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9-3: Mariners win, Bruce Feldman and Seahawks news · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star Runnels Sports Desk, your 93.3 KJR
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  Speaker 1: FM Sports Headlines.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry about that. Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: First day, Greg?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, first day. First day of school for some. Well,
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  Speaker 2: first week of school for some of you. Happy Thursday,
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  Speaker 2: September the 3rd. Headlines are ready. We have frost, brood, corn, light,
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  Speaker 2: cold as the Rockies.
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  Speaker 3: Man, the Rockies sound good right now.
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  Speaker 2: Mariners. Hey, they won two of three in Boston after
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  Speaker 2: getting swept in Toronto. Just when you can't figure them out.
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  Speaker 2: 8-3 win yesterday and a barrage of hits. 12 of them.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of offense yesterday at Fenway Park. Manager Dan
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  Speaker 2: Wilson yanked shaky Bryce Miller after just 65 pitches.
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  Speaker 4: 4-1 lead.
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  Speaker 2: Aggressive bullpen. It's like, oh, maybe we need something to
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  Speaker 2: win here. The offense backed him after that.
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  Speaker 5: This ball might be dropping into that triangle, and it does.
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  Speaker 5: Here comes Canzone, Thunder at home, and it's airmailed Durbin, Deke,
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  Speaker 5: and Julio, and Julio sprinting.
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  Speaker 6: To the plate.
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  Speaker 5: He will score with a slide and without a throw.
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  Speaker 5: Huge third inning for the Mariners. Two more runs in,
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  Speaker 5: and it's 4-0 Mariners. Ground ball up the middle, and
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  Speaker 5: it's got some eyes. Young scores. Here comes Weston Wilson.
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  Speaker 5: He scores standing. Johnny Pareda drives in two. It's a
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  Speaker 5: 6-1 Mariners lead. Line left field destined for the base
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  Speaker 5: of the monster.
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  Speaker 6: Crawford hits third base. He's coming around to score.
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  Speaker 5: Randy Orozarena's big series in Boston marches on.
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  Speaker 6: It's 7-1 M's.
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  Speaker 2: Canzone.
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  Speaker 6: Deep drive. Up to the monster.
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  Speaker 5: And it bangs off the wall. Pereira is in to score.
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  Speaker 5: Randy Held. Dom Canzone scrapes the paint. And the Mariners
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  Speaker 5: continue to push another run across in the sixth inning.
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  Speaker 6: Ben Wilson has had to piece this one together. He
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  Speaker 6: lifted Bryce Miller in the fifth.
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  Speaker 2: Pereira to Rutger. Dominguez.
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  Speaker 6: And now Criswell. They get to the finish line and
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  Speaker 6: a series win. The 1-2. Swing and a miss.
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  Speaker 5: It's over. The Mariners win it. They take the series
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  Speaker 5: two games out of three. They push 25 runs across
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  Speaker 5: in three games at Fenway Park.
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  Speaker 6: And September is off to a phenomenal start.
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  Speaker 2: That's Gary Head, Jr., a Mariners broadcaster and a friend
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  Speaker 2: of ours. Yeah, I let him do all the talking
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  Speaker 2: on that one. 25 runs. 12 hits again yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not even going to say are they back because
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  Speaker 2: they are still five games out because the trash cans
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  Speaker 2: won last night. Beat Chicago. So the lead is still five.
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  Speaker 2: There's 22 games remaining. The next one is here in Oakland.
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  Speaker 2: Or Oakland. Oakland coming. I'm going to still call them
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  Speaker 2: the Oakland A's. I know they're in Sacramento. Coming to
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  Speaker 2: the yard in Soto tonight. Kate Anderson makes his third
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  Speaker 2: major league start for the Mariners. And a night game tonight,
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  Speaker 2: four-game series with the A's. And then the Rangers come in,
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  Speaker 2: the second-place team in the AL West next week. Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: are back in the practice field today after a three-day break.
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  Speaker 2: Their opener against New England is in six days. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to talk some more about the new owners, the
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  Speaker 2: Kozloff family, in a little bit. Georgia Attorney General Chris
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  Speaker 2: Carr wrote a letter to Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey
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  Speaker 2: urging him to, quote, take all measures available. including kicking
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  Speaker 2: LSU out of the conference if the Tigers and Lane
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  Speaker 2: Kiffin decide to roster former NFL players this season. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to talk to Bruce Feldman, college football guy for
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports, and The Athletic, guy who co-wrote the book
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  Speaker 2: with Mike Leach, Swing Your Sword. It's a good cohort, yes. 1025,
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  Speaker 2: Bruce Feldman's going to be on the air. The NFL
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  Speaker 2: announced severe punishments, I mean severe, for the Los Angeles Clippers,
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  Speaker 2: including the loss of five future first-round picks, a fine
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  Speaker 2: of $ 30 million, and a year-long suspension of Seattle's own
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  Speaker 2: Steve Ballmer, the owner of the Clippers, for violating salary
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  Speaker 2: cap circumvention rules and a case involving outside employment for
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  Speaker 2: star Kawhi Leonard. He's also holding up a deal that's
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  Speaker 2: supposed to trade Leonard from the Clippers to Toronto. In
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  Speaker 2: a statement, the NBA said a near-long investigation found, quote,
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  Speaker 2: a pattern of misconduct and multiple significant rules violations by
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  Speaker 2: the Clippers organization, a prior offender of the salary cap
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  Speaker 2: circumvention rules. I can't help but wonder if this put
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  Speaker 2: a roadblock in Steve Ballmer's attempt or want to, to
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  Speaker 2: buy the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the writing is there, yes.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Phil might have said, hey, you need to go.
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  Speaker 2: Take care of your own shop down in Clipper Land
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  Speaker 2: before you worry about coming to join in the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's suing the league.
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  Speaker 2: He's also, yeah, facing a $ 30 million fine and a
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  Speaker 2: year-long suspension. Now on with the Thursday show. Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: It did sound like Gary.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it did. And I thought, okay, she's doing
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  Speaker 2: radio calls today.
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  Speaker 7: No, we only use TV here because we are not
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  Speaker 7: the radio home of the Bears.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I thought. It was peculiar, and I wasn't listening.
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  Speaker 3: But sometimes Gary will fill in, so.
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  Speaker 2: And he's a friend of mine.
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  Speaker 3: He's the best. We love Gary.
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  Speaker 2: Jessamyn McIntyre and Greg Bell with you, as we always are,
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  Speaker 2: from 10 a.m. to noon here on 93.3 KJR FM.
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  Speaker 2: Happy Thursday, those of you that are parents of schoolchildren.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty much, I think, every school district in Washington State
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  Speaker 2: is now back. Oh, man.
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  Speaker 3: The traffic down 15th Avenue South. Yes. It is very
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  Speaker 3: apparent that school is back.
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  Speaker 2: There's that past Ballard High School. Uh-huh. Yeah. Yep. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Summer's over. If you haven't noticed, football season is here.
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  Speaker 2: The Seahawks opener just now six days away. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to talk during the show today about all the hubbub
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  Speaker 2: and all the hoo-ha that's going to be going on
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  Speaker 2: downtown on Wednesday, right before the 5-20 kickoff of the
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  Speaker 2: NFL season at Lumen Field. Seahawks and Patriots, there's concerts.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about who may be raising the
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  Speaker 2: 12th man, 12 flag. And the new owner weighed in
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  Speaker 2: on that yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: He did.
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  Speaker 2: Remember we tell you, he is all over social media.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's on more than my kids are. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if he has Instagram and TalkTik and Snapgram.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Bill Belichick.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if he has all that or not.
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  Speaker 3: Blueface.
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  Speaker 2: I do that all the time with my grad students
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  Speaker 2: at Washington. They just get a kick out of it.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a 12-year-old joke and they still laugh at it.
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  Speaker 3: It's funny.
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  Speaker 2: My kids laugh at it. But yeah, he's all, Vinod
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  Speaker 2: Khosla is all over social media. He responds to everybody
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  Speaker 2: and everything. I know.
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  Speaker 3: He's very responsive.
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  Speaker 7: And I think that, you know, it's kind of new
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  Speaker 7: for us because previous owners, the entire Allen family has
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  Speaker 7: just been, you know, more private.
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  Speaker 2: For 29 years, it was behind the scenes ownership. And
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  Speaker 2: this is out front. Neil Kozla is very active on
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  Speaker 2: social media as well. Their son, who I'm told is
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  Speaker 2: going to be very instrumental in the day-to-day interaction between
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  Speaker 2: the football ops side of the Seahawks and the ownership side.
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  Speaker 2: And I will tell you this. I mentioned it earlier
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  Speaker 2: this week. The coaches can't wait to get Neil Kozler
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  Speaker 2: in that building and do AI with coaching, with nutrition,
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  Speaker 2: with training, with scouting, with everything you can think of
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  Speaker 2: in the Seahawks football operation that artificial intelligence is coming.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I think that they just... continue to operate on efficiency.
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  Speaker 7: And that's what I see AI doing. And it kind
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  Speaker 7: of scares me. I'm not a huge AI fan.
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  Speaker 2: I know I'm not.
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  Speaker 7: But if you're looking at making things more efficient and
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  Speaker 7: that could weigh in to that equation, I could see
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  Speaker 7: that being a positive.
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  Speaker 2: Not to mention, Mike McDonald preaches all the time about
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  Speaker 2: chasing edges. And this is an edge of a new frontier.
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  Speaker 2: The NFL is not that far on to AI and
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  Speaker 2: football operations. The San Francisco 49ers are. And the Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: noticed that. Of course, Vinod Khosla is a minority investor
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  Speaker 2: in the 49ers. He's going to have to divest from.
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  Speaker 2: He had 3% stake in it. Why are we talking
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  Speaker 2: about Vinod Khosla, Neil Khosla, and AI? Well, Vinod Khosla,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't know by now the background, he was
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  Speaker 2: one of the first investors in artificial intelligence like 20
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  Speaker 2: years ago. His son, Neil, in his late 30s, founded
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  Speaker 2: a medical service company that is based on AI. It's
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  Speaker 2: a medical AI company in the Bay Area that he's
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  Speaker 2: the founder and CEO of. So, yes, Mike McDonald and
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  Speaker 2: his staff are very much looking forward to bringing in
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  Speaker 2: the Kozla's expertise and what they've made their billions on, AI.
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  Speaker 2: They were on the cutting front edge of it. And
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  Speaker 2: they got so rich, they bought an NFL team in
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  Speaker 2: our town. And they're going to bring AI to the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 2: It's coming. It's the next edge that Mike McDonald's going
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  Speaker 2: to chase. And he's got an owner that's on board
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  Speaker 2: to help him chase it. There's a lot more to
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  Speaker 2: talk about that. Finally, back-to-back feel-good days for the Mariners
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  Speaker 2: in a series win on the road against the playoff team, too,
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  Speaker 2: the Red Sox. But, man, the low baseball IQ plays
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  Speaker 2: just keep coming. There was one yesterday that I was
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  Speaker 2: on an exercise bike in my basement. Stationary bike watching
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  Speaker 2: on my phone. I almost fell off my bike.
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  Speaker 3: I was just like, this is just like, this is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: This is again, high school baseball stuff that I would
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  Speaker 2: remind my guy. I shouldn't have to. We'll talk about that.
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  Speaker 2: It was Julio Rodriguez. Again, I mentioned 10 25, Bruce Feldman,
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  Speaker 2: college football, LSU, welcoming NFL players, a Georgia attorney general,
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  Speaker 2: when the sec to kick LSU out, if they do
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  Speaker 2: that again, What is the SEC really going to do
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  Speaker 2: when Lane Kiffin plays those couple NFL guys he brought back? UCLA.
