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Furness Show 5-26: Marcus Trufant, Mollywhop Monday, John Lund, Ty Okada · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: I didn't wasn't able to listen to the conversation you
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: had with Luke Arkins. And as someone who is as
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: into the nerdy numbers as he is, what did he
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  Speaker 1: say about this whole piggybacking situation.
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  Speaker 2: Here's where I go after our conversation with Luke, And again,
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  Speaker 2: he's been fantastic, He's been terrific our first time by
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  Speaker 2: the way on the air together. But I think we
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  Speaker 2: learned a lot more with where you plug in Luis
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  Speaker 2: Castillo for as long as you want to ride this out.
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  Speaker 2: We know by now he is a back end of
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  Speaker 2: the rotation guy. We know by now he can last
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  Speaker 2: h maybe fifty sixty pitches with tends to translate to
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  Speaker 2: second time through the order. If you want to go
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  Speaker 2: third time through the order, you're playing with dynamite And
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  Speaker 2: it's more and more of a thing in baseball.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Can you mitigate potential damage? Can you avoid risk? Because
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  Speaker 2: with Luis Castillo he is still serviceable. Andrews, you brought
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  Speaker 2: it up. It was a great point. You can't trade him.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna have to roll with him. But there is
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  Speaker 2: an obvious ego thing at play, which, again when you
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  Speaker 2: deal with major league pitchers. They have egos. They are
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  Speaker 2: trained right from the get go to be able to
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  Speaker 2: go as long as they can. And twenty or thirty
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  Speaker 2: years ago, we're talking about guys who get upset at
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  Speaker 2: ory yanked before the seventh inning. Modern baseball says now
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  Speaker 2: today that they're going maybe five six that's as far
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  Speaker 2: as they can go, either to preserve their arm or
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  Speaker 2: avoid facing the lineup for the third time through. So
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  Speaker 2: we know where Luis Castillo fits. It is right now,
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  Speaker 2: not in this rotation, but for whatever reason, And I
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to bring this up because I don't think
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I don't think it was touched on
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  Speaker 2: enough that it's not a Dan Wilson thing. This is
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  Speaker 2: a Depoto and Hollander thing. But yet it just seems
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  Speaker 2: like from the get and go of this plan I
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  Speaker 2: call the Project Dooink on our airwaves two times now
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  Speaker 2: through there is nobody happy. Whether you're Louis Castillo or
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  Speaker 2: you're Bryce Milder. It's working for them. It is working.
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  Speaker 2: But the question is how long will it be working?
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  Speaker 2: That's where I go here from Luke's reaction and the
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  Speaker 2: numbers on the.
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  Speaker 4: Louis Castia as well, and.
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  Speaker 2: So I think when you when you assess Bryce Miller
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  Speaker 2: anders the fact that he once again came back out
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  Speaker 2: of an injury at home last week and was more
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  Speaker 2: lockdown than Fort Knox. Then last night, five innings, eighty
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  Speaker 2: three pitches, wasn't as maybe dialed in as he was
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  Speaker 2: a previous week. But yet he was fantastic. Yet he
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  Speaker 2: was left with a sour taste in his mouth over this. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 2: this is what you don't want to do, is to
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  Speaker 2: strip away the morale of your pictures, because managing egos
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  Speaker 2: also means managing a schedule to win ball games.
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  Speaker 4: We do have ian finest connected. Yeah, what's up. Let's
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  Speaker 4: get a quick little roundtable here.
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  Speaker 1: Mike's been talking about the uh, you know, the the
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  Speaker 1: piggyback situation, and I'm just getting tired of using that word.
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  Speaker 4: All of a sudden, I call the project.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, how are you guys? I yeah, yeahinkleink, how
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  Speaker 5: are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good, I'm good. You sound like your stuff back
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  Speaker 2: in the usual closet of the vMac.
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  Speaker 5: Well, that's that's only what was the old Paul. That's
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  Speaker 5: that's just not the rest of the story.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, here.
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  Speaker 3: Here, who we are we're working.
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  Speaker 5: We're working through the golden corner, the golden corner. We're
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  Speaker 5: working through some technical challenges right now. Fellows, that's all
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  Speaker 5: we got you. You're here, You're a lie. That's all
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  Speaker 5: the matters. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think is Marcus
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  Speaker 5: Truefunt coming in in a second.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're doing just a few minutes away from Marcus
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  Speaker 1: truefun hopping and he's uh, you know, shaking hands kissing
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  Speaker 1: babies out in sports pit right now with all the Kougs.
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  Speaker 1: They're all love talking, very.
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  Speaker 3: Good, very good, very good. I love it. I love it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, So what's on the what's on the agenda?
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  Speaker 3: What are you guys talking about today?
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  Speaker 6: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: Well, project Onlink. According to Mike, Mike, you.
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  Speaker 3: Don't like the piggyback? Is that you're telling us?
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  Speaker 4: I think we're all tired about piggyback right now?
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  Speaker 3: But is it not? Is it not working?
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  Speaker 2: I I was very disappointed. Well, first off, I will say, yes,
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  Speaker 2: it's working. It is working because Bryce Miller has looked
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  Speaker 2: great for two outing from a results standpoint. From the
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  Speaker 2: results standpoint, but how much is this going to go
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  Speaker 2: on for? Because it's clear Bryce Miller hates it, so
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  Speaker 2: It's clear the Wist cast to you hates it. The
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  Speaker 2: body language said so from the Louist cast to you
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  Speaker 2: last night, and you've asked Bryce Miller not once, but
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  Speaker 2: twice he is extremely uncomfortable with this.
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  Speaker 5: Uh huh, Well, that's that's a Bryce Miller problem.
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  Speaker 3: Is what that is? You know? No, I mean, we're gonna.
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  Speaker 5: Address it during Loy Watt for sure coming up the
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  Speaker 5: We're going to address it during my loop at one.
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  Speaker 5: I think the hard part about it is this, you
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  Speaker 5: don't want to admit a guy as a reliever. You
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  Speaker 5: you're kind of waiting for somebody to get hurt, right,
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  Speaker 5: so it makes more sense, and but yet you look
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  Speaker 5: at the results in terms of the runs not allowed.
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  Speaker 5: It's it's worked. But Bryce doesn't like it. Castillo doesn't
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  Speaker 5: like it. It feels like it's a sloppy kind of
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  Speaker 5: a sloppy plan in the sense that you know, Miller's
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  Speaker 5: cruising in the first start of the piggyback, and then
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  Speaker 5: they you know, they wait till he gives up a hit.
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  Speaker 5: Then they go to a bridge guy in Ferrara, and
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  Speaker 5: then they bring in Castillo, who's lights out for two innings,
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  Speaker 5: and then you know, struggles at the top of the ninth.
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  Speaker 5: Instead I letting him fight through it. You bring in
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  Speaker 5: Muno's middle of the inning, which he doesn't like. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I say the execution is worse than the actual plan totally,
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  Speaker 5: That's what I would say. I think the execution of
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  Speaker 5: it is is just sloppy, shoddy at best, right, But
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  Speaker 5: I think that the actual plan, it's the results work right,
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  Speaker 5: the two.
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  Speaker 4: With the piggyback right now, so total everything.
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  Speaker 2: And here's where I go with this too, is that
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  Speaker 2: Ian you raise I think a great point, if not
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  Speaker 2: the greatest point out of all of this. How much
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  Speaker 2: of this is a communication issue because again shows that
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  Speaker 2: Bryce Miller's warming up in the bullpen. He's looking back
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  Speaker 2: at the situation Luis Castillo. According to at least Ryan Healy,
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  Speaker 2: just based on his body language, it seemed to suggest
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  Speaker 2: that if he was told you're going to the bullpen,
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  Speaker 2: that this wouldn't as be a big of a reaction here.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, here we are with guys being left in
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  Speaker 2: the weeds with a clear plan long term or shorts from.
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  Speaker 4: However, that that that you bake it.
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  Speaker 2: And I go back to Bryce Miller in Game one
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  Speaker 2: when he said I tried to play with skip, but
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  Speaker 2: it just wasn't happening to stay in past five innings. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 2: I think this wouldn't as be a big of an
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  Speaker 2: issue if communication was it out more clearly.
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  Speaker 5: Right right right, yeah, yeah, sorry, I'm just looking at
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  Speaker 5: some stuff here.
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  Speaker 3: We may be actually connecting another thing.
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  Speaker 1: So I do believe we do have Marcus Truefon sitting
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  Speaker 1: down right now. Okay, great segue.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, let me talk to Marcus and then and
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  Speaker 5: I'm just gonna have to produce on the air here
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  Speaker 5: for a second sometimes about can you let can you
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  Speaker 5: guys check the normal connection and with this segment with Marcus,
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  Speaker 5: maybe we'll be able.
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  Speaker 3: To connect there behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 5: Well it's it's just it's just the world we live in.
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  Speaker 5: So uh yeah, so hey, thanks a lot. We'll check
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  Speaker 5: in our breaks. We'll technically there. But thank you. NASA
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  Speaker 5: seeks are awesome. I just gotta say the it you
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  Speaker 5: guys here phenomenal. Nice to have help. I appreciate you guys.
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  Speaker 5: You guys are awesome. Thank you. I think we're good
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  Speaker 5: all right, Uh we were, but now we're not. But anyway,
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  Speaker 5: we'll figure it out.
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  Speaker 3: Marcus truefont are you there with me, buddy? Can you
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  Speaker 3: hear me?
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  Speaker 4: I am here, sir? Can you hear me?
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  Speaker 3: I can? I can't. How are you, buddy? What's going on?
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  Speaker 3: What do you have?
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  Speaker 5: I'm sitting here at your old home, the old Virginia
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  Speaker 5: Mason Athletics Center.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's OTA time. Do you miss that?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? Of course not.
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  Speaker 6: Man.
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  Speaker 7: You know, we only love Sundays, especially when you're an
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  Speaker 7: older guy like me, those practice days in those too days.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you keep me away from that? Please?
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  Speaker 3: What what do you get out of OTAs?
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  Speaker 8: Like?
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  Speaker 3: What? Like?
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  Speaker 5: What is especially they talked a lot about this last year,
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  Speaker 5: Marcus that they have like one hundred percent uh participation
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  Speaker 5: at this time of the year, which I don't know
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  Speaker 5: what that was like in your day. It's you know,
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  Speaker 5: cbas are changing stuff. But what do players, especially veterans,
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  Speaker 5: get out of get out of OTAs?
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  Speaker 7: I think it just gets you back into the mood, man,
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  Speaker 7: It gets you back into the flow of things, and
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  Speaker 7: it lets you not get too far away from your routine, man,
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  Speaker 7: and being on the couch and doing your own thing.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 7: It's good to be around the guys. It's good to
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  Speaker 7: be around the facility and just be able to get
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  Speaker 7: back to football stuff. I know you're not going you're
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  Speaker 7: not going one hundred miles an hour and you're not
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  Speaker 7: going full speed, but just being around the game, I
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  Speaker 7: think it makes a big difference.
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  Speaker 5: The team did have that participation as well, which I
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  Speaker 5: thought was kind of cool. What do you You've been
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  Speaker 5: around these guys a little bit, You've been around seeing
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  Speaker 5: Mike McDonald.
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  Speaker 3: What what's I mean? Listen, they won a Super Bowl?
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  Speaker 3: So how can you say aything negative?
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  Speaker 5: But what's your impressions of what Mike and John and
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  Speaker 5: this group has done the kind of the second go
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  Speaker 5: round after Pete?
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  Speaker 7: My impression is just, uh that a little bit about
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  Speaker 7: what you just said about having one hundred percent participation.
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  Speaker 4: This team has no I think ego.
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  Speaker 7: Might be the wrong word, but they have a they're
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  Speaker 7: they're they're very good team first type of group.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 7: You don't see a lot of just the bs that
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  Speaker 7: you've seen on different teams and guys that just want
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  Speaker 7: to stand out on purpose and guys that just want
• 9:55
  Speaker 7: to get the contracts and stuff like that. You really
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  Speaker 7: just don't get that feel about this team. And it
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  Speaker 7: goes back to the coach, right, It starts up top.
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  Speaker 7: You know that Coach McDonald is a straight shooter, and
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  Speaker 7: he's all about the game and the x's and oh's,
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  Speaker 7: and you know he loves his guys. But it's not
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  Speaker 7: about it's not just about him. It's about getting with
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  Speaker 7: the guys, man, and making sure that everything comes together, man,
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  Speaker 7: and making everybody accountable.
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  Speaker 4: And don't get me wrong, you know, the.
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  Speaker 7: Pete araw the the Pete Carroll days were crazy fun.
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  Speaker 7: They had a lot of success. But it's just a
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  Speaker 7: different time, man, and it's a different feel and it's
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  Speaker 7: a different energy. And it's nothing wrong with that, man.
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  Speaker 7: I think it's a good look. And these guys are
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  Speaker 7: out there and they're playing the butts off.
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  Speaker 5: You know what, Mark Marcus Truefi Juna's former see. You
• 10:47
  Speaker 5: get to what he's up to these days in a second,
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  Speaker 5: because anyboy's hang around the studio doing some stuff, foundation
• 10:51
  Speaker 5: work and other things and gets some stuff going on
• 10:53
  Speaker 5: over in Pullman. We got to talk about as well,
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  Speaker 5: because Marcus was with me when we met Kirby Moore
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  Speaker 5: for the first time a few weeks ago at the
• 10:59
  Speaker 5: queenam Year Hall. That was awesome, Marcus. I do they
• 11:03
  Speaker 5: lost Reek Wollan? They keep Josh Job, they draft a
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  Speaker 5: couple of corners, They've got Devin Witherspoon. You're you're my
• 11:10
  Speaker 5: You're my dB, You're you're the secondary guy. What kind
• 11:13
  Speaker 5: of loss is Reek Wollen? And or do you think
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  Speaker 5: that they can replace him with either one of these
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  Speaker 5: rookies or a guy like Josh Job, who they kind
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  Speaker 5: of they must have liked, kind of made a decision
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  Speaker 5: between Job and Rik Wollen.
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  Speaker 7: Right, I think trying to replace a guy might be
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  Speaker 7: the wrong term, especially for a guy that likes to
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  Speaker 7: straddle defense and.
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  Speaker 4: Be a PC.
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  Speaker 7: But the thing about riek Man the the it just
• 11:38
  Speaker 7: the size and you know, the athleticism and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 7: I thought he was a really good pick man. I
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  Speaker 7: thought he played a lot of good ball. But you know,
• 11:48
  Speaker 7: it comes down to detail sometimes, man and making those
• 11:50
  Speaker 7: plays and just comes down to way in the pros
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  Speaker 7: and con. So I think with Spoon as your leader
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  Speaker 7: and you got guys that are trying to follow behind that,
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  Speaker 7: I think you're in a good spot.
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  Speaker 9: Man.
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  Speaker 4: You're gonna get guys to play up.
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  Speaker 7: You're gonna get guys to play better, especially when you're
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  Speaker 7: trying to follow a guy like Spoon, and I really
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  Speaker 7: love his game, man, and how he plays from the
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  Speaker 7: top to bottom.
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  Speaker 4: Man, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 7: He's kind of a throwback because he likes to hit
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  Speaker 7: and the tackles in.
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  Speaker 4: There is no hesitation in his game at all.
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  Speaker 7: And he's not the biggest guy, right, So I got
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  Speaker 7: a lot of love and respect for his game and
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  Speaker 7: just how he reacts.
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  Speaker 4: So I think the Hawks are in good hands.
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  Speaker 10: Man.
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  Speaker 7: I think got a lot of good guys that can
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  Speaker 7: come in and they can play, and they're coached well,
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  Speaker 7: so I think they're gonna be good either way.
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  Speaker 5: Marcus trufal with me. I'm at the Virginia Mason Athletics Center.
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  Speaker 5: We got the first day of open OTAs for us
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  Speaker 5: in the media to kind of take a peek out.
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  Speaker 5: We'll do that a little bit later on this afternoon, Marcus,
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  Speaker 5: you and I got to meet Kirby Moore, the new
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  Speaker 5: coach at Washington State. You're Alma monter Mine as well.
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  Speaker 5: A few weeks ago. What were you impressions of the
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  Speaker 5: new coach.
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  Speaker 4: I like the energy, man, I like the energy. A
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  Speaker 4: guy that.
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  Speaker 7: It seems to be really bought in, right, and that's
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  Speaker 7: really what we need right now with Cools as guys
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  Speaker 7: that are gonna be here, that are going to buy
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  Speaker 7: in and really embrace Pullman and just everything that comes
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  Speaker 7: with that.
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  Speaker 4: Man, it's a special place.
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  Speaker 7: I tell people all the time, if you haven't spent
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  Speaker 7: any time in Pullman, you really cannot understand exactly what's
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  Speaker 7: going on out there. And it kind of sounds like
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  Speaker 7: it's a twilight zone or something like that, and it
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  Speaker 7: kind of is right. You have to be kind of
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  Speaker 7: a different type of individual to make things work out there,
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  Speaker 7: and uh, I think we got the right guy to
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  Speaker 7: do it.
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  Speaker 5: I got to ask you. I don't think I've ever
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  Speaker 5: talked to you about this. I'm curious because it is.
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  Speaker 5: That's what it is. It's it's not for everybody, and
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  Speaker 5: that's fine, man, I think we're all good with that.
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  Speaker 5: It's it's a yes or no. You go there and
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  Speaker 5: you're going to know in the first ten minutes if
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  Speaker 5: it's a yes or no, right, Like, you're gonna know
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  Speaker 5: it at that point. What were your pressures when a
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  Speaker 5: dude from Tacoma like like not not You're you weren't
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  Speaker 5: from still a come you weren't from Like, dude, You're
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  Speaker 5: a Tacoma kid through and through. You roll into Pullman
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  Speaker 5: for the first time.
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  Speaker 7: What were you thinking, man, rolling out to Pullman for
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  Speaker 7: the first time. Big shout out to t Town too, Man,
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  Speaker 7: I appreciate that. Yeah, But but rolling into Pullman, Man,
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  Speaker 7: I was just excited.
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  Speaker 9: Man.
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  Speaker 7: I was a kid that was I didn't do very much,
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  Speaker 7: you know, my parents, not that they were the strictest
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  Speaker 7: parents on earth, but just to get out, man and
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  Speaker 7: kind of do my own thing. I was close enough
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  Speaker 7: to where mom and dad can come visit, but not
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  Speaker 7: so close that they could watch every move I was making.
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  Speaker 4: Right, So.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, man, and I had a great, great thing going
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  Speaker 7: on with I'm trying.
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  Speaker 4: To price crazy coach.
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  Speaker 7: Price was my guy, and you got Bill Doba man,
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  Speaker 7: and really embraced me and my family. So I was
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  Speaker 7: excited to get out there. And no, it's not the
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  Speaker 7: big city, but I wasn't necessarily like a big city
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  Speaker 7: guy like that. It's still Washington, so it wasn't like
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  Speaker 7: it was La or like it was New York or
• 15:13
  Speaker 7: something like that.
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  Speaker 4: So yes, I came to pull me in.
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  Speaker 7: Man, it was all kids out there, and I still
• 15:19
  Speaker 7: talked to a bunch of guys that I met out there.
