May 14, 2025 • 30 mins
In the second hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain react to the Mariners loss today to the Yankees and where the team sits after another series loss, then Petros Papadakis joins to discuss NFL schedule release day, Bill Belichick, plus Phil Knight and Portland.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Swing, gonna try deep field. He wasn't going home with
that one.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Harry Judge gives the Yankees the lead of the eighth
with a solo home run to left center.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
It's three two Yankees. That is the Yes Network. By
the way, thanks to them for that call. Maybe when
the Yankees lose, they should change the name to the
network and not the Yes Network. But it was no
good for the ms man. Bullpen can get it done.
Gab Spyer gave up a bomb to Paul Goldschmidt. Carlos
Vargas I always want to say Jason Vargus. By the way,
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Carlos Vargas gave up a home run to lead off
the eighth inning. You were asking off the air, why
are we messing around with Aaron Judge. Well, it's a
tie game. I mean, what do you put him on
for God's sake? Leading off the eighth inning? I mean
it was middle. It was just a mistake. I probably
just missed it, right, Yes, I don't hit. The plan was, Hey, Carlos,
give him a meat ball. See what happens. We'll be
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expecting it. But bad night for the pen, right, I mean, look,
I mean here's the thing, guys, when you allow three
runs against the Yankees in any game, I think you'll
say I'll take it.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Fine.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Luis Castillo was great, Brian wu was great last night.
But the offense man ever since. They came back home.
In this little stretch against Toronto and the Yankees, they
scored three three, one five two win two and the
five runs came they were down eleven to three in
the eighth inning against Toronto. So the offense just totally
fell apart in this series against the Blue Jays and
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against the Yankees. Nothing going on the road to face
San Diego, we said we take four and five in
this nine game stretch. Well they got to sweep the
Padres now to get to four and five in this
little nine game stretch.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
And nothing to be adding nervous about.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I mean, all these games against the Yankees, for the
most part, except for the blowout, we're tight. You know
they can play with these guys. But the issues that
this baseball team has right now, some of them are
new with the injuries to the rotation right and others
are kind of familiar, which is you can't hit in
your own ballpark, I mean your second and batting average
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on the road and you're second to last at home.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Yeah, well, same old story. It's same old story. I'm
gonna look at this bullpen. If I were in the
dugout in the clubhouse, rather, I would ask Dan Wilson
after this game, was Brash unavailable? Because Brash through twenty
pitches last night and.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Just came back, by the way, that week ago.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
So exactly, but he looked great last night. Vargas also
threw fourteen pitches yesterday, so they chose to bring Vargas
back on zero day's rest. They chose not to bring
Brash back, and Weaver pitched twenty one pitches yesterday for
the Yankees and still closed out today.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
So I mean, just ask him that question.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Well, I mean in the logical explanation is, well, he
just came off surgery, right right, He's been back for
you know, basically, I don't know what the last month
or so, excuna be ten days. His first game was
on May third, So I think there's a good chance.
And I'm certain that he's said this, by the way,
and maybe we just missed it, or maybe it's been
reported by somebody. Jackson can do a quick Twitter search
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or not. Whatever you're doing back there, I'm certain that's
part of it, right, that we're not going to pitch back.
They're bringing him back slow, or they're they're limiting his
pitch count until he gets going. I mean, he looks
pretty damn good to me so far since he's come back, right,
I think he's going to be a huge part of
his bullpen. But that would be the question for me.
And again, I mean, I think, you know, for this
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team to really kind of be taken seriously and be
able to be among the elite of the American League,
they just have to be able to take advantage of
their own ballpark on both sides, offense and defense. And
they still have improven that they can do that. I mean,
the disparity, like you spent a lot of time last year,
and it was fair and rightful and rightfully so to
do it. When he talked about the splits with the
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Homan Road, with the pitching staff, right, look at the
pitching staff on the at home and okay, now do
the offense because it's it's I don't think we should
let those guys off the hook either. If anybody should
be able to hit in this park, it's them. They
play eighty one games there. They know this park better
than anybody, yet they can't. And it feels like, and
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I know, I'm just living in the moment, it feels
like sometimes the opponent knows the part.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Better than they do, and that drives me nuts.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Well, if it wasn't for the American League West, who
were beaten up on, we'd have a pretty damn bad record.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Right, I mean, it's the is the record against the West?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Well, the Rangers we took two of three, the A's
we took three to three.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
We beat both the won both the LA games. We
swept Texas. So they're thirteen and five against the West. Yeah,
so they're ten and they're ten and fourteen against everybody else.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
That's that's how bad the West is, which is good
news for us because it appears now that now it's
still very early, but god, I'm almost circling eighty five
as a goal to get to might get it done
in this crappy divisi.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Here's the problem is, I think the rest of the
West is also looking at what the Mariners have done
the last seven games, and they're saying six games and saying, ah, yeah,
this West stinks. If we just make one move at
the deadlines. We know the Mariners don't have the cash
we do. Let's go in, let's go and fix this. Well,
here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
What I thought you're gonna say, is that everybody else
in this division, like our buddy RJ. Choppy right down
there in Dallas, and our buddies in Houston, you know,
Matt Thomas, those guys, they're all saying the same thing.
This division sucks, right. We just need to win eighty
four eighty five games and get it done. And I
think I think Houston at some point will catch a
little bit of fire. Oakland's going to calm down. It's
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going to be a three team race when it's all
said and done. Probably a two team race between us
and the Rangers at the end of the day. But
this is just it's another reminder that this is likely
going to be a dogfight, which is again, I hate
to keep doing this. I know it pisses you off
when I do it, but it's more cathartic for me.
You got a ten game lead a year ago and
the best pitching staff in the American League, and you
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pissed it away, all right, So that opportunity that came
around last year with everybody being healthy, and we've had
years before. It's like two thousand and five, six whatever,
they had all five guys make every start. I think
there was a year in the early two thousands where
everybody did that. They didn't have the number one era
in the American League. That's the difference this team did,
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and they blew that opportunity. So you want to get
clowns like me to stop thinking about the opportunity that
you threw away last year. Make the World Series this
season and make it up to me. It's all I'm asking.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Make it up to me. That's what they gotta do.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I mean, you gotta you gotta empty your mind to
go to the next tea box, right, I mean you
miss you missed the downhill birdie putt and it lips
and it goes six feet past the hole, and you
miss the comebacker and you take a bogie instead of
a birdie. Well, I mean we can we can spend
the next three holes worrying about what happened on hole twelve,
or we can go to the next tea box and
then okay, I mean I understand now.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
The good news is you play. You play two.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Tomato cans in the next four series, which is good.
