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- 0:03Speaker 1: Done right side the line for goodrow across to Rker
- 0:07Speaker 1: Evans left wing shot ten scarss Riiker Evans from the
- 0:14Speaker 1: left wing point throw it on goal.
- 0:16Speaker 2: Ben Myers read.
- 0:18Speaker 1: Therects it and then the Seattle Kraken have pulled back
- 0:21Speaker 1: to within one. It's a three to two Saint Louis lead.
- 0:25Speaker 1: All the Blues are gonna challenge to see if it
- 0:29Speaker 1: was offside prior to the goal. Apt for the review
- 0:32Speaker 1: it was a trip that the point was offsides.
- 0:35Speaker 3: We have.
- 0:38Speaker 1: And I tell you what partner that play was off
- 0:41Speaker 1: side by a half an inch.
- 0:46Speaker 2: Falconiskey with the cutting analysis there. Yep, yep, good morning,
- 0:51Speaker 2: it is Friday. Happy Friday to you all. Ashley Ryan
- 0:54Speaker 2: is here. My name is Chuck Pye, No Bucky. He'll
- 0:56Speaker 2: be back with us on Monday. But we enter our
- 1:00Speaker 2: second hour. Greg Bell's just minutes away from joining us
- 1:03Speaker 2: here as he does most every day at seven five
- 1:06Speaker 2: on Chuck and Buck in the Morning. Sports Radio ninety
- 1:08Speaker 2: three point three KJRFM. Crack and lost again last night
- 1:13Speaker 2: ended up being five to one. Yeah, maybe a half
- 1:16Speaker 2: an inch cost him a goal. Maybe that changes the game,
- 1:19Speaker 2: but it really doesn't excuse getting out played. Unmercifully for
- 1:24Speaker 2: a second night in a row to begin this resumption
- 1:27Speaker 2: of play after the three week long hiatus for the
- 1:31Speaker 2: Olympic break. That was your mc delivery of the game,
- 1:34Speaker 2: last night's top call from Everett and Al from the
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- 1:51Speaker 2: an two start at this resumption being outscored nine to two.
- 1:57Speaker 2: It's one thing to lose to the Dallas Stars and
- 2:00Speaker 2: blow out fashion, another thing, Ashley, to lose to the
- 2:03Speaker 2: last place Saint Louis Blues five to one.
- 2:06Speaker 4: Yeah, And I don't know if I mean, I would
- 2:08Speaker 4: doubt that they went in thinking like, well, this team's
- 2:10Speaker 4: terrible and we're better, especially coming off being blown out
- 2:13Speaker 4: by Dallas. Nobody should be thinking that. But that I
- 2:16Speaker 4: was hoping that was kind of going to be their
- 2:18Speaker 4: get right. Let's okay, we're gonna we're gonna have no
- 2:21Speaker 4: problem with Saint Louis. And now We're going to come
- 2:23Speaker 4: home on a positive note. We've got the Canucks and
- 2:27Speaker 4: you know, all will be right with the world. And
- 2:29Speaker 4: giving up those two goals basically back to back in
- 2:32Speaker 4: the second period so early it was like, wait, what
- 2:36Speaker 4: what just happened? And then when they got that goal
- 2:39Speaker 4: and then it got taken away, I was like, well
- 2:40Speaker 4: that's it. I mean, because at least coming back and
- 2:43Speaker 4: being within one was I thought we had a pretty
- 2:46Speaker 4: good chance, but it just seemed like the air sailed
- 2:48Speaker 4: out of them.
- 2:49Speaker 2: Yeah, sliding doors. Maybe that goal counts and we got
- 2:52Speaker 2: a completely different game. Ian for Ness told us yesterday
- 2:56Speaker 2: nothing to worry about after the Dallas loss is just
- 2:58Speaker 2: a bad matchup. But if they lose a game against
- 3:00Speaker 2: the Blues, we've got something to worry about come Friday morning.
- 3:03Speaker 2: So it sounds like we got something to worry about.
- 3:05Speaker 2: We're going to ask ed Zo himself at Old Check
- 3:07Speaker 2: about it at nine o'clock today. Let's take a look
- 3:10Speaker 2: at your rest of your frost brewed cors light shows,
- 3:12Speaker 2: chill headlines before we bring Greg aboard Mariner Spring training.
- 3:16Speaker 2: They won yesterday eight to seven. A couple of hits
- 3:19Speaker 2: for Colt Emerson again in the game, including a triple
- 3:22Speaker 2: Kate Anderson is expected to make his Mariners pitching debut
- 3:26Speaker 2: this weekend. I believe Saturday is when he will be
- 3:29Speaker 2: taking the mound in the Cactus League College Hoops You
- 3:32Speaker 2: Dub host Wisconsin tomorrow at one o'clock. But for a
- 3:35Speaker 2: five hundred basketball team at this stage of the year,
- 3:38Speaker 2: the bigger story is the legendary Detla Shremp's going to
- 3:41Speaker 2: have his number retired. Spencer Hawsell join us TOT eight
- 3:45Speaker 2: thirty today to discuss it. Sounders look to go to
- 3:48Speaker 2: and Oh. They'll be in Utah tomorrow to take on
- 3:50Speaker 2: Real Salt Lake and they'll start that match at four thirty.
- 3:54Speaker 2: The Kraken will also play tomorrow at seven o'clock at
- 3:57Speaker 2: home against the Vancouver Canucks. As Ashley and the NFL
- 4:01Speaker 2: combine enters Day number two, Day number one, maybe the
- 4:04Speaker 2: best group of them all, and the best players of
- 4:08Speaker 2: the best group were the ones that stole all the headlines.
- 4:12Speaker 2: David Bailey Texas Tech could be the number two overall
- 4:14Speaker 2: pick in the draft. If not him, Rvel Reese of
- 4:18Speaker 2: Ohio State and now Sunny Styles has turned into be
- 4:21Speaker 2: the talk of the NFL combine after his impressive workout yesterday.
- 4:26Speaker 2: Reese and Styles both from Ohio State. How did they
- 4:29Speaker 2: not win a national champion hip. That's weird, But yes,
- 4:32Speaker 2: today is day number two. It'll be defensive acts and
- 4:35Speaker 2: tight ends going. But there's another story that we started
- 4:39Speaker 2: with today. I don't know how much truth there is
- 4:41Speaker 2: to it, but when you hear that DeMarcus Lawrence is
- 4:44Speaker 2: contemplating retirement, it does make you think. Joining us now
- 4:47Speaker 2: to discuss that in other topics is our own Greg
- 4:50Speaker 2: Bell with the Bell Tolls.
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- 5:08Speaker 2: Now with twalk Man News, here's Greg Bell with Chuck
- 5:11Speaker 2: and Bud Oh. It's been playing strains and automobiles for
- 5:15Speaker 2: Greg Bell this week. Last I heard he was heading
- 5:18Speaker 2: to Michigan in the back of a beer truck, singing
- 5:22Speaker 2: polka music with some fine fellows from Chicago. But hopefully
- 5:26Speaker 2: he made it to Michigan by now.
- 5:27Speaker 5: Good morning, Greg, Good morning. I did I prove myself
- 5:32Speaker 5: I avoided the back of the truck rack.
- 5:35Speaker 2: Well, good to have you with us. What did What
- 5:39Speaker 2: do you know about this DeMarcus Lawrence thing that seems
- 5:43Speaker 2: to be buzzing around that maybe he's thinking about hanging
- 5:46Speaker 2: it up after a Super Bowl championship.
- 5:50Speaker 5: Well, we asked, like McDonald att and he said that
- 5:54Speaker 5: last he talked to Lawrence, Lawrence wants to come back.
- 5:56Speaker 5: And then in fact, all the player, Jaron Reid, everybody
- 5:59Speaker 5: who is getting into their thirties and eleven twelve years
- 6:02Speaker 5: in the league have told McDonald that they want to
- 6:05Speaker 5: return twenty twenty six. Lawrence's contract is three years. Was
- 6:10Speaker 5: notable for someone thirty two years old at the time
- 6:13Speaker 5: and eleven years in the league to get a three
- 6:14Speaker 5: year deal and so guide him to Seattle. And the
- 6:18Speaker 5: first I heard of was ESPNS dot COM's Brady Henderson
- 6:21Speaker 5: has been on the beat a long time with being
- 6:23Speaker 5: his dialed in as well. He said that it could
- 6:27Speaker 5: be that Lawrence is contemplating retirement after twelve season. Is
- 6:30Speaker 5: going to be thirty four years old next year, and
- 6:34Speaker 5: I mean it makes sense that a player of his stature,
- 6:38Speaker 5: four time pro bowler has played a dozen years in
- 6:41Speaker 5: the league, going to be thirty four, goes out after
- 6:44Speaker 5: winning a Super Bowl, the one thing he said he
- 6:46Speaker 5: has always sought in the NFL. When he got to
- 6:48Speaker 5: Seattle the day he signed, he said, I'm here because
- 6:52Speaker 5: I thought this is my chance to win a Super Bowl.
- 6:53Speaker 5: He turned out to be correct. There had a great
- 6:56Speaker 5: season doing it. So it is a natural supposition that
- 6:59Speaker 5: a player might want to go out on top, which
- 7:01Speaker 5: is where I think this comes from. But as up
- 7:05Speaker 5: two days ago, the coach says that the player told
- 7:07Speaker 5: him he's coming back. Now, McDonald did say that can change,
- 7:11Speaker 5: especially the further a player gets away from this brotherhood
- 7:14Speaker 5: that they had for the last eight seven, eight nine
- 7:17Speaker 5: months and it's off on their own and want to
- 7:19Speaker 5: beat somewhere for the next couple of months and might
- 7:22Speaker 5: entice him to stay on the beach for the rest
- 7:23Speaker 5: of his career. But as it now, McDonald says that
- 7:27Speaker 5: Lawrence and everybody else's makes it interview saying they're coming back.
- 7:31Speaker 2: Does it not speak to how difficult it is to
- 7:34Speaker 2: repeat his champions or build a dynasty in the NFL.
- 7:37Speaker 2: I mean, the things that you battle against you got
- 7:39Speaker 2: free agents that are going to get higher value than
- 7:43Speaker 2: they're probably worth because it's as super Bowl next to
- 7:47Speaker 2: their name. You've got the fear of complacency. You've got
- 7:51Speaker 2: the fear of guys that you do bring back maybe
- 7:54Speaker 2: they're not as hungry now that they're a little richer.
- 7:56Speaker 2: And then you even have a guy like DeMarcus Lawrence
- 7:58Speaker 2: who at the parade seem to have the time of
- 8:00Speaker 2: his life. And yet I like consider retirement because I'm
- 8:04Speaker 2: thirty three years old, I've been in the league for
- 8:06Speaker 2: twelve years. I've taken a lot of abuse. Maybe I
- 8:08Speaker 2: want to go out on top. I mean, you just
- 8:10Speaker 2: can't rest in this league when it comes to trying
- 8:13Speaker 2: to win championships.
- 8:16Speaker 5: Right, And the league legislatesd so that you don't win
- 8:19Speaker 5: super Bowls over super Bowls, which is why I told me,
- 8:22Speaker 5: been what five times in the last fifty years or
- 8:25Speaker 5: so that's happened. Yeah, it's it's hard. It's really really
- 8:30Speaker 5: hard to do.
- 8:31Speaker 6: And players, once they get into the offseason check the
- 8:35Speaker 6: one thing that motivates players to rev it up again
- 8:38Speaker 6: and to start the personal training and the weightlifting and
- 8:40Speaker 6: the four yard dashes and all the offseason work.
- 8:45Speaker 5: In the training camps and the slog through August. The
- 8:48Speaker 5: one motivating factor that gets these guys once they played
- 8:51Speaker 5: a few years in the league and made money. One
- 8:53Speaker 5: motivating factors to win a super Bowl, to win a ring. Yeah,
- 8:57Speaker 5: and then you do it. I was like, well, what's
- 9:00Speaker 5: left am I going to go through this brack my
- 9:04Speaker 5: body and affect my quality of life for the rest
- 9:06Speaker 5: of my life? I already won a Super Bowl? What
- 9:08Speaker 5: am I doing it for? And you already made tens
- 9:11Speaker 5: of millions and something hundreds of millions of dollars, which
- 9:14Speaker 5: absolutely and you have to think to just a pure
- 9:18Speaker 5: quality of life side, someone who's just won a Super
- 9:21Speaker 5: Bowl and in the market laws in this case, made
- 9:23Speaker 5: one hundred and fifty million dollars in his career, what
- 9:27Speaker 5: else is there to do? He's done it, And I
- 9:30Speaker 5: mean that's again part of a supposition that he'd be
- 9:34Speaker 5: looking at retirement. Then again, players chuck get to this
- 9:38Speaker 5: level because of how ultra competitive they are. And then
- 9:41Speaker 5: there are players who say, you know what, everyone says,
- 9:43Speaker 5: we can't do it. Let's do it again. Ye say,
- 9:46Speaker 5: everyone says it can't be done. There's an intrinsic motivation
- 9:49Speaker 5: that make world class. He will be players who they are.
- 9:53Speaker 5: That's why people just walking down First Avenue in Seattle
- 9:55Speaker 5: this morning aren't in the NFL. They're uniquely competitive and
- 10:00Speaker 5: equipped to rev it up again.
- 10:02Speaker 2: There might have been other reasons I didn't make it
- 10:04Speaker 2: to the NFL, Greg Maybe maybe one or two.
- 10:07Speaker 5: I don't know.
- 10:08Speaker 2: Greg bellis with us our Seahawks insider from the News Tribune.
- 10:11Speaker 2: Of course, you can follow his entire coverage of the
- 10:14Speaker 2: Seahawks all year long at the Newstribune dot com. Another
- 10:17Speaker 2: story that came out yesterday is an apparent leak the NFLPA.
- 10:23Speaker 2: The players fill out this survey of how much they
- 10:27Speaker 2: like their organization and how well they're treated in various
- 10:31Speaker 2: forms behind the scenes, and it gets out that the
- 10:35Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers got the lowest grades and the Miami Dolphins
- 10:41Speaker 2: for whatever. So this shows you who cares how well
- 10:44Speaker 2: they're treated. Sometimes they can guess they can be treated
- 10:46Speaker 2: too well, because the Dolphins are the biggest poop show
- 10:48Speaker 2: in the entire National Football League. But the Seahawks ended
- 10:51Speaker 2: up fourth out of thirty two. I would just ask
- 10:54Speaker 2: you how much merit, how much stock do you put
- 10:56Speaker 2: in these evaluations?
- 10:59Speaker 5: Well, First of all, I love the Kaitlyn Kaylor of
- 11:02Speaker 5: ESPN dot com published it, got obtained it and published it.
- 11:05Speaker 5: I love it because the league, the ownership, and the
- 11:09Speaker 5: Commissioner's office don't want this out. In fact, as a
- 11:13Speaker 5: lot of people know, they got an arbiter to rule
- 11:16Speaker 5: in the league's favor prohibiting the NFLPA the players union
- 11:21Speaker 5: from publicly releasing these report cards. Now, the arbord Is
- 11:24Speaker 5: ruling two weeks ago wasn't that they can't do the survey,
- 11:27Speaker 5: and it wasn't that they can't share the survey with
- 11:29Speaker 5: their players, their union inside union matters, union talk, as
- 11:33Speaker 5: the Arbury ruled, But they did the arborid did say
- 11:37Speaker 5: you can't publicly release and so we knew at the
- 11:39Speaker 5: time when that came out two weeks ago, the ruling that, oh,
- 11:42Speaker 5: the union is just going to make sure somebody puts
- 11:45Speaker 5: it out, whether it's them or somebody does for him.
- 11:48Speaker 5: That's off that Kaylon Kaylor putting out for all of
- 11:51Speaker 5: us to now do what the league doesn't want us
- 11:53Speaker 5: to do, which is there the insideer pulled the curtain
- 11:56Speaker 5: back on these teams. The Seahawks fourth overall a's across
- 12:02Speaker 5: the board, except I think in two areas treatment of
- 12:04Speaker 5: player families, which means a player family activity room at
- 12:09Speaker 5: the stadium mostly got a B plus. That's gone up
- 12:12Speaker 5: from the past. I can't remember one other off the field.
- 12:15Speaker 5: The rest are as ownership, a GMA coaching, a defense
- 12:21Speaker 5: corner idden dirty by the way eight plus. I saw
- 12:24Speaker 5: him in MINDI Napolis the other day they came monod
- 12:28Speaker 5: The only the only of seventeen areas the Seahawks got
- 12:31Speaker 5: below a B plus was on the fields playing service
- 12:35Speaker 5: their home field. And this is an issue that goes
- 12:39Speaker 5: back to why owners become NFL owners because of money.
- 12:44Speaker 5: Fifteen of the thirty NFL stadiums have real grass. The
- 12:49Speaker 5: other fifty to thirty stadium because the Giants and the
- 12:51Speaker 5: Jets and the Rims and Chargers share their fields. So
- 12:55Speaker 5: fifteen of the thirty NFL stadiums have fee grass. Why
- 12:58Speaker 5: do they have fake grass? Well, well you could make
- 13:00Speaker 5: an argument of Colonel Yeah, Pittsburgh as l gross and
- 13:03Speaker 5: they got raided the worst field in the league. Yeah,
- 13:06Speaker 5: because they can't they share it with pitt and with
- 13:09Speaker 5: the high school fields or high school teams in Pittsburgh.
