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Best of Chuck & Buck 3-3 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Good morning anybody.
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  Speaker 6: This is Chucking buck.
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  Speaker 4: In the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome into the radio program Chucking Back
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  Speaker 1: in the Morning. Sports Rado ninety three point three KJRFM.
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  Speaker 1: Here on a Tuesday. Great to have you aboard. Ashley
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  Speaker 1: Ryan is here, former Mariner, Bucky Jacobson.
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  Speaker 8: My name is Chuck Powell.
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  Speaker 1: We've got you for the next four hours as we
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  Speaker 1: discuss all sorts. It's kind of a build up week.
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  Speaker 1: We're building up to a lot of things this week.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what, the destination, it's half the fun,
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  Speaker 1: it's the journey. Excuse me, the journey is half the
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  Speaker 1: fun toward the destination, so we will certainly wrap our
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  Speaker 1: arms around it, embrace it. Welcome into the radio show
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  Speaker 1: here on a Tuesday morning, Bucky's least favorite.
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  Speaker 7: Day of the week.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I always forget to put my mic on,
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  Speaker 4: apparently on Tuesdays. Yet I'm not a fan of Tuesdays,
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  Speaker 4: really am not. And it did not change even with
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of time off. Unfortunately.
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  Speaker 8: I got a little hint for you.
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  Speaker 1: I got a little tip for it's so, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a little background on my like morning schedule. So I
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  Speaker 1: have two alarms that's set. I want it three thirty
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  Speaker 1: and then won it three forty five, okay, and so
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  Speaker 1: if I decide to go to the three forty five,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I give myself that little bumper and that's it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: today I got up at three thirty. And then here's
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  Speaker 1: the other part of my morning. I don't really leave
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  Speaker 1: the house until something natural that leaves my body occurs.
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  Speaker 1: That's usually the routine. And whenever that happens, then I leave. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: because it's almost clockwork, but it's not exactly clockwhow if
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  Speaker 1: it was you tracking me, So when that happens then
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  Speaker 1: I leave the house. Well, unbeknownst to me, all of
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  Speaker 1: this happened because I kind of I got up at
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  Speaker 1: the three thirty today and it it triggered everything to
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  Speaker 1: happen earlier, a little bit earlier. So I've even lost
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  Speaker 1: track of time at this stage. And I get my car,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, man, I got time today. I am like
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  Speaker 1: early and didn't even realize it by the time I
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  Speaker 1: got in the car.
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  Speaker 7: And Ashley will be very proud of me.
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  Speaker 8: I stopped even though I didn't need it.
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  Speaker 7: I stopped and got gassed.
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  Speaker 9: Oh good work.
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  Speaker 1: I had a few extra minutes, and I'm like, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, I'm not gonna want to do this tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: or the next day. So while I've got a few
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  Speaker 1: extra minutes, I'm going to do it. And I got
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  Speaker 1: to tell you, just doing that little bit, I drove
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  Speaker 1: in here feeling like the most accomplished person in the world.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, now I get what those military ads were
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  Speaker 1: all about. I have done more before five am than
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  Speaker 1: most people do all day.
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  Speaker 4: I filled up my gas tank. Wow, so you are
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  Speaker 4: really kicking ass on Tuesday. Good for you, you.
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  Speaker 8: Know, just you know, ten extra minutes and look what
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  Speaker 8: it did.
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  Speaker 7: It just unlocked.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, think about all the things I got done today. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I filled my gas tank. I filled my gas tank.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and I filled my gas tank.
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  Speaker 4: Wo yeah. Boy, it is all downhill from here.
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  Speaker 10: Oh. But the nice thing is you don't have to
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  Speaker 10: accomplish anything else for the rest of the day.
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  Speaker 7: I did it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I feel like I started and finished. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen project that I had planned. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I just got it all done today.
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  Speaker 4: You know what, I'm going to set a million bucks
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  Speaker 4: I'm because of this. I'm going to set my alarm
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  Speaker 4: for half an hour earlier from now on, just hoping
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  Speaker 4: that I can also have a wonderful start to my
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  Speaker 4: day because I have all this extra time before work starts.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Who knows what you can get done. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that novel you've been wanting to work on. You
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  Speaker 1: can get that done tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I need to log on for a bit
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  Speaker 4: more than thirty extra minutes. I'm thinking, No, No, that's you.
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  Speaker 7: Just it's a little extra time as.
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  Speaker 10: Long as you get gassed too, because that's really how
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  Speaker 10: you accomplish everything.
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  Speaker 4: It is, well, well, wait, as it checks something off
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  Speaker 4: the box, chack a box that you were going to
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  Speaker 4: have to do right now next time. You're like, I
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  Speaker 4: would probably need to be getting cash right now, But
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  Speaker 4: I don't right to celebrate this multiple times. It's the
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  Speaker 4: gift that keeps on giving at least one more time.
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  Speaker 1: I honestly though, I mean all seriousness, taking the tongue
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  Speaker 1: out of cheek. I don't know why we do this
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  Speaker 1: to ourselves. And I'm pointing at me. I'm gonna look
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  Speaker 1: in the mirror and say this, But like stuff like this,
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  Speaker 1: it does make you feel a lot better just to
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  Speaker 1: get a couple of things done. I mean, in the
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  Speaker 1: big picture, who gives a damn? You know, you filled
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  Speaker 1: up your gas tank. But it did make me feel better. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like to have that done when I didn't even need
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  Speaker 1: to do it. It's just like when we well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I used to run, and I haven't run in a
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  Speaker 1: while because I don't want to start the process all over.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to be reminded of how out of
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  Speaker 1: shape I've gotten when I used to be in such
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  Speaker 1: great cardiovascular shape. But that thrill that we get because
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  Speaker 1: of the twenty minutes of suffering that we put ourselves
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  Speaker 1: through the thrill that we get. Because you get to
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  Speaker 1: enjoy that for the rest of the day, you feel
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  Speaker 1: like you're floating on air. And I don't know why
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  Speaker 1: I don't do it. I don't know why I don't
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  Speaker 1: just get up five minutes.
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  Speaker 7: Earlier every day.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why I don't just run twenty minutes
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  Speaker 1: every day, because it does kind of change your entire
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  Speaker 1: like mindset and outlook going forward. It's crazy, Well, you
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  Speaker 1: why we're resistant to feel that game.
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  Speaker 4: You know who I'm married to. You guys both know Kate,
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  Speaker 4: and she is a go getter. She she sets goals
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  Speaker 4: and she she achieves goals. A big part of what
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  Speaker 4: she does is she journals, right. She likes to write
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  Speaker 4: down what she wants to do, and she goes back
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  Speaker 4: and checks it and then she, you know, kind of
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  Speaker 4: makes sure she's on track to accomplish short term goals
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  Speaker 4: and midterm goals and long term goals and all that
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  Speaker 4: kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to write that much. I don't want
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  Speaker 4: to say you're way you like writing things, and I
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  Speaker 4: don't want to sit and take the time to write
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  Speaker 4: in a journal. But I have adopted something that's a
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  Speaker 4: very junior arsity version of what she does. I have
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  Speaker 4: on my phone. I have a journal that has a
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  Speaker 4: few important things that I want to be able to accomplish,
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  Speaker 4: like on a daily basis, and so daily I go
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  Speaker 4: through it and I basically it's all pre checked. And
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  Speaker 4: if I just have done what I wanted to do,
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  Speaker 4: I just sit yep, yep, and it just fills it
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  Speaker 4: out for me, right, so then I can go back
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  Speaker 4: and process. Yeah, so it's a process. But one of
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  Speaker 4: them is is, you know, have you spent some time alone,
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  Speaker 4: right and like just thought within your own head? And yes,
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  Speaker 4: that sounds wonderful, it's dangerous, it's a dangerous place to be,
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  Speaker 4: you know. Have you had some uh you know, spiritual
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  Speaker 4: time for myself? Along those lines? Have you accomplished a goal?
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  Speaker 4: This is towards the lines of what you have you accomplished?
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  Speaker 4: Have you made steps towards accomplishing a goal that you have?
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  Speaker 4: And that's a big one because that's one that I'm
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  Speaker 4: actually sometimes I'm just hit yes on the thing. I
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  Speaker 4: even cheat on my journal, but that one I won't
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  Speaker 4: that one I won't do. Like if I didn't accomplish anything,
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  Speaker 4: I will check no on it, I will check no,
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  Speaker 4: and then I feel disappointed in myself. But when I
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  Speaker 4: have done.
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  Speaker 7: Something, when you do get to check it off, it.
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  Speaker 4: Is an amazing feeling. How you're like, right, well, there
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  Speaker 4: you go, because it actually now the journaling basically going
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  Speaker 4: towards what Kate's idea behind it was, is it kind
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  Speaker 4: of sets you up for you have an opportunity to
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  Speaker 4: succeed and you're going to have to hold yourself accountable
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  Speaker 4: to said goal, whatever it is, and if you do it,
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  Speaker 4: then you do feel accomplished. Working out in there is
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  Speaker 4: one of them. It's the one word. That's another one
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  Speaker 4: where I won't cheat, so I can go back and
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  Speaker 4: look at it and be like, good job. Four out
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  Speaker 4: of seven days last week you worked out that I
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  Speaker 4: feel like I'm making them. I'm moving in the right direction.
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  Speaker 4: If it's two or one, then I'm like, you're a
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  Speaker 4: lazy ass. And so it's just kind of one of those.
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  Speaker 4: So it's one of those almost kind of raining yourself
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  Speaker 4: in and trying to get going in the direction to
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  Speaker 4: where you do have that positive feeling at the end
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  Speaker 4: of a day.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why we resist it because it's not
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  Speaker 1: like a big achievement. But it is just like check,
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to worry about this for a while.
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  Speaker 1: That's done, and you feel so much better having done it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why. We just don't do things paying
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  Speaker 1: bills on time, like getting ahead of bills.
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  Speaker 7: I never do that. I always take it up to
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  Speaker 7: like the last day.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why, because that rare time that you're
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  Speaker 1: just like, I just to get this done.
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  Speaker 7: I've got a few minutes. You feel better about your weeks.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And when the day comes when you normally would
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  Speaker 4: pray the bills, you're like, so glad I did that
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  Speaker 4: ten days ago. Why do I do that every month?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I don't. And then I don't.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know why. But you get that app on
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  Speaker 7: your phone and maybe I will just little.
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  Speaker 4: My bills ten days early.
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  Speaker 8: The sports Pig.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever heard me talk about the sports pig?
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  Speaker 1: Mike response, God rest his soul. He used to tell
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  Speaker 1: me when I was a young kid trying to achieve
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  Speaker 1: things and had big goals in mind, he was like
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  Speaker 1: truck the.
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  Speaker 8: Kate of life has limited expectations. As long as you
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  Speaker 8: have limited expectations, you're always achieving.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, just don't set your goals too high.
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  Speaker 4: Well, there's a little truth to that.
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  Speaker 8: Sometimes I just set a goal of have lunch, and
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  Speaker 8: then when I have lunch, I feel like I've achieved something.
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  Speaker 9: Philosopher accomplished goals for me.
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  Speaker 1: Uh well, sports Pig wasn't a real co getter. I
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  Speaker 1: mean his nickname was the sports Yea. All right, well,
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  Speaker 1: welcome in. Uh yeah, I'm just I'm feeling so good
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  Speaker 1: about myself.
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  Speaker 4: You should. Yeah, you really, And you're one for one
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  Speaker 4: in waste paper basketball.
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  Speaker 1: One for one probably had something to do with it.
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  Speaker 1: Probably feel like I'm on my game today you are
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  Speaker 1: a yeah, and I'm gonna later today get to go
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  Speaker 1: down to my car like full gas bank.
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  Speaker 7: I don't have to do that for a while. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: So anyway, I'm.
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  Speaker 9: Carry you through the day.
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  Speaker 8: I am kicking life's ass right now.
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  Speaker 4: Really are what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 1: And we got a lot to accomplish here today. So
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  Speaker 1: today is not just fill your gas tank day. It
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  Speaker 1: is also franchise tag day in the National Football League.
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  Speaker 4: This is it.
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  Speaker 1: This is the last day that you have to decide
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  Speaker 1: whether or not you're going to ruin a football player's life,
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  Speaker 1: apparently by giving him millions of dollars and paying him
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  Speaker 1: an average salary of the top fibers players at his
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  Speaker 1: position in the league, and it will anger him so
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  Speaker 1: much to be thought of so highly.
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  Speaker 7: But that is the practice here today.
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  Speaker 1: Franchise dag day is here, and let's face it, the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks don't like to do it. And I think only
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  Speaker 1: part of that is that they know the players don't
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  Speaker 1: like it, But I think most of it is I
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  Speaker 1: just don't think they they see the benefit of the practice.
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  Speaker 1: But other franchises like the Dallas Cowboys seem to use
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  Speaker 1: it annually. But today is the last day that if
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  Speaker 1: you do want to tag somebody so that they can't
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  Speaker 1: reach free agency without a boltload of draft compensation being
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  Speaker 1: given to you in exchange, well you can do that.
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  Speaker 1: The Cowboys are expected to do it to George Pickens,
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  Speaker 1: the Jets are expected to do it to Brease Hall.
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  Speaker 1: The Seahawks are not expected to do it with ken Walker,
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  Speaker 1: even though they could. And so you know, we've had
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  Speaker 1: this discussion for weeks. Obviously there's no movement on the
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  Speaker 1: ken Walker. We've signed him front. We are five days
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  Speaker 1: away from the tampering period beginning. Greg Bell has said
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  Speaker 1: once he hits that stage, and I don't disagree with
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  Speaker 1: Greg that there's no way that I mean not no way,
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  Speaker 1: but more than likely he will not come back because
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  Speaker 1: he's going to be able if he's wants to explore
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  Speaker 1: his market, he's going to find out that there's a
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  Speaker 1: team out there that will pay him more than what
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks are willing to. So can the Seahawks come
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  Speaker 1: up with an offer good enough to entice him to
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  Speaker 1: stay where he's.
