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Furness Show 3-24: Joe Sheehan, Mariners TV Situation, NBA Vote · The Ian Furness Show

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Speaker 1: It is baseball season. Mariner's getting going on Thursday. I
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Speaker 1: was here at Root Sports. I'm actually here at Roots
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Speaker 1: or not was I still am here at Root Sports.
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Speaker 1: It's the studios we use for the KRACK and Hockey
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Speaker 1: Network as well. Marriers don't use these anymore. It is
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Speaker 1: a ghost town. It is sad and depressing here. But
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Speaker 1: I say that I ran into an unnamed Mariner broadcaster
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Speaker 1: a moment ago. We were talking kind of a while,
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Speaker 1: you guess, like the whole question about where to watch
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Speaker 1: the games this weekend. Yeah, there's three different places, do
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Speaker 1: you know that? Not Mariner's broadcast. Wherever it's going to be,
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Speaker 1: however you're going to get it and whatever you're going
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Speaker 1: to pay for it. However that works out Thursday and Saturday.
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Speaker 1: Apple on Friday, Oh how you wanney? Yeah, and then
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Speaker 1: it's is a peacock or NBC on Sunday's right.
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Speaker 2: Wait do you still have Apple TV?
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Speaker 1: Because I just got it back only because I just
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Speaker 1: got a new phone. Oh came with the interesting. Oh
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Speaker 1: that's good, but yeah, sure fine, Uh, not much on
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Speaker 1: there I want to watch, but yeah it's fine, and
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Speaker 1: all those the soccer's there, so it's like a two
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Speaker 1: month three trials, so that's fine. But yeah, so yeah,
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Speaker 1: three different places to watch them this weekend. Like confused
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Speaker 1: yet no, not at all, not in the least for
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Speaker 1: opening weekend. And you see all the I might touching
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Speaker 1: on this with Joe because Joe always hasn't. As much
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Speaker 1: as Joe is a Joe, she's gonn join us at
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Speaker 1: one twenty hour baseball guy as much as Joe is
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Speaker 1: you know, the king of numbers and analytics, he was
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Speaker 1: on the ground floor of that, you know, years and
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Speaker 1: years ago when these things first became a big deal. Uh,
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Speaker 1: baseball perspectives and things like that. He's got great opinions
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Speaker 1: on just the business side of baseball too. And because
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Speaker 1: I don't know, if you've seen, the people are pissed. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: because Opening Day is on Netflix for a bunch of
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Speaker 1: teams too, and people are not happy about that, yeah
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Speaker 1: at all. And and I kind of get it. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, to me Opening Day, I
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Speaker 1: know that these guys are paying money, but Opening days
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Speaker 1: should be your guy, right, I just think it should
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Speaker 1: be your guy. And base baseball maybe more so than
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Speaker 1: I think baseball more so than other sports is you know,
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Speaker 1: the you really you bond with the broadcasters, and maybe
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Speaker 1: that's just because us here, and I say us here,
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Speaker 1: we have Dave, but we have Dave knee House had
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Speaker 1: Dave knee House. And this is Rick Rizz's final year
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Speaker 1: on the radio. Uh do they have a radio contract?
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I think they do. But and then
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Speaker 1: obviously Goldie does a great job and he is now
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Speaker 1: the defending Washington State sports broadcaster the year is Aaron Goldsmith.
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Speaker 1: So you want your guys, I want my guys on
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Speaker 1: the on the broadcast. But yeah, Netflix is doing it.
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Speaker 1: So the Yankees are on Netflix, and I guess they're
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Speaker 1: just losing their mind back keys, which now here's the
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Speaker 1: perverted part of me. And as you know me, well right,
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Speaker 1: you're allowed.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, yes, I.
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Speaker 1: Like New York angst. I'm all in. I'm all in.
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Speaker 1: I'm one hundred percent in on there.
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Speaker 3: There's a reason why Nicki Scarlatta is a star in Seattle, Like.
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Speaker 1: Oh, Nicky, our buddy, we gotta get it back on
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Speaker 1: the mere it is yeah, yeah, no, it's it's good stuff. Okay,
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Speaker 1: So four nine four five one to come down to
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Speaker 1: texta on four nine four five one, just quick on
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Speaker 1: the NBA. I my understanding is that we won't hear
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Speaker 1: from Adam Silver until tomorrow, sometime between eleven thirty and
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Speaker 1: one pm Pacific time. His last media availability for something
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Speaker 1: like this, he was two hours late. Nice so and
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Speaker 1: I don't want to say he was late because that's
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Speaker 1: probably unfair. I mean, you guys know, I'm not a
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Speaker 1: huge fan of Adam Silver, but that's probably unfair to him.
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's stuff going on, so whenever stuff is done,
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Speaker 1: whenever he's done, he comes out and stands at the
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Speaker 1: podium and in a way we go. And obviously for
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Speaker 1: this there's two markets. There's only two markets that really
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Speaker 1: give up rats. You know what about what Adams so
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Speaker 1: Over says tomorrow, it's a board of governor speeding. If
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Speaker 1: you're one of the other current thirty teams, you probably
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Speaker 1: just are not even giving this a second thought. Nothing
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Speaker 1: burns with you. But it's a nothing burrow. But for us,
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Speaker 1: it's huge. So we'll probably hear something tomorrow and it
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Speaker 1: should be an important step in the process, an important
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Speaker 1: next step in the process. We're kind of gearing up.
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Speaker 1: We got some things going on. I think I can
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Speaker 1: say this Jess well, I can't because Softy already said
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Speaker 1: it on Instagram. Yea walking talks or whatever he does.
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Speaker 1: Driving with Dave. It was standing with standing with Dave today.
