Latest / Chuck in the Morning / Chuck & Buck 4-21 hour 4: 12th Man News with Gregg Bell, ABC's of the Mariners and one last thing!

Transcript

Chuck & Buck 4-21 hour 4: 12th Man News with Gregg Bell, ABC's of the Mariners and one last thing! · Chuck in the Morning

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Greg Bell. Now that he's made his triumphant return to
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: the radio station, he'll be hosting here in less than
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: an hour from ten to twelve here today. But that
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean we aren't going to check in with our
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: NFL insider here on Chuck and Buck the every day
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: of this the week of the NFL traffic. Good morning,
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: a right, good morning check.
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: I can triumphant return. Thank you for that. I never
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: left with you though.
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: That's true, that's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you were with
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: us the whole time. Yeah. Are you doing this from
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: home in the car? Are you downstairs? Are you out
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: in the sports pit? Where are you right now?
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: I'm on my way to my Heart studios, so yeah,
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: I'll be in the car.
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: All right, all right, well good, well, we better get
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: to it. Of course, I do have to mention, and
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: you know this now that we always have a cash
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: word every single hour for the rest of our lives,
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: and it's coin COI in enter that at ninety three
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: to three khr dot com for your shot at one
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars in cash. All right, So here we said
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: just two sleep short of the NFL Draft, and John
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: Schneider guests made it pretty clear yesterday. What we were
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: all thinking, Well, you've been reporting for months. It feels
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: like that, Yeah, we're probably going to trade down. I mean,
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: where are we putting this at ninety percent that he's
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: moving down from thirty two.
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: Well, it's one hundred and one percent that he wants
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: to chuck. So it's less than a certainty that it'll
• 1:26
  Speaker 2: actually do it, because of course, you have to have
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: the right trade partner and the right deal he wants
• 1:30
  Speaker 2: to make. You have to have a team that wants
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: to jump back into the first round for multiple reasons.
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's a quarterback, and a lot of teams want
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: to draft a quarterback in the first round in case
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: he hits and they have the option of fifth year
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: in the contract for first round drafting. Only first round
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: picks get the option a fifth year. And if your
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: quarterback hits on his rookie contract, he's way undervalue at
• 1:55
  Speaker 2: top of the league at quarterback by the time fifty
• 1:57
  Speaker 2: year option comes around. So teams that are looking at quarterback,
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: let's say Ty Simpson of Alabama, who's most people think
• 2:04
  Speaker 2: is not going to be one of the first wave
• 2:06
  Speaker 2: of quarterbacks to go at the top of round one.
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: If he's still there at thirty two and the Seahawks
• 2:11
  Speaker 2: auld pick in. Of course Seahawks aren't going to draft him.
• 2:14
  Speaker 2: Then that's the prime situation that a team like Arizona,
• 2:19
  Speaker 2: who's the three spots behind, actually just two spots into
• 2:22
  Speaker 2: the second round behind the Seahawks, would jump up and say, hey,
• 2:26
  Speaker 2: before someone else might take him, we'll take Ty Simpson
• 2:29
  Speaker 2: at thirty two. We'll give you a fourth round pick
• 2:31
  Speaker 2: to move up three spots into the end of round one.
• 2:35
  Speaker 2: It's not just quarterbacks, of course, but that's the most
• 2:39
  Speaker 2: common center out of the team jumping into the end
• 2:41
  Speaker 2: of the first round. So yeah, Usually those pre draft
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: press conferences juck have no news at all.
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't say.
• 2:49
  Speaker 2: Anything, but there was a purpose. John Schneider had an
• 2:52
  Speaker 2: agenda yesterday by just float out saying, you know, guys,
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: it's pretty obvious. I mean, we have four picks, so
• 2:58
  Speaker 2: we're looking to move down the rest the league knows it.
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: So then we asked him, are you averse to trading
• 3:04
  Speaker 2: with someone within your own division for that Arizona Cardinal
• 3:08
  Speaker 2: scenario I just mentioned? Of course, the Cardinals just cut
• 3:11
  Speaker 2: Kaiver Murray last month, so they need a long term
• 3:13
  Speaker 2: quarterback Garden Minshew signed to be the stopgap, and Snyder said.
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll trade with the division.
