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Furness Show 6-11: Drake Thomas, Thomas Drance, World Cup starting. · The Ian Furness Show

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: We'll get some Mariners in a second. NBA last night
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: was insane. The final, the ending of that game, that's crazy. Yeah,
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: I mean it wasn't until the end, like, if we're
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: being honest, it was not. It was a great It
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: was a great fourth quarter, that's what it was. Actually,
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: good end of third fourth quarter is what it was. Right,
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: But that's that's the NBA in nutshell, We'll get Andrews Mexico.
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: South Africa. They're kicking things off here momentarily have they
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: already kicked off? They have for two minutes in no score?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: No scoring?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, good, I'm telling you man, I'm be just
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: became more intrigued to start looking at the lines on
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: all this stuff. Oh boy, yeah, I think the draw, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm guessing this is like South Africa's not good? Is
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: that the deal?
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  Speaker 3: They're not great? But you know, you know these games,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think Mexico is like amazing either.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: So okay, all right, uh yeah, I think I need
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: to find my way to so O'claoma Casino. Sorry, Brendan Sorosby,
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: I don't have an issue. I haven't put a wager
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  Speaker 1: sports leader down in a while, So.
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  Speaker 3: You're also not playing in the World Cup, so you
• 0:58
  Speaker 3: can wager on the World Cup.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not playing World Cup and I don't Yeah, this
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  Speaker 1: I have no insider information outside of I checked with
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  Speaker 1: Andrews or Jackson. That's about what I can do as
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  Speaker 1: far as and now I got Danny Jackson's number. I
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  Speaker 1: can check with him too, I guess. But we are
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  Speaker 1: all over the coverage of it. We told you about
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  Speaker 1: yesterday twelve thirty. We're gonna do a little thing on
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  Speaker 1: World Cup, just real quick with We did some a
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  Speaker 1: fun little round table yesterday with Danny Jackson, the voice
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: of the Sounders Anderson Hurst and Jackson felt furious felts
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  Speaker 1: just kind of expectations of both the US and who
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  Speaker 1: maybe are some under underdogs that could win this tournament
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  Speaker 1: which starts today. Much anticipated tournament for sure, And I
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  Speaker 1: should mention this is crazy number before we move on
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  Speaker 1: to some baseball and some other things. The fact that
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  Speaker 1: only eight countries have ever won the World Cup, which
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: started back in nineteen thirties. And yeah, that is insane.
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  Speaker 1: I got seven of the eight yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: You did I did I quiz you in the break
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  Speaker 3: That was pretty fun.
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  Speaker 1: The only one I didn't get was what Uruguay.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and now that was one that a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people honestly don't know because that was back in the
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  Speaker 3: thirties when they won it.
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  Speaker 1: So okay, I mean I'm old, I'm not that old.
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  Speaker 1: So that's that I was forgiven for the seven of eight.
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: I think that's pretty good for a hockey guy, isn't that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely bad?
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  Speaker 1: Not bad, all right? So yeah, we'll keep you updated
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  Speaker 1: on Mexico South Africa. That's one of two World Cup games.
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  Speaker 1: Later on it's South Korea and Chechia in Guadalajara. I
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  Speaker 1: believe it is tonight. So that's the second game those
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  Speaker 1: two games today, and then the US has its first
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  Speaker 1: game coming up tomorrow and that'll be fun as well.
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  Speaker 1: Six o'clock. We'll have that game for you right here
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  Speaker 1: on nine three point three KTERFM. I think we started
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  Speaker 1: with the pregame at five thirty. If I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: Mistaken, that is correct.
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: So yeah, here we go. World Cups Underway, Baseball Underway
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: quick thought mirrors. I listen, I tough loss. Kirby kind
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: of spun his way out of some issues yesterday, didn't
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: I mean kind of the same thing as Gilbert right
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  Speaker 1: the night before, It's like, oh god, are we gonna
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: have We'll kind of start. You're loading the bases and
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: all this kind of stuff's going on early innings, and
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  Speaker 1: somehow he snuck his way through and and only gave
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: up a couple runs and then all of a sudden, boom,
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: it fell apart. But that's gonna happen along the way.
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: Short bullpen. We'll talk to Eno Sarah's about that a
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: little bit coming up at one thirty today, our baseball
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: guy from the Athletic and rates and Berrel's podcast, The
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: Shorter Bullpen and with the six starters and how that's
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: affecting them. They had a bunch of guys that were
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: unavailable last night, as was even the case of the
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: night before, So we'll touch in on that. Hey, you
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: know what, the worst case scenario, split four games with
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: Baltimore and then he head onto the Nation's capital. Ask
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: you know about what to expect when they start that
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: series with the Nationals coming up this weekend as well.
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: I mentioned the Kraken situation. Patrick Alvin hired as an
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: assistant GM pretty big name in the hockey circles, especially
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: the fact that he was a sitting GM last year.
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: He's worked with bots in the past. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: that a little bit. Two o'clock. Thomas strants from the
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: Athletic we'll join us for that as well. Drake Thomas
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: coming up here in maybe a little less than an
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: hour's time right after one when they wrap up practice,
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  Speaker 1: and excited to talk to him in person. We got
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: him on the show a couple times last year via
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: the phone that we haven't a chance to talk to
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: him in person. Those are a little more fun. I
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: got to ask Hi about the basketball Carently yesterday he
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: was at the Doug Baldwin Community Center. Oh yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: Chris Kid was out there. I don't know. Do you
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  Speaker 1: know Chris volunteers out there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's where he works.
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  Speaker 1: He's such a good dude, man, great dad. Chris is
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  Speaker 1: Chris's salt of the earth. Yeah, so I got this.
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  Speaker 1: I got the lowdown on Drake's basketball game. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: ask he sounds like what you would call I'll see
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  Speaker 1: if I have if I can work it in without
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  Speaker 1: him getting offended. He's LA fitness try hard guy.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, okay is what it sounds like.
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  Speaker 1: As far as they got some massive hoopers on it. Now. Listen,
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: look at his stat. He's five eleven right, right, Like
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: this is this guy was probably all about football and
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: only football. I'm guessing, you know, growing up. But we'll
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  Speaker 1: ask him, like, there's dudes, like, there's dudes you look
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  Speaker 1: like that are true hoopers right in the NFL, Like
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: that's always been a that's always been a thing, like
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  Speaker 1: who are the guys that are true basketball guys? Right?
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  Speaker 1: And there's some dudes out here that can flat out hoop.
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  Speaker 1: But h but we'll ask him how the kids were.
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  Speaker 1: I guess it got pretty competitive with the kids, which
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  Speaker 1: is pretty fun. That's awesome what they did yesterday. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just gonna say it again. It's just awesome. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's it's it's just absolutely awesome, Uh, going
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  Speaker 1: out and spending time. And I think in a in
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  Speaker 1: a day and age in which the NFL is so
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  Speaker 1: regimented and you're you're limited on how much time you
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: have as a coach and a staff with your players
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  Speaker 1: in the offseason and and and all those things, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty refreshing to see, Hey, we're gonna we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: take some time. Yeah, we've got to deal with Miles
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: Garrett and Jared got or Matthew Stafford and we got
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: all that. We got to deal with that. But you
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: know what is more important today? Going to Children's hospital,
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: going to the VA Hospital, going to Ronald McDonald house,
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  Speaker 1: and going to Doug Baldwin's Community Center. That's more important.
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: And I just I tip of the cap to these guys, man.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just absolutely awesome. This is the one
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  Speaker 1: team in town that doesn't need to do community outreach
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  Speaker 1: because a lot of times you do that just to
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  Speaker 1: kind of help your perception in the community. And sure
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of kids that benefit or other people
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  Speaker 1: benefit from it, but you're doing it to you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a marketing thing. They don't need to do that.
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: So they do it for really truly all the right reasons.
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  Speaker 1: When I say they don't need to do that. Last
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: I checked, it's hard to find a seat at Luminfield,
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: is it not. I think it's really hard. Yeah. Usually
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: so last night what an event, uh, the NBA Finals.
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: Now here's the funny thing. This sink could seriously end
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: in a in a in a five game series, it
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: could end it could end in game five, and usually
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: a game a five game series. You're like, well, it's
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: kind of a nothing burger, right, does not real competit. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: but what happened last night with the Knicks coming back
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: for a one oh seven to one oh six win
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  Speaker 1: over the San Antonio Spurs in this epic comeback, I
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: mean absolutely epic comeback one for the ages, a last
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: second tip in a chance at the end for San
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: Antonio up by one to put it away. Dearon, Fox
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: is getting killed today because he didn't just dribble it out.
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: I kind of thought he got fouled. Yeah, going to
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: the basket if that's if that's SGA. Man, he's flopping
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: to the floor, and I'm one hundred cent there's a
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  Speaker 1: foul called Fox is a little tougher guy, And you
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  Speaker 1: know he didn't and it cost them the game in
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  Speaker 1: the end, and now they're down three games to one.
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  Speaker 1: They scored San Antonio thirty points in the second half,
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  Speaker 1: thirty points, seventy six in the first half, thirty points
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  Speaker 1: in the second half, fourteen in the third quarter, sixteen
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 3: He yeah, I mean they were just red hot in
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  Speaker 3: the first half and it just all came crashing down
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  Speaker 3: so quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Well, There is a lot of criticism today for the Spurs,
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: I think directly or indirectly. Also pointed in the direction
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: of one Mitch Johnson, Seattle product Odai High School jj
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: Son as well. This is inside the NBA post game
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  Speaker 1: last week in Charles Barkley.
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  Speaker 4: But we saw with the dumbas basketball team in the
• 8:05
  Speaker 4: history of civilization. Wow, we saw they had a twenty
• 8:09
  Speaker 4: five point league to eight straight threes like they thought
• 8:14
  Speaker 4: to get like that was some of the most mismanaged
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  Speaker 4: stupid basketball. Hey, when you fought twenty nine point league,
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  Speaker 4: the other team has to help you. The San Antonio
• 8:25
  Speaker 4: Spurs help the New York and when Knicks win this
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  Speaker 4: game by doing some of the stupid ass stuff I've
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  Speaker 4: ever seen on.
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  Speaker 5: The basketball court. Congratulations to the Knick for coming back.
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  Speaker 5: But I can hear with you. They played terrible basketball.
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  Speaker 5: They got comfortable, they got comfortable with the league. They
• 8:41
  Speaker 5: was already talking about, you know, going back to San Antonio.
• 8:44
  Speaker 5: They're just in place. Marty. You know, you never know
• 8:46
  Speaker 5: what a champion is or to become a champian. But
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  Speaker 5: tonight the Knicks they fought like a champion.
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  Speaker 6: They did.
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  Speaker 7: Listen, we're sitting back there in the third quarter, they shot,
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  Speaker 7: goes yo, these guys got to put them away right now.
• 8:57
  Speaker 7: Second quarter, they got to put them away right now.
• 8:59
  Speaker 7: They started to make the run tours. They end on
• 9:01
  Speaker 7: a second quarter. The Knicks kept fighting, they kept fighting.
• 9:04
  Speaker 7: They go back twenty six, cut it the nineteen. They
• 9:07
  Speaker 7: got back in that third quarter. Un once they cut
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  Speaker 7: it to twelve. This game was a rap.
• 9:12
  Speaker 4: When they shot, they would have had to twenty five
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  Speaker 4: part lead. They shot eight threes in a row, never
• 9:17
  Speaker 4: even came close to use it any time on the clock.
• 9:20
  Speaker 4: And you're like, this game ain't over.
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: You seventy six, forty nine and a half, and then
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: that's what happened in the second half. I mean, that's
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: an indictment. They're not saying Mitch's name out loud, but
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: they're saying miss Johnson out loud. Andrews like that's what
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: they're saying.
• 9:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, when you're talking about how the team
• 9:41
  Speaker 3: is playing, this fan usually goes down to the coach, right.
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  Speaker 1: It's just, yeah, it's mismanaged. And and here's the thing
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: with basketball comebacks, And it doesn't matter if it's last night,
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if it's in the NCAA tournament or
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: a Tuesday night when Orlando's playing New Orleans. If there's
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: a big comeback in basketball, normally, what Charles Barkley said
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: is true that the other team has to help out, right,
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: Like you've got to help out. You've got to do
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: your part because either you have to miss some shots.
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: Sure you can get quote defensive stops, but let's be honest,
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: you've got to just get complacent. I thought Shack said,
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: or great, they got complacent, they got they got lazy
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: just hoisting up threes. I mean, listen, I'm looking at
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: the three pointers. It's it's not good.