I mean, you've got San Diego's gonna be tough, no
question about it. But the Chicago is horrible, Houston you've
played very very well against, and then you got Washington's
who's horrible. So you've got a couple of really really
bad teams and the Twins are about what you are
right now in the standings. So I think that the
hardest part is over after San Diego for at least
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a little bit.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I want to see if you're thinking what I'm thinking,
go ahead.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
The Twins are on a ten game winning streak and
we've lost.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Now why Lave.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
That's exactly what I want to I guess it's sort
of the idea of like, they're right there in the standings,
but it's two very different baseball teams on two very.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Different play them for two weeks though, I mean, that's
the fourth series.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
I'm just saying, I'm just saying the comment, but we're
right there in the standings like that, that's a team
that is soaring right now here.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Here's what I thought you're gonna say. I think it's
too early to be making assessments of what teams do
after forty two games. I mean, if this is the
middle of September or August, we can say they played
one hundred and twenty games. They stay got I mean,
you know the Chicago Steaks, right, we do, but we
still five years so we also think Baltimore is going
to be better.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Than they are.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I do. I mean they're nine games out, I do,
and you got them coming up in the next three
or four weeks. I mean. The White Sox are just awful,
Like you should win every series against the White sa minimum. Well,
they have been. I looked it up the last two
and a half years. They're basically playing three thirty ball.
They're losing two of every three games they play.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
And they're only three to ten ball. I'm not sure
the Rockies are better though.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
This year the Rockies are terrible. The ws are just
freaking bad, man. I mean, I realize there's seven and
thirty five. Yeah, let me because they suck. They are
on Okay, you want to hear something crazy. Colorado right
now is on pace to win twenty seven games. They
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are playing one sixty two baseball. Wow, do we play them?
By the way, do we play Colorado? I don't think
we do play Colorado.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
We know the old adage of it, we win, see
you win s Sorry? Really what you looked at it
in September?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
How cool is that that's second to last series is
against Colorado?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Very helpful. They may not even show up. Well, they
would just say you take it.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
You win sixty games and you lose sixty games, and
it's what happens in the other forty right. I mean,
if the Rockies don't even cross the thirty threshold, that's
baseball history right.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
There, right.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Would you say they're on pace for twenty seven twenty seven?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
They're still not going to beat the eighteen ninety nine Spiders,
though the Cleveland Spiders were twenty and one thirty four.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Okay, but modern baseball history, like modern baseball history, what
is it like? Thirty seven thirty Oh, somebody just wrote
an article about it. Thanks to the how about that?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Baseball Reference does a pretty good job of sorting all
this stuff. How you do against the divisions? How you
do against teams that are plus five hundred sub five hundred.
So far the Mariners and this is before today, believe
it or not, they are fifteen and thirteen against plus
five hundred teams.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I think you would sign up for that and run.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Yeah, okay, fifteen and thirteen against sub against sub five
hundred teams, they're eight and six, so they're actually playing
pretty damn good against everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Now we're gonna break I was just say answer Jackson's
question real quick.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
The answer to question modern history, that'd be last year's
White Sox, who went thirty nine and one to.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
What how about that?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
They might break it?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
They might They might give me a free series at
the end of the year. Who are the Who are
the Who are the Rangers? Played by the way in
the second to last series of the year because the
Mariners had later. Well, no, I just we're just I know, relate,
I know we're late. Just look it up. Uh, Mariners
have the Rockies and they have the Giants to end
the season. The Rangers are playing Minnesota and the Guardians.
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Speaker 3 (12:07):
I assume that you and money devoting a ton of
your show today to the NFL schedule release.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
No, No, we were asked to, uh, so we will
asked to buy who our new boss is?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Like the Kansas City Chiefs guy. Let's get Cheeves? So
he uh, he asked us to, So we will.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I thought you were above uh like that? No, No,
I am radio, but nobody can tell you what to do.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
People are generally hands off around here, so when they
ask for something, I don't push back because most of
my days are are unfettered and alive, like a freeman
in Paris.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Well, I was talking to our midday host about this
on the air the other day. Gosh, that just went
right over anyway. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
You want to go back into that reference you made there.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
On the radio.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I don't, I don't. I can be one of the
five or six people that are looking forward to this.
Could I'm looking forward to it? You know?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
That's fine? Going ahead? I can't wait. It's exciting. What's
your question? I really, I really did not have a question.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
It was more of a statement that, you know, I
was talking to our midday guy the other day about,
you know, what we do for a living, and now
I don't know how much effort you really put into
this thing in the morning hours, you know, prep work.
I first got in this business and Neil Scott once
told me, hey, one hour of prep for every hour
on the air. Okay, uh, that hasn't happened in twenty years.
(13:31):
All right, I'll guarantee you that. So is this what
most people would call like semi retirement what we do? No?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
No, no, not what I care?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
He cares for My show's a little different, he cares.
This show's got a little more structure.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Oh really, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I'm not saying what how different I am from anybody
or you?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
But I don't do a lot of sports.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I mean, it's a sports show, but the the part
I do is not, you know, maybe sixty seventy percent
not sports every day. So that takes research because when
you do that, you can very easily sound like you
have no idea what you're talking about just as hard
as facts go.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
All right, So how much actual preparation for an hour total?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
All right, which just means goofing around on Instagram and Twitter.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Let's be honest.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
No it does not.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
No, no suck, hang on, hang on, damn it.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
No. Well, good for you that you actually put some
prep into this thing.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Man.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
You know, I don't like this. I don't like this
line of questioning. You know what, Kates, don't you agree?
Like you're listening to this right? You can't like that?
What's wrong with the line of questioning?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
You know? Are you embarrassed that you actually prepare for
your program like me?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
You like going over to the trash Man Union and
being like, Hey, you guys suck for being trash man.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I bet it sucks being a trash man.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I don't want to hear that crap. Those guys make
a ton of money.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Okay, but what I'm saying, I'm tired of you.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Why Hey, you know what the good good for you?