- 13:12Speaker 5: The Seahawks have always had artificial turf, they could do
- 13:15Speaker 5: it in the Pacific Northwest. They could truck it in
- 13:18Speaker 5: like Arizona and Las Vegas do on trees, grow it
- 13:21Speaker 5: somewhere else outside of the elements they don't, And the
- 13:25Speaker 5: fifteen out the fourteen other Stadians don't because they want
- 13:27Speaker 5: to make money, because they want to have factor pools,
- 13:29Speaker 5: motocrosses and concerts with how iven to damage their grass
- 13:33Speaker 5: and spend the money to put in new grass? Well,
- 13:36Speaker 5: what's interesting to me? I put a lot of stock
- 13:38Speaker 5: into this because this is the players that are talking
- 13:41Speaker 5: about what their daily lives are, and the teams absolutely
- 13:44Speaker 5: pay attention to it. And the fact the league got
- 13:46Speaker 5: an arbiter ruling to keep us from being public supposedly
- 13:49Speaker 5: by the union, shows how much the league pays attention
- 13:52Speaker 5: to This question comes out of this upside of me
- 13:55Speaker 5: and I just posted the story for the News Tribune online.
- 13:58Speaker 5: There used to be an O come will the new
- 14:00Speaker 5: owners pay attention to this field issues? This is the
- 14:03Speaker 5: one red flag as the sale goes on that the
- 14:07Speaker 5: new ownership group could look at and say, what do
- 14:09Speaker 5: we need to fix? With the Super Bowl champion Seahawks
- 14:11Speaker 5: who seem to be doing everything right aha the field,
- 14:16Speaker 5: and as we know, the World Cup's coming to Moomenfield
- 14:18Speaker 5: this summer and it's going to have a real grass field.
- 14:21Speaker 5: FIFA requires that international and World Cup matches pull on
- 14:25Speaker 5: real grass, as it did the club will Cup in
- 14:28Speaker 5: a temporary grass pitch of Movemanfield last summer. And the
- 14:32Speaker 5: talk has been around in the locker room for a while,
- 14:35Speaker 5: why don't we just keep the World Cup grass again?
- 14:38Speaker 5: The players prefer grass eight days out of seven to
- 14:43Speaker 5: play on. The league tries to throw up all this
- 14:45Speaker 5: information at all. Turf doesn't add to injuries, and there's
- 14:50Speaker 5: statistical evidence that grass and turf is a wash. That's
- 14:54Speaker 5: bull to the players. They hate the turf, hate it.
- 14:58Speaker 5: They hate this field. Turf that is at Seattle is
- 15:02Speaker 5: any of the league so far? Is another infamous two
- 15:05Speaker 5: soft stadium that knee injuries have occurred on. Will the
- 15:09Speaker 5: new owners pay attention to this, send the money and
- 15:13Speaker 5: put real grass in womenfield? That's the question to me
- 15:16Speaker 5: came out of the survey.
- 15:18Speaker 2: Greg Bellis with us our Seahawks insider, joining us here
- 15:21Speaker 2: on Chuck and Buck Well. As you've now left Indianapolis
- 15:25Speaker 2: and the combined behind, what else did we learn before
- 15:29Speaker 2: we got out of town? Did we get any sense
- 15:32Speaker 2: as to where the organization seems most vulnerable, like where
- 15:37Speaker 2: they might put their attention running back, cornerback edge. Considering
- 15:41Speaker 2: all of the free agents and now at DeMarcus Lawrence story,
- 15:45Speaker 2: do you got any sense as to what area they're
- 15:48Speaker 2: most concerned about filling this offseason?
- 15:52Speaker 5: Running back, offensive defensive line depth? Okay, they are not,
- 15:56Speaker 5: though John Snyder made it clear off the podium on
- 16:00Speaker 5: pty Bro and cameras. Here, Snyder mighte clear that this
- 16:04Speaker 5: is not a good draft and the Seahawks are not good.
- 16:07Speaker 5: Therefore invest in the draft. It's why they traded two
- 16:09Speaker 5: third day picks of the Saints to get a Pro
- 16:12Speaker 5: Bowl kick return in Rashid Shihed. They don't care, frankly,
- 16:15Speaker 5: that they have four picks. I still think they're going
- 16:18Speaker 5: to end up with one than four, especially because Snyder's
- 16:20Speaker 5: at the bottom of each of the first three rounds.
- 16:22Speaker 5: That's easy to trade down and pick up multiple picks later.
- 16:26Speaker 5: They're not going to have thirty two first round players
- 16:29Speaker 5: with first round grades, so it's really likely they're going
- 16:32Speaker 5: to trade down from thirty two to get a cup more.
- 16:34Speaker 5: But Snyder made clear he doesn't see this draft as
- 16:37Speaker 5: a priority. He said that they were planning on this
- 16:40Speaker 5: for years ago. They saw that last year and next
- 16:43Speaker 5: year's draft are better, deeper, with better talent at the
- 16:46Speaker 5: positions they need. And how does that affect their free
- 16:50Speaker 5: agency plan? Does that mean they throw a little bit
- 16:52Speaker 5: more money to Kenneth Walker because of the Zach Sharperny injury,
- 16:56Speaker 5: because maybe there's not a running back they like in
- 16:59Speaker 5: this class that's being ready to go right away. The
- 17:02Speaker 5: problem what's relying on a college running back now is
- 17:05Speaker 5: that there's so many Almost all college offenses are so
- 17:09Speaker 5: past prolific and so putting cartoon characters on play cards
- 17:14Speaker 5: and we were two word play calls. But there is
- 17:16Speaker 5: a big adjustment period, especially at running back, from the
- 17:20Speaker 5: college game to the NFL and to draft a guy
- 17:23Speaker 5: to be your heir, to replace the Super Bowl MVP,
- 17:27Speaker 5: and say this guy is a rookie can do what
- 17:29Speaker 5: Kenneth Walker did last year, it's probably full hearty. So
- 17:32Speaker 5: does that mean they make a bigger push to resign
- 17:36Speaker 5: Walker and give him more money than they were going
- 17:38Speaker 5: to offer him? I think so. I still don't think
- 17:41Speaker 5: Walker's coming back, but I think it has changed their
- 17:43Speaker 5: calculus quite a bit, but it was it was interesting
- 17:46Speaker 5: here here at the Combine that yeah, okay, we're going
- 17:49Speaker 5: to try to take a pass on this year, Jeff
- 17:51Speaker 5: four picks. We're not worried about that, all right.
- 17:54Speaker 2: Man, Well, enjoy your time in Michigan. Can't wait to
- 17:58Speaker 2: read the article about your adventures in the from the
- 18:01Speaker 2: Northeast to the Midwest. Uh, you might even you know,
- 18:05Speaker 2: short story is what you might end up writing based
- 18:08Speaker 2: on all the information that you have, all the material.
- 18:11Speaker 5: Yeah, it wouldn't even before I could quote my wife,
- 18:14Speaker 5: I have accomplished to the whole thing.
- 18:17Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 18:19Speaker 5: Yeah, Well we had pictures. Yeah, I know, I'm a
- 18:22Speaker 5: published some of them worthy of publishing. Yeah. We had
- 18:25Speaker 5: a great qu had a great dinner on Sunday night
- 18:29Speaker 5: in Boston. Was everything was hunger down with the snows,
- 18:32Speaker 5: salt trucks are out. We went to the North End
- 18:34Speaker 5: and depending once has been to Boston. Now, how quaint
- 18:37Speaker 5: and I do like and original. Lea says, that's part
- 18:41Speaker 5: of the highlight of the whole trip. Was really awesome
- 18:43Speaker 5: and we got to see our daughter and it's very
- 18:45Speaker 5: cool senior moment for Cretine but yeah, it was probably
- 18:49Speaker 5: should write a story, but it might be better than
- 18:51Speaker 5: anything I've written from the combine.
- 18:53Speaker 2: This with family, friends, you know, fellow beat riders. I mean,
- 18:57Speaker 2: you've you've seen it all going from the snow to Michigan.
- 19:01Speaker 2: So yes, I think you got something there. All right, Greg, Well,
- 19:05Speaker 2: have a great week and enjoy the family and we'll
- 19:07Speaker 2: talk to you on Monday.
- 19:09Speaker 5: All right, I have a good weekend, all right, Greg Bell.
- 19:11Speaker 2: Our Seahawks insider. You can followhim at g bel Seattle
- 19:14Speaker 2: there on X And of course he's been joining us
- 19:17Speaker 2: nearly every day throughout the football season. That's just sort
- 19:20Speaker 2: of the routine around here, is our Seahawks Insider. And
- 19:23Speaker 2: there won't be any days off here in the near future.
- 19:26Speaker 2: We're not that far away from free agency, and so
- 19:29Speaker 2: we will be leaning on Greg obviously during free agency.
- 19:32Speaker 2: And I just don't see any reason to give him
- 19:35Speaker 2: a day off next week in between the combine and
- 19:37Speaker 2: free agency, and so yes, we will continue with Greg
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- 21:16Speaker 2: it's time to talk about the Mariners. Here what I
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- 21:27Speaker 2: Screams got a seventh edition apparently coming back this year,
- 21:31Speaker 2: and so I have seven episodes of what I learned
- 21:34Speaker 2: at Spring.
- 21:35Speaker 7: Now say your seven have been far more interesting than
- 21:38Speaker 7: all seven screens.
- 21:39Speaker 2: I tell you a quick story about Nev Campbell. Oh yeah,
- 21:43Speaker 2: so once fun a time I was working in Phoenix
- 21:47Speaker 2: and it was a little more guy talking back then.
- 21:50Speaker 2: It's gone back to sports talk radio, but it was
- 21:52Speaker 2: a little more guy talking back in those days. And
- 21:56Speaker 2: so we had my boss and I won't mention any names.
- 22:00Speaker 2: My boss at the time was also my co host,
- 22:03Speaker 2: and he led the show. And I was, you know,
- 22:05Speaker 2: I was the buckey on there. I was the number
- 22:07Speaker 2: two on the show, and so the topic came up,
- 22:11Speaker 2: and he was he's older than us. He's about fifteen
- 22:13Speaker 2: ten fifteen years older than us, so a little bit
- 22:15Speaker 2: of a generation gap, and then the rest of us
- 22:17Speaker 2: are about the same age. And so he throws out
- 22:19Speaker 2: the like, who is your who's your Hollywood crush kind
- 22:23Speaker 2: of topic, and so we go around the room and
- 22:26Speaker 2: we are all describing these exotic, beautiful creatures that time
- 22:30Speaker 2: in pop culture, and he says, mine is Nev Campbell,
- 22:35Speaker 2: and the whole show was like, oh, come on, like,
- 22:40Speaker 2: she's cute and all, but gosh, you can pick anyone,
- 22:43Speaker 2: and you're gonna pick Nev Campbell. That's terrible. So that
- 22:47Speaker 2: was the conversation, and he kind of like he always
- 22:50Speaker 2: looks sad, and I go like, why are you being
- 22:52Speaker 2: so defensive. It's just guy talk. We're just sitting here
- 22:55Speaker 2: just ripping on each other. It's no big deal. About
- 22:58Speaker 2: a week later, I get invited to a party and
- 23:01Speaker 2: I meet his brand new wife for the first time,
- 23:04Speaker 2: and she looked exactly like Campbell and it was just like, oh,
- 23:11Speaker 2: I get it now, and now I feel terrible.
- 23:14Speaker 4: But at the same time, all you guys said was Yeah,
- 23:17Speaker 4: she's pretty, she's cute, but she's not like Halle Berry, right,
- 23:22Speaker 4: And I think Nev Campbell would agree with that.
- 23:26Speaker 2: I think so as well.
- 23:28Speaker 7: But fake Nev Campbell his wife would have agreed with
- 23:30Speaker 7: that too.
- 23:31Speaker 2: The fact that we just jumped all over three of us,
- 23:34Speaker 2: like the moment it came out of his mouth, and
- 23:37Speaker 2: you know he had told her in the past, you
- 23:40Speaker 2: know you look like Nev Campbell and blah blah blah.
- 23:43Speaker 2: Oh gosh, that was that was an uncomfortable moment. That
- 23:46Speaker 2: would be all right, let's talk some mariners spring training,
- 23:50Speaker 2: all right. So a lot of positives, a lot of
- 23:53Speaker 2: superlatives being thrown out. And I did discuss this last week,
- 23:57Speaker 2: but I do believe it's worth bringing back up again
- 24:00Speaker 2: because look, it's not gonna be easy. It's never gonna
- 24:03Speaker 2: be easy. I mean, the Dodgers are going to have
- 24:05Speaker 2: injuries for goodness sake before all is said and done.
- 24:09Speaker 2: But certainly I feel really good about this team. I
- 24:14Speaker 2: think they're gonna win the division. I think they're gonna
- 24:16Speaker 2: win it somewhat comfortably. And I don't mean they're gonna
- 24:20Speaker 2: run away and hide from the Astros. I don't win
- 24:23Speaker 2: by fifteen games. But you know what it's been like.
- 24:25Speaker 2: Even when we've done well in the last couple of
- 24:28Speaker 2: years and made the playoffs, it's been torture. It was
- 24:30Speaker 2: torturous last year, you know. I think that this season
- 24:34Speaker 2: is going to be a lot more comfortable from the
- 24:36Speaker 2: standpoint of I don't think that we're going to go
- 24:39Speaker 2: two and twenty four in April and then have to
- 24:43Speaker 2: dig out of a hole and have to save the
- 24:46Speaker 2: season by going twenty eight and one in July.
- 24:48Speaker 7: I hope, right.
- 24:50Speaker 2: I mean, we've lived with that too much. I realize
- 24:52Speaker 2: there are ups and downs and ebbs and flows in
- 24:55Speaker 2: all seasons, especially baseball seasons, but it's it's been exceptionally
- 25:01Speaker 2: torturous for the Mariners the last few years. Even in
- 25:04Speaker 2: the successful years, even in the year that you won
- 25:08Speaker 2: the division and took the crown off the astros head
- 25:11Speaker 2: and got a first round by I mean, there were
- 25:12Speaker 2: times we were pulling our hair out. Yes last year.
- 25:15Speaker 2: I don't think we're going to experience that same season.
- 25:18Speaker 2: So that's what I mean by comfortable. I think comfortably
- 25:21Speaker 2: we're gonna get where we need to get this year,
- 25:24Speaker 2: win the division. I think we'll get a bye, and
- 25:26Speaker 2: I think we're going to be heavy, heavy contenders for
- 25:29Speaker 2: a World Series appearance. But that said, I mean, it's
- 25:34Speaker 2: not like there aren't some holes in the roster or
- 25:37Speaker 2: on the team. And I brought up one last week
- 25:41Speaker 2: that I'd like to kind of expand on here today.
- 25:44Speaker 2: I think that there needs to be some concern about
- 25:47Speaker 2: this team's defense, and fortunately Perry Hill is here. And
- 25:51Speaker 2: Perry Hill, I mean, there are guys that show up
- 25:55Speaker 2: and know the moment they arrive just by reputation, how
- 26:00Speaker 2: excited they are to work with Perry Hill defensively. I mean,
- 26:04Speaker 2: think about hitter, you know, a positional player. I mean,
- 26:07Speaker 2: most of them just want to like get in the cage.
- 26:09Speaker 2: But these are guys that are excited to work with
- 26:12Speaker 2: Perry Hill to improve their defense and how simple he
- 26:15Speaker 2: makes it. And even Brendan Donovan talked about it like
- 26:18Speaker 2: very first day, like things triggered in his head like Okay,
- 26:22Speaker 2: this is easier. I'm doing well now. So we do
- 26:26Speaker 2: have that advantage. And I do think that there's a
- 26:29Speaker 2: chance that, you know, some of these question marks do
- 26:32Speaker 2: improve because of the coaching staff. But let's be honest
- 26:36Speaker 2: about it. I mean, Josh Naylor didn't have a great
- 26:39Speaker 2: reputation as a defensive first baseman before he got here.
- 26:43Speaker 2: When he got here, I kind of warn you don't
- 26:45Speaker 2: expect great defense. And then for I don't know why,
- 26:50Speaker 2: he was exceptional very good.
- 26:52Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 26:52Speaker 2: I mean he was saving people left and right over
- 26:55Speaker 2: there at first base and so thoughtful as a base
- 27:00Speaker 2: mean Kevin Seitzer called him the best, said he has
- 27:03Speaker 2: the best quarter awareness of anyone he's ever been around
- 27:06Speaker 2: as a player or a coach. And he's been in
- 27:08Speaker 2: with some good teams and around some really great players.
- 27:10Speaker 2: So Josh Naylor, I think we're good there. I don't
- 27:14Speaker 2: think he's going to like take a step back or
- 27:16Speaker 2: anything like that. I think that he's kind of found
- 27:18Speaker 2: this groove defensively, and I think he's going to be good.
