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Chuck in the Morning 8-27 Hour 2: 12th Man News with Gregg Bell, ABC's of the Mariners and Hawaiian vacations. · Chuck in the Morning

• 0:11
  Speaker 1: Marsh in left field. Right there.
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  Speaker 2: That's the ball game. Mariners get shut out 6-0 by Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 2: But a tremendous homestand series wins against the Cubs and
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: the Phillies before off day tomorrow. So that's how it
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: ends today. The Mariners have a 4-2 stand and now
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: go on the road for a big trip.
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  Speaker 1: Toronto and Boston straight ahead. Boston's not as hot as
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: they've been. Thank goodness.
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  Speaker 3: Let's hope they stay that way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Great morning to you. It's good to have
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  Speaker 1: you with us. Second hour of our Thursday edition of
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  Speaker 1: the radio program. Ashley Ryan is back from Hawaii, for
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  Speaker 1: those wondering. Yes, her hair looks lighter from the tropical sun.
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  Speaker 1: Her skin looks healthier from a steady diet of poi. Poi.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't eat any poi on that trip.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you didn't? Not a single? I ate poke. Oh, really?
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  Speaker 3: And french fries.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Did they do the poke with the mayonnaise? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you can get it without the mayonnaise.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't get it with the mayonnaise, yeah. Good choice
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  Speaker 3: on your part. Just regular poke.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: And then the pool or the restaurant at the hotel
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  Speaker 5: had like the best french fries ever.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: That's basically all we ate for lunch.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: You got a pineapple glow about you, too. Did you
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  Speaker 1: take in some pineapple?
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  Speaker 3: I did eat some pineapple.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, I knew it.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know if you'd be able to tell.
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  Speaker 1: I knew I picked up on that.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, man.
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: Mariners TV with the call there, Aaron, describing the action
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: of a blowout loss to the Philadelphia Phillies, 6-0. It is,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, since you've been gone, Ashley, I'm in love
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  Speaker 1: for the first time.
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  Speaker 3: I was thinking, how Kelly Clarkson are we going to
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  Speaker 3: get here?
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  Speaker 1: Since you've been gone, we have won this. more consistently
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: as a baseball team, but when we lose, we lose spectacularly.
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  Speaker 3: It has been incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and so there's no doubt that it crossed everybody's mind.
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  Speaker 1: It's 6-0 in the second inning. Please, not another 20-1 final.
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  Speaker 1: It ended up 6-0. Nobody scored the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: way yesterday, so the Phillies do avoid getting swept by
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  Speaker 1: the hometown baseball team. Brian Woo, Gave up those six
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  Speaker 1: runs in the first two innings. Lasted only four. And
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  Speaker 1: the Mariners amassed just two hits the entire game against
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Lozardo and company. And so the M's failed to
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  Speaker 1: pull off the sweep, but they have won back-to-back series
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  Speaker 1: against two of the best teams in Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: That is progress. As a matter of fact, chance for
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  Speaker 1: them to wake up tomorrow morning just two games back
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  Speaker 1: in the American League West. The Astros and Rangers lost yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: and the Astros the only team of the three playing
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  Speaker 1: today in New York against the Yankees, Garrett Cole versus
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  Speaker 1: Hayden Wesneski. And so the M's could gain a half
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  Speaker 1: game in the American League West standings by tomorrow, and
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  Speaker 1: we still have a full month of baseball remaining. More
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  Speaker 1: on the Mariners with ABC's of the M's coming up
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  Speaker 1: at 7.30 today. The Apple Cup is in 10 days.
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  Speaker 1: Jed Fish admitted yesterday, I'm nervous as heck. I guess
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  Speaker 1: he gets nervous as heck for every single game. ball
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  Speaker 1: game that he's ever played. But the Apple Cup will
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  Speaker 1: be next Sunday in just 10 days. The college football
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  Speaker 1: season getting ready for week zero as we're very close
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: to lighting this firecracker. Sounders will be in action against
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  Speaker 1: Chicago on Saturday. They pulled off a trade earlier this week.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to Jackson Feltz about that today at 9.30.
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  Speaker 1: And the Seahawks Chiefs will wrap up their preseason tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: in Kansas City. Question about whether or not even the
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  Speaker 1: second stringers should play in this game based off what
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  Speaker 1: happened to Bud Clark, Jake Bobo, Mason Richmond last week.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get into that with Greg Bell. But primarily with
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  Speaker 1: Greg Bell, I think we're going to be talking about
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  Speaker 1: a brand new ownership group which officially took over yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: The Coastlas were introduced as the owners of the Seattle Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: So we move on from the Allen era into the
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  Speaker 1: Coastla era for more on that. We discuss it with
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  Speaker 1: our Seahawks insider, Greg Bell.
