March 19, 2025 • 16 mins
Petros Papadakis from Fox Sports Radio in Los Angeles joins Dick Fain to talk about the NCAA Tournament bracket coming out and taking over the sports world, the L.A. Dodgers starting 2025 in Japan, Shohei Ohtani, Cooper Kupp, and Mike Macdonald.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
Petros Papa Nakas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Not that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
I don't know bout.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Now. With Petros Peer's Dave's softy Muller throwing into.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
The four o'clock hour on a Wednesday, that means one thing,
and one thing only. Our friend Petros Papa dak is
joining us.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
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Speaker 2 (00:45):
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Give him a call at eight hundred and nine million.
(01:05):
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Speaker 3 (01:12):
Oh, Petro's good to talk to.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
It is one of my favorite weeks of the season,
and in fact, this and Master's Week, I think are
my two favorite sports weeks of.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
The entire tournament.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Here.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I am a huge bracket head.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Are you one that will fill out an office pool
or a family pool or get your kids to be
degenerate gamblers like I do?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
No? I I when I started working, I never ever
did anything with brackets or anything like that as a
young guy. And then when I started working in the
sports media, you know, it's a real cool thing to do,
which is to fill out your bracket. And some guys
fill out like five brackets and say like, oh, I
(01:55):
had drink, I had cake on my form.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Can't do that. Gotta have one right bracket of integrity
as it were.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I did it a couple times, and you know whatever,
the middling results, and I just never it's not important
enough to me to get around to, you know, I mean,
and then now it's like, you know, you got to
get it done really early because of the plan and
the whole thing, or you wait till the Playan's over
and then you do it. I don't. I'm not exactly sure,
but either way, No, I've never been a big bracket guy.
(02:25):
I do find the tournament as intriguing as everybody else.
You know, we all have our favorites. It's really fun
to see a lot of the small schools and usually
the weird looking big man like semi bald with goggles
and like weird mustaches and crazy haircuts, and interesting team
nicknames and histories and stuff like that. That part of
(02:47):
it I really enjoy. But the blue blood part and
all that is fine too, UCLA, North Carolina, Doke, Michigan State, Kansas,
all those teams that were used to seeing over the years.
But yeah, I guess I enjoy it as much as
everybody else on the show. Down here in La we
we have UCLA. So we talked to Mick Cronin a lot,
(03:08):
and we have a good relationship with him. He's really
great with the media.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
He's not as crotchety with you as he is with
the national media complaining about Statue of Liberties and that
sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Not at all. No, not with us. He's got great
humor with us. He but he is a snarky man,
there's about it and whatever he said. You know, somebody said,
like he, I mean, it's so funny because you cla,
they're so soft. You know. The university in itself is
just you know, it doesn't when you think, you cla dick,
You don't think, wow, hard is great.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
You think you think powder blue.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, you think that. And of course you know Bill
Walton and Kareem and they are the greatest college basketball
program of all time. And it's very difficult to argue
that modern times, no, but of all time, all time, yes,
and it's not that long ago. But at the same time,
you know, it's not that loud at Polly Pavilion. It's
(04:02):
hard for whatever reason nowadays to get fans in that building.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Mhm.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
It's in Westwood. It's you gotta it's twenty five minutes.
It's it's like a mile from the freeway, but it
takes you at least a half hour to twenty five
minutes when you get off the freeway to get into
the campus and park your car, which I don't need
to tell you what that's like. So the whole thing
is an experience, and it's not that you know, it's
(04:28):
not like being in hinkle Fieldhouse or whatever. These places
and the rest of the Big Ten. It's not quaint, no,
And uh, you know you can hear Mick Cronan mother
effing the players. So you know, like these these these
these really very sensitive pearl clutching powder blue old timers
(04:49):
who are used to John Wooden, who you know, read
poetry into the guys or something. Uh, they get really
upset sometimes when they hear Mick Cronan screaming and yelling
and the players. And you know, every year new jobs
open up and people talk about, oh, is he going
to go here? Is he going to go there? And
I'm like, well, maybe it'd be better off because those
places are so loud that no one could hear him
(05:12):
mother fing the players, and nobody gets but hurt about it.
