and and
bull rushing like they used to be able to do,
like you said, and knocking block, he can block.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
He can still block. Somebody block.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I'm like, you still get a hand on somebody. So
he could snap the ball and then put his hands
up and block. Yeah, yeah, I thought so.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Somebody.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I said, now, I don't think that's true. You said
the centers can't block. I said, no to him, that
he makes sense. So you're just gonna stand there like
I can't do nothing. Yeah, special teams so important for it.
I'm telling you that it is. And it's frustrating to
when you live when you lose a game with special
teams like the Raiders. Let they lost that game yesterday.
I keep going back, and we lost the Philly with
special teams.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I mean it is.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
It's frustrating, but hey, I would see, Hey, losers lose
and wins. That's that's a loser loser set out there. Man,
if we'd have made that field goal, we had them. Man.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Man, if we'd have got that field goal block, man,
we had them. We had him.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Many say there's three phases to the football game. Offense, defense,
special defense.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Win two or three. You gotta win two out of
three of those. Yep.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
All right, let's talk a little college football before we break.
We'll start with USC So against Illinois, there was a
point in that game when I was watching where I
thought Illinois won.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
SC's done. I'm gonna turn it out.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
For whatever reason, I sat there and watching se came
back and now they're in the game, and I'm thinking,
oh my god, they fought their way back in.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
They can win it.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Offense was very good for the Trojans.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I thought they played well. The defense gave up over
five hundred yards. Five hundred yards, So the question is
who is USC Rodney.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, that's the question. I think that they.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
They finally were awake in the second half. That's what
happened in the games. It was like nine o'clock at
West Coast time the game started. I'm not saying that's
excuse you. I deal with that, but yeah, the defense
didn't show up. After after having four games of being
really good meeting the defense being pretty good, they didn't
show up. I think it's a I think part of
(08:29):
it was that Illinois showed they are the team that
everybody thought they were at the beginning of the season,
not the team that got blown out by Indiana the
week before. And a lot of times you get blown
out like that, you can't wait for the next week,
especially if it's at home, and then another big opponent
comes into your place at home. After you get blown out,
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you had to believe that that they will come. They
were going to come out ready to play. And at
the end of the day, they are a good for
They were ranked ninth to start the season Illinois, so
they yeah, they are a good team. They had they
had a misstep before, but when you have a miss
step like that, a good team is going to respond,
and they responded. But you're right, I thought as soon
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as that se scored, because we couldn't stop Illinois all
day long. As soon as we scored it was one
I think one fifty fifty five something like that on
the clock when we scored a go ahead touchdown, and
it was like, way too much time. All they need
to go down to kick a field goal is it
was way too much time for them because we couldn't
stop them all day long.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
And that was It was a tough loss. I mean
it was. It was.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
It would have been a huge win, but still a
tough loss, all right. I also watched U c L
against Northwestern. A couple of thoughts there what you watch?
I watched everything I was ready for today. Sorry I did,
but I did a couple of thoughts. First of all,
they hard to watch though well, First a couple of
weeks Northwestern plays in a stadium that looks like it's
(09:59):
a Vision three stadium. It doesn't even look like a
D one stadium. They're building a new one. Fred, They're
building a new one. There, is that what they're doing. Yes,
they are building a big, state of the art new
stadium at Northwestern.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Okay, because the one they playing now looks like you're
playing at Whittier College.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
So it does.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
With all due respect to Whittier. Anyway, you're watching these
two teams, and maybe it was the stadium. I don't know,
but I thought I was watching a Division three game.
UCLA is awful. I mean, they don't even look like
a Division I college program.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
They do not.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I don't even know how to put it into words.
But if you sat and watch that, and even the
demeanor on the sideline of the coaches and the what
is this? If they win two games, I think they'll
be lucky. If they win two games, I'll give them
two fait.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I don't think they have the town either. It's not
even you know, you said watching them, you know, it
reminds me of watching UCLA. It' mand me of watching
SMU about ten to fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
That's what it was like.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
It's like watching like a little like high school kids
play against college kids.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yes, that's what it looks like. Yeah, and it's nobody
at the game.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
It's like it's like it's like, you know, just just
the parents there and the grandparents and that's about it.
I mean, yeah, I feel bad for them, but they
have they have no talent on that team. It's like, man,
I mean, and I don't care what you say. No
matter how they said, oh, you know, you got the
great coach, I don't care how great the coach is.
(11:41):
You ain't got no talent. You can't win. I told
them when SMU was going through their problem, their real problems.
I said, bring Nick Saban over here to SMU. I said,
he can't win with his talent. It's impossible. I said,
You've got you've got defensive linemen. Take this out. We
had defensive linemen that were two twenty. Now that's a
defensive line. We've got line back we got linebackers one
(12:04):
ninety five, which were you. I mean, I had Ray
Crockett went out to help the the defensive backs. You
to help him with the defensive backs. When he called me, said, man,
let me tell you something. He said, I'm telling I
got seventh greates better than these defensive backs out here.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
So I mean, if you ain't got no talent, man,
you just can't. You can't win. I don't care. Then
you sell his that's bad.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
That's a basketball school. I see it again in basketball.
I hate to say it, but you know the the quarterback.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Oh yeah, it's just that I'm a transferring, you know,
and and trying to strong arm Tennessee into into getting
him more money.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
And I think his family got involved to it. Feel bad.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
You feel bad for him because his whole plan was
I got one more year and I'm going.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
To the NFL.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I don't I don't know if what the man the
thought process is on him now and going forward. He's
in a he's in a rough situation and he's he's talented,
he's talented, and terrible decision, A terrible decision. I mean,
you know, it goes back to the you know, the
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kids in college.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
It's like.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
He's he was already making some good money at at tennis, Tennessee.
He got money, tennise. What kinds of money was he getting?
What kind of money was he getting?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
You think he was getting four He wanted ten or
something like that. But he's getting four hundred thousands.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
No er four million. He wan't four million.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Four million dollars? Yes, like yes, And he thought you
still have wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yeah, he got four million, and he wanted I think
he wanted like eight to ten million dollars. So he
held out of spring training. He held out of college spring.