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  Speaker 6: As part of our continuing NFL coverage for the 12th man,
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  Speaker 6: this is 12th Man News, part of Chuck's daily visit
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Greg.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: All right. When do you go to Kansas City?
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  Speaker 4: Tomorrow morning.
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow morning.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Are you ready for the preseason to be
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  Speaker 1: over with as much as I am?
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  Speaker 4: The little players are, at least the players that are
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  Speaker 4: going to play in the real season. Yeah. It's going
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  Speaker 4: to get shorter. I think it's going to be an
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  Speaker 4: 18-game regular season to get to two. I can remember
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  Speaker 4: when there were six preseason games. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We are.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I'm for zero.
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  Speaker 1: I'm for none. That's what I'm for. That's what I'm
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  Speaker 1: voting for this November.
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  Speaker 4: College football. Yeah, college football is like the pros anyway,
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  Speaker 4: so why not make the pros like college? I don't
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  Speaker 4: think it'll get to zero, but it's outlived its usefulness
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  Speaker 4: because of the way coaches now treat it with starters
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  Speaker 4: rarely playing. Patrick Mahomes isn't going to play tomorrow. Kenneth
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  Speaker 4: Walker's got an ankle issue for the week. He's not
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  Speaker 4: going to play tomorrow, and Yeah, it's for the bottom.
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  Speaker 4: It ends up being, for the last two weeks of
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  Speaker 4: the preseason, for the last seven spots or so, not
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  Speaker 4: even on the roster. I don't know that you need
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  Speaker 4: a whole preseason to determine that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. We'll talk more about the preseason finale here
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  Speaker 1: in a moment, but I do believe the lead is...
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  Speaker 1: The change in the ownership group that occurred yesterday, officially,
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  Speaker 1: your reaction to hearing Vinod Khosla and family and their
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  Speaker 1: press conference yesterday?
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  Speaker 4: Well, they're very, he, Vinod, is very in tune with
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  Speaker 4: what's going on here in terms of the football operation
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  Speaker 4: being done. Exactly as you would want it. As he said,
• 6:39
  Speaker 4: how lucky are we? How often do you get a
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  Speaker 4: chance to purchase and walk into a Super Bowl champion?
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  Speaker 4: What a gift, is what he said. So he's saying
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  Speaker 4: all the right things about not wanting to meddle in
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  Speaker 4: something that is already the best in the league at
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  Speaker 4: the moment. And that should be music to Seahawks fans' ears.
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  Speaker 4: That certainly is music to the Seahawks football ears, the
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  Speaker 4: players and the coaches ears. That's what they were hoping for,
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  Speaker 4: and that's what it looks like they're getting. He also said,
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  Speaker 4: and it's interesting, we're here to learn. We have a
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  Speaker 4: lot to learn. Learn about the culture up here, football
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  Speaker 4: and sports in the Northwest, and about the fan base
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  Speaker 4: that he knows something about. But he did say we're
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  Speaker 4: here to learn, which is also something you would hope
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  Speaker 4: that someone coming brand new into a situation and run
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  Speaker 4: it listens instead of acts. That, too, is a great point.
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  Speaker 4: court to strike on your first day and the other
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  Speaker 4: thing is when he was asked about Lumenfield that stood
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  Speaker 4: out to me is the first thing he said is
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  Speaker 4: that Lumenfield is iconic and he went on to say
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  Speaker 4: we're going to learn there and work with the community
• 7:50
  Speaker 4: now there are public entities and stadium districts and first
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  Speaker 4: and goal Inc and all the things that go into
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  Speaker 4: the operation of the stadium and what gets put there
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  Speaker 4: and what how the stadium operates and And he said
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  Speaker 4: he's going to work with all of them. They are
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  Speaker 4: going to work with all of them. Some people interpreted
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  Speaker 4: his comments about Lumen Field because he didn't make any
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  Speaker 4: absolutes to mean that, oh, they're going to look for
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  Speaker 4: a place at Bellevue or Rent. I didn't take that
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  Speaker 4: as that at all. I took it as he's going
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  Speaker 4: to investigate ways that he can improve and get more
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  Speaker 4: revenue out of the stadium and advance the stadium. And
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  Speaker 4: that's what a new owner should do. He's got the money,
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  Speaker 4: the wherewithal to upgrade the stadium, and I think he's
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  Speaker 4: going to end up adding seats to it. He's going
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  Speaker 4: to perhaps close the north end, the downtown end next
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  Speaker 4: to the Hawks Nest. But he's not going to say
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  Speaker 4: that on day one. And, in fact, they aren't even
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  Speaker 4: the owners yet officially until the banks and the lawyers
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  Speaker 4: vet this money and clear it, which might take a
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  Speaker 4: week or so before they're officially, officially operating the team.
