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Ian Furness 10/20 H1: A message for the NBA, the Niners win again and we've hit a nerve... · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: Headlines are brought to you by Frostbrood Coors Light Shoes Chill.
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  Speaker 2: You made me panic. I was like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 2: is this microphone not working?
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to see. I used to do that
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  Speaker 1: to Jess, and I wanted to see how you handled
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  Speaker 1: it compared to her.
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  Speaker 2: How did I do? My eyes got wide like saucers.
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  Speaker 1: Not as much panic as she would have. Because then
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  Speaker 1: she would also get mad afterwards.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Kraken return home to CPA tonight. 3-1-1 road trip. Hosting Datois,
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  Speaker 1: Red Wings. Puck drop at 640. Pre-game at 6 o'clock
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  Speaker 1: right here. 93.3 KGFM. I see the captain. He's already
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  Speaker 1: wandering around here. Network Central is on tap. Game's also on. KHN.
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  Speaker 1: Kong TV tonight. Amazon Prime. Take a listen. It came
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  Speaker 1: down to the wire.
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  Speaker 3: 49.
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  Speaker 1: God, I didn't want to read this.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: It was 20-3 in the second half.
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  Speaker 2: I know, but I did warn you.
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  Speaker 1: I almost texted you and said, we got this in
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  Speaker 1: the bag. Fiction. 49ers win. Don't cover. Fiction. Scary Terry
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  Speaker 1: carried off the field. Blah, blah, blah. Mike Evans also hurt.
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  Speaker 1: We'll find out more from London at 2 o'clock when
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  Speaker 1: we have him on. Zach Charbonnet expected to have his
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  Speaker 1: first full week of practice since his injury. Anthony Bradford
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  Speaker 1: designated return. Both could be playing on Sunday night football against...
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  Speaker 1: It's some team from the Midwest.
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  Speaker 2: I never heard of them.
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Rays, head of the World Series. 7-3 win
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  Speaker 1: over Cleveland yesterday. Game one between the Rays and Brewers.
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  Speaker 1: Friday at 5 in Milwaukee. Got Cleveland in late October.
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  Speaker 1: That'll be fun weather.
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  Speaker 2: No, it won't be in Cleveland.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, what am I thinking? Milwaukee. Oh, God, they're both
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  Speaker 1: covered stadiums. Oh, yeah, good call.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder how that worked out. Hmm.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm. Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: NBA season starts today as well. Let's go. And he's
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  Speaker 1: mid-40s now. Good dude. Love the guy to death. One
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  Speaker 1: of the cool success stories of what college football and
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  Speaker 1: college athletics should be came from a very meager background.
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  Speaker 1: Went to Liberty High School. Had a great mentor in
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  Speaker 1: Steve Vallick. Found his way to Pullman. Ended up having
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  Speaker 1: a child in college with his now still wife, and
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  Speaker 1: found a way to become not just the sack king
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  Speaker 1: in the Pac-10 for a year or two, I guess. Also,
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  Speaker 1: cup of coffee in the NFL, but more importantly, got
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  Speaker 1: his education and is an incredible, incredible businessman. Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: He is a hustler.
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  Speaker 1: And he works his ass off. But he's what college
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  Speaker 1: sports should be about. We don't have that anymore. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how many of those guys we'll have left.
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  Speaker 1: But I bring that up on a side note because
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  Speaker 1: sometimes he's just a knucklehead. And him and I were
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  Speaker 1: arguing on Saturday night. We'll argue some more coming up
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  Speaker 1: at 1 o'clock today. Here's the thing that I've learned
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  Speaker 1: with those guys. Alex will never criticize the quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And MK will never criticize the defense.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds about right.
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  Speaker 1: And the funny thing is, MK will be the first
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  Speaker 1: to say, Alex, you never criticize the quarterback. Okay? But
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  Speaker 1: you never criticize the defense. Right.
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Like, fella, it's got to go both ways.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, both of you need to start criticizing the defense.
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  Speaker 1: My kid will never criticize offensive line, but he'll just
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  Speaker 1: torch every defensive lineman ever. So I get football is
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  Speaker 1: a very loyal sport to the position group you are
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  Speaker 1: involved with, the side of the ball you're on. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to get into– Seattle's got a Ken Walker problem.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get into that a little bit later.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, great.
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  Speaker 1: Can't wait. They've got a massive Ken Walker problem here.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to that. Man. Anyway, we'll touch in on
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  Speaker 1: some World Series thought as well. Everyone's all revved up.
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  Speaker 1: Payroll this. Payroll that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, gosh.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I know. It is a funny debate because
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  Speaker 1: we're going to go down this road with the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get into this deeper later. It's going to be
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  Speaker 1: very low rated as far as the national TV numbers
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  Speaker 1: are concerned.
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  Speaker 2: Probably, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be probably the lowest ever. Milwaukee, small market. Tampa Bay,
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  Speaker 1: nobody cares. It's just... But that's the reality of all sports.
