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6-24 H1: Cole Young Emerging, Mazvita Maraire Joins & Giannis Heading to Miamia · The Gregg Bell Show

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Speaker 1: NBA Draft, I say, I fire you up or was
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Speaker 1: pretty non eventful.
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Speaker 2: You knew, to be honest, It's crazy.
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Speaker 3: I from two thousand and three to about twenty ten
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Speaker 3: that was kind of like I just had to watch
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Speaker 3: the draft. Now I'm kind of like, eh, I'm not.
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Speaker 3: I mean, there's good players in this draft, do not
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Speaker 3: get me wrong, like there are a lot of time,
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Speaker 3: but I just don't have the I guess I feel
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Speaker 3: like the old man where I'm just like, eh, I
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Speaker 3: just don't really, you know, I don't have the I
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Speaker 3: have to go sit down and watch every pick and
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Speaker 3: be like, oh my gosh, I remember watching it. I
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Speaker 3: don't do that anymore. If anything, I know of these players,
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Speaker 3: and like I mentioned, a lot of them are really
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Speaker 3: really good and can make some big changes for a
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Speaker 3: lot of these organizations.
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Speaker 2: But no, I didn't sit there and marvel at it.
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Speaker 3: I understand it's a big moment for a lot of
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Speaker 3: these young men that are going to the next level.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm yelling at the clouds. I'm good man,
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Speaker 3: I'll watch you summer League. Can't wait to see you
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Speaker 3: hoop and then making your roster and trying to make
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Speaker 3: your team better.
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Speaker 4: Could it be that you just don't know college players
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Speaker 4: anymore because they just come and leave it.
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Speaker 2: No, I know them. I know them.
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Speaker 3: I try to keep up as much as I can,
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Speaker 3: especially the top players. And I'm not gonna sit at
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Speaker 3: a NEC like I know all thirty that were drafted
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Speaker 3: last night.
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Speaker 1: I don't.
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Speaker 3: But there are you know, at least fifteen twenty that
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Speaker 3: I am familiar with that I'm like, Okay, yeah, I've
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Speaker 3: seen their game. Okay, this this should work out or
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Speaker 3: I don't think I like that big as much. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: I'm not as big as I was on it back
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Speaker 3: in the day.
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Speaker 4: On the show today, we're going to talk about a
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Speaker 4: little bit about the NBA because Tim Reynolds is the
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Speaker 4: NBA writer for the Associated Press. He's based in Miami,
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Speaker 4: where some sizeable happened this week. Gianni's got traded from
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Speaker 4: the Bucks to the Heat. We'll talk to Tim Reynolds
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Speaker 4: at eleven o'clock live on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline about that.
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Speaker 1: At ten twenty five.
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Speaker 4: Sitting right next to me, Mazvita and Mary Are He's
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Speaker 4: from Cascadia Sports Net. He's from Fox thirteen Television here
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Speaker 4: in Seattle. Their World Cup analyst he's going to talk
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Speaker 4: about the World Cup. We're gonna talk about the reason
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Speaker 4: Sounders man Christian were well Don should play for the
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Speaker 4: United States tomorrow night in a third group stage match
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Speaker 4: against Turkey for the first time this World Cup.
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Speaker 1: And we're gonna tell you the reason why he may
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Speaker 1: not play tomorrow night.
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Speaker 4: Again, more evidence on how wildly popular this World Cup
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Speaker 4: here is in Seattle. We'll talk about a little bit
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Speaker 4: about the Seahawks. They again, they're off until July twenty fifth.
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Speaker 4: I saw a video Leonard Williams posted this morning. Christal
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Speaker 4: if you saw it, he's deadlifting in bare feet, and
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Speaker 4: I put a little star next to it, and I'm
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Speaker 4: gonna ask him about it when we get back to
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Speaker 4: training camp about deadlifting. It looked like he was a
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Speaker 4: few LB's on that bar deadlifting in bare feet. I'm
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Speaker 4: something on the text line may tell me the benefits,
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Speaker 4: particularly deadlifting, I would think in bare feet as opposed
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Speaker 4: to shoes of any kind. But that's the sayings of
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Speaker 4: the season in the year I should say, the NFL
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Speaker 4: year that the players are in sure they get six
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Speaker 4: weeks off from the end of mini camp. The only
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Speaker 4: mandatory mini camp in mid June until the start of
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Speaker 4: training camp. But they aren't all just out on the
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Speaker 4: beach and hanging out and doing nothing.
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Speaker 1: I mentioned this before.
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Speaker 4: The training, strength and conditioning staff of all NFL teams
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Speaker 4: give players individual training programs to adhere to in the
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Speaker 4: six weeks that they're off and gone. Are the days
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Speaker 4: that dude just show up and they do a couple
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Speaker 4: mile run for a conditioning test the first couple of
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Speaker 4: days of training camp and if you don't pass, you
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Speaker 4: keep having to do it. These guys, all of them,
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Speaker 4: almost all of them have personal trainers, but the team
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Speaker 4: is really invested in their time away from the building
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Speaker 4: because there's so much time in the off season by
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Speaker 4: CBA now mandating that players are not there, and so
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Speaker 4: there's so much time that Seahawks don't have their hands
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Speaker 4: on these players in the off season by CBA rule
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Speaker 4: that they do prescribe training program for them. And let's
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Speaker 4: face it, right, Chris, a guy like Leonard Williams is
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Speaker 4: going to work out on his own anyway.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a veteran that is excited, got a
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Speaker 3: super Bowl, looking to move forward with this new team.
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Speaker 3: Some of the players, coaching staff, and by the way,
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Speaker 3: in terms of barefoot, I'm not a big fan of it,
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Speaker 3: but better connection to the ground, so I've been told.