They got great metal. I'm gone for the next two
weeks after this, so you can deal with Dick.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I thought I was gonna be dealing with Dick today
next Wednesday, hear from you. I thought I was gonna
get my annual like text at seven in the morning
from Dick, Like what told me?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Is that what he does, I'll I'll tell him to
leave you alone. That's why this I'm on my period.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Okay, Uh, Well, the NFL schedule is kind of a
big deal. What do you make of the seahawks potential
by placement? Petros?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Very very little. I know that Travis Kelsey's unhappy from
the Let's Get Cheese.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Why is he unhappy? What's his problem?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Well, he said he doesn't want to go to uh
to Brazil. Let's he's gonna be hot and he that's
from Holiday Touchdown, the Hallmark Chiefs movie.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I thought the Hallmark Chiefs movie was slap shot with
the Charleston Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
No, it was called Holiday Touchdown. Not a great Paul
Newman movie, but a terrible Hallmark movie featuring Travis Kelce's
mom and sadly ed Bagley Junior, who looked quite old. Yeah,
and then there's gonna be a Buffalo Bill's Holiday Touchdown
style Hallmark movie this year in Buffalo. And and that
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guy that died on the field and came back like Lazarus.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Two years ago. Yeah, he is going to be in it.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
So the only reason I know that is because of
my preparation and my dedication to the information.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Let's get che let's did you see by the way,
and I mean you never played in the NFL. You
were in an NFL camp though, correct at one point? No, no,
I thought you spend a couple of days and somebody.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
They took my x ray.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
I I do not the Saints, but I just didn't
pass the NFL physic.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
The You see, the Vikings are playing back to back
international games. They got to go to Ireland and then
and then turn around next week and go to Tottenham
to the Hotspurs Stadium. Okay, well that's not a long
and then and then play in London. Yeah well wait wait,
Tottenham is in London. That's what I said. They're gonna
play in Ireland and then they're gonna go to London.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Whiteheart Lane is the name of the uh yeah, look
that's the that's the tell. I mean, my poor radio
partner's got to go to Brazil. They're gonna harvest this organ.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
It's gonna come back with a big scar gut, you know.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I mean, the NFL is trying really hard to go
as international as possible, and they've done it for years,
and they use whatever scheduling and the International Games and
the loss of the home revenue or however that works
out as a bargaining chip. I mean once the Chargers,
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well look when they let the Rams move to LA
from Saint Louis and they stripped Saint Louis of their team,
even though Saint Louis took the Rams when they didn't
want him here in La. H when they let Kronky
bring the Rams back to LA, what do you think
happened to the Rams? They got scheduled, bamboozled for years,
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and they say, well why do we have to go? Well,
look where you are now. And the Chargers they let
the Chargers go to LA and join the Rams for
one dollar a year on the rent at a stadium
that the Rams built. So when somebody, if there's somebody
that's going to be you know, drugged with the prostitute
and have one of their kidneys removed and wake up
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in a bathful of ice, it's going to be the Chargers.
I mean, they got a sweetheart deal from the NFL
and so on and so forth, and you know that
the conspiracy theories go even deeper, like let's say the
NFL forced somebody to draft Michael sam right, you know,
for the Optics years ago. Or the NFL forced somebody
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to draft Shadeur when he was drafted and they look
so happy in that Cleveland draft room when they announced
that they picked him. Uh. Maybe sometimes that happens and
you get a schedule, uh get out of jail free card,
you know what I mean. But all this stuff happens
behind the scenes, softy, way above the pay grade of
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idiots who just off on Twitter and.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Instagram for an hour before you do the show.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Did you did you see the story The Blazers are
for sale? And the reason why I bring it up
is well, first of.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
All, Paul Allen was a big icon in that huge
huge I mean he was massive and a nice man
from what I can gather.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
I only met him in person once or twice, and
it was more of just you know, passing by type thing.
I don't even know if Paul Allen I all report, Yes,
my all reports, great guy.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
He didn't show up with like a platoon of hookers
everywhere like doctor Buss.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Uh. No, I don't believe so it's you know, I mean, well,
he's already got a leg up on most of our owners. Yeah. Well,
I mean, did Jerry bring hookers to the games? Like,
was it obvious they were call girls? Do people wear
Laker jerseys at the game?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Okay, speaking of hookers, how about Bill Belichick's.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Girlfriend just won't go away? Are you tired of this yet?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Man?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
He used to got nothing to do in North Carolina football.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
And then well there was that story that came out
that said she was banned, and then Carolina said, no,
she's not banned, and then Belichick said she's got nothing
to do with anything, and yeah, you told us last
week and thought she was a hooker.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Right, minded people are starting to say, like, I don't
think this guy's gonna make it, you know, and I might.
I might be in that. In that camp, you do
have some people trying to protect him and calling in
old favors.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
We'll see.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
I mean, there's prop bats on the Strahan interview, right,
It's like, when is he going to say this? When
is this? I mean, it's pretty it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
But all that being said, it used to be when
I was playing, and long after coaches had to have
a wife or a family structure, and that was very
important part of recruiting, and it was very important that
the coach said, well, you know, young Leo, he's going
to be far from home, but you know, Katie and
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I will have him at our house for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
We're a family here in Fayetteville.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
You know.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
And that's and you'd go through the media guide and
every page for whatever coach, assistant or head coach would
have a full family photo, color family photo, and the
family kind of vibe was really pushed. And that's kind
of gone by the wayside. I remember it being kind
of rare when you know Sark was divorced, Elane Kiffin divorced,
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Dana Holgerson divorced, some guys just single, and you just
didn't have that as much in college football, and it
was a spit stability recruiting thing. But now, I mean,
college football has as much stability as a boat in
a storm. So it doesn't matter as much anymore. That
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being said about.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
He did that, by the way, he did that whole
same bit last week.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Just I know, but Bill Belichick is pushing hard, like
really hard the other way. Yeah, right, It's like it's
one thing to be like divorced or like have a
family or whatever. Not have a family anymore, you know,
maybe have like a girlfriend or you know, Mick Cronin
has a girlfriend. He's divorced, single parent, So that's one thing,
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but it's a whole other thing to have a twenty
four year old chick going around in ridiculous outfits inserting
yourself CB into everything.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
So you can never imagine doing that at his age.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Like let's say, let's say Dana just said I'm done,
I've had enough for you.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
You know your line of questioning to say, I mean,
you must have one foot in the Mediterranean already.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
I just want to know what we're dealing with here,
all right, buddy, let's just say it comes to that,
and it never would because your relationship with your wife
is famous, right, I mean, everybody knows the love that
you share between the two of you.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
But look, the point is.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
She walked away and you're seventy five, and here comes,
you know, uh, Holly Hopscotch at twenty five years old,
smitten by the personality and celebrity of the greatest LA
radio talent of all time, and Petros Papadakas and wants to, uh,
you know, get a little cozy, and I got to
sit there at the at the beauty pageant. Yeah, yeah, no.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
They're not doing that. I'd rather be shot. Do I
have to listen to her talk? Oh?
