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6-22 H1: Happy Fathers Day, Mike Benton Joins & How Far Can the USA Go? · The Gregg Bell Show

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Speaker 1: Empty nesting on Father's Day a little weird. Yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: one of the few. I think it's the only one
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Speaker 1: I've ever had that neither of my kids were around,
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Speaker 1: and my father passed away. Now this is the second
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Speaker 1: Father's Day, but my father, So it was a little
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Speaker 1: lonely and poppy Father's Date. Everybody out there, belatedly, those
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Speaker 1: that are fathers, those that have fathers, those that miss
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Speaker 1: Father's Happy Father's Day to all of you. Hopefully you
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Speaker 1: had a great out time weekend. If you were in
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Speaker 1: the Pacific Northwest, Chris, I'm sure you did. What'd you
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Speaker 1: do instead of watching US and Australia on Friday?
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Speaker 2: Had a good run, Then on down the hills, man,
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Speaker 2: they'll suck. Sorry for those that can master running hills,
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Speaker 2: I give you double thumbs up YouTube. You see the
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Speaker 2: double thumbs up, You're a You're a warrior. Because I'm
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Speaker 2: just getting a certain time with hills is not is
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Speaker 2: not for the week, And I look at my clock
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Speaker 2: on my watch, I'm.
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Speaker 1: Like, dang, I strove almost heels.
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Speaker 2: Can't wait till you're on a flat service And I'm like, oh,
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Speaker 2: that's more like it.
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Speaker 1: But did my run? That was great?
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Speaker 3: And then Saturday we had flag football.
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Speaker 1: It was really good.
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Speaker 3: Two games, no hills, you know.
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Speaker 2: Just dead legs, jacked up tricep you know, banged up head.
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Speaker 1: It was fun.
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Speaker 2: And then Sunday got to spend time with my dad
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Speaker 2: watching some golf. Shout out to Wyndham Clark because I
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Speaker 2: had him for the green jacket. Yeah, he was my
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Speaker 2: second pick. I had Scheffler first, and then in the
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Speaker 2: second round I took when the new car loaded, I
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Speaker 2: was loaded, but I didn't watch the final round?
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Speaker 1: Was it as bad as portrayed him? Getting booed and jeered?
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Speaker 2: And so I was on my way home because I
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Speaker 2: had given up hope, so quick story. I was watching
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Speaker 2: with my dad and then my mom was like, oh,
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go to the market. At this point, Wyndham
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Speaker 2: had he had he was at minus seven Sam Burns
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Speaker 2: might have been, was minus one six shot lead. I'm like, yeah,
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Speaker 2: he's nice lead. I'm gonna go to the go to
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Speaker 2: the store, my mom get some veggies, fruit and all
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Speaker 2: that at a local market.
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Speaker 1: Cool.
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Speaker 2: I get back, I'm my dad, what the hell happened?
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Speaker 2: He's only up two shots? Long story short, he had
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Speaker 2: been struggling and I started with it. As I'm sitting there,
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Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't know if I could sit here
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Speaker 2: and watch him lose. So you know what, Dad, I
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Speaker 2: love you, Happy Father's Day. I'm not about to watch
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Speaker 2: this go down because I have him the green jacket
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Speaker 2: draft from the on the Morning Show. There is no
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Speaker 2: way in hell I'm gonna watch him just lose this
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Speaker 2: in front of me on your day.
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Speaker 3: He's like, all right, son, safe driving, I'll see you later.
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Speaker 3: It's like cool. I get home. Oh my gosh, she won.
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Speaker 2: So I missed all of that because I decided to
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Speaker 2: leave at the right time because I was just getting stressed.
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Speaker 1: When you watch the lead this evaporate, were they booing
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Speaker 1: and could you hear the booze? No?
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Speaker 2: I didn't hear anything, but maybe that was later on
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Speaker 2: because remember I got home and he was at minus
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Speaker 2: five and I think Sam Burns was at like minus
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Speaker 2: three or minus two, so the gap, the gap was closing,
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Speaker 2: and I'm like, what the hell is going on? And
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Speaker 2: every shot from each hole that he would start off,
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Speaker 2: I'm like, dude, what is going on? Hitting it in
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Speaker 2: the grass and I'm just rubbing my head. My dad's
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Speaker 2: looking at me like it's golf son. You know this happened. No,
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Speaker 2: it don't happen. You don't have a seven shot lead.
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Speaker 2: And everyone's like, oh, it's a rap. There's no way,
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Speaker 2: and he was trying to make it so he was
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Speaker 2: making it very difficult, and I'm glad I didn't put
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Speaker 2: money on him. People listening, I'm probably assuming I had
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Speaker 2: money on this guy. I had no money, just bragging rights.
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Speaker 1: People listening probably had money because you had picked them.
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Speaker 2: Probably there have been a couple of people like thanks
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Speaker 2: kid for Wyndham Clark men or previous years, I got
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Speaker 2: lucky in one around or one a a US Open.
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Speaker 3: So yes, that has happened before.
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Speaker 2: But this was more so all about negreg on my
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Speaker 2: Dad's day and I was very upset at a point
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Speaker 2: in time, and then I just dipped, didn't want to
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Speaker 2: pay attention, didn't.
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Speaker 3: Want to know anything, and I got home in check.
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Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my god, he put it off.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad you got back with your dad for the
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Speaker 1: rest of Father's Day. Absolutely good. Happy Father's Day to
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Speaker 1: everybody out there. On the show. Today, we're going to
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Speaker 1: talk about is Brian Smetzer going to be right about
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Speaker 1: his world Cup prediction he gave us Friday at Jimmy's.
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Speaker 1: I thought, well, that's just him getting caught up in
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Speaker 1: the moment. But the Sounders coach told us what he
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Speaker 1: thought of the US team, and it's so far coming true.
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Speaker 1: You'll hear about that the same Friday. That was one
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Speaker 1: of the top half dozen sporting events I've covered in
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Speaker 1: my thirty plus years here in Seattle. It was that good.
