But here we go three hours. Today, Jonas knocks in for Rodney on AM five seventy LA Sports. How's the show going, Jonas? Which one Fred? The only one I talk about? Okay, you mean two pros and a cup of Joe? Yeah? What other one is there? Well, there's you know, I have a little show on Saturdays as well too. Can I tell you what? What's that? First? You're the hardest working man I know because you do the show Saturday, and it's funny. I was, And I may have told you this story in the past.
It was last year driving around and I turn on and I'm hearing somebody. I go, man, I think I know him. God, he's good. And I listened and then at the very end I realized it was you. I well, I find that hard to believe, just the the good part. But yeah, it looks. And also I've talked about this with Kevin before. You know, this isn't really work like when you've had like real jobs and real work that majority of people have. When you get an
opportunity to do this, I'll never complain about another opportunity ever. If it means sleep, if it means sacrifice in this or whatever, I don't really look at it as a sacrifice. It just this is what we do and we have a good time with it. It's it's why you've been doing it for as long as you've been doing it, Like you love what you do. It's fun when you enjoy doing what. You enjoy work, you enjoy
coming in. You want to come in as much as possible. So that's the way I look at it. Yeah, you know, for me, it's funny you bring that up first. If you listen to the radio show, you know that I started in radio. I'm a radio guy at heart. Yeah. I was a radio guy that got into TV at the Beast, right, No, Jonas, I didn't start radio with the Beast. I started radio when I was nineteen years old in Globe, Arizona. I was the top forty disc jockey and I did the play by play of the
local high school teams. So I started. I started in radio. When I got to Yuma, I was rock and roll rogue in every Day ten to three, another Biscuit from the Ever Loving up in the Hits, and I also got to do the play by play of the Kopa Kings, the high school football team. That's all I really wanted, but to be able to do that, you also had to do an air shift. So I had a TV station in Yuma, and I walked up and I said, uh, you know, I'm here every day ten to three doing the show
is rock and Roll Rogan. But I really like to be on TV and I'd really like to try out to be the TV sports guy. Understand I had no training on anything. None. I was not trained. I had six months of junior college. And the guy looked at me and he goes, uh, what are you nuts? This is youm Arizona. We don't let people try out here. And for a moment, I wish your grin. Then he looked at me and goes, if you want to be on your on, that's all I got on TV. If you want to be
on your on, that's all I got on television. I got paid five dollars a day, and that's what happened. Yeah, that's so I kept moving. Look, it's just you don't nobody gets into this because they're like, man, I really want to get rich. You know, that's just not like you don't you just you get it because you love it. And then well, I mean, I'm sure some people do. Some people look at that and go listen, it's worked out, but like you don't.
You're not so like you're really making anything when you start. You got to start the bottom. But through the journey, it's it's so much fun to learn, and you learn in a small market. And what was amazing to me is that you, like I always say this when you're in school, You'll be studying something in school and you're like, man, when am I ever going to use this? Like as I get older? Am I really gonna need to know how to do this math equation or this or learn this
subject from history? Am I ever going to use this in my life? And I remember early on in radio having to do everything because at those small stites, you've got to you got to do commercials, you've got to know how to do production, editing, run the board, all of these things. And I remember like, in the process of doing it, going, man, am I really ever gonna need to know how to do this? When I And the more that you can do, the more people are likely
to hire you because you can fill more positions. And that's just the way I always looked at it, is that you know there may be just a part time opening here. But it's better to have one foot in than two feet out. It's always been my philosophy. No, you're absolutely right.
