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- 0:00Speaker 1: Your home for the Huskies proudly presents our weekly visit
- 0:04Speaker 1: with the dog's color commentator, Cam Cleland.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Hallelujah, Purple Ray, let's go!
- 0:09Speaker 1: Brought to you by Warrior Injury Law, battle tested. Now
- 0:13Speaker 1: here's Chuck in the morning with the former Husky tight
- 0:16Speaker 1: end on Sports Radio 93.3, KJR-FM. Oh, Cam Cleland's with us.
- 0:25Speaker 2: Hi, Cam Cleland.
- 0:27Speaker 3: Well, good morning, Chuck. How are we doing today, brother?
- 0:29Speaker 2: We're doing all right. Are you getting fired up for Halloween?
- 0:32Speaker 2: Do you still get fired up for Halloween at all?
- 0:34Speaker 2: Are the kids too old now at this point? You know,
- 0:37Speaker 2: did the doctor tell you to stop eating Reese's peanut
- 0:40Speaker 2: butter cups by the handful?
- 0:42Speaker 4: What happened?
- 0:44Speaker 3: It's the greatest month of the year. It's the best holiday.
- 0:46Speaker 4: Yes.
- 0:46Speaker 5: I mean, you can call it what you want. I
- 0:48Speaker 5: don't care if you call it a holiday or not.
- 0:49Speaker 5: But no, I love this month.
- 0:51Speaker 3: Absolutely.
- 0:52Speaker 5: What's not to love about Halloween? Seriously, you get to
- 0:54Speaker 5: dress up. A little different look. You could put on
- 0:58Speaker 5: cool costumes. People give you candy. I mean, explain how
- 1:02Speaker 5: that's not a bad thing.
- 1:03Speaker 3: It's fantastic. It's fantastic.
- 1:05Speaker 2: If you could dress as one of your former UW
- 1:08Speaker 2: teammates for Halloween, go.
- 1:10Speaker 3: Door to door, who would you choose? Oh, yeah. Bob
- 1:12Speaker 3: Sapp all day long. Bob Sapp.
- 1:15Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. Bob Sapp.
- 1:18Speaker 3: Bob Sapp is legends of legends. Yeah.
- 1:20Speaker 5: There's... There's tens of listeners right now that have no
- 1:24Speaker 5: idea who he is.
- 1:25Speaker 3: Tens of listeners.
- 1:26Speaker 2: Well, they need to look him up then. That's one
- 1:29Speaker 2: worth looking up.
- 1:30Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:31Speaker 3: He's a Japanese legend.
- 1:33Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:34Speaker 5: He's where he got his K-1 stardom. But I have
- 1:37Speaker 5: three stories of Bob Sapp that are just legendary at watch.
- 1:42Speaker 5: But someday we'll get into that. That might be a
- 1:44Speaker 5: whole segment. But it's, yes, Bob Sapp is wonderful. Number 72.
- 1:48Speaker 5: Right guard started as a D lineman, probably had two
- 1:51Speaker 5: percent body fat as a D.
- 1:52Speaker 3: Lineman and then moved to offensive lineman. Just freak zoid.
- 1:57Speaker 2: Please work it out that you and Bob go trick
- 2:01Speaker 2: or treating together at some point. No door to door.
- 2:05Speaker 2: How amazing would that be? Hey, trick or treat.
- 2:09Speaker 3: Just give me Reese's. That's it.
- 2:11Speaker 5: That's the candy. It's the Epic of candies. It's the
- 2:13Speaker 5: top echelon. Just don't hand me anything else. Don't put
- 2:16Speaker 5: any raisins.
- 2:17Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 2:18Speaker 3: So like crap near me. Don't give me almond joys.
- 2:21Speaker 3: Don't want any part of that. Just Reese's.
- 2:23Speaker 4: Okay.
- 2:25Speaker 2: I think that's a fair request.
- 2:27Speaker 4: Uh, all right.
- 2:28Speaker 2: We, we laugh. We talk about Halloween because maybe it
- 2:31Speaker 2: distracts us a little bit from the topic at hand. Uh,
- 2:35Speaker 2: Huskies had a bad night on Friday, and it's really
- 2:39Speaker 2: hard to explain it any other way. I mean, they
- 2:44Speaker 2: played some bad football, and they got to get their
- 2:48Speaker 2: arms around it because you can't see another game like
- 2:51Speaker 2: this this Friday night against Purdue.
- 2:56Speaker 5: Well, you're right. It was hard football to watch. It
- 2:59Speaker 5: was a Friday game, and I'm not a huge fan
- 3:02Speaker 5: of Friday games, but it's what you do and how
- 3:05Speaker 5: you play. And from the get-go, I mean, I saw
- 3:09Speaker 5: some things that I liked early from the defense. You know,
- 3:12Speaker 5: the three and outs were there. The stops were there.
- 3:14Speaker 3: It's just we couldn't get– we haven't played a game
- 3:17Speaker 3: where both teams have had the kind of success.
- 3:19Speaker 5: When I say both teams, offense and defense, both teams
- 3:21Speaker 5: have had the kind of success to really– see one
- 3:24Speaker 5: team feed off each other, one group feed off each other.
- 3:27Speaker 5: And that just not happened. The defense got discouraged in
- 3:30Speaker 5: my mind. They're like, look, we, we got a couple
- 3:32Speaker 5: of stops. We got a couple of stops, three in
- 3:33Speaker 5: a row, nothing. And then, and then the floodgates opened
- 3:37Speaker 5: a little bit and you saw, I would just, if
- 3:40Speaker 5: you put it on film, really, you can't hide behind
- 3:42Speaker 5: the fact that you got physically beat, you know, because
- 3:46Speaker 5: football fight, right? Chuck, the ones on the, everybody needs
- 3:49Speaker 5: to understand it's 85 fights. That's, I mean, it plays
- 3:54Speaker 5: like physically fighting you. There's not a lot of people
- 3:56Speaker 5: that can comprehend it. You can see it, but as
- 3:59Speaker 5: a player, you got to fight.
- 4:00Speaker 3: We lost 75% of those fights.
- 4:03Speaker 5: Uh, and that's a lot that that one's hard to
- 4:05Speaker 5: swallow and tremendously at the line of scrimmage. When you
- 4:08Speaker 5: lose your fight at the line of scrimmage and the
- 4:11Speaker 5: physical battle. that's demoralizing a little bit and so that
- 4:14Speaker 5: means it doesn't mean that the huskies aren't tough and
- 4:17Speaker 5: it doesn't mean that they're not physically strong like weight
- 4:20Speaker 5: room strong right there needs to be a transition into
- 4:24Speaker 5: the next games and how we go on the road
- 4:26Speaker 5: especially this week in purdue how you physically represent yourself
- 4:30Speaker 5: at the line of scrimmage is how you carry the
- 4:32Speaker 5: team and let's make some more plays so it sounds
- 4:36Speaker 5: easy but it's it's more of a mindset at this
- 4:38Speaker 5: point yeah.