It is kind of It is interesting because his style
is not exactly it's a fit at UCLA. I mean
Ben Holland went to three straight Final four at UCLA
and still got fired a couple of years later because
the brand of basketball wasn't exciting and he was a
(05:35):
defensive coach too. Now Mick is a little bit different.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Defense wasn't all that likable, was he Ben Holland.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
No, no, not at all. Yeah, I mean we liked him,
but my imitation of Ben Hollanders turn out, turn out.
You know, they did a three, he'd call a time
out to set up the defense. They were a very
frustrating team to watch, but they had a lot of success.
But it's interesting to see that, you know. And Eric Musselman,
(06:01):
the guy that's at USC, is a really good coach
and really media friendly. And I worked with his wife,
Danielle Sargent at Fox for a long time. So we
have good people here in La coach and the teams.
And then the UCSD University of California, Sandie the Triton Tritons, Yeah,
which is different than the what is it the Terrero's
(06:23):
that are the universe the USD, right, which is where
Musselman coached them to a tournament years ago and then
got those NBA jobs. That's a different San Diego school.
You see. SD is in La Joya, which is constantly
harrissed by a rich surf gang called the Wind and
Sea surf Rats. You're not really Yeah, white boys surf gang.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
White boy summer addictive, you know, it's right, that's right,
Petros Papade gets joined.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I guess as he always does.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
How how fired up was was the Southland for Dodger
baseball at three o'clock in the morning the last two days?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Well pretty fired up? I mean, uh, A lot of
people went to Japan, not US, of course, but well,
Fox didn't even go to Japan. I didn't expect you
to go to Japan. Oh they didn't.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
The broadcasters did it remotely?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
No.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I think Joe Davis and Eric Carross went. The radio
didn't go. The radio didn't race for whatever reason. The radio, okay,
I think I'm pretty sure. Okay, But then again, yeah, no,
they sent that one broadcast team. I believe they did.
Rodney Pete, who works with us on the radio, was
not working all week, but he got his his fame
(07:41):
by catching the ball about ball today in front of
Max Munsey, and Max Munsey looked a little angry, but
it seemed like it was fair game for Rodney to catch.
But it's a it's remarkable, I mean, just and it's
a lot different than the trip to Korea last year.
And there's a few things that jump out to me. Dick,
the the whole Dodgers with Otani marriage has gotta be
(08:05):
one of the most lucrative marriages of all time in
the history of sports. And what really jumps out to
me is, this guy's been playing baseball in town for
seven years, Like he was in spring training correct with
the Angels down the road in Tempe.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
But it's just different.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
And no, I mean it's not like nobody cared. I mean,
the guy was winning MVPs and there was a lot
of talk about Otani. But Otani as a Dodger. What
that means to everybody in Japan apparently because of the
Dodger brand name. What that means to everybody in La
the Japanese market that just comes in buys T shirts
and jerseys alone. I mean, it is unreal. And maybe
(08:50):
they won the championship last year. That brings a lot
into it. The Guggenheim Group and how it seems that
they're so much more progressive and understanding of how to
sort of reinvest the money that they make into the
baseball team and even pay a lot of deferrals and
stuff like that. They are they're pretty damn impressive. And
(09:13):
you know me, I'm no front runner, but it's hard
watching them over the years kind of struggle to build
this and find a team that wasn't just great, but
that had edge in the playoffs to beat people. Feels
like it's finally happened and that perfect storm of money
making seems to be taking place.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Well yeah, and I mean we talked about show hate
to Seattle many many times because the whole etro tie
in and he wanted to stay on the West coast.
And our point was simply this, Hey, whatever you give
Sho heo Tani, you're going to get back to threefold.