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  Speaker 4: Everything he said was smart. He's very active on social media,
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  Speaker 4: I noticed, his ex-account. He responds to everybody about everything
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  Speaker 4: posted about him and the sale and taking over. I
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  Speaker 4: would say so far, so good, and you really, as
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  Speaker 4: a Seahawks person, Seahawks player, coach, or fan, wouldn't want
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  Speaker 4: to hear anything other than what he said yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and yet the fan base does seem to be
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  Speaker 1: a little bit nervous about this.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they've lived in Seattle. Those of us who have
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  Speaker 4: been here for more than a day remember the Sonics
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  Speaker 4: and Clay Bennett and Howard Schultz. Sure, I totally get that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but, I mean, do you get any inclination of that,
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  Speaker 1: that when he starts talking about, like, of course you're
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  Speaker 1: going to try to win another Super Bowl. You just
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: won a Super Bowl, so you're going to pick up
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  Speaker 1: where you left off. You're not going to mess with
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  Speaker 1: anything now. But when he doesn't make a declaration of,
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  Speaker 1: a thousand years in Seattle and planting those roots, do
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  Speaker 1: you read into that at all? Or can you put
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  Speaker 1: some fans out there's minds at ease that you don't
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  Speaker 1: get the impression that he has any diabolical plan 10,
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  Speaker 1: 15 years down the road?
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  Speaker 4: No, he doesn't. They don't. And here's something else. Al Davis,
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  Speaker 4: I covered Al Davis. He learned that you just can't
• 10:26
  Speaker 4: unilaterally do things in the NFL. You have to have
• 10:31
  Speaker 4: NFL approval to move a franchise. I can assure you
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  Speaker 4: that the NFL wants to keep the Seahawks as the
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  Speaker 4: Pacific Northwest flag on the NFL map. There's no NFL
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  Speaker 4: team within 700 miles of us here. And We don't
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  Speaker 4: have to explain how there's Alaska, Hawaii, Montana, Idaho, Oregon.
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  Speaker 4: This is a regional team, much like the Atlanta Braves
• 10:56
  Speaker 4: have been a regional team in Major League Baseball because
• 10:59
  Speaker 4: of its geographic somewhat isolation before the Marlins and the
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  Speaker 4: Braves came in. So I get it. I totally get
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  Speaker 4: it because those of us that have lived through the
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  Speaker 4: Sonics get it. That's a completely apples-to-oranges situation, what Howard
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  Speaker 4: Schultz did in selling the Sonics to a carpet-bagging group
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  Speaker 4: that he knew was going to leave town for a profit.
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  Speaker 4: This franchise was not sold for a profit. It was
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  Speaker 4: sold out of an edict that the former owner who
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  Speaker 4: passed away said had to be sold. It was sold
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  Speaker 4: for all the money goes to philanthropics. Howard Schultz wasn't
• 11:31
  Speaker 4: given all the money for the Sonics to philanthropic causes.
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  Speaker 4: This is a completely different situation. The fact that they're
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  Speaker 4: from the Bay Area makes people nervous, and I get that.
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  Speaker 4: But the fact of the matter is, nobody from Seattle,
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  Speaker 4: and there is money all over the place here, corporate
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  Speaker 4: money to buy a Ford franchise, nobody stepped up to
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  Speaker 4: do it. And so the Paul Allen Group sold it
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  Speaker 4: to somebody who did step up with $ 9. 6 billion. But
• 12:02
  Speaker 4: that's the fact of the matter, is that nobody in
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  Speaker 4: Seattle stepped up, so it makes people nervous, and I
• 12:05
  Speaker 4: understand that. The NFL doesn't want it. Nothing that I've
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  Speaker 4: got from the Kozloff family or reading into any tea
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  Speaker 4: leaves said that that team. Yeah. No. Yeah. No, he
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  Speaker 4: didn't say anything about a thousand years because he's not
• 12:18
  Speaker 4: going to be alive for a thousand years. His son's
• 12:20
  Speaker 4: not either. So he can't promise something he can't deliver.
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  Speaker 4: And I think he's a little smart enough to realize that.
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: You know, plenty of tributes have been given. And Paul
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: Allen has his legacy here in Seattle that will last
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  Speaker 1: an eternity. What about Jody Allen as a steward or
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  Speaker 1: caretaker for this franchise to have won a Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: for it to be operating at such a high level,
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  Speaker 1: and then for her to step away while on top
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  Speaker 1: per the agreement? How does Jody Allen deserve to be
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  Speaker 1: remembered here in the Seattle sports legacy?
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  Speaker 4: As one of the best stewards in Seattle sports history,
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  Speaker 4: the Mount Rushmore of Seattle sports owners. She did exactly
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  Speaker 4: as Paul Allen did. She didn't change anything. She knew
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  Speaker 4: what her brother had established. She knew to trust John
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  Speaker 4: Schneider in the football operation, and she knew better than
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  Speaker 4: to meddle into that. But she wasn't aloof, and she
• 13:17
  Speaker 4: didn't stay detached. She was involved in every game, every postgame.