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I have to pose on Instagram photos on the beach
like a jackass.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Oh God, unbelievable. Honestly, can you imagine?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Like I mean, there's a great saying that that says,
there's no fool. And I'm sure I said this too,
because you're asked me about dumbass Belichick every week. There's
no fool like an old fool, and he is, uh,
he's showing his ass. And it's unfortunate because we're talking
about one of the great coaches ever. It all started
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with that shirtless ring photo of him, yeah, doing the
Walk of Shame at like four in the morning, and yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Lynn, Lynn, the City of sin well there, you never
come out the way you went in. There's a reason
why I brought up the Blazers thing though before we
got to Belichick.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I don't know how we got to Belichick. I was
gonna you just brought it up here. Well for a hack,
I am a hack, that is true. I was gonna
got one foot in the g and C.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
I'm going there, baby, I'm going to your homeland. Should
I drop your name? Would it matter?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Five guys will look up? Anyway?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I saw where Phil Knight said he's not interested in
buying the Blazers, and I thought for him and for
the University of.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Oregon one hundred years old he is, Oh god, how
is how old is he? Now? I don't got to
be eighty something? Yeah, he's eighty something.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Like he's totally focused on the Oregon winning a national championship.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
That's really working. He got close.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
He's been close close only counts and horseshoes and hand grenades.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Buddy, thank you?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Yeah, keep trying, Phil, Phil phil Cotters? What movie?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
What movie? Broundhog Dad?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
There you go out a boy. Kate's nice work. Come on,
it's you can say it now, It's fine, don't you think?
Doesn't that surprise you a little bit? That he's, uh,
he doesn't want to just kind of. I mean, how
big of a feather and Oregon's cap would that be
to have their biggest booster own the He's eighty seven
years old, But well.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Wouldn't it be less money for them? Wouldn't they be
pissed off. It's like when your parents have another kid.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
They're like, what about my guy's worth like one hundred
and eighty trillion, and.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Organs needed every single dollar and more. He'll have it
from the National Championship, That's right. So no, I'm not surprised.
I don't I don't know who will buy the Blazers.
The one thing that is interesting is owning a sports
franchise used to be just kind of a vanity play,
and it was just for super rich people that wanted
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to be involved in something, And now because of TV revenue,
it's lucrative. And even teams that are notorious for not
spending a bunch of money, like the Chargers, are going
out and hiring people like Jim Harbaugh and building brand
new facilities because they're all making so much money. And
I know the NBA TV deal with ESPN is massive,
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and whoever buys the Trailblazers is going to make money.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
They're also a great franchise.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
So I don't know what rich guy's out there, but
Phil Knight's not the only rich guy in the northwest of.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
How much did you talk about Pete Rose yesterday? On
your program a.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Little bit, A little bit, you know, I knew Pete
Rose a little bit. I met him on a few occasions,
and he was always around Fox. The first time I
met him, it was like, you know, I remember seeing
that day like there was all this denial about gambling
and this and that, and he was in the newsroom
at Fox, Like is that the Nordeaks screaming team.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
I remember meeting him one time.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Actually I met him a couple of times, but the
first time I met him, I remember asking him, Pete,
how much baseball do you watch it? He's like, man,
I'm watching fourteen games a day. Why do you think
he's watching fourteen games a day?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
I could, I can. Well, you know, I was a
lot closer with Shoeless Joe.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yeah, well, Manfred said that the punishment, the banishment ends
when you're dead. Well he died seventy five years ago,
Shoeless Joe Jackson did, so that's a load of hogwash.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Well, you know, I don't really know what they're doing.
I don't know what the reasoning was or how or
why or when they got to this, but uh, it's
definitely a conundrum for baseball and the hypocrisy we're all
big hypocrites. But the hypocrisy is pretty deafening when you
think about the fact that like half the games right
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now regionally are being played on the fan dual networks,
and they've taken a lot of money from gambling, and
fantasy baseball actually buoyed baseball in a way that was
almost like a messiah to the sport when it was
really dipping maybe a decade or so ago. Fantasy baseball
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and the ability of the MLB to digitize all that
and get people on their website like that really changed baseball.
And that has something to do with gambling. Yeah, and
so you know that. Look, when I started as a
broadcaster on TV, gambling was the one thing, especially in
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college football, unless you were Al Michaels and you felt
like you were above the lawn. And you know, the
field goal goes in at the end of a game
and you say something to the effect that matters for somebody.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
On that note. Enjoyed Dick Next week, I know how
Dick Field. I'll send you a few thoughts and picks
and texts from out there your home.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
You know, I don't appreciate this combative nature of your interview.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
I don't know what's combative about it. Your wife leaves you,
the hell? Will there be a twenty five year old
hot you like Jordan Hudson waiting for me, an older
version of Paul Rubins. No pee wee herbal version of
that's what I look like. That's what if people tell
me which By the way, if I look like pee
wee Herman, then guess.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
What pal you look like pee wee Herman because you
look like me.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Well, enjoy everybody recognizing you as Petros Pappadacres, am radio
star and cable conglomerate out there. Beautiful, wonderful, you're the best.
We'll talk soon. Have fun, soft Petros Papadakas with us.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
We're getting close. Can you smell it? Oh baby?