- 4:39Speaker 2: I certainly took note of your quick three after the game.
- 4:42Speaker 2: I think you've already covered two of those with that answer.
- 4:45Speaker 2: The O-line group has been underwhelming at best. The defense
- 4:48Speaker 2: got bullied at the line of scrimmage. And then your
- 4:51Speaker 2: third thing was that obviously you were worried about Desmond,
- 4:55Speaker 2: or excuse me, Demond, and his injury. But you also
- 5:00Speaker 2: acknowledged that the quarterback situation has to be addressed. So
- 5:06Speaker 2: how would you address it?
- 5:08Speaker 5: Well, it seems like it's been addressed. In my mind,
- 5:11Speaker 5: this week is how it's gone is that Devon is injured.
- 5:14Speaker 5: And I've had major– I broke three ribs and played
- 5:19Speaker 5: with it before. I had to sleep in a chair
- 5:21Speaker 5: for two months and take shots to be able to
- 5:23Speaker 5: play in the game. I'm not diagnosing Devon. I don't
- 5:25Speaker 5: know his injuries in detail. I just know from what
- 5:29Speaker 5: I've heard from practice about– Elijah getting the majority of
- 5:33Speaker 5: the reps. I understand that. Coach Fish is going to
- 5:37Speaker 5: make this decision on who the quarterback play is. And
- 5:40Speaker 5: now it's a different offense under Elijah Brown. It's just
- 5:43Speaker 5: completely different. DeMond's our leading rusher when it comes to
- 5:46Speaker 5: carries at 64.
- 5:48Speaker 3: We only have six.
- 5:49Speaker 5: Touchdowns on the ground all year on the ground as
- 5:52Speaker 5: a group. Now, Elijah came in a completely different scenario. Down,
- 5:56Speaker 5: had to throw, and threw some great throws. The situation
- 5:59Speaker 5: with DeMond is that he's the starter until Coach Fish
- 6:05Speaker 5: says he's no longer the starter. And that's how it works.
- 6:09Speaker 5: And will he go on the trip? Will he be
- 6:11Speaker 5: the one that is the backup role? I don't have
- 6:13Speaker 5: that answer for you either. But as far as I'm concerned,
- 6:16Speaker 5: at this point, it's– The guy that gets all the
- 6:19Speaker 5: reps during the week of practice is the one. That's
- 6:21Speaker 5: just how this works. I don't know very many quarterbacks.
- 6:24Speaker 5: I've seen it done a couple times in my career,
- 6:26Speaker 5: but only at the NFL level where a quarterback took
- 6:29Speaker 5: time off during the week and then played on Sunday.
- 6:31Speaker 5: That doesn't happen in college football. It's the guy who
- 6:35Speaker 5: gets the reps during the week.
- 6:37Speaker 2: If you were standing on the sideline with DeMond Saturday
- 6:41Speaker 2: while Brown was playing, would you have even had to
- 6:44Speaker 2: say a word to him Do you think that he
- 6:47Speaker 2: would watch that and figure out how quickly Elijah was
- 6:53Speaker 2: getting rid of the football? It's not that he was
- 6:55Speaker 2: making extraordinary throws. It's not that he is the talent
- 6:57Speaker 2: that DeMond Williams is. He wasn't waiting for the most
- 7:03Speaker 2: open receiver from play to play. He was getting it
- 7:07Speaker 2: to the first open receiver and was having success with it.
- 7:11Speaker 2: Do you think DeMond picks up on that going forward?
- 7:15Speaker 5: Well, I think every room is competitive, and let me
- 7:19Speaker 5: just explain it as quickly as possible. No room on
- 7:24Speaker 5: football planet Earth is more competitive than the quarterback room.
- 7:27Speaker 5: Everybody that sits in there thinks they're a starter, and
- 7:30Speaker 5: everybody has a Liam Neeson special set.
- 7:33Speaker 3: Of skills, correct?
- 7:34Speaker 5: That's just how this works in the offensive room and
- 7:37Speaker 5: in the quarterback room. There's only 32 jobs in the world,
- 7:42Speaker 5: and out of those 32, 10 of them do elite.
- 7:45Speaker 5: At that level, at the NFL level. Okay, let's put
- 7:47Speaker 5: 137 in Division I level. Power, 131 jobs, 37 jobs.
- 7:55Speaker 3: 25 to 30 do it.
- 7:57Speaker 5: At a very, very high level.
- 7:59Speaker 3: That's how competitive that position is.
- 8:01Speaker 5: And then we're talking in the world, Chuck. There's no
- 8:03Speaker 5: other industry that can do that. Sorry, just you can't.
- 8:06Speaker 5: It doesn't work that way. So to wrap it all back,
- 8:09Speaker 5: the Mon has a special set of skills. And Elijah
- 8:13Speaker 5: has a special set of skills. And how you combine
- 8:15Speaker 5: and how you coach them is different. Somebody was born
- 8:20Speaker 5: with elite speed, athleticism, great arm strength.
- 8:24Speaker 3: And that's what DeMond does.
- 8:25Speaker 5: He sometimes reverts back to what he's so great at, athleticism,
- 8:30Speaker 5: escaping the pocket, creating plays. He made people look stupid
- 8:33Speaker 5: in high school. He's made some unbelievable running plays and
- 8:37Speaker 5: some great stuff with his feet in college already.
- 8:40Speaker 3: Elijah's had... skill set is getting ready to the football,
- 8:45Speaker 3: his patience, his arm, his reading of the routes.
- 8:48Speaker 5: And this is how quarterback play works all across the country.
- 8:53Speaker 5: So if you find somebody that's a unicorn that gets both,
- 8:58Speaker 5: that's called a Heisman Trophy winner. Uh, there's just, there's
- 9:02Speaker 5: something unique about it. So if I looked at demand,
- 9:04Speaker 5: of course, demand sees it. And do you think demand.
- 9:07Speaker 3: Was happy going up the tunnel, grabbing his ribs, hearing
- 9:10Speaker 3: people boo at him?
- 9:10Speaker 5: Do you think that was a good feeling? I mean,
- 9:13Speaker 5: I know distinctly that's a horrible feeling. I've been booed,
- 9:17Speaker 5: but that's why I don't put stock in fans as
- 9:19Speaker 5: a former athlete.
