WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:04.240 But here we go three hours. Today, Jonas knocks in for Rodney on 2 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:09.160 AM five seventy LA Sports. How's the show going, Jonas? Which one 3 00:00:09.240 --> 00:00:13.400 Fred? The only one I talk about? Okay, you mean two pros 4 00:00:13.400 --> 00:00:16.000 and a cup of Joe? Yeah? What other one is there? Well, 5 00:00:16.120 --> 00:00:18.879 there's you know, I have a little show on Saturdays as well too. 6 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:21.839 Can I tell you what? What's that? First? You're the hardest 7 00:00:21.839 --> 00:00:25.800 working man I know because you do the show Saturday, and it's funny. 8 00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:28.199 I was, And I may have told you this story in the past. 9 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:34.880 It was last year driving around and I turn on and I'm hearing somebody. 10 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:37.159 I go, man, I think I know him. God, he's good. 11 00:00:38.079 --> 00:00:40.320 And I listened and then at the very end I realized it was you. 12 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:45.520 I well, I find that hard to believe, just the the good 13 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:50.280 part. But yeah, it looks. And also I've talked about this with 14 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:54.119 Kevin before. You know, this isn't really work like when you've had like 15 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:58.359 real jobs and real work that majority of people have. When you get an 16 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:02.759 opportunity to do this, I'll never complain about another opportunity ever. If it 17 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:06.439 means sleep, if it means sacrifice in this or whatever, I don't really 18 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:07.719 look at it as a sacrifice. It just this is what we do and 19 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:11.359 we have a good time with it. It's it's why you've been doing it 20 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:12.680 for as long as you've been doing it, Like you love what you do. 21 00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:17.280 It's fun when you enjoy doing what. You enjoy work, you enjoy 22 00:01:17.359 --> 00:01:19.000 coming in. You want to come in as much as possible. So that's 23 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:21.959 the way I look at it. Yeah, you know, for me, 24 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:25.120 it's funny you bring that up first. If you listen to the radio show, 25 00:01:25.159 --> 00:01:26.799 you know that I started in radio. I'm a radio guy at heart. 26 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:30.840 Yeah. I was a radio guy that got into TV at the Beast, 27 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:34.480 right, No, Jonas, I didn't start radio with the Beast. 28 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:40.760 I started radio when I was nineteen years old in Globe, Arizona. I 29 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:44.359 was the top forty disc jockey and I did the play by play of the 30 00:01:44.359 --> 00:01:48.040 local high school teams. So I started. I started in radio. When 31 00:01:48.040 --> 00:01:49.799 I got to Yuma, I was rock and roll rogue in every Day ten 32 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:53.760 to three, another Biscuit from the Ever Loving up in the Hits, and 33 00:01:53.319 --> 00:01:57.480 I also got to do the play by play of the Kopa Kings, the 34 00:01:57.519 --> 00:02:00.280 high school football team. That's all I really wanted, but to be able 35 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:04.480 to do that, you also had to do an air shift. So I 36 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:07.359 had a TV station in Yuma, and I walked up and I said, 37 00:02:07.480 --> 00:02:09.159 uh, you know, I'm here every day ten to three doing the show 38 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:13.120 is rock and Roll Rogan. But I really like to be on TV and 39 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:15.199 I'd really like to try out to be the TV sports guy. Understand I 40 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:19.759 had no training on anything. None. I was not trained. I had 41 00:02:19.759 --> 00:02:23.360 six months of junior college. And the guy looked at me and he goes, 42 00:02:23.439 --> 00:02:27.439 uh, what are you nuts? This is youm Arizona. We don't 43 00:02:27.479 --> 00:02:30.400 let people try out here. And for a moment, I wish your grin. 44 00:02:30.479 --> 00:02:31.039 Then he looked at me and goes, if you want to be on 45 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:35.319 your on, that's all I got on TV. If you want to be 46 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:37.840 on your on, that's all I got on television. I got paid five 47 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:40.479 dollars a day, and that's what happened. Yeah, that's so I kept 48 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:45.599 moving. Look, it's just you don't nobody gets into this because they're like, 49 00:02:45.639 --> 00:02:47.360 man, I really want to get rich. You know, that's just 50 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:51.199 not like you don't you just you get it because you love it. And 51 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:53.039 then well, I mean, I'm sure some people do. Some people look 52 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:55.759 at that and go listen, it's worked out, but like you don't. 53 00:02:55.960 --> 00:02:59.639 You're not so like you're really making anything when you start. You got to 54 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:02.360 start the bottom. But through the journey, it's it's so much fun to 55 00:03:02.479 --> 00:03:06.960 learn, and you learn in a small market. And what was amazing to 56 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:10.319 me is that you, like I always say this when you're in school, 57 00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:13.719 You'll be studying something in school and you're like, man, when am I 58 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:15.960 ever going to use this? Like as I get older? Am I really 59 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:19.599 gonna need to know how to do this math equation or this or learn this 60 00:03:19.719 --> 00:03:22.360 subject from history? Am I ever going to use this in my life? 61 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:27.039 And I remember early on in radio having to do everything because at those small 62 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:30.280 stites, you've got to you got to do commercials, you've got to know 63 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:35.120 how to do production, editing, run the board, all of these things. 64 00:03:35.479 --> 00:03:37.639 And I remember like, in the process of doing it, going, 65 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:39.960 man, am I really ever gonna need to know how to do this? 66 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:45.919 When I And the more that you can do, the more people are likely 67 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:49.439 to hire you because you can fill more positions. And that's just the way 68 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:51.680 I always looked at it, is that you know there may be just a 69 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:54.120 part time opening here. But it's better to have one foot in than two 70 00:03:54.159 --> 00:03:58.199 feet out. It's always been my philosophy. No, you're absolutely right. 