• 3:20
  Speaker 2: We trade with everybody. We trade with every We have
• 3:22
  Speaker 2: a reg relationship with all three teams in the division,
• 3:25
  Speaker 2: and now has an He laughed ANDCI, I see what
• 3:27
  Speaker 2: you're doing there, figuring it's the Cardinals. But one of
• 3:30
  Speaker 2: the reasons that I am projecting the News Tribune the
• 3:34
  Speaker 2: News Tribune dot COM's mock draft of them trading down
• 3:37
  Speaker 2: with Cleveland is that I don't think the Cardinals will
• 3:42
  Speaker 2: just give up an extra draft pick to just move
• 3:44
  Speaker 2: up two spots. I think it would have to be
• 3:46
  Speaker 2: something more than that, and that's what the Browns could
• 3:49
  Speaker 2: give the Seahawks a fourth round pick, the seventh pick
• 3:51
  Speaker 2: for the second round.
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: I think they'd be more than willing to do it.
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: Four quarterback, not for anything else but your first scenario,
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: four quarterback. If they do likempsen, which everybody says that
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: they do, then I think that they would. I think
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: they'd moved two picks to get up there so they
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: could have that power of that fifth year over Simpson,
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: just as you detailed.
• 4:11
  Speaker 2: And that's just that's the thing, and that's usually the
• 4:14
  Speaker 2: most common reason the team will jump into the first round.
• 4:16
  Speaker 2: If it's not a quarterback that you want the fifty
• 4:18
  Speaker 2: year option potentially with, then just stay and not trade
• 4:22
  Speaker 2: up and just wait to turn and not have the
• 4:24
  Speaker 2: fifty year option. So I agree, though the Seahawks are
• 4:28
  Speaker 2: probably going to get a better middle to later round
• 4:31
  Speaker 2: pick if they don't just trade up trade back two spots.
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: All right, well, is there a player? I mean not
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: you're not going to learn this from them, but is
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: there a player or even a position if we didn't
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: want to just isolate one guy that you think, oh
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: that guy fell to us, we're going to stay here
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: at thirty two. Do you think that that's a scenario
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: that unfolds? I mean, usually their board is pretty short,
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: like what they consider first round draft picks as usually
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: like fifteen of them as opposed to thirty two of them.
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: But is there a scenario where you know, one of
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: their guys falls to them and they just stay at
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: thirty two? After all?
• 5:11
  Speaker 2: But yes, that would be John Schneider getting back to
• 5:15
  Speaker 2: his wish to be best player on my board at
• 5:19
  Speaker 2: the time I'm picking. Yeah, and if the best player
• 5:22
  Speaker 2: this is where the intel for the rest of the
• 5:24
  Speaker 2: league comes in checking. What the Seahawks have been very
• 5:26
  Speaker 2: good at because of Snyder's relationships with multiple teams, because
• 5:30
  Speaker 2: he's been in the job for seventeen years, because his
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: top deputies and scouting staff have been together this whole time,
• 5:39
  Speaker 2: they are very good at pegan what the rest of
• 5:41
  Speaker 2: the league's gonna do. And often they have traded back
• 5:44
  Speaker 2: because they knew the guy they were gonna draft the
• 5:47
  Speaker 2: spot they traded back from was still gonna be there
• 5:50
  Speaker 2: if they traded back. So let's say they trade back,
• 5:53
  Speaker 2: we'll just as the Cardinals example, back to thirty four
• 5:56
  Speaker 2: in round two. They will only do that if they
• 6:00
  Speaker 2: they know the guy they would have picked at thirty
• 6:02
  Speaker 2: two is still gonna be at thirty four, if they
• 6:04
  Speaker 2: know what thirty two and thirty three are gonna do, yeah,
• 6:07
  Speaker 2: or if it's the Browns at thirty nine, they know
• 6:10
  Speaker 2: what the other teams I mean, they are locked solid
• 6:12
  Speaker 2: on their NFL board. There's two boards in the draft
• 6:14
  Speaker 2: rooms for the Seahawks, the Seahawks board and the NFL board.
• 6:18
  Speaker 2: And what the Seahawks draft success largely in many years
• 6:22
  Speaker 2: has been they have nailed that NFL board. They have
• 6:25
  Speaker 2: predicted down to the pick, down to each round, what
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: other teams are gonna do. They spend a lot of
• 6:32
  Speaker 2: time at the combines, at pro days, at league meetings,
• 6:36
  Speaker 2: chit chatting and having pops with personnel from the other teams,
• 6:41
  Speaker 2: scouting directors, college pro personnel assistant gms gms to make
• 6:48
  Speaker 2: their NFL draft board. And that's when they make their moves,
• 6:51
  Speaker 2: is when they think their NFL Draft board is locked
• 6:53
  Speaker 2: in on predicting where guys will go. If they don't
• 6:57
  Speaker 2: think their guys gonna be there at thirty four, they
• 7:00
  Speaker 2: won't straight back. If they've got to tag that that
• 7:03
  Speaker 2: guy's gonna go right after them, all right.
