My Segment on The Mighty 1090AM

Got to jump in the studio on 1090AM with the Scott & BR show. Had a blast and learned a lot. Can't thank Scott Kaplan enough for having enough trust to throw me on live radio.

I started slow but if I knew what the first question was going to be I would've hit that question over the mountains. Instead I rambled about pretty much nothing but got back on course when my ADD stopped firing at normal rates.

Self Grade: C+
Needs: Should probably prepare next time instead of just going winging it. Probably won't prepare but the thought is there and that's what counts.

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(My segment starts at the 21 minute mark.)

Tunsil Overblown Drama

(CNN)It's turning out to be a very expensive bong hit -- and a harsh reminder of the perils of social media -- for Laremy Tunsil. 

The University of Mississippi offensive tackle -- an early favorite to be the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft -- slipped to No. 13 after a video emerged of him smoking marijuana through a gas mask.

The clip was posted on Tunsil's Twitter account, which he closed shortly afterward. But by then, the video had already gone viral. Tunsil said his account was hacked.

First, Tunsil and his agents/PR team are complete idiots. Tunsil wasn't hacked. He either had a simplistic password or more realistic left his social media account open one day and left it in the wrong hands. 100% chance his password is the exact same for every account he has like every other person in the world. His PR Team/Handlers did a horrendous job doing their specific job of saving Tunsil from his own brain/mouth. 

Second, people are only scared because he used a mask to smoke. Marijuana is very much a part of our society and should be legalized/taxed but that is for a different rant. You're mentally unstable If you think any of the other guys that got picked before him haven't smoked weed. 

Third, the only people that are stupider than Tunsil and his PR team are the 12 GM's that passed on him. He will be a pro bowler multiple times in his career and you will remember draft night as much as you remembered others that had questionably character because of use of marijuana (Warren Sapp and Randy Moss)

Also, I don't trust people who don't admit to or didn't experiment in college. Those people are squares and probably are hiding the most issues in their closets.

Tunsil can play football at a very high level and weed is not a big deal. Sorry.

P.S.  Ronnie Stanley will be picking up my trash while Tunsil will be flying to Hawaii for another Pro Bowl.

Padres Bold Strategy

This whole strategy of not scoring runs is a bold way to win games. Can't say I agree with it yet but I also think we all might be getting roped into a multi layered rope-a-dope play here by the boys. My other theory is we are simply saving all our runs to impress Don Orsillo. That would be another good idea IMO. Don is cool and you always want to impress the new cool guy.


P.S.  Darren Smith (1090AM) finally verbally locating the actual problem with this organization was so refreshing today it hurt.

Hint...

P.P.S.  Dan Sileo (1090AM) apologizing for asking questions about his team (Mike Creepy Dee) performance was also just too perfect.

Lets Talk About Monday Night

Who had a worse Monday night?...

Chargers or Charger Fans

Monday night was the epitome of San Diego Sports and the following days have cemented the national outlook on this sunny beach town. Just a happy soft town that gets pillaged by more passionate sports towns.

Quick P.S.  Real weird that this is even a topic this week in town. THIS HAPPENS EVERY YEAR. Last year when Brady came out of the tunnel at the Q the earth moved. Massholes commandeered the stadium and did whatever they pleased all week long.

The Chargers were the typical Chargers. Had a must win home game and pooped themselves. It was a must win because they had a good team in town that happened to not have their elite qb playing. You simply cannot lose to Mike Vick at home. Especially on a national stage. I am more accurate peeing in the middle of the night drunk with no lights on than Vick is at passing a football.

Another quick P.S. - When does Tom Telesco start getting serious heat for one of the worst jobs in recent memory of building a functional team in a sport that continuously proves you need some depth because of injury attrition. Don't even get me started with his lack of focus of having a NT or a Center. Not having a NT in a 3-4 defense is bananas stupid. Not having a real center and expecting things to work out at all on offense is also crazy dumb. Not sure whats dumber to be honest. Prob the whole idea of running a 3-4 IMO. He runs his drafts like a 14 year old playing Madden. 

