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Furness Show 8-18: Jalen Milroe, Joe Sheehan, John Lund · The Ian Furness Show

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Speaker 1: Now from the Star Rentals Sports to us Jordan ninety
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Speaker 1: three point three k JRFM sports headlines, headlines back to
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Speaker 1: by Frost brew cords like Choos chill first or a
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Speaker 1: new report about quarnerback Terry and Arnold. Seahawks are still
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Speaker 1: planning to sign him, but it may take a while.
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Speaker 1: They're working through the time in According to Ian Rappaport
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Speaker 1: and Mike garra Foulla the NFL Network, he will be
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Speaker 1: placed on the NFL's Commissioner Exemplest. When he signs, he'll
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Speaker 1: be eligible, he'll be ineligible to play until the league
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Speaker 1: looks into the case. So we'll get more of that
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Speaker 1: in just a couple minutes.
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Speaker 2: Good news for the Sea X Rocky running back Jadarian Price
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Speaker 2: would turned the field at training camp yesterday, full participant
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Speaker 2: missed the last five with an upper leg sorenus issue.
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Speaker 2: Slid right in with the first team offense as well.
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Speaker 2: We'll discuss that to today. They need him, there's no
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Speaker 2: doubt about that. One of the Seahawks updates, Tory Harton
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Speaker 2: did not practice Monday. He is working through some things.
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Speaker 2: Quote from Mike McDonald. No update on Nick emn Worri
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Speaker 2: and outside linebacker Derek Hall miss practice again as well.
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Speaker 2: Maners had to Belwauking to be in a three game
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Speaker 2: series against the NL Central leading Brewers. Bryce Miller starts
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Speaker 2: for the MS, Kyle Harrison for the Brewers. Four game back.
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Speaker 2: Seattle is of Houston the Al West, two games out
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Speaker 2: of the wild card race, although there are a lot
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Speaker 2: of teams in between them and the rest of the
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Speaker 2: wildcard teams. We'll get to that coming up in just
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Speaker 2: a couple of seconds as well. Let's get the show started.
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Speaker 2: Well, I guess it's a good thing that this is
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Speaker 2: our last day at training camp. We can retire that
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Speaker 2: open boger because the Boweling Classic has already come and gone.
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Speaker 3: We can That's right.
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Speaker 2: We were there on from the last show I did
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Speaker 2: was Friday at the Bowling Classic out there at the
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Speaker 2: Snowclawmbie Ridge.
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Speaker 4: And yeah, that's it's it's.
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Speaker 2: Over, and this is this and I mean it was
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Speaker 2: we were there. We were in a little oven above
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Speaker 2: the eighteenth Green. I can tell you all I can
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Speaker 2: really tell you about that golf tournament.
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Speaker 4: Was it was warm. That's about all I can tell you.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, that's over, and this is it for us.
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Speaker 2: This is our last scheduled day out here next to
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Speaker 2: the practice field, broadcasting outdoors from Seahawks training camp. Jalen
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Speaker 2: Milro is going to join us here in just a
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Speaker 2: few minutes, so stand by for that Seahawk quarterback out
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Speaker 2: of Alabama. We have got a good conversation with him
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Speaker 2: coming up and just as soon as we see him
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Speaker 2: appear from the locker room down to our right here,
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Speaker 2: we're on the northeast corner of the practice fields, right
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Speaker 2: next to Lake Washington.
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Speaker 4: Gorgeous view. I'll missed the view.
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Speaker 2: I'll miss being outside, miss seeing the eagle flying above
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Speaker 2: that you've seen probably on hard knocks as well.
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Speaker 4: Good run out here.
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Speaker 2: It's quiet. I can tell you that it's very quiet.
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Speaker 2: This is a it's an interesting dynamic for those who came,
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Speaker 2: and I know a lot of you guys listening right
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Speaker 2: now came out to training camp over the last gosh,
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Speaker 2: is it like three weeks now? I think it's like
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Speaker 2: three weeks that we've had training camp.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 2: For those that did come out here and jumped on
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Speaker 2: the yellow school bus down at rent and Landing and
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Speaker 2: Major way up here to the Virginia Mason Athletics Center
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Speaker 2: when you arrived, when you were here, when you were
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Speaker 2: watching the pro the proceedings from the BERMU, there's you know,
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Speaker 2: at the top of the berm a bunch of tents
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Speaker 2: concessions and you can buy all kinds of gear and
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Speaker 2: all souvenirs and stuff on the on the walk in
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Speaker 2: to the facility when you get off the bus, there's
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Speaker 2: a bunch of food trucks out there and old boil
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Speaker 2: birdas out there giving away jerky sticks and things like that.
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Speaker 5: Uh.
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Speaker 4: And it's just it's kind.
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Speaker 2: Of a I'm gonna say this, and I think this
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Speaker 2: sometimes is a bad, right, kind of a carnival like atmosphere.
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Speaker 2: It just kind of it's, you know, everyone's it's just
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Speaker 2: a lot going on and a big vibe and a
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Speaker 2: ton of energy, and it's loud and fans are chance
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Speaker 2: when they get to this point in camp. Now, we've
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Speaker 2: had a few days where there weren't fans out here,
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Speaker 2: but anytime that weren't fans public wise, there were still
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Speaker 2: fans down to our right, there were still VIP fans
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Speaker 2: and sponsors and corporate sponsors, corporate partners, things like that
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Speaker 2: that we're here. So there's always a vibe. There's always
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Speaker 2: kind of like a there's something going on. Music's playing,
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Speaker 2: things like that. Now that they've shut her down, no
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Speaker 2: more fans coming out here. They're taking down the last
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Speaker 2: of the canopies up on top. One still has a canopy,
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Speaker 2: the other one is sitting there with just the framing.
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Speaker 2: Everything else is gone.
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Speaker 4: It is.
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Speaker 2: It is very very quiet, very mellow out here, and
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Speaker 2: just kind of a it's an interesting dynamic. It's just
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Speaker 2: I'd almost say it's suppressing. But the energy is lacking
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Speaker 2: for sure. It becomes a lot more business like. They
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Speaker 2: talk about it being I think in some ways like
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Speaker 2: regular season mode, if that makes sense. Trav Travis Moger
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Speaker 2: in today, we've got some vacations going on, so but
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Speaker 2: it's it's just kind of it's very business like and
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Speaker 2: if you watch Hard Knocks you it'll feel like a
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Speaker 2: real normal football practice. There's no more DJ out here.
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Speaker 2: There are I'm kind of looking over there. Yeah, there's
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Speaker 2: still a couple of speakers on the far side, so
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Speaker 2: they sometimes play a little bit of music. But it's
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Speaker 2: certainly not like the Pete Carroll day. So it's just
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Speaker 2: a little different vibe. It's a little different going on.
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Speaker 2: So let's get to some of the news of the
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Speaker 2: day on our final day here while we wait for
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Speaker 2: Jalen Milroe. I'll start with the news on Arry and
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Speaker 2: Arnold that we gave you in the updates. Ian Rappaport
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Speaker 2: reporting that, you know, he's going through the process right
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Speaker 2: now and they haven't signed him. And what I read
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Speaker 2: into this is we're not surprised. I mean, I'm a
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Speaker 2: little surprised that they've been so open, they being you know,
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Speaker 2: Mike McDonald specifically talking about the fact that they're gonna
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Speaker 2: sign this guy. They haven't signed him yet, but you know, hey,
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Speaker 2: we're signing him. The assumptions are going to sign them
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Speaker 2: what they're obviously they have an agreement in place, but
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Speaker 2: they're working through the logistics of what this means in
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Speaker 2: terms of the Commissioner's exempt list, and I think Greg
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Speaker 2: said it well earlier. Greg Bell said it well earlier
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Speaker 2: in the show. It's effectively a suspension until they figure
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Speaker 2: out they being the NFL, and maybe to a certain extent,
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Speaker 2: the judicial system, figure out exactly what his status is legally,
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Speaker 2: where he's at, what he's doing, where he's going to
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Speaker 2: be in all those things. And while they figure that out,
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Speaker 2: I know that they were hoping he would be practicing.
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Speaker 2: That's obviously not going to be happening this week, or
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Speaker 2: at least today or tomorrow, I don't think. But it's
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Speaker 2: also not a surprise, and I don't think you know,
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Speaker 2: it's a good headline with rap and Garifolo and all
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Speaker 2: those guys. That's all nice and fine, But honestly, it
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Speaker 2: really isn't a surprise other than just I thought maybe
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Speaker 2: they'd try to get him in this week, get him
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Speaker 2: on the field, get him to do a couple things,
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Speaker 2: and then kind of go from there. I mentioned this
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Speaker 2: last week, and I'm I truly feel this way with
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Speaker 2: what they're doing with him. It is a very low risk,
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Speaker 2: very high ceiling type of move. If he never plays
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Speaker 2: a down for you, it cost you nothing. Now, maybe
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Speaker 2: some would point out it cost you. You know, people
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Speaker 2: looking at you court a public opinion and looking down.
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Speaker 2: They're the defending Super Bowl champions. Their equity is higher
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Speaker 2: than anybody else in the league right now. They can
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Speaker 2: do those things, they can make them. They can make
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Speaker 2: a move that is maybe a little questionable in terms
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Speaker 2: of character and so forth. But if he never plays,
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Speaker 2: it doesn't matter, very low risk. If he does play,
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Speaker 2: if he does end up getting on the field at
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Speaker 2: some point, you've signed a guy that could well will
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Speaker 2: certainly help you from a football standpoint, and it costs
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Speaker 2: you not a lot like next to nothing in a sense.
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Speaker 2: I mean from that standpoint, it's just a perfect signing
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Speaker 2: in a lot of different ways, and it makes a
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Speaker 2: ton of sense for what Seattle wants to do. You
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Speaker 2: kind of have this extra bonus that's sitting there in
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Speaker 2: front of you that could end up being really good
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Speaker 2: and helping you out immensely along the way. So we'll
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Speaker 2: see what ends up happening with that. But the Terran
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Speaker 2: Arnold situation, I'm curious tonight watching Hard Knocks with episode
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Speaker 2: I was this episode three, right most Yeah, episode three, Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I would hope.
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Speaker 2: And this is I mean, we got thea we got
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Speaker 2: Devin Witherspoon news a couple of weeks ago on the
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Speaker 2: first episode. We got the Terran Arnold situation, him working
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Speaker 2: out at the end of the last episode. Remember remember
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Speaker 2: the end of the last episode. They shot that one
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Speaker 2: a week ago, two days ago. We could go last
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Speaker 2: Sunday as when they shot that and turned it around
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Speaker 2: for the episode on Tuesday, and we saw him working out,
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Speaker 2: We saw the group talking about it, and then the
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Speaker 2: obvious and I keep saying, they signed him, They've come
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Speaker 2: to an agreement. I don't want to be erroneous in
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Speaker 2: what I'm saying, but we got that little behind the
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Speaker 2: scenes insight. I'm maybe we get a little more tonight
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Speaker 2: on Hard Knocks, Maybe we get a little bit more
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Speaker 2: of Hey, this is what he's doing, and this is
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Speaker 2: where this is how close he is, and you know,
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Speaker 2: here's what we're waiting for. And I mean, would that
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Speaker 2: would not surprise me at all if we got that
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Speaker 2: along the way. So we'll see what We'll see what
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Speaker 2: ends upcoming of that. When it's all said and done,
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Speaker 2: we'll get into some Mariners conversation. I didn't mention this
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Speaker 2: in the headlines, but kind of a cool thing. It is, Yes,
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Speaker 2: about the baseball team right now and on the field,
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Speaker 2: what's going on. We'll get to them a little bit
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Speaker 2: later on coming off the two straight wins over Houston
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Speaker 2: after what was probably one of.
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Speaker 4: The worst losses of the year. If not the word
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Speaker 4: I mean, I don't.
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Speaker 3: Know that's saying a lot.
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Speaker 2: I was gonna say, ranking losses is ranking losses is
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Speaker 2: a little bit challenging. But that was one of the
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Speaker 2: worst ones. That was That was one of the worst
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Speaker 2: ones you could have on Friday, and then they bounce
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Speaker 2: back and then win the next two and blow out
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Speaker 2: on Saturday, and then they have a close win on Sunday,
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Speaker 2: they go down to Milwaukee. We'll get into them a
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Speaker 2: little bit later on the news. To me, that kind
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Speaker 2: of jumps out today and this is this is gonna
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Speaker 2: be really cool. On the final home stand of the season,
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Speaker 2: the that last weekend in September, they're going to have
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Speaker 2: a Rick Rizz kind of tribute that whole weekend. Four nine,
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Speaker 2: four to five one is the Tacoma Dodge text line
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Speaker 2: four nine four to five to one. I'm just curious folks,
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Speaker 2: what you what your thoughts are? What does Rick Riz
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Speaker 2: mean to you? You can fire those off if you like,
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Speaker 2: four nine, four to five one. We'll read some of
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Speaker 2: those a little bit later on. I just to me,
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Speaker 2: Rick is one of the true treasures in our community.
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Speaker 2: And I say our community. I'm not just talking about
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Speaker 2: on for the Mariners. I think just overall, what he's
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Speaker 2: done with his toy drive over the years is remarkable.
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Speaker 2: And some of the other things that Rick has done
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Speaker 2: and put together, it's just he's he's just a a
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Speaker 2: just a great asset to this whole area and this
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Speaker 2: whole community. Forty one years he remember, he took the
10:52
Speaker 2: little brief respite where he took away, went over and
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Speaker 2: replaced the legend that is Ernie Harwell for a couple
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Speaker 2: of years and ended up coming back here. And we're
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Speaker 2: thankful for that. We're thankful that he came back to Seattle.
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Speaker 2: He came back in ninety five and he's been here
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Speaker 2: ever since. And Rick is retiring after this season. He is,
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Speaker 2: you know, for for a franchise that has not had
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Speaker 2: not a lot of success, and I'll be that's probably
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Speaker 2: being kind, right, Mokes. They haven't had a lot of
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Speaker 2: success on the field. Ye off the field, they've been
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Speaker 2: one of the best organizations in sports and in baseball,
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Speaker 2: and from what they do promotional wise and baseball promotions,
11:31
Speaker 2: I know, people get upset they call all they care
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Speaker 2: about our bibbleheads and ferry boats with food in them
11:35
Speaker 2: and stuff like that.
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Speaker 4: Baseball with eighty one home games, you've got to get creative.
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Speaker 2: You've got to do things a little bit off, you know,
11:44
Speaker 2: you just have to do different things, especially in a
11:46
Speaker 2: you know, in a market that has a great ballpark
11:49
Speaker 2: but it's not a destination of historic nature like Yankee
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Speaker 2: Stadium or Fenway Park or Wrigley Field, places like that.
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Speaker 2: They've done a great job off the field, they've probably
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Speaker 2: no better way than what they've done. Broadcast wise, they've
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Speaker 2: always been top shelf. And you know, many of us
12:07
Speaker 2: in the business are probably more critical of broadcasters than others.
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Speaker 2: But listen, Dave n nee House, he's he was a Ford
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Speaker 2: Frick winner. He's in the Hall of Fame for a reason.
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Speaker 2: So we'd love that with with with Dave. And then
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Speaker 2: on top of that, you add in a guy like
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Speaker 2: Rick Riz who has I mean, I I don't know
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Speaker 2: if he'll ever get his due with the Hall of Fame,
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Speaker 2: like like Dave did. That's a hard I mean, they
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Speaker 2: put one guy in a year. I think it was
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Speaker 2: Joe Buck this year, who obviously was a national guy.
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Speaker 2: But what Rick has done and what he's meant for
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Speaker 2: this this community, and his voice sounds like summer, Goodbye baseball,
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Speaker 2: happy totals. He's just he's just a treat when he
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Speaker 2: you know, when Dave passed away the first Grand Slam
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Speaker 2: of the year, he used, get up the gag Rye bread,
12:49
Speaker 2: Grandma Rye bread, mustard whatever, and you know, good and
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Speaker 2: all that, and it was awesome. And he even did
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Speaker 2: that last year. He used he he used Dave's call
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Speaker 2: last year with Gino's home run. So he is just
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Speaker 2: an absolute treasure to our entire community. And we've been
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Speaker 2: lucky to have him over all those years and greatly
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Speaker 2: appreciate everything he's done. And I frankly miss and I
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Speaker 2: say they had done a great job.
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Speaker 4: Dave was great. Rick was great.
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Speaker 2: Currently Aaron is really top shelf. I think Gary Hill
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Speaker 2: and I'm biased he's a koug and but I think
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Speaker 2: Gary is really damn good at what he does. And
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Speaker 2: I hope he takes over as the lead radio guy. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: they're not on our station, Fine, whatever, I just Gary,
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Speaker 2: I really enjoyed listening to Gary's call. Does a terrific job,
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Speaker 2: has a great passion for everything. So you know, we'll
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Speaker 2: kind of see where it all takes us over the
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Speaker 2: next few years. But they've done a great job broadcasting wise,
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Speaker 2: and obviously what they've done off the field. And Rick
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Speaker 2: riz right there to me, he's right there with Dave
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Speaker 2: and what he's done and what he's meant for this
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Speaker 2: organization since he took over all those years ago. One
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Speaker 2: thing I want to get into too, I wait for
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Speaker 2: Jalen Miler. I'm just gonna kind of take a peek
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Speaker 2: here and see where we're at with him trave and
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Speaker 2: see if we need to take a break or not.
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Speaker 2: In a minute, Yeah, they're coming out in a couple
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Speaker 2: of minutes. So one of the things that happened today
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Speaker 2: in sports, I didn't hit this in headlines. A gentleman
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Speaker 2: by the name of Bill Rasmussen died at the age
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Speaker 2: of ninety three. And it's somewhat ironic in this sense.
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Speaker 2: I saw Softy tweeted something last night and I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: go find it real quick. I had it earlier and
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Speaker 2: I lost it. Sorry, I wanted to reset the computer
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Speaker 2: out here on the Wi Fi. But the irony of
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Speaker 2: this that what Dave had a what Dave had a
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Speaker 2: post on the other day was that this gentleman died
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Speaker 2: And you say, who's Bill Rasmussen.
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Speaker 6: He is.
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Speaker 2: He is the founder of ESPN died of the age
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Speaker 2: of ninety three from Parkinson's. Dave tweeted this yesterday, and
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Speaker 2: it's funny that the timing is interesting. It's amazing outside
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Speaker 2: of a live sport event, how little I watch ESPN
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Speaker 2: and the STIPs I see on this appart making me
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Speaker 2: run to my TV. Either I'm like Phil call I
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Speaker 2: don't care anymore anymore more.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 2: And I read that and I thought, yeah to a
15:08
Speaker 2: certain extent, and maybe maybe ESPN's a little bit like MTV.
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Speaker 2: It's just it's evolved, and depending on your age, you
15:16
Speaker 2: have a different feel about what you think in regards
15:19
Speaker 2: to ESPN. I'm gonna get into that a little bit
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Speaker 2: later on, because whatever you think of ESPN today should
15:29
Speaker 2: not cloud your judgment in terms of what you think
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Speaker 2: about ESPN as a whole. For a sports fan, for
15:36
Speaker 2: us doing what even what we do here, it's one
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Speaker 2: of the most important innovations we've had in our country's history.
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Speaker 2: And phil and Bill Rasmusson is the man to think.
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Speaker 2: And we'll talk about that a little bit later, because
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Speaker 2: it truly is one of the biggest things that we've seen,
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Speaker 2: you know, in a long time, and one of the
15:56
Speaker 2: things that really is great about about what we do
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Speaker 2: in our business as well. So we'll get down a
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Speaker 2: little bit later too, and what his legacy is and
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Speaker 2: what ESPN is all about. I thought I saw our
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Speaker 2: guy walking down, Trav We're flirting with a break here.
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Speaker 2: It's a beautiful thing about live radio. We're pushing things
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Speaker 2: I don't want to necessarily. You know what I'm gonna do.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna take a break. The second I do that,
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Speaker 2: Travis be ready to come back, yep, because he'll be
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Speaker 2: walking out. But we'll take a break. We'll come back
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Speaker 2: and we'll have I thought he was walking out.
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Speaker 4: No, we'll have Jalen.
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Speaker 2: Milroe coming up next. H Right, we're back in the
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Speaker 2: Virginia Mason Athletic Center. He infness with you here at
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Speaker 2: Seahawk Headquarters, Virginia Mason Athletics Center.
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Speaker 4: I'd say training camp, and.
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Speaker 2: I think it's still training camp, although there's no fans
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Speaker 2: or taking down all the stuff upstairs and all that stuff.
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Speaker 2: Jalen Milroe, quarterback is joining us right now. I've been
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Speaker 2: wanting to talk to you. I gotta tell you this.
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Speaker 2: I've been wanting to do this for a while because
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Speaker 2: my wife is from here.
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Speaker 4: Let me fix out for you. This is we got that,
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Speaker 4: we got wires there we go, yeah go.
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Speaker 2: My wife is from Alabama, all all her I got
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Speaker 2: half of my family, we've been married for a long time.
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Speaker 2: Half they're all from Alabama. And I get this all
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Speaker 2: the time. When are you gonna talk to Milroe? When
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Speaker 2: are you gonna talk to me? You gotta talk to
17:11
Speaker 2: the al I said. I said, I talked to jar
17:12
Speaker 2: and read all the time. Is that not good enough?
17:14
Speaker 2: Now they want to talk to Jaylen Milroe. So this,
17:16
Speaker 2: this interview is for all those listening on the iHeartRadio
17:19
Speaker 2: app in Alabama right now.
17:20
Speaker 4: A Texas guy went to Alabama. How are you, man?
17:23
Speaker 7: I'm doing good. You're doing good.
17:25
Speaker 8: I want to give a shout out to them, roadside
17:27
Speaker 8: road tide to them.
17:29
Speaker 7: But I'm doing good.
17:30
Speaker 2: You know how it's like when it's like down there too,
17:31
Speaker 2: it's fun. We go down there every couple of years
17:34
Speaker 2: and there's family reunions and we go and it's it
17:36
Speaker 2: is a split family, and it's like it's Auburn and
17:40
Speaker 2: it's Alabama, and like I see cousins, brothers, sisters, and
17:43
Speaker 2: they it's like fistfights.
17:45
Speaker 9: Man.
17:45
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, what like Now, you grew up in Texas,
17:47
Speaker 2: so you you understand A and M in Texas.
17:51
Speaker 4: How different is Alabama Auburn than anything else you've seen?
17:54
Speaker 8: So I got to experience it once I got to
17:56
Speaker 8: college because I wasn't used to Rarver. Of course you
17:59
Speaker 8: hear about it, but the actually be involved with it
18:01
Speaker 8: and to understand that like your neighbor could be an
18:04
Speaker 8: Auburn fan, your neighbor could graduate from Auburn. My professor
18:07
Speaker 8: was a graduate from Auburn, one of my math teachers.