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  Speaker 1: Outside of the Super Bowl, like the Super Bowl kind
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  Speaker 1: of is bulletproof in terms of ratings. But like NBA Finals,
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  Speaker 1: NHL Stanley Cup Finals, and MLB Playoffs and World Series,
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  Speaker 1: they're all market dependent on what your numbers are. And remember,
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  Speaker 1: those matter because that's what you sell your ads for
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  Speaker 1: the next year. And that's what you also negotiate your
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  Speaker 1: broadcast deals with, all those things. Oh, and by the way,
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  Speaker 1: baseball's headed for a lockout.
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  Speaker 2: So add that to the fun.
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  Speaker 1: Add that to the fun. We'll get to that later.
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  Speaker 1: and how it relates to our team here, the Los Marineros.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to get to something in a second. We
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  Speaker 1: did this for a while, got away from it. I
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  Speaker 1: think probably got away with it when I was doing
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  Speaker 1: a two-hour show. I don't know if you noticed, Ashley,
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  Speaker 1: this show got extended from two hours to three hours.
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  Speaker 2: I saw that.
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  Speaker 1: Then it went back to two hours for about eight months.
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  Speaker 1: Then it's back to three hours again. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I have noticed. I noticed the changes.
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  Speaker 1: Let me check my W-2. Yeah, it doesn't seem to matter.
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  Speaker 1: But what does matter in terms of the show being
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  Speaker 1: two or three hours, we just don't have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of time in the fall. Two hours, I'll be honest
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  Speaker 1: with you, last fall, two hours was too short.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I can imagine.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same group of people I have on. So
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  Speaker 1: you know how jammed we are in the fall with
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  Speaker 1: football with guests. And we have great guests. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to get rid of those guys. I love
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  Speaker 1: all those dudes. So we're going to have them all on.
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  Speaker 1: But we just didn't have a lot of time for
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  Speaker 1: other stuff. Sports talk per se. Three hours we do.
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  Speaker 1: When we did do three hours years ago, I used
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  Speaker 1: to do a thing called the opening statement. Kind of
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  Speaker 1: just pontificated a little bit. But more than anything, what
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  Speaker 1: it is, it gives you an opportunity to react a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more. 49451. on the Tacoma Dodge text line,
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  Speaker 1: also talkbacks as well. We have good talkbacks on this show.
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  Speaker 1: We really do. You know, I do miss Furious Feltz.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't had him for a while. I miss Furious Feltz.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we had Furious Fantasy Feltz, right?
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  Speaker 1: Furious Fantasy Feltz. We had him, but I need more Feltz.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: We need more Feltz in our world.
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  Speaker 2: I agree. I say that to myself all the time.
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  Speaker 1: For some, I've never said it out loud. Anyway, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to get to that in just a couple seconds
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  Speaker 1: because I've got something to say. I just want to
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  Speaker 1: get off my chest a little bit, and you guys
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  Speaker 1: can react to that at 49451 or on the Tacoma
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  Speaker 1: Dodge text line. Let's see. What else? Hockey. We'll do
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  Speaker 1: a daily power play at 145. I don't know. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: I'll just drag the captain in here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Why not? Make him work. He's just sitting there
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  Speaker 2: doing nothing.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm preparing for Network Central. We're outside of Section
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  Speaker 1: 2 Climate Pledge Arena. Come see me at the Coors
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  Speaker 1: Light set up.
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  Speaker 2: Coors Light. Choose chill.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever seen him in his element? Yes. It's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's great. I feel weird because I just go and
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  Speaker 1: do the same job that we're doing on the Kraken
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  Speaker 1: Hockey Network, or tonight I'm doing the play-by-play. But it's like,
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  Speaker 1: I just, I feel like, Mikey, man, I need to
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  Speaker 1: find a way to bottle his energy. I don't have
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  Speaker 1: that energy.
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  Speaker 2: It could power a city.
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  Speaker 1: Damn right, it could power a city. He's so good
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  Speaker 1: at what he does. It's funny because even preparing for
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  Speaker 1: the games I'm doing this year, I prepare differently than
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing if I'm hosting. One of the things you
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  Speaker 1: do is you watch a lot of other games. You
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  Speaker 1: listen to podcasts of pre-games and post-games and stuff on
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  Speaker 1: the radio, like his side. Nobody does it as good
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  Speaker 1: as this guy. We bust his chops all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody does it as good as Mikey.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and if he wasn't good, we wouldn't bust
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  Speaker 2: his chops.
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  Speaker 1: No, if he was just like, oh, God.
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  Speaker 2: It'd be like, oh, God, don't talk about the pregame guy.
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  Speaker 1: No, but Network Central, he is, and you're right, I
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  Speaker 1: think you could power a city with the dudes, especially
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  Speaker 1: on a game day energy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. That's actually more of a reason. I wanted
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  Speaker 2: the Kraken to go to the playoffs already.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: But him, playoff bento?
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  Speaker 1: Playoff bento.
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  Speaker 2: Try to box that. Try to put that man in
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  Speaker 2: a box. You can't.
