That will continue on Fred Rogan Rodney Pete on a five seventy LA Sports.
They will be along later on in the hour with the haiku and spirituality.
You know, we were just kicking this around on the break, Rodney says,
I can't believe Chip Kelly left. I can't believe he left to become
the offensive coordinator at Ohio State. How does the head coach do that?
How does a head coach in college football become Oh, hell, Tim Kate's
nose. Yeah, Tim Kates knows. How in the world does he leave
to become an offensive coordinator. It's like that would be Mick Cronin. I
said to Rodney, I'd like to be mc crone going. I'm out of
here. I'm gonna be the number one assistant at North Carolina. I'm ready
to go. All right, let's bring on wrong line, All right,
let's bring on Bill Plashky. Hello Bill, Oh, you got your billionaire
right here? Baby Lasky, Hello, Hello Bill, your hair has been
I can hear your Happy Wednesday, Happy Valentine's Day to you two Wednesdays,
Wednesday and Valentine's Day. I got to get that out as many times as
I can, right, now you got it on the forehead, you do
on thee the forehead. Okay, everybody's staring at me. I don't care.
Hey, hey, hey, hey Bill. Don't they always stare at
you? Yeah? Right, Yeah, you're right, you're right, hey
Bell. We'll just do it out there again. And just because it was
just popped in my head about Tip Kelly leaving to go to Ohio State as
a coordinator, and I was just thinking about how how bad does the future
look for U c l A. For him to leave like he did bad.
I mean, if we were a recruit, you want to go to
a place where a head coach takes a job as a as a coordinator at
his own conference. I mean there's a huge emotion and he willingly took it.
So what does that say about the stay of the program? What does
this say about his belief in their ability to get nil money and they're belief
they get good recruits. It's yeah, it's so damaging. The way the
way he left us was cowardly. Leaving as late as he did this in
the season cycle, not leaving after the season so cowardly, and it makes
the program look so bad and just so so they rushed to hire to Sean
Foster, good guy, everybody loves him, but he's never a coach anywhere,
so that that's bad too. The future views LA going into Big Ten,
they look like at number nine or ten team in the conference, they
don't look very good. Yeah, And that's the thing about Deshaun, Like
you said, good guy. I know him well, played with him in
Carolina. But you know, and I know you know, you get excited
when you're Alma Mater calls and wants you to be the head coach. I
mean, most guys are jumping at the chance. But man, it is
a it's a it's an uphill battle that you know what they say about money,
all money not good money. And I don't know if all jobs are
not good jobs. Yeah, it's a bad job. And he's in it
to a trust situation. And they're like they're the big equivalent of Rutgers.
Now they're Rutgers. They're Maryland, that's what they are. They're not in
the elite anymore at all. And Martin Jarmond is under a lot of fire
ware there and a lot of people are really down on him. He's got
a lot of work to do. It's just a mess. It's a whole
for outside of Miking the basketball team, It's just a mess. Bill chip
Kelly didn't really say anything. He just left right. Ye never told anybody
who was going to I'm out. He let uc LA. No. I
don't think he's spoken publicly since. No. And you think you wonder why
if that Tramond had a closer retied to the order to the program, he
would have known he was looking. Everybody knew he was looking. Everybody knew
he was unhappy. Everybody knew he thought he was gonna get fired. You
want to get out. Before he got fired, everyone knew that he was
trying to get out. Drumont should have fired him. He should have him
on the spot at the end of the season. Like I wrote, I
should have done it and got over with But for whatever reason, for money,
money reasons and David, they still believed in him and that that was
a mistake. And it's on. It's on Drummond. Now. Truman's got
a big cask ahead of him to regain their faith. The alumni and boosters
of the program. Yeah in trouble. Uh all right, all right?
