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9-2: Mariners win, big Laz moment and Greg Woods · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star Reynolds Sports Desk, your 93.3 KJR
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  Speaker 1: FM Sports Headlines.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, good morning. Happy Wednesday. Thanks for joining us. Headlines
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  Speaker 2: are brought to you by Frostbeard Coors Light Shoes Chill. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: Las Montes. Man, it's almost like maybe you should have
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  Speaker 2: been up here earlier. It would have been nice if
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  Speaker 2: we had been up here in maybe May. It was
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  Speaker 2: quite the debut. 407 feet to straightaway center field at
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  Speaker 2: Fenway Park, which is a nice poke. It's not easy
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  Speaker 2: to do. Youngest Mariner in franchise history to hit a
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  Speaker 2: home run in his Major League debut. 21 years, 314 days,
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  Speaker 2: almost two full years younger than Alvin Davis. He played
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  Speaker 2: air guitar with Randy Rosarino on the Trident in the dugout.
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  Speaker 2: Good vibes. It was almost like Elenio Suarez had just
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  Speaker 2: landed in the Mariner's dugout last night when Laz Montes
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  Speaker 2: makes his Major League debut in home run. Sixth Mariner
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  Speaker 2: in franchise history to home run his Major League debut.
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  Speaker 2: First since Kyle Lewis in 2019. The others were Kenji Jojima,
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  Speaker 2: Gray Dobbs, Alvin Davis, Jamie Nelson, first guy with two
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  Speaker 2: hits in a Major League debut for the Mariners since
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  Speaker 2: Ichiro Suzuki in 2001. Wow, what a stellar comparison.
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  Speaker 3: Here, let's listen in.
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  Speaker 4: Another one, two. Fly ball.
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  Speaker 5: Corked out to center field. It's flying away.
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  Speaker 3: It's a home run.
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  Speaker 5: Light tower power inside Fenway Park. Lázaro Montes with an
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  Speaker 5: absolute missile. Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 2: That's Aaron Goltz with the Cozum Mariners TV, who realized
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  Speaker 2: as the ball was in flight, it was going out
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  Speaker 2: instead of off the bat.
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  Speaker 6: It is very difficult to recognize whether or not.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to go out.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I've been in the press box in Fenway Park
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  Speaker 2: and many times covering from the A's, and it is
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  Speaker 2: hard to see balls to hit in flight there with
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  Speaker 2: the angle, even in the broadcast booth straight behind. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not trying to knock Aaron Goldsmith, but you could hear
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  Speaker 2: him hit the realization mid-call. Oh, this is going to
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  Speaker 2: be a home run.
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  Speaker 3: That's real.
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  Speaker 6: And I love that when announcers are living it like
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  Speaker 6: we are.
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  Speaker 2: So the Mariners win. They were up 9-1. They win 9-6.
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  Speaker 2: Made up a game on the trash cans who lost,
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  Speaker 2: so the Mims are five back from the AL West lead,
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  Speaker 2: 23 games remaining. Today, the finale of the road trip
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  Speaker 2: at Fenway Park afternoon game. Bryce Miller starts for the
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  Speaker 2: M's trying to get right. They're facing a left-hander for Boston,
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  Speaker 2: so does that mean Montes takes a seat? Can you
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  Speaker 2: put the iPads away and just go with your gut
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  Speaker 2: and say, let's bring the kid back for another start, please,
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  Speaker 2: after he just revitalized the dugout in the clubhouse? Please,
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  Speaker 2: can we do that? Then after today, the team come
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  Speaker 2: home for four against the A's. Start right away, no
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  Speaker 2: day off. They play tomorrow night in the first game
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  Speaker 2: of a four-game series. The Seahawks had their second of
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  Speaker 2: three days off yesterday before they begin practicing for the
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  Speaker 2: opener next Wednesday, a week from tonight at Lumen Field.
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  Speaker 2: Fourth and fifth and final episode of Hard Knocks aired
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  Speaker 2: last night. We'll detail what I found to be very interesting,
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  Speaker 2: including from Nicky Manwari. Raiders and new coach Clint Kubiak
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  Speaker 2: have named their starting quarterback to begin the season. It
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  Speaker 2: is Kirk Cousins. Top rookie Fernando Mendoza is going to
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  Speaker 2: have to wait and watch.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's better for him, though.
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  Speaker 7: It is.
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  Speaker 2: It is. They should have done it. And everyone I
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  Speaker 2: talked to, my Raider friends, knew a long time ago
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  Speaker 2: it was going to be Cousins, and they just weren't
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  Speaker 2: announcing it. Tiger Woods today had his driver's license suspended
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  Speaker 2: five years after striking a plea deal in his DUI
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  Speaker 2: case in Florida this morning. Woods pleaded no contest to
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  Speaker 2: reduce charge of reckless driving, refusal to submit a lawful test.
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  Speaker 2: That was in Martin County Circuit Court in Florida. The
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  Speaker 2: plea agreement includes Woods paying $ 1, 500 in fines. He also
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  Speaker 2: was found guilty of careless driving. Just a moving violation.
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  Speaker 2: And former Husky star Quincy Pondexter, who I covered when
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  Speaker 2: I was at UW and really enjoyed him.
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  Speaker 3: I love Q.
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  Speaker 2: He had, of course, been assistant coach on Danny Sprinkle's
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  Speaker 2: staff of the UW men's basketball team. He's leaving UW.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to become the new head coach of the
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  Speaker 2: Windy City Bulls. Who are they? He's a G League
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  Speaker 2: team outside Chicago for the Chicago Bulls. Quincy Pondexter's the
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  Speaker 2: new head coach in the pro ranks. Now on for
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  Speaker 3: I'm a one-man band over here. No, you have people.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen your people. I met your people. You have people,
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  Speaker 2: for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Wait, which people?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And we can finally have a feel-good Mariner's Night to
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  Speaker 2: talk about. Seems like it's been forever. What's that from?
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  Speaker 9: Forever. Oh, come on.
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  Speaker 3: That's a sandlot. Everybody knows that.
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  Speaker 2: I hope so. Forever. You have to.
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  Speaker 6: Do like the very teeth in the bottom lip, you know,
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  Speaker 6: if you're going.
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  Speaker 3: To say it right.
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  Speaker 2: How can I have s'mores of something if I haven't
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  Speaker 2: had anything yet?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you're killing me, s'mores.
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  Speaker 2: S'more of what? S'more of what?
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  Speaker 10: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Finally, a feel-good Mariners story. We get to talk about
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  Speaker 2: Las Montes, all vibes last night. We'd also talk about
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  Speaker 2: the final episode of Hard Knocks, some interesting behind-the-scenes moments,
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  Speaker 2: including with Nicky Manwari and his head coach. At 1045,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to discuss a new weekly segment we're going
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  Speaker 2: to debut this Friday. Remember we talked about we're going
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  Speaker 2: to do high school football featuring of games and coaches
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  Speaker 2: and athletes and We're going to do that every Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Our High School Football Friday is going to start on
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  Speaker 2: this Friday, and we're going to feature a mammoth 4A
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  Speaker 2: matchup here in the state. We'll talk about that at 1045.
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  Speaker 2: 11 o'clock, 118th Apple Cup, you know, is Sunday. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to go to Spokane and go to the Washington
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  Speaker 2: State side of things after we talked to Dave Softy
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  Speaker 2: Muller yesterday, which really turned into a pie-throwing contest between
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  Speaker 2: the two sideline reporters, Jessamyn and For the Cougs and
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  Speaker 2: Dave Sefty.
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  Speaker 6: It's going to be a saloon showdown for sure. I
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  Speaker 6: don't know what weapon he'll have.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that slingshot maybe? Boomerang? Throw across the field and
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  Speaker 2: bring it back?
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  Speaker 6: A slingshot would make it a fair fight, to be honest.
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  Speaker 2: 54 plus yards across the field. Could you hit him
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  Speaker 2: with a slingshot 55 yards away?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it just has to be one of the new ones.
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  Speaker 6: The new slingshots they have these days, they're pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: So you've got nephews and nieces and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we do a Christmas fight every year. My family's weird.
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  Speaker 2: No, I think that's awesome. We're going to go to
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  Speaker 2: Spokane 11 o'clock. We're going to talk to Greg Woods,
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  Speaker 2: a friend of mine. We've had him on the show
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  Speaker 2: many times. He's the beat writer of the Cougs for
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  Speaker 2: the Spokesman Review. He's going to talk to us about
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  Speaker 2: the misconception. You know this better than I, Jessamyn. The
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  Speaker 2: misconception is the Cougs have to start over from ground
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  Speaker 2: zero every single season. But they've got some people coming back.
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  Speaker 2: They've got their leading rusher. They've got their leading receiver.
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  Speaker 2: They've got a couple offensive linemen. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 2: to Greg Woods about that. You have a new quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: and you get all the attention, Caden Pinnock.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm pretty curious about him.
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  Speaker 2: UC Davis transfer. We'll talk to Greg Woods at 11
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  Speaker 2: o'clock about what the Huskies are going to be facing
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday at the Apple Cup. 1 o'clock, of course,
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  Speaker 2: at Husky Stadium right here live. The pregame show begins
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  Speaker 2: at 9 a.m. Sunday right here on 93.3.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, those guys are psychos.
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  Speaker 2: What's wrong with them? Where will you be at 9 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: before a 1 p.m.
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  Speaker 6: Game?
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  Speaker 3: Well, honestly, I would be at the game. I would
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  Speaker 3: be in the stadium.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah. You're in that early?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, usually.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it depends on how far I have to travel,
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  Speaker 6: but I don't have to travel very far this game. But, no,
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  Speaker 6: I'll be there because we didn't have a spring game.
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  Speaker 6: Everyone knows that, and I want to be present. I
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  Speaker 6: want to be present.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be there. about two hours before the buses come in.
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  Speaker 2: Ah. Tessa McIntyre is the Washington State radio sideline broadcaster
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  Speaker 2: during games, and Dave Softy-Maller is the University of Washington's
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  Speaker 2: news sideline reporter, as Elise Woodward goes upstairs with Cam
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  Speaker 2: Cleveland on the call Sunday, 1 p.m. right here on
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  Speaker 2: 93.3 KJRFM, the 118th Apple Cup. 11.30, we'll read back
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  Speaker 2: your text, your talkbacks. We had a ton of talkbacks
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  Speaker 2: yesterday that made the missus happy. On the show.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Greg's missus on the air.
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  Speaker 2: My wife.
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  Speaker 3: Not murses. I'm your miss.
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  Speaker 5: Miss.
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  Speaker 2: Work wife. Miss. Yeah, miss. My wife corrects me all
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  Speaker 2: the time on that. Not missus. And she hates people
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  Speaker 2: to say Mrs.
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  Speaker 11: Bell.
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  Speaker 2: It's miss. She wants her own.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't change my name when I got married.
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  Speaker 2: You did not. And my wife was wrestling with that
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  Speaker 2: in her medical professional world. She was known as Savoy,
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  Speaker 2: her maiden name. Oh, that's a really good name. It's
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  Speaker 2: a very elegant, yes. And it's an Italian, Northern Italian name.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, we actually had many discussions about that.
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  Speaker 3: I think I got- Bell isn't a bad.
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  Speaker 8: Name, though.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, one syllable. I got the name and she
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  Speaker 2: got the vegetarian household and can't have meat in the house, so.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's how that works.
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  Speaker 3: That is quite the negotiation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we did talk about it. 49451, that's coming out
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  Speaker 2: of Texas. And the first question I have for you is,
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  Speaker 2: Laz Montes, is he the messiah, the savior, the season saver?
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  Speaker 2: Can he do it in 23 games? Can he inject
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  Speaker 2: the life that this lifeless team needs, wants, must have?
