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7-9: Blake Price and Niko Moreno · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: No from the Star Reintles sports desks your ninety three
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  Speaker 1: point three KJRFM sports headlines.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Heavy Thursday to you, hed onuns have brought
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  Speaker 2: to you by Frost Brewed Course Light Choose chill. As always.
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  Speaker 2: Mariners lost again, Not as always, but seems like it anyway,
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  Speaker 2: especially on the road. They lost because they're the other
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  Speaker 2: reason they lose, not the pitch, how they used the pitching.
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  Speaker 2: But they can't score unless they hit home runs thirty
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  Speaker 2: three times. The play last night in Miami, no runs,
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  Speaker 2: five total hits against a converted reliever who started and
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  Speaker 2: win five innings, and then three more Marlins relievers. They
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  Speaker 2: had a one game over five hundred half game lead
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  Speaker 2: top the AO West over Texas. Game three of the
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  Speaker 2: series in Miami, three forty today the series finale, Bryce Miller.
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  Speaker 2: Then they'll truck up the other coast of Florida go
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  Speaker 2: play Tampa Bay, which has the best record in the league.
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  Speaker 2: World Cup Quarterfinals beginning day live here on ninety three
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  Speaker 2: point three KJRFM. France and Morocco at twelve thirty on
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  Speaker 2: iHeartRadio National pregame show one o'clock kickoff France and Morocco
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  Speaker 2: in the final aid of the World Cup right here
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  Speaker 2: on ninety three point three KJR today, that England Mexico
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  Speaker 2: thriller Sunday night in the Stadios Teca had forty five
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  Speaker 2: million people watching in the United States lots. That is
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  Speaker 2: a lot. In fact, two million more than watched the
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  Speaker 2: US Belgian game. There were more people that watched in
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  Speaker 2: this country half of it on Fox, half of it
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  Speaker 2: on Telemundo. The England Mexico match on Sunday night. That
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  Speaker 2: is the most watched soccer match ever in this country.
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  Speaker 2: That's one of the largest non NFL viewerships in this
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  Speaker 2: country in years. And it's about equal to what the
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  Speaker 2: amount of people that watched the Rams and the Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: in the NFC title game in January. That's a massive
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  Speaker 2: audience for the World Cup. Yes, it is. A group
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  Speaker 2: of eleven Republican lawmakers letter last night to WNBA Commissioner
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  Speaker 2: Kathy Engelbert calling Caitlyn Clark quote the face of the
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  Speaker 2: league and demanding the WNBA take accountability for quote, multiple
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  Speaker 2: attacks against Caitlyn Clark in her games at tax lawmakers wrote,
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  Speaker 2: maybe racially motivated Carolyn and Molcoba ended American Coco grass
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  Speaker 2: Wimbledon with a three set tiebreaker win this morning in
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  Speaker 2: the semifinals at the owlinganm Club outside London. She's the
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  Speaker 2: fourth check woman in the last six years to reach
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  Speaker 2: the Wimbledon finals. She might rea and face another check
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  Speaker 2: who's playing in the other women's semi Seahawks rookies are
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  Speaker 2: doing to report the training camp in what ten days?
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  Speaker 1: Now?
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  Speaker 2: What is it? Nine to eight days? Whatever?
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  Speaker 3: It is?
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  Speaker 2: Eight days July seventeenth.
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  Speaker 4: Man, summer's over.
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  Speaker 2: I'd like the school. I fack him in fifth grade.
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  Speaker 2: That's summer's ending.
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  Speaker 4: We go to target, get some new clothes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, back to school. It's all about need a metal lunchbox.
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  Speaker 2: Veterans are reporting on July twenty fourth, first practice at
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  Speaker 2: the Virginia Mason Athletics Center. July twenty fifth. We will
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  Speaker 2: all be down there on KJR broadcasting from the edge
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  Speaker 2: of the field. Now on with the Thursday show. Great
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  Speaker 4: Through three ks your voices.
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  Speaker 2: She loves to have the talkback voices at eleven thirty
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  Speaker 2: while we also read your text on the Tacoma Dodge
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  Speaker 2: text line on the show today, Well, where should we go?
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  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald's down to Lake Tahoe because that's where that
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  Speaker 2: celebrity American Century Championship golf tournament. I've not been to
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  Speaker 2: the tournament. I've been to the play course where they
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  Speaker 2: have it with the island green in the middle.
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  Speaker 4: Of lakes everything.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I have not actually been to the tournament itself.
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  Speaker 2: Eighty some celebrity Steph Curry, Charles Barkley, they go every
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  Speaker 2: Tony Romos with great golf.
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  Speaker 4: Curry and us is there too, Yes, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And they all go well as a measure of how
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  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald's star is just soaring after winning the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 2: he's there. I mean, he's a golfer. His dad got
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  Speaker 2: him into golf. He's been to the Masters and was
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  Speaker 2: in the Masters again this past not playing, of course,
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  Speaker 2: but watching. But he's playing. And he was on to
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  Speaker 2: Mike Patrick. Mike Patrick, it's an old college football hockey
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  Speaker 2: NFL reference from way back when Dan Patrick's show he
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  Speaker 2: was on Dan Patrick's show today, and we'll hear from
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  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald about how he still has only watched the
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl one time and he's really really anxious and
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  Speaker 2: curious to watch the TV copy and why is that.
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  Speaker 2: He'll explain that. He also has a pretty interesting breakdown
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  Speaker 2: of how he treats analytics. We've talked a lot in
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  Speaker 2: the last well a couple of years really, but especially
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  Speaker 2: the last few weeks about the Mariners.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, when it comes to baseball, it's a little.
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  Speaker 2: Absolute allegiance to I mean to the point of just
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  Speaker 2: defying common sense. And we're gonna make that. There was
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  Speaker 2: another example last night in baseball, and I'm talking about in
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  Speaker 2: a minute of analytics and numbers and numbers driven decisions.
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  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald talked to Dan Patrick this morning about his
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  Speaker 2: use of analytics, and Mike McDonald is as analytics as
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  Speaker 2: anybody in football. He's a self described nerd. He used
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  Speaker 2: that term a couple more times this morning with Dan Patrick.
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  Speaker 2: And he breaks down film and looks for t and
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  Speaker 2: he's all into that. But he talks about a balance
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  Speaker 2: between analytics and trusting what your eyes and your gut
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  Speaker 2: tell you, which I sure think the baseball team in
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  Speaker 2: this town could use. Now, justman's right, Baseball analytics compared
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  Speaker 2: to football analytics. They were doing it for decades before,
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  Speaker 2: and they are far more entrenched into the game than
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  Speaker 2: it isn't football, but football still has I mean, the
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks have a whole department on the football operation staff
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  Speaker 2: of analytics, and Mike McDonald consults them all the time.
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  Speaker 2: He's got Scott Aaron is his headset. One of his
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  Speaker 2: buttons you see when you're watching a game, Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 2: presses buttons on his hip that he could put different
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  Speaker 2: voices in his ear and his headset. Scott AerR is
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  Speaker 2: one of them, and he's an analytics guy and he
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  Speaker 2: tells him, Okay, kick a field goal here, or go
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  Speaker 2: for it here, or if we get inside the forty,
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  Speaker 2: we should do this here? Did the analytics say we
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  Speaker 2: should do this? In fact, McDonald just hired another one
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  Speaker 2: of those guys from Yale, a Yale graduate who's is mean,
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  Speaker 2: smart people, who his analyts is his that's what he
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  Speaker 2: did science. Quantitative science was his major at Yale. They
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  Speaker 2: just hired a guy who'd been at Baltimore with McDonald
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  Speaker 2: to be another one of those so he is. McDonald
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  Speaker 2: is deeply entrenched in analytics, but I thought it was
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  Speaker 2: interesting what he said this morning, Dan Patrick, about the
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  Speaker 2: balance you have to have and how you have to
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  Speaker 2: trust in your feel of the game and what you
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  Speaker 2: see during the game. You'll hear from Mike McDonald about that.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of the Seahawks, there's a retreat in the mountains
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  Speaker 2: of Idaho this week known as the Quote Summer Camp
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  Speaker 2: for Billionaires that Forbes magazine detailed. It started a couple
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  Speaker 2: days ago, and it could lead to the eventual sale
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  Speaker 2: the Seahawks. We'll explain that the Mariners, among the many
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  Speaker 2: problems they have for still unbelievably just battling the stay
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  Speaker 2: over five hundred, which is just absurd that in this division,
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  Speaker 2: in this American league, especially that they're having this much
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  Speaker 2: trouble to stay above five hundred. Now, the problem is
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  Speaker 2: not just from last night's game. They don't think like
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  Speaker 2: baseball players. They don't think like amateur baseball players. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you do things that just like they're not even trying.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we saw it last night. We'll talk about that,
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  Speaker 2: and we think the Mariners' offense is pretty bad, right, Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's actually worse than maybe we think, and it's worse
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  Speaker 2: than it's been in previous years. And many statistical measures.
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  Speaker 4: If we're going into analytics.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna talk numbers. Here's some numbers for the
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  Speaker 2: Mariners that they probably won't like to see. There's also
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  Speaker 2: out of Boston yesterday, more sobering scientific evidence that football
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  Speaker 2: ruins the quality life for many NFL players in all
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  Speaker 2: the decades after they're done playing. And that's the dirty
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  Speaker 2: little secret that nobody wants to talk about. Certainly the
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  Speaker 2: league doesn't, but there is a concerted effort in the
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  Speaker 2: Boston medical community, where there is a CTE and Concussion Center,
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  Speaker 2: to try to get to the root explanation for all
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  Speaker 2: of the crazy neurology, a crazy amount of neurological neurodegenitive
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  Speaker 2: diseases in former NFL players. And there's a study out
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  Speaker 2: about that. They studied twenty thousand NFL deaths of all causes,
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  Speaker 2: and they found some pretty alarming stuff about the neurodegenitive
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  Speaker 2: trends among those deaths. And we'll talk about that to
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  Speaker 2: eleven o'clock. Great friend of mine, Blake plit Price, he's
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  Speaker 2: used to be on Vancouver Sports Radio which doesn't exist
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  Speaker 2: anymore as of this week. Vancouver shuddered its last remaining
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  Speaker 2: sports over the air radio station. We're talking to him
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  Speaker 2: about that. He's a survivor of that. He and Matt
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  Speaker 2: Sakaris great friends of mine. I'm on their show all
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  Speaker 2: the time, their podcast. He's going to join us to
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  Speaker 2: talk about that. He's going to talk about the Vancouver
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  Speaker 2: World Cup experience. He get a chance to fire back
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  Speaker 2: at me for the story I wrote the News Tribune
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  Speaker 2: last week when I went up to Vancouver went to
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  Speaker 2: the Switzerland and Algeria match and wrote that it was
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  Speaker 2: tepid compared to the Seattle experience.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we had kind of the best of the best leader.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I heard about it from a lot of
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  Speaker 2: BC and Canadians about how that wasn't fair and you
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  Speaker 2: picked a one match that was down. It was a
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  Speaker 2: day after Canada Day. Everyone was hungover two teams that
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  Speaker 2: weren't supposed to be The Canada was supposed to play
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  Speaker 2: that match, but Switzerland had beaten him. Anyway, Blake got
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  Speaker 2: everybody rabble roused up in Canada about my story and
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  Speaker 2: I said, okay, let's have Blake go on.
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  Speaker 5: I have a chance to well, hey, what do we
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  Speaker 5: talk about. The opposite of love is apathy, not hate,
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  Speaker 5: So there you go.
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  Speaker 2: Blake has also going to talk about the Canucks the
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  Speaker 2: offseason that they have had, the Northwest NHL rival of
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  Speaker 2: the Crack and the Kracking. By the way, if you
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  Speaker 2: may recall, just hired as an assistant general manager, the
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  Speaker 2: general man the Canucks just fired after the disastrous season
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  Speaker 2: they had. I want to asking what are the Kracking
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  Speaker 2: getting in him? And he probably will chuckle about the
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  Speaker 2: fact that the Crack and even hired him. The white
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  Speaker 2: Caps future in Vancouver is also a story. There's reports
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  Speaker 2: that Las Vegas investors are trying to move the Vancouver
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  Speaker 2: white Caps MFS franchise to Las Vegas. And now they're
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  Speaker 2: trying to get more money and civic money. Maybe get
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  Speaker 2: a soccer only stadium, move him out of BC Place downtown,
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  Speaker 2: which we saw this World Cup is a great vent.
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  Speaker 2: But it's just hard to sell fifty two thousand seats
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  Speaker 2: for every single MLS game. But we'll talk about all
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  Speaker 2: of that with Blake Price at eleven o'clock. At twelve o'clock,
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  Speaker 2: Nico Moreno, who a lot of you on the text
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  Speaker 2: line wanted to come back on our show for his
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  Speaker 2: passion of the World Cup in soccer and sounders and
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  Speaker 2: all of it. Well, he is, he's coming back. He
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  Speaker 2: may be in studio in fact here at noon. He
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  Speaker 2: is going to be our pre to the pregame show,
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  Speaker 2: the pre match show of the World Cup quarterfinal between
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  Speaker 2: France and Morocco. That's going to be live in your ears,
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  Speaker 2: starting a pregame show at twelve thirty and then one
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  Speaker 2: o'clock right here on ninety three point three KJFM. So
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  Speaker 2: tons going on today on the show. We're an extended version.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to take you all the way up to
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  Speaker 2: twelve thirty.