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Speaker 1: But we're gonna we're gonna be at the queen An
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Speaker 1: Beer Hall, starting it at one o'clock tomorrow, maybe even
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Speaker 1: earlier if I need to be there earlier. But well,
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Speaker 1: we're going to be up at the I'll be at
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Speaker 1: the queen An Beer Hall tomorrow and then Softy and uh,
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Speaker 1: I don't know Fan's here tomorrow, but I think Softy
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Speaker 1: afterwards at three and not a I would I would
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Speaker 1: phrase it like this, We're expecting good news. And if
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Speaker 1: there's good news and it's sports related and especially something
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Speaker 1: like this, you know this is we were the Saunic
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Speaker 1: station for a zillion years. We want you to come,
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Speaker 1: maybe grab a pint, celebrate whatever. I think. Simply Seattle
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Speaker 1: is going to make their way up there at some
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Speaker 1: point in the afternoon and things go well, And uh,
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Speaker 1: there's only one place to get Sonics gear. It's from
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Speaker 1: those guys, Simply Seattle dot com, Mollywap fifteen. Ye have
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Speaker 1: great gear two they do and that stuff. Honestly, if
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Speaker 1: something happens, it could sell out pretty quick.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: You know, if we get the news and the news
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Speaker 1: we're expecting tomorrow is the step in the process it
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Speaker 1: is necessary is now underway, and that is, you know,
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Speaker 1: officially exploring and taking bids for the two markets Seattle
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Speaker 1: and Vegas, and seeing where that takes us and where
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Speaker 1: we go. I think it was pretty evident from yesterday's
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Speaker 1: news with what's going on with One Roof foundation and everything,
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Speaker 1: that we know who one of the groups is and
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Speaker 1: maybe the only group. And frankly, it probably should be
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Speaker 1: the only group if for another reason they control the
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Speaker 1: building and it makes it makes all the sense in
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Speaker 1: the world for them. VAGA, this is a different story.
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Speaker 1: They don't really seem to have their blank together right now.
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Speaker 1: They've got building issues and everything else. I'm with you,
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Speaker 1: and there's a push for Nashville and some other places
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Speaker 1: and you know Vegas. Yeah, the league has had odd
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Speaker 1: number teams before, that's the thing. And then the NHL
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Speaker 1: obviously did it before when they went to thirty one,
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Speaker 1: before Seattle got a building and went to thirty two.
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Speaker 1: So there's a precedent for it. It can happen. Part of
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Speaker 1: me doesn't mind it, to be honest with you, if
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Speaker 1: it was just thirty one for now and Vegas has
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Speaker 1: to wait kind of like the reverse effect of what
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Speaker 1: happened with the NHL, like like the irony of that
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Speaker 1: would be amazing story. Yeah, Like, okay, well, Vegas, we
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Speaker 1: want you, but we're not going to go to Nashville
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Speaker 1: or Vancouver or Kansas City, uh for an NBA expansion franchise,
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Speaker 1: because's gonna wait for you, Vegas to get your building
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Speaker 1: and your ownership put together, mostly the building because they
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Speaker 1: don't want to play at Team Mobile Arena. They got
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Speaker 1: too many dates already there with not just the hockey
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Speaker 1: team but also with UFC and concerts. I mean, that
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Speaker 1: thing's that thing is maybe the one of the busiest
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Speaker 1: buildings in the country, is my understanding. So they don't
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Speaker 1: even need an NBA team in that building, and that
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Speaker 1: would be the twist on that would be spectacular. The
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Speaker 1: fact that now it's the issues on the other foot.
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Speaker 1: The way, the reason I'd really like that to be
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Speaker 1: the case is from a I'm way ahead, okay, I'm
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Speaker 1: just jumping way ahead expansion draft because then it's just
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Speaker 1: one team picking and not two, right, So you truly
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Speaker 1: have your pick. The last time they did this was
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Speaker 1: with Charlotte and they were able to protect eight players.
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Speaker 1: You know, all of a sudden, if you're going back
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Speaker 1: and forth and training picks with another team, your talent
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Speaker 1: pool is diminished greatly. Right, that makes sense.
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Speaker 3: And it's already going to be diminished, right, Well, you're.
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Speaker 1: Just gonna take on. It's gonna be a bunch of
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Speaker 1: bad contracts available, is what it's going to be.
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Speaker 4: Like.
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Speaker 1: I laughed because somebody said yesterday they're killing the cracket
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Speaker 1: on their expansion draft. And there's a couple of things
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Speaker 1: I killed them on even five years ago. But by
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Speaker 1: and large, they got what they could get, you know,
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Speaker 1: without taking on awful contracts or what have you. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean it's I'd like to see that. But here
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Speaker 1: we are on the cusp of this, and so I'll
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Speaker 1: just kind of ask, and well, I don't think we'll
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Speaker 1: do cross talk today, guys, because we have a short show.
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Speaker 1: Softy had a short show, so we'll save some time
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Speaker 1: for Texans.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure he'll be okay with that.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll be fine. I just how are we
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Speaker 1: how we feeling? Are we nervous? We're good, were excited?
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Speaker 1: Do we care? I mean I kind of. I'm just
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Speaker 1: because this is the last time pre announcement of one
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Speaker 1: way or the other. How we How are we feeling?
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Speaker 1: I'll ask you two guys, are we Are you just excited?
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Speaker 1: Are you nervous? Are you kind of apathetic? Andrews? We'll
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Speaker 1: start with you.
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Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I mean to me, I because I think
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Speaker 3: it's almost a foregone conclusion of what's going on. I'm
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Speaker 3: not taking this as like a huge deal. I think
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Speaker 3: it's another step and it's it gets it gets us
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Speaker 3: closer to where we want to be. But it's it's
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Speaker 3: not the full on announcement that Seattle is getting a team,
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Speaker 3: So it's not a job deal to me. But I
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Speaker 3: realized that this is something that needs to happen, and
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Speaker 3: you know, it's just part of the process.
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Speaker 1: Jess.
