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Chuck & Buck 5-7 Hour 4: Chris Daniels, ABC's of the Mariners and one last thing. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: I'm wrong on my button.
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Speaker 2: Nine o'clock hour here on this Thursday. Great have you
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Speaker 2: gonna start the hour here at nine o'clock with you
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Speaker 2: know a guy that I haven't got the chance to
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Speaker 2: chat with and I don't know how how long except
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Speaker 2: in the airports. I see him in the airports occasional
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Speaker 2: mariners geme. But we haven't had him on the radio
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Speaker 2: show in a while, and we've missed him from Como News.
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Speaker 2: You know him, you love him, the man with all
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Speaker 2: the answers. Chris Daniels joins us here on Chuck and Buck.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, sir, good morning.
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Speaker 3: I'm impressed that you're talking about Empress jin so early
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Speaker 3: in the morning, and I can confirm it is a good.
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Speaker 2: Gin Okay, all right, there you go. You're jin Over vodka,
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Speaker 2: martini then gin Over vodka.
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Speaker 3: But I like the bourbon and you can't go wrong
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Speaker 3: with blanton'stons.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh oh really do you ever have I'm
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Speaker 2: out in Woodinville now and now I'm stuck on the
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Speaker 2: Woodinville Bourbon. Do you ever make your way out to
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Speaker 2: have the Woodinville bourbon?
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Speaker 3: Chris, Yeah, every once in a while, all that good stuff.
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Speaker 3: And do you like to support a local company?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? There you go.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, but you're saying Blanton's is the way
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Speaker 2: to go. Yes, you got to collect my letters? Yes,
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Speaker 2: all right, I'll trust Yes, I trust you. I trust you, Chris.
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Speaker 1: Daniels more than anyone in the world. Well you should
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Speaker 1: be my agent. Wow. Thanks, I'll take that as a bumper.
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Speaker 2: I think maybe the entire community does. When we get
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Speaker 2: Chris Daniels reports, everybody like perks up and listens, and
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Speaker 2: so you're in such demand on when it comes to
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Speaker 2: Sonics news and have been ever since I arrived that
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Speaker 2: Ashley and I were talking yesterday, are like let's get
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Speaker 2: Chris on when there's really not some breaking news story,
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Speaker 2: and let's just talk to him about what's going on
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Speaker 2: with the Sonics and maybe a couple of other things
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Speaker 2: as well. And so that was the idea behind grabbing you. Now,
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Speaker 2: when you're not trying to chase down a story, maybe
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Speaker 2: you can just update us as what's the latest with
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Speaker 2: the NBA, the Sonics and when this thing might finally
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Speaker 2: come together again.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think it's interesting that the pieces that the
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Speaker 3: crumbs that kind of been laid out now, and the
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Speaker 3: latest being that Samantha Holloway has confirmed she's hired a
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Speaker 3: couple of banks, JP Morgan Chase to put together the package,
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Speaker 3: the bid package for the NBA. I think it's a
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Speaker 3: sign that she is serious in putting this all together.
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Speaker 3: It's also likely before the NBA puts out some sort
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Speaker 3: of bid package, which is something that we saw from
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Speaker 3: the National Hockey League way back when before the.
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Speaker 1: Seattle Kraken came to be.
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Speaker 3: And so these are steps in the right directions there
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Speaker 3: there they are little morsels of information, but it shows
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Speaker 3: that she is in fact serious and she's the only
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Speaker 3: one that has come forward with that, and we know
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Speaker 3: lingering in the background. Adam Silver, the NBA commissioner, told
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Speaker 3: me personally in New York in March that he expected
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Speaker 3: multiple bidders from Seattle, but that he is fond of
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Speaker 3: Samantha Holloway. So take that for it's worth. Whether he's
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Speaker 3: trying to bid up the price in Seattle and get
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Speaker 3: more bidders in play, but he signaled that back in March.
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Speaker 3: But right now Samantha Holloway is showing that she's serious
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Speaker 3: with this little bit of information that she's put together.
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Speaker 3: She's putting together the banks or the banks are putting together,
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Speaker 3: and the investors are being put together for a potential
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Speaker 3: bid here shortly.
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Speaker 2: What do we read into why she's the only name
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Speaker 2: that we are hearing? Do they keep it that tight liped?
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Speaker 2: I mean, is it that important that they don't reveal
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Speaker 2: who's interested? Or should we think that maybe everybody has
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Speaker 2: kind of stepped aside because Samantha Holloway's got such an
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Speaker 2: inside track right now?
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Speaker 3: Well, I think I'm always fascinated by the game outside
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Speaker 3: the game, and I think there's some gamesmanship there. I think,
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Speaker 3: like I said, Silver, perhaps trying to bid up the price.
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Speaker 3: He's also clearly had multiple content with the city of Seattle,
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Speaker 3: King County and with Samantha Holloway and her group. They've
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Speaker 3: met before, and you know, there's the idea that we
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Speaker 3: haven't even heard who our investors are, and I think
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Speaker 3: that they're holding that back as a card to play.
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Speaker 3: I tell everybody to think back to when the NHL
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Speaker 3: was eyeing Seattle and the Lightwiki group and the Oakview
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Speaker 3: group came out with David Bonderman and said that's how
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Speaker 3: serious we are about getting an NHL franchise and Jerry
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Speaker 3: Bruckheimer and they stood behind him at a press conference,
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Speaker 3: and that was them playing the card to show that
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Speaker 3: they are the ones that were the most serious and
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Speaker 3: willing to put together the package. I think that's what
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Speaker 3: Samantha is likely waiting on when the time is right,
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Speaker 3: when the NBA says we're ready to accept those bids,
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Speaker 3: and then she would come out and say, here are
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Speaker 3: the investors that I have and I'm serious. And if
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Speaker 3: there's another one, and you know, I keep hearing little
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Speaker 3: bits and pieces about somebody else is trying to put
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Speaker 3: together something, if they want to come out and say
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Speaker 3: it's me and I'm interested in doing this, doesn't have
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Speaker 3: the same weight as say Samantha would with having multiple
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Speaker 3: investors and multiple names involved. So again, I think it's
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Speaker 3: the game outside the game and waiting for the right
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Speaker 3: time to play the cards that you have and show
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Speaker 3: that you have the flush to.