Ain'ty practice.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
And the at Tennessee said, bye, see, you could answer
in the u c l A and no, what he's
making at u c l A.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
What's he making that?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
One? Like one man at u cl A one? I
thought two yeah something maybe too? And how much was
he getting it? At Tennessee? Already?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Four four boll that's the boy.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
He put the real jackass suit on now, with the
teeth and the tail and everything. He put the whole
He put the whole suit on the He put the
whole jackass at the teeth, the ears, the tail.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Oh my god, what man.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Let me tell you, if I couldn't got a time machine,
I can go back in and go back and maybe
twenty one again.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Four million dollars.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Oh my god, lord, mercard these boys, man, that's crazy
greed ass. That's the greed ass. Mom and daddy.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
That's that's that's come down to it, right, Yeah, yeah, God.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
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Speaker 2 (15:02):
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Speaker 1 (15:09):
All right, Hank tight not yet, not yet, but we're
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two o'clock. Won't we come back? Why can't every golf
tournament be like the Writer Open.
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Speaker 2 (15:41):
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Speaker 4 (15:45):
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Speaker 3 (15:50):
I gotta go back to this, Fred, all right, this
this blew my mind. I walk in the kitchen, I
think I bet I need a drink almost because you
told me this kid was getting four million dollars. Yeah yeah,
and he what you know, I calculate this up. I'm back.
(16:11):
He was making more than me and I played eleven
years in the league. I think the most aum was
all together. Maybe six. Maybe it's this kid is making
four million dollars. Lord, have mercy Park. I mean in college.
When I say put the whole jackass suit on, I
mean I mean all of it, the hoofs and everything.
(16:37):
Who talked him into, who advised him, the family got
involved in here.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I just saw texting him. I just texting.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I just saw texting a guy I know. But they
played some sorry ask god named Jeff Heather. He says
that that's what he said. He said his uncle ft
him over. He was getting over a million dollars. Now
he wanted eight and tennessee he Hall.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I know it is he Hall. I mean I didn't
know what it's like that.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Yeah, welcome to Division one college athletics. All right, listen,
I want to change course here a little bit with
two stories. One's not even on the rundown, but we
have it. We'll do it after this. Uh the Ryder
Cup Beth Page Black Europe one. But it was sort
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of like the Waste Management open where the fans got routy,
the fans got drunk. They started heckling the players, Players
started yelling at each other, Players started yelling at fans.
I thought it was great, that's what golf needs to be.
That's the feel of golf. That's anything goes, so a
(17:51):
fight goes. So I guess the fight would go to
the clock you at one of them clubs?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Would that go to?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
But you can't hit them with a club. It's almost like,
you know how how baseball had all of these unwritten
rules for so long and still kind of does a
little bit that it became the game younger, crowds stopped
liking baseball and stopped watching baseball. Baseball went through its
renaissance and then got younger, got more graphics, started promoting
(18:20):
his players, and started promoting individuals as well as the
teams itself, and now you know, baseball is thriving again.
And although there are many stars still in golf, not
even close to the popularity when Tiger was playing obviously, right,
I mean you got Scottie Scheffler is a popular player.
That's some other guys, Michael Roy from Ireland, But not
(18:42):
like when Tiger and Phil were doing it, and the
crowds were like going crazy, and it just feels like
they need an injection of something and everybody, I mean,
the phoenix opened is no have you.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Ever been to the Phoenix Open. It is I don't
even know how to describe it.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
It's it is a it is a college frat boy party,
animal house scene for three four straight days. I mean,
people are people are drunk at eight o'clock in the morning,
and they're yelling and screaming that you never see on
the golf course, because the golf course is always supposed
to be quiet, quiet, quiet, even announced I'm talking, he's
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on the fourth whole of the nineteenth he needs a
birdie to win this hole and he and he got it.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
He got it, he got it.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
I mean, it's not you can't really yell. And I thought, look,
Europe won, they beat they beat the US and and
and the US didn't play well so that people were
a little bit pissed in New York.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
And again that's another factor for it. Was in New York.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
The New York crowd, you know the New York crowds. Boy,
you know Eric, they get after you a little bit,
and they get angry.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
So they started getting after the European players and talking
mess and they started getting personal with him, you know,
talking about Rory's I think they got talking about Roy's
wife and some other guy's family.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
And it just they just went at it and went
at it.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Couple, yeah, exactly, and a couple of those guys though,
went right back at the fans, you know, and told
him to shut the f up, and you know, and
then then they hit a great shot and they talked
trash to him.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I loved it. I loved every minute. I loved it.
I thought it was great.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
I just see Roy look back at the crowd and
tell him to shut the f up. And the other cat,
the other one that was just he was even more fire.
I forget his name, but he was getting after him too.
After every shot he hit and before he was just
talking smack to the crowd, and I just it was great.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
He saw that.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
The US players were like, they're a little embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
You're like, you got calm down. You gotta calming down
a little bit. This is still golf. We just trying
let him shoot the shot first.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Because they were yelling in the back street Batswing Eric,
I know they were fans were yelling in the bat swing.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Book.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
It was great.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Last night, Yes, yes, oh God, and your wife would
do the last kids you got, man, See, some things
are off limits. Man, I'm sorry riding something that man.
But some people, some people they just say, well they
think they paid they little. They think they paid a
little hundred bucks or two in the buck. And what
(21:27):
I want to say, I don't want to say talking
about family that is way off live. That's that's that's
how it bound. But yeah, they were heckling. What you think, Dred?
I loved it, you know me.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
I think it's great. I think they should all be
that white.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
See Fred, I would like somebody to help on you
when you really doing something black a heckling.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
See how you take I could see you. You'd be
real upset. You'd be like I could just see you.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Hold on, now, wait a minute, buddy, hold on, don't
be talking.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Why I'm talking open here?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
You know, you know with that, with that that Eric
friends on set, somebody say, Fred, you mine friend, that's
a lot that happened over that stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Let you know you're lying, Fred, and you ain't dump
no ball. Fred. All right, First of all, let me
tell you, and I wanted to Jack and then you lying, Fredd.