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  Speaker 1: You can't.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. For the first time with you, Ash,
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  Speaker 1: for some in a while. Let's get to it. Opening statement.
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  Speaker 3: Is the government prepared to make an opening statement?
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  Speaker 1: The facts of the case are these. The opening statement.
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  Speaker 1: These are the facts of the case.
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  Speaker 4: And they are on dispute.
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  Speaker 1: Text your thoughts on this opening statement to 49451. You
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  Speaker 1: want answers? I think I'm entitled. You want answers! I
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  Speaker 1: want the truth!
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  Speaker 3: You can't handle the truth! Now, ask counsel to check
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  Speaker 3: his sense of humor at the door.
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  Speaker 1: Today's opening statement. I'm going to give you a number,
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  Speaker 1: Ashley Ryan, and I want you to tell me if
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  Speaker 1: it means anything at all to you.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: 6,684. Not a thing. Nothing?
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  Speaker 2: Nope.
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  Speaker 1: Not at all, huh?
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't spark a single thought in my brain.
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  Speaker 1: How about this? 18 years, 3 months, 18 days.
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  Speaker 3: Oh. Is that how long the Sonics have been gone?
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  Speaker 1: July 2nd, 2008. We lost our NBA franchise. Today is
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  Speaker 1: the 20th of October, 2026. Today is the opening day
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  Speaker 1: of the NBA season, the 18th NBA season, without a
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  Speaker 1: team that had been in the league for 41 years,
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  Speaker 1: more importantly, a city and a community that supported the
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  Speaker 1: NBA for 41 years. We are, by all indications, on
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  Speaker 1: the verge of being an NBA city again. Getting there
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  Speaker 1: not only has taken a long time, 6,684 days, 18 years,
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  Speaker 1: 3 months, 18 days, or 219 months, 18 days, depending
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  Speaker 1: on how you want to look at it. It's a
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  Speaker 1: long damn time to be without the NBA. What has
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  Speaker 1: happened in that time frame? Well, a lot. 12 different
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  Speaker 1: NBA champions, 10 different NBA MVPs during that period of time.
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  Speaker 1: None of them had Seattle Supersonics next to their name.
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  Speaker 1: As we get closer, perhaps, to being awarded a franchise
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  Speaker 1: back in this city, which is one of the great
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  Speaker 1: basketball cities in our country. And I think that needs
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  Speaker 1: to be pointed out. I've been fortunate enough, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: in a sense to To be able to work in
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  Speaker 1: a couple of different markets, both NBA cities, Salt Lake
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  Speaker 1: City and Portland. Both incredible NBA cities where the team
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  Speaker 1: means to them what the Seahawks mean to us. So
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  Speaker 1: just imagine that bond. Yeah. Kind of unconditional love. But
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  Speaker 1: the basketball in those communities, not at the same level
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  Speaker 1: as the basketball in our community here. AAU gets trashed
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: all the time. By people that frankly have no idea
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  Speaker 1: what AU basketball is, they think it's just basically Nike
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  Speaker 1: supporting a team of a bunch of guys that come
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  Speaker 1: together and get paid and act like fools and yell
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  Speaker 1: at referees and fight. That's not it.
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  Speaker 2: They just hear all the horror stories.
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  Speaker 1: Which you can hear in and see in softball.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Youth football. Soccer.
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  Speaker 2: All over youth sports.
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  Speaker 1: Lacrosse, et cetera. But having been involved in the basketball
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  Speaker 1: scene for, what was he, probably eight or nine years.
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  Speaker 1: And seeing some of the great players come through here.
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  Speaker 1: I joke about Seattle Rotary all the time. But, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if you're a dude and you're in Seattle, you play
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  Speaker 1: for Rotary. And you play at a high level. And
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  Speaker 1: you play with passion. You play because you love the game.
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: You go down to MLK Way, Boys and Girls Club
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  Speaker 1: on MLK Way, any weekend, any weekend. Walk into that place.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's three courts that they have there. And
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  Speaker 1: you see hoops. High-end hoops. Kids playing hoops, boys and
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  Speaker 1: girls playing hoops with passion. You go watch a Metro
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  Speaker 1: League basketball game in our city. You go watch a
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  Speaker 1: Kingco basketball game in our city. SPSL, doesn't matter. NPSL,
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  Speaker 1: all these. Schools that aren't good in any other sport
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  Speaker 1: are damn good in basketball. I mean, this Kent school
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  Speaker 1: seemed to kind of move through it. Some years Kent
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  Speaker 1: Ridge might be good. Some years Kentwood might be good.
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  Speaker 1: Never is Kent Meridian good. Sorry. But you get my point.
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  Speaker 1: Basketball means something here. It's an important part of the
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  Speaker 1: fabric of our life. But 6,684 days have passed, and
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  Speaker 1: I can officially say, as the NBA tips off tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Today, now.
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  Speaker 1: Today, right now. Yeah, as the game's on, I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: I do not care at all. And I'm not someone
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  Speaker 1: that immediately hated the NBA.