- 9:20Speaker 3: I love fans.
- 9:21Speaker 5: I'm a fan. I appreciate fans. I value them. I
- 9:24Speaker 5: don't live and die by it. And it's hard on
- 9:27Speaker 5: those guys.
- 9:28Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 9:28Speaker 3: He got, he got paid money.
- 9:30Speaker 5: And all of this, but yeah, I, I don't like
- 9:33Speaker 5: the attitude of, of booing young athletes. I just never,
- 9:37Speaker 5: never been a fan of it and I won't do
- 9:39Speaker 5: it nor I'll criticize them constructively, not their character, but
- 9:43Speaker 5: their play and effort.
- 9:44Speaker 3: Yes, I will.
- 9:45Speaker 5: So I think the quarterback situation is difficult for coach
- 9:48Speaker 5: fish right now. And a lot of people are fans
- 9:51Speaker 5: and those that are out there love to pile on
- 9:54Speaker 5: and complain. But right now this is a physical problem, right?
- 9:59Speaker 3: That, going on. Physical.
- 10:03Speaker 5: So you can win football games if you can beat
- 10:06Speaker 5: people at the line of scrimmage.
- 10:08Speaker 3: Chuck, that's how this works.
- 10:09Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. Uh, well, I do like, you know, what I
- 10:12Speaker 2: am a fan of is a football analyst who can
- 10:14Speaker 2: drop some Liam Neeson just in there, just out of nowhere.
- 10:18Speaker 3: Special set of skills. Yeah.
- 10:19Speaker 2: I really like that. You should know. I have a
- 10:21Speaker 2: special set of skills and I will find the open
- 10:24Speaker 2: receiver and I will get him.
- 10:26Speaker 3: I will find him. Well, I set you up for that.
- 10:31Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 10:31Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 10:33Speaker 3: Um, all right.
- 10:34Speaker 2: So talking about like emotions, like the honks after the game.
- 10:40Speaker 2: were very fired up as you might expect, you know,
- 10:42Speaker 2: those three guys love them. You love football just as
- 10:45Speaker 2: much as you do. Uh, and they were, I mean,
- 10:50Speaker 2: they were like time for a change, you know, I'm
- 10:52Speaker 2: so dissatisfied with this season. It's time for a change.
- 10:56Speaker 2: You have been consistent where you don't feel you're anywhere
- 11:00Speaker 2: near that, or at least haven't been, uh, to this point. Um,
- 11:04Speaker 2: so where are you at with just the program right now?
- 11:06Speaker 2: I mean, I, hesitate to ask you i don't want
- 11:08Speaker 2: to put you in an awkward position you being the
- 11:09Speaker 2: voice of the dogs um but it is a conversation
- 11:13Speaker 2: that's being held and i wanted to get your perspective
- 11:15Speaker 2: on whether or not you feel jet fish is on
- 11:17Speaker 2: the ropes right.
- 11:18Speaker 3: Now Yeah, I don't.
- 11:20Speaker 5: I don't look at my my internal self because I've
- 11:23Speaker 5: lived through so much of it.
- 11:25Speaker 3: I lived being cut.
- 11:26Speaker 5: I lived being having a coach leave in the middle
- 11:29Speaker 5: of my training camp who I loved and adored. And
- 11:31Speaker 5: Don James quit. I've had coaches fired in midseason. I've
- 11:36Speaker 5: been a part of all of it. I do not
- 11:40Speaker 5: to this core to my day. ever call for anybody's
- 11:44Speaker 5: job ever, nor will I ever do it. And it's
- 11:47Speaker 5: because that's just part of my creed as an athlete.
- 11:50Speaker 5: And what I do is a football player and it's,
- 11:52Speaker 5: I'm not a football player anymore.
- 11:53Speaker 3: I'm an analyst.
- 11:54Speaker 5: So I analyze football plays and I talk about my
- 11:57Speaker 5: pride as a Husky football player. That's, that's me to
- 12:00Speaker 5: the core. I'm not playing safe either because that's not,
- 12:04Speaker 5: that's not what I did. That's just not part of
- 12:06Speaker 5: my character. Cause there's a season and I've seen multiple
- 12:11Speaker 5: seasons flip around. I've seen teams on a downside. I've
- 12:14Speaker 5: seen all that stuff. I know the inner workings and
- 12:17Speaker 5: looking at these young athletes that are freshmen out there.
- 12:19Speaker 5: I knew that there were 15 of 22 starters that
- 12:22Speaker 5: were first or second year players going into this season.
- 12:25Speaker 5: A lot of people didn't dive into that until they
- 12:27Speaker 5: saw we're really young. Does that make an excuse for mistakes? No,
- 12:32Speaker 5: but it's also, I know the reality of playing with
- 12:35Speaker 5: young players is, And this is a man's football game.
- 12:38Speaker 5: You can put freshmen in skill positions, and sometimes.
- 12:42Speaker 3: They can be really good.
- 12:43Speaker 5: Julio Jones, those that are watching the Saban documentary, rare freshman,
- 12:49Speaker 5: Mark Ingram, that can be really great.
- 12:52Speaker 3: You cannot sustain men against younger.
- 12:56Speaker 5: Men with freshmen at the point of attack. consistently over time.
- 13:02Speaker 5: You need veteran strength, veteran experience, all of that. Jed
- 13:06Speaker 5: knew that, and he knew that going into the season.
- 13:09Speaker 5: I was hoping that some of these guys could mature
- 13:11Speaker 5: and grow really quickly, and that's what we're working for,
- 13:15Speaker 5: and that's the talent that I see in this program
- 13:18Speaker 5: that is there right now.
- 13:19Speaker 3: So, no, I don't.
- 13:22Speaker 5: I don't look at football that way. I don't call
- 13:24Speaker 5: for people's heads. That's insanity in my brain. It's just
- 13:28Speaker 5: how I think. Tweets their own, though. Those that are
- 13:31Speaker 5: out there, that's fine. You can have that opinion.
- 13:34Speaker 2: Cam Cleland is with us. Voice of the Dogs, former
- 13:37Speaker 2: Husky tied in, joins us every Wednesday at this time
- 13:40Speaker 2: to talk some Husky football. And they will have a
- 13:42Speaker 2: chance to redeem themselves this Friday a little bit against
- 13:45Speaker 2: the Purdue Boilermakers. Another Friday night game. This one on
- 13:49Speaker 2: the road. Purdue goes into this one two and a
- 13:51Speaker 2: half game favorite. They're coming off a blowout victory over
- 13:56Speaker 2: a Minnesota team that had beaten The Huskies earlier this year.