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  Speaker 2: How the hell is UCLA claiming debt and debtedness, and
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  Speaker 2: that's why they fired their AD, that's what the college
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  Speaker 2: president said, when they have a full share? USC and
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  Speaker 2: UCLA got a full share from the Big Ten. They did.
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  Speaker 2: Unlike Oregon and Washington, who left after them and got
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  Speaker 2: a half share through the end of this decade. So
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  Speaker 2: I could hear Washington and Husky people going, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: UCLA in the second largest market in the free world,
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  Speaker 2: media market and all of that in Los Angeles, claiming
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  Speaker 2: debt is the reason the athletic director's out? That's impossible
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  Speaker 2: relative to what Washington is doing. And how about if
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  Speaker 2: you're in Washington State and Poland hearing that? You're like, what?
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  Speaker 2: Come up to where we live.
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  Speaker 3: It makes zero sense.
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  Speaker 6: It does.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. How UCLA football has gone so far down is
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  Speaker 2: a whole other story. We're going to talk to Bruce Feldman,
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  Speaker 2: who has LA roots, and we're going to talk to
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  Speaker 2: him at 1025 about that more in college football. The
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  Speaker 2: 118th Apple Cup is Sunday. I think we know that
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  Speaker 2: by now. 1 p.m., Husky Stadium. It'll be right here
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  Speaker 2: on 93.3 KJR FM. At 9 a.m. is the kickoff
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  Speaker 2: of the Husky Honk Show. The actual kickoff of the
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  Speaker 2: game is at 1 o'clock. Again, Elyse Woodward's debut as
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  Speaker 2: the full-time play-by-play person for Husky football here on KJR,
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  Speaker 2: which means Dave Softy Mahler is now the new sideline
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  Speaker 2: reporter replacing Elyse Woodward. And we've already talked about the
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  Speaker 2: odd tableau That's another word for you.
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  Speaker 3: I like that one, but you went into the French sphere.
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  Speaker 2: On Sunday at Husky Stadium, Jessamyn McIntyre will be on
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  Speaker 2: the Washington State Cougars sideline as a broadcast reporter on
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  Speaker 2: the sideline for WSU's network. And Dave Softy Muller will
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  Speaker 2: be on the opposite sideline. And you haven't mentioned, are
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  Speaker 2: you going to interact at all? Thank God he's on.
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  Speaker 8: The opposite side.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe we'll see each other for the coin flip, which
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  Speaker 7: I always go out for. And it's a little hard
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  Speaker 7: to hear from the broadcast side. So I always go out,
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  Speaker 7: let them know what happened, who called the toss. what
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  Speaker 7: it's going to be, set up the game. And I
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  Speaker 7: don't know if Softie will go out there, but Elise would,
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  Speaker 7: and I would see her out there as well. I
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  Speaker 7: am going to spend the least amount of time with
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  Speaker 7: Dave Softie Mahler as possible.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably a good choice. Yeah. Mariners, let's talk briefly
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  Speaker 2: about this. There's more low IQ baseball play. It just
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  Speaker 2: was bad. First and second one out, top of the
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  Speaker 2: fifth yesterday at Fenway Park. Mariners are up 4-1. Bryce
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  Speaker 2: Miller did not have it. I mean, he had only
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  Speaker 2: given up one run, but he was fortunate, and he
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  Speaker 2: was shaky. So they needed more runs. First and second,
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  Speaker 2: the Mariners had Josh Naylor at first. Julio Rodriguez was
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  Speaker 2: standing on second base. Slow chop with one out to third.
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  Speaker 2: Third baseman charges and grabs it in the baseline. He
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  Speaker 2: was standing pretty much in the baseline. Now, every baseball— I
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  Speaker 2: inherited freshman players who knew this baseball rule.
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  Speaker 3: We learned that early, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What do you do there? As a runner at second,
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  Speaker 2: you stop, right? Yes, there's a force out. But I
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  Speaker 2: always used to, and I never thought I had to
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  Speaker 2: do it, but sometimes my freshmen and sophomores would mess
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  Speaker 2: this up in my baseball team. I would yell, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to run into an out here. I
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  Speaker 2: would always yell that at the runner at second. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: you're forced, but don't run into an out. Don't just
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  Speaker 2: make it easy for the third baseman of the shortstop
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  Speaker 2: is what I meant. And they knew and they stopped.
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  Speaker 2: Julio Rodriguez just ran into the third baseman who was
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  Speaker 2: holding the ball.
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  Speaker 3: I was just astounded.
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  Speaker 2: And Aaron Goldsmith on the Mariners TV just recorded as a... So,
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  Speaker 2: of course, the third baseman, because Rodriguez ran right into
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  Speaker 2: him as he caught this chopper, tags him and throws
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  Speaker 2: almost in one motion to first base for the easiest
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  Speaker 2: double play you'll ever see rally over. Josh Naylor was
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  Speaker 2: the trail runner, as I said, from first to second.
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  Speaker 2: He got to second base... And it was great camera
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  Speaker 2: work to flip. The producer did a lucky cut there.
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  Speaker 2: He said, cut the second, cut to Naylor standing on second.
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  Speaker 2: Naylor took his batting helmet and chucked it in the
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  Speaker 2: left field. He was so mad at Julio Rodriguez. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if anyone noticed that on the broadcast. Naylor
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  Speaker 2: chucked his batting helmet in the left field because of
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  Speaker 2: what Julio Rodriguez did. The batting helmet broke. There's an
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  Speaker 2: ear flap that goes from the ear across the face
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  Speaker 2: that a lot of players, including Naylor, wear. And Naylor
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  Speaker 2: being a left-handed hitter, it goes across the right side
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  Speaker 2: of his face. Well, that plastic piece broke, snapped off
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  Speaker 2: because he threw his helmet so far and so hard.
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  Speaker 2: When it landed in left field, it just broke. So
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  Speaker 2: for the rest of the game... I don't know why
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  Speaker 2: they didn't have a backup helmet for him. For the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the game, Josh Naylor wore a half-broken helmet
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  Speaker 2: with the plastic frame of his face guard.
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  Speaker 7: Do you think that there is a part of Josh
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  Speaker 7: Naylor that actually wanted.
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  Speaker 2: To do that?
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  Speaker 6: Of course.
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  Speaker 3: Because that's kind of what his face tells me.
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  Speaker 2: I think he wore that helmet the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: game to remind everybody why it's broken. That I have
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  Speaker 2: a numbskull teammate who ran into a double play and
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  Speaker 2: a threat. The other thing that I spent the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the game thinking about, Randy Rosarino. When I go
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  Speaker 2: to the games, I usually try either, if I'm not
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  Speaker 2: in the press box, I sit behind third base, and
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  Speaker 2: I get a kick out of watching Randy Rosarino interact
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  Speaker 2: with the fans. Every ball, batted ball for an out,
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  Speaker 2: he does it with no runners on base, throws it
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  Speaker 2: into the stands. The ball he warms up with between innings,
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  Speaker 2: he throws it into the stands. I wonder if when
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  Speaker 2: he was walking back out to left field to begin
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  Speaker 2: the bottom of the fifth, the warm-up, If he didn't
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  Speaker 2: take that piece of helmet flap and throw it into
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  Speaker 2: the Fenway Park crowd, and that someone in New England
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  Speaker 2: right now has Josh Naylor's batting flap face.
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  Speaker 3: I'd keep it if I got it.
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  Speaker 2: What an odd souvenir that would be. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: think it was totally on purpose that Naylor played the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the game.
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  Speaker 3: I do too.
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  Speaker 2: To remind everyone why his helmet was broken was because
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  Speaker 2: Julio Rodriguez did an absolutely stupid baseball move for the
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  Speaker 2: 15th time this summer. It's time to sit him.
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  Speaker 7: It is.
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  Speaker 3: He could use a week off.
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  Speaker 2: And I know it's late and there's no time for messaging.
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  Speaker 2: All your best players need to be playing because they've
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  Speaker 2: got to win every game. But they just won a
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  Speaker 2: game yesterday with Cal Raleigh and Laz Montes on the bench.
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  Speaker 2: Said Julio Rodriguez. He needs to watch. That is inexcusable.
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  Speaker 2: I know he had a ground ball RBI single yesterday. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: But that, you just, it was absurd. To his credit
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  Speaker 2: and their credit. Aaron Goldsmith and Ryan Rowland-Smith, when they
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  Speaker 2: came back from commercial for the bottom of the fifth,
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  Speaker 2: they replayed the base running blunder. It was so bad,
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  Speaker 2: it came called a blunder. The mindless running. And they
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: took Rodriguez somewhat to task for it. Rowland-Smith said, you
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: can't do that there. You'd like to see him stop
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: and make the third baseman have a choice.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: And they're hired by the team.
• 16:41
  Speaker 7: So for them to go to that point of that's
• 16:45
  Speaker 7: the kindest thing they could say.
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: Correct.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Now, they didn't exactly rip him. And Goldsmith kind of
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: gave him a hedge. Maybe he was avoiding the bat
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: that was shattered and whatever.
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: The line is different for people who are team employees.
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: And that was my whole point.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: You know all about that. Yes, I do. She's a
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: Washington State employee. Jessamyn is when she's doing broadcast. But, yeah,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: I thought it was very peculiar that the Mariners' employees
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: were even calling out Rodriguez for this play.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: To their credit.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: They were decent about it. I don't think, like you said.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: They didn't flame him.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: They didn't.
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: But for them to get to that line, like, people
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: need to understand that the line is different.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 17:27
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: But hats off to them because— I thought they were
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: just going to ignore it. I thought for sure, no
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: one's going to say anything about it and they would
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: just move on. But every time Naylor came up for
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: the rest of the game, I thought about it. That
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: was really funny. 4945, but if you follow what I'm
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: talking about, do you agree? Or if you disagree and
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Julio Rodriguez should be playing no matter what he does.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: I just don't get that's a co-face of your franchise
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: that you've given a $ 200 million contract to gets away
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: with that. And that there's nobody in the organization from
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Jerry DePoto to Justin Hollander to Dan Wilson to Josh
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Naylor to Randy Rosarino to anybody in that clubhouse, Cal Raleigh,
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: that doesn't say, what? And just bat him around a
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: little bit.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: Well, like you said, I mean, we were talking about
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: this a month ago. Ass kicker.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: There's no ass kicker. Not even in the organization. Not
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: only the clubhouse, there just aren't any in the organization
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: for a team that is so underperforming. Five out, 22
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: to go. The A's come into town. Here they go.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: The stretch of games against sub-500 teams begins today. Starting
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: tonight at the Yard in Soto. Next, college football. I
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: want to talk about things that aren't right. There's a
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: lot of stuff broken with college football. Thankfully, the games
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: are going to start soon. There's a lot to talk
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: about with Bruce Feldman. Full schedule of week one college
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: football begins tonight. Why is Rutgers and UMass a featured
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: national TV game, by the way? Besides it's a New
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: York market.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: It's a New York market and a Boston market.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Boston market.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Good mashed potatoes. Yeah, that's the only reason.
• 18:58
  Speaker 10: It is.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Bruce Feldman is going to join us next at 11 o'clock.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about the Kozlas and what they've
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: got going on potentially for opening night on Wednesday. Seahawks, Patriots,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: the new owners. All that's coming up on 93.3 KJRFM.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Which college football theme was that? That was a network
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: from like the 90s, wasn't it?
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: I'd like to go old school.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Was that TBS? What was that?