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  Speaker 2: Hell, no.
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  Speaker 1: A year after they left, I ended up getting a
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  Speaker 1: job done back in Portland and having to commute hosting
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  Speaker 1: Blazers pre and post game on TV. I grew up
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  Speaker 1: loving the NBA. I grew up loving the Sonics specifically.
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  Speaker 1: But we've gone 6,684 days without the NBA. And while
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  Speaker 1: they tip it off tonight and ESPN will celebrate and
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: Chuck and Shaq and Ernie and Kenny will do their thing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not watching. Just done. I'm not boycotting it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not refusing to talk like we joke around with the Mariners.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying I'm not ever going to Starbucks like
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  Speaker 1: my man Softy does. No, it's just a quiet, like,
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  Speaker 1: let me know when they're back. And until they're back,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care. I say that, I'll probably end up
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  Speaker 1: going down to Salt Lake and watching a game with
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  Speaker 1: my son this year because it's something we try to do.
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  Speaker 1: He loves the league. I don't like the league anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like the players anymore. I don't like the
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  Speaker 1: attitude anymore. I don't like a league that punishes everybody
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  Speaker 1: except for the player, Kawhi Leonard. I don't like a
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  Speaker 1: league that has guys tapping out and getting paid anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Too many of you to mention by name. But I'll
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  Speaker 1: fall in love with it again when it comes back. Like,
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: when it comes back, I'll fall in love. And when
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: it comes back, Sonic's gear all the way around. Can't wait.
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  Speaker 1: But I can wait for our team to be back,
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  Speaker 1: to enjoy the NBA again. I'm not one celebrating it today.
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  Speaker 1: I just... You do you, NBA. You gave us the
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: middle finger. And this doesn't have to do, by the way,
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: with what happened last week and the comments made by
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  Speaker 1: Adam Silver to Brian Windhorst. And if you saw that story,
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: I think a lot much ado about nothing. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: it does come out later on that they are going
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: to actually try to hold our ownership group hostage or
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: try to force additional investors in so they can raise
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: the money that from what it's, and really, it's not
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: worth $ 7 billion, but that's what it'll be. It's worth
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: far less than that for an expansion franchise that, frankly,
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  Speaker 1: is going to have a hard time its first few
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  Speaker 1: years winning. I mean, the Vegas Golden Knights got the
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: Stanley Cup final right off the get-go. The Kraken went
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  Speaker 1: to the playoffs the second year. NBA ain't going to
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  Speaker 1: be like that. It's just not going to be like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be really, really hard. You might win
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  Speaker 1: the lottery. You might get a really good player, but
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: you're not getting two good players in the NBA. You
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: better have three. But the only thing that bothers me
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  Speaker 1: about that other stuff is Samantha Holloway, Melinda French-Gates, Annie Jassy,
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: the people involved with One Roof that have built a
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: building here, a state-of-the-art building that is NBA-ready. Don't let
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: anybody tell you differently. It is NBA-ready. They consulted with
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: the NBA the entire project starting in 2019. They were
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: in lockstep with the NBA from the start and have been.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: Anybody that writes or says different is A, erroneous, and B,
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: a fool. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Just probably doing it for clicks, honestly.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. To get you all riled up. That's a great,
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  Speaker 1: that will be, they designed it for the NBA and
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: the NHL and concerts.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Everything.
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  Speaker 2: They wanted it all.
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  Speaker 3: And if you think they didn't, then they, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they're not, they didn't get this wealthy being dumb.
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  Speaker 1: David Bonnerman knew what he was doing. Yeah. The late
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: David Bonnerman. But until then, I don't care. Chris in
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: the morning guys can talk about it. Dick in the
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: afternoon can talk about it. 6,684 days since they gave
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: us the middle finger. And make no mistake. Make no mistake.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: This was a cumulative effort. It wasn't just Howard. It
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: wasn't just Bennett. As much as anything, it was David Stern.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Because if you remember a couple years later, what happened?
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: We thought we could have the Sacramento Kings come here. Now,
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: we still had a building issue. Too deep to get into.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Chris Hansen's building probably never was going to get built. But...
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: David Stern stepped in and said, no, we're not moving
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: the Sacramento Kings. He very easily could have done that
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: with the Sonics, and he did not.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: And Adam Silver was sitting right next to him at
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: the right hand of the Father, Holy Spirit, and everybody else,
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: David Stern. He's right there. So he's as culpable as anybody.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Until Adam Silver makes it right, no to the NBA
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: for this guy. I'll take it one other step. I'll
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: go back to the money. You think your sticker shock
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: these days with some sports– $ 7 billion is going to
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: be sticker shock for the owners. It's going to be
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: sticker shock for you, the fans. You jack that thing
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: up to $ 10 billion, even with additional investors, it is
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: going to be really hard. That's why we're doing these
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: things every few days. We're trying to give away tickets,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: get people into the building that haven't been there before.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: I understand it's expensive to go to a game. You've
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: got a child. You know it. Three of you go out.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Four of you go out. It's expensive. Just a movie
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: is expensive. But the NBA gave us the middle finger.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: 6,600 days ago. It's too long. I've lost interest. Wake
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: me up when they come back. But until then, no
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: to the NBA. For this guy, your reaction, 49451. Also
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: on the talkbacks, red microphone, fire away your thoughts. That's
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: our opening statement for today.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Ashley.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, you want me to respond to it?