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Speaker 2: I am excited because I moved here right after the
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Speaker 2: NBA left, and when I was working back east at
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Speaker 2: that place we don't talk about it's four letters long.
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Speaker 2: I was so confident that this would never happen, and
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Speaker 2: then I moved out here the year after, and I
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Speaker 2: lived in an area that was very close to what
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Speaker 2: is now climate pledge arena, and I saw a lot
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Speaker 2: of companies, businesses dwindle because of the absence of the
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Speaker 2: NBA being here. I also, now fifteen plus years later,
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Speaker 2: am married to an NBA fan, And I love this sport.
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Speaker 2: I love it so much. I've been to the exhibition
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Speaker 2: matches here, and I am excited for that potential. And
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Speaker 2: I'm confident that it's going to happen. But it's not
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Speaker 2: happening tomorrow. A team is not going to just be
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Speaker 2: here next year.
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Speaker 1: No, but it's a significant it.
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Speaker 2: Is it's a significant, significant step, and I am excited
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Speaker 2: about it.
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Speaker 1: I'll just say this, it's there's more. It has to
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Speaker 1: happen because if tomorrow it doesn't, If that step doesn't,
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Speaker 1: it's take place. I don't know if it's dead, but
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Speaker 1: it's gonna it pushes out that it pushes out again.
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Speaker 1: You know, we're looking at as it is, we're looking
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Speaker 1: at two full years, right, And you know, and I
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Speaker 1: think Anders, you and I were talking yesterday at one
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Speaker 1: point about you know, you've got a young son, like
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Speaker 1: putting him in your you know, watching a baseball game
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Speaker 1: with him at some point, watching a basketball game with
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Speaker 1: him at some point.
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Speaker 3: And I would be very happy if he gets to
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Speaker 3: grow up with an NBA team, that'd be.
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Speaker 1: So and I will. And you know, Jess, you mentioned
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Speaker 1: the preseason games, and you know, we all have our
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Speaker 1: things that we do. Softy won't go to Starbucks, you know,
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Speaker 1: for example, even to this day, thanks to Howard Schultz.
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Speaker 1: I mine is really simple. And I've told Purple Sheet this,
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Speaker 1: you know, and and others that have tried to get
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Speaker 1: me to go to the exhibition games, NBA exhibition games here.
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Speaker 1: I will not do that. I will never go to
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Speaker 1: an exhibition game in Seattle for the NBA unless it's
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Speaker 1: a tea that says Sonics on the on the good
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Speaker 1: for you. I'm just not gonna do it because we're
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Speaker 1: an NBA city. We're not a we're not a secondary city.
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Speaker 1: We're not We're not the Sounders playing a game in
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Speaker 1: Spokane right the other day, which was pretty damn cool.
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Speaker 1: It was cool. Yeah, they jammed it, But we're not that. Okay,
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Speaker 1: We're not the Kraken playing a game, a preseason game
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Speaker 1: in Spokane or Anchorage or Portland or somewhere.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 1: No, this is this is different. This is this is
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Speaker 1: We're an NBA city and I will not, and I'm
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Speaker 1: telling you right now, I will never go to a
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Speaker 1: game in Climate Plager Arena involving the NBA unless it's
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Speaker 1: the Sonics period. End of story. I just won't do it.
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Speaker 1: I just will not do it. I like that. So
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Speaker 1: I'm hoping tomorrow that this because I think it's been
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Speaker 1: insulting every year they've done it. And I know that
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Speaker 1: my boss is probably want to hear me say that
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Speaker 1: from either the radio station or the hockey team, since
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Speaker 1: they're the ones to put it on. But I'm telling
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Speaker 1: you I won't go. We're an NBA city, and hopefully
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Speaker 1: tomorrow twenty four hours from right about now, we're having
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Speaker 1: a whole different conversation. We're getting even more excited fournin
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Speaker 1: Well, this is it, man, this is this is where
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Speaker 1: we sit down with Joe. Joe, are you sitting down?
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Speaker 1: This is where we sit down with Joe. We're sitting down.
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Speaker 1: It's it's time to talk preseason preview. Opening week is here,
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Speaker 1: Opening Night for some is tomorrow. Get out your Netflix
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Speaker 1: subscription and then and then the Mariners and others open Thursday.
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Speaker 1: Opening weekend is here, Joe. I asked our guys yesterday,
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Speaker 1: our MOLLI wop guys, Chris and Nathan this And I
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Speaker 1: always like doing this because I think baseball is so unique,
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Speaker 1: so different than other sports. In the following and I'll
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Speaker 1: ask you the point question and I'll let you tell
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Speaker 1: me why, because I know you love the game. Why
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Speaker 1: is opening day special in baseball? Why is it special
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Speaker 1: and maybe even different than other sports?
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Speaker 4: The end of the winter, at the beginning of spring,
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Speaker 4: even though when we start the season now closer to
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Speaker 4: winter than ever before, and it's that day where everybody's tied.
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Speaker 4: The first you can look and say, our guys can
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Speaker 4: do it this year. We can be the ninety one twins.
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Speaker 4: We can be the nineteen fourteen Braves. We've don long
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Speaker 4: history of oh you have no shot, and all of
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Speaker 4: a sudden you're in the playoffs. You're in the World Series.
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Speaker 4: And that's what that's what opening day is. Opening day
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Speaker 4: is the day you have home.
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Speaker 1: I agree. I think it's it, and I think part
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Speaker 1: of it is what you said to Even like as
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Speaker 1: weird as it sounds, just the weather, it's like, hey,
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Speaker 1: we've kind of made it through winter more or less.
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Speaker 1: Although there's places and we've seen this before. Hell, I
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Speaker 1: remember the Marner's playing in the snowstorm a blizzard in
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Speaker 1: Minnesota a few years ago, so it could happen, but
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Speaker 1: it is. It is that time of the year, and
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Speaker 1: it just kind of kind of gives you a little
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Speaker 1: little pep in your step. All Right, there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of things to get to. I want to get to this.