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  Speaker 2: Can he play every day? We're going to find out
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  Speaker 2: today if he's going to play against left-handers. He's a
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  Speaker 2: left-handed batter, of course. We'll find out if Laz Monte
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  Speaker 2: says there's enough time with 23 games left. This was
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  Speaker 2: him talking to Brad Adam on Mariners TV last night.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he was just effervescent. You could almost hear
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  Speaker 2: it through the radio last night on Mariners TV.
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  Speaker 8: Here with the man of the hour, of course, making
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  Speaker 8: his major league debut. Soak this all in, right? What
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  Speaker 8: has this been like for you and your family? A
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  Speaker 8: dream come true for you last night?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, actually, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 11: Everything, man.
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  Speaker 12: Like, this is better than that dream, man. This is
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  Speaker 12: better than that dream.
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  Speaker 2: Believe me.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, tell me about your night. An RBI single. And
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  Speaker 8: then you've got, of course, your first home run. A
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  Speaker 8: little hanging slider. Did you think it was gone off
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  Speaker 8: the bat?
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  Speaker 12: Man, I hit that ball and I just run. I
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  Speaker 12: knew that I hit it very, very good. But, you know,
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  Speaker 12: I run, run, and that was a special moment. time
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  Speaker 12: for me, special moment for me, man.
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  Speaker 9: You get the ball back.
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  Speaker 8: We talked to the fans who caught that ball, and
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  Speaker 8: then you almost knock over your third base coach, Carlos Cardoza.
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  Speaker 2: What was that like?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, I said, I said, hey, we need, hey, but
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  Speaker 12: before I said, like, when I hit a homer, we
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  Speaker 12: need to jump like a basketball. So right through that,
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  Speaker 12: it came into my mind and we did it. But
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  Speaker 12: I said, we need to practice that. I made sure
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  Speaker 12: that you jump better than that.
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  Speaker 9: He needs to jump better and you need to practice that.
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  Speaker 8: Then you come in, you get the trident, and you
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  Speaker 8: and Randy play a little guitar.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Now, was that improvised? Do you play guitar? Did you
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  Speaker 9: plan that?
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  Speaker 12: I say I buy a guitar, but I don't know
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  Speaker 12: how to play it, man.
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  Speaker 2: Neither does Randy.
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  Speaker 9: That's okay. And the Rock, Paper, Scissors, you won on that, too.
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  Speaker 11: I won it.
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  Speaker 8: 2-1.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I won it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Always positive, man.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, congratulations on the debut. This is fantastic. I'm so
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  Speaker 8: glad that your wife and son are here as well.
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  Speaker 8: And look forward to more home runs, more interviews, my friend.
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  Speaker 9: Let's do it.
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  Speaker 11: Let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm happy, yeah. Can we have more of that, please?
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  Speaker 3: Just the joy.
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  Speaker 10: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Just the joy.
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  Speaker 2: Of this entire soul-sucking season the Mariners have had. Can
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  Speaker 2: we have more of that?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, that's what September brings you, though.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. Because we get him.
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  Speaker 2: The September call-ups. The roster expanding by two. That's why
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  Speaker 2: Laz Montes was in the lineup last night as a
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  Speaker 2: designated hitter. I'm really curious to see this lineup today
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  Speaker 2: with the Red Sox throwing a lefty. A 1-10 start.
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  Speaker 2: Our time. I want to see him. Montes should be
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  Speaker 2: in it. Don't give me this lefty handedness, righty lefty. No, no,
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  Speaker 2: don't do it. But I bet they're going to. I
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  Speaker 2: bet they're going to do lefty righty rookie in the
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  Speaker 2: second game. Don't put him up against the lefty. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Come on. Throw away the iPads. Just trust your gut.
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  Speaker 11: Look at your eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Look what he did last night. Just get him out
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  Speaker 2: there again. If he goes 0 for 4, so what?
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  Speaker 6: Baseball has always been a joyous sport for me. It
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  Speaker 6: has always been something that just brings me joy, probably
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  Speaker 6: because I don't work in it regularly. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 6: it's a full-time job. I do go down and I
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  Speaker 6: do cover, but it's not my full-time. And I just
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  Speaker 6: take so much joy in the sport and to hear Laz...
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  Speaker 6: have so much joy and appreciation in the way he
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  Speaker 6: taught to Brad and Brad did a phenomenal job with that.
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  Speaker 2: And noticing every little anecdote of the scene and bringing
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  Speaker 2: it out of them. You're right. I will say one
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  Speaker 2: thing about Brad though. He kind of sold Monte short,
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  Speaker 2: calling it a hanging slider. That pitch was low and in,
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  Speaker 2: and he dropped his bat down to get it and
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  Speaker 2: to hit it as hard as he did for where
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  Speaker 2: that pitch was. That wasn't a hanging meatball. If you
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  Speaker 2: go back and look at that, tell me if I'm wrong,
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  Speaker 2: but that was not a grooved hanging slider. That was
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  Speaker 2: low and in, and he dropped his bat. And I
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  Speaker 2: was just stunned at how quickly the ball went out
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  Speaker 2: because of where it was pitched. That was... Yeah. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just nitpicking Brad. He's a great friend of mine. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I just want to say... His hair looked great. As always,
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  Speaker 2: of course. As always. But yeah, that was Montes. I
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  Speaker 2: told Chuck this morning... Man, why didn't they bring him
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  Speaker 2: up sooner? Just, I get it. You don't want to
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  Speaker 2: rush a guy. Cold Emerson, that whole thing has been
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  Speaker 2: a disaster. But, man, they could have had that energy
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  Speaker 2: the entire summer. Will you imagine what a superstar he'd
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  Speaker 2: be in Seattle right now?
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  Speaker 3: He already is. It only took one night.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine if he'd been doing this for three months.
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  Speaker 3: But would he? Would he be doing it for three months?
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  Speaker 2: Well, his personality would not change, I wouldn't think.
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  Speaker 6: I don't, but the pressure is real, and I think
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  Speaker 6: they take that into account.
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  Speaker 2: Stick him in right field, put Robles in center, and
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  Speaker 2: let Julio Rodriguez sit a little bit for the antics
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  Speaker 2: and the things he's done. That's what they should do.
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  Speaker 2: But they won't. But that's really what they should do.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit of accountability, a little bit of rewarding
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  Speaker 2: the here and now and who's performing and who's producing
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  Speaker 2: and who is just changing the vibe of of the season.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that road trip just U-turned last night. It
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  Speaker 2: didn't fix everything, but it, I mean, they still got
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  Speaker 2: a road to hoe here in the last 23 games,
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  Speaker 2: but they do, but at least there's something to look
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  Speaker 2: forward to. And then he's don't sit him today. Just don't,
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  Speaker 2: just don't sit him. I just, I know why they would.
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  Speaker 2: I know the left and you lefty lefty. You don't
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  Speaker 2: want to do that.
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  Speaker 3: We will keep an eye on the lineup.
• 14:57
  Speaker 10: 21 year old.
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: As soon as they come around.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: I got it.
• 15:02
  Speaker 11: I got it.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: Four, nine, four, five, one. If you're with me, more Montes, please.
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: I used to be more Ryan Bliss, please, which I
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: still think they could use him, too, speaking of energy
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: and a dimension they don't have. But I'll take Montes.
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: I'll take Montes on any day of the week. The
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: other thing that's interesting at play here, there are major
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: league prospects around. I heard Chuck talking about this yesterday.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: And because I have family still in Cleveland and there
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: used to be Indian slash Guardian season ticket holders and
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: still go to a ton of games, they know about
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: this kid. the top prospect in the guardian system that
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: they are not calling up because they don't want to
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: put him on the 40-man roster. Why? Because baseball is
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: convinced there's going to be a lockout to begin next season.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: And if you put somebody on the 40-man roster, he
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: wouldn't be able to play next year. If you keep
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: him off of the 40-man roster, he would be able
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: to play a minor league season if there's a lockout
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: of major league players. And if you put him on
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: the 40-man roster for this season and try to take
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: him off, he could be subject to waivers and somebody
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: claim him. So basically, They are keeping their top prospect
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: at the AAA level perhaps to play next year. So
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: his clock doesn't start in his contract, all that stuff. Meanwhile,
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: Cleveland's in a playoff race. They're holding a wild card
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: spot currently with an offense that has been really bad
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: all season. Not quite feast or famine Mariners bad, but
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: they've been bad on offense for a couple of years now.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: But that is a specter here. It doesn't seem to have,
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: obviously the Mariners didn't think that about Las Montes, but
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: Some people around Major League Baseball are making those choices
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: with prospects to not bring them up for the specter
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: of a lockout next year. It's just yet another piece
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: to baseball. And you know what? While I'm speaking of it,
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: it also makes it even more infuriating that the Mariners
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: aren't running away with the AL West and winning it
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: now and winning– getting to the World Series now. There
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: may not even be baseball next year and you're never
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: going to have a division this poor again. Win now
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: because there may not be a tomorrow. You might have
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: to wait a long time for tomorrow. The fact that
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: they're squandering this season in particular with a specter of
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: the strike or lockout of the labor impasse because owners
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: want to put a salary cap in a sport that
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: hasn't had one since the 1970s when it first to
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: have unfettered free agency. Thank you, Kurt Flood. But on
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: top of it, to squander the opportunity of such a
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: poor league and poor division and Yeah, I go back
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: to it. Let's just keep talking about Las Montes. That's
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: much more pleasant to talk about.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Okay, let's listen to this again because it was super fun.
• 17:27
  Speaker 8: Here with the man of the hour, of course, making
• 17:29
  Speaker 8: his major league debut. Soak this all in, right? What
• 17:34
  Speaker 8: has this been like for you and your family? A
• 17:38
  Speaker 8: dream come true for you last night?
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, actually, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 17:42
  Speaker 11: Everything, man.
• 17:43
  Speaker 12: Like, this is better than that dream, man. This is
• 17:47
  Speaker 12: better than that dream.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Believe me.
• 17:49
  Speaker 8: Okay, tell me about your night. An RBI single, and
• 17:52
  Speaker 8: then you've got, of course, your first.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Thank you. It's just so good. I got to say
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: something on the text line. I have to. I have to.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: I know we read back text at 1130. Are you? Yes,
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: I'm going to.
• 18:06
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Because this is just ignorant. The 206. The back and
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: forth banner is getting old. It's really forced.
• 18:15
  Speaker 10: Yikes.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: So formally at the beginning of the show here, it's
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: completely unnatural. Both of you. With Chris, it wasn't. Now
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: it is. Just saying. Hey, just saying. Jessamyn and I
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: have known each other for years. We have spent weekends.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Well before we've worked together.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Well before we've worked together. We've spent many weekends, many
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: pretty fun weekends on the East Coast at the Army-Navy
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: game in Washington, D.C. Before I even worked here, we
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: did that. In Philadelphia, in Boston, on the sidelines. We've
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: partied together. It ain't forced.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: With both of your children, actually.
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: And our spouses.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: It is not forced. And I'm sorry it comes off
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: that way. I didn't think it comes off that way.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: I didn't either. But maybe somebody just needs a little education.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: But just to let you know, just to let you know,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: I actually have a longer standing relationship both socially and
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: professionally with Jessamyn than I do with Chris. Than I
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: did with Chris and still do with Chris. But, no.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I'll take exception to that.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: I will cool my... heat a little bit if that's
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: i don't know what.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: It is you don't have to do you have to
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: change a thing it's you and i just talking and.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah the reason why everyone's gonna.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Have an opinion okay if you want to know how
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: the satchis is made the reason why we start the
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: show this way is because i want to keep the
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: beat the first segment open-ended so that we can discuss
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: whatever's on our minds and what are the reaction from
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: the previous day's events or what have you And then
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: I do, Jessamyn knows this, I pretty much script out
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: the rest of the show of here's the subjects I
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: want to cover verbatim. And here's how we're going to
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: do it. And I've rarely leave some wiggle room. But
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: the very first segment, I do have some, I want
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: to keep wiggle room for just this. So it's actually
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: the opposite of forced. I keep it open-ended so it
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: can be somewhat conversational. And anyway.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: And I like that. But maybe I'm just the idiot here.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: I should not be, I guess. shining light on maybe
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: a vocal minority of saying it, but I just wanted
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: to point out that they're, yeah, nevermind. I'm not going
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: to say any more about that, but that's the reason
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: we do what we do.
