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Furness Show 7-29: D'Anthony Bell, Eddie Olczyk, Corbin Smith · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: We're back in the studio for the first time this
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  Speaker 1: week after a couple of days out at the Virginia
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  Speaker 1: Mason Athletics Center.
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks are off day. We're back there.
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow and Friday and then and then next week as well.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime they're practicing, we are there hanging out having fun.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a little bit different. I'm trying to get
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  Speaker 1: used to it. I was like, where do I drive
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: in today?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 1: That suck because I actually drive all the way in
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  Speaker 1: here because I like training camp. For me, it's like
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  Speaker 1: a twenty five minute drive. Yeah, as opposed to more
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  Speaker 1: than double that when I come here.
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  Speaker 2: Excellent.
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  Speaker 1: So I was a little bummed that we weren't there today.
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  Speaker 1: But there's no horns, whistles and fans in the background.
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  Speaker 1: There's nobody sitting at our table just randomly, Hey, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna sit here for a second. We're doing radio show here.
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  Speaker 1: None of that's going on today. We're just here hanging out.
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  Speaker 1: How fun. But we have football for you. Because we
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  Speaker 1: were supposed to have the Anthony Bell on yesterday. DB's
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  Speaker 1: got kind of caught up on some things late meeting whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and instead of squeezing it in yesterday we taped the
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Bell after the show I did yesterday with him,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm just gonna tell you thirty you want you
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  Speaker 1: want to take a listen to this young man. He's
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  Speaker 1: a great story. He's an inspirational story perseverance, how he
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  Speaker 1: got through college, how he found his way to the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: and then how the Seahawks treated him after he was
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  Speaker 1: not officially on the roster when he won the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a great story.
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  Speaker 1: It speaks, it speaks of not just him, but also
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  Speaker 1: the organization, uh and the first class nature of the organization,
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  Speaker 1: which I just you know, I'm gonna slide away just
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  Speaker 1: for a second, you know, I keep hearing you know
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: in Portland it's well, you know Tom Dundan, you know
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  Speaker 1: he might be you know this, this and this, but
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  Speaker 1: you know he wins. He wins championships. Well he's won
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  Speaker 1: one with the Carolina Hurricanes since he bought the team. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: I get it. And bad owners can actually win championships.
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  Speaker 1: That does happen. James Dolan is a great example. Yet
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  Speaker 1: Nicks guy. He's not a great owner, but by and large,
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  Speaker 1: great ownership and great cultures and great organizations and ones
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  Speaker 1: that don't skimp and ones that that do things the
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  Speaker 1: right way. They're just better on every level. And this
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  Speaker 1: is a great example. You'll hear that coming up at
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  Speaker 1: twelve thirty today.
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  Speaker 2: Oh boy, so.
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  Speaker 1: Our baseball team, go figure Anders, just tell me how
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  Speaker 1: this works.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was unexpected but also kind of expected
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  Speaker 3: at the same time, because this is what the Mariners do.
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  Speaker 1: It's last night was Last night was fun because a
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  Speaker 1: the game itself was massively entertaining, Like that's a great game.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like they play a lot of those games.
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  Speaker 1: It felt kind of like a playoff game. To be
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  Speaker 1: completely honest, Well, you're playing that team, Yeah, that is
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  Speaker 1: the gold standard right now. But what I meant by
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  Speaker 1: by the great game was that back and forth, high
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  Speaker 1: scoring and it just doesn't Maybe I'll go back and
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  Speaker 1: I'll I'll I can look at the game by games
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  Speaker 1: and I'll this this will be just completely wrong. It
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  Speaker 1: does feel, however, with this team, they either win a
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  Speaker 1: game kind of going away, you know, like seven to one,
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  Speaker 1: or they lose a game three to two, right like,
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  Speaker 1: there's no in between.
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  Speaker 2: They don't win close games, no, and.
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  Speaker 1: And so last night was one of those games that
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  Speaker 1: was not just close but also high scoring, right mean
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  Speaker 1: Castillo and what was the other guy's name, Roblowski. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: the great Lebowski or whatever Leblowski. They were awful and
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  Speaker 1: serving up BP all over the place. It was just
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  Speaker 1: it turned into the home run derby for Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: Which is weird because he was it All Star the
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  Speaker 2: share Rivelowski.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and he's a left hander, right which Seattle is
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  Speaker 1: not supposed to hit left hander, not at all. So
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  Speaker 1: they did all those things. Let's just kind of go
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  Speaker 1: through it piece by piece if we could. I let's see,
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  Speaker 1: because I don't want to jump to the conclusions that
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  Speaker 1: people are going to jump to, and we did. We've
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  Speaker 1: done that twice.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's just the one that breaks them out of
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  Speaker 2: the funk.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean we right, because we did that.
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  Speaker 1: We did that with with with Cal when he hit
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  Speaker 1: the Grand Slam, yep. And if you look at that
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  Speaker 1: Grand Slam, they won that game seven nothing, right, and
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  Speaker 1: it was three nothing at the time something like that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: good for him individually, really didn't affect anything game wise.
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  Speaker 1: But Cal hits a home run last night, and so
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  Speaker 1: you ask yourself his eleventh of the season, which is
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  Speaker 1: just unheard of the fact that you know, in the
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  Speaker 1: second inning he hit that, and you know, can that
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  Speaker 1: help him get going?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 1: He had at bats afterwards and did nothing, So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in a very much wait and see mode with
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  Speaker 1: with cal There are those that are saying and we'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you. Rev Snyder was two for four last night.
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  Speaker 1: Two RBIs the home run in the double jam just probably.
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  Speaker 1: I bet his slugging percentage where is it now? It's
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  Speaker 1: two sixty six. I'm guessing it was like, oh ninety
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  Speaker 1: six before, you know. But maybe Rev. Snyder coming off
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  Speaker 1: to the injured list we saw that yesterday is a
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  Speaker 1: social media, you know, joke parade, people making fun of it.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he was hurt. Maybe he has been hurt. And
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  Speaker 1: let me just stop right there for a second. At
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  Speaker 1: the expense. I don't want to get justin Hollander because
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  Speaker 1: I know he's listening right now one hundred percent listening
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  Speaker 1: to this chef.
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  Speaker 2: It's his favorite show.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want him to get upset with me and
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  Speaker 1: call me the lunatic fringe either. But if Rev. Snyder
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  Speaker 1: truly needed to have that stint on the DL or.
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  Speaker 2: It's called disabled lists. He used to be called that.
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  Speaker 4: It used to be.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if he really truly needed that, why the hell
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  Speaker 1: did they wait?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you can say the same thing about Calay.
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  Speaker 3: That's what's really affecting him now.
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  Speaker 1: Cal hasn't been any better since he came out, I know,
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  Speaker 1: but he still could be hurt, right, And I guess
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  Speaker 1: that's the question I would ask. Baseball is different, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm not. There are the people, Oh, baseball players are soft.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the problem. You're swinging a bat, you're throwing a ball.
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  Speaker 1: If you have pain, just come furt or you're limited.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, I use this a lot because I think
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  Speaker 1: it's very true. Any of us that golf knows that exactly.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good comp if if you have I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I've I'm battling ourthritis on my knees and it has
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  Speaker 1: completely screwed up my golf swing and I'm not good.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not on the tour.
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  Speaker 1: But I think anybody who plays the game of golf
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  Speaker 1: can relate if you have something hurting you, if you
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  Speaker 1: have something limiting your mobility, your flexibility, all those things,
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  Speaker 1: and it's as finite as a golf swing or more importantly,
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  Speaker 1: for our argument, a baseball swing.
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  Speaker 2: When there's a lot of mechanics involved.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's and it's like you feel that you this
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  Speaker 1: isn't playing through a sprained ankle. If you're a football player,
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  Speaker 1: that that's a totally different thing. I think soccer gets
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  Speaker 1: sometimes a bad rap. If if you're a soccer player
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  Speaker 1: and you've and you've jacked up your anklet, you can play,
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  Speaker 1: but it's your limited Yeah, absolutely, your touches are limited.
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  Speaker 2: Players still do, they still do.
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  Speaker 1: But it's it's but you would you would agree like,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you're not using your left foot like you should.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna try to make him play with your right
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  Speaker 1: foot exactly. That's affects your your that affects your effectiveness.
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  Speaker 1: If ref Snuyder's really been hurt and if he comes
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  Speaker 1: off because this was people that you and I know
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  Speaker 1: and then we trust, were telling us. Yeah, the what
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  Speaker 1: we're being told is ref Snyder was never healthy. This
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  Speaker 1: year he finally comes back healthy. Look at you know,
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  Speaker 1: you look at his slide after that double. I mean
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  Speaker 1: the guy was he looks spry out there, he was
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  Speaker 1: doing his thing, So was that an issue? Then you
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: ask yourself, well, why the hell was he in there?
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  Speaker 1: Because all he was doing was hurting you. Now can
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  Speaker 1: he help you because you can't hit left handers? Uh,
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: cal Rawley. Maybe he gets on a heater and he
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  Speaker 1: starts going, we'll see. Let's just let's table him for
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  Speaker 1: a second. All right, let's just table him for a second.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I am the last. I am not
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  Speaker 1: going down that road. But your MVP this season just
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  Speaker 1: comes through again and again. And that guy's name is
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  Speaker 1: dom can Zone. I thought he couldn't hit left hand.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I don't know. I don't know where that
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  Speaker 3: narrative went, but it's gone.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: You might want to take those little analytics that you
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  Speaker 1: got going on and flush them. Yeah, or talk to
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  Speaker 1: the little analyst guy and say, dude, we got we
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: got to make some adjustments here. Yeah, dom can Zone
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  Speaker 1: has just flat out been your most important player this season. Offensively,
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  Speaker 1: he has the most Like, does it not feel like
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  Speaker 1: this guy has the most clutch hits? Yes, he gives
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  Speaker 1: you a threat every time he's up there to hit
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  Speaker 1: a bomb. And this needs home runs and they have
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  Speaker 1: to have home runs. Every run last night came via
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  Speaker 1: the home run, right, I believe so? Like, but God,
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  Speaker 1: can Zone man What a cool story, What an absolutely
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  Speaker 1: cool story.
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  Speaker 3: This dude is he now has over a one dot
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  Speaker 3: ops versus left handed pitching this year, five.
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  Speaker 1: Point thirty slugging by the way overall too this guy like,
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  Speaker 1: without Dom Kenzon, this team would be flat out out
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  Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, done, put them away, it's over now.
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  Speaker 1: Great win. See if you can build on it. Here's
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  Speaker 1: a fun thing. You have a chance to win a
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  Speaker 1: series against the Dodgers, and going into yesterday, if you
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  Speaker 1: would have asked most fans, they would have said, no chance.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be lucky if we win one, get out of there,
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  Speaker 1: come home Minnesota, Detroit. After that at home and the
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  Speaker 1: way we go right like that, that's kind of your
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  Speaker 1: thinking going in now you're thinking, is hey, man, go
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  Speaker 1: get another one tonight and you got maybe something special
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: can happen in LA and maybe that can be a
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: catalyst to truly turn the team around. Bad news is
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: both the Astros and the Rangers one last night, so
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: you didn't get any improvement in terms of standings, but
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: you kept pace, which is also very important at this
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  Speaker 1: time of the year. Luis Castillo, however, what's with road pitching?
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: Did he go to the Brian wu school of pitching
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  Speaker 1: on the road. Is that what happened exactly?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 1: Five innings, eleven hits, five runs, they were all earned,
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  Speaker 1: walk to and struck out two, gave up two home runs.
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  Speaker 2: And it's way when you look at that line. But
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: it could have been worse.
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: It could have been way worse. I because we were
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: just joking about Hancock pitching the night. If they're trying
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  Speaker 1: to move him, God, you don't want him to get
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  Speaker 1: lit up tonight and castill you if you were thinking
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  Speaker 1: of moving him. He already got a lot of lit
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  Speaker 1: up in his last start. Not that one start means
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: anything to a GM, but it does show you where
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: you are at this present time. If you're making a
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: move and you know is a guy playing well, is
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: a guy hitting well? Is a guy pitching well?
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  Speaker 2: And all that?
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't help your case. It doesn't help your value
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  Speaker 1: in any way, shape or form. That was the downside.
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  Speaker 1: The upside, despite his defense doing its best to try
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  Speaker 1: to screw him over, just was lights out.
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  Speaker 2: He was so good.
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  Speaker 1: Yes one three he's topping out at well rested apparently, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I guess well, Weston, I mean, he was humming a
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: whole bullpen was really good.
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  Speaker 2: What was what?
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  Speaker 1: There's a percentage I'll look it up here in a
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  Speaker 1: second nobody out runner on third. That runner score is
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: almost always yeah. And this dude punch.
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  Speaker 2: Out, especially against this lineup right, punch.
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  Speaker 1: Out two hopper to the first baseman that he tried
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  Speaker 1: to screw up, and then an easy routine ground ball.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for coming.
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  Speaker 1: What an absolutely lights out performance by Andres Munos. This
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  Speaker 1: is also why I go back to what we're talking
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  Speaker 1: yesterday with the Mully whoppers. I gotta love Mason Miller,
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  Speaker 1: but no interest in Mason Miller.
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  Speaker 2: You have other issues to go after right.
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  Speaker 1: Now, because getting the Munos has been a hard enough
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: issue lately sure much less getting the Munyos as a
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: setup guy for Mason Miller. You need offense last night.
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  Speaker 1: That's not the norm. We all know that's not the norm.
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: You need offense, and I don't think it's coming from whatever.
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: You know, former version of Brendan Donovan is going to
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: come back into this lineup as a utility guy. Now,
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: maybe maybe we can believe that Ref Snyder's healthy and
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: that was the issue, and maybe he can give you
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  Speaker 1: something along with Luke Railey.
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: Whatever, don't go down the school of thought saying that,
• 12:02
  Speaker 3: oh restaurant, this is the version of rest star we'd
• 12:04
  Speaker 3: all get. It's like getting an acquisition at the deadline.
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  Speaker 1: Stop right there, stop right there, stop right there, because
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: here's here's here's what here's what this is. Isn't that
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: what Jerry Depoto says. Our improvements can come from within,
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: And he's talking about a healthy, healthy refs Nyner and
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: a healthy Brendan Donovan.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like getting acquisitions at the deadline. That's he
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  Speaker 2: said that on a record. This I know he said that.
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: So this this cannot be the opportunity for the organization
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: to say, hey, we're good. Ref Snatter is healthy. Look
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: what he did against the Dodgers. What do you do
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: the rest of the series. Well he was zero for four,
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: but that's all right that one game. Well, look at Brendanovan. Okay,
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: they did float out?
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  Speaker 4: Who do they?
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: Who did Jude float out? Yesterday? They might bring up
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: from Triple A. I get those guys oil.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah again, an that's an internal that's an internal improvement
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: or internal promotion. That's not necessarily an improvement overall, because
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: you don't know a royal especially there's no track record
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  Speaker 1: for him at this level. Now, maybe he comes up,
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: he rakes, and then you'd ask yourself, well, why the
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: hell hasn't he been here sooner? But in the case
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: of what happened last night, there's a lot of things
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: to unwrap. Most of them are good. And the one
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: thing that you have to be careful of Anders want
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: you to jump in after this. The one thing you
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: have to be careful of that's that's not the norm
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: this season. Ten hits home runs, all score. I mean,
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: they still have two errors. That's the norm. You're starting
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: pitcher on the road got lit up, that's the norm.