I mean, this is just an investment that is a
can't lose investment.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
And of course the Marins.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
I didn't even know if the Mariners were even close
to landing show Hayo Tani, but we know that that
they didn't get him. But Petrols Papadak is joining us here. Hey,
we chatted us.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Not to interrupt you, Dick, but just what is interesting
about that and not so much like, Hey, I wonder
what would have happened if he went to Seattle. I
wonder what would have happened if he went to Toronto.
Can you imagine like seeing him on the Dodgers and
what it means and how it's all come together. Don't
you think he regrets signing a second time with the Angels?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Of course?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I mean right, I mean looking back on that, it's like, wow,
you could have gotten out of there.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah, he could have been a Dodger for fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Right or something else. But a very interesting situation. And
we knew Otani on the Dodgers was going to be big.
I don't think anybody could could have foreseen this. No, no,
sorry about that.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
That's all right.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Well, I mean transfers perfectly. We got an La guy
up here now that used to start They used to
play in Washington State. We talked to Softie and I
talked to face to face with the bearded Cooper Cup yesterday.
Had a fantastic conversation with the young man from from Yakama.
He came a boy. He came in rocking the Seattle
look man. He had the nineteen ninety four flannel he
(11:10):
had had backwards.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
He had the pearl jam T shirt and everything.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
I don't know if he was if he was just
sucking up to Seattle or if he just loved all that,
but he was.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
He was absolutely rocking Seattle yes day. A good guy.
He's just is he done?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
I mean, do you think he's done based upon what
you've seen from him with the Rams the last couple
of years, and you think he can help us?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
No, I just think the Rams are pragmatic. You know,
they had the Rams found a number one receiver who's
on a rookie contract, a little bit like Cooper Cup
when he when he arrived there as a young player.
They have Pooka Nakua who is a number one guy
and he's on a rookie contract. We know what that means.
You can go pay for something around him and to
(11:51):
have a number two and if you would you rather
have Davante Adams who's been healthy recently and a little
bit more productive, or Cooper Cupp as your number two guy.
I mean it probably.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Adams, yeah, I mean just depends on the money, right,
and you're gonna pay Davonte more.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
But yes, it's probably Devonte Adams.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
And that's where they ended up, which which is understandable.
Let me guess your interview with Cooper Cup was like
thirty questions six minutes.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
No, he was he was okay, Yeah, he was fine.
You know, he was fairly verbose.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
He had a really good, really good answer about when
I asked him about Doug Baldwin and what he took
from Doug Baldwin's game, because he had mentioned him in
the press conference on how he kind of modeled his
game effort. He went on like a minute long wide
receiver breakdown about his footwork and everything. I was like, Oh, cool,
this is pretty, this is pretty. This is like this
is like Hugh Millon breakdown stuff right here.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
He's getting a little better then, because not a great
interview when he first we all know that he's from
a small school Eastern Washington on that great story, big
play VA and then he had an even better year
with a different quarterback, and then get drafted and you
don't know what that guy's going to do translate into
the league, and he was nothing but spectacular in Sean
(13:05):
mcvay's offense. So he's been great. I don't really think
him and his wife needed to throw like a seven
week pity party that they were getting released or traded.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Is that what they did.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I didn't even of social media, you know, I mean,
like that never happened. I mean it was almost like,
how could they do this to us? Kind of vibe,
which is.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
He's still not happy.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
He was.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
He was clear.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
He made that clear yesterday and very respectful terms, because
I think he wants to respect the Rams and he
doesn't hold any you know, hard to grudges or anything
against the Rams. But he was asked about getting released
and he said, yeah, you know, there really wasn't a lot.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Of clarity about that whole situ. That was the That
was the carefully crafted word he used.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
There wasn't a lot of clarity about why I was released.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
It's like going on to the Bachelor and being like,
I can't believe there's other girls or after this time,
that's what is this? You know, I'm getting jealous. It's like, okay,
you know you're a pro football player, right, Uh. It
doesn't end pretty for anybody in pro football unless you're
Straighthan or maybe Elway.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Tom Brady, Yeah, pretty beat up.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
But what I'm yeah, Tom Brady still pissed off. Everybody
has a grievance and that's fine. But at the same time,
I thought that they laid it on a little thick
leaving town. But other than that, yeah, I think he's
a great receiver and I'm sure he can help Seattle out.
