Ducks, Chargers, Dan Fouts, Paralympics, Coach Prime, Pac-12, Angels- Fans Forum Aug 29

with Callen Callen always joins us just about every podcast afternoon jent Lee thoughts on the duck shifting from Bal to Victory plus alongside the Dallas Stars I'm eager to see how this works but thankfully it'll be free of charge in the San Diego Market well it'll be free uh up in LA and Orange County uh you know they they were all victimized I think there's 12 NHL teams that were hurt by The Diamond Sports bankruptcy and the whole ballet Sports Shenanigans uh and the ducks have decided to go separate they're going to be on kcop Regional games I would assume that' be all the West Coast Rocky Mountain games will be on on free TV and then Victory Sports you'll be able to access it there uh I guess via streaming I'm not big on streaming John Riley does stream he subscribes to everything plus but not Victory I've never even heard of that one well that just that story just broke yesterday so Ducks fans will get a chance here to see their their games on free TV which will be cool and then obviously Victory plus and all let you figure out how that works and you can explain it to me as I come over to have a beer watching some hockey well I remember it was uh Fox Sports San Diego that would oftentimes have Clippers games and then Ducks games and then it be ballet Sports yeah then it went to balet exactly so okay so this is the same kind of vibe so yeah it'd be great be able to catch those games on TV on we go next thing thanks Callum for being with us all right let's go to Greg H Greg says Lee what would your Mount Rushmore be for Chargers quarterbacks great show and bum there's no Dixie Lon Lumber up here in Seattle we miss you up here by the way uh Greg I would have to say the the Mount Rushmore Charger quarterbacks has to start with Fouts and then it has to contain Philip Rivers and then I would I would tend to think back in the day and I remember the old AFL Chargers the John hael Jack Kemp Chargers although Kemp had more success I guess in Buffalo with the AFL bills I would say those would be the the Mount Rushmore guys I don't know whether we put our Super Bowl quarterback oh you gotta yeah what did let him to the Super Bowl I don't know I don't know if one of the four well then you know but then you got Justin Herbert who's right there on the brink of greatness though it may be too early to put him up on on Mount Rushmore but yeah I would say Stan humphers has to be part of that equation yeah I I think you hit all the big names but you know Justin Herbert is kind of in the on Deck Circle he might displace one of them but think about like like the opposite of a Mount Rushmore and all the horrible quarterbacks we've had here in San Diego Mark vasic you know and and Craig wheelahan and uh I mean you probably can name a bunch of them off the top of your head there were a whole pile of them back in the day when they didn't really have quarterbacks the Sha salsburys of the world and those guys but that let's not be negative here the the question was a a real legitimate positive about great quarterbacks for the San Diego Church know Ryan Leaf you got to put Leaf up there he's on the back side of the mountain to quote to quote Dion Sanders why you being negative man right there you go okay okay you're right that's a good call next one all right just a quick Year from EXs Revolution bonjour du Canada Oh Canada oh hockey hotline fans are going crazy camps are opening in two weeks hockey fans are just beside themselves it's gonna be awesome man you the season getting started here's a long one here from David says hey um hey hacksaw nice to see your show I'm a longtime fan from Rancher Bernardo as the Paro Olympic games begin what do you think of a show or segment weekly or daily with updates in the community of athletes in the disabled Community can include information about local programs including adaptive Sports programs the miracle leagues ases for autism info on adaptive sporting equipment development Etc have a great three-day weekend coming up the Paro Olympics are great you have to access peacock to watch the Paralympics Olympics I watched The Opening Ceremonies that was really cool in the stadium as they brought all the athletes some of them obviously wheelchair bound in with the American flags I mean just really neat now it doesn't get obviously the coverage uh that the normal Olympics got in Paris just you know a couple weeks ago but there there's a time and place to cover it it's really hard to cover it I I I've tried to search out access but we don't know the athletes that's I mean they're not household names it's not it's not the Michael phelps's and of the world so it's it's just really hard to cover it but they have their place and they they do have their recognition you know it's interesting uh for a couple of angles here because you do a great job hacksaw headlines covering the World of Sports which is a ton of information and yeah Paralympics might not be at the top of the list but the beauty of podcasting is such that you could right here David laid out a whole program here on how to dup the par Olympic podcast the beauty of podcasting is that you can identify a niche audience a target small audience and provide content that they're hungry for so maybe David should start a podcast talking about that because he probably knows a lot of the names and faces and there would be a huge loyal narrow but loyal audience for that I concur you know somebody wrote me a week ago and said how come you guys haven't done anything about the Little League World Series well there's only so much time in the in the day for me to cover certain things and I and he was barking at me how come you didn't do anything on TV on your sportscast on KUSI at at which point my response was who am I going to bump off from a Content