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: And really, the only reason you won that baseball game yesterday, really,
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: the only reason outside of Canzone's heroics is Honris Munnhos
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: came in despite Roblests' best intentions to screw over with
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: that play of the outfield undress. Muonios came in and
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  Speaker 1: was just a dude when it mattered the most, When
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: it mattered the most, he was a dude because really,
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: at the end, runner on third, nobody out, and the
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  Speaker 1: heart of the order coming up, you're thinking, damn, like
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: they're done, they're done. Like you're you're hoping at that point.
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know about you. I was thinking, well, if
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: they get to ask extra innings, they got a shot. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because that's your only you're not gonna win this game
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  Speaker 1: in nine, and they did thanks to him.
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  Speaker 2: It helps.
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: Freddy Freeman got awful yesterday. Mookie Betts got awful yesterday,
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: but Bets has been bad all year. Freddy Freeman probably
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: isn't going to have a game he had, like the
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: double play he grounds into get out of a jam
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  Speaker 1: the ninth thning, that bat get out of it. I
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: mean like he he So you dodged a couple of bullets.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: But it's a very encouraging game on a lot of levels.
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: Can you win a series against the Dodgers, Because if
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: you win a series against Dodgers, just win one of
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: the next two. That to me would give the true
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: momentum they've been missing Andrews.
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  Speaker 2: Coming into this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I mentioned this yesterday. To me, the reason
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: why this win was big is not because they play.
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: It was against the Dodgers, right, That helps, obviously, But
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: the Mariners have played poorly against some crappy teams too.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: It's it's all about what they look like, no matter
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: who their opponent is. Right, Cal and Julio homering is
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: the biggest thing for me from yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Don can Zone. We've known he can do that for
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: a long time, but Cal and Julio.
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: Now, Cal after his home run three straight strikeouts, so
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: you know, is he really that much fixed?
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: We'll see. But Julio his three at bats were one.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: Hundred and ten mile to pern hour line out right
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: to the shortstop, an absolute no doubt or home run,
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  Speaker 3: and then kind of a bloopy single as well. So
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: is this the beginning of nuclear Julio that we are
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: used to see? I like, right, it's come a little
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: bit later than we expected. But again it's as simple
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: as what Joe Sheien told us yesterday. This team is
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: going nowhere no matter what you do at the deadline.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: If you go get Mason Miller, you can go trade
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: for Trek Scoople for all I care. You're doing nothing
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: if Cal and Julio, Randy and Josh Naylor are all
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: not playing up to where they can. And Randy, to
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: his credit, has, but it's been one of those four
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: players which absolutely cannot happen. So you need Cal, Julio
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: and Josh to pull their weight and seeing a little
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: glimpse of that yesterday. I don't think it's a coincidence
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: that now it feels like, Okay, the Mariners have finally arrived. Now,
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: I hope that's what it's gonna look like moving forward.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Win a series that gives you as a team momentum,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: because if you win this, winning a series against a
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: slappy doesn't do you much. You win a series against
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: this team, which all you have to do is win
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: one of the next two. You come home and that
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: is actual momentum. All right, well, take a break, come back.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: One of the best stories on the Seahawks on and
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: off the field is the Anthony Bell, the safety filling
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: in for Nicki min Warry.
• 16:53
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• 17:17
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• 17:20
  Speaker 1: one of the big stories, one of the better stories
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: so far in.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Training camp this year, by a guy that was.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Here before, actually has a Super Bowl ringing. You go
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: that's forty a second. Yeah, Safety d Anthony Bell joined
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: us right now. Thanks for coming by, man. I appreciate it,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: of course, thank you so much for having me you
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: you I mentioned one of the better stories. You're gett
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: an opportunity to Unfortunately Nick's out right now. You'd have
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: opportunities otherwise, but you're getting a lot more opportunities with Nick,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: even worry out with an injury.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: But opportunities what.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: You're all about, right, of course, that's that's that's what
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: this league is all about. How do you feel so
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: far after the first few days.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: I feel good, you know, I feel good, especially knowing
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: that the coach has trust me to put me in
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: that position for Nick as as he's out right now.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: And you know, last year when I was hearing me
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: and Nick talked about that position a lot, you know,
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: because I was doing it when he wasn't in I
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: was with the tools when he would come out. So
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: it's not very new to me, but it's new getting
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: as many reps as I'm getting now. So I'm just
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: trying to maximize those reps and shit and learn it
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: the best I can.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: And he was he was banged up last year, so
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: you did miss it. You know, you got an opportunity
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: you have blocked kicking the game. I mean you had
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: a half a sack in the game, right. I went
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: through I think it was twelve or thirteen transactions for
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: you last year alone, one year transactions.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was after.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Spending your first three years in Cleveland with the Browns.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Come here, you sign here. Let's take a step back.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I'll d end up to Seattle in the first place.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: So I already knew Coach Hart, you know, so me
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: and Coach Heart went back from when I was in Cleveland. Yeah,
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: and then when I when I had the free agent market,
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: it was you know, I reached out to him and
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: I'm like, hey man, what is looking like a Seattle
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: so so you Knowland Yeah yeah, So he was like,
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: you know, we feel like we give guys an opportunity
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: to compete here, and I feel like you can come
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: here and compete. So and that's that's all they take.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: I'm always willing to bet on myself.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: So saw that took your career.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: The Anthony Bell with is your career just going back
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: to college, which I want to get to in a second,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: is amazing And I love the story I'm the father
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: of a small college football player, so.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: I love I love the grind, man, I love.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: The grind that you went. And but last year you're here,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: You're you're part of the team, You're started a handful
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: of games, You're a big part of things. The way
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: the NFL works, we all know there's a numbers game
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: and they're trying to slide you through waivers to the
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: practice squad. Tell people the story of how you ended
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: up getting claimed by Carolina because you thought you were
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: staying here.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah. So I was actually that That next day, I
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: was in the parking lot like I was in had
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: to be met walking in, and literally before I even
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: touched the door, my agent had caught me. It was like,
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: Carolina just signed you off waivers. I'm like what, He's like.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was late in the year.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is late in the year. So he was like, yeah,
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: you gotta you gotta get you a flight to go
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: to Carolina tonight.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: She says, New Years Eve. Now I'm looking down it's
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: New Year's Eve. Yeah you.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: And so that was just the situation. You know, I
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: was literally here to be mac about to sign back.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: So you know, it's part of those things where I
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: understand that it's business. Like I said in another interview,
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: it's good to know that other teams do see that
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: that you're you're a good enough player to play somewhere else.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: But of course I wanted to be with the guys
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: that I've been with all year.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Were you disappointed at that time when you were sitting
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: in the parking lot thinking you're gonna stay here? Like,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: was it a disappointing situation?
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, more disappointing because of course it was. It was
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: around New Year, so my my family was here, so
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: it's like I got to fly out and go to
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Carolina and you know, my family up here at the
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: place I had up here, so you know, it was
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: it was like a bittersweet moment, you know.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: So he's our guy almost.
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: I love the people in Carolina, so I shout out
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: them for even seeing my talent and giving me an
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: opportunity as well.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: But so then you're there for like a week or
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: two and then they release you and then you're just
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: sitting on the sideline watching this team go to the
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: super Bowl.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Was it hard?
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: Was it?
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, what was that like? Because I know you're
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: tight with these guys, especially that DV Room. What was
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: that like?
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't say it was hard, but for me, it
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: was exciting seeing those guys play.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: Of course, I know I couldn't be with them, and
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: I never try to put too much, like uh, negative
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: energy or on myself. So I'm like, hey, man, I
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: just want to watch those guys go win. And I
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: know that I knew they was gonna go win, so
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: I'm telling Amal family, I'm like, bro, we're gonna win.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: They're gonna win. So just watching those guys, it was amazing.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Your attitude is amazing to me, Like it really is
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: in a world. You know, it's a team sport, but
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: like everyone's looking out for number one, you're kind of
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: you gotta look out for number one. There's a selfless
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: nature to who you are, and I'm sure that attracts.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, Mike McDonald must appreciate that. What's what's Mike
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: like to you for as a player, because I think
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: you're the kind of guy he probably appreciates.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, man, I feel like the whole team, the
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: whole team is like that.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: We we love to see each other make plays, we
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: love to help each other. No matter if you're first
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: on the roster or fourth in your position, We're gonna
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: help you. Like I asked you questions every day, Jew
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: asks other other players questions. Like we all learned from
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: each other, We all willing to see each other succeed.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: So that's the nature about why I loved being here
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: in the first place, because it was like, it feels
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: like family for real. You know a lot of places
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: talk about family, but it feels like that really. Here.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: D Anthony bell with me for a little bit longer.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Here Seahawks safety number twenty three. When you get to
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: the fan fest next week or the preseason games, and
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: you know him from last years, I got mentioned he
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: started two games.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you two gave it.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Let's go back to your college career, because I think
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: it's an amazing story in the sense that lightly recruited.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: I assume you went to I think it's four different
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: colleges Albany State, Iowa, Central Community College, Butler Community College
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: in West Florida before your NFL career.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, D two.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Guy at one point, Community College JC guy at one
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: point as well.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: You never gave up. What was going through your mind
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: through those college years?
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Well, you know, I always had my mom, my grandma,
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: and my family on my side, so they always just
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: instilled in me don't don't give up, because it's kind
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: of like when she my mom always used to reference
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: to me a man digging for gold. You never know
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: if that last push for you a shovel is gonna
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: be the goal. So it's like, I gotta keep digging
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: because I never know when I'm a hit goal.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: And was it like you took a year off? I
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: did what happened in that? When did you take the
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: year off and tell people what you did?
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah? So I took the year off in twenty seventeen
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: be cause I couldn't afford to pay for school and I
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: worked construction with my dad. Yeah.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: And then and sould you save money to go back?
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: So I was saving money And then I was emailing
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: school sending them my film from Iowa Central. And then
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: I end up reaching out to Butler and UH and
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: shout out coach Abbott, the safety coach that was there
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: at the time, and UH coach Schaffner was a head coach,
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: and sue they gave me a scholarship there. So I
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: ended up having a scholarship there.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I mean to me, it's a great story. Like I said,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I'm pairing up a small college kid. Like people don't realize, Like,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: if you're not in Division one, you're paying. Yeah, you're paying.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: You're not getting paid, right, you're paying. I mean I
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: know some guys I will say this. I know from experience.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: There's some kids in D three and those bigger D three. Yeah,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: in West are getting some scratch, right, some money, but
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: buying large. If you're in a smaller school, you might
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: get a partial scholarship or your books paid for you
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: like a baseball.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Player exactly like people always forget that.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: By the way, tip for all the parents out there,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: if you're thinking that all these hitting academies are gonna
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: help you kid in baseball, baseball has eleven and a
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: half scholarship, right.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, your books are paid for. That's not a lot.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: You must love football.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: I do love football.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: What is it about.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Football that you love because you don't do this, you
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: don't go through that grind through college, taking a year
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: off and working if you don't love football.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think. I just I had love
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: for the game when I was young, you know, I
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: was young and watching my mom come to my game,
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: celebrating and seeing how happy it made my family, you know,
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: and then uh, the success that it gave me throughout
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: you know, college. So I was making a lot of
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: success as of when I went to Butler. You know,
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: I had a lot of D one scholarships, but due
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: to the timeline at the time, the NCAA told me
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: I couldn't go D one. So I was like, hey,
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: I don't know what to do with My mom was like, well,
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: go D two, D two and one national championship and
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: then now I'm here.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Was and then undraped free agent three years in Cleveland
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: and better off here in Seattle. Sorry Cleveland, I'll say it,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: I will. Uh was the education part important for your
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: parents as well for you to go through that?
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Definitely because I was the first one for my
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: family to graduate of college.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: So congrats.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, nobody else business okay, Yeah, So and I had
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: a minor and child development. Yeah, so it was for me.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: It was kind of like my parents wanted me to
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: do it. And also it is like my younger I
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: got nieces and nephews. I got almost eighteen nieces and nephews,
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: so it's like I want to be the stepping stone
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: that now nobody can't go lower than a college degree.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: So but that's it. Yeah, I mean that's massively important.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I mean again, I'm just sitting here as a dad
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: sometimes taking those things. I love, shit in here stories
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: like that. So you get that. But now you're an
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: NFL player, Like, like, if I'm being honest, you're like,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I know, maybe it didn't feel like that on December
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: thirty first, right, but like you're an your fifth year
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: in the NFL. Yeah, you're an established NFL player. What
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: does that mean to you when you look back on
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: your on your travels.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: It means a lot. It mean, it means the hard
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: work paid off, me not giving up paid off, you know,
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: and and it means that somebody believed in it. Somebody
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: seen my talent. And that's all I could ever asked
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: for was a chance. Man. I always just keep a
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: chip on my shoulder, like if I get the chance,
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: I got to kick the door down.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: There's some guys in that in that dB room, whether
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: safeties or corners, and if I'm just gonna lump them
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: all together, there's some dudes that you know, like Witherspoon's
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: a first round pick, right, There's some guys in there
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: that are dudes right, right, But there's more of you
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: than that, like you Okata, Josh Job, Joe Jail, Like
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: these are a bunch. There's a bunch of guys there
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: that were cut kicked off like just you you want right? Like,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: do you guys all kind of walk around with that
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: little chip on your shoulder?
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: I think that's just the mentality of how Mike Mike coaches.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Is everybody playing with a chip on his shoulder, no
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: matter what round it was, if you didn't get drafted
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: at all, everybody got chip on our shoulder to prove
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: that we the best defense there is in the league.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Does Witherspoon have a chip on his shoulders? You save
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: thirty two million dollars? You see how you play?
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: You played like you got a chip on his shoulder.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: But that probably helps something, it doesn't it helps us.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Like if that guy's playing like that, right, everyone's playing like.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: First round pick, playing like you got a chip on
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: his shoulder. You have no reason you didn't have a
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: chip on his shoulder.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Definitely, Oh I don't.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I saw him lay out for a ball right the
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: other day, and like you're kind of going half speed
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: and he just said enough, that's just enough.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna lay lay out for a ball.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: Then, you know that just that hypes us up because
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: those are some of our leaders in the room. So
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: it's like, hey, if they going hard like that, I
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: have no reason to not go hard.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: You know where your your spot is on this team.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: You're that you're you're gonna feeling if Nick's banged up,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: you're gonna play in the second day, You're going to play.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: But how important a special teams for you?
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: Oh? Very very important?
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: I feel like that's how that's what got me into
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: the league. You know, I had I was at the
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: East West Rone game. That's why I met coach Howard
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: and then he noticed me on special teams because I
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: was on special teams on our team. And then after
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: that he was like, hey, man, we need to get
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: you in in the game.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: So there you are.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Then I got in the game and during that and
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: made some play. So do you think we want me
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: wrap it up with this? I think the story to
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: kind of put a ball on things. It's the best
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: is that at the end of the year, last year
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: they win a Super Bowl. You're texting guys during the
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: game or out of the game right there. But you're
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: and I got to tell people, got a million dollar smile.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: You're probably you're happy for your teammates. It paid off
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: because you got a ring?
