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5-15 H1: Seahawks Schedule, NFL Showing Love & World Cup Tickets · The Gregg Bell Show

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Speaker 3: A Friday schedule release.
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Speaker 1: We'll be more excited about finding out the games or
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Speaker 1: watching the videos the team's put out.
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Speaker 2: So I feel that this year they took it to
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Speaker 2: a whole nother level, because last year, if I'm not mistaken,
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Speaker 2: they were all maybe ninety seconds. This year, the Chargers
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Speaker 2: had one that was about five minutes, and I'm a
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Speaker 2: big Halo guy, like I grew up playing that game,
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Speaker 2: So two minutes in I was like.
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Speaker 4: All right, this is just dragging on. I didn't even
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Speaker 4: finish it.
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Speaker 2: I'm actually about to watch the Tennessee Titan because I
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Speaker 2: heard that was a really good one and.
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Speaker 1: One still I think the best one ever made was
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Speaker 1: when the Titans just jumped on people walking down Broadway
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Speaker 1: and they had no idea who the logos were. There
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Speaker 1: were some that, yeah, that was pretty good, hilarious. What
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Speaker 1: the blank is that is that? The what is that?
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Speaker 3: That was really good? That was in twenty twenty three?
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Speaker 2: Like the Rams one they had I think last season
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Speaker 2: when they were driving around in the car.
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Speaker 3: That was really cool. They did a Napoleon Dynamite one.
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Speaker 3: This time.
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Speaker 1: The Rams did huh okay opening montage. I'm gonna have
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Speaker 1: to watch a couple of them during the break.
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Speaker 3: But the Colts did a Simpsons themed one. I'm sure
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Speaker 3: everybody loved that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of Americans, a lot of people love
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Speaker 2: the Simpsons.
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Speaker 3: And of course the hometown Seahawks. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I couldn't really got a mite in.
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Speaker 1: I was just like brother, I liked the nostalgia ninety
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Speaker 1: six reference to the Okay Dallas Cowboys having not won
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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl since then.
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Speaker 3: Look at that. They did something right.
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Speaker 4: They nailed their schedule release you talk.
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Speaker 1: About the Seahawks Cowboys, No, that was the Cowboys or
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks release about the Cowboys.
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Speaker 4: Got it.
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Speaker 1: The perfume brand was nostalgia, well played sattle.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was good.
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Speaker 1: And they had a course of reference to the substation
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Speaker 1: outside the forty nine Ers practice facility in Santa Clara.
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Speaker 1: The substation, the substation fragrance. If you went to touch
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Speaker 1: the bottle to use it, it would shock you.
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Speaker 4: You know, as a Super Bowl champ.
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Speaker 3: You can do that.
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Speaker 1: The Chargers, though, I mean I had to press pause
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Speaker 1: a couple of times to catch some of the references.
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Speaker 3: But they went they went after Mike Rabel.
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Speaker 2: And I didn't get that far. What what do you
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Speaker 2: do You remember the week that was that they.
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Speaker 3: Middle the season. It wasn't too far in week six seven.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't make it to like week four because
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Speaker 4: it was so long.
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Speaker 3: Greg was five. It was a little bit. It was
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Speaker 3: a little bit. I had to be done with all my.
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Speaker 1: Stories for the news schedules, before I my son kept saying, oh,
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Speaker 1: I don't have time for this.
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Speaker 2: That's like I think it compiled thirty two teams. It
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Speaker 2: might have been an hour just watching. There were so
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Speaker 2: many and so long. Every team did one, and the
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Speaker 2: Athletic ranked them.
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Speaker 3: There's a story in the Athletic and.
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Speaker 2: I will read that to see if I feel that
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Speaker 2: the Chargers just dragged too long.
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Speaker 1: And the and they didn't think so they ranked Chargers
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Speaker 1: number one. Really, they ranked the Titans number two because
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Speaker 1: they all played Halo. I'm not I'm not buying that.
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Speaker 3: I'm not. I don't know what Halo is.
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Speaker 4: It's a video game.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I know it's a video yeah, but.
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Speaker 2: It's nonetheless, Greg, I'm with you, video game. No, they
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Speaker 2: should have been maybe top and No.
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Speaker 3: No, they're appealing to a certain demographic.
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Speaker 4: That's fine, but it don't need to be five minutes.
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Speaker 1: But the Resini Vrabel references were in particular, there's a
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Speaker 1: reference to a graphic on the side saying an email incoming.
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Speaker 1: I guess on Halo you can get social media and
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Speaker 1: email updates or whatever your I guess it's whatever your
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Speaker 1: computer set up to.
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Speaker 3: I just like my man's voice Slayer.
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Speaker 1: There was an incoming email from The New York Post
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Speaker 1: that remained unread on the Patriots part of the Chargers video.
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Speaker 2: I think what I'm gonna do is I'm going to
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Speaker 2: pull it up and we're going to play it because
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Speaker 2: I'm curious now.
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Speaker 1: But if you play it, I don't know that without
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Speaker 1: the visuals you'll be able to get it.
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Speaker 2: That is true. There's a lot to get here on radio.
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Speaker 2: You can't You got to close your eyes and visually.
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Speaker 3: I thought of this.
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Speaker 1: I thought of playing the Patriot the Seahawks one. I
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Speaker 1: guess there's some narrative that you could get on radio anyway.
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Speaker 1: I know a lot of you. It's it is a
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Speaker 1: I will say this. I know this from covering the NFL.
