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Best of Chuck & Buck 6-15 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 1: Great Monday morning to you all. Welcome into our radio show.
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  Speaker 1: It is Chucking Back in the Morning Sports Radio ninety
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  Speaker 1: three point three kJ Hope you had a wonderful weekend
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  Speaker 1: out there is so we get a brand new week
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  Speaker 1: started here on this Monday and a ton of things
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  Speaker 1: to discuss on today's radio program. It's a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: We have four hours to discuss them all. We'll take
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  Speaker 1: it till ten o'clock this morning here on kJ R.
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  Speaker 1: And when I say us, I mean Ashley Ryan and
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  Speaker 1: myself Chuck Powell. Great to have you with us here today.
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  Speaker 1: Hoped everybody survived the uptick in temperatures.
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  Speaker 4: Did you enjoy the heat. I enjoyed being at sea. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we set out.
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  Speaker 5: We were outside almost all day yesterday, but in the shade. Oh,
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  Speaker 5: we had our awning clothes.
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  Speaker 4: We watched the.
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  Speaker 5: Mariners game out there. We watched the Stanley Cup final
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  Speaker 5: out there.
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  Speaker 2: There.
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  Speaker 4: You go ate dinner out there.
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  Speaker 1: Very nice, boy. You really did take advantage of it,
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  Speaker 1: all of it. Uh huh, good. Good.
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  Speaker 4: It's really lunch out there.
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  Speaker 1: You stay out of the sun, You're great. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the sun is what causes.
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  Speaker 5: You know, the sun was real hot. If you were
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  Speaker 5: in the sun for a little bit, it was very toaty.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I went out Saturday late morning to the park for
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  Speaker 1: a couple of hours, and then I went out again
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  Speaker 1: yesterday around five in the evening for a couple of hours.
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  Speaker 1: I got a little exercise and got a little sun
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  Speaker 1: and got a little bit of the heat. I guess
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  Speaker 1: I missed the hottest part of the day, but nonetheless
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  Speaker 1: it was fine. It's fine, And I realized we got
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  Speaker 1: to put out the heat advisory because a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people just the conditions that they have.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, people don't have a c don't have AC.
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  Speaker 1: And they might even be worse than that might be
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  Speaker 1: just the you know, might just live a little tiny box,
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  Speaker 1: don't have a lot of air that comes through there.
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  Speaker 1: So I get the heat advisory that has to be
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  Speaker 1: given out there, but you know, we don't hit temperatures
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  Speaker 1: like this this early very often. And it was manageable.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the best way to put it. It
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  Speaker 1: was manageable the last couple of days. But I guess
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  Speaker 1: today's supposed to be the hottest day.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, that is what I think today. Yeah, my weather
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  Speaker 5: app shows a high eighty six. But last year when
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  Speaker 5: we were last week, when we were listening to the weather,
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  Speaker 5: they were saying with this World Cup game at lumen
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  Speaker 5: Field sorry Seattle Stadium, that it was going to be
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  Speaker 5: like ninety two degrees.
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  Speaker 4: So we'll have to see what happened.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah again, I mean yeah, I get the reason for
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  Speaker 1: the heat advisory. It's needed in some cases. But professional athletes,
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  Speaker 1: professional soccer players, compared to what we have versus some
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  Speaker 1: of these other venues who have temperatures over one hundred degrees, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's gonna be nothing to the athletes here today.
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  Speaker 1: I guess it was warmer in DC.
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  Speaker 4: I guess it was probably a lot more humid, a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot more humid, a little more difficult to get through
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend in Washington, d C. Where the Mariners
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  Speaker 1: were stinking up the joint.
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  Speaker 4: So good morning to you, and we.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome you as we get ready, and then it goes
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  Speaker 1: back to cooling off again tomorrow or is that not
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  Speaker 1: till tuesday? Yeah, there you go, ye, So one bit
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  Speaker 1: more day of hot, hot, heat, and then we cool
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  Speaker 1: back down, which I was like, the cool down all right,
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  Speaker 1: So welcome into the radio show. It is great to
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  Speaker 1: have you with us. And whenever there is a champion crowned,
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  Speaker 1: we always start the next day by discussing that champion. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we've got two of them to discuss. The NBA Championship
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  Speaker 1: wrapped up since last we spoke. The Stanley Cup champion
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  Speaker 1: was crowned last night, and so we have two different
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  Speaker 1: champions to discuss, and we'll start with the freshest one,
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  Speaker 1: the Carolina Hurricanes, who took out the Las Vegas Golden
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  Speaker 1: Knights and what many were describing as one of the
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  Speaker 1: most evenly fought series that they've ever watched at the
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  Speaker 1: NHL level. And that's maybe you're a prisoner of the moment.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not one to weigh in on that history. I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't tell you, but obviously a very good series doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter that it didn't go the seventh game. And because
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing like a Game seven. I've heard I've heard
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  Speaker 1: about the Stanley Cup playoffs. You know, I'll do anything
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  Speaker 1: to see a Game seven of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: And so it wraps up in six. But it certainly
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  Speaker 1: was tightly contested. But Carolina goes on the road in
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas, they take the championship. They score a shoutout
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  Speaker 1: last night. Three to nothing is the final score, and
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  Speaker 1: so it's the Hurricanes who are Stanley Cup champions.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, thank you Hurricanes, because they did not want Vegas
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  Speaker 5: to win another one.
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  Speaker 1: Not this soon. No three trips to the Stanley Cup
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  Speaker 1: Finals in nine years for Las Vegas, one championship out
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  Speaker 1: of that. Meanwhile, Carolina has now won a couple of
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  Speaker 1: them here in their franchise history as of late. And
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  Speaker 1: that's just a really good hockey team. They lost only
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  Speaker 1: three games during their Stanley Cup run, two of them
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  Speaker 1: happening in the Stanley Cup finals. There's really not a
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  Speaker 1: superstar player in the group, and yet they still win
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  Speaker 1: a championship with ease, and I think it's just all
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  Speaker 1: about the team and the depth they have assembled there.
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  Speaker 1: And it was certainly on display throughout the Stanley Cup playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you this, I mean they they were.
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  Speaker 1: I probably stuck around for like three of the interviews afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: and then I'm like, Okay, I've seen the passing of
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  Speaker 1: the cup, and I've.
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  Speaker 4: Seen the which is the most fun, the con.
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  Speaker 1: Smythe and I saw those lineup and the handshake and
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  Speaker 1: all of that stuff. So I've seen all the pomp
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  Speaker 1: and circumstance. But I didn't stay for hours upon hours
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  Speaker 1: of Stanley Cup post coverage. But I did see three
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  Speaker 1: interviews that were conducted the first and and all of
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  Speaker 1: them were just perfect, Like the subjects were just perfect
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  Speaker 1: in their comments, like stuff you couldn't even teach. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it had to have been nurtured from the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: their journey to becoming hockey players. That had to start
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  Speaker 1: at home for these three people, and then the journey
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  Speaker 1: had to mold them and skull help them, and the
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  Speaker 1: people around them had to remind them You're not that
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  Speaker 1: big a deal. It's still about being a great person
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  Speaker 1: and a great teammate. And I think hockey lends itself
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  Speaker 1: to it as well. That's a community that is just
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  Speaker 1: a lot different. It is all about the team and
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  Speaker 1: it is very little about the individual. And I think
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  Speaker 1: the greatest example of that was when Jordan Stall gets
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  Speaker 1: the con smythe trophy for MVP of the playoffs, and
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  Speaker 1: he's like, oh, this is nice, and he skates it
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  Speaker 1: over and puts it in on the bench and trust
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  Speaker 1: that someone's going to take his big, gaudy, awkward looking
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  Speaker 1: trophy and put it in a safe place, because I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure he does. I'm sure he is very proud of that.
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  Speaker 1: But then as captain of the team, he goes back
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  Speaker 1: to then receive the Stanley Cup and then he's just
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  Speaker 1: a maniac or as they might say in Carolina, a caneyac,
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  Speaker 1: like they joy the enthusiasm, the smile that you couldn't
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  Speaker 1: wipe off of his face to be able to hold
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  Speaker 1: the team before anybody else could hold it. I mean
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  Speaker 1: it speaks to what how these hockey players the fabric
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  Speaker 1: that makes hockey players. And then, as I said, there
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  Speaker 1: were three interviews in success session that were conducted Jordan
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  Speaker 1: Stall and then Brandon Bussey, the goaltender who took over
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  Speaker 1: midway through the Stanley Cup finals and barely gave up
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  Speaker 1: a goal. He was fantastic. And then the head coach,
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  Speaker 1: Rod Brenda Moore, who has won one now as a
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  Speaker 1: player and now as a coach. And I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you stuck around for it, Ashley,
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  Speaker 1: but the interviews that they conducted, like if you couldn't
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  Speaker 1: even teach it in a class because it would just
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  Speaker 1: come off just way too stodgy or way too contrived.
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  Speaker 1: But their every answer was just so perfect for the moment,
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  Speaker 1: for not making it about me, for about the journey,
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  Speaker 1: For the respect that they have for the opponent, the
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  Speaker 1: respect that they have for their team mates. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Bussy talking about Freddie Anderson, who he replaced during
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  Speaker 1: this journey. I mean, that's one of the most likable
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  Speaker 1: dudes I think I've ever seen in my you know,
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  Speaker 1: fifty two years of being a sports fan as Brandon Bussy,
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  Speaker 1: and how he's handled all of this with just this like,
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  Speaker 1: oh shucks, guys, I'm just a hockey player. It's no
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  Speaker 1: big deal. On his family too, kind of attitude that
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  Speaker 1: he's had throughout the entire process. I mean, every single
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  Speaker 1: one of those interviews that they conducted was just like, Man,
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  Speaker 1: I love all three of those dudes. You want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about just answering everything perfectly, being in the moment,
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  Speaker 1: and it didn't feel like it was, Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: it didn't feel like it was contrived. I'm not just
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  Speaker 1: giving you the yearbook answer here. It was like genuinely
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  Speaker 1: heartfelt and yet coming out of that genuine good place
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  Speaker 1: where these comments from these three individuals that just captured
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  Speaker 1: the entire moment didn't really make it themselves, and yet
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  Speaker 1: certainly they enjoyed the moment for themselves. It was perfect.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's just exactly what you want to hear
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  Speaker 1: from a star athlete after winning a championship.