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: I did.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: What did it mean? And how did how did that
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: take place? Who called you and told you, Hey, you're
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: coming to the ring ceremony. We're giving you a ring
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: because they don't have to give it to you. I
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: think I think Jerk Reed got one too, right, but
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: I think I think he might have. Like what that
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: mean to you? How did that process work? Why did
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: you hear about that?
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: What it mean?
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: Well?
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: They actually called my agent, you know, and they call
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: my agent, was like, yeah, we're gonna give him a ring,
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: and that that's everything I could ask for. You know,
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: playing football, you want to win at the highest level. Yeah,
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: and this is the highest, biggest stage you ever win
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: a ring on. So being able to take that back
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: to my hometown because we've got a couple of players
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: that's in the NFL that have been in the NFL,
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: but nobody has brought a Super Bowl back. So being
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: able to be the first one to do that for
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: my community, and it's amazing, you know, seeing my mom
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: smile and my dad smile. Seeing that ring, it's like
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: and my dad always been a Seahawks fan.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Oh really yeah, how do you become a Seahawk fan
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: from Georgia?
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: From Georgia, from Georgia, My mom and falcons man dad family. Yeah,
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: I think they're fans. Yeah, they both see all fans.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: No, there must have been a couple of tears from
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: mom too. Oh yeah, it wasn't just a smile. Yeah yeah, yeah,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: you know, mom, Mom be making me tear of. I'm like, hey,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: you got it. I ain't trying to cry right now.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: But it's a happy moment for sure.
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  Speaker 4: So hey, just seeing my whole family smiles, it was amazing.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: It's a blessing and I can't ask for nothing more.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Where's the ring?
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: It's here and seattle with me? Okay, yeah, do you
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: ever just glance at it every now? And yeah, I
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: gotta go look at it sometimes. I sat it next
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: to my other colleges ones.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: So it's like, good for you, man, Hey, D two
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: ring doesn't matter, D three, D two doesn't matter.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: What rings a ring? Yeah, you're a great story.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Uh, you're an inspiration and not just for I think
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: when people listening, seak fans listening and be inspired by
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: you as well. I think this is a really cool deal.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: And by all accounts, we have a little thing. It's
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: it's a your college educated man. You know what group
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: think is when everyone, like a whole group of people
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: and they kind of all of a sudden are round
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: together too much and they talk about it and they'll
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: think the same. You're the group think guy. This year
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: is like the Anthony Bell. The Anthony Bell. But I'm
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: glad I got a chance to talk to you because
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: it's been an impressive camp so far. Thank you, and
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: the story keeps getting better. So'll make it better again
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: this year. Have a great rest of your camp and
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: thanks for coming by.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: Thank you so much. Nice to meet too.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: That's de Anthony Bell. We'll take a break, come back
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  Speaker 1: It's up there from the Anthony Bell. Just a great
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: story all the way around, just the perseverance that he had, Well,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: we went through it was crazy. Yesterday I was going
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: through is uh his transactions? See, I have a lot
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: of guys like that. His transaction sheet looks a lot
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: like Drake Thomas's transaction sheet. You know, guys like that,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: like thirteen transactions over the course of like twelve months.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Like you're on the roster, off the roster, you're on
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: a practice squot and you're waived and brought back up
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: and all those types of things. And you know, one
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: of the things that they went through, this organization went
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: through when they had their success early in the Pete
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Carroll John Schneider tenure is that it became kind of
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: a running joke. We're watching training camp and we're like, well,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: who are the threes and the fours or whatever as
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: far as the defensive backs are concerned, because all those
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: dudes will be starting elsewhere somewhere in the NFL. And
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: they were like guys like Chris Maragos and others got contracts,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: They got paid right because the reputation was if you're
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: if you're a dB and you're in Seattle's camp or
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: around their roster, you're going to get signed. Now it's like, hey,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: you know, we'll talk to Rob rang on Friday. But
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Rob was out there yesterday talking about just the depth
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: of the talent on this roster and it's staggering. De
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Anthony Bell is not a guy that they are going
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: to They're they're not They're not going to sit there
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: and say, hey man, we're going to We're gonna send
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: you back down to the practice squad and see what happens.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: The Anthony Bell's the guy that's gonna be on this team.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: They can ill afford to have to play little little
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: games again with the waiver wire and the practice squad
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: wire and all that, because he will get claimed and
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: he will play somewhere this year.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: And I think the thing that's that's.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Great about him is he he, like a lot of
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: guys in that secondary can play multiple positions, in multiple roles,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: not just position. I say position is probably more like
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: multiple roles, roles being stuff like okay, you're playing near
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: the line of scrim age, you're playing in the even
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: worri spot. Now you're gonna play maybe in for Julian
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Love or wherever it might be, if you're going to
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: go dime.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Can he do that?
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: He's a pretty good sized guy, six one, two hundred
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: and fifteen pounds. He's he's not as tall as even
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Worri and no one's even worry in the league, like,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: nobody is that guy. But in the case of the
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Anthony Bell, he's a guy that since since camp started,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: and even Worris on the on the pup list, uh
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: that he's been playing in that spot in that position.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: So you're the number two guy to number three, you're
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: going to have a spot on this roster. Yeah, I
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: just like I just like the story. Yeah, I think
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: the story is cool. It's like in a day and
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: age in which dudes are saying, how much are you
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: going to pay me to play college football?
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you're right. I've never taken a snap. I'm
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: coming out of high school, but I need to have
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: a million dollars or whatever it is. This dude paid
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: for his own way to go to college. He paid
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: his way to go to college, and then sat out
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: a year to get more money to pay his way
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: to finish college, get a degree, and then find his
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: way into the National Football League and now in the NFL.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: This is year five. Get through this year. Take a
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: snap this year. That's five years in the league. That's pension, baby. Absolutely,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: that's huge. That's huge.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: That's big. Yeah, that's big. So yeah, I'm just I
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: just he knows.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: If he has a role this year, he can get
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: a contract somewhere like that, like whether it's here or
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: somewhere else.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: But it's good for him.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: They've they've got a lot of this team's got a
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: lot of talent.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: That's that's you know.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: When it's was walking with Rang yesterday, he goes, Yeah,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: usually I can come here and get some guys from
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: the CFL, and I know these guys. I can bring
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: him north of the boy any none of these guys
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: going north with the Ward Nope, Because this is kind
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: of a wordless expert exactly. These guys aren't making their
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: way up there. They're not going to go play in
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: the CFL. When it's all sudden that he's going to
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: see Denver and the Rams and he's going to join
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: us on Friday, but he's going to see a couple
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: more teams too along the way. All right, coming up
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: in just a couple of seconds, we're gonna check in. Aye,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: old Check's going to join us formerly the Crack and
• 34:32
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• 34:37
  Speaker 1: does national games as well, did the who was on
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: the Olympics call with Kenny Albert one of just one
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: of my favorite people I've ever met in the business. Uh,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: he's stepping away from his role with the Kraken. I
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: have to ask him the number it looked like when
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: it was all said and done. He did like ninety
• 34:55
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• 34:58
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• 35:02
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  Speaker 1: tell you his about his decision and why he's going
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  Speaker 1: to do that. I'll just I'll tell him when he
• 35:11
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• 35:14
  Speaker 1: the guy. I'm gonna miss sitting in a studio listening
• 35:17
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• 35:23
  Speaker 1: listening to his calls, his interaction, his interaction with Johnny
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• 35:38
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• 35:40
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  Speaker 1: This was one hundred percent his decision. And I can
• 35:48
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• 35:51
  Speaker 1: and they pushed him to come back, and he had
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: to make a decision for him and his family. So
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: we'll relive some of those moments. We'll talk to Eddie
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: old Check coming up. Well, have a little special surprise
• 35:58
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• 36:00
  Speaker 1: so stick around. That's coming up Corbyn Smith at two pm.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Corbyn Smith's been told not to talk about one of
• 36:06
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• 36:11
  Speaker 1: maybe it still is. He still is, but Michael Dansby
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: was their final draft pick and he has had a
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: hell of a camp. We'll talk about him and much
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: more after the first couple of days of camp for Corban.
• 36:22
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  Speaker 1: July twenty ninth, about two months away from the start
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  Speaker 1: of the NHL well season for me personally, two months
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: away from third season on the Krack and Hockey Network
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  Speaker 1: We're going to be without one of our favorite people,
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  Speaker 1: a question of that. Our man, d zodeel Check has
• 38:24
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• 38:29
  Speaker 1: right now on the Beacon Plumbing hotline, d Zel, how
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: you doing my friend?
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  Speaker 6: Hey, he nice to be with you.
• 38:36
  Speaker 8: Man, appreciate you reaching out. And first off, it would
• 38:42
  Speaker 8: be remiss from my entire family certainly thinking about everybody
• 38:49
  Speaker 8: back there in the sea with the horrible events happening
• 38:55
  Speaker 8: on the weekend, really close to home in the CPA
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  Speaker 8: and uh you know Seattle Center there, and uh just
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  Speaker 8: uh I want to send our you know, a lot
• 39:06
  Speaker 8: of love and a lot of well wishes to uh
• 39:09
  Speaker 8: to everybody, and uh you know we're we're thinking about
• 39:12
  Speaker 8: him and and doing a lot of praying for him.
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  Speaker 6: So I wish everybody well.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: Well, said Ed zell U. Yeah, we all.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I think we've all kind of felt that this
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: this week, whether you're in cl or like many of
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: us work there, you know, all those nights a year,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: and uh you know, I know Todd, I know Todd
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: talked to the staff on Monday about it, and it's
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: one of those things that happens all too often in
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: our in our world these days. But hopefully there are
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: put our faith in the Seattle Police. They'll get to justice,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: will come to this, and we'll move on and hopefully
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: then a great event last night, the storm plate and
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: we move on. But yeah, I appreciate that.
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: You got to speak.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Speaking of moving on, this is uh.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: I last last week, I see I missed a phone
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  Speaker 1: call ed Zo and said I get a message, and
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  Speaker 1: he says, hey, give me a call. And in the
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  Speaker 1: what I know, what's probably going to be. I knew
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: that you've been thinking about this, and it was indeed
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: that you kind of let everybody know it's it's it's
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: time to step away from the local ties. Let's just
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: go through that because this is and I've mentioned on
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: the air, but I think people need to hear from you.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: This was your call to step away.
• 40:21
  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I'm one hundred and yeah, one hundred and
• 40:24
  Speaker 8: plus percent.
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  Speaker 4: Probably been.
• 40:30
  Speaker 8: Just trying to do the quick mass here, probably twenty
• 40:33
  Speaker 8: months in the making, you know, family life. My wife
• 40:39
  Speaker 8: and I will be married thirty eight years coming up
• 40:41
  Speaker 8: in next week. And it just kind of came a
• 40:45
  Speaker 8: time after the you know, the first you know, year
• 40:48
  Speaker 8: and a half into the great opportunity I got in
• 40:51
  Speaker 8: in Seattle with the.
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: Crack, and.
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  Speaker 8: That you know, I needed to, you know, I needed
• 41:00
  Speaker 8: have a reorganization of of lifestyle and making a much
• 41:09
  Speaker 8: better effort of being closer to my family here in Chicago.
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  Speaker 8: You know, the first time I did the commuting aspect,
• 41:17
  Speaker 8: he was back when I retired in two thousand, I
• 41:20
  Speaker 8: commuted three years away from my family to work full
• 41:24
  Speaker 8: time local broadcast in Pittsburgh. Obviously Pittsburgh's a lot closer
• 41:28
  Speaker 8: to Chicago, but still, I think I did seventy some
• 41:31
  Speaker 8: games my very first, you know, my first couple of years,
• 41:34
  Speaker 8: because I did not have a national gig at that
• 41:36
  Speaker 8: particular time, so I knew the commute, so I thought,
• 41:39
  Speaker 8: oh geez, you know that was you know that I
• 41:41
  Speaker 8: felt good and obviously a way younger guy than I'm
• 41:45
  Speaker 8: going to be in a couple of weeks. But you know,
• 41:48
  Speaker 8: I think just with first and foremost family battled some
• 41:54
  Speaker 8: you know, some health issues here the last couple of years,
• 41:57
  Speaker 8: and it just felt that, you know, I needed to,
• 42:02
  Speaker 8: you know, be able to look at my wife and
• 42:03
  Speaker 8: tell her that I would back off some and you know,
• 42:05
  Speaker 8: look at I'm not saying I was. I was surprised.
• 42:08
  Speaker 8: I got through last year, but I I, you know,
• 42:10
  Speaker 8: I had to fight through it, and it was tough,
• 42:13
  Speaker 8: and I just felt as the year went on that
• 42:16
  Speaker 8: I knew what I wanted to do and what I
• 42:18
  Speaker 8: needed to do. And obviously with a great cooperation of
• 42:22
  Speaker 8: of the Krack and uh you know organization and uh
• 42:27
  Speaker 8: and the powers it be, you know, they knew, uh
• 42:30
  Speaker 8: you know, once I started having this understanding of what
• 42:33
  Speaker 8: I was going to do, e that you know, I
• 42:36
  Speaker 8: went to Ronnie right away. Ronnie Francis obviously was a
• 42:38
  Speaker 8: man in charge when when that was going on, and
• 42:40
  Speaker 8: one of my best friends, and and he understood, and
• 42:43
  Speaker 8: you know, I know he he kind of let the
• 42:46
  Speaker 8: let the people above him know what was going on,
• 42:49
  Speaker 8: and you know, we just moved on. But I just
• 42:50
  Speaker 8: think there was this is strictly, you know, this is
• 42:53
  Speaker 8: strictly about me being available more at our home and
• 42:58
  Speaker 8: with our grandkids and just not And I said it
• 43:03
  Speaker 8: in a couple of articles that I've done. Is I
• 43:06
  Speaker 8: mean all due respective you know, the word selfish, but
• 43:09
  Speaker 8: I just I I needed it and I felt like
• 43:13
  Speaker 8: I needed my my family schedule was not going to
• 43:16
  Speaker 8: be based solely around me anymore. And then that's where
• 43:20
  Speaker 8: I just said, you know what, enough's enough and I just.
• 43:23
  Speaker 6: Need to be home.
• 43:23
  Speaker 8: And that's how we got to where we are, you know,
• 43:26
  Speaker 8: in the last uh, you know, last twenty four hours officially,
• 43:30
  Speaker 8: but you know, I kind of, as you mentioned, kind
• 43:33
  Speaker 8: of felt that, you know, this was inevitable and whether
• 43:35
  Speaker 8: or not I was going to be able to fulfill
• 43:37
  Speaker 8: my last year of my deal or not.
• 43:38
  Speaker 6: So here we are.
• 43:40
  Speaker 8: But strictly, I mean, I feel fine. I've had a
• 43:42
  Speaker 8: lot of people reach out and then you know asking me. Obviously,
• 43:46
  Speaker 8: with my colon cancer battle a bunch of years ago,
• 43:48
  Speaker 8: I think a lot of people kind of felt that
• 43:50
  Speaker 8: it was, you know, something you know going on. I
• 43:52
  Speaker 8: mean I have, I've had other issues besides of the
• 43:55
  Speaker 8: you know, battling and being a survivor of stage three
• 43:58
  Speaker 8: colon cancer. But I feel good, knock on wood, and
• 44:03
  Speaker 8: I feel I feel relieved, you know. Yeah, that's the
• 44:08
  Speaker 8: only way to put it. Just know that I don't
• 44:10
  Speaker 8: have to sit in front of my calendar, and I'm
• 44:12
  Speaker 8: old school. I can't do that stuff on the computer.