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Speaker 3: And also I know it has something to do with
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Speaker 3: the range of motion. Running shoes adds about an inch
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Speaker 3: or so, and then when you are taking off the shoes,
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Speaker 3: that means you're the bar has to travel a little
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Speaker 3: slightly less distance per se, which heavy dead lifts. That
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Speaker 3: makes it a more efficient lift. So grabbing the floor
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Speaker 3: with your feet and just having that base building that connection.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure Leonard can explain it way better than I
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Speaker 3: just did. But I think those those things are probably
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Speaker 3: why he's out there doing a barefoot, which you know,
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Speaker 3: he just his her own. I like having shoes on
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Speaker 3: my feets, but you know, big cat. You know that's
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Speaker 3: a big cat for a reason.
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Speaker 4: Okay, exactly, I think he knows what he's doing. But
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Speaker 4: four nighte four or five one? Do you live on
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Speaker 4: the Tacoma Dutch text like, do you lift in bare feet?
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Speaker 4: He wants the benefit of it if you do. I
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Speaker 4: flat shoes at least when I lift. Just to cat
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Speaker 4: knowing me, i'd drop a barbell or a.
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Speaker 3: Wait on, yeah, that's kind of where I'm like, damn
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Speaker 3: if I happened to drop this on my shoe. At
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Speaker 3: least you know there's some cushion. I don't have anything
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Speaker 3: on my feet. Oh that's going to be a busted
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Speaker 3: toe or worse. How about Cole Young last How cool
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Speaker 3: was that?
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Speaker 4: Could you imagine Chris coming back to a major league
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Speaker 4: say you were, I'm coming back to play for the Mariners,
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Speaker 4: and or even saying for the Pirates coming to Seattle
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Speaker 4: and you getting a home run in Seattle, having gone
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Speaker 4: to oday high school.
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Speaker 2: And your notches in the stands, I might cry.
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Speaker 1: That's what he did.
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Speaker 4: Last day was his first major League game in his hometown.
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Speaker 4: He grew up in Pittsburgh, North Allegany. I'm about forty
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Speaker 4: five minutes. I grew up forty five minutes away from there.
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Speaker 4: It's not far at all from downtown Pittsburgh. And he
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Speaker 4: grew up unlike earlier players who grew up watching the
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Speaker 4: Pirates in Three River Stadium, he grew up in that
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Speaker 4: PNC Park down by the river. And yeah, that's where
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Speaker 4: he went to watch ball games when he was becoming
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Speaker 4: a major league player. And to have his high school
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Speaker 4: coach there and the dugout and then Brad Adam and
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Speaker 4: the Mariners TV broadcast talked to him after the game,
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Speaker 4: and it just a dream come true moment.
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Speaker 1: It was funny.
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Speaker 4: Brad Adam ast him, was that the greater eight figure?
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Speaker 4: And the answer was yes. He said, is that the
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Speaker 4: greatest moment of your major league career? In Cole you
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Speaker 4: that's top three. He's only been in major leagues for
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Speaker 4: a year and a half or so, two years. He's
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Speaker 4: understating whether it's top three or not. Cole Young and
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Speaker 4: the Mariners playing Game two of that series in Pittsburgh tonight.
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Speaker 4: It's crazy, isn't it.
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Speaker 5: Chris.
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Speaker 1: All they gotta do is win two games, and they
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Speaker 1: gained two games in the standings.
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Speaker 2: You know, we've been biggering about it all seasons.
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Speaker 3: This AL West League or this aos is just not
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Speaker 3: that great. The Mariners are, but they haven't hit that stride.
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Speaker 3: But when they do, I think again they will open
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Speaker 3: up a nice lead. And back to Cole Young, he is,
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Speaker 3: I think emerging as a legitimate everyday player. He's twenty
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Speaker 3: two years old and he's just making clutch plays after
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Speaker 3: clutch plays, and he's looking really comfortable in those big moments,
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Speaker 3: and I think this is exactly what but the Mariners
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Speaker 3: saw when they took him, and he's actually he's proving that.
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Speaker 3: So it's really cool to see Cole Young go back
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Speaker 3: to his hometown have a blast doing sowing the first
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Speaker 3: game and hopefully that can continue.
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Speaker 4: I mean, he could make a case he's an all
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Speaker 4: star second basement in the America.
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Speaker 5: Wait, we.
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Speaker 4: Chase Jazz Chisholm. I mean, he'll get attention because he's
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Speaker 4: with the Yankees and he's got the pedigree. But yeah,
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Speaker 4: for my money, Cole Young is the MVP. He's played
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Speaker 4: in every game. He's the only Mariner to play in
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Speaker 4: every game, and his fielding almost flawless at second base.
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Speaker 4: I think of the play he made on a tag
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Speaker 4: while grabbing the ball and tagging the runner between first
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Speaker 4: and second in one motion and then through the first
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Speaker 4: for a double play.
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Speaker 1: We could grow up.
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Speaker 4: Came up as a shortstop as a lot of top
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Speaker 4: baseball prospects do move to second base to make room
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Speaker 4: for eventually cold Emerson. And now we saw last night
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Speaker 4: a couple of double plays with that tandem. That's your
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Speaker 4: middle of your infield, your second basement shortstop. Are your
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Speaker 4: dudes of the future. Twenty two and twenty years old. Way,
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Speaker 4: no one's paying attention to it. But cold Emerson grew
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Speaker 4: up in Zanesville, Ohio, which is not that far west
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Speaker 4: of Pittsburgh. James was about an hour on the other
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Speaker 4: side of where I grew up, and so it's something
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Speaker 4: of a homecoming for him. I'm sure he had people
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Speaker 4: in the yard last night for his major first Major
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Speaker 4: League game in Pittsburgh, pretty close to where he grew
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Speaker 4: up in Zanesville, Ohio. But homecoming for the young kids
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Speaker 4: in the middle of the Mariners infield last night. The
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Speaker 4: World Cup for the US team again tomorrow's match against
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Speaker 4: Turkey at seven pm. It really doesn't mean anything because
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Speaker 4: it's standings wise. They're already advanced to their round of
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Speaker 4: thirty two by virtue of winning their first two matches,
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Speaker 4: including that two zero win here against Australia on that
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Speaker 4: wild scene Friday at Lubinfield. But tomorrow they're playing basically
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Speaker 4: to stay sharp before July first, when they play the
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Speaker 4: knockout stage around to thirty two against a third place team,
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Speaker 4: so they will have a favorable seeding. Now, of course,
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Speaker 4: tomorrow's win if they could be three to zero in
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Speaker 4: the group, if they would beat Turkey. That would give
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Speaker 4: them a game against an even weaker third place team
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Speaker 4: in the standings, as they slot top teams against weaker teams.