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  Speaker 5: And I think that's the key though with hockey players
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  Speaker 5: and even the crack and players we've had on, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: they are so focused on the team, on the work,
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  Speaker 5: on the effort, and not on themselves. There it's very
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  Speaker 5: hard to get them to come on and talk about
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  Speaker 5: themselves and how good they are, how skilled they are,
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  Speaker 5: because it's not about them. It is about everybody around
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  Speaker 5: them and them fitting in and being a part of
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  Speaker 5: something bigger, And I think that's one of the things
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  Speaker 5: that makes hockey so special because you don't have these
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  Speaker 5: you know, it's fun to have the personalities and the
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  Speaker 5: boisterous that you know people out there that are that
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  Speaker 5: are famous athletes that we love to watch. But there's
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  Speaker 5: something refreshing about watching a team win a title and
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  Speaker 5: still be able to have that humility and be humble
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  Speaker 5: and and I don't know, it feels if you you
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  Speaker 5: almost like when you're seeing Seth Jarvis crying, like I
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  Speaker 5: almost want to cry, one because he helped me win
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  Speaker 5: a green jacket, but.
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  Speaker 4: Two because it's just cool. It's just a neat moment.
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  Speaker 1: It was a neat moment. And I will give the
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  Speaker 1: exact same credit to a sport that isn't as much
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  Speaker 1: recognized for that selfless sort of conduct. And that's from
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  Speaker 1: the NBA, which a lot of times the individual stars
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  Speaker 1: are just so promoted and put on such a higher
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  Speaker 1: platform that you understand that Michael Jordan at times came
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  Speaker 1: across as being, you know, arrogant at times, that lebron
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  Speaker 1: comes across as being arrogant at times. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of hard when the entire world throws flowers at
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  Speaker 1: your feet from the time you were sixteen years old,
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  Speaker 1: and and and so there's a lot there's not as
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  Speaker 1: much you don't hear that genuine, heart felt, it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: about me kind of speech necessarily associated with the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: and yet we got it Saturday night as well. Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Brunson's post interview was perfect, like the emotion that he showed.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's just been a cold stoneface killer this
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  Speaker 1: entire postseason, and he's really been that way his entire career.
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  Speaker 1: It hasn't always worked out for he and the Knicks,
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  Speaker 1: but it did this year. And I'm not sure. I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't sure if there was another side to Jalen Brunson.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, all we've been exposed to is this guy
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  Speaker 1: that carries this chip on his shoulder because he was
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  Speaker 1: overlooked in the draft process and described in the media
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  Speaker 1: as not being good enough to be able to carry
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  Speaker 1: team to a championship, too small, not quick enough, doesn't
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  Speaker 1: play defense, all of that stuff, and he's just remained
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  Speaker 1: this edge to him as a player and also a personality.
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  Speaker 1: And then to get to the championship, win the championship,
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  Speaker 1: and to see some of the emotion, see some of
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  Speaker 1: the cracks and that stone faced facade of his and
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  Speaker 1: he was fantastic as well, like a perfect interview where
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  Speaker 1: he got emotional about his father, and he got emotional
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  Speaker 1: about his teammates, and he got emotional about his journey
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  Speaker 1: without breaking down. He didn't break down in tears and
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  Speaker 1: make a fuss, but he certainly got emotional and yet
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  Speaker 1: still carried that confidence, that in that swagger that he's shown,
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  Speaker 1: that inner swagger that he's shown. And I thought he
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  Speaker 1: was perfect. I mean, what a champion Jalen Brunson is.
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  Speaker 1: And I tweeted out on Saturday night, I took a
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  Speaker 1: shot at the San Antonio Spurs. I mean, they've set
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  Speaker 1: an NBA postseason record. No team ever again will choke
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  Speaker 1: away all four games that they lost. I mean that
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  Speaker 1: can't be broken. It can be tied, but you will
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  Speaker 1: never have your record broken. San Antonio Spurs, nice work,
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  Speaker 1: you choked away four wins in the NBA Finals. But
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  Speaker 1: that aside, and I do think there's truth to that
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  Speaker 1: that Jalen Brunson and og Ananobi and the way that
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  Speaker 1: that team plays for the New York maybe you never
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  Speaker 1: rooted for them, but they were a three seed. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: thought that this was a team that could run away
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  Speaker 1: and win the NBA Championship. Everybody all season long said
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  Speaker 1: it's the West to win, and then you don't even
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  Speaker 1: get the top two seeds out of the East into
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  Speaker 1: the finals, and they took care of business. And so
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  Speaker 1: when you do step back from it, even though I
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  Speaker 1: think here in Seattle we spent a lot of time
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  Speaker 1: rooting for the Spurs because they took out the Thunder
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  Speaker 1: and their head coaches from here and Wimby is fun
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  Speaker 1: to watch and all of that stuff, true of the
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  Speaker 1: matter is what a deserving champion. They handled themselves with
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  Speaker 1: poison class and played like a team throughout the entire process.
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  Speaker 1: So I ended up Saturday night, even though I was
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  Speaker 1: rooting for San Antonio and I took my little, snotty
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  Speaker 1: pot shots at them on social media, I was really
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  Speaker 1: happy for Jalen Brunson and Og. I mean, OG couldn't
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  Speaker 1: be a more modest star and he's now on the
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  Speaker 1: verge of superstardom. And I think they handled it with
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  Speaker 1: class and a very deserving champion. So I was very
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  Speaker 1: satisfied with what we saw on Saturday and Sunday. From
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  Speaker 1: our NBA champion and our NHL champion.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I do think that a lot more people
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  Speaker 5: would probably root for the next if it weren't for
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  Speaker 5: the Knicks fans that might be part of the issue,
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  Speaker 5: because oh, that's the issue.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with there's nothing wrong with the team.
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  Speaker 4: At all, exactly. They're super fun to watch.
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  Speaker 5: And I mean, I I told you before, I don't
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  Speaker 5: didn't know if I cared who won after Oklahoma City
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  Speaker 5: was out and then it was well, yeah, I'll cheer
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  Speaker 5: for the Spurs because it's Mitch Johnson and because they
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  Speaker 5: took the Thunder out.
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  Speaker 4: But I just wanted it to be a good series.
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  Speaker 5: And as much as it wasn't a good series in
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  Speaker 5: terms of how many games they went, each game itself
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  Speaker 5: was a roller coaster and fun. And yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 5: I think we got two good finals.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it was a roller coaster. It
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  Speaker 1: was more of a like a shoot him up into
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  Speaker 1: space and then watch it fall. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: They it's like that ride that you go up, Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: and then it hangs out there for a minute and
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  Speaker 5: then everything drops.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I think that's what it was more like.
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  Speaker 1: And I heard a conversation this morning about whether or
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  Speaker 1: not it was the Knicks who took it or the
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  Speaker 1: Spurs who gave it away. And look, this has not
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  Speaker 1: taken anything away from the Knicks, because the Knicks earned
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  Speaker 1: the championship. They played better than anyone else from the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of the playoffs to the end of the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm glad for them. I'm happy for Jalen Brunson
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  Speaker 1: and Anonobi and Mike Brown and Knicks fans. Maybe not
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  Speaker 1: Knicks fans, but I'm happy for them. I think they
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  Speaker 1: earned it, and I think they are very deserving champions.
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  Speaker 1: But make no mistake about it, the Spurs gave this away.
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  Speaker 1: They had double digit leads in all four of the games,
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  Speaker 1: the biggest choke job maybe I've ever seen in my
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  Speaker 1: entire life, and losing the third their third game, and
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  Speaker 1: then last and then on Saturday. There's no question that
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  Speaker 1: it was in the back of their heads that we're
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  Speaker 1: up again. We're not going to do this again, are we?
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  Speaker 1: And sure enough they just started playing that exact same way.
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  Speaker 1: Like Scared dearon Fox was terrible throughout the game. And
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  Speaker 1: he's supposed to be the veteran leader that was added
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  Speaker 1: to the young group to put him over the top.
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  Speaker 1: And not only was he missing every shot he took,
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  Speaker 1: he was like determined, I'm going to be the person
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  Speaker 1: that shoots every time. I mean, he was terrible down
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  Speaker 1: the stretch, everything that they did where it looked like
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  Speaker 1: you're not playing the way that you should play purely
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  Speaker 1: because you're worried about blowing another lead, that is giving
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  Speaker 1: it away. I mean, yeah, the Knicks played well down
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  Speaker 1: the stretch, but it had a lot more to do
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  Speaker 1: with San Antonio. And look, I've been saying this throughout
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: the season and throughout the playoffs, and I really thought
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: they were going to prove me wrong when they took
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: out the Oklahoma City Thunder. In the NBA, you have
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: to lose before you win. You have to lose in
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: a big moment and learn how to move on from that.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: It's happened to every great player, It's happened to every
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: great team. No one's ushered to the front of the
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: line their first time that they get there. And I
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: really thought they were going to buck the trend after
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: they took out Oklahoma City and nope, because all of
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: those things that get associated with that young team that
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: doesn't know how to finish this until they've tasted a
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: bitter loss at this level. All of it came through,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: and it came true in the NBA Finals, and they
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: just choked away game after game after game in the
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: exact same fashion, like taking terrible shots, can't hit anything
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: down the stretch. It wasn't that New York took their
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: will from them. It's that san Antonio didn't know how
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: to finish. Maybe they'll learn that they're gonna have to
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: in future years, but this was about the New Knicks
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: not being intimidated by being down, which is part of it,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: and san Antonio clearly not knowing how to finish off
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: a game in the NBA playoffs in the NBA Finals.