- 27:21Speaker 2: But just the fact that I said, Josh Naylor had
- 27:23Speaker 2: to save a lot of errant throws last year, and
- 27:28Speaker 2: those guys that were making the errant throws are back, yep.
- 27:32Speaker 2: JP Crawford's arm at the end of the year was toast.
- 27:36Speaker 2: Cole Young had some throwing issues. Twenty one years old.
- 27:39Speaker 2: I expect him to get better, but Cole Young is
- 27:42Speaker 2: still adapting to a position, and he has a shortstop
- 27:45Speaker 2: his entire life and now he's playing second base. And
- 27:48Speaker 2: he was better than Polonko last year defensively, but he
- 27:52Speaker 2: wasn't a Gold Glove contender. There were some issues there JP.
- 27:57Speaker 2: I don't know if he can overcome his issues. JP's
- 28:01Speaker 2: metrics suggest that he has the worst range of any
- 28:06Speaker 2: shortstop that starts for a Major League baseball team in
- 28:09Speaker 2: the game. That typically doesn't get better the older that
- 28:14Speaker 2: you get. I mean, JP's lateral quickness is so suspicious.
- 28:20Speaker 2: If you saw him by the end of the year,
- 28:21Speaker 2: he was getting like a two foot lead off of
- 28:24Speaker 2: first base because he was so timid that he couldn't
- 28:29Speaker 2: get back on a pickoff move that he wasn't even
- 28:32Speaker 2: threatening to get off the bag because he didn't want
- 28:35Speaker 2: the pitcher to be enticed to throw over. Yeah, that's
- 28:39Speaker 2: a shortstop, so that's probably not gonna get any better.
- 28:44Speaker 2: Well his throwing return it should. There's no reason why
- 28:48Speaker 2: JP should have throwing issues like he had at the
- 28:50Speaker 2: end of last year. Does he make the routine play?
- 28:53Speaker 5: Yes?
- 28:53Speaker 2: Is that enough to justify it? I suppose, But we're
- 28:58Speaker 2: not talking about JP ever winning a Gold Glove award again.
- 29:02Speaker 2: It's just not gonna happen because they factor defensive metrics
- 29:07Speaker 2: into their votes now, and you can't have the worst
- 29:10Speaker 2: range and among the worst defensive run saved numbers in
- 29:15Speaker 2: Major League Baseball and the voters consider you a top
- 29:19Speaker 2: flight shortstop. So I think that's just what it is.
- 29:22Speaker 2: He's going to make the plays that are to him,
- 29:25Speaker 2: and he's not gonna make he's not gonna save many bases.
- 29:28Speaker 2: He's not gonna turn many base hits into outs. I mean,
- 29:31Speaker 2: that's just where we are with our shortstop. Brendan Donovan,
- 29:34Speaker 2: by his own admission, at third base not a position
- 29:37Speaker 2: that I've played consistently as a major leaguer. I've got
- 29:40Speaker 2: work to do, and that's why I'm excited to be
- 29:42Speaker 2: here with Perry Hill. If I'm going to be in
- 29:44Speaker 2: everyday third basement and we still don't know if that's
- 29:46Speaker 2: going to be the case, then I've got I got
- 29:49Speaker 2: to clean some things up. And I understand why he
- 29:53Speaker 2: wasn't an everyday third basement. He was with the Saint
- 29:55Speaker 2: Louis Cardinals and Nolan Aronado's one of the great defensive
- 29:57Speaker 2: players of all time, and he was standing in front
- 29:59Speaker 2: of him. So you don't play Brendan Donovan at third
- 30:01Speaker 2: base in that case, So he's just not accustomed to
- 30:05Speaker 2: playing there every day. And I'm sure he will be better,
- 30:09Speaker 2: but I'm not I still don't know if I don't
- 30:12Speaker 2: rate his defense at third as at least a question mark.
- 30:17Speaker 2: I'm not saying a weakness, but it is at least
- 30:20Speaker 2: something to watch bear out. Randy rose Arena is a
- 30:24Speaker 2: circus in left field, and sometimes he'll make terrific plays
- 30:28Speaker 2: because of his athleticism and he can chase down balls,
- 30:31Speaker 2: and then other times, I mean he's lofting the ball in,
- 30:35Speaker 2: he's throwing the wrong bases, he's I mean, he can
- 30:39Speaker 2: be a circus out there, and that aspect is not
- 30:42Speaker 2: going to improve. Its just not you know, And so
- 30:45Speaker 2: to me, that's a major question mark and might even
- 30:49Speaker 2: be bordering on a weakness. And then in right field, yeah,
- 30:52Speaker 2: I think you're fine when Roeblaze is out there. I
- 30:55Speaker 2: think you're gonna be fine when ref Snyder's out there.
- 30:57Speaker 2: I think you're gonna be okay when Rayley's out there.
- 31:00Speaker 2: And then when ken Zone's out there, we got a
- 31:03Speaker 2: little bit of a question.
- 31:04Speaker 8: Really.
- 31:05Speaker 2: The only places defensively that I think that you have
- 31:08Speaker 2: sure things are catcher and center field, and then I
- 31:11Speaker 2: would put Nayler as the third most positive surest thing
- 31:15Speaker 2: that we have. But when you start listing it off
- 31:19Speaker 2: second short, lack of range at short, lack of throwing
- 31:24Speaker 2: at second, No, not a lot of experience at third base,
- 31:30Speaker 2: a bit of a knucklehead as a left fielder, and
- 31:34Speaker 2: then a rotating right field where at some times you're
- 31:38Speaker 2: not going to have your best guy out there, they
- 31:41Speaker 2: start to stack up a little bit. So if we're
- 31:43Speaker 2: a pitching first organization, well, having a great defense behind
- 31:49Speaker 2: you really does matter. Yeah, So I don't think there's
- 31:53Speaker 2: any way that I can convince myself that we're going
- 31:55Speaker 2: to have a great defense this year. I'm just hoping
- 31:57Speaker 2: that we end up having a good defense, and I'll
- 32:00Speaker 2: even settle for Okay, if we start kicking the ball around,
- 32:05Speaker 2: you know, turning singles into doubles and things of that nature,
- 32:09Speaker 2: it could end up becoming an issue.
- 32:11Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 32:11Speaker 2: And as far as I can tell, as positive as
- 32:14Speaker 2: I am about this upcoming season, I mean, I'm climbing
- 32:16Speaker 2: up to ninety six to ninety seven wins for this
- 32:18Speaker 2: team this year. If there is a question mark, I
- 32:21Speaker 2: do think it is on the defensive side of the ball.
- 32:23Speaker 4: I think that's fair, especially with you know, outside of
- 32:26Speaker 4: Cal Julio and Naleric, there's a lot of unknowns, and
- 32:29Speaker 4: especially what we saw last year from JP and a
- 32:32Speaker 4: Rose Arena.
- 32:32Speaker 7: I get it.
- 32:33Speaker 2: Yeah, something to monitor. I'm not saying to worry about it.
- 32:37Speaker 7: No, just something to you know.
- 32:39Speaker 4: Don't go in thinking like, oh my gosh, we're gonna
- 32:41Speaker 4: just have gold gloves everywhere.
- 32:43Speaker 2: I mean, we have two gold glovers on the entire team.
- 32:47Speaker 2: That's it. We have two.
- 32:49Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 32:49Speaker 2: No, Now we have a defensive coach who has turned
- 32:54Speaker 2: people who never even played the position before into goal glovers.
- 32:58Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 32:58Speaker 2: So we got that in our back pocket. But I
- 33:01Speaker 2: would rank it as probably my biggest concern for this team.
- 33:05Speaker 2: I think that's fair heading into the year. All right,
- 33:07Speaker 2: coming up next, interesting thing about Anthony Richardson that I
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- 33:34Speaker 2: Frida eight o'clock hour Here on this Friday. My name
- 33:36Speaker 2: is Chuck Poll. Ashley Ryan here as well. Bucky Jacobson
- 33:40Speaker 2: is out today. He'll be back with us on Monday morning,
- 33:43Speaker 2: starting at six o'clock. So we welcome you into our
- 33:45Speaker 2: eight o'clock hour, where every Friday we deliver the eight
- 33:49Speaker 2: top stories of the day. We call it the Ochow.
- 33:52Speaker 2: We used to do it every day, remember that.
- 33:54Speaker 7: Yeah, actually I do. Until you just said that, I've
- 33:57Speaker 7: forgotten all about it. Yeah, we did.
- 33:58Speaker 2: Every single day to actually find eight pieces of audio. Yeah,
- 34:03Speaker 2: and do a segment eight and eight here and yeah,
- 34:06Speaker 2: plain time.
- 34:06Speaker 4: I'm so efficient at finding it now. I remember when
- 34:10Speaker 4: we were like when we were had some practice, when
- 34:12Speaker 4: Rich was like, I think we should do it less, Like,
- 34:14Speaker 4: let's just do it once a week.
- 34:15Speaker 7: I remember, I did not argue.
- 34:18Speaker 2: Well, now we do it on Fridays. We recap the week,
- 34:21Speaker 2: We get you ready for the weekend with your eight
- 34:23Speaker 2: top stories of the day. This is water cooler fodder
- 34:26Speaker 2: for you in case you missed out on some information
- 34:28Speaker 2: and you don't want to be ill equipped. So let's
- 34:31Speaker 2: get things started. Our top story today we will begin
- 34:33Speaker 2: with hockey after a three week layoff to accommodate the
- 34:38Speaker 2: Olympic break. The NHL resumed play on Wednesday, and that
- 34:43Speaker 2: included the Seattle Krack and taking the ice on Wednesday.
- 34:48Speaker 2: We spent days discussing how important it was for the
- 34:52Speaker 2: Krack and to pick up where they left off before
- 34:55Speaker 2: the Olympic break, where they'd won six out of their
- 34:57Speaker 2: last eight games. They seem to have discuss a number
- 35:00Speaker 2: one line with Veneers and McCann and Everley clicking. They
- 35:05Speaker 2: seem to have two goaltenders that were playing pretty well.
- 35:08Speaker 2: They were a playoff team if the season were to
- 35:11Speaker 2: have ended right there before the Olympic break, there in
- 35:15Speaker 2: the Stanley Cup playoffs, but a streaky team. Could they
- 35:19Speaker 2: afford to get out of the gates slow with this
- 35:23Speaker 2: resumption of play that began on Wednesday, Will It's been
- 35:28Speaker 2: a disaster since they resumed. A four to one loss
- 35:31Speaker 2: to the Dallas Stars on Wednesday, and then last night
- 35:33Speaker 2: facing a last place Saint Louis Blues team, the Kraken
- 35:38Speaker 2: got whooped again. Saint Louis back.
- 35:41Speaker 1: Of the offensivesn't look at May on the back door
- 35:43Speaker 1: centeric passing front Pucked. In the followay scores, Puck was
- 35:51Speaker 1: loose in the blue paint. Saint Louis had three guys
- 35:55Speaker 1: around the top of the circle. The shot k from
- 35:58Speaker 1: May to up the line, telling Holloway who gets the
- 36:01Speaker 1: last touch. Blues goal back to back to take.
- 36:05Speaker 2: A three to one lead. Have it fits you on
- 36:07Speaker 2: the call right here on your flagship for cracking Hockey
- 36:09Speaker 2: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJARFM. Dylan Holloway had
- 36:13Speaker 2: three goals for the Blues. I think they call that
- 36:15Speaker 2: a hat trick.
- 36:16Speaker 8: They do.
- 36:16Speaker 7: I saw the hats.
- 36:18Speaker 2: And Saint Louis ends up winning by a final score
- 36:20Speaker 2: of five to one. So Ashley in two games since
- 36:22Speaker 2: returning with all the I mean we were kind of
- 36:26Speaker 2: we were really open for pumps. Yeah, have some cracking
- 36:30Speaker 2: hitting the ground, running all that rest, and you didn't
- 36:32Speaker 2: have that many players play in the Olympics, so we
- 36:35Speaker 2: were fresh and not banged up, and we could play
- 36:38Speaker 2: the cord when other people were gonna have to sit
- 36:40Speaker 2: their goalies because they were still tired from the Olympic
- 36:43Speaker 2: experience or injured, and instead they've been outscored nine to two.
- 36:48Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's been disappointing, especially you go into
- 36:50Speaker 4: the Dallas game thinking, okay, you know, this is a
- 36:53Speaker 4: tough team, but they've got Attinger out, so we're at
- 36:57Speaker 4: an advantage there. And they've you know, they've got all
- 36:59Speaker 4: these players coming off the Olympic break. We don't have
- 37:01Speaker 4: as many, so we're going to be at more of
- 37:03Speaker 4: an advantage. They had more injuries. And then you lose,
- 37:06Speaker 4: and Ian tells.
- 37:07Speaker 7: Us, Okay, that's all right, it's a bad matchup. All right,
- 37:09Speaker 7: that's fine.
- 37:09Speaker 4: So we'll go into Saint Louis now here we're going
- 37:13Speaker 4: to see the crack in that we should be seen,
- 37:15Speaker 4: and they.
- 37:16Speaker 7: Just didn't show up.
- 37:17Speaker 4: So if that whole argument of rest versus rust, I mean,
- 37:20Speaker 4: we look rusty.
- 37:22Speaker 2: Cracking, have lost all the momentum they carried into the break.
- 37:25Speaker 2: They are zero to seven on the power play. That
- 37:27Speaker 2: does not help. The Blues didn't even have a power
- 37:30Speaker 2: play opportunity last night and they still outshot us I
- 37:34Speaker 2: think by nine shots, thirty two to twenty three. I
- 37:37Speaker 2: think was the final. So I mean it's disastrous. I mean,
- 37:40Speaker 2: you couldn't. It's two games, and so two games are
- 37:44Speaker 2: not the rest of the season going to.
- 37:46Speaker 7: Make, but two games that couldn't have gone worse.
- 37:49Speaker 2: Exactly when you're expecting when you're getting hyped up and
- 37:53Speaker 2: you're coming off the Olympic break and the US gold
- 37:56Speaker 2: and you're excited to watch hockey again. And the last
- 37:59Speaker 2: time you watched the crack can play, they were playing well,
- 38:01Speaker 2: and you think that maybe the break would have been
- 38:03Speaker 2: more beneficial to them than their opponents, and instead you
- 38:07Speaker 2: just stink up the ice two nights in a row.
- 38:10Speaker 2: And Ian Forness told us yesterday when we put him
- 38:12Speaker 2: on the show yesterday, said there was nothing to worry
- 38:15Speaker 2: about after the Dallas game, but if they lose again
- 38:17Speaker 2: to the Blues, then maybe we got something to worry about. Well,
- 38:19Speaker 2: guess what, Ashley, here, we wake up on a Friday
- 38:22Speaker 2: morning and it feels like I feel like we got
- 38:24Speaker 2: something to worry about.
- 38:25Speaker 7: Yeah, it does feel very worrisome.
- 38:26Speaker 4: And then you've got Vancouver coming in, who is not good,
- 38:29Speaker 4: but neither was Saint Louis and Vancouver is your rival,
- 38:33Speaker 4: so they're going to be amped up to play you,
- 38:35Speaker 4: especially in your home.
- 38:37Speaker 2: Home tomorrow night against the Canucks at seven o'clock. And
- 38:40Speaker 2: maybe Eddie Olcich can make sense of it all. He's
- 38:42Speaker 2: going to join us today at nine o'clock. Ed Zo
- 38:45Speaker 2: his friends call him. Yes, I'm not one of those.
- 38:48Speaker 2: Yeah maybe one day, yeah, but maybe one day. But
- 38:51Speaker 2: we'll talk about his experience of calling the gold medal
- 38:55Speaker 2: Olympic game and the Olympics in general, and then hopefully
- 38:58Speaker 2: he's got some answers to solve the kraken right now.
- 39:01Speaker 2: He was angry last night. I mean he was just
- 39:04Speaker 2: he was angry shoot the puck, you know, last night
- 39:08Speaker 2: during his commentary, and so I have a feeling he'll
- 39:11Speaker 2: be quite colorful. Eddie does not strike me as somebody.
- 39:14Speaker 7: That holds back, doesn't mince words.
- 39:17Speaker 5: All right.
- 39:17Speaker 2: Item number two on our eight item o cho Seahawks.
- 39:20Speaker 2: So you know, it's difficult to repeat as champions. Your
- 39:24Speaker 2: free agents suddenly become more valuable because they've got Super
- 39:28Speaker 2: Bowl champion attached to their name. So you're gonna lose
- 39:32Speaker 2: some of those guys. You do worry in the offseason
- 39:35Speaker 2: about complacency. Will the team still have the same hunger
- 39:39Speaker 2: now that they've won a Super Bowl? The guys you
- 39:41Speaker 2: do choose to pay, well, they have the same hunger
- 39:44Speaker 2: now that they're not chasing that big contract anymore. There's
- 39:47Speaker 2: a lot to worry about after you've won a Super Bowl.