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Speaker 1: This has become a Christmas Day for the social media
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Speaker 1: and production teams. True, you nail this, And let's be honest,
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Speaker 1: those who are working in those are younger, new into
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Speaker 1: the industry, probably lower paid in in the Graham scheme
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Speaker 1: of NFL team's pay charts.
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Speaker 3: And you're right, the Chargers gal is a legend. They
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Speaker 3: post their.
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Speaker 1: Picture of her on the field and she's got her
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Speaker 1: arms out wide and people are like, she's a messiah
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Speaker 1: or something that she's revered for the work she's done.
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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, the Chargers, when you're right, it wasn't opus.
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Speaker 1: It was quite an epic. But Chris is watching it now,
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Speaker 1: he's trying to follow this. So four nine, four five
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Speaker 1: one what you thought of the Seahawks schedule? And the
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Speaker 1: Seahawks schedule released? So the Perfume Day Champions.
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Speaker 3: Perfume Day Champions.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, they did not take a Mike Vrabel. Of
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Speaker 1: course they didn't have to because they had.
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Speaker 3: Look look what we're talking about. They had the Super
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Speaker 3: Bowl win.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't even matter even if they like went Owen whatever.
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Speaker 2: Seahawks have class.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 1: I just think if you are playing the Patriot, you couldn't.
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Speaker 1: I couldn't ignore that.
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Speaker 4: You can't ignore it because you got something in there.
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Speaker 3: I knew that Argers would do that. But if you
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Speaker 3: guess what team didn't throw a jab? Yeah, that's two.
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Speaker 3: That's true. Five on nine says Chris, you gotta watch
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Speaker 3: the Tampa Bay. It's the funniest. Oh.
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Speaker 4: Like I said, I'm gonna be doing my homework.
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Speaker 2: I just got turned off when I looked at the
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Speaker 2: Chargers and it was like six six minutes and thirteen seconds. Really,
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Speaker 2: there's no reason a schedule release should be that long. Like,
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Speaker 2: great work for that team that did it, that's awesome.
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Speaker 2: But I'm really like, unless I'm a die hard Chargers fan,
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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna watch a six minute video regarding Halo
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Speaker 2: in my season starting up and the schedule being I
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Speaker 2: just can't.
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Speaker 4: That's a lot six minutes.
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Speaker 3: Greg, Yeah, a lot of people did watch it, though.
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Speaker 2: I bet they did. It's all Halo was like, I'm in,
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Speaker 2: but I got two minutes in. I was like, brother,
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Speaker 2: I got four more minutes of this?
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Speaker 3: All right, I can't do it. You and your young
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Speaker 3: kids with atention spans now I know.
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Speaker 1: On the show today, we're gona talk about the pluses
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Speaker 1: and minuses for the Seahawks inside their game schedule for
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, including they had the same built in
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Speaker 1: This was interesting. I did a little dig in this morning.
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Speaker 1: They had the same built in advantage that they had
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Speaker 1: en route to the Super Bowl last year. We're going
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Speaker 1: to talk about that. We'll see if it matters again
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Speaker 1: like you did last year. You want to go to
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Speaker 1: the World Cup here and see how We're gonna talk
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Speaker 1: about how ticket prices are coming down. We'll talk about
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Speaker 1: how and why and how low. They're not cheap still,
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Speaker 1: but they're cheaper. June, fifteenth month from today, thirty days
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Speaker 1: from today, thirty one day. Well, yeah, there's thirty one
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Speaker 1: days in June. In May, one month from today, the
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Speaker 1: first World Cup game at Lumenfield, we'll talk about tickets.
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Speaker 3: And how to get him.
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Speaker 1: At eleven o'clock, Like they mentioned at the top, Gary
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Speaker 1: Hill Junior, the Mariners broadcaster, is going to talk to us.
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Speaker 1: Always fun to talk to Gary, and he's always in
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Speaker 1: a good mood and pleasant. But he'll probably be so
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Speaker 1: after the three out of four his team that pays
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Speaker 1: him beat the trash Cans in Houston. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: ask him, Chris right off to that, did they make
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Speaker 1: a mistake him? He manette answer because he's a Marrin employee.
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Speaker 1: But did they make a mistake and.
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Speaker 3: Play Kyle Rawley about a week longer than they should have?
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Speaker 3: Probably not? Maybe so.
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Speaker 2: I guess if you look at it from your perspective,
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Speaker 2: there's still X amount of games left. Let's say they
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Speaker 2: push it all the way through the mid June. I
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Speaker 2: think then you could be like, damn, that might have.
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Speaker 2: You know, that's kind of tricky because you're more than
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Speaker 2: a third or the way through the season or fourth
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Speaker 2: away of the season on that and you depending on
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Speaker 2: how this AO West looks, ten games without him could
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Speaker 2: be like damn, that might hurt as opposed to doing
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Speaker 2: it now, like you said, get on it now. You
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Speaker 2: probably I know you said you won it last week,
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Speaker 2: but I don't think it'd be too late necessarily.
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Speaker 1: But my point is, did he get more hurt and
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Speaker 1: literally out longer because they have him, let him play.
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Speaker 2: They obviously given him the best drugs and get the
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Speaker 2: best trainers in there, get them right, y'ah.
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Speaker 1: They don't need to do drugs right now. They can
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Speaker 1: just rest, even have him just chill for two weeks.
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's no reason to rush him back at
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Speaker 1: this point. And I've said this. He could stay out
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Speaker 1: of month, he can stay out two months until July fifteenth,
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Speaker 1: and they're still going to win.
