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Furness Show 2-16: Gregg Bell is in! Bucky Jacobsen and Cam Inman · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: Now from the Star Rentals Sports to us your ninety
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  Speaker 1: three point three j j RFM sports headlines.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, good Monday to you. It's not the infernece Greig
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  Speaker 2: bell In for the vacationing infern that's your headlines have
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  Speaker 2: brought to you by Frodbury. Of course I choose chill.
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  Speaker 2: See how it's got. The new offensive coordinator Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 2: told us a day after the Super Bowl it wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: take long. He also told us would be an internal candidate.
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  Speaker 2: It was not Brian Flurry, the run game coordinator and
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  Speaker 2: tight ends coach from the San Francisco forty nine Ers.
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  Speaker 2: Kyle Shanahan's outside z own run game is replacing Clint
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  Speaker 2: Kobiac as the offensive coordinator play caller for the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna talk much more about who Brian Floor Floor
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  Speaker 2: Brian Fleury is, including to cam Inman, forty nine ers
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  Speaker 2: beat writer for the Bear News group's going to join us.
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  Speaker 3: Are you guys gonna throw down?
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  Speaker 2: A friend of mine? Actually I went to his class
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  Speaker 2: at San Jose State. From the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've we've known each other for twenty plus years. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: those not acrimony between forty nine Ers and Seahawks. Pete writers.
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  Speaker 2: We see each other all the time. We'll talk to
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  Speaker 2: Cam at two o'clock about who Brian Fleury is, what
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  Speaker 2: he did for the forty nine ers. He's the new
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  Speaker 2: offensive corn in there for your Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks.
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  Speaker 2: Chuck and Buggy in the morning show in Peoria covering
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  Speaker 2: all things Mariners training camp's spring training and call it
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  Speaker 2: in baseball. It's already starting. I can't. We just got
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  Speaker 2: back from the Super Bowl and here the Marrione.
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  Speaker 3: Well that's the beauty. We have an embarrassment of virtues
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  Speaker 3: here in Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: We do. Jesse Man Hockey's going to join us at
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  Speaker 2: one twenty to discuss all he saw so far in
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  Speaker 2: his day and a half. He's been down in pure
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  Speaker 2: At spring training, you'd have men's basketball team Minnesota beating
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  Speaker 2: the Golden Gophers on Saturday sixty nine to fifty seven,
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  Speaker 2: and the heck ed you dub Men at five and ten,
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  Speaker 2: and the Big Tens thirteen and thirteen, and overall they're
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  Speaker 2: off until Saturday when they take on Maryland and College Park.
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  Speaker 2: Then they play Rutgers on Tuesday. A little East Coast
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  Speaker 2: road trip, because that's what the big tension.
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  Speaker 3: How much fun? How much fun?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what else would you have it done?
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  Speaker 3: A day or two in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: College parking Piscataway. That's their four days those kids get
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  Speaker 2: to maybe they'll study. How about that.
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  Speaker 3: That's pop by Scambia. There you go.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever. Yep, big ten being a big ten. The women's
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  Speaker 2: Huskies basketball team. They beat the Ducks yesterday at heck
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  Speaker 2: Ed twenty two to nine, first quarter one fifty one
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  Speaker 2: forty three. They're ranked. The Husky women are twenty fifth.
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  Speaker 2: They're nineteen and seven overall. Thursday they go to UCLA
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  Speaker 2: and Westwood. They take on the number two ranked Ruins
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  Speaker 2: at Thursday at seven o'clock. In the Olympics, the hockey
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  Speaker 2: man the US women are just boat racing everybody five
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  Speaker 2: nothing today over Sweden to advance the gold medal match.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody scored a goal on the US women in five matches.
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  Speaker 2: It's a three hundred and thirty one minute scoreless streak
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  Speaker 2: dating to the previous Olympics. It's an Olympic record. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they boat race.
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  Speaker 3: Canada shut them out exactly.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the first time the Canadian women's team has
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  Speaker 2: ever been shut out in an Olympic match. The US
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  Speaker 2: just everybody, and they're probably going to play Canada in
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  Speaker 2: the gold medal match. Canada and Switzerland are playing in
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  Speaker 2: the other semifinal right now. Thirty one zero is they're
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  Speaker 2: scoring in the Americans women the men there would beat
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  Speaker 2: the Germany yesterday five to one. They also advanced to
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  Speaker 2: the knockout stage. Canada did too. They're on a collision course,
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  Speaker 2: the Canadian men and Canadian women's team against the US
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  Speaker 2: men and women. Looks like that's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: dual Canada US Finals and Olympic hockey and the men
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  Speaker 2: and women's side. NBA All Star weekend. Did that happen.
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  Speaker 3: Allegedly? Apparently that's just garbage right now?
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  Speaker 2: You know what, I'm starting to think, it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: do we want an NBA team in Seattle right now?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Do we?
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  Speaker 3: For the games?
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  Speaker 2: Not that the game suck. The stars don't play, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: starters don't play. So my commissioners talking about taking away
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  Speaker 2: draft picks and fining teams because teams tanking. The product
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  Speaker 2: sucks right now, Jesse, it.
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  Speaker 3: Is not the best that we've seen. I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: would just love for Charles and and the guys just
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  Speaker 3: get back on the court. So my husband huge, huge
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  Speaker 3: NBA fan, like that's his number one sport, which is
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  Speaker 3: great because I'm not, and so we get to enjoy
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  Speaker 3: it together. I'm like, oh, I'll jump on board with this. However,
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  Speaker 3: he is very much in your category of what the
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  Speaker 3: h is going on here?
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  Speaker 2: Four nine four to five one to come a Dodge
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  Speaker 2: text line or your talkback app on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: What were he those? Back at two thirte You go
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  Speaker 2: to the iHeart Radio app. There's a little red button
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  Speaker 2: at the bottom of the microphone. You press that and
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  Speaker 2: you need a thirty second talkback message. We'll play that
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  Speaker 2: back at two thirty. And the first question I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to pose for today on the text line four nine
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  Speaker 2: four in the talkback on the Heart radio app. Do
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  Speaker 2: we even want the NBA back in Seattle Ry.
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  Speaker 3: He's such a polarizing question. I'm so glad you came.
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  Speaker 2: Up with, because, first of all, they're just jacking us
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  Speaker 2: around at this point. Every time Adam Silver stands up
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  Speaker 2: and talks about the NBA is well, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: have another talk next month, and maybe we'll talk about
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  Speaker 2: maybe we'll come to a expansion. Maybe may just getting
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  Speaker 2: either bring them back to Sonics already or shut the
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  Speaker 2: hell up about it. Yeah, but they got back and forth,
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  Speaker 2: back and forth. They're just stringing this out and there
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  Speaker 2: are a lot of theories wide, Jessman. One is they're
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  Speaker 2: using Seattle as leverage like the NFL used to do
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  Speaker 2: with Los Angeles. Remember LA was not They did not
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  Speaker 2: have an NFL team for thirty years in LA after
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  Speaker 2: the Rams and Raiders both left and the Raiders went
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  Speaker 2: back to Oakland, and the NFL used to hold LA
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  Speaker 2: as this stick over teams that didn't want to get
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  Speaker 2: new stadiums or the municipalities that didn't want to spend
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of ten hundreds and millions of dollars because
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe they wanted to pay for textbooks
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  Speaker 2: and some homeless and mental health crisis in their city
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  Speaker 2: instead of palaces for football teams. And it seems like
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  Speaker 2: that could be what the NBA is doing with Seattle
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  Speaker 2: right now.
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  Speaker 3: I mean they have been for years and years and years,
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  Speaker 3: and I mean, you know, rip David Stern. I don't
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  Speaker 3: want to celebrate anyone's death, but he was the first
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  Speaker 3: one to do it, and he essentially said that is
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  Speaker 3: just used Seattle as an example of what happens.
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  Speaker 2: That's what happened in Sacramento. Yes it is, but Sacramento
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  Speaker 2: got a new downtown built.
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  Speaker 3: Because of that and so and also there's also the
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  Speaker 3: whole shareholders and all of that with the owners not
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  Speaker 3: wanting to split revenue by expanding to include Vegas and Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: So there must you be to be a billion arrow
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  Speaker 2: rich enough to own an NBA team.
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  Speaker 3: I want another diamond.
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  Speaker 2: Greg that are worried about splitting the pie thirty two
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  Speaker 2: ways rather than thirty, that the billions of dollars still
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  Speaker 2: are billions. When you split it by thirty two rather
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  Speaker 2: than thirty, it's just a fraction less of a billions.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's ridiculous the gluttony that that's of society.
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  Speaker 2: But it's ridiculous that these NBA owners are getting hung
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  Speaker 2: up on splitting the pie thirty two ways rather than
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  Speaker 2: thirty when it's still billions divided by x toll equals billions.
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  Speaker 2: And they're still going to make their money a hand
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  Speaker 2: or fist over this because they're going to get a
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  Speaker 2: six billion or more dollar expansion fee out of this team.
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  Speaker 2: Sure Will, I'm telling you, Jessman, I've been. I used to.
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  Speaker 2: I covered the Sonics trial at the Federal Courthouse all
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  Speaker 2: I covered the Sonics teams. I covered the last game
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  Speaker 2: against the Dallas Mavericks and the old Key Arena I
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  Speaker 2: used to go when Sean Kemp and Gary Payton used
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  Speaker 2: to rock the real old barn, the original Pacific Seattle
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  Speaker 2: Center Coliseum. And I'm all for the song that place
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  Speaker 2: used to rock and covered those games and went in
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  Speaker 2: the nineties. But this product, I'm not sure I want
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  Speaker 2: this back four nine, four five one or the talk
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  Speaker 2: back line on the iHeartRadio app. Tell us what you
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  Speaker 2: think at two thirty we'll read those back, all right,
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  Speaker 2: Brian Flurry, the new offensive coordinator. This was a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of a zig zag thing because the day after
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  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, Mike McDonald came in Kenneth Walker came
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  Speaker 2: into the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Day after Everyone's
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  Speaker 2: either hungover or tired or both. Walker had not slept,
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  Speaker 2: McDonald had not slept. They get dragged into this eight
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  Speaker 2: thirty am press conference in San Francisco and added they
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  Speaker 2: do their a dance, but on the side, McDonald was
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  Speaker 2: talking to the beat writers and it casually, and he said,
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  Speaker 2: we want to hire from within for the offensive coordinator
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  Speaker 2: job for the continuity sake. When a keep what we've built,
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  Speaker 2: the camaraderie with the offensive coaching staff and Sam Darnold,
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  Speaker 2: the outside zone run game, we want to keep it
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  Speaker 2: all the same. So we have four in house candidates.
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  Speaker 2: I thought Andrew Jenoko was going to be the new
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  Speaker 2: offensive coordinator, thirty seven year old quarterbacks coach. He's now
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  Speaker 2: going to be the Raiders offensive coordinator for Quint Kubiak.