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Speaker 1: Defeat anybody else that they want to bring the NBA back.
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Speaker 2: Chris Daniels is with us here on Chuck and Buck,
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Speaker 2: Seattle's most trusted journalist, also Como News, also an impress drinker,
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Speaker 2: loves himself some gin and of course loves the Chuck
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Speaker 2: and Buck radio program, which is why he's joining us
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Speaker 2: here today to talk about where the Sonics are right now.
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Speaker 2: So what are you hearing on the front of this
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Speaker 2: definitely is going to be expansion versus would the NBA
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Speaker 2: be more interested, possibly in relocating to Seattle.
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Speaker 3: Every indication I've had in this town is this group
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Speaker 3: does not want to buy another franchise and move them here.
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Speaker 3: I think we we heard from Todd laight WICKI on
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Speaker 3: the record with multiple reporters saying that he got involved
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Speaker 3: in this, and the group is getting involved in this
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Speaker 3: because they want an expansion franchise, not relocating another franchise.
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Speaker 3: But that story is going to continue to percolate until
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Speaker 3: the Portland City Council signs off on a deal down
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Speaker 3: in Portland. We've seen the state legislature do it, We've
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Speaker 3: seen what Tom Dundan's doing down in Portland, and so
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Speaker 3: that just adds fuel to the fire of a potential relocation.
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Speaker 3: And until New Orleans and Memphis signed long term lease
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Speaker 3: extensions in their respective cities, I think that that story
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Speaker 3: is going to percolate as well. But I am led
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Speaker 3: to believe that, at least locally and at least from
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Speaker 3: the NBA office, the entire focus on Seattle has been
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Speaker 3: with a potential expansion franchise and not a relocation of
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Speaker 3: a franchise.
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Speaker 2: Interesting. Adam Silver really does get uncomfortable when he runs
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Speaker 2: into Seattle people, doesn't he, Because he does kind of
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Speaker 2: feel bad, doesn't he that he had this process has
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Speaker 2: been strung out for so long, and I think he
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Speaker 2: wants to give us answers, but he's so careful and
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Speaker 2: he's so cautious, and this can just keeps getting kicked
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Speaker 2: down the road. I mean, the last time he ran
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Speaker 2: into Adam Silver, Chris was he hiding under a table,
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Speaker 2: wearing like a fake mustache just to avoid having to
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Speaker 2: answer your questions.
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Speaker 3: Well, he actually came over and spoke to me right
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Speaker 3: off the podium and walked directly over to me and
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Speaker 3: Tim Booth also in the room. Talked to Tim Booth,
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Speaker 3: and it's it's always interesting with the NBA when they
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Speaker 3: want to get a message out to a respective city
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Speaker 3: versus when they don't. I believe that this is Adam
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Speaker 3: Silver's legacy play. He wants to bring the Sonics back.
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Speaker 3: He wants to be the commissioner to end the story
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Speaker 3: to right or wrong. He has said as much, most
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Speaker 3: recently in an interview. Okay, but that it was not
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Speaker 3: David Stearn's finest hour, it was not the league's finest hour,
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Speaker 3: I think, and he has a smile on his face
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Speaker 3: when he's doing it. I think he wants to be
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Speaker 3: the guy who can finally solve the riddle and bring
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Speaker 3: the Sonics back.
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Speaker 1: I do believe that.
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Speaker 3: And whether he has full ownership support is the other
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Speaker 3: big question here, and I think that that's why this
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Speaker 3: has dragged gone so long. Remember he brought it up
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Speaker 3: in December of twenty twenty when the NBA was having
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Speaker 3: problems with Gate in the midst of the pandemic, and
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Speaker 3: here we are in twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 1: He's been.
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Speaker 3: Sending little messages out in that six year timeframe. But
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Speaker 3: I think it's because he wants he wants to get
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Speaker 3: this done. And I think he genuinely likes Samantha Holloway
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Speaker 3: and loved her dad too, David Wonderman, Let's not forget
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Speaker 3: who was an investor in the Celtics. And so I
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Speaker 3: think he has some attachment to Seattle and wants to
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Speaker 3: get it done and wants to be the commissioner that
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Speaker 3: gets it done.
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Speaker 2: So when is he going to finally announce this? Where
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Speaker 2: are we looking at timetable wise? Are you getting any indication?
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Speaker 2: Because this has been a real It is like we're
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Speaker 2: trying to catch a greased pig.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, September October, I think is what we're looking at
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Speaker 3: as of right now. He has said he wants to
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Speaker 3: get it done this year. I think when he did
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Speaker 3: say that, he was trying to set a message both
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Speaker 3: internally and externally that he's done talking about it. He
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Speaker 3: thinks they're close enough he wants to force a vote.
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Speaker 3: He got the vote to at least explore expansion. Back
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Speaker 3: in March, there was some suggestion that perhaps it would
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Speaker 3: be addressed in July at the Board of Governor leaning
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Speaker 3: down in Vegas doesn't seem like that's going to happen now.
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Speaker 3: So we're looking at September October, before the start of
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Speaker 3: the next NBA season, and you know, I would just say,
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Speaker 3: if this doesn't happen, it's done forever in Seattle. I mean,
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Speaker 3: he has he written the story now for the for
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Speaker 3: over a six year period about bringing the Sonics back,
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Speaker 3: getting people excited, get getting investors in position like Samantha
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Speaker 3: Holloway is doing right now. If you all of a
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Speaker 3: sudden hit the brakes in September October and say, hey,
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Speaker 3: the financial markets are what they are, we can't do
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Speaker 3: this right now, you're going to lose those investors who
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Speaker 3: are on standby. And you know, he was close to
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Speaker 3: doing this in twenty twenty four and investors were being
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Speaker 3: lined up and they hit the brakes and interest was
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Speaker 3: lost in that two year period. So if they don't
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Speaker 3: follow through on this this fall, I think that's the
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Speaker 3: end of the story. And I think everybody knows the
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Speaker 3: stakes now. It's going to be now or never. It's
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Speaker 3: going to be twenty twenty six, or never to actually
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Speaker 3: finalize and bring back the Sonics in twenty twenty eight,
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Speaker 3: twenty nine.