18:10
Speaker 8: So you encounter an Auburn fan throughout the whole year.
18:14
Speaker 8: So it makes that week of the robbery even better
18:17
Speaker 8: when it's time to play against him.
18:18
Speaker 7: So it's competitive for sure.
18:20
Speaker 8: It definitely means a lot because we get prepared for
18:24
Speaker 8: that one game, you know, for all the fans they're
18:27
Speaker 8: ready for it. And no matter if it's out there
18:29
Speaker 8: in Auburn, no matter if it's in TUSSALUSA. It brings
18:31
Speaker 8: a lot of joy to a lot of people in
18:33
Speaker 8: the state of Alabama. So it's always fun to being
18:34
Speaker 8: a part of rivory.
18:35
Speaker 2: What's the I'm gonna ask you this is almost like
18:37
Speaker 2: asking somebody to pick your favorite child. But what's the
18:39
Speaker 2: atmosphere like at an Iron Bowl? And I don't care
18:42
Speaker 2: about Auburn, We don't, we don't worry about it. What's
18:45
Speaker 2: the atmosphere like in Tuscaloosa for an Iron Bowl game
18:49
Speaker 2: compared to the NFC Championship game last year at lumit.
18:53
Speaker 8: I say it's not fair because you go from one
18:55
Speaker 8: hundred thousand fans to lesser fans in the NFL stadium. Yeah,
18:58
Speaker 8: So of course I'll say NFL. I mean college is
19:01
Speaker 8: much more louder, yeah, than it is in the NFL.
19:05
Speaker 8: But I will say our fans bring a lot of juice,
19:07
Speaker 8: you know, different than other fan bases, you know, being
19:08
Speaker 8: able to experience my rookie year, going to different stadiums,
19:11
Speaker 8: experience their crowd and their traditions. Lohman is number one.
19:15
Speaker 8: I feel as though as far as the crowd, how
19:17
Speaker 8: involved they are throughout the whole game, and you know
19:20
Speaker 8: certain crowds you get, you know, the first quarter, there
19:22
Speaker 8: lowed second quarter. Lohman, we're allowed the whole entire game
19:25
Speaker 8: and especially even the preseason. But but I will say,
19:29
Speaker 8: you know, Brian Danny brings a lot of juice. It's
19:31
Speaker 8: it's very loud, impacts the opponent we're playing against. Yeah,
19:35
Speaker 8: and uh yeah, it's it's a little different.
19:37
Speaker 2: I've been lucky enough to cover this team for many years,
19:39
Speaker 2: and I think at the only stadium we didn't go
19:41
Speaker 2: to I didn't go to over the last fifteen sixteen
19:43
Speaker 2: years that was Buffalo and not like a new stadium
19:45
Speaker 2: that nobody likes. But I always I felt like Luhman
19:49
Speaker 2: was very collegiate like. It has a very collegiate like.
19:52
Speaker 2: It's just a very like it has. It's not corporate
19:55
Speaker 2: like some places you go to so far corporate Levi's corporate,
19:58
Speaker 2: right has that collegiate That's got to be a ton
20:00
Speaker 2: of fun for a player.
20:01
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, Like that's because we worked during the week,
20:04
Speaker 8: and so of course when we play on Sundays or
20:06
Speaker 8: whatever day our game is that week we're excited to play.
20:08
Speaker 8: And when you have your fan base that's passionate, looking
20:11
Speaker 8: forward to Sunday whatever, we play like that, that means
20:14
Speaker 8: a lot. You know, that means a lot for us
20:15
Speaker 8: to first make them proud. Number two, we get the
20:18
Speaker 8: feet off their energy. And then what's unique about our
20:20
Speaker 8: crowd is we're calling twelves. Yeah, so they're a part
20:23
Speaker 8: of our culture and part of our team, and it's
20:26
Speaker 8: something special.
20:26
Speaker 2: That's kind of this whole culture this building, though, is
20:28
Speaker 2: it not? Because I know last year was really a
20:30
Speaker 2: big thing with Mike and with John Schneider. It wasn't
20:33
Speaker 2: fifty three man roster. It was a seventy man roster.
20:36
Speaker 2: Everything's included. The practice squad guys are included. You don't
20:39
Speaker 2: see that a lot of times. What does that mean
20:41
Speaker 2: in that locker room for guys.
20:43
Speaker 8: I think that's special because we're on the journey all together.
20:46
Speaker 8: You know, the highs and lows, the positives. You know,
20:50
Speaker 8: we're all in this together. You know, no matter what your
20:52
Speaker 8: role is, you're helping the team out. You know, if
20:55
Speaker 8: you're a practice squad guy, you're getting these ones ready
20:57
Speaker 8: to play in the game. You know the looks that
20:59
Speaker 8: we're getting on the Sunday, are coming from during the week,
21:02
Speaker 8: the practice squad, guys giving us ready, getting us ready
21:05
Speaker 8: during the week, and so I think that's something that
21:08
Speaker 8: is very unique, very special. You know, once you go
21:11
Speaker 8: throughout the whole season, is that it takes all of us,
21:14
Speaker 8: you know, it takes all of us, us in the
21:15
Speaker 8: locker room that's grinding, getting better, making sure they were
21:18
Speaker 8: all perfecting our craft. So then when we play on
21:20
Speaker 8: the weekends, we're ready to go.
21:21
Speaker 2: Let me get your thoughts on Jail and Jail Milro's camp.
21:24
Speaker 2: So far, those of us that are just dumb and
21:29
Speaker 2: we're the media and we're watching from afar, feels like
21:32
Speaker 2: there's been a massive step for you from last year
21:34
Speaker 2: to this year. Watching you in practice and and the
21:37
Speaker 2: workouts and everything like that, whether it be you know,
21:40
Speaker 2: nine on seven, eleven on eleven, or just the individual drills.
21:42
Speaker 2: How far do you think you've come in the last
21:44
Speaker 2: twelve months.
21:45
Speaker 7: Yeah, for sure.
21:46
Speaker 8: I think my goal every year, no matter of it's
21:48
Speaker 8: now or next year, is to be better than I
21:50
Speaker 8: was the year before. Even when I stepped into college
21:53
Speaker 8: my freshman year looking way different than my sophomore year.
21:55
Speaker 8: So like steadily growing, having that competitive edge that I
22:00
Speaker 8: always gonna get better the next day I get the
22:01
Speaker 8: opportunity I have to touch the field, the opportunity I
22:04
Speaker 8: have to be in the meeting rooms and to grow each.
22:06
Speaker 7: And every day.
22:07
Speaker 8: And so I think that's something that's necessary being a quarterback.
22:10
Speaker 8: You got to be able to grow, You got to
22:11
Speaker 8: be able to relate, you got to be able to build.
22:14
Speaker 8: And so also having your first first time ever having
22:19
Speaker 8: an off season and so having that timeframe to understand
22:23
Speaker 8: the system as a whole, and then branching off going
22:25
Speaker 8: to your quarterback coaches and working your craft and working schemes,
22:29
Speaker 8: working different things because now you understand how the league is.
22:32
Speaker 8: It's very important and so now it's all about being fast,
22:35
Speaker 8: free and fearless. You know when you take the field,
22:37
Speaker 8: and you know relating back that man like you're here
22:40
Speaker 8: for a reason, You're here for a reason, You're drafted
22:41
Speaker 8: here for a reason, and understanding that you know, That's
22:45
Speaker 8: something that's I love a lot is coach coach Mike's
22:48
Speaker 8: and our our relationship because he's always pouring into me,
22:52
Speaker 8: making sure that I'm continuing to build, getting better, learning
22:56
Speaker 8: and growing because it's gonna be a point where my
23:00
Speaker 8: options he's gonna psent us.
23:01
Speaker 2: Jalen Milroll with me is part of that. Like being
23:04
Speaker 2: a freshman in red shirting, maybe for even a couple
23:06
Speaker 2: of years.
23:06
Speaker 4: You got a guy like Sam in front of you.
23:08
Speaker 2: It's just named the top twenty player in the league,
23:10
Speaker 2: and you know, have the year that he had.
23:12
Speaker 4: You got to vet like Drew Locke ahead of you
23:14
Speaker 4: right now. And I don't know if it's your competitor.
23:18
Speaker 2: You don't play at Alabama, if you don't want to
23:19
Speaker 2: compete at the highest level like it just does, that's
23:21
Speaker 2: just not what happens third round pick. But you're unique
23:25
Speaker 2: in the sense you didn't have to come in here
23:26
Speaker 2: right away and take snaps game one of your rookie season.
23:30
Speaker 4: You get to develop a little bit.
23:31
Speaker 2: How do you balance the competitive nature that you have
23:34
Speaker 2: in you with the knowing that, hey, I've got four
23:36
Speaker 2: years to really just kind of be calm the best
23:39
Speaker 2: version of myself.
23:40
Speaker 4: How do you balance that?
23:41
Speaker 8: I think there's a misconception when it comes to development,
23:43
Speaker 8: right Like, if you look at the workforce, you're not
23:45
Speaker 8: going to get a promotion right away once you get
23:47
Speaker 8: to that that workforce. You have to build, You have
23:48
Speaker 8: to get better, You have to learn to the necessary tools.
23:50
Speaker 8: You got to learn to hyperfecting your craft so that
23:53
Speaker 8: when your time has comes in that profession, you able
23:55
Speaker 8: to season. Now you get a promotion. Yeah, you know
23:57
Speaker 8: my dad's is a cat, then that is work force.
24:01
Speaker 8: He had to start off as a police officer. Then
24:03
Speaker 8: lieutenant didn't have to have the build. Just like playing quarterback,
24:05
Speaker 8: you know, you have to go through stages to get
24:08
Speaker 8: to that get to that point, right, Like if you
24:09
Speaker 8: look at my rookie class of last season, a lot
24:12
Speaker 8: of those guys played because someone got hurt. It wasn't
24:14
Speaker 8: like they just took over and it was gave them
24:16
Speaker 8: the job. They had to earn, the position they had.
24:19
Speaker 8: They had the soone got went down, then they went
24:21
Speaker 8: in and played.
24:22
Speaker 7: Different than my case.
24:23
Speaker 8: We had a really good starter that played really well,
24:25
Speaker 8: led us to a super Bowl and deserving all the
24:28
Speaker 8: success he had. And so as a young guy, why
24:30
Speaker 8: not learn from that? Why not be able to take
24:32
Speaker 8: notes and inherit all these things, because when it opportunity
24:36
Speaker 8: presents itself, I'm going to have years of experience that
24:39
Speaker 8: I've learned from Drew Sam uh, coach the play caller, coach,
24:44
Speaker 8: coach Kubiak that it's gonna be necessary for when I'm
24:47
Speaker 8: able to play. You know, my time at Alabama as
24:50
Speaker 8: well is I credit my time being the backup behind
24:52
Speaker 8: Bryce to the success I had in college because during
24:55
Speaker 8: that time frame, you see football in different lenses. You're
24:57
Speaker 8: not playing, So then now you're trying to see he
25:00
Speaker 8: has the play through, the player callers lenses, the starter,
25:03
Speaker 8: what he sees, and so that it changed your perspective.
25:06
Speaker 8: And so it's so many good. It's so many good
25:07
Speaker 8: to keep on building.
25:08
Speaker 4: What's what's Sam? How is Sam?
25:11
Speaker 5: For you?
25:11
Speaker 2: He's also if nothing else, everything you just described is
25:14
Speaker 2: Sam Darnold. Like he became great in the NFL at
25:18
Speaker 2: what age twenty seven to twenty eight? Right right, right,
25:21
Speaker 2: like after some stops and as we all know, don't
25:23
Speaker 2: go to the Jets. That's good, but like in all seriousness,
25:26
Speaker 2: like right that is does he kind of is a
25:28
Speaker 2: guy that you can talk to and kind of work
25:30
Speaker 2: off of a little bit and be also looked at
25:32
Speaker 2: and say, hey, that's that's kind of the model.
25:33
Speaker 8: I like, Yeah, I think one thing that we both
25:37
Speaker 8: can relate on is that we both had the same
25:39
Speaker 8: quarterback coach, right, So I've seen him in training, I've
25:42
Speaker 8: seen him perfect this craft. And also with his time
25:46
Speaker 8: experience been on multiple teams, he's seen a lot. He's
25:48
Speaker 8: seen a lot office, seen a lot of ball, and
25:50
Speaker 8: during that time frame, he's had a growth mindset.
25:52
Speaker 4: Yeah.
25:53
Speaker 7: If you look at Drew as well, he's.
25:54
Speaker 8: Been on multiple teams as well, and he's had a
25:57
Speaker 8: growth mindset and understood what's near be a starter in
26:00
Speaker 8: the NFL. And also he had no problem you know,
26:05
Speaker 8: pouring into me, pouring in the Drew And so I
26:07
Speaker 8: think that's pretty cool from him.
26:09
Speaker 7: And he's just a good dude to be around.
26:11
Speaker 8: And I and I enjoy and that's not everywhere, you know,
26:13
Speaker 8: sometimes you know, the quarterbacks room hate the starter. That's
26:16
Speaker 8: the opposite for us. We enjoy being around each other
26:19
Speaker 8: and it's fun.
26:20
Speaker 7: You know. We don't have a toxic room at all.
26:21
Speaker 4: No, well, I think we.
26:22
Speaker 8: If you watch Hard Knocks, I have not, and I
26:24
Speaker 8: want to binge watch it at the end of the season.
26:27
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, that's that's probably a good call. I can
26:29
Speaker 4: tell you this.
26:30
Speaker 2: For Seayawk fans and even people like us, we've covered
26:32
Speaker 2: the team forever. It's kind of it's really fun to
26:34
Speaker 2: see behind the season like we see out here. We
26:37
Speaker 2: think we know some things right and we don't. So
26:39
Speaker 2: it's been a ton of fun. And I mean, I
26:41
Speaker 2: think what we've seen everybody comes across so in such
26:42
Speaker 2: a good way. What do you need to get done
26:44
Speaker 2: this out the next two weeks in the preseason?
26:46
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think you personally, Yeah, for sure, leading leading
26:49
Speaker 8: clean operation a team, to lead our offense, build each
26:53
Speaker 8: and every game. You know, with different defenses, you're going
26:56
Speaker 8: to see a lot different things. You know, playing this
26:58
Speaker 8: weekend is tight and they do some different things with
27:01
Speaker 8: the solid defense and they then last week with the Cowboys.
27:04
Speaker 8: So just seeing different defenses responding, have a plan at
27:08
Speaker 8: the court, opposition, and just go out and ball up.
27:10
Speaker 2: You got a rep a little bit, right, Yeah, I
27:12
Speaker 2: mean it's it's tough because everyone's battling. You've got some backups.
27:17
Speaker 7: You got this.
27:17
Speaker 2: You know they had you with the two's a lot
27:19
Speaker 2: last week in terms of the offense. Uh, but then
27:22
Speaker 2: you're in there was some threes and so there's probably
27:24
Speaker 2: I would think for a quarterback it might be the
27:25
Speaker 2: hardest thing this preseason is it absolutely.
27:27
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's tough, I believe it at that it's uh,
27:31
Speaker 4: are you looking forward to joint practices?
27:33
Speaker 7: I cannot wait.
27:34
Speaker 8: It's fun because it's it's a blessing in this guys,
27:38
Speaker 8: because you know, we're going against the best defense, yeah,
27:41
Speaker 8: in the in the whole league. But also good to
27:44
Speaker 8: see different defenses, you know, being around different schemes and
27:47
Speaker 8: be able to compete like last year going against the
27:49
Speaker 8: Packers and joint practice, like of course we go against
27:52
Speaker 8: our defense now seeing you know, the Packers defense, that
27:54
Speaker 8: was great, you know, So it's always fun competitive.
27:58
Speaker 4: You know, you don't have to deal with listening to
27:59
Speaker 4: Devin with spoon talk right, and.
28:02
Speaker 6: He got juice, got great personality.
28:05
Speaker 4: What was it like when he came in with that
28:06
Speaker 4: one hundred million dollar contract in the locker room?
28:09
Speaker 8: What I loved about it was a teen comaraderie and
28:11
Speaker 8: they were all happy for him.
28:13
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was that.
28:14
Speaker 8: I was the coolest thing like MSN right, yeah, yeah,
28:17
Speaker 8: everybody was genuinely happy for them because of how great
28:20
Speaker 8: of a player there are, but also great people.
28:22
Speaker 2: Last thing for it, I'm just going to leave this
28:23
Speaker 2: very open because we saw it. This is it's a
28:26
Speaker 2: really cool. Most since you haven't watched Hard Knocks, there's
28:28
Speaker 2: a cool moment Hard Knocks and Mike McDonald John Shutter
28:30
Speaker 2: talking and I'm talking about Terry Arnold. You're a teamate.
28:32
Speaker 2: They go, we've talked to Jalen. Jalen speaks highly of him.
28:37
Speaker 2: I will say this, I don't want to give you
28:38
Speaker 2: a spoiler because you can watch it later. They speak
28:41
Speaker 2: very highly of you and what your opinion is, and
28:43
Speaker 2: your background, where your family comes from, military family, dads
28:46
Speaker 2: and plaw enforcement, and they talked say, Jalen really says
28:48
Speaker 2: good things about it. So it's kind of cool that
28:50
Speaker 2: a second your guy, They went to you. What can
28:52
Speaker 2: you tell people about Terry Arnold?
28:56
Speaker 8: Well, this is my best friend that I consider my brother.
29:00
Speaker 8: This is someone that it means a lot to me
29:02
Speaker 8: because we started the journey together. We're both in the
29:04
Speaker 8: same recruiting class at Alabama, so we started the journey
29:08
Speaker 8: being the backups, grinding our tail off, grinding together, competing
29:13
Speaker 8: each and every day, being around His room was like
29:16
Speaker 8: two rooms away from mine at the dorms. To this
29:18
Speaker 8: some one I spent a lot of time with, and
29:20
Speaker 8: during this whole time frame, we got each other better
29:24
Speaker 8: and to see now that we're both in the NFL,
29:26
Speaker 8: seeing you know where his direction his life is going.
29:30
Speaker 8: He's very very, very talented, of course we all know that.
29:33
Speaker 8: But he's very smart and intelligent. He's gonna bring a
29:35
Speaker 8: lot of juice to our defense. He's gonna work hard,
29:37
Speaker 8: of course, but also understanding that he's there, he's here,
29:41
Speaker 8: the better the team. You're not gonna detriment the team.
29:44
Speaker 8: He's here, the better the team, and only bring Jordan
29:47
Speaker 8: to our defense.
29:48
Speaker 2: Again, the spoiler is that they really appreciate your opinion,
29:51
Speaker 2: and I think we all do too, and appreciate having
29:52
Speaker 2: the conversation. And I can tell you this cousin Dez,
29:55
Speaker 2: cousin Eric down there in Alabama.
29:57
Speaker 4: All Right, they'll be listening to this on the podcast later.
30:00
Speaker 4: All right, Old Tide Roll.
30:02
Speaker 2: Tide Baby, that is Jalen Milroll will take a break,
30:04
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Speaker 2: LL right, we're back at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center
30:26
Speaker 2: on a Tuesday afternoon.
30:27
Speaker 4: He infnests with you.
30:28
Speaker 2: It's very quiet out here, practice getting in a way
30:30
Speaker 2: about twenty minutes or so as the Hard Knocks cruise here,
30:34
Speaker 2: they're getting out, getting ready to go and getting their
30:36
Speaker 2: getting their stuff set up in episode three tonight, which
30:41
Speaker 2: will be interesting, Like I was mentioned to Jalen Milroe, Trav,
30:44
Speaker 2: is that be interesting to see what we get behind
30:47
Speaker 2: the scenes that that comes out of you know, the
30:50
Speaker 2: the Terry and Arnold signing. Yeah, we watched episode three
30:53
Speaker 2: tonight of Hard Knocks. I would assume we'll have more
30:55
Speaker 2: because it all kind of came down over the last
30:58
Speaker 2: seven eight days since that last episode is aired. Uh,
31:01
Speaker 2: so we'll see what those guys are saying. Maybe we
31:02
Speaker 2: get some inside on when they think he's going to
31:04
Speaker 2: be ready. Uh you know, I mean we can see
31:06
Speaker 2: the story. It's a beautiful thing about Hard Knocks. They
31:08
Speaker 2: get information and they get stuff that none of us get. Uh,
31:11
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden it pops up on
31:12
Speaker 2: HBO on demand at six pm Pacific time tonight and
31:15
Speaker 2: we go heh, there we go, got a story.
31:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's It's really cool how how much access they have.
31:21
Speaker 4: It's what what have your impressions been?
31:23
Speaker 2: Is someone that's really not out here all that offer, right,
31:25
Speaker 2: what's your what's your impressions?
31:26
Speaker 3: It's great.
31:27
Speaker 4: I love it.
31:27
Speaker 10: I'm I'm shocked by how much access they're getting into,
31:32
Speaker 10: you know, Schneider's process and and behind the scenes in
31:34
Speaker 10: the front office and everything that they're capturing there.
31:37
Speaker 3: It's it's really really cool.
31:39
Speaker 2: The NFL teams love to work under the veil of secrecy, right,
31:43
Speaker 2: they liked it. They like to operate with no one watching,
31:47
Speaker 2: no one talking, just do their thing. And you know,
31:51
Speaker 2: I you know fighting for a long time. You heard people,
31:53
Speaker 2: Oh they did see XCX. Don't want let the secret
31:54
Speaker 2: saucekeet out. Wait, I haven't heard that when Pete was here, right,
31:57
Speaker 2: and Pete was a little bit more of an open
31:58
Speaker 2: book than Mike McDonald is and John Schneider. But no
32:03
Speaker 2: team wants anything out. Every teams that way, every teams
32:06
Speaker 2: shutting down. Fact, when we were working the Cowboys the
32:10
Speaker 2: Cowboys game last week, the producer we had for our
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Speaker 2: radio call was telling us, and the Cowboys are an
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Speaker 2: interesting group because Jerry Jones wants fans at every single
32:21
Speaker 2: practice in Oxen or California, and they're they're not nearly
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Speaker 2: as restrictive in terms of what can be shot. Like
32:29
Speaker 2: if you're a fan that comes out here, you're told, hey,
32:32
Speaker 2: do not shoot, video, do not shoot. You know, stills
32:35
Speaker 2: media were after the first ten minutes, we can't do
32:38
Speaker 2: anything video wiser or still picture wise, they shut things down.