• 44:14
  Speaker 8: Get on insta face or Spacebook or whatever you call
• 44:17
  Speaker 8: those things and try to put your schedule together on
• 44:19
  Speaker 8: a computer. I got to write it down at different
• 44:21
  Speaker 8: colors and say, Okay, I'm going. I'm going to the
• 44:24
  Speaker 8: Sea on Tuesday. We got a game there on Tuesday night,
• 44:26
  Speaker 8: and I got to fly to Denver for a TNT
• 44:29
  Speaker 8: game and then I got to be back in the
• 44:31
  Speaker 8: Sea for you know, a Thursday night. And yeah, I
• 44:35
  Speaker 8: just think there's just you know, I just feel I
• 44:38
  Speaker 8: just feel at ease right now, and I'm gonna miss
• 44:40
  Speaker 8: it for sure.
• 44:41
  Speaker 6: I mean, you know, our our crew, our team, our booths.
• 44:46
  Speaker 8: Uh not only you know Johnny up top and our captain,
• 44:50
  Speaker 8: but you know with with you know, with with Robbie
• 44:52
  Speaker 8: and Josh and David, you know, really the straw and
• 44:55
  Speaker 8: it stirs the drink up in our booth to keep
• 44:57
  Speaker 8: everything sane and h you know, when we did games
• 45:01
  Speaker 8: together to I mean, we have an unbelievable booth and
• 45:04
  Speaker 8: gonna miss that, you know, I'll get to miss that
• 45:06
  Speaker 8: a lot. But I just feel, you know, the time
• 45:09
  Speaker 8: is right. And it wasn't easy to go to the Kraken,
• 45:11
  Speaker 8: but I think that they they have known them for
• 45:14
  Speaker 8: a while. So we did the best we could and
• 45:16
  Speaker 8: certainly proud of, uh of what we all were able
• 45:19
  Speaker 8: to accomplish the last four years.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: I agree with he old Check joining his head though
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: with us stepping away from his cracking duties. One more
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: thing there because I want to move on for a
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: couple of other things, but just in that sense, just
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: to put a bow on it, because there's the you know,
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: the stories with ESPN last week and what they went
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: through with with massive layoffs, and then obviously the I
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: don't know if you're aware of what happened just down
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: the road with the Portland Trailblazers. They're they're fine when
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Tom dund And I's just what a.
• 45:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we've seen that.
• 45:43
  Speaker 8: We've seen that in in Carolina, so yeah, that's not surprising.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: Were the bet we're the benefactors here in Seattle with
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: one certain guy, that's for sure. But with all that happened,
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: did the cracking try to talk to you out of it?
• 45:57
  Speaker 6: I'm not. I'd rather not. I'd rather not say.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, they want to, they.
• 46:03
  Speaker 8: Were, they were more all more than willing to ye,
• 46:06
  Speaker 8: you know, whatever the whatever the package could be or
• 46:09
  Speaker 8: whatever I felt like. So yes, I mean, you know,
• 46:13
  Speaker 8: I I you know the talks I had with you know,
• 46:16
  Speaker 8: with Rob and and Victor in particular Rob Blantman and
• 46:19
  Speaker 8: Victor de Bonus. Just you know, it's just without a doubt.
• 46:24
  Speaker 8: I mean, you know, it could have been you know whatever,
• 46:27
  Speaker 8: but I just like I said, I just I just
• 46:29
  Speaker 8: felt that it was.
• 46:30
  Speaker 6: It was.
• 46:31
  Speaker 8: It was the right time for everybody involved. And uh,
• 46:35
  Speaker 8: you know, I'm very very appreciative of of how you know,
• 46:39
  Speaker 8: on on how it all ended up, you know, playing out.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: And so you started on Root Sports with us with
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: the Kracking here, and then it evolved in the Crack
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: and Hockey Network. I'll get to the Krack and Hockey
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: Network because building that up in today's world is it's
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: a hard thing to do. You're a huge part of it,
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: and I think a big reason why it's it's had
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: the success it has along with that great crew that
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: you mentioned. But let me go back a little bit.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: What kind of thrill was it for you to work
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: with uh, with your son or work with Nicky who's
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: now with the the Utah Mammoth. I mean, I just
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: I was thinking of my own son and he's on
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: the same business as me, But I couldn't even fathom
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: how cool that would have been for you to get
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: a chance to work with Nicky.
• 47:15
  Speaker 8: Yeah, that was awesome, very appreciative of that chance. And obviously,
• 47:19
  Speaker 8: you know, one of the you know, one of the
• 47:21
  Speaker 8: big reasons on getting that opportunity and thinking about you know,
• 47:26
  Speaker 8: going to Seattle, and not only because of you know,
• 47:28
  Speaker 8: I mentioned Ronnie, one of my best friends, Ronnie Francis,
• 47:31
  Speaker 8: but of course my brother Ricky, who has done an
• 47:32
  Speaker 8: unbelievable job there.
• 47:33
  Speaker 6: In the a GM.
• 47:34
  Speaker 8: And then my son Eddie was an amateur scout already
• 47:37
  Speaker 8: for a couple of years in the organization, and you know,
• 47:39
  Speaker 8: obviously I knew Johnny and I knew j T. And yeah,
• 47:44
  Speaker 8: to to see Nicky, uh, you know, pay his dues
• 47:50
  Speaker 8: as he did prior and then get that opportunity in
• 47:53
  Speaker 8: Seattle and and and and work with a lot of
• 47:57
  Speaker 8: talented people and the US factor and it just helped him,
• 48:03
  Speaker 8: you know, mature and and get to where, you know,
• 48:06
  Speaker 8: where where he wants to continue to stay and obviously
• 48:10
  Speaker 8: get the opportunity in Utah, but you know, to be
• 48:13
  Speaker 8: able to to live together for a couple of years.
• 48:15
  Speaker 8: He I mean, it really made Uh, it was home.
• 48:21
  Speaker 8: It was home when uh, you know, when Nicky, when
• 48:24
  Speaker 8: Nicky was there, and you know, he he lived there
• 48:26
  Speaker 8: full time. He became very entrenched in the community, as
• 48:29
  Speaker 8: you know, and you know, he just the relationships he
• 48:33
  Speaker 8: built up with you know, with with with you and
• 48:37
  Speaker 8: with Alison and and our and our game crew. He
• 48:41
  Speaker 8: just uh, you know, he loves Seattle like and you know,
• 48:44
  Speaker 8: and developed really good relationships with a lot of the
• 48:46
  Speaker 8: players as well. So but it was an awesome experience,
• 48:49
  Speaker 8: something that uh, you know we thought about, you know,
• 48:53
  Speaker 8: when he started aspiring and laying the groundwork and the E. C.
• 48:58
  Speaker 8: H L and you know, can uting from Chicago to
• 49:01
  Speaker 8: Indianapolis to work the gamestayle there for the for the
• 49:04
  Speaker 8: Indie Fuel and you know, got a break and then
• 49:07
  Speaker 8: did some stuff and then next thing you know, he's
• 49:10
  Speaker 8: in the show. And now he's doing a hell of
• 49:12
  Speaker 8: a job in Utah. So yeah, that that was one
• 49:14
  Speaker 8: of the you know, one of the highlights for sure.
• 49:18
  Speaker 8: You know, being in Seattle with Nick and I was
• 49:21
  Speaker 8: a family affair at you know, uh.
• 49:24
  Speaker 6: And which was which was awesome.
• 49:25
  Speaker 8: You know, I mean, I've never been able to work
• 49:28
  Speaker 8: with my brother, you know, I mean work you know
• 49:30
  Speaker 8: with as far as you know, being a part of
• 49:31
  Speaker 8: the organization and saying and you know to see Ricky
• 49:35
  Speaker 8: very often, and it was just it was sort of
• 49:38
  Speaker 8: special and couldn't be more proud of of.
• 49:41
  Speaker 6: How we went about it.
• 49:42
  Speaker 8: And uh, you know, at one time, I think there
• 49:44
  Speaker 8: were more old checks than Francis Is in the organization
• 49:47
  Speaker 8: with the crack and so.
• 49:49
  Speaker 6: We always had that, you know, we had a little.
• 49:51
  Speaker 8: Little fun battle there with Ronnie and the boys, with
• 49:54
  Speaker 8: Michael and Connor who was still there working in the
• 49:56
  Speaker 8: front office.
• 49:56
  Speaker 6: So yeah, it was it was awesome to be able
• 49:58
  Speaker 6: to do that with Nick.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: I mentioned Root Sports and Aniel Chuck joining us at
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: the Root Sports the first couple of years, and then
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: Todd lay Wiki and Victor de Bonus and then and
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Sam they made the decision to say we're gonna step
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: away from the regional sports network. They were ahead of
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: the game, but far more ahead of it than a
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: lot of people, and they're gonna take this chance, and
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna start their own network affiliated with
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: Tea and and King Television as our as our flagship.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: But go wait for it over the air, which is
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: unheard of. Now it's becoming the norm, But that was
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: three years ago. How much pride you take in that.
• 50:31
  Speaker 8: Yeah, real special. You're right, the ownership group, the partners
• 50:40
  Speaker 8: led by by Sam and then allowing you know, Todd
• 50:45
  Speaker 8: and Victor to work their magic, and then you know,
• 50:50
  Speaker 8: the the ticket to people and the marketing, the sales
• 50:54
  Speaker 8: and and and Rob Lantman and.
• 50:56
  Speaker 6: And everybody there.
• 50:59
  Speaker 8: They asked a lot of u of a handful of
• 51:03
  Speaker 8: people and they were able to pull that off. And
• 51:06
  Speaker 8: you're right they they were a step ahead of most
• 51:09
  Speaker 8: of most organizations and professional sports. You know, I mean
• 51:12
  Speaker 8: obviously take you know, take the NFL out of it,
• 51:15
  Speaker 8: but yeah, just to be to be a part of
• 51:18
  Speaker 8: that and to the launch and in the many more
• 51:22
  Speaker 8: eyes that we would get on our game Z was
• 51:25
  Speaker 8: really important. And I commend them. I hope you know
• 51:29
  Speaker 8: that that is a template for a lot of teams
• 51:31
  Speaker 8: that are in are in limball right now, in the
• 51:35
  Speaker 8: National Hockey League in particular. So but yeah, it was
• 51:38
  Speaker 8: it was an amazing It was very quick. But they
• 51:42
  Speaker 8: knew where they were, where they are, where they were
• 51:44
  Speaker 8: at that particular time, and where they were trying to
• 51:46
  Speaker 8: get to and uh, they could hold you know that
• 51:49
  Speaker 8: they'll write books and they'll hold seminars on how to
• 51:52
  Speaker 8: you know, how to take that next step when it
• 51:54
  Speaker 8: comes to broadcasting a professional sports team. So I hope
• 51:57
  Speaker 8: all the crack and fans were a very appreciative of
• 52:00
  Speaker 8: the effort. And I mean there was a lot of
• 52:02
  Speaker 8: money that the team had to step up and be
• 52:05
  Speaker 8: able to put towards the uh, you know, towards the project.
• 52:10
  Speaker 8: And they did a hell of a job and proud
• 52:12
  Speaker 8: to have been a small part of it on the
• 52:14
  Speaker 8: on the broadcast.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: Side, not a small, a very big, a big, big
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: part of it. I do want to thank you.
• 52:21
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: You gave me a chance, and I know that I
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: didn't I wouldn't have been in that Uh. I was
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: already hosting the shows after the for the first year
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: of the Cachen. But UH, to have the opportunity as
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: a local kid to sit sit in that booth next
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: to you, next to JT, and call an NHL game
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: in my hometown, I know it doesn't happen without your support.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: I can also tell you in this business, I've done
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: a lot of things, have been blessed, and a lot
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: of fun things along the way.
• 52:41
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: That might have been the most fun I've ever had.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: And UH, truly I thank you for that, because you
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: get you and Johnny gave me an opportunity to sit
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: in that seat a handful of times and hopefully a
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: few more moving ahead. But doing games with you was
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: a thrill man, and I thank you. I can't thank
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: you enough for for supporting me in that opportunity.
• 53:00
  Speaker 8: Well yeah, I mean I respect you very much and uh,
• 53:04
  Speaker 8: you know you're a hockey lifer, uh, and I was.
• 53:07
  Speaker 6: It was a privilege to uh.
• 53:10
  Speaker 8: To sit next to you and and develop a legitimate
• 53:14
  Speaker 8: and uh relationship. Not only uh you know, most importantly
• 53:20
  Speaker 8: you know off the air, but you know on the.
• 53:21
  Speaker 6: Air as well.
• 53:22
  Speaker 8: And you did a hell of a job and not
• 53:24
  Speaker 8: an easy chair to fill in for, you know, for
• 53:26
  Speaker 8: the great Johnny Foresln. And for as much as I
• 53:29
  Speaker 8: love to bust his shops and chop his knees down
• 53:32
  Speaker 8: every once in a while and and bury him and stuff,
• 53:35
  Speaker 8: you know, there's nobody better. And uh, you know the
• 53:38
  Speaker 8: chemistry I think that we developed, and you know the
• 53:41
  Speaker 8: handful of games that we've been able to do. You know,
• 53:43
  Speaker 8: I think cracking nation. Uh, you know, very happy and pleased,
• 53:48
  Speaker 8: and uh, I look at you. You you earned it,
• 53:51
  Speaker 8: and you did a hell of a job and you
• 53:53
  Speaker 8: do a great job with with Alison and Brett. Uh
• 53:56
  Speaker 8: when you're in your normal chair, so to speak. But
• 53:59
  Speaker 8: you did a heck of a job and hopefully you
• 54:02
  Speaker 8: had a lot of fun. And we laughed a little
• 54:04
  Speaker 8: and there laughed a lot, and we talked a little
• 54:06
  Speaker 8: bit about Cracking Hockey as well when we were doing
• 54:08
  Speaker 8: the game.
• 54:08
  Speaker 6: So, uh, a job well done by you.
• 54:11
  Speaker 8: And you know where I am. You got my you
• 54:13
  Speaker 8: got my digits, and you ever need anything, I'll I'll
• 54:16
  Speaker 8: be watching. I there isn't there isn't many games that
• 54:20
  Speaker 8: I'm not able.
• 54:21
  Speaker 6: To, uh to watch. Obviously I'll have.
