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Furness Show 4-2: Eno Sarris, Mike Benton and Steve Palozzolo · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: Thirty pre game right here on your home for the
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  Speaker 1: krack and I have three point three k DFM. They
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  Speaker 1: are somehow still in the playoff race, but probably need
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  Speaker 1: to start I don't know, winning games, including tonight big
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  Speaker 1: one four point game against a Western Conference foe, the
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  Speaker 1: Utah Mammoth again six thirty pre game with the captain
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  Speaker 1: Mike bentonm seven o'clock drop of the puck. Rams receiver
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  Speaker 1: Puka Nakua has checked into rehab, according to his attorney,
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  Speaker 1: has been in a substantial amount of time since the
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  Speaker 1: latest allegations broke. His attorney says he's in rehab in
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  Speaker 1: an attempt to improve his overall behavior in every aspect
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  Speaker 1: of his life. Decision on where the Chicago Bears news
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  Speaker 1: team is gonna be located expected to come late spring
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  Speaker 1: early summer. According to reports, team will choose between building
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  Speaker 1: a dome Staum and either Hammond, Indiana, or Arlington Heights, Illinois.
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  Speaker 1: How do you have the Chicago Bears playing in Indiana?
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  Speaker 1: That would make no sense, absolutely not whatsoever. Although, as
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  Speaker 1: I say that Jessman's a fan of the New York
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  Speaker 1: slash New Jersey Jets.
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  Speaker 2: Jets at least they used to practice on Long Island.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's in the least.
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  Speaker 2: That's my gravitational pull. They worked out at Hosta where
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  Speaker 2: I grew up running around Margiana Hall.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Weird though, the New York Jets New York Giants are
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  Speaker 1: playing in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the only real New York team is the Bills.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good point. All right, let's go. I believe
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be on the YouTube again today. Is
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  Speaker 1: that right?
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  Speaker 2: We are audio right now and we're working on getting
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  Speaker 2: that camera up to see your beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody wants to see that. Nobody wants to I will
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  Speaker 1: tell you this the the We did this yesterday, Jess.
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  Speaker 1: And so when we do get the video up and
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  Speaker 1: it's all fully functional YouTube dot com one of the
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  Speaker 1: things we found yesterday. And you're feeling better, you feel better?
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  Speaker 4: We better?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: You were listed as day to day and he came
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  Speaker 1: back probably a day too early.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yep, yep, I did. But I did not tear
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  Speaker 2: anything on my way out. I just said, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: I slub myself on the bench.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's sometimes you just gotta sit it out. And
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  Speaker 1: so I'm glad to see you back. Lad to see
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  Speaker 1: you doing well. Andrew's working with SOFTI later on this afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: as Jackson has his weirdest vacation ever four days and
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  Speaker 1: then comes back for a Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, to be fair, he has sounders on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe just giving himself a little bit of wiggle
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  Speaker 2: room just to you know, unpack.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a big Jackson fan. He does things in a
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  Speaker 1: very unique way. Good for a lot of us. Take
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  Speaker 1: vacation and then like the following Monday off add the
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  Speaker 1: little buffer day, Yeah Jackson. Instead he gives himself no
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  Speaker 1: buffer day. He comes back a day early on a Friday. Friday. Look,
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  Speaker 1: it's probably a mail it in Friday, so away we go.
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  Speaker 1: So I get it. That's fine, Okay, the uh coming
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  Speaker 1: up at one twenty today Ineno, sarahs is going to
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  Speaker 1: join us. This is first official of his weekly visits
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  Speaker 1: this year, brought to you by Georgetown Brewing. Ino is
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  Speaker 1: one of our favorite people. Senior MLB writer for the
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  Speaker 1: Athletic kind of jumps into some numbers. He wrote a story.
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned this to Mark a moment ago in our
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  Speaker 1: crosstalk and it just jumped off the page. I know, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we got Nino one. Let's go see what he's written lately.
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  Speaker 1: The headline in his story in The Athletic that came
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  Speaker 1: out yesterday, Four numbers from MLB's first week of the
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  Speaker 1: season that matter, because we're always told, don't worry about
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  Speaker 1: the first week, don't stress out, don't worry about things.
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  Speaker 1: It's all gonna be okay. It's a long season. One
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  Speaker 1: sixty two and all that's true. Mariners just had a
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  Speaker 1: seven game series on which they went three and four.
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  Speaker 1: But they played two good teams, two playoff teams from
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  Speaker 1: a year ago. But I did you know, listen, you
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  Speaker 1: have to be living as a sports fan in Seattle,
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  Speaker 1: have to living in a hole in a cave and
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  Speaker 1: have no contact with the outside world not to know
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  Speaker 1: that there is a concern or there's a you know,
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  Speaker 1: the start that these guys are having Cal Naylor and
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  Speaker 1: Julio it hasn't been good.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Cal did have a two run single yesterday. He's had,
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  Speaker 1: his hits have been big, you know, just the two
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  Speaker 1: that he's had. And as everyone's documented, it took him like,
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  Speaker 1: what was it, seven games last year before he hit
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  Speaker 1: his first of sixty home runs and all those things.
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  Speaker 1: But ENO's story I thought was interesting because, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: ask him about this, it focused in on not batting average,
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  Speaker 1: not WRC plus bat speed is at the top of
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  Speaker 1: the list of what he was looking at this year.
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  Speaker 1: You know what's the bat speed? Also exit VLO and
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  Speaker 1: I know we always joke about exit vlo. We have
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  Speaker 1: a fun time joking about exit velo, even with the
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  Speaker 1: Mullywop guys at times, and Andrews and everybody. But exit
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  Speaker 1: VLO and bat speed because those are two indicators of
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  Speaker 1: some things along the way. So we'll ask him about that.
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  Speaker 1: His story. Were guys that have been surging and doing
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  Speaker 1: better from a year ago in those two categories. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't see any Mariners listed there. So I'm gonna ask
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  Speaker 1: him about where our guys, specifically our guys are Big
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  Speaker 1: Three are on those lists. Are they on those lists?
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  Speaker 1: Is it just the same as last year, or should
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  Speaker 1: there be maybe cause for a little bit of a concern.
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  Speaker 1: Even though early in the season, I don't think we'll
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  Speaker 1: get into marine layer, but I'm sure the cold weather
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  Speaker 1: that probably maybe comes into play. I don't know, it's
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  Speaker 1: not like it's been warm here by any stretch of
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  Speaker 1: the imagination. It's you know, roof open, roof closed, doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: It's still with you know, an open air building. You're
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  Speaker 1: not playing in a dome necessarily, just with a roof.
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  Speaker 1: And so I think in those in that regard, we'll we'll,
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  Speaker 1: we'll check in with you know about the concern there
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  Speaker 1: as well. And then two o'clock today, our guy Steve
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  Speaker 1: Polozolo is going to join us.
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  Speaker 4: We love Steve.
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  Speaker 1: Palozolo works for the thirty third team now, which is
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  Speaker 1: also our guy Hugh Millen and our guy Greg Cosell.
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  Speaker 1: Part of the thirty third team kind of a think tank.
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  Speaker 1: He does their podcast along with his buddy Sam Monson,
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  Speaker 1: and he used to be for a long time with
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  Speaker 1: PFF Pro Football Focus. That's when we first met Steve.
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  Speaker 1: PFF is effectively for us lay people, not for the
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  Speaker 1: people behind the scenes in the NFL offices or team
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  Speaker 1: offices for the NFL because they still have access to
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  Speaker 1: different numbers, but some of the front facing parts of PFF.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Collinsworth Company, he sold it for a ton of money.
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  Speaker 1: They're gone. They all got laid off. What does that
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  Speaker 1: mean if you've been a PFF fan, if you've been
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  Speaker 1: someone that like has used it, for fantasy football gambling,
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  Speaker 1: or just for just to get better knowledge of the game,
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  Speaker 1: which we've all referenced in the media. They're gone. We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk to him briefly about that he got out well
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  Speaker 1: before the layoffs happened over the last coup plays, and
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  Speaker 1: then we'll talk about the Seahawks heading into the draft.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll do this every week with Steve kind of
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  Speaker 1: a general start.
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  Speaker 5: Today.
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  Speaker 1: I want to get to him about what they lost
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  Speaker 1: in the offseason, the so called Super Bowl tax, how
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  Speaker 1: many guys you lost, how many guys you brought back,
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  Speaker 1: and so we'll get to that with Steve coming up
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  Speaker 1: at one two o'clock today, I should say, and you
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  Speaker 1: know what they're looking for in the draft. And we'll
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  Speaker 1: start going positional draft wise with Steve next week, like
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  Speaker 1: we do with Rob rang Rob's going to join us tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: I think we'll talk running backs with Rob tomorrow. We'll
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  Speaker 1: do that with Steve next week. We already done that
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  Speaker 1: with Cosell, So we'll kind of get into all that
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  Speaker 1: so little Seahawk conversation too. I want to put a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a bow and a rap on things
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  Speaker 1: from yesterday. And you know, we started listen First of all,
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  Speaker 1: we're on the YouTube or we video now too? Are
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  Speaker 1: we all up?
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  Speaker 6: All?
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  Speaker 2: We have beautiful mug is up there? Only you?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we see me today? Why why not?
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  Speaker 2: We are still configuring that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like that. If we're going to see one
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  Speaker 1: person on the show, it needs to be you.
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  Speaker 2: And you want to switch bots, you can run the board.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's that's like putting someone in charge of a
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  Speaker 1: jet airliner that's never flown a plane. That would not
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  Speaker 1: be good. It would be less tragic that the result
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  Speaker 1: would be less tragic. There wouldn't be as many you know,
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  Speaker 1: there'd be no lives loss, but it would be it
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  Speaker 1: would not be good.
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  Speaker 5: Yess.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we have you on and good to go, so
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  Speaker 2: that is good. But eventually we'll get the camera in
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  Speaker 2: here working.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things so we did this yesterday, just
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  Speaker 1: real quick before I get to uh to yesterday's show.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things we found this kind of fun.
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  Speaker 1: If you are watching on YouTube YouTube dot com and
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  Speaker 1: we'll send the link out again here in a second.
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  Speaker 1: If you're watching that you can interact with not just
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  Speaker 1: hospital for also other listeners on what we're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: And we read some of those coming up at two
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  Speaker 1: thirte like we read the tamadage text line at two thirty,
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  Speaker 1: we'll read some of the U Tube comments as well
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  Speaker 1: at two thirty. If they're nice. If they're not, then
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  Speaker 1: just try to be nice people. But we'll read some
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  Speaker 1: of those coming up later on as well. If you
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  Speaker 1: missed the Star of the Show yesterday, if you miss
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  Speaker 1: Softies yesterday, and I think he had a similar sentiment.