71 00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:01.039 I mean, you are absolutely right. And also, the more jobs you'll 72 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:05.120 learn and the more things you understand, that means at a point in time 73 00:04:05.159 --> 00:04:10.360 where you may be supervising people or making decisions that impact others, you can't 74 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:13.800 be fooled, right because you would never ask anyone to do anything you haven't 75 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:16.519 done yet. You would never ask anyone to try anything that you didn't try, 76 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:19.839 and you would know the result. So I mean all of that is 77 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:24.920 valuable, and actually it's valuable in any walk of life. This thing I'm 78 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:30.639 doing in the desert, you know, I don't have a burning, undying 79 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:33.720 desire to still do television. I really don't. I've done it and it 80 00:04:33.800 --> 00:04:36.199 was great and I had the best time, and I'm the luckiest guy in 81 00:04:36.199 --> 00:04:40.160 the world. The billboard is sweet, by the way, but that wasn't 82 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:46.279 a real billboard that was created by sort of a news paper out here that 83 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:51.160 does everything with these caricatures. So when I came here, it wasn't about 84 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:55.279 I had to be on. It really wasn't. Because I'm blessed I'm the 85 00:04:55.319 --> 00:04:58.120 luckiest guy you'll ever meet. And at my core, I'm a radio guy. 86 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:00.000 And this is what I wanted to do when I left Channel four, 87 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:03.000 but what they allowed me to do here Jonas and you you did Going Rogan 88 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:09.319 and also had a stint on The Aborted Challenge, but you did, but 89 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:14.759 you know you did Going Rogan, and those were all shows that I created, 90 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:18.839 that that I produced, And my deal in television was always I want 91 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:23.279 to produce things. I want to create things, and you know that about 92 00:05:23.279 --> 00:05:29.240 me, and out here I'm given that opportunity. So I've created a news 93 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:34.160 product that kind of looks like Going Rogan for news, and I'm having a 94 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:39.160 ball doing it. We're trying things, we're experimenting. We have funny elements 95 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:43.399 in some work, some don't. It's also you get to a certain point 96 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:46.800 where what you are is what you are. And I got to a certain 97 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:48.120 point where I was like, you know what, I don't think I'm ever 98 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:51.560 going to retire. I like, I can't imagine myself just being like you 99 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:56.160 don't think I'm gonna go play around the golf today. I just I don't 100 00:05:56.240 --> 00:05:59.000 have I just don't have that. I've got to be I'm like you, 101 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:01.399 I got to be doing something. Then I got to be productive. I 102 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:05.560 got to be creative. If I'm not, I feel like I'm wasting away 103 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:11.959 that part of what I love about this and just life. And you know, 104 00:06:12.040 --> 00:06:15.920 I realize. I mean, it could be calling minor league games somewhere 105 00:06:15.959 --> 00:06:18.800 in the middle of nowhere when i'm you know, whatever age I'm at. 106 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:23.360 But I've got to be doing something in the business. So it doesn't surprise 107 00:06:23.480 --> 00:06:26.600 me. Even though maybe you don't have a burning desire to do it, 108 00:06:26.600 --> 00:06:29.680 it's what you do. Fred, that's why you're the dean. Well you 109 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:32.560 know what, Well, thank you, But the thing is just fun and 110 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:36.199 that's what people, you know don't understand. And you pointed it out, 111 00:06:36.199 --> 00:06:40.800 I thought, in a very articulate manner. When you do this every day, 112 00:06:40.839 --> 00:06:44.319 it's fun. Every day you look forward to doing this. And we're 113 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:46.160 not all that fortunate with our jobs. We try to make the most out 114 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:49.319 of them and get the most joy we can out of them. But I 115 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:53.279 mean, Jonas is blessed. I'm fortunate, Rodney, anybody that does this 116 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:57.160 for a living, Petrose, Matt, we're really lucky. And I think 117 00:06:57.199 --> 00:07:01.600 we all appreciate that because we get to do something and basically play every day. 118 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:04.920 Is it work, Sure it is. Do we invest time and effort 119 00:07:04.959 --> 00:07:09.120 into trying to do the best show we can, Absolutely, But at the 120 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:13.199 end of the day, it's just it's fun. It's fun to do it, 121 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:15.399 and we're blessed and fortunate they have that opportunity. And it's fun when 122 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:20.360 you get to when you hear people that you know, Like I texted Kevin. 123 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:24.680 I was driving around on New Year's Day, I think it was, 124 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:27.920 and I heard Kevin doing a show on the radio, and I'm like, 125 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:30.959 oh, this is awesome. You know, like there's like there's too too 126 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:34.759 many people get caught up in the in the negative competitiveness of a lot of 127 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:41.040 things that either social media or the media in general have to offer. Like 128 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:46.560 I get excited when I hear people get an opportunity to do something, because 129 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:49.480 I know how excited I was when I first got an opportunity or I got 130 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:53.680 an opportunity to do something, and so I put myself in their shoes, 131 00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:57.360 going that's awesome, good for them, And so you know, we just 132 00:07:57.439 --> 00:08:00.759 rally around each other. Fred And that's the other thing too. You support 133 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:03.959 group here, you really do root for everybody. Yeah, really root for 134 00:08:05.079 --> 00:08:09.279 everybody in the business. You want everybody to enjoy themselves and have success. 135 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:13.240 I'll raise the curtain a little bit. I have brought up I think we 136 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:15.480 should have Kevin on the air here, and I think we should have him 137 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:20.079 one more. I've had those conversations with Yeah, nobody listens to me, 138 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:24.480 but I've had those conversations because I believe that, because I believe if you 139 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:28.959 work hard, you should You've earned an opportunity to have a shot. So 140 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:35.000 I'm thrilled when Kevin does FSR the updates. We all root for each other. 141 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:39.879 We do, except there was a period of time I wasn't exactly rooting 142 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:43.559 for you. Now I'm rooting for you again. You know, I'm looking 143 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:46.559 at the timelines, Fred, and I can kind of guess when that was, 144 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:50.720 you know, I a feeling I can guess when that was h and 145 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:54.759 listen that we're here now, Hey, you know what it is, what 146 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:56.120 it is, and it was what it was, Yes it was, Fred, 147 00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:01.360 Yes, it was an upward we go and only a couple of bridge 148 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:05.440 burden on the way. You know, that's all. There's who got hurt? 149 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:11.639 What the hell? Who got hurt and all of that. Certainly there 150 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:22.960 was no shrapeld. Certainly no one got hurting that. Oh man, Well, 151 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:26.000 you know, it feels like some other people got hurt, Fred, 152 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:28.600 It feels like we got some other people that got hurt. You know. 153 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:31.840 Well, you know what, everybody did what they needed to do. Everybody 154 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:33.720 had a good time and that's all that matters. Yeah, well, let's 155 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:37.240 put it like this. Everybody had a time. Yeah. Well, listen, 156 00:09:37.399 --> 00:09:43.360 we're all here. We made it everybody. Yeah, So I want 157 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:46.360 to talk about this off. We're gonna have Jim Harbaugh on here his news 158 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:48.279 conference at one o'clock. Let's let's get to that in a second, Jonas. 