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Best of Chuck & Buck 3-12 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Oh good Thursday Morning. Welcome into the radio show that
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, nicknames just sometimes you get them and they stick.
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  Speaker 1: nine years now.
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  Speaker 6: Now I'm sad it's not the Jacobson Barnyard of Fun.
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  Speaker 3: I agree, Well, I agree, we could try to bring
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  Speaker 3: it back. Yeah about all those.
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  Speaker 6: For the Mick Jacobson Barnyard of Fun too.
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  Speaker 1: Well, good morning and welcome in. It is a Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Chuck Powell, former Mariner, Bucky Jacobson is here,
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  Speaker 1: and Ashley Ryan as well. We've got four hours planning
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  Speaker 1: for you today, all sorts of juicy topics to discuss,
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  Speaker 1: and certainly we'll try to cover them all, cover them, surely,
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  Speaker 1: all by ten o'clock here this morning, including a brand
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  Speaker 1: new segment that I were trying out today and also
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  Speaker 1: an annual segment that returns to our show here today.
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  Speaker 1: And with that being said, first and foremost, just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to make sure this is a little check everybody survived
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  Speaker 1: the windstorm last night. Fifty mile per hour winds last night.
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  Speaker 1: They seemed to touch us all wherever you were in
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  Speaker 1: the Pacific Northwest.
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  Speaker 6: It was windy.
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  Speaker 1: It was windy. It was windy.
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  Speaker 3: We'll say that I did think I was dying at
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  Speaker 3: about midnight. Oh well wow, well it's because I have
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  Speaker 3: my seapap on and then the power went out, so
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  Speaker 3: it basically kind of plugs your nose and shoots the
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  Speaker 3: air up there. When it's working, power goes out, it
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  Speaker 3: just plugs your nose. So you wake up to it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh oh okay, and it's extra dark in the room,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, no alarm clock or any of that
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  Speaker 3: stuff is shining on the ceiling. So I'm like, oh boy,
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  Speaker 3: here we go. So yeah, get up and go out
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  Speaker 3: in the wind and the rain and set the generator up.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, we're good, We're good. Good.
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  Speaker 5: Go.
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  Speaker 3: I did read last night that there was already up
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  Speaker 3: on Alpantal, which is only twenty miles away the summit
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  Speaker 3: up there where there's people ski there was one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and thirty four mile our winds.
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  Speaker 6: Oh man, what yeah, that's madness.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's I mean, that's that's only twenty miles away.
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  Speaker 3: And some of it seems like it got down to
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  Speaker 3: my house. Maybe that gust I got the back end
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  Speaker 3: of that thing, because the shrapnel getting out of my driveway.
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  Speaker 1: Was it was a lot. It was a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Head you out and move about four or five different
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  Speaker 3: tree branches, well just little ones.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it was windy all like evening long, and
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  Speaker 1: yet you know that it's kind of strange how mother
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  Speaker 1: nature works. All of a sudden, you just I heard
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  Speaker 1: like this train sound, and I'm like, what on earth
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  Speaker 1: is that? You're like, that is the one? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean it just decided. I mean, it was windy all
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  Speaker 1: night and then all of a sudden, it just decides, No, no,
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  Speaker 1: we're really gonna get windy. Now was windy, idiot, Now
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna shoot some stuff. Yeah, so you better put
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  Speaker 1: you better put on some protective eyes where if you're
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  Speaker 1: standing within range, that's here it comes. And then I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how much longer that it lasted. It was
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  Speaker 1: one of those evenings. I'm like, here's an idea. Why
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  Speaker 1: don't we go to bed a little early tonight. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because we're not going to be affected if
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  Speaker 1: as much. If we've got everything done and we get
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  Speaker 1: to bed and then we just let it happen. But
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  Speaker 1: our power didn't go out. I don't know why, because
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  Speaker 1: it was when I first moved to Woodenville, it felt
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  Speaker 1: like it went out every fifteen minutes, like the neighbor
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  Speaker 1: could fart. You know, I'm gonna go outside for a
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  Speaker 1: quick fart, honey, and the power would go.
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  Speaker 3: Dan has been known to do that Woodenville all across
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  Speaker 3: the Puget Sound, but it didn't go out.
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  Speaker 1: But obviously we didn't have quite the win that you did. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, woke up this morning to you know, emails from
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  Speaker 3: Snowkaomia Valley School District that they're going to be the
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  Speaker 3: powers out in all the schools, so they're going to
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  Speaker 3: be working on a two hour power delay, which obviously
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  Speaker 3: something big had to go down somewhere big and hit
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  Speaker 3: a transformer station or something, because we tip don't lose
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  Speaker 3: power unless something comes down on my property and knocks
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  Speaker 3: the power that's overhead, the stuff that's underground. We're kind
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  Speaker 3: of in the old school, one of the first ones
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  Speaker 3: from the transform from the transfer station to our house.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, something big must have happened last night about
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  Speaker 3: midnight and it's it's still ongoing.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, you got win when your school gets
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  Speaker 1: winded out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you don't want that. No, Actually, I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: my son does. Love he's like cried on.
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  Speaker 7: We were at Palmer the Great's fifth grade concert. They
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  Speaker 7: were singing and it was an outdoor it was not outdoors,
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  Speaker 7: it's indoors, but the power started flickering during the concert
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  Speaker 7: and they're like, okay, we're just gonna speed this up,
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  Speaker 7: make sure we get this done before the power goes out.
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  Speaker 1: Did you say with ukuleles?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, there was a ukulele performance Inane?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. Was it an electric ukulele or was it
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  Speaker 1: acoustic because the ukulele can keep playing if it's ACOUSTI
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  Speaker 1: it's acoustic. Yep.
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  Speaker 6: And they all each class got a song with the ukulele.
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  Speaker 6: Each song was about twenty seconds, okay. Was we were
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  Speaker 6: in and out of the concert in twenty minutes?
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  Speaker 1: Wind affected kids concert?
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  Speaker 5: It was.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Bear's got his second or first grade? First grade?
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  Speaker 1: I guess I should know.
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  Speaker 6: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't look it up. Second grade.
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  Speaker 6: I am not sure what grade your child.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure either. But he's got his concert tonight too. Ohez. Well,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully the power gets back on.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's concert, I mean postent. Yeah next week.
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  Speaker 1: If they don't have it, there might not be another
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  Speaker 1: grade school music bad music concert if we keep this
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  Speaker 1: one scheduled. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there won there won't be
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  Speaker 1: another one ever. If you don't have this one.
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  Speaker 6: Wait till you get to fourth grade. When they play
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  Speaker 6: the recorder.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I can't wait. The ukulele is really advanced. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: who's playing the ukulele at your kid's school?
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  Speaker 6: We were, They all were. They all got it in
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  Speaker 6: music class.
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  Speaker 7: So every class had like they had their turn on
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  Speaker 7: their uka song and they all had a ukulele. Then
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  Speaker 7: they'd transfer the ukulele over to the next class and
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  Speaker 7: they all played one song.
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  Speaker 6: Although I see a lot of fingers moving.
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  Speaker 1: Was it somewhere over the rainbow?
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  Speaker 6: No, they did not play that.
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 6: Actually, that is great with a ukulele.
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  Speaker 1: It is great. It really is, and it's usually the
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  Speaker 1: only one that comes to mind. But Principal don Hoe
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  Speaker 1: up there at Palmer's School teaching everybody this is required learning.
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  Speaker 7: I was shocked, and she's like, yeah, no, we we
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  Speaker 7: are playing the ukulele. I looked at her, I said,
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  Speaker 7: you're learning the ukulelean music.
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  Speaker 6: She's like, yeah, Mom.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody in the school system thought this is a skill
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  Speaker 1: that will come in handy a lot yep in the future,
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  Speaker 1: learning the ukulele. Ah, that's great, all right. Well hopefully
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  Speaker 1: I mean I get everybody's probably got their own wind
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  Speaker 1: storm story here this morning, but hopefully everybody's safe. I know,
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  Speaker 1: some power outages did occur. I don't know why they
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  Speaker 1: don't occur where I live anymore. I think, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: do they just do you think maybe they just really
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  Speaker 1: like Scotch taped it really well the last time, taped
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  Speaker 1: it all, I mean real tight. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta really statch that on there. Because the power
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  Speaker 1: didn't go out anymore, used to go out, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you've sneezed now, didn't go out anymore. That's good? Yea,
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  Speaker 1: the super Farer didn't just move. Could have been super
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  Speaker 1: far to just packed up his bags and his ukulele
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  Speaker 1: and got the hell out of town. All right. Uh well,
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  Speaker 1: if if power's going out in a lot in a
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  Speaker 1: new city somewhere in America and they can't figure out why,
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  Speaker 1: you better check to see if Dan move, that''s fault.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Let's uh, let's get into this sports world,
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  Speaker 1: because the crosswinds of the National Football League have been
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  Speaker 1: blowing heavily. Uh in Las Vegas, where the Raiders yesterday announced,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, we tried to trade Max Crosby. We
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  Speaker 1: did trade Max Crosby, and now we're done trying to
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  Speaker 1: trade Max Crosby. Even Max Crosby himself has said that,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, forget that, I don't want to play
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  Speaker 1: with the Raiders anymore. Whatever that experience was, to be
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  Speaker 1: traded to Baltimore and then for it not to go through,
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  Speaker 1: I think I missed a step to be traded to
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore and then to have video evidence of how much
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  Speaker 1: he partied and celebrated leaving the Las Vegas Raiders and
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  Speaker 1: then found out that it wasn't true. Whatever that experience
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  Speaker 1: was for Max Crosby, he apparently has rethought his future
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  Speaker 1: with the Las Vegas Raiders, and so Crosby made it
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  Speaker 1: clear yesterday, as far as I'm concerned, I'm a Raider.
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  Speaker 1: The Raiders have said that we might not no longer
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  Speaker 1: be interested in trading him, even though every insider in
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  Speaker 1: the National Football League said that the Raiders' phones were
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  Speaker 1: ringing off the hook as NFL teams, and we don't
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  Speaker 1: know which ones. I kind of think the Seahawks would
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  Speaker 1: have checked in on him. We're calling the Raiders all
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  Speaker 1: day long to try to get back in on this,
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know. This is a game of diversion,
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  Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. But Max Crosby is available.
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  Speaker 1: But right now, the Raiders are saying that we're not
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  Speaker 1: looking to make a move now we have reconsidered Max
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  Speaker 1: Crosby's future with us.