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Speaker 4: If bears repeating, if the United States wins tomorrow, they
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Speaker 4: will play July six back here in Seattle for a
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Speaker 4: round of sixteen and a berth in the quarterfinals. How
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Speaker 4: often does that happen. It's happened once. They have won
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Speaker 4: a knockout stage match in the modern World Cup. Of course,
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Speaker 4: they finished third in the very first World Cup in
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Speaker 4: nineteen thirty where I think there were eight teams in
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Speaker 4: the tournament. Other than that, they've only won time two
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Speaker 4: thousand and two gone past the quarterfinal round.
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Speaker 1: And that's what.
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Speaker 4: If they win their match July first, down in Santa
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Speaker 4: Claire in the round of thirty two, the United States
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Speaker 4: men's team will have a chance at a quarterfinal. They
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Speaker 4: will be playing for birth in the quarterfinals. On July sixth,
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Speaker 4: They'll be playing back in Seattle in the round of sixteen,
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Speaker 4: potentially against Belgium, potentially against some other teams that depending
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Speaker 4: on how who finishes first in a group Egypt potentially.
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Speaker 4: The fourth group stage match in Seattle is Friday nights.
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Speaker 4: The only night of the four state's matches here in
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Speaker 4: Seattle Lumenfield, and that is essentially an elimination game Egypt
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Speaker 4: against Iran. The winner will advance, the loser will win
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Speaker 4: the group, most likely depending on what Belgium does in
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Speaker 4: its match the same time. But that's potentially an elimination
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Speaker 4: match of win or go home for Egypt in Iran.
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Speaker 4: Tickets are more expensive in the secondary market for that
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Speaker 4: game than for today's Bosnia hers Gavina Katar game. Qatar
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Speaker 4: is basically out of advancing. I think they are eliminated,
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Speaker 4: if not close to it, and Bosnia hears A Govina
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Speaker 4: can advance and move up in the standings with a
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Speaker 4: win today.
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Speaker 1: That's what it's taken.
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Speaker 4: Noon at Lumenfield for the US team, Tyler Adams, the
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Speaker 4: critical guy in the middle of the field, said he
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Speaker 4: intends to play Thursday for the Americans against Turkey.
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Speaker 1: He's on a yellow card.
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Speaker 4: We talked with Nico Moreno of Sounder Hart and MLS
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Speaker 4: Espanol and Fox thirteen Seattle a couple days ago on
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Speaker 4: the show about he says Tyler Adams he wouldn't play him.
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Speaker 4: Told us that on Monday to avoid the risk of
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Speaker 4: yellow card to a Q relation to him being suspended
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Speaker 4: for the round of thirty two match. The guy on
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Speaker 4: the US roster, Chris, that is most likely and makes
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Speaker 4: most sense to replace Tyler Adams if you hold him
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Speaker 4: out for the yellow cards is Christian Roldan. But Christian
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Speaker 4: Rodan got injured in training last week when the team
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Speaker 4: got back from Seattle to their training base in Ermine.
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Speaker 4: He's got a muscle strain. Our man Masvida Marrieire was
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Speaker 4: probably on the call yesterday. I think he was on
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Speaker 4: the call yesterday. He had a teleconference with the Seattle
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Speaker 4: area meeter. Christian Roldan did. Roddan said he's intending the
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Speaker 4: play are going to attempt to play, but he's not
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Speaker 4: sure what the injury status is going to be. Probably
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Speaker 4: not even sure what the US coaches plans for him is.
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Speaker 4: But if roll Don is healthy, you would figure he
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Speaker 4: plays for Tyler Adams tomorrow, so Adams doesn't risk not
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Speaker 4: being able to play at all in the match that
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Speaker 4: matters the round to thirty two on July first, and
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Speaker 4: Sound Transit yesterday, speaking of how popular this World Cup
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Speaker 4: is in Seattle, Sound Transit, Chris said that two hundred
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Speaker 4: and eighty thousand riders were on Seattle's Link light rail
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Speaker 4: system on Friday when the US played Australia here downtown,
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Speaker 4: by far a single day record before I think it
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Speaker 4: was two thirty six who thirty six thousand previous record.
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Speaker 4: I told my wife this last night, and she said,
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Speaker 4: how many of those two hundred and eighty thousand riders paid?
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Speaker 4: That's some treads. That's a problem with paying without turnstiles.
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Speaker 4: But more than a quarter a million people were riding
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Speaker 4: the light rail on Friday, probably around two hundred thousand
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Speaker 4: or more coming down here to the stadium district to
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Speaker 4: watch the game. And I know Chris wants to be
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Speaker 4: nothing near this place and no thanks, but everybody else
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Speaker 4: quarter million people disagree with you, Chris.
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Speaker 2: I ain'tnna argue with him.
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Speaker 3: But those quarter million, how many of them are actually
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Speaker 3: soccer fans? Maybe half of them.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe a little more than that, or maybe they're
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Speaker 4: just here for the scene. That's true, just down here.
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Speaker 4: For the quarter million people weren't in the yard for
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Speaker 4: the game on Friday, that would be mess seven thousand, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Sixty seven thousand were.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, there probably there are a lot of people
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Speaker 4: down here who don't go in and the three matches
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Speaker 4: I've been to outside the yard, people stay outside once
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Speaker 4: the game starts and they go to the bars and
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Speaker 4: the Illegiant that's right across the street, or Victory Hall,
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Speaker 4: it's across First Avenue. And by the way, I walked
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Speaker 4: by Victory Hall to get in there to Jimmy's, there
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Speaker 4: are nearly the people in there that there were when
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Speaker 4: the Australians.
