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5-28 H1: Mariners Sweep, Top 3 Sports Movies of All Time & Seahawks For Sale · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: I try to tell him from like mid May. Now
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  Speaker 1: June gets.
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  Speaker 2: Foggy and gloomy in the morning, but he usually burns
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  Speaker 2: off into a beautiful day. But I try to tell
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  Speaker 2: him from about mid to late June until, like Chris said,
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  Speaker 2: mid September, here crystal clear, and I mean our lawns
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  Speaker 2: brown and die. We all know that does Wes have
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  Speaker 2: lived here a day or two, and today is just
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  Speaker 2: an idyllic They're already seventy degrees before ten am here
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  Speaker 2: in the Pacific Northwest, and blue skies and mountaineers out
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  Speaker 2: and the oceans and the mountains. Hopefully it's as sunny
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  Speaker 2: On our website, you can listen to us podcast post
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  Speaker 2: it after the show. An interesting show Today, we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: go a little bit of everywhere. First, a Seahawks sale.
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  Speaker 2: What yeah, remember that soft market? Not so soft anymore.
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  Speaker 2: But more than talking about the news of that last night,
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  Speaker 2: I wrote it that the Newstribune dot com last night.
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  Speaker 2: It's up this morning. I'm gonna ask you, the listener
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  Speaker 2: and all of us to consider what I think is
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  Speaker 2: a more interesting question, what obbligation do Jody Allen, the
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  Speaker 2: chair of course of the team, and vice chair Burke
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  Speaker 2: Cold feel toward not finding the highest bidder but the
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  Speaker 2: right one for the Pacific Northwest And Chuck Poll asked
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  Speaker 2: me a question this morning at seven am.
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  Speaker 1: How much do Jody Allen and Burke.
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  Speaker 2: Cold have a say in who actually buys a team
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  Speaker 2: or are they being pressured and pretty much forced by
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  Speaker 2: the NFL and fellow owners to take the highest bid
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  Speaker 2: so all franchises valuations will rise. We'll talk about that
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  Speaker 2: milestone day for the Mariners yesterday, and we'll talk about
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  Speaker 2: what's next. Eleven o'clock we're gonna talk to Keith McPherson,
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  Speaker 2: former host of WFM Sports Radio in New York City,
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  Speaker 2: now host of the Mike Czech Sports talk show online.
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  Speaker 2: I probably just yield the floor to Chris and Keith
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  Speaker 2: to just talk about the NBA and the Knicks and
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  Speaker 2: in the NBA Finals for the first time since nineteen
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  Speaker 2: ninety nine. We'll talk to Keith McPherson at eleven o'clock
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  Speaker 2: eleven thirty year text four nine four to five one
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  Speaker 2: on the takomodads text line that's the time we always
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  Speaker 2: go back to the show goes to you, and the
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  Speaker 2: or two of six, two eight six, ninety five ninety five.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to call in, everyone says, oh, we
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  Speaker 2: never do live callers, and we're happy to do that.
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  Speaker 2: You press that for a ninth or three KJR and
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  Speaker 2: you can leave a thirty second voice message that we
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  Speaker 2: can replay at eleven thirty. So we talked yesterday about
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  Speaker 2: the Mariners, and the big story yesterday was, of course,
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  Speaker 2: the piggybacking. Is it going to continue? The answers, yes,
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  Speaker 2: the piggy backing of Logan, Gilbert and Luis not Logan Gilbert,
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  Speaker 2: Bryce Miller and Luis Castillo will continue on Sunday when
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  Speaker 2: the Mariners end a three game series at home against
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  Speaker 2: the Arizona Diamondbacks. It'll be Bryce Miller that starts and
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  Speaker 2: Louise Castillo who we leave. Hopefully they communicate it better
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  Speaker 2: than they've communicated the first two times. When we saw
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  Speaker 2: the last time Castillo just going off in the dugout
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  Speaker 2: and slamming things around one of the more coolest cats
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  Speaker 2: in the team flipping out about being pulled after four
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  Speaker 2: scoreless innings. The vibe has changed in just twenty four
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  Speaker 2: hours a nine to one win over the A's And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's still on the back burner this whole talk about
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  Speaker 2: that and the piggybacking. But where to play JP Crawford
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  Speaker 2: when Brendan Donovan comes back. We're going to talk about
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  Speaker 2: that during the show today too. But all that's taken
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  Speaker 2: a back seat to the marriage in their first place
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  Speaker 2: and this division has been just waiting for them to
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  Speaker 2: take the lead. And for the first time here on
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  Speaker 2: May twenty eighth, the first time this season, the reigning
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  Speaker 2: division champions who came with an eight out so going
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  Speaker 2: to the World Series for the first time ever last
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  Speaker 2: October in the American League Championship Series. They are in
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  Speaker 2: first place in the America League West. Should we set aside,
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  Speaker 2: Chris the fact there in first place only because no
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  Speaker 2: other team in the division has a five hundred.
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  Speaker 3: Record, You know it is because of this is a
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  Speaker 3: combination of all of that. A few big takeaways for
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  Speaker 3: me from this series is the pitching still looking capable
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  Speaker 3: to carry the load, getting good stuff from what Logan Gilbert,
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  Speaker 3: and I think just overall, this was a series that
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  Speaker 3: this team needed. They needed a good sweep and they
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  Speaker 3: pretty much beat the brakes off the Athletics, which I
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  Speaker 3: think every Manners fan would expect nothing less from this team.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think this team needs to become the nineteen
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  Speaker 3: twenty seven Yankees in terms of hitting, but it was
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  Speaker 3: good to see Julio a little consistent. He's starting to
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  Speaker 3: be considering, he's going to continue warming up, and the
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  Speaker 3: role players also contributing during this series. So I think overall,
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  Speaker 3: this is a good win for this team that's been
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  Speaker 3: struggling throughout the season.