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  Speaker 3: Now interesting, I mean that they went out and made
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of moves after they thought it was going through,
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  Speaker 3: right after it was agreed upon for those few days,
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  Speaker 3: spent what three hundred million plus in free agency, and
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  Speaker 3: maybe they're thinking themselves like, well, now if we enter,
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  Speaker 3: you know, throw him back into the fold. We might
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  Speaker 3: have a kind of a nasty defense. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: for I don't think they've addressed all of the issues,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that as far as the rebuild goes,
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  Speaker 3: they were probably looking forward to the couple first round
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  Speaker 3: picks that they were going to get for him. But
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  Speaker 3: I mean, to some degree, I think they're doing what
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  Speaker 3: they're They're playing their cards the way they need to
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  Speaker 3: play their cards. Or fine, well we can keep him.
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  Speaker 3: We had enough cap space somehow that yeah, we can
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  Speaker 3: do that, and you act like you're accepting it back
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  Speaker 3: with open arms, so that if it does work out
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  Speaker 3: that he's on your squad, you're like, hey, glad to
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  Speaker 3: have you back. You know, we thought that we were
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  Speaker 3: going to this direction. Now we're going a different direction.
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  Speaker 3: And if anything, it just keeps his price up, because
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  Speaker 3: I don't think one thing for sure. I don't see
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  Speaker 3: them turning around and being like, well, we just want
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  Speaker 3: to get rid of him. You know, he is the
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  Speaker 3: best player on their team after all, So I think
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  Speaker 3: that they're kind of like, well, we're gonna We're gonna
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  Speaker 3: at least save face and look like we're fine with
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  Speaker 3: you coming back. If that's the way that it ends up,
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  Speaker 3: and you play the twenty twenty sixth season with him
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  Speaker 3: on your roster, and if if not, then maybe another
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  Speaker 3: team still jumps up there and is interested in giving
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  Speaker 3: you that same type of price that you were going
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  Speaker 3: to get from the Ravens.
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  Speaker 7: I wonder too, if it's yeah, if it's more, well,
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  Speaker 7: we are happy to have him back. We love having
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  Speaker 7: him back, because they're now concerned that no other team
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  Speaker 7: wants to come forward with another two first round.
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  Speaker 6: Draft pick off.
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  Speaker 7: So if they say like, well, we're great and he's
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  Speaker 7: healthy and he's going to play and he's going to
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  Speaker 7: be a huge part of our team, then other teams
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  Speaker 7: are like, well, maybe it really was just Baltimore getting
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  Speaker 7: cold feet and not wanting to give up their draft
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  Speaker 7: picks and maybe he really would be worth it if
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  Speaker 7: we gave up two draft picks, so we should really
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  Speaker 7: consider this.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think that's that absolutely the story. I think
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  Speaker 1: that is. I think that there's a the NFL is
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  Speaker 1: doubting that Baltimore really renegged because of a medical report.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's had a medical history, so there's no way
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  Speaker 1: to prove that that's the reason that the Ravens knicks
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  Speaker 1: the trade. So there's no way that the NFL is
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  Speaker 1: going to do anything. They're not going to force the trade.
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  Speaker 1: They're not going to penalize the Baltimore Ravens for backing
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  Speaker 1: out of it because he does have a medical history.
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  Speaker 1: But I think that's what the Raiders are counting on,
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  Speaker 1: that is that the NFL has figured out the Ravens
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  Speaker 1: just saw a better way toward a pass rusher. Even
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  Speaker 1: though Eric DaCosta, the general manager, said yesterday, and take
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  Speaker 1: this for what it's worth that no, we wanted Crosby
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  Speaker 1: and hendrickson. O. No, is that him covering his ass,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't Yeah, that's what I think. Yeah, he's just covering
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  Speaker 1: his ass, him feeling guilty that yeah, you caught me,
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  Speaker 1: and now I've got to come up with a story
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  Speaker 1: that because I don't want you to think I'm a liar,
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  Speaker 1: even though I am one. Right, Yeah, so I mean
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  Speaker 1: draw your own conclusions. We don't know anything, but certainly,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the Raiders had a really good tampering period.
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  Speaker 1: Sound funny. Our tampering period was awesome. We had the
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  Speaker 1: best tampering period. We crushed our tap. I mean we
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  Speaker 1: had a bad football team, but oh, our tampering period.
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  Speaker 6: Man on fire Chef's kiss there.
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  Speaker 1: But they had such a good experience. And I know
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  Speaker 1: that there were a lot of experts out there that
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  Speaker 1: were like, everybody got overpaid, and yet no, the salary
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  Speaker 1: cap up. And when a salary cap goes up, all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, everybody's salary goes up in that free
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  Speaker 1: agent market. And so the Raiders could have a day
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  Speaker 1: in which they signed eight guys in the first day
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  Speaker 1: and still have enough cap space to take back Max
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  Speaker 1: Crosby's thirty million dollars salary, plus still have cap space
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  Speaker 1: to work the rest of the off season. Yeah, they
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  Speaker 1: could very well in a new I mean it's not
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  Speaker 1: a new regime, but it's a new head coach. I
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  Speaker 1: mean Clint Kubiak might say, hey, do I get something
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  Speaker 1: to say about Max Crosby. I mean, I realized that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, whatever happened in the previous regime, that you
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  Speaker 1: might have burned a bridge with him. But I'd like
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  Speaker 1: to build that bridge back. I mean, I'm a I'm
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  Speaker 1: here to win, and I could really use a Max
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  Speaker 1: Crosby type. So who knows what's happening behind the scenes,
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  Speaker 1: But for Max Crosby to have yielded his relationship with
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders so much that he could go through this
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  Speaker 1: experience and announce yesterday, as far as I'm concerned, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a Raider. Something's changed. Something has changed with Max Crosby's
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  Speaker 1: identity with the Las Vegas Raiders.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I feel like he was I know
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  Speaker 3: that that when the videos and stuff came out about
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  Speaker 3: him celebrating it was right on the heels of the trade.
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  Speaker 3: I think that it was also his birthday or someone closed.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was his birthday that he was celebrating. Also,
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  Speaker 3: like where they and the Ravens understood, hey, you already
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  Speaker 3: had plans to go ahead and have your little sore
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  Speaker 3: and and whatnot. So I don't know for sure if
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  Speaker 3: the Raiders took that as him celebrating I'm out of here.
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  Speaker 3: Thank God, I don't have to be a Raider anymore.
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  Speaker 3: And so the repairing.
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  Speaker 1: Of the whole thing.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's a dude that's went out and played
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  Speaker 3: like his hair's on fire for a bad team, for
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  Speaker 3: a bad organization that just has been kind of listless
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  Speaker 3: for quite some time. And I would imagine that they
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  Speaker 3: were not necessarily wanting him to go, but thinking to themselves,
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  Speaker 3: we got the first overall pick, if we can get
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  Speaker 3: another one in the middle of the first round this
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  Speaker 3: year and another one next year for a guy that
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  Speaker 3: you know for sure the way in which he plays,
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  Speaker 3: he's not going to be the same dude four years
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  Speaker 3: from now.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean it's like.
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  Speaker 3: Are you a year or two years or maybe even
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  Speaker 3: three years of Max Crosby's prime. Are you that far
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  Speaker 3: away from being a contender in a division that's kind
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  Speaker 3: of stacked and you're you're most certainly the fourth place
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  Speaker 3: team in the entire division.
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  Speaker 1: He has a three year deal, so if you're bringing
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  Speaker 1: them back, you're planning on winning in the span of
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: the next three years. Yeah, and they should be. Well,
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: every team in the National Football League should be prepared.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: I mean The Patriots showed you you can turn it
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: around in one season. They went from four wins to
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: you know, AFC champions. Like you, this is not baseball.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: In the NFL, you better have no more than a
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: two year plan. I don't care how bad you are today,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: you better not have any more than a two year
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: plan to win. And I'm not talking about become a
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: playoff team. I'm talking about two year plan to win
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: the whole damn thing. If not, you're cheating yourself and
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: your fan base. Well, there's not a lot of teams
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: that figure out how to get it done that quite
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: that you know. Well, I think also you have to
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: look at the situation you're in, right. We always talk
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: about the winning the division as your first goal, and
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: so where are you at right? It's like one thing
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: if you're looking at the Chiefs and you're like, well,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: maybe they got to fall off at some point over
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: the last seven, eight nine years that they've been so
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: dominant in the division, and so you're thinking, Okay, maybe
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: they've come back down to earth a little bit. But
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: now that you know, the Broncos are kind of on
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: the rise a little bit, The Chargers are on the
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: rise a little bit, are you a Max Crosby away
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: from a few other moves turn turning into where you
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: can actually take that division from some of those other teams.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: A lot is yet to be seen. I mean, three
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: hundred million bucks is going to go a long ways.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: And if you add just say that, it's almost like
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: you added Max Crosby back, because you'd figured when they
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: make it, all those free agent moves are tamper moves
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: that they were thinking he was on the way out.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Now all of a sudden, it's like they kind of
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: got him back in free agency in a way. So
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: I'm sure that the most Raider fans right now are
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: feeling like, boy, we're a whole hell of a lot
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: better than we were a week ago.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Most certainly.
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I should just clarify.
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: He was celebrating six years of sobriety, so it was
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: that's what the party was for.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Was his. But he was drinking and doing drugs.
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: No, I think he was just smoking a cigarette.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Everybody else was drinking. He wasn't drink.
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: He wasn't drinking.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he looked drunk.
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  Speaker 6: No, I don't.
