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Furness Show 3-23: Mollywhop Monday, NBA Expansion Update, JSN Extension · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: It's quite a bit different because when they go over
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  Speaker 1: there and play in Finland, the teams they picked have
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: wait for it, players who are from Finland who just
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  Speaker 1: won bronze medals at the Olympics. I think Sebastianaha had
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  Speaker 1: a couple others, right well, sorrow No, who am I
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  Speaker 1: thinking of Caroline?
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  Speaker 2: They have yes, Sperry Cook and Yami too and.
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  Speaker 1: And and uh yeah and aho and then Seattle's got
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  Speaker 1: of course Coppocco and assuming Elliot Tobin's back next season,
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: maybe they know something we don't. Yeah he is. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: They've got their guys. When the NFL travels to play
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  Speaker 1: in whatever place they're going to play in, there is
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  Speaker 1: never has never been a player from sed country playing
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL game returning home to play before his fans, right, correct,
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  Speaker 1: So I think it is a little bit different. I
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  Speaker 1: think the NBA and the NHL can do this and whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and really globalizing the game makes sense because again, both
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  Speaker 1: those games are global. The NFL is a lot of things.
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  Speaker 1: It ain't global, and it ain't global, try as they might,
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  Speaker 1: it ain't global. Every year they bring the European guy
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  Speaker 1: in to play for training camp, and every year he's
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  Speaker 1: the worst player in the field. Like that's just the
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  Speaker 1: way it is.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's always a Cinderella story with the guys that
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  Speaker 3: actually make it.
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  Speaker 1: Well but made it what he has made it.
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  Speaker 2: Being on the practice squad is not making punters well punters.
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  Speaker 4: And also there are linemen from the island.
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  Speaker 1: But they've never No, but we're talking Europe.
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  Speaker 4: But you're just talking Europe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm all the islands are different some o and
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  Speaker 1: all that. Yeah, I know those guys I'm talking about,
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  Speaker 1: Like I thought.
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  Speaker 4: You were talking international in general.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, no, Hey, they're gonna go
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  Speaker 1: play a game in Sama. Absolutely have at it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're going home. There's probably a lot of guys there.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of Polynesian influence in the NFL good, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: not a lot of Eastern European influence, not a lot
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  Speaker 1: of not a lot of you know, great Britain players
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  Speaker 1: make it. I know I underday. Okay, he's a coach. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we move on.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So do I like the European games in general? No,
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  Speaker 1: But for hockey and basketball it makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: It makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: It makes sense for the NBA, makes sense for the
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  Speaker 1: for the national Hockey League. I guess it makes sense
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  Speaker 1: for baseball to play games in Japan. Yeah right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the NFL does not make sense. Does that make sense?
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  Speaker 4: It does make sense, but I think they operate on
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  Speaker 4: dollars and cents. They see that.
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  Speaker 1: It can make just I know why they're doing it.
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  Speaker 1: We all know why they're doing it. We also know
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  Speaker 1: why they're playing on a Wednesday this year, when the
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  Speaker 1: CX are opening up on a Wednesday night, we all
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  Speaker 1: know why. It's all about the ours. You can chime
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  Speaker 1: in to come a dodge text line, show a shop
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  Speaker 1: to come a Dodgechrist with Geepram the corner of thirty
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  Speaker 1: eighth and South to come away, intersection of savings, real quick,
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  Speaker 1: March madness, great weekend, fun weekend. I'm with Mark. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: those four days are just a blast. It's I learned
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  Speaker 1: this year, more so than ever before, having adult kids
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  Speaker 1: is the best kids to have. Because we just the
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  Speaker 1: two of us watched so much hoops. I had so
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  Speaker 1: much fun grinding, you know, like probably everybody listening, grinding
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  Speaker 1: through whether it be a bracket, a survivor pool, a draft,
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  Speaker 1: whatever you might do. Maybe you just went up to
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  Speaker 1: Socaoma because you know the sportsbook and got yourself some
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  Speaker 1: juice on some things. Hopefully you have better. Hopefully you
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  Speaker 1: had better luck than I did. Big shout out to
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  Speaker 1: Texas Tech at the end, crushing me anyway, great stuff
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  Speaker 1: for In fact, we went up to the casino yesterdays.
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  Speaker 1: Don't call me casino cruise around. It was very busy,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people watching, which is cool. Andergy survived
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  Speaker 1: Survivor by and through had a boy.
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  Speaker 6: That's stressful, isn't It's very stressful and it starts to
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  Speaker 6: get hard now.
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  Speaker 1: I had Virginia in the Survivor pool on day one
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  Speaker 1: or day two, sorry, on Friday, and we were driving down,
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  Speaker 1: uh Keith and I were driving down. We went to
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  Speaker 1: have lunch at Twin Peaks. My wife was like, works
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  Speaker 1: from home. She's like, can you guys leave? I don't
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  Speaker 1: need you guys. Yelling at a television is not conducive
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  Speaker 1: to the work environment. And I said, well, you know what, fella,
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  Speaker 1: let's go down and check out Brad's place, our buddy
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  Speaker 1: Brad who supports the Mayor Maple Value open. And it
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  Speaker 1: was all of the above. But we're driving down during
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  Speaker 1: the Virginia game and it was massively stressful. Yeah, like
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: game and keep you like it's a gamer runs fellow.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, I know you have no juice on this.
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  Speaker 1: Shut up. It's so much fun. We saw some great basketball.
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  Speaker 1: I'm I don't know if I have time today. I
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  Speaker 1: wrote down something I wanted to get into. Man, you
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  Speaker 1: can pay a lot of money to have, like to
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  Speaker 1: be one and done in the NCAA tournament. And are
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  Speaker 1: these schools are you know? It's a cautionary tale, like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: write a check. We want to have a guy to
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  Speaker 1: the level de bonstet great or Darren Peterson super. I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking here. Let me double check guy checks his March
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  Speaker 1: Madness bracket. This isn't mine. This is just the live
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  Speaker 1: bracket to see who's there, because mine's got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of red note notes in it.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, let's see.
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  Speaker 1: I think b Yu not there in the Sweet sixteen
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  Speaker 1: Texas to I know you're not there, right like. And
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  Speaker 1: they spent a ton of money. I know Topping got hurt,
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  Speaker 1: but that hurt him Kansas. Darren Peterson not there right like.
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  Speaker 1: It's I'm telling you, man, I don't know what you do.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the answer is. But writing huge
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  Speaker 1: checks for guys that may or may not get you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, last year we made a ton of I
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  Speaker 1: mean I loved having fun at the expense of great
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  Speaker 1: Osabor last year who reportedly made a million dollars and
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  Speaker 1: then they backtracked later. No, he wasn't making a million,
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  Speaker 1: but he was still making a lot. And they finished
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  Speaker 1: eighteenth in the Big Ten this year. Washington had a
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  Speaker 1: roster that costs them some money. And I'm not just
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  Speaker 1: picking on them because they're Washington. There are a lot
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  Speaker 1: of schools like that. Mary Let's use Maryland instead. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's use Maryland instead, although I like to have one
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  Speaker 1: with Washington, but we'll use Maryland. In said, because we
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  Speaker 1: are your Husky flagship. But they spend a ton of
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  Speaker 1: money Maryland did. I had a great year last year.
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  Speaker 1: Then they bring in just two guys, I know, Rice
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  Speaker 1: and Isaiah. How'd that work out? Not good? But then
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  Speaker 1: you have the Dylan Darlings story scores hasn't scored all game,
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  Speaker 1: gets a game winner for Saint John's. If you didn't
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  Speaker 1: see that. Crazy's from Central Valley High School in Spokane.
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  Speaker 1: Played one year at Wazoo, but when I say played,
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  Speaker 1: didn't play much. Went to Idaho State and somehow ends
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  Speaker 1: up at Saint John's and ends up being a hero
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  Speaker 1: that will go down and lord of Saint John's lore.
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  Speaker 1: And they've got a lot of great players to play there.
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  Speaker 1: Great player. He just made a great moment. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what March maadis is all about, which is really a ton
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  Speaker 1: of fun. Okay, So we'll get in this mor at
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  Speaker 1: two o'clock. We've got Molliwop guys coming up in about
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes time. And this is because normally on opening
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  Speaker 1: Day the last few years we've done like a live
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  Speaker 1: in person Molliwop at Jimmy's on first. Can't do that
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  Speaker 1: this year because there's a hockey game and all this
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  Speaker 1: other stuff. So we're going today's kind of our our
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  Speaker 1: Molliwop preview, and we'll go through a ton of stuff
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  Speaker 1: with Nathan and Chris that's coming up in a minute,
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  Speaker 1: in addition to the Kraken playing in Finland and JSN
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  Speaker 1: signing the massive contract and just a quick thing on
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  Speaker 1: that good. I don't think it's I don't think we
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  Speaker 1: expect anything else. Uh the fact, I think the only
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  Speaker 1: surprise with Jasn's contract is it happened so quick.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I love they did it before. Puka's just thank god,
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  Speaker 6: just get it.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what, it says something too that both
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  Speaker 1: sides were able to come together because we heard him
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  Speaker 1: on you know, the radio or wherever it was down TV,
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  Speaker 1: down in Texas. So I'm gonna be the highest paid guy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he made no bones about it. He's had
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  Speaker 1: he had that year where he could probably dictate that
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  Speaker 1: in a sense. And the longest short of it is
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  Speaker 1: they got it done. And that's just a testament to
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks as an organization, to JSN and his representation.
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  Speaker 1: Just no drama, no drama needed for the Super Bowl champions.
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  Speaker 1: We just move on. It's awesome, it's a great story.