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Speaker 3: To do it.
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Speaker 4: Okay, let's pump the breaks, Let's not go too crazy.
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Speaker 3: Put him on a twenty minor league rehab.
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Speaker 1: Simon home runs off Jennie Field off of the community
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Speaker 1: college behind the outfield there. Let him go up to
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Speaker 1: evert and ping balls off the football stadium. Never That's
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Speaker 1: what I'd do. And then July fifteenth, see where the
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Speaker 1: Mariners are. I would bet you. I would bet listeners,
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Speaker 1: I'd bet YouTube WHOAOA WHOA?
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Speaker 3: Are you too much?
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Speaker 1: He's too bet? I would I would bet nothing monetarily.
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Speaker 1: It's colloquially speaking, hypothetically speaking. I would bet that if
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Speaker 1: he missed two months till July fifteenth, the Mariners would
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Speaker 1: be within three games the first place, because the ao
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Speaker 1: West ain't going anywhere, is not You're one game over
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Speaker 1: under five hundred. You're still a game out of first place.
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Speaker 1: Shut him down, let him rest, take a mental break. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's a key to you. He's also a key to
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Speaker 1: the pitching staff. As people on the text line have
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Speaker 1: pointed out, that is true. Though, Mitch Garver your home
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Speaker 1: run again yesterday. He quitted himself well at catching. He
9:59
Speaker 1: is uncamp any challenges.
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Speaker 3: I bet bet he.
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Speaker 1: I can't remember him missing a challenge, both as a
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Speaker 1: batter but mainly as a catcher. He was right on
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Speaker 1: again yesterday. Garb has been good for them. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this town took it to Bucky in particular, took it
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Speaker 1: to Mitch Garver all last season. They need him now
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Speaker 1: it's now that cal Rawley is the having. Johnny Prato's
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Speaker 1: course is up from Triple A.
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Speaker 3: To come A four nine, four to five one.
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Speaker 1: Do you think the Mariners waited till I made a
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Speaker 1: mistake on the cal Raley handling of his injury? He
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Speaker 1: was obviously hurting, he was getting treatment each day while
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Speaker 1: he was playing and going oh for forty And how
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Speaker 1: concerned are you about his absence? I'm not at all.
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Speaker 1: I think he could stay out a week or month,
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Speaker 1: two months and the Mariners are still going to be
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Speaker 1: right there to win the division. That's theirs for the taking.
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Speaker 3: You agree?
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Speaker 1: And how concerned are you with cal Rawley? Four nine,
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Speaker 1: four to five on and we'll read back your text
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Speaker 1: at eleven thirty Share some of your funny anecdotes. I
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Speaker 1: haven't watched all thirty two of the NFL schedule releases,
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Speaker 1: so I don't know how funny or I didn't know
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Speaker 1: Tampa Bays, for instance. But if you want to share those,
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Speaker 1: then we can go point them out. If there's something arable, Chris,
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Speaker 1: if you've come across something you think they'll play on radio, No.
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Speaker 2: You're I think you noted it's tough. I mean I
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Speaker 2: did like the seat, the charges versus the Seahawks. They
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Speaker 2: talked about the legion of Boom so that was kind
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Speaker 2: of cool. Had a Marshall reference, Yeah, they had.
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Speaker 1: They had a fact that they said Pike Place Market
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Speaker 1: was for sale. They called it twelfth Place, twelfth Man
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Speaker 1: something around the sale. Yeah, I thought that was cool.
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Speaker 1: I think that was a snide shot at everything everybody
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Speaker 1: leaving Seattle, corporate people leaving Seattle, like Starbucks and whatnot.
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Speaker 1: I think that that might have been a reference. So
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Speaker 1: but yeah, they didn't take it. They didn't go too
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Speaker 1: hard after How can you go after the Seahawks they're
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, what do you give me? Tread Lightley here baby.
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Speaker 1: And the Koma Dodge text on anything else you want
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Speaker 1: to talk about, we'll read it back. Oh, you can
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Speaker 1: put comments in the YouTube and not that Chris is
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Speaker 1: monitoring that as religion, but put comments in the YouTube feedback?
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Speaker 3: Do you look at that?
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Speaker 2: To be honest, I used the text line more than anything.
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Speaker 2: It'd be nice if everyone used YouTube more. So that's
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Speaker 2: something I'm sure when we have our meeting, which aka
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Speaker 2: Purple Sheet's gonna be like, hey, guys, there are some
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Speaker 2: comments on.
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Speaker 1: There that we'd just rather stay away for him to
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Speaker 1: just out of left field or even worse, so.
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Speaker 3: Well, we get those everywhere.
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Speaker 1: Did you read the Steve Kerr article that Right Thompson
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Speaker 1: wrote for ESPN dot com. I did not very interesting.
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Speaker 1: I was it took. I was on an exercise bike
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Speaker 1: for an hour in the gym and it still wasn't
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Speaker 1: done with it. Yesterday reading the whole thing, it made
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Speaker 1: the ride go a lot quicker. But right Thompson's really
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Speaker 1: great introspective writer. He talks about Steve Kerr's entire Warriors
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Speaker 1: season and how debilitating his back pain has been, how
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Speaker 1: it has affected him throughout his coaching career, how he
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Speaker 1: had decided the final week of the regular season, just
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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, that he was done. He
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Speaker 1: was quitting the Warriors. He had told his wife. He
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Speaker 1: told right Thompson that, and then they beat They won
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Speaker 1: their Clipper down in the into a dome in Englewood.