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  Speaker 7: Liked, maybe even loved on a Super.
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  Speaker 1: Bowl championship team and a young Super Bowl championship team
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  Speaker 1: that might be able to do this routinely. Can they
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  Speaker 1: give him a good enough financial offer to satisfy him
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  Speaker 1: personally before we hit.
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  Speaker 7: Monday?
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  Speaker 1: And if you doubt that, Bucky, you do have the option.
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  Speaker 1: The NFL has given you the option to say, all right,
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  Speaker 1: we don't want to give you the contract offer you're
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  Speaker 1: asking for that keeps you from the free agent market,
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  Speaker 1: but we do want to keep you from the free
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  Speaker 1: agent market.
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  Speaker 7: So tag you're it week.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to make fourteen and a half million dollars
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  Speaker 1: for one season, and one season alone, you're not going
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  Speaker 1: to go anywhere, and we aren't invested deeply forty million
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  Speaker 1: deep into keeping you when we're not sure we really
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  Speaker 1: want to do that, So last day to do it, what.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think, Well, I mean they got to be
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  Speaker 4: mulling it over simply because of the fact that the guy,
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  Speaker 4: the next guy in line, you know, just you know,
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  Speaker 4: got injured in the playoffs, you know, Zach Charmon, and
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what you have. You have other options,
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  Speaker 4: you have free agency, you have the draft. You could
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  Speaker 4: address the situation. They're not going to play without a
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  Speaker 4: running back if this doesn't pan out today or or
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  Speaker 4: in the long term aspect, and that he does it
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  Speaker 4: free agency and go somewhere else. I mean, it's just
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  Speaker 4: bottom line is it's just a it's a business, and
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  Speaker 4: there's only amount of money that the team gets to spend.
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  Speaker 4: And how much do they think they're wanting to spend
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  Speaker 4: on that position and that player specifically for that position.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, fourteen million dollars is a lot. That's why
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  Speaker 4: the franchise tag is there. That's why I don't really
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  Speaker 4: understand why people get irritated. They get mad about it.
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  Speaker 4: I think because it doesn't give them the long term
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  Speaker 4: look at what it's it's not they want a four
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  Speaker 4: year deal with you know, say twenty million dollars guaranteed
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  Speaker 4: versus fourteen million dollars. Well, if the four year deal
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  Speaker 4: is if you get that all the way to fruition,
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  Speaker 4: let's just say it's forty million dollars. Yeah, that's a
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  Speaker 4: lot better than fourteen. But you still get a chance
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  Speaker 4: to be in the same position next year next year
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  Speaker 4: being twice as rich as you are.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he only makes the football aspect. Yeah, this
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  Speaker 1: is the rough and tumble football. What if I get
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  Speaker 1: hurt and I never do get that big contract, This
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  Speaker 1: is my one I mean a lot of you view it,
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  Speaker 1: and they should. I mean, when you think about the
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  Speaker 1: lifespan of a professional football player, they view it as
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  Speaker 1: this is my one chance, my first time to be
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  Speaker 1: a free agent. Might be I want an only chance
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  Speaker 1: to make as much money as I can playing in
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  Speaker 1: the National Football League. So I don't want a one
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  Speaker 1: year contract when somebody else out there I know is
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  Speaker 1: willing to give me four years and a big signing.
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  Speaker 4: The other way to look at it, and I agree
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  Speaker 4: with you, and most certainly the aspect of the NFL,
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  Speaker 4: where it's not a matter of if you're going to
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  Speaker 4: get hurt. It's a matter of when you're going to
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  Speaker 4: get hurt, and it's a matter of when the little
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  Speaker 4: knicks and bumps and bruises, the collisions that you go through,
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  Speaker 4: when those add up to the toll where you're done,
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  Speaker 4: where you just as running back, you lose a half
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  Speaker 4: step and you're no longer of worth to anyone.
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  Speaker 1: And running back is the most it's the worst, it's
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  Speaker 1: the biggest example of them all. That's why running backs really,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there have been I've even discussed and reckless
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: of breakfast that running backs should have completely different rules
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: than everybody else. If we're going to hold it against them,
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: if we're gonna have biases against them, if we're going
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: to believe that they're going to break down more so
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: than any other position, then maybe we shouldn't be allowed
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: to franchise tag.
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: Right, right, And yet the other side of looking at
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: it would be, I mean, ken Walker's made over eight
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: million dollars eight and a half million dollars about in
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: his four years, which is not much, but then again,
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: that's your your rookie contract. You come out, you get
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: paid two million dollars a year. Used to should still
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: be good having made eight million dollars so far in
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: your life. If you don't play another day, right, you
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: should like to give it a go.
• 16:19
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm gonna it's a challenge, but let's do it.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, imagine how good that would feel. I mean,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: I'm walking on cloud nine if just because they have
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: a full gas tank.
• 16:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I made money for.
• 16:28
  Speaker 10: That shill ends and he gets signed to a two
• 16:30
  Speaker 10: million dollars a year deal.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: I tell you what, if Richmore comes in here and
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: puts a franchise tag on me for fourteen million, there
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: ain't gonna be one piss on one part of me
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: that's going to be mad in the slightest and so
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: to me, the other way of looking at it, which
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: I think, all, well, maybe not all. Some of the
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: football players that get a franchise tag slapped on them,
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: they end up coming to the realization of Okay, I
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: have eight million dollars in my bank right now. At
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: the end of this season, one season, I'm gonna have
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: twenty two million dollars. I should even be more okay
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: with the fact that long term I should be fine
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: as long as I'm not an idiot with my money.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: And I also, if I go out and stay healthy
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: first and foremost, which is where their biggest concern is.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: And I put up good numbers, I get to do
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: it again, but even better. Now it's not a question
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: of whether or not the team I'm with is going
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: to pay me big money or is another team going
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: to pay me big money? If you go out and
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: put up another good season, right, just go out and
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: have a career year. Now, all of a sudden, you're
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: talking you're gonna get paid big time, because it's almost
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: if you get franchise tagged in your fifth season. Going
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: into your fifth season like he is, you're still young enough,
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: not in football terms, but you're still young enough that
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: you could get that big payday. After you make a
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: big payday, because like you said, the average of the
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: top five people, top five running backs is nothing to
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: scoff at it fourteen million bucks. I wouldn't. I'll tell
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: you this. If I'm Ken Walker and I wake up today,
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: if I'm wanting a long term deal, then maybe I'm
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: coming down off my numbers so I can stay where
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: I'm at and I don't have to go through the process,
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: or I'm gonna say no, I'm not going to And
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: then if they end up slapping the franchise tag on me.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna be okay with making fourteen million bucks this year.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna hope that I stay healthy and I'm gonna
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: really cash in next year.
• 18:11
  Speaker 10: I would think he would have to be okay with
• 18:14
  Speaker 10: with the amount of money, because I think fourteen and
• 18:17
  Speaker 10: a half is probably more than he would get from anyone.
• 18:20
  Speaker 10: I keep saying that, I think the Seahawks would Yeah,
• 18:23
  Speaker 10: per year. I keep saying the Seahawks should go to
• 18:26
  Speaker 10: twelve and that's about it.
• 18:27
  Speaker 9: I wouldn't go higher than that. I don't.
• 18:29
  Speaker 10: That's why I don't think that they would do the
• 18:30
  Speaker 10: franchise tag because I don't think they would want to
• 18:32
  Speaker 10: pay him the fourteen and a half, even though it
• 18:34
  Speaker 10: is only for one year and you're not guaranteeing him
• 18:36
  Speaker 10: a lot of money long term.
• 18:38
  Speaker 9: I just don't see them putting the tag on him.
• 18:40
  Speaker 7: I don't think they're going to.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think the point, I mean, I think
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: the discussion is moot. I mean, yes, I think it's
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: worth having on franchise Tag Day just to discuss as
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: sports fans, well, should they Yeah?
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: Will they?
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: To me?
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: That's a hard no. I don't think they're going to
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: do it.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: And part of the reason is is because when you
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: do sign someone to a franchise tag, that entire amount
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: on a franchise tag goes against your salary cap that year.
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: You don't get to manipulate it.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: And the NFL executives are all about, you know, it's
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: not real math, special math. They're all about manipulating it.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: So pushing it here and pushing it there. But if
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: it's fourteen and a half that you're paying him for
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: this season, every cent of that goes up against your
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: salary cap this year. So that's one reason not to
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: do it. Another reason is because it does piss off
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: the player. And another reason is that the Seahawks just
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think they've done it twice in the
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: John Schneider era. They just don't just not something that
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: they like to do. So we'll see, I mean, I'm
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: not no, Actually we won't see. He's not going to
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: get tagged today. But doesn't mean you don't have the
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: conversation about whether or not it would be a good idea,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: because you do risk losing him if he gets to Monday.
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: Unsigned.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: All right, let's find out what's on tap. For the
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: rest of the show.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: What's on Tell? What's on Tell? All right?
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Greg Bell will join us at seven oh five. We'll
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: ask him about that. Also, some Seahawk rumors involving a
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: trade for a star pass rusher by the name of
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Max Crosby, which we will cover here today. NFL free
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: agency tampering does begin in five days. That's right, We're
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: gonna get our tamp on on Monday. It's the NFL's
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: most turbulent period, the Monday and Tuesday before NFL free
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: agency begins. That's the real frenzy is when we get
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: our tamp on on Monday morning. So yeah, I actually
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: can't wait for that, is it? Yes, Tampafest is one
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: of my favorite times of the entire year. And to
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: think it's not even the headline countdown to WBC also
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: is going on this week. Like I said, this is
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: kind of a ramp up week for a lot of
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: cool things in the sports world. There will be some
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Team USA action today. The Mariners are also playing today.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Mariners are taking on the Angels, Brian Wu pitching.
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: At noon.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Team USA plays a exhibition game for their exhibition tournament.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: They're doing that today. A lot of countries are doing that.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: A lot of franchises are doing that against countries. So
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: that starts today and then I think the first real
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: WBC game happens on Wednesday. US doesn't play until Friday,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: count down to college basketball's conference championship week, and of
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: course that's the real March madness. To me, this is
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: where the madness begins. It's when you start playing games
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: almost every day, and their elimination games to one degree,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: that's what March madness is all about. And so that's
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: getting underway everywhere. It's not I mean conference. This is
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: the end of the regular season for a lot of conferences,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: but some are gearing up right now for their conference championships,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: including the WCC. The Coogs and Zags are done for
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: the regular season, so the next game they will play
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: will be a tournament game. High school hoops state title
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: this weekend. Our boss Rich Moore brought up in the
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: meeting yesterday about my twenty six and oh team, I can't.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Believe he over.
• 22:13
  Speaker 8: I can't believe he knew that just from my background.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he really doesn't thorough research of me before he
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: hired me.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: I think it's been mentioned before.
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: Oh, I've never brought that up, No once.
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: Yeah, but he knew that.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: He knew that I had a twenty six and oh
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: high school basketball team.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: He really does vet his likes me.
• 22:32
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I have looked at your Wikipedia page.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Something something that was surprising. And countdown to NHL trading
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: deadline as this Friday, the Kraken will have to make
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: a decision as to whether or not they're going to
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: add here before the trading deadline.
• 22:48
  Speaker 8: And boy, they got a.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Boost toward that front yesterday because that was one of
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: the biggest wins of the year for the Seattle Kraken.
• 22:56
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• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Two one Seattle.
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  Speaker 12: Up to the line, Gostas bear down the slot, that
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• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Back of the net. Ten seconds left here in Seattle.
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  Speaker 11: This is a ho to the high slot.
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• 23:50
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• 24:02
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  Speaker 1: WBC exhibition games will start today, major League teams taking
• 25:28
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• 25:33
  Speaker 1: They will take on the Angels at noon.
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: Brian Wu will.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Get the start for the Mariners and ramp it up
• 25:39
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• 25:42
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• 25:45
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• 25:48
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• 25:52
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• 25:56
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• 26:01
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• 26:04
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• 26:09
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• 26:10
  Speaker 7: Today is tag Day in the National Football League.
• 26:13
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• 26:39
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• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Greg, Good morning.
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: Let me guess I'm got guest today. Banana pancakes.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: Yet now?
• 26:51
  Speaker 14: Yeah? Maybe? But yeah, just says it's just me here
• 26:54
  Speaker 14: in the house. Probably not.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, treat yourself, Greg, Yeah you should.
• 27:00
  Speaker 14: Well that's true.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: I could do that.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they are delicious though, banana pank it sounds good
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: to me. Could you make something and bring him.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: In them on down here? Yeah?
• 27:09
  Speaker 14: I usually put chuck of tips in them too with banana.
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: But oh, now you're singing a really beautiful song. Where
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: say no to that?
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 27:15
  Speaker 9: God awesomer?
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: Yeah it really did.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Uh well, good morning. Great to have you uh with
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: us again this morning. It is tag day. None of
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: us are expecting the Seahawks to use the franchise tag
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: on Ken Walker, but could we be surprised before the
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: day comes to a close.
• 27:33
  Speaker 14: I mean it's possible, but I don't think so. Yeah,
• 27:36
  Speaker 14: And well, we asked Mike john Snyder last week at
• 27:40
  Speaker 14: the combine about it. He refused to answer that. He
• 27:42
  Speaker 14: kind of smiled and smile told me, come on, you
• 27:45
  Speaker 14: know how we do business, which is they don't do
• 27:49
  Speaker 14: business franchise text. He's only done it once, well twice, technically,
• 27:52
  Speaker 14: he's only done it once in sixteen years. It was
• 27:55
  Speaker 14: the Linda mari in twenty ten in his first month
• 27:58
  Speaker 14: on the job, a kicker. And then the other time
• 28:01
  Speaker 14: they did it was Frank Clark about a half dozen
• 28:04
  Speaker 14: years ago, and that was to buy time to pull
• 28:06
  Speaker 14: off the trade, assigning trade to the Kansas City Chiefs.