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Speaker 2: But as somebody that is covering this story as long
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Speaker 2: as you have, and I got here and I was identified,
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Speaker 2: it was pointed out to me, like my first day
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Speaker 2: eleven years ago in Seattle, they are like three things
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Speaker 2: for sure that you know, you had to love Marshawn Lynch,
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Speaker 2: you had to be frustrated with the Mariners, and you
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Speaker 2: had to trust Chris Daniels when it came to Sonics reporting.
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Speaker 1: Those are like the three rules when I got there.
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Speaker 2: So wow, as somebody who's been covering this story for
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Speaker 2: as long as you where is it on your confidence
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Speaker 2: scale that we are going to get the Sonics back
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Speaker 2: and sooner than later?
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Speaker 3: I'll say like an eight point five out of ten.
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Speaker 3: I think that I've seen so many twists and turns
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Speaker 3: in this story over nearly twenty years, and I think,
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Speaker 3: you know, lingering in the background the global economy, the markets,
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Speaker 3: everything with inflation has made costs more. Is that going
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Speaker 3: to be the excuse to try and you know, not
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Speaker 3: have the Sonics come back to say for the owners
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Speaker 3: to say we need to stabilize the global economy.
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Speaker 1: First.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that's that's the kind of the kind of
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Speaker 3: a crazy thing that could happen to derail the story.
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Speaker 3: And I have seen so many twists and turns nothing
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Speaker 3: would surprise me. But I think that this is the
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Speaker 3: most serious effort since we saw the Hansoon group down
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Speaker 3: in Soto in twenty twelve and twenty thirteen. There's the
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Speaker 3: arena in place. It has hosted NBA exhibition games. The
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Speaker 3: NBA has clearly kicked the tires on the arena. They
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Speaker 3: know how it would work. They know there's a locker
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Speaker 3: room for a potential franchise, they know that there's going
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Speaker 3: to be space for a training facility. All those things
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Speaker 3: seeming to line up. This would be the time. But boy,
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Speaker 3: I mean, I hate to even throw out that there
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Speaker 3: could be some sort of curveball to mixed metaphors. But
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Speaker 3: you know, I've seen some strange things over time, and
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Speaker 3: that's the one thing I fear here between now and
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Speaker 3: say September October.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about just quickly about a couple
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Speaker 2: of other things. I mean, how excited are you, as
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Speaker 2: a reporter long time here in to have an event
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Speaker 2: like the World Cup being here?
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Speaker 1: This summer.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think it's I think when Peter Tomasaua, the
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Speaker 3: head of the World Cup organizing Committee, says it's the
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Speaker 3: biggest event since the sixty two World's Fair, I think
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Speaker 3: he's correct that the amount of the amount of games
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Speaker 3: between Seattle and Vancouver, you're talking about thirteen matches, You're
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Speaker 3: talking about Belgium likely training down in rent and you're
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Speaker 3: talking about Egypt training over in Spokane. The international visitors
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Speaker 3: that will be coming to town, I think that it's
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Speaker 3: going to be unlike anything that city has seen. I
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Speaker 3: also know that we thought there'd be probably more attention
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Speaker 3: on the Club World Cup, which was the dry run
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Speaker 3: for the World Cup, and we saw some We saw
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Speaker 3: some empty seats at Lumen. We know that FIFA is
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Speaker 3: kind of, for lack of better term, bungled the ticket
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Speaker 3: sales on all of this, with so many last minute
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Speaker 3: ticket sales. I've lost count now over like six different periods.
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Speaker 3: There's been questions about hotel rooms filling up and vacancy
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Speaker 3: that exists right now just a little bit over a
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Speaker 3: month out. So I'm concerned that there will be some
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Speaker 3: soft ticket sales, but in terms of a month long
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Speaker 3: international celebration with people coming from all over the world
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Speaker 3: to Seattle, you are hard pressed to think of another
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Speaker 3: event like that. And in Vancouver they have the experience
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Speaker 3: with the Olympics, and I think they're doing some live
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Speaker 3: concerts and they're spreading things out over the city and
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Speaker 3: that's going to be I think if you look at
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Speaker 3: hotel prices there, they're going to get those hotel prices
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Speaker 3: because I think it's gonna be easier for some people
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Speaker 3: to get to Canada than it is to the United States.
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Speaker 3: But I do think it's gonna be fun for Seattle,
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Speaker 3: and it's going to activate Seattle. And having Pioneer Square
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Speaker 3: as a pedestrian only zone, which has been announced by
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Speaker 3: the City of Seattle, will be different for people as well.
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Speaker 1: It should be.
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Speaker 2: Fun, yeah, and be interesting for us here in Sports
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Speaker 2: talk radio, because you know, soccer is a little bit
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Speaker 2: down the list on the sports that we talk about.
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Speaker 2: We probably have two people here on the staff that
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Speaker 2: we would label as experts, and yet we'll have hour
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Speaker 2: after hour after hour of programming during that time, and
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Speaker 2: I'm really not sure. We haven't had a conversation about
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Speaker 2: how much time will be dedicated to the World Cup
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Speaker 2: but from the television world, is como news? Is this
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Speaker 2: like a twenty four to seven kind of thing? Are
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Speaker 2: you going to just NonStop coverage of the World Cup?
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Speaker 2: Does it take over the news? Does it take over
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Speaker 2: everything and your life and the lives of your colleagues.
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Speaker 3: I think it'll be a daily event, a daily story,
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Speaker 3: because there's going to be there's so many different layers
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Speaker 3: of the onion when it comes to covering this.
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Speaker 1: Between the international.
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Speaker 3: Travel obviously, I think people are looking at that Egypt
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Speaker 3: Iran game on a Friday night in Seattle, given the
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Speaker 3: global situation, how that's going to play in the city.
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Speaker 3: You know, also everything else that's wrapped around that game.