32:43
Speaker 2: It's even now, it's even tighter now that they kind
32:44
Speaker 2: of go it. They kind of call it regular season
32:46
Speaker 2: mode is where they're at right now. So you have
32:48
Speaker 2: all those things going on. Well, the Cowboys are like
32:52
Speaker 2: that are a little bit more open and like there's
32:54
Speaker 2: other teams. Cowboys last week when they had their joint
32:56
Speaker 2: practice with the Rams, they were veryve in what they
33:00
Speaker 2: were able to show the media, and like a lot
33:03
Speaker 2: of times they'll show like entire practices almost like from
33:06
Speaker 2: up above where you can see formations and everything else.
33:08
Speaker 2: That was not the case with the with the open
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Speaker 2: scrimmage or with the scrimmage with the Rams, so they
33:14
Speaker 2: shut things down.
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Speaker 4: That's as as a.
33:17
Speaker 2: As a general rule, NFL teams are quite paranoid. That's
33:21
Speaker 2: just the way they operate. So sure, but yeah, well
33:24
Speaker 2: we'll be fun to watch that game that tonight. We
33:27
Speaker 2: Rick Riz Weekend. I saw some texts already. We'll get
33:29
Speaker 2: to those coming up a two thirty today, Rick Riz
33:31
Speaker 2: week in the final homestand of the season. They're gonna
33:35
Speaker 2: honor Rick all weekend as he retires from the game
33:38
Speaker 2: after forty one years. Call and play by play? What
33:41
Speaker 2: does Rick Rizz mean to you? Four nine, four or
33:43
Speaker 2: five one? We'll get to that later. To me, that
33:45
Speaker 2: just the sound of summer, which I love. I love
33:47
Speaker 2: just the voice when you hear Rick. But I think
33:50
Speaker 2: more much more than that, he's a great broadcaster, but
33:53
Speaker 2: more importantly, he's a great asset to our community. So
33:55
Speaker 2: we'll get some of those a little bit later on.
33:56
Speaker 2: We'll touch in on the Mariners in the next segment
33:58
Speaker 2: a little bit more too.
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Speaker 4: We'll get to them.
34:02
Speaker 2: And what this is the next three games play. If
34:05
Speaker 2: I would have told you that Milwaukee had the best
34:07
Speaker 2: record in Major League Baseball, and maybe you hadn't been
34:09
Speaker 2: keep an eye on the standings, would you believe me,
34:11
Speaker 2: like the Milwaukee Brewers the best record in baseball right now?
34:15
Speaker 2: Matt Holkins want to call him this morning in the
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Speaker 2: Times that I thought was rather interesting.
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Speaker 4: In a sense.
34:23
Speaker 2: It's an argument against the salary cap. In other words,
34:26
Speaker 2: we don't need the salary cap, and I say an
34:28
Speaker 2: argument against it because Milwaukee is not a high spending team.
34:32
Speaker 2: Yet they have been consistently a playoff team and or
34:35
Speaker 2: a playoff contender for a while now. They haven't won it,
34:39
Speaker 2: but they have been there. They also had a long,
34:42
Speaker 2: long dry spell of not getting to the playoffs. It
34:44
Speaker 2: some ways makes what the Mariners have gone through a
34:46
Speaker 2: pales in comparison.
34:47
Speaker 4: Somewhat.
34:49
Speaker 2: I don't feel sorry for them because I'm a bitter
34:52
Speaker 2: old man, and I also know where the Milwaukee Brewers
34:55
Speaker 2: came from. They were the Seattle pilots for wopping one
34:58
Speaker 2: season in nineteen sixty. I mean, then they move there.
35:02
Speaker 2: They're not quite that. They're certainly not the Sonics in
35:04
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City because of the long tenure, but they're they're
35:07
Speaker 2: right up there. It's so I don't really feel sorry
35:09
Speaker 2: for them. So I say, go get three from these clowns.
35:12
Speaker 2: Although that's gonna be awful difficult. We'll kind of get
35:15
Speaker 2: into that. Also, a line that has been uttered far,
35:19
Speaker 2: far too many times this season has been uttered again
35:22
Speaker 2: and set again over the last few days, and we're
35:25
Speaker 2: gonna get into that and maybe just maybe the tired
35:29
Speaker 2: old line is going to come to fruition. I'll tell
35:31
Speaker 2: you what that is coming up, and then we'll spend
35:33
Speaker 2: some time a little bit later on, maybe about one
35:35
Speaker 2: forty five, and also with Lund coming up at two o'clock,
35:39
Speaker 2: just paying tribute to Bill Rasmuson who passed away the
35:42
Speaker 2: founder of one of the co founders of ESPN September seventh,
35:46
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy nine. ESPN one on the air, and for
35:49
Speaker 2: most people listening right now, you probably can't even fathom
35:52
Speaker 2: a world without twenty four to seven sports channel, much
35:55
Speaker 2: less what do they have ESPN You, ESPN News, which
36:01
Speaker 2: is not really ESPN News anymore, ESPN and ESPN two.
36:06
Speaker 2: Right I think they have four full time channels right now,
36:08
Speaker 2: plus ESPN plus. And probably most people can't fathom a
36:12
Speaker 2: time when there was no ESPN and there's no twenty
36:14
Speaker 2: four to seven programming. But it goes far deeper than that.
36:17
Speaker 2: We'll touch it on that a little bit later on.
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Speaker 4: If you missed it.
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Speaker 2: We'll play the quote back from Jaln Milroll talking about
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Speaker 2: Terry and Arnold and who and what he is. We'll
36:24
Speaker 2: do that coming up in the one o'clock hour, and
36:27
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Speaker 2: brewed cores like chews Chill. The first a new report
36:46
Speaker 2: about quarnerback Terry and Arnold. Seahawks are still planning to
36:49
Speaker 2: sign Arnold, but it will take a while. They're working
36:50
Speaker 2: through the timing. That's according to the NFL networks seeing
36:53
Speaker 2: a rappaport. He'll be placed on the NFL Commissioner's Exempt
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36:59
Speaker 2: play or practice while the league looks into his case.
37:03
Speaker 2: It's gonna take a while, folks, that's the translation there.
37:05
Speaker 2: It's going to take a while probably before we see
37:09
Speaker 2: him on the field, that least, according in rap Apart.
37:11
Speaker 2: I'll say that and then trave you know what's gonna
37:13
Speaker 2: happen here in about ten minutes, I'm gonna look out there.
37:14
Speaker 2: I'm gonna see a new guy in the field named
37:16
Speaker 2: Terry Arden.
37:16
Speaker 4: No, I'm just.
37:19
Speaker 2: Saying, the way this stuff works, what we think is
37:24
Speaker 2: gonna happen, rarely does it happen.
37:27
Speaker 4: That's all I'm saying. Good news for the Seahawks though.
37:30
Speaker 2: Rookie running back j Darian Price he returned the field
37:32
Speaker 2: of training camp yesterday full participant. That's missed the last
37:36
Speaker 2: five practices, excuse me, with a sore upper leg. He
37:39
Speaker 2: slid right in with the first team offense as well.
37:42
Speaker 2: Other Seahawks updates, Tory Horton did not practice Monday. Mike mcdonald'
37:45
Speaker 2: say is working through some things. God, that's the most
37:47
Speaker 2: peak Caroline ever. God, that's a peak Caroline. But that's
37:50
Speaker 2: what he said, quote unquote, he's working through some things.
37:52
Speaker 2: That just it's like the reincarnation of Pete Carroll with
37:55
Speaker 2: that sound bite. No up, not that Peet's passed away
37:58
Speaker 2: or anything. It's just that's a Pete. Isn't Nona to
38:00
Speaker 2: update on Nick even Worri and outsider outside linebacker Derek
38:04
Speaker 2: Hall also misspractice again. It's August eighteenth, so we're okay
38:08
Speaker 2: so far. Manners are in Milwaukee. They start a three
38:11
Speaker 2: game series against the NL Central and MLB leading brew crew,
38:15
Speaker 2: the Milwaukee Brewers. Bryce Miller starts for the MS and
38:18
Speaker 2: Kyle Harrison for the Brewers. Sattles four games back in
38:20
Speaker 2: Houston in the AL West, two games out in the
38:24
Speaker 2: wild Card race as well. Moving into our number two
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Speaker 2: of the show, All right, Mariners start a series tonight
38:34
Speaker 2: against the Brewers. Who would have thought the best team
38:38
Speaker 2: in Major League Baseball would be named the Milwaukee Brewers
38:40
Speaker 2: on August eighteenth, two thousand and twenty six, the year
38:44
Speaker 2: of our Lord.
38:44
Speaker 4: But that's the case.
38:45
Speaker 2: Best record in Major League Baseball, not the highest payroll,
38:48
Speaker 2: but just the best record.
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Speaker 4: Right now.
38:49
Speaker 2: We'll see what the next three games brings. This one,
38:53
Speaker 2: it's all said and done when they won two of
38:56
Speaker 2: three games over the weekend against Houston Astros, especially with
39:01
Speaker 2: what happened on Friday, with that just absolutely devastating extra
39:04
Speaker 2: inning loss. You take a two run lead in the
39:06
Speaker 2: tenth inning, like game over, like flat out game over.
39:10
Speaker 4: Has to be over, right, trav gott to be over.
39:12
Speaker 4: You're up seven to five.
39:13
Speaker 2: Not only did you get the ghost runner in, you
39:15
Speaker 2: add another one on top of it for an insurance run.
39:17
Speaker 2: Things are looking swimmingly good for the Mariners at that point,
39:20
Speaker 2: and then we all know what happened. A couple excuse
39:23
Speaker 2: me hits and then a blast by Walker. Game over,
39:26
Speaker 2: Thanks for coming, and we move on to next two games,
39:29
Speaker 2: which they did win. They end up the weekend four
39:32
Speaker 2: back of Houston. Nobody played last night that matters for Seattle,
39:36
Speaker 2: so that's a good thing. So there's still four games
39:38
Speaker 2: back in Houston.
39:40
Speaker 4: The good news in the.
39:41
Speaker 2: Wildcard races are two out of wildcard three. The bad
39:44
Speaker 2: news there not bears bad news there with the wildcard
39:49
Speaker 2: race on the surface doesn't look too daunting. A two
39:53
Speaker 2: game lead is in baseball is nothing like that's a
39:57
Speaker 2: that's a good series, and you're right there. The bad
40:00
Speaker 2: news is there are five teams. They're tied right now
40:04
Speaker 2: with sixty one wins ahead of Seattle. Baltimore, through what
40:09
Speaker 2: must be a myriad of different tie breakers, is sitting
40:13
Speaker 2: in wildcard three. And then there's four other teams with
40:16
Speaker 2: sixty one wins in the American League Wildcard chase. Cleveland
40:21
Speaker 2: is a half game or one game ahead of Seattle.
40:23
Speaker 2: They have sixty wins, so not only your two back,
40:28
Speaker 2: but you've got a lot of traffic in front of you.
40:31
Speaker 2: It comes down to this, and I'm gonna get to
40:33
Speaker 2: the line in a second. But there's seven teams for
40:36
Speaker 2: the final wildcard spot.
40:37
Speaker 4: I know.
40:38
Speaker 2: When Anders is here, he says this a lot, and
40:40
Speaker 2: I'm starting more and more to agree with him that
40:44
Speaker 2: it might be division or bust because of all the traffic.
40:48
Speaker 2: There's this muddy middle, this math that they've got going
40:51
Speaker 2: on right now, all these other teams. It might be.
40:54
Speaker 2: It might be division or bust for the postseason this
40:56
Speaker 2: year for Seattle. Now, if you were gonna tell me
40:59
Speaker 2: that they were gonna get in as a wild card
41:01
Speaker 2: back in March, I'd be like, what a disappointing year.
41:06
Speaker 2: Now you'd almost take it? Yeah, oh yeah, Like now,
41:09
Speaker 2: just like like like if somebody said to you, now,
41:12
Speaker 2: you could you know, the old softy you can only
41:14
Speaker 2: have one. Do you take a wildcards guaranteed wildcard spot
41:16
Speaker 2: or take your chances with the division. I think I
41:19
Speaker 2: would just take the wildcard spot right now. But you're
41:23
Speaker 2: still a ways away, like you got You're still a
41:25
Speaker 2: ways away from that. To get to that point though,
41:30
Speaker 2: as we said over and over again, they have to
41:33
Speaker 2: have better performances from their better players. Now, in a
41:36
Speaker 2: positive note, Brian was giving you a couple of good
41:38
Speaker 2: opportunity or good good games. His last two road starts
41:42
Speaker 2: on this both very good. So that's been a good thing.
41:46
Speaker 2: I'll stay let me go with the negative again for
41:48
Speaker 2: a second. And because this is the line we hear,
41:52
Speaker 2: uh boy, I think they might have just actually woken
41:55
Speaker 2: things up. They might have just cranked it up. They
41:56
Speaker 2: might have They might have turned the corner with this game,
41:59
Speaker 2: or with this bat or with this home run. How
42:02
Speaker 2: many times have we said that this season that might
42:05
Speaker 2: have been the catalyst, that might have been the jump start,
42:07
Speaker 2: That might have been what gets this team going as
42:11
Speaker 2: a whole or an individual as a whole. And there
42:15
Speaker 2: is no person none more so that we've heard that
42:19
Speaker 2: for than Cal Rawley, like over and over and over again.
42:26
Speaker 2: That might have got Cal going that at bat, that
42:29
Speaker 2: home run, that swing, that walk, that great at bat
42:33
Speaker 2: he had that maybe he's changed his approach, maybe things
42:36
Speaker 2: are going there. And what Cal did the other night,
42:40
Speaker 2: big big blast, Maybe that turned him around. But then
42:44
Speaker 2: you look at the road, at the numbers, this is
42:47
Speaker 2: a guy that on this road trip is still two
42:51
Speaker 2: for twenty if he does have five walks, but two
42:55
Speaker 2: for twenty eight strikeouts. Yes, he's got the home run,
43:00
Speaker 2: a big home run that ended up being the difference
43:02
Speaker 2: on Sunday. And if you just go back to the
43:05
Speaker 2: previous homestand cal Raleigh is six for his last forty
43:11
Speaker 2: seven with sixteen strikeouts, yikes? Did that one swing on
43:16
Speaker 2: Sunday and Houston change things for cal Rawley? Did that
43:18
Speaker 2: one swing turn things around for cal? Time will tell,
43:24
Speaker 2: But we've been teased over and over and over again
43:27
Speaker 2: that hey, we're going to start seeing the real cal Rawley,
43:30
Speaker 2: and we have yet to see it. One swing does
43:33
Speaker 2: not change who and what you are.
43:35
Speaker 4: It just doesn't.
43:38
Speaker 2: But maybe in the back of his mind, in the
43:39
Speaker 2: most in some way cerebral game, a game that is
43:43
Speaker 2: based on a lot of times just confidence, maybe that
43:48
Speaker 2: does get him going. But well, what a task you
43:51
Speaker 2: have against the next three games against and really frankly
43:54
Speaker 2: coming up as well over the next couple weeks. We
43:56
Speaker 2: talked about this gauntlet that they're in the midst of
43:58
Speaker 2: right now in terms of their schedule. I mean, obviously
44:01
Speaker 2: Houston before that the Yankees, they go Milwaukee and then
44:05
Speaker 2: the Cubs come here, and then they go to Philadelphia
44:07
Speaker 2: and at Toronto and then at Boston. I mean, it's
44:10
Speaker 2: it is not easy coming up. Okay, So that's the negative,
44:13
Speaker 2: that's the part they're like, Okay, I'll believe cal Raley's
44:17
Speaker 2: turned things around when when we actually see more than
44:19
Speaker 2: like one at bat out of twenty that's worthwhile or
44:23
Speaker 2: one swing of the bat. I mean, he's just becomes
44:26
Speaker 2: such a one trick pony. It's home runner, bust, home runs,
44:29
Speaker 2: strikeout or walk. Those are your three options every time
44:31
Speaker 2: Cal's up, home runs, strikeout, or walk. And there's been far,
44:35
Speaker 2: far too many of the strikeouts. There's been a handful
44:38
Speaker 2: of walks. On base percentage getting a little bit better
44:41
Speaker 2: than that. Here's the guy that I actually am more
44:44
Speaker 2: encouraged for. And this is the part and again I'll
44:47
Speaker 2: go back. I'm gonna reference Culkins Rode a great story.
44:49
Speaker 4: In the Time to day.
44:49
Speaker 2: It's very much worth reading. You know, he talks about
44:52
Speaker 2: the under achieving guys Julio Naylor. Cal put a little
44:57
Speaker 2: bit of blame, actually not a little put a lot
44:58
Speaker 2: of blame on what's going on with them right now.
45:01
Speaker 2: On the on Topoto and it just kind of roster construction.
45:05
Speaker 2: Maybe he's not the guy to get him quote over
45:07
Speaker 2: the top. But here's where the optimism could come from
45:11
Speaker 2: is what we have started to see from Josh Naylor.
45:16
Speaker 2: And Naylor is an interesting guy because the batting average
45:20
Speaker 2: has been climbing, but really we're kind of thinking, are
45:23
Speaker 2: we ever going to see the power again? Are we
45:25
Speaker 2: going to see him crank it up in that regard? Well,
45:27
Speaker 2: we're starting to see that with Josh Naylor. He is
45:31
Speaker 2: starting to get going. He's hitting three This is since
45:34
Speaker 2: the All Star break. Naylor three twenty average, six doubles,
45:38
Speaker 2: two home runs, albeit they both came in one game,
45:42
Speaker 2: eight RBI, nine walks, but a three d on base percentage,
45:46
Speaker 2: slugging at four forty three, which is far better than
45:49
Speaker 2: any where he was, and his ops a very respectable
45:52
Speaker 2: eight twenty three.
45:54
Speaker 4: So maybe Naylor's the guy.
45:56
Speaker 2: That we need to look for to continue to try
45:58
Speaker 2: to carry this offense because it ain't happening with Cal
46:03
Speaker 2: And unless Cal gives you a couple of weeks, I
46:05
Speaker 2: don't think there's any reason to believe that cal Raley
46:08
Speaker 2: is going to do anything for this team. Besides frankly,
46:12
Speaker 2: continue to disappoint. But Josh Naylor's got it going. Josh
46:16
Speaker 2: Naylor is not just heating up with slappy singles. He's
46:20
Speaker 2: starting to heat up overall with everything else. The cal
46:24
Speaker 2: Raley situation. The saddest part about that. We were actually
46:29
Speaker 2: in Westport this weekend, my wife and I and our
46:34
Speaker 2: two kids and their significant others, and all four kids
46:38
Speaker 2: are big Mariners fans. My daughter, I've talked about her
46:41
Speaker 2: a lot. She's angry Mariner fan. School teacher Brianni. She's
46:45
Speaker 2: very angry all the time, angry. But we were talking
46:48
Speaker 2: about this because it got brought up last week. Cal
46:52
Speaker 2: Raley is on pace to have the worst season in
46:55
Speaker 2: terms of batting average for a qualifying player in Major
46:58
Speaker 2: League Baseball history. He's hitting one fifty eight. Wow, the
47:03
Speaker 2: bar is one sixty eight. Like just remarkable, just absolutely remarkable,
47:10
Speaker 2: the fall that this guy's had. I mean, I I
47:14
Speaker 2: don't think you could have got Vegas odds at the
47:17
Speaker 2: start of the year. Maybe Calshie one of those other
47:18
Speaker 2: sketchy sites does it, like, yeah, you know, what are
47:21
Speaker 2: the odds?
47:22
Speaker 7: Uh?
47:22
Speaker 2: Cayl Rawley having the worst year ever in terms of
47:24
Speaker 2: botting average of a major league player, like you probably
47:27
Speaker 2: wouldn't want to mint if you could put money on
47:29
Speaker 2: that one fifty eight and one sixty eight is the
47:33
Speaker 2: worst ever. I know we talked about this with Moiwap
47:35
Speaker 2: last week. I know, those guys maiwap yesterday without me,
47:37
Speaker 2: damn them. But that's that's where they're at right now.
47:40
Speaker 2: Can he get going?
47:41
Speaker 3: But also nobody saw this coming.
47:43
Speaker 10: I mean, you knew he'd have a drop off from
47:46
Speaker 10: last season, but this big of a drop off.
47:49
Speaker 2: I think my bigger concern is not this year too, Travis.
47:53
Speaker 2: My bigger concern is next year. Like that's my bigger concern.
47:58
Speaker 2: He wasn't a one hit wonder because he had a
48:00
Speaker 2: hell of a year. You know, he had a couple
48:02
Speaker 2: a good little stretch of a couple of years where
48:03
Speaker 2: he was he was good. So that's it's It's not
48:07
Speaker 2: it's not like, hey, you know, one hit wonder last
48:10
Speaker 2: year was out of I mean the home runs were obviously,
48:12
Speaker 2: I mean he you know, he's a thirty five on
48:15
Speaker 2: a decent year, normal year, he's probably a thirty five
48:17
Speaker 2: home run guy, and then he obviously goes crazy last year.
48:20
Speaker 2: But my bigger concern is a guy that could turn
48:22
Speaker 2: thirty in November this year, So he's twenty nine, almost
48:25
Speaker 2: thirty years old, and the guy that plays that demanding
48:28
Speaker 2: of a position behind home plate and is in there
48:31
Speaker 2: every day, the body's getting wrecked. My bigger concern is
48:34
Speaker 2: the drop off going to continue? Is it going to
48:36
Speaker 2: be not to this level next year. I don't think
48:40
Speaker 2: that's going to happen. But the bigger concern would be
48:42
Speaker 2: what happens, you know, is he can he get back
48:45
Speaker 2: to being a two twenty five to thirty thirty five
48:50
Speaker 2: forty home run guy.
48:51
Speaker 4: Yeah.
48:52
Speaker 2: I mean he's got fewer hits this year than he
48:54
Speaker 2: had home runs last year. Now that should change. It
48:57
Speaker 2: should change, Uh, not sure if will. No, it should change,
49:01
Speaker 2: but he's got fewer this year they had last year
49:03
Speaker 2: in terms of his versus home runs. So my concern
49:06
Speaker 2: is that because that line we hear over and over again, well,
49:08
Speaker 2: that'll be the game that turns things around, That'll be
49:10
Speaker 2: the game that switches. I don't even know if there's
49:12
Speaker 2: such a thing. I'll ass I'll ask Baseball stats nerd
49:15
Speaker 2: Joe Sheen coming up in the next segment. I don't
49:17
Speaker 2: think there is momentum because if there is there would
49:20
Speaker 2: have been negative momentum on Friday night, and yet look
49:23
Speaker 2: what they did on Saturday and Sunday, like they as
49:25
Speaker 2: a team, they stepped up. Now, pitching was great, especially
49:28
Speaker 2: with Wu. Good for him, and he's been a lot
49:31
Speaker 2: better lately as well. So we'll get all we'll get
49:34
Speaker 2: into all of that coming up here as the day
49:36
Speaker 2: goes on. Our buddy Joe Sheen's going to join us
49:38
Speaker 2: in just a couple of minutes. We'll get John lundon
49:40
Speaker 2: come on, coming up today at two pm. We'll touch
49:44
Speaker 2: it on a number of topics With Lund. I actually
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49:49
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Speaker 4: Hello, sir, how are you.