• 28:10
  Speaker 14: They traded their edge rusher Clark to the Chiefs, and
• 28:13
  Speaker 14: the Chiefs immediately paid him the highest paid edge rusher
• 28:16
  Speaker 14: for that year. And that's the only two times in
• 28:18
  Speaker 14: sixteen years that they've done it, and only once to
• 28:21
  Speaker 14: keep a player. The franchise tag number for running backs
• 28:25
  Speaker 14: at fourteen and a half million. If they did use
• 28:30
  Speaker 14: it today, I immediately would say why did they do that?
• 28:33
  Speaker 14: Because they could have signed him for a multi year
• 28:36
  Speaker 14: deal months ago extended him at a salary cap number
• 28:41
  Speaker 14: less than fourteen and a half for this year. So
• 28:44
  Speaker 14: it doesn't make a ton of sense. Now that he's
• 28:46
  Speaker 14: this close to free agency. He could command close to
• 28:50
  Speaker 14: that if they're bidding mortgage and multiple teams get involved.
• 28:54
  Speaker 14: So for him, it doesn't make any sense that players
• 28:58
  Speaker 14: hate the franchise. Higher course, yeah, it's just it's gone
• 29:01
  Speaker 14: on too long. If this had been six eight months ago,
• 29:06
  Speaker 14: or when Kenneth Walker wanted the extension the beginning of
• 29:09
  Speaker 14: the year, they could have gotten in for cheaper. But
• 29:11
  Speaker 14: we've talked about why they didn't do that.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: Can you think of anybody that maybe John Schneider wishes
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: he had, I mean, because I would have to think
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: that not all these decisions are the same where it's
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: just nope, not interested. That's not what we do. We
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: don't play in that sandbox. You think there's any times
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: that they wish they had and if this is maybe
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: more on that line, simply because they don't really have
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: someone waiting in the wings to take that spot right now.
• 29:37
  Speaker 14: They wish they had you the franchise tager. Yeah yeah, uh,
• 29:44
  Speaker 14: I'm trying to think of major guys who left wishing
• 29:48
  Speaker 14: that they hadn't left and signed it. Oh well. Cornerback
• 29:53
  Speaker 14: at the time was the DJ Reid When he left
• 29:57
  Speaker 14: to the Jets about what was that three or four
• 30:00
  Speaker 14: years ago. He was emerging as a real stalwart who
• 30:03
  Speaker 14: could have played eight ten years for Seattle and Pete
• 30:07
  Speaker 14: Carroll just loved how he played the ball and was
• 30:10
  Speaker 14: exactly the press corner they liked, and he came up
• 30:14
  Speaker 14: from venimum salary. The Seahawks thought they were going to
• 30:19
  Speaker 14: resign him at a very low cost, probably like the
• 30:23
  Speaker 14: current situation with Josh Job, but the Jets blew him
• 30:28
  Speaker 14: out of the water. And the DJ Reid situation was
• 30:32
  Speaker 14: a reminder that once guys get the free agency, who
• 30:35
  Speaker 14: knows what can happen If multiple teams get involved, they
• 30:37
  Speaker 14: have cap space, they can overpay for a guy. And
• 30:41
  Speaker 14: DJ Reid got an offer that they were just like, whoa,
• 30:44
  Speaker 14: we can't touch that, and we really wanted you back,
• 30:47
  Speaker 14: but we're not going to match that. That blows our
• 30:49
  Speaker 14: whole plan out of whack if we pay that and
• 30:52
  Speaker 14: they lost them. That's one example. Who comes to mind.
• 30:57
  Speaker 14: The thing about corner compared to running backer versus the
• 31:00
  Speaker 14: cost is high at the top of the market for corners,
• 31:04
  Speaker 14: so we costs a lot of money to keep Greek wooling,
• 31:06
  Speaker 14: for instance, on a franchise. Egg.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think there's another candidate other than Walker
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: this year.
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: Greg Yeah, yeah.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Greg bells with us our Seahawks insider. Of course, he
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: can follow his coverage of the Seahawks daily coverage at
• 31:18
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• 31:21
  Speaker 7: Seattle so nationally.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: This Max Crosby stuff seems to be heating up articles
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: everywhere suggesting that he could be traded this week before
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: free agency begins. How real of a possibility is that
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: for John Schneider and the Seattle Seahawks.
• 31:39
  Speaker 14: Well, they've asked, they've looked around and acquired, and there's
• 31:43
  Speaker 14: a spy tech general manager for the Raiders and Snyder
• 31:46
  Speaker 14: have done recent business, said the quarterback for this in particular,
• 31:50
  Speaker 14: so it's not like they don't know each other. So
• 31:54
  Speaker 14: Snyder is aware of what the Raiders are asking what
• 31:57
  Speaker 14: they would want and all of that. It's the old
• 32:00
  Speaker 14: we are involved on everything, and they take pride in
• 32:03
  Speaker 14: doing that. It would have to be for players, because
• 32:06
  Speaker 14: we've talked about how they don't have much at least
• 32:09
  Speaker 14: this year in draft capital. We'll see again it's a
• 32:14
  Speaker 14: sort of like free agency. Once a lot of teams
• 32:16
  Speaker 14: get involved in bidding for a guy they may want
• 32:19
  Speaker 14: to acquire in a trade, then the price goes way up.
• 32:23
  Speaker 14: And the Seahawks have some of the fewest draft picks
• 32:27
  Speaker 14: in this draft, and they don't have a ton of capital.
• 32:29
  Speaker 14: It would cost them players to get someone like that.
• 32:34
  Speaker 14: I'm never saying ever, I mean, just team the trade,
• 32:36
  Speaker 14: Russell Wilson. You remember, so trades can come out of nowhere,
• 32:40
  Speaker 14: but it does get more difficult for a team with
• 32:43
  Speaker 14: low draft capital. When other teams are reportedly seeking a guy,
• 32:47
  Speaker 14: the price goes way up.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I'm involving a lot of crazy stuff in this next
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: next question because we're also, i mean, we're hearing Max
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Crosby rumors. We're also hearing that maybe the Raiders aren't
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: as much in love with Fernando Mendoza and if somebody
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: else's and makes them an offer, they can't refuse, they
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: might pull the trigger on that long way of asking,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: does Drew Locke have any value out there being on
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: a two year, five million dollar contract that a team
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: that is admittedly rebuilding, that could restock their you know
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: stores with all sorts of draft picks this offseason, have
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: all sorts of cap space that maybe if they just
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: had a one year Drew lock you know, sort of
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: band aid to put on it, and and and some
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: franchise give him finally an opportunity to see if he
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: actually could be an NFL quarterback for somebody. Is there
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: some trade value out there? Does that make sense in
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: any of these scenarios that he might be included?
• 33:43
  Speaker 14: Yeah, it does, but not the number of teams that
• 33:46
  Speaker 14: supposedly and looks like they need quarterbacks or start a
• 33:48
  Speaker 14: dwindle the Mendoza Raiders stuff. There's always this talk every
• 33:55
  Speaker 14: year for the teams at the top of the draft
• 33:57
  Speaker 14: because they want to attract trade offers from everywhere. They
• 34:01
  Speaker 14: want to get as many as they cultivate as many
• 34:03
  Speaker 14: as they can, so they leave put out and leak that,
• 34:06
  Speaker 14: oh we might be going this way instead, or oh
• 34:08
  Speaker 14: we may not be involved in that quarterback because teams
• 34:11
  Speaker 14: that do need quarterback and might like Mendoza. They want
• 34:14
  Speaker 14: to track those guys to get offers. So you're going
• 34:17
  Speaker 14: to see more than just those. There'll be rumors from
• 34:20
  Speaker 14: now until the draft starts April twenty third about that
• 34:23
  Speaker 14: to try to so the Raiders can go on a
• 34:25
  Speaker 14: fishing expedition and see what they can get. I talked
• 34:28
  Speaker 14: to Drew Locke att before and after the Super Bowl.
• 34:31
  Speaker 14: He really does want to come back, and he really
• 34:34
  Speaker 14: does love it here. And the reason he signed here
• 34:36
  Speaker 14: over some other offers, including some that he might have
• 34:38
  Speaker 14: had a chance to compete to start more than he
• 34:40
  Speaker 14: would have in Seattle was but how much he loves
• 34:43
  Speaker 14: it here. He signed with the Raider or the Seahawks
• 34:47
  Speaker 14: when right around the time his father passed away this
• 34:51
  Speaker 14: time last year, and I talked to him about that too.
• 34:55
  Speaker 14: Today happen to be the anniversary of my father dying
• 34:57
  Speaker 14: last year, and we we walked a long time at
• 35:01
  Speaker 14: the Super Bowl, and I mean like tears were shed
• 35:04
  Speaker 14: about that and going through that, and he said that
• 35:07
  Speaker 14: the Seahawks were the team he wanted to go to
• 35:11
  Speaker 14: at that time when he was going through that. He's
• 35:14
  Speaker 14: still upset about it obviously and still affected by it.
• 35:17
  Speaker 14: And there is a lot more to playing time and
• 35:20
  Speaker 14: money as to why he resigned with the Seahawks. I
• 35:23
  Speaker 14: know people don't want to hear that, and you don't
• 35:25
  Speaker 14: think it matters about culture and and tangibles. It does,
• 35:29
  Speaker 14: and Drew Locke does not want to leave. I talked
• 35:31
  Speaker 14: to him after the Super Bowl. I'll see you in April,
• 35:35
  Speaker 14: so he knows he's in the contract. He tends to
• 35:37
  Speaker 14: be here. The Seahawks love having him as in the
• 35:40
  Speaker 14: back pocket. When he came off the bench and replaced
• 35:44
  Speaker 14: you know Smith in that money Night game against the
• 35:46
  Speaker 14: Eagles then defending Super Bowl champion Eagles and won the
• 35:51
  Speaker 14: game with a two minute drill, they were like, Aha,
• 35:54
  Speaker 14: this is why we have him, This is why we
• 35:56
  Speaker 14: keep them. That's this is why they gave him a
• 35:58
  Speaker 14: two year deal last year. So it would have to
• 36:02
  Speaker 14: be quite an offer for the Seahawks to do anything.
• 36:04
  Speaker 14: And he doesn't want to go and they don't want
• 36:05
  Speaker 14: to lose him.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: Uh, what would you say? I mean leading up to
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: tampering period? What is number one priority you think on
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: John Schneider and Mike McDonald's list right now?
• 36:18
  Speaker 14: Well, I still think Rashid Shahet is the guy that
• 36:21
  Speaker 14: would be easier to resign and wants to stay here
• 36:25
  Speaker 14: and has a role and loves the special teams coach
• 36:28
  Speaker 14: Ja harbor at all of it and would not cost
• 36:31
  Speaker 14: as much. And I think that's the one that's going
• 36:34
  Speaker 14: to happen. First, they want they need to get deeper
• 36:38
  Speaker 14: in the offensive and defensive lines. They're going to lose
• 36:42
  Speaker 14: a corner in defensive back or two. I think Wooland
• 36:46
  Speaker 14: is gone, which means they need to backfill at some
• 36:48
  Speaker 14: point with depth at corner. All the needs were talking
• 36:53
  Speaker 14: about it. They don't have, but they only have four picks,
• 36:56
  Speaker 14: so I think they're going to draft a running back.
• 36:59
  Speaker 14: I think there may I'm a free agent running back
• 37:02
  Speaker 14: because I don't think Walkers stand either. It's the age old.
• 37:06
  Speaker 14: I mean, this is every year in a salary cap
• 37:08
  Speaker 14: league that this happens. You can't bring back everybody and
• 37:10
  Speaker 14: still resign Smith and Jigba to the top of the
• 37:14
  Speaker 14: market two hundred almost two hundred million dollars deal and
• 37:17
  Speaker 14: Witherspoon to a top of the market cornerback. You just
• 37:19
  Speaker 14: can't do it all. And they are definitely keeping Smith
• 37:22
  Speaker 14: and Jigua and Witherspoon and not letting them go into
• 37:24
  Speaker 14: the season without a deal. So when you see the
• 37:27
  Speaker 14: salary cap number again, what is it? Sixty plus million
• 37:31
  Speaker 14: dollars in cap space, It's really not that much because
• 37:35
  Speaker 14: of the Smith's and Jigba and Witherspoon's extensions are going
• 37:38
  Speaker 14: to take up a chunk of that. And they do
• 37:41
  Speaker 14: have multiple deeds. They're Super Bowl champion. But again, in
• 37:44
  Speaker 14: a cap league, you still have needs.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Well close with this. I mean, the stories weren't that big.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: It's not like Tyle Cotta and George Hallani had a
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: lot of wiggle room here. So but the Seahawks did
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: tend to them offers yesterday, and it gives us a
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: chance to talk about the two guys Ocatta particularly, that
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: contributed to this Super Bowl championship. I mean, man, when
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: the preseason games were going on, I'm like this, tyle
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Katta has no shot at making this team, and yet
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: by the end of the year, what an asset he
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: ended up being for this team. So gives us an
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: opportunity to talk about two guys on the depth chart
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: that did a couple things this year.
• 38:25
  Speaker 14: They did they sure did it in Okada's case, just
• 38:28
  Speaker 14: a quick refresher for fans that don't know what exclusive
• 38:30
  Speaker 14: rights free agents are.
• 38:32
  Speaker 11: Years.
