October 29, 2025 • 20 mins
Petros Papadakis from Fox Sports Radio in Los Angeles joins Dave Softy Mahler to talk about his controversial interview last week, the ongoing World Series, Magic Johnson’s tweet, Dianna Russini’s Steve Sarkisian report, and if UCLA could hire Jedd Fisch soon.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analysts.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 3 (00:20):
Bully you rue. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Now with Petros, here's Dave Softy Muller.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
All right, boys and girls, here we go on a
busy Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Afternoon, a horse crap radio show right.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Here on ninety three to three ks ARFM.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
It is our pleasure to welcome in one of the
more let's face fat people in demand sports talk guests
that this medium has to offer a guy who was
nailed down the heavyweight champion of the world title of
LA sports talk radio for decades and decades to come
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(01:02):
and one damn fine Greek American, our friend, Petros Papadocus courtesy.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
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That's eight hundred nine million, Hello Softy, Hello Seattle.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
All right, before we resume our conversation, we do have
some housekeeping to get to here. Lots of people feel
like you owe the audience and apology for your behavior
a week ago on the program.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Would you like to address that?
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Well, I mean, to be fair, I was only half
of the attack. I mean I don't, as I have reiterated,
I don't know how to pull things up on the computer,
and I don't know how to hit button. And I
think I texted you this, although you didn't respond because
you're so butt hurt, but I texted you that. Really,
all I wanted to do was play that Okay Blue
(02:10):
Jays song, which I thought was really funny, and Kim Kates,
my producer, who is very very much a Dodger person
and working for and with the Dodgers, especially in the postseason,
started playing the thing. And then you started getting mad
and it just compounded itself. And then I listened. I
(02:31):
got to be honest, though, I listened to the segment
after and I listened, I listened to Dick and Jackson,
and I didn't feel as bad.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
About it after that. Why is that? Why did you
not feel as bad?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
I just as you explained to them, I have a
different outlook when it comes to these things.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
But I am. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
If it was salt in the wound for people, then
they didn't see the humor at all. And I know
that Seattle is a is a truly truly sensitive play.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Shit, I'm going to be honest. Are you not sensitive
about baseball in the World Series? I would be if
you never went and and then of course the basketball
thing is another subject.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You see, but that's the whole point, Like why why
even go down? I'm not even thinking about that, and
then you bring that up and throw that up in
our face.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Okay, Well, there's just a lot to be butt heart about.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Okay, So yes, you know what you're probably, if I'm
being honest with you, we have a lot to be
butt heard about here in Seattle.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
There's no question about it.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
We got a little bit to be proud about, and
a lot to be butt heurt about, but we'd be
really proud and appreciative, by the way.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Hang on a second, I'm not done.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
If the Dodgers would wake their ass up and take
care of the Blue Jays for us.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
What is going on down there? Man?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Come on, well, you got one of your own? Where
is he from? Totem Pole face, Seattle? All?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
What's the name of the.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Town is Shoreline? Blake Snell. He's from the shore Line area, right, yeah,
Blake Snell.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Right, Blake Snell is on the mound tonight. And he
did not.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Pitch well in his last out in Game one of
the World Series in Toronto. And he's pretty good and
he doesn't seem to have slip ups like that two
games in a row.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Although I gotta be.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Honest, this Toronto team, they are a scrappy bunch. I
mean they they You would think that they would have
just wilted after losing an eighteen inning game, after all
that fanfare and people actually stayed at Dodger Stadium till
midnight from five o'clock and it was wild. And then
the last couple of days it's ninety five degrees there
(04:46):
right now. I mean it as hot as hell. Brian
Kitty's sweating all his hair dye out, and they are
I mean, they are in there fighting. The one thing
I would appreciate that they have a Mexican cat, sir
named Alejandro Kirk.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Correct. Right, We're very familiar with the way, yes, yes.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Right, And I know he's five seven two point thirty.