51:33
Speaker 11: I'm a little peet.
51:35
Speaker 4: Uh oh uh oh uh oh okay, all right, Brian wu.
51:39
Speaker 11: Bran consecutive good starts on the road and Anders changes jobs.
51:47
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you a fun story. So we are well.
51:51
Speaker 2: We I took yesterday off. I went down on Saturday.
51:55
Speaker 2: It's a rare occasion. We have older children that we
51:59
Speaker 2: can get them and their significant others together. So my wife, myself,
52:04
Speaker 2: our son, daughter and their significance went down to Westport
52:07
Speaker 2: on the Organ or on the Washington Coast.
52:09
Speaker 4: Had a great time.
52:10
Speaker 2: And on Saturday, Sunday afternoon, late afternoon our time, we uh,
52:15
Speaker 2: the kids and me left the wife in the condo
52:18
Speaker 2: she could chill We went to a little brewery shout
52:21
Speaker 2: out to Blackbeard's Brewing by the way in Westport, great
52:23
Speaker 2: little spot. Went there, watched the first few innings of
52:27
Speaker 2: the game, kind of hanging out, having some fun, and
52:30
Speaker 2: Brian Woo dealing, and I told him the story of Yeah,
52:34
Speaker 2: on Tuesday, I'm gonna have to eat this thing because
52:37
Speaker 2: Joe's gonna be on with us, and he's been telling
52:39
Speaker 2: us stop stop worrying about road. Brian wu and I
52:45
Speaker 2: and I and I'm not listening.
52:47
Speaker 4: I was not rooting against him. I'm not that guy.
52:50
Speaker 2: I'd rather root we have it staying on our show
52:53
Speaker 2: when Jess was doing it, Andrews was doing it with me,
52:55
Speaker 2: root to be wrong. We were rooting to be wrong
52:57
Speaker 2: Joe and Lo and Belie Old. I said, I'm gonna
53:00
Speaker 2: have to eat it. I didn't think that you would
53:02
Speaker 2: go right at Andrews though, so I appreciate that I
53:04
Speaker 2: blame it all on him.
53:06
Speaker 11: Well, it was the second one in a row.
53:07
Speaker 5: Tuesday night.
53:08
Speaker 11: We talked last week about we starting at Yankee Stadium.
53:10
Speaker 11: That was a pretty factive start as well. So I
53:13
Speaker 11: just that's fine if he wants to change ups rather
53:16
Speaker 11: than going you talk to me on air about it.
53:17
Speaker 11: That's you know, I understand.
53:19
Speaker 2: Hey, the best you know the best part about this.
53:22
Speaker 2: Joe I had no idea that he wasn't with me today.
53:25
Speaker 2: I had none. Like we we we put we put
53:29
Speaker 2: schedules out, and it always says it's just copy and paste.
53:32
Speaker 2: I think, and I look down. I'm like, I texted Anders,
53:34
Speaker 2: I go, hey, we're going to do this day. I said,
53:36
Speaker 2: you're probably gonna hear from We're probably I said, we
53:38
Speaker 2: are probably going to hear from Joe about road Brian Woo.
53:40
Speaker 2: He goes, Oh, I'm actually not on the show and
53:42
Speaker 2: doing the morning show today. I'm like, oh, isn't that convenient? Fella,
53:45
Speaker 2: isn't that convenient? So hey, listen, let's give you credit.
53:49
Speaker 6: You were right.
53:50
Speaker 2: Nothing to see here, nothing to worry about, roade, Brian
53:53
Speaker 2: wu is not a thing.
53:54
Speaker 11: Well, I think we can leave it at that. Ian,
53:56
Speaker 11: you're talking to you and have a good affde I'm
54:02
Speaker 11: gonna say something stupid. I'm gonna ruin it.
54:05
Speaker 4: No, you're not, No, you're not well. I mean, hey,
54:08
Speaker 4: they needed it.
54:09
Speaker 2: I mean they after what happened Friday in Houston, what
54:12
Speaker 2: happened in New York, and they need they needed that
54:16
Speaker 2: series win.
54:17
Speaker 6: Now.
54:17
Speaker 2: The hard thing is this time of the year, they
54:19
Speaker 2: gained just one game over the weekend and they still
54:22
Speaker 2: have this massive logjam in the wild card race, and
54:24
Speaker 2: we'll get to Milwaukee in a second where they start
54:27
Speaker 2: a series.
54:27
Speaker 7: Now.
54:27
Speaker 2: But let me just all joking aside, let's go back
54:30
Speaker 2: because you you've been telling us, let's not worry about
54:32
Speaker 2: Brian wu They needed him to be great in both
54:35
Speaker 2: of those starts, and he was and in your mind
54:38
Speaker 2: probably not a lot different.
54:41
Speaker 5: No.
54:41
Speaker 11: I saw most of both starts, not all of them,
54:44
Speaker 11: more of the Houston one, and he looked like Brian
54:46
Speaker 11: moot and me, I didn't see any any differences. I
54:49
Speaker 11: think that. Yeah, we talked about this last year, like
54:51
Speaker 11: how do you order these guys for the postseason? And
54:54
Speaker 11: I'm I still think I have them. I mean, I
54:56
Speaker 11: love George Kirby, I'm talking about Kirby with you for years,
54:58
Speaker 11: but I think I still probably go Gilbert Kirby Miller
55:01
Speaker 11: uh setting up for the postseason, and it's not un
55:03
Speaker 11: compent on matchups in ballpark and stuff like that. But
55:05
Speaker 11: to me, Brian whu Is is this team's number two
55:08
Speaker 11: ahead of the other two guys, and you know, you
55:10
Speaker 11: just hope to gains. She has to put him on
55:11
Speaker 11: the mounds in a short series and I will see
55:13
Speaker 11: how it goes. You mentioned watching sat was a Sunday's
55:15
Speaker 11: game Friday. I can't I still can't believe what I
55:18
Speaker 11: watched on Friday, with the comeback from five to two
55:22
Speaker 11: down early and Jose al two bay and this right
55:25
Speaker 11: now is a two game swing in the division. Jose
55:28
Speaker 11: al two by hitting a pitch that I don't know
55:31
Speaker 11: what more Andres Luos could have done. I mean, this
55:34
Speaker 11: thing was very This thing was over by sea tack
55:37
Speaker 11: and he and Al two bays two reaches out Hoax
55:41
Speaker 11: hits little duck snort into wakefield. Tide of the game.
55:45
Speaker 11: Dultin var show does much the same with the next
55:48
Speaker 11: time up, and then of course Walker hits a ball
55:49
Speaker 11: all the way to Vancouver. I I don't know, like
55:54
Speaker 11: the season could come down to AL two by poking
55:57
Speaker 11: that ridiculous breaking ball, you know, hundred and twelve feet
56:00
Speaker 11: of the year. I'm stunned by it, and I'm impressed
56:03
Speaker 11: by the way they bounced back the next two days.
56:05
Speaker 11: You know, if you talk about momentum and that's as
56:08
Speaker 11: difficult a loss as I've seen a team take. And
56:11
Speaker 11: they did come back and win the next two games
56:12
Speaker 11: on the road.
56:14
Speaker 2: I wanted to I'll to me a hit for a second.
56:17
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go back to that for a moment because
56:19
Speaker 2: I just mentioned my kids. My daughter was a fast
56:20
Speaker 2: pitch player, and my god, I felt like I was
56:23
Speaker 2: watching a fast pitch game. I mean, that's what like
56:26
Speaker 2: if you're a good especially high school girls. I'm I'm
56:30
Speaker 2: no expert on it, but I mean I watched enough
56:31
Speaker 2: high school fast pitch over the years with her, Like
56:34
Speaker 2: you see that all the time, and it's intentional, like
56:37
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm gonna reach out, use the momentum of
56:40
Speaker 2: the speed of the ball, and I'm just gonna flip
56:42
Speaker 2: one out there to the outfield, and I'm gonna take
56:44
Speaker 2: my single and move along. That's I gotta give him credit, man,
56:48
Speaker 2: I thought that was a hell of a play. I
56:50
Speaker 2: don't like the little fella. Nobody does in Seattle, nobody
56:52
Speaker 2: does outside of Houston. But you gotta give the guy credit.
56:54
Speaker 2: That was a hell of a play by him.
56:58
Speaker 5: Contacting.
56:59
Speaker 11: You know, not to dismiss the softball comp but you know,
57:03
Speaker 11: that's very much what also they does did there was
57:07
Speaker 11: I'm just trying to keep the at that alive. It
57:09
Speaker 11: wasn't necessarily I'm trying to hit the ball on the
57:11
Speaker 11: right field. It's I'm swinging at a breaking ball that's
57:14
Speaker 11: nowhere near the plate, and I just got to try
57:15
Speaker 11: to stay alive. And you know, sometimes that ball gets
57:18
Speaker 11: top to the pitcher, top to the first base, and
57:20
Speaker 11: top to the second basis. Sometimes the pop up that's
57:22
Speaker 11: easily handled, and he just happened to catch it in
57:24
Speaker 11: the right way that that drove home the tying run.
57:26
Speaker 11: So again, credit for getting the bat on the ball
57:29
Speaker 11: on a pitch that was nowhere near the plate by
57:31
Speaker 11: a guy who's four foot step. You know what, I
57:33
Speaker 11: don't get to make hype jokes about people, but you know,
57:35
Speaker 11: also is a small guy. But I just I'm still stunned,
57:39
Speaker 11: Like I just don't know what if you're Andres Munno is,
57:41
Speaker 11: what more can you do in that situation? You absolutely
57:44
Speaker 11: buried a breaking ball in the opposite batter's box, you know,
57:47
Speaker 11: a foot off the ground, and you gave up game
57:49
Speaker 11: time singles. So, like I said, I still I don't
57:52
Speaker 11: think any of these teams are good enough. I'm talking
57:55
Speaker 11: about the White Sox, I'm talking about the Astros, I'm
57:58
Speaker 11: talking about the Brewers, Astons done. I don't think any
58:00
Speaker 11: of them are so good that they can't fload these
58:02
Speaker 11: division leads. So don't see how it plays out. But
58:05
Speaker 11: that two games swing, that swing is a two game
58:10
Speaker 11: swing at the end of the year that decides the division.
58:12
Speaker 11: That is a hell of a way to go.
58:14
Speaker 2: I love Muno's in you know, I use a little
58:19
Speaker 2: comparison sometimes, and I don't know if this is my
58:23
Speaker 2: friend baseball guy Joe's gonna get mad at me for this,
58:25
Speaker 2: but I think the baseball closer the football cornerback, not
58:30
Speaker 2: the quarter the football cornerback, Devin Witherspoon, those guys, the
58:34
Speaker 2: hockey goalie. You've got to have the shortest damn memory
58:39
Speaker 2: in the planet in the world in your job. And
58:43
Speaker 2: it's easier said than done right to have the confidence
58:45
Speaker 2: to go back out and do that same job after
58:49
Speaker 2: something bad happens and something negative happens. And that's frankly
58:54
Speaker 2: Munno's on Sunday, and it's one thing like you can
58:56
Speaker 2: get by with the two flip hits into the into
59:00
Speaker 2: the right field and left field.
59:02
Speaker 4: That proved to be the downfall.
59:04
Speaker 2: But then Walker hits that ball, you know, all the
59:06
Speaker 2: way to San Antonio, and you got to come back
59:09
Speaker 2: out two days later and you got to do it
59:11
Speaker 2: all over again and given on and hores.
59:14
Speaker 4: Munas has had a very up and down year.
59:16
Speaker 2: I thought that was just a massive moment for him
59:18
Speaker 2: on Sunday to kind of finish things off.
59:21
Speaker 6: To bounce back.
59:21
Speaker 11: Then I was watching that when I was screaming at
59:23
Speaker 11: the television before I realized I actually looked it up
59:26
Speaker 11: in game. I didn't realize the extent to which Muno's
59:30
Speaker 11: was a one inning only pitcher this year because I
59:33
Speaker 11: wanted them in there in the eighth, and they got
59:36
Speaker 11: out of it with the first spire, and then to
59:38
Speaker 11: get who they were, they brought it serrend thing to
59:41
Speaker 11: Mingas to get out of the eighth, and I'm screaming,
59:43
Speaker 11: like why is And then I look at Apparently Munyos
59:46
Speaker 11: has not been used outside of the three out role
59:49
Speaker 11: this year, and I don't like that. I don't want
59:51
Speaker 11: to turn this into another Dan Wilson thing. Honestly, Dani
59:53
Speaker 11: Wilson's not the only guy who does this, but when
59:56
Speaker 11: you have one guy who's that much better than the
59:58
Speaker 11: rest of your bulb, especially in the absence of Matt Brash.
1:00:01
Speaker 11: I think you've got to show more flexibility. And they
1:00:04
Speaker 11: very nearly lost that game for want of using outside
1:00:07
Speaker 11: of that three out role. So you know that that
1:00:10
Speaker 11: spot two outs, two on in the in the eighth
1:00:12
Speaker 11: was higher leverage than basis loaded ushas with nobody out
1:00:16
Speaker 11: and nobody on in the ninth, and they got they
1:00:18
Speaker 11: got away with it. But I think restricting Munio's to
1:00:20
Speaker 11: this role is the kind of thing that's probably gonna
1:00:22
Speaker 11: end up biting them eventually.
1:00:25
Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's and the role isn't just one
1:00:27
Speaker 2: out or one inning, it's also in the innings, like
1:00:30
Speaker 2: it's that was I mean, we go back, it was,
1:00:33
Speaker 2: it was that was the problem last year. Instead of
1:00:35
Speaker 2: using him earlier in Toronto, they didn't. And that's what
1:00:38
Speaker 2: that's what That's why people to this day are sideways
1:00:40
Speaker 2: with Dan Wilson. I give old Sir Anthony Lancelot there,
1:00:44
Speaker 2: give him a little bit of credit. His Mariner debut
1:00:46
Speaker 2: was nothing short of horrific, uh, And that was a
1:00:49
Speaker 2: massively high leverage situation.
1:00:50
Speaker 4: He came in and got it done.
1:00:52
Speaker 2: But Yeah, let's go back though, because whether it's in Toronto,
1:00:55
Speaker 2: but even in this thing, like you said, Dan Wilson
1:00:57
Speaker 2: isn't the only manager of the marriage, not the only
1:00:58
Speaker 2: team that does that with their clobe. But aren't those
1:01:01
Speaker 2: the types of decisions sometimes that are made outside of
1:01:04
Speaker 2: the managerials manager's office.
1:01:07
Speaker 11: Yes, and having no insight into how the Mariners have
1:01:11
Speaker 11: divided up this role, it is possible that this is
1:01:13
Speaker 11: not just Dan Wilson doing it. There may be input
1:01:16
Speaker 11: in terms of how we're going to keep munas healthy
1:01:18
Speaker 11: over the course of a year. My feeling is I
1:01:21
Speaker 11: don't mind that as a six month strategy, but I
1:01:23
Speaker 11: think you've got to have the flexibility to get away
1:01:26
Speaker 11: from it on the road in a must win game
1:01:28
Speaker 11: in August. Man, if you want to say, hey, look
1:01:32
Speaker 11: we want to not overwork one of our best relievers
1:01:35
Speaker 11: for four months, that's fine, but it's so that you
1:01:37
Speaker 11: can put on some extra work on it in August, September,
1:01:40
Speaker 11: and October. So I can agree with the larger picture
1:01:44
Speaker 11: and you know who's making a decision. But I also
1:01:46
Speaker 11: think you've got to have a little more flexibility. And
1:01:48
Speaker 11: we talked about this with lineups too. There's an idea
1:01:50
Speaker 11: that you know, front officers write a lot of lineups.
1:01:52
Speaker 5: But.
1:01:54
Speaker 11: Unless you're actually going to show me the diagram, unless
1:01:58
Speaker 11: you're going to show me the workflow chart. To me,
1:02:00
Speaker 11: the managers, the guy who goes to the mounder, doesn't.
1:02:03
Speaker 11: The manager is the guy who fills out the lineup
1:02:04
Speaker 11: card physically, it's on him to make those decisions. And
1:02:07
Speaker 11: I get that front offices has a lot of influence now,
1:02:11
Speaker 11: but I'm always going to blame the guy in the
1:02:13
Speaker 11: dugout or credits the guy in the dugout, because I
1:02:17
Speaker 11: just otherwise what are we doing. It's like, you know,
1:02:19
Speaker 11: front offices now have nine guys and them who have
1:02:21
Speaker 11: various titles. I've just taken the calling the one guy
1:02:24
Speaker 11: the GM if that's not his title or not, because
1:02:26
Speaker 11: somebody has to in the end of the day, bear responsibility.
1:02:29
Speaker 5: For the decision.
1:02:30
Speaker 11: It can't just be the decision you don't like, Well
1:02:33
Speaker 11: that's because the front office made it wrong. Well no, look,
1:02:36
Speaker 11: he's the guy that it's gotten complicated as an analyst,
1:02:39
Speaker 11: don't get me wrong, but I just I firmly believe
1:02:42
Speaker 11: that we've got to be able to say this guy
1:02:44
Speaker 11: made the call this guy made the trade and not
1:02:47
Speaker 11: just Gilmer. So what I'm looking for spread out blame
1:02:51
Speaker 11: when we don't actually know who's specifically responsible for a decision.
1:02:56
Speaker 2: Well, I think you go back to you know, I mean,
1:02:58
Speaker 2: we don't see a lot of g necessarily fired in season.
1:03:01
Speaker 2: We sure as hell see a lot of managers fired
1:03:03
Speaker 2: in season, right. I mean, if nothing else, you're gonna
1:03:05
Speaker 2: be the one taking the taking the final bullet a
1:03:08
Speaker 2: lot of times. And I think you know, we've seen
1:03:10
Speaker 2: it in successful places like Philly and certainly with Boston
1:03:14
Speaker 2: Joshian joining us Joshian dot com. I we hear in
1:03:18
Speaker 2: a line here all the time, and and I'm kind
1:03:21
Speaker 2: of and I'm guilty of it.
1:03:22
Speaker 4: We're all guilty of it. Seattle.
1:03:24
Speaker 2: It's like, well, maybe that's what fill in the blank turns,
1:03:27
Speaker 2: you know, filling the blank player around. You know, we've
1:03:29
Speaker 2: heard it from about cal all year. He hits the
1:03:31
Speaker 2: home run the other night. The reality is he's still
1:03:34
Speaker 2: two for twenty on this road trip. He's four for
1:03:36
Speaker 2: his last fifty or forty seven. But if you include,
1:03:40
Speaker 2: if you include plate appearancies, he's four for his last
1:03:42
Speaker 2: fifty plus at bats. Yes, he hit a big home run,
1:03:46
Speaker 2: But the bottom line is he's still just not producing.
1:03:48
Speaker 2: He's on pace to have a record year in a
1:03:50
Speaker 2: bad way for batting average for a modern day player
1:03:53
Speaker 2: with who qualifies. Can one swing turnaround cal rally or
1:03:57
Speaker 2: should we just accept that he's gonna get you a
1:03:59
Speaker 2: couple of home runs here or there and that's it,
1:04:01
Speaker 2: and we just got to hope everybody else picks it up.
1:04:05
Speaker 11: We were waiting for how long term to regress even
1:04:07
Speaker 11: to a version of the player he was in a
1:04:09
Speaker 11: three h fourth and twenty four twenty five, and it's
1:04:14
Speaker 11: it's really a mystery to me. I'm Sam Miller, the
1:04:17
Speaker 11: Prospectives ESPN. He's got his own thing pebble hunting now,
1:04:20
Speaker 11: great writer, and he was post pointing out the other
1:04:22
Speaker 11: day that, like, we're hoping he gets back to like
1:04:25
Speaker 11: his level in May when he had like a six
1:04:27
Speaker 11: fifty ops, Like it's getting worse. I remember talking to
1:04:30
Speaker 11: you when he went on the il and thinking all
1:04:33
Speaker 11: he needs is rest. He had a long season last year,
1:04:36
Speaker 11: and he's actually hit worse since coming back to me
1:04:38
Speaker 11: did before he went on the aisle. It is one
1:04:40
Speaker 11: of the most mysterious things I've seen and you kind
1:04:42
Speaker 11: of look at the swings and he's just not When
1:04:45
Speaker 11: he was at his best last year, it was almost
1:04:47
Speaker 11: a little like a Bonds thing where he wasn't going
1:04:49
Speaker 11: to get many pitches to hit, but when he got them,
1:04:54
Speaker 11: he was locked in on them. And there's been a
1:04:56
Speaker 11: little bit there's been a degradation in the pitch selection
1:04:59
Speaker 11: is obviously the the degradation and the quality of contact
1:05:02
Speaker 11: and that stuff starts to see it on each other.
1:05:03
Speaker 11: I you know me, I'm not a soft factors guy.
1:05:06
Speaker 11: I don't like an analyzing players through the magic box
1:05:08
Speaker 11: in my living room. I would be shocked at this
1:05:12
Speaker 11: point if there wasn't something mental going on. And I
1:05:16
Speaker 11: don't mean that negatively, but I don't know if you
1:05:18
Speaker 11: can hit a buck fifty for a season and not
1:05:21
Speaker 11: have that get into your head somehow.
1:05:23
Speaker 5: You know.
1:05:23
Speaker 11: I've had years where, you know, I go a week
1:05:25
Speaker 11: and I write crap and it really starts to get
1:05:27
Speaker 11: at me. Cal Rally has been, you know, a pretty
1:05:30
Speaker 11: bad baseball player for four months. And the thing is,
1:05:33
Speaker 11: I'm not ready. I don't think I'm already in Waller's career.
1:05:35
Speaker 11: I'm not even writing him off for September if you
1:05:37
Speaker 11: tell me he goes out and as a nine hundred
1:05:38
Speaker 11: ops in September, I can fully believe that. But I
1:05:41
Speaker 11: would have to think that playing like this for four
1:05:44
Speaker 11: months weighs on you. And I would say the same
1:05:45
Speaker 11: about Kyle Tucker, and I'd probably say the same about
1:05:47
Speaker 11: Ladimir Gerrich Junior. Three unbelievable collapses this year.
1:05:51
Speaker 4: Yeah, so he's up the only one.