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and almost I don't think panicked is the right word,
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: but almost.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Like oh, we just have to just do this and
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: we'll be okay.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: But like they had blinders on to actually see what
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: really they needed to do, that they needed to make adjustments.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: They didn't want to do it.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: It was just stay focused, day focused, day focused. And
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: then the Knicks were like, okay, thank you, we'll take this.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's pretty much what it was. Like, Hey,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: you've outplayed us for the Spurs led for seventy five
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: percent of the of the series. That's three quarters out
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: of four. They were beating them, and I guess that
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: they spent more time up ten points or more than
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: the Knicks spent leading in this entire finals. So don't
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: tell me that was that was strategy. That's what I
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: had to hear on my way in. No, that was strategy.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: They were setting them up for the fourth quarter. No,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: they were outplayed and they kept their cool and san
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Antonio didn't. And that is New York having the experience
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: of having their heart ripped out in the NBA playoffs
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: and learning from that lesson. The Spurs just had their
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: heart ripped out. And now we'll see if they can
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: learn from that lesson or if they're gonna be looking
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: over their shoulder for the rest of the time. This
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: is gonna haunt them, not just this offseason, but potentially
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: going forward. It's not like the Western Conference competition's light.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: So we're gonna see how san Antonio bounces back from
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: this for years to come. But that had a lot
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: more to do with san Antonio choking it away than
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: it did the Knicks seizing. Although I do give the
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Knicks credit. All right, what's on tap, let's look at it.
• 20:45
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• 20:59
  Speaker 1: The Haynes win the Stanley Cup in six games. The
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Knicks win the NBA title in five games. The draft
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: is just nine days away. In the NBA, they don't
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: mess around. Also, between now and the draft, we are
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: expected to get the Jannis Antetokunpo trade as well, which
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: we'll send shockwaves. World Cup, of course, got started last week.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: We will discuss it with Danny Jackson today at seven
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: oh five. The US dominated Paraguay Friday night. Meanwhile, if
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: there were any upsets, it was Brazil, Netherlands and Switzerland
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: all being battled to a draw.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: We'll call it a draw.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: So that happened over the weekend, but no big loss
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: occurred on the first week. But half the teams haven't
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: even played their first game yet, So more action coming
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: your way today in the World Cup. In the first
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: game here in Seattle will be played as well. US
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Open Week is this week. Major Golf Challenge launches today
• 21:55
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• 21:58
  Speaker 1: to dive into that a little bit later on in
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: the week, probably not spend too much time on it today.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: The College World Series Ole missed the first team eliminated yesterday. Meanwhile,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: North Carolina won over West Virginia, so they're in a
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: good position today. An elimination game at eleven o'clock between
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Alabama and Texas and Georgia and Oklahoma. They won their
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: first round games, so they will play today at four o'clock.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: The Washington Nationals absolutely trucked the Mariners the last couple
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: of days, ten to one and eight to three, so
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: the Ms dropped two out of three to The Washington
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Nationals sit just a game over five hundred right now
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: at this stage, just a game up on the A's
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: and the Rangers in the American League West standings, and
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: suddenly they are dealing with a lot of injuries. Randy A. Rose, Arena,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Josh Naylor, Andres Munos all left over the weekend with injuries.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Cal and JP we're already out and now they are
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: planning their returns on Tuesday after a day off, and
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the Mariners will host the Orioles starting tomorrow night. We'll
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: recap yesterday's crappy loss next though, Mariners Morning After comes
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: your way on Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Hey, great Minday, morning to you all.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: We've got headlines coming up at the top of the hour.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Our Seahawks one series continues today with the QB one himself.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Hugh Millan will be joining us today at eight o'clock.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: And guess who QB one wants to break down. I'm
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: gonna leave it a mystery.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Oh okay, I was gonna make a guess.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Not gonna give you any hints about who QB won.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Hugh Millan is going to break down today.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Jason Myers, No, oh.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I can see how you would have gone there. Yeah,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: that's based off of my really vague clues.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I have no idea. I'm excited.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: So that's coming up at eight o'clock here today and
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Danny Jackson at seven o five. Seattle host its first
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: World Cup game at twenty twenty six today at noon,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Belgium versus Egypt. Finally, finally we can settle this once
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: and for all. Yeah, for years, Who's the better team.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: Uh huh. It's been an ongoing debate.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Yam or yam or talk talk. Let's just finally play.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: It and look it happened.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Uh huh. Let's get to the bottom of it.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: And I'm glad it's happening here.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Let's let our feet do the talking.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: Oh, I see what you did there, so well.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's coming up a little bit later on today
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: right down the street. As a matter of fact, but
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: you know, we do have ABC's to the MS today,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: baseball brunch today. I'm not gonna spend a lot of
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: time talking about that disastrous last couple of days in Washington,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: d C. I'll just say this, there is a chance,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: as I mentioned right at the end of our last segment,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: to kind of hit a reset button. I don't know.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know why this is necessary. I don't I mean,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: this team is too good right now to be at
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: thirty seven and thirty six. I don't care how many injuries,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: nagging injuries they've had here as of late. There still
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: should be some separation between them and the five hundred mark,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: more so than there is now, And there should be
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: some separation the way the rest of the American League
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: West has played between the Mariners and everybody else. But
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: this is where we're at. We are seventy three games
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: into the season of game over five hundred, a game
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: up in first place, and probably should feel fortunate to
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: be there because this team just has not put it
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: together consistently so far this year. And I think the
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: last five days have been about as bad as I've
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: watched this team.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: Play, unfortunately.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, other than Friday, which I didn't get to
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: watch because I was in Tacoma, So I didn't even
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: get to watch the one shining example of the last
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: five days. What I've seen the last five days horrible, right, Yeah,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: And so we'll just use today to reset things because
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: this team is dealing with a lot of injuries right now.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: We've been without cal Raley throughout this last couple last
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: month or so. We've been without JP for the last
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Maybe they've missed their leadership, maybe that
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: caught up to them. I don't know, but our two
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: leaders are going to be back on the field, it
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: looks like tomorrow. And it sounds like Randy rose Arena,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: who injured and left the game on Saturday, might be
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: good to go. By tomorrow as well, So not bad.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, you get home, you're still over five hundred,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: you're still a first place team, and you might have
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: three really key pieces to your clubhouse. Two key pieces
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: to your clubhouse, three key pieces to your team, all
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: back tomorrow and that'll be a welcome sighte.
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it will be like today was just okay, we
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: pushed the wash cycle. Everything got cleaned up, and we're
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: going to spit out a healthy team tomorrow.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah that's how that works.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess, I don't know. I mean, I think
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: just getting home will be refreshing, obvious. I love how
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: everybody acts like they can't stand the cold weather here
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: in April, and then the moment they go to warm weather,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: they're melting like candles too close to the fire. And
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: so you know, you'll get back, I mean, you won't
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: have to even play on the hot day, so you'll
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: get back to cooler temperature starting tomorrow. You'll get back
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: to cal Raley being in the lineup. It sounds like
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: JP being back in the lineup. And I don't know
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: what's going on with Josh Naylor. Obviously there's a wrist thing,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: and then he files the ball off of his shin yesterday.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: That looked very painful. I'll give him that. And I
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: don't know if the injuries are causing him to play
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: so sloppy in the field, but that cannot continue. That
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: is just a position that you have to be sure handed.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: It is a first basement. I mean, sometimes we'll put
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: like a big plotting dude who can really crush a
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: baseball at first base because we don't have any other
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: place to put him. But at bare minimum, we don't
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: expect the spectacular over at first base, but a minimum
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: from a first basement at the major league level, you
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: expect the routine plays to be made, and Josh Naylor's
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: not making them, and it has led to a lot
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: of big innings because he's not securing an easy out
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: and so whatever. I mean, there have even been balls
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: that he could have caught he wasn't even given the
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: error on. I mean he's made five errors already.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah live.
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: And it was Saturday, right yeah with Castillo, where when
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: they had the three nothing lead and all runs were unearned.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, And because I was outside watching again and
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: we had people playing golf and they'd come by and say, oh,
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: what's the score.
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: What's the score? Said three? Nothing? Oh it's Castillo sucking?
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Is it?
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: Actually?
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: No?