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  Speaker 1: The Jake Bobo thing surprises me a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: We all love Jake Bobo. Okay, we all love Jake
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  Speaker 1: Bobel maybe the best interview on the team. Let me
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: just let's just go through this, JSN, Cooper Cup, Tory Horton,
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  Speaker 1: Rashi Hi Heat. Right now we get to Jake Bobole.
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  Speaker 1: That's five, Drake Young six, that's right, he's gone. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so five those five guys, you're good.
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  Speaker 6: You don't need a receiver you can find maybe an
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  Speaker 6: undrafted guy, you know, try and make a practice squad
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  Speaker 6: or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Stuff like that. But yeah, but you're good.
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  Speaker 3: That just tells me that they have some forecasting in
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  Speaker 3: the draft where they want to go.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think it's it's obvious. We'll talk to Rob
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  Speaker 1: on Friday. Where they gonn go. They have to go
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  Speaker 1: running back. It's just periods corner. Yeah, I mean the
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  Speaker 1: running back, running back, running back house to be your
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  Speaker 1: number one priority period of a story. It just it
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  Speaker 1: has to be unless with all these receivers making money,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you're just just gonna air rate it or something.
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  Speaker 1: There's no chance Mike McDonald to do that because against
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  Speaker 1: every five of his DNA as a defensive coordinator. The
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  Speaker 1: other news coming out today and this came out this
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  Speaker 1: morning that the Kraken and I'm just going to read
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  Speaker 1: the first paragraph. We'll try to explain in a second.
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  Speaker 1: Spend more time at two o'clock because it's a big
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  Speaker 1: week coming up, I think. Here in Seattle, ownership group
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  Speaker 1: of the Sale Cracking, led by Samantha Hallway, today announced
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  Speaker 1: the launch of One Roof Sports and Entertainment to oversee
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: a growing portfolio of properties and fuel new opportunities. In addition,
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: Halloway announced that One Roof Sports Entertainment and Oakview Group
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  Speaker 1: have entered an agreement on a pre planned ownership transition
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: designed to enable the pursuit a future opportunities future opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: One Roofsports Entertainment become the majority owner Climate Pledgery and
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  Speaker 1: OVG still maintaining a significant minority stake. And OVG, still
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  Speaker 1: maintaining a significant minority stake, will continue its role in
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  Speaker 1: booking and operating the award winning venue under a long
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  Speaker 1: term agreement. What does this mean? In short, they were
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: already in bed together Oakview Group and the ownership of
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  Speaker 1: the Kraken, et cetera. They're just kind of more. There's
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: more synergy. They bring it all under one umbrella. They're
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  Speaker 1: also building the new Memorial Stadium there the Cracking Community,
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  Speaker 1: ice plexes, theirs. But know this, Samantha Halloway and the
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: Kraken effectively group basically oversee all things Climate Pledge Arena.
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  Speaker 1: That's their portfolio. Wednesday, by the way, just is it
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  Speaker 1: related or not? Who knows? Wednesday, there's a vote by
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  Speaker 1: the NBA owners to move ahead with expansion. We'll get
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: into more of that we'll get in all this two
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: o'clock because I want to ask you guys a question
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: regards to this group. I'm very biased, but I think
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  Speaker 1: Sam Holloway has done, especially since the passing of her father,
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: David bonham In the original majority owner of the Kraken
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: last year, what she has done with Todd BLYWICKI has done,
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  Speaker 1: what that entire group has done is nothing short of amazing.
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  Speaker 1: They have come through on everything they've promised. They've come
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  Speaker 1: through on We all wish the hockey team was better,
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: which the hockey team had stars, Which the hockey team
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: wasn't fighting for a playoff spot and was in the playoffs.
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: I wish that would happen. It's also pro sports. Maybe
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: what's more important that we've all learned over the years,
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: especially with the Sonics leaving in two thousand and eight.
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: Do you have a venue, do you have strong ownership,
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: do you have financial stability? Do you have all those things?
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  Speaker 1: The answers are yes, yes, and yes. I mean climb
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: Pledgerina is just such a gift that we got to
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: this city. It's crazy because as we all know, ky
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: Aria wasn't cutting all right. We'll get more of that
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: two o'clock. We come back, Nathan, Chris. We are molly wopping.
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  Speaker 1: It's opening week Thursday, that's next.
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  Speaker 7: It's Monday. Then that means one thing. It's time to
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  Speaker 7: mollywop uncensored, unscripted and filled with the passion that all
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  Speaker 7: Mariners fans can relate to, and brought to you by
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  Speaker 7: simply Seattle dot com for the best Mariners gear. Now
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  Speaker 7: with the Mollywop boys, Nathan Bishop and Chris Crawford with
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  Speaker 7: my oh, why, here's Ian Fernett's.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Mile Why Yes, indeed, our good friend Chris
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  Speaker 1: Crawford of course, Nathan Bishop, you know him, you love him.
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  Speaker 1: They're the Mollywop guys. Often requested. People want to hear
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: from them, they want to talk to them. Guys. I
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: was going through something the other day and I'm trying
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: to find back it was I was looking for. I
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: was looking for. I was doing an email search and
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: I stumbled across the very first link, I believe it
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  Speaker 1: was for a Mollywop show back in twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, WHOA, that's wild, Like I just
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  Speaker 1: I stumbled across. Now, first of all, this says something
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: about me. I probably need to clean out my email better.
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: But it was it literally was an email from Shocky
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  Speaker 1: to you two guys. Me, here's a link. Let's do
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  Speaker 1: them all. We're gonna call it. And I don't think
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: we can call it molliwop yet. It was just a
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: reaction to Kevin Mather. I say that because here we are,
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: fast forward, all these years later and we're still doing it.
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  Speaker 1: I still love it. I still get great feedback. People
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: love this segment. Every week they want to hear from you, guys,
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: and probably no more so than this year. Maybe, And
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: we'll get into this one of the most, if not
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: the most anticipated Mariner seasons ever. Ladies and gentlemen, Mollywop guys,
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  Speaker 1: Nathan Chris, Happy opening week. We are right there on
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  Speaker 1: the horizon. Opening day, Chris is just four days away.
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: I'll let you start just this week. You know, I know,
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  Speaker 1: for you, Grandma and everybody else, it's always special.
• 12:58
  Speaker 5: It's super special special. I feel very special. Trying to
• 13:02
  Speaker 5: find out what the heck channel my Grandma's going to
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  Speaker 5: watch the Mariner game.
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: We'll get into that, trust me, we'll get into that
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  Speaker 1: in a minute.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, very frustrating because if she has to watch
• 13:11
  Speaker 5: them online, well, God help us all. No, it's it's fun,
• 13:15
  Speaker 5: you know. The the landscape is changing. A game on Netflix,
• 13:18
  Speaker 5: a game on the channel that pays me on Sunday.
• 13:22
  Speaker 5: It's fun that the Mariners are going to be the
• 13:24
  Speaker 5: first Sunday night baseball game of the year. Well, I
• 13:26
  Speaker 5: can't remember the last time that happened. I'm excited. I'm
• 13:30
  Speaker 5: excited mainly because I don't have to watch any more
• 13:33
  Speaker 5: exhibition baseball. It's just not as good. It's not as good.
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  Speaker 8: And I.
• 13:38
  Speaker 5: Admire everyone who goes to spring training and has a
• 13:41
  Speaker 5: good time and goes to play golf, which what most
• 13:43
  Speaker 5: people are actually doing is they're going to play golf
• 13:45
  Speaker 5: rather than to go play baseball. Hey, good for you, man,
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  Speaker 5: But I am ready for real baseball. I'm ready for
• 13:52
  Speaker 5: this to matter. And I'm super excited that it's a
• 13:55
  Speaker 5: home series against two playoff teams to open the year
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  Speaker 5: with a couple of games on Nash TV. What could
• 14:00
  Speaker 5: be better.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great time of the year. Nathan, go ahead.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I feel like we've been through a lot just
• 14:08
  Speaker 9: in the short time that we've done this show. That
• 14:10
  Speaker 9: was crazy and surreal to hear you say twenty twenty
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  Speaker 9: one ian, because it both feels like it's been less
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  Speaker 9: time than that. And I also can't really remember a
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  Speaker 9: time when I didn't do this show, So that's probably
• 14:21
  Speaker 9: that's kind of just how time works and how these
• 14:23
  Speaker 9: things happen. And I think back in twenty twenty two
• 14:27
  Speaker 9: and how excited this town and this region and the
• 14:30
  Speaker 9: fan base was when they broke the playoffless streak to
• 14:34
  Speaker 9: just dump all over that offseason and to go into
• 14:37
  Speaker 9: twenty twenty three with bad vibes. This feels now today
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  Speaker 9: like how that should have felt now, Like this is
• 14:45
  Speaker 9: that redone we've built. We've won the first division title
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  Speaker 9: since two thousand and one, and rather than going backwards,
• 14:52
  Speaker 9: you can argue how much they've gone forwards, if at all,
• 14:54
  Speaker 9: but they have sustained their talent level. They have at
• 14:57
  Speaker 9: least held regression at Bay talent. Why is going into
• 15:00
  Speaker 9: opening day today and allowed us all, even you know,
• 15:05
  Speaker 9: curmudgeonly jerks like me to dream the impossible dream that
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  Speaker 9: the Seattle Mariners could make the World Series in twenty
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  Speaker 9: twenty six. It is a very realistic possibility. Analytically speaking,
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  Speaker 9: media people all agree. I will not be labor the
• 15:22
  Speaker 9: point that the last analytics I did together about the
• 15:28
  Speaker 9: Mariners twenty fifteen, we just don't need to talk about
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  Speaker 9: that because that season didn't happen, and that was eleven
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  Speaker 9: years ago. This is a time, like we always talk
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  Speaker 9: about the dream every time we do the show, we
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  Speaker 9: let ourselves dream. That's what Opening Day is, It's the dream.