I mean, you are absolutely right. And also, the more jobs you'll learn and the more things you understand, that means at a point in time where you may be supervising people or making decisions that impact others, you can't be fooled, right because you would never ask anyone to do anything you haven't done yet. You would never ask anyone to try anything that you didn't try, and you would know the result. So I mean all of that is
valuable, and actually it's valuable in any walk of life. This thing I'm doing in the desert, you know, I don't have a burning, undying desire to still do television. I really don't. I've done it and it was great and I had the best time, and I'm the luckiest guy in the world. The billboard is sweet, by the way, but that wasn't a real billboard that was created by sort of a news paper out here that does everything with these caricatures. So when I came here, it wasn't about
I had to be on. It really wasn't. Because I'm blessed I'm the luckiest guy you'll ever meet. And at my core, I'm a radio guy. And this is what I wanted to do when I left Channel four, but what they allowed me to do here Jonas and you you did Going Rogan and also had a stint on The Aborted Challenge, but you did, but you know you did Going Rogan, and those were all shows that I created, that that I produced, And my deal in television was always I want
to produce things. I want to create things, and you know that about me, and out here I'm given that opportunity. So I've created a news product that kind of looks like Going Rogan for news, and I'm having a ball doing it. We're trying things, we're experimenting. We have funny elements in some work, some don't. It's also you get to a certain point where what you are is what you are. And I got to a certain point where I was like, you know what, I don't think I'm ever
going to retire. I like, I can't imagine myself just being like you don't think I'm gonna go play around the golf today. I just I don't have I just don't have that. I've got to be I'm like you, I got to be doing something. Then I got to be productive. I got to be creative. If I'm not, I feel like I'm wasting away that part of what I love about this and just life. And you know,
I realize. I mean, it could be calling minor league games somewhere in the middle of nowhere when i'm you know, whatever age I'm at. But I've got to be doing something in the business. So it doesn't surprise me. Even though maybe you don't have a burning desire to do it, it's what you do. Fred, that's why you're the dean. Well you know what, Well, thank you, But the thing is just fun and that's what people, you know don't understand. And you pointed it out,
I thought, in a very articulate manner. When you do this every day, it's fun. Every day you look forward to doing this. And we're not all that fortunate with our jobs. We try to make the most out of them and get the most joy we can out of them. But I mean, Jonas is blessed. I'm fortunate, Rodney, anybody that does this for a living, Petrose, Matt, we're really lucky. And I think we all appreciate that because we get to do something and basically play every day.
Is it work, Sure it is. Do we invest time and effort into trying to do the best show we can, Absolutely, But at the end of the day, it's just it's fun. It's fun to do it, and we're blessed and fortunate they have that opportunity. And it's fun when you get to when you hear people that you know, Like I texted Kevin. I was driving around on New Year's Day, I think it was, and I heard Kevin doing a show on the radio, and I'm like,
oh, this is awesome. You know, like there's like there's too too many people get caught up in the in the negative competitiveness of a lot of things that either social media or the media in general have to offer. Like I get excited when I hear people get an opportunity to do something, because I know how excited I was when I first got an opportunity or I got an opportunity to do something, and so I put myself in their shoes, going that's awesome, good for them, And so you know, we just
rally around each other. Fred And that's the other thing too. You support group here, you really do root for everybody. Yeah, really root for everybody in the business. You want everybody to enjoy themselves and have success. I'll raise the curtain a little bit. I have brought up I think we should have Kevin on the air here, and I think we should have him
one more. I've had those conversations with Yeah, nobody listens to me, but I've had those conversations because I believe that, because I believe if you work hard, you should You've earned an opportunity to have a shot. So I'm thrilled when Kevin does FSR the updates. We all root for each other. We do, except there was a period of time I wasn't exactly rooting
for you. Now I'm rooting for you again. You know, I'm looking at the timelines, Fred, and I can kind of guess when that was, you know, I a feeling I can guess when that was h and listen that we're here now, Hey, you know what it is, what it is, and it was what it was, Yes it was, Fred, Yes, it was an upward we go and only a couple of bridge burden on the way. You know, that's all. There's who got hurt? What the hell? Who got hurt and all of that. Certainly there
was no shrapeld. Certainly no one got hurting that. Oh man, Well, you know, it feels like some other people got hurt, Fred, It feels like we got some other people that got hurt. You know. Well, you know what, everybody did what they needed to do. Everybody had a good time and that's all that matters. Yeah, well, let's put it like this. Everybody had a time. Yeah. Well, listen, we're all here. We made it everybody. Yeah, So I want
to talk about this off. We're gonna have Jim Harbaugh on here his news conference at one o'clock. Let's let's get to that in a second, Jonas. But we got word that Anthony Davis and Lebron James are out for the game tonight in Boston, nationally televised game and obviously an important game for the Lakers as they continue to try to fight their way out of the malaise in which they're in. Anthony Davis has a left hip spasm and Lebron James has
got the ankle. That could not be worse news that could not be worse because the way the team was constructed originally, if you lost one of them or even both of them. Given the depth of the roster, you'd be okay because you knew those guys would come to play. But you know you have Christian Wood textingll before games and D'Angelo Russell, would the real D'angela Russell
please stand up? And the guys that you were counting on, counting on for depth with this roster have been a bit inconsistent, granted banged up, yet inconsistent. And now you find yourself where you're at now. I believe they're going to make the playoffs, play in, get in. They'll be there, They're too good not to. But I start to have concerns now about how deep they can go because I really thought they could make a deep
run this year. Losing a D and Lebron at the same time for a game like this, it's kind of a double whammye and it is also not what they need right now well. And it's also I think last year got everybody's hopes up a little bit because we just assumed we talked about this at the time, and I think we talked about it earlier this year, where you didn't look at last season as a whole, you look at last season post trade deadline as one season because post trade deadline they made the move.