standpoint I Little League World Series is special what ESPN has done with the events and all the games broadcast that's really kind of special social media has done a great thing but there's only so many hours in the day that one person can do to cover and what do you delete if you're going to do something special there so it's just that's a hard call it really is and and now when you were doing the TV news I mean how long was your segment like seven minutes or seven minutes but that usually covers four topics over seven minutes because you're doing video and you're doing boards yeah it just it's really hard to find the slot my my response is just go enjoy what ESPN's coverage looks like and what they do on ESPN one ESPN2 and just enjoy that exactly next topic next topic okay here let's go to Michael he says Dion needs Carlton Fisk to tell him how to act as he did when they both played baseball Dion's act wor thin as a player in the NFL and will now as a coach well they're really bitter in Colorado now the CU alums and the fans they like what they're seeing that's great but that three and0 start became a one and8 finish and then there was another truckload of players who were forced out of that program in the transfer portal and now there's this next wave of new guys that are coming in and you know Colorado opens their season tonight and I'm G to watch it because I want to see how different they are with shador Sanders who I think is a fine college quarterback but they're playing North Dakota State that's onea as good as North Dakota state is Colorado will mop up the floor with them you know just like San Diego State will probably do the same against Texas A&M Commerce but at the end of the day this whole season will spin on what kind of success they have going to the big 12 you know and will they be better or will defensive coordinators figure out everything that Dion and that staff is going to run and they'll defend him and they'll take him apart again and then coaches a run up scores because a lot of coaches Pack 12 and in the Big 12 are still irritated what Dion did to all those kids that he forced into the transfer portal and he ran off uh will the story get old and stale you know if they sit there and go three and nine this season yeah he's going to have some problems keeping his job and there just to me from a media perspective there's no reason for him to pick this fight with the media answer the questions let the media do their job and uncover the games and the product on the field well you know the transfer portals Going Bonkers with the Aztecs too but it's maybe the players are choosing to leave it's just a weird dynamic I'm rooting for Coach Prime I want him to be successful not just because he's a Pack 12 Coach going to a new conference but I just I'd like him and even with a little bit of the bravado sometimes he needs to turn it down a notch but overall like it the Carlton Fisk angle is interesting as I'm doing math on my head Dion played baseball for the Braves and the Yankees in the early 90s or mid 90s and was Carlton Fisk still playing for the white socks no no at that point but I think he's talking about how to handle C status and the accomplishments you think you're going to have or want to have Etc okay well the other catcher I associate with Dion is Tim McCarver sure and he got the ice dumped on him that's still classic and that relationship didn't work out very well but each had their own style hey did okay here let's go uh here to Floyd and he says uh college football playoffs are too small FCS has 23 teams why can't cfp do 16 also all FBS conference championships need to be represented and seven at large births well they're not going to not going to let all the smaller conferences in they'll take the best team but the best team will be probably the only team it'll be the highest ranked champion from Mountain West Mid-American the American Athletic Conference things like that we're just not going to take everybody you know and put them in because then you're going to have 637 blowouts and I don't think that's good for the college football playoffs now the flip side does there have to be a better balance I mean we're going to take six SEC teams and maybe one extra from the Big 12 and the Big 10 is that how we're going to get the rest of those at large teams in is that going to really be good for college football I don't well you know even in that National Championship what was it it was to TCU and they got blown out it was like a 63 to7 yes that was against what Georgia wasn't it um you know by the way I I get I I how do I say this the FBA versus FCS I always kind of confuse those in my head because I think of division one and division one daa and how those are different but those are the new names for each of those right and so F so which is the one that's let's say for the the SEC is that FBS or FCS do you get I it's it's mindboggling it is and like USD here in San Diego is a I always think one double A but it's one of those F ones exactly all right let's move on let's go to John as much as I'd rather be concentrating on the games in NCAA football the conference mergo round is stealing attention from the games the ACU will start disintegrating like the Pack 12 after this season the Big 12 did some damage control but their Marquee schools have already left Nebraska Missouri Texas A&M Texas Oklahoma Kansas is looking elsewhere now the Big 12 will follow the AC I assum you mean yeah is it AC or the ACC ACC the ACC Anda 12 towards relegation leaving the SEC and Big 10 as the power two it's it's chaos I do think it'll probably change you know here's there's a sidebar story we haven't talked about the Big 12 met last week in Dallas with Yukon Yukon they want Yukon basketball but they have to take everybody else yukon's football program is face first down on the floor M nobody follows