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  Speaker 9: But this time the dream feels a lot closer to
• 15:45
  Speaker 9: reality than it has since we've started this show. And
• 15:48
  Speaker 9: that's just it's really exciting. Man, there's no other way
• 15:50
  Speaker 9: to feel about it.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I agree with everything you're saying, and it's uh.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: And we'll get into the TV thing in a second,
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: because I just did a little test on something and
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: so now I'm I'm you think Grandma is confused? I
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: work in the big I'm confused. So we'll get to
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: that in a second. All right, let me let me
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: just ask this, and I think it is. But Nathan
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: did bring up a few years ago as well. But
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: I think because this team got to the ALCS Game seven,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: is this the most anticipated Mariner season we've ever had?
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: Chris, It's up there it's certainly the most anticipated for
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: me since two thousand and two. And I'm you know,
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: I'm trying to think of just not me, because for me,
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: two thousand and two was the most anticipated because I
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: had just graduated from high school and I didn't have
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: to worry about you know, I could go up to
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: Seattle all the as much as I wanted. I think
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: I ended up going to like three games that year,
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: But that's just how those things end up working. But
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: this is certainly the most anticipated season in twenty years. Like,
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: you were eight ounce away from getting to the World Series,
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: then you brought the whole team back. What is stopping
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: you from getting making that next step? What's stopping you
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: from having another MVP season from cal Rawly, What's stopped
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: you from seeing Julio Rodriguez at the age of twenty five,
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: developing into one of the very best players in baseball.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: What's stopping this rotation from staying healthy. What's stopping this rotation,
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: which was the best in baseball in twenty twenty three
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: and twenty twenty four, from pitching like that again? And oh,
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: by the way, you have one of the best pitching
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: prospects in baseball ready to go if one of those
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: guys isn't ready to be a productive member of that rotation. No,
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: this is as good as it gets. This is the
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: most excited I've been for Seattle Mariner baseball in over
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: half of my long ish life. It's pretty exciting and
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: people have every right to be pretty excited about this.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel that same way. The TV thing's a
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: weird little monkey wrench into it. I think a lot
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: of people are like, are we can't how? I mean,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: there's just the story that dimmished in the Times yesterday.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: I'm more confused than ever before. But I've had the
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: same conversations with them. I'll get to that in a second, Nathan,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Most anticipated season for you or right up there at least?
• 17:59
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think so. I feel less angry coming into
• 18:04
  Speaker 9: this season than I can recall feeling in any time,
• 18:06
  Speaker 9: and that's usually a good sign, because that's being angry
• 18:09
  Speaker 9: at this team is kind of my resting state for
• 18:12
  Speaker 9: reasons that I think are as at least as much
• 18:14
  Speaker 9: their fault as.
• 18:15
  Speaker 10: It is mine. But I don't feel that at this point.
• 18:18
  Speaker 9: What I feel is, you know, regardless of how this
• 18:21
  Speaker 9: season plays out, and we're going to have so many conversations.
• 18:24
  Speaker 9: As the season goes, there will be times when we're
• 18:26
  Speaker 9: really excited about them. There's going to be times when
• 18:28
  Speaker 9: I get to do my thing and piss off all
• 18:30
  Speaker 9: the callers and the text ers, and that's gonna be
• 18:32
  Speaker 9: fun too.
• 18:33
  Speaker 10: But more than.
• 18:34
  Speaker 9: Anything, I feel like, at least as much as they
• 18:38
  Speaker 9: have in my memory, the franchise has given us a
• 18:44
  Speaker 9: chance to experience the things that we deserve to experience
• 18:47
  Speaker 9: as fans, and that's Baseball is a weird game, man.
• 18:50
  Speaker 9: Weird stuff happens. I have seen like the twenty twenty
• 18:53
  Speaker 9: one Mariners were a garbage baseball team talent wise, and
• 18:56
  Speaker 9: they won ninety games. I already mentioned the twenty fifteen team,
• 19:00
  Speaker 9: which was a very talented team. I think they won
• 19:02
  Speaker 9: like seventy six games and didn't make the playoffs. Weird
• 19:05
  Speaker 9: stuff happens. What I'm not going to do is sit
• 19:08
  Speaker 9: here on opening day and say that they have failed.
• 19:11
  Speaker 10: To do their job in the off season.
• 19:13
  Speaker 9: They have given us the chance to feel how we
• 19:16
  Speaker 9: all feel today, and in more, yes, in more of
• 19:19
  Speaker 9: a way than I have experienced, at least as an adult.
• 19:22
  Speaker 9: Because Chris and I are about the same age two
• 19:24
  Speaker 9: thousand and two is the year that I always think
• 19:26
  Speaker 9: of because we were going to live forever and we
• 19:28
  Speaker 9: were just gonna win one hundred and ten games every
• 19:29
  Speaker 9: single year, and we weren't going to have nine to eleven.
• 19:32
  Speaker 9: That was gonna put the sour note in the team
• 19:34
  Speaker 9: and stop us, and we were going to do it.
• 19:35
  Speaker 9: And I watched them play in April and they demolished
• 19:37
  Speaker 9: the Angels and then we don't need to talk about
• 19:39
  Speaker 9: the rest of that season ever again. But yeah, since
• 19:41
  Speaker 9: that time, this is as excited as I've ever been.
• 19:44
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• 20:03
  Speaker 1: And yet it's so funny because with a very couple,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: very few exceptions, remember, baseball inside the Kingdom was really
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: not a pleasant experience. But but we love to look
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: back on our little favorite play. We can make fun
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: of the Kingdome and those teams you cannot. It's like
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: a sibling it's.
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: Our three dollars. It's our ice cream with the wooden spoons, all.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: The malt thing that the spoon would break, and then
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: what do you do? It's oh yeah, all good time.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: It was just the worst, but it was also just
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: the best.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: It was a beer, a red a beer in a
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: in a paper cup with wax that would melt right
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: through and oh yeah, the whole nine yards. Ah, those
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: glory days. Okay, Chris, we'll start with you. Opening day
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: roster this season. We've got a pretty good idea who
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: in what is on. It looks really similar to last year,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: with an addition of Donovan and just a couple of
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: little ones along the way. Opening day roster this year
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: compared to what they finished with last season in the ALCS,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: better or worse about the same?
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: I think about the same. I think there is a
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: noticeable downgrade potentially with no Jorge Polanco here. I do
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: think that people are forgetting how good Hojrge Polonka was
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: for the Seattle Mariners, not just with a couple of
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: huge postseason hits, but like a stabilizing force outside of
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: a one month in that lineup. And look, Cole Young
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: has looked great in spring training. I refuse to take
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: those spring training stats too seriously. I'm just being one
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: hundred percent honest with you. I'll also note this is
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: Cole Young's a top fifty prospect not that long ago.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: Who is I believe, twenty two years old, So it
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: won't shock me at all if he develops into an
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: above average regular. But I think there's a bit of
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: a downgrade there here. Here's what I'll say. It's it
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: may be about the same from the roster that ended
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: twenty twenty five. It's a massive upgrade from the roster
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: that they have to begin twenty twenty five. And one
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: of the reasons the Seattle Mariners ended up not having
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: home field advantage was they got off to another terrible start,
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: and in part because they were playing guys like Rowney
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: to Lez and Donovan Solano and starting people like Luis
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: f Castilla. If you guys remember Louise at the beginning
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: of the year. This roster is a lot better than
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: the one that began began twenty twenty five, and I
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: think that's just as important because the Mariners need to
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: get off to a good start if their goal is
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: to get to the World Series and like I've said,
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: I don't have expectations. I have demands of this team
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: going to the World Series. Home field advantage is going
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: to play a massive part in that, and getting off
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: to a better start is going to help along those ways.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: So yeah, it's about the same from where it ended
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: in twenty twenty five, but it's a huge upgrade having
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: put someone like Josh Naylor, having Jose Ferrer, having Brandon
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: Donovan from the roster that they had to begin twenty
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: twenty five.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna play everybody's strengths here. That's and and
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: that's well said. And Nathan you mentioned earlier that they
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: did their job. They you come into this season feeling
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: good about the roster, so I won't even ask you
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: about the roster and said, I'm gonna play your strength
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: and then Chris you can jump in as well.
• 23:15
  Speaker 10: I appreciate that.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: What what's the thing that concerns you most about the
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five Mariners. What's the kryptonite? What is it?
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: What is it that you're gonna say? This is this
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: is the old softy asking Steve Sarkisian the night before
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: a Husky football game, what keeps you up at night.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Sark loved that question much like I'm sure you do.
• 23:35
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I appreciate you not tossing me the ball when
• 23:37
  Speaker 9: I'm like in the paint with the big guys and
• 23:38
  Speaker 9: just let me hang out beyond the three point line
• 23:40
  Speaker 9: and bomb away. I'm gonna be out there by the logo,
• 23:42
  Speaker 9: just let me shoot, don't make me cross out of
• 23:44
  Speaker 9: the three point line on offense or defense. What's what
• 23:47
  Speaker 9: concerns me about this team? I think overall, if I
• 23:50
  Speaker 9: were going to look at a part of this team,
• 23:51
  Speaker 9: if we're just bringing it down into the three groups
• 23:53
  Speaker 9: of you know, positional, starting, pitching, relief pitching, I have
• 23:57
  Speaker 9: some concerns in the positional group, and it's really helped
• 24:02
  Speaker 9: out by the fact that they have probably the best
• 24:04
  Speaker 9: catcher and centerfielder in the sport. That really gives you
• 24:07
  Speaker 9: a pretty high floor with your positional group. But I
• 24:10
  Speaker 9: think that we as a fan base probably don't have
• 24:14
  Speaker 9: a real understanding of what normal Josh Naylor looks like,
• 24:17
  Speaker 9: because Josh Naylor in Seattle was nothing like what Josh
• 24:20
  Speaker 9: Naylor the normal player has been. That was a supercharged
• 24:23
  Speaker 9: version of him. I think, to Chris's point, we're under
• 24:27
  Speaker 9: playing the loss of Horrorgee Polanco coming into the season
• 24:30
  Speaker 9: and the potential for Cole Young to flame out and
• 24:33
  Speaker 9: create a hole at second base. I think we are
• 24:36
  Speaker 9: again in almost the opposite fashion that we were with
• 24:40
  Speaker 9: Horrorgete Polanco. I think we're overstating Gino Suarez's struggles at
• 24:44
  Speaker 9: third and assuming that Brendan Donovan is just going to
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: be a Gino Suarez type player. I like Brendan Donovan
• 24:50
  Speaker 9: a lot. I think he's a solid player. I think
• 24:52
  Speaker 9: he's played eight games at third base in the last
• 24:54
  Speaker 9: couple of years. He hasn't played a ton over there.