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Speaker 1: It really was. Men and Blazer is the popular podcast
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Speaker 1: for World Soccer. They hosted the Peer fifty eight fan
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Speaker 1: rally that Jessamin McIntyre was down on. We had her
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Speaker 1: on the Friday show from phone live from there. Marshawn
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Speaker 1: Lynch was down there. I don't know if you saw this,
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Speaker 1: Chris or those of you listening that I did see it. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he was first of all. Men and Blazer is the guy.
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Speaker 1: The guys who do that. They the World International Soccer
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Speaker 1: podcast called it the most incredible football meaning soccer course
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Speaker 1: atmosphere this country the United States has ever seen. On
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Speaker 1: Friday across downtown Seattle, be four during and after the
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Speaker 1: match against Australia. Lynch, by the way, yeah, he was
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Speaker 1: exactly what you'd expect him to be He told the
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Speaker 1: crowd down in Peer fifty eight about reminding him that
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Speaker 1: they'd cause an earthquake already in that stadium. Of course,
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Speaker 1: his beast Quake run to beat the Saints in the
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Speaker 1: playoff game and what fifteen years ago now, he said,
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Speaker 1: we just want to make sure that billing stays together.
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Speaker 1: He was telling us on the podcast and the crowd
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Speaker 1: at Peer fifty eight, I think if they get loud enough,
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Speaker 1: I think they can bring that mother down. He had
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Speaker 1: him another word beside mother. Of course he did, and
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Speaker 1: it was loud. Chris. When the referee reversed the decision
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Speaker 1: originally of an offside on the second goal of the
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Speaker 1: first half of the United States originally called off side,
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Speaker 1: var reviewed and the reference when he announced that that
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Speaker 1: was a good goal instead of off sides. The press
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Speaker 1: box shook longer than it shook for the beast Quake run.
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Speaker 1: It shook longer than Rashid Shaheed's kickoff return for a
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Speaker 1: touchdown against San Francisco in the Divisional playoffs in January.
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Speaker 1: The press box shook longer than Russell Wilson's rainbow passed
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Speaker 1: at Jermaine Curse in the end zone that beat the
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Speaker 1: Packers in overtime and got the Seahawks to their second
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Speaker 1: consecutive Super Bowl in January twenty fifteen. I was in
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Speaker 1: the building for all that, and I it shook like
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Speaker 1: it was earthquake chacking for a good ten to fifteen seconds,
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Speaker 1: and you could hear in the telecast. I'm told I
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Speaker 1: was in the stadium, so I didn't hear it, but
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Speaker 1: I heard late that John Strong and the Fox telcast
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Speaker 1: had the building is shaking in Seattle because he had
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Speaker 1: obviously never felt that before. It was that loud, And
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Speaker 1: I was on the field for right off the field,
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Speaker 1: first row in the stands for the national anthem, national
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Speaker 1: anthems of both Australia and the United States. There were
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Speaker 1: probably five seven, maybe eight thousand Australians in the crowd,
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Speaker 1: most of them in the south end zone behind the
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Speaker 1: south goal, and then in the upper corner of the
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Speaker 1: upper deck and then on the side belting out their
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Speaker 1: national anthem, and then the United States. I mean, they
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Speaker 1: don't sing like that for a Seahawk game national anthem
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Speaker 1: because it's not a national sport event, right, it's not
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Speaker 1: a national team plan. And they were belting it, and
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Speaker 1: then the Army helicopters from my joint base, Lewis McCord.
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Speaker 1: The Blackhawks come over. It was something. Butchettina, the Argentinian,
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Speaker 1: the US coach from Argentina, was talking about how special
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Speaker 1: the atmosphere was. The players afterwards went on and on
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Speaker 1: till the break of dawn about the atmosphere. And we'll
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Speaker 1: talk about what Christian roll Don said later on in
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Speaker 1: the show that players were coming up to him and
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Speaker 1: asking him and talking to him about during the match.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that as well. The Mariners losing two
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Speaker 1: out of three the first two games of the series
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Speaker 1: were carving copies of each other, five to one losses
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Speaker 1: with almost no hits and a lineup that has just
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Speaker 1: patchwork with all these injuries. And now here comes can Zone.
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Speaker 1: We'll see if he's playing in Pittsburgh tomorrow. You got
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Speaker 1: Ref Schneider leading off with his one thirty whatever battan average.
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Speaker 1: When did they just cut bait on that? I mean,
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Speaker 1: he's supposed to be reputed to be the best hit
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Speaker 1: here against lefties in the market. Last winter, that's why
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Speaker 1: they signed him. And here we are almost approaching now
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Speaker 1: the midpoint of the season and he's batten one thirty
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Speaker 1: five or whatever it is. Now he's they haven't bet
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Speaker 1: fifty yesterday, haven't betten lead off. If he's in prominent
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Speaker 1: roles in the lineup, that's what the injuries are. I
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Speaker 1: don't know, man, the platooning just trot Raley out there
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Speaker 1: at this point. I know he never doesn't get people say, well,
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Speaker 1: we can't hit left handers. We barely gets a chance
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Speaker 1: to hit left handers anyway. Four nine, four five one.
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Speaker 1: You're just ready for Luke Raley to be the full
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Speaker 1: time right for Victor Roublas for that matter, just be
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Speaker 1: the full time right fielder and we'll see what the
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Speaker 1: Mariners do with Reschneider. But he's here to hit left
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Speaker 1: handers and he's not doing it yet. I mentioned Kristal Hoddan.
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Speaker 1: I wrote a story in the News Tribune Friday night.
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Speaker 1: It was more read the story I wrote about Christian
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Speaker 1: o'dan and what the teammates were asking him and talking
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Speaker 1: to him about during the game and the noise in
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Speaker 1: the atmosphere. That was more read at the Newstribune dot
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Speaker 1: com than my match story which I put out right
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Speaker 1: after the game. Of the US is two nothing victory.
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Speaker 1: Mike Ben's going to join us a bottom of the
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Speaker 1: sidurer to talk about the krack and did in that
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Speaker 1: trade yesterday. Who the new winger is, why they got
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Speaker 1: him and why they resigned Bobby McMahon. He's talking to
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Speaker 1: McMahon right now. He told me, I'll try to get
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Speaker 1: at you ten thirty. Hopefully we'll be done with the
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Speaker 1: press conference by then. Aboven o'clock, i'll have a chance.