it nobody cares and they want Yukon Husky football to be part of the big 12 you're kidding me yeah well it's so absurd there's a lot of perverse incentives going on right now because everyone's chasing the money you know and it's sometimes it just doesn't make sense so there be there probably will be more changes there will be more schools that will defect and go other places but we may also have somebody waking up some morning at the end of next football season and saying Cal and Stanford Atlanta Coast Conference this doesn't make any sense and somebody's going to vacate where they went and go back so there'll be more changes coming but there aren't very many other schools out there to go steal and go get you know K Stanford they're not juggernauts of programs in the first place they're going to end up going these cross country trips and they're going to have like an O for season I mean it could be really ugly for those two guys I I project that this UCLA to the Big 10 is not going to work out and Cal Stanford in the Atlanta Coast Conference might not work out and those guys may come back and there'll be a rebirth or a different structure to the Pack 12 Conference it's not going to happen immediately but I think that's that's going to happen the Swami says hacks offw all right here we go let's go to Phillip and he says uh wouldn't you want to go to wouldn't want to go to Russia where they lock people up for the non-crime of just having a little herb on them well it's it's really weird because I asked this question about a year ago to an NHL assistant general manager I said why would these guys go there it's a Payday most of these guys that are going there are at the end of their career I said it's a lifestyle thing he said but the athletes there are treated like royalty you know as long as you don't do something stupid like taking drugs on a plane and landing in Moscow or you don't do a political comment on social media I I feel bad because I like Chase sto he's a hardworking honest guy I got to know him when he was in Winnipeg with the Winnipeg Jets and now I'm bothered because the ducks have not put a good product on the ice here in San Diego and they they've kind of screwed screwed up what was a really well-run franchise they used to draw 11 and 12,000 to home games at the sports arena and now those Crowds Are down to 455,000 and the product hasn't been very good they hav been in the playoffs in a couple years I mean I don't know what they're going to put on the ice here especially if the Ducks are taking all those draft picks and they're still going to go to Anaheim rather than here they're I have a feel that the NHL team has a responsibility to the local community to put a better product on the ice than we've seen the Ducks give the goals the last couple years yeah you bring up a number of points there the first thing I thought of was Winston Shepard when he played for the Aztecs and then he was a professional in Ukraine right when Russia invaded and I remember he had to hight tail it out of there and he was okay um but Sports in the middle of a war sounds really tricky the other comment I want or the question I want to ask you is you know you're talking about the Ducks you're talking about Pachanga Arena we haven't heard any real news on the new sports arena that they're planning on putting down there have you heard anything new I have not heard when the chevel of dirt supposed to be turned and what's going to happen to the tenants the goals most notably at that point in time the San Diego soccers are leaving they're going to their new private small Arena uh that'll be up in Oceanside so but I don't think the thing is stalled maybe it's been Tangled in red tape about how crony is building it but I thought there had been a solution ution to the new sports arena because that sports arena is going to be renovation of a facility but it's also going to be housing business and entertainment stuff wrapped around on that parcel of land have not heard much about it lately but I I still think it's going forward yeah well I I could say this our sponsor Dixie Line they're there right next to the sports arena and I think the city owns their land so there's a lot of question marks about the leases and how that's going to be going the timeline seems to keep getting delayed on we go question okay let's uh let's get some social media folks here involved a lot of good comments and questions here um oh we got to get this one in right here the this is from Marco Antonio he says I'm from Tijana I love the Dodgers and 49ers but man this guy Lee haaw to me it's a legend as you can see here in Tijana in fact in Rosarito I couldn't get the signal from San Francisco or Los Angeles so when I was young I listened to this gentleman a mighty 690 great show 77,000 Watts from Baja to the Canadian Rockies and it came out of the tower on Rosarito Beach uh just most unique situation I think I've ever been involved and I had no knowledge when I came here of how Mexican radio worked you know I've told the story to John a couple times that when I was initially hired to come here to be the voice of the Chargers and a vice president called me from 690 and try introduced himself to me I got a phone call out of the clue Blue Sky sitting at my desk in Phoenix I worked at KT I thought I was going to be there forever doing Arizona State and doing a Sports Talk Show and this gentleman called me and said I represent Noble broadcast group we have the license for extra 690 our game plan is we've just secured the rights to the Chargers we want you to be the voice of the Chargers because we know what you've done with the sundevils and we know what you done with Sports Talk Radio and we want you to come here and then I asked him well explain to me what XT is da da da and he said Mexican license station I said well I'm flattered that you