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5-8 H1: Mother's Day, Mariners possible 6-man rotation & Flashback Friday · The Gregg Bell Show

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Speaker 1: Light Choose Chill, but you already knew that the Mariners
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Speaker 1: are on the south side of Chicago today to bring
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Speaker 1: it begin a three game weekend series at the White
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Speaker 1: Sox four to forty. First pitch today with Emerson Hancock
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Speaker 1: the best starter so far this season on the hill
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Speaker 1: for the MS. Tomorrow it's a four to ten game
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Speaker 1: with Luis Castillo their worst starters so far this season
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Speaker 1: on the hill eleven ten am Logan Gilbert On Sunday,
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Speaker 1: the series finale. More on Luis Castillo, Emerson Hancock, Bryce
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Speaker 1: Miller and as the rotation turns later on the show,
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Speaker 1: Brendan Donovan expected to join a team in Chicago today
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Speaker 1: at the Park. Likely will be activated from the injured
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Speaker 1: list to play in this weekend series, likely back at
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Speaker 1: third base, likely back at the leadoff spot again, which
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Speaker 1: would move JP Crawford back down. The Seahawks sale is
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Speaker 1: attracting a quote soft buyers market ESPN Seth Wickersham reports
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Speaker 1: this morning. Of course, Yesterday, we had news that the
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Speaker 1: two first legit bidders groups are emerging, competing against each
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Speaker 1: other to perhaps drive up the price. We'll talk more
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Speaker 1: about this in a second as well. The Seahawks as
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Speaker 1: players began the second phase of their voluntary offseason workout
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Speaker 1: program this week at headquarters in Renton. The team posts
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Speaker 1: a photo from the field yesterday of Tory Horton catching
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Speaker 1: a football. His rookie season ended last November with a
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Speaker 1: major shin injury, which Mike McDonald has said. Horton likely
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Speaker 1: wouldn't do much football work in the field this spring,
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Speaker 1: but the team is hopeful the wide receiver and kick
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Speaker 1: returner will be ready for training camp the end of July,
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Speaker 1: and yesterday him on the field catching passes was a
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Speaker 1: good sign of that. Ninety eight point seven M Sports
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Speaker 1: Radio in Pittsburgh's reporting to the Aaron Rodgers will supply
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Speaker 1: into their city last night, expected to sign with the
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Speaker 1: Steelers for the twenty twenty sixth season this weekend. Breaking
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Speaker 1: news in the last half hour that the NFL has
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Speaker 1: reached a seven year collective bargaining agreement with the NFL
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Speaker 1: Referees Association that'll run through the twenty thirty two season.
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Speaker 1: The current CBA expired at the end of this month,
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Speaker 1: so we won't have college Division three refs doing NFL games,
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Speaker 1: which is what they were floating. The specter of the
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Speaker 1: The thirtieth WNBA season begins today. The Storm has their
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Speaker 1: opener at home tonight against Golden State at Climate Proge Arena.
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Speaker 1: Then they go to Connecticut play on Sunday. NBA Playoffs
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Speaker 1: Tonight the Knicks at seventy six ers when New York
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Speaker 1: Cup three to zero. The Spurs are at the Timberwowls.
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Speaker 1: That series tied one to one last night, the Thunder
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Speaker 1: pulled away late to beat the Lakers take a two
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Speaker 1: oh series lead with Game three tomorrow night in Los Angeles.
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Speaker 1: Detroit went at home over Cleveland for a two oh
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Speaker 1: series lead, and that best of seven Game three is
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Speaker 1: in Ohio tomorrow. Stanley Cup Playoffs Tonight, Montreal is at Buffalo.
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Speaker 1: Savers lead that best of seven series one game to none.
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Speaker 1: The Eastern Conference Semifinals in the West, Vegas is at
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Speaker 1: Anaheim in a series tied one to one.
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Speaker 2: Tonight.
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Speaker 1: Last night, the Carolina Panthers won their seventh can Saycutive
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Speaker 1: game to start the playoffs four and one in Philadelphia,
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Speaker 1: four to one. If the Hurricanes win tomorrow night Game
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Speaker 1: four were to sweep the Flyers out of the playoffs,
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Speaker 1: Carolina will become the first team ever to begin the
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Speaker 1: Stanley Cup playoffs eight and No. They're trying to advance
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Speaker 1: to the Eastern Conference Finals. And here we go with
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Speaker 1: the Friday Show in Travis Monger.
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Speaker 3: Listen, but I guess the storm.
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Speaker 4: Because I know the story.
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Speaker 5: Maybe win your brook, Ma, that I can do my day.
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Speaker 4: I'm sure you that I'm wid that I loved you.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, Happy Friday to you, Travismonga and I Travis
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Speaker 1: is in for Christopher kid.
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Speaker 2: Chris is flying across the country.
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Speaker 1: He's going to Xavier University in Louisiana to see his
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Speaker 1: little sister graduate from college. Oh hi, Travis, Hey, Greg,
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Speaker 1: how are you good? Wild Things? I feel like it's
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl Week again or something. We did a couple
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Speaker 1: of shows super Bowl Week.
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Speaker 2: I know.
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Speaker 5: I just want to point out the fact that we
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Speaker 5: called that super Bowl.
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Speaker 2: Yes we did.
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Speaker 5: We were a spot on. Yes we did humble brag there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, Travis. We said boat race and it
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Speaker 1: was the greatest race of boats. On February eighth and
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Speaker 1: Santa Clara Travis n I did a couple of postseason
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Speaker 1: shows together, both here and then when I was in
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Speaker 1: San Francisco on Friday nights.
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Speaker 2: And he's right.
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Speaker 1: We said, here's after they're gonna kill him. And we
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Speaker 1: got that five that whole week. And having been around
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Speaker 1: the team, and yeah, it wasn't twenty nine thirteen. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't that close, was it that? That was a pretty
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Speaker 1: well upsided super Bowl. The champs are back on the field,
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Speaker 1: some of them anyway. Leonard Williams posted a video of
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Speaker 1: him in a golf cart out on the golf course
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Speaker 1: enjoying his offseason. It's voluntary, still the second phase of
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Speaker 1: offseason workouts, but Mike McDonald, the coach, has been very
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Speaker 1: pleased with who is there, Sam Darnold, Jackson Smith and
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Speaker 1: jigber newly minted one hundred and sixty eight million dollars
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Speaker 1: wide receiver Jackson Smith and Jigger Cooper Cup. In his
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Speaker 1: early mid thirties, Devin Witherspoon was about to get a
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Speaker 1: massive deal of three time cornerback. There are team leaders
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Speaker 1: on the field for what Mike McDonald doesn't say, they
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Speaker 1: have to be here for and they were there anyway
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Speaker 1: setting an example for the younger players. And that's not typical, right,
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Speaker 1: it's not, And especially now after a Super Bowl, with
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Speaker 1: the shorter off season and the guys celebrating through the
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Speaker 1: end of February. And to your point, Travis, Mike mc
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Speaker 1: donald told him the first phase for the last two
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Speaker 1: weeks of April, don't come just take it off. I
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Speaker 1: get it. It was a long season. Take it and Sam,
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Speaker 1: Darnold and Witherspoon and Smith, they were all there two
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Speaker 1: weeks ago and that is the genesis of what started
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Speaker 1: last season with the togetherness and brotherhood and they ended
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Speaker 1: up with damn near one hundred percent participation in the
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Speaker 1: OTAs and veteran Mini camp or excuse me, the voluntary
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Speaker 1: Mini camp again to recap, there's only one mandatory thing
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Speaker 1: these players have to go to in the offseason, and
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Speaker 1: that's the Mini camp three days the first early second
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Speaker 1: week of June. And then that's it. This week or
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Speaker 1: this year, this offseason, the Seahawks have one fewer week
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Speaker 1: of OTA practices organized team activities. They just have two
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Speaker 1: sets of three of those and then the mini camp
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Speaker 1: and they're done on June tenth. They're done from June
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Speaker 1: tenth till July twenty fifth ish. The training camp is
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Speaker 1: still to be decided to start date they're off, so
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Speaker 1: it is a shorter offseason, in which McDonald said, Yah,
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Speaker 1: I don't don't bother coming. And we've talked about this
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Speaker 1: many times, Travis, that the togetherness and the buy in
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Speaker 1: that they had in April and May last year they
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Speaker 1: think was the reason they won the Super Bowl and
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Speaker 1: it's starting the same way this time as well.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you gotta love it.
