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10-8 H1: What's On Tap, Niners Injuries & Huskies · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Hey, great morning to you. Welcome into the radio program
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  Speaker 1: that is Chuck in the Morning. Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Chuck Powell. Anders Hurst is here. So
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  Speaker 1: is Christopher Kidd. We've got you for the next four
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  Speaker 1: hours on this Thursday edition of Chuck in the Mornings,
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  Speaker 1: which will include a roundtable, a brand new game that
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  Speaker 1: we're breaking out today here on the radio program. I've
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  Speaker 1: missed games. They are back here. Games and fun, Anders.
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  Speaker 1: Sports and games and fun and drafts and stuff. That's
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  Speaker 1: what makes the world go round. It really does.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, like, where would we be just by talking
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  Speaker 2: over and over about sports again?
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  Speaker 1: If they would in Congress, you know, maybe play more games.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like right in the middle of big You know, argument,
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  Speaker 1: political argument. They just, you know, play a little connect for.
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  Speaker 1: That's perfect. You know, something like that. Boy, we would
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  Speaker 1: really lighten this person's mood.
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  Speaker 4: While someone's filibustering so we don't waste some time here.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on? Like a game alarm goes off.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, hey, hey, hey. Pause. Let's put a pin in that. Everybody,
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  Speaker 1: let's play some Scattergories real quick. Scattergories. Choose up teams.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Choose up teams. Make sure you're all not a Republican
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  Speaker 1: team and a Democrat team. Let's mix it up. Let's
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  Speaker 1: mix it up. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: People you don't normally.
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  Speaker 1: Reach across the aisle. Get some icebreakers going. Right, right.
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  Speaker 4: Team bonding.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure you're not just strong at sports and nothing else. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure you got a team that can cover all
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  Speaker 1: the areas here. Yeah. Well, anyway, great morning to you all.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be fun here today, and so we
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  Speaker 1: get started on this Thursday. And I will tell you this,
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  Speaker 1: it's not any normal Thursday for us. We've got a
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  Speaker 1: casino night tonight. We're going to Tulalip Resort Casino this evening.
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  Speaker 1: So we do our show here from the studio, and
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  Speaker 1: then we're done with the studio for the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the week. Anders and I are heading out to Tulalip
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  Speaker 1: Resort Casino. We're going to go check out Hugh Millen's
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  Speaker 1: Chalk Talk session tonight. From 5 to 7, if you
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  Speaker 1: have not heard about this, for a lot of you,
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  Speaker 1: you've heard Hugh Millen's analysis for, what, a quarter century
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  Speaker 1: on this radio station? Well, imagine what he can do
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  Speaker 1: if he doesn't have to rely on your mind's eye.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine if he has actual visuals. He can show you
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  Speaker 1: plays and break them down in front of you. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of people have asked for this over the years.
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  Speaker 1: I know he's done it a couple of times, but
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  Speaker 1: it's been a while since he's done it. And so
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  Speaker 1: tonight at Tulalip Resort Casino, starting at 5 o'clock, and
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  Speaker 1: who knows how long Hugh will go, Uh, he's going
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  Speaker 1: to have a chalk talk session. It is free to
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  Speaker 1: the public. Anybody can join. Anybody can come. Um, we do,
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  Speaker 1: we would like for you to let us know in advance.
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  Speaker 1: If you're interested right now, four, nine, four, five, one,
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  Speaker 1: send us a text saying, oh man, yes, I want
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  Speaker 1: to come to that. Um, and then we'll just reserve
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  Speaker 1: for you some seats. Um, so that's how the operation's
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  Speaker 1: going to work tonight. And then tomorrow, Anders and I
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  Speaker 1: will be doing the show along with you from Tulalip
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  Speaker 1: Resort Casino. So our Friday show will be from the
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  Speaker 1: casino as well, which means get ready for Friday. Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 1: Because none of us are planning on being sober Friday morning. Yep.
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  Speaker 4: Or have any sleep the night before.