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: We have some people pushing back on that opinion. So
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: I'm just going to leave that.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: That's fine.
• 20:26
  Speaker 11: It's fine.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Pushing back on the negative.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: And 206 is trying to do his or her opinion.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: I will say, thank you for listening.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: I will also say that I make it a point
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: to try to involve Jess. Jessamyn, a lot of show
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: hosts here don't involve their producer. They just, they don't.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Producer produces and runs. I don't want that. I don't
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: want to sit in here for two hours by myself
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: and talk to myself. I do that in the shower.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: I don't need to do that two hours on a
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: radio program in the 12th largest market in the country.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: That was really pulling back the curtain. I'm just saying.
• 21:02
  Speaker 11: I don't need to talk to myself.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: What I would just say is thank you for listening.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Of course.
• 21:06
  Speaker 11: Thank you for listening.
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: We will not always be everyone's cup of tea. And
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: nothing is for us on this show.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: We are friends.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: And we ain't making you listen either. You can change
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: the channel. I don't care. But add date. Same reason
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: I play Return of the Bat. My show, my song.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: I just, for my daughter. But hey, the Hard Knocks
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: was last night and there were some things beyond the
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: entertainment value of it. There were some interesting little tidbits,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: including Nicky Manwari and Mike McDonald's office. We all saw
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Dino's Pub and we all knew John Schneider hangs out
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: there and he's got a stool and always a place there.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: But there are some other things beyond that. We're going
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: to talk about the Hard Knocks episode, what you thought
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: of it, what you thought about the whole series. 49451,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: we'll read that back at 1130. The 118th Apple Cup
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: will take the stage at 11 o'clock when we talk
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: to Greg Woods of the Spokesman Review. And we'll just
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: keep talking about Las Montes in between because, man, like
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: I said, the vibes changed last night with the rookie
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: coming up. We'll keep an eye on whether he's in
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: the lineup today when the Mariners play the Red Sox
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: in the finale of the road trip. All that's coming up.
• 22:06
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• 22:09
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• 22:10
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• 22:12
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• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Greg Bell, Justin McIntyre with you on 93.3 KJR FM
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: here from Seattle and in Boston. Can we just put
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: away the iPads and the handedness? They finally have vibes.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: They finally have a dude who's injecting some positivity and
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: some fun into this season. And they put Laz Montes
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: on the bench because he's left-handed and they're facing a
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: left-handed pitcher for the Red Sox. Even if he went 0-4,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: so what? The whole lineup's going to go 0-4. Put
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: him in the lineup. It's just ridiculous. They cannot help themselves.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: This hand in this iPad analytics-driven decision-making is just maddening.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Trust your eyes. What you saw last night, the feelings
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: you saw, the feelings you had in the dugout, air
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: guitaring with– how many times did you see Randy or
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Rose Arena have that much fun in the.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: Middle of the game? I mean, that was good vibes.
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: It was.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: It was Suarez-like. And now you're going to say, okay, kids,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: thanks for last night. Sit the bench and watch today.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: While the rest of the lineup goes 0 for 4
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: like you might have. So what? It just– man. At
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: this point, you reap what you sow. You're going to
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: miss the playoffs because you do stuff like this.
• 24:07
  Speaker 11: It just– yeah.
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Let's go back to the team I covered, the Seahawks.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Wait, you cover all the teams.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: I haven't been in the Mariners clubhouse in a month
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: or so because the Mariners, a couple months actually because
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: of the Seahawks season beginning. Neil Kozla, by the way,
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: the son of the triumvirate new ownership of the Kozla family,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: a father and mother both in their 70s and the
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: son in their late 30s. The son, just like his father,
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: took to social media this morning saying one week until
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks play football. They are out front on this
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: social media stuff. Vinod Khosla just responds to everything.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: It's so different than the Allen regime.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: It's just so transparent.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 24:52
  Speaker 13: Yes.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: It is so different than the Allens who just stayed
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: in the back. Now, I saw Paul Allen quite a
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: bit in the locker rooms, on road trips, in the stadium.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: But I, and at times at the facility, Jody Allen,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: much less so. She was much less of a, she
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: was in behind the scenes. I only saw her at
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: practices once a season, maybe during training camp once a year.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: And that's about it. She was involved, but she was
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: not front facing at all.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I also appreciate that.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah. You know, like when when people are open and
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: out and very recognizable as the face of a franchise,
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: that's one thing.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: And you appreciate that.
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: However, I appreciated them putting people in the right position
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: to do their jobs.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: And staying out of it.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: And trust the football people to do football stuff. And
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: it obviously has worked wonders winning the first two Super
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Bowls ever. Well, last night, the fifth and final episode
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: of the Hard Knocks, they did cover the Kozler family's vote.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: They had a crew and camera crew in Atlanta for
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: the vote. And Kozler's, Vinod Kozler's first comments publicly after
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: the approval. The sale is still not official-ficial. They have
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: to have the, as we've been talking about, the lawyers
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: and the bankers involved. process the $ 9. 6 billion transaction. Once
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: that goes through the banking and the lawyers vetting, then
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: they become official. And then we're expecting to have a
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: press conference at Lumen Field, perhaps next week after the
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Labor Day holiday, perhaps even the day of the game,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: the opener of the NFL kickoff game a week from
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: tonight against New England. Last night, Dino's Pub got a
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: lot of national... Those of us around here, and especially
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: those of us who cover the Seahawks, know all about
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Dino's Pub.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: I've spent a year or two in there one night.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And it is an extension of Seahawks headquarters. A
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: lot of business gets done there, including hiring the offensive coordinator,
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Ryan Grubb, a couple seasons ago. A couple winters ago.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: That got a little public.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Remember that? Fans were just taking videos and pictures of
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Grubb there with John Schneider. And yes, of course, and
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald, but So that was one thing that caught
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: everybody's attention. Mike McDonald has become a national star in
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: this month of Hard Knocks episode. Chuck was asking me
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: this morning, wow, his leadership. And I had to chuckle
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: because I see it every day and I try to,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: I don't do a good job enough, I guess, of
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: portraying and writing about it. But all the things we
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: watched on Hard Knocks, I've seen. Now, I'm not in
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: his office. He doesn't let me in there. But the
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: leadership principles, the empathy, the vulnerability piece, we have talked
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: about that. None of it is a surprise to me,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: but now everyone's seeing it and go, wow, this Mike McDonald,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: that's how he's been for three years. And I've seen it.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: We've seen it. Those of us that are out there
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: every day and is what has set the culture for
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks for sure. I thought also it was interesting.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: I know if you caught this, Jessamyn, if you saw
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: the episode or those of you listening caught this. Trevon Diggs,
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: his position coach now, Carl Scott, was his position coach
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: at Alabama and And there's a scene in last night's
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: episode that Carl Scott is in the meeting defensive backs
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: room showing Diggs his practice footage from Alabama. Did you
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: notice that?
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: I did, but I didn't really watch it back and
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: really break it down.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: That was a position defensive backs turn and catch the
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: ball at its highest point drill from Alabama. They were
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: wearing crimson shirts. The Seahawks don't do that. Cowboys don't
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: do that where Diggs played before. The Packers don't do
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: that where Diggs played before. Those are his college practice
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: films that Scott was showing him as a confidence builder
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: and making him comfortable here in Seattle and making him say, hey,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: remember this? This is when you first started. This is
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: how you became an All-Pro with the Cowboys in 2021.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: That's interesting. It was a really interesting way to get
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: him to be comfortable and say, remember this, and get
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: him in a frame of mind of when he was
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: at his best. He hasn't played an entire NFL season
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: since 2022 because of a myriad injuries. But Carl Scott
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: was reminding him, hey, this is how you– I've seen this.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: I've coached this. I was here. I watched this. This
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: was the start of it. Really, I thought a creative
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: way to get Diggs, one, to buy into the culture
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: and the setting here and to be comfortable. But two,
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: you know that Carl Scott and the coaching staff realized
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: they were probably going to cut Diggs last week. And
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: they wanted him to come back. So that was part
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: of a sell job. I'm being a little bit cynical here,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: but there's no doubt.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: That they're always doing three jobs at once.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Exactly. They're always coaching today, tomorrow, and the next day.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: And they knew that they had to put a sell
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: job on Diggs. They got him into the game Friday,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: started him, interception, took him out as soon as it
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: was interception, let him hang with the bros and the
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: veteran starters to feel like one of the guys. That
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: was intentional. Leonard Williams and Ernest Jones running down the sideline.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Dante Fowler. It was an awesome place. They always do anyway. Well,
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: the ball was thrown right to him. But anyway.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: But he was in the right spot.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, he was. He undercut the receiver. But the veterans
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: running down the sidelines with him, very, very intentional. And
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: I asked Diggs about it after the game, and he said, absolutely,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: I noticed that. It made me feel at home. It
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: made me feel like one of the guys, exactly what
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: they intended. Carl Scott doing that film session from Alabama
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: with him. It was like nostalgia for Diggs. I'm sure
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: he appreciated that. And it reestablished a connection with Carl Scott.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: And so when it came time to say, hey, here's
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: what we're going to do. And you saw the scene
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: last night. The McDonald's said, are you cool with what
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: we're going to do? You know the plan we're going
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: to do, right? We're going to cut you. It's probably
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: going to make national news that we're cutting you because
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: now you're an unrestricted free agent. But please come back
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: and do this practice squad plan because we're just going
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: to use the practice squad to ramp you up without
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: having to use a roster spot. And that's what they did.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: And they spent the entire week, including in that Carl
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Scott scene with the Alabama film, greasing the skids to
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: make that move so he would be amenable to doing it.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: And he was. Unlike Cody White, who signed instead with
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Clint Kubiak's practice squad of the Raiders. What was interesting
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: last night, the 70, right? And we talk about this
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: all the time. The Seahawks call it a 70, the
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: 17-man practice squad on top of the 53. And there
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: will be NFL teams and executives watching that and say,
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: maybe we should have changed how we approach cut day.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: That sounds pretty inclusive the way they did it. But
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: having said, and of course, Hard Knocks went hard on
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: that and they should have. But that was also selective
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: editing because remember, there were 91 players in the training camp, right?
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: And they only kept 70, all of which 17 on
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: the practice squad, all were on the training camp roster.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: But that means 21 dudes didn't get that treatment. And
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: 21 dudes that were in training camp watched that episode
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: last night going, I didn't have that experience. I didn't
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: have that 70.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: But we don't know.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: I got pink slipped. They said, you're done. And they
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: didn't invite me back.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: I mean, we don't know what treatment they had, though.
• 31:41
  Speaker 11: No.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: And they always say hard knocks.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: You know, they get the splashy things.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: And they always tell the players, hey, we'd love to
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: have you back. We hope it works out. Yeah.
• 31:51
  Speaker 9: Sure.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: But Nick Vanette's gone. They didn't invite him back.