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  Speaker 4: We look at us go on the extra min Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I had to sleep early and get up early and
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  Speaker 2: do a couple laps around the block to get ready
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  Speaker 2: for this, and we couldn't bring him in for a
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  Speaker 2: half hour show, so that would just be silly and mean.
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  Speaker 2: And he's trying to get ready for his golf tournament.
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  Speaker 2: So we're going to run.
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  Speaker 5: We're going which I will be tomorrow you will, yes, Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: be hanging out with Ryan Holanski, who is the son
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  Speaker 5: of Mark and Kim and brother of Tyler Grant. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: I am always just honored to be there.
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  Speaker 2: Are you paired with them to play?
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm a driver. Oh I'm a good golf car girl.
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  Speaker 4: Oh that's it.
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  Speaker 5: I'll get them drinks. I will shake hands, kiss all
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  Speaker 5: the babies.
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  Speaker 2: That's a valuable thing to do.
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  Speaker 4: With setting like that, I can recognize my role.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you have the golf turnament tomorrow in Maple Valley
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  Speaker 2: that is so great to so many people and benefiting
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  Speaker 2: so many cherries. The mayor of Maple Valley Ian Ferness,
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  Speaker 2: putting that on tomorrow. So we're not going to bring
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  Speaker 2: him into day for the half hour extra. We'll just
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  Speaker 2: be here from ten until twelve thirty. Remember we talked
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  Speaker 2: a couple days ago about the Marlins pulling their starting
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  Speaker 2: pitcher Juri Perez. Yes, after seven innings, since the fans
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  Speaker 2: and Sacramento are channing. Shame, shame, shame, And he had
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  Speaker 2: a perfect game in ninety two pitches and they pulled him. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it happened again last night in Pittsburgh, the same thing,
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  Speaker 2: but it was even worse. Jared Jones had a perfect
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  Speaker 2: game going through six innings. He had thrown just seventy
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  Speaker 2: seven pitches against one of the best teams in the
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  Speaker 2: League the Atlanta Braves. Just like with the Marlins, starter
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  Speaker 2: Leeves Bullpen Oanners Perfect Game gone puff, but this time
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  Speaker 2: he was even worse. The Pirates end up losing the game.
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  Speaker 2: At least the Marlins when they took out Perez were
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  Speaker 2: winning by so much that they won. The Pirates took
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  Speaker 2: out their perfect game starter and they lost. But here's
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  Speaker 2: the thing. Jarret Jones for the Pirates returned in late
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  Speaker 2: May from surgery and his elbow got a ligament surgery
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  Speaker 2: UCL and he didn't pitch at all last year. He
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  Speaker 2: missed the entire season last year and just came back
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  Speaker 2: this year. He's eight starts into his comeback from that,
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  Speaker 2: so there's a you can understand that somewhat he has
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  Speaker 2: not been more than somewhat he is not. Jones has
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  Speaker 2: not pitched more than eighty one pitches in any of
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  Speaker 2: his previous seven starts. So there was a precedent there
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  Speaker 2: that the Pirates were saying, Ah, Manager Don Kelly last
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  Speaker 2: night for the Pirates after he took out Jones and
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  Speaker 2: the Perfect Game said quote, wanting guys to stay healthy
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  Speaker 2: is the number one thing with these guys, because I
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  Speaker 2: need Jared for the rest of the season throwing like that. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: yet nobody ever thought about this until recently. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: not saying this is wrong or right. I'm just giving
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  Speaker 2: you some facts here about how this is a recent trend.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, we'll go fact and then we'll go opinion.
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  Speaker 2: Jeremy Frank runs at the MLB Random Stats page. He
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  Speaker 2: noted that from nineteen oh one to twenty fifteen, you
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  Speaker 2: know how many times the starting pitcher was pulled with
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  Speaker 2: a perfect game going of at least six innings in
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and fifteen years? Any guesses those of you
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  Speaker 2: out there don't look it up, Yeah, go into your radio.
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  Speaker 2: How many times in one hundred and fifteen years had
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  Speaker 2: at starting major league pitcher who had a perfect game
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  Speaker 2: carried through six innings been yanked?
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  Speaker 4: Fifteen?
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  Speaker 2: Jessman says, fifteen. Let's say you out in gig harbor.
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  Speaker 2: So from twenty sixteen, I'm going to leave that hanging
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  Speaker 2: for show. From twenty sixteen through last season. So after
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  Speaker 2: twenty fifteen through last season and in ten years, how
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  Speaker 2: many times do you think it happened over ten year period?
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  Speaker 2: Nineteen three it happened three times in what most people
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  Speaker 2: would consider Okay, analytics and pitch counts and limits. It
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  Speaker 2: happened three times. A pitcher getting pulled after six innings
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  Speaker 2: of a perfect game this weeks has happened twice in
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  Speaker 2: four days this week. Now, I know they were extenuating searches.
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  Speaker 2: Name we talk about Perez, who was also coming off
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  Speaker 2: the injured list, and this was only his third start
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  Speaker 2: coming back off the injured list. And then last night,
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  Speaker 2: seventy seven pitches and six innings and the perfect game
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  Speaker 2: guy goes out. It's happened twice in four days. It
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  Speaker 2: happened three times in ten years. Okay, so I wouing
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  Speaker 2: to reveal. And the one hundred and fifteen years before that.
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  Speaker 2: You know how many times it happened. If you're on YouTube,
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  Speaker 2: you've already got the answer. Nice zero. It never happened
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  Speaker 2: in one hundred and fifteen years or fifteen years.
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  Speaker 4: I thought I was being a minimalist in I guess.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're nineteen, yeah, whatever you said. One hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifteen years through tw fifteen of Major League baseball, it
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  Speaker 2: never happened because you don't do that exactly, because no
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  Speaker 2: one Ryan used to throw one hundred and two hundred
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  Speaker 2: and three hundred pins who cares. It'll be good five
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  Speaker 2: days from now. He can rest after the start, put
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  Speaker 2: some ice on it, drink a beer, have a cigarette.
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  Speaker 2: He's good. But we don't do that anymore. Some of
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  Speaker 2: it is because these pitchers are throwing ninety five miles
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  Speaker 2: an hour and breaking pitches when they're twelve and ninety
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  Speaker 2: five when they're fourteen, and going to travel ball and
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  Speaker 2: all these other things they do that never know. One
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  Speaker 2: Ryan never went to travel ball.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, the arms are a little more weary, but the
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  Speaker 5: time gets the main out, yes, worn out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you got high school parents who say, you
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  Speaker 2: can't pitch my kid because he's saving up for the
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  Speaker 2: summer travel schedule.
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  Speaker 3: I have.
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  Speaker 2: I had that happen to me as a head baseball
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  Speaker 2: coach in the city. That's where we're at now. And
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  Speaker 2: then we can circle all the way back to pay
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  Speaker 2: for play and the fact that kids play all year
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  Speaker 2: long on travel teams and pay thousand of dollars for it.
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  Speaker 2: That never used to happen. So yes, I get the
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  Speaker 2: preserving the pitcher, but why what do we preserve him from.
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  Speaker 2: He's already got like ten year veteran major league arments
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  Speaker 2: by the time they're twenty years old, twenty five years old.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: It's just it's crazy in our country, how you sports
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: gets elevated to this professional, commercialized, for profit and specialized
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: and professional at such a young age that then you
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: have situations like guys getting pulled two times in four
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: days after perfect games, after six innings. It is never
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: it had never happened for one hundred and fifteen years
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: through twenty fifteen. I found that fascinating. Did those guys'
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: arms fall off and they could never use their right
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: or left arms for the rest of their lives.
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, hey, you retire around thirty ish if you're lucky
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: and good luck, I mean, you make a buttload of money.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: So of course nobody's feeling bad for that.
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: But it is an interesting phenomenon that we're seeing.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: It is just because it's new and they do it.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: I had this discussion with Andrews. It became somewhat heated
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: a couple weeks ago. Just because it's what everyone doesn't
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: mean it's right. It just means it's what's currently being done.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: But well, if your friends jump off a bridge.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: I was trying to make I was trying to make
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: the point just because they do it today doesn't make
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: it right. It just means that's what they do right.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: And then we learn from it and things change in
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: the future.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: But for one hundred and fifteen years, and if you
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: could extrapolate it out from twenty fifteen to the end
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: of last year, one hundred and twenty five years, it
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: happened three times, and it's happened twice in four days.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: But one hundred and fifteen years, it never happened. Through
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: twenty fifteen, it's happened twice in four days. Anyway, I
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: thought that was peculiar, to say the least.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, just say the least, I mean.
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: And also those guys, it's isn't that the pinnacle of
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: your career is the point to pitch a perfect.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Game once in a lifetime thing exactly. You'll never be
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: in that situation again.
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: You just don't do you fight.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: I feel like the fights we used to see between
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: manager Catcher and pitcher on the mound used to be
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: a little more feisty, and now it's okay, I'll do
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: what's best for the team, which is also something that
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: you should be doing.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: They've grown up this way and this is what they know,
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: and yeah, they should be kicking water coolers and stuff
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: getting that. That guy for the Marlins just hanging over the
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: dugout rail watching his perfect game go away. He just
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: kind of shrugged. They showed him the dugout and he just, yeah,
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: I need.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: But if you grew up in that system, it's like,
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: I also get it. You know, do what's best for
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: the team in that situation. It just sucks for that
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: once in a lifetime to be taking You.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Imagine if the Mariners took out Felix Hernandoz. Oh god, no,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: that afternoon, that weekday afternoon against.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: Tampa, wasn't that magnificent?
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: It's perfect game in August? It was like one hundred
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: degrees here there.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: It was a day game.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: It was it was an afternoon game, and it was
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I remembers one hundred degrees. They could have said, well,
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: we need you for September when we go five hundred again,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: or oh it's too hot out or whatever. I can't
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: even remember that. He had one hundred some pitches or
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: whatever it was for the.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: Compason one on one.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: He was very efficient, which is why he got through
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: the nine. But can you imagine if someone tried to
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: come out and take him out of that they would
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: have been like, you just looked at him, but now
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: the guy's just handing the ball. Walk off. And Okay,
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: speaking of Pittsburgh, by the way, you ripped the Pirates yesterday.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Everyone does it, you know the Pirates in the I.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: Ripped Pittsburgh specifically, you did?
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: You did. The Pirates and Mariners have the same record.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: It's just the Pirates are in the wrong division. If
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: they're in the West, they'd be tied for first right now,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: they're in the National League Central, so they're ten and
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: eleven and a half games back.
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: But I also feel bad from the entire state of
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: Pennsylvania for having to deal with that geographical matrix that
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: happens when it comes to their sports divisions and conferences.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Well, if you divide him at about the Alleghany Mountains,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: that's where west of the Alleghany Mountains east of Alleghany Mountains.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: You don't have to feel bad for them.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: It's you have that very special.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Different state over there. Yes, when we come back, let's break.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: I was gonna get bring this up, but we'll do
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: it when we come back. About Adam Thielen, at some
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: point in the show, we're gonna tell you about what
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Adam Thlen said about paying with Aaron Rodgers last season
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: at Pittsburgh made me laugh.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: Oh, I can't wait to hear that up.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Next, let's talk about the Mariners multiple measures. Their offense
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: is worse than maybe we even think. And I don't
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: even hate I hate to even bring that up. But also, man,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: are they not baseball smart? We'll talk about that next
• 20:32
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• 20:56
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• 21:06
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• 21:10
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• 21:12
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• 21:20
  Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be France and England. Actually I'm
• 21:22
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• 21:25
  Speaker 4: Oh man, I was going for Argentina. Argentina at a stage.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: At this stage, they've.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Been teetering that would be a semifinal matchup. They're bracketed
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: against each other England and Argentina. France is on the
• 21:36
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• 21:40
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• 21:42
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• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald, the Seahawks coach, was at the US Belgium
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: match Monday night in Seattle. I saw him his five
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: feet from me. We kind of nodded and smiled as
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: he was on the field and the right before the
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: national anthem and he yelled we do not care, and
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: all that stuff got all the crowd as as loud
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: as the crowd got the whole night. After the anthem,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: it was muted.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: I wonder about him too, It's like, hey see, ready
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: for the spotlight that he's in.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: He does not have that persona. He doesn't and he
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: admits that he is not that kind of guy. And yeah,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: he's just he calls himself a nerd. He said, he
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: just wants his iPad and his analytics and film breakdown
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: and spend time with his wife and their young son.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: And yeah, this is all brand new to him. And
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: we asked him about it all the time and he
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: kind of just chuckles, like, yeah, I don't know. The
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmel show he went to right after all that
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: stuff is so not Mike McDonald. Well, as part of
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: that new fame, he is in a lot Lake Tahoe
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: this weekend down in California at the Americans Century Golf Championship.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: It's a celebrity golf championship. Jason Kelcey, Tony Romo, Steph Curry,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Charles Barkley, the whole thing. Oh, I've been there, and
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: I've been to the course, but you've been to the
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: event and it's.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I won as a fan. It's just it
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: is so much fun. That seventeenth hole is out of control.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: The one that has the green in the middle of
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: the water, the middle of the lake there in the
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: island Green.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, and also the three point contest when it
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: comes to a basketball court randomly being planted on a
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: golf course.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Yes, so Mike McDonald is there. He was invited there,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: and that's the show how his star has risen. He
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: was on the Dan Patrick Show, Dan Patrick Smart. He
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: takes his show there because of all these superstars that
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: are there, and he can pluck him off as they're
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: head no golf courts. Well, he plucked off Mike McDonald
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: and McDonald had some interesting things to save one. He's
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: only watched the Super Bowl tape one time. It was
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: the coach's copy, just once since its Super Bowl ended,
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: and he wants he's gonna explain why he wants to
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: watch the television copy. And he also has an interesting
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: explanation for even though he calls himself a nerd, how
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: he balances analytics with how his gut and what his
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: eyes tell him during your.
