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4-30 H2: Farhan Lalji Joins, Reading Your Texts & Cross Talk · The Gregg Bell Show

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Speaker 1: When does this end? May twenty seconds? I don't want
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Speaker 1: to tell you May twenty second. Far on, Thanks for
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Speaker 1: joining us. Know you're busy man, sir. How you been.
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Speaker 2: Good, buddy. I'm in downtown Vancouver at the FIFA Congress.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that kind of like that.
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Speaker 2: It's kind of like the FIFA AGM. You know you've
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Speaker 2: got like owners meetings in the NFL. Well, this is
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Speaker 2: this is two hundred and eleven delegations with sixteen hundred
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Speaker 2: people represented that are are representing those those countries, those
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Speaker 2: delegations actually sorry, two hundred and ten because Iran didn't
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Speaker 2: make it. They got stopped and they got stopped in Toronto,
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Speaker 2: so they're not here.
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Speaker 1: What do you mean they'reped in Toronto? What's that mean?
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Speaker 2: Well, when they came, their original port of entry into
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Speaker 2: Canada was in Toronto and then they were going to connect,
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Speaker 2: you know, clear customs connect and coming to Vancouver, and
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Speaker 2: I guess there were there were some issues there. They
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Speaker 2: got stopped and they got turned away, so their delegation
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Speaker 2: is nast here. You know, there's some concerns that you know,
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Speaker 2: there are certain people involved in sport associations and other
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Speaker 2: parts of their associations. And associations in other areas that
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Speaker 2: have ties to their regime, which both Canada and the
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Speaker 2: United States have labeled a terrorist organization. So if if
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Speaker 2: they're connected formally, they're they're going to get turned away.
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Speaker 2: And I guess that's what's happened here, and that's really
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Speaker 2: the big concern from the standpoint of having their participation
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Speaker 2: in the World Cup. They you know, they they've the
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Speaker 2: US government has said the players are not a problem.
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Speaker 2: They're going to get in, but there's going to be
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Speaker 2: some support staff that if they're tied to this regime,
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Speaker 2: we're not going to get them in. If there's media
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Speaker 2: members that are tied to their regime, they're not going
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Speaker 2: to come in. So you know, that's kind of what
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Speaker 2: they're dealing with right now. But Geo and Fintano, the
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Speaker 2: president of FIFA, was unequivocal. He said, they are absolutely
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Speaker 2: going to.
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Speaker 1: Play in the World Cup, and they're going to play
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Speaker 1: in Seattle.
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Speaker 2: You got it, so you might so no media is allowed.
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Speaker 2: I could see like El Jazeera giving you a call
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Speaker 2: and saying, hey, Greg, could you cover the other football
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Speaker 2: for you know, a couple of months when we've got
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Speaker 2: this little tournament going on. This is a freelance gig
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Speaker 2: and like when I come on with you the same.
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Speaker 1: Thing, it might be the News Tribune's iron beat writer
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Speaker 1: for the World Cup.
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Speaker 2: There you go.
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Speaker 3: That's interesting. Well, thank you for the FIFA Congress update.
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Speaker 3: I had no idea how Ron was getting turned away
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Speaker 3: in April and.
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Speaker 2: Well, and all of that is in the back with
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Speaker 2: the backdrop of the Vancouver White Cap.
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Speaker 1: Situation, right, that was about that.
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Speaker 2: Well, there was a small protest here, so one of
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Speaker 2: the White Cap supporters and groups had about fifty people here.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, eight o'clock on a weekday morning,
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Speaker 2: it's going to be tough to get everybody out of work.
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Speaker 2: But they were pretty loud and passionate and wanted to
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Speaker 2: make a statement to anybody who note that was coming
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Speaker 2: into the building. And look, this is a this is
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Speaker 2: a global city, right like soccer. The roots for soccer
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Speaker 2: run deep here and there's a fifty year history for
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Speaker 2: the white Caps. So you could say what you about
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Speaker 2: MLS and it's relevance on the overall sporting landscape big picture,
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Speaker 2: but from a micro level though, it catch matter here
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Speaker 2: and now they're awesome, Like for the last few years
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Speaker 2: they've been the best team in MLS, right, like just
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Speaker 2: their win loss. I know they lost in the championship
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Speaker 2: game last year, but you factor in this year's results,
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Speaker 2: like this team is doing it on the court or
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Speaker 2: on the on the field. They've got twenty seven thousand
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Speaker 2: at their last game. They've had, you know, most of
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Speaker 2: their games, all of their games have been over twenty thousand.
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Speaker 2: This year, they're averaging close to twenty five. So the
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Speaker 2: team is awesome, the fans are fully engaged, and you know,
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Speaker 2: yet it's not enough because of a stadium deal. Now
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Speaker 2: you know my thing in all of this, Like I've
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Speaker 2: always felt MLS is a Ponzi scheme, right, Like I
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Speaker 2: know that's a twenty year old narrative, Like I believe
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Speaker 2: it's real because there's no meaningful revenue on a national
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Speaker 2: level compared to the other big sports leagues, right Like
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Speaker 2: this league compared to the NHL is what the NHL
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Speaker 2: is to the NFL, right, Like, it's just it's nothing.
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Speaker 2: It's mice nuts, right, and you've got you've got three hundreds,
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Speaker 2: like you know, you what's there's two point five billion
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Speaker 2: in revenue, Okay, not national revenue, but total revenue for
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Speaker 2: this league over twenty percent of that comes from three franchises,
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Speaker 2: the two LA teams in Miami, right, and then you've
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Speaker 2: only got three hundred million in national revenue, so that
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Speaker 2: includes the TV deal. So less than ten percent, like
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Speaker 2: let's choy, less than ten million dollars per year goes
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Speaker 2: to teams from the television deal. Like, just imagine the
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Speaker 2: NFL living in that world. It's just not enough. So
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Speaker 2: there's this narrative from Don Garber and MLS that Vancouver
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Speaker 2: or British Columbia has left down the white Caps. How
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Speaker 2: about MLF is left down the white Caps, right, and
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Speaker 2: really every other team because sixteen of twenty nine teams
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Speaker 2: in this league lose money. You on, many teams in
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Speaker 2: the other four major sports leagues combined to lose money,
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Speaker 2: two NBA teams, nobody else loses money. But in this league,
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Speaker 2: sixteen or twenty nine teams lose money. That's that's a
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Speaker 2: failure at a league level.
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Speaker 3: What So, there's rumors that Vancouver could move to Las Vegas,
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Speaker 3: to Sacramento, to Phoenix, maybe even Indianapolis. I've also seen
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Speaker 3: reports that there has been an effort to make a
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Speaker 3: new soccer pitch and stadium at Hastings Park of in Vancouver.
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Speaker 3: Is is BC not producing a BC place, not producing revenue.
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Speaker 1: For the team.