• 24:57
  Speaker 9: I don't see a lot that I love in right field.
• 24:59
  Speaker 9: Even though they have eighteen guys that are going to
• 25:01
  Speaker 9: play out there, I don't think any of them are
• 25:03
  Speaker 9: particularly good. I'm pretty sure I saw like I may
• 25:07
  Speaker 9: have just had too many beers while I was golfing yesterday.
• 25:09
  Speaker 9: But I think Mitch Garverer is here again this year.
• 25:11
  Speaker 10: Is that correct?
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: That is correct?
• 25:12
  Speaker 10: That's the thing that's still happening. Randy A.
• 25:15
  Speaker 9: Rose Arena really struggled down the stretch of last year
• 25:19
  Speaker 9: and in the playoffs, and it is a time in
• 25:20
  Speaker 9: his career with where that kind of skill set could
• 25:23
  Speaker 9: be starting to erode JP Crawford. Yeah, that could get
• 25:28
  Speaker 9: really bad very quickly. So those are all of the
• 25:31
  Speaker 9: things on that side. It's going to be buoyed by
• 25:34
  Speaker 9: the fact that cal Raley is going to hit forty
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: home runs and be the best catcher in baseball and
• 25:37
  Speaker 9: Julio very well could be the American League MVP this year.
• 25:40
  Speaker 9: But that positional group has a lot of areas for
• 25:44
  Speaker 9: me that are either not as good as the looked
• 25:47
  Speaker 9: last year or potential for severe decline or moderate decline.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Ryan Bliss, Luis Reevos, guys like that.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: With Crawford being banged up and so forth, that infield
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: group was an interesting one. Chris, same question, what's the
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: thing that would concern you kryptonite for this team? Because
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: most experts when you start seeing all that this is
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: prediction week. Everyone writes to their prediction stories right out there,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: and a lot of people are saying most talented team
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: in the American League. But there's always a flaw. So
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: what would be the flaw?
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: I would say everything Nathan Head and then just everything
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: Nathan said, excuse me, I combine nail on the head
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: and said there that's fun history, the history of the
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: Seattle Mariners. Man, like you until it it happens, you
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: can't ignore the history of the Seattle Mariners.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Like so true.
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: I always get mad at people who overuse stuff like
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: they've never done this, they've never done that, because like
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: in general, that stuff isn't very It doesn't help a
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: hell of a lot. But forty nine years or whatever
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: the heck it is of this, Yeah, I'm That's what
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: my biggest worry is. And until I see this team
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: actually do what it's supposed to do, I'm going to
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: be worried about and a lot of it for the
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: reasons like if Luke Rayley's playing a significant role on
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: the Seattle Mariners, I'm concerned. I'm concerned about Luke Rayley
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: playing right field for the Seattle Mariners against Ryan and pitching.
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: If Rob Revschneider is the everyday DH I really like
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: Rob Revschneider, I have concerns there too. I have some
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: concerns about Victor Roebliz. I have some concerns about Boy.
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: If there was an injured injury to either Julio or cow,
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: this team's ceiling just collapses. But more than anything else.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: It's just being a forty three year old who has
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: watched the Seattle Mariners his entire life. Screw the pooch,
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: and until I see them not screw the pooch, I'm
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: gonna worry about it.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: The uh, well said, uh well, just real quick on
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: TV for a second.
• 27:45
  Speaker 10: The okay, the.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Whole thing of where you can you watched them last year,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: you watch them again? This These wereally vague statements they
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: keep making. I don't know what games they're playing. I'm
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: just tell us now. Part of it is, I know
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: this as a couple weeks ago they were still working
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: on carriage deals like I can do so, and so
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: as this guy. You know, is this because now it
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: used to be you're on the cable, you're on direct TV,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: you're on dish. Well, now there's cable, there's direct TV,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: there's dish, there's YouTube, there's Fubo, there's the illegal streams,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: there's all these, I mean, all the different ways you
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: can get stuff, right, So where are you? I read
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: this story in the Times. I was more confused than
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: ever before. And then the fact, well, we'll let you
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: know on opening day morning, I guess when you go
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: to the alcs. You can kind of get away with that.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: To me, it's it's a little frustrating. Now. One thing
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: I did notice, because we have Comcast in the studio
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: here and I also have it at home. Six twenty
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: seven was root that doesn't exist anymore. You go to
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: the channel guide, it doesn't. It goes from six twenty
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: five to six twenty eight or something. Yeah, but if
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: you typed in manually six twenty seven, All Drink Spring Training,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: there was always a Spring training game on from MLB TV.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: It was most of the time Mariners or Padres, we're
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: on there. I just typed it in now and it
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: goes right to like the channel up, So that's not there.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: So I don't know if they've got the deal done
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: with Comcast yet or not. I don't know if they've
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: got a deal done with I think YouTube's an issue
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: and all those things. The fact that you's like saying, hey,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: let us we'll let you know on Thursday morning, it
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: was readily apparent last year you weren't able to get
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: the app done on time and there were major glitches
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: in it, and that's just not good business. So whatever
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: you're doing, get it figured out before WEDNESA or Thursday morning,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: telling people that they can figure it out and then
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: they have to probably dip into their pocketbook and spend
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: more money. I just get it done. There's just I'll
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: just that's my rant for the day. I just don't
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: think it's television. The fact that you're waiting till the
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: eleventh hour is ridiculous in today's world. Okay, let's come back.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: I wrote down expectations and predictions. I'm going to ask
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: that to Chris because I just want to hear it again.
• 30:00
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• 30:37
  Speaker 1: I'll get to Chris in a second. Nathan, I'll start
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: with you. Last season, the Seattle Mariners were ninety and
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: seventy two. They won the American League West by a
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: whopping three games. When it was all said and done,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: they had the third best record in the American League,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: behind only Toronto and the Yankees with those ninety wins.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: So ninety and seventy two last seasons for Nathan Bishop
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: this year, and we could even start with higher or
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: lower than ninety wins, or just look at division or bust.
• 31:08
  Speaker 9: Sure we can go lower I was saying earlier. I
• 31:09
  Speaker 9: said eighty nine and seventy three, so I'll be slightly
• 31:12
  Speaker 9: below ninety. The big thing that I am expecting this
• 31:16
  Speaker 9: year is, for the first time in franchise history, I'm
• 31:18
  Speaker 9: expecting the Seattle Mariners to win back to back division titles,
• 31:23
  Speaker 9: which would be honestly one of the greatest accomplishments in
• 31:27
  Speaker 9: franchise history because with a one hundred and sixty two
• 31:29
  Speaker 9: game schedule, what you do in the regular season is
• 31:32
  Speaker 9: deeply meaningful in baseball. It's one of the things I
• 31:34
  Speaker 9: love about it. So I expect them to triumph in
• 31:37
  Speaker 9: the American League West again this year. I'm also expecting
• 31:41
  Speaker 9: it to not feel quite as thrilling and overwhelmingly exciting
• 31:46
  Speaker 9: as it did last year, because I don't think that
• 31:48
  Speaker 9: they're going to be significantly better than they were last year.
• 31:51
  Speaker 9: And I think right now there's this feeling of like
• 31:53
  Speaker 9: we expect the team to take kind of the next step.
• 31:56
  Speaker 9: Whether they take the next step or not, in my
• 31:59
  Speaker 9: opinionion is going to be determined by what they end
• 32:02
  Speaker 9: up doing in the postseason, which is much more of
• 32:05
  Speaker 9: a crapshoot. But it also leads very nicely into us
• 32:09
  Speaker 9: throwing an ALLEYU towards Chris where he can now Sean
• 32:12
  Speaker 9: kempet down flying chickens in the barnyard and.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Such well set up. Well set up, Chris, you don't
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: have expectations for people who missed it before.
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: Nope, Nope. I have demands, and my demand is that
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: the Seattle Mariners go to the World Series. And I
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: have to be just completely honest with you, and this
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: is going to be a little bit Debbie Downer, and
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: I apologize here. My demands aren't just based on the
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: fact that I think this roster is good enough to
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: do it. My demands are not just based on the
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: fact that the Seattle Mariners said, run it back with
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: the team that was eight outs away from going to
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: the World Series. My demands also are based on the
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: fact that I have a ninety six year old grandmother
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: and I have cirrhosis and a tumor in my brain.
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: That has a lot to do with my demands for
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: the Seattle Mariners. I need to see this. My grandma
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: needs to see this as much as I understand sustainability,
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: as much as I understand that they should not make
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: decisions for me and my grandmother. Uh yeah, yeah, I
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: need to see it. And if I don't see it,
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna be either looking up or looking down at
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: the Seattle Mariners with disdain in a few years. And
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: I just need it. I need it, and we've never
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: done it. And you saw what the town did. You
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: saw this excitement from the Seattle Seahawks winning that Super Bowl.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: I was there.