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Speaker 1: I'll have your chance to win another twenty five hundred
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Speaker 1: dollars in our two hundred and fifty k USA giveaway
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Speaker 1: with keyword at eleven o'clock. Nico Moreno, who was with
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Speaker 1: us on Friday with phone issues outside the stadium. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna get away with the phone issues today because we're
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Speaker 1: gonna have a min's studio the Fox thirteen Seattle, MLS Espanol.
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Speaker 1: Call him. Let's talk about the World Cup here in
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Speaker 1: studio at eleven o'clock. Your text of course four nine
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Speaker 1: four or five one on the Komo Dodge Tex S line.
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Speaker 1: The first question I have is Rob Reschneider, are you
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Speaker 1: ready to keep rolling with them and then platooning or
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Speaker 1: is it time to cut bait? And then the other
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Speaker 1: question I have is all right those of you that
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Speaker 1: were on the fence or maybe said no, I'm not
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Speaker 1: paying attention to the World Cup? Are you converting? There
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Speaker 1: are twenty more million people watch that game on a
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Speaker 1: Friday afternoon at noon Pacific time US and Australia, and
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Speaker 1: they have advanced. Nobody thought they were going to advance
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Speaker 1: in two games without even the third game against Turkey,
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Speaker 1: mattering that Turkey game looked like it was going to
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Speaker 1: be four, if not seating to get in and advance
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Speaker 1: to the knockout stage. And they're already in there, already
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Speaker 1: three before the third match. Four. It's coming out. You
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Speaker 1: in got World Cup fever? Cris you in? Sounds like
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Speaker 1: you're not in.
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Speaker 2: I am in by word of mouth, so retweeting and enjoying.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll you know, there you go.
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Speaker 1: Have you watched it?
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Speaker 3: No, I have not, but I watched you. Greg will
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Speaker 3: thank you my eyes and ears.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate that.
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Speaker 2: So and it sounds like it's a great time. I'm
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Speaker 2: not knocking it out it is. You know, it's not
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Speaker 2: my team. I won't take a sip, but I will
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Speaker 2: not stop you from drinking it.
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Speaker 1: Greg, I appreciate that. And Friday night after I got
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Speaker 1: back from the stadium. My son asked me, where did
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Speaker 1: that rank on all the things you've gone to? He
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Speaker 1: was across the street at the Victory Hall, my mom,
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Speaker 1: his mom, my wife, and made me think, that's a
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Speaker 1: good question. And I've been doing this now for going
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Speaker 1: on thirty years, and I thought to myself, Okay, what
10:50
Speaker 1: have I witnessed that is better than that? And I thought, okay,
10:54
Speaker 1: the Crosby Sidney Crosby's golden goald twenty ten Vancouver Olympics
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Speaker 1: in overtime to beat the United States in Canada's game
11:01
Speaker 1: and the gold medal match of hockey. I was seven
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Speaker 1: rows off center. I was sitting right behind the Canadian
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Speaker 1: Prime Minister and Michael J. Fox, and I mean it
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Speaker 1: was crazy. That was the most electric event I've ever
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Speaker 1: been out. The drama that game going to overtime. That's
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Speaker 1: number one probably in my career. Edgar's double I wasn't covering.
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Speaker 1: I was a fan sit two rows from the top
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Speaker 1: of the stadium in the Kingdome over the third base
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Speaker 1: on the third base side, and just could not believe
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Speaker 1: you talk about stadium shaking. I thought the concrete roof
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Speaker 1: was going to fall in so loud, the Edgar double
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Speaker 1: in ninety five that beat the Yankees in the Division series.
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Speaker 1: Hate to bring it up, but probably the next one
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Speaker 1: is the Super Bowl forty nine and Malcolm Butler interception,
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Speaker 1: the catch by Jermaine Curs that everyone had forgotten later
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Speaker 1: on that got the Seahawks in position, the run by
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Speaker 1: Lynch that got him too, the one yard line. I'm
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Speaker 1: writing a breaking Super Bowl game story for the News
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Speaker 1: Tribune about how they've won back to back and how
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Speaker 1: remarkable it was after having a twenty one to ten
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Speaker 1: lead in the second half, losing it and then coming
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Speaker 1: back at the end, and then losing it again, and
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Speaker 1: I had to rewrite the story, and I've told the
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Speaker 1: story of John McGrath. The columnists form the News Tribute
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Speaker 1: next to me, saying, we just witnessed the worst play
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Speaker 1: call in Super Bowl history. I said, John, there's your column.
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Speaker 1: That was probably the third moment, the best moment, best
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Speaker 1: in the sense of drama and the stakes involved. The
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Speaker 1: Seahawks come back. I mentioned it sixteen nothing. They're down
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Speaker 1: to Green Bay in the late in the third quarter,
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Speaker 1: and then the John Ryan fake field goal passed to
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Speaker 1: Gary Gillian gets them back in the game, some improbable
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Speaker 1: two point plays, Russell Wilson's whirling dervish throat at Luke Wilson.
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Speaker 1: You all remember that the on side kick that went
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Speaker 1: off the packer that all he had to do was
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Speaker 1: fall on the ball, and they win, and the Seahawks
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Speaker 1: get the Jermaine Curst dramatic catch on the post route
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Speaker 1: in overtime. They win to go to their second consecutive
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. That was in January twenty fifteen. And then
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Speaker 1: I would rank Friday right with maybe that. I thought
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Speaker 1: about maybe rich Sherman's tip Chris that got the Seahawks
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Speaker 1: back to that first of two Super Bowls twenty fourteen
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Speaker 1: title game. And where were you for Edgar's double second
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Speaker 1: row top of the stadium, second row.
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Speaker 2: From the top of the kang He said, I'll never
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Speaker 2: forget it.