You didn't take no.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
One to Jack or she was in third grade when
I was on one thing about you could not break me.
You couldn't people down the side of the cameras and
like do stuff never affected me. I just have that ability.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
I just ignore things. Yeah, Fred, But when they're talking
to you, it's different. Making faces and all that. Yeah
that's fun because they're not saying nothing, making a face
like a clown face and all that.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
But lets somebody say something about your mama or your
half style, or your kids, or the ugly shoes you
got on, or that ugly suit you're wearing.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Yes, I said the audience, Yeah, you're right there.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
You know exactly what I do.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
But won't you take it? Go ahead, go ahead, you
tell me you got it?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Go Yeah, you're doing a live broadcast, right you would
know that if somebody was heckling me and I was
doing a lot and it and you can hear them
to take it and they don't take it.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
They wouldn't take it. They take they taken said, no,
that's your job. Job bose over here.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Cut you got on friend, those crazy glasses.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
And what happened? I go to your head.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
I would just I just go like this. I'd say, okay,
I'm gonna let you finish and I'll go see that
sound see you sound like that.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Go ahead, just keep going. You have nothing else to say.
You're on a live broadcast, right, yeah, I would do that.
And then if they started, ye all night stop. You
only got five minutes.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
I guess it would be a very it would be
a very quiet five minutes.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
From that, we give him ten minutes riding because coach,
and now I'm telling you, when they get personal, when
they start talking getting personal, you were like, wait.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
A minute, buddy, understand you, but I mean it's a minute.
How can we apply it to what we do? As
you had a heckler. See, the problem is if you
could hear the heckler, I would just let him go.
I go go ahead, let's just shot that hell up.
Get your muckey. It's easy, it's easy to say to say.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
And you're in a in a live situation when you
only got so much time to get what you got
to get. You're interviewing somebody, right right, you got you
got Otani, You got Clayshaw Kershaw in an interview, a
live interview. Well you got him for two minutes, and
you got these hecklers that are yelling at you and
you're trying to talk to him.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I got one. I got one. This actually happened.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Lakers are playing Portland in the playoffs. The game is over,
the Lakers have won, so we're doing a live shot.
It's eleven o'clock because we're a Pacific time, so to
like eleven twenty. We go live from outside the arena
in Portland. So I do the teams and in the background,
way in the background, you can hear something. We can
hear something in this teas. We can't really it's not audible,
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but you can hear somebody saying something. All right, i'll
figure all the guy's weigh in the distance.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Who knows.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Anyway, we come on.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
We start, and now the guy who was making noise
in the back is now much closer, and this is
what he does.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
I start talking and he goes, shekels, shekels.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
So I guess.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Shekels.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
So I kind of pause for a second because you
can hear it, and I look over at the guy
and I go, okay, we're on live.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Is there anything you'd like to what to say? And
he goes, shekels.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
The guy kept shouting shekels, and Ronie, this is the
situation you were describing. I only had four minutes and
I mean this Shekels guy. Everyone is hearing Shekels. We
don't know why. He's kind of like a beat up
older guy, and he keeps yelling Shekels. So what happens
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is we get to a voice over a tape which
I'm going to narrate.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I'm off camera.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Two guys come running in and Shekels is gone.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
They just whisked them right away.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Shekels.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I was doing a football I was doing a postgame
Super Bowl show Bengals and forty nine ers in Miami.
Homeless guy walks up while we're on. I don't know
how our little group let.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Him get up there.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
He walks up on money, goes, can I borrow some money?
I live? That's funny, right it game twenty bucks? He left.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I mean that happens sometimes when you're live. The fat
guys fighting in Minneapolis.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
That happened. We were doing a live shot.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
These guys got drunk, they were oversized. They fell into
the string and started fighting. Their wives or girlfriends were screaming.
I just put the camera on them, let them fight
for four minutes, and send a basketballing and doing this.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
It's one thing about the I don't believe Fred. I'm
just telling you, I don't. I don't believe it. No
thought of that is what.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Don't you what?
Speaker 2 (27:08):
No, I don't believe you get that man of twenty dollars.
I don't believe that maybe gave a dollar. See, I
don't believe you gave nobody twenty dollars.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
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will continue that. Okay, So Eric, as we now get
serious into the baseball playoff time of year, do you
think that the Dodgers at this time of year kind
of overshadow everything in the market. I mean, the Lakers
had media Day today. I think the Clippers did as well.
The Rams are obviously playing.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
But is there anything bigger than the Dodgers right now?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Absolutely not, not in LA, not for sports wise.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
I mean, the Dodgers have the biggest I think fan
base and sports I mean especially baseball, for sure.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
I can say that for sure. I told you before
I look it up. This was last year.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I just want to see what was the most hated
team in baseball LA Dodgers, and I think they hate
most people hate winners, and they get tired of a winner.
They get tired of people whining. They tired of having
a great organization. It's like the when the Patriots will
winning the Super Bowls. You know, at first, like, okay,
they got one, all right, they got two, I think
went to third one, No, they got three. Okay, I'm sick.
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I'm sick. I'm sick of them. I'm sick of the Patriots.
And it's the same thing with the Dodgers, you know,
and think about it, Fred people think La. They think
every but everybody in LA is Hollywood. Everybody's rich in LA.
And you know, it's great here and everything is fantastic,
and it's not like that. But I think the Dodgers
have that stigma of being that team that if you
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live in LA you are a Dodger fan pretty much.
You love the Dodgers and you have a true fan
based like when they went to New York. So and
they went to New York and they have all the
Dodger fans, you know, walking down I think Times Square.
I'm like, damn, it looks like a Dodger home game.
So I don't think it's anything bigger than the Dodgers
right now, and think about it. They won the World
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Series last year. Imagine if they do it back to
back trade how big that's gonna be just for the
city of Los Angeles. So no, I don't think it's
anything bigger. I mean football, the Rams, the the little
Chargers over there, even s C greates that see and
as great as that sea is, I mean and s
C is, it's iconic here in l A. But not
when it comes to the Dodgers. No, I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
It's the only market at least, and I could be
proven wrong, but I think it's the only market in
America where football is not completely and totally dominant.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I agree.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Yeah, and every other market it is, even in New York,
but not here.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Not here. Now Baseball the Dodgers. It's all about the Dodgers.