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Speaker 1: I mentioned this to Andrews and Jests earlier. One of
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Speaker 1: the things I love about talking with you, even though
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Speaker 1: your your experience is certainly on some numbers and the
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Speaker 1: analytics side of being on the ground floor of those things,
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Speaker 1: you have great opinions on this. The business it self,
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Speaker 1: the business of baseball is different this year in terms
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Speaker 1: of people watching games. You know, the Sunday night package
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Speaker 1: is now different. There's a Netflix Opening Day package tomorrow
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Speaker 1: which has people in your neck of the woods of
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Speaker 1: New York up in arms because Michael Kay won't be
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Speaker 1: on the call or what have you, you know. On
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Speaker 1: the Marritors, for example, they'll have two local broadcasts which
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Speaker 1: we still are kind of in the gray about, not
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Speaker 1: sure where we're going to find them on Thursday and Saturday.
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Speaker 1: Then they have an Apple broadcast on Friday and national
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Speaker 1: broadcast on Sunday, all these different places. Like the NFL
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Speaker 1: does define games good bad for baseball.
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Speaker 4: I don't like the fragmentation. You know, there's a lot
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Speaker 4: of conversation right now about you know, an MLB round
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Speaker 4: up everybody's TV rights yea, and seldom is part of one.
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Speaker 4: I think there's a vision for that where fans hear
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Speaker 4: that and it's like, oh, no blackouts, We're gonna you're
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Speaker 4: just gonna be able to pay one price and get
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Speaker 4: MLB dot TV. And I can iss you that's exactly
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Speaker 4: not what ITLB is trying to do. And MLB wants
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Speaker 4: to round up everybody's rights, so that they can sell
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Speaker 4: them to seventeen different streamers so that it can get
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Speaker 4: money from all these different places, and you baseball fan
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Speaker 4: are gonna have to pay twelve dollars a month to
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Speaker 4: all of these different places. I don't think I think
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Speaker 4: this we've started on this route. You know, this is
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Speaker 4: this Netflix thing with Opening Night tomorrow, and they're going
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Speaker 4: to get the home run Derby as well, which frankly
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Speaker 4: doesn't bother me at all. But it's just the idea
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Speaker 4: that you're splitting up what was once an MLB dot
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Speaker 4: TV package that covered just about every game to a
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Speaker 4: whole lot of different places. And I know that's how
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Speaker 4: they make money, but I think it's going to be
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Speaker 4: a lot more anti fan than people are ready for.
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Speaker 1: Ut I'm a believer in there's a couple of sports.
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Speaker 1: If we look at just the four major let's include
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Speaker 1: the MLS to make it five. For my argument, I
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Speaker 1: think Andrews is okay with that, because I think the
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Speaker 1: argument is made with it. Yeah, of the five big leagues,
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Speaker 1: maybe even WNBA, but they WNB is pretty basic in
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Speaker 1: terms of where their games are. I don't think the
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Speaker 1: WNBA strays much further from ESPN or maybe Peacock or something,
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Speaker 1: but they're there. MLS was behind a paywall for Apple
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Speaker 1: for a couple of years. They finally got away from
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Speaker 1: the paywall, although you still have to have an Apple subscription.
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Speaker 1: The NHL has done a good They've got into bed
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Speaker 1: with ESPN, saying it may not be the best deal
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Speaker 1: we could get, but we need to be on ESPN.
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Speaker 1: So they're on with ESPN and T and T nationally,
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Speaker 1: and everybody does what they do locally. I think those
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Speaker 1: two sports, and baseball is the same. Baseball, I think
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Speaker 1: you need to make it as easy as possible for
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Speaker 1: the most amount of fans you can to find your games, Joe.
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Speaker 1: Not everybody is the NFL where people are going to
16:44
Speaker 1: pay an extra twenty bucks you know here or there
16:46
Speaker 1: for a one day subscription so they can watch their
16:48
Speaker 1: team play on Christmas.
16:51
Speaker 4: No, and baseball's got this a lot more inventory too.
16:54
Speaker 4: It's also a lot more local. Now there's I saw
16:57
Speaker 4: a post yesterday and you make the argument, we'll look
16:59
Speaker 4: at all of these national games. It will be I
17:01
Speaker 4: guess there'll be a game on two D. There's going
17:03
Speaker 4: to be Peacock. I mean, there's going to be options
17:06
Speaker 4: if you've got all of these services, but I think
17:08
Speaker 4: the main thing for baseball is, and you alluded to
17:10
Speaker 4: this couple months ago, making sure that the people in
17:13
Speaker 4: your city can watch your team as easily and necessarily
17:17
Speaker 4: for nothing, at least as cheaply as possible. And there's
17:19
Speaker 4: certainly some confusion now with so many rsns going under
17:23
Speaker 4: or just giving up their baseball deals. It's not just hey,
17:25
Speaker 4: I can turn on Route or Bally or whatever it's
17:29
Speaker 4: going to be and find one hundred and forty five
17:31
Speaker 4: Maritors games or Angels games. I think it's going to
17:33
Speaker 4: be a little more complicated now. One of the things
17:35
Speaker 4: we've seen with these teams that have been produced by
17:38
Speaker 4: MLB is that they've worked out deals with local distributors
17:42
Speaker 4: so that you're going to be able to flip the
17:44
Speaker 4: channel one hundred and sixty three and get the barrinors.
17:46
Speaker 4: This will happen, although as I understand, they have not
17:49
Speaker 4: actually announced the details of this in Seattle yet. I
17:51
Speaker 4: thought so note Chris Stafford had a note on that
17:54
Speaker 4: it'll happen and if you have if you do have
17:56
Speaker 4: table or satellite in the area, you're going to be
17:59
Speaker 4: able to to watch the team whether there's an additional charge,
18:03
Speaker 4: I honestly don't know that's going to be on a
18:04
Speaker 4: local basis. But for a lot of people who have
18:08
Speaker 4: cut the cord and you just want to be able
18:10
Speaker 4: to pull up their iPad or set up their grow
18:13
Speaker 4: cool or whatever, all of these changes are going to
18:16
Speaker 4: make things better for them because a lot of these
18:18
Speaker 4: new love these new services are going to be blackout put.