• 10:29
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: Wemby was two for eight from outside the three point range.
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: He was nine to twenty five overall from the field.
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: He missed three free throws. He missed two critical free
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: throws in the final couple minutes. It could have not
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: put the game away, but it makes it almost impossible,
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: almost impossible for the Knicks to come back. Those two
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: miss free throws were critical in the in the comeback,
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: as well as everything else had happened, end up being
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: what will go down as one of the great finishes
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: in NBA Finals history. It's not Michael and MJ over
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: Brian Russell in Salt Lake City at the Delta Center.
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: The crossover push off Did he push? Did he not?
• 11:08
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: Because that one won a series. That was the game
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: winning and series clinching shot, So that was that's still
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: probably just because of who it is, being as it was, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: that's still number one. This one's right, This tip ends
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: right up there, that's right up there. Now there's still
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: a possession left afterwards, and the Jazz had a possession
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: by the way as well. I'm alone.
• 11:30
  Speaker 3: It did feel like it was kind of from one
• 11:31
  Speaker 3: of those sports movies. And I'm someone who's as big
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: a critic of you know, sports movies as there is
• 11:37
  Speaker 3: because it just doesn't feel like reality very much. It's
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: very like Hollywood. But that's kind of what it felt
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: like last night. You had the I guess the only
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: thing that wasn't was the clock expiring when it happened,
• 11:48
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. But you have the shot
• 11:50
  Speaker 3: from Brunson where the entire arena goes quiet because he
• 11:53
  Speaker 3: bricked it. And then you see og Ananoby, the guy
• 11:56
  Speaker 3: who inbounded the ball, by the way, yeah, come out
• 11:59
  Speaker 3: of absolutely nowhere. His hand rises above the rest of them,
• 12:03
  Speaker 3: and it's just a perfect tip in perfectly it.
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: Listen, we say this all the time. It's clichet ish,
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: I get it. But it's why sports are great is
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: when you have events in moments like that. We had
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: our weekly golf league last night at Drewids. Glenn were
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: sitting in there and I walked in and it was
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: mid third quarter. It was still like a nineteen point
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: lead or something. And my one buddy, the Viking, who
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: he might be the closest thing to Brendan Sooresby except
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: for again to insider information, but he bet he bets
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: on table tennis in Pakistan, So like this guy, oh
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: my god. Yeah. Anyway, we were talking because he took
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: the Spurs guys like plus two thirty or something straight up,
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, dude, you're loving this right now, Like
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: this is you can just go cash that ticket and
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, we cash that ticket. Then about twenty
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: minutes later we're like, oh, this is getting close, and
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: then the whole the entire restaurant bar was going bananas.
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: And I can't remember that happening for an NBA game
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: in forever. I've seen that for Mariners games. I saw
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: it three years ago for cracking playoff games there, but
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: not for an NBA playoff game with no rooting interests
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: locally here outside of Mitch and the fact they knocked
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: off the Oklahoma City Thunder. It was crazy. It was
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: fun to watch. Unfortunately, for this series, it feels like
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: it's probably gonna be over in five. I don't know,
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know how mentally you bounce back from that. Yeah,
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, I just don't know how you especially when
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: you have a big lead, you have a big lead
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: in San Antonio in game five, or you're gonna be like, well,
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, you'll approach it different, I would assume, right, Yeah,
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: It feels like one of those situations where I mean,
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: you lost both games, the first two games at home,
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: so you felt like off series over, and then you
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: come back and win game three at MSG It's like, Okay,
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: you know, we have some life here, and you have
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: the giant lead in game four if you had made
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: it too to going back to San Antonio, it felt
• 13:46
  Speaker 3: completely in the Spurs court to win the series, and
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, now because one tip deflating
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: that happened, it's like, well, now it feels like it's
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: insurmountable for some reason.
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: Right, one tip in changed the entire series, all right,
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: before we get to break, mayors to make a roster
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you saw why last night if.
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: You were watching the Merri game, you know why. Poor
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: Domingo is no longer with us, at least in terms
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: of baseball terms. Okay, we'll take a break, we'll come back.
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  Speaker 1: When we come back, we might have our first goal
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: in the World Cup to play for you. Maybe we
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: also we also will just check in on a little
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: bit of what you need to know with that tournament.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: One o'clock Drake Thomas Seahawkins side linebacker who had and
• 14:34
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• 14:36
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• 14:40
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• 15:08
  Speaker 1: So don't know about sports, big go anders, give me
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: a little recap. What's going on. That's a Mexico goal.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: I do believe play in Mexico are flying in these
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: first couple minutes. I guess we're about twenty five minutes
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: in at this point. They're just taking the hydration break
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: right now. For those I have had a couple of
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: texts saying, I'm recording the games, don't tell me anything, guys.
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: We're a sports radio station.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: That's yeah, it's not We're not sorry, man.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: We're I understand that there are some people who want
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: to be surprised by the results later, but we have
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: to do our jobs and update everyone as to what's
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: going on in the wide world of sports, so to speak.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: So just a heads up, I understand, and uh, you know,
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: unfortunately we have to do our job here, but Mexico's
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: playing really well. South Africa had to give away at
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: a very bad position in Mexico, capitalized to make it
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: one zero and they're playing pretty well.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: In the first tea out there there we go, well, listen,
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: we're gonna get to some Seahawks at one o'clock here.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: We're also going to touch it in on some of
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: the things here at twelve forty five, including some Mariner
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: conversation quick when I want to get to there. But
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: before we do all of that, we had a chanceship.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: We had a great round table yesterday. Nanny Jackson voiced
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: the Sounders Anderson Hurst, Jackson Felts for those who don't
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: know those three, along with what Peter Fewing who.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: Are doingrad Evans and Steve Zachewana.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Yes, they are all part of our iHeart coverage. And
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: you guys are doing stuff for like a lot of people, right.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: It's it's it's not just here in Seattle, It's across
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: the entire country.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: So they the Iheart's coverage of FIFA World Cup is
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: originating in Seattle at six forty five Elliott in our
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: new studio Studio D. These guys are all over it, pregames,
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: post games, US games will be right here on ninety
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• 16:57
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  Speaker 1: three KFA, and of course everything's on nine fifty on
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: the AM dial as well. So we got a lot
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: of World Cup covers going on. We did a fun
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: roundtable yesterday and I think for those curious, and I
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: was one of them, I wanted to kind of find
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: out who to watch. Now we know some of the power.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Give me the quick three or four powers that are
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: are favorite?
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: France, Spain, Argentina, England is probably what I would say.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, so only eight countries have ever won
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: the World Cup. Since nineteen thirty only eight have ever
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: won it. Maybe this is a year somebody else is
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: able to step forward and surprise the world and win
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: the World Cup. So what I did is we sat
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: down real quick with these guys and asked about who
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: some underdogs would be casino and also and also the
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: expectations for the US. This surprised me. Only eight teams
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: have ever won the World Cup. That's crazy, and I
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: mean was Argentina is a defending Champs France twenty eighteen.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: We know, you know, Brazil's wonted, England's wonted Germany, et cetera.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: So Danny, let me give me a just mentioned that
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: both these guys just mentioned, you know, Cinderella teams. Give
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: me a team. Maybe it is Belgium, the afore mentioned Belgium,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: But give me a team, Danny that could be a
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: first time World Cup winner, And I guess if that's
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: the case, would probably fall into the Cinderella category.
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: It would, and I'm looking through the lessening, Portugal would
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: be somebody that stands out.
• 18:18
  Speaker 9: Obviously, Christiana Ronaldo is going to be his last tournament.
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: He and Messi are going to have their moment in
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: the sun so to speak, before they got and just
• 18:27
  Speaker 8: retire in the Cup the next couple of years, I
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: think that's a team that has the chance to maybe
• 18:32
  Speaker 8: step up. You know, you've got a big bump behind
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: Christiana Ronaldo being his last. You've got a ton of
• 18:38
  Speaker 8: talent throughout that squad and that team that can make
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: her run. And again I think a lot of it's
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: doing a little bit of luck. Right, what do the
• 18:45
  Speaker 8: teams and groups around you do and what does that
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: pathway look like for Portugal moving through? But if I
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: was to say, outside of the big teams that you mentioned. Obviously,
• 18:56
  Speaker 8: France Baine of the favorite. England sit right below Zoologentina
• 19:01
  Speaker 8: the obvious. But I think Portugal is a team to watch, Jackson.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Do you agree.
• 19:06
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think that's a good shout for me. Netherlands
• 19:09
  Speaker 10: is one that I'm absolutely watching. I think that's a
• 19:12
  Speaker 10: team on the com sort of. You can say that
• 19:15
  Speaker 10: in the previous couple World Cups, they definitely had players
• 19:18
  Speaker 10: that were part of kind of a half of a
• 19:21
  Speaker 10: golden generation. But I think they have really good attacking threats.
• 19:25
  Speaker 10: I think defensively they're stout. If I was looking at
• 19:28
  Speaker 10: the odds a little bit, I might put a few
• 19:31
  Speaker 10: shekels on the Netherlands.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: I like their makeups. Uh.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Portugal is a good one. It's just
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: I don't know about teams that haven't won it before.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: But in terms of the people that are not necessarily
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: full on favorites, I'm looking at someone. A lot of
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: people are overlooking Brazil in this tournament, and I realize
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: they've won more than almost anyone else I have, and
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: it's it's weird, just because it feels like they're usually
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: just completely star studded, but for whatever reason, they don't
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: have maybe as much of a roster around them of
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: just complete superstars. It's Neaymar's kind of last ride as well.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: He's dealing with an injury going into the tournament. You
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: have Venisius Junior who's place for Real Madrid and he
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: kind of had a down ish year with them. It's
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: just a lot of question marks, but I really like
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: what they did at their coach position with bringing in
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Carlo Ancelotti, which is another reason I actually think England
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Danny will love this one has a really good shout
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: as well, kind of in that kind of tier below
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: the absolute favorites in France and Spain, and then again,
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: I just I think Argentina, also for whatever reason, is
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: getting a little bit overlooked. I don't think their squad
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: is as good as it was in twenty twenty two,
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: but they're one of the most balanced teams overall, and
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: you can always count on them to have really good
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: chemistry and work really well together, and they're gonna want
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: to do it in Messi's last really hurrah as well.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: So I'd give those kind of teams a good shout.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll go around the horn. Danny Jackson Andrews Hurst,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Jackson felts with US. Danny will start with you realistic
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: expectations for the United States of America. They're in a
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Group D with Paraguay, Australia and Turkey. So Danny, what
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: are realistic expectations. What would be a good result of
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: the tournament? What would be disastrous? I guess disastrous not
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: getting out of the group stage, but I'll let you
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: go first.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: You're right.
• 21:23
  Speaker 9: I think you just hit the nail on the head.
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: Disastrous would be losing that first game and then having
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: to go into the third game needing a result against
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: Turkey down in LA. I think the biggest challenge that
• 21:34
  Speaker 8: the US have is stability throughout their starts. In eleven
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: the US of ship goals. They're typically to win a
• 21:41
  Speaker 8: competition like this, you need to be good in the back,
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: and they've only had three clean sheets in the last
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: twenty games, and then can they be clinical in the
• 21:49
  Speaker 8: attacking third.
• 21:50
  Speaker 9: They don't have somebody who's going to.
• 21:52
  Speaker 8: Be out and out striker like Harry Kane is or
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: you on Bape or your messy who's going to win
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: you games for nothing. I think Round of sixteen is
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: probably where the US where they're playing right now, could
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: stand to go out. I think they'll make it through
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: to the round of sixteen. I think they will win
• 22:09
  Speaker 8: their group just purely because of home field advantage, and
• 22:14
  Speaker 8: I think if they can squeeze through the sixteen, I
• 22:16
  Speaker 8: think eight.
• 22:17
  Speaker 9: Is when you start to meet the real big boys,
• 22:20
  Speaker 9: and I.
• 22:20
  Speaker 8: Think that's would be a round of eight here in
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: the US would be a really big result and something
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: to really work from going into the next World Cup.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Jackson, I'll go to you and just remind it's amazing
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: the difference between the men and the women in our country.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: The women have been dominant at the world at the
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: world stage, in the international stage Olympics and or World Cup,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: but the men obviously still trying to find their footing.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: So Jackson, same question to you.
• 22:43
  Speaker 10: Yeah, it's a disappointment when the women don't win the
• 22:46
  Speaker 10: whole dang thing. And here it's for sure what Danny said,
• 22:50
  Speaker 10: it's a disappointment if you don't get out of the group.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: For sure.