But every single time one of the announcers talk about him,
do they have to mention like, well, he doesn't look
like a player, or he doesn't pass the eyeball.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Test and we know that he looks like it's like, yeah,
we know he's.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Fat, dude, Can you just skip one every time you
like mention it every other time that he's fat?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I mean, give us a break.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
But yeah, it has been an exciting World Series and
the Dodgers' bats are very sleepy and we'll see if
they wake up tonight. But the Toronto team, if they
win tonight, I think it's good night Irene. Going back
to Canada. Yeah, I mean those guys Joe Davis and
Steven Nelson, the radio announcer, they sounded like they got
punched in the crotch last night, and you heard it
(05:52):
in their.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Voice because it's fair. It's like they know they have
to go back to Canada. They live in la they're
fathers of young people. They're going to be gone for Halloween.
So Toronto's fighting it out.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Well, we hope that you guys can wake up because
we're we got massive shadenfreude up here and we're rooting
for the Dodgers like mad to take care These aren't
even real people, petrouss Canadians. I'm not sure what the
genesis is of their kind, but their DNA does not
match ours at all. I'm guaranteeing you man, so do
the damn world of favor and take care of these
freaking weirdos for us.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Okay, that's dangerous thinking, as you know. No, not with
Canady heads and their beady.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Eyes, their little beady eyes.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Yeah, the players aren't Canadian, I mean except for Vlad Guerrero.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Junior was born in Canada. He has a Spanish accent.
Why are you hawking at me?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Well, anyway, if they're wearing that hat with that stupid
leaf on it, they're Canadian.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Just go take care of him tonight.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
But hey, did you see Magic Johnson's breaking news tweet
he sent out a few hours ago tonight's game.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Did I see it? I led the show with it.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah, Magic Johnson writes on X. With the series being
to two, game five is very important. Whichever team wins
takes control of the series, says Magic Johnson.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Yeah, and there's an exclamation point after series. That's right,
the exactly read it with some proper syntax.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
But yeah, no, when I saw that tweet.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
That this morning, I said, this is it. I'm gonna
leave with this, and I did leave with it. Okay,
you know, Magic Johnson, It's like, you know, the the
Greeks of the ancient times, of the Peloponnesian Wars, they
had the oracle at Delphi, and we here in Los
Angeles have Magic Johnson to tell us how to field.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I mean, he's does he know, He's got to know,
like this is a stick, right, come on, tell me
it's a stick.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I wish I could it could be.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
I mean that's what people ask me, like, if he trolling,
he's gotta be trolling us. This has got to be
a joke, and maybe at this point it is. But
when you consider the punctuation he uses, it kind of
feels like like it's not. And then remember Saturday Night
Live used to have that skit with Tracy Morgan where
(08:15):
he played the stupid wildlife expert guy. Yes's what somebody
would come on with it a like Brian Flows, you.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Know, Brian Fellows. Yes, it kind of feels.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
It feels a little bit like Brian Fellows. Whatever he tweets,
whether it's intentional or not.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Did you ever hear Tracy Morgan's Reggie White impression that
he did on Weekend Update?
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Oh my god, hilarious.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
It's actually hard to find on YouTube, so if you
can track it down and do it. But hey, how
about how about our guy Sark blasted off on Diana
Russini for putting false reports out about his interest in
the NFL.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Did you see that over the weekend?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Well, do you think they're false? Report?
Speaker 5 (09:00):
No?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I don't at all. No, no, no, yeah, yeah no.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
I mean, look what Shark wants to get paid by
the NFL and pick up that big check, get out
from under the Texas bureaucracy. And you know how Steve
Sarkisian is. He's not exactly the warm, fuzzy person you
might think he is. I don't know what would make
you think that, but he's not, and not very dissimilar
(09:25):
to James Franklin and not very dissimilar.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
To Brian Kelly. And they all are.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
At huge, blue blood schools. They're all guys with massive
buyouts and massive expectations. And I don't think he wants
to get stuck with the Arch Manning stigma that he
I mean, look, I would forgive arch Manning being so
mediocre after all the hype if he was a freshman
(09:54):
or a red shirt freshman. That guy's been there for
three training camps and three spring footballs, all under the
tutelage of Steve Sarkisi, an offensive coach and genius coordinator.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Right, So I don't think he wants to wear.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
The blame of not being able to develop Manning. He
can get paid big money in the NFL and somebody
will do it, and when he wants to, he can
go back to college and take another big paycheck there.