Why are San Diego locals so defensive about admitting the town is not very passionate about their professional sports teams???

Do they think these people don't travel to Lambeau when they play there?  They just can't get 70% of the stadiums tickets. It's that simple.

The locals excuses literally make no sense that its a nice town to visit. OBVIOUSLY. But, Locals act that a city that has 1.4 million residents can't fill a 71k seat stadium with real fans. Somebody please do some math.  There has to be 70k of the 1.4 million people that are from SD.

That game couldn't have played out better for Dean Spanos. It was a 4 hour free commercial for him to show the NFL the lack of hope he has of having a public vote and/or money fund a new stadium. It literally couldn't have worked out better for the Spanos family.

Last Note:

The Phil Rivers apologists were out in force regarding his Pick 6. I am not a Rivers guy but think he's a top 10 NFL QB (Much closer to 10 than 5 BTW). 

1. He decided where he was going with that play before they broke the huddle. Painfully obvious. 

2. When have you ever seen Malcolm Floyd run a productive/non injury route over the middle that's within 20 yards of the line of scrimmage?

3. It was one of Phils worst pre snap reads of all time. The Steelers were caught with run personnel on the field and had to split 100 year old James harrison out of slot on man coverage. Harrison could've cover a pregnant women running in heals. Harrison got shook of the route somehow before the slot even made a cut. Could've been a simple 10-15 yard gain. But, Phil decided otherwise and got lazy at the line and didn't crosscheck mismatches. Rewatch the play. It is a juvenile read for a pop warner kid. Watch Here

The fact that everyone blamed the whole thing on Floyd is probably the reason that Rivers has WAY too much power publicly and obviously with how this offense is run. He is clearly driving the formation calls. He is ALWAYS in the Gun. Limiting the run game and making the team so much easier to eat up from a defensive game plan.

P.S. DJ Fluker was a fucking warrior in that game. Much respect to Fluke.

P.P.P.S. Flowers is doing a bang up job of masking how bad Weddle is at playing football.

Also if you're a Charger fan and don't think your fanbase is poop on a stick you should just look at Phil Rivers post game comments about the fans. BRUTAL.

San Diego Gulls Home Opener

UT San Diego - At 7:02 p.m. Saturday, Bruce Binkowski, one of the leading voices of San Diego sports, approached a podium set up on the ice of the Valley View Casino Center. 

He paused, took the microphone. And then, with six words that boomed throughout the arena, he announced very simply what was on everyone’s mind.

“Hockey is back in San Diego,” Binkowski said, and the sellout crowd erupted.

Yes, after months — no, years — of waiting, of expectation, the newest incarnation of the San Diego Gulls opened their season on Saturday night against the Grand Rapids Griffins, and won, 4-2.

I purchased full season tickets to this show for so many reasons and I can flat out tell you it is easily my best buy of my life. Nothing made too much sense at the game and I was on my toes the second entered the parking lot to the second I left that dump. 

It was basically the Super Bowl of people watching throughout the pre game festivities. ALL walks off life having a good old time down at the shitty Sports Arena. The scene amongst the fans will undoubtedly be the best part of this experience moving forward throughout the season. 

The promotion schedule is simply outrageous. It's simple a bunch of 2 dollar beers night with a sneaky night called "Bar Olympics" which could be the end of minor league hockey in San Diego. The people that will show for these nights are my kind of people.

P.S. The Sports Arena might be the most perfect venue for a minor league sport. Its old, shitty, and absolutely perfect for the scene for hockey in a beach community in SoCal.

The Ice broke literally before they dropped the puck which led to one of several delays. Absolutely perfect timing because minor sports are supposed to be a bit of a disaster and the Ice definitely stole the show. Very quickly into the game it became VERY apparent that the technology in the area might not be up to par because the ice started melting and it turned into a fog. They made the players take breaks and skate in circles to help clear the fog. I was loving every second of the show. I couldn't stop clapping and laughing.

