Plaschke & Zelasco, jist pizzin me off

[Dodgersrf]

I would love for JT to move to LA.
Never could stand Plachke or Simers.

 

[Akrasian]

No dude, you're just large, you idiot. If LA were small, they too would have to dish out money for a team, you dimwit! Sophisticated enough?! Sophisticated enough?! What an asshat!

My god, this Bernie on steroids!

One of Plaschke's hallmarks is his tendency to have very short paragraphs - almost like he doesn't have any actual content to his ideas - just things he's throwing out.

He usually writes one or so good human interest story a year, though.

 

[MTRamsFan]

I really hope Demarco follows the team. He's a great RAMS personality and I'll miss him if he doesn't.

I think he would. He grew up in California and he was one of the original LA Rams to move to St. Louis. I would think he would continue to be at least the color guy for their game day broadcast. If have ever heard their game day broadcast, you will never want to listen to the Fox, CBS, ESPN, NBC guys again. He is very candid and calls it like it is. He doesn't sugar coat anything good or bad.

 

[Roman Snow]

Holy crap the arrogance! Just so laughably shallow and narcissistic! His entire argument is we are fairweather bandwagon fans and couldn't care less about a team if you don't win?!

LA needs to run this douche off.

Bill Plasckhe

Welcome back, NFL. Welcome home, Rams. Welcome, maybe, Chargers.

Now get to work, all of you.

Certainly, it's worth celebrating Tuesday's vote by the NFL owners to approve the return of this country's national pastime to Los Angeles after a 21-year absence.



It's interesting that the Chargers, born here, have the approval to possibly become a second team in the proposed Inglewood sports palace.

But, dear football folks, this town doesn't throw parades for just showing up.

The sports landscape around here has changed dramatically in the last two decades, and there are some things you should know.

First, we didn't ask you to come back. Oh, we may have whined occasionally during Super Bowl weeks, but we didn't hold giant rallies or send emotional letters or really miss you that much. We play fantasy football, we watch DirecTV, we drive to Las Vegas for a three-team parlay. We've had our fill of the NFL without actually having a team.

Lakers on Sunday nights in the winter.

Second, we're not paying for you to come back. Every place else you've gone, the grateful locals have slipped you a few bucks to show up, but not here, not even close, which is probably why it took 21 years for you to return.

We didn't pry open civic pocketbooks or agree to any special taxes like some of those other smaller towns. We're sophisticated enough to understand that you're not a hospital or firehouse, that billionaires shouldn't need handouts to bankroll their pigskin parties.



So understand first that you're here because you want to be here and because you think you can make money here, not because anybody was dying to see you again. Consider yourself lucky to be back on our turf. And while you're here, you'll have to play by our three simple rules:

You must win. You must entertain. You must do both with the sort of decency and integrity that makes us feel comfortable enduring long lines of traffic, long lines at bathrooms, and mosh pits in parking lots for a chance to watch you play.

We've done that at Dodger Stadium and the Rose Bowl and the Coliseum, and we'll do that for you. But you have to earn it.

You must learn from Frank McCourt. The former Dodgers owner tried to cheat us and we ran him out of town.



You must learn from Donald Sterling. The former Clippers owner embarrassed us so we ignored him for years, until the NBA finally ran him out of town.

The NFL has made plenty of money off a tribal mentality among its fans, but we don't think like that. Sports is not our obligation, it's our entertainment, and when the fun stops, we stop showing up. You lose, we're gone. You take us for granted, we're gone.

We don't owe you cheers — even Kobe Bryant has been booed here. We don't owe you unconditional love — even with three consecutive division titles, the Dodgers brand has been splintered by an ownership group that refuses to fix a contact that has left more than half their fans unable to watch on television.

Watching the NFL march back through our door is like watching the return of a quiet, beloved relative who left home to become rich and famous. Now that he's back and wants everyone to join his party, well, hmmm.



When the Rams left town, they were viewed as a sweet neighborhood operation whose players weren't too proud to participate in an infamously corny music video — "Let's Ram It!" — and whose most ardent fans wore watermelons on their heads. But these Rams are coming back as an ATM for the reticent Stan Kroenke, and are a team that hasn't made the playoffs in 11 years.

The Rams' evolution has mirrored that of its league. The NFL has become the biggest and coldest of businesses, run by owners who have trivialized domestic abuse, covered up the effect of concussions, and mishandled legitimate cheating allegations against its most celebrated player, all in the last couple of seasons.

But there is much potential here, because the NFL is also about community. Just ask those purple-bundled fans sitting in below-zero temperatures in Minnesota last weekend, or the roaring sea of orange that can be found in Denver this weekend, or the thousands of screaming "12s" who show up all season in Seattle.

The NFL has become a shared experience like none other in sports, with a unique ability to connect even the most diverse neighborhoods in a weekly experience that for its most ardent fans has become sacred habit. Because it is as powerful on television as it is in person, because it owns every Sunday between September and February, and because its players represent helmeted superheroes unlike those found in any other league, the NFL owns the sports landscape in nearly every community it exists.