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Speaker 1: I paid my wife and I paid I think ninety
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Speaker 1: dollars scalping. I was a captain of lieutenant captain. I
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Speaker 1: think it was the first lieutenant at the Fort Lewis
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Speaker 1: at the time. And I thought, man, that's expensive. I
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Speaker 1: can't believe we paid ninety dollars fee face five times.
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Speaker 3: The last four to thirty years. What do you say, now, Greg.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty by the time the match kicked off Friday,
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Speaker 1: it was thirty three hundred dollars to get into Loomen
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Speaker 1: Field or the remaining tickets on the secondary site. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: i'd player savings. Yes, And the fact that they're coming
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Speaker 1: back July sixth gave me pause to try to get
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Speaker 1: my son into one of those games. I said, well,
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Speaker 1: they're going to come back anyway. Friday would probably rank
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Speaker 1: around maybe sixth, right behind the Sherman tip in twenty
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Speaker 1: fourteen to in that NFC title game against the forty
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Speaker 1: nine ers. Where were in such a text line four
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Speaker 1: nine four five one. First of all, you'll probably tell
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Speaker 1: me I'm full of beans on some of those rankings,
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Speaker 1: But where would you rank the most dramatic moments you've
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Speaker 1: seen in the Seattle sports fan if you've been here
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Speaker 1: for a day or three. It was just the whole
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Speaker 1: tableau on Friday, the weather, the crowd, the international flavor
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Speaker 1: of it, the Australians marching on through the streets, the
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Speaker 1: American fans marching on, the anthem, the flyover. We'll talk
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Speaker 1: more about what the players had to say after that
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Speaker 1: match in the game up next. The cracking made two
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Speaker 1: big moves on Sunday, unusual for an NHL day, but
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Speaker 1: it is that time of year. The draft is this week.
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Speaker 1: Mike Benton joins us explain the why and the who
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Speaker 1: as soon as he's done talking to Bobby McMahon. Eleven
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Speaker 1: o'clock Niica Moreno to talk about the World Cup. You're
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Speaker 1: text We'll reading back at eleven thirty in the Coma
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Speaker 1: Dodge textaon on ninety three point three KJRFM. We'll back
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Speaker 1: the Mike Benton rock portion of the show here on
14:59
Speaker 1: ninety three point three KJRFM, Greg Bellin News Tribune and
15:01
Speaker 1: Christopher Kidd as we are every weekday ten am the noon.
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Speaker 1: Yesterday on a Sunday, the cracking were busy, gentlemen. Jason
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Speaker 1: Borell had told you in for Ness last Thursday. They
15:11
Speaker 1: were trying to work on re signing Bobby McMahon had
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Speaker 1: been talking to him about that him. Yesterday they did
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Speaker 1: that six year contract five point seventy five million per year.
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Speaker 1: They also made a trade with Florida. They got Mackie
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Speaker 1: samus Kavich, twenty three years old, a restricted free agent winger,
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Speaker 1: from the Panthers in exchange for the twenty fifth pick
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Speaker 1: in this week's draft. The Seahawks have cracking excuse me,
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Speaker 1: have two first round picks, seventh and twenty fifth. They
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Speaker 1: traded the twenty fifth of Florida to get Sam Samus Kavic,
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Speaker 1: and they also trade a conditional pick next year in
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Speaker 1: the second round. Here to talk about that, Here to
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Speaker 1: talk about Bobby McMahon, who he just talked to Mike Ben,
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Speaker 1: a pre and post game host on Cracking broadcast on
15:52
Speaker 1: the KRACK and Audio Network.
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Speaker 4: Hello, sir, hi Greg, Good morning, Happy Father's Day.
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Speaker 5: Also on a belated note today, we enjoyed it.
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Speaker 1: I did, and hope you did as well. Coach little
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Speaker 1: lead coach Mike Benton, what you learn from talking to
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Speaker 1: Bobby McMahon about his feelings of staying in Seattle.
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Speaker 5: With Bobby McMahon, this is a case we've learned over
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Speaker 5: the last several years. Greg, and I'll tho and we
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Speaker 5: had matkiw Samuskevitch Shaw joined the meeting a few minutes
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Speaker 5: ago with with I think those two beginning on McMahon,
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Speaker 5: I think that the biggest importance here is not just
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Speaker 5: the contract value, but going.
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Speaker 4: Through a run where you're missing the postseason for four
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Speaker 4: of the.
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Speaker 5: First five years. I mean, it does a lot of
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Speaker 5: damage I think to what you want to do.
16:39
Speaker 4: And you know, being an expansion team.
16:41
Speaker 5: Out of the box, you know, you you essentially lose
16:45
Speaker 5: that label and you're basically on par with other franchises
16:48
Speaker 5: when when it comes to attracting free agents. So we've
16:51
Speaker 5: learned that winning is the ultimate game, and the Kraken
16:54
Speaker 5: can no longer, you know, offer the fact that they're
16:57
Speaker 5: an expansion team with the long terms and goals, you know,
17:01
Speaker 5: like others, they had to kind of play on a
17:05
Speaker 5: same level, if you will. So the significance I think
17:09
Speaker 5: for me on the McMahon deal in that you're going
17:12
Speaker 5: through some roster turnover. Now you're getting in a significant
17:16
Speaker 5: piece who produced at a significant level but has chosen
17:21
Speaker 5: to be here. He wants to be here. And given
17:24
Speaker 5: the fact that we were going through about two months
17:27
Speaker 5: of a conversation of he holds all the cards and
17:30
Speaker 5: he did, you know, there was you know, the realistic
17:34
Speaker 5: possibility that maybe he could lead by July one, and
17:38
Speaker 5: if he did, it is because there was a team
17:40
Speaker 5: with maybe a comparable offer out there that had a
17:44
Speaker 5: longer track record of success.
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Speaker 1: But what Bobby.
17:47
Speaker 5: McMahon signed up for is that he wanted to be,
17:49
Speaker 5: I think a part of change in this manner. He
17:53
Speaker 5: came in and the numbers were out the charts. Ten
17:56
Speaker 5: goals in the first.
17:58
Speaker 4: Eighteen games in the Crack can give.
