Captain emo Bill plashy wants sh Otani to pitch in the playoffs will explain why that's insane ESPN carelessly throws out a Lakers trade rumor brace yourself for months of drama over that and stop me if you've heard this one before but Joey Bosa is injured good morning I'm James this is your daily dose of sports and snark for the greatest sports city in the world Los Angeles this is the faithful angelinos rning report so it is September 13th 2024 welcome to terrible journalism Friday I am genuinely in awe of the ridiculous reportage that we have to shoot down today but whatever we always want to start off in a good mood by talking about La so if you like being to know about LA Sports click clack the like button click to Clack the Subscribe button there's a notification Bell hit that it'll let you know when we drop new content Shing is caring let people know exist and by all means comment now before we go through the news and notes and look at the scoreboard there were no games involving La teams yesterday but today the Dodgers are in Atlanta the game will start at 420 Landon Knack is 2 and three with an ER of three Spencer schwellenbach he is 5- seven with an erra of 3.78 so what do you say we get to the news longtime viewers of this program know that I consider LA Times Colonist Bill plashy to be a damn fool everything he writes and I was a journalist for over two decades myself and I never I only I didn't I was never part of the times's daily operation so I hope this doesn't come off as salour grapes but everything Bill plashy writes is either more obvious than the instructions on a bottle as shampoo or so dripping with fake emotion that you wonder if he guzzles big gulps full of estrogen every day for example USC football is right now the second biggest story in LA Sports wouldn't you say but it's been two weeks since he has written a single word about the Trojans and why because he's been urging them for the better part of a year to get rid of Lincoln Riley and just like everybody who's in the hot take industry it doesn't matter if it's hot takes in politics or hot takes in sports you never admit you're wrong when you're all about the hot takes ever I would actually pray that more of these hot take journalists than actual people would admit that they're wrong right Donald Trump doesn't have to admit he lost in 2020 he never will I would settle for Shan Hannity saying Donald Trump lost in 2020 give me that little bit of a bone rescue that much of an iota of your integrity so it's abundantly obvious plasy has been trying to land a gig at ESPN for years before the next round of layoffs at the Times inevitably comes which sucks for him because Around the Horn is apparently about to get canceled but I digress so plashy instead of conceding that he might be wrong about USC among other things simply change topics he's urging the dodg to use Shi Otani out of the bullpen in October really a guy who underwent a second Tommy John surgery who only recently began tossing around a baseball yeah why not I'll tell you why not because it's effing stupid that's why not first of all who's to say that sh Otani can pitch effectively let alone pitch without out his arm spontaneously combusting at the elbow the number of pitchers who have come back from a second Tommy John surgery and Pitch effectively is super low ask Walker buer a former Sai Young candidate who has g under gone a second Tommy John surgery and now can't get anybody out we've seen this act before this year and now you're asking for a redo with SH Otani o they number two we have no evidence that Otani can physically throw a quality Major League pitch in the mid 90s we have no reason to believe he can we've only seen him throw soft tosses because the arm hasn't recovered it's still healing and thirdly you do realize that the Dodgers have gone through 12 starting pitchers so far this year right I mean I do realize you're saying well maybe Otani can pitch out of the pen but you're going to tell me that you're going to trust sh otani's arm to pitching coach Mark Prior again sent 12 Dodgers starters to the injured list this year you could literally make a sci-fi film out of Dodgers arms melting just like just like lowering Arnold Schwarzenegger into the molten medal at the end of Terminator 2 before he finally disappears no need for CGI all we need is the is the surgery films from Cedar Sinai to make the point this idea is so profoundly stupid it is almost as if Bill plashy is arguing uh what do you got left to lose uh throw him out there if his arm shatters at least he can hit next year Bill pl's opinions are so bipolar they make him look like the Demi levado of the LA Times the guy for example demanded that LeBron James leave town in February he called him selfish then he circled back this summer and disrespected the Lakers because according to him they're wasting LeBron James's golden years which is it this is a guy who a couple of years ago wrote how much he was personally wounded by Staple Center changing its name hurt like like like physical pain over a building that still exists so the Dodgers heard him out and they humored him much like you humor children when they show something that they drew in school you know you have no idea what the hell your kid Drew but you're like oh my God it's so beautiful but rest assured the Dodgers are not risking the health of a man that they signed to a $700 million contract only a fool would think so and that fool writes for the LA Times and that's a memo the Dodgers also signed Lefty Zack log to a minor league contract they sent him to triaa Oklahoma City the dude was waved