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Speaker 3: Is it just because it's old and outdated in an
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Speaker 3: inflatable dome or not built for soccer? What's the main
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Speaker 3: issue going on there?
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Speaker 2: Well, like the team doesn't control the stadium, right, So
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Speaker 2: you look at the situation with in Seattle where you know,
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Speaker 2: the Sounders and the Seahawks essentially manage the stadium. The
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Speaker 2: team or the city owns it formally, but the you
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Speaker 2: know those teams and it's one organ Yeah, it's one
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Speaker 2: organization they manage. So they get all the money and
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Speaker 2: all the revenue. Well, here there's a Crown corporation called
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Speaker 2: it's called a COO BC Place Pavilion Corporation and they
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Speaker 2: they own the stadium there. They run the stadium on
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Speaker 2: behalf of the provincial government. Here, so the team rents
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Speaker 2: the stadium. Now you know they've questioned their their rent
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Speaker 2: deals and their their least deals, the terms of that. Well,
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Speaker 2: the province has come back to them and said, okay,
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Speaker 2: we'll change that and we're not going to make a
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Speaker 2: penny off it. So all the parking will now come
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Speaker 2: back to you. All the all the concessions. You know,
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Speaker 2: the profit from concessions and parking will come back to you.
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Speaker 2: Even the advertising profits will come back to you. But
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Speaker 2: we can't do it at a loss, right And you
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Speaker 2: know understand that in and around the Olympics. Coming out
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Speaker 2: of the Olympics, there was almost a half billion in
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Speaker 2: revenue or sorry, not revenue renovations for this stadium. So
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Speaker 2: there's debt servicing on that whole situation. So, you know,
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Speaker 2: Don Garbara at one point floated that if we you know,
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Speaker 2: if you can't get a stadium that you can own,
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Speaker 2: at least, you know, at least let us have a
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Speaker 2: management contract for the stadium and let us run the stadium. Well,
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Speaker 2: the team has never made that pitch formally to the
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Speaker 2: province to say, okay, here's our deal. So the province
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Speaker 2: is said, okay, well, come to us with a pitch.
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Speaker 2: But it's got to include debt servicing. You can't just
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Speaker 2: make it up as you go and you guys keep
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Speaker 2: the money and then we continue to lose money, right like,
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Speaker 2: you have to take on that part of it. So
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Speaker 2: let's see if the team steps forward with that. As
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Speaker 2: far as the Hastings Park proposal, you know, coming out
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Speaker 2: of the MLS Cup, there was a memorandum of understanding
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Speaker 2: where the City of Vancouver gave the soccer club twelve
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Speaker 2: months to explore a development project for that area, so
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Speaker 2: they had exclusive rights. They can go out there and
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Speaker 2: you can decide what you want to build, how you
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Speaker 2: want to build it, what you want it to look like.
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Speaker 2: Doesn't include residential, does it include commercial? And what's the
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Speaker 2: financing of that going to look like? Because this is Canada, man,
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Speaker 2: like you don't you know, we don't have counties. You
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Speaker 2: don't just get to say, okay, you know this is
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Speaker 2: this is Henderson Park County and we just get to
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Speaker 2: have this. You know, we get to have a levee,
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Speaker 2: or we get to have a little vote, or our
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Speaker 2: city council gets to put something on the table and
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Speaker 2: assign a tourism tax or stadium tax like they didn't Seattle.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't work like that up here. So there's not
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Speaker 2: going to be a bunch of residents that sit there
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Speaker 2: and say they're going to subsidize this. It's not as
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Speaker 2: simple as that here. So they've got to figure out
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Speaker 2: what their solution is. But you know, everyone seems to
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Speaker 2: want to find a way to make it work. And
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Speaker 2: you know, within all of this circling back to my
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Speaker 2: Ponzi's scheme comment, the true revenue in this league is
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Speaker 2: a expansion fees and b when you sell. So you
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Speaker 2: know the Clippers lose one hundred million a year, but
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Speaker 2: that franchise, you know, it got sold for two billion,
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Speaker 2: right to Steve Baumer, so they can they know that
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Speaker 2: at some point they're going to cash out. Well, the
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Speaker 2: owners here for the white Caps bought this team for
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Speaker 2: I think forty five million, and so now they could
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Speaker 2: sell it for three hundred and fifty million, and they've
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Speaker 2: been losing money hand over fist, so they just may
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Speaker 2: determine that, Okay, we're done, like it's time to cash out.
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Speaker 2: We don't want a good deal, we don't want to
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Speaker 2: run a stadium. We want our money now. So that's fine.
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Speaker 2: Is there a Vancouver buyer. I don't know about the
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Speaker 2: whole thing in terms of running the stadium. We're about
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Speaker 2: to find out. Because with everybody else, not only with
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Speaker 2: every other sports league, not only is your asset appreciating,
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Speaker 2: but you're still making money. It's not happening here. They're
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Speaker 2: losing significant sums of money in Vancouver. So you've got
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Speaker 2: to see what the motivation level is to continue with
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Speaker 2: that because you will be able to cash out at
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Speaker 2: some point.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, depressing, Okay, I'm sorry, Farhan, I got to
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Speaker 4: hit you with the hockey question about the Kraken. A
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Speaker 4: lot of our listeners are probably curious on your insight
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Speaker 4: regarding this team because they have not preached, but they've
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Speaker 4: talked about just being patient, and Seattle feels stuck in
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Speaker 4: the middle in terms of going in the off season,
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Speaker 4: having a successful one, getting back to the playoffs. How
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Speaker 4: aggressive should this team be this summer to avoid I
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Speaker 4: guess this spinning wheel of oh yeah, just be a
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Speaker 4: little patient, but we're going to bring in some stars
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Speaker 4: to get this playoff team back to where it needs
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Speaker 4: to be.
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Speaker 1: At least they're not to cannuct so far.
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Speaker 2: Well, there is that, and I mean the difference between
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Speaker 2: these two teams is one is in the mushy middle,
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Speaker 2: the other one is at the bottom. And it also
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Speaker 2: has a massive culture problems, right, Like the locker room
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Speaker 2: is a bad place, and you know it's got the
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Speaker 2: chance to get better because they've turned over the roster.
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Speaker 2: There's still a couple of pieces in there that aren't
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Speaker 2: necessarily ideal. But you know, if the organization empowers these
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Speaker 2: young players to take on the old culture as opposed to,
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Speaker 2: you know, doing some of the policies and practices that
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Speaker 2: have allowed the other group, the previous court, to get
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Speaker 2: as toxic as it was, you know, that's not a
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Speaker 2: good thing. So there's a unique opportunity here. If there's
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Speaker 2: a new president, a new GM, they can take advantage of.
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Speaker 1: All of that.
