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Furness Show 9-3: Seahawks Sale finalized, Eno Sarris, Brandon Funston, Todd Milles · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: The official transaction has closed, so they are the official owners.
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: The Seahawks officially have the new ownership group in place
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: six days before the first game as they defend their
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: NFL championship, the Super Bowl title. Here is the quote,
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  Speaker 1: and this is from the Koslow family. Statement. Quote, we
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  Speaker 1: are honored and excited to begin this next chapter. The
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks are known for championship culture, winning football, and a
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  Speaker 1: deep connection to the 12s in the Pacific Northwest. We
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  Speaker 1: look forward to engaging with the Seattle community and building
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  Speaker 1: upon the legacy and traditions that make this franchise so special.
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  Speaker 1: We'd like to extend our gratitude to the investors joining
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  Speaker 1: our ownership group and to everyone who has supported us
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  Speaker 1: throughout the sale process. Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures,
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  Speaker 1: will hold the title of chair. His wife, Neera, will
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  Speaker 1: be the controlling owner and president of the Seahawks Charitable Foundation.
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: And Neil Koslet is the vice chair. I'm just trying
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  Speaker 1: to read that again. Controlling owner and president of the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks Charitable Foundation.
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  Speaker 2: There's also a list of co-owners that are joining.
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  Speaker 1: And I went through that list. I don't recognize any
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  Speaker 1: of the names. So I'm not going to go through
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  Speaker 1: all of them. And some of the names, frankly, I
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  Speaker 1: would have a really hard time pronouncing. Yeah, it's fair.
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  Speaker 1: There are two at the end that are interesting. Carlisle
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  Speaker 1: and Dynasty Equity. And Sixth Street. Why does Sixth Street
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  Speaker 1: sound familiar? I've got to Google that. Can you Google
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  Speaker 1: that for me real quick? Sixth Street.
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  Speaker 2: It's an infrastructure company.
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  Speaker 1: Is that what it is? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, so that's.
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  Speaker 2: It's an investment firm.
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks will formally introduce the Coastal family via press conference
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday, September 9th at 9 a.m. at Lumen Field.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the opening game. And they're going to have
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  Speaker 1: a press conference at Lumen Field.
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  Speaker 2: On By the way, I did see a tweet from
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  Speaker 2: Vinod Khosla himself, Vinod, sorry if I mispronounced that, but
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  Speaker 2: that there was actually fans asking for Jody to raise
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  Speaker 2: the 12 flag or raise the banner one last time
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  Speaker 2: in their opener versus Jody. New England, and he was like,
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  Speaker 2: we would love Jody.
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  Speaker 3: To do that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's what's going to happen. I'd be
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  Speaker 1: stunned if it didn't.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a great way to kind of pass the torch.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of a nice little capper because she did it.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't she do it at the NFC Championship game too?
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  Speaker 1: I think so, yeah. Paul had done it previously at
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  Speaker 1: NFC Championship games, and one last time for people to
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  Speaker 1: thank her. And again, it's such a weird dynamic here
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  Speaker 1: in Seattle. That with her and Paul versus the Blazers
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  Speaker 1: ownership down there.
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  Speaker 2: It's just completely different.
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  Speaker 1: Now, we don't know what the Coastal family is all about.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to trust that they're– here's the good news.
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  Speaker 1: There's no chance they're going to be the Dundon ownership
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  Speaker 1: down there.
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  Speaker 2: Thank God.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, they have the financial wherewithal to own
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  Speaker 1: the team, even though they have some minority investors. But
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  Speaker 1: they're not going to be him. I think they understand.
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  Speaker 1: The other part of it, too, is this. There's the
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  Speaker 1: dynamics here that are in play. We can debate stadiums
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  Speaker 1: and grass and grass in stadiums or building a new
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  Speaker 1: stadium or whatever all day long. The reality is they're
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  Speaker 1: not moving. The NFL... Listen, the NFL didn't allow it
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  Speaker 1: to happen the last time, and they were playing in
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  Speaker 1: the damn kingdom. What he wants to do down the road,
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  Speaker 1: does he want to build? I always like people want
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  Speaker 1: to build a stadium, because when people talk, well, they
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  Speaker 1: can build another basketball arena instead of CPA for the
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  Speaker 1: Sonics coming.
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  Speaker 4: Where?
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  Speaker 5: Where?
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  Speaker 1: Like, tell me where. Yeah, it's true.
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  Speaker 6: Like, where?
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  Speaker 1: You're not building a football. Now, a football stadium might
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  Speaker 1: be easier in a sense. Yeah, you can go a
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  Speaker 1: little more outside. Could you build a football stadium in,
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  Speaker 1: you know, next to Emerald Downs in Auburn? Sure, 167
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  Speaker 1: would be a treat, right? Could you build one?
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  Speaker 2: Is that where the Sounders facility is, though? Longacres?
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  Speaker 1: No, Emerald Downs is Auburn.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: I get those two mixed up. Yeah, you're like my wife.
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  Speaker 1: My wife still thinks Longacres and the King don't exist.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, you maybe build one off. Because NFL stadiums,
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  Speaker 1: like Foxboro, for example, is out in the middle. It's
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  Speaker 1: in Foxboro.
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  Speaker 2: It's true. Honestly, most NFL stadiums are now. Not in
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  Speaker 2: the actual city that they are representing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if most. I'm trying to think.
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  Speaker 2: San Francisco is in Santa Clara.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, LA is in Englewood.
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  Speaker 2: In Englewood.
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  Speaker 1: Arizona's in Glendale.
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  Speaker 2: Not in Phoenix.
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  Speaker 1: I was just thinking Cincinnati and Cleveland are both in
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  Speaker 1: the city.
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  Speaker 2: KC's going to move.
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  Speaker 1: KC's going to move into the city. Or actually, KC's
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  Speaker 1: off the beaten path.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Chicago's going to move.
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  Speaker 1: Chicago's in the city, though, right now. But it's going
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  Speaker 1: to move.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Meadowlands, obviously, New York. Pittsburgh's in the city.
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  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh is, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's very much like Seattle. It's right next to the
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  Speaker 1: baseball park.
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  Speaker 3: Good, good.
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  Speaker 2: But there's few. There's not very many.
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  Speaker 1: Houston's a little bit out of town. Yeah, going through
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  Speaker 1: the list. Yeah, a lot of them are. That part
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  Speaker 1: of it, I'm not worried about. The part of them moving,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not worried about. I'm curious to see. I think
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  Speaker 1: that the only thing that you do touch if you're them,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't think they should either, would be the
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  Speaker 1: front office on the business side. But I think Chuck
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  Speaker 1: and his staff have done a hell of a job.
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  Speaker 1: Very biased, but I think they've done just a terrific job.
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  Speaker 2: And when you say that you do touch, that's the
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  Speaker 2: only thing you could see happening that they make changes with.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he's been pretty upfront about winning Super Bowls. I
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  Speaker 1: understand John Schneider and Mike McDonald. God, you'd have to
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  Speaker 1: be an absolute moron, Ken Baring, to see that what
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  Speaker 1: you have isn't working. It's working. It's very much working.
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  Speaker 1: You get the best GM in the NFL. It's been proven.
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  Speaker 2: Arguably the best coach.
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  Speaker 1: And if he's not the best, he's one of the top. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he's in the conversation.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Right?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But they officially become it. Again, looking through the list of,
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  Speaker 1: there's no co-owners on here named Lynch or Sherman or
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  Speaker 1: anything like that. No former players. NFL's not like, you
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  Speaker 1: can mess around with the MLS sometimes and do that,
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  Speaker 1: but the NFL's, we're talking $ 9 billion, man.
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  Speaker 6: It ain't happening.
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  Speaker 1: So they own the team. How about that?
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  Speaker 6: There it is.
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  Speaker 2: It's official. Does that mean they start operations now?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They officially closed. It's right now. Is now the controlling
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  Speaker 1: owner of the team. Coastal Family is now the controlling
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  Speaker 1: owner of the team. Glad they got it done before
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  Speaker 1: the season started.
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  Speaker 3: I agree.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, you know, and, and, uh, that's yeah. Good deal.
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  Speaker 1: It feels weird. I'm, I'm trying, I'm trying to wrap
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  Speaker 1: my arms around this four, nine, four, five. Well, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to have so many texts on fantasy day, but four, nine, four, five, one.
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  Speaker 1: It's the end of an era. Officially we knew it
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  Speaker 1: was coming and it's kind of felt like that for
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  Speaker 1: a bit. Once this, this group came forward. Um, I
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  Speaker 1: do think one of the corners is one of the
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  Speaker 1: people that were bound, uh, I don't know how you
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  Speaker 1: pronounce the names, but it's the one family that was
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  Speaker 1: also bidding on it. I think they're a co-owner, too.
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  Speaker 6: Got it.
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  Speaker 1: Or a minority owner, I'd say. Well, they call them co-owners.
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  Speaker 1: But they have a controlling interest in the coal site.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, pretty wild. I'm just thinking on the fly,
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  Speaker 1: so bear with me. It's just pretty wild. It's kind
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  Speaker 1: of hitting home. It's hitting home that that's it for
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  Speaker 1: the Allen family. And I think we all really do
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  Speaker 1: owe them a lot of gratitude and a lot of thanks.
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  Speaker 2: There is an element of unknown as well.
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  Speaker 1: There's an element of unknown. But what we do know
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  Speaker 1: is what Paul Allen did to save football in Seattle,
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  Speaker 1: to get the stadium built. And I want to give
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  Speaker 1: a shout-out, too, because when that stuff was going on,
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  Speaker 1: I'll see if I can get Softee to focus at 245.
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  Speaker 1: I doubt it, but I'll try. You know, I wasn't here,
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  Speaker 1: but I do believe there was a lot of push
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  Speaker 1: from guys like Gass and Graz. trying to rally people
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  Speaker 1: on the vote and all those things. This radio station
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  Speaker 1: was at the forefront of that. Way back then, before
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  Speaker 1: any of us were here, Softy might have been. I'll
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  Speaker 1: ask him. But, you know, the Allens saved football. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't make every decision wasn't perfect by any means. The
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  Speaker 1: decision to keep Ruskell over Holmgren as the GM and
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  Speaker 1: the subsequent decision to get rid of Mike in favor
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  Speaker 1: of Jim Mora, which Paul Allen had to sign off on,
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  Speaker 1: was wrong. The good news is Paul Allen didn't care,
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  Speaker 1: and he signed off, and then he signed off on
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  Speaker 1: paying more to leave and hiring Pete Carroll and John Schneider. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the rest is history. You've done all you need to
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  Speaker 1: do right there. And then Jody takes over in 2018
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  Speaker 1: and has to make the difficult decision, A, to tell
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  Speaker 1: Russell Wilson to leave my office. I'm not firing people. B,
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  Speaker 1: sign off on a trade that was one of the
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  Speaker 1: greatest trades in the NFL ever to get rid of
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  Speaker 1: Russ and bring in what they did. And then on
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  Speaker 1: top of that, when you look at what happened later,
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  Speaker 1: it's like we got to make the difficult decision to
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  Speaker 1: say goodbye to Pete Carroll.
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  Speaker 2: A couple years later, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And trust that John Schneider is going to be, is
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  Speaker 1: the guy and is going to make the right decision
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  Speaker 1: to coach. And last I checked, he made the right decision.
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  Speaker 2: I think so.
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  Speaker 1: End of the day, they do things first class. The
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  Speaker 1: Allen family did. They got two Super Bowl titles here.
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  Speaker 1: If you look around our city, Storm Sounders fans, take
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  Speaker 1: a breath for a second. We have three major titles.
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  Speaker 1: 79 NBA championship and two Super Bowls. And two of
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  Speaker 1: the three belong to the Allen family. So I just
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  Speaker 1: say thank you, man. I say thank you to Paul,
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  Speaker 1: the late Paul Allen, and to Jody Allen as well,
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  Speaker 1: because we have a premier NFL franchise in our city.
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  Speaker 1: And we complain all the time about everything else. Mariners related,
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: Kraken aren't good enough, haven't been good enough to start.
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  Speaker 1: Sounders don't want to spend money this year. Stormer, allegedly rebuilding,
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  Speaker 1: but basically everyone left them last year. They got, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: all these programs that have had Varying degrees of success,
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  Speaker 1: the gold standard in our city period and a story
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  Speaker 1: in terms of how they run things on the field
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  Speaker 1: and off the field, the gold standard period would be
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  Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks. And that's because of the Allen family.
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  Speaker 1: And you can look up if you're at the game
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday next week and you'll see a banner being raised.
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  Speaker 1: At least if you're, unless you're underneath the banner on
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  Speaker 1: the west side, then you won't see it. You'll just
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  Speaker 1: see it on the screen, but they're going to raise
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  Speaker 1: that banner and it's going to be pretty damn awesome.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you to the Allen family as they officially
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  Speaker 1: hand over the keys to the house. to the Coastal
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  Speaker 1: family who are now, as of right now, the controlling
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: owners of the NFL Seattle Seahawks. We'll take a break.
• 10:04
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• 10:09
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• 10:59
  Speaker 1: How are you?
• 11:00
  Speaker 11: It's going well. It's getting late early for the.
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  Speaker 3: Mariners, though.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, it is.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to get to them in a heartbeat. I
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: want to touch in on something. We didn't spend enough
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: time on it when it happened. We had something else
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: going on. I forget what it was because the announcement
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: comes and we're running around doing stuff. But it's very
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: relevant to our local team and others, especially in the
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: American League West. I know you guys talked about it
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: on your podcast. The sale of the Angels by Artie
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: Moreno to Stan Kroenke, our friend that owns the favorite
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: football team of our friends here in Seattle, the LA Rams,
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: among others, Avalanche. also the Nuggets. Arsenal, Anders tells me,
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  Speaker 1: is really good. All the teams above I just mentioned
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  Speaker 1: have all won titles. What does that mean for the Angels?
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: What are the ramifications potentially for an owner that has
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  Speaker 1: a tradition of winning owning a team in Anaheim?
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  Speaker 11: I think one of the most important things with Kroenke
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  Speaker 11: versus Artie Moreno is that he has a tradition, or
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  Speaker 11: at least a people have said this about him, that
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  Speaker 11: he will let the people that work for him do
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  Speaker 11: their jobs. And, you know, there's been a lot of
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  Speaker 11: speculation that Arnie Moreno was the driving force behind the
• 12:20
  Speaker 11: Abra Pujols deal, which was, you know, one of the
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  Speaker 11: worst deals of recent history in terms of production per cost. And,
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  Speaker 11: you know, there's been also this prevailing feature of the Angels,
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  Speaker 11: which is We're going to buy these overpriced free agents,
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  Speaker 11: and we're going to not invest at all in our youth,
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  Speaker 11: in data and tech, in player development. And so the
• 12:48
  Speaker 11: joke around baseball is if you get drafted by the Angels,
• 12:52
  Speaker 11: you're going to be in the big leagues tomorrow. because
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  Speaker 11: they don't really value player development. They don't really invest
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  Speaker 11: in coaches on the minor league level. So why spend
• 13:03
  Speaker 11: too much time down there, get them up to the
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  Speaker 11: big leagues? And that's been what they've done. I mean,
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  Speaker 11: Christian Moore, I mean, all these guys, they've almost gone
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  Speaker 11: directly to the major leagues. And it worked out for
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  Speaker 11: Zach Netto, and it's worked out for some guys, but
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  Speaker 11: their pitchers in particular have taken a longer time to develop.
• 13:20
  Speaker 11: Reed Detmer has took forever to develop to where he
• 13:22
  Speaker 11: is now. So I think just generally, you could see
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  Speaker 11: it in the COVID year. In 2020, you could see
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  Speaker 11: which teams valued their player development, their coaches, and their
• 13:33
  Speaker 11: minor leaguers by who paid them. And the Los Angeles Angels,
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  Speaker 11: during the COVID shutdown, fired all their coaches and did
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  Speaker 11: not pay any of their minor leaguers and basically broadcast
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  Speaker 11: to the world that they didn't really care about minor
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  Speaker 11: league development in the same way that the teams did.
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  Speaker 1: My question was going to be a follow-up, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't think it needed it. How are the LA Angels
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  Speaker 1: sitting at 53-87, and you just explained it. It sounds like,
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  Speaker 1: under Moreno, two things. One, an owner that meddled. Two,
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  Speaker 1: an ownership that didn't value what today's baseball, you know,
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: is all about. We have you on for that reason.
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  Speaker 1: We talk about it here all the time. I know
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: Mariner fans get pissed. Too much stuff with the iPad. Well, like,
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: you need those things. Anders and I were talking this yesterday,
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: you know, real quick, is that we're watching Bryce Miller pitch.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the things, concerns with Miller has been
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: he starts out 97, high 90s, and all of a
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: sudden his VLO drops and all these things. But that's
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: not at all. You talk about it all the time.