Speaker 3 (29:52):
The NFL schedule is about forty minutes away from being released.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
You'll hear it live right here. Three three K j
R F M
Swing, gonna try deep field. He wasn't going home with
that one.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Harry Judge gives the Yankees the lead of the eighth
with a solo home run to left center.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
It's three two Yankees. That is the Yes Network. By
the way, thanks to them for that call. Maybe when
the Yankees lose, they should change the name to the
network and not the Yes Network. But it was no
good for the ms man. Bullpen can get it done.
Gab Spyer gave up a bomb to Paul Goldschmidt. Carlos
Vargas I always want to say Jason Vargus. By the way,
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Carlos Vargas gave up a home run to lead off
the eighth inning. You were asking off the air, why
are we messing around with Aaron Judge. Well, it's a
tie game. I mean, what do you put him on
for God's sake? Leading off the eighth inning? I mean
it was middle. It was just a mistake. I probably
just missed it, right, Yes, I don't hit. The plan was, Hey, Carlos,
give him a meat ball. See what happens. We'll be
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expecting it. But bad night for the pen, right, I mean, look,
I mean here's the thing, guys, when you allow three
runs against the Yankees in any game, I think you'll
say I'll take it.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Fine.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Luis Castillo was great, Brian wu was great last night.
But the offense man ever since. They came back home.
In this little stretch against Toronto and the Yankees, they
scored three three, one five two win two and the
five runs came they were down eleven to three in
the eighth inning against Toronto. So the offense just totally
fell apart in this series against the Blue Jays and
(01:25):
against the Yankees. Nothing going on the road to face
San Diego, we said we take four and five in
this nine game stretch. Well they got to sweep the
Padres now to get to four and five in this
little nine game stretch.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
And nothing to be adding nervous about.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I mean, all these games against the Yankees, for the
most part, except for the blowout, we're tight. You know
they can play with these guys. But the issues that
this baseball team has right now, some of them are
new with the injuries to the rotation right and others
are kind of familiar, which is you can't hit in
your own ballpark, I mean your second and batting average
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on the road and you're second to last at home.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Yeah, well, same old story. It's same old story. I'm
gonna look at this bullpen. If I were in the
dugout in the clubhouse, rather, I would ask Dan Wilson
after this game, was Brash unavailable? Because Brash through twenty
pitches last night and.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Just came back, by the way, that week ago.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
So exactly, but he looked great last night. Vargas also
threw fourteen pitches yesterday, so they chose to bring Vargas
back on zero day's rest. They chose not to bring
Brash back, and Weaver pitched twenty one pitches yesterday for
the Yankees and still closed out today.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
So I mean, just ask him that question.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Well, I mean in the logical explanation is, well, he
just came off surgery, right right, He's been back for
you know, basically, I don't know what the last month
or so, excuna be ten days. His first game was
on May third, So I think there's a good chance.
And I'm certain that he's said this, by the way,
and maybe we just missed it, or maybe it's been
reported by somebody. Jackson can do a quick Twitter search
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or not. Whatever you're doing back there, I'm certain that's
part of it, right, that we're not going to pitch back.
They're bringing him back slow, or they're they're limiting his
pitch count until he gets going. I mean, he looks
pretty damn good to me so far since he's come back, right,
I think he's going to be a huge part of
his bullpen. But that would be the question for me.
And again, I mean, I think, you know, for this
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team to really kind of be taken seriously and be
able to be among the elite of the American League,
they just have to be able to take advantage of
their own ballpark on both sides, offense and defense. And
they still have improven that they can do that. I mean,
the disparity, like you spent a lot of time last year,
and it was fair and rightful and rightfully so to
do it. When he talked about the splits with the
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Homan Road, with the pitching staff, right, look at the
pitching staff on the at home and okay, now do
the offense because it's it's I don't think we should
let those guys off the hook either. If anybody should
be able to hit in this park, it's them. They
play eighty one games there. They know this park better
than anybody, yet they can't. And it feels like, and
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I know, I'm just living in the moment, it feels
like sometimes the opponent knows the part.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Better than they do, and that drives me nuts.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Well, if it wasn't for the American League West, who
were beaten up on, we'd have a pretty damn bad record.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Right, I mean, it's the is the record against the West?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Well, the Rangers we took two of three, the A's
we took three to three.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
We beat both the won both the LA games. We
swept Texas. So they're thirteen and five against the West. Yeah,
so they're ten and they're ten and fourteen against everybody else.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
That's that's how bad the West is, which is good
news for us because it appears now that now it's
still very early, but god, I'm almost circling eighty five
as a goal to get to might get it done
in this crappy divisi.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Here's the problem is, I think the rest of the
West is also looking at what the Mariners have done
the last seven games, and they're saying six games and saying, ah, yeah,
this West stinks. If we just make one move at
the deadlines. We know the Mariners don't have the cash
we do. Let's go in, let's go and fix this. Well,
here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
What I thought you're gonna say, is that everybody else
in this division, like our buddy RJ. Choppy right down
there in Dallas, and our buddies in Houston, you know,
Matt Thomas, those guys, they're all saying the same thing.
This division sucks, right. We just need to win eighty
four eighty five games and get it done. And I
think I think Houston at some point will catch a
little bit of fire. Oakland's going to calm down. It's
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going to be a three team race when it's all
said and done. Probably a two team race between us
and the Rangers at the end of the day. But
this is just it's another reminder that this is likely
going to be a dogfight, which is again, I hate
to keep doing this. I know it pisses you off
when I do it, but it's more cathartic for me.
You got a ten game lead a year ago and
the best pitching staff in the American League, and you
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pissed it away, all right, So that opportunity that came
around last year with everybody being healthy, and we've had
years before. It's like two thousand and five, six whatever,
they had all five guys make every start. I think
there was a year in the early two thousands where
everybody did that. They didn't have the number one era
in the American League. That's the difference this team did,
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and they blew that opportunity. So you want to get
clowns like me to stop thinking about the opportunity that
you threw away last year. Make the World Series this
season and make it up to me. It's all I'm asking.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Make it up to me. That's what they gotta do.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
I mean, you gotta you gotta empty your mind to
go to the next tea box, right, I mean you
miss you missed the downhill birdie putt and it lips
and it goes six feet past the hole, and you
miss the comebacker and you take a bogie instead of
a birdie. Well, I mean we can we can spend
the next three holes worrying about what happened on hole twelve,
or we can go to the next tea box and
then okay, I mean I understand now.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
The good news is you play. You play two.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Tomato cans in the next four series, which is good.