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  Speaker 7: We're still on these group threads. We talk almost every
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  Speaker 7: other day, man, And that's what happens when you go
• 15:26
  Speaker 7: out there. You build these relationships because it's not a
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  Speaker 7: lot going on, and you spend a lot of time
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  Speaker 7: with people out there.
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  Speaker 4: So I think it was a great thing.
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  Speaker 6: Man.
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  Speaker 4: I really went out there. I grew up as a
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  Speaker 4: man and it really helped me.
• 15:39
  Speaker 7: It really set me on a path to be successful
• 15:43
  Speaker 7: in life.
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: What do you think about today's college football or just
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: college sports? And I bring this up.
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: I brought this up with Alex Brink and Crystal Bruce
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: when we're doing our weekly stuff and Luke Falk's gonna
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: be on with us on Thursday when he's in town,
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: and I was wonder, like, how many of you guys
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: would have stuck around and and like that everybody's Ah,
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: I think I would have stuck around.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: I would have stuck around.
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: I kind of think you would have, Like I think,
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: I think, mister and missus truthful.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: I think I think you might have.
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: But but what do you think about today's basically unlimited
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: free agency.
• 16:14
  Speaker 11: It's it seems to be.
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: Great for the players, it's not great for every school
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: and heck, every school almost gets abused. It gets beat
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: up by it, but at the same time, guys are
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: making money where they didn't before. What do you think
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: of today's climate of college athletics.
• 16:27
  Speaker 7: Oh, man, I think it is kind of a wild
• 16:31
  Speaker 7: wild West right now, just like you said, as far
• 16:33
  Speaker 7: as the rules and things going on. But I do
• 16:36
  Speaker 7: like the fact that the players kind of have the
• 16:39
  Speaker 7: upper hand, right and they kind of get to make
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: these decisions, and they're able to do things. They're able
• 16:44
  Speaker 7: to make money, and you know, back in the day,
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: and I guess I feel kind of old saying back
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: in my day, right, But it's just one of those
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: things to where you didn't have a lot of choices
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: and opportunities, right, you know, it was far and frough
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: between there was those big time guys that was doing it,
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: and they had choices maybe to go to different schools
• 17:03
  Speaker 7: and do stuff like that, or you can leave early,
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: or you can stay. But now it's guys that are
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: staying around. I thought I saw a guy that was
• 17:11
  Speaker 7: almost thirty, right and he was in college with eligibility, man,
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: and doing different things. So for me, I like the options.
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: I like that the players are able to they're able
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: to monetize, they're able to turn this thing into a business.
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: And I know they haven't got all of the rules
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: and everything worked out yet, but I think it's a
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: benefit to the players and the institutions have been making
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: money for a long time off of the players.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: So yeah, I like to see it on the other
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: foot for a little bit.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: All right, what are you doing hanging out in my
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: place today? Huh? What are you doing? Run around?
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: I heard there's something believe in Me is do you
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: have a new foundation? What do you got going on there?
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: Well, yeah, well I have a partnership and I'm working
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: with believe in Me. Of course, it's the organization, and
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: we're part during on the golf tournament, and this is
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: gonna be our second year and we are turning dreams
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: into degrees.
• 18:09
  Speaker 9: Man.
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: It's all about raising funds for the True Fant Family
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: Foundation scholarship fund that we have. And we got a
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: big time golf tournament coming up July twenty seventh, and
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: that's at the Connerwood Golf and Country Club and gig
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: harbor Man, So we need all in everybody to come
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: out and to support. Of course, it's gonna be a
• 18:29
  Speaker 7: great time, man. We're gonna have all types of cool stuff.
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: There's still working through a lot of what all these
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: special prizes and stuff are gonna be.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: But just know that is gonna be a great time.
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: And again that is July twenty seventh at the Counterwood
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: Golf and Country Club and gig Harbor.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Now, can anybody sign up for this gig or.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: What anybody can sign up for this gig?
• 18:53
  Speaker 9: Yeah?
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: You can go to.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Let me see, I had it here foundation. Where do
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: we go here?
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah? Of course you could text in and you could
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: text in to trufon golf, or you could go to
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: five three five five five and get your tickets two day.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: You know what you're finding out? What's gonna find out?
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: You're gonna find it because I do a golf turn
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: in every year too. You gonna find out doing a
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: golf term. It's a lot of work, my man.
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: You know, I got a great team over. I believe
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: in me and we know how to make this thing go. Yeah,
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: so I think we're gonna be okay. But you're right, Yes,
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: it is a lot of work, but we're up for
• 19:34
  Speaker 7: the task, man, And it's all about giving back to
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: the youth, man, to give the youth these opportunities and
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: exposure to see things that they've never seen before.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Man, we believe it starts with education.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: I love it, man, Marcus.
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: Since day one, since I mean you and your family,
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: you guys have been a huge part of the community.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: You've always been doing stuff to help out the community,
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: and I think that's absolutely sensational and fantastic as well.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: So keep that up, by my man. I appreciate what
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: you do. Everyone does appreciates what you do out here.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: So thank you so much. Let's talk soon again, man,
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: take care right on.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: I really appreciate it.
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: In and before we go, man, I just want to
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: say thanks uh to you because I know you always
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: support me, man, and I really appreciate that.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: You know that, Marcus Racus, buddy, I'll do it.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: Books.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Marcus. You need something, you know, you
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: just reach out. Man.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: I'm always here for you. So I appreciate you popping
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: on today. Good luck with the golf term and we'll
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: talk to you man. Go cooks. Thanks Marcus. All right, man,
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: Thanks there you go, Marcus said, true fun joining us shore.
• 20:33
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  Speaker 3: All Right, welcome back. Think we're all situated. We all situated?
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we are.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: All right. We're at the.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: Virginia Mason Athletic Center. Big thanks to Marcus true fun.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: I was looking forward to talking to Marcus and we
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: had to kind of do it a little bit of
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: rush fashion. We've had some technical issues today, but I
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: think we've I think we have solved those. Shout out
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: to the Seahawks and their group out here, NASA and
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: their IT department. Man, just I say it all the time.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: Their PR staff and how they do things here is
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: absolutely second to none, top shelf. Should be the gold
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: standard for every team in the state in this market. No,
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: they just we're not their flagship. They don't need to
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: help us, right, and I just want to With the
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: sale pending, I'm just gonna go off in a second.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Oh here we go.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: No, just no.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: With the sale pending, a lot of people like, what's
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: gonna happen? What are we gonna do? Who's gonna buy
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: the team. All those things are coming into play, and
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: there's a lot of concerns for me just looking at
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: how and and listen, there's a huge story in The
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: Times this weekend, which I thought was to crock a
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: crap to be honest with you, like I just are
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: we just look, man, we're in radio. We just do
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: things to fill time to sometimes we don't get it.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Are we just.
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: Filling space in a newspaper? Do we just need to
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: put some print out there? Is that what the Times
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: is doing? This whole thing about a new lumen Field
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: or a new football stadium and all that crap, Like
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: shut up, Like, first of all, there's zero appetite in
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: this state, and nor should there be for any public
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: funding of a stadium. We've been through that before. Lumenfield's fine.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: The renovations are okay. Ticketing in the NFL is about
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: a maybe twenty five to thirty percent max of what
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: your revenue stream is.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: They're fine.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: They don't goug you if you've noticed, like if you
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: did read the story, which I did, they don't gouge
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: you on ticket prices with the Seahawks. Now I know
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: people a gonn say, oh wait, a second, what about
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: the playoffs. Okay, let's let's table the playoff talk for
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: a second. But one of the issues they have here
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: is that the ticket prices for the product you're getting,
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: which is a Super Bowl contender, are more than fair
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: by NFL standards, right, right, They're more than fair. So
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: if upon that, it's because of how they run things here.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: Their corporate support is phenomenal. The infrastructure on the business
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: side with Chuck lead led by Chuck Arnold and Amy
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: Springer and others is just it's absolute sensational. How they
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: do things here is first rate. And again what I
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: just had to deal with a few minutes ago, having
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: these guys come in. Everything they do on the business
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: side is top shelf, first round draft pick caliber stuff.
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: And oh, by the way, the football team is really good.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's the kind of it's a weird part.
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: It's like they they are the gold standard of sports, period,
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: end of story. You know, and you know, when things
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: aren't working, then they try to fix them. And and
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: I'm talking about on the football field, not just my
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: little personal issues here today. They I just I'm just
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: I've always been impressed by them. I've always been impressed
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: by how they go about their business and a shout
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: out to them. That story, by the way, just real
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: quick before I get into the Mariners, which and we
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: got Molly Wop coming up your top of the hour.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: That that story I was. I don't know if you
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: read it, anders. I made some notes about it on
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: Sunday and I'm check it out. I'm like, Okay, new
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: Looman Fields or new footballs and new owners might want
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: a new football team in here's why see And I've
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: I feel like I pump my own tires. I hate
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: doing that, but I like I've been around and outside.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: The only stadium I didn't I didn't go to the
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: NFL that's still in existence or was it was Buffalo
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: and they've already changed that, so I couldn't. I can't
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: comment on Buffalo. There are a lot of stadiums. I
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: can understand why sill Soldier Field's a problem. The retrofit
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: was awful. It was Soldier Field was key arena, is
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: what it was like. Soldier Field was literally key arena.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: And in terms of we have a we have a building,
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: we need to do something with it. Let's just take
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: the current thing and retrofit it. That's what that's what
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: Key Arena was. They just it was just a bad design,
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: a bad everything, and the end result was it wasn't
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: good enough. And we are we are now with no
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: NBA team. But we did get a new building, we
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: did get the NHL. But the price to get those
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: two things was has been at least what will end
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: up being at least twenty years without the NBA. But
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: that Soldier Field was Key Arena, Cleveland.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: I get.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: I don't think it's an awful stadium. I can see
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: why they think they need something new there, but I
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: think it's fine. You look around the NFL. The worst
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: stadium was Saint Louis. They don't exist anymore, right, So
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: when I saw that now, when I saw that story
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: this weekend, the first thing that came to my mind
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: is all right, so what have they done?
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: They've retrofitted, They changed the press box, They added a
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: couple of suites by getting limiting some press or kind
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: of compacting the press box. They redid the one lounge
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: at the in the south end of the stadium. The
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: club level is fine. There's nothing wrong with Luminfield the
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: way it was built. It is still and here's the thing.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: Here's why you don't want to change and try to
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: go sniffing around. Oh, I wonder if Belvue's got some space,
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: or I wonder if we got I wonder if you know,
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: Tuck Willow's got some space, or wherever it is. The transportation,
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: the access to the ferries, the access to light rail,
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: the access to I five and the freeways, and even
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: coming up from the south end ninety nine to five
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: on nine, what have you. It's not optimum. There's not
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: a ton of parking, but everyone makes do and you
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: can get in and out of there just fine. On
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: top of that, from a football standpoint, there is no
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: better stadium in the NFL in terms of atmosphere and
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: how loud it is and what kind of an intimidating
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: presence it is. The locker room for the Seahawks is fine.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: The visiting locker room is fine. You use them eight
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: nine times a year.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: They've got the medical stuff they need there. Everything about
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: it is fine in terms of getting in and out.
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: If you want to have other events, it's fine. The
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: stadium itself itself is fine. The first thing I thought of, though,
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: from a football standpoint, was when Paul Allen had this
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: place built, along with the help obviously of government. When
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: they had that built, they did so to really kind
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: of put into effect the reverberations of the state of
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: the crowd noise and how that play, and it is fantastic.
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: You don't want to lose that. You don't want to
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: lose that on top of the finances involved. I mean
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: to me, if I'm the NFL and you have owners
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: on the line and they're coming in here and saying, well,
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: you know what, we want the team, we want this,
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: we want that, but we have to have a new
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: stadium in the NFL. We need you to help us
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: force it.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: No, no, no.
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: If you do that, that's a red flag. That's a
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: red flag. That's at that point.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: You listen.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: There's no hurry. You don't have to sell the team today.
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: You don't have to sell it tomorrow. Jody can hold
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: on to it until she finds the correct buyers or
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: and tell the third party law firm out of the back,
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: out of back East and the NFL find the right partners.
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: This isn't okay. I like FedEx Field or whatever they
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: call it in DC. Dump absolute hell, hold dump out
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: in the middle of nowhere needed to be replaced. They
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: are They're going to the old RFK site, which is
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: actually in DC. In fact, you drive by it on
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: the way out to the new the stadium. Now, if
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: you're staying down in Washington, DC, that need to be replaced.
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: But if, if, if you have owners that say, ah,
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: we like it, but we're not sure about loom and
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: Field and do they have the correct revenue streams?
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Stop it.
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: This isn't the NHL, this isn't Major League Baseball, this
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: isn't the NBA, This isn't a college stadium where you
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: need every possible revenue stream to maximize the money coming in.
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: Because guess what, the NFL is a behemoth in terms
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: of media rights deals, and you don't need all that
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: other stuff.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: You're fine.
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: Every NFL team makes this zillion dollars. Every NFL team
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: brings in a ton of income. Every NFL team is
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: buoyed up by the fact that the NFL media rights
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: deal is basically everybody else combined. And then some that's
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: what it is. You don't need that. But I would
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: be worried when I read that story. The only thing
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: I thought of is if we're really talking about a
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: new stadium, then we're talking about an owner that's not
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: committed to staying in Seattle. And I part of it.
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: Whether there's a line in that thing that just made
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: me almost jump out of my seat. But of course
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: Seattle's like, there's no other market that makes sense right now? No,
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: they're big market in the city.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: In the story, why is that even a question?
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: But here's the thing. Really, because Oklahoma City was a
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: better market than Seattle. That's not the case. That's not
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: the case. You think salt let wouldn't be raising their
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: hand going hey, come play in rice Ecles.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, stop it because.
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: For some reason now salt Lake is everyone catch me out,
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: like the like MLB wants to go there over Portland,
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: which I think is a mistake. Portland's a far better
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: baseball market than Salt Lake is, and I can say
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: that as someone who lived and worked in both towns.
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: But don't ever tell me that, oh, there's no other
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: market that makes more sense to have an NFL team
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: than Seattle, because we lost an NBA team as media
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: market twelve to media market whatever it is seventy five
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: or whatever the hell that dust bowl is, so stop it.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: Don't ever go down that road. But I did see
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: a kind of a cautionary tale this week, and when
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: I did see that, I didn't like that story. I
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: felt at times it was just like kind of fear mongering. Yeah,
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: and then you know, like, I don't know, andres if
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: you've got that impression. I just kind of felt like
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: there's a little fear mongering going with it.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I didn't read the story itself, but the
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: way you're describing it, it does raise my eyebrow because
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: I didn't realize it was even a question, like in
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: the realm of possibility that the Sea Hawks would you know,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: either change stadiums or god forbid, you know, have an
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: owner that doesn't want to keep them in.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: Seattle, right, yeah, right.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: And the fact that that even is being brought up
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: and they have to state in the article that oh,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: there's no other market that's better than Seattle right now,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I'm like, well, duh, why is this even a question?
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: And that kind of tells me, you know, from someone
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: who hopefully does their research and writes these things, no
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: kind of being in the weeds a little bit more
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: that they feel like there is at least some sort
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: of question that they have to address. So that's the
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: biggest thing for me is that like the fact that
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: there even is a question that the Seahawks team has
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: any sort of possibility point zero zero zero zero zero
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: one percent even right of not being here.
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: The only the only possibility. I think it goes back
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: to one thing. I think the only possibility that you
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: would have or would think about having in that regard
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: is if you have an owner that doesn't believe. And
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: that was kind of the gist of it, but again
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: a little bit of fear mondering the story. If you
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: had an owner that said, Luman feel like we have
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: the financial wherewithal to buy the NFL team, right, we
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: want to buy the team. We want to you know,
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: blah blah Bobby and new Seahawk owners, but we don't
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: think that lumen Field is a viable option. They continue
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: to put money into it. It's you know, the hundreds
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: of millions that they've already put into this thing to
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: reinvest in it. If you've been in this, listen, not
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: every not every seat has to be luxury, like you
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: can have the Hawk's nest, which I think.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: They redid this year, right, they did something.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Yes, they did the seat, they have a little eye. Now, yeah,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: it's not just the yeah, the what you called aluminum seat.
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: And what I like about Luhman is and I you know,
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: there's a there's a lambeau feel to it. And what
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: I mean by that is like Lambo obviously has the history.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: We don't have that that history.
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: But but when I say it has a lambeau Field,
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: Lambeau has when you go to lambeau Field, and anybody,
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: any of our Seahawk fans listening that have been there,
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: you know this. When you go to lambeau Field, you
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: go and you sit with football fans. You don't sit
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: you don't sit with business people.
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: It's not a corporate thing.
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not that you go sit with football fans
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: in lambeau Field. The same thing in Cincinnati and Cleveland,
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: for example, those two places kind of are similar. And
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: you know, again Cleveland's talking about new stadiums. But when
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: you go to when you go to Loomenfield and you
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: look around and you looked, you look around the stadium
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: and if it's the third or fourth quarter, if it's
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: a close game, no one's no one's sitting down, everyone's
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: on their feet, and it has like there's a and
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: I use this, and I don't want this to be
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: a derogatory term, because trust me, I've had my fair
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: share of jobs that fall into the category blue of
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: blue collar back in the day. But it has a
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: very blue collar field to it. Not not blue thunder,
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: not blue Friday, no blue collar working man, NFL fan
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: in your face. I'm gonna get loud when it's time.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: To make noise. I'm gonna make noise. It has that.
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: We don't need Sofi Stadium in Seattle. We don't need
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: Jerry's World here. We don't need that. We've got t
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: mobilesational climate, pledge, gorgeous, it's a palace. Loominfield is kind
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: of our Lambeau. Loominfield is kind of our our little
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: nest egg of fun where it's just a little bit
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: out of control. There's a little bit of there's there's
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: a little edge to it, if you know what I mean.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: South End zone.
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: Guy with a tattoos and I love instruction hats, make
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: fun of them.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: We love it.
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: I don't want to lose that. No, and so moving
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: just off A four or five and Bellevue would be great.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: No, it wouldn't know and here's the other thing. Bellevue,
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: You've had your chance.
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: Yes, you had your chance in two thousand and six
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: and seven and eight when the Sonics situation was going on.
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: You had your chance in the eighteen years since then,
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: Bellevue before Climate Pledge Arena was built. You've had your chance.
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: You're done, Bellevue, You're done. It's time. It's time to
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: stay in Seattle. And uh yeah, I would go read
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: the story, though, I just I guess said I think there's
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: a little fear mongering to it. But I also and
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: then there's a little bit of part of me that
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: says why we waste our time? But then I guess
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: the only part that would come out would be the
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: fact that, yeah, yeah, if there is an owner that
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: says maybe we need a new stadium, that would be
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: that would be a red flag to check out.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: Okay, what have we got?
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: I did mention it in headlines, and it wasn't completely
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: official until just now. The US men's national team has
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: good news. They're twenty twenty six roster for the World
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Cup and Christian rolled On from the Seattle Sounders.
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: Is on the roster. So let's go congratulations too.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: The Sounders product from Pico Rivera, California. Christian rolled On
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: is gonna be a big part, and I actually think
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: we'll get some minutes and possibly even a start.