Bill, So you you you took Lebron to task uh the other day saying
that the Lakers stood up to Lebron and and denied him, denied him the
trade that he that he wanted. So Lebron is back to being the GM
de facto? Is that what we're saying again? Oh no, well,
well they showed he's not the GM. Lakers shoulder, he's not not the
GM by not making the trade that he wanted. So no, he's She's
lost. The Lakers are taking slowly taking back the Lakers. And you saw
this this report about him grass getting traded the Golden State, right, you'll
see that. Yeah, yeah, we talked about that earlier. When did
you make of that? I think obviously it's it will come across as Lebron
saying he's created to the Lakers. But I think there's enough smoke there that
Golden State realized he could be unhappy. And I think this will surface again
at the end of the season when his player option is up. I think
he's fifty to fifty at best to come back to the Lakers. I can
see him. I can see him totally leaving, totally, you know,
opting out, going somewhere he can win, going to play with Ronny I
can totally see that because they're not gonna win here with him. They can't
get enough players, they don't have enough money, enough assets to win with
him. And I think he knows that. But Bill, why, why
why is he? Why is it his decisions that don't get that don't happen
when things go bad or south and if things go well. It's what a
great job Rob Linca did and a lot of credit last year for for KR
all those players. And I asked you at the top of that, would
you say it's it's I mean, I see your point, But I think
the fact is that he when he complains, he puts pressure on the organization,
unfair pressure, undue pressure. It makes everybody nervous, makes everybody look
bad. I wish he keeps his nose out of it. I wish he
just played. I wish you wouldn't try to. You can't tell me those
emojis were him playing general manager. You can't tell me he's not putting pressure
on them by not answering those questions in New York tell me a superstar,
and that doesn't other than Kawhi Leonard Well, I don't think anybody does.
Like Lebron No he does it with the path of regressiveness that Lebron does.
I mean, if I come on Fred out here, no no no,
no, no, no, no no no no. I'm letting you make
your point. Leroy Neeman trying to paint that picture that going at it.
Look, you know, all right, you know, look, I think
it is passive aggressive. Personally, I'm tired of it, uh you know,
and I have been. But I've told Roddy that, so we don't
have to fight about that now. Uh, here's the thing. He's having
a great year on the court. My concern is this that, uh you
know, the season ends first. I don't think he's going anywhere. I
don't think he's leaving fifty one million dollars on a table. But that's just
me. Let's say he goes all right, I'm out. He brought him
a title and a lot of expectation aside from that that was never fulfilled.
Really, I think this year, more than past years, he is not
played GM on social media things like that as much. But I don't like
when I play I'm gonna hold you hostage game. I don't like that.
I you know, when they Genie Boss called him and said do you want
to be traded, He goes, now I want to be here. Oh
okay, Well then then what's with the emoji and everything? You know?
I don't like that. I don't. And here's the other thing, right,
I think the Lakers can make a deep run. I still do.
But if they don't win it, then you know, he got a one
title, and I agree with you, that might be the only title they
get with him. And if that's the case, then why are you get
to sit with him? You go in a different direction and come on back.
You got a D, put somebody around him that can play, and
you try to build something else. I mean, that's how I look at
it. Let's say they traded the Golden stated he got back two first round
draft picks and Jonathan kaminga that'd been tremendous to really run, and a D.
Here's another part of the equation. A D is proven to me,
it's proven to all of us that he can be a leader of this team.
This year, he's he's a bit awesome. He's been his best he
can. You can build a team around him. You don't need to get
rid of him, So do that, build it around him. Yeah,
But if there's animosity. If there's animosity in Bron leaving, it will affect
a D. It will affect him going forward. If they're asking him to
now become the leader in the face of the franchise going forward, after they've
kicked, basically kicked and parted ways with Lebron and pushed him out the door,
I don't know if that bodes well for a D or the Lakers going
forward. And do you know, I mean, I think players are at
heart, great players are selfish players, and I think he cares about a
D. And I think he knows he'll be the man here and they'll be
unchallenged. I think they're like that. I mean, in in my opinion,
I think he'll be fine. I think it's a chance. Where are
the case, it's a chance for taking because as it stands now, they
are being held hostage by the greatest player ever. It sounds weird, but
he's told no hostage. As long as he's there. All we all agree
with this. I don't think you're going to they can't win a championship as
well as he's there. He needed this, funny. They need they need
his draft picks, they need his assets so that being said if he left,
you wouldn't shed many tears. No, I think it's a good of
course, you can look back, and I did this to the press box
with doctor Jadhim this year. I look back when Mike be Ota got traded,
I said, great move. So so uh, I've got a history
of saying great move on on on really bad moves. But I think I
think it would be I think it would be a good move. And then
to get rid of him and what they and what they get for him and
and a d as the guy. You think they can win a title?
Yes, the day they can get two superstars draft picks, they can.