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  Speaker 1: What's the spin rate? What's, you know, how's all those?
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  Speaker 1: And it sounds like the Angels were operating in 1975,
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  Speaker 1: is what you're kind of telling me right now. And
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: that would be bad news for everyone in the AL
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: West and the AL moving ahead if they change their philosophy.
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  Speaker 11: Well, in fact, it's why Jerry DiPoto is with Seattle.
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  Speaker 11: Because Jerry DiPoto was the general manager of the Angels
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  Speaker 11: under Artie Moreno. And he left basically because he wasn't
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  Speaker 11: being listened to on certain things, because Artie Moreno was overreaching,
• 15:08
  Speaker 11: you know, and because they didn't value the same things
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  Speaker 11: he did in terms of numbers and analytics and player development.
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  Speaker 11: And it doesn't have to be analytics. It's just valuing
• 15:18
  Speaker 11: young players because if you tried to build an entire
• 15:22
  Speaker 11: team out of free agency that was like a 90-win team,
• 15:26
  Speaker 11: it would have to be a $ 700, $ 800 million payroll.
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  Speaker 11: That's just the reality of free agency. And anybody who's
• 15:33
  Speaker 11: looked at a major league roster and kind of thought
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  Speaker 11: it through knows it becomes really obviously really quickly how
• 15:39
  Speaker 11: important young players are because they're on the league minimum.
• 15:42
  Speaker 11: And if they can be a star, that's amazing. But
• 15:44
  Speaker 11: even just a couple of relievers that are on league
• 15:47
  Speaker 11: minimum and, you know, like maybe Cole Young's not a star.
• 15:51
  Speaker 11: He's not the next A-Rod. He's amazingly valuable to the Mariners, right?
• 15:57
  Speaker 11: Because he's, a league minimum guy that's playing at like a,
• 16:00
  Speaker 11: you know, a better, if you don't want us to talk,
• 16:03
  Speaker 11: he's better than a normal regular. He's an above average regular. So,
• 16:09
  Speaker 11: you know, that's, that's, that is something that's worrisome because
• 16:11
  Speaker 11: the merit, the, the angels farm system has clawed its
• 16:15
  Speaker 11: way to about league average. And I think that either
• 16:18
  Speaker 11: John was Iliac, whoever they bring in next, we'll trade away.
• 16:22
  Speaker 11: The rest of the guys that are there, the Ben
• 16:23
  Speaker 11: Joyce's read that mercy. and get that farm system somewhere good,
• 16:28
  Speaker 11: and then try to build something that's sustainable, which is
• 16:31
  Speaker 11: to have the farm system continue to turn out guys
• 16:34
  Speaker 11: while you're spending at the major league level. The good
• 16:36
  Speaker 11: thing for Angels fans is they've proven that they can
• 16:39
  Speaker 11: spend a little bit. So if you can add that
• 16:41
  Speaker 11: spending with minor league, with some good youth, then there
• 16:46
  Speaker 11: might be trouble.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Well, and a guy that also owns a team, another
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: team that won a Super Bowl and is a Super
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Bowl favorite this year, and obviously spends whatever they want.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: They've Much like we always joke about, much like the
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Vegas Golden Knights in the NHL, we don't know if
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: there's a salary cap for the Rams, but they spend.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: And his team, I don't know, have the Rapids, Andrews,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: ever won a title? I don't believe so. They may
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: have in the final a couple times.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: But Arsenal in England just won their Premier League title
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: for the first time in 20 plus years.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Nuggets have an NBA title. Avs have a couple Stanley Cups.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Rams have won a title. Yeah, I just think it's
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: bad news for everybody else. Because like you just said,
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: this is a guy that's going to... just on a
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: side note, you know, you know, seriously, athletic rates and
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: barrels podcast. I do like, I'm an old soul. I'm
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: kind of a dipstick, but I bristle when I hear
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: people complain about quote unquote analytics, like analytics has turned
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: into this like all encompassing excuse. If things aren't going
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: well for their team that I don't know, I don't
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: know where, how we got here, but it just feels
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: like that's an excuse. Oftentimes.
• 17:45
  Speaker 11: I think I know how we got here because it,
• 17:47
  Speaker 11: I will admit that it may not be the, I, I,
• 17:52
  Speaker 11: I love baseball and I think it's in a pretty
• 17:53
  Speaker 11: decent space. I mean, we have these amazing athletes that
• 17:56
  Speaker 11: are hitting the ball super hard and throwing the ball
• 17:58
  Speaker 11: super hard, but I will admit that strikeout is, strikeout
• 18:02
  Speaker 11: rates are up and batting averages are down. And if
• 18:04
  Speaker 11: you compare them to like the, you know, our all-star
• 18:07
  Speaker 11: teams to the all-star teams of the mid nineties, which
• 18:11
  Speaker 11: was problematic for its own reasons. We all remember people
• 18:14
  Speaker 11: like share, like, you know, the 1997, you know, all-star game.
• 18:19
  Speaker 11: I'm like, well, what else were they doing? But anyway,
• 18:25
  Speaker 11: you know, I, I do, I do remember I grew
• 18:27
  Speaker 11: up in that time and I remember three 30 batting
• 18:29
  Speaker 11: averages and three forties and three fifties and, and, and,
• 18:32
  Speaker 11: you know, and so, and balls in play are fun.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: I get it.
• 18:35
  Speaker 11: So I can see how someone might say, I, I,
• 18:38
  Speaker 11: I preferred it when there were more balls in play
• 18:41
  Speaker 11: and I preferred it when analytics didn't have this influence
• 18:44
  Speaker 11: because I, You know, the strikeout rate is up. There's
• 18:47
  Speaker 11: fewer balls in play. I get that. And so then
• 18:50
  Speaker 11: you turn to analytics as something to blame. But analytics
• 18:54
  Speaker 11: is just a catch word for studying the game and
• 18:56
  Speaker 11: trying to win it. You know, you know, just trying
• 18:59
  Speaker 11: to study the game and win it. And you cannot
• 19:02
  Speaker 11: blame any of the teams or the players for trying
• 19:07
  Speaker 11: to do that. The players are trying to, they're training
• 19:10
  Speaker 11: in these facilities with the best data and tech in
• 19:13
  Speaker 11: order to make the most money. You can't blame them
• 19:15
  Speaker 11: for that. That's their job. And then the teams, they're
• 19:17
  Speaker 11: just trying to win games. You can't blame them. That's
• 19:19
  Speaker 11: their job. So it's our jobs with the stewards of
• 19:23
  Speaker 11: the game and Manfred's job and baseball MLB with the
• 19:28
  Speaker 11: capital letters. It's their job to kind of figure out
• 19:31
  Speaker 11: how to incentivize each of those things to how to
• 19:34
  Speaker 11: twist the dials so that we, they get what the
• 19:37
  Speaker 11: game they want. And I, you know, I think that
• 19:39
  Speaker 11: some of the stuff they've done is good. You know, I,
• 19:41
  Speaker 11: I like the, the pace of the game with the
• 19:43
  Speaker 11: pitch clock.
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 19:44
  Speaker 12: Yes.
• 19:45
  Speaker 11: You know, there's, there's different things we can do. We
• 19:47
  Speaker 11: can move the mound back. You know, I like this idea.
• 19:51
  Speaker 11: We could just draw the infields smaller. You know, like
• 19:56
  Speaker 11: the infield cutout can be further in, you know, because
• 19:59
  Speaker 11: we already have a rule that they can't be on
• 20:01
  Speaker 11: the outfield. But just bring that in. Then they can't
• 20:03
  Speaker 11: stand as far back. Another idea that I've had is
• 20:07
  Speaker 11: paint dots on the ball. so that hitters can see
• 20:11
  Speaker 11: spin better.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I like that. Well, what you said, too, for the
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: pitch clock, I remember when that first came up, and
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: it was like this weird, like, oh, my God, what
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: are we thinking? Like, how are we doing this? I
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: find it so much more pleasurable to watch a game
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: when I don't see a batter going out of the box,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: taking shots, 45, 50 seconds to reset every piece of
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: armor he has on him, and then the pitcher will
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: step off, and it's like, it just was great.
• 20:40
  Speaker 11: They used to have times where they would do those
• 20:42
  Speaker 11: in succession. The hitter would do it, and as soon
• 20:45
  Speaker 11: as the hitter comes set, the pitcher would do it.
• 20:46
  Speaker 11: You're like, come on. Somebody throw a pitch.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Just anybody. Throw a pitch. Throw a pitch.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: First inning's a half hour long with 15 pitches.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Ito Serra's joining us. You mentioned it. Mariners, all right,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: here we are. A week ago, you pushed back. I said,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: if somebody gets swept... In Toronto or Seattle, in Toronto
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: next weekend, I think their chances of the wild card
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: are pretty slim. It's going to knock them out. You said, ah,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: not so fast. It happened. And really now when it's
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: all said and done, Seattle only lost a couple games
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: because they won the last two. They're four and a
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: half out of the wild card. They are five, probably
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: what seemed to be five and a half, it looks like.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Astros up big right now. against the Chicago White Sox.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: You can give us something we can't have here in Seattle, Eno.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: That is an objective perspective of where our baseball team
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: is as we head down the home stretch.
• 21:34
  Speaker 11: And that is usually my job, you know, because I
• 21:36
  Speaker 11: do a lot of fancy stuff. And, you know, it's
• 21:39
  Speaker 11: usually my job to say, don't drop this guy. He's
• 21:41
  Speaker 11: going to, you know, eventually get there. And, you know,
• 21:44
  Speaker 11: keep calm and carry on is, you know, one of
• 21:47
  Speaker 11: my caring things. I will switch it up on you.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 21:51
  Speaker 11: You know, now, now is the time. And especially the
• 21:56
  Speaker 11: seven games against the A's out of the next 10. Like,
• 22:00
  Speaker 11: I think they have to go five and two in
• 22:02
  Speaker 11: those seven games. Maybe, you know, six and one. Because
• 22:06
  Speaker 11: it's now. The schedule's getting shorter. They're five games back.
• 22:09
  Speaker 11: They need to put together like a five-game win streak.
• 22:12
  Speaker 11: They need to put together like a seven-game win streak.
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: So.
• 22:15
  Speaker 11: This is the time. The offense woke up a little
• 22:19
  Speaker 11: bit in Boston with those last two games, and they
• 22:21
  Speaker 11: got four games against the A's. Their pitching staff is
• 22:24
  Speaker 11: in shambles right now. This is the time to make
• 22:28
  Speaker 11: it six in a row and go into Texas with
• 22:31
  Speaker 11: a six-game win streak. I'm putting that on them. I
• 22:35
  Speaker 11: wasn't as worried about it before, but now it's getting tighter.
• 22:39
  Speaker 11: They're five games back, and these are the games they're.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Supposed to 70 and 74 is what the record would
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: be if they get those games coming up. You know,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Sarah's joining us. We've talked about him all year. He
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: looks better. It's a funny thing with Cal Raleigh. He's
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: jacked up his OPS. everything looks better in the last
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: couple weeks. It feels though there's like a lot of
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: one for four, one for five games, but there's a
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: home run mixed in there. I don't know if we're
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: being teased. I don't know what we see with Cal.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know what to think with Cal. Then, of course,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: he doesn't play yesterday, and we're all bashing these guys
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: for not playing him and Montes, and then they go
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: out and drop eight runs, and they make us all
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: look like idiots. So good for Merritt. Chaka went up
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: for Dan and Jerry yesterday. But what are you seeing
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: from Cal? I ask you this every week. What are
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: you seeing now from him?
• 23:24
  Speaker 11: Well, the slugging is back, and the one thing that
• 23:27
  Speaker 11: I wanted for him was being aggressive in the zone
• 23:29
  Speaker 11: and being more aggressive in the zone. And that is
• 23:32
  Speaker 11: going to lead to strikeouts, and there was always going
• 23:34
  Speaker 11: to be some discomfort, I think, in getting back into
• 23:37
  Speaker 11: being aggressive. But I think that's the better version of Cal.
• 23:42
  Speaker 11: He has a great sense of where the box is,
• 23:45
  Speaker 11: and if he's aggressive in that box, he's going to
• 23:49
  Speaker 11: have that 30% strikeout rate he always has. Then he'll
• 23:51
  Speaker 11: turn that one hit out of those four into a homer.
• 23:54
  Speaker 11: And that's more important for him because he's never, I
• 23:57
  Speaker 11: don't think he's ever going to be a guy who
• 23:59
  Speaker 11: hits 300. I mean, that's pretty obvious. And so, you know,
• 24:02
  Speaker 11: if you're going to hit 220, 230, 240, slug, slug, baby, slug.
• 24:07
  Speaker 11: So I think in particular, I've seen him being more
• 24:10
  Speaker 11: aggressive on things he can get his arms extended on.
• 24:13
  Speaker 11: That's where he's traditionally been his best. And I think
• 24:16
  Speaker 11: just finding a place in the zone that you're super
• 24:18
  Speaker 11: aggressive on, you know, makes everything else look a little
• 24:22
  Speaker 11: bit worse. That's something Adrian Belcher told me. He said,
• 24:25
  Speaker 11: people try to throw me high fastballs. And I said,
• 24:29
  Speaker 11: why do you throw me high fastballs? I can hit those.
• 24:33
  Speaker 11: I love them. But he also said, I started targeting
• 24:36
  Speaker 11: high fastballs, and that made all of the low breaking
• 24:39
  Speaker 11: balls look crappier. So really, that's the idea we've been
• 24:44
  Speaker 11: talking about, about being aggressive in the zone and not hitting,
• 24:49
  Speaker 11: not swinging at balls. Really, the thing is to find
• 24:52
  Speaker 11: the thing that you can do best and be super
• 24:54
  Speaker 11: aggressive there. And that will make everything else look much worse.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: You know, Sarah, just a couple more things real quick.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Last month, I made his debut the other day. It
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: wasn't bad. I had a couple of hits, including a
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: home run. Not bad for a kid coming up to
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the major leagues for the first time at Fenway Park.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know how much you followed him in the
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: minors or watched him coming up, but Mariner fans, you know,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: you can rest assured are pretty excited about what they
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: saw in that first game.
• 25:18
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I think in the long term, he's going to
• 25:19
  Speaker 11: have some similarities to Cal where he's going to be
• 25:23
  Speaker 11: aggressive in the zone. He's probably got more chase than Cal,
• 25:26
  Speaker 11: so there's a little bit of risk there with the
• 25:28
  Speaker 11: batting average and the strikeout rate. But he's got elite
• 25:32
  Speaker 11: bat speed, you know, 77, 76 and a half mile
• 25:36
  Speaker 11: an hour bat speed. That is up there with the
• 25:38
  Speaker 11: best of them. And, you know, I don't think that
• 25:40
  Speaker 11: he has the same issues of like a Jordan Walker
• 25:43
  Speaker 11: in terms of bad path or anything. Like this is a,
• 25:46
  Speaker 11: this is a guy who is your traditional slugger. And
• 25:49
  Speaker 11: the more he hits the ball super hard, the more
• 25:51
  Speaker 11: pitchers are going to be afraid of him. And, you know,
• 25:54
  Speaker 11: he'll get his walks.
• 25:55
  Speaker 8: So.
• 25:56
  Speaker 11: I hope that they don't think that he'll put up
• 25:59
  Speaker 11: a great batting average. But even if he hits 240,
• 26:01
  Speaker 11: this is the kind of bat that can hit 40
• 26:03
  Speaker 11: or 50 homers in a year.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: You'll be watching tonight. We've got the kids on the
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: mound again. Kate Anderson gets his third start tonight.
• 26:12
  Speaker 11: Yeah, his fastball shape got better in his next start.
• 26:16
  Speaker 11: And I think the one disconnect between his minor league
• 26:19
  Speaker 11: numbers and his major league numbers is his fastball is
• 26:21
  Speaker 11: not his best pitch. He has great command. He has
• 26:24
  Speaker 11: a great changeup. He commands his breaking ball as well.
• 26:27
  Speaker 11: That's going to dominate in the minor leagues. You know,
• 26:30
  Speaker 11: I don't know that he has necessarily the ceiling of
• 26:34
  Speaker 11: people's thought given those minor league numbers because that fastball
• 26:39
  Speaker 11: isn't the best. But I think right now he's already
• 26:43
  Speaker 11: sort of a good number three. And, you know, there's
• 26:46
  Speaker 11: always a chance that either improves the fastball or becomes
• 26:50
  Speaker 11: so dominant with his secondary stuff that the fastball weakness
• 26:53
  Speaker 11: is not that big a deal. So this is still
• 26:56
  Speaker 11: a really exciting arm, even if it's not going to
• 27:00
  Speaker 11: strike out 40% and walk 5% like it did in
• 27:02
  Speaker 11: the minus.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's walked 5% and struck out 8% in his
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: 10 innings. I was just going to ask you, I
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: know it's command and everything, but how much does Velo
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: really still have to matter? If he's topping out at 94-95%,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Can you still be an elite pitcher in baseball with
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: that velocity at that point as a starter?