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: I'm just gonna ask you, well, you know what we
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: should do. We can do this maybe tomorrow. I want
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: to spend some time a little bit tomorrow on this.
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: First of all, congrats, Yes, I've I love Christian. Good dude,
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: awesome dude. Just saw him a couple about a month
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: and a half ago. He was at one of the
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: last Cracking games, did the rev up before the game,
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: spent some time with him afterwards, and I'm just I'm
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: a fan of him period, even though the school he
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: went to I don't love, but that's fine. The no
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: he's he's a great dude. And you mentioned it. I
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: think there's an opportunity, not just I read a story
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: in The Athletic this weekend that he's with injuries and
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: other things. He's very very much in the mix to
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: get quality time on the pitch and also to to probably,
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: like you said, maybe get a start or two when
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: you're depending on how things are going. So we kind
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: of knew this last week when it leaked out.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: There was a lot of reports. It is very NFL schedule,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: like Ian like, you see all the reports beforehand and
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: then before the team officially announces it.
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: But now you get the official announce I know you're
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: just now seeing this. Were there any was there anything
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: that was erroneous in those early leaks?
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's a good question. I'll take a look at
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: that during the day.
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: Look yeah, okay, all right, Because you're mister World Cup,
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: I am you and Jackson I am in mister World Cup.
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: All right, we'll take a break, we'll come back. We'll
• 35:52
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• 35:55
  Speaker 5: the top of the hour, Nathan and Chris mollywap, Monday,
• 35:57
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• 36:03
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• 36:04
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• 36:11
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• 36:26
  Speaker 5: All right, we're back at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: interness with you this afternoon. We got a malliwap Monday
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  Speaker 5: coming up top of the hour with the voice. Nathan
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: and Chriss are here. They're standing by, They're ready to go.
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: It's fire away. What's happened, Let's make it happen today.
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: We got a lot, well, we got a lot to
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: discuss real quick, just on the US men's national team.
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: You take a quick peaks all listen, was it NFL
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: schedule like everything?
• 36:45
  Speaker 10: Yeah? Really right was?
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: And I didn't see any erroneous from the leaks.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: So good?
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: All right, roll Don's wearing fifteen.
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: Wearing number fifteen.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: Yes, what a thrill.
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: Good for all, you know what, for for all these guys,
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: but especially I don't know if you can tell me
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: off the top. We'll get to the marriers in a second,
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: but I especially for the guys, the American players that
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: are playing here, like, like, all due respect to the
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: guys that have played overseas or maybe were born overseas
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: to American parents.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Which is there's less of those now. I think almost
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: the entire roster was either born here or had spent
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: a significant amount of time in the US.
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: But a guy like Rolldon who has never left right
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: to get a play a World Cup on his home
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: soil rights. And there's a handful of those guys, And
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: I think that's damn cool. That really, really, really cool,
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: and good for him. I'm glad he made it. He's
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: one of the good guys in sports. And congrats to
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: Christian Rodand from the Sounders. Okay, we will get to
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: the malliwopt. No shortage of topics today for the Malliwap Monday.
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: The the good news is they annihilate the A's yesterday.
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: Better news is you win a couple more of your
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: first place coming home against Arizona this weekend.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: If you sweep the A's, you're in first place. Yes,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: that's hot, crazy right, that's so crazy. After every I've never.
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: Seen I was texting with the boys yesterday, I've never
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: seen and I don't understand exactly what it is except
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: for the fact that we have these high expectations and
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: maybe that's it. I've never seen the vitriol towards the
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: team like I have this.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: Year from the fan base.
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and like and people get mad when I say, well, listen, guys,
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: so just it doesn't They're gonna win the division, right
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: and they are like it would take something right now
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: if you were if you were to say, do I
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: want to put money on the Mariners winning the division
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: or the field the other teams. I take the Mariners
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: all day, every day, yes, like all day. Like they
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: have kicked it around all year and they're right there
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: on the verge of coming home this weekend in first place.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: And their best MVP runner up has either sucked or
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: been out for the entirety of the season.
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: And that's Cal Rawly as their number two guy can't
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: play center field.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: Anymore for some NG all of a sudden, random like.
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: I don't know where that came from. Either it's great,
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: you're hitting Julio, Yeah, I don't know, maybe make a
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: play in center field. Everything that has gone wrong for
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: this team and here they are, and yes they're below
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: five hundred, but they're playing in the I think Chris
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: will call it the Sun Belt Conference of the I
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: think that's it. I think that's frankly a massive insult
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: to the Sun Belt Conference. I think that's really not
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: fair to the Sun belt.
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's so good.
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: Maybe the Missouri Valley, maybe you go down that road
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: or something. But I think that's a back attack. Yeah, no,
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: that's an insult to the mac attack. That's a that's
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: a significant insult to the Mac attack. Somewhere eastern Michigan
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: is going, come on, we're better in the al West,
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: but you're still there. The vitriol obviously with like it
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: doesn't matter what they do, and even when something kind
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: of works a little bit at least in terms of
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: the results, like the piggyback thing, right, I mean, yeah,
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: the numbers don't lie like it worked. Now the problem
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: is to fine, does it work because the two players
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: involved don't like it. Miller doesn't like it. Yeah, he
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: said so too, Brad Adam last night in an absolute
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: by the way, great job, Brad, just clinic on how
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: to do a postgame interview.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: Just that's how you do it, right.
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: And I you know, and I and I say that
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: because I work with someone who I think is the
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: best right now in the market period in Piper Show.
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: I think Piper is phenomenal to ever. I never hear
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: Piper say, hey, talk about that, Yeah.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: It's what are you're feeling well, you can tell when
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: a player is anxious or feels something, whatever that is,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: and you.
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: Know when they want to say exactly exactly, know like
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: if you if you've done that job, and you know
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: when a player wants to say something. And I did
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: it for a long time, and sometimes it doesn't come out,
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: sometimes it does. Brad did a great job, and he
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: got Milled to say, yeah, I didn't like it, I mean,
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: and found out late. And you know, he kind of
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: he is funny because he danced around and said the
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: right things but didn't say the right things.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: And then fly Out says he I don't like it.
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, And obviously Castillo was not happy and whatever the
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: plan is. And I think I can understand Castile's frustration,
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: probably because last week when they did it, they left
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: Miller in there, I think longer than they five correct, right,
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: yes and right. So Castillo is like, well, if you
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: were flexible with Miller, why are you not flexible with me?
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: Is what I'm guessing.
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: And listen, Louise talks to Freddy through the translator, who
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: knows what he's really really thinking. Not to say, Freddie's
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: not Crazy's greatest job. I'm just saying it's it's It's
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: not like you can just get him in a post
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: game and he'll you can hear from his mouth.
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: I just think it was an like you could see.
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: And and honestly, like everyone wants to crush Dan, and
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: I get it, Dan Wilson maybe over his skis, but
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: in the case, like Dan's.
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: Just the messenger.
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: Absolutely in that situation.
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: I felt bad for him. I felt bad for Dan.
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: We like, oh my god, like this.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: Dude's he doesn't even believe it, right, he's a catcher.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's let's give him some credit.
• 41:50
  Speaker 9: He was.
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: He was a damn good defensive catcher. He probably is thinking, uh, yeah, man,
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: I don't I don't know, but I gotta go tell
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: I gotta go tell the Rock that I'm taking him
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: out walks and the Rock, you know, the Rock had
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: a chance to get a win, couldn't even get to win. Yeah,
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: And and was pitching.
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: Great, was pitching awesome.
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: And but here's where it worked. They didn't have to
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: use the bullpen at all. Both guys were lights out.
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, here's the thing.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: If Rock goes out for the fifth inning and he struggles,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: that's the last thing you remember with him. Now the
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: last thing you remember with him is the four innings
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: of elite pitching from Coro Cast. So honestly, I think
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: they did it perfectly yesterday, And yes, it pisses them off,
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: and we'll see kind of how this, you know, moves forward.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: But in terms of the actual concept, it's it's I
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: think it's Bean just fine.
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: I'm going to talk to the boys about it as well,
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: because it there is this weird part of me that
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: just kind of says, hey, get over it. Yeah, like stop,
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: like like this is you know, like we're worrying about
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: guys feelings like we're playing you know, twelve U Little
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: League or something. Yeah, like why like why are we
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: worrying about guys feelings At the same time you're talking
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: about a pitcher and a talk about the guy that
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: in a lot of ways, the mental part of the
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: game is probably a huge, huge part of what they
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: need to do, right, Like how do you handle things mentally?
• 43:09
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  Speaker 5: Just moments ago, we found out that Christian Rolldon will
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: be a part of the US men's national team for
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: the World Cup. That's official. Sounders though, did drop the
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  Speaker 5: final game before the World Cup break because he won
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  Speaker 5: nothing on a late goal to LAFC.
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  Speaker 3: Brutal, brutal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the local breakdown teams in their last two games
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  Speaker 5: What are we playing like a baseball schedule here against
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  Speaker 5: Yukon two? Are you can Connecticut two against the Mystics.
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  Speaker 5: and Thunders are all knotted up into a piece Game
• 44:51
  Speaker 5: five this night. NHL Playoffs, Vegas Takes, committing three to
• 44:54
  Speaker 5: nothing series lead versus Avalanche into Game four tonight, trying
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: to clinch that and move on with a sweep over
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: the President's Trophy winners. It's that the best team in
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: the regular season Colorado. They ain't the best team right now.
• 45:03
  Speaker 5: Carolina might be. They took a two one series lead
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: over Montreal overtime winner last night. Boys are ready standing by.
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: Let's have some fun talking about the piggyback. Molliwa Monday
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: starts right now.
• 45:16
  Speaker 12: It's Monday, then that means one thing. It's time to mollywap, uncensored,
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  Speaker 12: Mollywap boys, Nathan Bishop and Chris Crawford with my oh why,
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• 45:43
  Speaker 5: All right, here we go Molliwap Monday on a Tuesday, Yes,
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: ladies and gentlemen, Tuesday. Why, because of course yesterday was
• 45:50
  Speaker 5: a holiday. So here we are hanging out today Sea
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: hawk OTAs we'll take a little break from football in
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: the offseason. Football and guy, this is still May. It
• 45:58
  Speaker 5: is May football and to talk baseball in me, which
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: seems a lot more appropriate with the boys. Well, no
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: shortage of topics today. In fact, I was asking I
• 46:07
  Speaker 5: was thinking about Chris. Can we get Grandma on, get
• 46:09
  Speaker 5: her thoughts on piggyback, what she thinks about for the
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: Maybe we'll get my daughter Brianni on, who's the angriest
• 46:16
  Speaker 5: Mariner fan of America. All this said, Wow, they won
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: a game yesterday. Interesting mixed bag since we've last been on.
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: They won a series, they lost a series, and then
• 46:26
  Speaker 5: won the first game of a series and actually could
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: leave Oakland. No, sorry, they could leave Sacramento. I think
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: that's where they're at these days in the next forty
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: eight hours, in first place in the American League West. Oh,
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: it just never changes with the Seattle Marriers. Chris Crawford
• 46:39
  Speaker 5: is here, Nathan Bishop is here. We'll get deeper into
• 46:42
  Speaker 5: piggyback gait in just a couple of seconds. First, let's
• 46:45
  Speaker 5: just get some general thoughts, Nathan, your thoughts from the week.
• 46:49
  Speaker 13: I mean, I think that we prophesied this last show,
• 46:51
  Speaker 13: didn't we We said it was going to be a
• 46:52
  Speaker 13: miserable week unless they really went on a hot run.
• 46:55
  Speaker 13: Just because of the nature of the way these Midwest
• 46:57
  Speaker 13: road games feel like they're going particularly well. What ever
• 47:00
  Speaker 13: is going on whenever they play the Kansas City Royals.
• 47:03
  Speaker 13: I feel like there may be some sort of We've
• 47:05
  Speaker 13: talked about Etsy Witches and various other curses. There's something
• 47:08
  Speaker 13: supernatural in play whenever the Mariners play the Royals, not
• 47:11
  Speaker 13: so much that they're going to lose every game, but
• 47:13
  Speaker 13: just that every game is going to be miserable to
• 47:16
  Speaker 13: suffer through. So it was white a week. We had
• 47:21
  Speaker 13: a lot of drama in what I hope will end
• 47:24
  Speaker 13: up being the worst loss of the year on Tuesday
• 47:26
  Speaker 13: against the White Sox, where the entire team looked like
• 47:30
  Speaker 13: it wanted to strangle each other or at least something.
• 47:33
  Speaker 13: I felt like that was a real pivot point where
• 47:34
  Speaker 13: the season could have spiraled on them. And it's a
• 47:37
  Speaker 13: real credit to them that they came out on Wednesday
• 47:38
  Speaker 13: and won that getaway game. Man, they lost that game
• 47:41
  Speaker 13: on Wednesday, I think the wheels could have really started
• 47:44
  Speaker 13: to come off. And then they went down to Kansas City,
• 47:46
  Speaker 13: like I already said, and you know, Cuthulhu and a
• 47:48
  Speaker 13: couple of great old ones came out and it was
• 47:50
  Speaker 13: an abomination and they lost that series. But hey, what
• 47:54
  Speaker 13: we needed to see from this team after that. This
• 47:57
  Speaker 13: is a huge series and we're daylight on it because
• 47:59
  Speaker 13: it's too so. They've already played the first game and
• 48:02
  Speaker 13: it looked like it was going to be just another
• 48:04
  Speaker 13: Mariners game yesterday where we're sleepwalking our way until the
• 48:07
  Speaker 13: sixth inning and it's a one nothing game with either
• 48:09
  Speaker 13: team having one run, and we just see what happens
• 48:11
  Speaker 13: into the pressure cooker.
• 48:12
  Speaker 11: And then Josh.
• 48:13
  Speaker 13: Taylor hit a routine ground ball to shortstop, one of
• 48:15
  Speaker 13: the slowest guys on foot in Major League Baseball, and
• 48:18
  Speaker 13: the A's couldn't make the turn. And then the Mariners
• 48:21
  Speaker 13: bats did something they haven't done all year, which is
• 48:23
  Speaker 13: take advantage of that opportunity and knock a guy around
• 48:26
  Speaker 13: who was finding middle middle way too much and then
• 48:31
  Speaker 13: jumped on him, put up seven runs, added on more
• 48:33
  Speaker 13: later in the game, and just made it a stress
• 48:35
  Speaker 13: free game. This team can play like that. They do
• 48:38
  Speaker 13: have the talent to do it, they just haven't done
• 48:41
  Speaker 13: it hardly at all. So we're hoping it's a trend.
• 48:44
  Speaker 13: There's no way. I mean, even if they sweep and
• 48:46
  Speaker 13: they're in first place on Wednesday, I'm still gonna be
• 48:48
  Speaker 13: annoyed at them because they're twenty six and twenty nine,
• 48:50
  Speaker 13: and they should be one of the better teams in
• 48:52
  Speaker 13: the American League on paper. They should be one of
• 48:54
  Speaker 13: the better teams in baseball on paper, and they just
• 48:56
  Speaker 13: are not. To this point a third of the way
• 48:58
  Speaker 13: through the season.
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: You've recapped it all a week in the mile mile,
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: so it takes seven days a mile Miye, Chris and
• 49:03
  Speaker 5: fire Away.
• 49:06
  Speaker 8: Uh, you know what I'm annoyed about, really is that
• 49:09
  Speaker 8: series in Kansas City was so bad and it also
• 49:12
  Speaker 8: was so boring. And I'm used to them playing exciting,
• 49:16
  Speaker 8: stupid baseball games against the Royals. It's if you're gonna
• 49:20
  Speaker 8: lose two of three, make it spectacular, right, Like, at
• 49:23
  Speaker 8: least give us the quote unquote s show that we
• 49:26
  Speaker 8: have gotten used to seeing against the Kansas City Royals,
• 49:29
  Speaker 8: But we have just it's been kind of mundane. And
• 49:32
  Speaker 8: the thing that's been frustrating is they're failing at every
• 49:37
  Speaker 8: John Q football announcer talks about the three facets of
• 49:41
  Speaker 8: the game, right the offense to defense, the special teams. Well,
• 49:45
  Speaker 8: the Mariners have failed in every facet of the game
• 49:48
  Speaker 8: to begin the year. For me, they have looked bad
• 49:51
  Speaker 8: on offense for most of the year. They've had a
• 49:54
  Speaker 8: few games like yesterday where you take a look at
• 49:57
  Speaker 8: the offense and say, oh, this is what they're capable
• 49:59
  Speaker 8: of doing and taking advantage of situations. Like Nathan mentioned,
• 50:03
  Speaker 8: the starting pitching has mostly been good, but there have
• 50:06
  Speaker 8: been some real clinkers along there too, And where I've
• 50:09
  Speaker 8: really seen this team fail as defensively. This is the
• 50:12
  Speaker 8: worst defensive Seattle Mariner team that I've seen in an
• 50:15
  Speaker 8: awful long time. This is Jacksorenzick would even be like, easy,
• 50:20
  Speaker 8: big fellow, what's going on with the defense right now?
• 50:22
  Speaker 8: Because you just take a look like Ian Dugarden, I.
• 50:27
  Speaker 5: Hate too, but yes, we have we have yardwork.
• 50:30
  Speaker 8: Yes, sure, if you had a issue with rabbits getting
• 50:35
  Speaker 8: into your garden and you had a fence that covered
• 50:40
  Speaker 8: half of the section and when they went into that section,
• 50:43
  Speaker 8: it helped those rabbits keep there. But the rabbits are
• 50:48
  Speaker 8: able to get around defense all of the time. It's
• 50:52
  Speaker 8: not a good offense. So stop quoting me the gosh
• 50:55
  Speaker 8: damn fielding percentage and telling me this is a good defense.
• 50:59
  Speaker 8: This is a horrific defense. It does not prevent runs whatsoever.
• 51:05
  Speaker 8: Julio Rodriguez is among those guys too. I could go
• 51:08
  Speaker 8: on about this for about another forty five minutes, like
• 51:11
  Speaker 8: this has been an all around bad defensive team, and
• 51:16
  Speaker 8: I just see issues that make me very, very concerned
• 51:21
  Speaker 8: that my demand of going to the World Series is
• 51:24
  Speaker 8: not going to be met. Yesterday really helped though, seeing
• 51:27
  Speaker 8: a good game, seeing something where the offense comes to life,
• 51:32
  Speaker 8: seeing both pitchers pitch well yesterday. I'm sure we'll talk
• 51:35
  Speaker 8: a lot about that. It's amazing what how much more
• 51:38
  Speaker 8: calm you can be when you see a good game
• 51:40
  Speaker 8: like that.