159 00:09:48.519 --> 00:09:54.919 But we got word that Anthony Davis and Lebron James are out for the 160 00:09:54.960 --> 00:10:01.200 game tonight in Boston, nationally televised game and obviously an important game for the 161 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:03.799 Lakers as they continue to try to fight their way out of the malaise in 162 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:11.039 which they're in. Anthony Davis has a left hip spasm and Lebron James has 163 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:16.399 got the ankle. That could not be worse news that could not be worse 164 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:20.720 because the way the team was constructed originally, if you lost one of them 165 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:24.840 or even both of them. Given the depth of the roster, you'd be 166 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:28.840 okay because you knew those guys would come to play. But you know you 167 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:35.679 have Christian Wood textingll before games and D'Angelo Russell, would the real D'angela Russell 168 00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:41.360 please stand up? And the guys that you were counting on, counting on 169 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:45.559 for depth with this roster have been a bit inconsistent, granted banged up, 170 00:10:45.679 --> 00:10:48.960 yet inconsistent. And now you find yourself where you're at now. I believe 171 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:54.200 they're going to make the playoffs, play in, get in. They'll be 172 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:58.960 there, They're too good not to. But I start to have concerns now 173 00:10:58.559 --> 00:11:01.799 about how deep they can go because I really thought they could make a deep 174 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:07.440 run this year. Losing a D and Lebron at the same time for a 175 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:13.639 game like this, it's kind of a double whammye and it is also not 176 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:16.360 what they need right now well. And it's also I think last year got 177 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:20.240 everybody's hopes up a little bit because we just assumed we talked about this at 178 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:24.200 the time, and I think we talked about it earlier this year, where 179 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:28.000 you didn't look at last season as a whole, you look at last season 180 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:33.720 post trade deadline as one season because post trade deadline they made the move. 181 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:37.960 They brought in you know, key elements, guys that you know performed and 182 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:41.720 contributed and made a run and were in the Western Conference Finals. And you 183 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:46.320 know, the argument for the Lakers and how close they were was yeah, 184 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:48.120 they got swept, but it was a competitive sweep. You know, they 185 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:52.200 were in those games. They had an opportunity in those games. And so 186 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:54.480 it got everybody's hopes up to where you thought, Okay, finally they found 187 00:11:54.480 --> 00:12:01.200 it. They've found something. It is not at any point this year seemed 188 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:05.519 like it was on like seem like everything was right, and you can talk 189 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:09.440 about the n Season Tournament, gimmick crap all you want, whatever the NBA 190 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:11.519 tried to roll out. They won the n Season Tournament. Who cares. 191 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:15.080 An hour and a half later, Darvinham was on the hot seat, like 192 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:18.240 it doesn't like none of that even mattered. It hasn't felt right all year. 193 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:24.279 People seem frustrated players have underperformed. The guys who performed well last year 194 00:12:24.360 --> 00:12:31.279 in key moments just haven't. And I just wonder if we have absolutely seen 195 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:37.919 the peak of the Lebron James era in Los Angeles because it feels like teams 196 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:43.200 around the league are getting younger and getting deeper, and the Lakers are still 197 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:48.559 relying on two of their oldest players, if not their oldest players to get 198 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:52.159 them to the Promised Land, and their bodies just can't hold up anymore. 199 00:12:52.440 --> 00:12:56.639 And it's just a reality of where you get to it a certain point. 200 00:12:56.120 --> 00:13:00.679 And Anthony Davis, it's the same old story with him, and I just 201 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:05.440 I wonder if we've seen the peak. And that's just that, okay, 202 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:07.600 So I got to push back a little bit, just a little bit on 203 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:13.080 it. I think Anthony Davis has had so far his best year as a 204 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:16.039 Laker. I think he has grown and matured. I think he has accepted 205 00:13:16.120 --> 00:13:20.720 responsibility. I think at times he's put this team on his back. So 206 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:24.039 I think he's having a pretty good year. As for Lebron, I think 207 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:28.240 it is insane that he's playing as well as he is at his age. 208 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:31.480 And here's the thing. Anybody's going to get dinged up. Anybody can get 209 00:13:31.480 --> 00:13:35.240 banged up. I guess from the opening tap on opening night. You're hurt. 210 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:39.960 It's just how much you deal with it. These two have missed fewer 211 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:43.159 games this year than it had in the past. So they're playing well. 212 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:50.279 The issue is everybody else surrounding them. That's where the problem is this year. 213 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:54.759 And I would have agreed with you if the season hadn't progressed with the 214 00:13:54.799 --> 00:14:00.320 two of them playing as well as they had to this point, well as 215 00:14:00.320 --> 00:14:03.080 they had played, I'd say, well, maybe that's it. But they're 216 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:05.879 playing as well as anybody in the league. Jonas, but the two of 217 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:09.480 them. But we're not even at the All Star break, and we've got 218 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:15.759 injury issues now, like we have injuries if we have, if we have, 219 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:20.000 look, Anthony Davis's injuries have been known throughout the course of his career. 