They brought in you know, key elements, guys that you know performed and contributed and made a run and were in the Western Conference Finals. And you know, the argument for the Lakers and how close they were was yeah, they got swept, but it was a competitive sweep. You know, they were in those games. They had an opportunity in those games. And so it got everybody's hopes up to where you thought, Okay, finally they found
it. They've found something. It is not at any point this year seemed like it was on like seem like everything was right, and you can talk about the n Season Tournament, gimmick crap all you want, whatever the NBA tried to roll out. They won the n Season Tournament. Who cares. An hour and a half later, Darvinham was on the hot seat, like it doesn't like none of that even mattered. It hasn't felt right all year.
People seem frustrated players have underperformed. The guys who performed well last year in key moments just haven't. And I just wonder if we have absolutely seen the peak of the Lebron James era in Los Angeles because it feels like teams around the league are getting younger and getting deeper, and the Lakers are still relying on two of their oldest players, if not their oldest players to get them to the Promised Land, and their bodies just can't hold up anymore.
And it's just a reality of where you get to it a certain point. And Anthony Davis, it's the same old story with him, and I just I wonder if we've seen the peak. And that's just that, okay, So I got to push back a little bit, just a little bit on it. I think Anthony Davis has had so far his best year as a Laker. I think he has grown and matured. I think he has accepted responsibility. I think at times he's put this team on his back. So
I think he's having a pretty good year. As for Lebron, I think it is insane that he's playing as well as he is at his age. And here's the thing. Anybody's going to get dinged up. Anybody can get banged up. I guess from the opening tap on opening night. You're hurt. It's just how much you deal with it. These two have missed fewer games this year than it had in the past. So they're playing well. The issue is everybody else surrounding them. That's where the problem is this year.
And I would have agreed with you if the season hadn't progressed with the two of them playing as well as they had to this point, well as they had played, I'd say, well, maybe that's it. But they're playing as well as anybody in the league. Jonas, but the two of them. But we're not even at the All Star break, and we've got injury issues now, like we have injuries if we have, if we have, look, Anthony Davis's injuries have been known throughout the course of his career.
Every year something pops up Lebron James since he's been to LA, like, injuries have become a factor, Like we can just say it it doesn't you know, and admire how he's played at this level. I agree, Listen, it's why he's one of the top two to three players of all time, if not number one, depending on who you're arguing with. But if this were the end of the season, I'd be like, hey man,
look, it's the end of the year. Everybody's banged up, but we're not even at the All Star Break, and yet here we are and they're what how many games out of the you know, they're in the play in spot, but they're they're the nine seeds, so they're like, what ten and a half games. It's like, you look at it and you go, okay, But if this is where we're at and it's just now February, what the hell is this gonna look like in May or June,
if they even get to that point, Like, that's my concern. It's not I don't so much have a concern about whether or not those guys can play. I just have a concern whether or not they're gonna be available oft enough to play. Like that's my big issue with it. Okay, And I hear your concern, and I think Kevin looked this up a couple of weeks ago, But this just mat now now the ankle, I don't know, but I mean, and the hip. He's had the hip and it's
been nagging and lingering. There's a difference between guys injured and injury problems. The Lakers have had injury problems, but it hasn't been those two guys. Now they're hurt or now And you're right, we're not to the All Star break. We'll see how it progresses. We'll see how it plays out.