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  Speaker 1: And I know the Marriers are playing, so probably a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people were, if we're being honest, not listening
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  Speaker 1: to us, they might have been tuned into the baseball team.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we spent some time. I spent some time yesterday
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  Speaker 1: going after Mark J. Spears from e s PN, ESPN
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  Speaker 1: dot com All Things NBA Basketball ESPN. Although he's not
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  Speaker 1: on their NBA show. I'm watching it right now. He's
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  Speaker 1: not on there for some reason.
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  Speaker 2: It's just very confusing because you go with Mark J. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: and then it's I go because the.
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  Speaker 1: End of it is they're both Yeah, it's it's Mark
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  Speaker 1: Spears and that's not Marcus Spears. It's Mark Spears. Longtime mbre. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: he was on with with with our guy with the
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  Speaker 1: C two Mark with the C. James and I was
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  Speaker 1: pretty harsh on him, and by no means am I
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  Speaker 1: taking any of that. I'm not talking to that back.
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  Speaker 1: I believe everythink I said. I saw some reaction online.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of reaction online. Some of it's very strange,
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  Speaker 1: turned into a political debate by a couple people that
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  Speaker 1: are really we live in such a we live in
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  Speaker 1: a bad world right now. I'll just be honest with you,
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  Speaker 1: like there's some stupid stuff out there. Yeah, but I
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  Speaker 1: love when people try to tell you what kind of
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  Speaker 1: political affiliation you have or what your beliefs are and
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  Speaker 1: not even close to being accurate. But anyway, the gist
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  Speaker 1: of what he said yesterday, if you missed it, was
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  Speaker 1: that Kierine is not good enough for the NBA. And
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  Speaker 1: I just I say sorry, climate Plageriam I bristle when
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  Speaker 1: I saw that and I heard that, and I just
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  Speaker 1: kind of snapped, understanding everything that was put into that building.
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  Speaker 1: Mark R. Mark m Jealous said. Mjmj tried to push
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  Speaker 1: back on and this guy was having none of it.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously he's never been in Climate play arena. But I
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  Speaker 1: just think to put a bow on it. If you're
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  Speaker 1: a if you're a Seattle sports fan, rest assured. There
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  Speaker 1: is no concern and I mean zero concern at the
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  Speaker 1: league office in the NBA about Climate Pledge Arena. I
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  Speaker 1: think even saying that is insulting. That I have the
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  Speaker 1: fact that I have to say that is insulting. But
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  Speaker 1: I think if you're in a nation, if you're a
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  Speaker 1: national platform like this clown does, then then you should
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  Speaker 1: be a little bit more responsible in what you say,
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  Speaker 1: what you write, the opinions you you know you send
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  Speaker 1: out there, because Climate Pledge Arena is to be honest
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  Speaker 1: with you. And again we talk I talked about yesterday
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  Speaker 1: with some people. It's it's a upper third building in
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  Speaker 1: both the NHL and the NBA, and most people think
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  Speaker 1: it's a top five at worst building in both of
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  Speaker 1: those leagues, or if it was in the NBA. So
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  Speaker 1: again I feel just I think it's just dumb that
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  Speaker 1: I have to say that, but to have to stick
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  Speaker 1: up for our city and our building and our future
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  Speaker 1: for the NBA because some guy that has a national
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  Speaker 1: platform is out there spewing out misinformation that the building
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  Speaker 1: is basically Key Arena two point zero when we all
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  Speaker 1: know it's not. If you haven't been in there. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: you don't know because Mark Spears has never been in there,
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  Speaker 1: never has been in there. But if you have been
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  Speaker 1: in there, and you were in the old building, you
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  Speaker 1: know that they're not even I mean, the only shred
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  Speaker 1: of evidence of the old building is the support beams
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  Speaker 1: in the roof, and even the roof on the inside
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  Speaker 1: is different, by the way than it was in the
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  Speaker 1: old building, just on the outside. When you look at it,
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  Speaker 1: it's a remarkable architectural accomplishment what they did. But like
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  Speaker 1: a day later, I'm still just I'm still a little
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  Speaker 1: perturbed at this guy, and maybe more so the fact
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  Speaker 1: that that is even a talking point for somebody. I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned it yesterday. They you know, I don't think that
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  Speaker 1: there's owners and Board of governors sitting around at a
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  Speaker 1: meeting saying I think the building is a problem and
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it, And I say that not from
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  Speaker 1: the standpoint of I'm sure are very few, if any
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  Speaker 1: of the owners around the NBA have been inside Climate Plagerina.
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  Speaker 1: But when they're sitting around, they're not just you know,
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  Speaker 1: drinking coffee and having a pastry from the hotel at
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  Speaker 1: the Board of Governor's meeting. They've been presented with all
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  Speaker 1: the information they need, including the building information. So to
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  Speaker 1: say that on our area yesterday in Seattle like he
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  Speaker 1: did is just irresponsible. I'll just leave it. It's just absolutely irresponsible.
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  Speaker 1: You can go back listen to the podcast first segment
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  Speaker 1: of the show yesterday. We addressed it, and we addressed
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  Speaker 1: it pretty harshly. So we'll move on from that. But it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, go, I'm going to it's a national TV
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  Speaker 1: game tonight for Hockey Salt. I'll kind of wander the
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  Speaker 1: building a little bit. I'll sit in the press box
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  Speaker 1: and we don't have TV local TV responsibilities, and I
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  Speaker 1: think what I'm gonna again, it's just kind of taken
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  Speaker 1: the awe of what kind of Plagerina is and understand
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  Speaker 1: how lucky we are in the city to have that.
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  Speaker 1: There have been people all this One final little note here,
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  Speaker 1: is there a concern about you know or is there
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  Speaker 1: going to be a multiple offers coming in? Yeah, somebody
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  Speaker 1: could have blank you money and say we're going to
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  Speaker 1: buy the team. If you play there, you still have
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  Speaker 1: to go through the Oakview or the One Roof group
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  Speaker 1: for a lease and revenue and all those things. It
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  Speaker 1: makes no sense financially, unless you just truly have blank
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  Speaker 1: you money building a new building, it's not even on
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  Speaker 1: the table. Not not if you're going to have NBA
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  Speaker 1: expansion in twenty twenty eight, like and where would you
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  Speaker 1: build it, Bellevue. We've been down that road.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to say ten years ago, we've been down.
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  Speaker 1: We've all been down every arena road possible. If you've
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  Speaker 1: lived here more than you know, five or six years,
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  Speaker 1: we've all been down the road. They're going to play.
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  Speaker 1: The NBA is going to play at Climate Plagerina. More
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  Speaker 1: than likely, it's going to be probably ninety nine percent chance.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be owned by the same group, at
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  Speaker 1: least in terms of you know, some of the investors
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  Speaker 1: own Kraken and we're all gonna be fine and well,
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  Speaker 1: and you know what, and Mark Spiarce, maybe you come watch,
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  Speaker 1: maybe come watch a game at Clement Pledge and look
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  Speaker 1: around and you'll say yourself, wait a second, what happened
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  Speaker 1: to that one scoreboard? Oh no, there's two now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was kind of the huge indicator right there.
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  Speaker 1: Now, tell us you haven't been in the building. By
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  Speaker 1: telling us you haven't been the building, right anyway? Four four, five, one.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to that. Let's talk baseball. Should we be
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  Speaker 1: concerned it's early? Should we be concerned so early? About
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  Speaker 1: the Mariner's slow start offensive. We also talked about Logan
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  Speaker 1: Gilbert Enosaras.
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  Speaker 7: I'm glad to hear that stepping up the beer a
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  Speaker 1: I people haven't tried yet, looked for it at the
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  Speaker 1: ballparking around the area. Okay, a lot of things to
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: get to. You wrote a story about what we can
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: gleam from the first week of the season. I'm gonna
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: get to that in a second. Offensively in a second, because
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: I got some questions to ask. Panic is setting in
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: not really but sort of concern out here in Seattle.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: We'll get to that in a second cause I thought
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: it was an interesting way to look at it with
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: bat speed, X of VI THO and things like that.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: You last year. Last week, if people missed it, Eno
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: wrote a great story on Logan Gilbert. He hasn't had
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: the best statistical start yet to the season. But let's
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: just we know what Walter can be all about. When
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: you wrote that story and we're talking to guys and
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: just about who and what the guy is, the top
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: end of the rotation is all about what jumped out
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: at you about Logan Gilbert.
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: I mean I went and visited him in Modesto in
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: twenty nineteen, and from the get go, you just had
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: a guy who thought where he wanted to go and
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: was willing to do everything it took to get there.
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: I just love you know, he was talking then about
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: you know what you watch Jacob deGrom, he watched Max Surzer,
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: you know, like you got to learn from these guys,
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: justin Berlander, and you know he'd learned he did. I mean,
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: he's changed so much since then. He was a guy
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: that came up with you know, great extension. Still has
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: that great fasta still has that. But he had this
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: big lollipop curve back then that he was using and
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: he doesn't really use that same pitch anymore. He thought
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: it would be an outpitch for him in the big leagues,
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: but it didn't turn out to be quite as good.
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: And now he's a splitter guy, and he's got that
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: hard Burlander slider instead of the sweeper he had back then.
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: So it's just, you know, it's a love of learning.
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: That's true for all of the guys in the rotation.
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: They learn off each other so much. Him and Bryce
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: Miller are just always talking each other. And Bryce Miller
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: learned his splitter off of Got Gilbert and Wu you know,
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: Todd Kirby a new Sinker grip, and it's just I
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: love the way that they interact with each other. They
• 18:29
  Speaker 7: just are always if someone does something good, not only
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: the rooting for each other, but they they learned. They're like, hey,
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: I want that pitch, you know, but they teach each
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: other a lot, and I just, you know, I think
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: there's something to not only when you're scouting guys for
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: their stuff, you know, in the draft, you know, think
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: about that Gilbert is no nothing like he was when
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: you drafted him. But the thing that was true is
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: that he just had this love for learning and this
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: aptitude that would that would stick with him and even
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: of his arsenal is completely different than I was when
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: he was drafted.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: I think one of the quotes and there was from
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Andy McKay. I was talking about just the work ethic,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: and it sounds like all those guys have it. Listen,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: you've you're you're watching thirty teams around baseball and thirty
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: pitching staffs starting rotations, et cetera. As you're saying that,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking, Merrier fans, probably this is so cool, like
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: ourk is this is this normal where there's that kind
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: of give and take and I guess really, for lack
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: of a better term, you know, that type of lot
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: of collaboration amongst starters or maybe even pictures as a
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: whole on the staff, because I think a lot of
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: times there's a little mini internal competition, guys want to
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: be at the top of the rotation, what have you.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: But as you're describing that, it makes it sound like this,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: this rotation has a level of camaraderie collaboration that that
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know, is it unique or not.