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  Speaker 2: So the question to me is, did Janoko agree to
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  Speaker 2: leave with Kubiak raiding for the and the Stars couldn't
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  Speaker 2: block that move because that was a promotion and a
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  Speaker 2: pay raise from quarterbacks coach position coach to offensive coordinator
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  Speaker 2: in Las Vegas. Or did Janoka leave after it became
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  Speaker 2: apparent that Mike McDonald was going to hire Brian Flurry,
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  Speaker 2: the tight ends coach and run game coordinator of Kyle
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  Speaker 2: Shanahan San Francisco forty nine ers. It's a chicken in
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  Speaker 2: the egg argument that I don't know yet because I
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  Speaker 2: haven't talked to anybody because I was by him the
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  Speaker 2: side of a hill when that news broke yesterday. But
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  Speaker 2: I think I thought Andrew Chenoka was going to be
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  Speaker 2: the guy. The more you look at Brian Flurry, the
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  Speaker 2: more you realize this is actually a nod toward that
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  Speaker 2: continuity that Mike McDonald talked about the day after the
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl and Jessmen. He runs and was the run
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  Speaker 2: game coordinator for the same outside zone system, the Shanahan
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  Speaker 2: Kyle Shanahan Shanahan outside zone system that the Seahawks just
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  Speaker 2: ran with Clint Kubiak. Kyle Kubiak, Clint's brother, was running
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  Speaker 2: that same offense as a offensive staff coach. He was
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  Speaker 2: the quote offensive coordinator play call, but he didn't play
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  Speaker 2: call Kyle Shanahan does. Brian Fleury doesn't have any play
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  Speaker 2: calling experience, but he has some consulting. And you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: hear from Cam Mindman about that at two o'clock forty
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  Speaker 2: nine ers beat writer about what Floury actually did. But
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  Speaker 2: he is steeped in the same outside zone run game
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  Speaker 2: that the Seahawks already are running. The other thing is
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  Speaker 2: he was on the same coaching staff and in fact
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  Speaker 2: coached Sam Donald with the twenty twenty three San Francisco
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  Speaker 2: forty nine ers. Donald was the backup to Brock Purty
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  Speaker 2: for that Niner Super Bowl team with twenty three, and
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  Speaker 2: Brian Fluyer was on the offensive staff. So Donald knows
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  Speaker 2: him has been coached by him at least for one year.
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  Speaker 2: And the third thing, I think that people are overlooking
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  Speaker 2: that I think Mike McDonald is. I know Mike McDonald's
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  Speaker 2: keenly interested in Brian Fleury is a former college quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: He played at Maryland for a year and then he
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  Speaker 2: went to toowsand up up the road in Baltimore, but
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  Speaker 2: then he coached defense. He was a linebackers coach. There
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  Speaker 2: are many offensive play callers that have been defensive position
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  Speaker 2: coaches in the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: My father was the exact reverse. He was an offensive
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  Speaker 3: lineman who ended up coaching linebackers and then was a
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  Speaker 3: defensive coordinator. So I understand that you do.
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  Speaker 2: You've perked up when I said that through the producer
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  Speaker 2: box there I am. I saw that Mike McDonald was
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  Speaker 2: a linebackers coach before he became the defensive coinery the
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  Speaker 2: linebackers coach for the Ravens. One of the most important
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  Speaker 2: aspects of the outside zone running game and run scheme
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  Speaker 2: is you got to know where the linebackers are, what
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  Speaker 2: they're going to do, and how to block them, because
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  Speaker 2: the second level blocks are everything to an outside zone system.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't block the second level, you're not getting anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Talk to Jalen Sindell and Grey's Abel, the center and
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  Speaker 2: guard for the Seahawks about blocking second level that's that
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  Speaker 2: is such a vital part of the outside zone game.
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  Speaker 2: So now they're going to have an offensive play caller
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  Speaker 2: who has coach linebackers before in the NFL, and that,
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  Speaker 2: to me is a very interesting aspect of hiring Brian Florey,
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  Speaker 2: that you have an offensive play caller who knows the
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  Speaker 2: second level defense and where they're supposed to be on
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  Speaker 2: certain outside zone run calls. I would not dismiss that
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  Speaker 2: as a huge reason why Mike McDonald chose him. Now again,
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  Speaker 2: we're talking at two o'clock to Camman. He's down at
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  Speaker 2: Pebble Beach. Actually just got back from Pebble Beach in
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  Speaker 2: the pro am down there is Yeah, I know, he's
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  Speaker 2: had a really hard weekend. Cam is the forty nine
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  Speaker 2: ers beat writer for the Newsgroup and CBS five down
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  Speaker 2: in the San Francisco. He's going to tell us more
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  Speaker 2: about Brian Fleury and all he did for the forty
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  Speaker 2: nine ers, But the factor remains he has never played,
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  Speaker 2: He has never called plays at the NFL level, and
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  Speaker 2: that is something of a concern. Klinn Kubiak at least
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  Speaker 2: had that in his pedigree when they hired him twelve
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  Speaker 2: months ago. So it is something of a departure, and
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  Speaker 2: it is not the internal candidate that we thought they
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  Speaker 2: were going to hire. So it is something of a
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  Speaker 2: zag where we thought they were going to zig for
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  Speaker 2: offensive coordinator. But again, can see the continuity of it.
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  Speaker 2: Baseball spring training has already started. That's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: To the cleets are on the ground. It's one of
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  Speaker 3: my favorite sounds.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 4: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: And Chuck and Buck were down there this morning at
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  Speaker 2: six am, where I'm sure it was really cold. When
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  Speaker 2: I covered spring trainings for four or five years, people
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  Speaker 2: don't realize, but February in Arizona it's thirty degrees.
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  Speaker 3: It's not that warming.
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  Speaker 2: It's cold. It warms up and is beautiful during the day,
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  Speaker 2: but man, those mornings are cold and they out there
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  Speaker 2: at six am. Bucky Jacobson, the former Mariner, was there
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  Speaker 2: at Seahawks.
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  Speaker 3: He's still there.
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  Speaker 2: Mariner, excuse me, Mariner's spring training. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 2: to him next live from Porre Arizona two o'clock. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to learn about Brian Floory, the new offensive coordinator
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  Speaker 2: from the Bay Area. We're going to talk to Can
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  Speaker 2: Mindman from the Bear forty nine Ers beat writer. You're
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  Speaker 2: texting talk back at two point thirty. Heading into two
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  Speaker 2: forty five, we'll talk to Dave Softy Moller before his
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  Speaker 2: show with Dick Fan, Greg Bell of the News Tribune,
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  Speaker 2: and Jasmin McIntyre in because Ian Furness has taken a
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  Speaker 2: well deserved week vacation here on ninety three point three KJRFM.
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  Speaker 2: What is it, Jess, I want to say Italian. That's like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's warm.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes sometimes you just need a little gondola in your life.
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  Speaker 2: I guess Jess was watching too many Olympics.
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  Speaker 3: You know what, Milan was in my heart, but baseball
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  Speaker 3: is in my soul right now.
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  Speaker 2: Baseball, Bucky Jacobson and Chuck Power down at spring training already.
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  Speaker 2: It seems early, but here they are, and the World
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  Speaker 2: Baseball Classic changes some of the schedule for the guys.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna peel off and go do that. But this
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  Speaker 2: is gonna be fun. Bucky Jacobson is down in Peoria.
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  Speaker 2: I get to interview him. Maybe I woke him up
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  Speaker 2: from a nap, because Bucky and Chuck wake me up
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  Speaker 2: every day at seven o'clock from July until February. And
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  Speaker 2: now I'm able to turn to although it's only one
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  Speaker 2: twenty in the afternoon. Bucky Jacobson joins us on the
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  Speaker 2: Beacon Plumbing hotline line from Peoria, Arizona, where it's probably
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  Speaker 2: seventy two degrees after a thirty five degree morning.
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  Speaker 4: Hello sir, Hello Greg, it's glad to be here. No,
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  Speaker 4: you did not wake me up from a nap. We
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  Speaker 4: are still here at the ballpark trying to get some
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  Speaker 4: more interviews from some guys. But uh, yeah, it's it's
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  Speaker 4: good to be here. I don't mind. I don't mind
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  Speaker 4: one bit coming on and doing a little extra radio.
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  Speaker 4: Not when I'm sitting at the ballyard.
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  Speaker 2: You talked to Rick riz this morning. This is the
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  Speaker 2: final season of that legend's career calling Mariner games for
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  Speaker 2: forty plus years. What struck you about talking to him
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  Speaker 2: going to his final spring training this morning?
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  Speaker 4: Well, when I found out about it. I ended up
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  Speaker 4: writing a I saw about the journalist Well I didn't it,
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  Speaker 4: And it took me a couple of days to kind
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  Speaker 4: of realize I get first I read it, I'm like, oh, no,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's like oh bummer. But I don't necessarily
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  Speaker 4: listen to the games on the radio as much. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: when we're coming on to analyze them day after day,
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  Speaker 4: I need to be watching watching the game so that
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  Speaker 4: I can kind of break down every swing and pitch
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  Speaker 4: took and everything else that we're going to talk about
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  Speaker 4: the next day. And so I don't hear Riz as
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  Speaker 4: much as I did at one point or of points
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  Speaker 4: during my life. But as the next day rolled around,
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  Speaker 4: it started like kind of hitting me like this is
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  Speaker 4: like this is the last of something for me, Like
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  Speaker 4: this is the last of an era that goes all
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  Speaker 4: the way back to my childhood when it comes to
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  Speaker 4: Mariners baseball. I mean, my love for the Mariners started
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  Speaker 4: pretty young. And I can, like I said today on
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  Speaker 4: the on our show when when we were interviewed him,
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: that there was there was days on the weekends where
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: I would we would wake up and if mom had
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: a certain set of clothes on. You knew she was
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: going to be doing some gardening, which meant we as
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: children were going to be doing some gardening before we
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: could go out and ride our bikes and play with
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: our friends. And yet the one thing that I could
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: find that was actually enjoyable was if there was a
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: Mariner game on, I could turn it on and I
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: could listen to Dave nee House and Rick Riz and
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: them paint the picture of baseball. And so it was
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: kind of one of those you know, over the last
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: twenty years since I've been done playing, I've seen plenty
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: of players I played with retire and then some of
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: them move on to become coaches and and and other
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: things along those lines. This is kind of feels like
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: maybe the final straw of something that was connected most
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: certainly to my childhood, but even to my days playing.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: The fact that this guy that I grew up listening
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: to and listening him, you know, announce and call games
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: and then at one point in time calling games that
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: I got to play in, and that was a surreal
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: moment for me. And now all of a sudden, I'm
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: not going to get to hear his voice calling games anymore.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: But luckily we found out. He's still going to be around.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: He's still you know, he's not necessarily going anywhere. He
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: just wants to take some time off and enjoy, you know,
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: these the latter years with his grandkids and his family.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: So we're gonna still get to hear Riz, just not
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: gonna hear him on a nightly basis calling games.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: After this season, though we after mention that he's got
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: one more farewell to it. People may not know Rick Riz,
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: I'm from Ohio. In nineteen eighty one, he was the
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Ohio state football broadcaster play by play for w BNS
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: and Columbus. He was the Ohio State Broadcaster of the
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Year in nineteen eighty one. He also did the Columbus Clippers,
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: the Triple A team for the New New York Yankees.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know if he brought that up talking about
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: this morning or not, but yeah, he was Ohio state
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: football voice, which in Ohio is like the governor. And
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: then nineteen eighty three is when he joined Dave Kneehouse
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: and first being in broadcasting Mariner game nineteen eighty three, Jess,
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: when I was thirteen years old in nineteen eighty three,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: that's a minute ago.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Couldn't speak.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, yeah, Jess wasn't even a thought yet, I
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: would think at that.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: Point, so it might have been a twin who knows.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's it's unmolievu. I mean, the journey that
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: this guy has had around the game. Yeah, it does
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: scale beyond just the Mariners baseball. Now, the majority of
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: a lion share of it is the Mariner's broadcaster and
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: that's where he's going to be kind of known and loved.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: But yeah, he's he. I think it was eight years
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: in the minor leagues and forty three years in with
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: the Mariners, so I mean over fifty years of being
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: at the ballpark and following game. And I don't know
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: for sure if you're going to ever find anybody that
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: loves baseball quite as much as Riz does. And when
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: you say that, it basically boils down to loves Mariners
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: baseball about as much as anybody out there. So hopefully
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: the Mariners can follow suit in what they did last
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: year and even take it a step further than that,
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: or two steps further than that would be ideal, and
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: send him off with a farewell World Series would be great.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: That's the familiar voice of Bucky Jacobson, the former Mariner,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: is that Mariners spring training right now in President's Day,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: joining us on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline live from Peoria,
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Arizona here in ninety three point three KJRFM. Okay, Bucky,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: what's going on on February sixteenth at spring training? Are
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: they our pitchers already doing their routines and their bullpens
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: and are they on the backfields or what's happening? What's
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: st Tell listeners what's going on?