• 22:53
  Speaker 10: I'll even take you know, a second in the group.
• 22:55
  Speaker 10: That's fine, But that next game, especially if you win
• 22:57
  Speaker 10: the group, if you win the group, that round thirty
• 23:00
  Speaker 10: two game will be down in San Francisco Levi Stadium, sorry,
• 23:04
  Speaker 10: San Francisco Stadium, which is in Santa Clair, and that
• 23:08
  Speaker 10: will be against a third place team from one of
• 23:11
  Speaker 10: four or five different groups. You gotta win that game, so.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: That's right there.
• 23:15
  Speaker 10: I think the realistic expectation is you win that game,
• 23:18
  Speaker 10: you get to the round of sixteen, which would then
• 23:20
  Speaker 10: be back potentially in Seattle at Seattle Stadium Lumenfield, and
• 23:26
  Speaker 10: at that point, you know you're you're going up against
• 23:29
  Speaker 10: a good team like potentially a Belgium, and I'm not
• 23:33
  Speaker 10: gonna hold against the US if they go out in
• 23:35
  Speaker 10: that regard against a good team. However, if we can
• 23:38
  Speaker 10: dare to dream like the Danny said, quarterfinals would be
• 23:42
  Speaker 10: an absolute dream because then you are really, you know,
• 23:46
  Speaker 10: developing that intense soccer passion from a lot of average
• 23:49
  Speaker 10: Joe sports fans around the United States. You're going up
• 23:52
  Speaker 10: against likely a Spain, and nobody is going to be
• 23:55
  Speaker 10: mad at all if you lose two nothing to Spain
• 23:58
  Speaker 10: in a quarterfinal.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Andrew, Yeah, I'm gonna take a different kind of route
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: with this answer because I believe this is the best
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: US men's national team that we have ever had, and
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: I believe they have the right manager at the helm
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: to get the most out of them at this tournament.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: So I'm not gonna go on record and say I
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: expect them to make a quarterfinal or I expect them
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: to make a semifinal. I will say this feels like
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: in my lifetime, And I don't know about before that
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: ninety four there was on home soil as well. That
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: was before I was born, so I can't really speak
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: to that. But in my lifetime, this feels like the
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: best chance to have a quote unquote magical run. And
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: I feel like the stars are kind of aligning with
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: it being here, with having a relatively just with how
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Jackson laid out the possibilities of who you might be
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: facing in the group stages. This could be a special summer.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Now you need to go out and do that. But
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: I'm just gonna kind of open up the possibility of
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: a magical semifinal run for the US men's national team.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I like Jackson.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: I left that in there.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Oh it's good. That is really good.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: I heard Jackson with Greg earlier and just the path
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: real quick again, Andrews. Before I get to a break here,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: the path for the US to play in a knockout
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: game here is win their group, yes, right, then you
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: win the round of thirty two in Santa Clara, right,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: and then you would be here, correct.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: I believe. So. I am not usually a huge fan
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: of trying to predict the entire bracket because you don't
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: know how the groups are gonna kind of fall out
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: stuff like that. Like Jackon's all into that stuff, that's
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: less for me. I'm more bigger picture looking at you know,
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: if this team's good enough to go and win the tournament.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: And I feel like it is, and that's just a
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: big thing for me is I have a lot of
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: faith in what they're doing right now. I think they
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: have a good balanced squad in terms of age, and
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: they have a really good coach. A lot of things
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: are going in the US's favor, and I really I
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: do think that this could be a magical summer when
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: it comes to following. The US men's national.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Team absolutely love it. Still one nil Mexico.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: Yes, it is one zero Mexico. We got about ten
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: minutes left in the first half. Sir.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: We like to say nil one nil. I don't know
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: where you come from, You're you know.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Come on, I'm a novice excuse me.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I kind of need I need, I
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: kind of need you to get your stuff together when
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: we're talking about these there are not all right, we'll
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: take a break. We're juggling things around the just uh
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: we're wait the Mariner of Mirrors. The Seahawks are gonna
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: wrap up here, maybe a few minutes early, so we
• 26:27
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• 26:29
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• 26:52
  Speaker 1: All Right, Seahawk practice, final day of mandatory mini camp
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: just wrapped up. Drake Thomas is actually gonna make his
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: way in here and just go seconds. So we'll tap
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: dance around a wait for him to pop in. When
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: he popped in the last time, we had just lost
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: power and our little remote unit had died a heroic death,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: and he saw the look of panic in the eyes
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: of a radio talk show host. It let's try to
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: he's been through a lotty in you know, yeah, last time.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: These guys will be on the field until July twenty fifth.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: They are free to go, although they're not really.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Free, so they're taking a World Cup break too.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: It sounds like, well, they're getting their rings tonight though,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: so we'll ask We'll ask him about that. Yeah, they're
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: getting there. They're getting their rings tonight, their Super Bowl rings.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: I think they're doing it in a couple of understanding,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: a couple of different segments, football team, football operation staff,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: and others kind of involved with the team directly getting
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: rings tonight. The rest of the staff here at the
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Virginia Mason Athletic Center getting him in a couple months
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: as well. So yeah, really cool. Good for them for
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: a lot of people, people won't leave here by the
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: way they work here forever.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of people in this building that
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: work hard behind the scenes, selling tickets, advertising, marketing, promotions,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: all those.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: All that continues as a new ownership.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: I think it will. And with all those folks in there,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: they're they're they're all going to get theirs and for
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: a lot of them is number two. All right, We're
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: gonna try this again. Huh, we're gonna this is gonna work.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Oh, I hear him walking up.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: He is here, Drake Thomas is sitting down. Can you
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: hear me? Okay, yes, good? How about that? It's working today? Great?
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: I was just betching a moment ago when Drake came
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: in here on Tuesday. O. Our little old unit that
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: we had in here took a power hit or power surge.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: It died a heroic death, Drake, it really did.
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: Sure.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you saw panic in the eyes of a
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: radio host trying to figure out how to get back
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: on the radio.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like the same panic you see when
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: you're staring across it at a tight end trying to
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: block he or something right. Similar, Yeah, it's very similar.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: How are you. I'm doing well, doing well. So it's
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: over until July twenty fifth.
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: I had a good, good off season, great mini camp.
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: It was great being around the guys working together, getting
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: out on the field again, refreshing everything, and and uh, honestly,
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: just more than anything being back at there with the guys.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: So, Andrews, do you have the piece of audio for me?
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Second goal down by ten?
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: That ball was tipped I think tippicked all.
• 29:22
  Speaker 11: Off the hands of mccaffrying into the arms of Drake Thomas.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: You had a smile on your face when you heard
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: like the first words out of Joe Buck's mouth. What
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: was that like? Surreal?
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: Honestly? Yeah, I mean as soon as I think said
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: what second and ten or something? Yeah, I knew the
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: audio that was playing that moment was surreal.
• 29:43
  Speaker 8: Uh.
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: In the moment, I don't even think it registered. The
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: ball just popped up right in my hands. Just a
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: blessing right there?
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Can that play itself just walk us through what it
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: was because you made Everyone makes talks about the fact
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: that you made the play on the ball, like and
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: it was a ball scale play after McCaffrey, you know,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: had it kind of there for a second, but you
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: had to make a terrific ball skill play. But you
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: also were right there like like I don't know if
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: you read the play something you guys have seen on tape,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: but that's in football play, especially a huge play, it's
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: usually more than just making the play. There's a lot
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: leads up to that. How well prepared were you for
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: that play?
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean that play is honestly, no matter how
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: prepared I was for that play. That's a difficult play
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: to make for a linebacker. In any situation, you're pretty
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: much one on one with the back and he has
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: a two way go on. He can go inside or
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: you can go outside, and he can work it however
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: he wants to that set. I knew that's what I
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: was gonna get that option round out of the backfield,
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: and we're taught to take inside leverage and have the
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: running back break outside. So but you know, when you're
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: on the ten yard line whatever, inside the red zone,
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: when you're that tight, there's not a lot of room
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: for error. So you know, as soon as you force
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: him to break out, you just got to be in
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: chase mode. So I mean, that's that's really the approach
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: I took. And you know, that's what happened, right Like,
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: I had him break out and I'm chasing him down,
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: just trying to in my mind, he bang bang play,
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: he catches it, I tackle and we live on seat
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: there down and then yeah, I mean I'm chasing the ball, pups.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Up and it's like gotta get it, and it's that dude. Yeah,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: how hard is that dude to defense? I mean, he's
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: a great player. He's a great player.
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: Ball was a little bit I think got tipped or
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: something like that, Mafe tipped it. But yeah, he brings up.
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: He brings so many like matchup issues and problems that
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: that you got to be ready for. And he's a
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: hard guy to cover. He runs the ball hard. He's
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: a really good running back.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Drake Thomas with me Ian Ferness here at the Virginia
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Mason Athletics and we had a chance to talk to
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Drake a couple times last season on the phone, but
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: great to see in person. I appreciate coming back and
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: all joking aside doing this again today. You're one of
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: the best. I love good stories. I think we all
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: love great stories. And we talked about this a few
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: times last season. You mentioned it. You're five to eleven,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: two twenty eight. You weren't drafted. You had a hell
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: of a career, like a hell of a college career,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: but you weren't drafted, and you've had to fight your
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: way up to get to that moment, and then the
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: next moment was three weeks later in the super Bowl
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: in that same stadium. Have you had a chance to
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: kind of take it all in and just think about
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: where you are now and where you were three or
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: four years ago.
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Yeah, for sure, I'm definitely grateful for where I
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: am versus where I was. But I'm also grateful for
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: the entire journey. I've learned so much along the way.
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: I've taken so much from those experiences that I've been
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: through and carry with them with me now.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: That will help me.
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: It only helped me grow going forward, get better as
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: a player, as a person in so many different ways.
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: So yeah, I mean I've reflected a lot on my
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: journey and what I've been through, and yeah, so I'm
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: definitely grateful.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Drake. What is it. I mean, you're in a great situation,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: but you're also playing for coach. It just you hear
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: this a lot from guys. You know, everyone's a good
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: chance to compete, Like all ninety guys out there today
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: have the same equal chance and all those things. But
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: it feels like this is a coach that truly does get.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think you're one of those great examples.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Tyle Cott is a great example of that. There's a
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: lot of dudes out there that have been given like, hey,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: just you show what we can do and you're gonna
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: be rewarded. How much of your journey do you also
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: give credit to Mike just to give you that opportunity.
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: I mean, Mike, along with the whole staff, with the
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: whole organization, really they they there is a lot of
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: opportunity out there for young guys to make a name,
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: to work a role out for themselves. You just got
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: to show up every single day and be the same guy,
• 33:33
  Speaker 6: and you got to fit into what they're trying to build.
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: You got to buy into who we're trying to be
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: as a team, as an organization, and it's been made
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: clear that if you do that, then you're going to
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: be one of one of our guys. So, you know,
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: I give a lot of people credit, a lot of
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: people credit.
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: Mike.
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: You know, Ko has been my linebacker coach for the
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: past two years. Here a d the whole defensive staff,
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: the special teams. I mean, he believed in me to
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: start out on special teams and make an impact. The
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: front office for claiming me when I was in Vegas
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: and I was cut. I mean, there's a number of
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: people that I'm grateful for and I give credit to
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: for believing me and giving me opportunity to go beat
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: me if I was.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: In Vegas doing a radio show. I'd be like and
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: watching that game and that play, and like this dude
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: started fourteen games for the Super Bowl champions, the best
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: defense in the NFL. What hell are we doing here?
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: But that's that's neither here and there for you. But
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: fourteen games started, You've established yourself as a start in
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: the NFL. Do you feel comfortable? I mean, this is
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: such a cutthroat league. It's like you're here, you're gone,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Guys get cut, guys move and all that stuff. Is
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: there any part of you that allows yourself to say, Hey,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: I walk into that locker room, this is my home,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: this is where I should be re signed all those things.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: But like, have you feel any comfort in that at all?
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Or is you still like fighting like you got to
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: a I'm still fighting for a spot every day.
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: I think the approach stays the same as far as
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: like that, like, yeah, I'm gonna work like I'm fighting
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: for a spot. Like that doesn't change, Like the process,
• 35:04
  Speaker 6: the approach, that the whole, the whole thing doesn't change.