• 31:55
  Speaker 13: To the roster.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: That was a little bit of a bummer.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Jordan Washington, Amari Kite, Rashad Rochelle, those guys didn't get
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: to practice quite. So they had a completely different experience.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: My point is, yeah, the Seahawks have a new way
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: of calling it 70 and maybe it's innovative and– But
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: it comes down to brass tacks. There's still cutting to
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: be done, and it's still ruthless, and it's still a
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: cold business. Hard Knocks just didn't show that.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: 90 to 70.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: Well, technically 53, but then 70. Right.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And people have to clear waivers.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Well, while they talk to guys about, hey, we're going
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: to bring you back, and Ricky White, we're going to
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: have you come back. You've got to be like Jake
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Bobo for us. You've got to do more than just catch.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: It was interesting when McDonald said, we're paying guys $ 44
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: million to catch the ball. We need you to do
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: everything else. We need you to block on the edge.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: We need you to play special team. We need you
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: to be what Jake Bobo has been for us.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: I was just going to say Bobo was a.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Pretty good blocker. McDonald said that verbatim to Ricky White.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: And the point to White was don't just focus on
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: being a wide receiver. We're paying guys $ 44 million a
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: year to do that. And Jackson Smith and Jigba. And
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: Cooper Cupp and Rasheed Shahid. But my point is there
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: were 21 other dudes who didn't have that experience and
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: had a more cutthroat, pink slip, you're gone experience.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: I mean, the league is brutal.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Of course it is.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: But while we would like to think that the Seahawks
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: do things differently and innovatively in a very compassionate way
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: in the 70s and all that, and that's true, let's
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: not forget it. I'm just saying, there's 21 other dudes
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: who don't feel that way at all, and it's still
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: very a cold business to them because they're no longer
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: Seahawks and they were not invited back.
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but then you can go to a 24-hour fitness
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: and find a high school quarterback to throw to you.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: That's exactly what Montori Foster did. And this last night
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: was his phone call, the first phone call he made
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: when he found out he made the team.
• 33:41
  Speaker 10: I was about to say, you're not going to answer
• 33:44
  Speaker 10: my phone, bro?
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: My phone call?
• 33:46
  Speaker 9: That's crazy.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: This is crazy, man. I can't believe.
• 33:53
  Speaker 11: I'm crying right now.
• 33:55
  Speaker 9: Oh, my goodness.
• 33:57
  Speaker 10: It really didn't hit me yet. I'm still kind of
• 33:59
  Speaker 10: feeling like I'm dreaming. I'm like, y'all know the whole journey.
• 34:03
  Speaker 10: Everything just going undrafted and just having that night.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Like, that was the worst night of my life.
• 34:09
  Speaker 10: But I just kept working and, shoot, now we here.
• 34:11
  Speaker 10: And we just on the come up for real. So,
• 34:13
  Speaker 10: just got to keep going. Yeah, then dad.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Dad just so delusional, man.
• 34:18
  Speaker 11: He.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: He helped me so much.
• 34:20
  Speaker 10: Like him just talking to me all the time and
• 34:23
  Speaker 10: just keeping my spirits up. I feel like that I
• 34:27
  Speaker 10: appreciate you for everything for real. Like you really like
• 34:32
  Speaker 10: helped me so much just to stay in it for
• 34:34
  Speaker 10: real and to keep grinding. Like all the work is
• 34:39
  Speaker 10: like paying off. I'm trying not to cry. Like now
• 34:41
  Speaker 10: it's hitting me a little bit, but.
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: That's fine. It's joy to you. It's joy.
• 34:44
  Speaker 14: Yes.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Man, that's crazy. I did it. I did it. Montori
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Foster Jr. calling back home to Cleveland to his mom
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: and dad, sitting on the dock of the bay so much.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: He was right next to Lake Washington on the dock
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: that's right outside the Seahawks facility.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: Which we got to be at.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: On Sunday, right after he found out he had made
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: the team. And yes, I see the text line. Diggs
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: did say he was not quite ready. But it wasn't
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: so much the shape, in football shape, that he didn't
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: think he was ready. McDonald asked him, point blank, how
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: much time do you think you need to spin up
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: on the playbook and what we do? And he said
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: a couple weeks. And that's another reason why they're going
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: to put him on the practice squad. So he may
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: not play in the opener. He may, depending on how
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: he progresses in the practices over the next six days.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: But this is a longer-term deal than just right now,
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: which is why they stashed him on the practice squad.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: The other interesting thing I thought from last night was
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Nick Emanuari's scene in Mike McDonald's office. Emanuari says– It's
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: been really hard. I can't do back-to-back days. Those are hard.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Meaning that he's sore and pushing through with his arthroscopic
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: ankle surgery recovery. That back-to-back days really are hard for him.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: That was last week. And McDonald, you can hear him
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: telling him, it's okay. You're on your own timeline. Don't
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: worry about what everybody else says, whether you can start
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: in the open or not. Just do your own timeline.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: And he said, it's good to be sore. And so
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: all that is to say that, as I've been saying,
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: it's not a sure thing. It's not even a semi-sure
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: thing even where he plays in week one. And McDonald
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: doesn't want to put pressure on him. And that's why
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: the very first day of training camp when I asked
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: McDonald to expect him to be there for the opener,
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: he didn't want any part of putting a timeline or
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: estimation on him. He said, I don't know. And he's
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: still there. He doesn't want publicly there to be any
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: kind of expectation. So I would temper that.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: And there shouldn't.
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: There shouldn't be. You know, like I'm speaking for the athlete.
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: I'm more of an advocate than a reporter.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Well, there is a question, though, Jessamyn, of why he
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: didn't have the surgery earlier. They thought that his ankle
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: was healing to the point he would be ready for
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: the opening, and he participated fully in all the spring
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: practices and the off-season practices. Then he had the surgery
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: in July. There is that question, which remains unanswered as
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: to why he didn't have it earlier.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: And that's fair. That's fair.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: I think so. And they just thought he was further
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: along in recovering when he was practicing. in the May
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: and June off-season practices. So lots from yesterday. It is
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: interesting to see the behind the scenes, especially the discussions
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: the coaches have with the players in the meeting rooms,
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: which we're not privy to. If you haven't seen the
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Hard Knocks episode, I just revealed a lot of it.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: Spoiler alert, Greg.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: But it'll re-air. It's on HBO Max streaming. It's on
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: HBO replaying. It was the last episode. Now next year,
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: they go to New England and be the Patriots for
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: the training camp. Patriots, of course, coming in here Wednesday night.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: The NFL kickoff game, 5 o'clock, a little after 5 o'clock,
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: 5.15 on Wednesday night, Seahawks and Patriots. Before that is
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: the Apple Cup, the 118th Apple Cup. At 11 o'clock,
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: we're going to talk to Greg Woods, the spokesman in view.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Up next, high school football begins in our state tomorrow.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: I'm officiating a game tomorrow, Ballard and Lincoln.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: How many jobs do you have again?
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: This is like a labor of love. I love this.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: And then Friday night is a mammoth game. We're going
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: to talk about our first game of the week, our
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: new segment, High School Football Friday, and what we're going
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: to have for you on Friday. We'll talk about that
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: next on 93.3 KJR FM. Hi, welcome back. Happy Wednesday
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: to you. Thanks for listening. Greg Bell, Justin McIntyre with you.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: We're on every weekday, 10 a.m. to noon here on
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: 93.3 KJRFM. Thanks for the text on the text line.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: I do high school football officiating, 360, asking what positions
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: I do. Actually, 360, Olympia perhaps. I started 30-some years
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: ago in Olympia when I was a second lieutenant at
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Fort Lewis. That's where I first started officiating.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: In the Olympia officiating group. Yeah, I did some eight-man football,
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: then a Napa Vine. That was a trip. Eight on
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: eight on a full field. That was wild.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: It's amazing what we did back.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: In the day.
• 38:53
  Speaker 11: It is.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: It was cool. And then I went to California and
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: I did it for about 10 years when I lived
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: down there. I did the Oakland City League. And that
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: was wild. I don't have time to tell the story now,
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: but there was once a helicopter landed on a field
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: during an OAL game, Oakland Athletic League. A police helicopter
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: landed on the field to break up a fight between
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: players and coaches. A police helicopter? It was wild. This
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: is how the OAL rolls. all day games because they
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: don't want to have crime at night. So they have
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: day games and a police helicopter land on the field
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: in the white hat. Referee looked at me and said, Greg,
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: we're done. We all five of us walked off the field.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: It was, uh, McClymonds against Skyline High School up at
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Skyline helicopter. I refereed Marshawn Lynch's games, Dennis Dixon.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: Wait, what part of Cali?
• 39:39
  Speaker 11: Oakland.
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: I lived in Oakland and I lived in the Oakland city.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: I was once the, I was often the only white official.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: I was the only white person on the, entire scene
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: of the game. It can't be anything. I'd had players. Oh,
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: I have some good stories about that. It was a blast.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: And then when I came back here, I didn't do it.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: My kids were young and my wife's like, no, hell no.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: You're not going to go Friday and Saturday and Thursday nights.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: And I'm a two little baby. Same reason I don't
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: golf anymore. We have twins at home. I'm not going
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: to leave her five hours to by herself with two
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: twins after she's working full time all week. So I
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: didn't do officiating until just last year when I wanted
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: to get my son, our son, Eric into it. And
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: he's great. He's, And he runs, he outruns the players.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: He beats him to the goal line. He takes pride
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: in doing that, but he loved it. And we did
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: it last year. So he loves it. And so we can't,
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: I came back last year to do it. And now
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: this is my second season with the PNF away, the
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: Pacific Northwest football association. And, uh, yeah, I do back to,
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: I did white hat a lot in Oakland, but, um,
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: and I do back judge. I'll do wings this weekend,
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: but I do enjoy back judge quite a bit. So
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: thanks for asking, anyone with 360. Okay, so speaking of
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: high school football, tomorrow, beginning tomorrow, every Friday during the
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: football season, we're going to feature a high school football
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: game of the week, and the coaches.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: Are in it.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: We're going to have them on the air talking about
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: the game, their teams, and what they do. And tomorrow,
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: we got a good one. Man, talk about a great opener.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: A 4A showdown. Number three, Graham Kapowson at number four,
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: Lake Stevens. Lake Stevens knocked Graham Kapowsin out of the
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: 4A state playoffs last year. Well, the rematch is week one.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: How about that? Jeff Logan, the head coach of Graham
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: Kapowsin High School, is going to be on with us
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: tomorrow to preview that game and talk about Graham Kapowsin
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: High School. They've got a quarterback who's a junior who's
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: been on varsity for three years. It's going to be fun,
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: and we're enjoying it. We're semi-partnering with King 5, who
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: streams live stream games a week onto their king5. com.
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: They're really good at high school football, yes.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: And Chris.
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: And high school sports in general.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: I called Chris this week and said, what's your game
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: of the week? And he told me GK against Lake Stevens.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: And okay, let's call up the coaches. And we're trying
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: to get Lake Stevens as coach as well. He's also
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: a teacher. So the schedule is working against us a
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: little bit there, but Jeff Logan, Graham Capustin high school
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: is confirmed. He'll be on the show tomorrow. We're going
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: to do that every week. I've got games lined up.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: If you're interested, give us a shout of coach. You'd
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: like us to highlight a, game each week that you
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: think is worthy of game of the week consideration throw
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: it on the text line 49451 but that'll start tomorrow
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: and i just think it's cool to highlight maybe people
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: that aren't on television or not quite yet at the
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: level that we usually talk about here on kgr but
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: man do they do a lot of work and i
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: can tell you from coaching high school baseball you don't
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: get paid and you job description does not fit the
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: time you put in to coaching youth sports No.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: It does not.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: It is so extensive.
• 42:33
  Speaker 6: I was a junior high volleyball coach after I graduated college,
• 42:37
  Speaker 6: and I loved every second of it.
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: I went to all their graduations.
• 42:42
  Speaker 13: That's a lot of work.