220 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:22.960 Every year something pops up Lebron James since he's been to LA, like, 221 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:26.360 injuries have become a factor, Like we can just say it it doesn't 222 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:30.279 you know, and admire how he's played at this level. I agree, 223 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:33.039 Listen, it's why he's one of the top two to three players of all 224 00:14:33.080 --> 00:14:35.080 time, if not number one, depending on who you're arguing with. But 225 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:37.519 if this were the end of the season, I'd be like, hey man, 226 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:41.039 look, it's the end of the year. Everybody's banged up, but 227 00:14:41.039 --> 00:14:45.320 we're not even at the All Star Break, and yet here we are and 228 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:48.720 they're what how many games out of the you know, they're in the play 229 00:14:48.759 --> 00:14:52.240 in spot, but they're they're the nine seeds, so they're like, what 230 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:54.879 ten and a half games. It's like, you look at it and you 231 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:58.320 go, okay, But if this is where we're at and it's just now 232 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:03.639 February, what the hell is this gonna look like in May or June, 233 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:05.559 if they even get to that point, Like, that's my concern. It's 234 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:09.919 not I don't so much have a concern about whether or not those guys can 235 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:13.279 play. I just have a concern whether or not they're gonna be available oft 236 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:18.480 enough to play. Like that's my big issue with it. Okay, And 237 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:22.320 I hear your concern, and I think Kevin looked this up a couple of 238 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:28.440 weeks ago, But this just mat now now the ankle, I don't know, 239 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:31.679 but I mean, and the hip. He's had the hip and it's 240 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:37.639 been nagging and lingering. There's a difference between guys injured and injury problems. 241 00:15:37.159 --> 00:15:43.120 The Lakers have had injury problems, but it hasn't been those two guys. 242 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:48.000 Now they're hurt or now And you're right, we're not to the All Star 243 00:15:48.039 --> 00:15:50.720 break. We'll see how it progresses. We'll see how it plays out. 244 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:54.159 And I guess if while they were both healthy and playing exceptionally well, if 245 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:56.919 the others had performed and they had opened up a large enough lead, you 246 00:15:56.919 --> 00:15:58.799 go, well, all right, well, you know, we'll give a 247 00:15:58.799 --> 00:16:02.799 blow here or there, because you know, we got to save them. 248 00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:07.200 The danger here is this, You're gonna get to no man's land here at 249 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:11.000 the All Star break, and then they're gonna have to play. Yeah, 250 00:16:11.080 --> 00:16:15.360 that's the danger. They're gonna have to play. And I also like how 251 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:18.000 people get hung up on well, you know, Lebron James seems really frustrated 252 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:22.600 with those around him. Why don't you copy and paste that every single year 253 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:26.360 of his career, Like every year of his career, he's frustrated with those 254 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:29.120 ad What do you mean, it's why you got like David Black got fired, 255 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:30.679 and how many coaches have been have been burned through, how many players 256 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:34.240 have gotten traded? Of course, this like that, that isn't the concern 257 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:37.720 for me. It's how this season progresses for both those guys. And to 258 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:41.320 your point, you are going to enter into no man's land and You've got 259 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:45.519 no choice but to play guys, and you're again going to have to rely 260 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:49.840 when everybody thought you were gonna get contributing pieces and contributing parts from last year 261 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:55.120 to still play at the same level. You're gonna have to rely on Lebron 262 00:16:55.200 --> 00:16:57.960 James and his age and Anthony Davis and his injury history to ride them down 263 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:00.960 the stretch. And I just don't know if it's gonna happen. I don't 264 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:06.359 forget one o'clock we will have the Jim Harball News Conference live and you can 265 00:17:06.359 --> 00:17:08.319 watch the Big Game, you know what I'm talking about at the Fountain Blue 266 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:11.039 in Las Vegas, featuring two tickets to the Big Game, party, two 267 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:15.240 nights of Hotel accommodation. So the Fountain Blue Las Vegas food and beverage credit 268 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:18.559 and a five hundred dollars gift card and' out for your chance to win an 269 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:22.920 A and five somebody La sports dot com. All right, Jonas, we'll 270 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:26.920 get your thoughts on Jim Harball when we come back. We'll throw back Thursday, 271 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:32.759 Boston. I like it, Ronnie, Jonas, you rocked out to 272 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:37.519 this. It's been a long time, oh big time. By the way, 273 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:41.799 somebody's asking if you worked with Wolfman Jack on Twitter, Fred or x 274 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:45.759 whatever the hell they're calling it. Did somebody really do that? Yeah, 275 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:48.039 they asked, did you work at Arizona with Wolfman Jack? I don't know 276 00:17:48.119 --> 00:17:51.920 who Wolfman Jack is? Oh my god, you don't know who that was? 277 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:53.400 Seriously? Is that the guy from teen Wolf? No, it's not 278 00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:57.960 from Team that man. Was that styles the guy who, uh, you 279 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:02.000 know, what's his name around on the top of his van? No, 280 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:04.720 yeah, he served on the van. Wolfman Jack did a late night overnight 281 00:18:04.759 --> 00:18:08.880 show for years. He was a top forty jock, and I mean he 282 00:18:10.039 --> 00:18:12.880 was it. And it's so bizarre you would bring this up, because, 283 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:18.000 in fact, when I worked at at wolf Man Jack kind of talk like 284 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:23.799 this and he had this gravelly voice, and I mean he was as big 285 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:27.279 as starring radio as there it was back in the day. So I go 286 00:18:27.359 --> 00:18:33.440 to Yuma and, uh, the program director's name is Lee Pool. Oh 287 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:34.519 waity, I know who this is. I'm sorry, Yes, I know 288 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:37.319 that. I just look at it, right, Yeah, I know. 289 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:40.559 So I go to Yuma, of course, and the program director is Lee 290 00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:44.279 Pool, and he hires me to do this show from ten to three so 291 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:48.480 from like seven to midnight, eight to midnight, Uh, there was a 292 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:55.359 show on. It wasn't Wolfman Jack. It was Rufus Coyote. I swear 293 00:18:55.400 --> 00:19:00.720 to god, Wolfman Jack was the guy. But in Yuma had this show 294 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:03.880 done by Rufus Coyote. So I went into Lee Pool and I said, 295 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:10.240 who is Rufus Coyote? It was Lee Poole. He changed his voice and 296 00:19:10.279 --> 00:19:15.799 tried to create a Wolfman Jack character, so he would become Rufus Coyote. 297 00:19:15.839 --> 00:19:19.200 So what were you, rowdy Roddy Rottweiler. I don't have my machine. 