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Speaker 2: Let me, can I get my pet peeve off real quick?
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Speaker 1: Yes? Please do so.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's not a pet Peeves. I just find it odd.
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Speaker 3: So I went to a Mariner's game out of college.
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Speaker 3: My home was like, yeah, let's go to the Mariners game.
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Speaker 3: And I'm thinking we're gonna watch the game. When I
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Speaker 3: tell you we just went to the beer garden and
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Speaker 3: we just chop it up with ladies. I was very confused.
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Speaker 3: I was like, I paid you know, X amount of
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Speaker 3: dollars to come in there and talk to people. I
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Speaker 3: was like, what, I thought we were watching the game, Like, oh, yeah, well,
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Speaker 3: we won't watch I'm like, it's the seventh inning, guys,
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Speaker 3: we have we haven't watched anything we've been in the
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Speaker 3: beer garden.
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Speaker 2: So that was kind of my like a moment.
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Speaker 3: If you're gonna go to a Mariner's game with your friends,
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Speaker 3: you better hope your friends are actually interested in baseball.
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Speaker 3: And I found out that they were interested in other activities,
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Speaker 3: which time I'm mad at.
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Speaker 1: But it depends how old they are, right, I mean
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Speaker 1: in the mid twenties, that's.
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Speaker 4: You will watch the game. Yes, time has changed. I've
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Speaker 4: walked through the bier garden and gun, yep, this isn't
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Speaker 4: my scene. This isn't nobody wouldn't be in here. All
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Speaker 4: twenty postgraduates or college kids out there, But that is
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Speaker 4: a very popular part of Mariner's home games. And go
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Speaker 4: out to the beer ground if you haven't done it.
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Speaker 4: It's just beyond the left center field fence and most
14:33
Speaker 4: of you listening probably know and familiar with it. But yeah,
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Speaker 4: especially Friday Saturday nights, that is the college domain. I
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Speaker 4: might as well hang pennants from the wall out there
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Speaker 4: in left center field. There's so many college kids out
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Speaker 4: there coming up. I met Jimmy's on first right, across
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Speaker 4: the street from Womenfield. Why am I here because Bosnia,
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Speaker 4: hers Gavina and Qatar are playing the third of six
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Speaker 4: matches here at the World Cup starting at noon today.
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Speaker 4: The final group stage, third and final groups stay matches
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Speaker 4: have begun their simultaneous games going on. Switzerland and Canada
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Speaker 4: are going to be playing in Vancouver. The other two
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Speaker 4: teams in this group, opposite of Bosni and Qatar, They're
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Speaker 4: playing at noon in Vancouver at the same time Bosnania
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Speaker 4: Here's gonna be A and Cutter are going to play
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Speaker 4: here in Lumenfield. Mas Vita mary Are. He is from
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Speaker 4: Cascadia sports Net, Fox thirteen, Seattle's television's World Cup analyst.
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Speaker 4: He joins us next attack all things World Cup, including
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Speaker 4: what do you learned from Christian Roldan talking to him yesterday?
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Speaker 4: Hi, Welcome back, Greg Beller News Tribute Christopher Knd live
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Speaker 1: Ninety three point three KGRFM. As we are every ten
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Speaker 1: ams at noon every weekday.
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Speaker 4: Masveta mary Ara, Cascading Sports Net, Fox thirteen, Seattle big
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Speaker 4: Shot television World Cup analyst is joining us. Next to
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Speaker 4: me here at Jimmy's on for fewer people than in
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Speaker 4: the US Australia match.
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Speaker 1: I think I think that's safe to say. Oz So.
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Speaker 4: Masvita was talking to me about the importance of this
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Speaker 4: game and the fact that the United States is likely
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Speaker 4: to play the winner of Cutter and Bosnia Herzgovina noon
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Speaker 4: here at Woomenfield.
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Speaker 1: Is that right mazing?
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Speaker 4: We'll get him connected here remotely in a second, right.
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Speaker 5: Now, Yeah, there you go.
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Speaker 4: Thanks, Masvia tell us about the importance of this match
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Speaker 4: for the United States.
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Speaker 7: Well, the say thank you for having me all so
17:19
Speaker 7: it's a pleasure Chris and everybody else KG appreciated. Uh yeah,
17:23
Speaker 7: the winner of this game would be the United States
17:27
Speaker 7: opponent in San Francisco, and so the US has got
17:32
Speaker 7: you know, I'm sure that they're intentally watching this game
17:36
Speaker 7: and scouting and things like that. And it's because the
17:41
Speaker 7: winner of the United States group then what's slated to play,
17:45
Speaker 7: is slated to play the third place team here.
17:48
Speaker 4: And a winner of this Bosnia Herzgovina Cutter match, we'll
17:51
Speaker 4: finish third in Group B. Now, a tie in this
17:54
Speaker 4: match today another draw which both teams have had to
17:57
Speaker 4: draw so far in this Tournamentsvine drew with Canada to
18:01
Speaker 4: begin the tournament one to one. A draw today could
18:05
Speaker 4: potentially have him play What other teams could the US play?
18:08
Speaker 7: Yeah, it gets complicated, right because then you start looking
18:11
Speaker 7: at you know, the Senegal is one of the teams
18:14
Speaker 7: that play, so it would it gets complicated if this
18:16
Speaker 7: is a draw here in terms of the US.
18:20
Speaker 4: You talked to Christian Roaldin yesterday. He talked to the
18:22
Speaker 4: Sounders media from Irvine in the US training center. First
18:26
Speaker 4: of all, update the listeners on what his injury status is.
18:29
Speaker 4: He got hurt training last weekend?
18:30
Speaker 1: Is that right?