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  Speaker 4: She got debriefed from the coach and the general manager
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  Speaker 4: on how the previous game went. When you talk to
• 13:27
  Speaker 4: Mike McDonald, he said he was always impressed on the
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  Speaker 4: questions she would ask, and she would ask, why did
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  Speaker 4: you do this in a game? And McDonald had to
• 13:36
  Speaker 4: have an answer for that. It wasn't as if she
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  Speaker 4: was completely hands-off and didn't care. She stayed completely out
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  Speaker 4: of the scenes and let the football people be football people.
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: And football GMs and coaches and players sure appreciated that.
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  Speaker 4: It obviously worked wondrously. She was the one who pulled
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  Speaker 4: the trigger on the end of the Pete Carroll era.
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  Speaker 4: It was her decision to go with John Schneider's path
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  Speaker 4: instead of Pete Carroll's. And that was the fork in
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  Speaker 4: the road for the franchise. Carroll wanted to keep the
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: coordinators and the system and everything as it had been
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  Speaker 4: for 15 years. John Schneider wanted to blow it up
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  Speaker 4: and start over with a brand new coach who'd never
• 14:13
  Speaker 4: coached a head coach at any level. And Jody Allen,
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  Speaker 4: not anybody else, Jody Allen decided on John Schneider's path.
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  Speaker 4: And it worked. It obviously worked. And they reinvented themselves
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  Speaker 4: and won a Super Bowl within two years. And that
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: is all Jodi Allen. She deserves all the flowers. She
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: doesn't want any of the fanfare. She just did it.
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: I know Portland people think completely different because of how
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: the Blazers have turned out. But, man, it could not
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: have gone better for Jodi Allen and what she did.
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  Speaker 4: She was smart enough to get out of the way
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  Speaker 4: and let the football people do it.
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  Speaker 1: Our Seahawks insider Greg Bell joining us again this morning,
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: thanks to the Emerald Queen Casino, as he does most
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: every day here at 7.05. on Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: All right, so we are on the eve of the
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: final preseason game in Kansas City against the Chiefs. No
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: expectation for any starter to play. I brought this up
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  Speaker 1: to you yesterday. I do wonder if there will be
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: any hesitation for even second stringers to play considering the
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: weekend in Nashville that Mike McDonald experienced. So what is
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: it that you're going to try to achieve when You've
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: got the Chiefs on the schedule for later this year.
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  Speaker 1: You're not showing them anything. You don't want any of
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: your starters to play again. I would think there's some
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: hesitance to not play second stringers as well, and yet
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: you've got another football game to play, and you can't
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: play that game without being somewhat physical and violent. So
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: what is the goal to try to achieve tomorrow?
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: Well, stay healthy is the number one goal. You're right.
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: They play again in Week 7. There are 91 guys
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: on the Seahawks roster. So you could play only half
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: of them, and you still can play the game. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: 45 is roughly the number of players who are eligible
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  Speaker 4: for a regular season game. So it's not like they
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: don't have enough players to play if they want to
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: preserve the ones who are going to play in the
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: real games. I think they're going to play in the
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: third corners to, again, try to figure that out, which
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: means Nehemiah Pritchett I would expect to play. Billy Benogany,
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: who is an eight-year veteran, normally would not play in
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: this game. I think he'll play. I'll be interested to
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: see if Trevon Diggs gets on the field because he
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: just signed. Well, it went to kickoff nine days before
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: that game, and he hasn't been in pads since January.
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  Speaker 4: He was full go at practice, and the portion we're
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: allowed to watch the first ten minutes yesterday. I think
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: he may– that's a former All-Pro who normally in this
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: situation wouldn't play that may play. Players like that. I
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: think they're going to have George Helani under bubble wrap
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: like Jadarian Price because they don't want to miss– They
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: don't want to lose either one of those running backs
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: the way the running back situation is. Emmanuel Wilson still
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: is not back that I can tell from the leg injury,
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: the hamstring issue that he's had for weeks now. I
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: didn't see Torrey Horton on the field yesterday at the
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: start of practice. He's been out for a couple weeks now.
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  Speaker 4: There's a chance Horton won't be available for the first game,
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  Speaker 4: which is now in less than two weeks. They have
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: enough to play, but it will be a majority of
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: the guys that will be cut the next day which
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: is what made me go buy a dog or adopt
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: a dog and walk the dog for three hours tomorrow
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: because there's nobody, except for that third quarterback situation, I
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: don't see anything, any players determining jobs tomorrow night that
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: are going to be there for the opener.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Monday morning quarterback will be pretty dull if we
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: just recap me walking my two rescue dogs.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, but you'll have done better for yourself and
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: for those two dogs. Maybe I can do both.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Maybe I can do both.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: Good.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Will you make sure you get in front of Ken
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Walker's locker this weekend? He's not going to play, so
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: are you going to make sure that you talk to
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: K-9 before Friday ends?