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean he's got to get right, and I
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: don't know if it's the injuries that are causing it.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Seems like a little bit of hot
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: dog over there at times as well, and not a
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: lot of concentration over there. And so that's not what
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: we saw last year from Josh Naylor at first base.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: So a lot of issues of face this team and maybe,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: you know, a day off, a reset being back home
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: seeing Caligan, having JP back in the lineup. We'll wash
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: away some of the sins of this weekend, but it's
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: it's been a rough go and hopefully Tuesday marks a
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: new chapter in this season. All right, Headlines next plus
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Danny Jackson on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: What a preserving Stanley Cup champion. The Carolina Hurricanes are
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: one of the best teams in the regular season.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Had a brilliant playoff performance.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're going to clinch it appropriately were a total
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: team effort. They had a shut up the coin of
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Hurricanes where the Stanley Cup for the second time. Fem
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Mellen's buddy Sean McDonough on the call last night ABC
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: of the Carolina victory Stanley Cup Championship is theirs again,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: A three to nine things shut out of the Las
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Vegas Golden Knights. Take that Golden Knights, your pampered sons
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: of so and so'sh.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: Go back to your craps table and cry about it.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't do a little more crying nights. A bunch
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: of cry crap playing jackasses. This actually is a good
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: result here in Seattle because for those that have wondered
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: if the Seattle crack and are lost at this stage
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: and if they've done things the right way in piecing
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: together what they are hoping to eventually be a Stanley
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Cup champion, doesn't feel that way. We've had a couple
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: of disappointing seasons back to back. We've rifled through head coaches,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: We've already had three of them in the infancy of
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: the organization. We've already let go of a general manager here,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: We've already let go of our architect and Ron Francis here.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: And we've had several soul searching, soul sole giving press
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: conferences here in the offseason where the organization is vowing
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: to turn over every stone, every rock to try to
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: find out the secret solution for getting this team not
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: just into the Stanley Cup playoffs, but to the Stanley
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Cup like the Carolina Hurricanes have pulled off. I would
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: say that this result is a pretty promising sign because
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: one of the criticisms of the Kraken has been you
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: don't have star player, you don't have star magnitude. You
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: gotta have that difference maker. You got to have that
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: fifty goal per game, fifty goal per season score. Where's
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: that number one line that you can count on for
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: a point to night, you know that sort of thing.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: We don't have that at this stage, and yet really
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: neither do. The Carolina Hurricanes and the Kraken were built
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: by the former architect of the Carolina Hurricanes, Ron Francis,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: comes over from Carolina to Seattle and wanted to build
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: his this organization the way that they built things in
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Carolina and had success with. So from that standpoint, I
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: kind of view that as a little bit encouraging. I mean,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: obviously they've got a much deeper team, even though they
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: don't have the superstar individual player. But when you're led
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: by a thirty seven year old defenseman who goes on
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: a tear in the Stanley Cup finals and scores five
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: goal five games in a row. I mean, Jordan Stall.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: According to Rod Brenda Moore, he was the reason that
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: they ended up winning the Stanley Cup this year. They
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: also have a head coach that Ron Francis tried to
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: get here, tried to lure away to Seattle, and so,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think it was time for Ron to go.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Let's just put it this way. I get why he's
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: not here anymore, but I think maybe that his vision
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: was right. Perhaps he just hasn't had the right leadership.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: And look, the entire organization loves them some Jordan Eberley.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if they should love him as much
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: as they actually do. I mean what I saw leadership
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: wise out of Jordan Stall. Do we have that guy
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: on our team?
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: That guy would be nice if we did.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, that's not the most most talented guys
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: in the world. That's an experienced dude that will get
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: run over for a by a bus for his teammates
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: if he if they ask him to, if it means
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: that they can get closer to the Stanley Cup championship.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: So I think it's an encouraging sign because they're architect.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: The guy that set the foundation there is the guy
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: that set the foundation for this organization, and he moved
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: on from Carolina and tried to create that same magic
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: here and it's not quite worked out, but maybe we're
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: not as far away as you think. Maybe the idea
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: of going with a deep roster and not really depending
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: upon having a superstar or being able to luck it
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: into one in the draft or have to spin for
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: one in free agency or trade ten players to get
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: one in an off season, that was sort of the
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: blueprint for how he was going to build this organization
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: here in Seattle. And so I'm going to take a
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: little bit of hope from that. And I know a
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: lot of people have complimented the krake In on how
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: they've put this thing together. They just can't get over
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: the top. And maybe it is just the difference between
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: maybe you have to move on from a couple of
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: the younger players who might not get the intangibles it
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: takes to be a champion and bring in a veteran
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: That can be a difference. From that standpoint, the grit
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: that Carolina plays with, I'm not sure that we play
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: with here in Seattle, and maybe we don't have the
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: two or three clubhouse leaders that they have in Carolina.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: So I just my conclusion is that maybe, just maybe
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: we're not as far away as it feels. Considering that
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Ron Francis set the tone in Carolina for them and
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: they've won two Stanley Cups because of that, and he's
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: the same guy that set the tone here, maybe we're
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: not as far away as it feels right now.
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: Well, and it's like you know, an artist when they
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: move on, when they pass, then all of a sudden
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: their art is better appreciated.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: So perhaps with Ron Francis, once now he's not there.
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: Everyone will actually be able to see what he did
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: create now that he's not going to be with the
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: team anymore.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: I think there are a lot of good players on
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: this team. I mean, I'm not some hockey expert, but
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of good There are a lot of
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: good players on this team. This team should have been
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: better than it's been the last couple of seasons.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's why it's been so disappointing.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Something's missing and whatever Lane Lambert brought seem to fix
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: a couple of things, but it exposed a couple of
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: other things, and so I don't know how aggressive they're
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: going to be this offseason, but obviously they're gonna have
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: to be some changes made to this roster, and from
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: what we understand, they're going to happen sooner than later.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Like we're I mean, the season's over. It's been over
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: now for a minute, but it sounds to me like
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: the organization is ready to start wheeling and dealing and
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: try to and try to correct some of those areas
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: and there turning over every stone they felt are keeping
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: them from being the Carolina Hurricanes. All right. Coming up next,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Seahawks one Series with Hugh Millan on Sports Radio ninety
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: three point three KJRFM. It's time for our Seahawks one
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  Speaker 1: series and one of our featured attractions is here on
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: this Monday morning, our Q one Hugh Millon top analyst
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: here at Sports Radio ninety three point three k j
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  Speaker 1: r f M joins us here to be part of
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  Speaker 1: our Seahawks one series. Good morning, sir, good morning, you're
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: too kind. Oh no, no, no.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah that that dead on balls accurate over so I
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: under delivery.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Yes, we we we play our road. Well, Uh well,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: you gets to be a part gets to chooses to
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: be a part of our Seahawks One series every year,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: one analyst breaking down one key Seahawk player for one
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: entire interview. But sometimes we don't always type cast him. Uh.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Sometimes we can just open it up to any position
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: on the football field. But it kind of worked out
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: this year, Hugh that you've got your shot at the
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: QB one of the Seahawks. Are we gonna take advantage?
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Are we gonna break down Sam Donald with you today?
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: You know, I think we are to and and most
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: of the years I have chose other positions, but I
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: just think that there's still enough with with Sam Donald
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: to discuss about him. I just love the story. I mean,
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: he's only been a Seahawk for one year. He's one
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: of my all time favorite Seahawks already, and I just
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: love the nature of how he stepped up and what
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: he's delivered. And I think it's you know, I think
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: it's temporal in the sense that it's time sensitive in
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: that they just got their rings and I imagine Sam darnold,
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: you know, he has that ring, which he earned well.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: And I think there's just a nature of the discussion
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: about him. Well, the defense was number one in the
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: NFL fewest points allowed, and then the running game came
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: on and from week sixteen and beyond six games there
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: there were second in the league of among the playoff
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: teams in yards per rush. But there's that Ram game
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: in the NFC Championship game, and really what he did
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: against the Rams in the finale, the second game rather
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: in the regular season against the Rams, I think really
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: marks how he earned his Super Bowl ring.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: Heal Melanis. So with US Seahawks one series, we're going
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: to break down Sam Donald. Well, let's dive into that.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Then let's do it. Let's talk about when Sam Donald
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: is at his best, like in those games, what is
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: he doing well and what is it that he can
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: grow off of and maybe become even better more consistent
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: going forward.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, let's contextualize this and if you can, let's
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: take a journey through the history of the NFL. In
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: all playoff games, there have been twelve hundred and ninety
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: six quarterback starts, So six hundred and forty eight playoff games,
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: twelve hundred and ninety six quarterback starts in the history
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: of the NFL. Of those, twelve hundred and ninety six
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: obviously there's two teams in a game. There's sixteen times
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: by fourteen quarterbacks where a quarterback in a playoff game
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: has had three hundred and thirty yards or more passing
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: and three touchdowns are more with zero interceptions. We've seen
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: one game in the history of the NFL that had
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: two quarterbacks in such a game, and you just watched
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: it in the NFC Championship game. The duel that Sam
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: Darnold had against Matthew Stafford was a historic duel in
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: the manner that I just said. And so what it
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: really amounts to, guys, is I think of it like
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: the Seahawks were so good in other areas, particularly you know,
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: notably the defense. They said, hey, we don't need you, Sam,
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: but we got one kryptonite. There's one kryptonite and it's
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: Matthew Stafford. In the last two games, Matthew Stafford again
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: the Sea Hawk defense, eight hundred and thirty one yards passing,
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: six touchdowns, no interceptions. That is an NFL record for
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: a quarterback in back to back games against an opponent.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: Two consecutive games against opponent with most amount of yards
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: with zero interceptions.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: It's the most.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: It's the fifth most amount of yards counting any interceptions.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: But the efficiency that Staffewd brought Stafford brought against the
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: Sea Haawk defense again, eight hundred and thirty one yards
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: no interceptions, that's a record, and so that's what Sam
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: Darnold had to step up and and compete against. So
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: let's let's talk about the grit that the guy showed.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: Because if if you say, okay, he had the he
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: had the four interception game down in in LA and
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: then in the game up in Seattle he had the
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: early in the fourth quarter, he threw his second interception.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: At that point you had if you just say stop
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: right there is is Sam Darnold our quarterback? Well, at
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: that point, you'd say he's got a hell of a
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: Los Angeles Rams problem. Because if you go back for
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: the Seahawks his most recent twenty drives he had, he
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: had produced thirty three points. That's that's that that's the
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: through three quarters of the game in Seattle and counting
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: the game down in LA. So that's one point sixty
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: five points per drive. That's good enough for twenty eighth.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: And if you throw in the playoff game that he
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: had against the as a Viking against the Rams, now
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: it drops down to thirty one drives forty three points
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: one point three to nine. That's good for thirty first
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: in the NFL. Got me one point three to nine
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: points per drive. That's what your quarterback's doing against the
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: Rams at that point, that dude dug deep and counting
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: the fourth quarter in overtime in the regular season game
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: and the NFC Championship game, fifth team drives forty six
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: points three point h seven points per drive.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: What is that?
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: Well, last year the Rams led the NFL in points
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: per drive two point seven eight. Again, three point oh seven.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: You'd have to go back to twenty eighteen with Pat
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: Mahomes to find a team that had that level of
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: points per drive. That's what that guy gave you. And oh,
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: by the way, one more thing about that NFC Championship game.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: The running game. So the defense said, Sam.