18:31
Speaker 5: Yeah? How unfortunate.
18:33
Speaker 7: So second to the last kick practice at the U
18:37
Speaker 7: dub right.
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Speaker 4: Oh, is that the before the day before the match exactly,
18:41
Speaker 4: that's why he didn't get something.
18:43
Speaker 5: That's exactly why he didn't.
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Speaker 7: He said he felt some tightness in his leg and
18:48
Speaker 7: then they just decided to uh, precautionary and wait it out.
18:53
Speaker 1: I see.
18:54
Speaker 4: So, And he didn't divulge us in the mix oone
18:56
Speaker 4: with US after the match because he didn't the team
18:59
Speaker 4: hadn't or it just divults that. But it was peculiar
19:04
Speaker 4: that when they made two substitutions very late in the
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Speaker 4: match about ninety seconds before the final whistle. One of
19:08
Speaker 4: them wasn't Christian roll Don, who would have gotten a
19:10
Speaker 4: huge ovation. But now we know why a muscle strain.
19:13
Speaker 4: We know what it is, hamstring leg.
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Speaker 7: No, no, he did as far as yesterday was not devolved.
19:19
Speaker 7: Didn't go exactly whether you write the hamstring, the quad
19:22
Speaker 7: or anything like that.
19:23
Speaker 4: Well, this would be the match that Christian roll Don
19:25
Speaker 4: would play, right because the United States has already advanced.
19:28
Speaker 4: As we said, Tyler Adams is at some risk of
19:32
Speaker 4: yellow card accumulation. How the rules work is he's on
19:35
Speaker 4: a yellow card. He's had a yellow card through two matches.
19:38
Speaker 4: If you have two yellow cards during the group stage matches,
19:41
Speaker 4: you are then ineligible to play in the round of
19:44
Speaker 4: thirty two match. Then a round of thirty two the
19:47
Speaker 4: yellow cards white clean and you start over. But tomorrow's match,
19:51
Speaker 4: if Tyler Adams a central figure to their team literally
19:54
Speaker 4: and figuratively in the midfield, if he gets a yellow
19:59
Speaker 4: card tomorrow against Turkey, he will not play in the
20:01
Speaker 4: round of thirty two match. And if a US team
20:03
Speaker 4: has already advanced, wouldn't you sit Timer Adams and then
20:07
Speaker 4: Christian Willdon on the roster seems to be the most
20:09
Speaker 4: logical guy to play for him.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely. I mean Adams is another one.
20:14
Speaker 7: I mean he's the reason why they're similar, like for light,
20:18
Speaker 7: is because their ability to be able to kind of
20:20
Speaker 7: control the midfield. And as Christian Rodan's talked about this,
20:23
Speaker 7: he's like an air traffic controller, right, So he's absolutely
20:26
Speaker 7: marshaling do on offense and then on defense as well.
20:30
Speaker 7: And that's what makes Adams special. He can see the
20:33
Speaker 7: play on transition as you're going down, and then he
20:37
Speaker 7: comes back on defense and is able to push in
20:42
Speaker 7: your backs you wing back, so he's able to kind
20:44
Speaker 7: of get Antonio Robinson back, who also has a yellow
20:47
Speaker 7: and then so Gino desk as well to have him
20:49
Speaker 7: pinched in as they're coming back on defense. So very
20:54
Speaker 7: important player in there. And we see Christian Rodan same
20:58
Speaker 7: role with the Sounder, and that's why he's so valuable
21:03
Speaker 7: to the Sounders and also to the United States the
21:06
Speaker 7: national team.
21:07
Speaker 4: If you were Pochettino, of course you wouldn't be sitting
21:10
Speaker 4: next to me right now. But if you were Pochettino
21:13
Speaker 4: the coach of the United States, would you play your
21:15
Speaker 4: regular guys and keep the momentum that is obviously built
21:18
Speaker 4: up through the first two matches going or would you
21:20
Speaker 4: rest guys and use tomorrow as more of a tune
21:23
Speaker 4: up and get the guys that maybe are nicked up
21:26
Speaker 4: Polistic for instance, coming off the strain, you don't even
21:29
Speaker 4: think of playing him? Or do you put him back
21:31
Speaker 4: in so he has at least got time on the
21:33
Speaker 4: field before the games the knockout stage begins.
21:36
Speaker 7: And I asked Christiano Dan that question yesterday and no,
21:39
Speaker 7: critical is momentum and he said it's important, and so
21:44
Speaker 7: it's real critical to keep the momentum. And now what
21:48
Speaker 7: he's got to figure out is which of the players
21:50
Speaker 7: that you know he can put in there and continent
21:55
Speaker 7: and be competitive. And also so look, do you do
22:01
Speaker 7: you sit Bologna who's got a Bologna who's got a
22:04
Speaker 7: yellow card? Probably not, I just think it depends on
22:08
Speaker 7: the player. But Adams you would probably say no, let
22:11
Speaker 7: me sit Adams. And then you've got an Tonio Robinson
22:14
Speaker 7: as well. So it's important that you give your best
22:18
Speaker 7: players out there right for you to win, keep the
22:21
Speaker 7: momentum without it actually hindering your next game thereby getting
22:29
Speaker 7: a yellow card. So great part of this As a coach, right,
22:32
Speaker 7: you gotta know your players. You gotta know which of
22:35
Speaker 7: my players, you know, if they get edged on, would
22:39
Speaker 7: cross that line. In which of my players are more
22:43
Speaker 7: likely not going to Are they gonna put both feet
22:46
Speaker 7: on the ground, both cleats on the ground, if you will,
22:49
Speaker 7: and not going recklessly.
22:51
Speaker 4: My soccer guy, resident soccer guy in my house, Eric
22:54
Speaker 4: Bell college soccer player, told me at the start of
22:57
Speaker 4: the tournament he thought Turkey was gonna beat the United
22:59
Speaker 4: States and that would be the one loss for the
23:01
Speaker 4: US in the group stage. He thinks they are really talented.