- 39:51Speaker 2: This one we didn't see coming. DeMarcus Lawrence, who trapes
- 39:55Speaker 2: the Seattle streets on parade day topless. I mean, when
- 39:59Speaker 2: you do that, you're on top of the world, right
- 40:01Speaker 2: you are, when you're just half naked in public celebrating
- 40:03Speaker 2: your achievements.
- 40:04Speaker 7: Usually when I met my best I know, and so.
- 40:07Speaker 2: I didn't see this coming. But reports yesterday suggesting that
- 40:11Speaker 2: DeMarcus Lawrence, at age thirty three, twelve years into his
- 40:15Speaker 2: National Football League career and only one year into his
- 40:18Speaker 2: Seahawks career, is actually contemplating retirements and may not suit
- 40:23Speaker 2: up for the Hawks or anyone else heading in to
- 40:25Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Greg Bell, our Seahawks insider, was on
- 40:29Speaker 2: with us at seven o'clock this morning and I asked
- 40:31Speaker 2: him what he's hearing about this?
- 40:33Speaker 5: Well, we asked Mike McDonald at and he said that
- 40:36Speaker 5: last he talked to Lawrence, Lawrence wants to come back,
- 40:39Speaker 5: And I mean it makes sense that a player of
- 40:42Speaker 5: his stature, four time Pro bowler, has played a dozen
- 40:46Speaker 5: years in the league, going to be thirty four, goes
- 40:48Speaker 5: out after winning a Super Bowl. The one thing he
- 40:50Speaker 5: said he has always sought in the NFL when he
- 40:53Speaker 5: got to Seattle today he signed. He said, I'm here
- 40:56Speaker 5: because I thought this is my chance to win a
- 40:58Speaker 5: Super Bowl. He turned out to be correct. There had
- 41:00Speaker 5: a great season doing it. So it is a natural
- 41:03Speaker 5: supposition that a player might want to go out on top,
- 41:06Speaker 5: which is where I think this comes from. But as
- 41:09Speaker 5: of two days ago, the coach says that the player
- 41:11Speaker 5: told him he's coming back. Now. McDonald did say that
- 41:14Speaker 5: can change, especially the further a player gets away from
- 41:18Speaker 5: this brotherhood that they had for the last eight seven,
- 41:20Speaker 5: eight nine months. As of now, McDonald says that Lawrence
- 41:24Speaker 5: and everybody else makes it interview saying they're coming back.
- 41:28Speaker 2: Well, we shall see. Boy, I mean, I sort of
- 41:32Speaker 2: get it. If that were the decision, I'd applaud him
- 41:35Speaker 2: for the decision.
- 41:36Speaker 7: Not many athletes get to go out on top.
- 41:38Speaker 2: And not many athletes can pull themselves away from the sport.
- 41:42Speaker 2: They're too addicted to the lifestyle and the competition to
- 41:46Speaker 2: pull themselves away. They say, in theory, it sounds nice.
- 41:50Speaker 2: I'm going to play this long. As long as I
- 41:52Speaker 2: make this much money and I win a Super Bowl,
- 41:55Speaker 2: then I'm going to be done. Well, not a lot
- 41:57Speaker 2: of them do it. I mean John Elway did it famously,
- 42:00Speaker 2: but not a lot of guys actually pulled that off.
- 42:04Speaker 2: There have been more that have decided before they made
- 42:07Speaker 2: the millions, and like Patrick Willis, no, I just want
- 42:11Speaker 2: to keep my health, so I'm done.
- 42:13Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 42:13Speaker 2: No, I made a little bit of money, more than
- 42:15Speaker 2: I thought I was gonna make, and I'm done. But
- 42:17Speaker 2: you don't rarely see the guy, or excuse me, you
- 42:19Speaker 2: rarely see the individual that actually does kind of script
- 42:24Speaker 2: it out and then when the time comes, does walk away.
- 42:28Speaker 2: But after eleven seasons with Dallas DeMarcus, Lawrence rolled the
- 42:32Speaker 2: dice to try to win a Super Bowl with the
- 42:34Speaker 2: team that Vegas said was only gonna win like eight games. Yeah,
- 42:37Speaker 2: and it worked out. It worked out beautifully. He won
- 42:40Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. His play was outstanding. He was a
- 42:43Speaker 2: heavy contributor to the championship. But now it sounds like
- 42:48Speaker 2: he's at least considering contemplating doing the old right off
- 42:52Speaker 2: into the sunset as a champion while my health is
- 42:54Speaker 2: still intact.
- 42:55Speaker 4: Yeah, and I would commit him for doing it as well,
- 42:57Speaker 4: because I do talk about that, you don't, you know,
- 43:00Speaker 4: I don't see many people that do go out on top.
- 43:01Speaker 4: The only thing that I would think is the draw
- 43:04Speaker 4: of the challenge trying to go back to back and
- 43:08Speaker 4: would he be pulled into that. But at the same time,
- 43:12Speaker 4: then if you don't win the Super Bowl again, now
- 43:14Speaker 4: you're not going out on top. Now are you going
- 43:15Speaker 4: to try to come back again to do it? I mean,
- 43:17Speaker 4: then you're in a vicious cycles, right.
- 43:19Speaker 2: And that's usually what happened, yeah, because they do find
- 43:22Speaker 2: that motivation of oh Man back to back would be great.
- 43:26Speaker 2: So if he does it, I guess I got to
- 43:27Speaker 2: tip my cap to him. But it certainly comes as
- 43:29Speaker 2: a surprise. And now all of a sudden, Hawks are
- 43:32Speaker 2: staring dead at having two edge rushers in a very
- 43:35Speaker 2: short period of time, possibly leaving the organization Lawrence via retirement,
- 43:40Speaker 2: Mafe via free agency, which will start the tampering period
- 43:43Speaker 2: starts on March tenths or not too far away from that,
- 43:47Speaker 2: And suddenly you're looking at I mean, that's a position
- 43:49Speaker 2: where every organization looks for a pass rusher in the
- 43:53Speaker 2: draft every offseason anyway, and if you're going to be
- 43:56Speaker 2: down to from jump heading into the offseason, I think
- 44:01Speaker 2: I would want to know sooner than later if DeMarcus
- 44:04Speaker 2: Lawrence is serious about absolutely.
- 44:06Speaker 7: Yes.
- 44:06Speaker 2: The NFL Combine is where you restock your stores. And
- 44:11Speaker 2: that's exactly what's going on this weekend. And Indy just
- 44:15Speaker 2: a bunch of prospects running around in pajamas, getting timed,
- 44:20Speaker 2: lifting weights, jumping high all that sort of thing. It
- 44:24Speaker 2: got started last night the first set of workouts that
- 44:28Speaker 2: featured the defensive linemen and the linebackers, so the front
- 44:31Speaker 2: seven guys. And this is supposed to be the best group.
- 44:34Speaker 2: It's either this group or the offensive line group that
- 44:36Speaker 2: will participate in workouts on Sunday. They did not disappoint
- 44:41Speaker 2: last night. Apparently collectively the best forty times in the
- 44:48Speaker 2: history of the combine for the defensive tackles, the defensive ends,
- 44:53Speaker 2: and the lineback all three of them. Wow, had the
- 44:55Speaker 2: best combined forty times. So I don't know if that
- 44:59Speaker 2: suggests that the evolution of athletes, they just get faster
- 45:03Speaker 2: every single year, literally every single year, or if it
- 45:07Speaker 2: does suggest that this is that good of a group,
- 45:11Speaker 2: Like if there's a year to find a front seven guy,
- 45:14Speaker 2: this might be the year. Because boy, the superlatives were
- 45:18Speaker 2: flying all over the place on the NFL network Draft
- 45:21Speaker 2: cover or combine coverage.
- 45:23Speaker 7: Like feathers from a down pillow.
- 45:24Speaker 2: Yeah. Texas Tech defensive end David Bailey, who nearly I
- 45:29Speaker 2: wouldn't say beat Oregon, but he kept them in the
- 45:32Speaker 2: game against Oregon in the playoffs. If you remember him,
- 45:35Speaker 2: he might end up being the second pick in the
- 45:37Speaker 2: draft at six four, two fifty one. He ran a
- 45:40Speaker 2: four to five one forty last night and then got
- 45:43Speaker 2: upstaged by the Ohio State linebackers Arvel Reese and Sunny Styles,
- 45:47Speaker 2: who each ran a four four to seven forty. Styles
- 45:51Speaker 2: also posted a record setting vertical leap for a man
- 45:54Speaker 2: his size at forty three and a half inches. My goodness,
- 45:58Speaker 2: six four running a four four seven with a forty
- 46:02Speaker 2: three and a half inch vert that's incredible. Bailey, Rees
- 46:06Speaker 2: and Styles could go two, three and four in the draft.
- 46:09Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, that was a conversation last night.
- 46:11Speaker 2: I thought it was a point in question. Rich Eysen
- 46:14Speaker 2: asked his experts the Jets number two on the clock.
- 46:18Speaker 2: Is their pick working out tonight? In other words, is
- 46:22Speaker 2: it Bailey, Reese or Styles that is that we're watching?
- 46:26Speaker 2: Is one of them going to be the Jet? Daniel
- 46:28Speaker 2: Jeremiah's answer was yes, I do believe that the number
- 46:32Speaker 2: two pick in the draft is going to be one
- 46:34Speaker 2: of these three dudes, and they put on a show,
- 46:36Speaker 2: all three of them, and especially Styles. Yeah.
- 46:39Speaker 4: Well n stunny Win's the name part of the best
- 46:43Speaker 4: named portion of the combine.
- 46:44Speaker 2: Right, Yeah. And then afterwards he and teen Wolf went
- 46:47Speaker 2: driving around town and he did backflips off.
- 46:50Speaker 7: The I'm not surprised by the top of the van.
- 46:52Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 46:52Speaker 2: Yeah, it was Styles was his name.
- 46:54Speaker 7: Yeah, No, I remember I saw I saw teen Wolf
- 46:57Speaker 7: a lot.
- 46:57Speaker 2: I didn't know if you'd seen that one. Yeah. Tonight,
- 47:00Speaker 2: the defensive backs and the tight ends are going to
- 47:02Speaker 2: be grouped together, and so we're going to see another
- 47:04Speaker 2: Ohio state freak show in Caleb Downs participate amongst the others.
- 47:10Speaker 2: So NFL Combine Day number two Saturday will be quarterbacks,
- 47:14Speaker 2: running backs, and receivers, and as I mentioned on Sunday,
- 47:17Speaker 2: it will be the offensive lineman. Mariner Spring training continues
- 47:20Speaker 2: in this weekend. There will be a feature attraction, the
- 47:24Speaker 2: number two overall pick from last year's draft, a gift
- 47:27Speaker 2: to Seattle really from those cheeky baseball gods. He's going
- 47:31Speaker 2: to take the mound for the first time in a
- 47:33Speaker 2: game as a Mariner in the Cactus League. Kate Anderson
- 47:37Speaker 2: is going to get the ball, so certainly a feature
- 47:40Speaker 2: attraction at this early stage in spring training. Kate Anderson,
- 47:45Speaker 2: of course, was the buzz of spring training while we
- 47:48Speaker 2: were down there, along with fellow prospect pitching prospect Ryan Sloan.
- 47:53Speaker 2: We sat down chatted with both of them at one
- 47:55Speaker 2: point last week and Kate Anderson talked about what he
- 47:59Speaker 2: might be able to absorb from the five starting pitchers
- 48:03Speaker 2: who are going to of course fill out the rotation
- 48:08Speaker 2: and at some point he's going to have to replace
- 48:10Speaker 2: one of them.
- 48:10Speaker 9: I think each picture is unique. But when you look
- 48:13Speaker 9: at the starting rotation, they're just they go around, they
- 48:16Speaker 9: go about their business just so professionally, and you really
- 48:20Speaker 9: admire that. And when you just take things one step
- 48:23Speaker 9: at a time, just just really being able to watch
- 48:25Speaker 9: them and understanding of what they do is special. Just
- 48:29Speaker 9: you kind of can just kind of take that for
- 48:30Speaker 9: a grain of solid and just continue to work till come.
- 48:34Speaker 2: What's the mission this year?
- 48:35Speaker 5: Cade?
- 48:35Speaker 2: What is what is the goal for you?
- 48:37Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 48:38Speaker 9: I think what the Marriage are known for dominating the
- 48:41Speaker 9: strike zone. Okay, think when you when you have that mindset,
- 48:44Speaker 9: it makes things a lot easier on yourself.
- 48:46Speaker 2: But what a way, What a cushy way to start
- 48:49Speaker 2: his professional career when he knows I'm pretty close to
- 48:52Speaker 2: being major league ready, and because of the lottery drawing,
- 48:56Speaker 2: I get to go to an already good team, if
- 48:58Speaker 2: not a great team, they might be a eight team
- 49:00Speaker 2: this year. I think they will be a great team
- 49:03Speaker 2: this year. And so you get to sort of take
- 49:08Speaker 2: your time. You're not rushed into any action. And then
- 49:11Speaker 2: in the meantime you get to sort of learn from
- 49:14Speaker 2: guys who are of similar age, let's face it, and
- 49:17Speaker 2: yet have a wealth of experience at the major league
- 49:20Speaker 2: level compared to you, have had success early in their
- 49:23Speaker 2: career and have all sorts of little nuggets of wisdom
- 49:27Speaker 2: to pass on to you. And in the past, maybe
- 49:31Speaker 2: those guys that represent that group would hold it against
- 49:36Speaker 2: you because you're trying to take their job. But this group,
- 49:39Speaker 2: they're so kind. Yeah, they're so nice. The chemistry between them,
- 49:43Speaker 2: I mean, you just want to be a part of it,
- 49:46Speaker 2: and they want to put their arms around new teammates
- 49:49Speaker 2: and new prospects. It's really a great situation that the
- 49:53Speaker 2: Mariners are in and Kate Anderson is in Yeah.
- 49:55Speaker 4: He is, absolutely, and he can also learn a lot,
- 49:57Speaker 4: I think from Emerson Hancock and what he's dealt with
- 49:59Speaker 4: over the last couple of years trying to break into
- 50:02Speaker 4: that rotation.
- 50:02Speaker 2: And kept his great attitude. Yeah, exactly, and he's a sweetheart.
- 50:07Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, I love you sake.
- 50:09Speaker 2: Mariners were eight seven winners over Cleveland on Thursday, cold
- 50:12Speaker 2: Emerson had a pair of hits. They'll play again today.
- 50:15Speaker 2: The WBC is fast approaching. Fourteen Mariners are going to
- 50:19Speaker 2: participate in this spring's World Baseball Classic. That's going to
- 50:23Speaker 2: break up spring training for the MS. I mean, they'll
- 50:25Speaker 2: continue with spring training, but they'll do it without a
- 50:28Speaker 2: significant part of their roster. The first games are going
- 50:32Speaker 2: to be held March fourth. Participants will be leaving their
- 50:36Speaker 2: major league camps to join their national teams as early
- 50:38Speaker 2: as this Sunday. Cal Raleigh will represent America Andres Munos's
- 50:43Speaker 2: closer will represent Mexico. We asked Andres about facing Cal
- 50:49Speaker 2: potentially in the WBC and what that's going to be like.
- 50:55Speaker 10: No, no, oh, yes, wearing the same poluba. I don't
- 50:58Speaker 10: talk to him, you know about u ousy, I would
- 51:02Speaker 10: like to avoid facing Yeah, actually, any of my bullopins.
- 51:07Speaker 10: He hasn't catching any of them. Hopefully he forget about
- 51:11Speaker 10: my stuff and he's ran new to him when I
- 51:15Speaker 10: win keys on the bucks, I don't think he's going
- 51:18Speaker 10: to catch any of my canes too, So.
- 51:21Speaker 2: I also don't think he's going to forget about yourself.
- 51:24Speaker 2: So sorry to disappoint you. Ah, he's just a nation.
- 51:29Speaker 7: I hope that he forget about my stuff.
- 51:31Speaker 2: He forgets about my stuff.
- 51:32Speaker 7: Well, he's probably not, but I love that you're hoping.
- 51:37Speaker 2: Uh. And then I love the when he's on the box.
- 51:42Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, not in the box, on the box, I
- 51:45Speaker 7: love it.
- 51:46Speaker 2: Oh man, he is awesome. I'm gonna get a poster
- 51:48Speaker 2: of Munos put it on my wall.
- 51:50Speaker 7: I want a poster of him and Matilda.
- 51:53Speaker 2: Uh so yes, uh WBC starting March fourth, but they'll
- 51:58Speaker 2: be leaving camp, all those guys coming up here on Sunday.
- 52:01Speaker 2: And believe me, the Mariners Brass is not looking forward
- 52:04Speaker 2: to that. It's just one of those things. They just
- 52:06Speaker 2: hold their breath and hope and cry a little bit. Sounders.
- 52:09Speaker 2: They look to start two and oh, there'll be in
- 52:11Speaker 2: action tomorrow night and they will take on another team
- 52:16Speaker 2: that's trying to go to and oh.
- 52:18Speaker 1: One of the Flying Elves is Shoot Tall chapter.