They can have a hope. They have a future again, they have no
future now. Lebron's the ultimate win now players. As my colleague, damn
work, he always says they have no future now. They have to win
now, and they can't win now with him. Were would you say they
rank in the West right now? Now? Good as Denver, there's Minnesota,
They're now, there's the Clippers, They're now, there's okay. See,
I mean they're a playing team forever. As long as they have Lebron
will be a playing team. And that's the way to go about like so,
you don't think that's constructed. If they're playing and they're healthy, they
can compete with half of the West that will be in the playoffs. I
see them having the throw to throw to win playing game. I mean,
we'll see if Kate Benson comes back healthy, if Jerry Bradblok comes back healthy,
maybe they got a shot to make some kind of run. But no,
they this is about championships. You all know that you gotta win the
title for to be worth it. They can't win a title like that.
They're not gonna win a title. They're gonna be tread water the rest of
the season. They'll be around five hundred the rest of the season. You
can't pay. They could lose tonight. Yeah he's not playing. Oh yeah,
he's off. But it's gonna play an the All Star Game. Well,
is it really playing? That's practice, that's not a plan, that's
just that's just a warm up. That's a warm up. That's just staying
loose. Speaking another just real quick bill in terms of LA Superstars, how
do you think it's gonna go and play out? When you know Otani's not
talking, Otani's only speaking once a week. Otani's not giving the LA marketing
media the time that the LA market and media wants. Well, row,
do you tell your son to get on and make them talk learning, he's
learning his Japanese as we speak, Bill, he runs that clutout, he
runs that cutout in person. No. I think Otani's actually talked three times
so far in spree training or just fancast, So maybe he will talk.
If he doesn't talk, that puts a lot of pressure on the other players,
and that Bill's resentment because they've got to talk for him, because there's
gonna be fifty Japanese media there every day no matter what. And if he
doesn't talk to him, right, they'll talk to him, they'll talk to
whoever will talk to him, and it'll be it'll be madness. So he's
got the Dodgers have got got to figure that out. They got to give
him. They got like a like Matthew Stafford talks every Wednesday, talks once
a week. That's fine, talk twice a week, but an idiot a
schedule and stick that schedule because the other players are gonna get really upset.
I guarantee you and and you know it's right. You live this have an
answer for him. Oh, that's gonna get older. It's gonna get old
fast, you know, is you know? Because think about it. If
you're Freddie, or you're Mookie, or you're even Max Munsey or somebody,
and you go two for three with two home runs, and yet all they
want to ask you about the first three or four questions are about Otani and
what he did that day. That's not gonna be good. Tyler's glad.
Now it's a good picture. Trilby camp are day and fifty people swarm them.
Fifty people swarm Tylie. Last Now they asked about o'connie. That's that's
not that's not tenable. All right, expectations every year, but you know,
do the Dodgers in your opinion because it's it's impossible to predict this.
But do they have to win the World Series this year? Bill? I
think they have to get there? Yeah, and I think I think what
happens if they don't. Somebody's gonna take a fall. That's that's how this
works. And Dave Roberts is on the on the chopping block if they if
they don't, say they ended the World Series and that's not fair. But
somebody's got to take a fall, and then it will probably be him,
and that's unfortunate because he's a great manager. For yes, for his sake,
Why is that though? Why? Why why did somebody have to take
a fall? If they get to the World Series and then they just happened
to run into a buzz saw of say the Yankees get hot, or or
the Orioles come, you know and do what they do or whatever they can,
they can lose the World Series. Got to get there, Okay,
okay, I got you spend a billion dollars. You gotta get there.
Someone's got to happen. I mean, people proceded. People didn't get fired
every last year. If they have another playoff implosion before we getting the World
Series, somebody's going down. They just are they just that, just that
this way it is this town. They's spent too much money to get no
results. Now the World Series is the crap shoot you get there, Just
get just bring a World Series to Dodger Stadium, Bring the fall Plactic to
Dodger Stadium. That will be enough. Do that and they sure bill do
that. That should be any problem. Yeah, how many do they win
in five years? But they've got all there at full strength with Freddie Mooki
Otani Yamamoto Glass. Now they got them all for the next five You know
what, take one. I'll take one, one non COVID years, world
Chip Military championship, one full season championship. They haven't won one in thirty
five years. Don't forget that. I will take one full season championship.