by the Braves a couple of weeks ago he's reached the majors with Detroit and Oakland the last time he was in the majors was 2023 this is obviously not a needle mover for the playoffs meanwhile with the Lakers ever since this program began I've been shooting down Lakers rumors one by one you know they you see them on online all the time you put Lakers in a Google Search and they always say the same thing here's a wild Blockbuster proposal but and then you look and it's like oh Lakers should trade a second round pick in D'Angelo Russell for Nico yic who says no um reality says no and I bring this up because you would think ESPN would not take part in hyping wild unfounded proposals but that is the state of American journalism in 2024 so take what I'm about to tell you about the Lakers with a fist full of salt Anthony Davis still wants to play power forward incen of Center so ESPN is claiming that Wizard center yonas uh Valen unus could be a Target could be by the way nothing is imminent nor have any actual trade discussions been confirmed they just took a random Center's name and threw it out there for everybody's consumption in other words there is a big chance that Dave McManaman is full of turd now we understand why the Lakers would want to servable serviceable Center to pair with Davis the Lakers tried two randos last year but according to a website called cleaning the glass Davis he only played for about he only played the four Davis only played power forward for about 921 possessions next to either Christian wood or Jackson Hayes what that means is is that Davis played 84% of his time on the floor as the Lakers only big man they did not give him the five that he's been asking for for years and by the way this offseason Lakers haven't even tried to address the need for another big man no vets the draft picks went to alleged three and D guys so I want to thank ESPN for keeping us up to speed on vacuous empty promises by the way they're not even going to have wood for a while the dude underwent a knee procedure recently you might wind up seeing Colin Caston get called up from the G before you see Anthony Davis paired up with wood or Haze again I have trouble finding what I admire most about Chargers defensive end Joey Bosa sure he gets the quarterback but that's not what I'm getting at what is more impressive than Joey bosa's ability to get to the quarterback well the fact that he continues to get different body parts injured instead of just the same one over and over again that's impressive I'm I'm very impressed with that or the fact that he keeps getting injured quicker in the season it's almost like he's found a way to harm himself more efficiently it's it's Ruess how that plan appears to be working out if you think about it Bosa didn't practice Thursday because of his back so so far he's injured his groin his hamstring his foot now his back we have no idea if he's being held out for Sunday's game but uh we don't so we don't want to get ahead of ourselves but uh Dam you know at what point is Joey Bosa going to have to scoop his eye off the astro turf over at Sofi he wasn't the only guy who didn't practice with the Chargers on Thursday wide receiver Joshua Palmer was limited in practice that's a second consecutive day and by the way that same story goes for defensive back alohigh Gilman the Chargers by the way much like I do live out of a suitcase at least they'll be doing that for for the next couple of weeks they're playing at Carolina this Sunday but they are not returning to Southern California the reason is is that they are going to stay East for their next game in Pittsburgh Jim Harbaugh said it's going to be an ideal way for the players to bond but he concedes quote it's not the most ideal thing everybody would rather be sleeping in their own bed in their own house the one o00 eastern time kickoff really necessitates that's 10:00 our body time getting acclimated to that plus you take out the 20 or so hours of travel time unquote I saw a headline about Saturday's El traffico which is a case study for pointless clickbait the headline LA Galaxy boss Greg vany makes fantastic lafc claim for the fans you know you read that thinking wait we talking bulletin board material here is VY predicting a 5 nothing shut out is vany g to go out like that Florida State football fan did on X promising to eat a red cup full of dog turd if the Galaxy lose are you thinking that well here's the quote if we really want to win the West this is a game we need unquote that's a fantastic claim that's the opposite of a fantastic claim where the hell did this writer buy his dictionary that that's like if that's a fantastic claim that is a claim that was made on shrooms on hallucinogens I mean there's a lot of fantastic things about El traffico it's the premier rivalry and M LS soccer that regularly has goals scored in the bunches loaded with International Stars hell this Saturday the Galaxy are throwing out German Legend Marco Roy and lafc is countering with a French Legend Olivier giru and the Fantastic quote is yeah kind of want to win isn't that fantastic no it's obvious but you let me know what you think in the comments thread talk to me if you think it's actually a good idea to have sh Otani pitch by the way it's not but I'll hear you out or for that matter what Lakers fake Lakers trade I should say would you like to have hyped on ESPN next and if you enjoyed the content don't forget to subscribe to faithful angelinos we're talking LA Sports every single day here thanks for watching I'm James we'll be back tomorrow Faithful angelinos is a Kean Cel queso uction take care