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Speaker 1: They beat the Clippers in the first playing game, and
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Speaker 1: he said, I'm staying.
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Speaker 3: This is why I do it.
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Speaker 1: The brotherhood, the camaraderie of the team. For one night
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Speaker 1: we were back to our champion seals. We beat the Clippers.
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Speaker 1: Then they lost the next playing game against Phoenix and
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Speaker 1: that was that the end of their season. And then
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Speaker 1: sure enough last week the Warriors announcing that Steve Kerr
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Speaker 1: is returning on a two year contract to remain as.
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Speaker 3: Coach of the Warriors.
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Speaker 1: There was a talk, of course, that he might come
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Speaker 1: up here to be the president of the New Sonics
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Speaker 1: once the expansion team is awarded. That's not happening, at
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Speaker 1: least for time being a foreseeable future. And in that
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Speaker 1: article with Ray Thompson, Steve Cris said, I have no
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Speaker 1: interest in being an executive. I want to be a coach.
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Speaker 1: I want to be with players on the floor, in practices,
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Speaker 1: on the road trips, three am arrivals back from road game.
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Speaker 3: I won all of that.
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Speaker 1: So he doesn't want to be a suit. So the
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Speaker 1: New Sonics can probably cool their jets on any idea
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Speaker 1: that they might hire someone like Steve Kerr to be
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Speaker 1: the administrator. If you didn't read the article right Thompson
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Speaker 1: ESPN dot Com, very good. You're gonna have to set
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Speaker 1: aside more time than you would for the Chargers release
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Speaker 1: schedule because it is long they said to me an hour,
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Speaker 1: and I wasn't even done with the whole thing. But
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Speaker 1: it was worth your time if you're a basketball or
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Speaker 1: just interested in human There is a lot to Steve Kerr.
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Speaker 1: His father being assassinated when he was the president of
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Speaker 1: the American University in Beirut. He was when Steve Kerr
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Speaker 1: was a freshman at the University of Arizona, and how
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Speaker 1: that has continued to affect him and shape him as
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Speaker 1: a man, as a person, as a leader. He's been
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Speaker 1: outspoken for gun control in this country. He's been outsmoking
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Speaker 1: against extremism both in politics and in our society. It's
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Speaker 1: a very interesting article to read by Right Thompson on
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Speaker 1: Steve Kerr. Up next, we're going to go deep into
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Speaker 1: the gritty on the Seahawks' schedule and how the NFL
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Speaker 1: did him a couple solids. But right now we're going
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Speaker 1: to go live to Westwood One with the update on
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Speaker 1: the PGA Championship. On ninety three point three KJRFM, Welcome
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Speaker 1: back Chris Kids, getting punky a little bit with it
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Speaker 1: this segment of the Gregbus Show. Christopher Canada, ninety three
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Speaker 1: point three KGFM. Happy Friday to you, one thing I
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Speaker 1: wanted to mention. The text line brought up as well.
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Speaker 1: The Everett Silver Tips are one game from the Memorial Cup,
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Speaker 1: the championship round of the Western Hockey League. They have
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Speaker 1: never been there before. They had a team record fifty
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Speaker 1: seven wins this season, and now they have a three
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Speaker 1: to one lead on Prince Albert, going Albert going to
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Speaker 1: back to Canada for Game six. They have two chances
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Speaker 1: now to game five. Excuse me. If they lose Game five, ever,
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Speaker 1: we'll come back into Silver Tips will play at home
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Speaker 1: for games six and seven, So three chances to win
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Speaker 1: a berth into their first ever Memorial Cup in the
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Speaker 1: Western Hockey League gets off to the Tips up in Everett.
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Speaker 1: The Mariners' schedule, excuse me. The Seahawks go Amerginers schedule
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Speaker 1: was the San Diego def are coming to the Yard
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Speaker 1: tonight for first of a three game series and to
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Speaker 1: start a homestam. The Seahawks schedule, the headline is, of course,
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Speaker 1: that there are six primetime games. That's a team record,
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Speaker 1: one short of the most in NFL history. I will
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Speaker 1: say there's a good chance at seven. Because the league
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Speaker 1: and the networks obviously valued the Rams. Seahawks games to
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Speaker 1: those two division games as two of the more attractive
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Speaker 1: games on the league schedule. They put the first one
16:26
Speaker 1: here in Seattle on Christmas Night five point fifteen start
16:30
Speaker 1: on Fox on Christmas on a Friday. We'll talk about
16:33
Speaker 1: that in a minute too, and specifically the game before
16:36
Speaker 1: that Christmas game and how the league did them a
16:38
Speaker 1: favor Seahawks. And then the final week of the season,
16:42
Speaker 1: Week eighteen, the Seahawks will go to Englewood to play
16:45
Speaker 1: the Rams. That very well could be a Sunday night game,
16:49
Speaker 1: the final game of the regular season if it is
16:52
Speaker 1: indeed what the network expect in the league expects for
16:54
Speaker 1: the division title agame. So they didn't, that'd be your
16:57
Speaker 1: seventh one. They could flex it a sixth day window,
17:00
Speaker 1: flex it to the final game of the regular season
17:03
Speaker 1: if it is going to be for the division title.
17:06
Speaker 1: Of course, last year determined the number one seed as well.
17:10
Speaker 1: But Chris is more to me than the primetime games.