18:00
Speaker 5: Up two draft picks to get him here from Toronto,
18:04
Speaker 5: but he could have chosen his destination. But yet the
18:08
Speaker 5: few weeks that he was here, the golf trip that
18:11
Speaker 5: the team took him on after the end of the season,
18:16
Speaker 5: I think really did wonders and an influence to tell
18:19
Speaker 5: him that we are serious about change, we mean change,
18:23
Speaker 5: and you will be a big part of change. And
18:26
Speaker 5: then you get to the contract, which is a great
18:28
Speaker 5: value as well. Greg, I mean I thought that, you know,
18:31
Speaker 5: he could maybe commanded more dollars than this, but it
18:34
Speaker 5: still leaves a lot of money on the table here
18:36
Speaker 5: for the Kraken to go out and add if they
18:38
Speaker 5: choose to do so. Besides the sam Usquevish trade and
18:42
Speaker 5: from what we're hearing the trade market, is this going
18:44
Speaker 5: to be bonkers coming up here maybe in the next
18:46
Speaker 5: few weeks.
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Speaker 1: So, you know, a.
18:48
Speaker 5: Great signing, a great value, and a great start here
18:51
Speaker 5: to the offseason so far.
18:53
Speaker 1: Mike Ben joining us on the Beacon Plumbing hotline from
18:56
Speaker 1: Cracking headquarters the King County Ice Puss in North Gate,
18:58
Speaker 1: I'd assume where he just talked Macky Simmyskevich and Bobby McMahon.
19:03
Speaker 1: The rumors are that the Cracking aren't done. As you said,
19:06
Speaker 1: the trademark is going to be heating up. Could the
19:08
Speaker 1: seventh pick in the draft be in play for the
19:11
Speaker 1: Kraken to get another score? Do you think?
19:15
Speaker 5: I think the seventh overall pick could be in play.
19:18
Speaker 5: And there's no wrong way to go about this, but
19:22
Speaker 5: for a team that is still lacking top end talent,
19:24
Speaker 5: and I'm talking about a guy who can pump you
19:27
Speaker 5: thirty five forty forty five.
19:30
Speaker 4: Goals, you know you have to do a little bit
19:32
Speaker 4: of maneuver ring.
19:33
Speaker 5: But that seventh overall pick could land somebody pretty special.
19:38
Speaker 5: I mean, it may not be in the generational talent category, essay,
19:42
Speaker 5: Gavin McKenna would be, or I our Stenberg would be.
19:45
Speaker 5: He's in the conversation. But once those two guys are
19:48
Speaker 5: off the board, there are still significant players. Even one
19:52
Speaker 5: guy I've read and heard about named Albert Smith's coming
19:55
Speaker 5: out of Europe. He might be the closest thing to
19:58
Speaker 5: NHL ready behind those for two players, and he's got
20:01
Speaker 5: a big, booming shot on the point as a left
20:04
Speaker 5: shot defenseman. So you're still in very good position to
20:08
Speaker 5: get somebody, if they can't help you immediately, is going
20:12
Speaker 5: to maybe play a big part. And I use this
20:15
Speaker 5: for example, be on your top pair, you know, with
20:18
Speaker 5: your defensive core in about you know, three or four
20:21
Speaker 5: years or so. What the Kraken can do is package this,
20:25
Speaker 5: you know, with other pieces they have. They have a
20:28
Speaker 5: farm system that is still growing and is known to
20:31
Speaker 5: be one of the greater farm systems right now in
20:34
Speaker 5: the NHL arguably top ten. We can talk about the
20:37
Speaker 5: cap space that they have, but when you can package
20:40
Speaker 5: that seventh overall pick, that's a pretty significant piece to
20:44
Speaker 5: land somebody who could immediately help you upfront on your
20:49
Speaker 5: top line. Who that's going to be, we don't know.
20:52
Speaker 5: Jason Robertson's name is floating out there. Matt Barzell's name
20:55
Speaker 5: a former Thunderbird, his name is also floating out there.
20:59
Speaker 5: Those are a couple of examsamples of the media plug
21:01
Speaker 5: and play players who are going to make your lineup
21:04
Speaker 5: better and maybe bump a couple of guys down that
21:08
Speaker 5: can really, I think appropriately fill in the depth of
21:11
Speaker 5: this rosher and play where they are meant to be played.
21:15
Speaker 5: So could that sventh overall take be and play I
21:17
Speaker 5: certainly think so. But should the Kraken you know, select
21:21
Speaker 5: that or you know, opt to use that pick come
21:24
Speaker 5: you know, June twenty sixth, this week, they're going to
21:27
Speaker 5: be in a pretty good spot to get somebody pretty special,
21:30
Speaker 5: maybe even someone who could be NHL ready for this
21:32
Speaker 5: next year.
21:33
Speaker 1: So who leaves? There's got a couple of veterans you
21:36
Speaker 1: mentioned with big contracts, then Stunt's probably the highest paid contract.
21:41
Speaker 1: That's not exactly what they need some scoring obviously, but
21:45
Speaker 1: who who do you think may go? And when they
21:48
Speaker 1: bring in all these new players.
21:51
Speaker 5: Well, it really depends on the kind of player that
21:53
Speaker 5: you're looking at and the kind of player and the
21:55
Speaker 5: kind of team that you're talking to as well.
21:56
Speaker 1: Greg, you know, when it really.
21:59
Speaker 5: Depends upon the need and given the fact that Krack
22:02
Speaker 5: and may have veterans going out the door, and you know,
22:05
Speaker 5: I just use for example, Jamie Alexix contract is expiring,
22:09
Speaker 5: Ellie Toulvenan, you know, there's no word on him, and
22:12
Speaker 5: you know, I think more of the chatter around these parts,
22:17
Speaker 5: you know, in the hockey world, is that he could
22:19
Speaker 5: be hitting the open market. But when you look at
22:22
Speaker 5: players who have maybe one year left on their deal,
22:25
Speaker 5: what could maybe someone like Vince Done get, What could
22:29
Speaker 5: someone like maybe Jared McCann get. And I'm just throwing
22:32
Speaker 5: those names out there as an example, there's really, I think,
22:36
Speaker 5: you know, no significance of you know, a word. I've
22:39
Speaker 5: heard that they're involved in any kind of trade talks.