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: Sent side of Greg bell Is with us from the
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: News Tribune. He's got to some mock draft out if
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: you want to check out out and complete coverage of
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: course of NFL Draft week there at the News Tribune
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: dot com, also on x at g Bill Seattle. For
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: a long time this organization, maybe to a fault, boy,
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: they do like finding their lookalikes. They're doppelgangers. You know,
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: I'm we're gonna find another Richard Sherman. We want them
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: to have the same hair, the same length, the same attitude.
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: They they've kind of done this in the past. Are
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: they still prone to do that in the Mike McDonald
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: era or have they moved away from it a little bit?
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: Because I bring it up because I've picked a Reek
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: Woolen replacement for them in my mock draft, and a
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant replacement for them, and a poona Ford guy
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: that I've gotten for them in my mock draft. So
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: are they still doing that as much as they were
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: Pete and John were doing now that it's Mike and John.
• 8:04
  Speaker 2: No, not as much as that was such a Pete
• 8:08
  Speaker 2: Carroll thing. I mean, it was an ironclad rule that
• 8:12
  Speaker 2: cornerbacks had to have thirty two inch arms of the
• 8:14
  Speaker 2: Seahawks didn't draft him. Yeah, that was that way for
• 8:16
  Speaker 2: fifteen years. That thirty two inch arms was the benchmark.
• 8:21
  Speaker 2: John Sider brought this up yesterday when we were talking
• 8:23
  Speaker 2: to him. He said that, yeah, post legion of Boom drafts,
• 8:26
  Speaker 2: he did do that. He was trying to even mentioned
• 8:29
  Speaker 2: Richard Sherman. He was trying to find another Richard Sherman
• 8:31
  Speaker 2: with long arms, a former wide receiver that could play
• 8:34
  Speaker 2: corner and like the press and could could tackle in
• 8:39
  Speaker 2: the run. Game, and he said that they basically, without
• 8:42
  Speaker 2: saying so many words, he said, we've gotten away from that.
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: And the problem with chiefing what she had before is
• 8:50
  Speaker 2: there's only one Richard Sherman. Yeah, there's a prototype of
• 8:55
  Speaker 2: length and speed and long arms and height, but there's
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: only one Richard Sherman in makeup and competitiveness. And so
• 9:05
  Speaker 2: Schneyder learned that you just can't duplicate players down to
• 9:09
  Speaker 2: their moxie makeup and internal DNA. You can get the
• 9:13
  Speaker 2: blueprint of them physically, but let's not chase a guy
• 9:16
  Speaker 2: who's not him, and let's not try to make a
• 9:19
  Speaker 2: fourth round pick from a Division two school or a
• 9:23
  Speaker 2: Big twelve school Richard Sherman, because he ain't it. So
• 9:27
  Speaker 2: it took him a while. There were some wall drafts
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: that we documented well in the Pacific Northwest there post
• 9:33
  Speaker 2: legion of Boom where they didn't do that, And so
• 9:36
  Speaker 2: John Schneider says they are trying to get away from that,
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: not to mention you inferred it there. Mike McDonald has
• 9:42
  Speaker 2: a different set of parameters and requirements for his players.
• 9:46
  Speaker 2: I will say, and I mentioned this last week. The
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: biggest Mike McDonald discriminator in this draft is character and culture.
• 9:54
  Speaker 2: He's trying to project everybody on his board and to
• 9:58
  Speaker 2: how they fit into what they thought was the perfect
• 10:00
  Speaker 2: team culture that won the Super Bowl. When you talk
• 10:03
  Speaker 2: to Sneider McDonald, even the veteran players on the Seahawks
• 10:07
  Speaker 2: last year, yeah, the exes and o's, and yes, Sam
• 10:10
  Speaker 2: Donald was great when he had to be, and yeah,
• 10:11
  Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker blew up in the playoffs, and yeah, our
• 10:13
  Speaker 2: defense was top rank. They all say they won the
• 10:16
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl because of their chemistry and their locker room culture,
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: and that's what separates them from every other day. It's
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: why they don't want the hard knocks cameras to come
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: in this summer. The trick now in drafting is it's
• 10:28
  Speaker 2: really hard to project a twenty one or now twenty
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: five year old college player who's been in a college
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: or four college programs in six years. It's really hard
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: to project how they are gonna be in the Seahawks culture.
• 10:41
  Speaker 2: And that's the challenge for those guys in this draft.
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: How can they merge these dudes, these college guys who've
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: made nil money and transferred four times. How can they
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: merge them into the Seahawks togetherness? I think that's gonna
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: be a trick. They're gonna hit and they're gonna miss
• 10:56
  Speaker 2: on that.