• 27:26
  Speaker 11: I think it puts more pressure on everything. So he's
• 27:28
  Speaker 11: going to have to be finer with everything. And I
• 27:30
  Speaker 11: think that really what it puts the most pressure on
• 27:33
  Speaker 11: are those breaking balls. Because he's got a great changeup,
• 27:35
  Speaker 11: but he's got to set them up somehow. And if
• 27:38
  Speaker 11: you can't set them up with a dominant fastball... then
• 27:41
  Speaker 11: you've got to set them up somehow else. And I
• 27:43
  Speaker 11: don't know, you know, other ways of solving this have
• 27:46
  Speaker 11: been to have three fastballs, you know, to start throwing
• 27:49
  Speaker 11: a cutter and a sinker. Another way that he could
• 27:52
  Speaker 11: do it is to throw that slider as a cutter,
• 27:55
  Speaker 11: throw it as a pitch they have to honor in
• 27:58
  Speaker 11: the zone. So there are ways forward for him, yes,
• 28:01
  Speaker 11: but the– The 94-mile-an-hour fastball is league average now, even
• 28:05
  Speaker 11: for a lefty starter. And, you know, it is in
• 28:10
  Speaker 11: the greatest shape in the world. So there's some work
• 28:12
  Speaker 11: for him to do.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Tell folks about the Rates and Barrels podcast, my friend.
• 28:18
  Speaker 11: Today we talked about how arm angle predicts injury and
• 28:23
  Speaker 11: particularly how guys with high arm slots who throw sweepers,
• 28:29
  Speaker 11: there's been some research that just came out that shows
• 28:32
  Speaker 11: that they have higher injury risk. This is interesting for
• 28:36
  Speaker 11: the Mariners because at some point they all threw sweepers
• 28:40
  Speaker 11: in the minor league. They've all pretty much put them away.
• 28:44
  Speaker 11: But Gilbert and Miller had the highest arm slots and
• 28:49
  Speaker 11: were throwing high arm slot sweepers for a little bit.
• 28:51
  Speaker 11: I don't know. Miller's had some injury issues, so it's
• 28:54
  Speaker 11: an interesting thing to think about. You don't really want
• 28:57
  Speaker 11: to throw a sideways frisbee sweeper slider from a high
• 29:02
  Speaker 11: arm slot. It almost doesn't even make sense if you
• 29:05
  Speaker 11: think about it.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: That's great to know. Anders, are you pretty happy about that?
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: Not really.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: He's really kind of poo-pooing on all of our pitchers here.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: What the hell?
• 29:14
  Speaker 11: No, they mostly dropped it. They mostly dropped it. Nobody
• 29:17
  Speaker 11: really throws a ton of sweepers in that rotation.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: I like it. All right. We will check in with
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: you next week. Thanks, my friend.
• 29:26
  Speaker 11: All right, thanks.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: That is Ido Saris from The Athletic, theathletic.com, also the
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Rates and Barrels podcast. We'll wrap up our number one
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: coming up next.
• 29:36
  Speaker 10: Now back to Ian Furness on your home for the Huskies, Kraken.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: And the 12th man.
• 29:41
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• 29:45
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• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Good conversation there with Ian Osiris, Mariners tonight. Kate Anderson
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: goes to the mound. We haven't seen the lineup yet,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: I don't believe, but we'll see you once soon. We'll
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Hopefully Montez is in it. I would assume he is.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: We were just talking about the analytics. And, you know,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: I laugh when I hear it because, you know, Greg's
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: kind of old school a little bit. Greg always, put
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: the iPad down, make a decision. And there is some
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: of that. And listen, all sports have some of that.
• 30:15
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 30:16
  Speaker 12: Right?
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: All sports have some of that.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Some more than others.
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: I hear that from Kraken fans all the time. They
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: care more about the analytics and, you know, this and
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: that and all those things. And I always just kind
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: of counter with, yeah, I get that. But if you
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: have all this information at your fingertips, aren't you doing
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: your organization a disservice if you're not taking advantage of everything,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: whether it be the eye test, an ex-player's eye test,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: or the numbers that are as detailed and well-researched and
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: thought out as humanly possible? And then I have Eno
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: come on and tell me, Yeah, that's the problem with
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: the 53 and 87 LA Angels.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Who have all the money in the world, but have
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: made the playoffs once since 2010.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: And they have basically said, we don't care about player development,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: which goes into the analytics world and everything else. I just,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: it's mind-boggling. But now, now you've got an owner that
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: all he does is win. And what Eno said is
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: the most terrifying part.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: He steps out and lets people do their job.
• 31:18
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: That's what the Allen family most of the time here did.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: Except when it was needed, right?
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: And the one major flub when they somehow Rusko won
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: a power battle.
• 31:29
  Speaker 12: Right.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: But outside of that, Paul, he had a little more
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: hands-on with the Blazers. I can tell you that from
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: being down there. But not day-to-day draft. Not Jerry Jones. No,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: he kind of fancied himself a draft guy. I mean, famously,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: the Martell-Webster draft was an awful draft pick, but he
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: fell in love with Martell. He's from here and everything.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: He was at the workout.
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: It was crazy.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: But by and large, hey, Mike, go do your thing. Pete, John,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: do your thing, right? And Moreno wanted to get involved.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: It's almost like an owner hiring a manager. But I
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: think the end result, though, I think is good for
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: the Angels, bad for the rest of the AL West. Especially,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: he's got an NFL team in town, so his name
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: means something there. I would assume those guys have a
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: big ass offseason. And a total change of culture in there, too.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. And it's been an issue for a while. and
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: what Eno was talking about with the analytics I think
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: is very poignant because it's one thing to say you
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: missed the era of baseball and you liked it better
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: when they weren't so prominent and it was a more
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: watchable product. I actually most often agree with that. Like
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Eno was mentioning, you had more balls in play, higher
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: batting averages, more offense, all of that stuff. Because I
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: think analytics more than anything else helps pitching.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Sure, absolutely.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: So, but to say that you think that it would
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: help your team win more if you use less analytics
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: is just flat out ignorant.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: And naive.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Well, it's irresponsible.
• 33:07
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: It's irresponsible. As management or ownership, it's irresponsible.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Now, you can use them in different ways.
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: And you could still mix in some gut feel sort
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: of managerial stuff or roster construction stuff with the analytics.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: But just to say, use less of it. Don't rely
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: on it as much.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: It's ridiculous.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: It's... No. I... You'll be the angels if that's what
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: you want. Now, here's where I draw the line. I
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: do have a line in the set.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: What's your line? I.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: I am, and you know this, I don't care how
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: hard a ball is hit to a second baseman for
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: a 4-3 out.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: It's true.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: You can hit a ball a zillion miles an hour.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: I look down at my scorecard. It says 4-3.
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Great, you hit it hard.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: This is where the analytics side of things kind of
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: gets a bad rap, and I think they don't do
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: a good enough job of explaining this a lot of
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: the time. They're not saying that, oh, that was a
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: good outcome because he hit the ball hard. It's trying
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: to be predictive.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: The picture that they paint, the picture with a PIC,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: the picture that is painted oftentimes on broadcast across baseball is.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, he had a line out. Good job, Cal.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're trying... The only ball that I've seen hit
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: hard that, to me, was I wanted to know and
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: I cared about and I thought anything about it was
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: the one in Boston that ran. Was it Boston or Toronto?
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: Toronto.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: Bly Grower Jr. hit to Randy.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Hit like a slap shot from the blue line that
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: was humming at about 250 miles an hour.
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: That's true.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: I think it was smacked. The thing is, if Randy
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: doesn't catch that, it's probably still a single because it
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: rockets off the wall so hard.
• 34:51
  Speaker 12: Right.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: It's true.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: And he's not a fast runner. He's not a fast runner.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Good stuff there from Eno.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Really good stuff.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: When we come back, we're going to do something a
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: little different. We're pivoting here just a little bit. The
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: sale of Seahawks is official if you're just joining us.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: The transaction, the financial transaction is done. The Coastal family
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: officially has taken over. They got the keys to the
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: house today. They handed them over. They got a key
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: to the VMAC.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: Just one.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: That's all they needed.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: Key card.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Key card to the VMAC. And they've alerted security. They're
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: now allowed into the back gates. Much like the media.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: You can come in.
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: Who are you?
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Coastal family. Okay. Give me your keys. We'll park your
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: car over here.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: Park it spot right in front.
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: We'll get you right over here. You'll park next to
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Greg Bell and Maz.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: But they took over. Mike Gaston is going to jump on,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: the gas man, for a few minutes, top of the hour.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: I just talked to him a minute ago. He was
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: here through the bearing. Are they going to move the
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: team era? And Paul Allen, we're going to just kind
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: of reflect back on what Paul and Jody Allen meant
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: to this town and reminisce a little bit. And I
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: think it's important to get Mike's perspective since he's kind
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: of the godfather of Seattle sports media and sports talk
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: radio for sure. So we'll do that. Pay a little
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: tribute to the Allen family. We'll talk a little high
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: school football. First games are tonight. And it feels like fall,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: by the way, does it not?
• 36:10
  Speaker 9: 100%.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: Yesterday was the pouring rain. Just snapped a finger. It's like, hey,
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: football here.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Let's go.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: We'll do that at 120. 2 o'clock. Funston.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: 49451.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: We'll get your thoughts, comments, questions for Brandon Funston. Brought
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: to you by Georgetown Brewing. All coming up.
• 36:30
  Speaker 10: Now, from the Star Reynolds Sports Desk, your 93.3 KKRFM
• 36:35
  Speaker 10: Sports Headlines.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Headlines brought to you by Frostbrook Coors Light. Cold as
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: the Rockies. Seahawks sale is official. Coastal family transaction financially
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: is complete. They have got the keys to the kingdom.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: They now own the Seattle Seahawks. The Allen family tenure
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: has come to an end. More on that in a second.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: See Mariners win the series against the Boston Red Sox.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: 8-3 win yesterday. Four-game series. Back home starts against the
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Athletics tonight. Jack Perkins, Cade Anderson on the mound for Seattle.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: NCAA is still a mess. SEC sued LSU in the U.S.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: District Court in Alabama. That'll go well. LSU suing LSU.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: LSU getting sued by the SEC. Court is in Alabama. God,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: I wonder if the Soqualmi Casino's got odds on that
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: one because I don't like LSU's chances to win a
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: court battle in Alabama.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: No thanks.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Against the SEC.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: Could be wrong.
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Let's get to hour number two.
• 37:32
  Speaker 10: Now back to Ian Furness on your home for the Huskies, Kraken,
• 37:36
  Speaker 10: and the 12th man. Brought to you by Seattle's closest
• 37:39
  Speaker 10: Snoqualmie Casino and Hotel on Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Hour number two. We mentioned the headlines. In fact, right,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: we went on the air today at noon. It's the
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: sales official. We knew it was coming. Approved unanimously by
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: the league last week, 32-0. The Coastal family taking control
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: of the Seahawks. They had to go through the financial process,
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: got to sign the papers, like buying a house. But,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know, billions of dollars more. But it's official.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: It's over.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: I wanted to mention this last segment. I wanted to
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: pivot a little bit, and I want to check in
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: with Mike Gastineau, who joins us right now. The gas man,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: the legend that is Mike Gastineau. He's on the Beacon
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Plumbing Hotline, kind enough to jump on. Enjoying retirement, but
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: first gas, how are you, my friend?
• 38:26
  Speaker 9: Ian, I'm great. It's always good to talk to you.
• 38:28
  Speaker 9: And what a day. You know, I hadn't thought about
• 38:31
  Speaker 9: this from the perspective that you're thinking about it until
• 38:34
  Speaker 9: we talked a.
• 38:35
  Speaker 13: Little while ago.
• 38:35
  Speaker 9: And like, just, you know, this really, we joke, we
• 38:39
  Speaker 9: use the phrase end of an era, or we joke it.
• 38:41
  Speaker 9: We use it so much, it loses its meaning. Today
• 38:44
  Speaker 9: is the end of an era. You know, officially, the
• 38:47
  Speaker 9: Allen family now no longer owns the team. And it
• 38:50
  Speaker 9: doesn't necessarily mean bad things are coming, but it is
• 38:53
  Speaker 9: the end of an unbelievably... robust and successful era for
• 38:57
  Speaker 9: this city and that team and that family.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Before Paul Allen bought the team in 97, from 76
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: until 97, the team had four playoff appearances. After that,
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: since he bought it in 97, 17 times they've been
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: to the postseason, they've won two Super Bowls and lost
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: two Super Bowls. Which doesn't need to be mentioned, but
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: they had this unprecedented run of success over that tenure.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Mike, you've been, you got here, what, 92, 93? 91. 91.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: You've seen God knows how many Mariner ownership changes for,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: for a few years, right?
• 39:40
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: I got, I saw a few of those, this ownership,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: a couple of Sonic ownership changes as well along the way.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Kraken haven't really changed owners, but, but, but, but what
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: the other teams have over the years, give me some perspective,
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: give our listeners some perspective on what we should be
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: thinking about when we look back on the Paul Allen
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: and Jody Allen, the Allen trust tenure as owners of
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks.
• 40:04
  Speaker 9: Well, without question, the most successful ownership group in Seattle
• 40:07
  Speaker 9: sports history. And it's not even close. And I'm not
• 40:10
  Speaker 9: slagging on the other owner groups. You know, I think
• 40:12
  Speaker 9: we've had, by and large, good ownership groups up here.
• 40:16
  Speaker 9: And it's primarily local now, although the Seahawks owners now
• 40:19
  Speaker 9: are not. But they'll become local, hopefully. But it's not
• 40:25
  Speaker 9: even close as to what they accomplished. I mean, don't
• 40:29
  Speaker 9: forget some of the ancillary stuff. You know, I mean,
• 40:32
  Speaker 9: Paul Allen owned 25% of the Sounders when they were
• 40:35
  Speaker 9: just getting started. I mean, now that's been reworked. But
• 40:38
  Speaker 9: he was a silent partner. He just said, yeah, of course,
• 40:42
  Speaker 9: I'll help with this. The team, the thing to remember,
• 40:47
  Speaker 9: and I think fans obviously do, fans of a certain age,
• 40:51
  Speaker 9: the Seahawks were at such a low point. It's hard
• 40:57
  Speaker 9: to describe how– I wouldn't say they were off the radar.
• 41:01
  Speaker 9: It's the NFL after all. But, I mean, in the
• 41:03
  Speaker 9: mid-' 90s in this town, it was Sonics number one, Mariners
• 41:09
  Speaker 9: number two, if not number 1A. The Huskies had had
• 41:12
  Speaker 9: their national championship a couple years earlier, but they were
• 41:14
  Speaker 9: still running on the fumes and the joy of that.
• 41:18
  Speaker 9: I mean, the Hawks just were not a team you
• 41:21
  Speaker 9: thought about. when you thought about Seattle sports and again,
• 41:24
  Speaker 9: it's a little crazy. It's the NFL, but you get
• 41:26
  Speaker 9: my point. Paul Allen came in at a time, you know,
• 41:30
  Speaker 9: they were, they were just as low as they could
• 41:33
  Speaker 9: be so low that Ken Bering was able to, for
• 41:37
  Speaker 9: a couple of weeks, move them to Anaheim, California, which
• 41:40
  Speaker 9: remember Ken Bering's great excuse was, well, it makes me
• 41:44
  Speaker 9: nervous to own the team up there because the stadium
• 41:47
  Speaker 9: sits in an earthquake zone. So I'm going to move
• 41:50
  Speaker 9: them to Southern California. Yeah. I mean, he was a
• 41:54
  Speaker 9: special kind of dumb. And, you know, from the beginning,
• 42:00
  Speaker 9: people didn't take that seriously. And all the back channels
• 42:03
  Speaker 9: that you could get at the time were like, yeah,
• 42:05
  Speaker 9: they're set up in an elementary school, an old elementary
• 42:08
  Speaker 9: school that had been abandoned in Anaheim. The NFL isn't
• 42:12
  Speaker 9: going to let this happen. I mean, almost from the start,
• 42:14
  Speaker 9: that was kind of, but by the same token, they
• 42:16
  Speaker 9: had moved, you know, so you had to be a
• 42:18
  Speaker 9: little nervous. And they were at such a low point.
• 42:23
  Speaker 9: I don't know. Thinking back, I don't think there was
• 42:26
  Speaker 9: anybody else. There was not a line of people saying,
• 42:29
  Speaker 9: I want to buy the Hawks and save this team.