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: It is, but I loved it.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: I loved it.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: It's the same reason I still officiate. I love it.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: It is a labor of love. We don't get paid
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: a ton. And raising people coach, same reason. So we
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: want to salute and give exposure and some voice to
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: those who serve our youth. in coaching because it ain't easy.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: And they do it because they love it. And we're
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: going to have Jeff Logan on tomorrow to talk about
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: Grand Cup housing against Lake Stevens. That'll be on the
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: show tomorrow. The Apple Cup will be on KJR on Sunday.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: The Washington State perspective of it, the coverage is not
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: quite as bare as it's been portrayed in Pullman. Greg
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: Woods of the Spokesman Review is going to talk to
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: us next about the Washington State side of the 118th
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: Apple Cup fair Sunday on 93.3 KJR FM.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star Runnels Sports Desk, your 93.3 KKRFM
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: Sports Headlines.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: Good morning. Headlines are brought to you by Frostbrew. Of course,
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: I choose chill. The Mariners have a game today, the
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: afternoon game at Fenway Park to end their road trip.
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: Laz Montes is not in the lineup because the Red
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: Sox have thrown a left-handed pitcher and he's a left-handed batter.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: We already went off on that. Last night, the 21-year-old
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: became the youngest Mariner to debut with a home run.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: First youngest to hit a home run in his Major
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: League debut. 21 years, 314 days, almost two years younger
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: than Alvin Davis. Gave the Mariners a 9-1 lead with
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: a shot to center field. Dead center at Fenway Park,
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: about 407 feet. It's a big poke. Laz Montes, two hits,
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: two RBIs, two runs scored. First Mariner to debut, Major
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: League debut with two hits since Ichiro Suzuki in 2001. So, yeah,
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: go sit down today because they're throwing a left-hander. Mariners
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: made up a game on the trash cans last night
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: in that 9-6 win over the Red Sox. They're five
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: games back in the AL West, 23 games remain. Today,
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: the finale, as I said, in the road trip at
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: Fenway Park. And then they fly across the country and
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: go straight in tomorrow night at the yard. against the
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: A's in a four-game series. No off day between that
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: series and the next one. We'll see what they can
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: do against the A's and then the Trash Can, or
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: just Rangers next week here in Seattle. Seahawks had their
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: second of three days off before they get in practice next,
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: the opener next weekend, excuse me, next Wednesday, that W word,
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: against New England. Fourth and final, fifth and final episode
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: of Hard Knocks aired last night. We talked about that
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: in length. If you missed it, you can go to
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app or 933KJR.
• 45:22
  Speaker 8: Com.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: The Raiders have this morning announced their starting quarterback to
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: begin the season, and it is Kirk Cousins. Not the
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: rookie Fernando Mendoza. He's going to sit and watch. Tiger
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: Woods had his driver's license suspended five years this morning
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: after striking a plea deal in Florida in his DUI
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: case there. Pleaded no contest to reduce charge of reckless driving,
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: refusal to submit to a lawful test. Martin County Circuit
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: Court in Florida also gave him a fine of $ 1, 500.
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: Found him guilty of careless driving and moving violation. Tiger Woods.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: And former Washington Huskies basketball star Quincy Pondexter is leaving
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: coach Danny Sprinkle's Husky coaching staff. He's going to become
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: the new head coach of the Windy City Bulls of
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: the G League. That's the Chicago Bulls G League team
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: in the Chicago suburbs. Good up for Quincy Pondexter. Starting
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: his career as.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: A head coach. Let's go.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: That's cool. Staying in college, we got the 180th Apple Cup.
• 46:20
  Speaker 13: Aha.
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: I recognize that song. I thought for sure we were
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: going to get the Cougs fight song here. You know what?
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: I have to be a professional sometimes.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: We are in the home of the Huskies. And the
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: home of the Huskies welcoming now from the Spokesman Review,
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: Greg Woods is the beat writer for the Washington State Cougars.
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: On the east side, he joins us on the Beacon
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: Plumbing Hotline. Greg, it's been a while since we talked
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: to you. I talked to you. How are you doing?
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us.
• 46:46
  Speaker 11: Yeah, of course, man. How are you doing?
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, thank you. It's been a couple years now,
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: but are you still, it's just odd to have the
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: Apple Cup in September, especially week one. What's the vibe
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: over there? Is there a big game feel at all
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: to this?
• 47:00
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, it was definitely weird to be on
• 47:02
  Speaker 13: the last day of August and saying, oh, it's Apple
• 47:04
  Speaker 13: Cup week. But that's kind of where things are. No,
• 47:08
  Speaker 13: I think there's still kind of a big game feel.
• 47:10
  Speaker 13: I mean, I think as the portal kind of brings
• 47:14
  Speaker 13: in players from all over the country to different teams now,
• 47:16
  Speaker 13: I think there's like, it's less, what's the word I'm
• 47:19
  Speaker 13: looking for? Like more saturated, or I guess like less
• 47:23
  Speaker 13: saturated is what I'm trying to say, but For these guys,
• 47:25
  Speaker 13: there's still plenty of guys on this year's team that
• 47:27
  Speaker 13: are from Washington that have played in the game in
• 47:30
  Speaker 13: 24 or 25. So I think there's enough of those
• 47:33
  Speaker 13: guys for them to give something of a feel. And
• 47:35
  Speaker 13: then I saw– I think one of the UW linebackers
• 47:38
  Speaker 13: said something about, oh, we just hate these guys.
• 47:40
  Speaker 11: So no love lost still.
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: Well, no love lost between the sideline reporters on our station. Hey, Greg.
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: We have to kill Softie.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: Kill? Oh, wait.
• 47:54
  Speaker 6: No, I mean kill his character.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: He's now the sideline reporter, Greg, for the Husky broadcast,
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: now that Elyse Woodward's moving upstairs to play by play.
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: So Jessamine and Softie are going to be on opposite
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: sidelines in the same role.
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: We use our words to demoralize.
• 48:10
  Speaker 6: Him is all I'm asking for.
• 48:14
  Speaker 11: That's what you're on the radio for, I guess.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: Greg, you brought up a good point about how there
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: are still players on both sides who have played in
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: this game before or are from Washington State. The perception is,
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: especially on this side of the mountains, is that it's
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: Berrift and Pullman and everybody left, and they're starting completely
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: over with a new coach, a new regime, a general manager,
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: and a brand-new roster. But you've got Kirby Voorhees, your
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: leading rusher from Latin, Tony Freeman, the top receiver. You've
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: got a couple of starting offensive linemen. You've got Matthias
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: McClain and Keith Brown on defense. It's not a completely
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: bare cupboard, is it?
• 48:48
  Speaker 13: No, I mean, I think that was much more the
• 48:49
  Speaker 13: case last year than it was this year. I mean,
• 48:52
  Speaker 13: they had, what, like 75 new players this year? I'm sorry,
• 48:55
  Speaker 13: last year. And then this year, it's more like 30
• 48:57
  Speaker 13: or 32, I want to say. So plenty of talent
• 49:00
  Speaker 13: that's from Washington that kind of understands the value of
• 49:04
  Speaker 13: this game. I mean, even guys that didn't really play
• 49:06
  Speaker 13: last year are still back this year. I mean, Isaiah
• 49:08
  Speaker 13: Hung is fantastic. Uh, a back to blind back up
• 49:11
  Speaker 13: for them. I'm trying to think, uh, layup moving velocity
• 49:13
  Speaker 13: is from Lakewood. He's he's a running back. So plenty
• 49:16
  Speaker 13: of guys that still kind of, that are either from
• 49:18
  Speaker 13: Washington or have been here long enough, even for just
• 49:20
  Speaker 13: a year, to understand kind of what this game means
• 49:23
  Speaker 13: to the state and everybody around it.
• 49:25
  Speaker 11: So that's good.
• 49:26
  Speaker 13: I mean, I think that was like, if there was
• 49:28
  Speaker 13: ever a year where it was like kind of getting
• 49:29
  Speaker 13: lost on people, maybe it was last year. But I
• 49:32
  Speaker 13: think because of the guys that they had returning and
• 49:35
  Speaker 13: guys from the state that they have this year, I
• 49:37
  Speaker 13: think it's still, you know, Still plenty of the case
• 49:42
  Speaker 13: this year.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: Okay, so tell us about Kirby Moore. Prosser, homegrown, 36
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: years old, first-time head coach. Jessamyn is swooning in the
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: producer's booth.
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: I love him as a coach. He came to the Idaho–
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: He came to the Boise State Bowl, the potato.
• 50:00
  Speaker 11: Bowl, right?
• 50:01
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 50:01
  Speaker 11: The famous potato bowl.
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: The famous potato bowl.
• 50:05
  Speaker 6: But he came there and he just wooed everyone around him.
• 50:09
  Speaker 6: And I think he's going to be amazing, especially because
• 50:12
  Speaker 6: he didn't come from a head coaching position. He didn't
• 50:15
  Speaker 6: abandon a team because he came from Missouri and he
• 50:19
  Speaker 6: was a coordinator and And now he's, I just feel
• 50:23
  Speaker 6: like it's a lot better when a coach doesn't abandon
• 50:26
  Speaker 6: a team as the head coach where he just moves up.
• 50:30
  Speaker 6: And Washington State has not necessarily been looked at a
• 50:34
  Speaker 6: moving up position. And now it is because of him.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: And he's come home.
• 50:40
  Speaker 6: Well, yes.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: Although he played at Boise State, he's from Prosser, former
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: 2A state player of the year at Prosser High School.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: What have you noticed, Greg, about Kirby Moore? How he
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: runs practices, how he runs the team, the leadership, anything
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: that stands out about Kirby Moore that's caught your eye?
• 50:57
  Speaker 13: I mean, I think he's definitely more excited to be
• 51:00
  Speaker 13: in front of media settings than his predecessor.
• 51:02
  Speaker 11: That's for sure. So that, that, that stands out right away.
• 51:07
  Speaker 13: I think in practice, it's like pretty up-tempo both in
• 51:11
  Speaker 13: terms of the actual plays of the running and just
• 51:13
  Speaker 13: the overall pace of the practice. So that's been pretty
• 51:15
  Speaker 13: interesting to watch unfold. He always emphasizes like doing things together.
• 51:19
  Speaker 13: Like I think in his like Monday press conference on Monday,
• 51:22
  Speaker 13: he must've mentioned the word together. Like, it felt like
• 51:25
  Speaker 13: a dozen times it probably wasn't that much but it
• 51:27
  Speaker 13: felt like it so uh well i know i think
• 51:32
  Speaker 13: the thing he says the most is is right i
• 51:35
  Speaker 13: kill n sentences saying like.
• 51:36
  Speaker 11: You know we all get together right you gotta do.
• 51:38
  Speaker 13: This right so i think that's like the thing that
• 51:39
  Speaker 13: he says where everybody's has a little word they say
• 51:42
  Speaker 13: um in sentences so um no he's he's really fun
• 51:46
  Speaker 13: to be around he's not super talkative at least not
• 51:49
  Speaker 13: like in front of a camera like I think he
• 51:51
  Speaker 13: just is pretty succinct, and I think he'll get more
• 51:54
  Speaker 13: comfortable with that as time goes on. I think you
• 51:57
  Speaker 13: can see a little bit. Sometimes we'll ask him something silly,
• 51:59
  Speaker 13: and he'll laugh a little bit, but then he'll get
• 52:04
  Speaker 13: back on topic pretty quickly. So I think there's probably
• 52:07
  Speaker 13: part of him that's still kind of getting used to
• 52:09
  Speaker 13: that being kind of a front-facing figure in front of
• 52:12
  Speaker 13: cameras like that. But like you said, he's 36, the
• 52:15
  Speaker 13: first time being a head coach, so all that will
• 52:19
  Speaker 13: come in time.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: This is the voice of Greg Woods. He's the spokesman
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: and review beat writer for the Washington State Cougars. Joining
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: us on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline a couple days before
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: the 118th Apple Cup on Sunday, 1 p.m. at Husky Stadium,
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: live here on 93.3 KJR FM with the Husky Honks
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: pregame show at 9 a.m. And we're getting the Cougs
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: perspective from Greg Woods. Our new quarterback, Caden Pinnock, has
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: played in Husky Stadium before. He was at a UC
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: Davis quarterback. He played in a 70-14 or whatever that
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: final score ended up being on a Saturday night a
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: couple seasons ago. Well, Pinnock has won the job, recently
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: named that. What have you noticed about him? How does
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: he fit Kirby Moore? How's Kirby Moore going to fit
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: to him? And is Washington State going to run the
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: same air raid type spread? Not a lot of running
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: as it has been in their pension ever since, well,
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: even before the Leach era.