- 14:00Speaker 2: I don't think that I even need to ask the question.
- 14:04Speaker 2: I know what you're going to say is going to
- 14:06Speaker 2: be the key to this game, and that is getting
- 14:08Speaker 2: back to the line of scrimmage and getting back to
- 14:11Speaker 2: just playing the fundamental football and make sure you shore
- 14:16Speaker 2: up that against Purdue on Friday. Am I wrong?
- 14:20Speaker 3: No, you're not wrong. I mean, look, they got 11
- 14:21Speaker 3: touchdowns on the ground.
- 14:22Speaker 4: They got it back.
- 14:23Speaker 5: A good boy who is... I mean, he ran all
- 14:29Speaker 5: over Minnesota. Did we run over Minnesota?
- 14:31Speaker 4: Nope.
- 14:32Speaker 3: No, we did not.
- 14:33Speaker 5: He's really, really– he's got nine touchdowns by himself. I mean,
- 14:36Speaker 5: Ryan Brown's a good quarterback that they have, solid quarterback.
- 14:40Speaker 5: They run a very similar system to what USC runs.
- 14:42Speaker 3: They're going to run some spread. They're going to run
- 14:44Speaker 3: a lot of RPO.
- 14:45Speaker 5: They're going to have some quarterback design runs on offense. Defense,
- 14:49Speaker 5: you know, this is– they're going to load the box
- 14:52Speaker 5: up front and make us potentially be one-dimensional defensively. as
- 14:57Speaker 5: I see it right now with Elijah, if we turn
- 14:59Speaker 5: into the run, run and shoot, well, unfortunately we don't
- 15:02Speaker 5: have the run part.
- 15:03Speaker 3: So I guess we're going to call it the shoot
- 15:04Speaker 3: and shoot. So I mean, just that, that might be
- 15:09Speaker 3: what we are. It might be the skip. It might
- 15:11Speaker 3: be the run, skip, shoot and run.
- 15:14Speaker 2: That's funny because all the run and shoot teams through
- 15:16Speaker 2: like 50 times a game. Why was it ever called
- 15:18Speaker 2: the run? It should have at least been called the
- 15:20Speaker 2: shoot and run.
- 15:21Speaker 4: That's what I thought. I was like, no, run is precedent. No, no, no.
- 15:25Speaker 3: It should be the shoot run and then hope at
- 15:27Speaker 3: the end. That's what it should be. So at this point,
- 15:31Speaker 3: that's what I'm looking for. I'm going to look for.
- 15:34Speaker 5: This is why Coach Fish and his staff get paid
- 15:38Speaker 5: what they pay. They get to put this game plan together,
- 15:40Speaker 5: put the strengths of their group together. find that coach
- 15:44Speaker 5: walters on defense has got to find a way to
- 15:46Speaker 5: win the line of scrimmage back on defense and not
- 15:48Speaker 5: give up big plays like that because that was that
- 15:51Speaker 5: was a very poor effort by the defense and they
- 15:53Speaker 5: know it so those things and then being on the
- 15:56Speaker 5: road you're on natural grass which i like that might
- 15:58Speaker 5: change a few things we'll see how that goes but
- 16:01Speaker 5: all those things have to come to fruition on a
- 16:02Speaker 5: friday night on the road flying halfway across the country
- 16:06Speaker 5: and playing at night And I love the challenge.
- 16:10Speaker 3: Some guys in the locker.
- 16:11Speaker 4: Room are like, man, this sucks.
- 16:14Speaker 3: There are.
- 16:14Speaker 5: It's just mentally built into some of them. And others
- 16:17Speaker 5: are like, give me this, man, dude. Because let me
- 16:19Speaker 5: just tell all you guys that are listening. None of
- 16:20Speaker 5: them are listening. It's gone before you know it. Don't
- 16:23Speaker 5: wish games away. It's fantastic that you get to play
- 16:26Speaker 5: college football. No matter how much it sucks, it's awesome.
- 16:28Speaker 5: It's unbelievable to get a chance to do that. So
- 16:31Speaker 5: we need that mindset heading into Friday. I want to
- 16:34Speaker 5: see the kind of fight we have. You know, when
- 16:36Speaker 5: you get punched– Do you get back up or do
- 16:38Speaker 5: you just lay down with the guy punching the face
- 16:40Speaker 5: over and over again? That's your choice, man.
- 16:41Speaker 4: Figure it out.
- 16:43Speaker 2: Yeah, so regardless of quarterback, it's about getting back to
- 16:47Speaker 2: playing line of scrimmage.
- 16:48Speaker 3: Football on Friday. It's going to be the only way, Chuck.
- 16:51Speaker 5: It's going to be the only way this team either
- 16:53Speaker 5: lives or dies at this point is figuring out how
- 16:56Speaker 5: to win the line of scrimmage.
- 16:57Speaker 3: You can't play football and play backwards.
- 17:00Speaker 2: Sorry about Coach Ditka. I did like your video.
- 17:05Speaker 3: It was amazing.
- 17:07Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 17:07Speaker 3: It was amazing.
- 17:08Speaker 5: Not very many people appreciate how good a cigar is
- 17:12Speaker 5: the first time it hits your lips. I did not
- 17:14Speaker 5: appreciate it, and boy, do I remember it.
- 17:19Speaker 2: He didn't skimp either. I mean, that thing was enormous.
- 17:22Speaker 2: If you ever saw one of his cigars in person, which,
- 17:24Speaker 2: of course, you have, I mean, it was like the
- 17:28Speaker 2: state of New Hampshire that he was holding between his fingers.
- 17:31Speaker 3: It was like a loaf of bread. I remember him
- 17:33Speaker 3: handing it to me. I melted across the desk as
- 17:37Speaker 3: it was coming out. I'm like, wow, look at this thing.
- 17:39Speaker 3: What am I supposed to do with this? I mean,
- 17:41Speaker 3: write it.
- 17:42Speaker 4: Okay.
- 17:42Speaker 3: All right. Let's figure this out.
- 17:45Speaker 2: I love he has that. He always had that tight
- 17:47Speaker 2: end kinship though. I mean, he, I'm sure he loved all,
- 17:50Speaker 2: you know, facets of the game, but you, you tight
- 17:53Speaker 2: ends take them under your wing, you know, kind of thing.
- 17:57Speaker 5: Oh, he, he was, man, he was, he was constantly,
- 18:01Speaker 5: constantly about, I could do it better than I could
- 18:04Speaker 5: do it better.
- 18:04Speaker 3: It's like, that's, he just knew it because it was
- 18:07Speaker 3: his position.