• 19:46
  Speaker 11: I don't know.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: I think that might.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Have been TBS. It reminds me of growing up and
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: I like it.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's like 90s TBS when they used to show
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Oregon State Stanford at 10 p.m. Eastern time. I remember
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: watching that growing up in the 80s. 20 people at
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: old Stanford Stadium would be on national television. Bruce Feldman
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: remembers those days. He is a college football writer, insider
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: for Fox Sports Television and for The Athletic, L.A.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Roots.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Jessamyn goes back with Bruce Feldman to their days at
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Washington State. Mike Leach, swing the sword, swing your sword.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: We had a mutual friend, yes.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Hello, Bruce. Thanks for joining us, sir. Hey, guys.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: Thanks for having me.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Bruce Feldman on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. Let me start
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: off by asking you about the LSU situation. Today, On3
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: is reporting... that now the SEC is suing LSU and
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: naming the president, the AD, and late coach Lane Kiffin
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: as the co-defendants over potentially bringing NFL players who were
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: in training camps this year onto the LSU roster. The
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Georgia attorney general, I'm only laughing because it's just college football.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Georgia's attorney general wants to kick LSU out of the
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: SEC if they play those NFL players. Bruce, what could
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Besides suing him, which everyone's doing in college sports these days,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: what really do you think the SEC would do if
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin suits up the tight end from the NFL
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: training camp this fall?
• 21:15
  Speaker 11: I can't wait to find out. I mean, I feel
• 21:17
  Speaker 11: like nothing is off the table, right? You guys just
• 21:21
  Speaker 11: said it, you know, the Georgia attorney general's. waded into this. Like,
• 21:26
  Speaker 11: I don't know, it was probably two months ago when
• 21:28
  Speaker 11: all the stuff in the big 12 was going on
• 21:30
  Speaker 11: with Texas tech and Brendan Sorsby.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: And you had probably a different villain.
• 21:34
  Speaker 11: There was Cody Campbell, you know, the billionaire booster who's
• 21:37
  Speaker 11: been behind Texas tax rise. Lane is a different kind
• 21:41
  Speaker 11: of villain, but he's, he's a college football villain nonetheless.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: And he's really polarizing, right?
• 21:47
  Speaker 11: So you have this, this, um, You know, this school
• 21:51
  Speaker 11: that has never been shy about stepping on people's toes,
• 21:54
  Speaker 11: and you got politicians involved, and you got Lane involved.
• 21:58
  Speaker 11: I mean, it's just, it's like the perfect storm for,
• 22:02
  Speaker 11: you know, kind of like, okay, this is probably a
• 22:04
  Speaker 11: fitting way to start the season with all this drama.
• 22:08
  Speaker 11: You know, here we are, we're, you know, there's going
• 22:11
  Speaker 11: to be games tonight and tomorrow, obviously, but... We're, what
• 22:15
  Speaker 11: is it, 48 hours away from kickoff from most of
• 22:18
  Speaker 11: the games in week one, and you've got this court
• 22:21
  Speaker 11: case playing out and people threatening to sue. The SEC
• 22:26
  Speaker 11: filing a lawsuit against LSU, much less their football coach,
• 22:29
  Speaker 11: is just a wild but fitting way to kick off.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: The season, I guess.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Bruce, why do you think this is the line in
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: the sand? Because college presidents' conferences have stayed out of
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: almost everything until the this about NFL play, but everything else,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: they haven't done anything. NIL transfers, unlimited transfers, eligibility, exemptions.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: They've just been afraid of getting sued for, why do
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: you think this NFL issue is a line in the
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: sand and a point that if they allow this, that
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: there's no turning back?
• 23:05
  Speaker 11: That's a good question because there's been so many things
• 23:08
  Speaker 11: you had, you know, Lane was sort of on the
• 23:10
  Speaker 11: other side of it with, uh, you know, with his
• 23:13
  Speaker 11: old quarterback, Trinidad Chambers. And I think he brought that
• 23:16
  Speaker 11: up and he's talked to lawyers about how does this gonna,
• 23:20
  Speaker 11: you know, it's almost like the messaging part of it, right?
• 23:23
  Speaker 11: Cause Lane's very public when it comes to this, whether
• 23:25
  Speaker 11: it's on social media or on Pat McAfee show or
• 23:27
  Speaker 11: wherever he pops up. And I, I think that adds
• 23:31
  Speaker 11: to it.
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Um, you know, it's funny, like, Lane Kiffin already probably.
• 23:36
  Speaker 11: Has the most talented tight end in the country in
• 23:38
  Speaker 11: Trey Desgreen to add this other guy who would be
• 23:40
  Speaker 11: a good player for them. But, you know, it's not
• 23:43
  Speaker 11: like you're adding like your starting quarterback here. So if
• 23:47
  Speaker 11: the SEC were to determine, hey, if you play a
• 23:50
  Speaker 11: player we deem ineligible and you don't win this court case,
• 23:54
  Speaker 11: you know, whatever games you win, whether it's against Clemson
• 23:58
  Speaker 11: this weekend or, you know, in the next couple of weeks,
• 24:02
  Speaker 11: that can come back and bite you if you're trying
• 24:03
  Speaker 11: to make a playoff.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 24:05
  Speaker 11: Um, I, I, I think it's just like right now
• 24:09
  Speaker 11: they're trying to say, I think the line in the
• 24:13
  Speaker 11: sand here in this regard is probably like, the big
• 24:17
  Speaker 11: 10 for the most part is aligned. I'm not saying
• 24:20
  Speaker 11: everybody agrees with every single decision that's going on, but
• 24:23
  Speaker 11: even with the FCC, you know, when it comes to
• 24:26
  Speaker 11: like talking about playoff teams and expansion and all that,
• 24:30
  Speaker 11: I feel like there's a lot more saber rattling that
• 24:34
  Speaker 11: goes on to use that term. And I feel like
• 24:37
  Speaker 11: this is Greg Sankey and the FCC's way of going, Hey,
• 24:41
  Speaker 11: we got to get this under control. This is an
• 24:43
  Speaker 11: issue that we can't, if we can't draw the line here,
• 24:46
  Speaker 11: where are we going to draw the line?
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: This is Bruce Feldman from Fox Sports and the Athletic
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: College Football Insider joining us on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: on 93.3 KJRFM. You wrote an interesting story that piggybacked
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: on what you did the end of last season. You
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: surveyed college coaches and athletic directors, general managers across the country,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: and you did now from a preseason point of view
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: rather than the postseason last season. And 18 college football
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: coaches voted in your poll. They voted the national champion
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: would be most likely the most votes was Oregon, which
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: I shudder to say here in Seattle. And the biggest
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: sleeper getting overlooked is Michigan. The biggest fraud getting overhyped
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: is LSU with Lane Kiffin. Heisman Trophy winner Dante Moore
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: predicted from quarterback course from Oregon and who should be
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: the highest paid player in NIL money and whatnot. Revenue
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: sharing Jeremiah Smith, the wide receiver from Ohio State. First
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: of all, as a journalist and someone who is steeped
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: in newspaper beat writing, what was your methodology for this?
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Did you go to 18 different college campuses? Did you
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: send out emails? How did you collect this?
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: So I– mostly it was over the phone. There was
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: a few other.
• 25:52
  Speaker 11: Guys that I had reached out over text and sent
• 25:55
  Speaker 11: them my questions and emails. Basically, we got back some
• 26:01
  Speaker 11: really interesting responses. There was another question I asked that
• 26:06
  Speaker 11: also got some colorful answers, but that one I think
• 26:10
  Speaker 11: we are saving for next week because it goes into
• 26:14
  Speaker 11: something else we're working on.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: A lot of these questions were.
• 26:19
  Speaker 11: Pretty straightforward. The question which was like, who is the
• 26:24
  Speaker 11: biggest fraud, you know, I would go in to say,
• 26:26
  Speaker 11: all right, who do you think is getting, who's got
• 26:28
  Speaker 11: getting overhyped this, you.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: Know, right now. And so, you know, it's easy to,
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: to see, all right, you.
• 26:35
  Speaker 11: Know, there's a graphic with Lane Kiffin's.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: Face and, and the word fraud.
• 26:40
  Speaker 11: And it's just, you know, I think a lot of
• 26:42
  Speaker 11: people identify with it, but then, you know, Ohio state.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: Got a couple of votes. I don't think anybody.
• 26:47
  Speaker 11: Feels like Ohio state is quote a fraud or in
• 26:50
  Speaker 11: the same line as maybe they would look at Lane
• 26:51
  Speaker 11: Kiffin in that regard. Um, But what happened was they
• 26:55
  Speaker 11: were number one in both polls. They have a lot
• 26:58
  Speaker 11: of really good defense, like three elite players after a
• 27:00
  Speaker 11: place on defense. As well as probably the nation's hardest schedule.
• 27:05
  Speaker 11: So I think a lot of people are just like, eh,
• 27:06
  Speaker 11: I'm not sure I'm buying, or at least some people
• 27:08
  Speaker 11: are like, I'm not sure I'm buying them. They should
• 27:10
  Speaker 11: be ranked that high. So, you know, I left it
• 27:12
  Speaker 11: open to how people wanted to interpret who should be,
• 27:15
  Speaker 11: who's overhyped right now. But it was, it was kind
• 27:17
  Speaker 11: of a fascinating study because I think we were a
• 27:19
  Speaker 11: little surprised at how many people thought Oregon was going
• 27:23
  Speaker 11: to win the national title.
• 27:25
  Speaker 12: Hmm.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: And Michigan being the biggest sleeper, it's obvious to me,
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: but for the listeners, why is that? And Washington got
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: a vote as being an overlooked team as a possible sleeper.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Why do you think that was, Bruce?
• 27:38
  Speaker 11: Dynamic quarterback, good offensive line, defense did some good things.
• 27:42
  Speaker 11: And I think the other thing is, look, Jetfish had
• 27:45
  Speaker 11: a breakout year in year three in Arizona. I'd be
• 27:49
  Speaker 11: surprised if they were going to be quite as good
• 27:53
  Speaker 11: as Arizona was. I think Arizona finished 11th in the
• 27:56
  Speaker 11: country in the third year, and they were obviously worse. then,
• 28:00
  Speaker 11: you know, I mean, he took over the roster that
• 28:03
  Speaker 11: was pretty much gutted in terms of like, there were
• 28:05
  Speaker 11: no starters back from that team that played in the
• 28:07
  Speaker 11: national title game. There's still better players than what, what
• 28:11
  Speaker 11: Arizona looked like. But I think there's some of that
• 28:13
  Speaker 11: is like, Hey, you know, they're a dangerous team. They
• 28:16
  Speaker 11: won nine games and the quarterback was, was still really young.
• 28:20
  Speaker 11: And a lot of the parts around that were young.
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: So I don't know.
• 28:24
  Speaker 11: I feel like they are, You know, as somebody I
• 28:28
  Speaker 11: talked to about this, it's like everybody talks about Ohio State.
• 28:33
  Speaker 11: They're talking about Oregon, Indiana, the defending national champs. That
• 28:36
  Speaker 11: doesn't even mention USC or Michigan. And I feel like
• 28:40
  Speaker 11: there are teams, whether it's Penn State, because some people
• 28:43
  Speaker 11: thought Penn State's a sleeper, or a Washington that probably
• 28:47
  Speaker 11: are getting overlooked because there's just only so much oxygen
• 28:50
  Speaker 11: that is around in the Big Ten with those other teams.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Well, you just mentioned five top teams and counting Penn
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: State's six top teams in the Big Ten. Washington could
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: be better, yet finish seventh. Where do you figure they're
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: going to end up in the Big Ten, do you think, Bruce?