• 53:09
  Speaker 13: I don't think it'll be as much air raid at all.
• 53:11
  Speaker 13: Like there's still, I mean, they'll still throw.
• 53:13
  Speaker 11: The ball plenty.
• 53:13
  Speaker 13: Um, but you know, more was no sea of Missouri
• 53:16
  Speaker 13: where they were more or less known for running the ball.
• 53:19
  Speaker 11: I know.
• 53:19
  Speaker 13: I mean, it's not a lot, but that was a
• 53:21
  Speaker 13: big part of their game plan. So plenty of running coming. Um,
• 53:24
  Speaker 13: as far as it goes, he, he looked pretty good
• 53:28
  Speaker 13: in fall camp. He's, um, kind of a smaller guy.
• 53:31
  Speaker 13: I mean, six foot is probably a little generous to
• 53:34
  Speaker 13: be honest on, on his bio.
• 53:36
  Speaker 11: Um, but yeah he he's mobile for sure i think that's.
• 53:40
  Speaker 13: One of the things that i noticed um throughout fall
• 53:42
  Speaker 13: camp is that like as the practices went on he
• 53:45
  Speaker 13: seemed more comfortable kind of just taking off and using
• 53:47
  Speaker 13: his legs and um pretty athletic pretty fast i mean
• 53:50
  Speaker 13: i know the thing that people always say about quarterbacks
• 53:52
  Speaker 13: oh he's you know sneaky fast sneaky athletic but i
• 53:55
  Speaker 13: i think that definitely is a little bit of the
• 53:56
  Speaker 13: case with him because you don't really you know it
• 53:58
  Speaker 13: doesn't jump off the page with him the way it
• 54:00
  Speaker 13: does with maybe someone like julian duggar their their backup
• 54:03
  Speaker 13: so Um, but that's, you know, a big part of his, uh,
• 54:07
  Speaker 13: game for sure.
• 54:09
  Speaker 11: Um, the deep ball is still kind of coming along.
• 54:12
  Speaker 13: I would say, I think that was the case for
• 54:14
  Speaker 13: all their quarterbacks throughout fall camp is trying to find the, um, the, uh,
• 54:18
  Speaker 13: kind of the reins on the deep ball. So, um,
• 54:21
  Speaker 13: definitely still an adjustment for him, I would say, but
• 54:23
  Speaker 13: I don't think, I mean, like everybody points to his,
• 54:26
  Speaker 13: his performance against UW last year at UC Davis. And
• 54:29
  Speaker 13: that was a terrible game for him, but, um, Do
• 54:31
  Speaker 13: not think it's the same to expect. I don't think
• 54:34
  Speaker 13: it's fair to expect him to play the same way
• 54:36
  Speaker 13: this time around. Better team, better offensive line around him,
• 54:39
  Speaker 13: and definitely more pieces in the UW defense as well.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: So back to Kirby Moore a second. Is he being
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: cagey and not issuing a depth chart, or what's going
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: on there, keeping everybody guessing? What's going on there?
• 54:57
  Speaker 13: I think it's just a one chance during the season to–
• 55:00
  Speaker 13: give the opponents something of a surprise look. I think
• 55:04
  Speaker 13: their thinking is probably like, okay, once we play our
• 55:06
  Speaker 13: first game, our future opponents will have more or less an.
• 55:10
  Speaker 11: Idea of our depth chart.
• 55:12
  Speaker 13: But week one, we have, you know, I don't think
• 55:14
  Speaker 13: it's any mystery what their depth chart will end up being,
• 55:17
  Speaker 13: but I think the way they see it is like, well,
• 55:18
  Speaker 13: you know, this is our one chance to, you know,
• 55:21
  Speaker 13: give them something of a surprise. Because it's not like,
• 55:25
  Speaker 13: you know, there's a big position battle at quarterback or
• 55:27
  Speaker 13: running back or, I put out my projections the other day,
• 55:31
  Speaker 13: and I think those will be pretty close to what
• 55:35
  Speaker 13: they roll out there. But as far as they go,
• 55:37
  Speaker 13: it's like they're one chance to give them a surprise look.
• 55:41
  Speaker 13: I don't think they're being super-duper paranoid crazy, but I
• 55:44
  Speaker 13: think week one is their one chance to do that.
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: A little bit of gamesmanship from the rookie head coach. Okay,
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: we'll take some of that for the Apple Cup.
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: Let's go.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: What is the importance of this game... Vis-a-vis the entire season, Greg,
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: for Washington State. Of course it would make their season
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: to beat the Huskies. It doesn't happen often in this series,
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: but it happened for a stretch and not so much recently.
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: And now all that they're doing, the new Pac-12. How
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: are they viewing this game in the prism of their
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: entire season? And how realistic is it? What do they
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: have to do to win this?
• 56:21
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, I think if you ask them, they
• 56:23
  Speaker 13: would obviously say they have plans on winning the game.
• 56:26
  Speaker 13: I think realistically speaking, I mean, they're like 22 and
• 56:30
  Speaker 13: a half point underdogs.
• 56:31
  Speaker 11: That's a pretty tough spread to overcome.
• 56:35
  Speaker 13: I think realistically, if they can just come out of
• 56:37
  Speaker 13: this injury-free and have something to build on, if they
• 56:41
  Speaker 13: could get totally pumped and lose by a million, that's
• 56:44
  Speaker 13: obviously no good for them.
• 56:45
  Speaker 11: But I think if they can come out of it
• 56:47
  Speaker 11: within two.
• 56:49
  Speaker 11: Two scores and a field.
• 56:50
  Speaker 13: Goal maybe i think that would be you know somewhat
• 56:53
  Speaker 13: realistic um just you know have something to build on
• 56:56
  Speaker 13: they have such i mean i'm.
• 56:58
  Speaker 11: Sure you guys talked about it such a grueling opening
• 57:00
  Speaker 11: to the schedule.
• 57:01
  Speaker 13: Between au dub dad kansas state and then home against
• 57:04
  Speaker 13: arizona in there as well so there's just like some
• 57:07
  Speaker 13: there's that's three powerful opponents two on the road and
• 57:10
  Speaker 13: on top of that k-state is on a short week
• 57:12
  Speaker 13: with them um playing this game on a sunday so
• 57:15
  Speaker 13: There's just like so much going on in their first
• 57:18
  Speaker 13: four games of the season that I think if they
• 57:19
  Speaker 13: can just come out of this with something realistic to
• 57:22
  Speaker 13: kind of feel confident about and to build on, I
• 57:25
  Speaker 13: think that would go a long way. Because then they
• 57:28
  Speaker 13: have like five days back home and then they find
• 57:29
  Speaker 13: out to Manhattan and then they got to get up.
• 57:31
  Speaker 13: I mean, to them, that game is going to be
• 57:33
  Speaker 13: at 9 a.m. on their body clock. So it's a
• 57:36
  Speaker 13: tough way to open the season. So I think if
• 57:37
  Speaker 13: they can just come out of this with something to
• 57:39
  Speaker 13: build on, something to feel confident about, I think that'll
• 57:41
  Speaker 13: go a long way for them.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: My Army team, the Pride and Dream, took care of
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: Kansas State and Manhattan. You guys, Washington State.
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: That will be.
• 57:49
  Speaker 11: No idea what you're talking about.
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: Well, they also have Duquesne. So they did have a
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: softer touch, it would appear, coming to Pullman in September.
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: And then you got the conference slate of Fresno State
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: at home, October 3rd is Parents Weekend. Then they go
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: at Utah State, at Oregon State, Boise State. At San
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: Diego State, Colorado State, Texas State, and then Oregon State
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: in the double dip in the conference play. Well, Greg,
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: as you see it, and if you watch the practices
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: all month here, where do you see them fitting in
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: the conference race this year? San Diego State, I would
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: think San Diego State, Boise State are the top two.
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: Not in that order. Boise State's one. San Diego State,
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: I would guess, is two. Where does Washington State, you think,
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: fit in there?
• 58:35
  Speaker 13: I picked them to finish fifth in our little preseason
• 58:38
  Speaker 13: media ball that we did a few weeks ago. Um,
• 58:41
  Speaker 13: cause yeah, I think it'll end up being, like you said,
• 58:43
  Speaker 13: Boise state, San Diego state, Fresno state, maybe Texas state.
• 58:47
  Speaker 13: I think Texas state to finish fourth and then WSU fifth. Um,
• 58:52
  Speaker 13: and for me, it was just kind of a product of, um,
• 58:55
  Speaker 13: how differently the season could go for them, depending on
• 58:58
  Speaker 13: how their.
• 58:59
  Speaker 11: Players pan out.
• 59:00
  Speaker 13: Cause they have so many guys that are from, you know,
• 59:03
  Speaker 13: the power four ranks that could have gone anywhere they
• 59:05
  Speaker 13: wanted out of high school.
• 59:06
  Speaker 11: And then they didn't get as much playing time wherever
• 59:08
  Speaker 11: they went. And now they're here at WSU.
• 59:10
  Speaker 13: WSU to kind of, you know, revive their careers a
• 59:12
  Speaker 13: little bit. So there's just so many. I think, like,
• 59:16
  Speaker 13: the way I've always talked about this season is that, like,
• 59:18
  Speaker 13: if those types of guys hit, like, if the guys
• 59:22
  Speaker 13: pan out that they brought in that they're depending on,
• 59:25
  Speaker 13: then they could finish, you know, top two or top
• 59:27
  Speaker 13: three in the Pac-12s. If they don't, then it could
• 59:30
  Speaker 13: get kind of ugly for them because of how much
• 59:34
  Speaker 13: they're asking out of guys that they're rolling out there.
• 59:38
  Speaker 13: So for me, it was kind of like a middle
• 59:41
  Speaker 13: ground between those two extremes. I don't think it'll be
• 59:44
  Speaker 13: as good as I just talked about. I don't think
• 59:46
  Speaker 13: it'll be as bad either. I think it'll be kind
• 59:48
  Speaker 13: of similar. So that's kind of where I got the
• 59:51
  Speaker 13: fifth pick. I think they'll end up kind of somewhere
• 59:53
  Speaker 13: in the middle. And honestly, for a first year head coach,
• 59:56
  Speaker 13: a bunch of new players and a new car, like
• 59:58
  Speaker 13: that's not, I mean, I know a lot of Cougs
• 59:59
  Speaker 13: fans might feel a little disappointed by that finish, but
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 13: all things considered, that's not, in my opinion, that would not.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 11: Be such a bad first year for Kirby Moore.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: Greg Woods, who is joining us here.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 6: Greg, you and I have both been through the crimson
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 6: and gray trenches together.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: So we understand this team.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 6: But from a broader perspective, what do you think the
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 6: perception of the Cougs is on a national scale?
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 13: Well, I'm sure you guys saw there was a weird
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 13: graphic from Fox Sports a few weeks ago that took
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 13: them to finish 135th out of 138 teams nationally.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw that.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: I ignored it, Greg.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: I ignored it.