23:04
Speaker 4: Turkey's been one of the most disappointing teams in this
23:07
Speaker 4: tournament through two matches. How dangerous do you think this
23:10
Speaker 4: foe is Tomorrow?
23:14
Speaker 7: They get up and down the field and so they
23:18
Speaker 7: have nothing to you know, to lose. I think they
23:23
Speaker 7: will try to attack the United States with the speed
23:26
Speaker 7: because the US obviously we know they're going to be
23:28
Speaker 7: pressing and things like that. So how do you beat that?
23:32
Speaker 7: You're patient and then, as we all know in any sport,
23:35
Speaker 7: you're going to minimize your self inflicted with the turnovers
23:40
Speaker 7: if you will, you know, and if you get pressed
23:42
Speaker 7: in your deep end right next to your goal. Kick
23:46
Speaker 7: the ball down there, so I give him a fighters
23:50
Speaker 7: chance on it.
23:53
Speaker 1: We've talked about in the past.
23:54
Speaker 4: Mosia Mary Area of Cascadia sports Net, Seattle born race.
23:57
Speaker 4: He's Seattle guy, Roosevelt high school player, soccer player. He's
24:01
Speaker 4: still in the sport coaching at the middle school level
24:04
Speaker 4: here in Seattle. What has this tournament done for the
24:07
Speaker 4: Pacific Northwest that was already a soccer hotbed, but now
24:11
Speaker 4: nationally and internationally Seattle is known as the best venue
24:15
Speaker 4: of all the group stage venues in across Canada, the
24:18
Speaker 4: United States and Mexico. What does this fervor surprise you?
24:23
Speaker 4: The reaction in the popularity of this tournament here in
24:25
Speaker 4: Seattle so far surprise you?
24:27
Speaker 1: And what has it done for the region?
24:30
Speaker 5: I'm not surprised.
24:32
Speaker 7: Remember we had Brian Schmetzer when I was here on
24:34
Speaker 7: there and you know, a local guy as well, and
24:36
Speaker 7: he talked about it's well known right internally, everybody knows
24:41
Speaker 7: about the fabric. You know how strong the fabric is
24:46
Speaker 7: and the cultural and depth of soccer has been in
24:49
Speaker 7: different communities.
24:51
Speaker 5: The credit the.
24:52
Speaker 7: Local organizing committee in terms of getting it right, and
24:56
Speaker 7: that is the logistics, the transportation, all those kinds of things.
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Speaker 5: You add that.
25:01
Speaker 7: And then the fans that came in from the different countries.
25:06
Speaker 7: I think this is really why now on a national
25:10
Speaker 7: international stage, this World Cup, everybody's seeing something that people
25:15
Speaker 7: already knew, you know, and so but it took all
25:19
Speaker 7: those pieces, you know, all the stars had to align,
25:23
Speaker 7: a lot of hard work as at a local organized committee.
25:25
Speaker 7: I think the city of Seattle in terms of all there,
25:28
Speaker 7: you know, there's a lot of work that goes into this,
25:30
Speaker 7: right you and I knew that we can see the
25:32
Speaker 7: fire truck right over there, but then the fans come in.
25:35
Speaker 7: The fan experience has just been phenomenal, and we saw that,
25:39
Speaker 7: you know what, we're seeing that in terms of the
25:41
Speaker 7: watch parties, whether they're local or whether they down there
25:43
Speaker 7: on the pier, on the barge. There's even some in
25:47
Speaker 7: Everett and also renting. So all of that has now
25:52
Speaker 7: people understanding, wow, this is an international soccer city.
25:57
Speaker 4: The other thing that makes Seattle unique and bad And
26:00
Speaker 4: I talked to a soccer writer coming out of the
26:02
Speaker 4: stadium Friday afternoon from New York City. Seattle's stadium is downtown.
26:08
Speaker 4: It's not in the metal Lands. It's not in Arlington, Texas.
26:11
Speaker 4: It's not in the Houston suburbs out by Astrodome and
26:14
Speaker 4: at Strip Mall. It's not in I mean Vancouver and
26:18
Speaker 4: Seattle are the two stadiums, including Guadalhara, including Mexico City,
26:22
Speaker 4: which is on the outskirts of downtown. Seattle and Vancouver
26:26
Speaker 4: the two that are in the center, downtown core where
26:28
Speaker 4: you can take light rail and transit and you can
26:31
Speaker 4: walk to the games and there's watch parties walkable from
26:34
Speaker 4: the stadiums. No other venue has that. In fact, Moz
26:38
Speaker 4: the New York writer, I was walking, I always said
26:40
Speaker 4: the World Cup Finals should have been here and not
26:42
Speaker 4: the Metal Lands because of the stadium set up. In
26:44
Speaker 4: the fan interaction, what have you noticed about that, just
26:48
Speaker 4: the whole setting and venue and how Lumenfield is perfectly
26:52
Speaker 4: suited for this kind of thing.
26:54
Speaker 5: Two things, right, Lumenfield interior absolutely.
26:57
Speaker 7: I think where the United States is going into play
27:00
Speaker 7: around or thirteen is in San Francisco, right, And you
27:03
Speaker 7: and I travel when we when the Seahawks, you know,
27:06
Speaker 7: play the Niners were for the Super Bowl. But given
27:10
Speaker 7: to what you're saying, right, how hard it's so difficult
27:13
Speaker 7: to get to Levi Stadium right right in and out.
27:17
Speaker 1: It's an hour from downtown.