• 29:04
  Speaker 11: You know, I think if they can record is similar
• 29:07
  Speaker 11: to last year, I think that would actually be a
• 29:11
  Speaker 11: strong season given how deep the conference is right now,
• 29:15
  Speaker 11: but also how the schedule sets up for them. You know,
• 29:18
  Speaker 11: you look at what they got to go to. I
• 29:21
  Speaker 11: know the first couple of weeks, you know, they should
• 29:23
  Speaker 11: have opened three and oh, Minnesota, I think is pretty good.
• 29:26
  Speaker 11: Then you got to go to a USC, which will
• 29:29
  Speaker 11: be tough. They have to finish at Oregon, which obviously
• 29:33
  Speaker 11: will be tough. And then you got the defending national
• 29:35
  Speaker 11: champs the week before you have to go on the
• 29:38
  Speaker 11: road to Oregon. So that's you know, that's three tough games, two,
• 29:43
  Speaker 11: two rough road games, plus Indiana. I mean, can you
• 29:47
  Speaker 11: win one of those three games? That's to me, that's
• 29:50
  Speaker 11: overly optimistic. So I think you're almost starting at nine
• 29:53
  Speaker 11: and three at them. And that's, You know, you can't
• 29:56
  Speaker 11: afford to stumble against Minnesota or Iowa or Penn State.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: And those, I think, are all going to be pretty
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: good teams.
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: Bruce, you spent a ton of time in the Pac-12
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: covering Mike Leach, and you have had the privilege of
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: coming to Pullman, Washington. I would like to travel to
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: the crimson and gray side of the state with the
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: newly envisioned Pac-12. I'm wondering from you, with all the
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: institutional knowledge that you have covering college football, as long
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: as you have, What your view is of how this
• 30:27
  Speaker 7: conference is being rebuilt?
• 30:31
  Speaker 11: You know, it reshaped better than I thought it would,
• 30:36
  Speaker 11: to be honest, because if you look at what's in the,
• 30:39
  Speaker 11: you know, like compared to the Mountain West conference. which
• 30:43
  Speaker 11: had been, you know, a strong group of six, right?
• 30:47
  Speaker 11: And I just feel like looking at it now, you
• 30:50
  Speaker 11: have some good brand schools in there. I think, obviously,
• 30:54
  Speaker 11: Boise State's been really good for a long time. I
• 30:57
  Speaker 11: think Fresno State, but Fresno State's on our air tomorrow
• 30:59
  Speaker 11: night at Fox.
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: They play USC. It'll be interesting. They just had a
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: really good first year under Matt Entz. Um, you know, I.
• 31:07
  Speaker 11: Think San Diego state is good. I think Washington state
• 31:10
  Speaker 11: to me, you know, I feel like we've talked about this,
• 31:13
  Speaker 11: you know, when I've been on in the past, I mean,
• 31:15
  Speaker 11: they got the shaft so bad by the.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: Rest of the conference.
• 31:21
  Speaker 11: And so I got a lot of, you know, I
• 31:22
  Speaker 11: have a lot of respect for Cougs fans. Cause like,
• 31:25
  Speaker 11: it just felt like, you know, I don't want to
• 31:28
  Speaker 11: hijack that, you know, by going in that direction, but
• 31:30
  Speaker 11: just like, I think they, they landed in a relatively
• 31:34
  Speaker 11: decent spot relative to this.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: It would have been probably better if they could have
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: gotten UNLV into the league. Cause I feel like.
• 31:43
  Speaker 11: UNLV is one of those brands.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: Obviously it's a.
• 31:45
  Speaker 11: Big market where they've won 10 games the last couple
• 31:49
  Speaker 11: of years, obviously didn't win the other night against Memphis,
• 31:51
  Speaker 11: but Maybe they looked at it and go, you know what?
• 31:53
  Speaker 11: We're only taking schools that have state in their last name.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: They are a land rights situation, yes.
• 32:00
  Speaker 11: I know. So other than that, no San Jose State
• 32:04
  Speaker 11: didn't come in and then UNLV they didn't end up
• 32:06
  Speaker 11: getting or whatever. But I feel like it aligns pretty well, right?
• 32:10
  Speaker 11: I feel like San Diego State, as long as Sean
• 32:12
  Speaker 11: Moses is there, Texas State is actually pretty good. I
• 32:15
  Speaker 11: know people aren't familiar with it because it's like in
• 32:17
  Speaker 11: San Marcos and it's.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: Relatively new, but... all things being equal, I think the
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: Cougs landed in a pretty good spot.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: I'd like to hear that.
• 32:26
  Speaker 11: And, by the way, I think the Cougs landed in
• 32:29
  Speaker 11: a better spot with their coach now than what they
• 32:31
  Speaker 11: just had.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: I would agree.
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: Kirby Moore came to the famous Idaho Potato Bowl, and
• 32:38
  Speaker 7: that was before he had squashed a grape as a
• 32:42
  Speaker 7: coach for Washington State.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: And I was very impressed with the way he handled himself.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: He's young. He's only 36 years old.
• 32:49
  Speaker 7: And being able to kind of wow the crowd, I
• 32:53
  Speaker 7: can say, because we always do a pregame show for,
• 32:57
  Speaker 7: you know, the night before a bowl game.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: And he came there. He wowed the crowd.
• 33:02
  Speaker 7: And that seems to be something that's very important when
• 33:05
  Speaker 7: it comes to college football these days. You're almost an agent.
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: You're a president. You're doing everything for this team. And
• 33:12
  Speaker 7: I'm wondering how you see him just from your.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: View, 30,000 feet away.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm a believer.
• 33:20
  Speaker 11: Full disclosure, I really like Kellen. I've gotten to know him.
• 33:24
  Speaker 11: I've always been impressed with his older brother. He's an
• 33:27
  Speaker 11: amazing quarterback at Boise. And I think Kirby's really sharp.
• 33:31
  Speaker 11: He did a good job as an assistant. I think
• 33:34
  Speaker 11: he's a way better fit than Jimmy Rogers was.
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: I felt like... That was like.
• 33:41
  Speaker 11: Addition by subtraction for them. And then they ended up getting,
• 33:44
  Speaker 11: I think, a really good coach who seems like he
• 33:47
  Speaker 11: wants to be there and gets the place.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: And as you guys.
• 33:50
  Speaker 11: Know, that's really critical in a place like that. You know,
• 33:54
  Speaker 11: if you get somebody who's just looking to bounce as
• 33:56
  Speaker 11: soon as possible, that doesn't have real ties to the place,
• 33:59
  Speaker 11: kind of doesn't. get doesn't get the place doesn't like
• 34:04
  Speaker 11: really not doesn't mean somewhat they're trying that much um
• 34:08
  Speaker 11: you know it's eventually it's gonna backfire and i thought
• 34:13
  Speaker 11: um you know it's like look it's a tough tough
• 34:16
  Speaker 11: start you play a really good team that has a
• 34:19
  Speaker 11: really good quarterback and now you're you know we'll see
• 34:22
  Speaker 11: but i think that You know, that's about as good
• 34:27
  Speaker 11: a hire as I think they could have made at
• 34:28
  Speaker 11: that point, given the ties to the area, the name recognition,
• 34:32
  Speaker 11: offensive guy, and a guy who has some presence to
• 34:35
  Speaker 11: him who can get people excited. Because as you guys know,
• 34:39
  Speaker 11: that fan base has been through.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: A lot in the last decade. Just an awful roller coaster.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: Yes, and they stuck.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: We do know. We do know. Bruce, before I let
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: you go, I got to ask you about UCLA. How
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: can the president of UCLA claim that Martin Jaman, the
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: athletic director, he fired him because of athletic directors, the
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: athletic departments and debt. How can UCLA claim so much
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: debt in the second largest media market in the free
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: world and they get a full Big Ten share? I mean,
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Washington and Oregon must be hearing that going, what are
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: you talking about? We get half a share of Through
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: the end of the decade, and UCLA's claiming poor, and
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: they fired their AD over. What's going on down there?
• 35:21
  Speaker 11: I think there's a staggering level of dysfunction that has
• 35:24
  Speaker 11: been going on at UCLA. I mean, I'm honestly surprised
• 35:28
  Speaker 11: Martin lasted that long, but they gave him a new
• 35:31
  Speaker 11: deal at some point in the chaos. You know, I
• 35:36
  Speaker 11: think the writing was more than on the wall when
• 35:39
  Speaker 11: they went through this hiring process and got Bob Chesney,
• 35:42
  Speaker 11: and it just felt like they almost worked around Martin,
• 35:44
  Speaker 11: you know, a couple of years before he ended up.
• 35:49
  Speaker 11: You know, it was like a cool viral moment when
• 35:51
  Speaker 11: he announced Deshaun Foster to be the new head coach
• 35:55
  Speaker 11: because it was definitely a jilted fan base and everything
• 35:59
  Speaker 11: else of what had gone on. You know, the flip
• 36:03
  Speaker 11: side of it is UCLA won a women's basketball title
• 36:07
  Speaker 11: and there's some other good things that are going on,
• 36:09
  Speaker 11: but it just felt like.
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: They were kind of over Martin.
• 36:14
  Speaker 11: And I don't know, you know, we'll see if they
• 36:16
  Speaker 11: can get some of these other financial benefits pieces in
• 36:19
  Speaker 11: place to get going.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: I do like the Bob Chesney hire. I've been impressed
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: with what he's done.
• 36:26
  Speaker 11: He's an East Coast guy from Pennsylvania who coached in
• 36:32
  Speaker 11: the Northeast most of his career. He doesn't have roots
• 36:35
  Speaker 11: out here, but he's an engaging, charming personality. I think
• 36:41
  Speaker 11: he's done a really nice job with it.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: We'll see.
• 36:44
  Speaker 11: I think a lot of folks are buying into that.
• 36:47
  Speaker 11: I mean, I'm fascinated to see what happens this weekend.
• 36:50
  Speaker 11: They play Cal. It's also Tosh Lupoi's first game. I mean,
• 36:53
  Speaker 11: two good, talented quarterbacks.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: It should be a good game.
• 36:56
  Speaker 11: And I think, to say this for UCLA, I think
• 37:01
  Speaker 11: there's a lot of people who are just like, all right,
• 37:03
  Speaker 11: we're done with Martin.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: It's fine. Let's move on. And they're glad they got
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: Bob Chesney at least.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Bruce Feldman, appreciate you. I know you're a busy man.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: I assume we'll see you on Fresno State USC tomorrow
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: night on Fox. Thanks for joining us.
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: My pleasure.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Thanks, guys. Bruce Feldman from The Athletic and from Fox
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: College Football's broadcast and talking about the LSU SEC mess.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: If you missed the news from this morning, the latest
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: twist is the SEC is suing LSU, the university president,
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: the athletic director, and coach Lane Kiffin over possibly playing
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: NFL players, players who are in training camps this summer
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: that Lane Kiffin wants to bring onto the LSU roster.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: The SEC, their conference is suing them. Up next. We'll
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: talk about the Seahawks, about the opener. We'll talk about
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: the final episode of Hard Knocks. A couple other things
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: I wanted to bring up from a coaching standpoint. That's
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: coming up on 93.3 KJRFM. Welcome back. Greg Bell and
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Justin McIntyre with you on 93.3 KJRFM. Football is gone.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: College football beginning tonight. High school football beginning tonight.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: I thought you said gone for a second there.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: It's gone. No, it's gone. Going.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: G-O-I-N.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: I'm officiating Ballard and Lincoln.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: Northwest Athletic Complex, as they call it, next to Ingram
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: High School in a Metro League game. Tomorrow, we're going
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: to debut our High School Football Friday feature. We're going
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: to do it every Friday during the football season. Our
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: featured game for this week, week one, is a 4A
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: heavyweight showdown. Number four, Lake Stevens hosting third-ranked Graham Kapowson
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: in a rematch of a playoff match last November. Lake
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: Stevens knocked out GK. We're going to have Graham Kapowson
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: head coach Jeff Logan tomorrow on the air on 93.3 KJRFM,
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: talking about a week one showdown.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: And what time?