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: And they're all here, I mean for the most part.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: There's a couple guys that I haven't seen just yet.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Cow was actually out today. I think he was sick
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: yesterday and maybe shouldn't have been here and so I
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: think they gave him the day off today. But Yeah,
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: for the most part, everybody's here. They're all kind of
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: checked in. A bunch of bullpins WU and I know
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: Logan Gilbert through one today, Bryce Miller, I think through
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: and today. Then there's a bunch of guys hitting live.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: We're kind of getting to know a couple of the
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: new guys. I mean, Brendan Donovan, we're getting to know
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: him a little bit. We'll have him on tomorrow, which
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: will be enjoyable. He seems like a really, really good dude.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: But for the most part, it's just I would say,
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: there's just a kind of an air of hunger that
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: you can kind of see. They're happy. You can tell
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: that they're glad to be back. It's not a oh,
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: here we go again. Whereas you know, I'm sure that
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: there's some teams that you know, we're in cell mode
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: and in full blown rebuild mode, and the atmosphere is
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: not nearly like what it is here. This is a
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: team that you know, they know where they got to
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: last year, and yet they're not satisfied with it. I
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: think that you can kind of see it. They all
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: look like they they did their work in the offseason
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: and they're ready to get going, and I think there
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: is kind of a feeling of unfinished business rolling around
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: the ballpark right now.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: So does it feel like World Series or bus there?
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: But it's a realistic in fact and expectation that they
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: get to the World Series.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: I don't know if it would be a World Series
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: or BUS. I mean, I think anything less than this
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: team getting to the World Series. I think the players
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: are going to feel that it's somewhat of a disappointment
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: simply because they were, what they eight outs away from
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: getting there last year, and you have majority of that
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: team back, what you know, in a couple places, I
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: guess Polonko and Gino Suarez not back. They feel like
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: they've filled those spots, or that they have youngsters, you know,
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: ready and willing to jump up and replace those guys.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: So I think that that right now, you're you know,
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: knock on wood, you're healthy. You know, last year there
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: was some issues with some of the boat some of
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: the guys in the rotation at the beginning of the year,
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: and then Brian Woo at the end of the year.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: So right now, I think this is a better ball
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: club as of right now, still six weeks away from
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: the season starting, this is a better team than the
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: team that almost went to the World Series last season.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: So I think that I don't think that they would
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: put it there. I have a hard time thinking about
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: something that is that far away of or bust period.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: It's just kind of a yeah, they're they're the favorites
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: to win the American League, and I think rightfully, so
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: now you have one hundred and sixty two games you
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: got to put together to just get into the dance,
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: and then once you get there, let's see where the
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: chips are stacked. I mean, hopefully you're healthy. And yet
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: this team has some depth in some key areas to
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: where you could probably overcome some hiccups with it comes
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: to health here and there. But for the most part,
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: I think it's just one of those step by step,
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: day by day. You can't control what's going to happen tomorrow.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: You can't change what happened yesterday. All you can do
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: is take care today, and that's kind of their focus,
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: and they just know if they do that, they're going
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: to end up being one of the better teams in baseball.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: And then once you get into the playoffs, then it's
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: a short that it's a multiple sprint to win division,
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: to win a series, and then keep doing that and
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: finally you could find yourself in a one on one
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: matchup against whoever else is coming out of the National League.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: But Bucky Jacobson, our own kJ R. Donald spring training
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: with the Mariners in Peoria, Arizona. Bucky, you mentioned Brendan Donovan.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: They traded for him along the way to trades seem
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: like they were coming and pursuing him for a long
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: time All Star last year with Saint Louis and has
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: been a Gold Glover. Has played multiple positions, primarily second base.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: As you understand it, is that where he's going to
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: be primarily for this year or where does Brendan Donovan
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: fit him?
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: I think he's he's working out at third base, and
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: I think that that is probably where they have him
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: slotted right now. If everything was to go according to
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: what the plan is throughout the off season and coming
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: up to just let's just say today. You know they
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: were hot after him all off season. I think they've
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: been interested in him for a couple of years. That
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: was the move that they were wanting to make. They
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: ended up getting it done, and I think that that
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: is primarily their thinking. An everyday guy that can play
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: third base. Now, he can play second base, he has
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: played a lot of second base. He can also roam
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: around in the outfield, probably left field more so than
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: anywhere else, but he could play right field. I'm sure
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: I think that they haven't slotted to be the third basement.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: I think that they have it slotted where they think
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: it's going to be cold young probably at second base,
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: but that is still up for debate. That is still
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: up for them going out and proving it. You know,
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: he's he hasn't done enough at the big league level
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: to where that that position is locked in and it's
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: his regardless of his outcomes and the way in which
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: he's looking in spring training, and the fact they have
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Colt Emerson who's young and hungry and he's kind of
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: knocking on the door. Whether he's ready or not, we
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: will see over the next you know, month to six weeks.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: And then you have Ryan Bliss who's in the mix
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: there as well.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Yes we do. He's healthy.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: He's he's healthy. I like Ryan Bliss as well. He's healthy.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: The bicep's good, his show good. I talked to him
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: just in the hallway. We'll get him on at some
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: point during the week, but said he's feeling good.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: It's just a matter of getting the reps back, because
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: you know that lost time is something that you can't
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: get back, and so now you've got to kind of
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: ramp it up and get yourself ready to go. I
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: don't think, like I said, I wouldn't think that it's
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: a straight up one for one. They're gonna get equal reps.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: I think that it would be Cole Young. I would
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: put in the pole position for that second base job
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: based on what he did at Spurts and his rookie
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: season was a little bit more than what we've seen
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: in the Spurts that we've had out of Ryan Bliss. Now,
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: I think they like both of them, and at this point,
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: when you're a contending team, it's not a favorites thing.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: It's not a well this is what I thought, and
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: so I'm gonna go with that. They're going to go
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: with who they think gives them the best chance to win,
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: and it's up to those guys to prove it. At
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: this point. Now, if for whatever reason, if cold Emerson
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: is the guy that jumps up to that and they're like,
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: but he looks better over at third than at second,
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: well then you could put Brandon Donovan over at second base.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: That's the and the versatility that comes with signing Brendan
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: Donovan is is he can fit in wherever your young
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: guys that you're gonna have one young guy somewhere in
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: the lineup. Wherever that guy fits is where he's gonna go,
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: and Brendan Donovan goes the other spot.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: And the week you're down there Bucky, what are you
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: looking forward to seeing most. What intrigues you the most
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: about the beginning of spring training with this particular team.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: Ah, what intrigues me the most. I mean probably just
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: continuing to feel what we've felt. Now. It's been a
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: day of shows, but we were here yesterday and walking
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: around and talking to some of the guys, and I
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: just want to kind of get more into the feel
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: of what these guys are are thinking. Obviously, it's they
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: still have a ways to go before anything starts to count, right,
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: So it's this is about not coming in and getting
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: in shape. Those days are long gone. They're all in shape,
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: they're ready to go. But it's about getting your reps
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: in and feeling confident. And different guys go about it
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: in different ways. Some guys are gonna want to turn
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: it up and be facing the toughest of the tough.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: Others are going to kind of want to ease into
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: it for a couple of weeks. Regardless of what it is.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: It's Dan Wilson and the rest of this organization getting
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: everybody kind of rounded up, regardless of how they're going
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: to go about their business, but all getting pointed in
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: the same direction, which which is, you know, hopefully start
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: the season off strong, don't dig yourself into any sort
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: of hole, go out and take you know, keep that
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: title that is the AO West, and and put everybody
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: on notice that this is a team to be reckoned with,
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: because I don't think that player for player, this team
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: thinks that there's anybody, including you know, a store bought
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: team like the La Dodgers. I don't think that there's
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: anybody that this team doesn't think they can go out
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: and compete against. And so now it's a matter of
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: getting yourself ready because you don't have I mean, the
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: six weeks is gonna fly by, and before you know it,
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: it's going to be the full blown baseball season. And
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: I'm excited about it. It feels like they're excited about it.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: But I would say overarching over from right now until Friday,
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: when we're we're done with this week of spring training coverage,
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: my main thing is just getting the feel for what
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: these guys are feeling getting ready for a big season,
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: because it's been a long time, like never have they
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: been as close as they were last year, and now
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: all of a sudden, you still have this young, hungry
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: group of ballplayers that are kind of chomping at the
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: bit to get this thing back to where they were
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: at last year.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: For those of us, the many of us who may
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: have been paying attention to, well, I don't know the
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Seahawks and the Super Bowl US tell us about the
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: World Baseball Classic. When do guys leave? Who's all leaving?
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: And how long are they going to be gone? And
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: do spring training gets proceedd as normal without them?
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, everything will proceed the same way. I think that
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: their last day of workouts here is March first. Now
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: some of them are going to I think Florida, I
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: think most of them. I think the Mariners have more
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: guys playing in the WBC than any other team, which
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: is a sign of good. That's a good sign, right,
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: I mean you have some people that are obviously really good. Now.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: Cal Rawley is gonna be, you know, the catcher and
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: one of the big boppers on Team USA. You know,
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: I I know. Randy Rosarina is playing for Mexico. You're
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: actually we we found out today that. Uh why am
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: I blanking on his name? I was just spear Uh
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: he's going spires going to be pitching for Team USA too.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: He's lefty out of the bullpen for US and one
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: of the best in the game right now, So he's
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: going to be pitching h for Team USA as well.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: I know Miles Master, Bony and Can Zone are playing
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: for Italy. So there's a bunch of guys they're gonna
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: be leaving and those guys, everybody's starting to get into
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: a little bit of live VP where you know they're
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: going out there. Some of these pitchers are are are
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: getting ready for WBC as well, and so they're going
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: out there and throwing live to hitters, which is early
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: at this point in time. When you're facing live hitters,
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: you know, only a couple days into spring training. It's
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: like they're throwing t text up there and you're trying
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: to hit it. The hitters are definitely behind the pitchers
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: at the beginning of spring training, but these guys don't
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: really have as much time to get ready for competitive,
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: you know, big time baseball. I mean, it's it's it's
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: a tough situation, I think, to get your body ready
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: for spring training and WBC at the same time, because
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: some of these guys only have a couple of weeks
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: before it's go time, and you're having real legit abs
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: for with your country. Acoust your chest.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Bucky Jacobson, Enjoy down, Enjoy tilted kilt right across the street,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: and I think it's probably still there.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: Love that place.