1:05:52
Speaker 2: I think that's the point to remember, Like, maybe you
1:05:54
Speaker 2: can point that out for matter fans a little bit.
1:05:56
Speaker 2: There's three guys that are just inexplicably not good this season,
1:06:01
Speaker 2: and you just said historically for cal is it historic
1:06:03
Speaker 2: for all three of those guys to have that kind
1:06:05
Speaker 2: of step back.
1:06:07
Speaker 11: There's like no precedent from going without an injury, for
1:06:10
Speaker 11: going to the second best player in the league to
1:06:13
Speaker 11: be the second most player in the league. What cal
1:06:16
Speaker 11: Rally has done is historic. But even then, Kyle Tucker
1:06:18
Speaker 11: was he signed for four years, two hundred and forty million.
1:06:21
Speaker 11: He was at every candidate. He did play poorly at
1:06:23
Speaker 11: the end of last year.
1:06:24
Speaker 5: He had some.
1:06:24
Speaker 11: Handed issues and maybe we're going to learn that this
1:06:27
Speaker 11: has all been injury related. And you know, he walks
1:06:31
Speaker 11: enough that the numbers aren't quite as bad. He's basically
1:06:33
Speaker 11: been about a half win better than replacement. He's generally
1:06:36
Speaker 11: a good defensive outfield or had a terrible couple days.
1:06:38
Speaker 11: He dropped the ball, just flat out dropped the ball
1:06:40
Speaker 11: last night at course, And because the Dodgers are still
1:06:44
Speaker 11: in first place, I don't think he's getting the grief
1:06:45
Speaker 11: necessarily that Rally's gotten. Ladi Vigria Junior. You know, he's
1:06:48
Speaker 11: always had issues hitting balls on the ground, and that
1:06:51
Speaker 11: was the crazy thing about that running had in the
1:06:52
Speaker 11: playoff last I guess I don't need to tell you guys.
1:06:55
Speaker 11: He was just putting everything in the air. He was
1:06:57
Speaker 11: sitting the ball hard enough, which is something that he's
1:06:59
Speaker 11: struggled to do over and this year has gone back
1:07:01
Speaker 11: to just being a fifty percent ground ball guy. Seven
1:07:04
Speaker 11: home runs. He's on the il at the moment, be
1:07:06
Speaker 11: a tocushion il. I don't know if it's coming back
1:07:09
Speaker 11: this week, but even before that, just this remarkable, just
1:07:12
Speaker 11: this ground ball machine. He just wasn't driving in runs,
1:07:15
Speaker 11: and he's got a slugging that's like Chandler Simpson slugging.
1:07:19
Speaker 11: It's just it's really a remarkable year. So yeah, you know,
1:07:23
Speaker 11: talk about the baseball not being as well, but you know,
1:07:25
Speaker 11: guys are having good years. There are guys out there
1:07:27
Speaker 11: hitting for power, hitting for average, and it's just at
1:07:29
Speaker 11: the same time you've got three of these remarkable I
1:07:32
Speaker 11: don't have a better word for them than collapses. And
1:07:35
Speaker 11: I know how that sounds judgmental, and I'm not really
1:07:37
Speaker 11: trying to be that guy. But how do you explain
1:07:39
Speaker 11: three guys who were projected to be what fifteen war
1:07:43
Speaker 11: between them basically being replaced with level well, and.
1:07:46
Speaker 2: I think that's you know, the mental part is the
1:07:47
Speaker 2: only thing that does make sense. I know with Cali,
1:07:49
Speaker 2: even things like you know, bat speed and things like
1:07:51
Speaker 2: that are are the same. Like it's not like you go, wow,
1:07:54
Speaker 2: his bat speed's diminished remarkably and things like that. It's
1:07:57
Speaker 2: that's it's And there's no more cerebral game other than
1:08:00
Speaker 2: golf than baseball, right, Like, how do you feel about
1:08:03
Speaker 2: your swing?
1:08:03
Speaker 4: Well, not good today?
1:08:04
Speaker 2: Well, you know what, you're probably not gonna have good
1:08:06
Speaker 2: results in either sport, and that I think I think
1:08:08
Speaker 2: you're think I think what you said is right on.
1:08:10
Speaker 4: Joe she enjoys Joshan newsletter.
1:08:12
Speaker 2: The best thing about going to Joshian dot com is
1:08:14
Speaker 2: if you want to learn about teams like I did
1:08:16
Speaker 2: with because I don't watch a lot of National League,
1:08:18
Speaker 2: I'm not Joe. I want like, how in the hell
1:08:20
Speaker 2: of the Milwaukee Brewers sitting with the best record in
1:08:22
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball? I read Joe's third third preview and
1:08:25
Speaker 2: I find out that, well, they didn't take a run
1:08:28
Speaker 2: at Trek Scooble, they don't get any offense at a
1:08:30
Speaker 2: third base or designated hit or two places you should
1:08:33
Speaker 2: So I'll ask you this, how the hell do the
1:08:36
Speaker 2: Milwaukee Brewers are the best record in baseball?
1:08:39
Speaker 11: I mean, the pitching has been excellent, obviously, Jacob Zarowski
1:08:42
Speaker 11: has taken a huge step forward this year. They traded
1:08:44
Speaker 11: for Kyle Harrison. That's worked out very well for them.
1:08:47
Speaker 11: The bullpen's been strong. You know, at one point we
1:08:49
Speaker 11: were talking about Aaron Ashby as being a guy who
1:08:51
Speaker 11: could possibly win twenty games. He had this ridiculous run
1:08:54
Speaker 11: of relief wins. I want to say, he's thirteen now,
1:08:56
Speaker 11: so he's probably not going.
1:08:57
Speaker 5: To get there.
1:08:57
Speaker 11: But it's really been the rug prevention. You know, we
1:08:59
Speaker 11: talked the people get excited about their offense, they get
1:09:01
Speaker 11: on base they hit singles, they're really good in the clutch.
1:09:04
Speaker 11: They've lost some of that this year. The offense is
1:09:06
Speaker 11: eleventh overall, and really for about two months now, they
1:09:09
Speaker 11: haven't had that successful runers in scoring positions. But their
1:09:12
Speaker 11: run prevention is the best in baseball. That's what's kept
1:09:14
Speaker 11: them kept them going. You know, Christian Yelich hasn't hit,
1:09:17
Speaker 11: Wilson Conan, William Canterreras hasn't hit. They have real problems
1:09:21
Speaker 11: scoring runs. And if you remember last year that that's
1:09:23
Speaker 11: what knocked them out in the postseason. They got good
1:09:25
Speaker 11: pitching against the Dodgers and just could not score. And
1:09:27
Speaker 11: you look ahead to them in this October and they're
1:09:30
Speaker 11: kind of setting up for that same thing where they
1:09:33
Speaker 11: run prevention is going to be very good, but they
1:09:35
Speaker 11: might lose in a series where they score, you know,
1:09:38
Speaker 11: five runs in four games. Again, so I think you're
1:09:41
Speaker 11: going to get some low scoring games this week. Do
1:09:43
Speaker 11: you catch me, Asarowski?
1:09:44
Speaker 5: I haven't look at the no.
1:09:46
Speaker 4: It's it's Harrison may and Gasser.
1:09:49
Speaker 11: Dustin made they trade. If that was the big trade
1:09:51
Speaker 11: deadline acquisition, Dustin Mayor's pitch twelve for the Cardinals this year,
1:09:54
Speaker 11: they made some tweaks. They really they like doing it.
1:09:56
Speaker 11: They like trading for guys who they can change, who
1:09:58
Speaker 11: they can say you. They're very hands on with their pitchers.
1:10:02
Speaker 11: Throw this more, change this grip, and then they've had
1:10:05
Speaker 11: some success. Harrison was a big success for them. You know,
1:10:08
Speaker 11: they traded for Robert Gas the gash was they traded
1:10:11
Speaker 11: for Shane Grohan. In that same deal, they picked up
1:10:13
Speaker 11: Brandon spode Pro from the Mets, who hasn't really worked out.
1:10:16
Speaker 11: So you know, it's they're going to keep the runs
1:10:18
Speaker 11: off the board. They're a very strong defensive team, but
1:10:21
Speaker 11: they're just struggling the scry. Like if you told me
1:10:23
Speaker 11: that there were seventeen runs total in these three games,
1:10:26
Speaker 11: I might take the under. They're just they're a defense
1:10:30
Speaker 11: pitching and try to sequence well they they Whereas the
1:10:33
Speaker 11: Mariners are trying to hit three home runs and hope
1:10:36
Speaker 11: that some runners are on base, the Brewers are trying
1:10:38
Speaker 11: to get a bunch of runners on base and bring
1:10:40
Speaker 11: them home by with Underson scoring position, but hit runers
1:10:43
Speaker 11: in scoring positions, two very different models of offense.
1:10:47
Speaker 2: If Seattle were to get one tonight with Harrison on
1:10:50
Speaker 2: the mount against Miller, that'd be a big bonus for
1:10:51
Speaker 2: the Mariners to start this series, wouldn't it?
1:10:54
Speaker 11: It is because that's the best starter you're going to
1:10:55
Speaker 11: face the series. Nothing agains Dustin may Or, who's saying,
1:10:57
Speaker 11: Robert Gasser.
1:10:58
Speaker 5: In the third spot?
1:10:59
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, this is this is the hard one. Tonight
1:11:03
Speaker 11: you steal this. You're looking at a pretty good chance
1:11:05
Speaker 11: to take two out of three and maybe even get
1:11:06
Speaker 11: a sweep. And say ducking means, look, this is they're
1:11:11
Speaker 11: spacing out his starts a lot. They're being very careful
1:11:13
Speaker 11: with him. He's only thrown twenty eight since July first,
1:11:17
Speaker 11: twenty eight innings, which is like eighty fourth in Major
1:11:19
Speaker 11: League Baseball. So you're catching a break dot facing him,
1:11:21
Speaker 11: and you'd rather see him up close, obviously, But I
1:11:26
Speaker 11: think it's a break when you get Gasser in May
1:11:28
Speaker 11: instead of having it if Zerowski. So, No, they bounce
1:11:30
Speaker 11: back to win the last two in Houston. I'm just
1:11:34
Speaker 11: I can't write any of these teams off this point. No,
1:11:36
Speaker 11: none of the leaders are good enough. I think if
1:11:38
Speaker 11: you tell me on September fifteenth, the Mariners are back
1:11:40
Speaker 11: in first place, I would absolutely believe that because and
1:11:43
Speaker 11: I'm going to keep coming back to this. The starting
1:11:45
Speaker 11: pitching is just ridiculous.
1:11:47
Speaker 2: I'll wrap it up with this joke because I think
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Speaker 2: I'm looking through here and it's I'm with you, and
1:11:55
Speaker 2: I've been saying this for a while. It would not
1:11:57
Speaker 2: surprise me if they're in the playoffs. I don't think
1:11:59
Speaker 2: they're we're close to being done. And yet it's odd
1:12:02
Speaker 2: because there's fewer teams between them and last place in
1:12:05
Speaker 2: the American League and them in the third wildcard spot
1:12:08
Speaker 2: in the American League. But they're all separated by only
1:12:11
Speaker 2: what is it there's six teams with sixty one wins,
1:12:13
Speaker 2: five teams with sixty one wins, and then as a
1:12:15
Speaker 2: team with sixty in Cleveland and then Seattle with fifty nine.
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Speaker 4: I mean a lot can happen over the next couple
1:12:20
Speaker 4: of months. And you mentioned it. Everyone's got blemishes on
1:12:22
Speaker 4: their resume right right.
1:12:24
Speaker 11: And we're just waiting for some team to be done.
1:12:26
Speaker 11: Out of ten, all these teams is going four and
1:12:29
Speaker 11: six and five and five. In the last time, she's
1:12:30
Speaker 11: waiting for one team to go out with nine out
1:12:32
Speaker 11: of ten and take control.
1:12:33
Speaker 5: This thing.
1:12:33
Speaker 11: And again, if we're just talking about raw talent, if
1:12:36
Speaker 11: we're just talking about even underlying performance, the Mariners are
1:12:40
Speaker 11: still the best team in that mix. The Tigers are
1:12:43
Speaker 11: right there with them. But to me, the Mariners and
1:12:45
Speaker 11: the Tigers are separate from the Jays and Oriels and
1:12:47
Speaker 11: Twins and all the rest of that group. So if
1:12:49
Speaker 11: there's a team that can finish the year twenty four
1:12:52
Speaker 11: and fourteen or whatever, it has to be, I think
1:12:54
Speaker 11: it's the Mariners.
1:12:55
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1:12:59
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1:14:29
Speaker 2: What is a former teammate Alabama think of Terran Arnold
1:14:33
Speaker 2: and his character and who and what he is. We'll
1:14:36
Speaker 2: hear from Jalen Millroe talking about what could be the
1:14:39
Speaker 2: newest Seahawk and Terry Arnold will do that next.
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Speaker 2: Back here, Virginia Mason Athletics Center. Seahawks practice training camp continues.
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Speaker 2: say anything going on out there, including who's on the
1:15:10
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Speaker 2: thing right now here at the Virginia Mason Athletics Center.
1:15:18
Speaker 4: Earlier today in the noon.
1:15:19
Speaker 2: Now, a couple of hours ago, we had Jalon Milroll
1:15:20
Speaker 2: stop by, a Seahawk quarterback from Alabama, second year player,
1:15:23
Speaker 2: a third round pick last year. He was teammates with
1:15:25
Speaker 2: Terry and Arnold. At Alabama, and when I was just
1:15:31
Speaker 2: talking a great bill about this off the air minute ago,
1:15:33
Speaker 2: we walked by turning Arnold think is a very strange thing.
1:15:35
Speaker 2: He hasn't officially signed here yet. He is expected to
1:15:39
Speaker 2: sign here, and the sereniors are talking about him fairly openly,
1:15:44
Speaker 2: whether it be in Hard Knocks or even Mike McDonald's
1:15:46
Speaker 2: addressed it a couple of different times in media sessions
1:15:48
Speaker 2: affect the last two Mondays he has extensively, which normally
1:15:52
Speaker 2: when they have a guy that's not like they won't
1:15:54
Speaker 2: even it's like, well, we're not going to talk about it.
1:15:56
Speaker 2: They have it's like foregone conclusion he's going to be here.
1:15:59
Speaker 7: Now.
1:15:59
Speaker 2: The problem is with Terry Arnold. He's facing eight felony charges.
1:16:05
Speaker 2: There are those out there that believe that that he'll
1:16:11
Speaker 2: be exonerated and and that that's not going to take
1:16:14
Speaker 2: place like he's going to be okay. There's others out
1:16:17
Speaker 2: there that say he's already guilty. That you know, that's
1:16:19
Speaker 2: that's the way we live in this country. Somewhere in
1:16:22
Speaker 2: between lies what's going to happen. Maybe he'll be able
1:16:25
Speaker 2: to play. Ian Rappaport said reported today on the NFL network.
1:16:28
Speaker 2: He'll be placed on the Commissioner's exemplists once he does
1:16:31
Speaker 2: sign that makes him ineligible, and then they'll figure it
1:16:33
Speaker 2: out from there. All that aside, Jalen Milroe knows him
1:16:38
Speaker 2: very well. In fact, in the Hard Knocks episode, he
1:16:41
Speaker 2: was you hear John Schneider and Mike McDonald talk about Hey,
1:16:43
Speaker 2: you know he talked to Jalen about him.
1:16:45
Speaker 4: He speaks highly of him.
1:16:47
Speaker 2: Well, I had Jalen Miller on the show today and
1:16:48
Speaker 2: I asked him about Terry and Arnold.
1:16:51
Speaker 8: Well, this is my best friend that I consider my brother.
1:16:54
Speaker 8: This is someone that it means a lot to me
1:16:57
Speaker 8: because we started the journey together. We're both in a
1:16:59
Speaker 8: sanm raccoon last Alabama, So we started the journey being
1:17:03
Speaker 8: in backups, grinding our tail off, grinding together, competing each
1:17:08
Speaker 8: and every day, being around his room was like two
1:17:11
Speaker 8: rooms away from mine at the dorms. To someone I
1:17:13
Speaker 8: spent a lot of time with, and during this whole
1:17:16
Speaker 8: time frame we got each other better. And to see
1:17:19
Speaker 8: now that we're both in the NFL, seeing you know
1:17:22
Speaker 8: where his direction his life is going. He's very, very,
1:17:26
Speaker 8: very talented. Of course we all know that, but he's
1:17:28
Speaker 8: very smart and intelligent. He's gonna bring a lot of
1:17:30
Speaker 8: juice to our defense. He's gonna work hard, of course,
1:17:33
Speaker 8: but also understanding that he's he's there. He's here, the
1:17:36
Speaker 8: better the team. You're not gonna detrimental team. He's here,
1:17:39
Speaker 8: the better the team, and only bring Jordan to our defense.
1:17:44
Speaker 4: So there you go.
1:17:44
Speaker 2: That's Jalen Milroe, who has you know, great, great affinity
1:17:49
Speaker 2: towards Uh his former teammate, former you know, dorm room merrit,
1:17:54
Speaker 2: I guess, dorm neighbor and so forth. But I know
1:17:58
Speaker 2: the Seahawks value Jalen mill Rose opinion. Jalen's background, where
1:18:03
Speaker 2: he's from, and who he is character wise is someone
1:18:07
Speaker 2: that they trust mightily, and so is you know that.
1:18:11
Speaker 2: I think The Hard Knocks gonna be interesting in that
1:18:12
Speaker 2: because it's gonna be a topic. It's going to be
1:18:14
Speaker 2: a topic, and there's gonna be stuff in that episode
1:18:17
Speaker 2: that hasn't been reported by RAP or anybody else, Cheft
1:18:19
Speaker 2: or anybody else. I'm assuming because it's it has certainly
1:18:24
Speaker 2: progressed since the last episode because they've figured out some
1:18:27
Speaker 2: sort of agreement. Again, it's weird he has it signed,
1:18:30
Speaker 2: but he's he's gonna be here at some point, we assume.
1:18:33
Speaker 4: Now, will he ever be able to play in Seattle
1:18:35
Speaker 4: this year? I don't know.
1:18:40
Speaker 2: Maybe, And I'll still go back and say I'll stay
1:18:43
Speaker 2: consistent on this. I think it's a very good football
1:18:47
Speaker 2: move because in a sense, it costs you nothing by
1:18:52
Speaker 2: money wise, and if he does play, nice little bonus
1:18:57
Speaker 2: you get a first round pick that can play a
1:18:59
Speaker 2: very important position for next to nothing. So we'll see,
1:19:01
Speaker 2: all right, when we come back, our buddy John Lund
1:19:04
Speaker 2: is going to join us from k NBR in the
1:19:07
Speaker 2: Bay Area. God he's also still doing Westwood One. I
1:19:10
Speaker 2: was on his Westwood one show on Saturday night. I
1:19:12
Speaker 2: thin guy works too much. He's kind I always kind
1:19:14
Speaker 2: of thought him as a lazy ass, but he actually
1:19:16
Speaker 2: is working quite a bit.
1:19:17
Speaker 4: Lund's gonna join us.
1:19:18
Speaker 2: We'll talk about the forty nine ers have another new
1:19:21
Speaker 2: injury like Evans is now hurt. Left practice today quad injury.
1:19:27
Speaker 2: Ice wrapped on his quad. He was seen, so we'll
1:19:30
Speaker 2: find out what's going on with them. We'll talk much
1:19:32
Speaker 2: more about what's taking place in the NFC West after
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Speaker 2: New report about quarterback Terry Arnold. We talked about that
1:20:10
Speaker 2: a moment ago. The Seahawks are still planning to sign him.
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Speaker 2: May take a while, all kinds of stuff to work through.
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Speaker 2: league looks into his case. Good news for Seahawks rooky
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Speaker 2: running back to Darian Price. He returned to the field
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Speaker 2: at training camp yesterday as a full participant after missing
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Speaker 2: the last five practices with a sore upper leg, slid
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Speaker 2: it right in with the first team offense taking handoffs
1:20:36
Speaker 2: from Sam Darnold doing the same thing today. Some other
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Speaker 2: Seahawk updates and Tory Horton did not practice Monday. Mike
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Speaker 2: McDonald said he's quote working through some things. He's channeling
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Speaker 2: his inner Peak Carroll with that line, by the way,
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Speaker 2: working through some things. Uh known update on Nick even
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Speaker 4: This practice yesterday as well manners. Let's get to them.
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Speaker 2: Milwaukee started a three game series against the nl Central Brewers.
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Speaker 1: Welcome Dan's weekly visit with John Lund Unleashed. He's a
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Speaker 1: Bay Area media icon who's known Ian for over twenty
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Speaker 1: five years. But don't let their age change your opinion
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Speaker 1: of them. John takes you through the Bay Area and
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Speaker 1: the NFC West and dupes it out with the in
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Speaker 1: over the Niners and the Hawks. So let's unleash it
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Speaker 1: now with John Lund. Here's Ian.
1:21:38
Speaker 2: I'd also say, and I never thought I'd utter these words.
1:21:43
Speaker 2: Maybe the hardest working man in sports radio like like
1:21:48
Speaker 2: honestly true.
1:21:49
Speaker 5: I'm not sure.
1:21:51
Speaker 4: Well in terms of hours, like in terms of hours
1:21:54
Speaker 4: you are.
1:21:55
Speaker 5: I be more hours than most people on a given week.
1:21:58
Speaker 5: I do seven days a week.
1:22:02
Speaker 6: I get it.
1:22:02
Speaker 2: I get a text from London Saturday night and he says, hey, oh,
1:22:08
Speaker 2: I got to read the text.
1:22:09
Speaker 4: Hang on a second, because.
1:22:10
Speaker 5: This is you were awesome by the way you were
1:22:11
Speaker 5: sober for the first time. It was amazing. Got amazing
1:22:15
Speaker 5: when you're sober.
1:22:17
Speaker 2: Really, some people think the opposite. I get a text.
1:22:21
Speaker 2: I get a text at five forty six pm Pacific
1:22:25
Speaker 2: daylight time on Saturday night. Wanna want to talk to
1:22:29
Speaker 2: Seahawks in the show at eight forty pm tonight or
1:22:32
Speaker 2: will you be hammered?
1:22:34
Speaker 4: No worries if you can't. I take great events.
1:22:38
Speaker 5: I think I've had you on that I think I've
1:22:40
Speaker 5: had you on that show like three times. It's a look.
1:22:42
Speaker 5: It's just I don't blame you and you don't have
1:22:44
Speaker 5: a drinking problem. It's just it's it.
1:22:46
Speaker 12: It goes from I see if I can do the math,
1:22:49
Speaker 12: it goes from eight to midnight Pacific. And so it's
1:22:53
Speaker 12: a Saturday night, I wouldn't you know, you might be
1:22:55
Speaker 12: out with your wife drinking wine, drinking beer.