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: We'll have him out at 11 o'clock tomorrow. Thank you
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: for asking.
• 39:06
  Speaker 13: I love that.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: We'll also have Farhan Lalji of TSN Canada to talk
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: about the NFL tomorrow at about 10.20 live. So football
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: is in big, big debut mode tomorrow here on our show.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: The Seahawks are back on the practice field today. They
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: had three days off as mandated by the collective bargaining
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: agreement with the NFL. At the end of the preseason,
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: you have to have three mandatory off days. Usually it's
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: over the Labor Day weekend. for the Seahawks, which is
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: why a lot of people don't notice that. But this time,
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: Labor Day weekend is a work weekend for the Seahawks
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: because they play on Wednesday. So they're practicing today. Follow
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: me here. It's like a normal Monday. It'd be like
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: a normal game week Monday today. Tomorrow they'll be off
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: as if it was a Tuesday for a Sunday game. Saturday, Sunday,
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: and Monday are the main practice days. Saturday's like a Wednesday.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: So Sunday during the Apple Cup, I'll be out at
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Renton doing Seahawks regular Thursday.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: I got you covered on that end.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: I know you do. My son will be there. His
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: friend will be there. You'll be there. Softy will be there.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: I'll try to maybe swing by on the way home
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: because we live right next to Husky Stadium. Suffice to say,
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks are getting at it because they play on
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: a Wednesday. The last episode of Hard Knocks aired, and
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: it's still airing. It's on HBO. It's on HBO Max
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: On Demand if you haven't seen it yet. We talked
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: yesterday about Carl Scott. Remember that about sitting down with
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: Trevon Diggs? And I thought it was a really good
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: coaching move to show him his position film at Alabama
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: when Carl Scott coached Trevon Diggs about seven, eight, nine
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: years ago. And then during that scene... Carl Scott said
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: to him, don't forget who the bleep you is by
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: showing him those. It really made digs. Everybody would. Oh,
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: this coach is invested in me. He's showing me my
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: college film. When it all started before I became an
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: all pro with the Cowboys. That was one coaching example
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: I saw from the episode. The other was Mike McDonald.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: There were more. The way Mike McDonald handled telling guys
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: that they wanted back on the practice squad that they
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: were waived. I don't know if you noticed if you
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: saw the episode how when Aiden Hubbard walked into the
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: coach's office, knowing he was about to get waived, that's
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: the only reason you're going into the coach's office on
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: cut day, right?
• 41:08
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: They don't bring the guys that keep up to the
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: coach's office.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: It's a pink flip situation.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: Right. And you get the tap on the shoulder in
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: the locker room. The coach wants to see you and
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: you're like, your dreams are just dashed. And he walks
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: in the door. Aiden Hubbard walks in and Coach McDonald
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: in a big voice with a smile on his face said, congratulations. Congratulations.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: And you could see a puzzled look on Hubbard's face.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: What are you congratulating for? You just cut me. He said, hey,
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: we're bringing you back on the practice squad. Just hang
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: out for a day. We're going to clear waivers. We
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: want you part of the 70. We use 70. This
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: is a seven-man team. We've been telling you that. To
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: Ricky White, the wide receiver they drafted last year, who
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: was professing how much he wanted to stay in Seattle
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: when he was in the office because he knew why
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: he was there. He was getting cut. He said, are
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: you ready to be– McDonald told Ricky White in the
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: Hard Knocks episode, are you ready to be an everyday starter?
• 41:56
  Speaker 7: No.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: No. But do you catch more than passes, he told him.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: He said, what about special teams? Do you block? Do
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: you block the linebacker down on a sweet play? We
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: need you to be what Jake Bobo was for us
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: before Bobo's season-ending injury at the joint practice in Tennessee.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: He said, don't just worry about catching passes. McDonald's quote was,
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: we pay guys $ 44 million a year to do that.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: Do everything else. That's what his charge to Ricky White was.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: And that's good advice though. Be versatile.
• 42:31
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: The more you can do. Exactly. And then what I
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: thought was really point, it was really interesting because you
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: don't think of NFL coaches and relationships this way. Did
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: you catch quarterback coach Jake Peets in the quarterback room?
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: He was in the meeting room before the preseason finale
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: in Kansas City, before they left with Jalen Milrow. And
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: they were talking about how this great opportunity for him
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: to start and play the entire game. And at the
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: end of it, Jake Pete said to Milrow, I love you.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: And Milrow looked at him and said, I love you too.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: And I was watching. I was going, I ran it.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: I said to my son, we were watching. I said,
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: can you run that back? He said, I love you.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: And we ran it back and he did.
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: Dude, that is the relationship between coaches and players.
• 43:11
  Speaker 8: It's unusual.
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: Very personal.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: It's unusual. And you heard Cooper Cup in the episode
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: talk about how unusual the relationship is here, how they
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: treat the 70 rather than a 53. Doesn't happen in
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: a lot of places. It didn't happen for him with
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: the Rams. It is different. And the investment of Carl
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: Scott watching college film with his guy and saying, be
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: the blank who you is. And don't forget who you are.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: And the quarterback's coach telling the third string quarterback who's
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: never going to see the field, I love you. And
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: the quarterback's telling him, I love you too. It is different.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: It is different. I thought that was interesting. I liked it.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: Insight to the coaching. Up next, the owners have changed
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: for the Seahawks. I think you know that. But O'Kozla
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: publicly declares who he wants to raise the 12 flag.
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: We might like this. And some of the other festivities
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: are lined up for Wednesday, the opening day of the
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: NFL season. We'll talk about how big of a day
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: that is in this town and what's all going to
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: be going on. 1130, we'll read back your text, your
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: talkbacks that Jessamyn loves. We'll do that at 1130. All
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: that coming up on 93.3 KJRFM.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star Reynolds Sports Desk, your 93.3 KJR
• 44:28
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• 44:30
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• 44:33
  Speaker 2: Cold as the Rockies. The Mariners won 2-3 in Boston
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: thanks to their 8-3 win yesterday. 12 more hits for
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: the offense, beating a playoff team. Manager Dan Wilson yanked
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: shaky starter Bryce Miller after just 65 pitches with a
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: 4-1 lead. A little more aggressive managing of the bullpen
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: by the manager now that it's September. But the Trash
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: Cans beat Chicago last night, so just another day off
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: the calendar in the race for the American League West title.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: The Mariners are still five games out of first place,
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: 22 games remaining. The next one, tonight at the Arden
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: Soto against the A's, Kate Anderson making his third Major
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: League start for the M's tonight. The Seahawks are back
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: on the practice field today after a three-day break. Their
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: opener against New England is in six days. They made
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: a practice squad move today. Here comes the churn of
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: the practice squad. Remember, that was just an initial one.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: They signed veteran offensive tackle Bobby Hart, who they had
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: throughout training camp, and they released defensive tackle Seo Samalo.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: Seo Samalo was the undrafted rookie from Kansas State, the
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: nose tackle that Hard Knocks was featuring as someone a
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: long shot trying to make the team. He's off the
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: practice squad for now. I have a feeling they'll ask
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: him to come back on if he doesn't get Signed
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: by somebody else. The SEC this morning has filed a
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: lawsuit against LSU, its president, its athletic director, and coach
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin over Kiffin bringing NFL players onto his Tiger
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: roster for this season. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr wrote
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: a letter to the SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey urging him
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: to take all measures available, including kicking LSU out of
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: the league if they use NFL players.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm so down right now.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: It's just absurd. They're not kicking him out of the league.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: That's not happening. Bruce Feldman talked to us, if you
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: missed that interview. He's just here to watch what's going
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: to happen and the precedent that might be set here.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: This is like in real time, right? Because as Bruce said,
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: the games begin this weekend.
• 46:27
  Speaker 12: Yep.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: 48 hours from when the SEC play starts kicking off
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: with LSU playing Clemson. If you missed that interview with
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: Bruce Feldman, it's on the iHeartRadio app, 933KGR, or our website, 933KGR. com.
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: The NBA announced severe punishment for the Los Angeles Clippers,
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: including the loss of five future first-round picks, a fine
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: of $ 30 million, and a year-long suspension for owner Steve Ballmer.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: That's an insane.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: That's a pretty hefty... Five.
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: Future first-round picks? That's what caught my attention.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: And they're keeping Ballmer away from anything to do with
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: an NBA arena, the Clippers, or anything for an entire
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: year for violating salary cap rules in a case involving
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: outside employment for star Kawhi Leonard. In a statement, the
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: NBA said its near-year-long investigation found, quote, a pattern of
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: misconduct and multiple significant roles violations by the Clippers organization,
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: a prior offender of salary cap circumvention rules. As I mentioned... Yes,
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: he was the whale that I've been told may be
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: buying the Seahawks. This would have kept the whale from
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: coming ashore. This would have kept him out to sea.
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: The NFL would have said, oh, no, if you're about
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: to get suspended by the NBA, we want nothing to
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: do with you buying an NFL franchise.
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: I mean, and rightfully so.
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: Caden Clark to the Sounders is official, as reported yesterday.
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: 11 goals and 19 assists in 116 career MLS regular
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: season matches. The 23-year-old attacking midfielder acquired from D.C. United
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: for a second-round pick of the Sounders in 2028. Our
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: own Jackson Feltz is telling us that a second round
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: pick in the MLS is extremely little value. BC United
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: also gets some general allocation money if Clark is on
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: the roster next year. I looked him up. Clark is,
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: he weighs 152 pounds. I'm used to dealing with 285
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: and 325 pound athletes. A soccer midfielder, 152 pounds. I mean, yes.
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, they have to run constantly.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: Especially the midfielders.
• 48:17
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: They run, yes. They run their butts off. Literally. Wednesday
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: night is the start of the NFL regular season, and
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: it's right here in our backyard at Lumen Field. That's
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: what the honor of being a defending champion is. You
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: get to play the very first game of the NFL
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: season at your home yard, and that's what's happening at
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: Lumen Field when the Seahawks rematch of the Super Bowl
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: 60 against the New England Patriots. 520 kickoff on Wednesday.
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: 49451 at Tacoma Dodge text line. Whom would you like
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: to see raise the 12 flag right before kickoff? Someone
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: posed that question to Vinod Khosla on Twitter X yesterday.
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: And he is active.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: And he responded because he responds to everything we're already learning.
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: I like that.
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: You know who he said should do it?
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: I do.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: Jody Allen. Somebody asked Vinod Kozla yesterday on Twitter X,
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: are you guys, meaning the Kozla family, the new owners,
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: raising the 12th man flag at the opener, or will
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: you let Jody do it one last time as a goodbye?
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: And Vinod Kozla wrote back on Twitter X, quote, I'd
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: love to have Jody do it.
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: So classy.
• 49:32
  Speaker 6: 49451.
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: So classy. Would you like Jody Allen to raise the flag? Yes.
• 49:36
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: I'll text in.
• 49:39
  Speaker 7: You want me to text in?