- 18:07Speaker 4: He's a Hall of Famer.
- 18:09Speaker 5: You just, you felt that at every point in time,
- 18:11Speaker 5: he'd walk up to me and just punch me right
- 18:13Speaker 5: in the ribs, right behind.
- 18:14Speaker 3: He'd freaking punch that guy and just walk behind me.
- 18:17Speaker 3: He wouldn't do it to anybody else.
- 18:18Speaker 5: He just punched me right in the ribs and said,
- 18:20Speaker 5: you don't learn to punch somebody in the balls. I
- 18:23Speaker 5: don't know what it takes, but you got to do
- 18:24Speaker 5: something different. And so I just was like, all right, coach,
- 18:28Speaker 5: love him or hate him, he was incredible.
- 18:32Speaker 2: Oh, he was a force. He was a force of nature.
- 18:35Speaker 2: All right, well, thank you, sir. We appreciate it. Have
- 18:38Speaker 2: fun on Friday in Indiana, and we'll talk to you
- 18:41Speaker 2: again next week.
- 18:43Speaker 3: Appreciate it, gentlemen, as always. Thanks.
- 18:45Speaker 2: Cam Clayton joining us right here on the radio program.
- 18:48Speaker 2: Always not the most enjoyable conversations when you're talking about
- 18:52Speaker 2: the things we're talking about these days. with the Husky
- 18:55Speaker 2: football program. But Cam, we appreciate him joining us here
- 19:00Speaker 2: again this week. His segment is brought to you by
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- 19:26Speaker 6: Mcmahon left side he's got speed back to the middle
- 19:29Speaker 6: shoots scores bobby mcmahon the winner on his stick and
- 19:37Speaker 6: the seattle kraken survive and advance out of philadelphia it's
- 19:43Speaker 6: a three two win in the shootout.
- 19:49Speaker 2: Ever fits you on the call the everett and al
- 19:51Speaker 2: show last night another victory for the kraken in this
- 19:54Speaker 2: young brand new hockey season that's three straight on a
- 19:58Speaker 2: road trip my goodness uh al kaniski now joins us
- 20:02Speaker 2: the color analyst for your Seattle Kraken right here on
- 20:05Speaker 2: the flagship Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. Winning's fun, isn't.
- 20:09Speaker 4: It, Al? Oh, it absolutely is fun, especially on the road.
- 20:14Speaker 4: Those wins just taste a little sweeter.
- 20:17Speaker 2: Yeah, is it getting in the way of you and Everett,
- 20:20Speaker 2: your pool time and your exploring of Philadelphia and its history?
- 20:26Speaker 2: Did you go to Benjamin Franklin's house before the game yesterday?
- 20:30Speaker 5: No.
- 20:31Speaker 4: We did. We did some touristy stuff. We did some
- 20:35Speaker 4: foodie stuff, and the weather's been great. You know, don't
- 20:39Speaker 4: tell Everett that, because he likes to brag about Detroit,
- 20:42Speaker 4: but the weather was pretty good there. And now we're
- 20:45Speaker 4: in southern Florida, enjoying a bit of a day off
- 20:48Speaker 4: here at Busch Gardens, trying to make ourselves throw up. Wow.
- 20:53Speaker 2: Are you riding rides? Are you really riding rides there?
- 20:56Speaker 4: Oh yeah. Yeah. So, so JT Piper and I have
- 20:59Speaker 4: done Disneyland a few times on Southern California trips and
- 21:02Speaker 4: we always give Everett a bad time because he never
- 21:04Speaker 4: comes with us. Well, JT and the argument is, is
- 21:08Speaker 4: that he doesn't want to spend a lot of money
- 21:09Speaker 4: on tickets. Well, JT covered the ticket costs. So Everett
- 21:14Speaker 4: didn't have a choice, but to come with us, of course,
- 21:16Speaker 4: Busch garden, Busch garden roller coasters are a step above Disneyland.
- 21:20Speaker 4: If you've been before and, Let's just say, I don't
- 21:24Speaker 4: think you call it throwing up if it never leaves
- 21:26Speaker 4: your mouth, but I enjoyed my breakfast twice this morning.
- 21:34Speaker 2: There we go, Al. There we go. All right, well,
- 21:39Speaker 2: let's talk about the team. And look, I've discussed this
- 21:44Speaker 2: on the show. I want to get your thoughts. I mean,
- 21:45Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, seven games, we can't figure
- 21:48Speaker 2: out much in seven games, but I'll say this. I mean,
- 21:51Speaker 2: this is a pretty consistent effort of offense. We've also
- 21:56Speaker 2: seen a team win the first three games of a
- 21:58Speaker 2: five-game road trip, regardless of how good the competition was.
- 22:03Speaker 2: We even saw this team win a shootout, which is
- 22:05Speaker 2: something they've not done consistently since they came into existence.
- 22:09Speaker 2: In other words, we're seeing things that we've not seen
- 22:12Speaker 2: in a while from this team, and I'm curious if
- 22:14Speaker 2: you think that they're real going forward.
- 22:18Speaker 4: Well, I think they're real in that it's checking some boxes.
- 22:21Speaker 4: You just mentioned one of them, the team. Yeah, they
- 22:25Speaker 4: managed to find a way to win against Philadelphia last night,
- 22:29Speaker 4: who was 0-7 coming into the game. And you think, well,
- 22:32Speaker 4: this is going to be an easy game. But they're
- 22:35Speaker 4: a team backed into a corner right now. They're playing
- 22:37Speaker 4: with urgency. And it showed there as they made a
- 22:40Speaker 4: comeback in the third period. But Good teams find a
- 22:43Speaker 4: way to win, and the Kraken did that last night.
- 22:46Speaker 4: They did struggle in the shootout last year, and they
- 22:50Speaker 4: had two goals last night in the shootout. Matty Beneers
- 22:52Speaker 4: got the first one, and it was Bobby McMahon with
- 22:55Speaker 4: the game winner. So you're seeing changes like that, which
- 22:58Speaker 4: are positive signs that things are trending in the right direction.
- 23:01Speaker 4: But make no mistake, the hardest part of this trip
- 23:04Speaker 4: is coming up tomorrow night against Tampa Bay and Saturday
- 23:08Speaker 4: against Florida, where depending on how those two games go,
- 23:12Speaker 4: you're really going to get a sense for how this
- 23:14Speaker 4: team looks early in the season.
- 23:16Speaker 7: Yeah, Al, are you noticing more resilience with this team?