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  Speaker 4: You need to beat up on somebody.
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  Speaker 3: It just happened to be Athletics, But now can you
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  Speaker 3: continue to do that for at least a week or so?
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  Speaker 3: That's going to be the next step for this roster
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  Speaker 3: because I think the picking's going to do it. But
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  Speaker 3: the is the AL West is weak, Okay, so dominate
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  Speaker 3: the Al Wes. You'd be the top dog and don't
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  Speaker 3: It shouldn't even be a question, right everyone coming into
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  Speaker 3: this season, Oh, the Mariners are going to win this division,
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  Speaker 3: and it was kind of like, oh my gosh. Through
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  Speaker 3: forty plus games. They're not looking like the winners that
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  Speaker 3: anyone expected to be. But you saw a glimpse of
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  Speaker 3: that against the Athletics, and I think they can build
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  Speaker 3: off of that minus d injuries, and you'll have guys
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  Speaker 3: coming back next week.
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  Speaker 4: Hopefully.
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  Speaker 1: We said one division sweep would put him in first place.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly what happened. Yeah, they swept the A's and
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  Speaker 2: their in first place. Now come the Diamondbacks. I mentioned
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  Speaker 2: seven games over five hundred and three games through a
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  Speaker 2: third place I should say in the very tough National
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  Speaker 2: League West, where the Dodgers and Padres are battling for
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  Speaker 2: the top spot. But then the last place Mets, who
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  Speaker 2: are just a gong show.
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  Speaker 1: The last place.
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  Speaker 2: Tigers we talked about yesterday are potentially fire sailing. The
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  Speaker 2: Cy Young Award winner Tek Scooble, if he comes back
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  Speaker 2: off of injury, might get traded to who knows whom,
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  Speaker 2: not the Mariners. By the way, we talked about that yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: The Mariners won't be in the mark. They have too
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  Speaker 2: many starting pitchers who are pitching well. They don't need
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  Speaker 2: to add Scooble and pay half of his thirty two
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  Speaker 2: million dollars salary. For this year and then have a
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  Speaker 2: rental because he'd be free agent after this year. But
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  Speaker 2: after the Tigers then come the next to last place
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  Speaker 2: Orioles have been woefully underperforming in the America East, and
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  Speaker 2: then they go over to DC to play the Nationals,
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  Speaker 2: who are a five hundred team in the NL East.
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  Speaker 2: So there is a chance here if they play up
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  Speaker 2: to their capabilities, to make this move that Chris is
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  Speaker 2: talking about, because so far through two months of the season,
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  Speaker 2: the ALS is going to play five hundred or worse.
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  Speaker 1: And so you get a winning mark.
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  Speaker 2: Against these two last place teams coming up the Mets
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  Speaker 2: at home and at the Tigers, and now all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden you have a two to three, four game lead.
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  Speaker 3: And how about that run differential, right, twenty two to four.
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  Speaker 3: I know the records twenty eight and twenty nine, but
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  Speaker 3: when you look at that run differential, that's very impressive.
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  Speaker 1: They're plus twenty five for the season the Murders.
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  Speaker 4: That's that's a good sign of this is actually a
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  Speaker 4: good baseball team.
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  Speaker 3: They just have a little bit of unluck here and
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  Speaker 3: the circumstance of them just not being consistent enough. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think what we saw was fluky from them. How
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  Speaker 3: about that it wasn't a fluky win that was It
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  Speaker 3: was just one crazy win after another. It was situational hitting,
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  Speaker 3: run prevention, all the things that Greg and I and
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  Speaker 3: that a lot of listeners have texted in talked about.
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  Speaker 3: They're starting to put together. Well, they put together against
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  Speaker 3: the Athletics. Now it's about putting it together against a
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  Speaker 3: decent better teams, good teams, elite teams.
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  Speaker 2: Thankes, snakes are better. That'll be a tougher.
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  Speaker 3: Task, but that's what you would want. You would want
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  Speaker 3: this same performance. Maybe one game out of those they
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  Speaker 3: play on four times for three three. If you can
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  Speaker 3: get one game where you go crazy and the other
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  Speaker 3: two are more to your means and average, that would
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  Speaker 3: show a better sign of where this team's going and
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  Speaker 3: how far they can go.
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  Speaker 4: Chris the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: Chris mentioned Julia Rodriguez. His home run yesterday was eighth
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  Speaker 2: in May. That's his most in any month of any
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  Speaker 2: time in his career. That's a career high for a month,
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  Speaker 2: eight home runs. We've mentioned this a couple times in
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  Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks, but it bears mentioning again.
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  Speaker 2: This Town Sports Radio, the papers get on Julio Rodriguez
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  Speaker 2: for his slow starts, well, we should be trumpeting him
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  Speaker 2: for his starts this year. He was in the one
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  Speaker 2: hundreds in the first couple weeks of the season, but
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  Speaker 2: now he's up to two what to seventy five and
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  Speaker 2: then going into yesterday's game and the powers there and
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  Speaker 2: the run productions there, and with cal Rawley not even
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  Speaker 2: a factor in this lineup, Julio Rodriguez has been more
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  Speaker 2: than pulling his load. He's got eight home runs in
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  Speaker 2: the month of Mayas I just said, time to acknowledge that.
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  Speaker 2: As much as everyone fretted about Rodriguez not having hot starts,
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  Speaker 2: his two seventy two seventy five is two eighty averages
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  Speaker 2: as highest. I mean, he took him well into June
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  Speaker 2: until he had an average in two seventies last year.
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  Speaker 2: His slugging is going with it. He's not chasing quite
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  Speaker 2: as many pitches out of the strike zone as he
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  Speaker 2: used to, which used to be the book on him.