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: All right, last one, and then we'll let you enjoy
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: your drive to work and think about what you're gonna
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: say on the show. Today, let's talk about Devin Witherspoon.
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: He's got a big payday coming, but I read your
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: recent article about how he's done yet another thing to
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: make him loved and valued with the Seahawks.
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's like the perfect student, the A plus great
• 11:23
  Speaker 2: student who also brings the apple for the teacher. He
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: does everything right. This time last year check, they had
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: one hundred percent participation in the voluntary offseason, unheard of
• 11:35
  Speaker 2: in the NFL. We've talked about it. Guys usually just
• 11:38
  Speaker 2: go away for graduations or weddings or just because they
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: don't want to be there. They had one hundred percent
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: of the veterans. It didn't have to be there there
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: for the OTA's mini camps in this phase one of
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: the off season programs, and McDonald and the guys, the
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: veterans said, that's why they had it together. This and
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: the culture they did well, guess what. Devin Witherspoon was
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: there yesterday on Day one of the phase one of
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: the offseason program, voluntary meetings, some calisthenics on the field.
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald had just got done telling Witherspoon and the veterans,
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: don't show up. We had a late season, and we
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: had a super Bowl. We partied and celebrated until mid
• 12:15
  Speaker 2: to late February. Blow off the first phase of organized
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: team activities in first phase of the offseason program. I
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: don't want you here, You don't need to be here.
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: But Witherspoon, notably Jaron Reid, who's going into his age
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: thirty fourth season, is at eleventh NFL season, who doesn't
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: have to be here, he was here.
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 12:34
  Speaker 2: Derek Hall, Derek Hall is going into the final year
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: of his contract, the outside linebacker. He was there and
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: McDonald pointed. I asked him, and he said, because yesterday.
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: McDonald said, well, I was surprised by some of the
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: guys who showed up, and so I pressed him and said,
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: who are you surprised by that we're there? And he said,
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: Devin Witherspoon, Jared Reed, and Derek Hall. Those are teachers
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: pets right now. A coach loves, loves the example those
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: guys are setting for the younger player. This Phase one
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: is supposed to be for young top mental players. Vets
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: we'll see in May, and Witherspoon read and Derek Hall
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: showed up.
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: I never missed an open gym. I knew coach wanted
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: me there. That's up, that's right, that's right. All right,
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: Well we'll hear you at ten o'clock. Thank you very much, yes, sir,
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: thank you all right. Greg Bell our Seahawks insider. Yes,
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: he's always been our Seahawks, never stopped being our Seahawks insider.
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: But he does have his midday show back here on
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: KJAR from ten to noon with Christopher Kids, So day
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: number two coming your way here at the top of
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: the hour. He joins us every day thanks to our
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: friends at Copola Diamond Collection, Prosecco Crisp refreshing notes of apples,
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: citrus and white peach from kickoff to the final whistle,
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: all the way through the draft. It keeps the celebration
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: going Draft Day Bubbles only with Coppola Diamond Collection Prosecco.
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: So a lot from Greg there on the Seattle Seahawks
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: getting ready for the NFL Draft, and I'm glad they've
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: made that decision. It's something that I have harped on
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: for a number of years that he's done that to
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: a fault, and so it's kind of rewarding. It's a
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: little bit rewarding to hear John Schneider say, yeah, we
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: did it to a fault. Yeah, and we're done doing
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: it because it's so true. I mean, there's a there's
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: a body type. I sort of understand. I have them,
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: I have. I just mocked my Seahawks mock to Carrio
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: Davis because I think there is some value in having
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: a really long cornerback. You're gonna face some long, physical
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: wide receivers and why not have somebody that can match
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: that length. I think there's some value. And he's not
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: a Reek Woolen speed type. But I ended up putting
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: to Carrio Davis on the Seahawks in my mock because
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: I think there is something to body type. And you know,
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: when it comes to a wide receiver group, you sort
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: of wanna, you know, you want to full arsenally. You
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: want like a basketball team you won, like a point
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: guard and a two guard and a power for it,
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: and the same thing with secondary to have to cover
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: those guys. You kind of want a varied number of athletes,
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: and so I do see value in having a longer
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: rangier cornerback to put with Witherspoon and to put with Job.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: But the idea that you could just find, I mean,
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: Richard Sherman is one one example. Michael Bennett was the one.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: They just continuously kept trying to find a two hundred
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: and seventy five two hundred and eighty five pound five
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: technique that could go to three, a technique could go
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: all the way to knows if we needed, if we
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: could even stand him up on occasion if we wanted.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: They were trying to find that guy. How many dudes
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: did they draft over and over from LJ. Collier to
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: so on and so forth, just you know, rashiem Green
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: out of USC They just kept trying to find Michael Bennett.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: And it's just body type is one thing. Thinking you
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: can duplicate it just because he's built the same I
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: thought was nuts, Yeah, and I criticized it harshly, and
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: I didn't know how well that went over over there
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: in renting. But obviously they've come around to a different
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: type of thinking. And maybe it was Mike McDonald that
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: said this is silly. Why are we doing this right?