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: It was one of the greatest moments of my life,
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: the Seattle Mariners winning the World Series. I love you,
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: Seattle Seahawks. Congratulations Jackson Smith and Jig But can I
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: borrow forty dollars? I this will claborate the Seattle Mariners.
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: Winning the World Series will clabber the Seattle Seahawks. I'm sorry, man,
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: This town, when baseball is at its best, is one
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: of the best baby baseball towns in the world. I
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: need to see it.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: You know why the one of the best baseball towns
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: in the world is because they suffer for fifty years
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: and they still keep coming back and they're still interest
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: And that's why when we do this show, it's still
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: one of the most downloaded things on the radio station
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: and people go back and listen to it because they
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: they're manner fans people are. That's a great Chris. I
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: think it's well said, great and everyone has their reasons.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Yours or are those? I think we all have those reasons.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, I want to enjoy it with my kids
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: and all those things I want that. Let me wrap
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: it up with this. We always do this. We're not
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: gonna be able to do it in person on Thursday
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: just because of our schedule with hockey and stuff stuff
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: like that, but we always do this, Chris Crawford, Why
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: is Opening Day special?
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: It's the eternal optimism, right like it is the everybody's
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: got a shot, everybody's got a chance, and it's just
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: it's one of those days where you just kind of
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: ignore your troubles and you just focus on the fact.
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: And the thing about Opening Day two is that at
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: one hundred and sixty two game scenes and so many
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: things can happen, right like even the Colorado Flip and
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: rock Okay, maybe not them. Even the Pittsburgh Pirates can
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: look at their situation and say what if. And you
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: can do that with baseball more than any other sport.
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: You can't do that with the NFL, like Fernando Mendoza
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: might be the greatest quarterback prospect ever. You can't say
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: what if with the Las Vegas Raiders winning the Super Bowl.
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: You can't say what if with the the New Orleans
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: Pelicans winning the World Series or winning the NBA Championship.
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: You can't do that with these teams. You can't do
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: that with the Vancouver Canucks, sorry guys for winning the
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: Stanley Cup right now. You can kind of do it
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: in baseball because there's so much that can happen. You
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: can't help but dream. I did it every year as
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: a kid. I knew the Seattle Mariners were flawed as hell.
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: I knew that there were so many better teams in
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: the ALS back when there were seven teams in there.
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: Still treamed about it, and you had one hundred and
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: sixty two games opening Day is so special because it
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: gives you a chance to dream like a kid again.
• 36:03
  Speaker 10: Nathan, I don't remember what I've said.
• 36:07
  Speaker 9: I probably have focused on my kid in the years
• 36:10
  Speaker 9: past here, and that's still very real. He's home for
• 36:12
  Speaker 9: a few more months before he's off to college in
• 36:14
  Speaker 9: the fall, and I think we're going to have a
• 36:16
  Speaker 9: really great time this year. His level of excitement for
• 36:18
  Speaker 9: baseball this year is unlike anything I've ever seen it personally.
• 36:24
  Speaker 9: I don't want to drift too far afield here, but
• 36:28
  Speaker 9: I'm finding things to be really challenging in a day
• 36:32
  Speaker 9: by day way in the world. And I don't think
• 36:34
  Speaker 9: that I'm really alone in that. I'm pretty confident that
• 36:37
  Speaker 9: I'm not alone in that. And there is something about
• 36:41
  Speaker 9: baseball that provides for people who are struggling with anxiety,
• 36:47
  Speaker 9: who people are just having a hard time with their
• 36:49
  Speaker 9: day to day. I think one of the things that
• 36:51
  Speaker 9: makes the game so special is that it's daily, is
• 36:54
  Speaker 9: that it is a daily respite from whatever other thing
• 36:57
  Speaker 9: is going on. And yeah, it's the Seattle Marrier's and
• 37:00
  Speaker 9: there's rim shots, and there's you know, Dylan Moore throwing
• 37:03
  Speaker 9: to an empty home plate. There's losing seventeen games in
• 37:06
  Speaker 9: a row in twenty twelve when it looked like they
• 37:08
  Speaker 9: were finally going to turn their corner. There's forty nine
• 37:10
  Speaker 9: years of not being in the World Series, and you
• 37:13
  Speaker 9: know what, I would take forty nine more without a
• 37:16
  Speaker 9: World Series, Chris, no affront to you and your demands.
• 37:18
  Speaker 9: I'm not trying to besmirch them, but I would take
• 37:21
  Speaker 9: forty nine more seasons without a World Series if I
• 37:24
  Speaker 9: just get one hundred and sixty two more games of baseball.
• 37:27
  Speaker 9: I get a summer where I can turn on the radio,
• 37:30
  Speaker 9: or I can turn on whatever streaming app. I get
• 37:33
  Speaker 9: to find out Thursday morning that they're being streamed on,
• 37:36
  Speaker 9: and I get to pay however much I have to pay,
• 37:38
  Speaker 9: because that makes daily life easier for me. I'm just
• 37:43
  Speaker 9: gonnaquo really quick. Just a line from Paul Giamonti, who
• 37:46
  Speaker 9: was the former Commissioner of Baseball, and he just said
• 37:51
  Speaker 9: that what he liked to do is he was offloading
• 37:54
  Speaker 9: more and more of the heavy lifting of his day
• 37:57
  Speaker 9: to the game of baseball. And that's how I feel
• 37:59
  Speaker 9: when base ball season happens. I want the Mariners to
• 38:01
  Speaker 9: win the freaking World Series, man, I want it every
• 38:04
  Speaker 9: single year. But I don't need them to win the
• 38:07
  Speaker 9: World Series because I have baseball for the next six months,
• 38:11
  Speaker 9: and I have this show every single Monday, and honestly,
• 38:14
  Speaker 9: in the midst of all the stuff that I'm finding
• 38:16
  Speaker 9: so difficult to navigate on a day by day basis,
• 38:19
  Speaker 9: those little things stack up and they give you a
• 38:22
  Speaker 9: life worth holding on to. It's without being too like
• 38:26
  Speaker 9: over hyperbolic about it, but like this stuff matters. These
• 38:29
  Speaker 9: are the things that we are assigning meaning to. The
• 38:31
  Speaker 9: Seattle Mariners are a center point of the rhythm of
• 38:35
  Speaker 9: my life.
• 38:36
  Speaker 10: And then they're back in three days, and I'm just
• 38:39
  Speaker 10: very grateful for it, and I'm grateful for this show.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: I think both of what you guys said, I think
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: everyone listening can relate to in a different way, not
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: exactly the same what have you, but I think we
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: all can relate. Opening Day Special and it's it's it
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: for this will be fIF your number fifty right, fiftieth
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Opening Day It's special and we will reconvene on Monday
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: and we will discuss God I hope is to con
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: start Chris Bensen. It not like they're playing an easy team.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: By the way, they were eighty eight and seventy four
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: last year won the AL Central. So fun way to start. Actually,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: to be honest with you, like a fun way to start.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: Let's get after it. Let's have some fun. Let's have
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: some fun. We talk real baseball, real results next Monday,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: and I can't wait. You guys are the best. Thank
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: you so much. Have a great week. That's Chris Crawford,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: That's Nathan Bishop. We'll take a break. Come back from
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• 39:42
  Speaker 1: Seahawks reportedly signing Jackson Smith and jbit four year, one
• 39:44
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• 39:47
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• 39:49
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• 39:52
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• 39:55
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• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Feels like we're pretty good shape here in Seattle, Washington
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: with the local NFL team. As far as wide receivers
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: are concerned. Ownership group of the sale, Cracking, led by
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Samantha Hallway, has formed a parent company, One Roof Sports
• 40:09
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• 40:13
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• 40:15
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• 40:18
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• 40:20
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• 40:25
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• 40:29
  Speaker 1: scoreless draw yesterday in Minnesota. I heard it was a
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: bad game. Yep, boring games.
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: Jackson Feltz said that how wasn't even me so sounds
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: he came in here hot, Yeah he did.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: He came in here flaming hot over that game yesterday.
• 40:46
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• 40:49
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• 41:29
  Speaker 1: and we are providing a couple of tiers for me. Geez, yeah,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: I mean it was it was a listen. I'm not
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: sure if there's a sport that gets that same level
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: of motion as baseball, not for me, and I think
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know, nor do I really care about the
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: thought that a World Series will be bigger than a
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I don't even know how you compare those
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: two things. I know Softy has said that for a while.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Chris said that as well, and opinions are great, that
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: that's what we do on sports radio. I don't even
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: know if that's true. I don't know if I care
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: if it's true. I really don't. I think it would
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: be massive. Titles are cool, they're huge. I'm not sure
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: if this past super Bowl is as big as the
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: first one, right, so the history it's just yeah, I mean,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: this one to me felt different than twenty thirteen.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: But comparison is a thievery of joy.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: In good well set sir, But baseball does give us
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: I think what they both kind of said, and I agree.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: It's one hundred and sixty two games, and I don't
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: want to diminish what anybody's doing, especially in the broadcast.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: But it's the best background noise in sports, you know.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: I know for us come home games on, it's on
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: the background, eating dinner, watching it, and so something's going on.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: Settle in part of your routine. It's part of your routine,
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: the fact that every day is great. We will find
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: out someday how you can watch the games. We're waiting
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: with beta breath for that. Can't wait. We know they'll
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: be on TV.