And I guess if while they were both healthy and playing exceptionally well, if the others had performed and they had opened up a large enough lead, you go, well, all right, well, you know, we'll give a blow here or there, because you know, we got to save them. The danger here is this, You're gonna get to no man's land here at the All Star break, and then they're gonna have to play. Yeah,
that's the danger. They're gonna have to play. And I also like how people get hung up on well, you know, Lebron James seems really frustrated with those around him. Why don't you copy and paste that every single year of his career, Like every year of his career, he's frustrated with those ad What do you mean, it's why you got like David Black got fired, and how many coaches have been have been burned through, how many players have gotten traded? Of course, this like that, that isn't the concern
for me. It's how this season progresses for both those guys. And to your point, you are going to enter into no man's land and You've got no choice but to play guys, and you're again going to have to rely when everybody thought you were gonna get contributing pieces and contributing parts from last year to still play at the same level. You're gonna have to rely on Lebron James and his age and Anthony Davis and his injury history to ride them down
the stretch. And I just don't know if it's gonna happen. I don't forget one o'clock we will have the Jim Harball News Conference live and you can watch the Big Game, you know what I'm talking about at the Fountain Blue in Las Vegas, featuring two tickets to the Big Game, party, two nights of Hotel accommodation. So the Fountain Blue Las Vegas food and beverage credit and a five hundred dollars gift card and' out for your chance to win an
A and five somebody La sports dot com. All right, Jonas, we'll get your thoughts on Jim Harball when we come back. We'll throw back Thursday, Boston. I like it, Ronnie, Jonas, you rocked out to this. It's been a long time, oh big time. By the way, somebody's asking if you worked with Wolfman Jack on Twitter, Fred or x whatever the hell they're calling it. Did somebody really do that? Yeah, they asked, did you work at Arizona with Wolfman Jack? I don't know
who Wolfman Jack is? Oh my god, you don't know who that was? Seriously? Is that the guy from teen Wolf? No, it's not from Team that man. Was that styles the guy who, uh, you know, what's his name around on the top of his van? No, yeah, he served on the van. Wolfman Jack did a late night overnight show for years. He was a top forty jock, and I mean he
was it. And it's so bizarre you would bring this up, because, in fact, when I worked at at wolf Man Jack kind of talk like this and he had this gravelly voice, and I mean he was as big as starring radio as there it was back in the day. So I go to Yuma and, uh, the program director's name is Lee Pool. Oh waity, I know who this is. I'm sorry, Yes, I know that. I just look at it, right, Yeah, I know.
So I go to Yuma, of course, and the program director is Lee Pool, and he hires me to do this show from ten to three so from like seven to midnight, eight to midnight, Uh, there was a show on. It wasn't Wolfman Jack. It was Rufus Coyote. I swear to god, Wolfman Jack was the guy. But in Yuma had this show done by Rufus Coyote. So I went into Lee Pool and I said,
who is Rufus Coyote? It was Lee Poole. He changed his voice and tried to create a Wolfman Jack character, so he would become Rufus Coyote. So what were you, rowdy Roddy Rottweiler. I don't have my machine. Oh it's just gonna I'm just trying to get to the bottom of this. I want to know who's who here. Yeah, so he was Rufus Coyote, which was an impersonation of Wolfman Jack. And that's why when you said that, I started a laugh, because, yeah, I kind of worked
with a Wolfman Jack Schwartz. Wolfman Jack Schwartz I worked with because he was Rufus Coyote, and he did the exact same thing, and he just changed his voice and then one day he decided he didn't want to do that anymore. He became Lee Poole. He just said, Ay, this is Lee Poole, but yesterday you were Rufus coyote. He goes, you know I've changed then he just talked like himself. It's a magical radio Fred. You know, my first radio job, my name was they would there were so
somebody else at the station named Jonas, so I had to go. They called me j like J Dot Knox like, well, we don't want to confuse the listeners. And I'm looking around, going what listeners like? I see the checks two different timeslots man like, not even not even close to each other. But okay, so yeah, I couldn't even get my real name the first time. It's like, of course, the only place that'll hire me they already have a Jonas, so you know that's already occupied.