I mean, when you when you, when you, when you
go to when you when you go to other cities
and you see like I mean, I mean I remember
went to the World Series of Time in dissorder when
they played the the the Astros in in Houston and
all the Dodger fans I know, and I.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Know Houston loved that baseball for sure, but I'm like,
look at all these Dodger fans, they travel well, they
just it's like it's almost like a cult.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I mean it really is. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Coorra from this year Cora from Boston was like, man,
I knew they had I knew they traveled well, but
I didn't know it was like that because they went
to Boston that when they played that series there and
drowned it out the Boston Red Sox fans because there
was so many Doggies that he said in Boston, it
felt like it was a Dodger home game. And you
would never expect to hear that.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
No, not in Boston, not in Boston, in Boston.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
But yeah, yep, but yeah, you know, you're absolutely Do
you think it has anything to do with the football
leaving here for a period of time if you think
to a degree, yes, yeah, but the Rams have won
a Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
But Fred, but think about it like this here, Fred,
think about the Rams back in the fields and forth
and days, and they back in the sixties and seventies
when they were in LA and they played in the coliseum,
and let's say they'd have won two or three Super
Bowls being in LA.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
I know that greatest show in turf for the won
Super Bowl here.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
But think they had never left La, never left, never
went to Anaheim, stayed in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
They would be like the Dodgers. I do believe that.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
I just think they would because because you know, everybody
loves a winner. I mean, how many pennies of the
Dodgers won, how many how many conference champions they want
to twelve thirteen? Something like divisions? Yeah, yeah, divisions like
something like that. I mean twelve. Yeah, and the Lakers
have won with eighteen titles or something like that. I mean,
so when you when you win, it's all about winning.
I mean, and how many how many of the Clippers won?
Speaker 1 (32:23):
You know, the only team that could have given the
Dodgers a run? Seriously, I think they could have. Lakers
shared it with them, the Raiders when they were oh yeah,
oh yeah, yeah, the Raiders, no doubt. I agree they did,
and they.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Did when they won that Super Bowl here as the
La Raiders. Marcus Year yep, yep. That the Raiders were
as big as it got in this town.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Yep. I won't forget.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
We played the Paraders in a preseason game when they
came back, when the Rams came back here the town.
I think it was the second season played in the
preseason game. And one of the guys called me said, Eric,
he said, you're not gonna believe this. He says, it's
going to be it's a preseason game, prad It's going
to be eighty thousand fans at this preseason game, he says,
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and we're selling tickets and eighty five percent of them
are Raider fans. I'm like, dang that that showed, right, there,
I'm like, yeah, they would, they would you remember those days?
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Yep, they would get ninety thousand at the coliseum for
their games.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Not a problem, Yeah, no problem, no problem. Yeah. And
then if if the Rams would have stayed in one
that that that they'd have been like that too.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
But I agree, I agree with that because you think
about the Rams, they would have won two or three
Super Bowls too if they.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Stayed here the whole time.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
All right, Ronnie, thank you for today. A great job, Kevin,
appreciate it. Ed you have a terrific week and Rodney
Dodger Stadium tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Dune. Yes,
We continue on the Gang. Is here a two hour
program for us today.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Don't forget.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
We are giving away tickets for Dodgers and Red's Game
one wild Card at the stadium tomorrow night between now
and two o'clock. And they'll be giving tickets away each end,
every hour all day long, so you'll have a chance
to go out there. Eric, did you enjoy my response
to your teach?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
God?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Fred?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
You cold? Fred? So they got Fred. They tell the
listeners what I what? I what I just said to
talk about what you sent? I just sent Fred a
meme that's with the guy Mitchell I can't think of
his first name. The places for the coach to receive
it number ten and it says Rams play of the week.
(00:44):
Fred say, I cult he like oh Man and his
coach Rams play of the week. That's so funny. Boy,
Are you glad? I'm too glad. We played with no
social media.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Oh they'd been killing up. I mean they'd been killing
somebody killing you know, banger. Think about all the Jerry
curl means with the.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Goggles and everything else, you know, especially after the game.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
If the Jerry kill was in kind of wild Yes, how.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Many times did they sing soul glow at you as
you walked off the field.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
There what soul glow wasn't out yet. Soul Glow was
not out yet. The movie wasn't out yet.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Thankfully for you, probably thankfully for me.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Is right.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yes, I already had to cut down before I had,
I had to trim down. Yeah, damn, Fred, you are
cold blooded, though, Man, you just stayed out, said cut
the cat? What funny trying to? Friend said, I cut him.
I cut him, I cut him.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Come on, man, the.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Man, Hey, you know what that And I heard you
guys said earlier, and you played, so I'm obviously wrong.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I'm wrong. I'll admit it. You played, you know, but
that kind of play is not like doing an interception.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
But for it, it wasn't a bad play. You know.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
He's probably like, you know, it happened to me, and
you know and think it never happened ever in my
NFL in my playing career. I went for a touchdown
I think were playing the Redskins, went to cross over
the goal line, got hit, it knocked out the back
of the end zone. So I thought, you know, we
got the ball in the one and it came and
I didn't even know the rule. I'm like, what we
lost the ball? Said yeah, I mean because it went
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out the back of the end zone. So it was
pretty much the same kind of play. Because I was
explaining to people at the game because they didn't know
what happened, I said, he didn't cross the goal line,
I says, he said, don't get the ball back? I
said no at the one I said no. When you
got the ball and it goes out the back of
the end zone, I said, hate.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
You know that that is actually on the ballot as
a changing the for that to change that rum change.
Instead of giving it to the other team, they're thinking
about giving it back to the team back and they're
losing yards from where they losing, but not losing the
ball that they've been talking about. They've been talking about
that actually for a couple of years now.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
If the ball had gone out on the side at
the one yard line, you retain the possession, right, But
it goes through the end zone.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
It's a touch bag.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, and the other team get the ball at the
ball they get they get they get the ball.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, they get the ball, all right?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
How about the Raiders yesterday? How about that the special
teams again at the end of the game. The week
before it was bad, it was really bad. Yesterday they
turned the ball over four times. They still got a
shot against the Bears. They go for the game tying
field goal and it's blocked. They lose second straight week.