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Speaker 6: I mean seeing that kind of dedication and they've got
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Speaker 6: a taste of winning and they want more.
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Speaker 5: That's that's great.
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Speaker 1: It's the culture, Mike McDonald has said. In two short seasons. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's his biggest caauy. Yes, he hoisted trophies and won
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, the biggest accomplishment is the culture he's established
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Speaker 1: in short order and the buy in that he's gotten
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Speaker 1: from thirty four to thirty three year old veterans like
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Speaker 1: Jaron Reid who's there as well these two weeks when
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Speaker 1: he doesn't have to be and Leonard Williams and DeMarcus Lawrence,
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Speaker 1: who's played twelve NFL seasons and is coming back for
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Speaker 1: his age.
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Speaker 2: Thirty four year. Yeah, it will see.
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Speaker 1: I mean, there have been many stories in the NFL
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Speaker 1: of fat and happy teams that get paid like Smith
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Speaker 1: and Jigbin Witherspooner are about to and have tasted success and
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Speaker 1: fall off because they lose that edge. So far, very
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Speaker 1: very early on May, there's no evidence of that. In fact,
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Speaker 1: there's an evidence of a renrule of the kidness inside
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks locker room.
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Speaker 2: Happy Mother's Day to everybody out there.
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Speaker 1: I reminded when I came in today that two years
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Speaker 1: ago Chris Kidd and I had this show we had.
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Speaker 1: We called my mom in the suburban Detroit somewhat surprised
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Speaker 1: her on the Friday before Mother's Day and put her
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Speaker 1: on the air drives. Well, it took some doing because
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Speaker 1: even though I told her right before the show, I said, hey, Mom,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to surprise you and Chris Kid's gonna call you.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna have a two oh six number, And I
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Speaker 1: think it ended up being an eight hundred number from
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Speaker 1: the iHeart switchboard. Yeah, and it completely baffled her, and
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Speaker 1: she's like, oh, this is a spam tell I'm not
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Speaker 1: answering this phone. Eighty seven year old mom in Detroit
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Speaker 1: not answering it. So it just rang and it rang
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Speaker 1: and it rang, and I'm on the air and Chris
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Speaker 1: is in the booth where you are, waving his arms
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Speaker 1: and giving me a signal like, well, I don't know
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Speaker 1: what's happening. She's not answering the phone. I finally had
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Speaker 1: to call her. I think I handed the phone to
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Speaker 1: Chris or something. We patched her in through my phone
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Speaker 1: because that was the only way she was going to
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Speaker 1: answer the phone a number she recognized, and then we
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Speaker 1: had a really cool conversation about that was my mother's
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Speaker 1: Day highlight. I don't know if you have any good
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Speaker 1: Mother's Day memories or what you do for Mother's Day or.
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Speaker 6: I really, I mean, my mom lives in La so
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Speaker 6: I give her a call, we send her flowers for you,
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Speaker 6: my wife. I tried to just give her a day off,
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Speaker 6: you know, mimosa for breakfast, some you know, sweet treats
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Speaker 6: or bagels or something, and then like I'll take the
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Speaker 6: kids and you can do whatever you want.
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Speaker 1: See that means you're married man, you know, oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: oh yeah, he married for ten years. If you're married
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Speaker 1: for more than ten days, you get it right, yea.
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Speaker 1: Get the day off for Mother's Day. Hopefully you have
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Speaker 1: out there a chance to be near your mother and
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Speaker 1: you or get in touch with your mother, contact with
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Speaker 1: your mother, if you're so fortunate. I know some of
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Speaker 1: us at this age have lost ours. My mother now
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Speaker 1: two years later, I'm not calling her today in Detroit
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Speaker 1: because she has said pretty heavy dementia unfortunately, and if
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Speaker 1: I called her, she would not know who I was.
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Speaker 1: And actually when I go in and even when I
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Speaker 1: tell where I'm coming to the memory care facility and
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Speaker 1: did suburband Detroit, she doesn't remember who I am. And
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Speaker 1: she thinks some are my father actually, especially when I
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Speaker 1: drive around when I'm visiting, because she's used to a
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Speaker 1: man driving her around. And yeah, that's heartbreaking. So hats
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Speaker 1: off to those of you have gone through that. It's tough.
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Speaker 1: And I was going to send her flowers, for instance,
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Speaker 1: and I don't know if I mean it would be
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Speaker 1: for me more than her.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I'm sure she would still appreciate having those flowers,
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Speaker 6: even if she doesn't connect that they came from you.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's true.
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Speaker 2: I mean see the flowers, because she would not know
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Speaker 2: who they came from.
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Speaker 1: But so if you have the opportunity, because you may
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Speaker 1: never you never know, say hate to mom. I probably
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Speaker 1: don't have to tell most of you that, but heavy
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Speaker 1: Mother's date and all the moms out there as well.
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Speaker 1: The most rewarding, get most difficult job on Earth, raising
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Speaker 1: children and being a mother huts off to all of you.
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Speaker 2: On the show today, the Mariners six man rotation. Chuck
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Speaker 2: Powell the specter of it. I should say it's not
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Speaker 2: official yet.
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Speaker 1: Chuck Powell and Ashley Ryan in the last couple hours
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Speaker 1: talked to Pete Woodworth, the pitching coach for the Mariners
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Speaker 1: from Chicago. Chuck asked about that. He didn't give exactly
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Speaker 1: straight answers, but we'll replay what he did say and
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Speaker 1: we'll discuss now that Bryce Miller is coming back to
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Speaker 1: the rotation off of his minor league rehab stint from
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Speaker 1: the oblique side injury.
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Speaker 2: Where goes Emerson Hancock? He better not go anywhere.