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: We're not going to find another Richard Sherman just because
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: we found somebody who's six three with long arms and dreadlocks.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, there does take more than that.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: And every once in a while you will find someone
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: that you'll say, oh my gosh, that person reminds me
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: of cam Chancellor, like Nick e Men. Worry, but that's
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: not you going out searching or stretching to find someone
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: we need another cam Chancellor or we need another cam
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: Chancellor just so happens a cam Chancellor type came along.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I get man, we'd really like to get a
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant type in this draft. Somebody they could play safety,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: they could play slock, corner, could even line up on
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: the outside if we needed too. Who loves football. That's
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: the type we really could use. We're gonna miss him
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: and we would like another thing like him. But the
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: idea of we need somebody the exact same height, the
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: exact same weight, who choose gum on the right side
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: of his.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Mouth, and we're gonna make him versatile.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is from Ohio and is named after a
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: prominent basketball player. That's what we had to find. It
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: replaced Kobe Bryant is there a guy in this draft,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: you know, named Charles Barkley.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: Hell, can we call him also?
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: So to me that that is progress. That's yeah, great news.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: And uh kind of getting out of your own way.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Hopefully we're done doppel ganging, because I think it got
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: them in trouble. I mean, it hasn't always been John
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Schneider nailing every draft. He nailed a bunch, won a
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl, went to two of them, and then for
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: about seven years was hardly nailing anything. And then for
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: the last three years he's back to nailing it and
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: won a Super Bowl, and I think we're gonna win
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: another one. So yeah, let's let's let's be done with that. Yes, okay,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: all right, coming up next, ABC's of the ms for
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: you here on this Tuesday Sports Radio ninety three point
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: three KJRM attention.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Clearly, I apologize, No, I just.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Get like this occasional, just like eight in my shoulder
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: just for no reason at all, because I really haven't
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: been doing a lot of activity. But uh, yeah, it
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: just comes from old pitching injuries. Yeah, old I got
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: a bad case of it today, bad case of the
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: pitching shoulder, got the old the old case of the
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: all over under all right, Well, it is uh, Chuck
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: and Ashley with you here today time for the ABC's
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: of the MS. It's our daily Mariners segment. We allow
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: the alphabet to be a guide to a Mariner segment.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Who knows what topics will end up discussing. Maybe it'll
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: have to do with last night six three loss to
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: the A's. Maybe not. But we left off of the
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: letter s S is four standings And I know people
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: don't like to hear this, but just to show you,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: just to illustrate how early it is to be at
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: ten and fourteen, I pointed this out at the beginning
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: of yesterday's show. I want to point it out in
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: the alphabet here today. The ABC's Toronto is nine and thirteen.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: They made it a world series last year. Boston is
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: nine and thirteen. Kansas City, many people believed we're going
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: to win the American League Central this year seven and sixteen.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Houston's nine and fifteen. Philadelphia is eight and fourteen. The
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Mets best money you know, best team of money can
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: buy right yep, seven and fifteen, yikes, including an eleven
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: game losing streak. And then the Mariners are ten and fourteen.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Just to show you how little panicked I am about
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: a ten and fourteen start, Just to show you what
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: a it's early guy, I really am. Six of those
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: seven teams will finish with five hundred records or better.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: That's a pretty good percentage.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: There's a lot those There are teams there that have
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: a lot bigger holes than what the Mariners have right now.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: And I'm I think I believe Toronto's going to be
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: a winning team, Boston's going to be a winning team,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia is going to be a winning team, and the
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Mariners are going to be a winning team. And then
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: I had big belief in Kansas City, and I actually
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: thought the Mets had something going at the beginning of
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: the year. Why they're playing this poorly. They're playing without
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Wan Sota right now, but that shouldn't turn them from
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: into one of the worst teams in baseball, which is
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: what they've been for the last eleven games. But that
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: just shows you how I just don't panic at all
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: in the month of April. I think five to six
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: of those seven teams will end up with winning records
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: for the years over.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: No, And I don't think that anyone should be panicking.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: If you are, that is totally your own thing, and
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: I enjoy the anxiety. I am not panicking. Am I
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: frustrated with certain things? Absolutely?