27:18
Speaker 7: And it's like it's almost an industrial area except for
27:22
Speaker 7: a couple of hotels that are there. And I'm not
27:23
Speaker 7: bashing lev Stadium, but but it's the fact. But here,
27:28
Speaker 7: I mean, Seattle stuck with that. Hey, let's build everything
27:32
Speaker 7: downtown since the Kingdom didn't move it. I mean to
27:34
Speaker 7: our left right there, t Mobile Park, and then this
27:37
Speaker 7: place Jimmy's right. It's all kind of a classic. You
27:41
Speaker 7: come downtown and there's so many different places for you
27:45
Speaker 7: to enjoy the experience, whether you're going in the event
27:48
Speaker 7: or whether they're just around for the event. And that's
27:51
Speaker 7: I think this event actually not you know, maybe Seattle
27:55
Speaker 7: now says, hey can we host a super Bowl?
27:57
Speaker 1: Hey?
27:58
Speaker 5: One are the big events?
27:59
Speaker 1: You know?
28:00
Speaker 5: This is showcasing what Seattle could do.
28:02
Speaker 4: Yeah, the national international prominence for Seattle, the suitability for
28:07
Speaker 4: big events just went way up here in the last
28:09
Speaker 4: couple of weeks.
28:10
Speaker 1: OZ enjoy the match.
28:11
Speaker 4: I know you're headed in the cover Bosnie Hears and
28:14
Speaker 4: Cutter at noon start third of the six matches here
28:17
Speaker 4: and see how thanks for joining us again.
28:19
Speaker 1: I appreciate you.
28:20
Speaker 5: Thanks for having me mas Vita.
28:21
Speaker 4: Marry Are of Cascadia Sports net Box thirteen, Seattle's World
28:25
Speaker 4: Cup television analyst talking about the World Cup. Up next,
28:29
Speaker 4: we're gonna turn our attention to the NBA. We're going
28:31
Speaker 4: to talk about the Yannis trade to Miami, the fallout.
28:34
Speaker 4: Are more big trades coming. The draft continues with round
28:38
Speaker 4: two today at eleven o'clock. Tim Reynolds, the NBA writer
28:42
Speaker 4: for the Associated Pressers based in Miami, is gonna have
28:45
Speaker 4: a lot to say to us about the Yanna's trade
28:47
Speaker 4: of the heat. Pat Riley making the huge mega trade.
28:51
Speaker 4: NBA Up next, Mariners and Pirates three point fifty three
28:54
Speaker 4: forty first pitch for the second game of that series
28:56
Speaker 4: today and Bosn and Hers goal being a cutter. Noon
28:59
Speaker 4: kickoff Here across the street from Jimmy's on ninety three
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Speaker 4: point three kJ RFM. Welcome back the jazz portion of
29:12
Speaker 4: the Greg Bell Show with Christopher Kidd by from Jimmy's
29:15
Speaker 4: on First across the street from lumen Field.
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Speaker 1: We're at twelve noon.
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Speaker 4: Bosnia Hersgovina cutter play in the final group stage match,
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Speaker 4: Group B match as mas Vita mar Ari our guest
29:27
Speaker 4: from Cascadia Sports Net and Fox thirteen Seattle just told
29:30
Speaker 4: us the winner of this match, if there is a
29:32
Speaker 4: winner and rather than a draw, the winner of Bosnia
29:34
Speaker 4: versus Cutter will play the United States in the Round
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Speaker 4: of thirty two July first in Santa Clara. The winner
29:41
Speaker 4: that will play in lumen Field on July sixth, five
29:45
Speaker 4: pm in the knockout Stags. There's a Round of thirty
29:48
Speaker 4: two match here in Seattle on July the first, and
29:51
Speaker 4: there's a Round of sixteen match at Lumenfield on July
29:55
Speaker 4: the sixth that if the United States keeps winning, that's
29:57
Speaker 4: where the US will play. They'll be back prize what
30:01
Speaker 4: they had to us Friday here downtown when the US
30:04
Speaker 4: beat Australia in that wild scene. Another hot day to
30:07
Speaker 4: dam Seattle, supposed to be eighty six degrees by the
30:10
Speaker 4: end of the match, and another warm day like it
30:13
Speaker 4: was for the United States and Australia in the first
30:14
Speaker 4: match in Egypt against Belgium in the very first match
30:19
Speaker 4: of the Seattle World Cup set the beginning of last week,
30:23
Speaker 4: I'll swear in sports, the biggest news of the week,
30:25
Speaker 4: probably in sports, was the trade of two time NBA
30:29
Speaker 4: Most Valuable Player Finals MVP Giannis ante Tekempo from the
30:33
Speaker 4: Milwaukee Bucks to the Miami Heat for four players, one
30:38
Speaker 4: of him is an All Star, three first round draft picks,
30:42
Speaker 4: one of them being the thirteenth pick in yesterday's draft,
30:45
Speaker 4: and a second round pick.
30:47
Speaker 1: Chris.
30:47
Speaker 4: We talked about this when it happened, But you think
30:49
Speaker 4: this is a good deal from Miami, and it's pat
30:51
Speaker 4: Riley just going out and going forward. Instead of having
30:54
Speaker 4: a middling team that was an eight or nine or
30:56
Speaker 4: ten seed playing playing games.
30:58
Speaker 2: Correct, no died.
30:59
Speaker 3: This is an opportunity for them to have a megastar
31:02
Speaker 3: that can not carry them, but can propel them to
31:05
Speaker 3: a conference finals. And you pair them with bam Adebayo,
31:08
Speaker 3: who is one of the best defensive power forward centers
31:11
Speaker 3: in the league now with Giannis when he's healthy. We
31:14
Speaker 3: know he's the former defensive Player of the Year. He
31:17
Speaker 3: might not be at that level anymore, but damn he
31:19
Speaker 3: sure is still good enough to go out there and
31:21
Speaker 3: slow some guys down. So when you pair those two guys,
31:24
Speaker 3: that could be a really powerful duo defensively and then offensively,
31:29
Speaker 3: we know what they can do as well. So it's
31:31
Speaker 3: a move that Riley was like you know what, I'm
31:33
Speaker 3: tired of being in that middle pack. I want to
31:36
Speaker 3: get out of not making the playoff or being a
31:38
Speaker 3: playing team. And this is a move you go ahead
31:41
Speaker 3: and make. And Giannis is definitely capable when healthy, of
31:44
Speaker 3: being a top five player in this league. Just remember
31:49
Speaker 3: he was bawling before he went out with his injury
31:52
Speaker 3: and he didn't play another game I think until March,
31:55
Speaker 3: and then he was done for the year after that.