The Goalie (Gibson) was pissed about the fact his net poles were clearly not properly drilled. Easily the best player on the ice and also my favorite because he gave off the vibe off "Why the fuck am I playing hockey in a melting rink in San Diego" the whole game and I couldn't get enough of it. Love that he is probably an asshole. Need those assholes in this town.

The Tailgate scene was a disaster and that's exactly how it should be. I almost ran over at least 13 children running around the parking lot when I entered. It was a lawless scene with no stadium employees to be found anywhere.

Also the Gulls tweeting out 2 dollar beer tailgate and then charging 5 bucks was a business move that I sneaky respect. The tailgate bartenders workers called me soft for only ordering 2 beers and I like that peer pressure. No regards for my safety and just won't me lit to yell at some hockey players from some random AHL town. Grand Rapids Michigan hockey Griffins got all they could handle from this Masshole.

P.S. There is like a club/lounge for Full season ticket holder that me and a buddy hit up for every intermission and the scene got weirder/drunker every period. Big plus in my book.

P.P.S.  Pray for the AHL team from Bakersfield because they're coming to town on Friday and its 2 dollar beer night. They should be happy to get out alive with all their stuff IMO.

PadresHatGate

I tried my hardest to be done with the 2015 Padres but this story is so Padres it hurts. The Padres mass produced a cross branding hat to include in a group ticket purchase of a Padres hat along with the Logos of the 2 most prominent LA colleges(UCLA & USC). This group and hat ticket package just happened to coincide with the LA Dodgers being the opponent on the night of this "deal".

Now, My honest feelings on this hat situation is that it is a smart move to sell more tickets and completely understand why thing are done like this because sports is a business and enticing the market to buy more of your product(tix) is always smart in a for-profit business.

My huge issue is the Padres message to the obvious outcry from their fans being upset that their logo is being shared with LA fans on a night with an LA team in town.

Solution: Honest in your face Public Relations regarding the Hat Intentions...


"We would obviously like to have Petco Park filled with all Padres fans every night but that is simply not happening and only happens on very very rare occasions. We, as any other business, need to attract customers in any way possible to sell our product. If its not a Padres fan in a seat, we still need to make sure a paying customer is in as many seats as possible. The Padres selling more seats is good for all involved. The more profit we can make means the more percentage of profit we can spend to improve the team. Again, We would love to have the place packed with all Padres fans and we are not dumb enough to think that a good percentage of this group promotion will in fact be cheering for the Dodgers, but that money is going into our pockets and we need to improve the team next year."

Instead the angle they took on their message either insinuates that the Padres organization thinks the fanbase is stupid or the organization is too dumb to gauge public reaction to sales strategies. Organization simply can't get out of its way to succeed.

The older I get the more I realize that A LOT of people at the top of the food chain in any business organizations aren't always the smartest people in the room. They just found a way to get there by saying "Yes" and agreeing with whoever was a above them no matter what. Businesses set up like this will never ever succeed.

Time is a flat circle.

Lions vs Chargers Preview Pod

Jumped on the Tube very early morning today with everyones favorite Alter boy Eddie "Bigtime" Quinn. Real quick hitter on a preview of todays tilt from two short pasty Irish bums.

Real quick shoutout to Baby Cam. Cam was tittering on a full blown meltdown the entire taping. She more or less self fed herself which is a story in itself being under 100 days old. I also would like to Blame Baby Cam as well for me calling (Ladarius Green) Ladarius Thomas.

No time to sleep when Baby Cam demands to wake up early to bet European soccer.

Official Bets today as of 645am...

DET (+3) @ SD

Saints (+2.5) @ ARZ

St Lu (+4) vs SEA



* I will probably bet the entire board at 6 minutes before kickoff bc I get WAY to excited and just start firing bets like a machine gun fishing in the ocean.

P.S.  Possible post game show podcast based on my sobriety. 17% chance it goes down.