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: Help like Matthew Stafford's are freaking kryptonite. Did he have
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: a running game? No, they had the c X running game.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: From Week sixteen through the Super Bowl. They had one
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: hundred and fifty one yards. Again, that's number two of
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: the all the playoffs and number three in the league.
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: But in the NFC Championship game, they only had seventy
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: five yards. They were at two point nine yards per carry.
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: Sam Darnold had no running game in that NFC Champimpionship game.
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: In fact, of those sixteen games, I know I'm throwing
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: a lot of numbers that y'all, I'll wrap it up.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: Of the sixteen games that I said that a quarterback
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: has been at three hundred and thirty yards or more
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: and three touchdowns and more, there's only one other game
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: where the quarterback had a running game that was under
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: three yards per That was Tom Brady in twenty sixteen
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: AFC Championship game. So what's the takeaway, Sam d The
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: team didn't need Sam Donald in a lot of these games.
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: They didn't need him in Super Bowl. And I'll admit
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: I've watched the tape and I thought he was an
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: okay in the Super Bowl. After watching the tape, I thought, man,
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: I'm not even sure if it was okay. He didn't
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: have a great game in the Super Bowl. But he
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: didn't turn the ball over. And what he did he
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: earned that big fat ring by what he did against
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: the Rams, because that's when the team they had no answers,
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: and that that special football team and how the running
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: game came on and what the defense did. Nope, they
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: couldn't do it against the Rams. And it was Sam
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: Donald who had to win that game. And obviously you
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: don't win that game, you don't win the Super Bowl.
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: So so so, even though everybody will will think about
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: the Patriots, Uh, Sam Donald will wear that ring, or
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: he won't wear it because that's not his nature, but
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: he'll he'll put that somewhere in the house and else,
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: you know, on display somewhere, and and he earned it
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: against the Rams.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: In my opinion, you better find a sturdy shelf. That
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: thing is enormous.
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, fortify that sail bro exactly.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: But are you tracking with Yeah? For sure, for sure.
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: Uh. You know, I'm putting some numbers to something that
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: we already kind of knew intuitively. But but when you really,
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: you know, you see like wow, Uh, that that was
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: that was something that team just had to jump on
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: his back and he and his back was strong.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah he delivered. Yeah. Hill mellanis with us our Seahawks
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: one Series one analyst breaking down one key Syhawk player
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: for one entire interview. It's Hugh Millan on Sam Donald,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: QB one on QB one here this morning on Chuck
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: and Buck KJR. All right, so let me ask you
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: about the weaknesses. What drove you crazy more the national
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: narrative that he hadn't won a big game all the
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: way up to the Super Bowl, or the local narrative
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: that he was turning the ball over way too much
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: and it was a problem.
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: Well, that's a great question. I think that both of
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: those are just in my opinion, we're ignorant of the facts.
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, if you look at at and I did.
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: I creeped on Sam Donald. I went back to his
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: days in high school. I mean, he put up forty
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: three points in a playoff game, but got a concussion
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: late and they lost the playoff game. I mean at
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: USC asked Penn State, if he can't win the big game,
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: you know when after a fifty one to forty eight
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: Rose Bull win by the Trojans, when he had five
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: touchdowns and over four hundred yards. I don't have the
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: stats right in front of me, or the Huskies in
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: Husky Stadium when the Huskies were I think fifth or
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: six in the country and he came in, dropped two
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: eighty on him and packed twelve championship game against Stanford,
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: I mean like three hundred and twenty six yards and
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: three touchdowns, Like like, at no point if you wanted
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: to make the argument that this dude is not clutch,
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: that's in his DNA, and you went hunting for the
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: stats to prove it, you just couldn't find it. And
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: and yet and even even for the Vikings, It's like,
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: wait a minute, how do you get to be fourteen
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: and three and not winning big games? How about last year?
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: Like going on the road to Jacksonville? Was that not
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: you know, at home against Houston, one of the best.
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: You know, arguably if there was a defense that was
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: better than the Seahawks, it was the Texans. The games
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: that he had. It's like Don James said it to
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: the the Seattle Times in nineteen that the big game
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: is always the one you lose. They never want to
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: give you credit for what you win. So I think
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: that that was no more evident. Don James's wisdom was
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: no more evident than in how people, in my opinion,
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: lazily assess Sam Darnold. And then and then to your
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: point about the turnovers. Now, I'm going to give you
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: this hard in in arguable numbers I've done the corel
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: in the last five season. I've done the correlation for
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: seasons twenty two, twenty five, last five seasons. And now
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: this is not one five year breakdown. This is five
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: one year breakdowns. And you look and you say the
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: correlation to winning. And remember, now, correlation. I don't want
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: to insult anybody's education here, but but you know, correlation.
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: We say, okay, as as one stat rises does the other.
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: For example, the more hours you spend studying for your final,
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: the higher grade you should get, they should both go up.
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: That would be a positive correlation. The more beers you
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: drink the night before final, then that should be a
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: negative correlation.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: More beers lower score.
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: Right, So we get all that, and and everything close
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: to zero is basically irrelevant. Like that's like saying did
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: you tie your left shoe first?
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: Or you're right? Or what color was the gator ray? Right?
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: So this is the five year breakdown on turnovers, all
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: the handwringing about the turnovers, the correlation in the NFL
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: to quarterback turnovers and winning. So you rut very easy
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: in a microsoftic cell. Just put winning in one column
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: and turnovers in the next, and then run the correlation numbers.
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: And here's the deal. It's point zero, one zero. Now,
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: nobody on earth can refute those numbers. The only thing
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: you could say is that maybe something else is more
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: important or what have you. But you have to have
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: an account an answer for that. That's just five years
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: that And by the way, if you notice the stat
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: guys noticed it was a positive correlation. One would expect
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: that winning would go up when interceptions go down. Actually,
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: even though it's basically zero and irrelevant, it's actually a
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: very incrementally positive correlation. So and so Sam Darnold, let
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: us led the league in a stat that has a
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: point zero. Imagine a baseball player who's batting ten. Okay,
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: now fast. Now go over to the other column that
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: is yards per drop back. What does that entail? That
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: means if you get sacked, that hurts your yard. That
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: hurts your yards per drop back. Because the drop if
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: you scramble, if you're Lamar Jackson, you scramble for fourteen yards,
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: you get the credit for yards per dropback. It's it's
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: pretty all encompassing. That has a point six seven five
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: correlation to winning yards were dropback. So we're gonna and
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: and who who where does Sam Donald rank in that stat?
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: Number one in the NFL. So we're gonna we're gonna
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: u uh get.
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: Our panties in a bunch, oh, because he's number one
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: in the NFL in a stat that is point zero ten.
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: Hey again, just think of a baseball player. One guy
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: hits ten, another guy hits six seventy five. I know
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: it's probably more like a slugging, but slugging goes beyond
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: one thousand, So I'll go back to uh uh or
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: on base percentage whatever.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: Let's say you're OVP when is ten in one six
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: seventy five, six seventy five?
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: So do you wanna do you wanna focus on a
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: guy's stat that has next to no correlation to winning
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: versus a correlation that that is at six seventy five
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: and and Sam Brown's number one in the NFL. So
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: so at an event, look like, I know that hurts
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: my quarter. Sold to sit here and tell you that
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: turnovers don't matter, like like it goes.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: It's like telling me to put my.
• 52:05
  Speaker 6: Hands over hot fire. Whoa, whoa, that's hot. Don't have
• 52:08
  Speaker 6: me rest my hands over fire. But like, like, seriously,
• 52:13
  Speaker 6: you're gonna text text line bring in the text. Somebody
• 52:17
  Speaker 6: account for that number.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: Five years. That's not a one off, that's the last
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: five years.
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: In the NFL, quarterback turnovers have a ten poor lation
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: of winning yardsborg dropback has a six to seventy five.
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: Somebody's gonna have to count for that. So at any event, Yeah,
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: both of them bothered me a lot. Both of them,
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: I think were ignorant of the facts. And I'm just
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: I'm just delighted for a dude in Sam Darnold that
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: was able to, you know, just wash all of that away.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: In our last couple of minutes. As we look forward
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: to twenty twenty six, I mean this was I mean,
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: I think he had his breakthrough season as a pro
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: with the Minnesota Vikings and still have the doubters now
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: that he's pretty much checked every single box that you
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: can check in a regular season and a postseason. I mean,
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: as Sam donald has, he got a lot more ceiling
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: to go. I mean, are we gonna look at a
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: better quarterback this upcoming fall?
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: Well, I think that if I were to run that
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: hypothesis through the sniff test, I would say it sounds
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: like this. Sam Donalds has never had a game where
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: prior to the game. He looked in the mirror and
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: he saw a Super Bowl champion. And he's never gotten
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: dressed in the locker room and he's getting his ankles
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: tape and everybody who he sees, all of his teammates,
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: they got their beats on. They're ready to go play ball.
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: And every time they look at Sam Darnald, who do
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: they see, they see a Super Bowl champion. That scenario
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: has never happened, and so I'm I'm just thrilled to see.
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: You know, what is the effect, because I think this
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: could be very liberating for him. You know, whatever monkey
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: he may have had off his back, you know it's off.
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: People can stop saying he can't win the big one.
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: He is beloved by his teammates. That's just his nature.
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: He was beloved at USC. They would say he's the
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: son of a three hundred pound plumber. Because of all
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: the glitz that you think of USC. He had these
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: middle class values and that's what he brings to Seattle.
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: Like he is beloved in that locker room, trust me.
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: And there's just he's just the nature of a really
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: good dude who has no ego, no prima donna in him.