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: Yeah, he's just just hanging out celebrating, Okay.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: All right, well, the Seahawks, whodos if there's any level
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: of interest there. But you know, we can speculate. It's
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: fun to speculate. Right now, Max Crosby has gone from
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: I'll never play from the Raiders again to I'm a
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Raider in about three four months at time. All right,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: let's find out what's on tap for the rest of
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: the show. What's on what's on tep? All right, the
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: NFL New Year is underway. It began yesterday at one o'clock.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Greg Bell will be with us at seven o five
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: to celebrate that. The Hawks have been quiet since their
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: re signings of Josh job and Rashid Shaheed, and I
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: say quiet, but they did do a few things, yess,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: and I think some clever things. They brought back their
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: long snapper, Christol Jake Bobo is back, so they worked
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: out a deal with him, and Josh Jones as a
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: free agent, who Hugh Millen has said might be the
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: best backup offensive lineman in Seahawks history, they brought him
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: back as well. So Josh Jones returning to the Seahawks.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: And I'd call that a productive day for the Seahawks,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: even though they didn't do anything big and splashy college basketball.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: U dub wins their first game of the Big Ten Tournament.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: The Huskies took out the Trojans eighty three to seventy nine,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: so they keep their hopes alive of making the NCAA Tournament. They'll,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: of course, have to win the Big Ten Tournament in
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: order to do that, and there is a long way
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: to go and it will next stop at Wisconsin. I
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: mean it's in Chicago, but they'll face Wisconsin today at
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: eleven thirty. ASU was humiliated out of the Big Twelve
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Tournament yesterday and Bobby Hurley his last game as head
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: coach unfortunately tasted like that. Hurley was fired after the
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: game and that was sort of expected. We are three
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: days away from Selection Sunday, and one thing that we
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: do prior to Selection Sunday every year is check in
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: with our friend Matt Santangelo as we'll talk about the
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Zags their outlook for this year as they try to
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: win that elusive national championship. He joins us every year
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: at this time, and today is the day nine o'clock.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: He'll join us on the radio program Crack an Avalanche
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: tonight at seven o'clock. No definitive word as to whether
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: or not Bobby McMahon is going to play in this game,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: but al Kiniski told us yesterday that he hopes that
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: he will and thinks that he should. But we shall see,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: as we are still awaiting the newcomers' debut in a
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: crack and uniform. And in the WBC, Italy got it
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: done nine to one over Mexico yesterday, and so it's
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Italy advancing and allowing the US to advance the tournament aspect.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: The single elimination tournament aspect now begins now that pool
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: play is over, and we do know that the US
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: will be playing Friday against Canada and Josh Naylor at
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: five o'clock. We also know that Italy will be playing
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: noon against Puerto Rico. Venezuela and Japan will meet Saturday
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: as well, and as Puerto Rico and Italy play Saturday
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: at noon, Venezuela Japan six pm at noon, and then
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Korea and the Dominican Republic Friday at three thirty. So
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: those are the eight teams that advance in the WBC,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: which we are going to talk about shortly. We will
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: also talk to Mariners Baseball today as the countdown is
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: officially on to opening day and Cole Young, with every
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: day that passes, is strengthening his position as the starting
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: second basement for this team, which we will discuss later
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: on in the show. But coming up next, the WBC
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: team USA advances Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Italy getting the job done last night over Mexico. Nine
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: to one was the final score. Certainly, some not just
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: scoreboard watching, some game watching. Mark de Rosa had to
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: be the most uncomfortable person in America as four o'clock
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: ran rolled around yesterday and the game started rather low scoring,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: which was against what the USA needed last night, but
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Italy and Vinnie Pasquentino erupted on Mexico pitching and ended
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: up winning easily nine to one. All you needed was
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Italy to win the game for the US to advance.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: But once they got to the sixth run mark or
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: the five run mark, you knew that it was over
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: last night in terms of US and their qualification. You
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: knew that they were in at that point. So I
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: don't know what yesterday was like for Mark de Rosa.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: I don't think very comfortable.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: But he can relax now, yeah, I wasn't real comfortable
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: for him, and just for the rest of the guys.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: They have been knocked out in pool play would have
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: been not very good considering how good that team is
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: and all of the things that led up to being
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: right there on the bubble. I mean, I was, I
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: was with it. I took the kids to the library
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: yesterday about four o'clock, so I was they were looking
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: for books, and I'm kind of kept checking my phone
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: and say one zero zero zero, there's one zero.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: I'm like, come on, we need some more runs. What's
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: going on here?
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: And then obviously Passquatch ended up what dropping three bombs,
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: so he pretty much said I got this US at
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: this point.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: So and he actually did say it. He got in
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: his postgame press conference and said, your welcome team USA.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I know it sounded crazy when I said that yesterday,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: but I don't think those guys. I think they put
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: US across the chest first, even though they're playing for Italy,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: and I don't know if they felt all that great
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: about possibly eliminating the US from the tournament and for
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: it to come up and pass. When Tino's he wasn't
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: even asked about it. He looked into the camera. You
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: know he's got Bobby with his teammate with the Royals,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: and he goes, we did that for you us. You know,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: we got you, we got you, we got it done
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: for you. Now is that tongue in cheek? Is that
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: him like rubbing it in like if it wasn't for us,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't be advancing or was there an element of well,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: we didn't mean to knock the US out of the
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: tournament because we're kind of we are Americans, We're not Italians.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: We were kind of rooting for them if it's not
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: going to be us. So he did address it afterwards
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: after hitting his three home runs yesterday. Yeah, I mean I.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: Would I would think that they would love nothing more
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: than to win, right, I mean their competitors and for
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: them to show up. I told you how I talked
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: to Miles and and we we mentioned it with Canzone
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: when we were down there for spring training, the idea
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: of you know, what's it going to be like? And
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: you know, I think I had talked to Canzone in
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: the clubhouse and he was like, it's not like we're
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: thinking we're going to go out there and win the
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: whole thing, but it would be fun to you know,
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: shake things up a little bit. When you all of
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: a sudden knock them off, it's got to feel good
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: at the same time. Yeah, that's I guarantee you most
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: of them are like, well, if we aren't going to
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: win it, we want us to win it. And if
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: we all of a sudden, are the ones that basically
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: put them on the bubble and then don't carry up,
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: you know, follow through the next day against Mexico and
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: allow it to be kind of because of us that
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: they're eliminated. Yeah, I would imagine there's part of that
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: that would not sit super well with them. And so yeah,
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: I mean they knew it most certainly after all of
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: the hoop lov of after Mark de Rosa's misstep and
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: saying basically just admitting that he didn't know what the
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: rules were. Everybody kind of knew what the rules were
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: going into that game. And Italy's like, boy, we could
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: be heroes for Team USA even though we weren't put
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: on Team.
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: USA, right, right, and we have another chance to beat
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: them if we Yeah.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: And at this point I think it's just like, oh, hey, yeah,
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: we're the hot team in the tournament.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Right now, let's maybe we can win the whole thing.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's single elimination. Anything can happen in baseball,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: and they're certainly seeing the ball well right now, there's
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: no question about it.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, and they have some guys that can throw.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's not again, it's not a bunch of
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: dudes that are you know, flinging pizzas you know in
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Italy before they showed up to the WBC. I mean,
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: there's some legit big league dudes that I mean, Aaron
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: Nola going out there yesterday. When I found out that
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: he was throwing, I'm like, there's a good chance that
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: they hold Mexico down, which was not necessarily the way
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: that I was.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: It is a good team, I mean that is, it's
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: not everybody's talking like Buster Douglas actually shouldn't say everybody.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: I saw Softy's tweet about that, is this Buster Douglas
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: over Mike Tyson is like, no, this is a good
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: team and it's baseball and anything can happen in one game.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Which was sort of my point yesterday is I mean,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: this really blows up in Baseball's face if the US
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: doesn't make it into the eight team tournament by allowing
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: teams to fatten up that wouldn't otherwise have a chance
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: against the US. Your ratings go down the tank without team.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: It wasn't like some pro, overly aggressive pro US statement
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: that I was making yesterday. It was pro tournament, it
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: was pro baseball, it was pro marketing. The last thing
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I wanted was to get done with the WBC after
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: putting spring training on hold, having sixteen Mariners exposed to
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: WBC training versus Mariners training, and then the US doesn't
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: get there, and as soon as the WBC is over with,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I got to hear from football people about how crappy
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: the WBC rankings, ratings were on television. You know that
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: to me is what the statement was that I was
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: making yesterday, is that Major League Baseball sort of went
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: out of its way to beef up other teams. And
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: by the way, Ashley, yeah, the rule is that, yes,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: if a grandfather, but the way I read it, the
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: rule is if you can get a passport to Italy,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: you can be on their team. That's part of the rules.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: You don't have to have a grandfather or a father anything.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: If you can, if you can get a passport to Italy,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: you can.
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: Be on the team, but you have to to get
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: a passport in Italy. You'd have to show some proof
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: of citizenship, just like to have a passport in the
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: United States.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, if you can get a passport to
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Italy from what I understand, Oh I don't, no, No,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: you have to get an Italian passage.
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: It has to be an Italian passport.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway, anyway, whatever, I mean, the Italian government can
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: rubber stamp that. Whether your fathers are Ugandan or not.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I mean there are ways around it. I mean none
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: of them have their parents from Italy. So they beefed
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: up all of these other teams and put the US
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: in a sport where you can easily be upset on
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: any given day against any opponent that features professional baseball players.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: All of a sudden, the US loses one game and
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: might not make the tournament. That would have been disastrous
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: for this event. There's an absolute disaster most certainly not
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: worth doing to spring training what you did the spring
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: training frankly, yeah, and I'm not saying that is overly
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: aggressive pro American. I'm talking about what the event is
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: scheduled to do, which is build the game globally, and
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: you don't get that done. If Team USA is not.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: In your final eight, yeah, well yeah, if USA gets
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: knocked out, it most certainly hurts the overall spectator part
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: of the thing. To me, there's a I mean, the
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: the idea of you're going to have a couple teams
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: in each group that are not I mean, Brazil wasn't
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: really all that competitive, and yet they tried, right, I mean,
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: they're throwing seventeen year old kids out there that it's
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: cool to see, like it's a cool story, and yet
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: you're like, they don't have enough firepower to go against
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: to go out there and knock off some of these
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: teams that you know, you talk about Italy who's playing hot,
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: and they have a lot of big league guys, but
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: they're not the household names. I mean, they're the Dom
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: can Zones and and guys like that who might burst
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: on the scene. But they're not Aaron Judges, they're not
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Cal Rowling's, they're not the star studded lineup, and so
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: you just think, Okay, over the course of four days,
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: you gotta be able to figure out a way to
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: be the top one or two teams. And yet they
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: were on the outside looking in with needing some help
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: from Italy at that point, or obviously Mexico is the
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: way in which it worked out, so it kind of
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: it ends up working out in a way where you
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: don't have to go through the hardship that would be
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: the entire WBC. The experiment falls flat on its face
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: if US isn't in there. But like you said, and
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: you're gonna have the haters. They're going to be like,
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: this is just dumb. This is I mean, I don't
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: think it is. Even if US didn't get in there,
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: I still would have been interested, but I wouldn't have
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: been as interested. I would have been disappointed for sure.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: But you're a diehard baseball fan.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: So if you have the average fan, like, as soon
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: as the US gets a lot, I'm not watching this. Yeah, yeah,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: no doubt about it. I mean that was going to happen,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: yeah for sure.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: And yeah, you know they since they got in you
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: think about it now, you think about the teams that
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: are in there, and it is it's going to be
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: kind of star studded all the way through. I mean,
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to know many of the Korean players,
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: per se. I don't know a lot of the Japanese players,
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: But I know.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: You'll know the Kims, and you'll know Jung Huli. Yeah. Yeah,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Actually there's only one Kim playing. Yeah, the other one's hurt. Yeah.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: I won't know a ton I mean, but then again,
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: it's just I don't know all the Canadian players either,
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: and yet there's a lot more of them than there
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: are Brazilians or the Panamanium guys. And so to me,
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: I think the tournament has been a success so far.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: Before we were on the cusp of something that was
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: would have been catastrophic to the viewership and the overall
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: outlook of the WBC.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Something else happened in the WBC yesterday and the cal
• 31:31
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• 32:01
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• 32:05
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• 32:10
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• 32:25
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  Speaker 1: up here in a matter of moments, but we of
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  Speaker 1: course start every seven o'clock hour with a few headlines
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  Speaker 1: The Huskies win by four yesterday. Big game for Zoom
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  Speaker 1: Diallo in the contest. He had twenty two points, he
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  Speaker 1: had eleven assists, he had seven rebounds. Yeah, that's what
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  Speaker 1: you'd like to see out of Zoom. They'll try to
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  Speaker 1: get it done today, guess I at eleven thirty. Selection
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  Speaker 1: Sunday is now just three days away. Arizona State's not
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  Speaker 1: going to be in it. They were humiliated yesterday in
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  Speaker 1: the first round of the Big twelve tournament, and it
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  Speaker 1: was the final straw. Bobby Hurley fired as their head coach.