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Speaker 2: That's great. Whereas Seattle's problems are just hockey related, right,
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Speaker 2: it's not bigger than that, like it is in Vancouver
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Speaker 2: and Seattle is number one. They absolutely blew the expansion draft, right,
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Speaker 2: and I understand that there was a few more restrictions
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Speaker 2: placed on it as opposed to what Vegas had, but
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Speaker 2: not significant restrictions that could have prevented them. What happened
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Speaker 2: was other teams got wise that we're not going to
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Speaker 2: let this happen again, and the seat, you know, the
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Speaker 2: Kraken didn't necessarily get ahead of the curve, anticipating what
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Speaker 2: might happen and how to then take advantage of it.
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Speaker 2: So that's a problem, and they all of a sudden
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Speaker 2: have immediately gone into a team in the mushy middle.
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Speaker 2: They talk about that in the NHL as the last
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Speaker 2: place you want to be. Being at the top is great.
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Speaker 2: Being at the bottom is great because you could get
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Speaker 2: a generational player, right, and that's how you build in
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Speaker 2: some of these leagues. But being the middle or the
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Speaker 2: kraken are is not a good place to be. And
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Speaker 2: you know, this year, at the beginning of the season
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Speaker 2: they were doing really well and everybody thought, okay, they've
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Speaker 2: turned things around. They had one year of paying because
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Speaker 2: the year prior to that they were in the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: There's no star power. You talk about wanting to bring
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Speaker 2: some in, Well, this isn't the summer to do that
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Speaker 2: because there is nothing available in the free agency. You know,
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Speaker 2: there's some aging guys that are in you know, thirty three,
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Speaker 2: thirty four that might have some name value, but you
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Speaker 2: don't want to bring those guys in at this stage
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Speaker 2: stars for you. So that's the problem. And you know,
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Speaker 2: potentially there's a little bit more of a freezing class
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Speaker 2: next year. Right now, you're getting into a point where
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Speaker 2: the salary camp has gone up. You know, revenues have
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Speaker 2: gone up, and that's allowing teams to be more aggressive
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Speaker 2: to keep their own free agents. You know, they don't
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Speaker 2: have to make the hard decisions they had to make
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Speaker 2: a couple of years ago. That time will circle back
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Speaker 2: and at that time maybe the crack and can take
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Speaker 2: advantage of it if they want to bring in players.
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Speaker 2: They've got to be creative on the trade front. But
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Speaker 2: you know, do you take a chance on Ilias Peterson
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Speaker 2: in Vancouver who put you know, as a reclamation project
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Speaker 2: who potentially could go back to being a star if
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Speaker 2: he was elsewhere, Like, it's not going to happen here.
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Speaker 2: There's too much pressure on him in Vancouver, and the
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Speaker 2: microscope is too big because you know, the Canucks start
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Speaker 2: the Seahawks, Like that is the team up here and
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Speaker 2: you can't escape it, whereas in Seattle it might be
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Speaker 2: a little bit different. He needs to get to a place,
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Speaker 2: in my mind, and he's got full no trade protection,
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Speaker 2: but he needs to go to a place where the
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Speaker 2: spotlight is not so bright. Set a reset button on
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Speaker 2: his career. And decide that he wants to work hard
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Speaker 2: enough in the offseason to maximize his talent. I can't
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Speaker 2: believe there's no talent there anymore. But you know, it's
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Speaker 2: been you know, twenty six months of nothing here in Vancouver,
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Speaker 2: and I just think if he's going to get it
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Speaker 2: figured out, it's got to be elsewhere.
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Speaker 1: It can't be here Peterson.
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Speaker 2: But to Seattle's point, do you want to take that chance,
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Speaker 2: right and bring in a guy like that that maybe
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Speaker 2: you can take a big swing and maybe you wind
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Speaker 2: up hitting right.
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Speaker 3: Well, this is interesting. I was about to ask you
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Speaker 3: about Peterson. He Petterson he actually called out as it were,
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Speaker 3: the front office. Ian McIntyre wrote an article about his
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Speaker 3: critical of the way the direction of the franchise is going,
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Speaker 3: at least the way I read it. Do you see
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Speaker 3: him as part of the culture problem? Is he part
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Speaker 3: of the fix? Or and or if the Kraken want
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Speaker 3: to make a run at Alas Petterson, what kind of
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Speaker 3: package could they possibly get for him at twenty seven
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Speaker 3: years old?
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Speaker 2: Well, Petterson scored once, scored in one of his last
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Speaker 2: thirty six games, right, So there's not a lot of
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Speaker 2: asset value there for Vancouver. The contract is frightened, and
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Speaker 2: you know, with the Canucks, in my opinion, would they
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Speaker 2: trade him for a first round pick? I think they would,
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Speaker 2: right if they could not, if they would not have
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Speaker 2: to retain any salary. Right. So is there a hybrid
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Speaker 2: there where the crack can have a player that has,
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Speaker 2: you know, two years of bad money left on him,
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Speaker 2: and the Canucks take back two years of bad money.
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Speaker 2: They might do that, but then I'm going to take
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Speaker 2: six years of salary attention, So you know, so that's
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Speaker 2: a problem. But I don't think that the Canucks are
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Speaker 2: going to expect a haul to move off of a
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Speaker 2: player like Peterson. Is he part of a culture problem?
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Speaker 2: That's an interesting one because his personality is not big, right,
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Speaker 2: He's clearly not a leader here, is making eleven point
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Speaker 2: six million dollars and is not carrying his way on
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Speaker 2: the ice, and by all accounts, is not doing what
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Speaker 2: he needs to do in the offseason to take every
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Speaker 2: effort possible to rebuild his game. So you know, he's
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Speaker 2: not part of a locker room problem per se. He's
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Speaker 2: definitely not part of the solution and he's not part
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Speaker 2: of the leadership group. Right. There's that, and then the
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Speaker 2: other big personality that is still here from the old
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Speaker 2: corps is Thatcher Demko. But given his history, that's his
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Speaker 2: injury history, that's going to be a tough one to
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Speaker 2: move as well.
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Speaker 3: This is far on lawsy TSN based out of Vancouver.
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Speaker 3: He was in Toronto this week for the CFL Draft
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Speaker 3: and he was also very interested in the NFL Draft.
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Speaker 3: What surprised you about the NFL Draft? I mean the
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Speaker 3: ty Simpson pick at thirteen for the Rams sticks out
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Speaker 3: to me. But what surprise do you either the top
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Speaker 3: or anywhere in the NFL draft?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean absolutely it's that pick.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: I was probably surprised that Kate went as high as
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Speaker 2: he did, but not by much, right, I e stuckted
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Speaker 2: him to go in the seven eight range. He went
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Speaker 2: up to form the ty Simpson pick. There was no
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Speaker 2: smoke that he was going to get taken that high.