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: Well, you know, picture is the nice thing about that
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: picturing is that you know they will share grips, So
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: you're out in the you're out in the in the
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: in the bullpen, you know, you know, hanging out your
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: share grips to show each other grips. And there is
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: a camaraderie among pitchers in general. But you know, I've
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: been in other clubhouses that are just a little bit
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: more fractured. I think there's also a difference between a
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: guy who comes in on like a three hundred million
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: dollar deal, you know, and you know is the big
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: free agent. You know, yes, Garrett Cole is great. I'm
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: not saying anything abou about Grett Cole. I'm just saying, like,
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: how often do Will Warren and great Garrett Cole hang out?
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: And what you do know from these guys is they
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: came up together, you know, yeah, and they had the
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: same They have the same pitching cordinator, Maxweener back in
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: the day. They they have a lot of the same
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: pitching coaches coming up, and they were just you know,
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: they have a lot of shared experiences in the same age.
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: You know, that was something they came up with the
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: Warriors here. When Kevin Durant came to town, it was
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: like Draymond Green and Stephan Curry, you know, had kids.
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: Draymond Green was like, We're going to the club with me?
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: Know, I love it.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Eto Serrus brought to you by Georgetown Brewing from the
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  Speaker 1: seven to five e r. He's given up eight runs
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  Speaker 1: and ten and two thirds innings. All those are earned
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a Rocky Stars. Any cause for
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: concern anything we see that that might be a red
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: flag for Logan or is it? Hey, you saw two
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: playoff teams and the Guardians and the Yankees in your
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: first two starts, well.
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: There are teams, at least the Guardians are team that
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: make a lot of contact, And you know, he is
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: trying out a new pitch in that cutter, and so
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: you know, maybe he turfs it, maybe he decides that's
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: not the right pitch for him. But you know, and
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: sometimes people talk about the cutter taking away ride from
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: your four team and changing changing your other fastballs. But
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: don't I don't see that necessarily happening right now. I
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: think this early season Feubles, I don't know. One of
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: the biggest things. You can look at his stuff, he
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: still got it. Another thing, you can look at his
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: d low, he still got it. So there's not really
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: a big cause for concern.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the stuff plus, which we'll talk about too, I know,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: with the early stuff, I mean we loved I'll say this,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: watching Emerson Hancock in his first start was sensational. You know,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, everybody wants to see Bryce Miller back as
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: soon as possible. But and you start worrying about depth
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: in the pitching staff. That boy, Emerson Hancock was lights
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: out in his first start.
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: He was a big stuff. Plus surgery is the stuff.
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: Plus looks at just the physical characteristics of all your pitches.
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: But another thing that stuff plus does is, and this
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: might be weird to people, one of the features, one
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: of the sort of inputs is your previous fastball mix.
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: And the reason why that's in there is that you
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: think of a sideways guy, a sinker guy who has
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: a four scene that's just you know, if you look
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: at the four scene by itself. Adam Montavino was the
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: guy that I'm thinking of. I don't know if people
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: have seen a lot of him, but like, you know,
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: he's a sideways guy. He throws a four scene that
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: if you look at it by itself, you say, well,
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: that's not a good four seam. But everybody expects the sinker,
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: you know, yeah, and they're and they're the hitters are
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: in their heads are thinking sinker. So if you throw
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: another fastball that have a different shape, it just has
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: to be different from the other one. It doesn't have
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: to be great by itself. And this is something that
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: I think Hancock has embraced, which is, you know, the
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: sinker and the four team are different enough. You know
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: who the the patron saying to this is Brian wu
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: you know really, you know, yes, yeah, the four seam
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: by itself has a round average ride, but because his
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: sinker is so good, and because the spot is where
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: it is, he can play the force em and sinker
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: off each other. They have tremendously different movement profiles. I
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: think Hancock probably I didn't. I don't have the source,
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: but I probably talked to Brian Wo a little bit,
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: looked and watched him, you know, watched him pitch and
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: was like, man, you know, my force team doesn't be great,
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: it's just to be different enough. And so you know,
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: you know Hancock, I think he also added cutter and
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: improved his change up, so he really, you know, it
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: revamped his arsenal. And the big trend in baseball right now,
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: coming off of what I just said, is to have
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: as many fastballs as possible. Right the number of pitch
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: types that a starting pitcher throws has gone from about
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: three and a half to five on average in the
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: last three years.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Wow, I mean, so you know, what is it? You know,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: four seem two scene blah blah. I mean, is it Wu?
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Kind of like you just talked about, He's the guy
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: in that way? Isn't that is what Brian Wu is?
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Isn't it like he's mister like, everything's a fastball, but
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: it's a variation of a fastball.
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, And sometimes I wonder, man, can he keep
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: doing it with a great secondary? But I mean he
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: keeps doing it. And that's that's where baseball is right
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: now is and I think it's because you know, you
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: can you try to see we'll talk about tunneling and
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: so you you traditionally thought of fastball and slider tunneling
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: where they look alike until the very end and then
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: the slider drops out. And that is is that still
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: is very much a thing, But why not tunnel your
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: fastballs where they're the exact same velocity. What a hitter
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: does a lot of times is look at the velocity differential.
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: That's why swing rates on curveballs are really low because
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: curveballs are slow, and so the hitter sees, wait, that
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: ball's coming out slower, don't swing, you know. But if
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: you have three fastballs, they're all coming out the same dlo.
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: But then they do different things shape wise. Then it
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: hits the end of your bat. You know, sometimes it's
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: a foul ball. You know, it's not always a whiff,
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: but it is not usually a good outcome for the
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: hitter if they think this is a sport force team
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: and ends up being a sinker.
• 25:39
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  Speaker 1: All Right, I was just thrilled, to be honest with
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: you when I saw the story about, hey, what can
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: we learn from you know, seven seven days in a
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: week end of the season, Because you know how we
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: baseball fans are. Maybe it's us in the media or
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: accommodation thereof we like to like to lose our mind
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: or over over evaluate things early on. But it is
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: four numbers that matter from MLB's first week in the season.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: So I'm like, I tune in there, I go, I
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: know it's not just gonna be batting average or anything
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: like that with you know, no, sir, it's not instead
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: batspeed and things like that. Let's talk about that, because
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: you know, the story up here in Seattle is the
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: slow start early on from kind of the big three
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: right now, Cal Raley, Julio Rodriguez, Josh Naylor. Those guys
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: are all scuffling mightily. Those are the raw numbers, you know,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: one for this, two for that, et cetera. Are there
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: any of those numbers that you wrote about that jump
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: out with those three guys.
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: Yeah, man, And I'm sorry I'm about to do this,
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: but if it is the truth, they those those guys
• 26:59
  Speaker 7: and Radio ros Arena are all on the wrong side
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: of the list. When I made a bat speed surgers
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: list those four guys, I think Julio has lost more
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: bat speed and I'd use like seventy percentile batspeed, So
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: I was trying to be like, who has lost off
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: of their A swing, you know, And Julio has lost
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: about five ticks off of his A swing in the
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: early going and that and only like four guys baseball
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: has lost more. So Yeah, and then all of those
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: guys are negatives and plus Randy. So what's interesting to
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: me though, is that they're all on the negative list, right.
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: That's a little bit weird. And so what I'm wondering
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: is if there might be a park fector weather component
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: to bat speed. I haven't seen that researched, but what
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: I can tell you is that pitch velocity peaks in August,
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: in the hottest month of the year, and so if
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: pitch velocity peaks in August, maybe it's also true that
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: bat speed peaks in August. And bat speed has a
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: little bit of a weather component to it, so you know,
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: I don't know. There's also the fact that certain pictures
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: actually can suppress bat speed. If you look at, you know,
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: locations in the zone. If you throw high and away
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: fastballs a lot, it's really hard to get high bat
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: speed on those pitches. Those are pitches that you foul off,
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: you spray the other way. And so maybe just the
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: pictures they faced and the park they were in, and
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: the temperatures that were swinging at affected them all to
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: the point where their bat speed looks like it's down
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: more than it actually is. That's the kernel of hope
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: I'm trying to throw in there, because you know, and
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: another thing I would say is with veterans, I've tended
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: to look a little bit away from stats like this
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: because last year I said that Juan Soto was down
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: a couple of ticks in bat speed and he'd lost
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: his elite power and that he wouldn't hit forty homers
• 28:56
  Speaker 7: and I was famously famously wrong about that, And so
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: I would say that with veterans you can look the
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: other way and say, hey, all right, a little bit
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: of a slow start. Maybe it's cold, maybe it's the
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: pictures they saw. They'll probably get us together.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, except for this isn't this is an annual thing
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: with Julio, and so it's not just it's not just
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: you know, but.
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: When does he be? He peaks in August, he peaked
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: half so maybe you know, you know who used to
• 29:23
  Speaker 7: be like this, although Luis Castillo is growing harder for once,
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: but Luis Castillo, we used to always be like, where's
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: the fastball velocity? And then it usually came back. So
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: I don't know. Maybe it's just Julio's a slow starter.
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: Maybe that's just how he is.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: And and like you said, maybe it is a cold weather.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I mean that we've roof's been closed a couple two
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: or three times I think so far at tea Mobile,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: So that jumps into play. It's not like it's.
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: Been an arm around the sides. Right, Yes, the roof
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: is closed, but it's still open to the elements.
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: No, when I say the roofs closes, I mean it's
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: because the elements outside have been nasty as well. Yeah,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: so it's been cold inside, it's cold outside. But it's yeah,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: I mean it's it's all those things combined. It's not
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: like they're playing in Arizona right now, like by any
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: stretch of the imagination, they're not in San Diego, Arizona,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: although they are going to southern California. They started a
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: series with the Angels coming up tomorrow.
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: So let's see some bad speeds after they hit some
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: hit some warmer and you know, the Angels pitchers aren't
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: very good, so like hopefully you know that that gets
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: that gets.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Them gone and and yeah we'll so we'll revisit this.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: I do want to touch it because what I just
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: what you just told me. It's not just Julio slow starter.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: It's and it's not just Cal and Naylor's were looking
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: at it. All four of those guys when you throw
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Randy in the mix, all have that decline. That does
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: tell me. It's because if it's one or two guys
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: that you know, it would seem like, okay, maybe they're
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: whatever's happening, right, But if it's all four of those guys,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: then maybe it is something related to weather along the way.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: It's too much a coincidence, too much of a coincidence, right,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, just to have all four of those guys.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: It hasn't bothered col Young, you know, right, it has
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: it has a bothered Cole Young. We've liked his play
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: so far, and he's a little pop there at the
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: second base, so you know there's a given a take there,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I guess ring.
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: And he's a he's a good he's a good egg.