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: No, probably not. The logistics of it is, whatever I
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: need to cover of the team I'm assigned to cover,
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: I've got to do right after the game at the
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: same time availability is for the Chiefs.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Down the hall at Arrowhead.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: And at the Arrowhead, actually, the locker rooms are not
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: all that close together. So, no. Practically speaking, I probably
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: can't get to both. And because he won't play, he'll
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: be out of there in two minutes. He'll take a
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: shower pill and leave. Those guys, the veterans after preseason games,
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: leave pretty quickly. But it would be interesting to talk
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: about his– Chiefs experience, if there was pregame access like
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: in baseball, I certainly would do it.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Well, that sounds like they're going to give him the
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: role that he always wanted to have here. That is
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: one thing that's going to happen with all the money
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: he's going to make.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I talked to Farhan Wazi, my buddy from TSN
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: in Coover, and he was at Chiefs camp last week,
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: and he said that they had him split out as
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: wide receiver, they had him running drops down the field,
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: it wasn't just checkdowns, he was on the field for
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: all situations, all plays, and He was actually saying he
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: doesn't see a backup, viable backup to him, that it
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: is all Ken Walker or bust. And we know how
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: Andy Reid likes to throw the ball to running backs
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: and follow them in the screen game that was nonexistent
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: for the Chiefs last year. Yeah, you're right. It looks
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: like he's getting the full meal deal exactly. And there's
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: no job share going on there.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: All right. What's the show going to discuss today at
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: 10 o'clock?
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: We're going to hear a lot about the Cooper Cup.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: comments from yesterday, including about Jake Bobo and how impacting
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: that is. to the team to just lose the person
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: and player and the person and Jake Bobo for the
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: entire season. He also Bobo Cup had some interesting comments
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: about being a lifelong Seahawks fan who grew up here
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: and now the ownership change and the legacy of the
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: Allen family owning the team. So you'll hear from him
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: and Yeah, we'll talk more about this Torrey Horton situation
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: and some of the injury situations that haven't really cleared
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: themselves up. Emanuel Wilson and others, 12 days now before,
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: 11 days, whatever it is, 13 days before the opener.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: All right. Sounds good. All right. Thank you, sir. We
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: appreciate it. We'll be listening at 10 o'clock and talk
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: to you again tomorrow.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: You will. Thank you.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: All right, Greg Bell, our Seahawks insider, joining us right
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: here on Chuck in the Morning, Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.
• 20:40
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• 20:42
  Speaker 1: at gbellseattle on X and, of course, thenewstribune.com, where you
• 20:47
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• 20:51
  Speaker 1: And he joins us nearly every day during the football
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: season at 7.05. Thanks to the Emerald Queen Casino. Coming
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: up next on our radio program, the ABCs of the M's.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: A lot of juicy things to discuss with Ashley Ryan,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: who's returned. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: I actually ABC'd my vacation every day.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, did you?
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Three letters at the alphabet.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's great.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: On day one, A was for Aloha, because we arrived.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Well, of course.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: B was for beverage, because I needed something to drink.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: And C was for, can I stay in this moment forever? Oh, nice.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I love that you did the ABCs of the M's
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: with the family and friends for the entire trip.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Full trip.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, that fulfills me.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: That's what I'm here for.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad you left off at D because that's
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: exactly where we left off at.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: What a coincidence.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: And D is for Dumper, who, of course, fixed his
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: swing while Ashley was in Hawaii. And then the moment
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: she started flying home, he looked like a broken gate
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: again yesterday. That was gross. Four strikeouts. Now, I do
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: want to just say Jesus Lizardo was doing that to everybody.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: He is an all-star pitcher, and you know how we
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: are against left-handers. So, Um, I'm happy to chalk it up,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: but the right-handed swing looked fine. Um, or not fine,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: but better than the left-handed swing here as of late.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden magically poof, the left-handed
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: swing looks like a thing of beauty. It looks like
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: last year's cow. And then you start giving yourself into
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: thinking the dumper's back and, uh, Switches over to the
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: right side of the plate, strikes out four times and
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: four at-bats and really looked like he didn't stand a
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: chance yesterday. So we are going through it. I mean,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: you ought to Dear Diary something about Dumper because this
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: is an emotional roller coaster he's sending us on.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: It really is because I was, I mean, we watched
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: the three-home run game and Palmer, the great, I mean.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Couldn't believe her great eyes.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: And then to see what happened yesterday was a bit.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Of a bummer.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: But at the same time, I mean, yeah, the entire
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: offense looked terrible. And there was no part of me
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: that was like, well, Cal's going to now have a