• 38:32
  Speaker 14: Almost always they were signed as undrafted rookies or off
• 38:35
  Speaker 14: waivers as young players, players without tenure who can't qualify
• 38:40
  Speaker 14: for unrestricted free agency. Whose contracts them is because you
• 38:43
  Speaker 14: didn't draft them, you didn't give them four year deals.
• 38:45
  Speaker 14: They were on year to year deals and then they
• 38:47
  Speaker 14: exceed by playing time they qualify for an exclusive rights status.
• 38:54
  Speaker 14: And exclusive rights means if the team tenders them a deal,
• 38:58
  Speaker 14: they can only play with that team. If you don't
• 39:01
  Speaker 14: tender them, they can become unrestricted free agents. But once
• 39:04
  Speaker 14: you tender them, unless they decide to sit out the
• 39:06
  Speaker 14: whole year and not accept the offer, which would be
• 39:08
  Speaker 14: stupid because you don't have a tenured year toward free agency,
• 39:12
  Speaker 14: you're playing it just above minimum salary for this year.
• 39:15
  Speaker 14: So that's what they are, just above a million dollars
• 39:17
  Speaker 14: for each and it was always a fatal company that
• 39:19
  Speaker 14: they were coming back. McDonald loves to put film on
• 39:24
  Speaker 14: of the plays that Okata makes after games because he
• 39:26
  Speaker 14: is a grassroots, self made, homegrown guy in the program
• 39:32
  Speaker 14: who does everything right, practicing preparation assignments a quarterback on
• 39:38
  Speaker 14: the field, who barks out formations and signals before the
• 39:41
  Speaker 14: snap that are on point with what McDonald wants. The
• 39:45
  Speaker 14: very first game against San Francisco, when Nicki Monmorri got
• 39:49
  Speaker 14: hit hurt on the fourth player of the game and
• 39:51
  Speaker 14: they brought in Okada man Kyle Shanahan, the forty nine
• 39:54
  Speaker 14: ers went after him first down, the kittle touchdown, the
• 39:57
  Speaker 14: kittle boom boom, and they actually benched Okada. Mike McDonald
• 40:04
  Speaker 14: did in that game because they were trying to have
• 40:06
  Speaker 14: him play nick even Warrior's role, which the se Yorks
• 40:09
  Speaker 14: quickly turned found out nobody can play. That was when
• 40:12
  Speaker 14: even Warri's playing more of a Nicolin's slot corner spot.
• 40:16
  Speaker 14: Then when Julian Love got hurt after a couple of
• 40:19
  Speaker 14: weeks later and was out nine weeks, they put Ocada
• 40:22
  Speaker 14: in the back of the defense in Love's role, and
• 40:25
  Speaker 14: he flourished and he was a short tackler and he
• 40:28
  Speaker 14: was a Simon sound. He was great and he really
• 40:33
  Speaker 14: helped them. I mean, they won what fourteen games in
• 40:36
  Speaker 14: a row to end the season, and about eight or
• 40:38
  Speaker 14: nine of them Kyo Cotta started and then it was like, well,
• 40:43
  Speaker 14: this guy's stand he's a fixture here. Halani, by the way,
• 40:47
  Speaker 14: was very good in the postseason. Once the charbonnay went out.
• 40:50
  Speaker 14: He didn't get a ton of opportunities, but when he did,
• 40:52
  Speaker 14: he made guys miss. They had him in on third
• 40:55
  Speaker 14: downs for pass blocking, but in a few times they
• 40:57
  Speaker 14: gave him the ball and threw to him. He was
• 40:59
  Speaker 14: making dudes missing title games. Starter vettering, guys, I know
• 41:04
  Speaker 14: boys is excited about him and how he did at
• 41:06
  Speaker 14: the end of the season and former Boys of State
• 41:07
  Speaker 14: Bronco two guys. People don't talk about a lot. To
• 41:11
  Speaker 14: just do their jobs when it's time, and that's how
• 41:13
  Speaker 14: you win championships.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Okatt was. It was terrific, just him and
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Drake Thomas. They just kept getting better everybody too.
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 41:20
  Speaker 7: Yeah, all right, Greg, thank you, Sarah.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: We appreciate it. We will check in with you tomorrow.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Go get those banana pancakes with the chocolate chips. You
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: really got my mouth watering over all of that.
• 41:31
  Speaker 14: That was our staple when our kids went to elementary school.
• 41:34
  Speaker 14: Every morning, I woke up and made them chocolate chip
• 41:36
  Speaker 14: pancakes with bananas in it. So you're bringing back memories.
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: All right, Thank you?
• 41:42
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  Speaker 1: welcome you into the second half of this Tuesday edition
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: of Chuck and Bucket in the mornings and we got
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff going on, including Everett Fitzhu coming
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: up at eight thirty today to talk about the Kraken's
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: biggest win in a while, one of their biggest of
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: the season last night with the Carolina Hurricanes two to one.
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• 43:14
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• 43:19
  Speaker 7: But we got a lot of football stuff. It's a
• 43:21
  Speaker 7: ramp up week.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: We are ramping up to March Madness. We're ramping up
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: to the NHL trading deadline, We're ramping up to the WBC.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: We are also ramping up to the tampering period which
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: starts on Monday, the forty eight hours prior to the
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: NFL free agency period getting underway. But let's face it,
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: Tamperfest is where all the action, that's where all the
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: cool kids hang out, everybody's there, Tamperfest, and then when
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: the actual you know, grown ups take over, all the
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: cool kids have already left the party.
• 43:54
  Speaker 9: It's over.
• 43:55
  Speaker 7: It's over.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we'll be getting our tampon come on Monday.
• 44:00
  Speaker 7: I shouldn't say it that way, welcome you.
• 44:01
  Speaker 9: Should you say it?
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, tampfessor that I'm going to go with it, And
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: I don't think Rich wants me to go with it.
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: Where I'm gonna go with it. If you guys are
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: gonna get your tampon, a little worries.
• 44:11
  Speaker 10: Stay right around there, you think, Yeah, get like they
• 44:15
  Speaker 10: may not take it further.
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, don't go into you know, like tampon jokes.
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: You're saying, just stay where the tamp get your tamp
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: on agency jokes.
• 44:26
  Speaker 7: I don't understand that they're not like tampon.
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: If you say tamp This is.
• 44:30
  Speaker 9: A very important period in the NFL season.
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: You did it. You did it.
• 44:34
  Speaker 9: What I was telling you, what's going on.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: It's one of the most important periods of the entire season.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: It's not the most very strong for some people. Yeah,
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: it's very strong for some and not as strong for others.
• 44:45
  Speaker 7: Turbulent for everybody really.
• 44:47
  Speaker 9: Yeah, you got to be careful.
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 44:49
  Speaker 10: Uh.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: Anyway, and you don't want to skip it, no, or
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: maybe you do.
• 44:54
  Speaker 10: That's an entirely other maybe you do, bigger problem.
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: It's not a problem, it's.
• 44:59
  Speaker 7: Plan for it exactly. Yeah.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: Well, we're going to provide an NFL free agency preview,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: one position at the time throughout the course of the week.
• 45:09
  Speaker 7: Yesterday we did running back.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: So today we take a look at the wide receivers,
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: and we're going to play a game of check yes
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: or no here today.
• 45:16
  Speaker 8: And here's here's a little bit why.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: Because I always end up giving you guys like five
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: different options when we play one of these games.
• 45:24
  Speaker 7: I'm not going to today. Just check yes or no.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: Just tell me if this is something you're interested in
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: or not. And we'll start with our own guy at
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: wide receiver, Rashid Shaheed twenty eight years old. We know
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: the impact that he made here. He turned the Rams
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: game around. He got the playoffs started in better fashion
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: than anyone has ever got a team started in the playoffs.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: He was tremendous and special teams first and foremost, he
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: was effective as a runner, getting some jet sweeps around
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: the edge, and he did catch some passes, but wasn't
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: a overly productive in the pass game for the Seahawks.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: But certainly they traded some draft compensation for him at
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: the trading deadline. He says he likes being here. They
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: say they like having him. But according to Spotrack, and
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know how accurate spo track is, but I
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: need something, I need some sort of reference source, they
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: say he's going to command a fourteen million dollar per
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: year salary. And when you already have Tory Horton, who
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: does a lot of the same things and was doing
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: them in the pass game and a lot better clip
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: than what Shahed ended up doing them, Matt, you already
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: got him in house. Well, this ends up being maybe
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: not just a cut and dry decision as to whether
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: or not you want to pay the extra money to
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: keep Rashid Shahed in a Seahawk uniform. So Bucky check
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: yes or no on Rashid Shahed.
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: Yes, even though I don't know necessarily if I think
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: of him as that big of it. But then again,
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: I mean, I guess fourteen million bucks a year is
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: not premium wide receiver. It's not close to premium wide receive.
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: It's only half of what a premium wide receiver makes.
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: Now is your third receiver? Yeah, yeah, and you already
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: have something in Tory Horton, who before he got hurt,
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: was doing some big things. But I mean what he
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: did does in the in the return game. I mean
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: he he was the catalyst for that come from behind
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: win against the Rams, and who knows how the season
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: goes if you don't win that game. I mean there's
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: a lot of sliding doors that could happen there. I
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: would say yes, but that's just because I think he
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: brings something to the table. You need some depth, you
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: do need a third wide receiver, and times that guy
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: might be thrust into being your number two guy, Like
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: you know, I think that that's a high possibility with
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: this team. And yet he also does things in the
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: return game. So I would say yes. For fourteen million,
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: I would say yes.
• 47:52
  Speaker 7: Ashley check yes or no.
• 47:53
  Speaker 9: I'm going with yes.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 47:55
  Speaker 10: I think he's happy here, He's found a spot here.
• 47:58
  Speaker 10: His teammates really like him. We've talked about how synergetic
• 48:02
  Speaker 10: this team is, and you keep that chemistry going.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: I'm going no on this one. And I do like
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: a guy. I like keeping a guy that likes being
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: that loves being here. I mean, I think there is
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: value to that, and I'm not underestimating the value that
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: he brought to the team. I just think you can
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: find something cheaper than fourteen million dollars per year. And
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: I think Tory Horton brings pretty similar stuff and he's
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: going to be making basically league minimum for the next
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: three years. So to me, I think this is money's
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: better spent somewhere else. And yeah, I want a little
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: wide receiver depth, but I don't need to pay fourteen
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: million dollars for it. So I'm checking no on Rashid Shaheed,
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: all right. Next one up, Juwan Jennings, because I think
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: they are going to sign a receiver some to some degree.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: That's why we're going through this exercise, whether they keep
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: if it's Shaheed at Shaheed, but it might be somebody else.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Joan Jennings, somebody said he's the perfect fit for the Seahawks,
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: the twenty nine year old receiver from the San Francisco
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: forty nine ers. Good player, you'd be taking him away
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: from San Francisco. But the spoke track evaluation on Jennings
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: is twenty two million dollars per year for a guy
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: coming off the fifty five catch season, and the only
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: reason he was thrust into the wide receiver one position
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: to begin with was because of all of the debilitating
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: injuries that the forty nine ers have suffered here in
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: the last couple of years, and so Juwan Jennings perfect
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: fit for the Seahawks check yes or.
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: Not hard no hard, no, no chance. Definitely not even
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: close to that number. I mean I I he was
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: thrust into the situation of basically being their number one
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: because of their injuries, because some guys that got injured
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: there just didn't you want to play anymore. They just
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: want to drive by the stadium and not come in
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: and do their work. He's good, but I mean to
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: get all of a sudden, it's like if everybody gets
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: hurt and you're one of the lone guys left to
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: catch passes and you catch fifty of them for seven
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: hundred yards. Very similar numbers to Rashid Shahid, who spent
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: half the season playing with New Orleans who I don't
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: even know. Did they have a quarterback on the team.
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: Well they really like their quarterback now, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. Well,
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: and he used to be a Eugene Emerald. Yeah, it's possible.
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: It's possible, But I do think that I think that
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: he's crazy over priced based on spow Trek. Now, who
• 50:28
  Speaker 4: knows what he'll get, I just will. I mean, but
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: he's the highest rated guy free agent wide receiver out
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: there as far as the what spow Trek thinks his
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: market value is.
• 50:39
  Speaker 10: And I say, no, Ashley, I don't think at that
• 50:42
  Speaker 10: price that he's worth it. I would say no as well.
• 50:43
  Speaker 10: He had one year where he sniffed a thousand yards
• 50:46
  Speaker 10: receiving and hasn't come close other than that one, other
• 50:50
  Speaker 10: than twenty twenty four.
• 50:51
  Speaker 7: I wouldn't give him half that. Yeah, there's no way.
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: I'm no way.
• 50:56
  Speaker 7: Is he the perfect fit? We don't even like him?
• 50:58
  Speaker 9: Well, no, he is a turd.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't even lie. Frankly, I want forty nine
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: ers to pay him since they're so that they are
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: stuck with a mediocre number one wide receiver for the
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: next few years. Yeah, I mean that's what I'm rooting for.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: I'll check yes on that for San Francisco.
• 51:14
  Speaker 7: You can.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: You can keep him if you think so much of him.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: He's a turd wrapped in sheep's clothing. That's what I
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: think he is, all right, next up, this guy, this is.
• 51:24
  Speaker 7: This is this is tricky.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill, thirty two years old, older than I thought,
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: plans to play in twenty twenty six. When happy and healthy.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: There's no disagreeing with his impact. He had back to
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: back seventeen hundred yard seasons in twenty twenty two and
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three.
• 51:44
  Speaker 7: That's not that long ago.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: And yet he is coming off a major injury to
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: his knee. He dislocated the left knee, tore the ACL
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: and a few other ligaments in there as well. He
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: and his agent are saying he will play this year,
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: he will come back from this injury, and he's already
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: like training, so he's you know, he's he's They believe he's.