So I totally believe that reporting. And what I don't
believe is him getting all buttered about it.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, well, I look, I mean I won't say this.
Sark was great to me while he was here. I
don't have any problem with Steve personally. But I did
see the temper that you're kind of alluding to, right,
that he's got. He's got a short temper.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
We saw it, you know.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
I mean everybody's seen it now, Yeah, everybody's seen it.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
We saw in the tunnel, you know, a couple of
years ago when he went after that security I got
your hands off. Yeah, I remember that, right, So, I
mean we've seen ye you've seen that.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
But he was fine to me while he was here.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
But yeah, I mean there's no I mean, look, everybody
wants back in the NFL. Give me a freaking break.
It's no surprise that Sark would be on that list. Hey,
Petro should we uh worries the wrong word because what evs.
But there's a lot of people that believe that Jed
Fish is number one on UCLA's list to be their
new head coach.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Do you buy that?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
It sounds feasible. I mean, it's more feasible than Lane Kiffin,
which I was hearing who's.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Talking about Who's saying Lane Kiffin? Why would he go
to you? Why would Lane Kiffin go to UCLA when
he can go to a place like LSU if he
wants to.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Well, that was my sentiment, but it was said by
the La Times beat rider for UCLA. It was a
pretty good guy. But yeah, he said that, and I
was I was skeptical. I think that Martin Jarman, who
is the current athletic director at UCLA, is not going
to be the guy that makes that higher. Not to
(11:59):
say that he won't be in place at the time,
but I think Casey Wasserman and the big money people
at UCLA will have a say in it. Jed Fish
they are familiar with he was an intern there and
won a Bowl game, and I think that he might
be as likely as anybody. But I don't think UCLA
(12:20):
has a better job than Washington, not even close. Unless
and this is what the Ben Bultch guy from the
La Times was talking about in regards to Kiffin. You know,
these are people that know southern California. They lived in
southern California. In Kiffin's uh uh part, he was a
(12:42):
very very beloved resident in Manhattan Beach, as was Chip Kelly.
And it's a real swell place for swell people and
the opportunity to come back and live to southern California.
Pete Carroll Beach Cruiser lifestyle. Maybe maybe is the draw,
(13:03):
but I mean, I mean, look, Seattle is one of
the most beautiful cities in the world. I know it
rains a lot, but I just, I mean to deal
with the bureaucracy at UCLA and the red tape of
the UC system and all the bs that discouraged Chip
Kelly and the things that have held them back for
(13:24):
so many years. In sports, if you're at UCLA and
you want to be treated well, you'd better be.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
On the basketball team.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
And that's really that. That's been the truth of it
since long before I played. And they have to get
rid of that stigma and embrace the money maker football.
And I just, if I'm Jetfish, I stay unless I've
pissed everybody off like Franklin and Sark and Brian Kelly.
If I'm Fish, I stay up there by mont Lake.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah, Well, I mean, there's only the only reason we
can think of that he would maybe go down there
is for his family, if they've got to desire to
get away from the drearied fall and winners of Seattle.
Maybe he wants to be back in the sun, as
you said, but you mentioned Carol Man, and you know,
Carol just as well as I do, if not, you know,
maybe better than me.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I'm feel sorry for you for us.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
He's seventy four years old, he's two to five. The
Raiders suck in the NFL. He's got no quarterback because
Geno's terrible. What do you think called Pete he's thinking
right about now?
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Well, the interesting thing to me is that, I mean,
we can all get caught up at Pete's enthusiasm.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
And he has had success, you.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Know, since he showed up at USC, He's had success
everywhere he's gone. So it's hard to argue with. But
I kind of felt like Gino Smith got him fired.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
In Seattle to a certain.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Degree, and then you take that guy to a more
unstable franchise for the Raiders and making your quarterback. It
doesn't like that didn't seem to make sense.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Right off the bat.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
And then of course they're struggling on tiptel, getting a
lot of money yep, to call plays, and he's old.
Like you said, I don't think it's going well. I
wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't last past this year.
I wouldn't be shocked if he stays for another to
see what they could make out of it.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Wow. But yeah, it's not going well. And he's an
old man.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah, yeah, seventy four years old man, seventy five next September.