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: So I think his leadership capacity, how he feels now,
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: He's always had the you know, the odd things. If
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: you say there's two attributes of his personality. One is
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: that he's just like super like humble, not not no
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: zero prima donna factor in him, and that's how he's
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: been striking his teammates for for years, but more than
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: a decade. But then he has this other Brett Favre
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: quality where he's just like he lets it rip and
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: he doesn't care about a mistake, like it's not gonna
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: get him down. Like the quality that allowed him in
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: that regular season game against the Rams on that Thursday night,
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: after he threw that intercept, that second interception, that brutal
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: one down in the north end zone. The quality that
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: allowed him to come back and forget that and make
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: some of the best throws that that corner route to
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: Cup on the sideline with a dude in his face,
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: Like he came back and gave you some of the
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: most brilliant quarterbacking we've seen from a Seattle quarterback ever
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: in that fourth quarter, that transformation. It's the personality in
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: him that is like, hey, you know, you know, I'm
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: just flushing that last mistake. Usually you don't see those
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: two attributes in a guy's personality together. But he hasn't
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: super great zero prima donn equality and the ability to
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: to not be bothered by by any pass mistake. So
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: I think it's it. You know, he's made that work
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: for himself now. He he was able to, you know,
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: down the stretch realize, hey, I got a great football
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: team around me. I don't need to force things. So
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: he modified his games a little a game a little bit.
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: As I said, the on side of the on set
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: of the segment. You know, that was all well and
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: good except for the rams and so so yeah, I
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: think I think he can do it now. In weeks
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: one through twelve he threw for two hundred and forty
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: four yards, and weeks thirteen through eighteen it was one
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: seventy seven. So so as the running game started to climb,
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: the passing numbers they dropped. So that that that's something
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: that you know, maybe on his mind, like, hey, let's
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: get back to some of those big plays that we
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: had for three quarters of the season.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: All right, man, phenomenal stuff. Thank you very much delivered.
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: Once again. We appreciate you and I love it I'm
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: ready for some more. Yep, yeah, all right, all right,
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: there he is, all right, Hammer Mallet our Seahawks one
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: series continuing with our QB one here today, Hugh Millen
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: on Sam Tarnold can't wait to recap that on tomorrow's
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: radio program. Coming up next though, Well, it's time for
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: Brunch Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ r F
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: M all the mark and I'll be the rebound.
• 57:36
  Speaker 4: That's over.
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: That's over, Nick fans, this is not a dream.
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: Your long long wait is ended. Go ahead and cry.
• 57:44
  Speaker 4: After fifty three years, the Knicks.
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: Are finally NBA champions once again. Mike Green on the
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: call ABC Saturday Night, the New York Knicks when the
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: NBA championship, first time in fifty three years. So there
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: you have it. Congratulations, I'm going to say congratulations. I
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: think that's a I think that's a terrific team. I
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: think I got a lot of likable guys on that roster.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: I like Mike Brown. I think he's a likable guy.
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: The fans are annoying, yeah, and certainly the celebrity fans
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: are very annoying, But nonetheless, I think that's a deserving champion.
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: They played the best. There's no question they only lost
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: three games throughout the entire playoff. They peaked at the
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: exact right time, which is what every coach at the
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: beginning of every year, regardless of the level, wants to
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: see their team do. Let's play. Let's have an entire
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: journey where at the end of the year you're better
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: than when we started this season, and if things really
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: go well, we're the best out there by the end
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: of the year. And that's what ended up happening. I mean,
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: this was supposed to be a year where the West dominated.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: Nobody was going to have a shot out of the East,
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: much less at three seed, and the Knicks no doubt
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: dominated the Eastern Conference playoff and then got to the
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: NBA Finals, And even though they came a long way
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: away from dominating the NBA Finals, they earned it. Yeah,
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: san Antonio gave them, i think, some games, but nonetheless
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: they were there to also take those to walk through
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: those doors that san Antonio was leaving a jar. And
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: so I want to just start before we get into
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: anything about the Spurs, just want to say congratulations to
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: the Knicks, well deserved. You are champions and nothing will
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: ever take that away.
• 59:42
  Speaker 4: No I would agree, and I think they did deserve it.
• 59:44
  Speaker 5: I think, you know, it was interesting to hear people
• 59:47
  Speaker 5: have the conversation about that the West Western Conference was
• 59:51
  Speaker 5: so much clearer, so clearly the stronger conference, and that
• 59:55
  Speaker 5: maybe the Western Conference finals really took it out of
• 59:58
  Speaker 5: the Spurs and that's why the Knicks were able to,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 5: you know, take advantage of the Spurs being tired. But
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 5: that wasn't the Spurs being tired because you're not going
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 5: up double digits and then.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: Well the younger team should be fresh.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly right, Yeah, that wasn't Yeah, that's an excuse.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 5: That was not the Spurs being tired because of the
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 5: Oklahoma City series.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: Well yeah, I do believe though that this was a
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: lot more about the Spurs giving this away than it
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: was the Knicks taking it. I don't think. I mean,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: I don't think the Knicks played their best basketball and
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: the NBA Finals certainly weren't playing as well as they
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: did during the Eastern Conference playoffs. Now, part of that
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: is the matchups and what the matchups with San Antonio
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: that's going to cause you not to play as well.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: That's what sports are all about, That's what the playoffs
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: are certainly all about is making your adjustments based upon
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: the matchups. And look New York and the fourth quarter.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: That's when they played their best basketball throughout the playoffs
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: when it mattered most, certainly in the NBA Finals, and
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: there was an element of, hey, if you're going to
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: give us this, we'll take it. And I get that's
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: why I give them credit. But the San Antonio Spurs
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: led for seventy five percent of this post of this
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: NBA Finals, seventy five percent of the time that the
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: games are being played, the Spurs were up. That's three
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: out of four quarters, every single game that the Spurs
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: were out in front. I think I heard this morning
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: that there was a ninety percent chance to win based
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: off of the statistical data in all four games that
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: the Spurs lost. At one point, the stats were saying,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: the stat cast was saying, the Spurs have a plus
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: ninety percent chance of winning this game, and yet they
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: ended up blowing all of them. And I really do
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: believe they blew all of them. And so I use
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: this analysis because I think it's just a ironclad fact
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: that I thought the Spurs when the playoffs started were
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: too young. That every team gets slapped down. Before you've
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: ben become great, you've got to learn how to lose.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: And I thought it's applied to everybody. It's applied to
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: the great Jordan, It's applied to Lebron, It's applied to
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: Larry Bird. It's applied to the bad boys of the
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: Detroit Pistons. It's applied to the Philadelphia seventy six ers
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: and Doctor j It's applied to pretty much everybody but
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: Magic Johnson and the Los Angeles Lakers. And then again,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: he kind of joined a complete team and then became
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: their best player instantly. So that was a little bit
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: of an outlier, but it has applied almost throughout history,
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: and so I didn't see the Spurs being able to
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: buck that. But I thought that was going to happen
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: against OKAC. Once they beat oka Se, I'm like, man,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: they are on paper, the more talented team with the
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: best player on each end of the floor, and so, man,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: they're going to do this, then Wemby's right, he's gonna
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: take a page out of Kobe Bryant. I don't have
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: to wait on anybody. I'm gonna win the NBA Championship
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: right aback. My first full great season I'm gonna win
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: the NBA title. I'm healthy. You know, there's no reason
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: to wait on it. And yet you started to see
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: the youth, the inexperience. I mean, I think they choked
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: away at least three of those games. Maybe I'll give
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: the Knicks credit for one. We're going to steal it
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: from you, out of the four, but there were at
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: least three of those that the Spurs lost because they
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: started to grip down the stretch. And in game number
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: four after blowing or lost number four, Game number five,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: after blowing that twenty nine point lead, I mean, you
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: could just see it in their faces. You could see
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: it in the way they were playing. The only one
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: that wanted to take a shot two games in a row,
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: two losses in a row was Daron Fox. And he
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: was the last guy you wanted to shoot because for
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: whatever reason, he couldn't hit the broadside of a barn.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: And so the Spurs, I believe, And I think the
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: word choke is way overused in sports talk radio. I
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: think more often than not, a team that loses a
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: lead late just got outplayed. But choke does apply when
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: you allow the pressure of the moment or past experiences
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: to remind you of failures that you've had, and your
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: play is directly affected by the mental or psychological inability
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: to finish off an opponent. And I think for sure
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: the last two losses the San Antonio Spurs were victims
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: of that. That's why, as much as I don't want
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: to take credit away from the New York Knicks, I
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: think this series had a lot more to do with
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: the Spurs being too inexperienced, too young, too immature to
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: to the moment and win a championship. So once again,
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: that old theory that you got to lose first and
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: you got to have your heart ripped out first before
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: you can learn how to win an NBA tournament, it
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: still applies. And the Spurs are no different than the
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: Michael Jordan Bulls or anybody else that's come along and
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: thought that they didn't have to wait. You gotta wait.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: And the only question that I now have of the
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: San Antonio Spurs is this was a loss like few others.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: This is like at least three choke jobs. Yeah, it's
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: gonna haunt them in the offseason. If it doesn't, they're
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: not great competitors. I just wonder the next time they're
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: in this next year if they're going to be able
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: to overcome it, because I promise you those ghosts are
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: gonna come back into their lives and remind them remember
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: when you were here the last time and what happened.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: We had to clean up the peddle around your shoes
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: because you wet yourselves on national television three out of
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: four games in the NBA Finals. So this is not
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: going to be that easy to overcome. I really don't
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: think it will be. But you're going to have to
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: just do a whole cleanse of this experience and trust
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: that next year, we've learned from that, We've grown from that,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: We've strengthened ourselves from it. Same thing with Mitch Johnson,
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: as lovable a character as he became here in Seattle,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: and I'm glad he finally got his due. He made
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: a lot of mistakes too. He seemed to be gripping
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: on the sidelines too, and he's got a lot to
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: learn about what it takes to get his team over
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: the top. Because that was something else to see. I mean,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: that was a pretty much a choke job like we've
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: never seen before in professional sports.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I would say, you know, in addition, to
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 5: the youth and the inexperience. I think there was a
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 5: factor of stubbornness involved in it as well, because after
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 5: the first time they blew the lead and lost, you'd
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 5: think they'd go back and say, Okay, well the Knicks
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 5: were able to do this to the Calves too, and
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 5: now they just did it to us. Maybe we need
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 5: to make some adjustments in the fourth quarter so that
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 5: we vent them from being able to come back. But
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 5: they never did. In all those games, they didn't make
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 5: any adjustments. They kept doing the same thing.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they were quick shots at quick threes.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, not letting time come off the clock.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: Last time come off the clock, I mean, and then
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: that last one they were feeling it. They were like,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: not again. You can just see it in their face.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: Not again. We can't do this again. And when you
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: start thinking that way, guess what happens. It's going to
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: happen to you again. You weren't working the ball inside.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: It was just I mean, they pretty much perfected how
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: to blow a double digit lead in the NBA Finals. Yeah,
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, they set a record like it cannot be broken.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: You lost four games, it's best out of seven, right,
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: You lost four games where you had a double digit lead.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: No one's ever going to do that again. No one's
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: ever going to beat it. They might match it, but
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: no one can ever beat your record of choking away
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: four double digitally in one NBA finals. And that's exactly
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: what the Spurs did.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and they had an opportunity to again make adjustments,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 5: come up with a different plan. Maybe it wouldn't have worked, right,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 5: but at least you're out there actively trying to change
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 5: things and change your fate.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 4: And it seemed like they were just.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 5: Stuck on the fact that, you know what, this is
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 5: going to work for us, We're going to be fine,
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 5: We'll just keep doing this, and I just it was
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 5: frustrating to watch.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: Well, I'll say this, it might be I mentioned this
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: earlier about the Carolina Hurricanes. Carolina winning the Stanley Cup
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: Finals might bode well for Seattle Sports. That might bode
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: well for the Kraken, because I think the Kraken were
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: built the way that Ron Francis laid the foundation for
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: that Carolina Hurricanes team. Now he's been gone for quite
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: a while, so whoever took over obviously built most of
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: that roster, but the foundation for how they were going
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: to win is the foundation that he laid here in
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: Seattle for how he wants to crack and to win,
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: and that might bode well for us. May mean we're
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: just a couple of gritty veterans away from maybe turning
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: this thing around. From a hockey standpoint, I mean the
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: from the NBA standpoint, and I'm assuming we're getting the
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: Sonics back. Sorry if you're not assuming that, but I'm
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: assuming that we are getting the Sonics back, and there's
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: gonna be a long uphill climb to It depends on
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: what the rules are for expansion, but every team in
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: the West is facing the same thing. Whether you're an
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: expansion franchise or you're the third best team in the West,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if you're the Denver Nuggets right now,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. You're facing the same dire future. And
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: that is Oklahoma City looked like a year ago they
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: were going to win ten straight NBA finals. Not only
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: were they good, but they were young, great cap situation.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: The future looked so bright. Who's going to not them off?