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: Kind of have to hit some buttons back here. But
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 49:46
  Speaker 7: I love it so much, especially after watching the ring
• 49:49
  Speaker 7: ceremony and everything that she did to make that that
• 49:52
  Speaker 7: night so special. I asked John Schneider in the locker
• 49:56
  Speaker 7: room after the Super Bowl win, you know, just.
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: What it meant.
• 50:02
  Speaker 7: I asked him what it meant to watch her hoist that,
• 50:05
  Speaker 7: and it was the first time he caught a breath
• 50:08
  Speaker 7: and was emotionally very invested in seeing her raise that trophy.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: I can tell you that the players, and especially the coaches,
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: and definitely the general manager, maybe most of all the
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: general manager who works most closely with the owner, really
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: appreciate how Jody Allen handled that situation. Mm-hmm. She was
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: in some ways an accidental owner after her brother's death.
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: She was the steward by the chair of the Paul
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: Allen estate, the owner, de facto owner of the Seahawks
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: in 2018 after her brother died. And the way she
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: stayed out of the way yet stayed involved, they really,
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: Pete Carroll respected her for that. John Schneider respected her
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: for that. Mike McDonald really appreciates that. She let the
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: football guys do the football stuff. And not every owner
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: does that, as we know.
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: Jerry Jones much?
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: Correct. Robert Kraft, going on and on. Even the Baltimore
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: owner that Mike McDonald worked for, he was very much
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: involved in the day-to-day of Harbaugh's regime while McDonald was
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: an assistant coach in Baltimore.
• 51:16
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: Now, it is worth mentioning, and it would be naive
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: to not to, that there is an entirely different opinion
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: of Jody Allen's stewardship of the Portland Trailblazers down in
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: Oregon because of how that franchise has gone since Paul
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: Allen's death. And I acknowledge that. But I'm not even
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: going to get into the weeds about that other than
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: to say what she has done up here has been exemplary.
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: It was Jody Allen. It bears repeating. It was Jody
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: Allen who, at the fork in the road of the
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: franchise's fate decided to take John Schneider's path forward and
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: not Pete Carroll. Jody Allen fired Pete Carroll. Carroll wanted
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: to stay, but Carroll also wanted to keep his offensive
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: and defensive coordinators. He wanted to stay loyal to his coaches,
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: and he wanted to run it back in the same
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: system that had been here for 15 years. And in
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: a postseason meeting after they missed the playoffs that season,
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: 2023 season, Mm-hmm. Jody Allen said, nope, Pete, we love you.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: Thank you. You gave us the best 15 years, the
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: franchise of sustained excellence we've ever had. You brought us
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: our first championship. But I'm choosing John Schneider's way. And
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: for the first time, I'm going to have the president
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: of football operation, the guy in charge of the actual
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: football ops, not be you, Pete Carroll. It's going to
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: be John Schneider. Because remember, Pete Carroll hired John Schneider.
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: It was bass-ackwards compared to how most Four franchises in
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: sports work.
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: He was given the keys.
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: He was the executive vice president for football. And he
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: had the final say over the first time 30-something-year-old GM
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: 17 years ago when they got here. Snyder arrived after
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: Todd Lewicki hired Pete Carroll from USC. Paul Allen sent
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: Todd Lewicki, for those who just moved to Seattle or
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: just became Seahawks fans conveniently last year or something. It
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: was Paul Allen sending Todd Laywicky to USC to get
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: Pete Carroll to Seattle. And how he got him here
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: was he gave Carroll the keys to the whole franchise,
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: as Jessamyn puts it, and said, you are in charge
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: of all football, including hiring a GM. And yes, it
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: was a symbiotic relationship, but it was Pete Carroll with
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: the ultimate authority. When they had draft picks that they
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: were trying to decide who to pick, it was Pete
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: Carroll's choice.
• 53:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: I think we knew the hierarchy there.
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: It was unusual in an NFL team for the general
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: manager to be answering to the coach, but that's what
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: it was. And it was after the 2023 season that
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: it was Jody Allen. It wasn't John Schneider. It was
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: Jody Allen who said, uh-uh, we're done. Thank you. You've
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: served us well. We're going with John Schneider and a
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: new coach.
• 53:50
  Speaker 7: And she made the right choice at the right time, too.
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: It wasn't out of nowhere. It was, OK, you had
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: your time.
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 54:00
  Speaker 7: And I appreciate all of that time. But the way
• 54:03
  Speaker 7: that decision was made was in that fashion.
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: And Pete Carroll didn't just say, hey, thanks, ma'am, and left.
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: He fought to keep his job. He argued back. He
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: talked about why you should stay. I don't know this
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: for a fact, but I'm assuming that he might have said,
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: you're turning the keys over to somebody who's never done
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: this before, full time and full authority. And John Schneider,
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: you sure about this? And she said, yes. And she
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: was exactly right. She got John Schneider in charge and
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: John Schneider brought the defense was broken. They were last
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: in the league and most of the metrics against the run,
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: the identity of the defense was shot. The culture had
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: changed to the point where they were smoking cigars after
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: it's season ending loss in Arizona. It was different. And
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: Bert cold was there watching that in Arizona. He was
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: sitting next to me in the press conference. We could
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: smell the cigar smoke coming in from the locker room. It,
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: it had to change and Jody Allen did it. And
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: it was John Schneider does hiring, fixing the defense with
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: a defensive first head coach. The most innovative defensive mind
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: he found was Mike McDonald. And the rest has become
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: short lived history the last two years, including the Superbowl.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: So that was Jody Allen. And I believe that would
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: be a very fitting tribute to Jody Allen to let
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: her raise the 12 flag, because let's face it. She
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: really hasn't said goodbye. She never really said hello, but
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: she now hasn't said goodbye. It's, The Kozels are in.
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: Now the season's beginning. Now the sale's going to be official.
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: And here we go. And Jody Allen just kind of go.
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: Hershey and Burt Cole just kind of depart without ever being.
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: a chance to say goodbye and that would do that.
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: It was a part of Paula Allen's will.
• 55:41
  Speaker 7: It wasn't like she wanted to sell the team. It
• 55:44
  Speaker 7: was a part of her dearly departed brother's wish is
• 55:48
  Speaker 7: for the sale of this team to go to his
• 55:51
  Speaker 7: various charitable endeavors.
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: And that was always a part of it.
• 55:57
  Speaker 7: And I think that when I heard Vinod talk about that,
• 56:03
  Speaker 7: that it's so rare that you get to buy a
• 56:05
  Speaker 7: champion and, I thought that that spoke a lot for
• 56:09
  Speaker 7: his awareness of the situation as well. Because this was
• 56:13
  Speaker 7: not a team in trouble. This was not a situation where, oh,
• 56:18
  Speaker 7: we need a new owner. It was a very rare situation.
• 56:22
  Speaker 7: And people need to remember that.
• 56:23
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: The other thing, I'm looking at the text line, 206-49451,
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: the Tacoma Dodge text line. 206 is absolutely Jody Allen
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: should raise the 12 flag. Needs some kind of gesture
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: to ease the anxiety of new ownership. What is the
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: anxiety of new ownership? Is it just the fact that
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: it's a new owner?
• 56:41
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 56:42
  Speaker 7: I think AI puts people a little bit on their heels,
• 56:45
  Speaker 7: to be honest.
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: And the fact they don't live here.
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: Aren't from here.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: Well, they don't live here.
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: They might get a place.
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: Well, I've asked that question. Yeah. And John Schneider said
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: he doesn't know. He said that there has been some
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: talk of Neil Kozlo, the son, perhaps moving here to
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: Seattle and living here. But they live in the Bay Area.
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: And that alone makes people nervous because anyone who's been
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: here for 20 years or more knows what happens when
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: you have owners of teams that don't live here. But
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: that is the norm. And the fact is that no
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: local owner stepped forward to buy the Seahawks, and that's
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: why no local owner owns them anymore. But I get
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: it because it's new and it's different. It's the first
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: time in 29 years that the Seahawks have been owned
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: by anybody but the Allens.
• 57:33
  Speaker 7: And the Coles are not necessarily a household name that
• 57:36
  Speaker 7: you would know either.
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: The Allens are here in Seattle.
• 57:40
  Speaker 7: So I also understand that hesitation where, who the heck
• 57:44
  Speaker 7: is this?
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 57:45
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: I get it.
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: That's exactly true.
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: Is it AI?
• 57:48
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: Help me out. Is it the AI? Is it the
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: fact that they are from the Bay Area? Is it
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: the fact that Vinod Khosla owns 3% of the 49ers,
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: which he has to divest from? Is it the fact
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: that he's sitting like the Steelers when he moved to
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: America from India in 1976? Or is it just the
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: mere fact that they aren't the Allens and that they
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: aren't from here as to what your anxiety is of
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: the new ownership?
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: How lucky are we, though, to have so much local ownership?
• 58:15
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: And I mean, that is rare.
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: I don't think people understand how rare that is.
• 58:21
  Speaker 7: But when you're blessed with something like that, you kind
• 58:24
  Speaker 7: of forget that you're very lucky.
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: But we've had it for generations here. The Sonics were
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: owned locally until they weren't. And then we saw what
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: happened when the Sonics weren't owned locally.
• 58:32
  Speaker 6: They were gone.
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: There is a fear factor.
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: The Mariners have been, well, aside from the Nintendo ownership
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: based in Japan, the Mariners have largely been largely locally owned.
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: The Seahawks, of course, even before. I mean, it was
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: a Nordstrom family. They were the original owners of the
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: Seahawks here in Seattle in the 1970s. So yes, we
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: are spoiled. You're right, Jessamyn.
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: I think it's very lucky. Yeah.
• 58:59
  Speaker 7: So I guess I would just say you were saying 49451,
• 59:03
  Speaker 7: what is your hesitation? I would just say that if
• 59:07
  Speaker 7: that's what your hesitation is, it is very rare to
• 59:10
  Speaker 7: actually have that.
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: But it is different. And so I can understand the trepidation.
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: I also reiterate that the NFL loves, not likes, loves
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks being up here. They love the geographic footprint.
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: They love the anchor tenet. They love the fact that
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks are a hugely successful franchise financially and on
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: the field, and it's in the Pacific Northwest with no
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: other franchise 700 miles within it. It loves that it
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: has Montana and Idaho and Alaska and Hawaii and Oregon
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: as all of their footprint. They love all of that.
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: BC and Alberta, they're Seahawks fans.
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: I think we get Montana, too.
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: As I said, Montana for sure.
• 59:46
  Speaker 6: Oh, you did.
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: Okay. I missed it.
• 59:47
  Speaker 12: My bad.
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: The Seahawks. Festivities around the opener on Wednesday, a 520
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: kickoff Soundgarden. Remember them?
• 59:56
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: 1990s grunge when I first moved here. They're going to
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: reunite and perform at halftime.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: Who's lead singing?
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: Well, they're going to have guest appearances by the pretty
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: reckless singer Taylor Momsen. They're going to have Pearl Jam
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: guitarist Mike McCready joining them as well. Amazing.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 7: Amazing.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: And Soundgarden played in 2015. The last time the Seahawks
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: opened an NFL season because they were defending Super Bowl
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: champion was September 2015 on a Thursday night against Green Bay.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: I was their cover net for the News Tribune. And
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: Soundgarden played outside in the North Lot before the kickoff.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: They played outside?