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: homer in every game.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: True.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: So we all know it's not my fault. We talked
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: about this earlier.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Right. Yeah.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: It's Austin Hurst.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: But.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: We've blamed a baby.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: I think he's going to be fine. Austin, too. Austin
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: and Cal. They're both going to be fine. They can
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: both get through this.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Well, I will say this, and I kept running out
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: of time to talk about this yesterday, but you did
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: notice at the end of the previous game how the
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Phillies were changing their approach toward him. So what has
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Cal struggled with all season long? Catching up to the fastball,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: particularly the high fastball. And once he started hitting... The fastball,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: once he started looking like he was on time, what
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: did Aaron Nola start doing to him in game two
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: of the series? Kept coming up higher and tighter, and
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: he was practically hitting them with every pitch that he threw.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: So obviously the game plan was, we're not going up enough.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Let's get inside that kitchen. And I'm not sure if
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: that was the... exactly the story yesterday from my vantage point.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Cause I was at the game. Um, but certainly the, the,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: they have not abandoned the idea of can't let him
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: get his arms extended. If he has been struggling with
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: the pitch up and in, let's go even higher. Let's
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: go even further in. And if we walk him, we
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: walk him the way that he's hitting. And that's what
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: ended up happening in those glorious two games, uh, of
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Cal Raleigh. But, um, It's all about adjustments. And so teams,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: it doesn't take them long to adjust to a hot streak.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: And if Cal is truly back, then it won't take
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: him to adjust back to the way that pitchers are
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: approaching him. So we'll see starting tomorrow in Toronto.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: He also does like playing in Toronto. He does pretty
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: well in Toronto. That is true.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: That is true. He's kind of owned the Blue Jays. Sorry,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: not sorry, Blue Jays.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: Not even remotely sorry.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: E is four. Okay, people. Eugenio. Gino Suarez overnight was
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: waived by the Cincinnati Reds. And so, one of Seattle's
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: favorite sons is available to be picked up on the
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: waiver wire. Now, the waiver wire works that anybody else
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: with a worse record than the Mariners could pick up
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Gino Suarez. Now, I'm not sure many teams that have
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: worse records then Gino Suarez have the same or worse
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: records than the Mariners have the same outlook that the
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Mariners have with us being six games under 500 and
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: still thinking the organization that the world series is the goal.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: I don't think anybody else under 500 really has that
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: as a, a legitimate goal at this point in the season.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: So I don't know if anybody will take on the
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: money of Gino Suarez and he's owed two and a
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: half million dollars for the rest of the season and
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: This is the type of year because we do not
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: have a second trade deadline anymore. There used to be
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: the trade deadline and then the waiver trade deadline at
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: the end of August. So since we don't have a
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: waiver trade deadline anymore, what teams are doing, like the
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati Reds, we're not in it. Why are we paying
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: somebody we know is not part of our future for
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: the rest of this season? That's $ 2. 5 million we can
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: save or pocket or whatever the case may be. So
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: they waived TJ Friedel, who's just had a nightmarish season,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: and they also waived overnight Eugenio Suarez as well. And
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: he's not had a good season, but it hasn't been
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: the nightmare that Friedel has had. I mean, he's hitting
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: over 200. I mean, Gino flirts around 200 all the time.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: That's not anything new to even a Mariners fan. Under 300, 0.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: on base, which is not good, but he has a
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: four 10 slug, which means he's got a seven Oh
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: five OPS on the season. We only have three guys
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: on our roster that play every day that actively have
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: an OPS better than that. Only three Julio Dom. And
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: who am I forgetting? Donovan?
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: Uh, yeah.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Donovan, Brendan Donovan, I believe. Um, or Randy, Randy. That's right.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: That's who I met. Uh, because Donovan hasn't played enough.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Randy obviously has over a 705 OPS. So, the point
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: is that he's not going to stand out as somebody
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: having a terrible season in Seattle. Obviously, the clubhouse still
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: loves him. Obviously, the fan base still loves him. He's
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: been told twice, we love you, but we're letting you go.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Maybe he doesn't want to come back. Maybe he doesn't
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: want to experience that again. I don't know. But, Ashley,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: you've got to consider it. We're still playing West and
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Wilson at third base, for goodness sake.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: I mean, I would love to see it.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: I think that he does bring the good vibes. Everybody
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: likes him. You know he fits in well with the team,
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: and it's a little bit of a... just an addition
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: that you could really use. And looking at the standings, yeah,
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: nine teams with a record worse than the Mariners, one
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: of them.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Being the Reds. So there's eight teams.