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  Speaker 1: Cracking in action tonight against the Colorado Avalanche. That's a
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  Speaker 1: difficult team to get well against. And yet the Cracking
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  Speaker 1: have had some pretty good success against the better teams
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  Speaker 1: in the NHL, and they always picked themselves up off
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  Speaker 1: the ground. Just when you thought that they were knocked
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  Speaker 1: down for the last time, they lost three straight games.
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  Speaker 1: They'll try to get things right tonight against Nathan McKinnon
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  Speaker 1: and the Colorado Avalanche. Will Bobby McMahon make his debut.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps al Kiniski was optimistic with US yesterday, but the
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  Speaker 1: trade acquisition at the deadline still has yet to suit
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  Speaker 1: up for the Cracking this season. WBC Italy won over
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  Speaker 1: Mexico nine to one yesterday, which means Team USA advanced
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  Speaker 1: to the single elimination eight team tournament in the WBC
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  Speaker 1: playpool is over. Pool play is over with, and now
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  Speaker 1: we get to that single elimination tournament which is going
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  Speaker 1: to start on Friday. Two games on Friday and then
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  Speaker 1: two more games on Saturday. And the US is going
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  Speaker 1: to face Josh Naylor and Canada in the first round
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  Speaker 1: of that tournament. And what else do we got going on?
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  Speaker 1: Mariner spring training continues. Another home run for Cole Young.
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  Speaker 1: He is muscled up this spring. He's got a slugging
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  Speaker 1: percentage of seven point thirty three so far in spring
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  Speaker 1: training action, so he might be solidifying that spot at
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: second base. We'll talk more about that later on this hour.
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  Speaker 1: And the new year has begun. The National Football League
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: ring in its new year yesterday at one o'clock. Even
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: though the tampering period featured about five thousand moves prior
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: to free agency actually officially began. The Hawks have been
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: quiet since re signing Josh Job and Rashid Shaheed, but
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  Speaker 1: they did make a few signings yesterday to keep a
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  Speaker 1: few guys that they like, even though they might not
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  Speaker 1: be big, splashy names. Let's talk about those guys with
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Greg Bell. Now, with the bell.
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  Speaker 2: Tolls, it must be seven o'clock and time for twelfth
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  Speaker 2: with Chuck and Bud.
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  Speaker 1: Hey. Greg, Good morning, Good morning. Well, we got a
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  Speaker 1: few little things to discuss here today. The Seahawks weren't
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: inactive yesterday. Jake Bobo, Chris Stole, Josh Jones all being
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  Speaker 1: brought back. Yeah, they might look like minor moves, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad that all three of those things got done.
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  Speaker 1: Was there any doubt about any of them at any stretch?
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  Speaker 1: And how important do you think it is these three
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  Speaker 1: moves yesterday?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's a nod toward running it back with their
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: core locker room type guys. And you look at statistics
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: and you say, well, Jake Bobo two catches twenty yards
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: the whole season, a healthy scratch after they traded for
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: Rashichi Hea, how big of the loss would have been?
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: So what? He only played seventeen percent of the offensive
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: snaps last year in a much more reduced role after
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: they drafted Tory Horton. The locker room guys loved Jake Bobo,
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: and since since the first of January, when I hear
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: the name Jake Bobo, I think of the block he
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: made on the third and seventeen running Week eighteen in
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: Santa Clair against the forty nine ers that Kenneth Walker
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: ran for a first down on him. Probably it was
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: ten three at a time late in the third quarter,
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  Speaker 5: and Bobo took out three guys on one player with
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: three different blocks. Two of them were they took each
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  Speaker 5: other out after Bobo hit him, and players on the
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  Speaker 5: sideline and then the locker room after the game were
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: going crazy about those that played at Bobo man. It
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: was one of like eight plays he was in in
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  Speaker 5: the whole game. That's the kind of stuff Jake Bobo's
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  Speaker 5: done since he got to the league. Bobo was undrafted,
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: of course, he played at two schools, Duke in UCLA.
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  Speaker 5: He is pretty much self made himself into an NFL
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  Speaker 5: player in a three now going on four year career.
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: Those are the type of players Mike McDonald wants. Yes,
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: they want Devin Wood's, Boon and Jackson Spitted Jigman Sam Darnold,
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: but they need Jake Bobo's too. They need guys that
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: you tell them that you're going to play half the
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: time that you played the previous year on offense. Okay,
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: what do you want me to do? Block? Okay, I'll block.
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  Speaker 5: You want to play special teams forty five percent of
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  Speaker 5: the time, all right, I'll do that. You want to
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: play with a broken hand, which he played the Super
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: Bowl the broken hand. He broke his hand in the
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: NFC title game, and the next morning he flew to
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  Speaker 5: Los Angeles. He and Brady Russell did, and they got
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  Speaker 5: a two for deal with doctor Stephen Shin, who is
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: a hand specialist in Los Angeles Caesars Sinai. They said
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  Speaker 5: they passed each other in the surgery wing of that
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  Speaker 5: clinic and they both came back and played in the
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  Speaker 5: Super Bowl. Bobo played with a pen in his hand
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  Speaker 5: in that game. So that's the kind of guys you
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: need to fill out your team. You just can't be
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: all starters, all dudes who want the ball, who want
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: lead roles. You need guys who are about the team.
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: Josh Jones was that as a backup tackle sad all year.
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  Speaker 5: They signed him from a veteran from Baltimore. Last season
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: he played with Houston and other teams. He wasn't doing
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: anything for four months and then Charles Cross gets hurt
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  Speaker 5: and they need him and Josh Jones goes in and
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  Speaker 5: plays left tackle for three starts and is brilliant. The
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  Speaker 5: three best rushing games the season Seahawks had going into
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  Speaker 5: the playoffs. Those kind of guys are invaluable and it's
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: worth a couple million dollars to re sign them. In
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: Bobo's case, they went to the very last moment before
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  Speaker 5: the league year began. The league gear started at one
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  Speaker 5: pm yesterday, Bobo would have become an unrestricted free agent.
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  Speaker 5: He had been restricted one and the fact that they
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  Speaker 5: did tender him at three point five million dollars four
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  Speaker 5: minutes before the deadline tells you they thought some other
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  Speaker 5: team was going to sign him and they didn't want
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  Speaker 5: to lose them.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there's a couple other guys that were on that
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: same list of restricted free agents, and yet now they,
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: by not being tendered, are now unrestricted free agents. I mean,
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: Brady Russell's another guy. Doesn't he fit that same mold
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: of you know, great special teams guy. Do you figure
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  Speaker 3: they're going to bring him back?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, So what they do is if they calculate that
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  Speaker 5: nobody else is going to sign him or probably won't
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: sign you, the Seahawks would rather not be tied to
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: I think we've talked about this. They don't want to
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  Speaker 5: be tied to a tender set at fl undervalue tender
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  Speaker 5: for well, in this case, for Bobo, exclusive rights, meaning
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  Speaker 5: you get to match any offers three point five million dollars.
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  Speaker 5: Brady Russell's case, it would have been a little less
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: because of a little less playing time, but they don't
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  Speaker 5: want to be tied to this is how much his
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: cap charge in charge for twenty twenty six is going
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  Speaker 5: to be. Let's let you go to be an unrestricted
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: free agent so we can strike any deal we want.
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: We're not tied to a tender number. And that's what
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: they're doing with him, probably with Cody White too, the
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: wide receiver they really like, who also was a restricted
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: free agent, is not unrestricted. But the danger that, of
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: course is they're free too, and their agents are free
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: to talk to anybody, and someone could beat the Seahawks offer.
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: Then the Seahawks would be hoping that they just want
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: to come back as their Super Bowl champions, and they
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: love the locker room, they love the coaching staff, and
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: that works too for guys like Brady Russell. So that's
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: the calculus they've made in those cases, so they aren't
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: tied to a tender deal. Aj Finley had been a
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: restricted free agent, and it looks like they let him
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: go to unrestricted and then signed it back immediately as
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  Speaker 5: an example of not being tied to a league mandated number.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Greg bellis with us our Seahawks inside, of course he
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: can follow is complete coverage of the Seahawks every single
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: day of the year. They're at the News Tribune dot
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: com and follow him at g Bell Seattle on x.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: I guess you could say despite the three moves yesterday
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: that compared to some other teams out there, the Syawks
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: have been a bit quiet here in the last forty
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  Speaker 1: eight hours of this process. Is this the lull that
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: we expect out of John Schneider? Does he have a
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: couple moves up his sleeve. He's just waiting for price
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  Speaker 1: to come down.
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  Speaker 5: This is the waiting till the secondary phase of pre
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: agency and running back is the market that we'll come
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: back to him. We talked about running back and teams
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: not wanting to invest a ton of money any running
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: back getting paid. Talker Algier, They've already gotten paid. So
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: now the guys are the bargain basement shopping big lots guys,
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: and not to disparage their skill, but the market is
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: bearing that they aren't signed yet, so their price will
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  Speaker 5: go down. And so now Snyder's in no hurry. He's
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: got guys in mind, And then wouldn't surprise me if
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: for Shaun White, the rookie. Former rookie even tore up
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: the Seahawks and Munich for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: Tom Brady a few years ago. Guys like that. We
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: talked about White yesterday. Brian Robinson's still available. He's also
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: twenty six years old. The mid twenties. Guys still young
• 42:39
  Speaker 5: enough who aren't expensive, Younger cheaper, remember, keep talking about
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: that younger cheaper. Well, they're going to get younger, cheaper
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: running back. They have to now because they let Kenneth
• 42:47
  Speaker 5: Walker go. It's those type of deals that are coming up.