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: I've never been.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Oh that's a lot. Okay, maybe I've been one and
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: he's probably never been to the in and out that's
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: right down the block.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Your kilt has been tilted.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: My kilt has been tilted, and I am already three
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: double doubles into my journey.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Enjoy it down there, man. We'll hear you every morning
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: from six to ten from spring training. Bucky Jackson. Thank you.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Don't call me again un till when you get back.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: Hey, watch it, you're calling me again tomorrow. So I'll
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: be here tomorrow with you, all.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Right, all right, give us the tilted kilt report. Thanks man.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Enjoy Lucky Jacobson. Down in Peoria, Arizona. So the world
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Baseball if the Team USA he mentioned, March first is
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: when they break up from spring training. March third, Team
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: USA is playing the Giants in Scottsdale in an exhibition.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: March fourth, they play the Colorado Rockies in an exhibition
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: down in Arizona. That's to get the pitcher some work
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: and then their first WBC game is in Houston on
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: March the sixth against Brazil. Then they played Great Britain
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: the next day March ninth against Mexico. That's gonna be
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: a wild scene. WBC USA and Mexico March ninth in Houston.
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  Speaker 2: March tenth, they played Miles Master Boni's Italy team.
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  Speaker 3: This all sounds awesome, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And that's all in the first full week of March.
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  Speaker 2: March tenth is the last first round game and then
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  Speaker 2: the quarterfinals and knockout stage begins in Houston again March
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: thirteenth or fourteenth. So the Team USA, they're not going
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  Speaker 2: too far. There's some pods that are in Miami. There's
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  Speaker 2: some pods on the West Coast, and Team USA cayl
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: rowing and the boys are going to be in Houston
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: for the World Baseball Classic. There's another international sports competition
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  Speaker 2: going on. You may have heard about. It's the Olympic Games.
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  Speaker 2: I've been watching it every moment I can get them
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  Speaker 2: back from the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 3: Well, luckily it's available almost every moment that we do get.
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  Speaker 2: NBC pays a lot of coin to put it on,
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  Speaker 2: and they played wall to wall coverage on all their networks.
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  Speaker 2: I will say that the CBC coverage is fantastic and
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  Speaker 2: I really enjoy.
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  Speaker 3: What I definitely watch CBC.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, very fortunate in Seattle to have CBC and be
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  Speaker 2: able to watch it on over the air. You don't
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  Speaker 2: even need cable to watch. Well, you need cable, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: but you don't need streaming or anything else.
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  Speaker 3: Have you been as enthralled with curling gait as I have.
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  Speaker 3: It's hysteric.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that Canada is cheating because they're location in the
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: rock just passed the line that sport is so funny.
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  Speaker 2: That sport just baffles me. I'm trying to figure out
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  Speaker 2: what they're doing.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was turning beer into the Olympics is
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: what that sport is. And they have curling clubs around here.
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  Speaker 2: I know my kids have gone to lessons at the
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  Speaker 2: one that's on fun.
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  Speaker 3: It is fun.
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  Speaker 2: I still can't understand it. I paid money for lessons
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  Speaker 2: and sat there and did it with them for a
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  Speaker 2: couple hours. I still don't know why. Why can the
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  Speaker 2: other teams start scraping the ice for the other team's rock.
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  Speaker 3: I don't get it. I don't figure that out, but
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  Speaker 3: I'm not an expert. I'm just there for the beer.
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  Speaker 2: And they got this big bulls That's true, you're not
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  Speaker 2: alone there. This is big bulls eyes. So I think
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  Speaker 2: intuitively that you're just trying to roll the rock, spin
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  Speaker 2: the rock into that bulls eye every time. But you're not.
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  Speaker 3: You're not.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: You're trying to do all this set up and blocks,
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: playing defense, peel the guard and all these things these
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: guys are talking about. If you haven't watched curling on CBC,
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: that's a different level of curling. Man. They get into
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: like NFL minutia stuff about curling that you're just your
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: head is spinning. But what's funny is you stop back
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: and think about it. Every Canadian watch almost every Canadian
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: watching it knows what the hell they're talking about.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: Oh day on, it's just I thought my head was
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: spinning because of the beer.
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  Speaker 2: What Jesson's talking about is there's a controversy that the
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Canadians are cheating.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, he touched it just after the line.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: But I know, I guess he's doing it habitually, right, Yess.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: They could pick up Canadians so arrogantly defensive about it.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's why it became even more of a controversy.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: But yeah, it was just it was a foul, like okay,
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  Speaker 3: but he was so arrogant, which I'm sorry. Like the
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: Internet is undefeated when it comes to making memes and
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: things out of these things. So if you're not watching
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: it live, the memes will come up plenty.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. You get caught up on that.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: It's fun.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Anyway. Next, we're gon talk about the Olympics pucks. Mike
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: Benon's going to join us about Olympic hockey. The men's
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: team in US. Okay, they've been okay, they had the
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: best game yesterdagainst Germany. After rough start, they've won all
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: their games and they've advanced to number two seed beyond Canada.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: But the women, they are like nineteen eighty five Chicago
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the show. Greg Bella News should be
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  Speaker 2: An is in for the vacationing and forreness. He has
• 37:04
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• 37:17
  Speaker 2: since I got back from the Super Bowl. The US
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  Speaker 2: Men's hockey team, Mike, Hello, is the US men's hockey team. Hello, Hello, sir, And.
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  Speaker 6: By the way, Greg, I'm also with you. I refuse
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: to believe that Bucky has not been to Tilted Killing.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: He probably owned stock in that place all the years
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: he's gone down there. I mean, the Tilted Cup might
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: exist across this park from in Peoria because of Bucky Jacobson.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: So thank you for Beck.
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: I don't want to get us to out track here
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: by I actually recall back in the day when I
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: was in the EHL that as part of the job
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: where you have to wear like eight different hats, you know,
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: like broadcasting media, you know r social media. You had
• 37:59
  Speaker 6: to sell also oporate sponsorships. And I remember one of
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: the teams I worked for actually requested to meet with
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: the team I worked with. We had a deal cut
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: out for tilt to kill and then when that went
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: to the owner for the team, owner said no way,
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: times change. I bet he'd take that money now.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Incidentally, there's a hockey rink right down the block from
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: the Mariners spring training in Peoria where Austin Matthews played
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: as a kid. He's from Arizona. Yeah, he's a Toronto
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: Maple Leaf star, of course, but he's an Arizona kid
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: and he played it right down the street from where
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: the Mariner's spring training is. Austin Matthews and the men
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: and American Men beat the German team yesterday five one,
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: and it was the most impressive of the three preliminary
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: round games so far. They struggled against Denmark, gave up
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: a bunch of goals, ended up winning that game, but
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: they looked good yesterday. Philip Grubauer did not play the
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: crack and goalie did not play for his native Germany yesterday.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: He got the day off. He must be living right
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: with the German coaches for him to get the day
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: off against Team USA. That was nice of him. I
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: don't know if you saw the match yesterday Germany and
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: the United States, Mike, but if you did, what do
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: you think of it? Austin Matthews two goals and an assist.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: They're the number two seed behind Canada number one entering
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: the knockout round. What have you made so far? Of
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: the three games the US has played, they've won them all,
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: but not impressively until the last one. Yeah.
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: I watched a little bit of the game yesterday, Greg,
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: and I think we're still pretty much on a bullet
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: train here potentially to see Canada versus the US.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: I mean it's gonna happen.
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: I'll have receding here coming up in the knockout round,
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: so to speak. So once you get past the qualification
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: playoffs and you have Canada who got to buy, Team
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: USA who got to buy, Slovakia who got to buy,
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: and then Finland as well, who've got two part of
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: members of the Kraken also and Elie Tolbinen and Coppocaco
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: they also got a bye. But for me, the big
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: question answering these Olympics here for Team usay was. I
• 39:53
  Speaker 6: really thought that the naming of Ashton Matthews this captain
• 39:56
  Speaker 6: was a very very peculiar choice, And there are many
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: reasons why we get into it here, but I mean
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: the team he plays for, the Maple Leafs, have just
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: been a consistent buffalo Bills like flop over and over
• 40:08
  Speaker 6: and over in the postseason, whereas you got a guy
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: like Matthew Kachuck who's won two Cups already with the
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: Florida Panthers, others who have also served in similar roles.
• 40:17
  Speaker 6: So I thought it was very very peculiar to see
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: him earn the Sea. But man, I thought that game
• 40:24
  Speaker 6: we saw against Germany yesterday, the one goal he had
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: and the one assist, I think really proved that he
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: took massive steps forward, especially in a.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Crunch time game like that.
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: The goal he scored wasn't from the outside, He wasn't
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: settling here for a snapshot high under the bar, he
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: was going right toward the paint into the front of
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: the net was rewarded. And then the pass he had
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: to set up a goal back in period one, I
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: mean there was more sauce on that pass than a
• 40:54
  Speaker 6: five star restaurant that was what elite hockey players and
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: elite athletes do when they can execute in crunch time
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: like that. So I mean to give him credit. His
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: teammates really backed him up in saying that, I don't
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: know why you guys and you guys mean to the
• 41:08
  Speaker 6: media have been piling on him. We have had his
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: back all the way here and you saw the reason
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: why that he was a part of this leadership group.
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: So I don't know what was more impressive with that, Greg,
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: I think you know him or just the Ko blowed
• 41:22
  Speaker 6: shirp that Matthew could Chuck gave Leon Dry siddle for
• 41:25
  Speaker 6: the last two times could Chuck won a Stanley Cup and.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: Dry Title did not.
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: But I mean, we're seeing this dow in crunch time
• 41:32
  Speaker 6: and for Team USA, I think you know for where.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: They're going to go.
• 41:36
  Speaker 6: If Auston Matthews can raise this game like others, they're
• 41:38
  Speaker 6: going to be in good shape.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Ye telling always a bridesmaid because he's big. Yes. Florida Panthers, Edmonton,
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: Florida Stanley Cuff from the last couple of years. Mike
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: ben Joining is on the beacon plumbing highlight Sweden lot
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: via the winner plays the US and the knockout round
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: quarterfinals on Wednesday. Canada is going to be on the
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: other side of the bracket, is number one seed. Mike
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: mentioned they're on a collision course with the US. The
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: Olympic Hockey the International Hockey Federation are making sure that
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: they're on the opposite side of the brackets so they
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: can play each other in the final. Canada men, they've
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: been dominated ten to two over franch yesterday. They're going
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: to play Wednesday in the quarterfinals against the winner at
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: chetney against Denmark. Before I let you go, Mike, we
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: would be remiss if we don't mention the US women.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: They are nineteen twenty seven Yankees on this entire field
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: right now five o today ever Sweden in the semifinals.
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  Speaker 2: Hillary Knight of the your Seattle Torrent is the captain
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: of the US team. That is thirty one goals in
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: zero against so far in this tournament, three hundred and
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: thirty one consecutive minutes without getting scored on dating to
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  Speaker 2: four years ago. In the previous Olympic Games, the US
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: shut out Canada in the priminary round. It's the first
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: time Canada has not scored a game ever in the
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: Olympics for a match for the women the US. I'm
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: are going to play Canada or Switzerman and the gold
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: medal match Thursday morning our time, and it looks like
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: Canada US and the women's side too. But Mike, I
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: know you have some familiarity with the Torrent now being
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: coke tenants there in Climate Pledge with the Crack and
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: Hillary Knight the captain US team at Seattle Torrent. But
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: I don't know from Afar if you have anything you
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: can add to what the US is women's team has done.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: But it wasn't that long ago that Canada was superior,
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: but now the US seems to be head and shoulders
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: above everybody in the world, including the Canadians.