• 35:07
  Speaker 6: Like I'm very comfortable and confident in who I am
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: as a player and a person when I walk in
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: the building. But that doesn't that doesn't like let me
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: relax on a day to day I'm still gonna attack
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: every single day and like basically just like empty the tank,
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: Like you know, I'm still that because that is me
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: all that, like everything that made me that that I've
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: been through and and brought me to here, Like that's
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: still who I am and that's what has got me here.
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: So like I'm not gonna change anything about myself because
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: I might be labeled as an NFL starter now, Like
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: I mean, it was the same way in college, like
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: I was. This is me and it's worked for me,
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: and I'm gonna I'm gonna buy all like buy into
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: it and I'm gonna stay true to myself.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Drake Thomas with us, How different is it this year
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: as the defending champs? Does anything feel different? Is anything
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: approach differently how Mike does things, how you guys approach
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: mini camp and O TA? Is there anything any different
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: feel out there as a defending champs? I don't think so.
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: It feels like, you know, the guys are just back
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: out there having fun playing football together. I don't think
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: there's some you know, like you don't feel like a
• 36:11
  Speaker 6: target on your back or anything. When you're out there
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: just having fun and just being in the moment, being
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: intentional to watch about about what you do and trying
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: to be the best players and team unit team as
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: you can be. It's not doesn't really feel very different.
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: It's it's the same thing. It's the same process. We
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: just start over again.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Target's on a team in southern California. That's kind of good.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, you guys kind of like that, right, Like
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: it's like everyone's there's people like Dan. I don't know
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: if you saw the quote. Dan Campbell had a great
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: quote the Lions coach. He's like, well, I guess they
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: already won the title, like whatever. It's like like it's
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: but that's kind of the feeling. It's like, wow, look
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: with the Rams, then you guys are defending champs and
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: people are probably gonna be looking elsewhere, which I think
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: you kind of like that, don't you. Doesn't this org
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: like it might kind of plays that up a little bit.
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: I mean to me, either way, like whether people want
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: to put a target on our back or people want
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: to put it elsewhere and count us out, Like I
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: don't care.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: It is what it is.
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: It doesn't change anything about I don't think it changed
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: anything about any of the guys processes or how they
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: approach it right day, Like, it doesn't shouldn't affect anything.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Uh, tell me about yesterday. Now, I got an insider.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: One of our guys, our producers, works at the Doug
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Baldwin Center. How was the bat I heard there was
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: it was pretty competitive with you guys and the kids
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: out there yesterday. I was it. You know, it was
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun. We were playing some basketball with
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: the kids.
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: Of course, it's gonna get a little competitive, it's just
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: us as athletes, right, But it was so much fun
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: going out there and playing basketball with those kids.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: What kind of game do you have?
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Basketball player at all?
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, I grew up playing basketball like AAU
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: basketball When did the travel stuff and everything? I didn't
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: play in high school? Uh, but I mean I can
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: I can play. Yeah, I'm not. It's been a while though,
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: So like.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: How long did it take for you guys to kick in?
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Like what did the kids say? Something like how long?
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Because I heard it got fun? Like it was really fun. Yeah,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: first of all, what a dream for those young people.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: But what did it just like, all, hey, we're gonna
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: play you kids. Now, we're not messing.
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: So yeah, we had a couple of different groups and
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: then like so there was a group that went to
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: the gym.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: First.
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: I was going and torn some other places and I
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: came in the gym and I saw there playing. I
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: was like, in the back of my mind, I was like,
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: should I play? And it's like I want to play,
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: And so I ended up just saying like, I'm trying
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: to play next, and then we got into a game
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: and then went from there.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: I got next. Yeah, okay, I didn't because I was
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: wondering how much you play, like like, you know, you've
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: heard the term, like you know, Ellie fitness, try hard guy.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah? Is that sure? That does it come in?
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: Who's that guy? Who's that guy out there for you?
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: I don't know. It might have been me. I don't
• 38:27
  Speaker 6: know that it might have been me. I mean it
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: got competitive out there, so I love. I'm not going
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: to back down.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Hell no, that's that's why you're out of the situation
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: in right now. Two more things for you. One would
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: be this that what they did yesterday, what Mike did yesterday.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: I just listened as a as someone who's been in
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: this community for a long time, and as a parent
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: and everything else, I thought it was awesome. And this
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: is the time of the year. There's some football coaches
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: be like, I only get X number of days and
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: minutes with these guys. We're gonna go every second we
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: can on football. But he you know, short walks through
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: yesterday and then you guys go do that whether the
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: VA Hospital, Children's, Royal McDonald house or Doug's place. Uh.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: As a player, what does that mean? Because getting out
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: in the community is important, but at the same time
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: you have a coach that believes that's important too. Yeah,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: it probably brings you guys together.
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: Per I mean this, Uh, this whole thing is bigger
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: than just us, is bigger than wins and losses.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: This sports brought us a real platform and opportunity to
• 39:23
  Speaker 6: make a difference and touch people in different ways, you know, Uh,
• 39:27
  Speaker 6: make impact on people's lives. So I think that's our
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: responsibility and going out and trying to do that to
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: the best of our ability.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: So to to have a organization and coach that believes
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: that and sees it the same way, I think it's
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: pretty cool.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: I'll wrap it up with this. Uh. At some point
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: when you're done here and get a bite to eat
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: and shower and all that. You guys later on today,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: get your rings. That's I mean, how jacked are you
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: to get I mean, that's it's all about. That doesn't
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: matter what sport you play, at what level you play,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: it's about winning a title. But when you know that
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: there's a ring, and I know, I know from what
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: the last ones looked like. These guys don't spare any expense.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: It's like Jody's Jody in Company. It's it's gonna be
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: something special. What's that going to mean? When you get
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: handed that ring.
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: That's gonna be super special. I feel like you're at
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: the pinnacle of the sport. You know, when you win
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: the super Bowl and finally have that moment to get
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: that ring. That's what you dream of as a kid.
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: So I'm super excited to go do that tonight and honestly,
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: above all else, just celebrate and hang out with my guys.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: So what do you do with the ring?
• 40:26
  Speaker 6: Probably put it in a safe and just keep it
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: there forever.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: I mean I probably won't be wearing it out in
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: public very.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Often, but wait for the next one.
• 40:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Drake Thomas. I really appreciate you coming in again. All
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: joking aside that you did two days this week and
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: this time it actually worked. Have a hell of a
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: few weeks off and we'll see you July twenty fifth.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Sounds good. Appreciate you having all right, that is, Drake Thomas.
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  Speaker 1: on through the top of the hour. Fun interview, great story, God,
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders God, I mean, seriously, can you imagine, So
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: you're just think about this for a second. You're an
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: undrafted free agent, right, and he's undrafted because he's just
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: not big, like and he he bought into the LA
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Fitness try hard guy. I kind of thought he would.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: I thought he'd I thought he would. I thought he
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: would dance with me there.
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: Well, you kind of have to be when you're not
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: like physically jumping off the page right five.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: Eleven, two twenty eight. And I'm going to question both
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: of those numbers. I'm just gonna tell you that right now.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: But dude is a starting linebacker in the NFL. He
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: made one of the biggest plays of the season last
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: year in San Francisco against the forty nine ers Santa
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Clara specifically, and that's a Mike McDonald guy. Like it's
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: just one hundred percent yeah. Like that's why I wanted
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: to ask him about breaking down the play because there's
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: a lot of do that are all joking aside, physically
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: more gifted than Drake Thomas, that's just you know, bigger, stronger, faster,
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: whatever the fact. But Mike McDonald is such a cerebral
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: coach and that play is only made because he's there,
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Like he's exactly where he has to be, and as
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: he said, he goes, well, worst case scenario, I tackle
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: him and which seems to be easier said than done
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: with Christian McCaffrey most times, but he was there, like
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: he would have made the tackle if he catches the
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: ball and tackle him and live on for third and goal.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: But he was there to make the play. Very cerebral player.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: A great story. But God, you come out of college,
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: you're undrafted, and we'll go to the Raiders. I should
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: be able to make that team, right, they're awful cut
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: and I end up in Seattle and then two years
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: later I went a Super Bowl as a starter. Yeah,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: pretty good story, Like pretty damn good story when it's
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: all said, and there's a lot of those on this team.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: This is a franchise that has made a great living
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: over the years as a lot have. But on undrafted
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: free agents, we talked about Doug Baldwin's community center, undrafted
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: free agent, Jermaine Curse, undrafted free agent, You're starting center,
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Jyalen Sendell, undrafted free agent. I mean, the list goes
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: on and on of guys that have made an impact
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: with this organization that that you know, didn't come in
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: with a lot of hype and ended up being big
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: time contributors to this team as they wrap up the
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: oh the mini camps and so forth. One of the
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: stories was interesting yesterday and it was brought up by
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: Greg today on his show that listen, the tackles are
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: under contract and they're healthy, and the tackles being obviously
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: Abe Lucas and Charles Cross, but you need a third tackle,
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: you need some depth at that position, and they went
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: Josh Jones. They signed him to a contract three million guaranteed.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: And I thought one of the interesting storylines or comments
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: made yesterday by Mike McDonald was that Josh Jones, who
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: started a bunch of games for Cross last season and
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: is a was a key contributor to this football team,
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: like a big part of this football team. McDonald kind
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: of insinuating and hinting at that this dude needs to
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: get himself in shape, not just health wise, like he's
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: just not ready to practice. And you could tell the
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: tone on a couple of different answers from Mike McDonald yesterday,
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: like not too happy about that situation at all. And
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: they went out and they got the heart player from
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Bobby Hart, who was on the on the street, started
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: seventy plus games in his career, twelve year veteran in
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: the NFL. So they went out and picked this guy
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: up off the street, and he's gonna come in and compete.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: And you know if, like best case scenario, Bobby Hart
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: doesn't make the team, and sorry, Bobby Hart, my apologies,
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: but the best case scenario is, dude, you don't make
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: the team, right And Josh Jones, but Josh Jones got
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: to get healthy because keeping both your tackles and he's
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: the swing tackle, he played right or left side, if
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: Lucas and Cross, keeping them healthy all year, that's a challenge.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: Just it just is hard to do sometimes. So we'll
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: see if they're able to do that and if Jones
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: gets back. But boy, that the accountability that McDonald holds
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: these guys to in his own stern way, I loved
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: that comment yesterday. We're gonna talk tomorrow to Corban and
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess he's gonna write this in the Animald
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: City Spectrum today. Corbyn will be with us tomorrow at too.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: From Emerald City Spectrum. The Jalen Milroe experiment doesn't appear
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: to be going all that well now. He was missing
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: some throws again today. Just is he's a third round pick,
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: so I don't think he's going anywhere. I mean, Corbyn's
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: gonna come on tomorrow probably say I don't know if
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: he makes this team. I don't think you give up
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: on him after two years, but he's got some work
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: to do still. Probably pretty hard you're playing behind a
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: guy that's not going anywhere. In Sam Darnold and Drew
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: Locke is a quality backup player, like a quality quarterback,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: so you're kind of an uphill battle. But yeah, he
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: Milroll wasn't great in mini camp and I don't know what.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that a little bit tomorrow as well.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Outside of that, the only other, the only other news
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: worthy item came out today and we'll get into more
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: with these guys tomorrow with with Corbyn cash Is Marsh
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: remember him, he was wandering around practice. Ye, I'm like,
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: what was this guy doing? He just signed a one
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: day contract. He retires as a Seahawk. He was drafted out,
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: drapped out of UCLA. Kind of cool. It just goes
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: to show game dudes come back here and and it's
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: just it's an amazing, amazing phenomenon to watch these guys.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: But yeah, now they're off. I thought Drake Thomas's comments
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: about being kind of not the favorite, uh, and just
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: how they're approaching things. That's This is just the most
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: unassuming super Bowl champion I could ever imagine. Now we've
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: only had one to base that on, Andrews. Yeah, but
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: even a Super Bowl team that didn't win it in
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. Uh, these guys are just unassuming. I'm watching
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: I'll pull some stuff on social later watching Chinnan Nuosu
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: and Lawrence DeMarcus Lawrence work on the some pass rush durls,
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: just just the technique, the attention to detail. Watching all
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: these guys out there going to going through practice day
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: and competing hard.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: They do the little things, right, don't they.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: They do the little things. Yes, I think that's a
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: good way to put it. It's the little things that
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: they do. You know. Emon Warri was there again today
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: with the D lineman for a while kind of watching,
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: you know, doing some past like talking to Lawrence and
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: new about just like technique and it's hands And I
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: thought of it because you know, one of the things
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: that Hugh talked about when Miles Garrett was signed by
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: the Rams was I don't even say a weakness in
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: his game, because there's no weakness in Miles Garrett's game,
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: but he's he doesn't his strength doesn't necessarily include his handwork, right,
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: Like you know, and a lot of guys do mma
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: and martial arts and stuff like that D lineman that
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: is for hands, actually a offensive lineman do too. They
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: do a lot of that stuff boxing specifically things like that. Yeah,
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: But watching Lawrence and Nuosu even Worri go through some
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: of them. Derek Hall was there as well. Just those
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: little things with their hands, just elite hands, elite just
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: I'm I think this would be a healthy year. I
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: think it's great they don't see the Rams till the
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: end of the season. I think that's good. Yeah, I mean, honestly,
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: it should set it up perfectly for some great drama
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: those those two of those last three weeks or whatever
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: it is. So but away we go. But yeah, well
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: we'll put a kind of a bow on mini camp
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: with with Corbin tomorrow at two o'clock. He was out here, Greg.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll have a lot to talk about tomorrow
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: at ten o'clock as well. In a way we go. Okay,
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: baseball team is gonna have four more games tonight and
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: then three this weekend against the Nationals in Washington before
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: they finally come home. We'll see Cal raw by the
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: way tomorrow, Softy Fain doing the showdown at Takomariniers, Right,
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: I do believe, yes, And Chuck Powells on the broadcast tomorrow, Chuckster,
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: they that'll be a Cal Rowley game. It seems like
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: they're not bringing him. That sounds like he's staying here
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: until the team gets back, so but we'll talk about
• 50:32
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• 50:34
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• 51:22
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• 52:13
  Speaker 1: before I get to some other things, marror pitching wise,
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: I just love getting the pitching stuff in with you.