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Speaker 3: So there are news stories here just around the World
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Speaker 3: Cup and and visitors coming in and seeing Seattle for
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Speaker 3: the first time and trying to cross the border back
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Speaker 3: and forth between the Vancouver and Seattle matches. There's just
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Speaker 3: so many different angles to this outside of just the
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Speaker 3: the play on the field, the stuff that's going on
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Speaker 3: off the field. I think it's going to be fascinating
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Speaker 3: for not only me but others to cover in town.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm never a dull moment in this town. Sports wise,
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Speaker 2: It's It's crazy how there's just always something big, there's
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Speaker 2: always something bubbling here, no wonder we all have Martini
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Speaker 2: habits in the Seattle media. We got to come down
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Speaker 2: from this, right yeah exactly? So all right, man, Well,
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Speaker 2: great to hear from you. Thank you so much for
17:58
Speaker 2: joining us. Always fascinating to chat with you. And we'll
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Speaker 2: do it again soon. We will bug you again even
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Speaker 2: when you don't want us to.
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Speaker 3: It sounds great. And before that, I'll see it a
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Speaker 3: game or in an airport.
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Speaker 2: For sure, for sure. Absolutely, That's where Chris Daniels and
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Speaker 2: I always hang out, is at the airport or the
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Speaker 2: baseball game.
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Speaker 1: All right, man, thank you?
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Speaker 2: Yep, you bet talking Chris Daniels, Senior reporter, COMO News.
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Speaker 2: It has kind of been the sours ever since I
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Speaker 2: got here for the sonic story. Hopefully he can stop
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Speaker 2: covering that beat, I mean, for Chris Daniel's sake, can
18:33
Speaker 2: we just so he can just you know, do something else.
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Speaker 4: So when you got here, did you Jim Foreman was still.
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Speaker 2: Around, right?
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Speaker 1: I don't know Jim Forman okay, so.
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Speaker 5: He was like the reporter at the time. Oh okay,
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Speaker 5: that like they put in all the dangerous situations. Oh, so,
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Speaker 5: like if there was a huge windstorm, they'd probably send
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Speaker 5: Jim Foreman to the top of the space needle.
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Speaker 1: And Jim Foreman loved it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it was like, oh danger Foreman, where is
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Speaker 4: he today?
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Speaker 5: And he was like the guy. Well, now Chris Daniels
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Speaker 5: is the guy for like he's your go to. So
19:02
Speaker 5: Foreman was your go to at the time for like
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Speaker 5: any treacherous situation, but Chris Daniels is now. I also
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Speaker 5: feel like if there was a windstorm they might put
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Speaker 5: him on top of the space needle to cover that
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Speaker 5: as well.
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Speaker 2: Like he is just your go to source for everything.
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Speaker 1: Okay, got it? Got it?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well he's uh, he's terrific at what he does.
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Speaker 1: We appreciate him joining us.
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Speaker 2: If you want to follo him, it's Chris at Chris
19:22
Speaker 2: Daniels Underscore TV, and of course you can follow him
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Speaker 2: there at Como News. But always good to run into
19:29
Speaker 2: him too. He's fun just to hang out with, chat
19:31
Speaker 2: with as well. Yeah, we had a guy when I
19:34
Speaker 2: did radio in Arizona's name was Jim Cross. Okay, and
19:38
Speaker 2: Jim Cross because we had there was there was always
19:41
Speaker 2: fire season, yeah, you know, because things catch on fire
19:44
Speaker 2: when it's one hundred and fifteen degrees every year, spontaneously. Yes,
19:48
Speaker 2: And so he would he would always be and he
19:51
Speaker 2: would always act like he hated it.
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, fire season, I can't believe it's here again.
19:56
Speaker 1: Oh man, this is going to be terrible, this is
19:59
Speaker 1: I want to do this.
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Speaker 2: And then as soon as you heard one, you would
20:04
Speaker 2: watch him just jump up from his chair, grab all
20:06
Speaker 2: of his stuff, and head out in his truck to
20:08
Speaker 2: go find it. Oh gosh.
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Speaker 5: He was like, I wanted you to think, like, I
20:14
Speaker 5: don't live for this, I don't want destruction.
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Speaker 2: He lived for it, live for me, and we loved
20:20
Speaker 2: him for it because nobody else wanted to cover it. Yeah,
20:22
Speaker 2: as a long ass day drive out to a mountain,
20:26
Speaker 2: stand around and heat and fire coming off of the mountain,
20:31
Speaker 2: and he just ate it up, gobbled it up. So
20:34
Speaker 2: he's kind of the Jim Foreman of Arizona, if you will,
20:37
Speaker 2: I like it all right. Coming up next on the
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Speaker 2: radio show, It's time for the ABC's of the M
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Speaker 4: Exciting, yeah, very exciting game.
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Speaker 1: I'm very proud of it as it should be. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: They just let you create games up there now these days.
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Speaker 2: Right yeah, And I just stand behind the podium and
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20:58
Speaker 2: There are other games that you can play there as
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Speaker 2: well for even more money.
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Speaker 1: And so you could even.
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Speaker 2: Go to the DraftKings Sports Book. It's a wonderful little
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Speaker 1: Even if you just go to watch the game. It's
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Speaker 1: And then if you.
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Speaker 2: Want to play a little bit, you know what I
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21:51
Speaker 2: of the MS, our Daily Mariner segment. We allow the
21:53
Speaker 2: alphabet to be a guide through a few different Mariner topics.
21:56
Speaker 2: We're not necessarily beholden to the results yesterday, but I
22:01
Speaker 2: will mention them three to one. The Atlanta Braves knocked
22:04
Speaker 2: out by the Seattle Mariners yesterday afternoon, and so win
22:08
Speaker 2: a two win two out of three from the team
22:10
Speaker 2: that was the hottest and best team in baseball so
22:13
Speaker 2: far this year coming into that series.
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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it.
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Speaker 6: Triggers something going forward that is a hard maybe, I
22:22
Speaker 6: would hope so, because this team is terrible at taking
22:27
Speaker 6: advantage of early season momentum.
22:29
Speaker 2: I mean the worst. They are so bad at it.
22:33
Speaker 2: They are worse at that than anything that you do
22:37
Speaker 2: in your life. Like if you yourself, you're like, man,
22:40
Speaker 2: I am just horrible at washing my car. They're worse
22:45
Speaker 2: at taking mantage of momentum in May than you are at.
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Speaker 1: Washing your car.
22:49
Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I keep thinking, actually that you bring now that you
22:51
Speaker 5: bring that up, that I need to wash my car
22:52
Speaker 5: because of all the pollen that's just sitting on it.