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  Speaker 1: Anders, you're the only one with hair, so I'll hold
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  Speaker 1: your hair tonight if it comes to it.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds good. Sounds good. Well, we'll see how that works out.
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  Speaker 2: I think my wife's coming with our eight-month-old. Well, I'll
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  Speaker 2: hold her hair, and she can hold your hair.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go.
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  Speaker 4: It's like a train.
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  Speaker 1: And then Hugh can take care of the baby. Yeah, oh, perfect.
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  Speaker 4: That's exactly my plan of attack.
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  Speaker 1: He's got that cushiony life. He just needs to be
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  Speaker 1: the babysitter tonight.
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  Speaker 4: He's raised two kids.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you and I, we work hard every day. Seriously. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so we need a break.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe Hugh can break down film with Austin.
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  Speaker 1: He probably will. He probably will. But I lived in Vegas,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so I lived in Vegas for seven years
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  Speaker 1: of my life.
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  Speaker 4: You know what this is about.
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  Speaker 1: I know what a casino night is all about, so
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  Speaker 1: this should be fun.
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  Speaker 2: You might have to show me the ropes. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: super experienced in this aspect of life.
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  Speaker 1: You know what's funny, though, that when I lived in Vegas,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't drink at all. Really? Yeah, didn't drink at all.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't drink for my 31st birthday.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: It was the first drink I ever had. So when
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  Speaker 1: I lived in Vegas in my 20s... Never had it.
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  Speaker 1: Still went out all the time. We would get done.
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  Speaker 1: I did my show out of the Mandalay Bay, out
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  Speaker 1: of the MGM Grand in the earlier years. But when
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  Speaker 1: we opened the Mandalay Bay and then my producer and
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  Speaker 1: I would hit the town and drive home at sunrise. Perfect.
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  Speaker 1: That's the way. That's the way it worked for a
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  Speaker 1: number of years in my life. That's how you do Vegas, though, right? Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of how it goes. We're not doing that tonight. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: sounds good. Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and snuff
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  Speaker 1: that out. If you're thinking that sounds fun, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: You'll have to do that with your wife or child.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds good. Maybe you can talk you into it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a guy with two thumbs that ain't doing it,
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  Speaker 1: and it's this guy.
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  Speaker 4: Another guy with two thumbs that probably is not doing
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  Speaker 4: it as well. It's this guy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it'll be fun. Obviously, Tulalip Resort Casino, I
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  Speaker 1: know my way around that, so we'll hit a couple restaurants.
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  Speaker 1: Rock and roll? Yeah, probably have a couple drinks, but
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  Speaker 1: mostly just soak in the Hugh Millen atmosphere. Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: can't wait. I can't wait.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you guys have heard of segments, I'm sure,
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  Speaker 2: a bunch. You know, it is like it's fantastic information
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  Speaker 2: and it is like he makes it such a good
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  Speaker 2: informational session where you can follow it in your mind's eye,
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  Speaker 2: as you like to say. But having a visual while
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  Speaker 2: he's kind of demonstrating kind of what he does when
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  Speaker 2: he breaks down film, because he every single morning before
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  Speaker 2: Monday morning quarterback, he wakes up at 4 a.m. to
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  Speaker 2: get the get the all 22 film and get every
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  Speaker 2: single play of the Seahawks game and more. So if
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  Speaker 2: you want to see what that looks like, please come
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  Speaker 2: and join us this evening, 5 o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Tulalip Casino.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be a good time. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: I know how young people are. I don't care how
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  Speaker 1: much he begs. Austin, I'm not going to the strip club.