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: I talked to him in spring, and I just think
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: that he's a really excellent hitter. We talked about how
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: last year he hit some really high, high highs with
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: his EXI below he had ball one hundred and fourteen,
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: hundred and fifteen, and you know what would it would
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: take to kind of get there consistently, And he talked about,
• 31:23
  Speaker 7: you know, just putting in consistent avs and letting those
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: you know, be happy accidents basically, And I think that's
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: a good good sign for him. But he really controls
• 31:33
  Speaker 7: his own well and he puts together good abs and
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: every once in a while he's still gonna pop you
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: fifteen eighteen homers.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: So I think he's a good, good kid, and the
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: cold Emerson news is great news. I mean, I think
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: he just locked up the middle of the infield for
• 31:47
  Speaker 7: a bunch of years.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's that's a great story. Everyone here is pretty
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: happy about that. And it seems like it seems like
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: one of those win wins, like a win for the organization,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: win for the young man. He's you know, lifetime, you know,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: money security, and even if he plopped, it's great for
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: the organization. And away you go. And like you said,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: I think Cole Young it feels like they've found their
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: second basement. The question I have for you is have
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: they found a third baseman? And Brendan Donovan's he's been
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: hitting like that's the offense has been there. There's no
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: doubt about that that we all like what he's doing
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: in terms of offense. It feels, however, though, like defensively,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: I think he's tied for last at third base and
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: defensive run saved minus two. It looks like it's a
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: little bit of a struggle at third base. Defensively for Donovan,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: is at an early concern or not?
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: I mean, he is a guy that used to move
• 32:34
  Speaker 7: all over, but second base is the place he's played
• 32:37
  Speaker 7: the most. I'm going to give him the benefit doubt
• 32:41
  Speaker 7: for a little bit and just say, hey, this is
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: the first time he's playing third base as like a
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: everyday thing, and as a new team he might be
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: struggling to try and impress. So I think he'll be
• 32:54
  Speaker 7: fine because he's he's been good enough. You know, Statistically speaking,
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: second base and third base are very similar in terms
• 33:02
  Speaker 7: of the difficulty of playing the position, and I don't
• 33:05
  Speaker 7: think that the arm strength is the problem for Donovan,
• 33:09
  Speaker 7: So I would say that statistically speaking, he should be fine.
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: If it doesn't work out, it does get a little
• 33:17
  Speaker 7: bit interesting who's going to play that position?
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: The Angels, as I mentioned, next up for Seattle. They're
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: three and four to start the season. What have you
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: seen from LA? Is this a team? I mean, a
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: lot of people think they could be the worst team,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: even worse than the Athletics in the West. Maybe not,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: But what have you seen from the La Angels?
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: One thing that I have seen that's interesting is a
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: couple of guys on their team popping in terms of
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: their their pitching, improving a little bit. So I wonder
• 33:45
  Speaker 7: if some of the processes that they've been trying to
• 33:47
  Speaker 7: improve in terms of pitching player development have improved. Jack
• 33:51
  Speaker 7: Kohanowitz changed his arm angle and he's more a little
• 33:54
  Speaker 7: bit more upright now, and it's made his change up
• 33:57
  Speaker 7: and thinker better. He hasn't got good results with it yet.
• 34:02
  Speaker 7: And Jose Soriano has always been a great stuff guy.
• 34:05
  Speaker 7: But Mike Maddox over there changed with Soriano's doing. He's
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: throwing more for Steamers, So maybe they'll be a little
• 34:13
  Speaker 7: bit tougher than I want to give him credit for.
• 34:15
  Speaker 7: But I mean they are. They were at least two
• 34:19
  Speaker 7: thre years ago. Consensus it's worst or second worst team
• 34:24
  Speaker 7: in player development, and you've seen what they've done. And
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: to to to counteract that is just take guys from
• 34:31
  Speaker 7: college and just put them right into the big league.
• 34:33
  Speaker 7: I mean they they don't. They don't play in the
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: minor league there in Anaheim. And so what has happened
• 34:39
  Speaker 7: is that some of these young guys have come up
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: and not been ready. It's just a mess over there. Generally,
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: I wouldn't I wouldn't say that anything looks much better.
• 34:46
  Speaker 7: The one thing I will say is the one problem.
• 34:48
  Speaker 7: Mike Trout looks back. His sprint speed is up, his
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: bat speed is good, he looks rejuvenated. I don't know
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: how long it'll take before he's sad and tired again
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: of this where his team is in the standing. Mike
• 35:04
  Speaker 7: Trout looks back, so better off just walking, I think.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Well, I guess the good news is Felix won't be
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: pitching agains him this weekend because I think he's hit
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: the majority of his leadoff home runs and his career
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: off Felix Ornandez over the years, and Felix would have
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: been in the Hall of Fame for now. I mean,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: it was an amazing phenomenon for so many years, Felix
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: and get everybody else out around the entire league except
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: for that one dude, Eno appreciate it. Looking forward to
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: this this year, I should mention that on the Rates
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: and Barrels podcast, you need talk about the cold Emerson
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: situation too with the new contract extension, So if people
• 35:36
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• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Rates and Barrels, read all stuff Eno has at the
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  Speaker 1: Athletic too, and we'll check in with you next week.
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  Speaker 1: My friend.
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  Speaker 8: May we talk about how big these games are and
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  Speaker 8: there's nine lefter in the schedule, so I think just
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  Speaker 4: Tonight?
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  Speaker 10: Tonight's with Alkiniski on Saturday with and also there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Just quick Daily power played back to my Asquahantakmboda. We
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  Speaker 1: were just chuckling out in the sports pit a moment ago,
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  Speaker 1: just laughing. They're not out of it yet and there's
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: still somehow, very much in it. Yeah, but you got
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  Speaker 1: to start winning games. You got to start picking up points.
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  Speaker 1: We're not too must win to remain alive, but we're
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  Speaker 1: kind of in a must win situa. I mean, they
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: if they don't get four points in the next two
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• 38:24
  Speaker 1: but it's damn close.
• 38:25
  Speaker 10: Al Kaniski mentioned if you can get fourteen points that
• 38:31
  Speaker 10: might be enough. But the bottom line is right now,
• 38:33
  Speaker 10: Ian you have nine games left, five at home and
• 38:37
  Speaker 10: four on the road. And should I remind you about
• 38:40
  Speaker 10: the cupcake schedule that remains on the road or lack thereof,
• 38:44
  Speaker 10: in case anybody has forgotten here it is at Winnipeg, Minnesota, Vegas,
• 38:52
  Speaker 10: and Colorado. Everything equity wise is now gone. The margin
• 38:57
  Speaker 10: for air is basically gone.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: The easiest game is I guess, followed by Colorado, but
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: judging what happened the coaching chains also yeah, and and
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Colorado got wax last night by Vancouver somehow. But they're
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: they're just in cruise control right now. Who starts a
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: goal tonight? Looking like it'll be Joey to Cord Phil Sped.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: The last three he's at the net, the last three
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: game has been really really good to Court needs a
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: bounce back tonight. Uh Oscar Fisker Mouleguard in the lineup
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: again tonight, Yes, I think he. If you're a cracking fan,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: you haven't seen him playing.
• 39:26
  Speaker 10: Back in Also, it looks like Jacob Alanson's also back
• 39:28
  Speaker 10: in he took line rushes and that's a big key
• 39:32
  Speaker 10: that you need right back in Ben Ben Myers, Like
• 39:35
  Speaker 10: Ben Myers here for this one, mikey five point five
• 39:40
  Speaker 10: point lead into the Olympic break.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: What happened? What happened to these guys?
• 39:44
  Speaker 10: You know what I remember Lane Lambert said about two, three,
• 39:48
  Speaker 10: maybe four games ago, mid trip, we were all talking
• 39:52
  Speaker 10: about how the Olympic break would have been good to rest, recharge, recalibrate.
• 39:59
  Speaker 10: He thinks the opposite now has basically happened. If you
• 40:02
  Speaker 10: went to go play in the Olympics, this actually helped
• 40:05
  Speaker 10: you versus rest. And this has always been a team
• 40:08
  Speaker 10: since day one that has that.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Coppock is a great example. Yeah, I mean Red Hodgs
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: since he came back.
• 40:13
  Speaker 10: Look at Oscar Fisker, Mouleguard since he got called up.
• 40:16
  Speaker 10: He played for Denmark also in the Olympics. Yeah, not
• 40:19
  Speaker 10: a lot of success for that team, but he got it.
• 40:20
  Speaker 10: He got all roller team even you know, game by
• 40:24
  Speaker 10: game period one they take a while, and you could
• 40:26
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• 40:52
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  Speaker 5: Thanks for having me back as always.
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  Speaker 1: We love having you on. We're gonna get some we'll
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• 44:46
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• 44:48
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, at least yeah, spent a few years now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you were with Pro Football Focus PFF. We
• 45:12
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• 45:16
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• 45:19
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• 45:37
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• 45:42
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• 45:44
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  Speaker 1: Now there's different levels of subscription and data that they're getting.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: You and Sam made the choice to leave a couple
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: of years ago. We'll get to that just in a heartbeat.
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  Speaker 1: But for those of us that you know, like you
• 45:57
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• 45:59
  Speaker 1: using some of the data, and it seems like it's
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: going away. Give us the cliff notes. I'm buying the
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: electro notes in college version of what actually PFF was,
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: what it is now and what's transpired the last few days.
• 46:15
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I'll do it as quickly as possible. But you know,
• 46:17
  Speaker 11: the PFF. PFF started as a hobby that turned into
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• 46:26
  Speaker 11: from an NFL perspective in college. Every single NFL, every
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  Speaker 11: to a t.
• 46:45
  Speaker 5: And so that's how PFF gone.
• 46:47
  Speaker 11: A lot of exposure was the grading process, but it
• 46:50
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• 47:00
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• 47:05
  Speaker 5: You know, it just became something that was.
• 47:08
  Speaker 11: In every football building, but also something public facing and
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  Speaker 11: ways to look at football, you know, ideally in a
• 47:15
  Speaker 11: smarter way, you know, hopefully adding better context and just
• 47:20
  Speaker 11: different ways of looking at players at all positions too. Right,
• 47:23
  Speaker 11: So the first time you really had data for offensive
• 47:26
  Speaker 11: linemen and you know, things for defensive linement beyond just
• 47:29
  Speaker 11: sack totals, coverage numbers that were consistent.
• 47:32
  Speaker 5: You know, and now over twenty years of that information.
• 47:35
  Speaker 11: So those PFF in a nutshell, and now it's being
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  Speaker 11: happens on the public facing side, as the company is
• 47:55
  Speaker 11: essentially being split at this point and I'm not there,
• 47:57
  Speaker 11: so see what happens.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: I know a lot of media focusing on used it
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: as well as well as fans and so forth. Is
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: that version gone? It feels like it is. I see,
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: you know, media members. I talk to guys who are like, oh,
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: there's no reason to do PFF anymore. The people that
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: we kind of, you know, knew, at least, as you said,
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: the front facing people are no longer there. Might still
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: work for the teams, but what football fans and even
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: you know, whether it be fantasy betting, what have you.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: What they were, what they had before is no longer there,
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: I believe, at least listening to your podcast, it kind
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: of feels like it that's a thing of the past now.