I mean, you've got San Diego's gonna be tough, no
question about it. But the Chicago is horrible, Houston you've
played very very well against, and then you got Washington's
who's horrible. So you've got a couple of really really
bad teams and the Twins are about what you are
right now in the standings. So I think that the
hardest part is over after San Diego for at least
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a little bit.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I want to see if you're thinking what I'm thinking,
go ahead.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
The Twins are on a ten game winning streak and
we've lost.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Now why Lave.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
That's exactly what I want to I guess it's sort
of the idea of like, they're right there in the standings,
but it's two very different baseball teams on two very.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Different play them for two weeks though, I mean, that's
the fourth series.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
I'm just saying, I'm just saying the comment, but we're
right there in the standings like that, that's a team
that is soaring right now here.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Here's what I thought you're gonna say. I think it's
too early to be making assessments of what teams do
after forty two games. I mean, if this is the
middle of September or August, we can say they played
one hundred and twenty games. They stay got I mean,
you know the Chicago Steaks, right, we do, but we
still five years so we also think Baltimore is going
to be better.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Than they are.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I do. I mean they're nine games out, I do,
and you got them coming up in the next three
or four weeks. I mean. The White Sox are just awful,
Like you should win every series against the White sa minimum. Well,
they have been. I looked it up the last two
and a half years. They're basically playing three thirty ball.
They're losing two of every three games they play.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
And they're only three to ten ball. I'm not sure
the Rockies are better though.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
This year the Rockies are terrible. The ws are just
freaking bad, man. I mean, I realize there's seven and
thirty five. Yeah, let me because they suck. They are
on Okay, you want to hear something crazy. Colorado right
now is on pace to win twenty seven games. They
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are playing one sixty two baseball. Wow, do we play them?
By the way, do we play Colorado? I don't think
we do play Colorado.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
We know the old adage of it, we win, see
you win s Sorry? Really what you looked at it
in September?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
How cool is that that's second to last series is
against Colorado?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Very helpful. They may not even show up. Well, they
would just say you take it.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
You win sixty games and you lose sixty games, and
it's what happens in the other forty right. I mean,
if the Rockies don't even cross the thirty threshold, that's
baseball history right.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
There, right.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Would you say they're on pace for twenty seven twenty seven?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
They're still not going to beat the eighteen ninety nine Spiders,
though the Cleveland Spiders were twenty and one thirty four.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Okay, but modern baseball history, like modern baseball history, what
is it like? Thirty seven thirty Oh, somebody just wrote
an article about it. Thanks to the how about that?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Baseball Reference does a pretty good job of sorting all
this stuff. How you do against the divisions? How you
do against teams that are plus five hundred sub five hundred.
So far the Mariners and this is before today, believe
it or not, they are fifteen and thirteen against plus
five hundred teams.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I think you would sign up for that and run.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Yeah, okay, fifteen and thirteen against sub against sub five
hundred teams, they're eight and six, so they're actually playing
pretty damn good against everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Now we're gonna break I was just say answer Jackson's
question real quick.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
The answer to question modern history, that'd be last year's
White Sox, who went thirty nine and one to.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
What how about that?
Speaker 1 (09:57):
They might break it?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
They might They might give me a free series at
the end of the year. Who are the Who are
the Who are the Rangers? Played by the way in
the second to last series of the year because the
Mariners had later. Well, no, I just we're just I know, relate,
I know we're late. Just look it up. Uh, Mariners
have the Rockies and they have the Giants to end
the season. The Rangers are playing Minnesota and the Guardians.
(10:20):
Perfect God, can we please make that matter? We're gonna
break Petros. Next on ninety three three K's a RFF.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
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Speaker 3 (10:33):
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Speaker 3 (12:07):
I assume that you and money devoting a ton of
your show today to the NFL schedule release.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
No, No, we were asked to, uh, so we will
asked to buy who our new boss is?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Like the Kansas City Chiefs guy. Let's get Cheeves? So
he uh, he asked us to, So we will.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I thought you were above uh like that? No, No,
I am radio, but nobody can tell you what to do.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
People are generally hands off around here, so when they
ask for something, I don't push back because most of
my days are are unfettered and alive, like a freeman
in Paris.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Well, I was talking to our midday host about this
on the air the other day. Gosh, that just went
right over anyway. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
You want to go back into that reference you made there.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
On the radio.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I don't, I don't. I can be one of the
five or six people that are looking forward to this.
Could I'm looking forward to it? You know?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
That's fine? Going ahead? I can't wait. It's exciting. What's
your question? I really, I really did not have a question.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
It was more of a statement that, you know, I
was talking to our midday guy the other day about,
you know, what we do for a living, and now
I don't know how much effort you really put into
this thing in the morning hours, you know, prep work.
I first got in this business and Neil Scott once
told me, hey, one hour of prep for every hour
on the air. Okay, uh, that hasn't happened in twenty years.
(13:31):
All right, I'll guarantee you that. So is this what
most people would call like semi retirement what we do? No?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
No, no, not what I care?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
He cares for My show's a little different, he cares.
This show's got a little more structure.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Oh really, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I'm not saying what how different I am from anybody
or you?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
But I don't do a lot of sports.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I mean, it's a sports show, but the the part
I do is not, you know, maybe sixty seventy percent
not sports every day. So that takes research because when
you do that, you can very easily sound like you
have no idea what you're talking about just as hard
as facts go.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
All right, So how much actual preparation for an hour total?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
All right, which just means goofing around on Instagram and Twitter.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Let's be honest.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
No it does not.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
No, no suck, hang on, hang on, damn it.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
No. Well, good for you that you actually put some
prep into this thing.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Man.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
You know, I don't like this. I don't like this
line of questioning. You know what, Kates, don't you agree?
Like you're listening to this right? You can't like that?
What's wrong with the line of questioning?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
You know? Are you embarrassed that you actually prepare for
your program like me?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
You like going over to the trash Man Union and
being like, Hey, you guys suck for being trash man.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I bet it sucks being a trash man.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I don't want to hear that crap. Those guys make
a ton of money.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Okay, but what I'm saying, I'm tired of you.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Why Hey, you know what the good good for you?