- 52:21Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Real salt Lake doesn't actually have a nickname,
- 52:24Speaker 2: but I do love the Flying Elvis's for them.
- 52:27Speaker 7: It would be great.
- 52:28Speaker 2: Yeah, that should be your nickname. Even the Real isn't real.
- 52:33Speaker 2: The franchise is paying tribute to Real Madrid of Spain,
- 52:37Speaker 2: even though there is zero connection between the franchises.
- 52:40Speaker 4: I think I've heard a lot of people say Salt
- 52:43Speaker 4: Lake is the Madrid of the United States.
- 52:47Speaker 2: A lot of people said that both teams are one
- 52:50Speaker 2: and O. To start a brand new season, Jackson Feldt
- 52:53Speaker 2: is gonna join us today at nine point thirty. With
- 52:55Speaker 2: all the spring training coverage and Super Bowl and everything else,
- 52:58Speaker 2: we haven't even gotten a jack Felt season preview, So
- 53:01Speaker 2: we're gonna get that today at nine point thirty. College basketball,
- 53:05Speaker 2: You Dub will be in action tomorrow against Wisconsin at
- 53:08Speaker 2: one o'clock. But tomorrow's gonna be all about one of
- 53:11Speaker 2: the all time Husky greats. That is Debtlift Shrimp, who
- 53:15Speaker 2: will be honored by having his number retired to the
- 53:19Speaker 2: honored guest.
- 53:20Speaker 7: He also might love the song.
- 53:21Speaker 2: He might love it, He should love it. It's a
- 53:23Speaker 2: great song and it's.
- 53:24Speaker 7: Honoring his heritage, right. Yeah, you could play the fight song.
- 53:28Speaker 7: He here's that all the time.
- 53:30Speaker 2: Uh huh, play him a little ninety nine loof balloons
- 53:33Speaker 2: and then have him just all the lights and have
- 53:36Speaker 2: him slow dance with his wife. He's at mid court.
- 53:38Speaker 4: We just yelled Nina.
- 53:43Speaker 2: Spencer Owes is gonna join us next. I'm gonna find
- 53:45Speaker 2: out if he's gonna be there on the court with
- 53:47Speaker 2: Debtlift tomorrow, and if not, I'll just ask him about Debtlift.
- 53:51Speaker 2: Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM. All right,
- 54:04Speaker 2: chucking Ashley with you, and a lot going on this weekend.
- 54:07Speaker 2: You got a hockey game tomorrow night at seven o'clock
- 54:10Speaker 2: cracking versus the Canucks. We got Sounders in action tomorrow
- 54:14Speaker 2: at four point thirty against Reale Salt Lake Mariner. Spring
- 54:17Speaker 2: training throughout the weekend. NFL Combine going on. But let's
- 54:20Speaker 2: not forget to honor DEBTLIAF Shrimp college basketball game tomorrow,
- 54:25Speaker 2: U Dub taking on Wisconsin and to join us to
- 54:28Speaker 2: talk some you Dub hoops and also his thoughts on
- 54:32Speaker 2: you on DEBTLAF Shrimp's Big Day is another former Husky great,
- 54:37Speaker 2: our friend Spencer Hawes joins us here on Chuck and Buck.
- 54:40Speaker 2: How are you, sir, I'll do it well?
- 54:43Speaker 5: How are you?
- 54:43Speaker 2: We got the right guy?
- 54:44Speaker 11: Right?
- 54:45Speaker 2: I mean there's not some like anger between you and Debtlift.
- 54:49Speaker 2: I mean you are going to say good things about
- 54:51Speaker 2: him on the show today, aren't you?
- 54:54Speaker 11: It will be overwhelmingly positive.
- 54:57Speaker 2: Good wo.
- 55:00Speaker 11: Ever?
- 55:00Speaker 2: Quite know? Right? No? I think we did know. So
- 55:05Speaker 2: in terms of this honor, Debtlive Triump, what do you
- 55:08Speaker 2: think of him receiving this from your university?
- 55:12Speaker 11: I think very well deserved and probably even more so overdue.
- 55:18Speaker 11: I think, you know, I think he had so much
- 55:21Speaker 11: success at the professional level, specifically with the Sonics, that
- 55:25Speaker 11: I think a lot of people and a lot of
- 55:27Speaker 11: basketball fans kind of forget what he meant for you,
- 55:30Speaker 11: dub and the success that he had there, you know,
- 55:34Speaker 11: in the early eighties, and so I think it's a
- 55:37Speaker 11: great opportunity finally to celebrate what he's meant for the
- 55:41Speaker 11: program and kind of the pillar that he was at
- 55:46Speaker 11: the Husky before he had such an incredible professional career.
- 55:49Speaker 2: So what was your first exposure to him? What was
- 55:52Speaker 2: your age? What did dad and uncle think about Debtlave
- 55:56Speaker 2: Tremp's game.
- 55:58Speaker 11: I mean, my I remember dead as a as an
- 56:01Speaker 11: iheard little kid Sonics fan and uh you know, gone
- 56:05Speaker 11: down the hill of the kier Ina and kind of
- 56:08Speaker 11: seeing the you know, the the original Big Three, I guess,
- 56:12Speaker 11: or at least for my generation, the Big Three of
- 56:14Speaker 11: the Sonics, of which, uh you know, I always think
- 56:17Speaker 11: back to that All Star picture. I can't remember which
- 56:21Speaker 11: year it was, but where it's a Debt uh Gp
- 56:24Speaker 11: and the rain Man I think they were. It was
- 56:27Speaker 11: back when they used to do the cool jerseys and
- 56:29Speaker 11: Phoenix and they all, you know, they took the All
- 56:31Speaker 11: Star Picture together, and so that's kind of obviously. I
- 56:35Speaker 11: wasn't around for his Husky era, but those are you know,
- 56:38Speaker 11: my first memories as a little kid watching him as
- 56:41Speaker 11: a star for the Sonics.
- 56:43Speaker 2: When you were with the program, though, was he around
- 56:45Speaker 2: because he just seems so involved in the program right now,
- 56:49Speaker 2: such an ambassador for you, dub hoops. So did you
- 56:52Speaker 2: have exposure to him while you were being recruited, while
- 56:55Speaker 2: you were being playing at all?
- 56:57Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean he wasn't you know. It wasn't like,
- 57:00Speaker 11: you know, go meet with Debt Lift and he's going
- 57:02Speaker 11: to tell you to come to you. That's just not
- 57:04Speaker 11: really how that Debt operates. But I mean, he's he's
- 57:07Speaker 11: always been such a killer in the community, I think
- 57:10Speaker 11: more so than than anything since he's been done playing
- 57:13Speaker 11: and all the work that he's done with so many
- 57:16Speaker 11: different charities in the area. And you know his golf tournament,
- 57:20Speaker 11: I think they ran for twenty five years, and all
- 57:22Speaker 11: the money they raised and the good things they were
- 57:25Speaker 11: able to do from that. So I think you're never
- 57:28Speaker 11: if you're running around Seattle, you're never far from bumping
- 57:30Speaker 11: into Debt, that's for sure.
- 57:32Speaker 2: He just seems cool. He just really seems like he
- 57:34Speaker 2: figured out life along the way. I see photos of
- 57:37Speaker 2: him at his house or wherever, and I'm like, I
- 57:39Speaker 2: want to be Debtla Shrimp. Can I be Debtla Shrimp?
- 57:41Speaker 11: Yeah, fire Nstogi at a am getting ready to play
- 57:46Speaker 11: a little golf. It looks like a pretty good program.
- 57:48Speaker 2: Are you going to be there by chance tomorrow?
- 57:51Speaker 11: I will, I will be there. I will be there
- 57:53Speaker 11: early with my dad and my uncle and happy for
- 57:57Speaker 11: him and his family. And like I said, overdue but
- 58:00Speaker 11: more than well deserved.
- 58:01Speaker 2: Spencer Hawes with us right here on Chuck and Buck
- 58:04Speaker 2: in the morning talking about Debtla Shremp, but not just
- 58:07Speaker 2: about Debtla Shremp and his big day tomorrow. I mean,
- 58:11Speaker 2: how frustrated are you with the program right now to
- 58:14Speaker 2: be sitting here at five hundred and this was supposed
- 58:17Speaker 2: to be uh, move, go ahead, go ahead.
- 58:20Speaker 11: Very frustrated.
- 58:20Speaker 2: Okay, I'm not gonna let you finish.
- 58:25Speaker 11: I mean, it's it's tough trying to balance you know,
- 58:29Speaker 11: the the almost unprecedented run of injuries that they have,
- 58:33Speaker 11: especially early in the season. But you know it's I
- 58:37Speaker 11: know Danny's not going to make an excuse for for that.
- 58:39Speaker 11: Every team goes through that, and you know, I I
- 58:43Speaker 11: really thought with the talent that they acquired this year
- 58:47Speaker 11: and the roster they put together, I think the expectations
- 58:49Speaker 11: were much higher than then where they're at. But you know,
- 58:53Speaker 11: they got a few games here at the end to
- 58:55Speaker 11: put together a little streak. And I learned the other
- 58:59Speaker 11: day that everyone gets in Dagtam tournament, so we don't
- 59:01Speaker 11: have to worry about that. So I think this year
- 59:04Speaker 11: it's trying to plant when you got to play that
- 59:07Speaker 11: first game as far as possible, and then you know,
- 59:10Speaker 11: trying to go on a little around and see what happens.
- 59:12Speaker 2: Well, what what is what's missing? I mean two years
- 59:15Speaker 2: ago when he takes over, they spent the big money
- 59:17Speaker 2: on Osabor, and then that didn't really have the impact
- 59:21Speaker 2: it was supposed to. And then he really dug in
- 59:23Speaker 2: and he seemed like he had created a roster that
- 59:26Speaker 2: should compete at least for an NCAA tournament appearance, and
- 59:30Speaker 2: yet it's falling far short of that barring some miracle
- 59:34Speaker 2: run in the Big Ten Tournament. So what is missing?
- 59:37Speaker 2: What's missing in the chemistry since coach Sprinkle took over.
- 59:42Speaker 11: Shooting? Shooting and shooting. I think in the modern game
- 59:49Speaker 11: of basketball, which you know kind of started at the
- 59:53Speaker 11: international level or the NBA, there's you know, there was
- 59:57Speaker 11: such a premium put on shooting, and like any things,
- 1:00:00Speaker 11: that trickles down to the college game as it continues
- 1:00:03Speaker 11: to evolve. And it's just it's something that's been missing.
- 1:00:08Speaker 3: Uh.
- 1:00:09Speaker 11: You know, it's not just an issue Danny's dealing with.
- 1:00:11Speaker 11: It's uh, it goes back before him. And when you
- 1:00:15Speaker 11: can't shoot, uh makes it a lot more difficult on
- 1:00:19Speaker 11: the offensive end, Uh, to be efficient and to really
- 1:00:24Speaker 11: establish an identity on on that end.
- 1:00:26Speaker 5: Of the floor.
- 1:00:27Speaker 2: And it's disappointing because Steinbach has just seemed it seems
- 1:00:30Speaker 2: to be a wasted year. I think he's he's certainly
- 1:00:32Speaker 2: better than I was expecting. Has he been better than
- 1:00:35Speaker 2: you were expecting?
- 1:00:38Speaker 11: I think he's been better than he expected. If if
- 1:00:40Speaker 11: you read what he said before the season, he's been phenomenal.
- 1:00:44Speaker 11: I think that's part of the most frustrating part about
- 1:00:47Speaker 11: how the Eaven's gone is another uh, you know, lottery
- 1:00:52Speaker 11: potential top ten talent that comes through and just doesn't
- 1:00:56Speaker 11: you know, whatever the collection around him is not able
- 1:01:00Speaker 11: to produce the results.
- 1:01:03Speaker 2: Do they have the right guy? I know that's a
- 1:01:05Speaker 2: tough question to ask you, But do you feel like,
- 1:01:07Speaker 2: with more time that Danny's going to fix this thing?
- 1:01:11Speaker 11: I do, And I think you know it's he was
- 1:01:15Speaker 11: not He did not come in under you know, anywhere
- 1:01:19Speaker 11: near positive circumstances when he took over, And I think
- 1:01:23Speaker 11: it's it can happen quickly, obviously in this new era
- 1:01:27Speaker 11: of transfers and nil and everything else. But I don't
- 1:01:31Speaker 11: think that's the at the end of the day, I
- 1:01:33Speaker 11: don't think that's a sustainable way to build a program
- 1:01:36Speaker 11: and to UH and to take the steps to have
- 1:01:41Speaker 11: continued success because you're just so relighing on mercenaries here
- 1:01:45Speaker 11: and then year out, and I think it does take
- 1:01:47Speaker 11: some time. It takes some patience. Is as frustrating as
- 1:01:50Speaker 11: it is, uh, you know, from a fan perspective, But
- 1:01:54Speaker 11: I think I think we do have the right guy.
- 1:01:56Speaker 11: I think the results will come, and I think it's
- 1:02:00Speaker 11: going to take some continuity with younger guys developing and
- 1:02:03Speaker 11: building a culture and hopefully starting to show an identity.
- 1:02:08Speaker 11: I think that's a frustrating thing, is what a what
- 1:02:12Speaker 11: do we want to be on defense? What type of
- 1:02:14Speaker 11: austins are you going to run that's going to lead
- 1:02:17Speaker 11: us to success.
- 1:02:18Speaker 2: Spencer Awis is with us Seattle Hoops Legend, joining us
- 1:02:21Speaker 2: here on Chuck and Buck this morning, talking a little
- 1:02:24Speaker 2: U dub basketball as the college basketball regular season is
- 1:02:27Speaker 2: coming to an end. But now that I have you,
- 1:02:29Speaker 2: I do want to get your thoughts on something that
- 1:02:31Speaker 2: I've been bringing up a lot, maybe more than Ashley
- 1:02:34Speaker 2: and Bucky have wanted me to bring it up, But
- 1:02:36Speaker 2: this tanking issue in the National Basketball Association. What's your
- 1:02:41Speaker 2: read on it and what's your fix? I'm sure you
- 1:02:44Speaker 2: got an idea floating around in your head.
- 1:02:47Speaker 11: Well, it's nothing. I think the first thing to mention
- 1:02:51Speaker 11: is it's nothing new. Teams have been doing this for
- 1:02:53Speaker 11: a long time. I think it's just in this hypercharged
- 1:02:56Speaker 11: kind of world of you know, more exposure and social media.
- 1:03:01Speaker 11: I don't I don't want to blame it on that,
- 1:03:02Speaker 11: but you have people going way deeper into into some
- 1:03:07Speaker 11: of the you know, different methods of tanking. But that's
- 1:03:11Speaker 11: not to say it isn't an issue. It's a problem.
- 1:03:14Speaker 11: It always seems to creep up around All Star break
- 1:03:16Speaker 11: because you're kind of at that fisher cut bait point
- 1:03:19Speaker 11: of the season. But I think the thing they need
- 1:03:23Speaker 11: to folks that are from a deep perspective is they
- 1:03:26Speaker 11: need to try and rebrand it is, you know, developing
- 1:03:29Speaker 11: of the young players or something along those lines, because
- 1:03:32Speaker 11: that's really along with trying to secure that draft pick,
- 1:03:36Speaker 11: that's the primary focus. When you look at the calendar
- 1:03:40Speaker 11: and you start doing the math and you say, all right,
- 1:03:41Speaker 11: we're outside of the plan. There's not really a route
- 1:03:44Speaker 11: for us. We're going to try and get our draft
- 1:03:46Speaker 11: picks and our younger players some confidence and some experience
- 1:03:49Speaker 11: going forward. But I don't know if you've got to
- 1:03:52Speaker 11: reshuffle the lottery. I mean, I don't begin to plan
- 1:03:55Speaker 11: to have to say I have an answer for it,
- 1:03:58Speaker 11: but it's definitely an issue. I know it turns off
- 1:04:00Speaker 11: a lot of people. It turns off a lot of
- 1:04:01Speaker 11: fan bases. And I'm glad that there's more of a
- 1:04:05Speaker 11: conversation about it now because that will hopefully lead to
- 1:04:09Speaker 11: a solution to try and prevent it from happening, you know,
- 1:04:12Speaker 11: earlier and earlier in the season, as opposed to when
- 1:04:15Speaker 11: you kind of get to the end and there's no uh,
- 1:04:18Speaker 11: you know, there's no playoff opportunity inside.
- 1:04:20Speaker 2: Well, there's just more of an incentive for losing right
- 1:04:24Speaker 2: now than being mediocre, and so I wonder if there
- 1:04:29Speaker 2: could be a change made. They're actually discussing that they'll
- 1:04:33Speaker 2: start keeping a different set of standings that you'll get
- 1:04:36Speaker 2: to a certain point of the year, and then the
- 1:04:39Speaker 2: lottery standings will be wins that you get in the
- 1:04:42Speaker 2: last month or two of the regular season. Seems highly confusing,
- 1:04:46Speaker 2: but I'm open to any ideas Spencer that lead us
- 1:04:50Speaker 2: from decentivizing losing on purpose.