You got to pick up something else. What when you started, did you work in music radio? No, it was I always wanted to do sports. Sports are you know, like some sort of you know, like a rock station if they had like an element of sports slash, you know, like I always listened to uh, Kevin and Bean when they are out, or I would always listen to you know, obviously I listened to to Matt
and and uh and Petros and all that. But yeah, I always wanted to do sports, but there would be opportunities that would be out there and I would have played. No would be interested, like you just you needed reps, you needed And so I had to leave California to go all the
way to South Carolina in order to get a real chance. After just interning and doing whatever I could here, my first ever assignment on the air was with another station in town with Jeff Biggs, formerly of kla C, one of the great people in the business, who sent me out to a Clippers game to do call in reports from the Clippers game. And the first report I did when I called in to give an update on the game live from then Staples Center, was one of the worst moments in radio of all time.
I was terrible, I mean dreadful, But I realized at that time out of the business. Well tole me that too, But I also at that point I was so far down the path and I was stubborn. I was like, I'm not getting out of the business. I knew, all right, well now I know what it's like to be awful, so just don't do that again. And so I just did the opposite of that That was honestly my mindset, and so from there I got a little bit better each time. So you know, you learn these things, red a few
tricks. All right, let's talk Jim Harball. One o'clock we'll have the news conference. It was the fish that the Chargers had to catch. Yes, it was the name they needed. They needed it for a couple of reasons. We pointed them out here on the air. First of all, they needed a big name coach. They need to cement or attempt to submit a footprint here in Los Angeles. Uh And just by having good teams that
wasn't enough because the good teams kept coming up short. I think they also had to do it because there was a question, and I can't answer this, there was a question of their cash flow. Can they afford it. Well, they went out and spent the money, so they can obviously somehow, some way afford it. I think it is a game changing hire for them. We've got to find out how the team plays. We've got to see if it works. But Jonas, it was a game changer. And
I know you have thoughts on Jim Harball. Look, I love Jim Harbaugh. I've always been some people call me the Harball washer. You know, that's that's been a name that's been thrown around over my years. I always defended Jim Harbaugh not exactly a moniker. You want. Well, you know what, though, now that he's won a national title, I'll take it, fred and I will wear that with like a badge of honor. But well, becks Captain t Bag. Well, somebody's got to do it right.
Okay, you know it's just you know, it can't always be uh you know, well, in never mind, I'll leave that for another time. But the point is a big fan of Jim Harbaugh always like because you look at his track record, I could understand it's worked in one place, but it's worked everywhere, and it's worked at every level. So whether he took over at University of San Diego, it worked, he took over Stanford, it worked. He went to the Niners, it worked. And these
were all situations that weren't good situations. I mean when he took over for the Niners and never one points to, well, well, how did it finish out with San Francisco? Okay, well, he had a falling out with the front office, Like that's why he was no longer there, like, it's why her he burns so hot that he stays places that was always not him for a short amount of time. But when he got to San Francisco, man, they were talking about Alex Smith as if he was a
bust, first rent, number one overall pick. They made a mistake. It's not working. Harbaugh got there. They were in an NFC title game in overtime against the Giants, team that went on to beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl that year with Alex Smith the so and so bust that nobody could get to work as the number one pick. Colin Kaepernick took over the next year, they ended up getting to a Super Bowl. Like he put together a really good team and they played really really good football there. He
leaves, he goes to Michigan, they were a disaster. Takes them over. It took a little bit of time to get over the hump in the Big Ten against Ohio Stable. Once he got there, they were off and running and never looked back. It's like, so it'd be one thing if like we saw it in one spot. People are optimistic. It's like, okay, well can he do We've seen him do it in a bunch of
different spots. So from that standpoint, love the higher, Love Jim Harbor, and listen as somebody who grew up a Chicago Bears fan, he was like one of the first quarterbacks I remember for the Bears, like he was one of the first ones. Here's where I'm a little bit skeptical, where I don't know anybody who doesn't think this is a great hire. And normally when everybody's on one side, that's generally when things go south. I have not met one person or heard one person say this is a bad move for