That that would be enough for me. Everybody takes for granted, but again,
they haven't done it since it's eighty eight. Yeah, people think it's
easy and we haven't had a you know a yeah, it hasn't been.
Has it happened? And I mean, do you guys? As the years
go by, they're a bigger asterisk on the twenty twenty championship. I think
it's less meaningful every year to look back at it. They played sixty games
that really didn't That really doesn't count. They need to win a real one,
all right. Did the Lakers count? No, they didn't count.
It was the bubble, No, they didn't count. What do y'all think?
I think it counts? I'm both of them. I think if you
live in the city where the team wins, you probably think it counts.
If you live in any other city in the country. You think it doesn't
count unless they played like Tampa believes it counted. But I guarantee you the
Lakers win and the doctors when they will say this is real now, they
will look back and say, we needed this to get this one because we
needed to get a real one. I guarantee the players feel that way.
I guarantee it. Well, they'll say it because that's the sentiment of a
lot of folks out there that are saying it in the narrative out that it
read a parade. We haven't had a parade in this town. A little
too big teams and you know, and and and then more than a decade.
We didn't need to celebrate with it. We don't need to share it.
That's hard, and I need to share it. Bell. I thought
you were going to at least say at least say two in five years,
But one one will do it for you? Huh O? That will last?
Those people want to last us for five years. Well, I'll think,
well, I'll believe, I think it's so hard to do it,
and they haven't none so long. I'll take one, one real one,
one parade, one champaign bath. I'll take that. Well, you know,
I look at it and see that. This is the thing about sports,
and you guys argue with me about this. Uh. In sports,
very much like in life, it's what have you done for me lately?
You get one? Now, given the way the Dodgers are constructed, you
get one. That construction is still there, right, You're not gonna have
to start selling pieces off and mortgaging. So that's what I'm saying. You
know what you've got for the next five years. I think you've got to
get more than one. Yeah I do two. I do too. I
think the Rams won one and they're gonna live off that year. They weren't
a super team. They had good players, and Stabber came in and had
a great year, but they weren't a dominant super team like the Dodgers are
constructed. Before the season starts this year, I just think the Rams won
a real one. Just get just get a real let's talk after they win
a real one. Talk all right, Bell, We appreciate you coming on
as always. Thanks for hanging then. Okay, thanks built, Thanks built,
because everybody built Plashki at the times. Yeah with you, I think
you got them with more than one. Yeah I do too. I think
you gotta I don't want to put a number of but certainly more than one.
You're talking about five years. We're talking about a team is constructed.
People believe in that of the best is the best team ever ever in baseball.
Yeah, so I think, yeah, you gotta win. You gotta
win more than one. I agree with them, though. If they get
to the World Series, I think that'll be okay. I agree, I
agree, you know, I think Gay's fine. I think the problem is,
first, nothing can go south during the regular season, you know,
injuries and stuff. But they got to be where they need to be.
Yeah, when they get to the playoffs, they gotta get deep. Yeah,
I think that's the issue here. All right, we'll have spirituality with
VIC next. I like it around. A Happy Valentine's Day to all those
lovers out there. This is the Midnight Album coming at you live on Valentine's
Day. Get your roses out. It's not too late to do something special
for that one you love. You are in the wrong job, Aha,
you are in the wrong job. Well me on, come on eight to
midnight, baby, let's go. You make a killing. You what you
are doing? The wrong job? Buddy? Hey, Rodney Dwayne Wade's got
nothing on you. Well, talk to me, Rodnie, talk to me
baby. All right, let's bring on our man with spirituality on this Valentine's
Day, and welcome on Victor Breck vicd afternoon. A happy Valentine's Day,
everybody, and a whole lot of love for fred Fred Rogan. Thank you,
Vic Killo, A whole lot of love, love, love, love
Rodney Pete, and congratulations on the love forgetting the nomination and the looming induction
into the California Sports Hall of Fame. I love it big, Thank you
very much. V T B. Right to just play the great Al Green,
but how about the great Berry White Love unlimited, Kevin figures here,
Come on now, I won't even try to go that deep. I can't
get down there, can get down there. I can get you to Peebo
Bryson level. That's about as deep as I go. And what the world
needs now is love, sweet love and my Ronnie Fossilo who loving the high
coup with King Flava now. Happy Valentine's Day, Vic, thank you so
much. Of course, I'm so upset, angry what happened in Kansas City
earlier today at the end of the parade. This was just a horrific incident.