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  Speaker 13: Well, I think people need to understand that is completely
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 13: just engagement bait and trying to get people riled up.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 13: So it will not be as bad as that guy
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 13: is suggesting. I mean, I think there's still some national,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 13: what's the word, kind of condescension people's mind well no
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 13: i wasn't even trying to say that i think like
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 13: i think like people still see the flag at college
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 13: game day and they've been doing that for i mean
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 13: 100 and some straight weeks um or years or how
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 13: long has that been going i.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 15: Think we're in the 120s at this point 120 yeah
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 15: something crazy um so i think like things like that
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  Speaker 15: and and having them i mean having them be in
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 15: the top 20 or so a couple of years ago,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 15: I think kind of helped propel them, you know, back
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 15: to the front of people's minds.
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  Speaker 11: And I think to keep that up, they got to
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 11: just keep winning games.
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  Speaker 13: I mean, you know, they don't have the luxury anymore of,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 13: you know, being on a Saturday night game against Oregon
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  Speaker 13: and on ABC anymore.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 11: You know, that, you know, that kind of thing.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 13: So I think people are still like, I mean, in
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 13: terms of eyeballs, I mean, I don't know. Which is
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 13: kind of what it's all about these days. But I
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 13: think people are still kind of excited about the Pac-12.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 13: I think there's plenty of college football sickos that love,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 13: you know, that kind of thing. There's plenty of people
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 13: out there that are watching college football for more than just,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 13: you know, Alabama and Indiana and teams like that.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I was just going to say.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 11: That's kind of messy.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I am a big Teresa Gould fan. And
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: I'm wondering what your.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 6: Perspective of what she's.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: Done to rebuild the conference.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, I think she's done the best she
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 13: possibly could with kind of the pieces that were left
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 13: to pick up, honestly. I mean, I think it could
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 13: have gone way worse than the way it did after
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 13: everything kind of fell apart.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 11: A few years ago.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 13: I mean, getting Texas State, I know people think of,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 13: I think I've heard people thought of Texas State as
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 13: like a what on, you know, what in the world? Like,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 13: why are we getting Texas State? But I think between,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 13: I mean, they have, you know, they had Brett Jackson,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 13: a quarterback. They're going to be pretty good. So I
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 13: think that like with kind of where things were in
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 13: the fall of 23 and then the year after in 24,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 13: I mean, I think she's done a great job with
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 13: kind of what they had to do.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 11: I think it's like a little bit.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 13: suspicious is that they have not released a number on
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 13: the media payouts per season for the tv deal i
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 13: think if that were like super duper impressive we would
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 13: have heard about it by now right um yeah i
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 13: think if that was something to brag about they would
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 13: have done it um maybe that's you know something that
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 13: gives you some positive cause um but overall i mean
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 13: between getting them on a bunch of different tv networks
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 13: between the cw and.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 11: Usa and NBC and TNT.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 13: I think that all of that, I think, taken together
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 13: is about as well as it could have gone to
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 13: this point.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: Greg, the Huskies and Cougs signed a five-year agreement when
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: the Huskies left the Pac-12 for the Big Ten. That
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: agreement ends in 2028. They have a return game in
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: Pullman next year. They're scheduled to be at Husky Stadium
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: in 2028 and then nothing on the docks for beyond 2028.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: As you stand, as you get around Pullman and what
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: you've talked to, what's the perspective from Washington State's side
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: on whether the Apple Cup which started in 1900, will
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: continue past 2028.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, I think if you ask WSU, they
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 13: would love to keep playing it.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 13: You know, I think, I mean, obviously, you know, Coug
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 13: fans hate UW, but that's a primetime game.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: A lot of times.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 11: I mean, this weekend, it's 1 p.m. on NBC, a
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 11: standalone game, so.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 13: And that way they get tons of eyeballs that they
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 13: would never, that they wouldn't get for other games.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 11: So I think in that.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 13: Way, and obviously like with them coming to Pullman, that
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 13: is a huge boot, not only for the university, but
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 13: restaurants and hotels. I mean, that is like the one
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 13: weekend that they, you know, everybody kind of comes to.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 13: So I think in that way, they would love to
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 13: keep it going. The problem is, is that UW, I
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 13: think as this game keeps going and as the, you know,
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 13: difference of resources keeps growing between these teams, I think
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 13: UW has less reason to want to play this game
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 13: as much.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 11: Because you think about it, I mean.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 13: Like this weekend, if WSU loses this game, it's kind
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 13: of like, okay, you were, you know.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 11: Expected to lose, and that's fine.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 13: UW loses this game, all of a sudden, their season
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 13: is like in a tailspin where, you know, they're 0-1,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 13: and then they got to go, you know, play the
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 13: rest of their season in the Big Ten. So I
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 13: think if you see the difference in, like, kind of
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 13: what's on the line for these two teams, you kind
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 13: of understand, like, the difference of kind of where they're
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 13: at and the, you know, kind of where they're at
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 13: in terms of wanting to play the game. So I
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 13: think beyond that, once you get to 2029, I think,
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 13: you know, there's just kind of less and less reason
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 13: for UW to want to play. I think it could
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 13: for sure continue. I think it would just kind of
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 13: require something of a leap from Washington. Like I said,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 13: there's less and less reason for them to want to
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 13: keep playing this game.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: Greg Woods, enjoy your... Jess wouldn't like that answer. She's...
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: The prospect of them upsetting the dogs on Sunday, that is.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 6: I just really appreciate the standings because when you've got
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 6: nothing to lose, then there's a lot to gain.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: Enjoy your trip over the mountains. Are you driving or flying, Greg?
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 9: Driving.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 11: Driving. We're going up on Saturday.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: Okay, good. So enjoy your weekend here in Seattle.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 3: Take you out for a bite.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us. Enjoy the weekend. Thanks, Greg.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 11: Yeah, thank you, guys.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: Greg Woods of the Spokesman Review, the Washington State Cougars
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: beat writer, saying, yeah, Caden Penick has struggled with the
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: deep ball, that they want to throw the ball deep,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: but he's struggled. He's seen it in practice. They're going
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: to run the ball more than perhaps previous Washington State
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: teams have. They got Voorhees coming back as one of
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: their lead backs. They had 500 yards last year. And
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: he said, as many people have said, the future of
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: the Apple Cup is really on Washington, whether they want
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: to continue doing it or not. And there's less for
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: them to gain by playing Washington State than there is
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: for Washington State to play Washington. There's no doubt about that.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 6: I love it. Zero bleeps given. Let's go.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: Up next, your chance to be a part of the show.
• 1:06:53
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• 1:06:56
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• 1:07:03
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• 1:07:07
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• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: with you. And every day at this time on 93.3 KJFM,
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: we do our talkbacks and our text line. And Jessamyn
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: is brokenhearted that the technical difficulties have prevented us from
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: the talkback.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 3: I'm so sad. Our site went down.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 6: So those of you who hit that little red microphone,
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 6: I'm so sorry.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: I can't retrieve them.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: She has been in a panic during the break trying
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: to get it working.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 3: I thought maybe it was one computer. Maybe it was
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 3: a different one.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 6: No, they are down at the time, but anyone who
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 6: sent them in, I might be able to retrieve them
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 6: later this evening and save them for tomorrow.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 3: Oh, but we have so many texts.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: We do.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: So that's good. Let's start with the M's.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: Okay. Do you have one in mind?
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 3: I have to scroll.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 6: So far because we let off the show with the M's.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: 206 says, the M's need to follow Eddie O's advice.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: Throw the iPads and analytics into the sound. That's in reference,
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: of course, to Laz Monte's not in the lineup today
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: because the Red Sox are throwing a left-handed pitcher and
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: he's a left-handed batter. The handedness. Don't start a lefty
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: against a lefty. He's a kid. He's 21. So good
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: vibes only last night, not today.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 3: So good. But those vibes.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 14: I mean.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 6: you know, we were shouting to the rooftop about the
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 6: good vibes that Gino might bring back, right?
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 3: They didn't claim him after he passed the waivers.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 8: And I.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: Think Laz is maybe the new good vibes.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: Two, five, three. Remember when it was a valuable experience
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: for a young guy to come up to the higher level,
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: maybe not succeed every once in a while so they
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: would learn things, that they were good and that was
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: good in the long run? If there's one thing this
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: Mariners organization doesn't tolerate, it is people succeeding.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, oh, oh no.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: Two, five, three. Jerry DiPoto should have no peace in public.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: He should get lambasted at every opportunity. What a waste
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: of a season. The season, the context of the American
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: League and the American League West is just infuriating. And
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: then you add on top of it the layer of
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: a looming lockout. A lockout of players next year with
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: the vino baseball.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 3: Do we have to think about that?
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I guess not for this year, but
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: the future. They're going to shove that salary cap down
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: their throats.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 6: I remember when they had... their lockout back in the 90s.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 6: I was a child and my dad refused to watch
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 6: a single game. He was so mad and the way
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 6: and then all of a sudden there was the roid
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 6: boom and Right after that, because baseball needed their fans back,
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 6: and I think they ignored a lot of things that
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 6: were going on. I don't want to see baseball ruined
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 6: that way again.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: For those of you who don't remember or don't know,
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: this is a sport, baseball, that canceled the World Series,
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: canceled an entire season in 1994 over labor impasse. This
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: is a sport, Major League Baseball, that Marvin Miller, famous,
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's like an icon in not only baseball players' minds,
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: but in all professional sports athletes' minds. Marvin Miller... was
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: the one who got the Major League Baseball Players Association
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: guaranteed contracts in free agency way back starting in the 70s.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: Kurt Flood, that was a reference earlier. Marvin Miller is
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: the one who broke owners and gave fully guaranteed contracts
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: to baseball players. And now they're trying to reel all
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: this back in with a salary cap and a salary floor.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: And the players are like, nope, we've had it 50
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: years this way. Sorry, you guys made this bed. Go
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: lay in it for a few more decades. And that's
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: where they are basically on this. labor impasse they think
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: is going to be a lockout in spring training. That's
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: the context to all of it. And that just makes
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: it even worse that the Mariners aren't capitalizing on this.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: At least not yet. There's 23 games remaining. The clock
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: is more than ticking for sure.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: At the beginning of the show. Some people thought that
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 3: we didn't have rapport, Greg.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 13: I heard.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 9: You did.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 6: And not that I need Greg to come to my
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 6: defense or anything, but we have actually a very good relationship.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 3: And the 206 just chimed in.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 6: Hey, other listener that doesn't like the opening segment to
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 6: this show. They won't say it because they're too nice,
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 6: but I can go kick rocks.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 3: Don't change the show.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you. We have many of those, but I
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: appreciate that.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 6: What I really do enjoy, though, is constructive criticism. I'm
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 6: always open to it. And, yeah, I was called a
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 6: screaming banshee yesterday. But that was only in reaction to Softie.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you're trying to match him. 206 asks a
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: good question. For Coug fans, would you rather have a
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: Cougs-Apple Cup victory or a Seahawks return in the playoffs?