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: I think there will be a like pay per season
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: stream option, which I'm already all in on.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think well, I think people are waiting to
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: see if they need to do that or if it's
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: included because when the package, yeah and stuff, and we'll
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: find out. But we'll be all watch baseball and that's okay.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: And it just there's something about opening data that lists
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: a different set of emotions. I think part of the
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: two is at spring, like in every market. Every city
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: is different. I think for us here we live in
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: this the doom and gloom, the gray of Seattle from
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: basically October through whenever now now, but we know also
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: now we also know like tomorrow it's gonna be awful, right,
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: so we also know that, you know, we can have
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: a sunny day like yesterday and go oh or tease
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: by spring and then it's awful again. There's something about
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Opening Day and baseball. It's like, oh, spring's here, summers
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: around the car, just the weather, just to feel better.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Just give me a little sunshine, little vitamin D, and
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: and then just the enthusiasm this year for this team,
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: because there's no doubt. I think maybe maybe two thousand
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: and two, maybe three years ago, I don't know. This
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: feels just so different than any other season. You get
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: to with any eight out's of the World Series really
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: deeper than you've ever been, because you got to Game
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: seven of the Alcs, you had it. I mean, you
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: could reach out and touch the World Series. And you're
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: running at a back of this year and that's not
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: a bad thing to run it back. Now you've got
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: you know, arguably if healthy one through five, we'll just
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: say one through four right now is as good at
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: pitching staff as there is. You've got a back end
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: of the bullpen that is really good. You've got up
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: the middle, catcher, center fielder that are the best in
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: the game. Perhaps. Yeah, there's a lot of reasons to
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: be excited. So we'll get more to that a little
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: bit more on Thursday too, on the first day, opening
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: day of the year. I want to get your thoughts
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: four nine, four to five one to Commadadge text line
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: shop to comb Dodge Chrysler g Brahm at the corner
• 45:04
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• 45:07
  Speaker 1: or on the red microphone on the iHeartRadio app. I'm
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: going to kind of bundle this up there and get
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: and get some thoughts. The story that came out today
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: that the ownership group of the Kraken, led by Samantha Hallway,
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: has announced the launch of One Roof Sports Entertainment, which
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: now has a growing portfolio of properties. I'm reading from
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: their release and quote fuel new opportunities second paragraph enable
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: the pursuit of future opportunities. One Roof will serve as
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: the umbrella brand for the Seattle Kraken. Cimon Plage Arena
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: one Roof Foundation, Kracking Community ice Plex partnership of the
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: City of Seattle, Seattle Public Schools to re develop Moral
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: Stateium at Seattle Center, which is our underway. It's weird
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: driving by that place like that was, especially for a
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: lot of us that played there, Like yeah, to not
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: see those two overhangs, it's very strange. But they're gonna
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: do a phenomenal job with that. Uh and and also
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: represent the inner enterprise interest in the hl's Coachella Valley
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: Firebirds and the arena down there. But again, the key
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: is pursuit of future opportunities, and that's in the press release.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: So what does this all mean and and where does
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: this Where does this get us to my question? Before?
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: We hear a little bit today from toddlight Wiki at
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: a news conference, UH talking about Sam Hollwikes. I think
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: she is a name that you need to know. She's
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: a name you need to know. She is one of
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: the most powerful people in our region. Because of what
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: I just said. You run not just the NHL team,
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: but also the arena all for all intents and purposes,
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: own and operate the arena and all the revenue stream attached.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: We all know what's going on Wednesday. If I need
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: to refresh your memory quickly, I will vote by NBA
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: owners will take place, which would give the green light
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: to the NBA and Adam Silver to formally pursue and
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: explore exclusively the Seattle in Vegas markets for NBA expansion
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty eight. It's not handing us an expansion
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: franchise in Seattle on Wednesday, but it's a necessary step
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: and it's probably a significant one as well. Then we
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: start talking about ownership groups and all those other things.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: I just read you exactly from the press release. You
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: can connect the dots. What I'm asking you is this
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: this group and like we're we're on a text thread
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: with some we call it the hockey Boys text thread.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: Benton anders me, Chris, I understand, and I'm on another
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: one with some other buddies. I understand the frustration with
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: the hockey team not being better on the ice. They're
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: in a playoff race, but they're probably not a Stanley
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: Cup contender this year. I say that's weird because most
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: of the time, if you get in the Stanley Cup playoffs,
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: you're a contender. There just happen to be the two
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: best teams, maybe three best teams are in this conference,
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: so it's a little bit different. But take that aside.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: They're in a playoff race. We all wish they were better.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: I sure were sitting in top of the division. But
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: how comfortable are you with this group four nine four
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: five one. I don't know if they're the group, but
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: sure it sounds like they're putting themselves in a position
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: to be And with Sam specifically, I think they've done
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: a hell of a job. In full disclosure, I work
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: for them. No company's perfect, but I like what she
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: has done. I like what Todd has done. Victor, but
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: Bonus has done, Rob Latman, the rest of them. I think,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: if nothing else, here's why I would be. If I
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: was just sitting on the outside looking in, I would
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: be comfortable with the following. This is a group that
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: and everyone makes mistakes in sports. If they make a
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: mistake with a higher the money doesn't stand in the way.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: If we had to pay three coaches, We're going to
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: pay three coaches until we find the right guy. I
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: one hundred percent feel like they found the right guy
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: in Lane and Chris and Aaron. They've done a great job. Hey,
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: we're hearing from our fans. It stuff's too expensive. Tickets
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: are too expensive, concessions are too expensive. You find another
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: team in major sports that has lower prices. Find that team.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: For me, I think they do care within the constraints
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: of still running a business where it's a expensive business
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: to run. I like what they've done, but again I'm biased.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: How comfortable are you with this group? I think they're sensational,
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: but that's just me. Get your thoughts on that four nine,
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: four to five.
• 49:54
  Speaker 6: One question for you, Ian, Yes, how would you respond
• 49:59
  Speaker 6: to some one who maybe has second thoughts about how
• 50:02
  Speaker 6: the krack and on the ice are run and then
• 50:05
  Speaker 6: comparing that to still feeling comfortable about where the ownership
• 50:09
  Speaker 6: group stands and having them running the NBA team supposedly
• 50:13
  Speaker 6: if it comes.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: I think it's I think the simple answer is they
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: care about the product on the ice. The ownership does
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: and management like the upper levels and upper reaches of
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: this organization care. Does that mean like, but if you
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: go through all sports and thirty teams in NBA, thirty
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: teams in baseball were at sixty thirty two ninety two,
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty eight whatever it is in the
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: four major sports. I think they all care to a
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: certain level, but are they willing to put their money
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: behind it because everyone's going to make mistakes. I think
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: they do. I think they check all those boxes and
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: then some. I'm sure if you had Sam and the
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: old Humil in line, the true serum was injected. Are
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: you happy with how things have gone on the Icy
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: answers no, one hundred percent.
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: Not.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: I'm sure she'd like to have a Stanley Cup by now.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: That's also someone on realistic. We've gone through the draft
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: real quick. We don't have to revisit again. I did
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: that exercise again on Saturday. They haven't made they haven't missed. No,
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: they I mean maybe a couple arguments, coach a large
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: a couple misses that everyone else missed. When you're drafting
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: a seventeen year old kid, they didn't have a Connor cell,
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: they didn't have a Macklin celebrain or connorbidery to draft.
• 51:26
  Speaker 6: The only reason I asked that is because I'm sure
• 51:29
  Speaker 6: there's going to be the conclusion drawn about where the
• 51:32
  Speaker 6: Kraken are at, and you know, not wanting that for
• 51:35
  Speaker 6: the NBA.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, you want them to be good. Yeah, they Also,
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: it's not for a lack of trying. It's not for
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: a lack of want to. I'll just I say it again.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: They're paying three coaches, right that, that's all you need
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: to know. Hackstall had to go, Bilesman wasn't the right choice.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: We're going to pay a third coach. We're going to
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: do it till we get it right. Yeah, big off season,
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: but we'll get to them in the off season. This
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: is Todd Liwiki earlier today, meeting with some members of
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: the media. I think you'll hear the voice of one Christianiels.
• 52:10
  Speaker 10: Why is this significant news day? Well, beans the ampiguity
• 52:14
  Speaker 10: trolling interesting in the organization.
• 52:16
  Speaker 11: Well, it's the right thing to do. It's the right
• 52:19
  Speaker 11: thing to do by way of our fans, it's the
• 52:22
  Speaker 11: right thing to do by way of our dreams and
• 52:24
  Speaker 11: going forward what we hope and there could be a
• 52:28
  Speaker 11: big moment forthcoming and we're going to be ready.
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: Doesn't fundamentally change anything.
• 52:34
  Speaker 11: Happy read it doesn't. We've had a phenomenal partnership with OBG.
• 52:39
  Speaker 11: You know, we set out shoulder to shoulder to do
• 52:42
  Speaker 11: something that was unprecedented on so many levels, unprecedented and
• 52:48
  Speaker 11: being one hundred percent privately financed, unprecedented and saving a
• 52:53
  Speaker 11: historic landmark recognized nationally but also locally by landmarks. And
• 53:00
  Speaker 11: we did it together and we did it well. Today,
• 53:06
  Speaker 11: well it seemed like the good day and I was
• 53:08
  Speaker 11: I was actually supposed to go play paddle ball, but
• 53:10
  Speaker 11: the game canceled. So here, I said, all right, and
• 53:12
  Speaker 11: I had time today. All right, I'm being facetious. Why today,
• 53:17
  Speaker 11: Because if you look at the stars, maybe they're aligning.
• 53:22
  Speaker 11: And this is the right thing because there are other
• 53:26
  Speaker 11: things we have done here that merit a parent company
• 53:30
  Speaker 11: all by itself, regardless of what might be announced, you know,
• 53:35
  Speaker 11: things like Memorial Stadium, and so the parent name represents
• 53:40
  Speaker 11: who we are today and the ambition going forward, and
• 53:44
  Speaker 11: Sam's taking majority stake in the arena is the exact
• 53:49
  Speaker 11: same thing. It's going to make us better today and
• 53:52
  Speaker 11: it's going to position us going forward.
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: That group is called one roof Sports and Entertainment. Let's
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: get one more from Tyler Wiki talking about Samantha Hallway.