• 52:10
  Speaker 7: Going to play this upcoming season. But he is a jerk.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: There's no getting around that. And you're going to possibly
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: add that to a locker room that is one of
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: the best we've ever been around. And so Tyreek Hill
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: spoke track saying sixteen mil per season. I don't know
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: if anybody's going to give him that, especially considering he
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: might play a half a year a quarter of a year.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: But if you could have him at the right time.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: If you got him for a one year deal in
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: his year where he's trying to come back from injury
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: and he's healthy in time for the playoffs, I mean,
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: and you're pretty confident you can get to the playoffs
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: without him. I mean, what an asset to unleash on
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: the National Football League if you could get Tyreek Hill
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: for the most important quarter of the season at the end.
• 52:57
  Speaker 7: Of the year, check yuss or no.
• 52:59
  Speaker 4: This is a one because the strictly football decision says yes.
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: The personal part of it says no, don't bring it in.
• 53:09
  Speaker 4: I believe a lot in chemistry and I don't think
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: Tyreek Hill brings a lot to the table positively to
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: a locker room. But then the flip side is the
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: money and then the product productivity. I think he'll come
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: back and be plenty fast enough and still shifty enough
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: even I mean, he could lose a half step and
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: still be one of the faster guys in the NFL.
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: And if you get him, a guy that was typically
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: a thirty million dollars a year wide receiver, you get
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: him for half that and maybe comes in any place
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: half of the season and he's he's he could be.
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: He'll be fresh right coming off of missing plenty of
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: time with the injury, and coming back, he'll be fresh
• 53:47
  Speaker 4: from the hits. You have no idea what you might
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: need at that point in time as far as what
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: your injury situation is going to be. You're paying half
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: price for a guy that I think could still possibly
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: go out there and in half a season put up
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: the same numbers that you would get probably out of
• 54:02
  Speaker 4: Rashid Shaheed for the same money, and the same numbers
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: that you would get out of a John Jennings, all
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: the other guys that you would either play equal to
• 54:09
  Speaker 4: or more, I think, just to get the same out
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: of him, even in just a half a.
• 54:12
  Speaker 10: Season, I'd say no. And it's because did you even answer.
• 54:16
  Speaker 4: I don't think I did. Oh, I'm going to say yes. Okay,
• 54:21
  Speaker 4: for fifteen million, I would say yes.
• 54:23
  Speaker 9: I would say no.
• 54:24
  Speaker 10: And it's because of the timing, because if he's not
• 54:26
  Speaker 10: coming back or not going to be healthy till the
• 54:28
  Speaker 10: second half of the season, that's when this team will
• 54:30
  Speaker 10: really be jelling, and so then it makes me nervous
• 54:33
  Speaker 10: to add somebody else in there like that. With the
• 54:38
  Speaker 10: personality he has, I think that he's a very talented player.
• 54:43
  Speaker 10: I think he's wonderful, But it does seem again like
• 54:45
  Speaker 10: to disrupt the locker room with that personality in the
• 54:49
  Speaker 10: second half of the season, just when they're really rolling.
• 54:53
  Speaker 9: That makes me very nervous.
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: Really, that's the only reason I would be interested is
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: that you could keep him away from everybody for half
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: a year, and then when your rolling, you add this
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: weapon to a team that you know makes you even
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: that much more dangerous.
• 55:08
  Speaker 10: See, I think you'd want to get to know, like
• 55:10
  Speaker 10: see how it works early on, and then it's then
• 55:13
  Speaker 10: by the second half of the season you've already figured
• 55:16
  Speaker 10: it out. It's you know, everybody's got their place. But
• 55:18
  Speaker 10: to just yeah, I don't know, it makes makes me nervous.
• 55:21
  Speaker 7: I mean I'm checking. No, I don't want him. I think.
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: I think what we've figured out here is, man, a
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: great locker room goes a long way, and this guy's
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: going to ruin every locker room he goes into.
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: I mean, he's just gonna do it. It's just everywhere
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: ruined kans City. I mean they were pretty good when
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: he was there, that's true. I mean when he's playing well,
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: I think he's one of those. He's not a cancer.
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: If things start to go south, then he's cancers.
• 55:46
  Speaker 9: He didn't the team, Yeah, he didn't.
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: Ruin it, but he felt like he was on the
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: lip of ruining it. Like the they didn't exactly fight
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: to keep him.
• 55:55
  Speaker 4: That's true.
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: So I think that because Kelsey was such a big
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: figure that had kept it from doing it. But I
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: think he destroys anything. That he's a wrecking ball. He's
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: Miley Cyrus.
• 56:07
  Speaker 9: I'm picturing him on a wrecking back.
• 56:08
  Speaker 7: Yeah, so am I all right?
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: Next one, Mike Evans aged thirty two, surprising that they're
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: the same age.
• 56:15
  Speaker 4: That's weird.
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: Future Hall of Famer, by all accounts, a phenomenal teammate.
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: Everybody adores him that ever played with Mike Evans. He
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: wants a ring, and he might take less in order
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: to get one.
• 56:29
  Speaker 7: He is according to.
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: Spotrek, thirteen million dollars would be the salary for this
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: upcoming year because he is coming off his least productive
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: season of his entire career. He's thirty two years old,
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: probably has lost a step. Never was a Blazer, even
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: though he was a tremendous deep threat his entire career.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: But he's coming off a thirty catch season in just
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: eight games, So he's not going to cost as much
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: as he would have a year ago. Mike Evans to
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks, check you.
• 57:00
  Speaker 4: Us or no, Yes, one hundred percent. He'd come off
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: of his worst season. It says first season he didn't
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: eclipse a thousand yards. Eleven straight thousand yard seasons that
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: dude had, and you could get him for less than
• 57:12
  Speaker 4: what you'd have to pay for Rashid Shahat or any
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: of these other guys that we've been talking about. I mean,
• 57:17
  Speaker 4: I would do it for sure. I think he wants
• 57:18
  Speaker 4: a ring. I think that when you talk about a
• 57:20
  Speaker 4: clubhouse guy or a guy a locker room guy, he's
• 57:23
  Speaker 4: about as good as it gets you're getting. You're getting
• 57:26
  Speaker 4: a guy that you maybe don't need to go out there.
• 57:29
  Speaker 4: It's like another Cooper Cup. Tell me Sam Darnall wouldn't
• 57:32
  Speaker 4: want another guy that you just know he's going to
• 57:34
  Speaker 4: be where he's supposed to be.
• 57:35
  Speaker 7: Try to stop Jackson Smith and Jig.
• 57:37
  Speaker 4: But even if you do happen to do that, every
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: once in a while, we got two weapons that we
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: can hit you with. Good luck.
• 57:42
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I would absolutely say yes as well. Just the
• 57:44
  Speaker 10: consistency that he has shown throughout his career. Obviously when
• 57:47
  Speaker 10: he's not injured. The injury is that the injuries he
• 57:50
  Speaker 10: dealt with last year different?
• 57:51
  Speaker 11: Right?
• 57:51
  Speaker 9: But yeah, absolutely, I'm going yes.
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, I just really like the player, and I
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: think for a guy that's just like I'm just here
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: for the I think it's perfect for the team's chemistry.
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: I'm a little worried, and I think Hugh right now
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: probably is listening like, you can't have Cup and Evans
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: speed on the.
• 58:10
  Speaker 7: Field at the exact same time. You know, I'm worried
• 58:14
  Speaker 7: about that. I am, I'm interested.
• 58:17
  Speaker 8: I'm gonna check yes either way.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: But if for some reason Cooper Cup didn't want to
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: play again, absolutely go get Mike Evans, you know, go
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: get Mike Evans at that want at that point, because
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: I think you get the same sort of leader, same
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: sort of know how, and the same sort of you know,
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: makes everybody around him better kind of personality on this team.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: And I think he still has some catches left.
• 58:42
  Speaker 7: In him here in the national Well, the good thing
• 58:44
  Speaker 7: is to call him Hugh down a little bit.
• 58:46
  Speaker 4: Is I have Jackson Smith and Jigwa, Cooper Cup, Mike Evans,
• 58:50
  Speaker 4: Rashiji he, Tyreek Hill, and Tory Horton, all of them
• 58:53
  Speaker 4: in there because I said, just everybody, so we got
• 58:56
  Speaker 4: plenty of speed.
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: Your last one Christian Kirk, twenty nine years old, former
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: first round pick. He actually finished the season pretty strong
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: this past year, ended up being a very valuable receiver
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs for goodness sake, and according to Spotrek,
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: just five million dollars for twenty nine year old Christian Kirk.
• 59:21
  Speaker 7: And I mean, think about this.
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: You're losing Rashid Shahed, so you might be looking for
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: the type of guy that could replace Rashid Shahed. Is
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: Christian Kirk at a third of the price somebody that
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: you would be interested in?
• 59:34
  Speaker 7: Check yes or no?
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: Well, since I said yes to everybody else, I'm gonna
• 59:37
  Speaker 4: say no to him. But it really is I'm gonna
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: run this through my fantasy football filter. I've had him
• 59:43
  Speaker 4: a couple of times and he never really helped me out.
• 59:45
  Speaker 4: He seems like a guy that I'd never understood how
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: he was even ranked as well as he was, or
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: looked upon as well as he was when he was
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: a cardinal. I mean he started only three games last season.
• 59:59
  Speaker 4: If you can't make the you know, I guess Houston
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: has a pretty good receiving course, so maybe that's part
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: of it. But no, he's just never been a guy
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: that I've been thoroughly impressed with. He's not a guy
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 4: that I wont.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 10: And how much would we be paying for five I mean
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 10: I think at five thousand or thousand, five million dollars.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 9: That's not I would consider it.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 10: I'd probably lean more towards Yes, He's only had two
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 10: seasons where he's been at or near a thousand. He
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 10: really pissed me off last year in the playoffs because
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 10: I had Nico Collins and then he got well, and
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 10: then he had like the game of his life with
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 10: like one hundred and thirty something yards receiving, and so
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 10: he's very streaky, which would be my one reservation.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 9: But five million, Yeah, I do it.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm definitely yes on this one. I mean, we're
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: talking about a number three, maybe number four wide receiver here.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: We're just looking for somebody with a veteran experience in
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: return kicks. He's coming off of treumentous, the best game
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: of his career. There's a little bit of momentum for
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: him going forward. He's got some experience he's been knocked
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: down a peg or two, so you don't have to
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: worry about some crazy first round pick ego coming into here.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: To me, he's my four receiver. I saved ten nine
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: million dollars. If I want to listen to spo track's
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: rankings for it, Horton's my number three, and then Kirk
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: is my number four that can fill in for any
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: of the three guys and return kicks along with Horton.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: So to me, this is the free agent signing you
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: make in the offseason. Somebody like this, either a Christian
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: Kirk or a Jalen Naylor who was a former first
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: round pick twenty seven years old. You know that John
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: likes his young free agents. Who's also in the same
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: price range according to spo track, Maybe a Jahan Dotson
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: who was a hot name coming out of college at
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: Penn State but has not really worked out in the NFL,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: but at age twenty six, still young enough that you
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: can tap into some things. I certainly liked him coming
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: out of college. I'm just looking for a number four
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: wide receiver here.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 9: Yeah, five million dollars.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: Jes Ends my superstar number one and Cook Still I'm
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: going to count on one more year? Can I get
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: one more year out of you? And then I got
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: Tori Horton on the come. I just need a little
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: bit of wide receiver dep and I don't want to
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: spend a lot of money on that, and so I'm
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: more targeting above all the guys on the list, one
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: of those three, one of those tight players here on
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: the NFL free agent market.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 7: But we shall see.
• 1:02:17
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  Speaker 15: My heart rate has has come down a bit. I'm
• 1:03:38
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  Speaker 7: How big was that win?
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  Speaker 11: You know?
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  Speaker 15: So, looking at the first two games for Seattle out
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 15: of the break, no one was happy with the effort
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 15: to performance. The scores. Obviously, you're outscored nine two. You
• 1:04:00
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  Speaker 11: Team that you should beat.
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  Speaker 15: But those are the type of games that if a
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  Speaker 15: I think you still have some questions to answer.
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  Speaker 11: So you silenced some of those questions.