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, the San Antonio Spurs decided, no,
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: we're ready now. I got them in the third round.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: Of our Green Jacket draft at the beginning of the year.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: So that shows you that they weren't top of mind
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: of people thinking they were going to be a sixty
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: win team this year, but they were ready to do
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: that now. And it turns out San Antonio is a
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: terrible matchup for the Oklahoma City Thunder. So now, all
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, if you were sitting there thinking Oklahoma
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: City looks like NBA's Superman, san Antonio suddenly looks like
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: NBA's Kryptonite. That man, this is already you already don't
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: match up well against us. What are you going to
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: do because you now have to adjust what you're going
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: to do to catch up with us, because we're going
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: to get older and wiser and probably better as long
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: as we stay healthy. So that's the challenge that faces
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City. But now all of a sudden, the New
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: York Knicks have taken Kryptonite, have taken Lex Luthor, and
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: they have planted in their brains. You guys are chokers.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: This might have been the break that the rest of
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: the Western Conference needed. Now I still think Oklahoma City
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: and San Antonio, unfortunately, are going to dominate the next
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: decade of Western Conference Basketball in the NBA. But a
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: year ago we didn't think the Oklahoma City Thunder had
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: a flaw, and now they do. They have an achilles heel.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: It's called Victor Weinbinyama. And now we went into this
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: playoffs thinking that, man, if San Antonio gets by Oklahoma City,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: who's going to stop them? And then the next ten
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: years they're going to get better. Right, They're so young,
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: they're so inexperienced, their coach, their best player, the supporting cast.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: They look invincible. If they can beat Thunder already, how
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: invincible are they going to be? And now all of
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: a sudden, maybe New York has exposed something about them,
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: because I just don't think this is going to be
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: something they overcome easily. I think that it creeps back
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: into their thoughts the next time they're in position to
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: win a big series, probably won't happen until the Western
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: Conference finals. But you have now placed doubt and a
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: very young confident. We're the top of the world. We
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: don't need to wait until we're older. We don't need
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: experienced group. You've suddenly introduced something called doubt, and maybe
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: it won't show up next year, But that's what they
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: were thinking after they blew one game and then it
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: turned into two games, and then it turned into blowing
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: a twenty nine point lead, and then it turned into
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: being eliminated from the playoffs with that same oh my gosh,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: we're doing it again look in their eyes. So now
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: suddenly the whole rest of the Western Conference can say, well,
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: they're not invincible. We know that, and so maybe two
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: teams that look like they're getting ready to dominate the
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: next decade of NBA basketball, we now know what their
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: achilles heel is, what their weakness is, what their kryptonite is,
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: and it's something that the rest of the West can
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: use to their advantage.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I would think so, and I definitely was cheering
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 5: for the Spurs, but they did their job by knocking
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 5: off Oklahoma City. It was a fantastic series, and I mean,
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 5: it is going to be fun to watch these two
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 5: teams go back and forth, and you know, have the
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 5: rooting interest in watching Oklahoma City lose year after year.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 5: But I feel like it's in a much We're in
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 5: a much better place as Seattle fans. Yeah, for sure,
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 5: looking back at how I mean this time last year
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 5: when when they won their first one when Oklahoma City
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 5: won and I just remember thinking, oh, I do not
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 5: want to watch this over and over and over, and
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 5: that's what it felt like. So I'm happy to know
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 5: that at least we're going to have a battle in
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 5: the West.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean that was just that. That's why all
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: of Seattle got behind it, because there's not just not
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: just Mitch Johnson, but it's like, oh, you're the you
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: were an angel sent for from the heavens to keep
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: the Oklahoma City Thunder from being a dynasty. And then
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, everybody else in the West is like, yeah,
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: but now how do we beat the Spurs? And suddenly,
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: you know, Wimby will prick and he will bleed, as
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: it turns out, And I would say one other thing
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: about this, I think Victor wmbin Yama is on the
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: verge of possibly becoming Look, they're a fun team to watch.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: I like them. I love Mitch Johnson, I love his approach,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: I love Castle. Harper's going to be a star. I
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: even like Fox, even though he played terribly. I've always
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: liked him. I liked him going all the way back
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: to Kentucky, and Wemby is just as fun of basketball
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: players we've ever watched, and who knows what he's capable of,
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: But that guy's already got a crust on him. That
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: guy all ready has had it up to hear and
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. I guess it's the media,
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: and I understand that they We can be annoying, but
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: you can't let that bother you. If I'm Mitch Johnson
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: and Greg Popovich and the San Antonio Spurs, I am
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: getting on that right now. I'm sitting him down in
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: a room. I'm gonna make him watch Michael Jordan press
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: conferences because no one's ever done them better. And I'm
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: gonna say, you want to be that guy. You're gonna
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: start handling some of this stuff that's part of your job,
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: even though you don't like it. You're to start handling
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: it better. And I realized that you're from France and
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: that you spent your entire life kind of looking down
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: your nose in Americans and some of the ways that
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: they conduct themselves. But you're taking a paycheck from the
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: San Antonio Spurs of San Antonio, Texas, USA. You chose
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: to be here and be a part of this because
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: this is the biggest stage for a basketball player. And
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: if you are already through one playoff experience being nasty,
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: with the media, being short, with the media, throwing tiny
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: little tantrums, walking away from one of the most respected
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: court side reporters, Lisa Saulters in the entire business, if
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: you're already struggling with this young man, we are expecting
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: to ride you through about fifteen of these playoffs. We
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: need you. And if you're gonna let that trivial little
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: stuff get in the way of your focus, we don't
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: want you to become a villain. We don't want you
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: to become a heel.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 4: No, And that's the headlines you're seen.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: That's what you're seeing. He's being disrespectful, he's being nasty,
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: and you know, not to the degree we've seen other people.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: It's subtle stuff. It's not vicious. It's nothing terrible. I mean,
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: for gonna say, he had an egg thrown at him
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: by a fan base, and so you would understand why
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: he's a little guarded right now. But I'm getting on
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: top of this project right away, and I'm going to
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: bring in Michael Jordan, I got David Robinson and Tim Duncan.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: There I got Tony Parker there. Those guys are champions
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: that have known how to act as champions, conduct themselves
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: as champions, and not let that little stuff get under
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: their skin. So whatever it takes, I don't want Wendy
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: to go down a wrong path. I want him to
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: be beloved in this country and I want to love
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: him and I want to enjoy him for the next
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: ten to fifteen years of his career. However, at long
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: in my last but I saw some really troubling signs
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: in these posts in this postseason that at age twenty two,
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: he seems to already be fed up, disrespectful, and very
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: close to being nasty to people who are just trying
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: to do their.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 4: Jobs and not to mention.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, if you're doing this this early on in your career,
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 5: I hate to tell you, but teams are going to
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 5: figure out the little things they can do to annoy
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 5: you and to piss you off.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 4: We've seen it with the elbows. I mean, we've seen
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 4: this two times where he came, I'm just talking about
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 4: all stuff.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 5: You're right, but yeah, we've seen it a couple of
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 5: times where he's almost been ejected or almost been suspended.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 5: Could have true bend suspended. Yeah, and so you've got that.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 5: Teams are figuring that out. Now you're pairing that with
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 5: what you're doing in the postgame things. And I mean sorry,
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 5: you get paid far too much.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: That's part of your job, and the media is the
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: reason why you get paid. Yeah that much.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 5: So just handle that part of your job like an adult,
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 5: because you might only be twenty two years old, but
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 5: you are an adult.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: Right, And so yeah, you want them to act a
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: certain way and behave a certain way toward you, Then
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: you behaving like an infant when you're the one that
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: has all of the privileges and all of the money
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: and all of the fame and all of the glory,
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: acting like an infant because you don't like a way
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: a question is asked. Like I said, if I'm Mitch Johnson,
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: Greg Popovich, the San Antonio Spurs, I'm not gonna let
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: this thing get out of them, right man. I'm gonna
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: get my arms around it. I'm gonna have some courses.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring in some legends. I'll bring in Michael
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: Jordan because he is the best postgame press conference interviewer ever.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna and he's gonna watch interviews and find
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: out how it's done. That's what I'm because he's smart
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: enough to not be that. He's a brilliantly smart young
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: man and he does not need to behave that way.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: I don't want to see him turn into a heel.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: I don't want to see him turn into a villain.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: And I don't want to see him, can you know,
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: progressively getting agitated with America and Americans. I don't want
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: to watch it. Yeah, And so they've got an opportunity
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: to nip that in the bud as the as the