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Speaker 1: Where's Luis Castile go? With a twenty four million dollar contract?
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Speaker 1: You're going to put twenty four million dollars in the bullpen.
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Speaker 1: That three a time all Star. I think they're going
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Speaker 1: to keep him the showcase in the try to eventually
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Speaker 1: trade him this summer. We'll talk about that at the
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Speaker 1: next Tank twenty five at ten forty five. Yesterday we'd
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Speaker 1: go into a flashback Friday. Make that a regular thing
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Speaker 1: here on this show. Flashback Friday today, ten forty five.
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Speaker 1: It's yesterday was an NBA anniversary in this city with
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Speaker 1: the Sonics. Maybe I shouldn't bring it up, but I will.
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Speaker 1: Those who've been around the Pacific Northwest for more than
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Speaker 1: a day might have an idea what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 1: At eleven o'clock, Gary Hill, Junior, the Mariners broadcaster, is
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Speaker 1: also in Chicago, getting ready to broadcast from Kimiski Park
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Speaker 1: tonight the three games say whatever they call Kimiski Park
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Speaker 1: now loan rate or rate loan or rate stadium, some
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Speaker 1: kind of garden. Yeah, it's Kimiski Park, the new Kimiski Park,
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Speaker 1: same building it's always been. Well, he's gonna Gary Hill's
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Speaker 1: going to join us at eleven o'clock to talk about
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Speaker 1: this specter of a six man rotation. Talk about Brendan Donovan,
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Speaker 1: coming back to the Mariners off of Hinge injured list
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Speaker 1: stint what he sees from the offense as it's starting
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Speaker 1: to awaken. Kyle Rawleigh o for eight with five strikeouts
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Speaker 1: since he's returned from the three days that he missed
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Speaker 1: with his own side issue. We'll talk to Gary Hill Junior,
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Speaker 1: a good friend of ours, at eleven o'clock eleven thirty,
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Speaker 1: as we do every day at eleven thirty the Takoma
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Speaker 1: Dodge texta on four, nine, four or five one.
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Speaker 2: Your chance to be a part of the show, and.
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Speaker 1: We'll start off the show with your greatest Mother's Day memory,
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Speaker 1: maybe your mom, maybe for your mother, as a son
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Speaker 1: or as a husband, as a great husband as Travis
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Speaker 1: is now. My kids are at the age of twenty three,
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Speaker 1: turning twenty three this month, that I leave it on them.
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Speaker 7: Nice if yeah, I mean I I don't do anything
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Speaker 7: for my wife for Mother's Day because it's them. And
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Speaker 7: my wife has said that even when they were in
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Speaker 7: grade school, Hey, I'm their mom.
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Speaker 1: Let them may care of it. So now that they're
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Speaker 1: earning their own incomes, they can come up with something.
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Speaker 1: We're actually going to work as Imon our son is
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Speaker 1: this new state Park ranger. We're in state park. Oh cool,
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Speaker 1: that's his environmental science degree from w ISSUE. And we're
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Speaker 1: gonna spend the weekend and work as island.
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Speaker 5: I think you're gonna have great weather.
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Speaker 2: It sounds like it right, no rain.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna be in the yurts at Oga Bay and
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Speaker 1: Otter Bay at what do they call it, dough Doughbay
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Speaker 1: Dobe uh huh. We couldn't get into even though my
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Speaker 1: son works there. We couldn't get in camp spots at
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Speaker 1: Moran's State Park there already sold out here earlier far ahead. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so we're gonna We're gonna go to Doughbey and spend
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Speaker 1: the beach yurt.
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Speaker 5: I think you can go skinny dipping and like the
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Speaker 5: hot hubs there.
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Speaker 1: So oh, if you feel we have a hot reservation,
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Travis.
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Speaker 5: So just be you know, be aware you might see
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Speaker 5: some bits hanging out.
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Speaker 1: Oh now, my wife definitely needs to go. That's that's
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Speaker 1: our Mother's day we get. Thanks for the tip. I
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Speaker 1: didn't know that, you know, just heads up, don't be alarmed,
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Speaker 1: literally a heads up.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I like that.
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Speaker 1: Just coming out checks on the greatest memories and fondest memories.
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Speaker 1: You have of your mother's days, either for your mother,
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Speaker 1: for your wife, or your if you are a mother,
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Speaker 1: share those. I'd love to share those and read them
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Speaker 1: back at eleven thirty on the text.
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Speaker 2: Line, Okay, so this Seahawks news.
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Speaker 1: This morning, Travis about a quote soft market that Seth
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Speaker 1: Wickersham is reporting.
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Speaker 2: Let me get a little bit to what he's reported.
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Speaker 1: It came out an hour or so ago, and it's
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Speaker 1: a response to yesterday's Sportygo had two articles that's saying
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Speaker 1: they were really the first two bidders that looked like
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Speaker 1: they were putting together money offers on the Seahawks. Seth
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Speaker 1: Wickersham today on ESPN dot com about I don't know,
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Speaker 1: two or three hours ago. The Seahawks franchise hasn't generated
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Speaker 1: the interest the NFL hoped for when the estate of
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Speaker 1: Paul g Allen put up the team for sale in February.
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Speaker 1: According to an owner, two team executives, and another executive
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Speaker 1: direct knowledge of the state of the sale, quote it's soft.
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Speaker 1: The team owners set of the market for the Seahawks.
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Speaker 1: There isn't much action as there was with Denver in Washington,
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Speaker 1: another executive said, referring to the two most pass franchise
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Speaker 1: sales in the league. Sources who spoke to ESPN said
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Speaker 1: the situation was fluid, but added that there are doubts
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Speaker 1: among NFL owners and executives about whether the Seahawks sale
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Speaker 1: after sports business insiders speculated that it would spark a
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Speaker 1: bidding war and that the franchise could fetch up to
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Speaker 1: eleven billion.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, with a B dollars.
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Speaker 1: Now, there's some doubts whether it'll clipse ten billion at all,
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Speaker 1: they said. These sources to ESPN believed that the team
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Speaker 1: will sell for slightly more than nine billion, which would
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Speaker 1: still be a record price for an NFL team. A
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Speaker 1: league spokesman declined comment, of course you would. A spokesman
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Speaker 1: for the Allent of State told ESPN, quote, there is
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Speaker 1: no news to share about the sale process.
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Speaker 5: Unquote.
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Speaker 1: A Seahawks spokesperson deferred to this the State statement. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so the league and Steahaks are saying the same thing
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Speaker 1: they said yesterday. There's no news to share because there
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Speaker 1: are no bids officially in yet and there's no decision made.
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Speaker 1: Nothing new there. The sale price, if it's nine billion,
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Speaker 1: I mean nine billion, ten billion, ten billion is a
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Speaker 1: nice number because it would equal the Lakers sale in
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Speaker 1: the NBA, which for the richest sale of the professional
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Speaker 1: sports franchise in North America history. But if it's nine
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Speaker 1: million or ten billion, it's still going to be higher
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Speaker 1: than the highest sale price ever for an NFL team,
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Speaker 1: which is six point oh five billion to the Washington
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Speaker 1: Commanders a couple of years ago.