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: Game, we have a good plan in place to try
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: to make sure we allow this thing to get to
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: a place where we feel good about it. That sounds
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: like part of the guy that's gonna be our starter
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: for I was just say that sounds like she's interested.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: So that's that's what's going on in my mind. Probably
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: twenty four to seven. It's not a good place to be,
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: but uh, I think, I think like you're just starting
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: with data and then to me it's like, well, what's
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: the best decision for the team?
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Is that?
• 24:32
  Speaker 8: It is that where the gut goes?
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: Am I going off my gut? Here is it? How's
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: the game going?
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: You know this?
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: But like people that fight it, I just don't understand, like,
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: just relaxed. Why are you fighting it now? You don't
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: have to do what the numbers said?
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: But we will, we will keep going. I just wanted
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: to get it from the exact right spot.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: So Dan Patrick was talking to him about, Okay, how
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: many times did you watch the Super Bowl? And he
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: expected him to say like fifty times, like it's his
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: favorite rerun, and Mike McDonald said, no, just once. Justin
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: is going to try to find I We just got
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: this right before the show and so we're rolling with it.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: But it's it was surprising to Patrick that McDonald said
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: he's only watched it once and that he also wanted
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: to watch the TV copy. He said he wanted to
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: hear how the commercials and the flow of the game
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: and how they came in and out of commercials because
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: he never gets to watch football games like that. He's
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: always coaching in him. Maybe a Monday night game, but
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: even then he's usually in the office. I think we
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: have the start of the clip that we wanted to
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: air about this. We we have a good plan. We
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: allow this thing to We'll get it for you anyway,
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: that's what he's trying to do.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, well we'll get the whole thing.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: And I do apologize my mouse keeps skipping around during
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: this timing, but we'll get it, and it's it is
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: very interesting.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: What's interesting to me is to contrast how Mike McDonald
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: talks about analytics and how this Mariners obviously use analytics. Now, yes,
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: baseball is much much more of an analytics driven sport,
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: and it's been steeped in for decades, and yes football
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: is a little bit later to it and not nearly
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: as intricate. But if any team is in the analytics,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: it's the Seahawks and Mike McDonald. And when they hired him,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: that was part of the reason they hired him was
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: because of his modern approach specifically to defensive football. But
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: he has all kinds of situational numbers that tell him
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: when an offense is in this formation on this down
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: and distance, their tendency is to do this, so we
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: should be in that. So McDonald talks first about the
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl and how many times he wants to watch it,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: and then he talks about his balance of analytics and
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: his gut feeling as a coach.
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: And you're not gonna believe this.
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: I've watched it once on tape during the draft process,
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: and we still haven't watched the TV copy.
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: So I don't know what's wrong with they or whatever,
• 26:52
  Speaker 8: but we just we haven't.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: So you're worried. There's a different ending here.
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: There is like a I don't know, there's like a
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: just no no pull to do it yet.
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: I think we'll do it before camp starts.
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: But I actually I'm interested to watched the commercials, and
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: I know that's kind of a weird thing. It's like
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: to watch like to have the flow of the game
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: with commercials, and that'll be cool.
• 27:13
  Speaker 9: So but what would you glean from watching the Super Bowl?
• 27:17
  Speaker 9: Like what would you take away by the TV copy? Yeah,
• 27:20
  Speaker 9: that could help you, well, it's going.
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: To be tricky because we start with the Patriots, you know,
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: so I'm like a I'm a psycho edata guy where
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: I need numbers and tendencies and uh, you know, I
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: need you know, like what's the what's the data telling
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: me all the time. So now there's no data, so
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: it's you know, what's going to be their counter to
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: what we did? You know, how do we kind of
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: take the next you know, you know, evolution of what
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: we did and like where we at scheme wise?
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: So it's tricky.
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: Those first games of the year are tricky when it
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: comes to tendencies and how you call games, how you
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: build game plans.
• 27:52
  Speaker 9: When did you lean on analytics? When when did you
• 27:55
  Speaker 9: go all in and say.
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: This, Well, it just it always seemed that it was
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: just just made sense. It's like, why wouldn't we use
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: the best information out there? You know, you don't have
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: to do it, but why would you be scared about
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: things that are gonna possibly help you?
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: So why wouldn't you just lean into it?
• 28:09
  Speaker 9: But if they have the analytics on you, like, don't
• 28:13
  Speaker 9: don't you cancel each other out if you both have
• 28:15
  Speaker 9: the same A Sometimes I.
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: Turn into Vince Vaughan and wedding crashers, like, am I interested?
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: Now I'm not interested?
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Maybe I'm interested now she's interested.
• 28:22
  Speaker 10: You know.
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: So that's that's what's going on in my mind probably
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: twenty four to seven.
• 28:26
  Speaker 8: It's not a good place to be.
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: But I think I think, like you're just starting with
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: data and then to me, it's like, well, what's the
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: best decision for the team?
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: Is that?
• 28:34
  Speaker 8: It is that where the gut goes?
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: You know?
• 28:36
  Speaker 8: Am I going off my gut? Here is it? How's
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: the game going?
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: You know this?
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: But like people that fight it, I just don't understand,
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: like just relaxed. Why are you fighting now? You don't
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: have to do what the numbers said? But but how
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: much is gut? How much was the Super Bowl gut
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: doing something? Or based on analytics? I don't I don't think.
• 28:56
  Speaker 7: I don't think analytics drives our decisions. I think I
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: think they support art decisions. And really it's a starting
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: point on a lot of things. But you have to
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: go off the tape and you have to understand like
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: how teams operate, and you have to have a great
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: feel for your team, you know, when you're building game plans.
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: It's not necessarily just doing it against the team you're playing.
• 29:14
  Speaker 7: You're also trying to put your guys in position to
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: do stuff that they can do well and so and
• 29:19
  Speaker 7: then endgame, you know, like we're just side on fourth down,
• 29:21
  Speaker 7: and you have a game plan going to the game
• 29:23
  Speaker 7: on how we want to handle all those situations, and
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: then you know you have to be able to adjust.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: It's interesting to hear a guy who calls himself a
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: quote I'm a psychodata guy talk about how he relies
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: on his gut and he's on the sideline and he
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: knows what his guys can do. That's his job as
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: a coach to put him in the best possible position
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: to do what they do best. And he relies on
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: that too. So there is a place in analytics, and
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: I'm not some of you on the text line think good,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: I'm just this old guy, yell and get off my lawn.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Sure in baseball too, there's absolutely more than a place
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: in analytics. But it should not be all encompassing the
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: only thing you rely on.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: No, it's not the only thing.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: It should not drive bring up a one thirty five
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: hitter just because he hits right handed, and you just
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: brought in a left handed batter, it shouldn't be well,
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: we can't pitch this guy more than one inning because
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: he threw eight pitches when he sat down for five minutes,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: and now he can't go back out and pitch another inning.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: That's my point is that McDonald is saying, trust your gut.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: I know football, I know my team, I know my players,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: I know what the numbers are telling me. But I
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: also know what my eyes say. And a lot of
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: times he goes to what as I say, and boy,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: that worked out okay last year for the Seahawks. So
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: that was interesting to me that there is a self
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: proclaimed psycho data guy who calls himself a nerd, who
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Devin Witherspoon leefully calls a nerd, who says, I don't
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: rely totally on analytics. We use it as perhaps a
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: starting point or supporting to what we do.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: Supporting, I think, is the proper word for that.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: It would be nice if the baseball team thought that way.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: And it's not to say say that they never ever
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: ever do anything that is not analytics related, but sure
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: as hell, there's some times you make you go, well,
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: what are they doing it for? If it's not why
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: And we were gonna do it this, we'll do it
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: next segment. We'll talk about the why of the Mariners game.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: On top of all the problems they have with their
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: pitching decisions, on top of these rules that limit guys
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: who have to leave the game after eight pitches, on
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: top of the six man rotation, on top of the
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: fact that they can't hit unless they can't score unless
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: they hit home runs. They are a dumb team. They
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: just don't know how to play the game at a
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: major league level, at a minor league level, at an
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: amateur level. They do things we saw two nights ago
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Weston Wilson. We saw it again last night. We're talking
• 31:41
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• 32:05
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• 32:30
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• 32:33
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• 32:36
  Speaker 2: three KJAR at twelve thirty pre game and a one
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: o'clock kickoff of the World Cup Quarterfinals. Hockey has news
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: this morning. There was a new highest paid player in
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: the NHL. He's twenty one years old.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: Leo might to be young again.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Oh can you imagine Leo Carlson center for the Anaheim Ducks.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: The Philadelphia Flyers surprised the Ducks and gave him an
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: offer sheet of ninety million dollars over five years. That's
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: eighteen million a year. Because I got sports writer mass
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: He's made. He just made. He's twenty one years old.
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  Speaker 2: He's just finishing his his entry level contract. He got
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: paid nine hundred and fifty thousand last year. He's going
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: to go from nine hundred and fifty thousand to eighteen
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: million because the Ducks just matched that Flyer's offer. He
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: had sixty seven total points twenty eight goals last year
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: for the Ducks. He's now the highest paid player in
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: the NHL. It's Leo Carlson at five years, ninety million dollars.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: The Ducks are going to match the Flyers offer sheet
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: to keep them, and it's going to cost him a
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: lot to do it. In baseball, I almost shut her
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: to bring up what happened last night with the Mariners.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Thirty three plate appearances, zero runs, five hits in the
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: lost of Miami. Remember that was a converted reliever that
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: was starting last night, went five innings, and three more
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: Marlins relievers shut him down. Marlin's a roll and they've won.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Like I think, it's nine of eleven games now and
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: our eight games over five hundred, Maryors are one game
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: of five hundred, which is just inexplicable with this roster
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: and talent and World Series aspirations. This was the eighth
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: time that Mariners have been shut out ninety three games
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: this season. That's two more times than they were shut
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: out the entire season of one hundred and sixty two
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: last year. So when we think, well this we've seen
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: this for two years, we actually haven't seen it this bad.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: They've been shut out eight times already. Their offensive ranks Jesse,
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: I mean again, this is like raincloud to even bring
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: this up. Since June fifteenth, the Mariners are batting two
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: h nine that's twenty ninth in the major leagues, two
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: ninety three on base percentage twenty fifth in the league,
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: three twenty slugging thirtieth in Baseball. W RC plus is
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: eighty one, that's twenty fifth. They have one hundred and
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: twenty six hits that's thirtieth. Sixteen home runs is thirtieth,
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: sixty two RBIs is thirtieth, nineteen doubles is thirtieth. That's
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: their offense.
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: Woo.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Can you imagine if they didn't have the pitching they'd have,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: they'd be twenty games under five hundred.
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: Its just strikes me so much of so many of
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: the things that we have dealt with with the Mariners
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: over years. Is the pitching is there, and that's what
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: you need, right pitching and defense and that's there, That
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: is there, and that the offense is just it.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: It's so reliant, it's so reliant on the home.
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: It's way too much. And I thought that was going
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: to be an early season problem. I didn't think it
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: was going to last. But the small ball is not there.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: No ball, I mean, they if they don't hit home runs.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: They're done. You can't win a game without scoring a run.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: You can't, no matter how good your pitching is. It
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: just suffice to say so. Remember the other night we
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: saw West and Wilson. He's faster. So let's take dom
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: can Zone out of the game as the ghost runner
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: in the tent thing. Bring in westn Wilson, a triple
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: A player, and he takes off on a groundball a
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: chopper right in front of him, and was thrown out
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: from me to you at third base as the first
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: out of the tenth. They lose the game in the
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: bottom of the tenth. You just cannot afford to not
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: score as a visiting team in the top of an
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: extra any game when you're gifted the runner at second
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: base to begin the inning, yeah, you just have to
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: score there. Yeah, and they didn't because he ran right
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: into the out. Well, then last night happened. Bottom of
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: the night. They get a base on base, so tying
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: runs at the plate in a two nothing game. Top
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: of the ninth. Excuse me, we're in Miami. I don't
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: know why Luke Brayley didn't challenge. They have two challenges
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: entering the ninth part of the reason that it's great
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: to have challenges is so you can use them when
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: the game's on the line. Right, they have two challenges,
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Luke Rayley, there's an obvious ball that the umpire misses.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: It was early in the count, he doesn't call. It,
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: falls behind in the count, he doesn't challenge it, falls
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: behind the count. He strikes out. So now you got
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: two outs and a man on Cole Young who has
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: been the MVP of the team and as you listen
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: to me talk about he's the best player on the team.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: He's been so smart all around player. Hit to the
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: opposite field when you pitches out there, don't try to
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: kill the ball. All of it. Yes, well, even he
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: was stupid last night. Game on the line, to two
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: pitch with the runner at third, you're down by two
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: runs at a minue. You gotta get on base, Coach,
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: you'd love a home run because that's the only way
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: this team scores.