One dead, ten to fifteen injured. It's an ongoing investigation. Two
suspects have been taken into custody. But still this is a super poul parade
in the heartland of America, Kansas City, Missouri. This is so,
this is shocking, This is so shocking and horrific. Yes, apparently according
to police reports. Uh, the team itself was at was out of harm's
way. But uh, our hearts go out to the all the impacted families
in Kansas City. It's just a who ver, just a horrendous incident.
It's also senseless, exactly, Freddie, it just uh, it's it's w
a relentless onslaught of insanity in this kind in this country. I just a
j such a joyous day it was to be when you're celebrating one of the
greatest, greatest accomplishments in sports, and uh this I this all this insane
tumult ensues. So again, the investigation is ongoing in Kansas City. Everyone
was asking Taylor Swift what was going on with Taylor Swift today? Well,
she was on her way to Australia. She's playing three shows in Melbourne beginning
on Friday. So that's what Taylor is. Okay, who was asking that?
I haven't heard one? Who's Kevin? Did you ask that? What
did I ask? Where's Taylor Swift? I did not ask that. Que
did that cross your mind? Not at all? Well, people are asking
me, Fred, it can't be. Can't you know? I jumped on
the Taylor Swift bandwagon a long time ago. People are calling you and asking
you. They want to know, they want to know Fred, and they
know I'm fully tracking Tailor. No, no, no, no, no,
no, no, you can't do that. She had to say her
plane because somebody kept tracking her flights and she wants she wants to sue the
guy. You can't really track her, Fred, She has more than one
plane, so you're tracking the other one. She sold wonderful plates. She
has a decoy plane, one of those that they take off together, but
they go in opposite the direction. That's real money. Yeah, well you
speak decoy. You got to say, Tania, no, his beloved doggie.
Oh, I thought you meant the guy that took the picture for him
for the Angels team picture, the white guy they had stand there for you,
guy standing that they put his head over you know, the angels.
We're going into the abyss after. That's good. You couldn't even get show
for a team picture. That's terrible. That was the greatest. That was
the highlight of the season for them last year. When the guy shows up
dressed like Otani for the team picture, then they just photoshop. He would
talk about it. Let's say something. We know what the problem was.
People saw the guy walking out of the dugout before the game to go to
the team picture. So they saw this guy in number seventeen Otani jersey walking
out and who was that? There was media members who just happened to see
it. They weren't even shrewd enough to do it when the media wasn't around,
right, that's so sad. Well, the Japanese media hordes are all
over Otani every move he makes. Of course, today everybody in the house
first full squad workout, apparently over one hundred media members from Japan chronicling the
Otani I'mamoto story because it is humongous. It's hell, he gande not even
faithed at all. All right, Vic, we'll have more in the haikup
coming up. Hilarious. Hey, yes, come on, we need it.
Roddy p Fred Rogan Vic the Brick Jacobs, Little Love Unlimited Orchestra running,
Oh look at you there you go, Vic love it, bring it
fellas On euphoric about the Dodgers, Like I said, first full squad workout
today at camel Back, and don't forget next Thursday or first broadcast Dodgers padres
Right here? Are you a home of Otani? Sign on the Dodgers,
A five seven the l A Sports and get this Japanese high school slugging prodigy.
Have you heard of Sazaki? No coming to America? Was hooked up
by Stanford Rentaro. Sazaki, seventeen years old, six feet two hundred and
fifty pounds, dubbed the Japanese Prince Fielder, went to the same high school
as Ohtani Hanamaki. He got you high school. So Sazaki will play three
years for the Cardinal and then he's going to go into the MLB draft.
So Sauzaki coming to America. Nice. So you say he's got a little
little heft to him, I'm assuming with the Prince fielder or little girth?
Yeah, a little bit of girth, all right, little thicky love that
sushi thicky. He's got to you know, eat that gohan man, get
that rice down, go yeah, get the rice down, then go on,
get the carbo hydrates flowing. He's traded like alcohol. Yeah, whoa
cotn issue? Are mathletough? Meanwhile, the Lakers loving the Dinwitty debut last
night? Six points seven assists. I think that's really solid game for Spencer.