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  Speaker 1: It's not me that's asking. Okay. It's not me. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So don't even start.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. All right. Sounds good. Yeah. All right. You're six
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  Speaker 1: months old. Uh, let's talk about, um, well, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we've got a lot of football to discuss here today, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's Thursday. We're getting ready for the biggest
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  Speaker 1: game of the year. So we've got our 12th man
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  Speaker 1: round table. We've got some other things, uh, to talk about, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Huskies playing on a Friday night. We got softy on
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  Speaker 1: the show today. So there's, there's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: lot of football and yet I kind of want to
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  Speaker 1: start with baseball. Um, and certainly from a local perspective, um,
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  Speaker 1: kind of running it through the filter of what we're
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  Speaker 1: watching unfold. Because what we're watching unfold is actually rather fascinating.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, Major League Baseball has three teams that have
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  Speaker 1: punched their tickets into the final four of the Major
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  Speaker 1: League Baseball playoffs, and a fourth could join them tonight.
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  Speaker 1: And eventually will, no matter what, by the latest Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: There's the Los Angeles Dodgers. who are the extreme outlier,
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  Speaker 1: because not only do they have the top payroll in baseball,
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  Speaker 1: they cheat. I mean, we have figured out that they
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  Speaker 1: don't have the money to pay the players that they've
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  Speaker 1: deferred payments to. And so it's one thing that baseball
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  Speaker 1: is going to try to wrestle to the ground this offseason,
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  Speaker 1: and it's probably going to cost us half of our
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball season because of things like this. And
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  Speaker 1: then you have the other three teams. You've got the
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee Brewers. who have punched their ticket to the Final Four.
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  Speaker 1: Had the best record in Major League Baseball this year.
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  Speaker 4: For the second straight year.
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  Speaker 1: With the 19th highest payroll in the sport. And then
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  Speaker 1: you've got the Tampa Bay Rays, who also punched their
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  Speaker 1: ticket with the 28th highest payroll. In other words, the
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  Speaker 1: third lowest payroll in the entire sport. And if you're wondering, well,
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  Speaker 1: the White Sox and Guardians will balance that out. No,
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  Speaker 1: they won't. Because the White Sox have the 27th payroll,
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  Speaker 1: and the Guardians have the 29th payroll. And so, as
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  Speaker 1: we are thinking about the future of this sport, few
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  Speaker 1: things come to mind. I'll start with this, but there
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  Speaker 1: are two big topics here. I'll just start with the
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  Speaker 1: fact that baseball is going to try and sell a
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  Speaker 1: salary cap next year. And they have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: evidence to support how much this sport needs a salary cap.
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  Speaker 1: And as I have stressed over and over and over,
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  Speaker 1: I really don't think it is about competitive balance. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think that's the biggest issue at hand. I think
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  Speaker 1: the biggest issue at hand with Major League Baseball needing
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  Speaker 1: a salary cap is the perception of fans that think,
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  Speaker 1: and this is in every single market that's not New
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  Speaker 1: York or Los Angeles. And even New York complains about it.
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  Speaker 1: The Yankees complain about the Mets. Yankees fans think the
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  Speaker 1: Mets have unfair advantages the angels don't think they have
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  Speaker 1: a chance against the dodgers chicago fans oh poor small market.
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  Speaker 4: Chicago yeah right the third largest market.