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: And the closest that any of those teams are to
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: their division is the Tigers, and they're eight games out.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: So.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: And they've already sold the trade. They've already announced what
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: they're going to be.
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, everybody else is in the teens or higher out
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: of the playoffs, basically.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, I know they're considering it. I don't know
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: what the relationship is like right now. Obviously, the relationship
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: between Geno and the clubhouse is perfectly fine. And so
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he comes back for a third tour.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: But truth of the matter is, the way this team
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: has struggled offensively this year, they could really... You could
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: argue they could use him at this stage in the season.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: So we'll see. I mean, based off of what I
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: mentioned and what you just mapped out, I think we
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: would have the first.
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: Option.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: We would be first in line for the teams that
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: would have any interest in adding Geno Suarez and his
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: $ 2. 5 million for the rest of the year. But it
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: sort of makes sense. Little good vibes magic.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: It definitely makes more sense than it doesn't, if that
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: makes sense.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: I agree. I agree.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Uh, finally F is for fairest of them all. It
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: is returning today at eight o'clock. It is a mirror
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: mirror on the wall or magic mirror. One of the other,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: one of the other. Exactly. I have promised a Jerry
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: DePoto mirror mirror. Um, I don't want to do that today.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: We're going to do it at some point. I can't
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: wait to do it at some point. But it feels
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: to me like the better topic to discuss today in
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Mirror Mirror is the piggyback. And for those, we've only
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: done this once, so I'm sure nobody knows what I'm
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: talking about. But the idea behind it is that I'm
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: going to make my statements known about the piggyback situation,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: which could be returning to our lives here very shortly.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: And then I want to hear from you reasons why
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: you don't want it back.
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: Okay?
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: And I don't want a big cluster. I don't want
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: a big mountain of reasons. I want the biggest reason
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: that you have for not wanting the piggyback to return.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: And you can do that on TalkBack. Yeah, we talk
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: back on piggyback. Yeah. And you can do talkback and
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: give us a 30-second audio piece as to why you
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: don't want it to return. You can send us a text.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: It's at 49451. You can send us a message via YouTube,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: our YouTube channel, which we are on right now. But
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: I want some examples of why we absolutely cannot bring
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: the piggyback back. So we'll do that with Mirror Mirror,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: where I claim to be the fairest of them all
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: for you. And I want to hear all the arguments
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: against it one at a time, and we will break
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: them down one at a time. And I will determine
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: through the Mirror Mirror, the magic mirror, whether or not
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: your argument is fair or not.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: I really do enjoy this segment.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: All right, so we'll do that at 8 o'clock. I'm
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: just giving you a heads up right now as to
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: what we're going to do so we can start getting
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: your feedback in. All right, coming up next, I do
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: want to learn a little bit more about what has
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: happened in the last week and a half of Ashley
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Ryan's life. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. And when you
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: mean accomplished, you mean I've already had three glasses of wine.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, not usually by 11.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: One.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: Pool wine is different, though. Pool wine, you're right.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: It's different math.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: It's different math. But my friend, Derek Berg, you've heard
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: of him.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Oh, I have. He said.
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: I figured he figured out that Hawaii is the place
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: where you go.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: If you just want time to stand still. And that's
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: what it seemed like. I mean, we.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Were on your trip with you. I know you went
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: with friends. Yeah.
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: So him and Mark golfed him in five.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: I was going to ask if you guys did any golf.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: And if you don't golf, does that drive your husband
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: crazy that he can't go?
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: And they golfed every morning except one.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: All right. I guess that was. pointless to even ask
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: well no.
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: Definitely i mean we've done the last time i think
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: we went he didn't golf but um yeah they golfed
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: a lot and it was great they were they'd leave
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: early we were always up at like 6 a.m 5
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: a.m yeah because you're at that point it's 8 a.m
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: here and you're trying by the time we got adjusted
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: was by the time it was time to come home
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: i think day one i woke up at 3 30
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: and um.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Well, you got to welcome in the Hawaiian sunrise every day.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: Which doesn't happen until 6.17, so I had to wait.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Well, you got to welcome in the Hawaiian darkness every day.
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: So I'd just lay in my room and watch my
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: phone until it was light enough to go sit on
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: the patio and then hang out out there and read.
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: But yeah, it did feel like every day was you
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: just maximized it. And all we did was pool, beach,
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: hang out, chat, and have fun. And it was, you know,
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: a lot of vacations feel like they fly by. This
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: one did not.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: Not in a bad way either.
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: Like on one of the days I said, I can't
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: believe we still have three days left. And Palmer the
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: Great was like, mom, that's not that long. I said,
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: do you realize we've only been here for two and
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: a half days? She goes, oh, like, no, I thought
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: we'd been here for a week.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: It turns out that when you don't have a mad
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: capped life and you're not trying to squeeze all of
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: these activities in, that there's a lot of time on
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: our hands.