298 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:22.400 Oh it's just gonna I'm just trying to get to the bottom of this. 299 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:26.000 I want to know who's who here. Yeah, so he was Rufus Coyote, 300 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:29.279 which was an impersonation of Wolfman Jack. And that's why when you said 301 00:19:29.279 --> 00:19:32.039 that, I started a laugh, because, yeah, I kind of worked 302 00:19:32.039 --> 00:19:36.799 with a Wolfman Jack Schwartz. Wolfman Jack Schwartz I worked with because he was 303 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:41.759 Rufus Coyote, and he did the exact same thing, and he just changed 304 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:45.000 his voice and then one day he decided he didn't want to do that anymore. 305 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:47.880 He became Lee Poole. He just said, Ay, this is Lee 306 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:51.720 Poole, but yesterday you were Rufus coyote. He goes, you know I've 307 00:19:51.799 --> 00:19:56.319 changed then he just talked like himself. It's a magical radio Fred. You 308 00:19:56.359 --> 00:19:59.880 know, my first radio job, my name was they would there were so 309 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:02.240 somebody else at the station named Jonas, so I had to go. They 310 00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:07.400 called me j like J Dot Knox like, well, we don't want to 311 00:20:07.400 --> 00:20:11.039 confuse the listeners. And I'm looking around, going what listeners like? I 312 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:18.240 see the checks two different timeslots man like, not even not even close to 313 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:19.319 each other. But okay, so yeah, I couldn't even get my real 314 00:20:19.400 --> 00:20:23.599 name the first time. It's like, of course, the only place that'll 315 00:20:23.640 --> 00:20:26.279 hire me they already have a Jonas, so you know that's already occupied. 316 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:30.200 You got to pick up something else. What when you started, did you 317 00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:33.759 work in music radio? No, it was I always wanted to do sports. 318 00:20:34.079 --> 00:20:37.599 Sports are you know, like some sort of you know, like a 319 00:20:37.720 --> 00:20:41.359 rock station if they had like an element of sports slash, you know, 320 00:20:41.480 --> 00:20:45.960 like I always listened to uh, Kevin and Bean when they are out, 321 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:48.079 or I would always listen to you know, obviously I listened to to Matt 322 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:52.519 and and uh and Petros and all that. But yeah, I always wanted 323 00:20:52.559 --> 00:20:55.359 to do sports, but there would be opportunities that would be out there and 324 00:20:55.359 --> 00:20:56.960 I would have played. No would be interested, like you just you needed 325 00:20:56.960 --> 00:21:00.400 reps, you needed And so I had to leave California to go all the 326 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:04.400 way to South Carolina in order to get a real chance. After just interning 327 00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:10.559 and doing whatever I could here, my first ever assignment on the air was 328 00:21:10.880 --> 00:21:15.960 with another station in town with Jeff Biggs, formerly of kla C, one 329 00:21:17.000 --> 00:21:19.720 of the great people in the business, who sent me out to a Clippers 330 00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:26.119 game to do call in reports from the Clippers game. And the first report 331 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:29.920 I did when I called in to give an update on the game live from 332 00:21:30.079 --> 00:21:33.400 then Staples Center, was one of the worst moments in radio of all time. 333 00:21:33.559 --> 00:21:40.599 I was terrible, I mean dreadful, But I realized at that time 334 00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:44.039 out of the business. Well tole me that too, But I also at 335 00:21:44.079 --> 00:21:45.319 that point I was so far down the path and I was stubborn. I 336 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:48.079 was like, I'm not getting out of the business. I knew, all 337 00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:51.759 right, well now I know what it's like to be awful, so just 338 00:21:51.799 --> 00:21:53.559 don't do that again. And so I just did the opposite of that That 339 00:21:53.680 --> 00:21:56.279 was honestly my mindset, and so from there I got a little bit better 340 00:21:56.319 --> 00:22:00.599 each time. So you know, you learn these things, red a few 341 00:22:00.599 --> 00:22:03.039 tricks. All right, let's talk Jim Harball. One o'clock we'll have the 342 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:07.359 news conference. It was the fish that the Chargers had to catch. Yes, 343 00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:11.559 it was the name they needed. They needed it for a couple of 344 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:14.200 reasons. We pointed them out here on the air. First of all, 345 00:22:14.240 --> 00:22:18.279 they needed a big name coach. They need to cement or attempt to submit 346 00:22:18.279 --> 00:22:22.079 a footprint here in Los Angeles. Uh And just by having good teams that 347 00:22:22.119 --> 00:22:26.200 wasn't enough because the good teams kept coming up short. I think they also 348 00:22:26.279 --> 00:22:30.480 had to do it because there was a question, and I can't answer this, 349 00:22:30.920 --> 00:22:33.359 there was a question of their cash flow. Can they afford it. 350 00:22:33.880 --> 00:22:38.119 Well, they went out and spent the money, so they can obviously somehow, 351 00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:42.960 some way afford it. I think it is a game changing hire for 352 00:22:44.039 --> 00:22:45.559 them. We've got to find out how the team plays. We've got to 353 00:22:45.559 --> 00:22:51.680 see if it works. But Jonas, it was a game changer. And 354 00:22:51.720 --> 00:22:55.240 I know you have thoughts on Jim Harball. Look, I love Jim Harbaugh. 355 00:22:55.279 --> 00:22:57.480 I've always been some people call me the Harball washer. You know, 356 00:22:57.559 --> 00:23:02.039 that's that's been a name that's been thrown around over my years. I always 357 00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:04.519 defended Jim Harbaugh not exactly a moniker. You want. Well, you know 358 00:23:04.599 --> 00:23:07.200 what, though, now that he's won a national title, I'll take it, 359 00:23:07.240 --> 00:23:10.839 fred and I will wear that with like a badge of honor. But 360 00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:15.720 well, becks Captain t Bag. Well, somebody's got to do it right. 361 00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:18.920 Okay, you know it's just you know, it can't always be uh 362 00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:22.400 you know, well, in never mind, I'll leave that for another time. 363 00:23:22.440 --> 00:23:26.920 But the point is a big fan of Jim Harbaugh always like because you 364 00:23:26.960 --> 00:23:30.440 look at his track record, I could understand it's worked in one place, 365 00:23:32.480 --> 00:23:36.559 but it's worked everywhere, and it's worked at every level. So whether he 366 00:23:36.640 --> 00:23:40.440 took over at University of San Diego, it worked, he took over Stanford, 367 00:23:40.559 --> 00:23:42.000 it worked. He went to the Niners, it worked. And these 368 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:47.599 were all situations that weren't good situations. I mean when he took over for 369 00:23:47.640 --> 00:23:48.960 the Niners and never one points to, well, well, how did it 370 00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:52.200 finish out with San Francisco? Okay, well, he had a falling out 371 00:23:52.200 --> 00:23:55.839 with the front office, Like that's why he was no longer there, like, 372 00:23:55.880 --> 00:23:59.720 it's why her he burns so hot that he stays places that was always 373 00:23:59.839 --> 00:24:03.039 not him for a short amount of time. But when he got to San 374 00:24:03.079 --> 00:24:06.359 Francisco, man, they were talking about Alex Smith as if he was a 375 00:24:06.400 --> 00:24:10.480 bust, first rent, number one overall pick. They made a mistake. 