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  Speaker 2: And he's still playing his great defense. Victor Roblaze, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, two more diving catches yesterday. In the two
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  Speaker 2: games since he's come back off the injured list. He
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  Speaker 2: looks like what are we gonna do with Luke Rayley
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  Speaker 2: now because of Roadblaze. I know he's there's a platoon
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  Speaker 2: situation in right field, Reschneider. If you get any kind
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  Speaker 2: of production from him against left handed pitching, that's why
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  Speaker 2: you got him. The A's, in fact, rejiggered their starting
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  Speaker 2: rotation for this series to have them face left handers.
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  Speaker 2: They wanted to throw left handed pitchers at the Mariners
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  Speaker 2: before all the trouble Seattle has had against left handed pitching.
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  Speaker 2: An Ems beat him twenty two to four and three
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  Speaker 2: games when they did that. Ref Snyder's three run home
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  Speaker 2: run a big part of that. Yesterday, Gilbert had a
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  Speaker 2: three to nothing lead before he even picked up the
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  Speaker 2: ball on the mound to begin the game in the
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  Speaker 2: bottom of the first, and so it went. This is
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  Speaker 2: the most consistent the Mariners have played by far, but
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  Speaker 2: it's three games against a very mediocre team in a
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  Speaker 2: very mediocre division. Remember they swept the trash Cans about
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  Speaker 2: a month ago in four games and then couldn't build
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  Speaker 2: on that at all. So let's see, is this the
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  Speaker 2: streak that Chris and I have been mentioning your five
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  Speaker 2: to six game winning streak to take a two to
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  Speaker 2: three game lead, and here we go in the American
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  Speaker 2: League West. And I've heard other colleague hosts of mine
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  Speaker 2: on the air here talk about, well, if they get in,
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  Speaker 2: then what baseball's different than that? Chris? It's different because
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  Speaker 2: once you get in with the pitching staff the Mariners have,
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  Speaker 2: it's just getting in and then you line up your
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  Speaker 2: starting pitching over five and then seven game series. You
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  Speaker 2: like your chances, right, so to me go win that week.
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  Speaker 2: America League West. Last year they were fortunate enough to
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  Speaker 2: get a seed that got him a home field for
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  Speaker 2: their first playoff round. But I'm not so as concerned
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  Speaker 2: as I would be in say the NFL or the
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  Speaker 2: NBA or even the NHL about playoff seeding and matchups
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  Speaker 2: because you got your pitching staff that could go against
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  Speaker 2: anybody exactly.
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  Speaker 3: That that alone just changes everything. That's like having an
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  Speaker 3: elite defense kind of what the Seahawks had. Actually, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you have an elite defense at the offense. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you could you put up twenty one, you'll win the game.
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  Speaker 3: Anything under that it'll be tough, but maybe the defense
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  Speaker 3: makes a player there. That's what the Manners have. In
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  Speaker 3: the pitching, you can give up maybe three runs, and
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  Speaker 3: you would think, oh, the Mariner should win five, three,
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  Speaker 3: four to three, something to that magnitude. But when the
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  Speaker 3: offense struggles, as you've seen this season and years prior,
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  Speaker 3: you're looking at the pitching staff like, damn, how much
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  Speaker 3: more can they hold off a team and just throw, throw, throw, throw, throw,
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  Speaker 3: and just be elite.
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  Speaker 4: Well, hopefully that can turn this season and we have
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  Speaker 4: a full.
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  Speaker 3: Team that is able to pitch, able to hit, all
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  Speaker 3: of those things that would make this team worthy of
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  Speaker 3: a World Series. So I'm hoping that it all comes
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  Speaker 3: together and it starts now right beating the Athletics and
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  Speaker 3: then that three game series against the Diamondbacks sweeping them. Wow,
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  Speaker 3: look at that, how many games do you want? That
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  Speaker 3: would be nice, That would be very that'd be very nice.
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  Speaker 3: Just keep building on what you guys are doing really well.
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  Speaker 3: Not to say that Diamondbacks aren't a good baseball team,
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  Speaker 3: but for where the Mariners are and where they could
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  Speaker 3: and should be, they are far better than them, and
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  Speaker 3: they just have to go out there and execute, don't
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  Speaker 3: get in their own way.
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  Speaker 2: We will talk more about the Mariners, in particular what
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  Speaker 2: to do with JP Crawford when Brendan Donovan comes back.
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  Speaker 2: Donovan suddenly is eligible to return from the ten day
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  Speaker 2: injured list, although there's no indication from the Mariners yet
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  Speaker 2: that he's going out on a minor league rehab assignment
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  Speaker 2: for his groin injury. He got less than two weeks ago,
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  Speaker 2: but he has now passed the ten day mark. So
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  Speaker 2: it does start to come into play when Donovan comes back.
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  Speaker 2: What to do in the infield. We'll talk about that
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  Speaker 2: during the show. I got something in the email this
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  Speaker 2: morning from Seaton Hall University outside Newark, New Jersey, and
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  Speaker 2: I've worked with them in the past couple things in
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  Speaker 2: The chair of the Department of Marketing, PhD wrote me
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  Speaker 2: and said he wants me to participate in the top
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  Speaker 2: Seaton Hall University is doing a list of the top
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  Speaker 2: one hundred sports movies of all time. And I'm not
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  Speaker 2: gonna say, let's recite one hundred, but what's the top five?
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  Speaker 2: And four on the Takoma Dodge tax line. And got
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  Speaker 2: me thinking, well, what is the top five? What would
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  Speaker 2: you say the top five sports movies you've ever seen?