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Speaker 2: And you know, I think a lot of us feel
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Speaker 2: that the Rams aren't serious about the draft, that they
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Speaker 2: would much rather you know, we've seen this before, right,
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Speaker 2: that they'd much rather move that pick for an experienced
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Speaker 2: player and take advantage of that window with Matthew Stafford
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Speaker 2: to win today. And I kind of thought that's what
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Speaker 2: would happen, and certainly it would have made a lot
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Speaker 2: of sense for them to trade back into the you know,
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Speaker 2: twenty five to twenty sixth spot, and you know, Ty Simpson,
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Speaker 2: I think a lot of us felt was that Lamar
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Speaker 2: Jackson type of situation where a team trades back up
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Speaker 2: into the late stage of the first round just so
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Speaker 2: you can take advantage of the fifty year in the
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Speaker 2: contract having him as a first round player, right, and
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Speaker 2: then if you are the Rams and you you know
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Speaker 2: you don't he doesn't see the field for three years
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Speaker 2: because the stafford still wants to play for two. That
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Speaker 2: makes sense if you've got if you've got five years
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Speaker 2: of player control. So you know, I'm mixed in the player.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I definitely thought he was the second best quarterback,
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Speaker 2: but well behind. I'm just not a believer that you
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Speaker 2: can have fifteen starts and that that's enough of a
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Speaker 2: sample size and enough experience for you to be ready
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Speaker 2: to make it happen at the next level. I just
16:51
Speaker 2: don't think that makes sense. I understand what mcvahan's needs
16:54
Speaker 2: say about system fit. I buy it. I understand, you know, like,
16:57
Speaker 2: if they've evaluated a skill set a certain way. That's great,
17:00
Speaker 2: But again, fifteen starts. Yeah, it's fifteen starts from the SEC.
17:04
Speaker 2: But so is mac Jones right like, and so it's
17:07
Speaker 2: not it makes me uncomfortable, But it just seems like
17:12
Speaker 2: an organization that lives up to its narrative that it's
17:14
Speaker 2: just not serious about the draft.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say, I mean, the Rams are almost
17:20
Speaker 3: never drafting that high. Certainly, an NFC Championship game participant's
17:23
Speaker 3: not going to draft at thirteen normally.
17:25
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you got a chance, you got a chance
17:27
Speaker 2: to really help Matthews exactly. You know, they've got some
17:30
Speaker 2: holes on that offensive line. There were high end players
17:33
Speaker 2: that were still available. So for them to make that
17:36
Speaker 2: kind of move at that time, I thought, I thought
17:37
Speaker 2: was different. I liked a lot of what the Seahawks did.
17:40
Speaker 2: I thought their first four picks are gonna be guys
17:42
Speaker 2: that really really helped his team.
17:45
Speaker 3: Jim on the Tech Sign two five three says, Hey,
17:48
Speaker 3: this guy's great. He needs a weekly segment.
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Speaker 1: That is the plan to do it. We are going
17:54
Speaker 1: to do far Ahlow every week.
17:56
Speaker 3: We're going to figure out a day at what time
17:58
Speaker 3: to do If they hit far on a great friends,
18:01
Speaker 3: great Buds going back their way back. You mentioned to
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Speaker 3: me last night the CFL draft you did in Toronto
18:06
Speaker 3: this weekend had an Eastern Washington flair too, it didn't it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Eastern Washington's placed a ton of players
18:12
Speaker 2: in the CFL. We've had quarterbacks like Vernon Adams and
18:15
Speaker 2: Bowlievi Mitchell and Matt Nichols that have really done well
18:18
Speaker 2: in this league. And you know, the Big Sky generally,
18:21
Speaker 2: but Eastern specifically, Aaron Best does a great job over there.
18:24
Speaker 2: So there's a receiver and he's actually Canadian. The CFL
18:27
Speaker 2: draft is for Canadian players. Right when you come into
18:30
Speaker 2: the league. The Canadian players come in via the draft.
18:33
Speaker 2: American players come in via negotiation list, right, and so
18:36
Speaker 2: half the rosters are Canadian, half the rosters are American,
18:39
Speaker 2: and then you've got to start a certain amount of Canadians,
18:41
Speaker 2: which is how the league works. So the draft is
18:43
Speaker 2: an important part of it. And so there's a kid
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Speaker 2: named Nolan Ulm who's from Colonna, British Columbia. If you've
18:48
Speaker 2: never been to Colowna, go to Cologna because it as
18:51
Speaker 2: a spectacular place. And yeah, and so Nolan's been at
18:55
Speaker 2: Eastern for six years. He you know, had the COVID
18:58
Speaker 2: year and then then had an injury red shirt a
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Speaker 2: year ago, so he was able to get, you know,
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Speaker 2: able to get a sixth year and just a great kid.
19:05
Speaker 2: I've known him since high school and you know, he
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Speaker 2: had a really good like twenty twenty three was probably
19:10
Speaker 2: his high watermark. The last years have kind of been
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Speaker 2: up and down for him, but he was still able
19:14
Speaker 2: to get drafted and just a quality kid. He was
19:17
Speaker 2: part of the American Football Coaches Association Good Hands Award
19:20
Speaker 2: team as far as all the off field stuff he does,
19:23
Speaker 2: and you know, and that's something that Aaron really promotes
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Speaker 2: with the guys out at Eastern Right. He watched those
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Speaker 2: guys involved in the community. He wants them making a difference,
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Speaker 2: and Nolan certainly took advantage of that. So it's cool
19:33
Speaker 2: for me to have followed his career since high school
19:36
Speaker 2: and to see him get a chance to play. But
19:37
Speaker 2: the draft was fun. It's a complicated draft because two
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Speaker 2: Canadian players got drafted in the NFL draft and then
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Speaker 2: six other guys signed as undrafted free agents. So when
19:47
Speaker 2: you were a CFL GM and you're going through your draft,
19:49
Speaker 2: you have to navigate all of that, because the higher
19:51
Speaker 2: you get taken in the NFL draft, the lower you
19:54
Speaker 2: get taken in the CFL draft. So a Key Messidor
19:56
Speaker 2: who's one of the star defensive ends for the University
19:59
Speaker 2: of Miami play in the National Championship Game. You know,
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Speaker 2: he got taken in i think twenty second overall to
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Speaker 2: the Rams or to the Chargers in the NFL draft.
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Speaker 2: He didn't get drafted in the CFL draft, and he
20:09
Speaker 2: was by far the best Canadian available. But if you
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Speaker 2: know he's never going to come up here, why would
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Speaker 2: you draft him?