• 51:41
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  Speaker 5: a second. All right, let's let's just get I don't
• 51:59
  Speaker 5: want to be the lead, because I'm sure people this
• 52:01
  Speaker 5: is this is one of the oddest things ever on
• 52:05
  Speaker 5: so many levels, the whole piggyback situation. And it's odd
• 52:09
  Speaker 5: for a couple of reasons. One, they do it last
• 52:11
  Speaker 5: week for the first time, and we saw what happened
• 52:15
  Speaker 5: at the end, and then they do it again yesterday,
• 52:18
  Speaker 5: and we see what happens. And really, at the end
• 52:21
  Speaker 5: of the day, the pitchers, the two starting pitchers with
• 52:25
  Speaker 5: one Bridge Ferrera tossed in there for the first one,
• 52:28
  Speaker 5: they have limited the other team's ability to score. Right,
• 52:32
  Speaker 5: and then of course the Munio situation. But like, if
• 52:34
  Speaker 5: you just look at the starters cast to you, you
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: can make an argument. Hasn't looked better all year than
• 52:38
  Speaker 5: he has the last two Miller looked fine, no bullpen,
• 52:42
  Speaker 5: you sage yesterday. And yet here we are with the
• 52:46
  Speaker 5: piggyback situation where everyone involved not named Dan Wilson, Jerry
• 52:51
  Speaker 5: Depoto or Justin Hollander are saying, you know what, I
• 52:56
  Speaker 5: don't like it. So, Chris, since Grandma's not here, I'll
• 52:59
  Speaker 5: let you start because I'm sure she has a comment
• 53:02
  Speaker 5: to on the piggyback situation.
• 53:05
  Speaker 8: Yeah, honestly, I think the only piggyback my grandma's interested
• 53:09
  Speaker 8: in is pork belly. But here's here's where I'll defend
• 53:14
  Speaker 8: the piggyback situation, because look, it's not ideal. This is
• 53:18
  Speaker 8: not what the Seattle mariners want to be doing I
• 53:21
  Speaker 8: guarantee they don't want to be doing it, and they
• 53:23
  Speaker 8: don't want to do the six man rotation. The pictures
• 53:26
  Speaker 8: hate it. We talked about it two weeks ago, right
• 53:29
  Speaker 8: that we you know, had the thing about how it
• 53:34
  Speaker 8: affects their routine. Well, this is affecting a routine too,
• 53:37
  Speaker 8: but in a different way. But here's how I'll defend it.
• 53:41
  Speaker 8: The Mariners are going to need all six of these guys.
• 53:45
  Speaker 8: They are absolutely going to need all six of these
• 53:49
  Speaker 8: pictures to be effective. And at some point one of
• 53:53
  Speaker 8: two things is going to happen. And I hope I'm
• 53:57
  Speaker 8: wrong one of these and it's possible both can happen.
• 54:00
  Speaker 8: By the way, one of these pictures is going to
• 54:02
  Speaker 8: get hurts, or Emerson Hancock's pumpkin is going to turn back,
• 54:06
  Speaker 8: or a carriage is going to turn back into a pumpkin.
• 54:08
  Speaker 8: There will be a pumpkin that happens. You need these
• 54:12
  Speaker 8: guys to be on turn. You need these guys to
• 54:16
  Speaker 8: be stretched out. Neither one is going to go to Tacoma.
• 54:20
  Speaker 8: Not none of them are going to volunteer his tribute
• 54:23
  Speaker 8: and go Fitch and Tacoma. That's not going to happen.
• 54:27
  Speaker 8: So you do need to have these guys stretched out.
• 54:30
  Speaker 8: You do need to be prepared if Emerson Hancock does
• 54:33
  Speaker 8: not actually end up being that option. You do want
• 54:37
  Speaker 8: to showcase these guys as well. In particular, I would
• 54:40
  Speaker 8: say I would be showcasing Bryce Miller because I don't
• 54:44
  Speaker 8: think anyone's taking Luis Castillo's contract. This is the defense
• 54:49
  Speaker 8: of it, though, And if you want to say, hey,
• 54:51
  Speaker 8: why are we showcasing guys, Why are we talking about contracts?
• 54:54
  Speaker 8: It should just be about winning as much as possible. Well,
• 54:58
  Speaker 8: that's what this is all about. This is how I
• 55:01
  Speaker 8: defend it. I don't think it's ideal. I don't think
• 55:04
  Speaker 8: it's a long term thing that's going to be be tenable,
• 55:09
  Speaker 8: But I can defend it from the point that you
• 55:12
  Speaker 8: have to keep these six guys stretched out. This is
• 55:14
  Speaker 8: the best way to keep those six guys stretched out,
• 55:17
  Speaker 8: and ultimately all of them are going to end up
• 55:21
  Speaker 8: playing a factor for the Mariners if they are going
• 55:24
  Speaker 8: to get to the World Series.
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: Nathan, this is.
• 55:28
  Speaker 13: Such a we talked before we went on air. Ian
• 55:31
  Speaker 13: this is such a Jerry to Poto Era Mariner's conundrum
• 55:34
  Speaker 13: that we're here because on paper. I think it makes
• 55:36
  Speaker 13: a lot of sense for a lot of the reasons
• 55:38
  Speaker 13: that Chris is outlying. But the problem is is the
• 55:42
  Speaker 13: application of this theoretical, big brained, mathematically correct concept and
• 55:47
  Speaker 13: how do we filter that down from the top down
• 55:50
  Speaker 13: to the people that actually have to do it. And
• 55:52
  Speaker 13: it's pretty clear, even though it's been largely effective other
• 55:55
  Speaker 13: than the absolute poop show that was the ninth inning
• 55:58
  Speaker 13: last Tuesday against Chicago, that the pitchers aren't happy about it,
• 56:01
  Speaker 13: and they're not happy about how it's been communicated to them.
• 56:04
  Speaker 13: I don't I wouldn't say that Bryce Miller came across
• 56:06
  Speaker 13: as peeved yesterday, but just the fact that he basically
• 56:09
  Speaker 13: sounded like he didn't even know what was going on
• 56:11
  Speaker 13: until Sunday and the game was on Tuesday, Like there's
• 56:14
  Speaker 13: something getting lost in the communication here to these guys
• 56:18
  Speaker 13: to make them okay. I don't know why Luis Castillo
• 56:21
  Speaker 13: seemed so surprised that he was pulled yesterday after five
• 56:24
  Speaker 13: innings of scoreless baseball if it had already been communicated
• 56:28
  Speaker 13: to him that that's what the plan was going to
• 56:29
  Speaker 13: be regardless.
• 56:30
  Speaker 11: Going into the game.
• 56:31
  Speaker 13: So I don't really have an issue with it. As
• 56:34
  Speaker 13: far as like does this make sense, as Chris pointed out,
• 56:38
  Speaker 13: for all of those reasons. Also, it gives the bullpen
• 56:40
  Speaker 13: arms a break theoretically, you know, one turn through the
• 56:42
  Speaker 13: rotation to time. I think there's some some logical reasons
• 56:47
  Speaker 13: to do this. But just like with the idea of
• 56:50
  Speaker 13: trading Kendall Graveman for Abraham Toro the day after that
• 56:55
  Speaker 13: big Grand Slam, the day that he talks about his
• 56:59
  Speaker 13: mathematically correct fifty four plan, these are ideas that make
• 57:03
  Speaker 13: sense that are being communicated to the people that need
• 57:06
  Speaker 13: to hear them in an ineffective way. It is a
• 57:09
  Speaker 13: very classic Jerry to Poto era issue.
• 57:12
  Speaker 5: As I see it, Well, Wet Monday brought to my
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  Speaker 5: Simply Sales, Simply sale dot com. All right, Chris Beck
• 57:16
  Speaker 5: to you, You've covered this sport for a long time.
• 57:18
  Speaker 5: The thing I find interesting unique, Well, I'm confused, I
• 57:23
  Speaker 5: guess about is this. As I sit here at Seahawks today, OTAs,
• 57:28
  Speaker 5: we're going to compete.
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: We're going to compete.
• 57:29
  Speaker 5: We don't care who you are where to compete and listen,
• 57:32
  Speaker 5: every coach says that in the NFL.
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: I get it.
• 57:36
  Speaker 5: Russell Wilson never had to compete for his job when
• 57:38
  Speaker 5: he was a starting quarterback here, you know, I mean, hell,
• 57:40
  Speaker 5: Gino Smith didn't even compete when he took over for
• 57:43
  Speaker 5: Russell Wilson. With Drew Locke, it was never a competition.
• 57:46
  Speaker 5: But there are company like Anthony Bradford at right guard.
• 57:49
  Speaker 5: He is going to have to compete for that right
• 57:51
  Speaker 5: guard spot. And at the end of the day, in
• 57:53
  Speaker 5: the NFL, the one thing that's for the most part
• 57:56
  Speaker 5: happens is the best player goes on the field, whether
• 57:59
  Speaker 5: you're a first round pick or an undrafted free agent.
• 58:02
  Speaker 5: The thing I find strange, Chris about this is that
• 58:06
  Speaker 5: it seems like there's this emphasis on worrying about guy's feelings, like, oh, like, oh,
• 58:12
  Speaker 5: Luis Castile, you're a bullpen guy. Now for a while,
• 58:15
  Speaker 5: we're gonna you're gonna be stretched out. We don't want
• 58:17
  Speaker 5: to admit that. Or Bryce, you're upset because you were
• 58:21
  Speaker 5: the second guy this time or the first guy the
• 58:23
  Speaker 5: first time.
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: Whatever it is.
• 58:24
  Speaker 5: It feels like in pro sports we don't really usually
• 58:27
  Speaker 5: care about feelings. Hell, league of our own. There's no
• 58:30
  Speaker 5: crying in baseball, right, I mean, but there certainly seems
• 58:33
  Speaker 5: to be some here, And yet Chris, it looks to
• 58:35
  Speaker 5: be from the outside looking in. It works like both
• 58:40
  Speaker 5: guys have been effective in their roles no matter who
• 58:42
  Speaker 5: was a starter, and the run scored tells you the
• 58:45
  Speaker 5: story you need to know.
• 58:48
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and the weird part about this is usually if
• 58:51
  Speaker 8: a team has a piggyback or a bulk pitcher or
• 58:56
  Speaker 8: some element op thing that that team makes up that
• 58:59
  Speaker 8: they they are just thrown out nonsense. It's usually because hey,
• 59:04
  Speaker 8: we don't feel comfortable in this starter going through the
• 59:09
  Speaker 8: lineup more than a couple of times. And it's not
• 59:11
  Speaker 8: really that this situation, it's really about finding a way
• 59:16
  Speaker 8: to have these six guys pitch in a role it's
• 59:20
  Speaker 8: normally an effective thing. And you can argue how effective
• 59:24
  Speaker 8: Luis Castillo has been, but I think he's looked really good.
• 59:26
  Speaker 8: And I think you made a really good point that
• 59:28
  Speaker 8: Castille his last three times out has looked like the
• 59:33
  Speaker 8: version of Luis Castillo that we expected for the most part.
• 59:36
  Speaker 8: Like it's easy to forget because that ninth inning, and
• 59:39
  Speaker 8: that's not on Luis Castillo. That is on the manager
• 59:42
  Speaker 8: of the Seattle Mariners and the people who put that
• 59:45
  Speaker 8: plan in play more than Luis Castillo. But that first
• 59:48
  Speaker 8: inning when Luis Castillo came in was as good as
• 59:51
  Speaker 8: I've seen Luis Castillo in a very long time. Where
• 59:54
  Speaker 8: he strikes out the side. You forget about it, of course,
• 59:57
  Speaker 8: because ultimately in the ninth inning we get that that's
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 8: just fecal call a form of an inning. But like,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 8: it's just it's a really weird situation, and you do
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 8: you want to keep these guys happy, right, Like it
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 8: shouldn't be that difficult to keep major league baseball players happy,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 8: but you do want Bryce Miller to be comfortable in
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 8: his role. You Luis Castile. And by the way, I
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 8: got a correct Nathan. It's not his faults. He's just
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 8: too smart sometimes for his own good. It was four
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 8: shutout innings for Luis Castillo and then Bryce Miller throws
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 8: the five. And the reason I bring that up is,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 8: doesn't Luis Castillo deserve the chance to pitch in the
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 8: fifth inning and get a freaking win? Like that's not fair.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 8: And you can talk to me all you want about
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 8: how wins aren't predictive long term, and they're not, but like,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 8: that's a terrible situation. Luis Castillo wants that win. Major
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 8: League Baseball players are well aware of their statistics. I
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 8: thought it was kind of egregious that they didn't have
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 8: him finish the fifth and then bring Bryce Miller in
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 8: for those last four innings in an absolute blowout of
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 8: a game. It's just a really weird situation. It's a
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 8: compliment to the depth they have. And oh, by the way,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 8: Kate Anderson still dominating in double A right now. It's
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 8: just going to be And the concern I have is
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 8: do they have the right manager to pull this off?
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 8: Do they have the right guy who can balance this
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 8: not just from a clubhouse standpoint, which we think Dan
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 8: Wilson's very good at, but also on the field, because
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 8: he handled it about as poorly as possible. Whether he
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 8: was told this had to happen or not, he handled
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 8: it poorly. He did not make the adjustment yesterday. He
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 8: didn't have to make an adjustment because the Sacramento United
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 8: Arabs Athletics were just that bad. But I'm really concerned
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 8: about whether or not they have the right people to
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 8: make this decision actually work.
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  Speaker 13: I mean, I think we know the answer to that question,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 13: but I'm not going to be labor it. I was
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 13: just going to bring up the idea that just something
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 13: to consider us from the player's perspective. And because you
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 13: were talking talking about and I understand the idea of
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 13: in football, hockey, and a lot of sports, the idea is, hey,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 13: was that whatever's best for the team, whatever's best for
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 13: the team, blah blah blah, that mindset of next man up,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 13: best guy gets on the field, all that stuff.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 11: I'm just thinking through. I understand baseball could.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 13: Be entering a labor turmoil, and we don't really know
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 13: what the labor situation is going to look like, the
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 13: CBA will look like after the next labor agreement comes
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 13: into play. But for a guy like Bryce Miller, who's
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 13: theoretically under the current agreement going to be entering arbitration
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 13: fairly soon, the Mariners are going to argue against paying
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 13: him an amount of money, at least in part based
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 13: on the number of games that he has started, and
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 13: they're the reason that he didn't start yesterday. So how
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 13: do you think that that's going to sit with Bryce
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 13: Miller when he's like, you're taking money out of my
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 13: hand by saying that I can't start this game when
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 13: I'm one of the best five starting pitchers on this team.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 13: So I get this it's a delicate situation. And I
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 13: have another buddy who Colin o'keeff, who writes a really
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 13: nice newsletter about a team. What the marriage are asking
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 13: the players to do is to put the organizational best
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 13: interest ahead of their own personal interests, uh, with the
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 13: goal of winning at the expense of everything else. And
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 13: when they're not seeing that being modeled from the top
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 13: and upper levels of the organization. That's a big ask
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 13: of these guys. So that's all I would say about that.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 5: You know, I think that's it ties into what Chris
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 5: said though, with Castillo not getting the chance to get
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 5: the win, like there's no there is, Like I I'm
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 5: the guy that just made the comparison to football out
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 5: here at Seahawks at the Virginia Aason Athletics Center. But
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 5: it's also an unfair comparison because Chris right, there's no
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 5: sport that is more individual stats dependent on evaluating a
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 5: player than baseball. They're you know, yes, PFF for whatever
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 5: it's worth these days, which is next to nothing has
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 5: the you know, the underlying stats and the greats for
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 5: players in the NFL.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 3: But really, at the end of the day, like.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 5: Hey was was Abe Lucas and Charles Cross were they okay, yeah,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 5: they prevented a couple of sacks and they did this,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 5: but it's hey, you know what the running back round
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 5: for one hundred and fifty yards, but really it was
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 5: the right, Like, you know, it's just different. In baseball,
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 5: wins do matter to starting pictures. Whether it's a great
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 5: evaluation or not, whether we never see another three hundred
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 5: game winner or not, it still matters to the starting
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 5: picture starts. As Nathan said, Chris, right, that matters in
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 5: terms when you at arbitrary, well you know you didn't
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 5: start enough games, you know, well because you were hurt, No,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 5: because you had me not start right. So I can
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 5: understand Chris and Nate and Chris will just go to
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 5: you wrap up this segment. I can understand that thinking
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 5: along the way.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and it's not just a mental thing. Baseball literally
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 8: has an arbitration system that is based on this stuff.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 8: Like it's not just like, hey, you know this is
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 8: my internal monologue. This is literally there's going to be
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 8: a judge that determines whether or not I get this
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 8: amount of money compared to this amount of money. That matters.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 8: That's absolutely and you know we'll see what happens with
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 8: the uh how this actual salary cap league, which will
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 8: probably happen and I hate it, but we'll see how
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 8: it works from there. But this is not just woe
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 8: is me type of thing. This is literally, this determines
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 8: my paycheck next year type of thing, and I don't
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 8: blame the player from being upset about that.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 5: All right, let's do this, We'll take a break, we'll
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 5: come back because, like I said, no shortage of topics
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 5: this week. This is a little thing called JP Crawford,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 5: third base, shortstop cold Emerson. How about this a little
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 5: four for four day the other day? Huh do we
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 5: like seeing that or what? Let's get into that a
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 5: little bit, and also we'll wrap things up. Cal Rawley
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 5: is still in Arizona. He is just now beginning to
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 5: do some light throwing, which makes you question why did
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 5: it take so long to put him on the injured
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 5: list in the first place. How long is the big
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 5: dumper going to be on the sideline. So we'll get
• 1:05:51
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• 1:06:28
  Speaker 5: it's all about the Mariners right now on our Molly
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 5: Wat Monday, brought to you by Simply Seattle on a Tuesday,
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 5: thanks to the holiday yesterday, Chris and natter here, let's
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 5: get to it like no shortage, Chris. I mean, they
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 5: just they just kind of handed it over all the
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 5: topics last week. We barely scratched the surface on the manager.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 5: By the way, I think we're approaching like forty thousand
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 5: views on Instagram after the manager's rant last week by
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 5: the two of you, So congratulations on that little viral moment.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 3: But let's uh, let's talk about JP Crawford Chris.