But hey, before you go, can you explain to people
why you're in the car right now when not staying
for Game five or the World Series when you just
did your show from Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Yeah, I can't imagine wanting to be somewhere less. I mean,
an hour ago, I was down on the field at
Dodger Stadium, on the dirt in front of the dugout
with every national and local media hack, everybody looking at
their self in the mirror. It's ninety five degrees. Everybody's
(15:57):
sweating balls at elbowing and nudging each other for room
to get next to Oral Hersheiser or somebody like that.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
It is an absolute scrum.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
And then otherwise I'm in the suite with our clients
that are advertisers and then the salespeople right, and everybody's
munching on hot dogs and nachos and pouring caeso in
their mouth like it's a keg a beer. And I just, honestly,
after I get done with the.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Show, it's hard to get out of there.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
It's hard to get in, but I'm very happy just
to be sitting alone in the car, no matter how
bad traffic is, as opposed to being there and being there,
I mean, the people that are there are having a
great time.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
They're there to have fun. If I'm there, I'm there
to work, and when I'm done working, I want to
go home.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Daz well, I will.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I will give you props for this, this whole not
going to events and not being around crowds and being
around people thing. I mean, if you're blowing off Game
five of the World Series, when you're already there and
leaving the stadium to go home, you are committed to
the BIT, beyond committed.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Kudos to you, my find.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Yeah, I'm fully invested in the bit. The bit is
having social anxiety. I have fully invested. I also left
Game three and Game four in the exact same fashion.
But I'm down on the field talking to people standing
right next to Mookie Bets and all that. But then
(17:35):
when the when, the when, when the pregame show starts,
I least, I'm very happy to me.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah, well, hey, you know what, to each their own.
I mean, here, I am just freaking dying to get
to a World Series game, and you're there and you
couldn't give a damn.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
So I don't know, man, Yeah, And I mentioned this
on the show the other day.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
You know, We've had the.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Dodgers, I don't know, for like fifteen years on AMPI
seventy in LA and ever since what twenty seventeen, They've
been to five World Series since I've been working, and
so many crazy things have happened. The COVID World Series
they won. There were two eighteen inning games, one in
(18:23):
twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
And one the other night.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
We've had the show hail Tani, playoff performances, We've had
you know, Corey Seeger, Cody Bellinger, all this different stuff
over the years. And not that I'm complacent because I
left early in twenty seventeen when they were in the
World Series.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
And they hadn't been since nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Not that I'm I think that you you kind of
lose perspective. It's sort of like Shoe Aotani, right, Pitch
and pitch. You just kind of lose perspective on what
you're watching and how lucky you are to be able
to present the product in this time.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Of course, our job is our job is to present
the product, and you can't control whether the product is
good or bad. And you go along for the ride
and you're trying to be an ambassador of it to
the people that listen to you, like you were with
that Washington football team a couple.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Of years ago, and you guys did a fabulous job.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
I mean you really did, and you really were able
to tap into people's emotions about what they were seeing.
And when it comes to the Dodgers, I mean back
to back World Series and all the fanfare of Otani
and all that different stuff, and they're, let's be honest,
they're expected to win. They're not expected to compete. I mean,
they're expected to win the thing. But when all that happens,
(19:42):
it gets harder to have perspective and convey it to
the audience that's used to winning.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
I got it, all right, man.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Well, enjoy your solo ride home and a chance for
some reflection.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Enjoy your evening, and we will. We'll talk in a week,
see you, man.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I'm listening to I'm listening to a.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Book about the Hatfields and McCoy's ah, the history of
their battle.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Right, you could report on that next Wednesday when you
come on the show. We'd love to hear your insight.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Yeah, they lived on both sides of the river between
Kentucky and West Virginia.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Tell that to Magic Johnson. You can tweet about it,
all right, you're the man. Great stuff. We'll see it
a week buddy.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Oh what didn't you know that this is a pivotal
This is a pivotal game.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Five, Yes it is.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
And whoever wins tonight, yeah, go ahead, finish the sentence.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
I've ad it.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
They're going to control the wholetel.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
That trust Papaakis. We're gonna break textamorials. And then Kevin
Harlan is going to join us at five o'clock tonight,
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Petros papaenikas that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 3 (00:20):
Bully you rue. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Now with Petros, here's Dave Softy Muller.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
All right, boys and girls, here we go on a
busy Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Afternoon, a horse crap radio show right.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Here on ninety three to three ks ARFM.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
It is our pleasure to welcome in one of the
more let's face fat people in demand sports talk guests
that this medium has to offer a guy who was
nailed down the heavyweight champion of the world title of
LA sports talk radio for decades and decades to come
husband of the year, father of the month, my friend
(01:02):
and one damn fine Greek American, our friend, Petros Papadocus courtesy.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
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for you. If you've ever been in a car accident,
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That's eight hundred nine million, Hello Softy, Hello Seattle.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
All right, before we resume our conversation, we do have
some housekeeping to get to here. Lots of people feel
like you owe the audience and apology for your behavior
a week ago on the program.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Would you like to address that?