the Chargers. I don't like the move. Everybody looks at this and says the fit justin Herbert. They had to spend the money. He brings in a big name, you know, all the all the fun stuff that comes along with it, the chaos, but he successed. Like I haven't heard one argument against why this isn't a great move. He was the biggest name on the open market. He would would have been the biggest name probably next
year on the open market. And the fact that the Chargers got him, when everybody assumed, to your point, they're going to be cheap, They're going to butcher this like they I don't really do. They paid the money and here he is, and I'm just a little concerned that when we're all over on this side, things end up going south the other way. Well, normally, when everybody is over on one side, it's because the team has played the name game. Oh boy, we know that guy. Let's
go get him. He's the guy. Everybody knows him, everybody wants him. Oftentimes, the guy that everybody knows is not what he is meant to be and does not perform at the level in what you hoped he would. But I think in this case, because it was the name, and I'm absolutely against the name game, but because he was the name, the biggest name, and a guy with incredible success wherever he has been, I think it was the right thing to do. You had to do it, like
you at this look, you're committed to Justin Herbert. Financially, he's the
guy we know that. You had to do something to try and instill some sort of hope and optimism him in this town as the quote unquote little brother, you know, like listen, It's why when the Clippers went out and got Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, it was such a massive deal because the Lakers had always been the biggest thing in town, and you looked at it and said, well, maybe we can't get to that level of popularity, but if we can get to that level of play on the court, that's
gonna go a long way at least. And it's like with the Chargers, like, look, we may never get to the level of where the Rams are at in this town, but if we can just get to the court, like you know, he's gonna win games. I just you know, we've seen it a lot to where everybody's on one side and then it ends up flipping on. I'm gonna be rooting for it. I hope it works.
I love Harbaugh, as I laid out, as I mentioned, big fan of Jim Harbaugh, and I'm just hoping that the injury issues they've had and all the other quote unquote bad luck that has come along with the Chargers over the past several years. And you know, never mind the fact that you've got to deal with a dynasty in your own division, which is never
never an easy task in dealing with the Kansas City Chiefs. But if there was somebody that could get a team over the hump and it is the biggest name on the open market, and it just so happens to be Jim Harbaugh. All right, So if you could pick a coach, I'll give you two choices. Would you pick Jim or John Harbaugh? Jim and look, John Harbaugh super Bowl champion. But I've just seen it in more places than
I have with John Harbaugh. And it's why some people will make the argument, is it more impressive what Belichick did in New England or more impressive what a guy like Andy Reid or Bill Parcells has done where they've won in multiple places, where both guys have taken Super Bowls teams, different teams to Super Bowls and won super Bowls before, Or is it more impressive to just do it in one spot. Like all of it works, all of it is great, But which do you side on? More? Which is more impressive?
And I just think it's a little more impressive what Jim Harbu has done at this point. Yeah, I agree with that. I think it's much harder to take multiple teams to a title than to be in one place. And remember when Belichick was in one place, he went to the titles with one quarterback. Yeah, he won with Tom Brady, So I think that was the key for Belichick. Sure he could coach, but that was the key. And it's interesting because now you know all the jobs are full.
Dan Quinn got the last one in Washington. You look at the coaches that did not hook up somewhere. Belichick, Pete Carroll didn't get jobs. Rabel, Mike Rabel's another big name, but I think he can coach, and he's younger than the two of them. You saying agism is playing a role in this thread? Is that what you're getting at here? You know what's funny? And people suggest that, well, agism, I don't really buy that now, maybe because I started when when I was twenty three, and
I'm the age I am now. I think, well, now I can still do the same thing. I really can't, but I think differently than I did then. I've learned more than I did then. I still have the same energy as I did then, So I don't think that being a certain age look to be fair. It comes down to this as a listener, and no matter what you do or where you're at in your life, you know there's a day, and my day is probably closer than yours. Jonas, because I'm a little older. We hit the wall. We just
hit it. We've run as fast as we can for as long as we can. We've given it everything we have, and you hit the wall. Now, that doesn't mean you hit the wall. If you're sixty two or seventy four, that doesn't mean it. But you hit it because that's just how life works. You just can't you don't have the energy. It happens to people and shit that because everybody gets older. So I don't think it's a question of agism because I don't think it matters how old you are.