• 54:23
  Speaker 8: A lot more free time, and I'm sure I will
• 54:26
  Speaker 8: have to send a text every once in a while
• 54:28
  Speaker 8: and the Crack and are playing at home, and I
• 54:30
  Speaker 8: want to know what the hell's going on with the
• 54:32
  Speaker 8: power play, and I'll have an opinion for somebody. But
• 54:36
  Speaker 8: you know, maybe I have to get on one of
• 54:37
  Speaker 8: those worm burner accounts there and send it into the
• 54:40
  Speaker 8: Crack and Hockey Network. And I should I should mention
• 54:44
  Speaker 8: Ryan Shaber and Patrick Brown to our producer and director
• 54:48
  Speaker 8: on our on our game coverage, and uh, it's just
• 54:52
  Speaker 8: you know, they were awesome. They're professionals beyond end and
• 54:58
  Speaker 8: just a lot of fun to see them, uh grow
• 55:01
  Speaker 8: this network and grow the production of our shows. And
• 55:04
  Speaker 8: like I said that, the team spent a lot of
• 55:07
  Speaker 8: money on our shows to give us cameras, to give
• 55:09
  Speaker 8: us you know, to give me my crayons, and to
• 55:12
  Speaker 8: hopefully teach you know, new hockey fans but also old
• 55:15
  Speaker 8: hockey fans the greatest game in the world. So, you know,
• 55:19
  Speaker 8: going to miss everybody, but I'll be watching. And again
• 55:23
  Speaker 8: it's been it's been a lot of fun. And you know,
• 55:25
  Speaker 8: things happened for a reason, and it was just awesome
• 55:28
  Speaker 8: that uh you know that you got the chance to
• 55:32
  Speaker 8: live that dream out in a National Hockey League game
• 55:35
  Speaker 8: and to be able to do that, uh obviously handful
• 55:38
  Speaker 8: of times. And I wish you nothing but the best
• 55:40
  Speaker 8: and everything that's going on, not only with your show,
• 55:42
  Speaker 8: but also being one of the leaders for our for
• 55:46
  Speaker 8: the Crack and Hockey Network as well.
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Don't go anywhere. I got something this is.
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: This is stayed with me because I got just a
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: little short clip to play for you. This is one
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: of the things that we're gonna miss. You're gonna hear
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: the you're gonna hear the voices of Johnny Fores and J. T.
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: Brown and Eddie Oldcheck, Go ahead, had Anders.
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: I wasn't sure if the roof was retractable.
• 56:04
  Speaker 8: But the one thing that I'm hoping is is that
• 56:06
  Speaker 8: Johnny's new suit is reversible. It's not a new suit,
• 56:11
  Speaker 8: so you might look a little better if you've made
• 56:13
  Speaker 8: it turned it inside out, but it does look nice.
• 56:15
  Speaker 9: You're tattoos, Brownie, What the hell are you doing?
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: Damn well, it's a fair it's a fair question.
• 56:21
  Speaker 10: I'm thinking about getting one myself with an anchor, It
• 56:25
  Speaker 10: says mother, I won't say edzo.
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you that, I won't say edze.
• 56:31
  Speaker 6: That guy can go jump in the lake. I told
• 56:33
  Speaker 6: him last night.
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: I know, yeah, Johnny, you have to see Johnny get
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: a tattoo.
• 56:37
  Speaker 11: Tattoo's gonna go hey, hey, oh good stuff. Ways now listen,
• 56:44
  Speaker 11: it's almost like a rustling. Wait, the music's playing. I
• 56:48
  Speaker 11: don't know what this could mean. We have a special guest.
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: On the line.
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Special guests, how are you?
• 56:54
  Speaker 10: Oh greetings, and let me interrupt this wonderful interview. This
• 57:02
  Speaker 10: has been an epic landmark achievement in broadcasting Ian once
• 57:06
  Speaker 10: again by you, your guest is a phenomenal individual. Ed
• 57:12
  Speaker 10: Zoe greeting from across the country.
• 57:18
  Speaker 6: Are you are you? We get you on this one?
• 57:20
  Speaker 10: Did we get you?
• 57:21
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 57:22
  Speaker 8: My gosh, I had this?
• 57:24
  Speaker 6: This? Okay?
• 57:25
  Speaker 8: I does somebody want to let me know what's going on?
• 57:27
  Speaker 6: Is this?
• 57:27
  Speaker 8: This is that an old show JT would have no idea,
• 57:30
  Speaker 8: But this is your life right here?
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: Is this what we're playing there?
• 57:35
  Speaker 10: This is the biggest cracking This is the biggest cracking
• 57:38
  Speaker 10: fan in the great state of Maine right now calling
• 57:41
  Speaker 10: in oh on this momentous occasion.
• 57:44
  Speaker 8: But let me let me just get first off, let
• 57:49
  Speaker 8: me let me paint the picture. Is that somebody, one
• 57:52
  Speaker 8: of Johnny's butlers in the mansion in Maine brought him,
• 57:56
  Speaker 8: brought him the phone. Uh, he's got an old phone
• 57:59
  Speaker 8: with the with the cord that you know, reaches out
• 58:02
  Speaker 8: about sixty yards. So he's sitting out on the lake
• 58:05
  Speaker 8: right now, his seater up, he's got the banana hammock
• 58:07
  Speaker 8: on and he's talking to us.
• 58:09
  Speaker 10: And the mortgages do at midnight. So last year, I
• 58:18
  Speaker 10: am doing great and I just I just want to say,
• 58:21
  Speaker 10: I just want to say seriously. One of the great
• 58:24
  Speaker 10: things about our profession is that we get to speak
• 58:29
  Speaker 10: with and to the fans right and on behalf of
• 58:34
  Speaker 10: all of them. I just want to say to Eddie,
• 58:37
  Speaker 10: thank you for the last four years. Thank you for
• 58:42
  Speaker 10: your wit, your one and only personality, your knowledge, your
• 58:47
  Speaker 10: insight and it is great game and your delivery of
• 58:51
  Speaker 10: it all because it has enhanced the experience of cracking hockey.
• 58:56
  Speaker 10: It's grown the brand. We've gone through growing pains, we
• 58:59
  Speaker 10: all know this, but you have added so much to it.
• 59:04
  Speaker 10: We support your decision. Obviously we're going to miss you
• 59:08
  Speaker 10: a ton. You're still going to be around, which I'll
• 59:11
  Speaker 10: deal with on another front, I'm sure, But I just
• 59:15
  Speaker 10: I also want to say personally, I love you, and
• 59:18
  Speaker 10: I just want to say one of the greatest blessings
• 59:21
  Speaker 10: of my career and my life is to know you
• 59:25
  Speaker 10: and work with you. Sure work with you great. I
• 59:27
  Speaker 10: think we do great together. But you're You're a dear
• 59:31
  Speaker 10: friend and you care about people and that's why you
• 59:35
  Speaker 10: are who you are. So I just want to say
• 59:37
  Speaker 10: that because we kid each other a lot, and you know,
• 59:41
  Speaker 10: some people think we hate each other, which might be
• 59:43
  Speaker 10: the case.
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: But.
• 59:47
  Speaker 10: I just wanted to say those things. And I'm glad
• 59:51
  Speaker 10: that I got a chance to make this collect call.
• 59:53
  Speaker 10: I really appreciate it.
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: We actually accepted the collect call too.
• 59:59
  Speaker 10: Those were the day.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 6: We're in a choice.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 8: Now you don't yeah, hey, yeah, I know that. I
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 8: know that's a roll of quarters in your pocket, but
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 8: you better put one in the phone right now.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 6: You need another.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 8: Fifteen years ago, I exactly here. Let me give you
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 8: some advice. When you're around Johnny, don't ask him for
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 8: ten bucks, because you'll look at you like I don't
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 8: have any cash. And I tried to tell him, you
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 8: know what, at some point here, we're all going to
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 8: need cash somebody because at some point, at some point,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 8: our credit cards and everything's just going to go down
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 8: for a few days.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 6: And that's just going to happen. That's just the world
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 6: we live in.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: So you better have some cash.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 10: A few years two years ago, when in our health officials,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 10: when our health officials a few years ago said hey,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 10: we we shouldn't have any currency, I.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 8: Thought it was the greatest thing in the world I
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 8: ever heard. I said, you're right, oh my, but he
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 8: let me let me respond. First off, Johnny, I love you.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 8: You know that you know, you were one of the
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 8: point of the main reasons why I, uh I came
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 8: came to Seattle, be able to sit next to the
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 8: best in the business and.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 6: And nobody there.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 8: There are a lot of great broadcasters, and I work
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 8: with a lot of them, but there's nobody better. And
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 8: I just want to say thank you for everything, and uh,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 8: I know who There are people out there that think
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 8: that there is some tension, and sometimes there are, especially
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 8: when I'm sitting next to.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 6: You and you are when you're driving.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 8: I mean, there is tension, but uh I, uh, I
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 8: really appreciate everything, and you are a close friend, and
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 8: it's been it's been a blast, uh to have sat
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 8: next to you for four years and it's been uh
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 8: it's been an honor. So thank you for for everything,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 8: and I look forward to seeing you down the road.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 8: I'm sure we'll get a handful of games for TNT
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 8: and hopefully we can get a game out West or
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 8: maybe Cracker and on the road and maybe we can
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 8: do one of those games and we can get the
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 8: band back together and you know.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 6: Tell a few stories.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 8: So thanks for you know, thanks for jumping off the
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 8: cruiser and the yacht and taking five minutes out of
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 8: your schedule and it's been a lot of fun. So
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 8: thank you very much for everything.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 6: You're the best, buddy, You're the best.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: I'll just I'll just speak to I'll wrap it up
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: on behalf of the fans of which I'm one as
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: well as one of the guys that has the blessed
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: opportunity to work with you guys. Nothing was better about
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: the job than when it was an EDZO game and
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: we put on a headset at the Climate Pledge Arena,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: or we would be at the studios of the Crack
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: and Hockey Network and it would be the two of
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: you guys doing the game with JT and and just
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: a shout out to JT. I. I had probably three
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: or four games I worked with JT solo last year,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: and I had great respect for him before those, and
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: my respect actually grew, which I didn't think was possible,
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: because he did a hell of a job and works
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: and he's learned.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: From the best.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: But but when you guys are doing something, it was
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: always entertaining, it was always informative. The best stuff was
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: oftentimes in the rehearsals, uh which which we heard a
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: little clip from there a moment ago you talking about exactly,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: which was what we heard just a moment ago.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: But I agree with the Edo.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: There's nobody better in the business than Johnny and getting
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: to hear him every day is fantastic. And getting to
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: work with you, ed Zoe, was a pleasure. But the
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: winners here were the fans in Seattle. They were the
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: winners from from day one with Johnny and for the
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: last four years with Edzo and you together.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: So ed Zo, best to you man.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: We'll keep in touch, and I know, like you said,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: I know those texts will be coming in during games
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: oftentimes oftentimes on a set. As I look down it,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: I'll just save my phone.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: Is it? Wait?
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: Is that is that Scott maloneur producer? No, it's ed Zo,
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: all right, I'll wait on that one for a second.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 6: Out.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: It's great stuff, guys, Thank you so much for john
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: Thanks for doing this with us.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: We appreciate it.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: I'll let you get I'll let you get back to
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: Maine and ed Zoe, you and I will be in touch.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: We're gonna do some stuff with you this year.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: I think we're gonna we're gonna try to get you
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: on more often because people want to john you know
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: we believe this. People want to hear more from him.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: I get text on the text line here at the
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: radio station. We want more Edzo. So we'll have to
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: figure out how to do that.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 4: I doubt about it.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: Thanks ed Zoe, Thanks Thanks Johnny, you bet, buddy.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 6: You bet you everybody.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 8: Thanks to everybody in in the scene.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: Man, I appreciate you guys are the best.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: That's Eddie old check Johnny FORSLM will take a break,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: come back with more. N I three point three kJ FM.
• 1:04:37
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• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: All right back, big thanks to ed Zo and Johnny
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: Fororesland for popping on. We got I think we surprised
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: Edge pretty well there. I think we got him surprised.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, when he's like laughing like that kind of not
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 3: knowing what to say. Yeah, there's a rare occasion where
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 3: Eddie ol Chick is out of words.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so Edze was. He was stumped there for a second.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: But that was good now, I appreciate John taking.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: Some time out.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: I texted him and said, hey, I got this little
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: idea I want to I want to mess with Edzel.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: I mean as much as he messes with you, you
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: want to mess a little bit. And we got him
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: choked up there, which is good too.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: But we're gonna miss him, man.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you're you're you're sometimes filling in for
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: Bento's and sometimes producing the games. But I would, I
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: would put you squarely in the first and foremost. You're
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: a fan category, so you watch a lot and listen
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: a lot, but watch a lot as well. We're gonna
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: miss ed Zel. I mean all the joking aside. He
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: does a great job on the game, like I think,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: and I would. I think it's safe. We learned from him, yeah, right, right.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: And he draws the balance. I mean, everyone has their
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: own style, right.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: He draws the balance of having passion for the game
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 3: and obvious knowledge as well. But he also makes it that,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 3: you know, the visual hockey fan can understand what he's
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 3: talking about. Yeah, he makes it so, which is so
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: hard in broadcasting that the diehard that knows every single
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: play knows the formations on the power play, we'll get
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 3: something from his broadcast, but also the casual hockey fan
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: who's getting into the game for the first time will
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 3: understand what he's talking about as well and get something
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: from it.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: I think that's a hard that's a hard balance to
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: to find.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: Today's broadcasting is is and I would I would point
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: out I thought at times, depending on who the the
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: analyst was for the World Cup, I thought there were
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: times when it just got too deep into the weeds
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: for the amount of the casual fans that were watching
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: the game.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 6: I agree.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: I think that's why it was great having John Strong
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: on bigger game calls, because John doesn't do that right.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: He can has that ability, sure understands the game at
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: a very high level. I Stuo holding it a pretty
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: good job as well. But I thought I thought some
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: of the times the other analyst would get a little
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: bit and you see, it was a soccer formation guy,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: and hockey guy gets that way, and and football guy
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: can get that way, and there's a time and a place.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, listen, I'm we do a saving called hardcore football,
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: right and I know it's not for everybody, but but
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: you know, there's people that want to go hardcore and
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: we have Hugh and Hugh does it great and breaks
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: it down great in that regard, and we do that.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: But if you're just tuning in one of eighty two
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: hockey games or one of eighty two basketball games, when
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: ever get an NBA team back, there's that fine line
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: between as an analyst, there's too many people that will
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: just say, tell you what happened. Well, I just heard
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: the play by play guy say what happened right? Like,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: you know, Vaneers carried the puck in you know way
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: it found McMahon on the left side, left circle one timer.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: The play by play guy did that. That was such
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: a good shot for Maddie. Okay, we saw that.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, tell me why how did we get there? And
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: you know, I work with someone in Allison who does
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: an incredible job. You know, we always joke about it,
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: but she says the play before the play, before the
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: play before right to develop it but not getting too
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: far the weeds. And then you illustrate it with here
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: was the play, Here was the play. Here was playing
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: Edzo in the heat of doing a game, and the
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: color it did a great job. And then oh, by
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: the way, in the process was able to spin it
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: in a way and have some fun with it in
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: a way that made you entertain. Because you have a
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: lot of new hockey fans or not a lot of
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: die you've got to enter. Our job is still on television,
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: much like it is on radio, is still to entertain.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: You're watching a game for entertainment purposes. You know, there's
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: people that don't like Buner, and I understand why I
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: find Buner entertaining.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: And yeah, he bops in, bops out.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: He's here, he's gone whatever, He's not fought, but there
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: are there's something about the ex player in him, and
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: I thought it was on display with Ken Zone's home
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: run in Texas, Texas, where.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: He called it he's come to Papa.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: Come to Papa, knew, he knew the pitch, he knew
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: and and you know what, so can Zone. Yeah, that's
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: pretty cool because Jay's been in that spot exactly what
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: you and Edo's been in this. And the thing with
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: Edzoe and JT that was always fun is JT was
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: a grinder, YEP, a penalty killer. He was a fourth third,
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: fourth line guy, just working his ass off. So Is
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: and Brett our analysts on the on the down thing.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: He was a third pair of defense, right, Yeah, Like
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: that's those guys grind Edzo was a star in the
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: USA Hockey Hall Fame, like he was a star, and
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: so it's good to have kind of that that back
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: and forth. Those guys both sell the game in the
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: kind of sometimes a different way. But nobody doesn't like eds.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: So he'll still be on T and T. By the way,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: we didn't even get into that. He's still going to
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: be doing T and T games. He did about ninety
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: games last year in the Olympics and everything else. Travel
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: is just done. Like I've I've talked about it here
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: on the show. I know how I felt at the
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: end of last season as someone doing well basically two
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: jobs grind but I was at least here in town.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: I wasn't traveling. He traveled, uh, And.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: That's just that's just it takes its toll. I don't
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: know how Johnny does it. To be honest with you,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's a lot. It's it's really really a lot.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: Along the way, we're gonna miss him, I personally, just
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: friendship wise, professionally, but just personality wise, on the misheads
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: of a lot.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 6: He was.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: He was great to me, and I I owe a
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: lot to him.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'll take you break. Where do you come back?