22:42
Speaker 5: But examples of players who still have a little bit
22:45
Speaker 5: more miles I think left on the tank. Those tend
22:49
Speaker 5: to be the the kind of players and the kind
22:51
Speaker 5: of names and play that could, you know, get you
22:54
Speaker 5: somebody that is going to immediately contribute on your top line.
23:00
Speaker 5: They make a substantial amount of money done much more so,
23:03
Speaker 5: although with the cap going up, you know, where he
23:05
Speaker 5: fits into the grand scheme kind of goes back down
23:08
Speaker 5: a bit and makes them a little bit more flexible
23:10
Speaker 5: for teams who can take on that kind of a contract.
23:14
Speaker 5: But you know, we've heard from players like those that
23:16
Speaker 5: they want to be a part of this solution. So
23:19
Speaker 5: it's going to require some kind of fine tuning. You know,
23:21
Speaker 5: if you're Jason Boddell to figure out, you know, what
23:24
Speaker 5: works best for you, what works best for the team
23:27
Speaker 5: that you're dealing with here, and then what's appropriate to
23:31
Speaker 5: move out the door for the kind of guy that
23:33
Speaker 5: you want to bring in. I would say for the
23:35
Speaker 5: cracking with what they want to do with I think
23:37
Speaker 5: number one overturn of the roster here as far as
23:40
Speaker 5: you know, the baseline skill, what they have on paper,
23:43
Speaker 5: almost anything could be in play Number two for the
23:46
Speaker 5: kind of culture that they want to change. And Lane
23:48
Speaker 5: Lambert is a part of this. I think Bobby McMahon,
23:51
Speaker 5: you know, signing up for another you know, six years
23:54
Speaker 5: certainly says a lot. He's a big part of this.
23:57
Speaker 5: But there's you know, quite a few names and way
24:00
Speaker 5: where if you can move them, I think there's some
24:02
Speaker 5: flexibility to do that and get a pretty good, good
24:06
Speaker 5: deal done.
24:06
Speaker 1: Vin Stun's seven point three five million Captain returns thirty
24:09
Speaker 1: in October. This is Mike Benton on ninety three point
24:12
Speaker 1: three Kid jerfim Mike.
24:14
Speaker 2: Which move has the bigger long term impact on the franchise?
24:20
Speaker 2: Is it locking up McCann for six years or acquiring
24:23
Speaker 2: Mackie's upside.
24:27
Speaker 5: Short term assive right now, Bobby McMahon, and he's proven
24:31
Speaker 5: that he's a player who's able to sniff thirty goals.
24:34
Speaker 5: He's you know, he's already thirty years of age. He's
24:36
Speaker 5: kind of a late bloomer. But what I love about
24:39
Speaker 5: his game is that you know, everything is earned, nothing
24:43
Speaker 5: is given. He's a self made player. He wasn't drafted,
24:47
Speaker 5: and you know, I think, for me talking to him
24:49
Speaker 5: for the first few weeks that he's here, I think
24:53
Speaker 5: the work complacency is not in this man's vocabulary, and
24:57
Speaker 5: he has no desire to make it a part of
24:59
Speaker 5: his vocabulary. And it's a pretty dangerous word when you know,
25:03
Speaker 5: you talk about players who worked so hard to reach
25:06
Speaker 5: the pinnacle of their career in being in the NHL,
25:10
Speaker 5: but it's often harder to even stay in the NHL
25:13
Speaker 5: and be as productive as you can be. But he
25:16
Speaker 5: came out of Colgate, wasn't drafted, began the ECHL, moved
25:20
Speaker 5: his way gradually through the American Hockey League, kind of
25:23
Speaker 5: like the Triple A, you know of the NHL, if
25:25
Speaker 5: you will, then found a spot on the leaves and
25:28
Speaker 5: they're going through a teardown right now, borderline without saying,
25:31
Speaker 5: you know, someone like Austin Matthews, but when he alive,
25:34
Speaker 5: there was plenty of talent and not much space for
25:37
Speaker 5: him to find a role and then be able to
25:40
Speaker 5: get the kind of ice time he needed to produce.
25:42
Speaker 5: But yet he overcame those odds and he found a
25:45
Speaker 5: way to produce and now he's got a big payday
25:47
Speaker 5: as a result. So that tells me he still got
25:49
Speaker 5: some miles left here in the tank. I think to
25:52
Speaker 5: really do this and do it at a high level,
25:54
Speaker 5: say into a thirty three, thirty four, maybe even thirty
25:58
Speaker 5: five as well, we.
25:59
Speaker 4: Just vich I'm very sam U Stevitch, I'm.
26:02
Speaker 5: Very curious about because the Kraken made this trade not
26:06
Speaker 5: on resume but on potential. Greg as you mentioned, he's
26:10
Speaker 5: still only twenty three years of age.
26:13
Speaker 1: I think based on where he was.
26:15
Speaker 5: Playing in this lineup with Florida, there was little to
26:19
Speaker 5: virtual no shot for him to get into the top
26:22
Speaker 5: six and top six guy is the potential that has
26:25
Speaker 5: been the label slapped on him ever since he was
26:28
Speaker 5: drafted first round by the Panthers. That when you consider
26:32
Speaker 5: the cups they won, the franchise Day Bill and the
26:35
Speaker 5: players that they brought him.
26:37
Speaker 1: Here's their depth chart on.
26:38
Speaker 5: Right wing where he plays in the playoffs, Sam Reinhardt,
26:42
Speaker 5: Matthew could chuck rad mar Shand and when they got
26:46
Speaker 5: to the Cup final, he was getting scant fourth line minutes.
26:48
Speaker 5: Swap of a guy named Joona Ganjovic, and now they
26:51
Speaker 5: just made a blockbuster trade for Matthew's brother, Brady could chuck.