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Well, I mean, to be fair, I was only half
of the attack. I mean I don't, as I have reiterated,
I don't know how to pull things up on the computer,
and I don't know how to hit button. And I
think I texted you this, although you didn't respond because
you're so butt hurt, but I texted you that. Really,
all I wanted to do was play that Okay Blue
(02:10):
Jays song, which I thought was really funny, and Kim Kates,
my producer, who is very very much a Dodger person
and working for and with the Dodgers, especially in the postseason,
started playing the thing. And then you started getting mad
and it just compounded itself. And then I listened. I
(02:31):
got to be honest, though, I listened to the segment
after and I listened, I listened to Dick and Jackson,
and I didn't feel as bad.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
About it after that. Why is that? Why did you
not feel as bad?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
I just as you explained to them, I have a
different outlook when it comes to these things.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
But I am. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
If it was salt in the wound for people, then
they didn't see the humor at all. And I know
that Seattle is a is a truly truly sensitive play.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Shit, I'm going to be honest. Are you not sensitive
about baseball in the World Series? I would be if
you never went and and then of course the basketball
thing is another subject.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You see, but that's the whole point, Like why why
even go down? I'm not even thinking about that, and
then you bring that up and throw that up in
our face.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Okay, Well, there's just a lot to be butt heart about.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Okay, So yes, you know what you're probably, if I'm
being honest with you, we have a lot to be
butt heard about here in Seattle.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
There's no question about it.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
We got a little bit to be proud about, and
a lot to be butt heurt about, but we'd be
really proud and appreciative, by the way.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Hang on a second, I'm not done.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
If the Dodgers would wake their ass up and take
care of the Blue Jays for us.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
What is going on down there? Man?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Come on, well, you got one of your own? Where
is he from? Totem Pole face, Seattle? All?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
What's the name of the.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Town is Shoreline? Blake Snell. He's from the shore Line area, right, yeah,
Blake Snell.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Right, Blake Snell is on the mound tonight. And he
did not.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Pitch well in his last out in Game one of
the World Series in Toronto. And he's pretty good and
he doesn't seem to have slip ups like that two
games in a row.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Although I gotta be.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Honest, this Toronto team, they are a scrappy bunch. I
mean they they You would think that they would have
just wilted after losing an eighteen inning game, after all
that fanfare and people actually stayed at Dodger Stadium till
midnight from five o'clock and it was wild. And then
the last couple of days it's ninety five degrees there
(04:46):
right now. I mean it as hot as hell. Brian
Kitty's sweating all his hair dye out, and they are
I mean, they are in there fighting. The one thing
I would appreciate that they have a Mexican cat, sir
named Alejandro Kirk.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Correct. Right, We're very familiar with the way, yes, yes.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Right, And I know he's five seven two point thirty.
But every single time one of the announcers talk about him,
do they have to mention like, well, he doesn't look
like a player, or he doesn't pass the eyeball.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Test and we know that he looks like it's like, yeah,
we know he's.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Fat, dude, Can you just skip one every time you
like mention it every other time that he's fat?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I mean, give us a break.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
But yeah, it has been an exciting World Series and
the Dodgers' bats are very sleepy and we'll see if
they wake up tonight. But the Toronto team, if they
win tonight, I think it's good night Irene. Going back
to Canada. Yeah, I mean those guys Joe Davis and
Steven Nelson, the radio announcer, they sounded like they got
punched in the crotch last night, and you heard it
(05:52):
in their.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Voice because it's fair. It's like they know they have
to go back to Canada. They live in la they're
fathers of young people. They're going to be gone for Halloween.