1:22:57
Speaker 5: You know, I get it. It's it's kind of prime
1:22:59
Speaker 5: time to have a good time. You know.
1:23:00
Speaker 12: It's not like I'm calling you nine thirty on a
1:23:03
Speaker 12: Saturday morning and you're in the bag.
1:23:04
Speaker 5: That would be different.
1:23:05
Speaker 2: That would be you know what if that happened, that
1:23:07
Speaker 2: would be a problem. I'd hope you say something to
1:23:08
Speaker 2: me about it.
1:23:09
Speaker 12: But no, that at the airport airport rules and golf
1:23:12
Speaker 12: don't apply.
1:23:13
Speaker 5: But anything else day.
1:23:14
Speaker 2: Never al Yeah, there's yeah, it's six am the airport.
1:23:17
Speaker 2: Every airport air opens at six am.
1:23:18
Speaker 4: You just gotta go. Yeah, and golf is golf the
1:23:20
Speaker 4: same thing.
1:23:22
Speaker 2: The but but the other two times, the last couple
1:23:24
Speaker 2: of times I was on This also says that I
1:23:26
Speaker 2: must not have made a good impression because it's been
1:23:28
Speaker 2: in like six months, uh since I was on your
1:23:30
Speaker 2: National show.
1:23:31
Speaker 5: Last time talk about Well, I couldn't talk hockey with you.
1:23:34
Speaker 5: I guess we're gonna talk mariners.
1:23:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, thank god. No, it was.
1:23:39
Speaker 2: It was after the NFC Championship game and after the
1:23:42
Speaker 2: Super Bowl or the other two times. And yeah, I
1:23:45
Speaker 2: was over my my next door neighbor, Big sexyes house,
1:23:47
Speaker 2: and we were we were getting after it a little bit.
1:23:49
Speaker 5: So, uh that was like stuff. That was good.
1:23:53
Speaker 4: Well we did.
1:23:54
Speaker 2: I did the show Saturday night after the Seahawks preseason game.
1:23:58
Speaker 2: When I was fighting my way through Seattle traffic. It
1:24:00
Speaker 2: was a ton of fune. I mean, the guy's doing
1:24:02
Speaker 2: a showback on CANBR. Now you're doing a national show. Guy,
1:24:05
Speaker 2: take some time, dude, take some time for yourself.
1:24:08
Speaker 4: John.
1:24:09
Speaker 12: I literally just got off because what you guys probably
1:24:12
Speaker 12: do this too, unless you don't like each other, which
1:24:14
Speaker 12: is possible. But like you know how the program directors
1:24:17
Speaker 12: like to do cross talks.
1:24:18
Speaker 5: So I'm looking at the I'm looking at it. It's
1:24:20
Speaker 5: like I'm supposed to go ten am to two pm Monday.
1:24:22
Speaker 12: Through Friday, and it's like two oh two or something,
1:24:25
Speaker 12: and I can see, you know, I can see kJ
1:24:27
Speaker 12: R calling, and you know, I'm.
1:24:29
Speaker 5: Just like, dude, I just did a just like you.
1:24:31
Speaker 5: I just did a.
1:24:31
Speaker 12: Solo show man, and it's like I've been yapping for
1:24:33
Speaker 12: four hours like let me off the show, and.
1:24:36
Speaker 5: Then that, you know, and then like you said, I
1:24:38
Speaker 5: do Saturdays and Sundays, and it's like, but I got bills, man,
1:24:42
Speaker 5: I got steal divorces, I got x yves, I got
1:24:44
Speaker 5: more kids in the house. That was a brilliant idea. Hey,
1:24:46
Speaker 5: let's that some more to the you know, it's smart.
1:24:49
Speaker 5: He hell was wrong with me? Two more news.
1:24:54
Speaker 2: The news today I see out of the Bay Area
1:24:57
Speaker 2: is the substation has has struck again. Mike Evans leaving
1:25:00
Speaker 2: practice as a quad injury.
1:25:01
Speaker 4: What the hell?
1:25:03
Speaker 12: Yeah, well, the substation strikes again, as you said. But
1:25:09
Speaker 12: the reality of it is is when you sign I
1:25:12
Speaker 12: don't know, I'm crazy. When you sign thirty plus year
1:25:14
Speaker 12: old players who have gotten injured their entire.
1:25:17
Speaker 5: Career, you know what they're gonna do.
1:25:19
Speaker 12: They're gonna keep getting injured like their whole like their
1:25:24
Speaker 12: whole offense.
1:25:24
Speaker 5: It's like George Kittle's thirty two up an Achilles. Mike
1:25:27
Speaker 5: Evans is always hurt, Nebo Samuel is always hurt, Christian
1:25:29
Speaker 5: Kirk has always hurt. Uh, you know, Trent Williams is
1:25:33
Speaker 5: eighty five, Like, like, what's gonna happen? They're gonna get hurt.
1:25:37
Speaker 5: I mean, and everyone around here.
1:25:38
Speaker 12: Act the prized like it's got to be the substation
1:25:41
Speaker 12: or they're practicing too hard or you know, or what. Oh,
1:25:44
Speaker 12: it's it's got to be the training staff.
1:25:45
Speaker 5: It's like, no, you're signing thirty plus year old guys
1:25:48
Speaker 5: who always get hurt, that'll get hurt.
1:25:52
Speaker 4: Shot.
1:25:53
Speaker 2: We're all shocked by We're all shocked by this issue,
1:25:57
Speaker 2: aren't we.
1:25:57
Speaker 12: Dude bad they're down in uh, they're in LA and
1:26:00
Speaker 12: they're doing.
1:26:02
Speaker 5: The joint practices with the Chargers.
1:26:04
Speaker 12: We had a couple of people on from down there,
1:26:05
Speaker 12: and then right when Mike Evans, you know, limped off
1:26:07
Speaker 12: the field.
1:26:08
Speaker 5: With ice and his groin or whatever he was doing.
1:26:10
Speaker 12: It's just like they have twenty guys out of practice.
1:26:14
Speaker 5: Twenty. I mean, it's just unreal. It's crazy.
1:26:19
Speaker 2: Okay, in all seriousness, is there concern because we've been
1:26:22
Speaker 2: talking about this kind of joking about it for a while,
1:26:24
Speaker 2: but is there any concern about all these guys getting hurt?
1:26:28
Speaker 5: Yeah?
1:26:28
Speaker 12: I mean, I just and they've done everything. I mean,
1:26:30
Speaker 12: they've changed their staff. They you know, you know how
1:26:33
Speaker 12: training camp is. You're out there, you know better than
1:26:35
Speaker 12: I do. I mean, it's you know, the Niners used
1:26:38
Speaker 12: to be in Rockland, California.
1:26:39
Speaker 5: It was one hundred and five.
1:26:40
Speaker 12: And you know, we just had you won't like him
1:26:42
Speaker 12: because he's husky. I just had Dennis Brown on and
1:26:44
Speaker 12: I was saying, are they working out too hard? And
1:26:46
Speaker 12: I thought he was going to rip my head off.
1:26:48
Speaker 12: You know, I was like, dude, we were in Rockland.
1:26:49
Speaker 5: We were doing pads every day, we were doing two
1:26:51
Speaker 5: a days. You know, some of it is, you know,
1:26:53
Speaker 5: there's a lot of different theories. You know, do they
1:26:56
Speaker 5: build up enough callous.
1:26:57
Speaker 12: Or whatever the case may be. But you know, you
1:26:59
Speaker 12: see one or two you you know this, everybody knows this.
1:27:01
Speaker 12: You see one or two injuries across the league and
1:27:02
Speaker 12: it scares the hell out of everybody. I mean, you know,
1:27:04
Speaker 12: the Cardinals have got to be the dumbest team in
1:27:07
Speaker 12: the universe. Fourteen touches in the first half, eleven carries
1:27:11
Speaker 12: and three catches for Jeremiah Love.
1:27:14
Speaker 5: What are you doing? Like there's a happy medium there,
1:27:16
Speaker 5: but but I mean, you can, you can help keep
1:27:19
Speaker 5: your players healthy. But you know, trading camps aren't what
1:27:22
Speaker 5: they used to be or anything like that. But some
1:27:24
Speaker 5: of it comes down to bad luck.
1:27:26
Speaker 12: But like I said, I chalk it up to thirty
1:27:28
Speaker 12: plus year old guys who get hurt a lot. I mean,
1:27:30
Speaker 12: Mike Evans is going to get hurt. Debo's gonna get hurt,
1:27:32
Speaker 12: Christen Kirk's gonna hurt. Kittle's gonna get hurt. CMC is
1:27:34
Speaker 12: gonna get hurt. I mean Kyle Shanahan has never learned
1:27:39
Speaker 12: that CMC as he get especially as he gets older,
1:27:41
Speaker 12: he's you got to get a backup running back, and
1:27:44
Speaker 12: the Niners have nothing. This is the most barre in
1:27:47
Speaker 12: their backfield has been since McCaffrey became a forty nine er.
1:27:49
Speaker 12: At least like last year they had Brian Robinson, who
1:27:52
Speaker 12: you know, he's had some decent years in this league.
1:27:53
Speaker 12: They don't have anybody. So if CMC, if this is tightness.
1:27:56
Speaker 5: Some people are.
1:27:57
Speaker 12: Saying maybe it's a contract thing, but he's probably I
1:28:00
Speaker 12: know this is crazy to say, but he might be
1:28:02
Speaker 12: even more important than Brock Purdy.
1:28:04
Speaker 2: Jeez well, I mean he is when he's healthy, he's
1:28:07
Speaker 2: a difference maker. I mean the quarterback's really good. Yeah,
1:28:10
Speaker 2: I means, I mean he's a he's a two thousand
1:28:12
Speaker 2: plus yard twenty five hundred yard combined guy in the league.
1:28:15
Speaker 2: I mean, did you guys, nineteen thirteen of the Titans
1:28:18
Speaker 2: beat the Niners. I'll tell you this, Yeah, because I did.
1:28:21
Speaker 2: I told you on our Saturday show. Outside of the
1:28:24
Speaker 2: fact that I think Mike McDonald would not have been
1:28:25
Speaker 2: happy with his offensive line depth, like the backups, I thought,
1:28:30
Speaker 2: I thought, there's not much to learn from that game
1:28:33
Speaker 2: against the Cowboys, to be honest with you, just there
1:28:35
Speaker 2: just wasn't I know, people were some people critical of
1:28:38
Speaker 2: Jalen Milroe. I kind of look at it like Milroe
1:28:41
Speaker 2: as he was behind a bunch of slappies on the
1:28:43
Speaker 2: offensive line. I'm not sure what he was supposed to do,
1:28:45
Speaker 2: but not much to glean. A couple of guys stepped
1:28:48
Speaker 2: up that were backup, backup linebackers, and that was it.
1:28:51
Speaker 2: Did the Niners learn anything out of that game against
1:28:53
Speaker 2: the Titans? Besides that Deshaun Stribbling is okay against bad players.
1:28:59
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the biggest thing. This kid at Ole Miss
1:29:01
Speaker 5: and you know he's college football.
1:29:04
Speaker 12: I mean yeah, I mean that's right, you know, I mean,
1:29:08
Speaker 12: he's whatever.
1:29:09
Speaker 5: I'm not counting that part, but you know, he played.
1:29:13
Speaker 5: This is what's crazy.
1:29:13
Speaker 12: And again You're right, it's everything everyone has to realize.
1:29:17
Speaker 5: Preseason, preseason, preseason. We've seen it a million times.
1:29:20
Speaker 12: I use this example of this guy. His name was
1:29:22
Speaker 12: Marcus Rush. Like five or six years ago with the Niners.
1:29:24
Speaker 12: He led the preseason in sacks and then and he
1:29:27
Speaker 12: had like six or seven.
1:29:29
Speaker 5: I mean it was ridiculous. I think like seven preseason sacks.
1:29:31
Speaker 12: He wore forty four and everyone was going bananas that
1:29:34
Speaker 12: they had found some guy.
1:29:35
Speaker 5: The Niners cut him. Everybody freaked out.
1:29:37
Speaker 12: He was out of the league like a year later,
1:29:39
Speaker 12: picked up by like five different teams. He couldn't play,
1:29:41
Speaker 12: so you know, it's it's with the grain. But Stribbling
1:29:44
Speaker 12: only played twenty two snaps. He got seven balls for
1:29:47
Speaker 12: sixty three yards and went up to get one, made
1:29:49
Speaker 12: a nice sideline catch.
1:29:50
Speaker 5: You know, he runs a four to three five as
1:29:52
Speaker 5: you know, because he went to Wazoo. I mean, the guy.
1:29:54
Speaker 5: I think the guy can play, but he didn't.
1:29:56
Speaker 12: Have to, like I said, yeah, I mean, but that's
1:29:59
Speaker 12: the problem. One of the forty nine ers is if
1:30:01
Speaker 12: you said, okay, they're three wide receivers plus Kittle, are
1:30:04
Speaker 12: you know Christian Kirk and Mike Evans and Deebo Samuel.
1:30:08
Speaker 5: That's pretty good. But what's gonna happen is those guys
1:30:10
Speaker 5: are all gonna get hurt. And so a guy like Stribbling,
1:30:13
Speaker 5: who you think, okay, well he can be a depth piece.
1:30:15
Speaker 5: He's gonna have to start, you know.
1:30:16
Speaker 12: And like you said, okay, that's great that you did
1:30:18
Speaker 12: that against although I guess Tennessee did to have their
1:30:20
Speaker 12: starters on the starters in but they stink. But he
1:30:24
Speaker 12: may have to step up early, just like a lot
1:30:25
Speaker 12: of these young guys on this team, and not only him,
1:30:28
Speaker 12: but then this is a really young defense.
1:30:30
Speaker 4: And so what is it?
1:30:31
Speaker 12: Is it Niner Seahawks early in the season, right, I
1:30:35
Speaker 12: mean they're gonna get the see They're gonna get the
1:30:36
Speaker 12: Niners early.
1:30:38
Speaker 2: Well, I would say that the Deshaun Stribbling, I mean,
1:30:40
Speaker 2: he's gonna have to play because you get the rotting
1:30:42
Speaker 2: carcass of what was once known as as Deebo Samuel.
1:30:44
Speaker 2: It's not like he's going to be anything this year.
1:30:47
Speaker 2: But by the way, your guy you just mentioned, I
1:30:49
Speaker 2: had to look I had to look it up. In Seattle,
1:30:51
Speaker 2: there was a guy here. He was oregon'st all time
1:30:53
Speaker 2: leader in sacks, Nick Reid was his name. He finished
1:30:57
Speaker 2: in eight and he came to He's like, our he's
1:30:59
Speaker 2: gonna like our poster child here.
1:31:01
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
1:31:02
Speaker 2: Nick Reed is like I think he was either a
1:31:04
Speaker 2: seventh round pick or undrafted. Here comes in and we're like,
1:31:08
Speaker 2: Nick Reid is gonna be the dude. Man, He is
1:31:10
Speaker 2: gonna be the man. And he had that same preseason like, oh,
1:31:14
Speaker 2: look out for Nick Reid and yeah it's it's uh.
1:31:17
Speaker 2: If you will look up Nick Reed on Pro Football Reference,
1:31:19
Speaker 2: good luck, you won't see much there. There's those guys
1:31:22
Speaker 2: over here, except for let's make fun of our friends
1:31:25
Speaker 2: down the street. And by the way, strippling is good.
1:31:27
Speaker 2: It doesn't always catch everything, which sometimes can be a
1:31:30
Speaker 2: problematic for a wide receiver. Yeah, that's why. That's why
1:31:35
Speaker 2: it was that we had no problem sending him to
1:31:36
Speaker 2: Ole Miss because that was art decision there.
1:31:38
Speaker 4: Actually he went to where did you go?
1:31:40
Speaker 2: He went to like Oklahoma State first, I think he
1:31:42
Speaker 2: went to Oklahoma State and then Ole Miss.
1:31:44
Speaker 4: Yeah. Uh, what I like is this.
1:31:48
Speaker 2: I love me this because as we joke about all that,
1:31:51
Speaker 2: did you see Ty Simpson twenty one to twenty five,
1:31:54
Speaker 2: one hundred ninety yards two touchdowns.
1:31:55
Speaker 4: Passer rating of one twenty five. I mean, Ty Simpson,
1:31:58
Speaker 4: that was a sneaky good pick by the That was
1:32:00
Speaker 4: a sneaky good pick by the Rams. Oh my god,
1:32:02
Speaker 4: Ty Simps could stop it. Just stop it, Come on,
1:32:05
Speaker 4: please stop it.
1:32:08
Speaker 5: He was playing against like Kansas City ups drivers. No
1:32:10
Speaker 5: offense to UPS drivers.
1:32:12
Speaker 12: You have a great job, well paying, great benefits. I'm
1:32:14
Speaker 12: not disparaging. It was just the first thing that came
1:32:17
Speaker 12: to mind. But come on, man, I mean, look, if
1:32:20
Speaker 12: Matthew Stafford retires and you've heard the.
1:32:22
Speaker 5: Same thing, and I think you and I have actually
1:32:23
Speaker 5: talked about it.
1:32:24
Speaker 12: His wife Kelly came out and said, look, the girls
1:32:26
Speaker 12: are getting old enough, and he gets four girls and
1:32:28
Speaker 12: they wonder where daddy is and all that kind of stuff. Now, look,
1:32:31
Speaker 12: it's probably tough to turn down fifty sixty million dollars
1:32:33
Speaker 12: whatever you could do. I don't expect him to retire
1:32:36
Speaker 12: after this.
1:32:36
Speaker 5: Year, but maybe the Rams know something we don't.
1:32:39
Speaker 12: If you want to slide Tysimpson in there and take
1:32:41
Speaker 12: Matthew Stafford out, thank you, thank you, think you, thank you,
1:32:43
Speaker 12: thank you. The rest of the NFC will be sending
1:32:46
Speaker 12: you whatever kind of you know prizes that you want
1:32:48
Speaker 12: because right now, Stafford he's I mean, he's ridiculous.
1:32:52
Speaker 5: The only team that figured out, as you well.
1:32:53
Speaker 12: Know, the only team that figured out Mike McDonald's here
1:32:56
Speaker 12: was the Rams twice.
1:32:57
Speaker 5: It's actually of those games. There were great games, obviously,
1:32:59
Speaker 5: but I mean he was the only one to figure
1:33:04
Speaker 5: it out.
1:33:04
Speaker 12: If Stafford wants to leave after this year, that's great,
1:33:07
Speaker 12: that'd be wonderful. You want to put an Entysonson's hands, great, Yeah.
1:33:10
Speaker 4: We're all we're all in.
1:33:11
Speaker 2: And by the way, McVeigh, Yeah, in a sense, McVeigh
1:33:15
Speaker 2: figured it out. I'd also say that the quarterback is
1:33:17
Speaker 2: I mean, he was a damn MVP and you covered
1:33:20
Speaker 2: him Detroit. He's just different, like he's just I think
1:33:23
Speaker 2: he's I mean, I hate the fact that he plays
1:33:25
Speaker 2: for the Rams and because nobody.
1:33:27
Speaker 4: Likes the rounds and all that. He's one of the
1:33:29
Speaker 4: most remarkable guys.
1:33:30
Speaker 2: When you watch him play, like just the ball, like
1:33:32
Speaker 2: you think you're gonna get him, you're gonna sack him,
1:33:34
Speaker 2: and the ball's out.
1:33:35
Speaker 4: The ball's always out.
1:33:37
Speaker 5: Quitch crazy.
1:33:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's just a that's a gift and
1:33:40
Speaker 2: a skill that comes from all those years all right,
1:33:43
Speaker 2: I want to get I want to touch it on
1:33:44
Speaker 2: something different with you just for a second. The Bill
1:33:47
Speaker 2: Rasmison died today. I mean, if you talked about this
1:33:49
Speaker 2: on your show. Bill Rasmussen died today at the age
1:33:51
Speaker 2: of ninety three. He was the co founder of an
1:33:53
Speaker 2: ESPN seven pm September seventh, nineteen seventy nine ESPN. And
1:34:00
Speaker 2: it was that that ESPN thirty forty years ago, far
1:34:06
Speaker 2: different than today's ESPN as we all know. But and
1:34:10
Speaker 2: and I think there's a there's a fun thing in
1:34:13
Speaker 2: sports media now if you're not at ESPN, is to
1:34:16
Speaker 2: mock ESPN, right Like, that's just kind of a it's
1:34:18
Speaker 2: a it's a.
1:34:19
Speaker 4: Sport and amongst itself.
1:34:20
Speaker 2: And there's reasons for it, right Like, there's reasons, there's
1:34:23
Speaker 2: reasons that we that we mock ESPN. But I was
1:34:26
Speaker 2: just thinking back the original ESPN. Where would we be
1:34:31
Speaker 2: in just sports media without Bill Rasmus, not just ESPN,
1:34:35
Speaker 2: not just TV, but just us, right, just us?
1:34:37
Speaker 12: Right, Yeah, you do wonder if you know, if somebody
1:34:40
Speaker 12: would have come up with this, they probably would have.
1:34:42
Speaker 5: But you're right, I mean for it to.
1:34:44
Speaker 12: Be done when it was done, and I worked with
1:34:47
Speaker 12: them for a number of years. Yeah, right, you know
1:34:50
Speaker 12: it's crazy.
1:34:50
Speaker 5: I mean, it's just it's Yeah, that's a great question
1:34:53
Speaker 5: because it kind of just became a norm. I mean remember,
1:34:56
Speaker 5: I mean people know.
1:34:56
Speaker 12: This, but I mean they you used to have just
1:34:59
Speaker 12: a you had two things in this agees of both.
1:35:02
Speaker 5: But you know, the newspaper and you don't open it
1:35:03
Speaker 5: up and you'd see box scores and then.
1:35:05
Speaker 12: You had to catch the news at least I did.
1:35:07
Speaker 12: I remember, like at ten, I don't know, ten eighteen
1:35:09
Speaker 12: or eleven, twenty two or whenever they would have it, well,
1:35:11
Speaker 12: you know, whenever they would have the sports broadcast, you
1:35:14
Speaker 12: would get you know, three or four minutes, and then
1:35:16
Speaker 12: after nine to eleven it went down to about ninety seconds.
1:35:19
Speaker 12: And that, I mean that was your sports. So you
1:35:21
Speaker 12: could you got you got sports illustrated weekly, you got
1:35:24
Speaker 12: a newspaper daily, and you got whatever the new local.
1:35:28
Speaker 5: Newscast had and that was your sports. That was it.
1:35:31
Speaker 2: And if you didn't and that the thing with with
1:35:33
Speaker 2: the ESPN was it it's evolved.