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  Speaker 5: You just you mentioned in the first segment the defense
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 5: of this team is a bismal and with a couple
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 5: very few exceptions, it's just not good. And JP Crawford,
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 5: seeing maybe the writing of the wall, goes to Dan Wilson,
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 5: his agent goes to Justin Hollander and says, I'm willing
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 5: to move to third base. What's your read on that
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 5: whole situation.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 8: Well, it's funny you mentioned viral, by the way, because
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 8: when I was hosting for you, I had a nice
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 8: viral moment of a talking about JP Crawford's defense. Then
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 8: that reo has about fifty thousand views now, so that's
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 8: an awful lot of fun except for the fact that
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 8: some people haven't been very nice. And I just have
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 8: to say, Son and real quick, it's a homangeoma. The
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 8: thing on the side of my face is a hamangioma.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 8: It's not a cyst, it's not it's not my conjoined twain.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 8: It's nothing gross. It's just something I've always had. Please
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 8: be nicer about it, Okay. JP Crawford is a very
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 8: bad defensive player and one of the worst defensive players
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 8: in all of Major League Baseball. And while I think
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 8: that he has earned the right to decide some stuff.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 8: I think the idea that he is being some noble
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 8: swordsman being able to move to third base is kind
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 8: of asinine because it's a thing that it's helping the
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 8: Seattle Mariners because you get Colt Emerson in the right position.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 8: But it's not like, it's not like Colt Emerson is
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 8: making this move. It's it's not David Robinson being willing
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 8: to play the power forward to let Tim Duncan play
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 8: center or vice versa. That there's nothing like that that's
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 8: happening here. JP Crawford should move off that position because
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 8: he plays better at third base because he doesn't have
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 8: to move as much. This is not some noble thing
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 8: and another thing, and I'm sorry this idea that it's
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 8: just it's injuries. He's playing through injuries. Dude has been
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 8: one of the worst defensive infielders for the past half decade.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 8: This is not oh, it's just this year. It's just
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 8: this year, guys. Gotta we gotta take the track record, okay,
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 8: track record of being in the bottom five percentile of
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 8: out's above average, and I believe three of the last
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 8: four years, I think the move to third base can work.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 8: There's some concerns about the arm strength, but I will
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 8: say that you can change that a little bit by
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 8: shortening up some throws, like by playing him a little
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 8: closer in It puts a lot of pressure on Emerson.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 8: But there's this idea that JP Crawford's moving to third
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 8: base because you know, it's just a chance to get
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 8: a great short stop in there. No, it's a chance
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 8: to move the worst player at that position to a
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 8: place where he can't hurt you as much. I love
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 8: JP Crawford. I'm super appreciative of the career he's had.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 8: Has one of the biggest hits in Seattle marin our history,
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 8: and that Game three, I mean, it wasn't pretty, but hey,
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 8: it's a basis clearing double that ends up tying that
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 8: baseball game in Toronto. I'm very appreciative of him. But
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 8: this idea that Tim moving to third base is some
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 8: noble thing instead of something that is just borderline flipping
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 8: necessary and honestly, Anders and I talked about it. He
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 8: should be a utility infielder or the designated hitter. He
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 8: can still provide value with the bat, but he's a
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 8: really bad defensive player.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 5: Real quick, dave before they jump in. And my point
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 5: when I kind of was giving him a little kudos
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 5: last week, one of the things I thought was we
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 5: just talked about in the first segment, Like you see
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 5: Castillo's reaction yesterday, Like I think, sure, especially with how
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 5: loyal these guys are. The way the reason I would
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 5: give him credit is this Chris, is that he he
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 5: could be disruptive and the way that organization works with
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 5: the infield coach has a lot of juice and that's
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 5: his guy. It could have become a disruption. So I
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 5: do give him some kudos for not allowing that to happen.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 5: Seeing the running on the wall and not allowing that
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 5: to happen. That's the only thing I would say in
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 5: regards to that. But yeah, like, but Chris, he's got
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 5: a great fielding percentage. I'll just let you laugh for
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 5: that for a second. I'll just help stop Nathan a.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 13: I am gonna try to be nice. I guess uh,
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 13: I actually get. I think one of the big things
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 13: that kind of the average baseball fan does that kind
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 13: of annoys me is overreact to lineups on a daily basis.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 13: There's one hundred and sixty two baseball games, and if
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 13: you're gonna get bent out of shape about who's leading
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 13: off or who's bat and third on any given day,
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 13: like whatever, there's.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 11: One hundred and sixty two games. I say that.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 13: To say that, I loudly said a word that I
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 13: can't say on air yesterday when I saw the Mariners
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 13: put JP Crawford in shortstop, because every single game that
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 13: they do that. This is a team fighting for its
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 13: playoff lives, and one loss, as we've seen in twenty
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 13: twenty three and twenty twenty four, could be the difference
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 13: between the playoffs and staying at home. The man I'm
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 13: willing to buy that there's something going on with his
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 13: shoulder medically, and that's fine. That's not saying that Jp
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 13: is doing something wrong, that he's morally bad, that he's
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 13: like a bad person, or whatever. He cannot throw the
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 13: baseball to the first basement anywhere close to it. Every
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 13: single ground ball that he gets out there is a
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 13: potential disaster waiting to happen, and that sucks for him.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 13: But it's really unfair to the rest of this team
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 13: to keep putting him in that position for any reason.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 13: Is there a chance that it's better at third base,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 13: I guess. Although he has, by like the metrics, the
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 13: weakest throwing arm of any shortstop in baseball right now,
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 13: he has not yet or at least he hadn't as
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 13: of last week, thrown a single ball more than eighty
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 13: miles an hour across the diamond. It's a disaster, man,
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 13: And this has nothing to do with cole Emerson. Put
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 13: Leo Revos out there. Put anything that you can find
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 13: out there who can field a ground ball and throw
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 13: it to first, because I'm sorry. Those throws are throws
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 13: that college and high school guys are gonna feel bad about.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 11: It's bad.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 13: And if his arm is that messed up that he
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 13: can't do it, they need to stop putting him into
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 13: that position because it's not fair to him, and it's
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 13: not fair to the team. And credit to JP for
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 13: being willing to move off the position and all that,
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 13: but I can't. I can't suffer this anymore.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 8: Man.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 13: It's like some of the worst defense, day in and
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 13: day out, this organization has ever seen. I've seen rabull
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 13: Abanyez throw a lawn dart five feet in front of
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 13: his face. I've seen Dylan Moore throw a ball to
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 13: home plate where nobody was at it.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 11: This is I've seen unisc bet in court.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 13: That's the that's the measuring stick we're talking about here,
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 13: and we're like not clearing that. So the team needs
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 13: to change that situation. Otherwise they're just being unserious about
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 13: trying to win as many baseball games as they possibly can.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 13: And that's not trying to say anything negative about JP
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 13: as a person or as a player or his legacy
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 13: in Seattle. Right now for the twenty twenty six, marrinads,
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 13: this just needs to stop. Man, I can't watch it anymore.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 5: We just had a unisc bet in court reference Chris,
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 5: that was the first one on this show in a
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 5: long time.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 3: I appreciate that shock.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 8: I didn't hear Rus Davis like that.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 3: That's what That's.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 13: Why he signed a ball for me at Walmart and
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 13: Nise Bremerton in nineteen ninety nine, I think, and he
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 13: was really polite to me, so I yeah, yeah.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 5: You mentioned Rose raina left field either, which I think
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 5: we could, but we'll we'll stay away from that right now.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 5: We don't have time to get to that. I just
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 5: suck Chris's reaction.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 3: We don't.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 5: We don't have time Chris, what does this mean for
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 5: Brendan Donovan?
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 8: Ah, this is gonna be really interesting, guys, because like,
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 8: you're not moving Cold Cold Young off of second base.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 8: Colt Emerson has been far too good to suggest that
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 8: he's going back to the minors, and you know, I
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 8: want that guy in the lineup as often as possible.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 8: And JP Crawford's providing some offensive value Homeward yesterday too.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 8: I guess you just turn him into the Ben's Oberst
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 8: and you just have him play every day somewhere like
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 8: some DH some third base. Maybe not give Cole Young
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 8: a day off.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 13: Maybe interest you in a piggyback situation, Chris, Yeah, yeah,
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 13: we could have them play for innings and then have
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 13: them warnings.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 8: Yeah that's uh.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 5: Oh okay cool. Everybody gets everybody gets to play perfect.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 8: I love it, but it's it's it's really tough, and
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 8: it makes you wonder if there's gonna have to be
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 8: a move of some sort to open up some playing
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 8: time for these guys, because uh, it's and it's not
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 8: even really a compliment. It's not like, oh, they're just
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 8: so loaded. It's just that they are so good enough
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 8: to play, but so inherently flawed that it just doesn't
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 8: really mix. I don't know what you do.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 5: It is real quick, Chris, before we go can Donovan.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 5: I mean, first of all, the health is an issue.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 5: Obviously he hasn't been healthy at all this year. If
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 5: he were to ever be healthy, and we don't know
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 5: what his health status is, but if you were to
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 5: ever be healthy, how good is he in the corner outfield?
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 8: I mean, I don't think he's any worse than Luke
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 8: Raali or dom Can Zone or Randya Rose Arena. But again,
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 8: this is not a compliment, like.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 4: This is.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 8: The bar is so low he'd be fine there. But
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 8: my concern would be the dude is dealing with a
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 8: groin injury that has already flared up on him a
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 8: couple of times. How's that going to work out running
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 8: in the outfield, Like, I don't know if that's going
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 8: to be tenable. Just this is such a weird roster
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 8: and I don't know if it is a I don't know.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 13: I've really so bad at defense. I can't stop laughing
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 13: as you're listening off all of these guys. It's just
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 13: so funny how bad they are a defense. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 13: let me wrap it up with this real quick, guys.
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  Speaker 13: The this is saying what are they going to do
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  Speaker 13: this week? They want to know already?
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  Speaker 5: Two more with Oakland or Sacramento, A's whatever they all
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  Speaker 5: they are these days than Arizona when we reconvene next,
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  Speaker 5: will this team crispy in first place?
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  Speaker 4: I think so.
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  Speaker 8: I think so. And it's again not so much a
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  Speaker 8: compliment to that, but the sun Belt Conference, that is
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  Speaker 8: the American League West. I think that the Seattle Mariners
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 8: are still the best of those teams. I think they
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  Speaker 8: get a series win here. I think they get a
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 8: series win in Arizona and Damning. With faint praise, your
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 8: Seattle Mariners will be in the playoff spot.
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  Speaker 9: Baby.
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  Speaker 13: Can I just throw out one hypothetical because we were talking.
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  Speaker 13: If they win today and tomorrow, they're in first place.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 13: If they if they were to lose today and tomorrow
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 13: and the Aftros were to win a couple of games,
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 13: they'd be tied with the Houston Astros. So I'm just
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  Speaker 13: throwing that out there.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, these sun Belt Is that what you called it?
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 5: The sun Belt Conference?
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  Speaker 3: I take?
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  Speaker 4: I take that's a pretty good reference.
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  Speaker 5: Like the comp My son's girlfriend was the player of
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  Speaker 5: the week in the sun Belt last year.
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  Speaker 8: That's a good there's nothing wrong with the sun Belt conference.
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  Speaker 8: If you if you live in the sun Belt area like.
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  Speaker 5: That good point point take it. Chris mile Y.
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  Speaker 5: Really appreciate it and Rotal World as well. All right, Nathan,
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  Speaker 5: two o'clock, Virginiamation Athletics Center. Game tonight, Vegas and Colorado Avalanche.
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  Speaker 5: All right, down three games none.
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  Speaker 4: Both macar and McKinnon banged up.
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  Speaker 5: That's not good for the President's Trophy winners, which means
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  Speaker 5: they had the best regular season record. That has also
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  Speaker 5: been a curse, by the way, being the President's Trophy winners.
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  Speaker 1: Did they just exposed and exposed is not the right word.
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  Speaker 1: Exert too much during the regular season to get that
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  Speaker 1: President's Trophy and now they're just falling apart.
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  Speaker 5: No, because they did it running away. I think what
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 5: happened is mccarr was heard at the start of the
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  Speaker 5: series and missed the first two games and McKinnon. McKinnon
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  Speaker 5: played most a good chunk of the game.
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  Speaker 3: The other night.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not like he didn't play, no, but I
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  Speaker 5: mean when he got hurt, it was during the game. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: so he was you know, they had a three nothing
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  Speaker 5: lead and they blew it. Right, that's a that's a
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 5: that's a Colorado problem.
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  Speaker 4: It should be two to one right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it should be a two to one series.
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  Speaker 5: But the best team in the league is about to
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 5: get knocked out by everyone's favorite, the Vegas Golden Knights
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  Speaker 5: three nothing.
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  Speaker 9: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Only five t.
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  Speaker 5: Teams in league history have won a playoff round after
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  Speaker 5: being down three to nothing, the last one twenty fourteen,
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  Speaker 5: the Kings over the Sharks.
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  Speaker 3: Kings went on to win the Stanley Cup Final.
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  Speaker 5: Last night, Montreal losing at home in overtime to the
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 5: Carolina Hurricanes. Montreal had twelve shots on goal and that's
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 5: not good.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's not. That's what Carolina does to teams though. Man,
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 4: they just yea.
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  Speaker 3: I saw funny thing. I think ESPN has this game tonight.
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  Speaker 5: ESPN had the Eastern Conference Finals in the NBA, and
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 5: they had the Western Conference Finals.
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  Speaker 3: They had the Western.
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  Speaker 5: ESPN is going to be handed too sweeps in the
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 5: NBA and NHL playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: That's so funny. Which who is the finals? Who is
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup Finals? Is it a TNT?
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  Speaker 4: I want to say it is.
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  Speaker 5: I think so it could be ESPN ABC because the
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 5: first year of the NBA Finals would be NBC this year.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure. No good question, good question.
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  Speaker 5: All I know is and the bad thing is like
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  Speaker 5: with the Knicks getting the sweep and if Vegas WEDNESDA
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  Speaker 5: night and they get the sweep, that's that costs ESPN
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  Speaker 5: a ton.
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  Speaker 4: Of money, a lot of money.
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  Speaker 5: You're you're expecting at least get six games out of
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 5: those types of series and to get four.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, not good. Looks good on ESPN.
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  Speaker 5: John one top of the hour. Uh, there was a
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  Speaker 5: there's a pitching change tonight for the Mariners right for
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 5: the for the A's.
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  Speaker 3: Are they going to left? Is that what I meant?
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they just called up someone from Triple A just
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: to have a left handed pitcher to throw against the Mariners.
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  Speaker 1: So it is quite funny how teams are treating the
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  Speaker 1: Mariners lineup and how different they are because they are
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  Speaker 1: good against right handed pitching. They're one of the best
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  Speaker 1: teams in the league against right handed pitching. It's just
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  Speaker 1: they're so bad against lefties that they're willing to push
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  Speaker 1: back the guy they paid twenty plus million dollars a
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: year for in Luis Severino to tomorrow and just to
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: throw in a left handed you know, we'll see what
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: happens Triple A starter against the Mariners.
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  Speaker 5: Wow, Like the Kryptonite is easy to spot, so easy
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 5: to spot. Like it's like it's like, okay, we're gonna
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 5: go Like now, let's be let's be fair. They're bringing
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  Speaker 5: up a Triple A guy right for a team that
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 5: has god awful starting pitcher at the major league level.
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  Speaker 5: I can't imagine the Triple A guy's any.
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  Speaker 1: Good gauge jump is his name. That is a real name,
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  Speaker 1: gage Jump, Gauge Jump.
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  Speaker 5: That might be the coolest name I've ever heard. That
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 5: could be as cool as a name as I as
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  Speaker 5: I've ever.
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  Speaker 1: Looked cool tonight going against Rob Refschneider and Patrick Wisdom.
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  Speaker 4: I'm telling you I and.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 3: You know what's weird. I don't hate Wisdom.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he probably I shouldn't say that because he probably
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: won't start, so it'll be it'll be Emerson and JP.
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: Maybe he played the age, but we'll see.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 5: Well, now they got to sit there and probably redo
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 5: their lineup, right, Yeah, well haven't announced, but they got
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 5: to figure out the other thing. I want to mention
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 5: this is a rather interesting story coming out of the
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  Speaker 5: MC I was just talking to somebody during the break
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 5: as I was kind of peeking in and out and
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 5: watching Seahawks. OTA's out there or the Virginia Mason Athletics
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  Speaker 5: Center take the NCAA denied Texas Tech quarterback Brandon Soorsby's
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 5: request for reinstatement for the twenty twenty sixth season. If
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 5: you remember, Soresby, highly sought after transfer quarterback. Texas Tech
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 5: brings them in and then they find out that the
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 5: dude's got a gambling problem. Actually, he just finished an
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 5: impatient rehab for gambling addiction in Arizona. He bet on
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 5: NC double A games his own teams, even though he
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  Speaker 5: wasn't playing at the time.
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  Speaker 4: And that's a no no, big time no no.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 5: That's a no no. So the NC Double A has
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 5: denied that. Here's the issue though. The next step in
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 5: this is he's got a court date June first in
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 5: Lubbock County. So what do the courts say. There's still
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 5: a feeling that before he goes into the NFL what
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 5: it would be called the supplemental draft, that if he
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 5: doesn't before he gets to that point, he will have
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 5: an opportunity with depending what the courts say and not
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 5: the NC DOUBLEA, the courts may force him to be reinstated.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 3: That again, is June.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 5: First, So it's the NC double As are pretty straightforward like.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 3: You would think.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 5: But at the same time, the NC Double A is
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 5: one of the softest organizations in the world, so you
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 5: can probably if the courts tell you one thing, then
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 5: maybe he ends up doing it. He's probably gonna end
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 5: up having to go to the upplemental draft. He wants
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 5: to stay in NCAA football because Texas Tech was going
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 5: to pay him a bunch of money, a hell of
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 5: lot more than he would make going in a supplemental
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  Speaker 5: draft depending on where he ended up getting picked.
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  Speaker 1: As somebody who follows college football closer than I do,
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: if he had just played out his regular season normally
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: this this next year, where would he have gone in
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: the draft next year?
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  Speaker 5: Pretty good feeling he would have been fairly.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 4: High, like first round pick.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 3: Possibly?
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah wow?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Now I also say that with this one year
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 5: ago we were talking about kid club Nick and others
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 5: being first round picks, and.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 3: I mean all those guys.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 5: That didn't go anywhere near that this year, right, So
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 5: I mean ty Simpson somehow stuck into the first round,
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 5: which makes still makes no sense to anybody.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I know he would.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 5: He's one of those guys that needed to have a
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 5: year at Texas Tech, and if he did, then he
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 5: could make a ton of money. He won't make as
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 5: much money playing in the NFL as a supplemental pick
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 5: because he won't be No one's going to waste a
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 5: first round pick on him, I don't think so. Because
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 5: of that, he's he would have made more money that's
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 5: why he wants to do it. It's also a cautionary
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 5: tail that when you go out there and you're plucking
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 5: these guys out of the portal, right, and you're just
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 5: grabbing guys that you have.
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 4: No history with, never know what can happen, never know.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 3: What could you know?
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 5: And not to say that you know, Indiana knew he's
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 5: had a gambling problem, but like, you have no idea
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 5: what these guys are about, or what their history is,
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 5: or what demons may be hiding in their closet with
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 5: skeletons may be hiding in their closet. And now Texas
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 5: Tech and I think it's hilarious myself. They're screwed, Like
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 5: they don't they were leaning. They invest all this money
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 5: in a roster. I mean, everybody knows Texas Sex's got
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 5: a ton of money, right, they got a ton of
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 5: money invest They invest all this money in a roster
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 5: and specifically a quarterback, and now they're will without them.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 5: I mean that's like I said, it's very very much
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 5: a cautionary tale to today's college sports. And the problem
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 5: is is you can't vet these guys. There's no vetting
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 5: process because when people go into portal. Half the time
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 5: they already where they're gonna go. But be it's like
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 5: a feeding frenzy. Guys are all over you, right, so
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 5: you can't waste time going well, let me do some
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 5: background research on it, let me talk to some of
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 5: your high school coaches and your teachers.
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 3: And no, you can't do any of that stuff.
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 5: You just gotta sign guy on the spot, right and
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 5: in this case, so he's out.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I don't know. It's an interesting thing.
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 5: The SEC meetings, by the way, are taking place down
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 5: in Florida, down in dustin Florida, and there there's a
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 5: lot of talk about the twenty fourteen playoff. Craig Sankee,
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 5: the SEC Commissioner, still wants no part of it, mostly
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 5: because I think he thinks he can cash in more
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 5: with his SEC Championship title game.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 3: So we'll kind of keep an eye on that too.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 3: So what's going on out there?