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: The most noteworthy thing to me about this week is
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: the fact that the Seahawks and the Denver Broncos the
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: two number one seeds in the player last year, and
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: you could argue who was probably going to be the
• 43:02
  Speaker 5: Super Bowl matchip if bow Knicks hadn't gotten hurt. They're
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: the only two teams in the league that have not
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: signed an outside external free agent. Why is that? Because
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: they're good teams and they'd want to bring back all
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: their own guys, and the Seahawks have spent almost eighty
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: million dollars now on their own guy eighty two million
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: on their own guys. So it's not like they haven't
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: done anything. But they prioritize bringing back Rashichi Heat for
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: fifty one million, chiefly over everything else, and they said, well,
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: we'll make it work. Now. Everybody else is coming back
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: on offense except Kenneth Walker, and everybody else is coming
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: back on defense. Starters except Kobe brad. You could argue
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: that Riequillen was a starter, but Josh Jovid supplanted him
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: for much of last season, and they brought Joe back
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: to good. Teams want to keep their teams good, and
• 43:52
  Speaker 5: they want to keep the players that made him good.
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: And the Seahawks believe they've done that with the Glary
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: exception of running back. And that's the one spot on
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: this team that you look at and go, m what's
• 44:03
  Speaker 5: a team that runs fifty percent of the time among
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: the most in the league going to do at the
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: primary running back position with your heir to Walker injured
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: and maybe not coming back till November October. That's the
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: big question that's gone on for the last two three
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: weeks of the Seahawks.
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: Gee, what do you think about a guy like Naje Harris.
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, he had four four straight thousand yard seasons
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: before he heard his achilles last year and didn't hardly play.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's creeping. I think he's twenty eight, so
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: he's creeping up towards that thirty number. But he's a
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: guy that I mean, you could get for two three
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  Speaker 3: million bucks probably, and if he comes back from the
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: achilles injury, he might be a guy that fits the bill.
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  Speaker 5: No, I'm following Nazi Harris. I'm from Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: area and Steeler interested in the Steelers.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: Still, I think frank O'harris is faster than him right now.
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: That's the problem is that that your medicals. You're leaning
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: on your medical staff there and the Seahawks. Every NFL
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: team has a medical evaluation, not just on college prospects
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: that are going in a draft, but on pro players
• 45:09
  Speaker 5: as well. They're pro personnel guys. Part of their job
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: is to identify the players that might fit the Seahawks
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: system and locker room and culture and then run their
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: medicals by the teams that the medical staff. Now, if
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: they become really interested in a player like that they
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: will invite him in. And now that the league year
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: has started, yesterday was the first day that you can
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: actually have somebody on your supremises for a free agent visit.
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: Up to now, guys have been getting signed without coming
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: to the facility. They're not allowed to remember Will Freeze
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: last year, the offensive lineman who eventually signed with the
• 45:43
  Speaker 5: Colts that guard that everybody in the Pacific Northwest one
• 45:45
  Speaker 5: on the sign and the Seahawks refused to sign a
• 45:50
  Speaker 5: guy that Freeze is coming off of major surgery. And
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: the Seahawks John Schninder said, I'm not going to sign
• 45:56
  Speaker 5: a guy with the investments of the money we're talking
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: about without having them come in our building and see
• 46:00
  Speaker 5: our medical staff. Well, yes, and so they didn't, and
• 46:03
  Speaker 5: they got the teams that didn't care about that side
• 46:06
  Speaker 5: of them anyway. And that's what Snyder won't. That's part
• 46:10
  Speaker 5: of the conservative nature of what Snyder does. But now
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: we're into this. If they wanted to bring a guy
• 46:15
  Speaker 5: like Nauseia Harrison, now they can do that and they
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: can have their own docs look at him and screen
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: them and see how the Achilles is. It's those type
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: of deals, Bucky, that we're talking about now that we're
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: getting into the third second free agency waves and then
• 46:30
  Speaker 5: now they can take their time and bring guys in,
• 46:32
  Speaker 5: get medicals, negotiate their price, and that they shouldn't have
• 46:38
  Speaker 5: a huge bidding war for guys like that.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: Greg bella guest here this morning, getting the latest on
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks. The new year has begun. I'm sure that
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: Greg Bell celebrated it with a countdown with Windy at home,
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: you know, with a pointed paper hat on and a
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: noisemaker out of his mouth, probably pops some diamond collection
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: prosecco to sell the ringing in of the new National
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Football League year. And here we are discussing it with
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: him here today. All right, so we do have to
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: get an update. I do have to ask you about
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: Max Crosby again, and not that you know, not that
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: we have to go over the entire situation. I would
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: just ask, have you heard anything, Have you heard anything
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: that maybe the Seahawks have made an offer? Are interested?
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: Where did the Seahawks sit with this entire wild story.
• 47:26
  Speaker 5: I'm hearing it there waiting and there's no urgency now
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: because one again, he just had surgery in January. So
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: think what you will of what the Ravens said and did,
• 47:39
  Speaker 5: the facts really still remains. He had miniscus surgery in January,
• 47:43
  Speaker 5: that he's only six weeks or so out from eight weeks,
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: and that takes time to recover from. And now that
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: teams have already set their rosters and spent their money
• 47:54
  Speaker 5: and made their trades like the Cowboys did for Gary
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: from Green Bay, now everyone's circling up and saying, reassessing
• 48:03
  Speaker 5: the whole thing. How much would we we willing to
• 48:06
  Speaker 5: pay for Max Crosby now? How much would be willing
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: to give the Raiders. They're not getting two number one
• 48:11
  Speaker 5: picks for him anymore, they just aren't. And they may
• 48:14
  Speaker 5: ask for that, but they're not gonna get it, and
• 48:17
  Speaker 5: they may not even get a first round pick for
• 48:19
  Speaker 5: him now for what just happened. Now, that's why the
• 48:22
  Speaker 5: Raiders are saying he's playing with us, and Crosby's coming
• 48:25
  Speaker 5: out and saying I'm a Raider. That's their leverage. It's
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: the only leverage they have now is to say they're
• 48:29
  Speaker 5: going to keep them to try to entice a better
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: offer from the rest of the league. The Raiders didn't
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: exactly come out terribly here because they still because they
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: had so much catch base, the most in the league
• 48:44
  Speaker 5: one hundred million dollars. They were still able to spend
• 48:46
  Speaker 5: over two hundred million dollars in total value of contracts.
• 48:50
  Speaker 5: And they give Max Crosby back, and if he returns
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: to health, they're a better team for him to have
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: them than without. Now they don't have the two first
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: round picks anymore. But the whole league is now sitting
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: and waiting, said, Okay, is he going to come back
• 49:04
  Speaker 5: from this? Is he going to be ready for the
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: start of the season. If he proves to be healthy
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: and on a field in training camp, then I think
• 49:11
  Speaker 5: you'll see the market warm back up again for him.
• 49:14
  Speaker 5: But it couldn't be colder now compared to it was
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: just three days ago for what happened in Baltimore.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: All right, man, great stuff, as always, Thank you very much. Yes,
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: a brand new NFL year begins. Didn't you enjoy all
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: that time off before the new year? Wasn't that great
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: for you? And you get rested?
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 49:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I got six six hours. I think
• 49:35
  Speaker 5: the only time I got off was being stuck in
• 49:37
  Speaker 5: that blizzard in Baltimore. The really time I couldn't do
• 49:41
  Speaker 5: anything I need another blizzard please.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: Well, you know when we really relaxed, Honey was in
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: that blizzard in Baltimore. That was Yeah.
• 49:51
  Speaker 5: Well I could always tell Wendy we always have the
• 49:53
  Speaker 5: blizzard in Baltimore, one of the live stuff.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, we'll talk to you tomorrow and then yeah,
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: we'll do it again.
• 50:02
  Speaker 5: All right, Greg Bell, You're about to make a promise
• 50:04
  Speaker 5: you're working to keep, so I'm glad you to to
• 50:06
  Speaker 5: say that.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's true. All right, Greg Bell, our Seahawks insider,
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• 50:40
  Speaker 1: The Huskies stayed alive yesterday in the Big Ten Tournament.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: But are they just postponing the inevitable Sports Radio ninety
• 50:47
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• 50:50
  Speaker 1: of people predicting that for the Zags this year, but
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: we'll get his take, as we do every year at
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: nine o'clock. Here today, we are on a countdown toward
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: the start of the Major League Baseball season. Today. Here
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: we sit Mariners Opening Day in two weeks from today.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: How about that? How that grab you? Where does that
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: grab you? Right? Pretty good spot?
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, in that area a little bit definitely an me. Yeah, okay, Well,
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: that's interesting to say the least.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: It's got.
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: It kind of surprised me when I read it on
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: the rundown earlier. To be honest, I did not realize
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: it was that close. And yet I think that's because
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: of the WBC. It's been a little bit of a
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: distraction away from at this point you think, oh, we're
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: a month into spring training. I'm over this, right, I'm
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: over playing the Padres and seeing him finish at a
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: nine to nine tie.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: Who cares? Right that.
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: The WBC's kind of taking that away, and that's a
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: good thing. So it is crazy that it's right around
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: the corner.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: I'm here for it. I think I'm throwing out the
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: first pitch this year. Is that right? Yeah, they were
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: looking for a Mariner legend.
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's good.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: Be cool. I'm not saying they've reached out to me
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: to do it. I'm saying I'm just getting this feeling
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: like that. You know, we saw Jerry and Justin and
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: Kevin and uh Stanton John Stanton John I call him, Yeah,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: uh and Uh. I don't know. They were just kind
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: of giving me the warm and fuzzies. It was a
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: vibe you were getting off of them.
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: So like when they you walked in, they're like, hey,
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: they grabbed your shoulder, like, squeeze your shoulder. You were like, oh,
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: you've seen if it's strong enough to get it there?
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah that maybe you were onto something. I didn't read
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: into it like that. I don't know, but I hope
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: you're onto something. That'd be great. I'll be there to
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: watch it. I'll cheer for you.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: I guess I'll do it. Maybe heckle you. Yeah.
• 52:46
  Speaker 6: I did a lot of weird feelings, like premonitions. That's
• 52:49
  Speaker 6: not one that on you. It's weird.
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, but you weren't there.
• 52:54
  Speaker 6: I wasn't there. Well, that's what I was gonna say.
• 52:56
  Speaker 7: Gotten that that feeling for you, but I.
• 53:00
  Speaker 6: Was left at home.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well you could have cut the love with a knife.
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: Oh really, Yeah, there was a lot of love.
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: Even though with all the love floating around, I still
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: didn't I didn't necessarily pick up on the same feeling. Oh,
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: but I'm hoping his feeling is true. I think that'd
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: be great. Would you throw from the mound or in
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: front of the on the mound? But I'm gonna go
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: three quarter side arm? Yeah, because i can't left my shoulder.
• 53:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: I did that in Everett when I did the one
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: in Everett. Ask actually, how that one went?
• 53:32
  Speaker 6: He hit the backstop?
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, is that right? Yeah? But I brought it. It
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: was heat.