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  Speaker 2: I have my number one already in my head. That
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  Speaker 2: is tough. That's a good one. Isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, Top five, top one hundred, and you get to
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  Speaker 3: think of your This is gonna take me a minute,
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  Speaker 3: but go ahead, what's your number one?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think there's any doubt. It's not exactly I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it is a sports movie, but it's not exactly a
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  Speaker 2: it's not a professional switch. The Sandlot. To me, it's
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  Speaker 2: the number one sports movie.
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  Speaker 3: I would probably say, yeah that if I before I
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  Speaker 3: start googling list of all these movies because I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: forget some, I would not be mad because I think
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  Speaker 3: I might have told you my favorite baseball movie of
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  Speaker 3: all time is The Sandlot.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, So you can't go wrong saying that.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't think having a number one overall would
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  Speaker 3: be any I mean, obviously there's gonna be like, no, Greg,
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  Speaker 3: it's this one.
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  Speaker 2: It's about kids, it's about summer.
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  Speaker 3: It's not about what it's about though, Yeah, exactly exactly
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  Speaker 3: what makes it such a classic exactly see the kids
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  Speaker 3: and they grow up and they're doing all the things everyone.
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  Speaker 3: That's just an awesome story. You just can't remake that. So, yeah, Sandlot,
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  Speaker 3: I thought you was gonna go rocky honestly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: Would and especially you have about what seven of them
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  Speaker 2: to choose from now, the Rocket Series, the Natural talking
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  Speaker 2: about Baseball, eight men out yes, you know for the
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  Speaker 2: gals out there.
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  Speaker 3: I forgot about this one. He got Game, Jesus shuttles
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  Speaker 3: Worth Ray Allen. That's in my I'd have to really
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  Speaker 3: sit down and make this list, but that came to
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  Speaker 3: my mind just now. He got Game, because that's one
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  Speaker 3: of the classics. That is, it's such a good movie.
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  Speaker 3: If I'm not mistaken, Ray Allen was a Sonic when
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  Speaker 3: that movie came.
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  Speaker 4: Out nineteen Let's google when it came out.
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  Speaker 2: He went to Yukon, was a superstar Yukon when got
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  Speaker 2: in the league with the Milwaukee Bucks, ray Allen and
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  Speaker 2: I think it was either maybe he was still with
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  Speaker 2: the Bucks before he got Bucks. It was ninety eight, okay,
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  Speaker 2: so it was before he came to Seattle. And I
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  Speaker 2: covered him with the son good actor. I'll get this booth.
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  Speaker 4: I'll give him credit.
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  Speaker 3: Like a lot of you just don't see NBA players says,
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  Speaker 3: oh yeah, come do this movie about an NBA A
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  Speaker 3: high school kid trying to go play college ball, et cetera,
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  Speaker 3: et cetera.
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  Speaker 4: He did a really good job.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus, that's a great reference.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, I would say that's I'd have to
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  Speaker 3: really sit down, but right now I put it in
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  Speaker 3: my top Tenka easily, he got game.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just trying to think.
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  Speaker 2: What else? Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Remember the Titans that's in there? Yeah, Friday Night Lights.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow, okay, this is better book than movie for me,
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  Speaker 2: just because the characters. Wow, okay, I gotta read the
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: book now, listener. The journalist, actual Philadelphia Require Inquirer reporter
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: did a hell of a job reporting that in the book,
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: so good it became the movie. But I okay, let's
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: let's narrow it down for the text on coming out
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: to textign four nine four five one.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: Your top three sports movies of all time? Even harder
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: it did, I would make it even more difficult for you.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: I'll give you my number.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: One, the saying lot. I mean, we could go for
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: my two or three, but your top three sports movies
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: of all time. Seaton Hall University is asking me to
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: participate in a poll of the top one hundred, so
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: that spawned this conversation.
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: Top one hundred great, I'm like, I don't think I
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: even have seen a hundred I'm with you. I have
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: not seen a hundred sports movies.
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: That might be crazy to some people as I sit
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: here talking sports on radio, but that's a lot of
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: sports movies.
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  Speaker 4: Think about that.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: I don't think I I don't think I've come close
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: to seventy. I got other things I've been doing in
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: the last twenty five.
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: I guess when I get home, I'm going to write
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: down all the sports movies.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Well, that would be.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: Another task of writing down all the sports. You just
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: google sports movies and they start popping up, yea. That yeah, yeah,
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: you don't have to really sit there and try to
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: remember and and sports movies is kind of have a
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: wide birth of I mean, Talladega Knights is a sports movie,
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean? Now, how do you phrase this?
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: That's a sports movie. And I've seen that, so I
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: know that counts.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: It does that would be.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: In the sports genre. So, I mean, it's a pretty
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: wide berth you have to choose from here. You're okay,
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: maybe you had to if you count some of the
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: periphery sports movies. Yeah, that's just as interesting. The original
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: and the remake and the remake. I know it's the original,
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: one or two that's a sports movie. It is, and
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Bert I'm talking about the Burt Reynolds North Dallas forty
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: with way back when I'm talking in the seventies about
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: professional football.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: Wow, I've never heard of that until today.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Really, well, we have a generation gap between you.
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: Year did it come out?
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  Speaker 3: I think it was like nineteen seventy eight, good gosh, yes,
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: of course, I've never heard of that. You could make
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: the case that Herbie the lug Bug is a sports movie.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: It's about racing or cars.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Of this kind, which is one of my that's about
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: a NASCAR style Winston Cup, NASCAR Cup, whatever you battle
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: in front of that. That's a sports movie.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: And you've seen every single what's the movie with the Dog?
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: And it plays basketball? But I have not seen every
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: air but no, but you've seen you know, yeah, I've
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: seen more than a sports movie. That's greg. We might
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: have seen a hundred. I think we just kind of
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: I think we have the Michael Jordan jam space jam
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: oh man.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: That would you put that up in your top three?