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: You guys talked about Bryce Miller on the Rates and
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: Barrels podcast and what he's done since coming back and
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: becoming healthy this season. The strikeout to walk ratio is sensational.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: What we're seeing is good. What are you seeing from
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: Bryce Miller right now?
• 52:32
  Speaker 12: I mean one of the things that he talked to
• 52:34
  Speaker 12: me about when I saw him last year was he
• 52:37
  Speaker 12: was just shaking his head wondering where his fastball command was.
• 52:40
  Speaker 12: So it's nice to see the velo back and the
• 52:42
  Speaker 12: stuff back on the fastball. But really the most important
• 52:45
  Speaker 12: thing that I've seen is that the command is back
• 52:48
  Speaker 12: on the fastball.
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: He is.
• 52:49
  Speaker 12: You know, we have a location plus number that it
• 52:53
  Speaker 12: just looks at how good your locations are, and he's
• 52:55
  Speaker 12: been elite in that since he's come back, and I
• 52:58
  Speaker 12: think that's just really key because that's his best pitch,
• 53:01
  Speaker 12: you know. I mean, the splitter is good, the breaking
• 53:03
  Speaker 12: balls he's worked to a good point, but the fastballs
• 53:08
  Speaker 12: or everything starts, and so that the command of that
• 53:10
  Speaker 12: is great to see.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: We were wondering if he would go undergo surgery in
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: the offseason. I know you guys discussed that as well.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: It feels like these days pictures, it's like everyone undergoes surgery.
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: It's like you have s it's an Oprah thing, you
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: have surgery, I'll have surgery. He didn't. Then just keeps right.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: I mean it's kind of nuts, but I mean because
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: that was a concern. It's they have this embarrassment of
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: riches in a sense with six pictures. Also, you never
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: know when a guy's going to go down. But the
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: fact that he's able to come back as soon as
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: he has despite some health struggles all of last season
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: is impressive.
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 53:42
  Speaker 12: No, I mean what I gather is that bone spurs
• 53:46
  Speaker 12: are something where it's a pain threshold and you just
• 53:48
  Speaker 12: have to decide how much pain you're willing to undergo.
• 53:51
  Speaker 12: And and and I think pain is it can be
• 53:53
  Speaker 12: a problem because pictures, they tell me all the time
• 53:56
  Speaker 12: they're elite compensators, and so if they have pain somewhere,
• 54:00
  Speaker 12: they may alter their mechanics to avoid that pain, and
• 54:04
  Speaker 12: then you may create a problem somewhere else. So you know,
• 54:07
  Speaker 12: I'm not saying that what's going.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: On with Bryce.
• 54:09
  Speaker 12: I don't know what's going on with Bryce. Maybe the
• 54:12
  Speaker 12: pain's gone away. You know that's something too. It can
• 54:15
  Speaker 12: dull over time. And all it is is there's some
• 54:18
  Speaker 12: some loose bodies in there. He decided not to get
• 54:20
  Speaker 12: out there's been plenty of people who decided not to
• 54:22
  Speaker 12: have surgery to get the loose bodies out and uh,
• 54:26
  Speaker 12: and then there's this new surgery that Trek Scoogele did
• 54:30
  Speaker 12: that's called nanosurgery that can limit the recovery time to uh,
• 54:36
  Speaker 12: you know, as little as a month. You know, school
• 54:39
  Speaker 12: is not going to be out the two months that
• 54:41
  Speaker 12: they expected. He looks like he's gonna be back any day.
• 54:44
  Speaker 12: So you know, even if it does happen, if he
• 54:47
  Speaker 12: does decide to go into the Knight and may not,
• 54:49
  Speaker 12: it doesn't sound like, you know, it's the big one.
• 54:52
  Speaker 12: It sounds more like a little one. And for now
• 54:55
  Speaker 12: he's avoiding him.
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so other School's come back. I think he's pitching
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: Schools pitching Saturday Believe coming back as well, which will
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: be a boost to a team that's twelve games under
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: five hundred but five and a half out of the wildcard. Berth.
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: You guys, I know, looking around like we are right
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: now at how you know, just convoluted? I guess just
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: how compressed this American league is right now? Never too
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: early to talk wildcard, never too early to talk trade deadline.
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: How many teams are really in it in the American League, Like,
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: is it just the Angels and that's it, that's out
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: of it.
• 55:26
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I think pretty much anybody's in it. And you
• 55:30
  Speaker 12: know what's going to happen is that I think people
• 55:32
  Speaker 12: are going to wait until late into the deadline. I
• 55:34
  Speaker 12: don't think we're going to see early deals in the
• 55:36
  Speaker 12: AL because everyone's a buyer and no one's a seller,
• 55:40
  Speaker 12: and everyone wants to wait and see, you know, basically
• 55:44
  Speaker 12: what their record is and what their playoff odds are
• 55:46
  Speaker 12: the last minute. So you may also mean a mute
• 55:49
  Speaker 12: at deadline in terms of smaller deals, because nobody really
• 55:54
  Speaker 12: wants to get in a position where there's three sellers
• 55:57
  Speaker 12: in the entire league and they have two players that
• 56:00
  Speaker 12: really wants and they're all bitting against each other those.
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: Two players, you know. Sarah Jonas courtesy of Georgetown Brewing
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: with the Virginia Mason Athletic Center seat Mini camp just
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: wrapped up a short time ago.
• 56:10
  Speaker 9: Uh.
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: You know, I I love to get a perception of
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: he might be my favorite Mariner just because I like
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: he plays like a on the on the edge. But
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: I know not everyone loves our friend Josh Naylor, the
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: Canadian from north of the border, especially a team that
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: is close to his hometown in Detroit. Uh, just across
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: the river from him as well, or in the lake
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: Josh Naylor, how does he put it too far on
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: the edge some of the stuff he does at times?
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: The throwing of the of the you know, it was
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: an accident, throwing of the oven mint, you know, bumping
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: guys at first base, what have you. He didn't seem
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: to mind getting thrown out afterwards. But how uh, what's
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: the perception of Josh Naylor outside of here?
• 56:50
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I don't think that it is super positive in
• 56:52
  Speaker 12: certain fan bases, but there are other fan bases, you know,
• 56:56
  Speaker 12: because he's been in different places, you know, anywhere he's been,
• 56:59
  Speaker 12: the fan base love them. So I think Arizona still
• 57:02
  Speaker 12: loves him, and Cleveland still loves them. He's just one
• 57:05
  Speaker 12: of those guys where when he's going a bat for
• 57:07
  Speaker 12: your team and he's, you know, doing these things for
• 57:09
  Speaker 12: your team, and he does everything it takes to win,
• 57:12
  Speaker 12: you know, like he's he's he's looking like he's stealing
• 57:16
  Speaker 12: signs the second you don't even know if he has
• 57:17
  Speaker 12: a sign. He might just be trying to get in
• 57:19
  Speaker 12: your head. You know, he's putting arms up and waving
• 57:22
  Speaker 12: his arm, clapping his arms around, making the pictures think,
• 57:24
  Speaker 12: oh my god, he's telling them breaking ball or whatever
• 57:26
  Speaker 12: it is, so you know, or he's throwing his mid
• 57:28
  Speaker 12: or he's he's he's stealing when he's slow, you know,
• 57:32
  Speaker 12: like he's he's just trying to wring every possible advantage
• 57:36
  Speaker 12: out of every moment in the game. And so you can,
• 57:38
  Speaker 12: I think even if you dislike him, you kind of
• 57:41
  Speaker 12: have to respect it. It's like it's just, uh, he's
• 57:45
  Speaker 12: he's he's like always got to turn up to eleven,
• 57:47
  Speaker 12: you know what I mean, it's it's uh, it's great
• 57:50
  Speaker 12: for for baseball too, I think.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: Is I mean, this is a sports cliche. He feels
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: sort of like a and just even how the uniform
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: looks and everything else is kind of a throwback. Who
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: else is like that out there? Like like who's a Josh?
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: Like there's got to be guys like we look at him.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, in Seattle, we don't like the Astros, but
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: really there's nothing other than the fact that the trash
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: cans and that's it and they didn't really affect us
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: but out here, But who else is a guy that's
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: like Nailor around baseball that people would love to have.
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: It's kind of that same guy, right, you want to
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: have Howky. We talk about this in hockey all the time,
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: like you'd love to have him on your team, but
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: you hate when you have to play against him.
• 58:24
  Speaker 12: God, I can't, I can't even I can't think of
• 58:26
  Speaker 12: it right now.
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: Sorry, you know what, that's really good thing that's probably
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: take along the way, yep. I.
• 58:37
  Speaker 12: I kind of think of the opposite, which is Manny
• 58:40
  Speaker 12: Machado's sort of you know, sweet swing and smile and
• 58:46
  Speaker 12: like just sort of nonchalant. You know. It's kind of
• 58:49
  Speaker 12: like an opposite feel, you know, and that could be
• 58:53
  Speaker 12: good too, because you're like because you're like never panic,
• 58:55
  Speaker 12: you know. I feel like if you've got Manam Senior,
• 58:57
  Speaker 12: never panicked. So everything's really kind of my me of
• 59:00
  Speaker 12: how some managers are like upbeat, crazy managers, and some
• 59:03
  Speaker 12: managers are, you know, just going to be more quiet types.
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: That's our guy Dan Wilson here, who's who's feels like
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: some of the heats calm down with him a little bit,
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: which is nice. H The Ams finish up in Baltimore
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: later today and then they go to Washington Nationals. I
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: mean it's a they're in a tough division with the
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: with the Braves, but they're hanging around the wild card
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: race as well. I think that's a team. I'm curious
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: about what you read on the Washington Nationals who the
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: MC before they come home after this long road trip.
• 59:33
  Speaker 12: I mean, they're playing with found money and they're exciting
• 59:35
  Speaker 12: and stuff, but they they're bullpen is maybe the worst
• 59:37
  Speaker 12: in the league. And you know, I think that they're
• 59:41
  Speaker 12: going to come back to earth a little bit. They're
• 59:43
  Speaker 12: pitching needs some long term help. They're still working on
• 59:46
  Speaker 12: it under the under the covers, and it's you know,
• 59:48
  Speaker 12: it's also a lesson to teams that how many wins
• 59:51
  Speaker 12: are out there if you just do the things that
• 59:53
  Speaker 12: everybody else does, if you just do the work, you
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  Speaker 12: know in terms of you know, planning and buying a
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 12: traject and you know, getting all the all the all
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 12: the tech up to a certain level. You know, like
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  Speaker 12: if you just if you do that work, then there's
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  Speaker 12: there's wins out.
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  Speaker 3: There for you.