22:55
Speaker 5: And I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna wash it. Oh yeah,
22:56
Speaker 5: I gotta wash it. I'm gonna wash it. It's been
22:58
Speaker 5: a couple of weeks and I'm still figuring out how
23:02
Speaker 5: to make the time to wash it like they're still
23:04
Speaker 5: figuring out how to take advantage of momentum.
23:06
Speaker 2: If you are a person that does woodworking but you
23:09
Speaker 2: only have one and a half fingers left, you might
23:13
Speaker 2: not be very good at it, and yet you're still
23:15
Speaker 2: better than the Mariners at taking advantage of momentum.
23:19
Speaker 1: In May.
23:20
Speaker 2: Okay, just don't do it. Well yeah, yeah, just when
23:23
Speaker 2: you think, okay, it's going, then you lose three straight
23:26
Speaker 2: games to the Royals. So don't count on it.
23:28
Speaker 1: But you never know.
23:30
Speaker 2: We'll see. Let's get to the ABC said the MS.
23:33
Speaker 2: We left off of the letter d DS for Donovan.
23:35
Speaker 2: Brendan Donovan for sure is going to be back on
23:39
Speaker 2: the road trip now. They said this prior to the
23:41
Speaker 2: homestand he's going to be back on the homestand and
23:43
Speaker 2: so I took it and ran with it because usually
23:45
Speaker 2: when they make that announcement, it's usually on the front side.
23:50
Speaker 2: Usually means he's just about ready. So I thought last
23:53
Speaker 2: week we were going to get to see Brendan Donovan
23:55
Speaker 2: at the beginning of the home stand. You know, you
23:57
Speaker 2: had those that day off last Thursday and then really
24:00
Speaker 2: had gone two plus days without a baseball game. So
24:04
Speaker 2: I thought last Friday against Kansas City Royals. We're gonna
24:06
Speaker 2: see Brendan Donovan and his you know, electric hair returned
24:10
Speaker 2: to the lineup last Friday, and then we find out no, no, no,
24:14
Speaker 2: he's not. He's gonna have to have a reab assignment.
24:17
Speaker 2: So now we're hearing definitely on this road trip. So
24:21
Speaker 2: I don't know, do I make the same mistake twice?
24:25
Speaker 2: I guess I'll risk it. Yeah, I think he'll be
24:27
Speaker 2: available Friday in Chicago for Game one of the series
24:32
Speaker 2: against the White Sox. Didn't have a real long rehab
24:36
Speaker 2: process in terms of minor league games, and I think
24:40
Speaker 2: he hit a ball like one hundred and ten miles
24:42
Speaker 2: per hour is first at bat, So Brendan Donovan I
24:45
Speaker 2: think's going to be suiting up and I'm going to
24:48
Speaker 2: guess tomorrow night against.
24:49
Speaker 5: The White Sox, and so I would like to see
24:52
Speaker 5: him obviously back. I think he provides a nice spark,
24:54
Speaker 5: He's got a lot of energy, and I think definitely
24:56
Speaker 5: at times this team needs the energy in that boost greed.
25:00
Speaker 5: Would he go back as the leadoff hitter and move
25:03
Speaker 5: JP back pez Yeah, that's what I was thinking, right,
25:06
Speaker 5: That's what we want to see but I wonder if
25:08
Speaker 5: they'd do that.
25:09
Speaker 4: Yeah, and if they don't, I don't know where they.
25:12
Speaker 2: I think he's leadoff, Okay, I think JP's the movie.
25:15
Speaker 2: I mean, JP's hit a couple of home runs and
25:17
Speaker 2: he's got he's getting.
25:18
Speaker 1: Some walks, but he's not he's it's not like he's
25:22
Speaker 1: stinging the baseball.
25:23
Speaker 2: We can't move him out of first. I mean Brendon
25:25
Speaker 2: Donovan was stinging the baseball, yeah, in that spot. So
25:28
Speaker 2: I would assume Brendon Donovan goes right back in the
25:30
Speaker 2: leadoff spot, JP a little lower in the order, and
25:35
Speaker 2: I would imagine.
25:36
Speaker 1: That's what they're going to do. Now. The best part
25:38
Speaker 1: about this.
25:38
Speaker 2: And I don't mean to sound cruel, and it's going
25:42
Speaker 2: to come off for sounding cruel, I am so relieved
25:44
Speaker 2: not to see Leo Revos play every day. Oh my gosh.
25:47
Speaker 2: That was getting really really hard to do. He looked
25:51
Speaker 2: lost at the plate this year, and I think that
25:53
Speaker 2: he's got this little something about him, like he came
25:57
Speaker 2: through big in some big moment last year, especially in
26:01
Speaker 2: the playoffs against the Tigers.
26:02
Speaker 1: My goodness.
26:04
Speaker 2: So that's nice to have off the bench in terms
26:08
Speaker 2: of an everyday Major league baseball player. I mean, Leo
26:10
Speaker 2: even told us in spring training when we interviewed him
26:13
Speaker 2: that he's going to be a utility player, and he
26:16
Speaker 2: looked like he was really ready to embrace that role
26:19
Speaker 2: and he wants to be in the major league. They
26:20
Speaker 2: don't want to be in the major league. Spend a
26:22
Speaker 2: lot of time in Tacoma last year. So getting Leo
26:25
Speaker 2: back to the role that he needs to be in
26:27
Speaker 2: not having him in the lineup every day, and he
26:30
Speaker 2: really did seem overwhelmed as a hitter here in the
26:34
Speaker 2: last week and a half or so. At least want
26:37
Speaker 2: him to put the ball in play, and he wasn't
26:39
Speaker 2: even doing that. He was striking out almost every yet bat.
26:42
Speaker 1: So I'm glad.
26:43
Speaker 2: I think even better than getting Donovan back is not
26:46
Speaker 2: having Leo in the lineup every day.
26:48
Speaker 5: Yeah, just when we need him or when he can
26:50
Speaker 5: come in and do something and provide a little spark
26:52
Speaker 5: as opposed to relying on him every day.
26:54
Speaker 2: Would be nice, but it is. He's a little spark provider,
26:56
Speaker 2: yeah yeah, And yet I don't want to count on
27:00
Speaker 2: him being a reliable heat source.