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: A lot.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: And I was just thinking about this this week, like
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: how much time I've wasted. Like I could have learned
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: to play the guitar as well as Jack Johnson at
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: some point in my life. I haven't even raised children.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: I haven't had them to distract me. I could have
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: learned every language that there is. We have that kind
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: of time on our hands. We do, but we tend
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: to fill it with, stuff that isn't productive. And next
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: thing you know, you're sitting here and you're 55 years old, like, man,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: life's short.
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: The truth of the matter is life can be long
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: and there's a lot of time, but then you go
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: on vacation and you're in Hawaii. And I think they
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: call it paradise paralysis.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: That sometimes that you're like, you're surrounded by so much paradise,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: you don't even know what to do with yourself. Yeah.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: I experienced this when I lived in New Zealand because
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: I lived on a beach. I lived on Waiheke Island.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: And there was this element of the same thing that
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: you're talking about. You'd get to like 10 o'clock in
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: the morning and like, it's only 10? I feel like
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: I've done a bunch of things, but you get paralyzed
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: by paradise it's a strange phenomenon.
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah and it was it was great because that is
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: the thing that helps you feel so relaxed right is
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: that and so many people and however you do vacation
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: good on you you know there's a lot of people
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: who want to have an itinerary and they want to
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: pack in as many things and explore as many things
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: and see as many things as they can wherever they
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: that ain't me not me either somebody was like so
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: what are your plans while you're there i said well
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: i'm gonna wake up i'm whenever i want yep probably
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: gonna go for a walk every day probably going to read.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: And that'll be before everybody has woken up to do
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: anything else.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: I love reading on a vacation.
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: Sitting on the, I just sat on the porch talking
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: to the chickens and reading every morning.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: You got to talk to your chickens and your mentals
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: from what I've understood.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: I kept track of all of those on this vacation.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: But yeah.
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: And I was like, I, and then if we decide
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: we want to do something, then we'll decide we want
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: to do something. Like there was this, um, Tropical storm
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: that was kind of hanging off around the big island.
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: So we got one day of just, it was rain.
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: We were at the pool and it just, it rained
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: for 20 minutes and then you'd only get like five
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: minutes of sun and then it would rain again as
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: opposed to the opposite of usually how it is.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: So we were finally, we're like, all right, we're sick
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: of sitting out of the pool and being all wet.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: Let's just go do something.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: So that was the only day we really left.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Actually did an activity.
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Other than the boys who played golf all the time. Yeah.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: And they still, yeah, they were back every day by
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: like 1030 or 11.
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: At the latest.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Does Berg have access to all the best golf courses
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: now that he's cracked the code?
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: He's got some hookups. Yeah, they just played some low.
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: They tried to keep it close.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: They didn't go more than 30 minutes away from where
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: we were.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: And are the boys now just getting ready for the
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: FedEx Tour Championship to start here?
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: They're getting ready. We were chatting about it on Wednesday.
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yesterday.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: Because we were all in a fantasy golf league together.
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Did you play any golf at all?
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: I did not play a single league.
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: Nothing.
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: Not a single round. Didn't bring my clubs.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Did you not get invited or did you not want to?
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: I don't like to pay to play for golf.
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: Because I don't think I'm good enough.
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: So I'm like, well, I have other things I could
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: spend my money on that would probably be more worth it.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: So you live on a golf course.
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: You're part of the club, so you get to play.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: So I play there all the time.
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: But then I don't have to pay extra to play.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: Look at how much I learned.
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah. There you go.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Learned a lot today.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you have to pay to bring your clubs, too.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: It's just a whole thing. I was like, I don't
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: need to do that.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. And by the way, this just in, Don
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Ho's still dead.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: And when did that happen?
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: 19 years ago.
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: Okay, all right.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: So new information. I probably should have known that today,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: but I just wanted to pass a little along. Breaking news,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: still dead. All right, well, welcome back. Sounds like you
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: checked the box today. Sounds like you had enough of
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: paradise and that you were ready to come home and
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: the world wouldn't let you. Yeah, I tried. Yeah, but
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: here you are back. I hope you're refreshed. Football season
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: is getting ready to start.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Let's get it on.
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: I was thinking, too, as we were on this vacation,
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: this might be the best time ever to do a
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: vacation because you are about to get into all the
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: exciting things, all the fun. And we've got school that
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: starts next week, all sorts of madness.
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: It was a great time. Just wrap the summer up
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: with a vacation.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: It really was. And for those of you here at
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: KJR that were allowed to take one, good for you.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: All right. Coming up next on the show, we're going
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: to crack out the mirror. That's right. Mirror, mirror on
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: the wall. Who's the fairest of them all?
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: It's me.
• 38:52
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