(03:44):
Greater special teams make major mistakes. If your Pete Carroll
and you're losing with special teams, what do you do?
I mean, special team are costing them?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Well, that's where that's where you have a special team's coach.
And that's if they have a specialty have a you
know coach for Spath, that's what they coached special teams.
So they have some problems in their special teams. I mean,
you have to tighten that up. Even even the Rams
a couple of weeks ago, two weeks ago, the same thing.
You have to tighten that up. You know that is
special teams can lose your football game as easy as
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a fumble for a running back, interception. All that because
you're talking about dropping punts or black field goals. It's
like the game last night the Cowboys and in the
Packers game, those two points to me change that game,
I said, I said, I said, the two points gonna
come back to Hunt, I said.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Because it's about to be fourteen and nothing right now,
it's thirteen to two. Now now the momentum, it didn't matter,
it was only two points now that momentum. It just
gave Dallas life after that because.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
They had changed It's none change it. But but going back,
go ahead right now? Yeah, do you to your point, Fred?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Yeah, special teams are very critical, and I know everybody
likes to focus on offense defense, but it is.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
It is very, very important.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
But you can't go crazy because look, look what's happened
already in the league. Rams lost a game because special teams.
Tampa Bay basically lost that game. They lost all the
momentum when that punt got blocked in the first quarter
with the Eagles, right and they scored a touchdown, and
it's helping the Eagles win. Their special team is positive
for them. It's a negative for the Raiders. And you know,
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sometimes it's on most of the time, it's on individuals
a lot of times sometimes it's it's on the end
of it. But sometimes it is a scheme. And I
think with the Raiders, I think it's more individual, you know,
and even with but I think that there's there's a
certain scheme that the Eagles have that is confusing people,
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which is why I think they got the block on
the Rams, and they got the block in the next
week against Tampa Bay. But that's why you have special
team's coaches to iron that up. But you can't go
too crazy on it. It's still early in the season.
If you Pete car.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Right, it's certain. Let me ask you a question, right,
because I mean, so I know that one of the
new rules is with the center. Can the center block?
I know they can't hit the singers many of you
the old days, they could crush the center. Yeah, you
know he's trying to hike the ball and he's and
he's getting crushed on fields and right on field goals
and punts. But now can't can he even block?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Is he? Is he a blocked? You can't line up
over the center.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Guys can't line up over the center and and and
bull rushing like they used to be able to do,
like you said, and knocking block, he can block.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
He can still block. Somebody block.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I'm like, you still get a hand on somebody. So
he could snap the ball and then put his hands
up and block. Yeah, yeah, I thought so.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Somebody.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I said, now, I don't think that's true. You said
the centers can't block. I said, no to him, that
he makes sense. So you're just gonna stand there like
I can't do nothing. Yeah, special teams so important for it.
I'm telling you that it is. And it's frustrating to
when you live when you lose a game with special
teams like the Raiders. Let they lost that game yesterday.
I keep going back, and we lost the Philly with
special teams.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I mean it is.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
It's frustrating, but hey, I would see, Hey, losers lose
and wins. That's that's a loser loser set out there. Man,
if we'd have made that field goal, we had them. Man.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Man, if we'd have got that field goal block, man,
we had them. We had him.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Many say there's three phases to the football game. Offense, defense,
special defense.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Win two or three. You gotta win two out of
three of those. Yep.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
All right, let's talk a little college football before we break.
We'll start with USC So against Illinois, there was a
point in that game when I was watching where I
thought Illinois won.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
SC's done. I'm gonna turn it out.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
For whatever reason, I sat there and watching se came
back and now they're in the game, and I'm thinking,
oh my god, they fought their way back in.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
They can win it.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Offense was very good for the Trojans.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I thought they played well. The defense gave up over
five hundred yards. Five hundred yards, So the question is
who is USC Rodney.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, that's the question. I think that they.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
They finally were awake in the second half. That's what
happened in the games. It was like nine o'clock at
West Coast time the game started. I'm not saying that's
excuse you. I deal with that, but yeah, the defense
didn't show up. After after having four games of being
really good meeting the defense being pretty good, they didn't
show up. I think it's a I think part of
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it was that Illinois showed they are the team that
everybody thought they were at the beginning of the season,
not the team that got blown out by Indiana the
week before. And a lot of times you get blown
out like that, you can't wait for the next week,
especially if it's at home, and then another big opponent
comes into your place at home. After you get blown out,
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you had to believe that that they will come. They
were going to come out ready to play. And at
the end of the day, they are a good for
They were ranked ninth to start the season Illinois, so
they yeah, they are a good team. They had they
had a misstep before, but when you have a miss
step like that, a good team is going to respond,
and they responded. But you're right, I thought as soon
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as that se scored, because we couldn't stop Illinois all
day long. As soon as we scored it was one
I think one fifty fifty five something like that on
the clock when we scored a go ahead touchdown, and
it was like, way too much time. All they need
to go down to kick a field goal is it
was way too much time for them because we couldn't
stop them all day long.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
And that was It was a tough loss. I mean
it was. It was.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
It would have been a huge win, but still a
tough loss, all right. I also watched U c L
against Northwestern. A couple of thoughts there what you watch?
I watched everything I was ready for today. Sorry I did,
but I did a couple of thoughts. First of all,
they hard to watch though well, First a couple of
weeks Northwestern plays in a stadium that looks like it's
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a Vision three stadium. It doesn't even look like a
D one stadium. They're building a new one. Fred, They're
building a new one. There, is that what they're doing. Yes,
they are building a big, state of the art new
stadium at Northwestern.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Okay, because the one they playing now looks like you're
playing at Whittier College.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
So it does.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
With all due respect to Whittier. Anyway, you're watching these
two teams, and maybe it was the stadium. I don't know,
but I thought I was watching a Division three game.
UCLA is awful. I mean, they don't even look like
a Division I college program.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
They do not.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I don't even know how to put it into words.