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: But at least get on base.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: So that we can all see on the Marin's TV broadcast,
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: we can see how many challenges they have left. It's
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: just staring at it and the Mariners have to know this.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: You have to know this as a batter in the
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: situation that if it's even come anywhere near, even if
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: it's not closed, maybe if it's piped down the middle,
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: you still challenge it, because hell, what are you gonna
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: do with the two challenges you can well, the pitch
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: is outside. He does not challenge Cole Young could have
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: easily gotten too three and two. Of course we all
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: saw it, and we're all yelling and across the Pacific Northwest.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Use your challenge. He didn't. He just walks away and
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: they lose. Now, we all saw Randy Rose Arena last
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: weekend lose both of the Mariners challenge within the first
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: fourteen pitches of the game. He challenged twice in the
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: same at bat in the first inning, and they were
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: of them. The Dodgers had that happen again last night,
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: same thing in the first inning. A dude two times
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: in the first a bat challenge missed them both challenge over.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: So obviously the Mariners have talked since the euro Rose Arena, Hey,
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: don't be just willy nilly challenging things. It ain't willy
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: nilly when the game's on the line in the ninth
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: inning with two outs and a runner on and you're
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: the tying run. They went into the clubhouse losing the
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: game with those two challenges still in their pocket. They
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: must have eaten it for the postgame meal, because what
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: else would they have done with it? That just lacks that.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: You can say that's coaching. But there needs a high
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: school player if you gave him challenge and knew, and
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: he knew the team had challenges, would challenge that pitch?
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: You wouldn't just know to do it? Did Dan Wilson
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: and Jerry Depoto tell the guys after the e Rose
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: Arena fiasco, don't challenge pitches period, unless we scream from
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: the dugout, which you're not supposed to do. It's supposed
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: to be that.
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: Can actually get you in trouble.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: Correct, It's supposed to be a reflexive, within two seconds
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: decision by batter or the catcher or the pitcher, with
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: no interference or help from anybody. But what else can
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: explain what happened last night at the end, Either they
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: didn't know, which means they are stupider than Rocks, or
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: they knew and have been told not to do it.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: I would choose the latter in that situation.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: Did they tell them not to do it? Like never
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: ever do it is that we have another messaging problem
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: with this leadership.
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: I kind of feel like as soon as these new
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: rules come into play, especially the challenge, which is relatively new,
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: then they're still learning.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: But there were ninety three games into the season, Jessamine,
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: I mean they were doing this in spring training. We're
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: like one hundred and forty games into this if you
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: count spring training.
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: Do you sound exhausted?
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: Well, and that's a great word to use for this, Jessamine.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: If you're a Mariners fan, you are exhausted. And I
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: keep saying this, but you've watched fifty years of some
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: form of this. It's not like, well, there's that World
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Series in nineteen ninety eight, No zero World Series is
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: and in fifty years. So if you're a Mariner fan
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: and you get eight outs from a World Series and
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: you have the team owner and players talking about World
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: Series on opening day, and you have a roster that
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: returns basically intact, not counting Rob Reschneider, we'll call that
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: a minus by addition, but basically intact from last year,
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: especially the pitching staff coming pretty much whole. It's the
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: starting pitcher is definitely whole. It is exhausting to watch
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: this team be one game over five hundred in July. Now,
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: I still say they're gonna win a division. They are
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: because that's how bad the division is. Two. They're gonna
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: win the division in reverse. They're gonna back into it.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: It'd be like winning the Daytona five hundred. Well put
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: in reverse, lightning McQueen limping across without any tires to
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: the finish line. That's the win.
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: That was the solid reference.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Greg, Thank you. I've watched that movie nine hundred times.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: I still watch it as an adults. My kids are
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: twenty three and we all gather to watch it. It's
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: so good. He should have won. They could have gone
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: back and gotten the king after you. But I agree
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: with you, but that wasn't the top kids as good
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: a lessons. What happened. Then that's what the manors are.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: They're jumping on their axles trying. They're gonna get in
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: the playoffs that way.
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, But then they'll get hot.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: Because in a short series with three or four starting
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: pitchers they have, they can win them. They can win
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: a five and a seven game series with the pitching
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: they have, but they can't win and doing what they've
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: done the last two nights on the bases at the
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: plate decisions. Yeah, exhausting is a great word adjustment.
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: Yes, except we still have passion.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: That's gluttony, isn't it glutton for punishment? I think, but
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: we all Yeah.
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: I push all my own bruises.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: They're still going to win the division. They still are.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: Up next, Blake Price from Vancouver talking about the World
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: Cup experience up there. But hear firsthand what they thought
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: of the World Cup. Canada played two matches, just like
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: the United States to play two matches here, the white
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: capped future. The Canucks offseason with the crack and are
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: getting in their new GM. That the Kraken just that
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: the Canucks just fired as their GM. Blake Price is
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: up next twelve thirty. You'll hear the pregame show at
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: one o'clock Fortugal. Excuse me, Morocco against France and the
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: World Cup quarterfinals live on ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Now from the Star Rentals Sports to us your ninety
• 42:21
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• 42:24
  Speaker 2: Good morning, thanks for listening. Headlines brought to you by
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  Speaker 2: Frostbured Corps. I choose chill. Blake Price from Vancouver will
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: join us right after these headlines. Mariners lost again last night,
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: thirty three times of plate, no runs, five total hits
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: against the converted reliever and three other Marlins relievers too
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: nothing loss Seattle one game over five hundred. They played
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: the final of the three game series against the Marlins
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: in Miami three forty today with Bryce Miller on the
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: hill for the Mariners. Carolina Mulkova ended American Coco Gross
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Wimbledon this morning with a three set tiebreaker win at
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: the semifinals of the All England Club outside London. She's
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: the fourth check woman in the last six years to
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: the Wimbledon final. The new highest paid player in the NHL,
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: he's now twenty one year old Leo Carlson. He made
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars last year in his
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: entry level contract. Now he's gonna make eighteen million a
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: year because Anaheim match Philadelphia's wild offer for the twenty
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: one year old center ninety million over five years. The
• 43:20
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• 43:22
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• 43:26
  Speaker 2: pre game show one o'clock kickoff right here on ninety
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: three point three KJARFM. That England Mexico thriller. The other
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: night at Estadio Steca had forty five million people watching
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: between Fox and Telemundo. That's the most watched soccer game ever.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: It's two million more than watched Belgium and US for
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: Monday night. It's on par with the Seahawks Rams NFC
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: championship game back in January. That's how many people watched
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: England and Mexico.
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: Well, let's go, he me, and that's awesome.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: The World Cup was also in Vancouver. Blake Price was
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: in Vancouver. And when I went to Vancouver Thursday night
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: to watch the World Cup between Switzerland and Algeria, I
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: found it to be somewhat underwhelming, and I wrote about
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: that compared to Seattle, and I heard about it from
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: Blake Price, good friend of mine. I'm always on his
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: show up in Vancouver. He joined us on the Beacon
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: plumbing hot on of says securists Price frame up in Vancouver.
• 44:18
  Speaker 11: Hello, sir, we are not friends, not anymore. Not after
• 44:22
  Speaker 11: that article, sir.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: He called it a hit piece. He put it online.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: He trumpeted to all his followers, this is a hit piece,
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: and I got so much gruff from everybody in.
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: BC on Blake, good job, go get.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Them, Blake, for all the years I've come on your
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: show and just gone on and on to the break
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: of dawn about how much I love Whistler and Vancouver.
• 44:41
  Speaker 11: And it betrayl Greg you have You're right, all that
• 44:45
  Speaker 11: is truan, it just felt like betrayal.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: Well, explain to us then, and I did in my
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: story for the News Tribune, try to explain the mitigating
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: circumstances to that game Thursday day after Canada game. I mean,
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: I was supposed to meet Sakaris and Matt just begged
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: out because he a little under the weather the day
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: after Canada Day. But yes, explain to me and everybody
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: what you took in as the scene of the Vancouver
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: World Cup experience.
• 45:10
  Speaker 11: Well, you know, I've been trying to caution every's really
• 45:14
  Speaker 11: proud of the job that we did in Vancouver putting
• 45:16
  Speaker 11: it off, but I've tried not to get to confrontational
• 45:19
  Speaker 11: because I think a lot of the cities have put
• 45:21
  Speaker 11: on great shows that Trott did a good job, you know,
• 45:24
  Speaker 11: in a smaller stadium outlook. Obviously Seattle having the States
• 45:28
  Speaker 11: there on a couple of occasions.
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: Just the fabulous, massive.
• 45:32
  Speaker 11: Humanity at Lumen and great vibes there as well, and
• 45:37
  Speaker 11: even some of the big dogs too in Dallas and
• 45:40
  Speaker 11: so Fi both put on good shows considering you know,
• 45:43
  Speaker 11: what those stadiums look like. It's just a different feel,
• 45:46
  Speaker 11: I think than what we saw at Lumen at at
• 45:48
  Speaker 11: BC Place. But yeah, I think haven't been Olympic hosts
• 45:54
  Speaker 11: sixteen years ago and host the other big events throughout
• 45:58
  Speaker 11: the years has given Vancouver a template on how to
• 46:02
  Speaker 11: put on these big events. As you know, it's a
• 46:04
  Speaker 11: small downtown course, it's pretty walkable. Seattle is fairly walkable,
• 46:08
  Speaker 11: but from the you know, from the you know, say
• 46:11
  Speaker 11: from the West End all the way down to the States.
• 46:12
  Speaker 11: That's a bit of a jaunt in Seattle, Whereas you know,
• 46:15
  Speaker 11: you can pretty much make it anywhere from in the
• 46:17
  Speaker 11: downtown circle of uh it's basically an island. In Vancouver,
• 46:20
  Speaker 11: you can kind of make it everywhere.
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: So I think that adds to some.
• 46:24
  Speaker 11: Of the the walkability and just the ease of putting
• 46:28
  Speaker 11: on an event like this. And hey, both cities have
• 46:31
  Speaker 11: just great backdrops as well, so we we know how
• 46:34
  Speaker 11: to wow the visitors when they come in and get
• 46:36
  Speaker 11: a you know, one week.
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: Glimpse of Seattle or Vancouver.
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: There's no city in the world prettier than Vancouver. I mean,
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: Seattle's close, but man, Vancouver is so beautiful downtown with
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: the mountains in the ocean.
• 46:45
  Speaker 11: If we could scooch the mountains a little closer to
• 46:47
  Speaker 11: the Seattle, you'd have an exact replicant.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: But that's right. Bake BC Place, I know it's older, smaller.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: Fifty two thousand was the capacity for the World Cup.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: I think it's a beautiful place to watch a game,
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: both foot all in soccer in the World Cup. First
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: of all, I wish that the teflon roof was the
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: fabric roof was open, but it was raining in fifty
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: eight degrees fahrenheit that night I was there. But the
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: white Caps are trying to We're gonna talk about the
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: white Caps in second. But the suitability of BC Place
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: and do you find it to be outdated and something
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: that Vancouverites are not proud of or what's the deal
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: on BC Place? Because I really like it. When I
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: go in there.
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: When it's full, it's great.
• 47:29
  Speaker 11: Now they've renovated it a lot, it's still got the
• 47:32
  Speaker 11: old sort of Kingdom bones to it, but it's been
• 47:36
  Speaker 11: fully updated. A lot of concrete still visible, but you know,
• 47:39
  Speaker 11: they put some lipstick on the place and it's totally
• 47:43
  Speaker 11: fine in terms of its modernity. But it's only good
• 47:48
  Speaker 11: when there's thirty thousand more plus thirty thousand plus in
• 47:54
  Speaker 11: the stadium. Anything less than that and it feels empty,
• 47:58
  Speaker 11: even when, as the white Cam to do, they try
• 48:00
  Speaker 11: to just sell the low bowl at the lower bollst
• 48:03
  Speaker 11: twenty seven thousand or so for the white Caps. That
• 48:06
  Speaker 11: looks okay, That looks okay, but you know you can't
• 48:08
  Speaker 11: help but have your eyes go to the massively empty
• 48:12
  Speaker 11: upper deck, you know, and I know that. I think
• 48:14
  Speaker 11: the Sounders do that from time to time, so they
• 48:15
  Speaker 11: know it's going to be a low, low demand match.
• 48:18
  Speaker 11: A little close the upper as well, but you know,
• 48:22
  Speaker 11: if you know you're getting the big crowds. Great for
• 48:24
  Speaker 11: MESSI where the white Caps went on a run the
• 48:26
  Speaker 11: Champions League file, I mean, all that stuff was great,
• 48:29
  Speaker 11: but you know, a Wednesday match versus Minnesota United, you
• 48:33
  Speaker 11: know it would be way better to be in a
• 48:35
  Speaker 11: place like Portland's Providence Park or something like that. You know,
• 48:38
  Speaker 11: like that that is just so much fun quaint, you know.