consider me to be the voice of the Chargers and do Sports Talk Radio because I've done very well with that here but I don't speak Spanish and I thought I thought he wanted me to come do play byplay in Spanish and do Sports Talk Radio I I didn't know i' been to San Diego once in my life or actually twice in my life actually we came over and played in the Holiday Bowl Arizona State uh played Arkansas on the Holiday Bowl we had a great time so I had no knowledge whatsoever what he is making reference to and then they explained to me how the licensing worked the programming worked and their plans were we're going to build studios in San Diego and would be an English speaking station on a Mexican license so that's that's my story of how I got here and I had no knowledge how Mexican radio's relationship with us broadcasting work but now I know well it's just the way radio is structured in America is all the stations on the west start with a k right and they start with what a w on the East right and then suddenly they're starting with an X you know here because of the Mexican stations but remember it was always like around midnight they'd play the Mexican national an but then now I'm sure all those Mexican stations if they're doing sports radio which I know many of them aren't anymore but they if they are they're probably just 247 syndicated ESPN stuff some uh and and the whole landscape the advertising landscape has changed much harder now to do crossborder broadcasting there's very few stations that are on this side that are owned or licensed to Americans who are rent you rent the license you don't own the station it's you share crazy stories at extra about the engineers and how they'd have to connect to the the signal in Mexico and sometimes things went weird exactly we'll do that another time okay but Tiana great to have you on board tell all your friends South of the Border to join us on those podcast and also check my website okay let's uh get some charger fan comment from the two cent peanut gallery he says you get a thumbs down for regurgitating that 8-year-old joke from South Park about the charger fans and when are you all going to get tired of regurg hating that same cowardly narrative it is cowardice to hate on a team just because you think they don't have many fans we're growing baby don't you remember the year after the Rams won the Super Bowl week in the 17 80% Chargers and soofi yet y all haven't updated your fear of being outnumbered real ones from La like myself stay loyal to the only team in the NFL that has always stayed loyal to the SoCal soil you look good in powder blue don't agree with you but that's okay you look good wearing the lightning bolt uh at the end of the day uh I still think La is a Rams town until the Chargers become a playoff team and Justin Herbert has not won a playoff game yet I still think it's going to be a Rams toown can the bolts take control of the market yeah gota win and you know let's let's also be realistic there is no bitterness in La you got the franchise there's a lot of bitterness this side of Camp Pendleton that we lost the franchise and a greedy owner you know turned his back on 50 years of loyalty I don't think that will ever change we do cover them I cover them I probably cover more of the Chargers than any other member of the media uh the the newspaper here the Union Tribune uses an LA writer and they they cut and paste their stories uh I don't know what kind of readership the Chargers have uh the TV stations will they'll go up and they'll they'll shoot some games and maybe they'll run some highlights but they don't cover it as much as I cover it and I I think I cover the NF on the Chargers more than the Union Tribune knows and I know I cover it more than anybody on Sports Talk Radio and if I was doing Sports Talk Radio like this podcast we'd be doing Chargers and RAM stuff on an almost even Steven basis and then we'd cover the Raiders and the Denver Broncos and all the other NFL stores I do it differently than anybody else in the working media but there there is people to hear just this side of Camp Pendleton from Oceanside down cannot forgive them fans do watch the games probably about half per half of what used to watch it when it was the San Diego Chargers they used to have TV ratings I want to say of 30 shares I think they probably have 15 shares now on the CBS affiliate down here um I don't know what of the 15 share that's watching I don't know if they're watching because they still love the team or they're watching because they hate the team and want to see them lose or they just watch because it's the NFL game that's on in town so that's the media perspective I'll let the fan John Riley from field give you his opinion well the fans a lot of them are still rightfully poed the San Diego fans yeah we have some friends that live up in um in La they're actually more like Huntington Beach actually but they're season ticket holders for the so at Sofi and they're excited about the Chargers but you know there that seems to be the exception to the rule but I can sense in San Diego that some of the fans are sort of getting over it you know now they're just want to follow the NFL and it's another southern California team but dude you you cover not just the Chargers you cover everything you are the hardest working man in sports journalism and you think about what you do when when you're writing your best 15 your one man's opinion all the other things that you post on the website the content on Twitter the podcast all the video clips and everything else that we're doing it's like a d a deluge of Hacksaw Sports content that nobody does anywhere in Southern California well thank you for the compliment I work hard at it I'm kind of addicted to it that's why I have the website you can't if you've never checked the website you're really missing something so