• 48:30
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm really not sure what their business plan is
• 48:34
  Speaker 11: with the actual data, you know, if that'll be available,
• 48:36
  Speaker 11: if they'll continue the subscriptions.
• 48:37
  Speaker 5: It sounds like they are, at least in the short term.
• 48:39
  Speaker 11: But the media people, the writers, most people are gone.
• 48:43
  Speaker 11: Ninety eight percent of the people that were the faces
• 48:47
  Speaker 11: of the company, particularly after I left and Sam left,
• 48:51
  Speaker 11: all they're they're all gone there.
• 48:52
  Speaker 5: They're all out of jobs at the moment.
• 48:54
  Speaker 11: So I'm not really sure what happens to the PFF,
• 48:58
  Speaker 11: I mean, media exposure here, other than the data could
• 49:02
  Speaker 11: still be out there and people could still use it,
• 49:04
  Speaker 11: but it's certainly a different day, I would say for PFF.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: Mem on a non kind of football Sea Pelozola joining
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: us a non football related thing, and just kind of
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: maybe real life that a lot of people can can
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: probably understand. I guess in some ways. I don't know
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: if this is a general this is me being a
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: really dumb media guy. So bear with me, Steve, but
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: help me out here. Is this a cautionary tale of hey,
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: you know, being part of something really cool in a
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: startup and growth and all that can be awesome, but
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: it also can be risky as well. I mean, and maybe,
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: and I don't know if it has anything to do
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: with the world of AI. You know, people out here
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: in our world are dealing with that, especially the Amazon.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: You know, there's people that I know working at Amazon
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: right now that are designing things to basically eliminate their
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: own jobs. I mean, it's kind of a scary time
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: out there. I don't know if that's if that is
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: in any way connected, if I'm making any sense whatsoever,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: But I'll let you comment on that.
• 49:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think there's element so that. You know, we
• 50:01
  Speaker 5: talked about it on our show yesterday.
• 50:03
  Speaker 11: Try not to rehash too much of it, but yeah,
• 50:06
  Speaker 11: I mean it it went from we went from startup
• 50:09
  Speaker 11: to pretty big, and then you get a lot of
• 50:11
  Speaker 11: investors in and different goals, and.
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: I think that's just any business. I think a lot
• 50:16
  Speaker 5: of our discussion yesterday was about business.
• 50:19
  Speaker 11: In general, you know, how you handle you know, people
• 50:22
  Speaker 11: and relationships.
• 50:23
  Speaker 5: And it's interesting because when we talk about NFL teams.
• 50:26
  Speaker 11: We're very much you know, pick this player, pick that player,
• 50:28
  Speaker 11: and you hear coaches talk about relationships and the locker room,
• 50:32
  Speaker 11: and you hear John Schneider talk about it all the time,
• 50:34
  Speaker 11: getting the right guys in the building, and that's like
• 50:36
  Speaker 11: any business.
• 50:36
  Speaker 5: And that's why I think it's a fascinating discussion and
• 50:39
  Speaker 5: that the.
• 50:39
  Speaker 11: People matter, and even as analysts, you know, sometimes you
• 50:43
  Speaker 11: lose track of that. So I think there's kernels of
• 50:46
  Speaker 11: truth and a lot of those in every industry. But
• 50:50
  Speaker 11: in a lot of that discussion, whether it was PFF
• 50:52
  Speaker 11: or AI driven things, you know, just making sure that
• 50:55
  Speaker 11: people are taken care of and we'll see what happens
• 50:58
  Speaker 11: going forward.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, Steve's focus oftentimes with us in season,
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: if we're doing stuff in the fall, it's the game
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: coming up or the game we just saw. But this
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: is kind of your wheelhouse. You love the team building
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: side of things, and that's why we love having you on.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: So let me let me go down and start when
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: we get to the draft in a second. But for us,
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: we're very obviously Seahawks centric out here now that we've
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: kind of come out of free agency and we're just
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: a few weeks away from the draft. Let me start
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the football. For Seattle, it
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: feels like the biggest need is gonna be running back,
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: and we'll get to that in a second. You know,
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: the next couple weeks probably talk about some of the
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: running back in the draft. But I find it, I
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: think I think they should be encouraged if you're a
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: Seahawk fan, and even the Seahawks themselves, see they come
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: out of free agency, there's that so called Super Bowl tax.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: You're gonna lose guys. They lose Ken Walker, that's a
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: massive loss. But basically they return every other starter on offense,
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: and a lot of the depth guys as well, whether
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: it be you know, a Jake Bobo, Rashid shi Hi,
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: guys like that, that are all coming back. When you
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: look from thirty thousand feet at what the Seahawks have
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: coming back heading into the draft, let's start on the offense.
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: What kind of shape are they in?
• 52:08
  Speaker 5: Well?
• 52:08
  Speaker 11: First off, congrats to the city of Seattle. All the
• 52:12
  Speaker 11: listeners for the Super Bowl ton't haven't been able to
• 52:14
  Speaker 11: congratulate your protest thank you since winning it all. So
• 52:17
  Speaker 11: that's that was pretty cool. What an amazing season. But yeah,
• 52:20
  Speaker 11: I mean they're in really good shape. I mean, if
• 52:22
  Speaker 11: you're gonna nitpick things, obviously you want a good replacement
• 52:26
  Speaker 11: for Ken Walker, you know, Zach Sharboney coming off the
• 52:28
  Speaker 11: late season injury. So running back depth is going to
• 52:31
  Speaker 11: be important. You can absolutely look at right guard and say, hey,
• 52:34
  Speaker 11: we could potentially use an upgrade there, and maybe just
• 52:37
  Speaker 11: interior offensive line in general, adding some depth there. And
• 52:42
  Speaker 11: then you know, a lot of the moves that they
• 52:44
  Speaker 11: made are hey, you know Jsn's getting paid and Rashugi
• 52:47
  Speaker 11: Heat's coming back. Those are all great things being able
• 52:49
  Speaker 11: to retain players, and the next play is going to
• 52:51
  Speaker 11: be just adding depth, and you know, at some point
• 52:54
  Speaker 11: maybe there's someone who either can't get paid or they
• 52:57
  Speaker 11: need to upgrade upon or whatever it may be. So
• 53:00
  Speaker 11: they are in very good shape and I think they're
• 53:02
  Speaker 11: in a position to say, hey, we do have to
• 53:04
  Speaker 11: address running back.
• 53:05
  Speaker 5: Maybe we can upgrade it.
• 53:05
  Speaker 11: Right guard, but most of the other you know, starting
• 53:09
  Speaker 11: positions and even some of the backups are in really
• 53:12
  Speaker 11: good shape offensively.
• 53:13
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• 53:15
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• 53:29
  Speaker 1: I'll go back in time a little bit, Steve. You
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: know you'll remember this from our early conversations out here,
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: and I think maybe even one of the first conversations
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: we ever had years ago was talking about the Seahawks
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: offensive line and for so many years that offensive line.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: In fact, I think that's what we saw. Go PFF's
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: got the Seahawks offensive line thirty second, what the hell's
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: going on? And we started using Steve and having them
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: on a lot more. I remember Justin Britt I brought
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: it up with him once and he's just kind of
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: scoffed at it. He pulled the JJ Watt thing. I
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: don't know what that means, PFF grades, whatever, what have you,
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: But there was no out that the offensive line would
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: have been a massive issue for so many years. You
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: mentioned right guard Anthony Bradford. There's some that will say, well,
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: he played better as a year went on down the stretch,
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: what have you. But I think that that could be
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: a place to improve. I know you guys just discussed
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: this on a podcast. Where is the twenty twenty six
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: Seahawk offensive line heading into the draft and heading out
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: of the offseason looking like?
• 54:23
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, I don't know where i'd rank them
• 54:25
  Speaker 11: in a vacuum across the NFL necessarily, but I think
• 54:29
  Speaker 11: they're in good shape of tackle with Charles Cross both
• 54:31
  Speaker 11: you know, locked up and playing well, and Abe Lucas
• 54:35
  Speaker 11: showing that he could you know, stay healthy, play and
• 54:38
  Speaker 11: be good again. Right, So I think tackles looking pretty good.
• 54:41
  Speaker 11: Grace Able did a really nice job as a rookie.
• 54:43
  Speaker 11: I thought Jalen Sundell did a really nice job at center,
• 54:47
  Speaker 11: you know, filling in as well or you know, kind
• 54:49
  Speaker 11: of being a surprise starter.
• 54:51
  Speaker 5: Really weren't really sure.
• 54:53
  Speaker 11: Exactly what they were going to do there at center
• 54:56
  Speaker 11: going into the season. And then yeah, I think there's
• 54:58
  Speaker 11: just an upgrade opportunity at right guard with Bradford. So
• 55:02
  Speaker 11: when I look at offensive lines I want to see
• 55:05
  Speaker 11: I think they're in three good starters that you really trust,
• 55:09
  Speaker 11: territory which is excellent, that's usually top ten to twelve
• 55:12
  Speaker 11: dish around the league, and then you know a starting
• 55:15
  Speaker 11: caliber player at center, and then maybe one question mark.
• 55:19
  Speaker 11: So for me in the off season, I try to
• 55:21
  Speaker 11: avoid as many question marks as possible, especially in the
• 55:24
  Speaker 11: starting five. And I'd say there's maybe one question And
• 55:26
  Speaker 11: again you could say, hey, they won a super Bowl
• 55:28
  Speaker 11: with Bradford. Absolutely, I mean they could roll out there
• 55:30
  Speaker 11: with their starting five next year that they won a
• 55:33
  Speaker 11: super Bowl with. It's not like it's insurmountable, but I
• 55:37
  Speaker 11: think that is the upgrade opportunity. But they're in a
• 55:39
  Speaker 11: much better shot than much better spot than they were
• 55:41
  Speaker 11: when we first started talking years ago. And you know,
• 55:44
  Speaker 11: I think three out of five, you know, above average
• 55:47
  Speaker 11: potential starters, you know, four out of five starters that
• 55:50
  Speaker 11: you feel good about, five actual starters that could be
• 55:52
  Speaker 11: returning and in a really good spot.
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: I'd say overall, up front, next week, I'm gonna tease
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: ahead a little bit. I want to talk run I'll
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: talk running backs with you the draft next week, because
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: I think that's obviously you mentioned. I mean with Walker
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: Gon Charbonney probably going to miss at least a month
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: or so of the season. Halani, we know kind of
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: what he is. They brought in Emmanuel Wilson just kind
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: of seems like a guy. We'll kind of get into
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: the running back class and draft next week with Steve
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: Steve Pelosolo joining us. Let's go to the defensive side.