17:13
Speaker 1: They have really unusual swaths of consecutive home games. They
17:17
Speaker 1: have two sets of back to back home dates, and
17:21
Speaker 1: then they have three in a row. I can't remember
17:23
Speaker 1: since I've covered the team three straight home games, and
17:28
Speaker 1: that's so from the start. In fact, from the start
17:32
Speaker 1: of October into mid November, they play four of five
17:36
Speaker 1: games at home right in the middle of the season,
17:39
Speaker 1: with the at Denver game on Thursday night in Week
17:41
Speaker 1: six is the only one that's away from Seattle, but
17:45
Speaker 1: of course those while they are at home four out
17:48
Speaker 1: of five those teams they're playing or no cupcakes. That
17:52
Speaker 1: stretch includes the Chargers at home, the forty nine Ers
17:56
Speaker 1: at home at Denver, then home games against Kansas City
18:00
Speaker 1: on a Sunday night, Chicago on a Monday night, and
18:03
Speaker 1: then they have Arizona on a Sunday Chris the bye
18:06
Speaker 1: I mentioned this week eleven, November twenty second. You know,
18:09
Speaker 1: they got two weeks before the two games before the bye,
18:12
Speaker 1: the Seahawks play Arizona and the Raiders.
18:16
Speaker 3: So they got three buys in a row pretty much.
18:20
Speaker 1: They play at San Francisco the final Sunday of November,
18:24
Speaker 1: another back to back home Dallas on a Monday night,
18:27
Speaker 1: and the Giants on Sunday, December the thirteenth. Okay, so
18:31
Speaker 1: Christmas Day, they're playing on a Friday, because Christmas on
18:33
Speaker 1: a Friday. The NFL is going all in on Christmas
18:37
Speaker 1: games because the ratings are just off the charts. So
18:40
Speaker 1: ram Seahawks when that first came out for a Christmas
18:43
Speaker 1: Day I said, oh, a big, big game like that
18:46
Speaker 1: with a short week, right, if they play on Sunday,
18:49
Speaker 1: it's only a four day rest between. Not optimal. The
18:52
Speaker 1: teams are getting used to that with all the Thursday
18:54
Speaker 1: games they have to play now. But the NFL did
18:56
Speaker 1: the Seahawks a solid there. The game before the cris
19:00
Speaker 1: Christmas game. They have the Seahawks playing at Philadelphia on
19:03
Speaker 1: a Saturday, so one earlier day than normal. Not only that,
19:07
Speaker 1: because they're playing at two pm Seattle time. It's the
19:10
Speaker 1: first of a doubleheader. It's a two pm Pacific time
19:15
Speaker 1: start in Philadelphia. Saturday, December nineteen, Seahawks at Eagles. So
19:19
Speaker 1: they're going to get on a plane and the Seahawks
19:20
Speaker 1: will be home probably around midnight.
19:23
Speaker 3: Or so Seattle time.
19:24
Speaker 1: You know, figured a three hour game start to five
19:26
Speaker 1: pm Philadelphia time, gets over to eight eight thirty, tend
19:29
Speaker 1: to get out ten ish lead by ten thirty eleven
19:34
Speaker 1: the three hour time change. They'll get home around midnight
19:38
Speaker 1: twelve thirty one o'clock. That's much different than a night
19:41
Speaker 1: game on the East Coast. Usually the Seahawks get home
19:43
Speaker 1: at about five or six am. They just fly all
19:47
Speaker 1: night and they land at nine o'clock East Coast time
19:50
Speaker 1: where they just played when they have Washington on a
19:52
Speaker 1: Sunday night, for instance last year. Not so with this
19:56
Speaker 1: game before Christmas. Meanwhile, the rat that second Saturday game
20:00
Speaker 1: is not involving the Rams, it's Bears at Bills. So
20:04
Speaker 1: the Seahawks are going to have a plus one on
20:06
Speaker 1: the rest advantage with the Rams playing the Sunday before
20:09
Speaker 1: Christmas and the Seahawks playing the Saturday before Christmas. That's
20:13
Speaker 1: the NFL doing the Seahawks a solid there. But this
20:16
Speaker 1: rest thing goes a little bit further than that. Chris,
20:21
Speaker 1: I was looking at this last year because.
20:23
Speaker 3: I was saying, Wow, this schedule is really lining up
20:25
Speaker 3: for the Seahawks.
20:27
Speaker 1: Last year, the Seahawks had a plus eight differential in
20:31
Speaker 1: days rest advantage over the teams they played based on
20:33
Speaker 1: the schedule and when the other teams played and when
20:35
Speaker 1: they played. Well, guess what it is this year, plus eight.
20:41
Speaker 1: They have a three day advantage on Arizona Week two,
20:44
Speaker 1: because the Seahawks play on Wednesday in Arizona plays on
20:47
Speaker 1: a Sunday they have a plus two advantage on Kansas
20:50
Speaker 1: City when they play that Sunday night game here. Now
20:55
Speaker 1: they lose to when the Bears. The Bears coming in
20:57
Speaker 1: here on a Monday night they played the previous Thursday
21:00
Speaker 1: night against the Patriots, while the Seahawks play a Sunday
21:03
Speaker 1: game before that, so they lose to their They lose
21:05
Speaker 1: one against the Arizona Cardinals when they play them the
21:08
Speaker 1: second time, but the big one that gives the Seahawks
21:11
Speaker 1: the one they're already bitching about in.
21:13
Speaker 3: The Bay Area.