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they were outside.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: That's so awesome.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: There was a stage outside in the North Lot where
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: the Old Kingdom was. And Soundgarden played that night. So
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: as a nod to that, the last time they were
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl champs kicking off the season, Soundgarden's going to
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: play in the stadium at halftime. Before the game outside
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: the stadium, country music legend Luke Bryan's going to play
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: on a stage in the parking lot. I assume the
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: North Lot.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: I will be there for that.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: That's part of the USAA's Salute to 250 kickoff concert.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: It's going to start at Lumenfield's North Lot at 2.30
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: our time. And his official salute To service partner of
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: the Seattle Seahawks and the NFL, USA is going to
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: provide a special VIP viewing section at the concert for
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: active duty service members, veterans, and USA members. I should
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: go check that out.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: I'd check two of those boxes anyway.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I'll drive you down.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 12: I'm going.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: Following the concert, USA is also going to welcome 300
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: local active duty service members to the Seahawks regular season
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: opener against the Patriots. It kicks off at 520 on NBC.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: That was from our friends at USA. So, Not only
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: do you get a VIP, if you're active duty military
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: or you're a veteran or you're a USAA member, you
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: get to go into a VIP section for the Luke
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: Bryan concert before kickoff Wednesday. Then 300 of you are
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: going to get to go. If you're active duty service members,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: you get 300 of you are going to get drawn
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: in to come in and watch the game. Free tickets.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: Let's go.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: That's from USA, our friends at USAA.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: We are big fans of them.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: We are.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: Because we're going to be in Times Square the second Saturday,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: second Friday. of December 12th for the Army-Navy game.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: Live show.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: Jess McIntyre. How many years have we done this? Like seven,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: eight years now?
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: This will be my fifth with you. I know you
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: did it before I came on.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 4: Ah. Yes.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: But this will be my fifth straight.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: Awesome.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: I've got a pretty decent record.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: You do. And you have a pretty good, decent record
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: of lining up guests as well for that. Oh, yes.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: That's my job.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: Tomorrow, we're going to have our high school football Friday
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: segment kicking off. Graham Kapowson against Lake Stevens is the
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: featured game of the weekend out here in these parts.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: Number three and number four teams in 4A. And the
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: Graham Kapowson coach, Jeff Logan, is going to be on
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: our show tomorrow. Up next is your chance to be
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: a part of the show, 49451 or Talkbacks. Go to
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app or 933KJR. com. Hit the red Talkback button
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: and we'll play back yours. Talkbacks next on 93.3 KJRFM.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: Anyway, we do have some talk.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 13: Shout out Bothell. Go Bothell. The boys flew all the
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 13: way to Honolulu, Hawaii, and they're going to play their
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 13: first game of the season on the Big Island.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 8: Go 1-0, boys.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 13: Shout out Bothell.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: Hey there, Greg and Jessamyn.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 14: I just want to know, did the Mariners play tough enough?
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 14: Did they play hard? Did they get over? Did they
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 14: score the run? Did they finally play tough enough?
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: Either way, their season is still over. Go Hawks!
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 13: Julio Rodriguez has attention deficit disorder.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 5: I really do.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: I think that's his problem.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 13: And I think that's part of Randy Rosarito's problem, too.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 13: Jody raising the 12th man flag would perfectly, perfectly round
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 13: out her ownership tenure as Seahawks owner. She comes in.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 13: She does everything right. She pushes all the right buttons,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 13: makes all the right hires, makes all the right fires
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 13: and wins a Super Bowl and then goes out on top,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 13: sells it to a winning family. Let her raise the flag.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: Go out on top, Jody. I agree. Yeah, Bothell High School,
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: they're playing at Moanalua High School in Honolulu.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 3: I know there were a lot of topics that just got.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're playing Friday night in Honolulu. That's their opening game.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: And then week two, they play Lake Stevens. Bothell isn't
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: messing around, man. The Booster Club must have been in
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: high gear to fund that trip. I mean, public school,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: good to go to Hawaii for their opener?
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: That's pretty great.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: That's a pretty cool deal.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 3: We have a lot that have come in a little late.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 7: But I do like to reward those who actually listen
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 7: to us and contribute.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 11: Wake up.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: Go pee.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 3: Grab keys.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: Coffee.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 3: Go to work.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: Drop off kids. That's what I do all my day.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: I get home.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 11: Make food.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 12: Get work.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: Go keys.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 3: I eat.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 13: Then I go to sleep.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: What was that?
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 3: I don't know that.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: Like I said, the bar's low. She's going to put
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: you on the air.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 7: Because you're listening, and I appreciate you, and you didn't swear.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: Because it's fun. Hold on.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 7: This one is a little more relevant.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 10: Greg, Jeff, happy Thursday. Yes, it's nervous with new owners.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 10: When the Sonics left with an out-of-towner, they were not
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 10: a good franchise. They were not a good team. You
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 10: can't take a winner like the Seattle Seahawks out of Seattle.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 4: Go Hawks.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: I get it.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 7: Not worried about that.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: 503 from the text line at the Comodage text line, 49451.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: The 503 says, I'm nervous as a member. As I remember,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: before Paul Allen purchased the Seahawks, they almost moved away.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: They did.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 3: He saved them.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: That was, of course, the temper. They actually moved some
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: of their furniture out of Kirkland. to Southern California.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: I remember hearing about that.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: I was here. I covered it for the Associated Press. Actually, no,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: I didn't cover it. That was 1996, if I remember.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: I was living here. I was in the Army still.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: And that was Ken Bering saying, the kingdom isn't fit.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: We're going to have to move. The whole earthquake ceiling tiles,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: the cement ceiling tiles falling down. That was not ideal.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: Pre-game and Mariner's Indians game I was at. All that happened.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: And then Right. Paul Allen stopped him from moving as
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: a local owner. That's true. That's someone who's been here
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: a day or two.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 4: That's true.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 3: Then Ken Griffey Jr. saved the Mariners around that same time.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: Wasn't it?
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: Slate Gordon saved the Mariners. A special session of the
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: state legislature to create... T-Mobile Park. I mean, there was
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: no T-Mobile Park without a special vote. I don't know
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: if you were living here at the time. I wasn't.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: The state voters voted down a new baseball stadium. It
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: went to the ballot.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: No, I do remember learning about that when I was
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: going to move out.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: And we voted as— I was living here at the time,
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: and we voted down— we said no, and they were going
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: to move to St. Petersburg, where now the Rays play,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: because St. Petersburg had their Tropicana Field, their dome. And
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: Slade Gordon, the then U.S. Senator— strong-armed a special session
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: of the legislature. They brought all the state legislators back
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: to Olympia and basically approved a law that made the
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: stadium district, that made T-Mobile Park. That's what happened. It's
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: Slade Gordon. There should be a statue in front of
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: T-Mobile Park of Slade Gordon.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 3: That's a pretty bomb-ass name, too. Okay, we have a
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: few more.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: Hey, Greg. Hey, Jess. So I got a weird, crazy
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: question for you, Greg.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 8: Which would you choose? Beating Navy for the next 50 years?
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes. That's what I choose.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 8: Or Army gets to the national championship game but loses
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 8: in a blowout?
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: Not even close. Loveless than you guys. Great question. Not
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: even close. Beat Navy 50 years in a row. Are
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: you kidding me? That would be glorious. Instead of the natty?
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: If Army went to the national championship, that would be
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: a dream enough. Who cares if they won it or not?
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: If they got blown out? Are you kidding me?
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: I would absolutely take Army or Navy 50 years in
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: a row. I have all my Navy friends. Shall we
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: continue about this? The very first moment I became a
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: cadet at West Point, it was screamed at. Beat Navy, sir.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: Beat Navy, ma'am. That's all I said for four years. Well,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: after a while, I was an upperclassman and they said
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: it to me. That's all you were weaned on the
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: whole time. And then I went there. We went two
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: and two. Navy was 0-10 in the Meadowlands. We were
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: 5-5 my sophomore year. Freaking dude for Navy in like
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: a windstorm kicks a field goal at the buzzer and
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: beats us. 0-10 Navy. The squids beat us at 0-10.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: The squids? The squids. Beating the squids 50 years in
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: a row, I'd be... Yeah, there's not much else I'd
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: trade for that.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 3: Squids are sentient beings.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: That would be awesome. It never would happen, but that
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: would be awesome.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: Latecomers, hold on.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 9: Don't get me wrong. I definitely would love to see
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 9: this Mariner team in the playoffs. They're going to go
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 9: down as the best, worst team to make the playoffs
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 9: if they happen to sneak.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: Their way in.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 9: But let's be honest, Mariner fans. They're five games out.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 9: We have the easiest schedule in the MLB. We're going
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 9: to fall about a game and a half short of
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 9: the playoffs. Dan's going to get fired. We're going to
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 9: be better off next year. All I'm looking forward to
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 9: is Apple Cup Sunday.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 4: Go Dawgs.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: Apple Cup, 1 p.m. here on 93.3 KJR FM at
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: Husky Stadium. You know, Larry Stone brought up something interesting
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: yesterday when I was driving around late in the afternoon
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: on Dave Softy Muller and Dick Fane's show. He doesn't
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: think Dan Wilson even wants to come back.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 3: He was put in a precarious situation.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: He was pulled out of retirement, very happy with his wife, Andy,
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: just hanging out, doing whatever he was doing, a little
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: bit of Mariner stuff, a figurehead that would show up
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: for events. And then he got pulled out of it
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: when they fired Scott Service. And John Stanton and Jerry
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: DiPoto said, come manage this team. He had never managed
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: anything but a softball team. A girls softball team was
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: the only thing he had ever managed.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 3: He was living his life.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And so Larry Stone's point is, even if they
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: made the playoffs, he doesn't want to compete. He didn't
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: want to do this. He wasn't picked to do this
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: to begin with.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 3: But he did it so well last year.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: Did he? Or did he have a catcher that had
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: 60 home runs?
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 3: The way that he... I was in the clubhouse a
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 3: lot last year. I'll be down there today.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 7: The way I see him as a leader, I think
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 7: he is more former player than manager.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 3: I'll give you that. But he knows how to relate
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 3: to these guys. And what I saw, I was very
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 3: impressed by.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: Somebody's 360 is saying garbage halftime music for the show.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: The Soundgarden show.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: I mean, without Chris Cornell, obviously it takes a step back.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: I think that's the Taylor Monson.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 4: But.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 6: um.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 7: I i still really really love their music i'm.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: Gonna go 808 there's no anxiety it's hawaii isn't it
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: hawaii yeah aloha there's no anxiety with by the way
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: i'm going to hawaii next week the seahawks have a
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: five-day break after.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: The opener that's where you're going.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: I'm finally gonna go see our daughter oh gosh my
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: wife and i are finally she's been there since june Well,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: she's on a ship in Japan for part of it.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: But yeah, we're going to go to Hawaii the day
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: after the game.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 7: Better be only Army and Coast Guard fans that come
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 7: up to you and say hi.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of Navy in Hawaii. She's working with
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: a lot of Navy.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 3: I'm well aware. I know people that have been stationed there.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of Navy there. The 206 says, the
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: sentiment I keep hearing is, quote, some foreign tech billionaire
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: who lives in San Francisco just bought the Seahawks as
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: an investment. I don't think that's a fair assessment, but
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: makes people uneasy. Yeah, I get that. 253. Of course
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: I've been to Army-Navy. It says, I have never been
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: to Army-Navy. After hearing your enthusiasm, it's a bucket list item.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 4: Good.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: I hope so. Do you prefer New York or Philadelphia?