• 42:32
  Speaker 9: There was really one guy said, I'll do it. and
• 42:35
  Speaker 9: I'll do a contingent on the region voting to pay
• 42:38
  Speaker 9: for half of the stadium. I'll pay for the other half.
• 42:41
  Speaker 9: And he was so matter-of-fact about it. It was an
• 42:44
  Speaker 9: interesting campaign. He just says, I will do this. I
• 42:46
  Speaker 9: will buy the team, and I will pay for half
• 42:48
  Speaker 9: the stadium if you vote to pay for the other half.
• 42:52
  Speaker 9: And if you vote no, that's fine, and I'm not
• 42:55
  Speaker 9: going to do the deal. He was in a position
• 42:57
  Speaker 9: where he didn't really have to threaten. They weren't his.
• 43:00
  Speaker 9: They were still Barron's. But he stepped in. at a
• 43:05
  Speaker 9: time when, and I mean, it's a little bit similar
• 43:08
  Speaker 9: to the Mariner ownership, but I mean, you know, the
• 43:11
  Speaker 9: Hawks actually had moved. Paul Allen was a hero to
• 43:15
  Speaker 9: step in when he did and to get it done.
• 43:18
  Speaker 9: And it was right after he had been rebuked twice,
• 43:22
  Speaker 9: trying to build a park that would have stretched from
• 43:24
  Speaker 9: Lake Union to downtown. It was called the Seattle Commons.
• 43:27
  Speaker 9: And voters on back-to-back years voted that down. And so,
• 43:31
  Speaker 9: you know, Paul was still in a mood where I
• 43:33
  Speaker 9: want to give to this city. I mean, that whole
• 43:36
  Speaker 9: area that's kind of Amazonville now, the tech hub, you know,
• 43:39
  Speaker 9: could have been a park. I'm not saying which is better,
• 43:41
  Speaker 9: but I mean, you know, that might've been a park
• 43:43
  Speaker 9: that connected Lake Union to downtown if Paul Allen had
• 43:45
  Speaker 9: had his vision. Instead, he had all the land, so
• 43:48
  Speaker 9: he started selling it off to tech companies. But he
• 43:51
  Speaker 9: had been knocked down twice by voters. So it was,
• 43:55
  Speaker 9: and this was close. What was it? 51 to 48
• 43:57
  Speaker 9: and a half percent. I mean, like every election in
• 44:00
  Speaker 9: this country, there's never a huge clear majority. I'm really
• 44:08
  Speaker 9: amazed as I look back on it. And then to
• 44:10
  Speaker 9: step in and have the amount of success he had
• 44:12
  Speaker 9: and doing it without, I want to be careful how
• 44:15
  Speaker 9: I put this. He just, he wasn't, I think he
• 44:17
  Speaker 9: was involved day to day in terms of checking in
• 44:20
  Speaker 9: and all, but he wasn't, you know what I mean?
• 44:22
  Speaker 9: He was not a hands-on owner. He wasn't sending play
• 44:25
  Speaker 9: ideas over or telling guys do this or do that.
• 44:28
  Speaker 9: he was in, and there's two different ways to look
• 44:31
  Speaker 9: at owning a team. If an owner's involved, sometimes that's good.
• 44:33
  Speaker 9: Some of the most successful teams have owners that are
• 44:36
  Speaker 9: really involved in day-to-day things and others have owners that
• 44:39
  Speaker 9: are involved financially and then hire the right people and say, look, we're,
• 44:43
  Speaker 9: you know, we're going to meet once a year. And
• 44:44
  Speaker 9: if you've hit the objectives we discussed, you're fine. And
• 44:47
  Speaker 9: that was more how Paul was. And it was, it's
• 44:51
  Speaker 9: a stretch that I don't know that we'll ever see
• 44:53
  Speaker 9: anything like that again. Local ownership that had, you know,
• 44:56
  Speaker 9: four Super Bowls in 20 years.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: It's amazing.
• 44:59
  Speaker 9: I know they only won two of them, but four
• 45:00
  Speaker 9: Super Bowls. It's incredible what they accomplished.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Just looking at the resume, I mean, they went to
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: the playoffs more often than not during his tenure. I thought, too,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: Mike Asno joining us, Gasman, just looking back at the
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: Allen family as it's official, the Coastal family takes over today. Mike,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: give our listeners, and even me, I was in Salt
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: Lake at the time, a little perspective on how that
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: vote went down. This radio station I know was involved.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: You guys are heavily involved with the Mariner station with
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: T-Mobile slash Safeco. But also with this as well, you
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: guys are kind of... part of the leadership group to
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: try to rally fan support. And you mentioned it's not
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: like the Seahawks were what they are right now, right?
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: It was, it would have been easier to get support
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: for somebody else than it would have been for the Seahawks,
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: especially the Mariners coming off the 95 season. So what
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: was it like from the radio station standpoint?
• 45:48
  Speaker 9: You hit it right on the head. The Mariners were
• 45:49
  Speaker 9: walking the park. Now the campaign wasn't, there was a
• 45:52
  Speaker 9: lot of bumps and bruises and problems along the way,
• 45:55
  Speaker 9: but building momentum for them was easy because they were
• 45:58
  Speaker 9: so hot and so good and everybody, they were good
• 45:59
  Speaker 9: for the first time ever. The Hawks, it was hard
• 46:02
  Speaker 9: to build momentum. And I'll throw a bouquet to my
• 46:05
  Speaker 9: good friend Mark Collins, who ran Save Our Seahawks. You know,
• 46:08
  Speaker 9: Mark was kind of the head of the grassroots organization,
• 46:11
  Speaker 9: and he was doing it again at a time where
• 46:12
  Speaker 9: the Hawks weren't all that popular. And it would have
• 46:17
  Speaker 9: been easy to kind of look the other way. But
• 46:19
  Speaker 9: we were involved. You know, I remember, you know, somebody
• 46:21
  Speaker 9: called the show one time and said, well, the only
• 46:23
  Speaker 9: reason you're in favor of this is because of your job.
• 46:25
  Speaker 9: And I'm like, did you think that up on your own?
• 46:27
  Speaker 7: Did you have somebody else?
• 46:30
  Speaker 9: No kidding and yeah yeah now look there was more
• 46:36
  Speaker 9: to it i think all of us believed that these
• 46:38
  Speaker 9: things were good for a community and good for seattle
• 46:41
  Speaker 9: and years later i think that's correct but yeah if
• 46:43
  Speaker 9: you're trying to do a sports talk show without the
• 46:45
  Speaker 9: nfl without baseball you know you're gonna you're gonna struggle
• 46:48
  Speaker 9: to keep people interested um it was harder with the
• 46:52
  Speaker 9: hawks which seems ridiculous now as you look back on
• 46:55
  Speaker 9: it but again part of why there's such a a
• 46:57
  Speaker 9: sexy team now, and part of why they commanded the
• 46:59
  Speaker 9: kind of money they command, part of why there's always
• 47:02
  Speaker 9: excitement about it, hard noxious and everything, is because Paul
• 47:05
  Speaker 9: Allen ran a good ship for many, many years and
• 47:08
  Speaker 9: successful and had the best people there and wasn't afraid
• 47:13
  Speaker 9: to make changes when they need to be made. And
• 47:15
  Speaker 9: it was really an amazing time. And I remember we
• 47:20
  Speaker 9: got done with the Mariners thing and the Seahawks thing happened.
• 47:23
  Speaker 9: And by the end of that, it was like, you know,
• 47:25
  Speaker 9: it was, it was, we were all kind of exhausted.
• 47:27
  Speaker 9: We all had a little bit of stadium fatigue, which
• 47:30
  Speaker 9: I think everybody, I think everybody in town understood stadium fatigue,
• 47:33
  Speaker 9: except the guy who owned the Sonics at the time.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: I was just going to tell you that I was
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: just going to say like seven, seven or eight years later,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: you went through it again and weren't as successful.
• 47:43
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 47:43
  Speaker 9: I mean, the last thing anybody needs, like, come on, man,
• 47:46
  Speaker 9: read the room. Um, Paul, Paul, and look, do not
• 47:50
  Speaker 9: forget Jody.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: No, I agree.
• 47:52
  Speaker 9: She just stepped in. You've got to give her credit
• 47:55
  Speaker 9: for what she did. And the new ownership group, it'll
• 47:58
  Speaker 9: be interesting to see where they go with this. They're
• 48:01
  Speaker 9: taking over, I'll use the word robust again, a much
• 48:04
  Speaker 9: more robust franchise than Paul Allen took over.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: Very much so.
• 48:10
  Speaker 9: They've got it. And you never know with new owners.
• 48:13
  Speaker 9: You never know what's going to happen. Remember, about 15,
• 48:16
  Speaker 9: 16 years ago, there was a baseball team that changed hands.
• 48:18
  Speaker 9: down in Southern California and a guy named Marty Moreno
• 48:20
  Speaker 9: came in and he had a ton of money and
• 48:22
  Speaker 9: he started buying up contracts and everybody's like, the angels
• 48:25
  Speaker 9: are going to dominate the major leagues for the next
• 48:27
  Speaker 9: 20 years. And they didn't. You gotta have a, you
• 48:32
  Speaker 9: gotta have a lot of stuff fall into place for
• 48:33
  Speaker 9: it all to work. But Paul Allen gave this town
• 48:36
  Speaker 9: a local owner who was connected to the Seahawks. I mean,
• 48:39
  Speaker 9: he was just, you know, it was almost like a
• 48:41
  Speaker 9: return to the, to when the Nordstrom family owned the team, except,
• 48:46
  Speaker 9: And the Nordstrom family, very, very successful, but not in
• 48:50
  Speaker 9: the neighborhood of Paul Allen in terms of success. And
• 48:52
  Speaker 9: suddenly you had this Seattle guy who'd gone to games
• 48:56
  Speaker 9: and was a fan and could make stuff happen. He's
• 49:00
  Speaker 9: a civic treasure. It was a sad day. He left
• 49:04
  Speaker 9: us far too early. And, you know, in addition to that, oh,
• 49:07
  Speaker 9: by the way, out doing all kinds of things with
• 49:09
  Speaker 9: tech around the world. And, you know, just a fascinating
• 49:12
  Speaker 9: guy when you look at all the stuff that he did.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: Well, I think, too, you asked to wrap it up.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: You you kind of, you, you mentioned this real quick.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: It's worth revisiting. I thought the strength of him as
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: an owner was what you just said. You, you hire
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: good people. You let them do your job, do their job.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: If they're not doing the job, then you also have
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: to have the wherewithal to let them go. And, you know,
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: which it running anything having to do with the NFL
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: was not good. I, I, I know maybe I'm in
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: the minority. I think Bob, was a good NBA executive
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: for the most part. He's not an NFL executive. So
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: we make that move. You bring in guys like a
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: guy by the name of Mike Holmgren, you bring in
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: a guy by the name of Pete Carroll, after having
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: to pay Jim Moore to leave town, Tim Ruskell to
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: leave town. So when there were mistakes made, he went
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: out and corrected those and, and would write the check
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: to make it right. Laiwiki was a great hire. I mean,
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: you go through the list and Todd Laiwiki and company
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: go out and get Pete Carroll and John Schneider. Like I,
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: I think that's the legacy if nothing else. And then
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: at the end, you mentioned Jody and, Jody had to
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: sign off on saying goodbye to a Super Bowl winning
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: coach in this town, which, God, if I would have
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: told you that, Mike, hey, gas up in 1990, 1998,
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks are going to win a Super Bowl down
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: the road, but they're going to fire that coach a
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: few years later. You would have said you're crazy. First
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: of all, we're going to win a Super Bowl. Second
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: of all, they're going to fire the guy. But she
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: did that. I thought that was the strength of the
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: Allen ownership group.
• 50:29
  Speaker 9: I agree. You know, again, that's what leaders do. They
• 50:32
  Speaker 9: have the courage to make decisions. They're presented with the
• 50:35
  Speaker 9: evidence and they have the courage to make decisions. And,
• 50:38
  Speaker 9: you know, this again, this just seems like another great decision.
• 50:41
  Speaker 9: I mean, you know, if McDonald is here for hopefully
• 50:45
  Speaker 9: as many years as he wants to be and continues
• 50:47
  Speaker 9: to have success, that's the Allen family's going away present
• 50:51
  Speaker 9: to the city. As if they hadn't done enough, they
• 50:53
  Speaker 9: went out and found this guy and look at how
• 50:57
  Speaker 9: he just seems to have it together. And again, you
• 50:59
  Speaker 9: never know. You can become silly pretty quick trying to
• 51:03
  Speaker 9: speculate too far down the road. But just... So kudos
• 51:08
  Speaker 9: all the way around on an incredible job. Well done. And,
• 51:13
  Speaker 9: you know, and again, I mean, getting a stadium built,
• 51:16
  Speaker 9: not a small thing, not a small thing to do.
• 51:19
  Speaker 9: And a stadium that, you know, you hear rumbles about, well,
• 51:21
  Speaker 9: they need to do some things to it. I'll tell
• 51:23
  Speaker 9: you what, 25 years later, that stadium holds up pretty well.
• 51:26
  Speaker 9: You don't walk in there and feel like it's a dump.
• 51:28
  Speaker 9: You don't walk in there and feel like stuff's broken
• 51:30
  Speaker 9: and done to work. I'll give the Mariners credit to
• 51:32
  Speaker 9: the two primary tenants of these two stadiums that we
• 51:35
  Speaker 9: spent a lot of money on as taxpayers. have done
• 51:37
  Speaker 9: a nice job of taking care of them. I know
• 51:39
  Speaker 9: everybody wants more wins with the Mariners.
• 51:41
  Speaker 11: I get that.
• 51:41
  Speaker 9: I do too. But when you look at just the
• 51:43
  Speaker 9: facility and not letting it run down and being willing
• 51:46
  Speaker 9: to keep it up, and the Hawks have done the
• 51:48
  Speaker 9: same thing, that is an important part of the process.
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: Gas, I appreciate popping on. I appreciate the looking back
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: from your vantage point as well. It's important to do
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: so as we say thank you to the Allens and
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: move on to the next ownership group. Your reward, you're retired.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: Go take a nap. It's early afternoon. Maybe relax a
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: little bit.
• 52:07
  Speaker 9: I may get a second nap in today before the marriage.
• 52:10
  Speaker 9: It'll be a big time up here. Thanks a lot, Ian.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: Take care, Gaston. I'll talk to you soon. That's Mike Gaston,
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: the great Mike Gaston, a Gastman joining us here. on
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. Great stuff to have him on today.
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: Love that as well. We'll take a break, come back.
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: How about this? A little high school football conversation for you.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: It's starting. It's starting. High school football starts tonight. We've
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: got a lot going on with it, including the return.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: Varsity football live as well. Nobody does high school sports
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: like us here on KJR. I'm proud as hell to
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: say that, honestly. Dick Fain and company will bring stuff
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: to you starting next Friday night. We'll talk about that
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: and preview the state. Some good college prospects here as well.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: On 93.3 KJR FM.
• 52:52
  Speaker 10: Now back to Ian Furness on your home for the Huskies, Kraken,
• 52:56
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• 53:07
  Speaker 1: All right, welcome back in. Sports Radio 9, 3.3 KJFM.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: Ian Furness with you. And man, oh man, it's football season.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: And here's what football season means. Everything football, including the NFL, college,
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: and you know this radio station. We like to talk
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: ourselves a little bit of high school football. Maybe a
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: lot of high school football as well. And joining me
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: right now, on the line, my good friend Todd Millis,
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: varsity basketball. Washington News. He is our guy. We love
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: this dude. He is best high school reporter in the state.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: What's going on, my friend? How are you?
• 53:44
  Speaker 5: It's good. It's a busy time of year.
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: Two weeks.
• 53:50
  Speaker 5: I don't know if preseason camp's long enough. You used
• 53:53
  Speaker 5: to be a football dad. I don't know what it's
• 53:54
  Speaker 5: like for you waiting for the first game of the season,
• 53:56
  Speaker 5: but I could use another few days to get all
• 53:58
  Speaker 5: this walk-up stuff out.
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: Here we are.
• 54:02
  Speaker 5: We have We have games this week, and it's going
• 54:05
  Speaker 5: to be the 12th to the 14th weeks that it
• 54:08
  Speaker 5: takes for a football season to end. It goes by
• 54:13
  Speaker 5: pretty quickly. So I'm looking forward to getting started.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys are doing a top 25 trip around
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: the state. Is it the top 25 teams in the state,
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: no matter classification? Is that right?
• 54:24
  Speaker 9: Correct.
• 54:24
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 54:25
  Speaker 5: So Lauren and I started the first day of camp
• 54:28
  Speaker 5: in the Tri-Cities, and we went to Kennewick, Richland, Prosser,
• 54:33
  Speaker 5: Moses Lake, and ended up with Royal. So it wasn't
• 54:36
  Speaker 5: exactly five schools located right down the street from one another.