27:02
Speaker 4: That's fair.
27:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, He's like a lighter, Like if I.
27:05
Speaker 5: Go camping and I need to start a fire. I'm
27:09
Speaker 5: not going camping every day, right, but I'm going to
27:11
Speaker 5: go on a holiday weekend.
27:12
Speaker 1: Yeah.
27:12
Speaker 2: I mean you carry around the lighter because every once
27:15
Speaker 2: in a while you want to light something. Yeah, okay,
27:19
Speaker 2: it's not anything that you would heat your home with. No,
27:22
Speaker 2: you should not, all right. He is for error, and
27:25
Speaker 2: as excited as we are to have Donovan back, do
27:29
Speaker 2: we have to on the verge of playing the White
27:31
Speaker 2: Sox acknowledge maybe a front office error that Munataka Morikami
27:38
Speaker 2: was there for the taking. His stock had dropped off
27:43
Speaker 2: so dramatically in the off season because so many teams
27:47
Speaker 2: didn't think he was going to produce enough contact. And
27:51
Speaker 2: he struck out fifty five times this year. So he's
27:54
Speaker 2: striking out a lot. They were right in there scouting
27:56
Speaker 2: report about that. But is he striking out so much
28:00
Speaker 2: that you wouldn't want his fourteen home runs that he's
28:03
Speaker 2: hit so far this season. I mean he's second to
28:05
Speaker 2: Aaron Judge right now in home runs. He's got a
28:07
Speaker 2: nine to thirty four ops. This is a young man
28:11
Speaker 2: who looks very, very menacing when he.
28:14
Speaker 1: Is at the plate.
28:15
Speaker 2: So yeah, he strikes out a lot, but he has
28:17
Speaker 2: provided a little bit of a spark for the White Sox.
28:20
Speaker 2: I'd even apply that to kaz O Kamoto, who's another
28:23
Speaker 2: guy that I wanted in the offseason.
28:25
Speaker 1: I wanted.
28:26
Speaker 2: I wanted us to roll the dice on these two guys,
28:28
Speaker 2: even when the stock apparently was plummeting.
28:31
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's when he brought up that it would be
28:33
Speaker 5: great to go after him because people didn't seem as interested.
28:35
Speaker 2: I would have taken both of them, yeah, I mean
28:38
Speaker 2: for what they ended up getting paid. Morikami got two
28:41
Speaker 2: years thirty four million dollars and Okamoto got four years
28:45
Speaker 2: sixty million dollars. That seems like a huge bargain for
28:49
Speaker 2: both of those guys, who are both hitting the crap
28:51
Speaker 2: out of the ball so far as Major League Baseball players.
28:55
Speaker 2: And so I really like Brendan Donovan and I kind
28:57
Speaker 2: of like what he brings overall to the table. So
29:02
Speaker 2: I don't have buyer's remorse with Brendan Donovan, but my goodness,
29:07
Speaker 2: it was maybe a lost opportunity by all other twenty
29:11
Speaker 2: nine teams. Morikami and Okamoto were much better than they
29:16
Speaker 2: were given credit for by all of Major League Baseball.
29:19
Speaker 2: This offseason. I mean, maybe it proved to be wrong,
29:22
Speaker 2: Maybe the pictures all just yeah, and in the second
29:24
Speaker 2: half they won't be able to make contact at all,
29:28
Speaker 2: and so maybe I'll sing a different tune. But so
29:31
Speaker 2: far they are exactly what I thought they were going
29:34
Speaker 2: to be as major league hitters, and it would be
29:37
Speaker 2: nice to have one of them.
29:38
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can't, especially sitting where the Mariners are sitting
29:41
Speaker 5: right now and where the struggles have come at the plate,
29:44
Speaker 5: you can't help but think, gosh, that would have been good.
29:46
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
29:47
Speaker 2: Finally, f is for Forrer and man tip of the
29:52
Speaker 2: cap to Jose Farrer. When we acquired Ferrer from the
29:56
Speaker 2: Washington Nationals this offseason and gave up Harry Ford for him,
30:00
Speaker 2: I really thought Harry Ford, all the talk we've had
30:03
Speaker 2: about Harry Ford, that he was such a prospect that
30:06
Speaker 2: he was going to fetch more than a lefty setup
30:10
Speaker 2: reliever who was coming off a pretty good year analytically,
30:16
Speaker 2: but like the base foundation numbers were not all that impressive. Also,
30:21
Speaker 2: it doesn't strike out guys. To me, I'm like, did
30:24
Speaker 2: we just pick up a left handed Gregory Santos because
30:28
Speaker 2: that did not work out for me? For us, but
30:30
Speaker 2: he profiles is that when you start reading about him,
30:33
Speaker 2: then we get to spring training and start to learn
30:35
Speaker 2: a little bit more about him. And Jose Ferrer has
30:39
Speaker 2: obviously been a find for the marriage so far. Again,
30:43
Speaker 2: it's all so far, but with two of your top
30:47
Speaker 2: five relievers on the shelf right now Andres Munnos not
30:51
Speaker 2: being mooney like so far this season, thank goodness for
30:56
Speaker 2: Jose A. Ferrer and also a guy that's raising his
30:59
Speaker 2: hand and saying, hey, I know you got to be
31:01
Speaker 2: careful with everybody, but you don't need to do that
31:03
Speaker 2: with me. Yeah, he's stepping up when we need him most.
31:05
Speaker 2: I can pitch every day. I'll pitch three days in
31:07
Speaker 2: a row. It's don gonna affect me.
31:08
Speaker 1: I'm a horse. Wow.
31:10
Speaker 2: And so we've been riding that horse. And thank goodness
31:12
Speaker 2: for him because he got to save yesterday. He's been
31:15
Speaker 2: fantastic as a Mariner. So even though they swung and
31:19
Speaker 2: missed on Gregory Santos, because they were just as excited
31:21
Speaker 2: about the Santos acquisition as they were about the Ferrara acquisition,
31:25
Speaker 2: and they were very excited about both of them, they
31:29
Speaker 2: kind of swung and miss on Santos but the Ferrare
31:31
Speaker 2: thing seems to be working out splendidly.