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: You're fucked.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't know if I was supposed to go
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: to break. No. Well, I will say, everything you're saying,
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I completely agree with.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: I saw the statement from last week or the comments
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: from last week, and I put out, like, this is, again,
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: why I repeatedly say the same thing. Until the NBA...
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: actually says, okay, you have a franchise. I am not
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: getting excited. I am not putting any interest in the NBA.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: And I've gotten a lot of people that have asked me,
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: what makes you even want the NBA back in the
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: first place? And it's had me thinking, I was like,
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: I guess I don't know, other than I want them
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: to right the wrong.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: We never should have lost them in the first place.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: That's a great way to put it.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: And it just feels, it feels unjust. Until that we
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: get our team back, the whole thing feels unjust. And
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: I just want it to be corrected. And I don't
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: know how I'll feel about the NBA when they come back.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: I like to think I'll be excited, but yeah, I
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: feel burned.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: I'm upset. I have lost interest. I won't be an immediate,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: all right, let's go. I'm back. It'll take time.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: That's for sure. And I think that's going to be
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: the case. I'm curious what people are saying. I think
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: that's going to be the case for a lot of people.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are, listen, I always
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: joked about the NBA when they first left kind of
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: being sports porn. People would say they're not watching it.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: And then when I was working for the TV station,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: I could see people were watching some NBA finals. Not all,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: but when you had the great Golden State teams taking
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: on LeBron and Cleveland, people watched. They watched those games.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: But I think so much time has gone by. The
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: league has changed quite a bit.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: A lot.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: A lot. I don't know if you're ever going to
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: have the affinity. It'd be interesting to see if we
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: ever have that bond again. that we had with a
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: handful of the Sonics teams and a whole bunch of
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: the players. For old people, me, others, we'll always have
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: this just great feeling of love for the 79 team.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, I was young, but those were your first
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: sports heroes. I mean, for me, my first one was
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: probably Spencer Haywood. And then later on, the guys that
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: were on that team in 79 with Gus and DJ
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: and JJ and Freddie and Jack and et cetera, the
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: whole nine yards, Lenny, the late Lenny Wilkins. Obviously the
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: 96 team people just had a, and I don't know
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: if we can ever have that feeling again towards that
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: team because, you know, Gary and Sean were special. George
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: was special. Debt's still around. You know, that whole group,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: they were special. There was a bond, a connection in
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: the community. I don't know if we're ever going to
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: have that again with the NBA. Maybe we will, but
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: with that bond has to come success. And that success
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: is probably far down the road. Right. And then even today,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: today's NBA player, load management. Can you imagine Gary Payton saying,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: I'm taking a night? Yeah, we're playing Stockton in the
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Jazz tonight, but I'm taking the night off for load management. No.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to go lock down John Stockton. Those
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: guys couldn't fathom. I still hate Karl Malone for a
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: lot of reasons. Yeah. For a lot of reasons. That
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: dude didn't take a night off ever. No.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: And he got, I mean, he was, that guy worked
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: so hard. It was incredible.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: None of those guys.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all of them.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: I mean, just you talking about the legends, too, like
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Freddie and Slick Watts. I mean, that was like half
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: the fun in high school. So at my high school
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: was Fred Brown's kids.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: And at Lake Washington, it was Donald Watts.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: And so you would go and that was the matchup
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: to be at every time Mercer Island would play Lake Washington.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: You'd have Fred on one side and Slick on the
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: other side. And the way they watched basketball was so different.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, Slick was fantastic. Pumped up.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Fred was frowning the whole time. I mean, you would
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: just watch them both. That was the coolest night.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Was that Ed Peppel coaching? Yep, Ed Peppel. Legend. What
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: a legend.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, God, that man was incredible.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: What a legend. Well, anyway, I want to get your
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: thoughts on that 49451. We'll do that as the day
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: goes on. Maybe look at those at 1245. We've got
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: some other stuff to get to. Seahawks, we've got a
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: lot today. All coming up on i3. 3 KDRFM. We may
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: be setting a record for text. And I'm not even...
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: That's not even hyperbole.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: No, it is true. It's just every time it refreshes.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: It's crazy.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: For people who... A lot of them say they don't care.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll get to those.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Apparently a lot of people that care.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I just... Yeah, we'll get to some of the
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: texting in this hour probably as well. Okay. You know, and...