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: Not my top three?
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Okay, it's really good.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: I mean people might think Michael George's terrible actor. I don't.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: But Damn.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: That was a good movie.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh wow, this is harder than I thought. Good luck, Greg,
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: have fun doing this. What what's your basketball?
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Guy? What did you? Maybe haven't seen it? Blue Chips
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Shaquille O'Neal as a high school recruit getting I did
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: not know enticed with the illegal benefits at the time
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: which are not legal.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I haven't seen that ninety four. I'm gonna
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: have to go check that out.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a throwback.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Blue Chips Night came out when I.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Was two years old.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: Believe it or not.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Look at that, I want to say.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: The coach was Nick Nolty? Am I right? Yep?
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: Nick Nolty was the coach. Legendary actor.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, he was the head coach, and he was
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: on the tail end of his career, and he had
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: had an impeccable integrity record his long career and then
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: at the end started cutting corners to get these top recruits.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: There was another NBA player in there. Yeah, well, Penny
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Hardaway was in that movie.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: The Memphis coach friend of mine, We've talked about this.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: That's doctor Ed Scott is the athletic director at Memphis
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: and a friend of mine. I teach with him at
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: the University of Washington the summer athletic Leadership program. So
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I've got a lot of Penny Hardaway's from doctor Scott
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: and we chuckled over the fact that he was in
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Blue Chips co starring with SHAQUILLEA Neel.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Greg, you've seen a hundred sports movies.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry it sounded crazy at first, but now that
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: we've talked about it for the last few minutes, we've
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: both seen a hundred of them. We would you mentioned Cars?
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: There's like four movies on cars alone. Airbud, there's like
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: two or three. We would be remiss if we don't
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: mention Hoosiers, would we not?
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Well, absolutely, Yeah, that's yeah, that's without a question. Yes,
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: well hang on Hoosiers as in a sports movie or.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: No, the basketball sports movie. Yes, as we're talking best
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: sports movies, Hoosiers is up there. Jimmy Chitwood, Swinging Gate,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Gene Hackman for y'all.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Yes, for me, you haven't seen it, I've seen it,
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: but it was it didn't I was too old for you,
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: I mean not too old. I just maybe I have
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: to go back and rewatch it and get a better
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: understanding the text line is already lighting up with some
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: good ones.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: That secretary at the two O six says, that's a
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: great movie.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: I believe I've seen that once.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: The Sea Biscuit is along that line is another well
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: told story. Another great book, by the way, but another
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: really good story. Okay, go back Chariots of Fire about
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Olympians in the early twentieth century.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you've seen one hundred play this is it's not
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: you seeing one hundred, whether you want to believe it
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: or not.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: I think you have.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Six agrees with the blue chips above the rim. I
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: haven't seen above the room above the rim is good?
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Who that? Uh?
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: Now?
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: I got to pull up the Google nineteen ninety four
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: film with Yeah, Tupac was in it, Dwayne Martin, a comedian,
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: Marlon Wayne's Wood Harris.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: So it's a classic hoop game hoop.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: But none of them were actual basketball players.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, none of them. Leon Robinson, you remember that name,
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: as Shep roberts You played Arkansas Robinson. I don't know Robertson.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Sorry Robinson. Yeah, he I don't know if he played ball,
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: but he definitely fit the He fit the visual of
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: an actual basketball player. Also played in Cool runnings. That's
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: what you might remember him from a sports movie. It's
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: about the Bob's led team taking the Olympics. Yeah, that
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: was a really cool one.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Caddy Shack is a sports movie. Two six Bull Durham, Greg.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: You've seen one hundred and twenty at this break.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Field of Dreams is mentioned on here a few times.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: The Kevin Costs a really good one. Eight Men Out
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: I really liked. Also, I haven't seen that. Do you
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: know about the story they eight Men Out? The Black
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Sox scandal the Chicago Black Scots. Thirty seconds ago nineteen nineteen,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Chicago Black Sox make the World Series against Cincinnati Reds,
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: heavy heavy favorite Shulish Joe Jackson, hall of famer as
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: the start of the team. Betters get into Shoelish Joe
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Jackson in the black Saw White Sox and have him
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: throw the series and the Reds win the series. And
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: this is right about the well, I mean dawn of
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: the depression in our country where money was getting scarce
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: and better's won big by the Black Sox. They ended
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: up being called the Black Sox. They had to be part.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: I don't think they ever pardoned Kennesaw Mountain Landis was
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: the commissioner at the time, but it was a gigantic
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: scandal and betting and baseball and shoeless. Joe Jackson was
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: central figure in that movie and then the book as well.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: I thought eight minute was told really well, man, I mean,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: think about all the baseball I mean, Bad News Bears
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: is a baseball movie. Have you seen the Bad News Bears?