• 43:18
  Speaker 6: I mean to call them a juggernaut. I think Greg
• 43:20
  Speaker 6: at this point would be selling themselves short. Really, I mean,
• 43:24
  Speaker 6: what they are doing right now is basically on par
• 43:27
  Speaker 6: with the nineteen twenty seven Yankees. I mean, it's ridiculous
• 43:30
  Speaker 6: the kind of talent they have, and I think really
• 43:32
  Speaker 6: a good testimony for those who haven't had a chance
• 43:34
  Speaker 6: to see a women's game in this area that there
• 43:37
  Speaker 6: is still ample time to get out and see some
• 43:41
  Speaker 6: pretty rockstar headlining talent that are playing right now for
• 43:44
  Speaker 6: the tour, and Hillary Knight being one of them. I
• 43:46
  Speaker 6: also want to put the spotlight on someone who's playing
• 43:48
  Speaker 6: for Tina USA who was out of Ohio State, and
• 43:52
  Speaker 6: Hannah Bilka. She's been phenomenal as well. I think besides
• 43:56
  Speaker 6: their magnetic personality, their game speaks even loud as far
• 44:00
  Speaker 6: as a magnetic volume. I think it really said a
• 44:04
  Speaker 6: lot that against Sweden that the crowd was cheering about
• 44:07
  Speaker 6: eleven minutes into their game that there wasn't a goal
• 44:10
  Speaker 6: that was scored by Sweden. It wasn't because of sustained pressure,
• 44:14
  Speaker 6: a good shift. It was her first shot on goal
• 44:17
  Speaker 6: eleven minutes into the game against in USA, the crowd
• 44:20
  Speaker 6: shared for their first shot on goal. I mean, I
• 44:25
  Speaker 6: can't see how you don't pick USA as a favorite.
• 44:28
  Speaker 6: Hillary not I've said before, is basically the Sidney Crosby
• 44:31
  Speaker 6: here for the women's game. What she's doing is on
• 44:34
  Speaker 6: a very historic pace. She actually joked with us at
• 44:37
  Speaker 6: our set during the last crack and home game against
• 44:39
  Speaker 6: the Maple Leafs that Hey, you know what the motivation
• 44:42
  Speaker 6: for me to go out and you know, play in
• 44:43
  Speaker 6: a fifth one? I guess you're saying why not go
• 44:47
  Speaker 6: out there for a six? I go, well, who's in
• 44:49
  Speaker 6: favor of that right now? So she knows how to
• 44:52
  Speaker 6: give a SoundBite just like her game. But ye know,
• 44:55
  Speaker 6: very very impressive with with what they're doing. And there
• 44:58
  Speaker 6: musty TV right now.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: Greg, Mike Ben appreciate it. I know your kids are
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: off of school, so I appreciate you taking the time
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: from me and a dad today. Thanks ma'am anytime. Bye,
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: Thank you Mike Bett and joined us on a Presidents
• 45:08
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• 45:11
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• 46:24
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• 46:26
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• 46:29
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• 47:11
  Speaker 2: In the Olympic Hockey Tournament, the US women this morning
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: blank Sweden five nothing to advance the Olympic gold medal
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: match against either Canada or Switzerland, who are playing as
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: we speak over in Italy. The American men they won
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: five one yesterday over Germany and then a await either
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: Sweden or Latvia in their knockout. First knockout game is
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: gonna be Wednesday. Canada is on the other side of
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: the bracket Chetna against Denmarks, who Canada will play in
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: its knockout match on Wednesday. The NBA All Star Weekend happened.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty four nine four five one on the text line
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  Speaker 2: at the talk back app in the iHeartRadio app. Do
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: we even want the NBA back in Seattle now? The
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: way this product is deteriorating, I mean, it's just awful.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: Adam Silver of the weekend talking about Yeah, maybe we'll
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: do expansion. Yeah, maybe we'll talk about it more. Yeah,
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: maybe Seattle in Vegas. It's just a string along process
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: at this point. Wake me up when the Sonics get back,
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: and I'm starting to wonder do we even want at
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: four nine four or five one, do you really want
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: the NBA back in Seattle? Now? Cam Emmon's gonna talk
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: to us about Brian Forred. Cam Edmon is the longtime
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: beat writer for the forty nine Ers. I've known him
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: since I covered the Raiders in the Bay Area. I
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: was actually in his journalism class at San Jose State
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: University last week Super Bowl week, whatever week it was
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: two weeks ago. When is that, Jeff, that.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: Last time I was just telling Cam, well, we were
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: about to get to him, how I feel like I
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: have a Super Bowl hangover and it's been a week.
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: But Cam mmon has moved on. He was just at
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: Pebble Beach this weekend, which is one of the greatest
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: journalism assignments you can have. What was that like, Cam, Hello,
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: it was.
• 48:51
  Speaker 5: It's heavenly it is.
• 48:54
  Speaker 7: It was not the storm they were expecting yesterday at
• 48:57
  Speaker 7: Pebble has finally arrived. As I'm driving down the grade
• 49:01
  Speaker 7: wondering how you wonderful people in Seattle driving the rain
• 49:04
  Speaker 7: like this every day?
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: People in the people in the Bay Area do not.
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: Know how to do that. They do nobody in the
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: state of California for that matter. But yes, Francis, San
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: Francisco and La rainstorms are quite a treat to drive it.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: I will say that Cam's joining us on his way. Yeah,
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: you don't, You're you're not very You're not very well
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: versed in that. Cam Mmen's joining us in the Beacon
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: Pumbing Highline on his drive from his house to his class.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: He teaches at San Jose State University. He's also the
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: forty nine ers beat writer. He and I were pounding
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: around at the Super Bowl last week. Tell us about
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: Brian Fleury. You mentioned to me yesterday in some text
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: that Kyle Shanahan is the play caller, but there's some
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: in put. There was some input that Brian Fleury had
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: as a run game coordinator. He was the run game
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: coordinator for the first time this past season. Can you
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: tell Seattle listeners what they're getting in the new offensive coordinator.
• 49:53
  Speaker 7: Yeah, he is a He's a very three bral, mellow
• 49:57
  Speaker 7: guy that I think it's a good hu and I
• 50:00
  Speaker 7: think he comes obviously with George Kittle's blessing, because you know,
• 50:05
  Speaker 7: what we see a lot in practice is just the
• 50:07
  Speaker 7: warm up Greg And for like the better part of
• 50:10
  Speaker 7: probably what four seasons or so, uh, Brian Flurry, in
• 50:15
  Speaker 7: our eyes has been George Kittle's sparring partner in warm
• 50:17
  Speaker 7: up where he's basically blaking him like a stafe.
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: He would And I mean, we get to talk to these.
• 50:23
  Speaker 7: Assistant coaches like basically once or twice a year, and
• 50:26
  Speaker 7: I brought that up to him just kind of because
• 50:27
  Speaker 7: it's kind of fun, and he was just described this.
• 50:30
  Speaker 7: I get the temperament of the guy, and he's a
• 50:32
  Speaker 7: really good coach and he's a he's a really good communicator,
• 50:36
  Speaker 7: and I think his fire obviously means you have a
• 50:40
  Speaker 7: conduit to Sam Darnold.
• 50:41
  Speaker 5: That's very important.
• 50:42
  Speaker 7: And he's worked with Stam before being on the Niner
• 50:46
  Speaker 7: staff a couple of years ago when Sam was here.
• 50:48
  Speaker 7: So I think that's a nice continuity aspect. Seeing that
• 50:52
  Speaker 7: Clint Kubiak is left and also was on that same staff,
• 50:56
  Speaker 7: I think that to.
• 50:56
  Speaker 5: Me is the most important element.
• 50:58
  Speaker 7: As far as the run games coordinator title, I don't
• 51:02
  Speaker 7: want to say it's a bogus title, but all these
• 51:04
  Speaker 7: you know, all these staff now have so many cords.
• 51:06
  Speaker 7: There's like six coordinators nine seven coordinators on it now
• 51:10
  Speaker 7: outside of the O C d C Special Teams coordinator.
• 51:14
  Speaker 7: But I'll Stanahan often defended that Brian did have a
• 51:19
  Speaker 7: lot of input in the run game, as did offensive
• 51:22
  Speaker 7: line coach Chris Forster. But ultimately it's found in hands
• 51:27
  Speaker 7: on what run play they're running, and then it's a
• 51:30
  Speaker 7: sick Christian McCaffrey's legs on, you know, how how far
• 51:33
  Speaker 7: he can go. But it's also behind an offensive line
• 51:36
  Speaker 7: that this year wasn't very good at walking the run.
• 51:39
  Speaker 7: And so if you really want to get into particulars
• 51:41
  Speaker 7: of run game stats, which will bore people. But for
• 51:45
  Speaker 7: one second, they were under four yard to carry for
• 51:49
  Speaker 7: the first time in about twenty years, and in the
• 51:53
  Speaker 7: playoffs they are three point five yards per carry. And
• 51:55
  Speaker 7: obviously that consists of two playoff games, the finals, one
• 51:59
  Speaker 7: of which ended there in Seattle. So I wouldn't get
• 52:02
  Speaker 7: too consumed over what his involvement was as a run
• 52:06
  Speaker 7: game coordinator per se, other than I think he knows
• 52:10
  Speaker 7: the system very well to compliment and maximize what Sam
• 52:14
  Speaker 7: Donald's going to have. And then because he has run
• 52:17
  Speaker 7: game experience, that's obviously a.
• 52:21
  Speaker 5: Big part of the system too.
• 52:23
  Speaker 7: So whether the Seahawks bring back Kenneth Walker or Starvunate's
• 52:27
  Speaker 7: healthy enough again or else whoever they plug in, you know,
• 52:31
  Speaker 7: he's experienced enough in that aspect to know how to
• 52:33
  Speaker 7: control the offense.
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: A lot of people at per came in and joining
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: us in the Bayer in the beaconm Plumbing Highland. He's
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: a forty nine ers beat writer for the beayar And
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: News group, and he's talking to us about Brian Flurry,
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: the new offensive coordinator for the Seahawks. CAM A lot
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: of people are intrigued about the Sam Donald connection. From
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: where you sat and what you saw, how much was
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: Brian Flurry in twenty twenty three working with the quarterbacks?
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: And Sam Donald is a backup to Brock Purty, he
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: was a tight end coach by title. But how much
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: of a consortium of coaching were the position coaches across
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: the board with that offense or was Kyle Shanahan basically
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: running the quarterbacks.
• 53:13
  Speaker 7: That's an interesting question, and I can't tell you because
• 53:16
  Speaker 7: I'm not in the meetings. But I can tell you
• 53:17
  Speaker 7: when I asked Hink Kubiak during Super Bowl week just
• 53:21
  Speaker 7: to tell me really what his part was with the
• 53:23
  Speaker 7: Niners and Sam was that the quarterback room was essentially
• 53:27
  Speaker 7: run by Brian Creasy, who was the quarterbacks coach. The
• 53:31
  Speaker 7: Kubiak brothers were in there also, and obviously Kyle has
• 53:35
  Speaker 7: a big stake because he's the one relaying plays the
• 53:37
  Speaker 7: Brock and going, I mean, the protache to the hit
• 53:40
  Speaker 7: essentially for their careers now. So I don't think it
• 53:43
  Speaker 7: was I don't think Flurry was ingrained very much into it.
• 53:46
  Speaker 7: But the fact that they're familiar with each other, that
• 53:50
  Speaker 7: Sam and Brian are familiar with each other can only
• 53:53
  Speaker 7: help because I think they know each other and they're
• 53:55
  Speaker 7: probably an amaicable relationship because it'll love Flurry and kid
• 54:01
  Speaker 7: all love Sam and so there's a nice love triangle there.