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Speaker 3: Right? So do they have seventh round picks in the
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Speaker 3: NFL who are high draft picks in the CFL some
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Speaker 3: years not this era?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean generally what happens is in the first
20:25
Speaker 2: round they want availability, right, So if you've been drafted
20:28
Speaker 2: and they know they're not going to get you, they
20:30
Speaker 2: generally want the best player that's going to be available
20:33
Speaker 2: that year. Then the type of players that were raft
20:35
Speaker 2: that were undrafted free agents that signed those three years
20:38
Speaker 2: contracts and those you know, there was a i think
20:40
Speaker 2: a sixth round offensive lineman in the NFL draft, a
20:43
Speaker 2: kid out of Boston College. You know, those are the
20:45
Speaker 2: types of players who might go around to right and
20:47
Speaker 2: then it kind of works from there. But you know,
20:50
Speaker 2: I mean some guys that just don't get picked at all.
20:52
Speaker 2: If the word on them is that their locks in
20:54
Speaker 2: the NFL and there were a high draft pick in
20:56
Speaker 2: the NFL, those guys aren't going to get drafted into
20:58
Speaker 2: this league.
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Speaker 3: You a man for Hunt. We're gonna by popular demand,
21:02
Speaker 3: You're coming back. You can't get rid of us. Let's
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Speaker 3: do it, thanks, Let's do it.
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Speaker 2: I can't look. Seattle is my favorite city. I love
21:10
Speaker 2: all the time I get to spend down there. You know,
21:11
Speaker 2: I'm there for every Sea Hot team. I come down
21:14
Speaker 2: when I can. My favorite, like my favorite thing to do,
21:17
Speaker 2: honestly truly, and maybe I maybe I need more things
21:20
Speaker 2: to do is bark at the Park with the Mariners.
21:23
Speaker 2: Like the last few years since I got a dog,
21:25
Speaker 2: I've been so in and I've taken my kids and
21:28
Speaker 2: my dog we go to bark at the park. So
21:30
Speaker 2: we'll be their May nineteenth. I love and I love
21:32
Speaker 2: my Huskies. You know this, Like I'm a big Huskies fan.
21:35
Speaker 2: I do so and you know, and I told my son,
21:37
Speaker 2: so he's a quarterback up here in Lindon. He's going
21:39
Speaker 2: to go to prep school in Virginia in the fall,
21:41
Speaker 2: and you know, he's he's got a chance to play
21:44
Speaker 2: FCS football, pretty good chances. You know, there's a bunch
21:47
Speaker 2: of schools, particularly back east there. They're looking at him.
21:49
Speaker 2: And I said, look, I don't care you go to Harvard.
21:51
Speaker 2: I am still cheering for the Huskies.
21:53
Speaker 3: You just know that you got to schedule a Harvard
21:55
Speaker 3: Washington home and home so you can get your boy
21:58
Speaker 3: to come out here and you go see him play back.
22:00
Speaker 2: We go to two or three games every year. Now
22:02
Speaker 2: he's less send you because he feels like he's, you know,
22:05
Speaker 2: eventually going to be a college player. So he thinks
22:07
Speaker 2: that I shouldn't be a fan of other college players
22:09
Speaker 2: now right. So it's kind of getting to that point.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, well, good look to hear.
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Speaker 3: I know he's making Big Chang's great desire from you.
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Speaker 3: Take care of that FIFA Compress Congress. We'll talk to
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Speaker 3: you soon. We'll figure out a date. We'll do this weekly.
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Speaker 3: Thanks man, take care money far loll. Yeah, we went
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Speaker 3: all over the place with him there. There's comments on
22:31
Speaker 3: the tech line. You guys love him. He's been a
22:33
Speaker 3: great friend of mine for years. I've covered national championships,
22:36
Speaker 3: Super Bowls, Seahawk games with him. Yeah, he'll be a
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Speaker 3: part of the show. We'll figure out a Dayton. You'll
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Greg bellt Show with Christopher kN
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Speaker 3: if You missed far a logy, and he had a
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Speaker 3: lot to say, including mice nuts.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that might have been the best line I've ever heard.
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Speaker 4: I have never heard someone refer to what he was
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Speaker 4: mice nuts. That is amazing, That's that was great. I
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Speaker 4: will be stealing that.
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Speaker 1: What was it in reference to? Again, I'm trying.
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Speaker 4: That's why I couldn't even explain it, becase, because when
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Speaker 4: he said.
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Speaker 1: It, my brain just went, what mice nuns? That was awesome?
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Speaker 1: Mice that's awesome.
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Speaker 3: talked about the MLS, talk about the FIFA Congress and
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Speaker 3: Iran not even getting admitted into the Congress because they
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Speaker 3: got held up in customs in Toronto Congress. If FIFA
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Speaker 3: Congress is meeting out of the World Cup, it's in Vancouver.
24:29
Speaker 3: Of course, Vancouver is going to host the World Cup,
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Speaker 3: so Seattle, we're going to be part of that coverage.
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Speaker 3: More details to come on that four nine four five
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Speaker 3: means your chance to be part of the show.
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Speaker 1: Will we read back your text every day? Greg?
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Speaker 4: If you could bring back one former Seahawk in their
24:46
Speaker 4: prime to add to this team, who would it be?
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Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner?
24:51
Speaker 3: That was quick, not even hesitation saying about it. On
24:53
Speaker 3: this team particularly, you wouldn't need Bobby Wagner because of
24:56
Speaker 3: Ernest Jones. But I'm just selfishly saying for my own
24:59
Speaker 3: personal I would cover Bobby Wagner ten days a week,
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Speaker 3: fourteen months a year.
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Speaker 1: He's such a gentleman. He's such so much more than
25:08
Speaker 1: football too.
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Speaker 3: But now speaking about this particular team, Seawan, Alexander, Kurt Warner,
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Speaker 3: a need running back in his prime is who i'd
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Speaker 3: bring back?
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Speaker 1: What about you? I mean that's the biggest need, right man.
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Speaker 4: Bobby was gonna be my first list, but you immediately
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Speaker 4: grabbed him.
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Speaker 1: That was selfish.
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Speaker 4: No, it's okay, let's see it's not based on need.
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Speaker 4: But man, what do I want to I don't even okay,
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Speaker 4: you know what?
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Speaker 1: Why not? Richard Sherman.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not like they need him, but if you
25:43
Speaker 4: could just put him on there, that'd be I think
25:45
Speaker 4: that'd be really cool to see he'd be interesting.
25:47
Speaker 1: With Witherspoon, we'd.
25:49
Speaker 4: Be really bored then, my goodness, he would. The pressures
25:53
Speaker 4: would be the most entertaining because the tape wouldn't be good.
25:56
Speaker 3: They'd come out together like Doug Baldwin and Richard Sherman
25:58
Speaker 3: used to. I'll never forget the day they did that, right,
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Speaker 3: mocking the NFL and advertising and pepsi And yeah, eight
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Speaker 3: four to three, I got to go back in my catalog,
26:09
Speaker 3: know where that is? Eight four to three says what
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Speaker 3: position do you think the Seahawks are strongest, weakest?
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Speaker 1: Much love, much love back to you.