But if you sat and watch that, and even the
demeanor on the sideline of the coaches and the what
is this? If they win two games, I think they'll
be lucky. If they win two games, I'll give them
two fait.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I don't think they have the town either. It's not
even you know, you said watching them, you know, it
reminds me of watching UCLA. It' mand me of watching
SMU about ten to fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
That's what it was like.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
It's like watching like a little like high school kids
play against college kids.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yes, that's what it looks like. Yeah, and it's nobody
at the game.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
It's like it's like it's like, you know, just just
the parents there and the grandparents and that's about it.
I mean, yeah, I feel bad for them, but they
have they have no talent on that team. It's like, man,
I mean, and I don't care what you say. No
matter how they said, oh, you know, you got the
great coach, I don't care how great the coach is.
(11:41):
You ain't got no talent. You can't win. I told
them when SMU was going through their problem, their real problems.
I said, bring Nick Saban over here to SMU. I said,
he can't win with his talent. It's impossible. I said,
You've got you've got defensive linemen. Take this out. We
had defensive linemen that were two twenty. Now that's a
defensive line. We've got line back we got linebackers one
(12:04):
ninety five, which were you. I mean, I had Ray
Crockett went out to help the the defensive backs. You
to help him with the defensive backs. When he called me, said, man,
let me tell you something. He said, I'm telling I
got seventh greates better than these defensive backs out here.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
So I mean, if you ain't got no talent, man,
you just can't. You can't win. I don't care. Then
you sell his that's bad.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
That's a basketball school. I see it again in basketball.
I hate to say it, but you know the the quarterback.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Oh yeah, it's just that I'm a transferring, you know,
and and trying to strong arm Tennessee into into getting
him more money.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
And I think his family got involved to it. Feel bad.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
You feel bad for him because his whole plan was
I got one more year and I'm going.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
To the NFL.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I don't I don't know if what the man the
thought process is on him now and going forward. He's
in a he's in a rough situation and he's he's talented,
he's talented, and terrible decision, A terrible decision. I mean,
you know, it goes back to the you know, the
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kids in college.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
It's like.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
He's he was already making some good money at at tennis, Tennessee.
He got money, tennise. What kinds of money was he getting?
What kind of money was he getting?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
You think he was getting four He wanted ten or
something like that. But he's getting four hundred thousands.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
No er four million. He wan't four million.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Four million dollars? Yes, like yes, And he thought you
still have wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yeah, he got four million, and he wanted I think
he wanted like eight to ten million dollars. So he
held out of spring training. He held out of college spring.
Ain'ty practice.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
And the at Tennessee said, bye, see, you could answer
in the u c l A and no, what he's
making at u c l A.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
What's he making that?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
One? Like one man at u cl A one? I
thought two yeah something maybe too? And how much was
he getting it? At Tennessee? Already?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Four four boll that's the boy.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
He put the real jackass suit on now, with the
teeth and the tail and everything. He put the whole
He put the whole suit on the He put the
whole jackass at the teeth, the ears, the tail.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Oh my god, what man.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Let me tell you, if I couldn't got a time machine,
I can go back in and go back and maybe
twenty one again.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Four million dollars.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Oh my god, lord, mercard these boys, man, that's crazy
greed ass. That's the greed ass. Mom and daddy.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
That's that's that's come down to it, right, Yeah, yeah, God.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
For the NFL Spotlight is presented by Ford.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
You all.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
All right, Hank tight not yet, not yet, but we're
giving away those tickets Dodgers Reds wild Card Game one
tomorrow at the stadium. We'll do it between now and
two o'clock. Won't we come back? Why can't every golf
tournament be like the Writer Open.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
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Speaker 2 (15:41):
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Speaker 4 (15:45):
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Dickerson on Monday to Ford NFL Spotlight.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I gotta go back to this, Fred, all right, this
this blew my mind. I walk in the kitchen, I
think I bet I need a drink almost because you
told me this kid was getting four million dollars. Yeah yeah,
and he what you know, I calculate this up. I'm back.
(16:11):
He was making more than me and I played eleven
years in the league. I think the most aum was
all together. Maybe six. Maybe it's this kid is making
four million dollars. Lord, have mercy Park. I mean in college.
When I say put the whole jackass suit on, I
mean I mean all of it, the hoofs and everything.
(16:37):
Who talked him into, who advised him, the family got
involved in here.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I just saw texting him. I just texting.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I just saw texting a guy I know. But they
played some sorry ask god named Jeff Heather. He says
that that's what he said. He said his uncle ft
him over. He was getting over a million dollars. Now
he wanted eight and tennessee he Hall.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I know it is he Hall. I mean I didn't
know what it's like that.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Yeah, welcome to Division one college athletics. All right, listen,
I want to change course here a little bit with
two stories. One's not even on the rundown, but we
have it. We'll do it after this. Uh the Ryder
Cup Beth Page Black Europe one. But it was sort
(17:29):
of like the Waste Management open where the fans got routy,
the fans got drunk. They started heckling the players, Players
started yelling at each other, Players started yelling at fans.
I thought it was great, that's what golf needs to be.
That's the feel of golf. That's anything goes, so a
(17:51):
fight goes. So I guess the fight would go to
the clock you at one of them clubs?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Would that go to?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
But you can't hit them with a club. It's almost like,
you know how how baseball had all of these unwritten
rules for so long and still kind of does a
little bit that it became the game younger, crowds stopped
liking baseball and stopped watching baseball. Baseball went through its
renaissance and then got younger, got more graphics, started promoting
(18:20):
his players, and started promoting individuals as well as the
teams itself, and now you know, baseball is thriving again.
And although there are many stars still in golf, not
even close to the popularity when Tiger was playing obviously, right,
I mean you got Scottie Scheffler is a popular player.