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Still frustrated, Still frustrated, Not panics.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: There you go, simply Seattle, there's your T shirt. Mariners Baseball.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Enjoy the anxiety.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that is actually pretty good, all right?
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Teas for talents. Look, I like a person who's self aware,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: and if you're self aware, you're usually aware of others.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: So what's wrong with JP Crawford, Like probably one of
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: the best teammates that you could have on the roster.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's now had two or three iterations of
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: this Mariner team that he's been a part of, and
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: he's also always been consistently one of the favorite teammates
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: there and has certainly developed into a leader. But why
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: he can't figure out what his talents are and what
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: the talents are of those around him, It's really frustrating
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: for me. It's why I have no sympathy whatsoever in
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: saying when cold Emerson's ready, whoever's not playing good baseball
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: is going to be replaced. Now. I don't think cold
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Emerson is ready just yet, but I think he's gonna
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: be ready at some point this year, and whether that's
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Donovan still struggling at third and we got to switch
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: him to a super utility player or an outfielder struggling
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: and Donovan has to become an outfielder, or our shortstop
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: doesn't play better than he's playing right now. He made
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: a great defensive play on a double play last night.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: But at the plate, I mean, we've trusted you with
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: hitting in the leadoff spot. I'm not gonna watch you
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: swing for the fences without complaining about it every damn morning.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: And it's not going to have an effect on JP,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: But maybe I'll have an effect on somebody with the
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Mariners listening that could pass my advice along.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Hey, JP, just wanted to have a chat with you
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: this morning.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Ryan. The Ryans last night complimented him for his
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: aggressive approach in the ninth inning at he went up
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: to the plate determined he was going to take a
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: big hack.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: I don't understand. I don't understand saying that that's a
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: great decision.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: I think it's terrible, Like, know the situation, know your strengths.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: His strength as a hitter is he knows the batting,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: He knows he has a better batting eye than anyone
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: on this team. His strength is not I'm your I'll
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: hit a two run homer when we need it. Guy,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: he can do it. I'm not saying he can't do it,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: and I'm not saying there's not a time to go
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: for it, because there is. If you would have gotten
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: a head in the count two and zero and that
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: it bat, go ahead, take a rip, go for a
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: two run homer, and tie the game up. But I
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: need you to know there's one out and if I
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: can get on base, that's gonna give Cal and Julia,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: both of them a chance to connect and maybe win
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: this baseball game. And instead, the guy with the best
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: eye on the team goes up with the idea of no,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I'm Cal, I'm going to hit the two run homer,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: swings out of his tiny little ass. Miss is a
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: pitch that is a foot inside against a struggling reliever
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: and lets him completely off the hook, and he ends
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: up not cutting down on his swing the entire at bat.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: You get ahead one oh, you get ahead two to oh,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: odds are you're gonna get on base? You're gonna have
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: a lot better chance of getting on base. And now
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: we've got Cal and Julio much better home run threats
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: than you are that you will ever be that have
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: a chance to knock the ball out of the park. Now,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Cal didn't get it done, but now we'll never know
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: if Julio would have gotten it done. So I just
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: need him to be self aware. I need to know
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: what his talents are and I need him to know
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: what the talents of those around him are. And I
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: don't Not only do I not applaud him for this
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: aggressive approach, I think it was foolish and I don't
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: want to see it anymore. Period.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I did.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: I did go back and look at those pitches, and
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: they were pretty close. I don't know if they would
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: have been a ball or a strike had they not.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: The first one, the first one foot inside.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: This one was further inside, the second one was not.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: But still you got talking about the second one talking
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: about the first.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the first one was further inside, for sure. But
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: you could tell from that first pitch, that first swing,
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: what his plan was, and it was not the plan
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: that anyone thought he should have been going with. All
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: you had to do was get on base. That's all
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: you had to do. You weren't supposed to be the hero,
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: and it seemed like he wanted to be the hero
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: or thought he should be the hero.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: That's not leadership. I mean, he gets credit for being
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: a great leader, and I know that he is in
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: a lot of ways. That's not leadership. Not recognizing what
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: you are and what your strengths are versus the strengths
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: of the guy on deck and the guy behind him.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: That's not you. Like, like I said, if you've got
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: a head two to zero and you want to take
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: one rip at it, go ahead, But you got to
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: go up there. Even if you are going to swing
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: for the fences. You're Jp Crawford. You've got pipe cleaners
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: for arms. You got to get in the batter's box.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Say I'm looking for my pitch. If I get my pitch,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to a two run homer. There's no
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: way that a pitch that almost hit you in the
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: back of your foot is your pitch. You went up
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: there absolutely convinced I'm gonna be the hero right now.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: I don't want you to be that. I don't need
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: you to be that.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: And I would hope heroic for just getting on base.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: I would ope Dan Wilson's passing that along, even though
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: he's done the same damn thing for five years. So
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know why he was gonna change. Nobody's telling
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: him to change, that's for sure. Finally, you was for unchallenged.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Did we use a challenge last night?