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: It was straight side arms from the top of the mound,
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: side arm and winged it right to the backstop.
• 53:44
  Speaker 6: Just a loud ass clung.
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was awesome. I'm going to hit the ball now.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: You said that. I was like, uh, bull Durham, I'm
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: just going to throw it right at the mask. I'm
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: gonna throw it right at the move.
• 53:57
  Speaker 6: I understood that reference.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit the moose when I throw out the
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: first pitch on opening day, look out moose. I can't
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: wait to see it. I'll be there. By the way,
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: Cole Young is crushing it here. As of late, he
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: has a seven to thirty three slug in spring, so,
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you're right. WBC's kind of distracted us
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: from the normal routine of Mariners spring training. I mean,
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: how much baseball can you watch in one day in
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: March when it's really not counting towards the standings and
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: my baseball's kind of committed to the WBC these days,
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: but certainly the highlights every day. Cole Young seems to
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: be popping up there here. As of late, it's at
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: four home runs, he has two doubles so far. I mean,
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: I noticed how much wider his back looked this year,
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: So I think the dude got himself a bowflex. Yeah,
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: in the offseason, I think that he might have been
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: a little more beefed up than what we realized. Plus,
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, people forget how young he was last year,
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: and he's he's I think he's locked in as the
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: starting second basement for this team.
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: Well, he definitely has some hidden juice in there. I
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: mean we saw that last year when he'd run into
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: one and it'd be like a no doubter, which is
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: I didn't know the spring, yep. And yet I mean
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: he started out spring kind of slow. It's all a
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: small sample size, right, I mean, I think has thirty
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: at bats or something at this point, but he was
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: over his first eight and since then, I mean you
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: were commenting on the seven to thirty three slug percentage.
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: I mean, in his last twenty five at bats or whatever,
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: it's like a thousand slugan percentage.
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: I mean he's he's raking ever since Walks, so he's
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: not just up there just free swing and he's taken
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: quality at bats. Yep, yep.
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: He's a kid that I think most certainly has what
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: it takes between the ears to be able to grow
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: big from your first taste of the big leagues to
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: what it feels like to be like, Okay, now what
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: do I have to do to stick and do some
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: big things around here? And last year kind of sputtered
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: there towards the end and gets left off the playoff roster.
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: I think that probably was a motivator for him. If
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: he's ready, I mean, he's ready. I'm ready to be
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: the starting second basement on a World Series contender.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: Ooh boy, ooh boy. Already I keep climbing this wind.
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: Total up, I gotta stop. All right? Coming up next
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: on the radio program, we will tell you the latest
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: on Max Crosby Sports Radio ninety three point three kh
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: A r FM. I don't want to know what's coming,
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: but you can address your sup question to any one
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: of us, and I don't think there are any rules
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: to this. You can even pry into our personal lives
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: if you want. You control the programming here for the
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: next segment, what do you want to talk about? Ashley?
• 56:33
  Speaker 7: All right, We're gonna start with Bucky Buck.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: What's up? Buck?
• 56:38
  Speaker 6: Who's starting at third base on opening day for the Mariners?
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: Brendan Donovan.
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: That's what I figured, no doubt about it, and I'll
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: just say it again. Thanks Jerry, Thanks Justin. Finally get somebody.
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: Where's number thirty three that can hit? It's been twenty years.
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of that guy, big fan. He's
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: a dirt bag. I mean, I just a grinder. Just
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: you can just tell he's a ballplayer, which is the
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: highest praise you can give to a baseball player.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: Just say he's just a ballplayer.
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: A guy likes to work, likes he's he's a little
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: old school he actually doesn't like striking out Ashley. I know, well,
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: I think some people have lost the hatred for it.
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: They're just kind of like, it's okay, I don't like it,
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: that's fair.
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: I lost the hatred for it. He hates You know.
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: What's crazy is that, you know, like on the Stave
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: podcast the entire off season, Donovan's name came up and
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: I got so tired of the names being thrown out
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: that and it was all Cardinal fans. It was all
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: Cardinal fans of blogs or podcasts. They're like, well, I
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: was Brox Miller and cold Emerson, will give Donovan. I mean,
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: they were crazy, they were out of control. But I
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: spent the entire offseason like, no, I'm not giving up
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: that much for Brendan Donovan. And now that we have
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: Brendan Donovan and I'm so excited about Brenda Donovan, I
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: would have given up a little bit more for what
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: we did. All right, what's next? All right?
• 58:07
  Speaker 6: Suck chuck.
• 58:08
  Speaker 7: So recently I've been banned from karaoke night at my
• 58:10
  Speaker 7: local watering hole. I can't tell if they don't like
• 58:12
  Speaker 7: my version of Sweet Caroline or if they don't want
• 58:14
  Speaker 7: me touching people while I perform.
• 58:16
  Speaker 6: I need a new go to song. What you got
• 58:18
  Speaker 6: for me?
• 58:19
  Speaker 5: Dog?
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: Well, did you get banned because of the song or
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: because of your touching? Because if you're a gout a
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: touching issue, I don't think the song matters.
• 58:30
  Speaker 6: That's probably true.
• 58:31
  Speaker 7: Yeah, But it just needs one that doesn't tell him
• 58:33
  Speaker 7: to touch people hands, touching, hands, reaching out.
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, something different, Okay, that's not bad. I
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: think that. Okay, all right. Usually it is one that
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: wins over the crowd. Don't be the Whitney Houston girl
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: who's singing with her eyes closed, because you can't do
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: Whitney Houston. So do something that wins. That would be
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: my first piece of advice. And so friends in low places.
• 59:00
  Speaker 6: It's always a winner.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: Always a winter sings along, everybody sings along. But I'll
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: I'll give you one of mine. You could go with
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: the we play it for Reckless at breakfast. Oh yeah,
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: I can't think of it right now.
• 59:12
  Speaker 6: You forget about it, don't you.
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: Forget about me.
• 59:14
  Speaker 7: That's a good one, a good range, and you can
• 59:17
  Speaker 7: put the fist up.
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: Everybody knows it. Everybody sings a lot, everybody, everybody hears
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: that songs. I love this track.
• 59:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a good one.
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: That's a good one, all right, my personal favorites right there?
• 59:27
  Speaker 6: It works, Okay, up buck.
• 59:30
  Speaker 7: As we near barbecue opening Day aka meat season, what's
• 59:34
  Speaker 7: your favorite meat to grill and celebrate this special time
• 59:36
  Speaker 7: of year?
• 59:36
  Speaker 6: Bonus question? Do you make your own rubs?
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: No?
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: I do not make my own rubs. Typically, I don't
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: rub a lot on the meat. I like the flavor
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: of the beef. A pekanya is probably my favorite to smoke.
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: Try tip is probably my favorite to grill. Okay, but
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: let's be real, just give me, give me some meat,
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: throw it on the grill. I don't know for sure
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: if there's a kind that I don't like that, I.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: Mean, really I don't.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, like a ribbi steak is my favorite, probably
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: favorite favorite.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I don't need I don't need that. What
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: about human meat? Where you go? Cannibalism depends?
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: I suppose it depends how I'm gonna guess. I want
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: to put some rub on. I don't know what it
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: would taste like, but I bet it's not chicken.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 6: I don't want to find out.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, with some fava beans and a nice cante.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 6: Oh god, no, that's terrible. Oh, look at this. We
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 6: have another question, Chuck.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 7: What's the first thing that comes to mind when you
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 7: think of an interview gone horribly wrong. Have you ever
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 7: had an on air interview with a sports figure that
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 7: just went off the rails.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's usually when you are trying to make them
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: laugh and they don't think it's funny. I have had
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: that experience in my life and it did. It does
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: not work out all that well. You know, there's a
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: famous one when White Heard went on with Marv Albert
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: and Marv Albert started it off with a joke and
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: he goes, well, now, Marv, you're just trying to be funny,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: and I don't find that funny at all. So I
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: did it. I'll give you an example. And keep in mind,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: this was back in a time where it was kind
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: of guy talk and sports talk radio, so we were
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: supposed to like push it, you know. And so the Cardinals,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: we were doing Cardinals coverage when I'm down in Phoenix
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: of the draft and they took Leonard Davis and Leonard
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: Davis was one of like seventeen kids that was the
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: profile on him. And we had Dave McGinnis as the
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: head coach at the time. He's the guy that's basically
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: he's the first guy that ever said we're one heartbeat.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: He was the nicest person ever. He's like I to
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: this day. I love him. And so he sits down
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: all excited to do an interview with us on the
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: set about Leonard Davis, and I asked Dave, I'm like, man,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: one of nineteen kids is his father Sean Kemp. Oh okay,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: And Dave did not like that. No, yeah, Dave did not.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: And he pretty much did the exact same thing to
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: me that Whitey Herzog did to Marv Albert. Well, now
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: you're trying to be funny, Chuck, and I just don't
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: find that funny. All right? Oh, I not only ruined
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: the interview, but now Dave doesn't like me. Yeah, so
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: that that's the one that'll.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: Keep it to a screeching all imagine do it for
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: thirty five forty years. You're gonna have those Yeah, yeah,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 3: that's true.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 6: I got one.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 7: So Ash, I'm finding that my husband's quote unquote listening
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 7: skills are worse than our kids. How did you train
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 7: your hubs to follow through on your asks?
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: A brain?