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  Speaker 1: Bullpen issues. That's what we got here in Seattle with
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  Speaker 1: this six man rotation. Short bullpen guys not available. I mean,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: it kind of kind of bit them a little bit
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: last night along the way. I'll wrap it up with this,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: how because this has been a talk here, you know,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: in our in our market a little bit. How much
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: does that six man rotation hurt you when you have
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: to go to the bullpen.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, you're definitely down a den of person in the
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 12: uh in the in the bullpen. So you're gonna have
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 12: to work some up downs like you're gonna have to,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 12: you know, make sure you're careful about who you're getting hot,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 12: and you have to be careful about options and using
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 12: your options and bringing somebody a fresh arm up at
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 12: the right time. So that is that, that was the
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 12: the the issue. I mean, if you piggyback, you can
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 12: at least maybe you know, you a whole game use
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 12: only two pitchers. That was the nice thing about the piggyback. So, yeah,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 12: you love it. You're hurting yourself one way to the other.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, listen, you got a vacation in a lake
• 1:01:11
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• 1:01:13
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, thanks for on. Every day. We got Jed Lowring
• 1:01:27
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• 1:01:31
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  Speaker 12: I'll be by the by the lake. But we're always
• 1:01:37
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• 1:01:38
  Speaker 12: analytics perspective. But we've got the real life players helping
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 12: us make sure we don't get too nerdy.
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  Speaker 1: No, I love it. That's why we love having you
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• 1:03:08
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  Speaker 1: Just a quick note, The Sale Tort have a new coach,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: Christine brump Bumpstead named the new head coach of the
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: Sale Torrent. Second, Hey, are the Torrent getting criticized for
• 1:03:22
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm not in Torrent Twitter.
• 1:03:27
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  Speaker 1: with the Emerald City Hockey guys or whatever the hell
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  Speaker 1: one too. Bumpstead joins a Torrent after four seasons assistant
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: coach for the Universitist and Scotchwand Huskies. Also was coaching
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: at the same time in player development with the Western
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: Hockey League Saskatoon Blades, first female coach appointed to a
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: WHL championship staff. How about that a different game, though, god,
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: really different game. Western Hockey League did Pete Whlson? Yeah? Anyway,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: so she's here, she's a new coach. She takes over
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: for Steve O'Rourke, who was turfed after one season behind
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: the torrent bench. Stanley Cup Finals resumed tonight five o'clock Raleigh,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: North Carolina, Anders, Carolina Hurricanes, Vegas Golden Knights tied two
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: games apiece, the most goals in forty five years in
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup Final to the first four games. Every
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: team's had a multi goal lead in every game. Are
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: in games there's been multi goalides and everybody's lost that
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: multi goal lead at one point. Doesn't mean they're going
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: to lose the game, right But in a very San
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: Antonio Spurs like display man, no no lead is safe.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: Apparently is good good off? I don't think either. Well,
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: I thought Bussy was better the other night. I don't
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: think Frederick's been very good. Anderson in for for Carolina.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's good anyway. And Carter Hart.
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  Speaker 3: Has not been good, not been great.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: He was good the first three series. He just hasn't
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: been great now. But there's been I mean, I don't
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: know if it's so hard because there's so many goals.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah to say how there's been some bad ones. I
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: know their goals saved above expectance on the negative range.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: So yeah, they're they're not They're not great, great series.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: Give me, give me more, give me seven. Yeah, huh yeah, absolutely,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: give me seven. I'm just looking here, did it do?
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  Speaker 1: Game five winners? And the Stanley Cup's final series is
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: tied to two?
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 6: Uh?
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: Florida, Saint Louis, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Chicago. So the last one, two, three, four,
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: five teams where it was to two and then in
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: game five gave they went on to win.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, yeah, so that's about right. I would say,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: don't don't say that's a Mariner fans in.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this is a pivotal game tonight. I
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: know that's that's the analysis you're looking for. Pivotal game,
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: excellent analysis. I'll take you, thank you very much. I'm
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  Speaker 3: According to Daniel Kramer, Matt Brash has returned to Seattle
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  Speaker 3: for further evaluation on the rat lat stream that has
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: landed him on the IL for the second time this season,
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 3: and quote from Dan Wilson saying, it seems like this
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 3: is going to be a little bit more time down
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  Speaker 3: than he was the last time.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that doesn't sound good. I listen, I'm that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: sound good. No, it doesn't like does that sound like
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  Speaker 1: that's the opposite of good?
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  Speaker 3: No, very not good, especially for a guy who missed
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  Speaker 3: all of twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four, excuse me,
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  Speaker 3: four years with Tommy John, didn't even start the twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty five season until halfway through the year, then had
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: an injury kind of issue earlier this year and spent
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: time on the aisle, and now is going back on
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  Speaker 3: the aisle and it seems like it's going to be
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  Speaker 3: a decent amount of time missed for him.
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  Speaker 1: So that's just sensational. Yeah, that is just sensational.
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  Speaker 3: Not ideal.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I don't even know. I was going to say
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: this with with this this baseball team and how they're constructed,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: I felt like, especially if you get it, squeeze and
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: they'll get it. They don't get an off day until Monday.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: They get an off day Monday, and that'll be big
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: when they do get an off day and they are
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: or they get I mean really honestly, one of the
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: better days they had was when they had Miller and
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: Castile allowed the bullpen not to be used at all. Right,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: it feels to me like there's a strength this team
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: that doesn't get talked about enough. Are the leverage arms
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: of the bullpen. Yes, not name not named munos because
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: if you listen, aspire and for Rare to like really
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: like that's kind of an embarrassment of riches.
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  Speaker 3: It is an embarrassment of riches. And I know for
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 3: blows the save the other night.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: It's whatever, right, And he wasn't he pitching his like
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: his third third day and fourty third.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 3: Time in four days and he had over forty pitches
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: that in. Yeah, he just ran out a little bit
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 3: that was out of necessity.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, those two lefties when Brash is right right,
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: like when he's when he's going well and he's okay,
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: and then you got Munos like there, that's a pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: That's a damn good, especially when you had in Bizardo.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: So you have bizarre.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, five guys that you feel like at least have
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 3: some confidence in a high leverage situation. Not many teams
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 3: can say that.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: It changes quickly if you lose a guy like yeah,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: all right, big moves today by the Crack and we'll
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• 1:08:52
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• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: podcast after the show is over. Nothing really newsy outside
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: of that. Today. Crack can have an assistant GM. We're
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: gonna talk about that in a second. Patrick Alvin, formerly
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: in the Vancouver Canucks, now he's an assistant GM with Seattle.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: He was a GM up in Vancouver, at least in name.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: We'll find out more about him in just a moment.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: Torreon have a new head coach, Christine Bumpstead, used to
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: be working at the University of Saskatchewan, also with the
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: Western Hockey League Saskatoon Blaze, takes over for Steve O'Rourke,
• 1:09:22
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• 1:09:27
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• 1:09:29
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• 1:09:46
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• 1:09:50
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• 1:10:13
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• 1:10:15
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• 1:10:18
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• 1:10:20
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  Speaker 1: Net six fifty. Thomas Drantz joins us right now. Hi, Thomas,
• 1:10:30
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• 1:10:32
  Speaker 3: And thanks for having me.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: Hey, I appreciate you sticking around after your show is
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: over because I wanted to get my context. I wanted
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: to get some context. Patrick Alvin today hired as the
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: assistant GM to Jason Boder with the Crack in there
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: still going through their audit with Sportsology, which I think
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: we're gonna hear some stuff on soon, but they're already
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: making a move here Alvin, And I'm gonna paint this
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: picture because I don't think it's accurate, because I want
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: That's why I want to have you one, because I
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: know Andrews, are you tell tell me that Crack and
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: Twitter's upset today.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 3: No, yeah, I mean it's pretty surprising. They're normally very happy.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: People, Tomas, you would be stunned to know that crack
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: and Twitter, while less in terms of volume than Canucks Twitter,
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: has the same tenor to it at times. Not the
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: most positive environment, not the most positive environment. But here's
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: where I'll start the cracking today. Hired an assistant GM
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: who was just fired by your arrival to the North,
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: who had the worst wrecor in the NHL last season,
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: and Patrick Elvine. People like, what the hell are they doing? Who?
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: And what is Patrick Alvin? How much responsibility did he
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: bear for what's gone on in Vancouver the last couple
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: of years.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 11: Well, he definitely had a lot of responsibility up here
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 11: in terms of the day to day responsibilities managing and
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 11: administering the team, in terms of having final say on trades, signings,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 11: et cetera. You know, he wasn't the head of hockey operations.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 11: That was President of Hockey Operations, Jim Rutherford. I still
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 11: think there's, you know, a fair number of moves that
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 11: would have been executed by him shaped by him pretty
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 11: significantly during his tenure in Vancouver. And that's for good
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 11: and for ill for the most part. You know, I
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 11: would say to fans skeptical about it, there's the guy
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 11: who had options, right. I mean, it's not just the
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 11: AGM title, right, He's also a VP, so he got
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 11: a pretty big title here. I'd imagine it was a
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 11: pretty lucrative front office job, not a GM job, but
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 11: the next best thing. And that reflects the fact that
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 11: I think there were a number of teams very eager
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 11: to bring him in. This is the guy who has
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 11: twenty plus years of experience as a amateur scout, specifically
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 11: a European scout for breaking into the industry in Montreal
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 11: and ultimately in Pittsburgh, became an assistant general manager with
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 11: the Penguins and then the Canucks general manager. He also
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 11: was briefly an interim general manager during his time with
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 11: the Penguins organization. You know, he's been part of very
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 11: successful management teams and obviously has a relationship built in
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 11: with Jason Bottrel from their shared tenure in Pittsburgh, during
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 11: which the Penguins won back to back Stanley Cups. In
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 11: terms of his work in Vancouver, you know, I think
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 11: they got the big picture wrong more than anything else
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 11: in terms of pushing forward with a corps that just
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 11: wasn't ever going to be good enough to sustain success
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 11: and contend credibly. But the individual moves and the way
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 11: that this front office functioned under Alvin's watch, I think
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 11: has a lot to recommend it. You know, the team's
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 11: cap management. They are sort of professionalization of the player
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 11: development pathway, and especially in the American League during Alvin's
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 11: tenure as general manager, was all very good. He's buttoned up,
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 11: He's a really capable administrator, and his ability to evaluate talent,
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 11: especially amateur talents, pretty highly regarded in the industry, even
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 11: if his general yeah, general managerial tenure in Vancouver left
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 11: a fair bit on the table. So what I'd tell
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 11: Krack and fans disappointed is that this is a draw
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 11: that they won, Like, this is a draws that they won,
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 11: probably shaped at least in part by the fact that
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 11: Alvin's going to be able to keep his family on
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 11: the West coast, right, that's useful. But nonetheless, I think
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 11: there was at least some measure of surprise when Seattle
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 11: heated up as a potential destination for Patrick that it
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 11: wasn't gonna be Minnesota, where Bill Garrin, another of that
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 11: sort of Penguins, that Pittsburgh Boys Crew, you know, and
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 11: Alvin are like best friends. And of course Minnesota lost
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 11: their their director of amateur scouting, jud Brackett when he
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 11: took an a GM job with the Maple Leaf. So
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 11: I think there was a lot of anticipation around the business,
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 11: certainly a month ago that Alvin might be Minnesota bound,
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 11: and I would say, you know, recruiting him to Seattle
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 11: instead feels like a pretty standard win to me, even
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 11: if the optics of sort of executing a higher before
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 11: turning the results.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 7: Of the.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 3: You know, audit is a little bit odd.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Thomas trans joining us. I've seen a writer for
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: the Athletic also does a show up in Vancouver and
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: U and actually in addition to coming to the Canucks,
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: if you watched and look through the Athletic, he'll do
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: some cracking things every now and then as he's in
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: our area. And we appreciate that coverage too from the Athletic. Thomas.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: I think that's an important part, because the optics are
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: one thing, and just to kind of paint the picture again,
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like we have to I
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: have to a lot of times try to re educate
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: folks down here. This is a different situation Ron Francis
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  Speaker 1: when he was, for lack of a better term, kicked
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  Speaker 1: upstairs last summer, Jason Bottrell took over and had final
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  Speaker 1: say it was it was Bot's running the show. That
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  Speaker 1: was and there's this feeling like it was still the
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  Speaker 1: same old, same ale. That was not the case Vancouver,
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  Speaker 1: And I think Andrews, you used this term earlier when
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  Speaker 1: we were talking about it with Jim Rutherford and Patrick Alvin,
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  Speaker 1: that was a lot more like we were used to
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  Speaker 1: with Jerry Depoto running the Mariners and the GM justin
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  Speaker 1: Hollander is kind of day to day. So I think
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  Speaker 1: that's an important distinction here, is that Patrick Evian's it's
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  Speaker 1: not bots in Francis up there, it's a lot different
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  Speaker 1: situation than that up in Vancouver.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, Alvin was making the phone calls presenting scenarios, but
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  Speaker 11: the final decision, the final decision making authority rested with
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  Speaker 11: Jim Rutherford, and I think that's very clear. That was
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  Speaker 11: very clear throughout their tenure. And you know, for the
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  Speaker 11: most part, I thought the administrative work during during Alvin's
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  Speaker 11: tenure in Vancouver was pretty good, solid at the very
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  Speaker 11: least in terms of the team that they built and
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  Speaker 11: how they functioned, even if the results obviously left more
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  Speaker 11: than a lot.