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  Speaker 15: And then last night with Carolina, where they were in
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 15: the standings. You didn't beat them in their building a
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  Speaker 15: little over a month and ago.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 11: About a half ago.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 15: They're a team that you know, we're gonna get a
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 15: lot of shots on, they score a lot of goals,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 15: and to put on a near perfect defensive performance, you know,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 15: thirty five saves on thirty six shots. I think that
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 15: was obviously the better of the two wins in the
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 15: last two games for Seattle, But that's probably one of
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 15: their statement wins of the new year for a team
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 15: that still is right in the hunts for a playoff spot.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 11: And they woke up this morning they're three points out
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 11: of first.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 15: So I mean, that was arguably, I would say, one
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 15: of the biggest wins definitely in this new year of
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 15: twenty twenty six. But I'd even go so far as
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 15: to say.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 4: The season, well, I mean, it's he It was an
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 4: exciting game, to say the least. And yet you know,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 4: two to one wins those are not that easy to
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 4: come by, especially against good teams like the Hurricanes that
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 4: put that many shots on the goal on goals. So
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 4: is that the the blueprint though? I mean that just
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 4: kind of all right, We'll let them maybe control the
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 4: middle of the ice. But we're going to just hope
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 4: that Decord or Grooby whoever can stand on their head
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 4: and we'll just find a way to sneak a couple
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 4: past their guy.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 15: Well, there is I mean there is that the system
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 15: that Laine Lambert you know, has put in place, and
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 15: then this is a very defensive first system. And actually, Bucky,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 15: it's it's almost the opposite. You want to clog up
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 15: the middle of the ice. You don't want to allow.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 11: Them to get any rush opportunities.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 15: If you can push them to the outside, keep the
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 15: pluck on the perimeter, keep their wingers, you know, from
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 15: from finding space in the That's ideally what you.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 11: Want to do.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 15: And this reminds me of a game that McCracken played
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 15: in Winnipeg back in November. They won that game three
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 15: nothing on the road, but it was two empty net goals.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 15: So with about three and a half minutes left, Seattle
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 15: was ahead, won nothing, and it was a one nothing
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 15: game for the bulk of that third I think, second
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 15: half of the second into the third period, and I
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 15: felt this calm and Alan and I were talking about this,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 15: I felt this calm of you knew this team because
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 15: of the system. Because of the way that they play,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 15: they were gonna be able to defensively shut that down.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 15: Ultimately they did. Last night. I felt that same feeling
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 15: creeping back in where even though the Hurricanes were getting
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 15: their chances, You're right, Joey Decordos dialed and in that game,
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 15: you need your goaltending to be well and to play well,
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 15: and he did. But I also think that everything that
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 15: Leiy Lambert has taught this team, that has coached this
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 15: team to play the system that they play, you saw
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 15: it executed last night. There won a whole lot of
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 15: high danger chances after a certain point. The Kraken physically
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 15: out hitting the Hurricanes thirty was thirty one to thirteen.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 15: Kracking last night were out hit thirty six to fifteen,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 15: So almost the inverse numbers hitting versus shooting, And I
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 15: think for Seattle, you just wore them down. So for
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 15: the Krack and they played that style effectively, And again,
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 15: I mean that was probably I think one of their
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 15: best efforts of the season because of that style and
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 15: that structure of play that Lane's put in place.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Alexiak may have had his best game at
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: least the one that oh.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 15: My goodness, yeah, eleven hits last night for him, and
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 15: for a guy as big as he is, Jamie Alexiak does.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 11: A lot of things very very well.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 15: You know, not necessarily known for the hitting and for
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 15: the physicality, but he's a guy that never really has
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 15: had to be because he is so strong defensively. So
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 15: when you see, you know, an eleven hit game for
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 15: Jamie Alexiak. We actually asked Jacob Malansai last night after
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 15: the game about it, and he's a player in Malanson
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 15: that is typically getting seven, eight and nine.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 11: He opes the cracking record for twelve hits in a game.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 15: So Alexiak was one off of BA and we asked
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 15: them last night, you know, do you feel that your
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 15: propensity for hitting, your style is worn off on some
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 15: of the other guys on the team, And he said,
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 15: I sure hope. So, you know, so seeing that that
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 15: physicality and that mentality starting to filter in and creep in.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 15: You can be physical, you can hit. They don't always
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 15: have to be bone crunching hits. They don't always have
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 15: to get everyone out of their seats. But when you
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 15: lead on a team and when you're consistently have to
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 15: having to look over your shoulder, because you know player
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 15: A or player B is on the ice gunning for you.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 15: Every time. It's gonna make you think twice. It's gonna
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 15: make you react a little bit quicker than you would
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 15: like and disrupt your play. So that's where I think
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 15: the hitting came into play last night and helping to
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 15: get Carolina off their game.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, just as from a commentary standpoint, like
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: I realize how talented Neemen and some of the other
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: youngsters are, but Milanson and and Myers have changed the
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: identity here of this team just with their physicality. Ever
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: it fits you as with us the voice of your
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: Seattle Cracking and my last two three minutes with you,
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: I got to ask about the NHL trading deadline on Friday. Yeah,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: A lot of the talk out there is, hey, Cracking,
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: you got to make a blockbuster. This isn't you know,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: no minor deal on Friday. You need to swing something
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: of significance to add an offensive piece to this roster.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 4: What say you?
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 11: Yeah? That that's that's that's the big hope, that's the plan.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 15: I think that Jason boscherl wants you know that he
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 15: wants to make that home run swing and whatever that's
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 15: going to cost.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 11: I think within reason.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 15: You know, you're not just going to give up everything
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 15: and and and you know, go for it. But I
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 15: do think within reason, the bank is open now depending
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 15: on who you talk to. And this is this is
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 15: me not getting any official word internally, but I've been
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 15: reading a couple of the quote unquote insiders around the NHL,
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 15: and this is when they start coming out of the woodworks,
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 15: you know, these last couple of weeks. But it sounds
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 15: like the Kraken, uh, you know, are thinking about rolling
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 15: with this group that they have. Now that doesn't mean
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 15: that they won't make a move because they've got four
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 15: first round draft picks, they have a pretty deep prospect
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 15: pool as well. But some of those UFA contracts that
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 15: are out there, a lot of teams are still interested
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 15: in and we'll see if those end up getting moved.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 15: And you know, a player like a Jamie Alexiak or
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 15: Jordan Eberley or James Schwartz or now it's over it.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 15: All of those players are up after this season. So
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 15: those are what teams typically are enticed by, guys on
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 15: inspiring contracts that can help in a playoff run. That said,
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 15: I think this group has helped Seattle get to where
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 15: they are now. So I'm curious how willing unless it's
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 15: it's an overpay or the right move comes along. I'm
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 15: curious to see how Jason boschwell goes about this deadline.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 15: But that doesn't mean there won't be a move made.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 15: You do have, like I said, picks, You've got prospects,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 15: you have a few other players on this crack and
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 15: roster that teams are interested in.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 11: But I'm with you.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 15: I do think this team will make a big move
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 15: that we've been talking and talking about it and hearing
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 15: about it for the last you know, however many years.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 15: This team needs a top line score, they need a
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 15: top six score, bona fide scorer in this league. And
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 15: as we saw by the Artemi Paneran news that leaked
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 15: out that the Cracking were right there in the thick
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 15: of that Panarian race. But Artemi Panier and ultimately he
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 15: had one team on his list and it was the
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 15: La King, So that's where he ended up going. But
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 15: Jason Boschell, you know, showed that he was willing to
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 15: take a swing and take that chance and even if
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 15: you miss, you still stepped in plates into the box.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 15: So I do think the kracking are going to make
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 15: a big move in the next few days. Noon Pacific
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 15: on Friday is the deadline. So that game against Ottawa
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 15: Saturday night would not surprise me to see a new
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 15: face in a pretty big new face on this roster.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: I love that, all right, Well, I'll just close with this,
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: how good is it field? Driving home from the arena?
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: When you watch a game like that, you pull off
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: the win, You're on the edge of your seat for
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: the last like three minutes maybe five minutes of the game,
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: calling the action, and then you nail the final call.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 8: I mean, were you just floating home last night?
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 11: I listened.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 15: I try, I try to keep a certain level of
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 15: humble mess uh with with within within.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 11: My yes, but I will say, as.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 15: Is the case with everyone, right, Cale goes four to
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 15: four at the plate with a couple of bombs, He's
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 15: driving home like yeah, and I laugh. Night I did
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 15: the same thing. I bot my goal calls I felt
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 15: were pretty good. And then that last minute, especially with
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 15: with six on four on the PK for Seattle, I
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 15: was very, very proud of of myself last night.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 11: So I may have poured. I may have poured an
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 11: extra finger of whiskey last night.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 16: Uh honey, your husband so many totally nailed it tonight,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 16: extra finger, sweetie.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 15: She was just crawling into bed when I walked through
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 15: the door and I walked in and she's like, hey,
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 15: how'd it go? And I was like, yeah, I cussed it. Yeah,
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 15: your boy, Your boy done good.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: All right tomorrow against the Blues Low revenge game. There
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: we'll be listening.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 7: Thank you, sir. We appreciate you.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 11: All right, fellas, Ashley, take care. We'll talk to you
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 11: next week.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: Ever fits you voice of your Seattle cracking nailing it
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: last night on his call right here on the flagship
• 1:14:02
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• 1:14:05
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• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: here on this Tuesday, Chuck Pile, Bucky Jacobs, and Ashley
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: Ryan with you. The Old Judge stops by a little
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: bit later on, that'll be a good guest to have
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: speak to the Emeralds. Yeah, coming up at a future day,
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: does that the Old Old Judge as a guest speaker?
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's already booked. He's already booked for a couple
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 4: of weeks from now, when that little final push you
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 4: get through kind of the spring training side of things
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 4: and it's ready for the regular season. I need to
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 4: get these eight year olds whipped into shape, so I
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 4: know the Old Judge in there to whip them up.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: I know the Emeralds probably don't have a huge budget,
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: but man, I think it. Uh, I don't know, maybe
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: put a pool together to have an actual Sasquatch mascot
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: that comes to your games.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 7: Do yeah, do you think he can come?
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: I know, I mean yeah, probably actual Sasquatch would be
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: even better, but you'd probably have to keep him on
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: a chain.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we'd have to leash him. And I don't know
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 4: if they like that so much, but I think maybe
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 4: the a costume and get someone like I can guarantee
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 4: if I bought a little baby one like Gracie would
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 4: wear it around and be like a baby Squatch. But
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 4: but to get a full size one, I bet I
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 4: could probably. I did have a dad come by yesterday
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 4: and say, hey, I'm more than willing to help with anything,
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 4: just so you know, I don't know anything about baseball.
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 7: There you go.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 4: So I'm like, well, then you might be the perfect
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 4: Sasquatch guy.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 7: You're onto something here, chuck.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 8: Yeah, the kids would get a kick out of it.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: They don't have to know which dad's wearing the costume
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: that day.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, they don't have to know it's a costume.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 7: I guess not.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you yeah, I would imagine some of
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: the children are a little dumber than the others.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh for sure, I'm gonna name me names.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I think a Sasquatch mascot. I mean, it
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: seems early eight years old to be having, you know,
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: big league things like mascots running around on your field,
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: But this sort of fits.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 7: Times are changing. Times are changing.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 4: I mean I didn't have a walk up song until
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 4: I was in professional baseball. Ashley has walk up songs
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 4: for her daughter's team already.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I had him for five years.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, So I mean it's just all trickles down. I
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 4: mean pretty sure. Nil. I haven't had anybody yet come
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 4: to try to steal one of my players and offer
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 4: him more nil money, but it's probably coming, you know,
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 4: Jack's We got one kid. We used to call him
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 4: pencil Bat last year because he hits bombs. Yeah, like bombs.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 4: Pencil Bat well looked like a pencil. It actually looked
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 4: like the yellow number two pencil with a pink eraser
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 4: on the tip. Yeah all right, and so you know,
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 4: I mean, actually I knew his name was Jax, but
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 4: our team just was like backup pencil bats up, back
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 4: up pencil bats up.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 7: Well, he's on my team now, Oh you got pencil Bat.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 7: That's a huge free agent signing.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 4: It's a big change, it's a big it's probably my
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 4: best off season acquisition.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 9: The clubhouse there feeling good.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 4: Good good. I think bears he's motivated because he knows
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 4: there's a kid that can hit it just as far,
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 4: if not farther than he can. I honestly, I'm like, yes,
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 4: that's right, boy. You want to you want to be
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 4: the bopper around here. But it puts work in.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: Got some competition here, Jackson is in the house. Pencil
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: bat just walked into the saloon.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 4: Uh huh, and he's got a new bat. Really, Yeah,
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 4: isn't hit in the first day of practice if you
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 4: can imagine that. Oh okay, and all the kids are
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 4: we're gonna hit today. I'm like, trust me, kids, I
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 4: want nothing more than to hit. But you guys got
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 4: to figure out how to throw and play catch.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 9: You've got to figure out how you're gonna pimp your
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 9: home run before you hit it.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 4: No, you don't, actually wrong.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: That is so Elsie state right there. You just went
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: total Elsie State.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 4: I did on the kids. I did. Yeah, we're not
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 4: even going to pick up baseballs today. It's time to box, kids.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 4: And after that, no rules basketball. We're never going to
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 4: chop some wood. And if you're lucky, we're going to
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 4: hit next week. I like it. Hey, discipline eight years old,
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 4: it's time to learn.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 7: That's right.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: Well, we're supposed to have Robert Flores on the show
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: today from MLB Network and so hopefully we'll still be
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: able to pull that off here this hour, but the
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: WBC is getting started. He's the host of MLB Central
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: with Mark Durosa. Who is the America skipper.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 4: He is the captain America.
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: Captain of the team, the manager of our team that
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: will be representing in the World Baseball Classic. Second year
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: that he's done this, and so he must have done
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: something right the first time around.