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 6: That's a good joke.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 7: He still doesn't listen, he asked fourteen times. Or send
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 7: it in a text so that it's in writing. That's
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 7: the best way. Then you got proof.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: I haven't been around five Iron a lot, but I
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: have a feeling he's not easily coached into doing what
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: you want him to know.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 6: He would laugh.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 7: If I was like, Okay, here we go, I'm gonna yeah, yeah,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 7: like you can stop right there.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 3: I would just say, ma'am, whoever it is texting, just
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: maybe change the voecab because if you say to him,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: why are you so hard to train? Yeah, I'm gonna guess,
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: he just does stops listening right there.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 6: But you can do it secret secretly.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 7: You know, you can like just send a text, as
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 7: I said, send texts for your ask Then you can
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 7: say I asked you.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 6: He'll like five Iron.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 7: For example, the other day, I said him a text
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 7: asking if you wanted to do something on Friday at
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 7: three with me, and he was driving, so Palmer said, oh, Dad,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 7: what did mom say? He said, I don't, I don't know,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 7: it's not important. Didn't listen to the text or listen,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 7: and then you just ignored it. So then I asked him,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 7: I said, hey, so you know about that text? He said,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 7: oh yeah, and he explains the whole story to me.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 7: Still doesn't answer the question. So then yesterday, Hey, so
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 7: about that text that I sent you yesterday where I
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 7: asked you that question about Friday at three, He goes, oh,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 7: you wanted an answer. Yeah, yeah, that's why I asked
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 7: the ques.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: I thought it was rhetorical.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: I do that a lot too, where I'm like, I
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: just assumed that I that was one I didn't have
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: to answer, and it turns out they want an answer
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: every time. Ah.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Yeah, it's weird how that works.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: I do in my head, I'm like, that doesn't even
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: deserve a response, so I don't respond, And it could
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: be something as very simple, and I'm just I make
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: the decision I'm not going to respond to that. Yeah,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: that doesn't seem like a respondable topic and it never works. Good,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: good stuff. All right, Well there you go, sup, chuckup, Ash.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: We're going to do this again, I hope.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 6: So I think this was fun. We got a lot.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 6: I feel bad to all the thank you to everyone
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 6: who wrote him in.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: Well, eventually it's going to be the entire broadcast day first,
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: so we'll get to all of them eventually. All right,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: we had to inform Softy in Dick. Yeah, this is
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: their new format.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 7: You did get one asking us what's wrong with Softy,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 7: but I didn't ask I didn't ask.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 6: You guys that because we don't have time.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: What's wrong with him is that he didn't come up
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: with sup before Ashley. That's right, that's his problem. All right,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: Coming up next, Team USA did make it out by
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: the hair of their chinny chin chin. We will talk
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  Speaker 1: some WBC next on Chuck and Buck Sports Radio ninety
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  Speaker 1: three point three KJRFM, all right, nine o'clock hour here
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  Speaker 1: on this Thursday, and joining us now on the radio program,
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  Speaker 1: something we do every year. He was on that original
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  Speaker 1: Zags team that broke through and won all of America's
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  Speaker 1: hearts except Seattle's. And since that time, they've done nothing
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  Speaker 1: but roll as a program. My goodness, they're even making
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  Speaker 1: documentaries about it. It's crazy. The Zags just continue to
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  Speaker 1: churn right along as a powerhouse in college foot college basketball,
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  Speaker 1: and they're headed back to the NCAA Tournament again this year.
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  Speaker 1: And so it joins us every year to discuss this
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  Speaker 1: very topic. Matt Santangelo is with us ready or on
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  Speaker 1: Chuck and Buck.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, sir, Good morning, Hi guys, thanks for thanks
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  Speaker 4: for inviting me back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Happy Matt Santangelo day. I like it. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to argue that one. Are you part of by
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  Speaker 1: the way, this documentary they're doing, did you get interviewed?
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  Speaker 1: Are you a big big deal in it?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know about a big deal, but definitely a
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  Speaker 4: part of it. It was a really fun project. It
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 4: was over a couple of years putting it together. We
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  Speaker 4: actually did a Friends and Family premiere two weeks ago now.
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  Speaker 1: Or last Monday, a week.
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  Speaker 4: Ago Monday before it went public on tub and they
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  Speaker 4: did a really nice job. I mean, it's it's hard
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  Speaker 4: to capture twenty five plus years of you know, coach
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  Speaker 4: Fhugh's career and the kind of the rides of the
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  Speaker 4: program in an hour and a half. But it's an
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  Speaker 4: I encourage you to watch. I'm a little biased, but
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  Speaker 4: I encourage people to check it out. It's pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: If they turn it into Zags the movie, Who do
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  Speaker 1: you Want to play You?
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  Speaker 4: I always thought we always joke so the voice of
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  Speaker 4: the Zags, Tom Hudson, who does the radio broadcast and
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  Speaker 4: has for many years twenty plus years. We always kind
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  Speaker 4: of tease that when they do the story, no one
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  Speaker 4: can recreate Tom Hudsons. He's actually gonna have to work
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  Speaker 4: more and actually play himself. So I'm thinking for our group,
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  Speaker 4: we may lobby to be our own, our own performers,
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  Speaker 4: as kind of the has beens that once wants.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of word I want. I wouldn't. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to go too far there, but you might have aged brilliantly,
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  Speaker 1: but you're going to have to get a younger actor
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  Speaker 1: to play you, Matt younger and a few pounds lighter.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, Ai. Maybe AI can help me with
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  Speaker 1: that one. There you go, that's true. I could do something, Mattie,
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  Speaker 1: I think. Uh So, how you feeling this year?
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  Speaker 3: I mean the Slipper still fits, I mean the Zags
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  Speaker 3: are in again and and yet different maybe a different
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  Speaker 3: way of getting in this year.
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  Speaker 1: How you feeling at this point? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: This team is really interesting there at least they've made
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  Speaker 4: it certainly interesting. The loss of Braden Huff was just huge,
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  Speaker 4: and I feel like this team's really been.
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  Speaker 1: You know, honestly kind of still building their identity.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, you know, as the West Coast Conference Conference plague
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  Speaker 4: kind of moved on and then the tournament in Vegas
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  Speaker 4: this week.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, this team, you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, obviously it's awesome to see that they're back in
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  Speaker 4: the Tournament's awesome to see that they went to Vegas
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  Speaker 4: and and took control of their own destiny, won the tournament,
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  Speaker 4: got that automatic bid.
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  Speaker 1: But when I'm not I'm still not.
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  Speaker 4: Even quite sure what their their ceiling is and it
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  Speaker 4: really kind of comes down to their perimeter shooting. They're
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  Speaker 4: good defensively, Graham Yekua has a stud in the interior,
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  Speaker 4: and if they can just get some you know, halfway
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  Speaker 4: consistent perimeter shooting, then this team becomes really kind of
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  Speaker 4: scary and days here in March, but that remains to
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  Speaker 4: be seen, frankly, I mean, you.
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  Speaker 1: Guys know as well as I do. Yeah, it was
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  Speaker 1: just a strange start to the year, like handle the
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  Speaker 1: ranked Creighton team without any issue beat a Alabama team
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  Speaker 1: that at the beginning of the season people thought was
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  Speaker 1: going to be a national championship contender, and then to
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  Speaker 1: lose to Michigan by forty Yeah, what did that do
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  Speaker 1: to you in your assessment of what kind of season
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  Speaker 1: this was going to be? How did you feel the
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  Speaker 1: next morning waking up knowing that there might be a
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  Speaker 1: team in college basketball forty points better than my team.
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  Speaker 1: Is that possible?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: That was That's a great question and one that I
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  Speaker 4: know I struggle with because how does that impact the
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  Speaker 4: psyche going on? I mean, when you draw on those
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  Speaker 4: past experiences during tough times in the season, you know
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  Speaker 4: you obviously are going to lose gains and you hope
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  Speaker 4: that you learn from those. How do you learn from
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  Speaker 4: a forty point blowout? So the easiest way to do
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  Speaker 4: that in the great you know ted last so memory
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  Speaker 4: like a goldfish, is just say it's an anomaly, like
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  Speaker 4: it can't happen again. Michigan's good, they were great, We
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  Speaker 4: were bad. You know, kind of move on as quickly
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  Speaker 4: as you possibly can. But I do agree that that
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  Speaker 4: that did show some cracks in the armor, especially and
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  Speaker 4: not just getting beat that bad, but really having Braiden
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  Speaker 4: Huff and Graham ek struggle on the inside, which you know,
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  Speaker 4: you just didn't expect that to happen at the kind
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  Speaker 4: of the rate that Michigan showed.
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  Speaker 1: But then they the guns. They can then bounce back,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they bounced back quickly.
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  Speaker 4: They responded, they got some big wins, they you know,
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  Speaker 4: continue to kind of roll, and then of course the
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  Speaker 4: Braiden Huff injury, you know, change the dynamic completely once again.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously him going down affects a lot of things.
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  Speaker 3: And usually at this point it feels like the Zags,
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  Speaker 3: you know what their blueprint is going to be, you
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  Speaker 3: know what they're going to do. I don't know for
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  Speaker 3: sure if I have the same type of feel for
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  Speaker 3: this for this season. So is there someone in particular
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  Speaker 3: that you are like, this guy needs to show up
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  Speaker 3: tournament time and they could make a deep run and
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  Speaker 3: if he doesn't, then you're in trouble.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I honestly think it's the you know, the group
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  Speaker 4: of perimeterive shooters. I mean, even looking at the tournament
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  Speaker 4: championship on Tuesday night against Santa Clara, you had I
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 4: call him super Mario, But Mario, you know, knock down
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  Speaker 4: five threes. You know, you don't need five threes, but
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  Speaker 4: you need some You got to open up the interior
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  Speaker 4: for Graham to have some space to move.
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  Speaker 1: So I think it's going to be really important.
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  Speaker 4: You know, if you look at one individual player, certainly
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  Speaker 4: the point guard spot on bias towards that position anyway.
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  Speaker 1: But Mario playing well, you know.
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  Speaker 4: The freshman Vogel has a ton of potential and it's
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  Speaker 4: just young enough and plays with enough abandon to really
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  Speaker 4: go into March and have a really fun March Madness tournament.
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  Speaker 4: It's all kind of, you know, teed up for him
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  Speaker 4: because of the style of play and the nature of
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  Speaker 4: the intensity in March.
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  Speaker 1: But then you look at town Grant Foster.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he's kind of been that the second leading
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  Speaker 4: score over the stretch since Braden Huff went out, inconsistent
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  Speaker 4: from the perimeter, but does a great job of getting
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  Speaker 4: to the cup and getting to the Frezel line. So
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  Speaker 4: I still think it's kind of X factor by committee,
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  Speaker 4: if you will, with these group of players that really
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  Speaker 4: need to kind of step up consistently to kind of
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  Speaker 4: again open it up for Graham, but also be complimentary
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  Speaker 4: to what I does on the interior.
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  Speaker 1: Matt Santangelo is with us. It's our annual celebration of
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: Matt Santangelo Day. We have them on once per year.
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  Speaker 1: It's usually this week as we get ready for selection
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  Speaker 1: Sunday just three days away, and of course the Zags
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  Speaker 1: have already punched their ticket and they were going to
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  Speaker 1: make it no matter what. But they are guaranteed a
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  Speaker 1: spot with winning the WCC again this week and right now, Matt,
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  Speaker 1: they've got Joe Lonardi at least in his bracketology as
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  Speaker 1: the Zags as a three seed. How much does seeding,
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  Speaker 1: how much do you put into you know, being happy
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  Speaker 1: with the seed, being disappointed with the seed, and what's
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  Speaker 1: the range for you one Sunday comes around for this team?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I certainly think that three would be would be fantastic.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think kind of one through four really
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  Speaker 4: makes a big difference as far as you know what
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  Speaker 4: that potential first you know, first round, second round matchups
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  Speaker 4: will be, you know, five through the rest of the bracket.