They got great metal. I'm gone for the next two
weeks after this, so you can deal with Dick.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I thought I was gonna be dealing with Dick today
next Wednesday, hear from you. I thought I was gonna
get my annual like text at seven in the morning
from Dick, Like what told me?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Is that what he does, I'll I'll tell him to
leave you alone. That's why this I'm on my period.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Okay, Uh, Well, the NFL schedule is kind of a
big deal. What do you make of the seahawks potential
by placement? Petros?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Very very little. I know that Travis Kelsey's unhappy from
the Let's Get Cheese.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Why is he unhappy? What's his problem?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Well, he said he doesn't want to go to uh
to Brazil. Let's he's gonna be hot and he that's
from Holiday Touchdown, the Hallmark Chiefs movie.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I thought the Hallmark Chiefs movie was slap shot with
the Charleston Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
No, it was called Holiday Touchdown. Not a great Paul
Newman movie, but a terrible Hallmark movie featuring Travis Kelce's
mom and sadly ed Bagley Junior, who looked quite old. Yeah,
and then there's gonna be a Buffalo Bill's Holiday Touchdown
style Hallmark movie this year in Buffalo. And and that
(16:28):
guy that died on the field and came back like Lazarus.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Two years ago. Yeah, he is going to be in it.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
So the only reason I know that is because of
my preparation and my dedication to the information.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Let's get che let's did you see by the way,
and I mean you never played in the NFL. You
were in an NFL camp though, correct at one point? No, no,
I thought you spend a couple of days and somebody.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
They took my x ray.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
I I do not the Saints, but I just didn't
pass the NFL physic.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
The You see, the Vikings are playing back to back
international games. They got to go to Ireland and then
and then turn around next week and go to Tottenham
to the Hotspurs Stadium. Okay, well that's not a long
and then and then play in London. Yeah well wait wait,
Tottenham is in London. That's what I said. They're gonna
play in Ireland and then they're gonna go to London.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Whiteheart Lane is the name of the uh yeah, look
that's the that's the tell. I mean, my poor radio
partner's got to go to Brazil. They're gonna harvest this organ.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
It's gonna come back with a big scar gut, you know.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I mean, the NFL is trying really hard to go
as international as possible, and they've done it for years,
and they use whatever scheduling and the International Games and
the loss of the home revenue or however that works
out as a bargaining chip. I mean once the Chargers,
(17:55):
well look when they let the Rams move to LA
from Saint Louis and they stripped Saint Louis of their team,
even though Saint Louis took the Rams when they didn't
want him here in La. H when they let Kronky
bring the Rams back to LA, what do you think
happened to the Rams? They got scheduled, bamboozled for years,
(18:16):
and they say, well why do we have to go? Well,
look where you are now. And the Chargers they let
the Chargers go to LA and join the Rams for
one dollar a year on the rent at a stadium
that the Rams built. So when somebody, if there's somebody
that's going to be you know, drugged with the prostitute
and have one of their kidneys removed and wake up
(18:36):
in a bathful of ice, it's going to be the Chargers.
I mean, they got a sweetheart deal from the NFL
and so on and so forth, and you know that
the conspiracy theories go even deeper, like let's say the
NFL forced somebody to draft Michael sam right, you know,
for the Optics years ago. Or the NFL forced somebody
(18:57):
to draft Shadeur when he was drafted and they look
so happy in that Cleveland draft room when they announced
that they picked him. Uh. Maybe sometimes that happens and
you get a schedule, uh get out of jail free card,
you know what I mean. But all this stuff happens
behind the scenes, softy, way above the pay grade of
(19:19):
idiots who just off on Twitter and.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Instagram for an hour before you do the show.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Did you did you see the story The Blazers are
for sale? And the reason why I bring it up
is well, first of.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
All, Paul Allen was a big icon in that huge
huge I mean he was massive and a nice man
from what I can gather.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
I only met him in person once or twice, and
it was more of just you know, passing by type thing.
I don't even know if Paul Allen I all report, Yes,
my all reports, great guy.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
He didn't show up with like a platoon of hookers
everywhere like doctor Buss.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Uh. No, I don't believe so it's you know, I mean, well,
he's already got a leg up on most of our owners. Yeah. Well,
I mean, did Jerry bring hookers to the games? Like,
was it obvious they were call girls? Do people wear
Laker jerseys at the game?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Okay, speaking of hookers, how about Bill Belichick's.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Girlfriend just won't go away? Are you tired of this yet?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Man?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
He used to got nothing to do in North Carolina football.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
And then well there was that story that came out
that said she was banned, and then Carolina said, no,
she's not banned, and then Belichick said she's got nothing
to do with anything, and yeah, you told us last
week and thought she was a hooker.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Right, minded people are starting to say, like, I don't
think this guy's gonna make it, you know, and I might.
I might be in that. In that camp, you do
have some people trying to protect him and calling in
old favors.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
We'll see.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
I mean, there's prop bats on the Strahan interview, right,
It's like, when is he going to say this? When
is this? I mean, it's pretty it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
But all that being said, it used to be when
I was playing, and long after coaches had to have
a wife or a family structure, and that was very
important part of recruiting, and it was very important that
the coach said, well, you know, young Leo, he's going
to be far from home, but you know, Katie and
(21:17):
I will have him at our house for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
We're a family here in Fayetteville.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
You know.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
And that's and you'd go through the media guide and
every page for whatever coach, assistant or head coach would
have a full family photo, color family photo, and the
family kind of vibe was really pushed. And that's kind
of gone by the wayside. I remember it being kind
of rare when you know Sark was divorced, Elane Kiffin divorced,
(21:46):
Dana Holgerson divorced, some guys just single, and you just
didn't have that as much in college football, and it
was a spit stability recruiting thing. But now, I mean,
college football has as much stability as a boat in
a storm. So it doesn't matter as much anymore. That
(22:06):
being said about.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
He did that, by the way, he did that whole
same bit last week.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Just I know, but Bill Belichick is pushing hard, like
really hard the other way. Yeah, right, It's like it's
one thing to be like divorced or like have a
family or whatever. Not have a family anymore, you know,
maybe have like a girlfriend or you know, Mick Cronin
has a girlfriend. He's divorced, single parent, So that's one thing,
(22:32):
but it's a whole other thing to have a twenty
four year old chick going around in ridiculous outfits inserting
yourself CB into everything.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
So you can never imagine doing that at his age.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Like let's say, let's say Dana just said I'm done,
I've had enough for you.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
You know your line of questioning to say, I mean,
you must have one foot in the Mediterranean already.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
I just want to know what we're dealing with here,
all right, buddy, let's just say it comes to that,
and it never would because your relationship with your wife
is famous, right, I mean, everybody knows the love that
you share between the two of you.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
But look, the point is.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
She walked away and you're seventy five, and here comes,
you know, uh, Holly Hopscotch at twenty five years old,
smitten by the personality and celebrity of the greatest LA
radio talent of all time, and Petros Papadakas and wants to, uh,
you know, get a little cozy, and I got to
sit there at the at the beauty pageant. Yeah, yeah, no.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
They're not doing that. I'd rather be shot. Do I
have to listen to her talk? Oh?