At least, everywhere else. And maybe here one day. But it's not going to be easy.

The Rams and Chargers can't just untie a bag of footballs, roll them across the Coliseum floor, and expect everyone to bow and pay $150 for the privilege.

The Lakers and Dodgers run this joint, and college football teams are giants, and nobody wins like the Kings, and nobody has more drama than the Clippers, and in 21 years Los Angeles has become arguably the nation's most interesting sports town — without the national pastime's help.

Welcome back, NFL. Now make us glad we missed you.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/nfl/la-sp-nfl-la-plaschke-20160113-column.html

This guy is pretty impressed with himself. It's a good thing he got greater LAs permission to speak for them. Or not.

He must be speaking for his "sophisticated" little circle of self-important narcissists that give California a bad name.

No worries. Stay home. You little C- journalism student. Your article was as dull as it was untrue.

Hundreds of thousands of Ram fans can't wait to cheer on our Rams while you obsess over your Instagram account. Bite me.

 

[rdlkgliders]

@RamzFanz I don't read our local writers, To much agenda and they are encouraged to write this sort so to elicit a passionate response.
And it is my prerogative to ignore them.
P.S @Merlin & @MTRamsFan
Demarco was on local radio today discussing the move. He was very considerate to the St Louis fans and came across great as usual. He spoke about all the NFL players that live in LA and play elswhere. He said that LA will be a top destination for FA'S and the team will reap the benefits.

 

[rdw]

FYI, Plaschke is Bernie, don't give him one second of your time. Guys think that they are hard hitting journalists, but mostly these old guys are just assholes. Hopefully, they will find someone young, and someone who loves the Rams to cover them.

Yep!

I'm a Dodger fan and I hate the crap that Plaschke writes. I stopped reading long ago.

 

[ReddingRam]

Sam Farmer is your guy in print now. Plaschke is a duche

 

[OC--LeftCoast]

Pretty sure these two know very little about the Rams

I can't stand either one

Their value is strictly entertainment, and it's pretty lame at that

 

[UKram]

that plaschke wins the the guy id really like to punch in the nuts award for 2016 and we are only 14 days in

what an absolute douche bag article

 

[LumberTubs]

Is Plaschke the guy that did (maybe still does) Around the Horn on ESPN with Woody what's-his-name from Denver and a couple of others? I used to love watching that.

He always came across ok on that although its a very different environment to the written word.

Its unfortunate but journalism of all types including sports is all about the all powerful 'click' and journalists are encouraged to present their work in more easily digestible forms (hence the rise in nonsense list articles like the top 10 this, that or the other) and to provide content that will draw the reader in and evoke a strong reaction. This is what "good" journalism is these days. Maybe its our fault as consumers for seemingly becoming more and more stupid over time.

It looks as if Plaschke's article is part of this trend and, if it hadn't been so arrogant, it wouldn't have been posted on ROD and we wouldn't have clicked on it and we wouldn't be discussing it now. The LA Times has achieved its goal!

 

[DaveFan'51]

@RamzFanz I don't read our local writers, To much agenda and they are encouraged to write this sort so to elicit a passionate response.
And it is my prerogative to ignore them.
P.S @Merlin & @MTRamsFan
Demarco was on local radio today discussing the move. He was very considerate to the St Louis fans and came across great as usual. He spoke about all the NFL players that live in LA and play elswhere. He said that LA will be a top destination for FA'S and the team will reap the benefits.

As one commentator put it. It's going to be a great place for players to promote their own Brand. So yes, I believe it will attract a lot of FA's that wouldn't give 'St. Louis' a shot! But how many of them will be worth it!!?!

 

[Psycho_X]

Plaschke sounds like the LA version of Kevin Slaten in St. Louis.

 

[A55VA6]

I was listening to Max and Marcellus interview Gurley yesterday and man those guys are complete nuts. Interesting note though, Gurley said he always wanted to live in LA and play football.. dream come true for him I suppose.

 

[Loyal]

I was listening to Max and Marcellus interview Gurley yesterday and man those guys are complete nuts. Interesting note though, Gurley said he always wanted to live in LA and play football.. dream come true for him I suppose.

I have these memories of Eric Dickerson running at Anaheim Stadium, and in the LA Coliseum when they played the Raiders....Now we get to see Todd Gurley become a MegaStar at the LA Coliseum again..It's almost like a dream

 

[bluecoconuts]

Nobody likes Plaschke, he doesn't even know much about LA Sports.. He said today that Rampage would be the first mascot in LA "unless the clippers beat him to it"... Except that the LA Galaxy have their mascot, and the LA Kings mascot, Bailey, just won mascot of the year, and frankly sets the standard for mascots in the social media era. Dude doesn't know squat, I wouldn't listen/read anything he has to say.