So Toronto's fighting it out.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Well, we hope that you guys can wake up because
we're we got massive shadenfreude up here and we're rooting
for the Dodgers like mad to take care These aren't
even real people, petrouss Canadians. I'm not sure what the
genesis is of their kind, but their DNA does not
match ours at all. I'm guaranteeing you man, so do
the damn world of favor and take care of these
freaking weirdos for us.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Okay, that's dangerous thinking, as you know. No, not with
Canady heads and their beady.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Eyes, their little beady eyes.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Yeah, the players aren't Canadian, I mean except for Vlad Guerrero.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Junior was born in Canada. He has a Spanish accent.
Why are you hawking at me?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Well, anyway, if they're wearing that hat with that stupid
leaf on it, they're Canadian.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Just go take care of him tonight.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
But hey, did you see Magic Johnson's breaking news tweet
he sent out a few hours ago tonight's game.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Did I see it? I led the show with it.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah, Magic Johnson writes on X. With the series being
to two, game five is very important. Whichever team wins
takes control of the series, says Magic Johnson.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Yeah, and there's an exclamation point after series. That's right,
the exactly read it with some proper syntax.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
But yeah, no, when I saw that tweet.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
That this morning, I said, this is it. I'm gonna
leave with this, and I did leave with it. Okay,
you know, Magic Johnson, It's like, you know, the the
Greeks of the ancient times, of the Peloponnesian Wars, they
had the oracle at Delphi, and we here in Los
Angeles have Magic Johnson to tell us how to field.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I mean, he's does he know, He's got to know,
like this is a stick, right, come on, tell me
it's a stick.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I wish I could it could be.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
I mean that's what people ask me, like, if he trolling,
he's gotta be trolling us. This has got to be
a joke, and maybe at this point it is. But
when you consider the punctuation he uses, it kind of
feels like like it's not. And then remember Saturday Night
Live used to have that skit with Tracy Morgan where
(08:15):
he played the stupid wildlife expert guy. Yes's what somebody
would come on with it a like Brian Flows, you.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Know, Brian Fellows. Yes, it kind of feels.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
It feels a little bit like Brian Fellows. Whatever he tweets,
whether it's intentional or not.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Did you ever hear Tracy Morgan's Reggie White impression that
he did on Weekend Update?
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Oh my god, hilarious.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
It's actually hard to find on YouTube, so if you
can track it down and do it. But hey, how
about how about our guy Sark blasted off on Diana
Russini for putting false reports out about his interest in
the NFL.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Did you see that over the weekend?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Well, do you think they're false? Report?
Speaker 5 (09:00):
No?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I don't at all. No, no, no, yeah, yeah no.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
I mean, look what Shark wants to get paid by
the NFL and pick up that big check, get out
from under the Texas bureaucracy. And you know how Steve
Sarkisian is. He's not exactly the warm, fuzzy person you
might think he is. I don't know what would make
you think that, but he's not, and not very dissimilar
(09:25):
to James Franklin and not very dissimilar.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
To Brian Kelly. And they all are.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
At huge, blue blood schools. They're all guys with massive
buyouts and massive expectations. And I don't think he wants
to get stuck with the Arch Manning stigma that he
I mean, look, I would forgive arch Manning being so
mediocre after all the hype if he was a freshman
(09:54):
or a red shirt freshman. That guy's been there for
three training camps and three spring footballs, all under the
tutelage of Steve Sarkisi, an offensive coach and genius coordinator.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Right, So I don't think he wants to wear.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
The blame of not being able to develop Manning. He
can get paid big money in the NFL and somebody
will do it, and when he wants to, he can
go back to college and take another big paycheck there.
So I totally believe that reporting. And what I don't
believe is him getting all buttered about it.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, well, I look, I mean I won't say this.