it's there every morning it's absolutely free I John I don't know anything in the world is freaking free right now really but it's free so check the website and of course we love doing the podcast and we just trying to cover the waterfront that's that's who I am that's how I act that's what I'm addicted to that's sales pitch so you can be upset at San Diego fan for being pissed off they have a right to be pissed off but uh we do follow it down here I do follow it I can't wait for the start of the NFL season so it's going to be great and by the way the charger followers on Instagram are unbelievable and whenever we post a video there they all go crazy so let's let's get one more comment here Angels let's talk a little LA Angels this is from childis cavillo and he says uh things are looking good after the owner made some costly mistakes the young players are looking good and we have some good prospects to look forward to also most of the best Pro Prospects are in daa which is good everyone needs to chill otani's on the Dodgers nobody can change that randone is probably going to get dropped in the offseason well it's been a tough finish of the season they really had a lousy last month of August uh we saw flashes where you saw zitto ohappy Chanel um to a degree monc and even Joe Adell they play well in spurts but they just have enough guys to play 162 games and now what's happened in August I mean they've been miserable I mean what's your record 54 and 79 right now I mean it's they're probably going to close to 100 losses the young players their farm system is not highly rated they need volumes of young players they need not to make mistakes in free agency uh the pitching staff is wayfer thin um there just not it's not a good look and it's sad on Arty Marino's watch this thing has just become a disaster and once you dig a hole it's tough to climb out of this hole and there's no guarantee that free agency because they've they've missed on 50% of the free agent acquisitions the free agency is the solution and sadly for Mike Trout he's had what all these years of just being hurt and he can't stay on the field and he's the last Cornerstone of credibility they have from what was a good franchise Once Upon a Time so long road back I wish he'd sell it I wish he had better baseball people making the decision but he's elected to keep it and he's elected to keep the general manager there to continue to operate it and try to build it through the farm system but boy that that takes forever and I I wish I had a better answer for you I mean you can be optimistic and you can be hopeful and it's a it could be a great baseball Market could be a great hockey Market could be a great Market Orange County unto itself is a market unto itself and it it should have winners and fortunately doesn't have a winner in baseball doesn't have a winner in the NHL right now either John think about how long it's taken the Padres to kind of come back from the depths I mean it was it about 15 years ago was when they were owned by the owner that had them on lay away yeah right that had no resources and now they're filling the stadium up the angels are still a mystery to me but I want to here's just kind of an odd question which version of the Angels do you hold closest in your heart is it the California Angels the Anaheim Angels or the Anaheim Angels of Los Angeles it's the Darren urad Tim salmon Mark Langston Angels okay the Angels who went to the World Series it's the David Xin of the world that's the Ang franchise that I identify with and I guess they were the California Angels at that point in time I just call them the angels I don't care what the designation is California Anaheim or Los Angeles Angels I just I remember that group how great that group was and that's the last vestage of quality baseball those poor people in Orange County had to root for I from that era I remember the Thunder sticks yes you know and they were just overwhelming but to me it's California Angels it's Bobby grit you know back in that era well that's the AY Angels but boy that would that's a lot of fast balls ago yeah that's in the 70s and then you know even Reggie Jackson was there for a little while and made that appearance in that movie he was gonna shoot Queen Elizabeth so you know the the California Angels to me was cool because they wanted to represent the whole state you know kind of like the Golden State Warriors and I thought that was neat um when they went to Anaheim that's when they became disneyfied if I recall and then now they're Arty Mareno LA Angels just I just like The Vibes of Nolan Ryan you know wearing that California Angels hat with the with the Halo above Ryan and Tanana and Tanana yeah and I mean that that was a good chunk of time in a different very far back era and then obviously the AY angels and the Disney angels and get to the World Series was electric and that's that's the more modern day Angels but this unfortunately is terrible you know the prime example is all you need to do if you're in Orange county is just look down i5 and look at what pedco park has become and look at what you can do and this is a much smaller Market than what I think is a much bigger Market in the OC oh yeah look at what has happened here and that that's a commitment of ownership that's with leadership that's with scouting that's with drafting that's with the right free agents and unfortunately we haven't seen much of that in Orange County after the first couple of years when AR Mareno inherited it and they won and then it just it's gone off track it but unfortunately when you're down it takes forever to get it back I don't think they're coming back um if Arty Moreno Remains the owner and and Angel fan everywhere sell the team already that's what they all want to do they want to hit the reset button Hey listen we hope you have enjoyed our Thursday podcast go