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: Trade deadline looming. I'm gonna throw a name at Anders. Oh,
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: not necessarily for here, but one that just to me
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: is the biggest head scratcher. As we get closer to
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: the Major League Baseball trade deadline, which is Monday, we'll
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: also tell you we're gonna do on Monday as well.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: Coming back next.
• 1:10:27
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• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball trade deadline is coming up on Monday.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: We will, I think, kind of do what we did
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: last year.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: Anders. We'll have Crawford on stand by the entire time. Skeeter.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: Skeeter probably just throw him on the old zooms age way.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: I can see him. He can wave at me and
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: hen wave if we need to throw them on. Otherwise
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: he'll probably just nap through the show, but keep an
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: eye on things.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, are you a nap guy? Total nap guy?
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: Well you have to be now, yeah, because you don't
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: sleep overnight.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: Actually he's gotten better. Knock on wood.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: Okay, good, you hear me knocking on wood, Austin. Don't
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 3: even think about changing that schedule.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: Oh it will, it'll change, It will change. So so
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: trade Aline Monday. And a lot of rumors out there.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: We're hearing rooms about s I mean every team's I
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: thought Joe said it best yesterday. I mean twenty four
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: of thirty teams are in it, you know, like like
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: that's that's kind of the issue. And the teams that
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: aren't it don't have a lot to give, right, but
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: there are teams that are technically in it, but they
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: still may be sellers. And I'm gonna throw the one
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: at you because there's a rumor between LA and the
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: Dodgers and the Tigers. Yes, with those Hotti's issues and
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: Trek Scoobles, so Scooble pitch today standing ovation, they say
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: thousandth k. Maybe his last game is a Detroit Tiger.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: And I guess my question is why, And and I
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: mean if it's a money thing, resigning him, that's a
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: pathetic excuse because baseball teams have money, they just don't
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: want to spend it. Here's the thing that team is
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: only two games behind Seattle in the wildcard race. They're
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: three and a half out. Now you look at the
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: overall record, you're six hundred five hundred, but you're a
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: plus thirty nine run differential. You are one of six
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: teams in the American League that have a plus run
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: differential and plus thirty nine, by the way, pretty damn good.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: It's the same as the Rays who lead the Ale East. Yes,
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: so why would you I just and I guess I'm
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: doing this for Mariner fans. Yeah, you think, and at
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: times rightfully so, that there are issues here, spending, ownership,
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: what have you. Here's the difference. Jerry Depoto in the
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: last few years has been given by and large a
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: green light. Go get somebody, Go get them, go get them.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: Not hey, you should trade your franchise player or franchise pitcher.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 3: Like it would be similar, definitely, not to the same extent,
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 3: but it would be similar if the Mariners were to
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 3: try and trade Randy ros Rader right now because he's
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 3: about to be a free agent.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: Yes, and no, I mean schooball homegrown like like like
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: I'd almost say it's more like Logan Gilbert Y Gilbert
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: because Gilbert's contract, that's a good point is gonna be
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: is going to scare some people, right, Sure, it's gonna
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: make some people uncomfortable.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: Gilbert does have one more year left after this year.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: But yes, that's that's a good cop. But we could
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: fast forward a year. Sure, like trade? Why is are
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: four games out of a playoff spot? Why?
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: Like I this is this is the problem that baseball
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: has because it's for for Detroit. It's really simple. It's financial.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not. I don't think it has anything to
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 3: do with the record. I think it's financial. Yeah, unless
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 3: they were like a true World Series contender. I think
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 3: they've been wanting to trade him for a while.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: They're one year removed from the playoffs. Yeah, this again,
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back. This is baseball's problem now if
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: we're and I honestly anders, I feel bad because the
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: talk show host to me needs to have like this
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: hard stand on something. I don't have one with the
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: salary cap. I really don't because I think I think
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: you can make arguments on both sides.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: I think on this case, this is where I'd say
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: it'd be nice to have a cap because if God forbid,
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: he gets traded to the LA Dodgers.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: Probably will happen, by the way, probably will.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: Then that's the poster child for why you need a
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: salary cap. That's that's it right there in a nutshell.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: Now I put about close to fifty percent of the blame,
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: maybe more.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: You know what if you get that eighty percent of
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: the blame goes on the Tigers. You, by owning a
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: team make money every day. How do you do that
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: appreciation of the franchise value because franchise values don't go down.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: I know it's not real money.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 6: I get that.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: But you can afford to resign him. That's It's not
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: like you're going to be living in a studio apartment
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: as an owner afterwards because you resigned to Trek Scooball
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: well and just stop it, like this is bad.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: It's bad for baseball.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 3: The thing about them is look, and the whole thing
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 3: is scooblask for an exorbitant amount. He wants to be
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 3: a four hundred million dollar player at this point, right
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 3: at his age. I mean he's what twenty nine, right,
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 3: He's trying to get paid, right, And that's the thing
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 3: that's the issue here is because he's he feels like
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 3: and probably rightly so, that he's provided more than what
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 3: he has been paid up until this point, being one
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 3: of the best pictures in baseball for the last few years,
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 3: he wants to make up for that by getting a
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 3: giant contract now. And that's kind of the way baseball works.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 3: It's weird because you for during a player's prime, you
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 3: don't make a ton of money, right, and then in
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 3: order to make up for that, you end up signing
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 3: a giant deal for much past your prime.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: It just for content, for context too. This is how
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: far apart they were Tigers offered of nineteen. He went
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: to arbitration and got thirty two. You said he wants forty.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: He wants forty plus, so double what the Tigers offered
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: him before arbitrading. But yeah, before arbitration. But here's the
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: problem is in today's baseball, he's worth it, yeah, because
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: that's what the market dictates he is. Without a salary cap,
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: without a salary cap, he's worth it. But I'm gonna
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: just I'll circle back, and this is this is my
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: this is my problem with the sport. And this is
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: why there's days not every day. Some days today but
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: there's not not every day do I think a salary
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: cap would be a good thing today? I when I
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: see that, we need to start spreading the wealth around
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: other teams. And I'm not talking about competitive balance. I'm
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: not talking about let's giving me the stats about who's
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: won the World Series and all that stuff. We need
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: to spread the stars around baseball like we have, frankly
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: in the NFL. That's why, you know, that's why it
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: works in the NFL, the stars and the team and
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: the logos oftentimes the stars.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: But you get my point. Every team in the NFL
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: has a star. Are the Rams not doing what the
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: Dodgers are doing?
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: Though they're they're pushing the envelope they're put But here's
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: the thing. They also forfeited a ton of first round picks,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: a great young player right in verse, like they gave
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: up a lot and the Dodgers are doing. But here's
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: the thing. But first round picks the NFL means something.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: They don't mean anything in base in baseball, they just don't.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: So they yes and no, and they're all doing within
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: the parameters of a cap.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: Right and you can't trade picks right now, I.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: Mean, it's going to cost somebody there. The coup is
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: not going to get what he wants right for a
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: variety of reasons, biting women and be one of them. Weirdo,
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: but uh, freak, get some help anyway. God, IT'SOK, a
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: weird turn. But all right, Well talking about putting a coup,
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: it's going to happen. But why are you not getting paid?
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: I mean Lindsay thirty came on and said that's true.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: She didn't use those words.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 6: I did.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she said he's probably not get what he wants.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: The lines here, he's probably not who wants because of
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: the issues off the field. I'll insert weird o freak.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: We'll come back.
• 1:18:13
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  Speaker 6: Here's Ian.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: Gorbyn said, I thought I had a day off today. No, no, sir,
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: oh sir, here I am.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: If this thing is a day off for me, buddy,
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: Not not that.
• 1:20:24
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• 1:20:26
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• 1:20:28
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• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: not for the rest of us along the way. All right,
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: we're a few days in now, I'll just give you
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: just kind of the overriding general question. A few days
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: in we'll get to specific players and stuff in a second,
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: but just a few days in takeaways thoughts overriding theme
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: from the defending Super Bowl.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 12: Champions, this does not look like a team that just
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 12: won the Super Bowl. They look hungry the effort out there.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 12: I mean, their practices lasting longer than they're scheduled to
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 12: be and for good reason, because they're intense. The guys
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 12: are getting after it and once again Mike McDonald's culture
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 12: prevailing here again, nobody looks like they are resting on
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 12: their laurels.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: There's not complacency setting in.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 12: These have been some very competitive practices and oh, by
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 12: the way, it's about to get ratcheted up a notch
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 12: with pads coming back tomorrow.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: I will talk to your your partner in crime, mister
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: rang on Friday. But just talking to him out there yesterday.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: He was and he's kind of out there in his
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: dual role Fox Sports dot Com but also as a
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: scout for the BC Lions, and he was telling me
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: yesterday he says like he was really impressed by the
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: depth of I mean, there's guys, there's a lot of
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: guys on this team. They're gonna get cut this year.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: That maybe made this team a couple of years ago,
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: and like offensive line, for example, is a lot better,
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: but just the depth and the secondary, I don't know
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: what you're gonna do, Corman. In terms of the tight
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: end room. I mean, there's six dudes there, and five
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: of the six you can make a case for right
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: like you go through the list. I just I'm just
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: impressed with the level of talent John Schneider's brought in
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: because oftentimes with the defending champion, it's hard to get
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: people to come to town if they haven't lost a lot,
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: and this team didn't lose a lot.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 12: They didn't and I think, look, we'll know more when
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 12: the Pats come out tomorrow, and we got to get
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 12: to game action to really paint the picture with this
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 12: incoming rookie class. But John Schneider, one of the things
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 12: that he looking back on the last time they won
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 12: a Super Bowl, one of the things that he regretted
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 12: he didn't feel like he brought in rookies that were
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 12: wanting to compete against a Super Bowl championship team or
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 12: they back down, they back down to the stars already
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 12: on the roster, and he wanted to make sure this
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 12: time around that was not a problem and I can
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 12: tell you watching this rookie class already Oka's mini camping
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 12: out his first four days of training camp, that it
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 12: looks like he's got the right guys the DNA wise
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 12: like they they might not make some of these guys
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 12: might not make the roster, but they're gonna be going
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 12: down swinging, and so I think he did a really
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 12: good job he in the scouting department of checking off
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 12: that box.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: Cormus Smith joining us, Uh, I want to we all
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: have camp crushes every year. Uh, let me get to
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: the one that that that that you're kind of being.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: I know they'd rather you not talk about this guy,
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: but let's talk about the final draft pick for the
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: Seahawks this year.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 2: Oh boy, I'm excited to talk about this kid. Look,
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 2: Michael Dansby has been one.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 12: I would say, Look, it's been four practices, but I'm
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 12: also basing this on OTA's in Mini camp two. He
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 12: has been the biggest revelation for me in terms of
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 12: what my expectations were going in and what I'm seeing
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 12: on the field. And we're starting to see him make
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 12: plays with the second stringers. He's been with the third
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 12: string up to this point. Like you can tell you
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 12: can see yesterday. I don't know if you saw this
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 12: on the practice field out if you were over there
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 12: at that point, but he made a really nice pass
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 12: breakup against Cody White, who's got five and a half
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 12: inches on him in size, and he sized him up
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 12: and high pointed the ball and knocked it away from
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 12: him in the end zone, and you could see Devin
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 12: Witherspoon come over there and wrap his arms around him,
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 12: and you could tell he was really excited. He was,
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 12: you know, tapping this kid up. I think the Vets
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 12: are taking notice of Michael Bansby. I've just been really
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 12: impressed with the ball skills. He just seems like he's
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 12: always in the right spot, and he's got really fluid
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 12: athletic ability, quickness. I really want to see him get
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 12: a chance in the slot, but they look like they're
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 12: keep him at the boundary right now, and if he
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 12: keeps making plays the way he is, I don't see
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 12: any reason why they need to move him at this point.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 12: And we'll see what he looks like in pads. But man,
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 12: I he's been the biggest revelation.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 2: For me to this point.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: They have nine corners on the roster, Okay, so as
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: you look through Dan's before I mean, you go through
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: the list. I mean, and they brought guys in last
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: like Brendon Johnson's a late arrival. They brought him in
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: for a reason. They must like something there. We thought
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: that Pritchett looked better like in you know, from what
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: we've seen from a year ago, coming into his third
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: season with this league. We know Devin Witherspoon's on this team. Obviously,
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: Julian Neil's a high draft pick. He's on this team.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: How competitive is that cornerback position?
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 2: It's incredibly competitive.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 12: And I've been impressed with Noah Igbinoghany throughout the offseason program.
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 12: Dude joking about a guy that was a first round pick.
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 12: And I actually wrote an article about this this morning.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 2: That it's crazy, you know.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 12: I know Dan Quinn has not been in Seattle for
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 12: twelve years, but you look at the way this roster
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 12: is constructed and even the coaching staff, and there is
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 12: an incredible amount of influence from Dan Quinn on this
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 12: roster and Noah Igbinoghany being one of the latest editions
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 12: that has really turned his career around in Washington after
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 12: having a rough start in MIDI, he was almost washed
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 12: out of the league, and he became a solid starter,
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 12: rotational player in Washington the last two years, in large
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 12: part due to Dan Quinn. So I think they've got
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 12: a really nice blend with the three rookies, the three
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 12: draft picks coming in. You've got a couple of experienced
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 12: vets and Igbanogany and Pritchett that are battling for that
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 12: third corner spot.
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 2: And look, this is this is anyone's game. I mean,
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 2: I've seen some people.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 12: Saying, well, Julie Neil is a third round pick, like
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 12: he's gonna be the one that gets the first crack.
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 2: But like, if he misses some time with.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 12: An injury, don't be counting out a guy like a
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 12: Michael Daansby to come in there and make a serious
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 12: run for that third spot. I think this is truly
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 12: a wide open competition that could have any number of
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 12: players emerge during this time to win playing time.
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: It's also mean special teams are huge, right, Like that's
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: a that's a big, big part.
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: That's huge. That's huge, and that's what helps Noah Igbinoghany too.