And look, I'm rooting for Sam Darnold and Cooper Cup
and I hope they have a lot of success. I
(14:31):
know the new coach is a really defensive minded guy
and was impressive in spots for you guys last season.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Well, he was impressive at the right time.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
If you want a defense, if you want to coach
whose defense is not very good the first half and
great the second half of the season, or the opposite,
you'll certainly take the coach who takes a bad defense
and turns it into a top ten defense at the
end of the year.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah. Develop the identity of the team of what they're
going to be under him and all that. I get it.
So good luck to Cooper Cup. I got nothing against him.
I thought that they laid it on a little thick
here in town. But you know, everybody for the Rams
takes the example of the idiot Staffords, who are ridiculously
terrible when it comes to well because of the wife.
You know, Kelly Stafford is a nightmare. I mean just
(15:16):
a nightmare. I mean Matt Stafford's worth it, but barely so.
And you know she they're friends, very close friends with
the Cups. They probably take they probably take their marching
orders from those idiots.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
On that note, great to talk to you, my friend.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Try to sit down and enjoy some you know, enjoy
some basketball over the next four days. Well, I sat
the cocktail maybe with your kids, and last night.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
And North Carolina was winning by Ford.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
We smoked them. Yeah, so yep, starts all all tomorrow.
Great to talk to you, my friend.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
We'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
All right, Dick, we'll talk to you soon. Have a
great day and go Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
There we go. I trust Papa Dakis. Broad to you
by our friend sweet James. When we come back.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
You will hear from the aforementioned Cooper cup softy in
my conversation yesterday with the newest member of the Seattle
Seahawks wearing number ten, just like he did in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Coming up next on ninety three point three KJRFM,
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
Petros Papa Nakas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Not that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Brought to you by Sweet James Accident Attorneys forty one years.
If you're hurt in an accident, called Sweet James right
away at eight hundred, five hundred and fifty two hundred.
Sweet James will be sweet to you, but tough on
insurance companies that will bully you.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I don't know bout.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Now. With Petros Peer's Dave's softy Muller throwing into.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
The four o'clock hour on a Wednesday, that means one thing,
and one thing only. Our friend Petros Papa dak is
joining us.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Brought to you by.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
The one and only Sweet James, the dense period of
justice he can come through for you. If you've ever
been in a car accident, motorcycle accident, maybe a dog
has bitting you in the nether regions. Whatever's happened, you
can be sure that Sweet James will know what to
do with your issue and get you what you deserve.
Give him a call at eight hundred and nine million.
(01:05):
They have massed over a billion dollars for thousands of
clients over the years eight hundred nine million or sweet
changed dot com.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Oh, Petro's good to talk to.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
It is one of my favorite weeks of the season,
and in fact, this and Master's Week, I think are
my two favorite sports weeks of.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
The entire tournament.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Here.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I am a huge bracket head.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Are you one that will fill out an office pool
or a family pool or get your kids to be
degenerate gamblers like I do?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
No? I I when I started working, I never ever
did anything with brackets or anything like that as a
young guy. And then when I started working in the
sports media, you know, it's a real cool thing to do,
which is to fill out your bracket. And some guys
fill out like five brackets and say like, oh, I
(01:55):
had drink, I had cake on my form.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Can't do that. Gotta have one right bracket of integrity
as it were.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I did it a couple times, and you know whatever,
the middling results, and I just never it's not important
enough to me to get around to, you know, I mean,
and then now it's like, you know, you got to
get it done really early because of the plan and
the whole thing, or you wait till the Playan's over
and then you do it. I don't. I'm not exactly sure,
but either way, No, I've never been a big bracket guy.
(02:25):
I do find the tournament as intriguing as everybody else.