I mean, if you evolve and grow, you can communicate with anybody. Right, you can be seventy two but still be able to communicate with young players. So I just find it interesting where they go, well, he just doesn't understand how to do that. That has passed him by. No, what that says is he's not evolved. He's not evolved. He hasn't got to a point where he understands he must change because life changes, and to succeed you always must have evolve. And when you don't evolve, you've
hit the wall. I don't know whus Pete Carroll hit the wall. Has Bill Belichick hit the wall. I say Belichick is closer to hitting the wall, and Pete Carroll was geez fred because he seems inflexible, where Pete Carroll may be very strong in his ways and convictions, but seems a bit more flexible. I wonder how Pete Carroll feels about the fact that Seattle went from having the oldest coach in the league to the youngest in like a month.
Like like, imagine dating somebody for a long time and they say, you know, it just isn't working out anymore, and you go, okay, I got it, and then they end up, like an hour and a half later, was somebody half your age, literally half your age. You would look around and go, oh, so that's what the problem was. I was just maybe I was just too old. I wonder if Pete Carroll looks around and goes, so, wait a second, I'm seventy two.
You hired somebody who was thirty six. This guy's younger than McVeigh, and I've just got to be like, all right, there was nothing to it. I just wonder how that lands with a guy like Pete Carroll, who's uber competitive, who by the way, Pete Carroll was interested in the Chargers job, as was everybody else, and the reports out there would say that Ben Johnson. Mark Schlareth reported on this from Fox that Ben Johnson would have
taken the Chargers job. That's why he turned down the job in Washington that Dan Quinn just got because the only one that he really wanted was the Charger gig, which goes to show you the opinion of what a lot of people have on Justin Herbert just throwing that out there, Fred, Well, that's fair. But Ben Johnson, Jim Harball was hired, was hired, So that's not why he turned down the Charger job. He was already hired.
I mean that. I mean that was Mark schlairth is reporting it. Look, if you want to attack Stink like that, then you go right ahead, Fred, I'm not Look the Desert Dean and Stink can go at it and have a Donny Brook all they want. I'm just letting you know that's what the report said. Well, all I'm saying is this that, uh, I you know, agism, because we give everything labels, isn't it isn't right. It's got an ism to it now right, it's age ism.
You're too old. I don't know if you're ever too old and if people think you are that honestly, to me, that just is a function of not evolving. And you know Pete Carroll's of all for a long time, Carol was the hot ticket. Pete Carroll could communicate with his players almost better than anyone in the day, and his players still liked them. But maybe he did not evolve enough. Now do I think that at this point would a team hire a seventy two year old coach? I don't know,
you know who. I think it hurts him now. By the way, you know who just got hired. This is this is going to be a blast from the past. He just got hired as a defensive coordinator. I think it's division It's at a Division two school. We can look this up. I forget which one it was. Jerry Glanville. Seriously, Jerry Glanville just got hired as a decordinator. Who doesn't love Jerry Glanville like he had.
I forget what the detail was. But he had an obsession with Elvis to where he would always wear black and I think he would leave two tickets at will call for Elvis. I think you're right at every game Like that was a real story to where he would leave tickets at will call for Elvis every game. So if you walked up to a foul like imagine you walk up to Dodger Stadium, you go up to will call, and you just
say, yeah, I'm here to pick up two tickets for Elvis. If Jerry Glanville was in Dave Roberts position, two tickets would be there for you every single Dodger game you go to. How old is Jerry Glanville now? And he's got to be in his eighties. Jerry Glanville is eighty two years old and was just hired as the defensive coordinator at Northwestern Oklahoma State, a real powerhouse too. Yeah, but you know something, if he truly loves doing it, yes, let him do it. I agree, that's great.