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  Speaker 4: Uh makes marsh Madness magic. So uh, you know those
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  Speaker 4: ones aren't maybe as not as much of a differentiator,
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  Speaker 4: but I think those one through four, So gonzeg isn't
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  Speaker 4: that in that three seed or I mean potentially four
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  Speaker 4: seed depending on how the rest of the Championship Week
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  Speaker 4: plays out. I think they got to feel pretty good
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  Speaker 4: about where they're at. And then I think geography matters,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I think if they're able to stay in
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  Speaker 4: the West and can come out and support or travel
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  Speaker 4: to I think that that makes a huge impact to
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  Speaker 4: getting through that first weekend and give them some kind
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  Speaker 4: of emotional energy and support as well.
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  Speaker 1: So, I mean, I think that they with everything they've
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  Speaker 1: been through.
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  Speaker 4: The ups and downs, kind of the consists, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the how they were almost they were very superlative defensively
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  Speaker 4: and offensively and all the advanced metrics until Braden Huff
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  Speaker 4: got hurt and then offensively they've really kind of suffered
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  Speaker 4: because of that. And so I think with that being said,
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  Speaker 4: the strength of schedule, the analytics supporting it, you know, I.
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  Speaker 1: Think that three or four is fair, and I think.
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  Speaker 4: You'd walk away, especially if you're in the West, feeling
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  Speaker 4: pretty good about their chances to you know, advance a
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  Speaker 4: few rounds here in March.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, getting getting past a couple of rounds is where
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  Speaker 3: they need to be and then see what happens, See
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  Speaker 3: what happens if if you can get into the sweet
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  Speaker 3: sixteen or something. I when you're thinking about this team,
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  Speaker 3: we've talked about what you think the Zags need to do.
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  Speaker 3: Is there a kryptonite that concerned you, A certain type
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  Speaker 3: of team that you don't want to run into?
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  Speaker 1: Uh In the tournament. And that's.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly I mean, any any one of the one seeds.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, what was last year was the first time
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  Speaker 4: all four one seeds got to the final four in
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  Speaker 4: the history of the tournament. And they're certainly looking like
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  Speaker 4: those those four one seeds are you know, uhuh separating
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  Speaker 4: themselves with their body of work here uh this again
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  Speaker 4: this season.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, so definitely want to avoid.
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  Speaker 4: Those, but if you get the three or four seeds,
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  Speaker 4: you do avoid them for the at least the first weekend.
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  Speaker 1: So that's how those that seeding really helps you.
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  Speaker 4: I think, you know, I would have said, uh, the
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 4: team has historically rebounded really well, but they got their
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  Speaker 4: bus kicked on the glass by Santa Clair on Monday
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  Speaker 4: or excuse me, on Tuesday in the conference tournament championship.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, you hope they learn from that and
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 4: they come out. So you kind of take out maybe
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 4: teams that aren't as effishing offensively but really hit the
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  Speaker 4: offensive glass. I think this team might be a little
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 4: susceptible to some of those quick guards that can get
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 4: into the lane as well, but they have such great
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 4: length on the perimeter that defensively they've they've been pretty
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 4: solid so far. So I think it just again it
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  Speaker 4: kind of comes back to when Saint Mary's beat him.
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  Speaker 1: Was that a week and a half ago in Maraga?
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  Speaker 4: Uh, it really came down to the guard Mikey Lewis
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  Speaker 4: and his perimeter shooting, which is always obviously the X
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 4: factor in March. If you get a guy round the
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 4: perimeter that just gets hot, that three point shot changes
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 4: the game dramatically. So I didn't really answer your question,
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  Speaker 4: but but I think, you know, it's just a it's
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  Speaker 4: timing and who gets hot in March really helps. And
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  Speaker 4: so Gonzaga hits one of those buzz saws like we've
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  Speaker 4: seen over the years.
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  Speaker 1: That's a really tough spot to be in. And let's
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  Speaker 1: face it, that's it. I mean, this is the one
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  Speaker 1: thing that's eluded in this Cinderella story that is Gonzaga's
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  Speaker 1: basketball history. You've made it to the Final Four, you've
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: made it to the NCAA Championship Game, but the national
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  Speaker 1: title still eludes the program. What chance do you give
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  Speaker 1: it that maybe this could be the year.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's another great question, I think I think.
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  Speaker 1: With uncomfortable to answer, you.
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  Speaker 4: Then give me the you know, pick your top five
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  Speaker 4: eggs of all time.
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  Speaker 1: That's the other one. I'm like, I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: to answer that. I don't think that question.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think the ceiling is as high for this group.
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  Speaker 4: I just, you know, I think the Braiden I think
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 4: you keep Braiden Huff on this team and healthy, then
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  Speaker 4: the ceiling is final four National championship. You the three
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 4: of us have talked before me after Sweet sixteen. It's
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 4: kind of a crapshoot anyway on any given night because
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  Speaker 4: the teams are so good and the and the nature
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  Speaker 4: of the tournament. But I think with be Huff, their
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  Speaker 4: ceiling is as high as as anyone in the country,
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  Speaker 4: even with the Michigan result, but without being if I think,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you're going to have to get have someone
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 4: else really have a really magical march.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm kind of money in the bank.
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  Speaker 4: With Graham e k and the way he's going to perform.
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  Speaker 4: Of course he could really go off to but I
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  Speaker 4: mean to do it six games in a row, you know,
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  Speaker 4: or you know, four or five games to get there, it.
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  Speaker 1: Would be pretty remarkable.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if they're seeing it that high, but
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 4: I would like to see them get that sixteen streak
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 4: started again after a little hiatus last year, and I
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 4: do think that's that's definitely on the goal sheet for
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 4: this team and certainly attainable going into the tournament.
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  Speaker 1: Last thing. Then for you, I mean, it's another year
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: and it's another successful year for this program. And it's
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: the reason why documentaries are made. It's it truly is
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: I know Seattle basketball fans don't like to hear this,
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: but it truly is one of the great stories in
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: the history of American sports. How this program does this
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: every single year. But it started with that Cinderella team
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: you were a part of. But what do you think
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: is the thing that has been at the center of
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: being able to make this thing documentary worthy? Is it
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: Mark Fugh's you know, stewardship of the program. Is it
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: the foundation uh that was set at the very beginning
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: of the process. Is it that point guard that led
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: the first you know, Cinderella Zags team. Is it Matt Santangelo?
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  Speaker 1: Is the reason why it's lasted for a quarter of
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: a century? Is it the fan base? Is it Spokane
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: or is it the administration? What? What do you what
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: do you tie it to? What is the foundation for
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: why this story has occurred, Well, I think it.
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  Speaker 4: I think it has to come down to consistency. I mean,
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 4: obviously this many years, you know, it's easy to point
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 4: to that. But if consistency is the one common theme,
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 4: and then you go from there.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: So coach Hughes just is beautifully consistent.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 4: He always has been deadfast in his belief as to
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 4: what could be accomplished, even before with a complic you know,
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 4: this this great rise of guns like a basketball but
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 4: consistent and just his daily approach.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: You know, he coaches the same.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 8: Uh in late January at a you know, a bad
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 8: San Diego team, as he does against Michigan in the preseason,
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 8: and you know, Santa Clair in the conference championship and uh,
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 8: you know, whatever we get.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 4: In the NCAA tournament. I mean, the next game is
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 4: always the most important game. And he's coached like that
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 4: since since you know, he was an assistant coach. So
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 4: that consistency has been fantastic. But then I think you
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 4: hit some other nails on the head. The administration, I
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 4: mean the athletic gritor director Chris Staniford, much of the
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 4: administrative staff were there when I was there a long
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 4: time ago. Before AI made me look younger and lighter.
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 4: So I mean that consistency across the university I think
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 4: plays into it. And then I do think and Seattle
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 4: might you know, roll their eyes when I say this.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 4: I think Spokane has something to do with it. I
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 4: think the support that ZAG Nation gets. I think the
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 4: fact that they're the biggest show in town, you know,
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  Speaker 4: not competing with professional sports or major college football or
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  Speaker 4: something like that. I think those have something to do
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  Speaker 4: with it. And then it takes a special kind of
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  Speaker 4: athlete personality character to come here on your recruiting trip
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  Speaker 4: into Spokane, see this little Jesuit school, you know, on
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  Speaker 4: the corner of the map, and go like, yeah, this
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  Speaker 4: makes complete sense to me. I want to come here,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I want to be a part of this culture,
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  Speaker 4: this legacy, this history.
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  Speaker 1: I want to take it to New Heights.
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  Speaker 4: Like there's something about that, you know, that that connection,
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  Speaker 4: that correlation between the type of athlete that this area
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  Speaker 4: makes sense and this university makes sense. And then of
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  Speaker 4: course the values and the culture of the university and
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  Speaker 4: the program. So I think there's something to be that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, maybe that's the the magic formula, you know,
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  Speaker 4: that kind of all makes this work. But it all
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  Speaker 4: comes back to that consistency over so many years and
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  Speaker 4: the fact that like why not us, I mean, someone's
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  Speaker 4: got to win the games. You've got to play and
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  Speaker 4: you got to schedule and the musill win them and
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  Speaker 4: Gonze is going to do them.
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  Speaker 1: That of course is a huge clip for a long
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  Speaker 1: time now. Yeah, yeah, no doubt. Ryan Reynolds was a
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: name I threw out, what do you think of Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Reynolds playing you and Gonzag of the movie?
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  Speaker 4: I like it.
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  Speaker 1: I like it sounds good.
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  Speaker 4: I just hope that we that they we get to
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  Speaker 4: be around it. You know, I don't want it to
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  Speaker 4: be completely I want to be able to see it
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  Speaker 4: because it's what a fun thing. I mean, think about it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I've graduated in two thousands. I am, I
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  Speaker 4: am a part of this millennium, but you know, twenty
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  Speaker 4: six years ago, and the fact that we still get acknowledged, recognized,
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  Speaker 4: get to talk about it, get to be close to
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  Speaker 4: it is really remarkable. And you know, we have there's
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  Speaker 4: like fifty plus former players that live in Spokane, with
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  Speaker 4: forty eight of them not being you know, born and
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  Speaker 4: raised in Spokane that have made Spokane home. So like,
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  Speaker 4: there are layers to the uniqueness, I think, and they
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  Speaker 4: can activity of the program in the university that helps,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, illustrate that that, you know, uniqueness illustrates
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  Speaker 4: the story of why this place is so special and
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  Speaker 4: why this the story is so you know that they
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 4: just hasn't been anything like it in college basketball.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, Well, enjoy the tournament, have fun, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: bug you again next year. All right, I look forward
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  Speaker 1: to it, Thanks guys. All Right, Matt Santangelo joining us
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  Speaker 1: right here on Chuck and Buck in the morning. So
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  Speaker 1: all right, coming up next on the radio program. The
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: Hawks have been relatively quiet. It's not like they've just
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: been sitting on their hands the last forty eight hours.
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  Speaker 1: But are you worried about that at all? We'll discuss
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