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 12: In this Casey is a really special teams player, and
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 12: he also has the inside outside capability. He can play slot,
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 12: he can play in the outside. I think the other
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 12: wrench we get thrown here too, Ian is that Bud
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 12: Clark is going to play some of the.
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 2: Nickel role too.
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 12: I mean they've got safety so that are also capable
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 12: playing that position. Does does that take away a roster
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 12: spot from one of these corners? And if so, like
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 12: that just makes this all the more intense in terms
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 12: of competition here. And Mike McDonald's got to be loving that.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: I had a chance earlier today we had the Anthony
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: Bell on and had a conversation with him. What a
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: great guy to talk to, What a great story he
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: has as well, the fact that they gave him a
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl ring even though he wasn't here on the
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: roster at the end, but he had started two games
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: and played twelve total with the team during the course
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: of the season. He was The attitude's unbelievably good. He's
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: playing in the emon ory role right now with Nicky
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: min Orria out with the injury. I'm gonna guess that
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: de Anthony Bell is not a guy that they're gonna
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: mess around with again this year and try to you know,
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: slide him back and forth through waivers and practice squad,
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: back and forth. I kind of feel like this guy
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: and we just talked about special teams, but also versatility
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: probably has a spot on the team.
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, it's it's interesting because I would I
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 12: would tend to agree with you, but then when you're
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 12: watching the practice field, like you've also got Rodney Thomas there.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 12: I think Rodney Thomas is a really good player. He
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 12: had maybe the play of the day yesterday baiting Drew Locke.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 12: I mean, that looked like a wide open throw to
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 12: Montory Foster and he undercut it like a missile and
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 12: picked it off. Incredibly smart guy coming from the Ale.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 12: They wiped aj Finley a lot. He's coming off in
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 12: ACL's here, but he's back out there doing everything and
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 12: it's healthy.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, they like Max and Hook who's a second.
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 12: Year player out of Toledo dude names I mentioned. They
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 12: are not going to be making this football team unless
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 12: there's a couple of injuries. But uh, I think that
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 12: you're looking at a possibility that the Anthony bell A
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 12: and and the and Rodney Thomas, both those guys coming
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 12: free agency end up making this team, and it could
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 12: make one of the corners expendable, one of those corner
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 12: spots expendable because guys like Bud Clark and when even
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 12: Warry is healthy can play that slock corner position.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: I mean you get to when and you know you
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: have to do that. You have to do the dance too,
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: write like like this, you're already in the situation of
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: like who who do we think we can get through
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: the practice squad right like as you're already going through
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: that that dance with some of these guys.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 12: And that might be a reason why d Anthony Bell
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 12: is still a possibility to go that route because they
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 12: were able to do it most of last year. I
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 12: mean they cut him several times and it again is
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 12: nothing personal. That's just the way that it goes when
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 12: you've got a really talented football team. And so again,
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 12: I don't know if that's the route that they're going
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 12: to go, but that's something that I would keep.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 6: An eye on.
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: I would say we had a consensus, Corbyn yesterday amongst
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: everybody that was out there and has been covering this team,
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: all the beat guy and everybody watching and observing that
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: Jalen Milroe had his best practice as a Seahawk.
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 2: Would you agree.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, Look, I've been incredibly critical of him. Look that's
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 12: the way that I that's the way I go about things.
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 12: Whatever I see, I'm gonna report. And I thought he
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 12: had a rough offseason program. I didn't think he I
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 12: thought he didn't play well in the third training camp
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 12: practice either. But yesterday was the best overall day that
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 12: we've seen from him. We got to see the ability
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 12: to throw in the run. He was layering throws over
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 12: the top of linebackers in front of safeties, so he
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 12: was making some difficult NFL throws.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 2: Had a couple of really.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 12: Nice deep balls, including a wheel route touchdown for Jadari
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 12: and Price. You, by the way, is proving he absolutely
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 12: can catch a football. I mean, the Seahawks have given
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 12: him enough chances out there, my goodness. I mean, they're
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 12: throwing the ball to running backs left and right out there.
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 12: But Milroe had one of his best days, if not
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 12: his best day as a Seahawk. And I thought, you
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 12: really saw the mechanics in tune yesterday. The progressions going
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 12: through his reads was quicker. That is still the biggest
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 12: area that he's got to improve it. It seemed to
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 12: goes time and even he had picked sixty three yesterday.
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 12: That wasn't a bad read, but yes who Michael Dan's
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 12: be swatted up in the air and then but Clark
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 12: returned it for a touchdown.
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 2: Ninety nine yards down the field. He was just a
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 2: hair light.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 12: Processing that it is, the processing and reading the anticipation throws.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 12: He was much better with that yesterday. But he's got
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 12: a string, he's got a stack daze now in that
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 12: regard to show real progress.
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 2: That's the next step for it.
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: Well, the big thing is he did like he did
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: get that one. I just think that as you look
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: at it and like, okay, we have to see some
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: you have to see some progress at some point. Yesterday
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: was progress and you're right, then what's the next day
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: look like? Does he keep going? Pads come on tomorrow
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: as well? Not like you be taking guys to the ground,
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: but they there will be contact and that does change
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: things quite a bit. Right now, they've got technically let's
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: see one, two, three, four, five, six. If we include
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: Vellis Jones junior six running backs on the roster. One
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: of those, Zach Charbonay is out. He's got the pup designation.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: We won't see him until the season begins and you know,
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: end of September, October, whenever it might be. But we
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: we have those other guys out there they got rid of.
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: They let Kenny McIntosh go, so he's out. So what
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: do you say, what do you say about that running
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: back room? First of all, the McIntosh move, what do
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: you read into that? And what do you think about
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: the what you've seen so far from the running backs
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: not named Jadarian Price.
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 6: I think the.
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 2: McIntosh thing, and we've talked about this a lot.
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 12: I think, in fact, it was two practices a go
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 12: that I was out there with you and you know
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 12: soft he was trying to push me for.
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 2: Some negative takes.
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 12: But look, he's he's twelve months, he's he's a year
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 12: removed from his ACL surgery, and you're still getting very
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 12: lukewarm updates for Mike McDonald.
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 2: And he pointed Black the other day, said, yeah, this
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 2: is a really tough injury.
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 12: It just never felt like the organization, the brass Schneider either,
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 12: I mean, these guys, it felt like this entire process
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 12: that they were very lukewarm at best about his recovery,
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 12: whereas they have just been gushing about Zach sharbona coming
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 12: back from his acl So it just it felt like
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 12: that was.
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 2: Not going the way that was planned.
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 12: I don't know if that if the injury itself was
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 12: the primary reason behind this.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 2: You could also look at the running back room they
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 2: have and they may just feel like, Hey, we.
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 12: Like JAKARTI l. Wright, we like VELAs Jones junior. We're
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 12: gonna get Sharbone back eventually. We just don't feel like
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 12: he fits in his running back room anymore. So you
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 12: put those two things together, and at the end of
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 12: the day, he was facing an uphill battle even if
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 12: he did get back healthy. The fact he was on
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 12: the pup list twelve months after surgery, it just didn't
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 12: vote well for him.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: Vellas Chillones junior receiver one day, running back the next.
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: What's his story.
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 12: Well, he's also got some kick and punt returnability as well.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 12: And if the Seahawks have any intention of maybe pushing
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 12: back a little bit at least early in the season
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 12: on Rashid Shaheed and having him more of an offensive threat,
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 12: then that could be the pathway for VELAs Jones to
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 12: potentially sneak out of the fifty three man roster because
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 12: he can't play multiple positions, and he's got that kick
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 12: and punt return capability. He's arguably the most explosive bath
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 12: that they have in that group. I mean, this guy
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 12: was running in the low four threes when he was
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 12: coming into the NFL.
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 2: Hasn't played the running back position for a long time
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 2: in the league.
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 12: He's bounced around quite a bit, but that positional versatility
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 12: could make him a really fun player to watch in
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 12: the preseason.
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 2: There's no question about it. All right, pads come on.
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 2: This is when it gets now.
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: They did someone on one PA rush drills yesterday, but
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: no pads in any linement on both sides. Will tell
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: you that doesn't mean as much. So now the pads
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: come on tomorrow.
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 2: What are you watching for?
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 12: I want to I want to see what players like
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 12: Anthony Bradford look like, because you know, he was dominant
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 12: in yesterday's practice.
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 2: But I want to see the pads come out and
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 2: when they're going more full throttle.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 12: And I also want to see some of the youngsters,
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 12: like how does Bo Stevens handle his first shake with
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 12: you know, Leonard Williams and Jaron Reid and some of
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 12: those guys when they get into their pass ors derals
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 12: and just in the team drills.
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 2: You know, there's been a lot of talk on the sidelines.
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 12: I've heard a few other Beat reporters talking about, man,
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 12: these blitzer are just getting through here untouched. Well, part
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 12: of it's because the blockers can't actually block them, right,
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 12: So you're gonna be able to see a more authentic
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 12: environment for the offensive line to be able to pick
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 12: up blitzer and stuff and give the QB time to
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 12: throw the ball. I actually could see it helping benefit
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 12: the offense some with those guys up front being able
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 12: to get after it a little bit. And that's what
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 12: makes me most excited. When these padded practices come out.
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 12: We don't have to see Patty Cake up front anymore.
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 12: They might not be playing full throttle, but there's gonna
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 12: be some head knocking. There's gonna be this fund to
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 12: the pads popping. It's gonna feel like it's actually football season,
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 12: all right. I'll pull SOFTI here.
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: Besides Macintosh, what else have you kind of looked at
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: and said I'd like to see more or that's not
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: quite what I think they're looking for right now.
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I I'd look particularly in that case in the
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 12: interior offensive line. I was hoping to see more from
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 12: Bryce cable do and maybe with the pads coming out
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 12: we will, but you know, can't dive too much into
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 12: the rep stuff.
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 2: But I mean they've had Fadrico.
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 12: Marenguez a center playing some guard ahead of him, and
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 12: you know, maybe that's just something where they're just mixing
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 12: and matching some stuff by day, But that was a
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 12: player that I looked at as a dark horse to
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 12: maybe be the swing guard. And at least here in
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 12: these first four practices, doesn't even look necessarily like he's
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 12: in the mix for that. That could certainly change when
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 12: the paths come out, but he was a second year
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 12: player that I was excited about that at least at
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 12: this point. It's been a very quiet camp.
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: So far that when you so you say the interior,
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: you know, talking about him or anybody else, you're talking
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: about the depth in the in the of the offensive line,
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: right yeah, I.
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 2: Mean there's no questions about the starting lineup.
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 12: I mean all five guys that are I mean I did,
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 12: I mean Anthony Bradford picking up basically lifting that cement
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 12: block yesterday with the sled. I mean, the guy is
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 12: he's just incredibly powerful and he's nobody's gonna be pushing
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 12: for that starting job this year. And I know there's
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 12: some fans that wanted to hear differently, but it's all
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 12: about the swing guard spot right now. Who is gonna
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 12: be in that position? And you know, Christian Haynes right
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 12: now looks like he might have the stranglehold on that. Like,
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 12: we'll see what ends up happening. But uh, Bryce Cable,
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 12: who is a player that I was intrigued by with
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 12: his athleticism. I just got to see him out there
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 12: on the field actually, you know, getting some snaps and
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 12: showing what he can do. And and maybe he's been
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 12: you know, playing through something that hasn't been getting the
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 12: team snaps.
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 6: The result.
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 12: We don't know that kind of stuff. But that's a
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 12: that's a player that I was hoping to see a
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 12: little bit more at least to this point.
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: The uh people can read about it. Just give me
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: a quick tease for folks who haven't read about it.
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: You wrote about Riley Mills. I think that's one of
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: the fun stories of camp as well.
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just the incredible story.
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 12: You know, I talking to some people in the building about,
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 12: you know, just how they handled last year I mean
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 12: a lot of incoming rookies that they were coming off
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 12: with a severe injury like that.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 2: It'd be so hard to stay in tune with you know,
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 2: in sync with the team when you feel like you're
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 2: not part of the team. But everybody I've talked.
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 12: To you talking about the professionalism aspect from him, and
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 12: that's part of the reason he was so successful at
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 12: the end of the year when he got a chance
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 12: to play. And they're very excited. Now these had a
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 12: full offseason. See where he fits in with this already
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 12: really good defensive line group.
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  Speaker 1: Great stuff, Corbin. I'll see you bright and early tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: for an earlier practice than normal. We'll see you out there.
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  Speaker 1: I love it all right, I'll see them, buddy, take care.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, yep, thanks David. That is our guy is
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  Speaker 1: so far, great storylines out there. I'm gona go back
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: the best news of all I honestly, Tory Horton coming
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: back healthy. That's a great sign, you know. And also
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: all this talk about oh, where's the worry gonna be?
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: And you're if you're talking about the depth of your
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: interior offensive line is a big worry. Those those are
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: definitely first world Super Bowl champior problems, right, or like
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: who's gonna be putt returning?
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  Speaker 7: Right?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like we forget you he camp? Yeah, Well,
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: and they've here's the thing they got in that regard.
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: They got options, Yeah, they do. I got a lot
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: of us, it is, right, Tory Horton's at the top
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: of the list. Tory Horton. Right there is Vellas Jones,
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: a guy that might sneak onto the roster. Who knows
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: they just you know, I think by all by all
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: accounts everyone, you know, we've all kind of talked and
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: standing on the sideline. The talent level here is just
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: through the roof. And it's not just the starters that
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: make you a Super Bowl champion. The talent is through
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: the roof in the sense of the depth guys they
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: have here, Guys that are fighting to be a part
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: of this team. It's it's very different. It feels like
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: than even before when you know everyone's like, well do
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: you really want to come here? When there's no roster spots.
• 1:40:29
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  Speaker 2: That's good. Now either this is me or this is him.
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  Speaker 2: All the I get to catchphrases like tomorrow, I got
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 2: red ass local baseball, local baseball?
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  Speaker 8: Did I do? That?
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 2: Is local baseball team?
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 4: A lot?
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: There's a little gras in there, the little gras like
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: like and they play today, they'll play tomorrow.
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 2: That's true. That's true. It's almost little gras mixed in there.
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 2: Dig that.
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: Listen that as a compliment. Ros legend, flipping legend. The
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: guy should be in the radio Hall of Fame. He's
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 1: I just he's named right here in the Kjar Hall
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: of Fame, right next to Brian Abts, Josh Sabrowski, Red
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: Barren and I love both those guys.
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 2: Anyway, that's good. Those are just start to talkbacks today.
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 2: But man, good stuff.
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: Fans in by the way, for softy today, got it,
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: we'll play. I don't know if Fane's ever really heard
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: the furious Felts. That was all the feltss. That was
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 1: all Felts, all the time, fury of all the Felts
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: is combined. God, I'm just first of I'm exhausted after
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: listening to it, we absolutely exhausted.
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 2: I think he feels it's a lot of words to
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 2: get in with that many breads. Really good stuff. All right,
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 2: four nine four five one, Here we go. Let's see
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 2: how good does that? Paul?
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 3: See you all predominant? Can zone trade? Look now, well,
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 3: everyone is pissed when it happened. When you say everyone,
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 3: you also include the clubhouse. Yeah, it wasn't just us.
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 3: It's true, Right, it's true.