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  Speaker 1: They have a perception problem in this sports because and
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  Speaker 1: maybe those are extreme examples new york chicago keep them
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  Speaker 1: out of it 20 major league cities believe they don't
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  Speaker 1: have a chance. 90% of the fans at 20 of
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  Speaker 1: 30 major league cities don't think that they have a chance,
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  Speaker 1: that it is an unfair landscape. And that hurts baseball's
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  Speaker 1: bottom line. Hugh Millen has come on these airwaves. He
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  Speaker 1: was there when the National Football League negotiated its collective
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  Speaker 1: bargaining agreement that actually brought into the system the salary
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  Speaker 1: cap and revenue sharing. And they believe me, They didn't
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  Speaker 1: do it to cut the owners a break. They did
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  Speaker 1: it because they thought this would grow the game to
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  Speaker 1: stimulate fans in every city to think they have a
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  Speaker 1: chance of winning every year. It will make the sport
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  Speaker 1: more popular. Once the sport becomes more popular, that attendance
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  Speaker 1: goes up, television ratings go up, suddenly you're getting a
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  Speaker 1: bigger piece of the television pie. And now what you
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  Speaker 1: are divvying up is larger than what you had to
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  Speaker 1: start with. Major League Baseball players probably aren't going to
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  Speaker 1: get out of their own way. Their league has never
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  Speaker 1: budged on this and has swore to God on high
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  Speaker 1: that they are not going to budge on this. But
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  Speaker 1: I do believe that there is a very good argument
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  Speaker 1: for the players and the benefit of the sport and
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  Speaker 1: the league to give in on this, to give in.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason is because we have three out of
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  Speaker 1: four teams in the bottom half of the payroll that
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  Speaker 1: have made the Final Four in Major League Baseball, and
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  Speaker 1: yet still 90% of baseball fans in America think their
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  Speaker 1: team doesn't have a chance because of the unfair financial
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  Speaker 1: situation that exists.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the pro, no, I guess the anti-salary cap people,
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  Speaker 2: whether that is the MLB Players Association or A lot
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  Speaker 2: of the national media that likes to kind of talk
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  Speaker 2: down to fans saying that, oh, you don't know. The
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  Speaker 2: Dodgers just are better at it than everyone else. No,
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  Speaker 2: they cheat. Guys, let's be completely honest. Thanks, Jeff Passan
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  Speaker 2: for that one.
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  Speaker 1: And I like Jeff. I like Jeff too. But he's
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  Speaker 1: wrong on that. Yeah, 100%.
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  Speaker 2: And they'll take this evidence that you're saying, three out
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  Speaker 2: of the four teams that will be in the championship
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  Speaker 2: series and say, hey, look, you don't need a salary
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  Speaker 2: cap because the small market teams can win.
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  Speaker 1: You are absolutely right. So here's Eric. Rob Manfred on
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  Speaker 1: the verge of his biggest moment. I mean, he's been
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  Speaker 1: on a bit of a roll, too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he has.
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  Speaker 1: As a commissioner. And here is his biggest moment. This
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  Speaker 1: is the last thing he wants to do for the sport,
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  Speaker 1: is to get a salary cap like the NFL has.
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  Speaker 1: The very healthy, financially healthy NFL, NBA, NHL. Everybody's got
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  Speaker 1: a salary cap. He doesn't have a salary cap. He
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  Speaker 1: wants to break the union. He wants to force a
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  Speaker 1: salary cap. And so here he is with this mountain
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  Speaker 1: of evidence that is at his back. Like if he's
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  Speaker 1: in a sailboat, he's had a lot of wind at
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  Speaker 1: his sails with so much information that he's getting able
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  Speaker 1: to present. And then what happens? The last playoff, before
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  Speaker 1: he sits down at the negotiating table, three of the
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  Speaker 1: four bottom payroll teams in the sport are going to
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  Speaker 1: make it to the final four. And you're right. The
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  Speaker 1: Players Association are going to jump all over this. See,
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  Speaker 1: that's perfectly fine. The small market teams have just as
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  Speaker 1: good a chance. Look at that. 75% of the teams
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  Speaker 1: are small market teams that made it into the Final Four.
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  Speaker 1: What do you got to argue about? Bad timing. It's just.
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  Speaker 4: But what you said earlier about.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't why they need the salary cap.
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  Speaker 1: It isn't.
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  Speaker 4: Competitive balance is not.
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  Speaker 1: Actually.
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  Speaker 2: Major League Baseball, I did some research going into the
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  Speaker 2: 2026 season, so through the 2025 season of all the
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  Speaker 2: major sports. Major League Baseball has had the most different
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  Speaker 2: playoff teams. They've had the most different championship contestants out
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  Speaker 2: of all the four major sports in the last 10 years.
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  Speaker 2: And the most different champions. out of the last 10 years.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're talking competitive balance, major league baseball is
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  Speaker 2: as just as has just.
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  Speaker 4: As much parody as the NFL, if not more.
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  Speaker 1: In some ways it does just what you said. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Hugh Millen came on our airwaves not long ago, and
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  Speaker 1: he did a mathematical breakdown. And certainly the Dodgers, Yankees,
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  Speaker 1: and other teams get in the playoffs more frequently.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 4: You can splice it different ways.