Sark was great to me while he was here. I
don't have any problem with Steve personally. But I did
see the temper that you're kind of alluding to, right,
that he's got. He's got a short temper.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
We saw it, you know.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
I mean everybody's seen it now, Yeah, everybody's seen it.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
We saw in the tunnel, you know, a couple of
years ago when he went after that security I got
your hands off. Yeah, I remember that, right, So, I
mean we've seen ye you've seen that.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
But he was fine to me while he was here.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
But yeah, I mean there's no I mean, look, everybody
wants back in the NFL. Give me a freaking break.
It's no surprise that Sark would be on that list. Hey,
Petro should we uh worries the wrong word because what evs.
But there's a lot of people that believe that Jed
Fish is number one on UCLA's list to be their
new head coach.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Do you buy that?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
It sounds feasible. I mean, it's more feasible than Lane Kiffin,
which I was hearing who's.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Talking about Who's saying Lane Kiffin? Why would he go
to you? Why would Lane Kiffin go to UCLA when
he can go to a place like LSU if he
wants to.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Well, that was my sentiment, but it was said by
the La Times beat rider for UCLA. It was a
pretty good guy. But yeah, he said that, and I
was I was skeptical. I think that Martin Jarman, who
is the current athletic director at UCLA, is not going
to be the guy that makes that higher. Not to
(11:59):
say that he won't be in place at the time,
but I think Casey Wasserman and the big money people
at UCLA will have a say in it. Jed Fish
they are familiar with he was an intern there and
won a Bowl game, and I think that he might
be as likely as anybody. But I don't think UCLA
(12:20):
has a better job than Washington, not even close. Unless
and this is what the Ben Bultch guy from the
La Times was talking about in regards to Kiffin. You know,
these are people that know southern California. They lived in
southern California. In Kiffin's uh uh part, he was a
(12:42):
very very beloved resident in Manhattan Beach, as was Chip Kelly.
And it's a real swell place for swell people and
the opportunity to come back and live to southern California.
Pete Carroll Beach Cruiser lifestyle. Maybe maybe is the draw,
(13:03):
but I mean, I mean, look, Seattle is one of
the most beautiful cities in the world. I know it
rains a lot, but I just, I mean to deal
with the bureaucracy at UCLA and the red tape of
the UC system and all the bs that discouraged Chip
Kelly and the things that have held them back for
(13:24):
so many years. In sports, if you're at UCLA and
you want to be treated well, you'd better be.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
On the basketball team.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
And that's really that. That's been the truth of it
since long before I played. And they have to get
rid of that stigma and embrace the money maker football.
And I just, if I'm Jetfish, I stay unless I've
pissed everybody off like Franklin and Sark and Brian Kelly.
If I'm Fish, I stay up there by mont Lake.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah, Well, I mean, there's only the only reason we
can think of that he would maybe go down there
is for his family, if they've got to desire to
get away from the drearied fall and winners of Seattle.
Maybe he wants to be back in the sun, as
you said, but you mentioned Carol Man, and you know,
Carol just as well as I do, if not, you know,
maybe better than me.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I'm feel sorry for you for us.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
He's seventy four years old, he's two to five. The
Raiders suck in the NFL. He's got no quarterback because
Geno's terrible. What do you think called Pete he's thinking
right about now?
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Well, the interesting thing to me is that, I mean,
we can all get caught up at Pete's enthusiasm.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
And he has had success, you.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Know, since he showed up at USC, He's had success
everywhere he's gone. So it's hard to argue with. But
I kind of felt like Gino Smith got him fired.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
In Seattle to a certain.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Degree, and then you take that guy to a more
unstable franchise for the Raiders and making your quarterback. It
doesn't like that didn't seem to make sense.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Right off the bat.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
And then of course they're struggling on tiptel, getting a
lot of money yep, to call plays, and he's old.
Like you said, I don't think it's going well. I
wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't last past this year.
I wouldn't be shocked if he stays for another to
see what they could make out of it.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Wow. But yeah, it's not going well. And he's an
old man.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah, yeah, seventy four years old man, seventy five next September.