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Speaker 2: Josh Harris and a group of investors bought the team
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Speaker 2: for that.
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Speaker 1: Before that, the Denver sale at the ESPN's talking about,
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Speaker 1: the Broncos were bought by the heir of the Walmart
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Speaker 1: financial tycoon, Walmart Guy. But Walton is a long line
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Speaker 1: of Walton's that run Walmart, So what's called Walmart and
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Speaker 1: that's sold for a little over four billion dollars. The NFL,
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Speaker 1: their main goal is to make sure franchise valuations and
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Speaker 1: sales go up each time a franchise gets sold METEA
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Speaker 1: rights deals, the fact the league prints money they want
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Speaker 1: whether the economy is soft or higher, where the raging
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Speaker 1: markets or not. They want to make sure that the
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Speaker 1: owners have an incentive if they want to sell to
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Speaker 1: to the highest bidder and raise the evaluations for all
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Speaker 1: the teams. So even at nine billion, the Seahawks sale
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Speaker 1: would be above the so far NFL record of the
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Speaker 1: sale of six point zero five billion to the Washington Commanders.
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Speaker 1: We have spoken about this as well the Paul G.
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Speaker 1: Allen Estate. Jody Allen, the trust chair, she is under
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Speaker 1: no obligation to do this in a hurry. She is
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Speaker 1: under obligation to give the best deal that she can
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Speaker 1: get to the Allen's Trust because her brother's wishes were
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Speaker 1: for these sales of the blazers of the Seahawks and
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Speaker 1: all the other assets around global exploration and space exploration
18:39
Speaker 1: and third world countries and water treatment and all healthcare.
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Speaker 1: All the sales of his assets are to benefit philanthropic interest.
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Speaker 1: So of course the trust wants to get the highest
18:50
Speaker 1: sale price they can. And I said this yesterday, Travis.
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Speaker 1: I am still believing that there will be a local buyer,
18:57
Speaker 1: or at least a buyer of some more local than
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Speaker 1: the two that we've already talked about, the Celtics investors
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Speaker 1: who are from London and from the East Coast, and
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Speaker 1: the minority investor in the San Francisco forty nine ers
19:09
Speaker 1: who is the co founder of Son micro Systems. In
19:12
Speaker 1: the Silicon Valley, there is corporate wealth here but it
19:17
Speaker 1: takes time. There are very few people on planet Earth
19:20
Speaker 1: because isout saying that it's going to write a ten
19:23
Speaker 1: billion dollar check one person to buy this team. So
19:26
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a consortium of owners, and it takes
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Speaker 1: time to get people to commit to that and get
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Speaker 1: all that the Seahawks are, whether the NFL owners, whatever,
19:36
Speaker 1: these stories come out from NFL owners, the Seahawks themselves,
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Speaker 1: Jody Allen is under no obligation to do this in
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Speaker 1: a hurry because the trust owns it, she owns it.
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Speaker 1: They're not going anywhere. I don't see the urgency of
19:50
Speaker 1: There was some artificial at the beginning of the sales
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Speaker 1: process saying some people saying this expected the league expects
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Speaker 1: it to be done before the start of the season.
19:58
Speaker 1: That's pretty arbitrary and artificial. There's no reason for it
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Speaker 1: to be that because football operations are continuing the same anyway.
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Speaker 1: We're going to see little imaginations of this throughout this process.
20:09
Speaker 1: It's going to take a very long time because a
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Speaker 1: lot of lawyers are going to be involved, because they're
20:12
Speaker 1: going to be multiple bidders, and of course the league
20:15
Speaker 1: and the team wants multiple bidders to drive up the price,
20:18
Speaker 1: and that'll even elongate the review process and so on,
20:22
Speaker 1: so I wouldn't get too fired up about well, it's
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Speaker 1: taken a while or the quote soft market nine billion
20:29
Speaker 1: doesn't sound too soft to me. I mean, maybe it's
20:31
Speaker 1: not eleven, but yeah.
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Speaker 6: That's kind of ridiculous that they're expecting so much and
20:37
Speaker 6: seemingly are disappointed by a lower evaluation at this point.
20:41
Speaker 5: Yeah.
20:41
Speaker 6: I mean, also, who has that kind of like liquid
20:45
Speaker 6: assets of our liquidity available to just toss into a team.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, not many many, four nine four or
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Speaker 2: five to one.
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Speaker 1: I hear you yesterday on the text line about the
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Speaker 1: London based buyer, Mettal in particular the Indian high steel
21:02
Speaker 1: industry tycoon, and your fears about moving. There are no
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Speaker 1: indications from anyone, including potential bidders, including the league, that
21:10
Speaker 1: the Seahawks would go anywhere, And the bottom line is,
21:14
Speaker 1: why don't fix what's not broken? This is a defending
21:16
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion we talked about yesterday. I can't remember
21:19
Speaker 1: the Celtics sold soon after they won the NBA Finals
21:21
Speaker 1: a couple years ago, but not announced for sale two
21:25
Speaker 1: weeks after they won a championship, like the Seahawks.
21:27
Speaker 2: Word.
21:28
Speaker 1: This is a really unique situation of a football operation
21:31
Speaker 1: that is not broken, that doesn't need to be fixed,
21:34
Speaker 1: and so far the indications of businesses normal on the
21:37
Speaker 1: football side of it. Up next to go to baseball
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Speaker 1: the Mariners. They have a rotation decision to make. You're
21:44
Speaker 1: gonna hear from Pete Woodworth, the Mariners pitching coach on
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Speaker 1: the specterru of perhaps a six man rotation of starting pitchers.
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Speaker 1: That's next on ninety three point three KJRFM.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to show The Greg Best Show with Christopher
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Speaker 2: cad and Christopher Kidd.
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Speaker 1: Is traveling for a family graduation, so that a smugger
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Speaker 1: is in with us like a Super Bowl week againted
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Speaker 1: to coma Dodge text sign. Do we know why the
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Speaker 1: Patriots jet was at Boeing Field? Just I get asked
22:28
Speaker 1: this like every time it's there. No, I don't. It
22:32
Speaker 1: doesn't mean the Patriot, it doesn't mean Robert Kraft is
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Speaker 1: invading it. It's, as I understand it, a Boeing owned plane.
22:38
Speaker 1: Boeing field could be maintenance, could be a bunch of things.
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Speaker 1: So no, I don't know the answer to that.
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Speaker 5: They're spying on us.
22:43
Speaker 1: Yes, they're spying on the second phase of voluntary season workouts.
22:48
Speaker 1: They're spying on them, pushing weights across the grass, and
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Speaker 1: you're written, but no, I don't think so. Four nine
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Speaker 1: four five one the Tacoma Dodge text sign. We asked
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Speaker 1: the question to start your motherday memories, and some of
23:01
Speaker 1: you are bringing in some great ones, and those of
23:03
Speaker 1: you who have lost mothers recently at the age of
23:06
Speaker 1: stage of life that's happening as it is with our family.