• 54:04
  Speaker 5: I think that'll work out.
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: Came in and joining us from the Bay Area, talking
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: about the forty nine Ers, Brian Flurry, the run game
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: in tight ends coach, being a new Seahawks offensive coordinator.
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: All right, let's step back from just Brian Flurry and
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: let's talk about the NFC West. Where did the forty
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: nine Ers now fit in chasing the Seahawks? For so
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: many years, the Seahawks chase the forty nine Ers and
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: the Rams. But now the Seahawks are the Super Bowl champions.
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: Now the Seahawks have taken basically the blueprint on offense
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: of Kyle Shanahan's outside zone run game with play action
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: pass and beating over the head with it. So where
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: where are the forty nine ers now? Trent Williams up
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: in age and the offensive line, as you mentioned, not
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: nearly productive as it was previously. Where do they go
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: from here?
• 54:52
  Speaker 7: They're gonna be changes, and not from the coaching staff,
• 54:56
  Speaker 7: not from the running back.
• 54:57
  Speaker 5: There will be some new offensive line then it's us.
• 55:01
  Speaker 7: I don't like falling to this immediate post season craft
• 55:04
  Speaker 7: of saying how big of a gap there is, because
• 55:08
  Speaker 7: the team's going to be changing in some way, right
• 55:10
  Speaker 7: and the Seahawks are going to be changing.
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: Like what what what do they do with?
• 55:15
  Speaker 7: You know, that defense is awesome and that defense plate
• 55:20
  Speaker 7: so fast and formed to the ball in Week eighteen
• 55:24
  Speaker 7: better than I've seen in years, And I think that's
• 55:27
  Speaker 7: a really rude awakening to the Niners that we need
• 55:30
  Speaker 7: to fix our run game if we're.
• 55:31
  Speaker 5: Going to compete against the Seahawks.
• 55:33
  Speaker 7: And but Kennahan was he was very open about that
• 55:37
  Speaker 7: in the pregame when he was working for NBC pre
• 55:39
  Speaker 7: game of the Super Bowl, explaining that, look, he the
• 55:44
  Speaker 7: keat on you got to run the ball down lock
• 55:45
  Speaker 7: Syllo's defense, and he didn't have an answer to it.
• 55:49
  Speaker 7: So his off season homewerk project is to figure that out.
• 55:53
  Speaker 7: And Kaffrey went through the whole season very healthy, just
• 55:58
  Speaker 7: as he did in twenty twenty three and hurt in
• 56:00
  Speaker 7: twenty twenty four. There's going to be step sicks whether
• 56:03
  Speaker 7: he's going to be able to be another seventeen twenty
• 56:06
  Speaker 7: game running back this coming year.
• 56:08
  Speaker 5: But you know that they relied on him so much.
• 56:12
  Speaker 7: Greg where it's like he was the number one running back,
• 56:15
  Speaker 7: but he was also their number one receiver right.
• 56:20
  Speaker 5: Just about he was like twenty I don't know, it
• 56:21
  Speaker 5: was like.
• 56:22
  Speaker 7: Eighty yards short or something receiver that year, But I
• 56:26
  Speaker 7: mean he had to do so much the receiving game
• 56:29
  Speaker 7: because Brandon and I never showed up. Duan Jennings was okay,
• 56:35
  Speaker 7: Ricky Petersfell was hurt half the year and they just
• 56:38
  Speaker 7: had no receiver threat. And Kittle was hurt probably about
• 56:40
  Speaker 7: seven games during the year, So McCaffrey had to take
• 56:43
  Speaker 7: way too much on and you can say that probably
• 56:47
  Speaker 7: contributed to.
• 56:48
  Speaker 5: The run game being down a little bit.
• 56:49
  Speaker 7: But that whole offense needs an uptick and receiving and
• 56:54
  Speaker 7: that's going to help the run game against Seattle or
• 56:57
  Speaker 7: whoever's opposing it. And it's not like Kyle she hands
• 57:00
  Speaker 7: forgotten how to drop plays and game things. But I
• 57:03
  Speaker 7: think it's a fascinating challenge now of him going up
• 57:08
  Speaker 7: against McDonald's defense. Whereas the old NFC West rivalry was
• 57:13
  Speaker 7: shanahan and McVeigh matching offensive with right, and Kyle came
• 57:18
  Speaker 7: out on top way too often, except in the playoff
• 57:21
  Speaker 7: in the NFC Championship game about five years ago. But
• 57:25
  Speaker 7: now this is a I think it's a really compelling
• 57:27
  Speaker 7: drama to see how the Niners get their offense going
• 57:31
  Speaker 7: against that defense because that defense was so great. Uh,
• 57:34
  Speaker 7: they are obviously committed to brock Perty as a quarterback,
• 57:36
  Speaker 7: as they should be, and they need to fix the lineup.
• 57:41
  Speaker 7: I mean, honestly, dude, around here, it's just the same
• 57:44
  Speaker 7: story year after all. The fans say they just needed
• 57:47
  Speaker 7: one or two or three great offensive linemen.
• 57:49
  Speaker 5: They're amazing.
• 57:50
  Speaker 7: It's like they just just doesn't exist in the NFL.
• 57:53
  Speaker 7: You don't just go find all pro offense linemen on
• 57:56
  Speaker 7: the street or free agency. You've got to develop them.
• 57:59
  Speaker 7: The nine Er don't do a great job developing offensive
• 58:02
  Speaker 7: lineman because they invested skill positions, and sometimes those investments
• 58:08
  Speaker 7: have really backfired. Sometimes they've gotten lucky with the Rock
• 58:12
  Speaker 7: Berdy and at George Kiddle of Fred Warner, some lower
• 58:15
  Speaker 7: round guys that pan out, and so it remains me seen.
• 58:20
  Speaker 7: But like you said, that's a really cool, cool, compelling drama.
• 58:24
  Speaker 7: That's probably the best thing going in the NFC West.
• 58:26
  Speaker 7: When you kind of step back and look at it
• 58:28
  Speaker 7: because obviously the Rams very very talented. I just don't
• 58:32
  Speaker 7: know how much longer Matthew Stafford going to be around
• 58:34
  Speaker 7: for that. Another year maybe, but I don't. I don't
• 58:37
  Speaker 7: see Shanahan leaving it in a year, and I don't
• 58:40
  Speaker 7: see McDonald leaving a year.
• 58:41
  Speaker 5: So this is more of the long term one.
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: What about Trent Williams. He turns thirty eight this summer.
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: He's got a twenty two million dollars north of twenty
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: two million dollar base sorry's cap number right now, it's
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: thirty eight to eight in the last year of his
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: deal with a bunch of void yeers on the end.
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: Is the expectation can that Trent Williams is coming back?
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: If so, is that an automatic restruct Sure? Where do
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: you think the future Trent Williams the All Pro left
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: tackle is?
• 59:05
  Speaker 7: I think Trent still enjoys by in and I think
• 59:08
  Speaker 7: Trent still enjoys making a ton of money, and I
• 59:11
  Speaker 7: think that the Niners still enjoy having him protect Rockberty's
• 59:15
  Speaker 7: blind side. I don't think he had a great year
• 59:17
  Speaker 7: this year, but I don't think he dropped off a
• 59:19
  Speaker 7: cliff And I actually asked uh Deard Verse about that
• 59:24
  Speaker 7: during Pro Bowl. I've made time during Super Bowl weeks right.
• 59:27
  Speaker 5: To go to Pro Bowl. I will tell you what,
• 59:33
  Speaker 5: that might be the.
• 59:34
  Speaker 7: Best media access of the whole week because there's no
• 59:37
  Speaker 7: public relations people running around keeping you away from players,
• 59:40
  Speaker 7: so you can walk up to anybody. So I walked
• 59:42
  Speaker 7: up to Derek versus the Rams and was just talking
• 59:45
  Speaker 7: to him about, like, you know, hosting the Niners in
• 59:47
  Speaker 7: Australia before the NFL confirmed by reported a couple of
• 59:51
  Speaker 7: days later that that's ind going to be the opening game.
• 59:54
  Speaker 7: But I asked him about Trent Williams and said, you know,
• 59:58
  Speaker 7: is this guy like falling off the cliff what he's like?
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 5: Oh? Absolutely not.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 7: He's like he's still as athletically dominant, as strong as ever.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 7: The Niners have the money from around, they have no
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 7: ready made backup to plug and playing place to him,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 7: nor will they ever.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 5: So he'll be back. But it a two years ago
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 5: he was part of.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 7: A little contract like SALEMATESO where he didn't show up
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 7: for camp and then showed up in week one after
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 7: getting a three year deal that pte him really really well.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 7: He's like taking top to your money, as he should.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 7: But I don't think he's done yet. I think what
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 7: they need to worry about is, uh, the three interior
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 7: lignements to his right, and that's really the area they
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 7: need to beef up, because I think Seattle cantroll the
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 7: line of scrimmage, and that is that is an aspect
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 7: of where.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: They did that. Cam in and I'm gonna let you
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: go teach your kids. Tell him. I said, hello, thank
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: you for joining us on your drive there. I'll talk
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: to you down the road. Thanks man.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 5: What's the over under on how many students throw up
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 5: on a raining Monday?
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: Five? There was a cost of twelve when that was
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: there the day I was there. I'm gonna say five.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 7: I think I think there's actually seventeen enrolled. And my son,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 7: who's senior in high school, I say, hey, come.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 5: To cost me today. Help fill it. He goes, mah,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 5: he goes.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 8: He said.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 5: He also put the over under at five. If you
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 5: guys may know something more than.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: I know, well, good luck. Let me know how many
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: show up. If there's more than five, it's because of
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: your charisma and skill as a teacher. Tam Cam very much,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: Thank you man.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 5: All right, all right, thank you guys, thanks for having me.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 5: Good luck and enjoy everything.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: Thanks Sir cam Inman. The forty nine ers beat there
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: with the Bay Area news group kpi X TV channel
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: five in San Francisco. He says job one for the
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: forty nine ers is to get better in the line
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: of scrimmage because the Seattle just owned them obviously forty
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: one six in the Divisional round thirteen three in the
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: NFC West title game to end the season, the Seahawks
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: over the forty nine Ers. He said Brian Fleurry has
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: a rapport with Sam Darnold. He thought that was key
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: to the Seahawks hiring Brian Fleury is the new offense
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: quarter and he's at George Kittle's bumming you all pro
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: tight end.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's music to my ears in both ways,
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: even though George Kittle is the only forty nine er
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: that I actually like.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: He said he was really tight with George Kittle. Kittle
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: posted yesterday on Twitter x sad when he heard the news.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: He's very honest, so the sleeve, yes, and I very
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: much appreciate that, and someone as famous as him.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: That's true sometimes do a detriment, but yes, George Kittle
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: has always give and take emotions up next Jess. When
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: McIntyre has been collating all of your texts in your talkbacks,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: the question I asked, do we even want the song?
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: Do we want the NBA? I want the Sonics back.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I want this NBA product back.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: It's almost it is unwatchable. I mean that dunk contest.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: It looked like people dunking in the nerf ball in
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: my basement when I was eight years old. The dude
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: was dunking from like three feet from the room.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: Can we just like not do that anymore?