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: And I, what I want to say, I want to
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: be just very, but I, what I'm saying, that's just me.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Like if you're into it, good man, you know, and
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: I know Chris loves it. And you know, my son
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: loves it. And Fane loves the NBA. I just not,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: not for me right now. I've really become a big
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: college basketball fan. That's also got me pissed off, but
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: I can watch. I just become, you know, and you'll
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: love it. We have Gary Parish on starting probably around January, uh,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: from CBS sports on college basketball podcast. Uh, Gary's phenomenal,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: and if you listen to his segments, even if you're
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: a casual fan or just don't care until March Madness,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: you'll love Gary's segments. He's got such a passion for it.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Did you see yesterday Trey Kaufman-Wren, who played at Purdue? Yeah.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Almost 2,000 games.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Went to the NBA training camp. Yeah. Went to Summer League. Said,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know if this is going to be good
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: for me. I may end up being G League bound.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Found a way to go back to college, not to Purdue,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: but now he's at Kansas.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: I just don't know how that's allowed.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: I don't either. I don't either. And I'm going to
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: guess most of the Big 12 is asking the same question. Yeah.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Among other places.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: I mean, you shouldn't be allowed to go back to
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: college in general, but at the very least, not just
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: pick another new.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Team to go to.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: The second you decide that you're going to go pro,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: it used to be when you declare for the draft.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: You're done.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: You're done. You have the cutoff. Yes. And you're done.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Hell, the kid that played.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Because you've hired an agent usually at that point.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, now that doesn't matter.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Now you hire an agent when you go to college.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Now you hire an agent in eighth grade. Yeah.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: That.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Anyway. I'm not... So I'm curious. We'll read everybody's texts,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: even the ones that disagree. I'm sure there's a bunch
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: that do. And we'll get the talkbacks as well. Fire
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: those off and we can get some of those too.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: In fact, maybe we can bump back in the next
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: break if we have a couple of talkbacks.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Do a little earlier talkbacks. Let's see what we got.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Because a little thing called Fact or Fiction at 2.35
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: that kind of cuts into our time with that. Although
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: for us, really, we should just punt on that every
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: day because unless you're texting fiction, you're not winning.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Not with us.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Not with my pick.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, not with ours.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? God. You know, this is how
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: bad it was, Ash. I was rooting for a fumble
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: scoop score at the end, like on the last play,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: just to cover.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Just to do something.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: I mean, well, and that was the part that I'm torn, too,
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: is watching it thinking like, but I don't want this.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Team to win.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: No. We'll get to Lund at two.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, his team is 6-0. He's going to be insufferable.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, I listened to part of his show today.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: He was really insufferable. And then they started ripping on Russ.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Listen, we can rip on Russ.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: You can't rip on Russ.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: No, that's our guy to make fun of.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: That's our guy to rip on.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: You've got plenty of people to rip on.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Russ beat you guys. You have nothing to say about Russ. Yeah.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: And then I found myself, I'm sitting in the car,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: and I texted him, well, you're an idiot. I said,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: we can find a lot more guys in the last
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: 20 years to rip on with the 49ers than Russ
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: and our guy. Mm-hmm. Russ won a Super Bowl.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: You guys haven't won a Super Bowl since a little
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: thing called free agency started in the NFL.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Well, it's because he can't rip on Richard Sherman anymore
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: because Richard Sherman then was a 49er.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: He was a 49er for a little while. But yeah,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: that was... But Mike Evans may be hurt. Is that
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: a substation issue?
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: We'll see. I mean, it'll just.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Either that or now the substation is hurting some people
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: and then making other people bionic because I don't know
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: how some of these people are holding their bodies together.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Correct. And then Terry McLaurin's out now for probably the year.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: That's a substation issue for sure, because he was visiting
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: the substation.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: He walked underneath it, I'm sure, to go into the stadiums.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: He had to go in the back door where the
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: players go in. But the 49ers, I heard the guys
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: in the afternoon talking about it yesterday and then Greg
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: again today. I'm going to reiterate what I said yesterday.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: You guys, if you're thinking for a second that this
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: is a team in Seattle that's still playing for the division,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: I think you're delusion. I think you're just imagining things.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: The math just doesn't math. At this point, it doesn't math.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: But Greg had a great point, and I think this
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: is kind of the silver lining here. Yeah, if you're
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: a wildcard team, no home games probably and all that stuff.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: But what you do want to do is be wildcard
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: one or two. Because one or two is going to
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: play the South or the East. What you really want
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: to be, and this is kind of like Major League
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Baseball playoffs. We talked about this with the Mollywop guys
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: all the time. Hey, Mariners get in as a wildcard even? Perfect.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: If they get in a wildcard too, they're going to
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: take on, wait for it, Cleveland or somebody. Or the
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: winner of the AL West, if it's not them.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Which would have been both good matchups, you would think. Well,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: in this case, you want the East. Like, you want
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: to be the wildcard team that plays the NFC East.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Because that dumpster fire is going to be either the Giants,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: probably not the Eagles now with Tanner McKee. The Cowboys
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: are a train wreck and the Commanders are 1-4-1, but
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: not out of it.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: I know, that's crazy.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: They're only two games back, so they're a game and
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: a half back. But the division's out of the question, guys.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: I think the reason that people.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: don't believe that statement is because of who we have