18:23
Speaker 4: So you're going to be able to watch your Mariners
18:26
Speaker 4: as part of MLB dot tv without paying an extra charge.
18:30
Speaker 4: And I guess there's an ESPN component to it now.
18:32
Speaker 4: I have to be honest with you, I haven't looked
18:34
Speaker 4: back carefully at it. I'll figure this all out, but
18:37
Speaker 4: I get cable extra inning still, so the streaming part
18:40
Speaker 4: of it doesn't even affect me. I'm just gonna I
18:42
Speaker 4: watch a lot of games on my tele mission.
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Speaker 1: on the field, All Mariner fans, you're gonna like, you're
19:13
Speaker 1: gonna like about a week and a half, n even
19:16
Speaker 1: a week ago. Joe Shean's division and World Series predictions.
19:20
Speaker 1: I'll let you tell people who you think is gonna
19:22
Speaker 1: get into the playoffs in the American League. Let's start there.
19:24
Speaker 4: Joe Red Sox to win the American League East. I
19:28
Speaker 4: think I'm a high man on the Red Sox. I mean,
19:30
Speaker 4: most people are picking the tree of the Yankees and
19:32
Speaker 4: the Blue Jays. The Earls have some backers. It's going
19:35
Speaker 4: to be a great division. You can theoretically have five
19:37
Speaker 4: teams above five hundred. You could have all three AL
19:40
Speaker 4: Wild Car teams coming out of the AL East. But
19:42
Speaker 4: give me the Red Sox with the pitching editions that
19:44
Speaker 4: they made and with all their young talent coming through
19:46
Speaker 4: the system in the Central. I ended up with the Tigers.
19:50
Speaker 4: I thought in the offseason, I really like what the
19:52
Speaker 4: Royals look like. But getting Valdez made a big difference
19:57
Speaker 4: from me in terms of projecting the Tiger. So I
19:58
Speaker 4: ended up with them a top the division and then
20:01
Speaker 4: the Marriors in the West. I mean, you know, I
20:03
Speaker 4: was all over them last year. I did have the
20:05
Speaker 4: Rangers winning the division last year at the Marriers making
20:07
Speaker 4: the playoffs, but by mid season it was clear if
20:09
Speaker 4: the Marriers were the best team in that division wildcards,
20:13
Speaker 4: I guess, I guess I should remember my own picks,
20:16
Speaker 4: right Yan, And you know it's you could tell me
20:22
Speaker 4: eleven teams make the playoffs in the ALE, and I
20:25
Speaker 4: think they It's that kind of depth in that in
20:28
Speaker 4: that mingue right now, I really do think that the
20:30
Speaker 4: ALE is well ahead of the National League. So that's
20:33
Speaker 4: what you got there. And then you know, I've bet
20:35
Speaker 4: the Marriers winning the Pennant. I mean, I will see
20:37
Speaker 4: what happens in October, but I bet the Marors winning
20:39
Speaker 4: the Pennant.
20:41
Speaker 1: What is it about the Marriers that has changed from
20:44
Speaker 1: a year ago when you had them as a wildcard team?
20:46
Speaker 1: They didn't They didn't do a ton in the off season,
20:48
Speaker 1: but they're kind of running it back in a sense. Donovan,
20:50
Speaker 1: maybe the biggest acquisition of all, uh, they lose Polanco,
20:54
Speaker 1: which I think a few of us here a little
20:56
Speaker 1: curious how that's gonna work out, especially with the the
20:59
Speaker 1: the infield. But what what is Joe Sheen like about
21:01
Speaker 1: the Mariners.
21:03
Speaker 4: What's funny because I think come last August, after the
21:05
Speaker 4: great start he had and then got hitting for four months,
21:08
Speaker 4: I think everybody would have been happy to get rid
21:09
Speaker 4: of Horat Polanko. And of course he had the big September,
21:12
Speaker 4: he had the big offseason CV postseason.
21:14
Speaker 5: So.
21:16
Speaker 4: Bounced around on that. But I think that's so many infielders.
21:18
Speaker 4: You know. I looked at Koljong and you know, didn't hit,
21:21
Speaker 4: but played really good defense. At the end of last year.
21:23
Speaker 4: Colt Emerson hit well in spring training, it looks like,
21:25
Speaker 4: and then though Leo riuas to play short while Crawford
21:29
Speaker 4: comes back. We talked the last time, we talked about
21:32
Speaker 4: my wanting Emerson just to take over the shortstop job.
21:34
Speaker 4: I think he's writing he was a top five prospect
21:36
Speaker 4: in Major League Baseball. He's ready to play in the
21:37
Speaker 4: major league now. I think that by the end of
21:39
Speaker 4: the year this will be a better team than it
21:41
Speaker 4: is right now. But Donovan helps a lot gives him
21:43
Speaker 4: a true leadoff hitter. Arazarena wasn't that guy. Julio Rodriguez
21:47
Speaker 4: has never been that guy. They finally have somebody to
21:49
Speaker 4: bat in the off and I think that's gonna help
21:50
Speaker 4: the offense flow a lot better. Any of the top
21:53
Speaker 4: four starters are the top four starters, now, you know,
21:56
Speaker 4: I was high on Bryce Miller over the winter after
21:58
Speaker 4: we saw from him in the off season. It should
22:00
Speaker 4: be again in the post season. It's It's it's spring
22:04
Speaker 4: training for talkers too, so I'm still kind of working
22:07
Speaker 4: out some of the kings there. Okay, Bryce Millar obviously
22:12
Speaker 4: the oblique injury from hell, It's going to be Hancock
22:15
Speaker 4: to start the season. One of the big risks I
22:18
Speaker 4: think the Maris have is a lack of depth, pitching depth.