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: I used to be unbelievable. Doctor J from the fillin, Yes,
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: and Wilkins.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: And Michael Jordia came out onto the court. I think
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: I was done with it.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: The dudes in the All Star Game I've never even
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: heard of before. They're like the tenth guy on their
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: own teams, right.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: Because the guys who should be in the All Star
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: Game don't want to get hurt and they want to break.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: Oh the money man, it's all about the money.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: Well it is, and then those guys who are the
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: tenth guy on the roster get to earn a little bit.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know, don't I don't need to see the
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: tenth guy on an NBA roster who's probably should be
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: in college because he only went to one semester and
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: then left.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of that.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: My point is, do we even want the NBA back?
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: Four nine four five one on the talkback app in
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app, we'll read back, listen back to your input.
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  Speaker 2: You're beyond the show next on ninety three point three KJRFM.
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  Speaker 9: Great hearing you on the radio today, Greg, miss you.
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  Speaker 9: I couldn't care less about getting the Sonics back. As
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 9: long as over unders on scores as over two hundred points,
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  Speaker 9: I'm never gonna watch. Thanks for not devoting the whole
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 9: show to a sport that's in the off season. And
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 9: I'll be in Houston for the World Baseball Classic.
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  Speaker 10: Hey guys, Yes, the NBA is watered down, but we
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  Speaker 10: definitely want a team, and we're gonna have to poach
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 10: a team because the NBA is that watered down. We're
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 10: gonna have to either get Memphis or New Orleans. And
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  Speaker 10: I wouldn't be surprised if both of those teams end
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 10: up being Vegas and Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: May a couple of blocks.
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  Speaker 2: It's from the iHeartRadio apps Talkback mind. So he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: believe in expansion. He thinks it's all smoked.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard a lot of that in talking to people,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: and you know, the owners big part of it. But yeah,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 3: that is unfortunately becoming common rhetoric.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we don't want to poach another team. We
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: already lived through that, we had it done to us.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: I remember when Kevin Johnson had to save the Kings
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: staying in Sacramento with a new arena. I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and I didn't want them. I didn't want Seattle to
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: steal the Kings. I used to work in Sacramento. Sacramento
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  Speaker 2: stole the Kings from Kansas City. Ye might add it
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: used to be in that they played at Kansas City
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  Speaker 2: for a long, long temp Temper Arena, which still exists there.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, we're not in the market for that, this
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  Speaker 2: expansion thing. Four nine four one, it's coming to Dodge
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: text line. A lot of feedback on this, and one
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: of the best ones is the counter two oh six says,
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: ridiculous take to not want the Sonics back. It would
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: be great memories for so many families. Why take it
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: away because you don't agree with the product. And that's
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  Speaker 2: a good point. It is that in its in itself,
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: having an NBA team back here would be a great
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: thing for young basketball fans and a very great high
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  Speaker 2: school in youth basketball area.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we saw what, you know, the talent that has
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 3: come out of this area in the Sonics departure. It
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 3: was because the Sonics were here for.
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  Speaker 2: Half a century. There's been high school basketball that is
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: among the best in the country here. The Metro League Championship,
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: you could fill Climate Pledge Arena of twenty thousand fans
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: for the Metro League Championship. That thing is off the hook.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: They have it at SPU and it's like the line
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: down the block to get into the building. I don't
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: why they don't have it at heck Head or Climate Pledgerina.
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  Speaker 3: I also think that it's because a lot of vets,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 3: a lot of NBA vets still are so immersed in
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: this community. And I heard yeah when I Jamal Crawford,
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 3: and then I mean kempt still around, Isaiah Thomas does
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: a ton, when Debt left, does a ton. When I
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 3: worked with Kevin Collaboro when I first moved out here,
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 3: that was just after the Sonics departure. That's one of
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 3: the biggest things that he talked about, like Gary Payton
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 3: and Sean kemp will go to Green Lake. They would
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 3: go to ren Your Beach and just played pick up
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 3: with these guys. And it's not that that's a simple thing,
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 3: but they didn't care. They wanted to play ball and
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: they immerse themselves in this community because of their love
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: of basketball.
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  Speaker 2: Four to five on the tech line to come and
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: dodge tax line four nine, four five one if you
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: want to join in four to five. There's another angle
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: to the NBA that's not being talked about, and that's
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: the federal investigations they're under for point shaving and meet
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: mafia entanglements they find themselves in. The integrity of the
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: game is on the line. The other thing is the
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: talent disparity among US born players and the rest of
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: the world. They may not even be they may not
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: even have an NBA five years from now. I foresee
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: the World Basketball Association around the corner.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: I don't think anybody does a national league or i'm sorry,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: a country wide league the way that America does with
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: American sports. I definitely love the Olympics. I love Olympic basketball,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: but we've seen the attempt with footballs and everything, and
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  Speaker 3: it's just never going to live up the same way
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: that Let's say, and I love Major League rugby, but
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: it doesn't compare to what we see in the premiere No.
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  Speaker 2: Two O six is Sonics back to Seattle. I want
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: the Sonics, but I do not want the game that's
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: currently brought by the NBA. I want nineties and two
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: thousands basketball, not threes and no defense. Ain't that the truth? Man?
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: Two on one breaks, they're pulling up for three point shots.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 3: Did you read Go to the Rim?
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: Please?
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 3: Did you read Donneghe's book? Now? I took that with
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 3: a grain of assault.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: Obviously referee that point.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that cheated Yeshim. But one of the guys that
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 3: I got to meet when I was at ESPN was
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 3: Raja Bell And in his book, in Donaghie's book, he
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 3: talked about star killers, and Raja was so good at
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 3: defense that they just teed him up all the time.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: When he was with the Suns. They almost just wanted
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 3: to ruin defense in the NBA because he was rooting
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 3: a star, you know, in the game, and defense went
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 3: away in part because of that, because it's what David
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: Stern wanted. He wanted his stars.
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  Speaker 2: The six O three says, you can't get six O three.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: I think that's the top of my head. I don't
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: know where that is. That is New Hampshire, New England.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: Okay, yes, and I can say that because what about
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: Bob New Hampshire that it's also where my husband is from.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: But that's also what my movies.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: So six O three six three says, you can't consider
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: Seattle a quote real sports town until the Sonics are back.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: We have soccer and no basketball. Lame.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 3: Wow, let's not shade soccer. Not necessarily, not necessary, but
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 3: I do understand the point.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we have an NHL team, we have a major
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: league soccer team, we have an NHL NFL team. Obviously,
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: I'm a major league baseball team in Division one major
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: college sports, and not an NBA team. Yeah, and that's
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: the hole he's sighting there. I get that.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 3: It makes sense.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: Yes, the nine to seven too, No idea at the
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: top of my head what area code that is? You're
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: gonna pull that one out to just nine seven two?
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 3: No, I feel like it's somewhere in Texas. Okay, I
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 3: didn't google.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: But the NBA can stay out of Seattle. Ex exclamation point.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: I haven't watched basketball since two thousand and eight, the
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: year the Sonics left for Oklahoma City, by the way,
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: and I don't intend to do so regardless of Adam
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: Silver's decision of bringing back the Sonics. Whirst, that'll be
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: the Board of Governor's Owner's decision, and Silver just sign
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: off on that.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: I was correct. By the way, Dallas, how'd you pull that?
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 3: I felt like it was. I googled it after the fact.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: You're like rain Man with these area codes.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 3: You I've been working in this business for twenty years.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: So I have to call a lot of people.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: That is true. Two six is product stinks, but still
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: want the Sonics back. I think a lot of people
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: agree with that.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, what what was said. I lived in Queen
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 3: Anne when I first moved out here in two thousand
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 3: and nine, and so it was just that bustling area.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 3: I was half a mile from what is now Climate Pledge,
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 3: but it was Key Arena and I just watched business
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: after business die.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true, and it.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 3: Just brings so much to the city. And I've seen
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 3: the crack and do it in the last couple of years,
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 3: Like you know, it is this nice influx and people
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 3: around and it's bustling again. But I did watch a
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 3: lot of things just die, and that's stunk.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: In Lower Queen Anne. You're right in Lower Queen the
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: crack and every vitalized Lower Queen. When I covered the
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: Sonics in the nineties early two thousands, Nick Collison remember him, Yes,
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: Kansas love that guy. He lived on top of Queen
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: Anne Hill and would walk to the game.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 4: I love that.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: He was a man of the people, A six seven
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: six kind of noticeable too, walking Lower Queen Anne to
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: the arena to Kiri. He did this and then he
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: walked back. I ain't get an uber and he have
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: Uber's back. Then he walked back up Queen Anne.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 3: So he probably had a parking garage available to him.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 3: But he's like, now I'm just gonna walk.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: He was so great about Nick Collison. Was he loved Seattle, Yes,
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: Nick Collis. So I covered the trial, like I said,
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: and I covered the departure. I was in the courtroom
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: when Mayor Nichols and his staff cave they were going
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: to win that case and they wanted to get the
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: quick buck. And the lease can go on and on
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: about the sham of that. But Nick Collison was one
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: of the dudes openly weeping about leaving Seattle for Oklahoma City.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: Here's a guy who played Lawrence Kansas in college. Kevin
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: Durant was a rookie in the NBA at the time.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: He wanted He was absolutely heartbroken to leave. Yep, Kevin Durant.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: I covered him his rookie year. He had a home
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: he was renting on Mercer Island. I've told this story
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: before in the air, but if you haven't heard it,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: let have you here again. He rented a house on
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: Mercer Island, living in a residential neighborhoods most of Mercell
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: Island is It was an empty house except for a futon,
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: a big television and video game console.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 3: Oh. He was a big gamer, big video gamer.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, not only that, Jessamine. He invited all the neighborhood
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: teenagers because he was a teenager himself. He was nineteen
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: years old. He only played two years at Texas.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 3: Yea.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: He was playing video games with the neighborhood kids in
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: Mercer Island and they would hang out with Kevin Durant
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: and play two K or whatever they called it at
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: the time. Yeah, many nights deep into the night in
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: Mercer Island hanging out Kevin Durant and Mercer Island and
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: high school kids playing video games.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 3: It's exactly what I was talking about with Gary and
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 3: Sean go into the you know whatever yard they could
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 3: and just playing Picky.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah Greenlake that plays hops.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 3: With Yeah Green Lake and Rinier Beach. Yeah.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: Nick Collison walking the streets of the Lower Queen Anne
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: to get the Sonics games. That's what we're missing, not
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: having the Sonics here.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 3: There was something special about the way they immerse themselves
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 3: in this community.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: And it would happen again if they come back. It
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: would be a new generation of fans who noticed a
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: new generation of players who do the same things. And
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: there are players who will be nineteen twenty years old,
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: new to a city, first time living away, who will
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: have video games and footons in their otherwise empty houses.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: Kevin Durant's mother had to move out from their home
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: in DC to move in with him, to let's get
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: him some dishes and cutlery.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 3: Hello, son, he was doing take out.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: He was doing takeout every night, playing video games as
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: mom came in and so you don't even have a
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: dining room table, living.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 3: Like your typical nineteen year olds ten million dollars.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah it was, yeah, Yeah, that's one of my greatest
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: memories of Kevin.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 3: Durans love that so much. I just I always thought
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 3: he was so cool And what uh really was saddening
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 3: to learn what Kevin Collaboro told me when I was
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 3: working with him, is how much during the sale Kevin
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 3: Durant was shielded from the media. They wouldn't let him
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 3: do anything because he was their star. But it was
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 3: a secret, right because they quote unquote weren't moving Clay whatever.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 3: I don't want to say his name wasn't going to
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 3: I know it's Cleve Bennett, but you know, like they
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 3: weren't moving, but they just shielded him and hit him
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 3: away because they didn't want Seattle to fall in love
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 3: with him. And we did anyway, we did, and people.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: And kids on Mercer Island did. I witnessed that. It
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: was pretty cool. Five O nine were in Spokane, says
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: I'd rather have professional curling team in Pimont Pledge Arena
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: than NBA basketball.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 3: Oh, well, we could get some controversy if you invite Canada.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: How many people would that draw? That would be an
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: interesting print.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 3: It was kind of fun. I think they have one
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 3: up in Everett Spectator Sport that would be no, it's
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 3: just a drinking sport.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, how many people would actually come to it?