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: I love that. To me. That's one of the hidden gems.
• 48:45
  Speaker 11: Of MLS is down in Portland there but something cozy,
• 48:48
  Speaker 11: you know, and and something they can sell out and
• 48:51
  Speaker 11: have some modern suite sabil I speaking in Minnesota. I
• 48:55
  Speaker 11: did a game there for Apple TV about a month ago,
• 48:59
  Speaker 11: you know, and it's like a.
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: Mini so far. It's not big, you know, see twenty
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: two thousand.
• 49:04
  Speaker 11: But you know it's it's got all the modern bells
• 49:07
  Speaker 11: and whistles and sweets and all that sort of stuff.
• 49:09
  Speaker 11: And I think the white Caps want in on something
• 49:12
  Speaker 11: like that.
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: Well, Blake Price, who is joining us here, obviously a
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: legendary broadcaster up in Vancouver.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: Jackson the mail for that, Blake Jackson the mail.
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: I didn't write a hit piece yet, so we can
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: still be friends.
• 49:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I wanted to ask about your you know, a
• 49:31
  Speaker 5: personal experience that you've had with the World Cup being here.
• 49:34
  Speaker 5: We've been so blessed with the way that Seattle has
• 49:37
  Speaker 5: shown out and just to go back to what you
• 49:40
  Speaker 5: were saying the white Caps have done, we have seen
• 49:43
  Speaker 5: the Sounders do some similar things where they have covered
• 49:46
  Speaker 5: up the upper bowl and only so the Lower Bowl
• 49:50
  Speaker 5: and the fan hood here for soccer is unbelievable.
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: I want to ask about the international piece of.
• 49:57
  Speaker 5: It, though, because so many people have traveled here, and
• 50:00
  Speaker 5: we've had a wonderful experience with those who have traveled
• 50:04
  Speaker 5: from various different countries here in Seattle, and I'm wondering
• 50:08
  Speaker 5: what it has been like for you up there.
• 50:12
  Speaker 11: Oh, I mean it's I was surprised, you know, I
• 50:16
  Speaker 11: read a lot of the pieces that I'm sure that
• 50:18
  Speaker 11: you two read. You know about you know, tickets unsold
• 50:23
  Speaker 11: and you know, the political boundaries and hurdles for people
• 50:27
  Speaker 11: to travel to the Head States at this time, and
• 50:31
  Speaker 11: I was genuinely curious, slash a little bit worried about.
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: What it would ultimately look like.
• 50:35
  Speaker 11: And and in the end, I mean ten out of ten,
• 50:38
  Speaker 11: almost no notes, you know, really for the way that
• 50:41
  Speaker 11: the tournament itself has has rolled out, it's been a
• 50:44
  Speaker 11: lot of fun. A few speed wobbles or you know,
• 50:47
  Speaker 11: off field incidents and all that sort of stuff. Have
• 50:49
  Speaker 11: I think, you know, they've been hot for a moment,
• 50:51
  Speaker 11: They've had a couple of days aheadlines, but I think
• 50:53
  Speaker 11: we've the matches have ultimately won the day. And seeing
• 50:57
  Speaker 11: the people that ultimately did travel. There was a fair
• 51:00
  Speaker 11: amount of travel here has blown me away. I mean
• 51:04
  Speaker 11: it was little Bogata a couple of days ago. Here
• 51:06
  Speaker 11: in Vancouver for that Round A sixteen match, we were
• 51:10
  Speaker 11: absolutely the yellow Colombian kits were absolutely.
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: Everywhere, and and just the good vibes.
• 51:18
  Speaker 11: He was a little bit more pre knockout stage, like
• 51:21
  Speaker 11: when everybody's in the group stage and you can sort
• 51:23
  Speaker 11: of absorb maybe one loss.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: And you know, you're saying, right, yeah.
• 51:28
  Speaker 11: Exactly, it's a little bit more razor's edge in the
• 51:31
  Speaker 11: knockout stage. But still, I you know, I saw Colombian
• 51:34
  Speaker 11: still with smiles on their faces after the defeat to Switzerland,
• 51:37
  Speaker 11: and I know people were talking about that down in
• 51:39
  Speaker 11: Mexico City, even where for the most part, there's always
• 51:42
  Speaker 11: one bad apple. But you know, the Mexican fans that
• 51:45
  Speaker 11: as Techa were being quite nice, cordial to the English
• 51:47
  Speaker 11: fans who have their own reputation, of course, but you know,
• 51:50
  Speaker 11: it's pretty good loving considering considering how people take this
• 51:54
  Speaker 11: sport seriously around the globe.
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: It could have even been larger in Vancouver, of course,
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: if Canada had not lost to Switch and in the
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: group stage and then their knockout matches would have been
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: in Vancouver. That game I was that Thursday night was
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: supposed to be Canada hosting the ground of Susten Blake.
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: Chris Scarce of Price, a long time Vancouver radio hosts
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: joining us on the Beacon plumbing hotline from BC not
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: the white Caps. When I was up there was talking
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: to Foreign Lawsy, our good friend TSN. What's the future
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: of the white Caps Las Vegas. Somebody gonna snoop scoop
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: them up? An investor from there is the public have
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: an appetite for a new soccer only venue like you mentioned,
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: maybe smaller that doesn't have an empty feel when BC
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: Place is impact. They've got Thomas Mueller. Now, the team
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: has been very good, I mean both in MLS and
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: outside competitions. What do you think as it stands now,
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: it's going to happen to the Caps.
• 52:45
  Speaker 11: It's a complicated set of circumstances here. They've been trying
• 52:49
  Speaker 11: to sell for a couple of years now, and there's
• 52:52
  Speaker 11: been reticence to get a buyer to never mind to
• 52:56
  Speaker 11: the finish line. But even close to the finish line,
• 52:59
  Speaker 11: we're talking with the two differences or some of the
• 53:01
  Speaker 11: differences between Seattle and Vancouver. One of the differences is
• 53:03
  Speaker 11: those beautiful mountains that I said are all scooched up
• 53:05
  Speaker 11: against the city also prevent expansion within the city lands
• 53:10
  Speaker 11: of such a premium because we're sort of wedged in
• 53:12
  Speaker 11: between those mountains and the ocean, and Seattle's got a
• 53:15
  Speaker 11: little bit more flat ground to work with. You know,
• 53:17
  Speaker 11: it's just tough to find spare lots that can fit
• 53:21
  Speaker 11: brand new stadiums. And if you do have a lot
• 53:23
  Speaker 11: that bag, of course it is worth so much money.
• 53:26
  Speaker 11: So the constant of buying the franchise and again the
• 53:30
  Speaker 11: owners want out buying the franchise and then building a stadium,
• 53:34
  Speaker 11: and stadium subsidies are not what they are in Canada
• 53:38
  Speaker 11: to compare to the United States. I've been back to
• 53:40
  Speaker 11: my Minneapolis. Minneapolis has got a separate stadium for every
• 53:43
  Speaker 11: single one of their franchises Basketball, NBA, baseball, football, Like
• 53:47
  Speaker 11: there's stadiums everywhere for goodness sake, and that would never
• 53:50
  Speaker 11: happen in the Canadian city. They're just not going to
• 53:52
  Speaker 11: write those same sort of checks. But we are starting
• 53:54
  Speaker 11: to see some collaborative or some collaboration now with the
• 53:58
  Speaker 11: local indigenous bands and local governments trying to maybe not
• 54:02
  Speaker 11: write a check, but making the atmosphere, the environment, the
• 54:07
  Speaker 11: financial atmosphere that much more conducive to building, you know,
• 54:12
  Speaker 11: whether that's tax concessions.
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: Or what have you.
• 54:15
  Speaker 11: Maybe maybe free land without writing a check, no per se,
• 54:19
  Speaker 11: but actually just saying you can have a one hundred
• 54:22
  Speaker 11: and ninety nine year lease on this land or something
• 54:24
  Speaker 11: to that effect. I'm making that up, but I'm seeing
• 54:26
  Speaker 11: those are the kinds of things you could brainstorm that
• 54:28
  Speaker 11: would make things a little bit easier.
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: So we'll see.
• 54:32
  Speaker 11: I'm hearing murmurs of good news and high level government
• 54:35
  Speaker 11: meetings coming in the next few days. But it's a
• 54:38
  Speaker 11: great it's a great market.
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 54:41
  Speaker 11: I think Vegas deserves a team. A rash Marcesy, the
• 54:45
  Speaker 11: veteran writer from Vegas and Los Angeles, came up and
• 54:50
  Speaker 11: wrote a peace and you know, he's seen it from
• 54:53
  Speaker 11: the Vegas lens, and he said, you know, Vegas deserves
• 54:56
  Speaker 11: a team, like we're ready for a team, but probably
• 54:58
  Speaker 11: shouldn't be this team.
• 55:00
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 55:00
  Speaker 11: I obviously I've got some bias here, but I think
• 55:03
  Speaker 11: that's a good sentim it. I mean, I think Vegas
• 55:06
  Speaker 11: is probably a good market for MLS to be in,
• 55:08
  Speaker 11: but it would be a shame to leave behind a
• 55:11
  Speaker 11: market that has hosted the Olympics, has now you know,
• 55:14
  Speaker 11: blown the doors off the World Cup in terms of
• 55:16
  Speaker 11: hosting PROWSS. It would seem odd for Major League Soccer
• 55:20
  Speaker 11: not to be able to work. So I think it
• 55:23
  Speaker 11: can work. We need some of the corporations. Hey, one
• 55:25
  Speaker 11: of the things we've seen, and I think markets like
• 55:28
  Speaker 11: Seattle and well really all of North America investment from
• 55:32
  Speaker 11: corporations in soccer and the place to be like in
• 55:37
  Speaker 11: a lot of these medium sized markets at the very least,
• 55:40
  Speaker 11: you know, if you've got a business partner or town,
• 55:43
  Speaker 11: you want to take them out of the town, take
• 55:45
  Speaker 11: them to the NFL game, probably take them to the
• 55:46
  Speaker 11: baseball game. So Americana, But you know, has it been
• 55:52
  Speaker 11: in the top of mind for people to take their
• 55:54
  Speaker 11: business lunch or business dinner out to a Major league
• 55:57
  Speaker 11: soccer match? And I think the World Couple really helped that.
• 56:01
  Speaker 11: Attendants has already up since the World Cup got announced.
• 56:03
  Speaker 11: Attendant's up thirty three percent of Major League Soccer. The
• 56:06
  Speaker 11: trajectory is already there for Major League Soccer. But this
• 56:08
  Speaker 11: is a turbo boost, and I can't wait to see
• 56:12
  Speaker 11: what em alass looks like after this World Cup. But
• 56:16
  Speaker 11: in Vancouver and to a degree in place to Lake Seattle,
• 56:19
  Speaker 11: is at the cool spot to bring your date, your
• 56:21
  Speaker 11: business partner or whatever all that, and I think there's
• 56:24
  Speaker 11: a chance the answer is yes, and then we're going
• 56:25
  Speaker 11: to see that investment now in the product that maybe
• 56:29
  Speaker 11: we saw it at a decent level, but not at.
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: An excellent level.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: A cooler spot perhaps lately than the Canucks and a
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: Canucks game would be. You know, you're chuckling, but I
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: have to ask you. Were you laughing when the crack
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: and hired Patrick Alvin as an assistant GM and vice
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: president last month after you and Vancouver the Canucks fired
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: him out of town in April.
• 56:51
  Speaker 10: No, I think that's his slot.
• 56:52
  Speaker 11: He's not a bad guy by any starts of the imagination,
• 56:55
  Speaker 11: and he's got a hockey intelligence as well. So but
• 56:59
  Speaker 11: you know, some assists and coaches, some defensive coordinators Gregor
• 57:03
  Speaker 11: meant to be just that and not meant to have
• 57:05
  Speaker 11: the big whistles and to be in charge. I think
• 57:07
  Speaker 11: Patrick Alvin might be that kind of a guy that's
• 57:10
  Speaker 11: that's not embarrassing.
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: That's not bad.
• 57:12
  Speaker 11: I just I don't see him as having sort of
• 57:14
  Speaker 11: the vision and the moxie to be in the big chair.
• 57:18
  Speaker 11: But I think he could be fabulous in that role
• 57:20
  Speaker 11: for the Seattle Crackins. What about the Canucks? Where do
• 57:22
  Speaker 11: they go from here? It's that franchise. I mean, we've
• 57:27
  Speaker 11: talked to you and I we Matt have talked about it.
• 57:29
  Speaker 11: But where do they go from here? After just a
• 57:31
  Speaker 11: bottoming out of a season? I mean they are in
• 57:37
  Speaker 11: the bottom on purpose though you know you you if
• 57:39
  Speaker 11: you're going to get there, you better get there on
• 57:41
  Speaker 11: purpose because if you if things have gone so wrong
• 57:43
  Speaker 11: that you end up at the bottom and you didn't
• 57:45
  Speaker 11: want to be there, my goodness, that's when it hits
• 57:47
  Speaker 11: the fan. But they wanted to be there, it was intentional.