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  Speaker 1: And that's their advantage. The big market clubs just have
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  Speaker 1: such a financial advantage that they get into the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: more frequently. But the truth of the matter is, a
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  Speaker 1: greater variance of teams make it into the playoffs from
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  Speaker 1: year to year in baseball than do the national football league.
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  Speaker 1: It's true. And a greater variance of champions end up
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  Speaker 1: winning the entire title than what we see in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: In the National Football League, you're operating under the same rules,
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  Speaker 1: and whoever can abide by those rules and perform by
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  Speaker 1: those rules best tends to build a team that wins
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  Speaker 1: for a decade, decade and a half. If they've got
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  Speaker 1: the right quarterback, they use the salary cap the right way,
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  Speaker 1: they've tabbed the right coach. I mean, let's face it.
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs have been really good for a long
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  Speaker 1: period of time since Patrick Mahomes came into the league.
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  Speaker 4: Patriots before them.
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  Speaker 1: The New England Patriots built a dynasty. There are a
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  Speaker 1: lot more dynasties or dynasty-like teams in the National Football
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  Speaker 1: League than there have been in baseball. And baseball is
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  Speaker 1: the system that is supposed to be unfair to the
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  Speaker 1: small market clubs. So there are two ways to slice
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  Speaker 1: this thing for sure. But the fact that so many
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  Speaker 1: fans use... The discrepancy as a reason to hate baseball
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  Speaker 1: or to lash out at baseball or to not watch baseball,
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  Speaker 1: especially national games. I mean, baseball fans won't watch national
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  Speaker 1: baseball because they perceive that the Dodgers and Yankees who
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  Speaker 1: are there. Well, why would I watch that? We can't
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  Speaker 1: be them. Yeah, exactly. And so it does hurt baseball's
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  Speaker 1: bottom line. So that to me is what needs to
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  Speaker 1: get fixed by baseball. If they want a healthier, more
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  Speaker 1: robust product is that they do need a salary cap,
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  Speaker 1: but not for the reasons that so many people think
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  Speaker 1: they need a salary cap. I've been telling you for years,
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  Speaker 1: the Mariners, yes, I would love for them to have
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  Speaker 1: a higher payroll. We all would. Who wouldn't like that
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  Speaker 1: surprise signing in the offseason? Oh, my gosh. We got
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  Speaker 1: Juan Soto. They are really going for it. They're never
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  Speaker 1: going to do that. Not under the current rules. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: with new rules, that's going to change. With revenue sharing
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  Speaker 1: and everybody spending. Maybe that will change with new rules. Should.
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  Speaker 1: That's the idea behind it anyway. Exactly. So that should change.
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  Speaker 1: But the truth of the matter is, the Mariners didn't
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  Speaker 1: fail to make the playoffs this year because they didn't
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  Speaker 1: spend enough. That is a lazy argument. That's a lazy narrative.
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  Speaker 1: It is. And I'm not defending ownership spending. They should
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  Speaker 1: spend more. I can't make that clearer. But our payroll,
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  Speaker 1: very clearly, is not the reason that the Mariners didn't
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  Speaker 1: make the playoffs when you have three out of the
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  Speaker 1: four Final Four teams who spent money. Less, and two
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  Speaker 1: of them considerably less.
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  Speaker 2: By a lot more. And you're on the spectrum of,
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: you know, pro-Jerry, anti-Jerry. You are a very heavy Jerry defender.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: I'm more Jerry defender.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: And this would indict him on that even more, but
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: it's because of, you know, how you spend the money.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: But obviously there's other factors than how you put the
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: team together, all the coaching staff.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: This team had enough talent. Yeah, of course. I mean,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: I'm going to keep defending.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: We'll find out definitively next year. Yeah. If it's the wrong,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: if the roster's wrong. Yeah. We'll find out next year.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: If the culture was wrong, and that really does land
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: on Dan Wilson, certainly lands at Jerry and Justin's feet, too.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Of course, yeah. But I think at Dan Wilson, the
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: coaching staff, if they just, there wasn't enough accountability, there
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: wasn't enough tough love.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: A different voice coming in would change that, right? If
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: they bounce back next year, you know it was a
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: culture thing.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And that they're going to have to reset the culture. Yeah. Okay?