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 5: Okay, we're expecting to have a Seahawk guest right around
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 5: two twenty five to thirty, all right, So we'll hopefully
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 5: get that coming up here a little bit later on.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 5: But in the meantime, we'll take a quick break, we'll
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 5: come back. You might know him just says he is confirmed.
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  Speaker 4: He is, he is.
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  Speaker 6: He was on the He's usually on the air until
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 6: one pm, but he is on the er until two.
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  Speaker 4: So he'll be coming in hot.
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  Speaker 5: day one of Open OTA's out here, so football practice
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  Speaker 5: is taking place.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: There are some people on the Tacoma Dodge text line.
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 5: They're upset with the Molly Whoppers and the part I
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 5: find interesting. And this is where I have to ask,
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 5: are we a serious baseball team?
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 4: Like this, this is.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 5: Where I have to ask are we serious about winning
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 5: in baseball? The support or the pushback, the blowback that
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 5: the boys are getting with the JP Crawford criticism I
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 5: find interesting, stunning, surprising, like somewhat disappointing as well. Let
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 5: me just read this one two oh six. Enough of
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 5: your opinion on JP. He's a pro. He should be
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 5: respected as a guy who's been reliable for years in
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 5: that clubhouse. I think everyone respects him, don't they? Like
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 5: that's not Are people not respecting JP Crawford?
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 9: Like?
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  Speaker 3: Is that a problem?
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 6: I think just the criticism of his defense of late
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 6: has been a topic of conversation.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 5: But if you want to be like the vitriol right
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 5: now with the Mariner fans towards the organization for a
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 5: team that's probably going to come out of this series
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 5: and Sacramento in first place, is somewhat strange because everyone's
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 5: demanding excellence, but then they get upset when people criticize
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 5: JP Crawford.
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: The standards are pretty crazy where everyone's super concerned about
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: respecting a guy that's been around the game and the
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: organization for a long time in JP Crawford, and then
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: they're so quick to want a DFA Louise Castillo.
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 5: He's he's like, GP's a bad defensive player.
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 4: Awful.
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 5: I don't know how that is. I mean, that's legit.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 5: It's a legit complaint.
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 4: At the most important position to play defense.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 3: By the way, I think it helps if you have
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 3: a good short stoy.
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, think exactly right.
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 3: I could be wrong.
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 5: All right, our guy standing by, let's.
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  Speaker 12: Go Welcome to Ian's weekly visit with John Lund Unleashed.
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 12: He's a Bay Area media icon who's known Ian for
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 12: over twenty five years. But don't let their age change
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 12: your opinion of them. John takes you through the Bay
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 12: Area and the NFC West and dupes it out with
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 12: the inn over, the Niners and the Hawks. So let's
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 12: unleash it now with John Lund.
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 5: Here's Ian, all right, he's here fresh off the National show.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 5: Just finish a national shows I have heard today.
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean it's not like they like me or anything,
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 9: but I did the I did a show, that is
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 9: last night from eight to midnight. Talked to a lot
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 9: of good people from Seattle. In fact, some one guy
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 9: was just on a complete rant about what the Mariners
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 9: are doing, you know, with their fore innings and the
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 9: foreign fly kind of thing. And then this morning they
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 9: had me on their show from ten am to two pm,
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 9: and I'm like, you guys don't really like me, but
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 9: I think I've done radio and eight of the last
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 9: like sixteen hours, which for most people it's like, come on, man,
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 9: they were people work hard. I get it. But when
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 9: you yip the app and you have to keep your
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 9: brain going for like eight of the next sixteen hours
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 9: and get about four hours of sleep, it's you know,
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 9: it can be. It can be challenging, especially for me
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 9: because I got add it's a problem.
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 5: You got a lot of things going on the.
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 9: You do.
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 3: Just it's just the truth we are.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 5: So I'm sure you guys were this way when you
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 5: were doing local stuff in in Cambre steps Cisco.
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I get.
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 5: I get kind of the tunnel vision. Like we're sitting
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 5: at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center. We're here at Seahawks
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 5: OTAs open ots you open Ota. Don't you have spring
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 5: practice for football? You missed doing that with the forty
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 5: nine ers.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 9: You know what, this week I'm gonna be down. I've
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 9: been to the Niners a million times, but I'm actually
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 9: doing the rest of the week for the Arizona Sports
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 9: Station nowning, and I'm going to the Cardinals and they're
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 9: like trying to give me, like, but give us to
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 9: the Niners and this this is what you have to say,
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 9: and you have to be nice and you have because
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 9: they stink. I mean, they're just absolutely atrocious. Not that
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 9: I want to get into a conversation about.
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 3: Damn.
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 9: I don't because I don't want to lose listeners for you.
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 9: But it's gonna be interesting because you and I are
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 9: very much the same and so I'm I'm pretty direct
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 9: and you know, and that's the kind of questions. But
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 9: they're like giving me this thing of like, you know,
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 9: you kind of got to do this and besides that,
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 9: and I'm like why, like why do you got to
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 9: do that? So we'll see, we'll see how that goes.
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 9: Probably the last time that I'll ever be on any
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 9: of their shows.
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna get back to the to the NFC West
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 5: in a second. Let me yeah bring up I bring
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 5: up the Tunnelvision because we're out here and we're always
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 5: just uber local like you probably were too. What's the
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 5: national are the Knicks?
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 3: The thing today? Is everybody about the Knicks?
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 9: Oh yeah, just everything's Nicks, and we have people on
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 9: from New York on different shows and everything like that,
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 9: and you know it's a neat story.
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 3: But you know, we all know this.
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 9: This is how it works as sports fans. Like, that's neat.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 9: You haven't been to the finals since ninety nine, you
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 9: haven't won it since seventy three. That's really really cool.
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 9: But can you I don't care about anything of that.
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 9: What I care about is how it's gonna affect my life,
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 9: and it's if the Knicks win a championship. It's just
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 9: not that I watch ESPN as religiously as I used to.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 9: But can you imagine like screaming a and all. I mean,
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 9: they're halfway where Bristol is is like halfway between New
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 9: York and Boston, and it's gonna be Knicks, Knicks, Knicks, Knicks, Knicks, Knicks.
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 9: Their three topics are gonna be Nicks, Knicks, Knicks, Dak Prescott,
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 9: Lebron Knicks. Like this is it's gonna be unbearable.
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 5: We win the championship in Seattle unless the Spurs can
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 5: take care of business and that series tied to too. Yeah,
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 5: we're all news fans, we are all we would have
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 5: been we would have been Cavalier fans. We could have
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 5: been seventy six or Pistons, it didn't matter. We're fans
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 5: of someone from the East unless the Spurs. And when
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 5: you get it done then we really don't care at all.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 5: Then it's yeah, then I thought.
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 9: I forgot about that's true. Yeah, yeah, that could get
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 9: anybody to be the Okay, see I think san Antonio
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 9: will oh yeah, I think san Antonio will Well. Their
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 9: second best player, Jalen Williams is out. Oklahoma City. They
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 9: got another guy, aj Mitchell. It's out. I think injury
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 9: is going to do it. But you know what's happening
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 9: is is and this happens in every sport. Like Victor
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 9: w Manyama is a really, really good player and he's
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 9: going to dominate the league for a long time, but
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 9: he can't. He's not consistent with that fire. Where like again,
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 9: you were there, I mean when when Jordan beat the Jazz.
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 9: I remember going to press conferences and every single one
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 9: in the finals. It was the year Carl Malone got
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 9: the m v P and Jordan just wouldn't let it
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 9: go and he was like, Carl Malone's the MVP, not me.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 9: Carlone's the MVP, not me, and it pissed him off
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 9: to such a level that he played with this ridiculous
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 9: fire that he always did, but he always found a
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 9: way to find it. And when Manyama in game number
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 9: one in this series, scored forty one because he was
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 9: mad about the m v P. And then in game
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 9: four he played really really well because he and the
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 9: Thunder had kind of had it out. But in games
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 9: two and three it was just okay and didn't play
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 9: without fire. You've got to find consistency in finding a
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 9: way to be motivated to play at that level. Now,
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 9: the playoffs should be enough for the conference finals should
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 9: be enough.
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 4: But he's a young kid.
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 9: But I'm not saying this to appease anybody. I think
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 9: san Antonio is gonna win the series because number one,
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 9: they're calling it a little bit differently. They got to
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 9: stop the flop. I mean, the NBA is ridiculous, so
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 9: they're changed that a little bit. But Olkahoma City's got
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 9: some injuries and I think san Antonio can take advantage
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 9: of it.
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 14: So there you go.
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 9: I'm not just pandering because I'm on in Seattle, can.
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 5: Can Cat and Company in New York If it is them,
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 5: can they take out of can they take out Oklahoma City?
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 9: Well, to put it this way, they've won eleven straight
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 9: games with a point differential of two hundred and sixty
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 9: two points. So I get it, they haven't been playing
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 9: the best teams. Atlanta's not great, Philly's not great. But
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 9: think about that, man, you're beating teams by like twenty
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 9: five points a game. So to say that they don't
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 9: have a chance, I don't think you can say that regardless,
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 9: because they're playing really good basketball. So yeah, I think
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 9: they got a chance. So look, Oklahoma City would be
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 9: a favorite the finals, but I think I think San
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 9: Antonio is gonna take.
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 8: Care of them.
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 9: But yeah, you can't. Like all these people are saying
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 9: the Knicks don't have a chance, and it's like, have
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 9: you watched like they want eleven in a row by
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 9: an average of twenty five points per game, Cleveland didn't
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 9: stand a chance. They steamrolled them.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 5: That was That's insane too, Like the way Cleveland came
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 5: in there playing too right, Like that's that was.
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 5: Maybe the Knicks are that team of Desky I've always
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 5: tried to figure out, Like you mentioned, like screaming a
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 5: and the rest of the ESPN folks, you know, like,
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 5: is it better or worse for the rest of the
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 5: nation that teams from New York are good or relevant?
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 5: I don't think it matters in the NFL, Like in
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 5: the NFL, it doesn't matter at all, Like really nobody agree,
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 5: Like the NFL matters so little with what if the
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 5: Jets or the Giants are good? And I And it's
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 5: funny because the Cowboys matter more than those two teams
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 5: right into on the national on the national scale, but
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 5: the NBA is probably better.
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 3: I mean, think about it.
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 5: Though, ninety nine the last time they're in the final,
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 5: seventy three the last time they won that the Knicks
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 5: were relevant.
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 3: The Rangers are usually pretty competitive.
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 5: And they've won a Stanley Cup since the last time
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 5: the Knicks won a title. But even like I think
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 5: it's better the Yankees being good seems to be good
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 5: for baseball, But I don't know the New York part
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 5: of it. I don't think it's quite as bad here
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 5: as people in Canada will tell you about Toronto, Like
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 5: everything in Toronto revolves around Toronto.
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 3: The maple leafs.
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 5: If you're north of the work I don't think it's
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 5: quite as bad here because I think, like I said,
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 5: the Cowboys come into play, the Lakers and Lebron come
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 5: into play.
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 3: But you know, maybe it is good for the Knicks
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 3: to finally get back there.
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 9: Well, I just think from a business standpoint, it probably
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 9: is because you're gonna get more eyes, which means you
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 9: can sell more to advertisers things like that. I mean,
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 9: I think from a standpoint of where we sit, which
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 9: is fandom, I don't think it really much matters because
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 9: we've got social media and all the different things. You
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 9: don't have to be in a major market to be
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 9: a star anymore, any of those kind of things that
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 9: used to be relevant. It does matter to the advertisers though,
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 9: to the TV executives, to those kind of people matters
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 9: because more people obviously are sitting in New York, so
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 9: they're going to be more engaged on social media, they're
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 9: going to watch more, they're gonna you know, I've always
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 9: thought this, and I'm a conspiracy theorist. I mean, the
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 9: Knicks are going to play a small market team in
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 9: San Antonio or Oklahoma City. I'm not saying that that
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 9: series was fixed against Cleveland because it wasn't New York
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 9: just dominated them. But there's been times in the past
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 9: where you're thinking there's a small market team and they're
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 9: playing a big market team. You know that that it
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 9: never seems to be that it's two small market teams.
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 9: They just much rather have it like that.
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 5: I think, yeah, I would agree, John Lott joining us,
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 5: all right, Uh so I'm out here. I was talking
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 5: a couple of guys were watching in the commercials, You're
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 5: watching some of the OTAs with the Seahawks, and someone said, like,
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 5: what do you think, what do they need to do
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 5: to get back? And I go, well, on paper, you
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 5: would say they're probably as good as they were last year.
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 5: They you know, they replaced the running back, they replaced
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 5: the cornerback, and then some uh they replace the safety
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 5: and they already had a starter probably in Tyle Katie.
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 5: You go through the list better you got the Ragning
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 5: Offensive Player of the Year, But just go through the list.
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 5: I mean, Seattle. I don't think in any way, shape
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 5: or form is taking a step back.
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 3: But I mentioned to this.
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 5: As we're talking a few of us out here, like
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 5: the problem is your division, Like like you think about this,
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 5: like you were talking about Arizona Magic being Arizona this year,
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 5: like you know, you have no chance, like no.
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 4: Chankings, like yeah, and they honest they are.
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 9: Their biggest goal is to see if Carson Beack can play,
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 9: and if he can't, then that's fine, then they'll just
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 9: pick you know, Arch Manning or Dante More at number one.
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 9: I mean, that's there are the NBA is so worried
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 9: about tanking. The Jets and the Cardinals play on December twentieth.
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 9: That's like the toilet Bowl, Like that's who's going to
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 9: get the number one pick. So they're already relegated. I mean,
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 9: why would he even try? Look at these guys, Like
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 9: you said, San Francisco had an amazing offseason. There is
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 9: absolute debate. I'm sure in Seattle the people don't feel
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 9: this way. But when you go out and you get
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 9: Trent McDuffie and you know you you, you say, okay,
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 9: we're going to take care of those corners.
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 4: I think they can watch Seattle.
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 3: They got to they got to the two.
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 5: They just took the two best corners from from Kansas
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 5: City and said, here you go, we're better.
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 9: I think the Rams did everybody a favor in the division.
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 9: By going out and getting Ty Simpson, who number one,
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 9: I don't even think is a very good quarterback. But
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 9: number two that they didn't take McKay lemon or an
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 9: edge rusher or you know, somebody like that who could
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 9: contribute to their team right now, because the Rams are
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 9: we saw it last year. I mean, they're with they're
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 9: the only team that could solve Seattle's defense, and they'll
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 9: probably continue to do those kind of things. So to me,
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 9: it comes down to those two teams. But I wouldn't
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 9: forget about San Francisco because I've heard reports that the
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 9: George Kittle's doing just fine. I mean, he was at
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 9: Bottle Rock, which is one of the best concerts around
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 9: up in Nepa, and he's chugging beers and he's you know,
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 9: I'm not saying he's gonna be George Kittle by the
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 9: beginning of the season. By the way, even if you
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 9: hate George Kittle, he's awesome. I mean, you hate the Niners,
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 9: but he's awesome.
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 3: George Johnny. Here's the thing.
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 5: George Kittle is one of those guys that you watch him,
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 5: you hate him when he plays against your team, but
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 5: then there's that level of how wish he.
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 3: Played for us, right, I.
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 9: Would be right completely. Wasn't there rumors that he was
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 9: going to be like that they were going to take
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 9: him and all that kind of stuff, because he's at
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 9: if you don't know what Bottle Rock is, it's it's
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 9: this huge concert, you know, big festival up in Napa
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 9: and it's a three day thing, and you know, most people,
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 9: it's like you buy the big time tickets and so
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 9: you don't have to deal with the riff raft like me.
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 9: And so he's walking down this area that's just kind
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 9: of cut off, and all these people are screaming at
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 9: him and everything like that, and he and he grabs
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 9: a couple of beers and he just chugs him like
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 9: back to back, and everybody's chugging with him. They're patting
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 9: him on the back. He's high five and like he's
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 9: just a man of the people. You know, He's just like,
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 9: people want me to chug beers, I'll chug beers, like,
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 9: no problem.
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 3: I'm just going back. He was a fifth round pick,
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 3: is that right?
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 9: Fifth round pick?
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 9: Fifth round isn't that crazy? I mean? And by the
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 9: second the second year in the league, he was the
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 9: best time in in the league. Like that's the craziness
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 9: about scouting in the NFL is like, you know, we
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 9: think there's this exact science. George kill gets taken in
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 9: the fifth round. By the second year in the league,
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 9: he's you know, he caught like thirty four balls at Iowa.
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 9: Like everybody just blocks at Iowa. But look at the
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 9: tight ends have come out of Iowa. Man Hawkinson gave
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 9: a bunch of them, really good ones. Detroit.
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 5: Well, he was the second pick in the fifth round.
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 5: So I mean it's but still, let's see who did
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 5: Seattle take before that?
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 9: Just to see it, and you're not gonna like it,
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 9: I'm sure.
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 5: Well, I doubt hell. San Francisco took Joe Williams before
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 5: in the fourth round running back. I haven't even played,
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 5: for God's.
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 9: Sakes, right, Yeah, he had issues. He had issues.
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 5: Tedric Thompson in the fourth round was a Seahawks pick
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 5: that year. He talk about a third round pick, third
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 5: round pick, third round pick for Seattle in the twenty
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 5: seventeen draft, probably what would this be about forty picks
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 5: before before Kittle went Amara Darbo wide receiver out of mission.
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 4: That was during like the darker rafts.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 5: That was yeah, and Andrews, You're right. That was during
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 5: a time in which I don't know what I think
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 5: at that point. What's Schneider? He was just like whatever, brother,
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 5: we won a super Bowl, we're pretty good, and we're
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 5: just they They mailed in a few draft picks for draft.
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 3: Years along the way. They got kind of cute an.
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 9: Awful pick though. That kid get he got cut his
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 9: like second year.
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 3: Did I mean he was a darn ball?
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 9: Yeah?
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 3: Oh this is this is what hurts.
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, when you the twenty seventeen draft, Andrews, you remember
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 5: the twenty seventeen first pick Seattle haddo, thank you sir. Yeah,
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 5: right before, right before some guy named Buddha Baker.
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 3: Was he any good?
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 10: Yeah?
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 4: I think he's still.
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 9: And the hits coming.
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 3: I say all that.
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 5: I'm sitting here inside the Seahawks facility and I'm thinking, well,
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 5: wait a second. The guy we're just kind of having
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 5: fun with in John Schneider. He's built two super Bowl
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 5: champions since two thousand and twelve.
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 3: That's not bad. That's not bad.
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 9: Yeah, So it's just telligent what the science is. But
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 9: did you ever did they ever put him on your show?
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 9: You need to bring that up. So can you cold
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 9: joke about it now? Yeah?
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 3: Man, that is yeah.
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 5: I don't know if I would have him on after
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 5: that though. That's the problem.
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 9: It depends on that for net guy. Is it can
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 9: never come back here?
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's I gotta be These guys are great, man.
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 5: They helped me get set up today. It's some technical
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 5: problems they came in. They got wires going like this,
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 5: you know, I you know me, I may not be
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 5: the smartest guy with the technology John, if you can
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 5: imagine that, uh and so yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 5: but yeah, anyway, we'll yeah, that's.