22:21
Speaker 4: If if they the next guy in line might be
22:24
Speaker 4: Dane Dunning, who kind of washed out of the Ranger
22:27
Speaker 4: system a couple of years ago. The top two pitching
22:29
Speaker 4: prospects are down a ball, Kat Anderson. It was the
22:32
Speaker 4: number three pick in the draft last year. I don't
22:34
Speaker 4: know that they're going to get a whole off on
22:35
Speaker 4: the system. So were they to have some of the
22:38
Speaker 4: pitching injuries like they did to Gilbert last year, like
22:40
Speaker 4: did the Kirby last year. That could be the one
22:42
Speaker 4: thing that undercuts this season. They just don't have any
22:44
Speaker 4: starting depth.
22:45
Speaker 1: They were Joshian joining us brought to by Northwest Handling
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Speaker 1: Systems show they had a historic season. Obviously, as we
22:51
Speaker 1: all know from cal Rawley, regression probably seems to be
22:55
Speaker 1: on the docket. I don't know if he's going to
22:57
Speaker 1: go back to back sixty home run seasons. What do
22:59
Speaker 1: you think is realistic to expect from and what do
23:02
Speaker 1: they need from cal Rawley this year?
23:05
Speaker 4: Just to go back to being the guy he was.
23:06
Speaker 4: If he just repeats what he did in twenty twenty four,
23:09
Speaker 4: that's a very good player. He was already an All
23:12
Speaker 4: Star caliber catcher, one of the best catcheres in baseball.
23:15
Speaker 4: They gave the big extension getting that in just under
23:17
Speaker 4: the wire. I think cal Rally would have been a
23:19
Speaker 4: little more expensive at for twenty twenty five. So just
23:23
Speaker 4: go back to being a thirty thirty five homewers good
23:25
Speaker 4: ovp very good bye to play. Obviously. You know there's
23:29
Speaker 4: a question as to how much framing is gonna matter
23:31
Speaker 4: for Himing is still going to matter even in the
23:33
Speaker 4: ABS world, so the things that he does wells will
23:36
Speaker 4: be there. Maybe you want to get him a little
23:38
Speaker 4: more rest. They're going with Garber the back of the catcher.
23:42
Speaker 4: I do think that they've worked him very hard over
23:44
Speaker 4: the last four years, and maybe you try to drop
23:46
Speaker 4: him down to one hundred and thirty game guy one
23:48
Speaker 4: hundred and twenty game guy, just to make sure that
23:50
Speaker 4: he gets through the season. He was fine in the
23:52
Speaker 4: second half last year, but in September we did see
23:54
Speaker 4: him start to wear down a bit, So that would
23:56
Speaker 4: be the one thing kind of managed to work a
23:58
Speaker 4: load a little bit. But I just don't think obviously
24:00
Speaker 4: you got projecting him at sixty one runs again. I
24:03
Speaker 4: do think you can safely project them at thirty to
24:05
Speaker 4: thirty five with a good OVP and good defense.
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Speaker 1: Joshi and Jonas Joshian newsletterle we'll tell you about that
24:09
Speaker 1: at the end. Joshian dot Com. Just in the division
24:12
Speaker 1: you wrote about two teams over under win totals. You
24:15
Speaker 1: have the Angels under seventy and a half wins the
24:18
Speaker 1: Astros under eighty six wins, calling them a five hundred team.
24:22
Speaker 1: I'll ask you about those two teams and the Rangers
24:24
Speaker 1: and the a Athletics as well. Like what's the Ale
24:28
Speaker 1: West look like? To Joshian, the Rangers.
24:31
Speaker 4: Were very good last year and got undercut at the
24:33
Speaker 4: end of the year by some injuries. They were the
24:35
Speaker 4: Bookman wasn't good. They lost a lot of close games,
24:37
Speaker 4: but you look at the underlying numbers and they were
24:39
Speaker 4: really the second best team in that division behind the Matters.
24:42
Speaker 4: I've got them as second best team this year in
24:44
Speaker 4: part because I've got the Astros really starting to We've
24:47
Speaker 4: seen the end of the Astros dynasty. I mean, they
24:49
Speaker 4: were a true talent five hundred team last year. They
24:52
Speaker 4: lost Valdez, picked up tatsy am I. They kind of running,
24:55
Speaker 4: kind of running in place. Going into this year, the
24:57
Speaker 4: Strangers team, they went out and added that Mackenzie Gore
25:00
Speaker 4: to go with the Grom and the Evalde. They guy
25:02
Speaker 4: rid of Marcus Semi and picked up Brandon Neimo. It's
25:05
Speaker 4: gonna hurt the defense, but healthy offense, especially the OVP,
25:08
Speaker 4: which was an issue to them. They've got to stay healthy.
25:10
Speaker 4: Evan Carter, who had that great postseason two and a
25:13
Speaker 4: half years ago. Now, if he can stay healthy, he'll
25:16
Speaker 4: be a big loose for them both defensively in centerfield
25:19
Speaker 4: and OVP in that lineup. I've got Wyatt Langford as
25:22
Speaker 4: one of the breakout stars in twenty twenty six. So
25:25
Speaker 4: just they do a little bit of everything. The offense
25:27
Speaker 4: killed them last year. I think a healthy Carter, a
25:29
Speaker 4: healthy Langford, adding Nemo all helps the offense. They got
25:32
Speaker 4: to get a bounce back from John Peterson because I mean,
25:35
Speaker 4: they just don't have that power back other than him.