• 54:41
  Speaker 5: So it was 20 hours in eastern Washington to and from.
• 54:46
  Speaker 5: We didn't spend the night. And, man, it kind of
• 54:48
  Speaker 5: set the tone for getting to a lot of these.
• 54:50
  Speaker 5: these preseason camps of schools in 2A and 1A, 3A
• 54:54
  Speaker 5: and 4A. So it's been a blast. It's been tiring,
• 54:57
  Speaker 5: but I'm glad we did it.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: What's the overriding theme with high school football in Washington
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: this year?
• 55:01
  Speaker 5: I think it's going to be a little more top-heavy
• 55:07
  Speaker 5: than we're used to. If you look at most of
• 55:09
  Speaker 5: the classifications, like let's take 4A, for example, I think
• 55:13
  Speaker 5: there's a clear top three. Camas and Sumner are kind
• 55:16
  Speaker 5: of looming, but You have Lake Stevens and Puyallup and
• 55:19
  Speaker 5: Graham Kapowsin. All three of them return their starting quarterbacks.
• 55:23
  Speaker 5: All three of them have dynamic running backs. And then,
• 55:27
  Speaker 5: to me, the biggest separators, all three of them are
• 55:29
  Speaker 5: huge and nasty on their offensive and defensive lines. So
• 55:33
  Speaker 5: I think those three teams, for example, are the clear co-favorites.
• 55:37
  Speaker 5: Kind of the same thing with 3A. It's O'Day and Bellevue. 1A,
• 55:42
  Speaker 5: it's kind of Royal and everybody else, and 2A, I
• 55:46
  Speaker 5: think you look at it, and it's Archbishop and Tumwater.
• 55:49
  Speaker 5: But obviously, those teams in the second tier have a
• 55:51
  Speaker 5: chance to grow and join that top tier. But that
• 55:55
  Speaker 5: top tier seems to be thinning out here in 2025.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: And Tom Mill is joining us right now. All those
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: teams you mentioned, and we can kind of go through
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: the whole list, whether it's the 3A schools, like you said, O'Day, Bellevue,
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: 4A schools, Lake Stevens, Graham Capalson, You know, it doesn't
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: feel like it changes much year to year. Is there
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: any balance of power shift at all in this state?
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: Because Puyallup is good. I mean, I look through here
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: and what you guys have ranked and what other people
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: are talking about, it feels as if it's the same
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: teams every year that are kind of the powerhouses. Mount
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: Tahoma may be the exception. They kind of came out
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: of nowhere a little bit and built that program up.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: But outside of that, it feels like this state, it's
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: the same schools every single year. O'Day, Archbishop Murphy, if
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: you want to go to the 3A and 2A ranks.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: Sumner is always good with Keith down there. I mean,
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: it just feels like it never really changes or evolves.
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: Why is that?
• 56:46
  Speaker 5: Because I think there's an arms war, especially on the
• 56:52
  Speaker 5: west side. Lake Stevenson, Like Lake Stevens knows what Puyallup
• 56:56
  Speaker 5: and Graham Capazan is getting in the so-called transfer portal.
• 57:01
  Speaker 5: So they've got to keep up. Same thing with Camas.
• 57:05
  Speaker 5: Keith got Lance McGee last year, who now is at
• 57:09
  Speaker 5: Washington State University. He was a big momentum shifter, kind
• 57:13
  Speaker 5: of swung the pendulum in their favor. So these schools
• 57:18
  Speaker 5: know that they have to get two or three impact
• 57:21
  Speaker 5: newcomers to stay in the arms race, to stay playing
• 57:27
  Speaker 5: in late November and early December. I do think, though,
• 57:30
  Speaker 5: it's a little different in eastern Washington because kind of
• 57:35
  Speaker 5: like mouth-to-home, like you said, in 3A, Moses Lake is
• 57:38
  Speaker 5: a team that I think has sort of come out
• 57:40
  Speaker 5: of nowhere. Five years ago, that district was in financial peril.
• 57:46
  Speaker 5: Their coaches were coaching for free, the CBBN. didn't have
• 57:50
  Speaker 5: a great reputation. And as soon as Brett and Brady
• 57:54
  Speaker 5: J kind of, kind of hit their stride. And last
• 57:56
  Speaker 5: year they got to the state corner finals and played
• 57:59
  Speaker 5: fairly competitively against Lake Stevens. Now the shift of Eastern
• 58:03
  Speaker 5: Washington powers kind of swung in the 4A CBBN with
• 58:08
  Speaker 5: Moses Lake. I think they might be the best team
• 58:11
  Speaker 5: in 4A in Eastern Washington. And that includes Gonzaga Prep, Chihuahua, Kamiakin, Richland,
• 58:17
  Speaker 5: some of those traditional powers. So, There's a little bit
• 58:19
  Speaker 5: of change going on in eastern Washington, but like you said,
• 58:22
  Speaker 5: in western Washington, it's kind of the same cast of characters.
• 58:25
  Speaker 5: You know, just kind of stand up with one another
• 58:28
  Speaker 5: in the arms race.
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about this opening weekend. It's Todd Millis joining us,
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: talking high school football. A little quick preview, and we'll
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: check back in with Todd throughout the year. I'll also
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: tell you how you can follow high school football with
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: He and Lauren do this incredible website that you need
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: to subscribe to along the way. What's the marquee game
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: this weekend? I see Skyline, Kentwood. I don't know if
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: that's it. What's going on? What's the marquee game this weekend?
• 58:52
  Speaker 5: Well, I think it's sort of the rematch of GK,
• 58:55
  Speaker 5: Graham Tiphausen at Lake Stevens. These two might as well
• 58:59
  Speaker 5: be in the same league together because they play each
• 59:02
  Speaker 5: other so often. They played in the state semifinals last year.
• 59:06
  Speaker 5: They played twice in the state championship game you know,
• 59:08
  Speaker 5: over the last five or six years. So, uh, Graham Kapowsin, uh, gets,
• 59:13
  Speaker 5: gets its crack going up to Lake Stevens and, and
• 59:16
  Speaker 5: earned some big RPI points. I have Lake Stevens one
• 59:19
  Speaker 5: in our preseason rankings. I have Graham Kapowsin three. And
• 59:23
  Speaker 5: then in a couple of weeks, uh, you know, Puyallup
• 59:25
  Speaker 5: will get its crack going to Lake Stevens and playing
• 59:28
  Speaker 5: them up there. So, So that's kind of the game
• 59:30
  Speaker 5: of the week on the west side. And then, like
• 59:32
  Speaker 5: I mentioned, Moses Lake gets to host Richland, which is
• 59:35
  Speaker 5: the favorite in the Mid-Columbia Conference. If they can beat
• 59:39
  Speaker 5: the Bombers at home, I think they take a huge
• 59:42
  Speaker 5: leg up in what I just said, kind of being
• 59:44
  Speaker 5: the team to beat over in eastern Washington.
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: I see Puyallup's taking on Rocky Mountain out of Meridian, Idaho.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: Is that a threat at all to Puyallup, the No.
• 59:53
  Speaker 6: 1 team?
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: Well, it doesn't matter. Some of them have No. 1,
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: some of them have 2, 3, 4, 5. I'm not
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: sure where you have them at, but is Puyallup, Rocky Mountain, Meridian, Idaho,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: is that a game?
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Rocky Mountain and Rigby are kind of the two powerhouses.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 5: Rocky Mountain probably has the biggest collection of talent in Idaho.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 5: They're sort of the premier program in the Boise area.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 5: So they do a thing called the Rocky Mountain Rumble
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 5: every year. Sumner went over there, I think, last year.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 5: And Chiawana went over there a couple years ago and
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 5: played Rocky Mountain and kind of got drilled. And that
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 5: was a big turning point for them to kind of
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 5: get their season turned around and go all the way
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 5: to the state semifinals. So that's a good out-of-state test
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 5: for Puyallup. I think Sumner's also going over to Idaho
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 5: and playing, I think, Eagle. So those are... That 6A SCIC,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 5: that Boise conference has really grown up a lot and
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 5: kind of headlined by Rocky Mountains. So that's a nice–
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 5: if y'all can go over there and get a win
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 5: on the road against Rocky Mountains, that's a pretty good
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 5: out-of-state feather in their cap to kind of get things
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 5: going here in 2026.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: Todd, you kind of mentioned the arms race and– I
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: guess transfer for lack of a better term. How does
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: it work in our state? We are living in this
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: world of college football where it's the Wild West and
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: unlimited free agency. Guys can go anywhere. I mean, I
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: think back to the days of Tony Roten trying to
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: say he was living in Seattle when he was living
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: in Renton and going to Garfield. Hell, we all know
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: what's going on. I mean, Garfield's got all kinds of
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: stuff with Brandon and who knows what's going on up
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: there with hoops. But for football, how much of that
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: is there existing right now where guys will try to
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: pick and choose where they play?
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 5: So I think it's happened a lot, especially if you're
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 5: playing in, you know, one of the three or four
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 5: big clubs in the state of Washington. That's kind of
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 5: how Lance McGee ended up at Sumner. He played in
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 5: one of the big clubs over here on the west
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 5: side with, you know, six or seven Sumner kids. They
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 5: kind of talked to him about the experience and said, hey,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 5: you need to come play for us. You know, we
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 5: run football. You're not going anywhere over there in Davis.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, come on.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 5: They kind of worked it out. You know, he, you know, he,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 5: his family, his family moved, his, his family moved over.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 5: They had, they did it the right way. And, um,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 5: and he was, he was ready to go, um, week
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 5: one and, and had a great year. Um, but I mean,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 5: there's a number of ways you can do it now.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 5: Now with the WI saying you have the one-time transfer,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 5: you kind of have that period in the summer, um,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 5: that you can go anywhere you want one time. Uh,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 5: no questions asked. Um, if you do it more than once, um, then, um,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 5: you hire a really good lawyer, man. Uh, that, that
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 5: seems to be, there are four or five law firms
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 5: in the state of Washington. If, if you really want
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 5: your kid to go to a powerhouse and the avenues
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 5: or the, the transfer periods are closed, you just, you
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 5: just hire one of those lawyers.
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  Speaker 11: And, uh, you know, more.
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  Speaker 5: Often than not, uh, they'll, they'll find, they'll find a
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  Speaker 5: loophole and your kid will be playing wherever he wants.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: You know, the, the, The downside is that. The upside
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: is I think high school football is great. I love it.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: I think our state is somewhat underrated. You go around
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: the state. You mentioned Lake Stevens. My kid played up
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: there years ago in a playoff game. It was one
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: of the coolest atmospheres I've ever been around in any
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: kind of football. I mean, yeah, smaller scale, smaller stadium,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: but whether it be there, Graham-Capalison, Sumner, Puyallup, A couple
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: of the Eastside stadiums are phenomenal. There's nothing like Popkini,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: especially if they're playing two teams from that same area.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: I would always say I think high school football in
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: this state is a little bit underrated. I'll wrap it
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: up with this. How is the overall talent this year
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: in our state?
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 5: Good, but it's largely in the big men. it's a
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 5: really good time to be a lineman, offensive or defensive
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 5: lineman in the state of Washington. And they're at O'Day,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 5: they're at Eastside Catholic, they're at Graham Capozin, they're at Puyallup,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 5: they're at Lake Stevens, they're at Sumner. And those guys,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 5: whether they're seniors, sophomores and freshmen, it's a really, across
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 5: the board, these four or five classes right now, it's
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 5: primarily been dominated by big men and guys that, quite
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 5: frankly are going to, you know, are being recruited by
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 5: the big schools. We're talking Alabama, Texas, and have a
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 5: chance to go to the NFL skill position wise. I
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 5: think the receiver position has been, you know, has been plentiful.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 5: And right now it's a, it's a, it's a good
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 5: stretch for quarterbacks, especially this year. We have, we have three,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 5: we have three division one quarterbacks or division one bound quarterbacks.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 5: Now one is going to play wide receiver at Iowa state, but,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 5: You know, you don't see that very often. But, you know,
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 5: in the skilled positions and the big men, it's pretty good.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 5: I mean, we've had better classes in the past. You know,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 5: the Emeka Egbuka and JT classes were, you know, those
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 5: were historic. Those were generational. But there hasn't been that
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 5: bad of a drop off in those classes the last
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 5: four or five years. And there's some really, really good talent.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 5: in the 2029, 2030, and 2031 classes coming up. So
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 5: we're in for a long haul of really, really good
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 5: stretches of talent in the state of Washington.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: That's great to hear. And I think part of that
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: is there's a little bit of a downturn. The pandemic
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: kind of cut some people out. Kids weren't around. Kids
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: didn't play. Kids quit. But it sounds like it's coming back,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: which is awesome. Tell folks about the website. You mentioned
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: me being a former high school football parent. Uh, for parents, fans, kids,
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: whoever it is, tell us about the website that you
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: and Lauren got going. Cause it's a, it's great stuff
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: for high school football and high school fans of all
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: sports as well. You guys do basketball and everything else.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: So tell people about it.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we're starting year two of, uh, varsity law news.com.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 5: It's a subscription based website, but Lauren and I are
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 5: all over the state. She's, she's doing great videos and
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 5: photos and editing a lot. And, uh, my ugly mug
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 5: shows up at a lot of games and, you know, uh,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 5: Radio shows and podcasts. We're promoting the product, but we're
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 5: also getting a lot of balanced coverage of football, flag
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 5: football in the winter, basketball, and obviously baseball and softball
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 5: in the spring. It's a different rodeo. Each time you
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 5: change media companies, whether it's at the Tacoma News Tribune
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 5: or Scorebook Live, And now Varsity Law, but each in
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 5: his own is a rewarding experience. And Lauren and I
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 5: are having a blast. And I hope our readers and
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 5: our subscribers, it's worth it to them because I know
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 5: it's been worth it to us.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: Well, hopefully we'll hear you too with Dick Fane. I
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: know we're starting bringing back Varsity Football Live 10 to
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: 11 every Friday, starting a week from Friday. on September
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: 11th with Final Score TV and KJR, trip around the state,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: full scoreboard, all the guys are back. I hosted that
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: show when I first got here 20 years ago a
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: handful of times. If Dick couldn't do it, I think
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: it's a ton of fun. You're driving around, you can
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: listen on the app, get all caught up. You're in
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: the SPSL, you want to know what's going on, right?
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: You want to know, hey, you're a Puyallup, you want
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: to know what GK's doing and that type of thing.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: You're in the over on the east side, and you're
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: at Mount Sai. You want to know what Eastlake's doing.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: You want to know all those things, and I think
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: that's what's cool. So I'm glad we're back in it,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: back in the game. You're back in the game. I'm
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: sure we'll hear you throughout the year, and we'll talk again, man. Thanks, Todd.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 5: No worries, Ian. We'll talk soon.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: That's many hats, Millis. Todd Millis, we'll take a break.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: Come back with more 93.3 KJFM.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 10: Now back to Ian Furness on your home for the Huskies, Kraken,
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 10: and the 12th man.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: Brought to you by Seattle's closest.
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  Speaker 10: Snoqualmie Casino and Hotel on Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: I'm going to take everybody behind the scenes right now.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: This is an interesting dynamic we're in. I think probably
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: the last time I used the X screen from Broadcast Bionics,
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: which would be the call screener.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 9: Yes, it is.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: The last time I used that would have been at
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: the end of last fantasy football season. Yes, it was.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: Funston's coming up at 2 p.m.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 5: Today.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: So if I were to click on this, that just
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: wants to dial it. I don't want to do dial.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: How do I click on? Maybe I need to be producer.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: Am I producer?
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: No.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: Talent?
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: Definitely not.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: Should we test it really quick?
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: That's what I was trying to do.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: All right, all right.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: My screener or producer?
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: Let me give you a call. I think you're talent.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: All right, so you're calling. This is big stuff, guys,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: because we've got Brandon Funston coming up at 2 o'clock today.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: We've got to make sure this thing works. God, it's
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: like we haven't started the car in seven months. How
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: does this work? How in the world does this work?
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 12: Work?
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's so true.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 6: Lordy, lordy.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: Are you calling yourself? Are you calling the station? Yeah,
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: I'm calling the station right now. My God, that's hilarious.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: Anders in Seattle.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 6: I see. All right.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: So put it on hold.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 14: Ready?
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: I'm going to try to see if this works. Can
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: you hear me?
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 3: What happened?
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: It says in use elsewhere. So you probably have to
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: change studios. Go to the.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: My Zoom just popped up. Okay, hang on.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 7: Hang on.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know how I do that.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: I wish we could show our screen. You know how
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: you did Studio E instead of Studio H?
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: I'm Studio H right now, fella.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: Go to E.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 6: Go to E? Okay.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: You guys want this to work. Trust me.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we do. We do.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: So I'm on Studio E. Is this going to work again?