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: coaching our team and, and who we have running our team.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: And the fact that you've still got, you know, trade
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: possibilities and things like that. I, that's why I think
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: it's just so strongly in Mike and John, we trust
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: that you can't give up yet.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: It's a great point. Let me, let me counter that
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: with this.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: How many of you guys out there are doubting John
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Schneider right now? One-year Marou from a Super Bowl.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah. There's a lot of people doubting the Ken Walker.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Because of one thing.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Because of one thing. Yeah.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: But I think he can write it. He can figure
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: it out.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Well, the way to write it is if Jadarian Price
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: ever gets healthy, Sharbs is what he is. He's a 1B,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: but he's better than anything they have, as you said yesterday,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: that's out there right now.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: 100%.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's way better.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: I've been counting down the days until his return, which
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: I never thought I'd be doing.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, if he's in Philadelphia, he would have been
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: back three weeks ago. They would have just put him
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: out on the field with a knee brace and said,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: go do your thing.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: And then they would have said, here, we're going to
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: put you on a cross Atlantic flight just to make
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: sure that your leg's fine.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Just make sure you're fine in that regard. But I
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: came away like that win, like, like at the end,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: there was that faint hope when it, I was like, okay, can,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: can the commanders, okay, since the 49ers aren't going to cover,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: we're going to lose factor fiction. I did, I was
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: torn with this. Do I want the 49ers just to
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: win and win big? Or do I want, Like the
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: worst possible scenario is they won, they didn't cover. Right.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: It was terrible.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: But then I found myself, I'm like, come on, Jane Danvers,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: can you do this? Can you just do this for us?
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: That's what I was doing because I didn't want the
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: 49ers to win. And I told you that yesterday when
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: you made the pick. One, I thought it was going
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: to be closer. And two, there's no way I could
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: cheer for the 49ers. I don't want them to go 6-0.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Let the record show you were right on both accounts.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: You were very much correct on both those accounts. I
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: hate being right about that. I mean, 5-1, and okay,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: now you're only two and a half games back with
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: the tiebreaker.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that doesn't sound so bad.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Three and a half. In fact, it'll be four, basically.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: You're four games back.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you do play them again.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Okay, so now you're... Can you make up three games?
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Yes, the only problem is what everybody's been talking about,
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: and that's how easy the 49ers schedule is.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: And Seattle had that schedule last year.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: It sets up for Sunday, and we'll get to the
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: other part of the equation on Sunday coming up at
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: 1.30 today. That would be the Ken Walker side. I
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: got a little thought on that. But it comes down...
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, you just got to win Sunday.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: You just have to win on Sunday. And then you
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: have to beat the Chicago Bears. You're not going to
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: win out, probably. You're not going to go 14-3. But you've, man,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: six games in, 11 to go. Is my math correct?
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Eight and two puts you at 11-5. You're a playoff team,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: but you're a wildcard team. Think about that. You go
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: eight and two the rest of the way.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and what's one thing we know about this Mike
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: McDonald team? That they improve as the season goes.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: They do. They do. Will Sam Donald improve?
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: I hope so.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Will the running game improve?
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: It has to. It has to. There's no way that
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: it's going to stay the same.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: I'm still perplexed by why Henry hasn't gotten a chance.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: He's on the 53, man.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't get that.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: I get the first week, okay, he doesn't know the playbook.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Second week, you signed him, you put him on there.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Did you get him here and you looked at him
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: and said, okay, well, we're stuck with him for three weeks.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: But after three weeks, he's gone because he's not good. Like,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: he has to be a better option than what you have.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: And how do you really know until you put him
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: in a game situation?
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: It can't be worse than what we have.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Can't be worse.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: All right. Let's do this.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: I'm all fired up. Let's check a couple texts. Maybe
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: there's a talkback or two that we can get to.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Not all of them. I'm sure you got a couple,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: but maybe one or two. We'll do that next. And
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: then 1 o'clock, the Cougs joining us here.
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: As though they're going to relocate the Trailblazers to Seattle
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: and give Vegas and another city an expansion team. Sucks
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: to Portland.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: It does.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: I don't care if the NBA comes back. I hate
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: the product that the NBA puts out. It's a terrible game.
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: It's not the same game that... Sean Kemp and Gary
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: Payton were playing in the nineties. It is an awful,
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: awful game. You know, what game is awesome? Hockey. The
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: other game that they play at climate pledge arena. That's
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: where you need to send your passion.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Go crack. A couple of things that are interesting there. Um, one, the,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: the product is just different. I think is the best
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: way to put it. There's, None of us should be
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: naive enough to believe that the players that are playing
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: it in today's NBA aren't more skilled than ever before,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: more talented than ever before. Sean Kemp was a unicorn
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: when he played. He had a mid-range game. He had power.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: He had the ability to slash, get to the basket,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: play defense. He had, and at 6'10, he played a
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: massive game, but he played a full complete game. Now
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: you have everybody that's 6'10 can play or should be
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: playing like that. If guys are 6'8 playing guard, the
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: athletes are bigger, stronger, faster, more skilled than ever before.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Does that mean the game's better? Not necessarily. And that's
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: a very subjective thing. What do you want to see
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: out of the game? Do you want to see ISO?