- 1:04:54Speaker 11: Well, and I think it's I don't mind, I wouldn't
- 1:04:58Speaker 11: mind seeing that play out. But I think I think
- 1:05:01Speaker 11: this year it's it's kind of hyper charged because I
- 1:05:05Speaker 11: mean you look at the class coming out in the draft,
- 1:05:08Speaker 11: coming out after a year or two of you know,
- 1:05:11Speaker 11: good drafts that have been a little more top heavy.
- 1:05:14Speaker 11: I think this one's a unique combination of you know,
- 1:05:17Speaker 11: you give three or four guys arguably competing to be
- 1:05:21Speaker 11: the number one pick, but then you you drop behind
- 1:05:23Speaker 11: that and there's still so much talent in the pipeline
- 1:05:27Speaker 11: as you go further back in the first round. And
- 1:05:30Speaker 11: I think that I think that fact in teams looking
- 1:05:35Speaker 11: at you know, even if we don't get the number
- 1:05:37Speaker 11: one pick, there's still a handful of guys that could
- 1:05:40Speaker 11: be franchised altering talents. You know, I saw something the
- 1:05:43Speaker 11: other day that they value the number one pick this
- 1:05:46Speaker 11: year at one hundred million dollars, if you know, if
- 1:05:48Speaker 11: you could go trade on it. So it's as long
- 1:05:53Speaker 11: as you have that you know, kind of fruit dangling
- 1:05:57Speaker 11: for the for the teams at the bottom, Uh, you
- 1:06:00Speaker 11: know they're going to prioritize that over you know, the
- 1:06:04Speaker 11: near term success.
- 1:06:05Speaker 2: How did you and the wife celebrate the Super Bowl?
- 1:06:07Speaker 11: By the way, we were there, we look at you,
- 1:06:12Speaker 11: and it was glorious.
- 1:06:16Speaker 2: You soaked it all up.
- 1:06:18Speaker 11: Uh. And then I had the opportunity. I'd stayed down
- 1:06:21Speaker 11: in San Francisco for a few days to catch a
- 1:06:24Speaker 11: Spurs Warriors game right before All Star breaks. So I
- 1:06:28Speaker 11: just I had a lot of fun walking around San
- 1:06:30Speaker 11: Francisco and Seahawk year twenty four seven.
- 1:06:33Speaker 2: By the way, you did to help us get your
- 1:06:34Speaker 2: guy on. We've tried to reach out to the San
- 1:06:37Speaker 2: Antonio Spurs to get your guy on, and you know,
- 1:06:40Speaker 2: you told us you got he said we needed to
- 1:06:42Speaker 2: showcase him, Mitch, and yet we're we're still waiting for
- 1:06:46Speaker 2: a callback. I think maybe you've got to plant that
- 1:06:47Speaker 2: scene and put him on the air. We'll celebrate his ass.
- 1:06:51Speaker 11: He's a hard guy to get a hold of. Maybe
- 1:06:53Speaker 11: maybe i'll I'll come him. I'm going to interview him.
- 1:06:56Speaker 2: Yeah that's fine, Yeah, come on down, we'll do that,
- 1:06:59Speaker 2: all right. Yeah, Well, thank you, We appreciate your time
- 1:07:02Speaker 2: this morning. Enjoy Saturday, and we'll talk to you down
- 1:07:05Speaker 2: the road.
- 1:07:06Speaker 11: All right, Thanks for having me as always here.
- 1:07:09Speaker 2: Spencer allis the legendary Spencer Aws the Spence Needle himself,
- 1:07:13Speaker 2: joining us right here on Chuck and Buck coming up
- 1:07:16Speaker 2: next Pajama Party Preview Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
- 1:07:34Speaker 2: Here we go, final hour of this busy week here
- 1:07:38Speaker 2: on Chuck and Buck in the Morning, Sports Radio ninety
- 1:07:41Speaker 2: three point three KJRFM. Bucky, you'll be back on Monday.
- 1:07:44Speaker 2: It's been Ashley and I throughout the course of the week,
- 1:07:47Speaker 2: and we just got an hour to go. We've reached
- 1:07:49Speaker 2: the anchor leg and so we sprint toward the finish
- 1:07:52Speaker 2: line that will include Booze after the tape hits our chests. Yeah,
- 1:08:00Speaker 2: Boo's News coming your way at nine forty five today.
- 1:08:03Speaker 2: But we are also going to talk some hockey. We've
- 1:08:06Speaker 2: got a couple of things to talk about the good
- 1:08:09Speaker 2: of Sunday's gold medal and then the bad of the
- 1:08:12Speaker 2: Krakens start since they've resumed the season on Wednesday, and
- 1:08:17Speaker 2: we've got the perfect and I mean the perfect guy
- 1:08:19Speaker 2: to discuss it joining us now.
- 1:08:22Speaker 12: Uh.
- 1:08:22Speaker 2: The man is friends affectually referred to as ed Zo.
- 1:08:25Speaker 2: I don't think we're quite in the friend zone yet, Ashley,
- 1:08:28Speaker 2: so I'll call him mister olcik Eddie. Oldcick now joins
- 1:08:33Speaker 2: us right here on Chuck and Buck, Come morning, sir.
- 1:08:38Speaker 12: Hello Chuck, Hello Ashley, Hello Buck Werber?
- 1:08:40Speaker 5: And the hell you are? You know what with that?
- 1:08:43Speaker 12: With that intro, you can.
- 1:08:45Speaker 2: Oh yes, oh man, I kind is that easy. I
- 1:08:53Speaker 2: don't even have to do anything. I don't have to
- 1:08:55Speaker 2: like run a lap around the building or prove that
- 1:08:57Speaker 2: I can ice skate anything like that. No, no at all.
- 1:09:02Speaker 2: I hope everybody's well.
- 1:09:03Speaker 5: Congratulations to the Hawks.
- 1:09:04Speaker 2: By the way, that was I was over in Italy.
- 1:09:07Speaker 12: You can imagine the time change was a little challenging
- 1:09:11Speaker 12: watching the whole game, but I was lucky enough to
- 1:09:15Speaker 12: tune in. Obviously, love the outcome and appreciated the not
- 1:09:20Speaker 12: a lot of scoring in that game, if you know
- 1:09:21Speaker 12: what I mean. So it was a win win for
- 1:09:23Speaker 12: yours truly, and congratulations to the to the Super Bowl champions.
- 1:09:27Speaker 12: It was pretty awesome to watch from over in Italy.
- 1:09:29Speaker 2: Yeah, we've been pretty busy around here in the sports
- 1:09:32Speaker 2: talk world here, and see, I had no question about it,
- 1:09:34Speaker 2: and and I want to start by congratulating you. I mean,
- 1:09:38Speaker 2: I'm sure you'll tell me I didn't have anything to
- 1:09:40Speaker 2: do with it, but you were on the call for
- 1:09:42Speaker 2: the game winning gold medal game on NBC, which proves
- 1:09:46Speaker 2: that you're quite accomplished in this broadcasting field as well
- 1:09:50Speaker 2: as in your hockey profession as well. So what was
- 1:09:54Speaker 2: it like. What was it like to be on the
- 1:09:56Speaker 2: call for that game and as great a game as
- 1:09:59Speaker 2: it was and for the US to come out on top.
- 1:10:02Speaker 5: Well, I appreciate that, Chuck.
- 1:10:03Speaker 12: It's my fifth Olympics that I've been able to be
- 1:10:06Speaker 12: a part of, one on Radio three with the Best
- 1:10:09Speaker 12: on Best twenty ten, twenty fourteen, and of course this
- 1:10:12Speaker 12: year twenty twenty six of Milan, and then I was
- 1:10:15Speaker 12: able to work for NBC back in the twenty eighteen
- 1:10:20Speaker 12: or twenty two Olympics, so I can't remember, but it
- 1:10:24Speaker 12: is an honor to be there. I'm a full disclosure.
- 1:10:27Speaker 12: I'm an aluma of USA hockey. I played in the
- 1:10:29Speaker 12: Olympics in nineteen eighty four fourteen USA over in Syria
- 1:10:33Speaker 12: of Yugoslavia, and I was inspired because of the American
- 1:10:37Speaker 12: I said nineteen eighty I was twelve turning thirteen at
- 1:10:41Speaker 12: that particular time, and I didn't know how you got
- 1:10:44Speaker 12: to the Olympics. I didn't know how you got to.
- 1:10:45Speaker 2: Make team USA. But all I wanted to do was
- 1:10:47Speaker 2: to make it.
- 1:10:48Speaker 12: And I thought realistically that I would be able to
- 1:10:50Speaker 12: do it when I was an old guy. I thought
- 1:10:52Speaker 12: maybe when I was twenty twenty one, twenty four, twenty five,
- 1:10:56Speaker 12: I didn't know, And sure enough, four years later I
- 1:10:58Speaker 12: got an invitation as sixteen year old and made Team
- 1:11:01Speaker 12: USA and played in the Olympics as a seventeen year old.
- 1:11:04Speaker 12: And obviously at that time there were amateurs only where
- 1:11:06Speaker 12: everybody else was professionals. We were playing against the very best.
- 1:11:10Speaker 12: But to know what that team did for me inspired
- 1:11:15Speaker 12: the next generation of hockey players and just take people
- 1:11:17Speaker 12: inside a little bit. That eighty team opened up the
- 1:11:20Speaker 12: door on a national hockey league for American born players
- 1:11:23Speaker 12: like myself that came in shortly after that. I came
- 1:11:26Speaker 12: into the NHL in eighty four after I played in
- 1:11:28Speaker 12: the Olympics, but at that time the numbers were very,
- 1:11:32Speaker 12: very small of American born players playing in the NHL
- 1:11:35Speaker 12: on a consistent basis that when got the attention of
- 1:11:40Speaker 12: the NHL and NHL executives and said, wow, these kids
- 1:11:44Speaker 12: from the US aren't bad. And now here we are
- 1:11:46Speaker 12: today where we can put the top fifty American born
- 1:11:50Speaker 12: hockey players in the NHL against the top fifty of Canada,
- 1:11:54Speaker 12: who are who are our our tribal And I can
- 1:11:56Speaker 12: say that because I lived as a member of Team
- 1:11:59Speaker 12: US for a long long time.
- 1:12:02Speaker 2: That's come a long way.
- 1:12:03Speaker 12: And you look now the NHL still dominated by Canadians,
- 1:12:07Speaker 12: but that number with the Euros his jump dramatically. And
- 1:12:12Speaker 12: I know that winning the gold medal on Sunday will
- 1:12:15Speaker 12: inspire the next generation or the current generation of hockey players,
- 1:12:19Speaker 12: saying I would love to do that. And I think
- 1:12:23Speaker 12: sitting in that chair as I did remembering watching as
- 1:12:27Speaker 12: a kid and as a fan of Team USA, I
- 1:12:31Speaker 12: know what it did for me. I know what it
- 1:12:32Speaker 12: did for hockey, and I think that to be able
- 1:12:35Speaker 12: to bring it to people back home, I know it
- 1:12:37Speaker 12: was early in the morning for everybody back in the sea,
- 1:12:39Speaker 12: but it was a thrill of a lifetime and it
- 1:12:43Speaker 12: was just great to be a part of it on
- 1:12:45Speaker 12: the broadcast and something that I'll be a very very
- 1:12:47Speaker 12: prouduct to see Team USA when their first gold medal
- 1:12:50Speaker 12: in forty six years.
- 1:12:51Speaker 2: And I'll just say this as well ed Zoe, and
- 1:12:56Speaker 2: that is that there was something to the broadcast. I mean,
- 1:13:00Speaker 2: we all think you're just excellent at what you do
- 1:13:02Speaker 2: in calling a game. But there was a little bit
- 1:13:04Speaker 2: here in Seattle like that's our guy, that's nailing it
- 1:13:07Speaker 2: here tonight. So you know, you you, you had our
- 1:13:11Speaker 2: you had your fans here in Seattle that we were
- 1:13:13Speaker 2: happy you were on the call and uh, and it
- 1:13:16Speaker 2: was an excellent broadcast and uh. And then of course
- 1:13:19Speaker 2: you were part of the intermissions as well, where you're
- 1:13:22Speaker 2: given the key to the overtime and you gave the
- 1:13:25Speaker 2: actual key and that is in three on three hockey,
- 1:13:28Speaker 2: you got to create a two on one and that's
- 1:13:30Speaker 2: exactly what the US ended up with and executed it brilliantly.
- 1:13:34Speaker 12: Uh.
- 1:13:35Speaker 2: I mean that that goal, that chip tooth, smile of
- 1:13:39Speaker 2: Hughes will be something we'll remember forever.
- 1:13:42Speaker 12: Yeah, it really was, Chuck, It was you know, I felt.
- 1:13:47Speaker 2: Like it would end early.
- 1:13:48Speaker 12: And when I was on with Mike Turco during the
- 1:13:51Speaker 12: UH in between the second and third period and then
- 1:13:53Speaker 12: obviously needed to jump on there and the intermission, it's
- 1:13:56Speaker 12: just the game just felt bigger. And I mean we
- 1:13:57Speaker 12: all know, I mean when Mike Trico was in build,
- 1:14:00Speaker 12: regardless of what venue it is, it'll be you know,
- 1:14:03Speaker 12: NBA shortly for NBC and then doing the Super Bowl,
- 1:14:07Speaker 12: you know, the win by the Hawks, and then you know,
- 1:14:09Speaker 12: being there at the gold medal game, it's just it's
- 1:14:11Speaker 12: it's it's a bigger game, and you know to be
- 1:14:14Speaker 12: up there and you know to kind of give that,
- 1:14:18Speaker 12: you know, the sense of how this thing could play
- 1:14:20Speaker 12: out because of the dynamics of both teams in a
- 1:14:23Speaker 12: skill level. But you're right, Zach Wrensky made the pass
- 1:14:27Speaker 12: over to Jack Hughes, who was very much instrumental in
- 1:14:31Speaker 12: what was going on both pro for taking a stick
- 1:14:34Speaker 12: in the in the in the mouth and losing a
- 1:14:35Speaker 12: couple of chicklists and then he took a penalty right
- 1:14:37Speaker 12: after that, and then he gets the you know, the
- 1:14:40Speaker 12: ot Golden GWG and something that will be with him
- 1:14:44Speaker 12: the rest of his life.
- 1:14:45Speaker 2: And just the reaction and it was just so.
- 1:14:49Speaker 12: Let me think about the right word, Chuck and Ashley,
- 1:14:51Speaker 12: I just.
- 1:14:52Speaker 2: It was just it was organic.
- 1:14:55Speaker 12: There was no there was nothing staged like you just
- 1:14:59Speaker 12: saw the action.
- 1:15:00Speaker 2: It was raw.
- 1:15:01Speaker 12: It was proud to be from the United States of America.
- 1:15:05Speaker 12: It was we took down our arch rivals. It was
- 1:15:09Speaker 12: just it was it was beautiful. I mean, it really
- 1:15:11Speaker 12: was because when you're playing in that in that setting
- 1:15:15Speaker 12: and the expectations are through the roof, you're supposed to
- 1:15:18Speaker 12: get to the gold medal game, you get out played
- 1:15:21Speaker 12: quite frankly. And we said that on our broadcast a
- 1:15:24Speaker 12: couple of times. They were lucky to get it to overtime.
- 1:15:26Speaker 12: I think we said. I said, I, you know, the
- 1:15:29Speaker 12: US is chanced after chance for the Canadians. I said,
- 1:15:33Speaker 12: with about eight or nine minutes left to go in
- 1:15:34Speaker 12: the third period, I just felt like the US has
- 1:15:36Speaker 12: got to get to overtime. I mean, that would be
- 1:15:38Speaker 12: the goal because if if Canada scores, it doesn't look
- 1:15:41Speaker 12: like the US are going to be able to score,
- 1:15:43Speaker 12: at least in that five on five situation. So it
- 1:15:46Speaker 12: was it was awesome to see, and both the Hughes
- 1:15:49Speaker 12: brothers came up large. Quinn scored in the quarterfinals in
- 1:15:53Speaker 12: overtime and then Jack wins the golden goal and gives
- 1:15:56Speaker 12: Tiamo say, their first gold medal in forty six years.
- 1:15:59Speaker 5: So I just it was hard.
- 1:16:01Speaker 12: I said that after the puck one in the net.
- 1:16:05Speaker 12: I don't remember what I did. I don't remember how
- 1:16:08Speaker 12: I reacted. I almost I felt like I blacked out.