- 23:21Speaker 7: Because in multiple different facets, number one, when Philly came
- 23:25Speaker 7: back from a two goal deficit in the third period,
- 23:27Speaker 7: it felt like previous versions of the Kraken may have
- 23:30Speaker 7: had a tough time kind of getting themselves back up
- 23:32Speaker 7: to get back in the front foot. But I would
- 23:34Speaker 7: say they were the much better team after Philly tied
- 23:36Speaker 7: the game. So both from a macro perspective, but also
- 23:40Speaker 7: a resilience from a, hey, I'm going to hit your
- 23:42Speaker 7: guy after you hit us after the Trevor Zegers, Philip
- 23:45Speaker 7: Grubauer situation yesterday. So just in general, are you noticing
- 23:49Speaker 7: a more resilient kind of nature with this Kraken team?
- 23:53Speaker 4: Yeah, I think resilience is definitely one of those words
- 23:56Speaker 4: you'd use when you're describing team toughness. And everybody thinks, well,
- 24:00Speaker 4: team toughness is fighting. It's so much more than that.
- 24:02Speaker 4: It's standing up for each other. It's standing up for
- 24:04Speaker 4: your goaltender. It's your goaltender standing up for himself. And,
- 24:08Speaker 4: you know, it's also battling back when, you know, things
- 24:10Speaker 4: have swung the other way, which they did last night.
- 24:13Speaker 4: This team's definitely got the leadership on the bench to
- 24:17Speaker 4: get the minds focused on, hey, we gave up a
- 24:19Speaker 4: couple of goals here. We're fine. It's tied up. We've
- 24:22Speaker 4: got to find a way to win. I think that's
- 24:26Speaker 4: exactly what you need for a team that's going to
- 24:28Speaker 4: go the distance and make the playoffs because it's that
- 24:31Speaker 4: kind of leadership that gets you through those little valleys
- 24:34Speaker 4: that happen in every game.
- 24:36Speaker 2: I know Grubauer was good in the shootout. We have
- 24:39Speaker 2: a win to show for that. But he seemed like
- 24:42Speaker 2: he wasn't caught off guard by anything that they tried.
- 24:46Speaker 2: Was that an exceptional overtime performance from him?
- 24:52Speaker 4: I mean, you know, Gribby's a competitor to the core. And,
- 24:56Speaker 4: you know, I think that that battle he was having
- 24:59Speaker 4: with Trevor Zegers, and it wasn't just the one situation
- 25:03Speaker 4: where Zegers shot the puck at him after the whistle
- 25:05Speaker 4: and then Grubauer gave him a shot. This had been
- 25:08Speaker 4: going on for the entire game. And I think for
- 25:09Speaker 4: the guy like Grubauer, when... He finds a villain like that.
- 25:13Speaker 4: He raises his game. He wants to show these guys
- 25:17Speaker 4: that he's not going to let them beat him. I
- 25:21Speaker 4: think that's good for a guy like Grubauer. He loves
- 25:25Speaker 4: the competitiveness of the game, and he certainly loves it
- 25:27Speaker 4: when it's an individual that's out there that he can
- 25:29Speaker 4: try and get under their skin.
- 25:31Speaker 7: Yeah, what about the power play? It seems like that's
- 25:33Speaker 7: been kind of a little bit of a revelation this year.
- 25:37Speaker 7: They get another one last night in the first goal
- 25:38Speaker 7: of the game from Bobby McMahon. What have you seen
- 25:41Speaker 7: that's been different about the way they're doing things with
- 25:44Speaker 7: the man advantage?
- 25:46Speaker 4: Well, it's definitely a shoot-first mentality. And when I say that,
- 25:49Speaker 4: there's obviously plays that are being set up. So I'm
- 25:52Speaker 4: not saying every time it's on the stick of a
- 25:53Speaker 4: Kraken player, they're putting it on net, but they're always
- 25:56Speaker 4: thinking there's an option here. That's number one. Number two is...
- 26:01Speaker 4: It's about the quick shots. And what I mean by
- 26:03Speaker 4: that is that goal that Bobby McMahon scored, it wasn't
- 26:06Speaker 4: a puck that ended up on his stick. He got
- 26:08Speaker 4: his head up, looked for a spot to put it
- 26:10Speaker 4: back on that. It was boom, boom. It was back
- 26:12Speaker 4: on that. And to beat a guy like Dan Vodar,
- 26:16Speaker 4: which is to say Dan Vodar's had our number over
- 26:18Speaker 4: the years. You've got to take shots on him like that.
- 26:21Speaker 4: You can't give him time to get set up. So
- 26:24Speaker 4: that was a good goal scorer's goal. It was a
- 26:26Speaker 4: power play goal, like you said. But it's all about
- 26:28Speaker 4: that quick shot, and I think you're starting to see
- 26:30Speaker 4: this team make those shot decisions much faster on the
- 26:34Speaker 4: power play this year, which is why they're having more success.
- 26:37Speaker 2: Al Koneski is with us, just brushed his teeth, feeling
- 26:40Speaker 2: really good about things right now. Down at Bush Carpenter.
- 26:46Speaker 4: I'll take a Gatorade, guys. Yeah, grab a Gatorade for me.
- 26:50Speaker 2: Could use some electrolytes back in your system here at
- 26:53Speaker 2: this stage in the process. Look, you said something that
- 26:56Speaker 2: triggered for me because last year all we heard about
- 26:59Speaker 2: was Lane Lambert being frustrated. We're not getting enough shots
- 27:01Speaker 2: on goal, not getting enough shots on goal. Has the
- 27:05Speaker 2: message gotten through? Are we starting to see here in
- 27:09Speaker 2: year number two that Lane Lambert beating that drum? he's
- 27:13Speaker 2: actually getting out of his roster that message delivered.
- 27:19Speaker 4: Well, I think he's going to beat that drum all
- 27:20Speaker 4: year because as much as we talk about his defensive
- 27:23Speaker 4: structure and how important that is to his system, he
- 27:26Speaker 4: always wants more shots on net. And what's interesting is
- 27:29Speaker 4: if you look back over all the seven games so far,
- 27:33Speaker 4: eight games, whatever it's been, the only game that the
- 27:36Speaker 4: Kraken have outshot their opponents so far is game one
- 27:39Speaker 4: versus Calgary. Every other game, they've been either outshot, or
- 27:42Speaker 4: I think it ended up tied last night. So I
- 27:44Speaker 4: think Lane Labbert still feels like, hey, our shooting percentage
- 27:48Speaker 4: might be second or third best in the league right now,
- 27:50Speaker 4: but I don't think we can sustain that over 84 games.