• 57:50
  Speaker 11: I think they would like to see some trying this
• 57:53
  Speaker 11: season do what you know, say a Chicago did this year.
• 57:57
  Speaker 11: They showed well in full about Christmas time and then
• 58:01
  Speaker 11: made a couple moves and said okay, we're out again
• 58:03
  Speaker 11: and sunk back to the bottom. I think a trajectory
• 58:05
  Speaker 11: like that for the Connects is sort of what they
• 58:07
  Speaker 11: would like to see. You see some young players put
• 58:09
  Speaker 11: up some numbers and show some traction in their careers
• 58:12
  Speaker 11: till about January sell off, some veterans sink back down
• 58:15
  Speaker 11: into a good NHL draft lottery spot. But you know
• 58:19
  Speaker 11: there's going to be a couple of years of that,
• 58:21
  Speaker 11: and then the drafts over the next couple of years
• 58:22
  Speaker 11: look pretty decent. If they can stay on the podium
• 58:25
  Speaker 11: in terms of top three draft picks, they'll be just fine.
• 58:29
  Speaker 11: But this is the first time they've done this. Willingly
• 58:30
  Speaker 11: gone to the bottom to you know, burn it to
• 58:33
  Speaker 11: the ground, build the foundation and rise back up. And
• 58:37
  Speaker 11: everybody's just hoping that the right people are on the
• 58:39
  Speaker 11: job for it. And they've got a lot of green
• 58:41
  Speaker 11: bodies and the management chairs now x you know, Conuck
• 58:45
  Speaker 11: Royalty in the Sideen Twins, Ryan Johnson a former Knuck
• 58:48
  Speaker 11: in the general manager's chair. But they've never had these gigs,
• 58:50
  Speaker 11: so we'll see if they've if they've got the the
• 58:54
  Speaker 11: the right stuff to make it work.
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: How's that work? Brian Johnson's a GM. But the sadines
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: are what the president of Hockey operator who's got the
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: final say and the siting's really running it.
• 59:06
  Speaker 11: The Sitding Twins have the final say, but the work's
• 59:09
  Speaker 11: being done by Ryan Johnson, I think, you know. And
• 59:12
  Speaker 11: he's been in management now for a while as an AGM,
• 59:15
  Speaker 11: and he was in charge of the Ahl franchise as well,
• 59:18
  Speaker 11: so he's got the management chops whereas the Sedens do not.
• 59:22
  Speaker 11: But they've got very good instincts. They You know how
• 59:25
  Speaker 11: we always say culture starts at the very top. Well,
• 59:27
  Speaker 11: usually we mean ownership as well. Ownership has its own
• 59:32
  Speaker 11: issues here in Vancouver, but the Citing Twins are top
• 59:35
  Speaker 11: of the top in terms of character. So there's a
• 59:38
  Speaker 11: hope that they become a sort of muffler, if you will,
• 59:41
  Speaker 11: from whatever might be coming from ownership, and they create
• 59:44
  Speaker 11: a false peak at least of good culture running down
• 59:47
  Speaker 11: from them at the very least Scan Chean's the owner.
• 59:49
  Speaker 11: That's pretty tough to do, but you put those two
• 59:52
  Speaker 11: guys in place at president and maybe that culture shift
• 59:55
  Speaker 11: starts to happen within the organization as well.
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the owner. We don't have enough time to
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: even talk about there before before I let you go
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: on the text line. I won't be able to answer
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: this in the next segment. You would the four two
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: five ass would Vancouver redevelop the sites that old Empire
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: swang are maybe even move down to Richmond or Delta
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: for a new soccer only stadium.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 11: No, I would say the answer is no for pretty
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 11: much all that. I was okay with that that Empire site,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 11: but from what I understand geologically, there's even some issues
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 11: there with you know, underground streams and it just could
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 11: get messy, and that's you know, they can't really afford
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 11: to do messy right now. They need a little more
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 11: plug and play. So and then going into the burbs, uh,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 11: probably not. The demographics of the White Capstans are pretty urban.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 11: They're the what we used to call the skinny jeans,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 11: beard wearing folk, you know, Portland alone there and so
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 11: uh you know, those are the people that use trans
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 11: that want to close to the transit lines and all.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 11: So being more urban is probably the best way to go.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 11: There's been some talk for those that have visited Vancouver
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 11: going to Kitslando sort of the beach area, which is
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 11: still stone's throw from the downtown course so that's not
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 11: the end of the.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: World, but.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 11: But that's that would be a waterfront lot potentially there
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 11: as well. But I think something near what we call
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 11: skytrain the subway lines here, I think would be pretty critical.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: Blake, happy, hikin. Enjoy the rest of your summer. It's
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: fun to have switch rolls and I'm asking you questions
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: for a change that was neat so Hi, I like it.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: Hi to'm man, everybody you know where to find me.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: Thanks man, a pleasure. Thank guys.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: Blake Price, he insecures Matt secure's secure some Price show
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: an institution up in Vancouver sports radio. Now they're on
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: a live streaming. I'm on the show all the time
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: at talks Seahawks and I end up talking about it.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 4: I think he's a new friend of the show.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: He's great. Yeah, Matt, Matt too. Every time Matt's down
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: or anywhere near here, he calls me, we go out.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: I go up there the same thing. I go out
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: with Matt and Blake, and I've been invited to their
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: hockey shows and their hockey parties they had for the
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: Four Nations Cup. Yeah, he's the longtime friends.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 4: We like to make friends here at this station.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: We do. But thanks four to five for that, because
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: I could not have answered the redevelopment site for potential
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: new White Cap Stadium, So thank you for asking it.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: In real time, so we could ask Blake when we
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: come back, your chance to be a part of the show.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: We'll read back more of those texts, including a lot
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: of them talking about the Mariners, and not a lot
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: of them are good unfortunately. Yeah, they're still in first place.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 4: I do want to say that we should continue to mention.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: That your text. Up next twelve thirty, we're going to
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: go to the pregame show live for the one o'clock
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: match of the World Cup quarterfinals between France and Morocco
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: will be live here on ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 12: They probably will win the division, but then what they
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 12: hang another banner made out of army blankets. And when
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 12: we talk about analytics, you know what analytics show that
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 12: they will never win the World.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 8: Series the last fifty years.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 12: That's your analytics, and what they sucker you in with
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 12: a plastic ferry boat and a filet of fish sandwich.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: Please out.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 13: I'm almost at that point to where I just don't
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 13: care anymore about the Seattle Mariners really and truthfully, it's
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 13: just frustrating. It's aggravating year after year, the excuses, the
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 13: marine layer, the lack of hitting, the bad coaching, I
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 13: cannot wait for Seahawks football really quickly.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 5: There's still first place I will I will say that,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 5: I mean, and then even our dismayed listener who's sent
• 1:04:08
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• 1:04:10
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• 1:04:14
  Speaker 4: Of course, they're going to win the division, and then
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 4: you're still mad.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm of the belief that they win the division,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: get in the playoffs. With their pitching staff, they're okay,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: they'll be okay. I don't know if they'll go to
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: the World Series. They do need to hit, and you
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: need to score to do that, yes, but yeah, if
• 1:04:35
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  Speaker 2: Dodge two five three. I went to the game last
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: Tuesday when they scored eight runs without a home run. Yeah,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: that was the first time in four years they did that.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: I was so optimate. Did they finally figured out to
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: win without the long ball? Optimistic? And Mariners should have
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: known better after fifty years. Can we get Mike McDonald
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: the manager manage the Mariners?
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 4: Wouldn't that be a fun little switcher rue that we
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 4: could do.
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  Speaker 2: He was a high school middle infielder and oh he
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: knows Georgia, he knows baseball. Yeah, he said he was
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: too short, not athletic enough to play, but he also
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: was a safety and running back in football, and he
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: was neither big or fast to do that even.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, Yeah, I would just go to the website
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 5: how many two bays dot com and just see what
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 5: you can do at maybe a considered undersize size three successes.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: Every KJR host keeps saying the M's are gonna win
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: the division and flip the switch in the playoffs. I
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: must be watching a different Mariners game than you. Horrible managing,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: bad defense, and no clutch hitting isn't a recipe for
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: playoff baseball. The thing is that the division is so
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: bad that they're good. Like I said, like McQueen cross backwards.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: They are going to win a division almost by default,
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: almost in spite of themselves, almost despite themselves. Yeah, two
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: eight reading off Mariners stats at MLB tell me why
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: we should expect this team to be a World Series contender.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: Another season of Lucy moving the football for Charlie Brown,
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: same old Mariners.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 5: It is the one thing I would take away the
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 5: second talkback that we got is that it unfortunately people
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 5: are getting to apathy and that's the opposite of love,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 5: and I am worried for that to happen for this team.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: But they're still filling the park, they're still making money.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: The attendance is up over last year. Were darn, you're
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: sold out for the I know the Blue Jays are
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: in town and there were BC Canadian folks coming down.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 4: But I was there for one of those games though,
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 4: and it was the majority Mariners.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: It wasn't it wasn't the takeover.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 4: No, it was not the game that I went to.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: So, I mean, they're hot in this thing where they're
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: making money. They're not having to pay the luxury tax
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: because they're not spending enough on their payroll, and they're
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: winning just enough to be in hell, they're in first place. Yes,
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: the division is horrible, they're one game over five hundred,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: but they still are in first place, so the games
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: will mean something in August and September, so the yard
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: will be full. As a business model, it's working. It
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: drives people crazy, the fifty four percent, all of it.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: But as a business model, they're keeping their costs lower
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: by not paying on the payroll as high as some clubs.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: They're in the middle. They're not paying the luxury tax
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: because they're not above that threat. In fact, they are
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: receiving luxury tax revenue. That's how Major League Baseball revenue
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: sharing works. If you go above the luxury tax, every
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: team that doesn't pay the tax gets luxury tax money
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: from the Dodgers and the Yankees and the Cubs and
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: the Red Sox. That's where they are. So as a
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: business proposition, it's working. As a fan proposition, it is
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: frustrating as hell because you see what the potential is
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: in what Yeah, they're making money, so spend it on bat.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah they're making money, get a reliever, or we could
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: count it right.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 5: And and that is also another thing that I don't
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 5: think was so accessible during our time growing up in
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 5: baseball fanhood was the financials, and now everyone can know
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 5: about it. I will say, though, to the first tokback
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 5: person that those ferry boats.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: Are adorable, and I think twenty bucks or so. I
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: don't know they were.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 4: They ran out when I was so I couldn't get one.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 5: But also, yeah, your fish filet or chicken tenders and
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 5: fries whatever you get in them.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 4: And then also then it's a fun piece.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: The Mariners are averaging thirty four thousand, five hundred and
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: thirty two people per game per game with their twenty
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: dollars beers and their fifty dollars parking, and per game
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: they're getting thirty four thousand, five.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 4: Hundred, So it's an investment for a.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: Fan that's ten in the major leagues, tenth out of
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: thirty teams.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 4: And then there what were you what was the payroll again?