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: It says in use elsewhere.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 3: Yep. All right.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: You may just have to pop them up.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 13: Okay.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: For today.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: All right. So if we get calls, we'll do that.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: We'll work through it.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 6: My gosh.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: This used to be the easiest thing in sports radio
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: is phone calls. I mean, now we also had, wait
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: for it, phones. Oh God, I just did that. I
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: just said wait for it.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: You're going to notice it every time now. It's great.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 3: It's great.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. I can't believe I did that.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: He didn't even realize it, guys.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: For those of you who weren't listening yesterday, we had
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: a caller that imitated Ian, and he basically said, wait
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: for it. Here's the deal. Over and over and over again.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: Like a hundred times.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: However many times he could do it in 30 seconds.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: And Ian was like, okay, I know I say here's
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: the deal, but do I actually say wait for it?
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, yeah.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you do.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: Just flat out did. What an idiot.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, what a gong show of a segment, huh?
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: That was awesome.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know what I did here. I've got something wrong.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: I'll come and help you out.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 3: Well, you know what?
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 6: Or you just.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: I'll just pop it up.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: You'll just pop it up.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: You can see it though.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: I can see it. That's all that matters. That's all
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: that matters right now. Wait for it. Here's the deal.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: We used to have, wait for it, phones.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you guys. What is going on?
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: What is going to go on?
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: 49451. 49451. That is the Tacoma Dodge text line. It's
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: that time. It's that time for fantasy football. We're going
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: to get Funston on here in about 10 minutes. We'll
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: get your questions answered. So stand by for that. God,
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: I'm just a clown.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: We just got a text from Softie. This is the
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: worst radio I've ever heard.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: Well, I see here. You know what?
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: And I know bad radio, he says.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: Wait till 3 o'clock. He's got something to shoot for.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: The thing is, we agree. We agree, Softie.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we agree.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: We're not pushing it back on that.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: We were in the middle of trying to do this
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: damn thing, and I was like, I couldn't figure it out.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: It's a big deal, guys. It's a very big deal.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: It's a very big deal. Okay. I want to wrap
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: up the Todd Millis conversation real fast, because we just
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: had Todd on, and I love what this radio station does.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: I was talking to Purple Sheet in the break. We're
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: bringing back Varsity Football Live Fane on Friday nights.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: Love that.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: And I used to– so 20 years ago when I
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: first got here in mid-late September of 06, I would–
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: on Fridays, it took us a year to sell our house.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: And so on Fridays, I would get off the air
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: with Elise, the new voice of the Huskies, Elise Woodward,
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: and I would jump on the freeway and head back
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: down to Vancouver. It took us a while to sell
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: our house. So I was kind of commuting for a while,
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: coming up here during the week and leaving on Friday.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: And I loved that show. I loved Varsity Football Live,
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: and I loved the trip around the state. Let's go
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: to Hoquiam. Let's go to Burlington Edison. The Tigers are
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: playing right now, and they're taking on Sehome High School
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: or Linden Christian or whatever it was. And it was
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: just fun. It was what sports radio used to be,
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: and big markets isn't anymore, but there's still a place
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: for it. If you just look around on a Friday night, Thursday,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: actually Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday, and that's the way
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: it is now. There's a lot more Thursday games because, frankly,
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: there's a lack of officials. A lot of the guys
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: do high school officiating in the state. The top guys, actually,
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: the senior guys, they all work Seahawks training camp. And
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: they also do the Cleats for Cancer deal, which I've
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: known them for years. And I was talking to a
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: bunch of those guys and they're just desperately trying to
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: find guys to officiate high school football games. So because
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: of the lack of officials, and now this year in
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: Seattle with the lack of Memorial Stadium until it gets rebuilt,
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: they're playing a lot more games on Thursdays and Saturdays.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: So we have a lot of games around the area tonight.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: It starts tonight and then tomorrow. So thanks for most
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: coming on. But yeah, next week it starts and we'll
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: have that. going on as well. Kudos to Greg Bell
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: refereeing a high school football game in the region. That's
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: from the 206. Yeah, I didn't know Greg was an official.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 7: He is?
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he just told me that.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: Are there a lot of, because I knew this used
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: to be a thing, are there a lot of football
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: officials that also do basketball as well?
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: There's a crossover.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a crossover. There's guys, I know one guy
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: that is the lead official for the cleats versus cancer
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: all-star game every year. He does football, basketball, and either
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: baseball or fast pitch. One of the two.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 5: Awesome.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: So he's doing it all the time. Yeah. So yeah,
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: get out there and, uh, we got to get one
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: of those guys on the referee association because they need
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: more people.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 3: They do.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: And, uh, but it's fun. There's some great, there's some
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: great places around the area, great stadiums around the area.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: Lake Stevens is playing as Mila said this weekend, hosting
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: as a GK, I guess it is.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: And I mean that Lake Stevens high school football stadium
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: is unbelievable on a Friday night. Enumclaw, unreal. The old, uh,
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: What do they call that? Pete's Pool. Phenomenal. Mount Si,
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: great atmosphere.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 3: Bellevue.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: Everything in the South Sound. Spark Stadium in Puyallup is great. So, yeah,
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: get on out there and support your guys.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: Here's what's coming up.
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: 49451.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: 49451. Your questions for Brandon Funston. Fantasy football drafts are
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: taking place as we speak. Maybe they've already taken place.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: Maybe you're having buyer's remorse. Maybe you have a keeper question,
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: a trade question. Whatever it might be, 49451. And just
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: for giggles, we'll do this this week. We will take
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: some phone calls as well.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 8: 206-286-9595.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 5: 206-286-9595.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 8: 800-829-0950.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 3: But 206-286-9595.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: And your phone calls get answered before the text messages
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: do as well.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: So the unofficial start of the weekend is coming up next.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 10: Now, from the Star Runnels Sports Desk, your 93.3 KJR
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  Speaker 1: all the minority owners, the co-owners, so to speak, with
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  Speaker 1: the Coastal family. There's only one that he could find
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  Speaker 1: that is local. Somebody that owns some sort of medical
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  Speaker 1: something or else, but I don't know. Anyway, it's all
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  Speaker 1: up there at the Tacoma News Tribune. Check it out there.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: Mariners win a series in Boston yesterday, 8-3 over the
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: Red Sox in a matinee affair. They start a four-game
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: series back home tonight at T-Mobile Park against the Athletics
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  Speaker 1: from Sacramento via Oakland on the way to Vegas. Jack
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: Perkins versus Kate Anderson is your pitching matchup. Let's see.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: Former athletic reporter Diana Roussini's relationship with Mike Vrabel violated
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: newsroom standards but showed no clear bias toward the New
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  Speaker 1: England Patriots head coach. That's according to the findings of
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  Speaker 1: an internal investigation into her work published by The Athletic
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday. I blame Funston. 49451 is the Tacoma Dodge
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  Speaker 1: text line. He's very uncomfortable right now. Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: this is Thursday, September 3rd. And it's the start, the
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  Speaker 1: unofficial start of the weekend.
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  Speaker 10: He's the leading face of fantasy sports. Even though you
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  Speaker 1: On your home for the NFL. Sports Radio 93.3, KJR-FM.
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  Speaker 6: He's got a touchdown!
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  Speaker 3: High-enders?
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  Speaker 8: Huh?
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  Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's go. Fantasy football time. Funston's on the air.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: Been doing this for well over a decade now. Love
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  Speaker 1: it every Thursday. We've got just this crazy group of
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: loyal people that call in every week. Texts are filling
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  Speaker 1: up at 49451 as well. We've got them all there
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  Speaker 1: for you. Couple lines are open.
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  Speaker 6: 206-286-9595.
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  Speaker 2: Couple of regulars aren't here yet. Maybe they don't think
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  Speaker 2: it starts this week.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they may be all. A couple of those guys
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  Speaker 1: called last week. A couple of them called last week
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  Speaker 1: and they were all dialed in.
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  Speaker 2: They got their answers.
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  Speaker 1: They got their answers. Funston, how are you, my friend?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 6: This is gauntlet time. I got Three in-person live drafts
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 6: between now and when the Seahawks kick it off on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 6: So this is rubber meets the road time for me.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great time.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: Great time of the year. Great time of the year.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: Before I go to the phones, do you recommend doing
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: mock drafts?
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  Speaker 7: You know, I.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 6: I think it's, I think it's fine. I think at
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 6: a certain point, like, you know, you're, it's, but I, I,
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  Speaker 6: I think if you can go through some exercise, every
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 6: time I do a draft, I always feel a little
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 6: bit better about, uh, you know, what I can expect
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  Speaker 6: from other people in drafts. So, but if you're just doing,
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  Speaker 6: you know, mock drafts that are sort of AI driven,
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  Speaker 6: you know, um, I don't know if you're learning a
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  Speaker 6: whole lot, but if you're doing, if you're doing public
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 6: mock drafts, I think there's something to it or, you know,
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 6: getting out there and doing some leagues that you don't
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 6: care about too much, but you're kind of using them
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 6: as some, Gotcha. Some exercise.
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  Speaker 2: See for me it's almost like i almost find out
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  Speaker 2: more about what i want to do as a game
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  Speaker 2: plan it's not even like what possibilities that other people
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  Speaker 2: will do it's like okay like different types of game
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  Speaker 2: plans that i can do during my draft that i
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  Speaker 2: find out when i mock draft.
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  Speaker 6: Right and uh you know i always they always say
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  Speaker 6: like good, you know, plans are great until you get
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  Speaker 6: punched in the mouth and like, you can like have
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  Speaker 6: a plan and then, You know, someone just burns your
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 6: plan in front of you, and then you have to
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  Speaker 6: kind of, like, scramble.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, I agree.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 15: 49451.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to those in a second. 206-286-9595 as well.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the phone numbers for you to call in.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see my picture before I get to the
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: phones of the Gong Show? Yeah, did you guys work
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  Speaker 1: some things out? We got a lot. We got a
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  Speaker 1: lot done. Yeah, we got a lot done.
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  Speaker 8: Really?
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  Speaker 5: Did you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we killed a six-barrel keg of mayor IPA.
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  Speaker 3: That's a lot.
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  Speaker 1: We had smash burgers. We yelled at each other. A
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: couple people didn't pay attention. Two guys that have won
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: multiple titles wore their gold jackets and somehow didn't get
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: beat up. Yeah, it was good. It was all good.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, I highly recommend it.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 2: Some Seahawks Patriots trash talk?
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Mac Daddy, he's got hearing aids, can't really
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: hear that well, so we all say stuff to him
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: and he can't hear us, so that worked too. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I would just say I would highly recommend a Board
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  Speaker 1: of Governors meeting if you're doing it with some friends.
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  Speaker 6: Let me ask you, though, does the Board of Governors–
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 6: Is that everybody in the league or is that a select?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Just like the board of governors in the NFL just
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  Speaker 1: voted 32 out. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's all.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. We had 10 of 12 there. We had two
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: that were out of town, 10 of 12 there, but
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: we did, we passed actually a lot of stuff. We,
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: you know, we did, which I like, we still have
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  Speaker 1: super flex. We cut down our roster. You can only
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: have three quarterbacks on your roster in a super flex league.
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  Speaker 1: So that leaves some waiver pickups and we cut down
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: our backups. I think we had 14. Now we only
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: have 13 on the roster or something like that.
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  Speaker 5: So.
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  Speaker 6: Because like you can't, we're going to have to do
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  Speaker 6: something similar. We have the same kind of a league
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  Speaker 6: in one of my local leagues where it's three quarterbacks
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  Speaker 6: and a super flex. But if you get a quarterback
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 6: that gets injured. Yes. Like it's tough because then you
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 6: aren't allowed to like just add a guy. No. Like
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 6: if you could, if you have like a designated injury
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  Speaker 6: spot that you, if a guy goes there, you could
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  Speaker 6: still pick up another quarterback.
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  Speaker 8: Like.
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  Speaker 6: I kind of almost feel like that maybe is a
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  Speaker 6: way to go.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, we had guys stashed. We had guys stashed
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: in four quarterbacks on our roster and that just, that
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: was no good.
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  Speaker 2: So, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, Anders, you ready to push the button since I
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: haven't figured out how the call screener works yet. Beautiful. Uh,
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: let's get, uh, a regular on, uh, on the phone.
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  Speaker 1: It's Chris in Burien is first up. Chris, you're on with, uh, Funston.
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  Speaker 3: How are you?
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: There he is.
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  Speaker 11: Hey guys.
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  Speaker 6: Hey Chris.
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  Speaker 13: So not sure how to do this. We haven't done the, uh,
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 13: draft yet, but this is my traditional option, full-point PPR
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  Speaker 13: as my second pick. Jeremiah Love, Dennis Walker, or Amarian
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 13: Hampton as a first or second team running.
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  Speaker 11: Back for me.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, so this is your second choice. This is kind
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 6: of a keeper league draft or something?
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  Speaker 13: No, just standard 10-person draft. Full point PPR.
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  Speaker 1: Those are guys you think might be available? Is that
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: what you think? Those are guys that might be available?
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  Speaker 6: This is not the second pick overall. Yeah, no.
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  Speaker 7: No, no.
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  Speaker 13: Second round.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry.
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  Speaker 6: Second round.
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know what?
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 6: A lot of people think of Martin Hampton as this
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 6: big breakout guy, but I have a feeling the coaches
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 6: have been saying that they're going to plan on working
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 6: in Keaton Mitchell and Kimani Vidal.
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  Speaker 9: I don't see.
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  Speaker 6: They have Emmett Johnson backing up Kenneth Walker right now
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 6: in Kansas City. I think this is legitimately Kenneth Walker's
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 6: year to get bell cow work. I'm going to lean
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  Speaker 6: on Kenneth Walker here.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I like it. I like it. All right, Chris,
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  Speaker 1: thank you very much. That's Chris Imburian. Anders, let's next head, shockingly,
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  Speaker 1: to Sultan Washington. Stephen in Sultan is up next.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Stephen.
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  Speaker 11: Hey, how's it going, guys?
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  Speaker 1: Good, buddy.
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  Speaker 4: Good, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: What do you got?
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  Speaker 7: Hello.
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  Speaker 16: Well, besides NFL deciding to want to play a game
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 16: on Wednesday, which throws off our fantasy football Thursdays, I
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 16: need a super flex two quarterbacks, Burrow, Darnold, Shuck, and Stafford.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, you're asking a week one question already?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, just to kind of– Well, there's games
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  Speaker 2: on Wednesday. There's games on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 11: We've got to figure it out.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. No.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, you're right.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Stupid Wednesday game. Burrow for sure. So it's Shuck. And
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 6: who's the other one? And Darnold.
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  Speaker 11: Darnold and Stafford.
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  Speaker 6: I'm doing a quick. You know what? Man.
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  Speaker 16: By the time you're on next week, we'll have two
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 16: games already done.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you want Stafford. I really like Shuck
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 6: at Detroit, but I'm going to still lean with Joe Burrow.
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  Speaker 6: So give me Stafford and Burrow.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: How about that? That's our first question of the year.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: But he's right.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because that game is.
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  Speaker 2: Are we going to. Do like a– No, we'll.
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  Speaker 1: Just do it on Thursday.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, we're still going to have every game except
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 6: for the Seattle game.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's true.
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  Speaker 3: Every other game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because even the– even whatchamacallit, the 49er game, 49er-Ram
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: game is not until like 5 o'clock.
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  Speaker 9: True.
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  Speaker 10: Right?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's a 5 o'clock game. So I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that's going to be– I know what he's saying.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: But there's some leagues that might, and if he has, yeah,
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: 535 on Netflix, by the way. 535 on Netflix next week.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 2: We're going to have this conversation again.
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 6: What time is that in Australia? Oh, God. Yeah, what
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 6: is that?
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 9: I don't know.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 2: It's got to be like maybe noon or 1.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it can't be that crazy along the ways.
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  Speaker 2: The next day.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: Anders, let's stay in Salton and get Derek on next
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: before I get to some text messages, all right? What's up, Derek?
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 7: What's up, guys?
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 11: We're back, baby.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: Hey, Derek, I need you to do me a favor,
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: all right? I don't know how we can make this work.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 3: I need you.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: I need our Salton guys, you and Steven, I need
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: you guys to get together, get a picture, send it
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: to us, somehow hook up. Salton can't be that big.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: You guys got to be able to find a way
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: to hook up and have a beer or something, all right?
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 11: Good brew. We can definitely meet at good brew.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: Good brew. We'll set that up. We'll set up a
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: little meet and greet. Steven, if you're listening, meet at
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: good brew. Yeah, we'll figure that out next week somehow.
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: All right, what do you got, Derek? What do you
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: got going.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 7: On?
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  Speaker 4: All right, so I found myself with Trayvon Henderson this year,
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 4: and yes, I've already drafted. So, of course, I have
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 4: his handcuff, but I'm wondering if he sits this coming game,
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 4: am I rolling with Marshawn Lloyd or R.J.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 6: Harvey?