That's some other guys, Michael Roy from Ireland, But not
(18:42):
like when Tiger and Phil were doing it, and the
crowds were like going crazy, and it just feels like
they need an injection of something and everybody, I mean,
the phoenix opened is no have you.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Ever been to the Phoenix Open. It is I don't
even know how to describe it.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
It's it is a it is a college frat boy party,
animal house scene for three four straight days. I mean,
people are people are drunk at eight o'clock in the morning,
and they're yelling and screaming that you never see on
the golf course, because the golf course is always supposed
to be quiet, quiet, quiet, even announced I'm talking, he's
(19:23):
on the fourth whole of the nineteenth he needs a
birdie to win this hole and he and he got it.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
He got it, he got it.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
I mean, it's not you can't really yell. And I thought, look,
Europe won, they beat they beat the US and and
and the US didn't play well so that people were
a little bit pissed in New York.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
And again that's another factor for it. Was in New York.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
The New York crowd, you know the New York crowds. Boy,
you know Eric, they get after you a little bit,
and they get angry.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
So they started getting after the European players and talking
mess and they started getting personal with him, you know,
talking about Rory's I think they got talking about Roy's
wife and some other guy's family.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
And it just they just went at it and went
at it.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Couple, yeah, exactly, and a couple of those guys though,
went right back at the fans, you know, and told
him to shut the f up, and you know, and
then then they hit a great shot and they talked
trash to him.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I loved it. I loved every minute. I loved it.
I thought it was great.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
I just see Roy look back at the crowd and
tell him to shut the f up. And the other cat,
the other one that was just he was even more fire.
I forget his name, but he was getting after him too.
After every shot he hit and before he was just
talking smack to the crowd, and I just it was great.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
He saw that.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
The US players were like, they're a little embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
You're like, you got calm down. You gotta calming down
a little bit. This is still golf. We just trying
let him shoot the shot first.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Because they were yelling in the back street Batswing Eric,
I know they were fans were yelling in the bat swing.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Book.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
It was great.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Last night, Yes, yes, oh God, and your wife would
do the last kids you got, man, See, some things
are off limits. Man, I'm sorry riding something that man.
But some people, some people they just say, well they
think they paid they little. They think they paid a
little hundred bucks or two in the buck. And what
(21:27):
I want to say, I don't want to say talking
about family that is way off live. That's that's that's
how it bound. But yeah, they were heckling. What you think, Dred?
I loved it, you know me.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
I think it's great. I think they should all be
that white.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
See Fred, I would like somebody to help on you
when you really doing something black a heckling.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
See how you take I could see you. You'd be
real upset. You'd be like I could just see you.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Hold on, now, wait a minute, buddy, hold on, don't
be talking.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Why I'm talking open here?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
You know, you know with that, with that that Eric
friends on set, somebody say, Fred, you mine friend, that's
a lot that happened over that stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Let you know you're lying, Fred, and you ain't dump
no ball. Fred. All right, First of all, let me
tell you, and I wanted to Jack and then you lying, Fredd.
You didn't take no.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
One to Jack or she was in third grade when
I was on one thing about you could not break me.
You couldn't people down the side of the cameras and
like do stuff never affected me. I just have that ability.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
I just ignore things. Yeah, Fred, But when they're talking
to you, it's different. Making faces and all that. Yeah
that's fun because they're not saying nothing, making a face
like a clown face and all that.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
But lets somebody say something about your mama or your
half style, or your kids, or the ugly shoes you
got on, or that ugly suit you're wearing.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Yes, I said the audience, Yeah, you're right there.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
You know exactly what I do.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
But won't you take it? Go ahead, go ahead, you
tell me you got it?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Go Yeah, you're doing a live broadcast, right you would
know that if somebody was heckling me and I was
doing a lot and it and you can hear them
to take it and they don't take it.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
They wouldn't take it. They take they taken said, no,
that's your job. Job bose over here.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Cut you got on friend, those crazy glasses.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
And what happened? I go to your head.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
I would just I just go like this. I'd say, okay,
I'm gonna let you finish and I'll go see that
sound see you sound like that.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Go ahead, just keep going. You have nothing else to say.
You're on a live broadcast, right, yeah, I would do that.
And then if they started, ye all night stop. You
only got five minutes.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
I guess it would be a very it would be
a very quiet five minutes.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
From that, we give him ten minutes riding because coach,
and now I'm telling you, when they get personal, when
they start talking getting personal, you were like, wait.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
A minute, buddy, understand you, but I mean it's a minute.
How can we apply it to what we do? As
you had a heckler. See, the problem is if you
could hear the heckler, I would just let him go.
I go go ahead, let's just shot that hell up.
Get your muckey. It's easy, it's easy to say to say.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
And you're in a in a live situation when you
only got so much time to get what you got
to get. You're interviewing somebody, right right, you got you
got Otani, You got Clayshaw Kershaw in an interview, a
live interview. Well you got him for two minutes, and
you got these hecklers that are yelling at you and
you're trying to talk to him.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I got one. I got one. This actually happened.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Lakers are playing Portland in the playoffs. The game is over,
the Lakers have won, so we're doing a live shot.
It's eleven o'clock because we're a Pacific time, so to
like eleven twenty. We go live from outside the arena
in Portland. So I do the teams and in the background,
way in the background, you can hear something. We can
hear something in this teas. We can't really it's not audible,
(24:56):
but you can hear somebody saying something. All right, i'll
figure all the guy's weigh in the distance.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Who knows.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Anyway, we come on.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
We start, and now the guy who was making noise
in the back is now much closer, and this is
what he does.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
I start talking and he goes, shekels, shekels.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
So I guess.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Shekels.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
So I kind of pause for a second because you
can hear it, and I look over at the guy
and I go, okay, we're on live.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Is there anything you'd like to what to say? And
he goes, shekels.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
The guy kept shouting shekels, and Ronie, this is the
situation you were describing. I only had four minutes and
I mean this Shekels guy. Everyone is hearing Shekels. We
don't know why. He's kind of like a beat up
older guy, and he keeps yelling Shekels. So what happens
(25:56):
is we get to a voice over a tape which
I'm going to narrate.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I'm off camera.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Two guys come running in and Shekels is gone.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
They just whisked them right away.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Shekels.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I was doing a football I was doing a postgame
Super Bowl show Bengals and forty nine ers in Miami.
Homeless guy walks up while we're on. I don't know
how our little group let.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Him get up there.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
He walks up on money, goes, can I borrow some money?