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I have to pose on Instagram photos on the beach
like a jackass.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Oh God, unbelievable. Honestly, can you imagine?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Like I mean, there's a great saying that that says,
there's no fool. And I'm sure I said this too,
because you're asked me about dumbass Belichick every week. There's
no fool like an old fool, and he is, uh,
he's showing his ass. And it's unfortunate because we're talking
about one of the great coaches ever. It all started
(24:02):
with that shirtless ring photo of him, yeah, doing the
Walk of Shame at like four in the morning, and yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Lynn, Lynn, the City of sin well there, you never
come out the way you went in. There's a reason
why I brought up the Blazers thing though before we
got to Belichick.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I don't know how we got to Belichick. I was
gonna you just brought it up here. Well for a hack,
I am a hack, that is true. I was gonna
got one foot in the g and C.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
I'm going there, baby, I'm going to your homeland. Should
I drop your name? Would it matter?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Five guys will look up? Anyway?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I saw where Phil Knight said he's not interested in
buying the Blazers, and I thought for him and for
the University of.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Oregon one hundred years old he is, Oh god, how
is how old is he? Now? I don't got to
be eighty something? Yeah, he's eighty something.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Like he's totally focused on the Oregon winning a national championship.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
That's really working. He got close.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
He's been close close only counts and horseshoes and hand grenades.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Buddy, thank you?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Yeah, keep trying, Phil, Phil phil Cotters? What movie?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
What movie? Broundhog Dad?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
There you go out a boy. Kate's nice work. Come on,
it's you can say it now, It's fine, don't you think?
Doesn't that surprise you a little bit? That he's, uh,
he doesn't want to just kind of. I mean, how
big of a feather and Oregon's cap would that be
to have their biggest booster own the He's eighty seven
years old, But well.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Wouldn't it be less money for them? Wouldn't they be
pissed off. It's like when your parents have another kid.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
They're like, what about my guy's worth like one hundred
and eighty trillion, and.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Organs needed every single dollar and more. He'll have it
from the National Championship, That's right. So no, I'm not surprised.
I don't I don't know who will buy the Blazers.
The one thing that is interesting is owning a sports
franchise used to be just kind of a vanity play,
and it was just for super rich people that wanted
(26:09):
to be involved in something, And now because of TV revenue,
it's lucrative. And even teams that are notorious for not
spending a bunch of money, like the Chargers, are going
out and hiring people like Jim Harbaugh and building brand
new facilities because they're all making so much money. And
I know the NBA TV deal with ESPN is massive,
(26:32):
and whoever buys the Trailblazers is going to make money.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
They're also a great franchise.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
So I don't know what rich guy's out there, but
Phil Knight's not the only rich guy in the northwest of.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
How much did you talk about Pete Rose yesterday? On
your program a.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Little bit, A little bit, you know, I knew Pete
Rose a little bit. I met him on a few occasions,
and he was always around Fox. The first time I
met him, it was like, you know, I remember seeing
that day like there was all this denial about gambling
and this and that, and he was in the newsroom
at Fox, Like is that the Nordeaks screaming team.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
I remember meeting him one time.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Actually I met him a couple of times, but the
first time I met him, I remember asking him, Pete,
how much baseball do you watch it? He's like, man,
I'm watching fourteen games a day. Why do you think
he's watching fourteen games a day?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
I could, I can. Well, you know, I was a
lot closer with Shoeless Joe.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yeah, well, Manfred said that the punishment, the banishment ends
when you're dead. Well he died seventy five years ago,
Shoeless Joe Jackson did, so that's a load of hogwash.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Well, you know, I don't really know what they're doing.
I don't know what the reasoning was or how or
why or when they got to this, but uh, it's
definitely a conundrum for baseball and the hypocrisy we're all
big hypocrites. But the hypocrisy is pretty deafening when you
think about the fact that like half the games right
(27:56):
now regionally are being played on the fan dual networks,
and they've taken a lot of money from gambling, and
fantasy baseball actually buoyed baseball in a way that was
almost like a messiah to the sport when it was
really dipping maybe a decade or so ago. Fantasy baseball
(28:18):
and the ability of the MLB to digitize all that
and get people on their website like that really changed baseball.
And that has something to do with gambling. Yeah, and
so you know that. Look, when I started as a
broadcaster on TV, gambling was the one thing, especially in
(28:40):
college football, unless you were Al Michaels and you felt
like you were above the lawn. And you know, the
field goal goes in at the end of a game
and you say something to the effect that matters for somebody.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
On that note. Enjoyed Dick Next week, I know how
Dick Field. I'll send you a few thoughts and picks
and texts from out there your home.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
You know, I don't appreciate this combative nature of your interview.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
I don't know what's combative about it. Your wife leaves you,
the hell? Will there be a twenty five year old
hot you like Jordan Hudson waiting for me, an older
version of Paul Rubins. No pee wee herbal version of
that's what I look like. That's what if people tell
me which By the way, if I look like pee
wee Herman, then guess.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
What pal you look like pee wee Herman because you
look like me.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Well, enjoy everybody recognizing you as Petros Pappadacres, am radio
star and cable conglomerate out there. Beautiful, wonderful, you're the best.
We'll talk soon. Have fun, soft Petros Papadakas with us.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
We're getting close. Can you smell it? Oh baby?
Speaker 3 (29:52):
The NFL schedule is about forty minutes away from being released.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
You'll hear it live right here. Three three K j
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