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 9: Not what we're supposed to do. When they asked him
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 9: to do tech stuff, it's like, come on, man, I
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 9: kind of I got a special skill set, as Liam
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 9: Neeson said one time, I have a special skill set.
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 9: And it's not a microphone. That's my that's my that's
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 9: my thing.
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 3: Special set.
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 4: Well, but I bring that up.
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 5: We're watching skills, special set of skill When I'm watching one,
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 5: I'm watching football practice in the spring. By the way,
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 5: it feels like it feels like November here, by the way,
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 5: like it feels it feels yeah, yeah, yeah, it feels
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 5: like November.
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So it's crazy. Yeah, it's it's nuts.
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 5: So uh but I just think as you're going through
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 5: these things, and this is a big thing.
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 3: I don't know how it was with Shanahan here in Seattle.
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they like the participation is amazing, like in these things,
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 5: these these and this is probably the difference, I think John,
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 5: between now and the end, like the Legion of Boom
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 5: Era in Seattle, And I don't know how it was
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 5: with the forty nine ers when in these types of things,
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 5: but like there'd be dudes that wouldn't be here, like
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 5: and guys it probably shouldn't be here, wouldn't be here
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 5: walking out here in a commercial monthent Ago, I'm watching
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 5: some guy catching passes.
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 3: J s N are his initials. He's an offensive player
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 3: of the year. He's whatever.
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 5: You're out here, I'm O rain in the rain in Seattle.
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 5: I'm doing O t as in May right now is
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 5: as the reigning offensive player of the year. Like everyone's here.
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 5: It's amazing what they've done.
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 9: You know that is amazing because you know this as
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 9: well as anybody five years ago, ten years ago, there's
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 9: no way because they called him optional. And now these
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 9: teams are like, look, they're not optional. And then when
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 9: teams get really good and this becomes the disease of
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 9: me is that you you're not coming like I'm the offensive.
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 4: Player of the year.
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 9: That's for guys who need are up and coming. That's
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 9: for you know, Tory Horton, who's coming back from.
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 4: An injury or whatever.
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 9: Those are the guys that need to work. I don't
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 9: need to work, man, I'm gonna chill, you know, I'm
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 9: gonna go on the on the circuit and I'm gonna
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 9: do this and that. Teams didn't do that. But the
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 9: best teams that you're seeing, the best teams are doing that.
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 9: You know, because these guys are like JSN, for example,
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 9: as a leader, and it's like, look, if I'm here,
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 9: what who has an excuse to not be here? If
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 9: Jsn's there, that's.
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 5: One hundred per yep, yep. If he's here, why how
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 5: are How are the guys like Bosa and Kittle?
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 9: Oh they're the best. I mean honestly, again, I know
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 9: that people don't like him, kidles it all of those
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 9: here's the weird thing about he just loves football. He's
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 9: a freak. Now, Bosa is different. He he trains with
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 9: his brother down in Florida and they have a whole
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 9: set and he never comes to Oka's but he's always
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 9: in amazing shape and he just lives and breezes football.
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 9: I mean, he's a complete football meahead like, so he's
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 9: not coming, but he's down in Florida and he's training,
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 9: so they don't have to worry about guys like that.
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 9: That's a little bit different of a story. But yeah,
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 9: the veterans through this whole process of the Niners in
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 9: the Seahawks and having this big rivalry every single time.
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 9: You know, Christian McCaffrey for example, Christian McCaffrey is at
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 9: all of these Rock Purty is at all of these
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 9: like all these guys. And that's what the good teams do,
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 9: the teams who have issues. I'll give you a great
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 9: example right now Arizona. Jacobe Brissett's out there their quarterback.
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 9: He stinks, but he's not there. And Josh Wett, who
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 9: is their best defensive player last year, is not there.
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 9: So that's the Cardinals. They don't win any games. Well, gee,
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 9: I wonder why that is. It's from start to finish, man,
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 9: and these guys now realize that the season doesn't start
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 9: when training camp starts, and they want these guys to
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 9: be here to set examples. The coaches asked for it,
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 9: and these things are no longer optional, and so that's
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 9: why they put the big bonut. You know this that
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 9: they put the big bonus in there. If you'll come
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 9: here and train and go to all the okas, we'll
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 9: give you more money. That's how they've done it.
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 3: That's it's insane.
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 5: But good teams have that kind of guy that they have,
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 5: that guy showing up like that, right, that's what good
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 5: teams have. Hell, Devin Witherspoon's trying to work on a
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 5: new contract. He's out here, you know. I mean it's
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 5: and and I think that's it also talks about the
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 5: culture you have too, right, like like what kind of
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 5: culture you have in it? And I think that's the
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 5: problem in this division is everyone has that same type
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 5: of culture. All right, John, I'm gonna let you go up.
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 3: I gotta I gotta see.
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 5: I got a Seahawk Super Bowl champion coming in right now.
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 9: So it's much bad.
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 5: Nobody wants to hear you. And I can talk to
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 5: starting safety on a Super Bowl championship team, all right,
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 5: that's that's that's that's all I know. Hey, I'll talk
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 5: to you next week, all right. See that's John Lunn
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 5: joining us here is weekly visit. He internests with you
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 5: at the Virginia Mason Athletics Center. Joining me right now
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 5: on the beacon plumbing hot, not even the beacon.
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 3: He's here.
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 5: He's just hanging out today. Tyle Cott, a Seahawks safety.
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: Is with us.
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 3: What's going on, man? How are you?
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 10: No, I'm doing great. Appreciate you having me on.
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 3: How are you doing? I'm good. I appreciate you coming
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 3: over here.
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 5: I was just talking the guy that covers the forty
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 5: nine ers, so you know, I didn't want to deal
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 5: with him too much longer because.
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 10: No, absolutely not. This sounds a lot better.
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's way better. How are you, man?
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 5: This is I'm looking out there. It felt like November.
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, raining and drizzle.
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 10: Rain, sleet, snow. We're out there getting the work in.
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 10: So that was fun. You know, battle in diversity early, I.
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 5: Love it, Tyle Katta here. One of the great stories
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 5: of the Seahawks season last year and really great.
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 3: I went back.
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 5: I was looking at your bi when I knew you're
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 5: coming in here and I'm gonna try to count this up.
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 5: I'm live on the air for a second one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve,
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 5: At least twenty. I wouldn't keep counting twenty transactions in
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 5: your career. Yeah, twenty transactions.
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 10: Yeah. I joke with people like I know the ins
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 10: and outs of everything, how the elevations work, how the
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 10: practice squad active rostered cut. I know way more than
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 10: I want to know.
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 3: At this point.
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 5: When when the final horn sounded last year and you
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 5: guys were Super Bowl champs for a guy that in
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 5: his fourth season from Montana States, shout out to Bozeman, right.
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 10: Yep, absolutely not the other place. No, not at all.
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 10: We don't need to mention that NOLP for national champion
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 10: Montana State Popcats.
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 5: Thank you very much. When that final horn sounded, What
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 5: did it mean to you personally? Knowing that, as I mentioned,
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 5: twenty twenty transactions plus undrafted free agent, all those things,
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 5: you were Super Bowl champion.
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 10: I think the first word that comes to mind is
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 10: just is gratitude. I've got a phenomenal support system, my fiance,
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 10: an a, my family, my parents, my brother, my teammates.
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 10: So Honestly, just the word that comes to mind is gratitude.
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 10: Just taking you know, I think a lot of guys
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 10: would say, we just took last season one step at
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 10: a time, and by the time that that last whistle blew,
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 10: it really did just feel right, you know, it felt
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 10: like we really did take every single step necessary to
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 10: make that come to fruition. And so just a whole
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 10: lot of gratitude. And yeah, no, I think that just
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 10: was icing on the cake for us last season.
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 5: Ty I was sitting I was talking to a couple
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 5: of guys out there. We were watching a little bit
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 5: o Ta's guys that covered the team like me for
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 5: a long time, and we were talking about kind of
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 5: the first go round when Pete's team won the Super
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 5: Bowl and when you kind of felt like, wow, this
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 5: thing's on the up and come right, this is this
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 5: is there on the verge of something. And we talked
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 5: about it was it was the playoff loss in Atlanta
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 5: twenty twelve, twenty thirteen, but the twenty twelve season, it's like,
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 5: there's something here. If I go back one year ago,
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 5: you came off a season the team didn't go to
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 5: the playoffs. Second year with Mike McDonald, but one year
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 5: ago to Ta's, did you feel something different special with
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 5: this group or did it take a while into the
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 5: season before he said, Hey, we really have something here.
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 10: You know, I think for us and this is how
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 10: we operate all season. I think that's what made you know,
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 10: last year's team so special is we really didn't focus
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 10: on that. We really were just focusing on And I
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 10: know it sounds cliche like, oh, we were taking it
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 10: one step at a time, YadA, YadA, YadA, but it
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 10: was really just like we felt good about how we
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 10: ended the season prior, especially how our defense came along
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 10: and having a full year under coach Mike's system. So
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 10: I'd be lying if I said, you know, we weren't
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 10: feeling like we had some building blocks there. But at
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 10: the same time, it was like what are we what
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 10: are we gonna do with it? And so OTAs we
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 10: came in, you know, everybody just had the right mentality
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 10: and it was like, each day, we're going to give
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 10: it our best and just leave the result to itself.
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 10: Like we're going to go about our process and approach
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 10: each day the way we need to and the results
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 10: are going to take care of itself and then from there,
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 10: I feel like as the season progressed, we kind of
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 10: could start feeling that build, but really it was ultimately like, hey,
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 10: back to ground zero every single week, like this is
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 10: what we need to do to take care of this week,
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 10: and so just not really you know, being able to
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 10: put the result to the side and go about our process,
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 10: I think is what made it so.
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 3: Special to Kata with us.
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 5: I think one of the things too, that I look
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 5: back and I known him since he was a rookie
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 5: out of Alabama. We've done a ton of things over
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 5: the years with with Jared Reid, and he sat here
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 5: in this during OTA's last year and I said to him,
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 5: I go, why are you here, because like, for so
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 5: long we've watched these OTAs with football and it's like, guy,
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 5: they're not mandatory mini campaigns. But I said, why are
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 5: you here? And he says, because this is how it
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 5: works under coach McDonald. This is how it works, and
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 5: we got to set the tone. I'm looking out there today,
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 5: I think it. I know the trophy said something different,
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 5: but I think he's the reigning Offensive Player of the Year.
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 5: Jackson Smith and Jabob out there catching balls in the
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 5: mist and the rain, everyone basically is here. That was
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 5: the case last year as well. Does that come from
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 5: coach McDonald? Where does that come from?
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 10: Absolutely? I think it comes from coach McDonald, That comes
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 10: from John upstairs, and then it comes from just every
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 10: individual that's in this locker room. We have a special
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 10: set of individuals where you talk about guys like Jaron Reed,
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 10: you talk about guys like JSN like those are our
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 10: top guys. Leonard Williams, like those are those are our
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 10: top players and they're here And that's the way we
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 10: go about it, like that's a part of our process.
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 10: It's proving it to yourself. It's proving it to your teammates,
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 10: building that trust, building those bonds and real relationship. So
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 10: when it comes to playing in those games later down
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 10: the road, you know, here in loomen Field, in front
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 10: of all the fans, we've already proven it to ourselves
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 10: that we've taken care of this. We were doing that
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 10: back in the rain. Day one of OTA is twenty
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 10: twenty six. Come next year, that's what we can look
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 10: back on when we started today off in the rain,
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 10: like we can. Those are the building blocks and the
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 10: foundation that we're setting for next season.
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 5: This sounds This may sound strange. I kind of like
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 5: the Like a lot of times NFL teams with a
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 5: nice indoor facility. It's drizzly, it's rainy, especially at this
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 5: time of the year. You know what the easier thing
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 5: is to go inside. This guy is not about that. No,
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 5: I mean even in November, like you're thinking, oh they no,
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 5: they're outside. This coach is not about that.
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 10: Absolutely.
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 3: Is that's just gay?
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 5: See I what with the hell you might have to
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 5: play in rainy anyway, I guess.
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 3: But it's not easy. No, it just can't be easy.
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 10: No, absolutely, And it prepares us. You know, we're gonna
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 10: be playing games late in the season and loomen and
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 10: conditions similar to that, and we'll be able to look
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 10: back at that time and be thankful that we prepared
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 10: the way we prepared.
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 5: Bud Clark gets drafted. It's never going to be easy
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 5: for thirty nine for Seattle, is it?
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 3: No, Like it's.
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 10: Nothing, you know, you know, I've come to appreciate I
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 10: joke with my older brother, like nothing nothing in my
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 10: life has come easy, and I'm so I've come to
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 10: appreciate it so much like that it wouldn't be my story.
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 10: It would not be Tyl Kotta's story if it came easy,
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 10: and it won't be worth it.
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 5: So what I like to say, I'll tell people this
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 5: when we're watching out there today, is as he came
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 5: off a few times, you know, and there it's the
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 5: first time you guys have all been together, right, and
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 5: he comes off, and you're the first guy to talk
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 5: to him. You're the first guy to go to him,
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 5: like you guys are competing for a starting spot. I
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 5: mean you, I think probably by now, hopefully, I'm assuming
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 5: you feel fairly comfortable in your fifty three man roll,
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 5: like you're here, but at the same time, like you
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 5: want to play. You want to be the dude out there,
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 5: and you've shown you could do that. Whether Kobe's heard
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 5: Julian doesn't matter. You can play anywhere. But but what
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 5: is it like, like not everybody would do that? Why
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 5: did you make sure that every time Bud Clark came off,
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 5: you were making sure he kind of knew what was
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 5: going on?
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 10: You know, A the better he gets, the better our
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 10: team gets. And you know, however, I can help him
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 10: grow as a person as a player, that's gonna make
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 10: the Seahawks better. And it's gonna only make me better
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 10: if I'm able to coach him up on it. That means,
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 10: you know, I'm you know, diving in even deeper and
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 10: thinking about like different, different little Intrica seeds of our
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 10: defense and if I'm able to teach it, it helps
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 10: me out at the same time. But also, you saw
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 10: the way last year progressed with myself. So at the
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 10: end of the day, you know, God forbid anything happens.
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 10: It's like everybody you know is gonna need to find
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 10: a role and build on it. And you know, I'm
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 10: super excited for Bud. He's an awesome person. He brings
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 10: an incredible energy and he's such a great He's such
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 10: a great guy. Like he came up to me and
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 10: he was like, Hey, I'm gonna be in your ear
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 10: about you know, X, Y and Z. I'm gonna be
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 10: asking questions. I hope that doesn't bother And I'm like, dude,
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 10: it not one bit. And I actually really appreciate that
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 10: about him. He's got an awesome future in this league
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 10: and I'm looking forward to being teammates with him. Like
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 10: it's it's incredible.
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 3: Who's that guy for you?
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 10: Oh my gosh, I'm thankful for all the that's that
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 10: I came in with. You know, I can bounce any
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 10: idea off a Julian. You know, we're not much different Nage,
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 10: but he's been in the league a lot longer than
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 10: I have, and he's been in different systems and he's
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 10: been around different people, and so he's got phenomenal insight.
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 10: But then even coming in as a rookie, and I
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 10: had Jamal and Quandre and Kobe, like, those guys were
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 10: all guys that I was able to lean on and
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 10: ask questions too, and they were always phenomenal to me.
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 10: So also a part of that is like it's only
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 10: right to the game that I also am doing that
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 10: same thing for Bud.
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 5: I'd befriend that. You go, how hard is it in
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 5: this league? I just mentioned all your transactions, but you've
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 5: been here, yes, right, yes, And I don't know. I'm
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 5: sure there's like a little wink, but just hang around.
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 5: We'll call you in a week or so whatever's gonna
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 5: happen or next day. But you win a Super Bowl,
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 5: you go through everything you have to do to get
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 5: to that point, all those games and everything, and then
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 5: there's always the natural attrition in the NFL guys leave.
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 5: You mentioned Kobe Reek, what have you, especially guys on
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 5: your side of the ball. How hard is that personally?
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 10: For guys, it's I think it's I think it's super tough.
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 10: You you build these amazing bonds with some great people,
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 10: but you're also you're also very happy be for them.
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 10: You're also happy for their opportunities and what their future holds.
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 10: Just so thankful for the time that we got to
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 10: spend together with those guys. But it's it's it's a bummer,
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 10: but it's a part of it, you know, and it's
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 10: all it's all for great reason, and so just very
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 10: thankful for my time with them when I look back
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 10: on it.
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 5: Wrap it up with a shout out to Bozeman. What
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 5: was the best thing about going to Montana State?
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 10: The people had to be the people, the support around
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 10: Montana State, Bobcats just that's God's country out there. Montana
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 10: is and uh and Bozeman will always hold a special
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 10: place in my heart. I'm looking forward to, you know,
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 10: raising my family there one day. I love Montana. I'm
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 10: originally from Minnesota, but you know, I've loved Montana. So
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 10: just thankful for them.
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 5: Seahawks nine or Seahawks Rams Montana Montana State. Where those
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 5: rivalries rank.
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 10: They're all, they're all phenomenal.
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 3: Special it is, it is.
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 10: I'd recommend it to anybody that hasn't experienced it. Uh,
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 10: you know, I've got every argument to make that it's
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 10: the best college rivalry out there by. But I can
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 10: have that conversation with anyone.
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 5: Tyle Cootta, thanks for coming by. I appreciate it.
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I really appreciate it. Thanks so much.
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 5: We'll take a quick break, come back with more. Nine
• 2:01:08
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  Speaker 9: HM, oh.
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 3: All right, what do you got for me? You guys
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 3: have something for him?
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we do, we do.
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 6: So.
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know if the Texters can agree with this,
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 1: but me and Jes did. While listening to you talk
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 1: to Tyle caught up. Fantastic interview, by the way. Great
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 1: to hear from him on live.
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 4: She's so good. He talks like a coach, doesn't.
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 1: He yes, and speaking of it, Yes, he's a mentor. Yeah, Ian,
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 1: I just want to ask, did he remind you of anyone?
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 5: The voice two oh six? Just texted in it and
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 5: now he nailed it.
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: I think it's I saw the one you're talking about.
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 1: I think it's there's even a closer version, closer.
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 4: Being the clue.
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, closer than Mike McDonald.
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I can't hear it. I can't either.
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 3: Okay, who is it?
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 4: I don't know. It's Sean mcvayh. He's literally sewn m
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 4: Oh god, no, no.
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 3: No, I like him.
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 5: Oh wow, wow, I'll tell you. I'll tell you right now.
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 5: Like I had not had a chance to talk to
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 5: him before. Yeah, and what a phenomenal interview. Fantastic. When
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 5: we went to break, I talked to him. I was
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 5: telling him about do you remember do you guys remember
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 5: last year? How many times did Greg Cosell just rave
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 5: about him?
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 9: Oh?
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 5: Yes, just rave about him.
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 6: He's the reason that Ty stood out to me actually
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 6: because he wasn't talked about, you know player, Yes, he
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 6: always did.
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 5: He was the third safety, but then he ends up
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 5: starting a bunch because of injuries, and and I think
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 5: that part of it.