31:33
Speaker 5: Yeah, and especially yeah, as you said, with him coming
31:35
Speaker 5: in yesterday for the save and recognizing it's an early game,
31:38
Speaker 5: I'm gonna get almost two days of rest after this.
31:41
Speaker 2: I can pitch three days in a row and be
31:42
Speaker 2: just fine. Yeah, and hey, hey, everybody should be good
31:45
Speaker 2: for I mean, you should have Munos and Bizardo for
31:48
Speaker 2: tomorrow against the White Sox, and then who will be
31:53
Speaker 2: starting for us?
31:54
Speaker 1: Well, that will be wo.
31:56
Speaker 2: Just pitched, Yeah, so it will be Castilla, correct, it
32:00
Speaker 2: should be Yeah, it should be Castillo.
32:02
Speaker 1: Let me just look it up.
32:03
Speaker 5: Yeah, because now I'm doubting that too, because I feel
32:05
Speaker 5: like he just no Handcock Hancock tomorrow?
32:08
Speaker 1: Is it Handcock?
32:08
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, Handcock tomorrow, because I was gonna say, didn't
32:11
Speaker 5: Castillo just pitch the other day?
32:13
Speaker 1: Yeah?
32:13
Speaker 2: Hancock and Sean Burke all right, Yes, Emerson Hancock will
32:16
Speaker 2: go tomorrow and then on Saturday will be Luis Castillo.
32:21
Speaker 2: All right, so yeah, Handcock on Friday. Hopefully he goes
32:24
Speaker 2: deep and you know you can just you can give
32:27
Speaker 2: Farer the day off and then have Munios and Bizardo
32:30
Speaker 2: for a couple of Innings on Friday night.
32:32
Speaker 1: Who I both have faith in? Still?
32:35
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33:13
Speaker 2: one last thing to close out our broadcast day, and
33:16
Speaker 2: then we'll be back Friday at six o'clock for you
33:19
Speaker 2: as well, which is more than we can say.
33:21
Speaker 1: About Bucky these days.
33:23
Speaker 2: Huh that guy?
33:24
Speaker 1: Yep? What do you have for your one last thing?
33:26
Speaker 1: In there?
33:27
Speaker 5: I was reading their saw story yesterday on social media
33:31
Speaker 5: and it came from Washington State, right here in our
33:35
Speaker 5: home area. And there is a man, it was just
33:39
Speaker 5: a video that I saw from CBS, But there's a
33:41
Speaker 5: guy that is a garbage truck driver who has befriended
33:44
Speaker 5: a little three year old girl on his route, okay,
33:47
Speaker 5: and she comes out every week to see him and
33:49
Speaker 5: gives him a big hug, and they say hi, and
33:52
Speaker 5: then she goes back.
33:53
Speaker 2: About a business.
33:54
Speaker 5: Well, this week, his daughter, the garbage man's daughter, picked
33:58
Speaker 5: out a present for the three year old. Oh, so
34:00
Speaker 5: he delivered her a Hello Kitty backpack. Oh and she
34:04
Speaker 5: comes running out like she always does, and he has
34:07
Speaker 5: the lego bag like he has it in a gift
34:09
Speaker 5: bag for her, and she gives him a big hug
34:11
Speaker 5: and she takes the bag and runs runs, runs back
34:13
Speaker 5: and he goes about his business, does the garbage, goes
34:17
Speaker 5: to wave, honks the horn, and leaves and they do
34:20
Speaker 5: this every week.
34:20
Speaker 2: He doesn't bring her gift every week.
34:22
Speaker 5: Obviously, but I just thought it was the cutest thing ever.
34:24
Speaker 5: I thought, how great that this little girl who's home
34:26
Speaker 5: every week, you know, when the garbage man comes, probably
34:29
Speaker 5: thought that's a cool truck. I'm gonna go see it.
34:31
Speaker 5: And he took the time to get to know her
34:34
Speaker 5: and they've formed this little friendship, and I.
34:35
Speaker 2: Just thought it was the cutest thing ever. Yeah, just
34:37
Speaker 2: these simple little kindnesses that go a long way.
34:40
Speaker 4: Because a lot of people go about.
34:41
Speaker 5: You ignore your post your your you know, your postal worker,
34:44
Speaker 5: you ignore your garbage man, you ignore your delivery drivers
34:48
Speaker 5: because either you're busy. I mean, it's not as if
34:50
Speaker 5: we intentionally do it, right, But these are the things
34:52
Speaker 5: that happen around us every day, and how often do
34:54
Speaker 5: we really take the time to pay attention to the
34:57
Speaker 5: people doing.
34:57
Speaker 2: It And if they do get any feedback from the
35:01
Speaker 2: people they delivered to, it's probably complaints.
35:03
Speaker 5: Yeah, usually, Yeah, it's definitely not often three year olds
35:07
Speaker 5: coming out to say.
35:08
Speaker 2: Cry and wanting to be your friend. Yeah, probably does
35:11
Speaker 2: make his day every time to come by the I
35:13
Speaker 2: see the same thing with pets too, like dogs becoming
35:16
Speaker 2: best friends with the delivery guy.
35:18
Speaker 1: Now there's also dogs that eat.
35:20
Speaker 4: The delivery right that it comes on both sides.
35:22
Speaker 2: But you see a lot more of the ones that
35:25
Speaker 2: become friends and they look forward to it.
35:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great.
35:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was very cute. Well, simple kindnesses like that
35:31
Speaker 2: they do go a long way.
35:32
Speaker 1: I should try one.
35:33
Speaker 4: And it just brings a smile to your face.
35:37
Speaker 2: All right, I actually have a couple of things, and
35:40
Speaker 2: I might have a old time to get both of
35:42
Speaker 2: them in. First of all, we did not talk about
35:44
Speaker 2: Charles versus Draymond, which has been making the rounds here today.
35:49
Speaker 2: Apparently there was a little teat for tat last night,
35:53
Speaker 2: Charles took a few shots in front of him about
35:58
Speaker 2: you guys are done, you guys are cooked with the
36:00
Speaker 2: Golden State.
36:00
Speaker 1: I did not.