I live? That's funny, right it game twenty bucks? He left.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I mean that happens sometimes when you're live. The fat
guys fighting in Minneapolis.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
That happened. We were doing a live shot.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
These guys got drunk, they were oversized. They fell into
the string and started fighting. Their wives or girlfriends were screaming.
I just put the camera on them, let them fight
for four minutes, and send a basketballing and doing this.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
It's one thing about the I don't believe Fred. I'm
just telling you, I don't. I don't believe it. No
thought of that is what.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Don't you what?
Speaker 2 (27:08):
No, I don't believe you get that man of twenty dollars.
I don't believe that maybe gave a dollar. See, I
don't believe you gave nobody twenty dollars.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
That is a lie Ford NFL Spotlight is presented by Ford,
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Speaker 4 (27:34):
Rodney would call her number. I like number five.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
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Speaker 1 (27:47):
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(28:10):
will continue that. Okay, So Eric, as we now get
serious into the baseball playoff time of year, do you
think that the Dodgers at this time of year kind
of overshadow everything in the market. I mean, the Lakers
had media Day today. I think the Clippers did as well.
The Rams are obviously playing.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
But is there anything bigger than the Dodgers right now?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Absolutely not, not in LA, not for sports wise.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
I mean, the Dodgers have the biggest I think fan
base and sports I mean especially baseball, for sure.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
I can say that for sure. I told you before
I look it up. This was last year.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I just want to see what was the most hated
team in baseball LA Dodgers, and I think they hate
most people hate winners, and they get tired of a winner.
They get tired of people whining. They tired of having
a great organization. It's like the when the Patriots will
winning the Super Bowls. You know, at first, like, okay,
they got one, all right, they got two, I think
went to third one, No, they got three. Okay, I'm sick.
(29:09):
I'm sick. I'm sick of them. I'm sick of the Patriots.
And it's the same thing with the Dodgers, you know,
and think about it, Fred people think La. They think
every but everybody in LA is Hollywood. Everybody's rich in LA.
And you know, it's great here and everything is fantastic,
and it's not like that. But I think the Dodgers
have that stigma of being that team that if you
(29:32):
live in LA you are a Dodger fan pretty much.
You love the Dodgers and you have a true fan
based like when they went to New York. So and
they went to New York and they have all the
Dodger fans, you know, walking down I think Times Square.
I'm like, damn, it looks like a Dodger home game.
So I don't think it's anything bigger than the Dodgers
right now, and think about it. They won the World
(29:53):
Series last year. Imagine if they do it back to
back trade how big that's gonna be just for the
city of Los Angeles. So no, I don't think it's
anything bigger. I mean football, the Rams, the the little
Chargers over there, even s C greates that see and
as great as that sea is, I mean and s
C is, it's iconic here in l A. But not
when it comes to the Dodgers. No, I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
It's the only market at least, and I could be
proven wrong, but I think it's the only market in
America where football is not completely and totally dominant.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I agree.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Yeah, and every other market it is, even in New York,
but not here.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Not here. Now Baseball the Dodgers. It's all about the Dodgers.
I mean, when you when you, when you, when you
go to when you when you go to other cities
and you see like I mean, I mean I remember
went to the World Series of Time in dissorder when
they played the the the Astros in in Houston and
all the Dodger fans I know, and I.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Know Houston loved that baseball for sure, but I'm like,
look at all these Dodger fans, they travel well, they
just it's like it's almost like a cult.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I mean it really is. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Coorra from this year Cora from Boston was like, man,
I knew they had I knew they traveled well, but
I didn't know it was like that because they went
to Boston that when they played that series there and
drowned it out the Boston Red Sox fans because there
was so many Doggies that he said in Boston, it
felt like it was a Dodger home game. And you
would never expect to hear that.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
No, not in Boston, not in Boston, in Boston.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
But yeah, yep, but yeah, you know, you're absolutely Do
you think it has anything to do with the football
leaving here for a period of time if you think
to a degree, yes, yeah, but the Rams have won
a Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
But Fred, but think about it like this here, Fred,
think about the Rams back in the fields and forth
and days, and they back in the sixties and seventies
when they were in LA and they played in the coliseum,
and let's say they'd have won two or three Super
Bowls being in LA.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
I know that greatest show in turf for the won
Super Bowl here.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
But think they had never left La, never left, never
went to Anaheim, stayed in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
They would be like the Dodgers. I do believe that.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
I just think they would because because you know, everybody
loves a winner. I mean, how many pennies of the
Dodgers won, how many how many conference champions they want
to twelve thirteen? Something like divisions? Yeah, yeah, divisions like
something like that. I mean twelve. Yeah, and the Lakers
have won with eighteen titles or something like that. I mean,
so when you when you win, it's all about winning.
I mean, and how many how many of the Clippers won?
Speaker 1 (32:23):
You know, the only team that could have given the
Dodgers a run? Seriously, I think they could have. Lakers
shared it with them, the Raiders when they were oh yeah,
oh yeah, yeah, the Raiders, no doubt. I agree they did,
and they.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Did when they won that Super Bowl here as the
La Raiders. Marcus Year yep, yep. That the Raiders were
as big as it got in this town.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Yep. I won't forget.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
We played the Paraders in a preseason game when they
came back, when the Rams came back here the town.
I think it was the second season played in the
preseason game. And one of the guys called me said, Eric,
he said, you're not gonna believe this. He says, it's
going to be it's a preseason game, prad It's going
to be eighty thousand fans at this preseason game, he says,
(33:11):
and we're selling tickets and eighty five percent of them
are Raider fans. I'm like, dang that that showed, right, there,
I'm like, yeah, they would, they would you remember those days?
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Yep, they would get ninety thousand at the coliseum for
their games.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Not a problem, Yeah, no problem, no problem. Yeah. And
then if if the Rams would have stayed in one
that that that they'd have been like that too.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
But I agree, I agree with that because you think
about the Rams, they would have won two or three
Super Bowls too if they.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Stayed here the whole time.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
All right, Ronnie, thank you for today. A great job, Kevin,
appreciate it. Ed you have a terrific week and Rodney
Dodger Stadium tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Dune. Yes,
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