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 2: And then Paul's and to be fair for that season,
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 2: Paul Seawalald went on to close for a team that
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 2: went to the World Series. So where do I find
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 2: you on YouTube? I send him a link.
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: Okay, it's on you people. I don't do a good
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: enough job of promoting it. That's why I've read that.
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: It's just because I I Oh yeah, YouTube KJR channel.
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 1: If there's a live little thing, click on it.
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 2: You'll see it. Look up Sports Radio ninety three point
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 2: three KRFM.
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 1: DOM sent Mary Hart and Per Sugarman home last night. Yeah,
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 1: Mary Hart, she still parked behind home plate. You know
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: who Mary Hart is? That it's a long time E
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: the E network like hosts and stuff entertainment reporter. Yeah,
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: she got a Dodgers games like, she's parked right behind
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: home plate. I didn't notice her last night, but I
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: was in an event at Farelli.
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 2: So I wasn't kid. Yes, what stop talking about Farelli's
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 2: when I'm hungry.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: I'm so hungry right now, Let's see, people were mad
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: about what Dan Wilson wears. Can you please see if
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: Dan Wilson can ditch the long sleeve short sleeve hoodie. Look,
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: it's bad, how about it traditionally uniform to mix things up?
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: Last night was the first game I remember the maror
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: seemed not to give up and things started bad.
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 2: Is that the problem? Dan's wearing the short sleeve hoodie? Maybe?
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 6: Wow?
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 2: And the chomping of the gum.
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 1: It's like Pete Carroll Leese using dom can zone as
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: an example. How was baseball ever played without F word analytics?
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 2: Dom?
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 1: That's how can we be done with the analytics over
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: everything baseball. Every single player used to hit against right
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: and left handed pitchers. Let's go back to using our
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 1: heads in addition to the computers. Please that fucking Jacobs
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: in the nexcident might have been might have been?
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 2: Well, I think was it?
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: Listen, there's a lot of I always I kind of
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: always chuckle with the anti numbers of anti analytics.
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 2: They're they're used for a reason.
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 3: Okay, and can I get on a soapbox here for
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 3: a second, right, Okay, anyone who blame the way he
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 3: stood up, I stood up. Anyone who blames analytics for
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 3: platoons needs to really look into what analytics has actually
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 3: used for, because if you actually used the analytics, you
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 3: would see, hey, Domkin Zone can actually hit versus left
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 3: handed pitching. It's not analytics that's telling them that he can't.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 3: It's literally just oh he is a lefty, he can't
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 3: hit versus left handed pitching.
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 6: What do we do?
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 3: No analytics would tell you that he can, So it's
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 3: actually not using them enough and tell it and seeing
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 3: what actually is the results when you use him versus
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 3: left handed pitching. So stop blaming analytics for over usage
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 3: of platoons.
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 2: If that's what you're pissed off about.
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm done. Okay, there you go. Andrew's just done on.
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 2: Not only he not the off soapbox. He sat back down.
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 6: I did Okay.
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: Uh that should be the next contest word for a
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars plums?
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 2: Do you have that drops?
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 10: Yeah?
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 2: This is this is a classic ed Zoe. This is
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 2: when he we had on the table mentality that's so good.
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: God have that at the ready. Uh two o six,
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: I'm ready to put my plums on the table.
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 8: Put your plums on the table mentality.
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 2: Four two five, got my plums on the table.
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 8: Let's go put your plums on the table mentality.
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 2: Two o six. I'm gonna miss having my plums on
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 2: the table. Put your plums on the table mentality three six.
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 6: So damn.
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: That was a great segment. Love foresling an ed Zoe,
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 1: thanks for having them on together.
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 8: Put your plums on the table mentality.
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 2: That was the most fun I had. No, that was
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 2: that was a fun interview.
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: Was just the best part was just working with ed
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: Zoe like he really want like like if he loses
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: control or in charge for a second, it drives him insane, right,
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 1: like it's just and he was out of it was
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: Johnny and me on top of it, like doing something
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 1: to him, and and it was it was.
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 2: And now what like pregame stuff would be like all
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 2: the time.
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, like, well the stuff you played early,
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: those are outtakes from rehearsals. And when we say rehearsal,
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: it's like everyone rehearses, like their opening segment of this
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: and that I'm gonna missed. Edge walked in his line,
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: this line he always used to use was a great one.
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 1: And Me's sitting there like are we doing this live today?
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 2: Are we live?
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: And the Robbie who is our stage manager up in
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: the booth or he's their stage manager mine for the
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: handful games I did. The stage manager, Robbie's been there,
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: he's he's no word of a lot of Robbie's.
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 2: In his like late eadies.
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: He worked with my father at Como in the seventies.
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: Greatest guy on the planet, right, just Robbie is a
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: great TV guy. Yeah, and he just when he freak out,
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 1: him and Edge just yelling at each other. Yes we're
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: doing a live of course we are, Okay, I'm just
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: checking checking Robbie, we're a live Okay, we're doing a live.
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: I mean just all the little Zingers, for all the
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: guys in the booth and the producer Ryan Shaber and
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: Patty And it comes through on the broadcast too, like
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: he's a guy that has fun and loves what he's doing. Yes,
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: And if you love what you're doing, you're having fun.
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 1: It will translate to good television. And that's the thing
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 1: with Edzoe and that's what we're gonna miss. And like
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: I mentioned to him, JT does a hell of a job.
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: JT is just different, right, It's just a different broadcast
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: with JT.
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 1: JT's got great such of humor and there's a lot
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 1: more there and he's gotten so much better and is
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: just a top shelf first.
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 2: Really, he's really done a good job.
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: But we're all gonna miss Edge and JT will miss
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 1: him as well, mostly because JT can't go between the
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: benches anymore. I guess upstairs up I wanted to put
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: him down there, should I'd be yeah, It's it's harder
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 1: for the play by play guy to have his color
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: guy between.
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 2: The benches because it's not right next to each other.
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 1: You kind of get a feel for when a guy
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: wants to tell you can kind of like look you know,
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: like you like playoff. JT is very easy to read,
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: like when he wants to jump in, and so is Edzo.
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: But if you're on the bench, you're looking down there,
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 1: the play ends like he's does he have something? Is
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: he talking to the producer?
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 2: Or what are you doing?
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 6: So?
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: But JT, he'll do a great job. We're just going
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: to miss edge up here and yes, uh when miss
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: ed Zoe plums on the table and everything else along
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: the way. But great segment, fun segment. If you miss
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 1: it today, we'll have a podcast for you nine thirty
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  Speaker 1: three Paig kidjr dot com.
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 2: Also the iHeart Half as well.
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll play Feltzy for for Dick,
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: maybe for Jackson to have Jackson one today too, so
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 1: we play yours too, See which one's better? All right,
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 1: we Dick, I got something for you? Oh yeah, well
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 1: all right, play mine first?
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 2: All right? We we this imitation getting out of control?
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 2: Fire away, Hey Ian for nest here back in the studio.
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 7: Uh, it's first class, first class here all the way
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 7: because the mayor I p a and we'll be back
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 7: in here tomorrow tomorrow will be here. But the local
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 7: baseball team they won a game, they won a game,
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 7: and sometimes it's like, what are we doing?
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 13: What are we doing?
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 4: Guys?
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 2: What are we doing?
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 7: They'll play tonight and they'll play tomorrow, and you get
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 7: a little red ass, a little red ass.
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 1: All right, well done is excellent. I thought that was okay, yeah,
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: but it's nothing. It's nothing compared to this.
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 9: Jess Anders Jackson flust fields here. Sorry about being m a.
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 9: I have simply been too disturbed and perturbed by the
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 9: turd frigus and sandwiches served up recently by the US
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 9: men's team, the Mariners all season and softy on the
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 9: daily News flash sports teams. I have a monopoly on
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 9: failure in this town. I see failure every time I
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 9: get look in the mirror, and I get enough of
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 9: that at home. So pull it together. It's the only
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 9: good thing in my life. Is funny that one he'd
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 9: eat on the YouTube chat has been blocked because frankly,
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 9: he was a common or two way from facing the
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 9: fury of the o G felts, FIFA felts and fake
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 9: felts combined. Of course, snow Man can withstand Soylanders at
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 9: seven thirty.
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  Speaker 14: There's amazing thing about that is that was excellent.
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 15: I do not believe I have ever seen Jackson Feltz
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 15: consume a caffeinated beverage.
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 2: That is the thing.
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 6: It is.
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 2: Awe are you you're a zero caffeine guy?
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 11: Wow?
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 13: He is?
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 7: So I was right.
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 2: I like, I'm just I didn't know that a fact.
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 14: I'm just like, I'm trying to think of Jackson never
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 14: drinking coffee.
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 2: Decapf. I'm drinking a coke.
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 8: Wow.
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 2: Wow, that is nuts.
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 1: And that's and that's what we get. We get that
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 1: with furious Felts. That's incredible.
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 14: I think now we know why he doesn't drink coffee.
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 2: Can you imagine?
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: You imagine like right now, because Jess is like the
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 1: queen of afternoon coffee.
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 2: Like here's more than about anyone else.
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, when she's when she's like when back in the day,
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: when she cared about our show, you know was here
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 1: was you know, kind of cared about something.
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 2: Craig Bell. Uh, I'm gonna go, I'm running star Bucks.
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 2: Do you want anything? Cole Brew, Colbrew, Colebreow, yeah, Colbroot, yeah, coldbreo. Okay,
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 2: I'm gon getting inventing conventy colbreup. And I like a
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 2: cole brew.
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 1: I just like I like coffee, Like I'll all this
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: drink a coffee, cold brew, black coffee, doesn't matter. Uh
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 1: So we get those every now and then. You imagine
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 1: if if she rolled back in here and fired off
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 1: a cold brew, which is can be pretty or a nitro,
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 1: just cold, and Jackson consume that, Oh my god, he
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: wouldn't make sounders at seven third know he would be
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: he'd implode before then.
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 14: You're making me want to go get a coffee, right,
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 14: I know? Actually you're not, are you?
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 6: Ty?
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 2: Starbucks?
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 8: No?
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 14: No, No, I don't drink a lot of Starbucks.
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 15: But I'm just like whatever coffee stand is closed that
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 15: I want to spend six dollars and fifty.
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 2: Cents on a lot. I'm like Softie who blames the
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 2: local baristas for the.
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 15: It's Jane that works at the Fremont Location's fault that
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 15: the sonics aren't here.
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 2: Jane, Damn you, Jane, Jane, I'll tell you right now,
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 2: it was her fault.
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 1: It was her fault a lot the way. God, Well,
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 1: welcome back to the studio in this week. No, and
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: I'm gone again tomorrow. This is this is championship. You
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be there anyway because it's the early practice tomorrow. Yes,
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 1: this is championship swim week. Oh so I've decided.
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 6: You know what I had.
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 15: I had a few days and I'm like, you know what,
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 15: I never get to see I get to see my
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 15: kids swim in the duel meets. Yeah, never get to
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 15: see him swiming the championships because they move it up
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 15: to four o'clock.
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 14: I'm like, screw that. Yeah, I'm gonna go watch my
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 14: kids swim.
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 2: Why not? You know, well, the time I can tell
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 2: you this, it comes and it goes, it does.
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 1: We We had a an engagement party last night for
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: one of my son's friends and okay, uh yeah, his
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 1: his buddy, Jake Trusse, got engaged.
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 2: I thought you were saying your son did. I was like, no,
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 2: he's you know, it sets on his mind.
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 4: It's good.
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: But so it was getting a permanent, full time job.
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 1: So that needs to happen first. I can't wait to
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 1: see what.
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 15: You know, Softie was irritated when you took off for
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 15: recruiting trips and you took off for college football games
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 15: these years. I can't wait to see what you know,
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 15: what he's going to be like next year when I
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 15: start going on recruiting.
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 1: Trip, boy, i'd say, I'd say t s and one
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: of the first word is tough and the other one rhymes.
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 2: With him.
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 1: No, I mean yeah, I mean and you well, you'll
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 1: get experienced it, which is cool, you know, and and
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 1: uh and for those that do, we we didn't have
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 1: the it was our We had COVID a lot of time.
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 1: But yeah, one of his high school and then former
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 1: call and then college teammates got That's when I somehow,
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: wife last, I gotta feel old like our youngest is
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 1: now seeing his friends get engaged and yeah, that is
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: part of his repertoire.
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 2: At some point here in the next couple of years.
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 2: It's I'm feeling so old. Oh god, I want to
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 2: push you.
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 14: I'm telling to kick that kick that can down the
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 14: road just a few years.
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: If I had half the energy that furious Felts on
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 1: the text line had, just just give me bottle a
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: little bit of that any somehow, just well, you have
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 1: an excuse, you know, though he jink, he jinks himself earlier,
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 1: I did what he do.
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 2: We're sleeping through the night right now, right, Yeah, I
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 2: don't want that to end.
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 1: He said, Oh, because I said something about him sleeping. Oh,
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 1: we're sleeping through the night right now, Like, oh, you
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 1: just jinxed it.
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 2: Dude, I know. And then I knocked on what about
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 2: eighteen times?
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's here's the good news. Kids are wild because
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  Speaker 1: they go from never sleeping his infants to wanting to
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  Speaker 1: sleep twenty four hours a day. Yeah, Like, like, so
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  Speaker 1: it does. There is always a light at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the tunnel. In fact, here's what happens. Then the
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  Speaker 1: older you get, the less you sleep. Yeah, like it
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  Speaker 1: kind of it's like the full circle, right, It's like, so,
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  Speaker 1: is that why I was up at like five o'clock
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  Speaker 1: this morning? I couldn't go back to sleep. It's I'm
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  Speaker 1: you and I were all in the same boat and
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  Speaker 1: I was already light out. I'm like, you wake up
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  Speaker 1: and I've got two more hours I can fall and
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  Speaker 1: you know what I ended up doing. I'll wait, I'll
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  Speaker 1: do that too. You get up, okay, I'm late. I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna fall back to sleep. Then you fall back
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  Speaker 1: to sleep like thirty minutes before. To get exactly that
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  Speaker 1: was worthless all right, we're old. That's been well established.
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  Speaker 8: We're old.
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  Speaker 1: Jackson doesn't drink coffee. Furious Felts was fired up, and
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  Speaker 1: what are we doing here? We have I'm gonna tell
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  Speaker 1: you this. I can't exactly tease it. We got a
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  Speaker 1: big show tomorrow moral Yes, we do love coming.
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  Speaker 15: Up g Bell at three twenty talking some talking, some
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  Speaker 15: hot G with three g's three with G yeah, three g's,
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  Speaker 15: Jerry Brewer with one D at four o'clock and Larry
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  Speaker 15: Stone with two rs God at five o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: It's the all historic Hall of Fame Scribe shows. It's
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  Speaker 1: exactly right, Like do you even think about that? It's
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  Speaker 1: like it's like the Hall of Fame Seattle, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Reporter and Steve Kelly coming on. Can we find listen?
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  Speaker 1: Drozendal coming on, and we got Bob who else can we.
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  Speaker 2: Find out there? Bob Finnegan, that's a great pall right there,
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  Speaker 2: fan coming up next to you for the mild mannered
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  Speaker 2: and marginally objectionable in forness.
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  Speaker 9: This is paddled Day saying so long everyone