376 00:24:11.160 --> 00:24:15.960 It's not working. Harbaugh got there. They were in an NFC title game 377 00:24:15.160 --> 00:24:19.599 in overtime against the Giants, team that went on to beat the Patriots in 378 00:24:19.640 --> 00:24:25.240 the Super Bowl that year with Alex Smith the so and so bust that nobody 379 00:24:25.279 --> 00:24:29.119 could get to work as the number one pick. Colin Kaepernick took over the 380 00:24:29.119 --> 00:24:30.680 next year, they ended up getting to a Super Bowl. Like he put 381 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:37.079 together a really good team and they played really really good football there. He 382 00:24:37.200 --> 00:24:40.920 leaves, he goes to Michigan, they were a disaster. Takes them over. 383 00:24:41.240 --> 00:24:42.240 It took a little bit of time to get over the hump in the 384 00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:45.720 Big Ten against Ohio Stable. Once he got there, they were off and 385 00:24:45.799 --> 00:24:49.640 running and never looked back. It's like, so it'd be one thing if 386 00:24:49.640 --> 00:24:52.599 like we saw it in one spot. People are optimistic. It's like, 387 00:24:52.640 --> 00:24:56.480 okay, well can he do We've seen him do it in a bunch of 388 00:24:56.519 --> 00:24:59.920 different spots. So from that standpoint, love the higher, Love Jim Harbor, 389 00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:03.200 and listen as somebody who grew up a Chicago Bears fan, he was 390 00:25:03.240 --> 00:25:06.000 like one of the first quarterbacks I remember for the Bears, like he was 391 00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:10.079 one of the first ones. Here's where I'm a little bit skeptical, where 392 00:25:10.680 --> 00:25:15.400 I don't know anybody who doesn't think this is a great hire. And normally 393 00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:21.880 when everybody's on one side, that's generally when things go south. I have 394 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:26.680 not met one person or heard one person say this is a bad move for 395 00:25:26.759 --> 00:25:30.319 the Chargers. I don't like the move. Everybody looks at this and says 396 00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:36.039 the fit justin Herbert. They had to spend the money. He brings in 397 00:25:36.079 --> 00:25:38.319 a big name, you know, all the all the fun stuff that comes 398 00:25:38.319 --> 00:25:42.079 along with it, the chaos, but he successed. Like I haven't heard 399 00:25:42.720 --> 00:25:48.880 one argument against why this isn't a great move. He was the biggest name 400 00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:52.440 on the open market. He would would have been the biggest name probably next 401 00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:55.519 year on the open market. And the fact that the Chargers got him, 402 00:25:55.519 --> 00:25:57.720 when everybody assumed, to your point, they're going to be cheap, They're 403 00:25:57.720 --> 00:26:00.960 going to butcher this like they I don't really do. They paid the money 404 00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:04.319 and here he is, and I'm just a little concerned that when we're all 405 00:26:04.359 --> 00:26:08.000 over on this side, things end up going south the other way. Well, 406 00:26:08.039 --> 00:26:11.359 normally, when everybody is over on one side, it's because the team 407 00:26:11.400 --> 00:26:15.920 has played the name game. Oh boy, we know that guy. Let's 408 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:18.920 go get him. He's the guy. Everybody knows him, everybody wants him. 409 00:26:19.079 --> 00:26:22.839 Oftentimes, the guy that everybody knows is not what he is meant to 410 00:26:22.839 --> 00:26:27.119 be and does not perform at the level in what you hoped he would. 411 00:26:27.559 --> 00:26:33.319 But I think in this case, because it was the name, and I'm 412 00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:37.839 absolutely against the name game, but because he was the name, the biggest 413 00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:45.200 name, and a guy with incredible success wherever he has been, I think 414 00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:48.440 it was the right thing to do. You had to do it, like 415 00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:52.000 you at this look, you're committed to Justin Herbert. Financially, he's the 416 00:26:52.039 --> 00:26:57.599 guy we know that. You had to do something to try and instill some 417 00:26:57.640 --> 00:27:03.680 sort of hope and optimism him in this town as the quote unquote little brother, 418 00:27:04.039 --> 00:27:07.519 you know, like listen, It's why when the Clippers went out and 419 00:27:07.519 --> 00:27:10.880 got Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, it was such a massive deal because the 420 00:27:10.960 --> 00:27:14.960 Lakers had always been the biggest thing in town, and you looked at it 421 00:27:14.960 --> 00:27:18.640 and said, well, maybe we can't get to that level of popularity, 422 00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:22.839 but if we can get to that level of play on the court, that's 423 00:27:22.880 --> 00:27:26.240 gonna go a long way at least. And it's like with the Chargers, 424 00:27:26.279 --> 00:27:30.200 like, look, we may never get to the level of where the Rams 425 00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:33.119 are at in this town, but if we can just get to the court, 426 00:27:33.480 --> 00:27:36.759 like you know, he's gonna win games. I just you know, 427 00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:41.400 we've seen it a lot to where everybody's on one side and then it ends 428 00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:45.160 up flipping on. I'm gonna be rooting for it. I hope it works. 429 00:27:45.240 --> 00:27:48.279 I love Harbaugh, as I laid out, as I mentioned, big 430 00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:52.839 fan of Jim Harbaugh, and I'm just hoping that the injury issues they've had 431 00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:56.359 and all the other quote unquote bad luck that has come along with the Chargers 432 00:27:56.400 --> 00:28:00.599 over the past several years. And you know, never mind the fact that 433 00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:03.240 you've got to deal with a dynasty in your own division, which is never 434 00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:07.680 never an easy task in dealing with the Kansas City Chiefs. But if there 435 00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:11.000 was somebody that could get a team over the hump and it is the biggest 436 00:28:11.079 --> 00:28:14.240 name on the open market, and it just so happens to be Jim Harbaugh. 437 00:28:14.440 --> 00:28:15.759 All right, So if you could pick a coach, I'll give you 438 00:28:15.799 --> 00:28:22.680 two choices. Would you pick Jim or John Harbaugh? Jim and look, 439 00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:30.200 John Harbaugh super Bowl champion. But I've just seen it in more places than 440 00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:34.920 I have with John Harbaugh. And it's why some people will make the argument, 441 00:28:36.599 --> 00:28:41.720 is it more impressive what Belichick did in New England or more impressive what 442 00:28:41.799 --> 00:28:47.480 a guy like Andy Reid or Bill Parcells has done where they've won in multiple 443 00:28:47.519 --> 00:28:52.359 places, where both guys have taken Super Bowls teams, different teams to Super 444 00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:56.759 Bowls and won super Bowls before, Or is it more impressive to just do 445 00:28:56.839 --> 00:29:00.680 it in one spot. Like all of it works, all of it is 446 00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:06.119 great, But which do you side on? More? Which is more impressive? 447 00:29:06.400 --> 00:29:08.440 And I just think it's a little more impressive what Jim Harbu has done 448 00:29:08.440 --> 00:29:11.480 at this point. Yeah, I agree with that. I think it's much 449 00:29:11.480 --> 00:29:15.880 harder to take multiple teams to a title than to be in one place. 450 00:29:15.920 --> 00:29:19.279 And remember when Belichick was in one place, he went to the titles with 451 00:29:19.319 --> 00:29:25.240 one quarterback. Yeah, he won with Tom Brady, So I think that 452 00:29:25.359 --> 00:29:27.240 was the key for Belichick. Sure he could coach, but that was the 453 00:29:27.319 --> 00:29:30.599 key. And it's interesting because now you know all the jobs are full. 454 00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:36.519 Dan Quinn got the last one in Washington. You look at the coaches that 455 00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:42.720 did not hook up somewhere. Belichick, Pete Carroll didn't get jobs. Rabel, 456 00:29:44.680 --> 00:29:47.359 Mike Rabel's another big name, but I think he can coach, and 457 00:29:47.400 --> 00:29:49.960 he's younger than the two of them. You saying agism is playing a role 458 00:29:49.960 --> 00:29:52.240 in this thread? Is that what you're getting at here? You know what's 459 00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:56.599 funny? And people suggest that, well, agism, I don't really buy 460 00:29:56.640 --> 00:30:00.880 that now, maybe because I started when when I was twenty three, and 461 00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:02.799 I'm the age I am now. I think, well, now I can 462 00:30:02.839 --> 00:30:06.400 still do the same thing. I really can't, but I think differently than 463 00:30:06.440 --> 00:30:10.279 I did then. I've learned more than I did then. I still have 464 00:30:10.319 --> 00:30:15.519 the same energy as I did then, So I don't think that being a 465 00:30:15.559 --> 00:30:19.720 certain age look to be fair. It comes down to this as a listener, 466 00:30:19.880 --> 00:30:22.920 and no matter what you do or where you're at in your life, 467 00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:29.359 you know there's a day, and my day is probably closer than yours. 