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: They did take some hits there. Boy mafe Rieke Wolan,
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant all departing the football team. So they do
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: have some some losses there. They have some depth at
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: some of those positions. They kind of chose chose job
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: job over over Wolan and probably the money thing Bryant leagues.
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: They still have Taya Kata. They had some depth on
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: the edge. Mafey only had a couple of sacks last season,
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: but as I learned from Steve pelos Ol, it's not
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: all about the sacks. It's about pressure rate and other things,
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: and he did a pretty good job in that regard.
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: So when you kind of look again at the thirty
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: thousand foot view of the defense heading into the draft,
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: what does it look like.
• 56:51
  Speaker 11: Yeah, it's still in very good shape, but all the
• 56:53
  Speaker 11: losses that you mentioned, you know, the depth takes a hit.
• 56:56
  Speaker 11: You know, starting with Mafe and the defensive line. You know,
• 56:58
  Speaker 11: it's one of those positions where you when you're stacking
• 57:02
  Speaker 11: up the depth chart, you don't just look at the
• 57:03
  Speaker 11: starting three or four. You should be looking at the
• 57:06
  Speaker 11: seven or eight. You know you've got the starters, you
• 57:08
  Speaker 11: have the depth. We know it's a rotational type of position.
• 57:11
  Speaker 11: We know last year at this time we were talking
• 57:13
  Speaker 11: about look at what the Eagles just did in the
• 57:15
  Speaker 11: Super Bowl to the Chiefs. You know, four man rush
• 57:17
  Speaker 11: and rotating through and you really want to be seven
• 57:20
  Speaker 11: or eight deep on that defensive line. So I think
• 57:23
  Speaker 11: there's room to replenish there. It's certainly in great shape
• 57:27
  Speaker 11: with Byron Murphy Leonard Williams. I thought to Marcus Lawrence
• 57:30
  Speaker 11: was one of the most underrated signings last year at
• 57:34
  Speaker 11: this time, and I thought that was proven correct that
• 57:36
  Speaker 11: you know, he had a really nice season, made an impact.
• 57:38
  Speaker 11: But certainly you lose a little bit of juice off
• 57:42
  Speaker 11: the edge with Mafe, and I would I could see
• 57:44
  Speaker 11: them trying to replace that in the draft. So I
• 57:46
  Speaker 11: think the D line absolutely needs more depth. Corner's gonna
• 57:50
  Speaker 11: be interesting because I do think Josh job did a
• 57:52
  Speaker 11: pretty nice job last year in particular. But Rik Wollen,
• 57:56
  Speaker 11: whether you know it was never really a fit or
• 57:59
  Speaker 11: just never really connect did with McDonald. He still has
• 58:01
  Speaker 11: a unique skill set with his size, length, in his athleticism.
• 58:05
  Speaker 11: It's a different body type that they don't really have
• 58:07
  Speaker 11: there at corner. It'll be interesting to see if they
• 58:09
  Speaker 11: try to get a big, long corner to uh, you know,
• 58:12
  Speaker 11: provide some of the flexibility that Greek will and gave
• 58:15
  Speaker 11: them on the defensive side of the ball. But again,
• 58:17
  Speaker 11: it's a it's a really good roster, it's in a
• 58:19
  Speaker 11: really good spot. You could see if they do want
• 58:21
  Speaker 11: to go back and you know, add more safety depth.
• 58:24
  Speaker 11: But you know, you always say, could you play a
• 58:26
  Speaker 11: game next week before the draft, you know, could you
• 58:29
  Speaker 11: play a game? And Seattle's in good shape where they
• 58:31
  Speaker 11: could play a game, and then you get into the
• 58:32
  Speaker 11: draft and hopefully grab the best players. You don't have
• 58:35
  Speaker 11: a ton of needs that directly need to be filled,
• 58:37
  Speaker 11: and that's that's a great place to be heading into
• 58:40
  Speaker 11: late April.
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: I like how you looked at that though. I think
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: it's an interesting way because I'm just kind of thinking
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: back even too a year ago. Could you play a
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: game right now? And what kind of team would you
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: put on the field, And if they were to play
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: a game right now today, they'd still be pretty damn good.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: Like like there's there's not a lot that's and and
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: that doesn't always happen. Steve was teams that win Super Bowls,
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: and we just went through some of the losses, especially
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: in the defense. But I mean, I think back even
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: when this team went to back to back Super Bowls
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: and you know, thirteen and fourteen, those seasons, the losses
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: seemed a lot more significant. They they've come out of
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl win in better shape than a lot
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: of Super Bowl teams come out of it.
• 59:15
  Speaker 11: And even last year at this time, we were debating,
• 59:17
  Speaker 11: is this the year that you know, John finally drafts
• 59:19
  Speaker 11: a guard in the first round? Yeah, glaring need yep,
• 59:22
  Speaker 11: you know, we don't know, you know, they couldn't play
• 59:24
  Speaker 11: a game last year at this time, we didn't know
• 59:26
  Speaker 11: what they were going to do on the interior of
• 59:28
  Speaker 11: the offensive line.
• 59:29
  Speaker 5: And he does go get grayz Abel in the first round.
• 59:31
  Speaker 11: So I do think it's a better, more powerful position
• 59:34
  Speaker 11: than it was last year.
• 59:35
  Speaker 5: Now that's always dangerous.
• 59:36
  Speaker 11: They won a super Bowl, it doesn't mean well, They're
• 59:38
  Speaker 11: going back to back, hands down, no matter what, because
• 59:40
  Speaker 11: I think the Rams might have the best starting twenty
• 59:42
  Speaker 11: two in the NFL right now. Again, if we were
• 59:44
  Speaker 11: playing games yeah in April, so other teams are getting better,
• 59:47
  Speaker 11: you can't just sit there and say, well, we're just
• 59:49
  Speaker 11: bringing in you know, bringing ninety percent of the.
• 59:51
  Speaker 5: Guys back will be great. We'll do it again.
• 59:54
  Speaker 11: But again, it's it's it's a good spot where you
• 59:56
  Speaker 11: don't have to force Hey we need a free safety.
• 59:58
  Speaker 11: Hey we need to have a guard. Hey we need
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 11: to have this position or that position. They're in a
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 11: good spot to be able to take the best players
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 11: and let the board follow them, so to speak. Well,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 11: I wanted to touch it on that real quick before
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 11: I let you go.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: And again, we'll start to getting to some positions next week,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: especially we'll start with running back, edge rusher's, cornerbacks over
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: the next few weeks with Steve. But you mentioned the Rams.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: I think that's Seattle lives in a in a division
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: where you've got to worry about your neighbors. The forty
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: nine ers are what they are. They're probably I would
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: think probably maybe number three in terms of just the roster.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: How it looks right now in the division. But there's
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: no doubt that the Rams have significantly upgraded in the offseason.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: I just we'll just talk about the two local guys.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, what kind of upgrade is it when they
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: pick up Jalen Watson and Trent McDuffie in the offseason.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: Two guys by the way that they're from out here.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: Watson's a coube from Wazoo and Trent McDuffie's a Husky
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: from udub.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 11: I mean, the Rams went and addressed their biggest need
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 11: because I think everybody you know, as of two months ago,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 11: right before free agency, was saying, hey, they've got two
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 11: first round picks. They they might spend both on corners, right,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 11: That's what that's their biggest need. They might need to
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 11: get younger at receiver, but they really need starting corners,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 11: and they decided to do it for the draft and
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 11: get you know, used one of those first rounders to
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 11: go get Trent McDuffie, traded for him and paid him.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 11: So he's making thirty one million a year, but he's
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 11: one of the best corners in the league and has
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 11: a lot of flexibility outside and inside. And Watson's been
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 11: a really good corner for the Chiefs, obviously both for
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 11: the Chiefs.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 5: So they filled those needs. They brought back, you know,
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 5: Cameron Curl.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 11: At safety, and so I think again the Rams just
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 11: did a nice job saying, Okay, we're not going into
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 11: the draft with glaring needs either. We're going to make
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 11: sure that we have our guys locked up. They've got
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 11: some young players that need to get paid in the
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 11: coming years. And I think the Rams are also heading
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 11: into the draft saying, hey, we could draft at thirteen
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 11: the best player available and throughout the rest of the
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 11: draft just continue to add depth to this roster. So
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  Speaker 11: I think they're in a really good shape right now,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 11: and they addressed their offseason needs with some aggression in
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  Speaker 11: the in the secondary during free agency.
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  Speaker 1: How would you characterize this year's draft. I've heard a
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  Speaker 1: lot of various you know, people talk about different It's
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  Speaker 1: not good, it is good, it's deep, but it's not
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  Speaker 1: high end. You know, this this position's good, this position
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  Speaker 1: isn't good. What have you? How would you addrest or
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  Speaker 1: how would you surmise this year's draft.
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  Speaker 11: I think it's weak in the high end talent overall.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 11: Remember a couple of years ago, there was fourteen straight
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 11: off their thirteenth straight offensive players, all at high value positions, right,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 11: because it's tough to find tackles and receivers and quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 11: and those are all the positions that came off the
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  Speaker 11: board a couple of years ago before the first defensive
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 11: player came off the board. And there's other drafts where
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  Speaker 11: the first seven or eight picks feel like they're locked in.
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  Speaker 11: You know, these are blue chip guys like you can't pass,
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  Speaker 11: like the year that Jamar Chase was out there and
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  Speaker 11: Piney Sewell and Micah Parsons, and I just don't think
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  Speaker 11: you have that kind of high end talent to the
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  Speaker 11: point where I don't exactly know what the Jets are
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  Speaker 11: going to do it too, where usually you've got a
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  Speaker 11: few slam dunks at the top, like you have to
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 11: take this guy, like you have to take an Abdul
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  Speaker 11: Carter last year, you have to take a Travis Hunter
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  Speaker 11: last year.
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  Speaker 5: I don't even know if you have that in this draft.
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  Speaker 11: Depth is always there, I mean, there's always good players
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  Speaker 11: to find in rounds two, three, four, that's every draft.
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  Speaker 11: But I think the league sees this as a weaker draft.
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  Speaker 11: And then the other interesting and part of that's because
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 11: there's only one slam dunk first round quarterback in Fernando Mendoza.