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: No?
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: And I did think at one point Leo was going
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: to use one.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: I thought, and I thought, oh God, thank god he
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: didn't because it was a strike. But I don't think
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: we used one. I know we had to so if
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: we went, if we did, we got it right. I
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: get but we ended the game with two.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Well, Cal used one, but I'm hitters. I don't think
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: any of our hitters did. And there was a Revos Rayley,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Cole Randy. I mean that home played umpire was not
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: good last night, and he got let completely off the
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: hook by both teams.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: I think Leo was probably told you can't challenge anything anymore.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Well, I do believe there's probably there's an evolution to this,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: and that maybe you've course corrected too far the other way.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: I do. I've said this all along, but I think
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: situation it's gonna turn it. It's got to be situational.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: You know, I don't want you just challenging because you
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: think the ball's outside and you're in the hole one
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: and there's nobody on basin, you're the nine to oerd hitter.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: I don't want them doing that. But Raley was I mean,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Raley's been hot. He had a man in scoring position
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: and it was clearly off the and you knew he
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: wanted to challenge. I also don't want to eat both
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: of them at the end of the day after a
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: game in which you took a bunch of you know where,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: the umpire missed a lot. The umpire missed a lot
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: last night, and we didn't challenge a single thing. So again,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: this is an evolutionary process. I don't think anyone in
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball knows exactly how they want to handle this.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: But there there were a couple of situations last night
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: where it would have moved the team to challenge in
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: that moment, and even if you got it wrong, wouldn't
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: have been considered a waste. So I think that maybe
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: we've course corrected too far the other way, and I'm
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: fine with that to get to where we need to
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: be with it. But there were plenty of opportunities last
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: night to challenge, and I don't know if we as
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: a lineup challenged one pitch. I don't think the A's
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: did either, and the guy missed a lot for the
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: A's as well.
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: Butler went to challenge but tapped his helmet too slow
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: and he was lucky he didn't.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: I wish he would have because it was a strike. Yeah,
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: and I just don't want them to hang on to him.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: And then like cold the Young last week when he
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: was the last at bat and then he challenged just
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: because it was the last, He's like, well, what have
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: I got to lose? Because then it's like, well, now
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: we just lost twice, so thanks.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I mean I want it to be situational,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: but I thought Rayley's was situational enough. And I don't
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: know if he's he's such a nice guy, he's probably like, well,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: I don't want to cost the guys. I don't want
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: him to be angry with me, you know, And maybe
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: he did. He's missed a couple of times in the past,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: and so maybe he just doesn't try trust himself in
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: that situation. But that was a that was where I
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: definitely Rayley's the one that stands out to me because
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: he had a runner and scoring position could have kept
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: the ending going, could have kept the at bat going.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: You needed to keep the at bat going and try
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: to do some damage at that point in the game.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: But I you know, as much as I don't want
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: little Leo challenging early, just a challenge, I think that
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: there has to be some situation in play. I also
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: don't want to get to the end of the game
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: and have him eaten both my challenges like they're they're
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: still in my pocket. I haven't used either one of them,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: and we ended up losing by three runs when we
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: had plenty of opportunity during the course of the game
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: to challenge a few pitches because not like that umpire
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: was in a groove, he was not. We just weren't
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: challenging Weald all right. One last thing to close it out.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three KHRFM my final segment
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: on this Tuesday edition of Chuck and Buck in the Mornings,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Sans Buck, Ashley is here. She's got one last thing
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: to close this out.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: What do you got?
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: Have you seen the article that has been written on
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: Tom Dundan and what he's been doing with the Blazers.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: I guess he's been cutting a lot of costs and
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: people are very unhappy.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Oh so he had not seen this.
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: He did not send their two way players to the
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: away games in San Antonio, and which is like a
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: very uncommon practicer. The only team that's not sending their
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: two way players, and they relied heavily on their two
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: way players earlier this year when they had a lot
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: of injuries. And then people are angry because he's not
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: doing T shirts for all the fans in attendance at
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: the home playoff games because they've got games three and
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: four there, and so there's a big article on Rose
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: Garden Report talking about all the ways that he's already
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: cutting costs and he just bought the team.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: He hasn't sent players to the series.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the two way players, they're not.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: They didn't get to travel with the team, and.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: They use like Caleb young Blood is that his name?