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: I've been to neither. It's not even close. It's a
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: thousand times better in Philadelphia. The entire city just wraps
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: itself around it. New York, it just gets swallowed up.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: It's too big. And it's also not played in New York.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: It's played in Across the river in the Meadowlands in
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: a swamp. I can't stand the Meadowlands.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 3: It's so bad.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 7: Thank you for crapping on New Jersey.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: It's awful.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 3: People think I'm from there.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: No, it's awful.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 3: And it drives me insane.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: It's awful. It'd be like putting.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 3: Cape May is the only cool part.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: I can't even... Point Pleasant's cool. But I can't even
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: think of... I can't think of anything cool about the Meadowlands.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: Not around it. Not the parking. Not getting there. Not
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: getting out of it.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 3: People, like when they say New York, first of all,
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 3: it's in New Jersey.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 7: People say New York and then also Boston.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 3: Foxborough is not anywhere near Boston.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 7: These major cities that have these places, these stadiums, but
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 7: they sell.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 3: They sell.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 3: One more. You know I like to squeeze these in
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 3: if they come in late.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 12: To the guy riding the lawnmower that calls in all
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 12: the time bashing Julio and Randy Rosarino, you have not
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 12: said one positive thing about the Mariners all year. You
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 12: call in all the time. Get off your lawnmower. I'm
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 12: not sure who pissed in your Cheerios. It's going to
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 12: be okay. It's still nice. It's not raining out.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 8: They still have a chance.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 12: Put the John Deere away and have a good day, bud.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 8: We love you.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: It is a peculiar sound. It does sound like a lawnmower,
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: doesn't it?
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 3: Well, I like the multitasking aspect, because.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 7: If you're mowing your lawn and listening to us, I
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 7: appreciate it.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: 425 says, ha ha ha, Army isn't winning as much
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: as a spelling contest, much less the Army-Navy game. Yeah,
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: they've won the Army-Navy game quite a few times. It's
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: about dead even.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 3: I was there when.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 3: You ran on the field right after that.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: In Boston.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 3: But it broke a streak.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 7: It broke like a four-game losing streak.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: Well, let's not even recreate this. Navy won 14 years
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: in a row, and that was until like about 2018
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: or so, 2019. That was painful.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was painful.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 3: I just remember I was with your daughter. I was
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 3: with Sarah.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 7: And we look at– by the way– Those folks at
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 7: the stadium treated us.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: Very, very well. Yeah, they did.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 3: We had food. We had, like, bations.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 7: And Greg and I had already done our show, so
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 7: we were allowed to enjoy, which we did.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 3: And I just remember— We were.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: On the sideline. We watched the game from the sideline.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 8: We were on the sideline.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 3: I'm talking to your daughter. And all of a sudden
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 3: we look over and you're like at the 50 yard line.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: There was a penalty that I knew army was going
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: to refuse to end the game, but no one else
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: realized that.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: You know, the game was over. So everyone else was
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: waiting on the penalty announcement. I just went ahead and
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: ran out onto the field and his security guard said,
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: you're not supposed to be out here. I said, I'm
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: a grad. Don't worry about it.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 3: Oh, you are.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 3: You are just, I'm credentialed. Like I'm all good.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: Every year I go up to Jeff Monk and the
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: army coach after the army Navy game and we chat
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: and he, He recognizes me now from years over years.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: He doesn't know my name, but he recognizes me by face.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 3: Faces are better than names sometimes. You got a good
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 3: one on your head.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: Dave Softy Mahler. He was on at three. The mayor
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: of Maple Valley, Ian Furness. Oh, my God.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 3: Do not let Ian hear that.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: I will tell Ian that I've just mistaken him for
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: Dave Softy Mahler. He'll love that. Ian's going to come
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: in next, tell us what he's got going on from
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: 12 to 8. Thanks for all your time. There's many
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: more we didn't get to. Some of you are taking
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: exception for Jessamyn saying that Dan Wilson was a good
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: manager last year. I'll just let that lay there. That's okay.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 7: You can disagree with me.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 3: I'm okay with it.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: I am okay with disagreement. The end's up next on
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: 93.3 KJR FM. Welcome back to the Greg Best Show
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: with Justin McIntyre, 93.3 KJRFM. Thanks for the Go Army,
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: Beat Navy references. They're always appreciated. Although there's always a
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: few Navy guys coming in with, yes, I know it
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: was a 14-game winning streak, I'm aware. Thanks for reminding me.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 3: I said four to be nice.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: You did. I appreciate that. I noticed it. Ian Furness
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: joins us, the mayor of Maple Valley, in his Whitworth
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: football hoodie from his son's days of being college football
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: offensive lineman. That was Kiefer doing. He get that EMT deal?
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 8: He got EMT certified. Now he's working on jobs.
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So he's working.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 8: He's grinding. He's grinding.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 8: Felt like he didn't have enough school after four years, apparently.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: Well, Harry, selflessness. Hats off to him for doing EMT work.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: That's great. The Mariners coming home. You think the math's mathing?
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: Or are they running out of days now?
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 7: No.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: Five and 22.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 8: I thought it was been math. I just– I've been
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 8: saying this a lot, much to the chagrin of Molly
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 8: Whoppers or Anders or others. The math has always been
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 8: on their side. The one thing I don't really buy
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 8: into is the schedule being so light that they should
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 8: be excited about that. I mean, sure, it looks on
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 8: paper great, but didn't Houston lose two or three to
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 8: the A's?
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: And the Angels.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 8: And the Mariners just took two or three from a
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 8: better team in Boston. So you just try to predict
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 8: a series win and all those things. And even last night,
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 8: I mean, the good news is they won. The bad
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 8: news is Houston won. So game no ground there, right?
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 8: But the math works. The math works fine for them.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 8: I mean, the math works fine. The big thing is
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 8: they've got games against Texas and Houston. Those are the
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 8: games that really kind of jump out at you, right?
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: Right. That's next week here in the yard in Soto.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: The Rangers come in after the A's for four. I
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 8: I think that the two thing, the other thing, Greg,
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 8: is that the fan base is just kind.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: Of, They have. They really have. Justifiably.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 8: Justifiably so, and yet this is a team that could
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 8: get in, and hell, they could get in and make
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 8: a run. Who knows?
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: Are you of the mind that we've heard, and I
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: think you've even talked about, let's not make the playoffs
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: because otherwise.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 8: It would encourage a run back? I always say make
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 8: the playoffs.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: Me too.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 8: I always say make the playoffs. I don't care what
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 8: sport it is.
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  Speaker 2: Especially this franchise. It's not exactly normal for them to
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 8: Well, six times in 49 years doesn't feel like a lot.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 8: I mean, that's not a huge percentage, right?
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: No.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 8: So, yeah, I always– You know, like last year, there
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 8: were people saying that about the hockey team. Oh, it's
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 8: better off just not making the playoffs and getting a
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 8: better draft pick. I'm like, eh, get in. Get some
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 8: excitement going.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 8: Right? Sports are about getting to the playoffs.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: And especially baseball, because you just need three starting pitchers
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: to shove for a series, and then you're in the
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: championship series. Right?
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 8: I mean, that's it. So why would you not want
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 8: to get in? I guess my question always back to
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 8: people is, why do you want your team not to
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 8: get in? What, what now?
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: Why do you want them to lose?
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 8: I have, I have only one time thought about like
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 8: kind of rooting against my team and hope because I
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 8: was hoping for change. And that was Ernie Kent's last
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 8: year at Wazoo in basketball. It just did. And as
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 8: it turned, like I was pretty confident they were going
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 8: to move on from him if they continue to go
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 8: down the downwards. So then when you're already like four
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 8: games under five, like you're not going to the tournament
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 8: at that point, just lose so you can, Get him
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 8: out of here. But I think if you're a Mariner fan,
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 8: you're saying, I hope they lose out or I hope
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 8: they don't make the playoffs because they're going to be
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 8: sweeping changes. What gives you any confidence they're going to
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 8: make the changes that you want to see as a fan?
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 2: Larry Stone brought up something interesting on Softee's show yesterday
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: that he doesn't think Dan Wilson wants to come back.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: It wasn't his job.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 8: That kind of feels like it's more likely.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 2: I think so.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 8: Dan's like, I don't need this.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: Why do I need this? I don't have any experience
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: doing it, and now you're roasting me.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 8: I'm just getting torched throughout the town every day. Can't
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 8: turn on the radio or pick it. Well, the newspaper
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 8: doesn't get them too bad, but I can't pick up.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 8: I can't look at, well, he probably isn't a social
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 8: media guy anyway, but social media, newspaper.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: I will say his body language during a game, he
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: does not look like he wants to be anywhere near there. No.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 4: No.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: Even when they're winning. No.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 8: No, no, no, no, no, and no.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: What do you got today?
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 8: Busy show coming up today. We'll check in. Eno Saris
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 8: will join us from the Athletic All Things Baseball at
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 8: 1220 this afternoon. And so we'll talk to him. One
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 8: o'clock hour, we're going to do a quick little preview
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 8: of high school football.
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 8: We got our guy Manny Hatz Millis, Todd Millis on.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, great. Yeah, former TNT alum. That's a buddy of
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: mine still.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 8: Here's the thing. There's a couple places. I'll give John Manley,
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 8: your guy John Manley, a lot of credit. He does
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 8: a great job covering preps. The reigning Washington State Sports
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 8: Center of the Year. But he's all in the South Sound.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: Yes, he is.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 8: Millis is all across the state. And Todd puts in
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 8: the work. Todd and Lauren, they do a great website. Yeah,
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 8: they do a great job. So we'll talk to Todd
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 8: coming up.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: That's great.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 8: High school football starts tonight.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 2: I know. I'm refereeing a game. Oh, yeah? Ballard and Lincoln.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 8: Let's go. If you're going to that game, make sure
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 8: you yell a referee bell. No, don't do that. I'll
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 8: tell the PA announcer to shut you down. We need
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 8: more officials, not less.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: Yes, you do.
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 8: So yeah, we got that coming up. And then at
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 8: 2 p.m., Brandon Funston, the unofficial star of the weekend,
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 8: we will take your texts, your questions.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: Your draft.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: But not till 12.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 8: Yeah, we got one.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 2: Four minutes counting right now. Yeah, so nothing before noon.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: You just chop them off, right? Chop them off.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 8: Chop them off.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: Don't be early.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 8: What was our first one last week? It was like
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 8: one second afternoon. No premature. Before the season starts, we
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 8: had 12-0-0-0-1 last week. For Funston. That's what we had.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 8: And we'll take phone calls today, too. Everyone's doing drafts
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 8: or maybe have second thoughts, keepers, all that stuff. So
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 8: a true preview before we get to the real thing
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 8: next week with Funston at 2 o'clock.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 2: It's on. 2 o'clock. Phone lines are open. Texting at noon.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 2: High noon.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 8: It's like the one time we say that. Phone lines
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 8: are open for our show.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: Phone lines are open.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 8: Mike and Edmonds, Ricky and Tacoma. The Sultan two-steppers, Derek
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 8: and Steven, Rob and Burian. I do love the Sultans.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 8: The whole gang. The whole gang will be there.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: Bring them back. They're all coming back. Bring them back.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 6: How is Rob?
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 4: Is he okay?
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 8: Have you had your draft yet? No, but I'm going
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 8: to be so bad.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, good.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 8: Thanks, Eeyore.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: Rain, Cloud, and Ian are up next with Anders from
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: 12 until 3. Thanks, Greg Bell, Justin McIntyre. Appreciate you.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: We'll do it again tomorrow. We've got high school football tomorrow.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: Graham Kapowski and head coach Jeff Logan. We've got... Farhan Lalji,
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: TSN Canada, talking NFL. That's coming up tomorrow on 93.3 KJRFM.