26:55
Speaker 5: So the bill was pretty slam shut out there. As
26:58
Speaker 5: far as his underlying shot attempts, that's a turn off
27:03
Speaker 5: and thrown around at five on five the percentage he
27:06
Speaker 5: was top two on this team this last year shot
27:10
Speaker 5: quality at five on five. That's an analytic that's been
27:12
Speaker 5: thrown around a lot to really describe how useful a
27:16
Speaker 5: player is at generating great looks and great offense. He
27:20
Speaker 5: was again tops on this entire among the top two
27:23
Speaker 5: on this entire team as well, and granted for the
27:26
Speaker 5: injuries that they had, it says a lot. So it's
27:29
Speaker 5: a trade they made based on potential. Could he hit
27:32
Speaker 5: twenty five goals, maybe thirty goals. I don't think it
27:35
Speaker 5: is out of the question. There's going to be a
27:37
Speaker 5: think some more growth with him. You know, there's obviously
27:40
Speaker 5: the skill part that he has. He's very speedy, He's
27:43
Speaker 5: got a good quick twitch shot. He told me during
27:45
Speaker 5: the conference call he loved watching Matt Barzel, who played
27:48
Speaker 5: in this team here for the Thunderbirds. In his compete level,
27:52
Speaker 5: but I'd say you put him with the right line
27:53
Speaker 5: mates that could really work out well. And because he
27:57
Speaker 5: plays the speed game, maybe depending upon what lane Lambert wants.
28:00
Speaker 5: I'm throwing this out there. Al Koniski did so last
28:03
Speaker 5: night on our podcast. What if you had him? A
28:07
Speaker 5: guy was speeding the left wing in Bobby McMahon and
28:10
Speaker 5: then Matty Veneer's in the middle.
28:12
Speaker 1: You want speed, you got speed. That could be fun
28:16
Speaker 1: to watch real quick. Yes or no? Mike's Austin Matthews
28:20
Speaker 1: get traded this summer and if yes, are the Kracking
28:22
Speaker 1: going to be involved?
28:26
Speaker 5: I don't think so. This summer could have been maybe
28:28
Speaker 5: next year potentially. I think from what we've heard, he
28:31
Speaker 5: wants to make this work out, being that there's a
28:33
Speaker 5: lot of changeover and that begins with upper management going
28:36
Speaker 5: through their new head coaching higher. But there's gonna be
28:39
Speaker 5: a lot of names here on the move. I mean,
28:41
Speaker 5: would the Kraken benefit from a guy like Aushtin Matthews
28:44
Speaker 5: one hundred and eighty six percent. Yes, But we're in
28:47
Speaker 5: a day and age now, Greg where you're seeing more
28:50
Speaker 5: and more players begin to really harness control of their future.
28:54
Speaker 5: And the word no movement clause is now becoming the
28:58
Speaker 5: three buzzy of buzzwords in the NHL because players can
29:04
Speaker 5: now control where they want to go to, they controlled
29:08
Speaker 5: the the the teams where they do want to go.
29:12
Speaker 5: And latest example here of this is Brady Construct. So
29:16
Speaker 5: you know, should Matthews not want to come to Seattle,
29:19
Speaker 5: and I'm just using this here as a hypothetical, there's
29:21
Speaker 5: a very good chance he wants to go to a
29:24
Speaker 5: contender like say in you know, Florida, in Vegas, maybe
29:29
Speaker 5: with Los Angeles they have Andrea Coo Patar as well
29:32
Speaker 5: going out the door. Those are teams that have banked
29:35
Speaker 5: on a longer track record of success and they've grown
29:39
Speaker 5: to the statue where they have grown to. Now, as
29:41
Speaker 5: far as a championship window, can the Kraken get there? Yes,
29:45
Speaker 5: but there are still certainly some word to do. So
29:48
Speaker 5: it really depends upon what you can do. I think
29:50
Speaker 5: this year as far as turning this around to take
29:53
Speaker 5: those next steps maybe, and what was a season that
29:56
Speaker 5: really just kind of fell out the tracks after the
29:58
Speaker 5: trade deadline. But one I like right here being that
30:01
Speaker 5: if they don't get a guy like Matthews, there are
30:04
Speaker 5: still other terrific pieces out there available by trade. And
30:08
Speaker 5: the one thing I've noticed is that the Kracking are
30:10
Speaker 5: so I think leaning into more of the hints of
30:14
Speaker 5: development and the hints of you, being that they've been
30:17
Speaker 5: talking a lot about getting Berkeley Katt and more ice time,
30:21
Speaker 5: getting younger players more ice time. The coaches that they hired, say,
30:24
Speaker 5: in Pascal Vincent hiring a guy, and Patrick Olvine, who
30:27
Speaker 5: had a big hand in Pittsburgh's development with three Stanley cups,
30:31
Speaker 5: you know, there's.
30:32
Speaker 1: A lot more out there.
30:33
Speaker 5: I think that they believe they can tap into this
30:37
Speaker 5: roster and fix what they have already and open more
30:40
Speaker 5: and more doors here for the young players that they
30:43
Speaker 5: have that could also pay him big dividends.
30:45
Speaker 1: And that's a big reason.
30:46
Speaker 5: If they can open those doors, they're going to be
30:48
Speaker 5: well on their way.
30:49
Speaker 1: Mike Ben, Thanks Pops, Thanks coach. We'll see what happens
30:53
Speaker 1: draft this weekend. Cracking picking seventh, Thanks here right back
30:57
Speaker 1: at you, Pops. Happy Father's Day. Thank you appreciate that.
31:00
Speaker 1: Benton Urn pre postgame in between period hosts here on
31:03
Speaker 1: the Krack and Audio Network talking about the Crackings two
31:05
Speaker 1: big moves yesterday and effect they draft seventh overall with
31:08
Speaker 1: some trade chips that they still want to make more
31:10
Speaker 1: moves up next. Brian Schmetcha, the Sounders coach, gave me
31:14
Speaker 1: a prediction Friday before the US Australia match. It sounds
31:17
Speaker 1: maybe like he knows what he's talking about a little bit.