25:38
Speaker 4: He's guy who's gonna go out there slug five point
25:40
Speaker 4: fifty against Rity's and give them a reasonable chance. But
25:42
Speaker 4: I met them in the second best, clearly the second
25:44
Speaker 4: best team in that division, and then to drop off
25:46
Speaker 4: to the Astros around five hundred the A's seventy three wins,
25:50
Speaker 4: and then the Angels are the worst team in the
25:51
Speaker 4: American leg. The Angels are just they're just so bad,
25:54
Speaker 4: and they're bad the way that isn't all that interesting.
25:58
Speaker 4: They pushed up a bunch of prospects. You know, they
26:00
Speaker 4: take a guy, they draft college, they have the well
26:03
Speaker 4: developed guys, they push him to the majors and they
26:05
Speaker 4: turn into two to three win players and that's great,
26:07
Speaker 4: but you know, they haven't developed pitching since I don't know,
26:10
Speaker 4: Frank Sinana or something. It's just been a really long
26:13
Speaker 4: time they've been put a good pitching staff on the man.
26:15
Speaker 4: You look at Jose Soriano, he's like a number three
26:17
Speaker 4: or number four. He's their number one. You say to
26:20
Speaker 4: COUCHA is the same thing the liberation the starter who's
26:23
Speaker 4: being forced up to a one or two slot for them.
26:26
Speaker 4: So the bullpen's bad. The defense is the worst in baseball.
26:30
Speaker 4: So you have a pitching staff that's not going to
26:31
Speaker 4: strike down a ton of guys in front of a defense,
26:34
Speaker 4: it's going to put a lot of balls in play
26:35
Speaker 4: in tournament A hits. So I think the Angels are
26:37
Speaker 4: really a disaster right now, and I'm not sure where
26:39
Speaker 4: they go from here. They almost have to start completely over,
26:43
Speaker 4: you know, kind of do what the Nationals are done,
26:45
Speaker 4: kind of do with the Marlins have done to a
26:48
Speaker 4: certain extent. Just to get back to contention.
26:51
Speaker 1: I like to hear that, though, makes you know, hopefully
26:53
Speaker 1: some some games that they can kind of shock up
26:55
Speaker 1: as some series wins.
26:56
Speaker 3: No way end of the Astros dynasty.
26:58
Speaker 1: I've been hoping for that the last five years. Thank you,
27:02
Speaker 1: Thank you him in the studio, I think Joe. I
27:06
Speaker 1: think everyone in seel Joe was likely to hear that.
27:08
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, let's start with the Mariners.
27:12
Speaker 1: Let's go yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, let's do it all right? Hey,
27:17
Speaker 1: just real quick, Abs, you mentioned it. We saw it
27:19
Speaker 1: in spring training, uh and and kind of kept an
27:22
Speaker 1: eye on it. What are your thoughts? How is this
27:24
Speaker 1: going to affect a game? What are fans going to notice?
27:26
Speaker 1: What are you just I think, because that's a big
27:27
Speaker 1: thing we're going to see just outside of the actual
27:30
Speaker 1: people on the field.
27:31
Speaker 4: It's pretty seamless. I've experienced at a minor league games,
27:35
Speaker 4: and fans do tend to like it. There's that moment
27:36
Speaker 4: of ooh is it a ball? Or of strike upon
27:38
Speaker 4: the video screen, because that's what you want to do.
27:40
Speaker 4: You want to go to a baseball game and look
27:41
Speaker 4: at a video screen. Uh. It's quick, it's and you
27:45
Speaker 4: don't really notice it once you once you see it
27:47
Speaker 4: once or twice. I will say that we've seen a
27:49
Speaker 4: lot of aggressive challenging in the spring because people are
27:51
Speaker 4: getting used to it. Let's try this out. There was
27:53
Speaker 4: a game where five straight pitches were overturned. You won't
27:57
Speaker 4: see as much challenging in the regular season because the
28:00
Speaker 4: challenges have a value to them. You don't want to
28:02
Speaker 4: waste them in a two out nobody on situation. You
28:05
Speaker 4: don't want to waste them in a no two count.
28:07
Speaker 4: You don't want to waste them with your worst hitters
28:09
Speaker 4: of the lad up, so you have see less challenge.
28:10
Speaker 4: I think the tactical aspects of challenging are going to
28:13
Speaker 4: overwhelm me. You know, the ball strike part of it.
28:16
Speaker 4: The Brewers had a great idea, which was they were
28:19
Speaker 4: literally going to signal from the dugout with a green
28:22
Speaker 4: or red sign whether the batter was allowed to challenge
28:25
Speaker 4: based on the context of is at bat, and the
28:28
Speaker 4: commissioner the league just immediately slapped that down. They want
28:31
Speaker 4: this to be a player generated thing. But I guarantee
28:34
Speaker 4: you the players are going to know going up to
28:36
Speaker 4: the to the plate whether they're allowed to challenge or
28:39
Speaker 4: not based on a game state.
28:41
Speaker 1: To a game, right, I think each each team has
28:43
Speaker 1: to a game and then you wrong challenges.
28:47
Speaker 4: You can be wrong twice, you can be right as
28:49
Speaker 4: many times as you want.
28:50
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, so there has to be some Yeah, there
28:53
Speaker 1: is some strategy with it, for sure. No doubt about it.
28:56
Speaker 1: The Joe Shian newsletter for baseball fans, and we know
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's good. I had a lot of a Marinus
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Speaker 4: the original guys at Baseball Perspectives. That's kind of my framework.