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  Speaker 11: And then the other interesting piece is next year there
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  Speaker 11: appears to be a lot of blue chip talent, like
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  Speaker 11: Jeremiah Smith from Ohio State. You know, we'll see what
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 11: happens with the quarterback development. But a lot of the
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 11: qbs there were thought to be in this draft made
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 11: some strides, didn't come out. They're coming back players like
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 11: Arch Manning, so we'll see. I think next year could
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 11: be loaded, at least has the ability be loaded at receiver, tackle, edge,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 11: rush corner. It looks like there's some blue chip players,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 11: and I think this draft's gonna pale in comparison, you know,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 11: when we look next year at this time. So it's
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 11: solid overall, but missing some high end talent compared to
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 11: some other years.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, tell folks about the podcast, which guy's got going.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: It's always a great time of the year, even though
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: it's there's never an offseason in the NFL, So tell
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: people about what's going on with the podcast.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 5: My friend.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, check the mic anywhere you listen to your podcast
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 11: or on YouTube, and just going all in on the draft.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 11: We've got some draft rankings, doing mock draft every Monday
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 11: and trying to address every team during this off season,
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  Speaker 11: which we love. So check the mic anywhere you listen
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  Speaker 11: or watch the podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: Love it, buddy. We'll talk next week. Thank you, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. That is Steve Palazolo. Love talking to Steve
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  Speaker 1: every week. We'll do that next week. Next week we'll
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: talk running backs with Steve, especially in the draft and
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: see what might be after that first round with Jeremiah Love.
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  Speaker 1: Alrighty, ladies and gentlemen, here we are. We're back.
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  Speaker 2: You're talking to me, you my dad?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Ian, Seattle sports guy here with a quick update
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 3: on Seattle sports. The Marriors are petitioning Major League Baseball
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: to start the season after the All Star Week and
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: play it backwards so Julio Rodriguez can actually produce.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 4: At the plate.
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  Speaker 3: Governor Bob Ferguson and the million taxes he's raised also
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 3: signed in the Millionaires tax to sell break the Sonics
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  Speaker 3: with spage. The question who's worse a lying politician or
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: a Seattle sports take.
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  Speaker 1: From Mark j.
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  Speaker 12: Spears and checkson emphasizing Mark Jay Spears not Mark James
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  Speaker 12: a little different, although both you see in the Mark.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of marks of seas out there these days.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: Before I get to texts, before you get to the chat.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: Jess was asking me a question to break and I
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: don't know the answer to this, but I'm gonna I'm
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: gonna shout out one of our favorite people during football season,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: Fantasy football season. We have Brendon Funts on every Thursday,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: and we have like this cast of regulars that call
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: in and answer the questions. Mike and Edmunds, Ricky and Tacoma.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: We've got dueling guys from Sultan, We've got guys. We've
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: got of course, Rob from Burien. You know a team's awful.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: Rob right now is sitting there going my team's awful.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: It's not even fantasy football season, dude. Yeah, you've already
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: You've already tapped out.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: It's not even been the draft.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: Remind me, I got one more fantasy thing to say anyway.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: Steven Sultan. Steven and Sultan's Derek and Sultan and Stephen
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  Speaker 1: and Sultan.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: There's two Sultans.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: You think one of those is a mechanic right?
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: Vaguely? I talked to Steve bof Air one time because
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: I know he lives there and I was talking to
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: him about my husband's property out in Skycomish, and I
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: thought he mentioned I know he has a business, and
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: I don't remember what the business was. That being said,
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: I am looking for a mechanic count in that.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: Area you're looking. So Jess is looking for mechanic up north?
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: Could not north and east? Yes, north and east? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: four nine four five one if you can help her out.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I mean this is not an endorsement, like we
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: will pay you.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: No this, Yeah, this is just personal thing. Yes, but
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: you know what, why not use a little the radio
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: airwaves or the YouTube's airwaves whatever.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: We shouldn't even get help friends and friends?
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: What was I going to say about as I say, oh,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: fantasy football. Before I get to the text, I gotta still
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: talk to these two purple sheet Oh gosh, yeah, yeah,
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: because we've got a show coming standby wait till that
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: show happens. Now that I think of it, this is
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: better that we delayed a little bit for those who
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: missed it earlier. My fantasy football season did not go
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: as planned. And when I mean it didn't go as planned,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: I finished last weird how it finished. I didn't really finish.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: I finished, not in the last in the regular season.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: But we have a little consolation playoffs and somehow going
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: one and two there while another guy went one into
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: finished last in the regular season. I finished last, not him.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: I think I think I got taken advantage of, to
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: be honest with you.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: So this is like voting for the MVP before the playoffs.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's messed up. But here's a deal. My fantasy
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: football guys are all my neighbors and guys I golf with.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: They're going to come in and do an hour of
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: radio on my show at some point. So we're planning
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: probably in the summer. We'll see probably when there's a
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: Mariners game on. But we're good.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: That's a good idea.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: But here's the thing. They're going to be on YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait for that.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: Oh they are. I'm gonna leave the cameras on during
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: the break.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: Y ask a call, Yeah, okay, four nine, four or
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: five to one. Let's see Keith Miller.
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  Speaker 5: I can.
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  Speaker 1: I can imagine the huge bumping salary if I'm got
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: with the addition of YouTube channel. Congratulations, Yeah, thanks, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know where I'm gonna spend all the money.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: I really don't.
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  Speaker 4: Forty five.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: That's pretty talented and talking without your lips moving. Yeah,
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: when we do taped interviews and some and again let's
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: go behind the curtain. There's guys that need to have
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: taped interviews, like a lot of guys like Rob Rang,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: we always have to tape just because of this schedule.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: Plozolo usually will be live. EMO will usually be live.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: Their schedules today we're just a little different. Cosell always taped.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: We're working on some of the technology I am told
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: see we do. We usually do the Molly Whoppers live,
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: Chris and Nate. I'm told at some point near future
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: we'll be able to we when we have it on
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: Zoom or stream yard, whatever we do, they will be
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: on the YouTube as well.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: Yes, we're very much high.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: So you guys can watch Molly Whoppers.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: You can watch a breakdown in real time even when
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: they're not talking.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: It's fantastic, God helpless, all right, do any think on the.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: Chat there's a lot we have some people who are
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: very very very excited about this, very excited. Daddy Dennis
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: Pi is probably our biggest p one over here right
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: now at Daddy Dennis Pi on YouTube. So he said
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: Finally I can listen to local sports and interact with
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: the station on their stream. I don't have to go
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: to Detroit or Chicago defined stations with action. So thank you, Daddy.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: Oh I got an update for it. Keep finding me
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: another one, Jess. But in the meantime, I got an
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: update from Rob and Burien. Draft you're talking draft and yes,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: my team sucks.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: We love you. We miss I miss all those guys too.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: I missed the fantasy guys on Thursdays. It's it's like
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: a little family of people. So what else you got?
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: Let's see, there's a lot from mister. I'm gonna call
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: him instead of daddy because I just realized how creepy
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: that sounds coming from me. So let's see. Here we
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: go from at Big Purple Logistics. Have you hosts and
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: producers ever thought of using the blank space behind you
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: as a way to spotlight your favorite chair?
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: That is something we're gonna try to do. Yes, we
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: somebody actually, our buddy Jeremy said about this. I'm wearing
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: the Mery Maple Valley hoodie today, kind of quarter zip hoody.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: Love that.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: Shout out to Cutter and Buck for that. No, we
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: don't have more THO was like kind of.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: A knockoff, a one off, not off?
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, one off, sorry, one off, one off?
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, And I see you going back and forth with
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: our old friend, my predecessor.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't give him any.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: Consyeah, got it.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: Just worry about your own team there, fella, you guys
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: got you got absolute boat raced by the Canucks last night.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: It's a bad sign going into the playoffs. Just coasting along.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: This also, and it's something to andrews Hurst dropped into
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: the chat too. Don't forget to like the video. As
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: soon as you like, it will show up in your
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: feeds more often when you go to YouTube. And as
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: we can see that everyone in our chat right now
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: is an avin YouTube user, so it should be good.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: We got a text. Now I'm looking at our numbers
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: growing as far as people watching, and then I'll read
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: this one. This one says it's false to the two
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: six ian What do you expect from people who fing
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: watch Radio JFC for the love of the coops. I'd
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: rather watch the Last Man's basketball game than KJR on YouTube.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: Well that's something because if you really want to watch,
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: if you would rather watch any Wazoo basketball game, this
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: year over something that we're doing. That's pretty bad. I'm
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: really hurt by that comment. Well, you know what I
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: don't I like watching Wazoo basketball was a painful experience,
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: So I can't even imagine what this must be for you.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing. You don't have to That's why
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: we provide you multi platformed access.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: Funny, Tony says, funny, All you guys look nothing like
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: the radio versions of yourselves. Really, wait till you see
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: Softy stand by. He's coming into like ten minutes. You guys,
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: tell me what you think he looks like.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, he's not to be in studio. He's at Huskey.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: Practice, like Jess has done television. Yeah, but people should
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: have seen her if nothing else. You watch a Coup game,
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: you'll see her chasing a coach for a halftime interview.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: The best was when it was Leech and he tried
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: to run away from you.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: I always got a chuckle out of that, But yeah,
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: that was But yeah, Dick does TV for the Storm.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: He's on all the time. Right, So we've had people
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: Andrews is like a TV star on the Fox thirteen show.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: Now Oh yeah, Like he's on like twice a week.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: He does like five different postgames.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 12: Yeah, he's on Cracks postcast Anderson Hurst from Seahawks postgame
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 12: Softy not on TV.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 4: There's reason I.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: See him every once in a while when they do
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: that Pac twelve show.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: But they don't do that anymore because we don't have
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: a Pack twelve anymore.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: That is correct. We did it last year one time
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: whenever they're they were calling it at the time, actual
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: had it.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: Here's an actual sports one talking about you know, Sarah
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: Sari a bat speed weather component. Not buying that. It's
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: saw move spring training to Alaska. Guys coming to the
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: season fat and they take crap. Julio hits crappy and
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: we give him pass Fords traditional slow start, no excuses
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: unless we want a pro rate salaries based on seasonal readiness.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: Two o six. I wish you were in the clubhouse
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: just lightening into these guys, pulling a Laine Lambert and
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: just going nuts.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: But we talked to in a little bit off the
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: air too. He's gonna look at this stuff because I
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: it the bat speed which is measurable, and the Mariners
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: four guys he could included Randy. I gave him the
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: Big three, Naylor, Julio, and col He missed our conversation
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: with Eno sarahs jo Naylor, and col He included Randy.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: Those four their bat speed speeds plural are all significantly
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: down from last year. That's either A a massive red
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: flag or B. As you know said, it could be
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: weather relate, it could just be cold weather. Guys aren't
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: as loose.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 5: Whatever.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: Now, it didn't seem to bother Young. He's been fine,
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: Donovan camp Field. But he hit he's hitting four forty
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: or something. Yeah, he hasn't bothered him. Didn't bother the Yankees,
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: didn't bother the Guardians when they're hitting the ball. So,
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: but we'll see. We'll keep an eye on that one.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: What else we got anything else? Oh you got to
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: get home in studio?