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Speaker 3: The strongest position to me is the secondary because of
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Speaker 3: all the pieces you can move around and Witherspoon, I
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Speaker 3: really think Josh Job is an underrated corner.
26:26
Speaker 1: Julian love of fixture at safety.
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Speaker 3: How they replace Kobe Bryant, it'll be a big deal,
26:31
Speaker 3: But Tyle Katta did very well, and now they drafted
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Speaker 3: Bud Clark secondary because of all the options, it gives
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Speaker 3: Mike McDonald.
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Speaker 1: Weakest running back.
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Speaker 3: With Jack Sharboney out for who knows how long, unproven
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Speaker 3: across the board. After that, I don't think it's even
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Speaker 3: close to be running back, don't you.
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Speaker 1: Running back for sure, but I will go with D line.
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Speaker 4: I know they lost Boyer, right, but what they were
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Speaker 4: able to do with simulated pressure and just the four
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Speaker 4: fat men who told me the strongest my apology, Yes, weakest,
27:03
Speaker 4: running back strongest. I say the defensive line just because
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Speaker 4: of I mean, they sent four dudes after you and
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Speaker 4: it was mayhem every time. And those four dudes were
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Speaker 4: really good last season. Mike McDonald's a wizard with simulated pressure.
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Speaker 4: So it's a one A, one B thing for me
27:19
Speaker 4: regarding the secondary and the D line.
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Speaker 3: Two six is I'd bring back Locke, an amazing person.
27:24
Speaker 3: Well said, he is an amazing person. Dustin two five three,
27:28
Speaker 3: long time listener, bring back tez Anchor down.
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Speaker 1: The middle of the D line. Good call.
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Speaker 3: Two five three. What about Big Walt? You could put
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Speaker 3: Big Wall on any team making better Hall of Famer?
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Speaker 3: I agree with that too. Two o six Jerry Rice
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Speaker 3: in his prime, Yes, not the Seattle version.
27:43
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie that was the first, but I'm
27:45
Speaker 4: like I have to say in his prime and that
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Speaker 4: that that's not gonna happen.
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Speaker 3: So I covered Jerry Rice's up to his exit for
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Speaker 3: the Raiders. I covered that move from the Raiders to
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Speaker 3: the Seahawks, and I will tell you that everybody in
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Speaker 3: the Raiders building at the time.
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Speaker 1: Was like, yeah, good luck with that.
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Speaker 3: They knew the time was over, and the Raiders ware
28:03
Speaker 3: yeah okay, and yeah yeah, did.
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Speaker 1: You already ask this one? Who is the most underrated?
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Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 1: Okay, who is the most underrated Sawk? Right now? From
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Speaker 1: the eight to four to three?
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Speaker 3: Ooh, it might be for value and production and how
28:22
Speaker 3: he lifts the entire unit.
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Speaker 1: It's go ahead. It might be Jadensondell the center. I
28:29
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna go Drake Thomas, so okay, fair enough, Drake Thomas.
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Speaker 1: Also Josh Job would be in the running for underrated.
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Speaker 4: And when Drake Thomas, Josh Job and I forgot about Sundale,
28:38
Speaker 4: So Sunday will be third for me if I had
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Speaker 4: to rank them.
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Speaker 1: But yes, all three of those dudes. Think about Jylen Sindel.
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Speaker 1: Did he anchored a position that had ten count.
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Speaker 3: Them one zero, ten starters and ten seasons after they
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Speaker 3: traded Max Hunger, ten different starting centers. Jalensendell comes as
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Speaker 3: an undrafted rookie from North Dakota State, a former roommate
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Speaker 3: of Gray's Abel at North Dakota State and he down center.
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Speaker 3: That is not a question anymore, And for the first
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Speaker 3: time in a decade, the Seahawks have an answer at
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Speaker 3: center since trading Max Hunger. Yeah, he's he is unsung,
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Speaker 3: part of, of course, the nature of an offensive lineman,
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Speaker 3: his personality. But tell that to Gray's Abel, who's he's
29:17
Speaker 3: pretty outspoken in glib and yeah.
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Speaker 4: This one is from the two five three. How about
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Speaker 4: bringing back Big Walt. Yeah, Like I said, Walter Jones,
29:31
Speaker 4: you could never go wrong with any team.
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Speaker 3: M JO six, thank you for going over the Texas
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Speaker 3: Tech Quarterback article heard the same thing.
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Speaker 1: I read the same thing to my wife and.
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Speaker 2: Was like, what, uh.
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Speaker 1: I hear you? I know ty Ocatta is underrated from
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Speaker 1: the two five to three.
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Speaker 3: Yes, well yeah, Greg's like, eh, it's just a short
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Speaker 3: sample size of eleven games starting. But yes, for a
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Speaker 3: guy who used to be in the practice squad and
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Speaker 3: practice squad and special teams player, Yes, absolutely, Pete Metzelars
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Speaker 3: bring him back.
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Speaker 1: Two six says yeah.
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Speaker 4: Greg any Bold predictions for this twenty six twenty seven season.
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Speaker 4: Did Ourian Price runs for thirteen hundred yards? I mean
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Speaker 4: I was I was set a thousand. You were like, hey,
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Speaker 4: Chris bold prediction. You took it three hundred yards.
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Speaker 1: More thirteen hundred yards. Sheesh, how many touchdowns? Seven ten?
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Speaker 1: You wanted?
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Speaker 2: Bold?
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Speaker 1: That is true.
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Speaker 4: You put those mice nuts and made them. You put
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Speaker 4: them in a wheelbarrow and triple one hundred times the
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Speaker 4: size mice nuts.
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna find the You can keep going, but I'm
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Speaker 3: gonna find the text about Army West Point at the
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Speaker 3: windmir Cup.
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Speaker 4: If oh bringing okay, no, we already mentioned that. Okay,
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Speaker 4: here we go. I'd bring back Tyler Lockett. Well, when
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Speaker 4: it was third down, you could always count on Tower
31:02
Speaker 4: to be open. That was his thing for quite some time.
31:04
Speaker 4: Whether it's Russell Wilson, and you know, he was really
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Speaker 4: good at that.
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Speaker 3: Two six twenty years ago. When my son was rowing
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Speaker 3: on the varsity at West Point, go Army beat Navy.
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Speaker 1: Appreciate that.
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Speaker 3: My wife and I convinced the Husky rowing program to divite,
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Speaker 3: to invite Army to the Windimre Cup. Army turned him
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Speaker 3: down on the basis that they had to defend their New.
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Speaker 1: York state championship that weekend. I was so disappointed.
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Speaker 3: I think a showing by Army would have done tremendous
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Speaker 3: benefit to exposure for West Point out here on the
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Speaker 3: West Coast.
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Speaker 1: Go Army, Go Huskies.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, sir, ma'am appreciate that I didn't know that.