468 00:30:29.400 --> 00:30:33.119 Jonas, because I'm a little older. We hit the wall. We just 469 00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:37.119 hit it. We've run as fast as we can for as long as we 470 00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:41.200 can. We've given it everything we have, and you hit the wall. 471 00:30:42.400 --> 00:30:47.880 Now, that doesn't mean you hit the wall. If you're sixty two or 472 00:30:47.960 --> 00:30:52.599 seventy four, that doesn't mean it. But you hit it because that's just 473 00:30:52.640 --> 00:30:57.359 how life works. You just can't you don't have the energy. It happens 474 00:30:57.400 --> 00:31:03.359 to people and shit that because everybody gets older. So I don't think it's 475 00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:06.759 a question of agism because I don't think it matters how old you are. 476 00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:10.079 I mean, if you evolve and grow, you can communicate with anybody. 477 00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:14.519 Right, you can be seventy two but still be able to communicate with young 478 00:31:14.559 --> 00:31:15.680 players. So I just find it interesting where they go, well, he 479 00:31:15.720 --> 00:31:19.519 just doesn't understand how to do that. That has passed him by. No, 480 00:31:21.160 --> 00:31:25.119 what that says is he's not evolved. He's not evolved. He hasn't 481 00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:29.319 got to a point where he understands he must change because life changes, and 482 00:31:29.400 --> 00:31:33.160 to succeed you always must have evolve. And when you don't evolve, you've 483 00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:37.599 hit the wall. I don't know whus Pete Carroll hit the wall. Has 484 00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:41.920 Bill Belichick hit the wall. I say Belichick is closer to hitting the wall, 485 00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:47.880 and Pete Carroll was geez fred because he seems inflexible, where Pete Carroll 486 00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:53.319 may be very strong in his ways and convictions, but seems a bit more 487 00:31:53.400 --> 00:31:57.319 flexible. I wonder how Pete Carroll feels about the fact that Seattle went from 488 00:31:57.319 --> 00:32:01.079 having the oldest coach in the league to the youngest in like a month. 489 00:32:01.559 --> 00:32:06.599 Like like, imagine dating somebody for a long time and they say, you 490 00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:08.519 know, it just isn't working out anymore, and you go, okay, 491 00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:12.559 I got it, and then they end up, like an hour and a 492 00:32:12.599 --> 00:32:17.000 half later, was somebody half your age, literally half your age. You 493 00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:20.680 would look around and go, oh, so that's what the problem was. 494 00:32:21.279 --> 00:32:23.000 I was just maybe I was just too old. I wonder if Pete Carroll 495 00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:27.160 looks around and goes, so, wait a second, I'm seventy two. 496 00:32:27.200 --> 00:32:30.680 You hired somebody who was thirty six. This guy's younger than McVeigh, and 497 00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:35.200 I've just got to be like, all right, there was nothing to it. 498 00:32:35.240 --> 00:32:37.799 I just wonder how that lands with a guy like Pete Carroll, who's 499 00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:42.200 uber competitive, who by the way, Pete Carroll was interested in the Chargers 500 00:32:42.319 --> 00:32:45.200 job, as was everybody else, and the reports out there would say that 501 00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:52.440 Ben Johnson. Mark Schlareth reported on this from Fox that Ben Johnson would have 502 00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:55.799 taken the Chargers job. That's why he turned down the job in Washington that 503 00:32:55.880 --> 00:33:00.839 Dan Quinn just got because the only one that he really wanted was the Charger 504 00:33:00.839 --> 00:33:02.839 gig, which goes to show you the opinion of what a lot of people 505 00:33:02.920 --> 00:33:07.160 have on Justin Herbert just throwing that out there, Fred, Well, that's 506 00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:15.599 fair. But Ben Johnson, Jim Harball was hired, was hired, So 507 00:33:16.759 --> 00:33:21.880 that's not why he turned down the Charger job. He was already hired. 508 00:33:22.039 --> 00:33:24.319 I mean that. I mean that was Mark schlairth is reporting it. Look, 509 00:33:24.359 --> 00:33:28.200 if you want to attack Stink like that, then you go right ahead, 510 00:33:28.200 --> 00:33:30.240 Fred, I'm not Look the Desert Dean and Stink can go at it 511 00:33:30.279 --> 00:33:34.000 and have a Donny Brook all they want. I'm just letting you know that's 512 00:33:34.039 --> 00:33:37.359 what the report said. Well, all I'm saying is this that, uh, 513 00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:43.480 I you know, agism, because we give everything labels, isn't it 514 00:33:43.480 --> 00:33:45.559 isn't right. It's got an ism to it now right, it's age ism. 515 00:33:45.599 --> 00:33:50.039 You're too old. I don't know if you're ever too old and if 516 00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:53.759 people think you are that honestly, to me, that just is a function 517 00:33:53.839 --> 00:33:59.119 of not evolving. And you know Pete Carroll's of all for a long time, 518 00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:02.920 Carol was the hot ticket. Pete Carroll could communicate with his players almost 519 00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:08.480 better than anyone in the day, and his players still liked them. But 520 00:34:08.559 --> 00:34:14.519 maybe he did not evolve enough. Now do I think that at this point 521 00:34:14.960 --> 00:34:19.519 would a team hire a seventy two year old coach? I don't know, 522 00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:21.679 you know who. I think it hurts him now. By the way, 523 00:34:21.719 --> 00:34:23.840 you know who just got hired. This is this is going to be a 524 00:34:23.840 --> 00:34:28.480 blast from the past. He just got hired as a defensive coordinator. I 525 00:34:28.559 --> 00:34:31.519 think it's division It's at a Division two school. We can look this up. 526 00:34:31.559 --> 00:34:37.159 I forget which one it was. Jerry Glanville. Seriously, Jerry Glanville 527 00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:43.239 just got hired as a decordinator. Who doesn't love Jerry Glanville like he had. 528 00:34:43.400 --> 00:34:45.360 I forget what the detail was. But he had an obsession with Elvis 529 00:34:46.199 --> 00:34:50.679 to where he would always wear black and I think he would leave two tickets 530 00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:52.880 at will call for Elvis. I think you're right at every game Like that 531 00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:58.159 was a real story to where he would leave tickets at will call for Elvis 532 00:34:58.199 --> 00:35:00.000 every game. So if you walked up to a foul like imagine you walk 533 00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:02.880 up to Dodger Stadium, you go up to will call, and you just 534 00:35:02.920 --> 00:35:06.679 say, yeah, I'm here to pick up two tickets for Elvis. If 535 00:35:06.800 --> 00:35:10.039 Jerry Glanville was in Dave Roberts position, two tickets would be there for you 536 00:35:10.079 --> 00:35:15.400 every single Dodger game you go to. How old is Jerry Glanville now? 537 00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:17.239 And he's got to be in his eighties. Jerry Glanville is eighty two years 538 00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:22.280 old and was just hired as the defensive coordinator at Northwestern Oklahoma State, a 539 00:35:22.360 --> 00:35:28.239 real powerhouse too. Yeah, but you know something, if he truly loves 540 00:35:28.280 --> 00:35:32.440 doing it, yes, let him do it. I agree, that's great. 