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: Caleb young Blood.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: And Chris Youngblood and Jason Kent who both played a
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: lot Caleb Love.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: That's right, it was Caleb Love.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: That is like a big deal and helped basically keep
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: their season.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: Alive when they were dealing with injuries.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: He's not going and it's it, And I guess they're
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: like all seven other road teams all sent all of
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: their two way players. He's not because of cost cutting measures.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: So people already are unhappy with the new plays.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Understand that what is a two way place?
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: Like the players that go up and down between the
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: the G League or like the league or never the
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: developmental league. So those players, but they wouldn't help them.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: They wouldn't played have earned their spots, understand.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I guess like he's been low balling head
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: coaching Canada.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: It's they say, Nickel and Diman, the support staff worried
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: about hotel checkout times.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: No one can get a late hotel checkout time.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Sounds like, you know what people do when they are
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: cutting costs. It's because they're getting ready to move the team.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: Right, And that's what That's all I could think of is,
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: oh gosh, this is I feel bad for Blazers fans here.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: They are thinking, Okay, we've got this new owner, they've
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: got the I think a new agreement on Moda Center
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: to get upgraded and everything like that, and this guy
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: is apparently trying to be or make the organization as
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: cheap as possible.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Weird. I don't know. I don't know what to read
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: into that. I don't know either, but but I've never
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: been convinced through all of the pro keeping Portland and
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Portland stories that they are going to stay, So I
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: probably shouldn't read into that that he's going to move them.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: I don't know what evidence is there in that story
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: to suggest that, but I don't know. I don't know
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: how you can be a brand new owner in a
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: league and then just decide I'm not going to do
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: a lot of these things that owners do in the league.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: And that's what I don't understand.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, You're you're coming in as a brand new owner
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: and you're already cutting costs and trying to be as
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: cheap as possible. That I mean, you're an owner. You've
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: got to spend money to own a team. You can't
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: come in and worried about the trying to run it
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: as cheaply as possible and having success.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Bad sign Yeah, no matter what it is, no matter
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: what it means.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: That's a bad sick exactly. Yeah, that is the key.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: All right, all right, all right, Yeah, my one last thing.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: I'm going to stay in basketball as well. Looks like
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Steve Kerr's had enough and after twelve years with the
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Golden State Wars looks like I mean, Draymond Green believes
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: that he's done that some of the things that he
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: said as their season came to a close, that he's
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: going to leave. I think Steve Kerr would be a
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: fantastic front office executive for the entire league, but the
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: problem is that everything he wants to do will cost
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: people money. He would make decisions for the best of
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: the product the league, the players, and the fans, and
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: the league wants nothing to do with that. Yeah. Yeah,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: the league is just always trying to find new angles
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: to generate more revenue, and they don't want to cut
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: anything that is already generating revenue. So I'm telling you
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: the league does need to come down from its number
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: of games in the regular season, especially if you've got
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: a tanking and load management issue. You certainly need to
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: come down from your NBA playoffs. I'll say this, Atlanta
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: just might make a series of this, Minnesota just my
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: make a series of this, So I might have to
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: eat my words. But it just feels like first round
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: games or first round matchups are more often than four
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: gun conclusions, but they're never going to give them up
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: even though these are things that they should do for
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: the betterment of the league. But they they will never
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: take one dime away from their ability to generate great funds.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: And Steve Kerr, his great ideas for what would make
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: the league better are all like, let's cut this even
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: if it does cost us money.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: But it makes more sense, right, Yeah, So I think
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: it'd be great.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: I think he's just such a brilliant guy and such
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: a great filter and a player and a coach, and
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: he's been in a front office in the past, and
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: you know, he's a very intelligent individuals. Seems like he's
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: got a good business mind as well. But there's no
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: way that Adam Silver would ever make him a disciple
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: because Steve Kerr would not be about making every single
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: cent that the league can make out there, and that's
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: just the mode there.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: He'd be about making the league actually better.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly. All right, we'll talk to you tomorrow
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: at six am. Coming up next on the radio program
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: or the radio station, I should say, Greg Bell Christopher
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Kids Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: You can't miss a thing from today's show because we're
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: on demand.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Their podcast will be up right after the show.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: Just click on demand our website at ninety three three
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: kjr dot com and click on check in Bug Podcast
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: to replay anytime, anywhere.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: From Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ R FNL.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: This report is sponsored by