1:35:37
Speaker 4: Kind I kind of almost.
1:35:38
Speaker 2: Equate it to MTV, right, like it's it's they've evolved.
1:35:42
Speaker 2: It used to be MTV. You turn MTV on and
1:35:44
Speaker 2: that's where you got your music. Like you would like
1:35:46
Speaker 2: in college, you'd have it on in the background. You
1:35:48
Speaker 2: didn't have the radio when you had MTV on. In
1:35:49
Speaker 2: the music videos, yeah, if you did a good music video,
1:35:52
Speaker 2: you'd all of a sudden sell album, CDs, cassettes, whatever,
1:35:56
Speaker 2: it would be, right. It was all about that and promoting,
1:35:58
Speaker 2: you know. And then and you know today MTV, I
1:36:01
Speaker 2: don't even if they have music videos on anymore, right,
1:36:03
Speaker 2: and it's evolved.
1:36:04
Speaker 5: It's gone. MTV is gone. They booted, you know. I
1:36:09
Speaker 5: think that's a great way to that's a great comparison.
1:36:11
Speaker 5: I mean, it'll always be around.
1:36:13
Speaker 12: I think what they did and I can't fall to
1:36:15
Speaker 12: men because you know, we see the numbers, we see
1:36:17
Speaker 12: the revenue everything.
1:36:18
Speaker 5: They went from.
1:36:19
Speaker 12: You know, we loved watching Sports Center all the time,
1:36:21
Speaker 12: but it just kind of became too much.
1:36:23
Speaker 5: And now I kind of look at it as they
1:36:25
Speaker 5: sold their soul to the devil.
1:36:26
Speaker 12: Like whatever whatever people think of it, I'm not saying
1:36:29
Speaker 12: it's good, bad, or and different.
1:36:30
Speaker 5: It's just what they used to do. And I've actually
1:36:32
Speaker 5: written about this a lot of stuff.
1:36:33
Speaker 12: What they used to do is when you work for them,
1:36:35
Speaker 12: nobody was bigger than that brand.
1:36:37
Speaker 5: So ESPN was it. And and you know a lot
1:36:39
Speaker 5: of companies are like this brand brand brand. They would
1:36:42
Speaker 5: I would go to these meetings.
1:36:43
Speaker 12: I know this is crazy, but they actually put me
1:36:45
Speaker 12: in charge of a station. I was miserable and terrible
1:36:47
Speaker 12: at it, but still they did. And it was you'd
1:36:50
Speaker 12: go to these meetings and it'd just be.
1:36:51
Speaker 5: Like brand, brand brand brand ESPN. No one's bigger than
1:36:53
Speaker 5: the ESPN.
1:36:54
Speaker 12: And so you know, like you're Dan Patrick's and Keith
1:36:57
Speaker 12: Oberman's and Rich Eisen's and all these guys split off
1:36:59
Speaker 12: because was like, well.
1:37:00
Speaker 5: I want to, you know, I want to I want
1:37:01
Speaker 5: to bring a brand myself.
1:37:03
Speaker 12: And then what they did was over the last few years,
1:37:06
Speaker 12: good bad are and different Pat McAfee, stephen A. Smith,
1:37:09
Speaker 12: like all these different guys, they're bigger than the brand itself,
1:37:12
Speaker 12: and they're getting all this kind of money and they're
1:37:14
Speaker 12: kind of running the way things work at ESPN. Some
1:37:16
Speaker 12: people love it, some people hate it. I happen to
1:37:18
Speaker 12: not watch those shows.
1:37:19
Speaker 5: It's you know, I'm not mad at or anything like that.
1:37:22
Speaker 5: But the one thing, and I can't remember the story
1:37:25
Speaker 5: what it was.
1:37:25
Speaker 12: But a serious news story happened. I'm trying to think
1:37:29
Speaker 12: what it was. Might have been six or eight months ago,
1:37:30
Speaker 12: and they literally didn't have anybody to cover it.
1:37:34
Speaker 5: It had to be something legal or something like that.
1:37:35
Speaker 5: But I mean, and maybe it was NBA related, and
1:37:38
Speaker 5: like they had they put Kendrick Perkins on there. I'm like,
1:37:40
Speaker 5: come on, man, because.
1:37:40
Speaker 12: Remember they used to have like lawyers, and they used
1:37:42
Speaker 12: to have like Bob Lee or something like.
1:37:44
Speaker 2: That investigated the investigated. Yeah, that would break stuff down.
1:37:50
Speaker 12: You can bring guys in, like could you imagine, like
1:37:52
Speaker 12: if the oj Simpson trial was on right now, like
1:37:55
Speaker 12: you know, Kendrick Perkins or.
1:37:56
Speaker 5: Some of these other guys, these buffoons trying to trying
1:37:59
Speaker 5: to like playing that. They don't have lawyers, they don't
1:38:02
Speaker 5: have straight men anymore.
1:38:03
Speaker 11: I get it.
1:38:04
Speaker 12: Like that's the way things evolve. A lot of stuff
1:38:06
Speaker 12: they're not aiming at me. But you know, depending on
1:38:09
Speaker 12: what you think of ESPN, they've either bastardized it to
1:38:11
Speaker 12: such a level that it's too frustrating to watch, or
1:38:14
Speaker 12: there's a lot of people.
1:38:14
Speaker 5: That think, oh this is cool. You know, these tip
1:38:16
Speaker 5: shows and people screaming and all that kind of stuff.
1:38:18
Speaker 2: I flipped it on last night just because there was
1:38:20
Speaker 2: nothing on and I was kind of I was shutting
1:38:22
Speaker 2: her down earlier and I was doing I just laying there.
1:38:24
Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, like I'll flip on his sports
1:38:26
Speaker 2: and I watched Sports Center. I didn't know either one
1:38:28
Speaker 2: of the anchors, and and you know, I come thinking,
1:38:31
Speaker 2: give me some highlights, give me something, and it's kind
1:38:33
Speaker 2: of the same old stuff it was. There's Brian Schottenheimer
1:38:36
Speaker 2: from the Dallas practice. There's a controversy with the Lakers sale,
1:38:41
Speaker 2: a couple of highlights that didn't include any teams relevant
1:38:44
Speaker 2: in the American League wildcard race that I'm kind of curious.
1:38:46
Speaker 4: I mean, it has evolved.
1:38:48
Speaker 2: I would just but I do say I think that
1:38:50
Speaker 2: Bill Raspus is a guy that all of us in
1:38:52
Speaker 2: the business probably and sports fans as a whole, oh
1:38:54
Speaker 2: thank you to Because you know, the other crazy thing
1:38:56
Speaker 2: is I'm gonna really date myself now. It used to
1:38:59
Speaker 2: be if you were if you turn the television on
1:39:03
Speaker 2: at after after whatever late show, it was so like
1:39:06
Speaker 2: Letterman's at twelve thirty right after Carson, you turn it
1:39:10
Speaker 2: all our twelve whatever it was.
1:39:12
Speaker 4: If you turn like once Letterman was off, there was
1:39:14
Speaker 4: nothing on.
1:39:14
Speaker 2: Television, like nothing, like like you'd have like a what
1:39:18
Speaker 2: do they call it?
1:39:19
Speaker 4: Color bars up there?
1:39:20
Speaker 7: And that was it.
1:39:21
Speaker 2: And now if now that we're old, like guys like
1:39:24
Speaker 2: you and me or are a little bit older, right,
1:39:26
Speaker 2: what do we do halftime?
1:39:27
Speaker 4: Half the time? You can't sleep?
1:39:28
Speaker 2: Right, you can't sleep You maake up in the middle
1:39:30
Speaker 2: of the night. And I'm like, Okay, I can't sleep.
1:39:32
Speaker 6: Why because I'm old?
1:39:33
Speaker 7: Right?
1:39:33
Speaker 5: My life gone wrong? Morning?
1:39:36
Speaker 4: So you flip on the TV and every channel is
1:39:38
Speaker 4: twenty four to seven. ESPN was twenty four seven.
1:39:40
Speaker 2: Before that was a thing, man, So yeah, I mean,
1:39:43
Speaker 2: I think Bill Rasbussen, I don't like where it is
1:39:45
Speaker 2: now necessarily I'm like Softy tweeted something out Yesterdam and
1:39:49
Speaker 2: grig is the only thing I watched now or live events,
1:39:51
Speaker 2: you know, like a game but four right, but I
1:39:55
Speaker 2: I and.
1:39:55
Speaker 4: You work for him, like you said, the brand, the
1:39:57
Speaker 4: brand was everything.
1:40:00
Speaker 2: They're so branded that way, you know. Yeah, no, our
1:40:03
Speaker 2: competitors were branded that way. Now they got they got
1:40:05
Speaker 2: away from it because nobody want a lot of people
1:40:07
Speaker 2: don't want to be associated with it anymore because now
1:40:09
Speaker 2: Mac you know.
1:40:10
Speaker 12: The other thing too, is yeah, And the other thing too,
1:40:13
Speaker 12: is is like they would what I was in the
1:40:16
Speaker 12: business when you know, it really started to become prevalent
1:40:18
Speaker 12: that they would stream. So we used to be able
1:40:20
Speaker 12: to do a lot of crazy stuff, Like I ran
1:40:22
Speaker 12: a station in Dallas. It was owned by ESPN, and
1:40:25
Speaker 12: we used to do tons of stuff because they couldn't
1:40:27
Speaker 12: hear us. And then once you know, streaming became as
1:40:30
Speaker 12: prevalent as it became, they would call me and they're like,
1:40:33
Speaker 12: what are you doing?
1:40:33
Speaker 4: What do you do?
1:40:34
Speaker 2: What is this?
1:40:34
Speaker 4: What is that?
1:40:35
Speaker 5: And I I remember I came up with some I
1:40:37
Speaker 5: can't remember what I came up.
1:40:38
Speaker 12: With some if you know bit that was probably on
1:40:41
Speaker 12: the edge, and I did it on my show, and man,
1:40:44
Speaker 12: I got a call like literally one minute after my show.
1:40:46
Speaker 12: It's like, yeah, that's not us, that's not ESPN, that's
1:40:48
Speaker 12: not the brand. You know they wrote me up and
1:40:50
Speaker 12: all that kind of stuff, And now they're doing stuff.
1:40:52
Speaker 12: It's just like, because remember ESPN used to be the
1:40:55
Speaker 12: place where it's like, you know, you need to sources.
1:40:57
Speaker 5: You can't run with this, you can't run with that.
1:40:59
Speaker 12: Now if it's it's like it doesn't even matter if
1:41:01
Speaker 12: it's an egg account on Twitter.
1:41:03
Speaker 5: It's like, if they say so, you can run with
1:41:04
Speaker 5: whatever you want as long as it's content.
1:41:06
Speaker 6: You know, Yeah, totally different.
1:41:09
Speaker 2: I'm shocked that you've got called on the carpet for
1:41:11
Speaker 2: something that's stunning to me.
1:41:14
Speaker 5: I remember being really funny but knowing. Please, I hope
1:41:17
Speaker 5: they didn't listen. I hope that and sure enough to
1:41:19
Speaker 5: a one, Yeah we need to have a meeting or
1:41:22
Speaker 5: you know, you're doing it. Whatever was wasn't a zoom
1:41:25
Speaker 5: back then, but whatever it was.
1:41:26
Speaker 2: And what would they think of your bit that you
1:41:30
Speaker 2: do at CAMBR or what does CAMBR think? By the way,
1:41:33
Speaker 2: I should ask you this if your substation did last week?
1:41:37
Speaker 12: Oh they were Yeah, I was two days into the
1:41:40
Speaker 12: show and I got my first reprimand yeah, we don't
1:41:43
Speaker 12: think that injuries are funny.
1:41:45
Speaker 5: Please don't make fun of.
1:41:46
Speaker 12: Our injuries because like, for example, their backup quarterback Curtis
1:41:50
Speaker 12: Rock got hurt.
1:41:51
Speaker 5: So we did this bit. Just one question. I said, hey,
1:41:53
Speaker 5: you know, hey, substation, why did you have to get
1:41:55
Speaker 5: Curtis Rock hurt? He's just some backup quarterback.
1:41:57
Speaker 12: And the substation saying the baby back rib song from Chili's.
1:42:02
Speaker 12: They thought that was not funny. I thought it was
1:42:04
Speaker 12: really funny. They didn't think it was funny. So it
1:42:07
Speaker 12: was in the show and they're like, did you not
1:42:09
Speaker 12: do that?
1:42:09
Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, you know what, they can every
1:42:12
Speaker 2: Seahawks fan thinks it's funny. Keep it up, I say,
1:42:15
Speaker 2: I say keep it yeah, I say, keep up the
1:42:18
Speaker 2: good work, fella, keep up the good work.
1:42:20
Speaker 5: You please. Yeah. They don't have a sense of humor
1:42:23
Speaker 5: when it comes to the injuries around here. I don't
1:42:24
Speaker 5: know why, but they don't.
1:42:26
Speaker 2: All right, well, listen, we'll check in next week unless
1:42:29
Speaker 2: you unless you text me at five point forty five
1:42:31
Speaker 2: this Saturday, I cannot get I'm not I'm not working
1:42:35
Speaker 2: this Saturday.
1:42:36
Speaker 5: So there's oh you're not, you'll drinking.
1:42:39
Speaker 12: Well, there'll be a t I did you and you
1:42:41
Speaker 12: and Cam Cleveland on a national call. I was like,
1:42:43
Speaker 12: oh my god, I'm cool man, and I appreciate you
1:42:46
Speaker 12: going through the traffic.
1:42:47
Speaker 5: By the way, if if, even if if it was you,
1:42:49
Speaker 5: I would because you know, we do this all the time,
1:42:51
Speaker 5: but like we even through traffic and being on the
1:42:53
Speaker 5: phone not the most fun thing in the world. Miss
1:42:54
Speaker 5: it turn here and there.
1:42:55
Speaker 4: That's no, it was fine. It was easy. I'm stealth.
1:42:59
Speaker 4: I got my way out of there.
1:43:00
Speaker 2: But it was Yeah, Cam, Cam's awesome, by the way,
1:43:02
Speaker 2: like it's I mean he's a husky, so that you know,
1:43:04
Speaker 2: that's the one downside.
1:43:05
Speaker 5: But yeah, that's the problem.
1:43:07
Speaker 2: He's he's really really good, like like he'll probably those
1:43:11
Speaker 2: guys will want him back. They probably won't want me back,
1:43:13
Speaker 2: but they'll want him back for sure. So if they
1:43:20
Speaker 2: find out that I associate with you, they'll definitely not
1:43:22
Speaker 2: want me back.
1:43:23
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a problem.
1:43:25
Speaker 4: Hey there's another guy that did that thing, substation.
1:43:29
Speaker 2: Go do go do your thing.
1:43:31
Speaker 4: Go do your thing. I'll talk to you next week.
1:43:33
Speaker 2: If not sooner, unless you guys call me in this weekend,
1:43:35
Speaker 2: I'll be around see you buddy.
1:43:36
Speaker 4: All right. That's a that's a great job.
1:43:38
Speaker 2: That's a great John Lund joining us here as he
1:43:40
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Speaker 13: I kind of wonder if there's something that with Cow's
1:43:52
Speaker 13: vision and I don't just mean his eye for pitches.
1:43:55
Speaker 13: I know this might sound simplistic, but.
1:43:57
Speaker 7: Mean, you never know.
1:43:58
Speaker 13: When was the last time he got his checked, his
1:44:01
Speaker 13: actual vision checked. I mean, you know, when you get
1:44:04
Speaker 13: to this, I know mine started to go sideways randomly
1:44:07
Speaker 13: out of nowhere just a little bit, and just a
1:44:09
Speaker 13: little bit can really affect your depth perception.
1:44:12
Speaker 3: So I don't know, just something I was just thinking about, you.
1:44:15
Speaker 4: Know, certainly could be the case.
1:44:21
Speaker 2: Oh god, can you imagine the absolute egregious errors on
1:44:27
Speaker 2: this staff of a medical staff. If they didn't think
1:44:28
Speaker 2: of that, though, it'd be bad, like because it I mean,
1:44:32
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people have probably thought.
1:44:33
Speaker 4: That, what the hell's going on with here? Like why
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Speaker 12: Was it?
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1:44:41
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Speaker 2: Let's check the text here, Okay, before ESPN we stay
1:45:06
Speaker 2: up late on Sunday night watch the sports Machine. A
1:45:08
Speaker 2: lot of people mentioned the old sports Machine, the George
1:45:10
Speaker 2: Michael Sports Machine, way way before your time, right, Trav.
1:45:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, before my time.
1:45:16
Speaker 2: George Michael was a a sports anchor based in Washington,
1:45:21
Speaker 2: d C. And he started doing a national show on
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Speaker 2: Sunday nights. It was syndicated. It aired out here at
1:45:28
Speaker 2: eleven thirty after the local news and I think it
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Speaker 2: a layered live, you know, eleven thirty back east and
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Speaker 2: it was and he hit like every highlight imaginable across
1:45:36
Speaker 2: the country.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so, I mean I thought it was. I thought
1:45:40
Speaker 4: it was.
1:45:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was kind of before the before the times
1:45:43
Speaker 2: as well. Yeah, it's I used to watch Austine rules
1:45:47
Speaker 2: football on the ESPN the early days. Yeah, it used
1:45:49
Speaker 2: to be what they would do on ESPN is they
1:45:52
Speaker 2: would fill time with wrestling pro like pro wrestling and
1:45:56
Speaker 2: not like now where it's like a thing now it's
1:45:59
Speaker 2: now it's like we're gonna break down a match on Monday,
1:46:02
Speaker 2: right raw, which is just ridiculous. No, they would just
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Speaker 2: show like a wrestling match with the von Erics from
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Speaker 2: Dallas or Austin rules football at two in.
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Speaker 4: The morning, and it was fine. I liked that. I
1:46:11
Speaker 4: liked I missed those days. I missed those days.
1:46:13
Speaker 2: Let's see what else we got a lot of people
1:46:15
Speaker 2: don't like stephen A and George and Pat McAfee. That's fine,
1:46:19
Speaker 2: I get that, Marcus says, unless there's a game on.
1:46:22
Speaker 2: I haven't watched ESPN in years.
1:46:26
Speaker 3: Here's here's here's years.
1:46:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, so yes, I did, Greg, thank you. Let's see
1:46:34
Speaker 2: Derek from Sultan here. Pump for Fantasy won two of
1:46:37
Speaker 2: two leagues last year, because you guys, we have a
1:46:40
Speaker 2: high bar to meet. Oh god, somebody won because I
1:46:43
Speaker 2: know I didn't.
1:46:44
Speaker 4: I checked.
1:46:45
Speaker 7: We all know.
1:46:45
Speaker 4: That's all. That's well.
1:46:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, by the way, Funston will be on Thursday. We
1:46:51
Speaker 2: will take your questions on the text line on Thursday
1:46:54
Speaker 2: for Funston.
1:46:55
Speaker 4: We won't do phone calls. Let's do folks.
1:46:57
Speaker 2: We're gonna run through probably running backs, maybe running backs
1:47:02
Speaker 2: and quarterbacks, maybe just running backs in your questions for
1:47:05
Speaker 2: your fantasy draft. To get closer if you have keeper questions.
1:47:09
Speaker 2: But Week two of Brandon Funston coming up on this
1:47:11
Speaker 2: Thursday at two pm, So get ready for that. God
1:47:14
Speaker 2: winning two or two leagues, I lest like to win one.
1:47:16
Speaker 2: That'd be awesome. Let's see what else we got here. Wow,
1:47:20
Speaker 2: I haven't heard about George Michael sports machine in the years.
1:47:23
Speaker 2: That brought back some memories.
1:47:24
Speaker 4: Lol.
1:47:26
Speaker 2: Marcus says, can't wait for Friday getting as many growlers
1:47:28
Speaker 2: as they allow.
1:47:29
Speaker 4: They'll you can take, you can take as many as
1:47:32
Speaker 4: you want.
1:47:32
Speaker 2: I should mention that third coming up on Friday will
1:47:35
Speaker 2: be the Mayor of Maple Valley or I'm sorry, the
1:47:38
Speaker 2: Mayor IPA will be debuting. It's sixty year I mean,
1:47:41
Speaker 2: double check. I'm really bad with this trave Let's see
1:47:45
Speaker 2: twenty four. This will be year seven, actually year seven
1:47:51
Speaker 2: of the Mayor. I pa at George down Brewing coming
1:47:54
Speaker 2: up on Friday. I'll do the show there from twelve
1:47:56
Speaker 2: to three and probably hang out afterwards for a little
1:47:58
Speaker 2: while as well. Every dollar, every cent not a percentage.
1:48:03
Speaker 2: They don't Georgetown didn't say we're gonna donate five, ten, twenty,
1:48:06
Speaker 2: forty or fifty percent of every pint growler sale to
1:48:11
Speaker 2: the charities. Every cent they donate, the labor, they donate,
1:48:15
Speaker 2: the hard costs of the ingredients. Everything goes right to
1:48:19
Speaker 2: those three charities for the Mayor. IPA debuts for year
1:48:22
Speaker 2: number seven coming up this Friday. I think they open
1:48:26
Speaker 2: around ten or eleven, but again we'll be there at noon.
1:48:29
Speaker 2: Come on, buy anytime, Marcus. As many growlers as you want, buddy,
1:48:32
Speaker 2: take as many as you want. There is no they'll
1:48:36
Speaker 2: kind of limit you if you start hammering beers there.
1:48:39
Speaker 4: Pints.
1:48:40
Speaker 2: I'm gonna guess you only want a pint or two
1:48:41
Speaker 2: of the mayor on site if you're driving, because it's
1:48:44
Speaker 2: probably in the mid sixes. I'ven't seen. I'm gonna find
1:48:47
Speaker 2: out tomorrow. I'm making a stop down there to finalize everything.
1:48:50
Speaker 2: But yeah, we're gonna have a great time. Can't wait
1:48:51
Speaker 2: till Friday. It's always a really cool time down there
1:48:53
Speaker 2: at Georgetown. So that's coming up Friday at noon to three.
1:48:57
Speaker 2: And then again it'll go and sell and tell it's
1:49:00
Speaker 2: all gone. Have the Mariner's gone twenty four and fourteen
1:49:03
Speaker 2: in any stretch this season, only an eight game winning streak.
1:49:06
Speaker 4: That was it. We talked about it.