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: You can only have one.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, I mean, for me, Apple Club.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 6: But I'm very biased in this. I guess most Cougs.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: Fans would be biased. I wonder what they, if Coug
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: and Seahawks fans out there, what would you.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 3: But you can only have one.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 6: I think the Seahawks have a really good shot at
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 6: the playoffs this year.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: Huskies and Seahawks fans. Would you rather have the Huskies
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: go to the college football playoff or the Seahawks go
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: to the Super Bowl? If you could only have one.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: That's a very rhetorical question. Of course, you can have
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: more than one.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 6: Oh, it's at SoFi this year, too.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, it is.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 3: It's on the West Coast.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: Yes, it is.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 3: Easily travelable.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: Yes, it is. Yeah. A lot of people ask about
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: the officiating, and some of them chiming in. 253 says,
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: I'm officiating Bonnie Lake versus White River tomorrow in Eatonville
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: against Squim on Friday. This is my 24th season. Hats
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: off to you, ma'am or sir, for 24 seasons of officiating.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: High school football. That's really cool that you do that
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: for setting an example and being a part of the
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: youth experience and youth sports experience. That's really cool.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 3: Our friend Jen Mueller does that.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: She did. She was in our association for a couple
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: of years before I joined it. And then she left
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: a couple of years ago when she got the Seahawks
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: gig that they leave a lot on Fridays. So she
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: misses Friday, Saturday games because she travels on the Seahawks charters.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: But yes, she did do that for a while and
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: she was featured on the Seattle times and Other places
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: for that.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Well, I love the way that Jen commits herself
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 6: to a job, too, because she sees it from the
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 6: inside out.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: 206. Loved all the hard knocks. Our jewel has been exposed.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: We're different. We're trendsetters. We're close. Let the rest of
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: the NFL chase our coolness. Okay.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 3: I don't think they wanted to be on Hard Knocks.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: Oh, no. I know they did.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: They avoided it for so many years. And I– bears repeating,
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: they avoided it for many, many years by rule. The
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: NFL used to be that if you didn't make the playoffs,
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: you were subject to a Hard Knocks trading camp.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 3: It used to be the bottom of the barrel, yes.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: That was only recently changed to where playoff teams– this
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: was the first time since the very first Hard Knocks
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: in 2001 that the defending Super Bowl champions were featured.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: The Baltimore Ravens was the very– defending champion Baltimore Ravens.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: It was the very first Hard Knocks. The Seahawks, the
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: first one since. And then next year, as I mentioned,
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: they're going to do the New England Patriots. I will
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: say this as an aside, I traveled with back from
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: Kansas city. I was on the shuttle from the rental
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: car place to the airport with the Hard Knocks camera
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: crew and traveled on the same plane. They were in
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: Kansas city. They were in the team hotel. They were
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: in Nashville and the team hotel. They said that the
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: cooperation with the Seahawks and the relationships they built and
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  Speaker 2: the just the overall experience was the best they ever had.
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  Speaker 2: And this was some people that have been in NFL
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  Speaker 2: films crew for 20 some years. They said that it
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: was a supreme level of cooperation between the Seahawks and
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: NFL films, and that they are now going to be
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: spoiled going to other places, that it's never going to
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: be like this again. And it was so good. That's true.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: That they had never had a relationship with the team, coaches, players, access,
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  Speaker 2: all of it. And they were blown away that a
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: Superbowl champion would do this. They said they could see
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: it if it was a team that wasn't nearly as successful.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: But for one that is at the top of the heap,
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: they were blown away at the cooperation and the experience
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: they had. And on the flip side, I've talked anecdotally
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: to some people at the Seahawks and the upper levels
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: of the Seahawks who say this was far better of
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: an experience than they thought it was going to be.
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: And that working with them was tremendous. And they consider
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: them part of the family, the football ops people I'm
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: talking about. They consider some of the Hard Knocks people
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: part of the Seahawks family, which is an interesting symbiotic relationship.
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  Speaker 3: So relationships matter is what you're saying?
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: That's probably the case, yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: That is probably the case. That's true. 253, this is
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: an interesting– this has permeated the entire Seattle market, this idea.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: It says, I honestly hope the Mariners lose three out
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: of every four the rest of the season. Everybody gets fired.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: It's an interesting, maybe fatalistic way of looking at it.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: Not maybe. Definitely a fatalistic way of looking at it.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: But are you in that camp where you don't want
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: them to sneak into the playoffs?
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 11: No, I'm not.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: Because then it'll embolden the ownership to keep status quo.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: Whereas if they did make the playoffs with a team
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: this talented and made outs from last year's World Series,
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: they would blow it up. My retort to that would be,
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: I think if they don't make the playoffs, they're not
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: blowing it up because they're still drawing 3.7 million fans
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: and they're still averaging 35,000, 38,000 a game. And as
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: a business enterprise, it's working. And the 20 some owners
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: that they have to answer to the investors in the
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: team from a business bottom line standpoint, it's working. They
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: don't pay a luxury tax. They're in the bottom half
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: of the league in payroll.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 13: It works.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: They spend less and make more. What's wrong with that?
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: As a baseball fan, It ain't working. We've talked about
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: this ad nauseum. So I'm not sure why maybe they
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: should clean house that they will because it's working. It's
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: not like they're going to have 5,000 fans in the
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: stands the rest of the season. Now, it will be
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: interesting to see when the A's roll through here and
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: some of these bad angels come up here once school
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: starts that habitually when school begins, attendance drops out unless
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: you're winning the division or your playoff type of environment.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: But it will be interesting to see if the Mariners
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: stay in this five, six games back, and then the
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: Angels roll in here in a midweek, what the attendance
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: is going to look like then, now that school is back.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: Something to think about anyway.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 6: Just to think about. The summer was marvelous down at T-Mobile.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: But see, there's a large segment of fans who love
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: the T-Mobile experience.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 11: And It's a good experience. It is.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: But there are a large segment of fans who don't
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: go to the games, who are still diehard fans or
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: have gotten fed up and won't go to the games anymore,
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: who don't go for just the bro experience out in
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: the bullpen or the hot dogs from heaven. The actual
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: baseball fan is infuriated by the product, the experience.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 3: You're right when you're in the park it's very family
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 3: friendly it is my.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: Kids love it i let my wife and i have
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: a good time when we go but if you're just
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: there to watch the old baseball or the old car
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: dealership analogy if you're there to buy a car you'd
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: like the car to be good if you're there to
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: watch baseball you'd like the baseball to be good. And
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: this has not been a good season. It's infuriating for
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: a baseball fan, yet enjoyable for a, someone who just
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: wants to go out and experience the ballpark.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: No, I get it.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: I get it.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 3: I get both.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: And that's the frustration that a baseball fan in this
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: town has for 50 years.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 6: That dreaded 50 51 going on 51, man. It's just
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 6: a little no world series.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, We all make fun of the Browns. The
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: Mariners are the Cleveland Browns of Major League Baseball.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 6: Please don't compare us to the Cleve.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: And the Browns won NFL championships back in the 50s.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: At least they have that to bank on. Up next,
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: Ian Furness. The mayor of Maple Valley will join us
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 2: to tell us what's on his show next on 93.3 KJRFM.
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  Speaker 13: Jess, Greg, I'm down here in Surprise, Arizona, and I
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 13: listen to you guys all.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 10: The time off of the iHeartRadio app.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: How'd you like that plug? And you guys are my
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: type of cup of tea. Keep up the great work.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 6: Thanks.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 7: Hey, Chuck Powell here with the Morning Show, checking in
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 7: with the ABCs of the Mariners for Always Be Confusing.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 7: I think it's good that our shiny new toy hits
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 7: a home run and we bench him. I think it's
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 7: good that we switch.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 11: The lineups every day based on the hand of the pitcher.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: And it's not Jerry's fault.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 11: I love Jerry DiPoto.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 7: I'll argue with Greg in the face how good Jerry
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 7: DiPoto is and how good his hair looks. I think
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 7: it's good that we have no clubhouse chemistry.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 11: Go DePoto.
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: Hey, Jess.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 14: Roddy Dangerfield here again. This team's getting no respect to
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 14: the fans, I tell you. I'm getting no respect. Listen,
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 14: I started listening to them in the bathtub, though. It's
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 14: kind of nice. I started listening to them with the
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 14: radio while making toast. I mean, this year's been so ugly.
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 14: It's a team only Manic fans can love, and they
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 14: ain't too crazy about them either.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 2: Let's be real, though. Stop listening to them. All together.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 14: Stop listening to them on the radio. Stop listening to
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 14: them on the TV, you see? I'm doing everything I
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 14: can to support them.
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 11: Hey, guys. So the Mariners have gone on the road now.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: From Brian, oh, no, Road Woos, to Brian, Road Woo!
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 2: What was that? So obviously this is not for working again.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 4: We had issues earlier?
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 3: Our TalkBack site went down briefly.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 14: And I like.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: Wait, say that again.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 6: Our TalkBack site went down briefly.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 3: And I got it fixed.
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 6: Through our wonderful support team when it comes to digital.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 16: El San Antonio treating you. How's San Antonio?
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm not in the sun.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 4: Via third world country.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 6: Anyway, I was very happy to feature the voices that
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 6: we always love.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 16: I like the guy just totally sucking up with the
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 16: iHeartRadio app. That's sensational. That's a good way to get
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 16: your voice on the air. It's a good way to
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 16: get your voice on the air. I listen on the
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 16: iHeartRadio app. I mean, that's the reality.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 4: A lot of people do. We get Ryan in Scottsdale.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 4: He's a huge listener.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 3: I love Ryan.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 4: Ryan's always on there.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 16: When we did our Mariner topic yesterday, I looked at
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 16: the area codes. Again, reminder, if you're being that guy
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 16: or that woman, but if you're being that guy and
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 16: you're sending that stuff, we see your number, sometimes your name.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: We see all the stuff you sent.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 3: Oh, are you saying mean things?
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 4: Some people do.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 16: But I was going to say, like, yesterday, we had
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 16: a ton of out-of-the-area texts yesterday. People sideways with the
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 16: baseball team.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: Thank you for listening. Las Montes finally gives them some five.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 4: What's he batting today?
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 2: He's batting zero.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: Is he a DH?
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 4: Is he a Lulig team? What do you mean he's
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 4: batting zero?
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: He's batting zero. He's in the dugout.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: That's good. Handed this, man.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 9: iPads.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: Handed this. That's how this works.
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 11: You're lefty.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: You sit.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 4: They're up 9-1. They almost blew that game.
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 14: 9-6.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 6: 9-6.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, finally, we have something good to talk about
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 2: the Mariners, and then they bench him because he's not
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 2: the right hand for the pitcher they're playing.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 2: Speechless.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 4: When does football start?
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 2: In fact.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 4: One week from today.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 2: What do you got going today?
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 3: What do you mean one week? We got Sunday.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 16: Well, I mean, like NFL. But yeah, we got tomorrow.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 16: We have tomorrow, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: We got Ballard Lincoln tomorrow. Oh, is Ballard Lincoln playing
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 2: on Thursday? Yeah. Let's go. Do they have their new
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: field yet?
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 6: No.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 2: Not that I know of. Oh, they're getting it built,
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 11: Okay.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: I think the last I checked, it was being built.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: Where are the city schools playing this year? All over.
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: Nathan Hale.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 4: Because just from South. Memorial Stadium no longer exists.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 11: So, okay.
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: Ingram. We've got a busy day.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 16: We're doing a lot of college football today. We've got
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 16: our first weekly visit with Stuart Mandel. That's a scheduled
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 16: weekly visit. Week zero, week one. So, yeah, Stuart Mandel,
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 16: 1 o'clock today.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: You know what?
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 16: If you're the person saying there's nothing to watch in
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 16: college football this weekend, you're adult. You have no clue.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 16: There's a lot of intriguing little matchups. They all have
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 16: to have a little number next to the name. We'll
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 16: talk about that with him. Also, we'll get into the
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 16: Cougs talking Cougs. First visit of the year with Alex
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 16: and MK. That's coming up at 2 p.m.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 11: Today.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 4: And then we'll talk Hard Knocks and Mariners in the
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 4: first hour.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 2: Hard Knocks was a couple of interesting things we talked about.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 2: Putting Nick Emanuari. Still 50-50 if Emanuari plays a week
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 2: from tonight.
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't put money on it.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: In the season opener, I would not.
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 6: No.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 2: I would not. Ian's up next.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 3: I want a healthy Nick.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: But they do too. They've got 17 games to play,
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: not just this one. Ian Furness is up next.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 14: 12-3.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: Justin McIntyre, Greg Bell. Do it again tomorrow. Live on
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: 93.3 KJRFM.