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Speaker 3: As I heard a book on the Windhamer Cup, I
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Speaker 3: didn't know that West Point got invited. USTA been a
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Speaker 3: really good reason why they turned them down. But yeah,
31:53
Speaker 3: and for NASA's floating. By the way, I didn't even
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Speaker 3: read any really too many of the text other than
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Speaker 3: the mice nuts went about Afar appearance. But he is
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Speaker 3: not going anywhere. He's gonna be a weekly. It looks
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Speaker 3: like Mondays we're gonna have him on. We're working on
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Speaker 3: the lineup's going to be pretty cool. We got Brad
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Speaker 3: Adam coming on tomorrow the Mariners broadcaster. He's gonna be
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Speaker 3: a weekly guest for us on Fridays. It looks like
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Speaker 3: premature and saying Daniel Kramer of the MLB beat writer
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Speaker 3: MLB dot com beat writer for the Mariner's gonna be
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Speaker 3: with us.
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Speaker 1: Probably on Tuesday.
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Speaker 3: So we've got farhun Daniel Kramer, Brad Adam and where
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Speaker 3: the ages getting started. We got friends and fam coming
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Speaker 3: back the NFL seasons.
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Speaker 1: We got.
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Speaker 3: We got some throwbacks from the show when Chris and
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Speaker 3: I did it in twenty twenty four. We're just getting
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Speaker 3: started here on ninety three point three kJ R f M.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Chris Show. And for us that
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Speaker 3: we are gonna go laugh because the great Bob Rondo
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Speaker 3: has just checked in.
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Speaker 1: Let me just say I am honored that Bob Rondo
32:53
Speaker 1: was listening to the show, my former travel partner.
32:57
Speaker 3: With the Best, the Best end of story of the Best.
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Speaker 3: How Barbara came up with Ian was we were talking about.
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Speaker 3: Ian was once the voice of the Windomer Cup. I
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Speaker 3: was one half of the voices.
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Speaker 5: I was.
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Speaker 6: I was the finish line voice. Because nothing screams husky
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Speaker 6: athletics like this guy.
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Speaker 1: That's true, right, nothing. So describe what you described to me.
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Speaker 3: You covered the Windowmere Cut, which you remember it's a
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Speaker 3: two thousand meter course that starts out in Union Bay
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Speaker 3: along the log Boom.
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Speaker 1: It takes a while to get through the cut, so.
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Speaker 6: They cross under the bridge right across the bridge. Yeah,
33:30
Speaker 6: it's a great course. It's awesome everything about it. I mean, listen,
33:34
Speaker 6: you've got a daughter that wrote Rose Crew. I heard
33:36
Speaker 6: you talk about it earlier. It's you know, the young
33:38
Speaker 6: men and women that are involved in that sport. They
33:42
Speaker 6: they are to me the equivalent of like a D
33:44
Speaker 6: three athlete, Like they do it because they love it,
33:47
Speaker 6: not because anybody watches. They do it just they want
33:50
Speaker 6: to compete and they want to be part.
33:51
Speaker 1: Of a team. Six am Rose before the Suns up
33:54
Speaker 1: in ice. Damn it.
33:55
Speaker 6: That's what sports should be about at that level period.
33:58
Speaker 6: I mean, that's just anyway, such great respect for all
34:03
Speaker 6: the folks that do it, and obviously the tradition here
34:05
Speaker 6: at Washington is second to none. Sorry, Yale and every
34:09
Speaker 6: other Ivy League school just as second to none. And
34:13
Speaker 6: what they've done so for many years as the home
34:16
Speaker 6: for the Huskies football, basketball, everything else. We carried the
34:20
Speaker 6: Windimere Cup on KJR on Saturday more than the first
34:22
Speaker 6: Saturday in May opening day, and for the first couple
34:25
Speaker 6: of years it was Bob and e Least Woodward the
34:28
Speaker 6: finish line, and then she had some conflicts and probably
34:30
Speaker 6: at WNBA or something. So the last probably four or
34:34
Speaker 6: five years that we did it with Bob, I was
34:37
Speaker 6: at the finish line on a wireless mike. Bob was
34:40
Speaker 6: in the tower at the Montlake Bridge with a former
34:43
Speaker 6: coach and rower at Washington, and they would start the
34:46
Speaker 6: race as you said in Union Bay. They would take
34:48
Speaker 6: it all the way under the bridge, and then when
34:49
Speaker 6: you from that point, you lose sight of the last
34:52
Speaker 6: fifty meters or so, and their last maybe it is
34:55
Speaker 6: maybe how long is it two thousand meters, So they
34:57
Speaker 6: probably lost sight for the final two hundred meters or so.
35:00
Speaker 6: It was a little bit of it, maybe even more
35:01
Speaker 6: than that, but it was. And then I would pick
35:03
Speaker 6: it up and bring it to bring it home, and uh,
35:07
Speaker 6: open water. Bob Washington is kicking someone's ass again because
35:11
Speaker 6: Bobers refuses to bring someone here that can compete.
35:14
Speaker 3: The backstory to that, they brought the Soviet Union the
35:18
Speaker 3: very first cup nineteen eighty seven, and then they got
35:21
Speaker 3: swamped and that was about the end of.
35:22
Speaker 1: That for a while. But I asked him.
35:24
Speaker 6: I asked him once in one of the brief because
35:26
Speaker 6: we had to go and meet with him and do
35:27
Speaker 6: all the prep and all this today today and I
35:30
Speaker 6: met with it and I said, at the time, Wazoo
35:34
Speaker 6: had a really good women's crew. And I said, why
35:37
Speaker 6: don't you bring the Wazoo women's crew. That'd be even
35:39
Speaker 6: if it's your JV who doesn't matter, Like that'd be awesome,
35:43
Speaker 6: like making a little apple cups, Like for one of
35:45
Speaker 6: the races off he didn't want they he was afraid
35:50
Speaker 6: that they could beat him. And he goes, this is
35:52
Speaker 6: our event and we're not going to lose. Like, okay,
35:56
Speaker 6: good to know I'm doing a ww event. So describe
36:00
Speaker 6: Bob Rondo.
36:01
Speaker 3: Yeah, great, Bob's smart enough to be in the tower
36:03
Speaker 3: of the Montlake Bridge.
36:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, the control tower of the draw bridge, out of
36:07
Speaker 1: the rain. Well you're out there.
36:09
Speaker 6: Yes, I'm pissed. I looked at the weather this weekend
36:12
Speaker 6: and I'm like, what are we doing?
36:14
Speaker 2: How is it?
36:15
Speaker 6: Emerald Downs opens up on Saturday. We got Joe Withy
36:18
Speaker 6: coming on tomorrow and he's like, oh, it's be great weather.
36:20
Speaker 6: I'm like, that's not the way it's supposed to be.