• 54:01
  Speaker 11: Well, she's meant a lot, and I think that I
• 54:06
  Speaker 11: always speak in very expressive terms when it comes to her.
• 54:10
  Speaker 11: But I've had the privilege of working for her. Now
• 54:13
  Speaker 11: I've worked for her as long as I work for
• 54:15
  Speaker 11: her dad, and she has moved here, she moved her
• 54:20
  Speaker 11: family here. I think she knew that for this organization
• 54:24
  Speaker 11: to be chartered properly, having the owner live in the
• 54:27
  Speaker 11: town and care about the town. She's here every day
• 54:32
  Speaker 11: and she's the one that green lit other things that
• 54:34
  Speaker 11: we were dreaming about in Memorial Stadium. I talked about
• 54:38
  Speaker 11: it a lot because it was improbable for us to say,
• 54:41
  Speaker 11: we're not going to respond to a commercial RFPA. We're
• 54:44
  Speaker 11: in fact going to respond through the spirit of our foundation,
• 54:48
  Speaker 11: and we're going to take on something that since nineteen
• 54:51
  Speaker 11: forty seven, since the day was open, nothing had really
• 54:55
  Speaker 11: happened there besides games and memories and all sorts of things,
• 54:58
  Speaker 11: but there was no physical change, and it was a challenge.
• 55:01
  Speaker 11: You had to tear it down building it back up.
• 55:06
  Speaker 11: And it's going to be better than I could have
• 55:08
  Speaker 11: even imagined the first day on that journey. It's going
• 55:11
  Speaker 11: to be quite spectacular, and it's going to have community impact,
• 55:14
  Speaker 11: and that's really what she's about. She definitely is a
• 55:18
  Speaker 11: business person, but she is a community activist. She loves
• 55:23
  Speaker 11: the city and she loves what we're doing.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: That's Toddler Wicky talking about Samantha Haway. I can tell
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: you for a fact that it's not lips her. She
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: is in the office every day. It's really it's rather
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: amazing that the owner of the team, and you know,
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: I mean you're an owner, you're at a certain level that's
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: different than any of us can even fathom. Yeah, she'll
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: just go I mean, I'll be doing a show there
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: at the thirty two bar. Girl, she just walk away.
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: How you doing, well, that's the owner of the ground.
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: I don't think I've been in any facility without seeing her.
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: She's there. I mean, she's there president.
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: She moved her whole family here.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: Well. I think the thing too that Todd said this,
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: this is why I have great confidence in her. Because
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: you're there every day, and you're in the office every day,
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: and you're not sitting in a penthouse high above looking down.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: You are seeing how things operate and cultures and all
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: those things. I think she's got a great handle on.
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: It goes back to what Anders asked. Yeah, there's things
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: you can't sugarcoat. Every team wants to be at least
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: good within in salary cap league, every team can be good.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: Is your scouting good enough, Is your personal decisions good enough,
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: your coaching good enough? All those things. Here's the other thing.
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: Are your facilities good enough? Are your players taking care
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: of well? And that's where ownership comes. That's where the
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: ownership matters. And I mean CASEI is state of the art.
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: Players are taken care of, they're fed, they're everything you need.
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: All the things that you need are there taken care of.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: On the personnel decisions, whether it's an NBA team down
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: the road or whether it's the hockey team presently, don't
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: get them all right.
• 56:58
  Speaker 6: Right, And that's like a right. It's important to separate
• 57:02
  Speaker 6: what where ownership has a stake in it versus if
• 57:05
  Speaker 6: it's hockey operations and that's their decision.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this is Yeah, I think there's hockey operations.
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: We could have that conversation into the year. They don't
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: make the playoffs, right. I should point out because this
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: is this is great misnomer. Ron France is not running
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: the hockey team like that is Jason bot Rolls running
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: the hockey team. Ron Francis kind of got the I
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: know people thought it was the promotion. The title's good.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: He's working with young guys doing some behind the scenes
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: got the day to day. Hey, this is what we've
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: got to figure this out with this player we're calling
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: that's all bots, trades all that, it's all bots.
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: It reminds me of Pete Carroll when he was offered
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: the position.
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: Well it's different.
• 57:44
  Speaker 4: Pete was fired, right, but he was offered an advisory role.
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: But he was never gonna be in the office, correct. Yeah.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: They weren't letting him go and scout players. So that
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: was that was that was firing. I mean Ron got
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: Ron got bumped out of out of power for.
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: Sure, right, but it was worded as a promotion.
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's that's I think they probably if
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: you'd retrospect, you'd probably look at it maybe differently or
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: what have you. But whatever, it's a different role. But
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: it goes back to the Anderseid like, So you're putting
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: an NBA team. If this is the group and they're
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: putting an NBA team together, do you feel confident in them?
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: I think if what you just said in terms of
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: do you think they'll have a nice practice facility, I
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: think the answer will be I don't know. I'm look
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: at the what they've got for the hockey team, right,
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: do you think that they'll be taking care of his players?
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: Look what the hockey team has.
• 58:36
  Speaker 6: Well, they spend the money when it's necessary to fire
• 58:38
  Speaker 6: a coach, sign a player, all that stuff.
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: I think the answer is yes, yes, But get your
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: thoughts four pnine four five one. Also on the I
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: heartright to have to rip microhone. Get your thoughts there too.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: We'll do that next.
• 58:52
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• 58:56
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• 59:11
  Speaker 1: All right here we got four nine four five one.
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: That is the Tobodage text line shop to Cambodage Christler
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: ge Bram at the corner of thirty eighth in South
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: to come away, ladies, gentlemen, boys and girls. It is
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: the intersection of savings.
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: Uh two six. It's a monopoly. I want different people involved, Okay,
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: I want to know why.
• 59:30
  Speaker 6: But there's plenty of ownership situations that have business from
• 59:37
  Speaker 6: a business.
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, several Yeah.
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: Nuggets and Avalanche. Same guy, Cronkie and Arsenal were thinking.
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: We think about that for a second. Yeah, they seem
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: to be.
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: Okay, Allen did also owning an NBA.
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: Team's about to win the Premier.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: League too, So yeah, there are right two six. No,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: their pockets aren't deep enough. I'm gonna just call I'm
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: just gonna just you do you as a fan? I
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: don't think anybody here should give a rip or care
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: one bit about how much a franchise is gonna cost
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: and who's paying for Like in terms of do you
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: have the money? Do you think the NBA is not
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: going through that process? And first of all it don't matter,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: don't you don't. First of all, you don't know whose
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: pockets we're talking.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 4: About exactly exactly.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's see. Would there be a chance the One
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: Roof group has interest in the Seahawks. I don't believe
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: so much.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 4: I think their focus is.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: On unless the Seahawks gonna move in to climb plays arena?
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: Can they move in to climate? Is that possible? Can
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: they play football and climb and play arena?
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 4: Think a really fun game to watch it.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: Let's see you lose the entire Lore Bowl? Yeah, both ends. No,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: I don't think so.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 6: I got a good one to six regarding the Kraken,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 6: I know they haven't quite hit a bullseye yet, but
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 6: it feels like they're legitimately trying to if that makes sense.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 6: Multiple coaches in the first few years is not ideal,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 6: and I know they haven't quite had the on ice
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 6: success the way they want them to yet, but I
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 6: believe they're legitimately trying to get this thing right and
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 6: very much want to win.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 4: Going back to the tournament, which is what I want
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 4: to go down there.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: Yet you simply have to ask the two six, how
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: far away do you compre the X organization and cracking
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: and they miss on a blank slate. They had a
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: choice of players and they chose wrong.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 5: Period.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: I'm going to challenge you to go back to that
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: expansion draft and read draft for me, because I don't
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: think they I mean.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: That's not where they went wrong. That's in my opinion.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: I think the criticism comes in the off seasons, yes,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: and whether you're not able to complete a trade or
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: not able to lure a free agent here, that's where
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: the Yeah, that's the blank slate and the expand let's
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: remember they didn't have the Vegas advantage.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: It's a different situation.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: I hate to be that guy if I want it,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: if if I'm gonna criticize this what anders I just
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: talked about, Like last year I thought was a disappointing offseason.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: You had all those draft picks and you didn't really
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: add you had Mason March and they trade Mason March.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: This is a big off season for them. We can
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: We'll have that criticism if it gets there, but not
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: right now.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 6: And again this is it's so important to know that
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 6: this is this is hockey operations, not the ownership. Hockey
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 6: operations goes to ownership being like, hey, we need this
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 6: amount of money to sign this player and they.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: Twol six weight. This organization stinks. Are clueless. They care
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: about everything but a product on the ice. Complete joke
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: and very disappointing. I cannot emphasize this enough. They care
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: about the product on the ice.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: He was possibly too much. To be honest, I think
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: they do too much.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I as I read through these,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: As I read through these and kind of look at
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: these these texts, I my my thing I would point
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: out to to Sam all the way, Pidlight Wiki, Victor
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: de Bonus, Rob Latman. I cannot emphasize enough to you
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: as I'm looking through all these texts, how important this
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: off season is for you, especially if something special happens
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: in the next couple of days and you're also involved
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: in another organization coming in here. Yes, because right now,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: as I look through this, it's a little sad, little
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: depressing in terms of the lack of trust they have
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: and how things are going on the ice. Yeah, I
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: also love that in a perverted way because people care.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: Yes, they care about this hockey team, man, and there passion.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: They care, and they're pissed and I like that. Now
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: I hear see somebody say, oh, you know, I see
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: the ticket folder different day one.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 8: I'm not.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: I have no interest right now. That's a problem. That
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: that is a problem. But when you're pissed off about
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: the product, that's good.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 4: The opposite of love is apathy.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 6: This is a different situation for what. However, many years
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 6: we talked about the Mariners that you know, didn't care
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 6: about winning. They just wanted to sell bibble heads all
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 6: that stuff. Right, Yeah, this is not that. I almost
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 6: think they cared too much about the products right now
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 6: on the ice. There's a lot of people in the
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 6: hockey world that wanted the crack in the tank and
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 6: get you know, one of those top picks.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: But this ownership group wouldn't do that.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 6: They said, no, we want to go for a playoff
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 6: spot this year, and the way to do that is to,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 6: you know, resign your veterans, kind of try and make
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 6: the most out of your situation right now. And you know,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 6: we'll see if that was the right move in the
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 6: long run. But I think saying that they care about
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 6: the product on the ice and winning right now as
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 6: a Seattle Cracking team is fair to say.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: Jess, I took it away from you. You had a
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: couple that you wanted to get to.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I was just coming back to the tournament
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 3: because we had discussed it earlier in the show, and
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 3: I alludes to our next show, it's stopping gonna take
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 3: it easy. This from the two oh six is stopting
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 3: gonna take it easy with Fain. I mean Faint's beloved
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: gone Zaga. We will get to that got food from
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 3: the tournament. We will get to that with Softy in
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 3: a second. My answer, my my initial thought is no.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 4: He's not going What does he ever take it easy
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 4: on anyone?