You know, we all have our favorites. It's really fun
to see a lot of the small schools and usually
the weird looking big man like semi bald with goggles
and like weird mustaches and crazy haircuts, and interesting team
nicknames and histories and stuff like that. That part of
(02:47):
it I really enjoy. But the blue blood part and
all that is fine too, UCLA, North Carolina, Doke, Michigan State, Kansas,
all those teams that were used to seeing over the years.
But yeah, I guess I enjoy it as much as
everybody else on the show. Down here in La we
we have UCLA. So we talked to Mick Cronin a lot,
(03:08):
and we have a good relationship with him. He's really
great with the media.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
He's not as crotchety with you as he is with
the national media complaining about Statue of Liberties and that
sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Not at all. No, not with us. He's got great
humor with us. He but he is a snarky man,
there's about it and whatever he said. You know, somebody said,
like he, I mean, it's so funny because you cla,
they're so soft. You know. The university in itself is
just you know, it doesn't when you think, you cla dick,
You don't think, wow, hard is great.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
You think you think powder blue.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, you think that. And of course you know Bill
Walton and Kareem and they are the greatest college basketball
program of all time. And it's very difficult to argue
that modern times, no, but of all time, all time, yes,
and it's not that long ago. But at the same time,
you know, it's not that loud at Polly Pavilion. It's
(04:02):
hard for whatever reason nowadays to get fans in that building.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Mhm.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
It's in Westwood. It's you gotta it's twenty five minutes.
It's it's like a mile from the freeway, but it
takes you at least a half hour to twenty five
minutes when you get off the freeway to get into
the campus and park your car, which I don't need
to tell you what that's like. So the whole thing
is an experience, and it's not that you know, it's
(04:28):
not like being in hinkle Fieldhouse or whatever. These places
and the rest of the Big Ten. It's not quaint, no,
And uh, you know you can hear Mick Cronan mother
effing the players. So you know, like these these these
these really very sensitive pearl clutching powder blue old timers
(04:49):
who are used to John Wooden, who you know, read
poetry into the guys or something. Uh, they get really
upset sometimes when they hear Mick Cronan screaming and yelling
and the players. And you know, every year new jobs
open up and people talk about, oh, is he going
to go here? Is he going to go there? And
I'm like, well, maybe it'd be better off because those
places are so loud that no one could hear him
(05:12):
mother fing the players, and nobody gets but hurt about it.
It is kind of It is interesting because his style
is not exactly it's a fit at UCLA. I mean
Ben Holland went to three straight Final four at UCLA
and still got fired a couple of years later because
the brand of basketball wasn't exciting and he was a
(05:35):
defensive coach too. Now Mick is a little bit different.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Defense wasn't all that likable, was he Ben Holland.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
No, no, not at all. Yeah, I mean we liked him,
but my imitation of Ben Hollanders turn out, turn out.
You know, they did a three, he'd call a time
out to set up the defense. They were a very
frustrating team to watch, but they had a lot of success.
But it's interesting to see that, you know. And Eric Musselman,
(06:01):
the guy that's at USC, is a really good coach
and really media friendly. And I worked with his wife,
Danielle Sargent at Fox for a long time. So we
have good people here in La coach and the teams.
And then the UCSD University of California, Sandie the Triton Tritons, Yeah,
which is different than the what is it the Terrero's
(06:23):
that are the universe the USD, right, which is where
Musselman coached them to a tournament years ago and then
got those NBA jobs. That's a different San Diego school.
You see. SD is in La Joya, which is constantly
harrissed by a rich surf gang called the Wind and
Sea surf Rats. You're not really Yeah, white boys surf gang.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
White boy summer addictive, you know, it's right, that's right,
Petros Papade gets joined.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I guess as he always does.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
How how fired up was was the Southland for Dodger
baseball at three o'clock in the morning the last two days?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Well pretty fired up? I mean, uh, A lot of
people went to Japan, not US, of course, but well,
Fox didn't even go to Japan. I didn't expect you
to go to Japan. Oh they didn't.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
The broadcasters did it remotely?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
No.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I think Joe Davis and Eric Carross went. The radio
didn't go. The radio didn't race for whatever reason. The radio, okay,
I think I'm pretty sure. Okay, But then again, yeah, no,
they sent that one broadcast team. I believe they did.