Are you loving as goatee? Though? I dig it, it's got
like a Wilt Chamberlain flavor going on? No, yeah, oh yeah.
Bit Lakers starting five and double figures. I think Robert Sockray posted a double
double lisson. Who is this guy? So? No, no bron tonight,
no no, But they are playing good ball. They've won five of
six, ten or fifteen maybe the garbage Detroit team. Big well, listen,
Still, you gotta line up who you know who's scheduled in the downtown.
Who don'jo you know what? Some Knights is gonna be the timber Wolves
or the Knight's gonna be the Pistons. You gotta line up, and you
got a ball like your hair's on fire, as Shaquille used to has to
do. Give it up for the big blessing. How about the honor Shaquille
O'Neill. Just the big, big blessing got in Orlando last night when they
hung his number thirty two into the rafters. That was a bit overdue.
Give it up for Shaquille. Hit me call you tickets ticket? Were you?
Yes? There? I was, so congratulations Shaquille. M Jim Harbor
is forming his coaching staff. I'm loving that he hooked up Nick Hardwicke iconic
center to buttress the bolts O line. Didn't know you were that fascinated by
offensive line coaches, Vic, I am. Isn't that where the game is
won and lost in the trenches? Rodney, say it again, Vic,
Vick, protection, protection of your quarterback and establishing a running game. There
you go, vict You got that right, Vic. Why the forty nine
ers fire Steve Wilks today their defensive coordinator? Can you explain that to me?
They did? Yes, Oh, Shanahan said audiosa Steve Wilkes. Oh
no, they're putting the blame on Wilkes. He held the Chiefs of nineteen
points in regulation. Yeah. Yes, I thought he did a pretty good
job. I thought it was brilliant. Apparently the schematically By the way,
Mahomes went down the field unstoppable. Really got to Shanahan. He said,
why can't we stop Mahomes? Shanahan, No one stops Mahomes. You think
Steve Wilkes has a blueprint for stopping Mahomes? I mean he he basically bottled
them up for four quarters. And Steve Wilkes is gone. Kind of a
stunning, stunning reversal up up in San Francisco, playing a little blame game
up there, you guys decided about Tiger Woods teeing off tomorrow morning at nine
twenty five. I'm excited. It's good to be excited. He's got his
new UH apparel line, Sunday Red going on. Yeah, it's not easy
hosting and playing. So he's hosting the Genesis Invitational and he's playing in it.
What do you what do you think He's gonna welcome everybody to the first
t is the host vic VI. I'm curious to see what of the hosting
duties for the Genesis Invitational. I don't know. Maybe he's gonna park everybody's
car car, He's gonna be the valet. Yeah, they all come and
to his house for a party. Well, it definitely amps up the tournament
energy. I mean, it's like it's an idyllic, iconic golf course.
The Riviera is just gorgeous. I think they should have to drunk people from
the uh the waste management show up at this one. That'll be fun fun.
Well, let's face it, the Riviera when they host a tournament,
it's always high energy and fantastic. Yeah, and just walking the river,
it's such a glorious experience. It's it's just a sensational scenery. The weather
is going to be picture perfect and there all starts tomorrow at the Riviera Genesis
Invitational. Last time I was at Riviera, you know who I saw play
golf? Who's that? Oh J Simpson? Oh lord, that's a long
time ago. Well he killed it that day. I'm going to transition.
I'm transitioning, Fred, I'm pivoting. After that, you're gonna pivot.
Okay, look at me. I'm pivoting and I'm going to go to the
source. Valentine's Day, haikus. They are flying all over the Cosmos today
because yes, so much love on this planet. Yes, yes, for
your boom, and I wanted to for your boom, give all my love
to my beloved bride, you go Sakamoto today. Oh yeah, so this
haiku on this Valentine's Day, February the fourteenth, It's for my beloved bride
you go, Soakamoto, you go, my Tamashi, my soul, my
essence, my everything. I love you more today than yesterday, but not
as much as to Maro you go, I love you, Bick. What
a great way to wrap it up to all to all. A happy Valentine's
Day everybody. He's very emotional. Ronnie, Happy Valentine's Day, Kevin,
same to you, and uh Rodney will get him tomorrow. Let's go