- 27:53Speaker 4: And the only way to bust through that is to
- 27:56Speaker 4: put more pucks on net. So I think that's going
- 27:59Speaker 4: to be an ongoing message from him, that if he
- 28:01Speaker 4: sees a guy look off a shot where you're in
- 28:04Speaker 4: a prime position... he's going to let you know, hey,
- 28:06Speaker 4: that puck needs to go on net, especially if you've
- 28:08Speaker 4: got traffic in front because that's how a lot of
- 28:10Speaker 4: these goals go in. It's through screens. It's off sticks.
- 28:13Speaker 4: It's off legs. It's not necessarily clean shots.
- 28:16Speaker 2: Well, it's not just a trip for rides in Florida
- 28:20Speaker 2: and a little warmth and some sunshine. I mean, it
- 28:23Speaker 2: is a trip to face two of the best teams
- 28:25Speaker 2: in the NHL here over the course of the next
- 28:27Speaker 2: three days, as you pointed out. So your mindset, if
- 28:31Speaker 2: this team comes back 3-2, got the job done but
- 28:34Speaker 2: didn't get it done in Florida, versus 4-1, you actually
- 28:39Speaker 2: got one of those two games in Florida, versus 5-0,
- 28:44Speaker 2: how will you be feeling flying back to Seattle?
- 28:47Speaker 4: I mean, if you come back three and two, you're
- 28:49Speaker 4: playing with house money right now, which is to say
- 28:53Speaker 4: these are two tough games. They're games that the Kraken
- 28:55Speaker 4: are going to have to go to battle in. If
- 28:57Speaker 4: they come out of them with a point in each
- 29:00Speaker 4: game because they take them to overtime or they sneak
- 29:03Speaker 4: a win out, it's an exceptional road trip. But even
- 29:06Speaker 4: coming home three and two with this road trip is
- 29:09Speaker 4: probably the– Not the best you can expect, but the
- 29:12Speaker 4: least you can expect. So I'd call it a success
- 29:15Speaker 4: if that's where it ends up. But this team's going
- 29:17Speaker 4: hunting for points tomorrow, and they're going to battle these
- 29:19Speaker 4: two Florida teams.
- 29:20Speaker 3: All right.
- 29:21Speaker 2: Are you going to get a cotton candy? What are
- 29:23Speaker 2: you going to do now at the amusement park?
- 29:26Speaker 4: Do they sell Pepto-Bismol at these.
- 29:30Speaker 3: Parks?
- 29:31Speaker 2: Why don't you get an artist rendering those people that
- 29:34Speaker 2: draw those cartoon things on the side of you throwing up?
- 29:37Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
- 29:42Speaker 2: And Everett holding your hair in the back.
- 29:45Speaker 4: I want to ride the kiddie rides for the rest
- 29:47Speaker 4: of the day.
- 29:47Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you should. Just get a nice meal
- 29:51Speaker 2: and a kiddie ride. All right, well, have fun in Florida.
- 29:55Speaker 2: Be safe, and we'll talk to you next week.
- 29:59Speaker 4: All right, boys. Take care. All right.
- 30:00Speaker 2: Al Koniski joining us as he does every Wednesday at 9.30.
- 30:04Speaker 2: Cracking an action against the Lightning tomorrow. That'll be a
- 30:06Speaker 2: 4 o'clock start. A lot of those starts here as
- 30:09Speaker 2: of late as they do this East Coast trip. The
- 30:12Speaker 2: Lightning off to a 4-2 start. Of course, you can
- 30:14Speaker 2: hear the action right here. Is it going to be
- 30:17Speaker 2: on KJR? I believe it is. Are we on KJR
- 30:20Speaker 2: tomorrow with that? So your flagship for Seattle Kraken hockey.
- 30:24Speaker 2: All right, coming up next on the radio program, one
- 30:26Speaker 2: last thing to close it out on a Wednesday, Sports
- 30:30Speaker 2: Radio 93.3 KJR FM. All right, ready to close things
- 30:45Speaker 2: out here on Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM. Our final
- 30:49Speaker 2: segment of the day before we hand things off to
- 30:51Speaker 2: Greg Bell and Jessamyn McIntyre. Two fine people. They'll do
- 30:55Speaker 2: a wonderful job with the baton that we hand them.
- 30:58Speaker 4: Yes.
- 30:58Speaker 2: They won't fumble it. They won't have to go back
- 31:00Speaker 2: and pick it back up.
- 31:02Speaker 4: Nothing like that.
- 31:03Speaker 2: It doesn't get dirty. They won't rip a hole in
- 31:06Speaker 2: their shorts. From what? Leaning over to.
- 31:11Speaker 4: Grab the baton.
- 31:12Speaker 2: Okay. Because they wear tight pants, the two of them. Yes.
- 31:15Speaker 4: Everybody knows that.
- 31:16Speaker 2: I guess that is a well-known fact. When they run track,
- 31:19Speaker 2: they wear the tightest shorts in town. Everybody knows that
- 31:23Speaker 2: about those two. Anyway, they'll be coming your way at
- 31:26Speaker 2: the top of the hour. But we close things out
- 31:28Speaker 2: with one last thing. Anders, what do you got?
- 31:30Speaker 7: Well, and it got announced a little bit less than
- 31:33Speaker 7: an hour ago that Cole Young is a finalist for
- 31:36Speaker 7: the Gold Glove at second base in the American League.
- 31:40Speaker 7: I just wanted to give him a quick shout out.
- 31:42Speaker 7: He was one of the few bright spots in the
- 31:45Speaker 7: season for the Seattle Mariners, especially on the defensive side
- 31:49Speaker 7: of the ball.
- 31:50Speaker 3: Atticut.
- 31:51Speaker 4: Atticut.
- 31:52Speaker 7: Um so hopefully he wins it i think he has
- 31:54Speaker 7: a good chance he's with michael massey and chase my
- 31:57Speaker 7: drop not exactly household names no i wouldn't think so
- 32:00Speaker 7: and you know obviously we've we've watched him defensively all
- 32:03Speaker 7: year i know this team has had issues defensively probably
- 32:06Speaker 7: the worst defensive team in baseball but he was not
- 32:08Speaker 7: a part of that he was a very good defensive
- 32:10Speaker 7: second base.
- 32:10Speaker 2: You know looking at that short list i think he's
- 32:13Speaker 2: got a really good chance of winning it yeah um
- 32:18Speaker 2: I guess my draw, I would think, would be his
- 32:20Speaker 2: chief competition. Massey didn't even play every day. He's more
- 32:23Speaker 2: of like a utility guy. I think he was playing
- 32:27Speaker 2: second base for the most every day in the second
- 32:30Speaker 2: half of the season. But I've got to believe.