36:01
Speaker 2: I wasn't watching at the time, and I do watch
36:03
Speaker 2: them almost every night for at least some of the
36:05
Speaker 2: night during the NBA playoffs, and so there there was
36:10
Speaker 2: a little bit of shot like you guys are cooked,
36:12
Speaker 2: and then Draymond kind of acknowledged it. The one that's
36:14
Speaker 2: getting more run is that they were asking Draymond when
36:18
Speaker 2: he's going to hang it up, and he says, the
36:20
Speaker 2: only thing I don't want to look at like is
36:22
Speaker 2: Charles as a rocket.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to end up looking like that.
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Speaker 2: And I thought they were going to laugh.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, nobody laughed, and like.
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Speaker 2: Kenny even asked to follow up, like what do.
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Speaker 1: You mean by that?
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Speaker 2: And Draymond goes, you saw it. It was like a
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Speaker 2: serious moment. I've heard when he said it, I would
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Speaker 2: have thought everybody, but I just saw the clips, so
36:45
Speaker 2: I didn't get the full context. I don't know what
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Speaker 2: the full conversation was, but apparently it was kind of
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Speaker 2: tense on the set, and then by the end of
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Speaker 2: the night when I was actually watching whatever happened. They
36:57
Speaker 2: didn't take it seriously because they were all laughing and
36:59
Speaker 2: get along, so there was no grudge held through the
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Speaker 2: rest of the show. But it may I mean, it
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Speaker 2: was the talk of the sports world last night. Was
37:08
Speaker 2: Draymond taking his shot at Charles Barkley and saying, yeah,
37:13
Speaker 2: I know I don't have much time left, but I'm
37:15
Speaker 2: going to certainly retire before I end up looking as
37:19
Speaker 2: foolish as you did as a Houston Rocket ended up
37:22
Speaker 2: being the topic of conversation last night.
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Speaker 5: Whereas if like Shaq would have said that Charles would
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Speaker 5: have pretended to be bad, they would have laughed, or
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Speaker 5: at least Kenny and Ernie would have laughed. And so,
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Speaker 5: I don't know, I think that's funny one that it's
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Speaker 5: Draymond and Charles, two people that love to talk and
37:37
Speaker 5: love to rip on people. Yeah, yeah, so you both
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Speaker 5: got to be able to take it if you're going
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Speaker 5: to dish.
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Speaker 2: It, no question, And I think that's one of the layers, like, look,
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Speaker 2: you they have to take it. Charles had to take that, yeah,
37:48
Speaker 2: because they take a lot of really cheap shots at
37:52
Speaker 2: active players. They do it all the time, and then
37:55
Speaker 2: when the players say that they they are angry about
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Speaker 2: it or but hurt about it, then they make fun
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Speaker 2: of them for being angry, and they need to be
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Speaker 2: able to take it. So even though it was a
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Speaker 2: tense moment, I'm glad Charles didn't get angry about it,
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Speaker 2: because then he comes off as a hypocrite.
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Speaker 1: And I don't want to think less of Charles.
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Speaker 4: No, and I love him.
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Speaker 2: He's my hero, and I don't like Draymond. But Draymond
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Speaker 2: was dishing it out a little bit, and it sounded
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Speaker 2: like he was taking it for once as well on
38:20
Speaker 2: the set, so I actually think it was kind of
38:22
Speaker 2: a healthy exchange. I just kind of wish that because
38:25
Speaker 2: it was kind of a funny thing that I was
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Speaker 2: hoping he said it tongue in cheek, because actually Charles
38:31
Speaker 2: was not that bad as a rocket. I mean, he
38:33
Speaker 2: averaged a double double during his four years as a
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Speaker 2: Houston Rocket at the end of his career. I mean
38:38
Speaker 2: a lot of guys would have killed to have averaged
38:42
Speaker 2: a double double for one year career, and yet he
38:45
Speaker 2: did it for the last four years as a Houston Rocket,
38:48
Speaker 2: So he wasn't nearly as bad as you think he was. Draymond,
38:51
Speaker 2: and then just quickly. I just want to say this,
38:53
Speaker 2: and I'm glad we don't have a lot of time
38:55
Speaker 2: to talk about this. I don't think there's a bigger
38:58
Speaker 2: group of cowards and the world in the sports world
39:03
Speaker 2: then major college basketball and football coaches.
39:08
Speaker 1: I think your.
39:09
Speaker 2: Cowards for what I mean, there was a story yesterday
39:14
Speaker 2: about none of them like the expanded NCAA tournament format. Well,
39:20
Speaker 2: guess what none of the fans do either. Yeah, you
39:22
Speaker 2: know it's complete money grab. Fans don't have any defense
39:26
Speaker 2: against it. You actually have the power to do something
39:29
Speaker 2: about it. And this has happened in college football playoffs.
39:32
Speaker 2: This has happened with nil Like, guys, you're not gonna
39:35
Speaker 2: get fired because you as a group stand up against
39:39
Speaker 2: something that you don't think is good for the sport.
39:42
Speaker 2: Could you please do something like you're worried you're gonna
39:46
Speaker 2: get fined. You make millions of dollars a year. You're
39:50
Speaker 2: not gonna get fired for taking a stance against it.
39:53
Speaker 2: Why do talk show hosts and fans have to take
39:56
Speaker 2: the stands?
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Speaker 1: Right?
39:57
Speaker 2: You're the faces of college athletics. The players are only
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Speaker 2: there for two in college basketball case one to four years.
40:06
Speaker 2: You are the only ones that are there on the
40:08
Speaker 2: sidelines for year after year, decade after decade. Get together
40:12
Speaker 2: if you don't like it, and take a stand and
40:14
Speaker 2: tell the NCAA, no, we don't want to do this.
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Speaker 2: It's terrible for the sport and we're not going to
40:20
Speaker 2: stand by and take it. But you complain about it,
40:22
Speaker 2: and you grumble about it, and you take little pot
40:25
Speaker 2: shots at your press conferences here and there, rather than
40:28
Speaker 2: ever doing actually anything about it. You're the only ones
40:32
Speaker 2: that have the power to do it. Please stop being cowards.
40:36
Speaker 2: You're not going to get fired, and who cares if
40:38
Speaker 2: you get fines. You're rich, right, you can afford it.
40:41
Speaker 2: I mean to have a little a spine, a backbone.
40:44
Speaker 2: Probably should have saved that for tomorrow, all right, Greg
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