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  Speaker 11: Marshawn Lloyd, I picked him up, but sniped him.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I would, I'm, I want to, I want to
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 6: see Marshawn Lloyd for a week. I mean, he's literally
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 6: played like one game in his career in two years.
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: And he's green Bay starter now.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: With, uh, with, with Jacobs.
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 6: I mean, they do have Caleb Johnson. It's funny. Like
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 6: suddenly people are trying to make Caleb Johnson something, even
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 6: though the Pittsburgh Steelers didn't really have a deep running
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 6: back room and they didn't want anything to do with him. And, and,
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 6: you know, he couldn't find his way on the field there,
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 6: but now they're, now they're talking that he might be
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 6: in the mix and Chris Brooks as well. Um, I
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 6: don't know if they're just going to give a featured
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 6: role to Marshawn Lloyd right out of the gate. So
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 6: I would tend to go with R.J.
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 3: Harvey.
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 6: They like him in the red zone, so he's always
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 6: a decent bet. He scored, what, 12 touchdowns as a rookie.
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 6: I mean, some of that's luck. There's some regression, but
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 6: it also has a lot to do with they fed
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 6: him the ball around the end zone.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: Interesting. Okay, there you go. All right, thank you. So
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: is R.J. Harvey running back one in Denver?
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 6: No.
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 12: J.K.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 6: Dobbins is.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: That's what I thought. But Harvey gets red zone.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 5: But R.J.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 6: Harvey is the receiving back and the guy that I
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 6: think will be in packages that include being in the
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 6: red zone.
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: All right. Let's get Kyle and Enum Klaue on next,
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: if we could, Anders. And we get a couple more calls, 206-286-95.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: I see some people calling in.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: What's going on down the Klaue there, Kyle?
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 7: What's up, boys? What's up? Let's go.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: Let's go.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 9: Let's go.
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 7: Four-point PPR. I got 10 teams in my draft. I
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 7: draft five. Okay. I know I'm probably going to get
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 7: a wide receiver at five, but I just– is it
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 7: Detroit or what's.
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: Amon Ross St.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 9: Brown?
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 7: Amon Ross St. Brown, yeah. I'm kind of nervous about
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 7: him this year.
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 6: Okay. I mean, he's probably, you could argue that he's
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 6: maybe the person in a draft. You could be the
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 6: least nervous about. He's like five straight seasons of a
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 6: hundred plus catches in thousand yards and like eight to
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 6: 10 touchdowns. Like he's the most safe. He's the most
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 6: safe pick in the draft, but I mean, you're going
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 6: to probably get your choice of, um, Jackson Smith and
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 6: Jigba or Amon Ross St.
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 9: Brown.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 6: Um, unless the local flavor people decided on JSN a
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 6: little bit earlier, but, um, It's Nakua, it's Jamar Chase,
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 6: it's JSN, it's Amon Rossi-Brown, and the PPR League at
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 6: number five, like any of those are great options. So
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't sweat it if you're down– if you're– You
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 6: don't have to choose Amon Ross St. Brown because that
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 6: means that one of those other three receivers could be there,
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 6: or if a running back like Gibbs or Robinson slips,
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 6: then you're obviously wanting to go that way.
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. I love my guy down in Enumclaw,
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: in the claw, we call it, man. He's always getting
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: after it early in the afternoon. I swear. Maybe that's
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: just him normally, but I like it. All right, one
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: more phone call before I go to text. Jim in
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: Montlake Terrace. You're next up with Funston. Last phone call.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 8: Hey, good afternoon, boys. By the way, thanks for helping
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 8: me out last week with getting me Drake London over
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 8: at Jalen Hurts for a keeper pick.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: Love it.
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 8: Hey, so I've got 10-team PPR super flex. I've obviously
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 8: got Allen for my first round, and I've got London
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 8: for my fourth. Do I even contemplate getting a tight
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 8: end ahead of a second wide receiver or a second
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 8: running back, assuming the big couple three go before round five?
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 6: If those tight ends are not available to you, and
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 6: you're talking... oh you're talking like before round five um
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 6: i'm probably i'm probably gonna if if if i'm not
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 6: looking at mcbride bowers or even loveland You can think
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 6: about it as inside the round five of a super flex.
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 6: If I'm not looking at those guys, then I'm not
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 6: looking at the tight end for a little while longer.
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 6: I would go with the other positions. Beautiful. Far away.
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 2: Maybe hoping for Colston at five?
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 6: I mean, fifth round for Colston Leblon, I think, is
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 6: a good pick because you're getting potential tight end one
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 6: a little bit later than Bryden and Brock Bowers are going. So, yeah,
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 6: I think it's not bad value.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: Brock Bowers just pulled his hamstring. I think he just
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: pulled his hamstring again.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 2: Ian speaks like it's from experience.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: Pure bitterness. 100% bitterness.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 3: 100% bitterness.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: All right, here we go.
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 6: Hit the music.
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: Let's get some text in.
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 6: 49451.
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: Exactly. Exactly 12 noon.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 2: Wow. Exactly 12 noon. Third pick, full PPR, 12-team league.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: Chase or JSN, that's assuming Gibbs and Robinson are gone.
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I have Chase ahead of JSN. He's
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 6: been the most targeted receiver the last two years, so
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 6: you like that in the PPR. But listen, they're so
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 6: close that if you'd rather just go with the local guy,
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't have an issue with it.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 3: So there you go.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: We have two that came in one second after noon.
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: We haven't started games yet, by the way.
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 2: I see another second one at noon.
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: We'll get to that one. That's the last one.
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 2: That's the last one.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: If Nakua doesn't play, who would you substitute for him?
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: Michael Wilson, Harrison Jr., Mike Evans, Diggs, or Denzel Boston?
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: We're still waiting on the Nakua thing. There's a chance
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: he could get suspended for a game or two, right?
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 6: There is a chance. There is a chance. I haven't
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 6: heard much about it recently, but these things can tend
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 6: to come out of the blue. But there is that
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 6: hanging over him. If Mike Evans is going, it's been
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 6: a bit of a mash unit. Mike Evans would clearly
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 6: be the go-to guy in that offense. I would lean
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 6: that direction, but If you're not feeling good about his health,
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 6: Marvin Harrison would be the guy over Michael Wilson because
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 6: when those two played together with Jacoby Brissett last year,
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 6: actually Harrison was clearly the go-to guy.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm going to follow up on that. Is
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 2: this the year that Marvin Harrison Jr. finally breaks out
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 2: that he has a quarterback that can throw up the middle?
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean.
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 6: I think that's going to help. Like I said, when
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 6: he was with Brissette, he played pretty decently. So there
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 6: is some breakout love.
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: Kyler is still short. He's still short.
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 2: Breaking news.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 6: He has not grown over the offseason.
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: Anders, wait for it.
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 6: Kyler's short. All right.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: Here's the deal. Here's the deal. Anders, you get ready
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: for some ones that just came in. I've got a
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: couple more that came. This is one second after as well.
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: Need one for a flex full PPR. Judkins, Jay Price,
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: Devontae Smith. I'm going to go Jenkins. I think he's
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: going to be one of the most heavily used running
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: backs in the league. If he doesn't get suspended for
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: fighting his teammate, I guess. That's not a good thing.
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: Start Lamar Jackson or Matt Stafford?
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 6: Ooh. Yeah, you guys throw me off with these. I'm
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 6: going to go Lamar Jackson. You drafted it ahead. It's
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 6: at Indianapolis. It's on the fast track turf. Give me Lamar.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: Final one that came in. This was three seconds after
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: 12 noon. You guys are just absolutely sick and nuts,
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: and I love every second of it. PPR, Drake May
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: or Baker Mayfield? I don't know if that's draft or start,
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: so maybe answer it both ways.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, let's see.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: You draft Drake May high, right?
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 6: You drafted Drake May High. He is on the road
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 6: against Seattle. Last time he played Seattle, I mean, we
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 6: don't know what happened. But he also didn't have A.J. Brown,
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 6: so that makes a little bit of a difference.
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 2: Does it, though?
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 6: You know what? I'm still going to go Drake May.
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 6: He does run the ball. I think he'll do a
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 6: little better than he did last time. Hopefully not too good.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: You're a Baker Mayfield hater.
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 6: And I like it.
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: And I like it. I'm here for that all day.
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 6: It's a good matchup. That's Cincinnati. They're improved defensively, but
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 6: who knows how much.
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: They were terrible last year. Anders, I see a ton
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: coming in right now, so fire away.
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, 2-5-3. Yo, got the number one pick straight up.
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 2: Who do I go with? We don't have league details
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 2: from the 2-5-3 here, so I'm just going to assume
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 2: standard full-point PPR.
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 6: I mean, you've got to go Jameer Gibbs. I mean,
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 6: especially now, Isaiah Pacheco's out for the first time. At
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 6: least for four games, he's on IR.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 2: Is he separating himself from Bijan, do you think?
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 6: I think so. I mean, he's been a better point-per-touch guy,
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 6: and he's been better actually just straight up, despite a
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 6: lot less touches than Bijan last year. So now you're
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 6: actually putting him on a level volume-wise. I just think
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 6: he's going to have a huge year.
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 2: Okay, third overall pick coming up, Gibbs, Bijan, Cook, or Taylor?
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 3: Gibbs?
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 6: Gibbs and Bichon, we're just going to have to assume
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 6: are going to be gone. I'm going to go Jonathan
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 6: Taylor over James Cook. I think both are good picks,
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 6: but give me Taylor slightly.
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 2: Okay. Kyler Murley or Kirk Cousins? I'm assuming this is
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 2: for starting week one. Not drafting.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 6: Do the quick.
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: Do the quick.
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 6: Minnesota's going against Green Bay and.
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 6: Who was it? Was that Kyler Murray? And who was
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 6: the other one?
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins.
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 6: Kirk Cousins. Yeah, give me Kyler. You know, if he's
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 6: going to run, he'll do it in the first half
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 6: of the year. He'll stop down the stretch. But he's
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 6: generally been a good first half of the year player.
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: He hasn't pulled anything yet, right?
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 3: Right, exactly.
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: Okay, so he should be fine. He's playing Call of Duty, though.
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: He's still short. Yeah, he's playing Call of Duty. You
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: know what's funny is just before Anders gets you a
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: couple more, I didn't even think about it. Yeah, there's
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: probably teams. Every league is different. There's probably leagues that
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: lock it in for the entire week on Went before
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: the CX play.
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: That's why people are asking. Ours keeps it open until
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: Sunday morning. Yeah, as long as you don't have one
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: of those players. But one of those, yeah, one of
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: those leagues.
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 2: You still could screw over the rest of your roster, though,
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 2: if you have one of those players.
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, that's why the questions are coming in.
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 2: Good thing we did this today. 253, need one, full PPR,
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 2: Ted McMillan, Bay Shultz, Hooten, Quinshawn, Judkins, or Luther Burden?
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 6: For week one?
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm going to go back to Quinshawn Judkins. I
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 6: think he's going to have the ball in his hands
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 6: a lot.
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: Is he? How high do you draft him?
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 6: He's my RB17, RB16. Okay. All right.
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: Matthew Golden.
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 6: He's right there with DeAndre Swift and Javante Williams for me. Okay.
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 2: 253, Matthew Golden, Rashid Shahid, or Casey Concepcion for my flex?
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I always preach just watch and see on some
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 6: of these rookies, especially a rookie on the Cleveland Browns,
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 6: a wide receiver tied to this quarterback. So just wait
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 6: on that one. But he's conceivably going to be the
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 6: best fit for that offense with those quarterbacks, but I'll
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 6: go Ted McMillan.
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: Give me two more, Anders.
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 2: So, that one actually was Matthew Golden, Rasheed Shaheed, or
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 2: Casey Concepcion.
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 6: Oh, let's go with Matthew Golden.
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 2: Okay. No worries. I have pick six. Either Jonathan Taylor
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 2: or Christian McCaffrey will be available to draft. Which one
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 2: and why?
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 6: Well, McCaffrey is the one who, you know, he just
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 6: gets to hold your breath more, but he's got the
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 6: higher upside. He's got He had massive volume last year.
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 6: He was the number one running back because he touched
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 6: the ball like 450 times. So, I mean, they don't
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 6: have a clear help there. So, I think it's just
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 6: business as usual until he breaks again. And, you know,
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 6: we'll see if he can make it through. But I
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 6: have him one spot ahead of Taylor. So, by my
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 6: rankings and by most of the industry's rankings, that's the
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 6: way it goes.
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 2: From the 360, last one. And it's because he needs
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 2: an answer. It's the game on Wednesday. Drake Mayer, Sam Donald,
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 2: who do you start?
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 6: I'm going to go... drake may just for the just for.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 2: Wow hater over here geez.
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 6: You know sam's gonna sam's gonna ride that defense you're
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 6: gonna you know jadarian price is gonna have a great
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 6: debut you get that lead they're gonna gonna go conservative
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 6: you know all right all right all right it's okay
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 6: all right i can justify it some way you sure
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 6: could that's that's what you do that's what you do we.
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 2: Heard about rashid shaheed do you think he becomes more
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 2: fantasy relevant this year.
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 6: I still see him as just a peak and valley player.
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 6: I like to see the guys. There's this whole thing.
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 6: It's like average depth of target. You love the receivers
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 6: that are in the 9 to 12-yard range because it
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 6: means that they're the target hogs and the guys that
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 6: move the chains. And you get Rasheed Shaheed, and he's
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 6: up in that 15, 20 range. It's tough to be
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 6: consistent in that level.
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: Especially in PPR. Home run or bust, just like my
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: guy Weston Wilson. That's right.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 2: I thought you were going to pick up Gabe Davis.
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: Or even... Remember when Taylor Ward hit home runs back
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: in the day?
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 2: Or walked?
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: I got two more here for you real quick. One,
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: fantasy football question. My league is buying me an iPhone
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: if I finish dead last. Which kicker or defensive special
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: team should I draft number one overall? If you finish last,
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: it's got to be Miami, right? Get somebody from Miami.
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: That's our friend Cliff Clavin. He's the only guy in
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: our league. This is how much stuff we got done.
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: I don't even know if that was a real– I
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: know somebody brought it up that they're going to buy–
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: I think he has to buy an iPhone if he
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: finishes last.
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: That makes a lot more sense. He's the only guy
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: that has an Android.
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 2: That's fair.
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it passed because I think by
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: the time we got to that vote, I was three
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: or four major IPAs deep.
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 6: That's the benefits of hosting, right?
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: It's a small backyard, whatever. Are we done yet? What
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: are we doing here?
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: And then the last one that came in right at
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: 12 o'clock. We had two that came in exactly at
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: 12 o'clock. So I've got to read this one for
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: fun because you'll like it. It's our friend Keith Miller.
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: Full PPR. Patty Melt or Ruben?
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 2: There's a clear answer here. Oh, is there? Yeah, there is.
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 6: Okay. I'm going to go Patty Melt because I feel
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 6: like it's just a hamburger by another name. Right answer.
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 2: Not a Reuben fan.
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 6: I'm okay with a Reuben, but like.
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 3: Here's the issue.
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: There's an issue here. There's an issue.
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 2: There's an issue.
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: Some Rubens are just elite. Ten out of ten. It's rare.
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: A bad Ruben is probably more likely to happen than
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: a bad patty melt.
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 6: 100%.
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: Would you go with that, Funston?
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I would agree with that. A bad Ruben could
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 6: turn you off on Rubens altogether for a while.
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 9: Bingo.
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 6: Hand raised.
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if that happens and you're done, right? Now that
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: I think about it, they have a good Ruben up
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: at Snoqualmie Casino when I'm going to be up there tomorrow.
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: I think I might have one of those. That sounds
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: damn good now.
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 2: For PPR, I have to choose one. Statue of John
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 2: Stanton or statue of Jerry DePoto? Oh, God. They'd both
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 2: be defaced. You'd have to have security around them 24-7.
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 6: Crowd just tipping the thing over in the middle of
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 6: the street.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: For people that want to get more info on fantasy football,
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: how do they do so?
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 6: We've got lots of stuff going on at The Athletic
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 6: right now. Come and check it out. Actually, we'll have
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 6: Jake Seeley, our BiggestRankerGuy will have his week one rankings
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 6: up tomorrow morning. So you can start diving into those
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 6: if you want to get ready for week one. But
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 6: there's a ton of stuff that we have out there. And, yeah,
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 6: we're starting to turn the page from the preseason and
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 6: start looking ahead to week one like everybody else is.
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: All you sickos out there doing that, go have some fun,
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: all right? We will talk to you next Thursday. There
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: will be a game in the bag, but we'll have
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: the rest of the weekend to look forward to. Brandon,
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: thank you so much.
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 3: Love it.
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 6: Sounds good.