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  Speaker 5: To be desired.
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  Speaker 1: Thomas, just this off season for Seattle, it's and the
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  Speaker 1: audist going on. We think something's coming down the pipe
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  Speaker 1: here in the next week or two. We'll see what
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  Speaker 1: those results are. They've already been making moves. They had
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  Speaker 1: another assistant coach today as well, Jessica Campbell's gone, replacing
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  Speaker 1: somebody in the video staff. So there's a little minor
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  Speaker 1: things going on. Patrick Glvin being added to the mix
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  Speaker 1: as well. At the top of the list, and you're
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  Speaker 1: following this very closely, I'm sure north of the border,
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  Speaker 1: the top of the list for Seattle is Bobby McMahon.
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  Speaker 1: They're unrestricted free agent. You know, every day that goes by,
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  Speaker 1: it feels more and more like he may try to
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  Speaker 1: test free agency. He was effusive in his praise for
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  Speaker 1: the organization for Lane Lambert everything else, but money does talk.
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  Speaker 1: Are you hearing anything in terms of Bobby McMahon and
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  Speaker 1: the market for him.
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  Speaker 11: Not specifically, but I can tell you that any free
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  Speaker 11: agent who makes it to market is going to do
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  Speaker 11: very well, we're in a world where the cap is
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  Speaker 11: growing for the first time in basically a decade at
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  Speaker 11: the NHL level. And as your listeners will be familiar
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  Speaker 11: with when they think about the NFL, right, you know
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 11: how every contract every year is now the new highest
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  Speaker 11: paid quarterback contract, or the new highest paid wide receiver contract,
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 11: or the new highest paid left That's what's coming to hockey. Eventually,
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  Speaker 11: It's going to take some time because a lot of
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  Speaker 11: these guys sign long term, so the good players are
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  Speaker 11: going to take a while to come to market. But
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  Speaker 11: you know, that's effectively, like the reason that hasn't happened
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  Speaker 11: in hockey is simply that the cap has been artificially
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  Speaker 11: restrained by sort of an agreement between the players union
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  Speaker 11: and the league that was made during the pandemic to
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  Speaker 11: sort of get play restarted, even before the Kraken were,
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  Speaker 11: you know, hosting their expansion draft and be sort of
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  Speaker 11: having their inaugural season. So it's effectively been like an
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  Speaker 11: artificially depressed cap environment around the league.
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  Speaker 1: And that time is over.
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  Speaker 11: Teams now are going to have more cap space in aggregate,
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  Speaker 11: then they have good players to spend it on. In
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  Speaker 11: McMahon's case, that means he might be like the third
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  Speaker 11: best winger on the market if he does get there,
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  Speaker 11: And you know, the amount of cap space and cash
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  Speaker 11: that teams are going to have to splash and how
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  Speaker 11: few other good options they're going to have is only
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  Speaker 11: going to inflate the demand for his services. So you know,
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  Speaker 11: my mind in to be totally honest with you, The
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  Speaker 11: Krakens issue since inception has been a lack of star players.
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  Speaker 11: And I think they know this, and I think we
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  Speaker 11: know they know this because of their pursuit of our
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  Speaker 11: Timmy Panaren prior to the Olympic break this past spring.
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  Speaker 11: They need stars. They don't need good players like Bobby McMahon.
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  Speaker 11: They have a lot of good players. They've often had
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  Speaker 11: a lot of good players. In fact, this team's usually
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  Speaker 11: been pretty deep with good players. What they've lacked is
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  Speaker 11: the difference makers, the star level players. You know, Maddyveniers
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  Speaker 11: hasn't quite gotten there. Obviously, Shane Wright hasn't quite gotten there.
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  Speaker 11: You know, they have some really good defensemen, they have
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 11: some solid forward depth. They've placed some interesting reclamation bets
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 11: on guys like Capocco that have paid off. And it
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  Speaker 11: doesn't matter because this is the starter of the league.
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  Speaker 11: You fundamentally need great players to win, and one of
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  Speaker 11: the issues the Kracking have had is that they kind
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  Speaker 11: of haven't been bad enough to hang out in this
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  Speaker 11: part of the draft where you get you know, first.
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  Speaker 3: Dips access to those guys.
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  Speaker 11: They're picking what seventh in the draft order this year,
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  Speaker 11: they'll get a really good prospect, but there's going to
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  Speaker 11: be a material difference between that really good prospect and
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 11: your McKenna ivar Stenberg types that will go one too
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  Speaker 11: at the NHL Entry Draft, And those are the types
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  Speaker 11: of players, those are the types of difference makers that
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  Speaker 11: the Kraken need. So, you know, in my mind anyway,
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  Speaker 11: I think it was fine given sort of how Seattle
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  Speaker 11: was pacing and where they were in the standings, and
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  Speaker 11: how important it is in your market for that to
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 11: stand out in a crowded field to buy. But I
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  Speaker 11: don't know that you necessarily have to chase it by
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  Speaker 11: breaking the bank for a Bobby McMahon type. You know,
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  Speaker 11: More than anything, I think the Kraken need to be
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 11: diligent in avoiding the small move that maybe prevents you
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 11: down the line from making the sort of big move
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 11: the tectonic you know, Land the big star type player
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  Speaker 11: trade that I think the krack and need to need
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 11: to accomplish or pull off more than they need just
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 11: about anything. So, you know, really the storyline that I'm
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 11: most closely monitoring in Seattle is the Shane Wright saga
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 11: and whether or not that's a shit that they end
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 11: up playing over the course of this offseason, perhaps in
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 11: pursuit of, you know, a player that has a shot
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 11: or is already established as a top of the lineup
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 11: type piece.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you. I'll wrap it up with this.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, I could agree with you more. I mean,
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: they've got a really and that's the difference because people
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: want to throw around the term rebuild all the time.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: You guys are going through that in Vancouver on a
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: daily basis. I'm sure that that word has been used
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: as a zillion times. Yeah, right, and they're finally kind
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: of going down that road a little bit in that
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: market they can afford to do so with you know,
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: kind of about all due respect to the BC lines
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: and the white Caps a one horse town, we're different
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: down here in Seattle with the competitive market, as you mentioned, Thomas,
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: so I would I would ask you this with with
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: the core in place that you know, what they've got
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: on the back end, with the goaltending depth that they've
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: got groovy bouncing back last season to Cords. Fine, what
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: they've got up front, which is feels like a lot
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: of second and third line guys, which is good. You
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: need to build around that this next four weeks or
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: so as we head into July first and free agency,
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: draft weekend and all that. What can the Krack and
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: fans look forward to. Is there a possibility that they
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: can make some moves and make that shift using a
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: Shane Rder what have you, Because they're not going to
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: get a star necessarily, it's going to help you right away.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: As you mentioned the draft, what would you tell Krack
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: and fans what can they hope happens over the next
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  Speaker 1: few weeks.
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  Speaker 11: Well, first of all, it's a pretty flat draft class.
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  Speaker 11: You know, there's not a big fall off really from
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 11: where the Canucks are picking at three and where the
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 11: Kraken are picking at seven and where the Panthers are
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 11: picking at nine. So there's every reason to believe that
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 11: if the Krake can end up emerging from this draft
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 11: with Vigo b York or Daxon Rudolph or what have you,
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 11: that we may look back on it two years down
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 11: the line, three years down the line and say the
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 11: Cracking got the best player. So that's right there, useful
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 11: position for the Kracking to be in, even if it's
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 11: not one of the top wingers that they probably need
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 11: more than any anything else. Shane Wright, you know, that
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 11: situation is fascinating. I'm a big fan of the player.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 11: I still believe strongly that he can be a really
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 11: good second line type center on a good team, but
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 11: more in the Sam Bennett mold for a team that
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 11: needs a Barkov right, Like, that's the issue that the
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 11: Kraken are bumping into. I think there'd be some teams
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 11: some other distressed assets, you know, sort of looking for
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 11: in one of those other young players who are who
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 11: are in a situation where maybe they could use a
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 11: change of scenery. I think about like a Matt Bay
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 11: Mitchikov in Philadelphia. Is there a world where the Kraken
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 11: can find, you know, a team that wants to bet
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 11: on Shane Wright and is willing to part with their own,
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 11: you know, high end star potential young player in order
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 11: to do so. You'd think so, especially given that Wright
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 11: has the unique profile of being a right handed centerman
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 11: right the premium position. You'd think they that that would
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 11: be a very very palatable asset to be shopping around
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 11: the league. If the Kraken wanted to make a splash,
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 11: and to be totally honest with you, I think the
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 11: Krack can need to make a splash. I'd like to
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 11: see them be extremely aggressive. I think they need to
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 11: take a shot at getting a real star, a sort
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 11: of face of the franchise level guy. They're not easy
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 11: to come by, but I do think the Crack can
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 11: have some of the pieces that you'd want to have
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 11: if you were going shopping in that sort of marketplace.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 11: And so, you know, I'll be fascinated to see what
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 11: the results of the audit are and I'll be fascinated
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 11: to see what sort of steps they take. I just
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 11: don't think you can sort of keep patiently stoking, you know,
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 11: what's effectively been a fire producing far too little heat
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 11: across the last five years. I think the time for
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 11: dramatic action, like figure out if you can make this
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 11: work with the pieces you currently have, or start the
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 11: rebuild sooner than later, because before we know it, you
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 11: know it's going to have been a decade in Seattle
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 11: and sort of one playoff series win is going to
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 11: be enough.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: Everything you said I echo. I think you said it
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  Speaker 1: very well and perfectly, and I appreciate you sticking around
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: after your show.
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 11: Thank you, Hey, anything for you, buddy, Thanks for having me.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: Thomas Strantz joining us from Vancouver with some some great
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: thoughts on not just the new assistant GM, but also
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: what the team needs looking forward. We'll touch it on that.
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 3: Agree more with what he said there.
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll touch it on that in the next segment
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: four nine, four to five one as well on the
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: Tacoma dotch text line. We'll check all your text for
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  Speaker 1: whatever you're talking about today, Seahawks, Mariners, what's going on
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: in the NBA finals and NHL, what have you cracking,
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: et cetera. Andrews, I need an update on the World Cup.
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  Speaker 1: First match of the year.
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  Speaker 3: We do have a final two zero Mexico versus South Africa.
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  Speaker 3: There was three red cards in the the more red
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 3: cards than goals, yes, but hey, I'm all for the
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 3: entertainment value, right, So you got two of those red
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 3: cards on South Africa, one of them on Mexico late
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  Speaker 3: in the game. So that might affect him later in
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  Speaker 3: the tournament if he has to be suspended. All that
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 3: stuff can kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Be followed with, well, that's right, that's actually a big thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, red cards suspends you for the next game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, that's not just oh I forgot about.
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  Speaker 3: You're up to zero. Oh and it was like five
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 3: minutes left and you get a red card and all
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 3: of a sudden, like you kind of screwed yourself for
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 3: the next game.
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  Speaker 1: So the guy that scored the second goal for Mexico,
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: great story, real quick.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Raoul Jimenez. First of all, you mentioned something in
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 3: the break where he fractured his skull a few years ago.
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 3: If you noticed the guy that scored their second goal,
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 3: he wears this kind of headband with a little patch
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 3: on the right side of his head, kind of where
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 3: his temple is, and that's to give extra protection because
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 3: he did, like I said, fractured his goal in a
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 3: collision earlier in his career, so he has to wear
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 3: that every single time. But the other great thing is
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 3: his dad, well not great thing, but a great part
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 3: of the story is his dad passed away earlier this
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 3: year and that was his first World Cup goal. That
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 3: he scored in his career. He's one of Mexico's best players.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 3: And he did it on home turf at the Mexico
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 3: City Stadium, I should say. And it was just you
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 3: could tell how emotional of a moment it was for him.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 3: So anyone who maybe has seen video that, go ahead
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 3: and check it out because it's really cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, very emotional after that goal. And yeah, I mean
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: not the it's not the story you love when someone
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: passes away, but he's come back from the fractor's skull,
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: but scoring my memory of his father is pretty awesome too.