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: Sorry, middle of the pack. They're about I think it's
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: fifteenth out of thirty teen.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 5: But tenth and revenue tenth and attendance, oh, attendance. The revenue, well,
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 5: I would just assume revenue.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: Well, not exactly, but yes, we did, Chris and I
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: did the revenue piece at the beginning of the season.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: I can't remember where they were, but they were in
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: the top half if I'm not mistaken. In local revenue yeah,
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: but they're right behind Atlanta, who's just rolling. They want
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: a few hundred people fewer per game in Atlanta. They're
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: head of Boston. This is a smaller park, Fenway Parks
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: thirty four thousand. Yeah, yeah, so a suth that it's
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: only going to get them thirty four thousand. But they're
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: they're ahead of Milwaukee, who's just rolling. Another great season
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: for the Brewers. They they draw more than Milwaukee, they
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: draw more than Houston, they draw more than Texas, they
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: draw more than Saint Louis, who's been down in recent years.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: Didn't draw way more than Detroit or Cincinnati, or Cleveland
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: or Chicago, and the White Sox. It is the top
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: ten if you're curious. The top teams in average attendance.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: The Dodgers are averaging fifty thousand per game, seven hundred
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: per game. San Diego forty one thousand. That's almost capacity
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: in their yard. The Yankees average over forty thousand a game.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: Soto's Toronto, Philadelphia average thirty nine to three, San Francisco
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: thirty six to nine. The Mets, as bad as they are,
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: average thirty six to three. Then the Cubs and Wrigley
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: Field of thirty five three, which is about capacity there,
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: the Atlanta thirty four to nine, and then Seattle thirty
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: four to five. So as a business proposition, it's working
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: the fireworks nights, the Bobbleheads, the fifty four.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 4: They do an amazing job.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: No nights, no they Going to a ballgame is great,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: and there is a large segment of the population who
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: go to the game to for a night out at
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: the yard under the stars, in a beautiful park, in
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: a beautiful city, in a beautiful summer.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 5: Stars aren't even out at this point this summer at
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 5: the end of a game because.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: The Mariners don't score runs. The Mariners games last two
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: hours and it's still whiteout when the games. That's a phenomenon.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 5: Okay, but even a three hour game, you're still watching
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 5: the sunset and it's beautiful.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty cool to go if you haven't done it.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: If you're in the third deck of T Mobile Park,
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: Oh and the infant, just walk out behind you around
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: sunset and watch the sunset over Elliott Bay from the
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: back of the third deck. It's pretty amazing.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 5: I had my cousin from Texas here this past week
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 5: and she and I went to a game last Thursday,
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 5: actually a week ago, and she couldn't believe it. We
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 5: watched Humpy, we were all rooting for Humpy, and then
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 5: the way the meritors won that game was on a
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 5: basis loaded walks.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: Seepy Humpy and the ferry boats and all that stuff
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: that drives the baseball fan crazy. That people love that
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: and they come to that, and it doesn't entice the
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: ownership to spend more money on the payroll because they're
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: making money over what they're doing.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 4: That's very fair. That is very fair, and it is
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 4: a good complaint.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 5: I'm just saying that whatever they do off the baseball
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 5: side is pretty fun.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: It's working. Analytics don't drive our decisions. Analytics can support
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: our decisions. Mike drop from Mike McDonald wow. Ms take
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: a hit, Eric and kitsep County. Thank you. Eric. I'm
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: two five three. I'm fifty nine. I was a good athlete,
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: played soccer, wrestling in baseball. I also went camping, hiking, hunting,
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: played in the dirt, put off a ton of fireworks,
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: and worked a job. Kids need to be kids. It's
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: a shames what happened to youth sports today.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 4: It is well put Yeah, I'm singing it with my
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 4: niece and nephew, both of them. My niece is nine.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: When we come back, we usually go to Ian Feriness,
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: but he is off today because we're going straight up
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: to the World Cup at twelve thirties. Next, we're going
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: to talk about another reminder, how football ruins the lives
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: of quality, a life of many, many, many NFL players.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: There's more scientific evidence about that. We'll talk about that next.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: And there's a retreat going on in the mountains of
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: Idaho that could affect the Seahawks sale. Coming up on
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: ninety three point three KJRFF. Welcome back, Greg VALVN. Justin
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: McIntyre with you until twelve thirty, taking you right up
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: to pregame of the World Cup quarterfinal match between France,
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: an overwhelming favorite to win the tournament, against Morocco, a
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: rugged team. It's going to be tough. It's not gonna
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: be a walk for France. I don't think outside Boston.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: I want to clock kickoff right here on ninety three
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: threeo point three KJRFM. In the NFL, A study released
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: yesterday from Mass General Brigham Hospital in Boston and the
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: Concussion in CTE Foundation that's in Boston. They studied the
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: twenty thousand deaths of NFL players of all causes, and
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: they found that the NFL players are dying of dementia,
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: in Parkinson's disease, neuro degenerative diseases three to four times
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: more often than the general population. That's alarming, to say
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: the least. This goes back to players really want to
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: get all they can when they can in the NFL
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: because it's a not guaranteed league. The contracts are not
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: fully guaranteed like they are in Major League Baseball. We've
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: talked about this so many times. Baseball, you could hit
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: one fifty, but if you signed a contract you hit
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: one thirty five Refs Diner, You're getting paid six point
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: two five million this year guaranteed because that's what the
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: Mariners signed you to. Not so in football, and not
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: everything is guaranteed beyond year you're in. And even sometimes
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: if you don't have tenure in the league three or
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: fewer seasons, even the year you're in is not guaranteed.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: So they when you see them haggling over guaranteed money,
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: and why isn't Witherspoon signed yet? And those guys are
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: trying to get all the guaranteed cash up front they
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: could possibly get.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 4: It is a short NFL life average, so three.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: Less than three years three point two actually is the
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: average for all positions. Running back the least the fewest years.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: Average lifespan of just under three years two point eight
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: for running backs. So you won't know why Kenneth Walker
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: left for Kansas City because they offered him tons more money.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: You get it when you can, because then it stops,
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: and when it stops, your quality of life often goes
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: way way down. And just even small things like forgetting things,
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: or mobility issues or can't get out of bed or
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: I know a lot of NFL players I've covered over
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: the last quarter century who are in that situation, maybe
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: not CTE point of being really debilitated and dangerous to
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: themselves or others, but totally affected. Now there are, of course,
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: many others who aren't. And we'll see him at the
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: celebrity golf down in Tahoe and Tony Romo and those
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: guys that look like they're just fine.
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 4: But even then, even if you see them being just fine,
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 4: they not be just fine.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: Twenty thirty years from now, right and the story of
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: Mike Webster living homeless and can't keep a job and
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: ends up killing himself. And there's stories of all the
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: junior SEAU and anyway, those are all the neuro degenerative issues.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: I say anyway very dismissively. I didn't mean to do that.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: I meant moving on. Those are the neurodegenerative issues that
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: the Concussion and CTE Clinic that Chris, doctor Chris Nowiskey
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: has headed up in Boston is really trying to champion
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: the awareness of that. They're trying to get the NFL
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: to be way better at their settlements or payments to
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: players in alumni, former players well after they're done playing,
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: and not just concussion settlements that law lawyer and courts
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: cases have forced the NFL to do, but real true payments,
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: quality of life payments to help these players get the
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: right medical care and support that they need. The CBA
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: one of the many things that the CBA that the
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: veteran players did not like on the CBA signed that
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: the NFL signed with its union in twenty twenty was
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 2: the lack of better health care and funding for former
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: players after they're done playing. But I've talked about this.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: The NFL split the union and raised the minimum salary
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: quite substantially, and the rank and file of the union,
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: sixty plus percent make around that minimum and they love
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: the fact they're now making three quarters of a million
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: minimum instead of four hundred thousand. So they took the
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: deal because they're sixty percent of the union and the
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: rest of the veterans are wait, wait, wait, whoa, whoa
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: what about Roger Goodells is lord like authority to give
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: discipline at any point for anything they're consistent with law
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: or the overarching the drug testing policies and the after
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: you're done playing payment and pensions and healthcare, what about
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: those issues? While the rank and file they just wanted
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: the minimum salary raise.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 5: Well, I feel like that's the dichotomy of the union
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 5: when it comes to the younger players who you know,
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 5: want their voice heard, and the veterans who are actually
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 5: making the votes. And I've heard that from several players
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 5: who have been on both sides, right, and it's difficult.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 5: What is the majority of what we want right now?
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: And that's the difficulty of having a union that represents
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: all players, regardless of their status, because if most players
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: are making that lower rung of money, that's what they
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: care about most what's the minimum salary. Oh, you're going
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: to raise me from four hundred thousand and seven, and
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: that's great, I'll sign it. We ratified, right.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 5: I think that's why we have an eighteen game season
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 5: this year. But you can smoke pot, you know, And
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 5: that wasn't the thing. But both of those things were
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 5: voted on at the same time.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: Well, they still test during the season.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 4: They oh a lot of coorse yes, but but no, it.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: Base to do the same thing. Baseball's trying to split
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: the union and raise the minimum salary, so they'll get
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: a vote in a salary cap that. We'll see how
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: successful that goes. That Baseball's a whole nother matter. Also
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: in the NFL, Forbes magazine published this week a story
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: about this Allen and Company is it's a New York
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: boutique financial institution in New York. They are the company
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: that the Paul Allen Trust has hired to run the
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: sale of the Seahawks. I think there's a misnomer, a
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: misunderstanding out there that when people saw Allen and Company
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: was the banking company that was going to run the
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: Seahawks sale, they thought that was an arm of Paul Allen. Right,
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: it would make sense. Yeah, No, it's separate. Allen and
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: Company would just be like Chase or any Barclays or whatever.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: They are a bank, essentially, a banking institution, a boutique
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: one out of New York. Well, they're running the Seahawks
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: sale well. Also, Allen and Company each summer has a
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: summer camp for billionaires in Sun Valley, Idaho. Zuckerman's there,
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: sucker Berg's there, Danny the CEO of Amazon is there.
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  Speaker 2: Bezos is there. I don't know if you could take
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  Speaker 2: a yacht to Sun Valley. That might be a little difficult.
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  Speaker 4: It fit through the you know up here in balance
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  Speaker 4: through the lock.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it will fit through the creeks
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  Speaker 2: that run through the Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple's there.
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  Speaker 2: Roger Goodell is there. In fact, all the commissioners of
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: the major sports. Adam Silver is there, Gary Bettman, the
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: NHL NBA commission Adam Silver. But Roger Goodell is there.
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  Speaker 2: You know who else is there? Burt Cold. Burt Cold
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  Speaker 2: is the second in charge of the Seahawks. He's the
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  Speaker 2: vice chair of the Paul G. Allen Trust. He is
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: often the one who deals with league issues for Jodie Allen,
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: and some believe we'll have a large, large say in
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  Speaker 2: the sale of the Seahawks. So the Commissioner's there, Burt
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  Speaker 2: Cold is there, and a bunch of billionaires are there,
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  Speaker 2: some of them have been rumored to potentially be interested
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: in buying the Seahawks. Now, the ones that are three,
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 2: the three parties including Wayne Grossbeck and mattal of Indian
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  Speaker 2: Steel tycoon family, and the Celtics investors are not there.
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  Speaker 2: The San Francisco forty nine ers minority investor is not there.
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  Speaker 2: That's already been known to be interested in the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 2: So the ones that we know about are not at
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  Speaker 2: this but the ones that no one has reported it
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  Speaker 2: yet to be interested in, the billionaires galore are there anyway.
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  Speaker 2: The company that I'm just putting it out there, I
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 2: saw Bob condona see how Times wrote about this yesterday
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: about the Forbes story about this too. But it's interesting
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: that Burke Cold was invited. It is Round and Company
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: taking care of a client that they that has hired
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: them to run the sale of the Seahawks. Up next,
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  Speaker 2: Nico Moreno is gonna talk about the World Cup. You
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: guys wanted them gals wanted them back on the text
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  Speaker 2: line because that's been such a great guest for US.
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  Speaker 2: Ask and you shall receive next on ninety three point
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  Speaker 2: three KJRFM. Creig bel Jessin McIntyre staying with you. You
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 2: normally you get Ian Furness right now, but we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: take you. Greg and Jess been taking you right up
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  Speaker 2: to the kickoff of the World Cup quarterfinal France and
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  Speaker 2: Morocco at twelve thirty pre game one o'clock kickoff right
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  Speaker 2: here on ninety three point three KJRFM. This part of
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  Speaker 2: that is Nico Moreno. Nico Moreno's a World Cup annos
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  Speaker 2: for Fox thirteen Seattle for mlsespianol sounder at heart. He's
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  Speaker 2: been with me in the stadium for all of the
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 2: Seattle matches. He was with me at Jimmy's on first
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  Speaker 2: before the US Belgium match on Monday, and then at
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  Speaker 2: halftime of the match he texted me. He was across
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  Speaker 2: the press box from and he texted me and he said,
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  Speaker 2: this is the most intense collective play I've seen from
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  Speaker 2: Belgium the whole tournament. He and I had watched Belgium.
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  Speaker 2: That was the third time because they had two earlier
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  Speaker 2: matches in Seattle and their training station was here, and
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  Speaker 2: Nico said that he thought it was the bulletin board
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  Speaker 2: material from the Balligan controversy and that inspired Belgium. Do
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  Speaker 2: you think that might have been the decisive difference in
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  Speaker 2: the game? Hello, Nico, Hey, what's going on? Greg?
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  Speaker 10: Happy to be on. I just think it's a contributing factor,
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  Speaker 10: and I think it was a big one. Anyone that
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  Speaker 10: looks upon the situation and watches that game and completely
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  Speaker 10: dismisses the fact that this team was so motivated to
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 10: the point that they had a synchronized dance ready to
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  Speaker 10: go at a moment's notice just tells you that they
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 10: were thinking about it. Of course, that was part of
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  Speaker 10: everything that happened. Of Course, the coute Rudyi Gercia was
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 10: going to use it to his advantage were the other factors. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 10: I think Rudi Garcia picks up the line up that
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  Speaker 10: he wanted. I thought that he had the right idea
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  Speaker 10: in terms of what he wanted to see from his team.
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  Speaker 10: But he was absolutely a motivating factor. As a matter
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  Speaker 10: of fact, to me, it was a perfect storm that created,
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  Speaker 10: on one side a motive in factor for Belgium that
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  Speaker 10: united a team that at one point was at each
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  Speaker 10: other's throat against set a goal, and on the other end,
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  Speaker 10: I can't decipher. I can't find the answer of why
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  Speaker 10: this USB national team was so flat, so uninspiring to
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  Speaker 10: start a game. So I have to try to guess
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  Speaker 10: that maybe the distractions from all this were part of it.
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  Speaker 10: Maybe there was a different game plan tactic that then
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  Speaker 10: went wait from when they figured out that Florin Baligan
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  Speaker 10: was going to be available. I don't want to make
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  Speaker 10: too much of it, but there's no doubt in my
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  Speaker 10: mind that it was a contributing factor.
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  Speaker 2: Nico, How damning is it that the United States was
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  Speaker 2: absolutely dominated in the first half and into the second.