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: I have not the original Tatum O'Neill and no water
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: math Owl. That's funny. I mean that's funny. It's just
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: a funny. I mean, it's the seventies movie for seventies.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I mean the tight shorts and the tight pants and
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: the butt. Walter Mathow as a little league coach is
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: pretty hilarious. I'd put that up. There's at least really entertaining.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen the program. Basketball makes two of Us anyway,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: already getting some great We'll waiting back at eleven thirty.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: On top of the next subject I'm going to bring
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: up to you when we get back, the Seahawks sale
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: is accelerating. There's a reason for that. We'll talk about
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: the potential price tag, but we'll talk about something that
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: is even more important to you. The listener and the
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Seahawks fan about this sale that's next on ninety three
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: point three KJRFM. Now back to Greg Bell and Christopher
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Kidd on your Home for the Huskies, Krackett and the
• 23:12
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• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the show, The Greg Belt Show with
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Christopher Kidd Live on ninety three point three kJ RF,
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: And we may set a text line record with the responses.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: We're already receiving our question from ten minutes ago. Try
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: to name your best three sports movies of all time
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: that you've seen, and people are pulling out some of
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: the Yeah, I forgot about that one, Yeah, I forget
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: about that one. Four to five The Gladiator is a
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: sports movie.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: We see what you did there. Greg still hasn't seen.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: It, Major League Rudy, there's some really good ones on here.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean Slapshot heard Paul Newman, I heard
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: of it. Great, a great film. Four it's coming out checks.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: I'll read that back. At eleven thirty, my daughter, who's
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: waiting at the Lax Airport gate waiting to fly back
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: from Los Angeles to Seattle, texted in with her favorite.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Her favorite is a sandlot Chris twice. We've given Sarah
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Bell for Christmas gifts PF Flyers. Really, yes, she loves it,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: though she may be wearing them right now at the
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: lax Gate the black PF Flyers, and she sent me
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: a text and said, run faster, jump higher, PF Flyers.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: Wow, that's dope.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: And since Sarah Bell's top three sports movies, she's seen
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: twenty three years old Sandlot, White Men Can't Jump.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: That's a I don't know if I could put it
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: in my top ten, but that's a really good movie.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: It is a really good, real good. She loved Rosie Perez,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: my daughter did in that movie. That was I think.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: She actually got her start all living color and then
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: she brought her back and was like, you know what, Yes,
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: that's right, thank you.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: That's right in living color. And then Mike Lee puts
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: her in his movie I loved.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Billy Billy, What you doing Billy.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: In a movie she has number three Cool Runnings. We
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: mentioned that that that's enough. This is tough.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry Greg that you have to do this.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: This have fun.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: You're gonna be pulling your hair out.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Dick Fame from three to seven here on ninety three
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: point three kids. R FM texted and said, we have
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: to see the program. I've never seen it. It's about Wow,
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: that's two of us.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's look at that. Greg has to watch Gladiator
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: and the program.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Breaking Away pre Fontaine. I mean the pre movie was
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: really good.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: I'm aging myself here. Listeners probably banging their.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Phones or aard we three Dodgeball, Days of Thunder.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: These are comedy. These are comedies. Cup I think I've
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: seen Raging bullboxing movie. But I mean that's a gruesome
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: at times movie. Oh happy Gilmore. Unfortunately that Jerry McGuire,
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: it's very good.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Have you seen Jerry McGuire, Yes, I have. Speaking of football,
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Jerry McGuire's football agent. Anyway, four nine, four to five one.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: We'll go back to the text line. I mean, this
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: is going to set a runaway record for a most
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: text about the s.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're we're probably gonna yeah factor fiction.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm getting text from people I haven't heard
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: from it a long time. It's live from the air.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: So last night, Seahawks news ian Rappaport went on ESPN
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: and said that the Seahawks sale that two weeks ago,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: two and a half weeks ago, Seth Wickersham of ESPN
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: had reported as a soft market. Ian Rappaport went on
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: last night and said, no, no, no, this is a
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: robust market he's been told.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: In fact, so erbust.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: He says it would not surprise him if the league
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: owners convene a special meeting to vote on the Seahawks
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: sale in August, and that the team could be sold
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: before the season begins. Of course, the season begins September ninth,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Wednesday here in Seattle, Seahawks Patriots in the Super Bowl
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: sixty rematch. So it's gone from soft to robust and
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: potentially sold by August. Well what happened, Well, remember on
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: May seventh, on the show, we talked about as the
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: show was going on Sport it go reporting that two
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: different groups, three men, two different groups had submitted letters
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: of intent to the Paul g Allen Trust investment firm
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: handling the sale of intending to put in bids on
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: the team.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: And that's all it took.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Remember we talked that, think, Chris, multiple bidders is what
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: it's going to take to get this market going and
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: to drive up the price. And again it bears repeating
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Paul g Allen and on the Seahawks began the process
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: of selling buying the team from Ken Bearing in nineteen
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: ninety seven, kepam in Seattle. They were going to move
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: to southern California. They actually partially moved to southern California
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: and Ken Bearing Paul Allen got a consortium together, got
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: the state government and local government on board, got a
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: new stadium built, Seahawks stayed and rest is history. Paul
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Allen died in twenty eighteen. As part of his will,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: his trust it is to sell all of his assets,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: not just the Seahawks in the Portland Trailblazers in the NBA,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: but all of his assets, and that the proceeds go
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: to charity, to his philanthropic interest. So it is in
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: the interest of the chair of that trust, his sister
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Jody Allen, who by virtue of being the chair of
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: the trust is the chair of the Seahawks and the
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: vice chair the number two vert cold to find the
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: highest bidder for the highest price to benefit the philanthropic
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: interest of the Paul G. Allen Trust as maximizing that
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: as much as they can.