21:15
Speaker 1: The forty nine er fans love the gripe about anything,
21:17
Speaker 1: but they love the gripe about this too. The Seahawks
21:20
Speaker 1: have a bye before they play the forty nine Ers
21:23
Speaker 1: in Santa Clara November twenty ninth, while the forty nine
21:26
Speaker 1: Ers will be playing that weekend that the Seahawks are off.
21:29
Speaker 3: So that's a plus seven days rest.
21:32
Speaker 1: For the Seahawks over the forty nine Ers. The forty
21:35
Speaker 1: nine er fans are already griping about this in May,
21:37
Speaker 1: about how the Seahawks Super Bowl champions are going to
21:40
Speaker 1: come in to Santa Clara having had the bye week
21:43
Speaker 1: before they play the forty nine Ers, but that makes
21:46
Speaker 1: up the bulk of the Seahawks plus eight rest differential.
21:51
Speaker 3: Then you go down the list.
21:53
Speaker 1: Dallas is playing on Thanksgiving the previous Thursday, so they
21:58
Speaker 1: get an actually two day advantage on the Seahalk when
22:00
Speaker 1: they come in here and play in the early December
22:03
Speaker 1: Giants Seahawks are minus one the rams I mentioned, the
22:07
Speaker 1: Seahawks are plus one and the rest differential on that
22:09
Speaker 1: Christmas Day I already mentioned, and then the card the
22:13
Speaker 1: Carolina game Week seventeen, they're going to be plus one
22:15
Speaker 1: or plus two over the Panthers in rest, depending on
22:19
Speaker 1: a flex game between the previous week between the Panthers
22:22
Speaker 1: and the Steelers.
22:24
Speaker 3: It's whether going to be a Saturday or Sunday previous
22:26
Speaker 3: to that Week seventeen game.
22:27
Speaker 1: So anyway, it's a total of plus eight or potentially
22:30
Speaker 1: plus nine for the Seahawks and arrest differential. They had
22:33
Speaker 1: plus eight last year and went to the Super Bowl.
22:35
Speaker 1: There are all kinds of studies that on this rest differential,
22:38
Speaker 1: and some have theorized that because the latest collective bargaining
22:42
Speaker 1: agreement in the NFL mandated four off days during a
22:46
Speaker 1: bye week of no practices that the rest differential, how
22:50
Speaker 1: it matters and results of games has lessened. It's funny
22:54
Speaker 1: to read about Chris that they put in the CBA
22:57
Speaker 1: that four days off is mandatory during a bye week.
23:00
Speaker 1: Around here in Seattle, they've had eight days off since
23:03
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll became the coach. For seventeen years, they've had
23:06
Speaker 1: the entire week off. Carol was one of the first
23:09
Speaker 1: in the NFL to do that. Mike McDonald has continued
23:12
Speaker 1: that trend that as soon as the game ends on Sunday,
23:15
Speaker 1: you're off until the following Sunday night when we come
23:18
Speaker 1: back from meetings, and then they have practice on Monday
23:20
Speaker 1: and away they go for the next game week. That
23:24
Speaker 1: is not the norm in the NFL. Had not been
23:25
Speaker 1: the norm at all when Pete Carroll got here in
23:27
Speaker 1: two thousand and Now it's become increasingly in the norm.
23:29
Speaker 1: But the Collective Barney Agreement now mandates at least four
23:32
Speaker 1: days that they have to have off that by weekend,
23:35
Speaker 1: so some teams still do practice.
23:37
Speaker 3: But yeah, the rest thing.
23:40
Speaker 1: You talk to the players and they notice they going
23:43
Speaker 1: into a game, they notice if the team they played
23:45
Speaker 1: just played on the previous Monday.
23:47
Speaker 3: Night, for instance, or whatnot.
23:49
Speaker 1: But even that There's one interesting tidbit about this rest thing.
23:53
Speaker 1: I'm going to about the Chargers game in Week four.
23:57
Speaker 1: The Chargers come up here to Seattle, there's a plus
24:01
Speaker 1: zeros a push. They both the Seahawks and the Chargers
24:04
Speaker 1: played the previous Sunday, so there's no pushing days. But
24:07
Speaker 1: you look into the schedule, the Chargers are playing at
24:10
Speaker 1: Buffalo the previous Sunday, then they fly home, and then
24:13
Speaker 1: they got to fly again back up to Seattle for
24:15
Speaker 1: a second consecutive road game, while the Seahawks will be
24:18
Speaker 1: coming from Washington. So that's it is interesting because the
24:23
Speaker 1: West Coast teams, in particular travel and dates and all
24:26
Speaker 1: this does matter. When you're like Pittsburgh or Chicago or
24:29
Speaker 1: Cleveland and you only have about eight thousand travel miles
24:32
Speaker 1: a year, it's not a big deal. But when you
24:34
Speaker 1: got twenty five thirty one thousand miles of travel, this
24:37
Speaker 1: rest day stuff does matter, and it certainly matters to
24:40
Speaker 1: the player's bodies. But I just found it interesting that
24:42
Speaker 1: the Seahawks had the same net rest advantage in number
24:46
Speaker 1: of days that they did last season too. Do you
24:50
Speaker 1: think this matters or you think this is all bunk?
24:53
Speaker 3: I think it all matters. I tell you, it matters
24:55
Speaker 3: during the season of the players that they noticed that.