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Speaker 4: ongoing capsules on all thirty teams. They did today for
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29:35
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Speaker 4: What I had I had all the standings runs, loud Runs,
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Speaker 1: have a series under our belts here in Seattle and
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Speaker 1: all across Major League Baseball, so we'll have some actual
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30:20
Speaker 1: to you then there you go. That is Joshi and
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Speaker 1: Joshian dot com. Love having them on every Tuesday. Best
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Speaker 1: during the baseball season. Yeah, I just it's listen. He's
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Speaker 1: a stat nerd, but he can talk on a level
30:33
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30:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think for those of you who are
30:35
Speaker 3: Mariner fans who maybe don't follow the rest of Major
30:37
Speaker 3: League Baseball and you want to kind of get into
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Speaker 3: it a little bit more y just to kind of
30:40
Speaker 3: see the scope of the league. You don't have to
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Speaker 3: watch every single game. That's a perfect place to kind
30:44
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30:45
Speaker 1: Is a great point too, because it's not like going
30:46
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30:49
Speaker 1: the Yankees, Okay exactly. I mean he actually talks about
30:52
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Speaker 1: ahead of what could be a big step tomorrow and
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Speaker 1: we feeling? If you're a Seattle sports fan, Ryan don't care.
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Speaker 1: NBA is a trash products Stars missed twenty five percent
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Speaker 1: of the season. Regular season is pointless. I wish we
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Speaker 1: never lost the Sonics, But whatever ourybody, Keith Miller A
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Speaker 1: rare serious one for me. If when when we get
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Speaker 1: the Soups back in the full one hundred percent ball
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Speaker 1: in the air, players and fans, I'll be full gass
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Speaker 1: for them. Until then, I'm attired of the old of
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Speaker 1: the boy crying wolf and got off that roller coaster
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Speaker 1: after the Kevin Johnson King's heartbreak two o six. The
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Speaker 1: Charlie Brown. Every time we believe it's our time, the
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Speaker 1: NBA pulls the ball away. Can't be this point if
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Speaker 1: you don't have any expectations, begin with I want the
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Speaker 1: Sonics back, but don't trust the NBA. Marcus literally could
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Speaker 1: care less one way or the other. Been happy for
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Speaker 1: the people that are excited four to five Steve from
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Speaker 1: Stay our Sonics, Hey, Steve, what's up? Numbers years ago?
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Speaker 1: I'm with you in The NBA has been so dead
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Speaker 1: to me that I don't even know that Okay Se
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Speaker 1: won a title until yesterday. But I'll be back to
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Speaker 1: the day the Sonics return. It's like the first positive
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Speaker 1: one I'm looking at all these texts. It makes sense,
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Speaker 1: though I'm very curious I'm gonna be very curious because
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Speaker 1: oftentimes on the text line, even sometimes the talkbacks, I
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Speaker 1: think you too, since you're the ones that edit these
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Speaker 1: all the time, we agree, maybe we get it. They
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Speaker 1: tend to, especially texts, tend to trend towards more negative
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Speaker 1: than positive. Yes, But over the last couple of weeks,
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Speaker 1: when this stuff's been gaining traction and momentum, I think
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Speaker 1: we would all agree that by and large, there haven't
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Speaker 1: been a lot of positive. There has been a lot
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Speaker 1: of the feedback has been more negative than positive.
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Speaker 3: I do have a question for the text line at
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Speaker 3: what for those of you who care, Like there's some
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Speaker 3: of you like Marcus and said he didn't care. But
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Speaker 3: you know, for those who are excited, he's excited for them.
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Speaker 3: But for those of you who are son expands and
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Speaker 3: want them back, at what point will you allow yourself
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Speaker 3: to get excited?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Tomorrow's that'd be the question to asked tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: to be honest with you, right, because I think that
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Speaker 1: would be I think that wins over more people.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, what's the point of no return? If they vote
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Speaker 3: that there's expansion? Is is it like basically happening.
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Speaker 1: If they vote tomorrow that you're moving ahead. Yes, it's happening.
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Speaker 1: I'm just taking bit.
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Speaker 3: That's kind of what I thought too.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's not the announcement, right, see the announcement. Correct.
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Speaker 1: My understanding is though that this is a little bit different.
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Speaker 1: This is not the NHL. There's no there's not gonna
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Speaker 1: be a ticket drive any of that kind of nonsense,
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Speaker 1: you know, where you've got to prove to the league
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Speaker 1: that you can sell tickets or like, you know, the
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Speaker 1: NHL wanted to see, hey, will people buy tickets? Right,
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Speaker 1: And that's why they did that because remember there was
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Speaker 1: a deposit attached to that. It wasn't free, but it
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Speaker 1: was like you didn't just say yeah, was it fifty
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Speaker 1: or five hundred or one hundred? It was enough where
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Speaker 1: you have significant Yeah, I mean it was it was.
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Speaker 1: It was they're not doing that here. Tomorrow is gonna
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Speaker 1: be fun. Like I'm just gonna tell you right now.
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Speaker 1: I think it's I think I think it'll change the
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Speaker 1: attitude a lot of folks. And this is a fun week.
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Speaker 1: We got opening day on Thursday, we got that tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: Jsn's got a press conference tomorrow. What the hell? You know,
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Speaker 1: what going on? Tomorrow, Softy has John Wilner coming up
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Speaker 1: as well as Everett fits You from Florida ahead of
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Speaker 1: the Kraken and Panthers at three point thirty, which is
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Speaker 1: the pregame show here on KJR. All right, beer Hall tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: Queen and beer Hall hopefully having a little celebrate the
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Speaker 1: hopefully having a pint or two to raise and celebration
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Speaker 1: of of Adam Silver finally doing something for our city.
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Speaker 1: That's my only negative. I think he's a zero man.
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Speaker 1: I think he is an absolute flat out he's zero.
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Speaker 1: I think he's on the Rob Manford level of my book.
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Speaker 1: I'll change that tune tomorrow perhaps, so at one o'clock
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Speaker 1: it comes out and he has a press conference. It's
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Speaker 1: a little bit better than we've had lately. Dave, Softie
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Speaker 1: Mallar coming up again, John Wilder ever fits you join him.
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Speaker 1: Talk to you tomorrow for.
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Speaker 5: The mild mannered and marginally objectionable Inverness. This is Paddled
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Speaker 5: Day saying so long everyone,