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Speaker 1: Then condolences and wish for great memories for you and
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Speaker 1: your family around mothers and father's days can be tough,
23:18
Speaker 1: but there's always great memories and legacies to live on.
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Speaker 1: We'll read those back at eleven thirty. Pete Woodworth is
23:27
Speaker 1: the pitching coach for the Mariners. He's a friend of
23:29
Speaker 1: Chuck Powells and Bucky Jacobson's and on the Morning Show
23:31
Speaker 1: quite a bit. He was on the Morning Show this
23:33
Speaker 1: morning about a couple hours ago from Chicago, where the
23:37
Speaker 1: Mariners are playing the Chicago White Sox. Bryce Miller appears
23:44
Speaker 1: was his last minor league rehabilitation outing from his side
23:48
Speaker 1: injury as a bleaque injury. He pitched five plus innings
23:51
Speaker 1: in Hyay Everett on Wednesday night would put him in
23:55
Speaker 1: line if he gets his regular rest to pitch again
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Speaker 1: on Monday. The Mariners are in Houston to play the
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Speaker 1: trash Cans on Monday, and it makes sense that that's
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Speaker 1: would be the next start for Bryce Miller. Doesn't appear
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Speaker 1: he needs another minor league start. So what happens when
24:10
Speaker 1: he comes back? Well, Emerson Hancock has been incredible. I've
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Speaker 1: seen people listing him as a cy young candidate here early.
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Speaker 2: In the season.
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Speaker 5: Wow, yeah, Emerson Hancock. Who would have thought? Right? He's
24:22
Speaker 5: been that good.
24:23
Speaker 2: It's up three e ra and taking one hitters and
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Speaker 2: no hitters at times. Deeper into games.
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Speaker 1: Luis Castillo doesn't have a win yet, and his he
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Speaker 1: arrays above six. So Chuck Paula asked Pete were Worth,
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Speaker 1: the Mariner's pitching coach this morning, about the specter perhaps
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Speaker 1: keeping all of them in when Bryce Miller comes back
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Speaker 1: with a six man rotation.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a it's a good, good problem to have
24:47
Speaker 8: you walk out into your garage and you say, which
24:50
Speaker 8: one of my Lamborghini's am I going to drive today?
24:53
Speaker 8: It's a great.
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Speaker 2: Issue to have.
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Speaker 8: But yeah, I don't have much more information on the
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Speaker 8: other than we have six Lamborghinis that are fueled up.
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Speaker 8: I did get to see Bryce the other night pitching,
25:09
Speaker 8: ever it. Yeah, he's trending in the right direction. He
25:12
Speaker 8: didn't strike out as many eighteen year olds as I
25:15
Speaker 8: thought he would, But yeah.
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Speaker 5: The stuff looks really.
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Speaker 8: Good and he feels really good, which is obviously the
25:22
Speaker 8: most important part coming.
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Speaker 2: Through a rehab.
25:24
Speaker 5: All right, So I got it.
25:25
Speaker 8: Yeah, you can go out there and compete and afterwards
25:29
Speaker 8: you don't feel any pain or discomfort.
25:32
Speaker 2: All right.
25:32
Speaker 9: So now I got to get creative with how I
25:34
Speaker 9: ask this, because I certainly don't want to put you
25:36
Speaker 9: in a pinch, and I don't want long pregnant pauses
25:39
Speaker 9: in our conversation.
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Speaker 5: So as do you have such a good.
25:43
Speaker 9: Group that if one of them was asked to go
25:47
Speaker 9: to the bullpen for a while of the six, that
25:51
Speaker 9: that would be fine with them.
25:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, they'll still pitch, okay, all right, they won't quit
26:02
Speaker 2: the team, one of the.
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Speaker 8: They won't start a que One of one of the
26:12
Speaker 8: best things I've heard guys say throughout the years is
26:17
Speaker 8: that the more they realize that.
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Speaker 10: The the number ending doesn't really matter, Okay, like whether
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Speaker 10: it's the first or the fourth, or the sixth or
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Speaker 10: the ninth.
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Speaker 8: Once they realize that, like, it doesn't matter what number
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Speaker 8: the ending is. Every inning is the same. You have
26:37
Speaker 8: to get three guys out. They're either right handed or
26:39
Speaker 8: or left handed. The score doesn't matter the time of day,
26:45
Speaker 8: like it's if you can boil it down to it's
26:48
Speaker 8: it's simplest game, like it's you verse a hitter. It's
26:52
Speaker 8: you executing pitches to get three guys out. If you
26:56
Speaker 8: can do that, it doesn't really matter. And the more
26:59
Speaker 8: we they put pressure on different innings or different situations
27:04
Speaker 8: or different environments, they're just adding more to their plate
27:10
Speaker 8: that's unnecessary. So I've I've found that the guys that
27:17
Speaker 8: that do this job the best are the guys that
27:20
Speaker 8: really simplify it down to that.
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Speaker 2: That's Mary's basically Pete Woodworth being evasive.
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Speaker 1: Of course, in the answer, Chuck had a good time
27:29
Speaker 1: playing Lolly with him back and forth on that this
27:32
Speaker 1: morning that was on the Morning Show. Yeah, it's easy
27:35
Speaker 1: to say they don't care when they come in the
27:37
Speaker 1: game what number the ending is. After they've already gotten
27:40
Speaker 1: their contracts as starting pitchers. Right Luis Castillo is making
27:43
Speaker 1: twenty four million dollars this year as a three time
27:46
Speaker 1: All Star, and so of course he could say, well,
27:50
Speaker 1: if I come in later, he as a three time
27:52
Speaker 1: All Star with twenty four million dollar contract, would notice
27:55
Speaker 1: if he was entering games at the fift or sixth
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Speaker 1: innings the starting moment. It's a matter of how much
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Speaker 1: he cares like is he willing to do that thirty
28:05
Speaker 1: three years old? I contend they keep him in the
28:08
Speaker 1: rotation because you may want to trade him, and your
28:12
Speaker 1: trade value would plummet if you have him as a
28:15
Speaker 1: middle reliever. Who's going to give up much for a
28:18
Speaker 1: thirty three year old guy making twenty four million dollars
28:20
Speaker 1: pitching the six and seventh innings only. That's my argument
28:26
Speaker 1: to a six man rotation. Emerson hand go ahead.
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Speaker 5: You can't really shop him with the numbers he has
28:32
Speaker 5: right now.
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Speaker 1: Though, exactly so, your choices are to release him and
28:37
Speaker 1: eat the money, put him in as a long reliever
28:41
Speaker 1: and have him no even if he if he pitches
28:46
Speaker 1: one inning, two innings, three innings at a time, or
28:48
Speaker 1: is the long man if somebody gets shelled, his era
28:52
Speaker 1: is not going to go that much better on the
28:54
Speaker 1: papers in a one or two inning stint. It's going
28:57
Speaker 1: to take up a long time to get back under six.