24:57
Speaker 2: It matters immensely football here. We're not talking about track
25:02
Speaker 2: and field or something. No discredit to those guys, but
25:04
Speaker 2: this takes awear in your body. Man, this is not
25:07
Speaker 2: I mean that stretch from October fourth through the fifteenth,
25:11
Speaker 2: three games in like twelve days, that is crazy.
25:16
Speaker 3: And they notice that too.
25:18
Speaker 2: Not to mention they're on the road for that final game.
25:20
Speaker 2: They're traveling. I know it's not you know, ten thousand
25:23
Speaker 2: miles or anything, but I mean, wow, yeah, that's I
25:27
Speaker 2: guess they do get caught up later on this season.
25:29
Speaker 2: As you mentioned, it's plus eight, so that's good for them.
25:31
Speaker 2: But man, that first from the Chargers through that Broncos game,
25:35
Speaker 2: that's a brutal stretch right there.
25:36
Speaker 3: That's that's tough traveling wise.
25:37
Speaker 1: Hey, look, I get it. They're millionaire athletes. And if
25:40
Speaker 1: you're Joe Cabby driving around Seattle right now, you're like,
25:42
Speaker 1: don't give me this. The guy's making ten million. He
25:44
Speaker 1: can suck it down for three games and twelve discs
25:48
Speaker 1: relative to other teams. I'm just telling you this stuff
25:51
Speaker 1: and the player rest does matter. To them in their bodies,
25:54
Speaker 1: and I just I say it again, if you could
25:58
Speaker 1: be in an NFL locker room from Wednesday after a
26:03
Speaker 1: Sunday game.
26:04
Speaker 3: Guys can't walk.
26:05
Speaker 1: They just not functioning and sometimes they can't function properly,
26:09
Speaker 1: and just be every day walk and get out of
26:11
Speaker 1: bed until after Thursday, and if they got to play
26:13
Speaker 1: Thursday night games a lot of the times. At eleven o'clock,
26:17
Speaker 1: we're talking to Gary Hill Junior, the Marinas broadcasters, back
26:19
Speaker 1: from the road trip and getting ready to prepare for
26:21
Speaker 1: a homestand broadcasting Marina games, including tonight at home against
26:24
Speaker 1: the San Diego Padres. Up next, you want to go
26:27
Speaker 1: to the World Cup here in Seattle. One month from
26:30
Speaker 1: today is the first four first round matches. Ticket prices
26:34
Speaker 1: are going down. We'll tell you by how much. If
26:37
Speaker 1: you've been waiting, you could be in luck. That's next
26:39
Speaker 1: on ninety three point three KJRFM. A lot of that
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Speaker 1: to the Greg Belt Show with Christopher kitt on ninety
26:52
Speaker 1: three point three KJRFM. As I mentioned at the top,
26:56
Speaker 1: I'll be out next week. I'm going to my whole families.
26:59
Speaker 1: Get non plane, mother, mother in laws, everybody, get on
27:04
Speaker 1: a plane to go to Boston see our daughter graduate
27:06
Speaker 1: from the US Coast Guard Academy next week. Anderson Hurst
27:10
Speaker 1: is going to Coast with Chris on Monday. Ashley Ryan
27:13
Speaker 1: will host with Chris on Tuesday and Wednesday, and Mike
27:16
Speaker 1: Betton will be on Thursday. I'll be back on Friday.
27:19
Speaker 1: Chris is never too early to set betting lines on
27:22
Speaker 1: week one of an NFL season, including in May. Of course,
27:25
Speaker 1: not man, you don't know who the rosters are, right
27:30
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. My buddy Jimmy Shapiro. Bet Online Sports has
27:35
Speaker 1: the Seahawks as a four point favorite over the Patriots
27:37
Speaker 1: in Week one, the league opening game September ninth.
27:42
Speaker 3: To your put your money down, Now, what are you
27:44
Speaker 3: waiting on? That's rights.
27:47
Speaker 1: It makes me chuckle, But okay, that's what people are
27:50
Speaker 1: apparently doing futures betting, I guess well, speaking in the future.
27:55
Speaker 1: One month from today, the World Cup comes to Seattle.
27:58
Speaker 1: The World comes to Seattle. Belgium and Egypt will play
28:00
Speaker 1: at Newman's Field in the first of four first round
28:04
Speaker 1: games of the FIFA twenty twenty six World Cup. It's
28:07
Speaker 1: expanded to forty eight teams for the first time this year.
28:11
Speaker 1: It's going to be in three countries, Canada, Mexico, and
28:13
Speaker 1: the United States on the West Coast. It's going to
28:15
Speaker 1: be in Vancouver at BC Place. It's going to be
28:17
Speaker 1: at Blue Jeans Stadium in Santa Clara in the Bay Area,
28:21
Speaker 1: and it's going to be in Sofi Stadium in Los Angeles.
28:23
Speaker 3: And it's going to be here in Seattle.
28:26
Speaker 1: A lot of talk over the last months about how
28:29
Speaker 1: expensive the United States venues are making tickets to the
28:33
Speaker 1: World Cup, pricing everybody out. I mean, you have to
28:36
Speaker 1: be a tycoon and an oil baron to afford some
28:40
Speaker 1: of these tickets while they're coming down. Sofia swaz Walder
28:46
Speaker 1: is a new writer for the Seattle Time. She's actually
28:48
Speaker 1: called me the day I got this job about the
28:51
Speaker 1: new job here at KJR, a new show host.
28:54
Speaker 3: She wrote a story about that. I appreciate it in
28:56
Speaker 3: The Times.