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: I don't. Let's see one roof future Sonics owner maybe
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: Storm and Torrent to one roof Sports Network. I don't
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: think the Storm are involved in a sale right now.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: I don't believe, but yeah, they're all under one umbrella
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: on one roof.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: What I like the most that I heard from this morning,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: by the way, when I was at Toddie Wickie's pressler,
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: which you know, you only can hear a little bit
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 3: of it, but the like the preparedness of this team
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: for any potential good news that could come out, which
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  Speaker 3: they did not talk about at all because they the
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  Speaker 3: respect they have for the league and the commit of
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  Speaker 3: the NBA is well noted. But I think that they
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  Speaker 3: are as prepared as they possibly could be for a
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  Speaker 3: potential good news on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 4: And I just wanted to give you.
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  Speaker 1: That they've done it all right. They've done it right,
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  Speaker 1: They've handled it correctly. There's probably a zillion times over
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  Speaker 1: the last five years since they open up the building
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  Speaker 1: that they'd want to say something like, hey, we're doing this,
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  Speaker 1: this is what we did. Sam met with the Commissioner,
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  Speaker 1: which he has all these things have gone on, but
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  Speaker 1: they haven't. They kept that. They've kept todd always says
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  Speaker 1: it out of respect for the process and the commissioner.
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  Speaker 1: We're not going to say anything. I mentioned this to
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  Speaker 1: somebody today. In the five years, two years before right
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  Speaker 1: the eight years or so that we've been doing this
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  Speaker 1: dance with since li Wiki got hired and as a
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: franchise was getting awarded, I bet he could count on
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: one hand how many times that Todd Lightwikie has been
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  Speaker 1: interview about something involved with Climent Plagerina, the Seattle Kraken,
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  Speaker 1: the Torrent coming to town, whatever it is, Memorial Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: How many times Todd have you been interviewed and somebody
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  Speaker 1: hasn't asked about the NBA. Every single interview he has
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  Speaker 1: done was very few exceptions, and they've they've handled the
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  Speaker 1: right way. Wednesday could be a fun day.
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  Speaker 3: And we've all seen that he's got the Mitus touched
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  Speaker 3: with everything.
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  Speaker 4: So I think that's why he gets asked about it.
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  Speaker 1: He's in charge, so he's gonna get he will. But
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  Speaker 1: I think I think he's handled it well. I think
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  Speaker 1: I think that's that's the thing is like every I
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  Speaker 1: mean extremely respect. I'm trying to think back when we
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  Speaker 1: were down in Daniels and me and a couple other
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  Speaker 1: people down.
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  Speaker 2: In uh what you call it?
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no Georgia Seattle and Georgia or the franchise.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the NBA came up on that conversation too, and
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  Speaker 1: the NHL is awarding a franchise. We're talking about the
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  Speaker 1: NBA outside.
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  Speaker 2: That is it fair to say it's never been closer?
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  Speaker 5: Ian?
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  Speaker 8: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: The only time was closer is when they were going
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: to move to the Sacramento Kings Here. That was closer.
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  Speaker 1: The difference was we didn't have a building that was
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, the building issue still.
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  Speaker 2: Existed, right, that is no longer an issue.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: That is no longer an issue. Softy joins us. Next,
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  Speaker 1: all right, they have tomorrows here. Yes, I am here,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: js N signs of contract extension, the Todd Light Wiki
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: and Samantha Hallway announced that there's everything's going under one
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: roof foundation out at uh right, which and in the
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: line here, Dave is great, the line here in the
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: press release did it to oversee a growing portfolio properties
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  Speaker 1: and fuel new opportunities?
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  Speaker 12: Why not just come out and just go NBA basketball.
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  Speaker 8: Gary.
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  Speaker 12: That'd be hilarious, right if they actually put that like
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  Speaker 12: a quotation marks cough cough, n being.
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  Speaker 10: I don't know man.
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  Speaker 12: I mean, I'm just trying to figure out what I
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 12: should be more fired up for right now? Like, am
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 12: I more fired up for the opening day on Thursday,
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 12: the baseball season starting? Am I more fired up for
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 12: the vote and the announcement on Wednesday?
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  Speaker 7: You know?
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 12: Like what what really should be at top of mine
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 12: for sports fans right now? Because the Mariner season starts Thursday.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 12: You're gonna go to the game, We're gonna be all, hey, yeah,
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 12: look at this, and then we gotta he won more
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  Speaker 12: to go. We have banners, we do well. We have
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 12: a banner American West Championship banner for the first time
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 12: in twenty four freaking years, So that's fun. Would have
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 12: been better to have a World Series banner or an
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 12: American League Championship banner, but I'll take the West.
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  Speaker 2: That would have been great.
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  Speaker 12: And then we got one hundred and sixty one more
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  Speaker 12: to go starting on Friday. So I mean, for me,
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  Speaker 12: I will just answer my own question. I feel like
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  Speaker 12: I'm kind of way more dialed in and motivated and
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 12: consumed by what's happening Wednesday than I am with what's
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 12: happening on Thursday. Right if this were October, different deal.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 12: But Wednesday, to me, is that's the day where they
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 12: can kind of almost rubber stamp this whole thing. If
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 12: they say, hey, we are ready to start asking you
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 12: what you will pay for an expansion team. That is
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 12: them opening up shop, and that's a huge step.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: Andrews asked softly the same question you asked me.
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  Speaker 6: So for those who might be concerned regarding what's going
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 6: on with the kraken on the ice, yes, how would
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 6: that be different or what would you say to those.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: People that that wasn't the question? That wasn't the question
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: which one Okay, fuck you guys.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: Need to show four questions question?
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  Speaker 2: Are you talking about?
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: Can you have that credit card number?
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 11: Now?
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: This is as close as we've been since two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and eighty?
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  Speaker 8: Right?
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  Speaker 10: Yes?
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean I said that when the thing came
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 12: out two weeks ago, when they said we're going to
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 12: have this vote on Wednesday.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: The other thing I said was Sacramento felt like they
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: were coming here for about what eight hours? But the
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: difference is, and this we covered this on the air.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: Would you would you listen for I can't listen.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 12: I mean, how do you get in your car? You
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 12: got your little podcast? You listen to you got your
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 12: Canadian buddies, you got to call your hockey people. All
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 12: those things are true, right, all your insiders. But the
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 12: difference now is that that was Chris Hansen just kind
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 12: of going rogue with the maloof brothers. This is all
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 12: the NBA's timeline, the NBA structure, This is the way
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 12: they want this done. This feels way more closer than
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 12: it did in twenty eleven.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: I told Andrews, I said, the biggest difference to me
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: is simply this. Well, what you said is perfect, but
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: also the place up there on Queen Anne, absolutely, because
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: if the Kings would have come here, it would not
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: have corrected the issue that we have.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 12: Well, and there's no question about that, if you had
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 12: the arena already done, which they never would have left anyway.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: But let's just for giggles.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 12: They we'd be talking about rooting for the Kings right
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 12: now for shiggles and gets hey, chickles and okay.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 4: That may be nervous.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was ready, get ready.
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  Speaker 12: That's why I asked him to do it, because I
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 12: can't literally said that on the air probably ten thousand times.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: I haven't messed up one.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 4: Time, Okay, not once, still makes me nervous and gets
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 4: you always do.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: He'll mess up, He'll mess up some other things, get
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: some chickens, lots of things, mess uptos. Alright, well before
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: we play shitty hockey and go down that road and
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: higgles and gets Okay, alright, that's.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 12: Because you got another problem. You want to know what's
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 12: on the show today. I assume I do you milling
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 12: at four? But okay, Mike the course, he had six
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 12: twenty on the program talking to college basketball, him and
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 12: a couple of fun with audio segments. We have so
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 12: much great audio from the weekend, guys like Mick Cronin
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 12: opening up their pie holes.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: Oh god, things like that. Did you hear the.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 12: Final call the Nebraska game to win and round one
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 12: the announcer going bananas?
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 10: Man, So we got a.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 12: Lot of stuff. Okay, well, so you know what I
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 12: will listen today, you know what, just don't bother, all right,
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 12: don't bother?
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 12: You're kind if I don't have to. I'm like the
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 12: guy that on the bar in episode four. We're not
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 12: going to serve you. We don't need your kind. We
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 12: don't have to wait outside. You know what, I'll do
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 12: your podcast.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: We really want Americans here on this show. Wow, I'm American.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 12: Chelsan gets it for the mild mannered and marginally objectionably
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 12: in forness.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: This is paddle Day saying so long everyone,