31:20
Speaker 1: Plus what Christian Rodan told me and a couple others
31:22
Speaker 1: in the mix zone after the match Friday that US
31:25
Speaker 1: teammates are talking to him about about Seattle. That's next,
31:29
Speaker 1: and then Nico Moreno will talk to us at eleven
31:31
Speaker 1: o'clock on ninety three point three KJRFM. Welcome back to
31:38
Speaker 1: the Greg Belt Show with Christopher Kid Live on ninety
31:40
Speaker 1: three point three KJRFM. Just happening right now in the
31:44
Speaker 1: World Cup, Lionel Messi has just broken the World Cup
31:46
Speaker 1: record for most goals scored in a career. He passed
31:49
Speaker 1: Mersa Closo with his seventeenth goal about ten minutes ago,
31:53
Speaker 1: seventeenth of his World Cup career. Ten minutes ago give
31:56
Speaker 1: Argentina one ZERL leader on Austria ongoing outside out of Dallas.
32:00
Speaker 1: On Friday, Brian Smetzer came into Jimmy's on First across
32:03
Speaker 1: the street from the stadium before the US Australia match
32:06
Speaker 1: and live on the air, gave this assessment when I
32:09
Speaker 1: asked him about the US chances in the Cup. What
32:11
Speaker 1: to you as a realistic expectation for where this team
32:14
Speaker 1: goes Visa VI, France, Spain, Argentina, Germany, England just the
32:20
Speaker 1: name of you.
32:21
Speaker 6: Well, look, I'm a supporter, I'm a US fan. Let's
32:26
Speaker 6: get first in the group. Let's get a good draw
32:29
Speaker 6: in the round of thirty two, round of sixteen, for sure,
32:33
Speaker 6: make it. Make it there, and then after that, you know,
32:36
Speaker 6: then it's depth, it's injuries, its form. If the US
32:40
Speaker 6: goes on a good run of form, hey they could
32:43
Speaker 6: do it.
32:44
Speaker 1: Do it as in the final, for sure. I double check,
32:49
Speaker 1: he said, why not? He just caught up in the moment.
32:52
Speaker 1: So that path that coach Metro just outlined for us,
32:55
Speaker 1: they're already in. The US is already in the round
32:57
Speaker 1: of thirty two. The Turkey game in Los Angeles, Thursday,
33:00
Speaker 1: seven pm pregame at six thirty match here on seven
33:03
Speaker 1: on ninety three point three KJR. That will not have
33:05
Speaker 1: any bearing on their seating there in the round of
33:07
Speaker 1: thirty two. As a group winner right now, they could
33:10
Speaker 1: play Bosnia, the Ivory Coast, Ecuador, Sweden, Qatar. If Katarkan
33:14
Speaker 1: beat Bosnia Herzegovina on Wednesday at noon at Lehmanfield, they
33:19
Speaker 1: could play potentially Japan or Senegal or Algeria or Jordan.
33:23
Speaker 1: Or wins that game, you just gonna be favored against
33:26
Speaker 1: all of them. Jackson Feltz then points out the round
33:29
Speaker 1: of sixteen on Monday, July sixth right here at Seattle Stadium.
33:33
Speaker 1: If the US wins the round of thirty two match,
33:36
Speaker 1: they will play here in Seattle on the round of sixteen,
33:38
Speaker 1: and opponents could be Belgium, Egypt, whoever wins that group, Jetnya,
33:43
Speaker 1: South Africa, Ecuador, Uruguay, ky Verday, Senegal, Jordan, Algeria if
33:50
Speaker 1: they're upset winners over a top group winner. But the
33:54
Speaker 1: Egypt Belgium group winner is going to be the favorite
33:57
Speaker 1: in that other side of the bracket that the US
33:59
Speaker 1: is in for the on to sixteen. Christian Rodon he
34:04
Speaker 1: didn't play on Friday. He hasn't played through the first
34:06
Speaker 1: two matches. The Sounders star on the World Cup roster.
34:10
Speaker 1: This is his second World Cup. He was in the
34:12
Speaker 1: mix zone after the match on Friday, and I mean
34:17
Speaker 1: teammates were talking about the Blackhawks flying over, the noise
34:20
Speaker 1: and the noise and the noise, and Rolldn, i mean
34:25
Speaker 1: Baligan started the game, said it was special. It's tough
34:27
Speaker 1: to put into words the national anthem and then you're
34:30
Speaker 1: seeing the helicopters go above is really special, Belgun said.
34:34
Speaker 1: And so on the bench, roll Don was having teammates
34:38
Speaker 1: raving about the crowd and the city in general. Rodan said,
34:41
Speaker 1: you know, quote Rodon. Some of them even spoke to
34:45
Speaker 1: me about playing for Seattle in the future. He smiled
34:48
Speaker 1: and said, that's what you want to hear. So there's
34:50
Speaker 1: dudes on the US bench here like, wow, you get
34:52
Speaker 1: this all the time. I need to play here. That
34:55
Speaker 1: story is in the Neewstribune dot com. There are some
34:58
Speaker 1: players in the US roster who have expiring contracts overseas
35:01
Speaker 1: who might want to come back. People immediately say, hey,
35:04
Speaker 1: let's bring Christian Polistic and become a Sounder. It's happened
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Speaker 1: before Clint Dempsey. There have been MLS stars Ibrahimitch and
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Speaker 1: David Beckham being the most famous one, have come from
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Speaker 1: the end of their careers at Europe and play in
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Speaker 1: MS and Seattle woke up a few people who didn't
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Speaker 1: already know about our soccer fandom and absolute noise in
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Speaker 1: that stadium when it's packed for soccer. They do now
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Speaker 1: and they're going to see it again July sixth, especially
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Speaker 1: if the US wins the round to thirty two match
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Speaker 1: up next. Nico Moreno, Fox thirteen, Seattle Mlsespianola columnist, he
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Speaker 1: joined us Friday. He's going to join us again talk
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Speaker 1: about what he saw in that US Australia match and
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Speaker 1: much more on the World Cup eleven thirty. We'll reback
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Speaker 1: your text from the Takomadadge text line four nine, four
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Speaker 1: or five one that's coming up on ninety three point
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Speaker 1: three kJ RFM