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 5: I I just in fact, I told him, I said, listen,
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 5: you know, I was telling Hi about co Selle and
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 5: who he is when he does and he's like and
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 5: I said, man, I said, all year he just did
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 5: nothing but rave about you. And I was gonna laughing
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 5: because that that was. You know, with Okada, you don't
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 5: think much like even watching him today, he's listed at
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 5: five eleven and okay, maybe yeah, maybe maybe.
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 6: Well some of these guys on this tabe play bigger
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 6: and they.
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 5: You know, but here the thing listed at five eleven
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 5: and doesn't look five eleven. But just get he started
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 5: eleven games last season.
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 3: Guys on the best. Yeah, I had a sack and
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 3: a half. Uh, you know, three tackles for a loss.
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 5: I had what he had one interception on the interceptions
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 5: have one the one against the commanders, right against commanders. Yes, yeah,
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 5: I mean, dude was dude, just he was something. I mean,
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 5: I give him. I give him a ton of credit. Man,
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 5: I just watching him play, he gets the most out
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 5: of everything that he has when it's all said and done.
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 1: And what a different mentality he had about the drafting
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 1: of Bud Clark. Compared to our conversation with the Merriams
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 1: earlier today.
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 4: Huh huh, yeah, yeah.
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 5: Well, and that's what stood out to me is that
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 5: we were watching the practice today and again I'm in
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 5: and out, so I'm not watching long stretches, but watch
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 5: he two or three times in the times I was watching,
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 5: like Bud Clark come off and Tyle Cotta.
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 3: Would just go up to him and they kind of
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 3: get together.
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 5: Like the NFL so cutthroat, is so cutthroat, and so
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 5: to see a guy do that knowing that he's not
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 5: just competing for his you know, starting spot, he's competing
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 5: for roster spots. Now, Bud Clark's on this team, but
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 5: Clark was a second round pick, right, so there's not
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 5: like he's not going anywhere, right, Tyokatta, I think has
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 5: established himself right at this point point as as a
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 5: player that's.
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 4: His roster spots should be safe, it should.
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 5: Be safe, but there's nothing guaranteed. There's nothing guaranteed. I'm
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 5: just gonna go through. The safety is on the roster
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 5: de Anthony Bell, Bud Clark even or he's not really
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 5: a safety kind of his aj Finley Max and hook
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 5: Under after Freeze and Julian loved title Katta Rodney Thomas,
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 5: who they love as well.
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 3: I think o'cata is pretty safe.
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think should be. But guys started eleven games.
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean, you're only gonna keep gotta kind
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 5: of just even Ory's sitting their safeties, doesn't really play safety,
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 5: plays whatever he wants to play bully ball. I mean,
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 5: Bud Clark's on the team, Julian Love's on the team. Yeah, Okata,
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 5: and then probably two others A J.
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 3: Finley.
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know, a great story. I mean I
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 5: started counting the transactions. It's over twenty transactions in his career.
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 4: He's a great attitude about it. He knows and races it.
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 6: And uh, well, Montana State, I mean you you gotta
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 6: be rough and tumble when it comes to the league.
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 5: Well, you're you're, You're a guy that's coming out of
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 5: that programs, a un drafted free agent going okay, well
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 5: and I'm.
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 4: Five sort of five eleven, right, the measurables aren't there?
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, uh, just fun, Gotta talk to you, hopefully
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 3: do it.
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 6: McVay McDonald go back and listen to him and everybody
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 6: else do it too, and we can have a discussion tomorrow.
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 4: On the show about it. But does he sound more
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 4: like McDonald or.
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 1: Mcveig, because I think McDonald McVey actually do sound similar
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 1: to similar.
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 5: But they got that kind of like raspy voice. Yeah,
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 5: they love Stafford.
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 4: He's just a great player on Ty Simpson sucks, but
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 4: we draft anyway exactly. I think what he says is
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 4: very Mike McDonald content.
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 5: Yes, Oh my god, he's parroting the coach.
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 1: Yes exactly. But but the voice itself. Do we do
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 1: impressions all the time with the with the talkbacks. Yeah,
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 1: I where to god, you were talking to Sean McVay.
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 4: I'm not joking.
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 5: Two o six man title cotta he talks more like
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 5: a coach versus a player. He does, Yeah, he does. Uh,
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 5: Ty sounds like coach. Mike says the two O six
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 5: along the way. Uh, this is a good little ext
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 5: movie this tomorrow, Anders, can you put.
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna do it. We'll do it for tomorrow. We'll
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 4: do it for tomorrow.
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 3: Tomorrow.
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 5: We're gonna have a title. Kotta give you like I want,
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 5: like a full sentence or so ocata McVeigh and McDonald.
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 5: McDonald's talking today, So we'll just get McDonald's today. All right,
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 5: we'll play them all three and what sounds like a project.
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 5: Jess would love to do it.
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 4: Sounds like you just needed that job over to me.
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 4: I could do it, oh if I if I want.
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 4: I think he just asked you to do it. It's great.
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 5: I don't care who does it. You know that, you
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 5: guys all know I'm not capable of it.
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 4: So like one of you, we should, we should.
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 10: Have you do it.
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 4: Everyone ever happened?
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, how about that?
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 5: Well, it wouldn't happen. I'm just gonna tell you right now,
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 5: just it just wouldn't happen. I'm still looking at some
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 5: only some massive hate for the Mully Whoppers today.
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, was it old JP Crawford?
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 12: Yeah?
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 3: Also JP?
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 9: Yeah?
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 3: Jp.
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 5: I don't you know the thing, if you listen to
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 5: what they said about JP, it there's always the but
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 5: you know, he's a really good defensive player, a really
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 5: good offensive player. Like he helps them with the bat,
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 5: he can help them. But like Andrews you mentioned it earlier,
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 5: if we're looking at the most important position in the infield,
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 5: this is shortstop. And you can make an argument shortstop catcher,
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 5: center field in your middle of your of your diamond.
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 3: Those are the three most important players.
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 5: Well, Mitch Garver's blowouvers defensively, and he's in there since
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 5: cows out. JP has no range whatsoever. And again, I
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 5: don't know what happened to Hulio. It's like you made
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 5: a deal with the devil. Yeah, listen, man, you can
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 5: hit the beginning of the season. But yeah, just just
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 5: let me hit at the beginning of the season, so
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 5: get people off my ass. But the trade off is
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 5: you're going to be really bad defensively, not bad, you're
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 5: just not going to be the normal Julio defensively, could be,
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 5: should be a Gold Glove consideration every year, and he
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 5: has been far from that this season.
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 3: Now, people, No, I'm not hot hating on Julio. This
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 3: is the show that doesn't do that.
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 5: Other places may we don't, but you cannot argue the
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 5: fact he's been one of the poor defensive center fielders you're.
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 1: Gonna if you're gonna criticize Jape's defense, you get a
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 1: criticized Judios too.
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 5: John says way closer to McDonald, not close to McVeigh
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 5: rasping voice, Yeah, Stafford's good player.
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 6: I can't I hear, I hear McVeigh like on a
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 6: Monday press conference, not post game.
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  Speaker 3: One of you two. We'll get all three voices for tomorrow.
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 4: All right, so would begrudgingly.
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 3: Energy. You have a choice. Energy, you have a choice.
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 5: You can either do that or go change a dirty diaper.
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 5: It probably will be doing both. Let's be come, Oh
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 5: the perfect That works well, all right, we'll take a break.
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 5: We'll check in with David mallernext, and Dave Softimer joined us.
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 5: Now I'm assuming back in the studio.
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 4: No, I'm right next to you. I'm at the vMac
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  Speaker 4: right now.
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 3: That'll be the Virginia Mason Placers.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not there.
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 14: It's the vMac. You're there, it's the Virginia Mason Athletics Center.
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 3: It's very true, just.
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 14: Like just like when the World Cup comes to Seattle,
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 14: it's not Seattle Stadium. It's freaking lumen field. Shut the
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 14: hell up, FIFA. I'll call it what I want for
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 14: God's sake. Did you see the Are you guys with
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 14: me on that?
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 3: By the way, Yeah, it's the whole lumen thing.
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 5: Like, first of all, it took me four years to
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 5: say lumin after quest.
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 14: Right, you're missing You're the missing century Link in between Quest.
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 14: Now we all remember, remember what it was called when
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 14: it first was built. It was Seahawks Stadium Stadium. You
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 14: didn't have a sponsor for like a year and a half,
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 14: and then it became Quest and then it became Century
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 14: Link and now it's Lumen.
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  Speaker 4: I don't work for FIFA. You don't work for FIFA.
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 5: We do.
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  Speaker 14: We're not bolding to anybody. The hell with it down
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 14: the World Cup coming to lumen Field this summer.
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 5: I like the uh well, I mean, how long did
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 5: it take you stop saying safeg and go into oh.
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 4: God forever a right?
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 14: It still does it exactly every now and then. I
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 14: still caught the Kingdome by the way every now and then.
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 5: I told you my wife still thinks the Kingdom exists, So.
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's there.
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 4: How often your wife leaves the house, maybe you let
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 4: her out of her now and.
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 5: Then somebody somebody told what did I What did I
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 5: say about her the other day? And I got in
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 5: trouble for it the other day at all? Somebody she
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 5: doesn't know what I do for a living?
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 5: I think it was that filled it for me the
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 5: other day. Yep, they did the hour and there.
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 4: That was a big topic of conversation on the golf
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 4: course this weekend.
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 14: By the way, what was that you you suckering those
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 14: guys into coming in to do your show as a
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 14: punishment punishment, my ass.
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 3: Pretty hard punishment. I don't know what you're talking about.
• 2:11:53
  Speaker 4: Unbelievable when you're speaking, unreal.
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 14: Big sat in the control room and got high when
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 14: these guys are on the air doing radio program for him.
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 4: He did know it was unless they were doing stuff
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 4: in there.
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 5: We had a water filtration smoking apparatus. That's what you want.
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 4: That water bottle so bad you don't need.
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 14: You don't need to smoke to get high anymore. It's
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 14: a new thing, by the way. Really, oh yeah, Andrews
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 14: is aware of it, as Jackson. He knows very much.
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 14: So Jackson knows.
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 3: Furious felts, serious felts.
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 14: By the way, speaking of VAK, where's that guy this week?
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 14: He's not around? Who Jacksons gone again?
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 3: Man? Isn't it a day for him? US national team?
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 3: And now shouldn't he be on the air.
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 4: You would think he'd be on the air.
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 5: Sounders weekly coming out rolling around.
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 4: The floor getting excited. But you know, apparently it's not
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 4: worth as much to him, as we thought.
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 1: Okay, it's his last break before a month long festival
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 1: of football, festival of foot, what do you call it?
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 4: The month festival of football?
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 3: Football, football, real football.
• 2:12:59
  Speaker 4: Real football. Soccer gasm is what it is, the.
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 9: Not the.
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 5: We have we have football. It felt like it felt
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 5: like October here today.
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 14: But the way right well now is like July. It's unbelievable.
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 14: Wake up and it's December. You go to bed and
• 2:13:13
  Speaker 14: it's freaking August. Man, it's unbelievable around here. Like are
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 14: the words that Jerry Seinfeld pick, go weather pattern already
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 14: come on?
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 3: Today?
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 5: It was October fifteenth, is what it felt like. I
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 5: walk outside, like, are they going to be outside or
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 5: inside today?
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 9: No?
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 5: They're outside there you go, all these guys, all these
• 2:13:30
  Speaker 5: rookies rolling in like where they come from. It's like
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 5: one hundred reasons did.
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 14: They did they put the trophy in the trophy case?
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 14: Yet last time I was there, I wasn't there yet.
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 14: I don't go check not right now? Okay, when the
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 14: show's check, And now why you're there to report on
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 14: such things? Well, I mean, nobody needs your analysis for guys.
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 14: I find out if the trophy there.
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 5: Hey, listen, I got I got my fifteen breakdowns from
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 5: the five ten minutes now today.
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 4: Unbelievable. There's my top fifteen things. I know it's the
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 4: day one and see I'll go to coming up next.
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 3: I didn't notice, shoot me.
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 5: Is there is there any more? Just kind of nondescript,
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 5: just kind of like flies into the radar. Superstar in
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 5: the NFL than Jackson Smith and Jacob.
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 14: I was gonna say Sam Darnold, but I'm not sure
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 14: if he's even a superstar, by the way, but.
• 2:14:17
  Speaker 5: I'd say the offensive Player of the Year would be
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 5: well just yes, just out there hanging around whatever.
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 14: Even more so because apparently the NFL doesn't even know
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 14: who the hell he is.
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 5: He's a defensive Player of the Year. He's so good
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 5: of great defense.
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 14: And the idiot that butchered his name at the NFL
• 2:14:32
  Speaker 14: honor ceremony, that's gonna bother me forever, By the way,
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 14: or not thousand was intentional. The idiot thought, here's my
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 14: moment to be funny. I'm gonna make a funny and
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 14: instead the guy looks like a complete jackass.
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 5: By disrespecting a guy that just had this incredible season.
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 14: Yeah, and the point that I've made is that you know,
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 14: from now until the end of time, Jackson Smith and
• 2:14:53
  Speaker 14: Jigba wants to show his grandkids, Hey, gather around the
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 14: whatever they use in one hundred years from now to
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 14: watch TV. Gather around the hologram machine. Let's watch when
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 14: grandpa won the NFL Offensive Player of the Year.
• 2:15:05
  Speaker 4: And it's some jackass, Butchering his name was.
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 3: He was the guy.
• 2:15:09
  Speaker 4: Apparently he's a comedian.
• 2:15:12
  Speaker 1: He does a lot of he's like fake comedians, social
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 1: media comedians.
• 2:15:17
  Speaker 4: Enough to stand up. He's not a real person, not
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 4: a fake person.
• 2:15:22
  Speaker 5: You're not a real comedian. You're just kind of up
• 2:15:23
  Speaker 5: a one on social media.
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 4: That's a lot of impresson Well, not that one for life.
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 4: That's the way I feel about it.
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 6: But how awesome is it for him to have won
• 2:15:33
  Speaker 6: both the offensive and defensive players.
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 4: That's amazing it.
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 1: Before the show of the NFL, right, Marcus in the
• 2:15:42
  Speaker 1: two of six, I saw sophtie at Fred Mayer today
• 2:15:44
  Speaker 1: and he did not say high back.
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 4: I didn't see Marcus. Whoa Marcus would have said hello.
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 4: I would have thought you were a man of the
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 4: people here.
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 3: That's going on. I am.
• 2:15:54
  Speaker 4: I thought Marcus was going to say. I saw Sophie A.
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 14: Fred Meyer, and he looked like he just woke up
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 14: about five minutes before he walked into the store, which
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 14: is exactly true, by the way I woke up. But
• 2:16:05
  Speaker 14: I told myself, you know what, I can go to
• 2:16:06
  Speaker 14: the store right now and bang this out, or I
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 14: can sit around the house, fall asleep again, forget and
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 14: then not go and get yelled at by my wife.
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go right I choose that optional. I'm going
• 2:16:16
  Speaker 4: to bang it out right now and be done with
• 2:16:18
  Speaker 4: it right You were so imperative anxiety.
• 2:16:21
  Speaker 5: You were so focused, he one Diehard listener, one of
• 2:16:25
  Speaker 5: our favorite people. Marcus wanted to say hello.
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 4: I didn't know who he was. He didn't say hello.
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 4: He was nervous around such a star celebrity.
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 3: Dude.
• 2:16:36
  Speaker 14: I do all the grocery shopping Trader Joe's QFC. My
• 2:16:39
  Speaker 14: wife will not buy everything everything.
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 4: I buy it all, man.
• 2:16:45
  Speaker 14: I realize it's not like she realized ideal. All the
• 2:16:49
  Speaker 14: cooking in the house as well. If not for me,
• 2:16:51
  Speaker 14: we'd starve to death.
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 5: That's the Fesse house as well, and we like it
• 2:16:56
  Speaker 5: that way. You know why, because my wife's the one
• 2:16:58
  Speaker 5: with the business degree.
• 2:16:59
  Speaker 3: So she of all the bills and all that. That's me.
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 3: Somebody said to me, what's what is your p s
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 3: what's the power building?
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 14: I don't know, didn't even The thing that pisses thirty
• 2:17:10
  Speaker 14: years saying that pisses me off about Fred Meyer is
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 14: I can't figure out how to do those digital deal things.
• 2:17:15
  Speaker 4: You know, I don't stand it.
• 2:17:18
  Speaker 14: Yeah, but the problem is you scan it with your
• 2:17:20
  Speaker 14: phone and it's supposed to go to the app and
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 14: load it on your app.
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 4: The problem is, and this is where they get you.
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 14: By the way, the Wi Fi and the five G
• 2:17:29
  Speaker 14: sign sucks inside the grocery store and stinks. So it's
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 14: all a ruse. It's all the facades. We're acting like
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 14: we're going to give you a dollar off that yogurt,
• 2:17:40
  Speaker 14: but really in the inter and I'm getting squad not
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 14: because the se the signals terrible and nobody can access it.
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 4: I want my digital deal. God darn it, gosh, darn
• 2:17:49
  Speaker 4: it all right.
• 2:17:51
  Speaker 5: By the way, the banner is.
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 3: Hanging up, I saw that.
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's very cool, very cool.
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 5: Back to back banners are hanging up where they're doing
• 2:17:56
  Speaker 5: the press confidence.
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll find out about the trophy and shoot me
• 2:17:59
  Speaker 4: a text.
• 2:17:59
  Speaker 5: Right, I will report back to you in your first segment.
• 2:18:02
  Speaker 5: How's that shirting done? About time you helped out the program?
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 3: Well, you know I had an easy day for this.
• 2:18:08
  Speaker 14: Yeah, you sure did, slacker. I'm gonna finish last in
• 2:18:12
  Speaker 14: my fantasy football league and then get.
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 4: An hour off of work.
• 2:18:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I didn't want one third of your day.
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 4: And stress me and anders out to full tilt.
• 2:18:21
  Speaker 14: No, it didn't take much to stress you. Let me
• 2:18:23
  Speaker 14: tell you that right now, that's true, it was. It
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 14: wasn't that worth it for use off?
• 2:18:26
  Speaker 4: You suggest one thousand percent? Okay, thousand percent? Seeing her
• 2:18:30
  Speaker 4: just in the corner.
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 3: What are you doing?
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 14: Show Bill Krueger. I'm sure he's thrilled with the where
• 2:18:40
  Speaker 14: he is from last night. I'm gonna do my best
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 14: Lauis Castillo on pressure and throw things around the studio
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 14: today between now and seven o'clock. John Wilner will join
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 14: us at five. We are efforting to get Brian Schmetzer
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 14: on the radio show. But apparently after their lost to
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 14: LAFC over the weekend. Uh, he's scadaddled. He's got like
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 14: a month and a half off and he's taken advantage
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 14: of every freaking advantage of it. Man, So we'll see
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 14: if we can get Brian at some point on today's show.
• 2:19:07
  Speaker 3: All right, I'll go check on the trophy.
• 2:19:09
  Speaker 14: Say, but for the mild mannered and marginally objectionable Inverness,
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 14: this is paddle day, saying so long everyone,