36:23
Speaker 6: It's supposed to be rainy and drizzly for opening day
36:25
Speaker 6: and first day at Emerald Downs and muddy track and
36:27
Speaker 6: a wet Windomere Cup.
36:29
Speaker 1: But you're a great event.
36:30
Speaker 6: So you're in Galoshes and I've been rain gear with
36:33
Speaker 6: trying to keep our equipment working.
36:35
Speaker 1: With Terry Ryder injured, you've got to make sure it
36:37
Speaker 1: stays raw.
36:38
Speaker 3: And Bob's in the tower of the brand new already
36:41
Speaker 3: fifty microphone.
36:44
Speaker 1: Is the actual r draw can you tell?
36:46
Speaker 5: No?
36:46
Speaker 1: I can't, Terry.
36:47
Speaker 6: I'm just trying to get I'm trying to survive right now. Meanwhile,
36:51
Speaker 6: Rondo knows every rower and every major for every rower
36:55
Speaker 6: on every boat, you know, all eighty nine kids. He's
36:57
Speaker 6: like the clock's win right now. She's a you know,
37:00
Speaker 6: a chemistry major. And I'm like it was but it
37:04
Speaker 6: was all in all seriousness for me, Like I don't know,
37:08
Speaker 6: if you know. I started my career driving a being
37:11
Speaker 6: a production assistant at Como TV in college, and then
37:13
Speaker 6: afterwards I drove the live truck for a few years,
37:15
Speaker 6: and then my first real job out out of the
37:18
Speaker 6: technical side was.
37:19
Speaker 1: I was a sports producer at Como TV.
37:21
Speaker 6: And Bob Rano, to me is the most talented television
37:25
Speaker 6: writer I've ever been around in my life. Maybe the
37:28
Speaker 6: best pure anchor I've been around. I learned, and then
37:32
Speaker 6: I think he's the best play by a play guy. Yeah,
37:34
Speaker 6: and so for me, and he was so good to me.
37:36
Speaker 6: He was a great mentor to me. Uh, you know,
37:38
Speaker 6: when I've done things even like the crack and this
37:40
Speaker 6: year thing. I think of him all the time. He's
37:42
Speaker 6: just one of the best, and he's you know, he's
37:43
Speaker 6: a good friend and a mentor and a great dude.
37:45
Speaker 6: So for me, you know, to do the game, to
37:49
Speaker 6: do something with him like that on the air, because
37:51
Speaker 6: I was always his producer with Bruce King, right, I
37:54
Speaker 6: was behind the scenes, and so actually to do it
37:55
Speaker 6: on the air was a thrill. So I was a
37:57
Speaker 6: ton of fun. And but yeah, I think in the
38:00
Speaker 6: five or six years we did it, I don't think
38:02
Speaker 6: it was ever dry. And I sat there and I'd
38:04
Speaker 6: sit there in this hospitality area, this private party with
38:07
Speaker 6: a bunch of snobby boat people and drinking their mimosas
38:10
Speaker 6: is you could offer me something I'm not willing. I'm
38:14
Speaker 6: not wearing Crimson and Gold. I would try to find
38:16
Speaker 6: something that was at least neutral in color. I wasn't
38:19
Speaker 6: wasn't the cougar guy showing up, you know. But it
38:22
Speaker 6: was fun. It's I I just if to me, the
38:24
Speaker 6: Windimere Cup is the most seattle thing that we have. Yes,
38:27
Speaker 6: I think it's a really and for someone who grew
38:29
Speaker 6: up here, and yes, I'm a kug and no longer
38:32
Speaker 6: root for the Huskies, but did grow up around here
38:35
Speaker 6: going to games with Husky Stadium in the rain and
38:37
Speaker 6: in the fall of my dad and stuff. And I think,
38:39
Speaker 6: but I think the Windimere Cup is a Seattle as
38:41
Speaker 6: it gets. The Motley Cut is as Seattle as it gets.
38:44
Speaker 6: It's just a cruel atmosphere out there. And yeah, if
38:46
Speaker 6: you ever get a chance to go out there, man,
38:48
Speaker 6: do it. It's it's really good. Remember the Montley Bridge
38:50
Speaker 6: does go up for like four hours afterwards, though, so
38:54
Speaker 6: you're kind of hooped if it's like to beat the bridge.
38:57
Speaker 1: Thing after it.
38:59
Speaker 2: Yeah.
39:00
Speaker 6: So but it's it's a ton of fun. And you
39:01
Speaker 6: wrote a book on it too, so yeah, it's it's
39:03
Speaker 6: it's a fun week It's a fun weekend round here.
39:05
Speaker 6: Emerald Down's opening, like I said, winning your Cup two.
39:07
Speaker 6: So yeah, that's a good stuff. So Bob Rondo, thank you,
39:09
Speaker 6: thank you for listening. I'm honored listening. Maybe just stumbled
39:13
Speaker 6: across our show waiting for Ian to come on, but
39:14
Speaker 6: thank you very much the voice of as I'm honored.
39:18
Speaker 6: What do you got going today? We're gonna we'll check in, uh,
39:23
Speaker 6: you know, Sarah's talking baseball coming up at one twenty
39:25
Speaker 6: today Marriors, what a trip five and one and and
39:29
Speaker 6: retiring fifty one this weekend five and one fifty one.
39:31
Speaker 6: They already retire fifty one. That's a whole different story.
39:34
Speaker 6: And that's a whole different story. We'll get into that
39:37
Speaker 6: a little bit also. Uh two o'clock. Oh, we're going
39:40
Speaker 6: to carry the press conference with Jadarian Price at two o'clock.
39:43
Speaker 1: He'll introductor.
39:44
Speaker 6: Yeah, you'll be there, so make sure you answer, ask
39:45
Speaker 6: some questions. I can hear your voice here. This is
39:47
Speaker 6: for Ian Yeah station.
39:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks, I'm sure Pierson will love that. Uh.
39:53
Speaker 6: Greg Bell Sports Radio nine three point three kJ R
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Speaker 6: got a question and then Greg Coast coming up at
40:00
Speaker 6: twelve twenty full transparency. We had Greg on yesterday right
40:05
Speaker 6: during a ninth inning comeback. It's good content. So we're
40:09
Speaker 6: gonna for those of you that may have been I
40:11
Speaker 6: don't know, listening to a ninth inning comeback with three
40:13
Speaker 6: runs in Cole Young and yeah, he might be the
40:15
Speaker 6: best second basement of.
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Speaker 1: The American League. We'll have that one that twelve twenty today.
40:18
Speaker 3: So that's and for Neess coming up next for Jessmin
40:20
Speaker 3: McIntyre and Anderson Hurst. Well, I Anderson was on the
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Speaker 3: morning show, so he got to go home with.
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Speaker 1: Bu Ball to baw Ball. Here we go, we got
40:25
Speaker 1: open water.
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Speaker 3: He ends up the next Craig Bell the News to
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