But hey, before you go, can you explain to people
why you're in the car right now when not staying
for Game five or the World Series when you just
did your show from Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Yeah, I can't imagine wanting to be somewhere less. I mean,
an hour ago, I was down on the field at
Dodger Stadium, on the dirt in front of the dugout
with every national and local media hack, everybody looking at
their self in the mirror. It's ninety five degrees. Everybody's
(15:57):
sweating balls at elbowing and nudging each other for room
to get next to Oral Hersheiser or somebody like that.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
It is an absolute scrum.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
And then otherwise I'm in the suite with our clients
that are advertisers and then the salespeople right, and everybody's
munching on hot dogs and nachos and pouring caeso in
their mouth like it's a keg a beer. And I just, honestly,
after I get done with the.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Show, it's hard to get out of there.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
It's hard to get in, but I'm very happy just
to be sitting alone in the car, no matter how
bad traffic is, as opposed to being there and being there,
I mean, the people that are there are having a
great time.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
They're there to have fun. If I'm there, I'm there
to work, and when I'm done working, I want to
go home.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Daz well, I will.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I will give you props for this, this whole not
going to events and not being around crowds and being
around people thing. I mean, if you're blowing off Game
five of the World Series, when you're already there and
leaving the stadium to go home, you are committed to
the BIT, beyond committed.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Kudos to you, my find.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Yeah, I'm fully invested in the bit. The bit is
having social anxiety. I have fully invested. I also left
Game three and Game four in the exact same fashion.
But I'm down on the field talking to people standing
right next to Mookie Bets and all that. But then
(17:35):
when the when, the when, when the pregame show starts,
I least, I'm very happy to me.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah, well, hey, you know what, to each their own.
I mean, here, I am just freaking dying to get
to a World Series game, and you're there and you
couldn't give a damn.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
So I don't know, man, Yeah, And I mentioned this
on the show the other day.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
You know, We've had the.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Dodgers, I don't know, for like fifteen years on AMPI
seventy in LA and ever since what twenty seventeen, They've
been to five World Series since I've been working, and
so many crazy things have happened. The COVID World Series
they won. There were two eighteen inning games, one in
(18:23):
twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
And one the other night.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
We've had the show hail Tani, playoff performances, We've had
you know, Corey Seeger, Cody Bellinger, all this different stuff
over the years. And not that I'm complacent because I
left early in twenty seventeen when they were in the
World Series.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
And they hadn't been since nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Not that I'm I think that you you kind of
lose perspective. It's sort of like Shoe Aotani, right, Pitch
and pitch. You just kind of lose perspective on what
you're watching and how lucky you are to be able
to present the product in this time.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Of course, our job is our job is to present
the product, and you can't control whether the product is
good or bad. And you go along for the ride
and you're trying to be an ambassador of it to
the people that listen to you, like you were with
that Washington football team a couple.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Of years ago, and you guys did a fabulous job.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
I mean you really did, and you really were able
to tap into people's emotions about what they were seeing.
And when it comes to the Dodgers, I mean back
to back World Series and all the fanfare of Otani
and all that different stuff, and they're, let's be honest,
they're expected to win. They're not expected to compete. I mean,
they're expected to win the thing. But when all that happens,
(19:42):
it gets harder to have perspective and convey it to
the audience that's used to winning.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
I got it, all right, man.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Well, enjoy your solo ride home and a chance for
some reflection.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Enjoy your evening, and we will. We'll talk in a week,
see you, man.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I'm listening to I'm listening to a.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Book about the Hatfields and McCoy's ah, the history of
their battle.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Right, you could report on that next Wednesday when you
come on the show. We'd love to hear your insight.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Yeah, they lived on both sides of the river between
Kentucky and West Virginia.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Tell that to Magic Johnson. You can tweet about it,
all right, you're the man. Great stuff. We'll see it
a week buddy.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Oh what didn't you know that this is a pivotal
This is a pivotal game.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Five, Yes it is.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
And whoever wins tonight, yeah, go ahead, finish the sentence.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
I've ad it.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
They're going to control the wholetel.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
That trust Papaakis. We're gonna break textamorials. And then Kevin
Harlan is going to join us at five o'clock tonight,
right here on ninety three to three kJ r FM,
The Horse Crap Radio Show.
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