Rodney Pete, who works with us on the radio, was
not working all week, but he got his his fame
(07:41):
by catching the ball about ball today in front of
Max Munsey, and Max Munsey looked a little angry, but
it seemed like it was fair game for Rodney to catch.
But it's a it's remarkable, I mean, just and it's
a lot different than the trip to Korea last year.
And there's a few things that jump out to me. Dick,
the the whole Dodgers with Otani marriage has gotta be
(08:05):
one of the most lucrative marriages of all time in
the history of sports. And what really jumps out to
me is, this guy's been playing baseball in town for
seven years, Like he was in spring training correct with
the Angels down the road in Tempe.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
But it's just different.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
And no, I mean it's not like nobody cared. I mean,
the guy was winning MVPs and there was a lot
of talk about Otani. But Otani as a Dodger. What
that means to everybody in Japan apparently because of the
Dodger brand name. What that means to everybody in La
the Japanese market that just comes in buys T shirts
and jerseys alone. I mean, it is unreal. And maybe
(08:50):
they won the championship last year. That brings a lot
into it. The Guggenheim Group and how it seems that
they're so much more progressive and understanding of how to
sort of reinvest the money that they make into the
baseball team and even pay a lot of deferrals and
stuff like that. They are they're pretty damn impressive. And
(09:13):
you know me, I'm no front runner, but it's hard
watching them over the years kind of struggle to build
this and find a team that wasn't just great, but
that had edge in the playoffs to beat people. Feels
like it's finally happened and that perfect storm of money
making seems to be taking place.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Well yeah, and I mean we talked about show hate
to Seattle many many times because the whole etro tie
in and he wanted to stay on the West coast.
And our point was simply this, Hey, whatever you give
Sho heo Tani, you're going to get back to threefold.
I mean, this is just an investment that is a
can't lose investment.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
And of course the Marins.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
I didn't even know if the Mariners were even close
to landing show Hayo Tani, but we know that that
they didn't get him. But Petrols Papadak is joining us here. Hey,
we chatted us.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Not to interrupt you, Dick, but just what is interesting
about that and not so much like, Hey, I wonder
what would have happened if he went to Seattle. I
wonder what would have happened if he went to Toronto.
Can you imagine like seeing him on the Dodgers and
what it means and how it's all come together. Don't
you think he regrets signing a second time with the Angels?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Of course?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I mean right, I mean looking back on that, it's like, wow,
you could have gotten out of there.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah, he could have been a Dodger for fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Right or something else. But a very interesting situation. And
we knew Otani on the Dodgers was going to be big.
I don't think anybody could could have foreseen this. No, no,
sorry about that.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
That's all right.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Well, I mean transfers perfectly. We got an La guy
up here now that used to start They used to
play in Washington State. We talked to Softie and I
talked to face to face with the bearded Cooper Cup yesterday.
Had a fantastic conversation with the young man from from Yakama.
He came a boy. He came in rocking the Seattle
look man. He had the nineteen ninety four flannel he
(11:10):
had had backwards.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
He had the pearl jam T shirt and everything.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
I don't know if he was if he was just
sucking up to Seattle or if he just loved all that,
but he was.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
He was absolutely rocking Seattle yes day. A good guy.
He's just is he done?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
I mean, do you think he's done based upon what
you've seen from him with the Rams the last couple
of years, and you think he can help us?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
No, I just think the Rams are pragmatic. You know,
they had the Rams found a number one receiver who's
on a rookie contract, a little bit like Cooper Cup
when he when he arrived there as a young player.
They have Pooka Nakua who is a number one guy
and he's on a rookie contract. We know what that means.
You can go pay for something around him and to
(11:51):
have a number two and if you would you rather
have Davante Adams who's been healthy recently and a little
bit more productive, or Cooper Cupp as your number two guy.