31:57
Speaker 3: So this is a really good opera tuning for the
32:00
Speaker 3: Miami Heat to just get back to some playoff basketball
32:03
Speaker 3: where it matters. Now, Oh yeah, you're in the play
32:05
Speaker 3: in you gotta win one game and you get a chance.
32:07
Speaker 3: No no, no, this opportunity for them to make a
32:10
Speaker 3: run in the East. And you got the Knicks, you
32:12
Speaker 3: got the Pacers coming back, got the Boston Celtics, you
32:15
Speaker 3: got some team Detroit Pistons. This is going to be
32:17
Speaker 3: another competitive Eastern Conference and it'll be cool to see
32:21
Speaker 3: where Miami Heat shape up.
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Speaker 1: Four nine four five one on the TACOVIDATCS tech signe.
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Speaker 1: Does this matter to you?
32:29
Speaker 4: Are you an NBA fan enough to pay attention to
32:31
Speaker 4: Yannis going from Milwaukee to Miami. Are you still turned
32:35
Speaker 4: off by what happened that the Sonics, that you want
32:37
Speaker 4: nothing to do with the NBA.
32:39
Speaker 2: Or you starting That's what you're going to see on
32:42
Speaker 2: the text line.
32:42
Speaker 4: I know some, but there are people that are warming
32:45
Speaker 4: up now that the NBA the vote is supposed to happen.
32:48
Speaker 4: We'll see nobody trusts the NBA and Commissioner Adam Silver,
32:52
Speaker 4: but the vote is supposed to occur this fall, by
32:55
Speaker 4: this fall at least, and they'll be perhaps an update
32:58
Speaker 4: next month when the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas
33:01
Speaker 4: convenes in Las Vegas this week announcing that the NHL ownership,
33:06
Speaker 4: including the a West Point graduate of the Golden that
33:09
Speaker 4: runs the Golden Knights, are interested in buying the NBA team,
33:12
Speaker 4: which parallel it's a parallel track to here in Seattle,
33:15
Speaker 4: where Samantha Holloway has recruited Melinda French Gates to be
33:21
Speaker 4: a part of the investment team for One Roof Sports
33:23
Speaker 4: and Entertainment, which owned the Crack and are going to
33:25
Speaker 4: make the bid for the Sonics to play in the
33:28
Speaker 4: arena that One Sports Roof and Entertainment own. It's a
33:31
Speaker 4: similar track in Las Vegas, where the NHL team owners
33:34
Speaker 4: are starting to make overtures to being the bidders on
33:38
Speaker 4: the new expansion team that's slated, scheduled to be expected
33:42
Speaker 4: to be approved of come in with Seattle this fall.
33:45
Speaker 4: So all of that being said, four nine, four to
33:47
Speaker 4: five one in the coming Dutch TECHSGN, are you more
33:50
Speaker 4: aware and paying attention to NBA news like a Giannis?
33:53
Speaker 4: Because let's face it, if the NBA starts back up
33:55
Speaker 4: here in the say the fall of twenty twenty eight,
33:58
Speaker 4: Jannis as a Miami Heat player, we'll play in climate
34:01
Speaker 4: Pledge Arena against the reborn Sonics. So does that make
34:05
Speaker 4: you more interested in NBA news? Are you still turned
34:08
Speaker 4: off and believe it when you see it that the
34:10
Speaker 4: vote comes on getting the Sonics back to Seattle? Are you?
34:13
Speaker 1: Are you a believer that this is happening? Chris?
34:17
Speaker 4: I can't believe at this point, if they've gone this
34:18
Speaker 4: far down the line that they won't have a team.
34:21
Speaker 4: The vote and when it comes has become excruciating and
34:24
Speaker 4: a lot of starts and stops.
34:25
Speaker 2: But I can't imagine, especially with Gates the Gates.
34:32
Speaker 4: Name and Melinda Gates joining an investment group to make
34:35
Speaker 4: a bid on the Sonics, the Seattle expansion team, that
34:39
Speaker 4: this won't happen at this point, I said, jaded and
34:43
Speaker 4: as doubting as everyone in the Pacific Northwest NBA wise
34:46
Speaker 4: deserve to be.
34:47
Speaker 1: I just I can't see it not happening.
34:49
Speaker 3: Though, I'm waiting to see when it happens, That's all
34:51
Speaker 3: I'll say. Because they've been dangling this carred in front
34:54
Speaker 3: of fans of Seattle for a long time.
34:56
Speaker 2: Time to get it done.
34:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is time, more than time to get it
34:59
Speaker 1: done for sure.
35:00
Speaker 4: Four nine four five one in the comodats Tech signed
35:02
Speaker 4: to talk about that or anything else you want to
35:04
Speaker 4: talk about. The World Cup, the Mariners and Cole Young,
35:06
Speaker 4: my MVP for the mid point of the season, turning
35:09
Speaker 4: it on again last night with the big home run
35:10
Speaker 4: to beat the Pirates in Game one of that series.
35:13
Speaker 4: But up next we're gonna go to Miami. Tim Reynolds
35:16
Speaker 4: is the NBA writer for the Associated Press, former colleague
35:18
Speaker 4: of mine when I was writing the Seattle writer for
35:20
Speaker 4: the Associated Press. He's going to join us talk about
35:22
Speaker 4: this Gianna strait and the heat, Why pat Riley did it?
35:24
Speaker 4: Where he read back your text at eleven thirty in
35:27
Speaker 4: Fornessel joined me, leading into his show twelve until three
35:29
Speaker 4: live from Jimmy's on First across the street from the
35:31
Speaker 4: World Cup, Aaron Seattle on ninety three point three KJRFM