- 1:16:10Speaker 12: It was just like, am I actually seeing this and
- 1:16:15Speaker 12: having an opportunity to be one of the first voices
- 1:16:17Speaker 12: to be able to comment on it in our country
- 1:16:20Speaker 12: and send it back home to everybody watching. It was
- 1:16:24Speaker 12: it was just it was. It was an awesome feeling
- 1:16:26Speaker 12: for a lot of different reasons. And full disclosure, I
- 1:16:29Speaker 12: tried to play it right down the middle, you know,
- 1:16:31Speaker 12: even though I was bleeding red, white and blue. All right,
- 1:16:33Speaker 12: let me just say I was sweating red, white and
- 1:16:34Speaker 12: blue in the third period. Let me just say that
- 1:16:36Speaker 12: it was it wasn't looking good, But Connor Hallibuck did
- 1:16:40Speaker 12: just that. He made a couple of says that we're
- 1:16:43Speaker 12: going to remember the rest of our life and we'll
- 1:16:45Speaker 12: go on for a lot longer than when after we're
- 1:16:48Speaker 12: all gone. That that save on Devonte's with the paddle
- 1:16:50Speaker 12: of his stick was just it was just unbelievable. And yeah,
- 1:16:54Speaker 12: you need a little luck every once in a while too,
- 1:16:56Speaker 12: But that's a lot of great things happened. But that
- 1:16:59Speaker 12: the tooth of AU's picture will, I think, will last
- 1:17:02Speaker 12: in everybody's mind for a long long time.
- 1:17:04Speaker 2: Yeah, I asked the cord, like, which is the poster
- 1:17:06Speaker 2: that will be on walls will be toothless Jack Hughes
- 1:17:09Speaker 2: smiling after the goal, or will it be that stick
- 1:17:12Speaker 2: saved Hella bu He chose hell about yeah, But he's biased,
- 1:17:17Speaker 2: you know, the goaltender biased. Ed old Chick is with us,
- 1:17:21Speaker 2: he's got it.
- 1:17:21Speaker 12: He's got to check he's got hey, Jack Chuck, he's
- 1:17:23Speaker 12: got to check his uh his membership card at the
- 1:17:26Speaker 12: door there when he's answered that question. The next time,
- 1:17:29Speaker 12: you know.
- 1:17:29Speaker 2: Ed old Chick with us right here on Chucking Buck
- 1:17:31Speaker 2: in the morning. And I do want to get to
- 1:17:32Speaker 2: the kracking here in a moment. Sure, I do want
- 1:17:35Speaker 2: to ask about Hella Buck, because man, I'm looking at
- 1:17:38Speaker 2: that overtime and I'm a mccarr, McKinnon and McDavid skating
- 1:17:43Speaker 2: after you. That might be the three best players in
- 1:17:46Speaker 2: the world. They're skating after you, and he's and he
- 1:17:48Speaker 2: pushed them aside to I mean, people were saying it
- 1:17:52Speaker 2: might be the greatest goaltending performance in the history of hockey.
- 1:17:56Speaker 2: Are we prisoners of the moment suggesting that? Or was
- 1:17:59Speaker 2: it just that good?
- 1:18:01Speaker 12: Well, when it's on the biggest stage like that, it'd
- 1:18:03Speaker 12: be hard to it'd be hard to argue that it
- 1:18:05Speaker 12: that it wouldn't be in the team picture now whether
- 1:18:08Speaker 12: or not it's you know number one. When you think
- 1:18:10Speaker 12: about some of the history of the National Hockey League
- 1:18:13Speaker 12: or even some of the you know, some of the
- 1:18:16Speaker 12: you know inside the uh, you know inside hockey tournaments
- 1:18:20Speaker 12: that have been won you know, by certain players or
- 1:18:23Speaker 12: by certain teams and in different climates in the world,
- 1:18:27Speaker 12: both on and off the ice. It's great debate and
- 1:18:30Speaker 12: it's great argument, but I would have to say, when
- 1:18:32Speaker 12: you do look at it from start to finish, UH,
- 1:18:35Speaker 12: the Canadians definitely deserve better. But you have the great
- 1:18:38Speaker 12: equalizer in goal, and we've seen that with is the
- 1:18:41Speaker 12: great John Forsln loves to say the you know, the
- 1:18:45Speaker 12: you know the UH, the general German and the German gentleman.
- 1:18:51Speaker 12: And Philip Grubauer a couple of years ago when the
- 1:18:54Speaker 12: Kraken were making their run in the playoffs and a
- 1:18:58Speaker 12: couple of the games that he won again it's the
- 1:19:00Speaker 12: Colorado Avalanche and that big upset.
- 1:19:02Speaker 4: You need.
- 1:19:05Speaker 12: Great goaltending and sometimes you need it to win a
- 1:19:08Speaker 12: game or two.
- 1:19:09Speaker 11: And for Team USA, they just right.
- 1:19:11Speaker 12: It was one game. It's a one game showdown. Now
- 1:19:13Speaker 12: if you play that in the Best of seventh series.
- 1:19:16Speaker 12: You know it's going seven games because the teams are
- 1:19:19Speaker 12: so close. But in a one gamer, if somebody's just
- 1:19:22Speaker 12: got it for that sixty minutes and then a minute
- 1:19:25Speaker 12: and forty eight seconds or whatever it was in overtime,
- 1:19:28Speaker 12: that's all you need and that can end up being
- 1:19:30Speaker 12: the difference. So I would not argue that that point
- 1:19:34Speaker 12: at all, that when it comes to being on top
- 1:19:37Speaker 12: of the mountain in the biggest game that we've seen
- 1:19:41Speaker 12: in many, many years, there's no doubt that that performance
- 1:19:43Speaker 12: by counter Hollibuck would be right there.
- 1:19:45Speaker 2: Ed Olchick is with us here on Chuck and Buck
- 1:19:48Speaker 2: in the morning of course, on the call for the
- 1:19:51Speaker 2: US gold on Sunday, and then Ashley and I could
- 1:19:56Speaker 2: not wait for Cracking Hockey after that game to get
- 1:19:59Speaker 2: ready to watch the see if they can pick up
- 1:20:01Speaker 2: where they left off. Going into the Olympic break three
- 1:20:03Speaker 2: weeks without Cracking hockey, we were just sure they were
- 1:20:07Speaker 2: just gonna come out of the gates firing, and instead, Uh,
- 1:20:11Speaker 2: they've played two of their worst games of the year.
- 1:20:13Speaker 2: How do you make sense of it?
- 1:20:17Speaker 12: You don't know what you got coming out, Chuck, You
- 1:20:19Speaker 12: don't Some teams are gonna come out and they're gonna
- 1:20:22Speaker 12: take advantage of this break. The break will be unbelievable
- 1:20:26Speaker 12: for some teams and it will be not good for others.
- 1:20:29Speaker 12: And you know, we talked a little bit about that
- 1:20:31Speaker 12: on our on our Cracking broadcast last night with Johnny,
- 1:20:35Speaker 12: JT and and Piper Is. You know you're gonna have
- 1:20:38Speaker 12: games like you did in Dallas and then last night
- 1:20:41Speaker 12: just I mean, look at it. There's no other way to
- 1:20:43Speaker 12: say it. An awful start. And when you're chasing the
- 1:20:45Speaker 12: game and you just it's it's tough to win. It's
- 1:20:48Speaker 12: tough to to be there. You know, the power play
- 1:20:51Speaker 12: let them down in Dallas. The power play let them
- 1:20:53Speaker 12: down early last night. They did get better at the
- 1:20:56Speaker 12: game on on because the power play has been a
- 1:20:59Speaker 12: that is saved them a lot this year. The goaltending
- 1:21:01Speaker 12: has been very good all year. Let me say that
- 1:21:03Speaker 12: both both Joey and and Grewby have been very very
- 1:21:06Speaker 12: good for coach Lane Lambert, who I think has been
- 1:21:08Speaker 12: a hell of a hire and a very has done
- 1:21:11Speaker 12: a very very good job. Now the team is offensively challenged.
- 1:21:15Speaker 12: They don't have a game breaker, which you need in
- 1:21:19Speaker 12: order to win in the National Hockey League. But you can't.
- 1:21:24Speaker 12: You can't have a two game losing streak become four
- 1:21:28Speaker 12: and five and six now with only twenty four twenty
- 1:21:31Speaker 12: five games ago. Right, So that's that's where they are.
- 1:21:34Speaker 12: It's disappointing at times. Third period in ballast. You know,
- 1:21:39Speaker 12: last night there were some stretches there where they did
- 1:21:41Speaker 12: get to their game. The Cocko goal was outstanding team goal,
- 1:21:45Speaker 12: but they needed more in that and last night was
- 1:21:48Speaker 12: a missed opportunity. Without a doubt, like that would probably
- 1:21:50Speaker 12: be the game I would imagine for the Lane and
- 1:21:54Speaker 12: his staff and the players too that that game probably
- 1:21:59Speaker 12: is more or the one that probably really bangs you
- 1:22:02Speaker 12: up than anything else because Saint Louis has been in
- 1:22:04Speaker 12: a tough spot. Points are there to be had and
- 1:22:07Speaker 12: you're chasing the game and you don't get any there.
- 1:22:10Speaker 12: So you gotta you gotta end the street tomorrow and
- 1:22:13Speaker 12: you gotta you gotta turn this thing around because they
- 1:22:15Speaker 12: put themselves in a really good spot here. But you
- 1:22:18Speaker 12: got to start winning games because if you don't, you
- 1:22:20Speaker 12: could easily fall out. Because it's been that close.
- 1:22:22Speaker 2: It's an important uh more so, I mean, when you
- 1:22:25Speaker 2: think of the environment we started this by you congratulating
- 1:22:28Speaker 2: the Seahawks on a Super Bowl. We've got a baseball
- 1:22:30Speaker 2: team that has a plan on getting the World Series.
- 1:22:33Speaker 2: I just I just want to get them to the playoffs.
- 1:22:35Speaker 2: I want them to get back and getting familiar with
- 1:22:39Speaker 2: qualifying for the Stanley Cup playoffs every year, and if
- 1:22:41Speaker 2: they can ramp up from there, great. Do you gotta
- 1:22:44Speaker 2: get a good feel that this team is going to
- 1:22:46Speaker 2: get there?
- 1:22:48Speaker 12: Yeah, well, they they've shown that with the year that
- 1:22:53Speaker 12: it's been.
- 1:22:53Speaker 2: It's it's there.
- 1:22:55Speaker 5: Really is.
- 1:22:56Speaker 12: There's a couple of teams and they're both in and
- 1:22:58Speaker 12: all three of them in are Central and I think
- 1:23:00Speaker 12: Vegas those are the four top teams. You got Colorado,
- 1:23:02Speaker 12: you got Many, you got Dallas, and you got Vegas.
- 1:23:05Speaker 12: And I think you put Edmonton.
- 1:23:06Speaker 2: In that spot.
- 1:23:07Speaker 12: But then you know, you got that's five teams. You
- 1:23:10Speaker 12: got three spots left. I think you could put seven
- 1:23:13Speaker 12: or eight teams. And that's how close it is. And
- 1:23:15Speaker 12: you're right, you make a perfect point, Chuck. There's success
- 1:23:19Speaker 12: within the city.
- 1:23:20Speaker 2: I mean it is you.
- 1:23:21Speaker 5: I could feel it.
- 1:23:22Speaker 2: When I'm in town.
- 1:23:23Speaker 12: You know the Mariners, the run they went on last year,
- 1:23:25Speaker 12: the big dumper of the year that he had the
- 1:23:28Speaker 12: Hawks doing what they did and getting home field and
- 1:23:31Speaker 12: you know the buy and getting home field and you know,
- 1:23:34Speaker 12: eventually win in the Super Bowl. I've lived that, not
- 1:23:38Speaker 12: only as a broadcaster in Chicago and when I did
- 1:23:42Speaker 12: Blackhawk games here for sixteen years, but you know, I
- 1:23:46Speaker 12: coached in Pittsburgh and you know, there is you you
- 1:23:51Speaker 12: feel it as an organization. You feel and it's and
- 1:23:54Speaker 12: it's great, and you say the right things, but but
- 1:23:57Speaker 12: you want to keep your end of the bargain up.
- 1:23:59Speaker 12: And I don't think there's any doubt. And I haven't
- 1:24:01Speaker 12: had much talking in full disclosure. I mean for people
- 1:24:04Speaker 12: that may or may not know. My brother is an
- 1:24:06Speaker 12: AGM there with the Kraken, and Ronnie Francis is one
- 1:24:11Speaker 12: of my best friends, so they haven't talked about it,
- 1:24:15Speaker 12: but they get the sense, you know, like from within
- 1:24:18Speaker 12: the organization now, players wise, coach wise. I've had no conversation,
- 1:24:22Speaker 12: not no, but I've lived it. I've lived it as
- 1:24:24Speaker 12: a player. I remember when I was a rookie in
- 1:24:26Speaker 12: the NHL in nineteen eighty four eighty five, I was
- 1:24:28Speaker 12: playing for the Blackhawks. If you go back to that year,
- 1:24:31Speaker 12: while the Chicago Bears were on their way to the
- 1:24:34Speaker 12: Super Bowl shuffle and take out the Patriots by about
- 1:24:37Speaker 12: one hundred and fifty points, and it puts. It does
- 1:24:40Speaker 12: put pressure because you don't want to let the city
- 1:24:43Speaker 12: down and it's not such a high and then when
- 1:24:45Speaker 12: you magnify it in Seattle right now with the baseball
- 1:24:49Speaker 12: in the football there, I'm sure that there is that
- 1:24:52Speaker 12: pressure to get into the playoffs. But they want to
- 1:24:55Speaker 12: be playing really good hockey. And if they do like
- 1:24:57Speaker 12: they've done for a lot of this year under coach
- 1:24:59Speaker 12: Lane Lambert, I think that they give themselves the hell
- 1:25:02Speaker 12: of a spot, but right now they put themselves in
- 1:25:04Speaker 12: a tough spot because of losing the two games coming
- 1:25:06Speaker 12: off the Olympic break.
- 1:25:08Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much for joining us. We do
- 1:25:11Speaker 2: appreciate it here this morning. Hopefully the Krack and Get
- 1:25:14Speaker 2: Going will be listening. But again, it was a blast
- 1:25:18Speaker 2: hearing you on the coverage for the Olympic gold and
- 1:25:21Speaker 2: so great job, job well done, and hopefully we can
- 1:25:25Speaker 2: have another conversation because I really enjoyed this.
- 1:25:28Speaker 5: Look forward to it. Thanks lot, and say how.
- 1:25:29Speaker 2: To buck for me? All right, we'll do that, ed
- 1:25:31Speaker 2: olcheck joining us right here on Chuck and Buck in
- 1:25:34Speaker 2: the Mornings on Chuck and Buck Sports Radio ninety three
- 1:25:38Speaker 2: point three kJ r F m Eddie O, ed Zo, Yeah,
- 1:25:43Speaker 2: I can't believe we're friends. Can't believe that happened that quickly.
- 1:25:46Speaker 2: It was.
- 1:25:46Speaker 7: It was a surprise to me.
- 1:25:48Speaker 4: Honestly, I thought he was going to keep you more
- 1:25:49Speaker 4: on an arms length arms distance.
- 1:25:51Speaker 2: But well, we'll see when I run into them, Well
- 1:25:54Speaker 2: what happens.
- 1:25:54Speaker 4: You'll have to walk up with your arms out like
- 1:25:57Speaker 4: you're gonna go in for it. Hey body, brand's got
- 1:25:59Speaker 4: a Hey Zoe, bring it in.
- 1:26:02Speaker 7: See what he does. Then you'll know if you're really friends.
- 1:26:06Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't think he's gonna call me
- 1:26:08Speaker 2: tonight out. Yeah, probably. I think we'll start with ed Zoe.
- 1:26:12Speaker 7: And we'll work from there and it'll probably stay there.
- 1:26:14Speaker 2: Yeah, well jealous Ian kind of does does it flippantly
- 1:26:17Speaker 2: on the broadcast.
- 1:26:19Speaker 7: Yeah, like they've been friends their whole lives.
- 1:26:21Speaker 2: He drops it a lot.
- 1:26:22Speaker 7: Yeah, I know, kind of. It feels like he's rubbing
- 1:26:25Speaker 7: it in honestly a little bit.
- 1:26:28Speaker 2: All right, Well, we appreciate that's great stuff from him,
- 1:26:30Speaker 2: and about the Kraken and his experience with the US
- 1:26:34Speaker 2: team and he did an excellent job that day. All right,
- 1:26:37Speaker 2: coming up next on our radio program. We do this
- 1:26:40Speaker 2: every single year with this individual person, and we didn't
- 1:26:44Speaker 2: get to do it in a timely fashion. So when
- 1:26:48Speaker 2: we come back on the other side, we preview the
- 1:26:51Speaker 2: Sounder season with Jackson Feld Sports Radio ninety three point
- 1:26:54Speaker 2: three k A r F M.
- 1:26:55Speaker 8: He's in.
- 1:26:56Speaker 13: It's a disappointment, but that's just the reality of a
- 1:26:59Speaker 13: team that you know, it averages almost a trophy every
- 1:27:02Speaker 13: year over the last twelve years in some sort of form,
- 1:27:06Speaker 13: whether it's a conference title, whether it's an MLS Cup,
- 1:27:09Speaker 13: whether it's a League's Cup title like last year.
- 1:27:11Speaker 8: So yeah, missing the playoffs.