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: But but.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: There is a question here.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Dave Softie Mahler brought this up online this morning, and
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: I thought about it last night when I was writing
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: my story that's up at the Newstributne dot com right now.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: In fact, I thought about it in February when I
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: asked Burt Cold this question, what responsibility do Jody Allen
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: and Burt Cold feel about having an obligation to selling
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: to the not the highest bidder, but the right bidder
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: for the Pacific Northwest. And that's a different question because
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: and we'll talk about the Portland Trailblazers sale and it
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: was already starting to come out with the new ownership there.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Now that's a whole different situation for less than half
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: the cost of what the Seahawks are expected to be.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: The in Rappaport last night reported that the sale of
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks could eclipse ten billion with a B dollars,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: which would set an a North American record for sports franchises.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Last October this NBA approved the sale of the Los
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Angeles Lakers from the Bus family to a group of
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: investors for ten billion dollars. That's the highest sale ever.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: The record in the NFL is six point oh five
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: the Washington Commander's six point oh five billion. A couple
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: of years ago, and it seems Seahorks are definitely going
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: to eclipse that. But now if they could eclipse ten billion,
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: they would actually be most in North American sports history.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: But what obligation do Jody Allen and Burke Cold have
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: to not sell to the highest bidder but the right one.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: I asked Cold about this at the Super Bowl in
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: San Jose the first week of February. Through the lens
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: of asking him, can you assure Seahawks fans that they
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: will sell to a new owner who would not think
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: of moving the team to that Cold referenced the team's
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: thirty year least with Lumenfield that runs through twenty thirty one.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: He did not come and on the thirty year options
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: the team has with the stadium in the local government
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: to stay in Seattle and in Lumenfield beyond twenty thirty
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: one to perhaps twenty sixty. I'm not going to get
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: into all that all that detail. Cold told me on
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: February second, Chris, I think you have the tape of him.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: This is what Burke Coled, the vice chair of the
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Seahawks and the Paul G. Allen Trust, said when I
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: asked them about his obligation to take care of the
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: fans of the Pacific Northwest with this sale. And this
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: is what Burke Cole said. I'm not going to get
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: into all of that.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: I like the Allen family a lot into saving the
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: sas keeping him in SAG.
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  Speaker 2: We campaigned around the state.
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: The voters agreed with us, and we put together a
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  Speaker 5: little and field and we delivered on everything.
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  Speaker 2: We promised in that campaign.
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  Speaker 5: Thirteam on the stadium, Soccer balls were on our posters.
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  Speaker 5: The Sounders launched this the most successful MLL soccer team.
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  Speaker 5: World Cup is coming. We talked about World Cup back
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  Speaker 5: in that campaign. We've been all about the sports.
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  Speaker 2: We've been all about sports in the community for decades,
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  Speaker 2: is what he told me. I wrote it in the
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  Speaker 2: News Tribune dot Com that day, February second from the
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: And then he gave me a look.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: He's trailed off, and he said so, and he gave
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: me a look like, come on, man, our bona fides
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: are enough. We don't need to be asked about taking
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: care of the Pacific Northwest. Here my read on this.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: If you can take burke Hold at his word, no
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: reason not to. And there's the region has three decades
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: of trust in the Seahawks to go on. This is
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: they are gonna be thinking not just highest bidder, but
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: what's best for the Pacific Northwest. Now that doesn't mean
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: but this seller is gonna the buyer is gonna be
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  Speaker 2: from here. There are all kinds of stories of buyers
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  Speaker 2: that are from not from here. In fact, Betal, one
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: of the Indian steel baron, is living in London, and
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: there's questions about that if he's one of the reported
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: bidders on the Seahawks not even living in the country.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: But that's a different question of whether they'll take care
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: of the Pacific Northwest and the trust that the Seahawks
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: and the Allen family have engendered with the region, whether
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: he lives, she and the buyers live here or not.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: We're gonna talk more about this.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: I'm going to frame it in how the Blazer's sale
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: went down and what's already going on in Portland and
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: the rumblings about the new owner there, Tom Dundon. We'll
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: talk about that next after the break. We'll also talk
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: about where J. P. Grawford should go, which you think
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: JP Grawford should go When Brendan and Donovan eventually comes
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: back from the injure list. That's coming up on ninety
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: three point three kJ R FM swimmer.
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: Every summer, my a don't fight every summer there she
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: is blow, she oiling.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Oy and one day it became too much for Michael
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Squints Polydor.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: I can't check this no more. The great Wendy Peppercord
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: sitting on the lifeguard stand at the pool from the
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: sand Loot. Of course, I say, the best sports movie
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: ever made. My wife's name Wendy and I she used
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: to be a lifeguard at the community pool in her
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: hometown in Ohio.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: Did you role play and like fake drown and she
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: came and saved you?
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Greg? Have I given her mouth to mouth resuscitation? She
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: was blonde, just like Wendy pepper Cord.
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, they definitely roll play this guy. Just just
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: let you know.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: Our kids did. As young as our kids were when
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: they first saw the movie, they picked up on the
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: similarities at least what I was trying to portray. Best
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: sports movies you've ever seen? The top three. Run that back.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: We'll play it back and read your text. At eleven
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: thirty on the Takomadatge text line four nine four to
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: five one, I say the Stalewan's the number one. We're
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: talking about the Seahawks sail lass segment.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: And look, I get it.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: You're saying, wait a minute, you're telling us to trust
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Vice chair Burke Cole chair Jody Allen to do the
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: right thing and not just take to the highest bidder
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: with what they just sold to In Portland with the Trailblazers.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Tom done the same situation. The Paul G. Allen Trust
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: mandated that the Blazers.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Be sold and the Seahawks be sold. Blazers were sold
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: for four point twenty five billion to Tom Dundon, who
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: was also the owner of the Carolina Carolina Hurricanes, who
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: are heading to the one game away from heading to
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: the Stanley Cup Finals.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: And they since he's bottom, I get it.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: People are up in arms about him not wanting to
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: spend money on T shirts to hand out to fans
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: at home playoff games, him keeping people from the road
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: trips that normally go on road trips and playoff road trips,
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: and not wanting to spend money to put them on
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: the team plane, and all of it. I understand the
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: concerns that some of us in the Northwest might have