- 32:33Speaker 2: More time at second base gives you a little bit
- 32:36Speaker 2: of an edge.
- 32:36Speaker 7: Yeah and my job has a better often had the
- 32:39Speaker 7: better offensive season for sure uh but i think cole
- 32:43Speaker 7: young definitely has a shot to uh you know for
- 32:46Speaker 7: it's the gold glove i should say so it's the
- 32:48Speaker 7: defensive side of the ball so go go get it cole.
- 32:50Speaker 2: Go go go get a kid all right boy uh
- 32:54Speaker 2: all right cred what do you got for your one
- 32:56Speaker 2: last thing in there I briefly mentioned it yesterday. I'm
- 32:59Speaker 2: going goggles for my one last thing.
- 33:01Speaker 7: So the continuation is I have successfully got my goggles
- 33:05Speaker 7: and I am ready for athletics this weekend.
- 33:07Speaker 2: Do you have them with you? I'll bring them tomorrow. Yeah,
- 33:10Speaker 2: you got to wear them tomorrow during the show. I'll
- 33:12Speaker 2: do that. Because what happens if I accidentally, you know,
- 33:16Speaker 2: stick a finger in your eye? I'd be very upset.
- 33:19Speaker 2: But hey, you know, at least I have goggles on now.
- 33:21Speaker 5: So.
- 33:22Speaker 2: I'm just saying, Anders, you never know what could happen
- 33:24Speaker 2: during the course of a work day together.
- 33:27Speaker 4: True.
- 33:27Speaker 2: I mean, I would hate to be, let's say I'm
- 33:30Speaker 2: doing some woodwork on a miter saw. And I would
- 33:33Speaker 2: hate for some of my shrapnel to get in kids' eyes.
- 33:36Speaker 4: Yeah, of course.
- 33:37Speaker 2: What if I was trying to like whittle like, you know,
- 33:40Speaker 2: replica dolls of all the show hosts? For voodoo purposes?
- 33:46Speaker 4: Perhaps.
- 33:46Speaker 2: I mean, that depends on who buys them, I guess. Yeah,
- 33:50Speaker 2: I'm just the craftsman. If there's some sick bastard out
- 33:53Speaker 2: there that wants to stick pins in a Greg Bell
- 33:57Speaker 2: voodoo doll, there's nothing I can do. I shouldn't get blamed. No. Yeah.
- 34:03Speaker 2: The point is, I want to see Kid in a
- 34:05Speaker 2: pair of safety goggles.
- 34:07Speaker 3: Yes.
- 34:08Speaker 2: And I want to see him during the show just
- 34:11Speaker 2: in case, you know. You never know what freak incident
- 34:14Speaker 2: might occur. I don't want him to lose an eye
- 34:16Speaker 2: on my watch. Thank you, Chuck. I will be locked
- 34:19Speaker 2: and loaded tomorrow with my new specs. That's going to
- 34:21Speaker 2: be awesome. I really do want to see him. I
- 34:23Speaker 2: want to see him doing the show with a pair
- 34:26Speaker 2: of sports goggles on. That is phenomenal.
- 34:28Speaker 4: So perfect.
- 34:29Speaker 2: Kareem Abdul-Jakib. I was thinking of a way to do it. Yes,
- 34:34Speaker 2: I'll be in studio tomorrow.
- 34:38Speaker 4: All right.
- 34:39Speaker 2: This is awesome. I love it. I'm looking forward to that.
- 34:40Speaker 2: I love that. I'm going to close. Man, I got
- 34:43Speaker 2: three different baseball things. Just a little information. Don Mattingly
- 34:46Speaker 2: signed with Philly.
- 34:47Speaker 5: Yep.
- 34:48Speaker 2: So he's off the table for any managerial vacancy that
- 34:52Speaker 2: I don't think the Mariners were ever considering him. I
- 34:54Speaker 2: frankly don't even think Philly was considering him. And speaks to, like,
- 34:59Speaker 2: Don Mattingly, how easygoing he is. You would think somebody
- 35:02Speaker 2: that of his achievement level, He'll be like, you don't
- 35:05Speaker 2: want me?
- 35:06Speaker 1: F you.
- 35:06Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 35:07Speaker 2: But he's like, you don't want me? That's fine. Oh,
- 35:09Speaker 2: you want me now? That's fine.
- 35:10Speaker 7: Well, when it's your son that's doing the hiring and firing.
- 35:12Speaker 4: I guess.
- 35:13Speaker 2: Maybe a little bit more. I guess. But I also
- 35:17Speaker 2: want to mention this just quickly. Look, I don't know
- 35:20Speaker 2: how much baseball we're going to talk over the next
- 35:22Speaker 2: few months. Looks like we're going to have a labor stoppage.
- 35:26Speaker 2: I realize that a lot of people don't want to
- 35:28Speaker 2: hear about it at all right now, but We're going
- 35:31Speaker 2: to do some, certainly, depending on the news. But I
- 35:35Speaker 2: just want... Can we just get this out of the way?
- 35:38Speaker 2: Every time somebody says that they want a salary cap,
- 35:42Speaker 2: we don't need the response and a salary floor. That
- 35:46Speaker 2: is a given. If there's going to be a salary cap,
- 35:49Speaker 2: there's going to be a salary floor. We don't need to.
- 35:55Speaker 2: Every time I say salary cap, I don't want to
- 35:57Speaker 2: be corrected. I don't want to be corrected on Twitter.
- 36:00Speaker 2: It's a given. With a salary cap comes a salary floor.
- 36:04Speaker 2: There won't be any other kind of deal. You're going
- 36:07Speaker 2: to get both or nothing. That's what's going to happen.
- 36:11Speaker 2: So let's go ahead and make a note of that,
- 36:13Speaker 2: a mental note of it. I don't want to be
- 36:15Speaker 2: talking about a salary cap, and I'm all for a
- 36:18Speaker 2: salary cap, and then see things on the text line.
- 36:20Speaker 3: What about a salary floor?
- 36:22Speaker 2: It's part of the equation. Cap, floor, they go together.
- 36:25Speaker 2: All right? Everybody got it?
- 36:27Speaker 4: Yep.
- 36:27Speaker 2: Square, hands in the middle?
- 36:28Speaker 4: Yep. All right.
- 36:29Speaker 2: On three, team.
- 36:30Speaker 4: One, two, three.
- 36:31Speaker 5: Team.
- 36:31Speaker 2: All right. You don't have to go through this again.
- 36:34Speaker 2: All right. We'll talk to you tomorrow at 6 a.m.
- 36:37Speaker 2: Greg and Jess and their tight shorts next on KJR.