- 1:27:14Speaker 13: As Albert Rusnak, our star midfielders said at the season
- 1:27:17Speaker 13: opening press conference last week, it left a bad taste
- 1:27:20Speaker 13: in all of their mouths, and Brian Schmitzer, the head coach,
- 1:27:24Speaker 13: echoed that in a comment that just followed where everybody
- 1:27:28Speaker 13: kind of looked at that Minnesota series, which was a
- 1:27:30Speaker 13: first round series last year where they lost in a
- 1:27:34Speaker 13: just dramatic as hell, twelve round penalty kick shootout in
- 1:27:37Speaker 13: Minnesota where it was twenty degrees got it was cold there,
- 1:27:40Speaker 13: I tell you what, And yeah, we all look at
- 1:27:43Speaker 13: that situation and just say, you gotta do better. You can't,
- 1:27:46Speaker 13: can't get eliminated in the first round, Gotta go deeper,
- 1:27:49Speaker 13: got to make a West Final, got to make an
- 1:27:51Speaker 13: MLS Cup, got to win in more than just a
- 1:27:54Speaker 13: League's Cup trophy. Brian Schmitzer cares about MLS Cup more
- 1:27:57Speaker 13: than any other trophy, and that is the goal.
- 1:28:00Speaker 2: All right. So in order to get there, in order
- 1:28:02Speaker 2: to adjust it back on the right course, what are
- 1:28:06Speaker 2: what is the is the key? Is that the signings
- 1:28:08Speaker 2: that they made this offseason to improve theoretically the roster.
- 1:28:13Speaker 2: Is it getting back to a brand of Sounders soccer
- 1:28:17Speaker 2: that just wasn't there a year ago? Or does Brian
- 1:28:19Speaker 2: Schmetzer need to get creative? I mean he is, you know,
- 1:28:22Speaker 2: he is the wacky you know professor down there in
- 1:28:26Speaker 2: the laboratory. Is he going to come up with something new,
- 1:28:29Speaker 2: a couple of tricks up his sleeve to kind of
- 1:28:32Speaker 2: readjust it that way? What are your thoughts?
- 1:28:34Speaker 13: Yeah, Chuck, I think it's a couple of things. First,
- 1:28:36Speaker 13: you kind of touched on it there. It's getting back
- 1:28:38Speaker 13: to the brand of Sounder soccer where we really want
- 1:28:41Speaker 13: all of our trophies, and that's being a defensive juggernaut.
- 1:28:44Speaker 8: Defense wins championships. We all know that.
- 1:28:47Speaker 13: And you know, as the Sounders won title after title
- 1:28:50Speaker 13: after title over the years, they really did, you know,
- 1:28:53Speaker 13: use it by a phenomenal defense. And last year the
- 1:28:57Speaker 13: team sort a record number of goals in club history.
- 1:29:00Speaker 13: Over the twenty twenty five campaign, offense was just on
- 1:29:04Speaker 13: fire in a lot of different ways.
- 1:29:06Speaker 8: Defensively, it fell off a little bit.
- 1:29:07Speaker 13: They were still okay, they were still probably solid as
- 1:29:10Speaker 13: a good word for it, but they weren't great defensively
- 1:29:14Speaker 13: like they were in twenty twenty four and earlier. So
- 1:29:17Speaker 13: getting back to that brand of defensive soccer while maintaining
- 1:29:21Speaker 13: the offensive success you saw. But honestly, Chuck, the biggest
- 1:29:25Speaker 13: thing is just getting healthy and staying healthy. The final
- 1:29:29Speaker 13: day of the regular season last year, our star winger
- 1:29:32Speaker 13: Pedro de la Vega broke his kneecap and unfortunately a
- 1:29:37Speaker 13: game that he didn't need to be playing in, but
- 1:29:40Speaker 13: he was, and massive injury and he's going to be
- 1:29:43Speaker 13: out for pretty much the first half. Came into this
- 1:29:46Speaker 13: season and we all thought, all right, is he going
- 1:29:47Speaker 13: to before it? Is he going to be a winger.
- 1:29:49Speaker 13: We need Jordan Morris to be a star and Jordan
- 1:29:54Speaker 13: Morris five So.
- 1:29:55Speaker 2: Without Morris, without day la Vega, I mean, those are
- 1:29:58Speaker 2: a couple of your star players. Is it by committee
- 1:30:02Speaker 2: that you just got to make it up a little
- 1:30:03Speaker 2: bit with those guys missing from the lineup, or is
- 1:30:08Speaker 2: there a player or too that has some star potential
- 1:30:10Speaker 2: that could really rise up this year and take advantage
- 1:30:13Speaker 2: of this opportunity.
- 1:30:15Speaker 8: There is a star player or two. The first name
- 1:30:17Speaker 8: is Paul Rothrock.
- 1:30:18Speaker 13: He's a kid from Capitol Hill who grew up in
- 1:30:21Speaker 13: the shadow of lumen Field and grew up a part
- 1:30:24Speaker 13: of the academy. He just grew up a Sounder fan
- 1:30:27Speaker 13: and he's been pretty darn good the last few years.
- 1:30:30Speaker 13: And over the offseason, Chuck he had the opportunity to
- 1:30:33Speaker 13: leave and go elsewhere for more money. Paul Rothrock decided,
- 1:30:37Speaker 13: I'm going to take a far less contract to stay
- 1:30:41Speaker 13: in Seattle and play for the Sounders. And it kind
- 1:30:44Speaker 13: of came as a bit of a surprise to us
- 1:30:45Speaker 13: in the media, but he stayed. So when Jordan Morris
- 1:30:49Speaker 13: got injured with that strained quad five minutes into the
- 1:30:52Speaker 13: game last Sunday, Paul Rothrock came in, and Paul Rothrock
- 1:30:56Speaker 13: scored a goal and got an assist and put together
- 1:31:00Speaker 13: just more than just the goal. In the assist, he
- 1:31:03Speaker 13: was fantastic off the bench for Morris.
- 1:31:06Speaker 8: So he's the.
- 1:31:06Speaker 13: Guy that instantly slides in into Morris's spot. And then
- 1:31:10Speaker 13: the other guy up top and forward is a kid
- 1:31:13Speaker 13: named Osase de Rosario. I had the chance to catch
- 1:31:16Speaker 13: up with him on after the game on my Sounders
- 1:31:18Speaker 13: Weekly show earlier this week, and this dude, I tell
- 1:31:22Speaker 13: you what I was told by somebody who would know.
- 1:31:27Speaker 13: He had one of the best preseasons that a certain
- 1:31:30Speaker 13: person with the team has ever seen, which is quite
- 1:31:34Speaker 13: a comment. Osase de Rosario is this kid who's a
- 1:31:39Speaker 13: big bodied forward. He's really good in the air, he
- 1:31:42Speaker 13: kind of moves well, very physical player, and he put
- 1:31:45Speaker 13: together this preseason.
- 1:31:46Speaker 8: I believe he had a stretch of three, sorry, five
- 1:31:49Speaker 8: goals in three games.
- 1:31:52Speaker 13: He is a really superhuman type looking guy, a massively confident.
- 1:31:57Speaker 13: He's the son of a former MLS legend, Dwayne Dave Rosario,
- 1:32:01Speaker 13: and he has come out just gangbusters to start twenty
- 1:32:04Speaker 13: twenty six. So he got the start at forward in
- 1:32:06Speaker 13: the first game he looks pretty darn good. And the
- 1:32:10Speaker 13: question now is can he keep building on this and
- 1:32:13Speaker 13: be kind of a superstar in the making it forward.
- 1:32:16Speaker 2: Speaking of legends, Jackson, I mean, fry and roll Down
- 1:32:20Speaker 2: can be described as nothing but legends. If you you could,
- 1:32:23Speaker 2: I'm gonna play a game that you play on your show.
- 1:32:25Speaker 2: You can only have one. Only one gets a statue someday.
- 1:32:29Speaker 2: Which one is it?
- 1:32:31Speaker 13: Oh my god, what a question that is. Jeez, that's
- 1:32:38Speaker 13: damn near impossible. I'll go Brian Schmetzer's statue before both
- 1:32:41Speaker 13: of them. But that's you know, and they're both such legends.
- 1:32:44Speaker 13: The weird thing about this season is they're in going
- 1:32:47Speaker 13: in such opposite directions with their lives and careers. Where
- 1:32:51Speaker 13: Stephen Frye is no longer your starting goalkeeper, he's now
- 1:32:56Speaker 13: your backup, and Andrew Thomas is now the starter who
- 1:32:59Speaker 13: has taken Steph's spot. Some of that's Andrew's just that good.
- 1:33:04Speaker 13: Some of that Steph is on kind of the back
- 1:33:06Speaker 13: end in the last couple of years of his career. Meanwhile,
- 1:33:10Speaker 13: Christian role Don is probably a easy bet to make
- 1:33:14Speaker 13: the United States men's national team for the World Cup.
- 1:33:16Speaker 13: And I've said a number of times that if it
- 1:33:19Speaker 13: was available to bet on in Vegas, I would put
- 1:33:21Speaker 13: a lot of money down that. Come June nineteenth at
- 1:33:25Speaker 13: lumen Field, Christian roll Don is starting for the United
- 1:33:28Speaker 13: States against Australia in the World Cup in his own house.
- 1:33:33Speaker 13: He's going to make the team, I think, and he's
- 1:33:36Speaker 13: going to I think, challenge for a starting spot and
- 1:33:38Speaker 13: in that second World Cup game in the group stage
- 1:33:41Speaker 13: in Seattle, having Christian rolled On starting on his home field.
- 1:33:47Speaker 13: I know that the head coach, Mauricio Pochettino for the
- 1:33:50Speaker 13: United States, he's the type of guy who would allow
- 1:33:53Speaker 13: Christian to be in that massive position.
- 1:33:56Speaker 2: I honestly don't know this well. The World Cup like spark,
- 1:34:01Speaker 2: you know, attendance for the Sounders or will it perhaps
- 1:34:05Speaker 2: take away considering how much attention it's going to.
- 1:34:08Speaker 13: Get, it's a good question what the World Cup is
- 1:34:11Speaker 13: going to do. One of the things that happened earlier
- 1:34:13Speaker 13: this week is FIFA and some not only Seattle, but
- 1:34:17Speaker 13: some other host cities dialed back their you know, big
- 1:34:21Speaker 13: you know party plans for a certain activation and changed
- 1:34:26Speaker 13: it too kind of some smaller multiple city events across
- 1:34:29Speaker 13: the entire city. They did this with a few different sites,
- 1:34:32Speaker 13: including Seattle, and I think it's sort of a sign.
- 1:34:35Speaker 8: And then you can just overlook overall, look at the
- 1:34:37Speaker 8: ticket sales.
- 1:34:38Speaker 13: I don't think the World Cup is so far doing
- 1:34:42Speaker 13: what FIFA hoped.
- 1:34:43Speaker 8: It would in the United States, and that's.
- 1:34:47Speaker 13: Why I don't think it's going to take anything away
- 1:34:49Speaker 13: from the Sounders. If anything, you'll you will see I
- 1:34:52Speaker 13: think a slight bump in the soccer enthusiasm and appetite
- 1:34:56Speaker 13: across the nation, certainly more so in certain mart it's
- 1:35:00Speaker 13: I hope here, but yeah, what the World Cup does
- 1:35:03Speaker 13: for soccer in this country I think is it's I'm
- 1:35:07Speaker 13: a little concerned because because the appetite at least tickets
- 1:35:11Speaker 13: right now just doesn't seem to be there for the
- 1:35:13Speaker 13: event yet. So that's something to monitor for sure as
- 1:35:16Speaker 13: we get closer to June.
- 1:35:17Speaker 11: All Right.
- 1:35:18Speaker 2: Prediction A short prediction. Brief prediction for tomorrow Reale Salt Lake.
- 1:35:23Speaker 13: Sounders haven't beaten salt Lake in Salt Lake in a
- 1:35:26Speaker 13: very very long time. A draw is a win for
- 1:35:28Speaker 13: the Sounders, and I do think they get it. I
- 1:35:31Speaker 13: think that this team is very very deep. A Saani
- 1:35:33Speaker 13: Dotson is out of concussion protocol. He's good for the midfield.
- 1:35:37Speaker 13: So give me a one to one game tomorrow between
- 1:35:39Speaker 13: Seattle and Salt Lake.
- 1:35:40Speaker 2: And big picture, your prediction for the season. You're typically
- 1:35:44Speaker 2: optimistic when we start the season. What are your thoughts
- 1:35:48Speaker 2: on what the Sounders can do this year.
- 1:35:50Speaker 8: I do think they get healthy.
- 1:35:52Speaker 13: I do think they're able to stay healthy, come together
- 1:35:54Speaker 13: defensively like they weren't last year, get enough offense to
- 1:35:58Speaker 13: make a West Final. The problem is is that there
- 1:36:01Speaker 13: are some amazing teams in MLS this year, including LAFC,
- 1:36:04Speaker 13: who is just stacked. They're probably the best team on
- 1:36:07Speaker 13: paper in the entire league. I think we get to
- 1:36:09Speaker 13: a West Final against LAFC. It's very hard to right
- 1:36:13Speaker 13: now to see Seattle beating LAFC in that game, But
- 1:36:17Speaker 13: crazier things have happened. There's a long summer where the
- 1:36:19Speaker 13: Sounders are going to have some money to spend on players.
- 1:36:22Speaker 13: So can we bring in a guy that could challenge
- 1:36:24Speaker 13: an LFC?
- 1:36:25Speaker 9: Oh?
- 1:36:25Speaker 8: God, we yeah. We started well.
- 1:36:27Speaker 13: My first Sounder show Radio Cascadio Live in twenty seventeen,
- 1:36:31Speaker 13: and then Sounders Weekly was in twenty eighteen, so I
- 1:36:34Speaker 13: don't know how many.
- 1:36:35Speaker 8: Years that is in the years.
- 1:36:35Speaker 2: Yeah, ninth year.
- 1:36:37Speaker 8: Yeah, we've been doing we've been doing sounder broadcast that long.
- 1:36:40Speaker 2: Wow, look at you boy, you grows up and you
- 1:36:42Speaker 2: grows up. You know, Hey, Softie hasn't done one of
- 1:36:46Speaker 2: these crazy things in a while. I think you need
- 1:36:50Speaker 2: to get him out on the pitch at some point
- 1:36:53Speaker 2: and we'll see how many times he can run up
- 1:36:55Speaker 2: and down the field before collapsing.
- 1:36:57Speaker 8: Well. See, yeah, that's the thing.
- 1:36:58Speaker 13: I would want to see that, just to watch Softie
- 1:37:00Speaker 13: trip over himself five times.
- 1:37:03Speaker 2: Did he participate in that when you guys did the.
- 1:37:08Speaker 13: Oh yeah, I don't think Softie either. Yeah, it was
- 1:37:12Speaker 13: the kicking Cancer event at Looming. I think I think
- 1:37:15Speaker 13: he stayed away from that event because he knew he
- 1:37:17Speaker 13: would injure himself. Like with the funny story from that event,
- 1:37:20Speaker 13: of course, is that the current play by play voice
- 1:37:23Speaker 13: of our sounders here on KJR, Danny Jackson. He was
- 1:37:26Speaker 13: playing and he fell down and he tried to head
- 1:37:29Speaker 13: the ball after he fell down, and as he was
- 1:37:32Speaker 13: trying to head the ball, I tried to kick the
- 1:37:34Speaker 13: ball ended up giving Danny Jackson a black eye. So
- 1:37:38Speaker 13: that was that was a great story of how I
- 1:37:40Speaker 13: gave a Sounder legend and the current play by play
- 1:37:42Speaker 13: voice a black eye, but enough enough beer forgave him
- 1:37:46Speaker 13: about that.
- 1:37:49Speaker 2: And you were so young at the time and knew yea, yeah,
- 1:37:52Speaker 2: you wanted to make such a good impression on all
- 1:37:54Speaker 2: of these people and you end up kicking a guy
- 1:37:56Speaker 2: in the eye that you we can laugh about it now,
- 1:38:02Speaker 2: I don't think you're laugh about it back then. All right, man, Well,
- 1:38:05Speaker 2: have a great year and we'll check in with you
- 1:38:08Speaker 2: real soon. Anything about tonight's show that we need to discuss.
- 1:38:13Speaker 8: We we have to.
- 1:38:14Speaker 13: We have Greg Bell coming on, we got Humillan and
- 1:38:16Speaker 13: Dick Fane from three to seven. I think we're working
- 1:38:19Speaker 13: on probably touching down what's going on in Pori as well,
- 1:38:23Speaker 13: and we'll see if we get the Sounders coach on.
- 1:38:25Speaker 8: We're hoping for it, but yeah, we'll see.
- 1:38:27Speaker 2: All right, Thank you, sir, appreciate it, Thank you, Chuck.
- 1:38:29Speaker 2: All right. Jackson Felts joining us right here on Chuck
- 1:38:32Speaker 2: and Buck Sounders Weekly, also pre and postgame hosts, and
- 1:38:36Speaker 2: if you want to follow him, do so Jackson on
- 1:38:39Speaker 2: radio there on X. All right, we close out the
- 1:38:42Speaker 2: week with Mooze News next Sports Radio ninety three point
- 1:38:44Speaker 2: three KJRFM,