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: about that. As a present, But to me, it's a
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: little bit of an apple to oranges comparison. That sale
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: was for four billion dollars. This one's for ten. The
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: NFL Chuck Powell asked me this morning the question that
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: I'm going to now answer again. He asked me at
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: seven o'clock this morning.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: He said, who ultimately decides who.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: The Seahawks choose to be the new owners? Is it
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Jody Allenenberke cold or is it the NFL? And it's
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: fellow other team owners And it's both because, as in
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: all sports, they the owners ultimately have to ratify the
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: sale and approve the bid and to prove that this
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: is where we're going to go forward with. And they
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: are very select on who they let in to what
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: is almost exclusively a old white men club a billions,
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: and they want to keep it that way, and they
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: want to keep everybody of like mind. There's a couple exceptions,
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: a Jaguars owner who's London based, and but by and
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: large they want their guy, their type of people, and
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: they type of people tend to be rich, white, old
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: white men, and they want to keep it that way,
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: and they ultimately have to say on the proving the sale.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: But Jody Allen and Burke cold are driven by, as
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: I said, the Paul G. Allen Trust wishes of the
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: philanthropic benefits of this sale and most of the proceeds
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: going to the charities of Paul Allen, and also to
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: what I just described with Burke Cole describing their commitment
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: to the citizen injury of the Pacific Northwest and of
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Seattle sports community. I will tell you that within the NFL,
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: they are so respected the Paul G. Allen, the family,
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: the trust, the legacy of the last thirty years of
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: the Allen family owning the Seahawks. They're so respected that
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: the NFL trusts the Allen family to do the right thing.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: We'll see if that plays out the dollar ultimately wins.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: I get that, but I think there's something of a
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: hedge that it's not just going to be the top
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: top dollar period and that the NFL recognizes the community
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: trust that the Allen family has established in particular with
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks. That's my read on this. We'll see how
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: it plays out. I understand the concerns, and it's a
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: valid question for sure in this era where sports franchise
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: valuations are going so high and the other NFL owners
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: the pressure will be to go sell to the highest
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: bidder so that their values of their franchises will also
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: rise and all ships will rise with the Seahawks sale
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: of potentially ten billion dollars four nine, four to five.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: One my questions on the Tacoma Dodge text line, besides
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: the hundreds of texts we're getting about the top three
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: sports movies of all time, do you trust Jody Allen
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Burke Cole to do the right thing for the Pacific
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Northwest on the Seahawks sale or do you think this
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: is like every other money grab and taking the most money. Now,
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: remember it's not going into the pockets of Jody Allen
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Burke cold It's going to the philanthropic interest of Paul G.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Allen as the Trust dictates.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: That is different than sales of franchises.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: It's usually max profit going into Think Howard Schultz, if
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: I dare mention that sold bought the team the Sonics
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: for a certain amount, sold it for a huge profit
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: to carpetbaggers in Oklahoma for money, period, and the story
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: not here. This is a different situation because the Island
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Trust says the money is going to philanthropic interests four
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: nine four or five one. You're a read on what
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: you think Jody Allen Burke Cold are going to do
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: for the Pacific Northwest? Do you trust him? And there's
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: thirty years plus of history on their side and the
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: reason why we should have our trust. I don't know, Chris.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: I think their record so far speaks for themselves, and
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: it'd be tough to be cynical about that.
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I think I trust the process.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: I think they're going to get the right owner that
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: can come in and just own the team, doesn't want
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: to do all these other things that you see owners do.
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: Terry Jones, I think it'll just be the owner.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: You might not even see him as much, maybe take
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: the backseat as Jody Allen did, and you might speak
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: to her once every year or something, you know, because
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: you guys didn't really talk to her much.
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: You just heard a couple of.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: Things she would speak, and that would be that she
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: really allowed John and Mike McDonald, nonybody else to run things.
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: She was just the owner.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: Well, so maybe they're more, but perhaps that's a part
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: of the discussion, like, Hey, we're trying to do it
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: this way, We're not wanting you to change the formula
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: and if you're not down with it, then you're not
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: our guy or gyle. So that'll be interesting to see
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: how it plays out. But I do believe they have
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: a couple of people in mind that will fit what
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: you've seen over the past decade with general with our
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: owner and what she's done and what she hasn't done.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: Well, you know what to helped is if they even
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: got more bidders and they had more choices, so then
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: they could get picky like that. Okay, that's true, and
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: we don't know, We don't know be on the two
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: known competing bids, whether there are three or four or
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: six or seven. But the more bitter is the more
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: they could be choosy on the intangibles of how they
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: would run the team and how they would steward it
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: for the Pacific Northwest.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Four nine, four or five one.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Your thoughts on that, Your thoughts on what JP Crawford,
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: We haven't talked about it and we may not have
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: time to get into too detailed on it. But when
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: Brenda Donovan, who's now eligible to come off the injured list,
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: but no sign he's on a minor league rehab assigned
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: or anything. Yet when he does come back, it seems
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: he's gonna be a third base cold Emerson is not
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: going anywhere. He just hit for the major league cycle yesterday.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: What's that? And getting a single, double, triple on home
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: run in the major league career. He did in twenty
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: nine at bats, the second fastest Chris to ever happen
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: in one hundred years of major league baseball one hundred
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: and ten years, I think it is twenty eight was
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: the fastest of major league cycle. And with the triple
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: yesterday in Sacramento, col Emerson got this major league cycle
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: in his twenty ninth at bat. Cole Young looks like
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: a stud at second base. I mean you, why would
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: you take him out of second base? And that means
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: when when Donovan comes back, what do you do four nine,
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: four or five one? What would you do with JP
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: crawfor would you send ninety five million dollars cold Emerson
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: back to Tacoma. It looks like that's not going to happen.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: It's like Emerson's here to say up next, O guy
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: with Keith McPherson. He's the former host of WFAN Sports
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: and Radio in New York City. He's now the host
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: of Mike Czech Sports Talk. The talk show online talked
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: to him about the NBA playoffs, about the Knicks making
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: the NBA Finals for the first time since nineteen ninety nine.
• 41:14
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