541 00:35:34.119 --> 00:35:38.840 So yeah, Jerry Glanville is back and Elvis is alive. Yes, 542 00:35:39.559 --> 00:35:44.760 Okay, we're gonna have Jim Harbaugh's news conference at one o'clock. Jerry Glanville 543 00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:46.679 has to take an apple. We'd have his as well. Two years old? 544 00:35:46.760 --> 00:35:51.480 What do you expect from him? I love Jerry Glenn. My best 545 00:35:51.519 --> 00:35:55.159 Jerry Glanville story. Falcons are getting blown out there and he calls it. 546 00:35:55.360 --> 00:36:00.840 They're getting bet like forty one to nothing, and he calls a timeout with 547 00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:04.840 two seconds left and sends out the field goal unit so they don't get shut 548 00:36:04.880 --> 00:36:12.760 out. All right, when we come back, let's talk to some Dodger 549 00:36:12.800 --> 00:36:17.880 pitt we'll throw back Thursday action. Let's Stay Together by Al Green. Song 550 00:36:17.920 --> 00:36:21.840 appeared on the seventy two album of the same name, maintained a number one 551 00:36:21.920 --> 00:36:24.079 spot of the Billboard Hot one hundred charts for three weeks. In February of 552 00:36:24.119 --> 00:36:29.199 that year, ranked sixtieth n Rolling Stones' list of the five hundred Greatest Songs 553 00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:31.719 of All Time, selected by the Library of Congress as an addition to the 554 00:36:31.760 --> 00:36:37.320 National Recording Registry, which selects recordings annually that are culturally, historically, or 555 00:36:37.480 --> 00:36:45.639 esthetically significant. Again today throwback Thursday edition of Afternoon Delight Let's Stay Together by 556 00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:52.159 the Reverend Al Green. Is he any relation to ac Green? I thought 557 00:36:52.159 --> 00:36:54.559 it was his father? Okay, what grandfather? What abo Sean Green? 558 00:36:55.679 --> 00:37:01.480 Uncle? Okay? Matter of fact? Read that Al Green, the singer 559 00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:07.480 is the uncle of former Dodger Sean Green. See all ties in together? 560 00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:13.960 Sure does yep? An Afternoon Delight? Yeah, Jim Harball. I wish 561 00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:16.719 don right at the top of the hour, Kevin, we are okay, 562 00:37:17.280 --> 00:37:20.719 so we'll make us the short segments so we can get back and break for 563 00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:23.559 the top of the hour. I'll do a little Dodger pitching. So well. 564 00:37:23.599 --> 00:37:28.320 I mentioned the other day Jim Paxton originally signed an eleven million dollar deal, 565 00:37:29.039 --> 00:37:30.599 and uh, he was going to be that veteran arm the left hander 566 00:37:30.639 --> 00:37:34.760 they bring in, by the way, I was gonna correct you, and 567 00:37:34.760 --> 00:37:37.440 then I realize you're right. It's James Paxton, so you can call him 568 00:37:37.480 --> 00:37:43.840 Jim. Okay, yeah, James, you know, I'm his friend. 569 00:37:43.840 --> 00:37:45.599 I call him Jim. No, I'm just saying because I think some people 570 00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:50.960 might confuse that with the former Chicago Bull Jim Paxson, you know, and 571 00:37:51.039 --> 00:37:54.960 again that is his brother. Yeah, it's a family of fair Fred. 572 00:37:55.199 --> 00:38:00.079 Yeah. Everything ties together, of course. So they realized that there were 573 00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:04.440 some physical issues, and his deal went from eleven to seven million dollars and 574 00:38:04.519 --> 00:38:07.079 still hell, his targets and his incentives. I think you can make up 575 00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:10.960 to thirteen, but the guaranteed portion of that is now seven. All right, 576 00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:14.719 Well, you know he's still there and he's gonna hit seven million bucks 577 00:38:14.760 --> 00:38:16.800 and that's not that's not nothing. But all of a sudden, you sign 578 00:38:16.880 --> 00:38:21.920 a guy do you think is going to perform for you? And now you've 579 00:38:21.960 --> 00:38:24.440 reduced the amount of his contract and his agent of Scott Bores and he was 580 00:38:24.480 --> 00:38:29.840 good with that. I don't know what that says about, you know, 581 00:38:29.880 --> 00:38:34.039 how dependable he's gonna be Jonas? Yeah, why did this just come up 582 00:38:34.079 --> 00:38:37.840 now? Like maybe he had a second physical or something. Yeah, that's 583 00:38:37.880 --> 00:38:42.039 that's what I'm curious about, Like when when was this not seen early on? 584 00:38:42.119 --> 00:38:44.880 And then you're taking a few million off the top, right, you're 585 00:38:44.960 --> 00:38:46.079 right out of the gates, like, okay, well we'll still make this 586 00:38:46.159 --> 00:38:50.079 work, but only for this amount, which is you know, I mean 587 00:38:50.119 --> 00:38:52.679 it's nothing to scoff at. I mean, it's nothing in comparison to what 588 00:38:52.719 --> 00:38:55.199 they've paid this offseason. But yeah, I just I wonder at what point 589 00:38:55.280 --> 00:38:59.639 during the process they finally realized, oh, yeah, we got a problem 590 00:38:59.719 --> 00:39:02.360 here and this needs to be adjusted and addressed right away. Well, it's 591 00:39:02.400 --> 00:39:06.280 important at this point in time, given the offseason, the Dodgers had to 592 00:39:06.280 --> 00:39:08.199 pick them apart, because that's what people need to do. They made all 593 00:39:08.199 --> 00:39:13.519 of these moves they've strengthened the club dramatically. They signed Otani, they got 594 00:39:13.559 --> 00:39:15.840 Yamamoto. But then that leads to, all right, well, now you 595 00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:20.440 see they still have these holes to plug. You know, they did more 596 00:39:20.480 --> 00:39:22.760 than anybody, more than anybody imaginaball and you don't know, all right, 597 00:39:22.800 --> 00:39:28.199 well that was good. But if there is a butt, and it has 598 00:39:28.239 --> 00:39:30.400 been the butt from the beginning, it's starting pitching. Yes, do you 599 00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:37.960 have enough starting pitching? I think they do. Personally, I think they 600 00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:39.559 do. Yeah. Look, and this is all going to come down to 601 00:39:39.960 --> 00:39:45.719 the same as it's the same as last year. But the problem nobody was 602 00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:51.880 surprised by whatever struggles they had or were going to have on the mound in 603 00:39:51.960 --> 00:39:55.079 the postseason, like they were surprised by the bats in the postseason, most 604 00:39:55.119 --> 00:40:00.920 notably Freddy Freeman and Mookie Bets. That was the real surprise. And yeah, 605 00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:04.760 we're trying to find a flaw with this team because at a certain point 606 00:40:04.760 --> 00:40:07.599 it's going to be kind of a redundant radio show where it's like, Hey, 607 00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:10.960 the Dodgers beat so and so fifteen to four last night, you know, 608 00:40:12.320 --> 00:40:15.679 show, Hey Otani did this. This is always going to be the 609 00:40:15.760 --> 00:40:19.039 question mark and You've got to see how it plays out. I'm sure they'll 610 00:40:19.039 --> 00:40:21.960 make a move or two at the deadline. But yeah, I look at 611 00:40:21.960 --> 00:40:24.519 it and I go, it's not like they're rolling out, you know, 612 00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:29.840 a bunch of dead bodies, you know, five games in a row saying 613 00:40:29.840 --> 00:40:31.760 hey go give a six inning strong please? Who can get to the bullpen? 614 00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:35.320 I mean, yeah, they've got guys. There's some question marks, 615 00:40:35.519 --> 00:40:37.239 but that's going to be the fun part about this season. You're going to 616 00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:43.559 get to learn how great this team is. The questions at the plate aren't 617 00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:45.760 going to be the problem. It's going to be all the questions on the 618 00:40:45.800 --> 00:40:49.760 mound. And this is just another one. It's just interesting that this wasn't 619 00:40:49.760 --> 00:40:52.639 seen initially and this so now we get a monitor this as we as we 620 00:40:52.719 --> 00:40:55.880 go through the entire season. Yeah, and the season starts sooner than you 621 00:40:55.920 --> 00:41:00.039 think. Okay, let's take a break right now because we do have to 622 00:41:00.039 --> 00:41:05.960 get back for the top of the Jim Harball news conference one o'clock, Chargers 623 00:41:05.960 --> 00:41:08.719 introduced. Harrball will be taking copious notes. Look forward to some of the 624 00:41:08.760 --> 00:41:12.760 things he has to say. Let's keep track of it.