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well he took him right there to the right
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 4: to the very end right championship and then show, hey,
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 4: did what he did to the Mike Trout. But yeah,
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 4: I mean it's I don't know for sure if he's
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 4: had a better team than this team. This team is
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 4: absolutely stacked.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: And I like that about this because I don't know
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: why it was isn't cool to participate as Team America.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know why that that happened. I mean this,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not just talking about recently. You know now
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: that our nation, you know, we don't like each other,
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: you know, I mean, it was even before that sort
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: of stretch of time where a lot of the American
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: players just decided that's not the cool thing to do
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: and that they just didn't participate. And we've grown it
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: and then it really took a jump forward with dro
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: He got a lot of the guys he wanted to play,
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: and now they're standing in line now they're like yeah,
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: and so, I mean, I don't know why it wasn't
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: cool to participate for Team USA and the WBC, but I'm.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 7: Glad that it is.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: And this is from somebody that's not even sure I
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: really even want the WBC, you know, because I'm I'm
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: a little bit worried as a Mariner fan of what
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: might happen here over the next couple of weeks. But
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: if we're going to do it, I want to team
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: out there. And for some reason, a lot of American
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: players didn't think it was cool to play for Team USA,
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: and now they all seem to think that it is.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 7: So that's progress.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, in a weird way. The WBC, I mean,
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 4: it's kind of like the Olympics, right, the baseball is
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 4: no longer in the Olympics, and so this is the
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 4: version of Olympic Baseball or International baseball. And for the
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 4: longest time, when I was growing up, like pros couldn't play,
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 4: So the Olympic team was this collegiate all star team,
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 4: and so to me kind of fell short. I mean,
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 4: I would have loved to have played, I was never invited,
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 4: never good enough apparently, and so it was kind of weird,
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 4: and then when it turned into the WBC, it kind
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 4: of still felt like that to me to some degree.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 4: But the other teams outside of the US, I mean Dominicans, like, heck, yeah,
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 4: we're gonna get all together and have a fiesta and
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 4: this is going to be wonderful. Now. It's very similar
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 4: to the winter ball situation. We don't have winter ball
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 4: here in the United States. If you're American, you want
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 4: to go play winter Ball, you go to one in
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 4: Latin American countries and play where the weather nice. So
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 4: I feel like maybe the other countries were a little
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 4: ahead and it just took the Americans a second to
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 4: figure out where is it. Yeah, pretty cool to have
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 4: USA across your chest and go out and try to
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 4: win one for your country. So I don't I it
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 4: was a little bit slow as far as the embracing
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 4: of it, But boy, they've embraced it now. And I'll
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 4: give some credit to d Ro I mean, just knowing
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 4: that guy personally, he's he's the guy that if he
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 4: calls and talks to you, even though he's a generation
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 4: removed from these players, he still is gonna be He
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 4: still has the cool factor. He's still just one of
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 4: those dudes that you talk to him and you're pretty slick.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 4: He is pretty slick.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 7: So, uh, catch up popsicle to a woman in white gloves.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 4: Yep, that's a that's a new one. Yeah, I was
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 4: you canna say, like the ice cube to an eskimo.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 4: That's the one that I had heard. But yes he could. Okay,
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 4: I didn't know if it is. I didn't mean it
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 4: to be. It just means they have plenty of ice cubes. Uh,
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 4: But yeah, I to me, he is he is a
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 4: straight shooter, but he's fun and I think that he
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 4: probably brings it in there where it's it's about going
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 4: out there and having fun, getting ready for the more
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 4: important thing, which is the season. So I'm going to
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 4: take care of you guys. I'm gonna make sure that
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 4: we're doing this the right way. But then when it
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 4: comes time to turn it on, let's turn it on,
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 4: go out there and try to win.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 9: Did you guys see Captain Canada?
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 7: By the way, I did see Captain Canada Josh Naylor good?
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 9: Yeah, looks good in his Canadian uniform.
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: That's interesting that, like Freddy Freeman's not playing for them,
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: He's kind of been the face of the Canadian team
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: the last couple of years. But I'm pretty sure he's
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: not playing. So Josh Nayler's kind of the replacement for
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: Freddy Freeman, if you will. And immediately they recognized him
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: as you are the leader of our team.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 8: Yeah, pretty cool.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think so the honor for him.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, of course we're gonna stop him.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, so Mooney is going to shut him down.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 7: Get ready for that.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 9: Yeah, We're not even gonna have to worry about it.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: I'll sard yesterday that I guess cal was a little
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: bit torn when he was leaving the facility yesterday that
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: as excited as he was to be about Team America,
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: he's leaving all of his pictures behind. Oh and he's
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: got work to do, And it was almost like, well,
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: maybe I don't have to go a uh, you know,
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: he excited to go, couldn't one of the first people
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: to sign up for it. And yet I guess when
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: push came to shove, it was like saying goodbye to
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: the family.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 14: You know.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 7: That's well, sounds like fun. I'll miss you guys, George.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 4: George, make sure you keep working on that cutter while
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 4: I'm gone.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 7: Okay, but don't grow up too fast.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 4: Here's let me let me see your water ball one
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 4: more time. Bud your water.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 7: Globe, all right?
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 8: Joining us now on the program.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: He is the host of MLB Central with Mark de
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: Rosa on MLB Network, it is Robert Flores. That's with us,
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: roll flow. How you doing, man?
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 6: Doing great?
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 5: Sorry I'm a little late. I almost missed my call time.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 5: Oh so that's that's an anchor air on me. It's
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 5: still spring training for me too.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: A lap yep, just run a lap i push ups
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: after the segment, We're not.
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 8: Going to cut you from the roster.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: But you know, five dollars what happened again? Yeah, in
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: this economy, five dollars.
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 7: That's right, that's right. We got to hit you hard.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: Flores.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 7: You know you can learn your manners.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: Uh, well, give us a little insight.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 8: What's it like?
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, you and d Row have not only been
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: co workers here the last decade or so. And by
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: the way, you have the best show on MLB Network,
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: and I watch a ton of it and we never
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: get to watch it because our hours are right up
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: against yours.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 8: H But what's it like for you to sit back?
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you've become good friends with him over time,
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: and now to see him in this role of manager
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: of America.
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 5: Well, you know, it's funny because in the last WBC
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 5: in twenty twenty three, when he was the manager there,
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 5: Lauren and Lauren and I would would text each other
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 5: during the game and we would just be so nervous
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 5: for him. So everyone here at the network is obviously
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 5: pulling for him, and we know he's gonna be gonna
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 5: do a great job. That came up a little short
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 5: in twenty three, but I know that he has really
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 5: been focused on that final out Tony and Trout and
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 5: how that game ended, and wants to do everything he
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 5: can to to make sure that that doesn't happen again.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 4: Robert, he and I were teammates in the Arizona Fall
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 4: League back back, I think it was like two thousand,
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 4: so a long time ago. Do you ever have to
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 4: just kind of knock him down a peg, like, hey, listen,
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 4: Captain America, you don't need to be peacocking around the studio.
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 6: No, No, he's the best. He is.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 5: He's the best, and he's one of the most talented
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 5: and unique analysts I've ever worked with, and so.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 6: He's great on TV.
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 5: You know he could, he really could do anything he
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 5: wants if he wanted to pursue managing full time. I
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 5: have no doubt he would do great at that, and
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 5: or maybe he'd be in the front office of a team.
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 5: But he's really got a great feel for the game.
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 5: He's got so much knowledge and really and that comes
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 5: through whether he's in the.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 6: Dugout or on TV.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: Well, we brought you on here to interview you, but
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: you know it is a former de ro teammate. Would
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: you like to ask Bucky a question by chance.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 4: About de Ros?
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 5: Let me let's see, Well what I mean, how much
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 5: different you know from from the TV persona is he is?
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 6: He to the clubhouse persona?
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 4: He is exactly the same, exactly the same. I could
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 4: have told you back then that this guy is going
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 4: to be able to do just like you said, do
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 4: whatever he wants. And now, mind you, you can bring
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 4: this up to him. He couldn't hit his way out
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 4: of a wet paper bag that Arizona Fall League season.
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 5: The season before, you know, he says he didn't, really,
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 5: yeah he did. He says he really didn't figure out
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 5: hitting until later in his career, after he got to
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 5: uh with Rudy Hatomio.
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, I was there during the struggle part of it,
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 4: and yet he was hilarious while he was having a
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 4: hard time just getting the ball out of the infield,
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 4: He's like, Wow, this is really fun game. You know.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 4: He's one of those guys and some guys come in
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 4: and throw their helmets. He'd just come in and make
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 4: fun of himself as he walked down the dugout. Well,
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 4: I guess I'll just go put this back. What is
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 4: this thing that this would thing that you guys take
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 4: up there? Is this what you try to hit the
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 4: ball hard with?
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 3: Or?
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 4: No? He was. He was hilarious and obviously he understands
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 4: the game. I'm with you one hundred percent. I think
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 4: he might be one of the more talented guys analysts
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 4: wise out there.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 7: Robert Flores is with us right here on Chakabock.
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: All right, so let's let's talk about the WBC versus
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: MLB Baseball. I mean, you're at the MLBING Network. I
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: know you guys are excited about the season, but there
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: are a lot of fans, Robert, you're a baseball fan
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: that are a little torn, like, yes, I want the WBC,
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: but I don't want it to come at any harm
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: to my Major League Baseball team and its pursuits this year.
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: Where do you weigh in on that as a not
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: just a baseball fan, but as an MLB network employee.
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 5: Well, yes, there is an element of almost watching these
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 5: games with with your your fingers covering your eyes, partly right,
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 5: because of the what's at stake here. I mean, these
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 5: are these are the best players in the world, and
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 5: they mean a great deal to their respective parent clubs.
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 5: So you just want people, the players to go out
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 5: to show out, to do their best and then come
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 5: back healthy. So that that has always been the case
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 5: with this tournament and with this format the way it
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 5: currently exists. So yeah, I mean you don't you want
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 5: to see everyone at their best. And yes, it's early
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 5: in the year, so maybe that's a little bit skewed,
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 5: but but mainly you want people.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 6: To be healthy.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 4: Robert, how difficult do you think it is? Maybe you
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 4: and d row have had conversations off of the air
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 4: about this of trying to get these guys ready, and
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 4: yet at the same time they know they're not in
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 4: mid season for them at this point, so he can't
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 4: go out there and you know, be throwing these guys
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 4: the way that he would in a typical game that
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 4: has as much on the line as these international WBC
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 4: games do. So how difficult do you think it is
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 4: for him to just kind of manage this whole thing
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 4: to where he's making sure that he's going out trying
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 4: to win, but at the same time not doing it
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 4: at the cost of any of these organizations that are
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 4: lending them their superstars.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 5: And I think that it's not a It's not something
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 5: that's unique to just DRO I think that Albert Coohols
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 5: is dealing with it from the team from the Dominican Republic.
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 5: I just think when when you're dealing with this level
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 5: of athlete and this level of stars, Yeah, there's a
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 5: lot of things that you've got to be area and
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 5: there's a lot of conversations that have to be had
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 5: regarding how this player is going.
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 14: To be used.
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 5: Hey, we're going to have him play second base a
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 5: little bit more this year, so can you make sure
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 5: he gets his reps at second base? So there is
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 5: constant communication between these managers and people from Team USA
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 5: and along with the various front office personnel from which
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 5: these players play from. So and like I said, it's
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 5: not something that's unique to dro I imagine all the
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 5: managers that have big league players on their roster, imagine
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 5: they're dealing with it as well.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: MLB Networks Robert Flores with us. They're airing live spring
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: training games every day. You just put it on like
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: I do, including an upcoming Mariners game on Thursday at
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: twelve pm Pacific time, which will be available right here
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: in Seattle. And you can watch row Flow on the
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: weekday morning show MLB Central, returning on MLB's opening night
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: March twenty fifth. Well, let us in our remaining time
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: ask you about our local baseball team. Seems like the
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: national guys seem to love our little baseball squad up
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: here in the Pacific Northwest. What's your take on the
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six Seattle Mariners, Robert.
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 5: I think they're a favorite to win the American League West.
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 5: I always say that prognosticating baseball and predicting win totals,
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 5: and I think it's among the most difficult thing to
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 5: do in sports because there's so many games and baseball
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 5: in of itself oftentimes is unpredictable. But I think the
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 5: Mariners have the best roster in the in this division
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 5: going in. Is Kyle Rowley going to go for sixty
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 5: plus this year? I would think that that might be
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 5: a little too much to ask, but make no mistake,
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 5: he's going to have another fine season and they have
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 5: I think they have the best pitching rotation in terms
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 5: of talent, in terms of depth, I think they have it.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 5: It's certainly in the best in It's the best in
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 5: the American League West, and maybe the best in all
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 5: of the base So look, I think while the Rangers
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 5: got better, the Astros still a lot of X factors
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 5: in question marks in my mind about them. I think
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 5: the Mariners right now are the clear favorite to win
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 5: the division, but we got to play the games first.
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, obviously they've got to go out there and get
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 4: the job done. And yet it's going to be exciting
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 4: to see. I mean, how crazy did you think that
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 4: the season last year that Cal Rawley put up, I mean,
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 4: for a catcher to go out and hit sixty homers
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 4: was to me?
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Yeah.
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 5: I did not have an MVP vote, but if I did,
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 5: I would have voted.
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 7: For Cal Raleigh.
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 6: And I always go back to what he has to do.
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 5: To get that pitching staff ready on a game in,
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 5: game out basis, the amount of time, the amount of
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 5: energy it takes to be a catcher at the big
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 5: league level and to do what he does with that
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 5: pitching staff there in Seattle. I didn't have a problem
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 5: with with Aaron Judge winning the MVP. I was actually
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 5: in favor of maybe a co MVPs back, something that
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 5: hasn't happened since nineteen seventy nine with Keith Hernandez and
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 5: Willie Stargel. So, yeah, this is a just a remarkable,
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 5: remarkable player and I can't wait to see him suit
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 5: up for TMOSA.
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: All Right, what's your what's the thing that you're looking
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: most forward to with the twenty twenty six season. He
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: got a lot of options out there. You got the
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: ABS Challenge System. Maybe it's something like that. Maybe you're
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: looking forward to see how this involves evolves the Dodgers.
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: Are they going to win two hundred games this year?
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 8: Show?
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 14: Hey?
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: Is he going to win the Cy Young which seems
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: to be his goal this year along with everything else
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: or anything else? What's the number one story that you're
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: most looking forward to tracking as a morning daily baseball host?
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's the Dodgers.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 5: Look, we have not seen we hadn't seen a repeat
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 5: champion for near a quarter century. And then you know,
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 5: the last time we had a three peat champion it
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  Speaker 5: was the Yankees with winning it in ninety eight, ninety nine,
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  Speaker 5: and two thousand. So I think from a national big
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  Speaker 5: picture perspective, that is, can anyone stop them? I don't
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  Speaker 5: know if they'll go crazy with over one hundred wins.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if we're going to see you know,
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 5: them challenge the Mariners record back in oh one, just
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  Speaker 5: because I think they're so First of all, they have
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 5: so much depth, and also they're so wary of or
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 5: they're so aware of making sure that their players are
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 5: ready for October. And if that means we have to
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 5: put a governor on them during the regular season, pump
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 5: the breaks, give them more rests. Well, we've got a
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  Speaker 5: whole nother second team that has a whole bunch of
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 5: all stars waiting on the bench they can fill in.