28:59
Speaker 1: If you're trying to trade, teams are just going to
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Speaker 1: look at numbers. Sheer numbers, not to mention wins. He
29:04
Speaker 1: didn't have any wins. This is tied for the longest
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Speaker 1: stint into a season, seven starts without a win. Four
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Speaker 1: of he's a Castillo has allowed four or more runs
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Speaker 1: and five of his seven starts this season. In fact,
29:17
Speaker 1: his best start was his first one. You have no
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Speaker 1: runs and the very first started against the Yankees. So
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Speaker 1: Emerson Hancock now he was in because Bryce Miller was
29:29
Speaker 1: out to begin the season. Otherwise he would have started
29:31
Speaker 1: into coma.
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Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, he's been the best, most consistent starter.
29:36
Speaker 1: He's on people's high. Younger Ward canates Lizzy's taking one
29:38
Speaker 1: and two and zero hitters into six seven innings consistently.
29:42
Speaker 1: He's been great the ra under three. People have said
29:46
Speaker 1: this a six man rotation. So I bottom line is
29:50
Speaker 1: you can't take him out. What message sent in to
29:52
Speaker 1: him and the other pitchers, Let's take this guy out
29:55
Speaker 1: who's been our best, most consistent guy and put him
29:57
Speaker 1: back into coma. See that, and you can't put him
30:02
Speaker 1: in the bullpen. I wouldn't think put him in the
30:03
Speaker 1: bullpen and take out your best every fifth day guy,
30:07
Speaker 1: so he seems to stick. People say six men rotation
30:10
Speaker 1: hurts the bullpen, Well, it's already hurt. They missing their
30:13
Speaker 1: primary setup guy too. It's primary set of guys right
30:17
Speaker 1: and left, and they're both on Matt Brash and Gabe
30:21
Speaker 1: Spire are both on the injured list. Andre's Munos is
30:24
Speaker 1: nowhere near himself or anywhere near close to his form.
30:30
Speaker 1: Jose Ferrara is Ferrari is actually their best reliever right now.
30:34
Speaker 1: And a guy got the save in the last game
30:36
Speaker 1: after pitching consecutive days and that's it. Then they got
30:40
Speaker 1: guys like Simpson and dudes they've called up from Tacoma.
30:44
Speaker 1: So what if you're I would shorten the bullpen at
30:47
Speaker 1: this point until Spire, at least until Spire and Brash
30:51
Speaker 1: come back. And when they do come back, there's no
30:54
Speaker 1: guarantee they're going to be lights out after being out
30:56
Speaker 1: a while, So so what if it.
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Speaker 5: Hurts the bullpen, one's already hurt. I would do less.
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Speaker 2: Reliance on the bullpen at this point and more on
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Speaker 2: the sixth rotation. Six man rotation. It does mess with
31:09
Speaker 2: The pitchers.
31:10
Speaker 1: Are creatures of habit, and they do their long toss
31:12
Speaker 1: two days after their start, and then they do this
31:14
Speaker 1: and then they will pick.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I know it grows the routine off of it. Yeah.
31:18
Speaker 1: Absolutely, And baseball's players are so creatures of habit because
31:22
Speaker 1: of the routine of one hundred and sixty two games.
31:25
Speaker 1: But the Mariners aren't the only team considering or facing
31:29
Speaker 1: this situation. The Braves that just came through here have
31:31
Speaker 1: six starters at the Triple A at the major league
31:34
Speaker 1: level now that they brought up Jared Richie from Bainbridge Island,
31:39
Speaker 1: have him a fixture, and he pitched well the other
31:43
Speaker 1: day except for one ending that the Mariners finally got
31:45
Speaker 1: to them. So they're considering a six man rotation. The Yankees,
31:49
Speaker 1: because they're the Yankees and can buy all the pitchers
31:51
Speaker 1: they want, are considering a six man rotation. It's not
31:54
Speaker 1: unheard of, especially Travis early in the season when you're
31:58
Speaker 1: worried about pitch counts and extending guys it starts and innings.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why it's sharing the load in early
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Speaker 1: May is such a bad idea?
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Speaker 6: No, no, I I have it Bryce hasn't shown me
32:11
Speaker 6: anything in a while. I hopefully he's gonna come back
32:15
Speaker 6: and be as good as he has shown in the
32:17
Speaker 6: in the past. The past couple of seasons, he's been
32:20
Speaker 6: kind of disappointing to me. I think maybe you throw
32:23
Speaker 6: him into the rotation and see what happens, and if
32:27
Speaker 6: he struggles, then put.
32:29
Speaker 5: Him in the bullpen.
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Speaker 2: He'd be your odd man out.
32:31
Speaker 5: I think so.
32:32
Speaker 2: And even Logan Gilbert hasn't been Logan gilt.
32:34
Speaker 6: No, not no, he hasn't pretty disappointing so far, but
32:39
Speaker 6: I think his metrics are there. He's got a little unlucky. Yeah,
32:46
Speaker 6: I think Bryce give him a give him a tryout
32:49
Speaker 6: in the in the rotation, and then.
32:51
Speaker 2: How many try out? Two three starts?
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Speaker 5: Two yeah, three starts, three starts.
32:55
Speaker 1: Okay, So that takes you into June four nine, four
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Speaker 1: five one to come to come a Dodge Tex sign.
32:59
Speaker 2: What would you do with Louis Castillo?
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Speaker 1: Keeping in mind he's making twenty four million dollars at
33:03
Speaker 1: a three time All Star thirty three million dollars. Excuse me,
33:06
Speaker 1: thirty three years old, twenty four million dollars. What kind
33:11
Speaker 1: of performance would you get from him? No matter what
33:13
Speaker 1: people would have just said, what kind of performance would
33:17
Speaker 1: you give a veteran with that status in that contract
33:19
Speaker 1: if you put him in long relief or middle relief
33:21
Speaker 1: in the bullpen. It's not like he's going to be
33:24
Speaker 1: rip Roorn can't wait to do it. These guys are competitors,
33:28
Speaker 1: want the ball. That's what they've done and all their
33:30
Speaker 1: lives to get to where they are. What would you
33:32
Speaker 1: do would you do a six man rotation? Would you
33:34
Speaker 1: do Louis Castilla or the pen? Everson Hancock to the pen?
33:37
Speaker 1: Bryce Miller on a short least trial basis. As Travis
33:40
Speaker 1: just said, four nine, four to five. One will readback
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Speaker 1: your text at eleven thirty. And in some ways it's
33:46
Speaker 1: a great problem to have because now you have, if
33:48
Speaker 1: Miller is in fact all the way back from his
33:50
Speaker 1: side injury, six healthy pitchers, all of whom have performed
33:54
Speaker 1: excelled at the major league level is a luxury. And
33:58
Speaker 1: of course this team is built on and going to
34:00
Speaker 1: go as far as they're pitching. I just think, man,
34:03
Speaker 1: with this, I don't even know why there's a discussion
34:06
Speaker 1: on whether they're going to six man rotation with this
34:08
Speaker 1: bullpen the way it is, I think they absolutely should
34:12
Speaker 1: go to six man rotation, and I don't for how
34:15
Speaker 1: long I don't know, but maybe until at least Spire
34:19
Speaker 1: and Brash come back and you can set up your bullpen.