• 1:40:10
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• 1:40:12
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• 1:40:14
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• 1:40:17
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• 1:40:20
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• 1:40:24
  Speaker 10: Now back to Ian Furness on your home for the Huskies, Kraken,
• 1:40:28
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• 1:40:42
  Speaker 14: Hey, Ian, Anders, love the show. I want to push
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 14: back at a little something earlier you said when you
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 14: were talking to Gas. You mentioned that the Seahawks have
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 14: two Super Bowl wins, but I think it's important to
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 14: also mention that they do have two Super Bowl losses.
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 14: The Seahawks have been to the Super Bowl four times
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 14: in that 17-year span. I think that is super, super impressive.
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 14: I think we should talk about how the Seahawks have
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 14: been to four.
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 3: Point taken.
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: Ran out of time.
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure Gas mentioned the two. I know I
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 2: did earlier in the show. You did, but I think
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 2: it was kind of, you did it in a very, oh,
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 2: two Super Bowl losses. Yeah, kind of glossed it over.
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's right.
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, listen, you just, you look at the franchise history,
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: and before Paul Allen bought the team, there were four
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: playoff appearances from 76 until 97. They go in 99
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 1: with Holmgren's first year. And then they missed it for
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 1: the next three. Remember, there was pressure on Mike. Then one, two, three.
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: What did Mike have? Mike had one, two, three, four,
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 1: five straight postseason appearances, including the Super Bowl loss.
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 2: If my math is correct, the Seahawks had four playoff
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 2: appearances in the first 25 years of their existence. And
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 2: then four Super Bowl appearances in the next 25 years
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 2: of their existence.
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: Good math. And 17 since John Schneider took over. Pretty
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 1: damn good. Both Pete Carroll and Mike Holmgren had five
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: straight playoff appearances, too. I think back to the 2017-18 season. 17,
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: they didn't make the playoffs. 18, they did. People were like, oh,
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: just blow it all up. Well, it was in the process.
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 1: The NFL doesn't blow things up.
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 8: No.
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: The NFL has attrition.
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 2: Guess who's tried to blow themselves up recently and had
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 2: no success? The Cleveland Broncos.
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Miami's doing it right now. Natural attrition takes over.
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: But, yeah, it's a hell of a run under the
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: Allen family. Continue.
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 14: I feel like the Seahawks are in their mini dynasty
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 14: mode right now. The last three long-term head coaches have
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 14: all been to or won a Super Bowl. Mike Holmgren,
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 14: Pete Carroll, Mike McDonald. We are just on a roll,
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 14: and it kind of makes having such a good franchise,
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 14: kind of makes it easier to stomach the puke franchises
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 14: that we also have in our market. Like, I'm more
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 14: excited for Seahawks than I ever have been in my life.
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 1: Good deal. I like it.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 3: Next question.
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 7: This is the Ancient Mariner.
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 6: Uh-oh.
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 15: I just wanted to thank you for having gas on.
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 15: It was great to hear his voice. I thought the
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 15: segment on high school football was really informative. The segment
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 15: just before Funston, though, like Softie said, wait for it.
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 11: Here it comes.
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 6: Wait for it.
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 9: That was bad radio.
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 6: Bad, bad radio.
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 15: I was expecting someone to go first-time caller, long-time listener.
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: We were going to start a new thing called Four Downs,
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: and we were going to play a little sounder that
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: says first down, then I was going to react, second down,
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: then I was going to react. I was going to
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: do that, but we decided just to do the bad
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: radio statement instead. Ian trying to figure out the call screener.
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: All right, do we have a couple more?
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 2: One more.
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: One more.
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 7: Seattle.
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 12: Russ here.
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: Three-man brand. Good man brand. Sierra's house.
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 3: Three.
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: All that.
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 12: Russ Foundation. Guess what, Seattle? Vinod Khosla.
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: Let's ride.
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 12: Vinod Khosla, let's ride. Bring Russ home. We have a deal.
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 12: Angel of the Winds, church speaking. Let's ride.
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 1: That's the new slogan for this year. Bring Russ home.
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 2: Not the let Russ cook stuff.
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: No, bring Russ home. Bring Russ home, huh?
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 2: Please don't bring Russ home.
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: Bring Russ home. Can we bring Russ home?
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 8: No?
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: You don't want to bring Russ home?
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 6: Not yet, at least. No.
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 2: Do your CBS thing.
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 6: We're good.
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: Just stay there.
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 2: They're going to need you anyway with Tony Romo. He
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 2: might have to start calling games.
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: We have a couple people asking about now that the
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 1: sale's gone through, who should raise the 12th man flag
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: for the second game? It sounds like Jody's going to
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: do the first one.
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 5: 253.
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: Any truth to the rumor that Diana Rossini, former KJR employee,
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 1: is raising the 12th flag?
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 3: Nope.
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: No truth to that yet. She kind of got cleared
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: today by the athletics, sort of. Even though she had
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: to quit and got fired or whatever.
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 2: I think it's more the Athletics saving their own skin
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 2: more than anything else.
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: 4-2-5. Is the new Pittsburgh owner fan going to have
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: Franco Harris raise the flag in the second home game?
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: Seahawks and Steelers legend. I'm not sure.
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 2: I have to make a quick response. 206, Ian AAA
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 2: Anders owes me an apology. I called out Julio's base
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 2: running gaffe yesterday and he admonished me over text that no,
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 2: he had to run. Both Chuck and ex-captain Greg Bell
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 2: plus the Mariners on-air announcers said that was an egregious
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 2: base running mistake.
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: I didn't see the mistake yesterday. We were on the
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: air when it happened. They won 8-2, did they not?
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 2: They did. First and second, ground ball to the shortstop.
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 2: It's a force at third base. Julio's on second base.
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 2: He runs and gets tagged out by the shortstop, and
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 2: then they throw to first place for the double play.
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 2: So what most, it looks like, if this texter is correct,
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 2: are arguing is that he should have waited so he
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 2: wasn't as easy to tag. But it's a force out
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 2: at third base. You kind of have to run. Like,
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 2: they could just step on the bag at third. Or
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 2: they could do the easy double play, too, where they
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 2: just throw it to second and throw it to first.
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 2: But in response to that, I don't know if I
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 2: owe you an apology. Everyone can have their own opinion.
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: I think you owe an apology.
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 2: Okay. All right.
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: Just apologize and we'll move on. They won 8-2, fella.
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 9: Relax.
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: They won 8-2, fella. What do you want?
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 6: Oh, man.
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 1: 8-2, is that right? They scored eight runs.
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they did.
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, we owe them an apology because you and
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 1: I blasted them the first half out of the show yesterday.
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 2: I read the text from earlier. He texted in again.
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 2: Anders still owes me an apology.
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: This guy's on it, man. He is all over you
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 1: right now. He is all over you.
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 2: He wants that apology.
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: He does want that apology. We should apologize. We were
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 1: crushing them for their lineup yesterday. They scored eight runs.
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 2: I will apologize for that. Except not. I wanted to
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 2: see Las Montes play. Imagine what they could have done
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 2: with him.
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 1: He might have just hit a home run or two
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 1: and just been more fun. Home runs by the rookie
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: are kind of fun, I guess, I would think. Does
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: Ross have a fifth year of eligibility as for a
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 1: concerned Coug fan?
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 2: That's right. That's right.
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: He's heading back to Wisconsin as we speak. Five and five.
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 1: That's right. God, this is the same guy just all
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: over you. I guess.
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 6: I love it.
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: Just keep him coming. You know what?
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 2: Hey, I'm not even going to say you're wrong, but like... Wait,
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 2: I've just checked that number. That's Softie's number. Is it?
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: No, I'm just kidding.
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 2: Wow, wouldn't surprise me. Would not surprise me.
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: Do you think he's got the... He's at Jimmy's. Do
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: you think he's got the interest or capacity right now
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: to sit there and go, I'm going to send a
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: text to mess with Anders?
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 6: Maybe.
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: No chance. He's ordering a drink or food or something
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: right now.
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 2: That's true. That's too much effort for him.
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: Okay. Let's see. I think we're good. We good for now?
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 2: We're good.
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 6: We're all good?
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: Okay. Softie will join us from Jimmy's on first as
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: the Mariners get ready to open up the homestand. Coming
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: up next. All right, Anders, remember this earlier? I said,
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: can I get him to focus on something?
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not happening.
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: Probably not going to happen. How are you?
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 3: Talking to me?
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: I'm talking to you.
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 3: By the way, that segment you did trying to figure
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 3: out the phone software?
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 1: I'm still trying to figure it out.
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 3: That was the worst thing I've ever heard on this
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 3: radio station.
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: First of all, you and I both know that's not true.
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 9: Ever.
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 3: And I hear my show every day.
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: You and I both know that that's not the worst
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: thing you've heard on this radio station.
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 10: My God.
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 3: I swear to God, I wanted to pull over, get
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 3: out of my car, and bang my head against the
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 3: hood of my car.
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 1: I'm still trying to figure it out. Andrew, does that work?
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: Is that working right now? All right.
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 2: I want to keep you focused on one thing if
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 2: I can.
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 1: I'm going to give it a go. So we had
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 1: gas on earlier.
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: When did you start working here?
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 3: 1994, November.
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: Okay. So that's perfect. That actually works well. With the
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: Coastal sale becoming official, they got their key cards today.
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 6: They're in the building.
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 1: They're kicking ass, taking names, getting written. No, I'm just kidding.
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 1: But it's over. You look back on the Allen era,
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 1: but more importantly, 96, 97 with the stadium thing. What
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: do you remember from that as far as the radio
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 1: station was concerned, the fans? What do you remember from
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: that time?
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. What were you saying?
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 1: I lost focus. I knew you'd lose focus.
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 3: What I remember is Paul Allen saying, hey, if we're
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 3: doing this, then you guys are helping me out.
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 3: And he put it to a statewide vote. He said,
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 3: I want to make sure people want this. I mean,
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 3: you know, I could afford to write a check for
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 3: the entire thing myself, but I want this to be
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 3: an investment. I want everybody to be on board. I
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 3: want everybody across the state to feel like they're invested
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 3: in this thing. And it was a genius move by
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 3: Paul Allen because, I mean, Ian, you remember growing up
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 3: back in the Kingdom days, and this is way before
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 3: your time. We'd go to the Kingdom, and they'd have
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 3: all the Seahawker Club, which are the booster clubs.
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 12: Yep.
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 3: And their banners would hang all over the inside of
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 3: the kingdom on the facade, and they'd be from all
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 3: over the state, right? Walla Walla, Yakima, Roslyn, Pullman, everywhere.
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 3: And so I think we all knew growing up that
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 3: the Seahawks were way more about the state than maybe
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 3: the Sonics or the Mariners were growing up.
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 1: The region, I would say, all the way down through Portland.
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 12: 100%.
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 3: So I think it was a stroke of genius by
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 3: Paul to say, we're not doing a King County thing here.
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 3: We're not doing a city of Seattle thing. We're doing
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 3: a statewide thing. And it passed, and they got the
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 3: money for the stadium, and here we are 30 years later.
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: Gas brought this up, and I was in Salt Lake
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: when that was going on. But the thing that's weird,
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of people would have a hard
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: time realizing today with the success they've had since, well,
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: really since John Schneider in 2010, but really since Paul
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: Allen bought the team and the Allen family bought the team.
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: As Gas pointed out, he goes, at that point in time, 96, 97,
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 1: The Seahawks were not the thing in town. It was
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 1: the Mariners and the 95 and, you know, Husky football.
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 1: It didn't matter. Sonics were, you know, going to the title,
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 1: you know, to the NBA.
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 3: Well, you had the bearing thing. The bearing thing was just,
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 3: that was like Clay Bennett. I mean, everybody knew they
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 3: were gone. There was a point in time, I think
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 3: it was 91 or 92, whatever year it was, where
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 3: they were getting like 35,000 people a game for Seahawks games,
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 3: which is unheard of.
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: Crazy they burned through that season ticket list that was
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 1: like almost what 80 000 at one point and they
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: burned through that like in two years just like that
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: which is which is nuts but i yeah i just
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 1: it's i just a thank you to the allen family
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 1: man it's uh What a run as an ownership group.
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: From Paul to Jody, what a run for them.
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 3: Unbelievable.
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 1: The bar's set pretty high for the Coastal family. There's
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 1: no doubt about that. Just stay the hell away from stuff,
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 1: and you'll be fine.
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't have my... I mean, for now, for sure.
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 3: I mean, at some point, you're going to have to
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 3: replace John Schneider. At some point, you'll have to replace
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 3: Mike McDonald, right? I mean, at some point, you're going
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 3: to have to get new people in there. But I
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 3: think for them.
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 3: Just let it be, right? Just shut your mouth and
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 3: open your wallet, as Hugh Millen has said. I think
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 3: the sun, my gut is that Neil down the road
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 3: is going to be the face of this thing. I
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 3: think it'll be his deal at the end of the day.
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 3: How long will that be? 5, 10, whatever? I got
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 3: no idea. But I think the fact that they had
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 3: three pictures of people that were featured in the press
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 3: release today and it was... The dad, the mom, and
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 3: the son, right? We're all three featured.
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 1: Where'd the daughter go? Where was she at?
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: She was there for the press conference.
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 3: The big coat? The big coat at the presser?
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 1: Allie Sheen from Breakfast Club?
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, right. Neil Kosla is going to be eventually the
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 3: face of the franchise. So he's the guy that we
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 3: probably should get to know. And they're going to have
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 3: a press conference next Wednesday before the Patriot game at
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 3: 11 over at Lumen. Get to hear from them for
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 3: the first time. But, I mean, you know, for right now, there's,
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 3: I don't think, much to be concerned about. But, you know,
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 3: you never know.
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 1: I think that's my first ever movie reference I gave you.
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: Usually it's the other way around.
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 3: That was pretty good.
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: Did you like that?
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 3: Is he going to make a sandwich made out of
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 3: Captain Crunch for her? Remember that? With pixie sticks?
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: That's what a... See, if you go down that road,
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 1: like that era, I might remember more stuff with the
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: movie references.
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 3: Anthony Michael Hall. Anthony Michael Hall played the dork in
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 3: The Breakfast Club, and he played the stud quarterback in
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 3: Johnny B.
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 1: Goode.
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 3: Two polar opposite roles.
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 1: I was flipping over last night to watch the nightly
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 1: news at 10 o'clock, and it was like five minutes
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 1: left in some show on Fox 13, and it was
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: Anthony Michael Hall with JoJo somebody, and then somebody, they
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: were doing like a game show, who's the dumbest person
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 1: in America?
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 3: We should do that on this radio station. Who's the
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 3: dumbest talent on the air? Well, the problem is it
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 3: would go on forever. Let me ask you a question.
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 3: Would you ever be up for taking, like, a test
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 3: on the air?
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 10: No.
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 3: All of us? No. IQ test?
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 7: No.
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 3: You know why? I wouldn't either.
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 1: I went to my daughter's classroom last year, two years ago.
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 6: Forget it.
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 9: And.
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 1: Fifth grade. And they're like, oh, give your dad a
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 1: quiz like that we would do. So she gave me
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 1: like five questions.
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: I looked at her, looked at the questions. I said,
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 1: I'm disowning you. Kiefer's my favorite. Like, I just couldn't
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: answer one.
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 3: No way. What's that TV show where you were smart
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 3: as a five-year-old or whatever?
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: The answer is no. The answer is no. I did
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 1: like the title, though. Who's the dumbest person in America?
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 3: I think we should do it for this radio station.
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 3: Do a bracket.
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well.
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 3: Do a bracket in the summer.
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: No thanks.
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 3: Did I focus enough for you?
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: No, you and I would not do well in that.
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 1: So let's just table that one for a while, will we?
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 9: I agree.
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: What do you got coming up today?
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 3: What's today? Thursday?
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: Friday? What the hell's today?
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 3: Jerry Brewer's on today. Brett Boone is on today.
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 1: Rick Neuheisel is on today.
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 3: We're going to keep the Mariners Believe bus going, pal.
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 3: It's starting to slow down after the Astros win today,
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 3: but we're going to keep it going.
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Luis Castillo, by the way.
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you how it's going to take place today,
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 3: by the way.
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 1: Not good news from our boy The Rock did not
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 1: help us out today.
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 3: Did he get lit up today?
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: Yes, he did. Yes, he did.
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 3: Way to go, loser.
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 6: I always thought it was.
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 3: The best thing to get rid of that bum.
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 9: Wow.
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 3: Top 50 Mariner. My ass.
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 1: Softy is down at Jimmy's, and he says that Dick
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 1: Fane's buying drinks for everybody. So head on down there.
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 6: He is, actually.
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 3: Yes, he is. All right. See you.
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 8: Bye.
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 11: For the mild-mannered and marginally objectionable Ian Furness, this is
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 11: Paddle Day saying so long, everyone.