1:49:07
Speaker 2: They've only had one stretch this year where they've won
1:49:09
Speaker 2: three straight series and that was that eight game that
1:49:12
Speaker 2: a game winning streak along the way, right, I like
1:49:15
Speaker 2: this one two five three, The most I don't thing
1:49:16
Speaker 2: ever would be for us to bitch about the Marriors
1:49:18
Speaker 2: all year long, and for them to sneak in and
1:49:19
Speaker 2: win the World Series, there won't be enough room on
1:49:21
Speaker 2: the bandwagon. There'll be plenty of room. There will be
1:49:24
Speaker 2: plenty of room. And I agree. That's why I've been
1:49:27
Speaker 2: kind of staying somewhat. I want to say, I'm positive
1:49:30
Speaker 2: but somewhat optimistic about their chances. And I think Joe
1:49:35
Speaker 2: just mentioned if you missed our conversation with Joe Sheen earlier,
1:49:37
Speaker 2: I thought he had a great point, like, roster wise,
1:49:42
Speaker 2: just look at the roster and especially the starting pitching
1:49:45
Speaker 2: of that mushy middle of teams trying to get that
1:49:48
Speaker 2: third wildcard spot.
1:49:49
Speaker 6: And or you could.
1:49:50
Speaker 2: Probably say the same thing about the AO West. They've
1:49:53
Speaker 2: got the best roster, especially starting pitching, of anybody. And
1:49:57
Speaker 2: I would not be stunned. I know a lot of
1:49:59
Speaker 2: people would be. I would not be stunned if they
1:50:01
Speaker 2: got in and took a massive run in the playoffs
1:50:03
Speaker 2: at all, because you do a pitching, especially in the postseason,
1:50:07
Speaker 2: and it would be the most mari of thing for
1:50:08
Speaker 2: everyone to be pissed off all season long, all season long.
1:50:13
Speaker 2: Matt as hell of these guys, Matt is hell with
1:50:16
Speaker 2: these dudes, and all of a sudden boom, they get
1:50:19
Speaker 2: on a run and they get on a heater and
1:50:21
Speaker 2: they get going. That would not shock anybody at all.
1:50:25
Speaker 10: Let's see also September, there's plenty of winnable series in September.
1:50:29
Speaker 10: You got the A's twice, the Angels twice. Colorado. Yeah,
1:50:36
Speaker 10: can come away with a bunch of series wins there.
1:50:39
Speaker 4: Let's see.
1:50:39
Speaker 2: I don't care what the official lines are, says the
1:50:41
Speaker 2: two six. I did not think. I think Cal did
1:50:43
Speaker 2: not get a chance to get healthy and needs to
1:50:45
Speaker 2: know and the team needs to know when health is
1:50:47
Speaker 2: more important than looking like you're contributing all the time.
1:50:49
Speaker 2: Baseball Players, I feel have a hard time coming back
1:50:51
Speaker 2: from lingering or during season injuries. He goes on, I
1:50:57
Speaker 2: just think it's hard for us to speculate on a
1:50:59
Speaker 2: player health. I mean, we joked about the vision earlier.
1:51:02
Speaker 2: Go see our friends that are or Lasik. It's just hard.
1:51:04
Speaker 2: We're not in the locker room. I mean, they have
1:51:07
Speaker 2: medical staffs that are highly trained. His bat speed hasn't
1:51:10
Speaker 2: diminished to a point where we'd be concerning it's down
1:51:13
Speaker 2: a little bit. I know, just talking to Eno Sirius
1:51:14
Speaker 2: every Thursday. It's down a little bit, but not significantly
1:51:17
Speaker 2: enough for you to go. Man, there must be something
1:51:19
Speaker 2: really wrong with him in that regard. So all right,
1:51:21
Speaker 2: thanks the text, appreciate it. Let's take a break. We'll
1:51:23
Speaker 2: come back soft you join. Just coming up next, I
1:51:32
Speaker 2: should mention that NFL network reporting Tramon Diggs, former cornerback
1:51:36
Speaker 2: from the Cowboys, Packers other teams, worked out for the
1:51:39
Speaker 2: Seahawks today.
1:51:40
Speaker 9: Another connection to Adam Dirday and DeMarcus Lawrence and Dante
1:51:44
Speaker 9: Fowler and unbelievable.
1:51:46
Speaker 4: Also in the Alabama guy, what's I was.
1:51:47
Speaker 9: Gonna say, there's a kind of Alabama, Yeah, I guess
1:51:51
Speaker 9: pre twenty fifteen, Yes, and then there's a Cowboys post
1:51:55
Speaker 9: twenty twenty.
1:51:57
Speaker 6: It's wild all Carl Scott too.
1:51:59
Speaker 4: Yeah. Cars.
1:52:00
Speaker 2: Also what they think of their quarterback then right right
1:52:03
Speaker 2: after whatever.
1:52:04
Speaker 7: They can think.
1:52:05
Speaker 6: That's a real mustache on Brady Hankers, by the way.
1:52:08
Speaker 4: Taking off off. Yeah, it's coming off just like.
1:52:12
Speaker 9: That is just like Witness Protection program grade right there.
1:52:16
Speaker 6: Listen, Hey, you want to jump on unbelievable.
1:52:20
Speaker 4: Listen, if you was good looking to that guy, you know,
1:52:22
Speaker 4: he's a good looking dude.
1:52:23
Speaker 6: He really is.
1:52:24
Speaker 4: You can you can wear whatever you want.
1:52:26
Speaker 9: The best looking guys, not the worst looking guy. Maybe
1:52:28
Speaker 9: that's a bracket over the summer next year on the show.
1:52:30
Speaker 4: Best Looking Media Guys in Seattle.
1:52:32
Speaker 6: That's right, and the worst looking media guys.
1:52:34
Speaker 9: So you and I on that one bringing up the rear.
1:52:39
Speaker 9: Is a good looking dude, Yeah, Soger is a good
1:52:41
Speaker 9: looking guy. I think we can start with our guys.
1:52:44
Speaker 9: Best looking dude on kJ R.
1:52:46
Speaker 4: That's a good questions.
1:52:48
Speaker 7: Would you make number one?
1:52:49
Speaker 4: There's no right now.
1:52:49
Speaker 6: I mean Jesson Ashley number one and one B.
1:52:52
Speaker 7: But it's guys.
1:52:53
Speaker 9: He's doing dudes alright, fine, I don't think any of
1:52:55
Speaker 9: us from the bracket. Moga are you there by the way,
1:52:57
Speaker 9: I'm here. Are you still in the studio or he's
1:52:59
Speaker 9: taking off?
1:53:00
Speaker 5: Yeah?
1:53:01
Speaker 7: He usual.
1:53:01
Speaker 4: He usually just leaves like twenty minutes ago.
1:53:04
Speaker 9: Who would you say is the best looking full time
1:53:06
Speaker 9: employee at this rate?
1:53:07
Speaker 3: I think Andrews is a handsome guy and looking guy.
1:53:10
Speaker 9: Yeah, Andrew's good looking guy. Jackson, little pudgy you know whatever?
1:53:13
Speaker 9: You know, I look too much like pee wee Herman.
1:53:16
Speaker 9: You got a weird Canadian thing going on. I don't
1:53:18
Speaker 9: know what's going on. The pee wee herman s unbelievable. Yeah,
1:53:22
Speaker 9: big time, really seen it.
1:53:24
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't want to think about that.
1:53:25
Speaker 9: You're seeing the picture of me and my buddy Casey. Yeah,
1:53:27
Speaker 9: you at the Apple Theater dressed up as No.
1:53:31
Speaker 6: The fact you know what, the fact that you even
1:53:33
Speaker 6: know what that is. I told you this is a
1:53:35
Speaker 6: lot about you.
1:53:36
Speaker 4: I told you.
1:53:37
Speaker 2: I drove by that place every day on the way
1:53:41
Speaker 2: on the way to Odei High School on Bourne Avenue,
1:53:44
Speaker 2: and then we turned eighteen.
1:53:45
Speaker 6: And wait a minute, wasn't the apple on First Avenue?
1:53:48
Speaker 4: The apple was a little one?
1:53:49
Speaker 2: Apple was on first What was the one on the
1:53:50
Speaker 2: little what was a little one up on Bourn Avenues?
1:53:52
Speaker 6: That must have been a different one, man, I think
1:53:53
Speaker 6: that was the grapefruit.
1:53:56
Speaker 4: The orange? But actually number five, the number five orange
1:53:59
Speaker 4: is a stripling, right, I do know that.
1:54:01
Speaker 9: Oh, this is just devolved. Yeah, we really need the
1:54:04
Speaker 9: Seahawks season to start. Well, I was because I was
1:54:08
Speaker 9: not here yesterday.
1:54:09
Speaker 6: And either was I.
1:54:10
Speaker 4: Oh you weren't.
1:54:10
Speaker 6: No, I was in the studio.
1:54:12
Speaker 2: Well no, first time, but I wasn't here listening to
1:54:14
Speaker 2: the radio stage. Oh yeah, you were off here in Westport.
1:54:16
Speaker 4: I heard.
1:54:16
Speaker 2: I was just driving back, but I missed your breakdown
1:54:19
Speaker 2: the top ten things for the preseason game.
1:54:23
Speaker 9: That's because it didn't happen. It didn't happen. I tried
1:54:26
Speaker 9: to do it. Man, I didn't watch it live. I'll
1:54:29
Speaker 9: admit it.
1:54:29
Speaker 4: Okay.
1:54:30
Speaker 6: I started watching it yesterday morning.
1:54:32
Speaker 4: What happened?
1:54:33
Speaker 9: And my eyeballs started bleeding. Yes, and I quit about
1:54:36
Speaker 9: halfway through the second quarter. Yeah, I just couldn't stand it.
1:54:39
Speaker 9: I mean, there was no more scoring obviously after that
1:54:43
Speaker 9: first first driving, the first drive. You know, what's the
1:54:45
Speaker 9: guy's name from Michigan State, the wide receiver, Montoria Foster, Right,
1:54:49
Speaker 9: Ntoria Foster. I felt bad because I was on with
1:54:52
Speaker 9: our our buddies over at King yesterday in the ariel.
1:54:54
Speaker 4: You had no idea who he was?
1:54:55
Speaker 6: No, no, no, I had. I told you he was on
1:54:58
Speaker 6: the practice squad last year.
1:54:59
Speaker 5: Here.
1:54:59
Speaker 6: Yeah, I know, come on, I'm not that big of
1:55:01
Speaker 6: an idiot. I'm an idiot, but not that big of
1:55:03
Speaker 6: an idiot. And so she's like, isn't it great that
1:55:05
Speaker 6: he's got a personality in this story?
1:55:07
Speaker 9: I was like, yeah, well that'll be fine and good
1:55:10
Speaker 9: when he gets cut in three weeks.
1:55:12
Speaker 4: There's a lot of stories and personnelity is bad about that.
1:55:15
Speaker 9: Yeah, we had the gallon from Hard Knocks last night
1:55:17
Speaker 9: Kaylee Campon, who's the one of.
1:55:19
Speaker 4: The directors pots.
1:55:20
Speaker 9: Of Hard Knocks, and I asked her about, you know
1:55:22
Speaker 9: how they don't do the cuts anymore?
1:55:24
Speaker 6: They don't show that.
1:55:24
Speaker 4: Why is that?
1:55:25
Speaker 6: Well, there's first of all, because it's just.
1:55:27
Speaker 9: A one day, they don't have as much to choose
1:55:30
Speaker 9: from anymore. And then number two, I think they just
1:55:33
Speaker 9: the the league wanted them to get away from things
1:55:35
Speaker 9: that could be deemed as controversial. And I even asked her,
1:55:39
Speaker 9: like with with Donald, Brady might want to write about
1:55:41
Speaker 9: this with with Donald and Cooper cut. Remember the scene
1:55:45
Speaker 9: they're talking about Lebron, right, and they're both complimenting Lebron.
1:55:48
Speaker 9: So I asked her if they had ripped Lebron, would
1:55:52
Speaker 9: you have put that in there? And she basically said no,
1:55:55
Speaker 9: I mean, can you imagine a bigger story that would
1:55:57
Speaker 9: have been Super Bowl champion quarterback criticizes Lebron James awesome
1:56:01
Speaker 9: first signing, would have been great for us, But they
1:56:03
Speaker 9: don't want to do that.
1:56:04
Speaker 6: Well, they don't want to do that.
1:56:05
Speaker 2: The thing with the cuts was. I thought that was.
1:56:08
Speaker 2: It's it's a human interest story. You're following these guys
1:56:12
Speaker 2: from day one to camp. They're grinding and they get cut. Yeah,
1:56:15
Speaker 2: and they go to Arby.
1:56:16
Speaker 4: Because because you find well, you know, you find yourself
1:56:18
Speaker 4: rooting for them, right, such a knucklehead.
1:56:20
Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
1:56:21
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
1:56:22
Speaker 6: Arby's is great. I love our.
1:56:25
Speaker 9: There used to be one up and I think that's
1:56:27
Speaker 9: still there up in north Gate, across the freeway from
1:56:30
Speaker 9: the Kraken. I think it's still there the other side.
1:56:33
Speaker 6: Of I five.
1:56:33
Speaker 4: I've explored over there.
1:56:34
Speaker 6: I've stopped there all the time.
1:56:36
Speaker 2: Man, I you know, I drove by one on the
1:56:38
Speaker 2: way to west the aforementioned Westport, and I saw a sign. Well,
1:56:41
Speaker 2: because if you drive through Aberdeen, Aberdeen is fast food heaven.
1:56:46
Speaker 2: They have that little strip. They even have a Dutch Brothers.
1:56:49
Speaker 2: Is the Star Wars store is still there?
1:56:51
Speaker 6: Or is it gone?
1:56:52
Speaker 13: Oh?
1:56:52
Speaker 4: I know, I think it is.
1:56:54
Speaker 6: It's still there.
1:56:54
Speaker 4: It's right before you take a left to the west.
1:56:55
Speaker 5: Great.
1:56:56
Speaker 9: You know what, I'll confirm for you. Let me know
1:56:58
Speaker 9: next time you go anyway. I I'm a Kirk Cobain.
1:57:01
Speaker 2: It is right, And but I drive by the Arby's
1:57:03
Speaker 2: and a little science says try our chief steaks a right,
1:57:07
Speaker 2: And I'm telling you.
1:57:08
Speaker 6: Right now, that's a delicatessen out there.
1:57:10
Speaker 7: Man.
1:57:10
Speaker 2: I was thinking to myself, Oh god, I gotta try
1:57:12
Speaker 2: the Army's chief steak.
1:57:13
Speaker 4: I bet it's good.
1:57:14
Speaker 6: I bet it's a five star meal. Oh anyway, Yeah,
1:57:18
Speaker 6: I don't know.
1:57:19
Speaker 5: Man.
1:57:19
Speaker 4: I uh, preseason, you're fired up?
1:57:21
Speaker 6: I am so dumb.
1:57:21
Speaker 4: Don't you wish you were in Tennessee watching joint practice.
1:57:24
Speaker 6: I'd rather watch that to watch the game, honestly.
1:57:26
Speaker 4: About on Saturday.
1:57:28
Speaker 6: That's my whole point. Yeah, that's what I told the
1:57:30
Speaker 6: people of king.
1:57:31
Speaker 9: Yes, I'm more fired up for the fights and the
1:57:33
Speaker 9: joint practice.
1:57:34
Speaker 6: Man, I swinging helmets and all that. Oh yeah, bring
1:57:37
Speaker 6: it off. Let's go donny Brook. Yeah, why not.
1:57:40
Speaker 4: I'd better. I'd like to be there. Just go to Nashville.
1:57:42
Speaker 9: Don't you think that the the Football Broadway designate a
1:57:45
Speaker 9: fight squad of guys that have no chance of making
1:57:48
Speaker 9: the team. Yeah, and you guys, you five goons, yeah,
1:57:51
Speaker 9: are in charge of boxing those five goons.
1:57:53
Speaker 6: If things get out of.
1:57:54
Speaker 2: Control, go just run on the field. Everyone, if you're
1:57:57
Speaker 2: on the sideline, right, just jumping.
1:57:59
Speaker 9: Right, all right, DeMarcus Lawrence, Ernest Jones, get the hell out,
1:58:03
Speaker 9: get off. Here comes Goon one, Goon two. Yeah, it's
1:58:05
Speaker 9: like a it's like a hockey line just checking in, right.
1:58:08
Speaker 9: How great would that be?
1:58:09
Speaker 4: Judging from the.
1:58:10
Speaker 2: Fact that they are bringing in every retread cornerback available.
1:58:15
Speaker 2: My guess is, if you're not Devin Witherspoon, ne am
1:58:18
Speaker 2: I appreach it or Josh Job about Iggy?
1:58:21
Speaker 5: Uh No?
1:58:23
Speaker 2: I think you, guys, that's your that's where you start
1:58:25
Speaker 2: with you would you call the goon squad, goon squad,
1:58:27
Speaker 2: goon squad?
1:58:28
Speaker 9: Fight club? First rule about fight club. We don't talk
1:58:32
Speaker 9: about talking about you don't want to be on fight club. Well,
1:58:34
Speaker 9: maybe it's a sign that the Terry On Arnold thing
1:58:36
Speaker 9: is not gonna happen. I thought it was really weird, guys,
1:58:39
Speaker 9: and I said this on the aar of Friday and
1:58:40
Speaker 9: Dick and Jackson disagreed with me. And I even texted
1:58:42
Speaker 9: Curtis and he disagreed too. I thought it was weird
1:58:45
Speaker 9: that the Seahawks came out and spoke publicly about a
1:58:49
Speaker 9: player that signed yet.
1:58:51
Speaker 2: So I was talking to Greg greg Bell about that today.
1:58:53
Speaker 2: Greg greg Bell and we said, like, never have they
1:58:58
Speaker 2: ever heard, They've never spoken about a air that's not
1:59:01
Speaker 2: officially signed before he was, and it's one thing on
1:59:03
Speaker 2: hard knocks behind the scenes. But last Monday, so we
1:59:06
Speaker 2: could go yesterday. Because I'm a hard working guy. I
1:59:11
Speaker 2: stuck around from the Mike McDonald post practic. I stuck
1:59:15
Speaker 2: around for Prescott and asked a couple of questions. Anyway
1:59:20
Speaker 2: he's talked about it. Eight questions about and he answered
1:59:23
Speaker 2: all of them like he was here. Yeah, normally what
1:59:26
Speaker 2: you hear is, you know, hey, we're boring every opportunity.
1:59:28
Speaker 2: We can't really talk about it right. Instead, they talked
1:59:30
Speaker 2: about like he's already under contract the next five years.
1:59:32
Speaker 9: It's very strange. I thought it was very odd. I
1:59:34
Speaker 9: just don't don't agree with you. No, those guys didn't.
1:59:37
Speaker 9: I mean, I understood Curtis's point that you know, everyone
1:59:40
Speaker 9: knows he's being signed.
1:59:41
Speaker 6: Well, okay, but he hasn't signed yet.
1:59:43
Speaker 4: And that's not what they've never done. That's very odd to.
1:59:45
Speaker 9: Hear anybody I think in town doing that, right, anybody
1:59:48
Speaker 9: that was not good, that.
1:59:49
Speaker 4: Was not good, not good, that's not good at all. Well,
1:59:52
Speaker 4: talk about it.
1:59:53
Speaker 6: We can't talk about that right, would will be zapped?
1:59:55
Speaker 5: Yeah?
1:59:56
Speaker 7: Won't.
1:59:56
Speaker 2: You won't be allowed to come back tomorrow. We're not
1:59:58
Speaker 2: here tomore anyway, I've already done. Now we are done.
2:00:00
Speaker 2: After today?
2:00:01
Speaker 4: What are you doing?
2:00:02
Speaker 7: What's today? Tuesday?
2:00:03
Speaker 9: Willner is on today. Husky fans that hate Willinger won't
2:00:07
Speaker 9: want to hear him.
2:00:07
Speaker 6: At five o'clock.
2:00:08
Speaker 4: Oh.
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Speaker 9: I read his call him today and that he's very
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Speaker 9: complimentary of the Huskies. Man has him ranked thirteenth and
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Speaker 9: the eight people. I think he's got the second highest ranking.
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Speaker 9: McMurphy had him in the top ten. You see the
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Speaker 9: Fox poll that has you guys as like the worst
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Speaker 9: team in college football, by the way, they ranked a
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Speaker 9: one hundred and thirty eight teams, and you guys are
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Speaker 9: number one. That's what I said, Like, what do you know?
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Speaker 9: They got a brand new head coach, they got a
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Speaker 9: brand new quarterback. By the way, who's your guy gonna be?
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Speaker 9: Is it the kid from Polly Panic?
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: I don't know if it's might be.
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Speaker 9: I saw Pinnock last year in person, and I was like, now,
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Speaker 9: he didn't have a lot of talent around him on
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Speaker 9: going up against the dogs.
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Speaker 6: That's a different thing.
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Speaker 2: I might also say that might be like watching poor
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Speaker 2: Jalen Milroll play with the four offensive one.
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Speaker 4: You know, hard to judge.
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Speaker 6: You know who his backup was?
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Speaker 9: That Cal Poly's Cam's kid, Yeah, trainer, Yeah yeah, right,
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Speaker 9: all right, So I learned that on Saturday night during
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Speaker 9: the during the broadcast, that it was his birthday on Saturday.
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Speaker 2: I gave him and I appreciate I wished him a
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Speaker 2: happy birthday right at the end, right right, got it
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Speaker 2: right at the end. Actually, thinking about it, I had
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Speaker 2: a whole fourth quarter. I could have got that out there.
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Speaker 9: Yeah you should have. I mean, what the hell else
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Speaker 9: were you talking about? Well, you know they want to.
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Speaker 6: Cam, let's spend the fourth quarter recapping your last twenty.
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Speaker 4: Five you know what? They wanted us to play it straight?
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Speaker 6: Did they really?
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Speaker 4: Yes, they didn't tell you that.
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Speaker 7: Oh come on?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and no Homer is in. Actually we're supposed to
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Speaker 2: be more Homers for Dallas.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, which is fine.
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Speaker 6: Probably a lot more cowboy fans tuning in.
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Speaker 9: Well, anyway, So Willner's on today, Brian Schmetzer's on today.
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Speaker 9: It's his birthday, Yeah sixty four. Ww wait till you
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Speaker 9: hear what he's got planned for his birthday.
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Speaker 2: By the way, probably I think something you and I
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Speaker 2: would never do Early Bird Special Denny's something you and
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Speaker 2: I would never ever do, ever like would even think
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Speaker 2: about doing.
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Speaker 6: All right, right, I want you to listen. I'm telling you.
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Speaker 9: What is that six pm to night. And then DeMarcus
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Speaker 9: Lawrence will join us after practice today. Uh he's not here,
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Speaker 9: so Tuesday is off.
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Speaker 6: Okay for the mild mannered and marginally objectionable e Inverness,
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Speaker 6: this is paddle day, saying so long everyone,