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  Speaker 2: It was eleven shots for Belgium in the first half,
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  Speaker 2: which is more than the four opponents the US had
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  Speaker 2: up to that point combined in the first half of
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  Speaker 2: four matches up to that point, and it was then
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  Speaker 2: three to one in the second half without de Bruyn
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  Speaker 2: or even getting off of the bench taking off his sweatsuit,
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  Speaker 2: with Lukaku only coming on midway through the second half,
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  Speaker 2: Doku coming on midway through second that's three and the
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  Speaker 2: best way that's the best goalscorer Belgium's ever had in Lukaku,
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  Speaker 2: the best player they've ever had, and then me, the
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 2: best passer in the tournament. I think you told me
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  Speaker 2: and the coach thought. The head coach for Belgium thought,
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  Speaker 2: I don't even need to start these three cats and
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  Speaker 2: I'll still dominate the US and it worked.
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  Speaker 10: I really do think that that was a great move
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  Speaker 10: from Rudy Garcia, specifically because I thought that Lui Bacchio
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 10: really did a phenomenal job on his end to just
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  Speaker 10: open up space for Cyprus to come in at the
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 10: fullback and create a real open lane and allow him
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 10: to continuously add into the attack. Created some real difficult
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 10: overloads for the US men's national team, and the press
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  Speaker 10: thing was so much better. The pressing was a key component.
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  Speaker 10: They saw a nick in the armor of is US's
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  Speaker 10: national team and they went for it. The team was
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  Speaker 10: so much more intense, and that that part of it
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 10: is some of the substitutions that Ririgarcia decided to make,
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 10: and then he had those guys to come in as
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  Speaker 10: spark plugs later in the game, which was just a
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  Speaker 10: good strategy. But overall it was you got to credit
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 10: the opposition, but you have to look at this in
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 10: international team and say, look, this was a shell of
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  Speaker 10: the team that we've seen throughout this tournament, and they
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  Speaker 10: just didn't want it. It's just not about the soccer.
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  Speaker 10: When you get outplayed outformed, out, hustled outdouled out of
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  Speaker 10: your own idiom, it's beyond soccer. There was something else.
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  Speaker 10: There was a mental block, whether it was nervousism or
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 10: the fact that this team was actually gonna come at you.
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  Speaker 10: Look here in this same show, I said, the United
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  Speaker 10: States has to come out of from the eight and
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  Speaker 10: take the game away from got a game possession, and
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 10: they didn't do that. And a lot of that also
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 10: has to do with your top players not being ready
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  Speaker 10: for top moments, and that's just what happens. Policy was bad,
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  Speaker 10: mckncie was bad. Team Brian was awful. I mean, it
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 10: was just such a mountain of mistakes that there was
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 10: something else beyond just soccer.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think that the United States men's program is
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  Speaker 2: as far away from the world's elite as it looked
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  Speaker 2: Monday night?
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  Speaker 10: No, I do not, And that's part of you know,
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 10: pondering upon the tournament is just having a cooler head.
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  Speaker 10: I was very critical and fairly critical of the team
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 10: right after the game in my postgame UH talk with
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  Speaker 10: Q thirteen. But now that I've had a couple of
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  Speaker 10: days to kind of think about it, there were objectives
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  Speaker 10: that were reached. This did make a country fall in
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  Speaker 10: love with him. They did make a country believe this
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  Speaker 10: is the most goald Di scored in the World Cup.
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  Speaker 10: This is as exciting and entertaining as they've been in
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  Speaker 10: a very long time.
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  Speaker 2: They did win their group.
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  Speaker 10: So there were objectives that were reached, and that's why
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  Speaker 10: I don't think that what happened on this particular game
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  Speaker 10: should erase everything that they were able to do. It
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  Speaker 10: feels like the team digressed, absolutely, it feels like it
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 10: took three steps back. The reality is that you have
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 10: created at least a group of players that can continue
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 10: to follow the exact same system. Now, whether Patchettino stays
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 10: or goes, I think that's all part of this. I
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 10: would like to see him say, because I feel like
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  Speaker 10: you got to build on this and not try to
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 10: change it up. And you know it's going to be
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 10: difficult because he's going to have a lot of offers,
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 10: of course, but if you can keep them. I think
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 10: you continue to build on what you have and what
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  Speaker 10: you did in twenty That's.
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  Speaker 2: A great point because Pochettino came in midstream of this
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 2: World Cup cycle leading into this tournament, and he would
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 2: get four years to develop and build on what he's
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 2: already done. When he was asked after the match in
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 2: the postgame press conference, for those of you not knowing,
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 2: he was about out, ask are you coming back? And
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 2: he said, well, this isn't the moment to talk about that,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm sure in a few weeks we'll have the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity and we can talk. And if the federation wants
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 2: me to talk, he said, so he's first the end
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 2: of the federation is even interested in bringing them back.
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 2: I would think they would be, and you're right, that
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  Speaker 2: would be a long way. It's some continuity at least,
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 2: and how they play, their mentality and the whole system.
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  Speaker 2: Nico Marino joining US Fox thirteen World Cup sports analysts
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 2: as well from MS Espanol and Sounder at Heart. I
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  Speaker 2: want to bring up something we've talked about all week
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 2: on the show here, the system at large, the feeder
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 2: system for the program in the United States. You know,
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 2: soccer at its grassroots level. You love it here, you
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 2: know everyone in the soccer community here. My opinion's broken.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 2: I want to know if you share that opinion. The
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 2: pay for play system in this country, how do we
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  Speaker 2: fix it? How do we make it more like the
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 2: Europeans and the South Americans and so exlalitarian and the
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 2: fact that anyone and everyone can put play from any
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 2: background in other countries but not so here.
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  Speaker 10: Look, as I've mentioned on your show before, I think
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 10: that the pay for play is here to stay. I
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 10: do think that there has to be a bigger commitment
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 10: from US Soccer to establish some additional academies. I have
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 10: heard some of my peers talk about an open pyramid
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 10: system where there is some pro rail, some relegation and
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 10: promotion in different divisions that would incentivize smaller investments for
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 10: CD clubs and city academies, and you can create like
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  Speaker 10: you see in Liverpool where you have you know, like
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 10: thirty thirty three forty academies around the cities, because that's
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 10: just how much of the different divisions that you can
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 10: put into.
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  Speaker 2: So that's all part of it.
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  Speaker 10: But I really continue to think that because soccer is
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 10: so young, for lack of a better word, in the
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 10: global aspect, right, MLS is one of the youngest leagues
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 10: in the planet. I think that they have made some
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 10: pretty big strides and they got to continue to keep
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 10: that momentum. But they have to start to understand and
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 10: figure out additional ways to get more soccer around the
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 10: global scale of the United States in general. And I
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 10: think that's going to be the next for US Soccer
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 10: to really work closely with MLS and the academies and
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 10: next Pro and all of these other components and tentacles
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 10: and layers that goes into soccer in order to really
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 10: having a bigger seedar system around the United States.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Nico Marino joining us here on the Beacon
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  Speaker 2: Plumbing hotline right before are broadcast here on ninety three
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  Speaker 2: point three KJRFM of France and Morocco in the first
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 2: World Cup quarterfinal kickoffs at one twelve thirty pre game
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  Speaker 2: show right here on ninety three point three. What do
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  Speaker 2: you think happens today? Nico, the French have been until
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  Speaker 2: the last match unchallenged, and then they had a little
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 2: bit of trouble getting out of the round of sixteen,
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: or though they won, can anyone beat them.
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  Speaker 10: I can't fathom. And I mean France has been the
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  Speaker 10: one team that has played, as advertised the licks in
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  Speaker 10: a tier of their own, better than anybody Spain or
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 10: Brazil or Norway. I mean, nobody has gotten closed throughout
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 10: this tournament. That has been Askinson and but pay has
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 10: seven goals in his last five matches. France or what
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 10: three or more goals in four of their five World
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 10: Cup matches. I mean they have been on real They're
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 10: so balanced and middled with Cody and Rabia, they are
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 10: big size and when it comes to markup in defensive efforts,
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 10: they're so good with Slavia and Abakan in the back end.
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  Speaker 10: So they're just almost the full perfect team. And their
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 10: debties are still coming off the bench. And they are
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 10: a group that has been together for a long time.
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 10: They have had a process with their coach that's twenty twelve,
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  Speaker 10: I'm not mistaken. So they have absolutely everything to.
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  Speaker 3: Win this now.
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  Speaker 10: I think Morocco can do some things. I really do
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 10: think that they're going to be able to at least
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 10: for the first forty five minutes. This should be entertaining game.
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 10: I love what Brahen Diaz and Hakimi do with overloads
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 10: on the right side. I like what I see from Bono,
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 10: just a really difficult goalkeeper to try to beat. Diop
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 10: has been phenomenon in defense, so I think that they
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  Speaker 10: are going to make it interesting. But once France gets
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 10: going later in the second half, there's gonna be relentless
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 10: and I think they're gonna end up having a pretty
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  Speaker 10: comfortable win over Morocco.
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  Speaker 2: France Morocco one o'clock clive here on ninety three point
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  Speaker 2: three KJRFM in the World Cup quarterfinals from Foxboro, Massachusetts
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow at noon here on ninety three point three KJRFM.
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  Speaker 2: Spain and Belgium will play in Inglewood in the quarterfinal
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  Speaker 2: of the bracket. That's the opposite France, Monico, What is
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  Speaker 2: there anything that's gonna prevent I know we saw Belgium
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 2: at its best the other night, but is there anything
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 2: that's gonna prevent a Spain France semifinal in your mind?
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  Speaker 3: Nico, Uh?
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  Speaker 10: Maybe? I really do think that ed Rudy Garcia has
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 10: kind of found the rhythm with this players, and Lucaku
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 10: has been the perfect super subba they call it in soccer,
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 10: coming up the bench and scoring. I think that the
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 10: fact that Chersika Talare, a guy that you've been waiting
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 10: to break through, had a braz against the United States.
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  Speaker 10: Adds a different component of finishing, which is something that
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 10: Belgium has lacked in Spain. On the other end, as
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 10: good as they have been in this rock up defensively
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 10: because they have six consecutive clean sheets, meaning that they
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 10: haven't conceded any goals, they have lacked some scoring and
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 10: you got the ball in the back of the Look,
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 10: believe me, I'm still hurting because Columbia could not put
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 10: the ball. And Spain is similar in that regard, where
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 10: there is all of this firepower and Almo and Lamil
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 10: Jamal is such a good layer and he creates, but
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 10: there hasn't been an ability to just finish and score,
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 10: with the exception of maybe the Saudi Arabia game and
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 10: the Austria game that I was laid in the game
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 10: as well. So that could be a component where if
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 10: Belgium continues to run hard, if they have been unified,
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 10: cemented by everything that's happened, and now they get on
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 10: a run, yeah, I mean, they definitely have a puncher's
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 10: chance against Spain.
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  Speaker 2: All right. In the minute we have left Niko. The
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  Speaker 2: other side of the bracket Norway England Saturday in Miami, Argentina,
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 2: Switzerland and Kansas City. What happens those two and who
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 2: goes through?
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  Speaker 10: I love that game. I mean that that is probably
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 10: the more exciting game because you're going to have this
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 10: additional physicality, this speed to the game, this contrast of
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 10: stylistic play. Both are indirect, but you have the star
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 10: power in Holland, who you know is up there for
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 10: the Golden boot of the tournament. He has been on
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 10: real just looks like a character out of like the
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 10: House of Dragons. I mean just walking around like a
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 10: sword in his hand. I mean he's been phenomenal. Harry
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 10: Kane's tearing have found his way. I think Gordon for
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 10: England has been phenomenal, so it's going to be a
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 10: very good game. I do see England, though, beating this
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 10: team in Norway because I think that they have been
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 10: challenged farther. They have had to really dig deep and
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 10: at times absorbed pressure. You saw it against Mexico with
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 10: everything against them, and they were able to really put
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 10: it together. I think decln Rice has been really good,
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 10: but mainly a Bellingham he is the guy that should
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  Speaker 10: all work. He's the one that puts it all together.
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  Speaker 10: Now there is a key component here which is going
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  Speaker 10: to be interesting because actually there are four players for
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  Speaker 10: England that have that are one yellow away from not
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  Speaker 10: being able to participate in the semi final. Rice Bellingham,
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  Speaker 10: Joey or really all those guys are going to be,
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  Speaker 10: you know, in some difficulties if they get a yellow.
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  Speaker 10: All of that's going to come together. But I think
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  Speaker 10: we have a real fun game and I think that
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  Speaker 10: England wined three goals to one.
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  Speaker 2: Nico Moreno, appreciate you man, enjoy the World Cup as always.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks a lot. Thank you, Nico Moreno. Leading up to
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  Speaker 2: the World Cup, well now we got France and Morocco live,
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  Speaker 2: the pregame show, the National Iret pregame show from Anderson
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  Speaker 2: Hurst and Danny Jackson is next, and then one o'clock
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  Speaker 2: kickoff from Foxboro, Massachusetts, Greg Bell, Jessin McIntyre. Thanks, we'll
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  Speaker 2: do it again tomorrow. Leading into another World Cup quarterfinal.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a lot of soccer coming up all weekend
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  Speaker 2: on ninety three point three KJRFM