34:23
Speaker 1: The other thing is it obviously does is it goes
34:25
Speaker 1: absolutely against analytics, right, you would with your bullpen the
34:30
Speaker 1: way it is, it would be who the bullpen. It
34:32
Speaker 1: would help them if the starters went longer. But there's
34:35
Speaker 1: all these numbers that say went third time through the
34:37
Speaker 1: order and starters, oh, I mean people managers today, including
34:42
Speaker 1: the one in Seattle in the front office makes them
34:45
Speaker 1: this way, are absolutely scared to death to have starters
34:48
Speaker 1: face lineups for the third time.
34:50
Speaker 5: Yeah, pitchers don't go one hundred pitches, are.
34:52
Speaker 1: Right, there's like some glass ceiling you can't shatter where
34:56
Speaker 1: the guy is going to be out for the rest
34:57
Speaker 1: of his career if he throws one hundred and one
34:59
Speaker 1: pitches anymore. And so this would fly in the face
35:03
Speaker 1: of some of that too, if you're going to rely
35:06
Speaker 1: more on starters to go deeper in games and more
35:08
Speaker 1: starters at the same time. But I just think the
35:11
Speaker 1: bullpen in the stated it is, of course, you know
35:14
Speaker 1: what else would help all of this, Travis, and let's
35:16
Speaker 1: out there their offense if they could score runs oh
35:19
Speaker 1: the bats, Yeah, so they didn't have so they had
35:22
Speaker 1: a little margin for error. Sure, if your pitchers give
35:24
Speaker 1: up three or four runs, you're not automatically doomed.
35:28
Speaker 5: That would help imagine that. So let's see.
35:32
Speaker 2: Brendan Donovan coming back from the ange list.
35:35
Speaker 1: Resetting the lineup with him back at the top of
35:36
Speaker 1: it will get them going. I mean, they weren't great
35:40
Speaker 1: guns when he was there before he got hurt, but
35:43
Speaker 1: he was their most consistent hitter. They're the only three
35:45
Speaker 1: hundred plus hitter on base guy at the top of
35:48
Speaker 1: the lineup. Yeah, his third base defense has been not
35:52
Speaker 1: so great, and that somewhat of an experiment for a
35:54
Speaker 1: guy who played most of his careers and second baseman
35:57
Speaker 1: and outfitter. But he's a gold Golve player with St.
36:00
Speaker 1: Louis a couple of years ago, primarily second base. But
36:03
Speaker 1: let's see, let's see if Brandon Donovan, who it sounds like,
36:07
Speaker 1: will be back, perhaps even for tonight the series opener
36:10
Speaker 1: get activated, will be the catalyst to reset the lineup,
36:14
Speaker 1: and then Cal Rowley has to get going. I mean,
36:17
Speaker 1: this is absolutely not what the Mariners were counting on afterward.
36:22
Speaker 1: The season he had last year, as I mentioned, since
36:24
Speaker 1: the side injury he missed three games. He's zero for
36:27
Speaker 1: eight with five strikeouts in the two games as a
36:29
Speaker 1: designated hitter. When does he come back to be a
36:32
Speaker 1: catcher again. That's another thing we'll be watching on this
36:35
Speaker 1: road trip that goes to Chicago and then after three
36:38
Speaker 1: games with the White Sox, three games with the trash
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Speaker 1: Cans in Houston starting on Monday, four nine, four five,
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Speaker 1: one to come a dodge text line, as we will
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Speaker 1: always readback at eleven thirty.
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Speaker 2: Text, we'll do that again in about an hour's time.
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Speaker 2: Up next today is an anniversary Throwback Friday. Flashback Friday.
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Speaker 1: Today's an anniversary of a Sonics event that was part
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Speaker 1: of NBA history. You may not want to remember, but
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Speaker 1: it's worth looking back on for what it spawned in
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Speaker 1: the Sonics franchise history. That's next on ninety three point
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Speaker 2: Travis playing some funky stuff.
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Speaker 1: Greg Bell, News Tribune Travis Mooger with you on a
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Speaker 1: Friday edition of The Greg Best Show with Christopher Grade.
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Speaker 1: Chris has gone to a family graduation in Louisiana College graduation.
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Speaker 1: He'll be back on Monday. It's graduation season. Hats off
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Speaker 1: to all those grads out there. Maybe you're heading into
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Speaker 1: one here in the next couple weeks. That's off to
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Speaker 1: all of you can graduations, graduates and parents.
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Speaker 5: My daughter's graduating from pre school day.
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Speaker 2: Did you put signs in the yard like preschool parents
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Speaker 2: do now?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, class of twenty six. No, not for free school.
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Speaker 1: Thanks glad you drew a line there. Oh, congrats to you.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, mom and dad and her the Speaking of
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Speaker 1: school and kids. College basketball, it became official yesterday that
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Speaker 1: the NCAA is going to expand from sixty eight to
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Speaker 1: seventy six teams. Now, this is gonna make no more
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Speaker 1: first four. There's gonna be twelve teams twelve games. Rather
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Speaker 1: in the opening ground Tuesday and Wednesday. Instead of just
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Speaker 1: a first four, they're gonna have first four games, They're
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Speaker 1: gonna have twelve games with twenty four teams, thirty two
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Speaker 1: at large bids and the rest of the field forty
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Speaker 1: four will be excuse me, forty four at large bids.
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Speaker 1: The rest of the field be automatic qualifiers thirty two.
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Speaker 1: Now that the PAC twelve is coming back in its
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Speaker 1: new form next year. That's with Gonzaga and Washington State
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Speaker 1: and Oregon State and whatnot in pro basketball. Yesterday was
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Speaker 1: an anniversary. Maybe I should even mention it. But in
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Speaker 1: the first week at nineteen ninety four, I was here
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Speaker 1: in Seattle is my first full year actually living in
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Speaker 1: Seattle as an officer in the Army at Fort Lewis.
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Speaker 1: The Sonics were the top seed in the NBA Western
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Speaker 1: Conference that year.
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Speaker 5: They had the.
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Speaker 2: League's best record. Those of you either that.
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Speaker 1: Were around I've been in Seattle more than a day
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Speaker 1: or three, might remember this were you around.
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Speaker 6: Travis, I'm from La So I grew up in La
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Speaker 6: Okay a Lakers fan.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Sorry, well, then ninety five would be more for
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Speaker 1: you when the Lakers.
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Speaker 2: I'll get to that in a second.
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Speaker 1: So ninety four of the Sonics first week in May
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Speaker 1: had the league's best record. George Carl's team sixty three
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Speaker 1: and nineteen. Remember Gary Payton, Shaun Camp, Nate McMillan, Debtla Stramp,
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Speaker 1: Sam Perkins had Michael Cage on that team. Kendall gill
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Speaker 1: I watched all the games, went to a lot of them.
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Speaker 1: Nate McMillan, I mean Ricky Pierce was off the bench.
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Speaker 2: If they were loaded.