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: saying goes, and I'd get on it tomorrow absolutely. Man,
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: Maybe not tomorrow. Let him have a vacation, cool off
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: a little bit, but the moment he comes back to
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: San Antonio, we're gonna sit down and have a talk. Yes,
• 1:19:48
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• 1:20:12
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• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: for X rays, and apparently plenty of those were being
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: conducted over the course of the last week. The injuries
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: mounting for this baseball team, and maybe they didn't go
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: as far as taking X rays this weekend, but my goodness,
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: between Josh Naylor never really looking comfortable with that wrist
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: and now he's fouled a ball off of his shin,
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: Andres Munos for the second time this season, has come
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: into a game and then taken himself out of the game,
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: this time apparently with some sort of tightness in his back.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: Randy or Rose Arena hitting the bag hard on Saturday,
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: coupled with Cal and JP already being out, Yeah, the
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: injuries are starting to mount. Brenda Donovan being out with
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: no update on him, so, yeah, exactly. So, I mean,
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: I think it would take a lot, I honestly do.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: I think it would take a lot of injuries and
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: a lot of in order to not win the American
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: League West for that to be the reason not to
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: win the American League West. I'm not even going to
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: use it as a reason. Now we're not leading the
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: American League West by ten games because we're just not
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: playing good baseball.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it has nothing to do with injuries, but certainly
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: the injuries don't help, and to have suddenly have a
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 2: rash of them right now when we're really struggling to
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: find any kind of consistent offensive or defensive baseball, it
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 2: is troubling.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh absolutely, And yeah.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 5: I shouldn't have said it has nothing to do with injuries,
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 5: because obviously, yes, it makes things more difficult, but it's
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 5: not like we were playing great baseball before some of
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 5: these people have gone out with injuries. So I do
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 5: think the one that when I look at who would
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 5: hurt the most, Randy Roseraina is bat not having him
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 5: in there because he's just been so consistent.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's probably Yeah, he's probably in the most consistent
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: hitter that we've had, no doubt about it. So it
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: sounds like that we've got good news that Cal and
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: JP are definitely going to be back Tuesday night to
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: start the homestand and it sounds like Randy could be
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: back on Tuesday. I don't know what's going on with
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: Josh Naylor. I don't know if that wrist is what's
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: causing him to play terrible defense. But even the Emerson
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: error yesterday on the pickoff that was on Josh, you
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: got to catch that ball. I mean they gave the
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: error to Handcoff. Yeah, but he's almost playing the position
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: with like a nonchalance about him. But maybe I feel
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: better about it if I find out it's an injury.
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 5: Right and then, But then at the same time, I'd
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 5: be annoyed because clearly he's not able to recover in
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 5: the being in the lineup all the time, So they
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 5: should have allowed him, sent him to the ile. Maybe
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 5: he doesn't want to go, but send him to the
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 5: eel because that's what we're hoping this when Cal gets back, Right,
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 5: he had that nagging oblique injury. It wasn't helping, wasn't helping.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 5: Send him to the eye Ale and let him actually
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 5: get healthy.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: Well, uh, well, we'll see what happens. I mean, I
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: can appreciate him gutting it out. Oh yeah, you know,
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: I really can, But I don't know if it's helping
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: us play. I'll say that much. Fine. Not. Finally, we
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: got two more letters to get to. Why is for Young?
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: Cole Young just continues to impress. I know he didn't
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: really sting the baseball this weekend. But man, he just
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: continues to play like a Gold Glove caliber second base.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: And here's the strange thing about it is, as well
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: as Young as played, and as much as we've been
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: impressed and as excited as we are about a future
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: with him and Emerson up the middle, that future could
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: be now in terms of accolades, now that the All
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: Star ballots are out, I don't know if you've anybody's
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: taken the time to fill one out. And I always
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: fill it out based on who deserves it. I've done
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: that since I was a kid, and I don't I
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: don't pick my favorite players. I pick the guys having
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: the best season. Well, strangely, you get to the American
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: League second baseman and it might be Cole Young. Like
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: it hasn't been a real banner year for American League
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: second baseman right now. I mean, there's a strong argument
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: to be made for Cole Young is the most deserving
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: second baseman to be the starter for the American League
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: in the entire league. Yeah, okay, Like Travis Bzana is
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: a rookie for the Cleveland Guardians, and I think I
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: saw a ballot from somebody I respect that had Travis
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: Bozana on it the other day. He's played like thirty
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: games so far this year. He's been impressive in the
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: thirty games. But there's no way I'm putting him ahead
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: of Cole Young, even though Cole doesn't have this gaudy
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: batting average or home run total and he doesn't steal bases.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: Just the solid, consistent play from him and then the
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: great defense from him, Cole Young probably deserves right now
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: to be the starting second baseman in the All Star.
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 5: Game, which is crazy. We would not have anticipated that
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 5: when the season.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 4: He's not had that.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: Kind of a year. No, he's not one of those like,
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: oh that's an All Star. Yeah, I think he's going
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: to be that type of player, but I don't think
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: he's had that type of a year, and yet he
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: might find his way in the game. Good for him, Yeah,
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: good for him, exactly good for him. There's certainly been
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: a lot of a lot worse players that made the
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: All Star Team than than Cole Young has.
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: Finally, zis for zone dom can zone seems to be
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: in that zone now and I don't know exactly what
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: to do with this lefty righty thing. Even yesterday you
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: knew that they were going to go with an opener.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: Why are we so committed to Colt Emerson hitting ninth?
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: Why are we so committed to that?
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah? Yes, we were reading that conversation the other day
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 5: at home.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: Why are why is he hitting ninth every game when
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: right now he looks like he's your best player?
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: I get it. The splits righty left whatever. You were
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: getting ready to face a righty not a lefty yesterday,
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: and yet Emerson plays against lefties and Rallian Canzone. Don't
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: I loved having Rallian Canzone in the lineup. I would
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: expect that that much out of my manager to have
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: that anticipation skills to know, well, they're gonna throw a
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: ridy for most of the game, so let's keep Rallian Canzone.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: But it's as if you expected to go down one, two,
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: three in the order in the first I would have
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: hit Colt Emerson fourth yesterday. Not only would I not
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: ever hit him ninth, the way that the team currently
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: is banged up, I would not hit him nine. Maybe
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: it changes with JP and Kyl coming back, maybe ninth
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: is the spot for him, But on a day where
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: you know they're starting a lefty, he's only going to
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: pitch one inning. Why would you put in the cleanup
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: spot a guy that you usually take out of the
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: lineup against the lefty. So we start this rally in
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: the first inning, and then we pretty much have to
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: abandon it because we've got our two lefties that we
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: usually take out of the game against left put him
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: in the lineup, but hit him like, yeah, fifth and seventh.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so that your chances of them coming up in
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 5: the first inning when that diminisher.
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so if you got Emerson hitting fourth, maybe we
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: get to put together an inning here, right, I mean
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: he did have did just happen to hit home runs
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: on back to back days for goodness sake? So I
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: don't know, it just seems like there's this Nope, he's
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: twenty and he will hit ninth. He will, he will
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: earn his way up into the lineup. Right, he's already
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: hit six home runs when he's basically hitting better than
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: anyone else in the lineup. Why do we not want
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: him coming to the plate, That's.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 4: A great question.
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: And when he does come to the plate, he's got
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: seven and eight Master Bony and Parada or Garver hitting
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: in front of him. I mean, come on, I mean,
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: we're past this, right, We're past this in the modern day,
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: I would think, so, you know, we can. We want
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: to put the best guys out on the field. We
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: don't want to play these silly little he's not ready
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: for that games or he's got to earn that kind
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: of games that we're playing.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a thing I feel like they're doing.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 5: But no, I mean, when Miles master Boney came back,
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 5: I didn't understand why he didn't go to the back
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 5: of the lineup.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: He should hit ninth. He's a ninth place hitter. Cole
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: Emerson is not a ninth place hitter at this point.
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: I got it when he first came up, and I
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: get not wanting him to be in the heart of
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: the order on a daily basis, but to hit him
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: ninth every night, just automatically when we've got three or
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: four guys banged up and we're going to face an
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: opener and then we know we're going to face a
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: righty for the rest of the game, and then Dom canzone.
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: I trust a lot more than Luke Rayley and the situation,
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: and he seems I mean, he's trying to earn a
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: way to play every single day. Yeah, I don't know
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: why he wouldn't be ahead of Raleigh in the order
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: when the other team is starting. I would agree a
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: lefty opener, all right? Coming up next, one last Thing
• 1:29:15
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