• 1:27:13
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  Speaker 1: All right, four four five on that is the Tacoma
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  Speaker 1: Dodge text line four nine four five one two oh six.
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: Spoiler alert all Caps. You don't know the results in
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: the Mexico South Africa. I'm sorry, man, I like, I'm
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: just not going to play that game. I'm just not sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I apologize in advance.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not We're doing our job, man, Hike.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and here's the thing with the World Cup, it's
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: we are so invested as a company, and iHeart what
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: you guys are doing, you and Jackson everybody else. And
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: also like, I'll here's something that I'll throw this at you.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: So as I sit here at the Virginia Mason Athletics Center,
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: day three of mandatory minicamp, which just comes to down
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: big thanks to Drake Thomas who joined us early. If
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: you missed that interview and a podcast, Yes, just a
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: great story. Good dude. The the media room here. We
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: have they put a massive TV in here last year,
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: kind of upgraded our television that we have here, which
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: is kind of nice. And you know, it's we had
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: we've had the World Cup on and everyone, all these
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: football writers and media people coming in and with only
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: a couple of small exceptions, I won't throw any names
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: out there, everyone was riveted to it as they're doing
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: the work in here watching the game. I mean it's
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: I think if you can't get into it at least
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: a little bits, that's your own prerogative.
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  Speaker 3: We all all people are getting into it.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yeah, And you know, I don't know, every
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: sport isn't for everybody. I understand that, but yeah, I
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: mean we're also going to mention what's going on with things,
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: and you mentioned it's a crazy stat before we go
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: to the rest of the text in terms of three
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: red cards to day in a two goal game and
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: three red cards, think about that for a second. And
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: that's significant because.
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  Speaker 3: Because there were only four in the entirety of the
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty two World Cup and twenty eighteen World Cups.
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  Speaker 3: So we're off to an entertaining start, shall I say
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 3: here at the I would.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: Tend to agree with you, all right? Four nine, four
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  Speaker 1: to five one what do you.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 3: Got lots of good stuff today? Two of five three?
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 3: What would you rather not have happened? US men's team
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  Speaker 3: doesn't get out of will play or MS don't make
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  Speaker 3: the playoffs? That is off, that is that is one
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  Speaker 3: of the most brutal you can man two five three
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  Speaker 3: what are you doing to me?
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: Mane? So Mariners don't make the playoffs? Yeah, or the
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: US doesn't get out of group. So let me let
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: me things are gonna happen. To stop it.
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  Speaker 3: Let me take you behind the curtain in my thought
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  Speaker 3: process here, Okay, I I think I lean towards what
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 3: would I rather not have happened? Be the Mariners not
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 3: make the playoffs? Because the World Cups every four years, right,
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  Speaker 3: But I don't believe the US has a real shot
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  Speaker 3: to win the entire thing. I think they can go
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 3: on a run, but I don't think they're they're gonna
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  Speaker 3: win it. I do believe the Mariners do have a
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 3: shot to win the World Series this year, so them
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 3: not making the playoffs obviously would be awful. So I
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 3: don't know. I kind of going back and forth as
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 3: I talked through this it's a that's a tough one.
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: Well there's Yeah, there's the thing with the World Cup
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: in the US is year play on your own soil. Yeah,
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: first time since ninety four. The ramifications of them having
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: a successful run and helping grow the game huge are huge.
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  Speaker 1: Same thing if they get God, if they went like
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: one in two or something or on draw losses two
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  Speaker 1: and one or something in the group stage, I think
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  Speaker 1: that would be a killer for the.
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  Speaker 3: Sport, would absolutely kill it. I don't think it's gonna happen.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 3: But no, no, they're set up for success in the
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 3: group's team they are, and not for scroop stage. I
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 3: think that they have the right kind of you know,
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 3: mentality going into this. I think they're they're more together
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  Speaker 3: then I've felt that this team has been in a
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 3: long time. It felt like they had the talent before
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 3: in the last couple of tournaments. But they have the
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 3: right kind of chemistry, they have the right coach. I
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 3: think things are aligning. And then honestly, I don't think
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 3: there's a true bet on like favorite in this tournament
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 3: as well, so it's kind of wide open.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, what else you got?
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 3: It's pretty cool that you Anderson and furious Felts are
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 3: broadcast now national and iHeart for the coverage from the
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 3: World Cup making this region proud Stoke for you guys.
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 3: And also I hope you get more Dallas for the coverage. Haha.
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 3: You guys are killing it already. That's from Quinn in
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  Speaker 3: two five three. Appreciate you, Quinn.
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: I saw Jackson posted someone on Instagram. Who's he with today?
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 3: Is it Danny Jackson?
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 9: Yeah?
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay, you heard him earlier with the round table,
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 3: so let's see crack and Twitter isn't happy about the
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 3: new assistant gm hire and.
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: What day is today?
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 3: It's a day that ends in why.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. That's all you need to know. That's all
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: you need to know. Oh I love that crack listen cracking.
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: I'memberfane used to just blast Mariner's Twitter like that was
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: like a thing like Marinor's Twitter. Right, Yeah, I think
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: crack and Twitter rivals marinors Twitter.
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 3: Really Yeah, yeah, I think it's not as big, doesn't have.
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: L doesn't have the wide reach yet, but it's it's
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: see the thing about Mariner, it's just negative though, it's
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: his negative Mariners Twitter.
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but the thing about Mariner's Twitter. That's kind of undefeated,
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 3: is it's cannibalistic nature, Like fans get mad at other
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 3: fans for how they fan, and that doesn't really happen
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 3: with crack and Twitter just yet.
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: No, they just get mad at the organizing exactly, exactly.
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 3: They're just pissed the organization. Fine two five three. Why
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 3: did Hillary Night leave? Being from Idaho? I thought she
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 3: would stay in the PNW.
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't listen if anybody I saw
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: a great tweet someone put out just a little while ago,
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: it's just a fan that said, uh, just found out
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: the draft order for the PWHL next the draft next week.
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: They're just gonna have people throw darts and see what happens.
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: And that's where you end up going. It's it's such
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: a random, weird thing they're doing right now. I don't
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: know it. It's a bomber. They've really taken a beating
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: in this offseason. Bilka, Hillary Caleb Barnes, their number one
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: goaltender's gone. Yeah, it's it's they've taken and that was
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: a team that wasn't good anyway. Like now, it doesn't
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: mean they can't flip it on. I don't know sure.
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: Like I said, we think some point next week we'll
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: try to get Alison on somebody that knows what's going on.
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we needs some kind of explanation.
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: Because on the surface, for those of us that are
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: neo fights with it doesn't look good, right, it doesn't
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: look good.
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 6: Damn it.
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 3: Ian. Your show should always be catered to specifically me.
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 3: Just kidding, it's the World Cup. If you're not excited
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 3: about the World Cup even a little bit, that's a
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 3: personal issue.
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: Two of six Now, US Soccer's garbage. Even if fall
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: Soccer knows the team plays like a high school team,
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: is that true?
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, I wouldn't say high school team. I understand
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 3: they're not as much of a powerhouse as maybe either
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 3: women's team is or other teams in the world. But
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 3: I do believe that this year is the most talented
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 3: group we've ever had, and I believe the coach we
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 3: have is the right one. And this kind of follows
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 3: it up with that. Two five three is a coach
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 3: even American, No, he's not. That's one of the reasons
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 3: why I like it. He's from Argentina and you know,
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 3: you know he's but he's also a well respected club
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 3: coach that has had success at multiple levels, and he
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 3: was a he's very highly sought after from a lot
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 3: of other teams as well, and he chose the US,
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 3: So it was it was cool to see that kind
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 3: of happen.
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: Noted Seattle area media icon mas V.
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  Speaker 5: No.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just told me. I didn't know this. Of the
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: eight teams that have all won the World Cup, only
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: eight countries have ever won it. No country has ever
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: won the World Cup with a foreign coach.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 3: Yep, that is true.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: Oh get by you? Yeah, yeah, Okay, I thought I
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: could carver Harty and slip one through the No.
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 3: No, no, I'm played like Brandon Bussey over here. Yes
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 3: you are, I'll save that one. But no, it's true
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 3: because my wife has told me, like, even having a
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 3: Nargentinian as the US coach, he's always like, I don't
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 3: understand why countries employee coaches that aren't from their country,
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 3: and like it is kind of weird. But also at
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 3: the same time, that kind of narrows your sights to
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 3: like just one place, and there aren't good US coaches.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 3: Let's be completely honest here. So having someone who like
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 3: is very well regarded in the European game kind of
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 3: get the most out of these American players. I think
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 3: it's a really good, really good thing. The English coaches German, uh,
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 3: the Brazilian coach is Italian. Like, it's not abnormal, it's
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 3: not just the US that is doing.
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: This year two six. Naylor is like a hockey instigator
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: like Yanni Gordon was for the Crow. Yeah, that's a
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: dishould surprise no one, because Canadian. I asked, I asked
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: to you know earlier, is there a is there a
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: cop for Josh Naylor and baseball? It just pisses people off?
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: And he couldn't think.
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 3: Maybe off the top of it, there is one that
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 3: I kind of thought of, but less so like kind
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 3: of just a pushing buttons guy. This guy's kind of
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 3: a dirty player. And close your ears, Mike Benton, but
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 3: Dalton rushing for the Dodgers.
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: You just drew the ir of Bente.
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 6: I did.
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 3: I did. He's gonna come back and me. He was like,
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 3: that's old school baseball, that's how it should be played.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 3: And uh, well, I mean that's your opinion, that's for you,
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 3: but go look at the slide that he did. I
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 3: forget who they were playing against. It might have been
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 3: like Milwaukee or something, but in the last few days
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 3: it was one of those double play balls where he
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 3: slides like three feet to the right of second base
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 3: just to take out the guy. Right, So like Josh
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 3: Naylor's not doing that crap, No, but.
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: He's pushing the envelope, which I love. Yeah, Like I
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: absolutely love that. Uh two five three? Ian, What do
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: you think? I have this vibe with Mike McDonald being
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: a Don Shula type of coach for the c X.
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: I can see him being here for a long time
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: and it was very rare in this day and age,
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: as long as the new owner is waying to hold
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: on to him. Well, I mean, the last coach was
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: here for a while, Like they're they're successful coaches that
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: if like the guys have had success here and I
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: think really there's I'd include Chuck Chuck Knocks turned this
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: franchise around and got to the playoffs for the first time,
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: like Chuck Knox, Mike Holmgren, Pete Carroll all here for
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: a decent amount of time by NFL coaching standards. But yeah,
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald, he ain't going anywhere, right, Yeah, he's Yeah,
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, like we're so early in his tenure, three
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: years in now. But this guy, this guy knows what
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: he's doing. And I mean this, the only downside with
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: what's going on here is what goes on the rest
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: of the division. Yeah, Kyle Shanahan elite coach, that team
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: is aging but still good in the Bay Area. McVeigh
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: elite coach. And what they've got going on in LA
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: needs normal further explanation. And then here like three of
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: the best coaches in the league, two offense to one defensive,
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: got mine, two of the best three, the best organizations
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 1: in the league, best GM's in the league, all here
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: in the same damn division. But yeah, I don't think
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: he's going anywhere.
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 3: I think he has a perfect situation where he is
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 3: building the team that he likes. He's with the GM
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 3: that kind of likes it the same way, right, and
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 3: John Schneider has a lot of success that way as well.
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 3: And I don't know, it's just he seems like a
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 3: kind of loyal guy, you know what I mean?
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: I do? I agree? I agree any gave a chance
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: his first coaching job. Yeah, as a head coach, I
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: would agree. Final one from Keith Miller at Keith says, okay, okay,
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: you can.
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 3: Only have one another.
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: You can only have one Mike Benton's hockey passion, Anders
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: and Jackson's combined soccer passion, or Dick Fane's love for
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: the gun Zaga Bulldogs. Yeah. I think that's not so much.
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: You can you can only have one. I think we
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: just have to rank them this sure feine one just
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: because it pisses off the guy next, and the other
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: two are basically a push. Yeah. I think that's I
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: think I nailed it. I nail it.
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 3: I think I think you're right.
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 1: I think you're okay, perfect, perfect, Okay, we're good.
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 3: We are good.
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: David Maller joins us next