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 3: It's kind of fun. I mean I've done it a
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 3: couple of different times, and they have one in Kent,
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 3: or they used to. I don't know if it's still around,
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 3: but I have been and it is fun. But it's
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 3: almost like, uh, now, I'm not comparing the sports, but
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 3: when it comes to consumer appreciation, I would compare it
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 3: to bully Do you want to do it and participate?
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 3: Maybe not?
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: Uh, I don't know.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 3: Spectate the whole time.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: Eight four to three says bring those Sonics back. Two
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: explanation points to different NBA get over it, okay? Five
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: oh nine? Okay, my roommates sold. Nick Collison is washer
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: and dryer at Sears Alderwood Mall, and I served him
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: and Luke Written and Luke Riddanow or another Sonic back.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: I served him and Luke Grittanour at PF Chang's two
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: thousand and five and six. Thanks to five O nine
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: That's cool nine seven to two, the Sonic's twelve largest
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: market in the NBA as of two thousand and eight.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: If the Sonics are restored to Seattle, it may not
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: reach that level.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 3: Oh, someone called me out on not having my accent.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 3: That's funny, Jess. You said Gary not in your East coast? Gary,
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 3: my bad, Marcus, my bad. Oh no it wasn't Marcus.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 3: That's from the two o six. Marcus just texted and said,
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 3: five tickets and I go to every match, Greg, five
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 3: dollars tickets?
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, how many people would come to a curling match
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: and climate Pledgerina, Well.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 3: If you were there to party with them, I think
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 3: they would.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's a good the business model.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure how many people would actually come out
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: for that. I see Dave Softi Maler walking around somewhere. Oh,
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: the President's Day version of Dave Softie Maller is up next. Five.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: Greg Bell the News to being filling in for Ian Fornest.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us, Thanks for all the text, thanks
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: for all the input. We've talked about the new Seahawks
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: offensive coordinator. We've talked about the signings that we want
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: them back. We talked about the Olympic cockey. Now we're
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: going to talk about Dave Softy Maller, and he wants
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: what he wants to say next. Welcome back Dave, Softy Margets,
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: some kind of Game of Thrones type music or whatever.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: This is.
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  Speaker 8: This is what they play every day at forty five
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 8: after the hour, I'm gonna I internationally does a two
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 8: hour radio show.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: And you know, apparently a six segment for him is
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: just too much man.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 3: So you know he loves carrying the load.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you welcome you, welcome.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 8: Hour and forty five minutes of heavy lifting for Ian
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 8: is just too much to ask of the old man.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 8: So anyway, how all that time, I'm good. You are
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 8: back from being ill post super Bowl. I'll post super
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 8: Bowl hangover on Friday. I spent the weekend getting my
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 8: voice back. I heard something about you that I had
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 8: no idea until today.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: It's not true. Well you said that you said that
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: you were thirteen years old in nineteen eighty three. Is
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: that correct? Correct? So that means you're fifty five.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 8: I always thought you were way older than me, and
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 8: I think there's a reason why, because you're so much
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 8: more mature than I am. Right, Like I'm fifty two,
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 8: you're fifty five. I always thought you were like late
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  Speaker 8: fifties or early sixties. There's no way a guy that
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 8: mature is only three.
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  Speaker 2: More years older than me.
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  Speaker 8: But here we are, so yeah, yeah, whatever, So congratulations
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  Speaker 8: on being younger than I thought you were.
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  Speaker 2: She'll win for you on this Monday afternoon. Thank you, Right,
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  Speaker 2: I'll take it. I don't know what to think about
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  Speaker 2: being sixty. Yeah, I thought of this. So you were
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  Speaker 2: saying that you thought this is a different super Bowl
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  Speaker 2: experience for you.
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  Speaker 8: It's totally different. Yeah, I mean I would trust me.
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  Speaker 8: I'm fired up and you know all that, And it
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 8: was it was more about, like, I don't know. My
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 8: wife and I were sitting. So the press box is
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  Speaker 8: on the sweet side of the stadium, is that correct?
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  Speaker 8: So I was to your left kind of lower.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 8: They had set up that temporary radio kind of broadcast
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  Speaker 8: booth area on the concourse there, yes of Levi Stadium.
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  Speaker 8: We were sitting kind of right next to that second deck,
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  Speaker 8: about five rows from the front great seats, but kind
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 8: of in the end zone, right kind of pull their
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  Speaker 8: opposite of where we were for forty nine in Glendale
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  Speaker 8: when the Patriots jabbed a knife in my throat in
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 8: that game, and I was surrounded by Patriot fans, and
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  Speaker 8: they were getting more mad and mad and mad and
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 8: mad as the game went on. And then when Julian
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 8: Love picked off Drake May, I stood up and I just.
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  Speaker 2: Letch Effan fettershove dahrah.
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  Speaker 8: My wife looks at me and says, dude, I can't
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  Speaker 8: protect you. There's only one of me, and there's about
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  Speaker 8: fifty of them meeting Patriot fans.
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  Speaker 2: Around might have been the only fifty in the buildings.
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  Speaker 8: Well, they were giving me dirty looks the entire game,
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  Speaker 8: and I just looked at him and I said, you
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  Speaker 8: know what, every single one of you can kiss my ass,
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 8: because every single, every single one of you was a
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 8: goon to me and my parents and my wife eleven
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 8: years ago in Arizona. I'm not saying you exact people
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 8: were there, but you're kind was there and I'm not
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  Speaker 8: hearing any of it.
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  Speaker 2: And so they just turned around and shut the hell up.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 8: And when the sack pick six took place, Witherspoon and
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 8: they all left and walked away, and so we ended
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  Speaker 8: up having our pick of the litter for seats to
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 8: watch the celebration, which was fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: That was my fifth Super Bowl I've covered. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 2: was by far the loudest most partisan crowd I've been around.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: Well ly they are so corporate and dead because all
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 2: the people don't care who wins.
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  Speaker 8: I think part of that's a proximity to Seattle Write,
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 8: no doubt about it. And I was watching the game
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 8: over again over the weekend. My wife actually took my
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 8: wife to dinner on Valentine's Day night and I said,
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 8: what do you want to do with home?
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: She said, let's watch the Super Bowl again.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 8: So we watched the first half on Saturday, Gift write,
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 8: and we watched the second half on Sunday. And I'm
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 8: watching the game and I'm thinking to myself, first of all, man,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 8: these commercials suck like they're just terrible.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: And then I.
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  Speaker 8: Realized, I'm not watching the actual broadcast. I'm watching the
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 8: NFL network replay of the broadcast. Because when you Fuba
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 8: has a carriage dispute with NBC, I don't know if
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 8: you're a Fubo guy or not Comcast guy.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: I'm right right, So I'm not I beat the man.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 8: All of us are Fubo guys now on the radio station,
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 8: at least on the afternoon show. So I recorded the game,
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 8: but because NBC is not on Fubo, it recorded the
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 8: NFL network airing of the broadcast, which did not include
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 8: any of the original commercials, and it was.
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 2: All bunch of PSAs.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 8: I'm like, my god, did NBC not selling the inventory
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 8: for the game or they given away advertising?
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  Speaker 2: So that stood out. And then the quality of the broadcast.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 8: It was in standard definition, which I know I'm whining
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 8: about this, but Greg, once you go four K, you
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 8: can never go back, never never, okay, especially on like
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 8: a sixty five inch TV, forget about it.
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 2: So I don't, Yeah, well you should.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 8: I'm watching a horrible video broadcast quality, I'm watching terrible commercials.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 8: But then it struck me, and my wife said this
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 8: to me, how loud it was, Like, it was louder.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 8: You noticed it more on TV than you did in
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 8: the stands. And maybe it's because of where I was
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 8: sitting again, surrounded by a bunch of Patriot fans.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 2: I said, I was loud as hell on tea thank
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: you with the only fig Maybe maybe I will say
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: that the press box in Santa Clara is hermetically sealed, right,
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: you can't hear anything, correct, which I hate is awful. Yeah,
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: there's no windows to open. There's nothing, and so I
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: missed a lot of that.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 8: Let me ask you a question though, about the press box,
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 8: because I've been there many times for Husky games, Pack
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 8: twelve Championships, Utah game, Colorado game, bunch of Seahawks, Niner games.
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 8: Did you and there's a point to me asking this, Okay,
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 8: so just bear with me. Did you urinate in the bathroom.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 2: During the game? I did not drink the water? Okay?
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: Is the sign?
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  Speaker 5: Is the sign?
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 2: Still? It's unbelievable. It's there's a sign sign. There's a
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 2: sign that the urinal that says don't drink the water.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 3: And I want to know what was the impetus that
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 3: you say you would.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 8: It's I'm just saying so if anybody walks up and
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 8: has a thought, I'm gonna stick my head into urinal.
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 2: Don't do it. Don't do it. But it's also a
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: fleshless urinal, right, so there is no real water coming from.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 8: Well, what was the We got to find out, Like,
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 8: we got to talk to the Niner PR people because
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 8: they would know, right, what's thesis? Why is that sign there?
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 8: Did somebody stick their head in the urinal? Did somebody
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 8: put a straw on the ural.
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: I didn't think I'd be answering that, Yes, why is
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 2: that sign? There is still gotta know, man, I gotta know.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 8: So anyway said that today, Well let's see, let's see
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 8: Humline's going to join A four is normal four o'clock Monday,
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 8: visit more four.
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 2: We did go wearing him out there. Yeah, yeah, big, We're.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 8: Gonna ride that horse all day. Baby Chuck will join
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 8: us from Peoria four thirty. I know you had Bucky on.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 8: Chris Daniel is gonna hop on and talk about everything,
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 8: Adam Silver said press conference over the weekend, right, I might,
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 8: I might kind of go after you a little bit
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 8: too on my show for certain you said today, And
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 8: I'm sure there's I'm sure I'm missing some context, but
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 8: I don't care. It's it's better for radio if I
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 8: just ignore the context. And then because his President's Day,
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 8: I think all week long we're gonna be talking to
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 8: a bunch of presidents from the sports teams around town.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 8: Normally we do it in one day, but we had
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 8: some scheduling issues with the game and all that stuff.
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 8: So Kevin mart he has the president of business Operations
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 8: for the ms join us at six to night.
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: I'm his President's Day Monday. What are you doing Chuck
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: Arnold later in the.
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  Speaker 8: Week, Later in the week, Yes, Thoma's own Seattle. Yes, yeah,
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 8: the President. He was not available today so he'll be
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 8: on later.
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 2: Great. That's Dave, Softie Mayer. You you got Dick's here, Dick,
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 2: I have Dick. Yeah, he's here, Dave, Softy Maller, Dick Fane,
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 2: Jackson Felzer with you from now until seven pm. Greg
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  Speaker 2: Bell the News to you new back for Ian again tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you to Jessmin mcintarre, Thank you for listening. Have
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  Speaker 2: a great President's Dave, David Dick her up next to
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