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  Speaker 5: So I don't know that they're going to break any
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 5: kind of wins record, but I'm certainly are of them
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  Speaker 5: and intrigued on whether.
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  Speaker 6: Or not they can make it three in a row.
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  Speaker 1: My first thing out of your mouth the morning after
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: the Mariners knock them off in the World Series.
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  Speaker 7: How are you going to react to that?
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  Speaker 6: I would be like, holy bleep, they get it. Holy
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  Speaker 6: bleep they did it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I want you to cuss on the air.
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  Speaker 1: Don't bleep yourself out.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Pat mcfee's changed the rules. You're on cable network. Go ahead,
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  Speaker 1: and I want I want you.
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  Speaker 5: I'll let my bosses know when they get when I
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 5: get called into the office. Hey, but but Pat McAfee,
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 5: he does it all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. But my co host is Captain America. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: why can't I cuss?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right. You guys.
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  Speaker 5: You guys mentioned that you can't watch the show because
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 5: you know your own show is going on.
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  Speaker 6: We re aired during the day.
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 5: So yeah, you know, yeah, there's really no excuse. There's
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 5: really no excuse not to watch.
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  Speaker 7: I sleep during the day because of our hours. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, if you're gonna if you're gonna be lazy, then.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't you know, then there you go, all right, duly.
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 5: Noted, duly noted, you're lazy, so you don't want to
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 5: watch the show.
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  Speaker 8: Robert, thank you.
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  Speaker 7: We appreciate it. Have a fun baseball season.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you very much, thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Robert Flores from MLB Network Again. Mariner is
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: going to be playing on MLB Network Thursday, if you
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: want to check that out at noon and opening night.
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  Speaker 1: MLB Central returns on March twenty fifth. All right, coming
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  Speaker 1: up next on our program, The Old Judge returns Sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM.
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  Speaker 4: I respect it.
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  Speaker 10: All, A sorry old judge thinks, thank you, old old judge,
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 10: not old. Well, I want to make sure correctly that
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  Speaker 10: I enunciated all and I respect for the elders.
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  Speaker 4: You're not being respectful at all.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the elers, we can use the deed.
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  Speaker 7: The illerly, Yeah, the elderly.
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  Speaker 1: It's time for the Old Judge. The Old Judge stops
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  Speaker 1: by once per week. Here's how this works. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to bring up a few different topics inside his courtroom.
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  Speaker 7: Ashley and I will.
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  Speaker 1: Discuss them, debate them, if you will not necessarily argue.
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  Speaker 1: If we agree, we agree. But once the Old Judge
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: has hurt enough of our ramblings, he will slam his
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: gabble caravel, cavell cavel. He will weigh in and whatever
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: the judge says, goes like it or not, because you
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: usually don't like it, you usually don't zip your traps.
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  Speaker 9: That's also true.
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  Speaker 10: I don't think I don't usually like it. A lot
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  Speaker 10: of times you make some great points.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's because I'm the old judge.
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  Speaker 9: The old one.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, four generations of Jacobson pick up some wisdom, all
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  Speaker 1: of us judges.
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  Speaker 4: That's right, pointed by God.
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  Speaker 1: All right, here we go, very first one. According to
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: Adam Schefter this morning, Ken and a million others locally,
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: Ken Walker is not getting tagged today and is heading
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: to free agency and unsigned Ashley.
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  Speaker 7: You okay with this?
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  Speaker 10: I mean, am I okay with the not using the
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 10: franchise chize tag? Yes, I did not think that we
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 10: were going to I did not have my hot my
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 10: hopes on that. I am was hoping to sign him
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 10: before free agency though, so that he didn't have to
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 10: test the waters. But I also understand why he would
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 10: want to, and I bet that his agent is really
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  Speaker 10: pushing for it. So I am as okay as I
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 10: can be with it, but I'm not thrilled by it.
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  Speaker 9: Does that make sense?
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  Speaker 1: I'm oh, okay, I'm okay with it. If the question
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: is are you okay with it? I'm okay with it.
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  Speaker 8: I think I'm with you.
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  Speaker 1: I think what I'm saying is, you know, I would
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  Speaker 1: prefer to have Ken Walker still on the team next year.
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  Speaker 1: But I know I know John Schneider feels a lot
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  Speaker 1: better putting his head on the down on the pillow
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  Speaker 1: that he's If he doesn't sign a guy to more
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: money than he feels comfortable with, that could ruin other
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: plans than he is.
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  Speaker 9: To start from scratch at the beginning of.
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  Speaker 1: An off season with free agency trades in the draft
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  Speaker 1: to address an obvious hole at running back. I think
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  Speaker 1: he feels a okay with that prospect.
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  Speaker 7: So yes, just.
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  Speaker 1: Specifically to answer the question, I'm okay with.
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  Speaker 4: This gavel gavel gabble, I think that you guys are
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 4: both right. I don't think it's gonna happen, and I
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  Speaker 4: think for all the reasons you just kind of outlined,
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  Speaker 4: I think more than anything, the long term goal is to,
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  Speaker 4: you know, get back to where they were this next year,
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 4: where they just finished this past season, and do that
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 4: be in that realm being that competitive, that Super Bowl
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 4: contender for the foreseeable future for the next four or
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 4: five years. Right.
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  Speaker 7: I think they got the quarterback figured out.
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  Speaker 4: Now it's lock up your you know Jackson Smith and
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 4: Jigba and you're Devin Witherspoons. Those are priorities over your
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 4: running back position, simply because the history proves that you
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 4: can't necessarily trust that Ken Walker is going to be
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 4: the guy that he was throughout the playoffs that helped
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 4: you win a Super Bowl this year. You like him enough,
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 4: maybe even love him to some degree, but there's the
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 4: attrition the amount of damage that a running back takes,
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 4: combined with that individual's injury history, combined with then the
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 4: number that you're going to have to put on too.
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 4: That guy at fourteen million dollars, if you were at
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 4: a franchise tag him just seems beyond where they would
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 4: want to go. I think that they could like him
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 4: and say, hey, dude, we'd love to bring him back,
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 4: and we would love to do it a four year
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 4: give you that bag that you search for as a
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 4: professional athlete after you play your first four or five years.
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 4: We're willing to do it, but we're thinking, you know,
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 4: ten million dollars a pop or maybe a little bit
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 4: above that. We're not going to go up to fourteen
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 4: even for one year, and we're not going to go
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 4: up to where maybe someone else would be willing to
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 4: pay you on the free agent market. So if you
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 4: want to go get that money, you can do it.
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  Speaker 4: Here's our number, all.
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  Speaker 7: Right, next one.
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  Speaker 1: If the price tag really is two first rounders and
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: Vegas will take Seattle's, the Seahawks should trade for Max Crosby.
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  Speaker 10: Max Crosby versus the thirty second pick and whatever next
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 10: year's Yeah, which I would probably be the thirty second
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  Speaker 10: pick again.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's fine.
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  Speaker 1: Oh look at that.
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 7: Look at her predicting back to back Super Bowl champions.
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  Speaker 7: Oh how about that?
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah bold?
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, geez, that's me man, something's gone to her head football.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: So yes, yeah they should. I'm going to say yes,
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 8: I will.
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  Speaker 1: I think there needs to be a little more hesitation,
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: not maybe such a gung ho feeling about this. I
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: do worry a little bit that his numbers have declined
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: the last couple of years and that his injuries have
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: gone up. I mean, he plays so hard, He's just
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: put a lot of damage on that body, and I
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: don't think he knows any other way than to go
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: all out. So I wonder if we're getting a declining
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: player at thirty three million dollars, and that cap space
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: will get burned up quickly after you've resigned JSN to
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: a new deal and Witherspoon, and then if you added
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 1: Crosby and Sam's making over thirty million, and probably by
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: next year we'll be making any even more. It gets
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: pretty crowded pretty quickly in the National Football League. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm not entirely sold on it, but I am leaning yes.
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  Speaker 4: Jay Gavel Gavel Cavel, I am going gung ho on it.
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 4: And it's not necessarily because I don't recognize that. Yes,
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 4: he's got some wear and tear on his body, but
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 4: it's the he's not going to The motor that he
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 4: plays with isn't going to change. He's going to come
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 4: in here and he's going to turn it up a notch.
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 4: He's going to give you something that I don't think
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 4: you necessarily have, as far as a bona fide, legit
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 4: star edge pass rusher that's going to make everybody else better.
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 4: And it's not like that was a weak unit. I mean,
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 4: your defensive line unit was strong. They came together, they
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 4: played well, they did enough. But I think you all
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 4: of a sudden bring him in, and you you have
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 4: guys like d Law and Byron Murphy and those guys
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 4: that are on the inside, You're you're not gonna be
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 4: able to double team those guys. If you do, Max
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 4: Crosby's gonna go put up some numbers. And I think
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 4: you're just strengthening something that's already a strength. That defense
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 4: is what carried the torch. If you will for this
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 4: this Seahawks team, I think you just say, why not
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 4: get more awesomer, get awesomer. Yeah, it's the mind, and
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 4: I think that he does exactly that. He makes you awesomer.
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  Speaker 7: He makes you the most awesomest.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, but then they're saying it correctly. If you
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 4: use most in front of it, it's just awesomest.
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  Speaker 9: Well, most awesomest is probably not a most awesomer.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, most awesomer.
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  Speaker 10: We get, by the way, confirmation that d Law is
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 10: not retiring yet.
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 9: We haven't gotten that, right, have we?
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 6: No?
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 7: No, not confirmed.
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 4: No, But that is to the idea of your burning
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 4: up this money. Yeah, you're going to resign a couple
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 4: of your studs that you have and then you bring
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 4: this in and you're burning it up but you're gonna
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 4: have some guys like a d Law that are going
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 4: to go off the books in the coming years where
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 4: you can kind of keep putting this thing together. To me,
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 4: it's a yes. If they would take your thirty second
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 4: pick this year, hopefully late next year. If not thirty
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 4: second again, I think you'd do it.
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: Maybe the Kraken aren't ready for a Stanley Cup run,
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: but they need to make a significant trade at Friday's
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: deadline and get into the playoffs this season.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, and yes especially, I mean we've talked about like
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 10: you've got the Mariners that are, you know, making waves.
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 10: You've got the Seahawks that just won a Super Bowl.
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 10: You're hopefully going to get a basketball team back soon.
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 10: You've got to establish your spot here as a successful
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 10: Seattle sports franchise. We saw a glimmer of the playoffs
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 10: a couple of years ago.
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 9: And we haven't sniffed it since then. And you got
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 9: to give the hockey fans old and new, young and old.
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 10: So when I say old and new, I mean like
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 10: lifelong hockey fans and people who are just trying to
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 10: get on board.
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 9: You got to give them something to get excited about
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 9: right now.
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 17: Yeah, I agree, and I think it would behoove them
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 17: to understand the culture and recognize the importance of winning now,
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 17: especially with the NBA A pair really coming very soon.
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: They don't want to they don't want to become an
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: afterthought with the competition that they're going up against. But
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: also I think just it's just time. Like I get
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: that you're an expansion franchise and you're not all that old.
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: You're still in your infancy. You're still in toddler stage
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: at this point.
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 8: But how many years do you have to watch your
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 8: team be pretty good but lacking.
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 1: Scoring before you decide to shake things up a little
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: bit and move a couple of young players in order
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: to get just more exciting on the ice.
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 4: So I say, yes, Gavel, Gavel, Gavel, I'm with you.
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 4: I think that it's you know, it's time, but it
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 4: really is. Okay, how many times are you going to
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 4: kind of beat your head against the wall with the
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 4: same thing, Right, It's one thing if you've made moves
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 4: or you've made adjustments, you're changing things. They've changed head coaches,
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 4: but it seems like the same bugaboo. The lack of
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 4: offensive firepower is the one thing that forces you into
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 4: streaks where if the guys that you have are struggling
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 4: to you know, score more than one or two goals.
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 4: Now all of a sudden, you're expecting your keeper, your
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 4: goalie to go out there and not give up anything
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 4: in order for you to get points. I think you
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 4: got to go out there and just say, hey, let's
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 4: go ahead and go for this thing. Because this team,
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 4: like we watched yesterday, is capable of playing with anybody.
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 4: They're capable playing with the best. But in order to
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 4: get it into the playoffs and then be competitive in
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 4: the playoffs, I think you have to kind of upgrade
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 4: a little bit of offensive firepower. So go out and
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 4: make a move.
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 1: All right, final one and quickly. I think we'll all
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: have pretty unanimous quick responses to this. Anyway, I think
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: we're all in agreement. It's impossible not to think about
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: Nick Fane having phone sex in this new ad Gavel.
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 4: Gavel God GEMI Christmas, do we re record these? Come on? Fane,
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 4: you are a professional, and I one hundred percent think
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 4: of phone sex every time I hear it, and because
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 4: it's not what I want to think of.
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 10: And because of the sweater weather commercials, I always picture
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 10: them in e.
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 9: Turtle next sweater.
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 4: Just turtle, next sweater starting off, Yeah, well now picture
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 4: that is just a turtle neck sweater.
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 1: Perfect.
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 7: It's like picture Manilo playing in the background, like picturing
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 7: Bing Crosby doing it. Yeah, why did you have to
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 7: do that too?
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 9: He's not supposed to do.
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  Speaker 1: You're saying one last thing next. On Sports Radio ninety
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