28:57
Speaker 1: She wrote a story today, Sophia did about ticket prices
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Speaker 1: dropping from where they were too just a couple of
29:05
Speaker 1: weeks ago.
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Speaker 3: I just checked. If you want to go.
29:08
Speaker 1: To the United States first match in Seattle against Australia,
29:13
Speaker 1: first round match that is on Friday, the nineteenth of June,
29:20
Speaker 1: it'll cost you about eight hundred and thirty four dollars
29:23
Speaker 1: is a get in price that's still ridiculous, but it's
29:27
Speaker 1: less ridiculous than it was. Even a couple of weeks ago.
29:30
Speaker 1: That price was over seventeen hundred dollars and early in
29:35
Speaker 1: the spring. Now it's down to almost half that eight
29:38
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty four. So suffice to say, keep waiting.
29:42
Speaker 1: The trend is down. The cheapest get in price for
29:47
Speaker 1: Belgium and Egypt is down around five hundred dollars. Egypt
29:54
Speaker 1: is playing Iran as well, that is the cheapest of
29:57
Speaker 1: the four games. Well, actually Bosnia Harrisgovina against Cutter also
30:01
Speaker 1: first round in Seattle. Both those games are a little
30:04
Speaker 1: over two hundred dollars to get in right now. So
30:06
Speaker 1: if you just want the experience of going to a
30:08
Speaker 1: World Cup match right now, you can get in for
30:12
Speaker 1: a little over two hundred dollars. Now, you might be
30:14
Speaker 1: sitting in a three hundred level, of course, but when
30:17
Speaker 1: you go to the FIFA website to try to buy
30:19
Speaker 1: tickets that way, they really try to push you to
30:21
Speaker 1: the VIP packages and the suites on the field, the
30:26
Speaker 1: really expensive ones, and they FIFA has been criticized for
30:31
Speaker 1: segmenting stadiums taking away seats that would have been sold
30:34
Speaker 1: otherwise as block of tickets to regular folks, are selling
30:38
Speaker 1: them as VIP packages with a bunch of other do
30:42
Speaker 1: dads and hotel stays and whatnot. But I've found so
30:46
Speaker 1: far in my quick search that it's a little easier
30:50
Speaker 1: to go to the secondary website stub hub and see
30:52
Speaker 1: geek or whatnot, then straight to the FIFA website. Although
30:56
Speaker 1: the FIFA website will advertise that, for instance, the cheapest
30:59
Speaker 1: ticket they can it is some six seven hundred dollars
31:02
Speaker 1: for the USA Australia match Chris.
31:05
Speaker 3: It's ridiculous. I mean there are.
31:08
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. Let's just put it that way. And it's
31:11
Speaker 1: a trickle down effect. We've heard stories of cities, including
31:14
Speaker 1: in Seattle, where hotel vacancies are way higher than they
31:18
Speaker 1: expected them to be because people are not coming from
31:21
Speaker 1: other countries to pay this much in ticket prices. They're
31:24
Speaker 1: not going to spend eight hundred dollars a ticket to
31:26
Speaker 1: see their team play, on top of how much it's
31:29
Speaker 1: going to cost to fly to the United States, on
31:31
Speaker 1: top of hotel raids. This is the world's game. These
31:36
Speaker 1: should be the world's games. The people that around the
31:40
Speaker 1: world should be able to afford coming here instead of
31:43
Speaker 1: the United States doing what it often does and turning
31:45
Speaker 1: capitalism into a profit for a select few, and that
31:50
Speaker 1: hurts the overall sporting experience. In my mind, this is
31:53
Speaker 1: the world's game and it should be accessible to everyone
31:56
Speaker 1: in the world. Are you curious at all to go
31:58
Speaker 1: to you don't want any part of it? I'm good, Yeah, thanks,
32:02
Speaker 1: but no, thanks even for two hundred dollars, even for
32:04
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars.
32:05
Speaker 3: I'm good. It'll be on TV.
32:07
Speaker 1: There you go, four five one and it's coming dods
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Speaker 1: text on We'll be back at eleven thirty. Are these
32:12
Speaker 1: ticket prices keeping you away? And otherwise you'd go? Are
32:15
Speaker 1: you gonna go anywhere? And you're just waiting on the
32:17
Speaker 1: prices to go down? Or you had like Chris and
32:20
Speaker 1: saying nope, I'm good. I don't need any of this.
32:22
Speaker 1: I know there are some anti soccer people out here,
32:24
Speaker 1: but I know there are many, many, many pro soccer people,
32:27
Speaker 1: especially here in the Pacific Northwest. We don't have to
32:29
Speaker 1: remind people that.
32:30
Speaker 3: But are these prices deterring you?
32:32
Speaker 1: And is it the impediment that you're saying nope, or are
32:37
Speaker 1: you gonna wait and wait and hopefully get a price
32:39
Speaker 1: that works near closer to the game and then get
32:42
Speaker 1: in and you're still monitoring this four nine, four to
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Speaker 1: five one.
32:44
Speaker 3: We'll be back your text at eleven thirty.
32:46
Speaker 1: Up next, Gary Hill Junior, the Mariners radio broadcaster along
32:49
Speaker 1: with Rick Riz. He's back from Houston, so is the team.
32:53
Speaker 1: He's going to be at the park tonight for the
32:54
Speaker 1: first game of the series against San Diego Dads. He
32:56
Speaker 1: joined us next in the Beacon Plumbing Hotline on ninety
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Speaker 1: three point three KJRF Fam