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to say that one.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 5: Oh God, Mike, we.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: Sug just you can't tell him he's going to be on.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: I was just going to say, we just won't tell him, Okay,
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: we just want First.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: Of all, there's a about a ninety percent chance that
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: he doesn't know what YouTube is.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: That is a I would say he probably coach.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: Probably has no clue. And even if he and just
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: less is more you know, you, you kind over his
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: handler you. The less he knows is the.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: Better you scale it down for him. I call it
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: like our engineers here getting us up on YouTube and everything.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: I thank them for translating.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: He does like to come in studio though he loves coming.
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  Speaker 1: He comes and sound as much as he can. He
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: had a couple of things last year, a little foot
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: surgery or something, so he was not able to come
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: in as often as he did, but usually and he
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: comes rolling in here and it's like it's like the
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: parting of the sea.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone Mike's here, oh, with every single human in the office.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: So hopefully we'll get Mike on the YouTube as well,
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: so that'd be kind of fun. What else we got?
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: Oh do you see this? Uh oh yeah, Weigel and Creek.
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  Speaker 2: Bottom of insultant, Yes, I did see that. That's a
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: good wreck.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, thank you. A lot of people telling us how
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: to how to do the YouTube now, and you know what,
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: there's probably a lot of good ways to do it.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: We're just learning this thing.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: We are one step at a timing this. We just
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: want to be with you as soon as possible, and
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  Speaker 2: so we hit go.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: Ian even though you probably have three jobs at this point?
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: Would you be what be a bad year to do
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: a fundstant fantasy football leage with your Thursday regulars. I'm
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: still thinking about it. I only have two jobs. Feels
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: like eight, but I only have two, this one in
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: the Kraken. But I think I'm thinking about it with
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: the regulars. Yes, I am thinking about doing our fantasy
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: football league with our regulars. Or I'm thinking about having
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: just be in charge of doing.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 5: The fantasy.
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  Speaker 2: I love me a good project.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: If I'm being honest, it's like, hey, that's what I'm
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: looking to do. All right, we'll take a break a standby.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: We're moments away from Dave Softy mall Or coming in
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  Speaker 1: the studio, Hurricane Maller next. All right, Oh okay that's
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: the reason. Hello sir, how are you a good?
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 4: Not as good as Connor Griffin? You see that? By
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 4: the way, today you know who Connor Griffin is?
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: Do I not know? Why?
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 5: Do I know who that is?
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 4: He is the number one prospect in all of baseball?
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 5: Okay?
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 4: He plays for the Pittsburgh BH.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: He signed a big deal too, right.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 13: And he just been cold Emerson's deal. Yeah, I saw
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 13: that cold Emerson's the ink on his contract is not
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 13: even dry. And this guy's already surpassed. H I was
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 13: thinking the.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: Weren't we wondering? Maybe we're not gonna wonder anymore, Maybe
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a while. But was it the JSN contract?
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: Who can nakua? Could he surpass that?
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 4: Well? Not anymore. He's in rehab, right.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: I mean that's the thing, like it's I mean, I
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: don't want to make light of.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 4: It, but yeah, I mean, and look who knows, right, who.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: Knows what reaby the way.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 4: Petros thought it was for the white stuff?
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: Well, I heard Petros yesterday with you. That's why I
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: asked him. I never knows that tongue in cheek Petros.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: Or is he giving us some info that he knows?
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 13: It's been around enough people that have done a wide
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 13: variety of drugs where he would know reactions.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: He went to the USC during the day, right, Yeah, absolutely?
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 13: Yeah, you know he could tell you if you hear
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 13: a guy behaving a certain way, whether it's uh, you know,
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 13: crack heroin, uh, marijauana, uh, you know, maybe a couple
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 13: two extra many zins and the bottom lip.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 4: I don't know, man, there's a lot of things you
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 4: can do.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: So I think zin's are okay, aren't they?
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 4: Well not if you take too many of them. Yeah.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: Ask my wife, by the way, why does she like zen?
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 4: No? I did that one night?
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: Well, okay, all right, bad idea.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 4: So what you have? No?
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, and no. So you had
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: a zin pouch? Yes, and this a couple of years ago.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: It's about three years ago. Okay, at the golf club.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: There was a whole incident. Hey, Dick, does he.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 13: Know we're on the air, By the way, that guy
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 13: out there, okay, good, all right, I just want to
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 13: make sure he knows. Anyway, who's that jet No, it's
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 13: our buddy River here. He's checking the internet situation stadium. Yeah, yeah, right,
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 13: is what happens when you pay jet fish seven million
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 13: dollars a year.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 4: The ethernet ports don't work, So.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 13: Somebody's got to pay when the head coach is making
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 13: seven million.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: Dollars exactly, and whatever the quarterback's making. So let's let's
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: go back to this. So you were at the golf club, correct,
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: and someone offered you a zin pouch.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but it was like it wasn't like a hate
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 4: come over here.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: No, but it was like, was it three million? Was
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: it three six or nine milliund I don't.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 4: Know what it was.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 13: It was a jumbo one whatever, it was a big one.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 13: That's too much for me. And see it's all I'm saying.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 13: And you put it in your lip?
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: And how long did it take you to hurl?
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 4: I didn't hurl at all?
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: What happened?
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: Then?
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 4: I ended up in the lake on eight.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: Hey man, look, Tiger Woods is wrong with you?
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 4: Like, seriously, you on time ago pow? What do you
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 4: want me to tell you?
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: It doesn't make you inederated? You just so you got
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: dizzy and you fell in.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 13: The laying It made me inebriated, so saying it just
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 13: did something to my body. Okay, I was a little
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 13: skinnier back then. I've packed down a couple of porky
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 13: pounds since then. Thirty ten shut down, I got nowhere
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 13: to go.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 4: What do you want from me?
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: So is Zin? So Zin is your kryptonite? I come
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: to find.
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 13: Apparently that in tequila. I can guarantee it. Tequila Tequila
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 13: and me you're not get along.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 4: Never have we were, never have we?
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: So last Wednesday we go today when we're at Queen Amber,
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: Hall right, and we're there, and my wife and a
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: couple of her friends were in, and you were and
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: you were talking to them. We were talking, and we rove.
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: We have to dinner afterwards. By the way, thank you.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: Great shout out to our friends at Duke's on South
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: Lake Union. That's fantastic. Got great showder awesome.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 4: Night has opened this weekend.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: By the way, great shout out to Dukes. They're fantastic.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: So we're driving there and that your name came up
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: because my wife's two friends were highly entertained by you,
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: and and so then I'm not going to say the
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: story on the air. I'm just gonna remind you of
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: the story on the air, because you know what, I'm
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: a good friend, I really am, and so I'm not
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: going to bring up the specifics. But my wife says, gosh,
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: you would have The first time I ever met Softie
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: was and.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 4: Remember that I don't remember, to be honest.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: It was at my parents' house in Magnolia, the back
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: alley there. God, we had gone played golf at Broadmoor
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: that day.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 4: I never would have guessed that.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah you didn't, I'll just say you didn't feel well. Yeah, Yeah,
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: that was a yeah, and then I got yelled at
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: by by your future wife, Yes, because you decided to
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: have too much to drink.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 4: Now you know what it's like to yell at.
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: Luckily, Gina and I we were good enough at that point,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: we were about eight months into the job. But she's
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: just like, I'm like, what gy on this guy? That's
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: kind of what she said.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 4: I'm back in his cage.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: And here's the problem. Here's a problem. You and I
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: are the same in this regard. Like usually someone has
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: to take care of and look after me. So if
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: it's you and me together, right, that's just not gonna
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: it's not gonna be good. Yeah, it's not gonna be
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: good at all. So yeah, I think it was screw
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: drivers that day that you didn't that didn't do you well.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 13: So I think you and I are both you know,
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 13: we're not we're not touching it, but we're sniffing the
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 13: end of the road.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: Yes we are.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 4: That's probably fair.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: We're closer to the end than the start for tamp.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 13: Sure, we're sniffing the end of the road. And you know,
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 13: maybe we can time this up where we have a
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 13: joint retirement.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: Gig Oh, do you want to do that.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 4: Absolutely, what day? What I got? Let me get what's
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 4: your eta?
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: So today's April second, twenty six, April ninth, twenty twenty six. Done, Yeah,
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: next week, next Thursday.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 13: Thursday, next one more show here from Husky Stadium and
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 13: then I'm finished.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: You know what's happening right now? Purple purple sheet right
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: now is like celebrating, like he's right now, He's like,
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: thank god, those guys are gonna quit next week.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 13: Just bring me a bottle of Cuervo and you know,
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 13: show up to the Husky spring practice and I'll just
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 13: venture out to the field, walk right into the huddle
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 13: and just say what's up, guys.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: It sounds like a winning, hilarious all right.
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 13: So, so Jed's the kind of guy that might actually
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 13: kind of laugh at that.
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 4: Klen definitely would have laughed.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: Calen would have been all right with the Jed.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 4: Actually might kind of be okay with it. Howerson would
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 4: slug me?
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: Actually, Jess, how would Leech have handled that? How would
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: the late great Mike Leach?
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: Haandle just you would have taken this wig?
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if I had a bottle of tequila, just walked
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: in the huddle of he just walked on the field.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 2: And started drinking it.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 4: You know, when you say the word tequila, you gotta
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 4: say it like Luke.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: And say it tequila Tequilaakla? Is that the fela? So
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: you're in a Husky spring practice?
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 9: Got it?
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: I wish I was there, I know you do.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 13: Come on, what a real college football stadium looks like
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 13: instead of that high school stadium?
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 5: You guys?
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: Why are you guys at Austin today, the one.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 13: That's named after the former gut Better of the state
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 13: of Washington and a Husky graduate.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: I think hell is Martin Stadium? So SOFTI is at
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: Oddson at a real foo.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 4: What's funny about that Martin Stadium thing?
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: Nothing?
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 4: To be honest with you, I don't know how you
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 4: let that slide.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: We we've there's been many, many debates. There's been many debates.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: Sleep at night knowing that fact. Oh, I've got the
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: things that keep me up at night, buddy, don't worry
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: about that.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 4: I got far up.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: Pills, I got bigger worries. I got bigger worries. I
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: got bigger worries. I'm getting the wrap up sign. This
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: is what I do it on YouTube. Wrap it up.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: That's what it looks like wrap it up, all right,
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: so Husky football practice, Yes.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 13: Jetfiicill jordan Us at three point thirty. Jerry Depoto is
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 13: gonna jump on at four, not from here but on
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 13: the phone.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: Very good, okay.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 13: And then Brett Boon five o'clock the night before the cracking,
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 13: and the Wooly Mammoth at seven o'clock, The wooly Mammoth.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 4: That's right, the wooly mammoth.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 6: See but for the mild mannered and marginally objectionably in
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 6: forness this paddle day, saying so long everyone,