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Speaker 1: Well, they went up two games to nine on eight
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Speaker 1: seed Denver after two wins at the old Seattle Center
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Speaker 1: Coliseum arena before Key Arena. I mean this is three
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Speaker 1: buildings ago on the same site at Seattle Center. Then
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Speaker 1: the Nuggets won two in a row in Denver to
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Speaker 1: force a deciding game five May seventh, yesterday May seventh,
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four.
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Speaker 2: This is what happened. That all they wanted the decor
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Speaker 2: of the basketball.
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Speaker 5: They don't want to give up the three.
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Speaker 11: John Perkins shoots, the two bought by Brian Williams, recovered
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Speaker 11: by Gil eight seconds Perkins batted back.
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Speaker 2: Out McMillan another three way short. That's it.
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Speaker 11: Come embraces the ball and the unlikely upset one of
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Speaker 11: the great central NBA playoff history. The eighth seed, a
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Speaker 11: team that was two games over five hundred on the season,
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Speaker 11: The Denver Nuggets, the youngest in the NBA, have beaten
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Speaker 11: the team of the best record in the NBA, the
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Speaker 11: Seattle SuperSonics.
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Speaker 1: It's dick Enberg and NBA on NBC, the Immortal dick
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Speaker 1: Enberg speaking of Southern California.
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Speaker 2: But that was the first time.
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Speaker 1: Everyone remembers to Combo cradling the ball between his hands,
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Speaker 1: lying on his back at the Center Coliseum Arena in
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Speaker 1: Seattle Center. First time an eight seed in NBA history
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Speaker 1: beat a one seed in the playoff series, and the
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Speaker 1: City Travis was just stunt, just stunt, because the Sonics
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Speaker 1: were back.
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Speaker 5: Man.
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Speaker 1: This was the first time since they won in seventy
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Speaker 1: nine that they were going to go to the finals
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Speaker 1: and number one seed and home court advantage, and they
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Speaker 1: lost in the first round to Matumbo and the Nuggets.
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Speaker 1: As Dick Emberg you just said, they were two games
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Speaker 1: over five hundred that year. The Sonics were forty four
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Speaker 1: games over five hundred that year. And the Sonics lost
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Speaker 1: the first one to lose to an eight in the
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Speaker 1: first round, losing three straight. That was the last game
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Speaker 1: in the history of the Seattle Center Coliseum as it was,
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Speaker 1: because then after that they rebuilt it into Key Arena,
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Speaker 1: dug it out, made it steep, and for a season
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Speaker 1: after that, while the KI Arena was getting billed, those
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Speaker 1: of you who are around remember where they played the
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Speaker 1: Tacoma Dome.
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Speaker 5: That happened.
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Speaker 1: I bought season tickets when I was a lieutenant at
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Speaker 1: Fort Lewis. We lived in Federal Away with two other
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Speaker 1: lieutenants and a house rented there on dash Point, and
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Speaker 1: we bought some doctor on pill Hill in Seattle his
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Speaker 1: season tickets because he didn't want to drive from Seattle
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Speaker 1: Luke Tacola, so he sold his tickets for just one season,
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Speaker 1: and we bought them.
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Speaker 2: Because we were already halfway there in Federal Away, or
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Speaker 2: more than halfway.
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Speaker 1: So we bought season tickets. So what happens George carl
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Speaker 1: and the Sonics won fifty seven games. The following season.
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Speaker 1: They were second in the West, the number two seed.
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Speaker 1: I'll never forget. We had season tickets, so we had
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Speaker 1: rights to buy playoff tickets, and we did, and back
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Speaker 1: then it was paper tickets, and they sent the entire
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Speaker 1: postseason ahead of time, so we had sheets of We
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Speaker 1: had the NBA Finals in the nineteen ninety five NBA
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Speaker 1: Finals tickets in our house, and we're like, this is great.
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Speaker 5: We're twenty four years old, this is all.
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Speaker 2: Wow. That doctor was stupid for selling his tickets.
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Speaker 5: What happened?
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Speaker 1: Eldon Campbell in the Los Angeles Lakers, the seventh seed,
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Speaker 1: barely five hundred team, beat the Sonics that year in
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Speaker 1: the first round.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I remember that series.
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Speaker 1: The lights went out in the Tacoma Dome in one
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Speaker 1: of the I think it was Game two. There was
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Speaker 1: a power outing because it was really hot in that
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Speaker 1: may day in Tacoma. The Tacoma Dome for the Sonics
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Speaker 1: was experience I actually talk about someday. It was weird,
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Speaker 1: really weird, really loud, but really weird to have the
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Speaker 1: Sonics in the Tacoma Dome.
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Speaker 2: But then they lost that.
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Speaker 1: But then all of that the GAT the ninety five
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Speaker 1: ninety six season and those of you around know what
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Speaker 1: happened there brand new Key Arena. The Sonics won sixty
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Speaker 1: four games, the number one seed again. They stormed through
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Speaker 1: the Kings in the Rockets, they beat Stocked them alone
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Speaker 1: in the Jazz and seven games in the Western Conference Finals.
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Speaker 1: Then they ran into Michael Jordan the Bulls in the
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Speaker 1: finals and this town was off the hook for the finals.
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Speaker 2: Jordan and the Bulls coming to Seattle.
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Speaker 1: The Sonics fell behind three to zero in the series.
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Speaker 1: They won the last two in Key Arena to make
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Speaker 1: it three too, and they had the Bulls.
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Speaker 5: They were leading the Bulls late in.
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Speaker 1: Game six in Chicago and they ended up losing that game.
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Speaker 1: I think it was an old Chicago stadium at the time,
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Speaker 1: right before that arena closed to the United Center. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: they Bulls, Jordan, the irrepressible Jordan the end up winning
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Speaker 1: in six games, but Carlin and Sonics never made it
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Speaker 1: back to the Western Conference Finals after that finals run
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Speaker 1: to the Bulls. By the end of the n eight season,
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Speaker 1: carl was gone, Paul Westfall came in, the team broke out,
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Speaker 1: and then ten years later they were the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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Speaker 2: And so it goes, why do I bring all this
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Speaker 2: sordid history back up?
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Speaker 1: Well, this week, Samantha Holloway formally put in her hat
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Speaker 1: in the ring to be the new owner of the
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Speaker 1: new Sonics to come back when the NBA eventually gets
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Speaker 1: around of voting on expansion to Seattle in Las Vegas,
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Speaker 1: hopefully in a couple of years time.
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Speaker 2: Twenty twenty eight. It's your Friday flashback. I know it's
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Speaker 2: probably a bad.
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Speaker 6: Flash, painful for many, painful for those of us have
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Speaker 6: been around Seattle for more than a day.
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Speaker 2: Up next, we'll go back to the Mariners to Chicago.
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Speaker 1: Gary Hill Junior Mariners broadcast on the radio side is
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Speaker 1: going to be in Kimisky Park for the series. He's
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Speaker 1: going to be on your radio next eleven thirty, we'll
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Speaker 1: read back your text eleven forty five and Finess will
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Speaker 1: join us.
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Speaker 2: All coming up a ninety three point three kJ RFM