So yeah, Jerry Glanville is back and Elvis is alive. Yes, Okay, we're gonna have Jim Harbaugh's news conference at one o'clock. Jerry Glanville has to take an apple. We'd have his as well. Two years old? What do you expect from him? I love Jerry Glenn. My best Jerry Glanville story. Falcons are getting blown out there and he calls it. They're getting bet like forty one to nothing, and he calls a timeout with two seconds left and sends out the field goal unit so they don't get shut
out. All right, when we come back, let's talk to some Dodger pitt we'll throw back Thursday action. Let's Stay Together by Al Green. Song appeared on the seventy two album of the same name, maintained a number one
spot of the Billboard Hot one hundred charts for three weeks. In February of that year, ranked sixtieth n Rolling Stones' list of the five hundred Greatest Songs of All Time, selected by the Library of Congress as an addition to the National Recording Registry, which selects recordings annually that are culturally, historically, or esthetically significant. Again today throwback Thursday edition of Afternoon Delight Let's Stay Together by
the Reverend Al Green. Is he any relation to ac Green? I thought it was his father? Okay, what grandfather? What abo Sean Green? Uncle? Okay? Matter of fact? Read that Al Green, the singer is the uncle of former Dodger Sean Green. See all ties in together? Sure does yep? An Afternoon Delight? Yeah, Jim Harball. I wish don right at the top of the hour, Kevin, we are okay, so we'll make us the short segments so we can get back and break for
the top of the hour. I'll do a little Dodger pitching. So well. I mentioned the other day Jim Paxton originally signed an eleven million dollar deal, and uh, he was going to be that veteran arm the left hander they bring in, by the way, I was gonna correct you, and then I realize you're right. It's James Paxton, so you can call him Jim. Okay, yeah, James, you know, I'm his friend.
I call him Jim. No, I'm just saying because I think some people might confuse that with the former Chicago Bull Jim Paxson, you know, and again that is his brother. Yeah, it's a family of fair Fred. Yeah. Everything ties together, of course. So they realized that there were some physical issues, and his deal went from eleven to seven million dollars and still hell, his targets and his incentives. I think you can make up
to thirteen, but the guaranteed portion of that is now seven. All right, Well, you know he's still there and he's gonna hit seven million bucks and that's not that's not nothing. But all of a sudden, you sign a guy do you think is going to perform for you? And now you've reduced the amount of his contract and his agent of Scott Bores and he was good with that. I don't know what that says about, you know, how dependable he's gonna be Jonas? Yeah, why did this just come up
now? Like maybe he had a second physical or something. Yeah, that's that's what I'm curious about, Like when when was this not seen early on? And then you're taking a few million off the top, right, you're right out of the gates, like, okay, well we'll still make this work, but only for this amount, which is you know, I mean it's nothing to scoff at. I mean, it's nothing in comparison to what
they've paid this offseason. But yeah, I just I wonder at what point during the process they finally realized, oh, yeah, we got a problem here and this needs to be adjusted and addressed right away. Well, it's important at this point in time, given the offseason, the Dodgers had to pick them apart, because that's what people need to do. They made all of these moves they've strengthened the club dramatically. They signed Otani, they got Yamamoto. But then that leads to, all right, well, now you
see they still have these holes to plug. You know, they did more than anybody, more than anybody imaginaball and you don't know, all right, well that was good. But if there is a butt, and it has been the butt from the beginning, it's starting pitching. Yes, do you have enough starting pitching? I think they do. Personally, I think they do. Yeah. Look, and this is all going to come down to
the same as it's the same as last year. But the problem nobody was surprised by whatever struggles they had or were going to have on the mound in the postseason, like they were surprised by the bats in the postseason, most
notably Freddy Freeman and Mookie Bets. That was the real surprise. And yeah, we're trying to find a flaw with this team because at a certain point it's going to be kind of a redundant radio show where it's like, Hey, the Dodgers beat so and so fifteen to four last night, you know, show, Hey Otani did this. This is always going to be the question mark and You've got to see how it plays out. I'm sure they'll
make a move or two at the deadline. But yeah, I look at it and I go, it's not like they're rolling out, you know, a bunch of dead bodies, you know, five games in a row saying hey go give a six inning strong please? Who can get to the bullpen? I mean, yeah, they've got guys. There's some question marks, but that's going to be the fun part about this season. You're going to get to learn how great this team is. The questions at the plate aren't
going to be the problem. It's going to be all the questions on the mound. And this is just another one. It's just interesting that this wasn't seen initially and this so now we get a monitor this as we as we go through the entire season. Yeah, and the season starts sooner than you think. Okay, let's take a break right now because we do have to get back for the top of the Jim Harball news conference one o'clock, Chargers
introduced. Harrball will be taking copious notes. Look forward to some of the things he has to say. Let's keep track of it.