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Or do you want to see a little bit more
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: ball movement?
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Does coaching matter in the NBA? Most people think it's
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: the league that coaching matters the least. That's weird because
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: coaches get fired every day in the NBA. But I'm
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: not naive enough to say that, like, listen, guys today
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: are just, they're incredible. And we'll go. I got a
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: couple of texts.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: 49451.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: No more Sonics talk, please, until they come back. You've
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: been on it for over a year and we're not
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: any closer. Give it up. We're closer. I'm going to
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: push back on you on that. Yes, we've been on
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: it for a long time. Listen, honestly, to talk about
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: the NBA coming back, I'll tell you when it started
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: for me. The day that they had the season ticket
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: drive in Seattle, which would have been spring of 2018, right?
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Because the franchise was awarded in the fall of 2018. Yeah,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: for the Kraken. For the Kraken. But when they had
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: that season ticket drive, and they've sold all the tickets
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: and that, that night... After they kind of, the dust
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: has settled, I'll never forget. I did an interview in
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: the old side of the building, Ashley, with David Bonderman,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Jerry Bruckheimer, and Tim Laiweke. Not Todd, but Tim. Todd
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: hadn't been hired yet, but it was those three. And
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: I asked them point blank, I wish we would have
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: done a better job. But we talked about the NBA
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: that day. We talked about the NBA that day. And
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: they all said, the building we're going to build, Tim
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: said it specifically, is NBA ready. And David Bonner says,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: right now, I'm a minority owner. So I will bring
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: the NBA back. That's part of the plan. NHL first,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: NBA second. So we've been talking about it that long. Hell,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: we've been talking about it since 2008.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: I was going to say since they left.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Well, if you remember when they left, what happened, that
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: the worst news conference in the history, man, a handful
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: of us were sitting down there. Uh, and they're like,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: this is our best chance to get the team back,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: which is just laughable these days. Think about that. That
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: was said out loud with conviction, but the best way
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: to get the team back is, is what we're doing now.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: And then the NBA will reward us for working with them.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: That was what Stern tried to tell people. Yeah. But yeah.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Are we closer today? Yeah, we're close. I mean, I, I,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: There was a feeling that today or even a meeting
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: last week, we could have heard some definitive news. Vegas
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: hasn't got their blank together. That's the problem. And I'm
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: going to say Vegas, the city, because Vegas is so
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: desirable for reasons I can't quite comprehend.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Because it's not as if it's filled with a home crowd.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Right. But Vegas is so desirable by multiple ownership groups
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: that they have to decide which ownership group to go with.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: So now we're waiting. There is some sound from Silver today.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: I'll get to you, and we'll play that in the
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: 1 o'clock hour. Okay. Some new sound from today from
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: a national show. So we'll get to that in a
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: little bit. 49451. I can't read that. Sarah Spain will
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: get mad at me if I read that.
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Uh, two by three, you guys don't even like the NBA. I,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: that's what I told you.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, we literally talked about it and I said,
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: I said, I don't know how I'll feel when they
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: actually come back.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Quinn says, ah, man, I missed the opening statement. Bring
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: it back. Uh, there's something that I feel strong about. I,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: I will.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: You don't want to force it. You don't want to
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: make your, you don't want to shock John.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: I don't always, I don't always, Ashley's worked with me
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: long enough. There's a lot of times I'm like, whatever,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: like things aren't going to, but this one gets me. Yeah. Um, Ian,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: I'm 100% with you. The difference is I don't care
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: if and when they come back. The NBA can suck it. 425.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Is there a reason the NBA doesn't set an expansion fee?
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: That walking skeletal ghoul is just playing political games with everybody.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Adam Silver. They're not setting a price because they want
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: the price to be as high as it can be. Right? Yeah.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're not going to be like, no, here it's
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: going to be $ 9 billion.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: That's it. Yep. And they want the price to keep
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: going up. You set your house price, right? Okay, I'm
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: going to sell my house for $ 500, 000. Yep. Of course,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: where would that be?
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Anyway, let's just say that was the case. $ 500, 000. That's
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: the price you set, but then all of a sudden
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: you get four or five people coming through your first
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: open house, and you get multiple offers. It ain't $ 500, 000 anymore.
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: It's whatever the best offer is.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Bingo. And that's kind of what's going on in Vegas
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: right now as well. All right. I'll just read this. 206.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: It took you 6,600 days. It took me one day.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: A lot of people feel that way. All right, we've
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: got problems. I'm going to yell at MK when we
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: come back. I don't know why the Cougars didn't change
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: their quarterbacks earlier. It's not like we're paying them $ 4 million,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: the little dwarf. But they did. Things were better. But
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: now they're going to get worse because Boise State's rolling
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: into town. We'll talk about that next.