I mean it probably.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Adams, yeah, I mean just depends on the money, right,
and you're gonna pay Davonte more.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
But yes, it's probably Devonte Adams.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
And that's where they ended up, which which is understandable.
Let me guess your interview with Cooper Cup was like
thirty questions six minutes.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
No, he was he was okay, Yeah, he was fine.
You know, he was fairly verbose.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
He had a really good, really good answer about when
I asked him about Doug Baldwin and what he took
from Doug Baldwin's game, because he had mentioned him in
the press conference on how he kind of modeled his
game effort. He went on like a minute long wide
receiver breakdown about his footwork and everything. I was like, Oh, cool,
this is pretty, this is pretty. This is like this
is like Hugh Millon breakdown stuff right here.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
He's getting a little better then, because not a great
interview when he first we all know that he's from
a small school Eastern Washington on that great story, big
play VA and then he had an even better year
with a different quarterback, and then get drafted and you
don't know what that guy's going to do translate into
the league, and he was nothing but spectacular in Sean
(13:05):
mcvay's offense. So he's been great. I don't really think
him and his wife needed to throw like a seven
week pity party that they were getting released or traded.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Is that what they did.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I didn't even of social media, you know, I mean,
like that never happened. I mean it was almost like,
how could they do this to us? Kind of vibe,
which is.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
He's still not happy.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
He was.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
He was clear.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
He made that clear yesterday and very respectful terms, because
I think he wants to respect the Rams and he
doesn't hold any you know, hard to grudges or anything
against the Rams. But he was asked about getting released
and he said, yeah, you know, there really wasn't a lot.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Of clarity about that whole situ. That was the That
was the carefully crafted word he used.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
There wasn't a lot of clarity about why I was released.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
It's like going on to the Bachelor and being like,
I can't believe there's other girls or after this time,
that's what is this? You know, I'm getting jealous. It's like, okay,
you know you're a pro football player, right, Uh. It
doesn't end pretty for anybody in pro football unless you're
Straighthan or maybe Elway.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Tom Brady, Yeah, pretty beat up.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
But what I'm yeah, Tom Brady still pissed off. Everybody
has a grievance and that's fine. But at the same time,
I thought that they laid it on a little thick
leaving town. But other than that, yeah, I think he's
a great receiver and I'm sure he can help Seattle out.
And look, I'm rooting for Sam Darnold and Cooper Cup
and I hope they have a lot of success. I
(14:31):
know the new coach is a really defensive minded guy
and was impressive in spots for you guys last season.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Well, he was impressive at the right time.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
If you want a defense, if you want to coach
whose defense is not very good the first half and
great the second half of the season, or the opposite,
you'll certainly take the coach who takes a bad defense
and turns it into a top ten defense at the
end of the year.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah. Develop the identity of the team of what they're
going to be under him and all that. I get it.
So good luck to Cooper Cup. I got nothing against him.
I thought that they laid it on a little thick
here in town. But you know, everybody for the Rams
takes the example of the idiot Staffords, who are ridiculously
terrible when it comes to well because of the wife.
You know, Kelly Stafford is a nightmare. I mean just
(15:16):
a nightmare. I mean Matt Stafford's worth it, but barely so.
And you know she they're friends, very close friends with
the Cups. They probably take they probably take their marching
orders from those idiots.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
On that note, great to talk to you, my friend.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Try to sit down and enjoy some you know, enjoy
some basketball over the next four days. Well, I sat
the cocktail maybe with your kids, and last night.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
And North Carolina was winning by Ford.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
We smoked them. Yeah, so yep, starts all all tomorrow.
Great to talk to you, my friend.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
We'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
All right, Dick, we'll talk to you soon. Have a
great day and go Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
There we go. I trust Papa Dakis. Broad to you
by our friend sweet James. When we come back.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
You will hear from the aforementioned Cooper cup softy in
my conversation yesterday with the newest member of the Seattle
Seahawks wearing number ten, just like he did in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Coming up next on ninety three point three KJRFM,
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