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: If they don't win again next year... then you know
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: that it was a roster thing and Jerry and Justin
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: have to go. And I would love for them to
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: spend more money. But the truth of the matter is
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: this team had the talent. I think Jerry and Justin
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: did the job to put together a roster worthy of
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: making it to the playoffs minimum.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: Of course.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Going into this season. And then they just played horribly.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: Horribly.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: And I blame the players first. Yep. I blame management
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: slash coaches or manager slash coaches second. That's my pecking
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: order for it all. But we'll know for sure. We'll
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: know for sure in 2027. But this final four is
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: not a great argument for those that just believe we
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: don't make the playoffs because we don't spend enough. Yeah,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I completely agree. All right, let's find out what's on
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• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Dodgers brewers rays advance in the major league baseball playoffs
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: so only one spot left the cleveland guardians will be
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: in chicago tonight to take on the white socks at
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: five o'clock the white socks still lead that series two
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: games to one and still have a chance to end
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: one of the longest droughts in sports 126 years since
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: they've clenched a playoff series at home. That's so cool.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: Good for their fans. Isn't that crazy?
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Good for their fans. That's unbelievable, and yet they might
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: not do it.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: They might.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Guardians stayed alive last night. We'll see what they do
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: tonight at 5 o'clock. WNBA playoffs last night. Man, we're
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: going to see some new blood, it's looking like, in
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: the WNBA finals. Both the Las Vegas Aces and New
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: York Liberty are down 2-0. Will we see the Atlanta
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Dream play? And the Golden State Valkyries in the WNBA
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Finals this year, it is certainly leaning that way heavily.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Kraken won't play until tomorrow night. They'll be in Detroit.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Probably go by Everett Fitzhugh's home, you know, sit on
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: his childhood bed. Look at all of his Steve Eizerman posters.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: It's a field trip for the team. Yeah, it'll be
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: fun for the whole group. Cracking at Detroit. That'll be Friday.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Also Friday, Huskies taking on Iowa. That's right, Friday night affair.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: The Hawkeyes coming into town. We'll talk to Softee today
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: at 725. Alabama, Georgia still on as of now. We
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: haven't had a weather report in a while, but there
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: is a chance that the game of the week could
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: be postponed because of extreme weather. Tonight, no chance this
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: game will get wiped out by the weather. The Dallas
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Cowboys will be home. Taking on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Mike Sando joins us every Thursday at 9.30. We'll also
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: play some Factor Fiction at 7.35. And, of course, our
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: primary focus today will be Seahawks 49ers. They play Sunday afternoon.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Seahawks had a closed-door meeting. The defense called by the
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: defensive deacons, if you will. Jaron Reed, Leonard Williams, Julian Love.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: The older players telling them no more stupid penalties. We'll
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: see if that has an effect. Also, Leonard Williams, we
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: saw video of him running across the field looking just
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: perfectly fine. His gait looked fine. I think we need him.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: I think we need him on Sunday. So it looks
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: like he is going to play. But the 49ers are
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: a little banged up. Nothing new there. And one player
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: is going to be out for this game that maybe
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: you don't think is all that big a deal. but
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: football people certainly do. We'll talk about that next. Sports
• 21:55
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• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Chuck Powell, Anders Hurst, and Christopher Kidd with you here
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: on this Thursday before the Seahawks matchup against the undefeated
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: San Francisco 49ers. Oh my gosh, there's two things that
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: you can just count on for this Sunday's game. Number one,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: this is going to be one hell of a battle
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: that's going to get a lot of people's attention. And
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: number two, Hugh Millen will mispronounce Kyle Juszczyk's name 44
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: times between now and today.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Exactly 44, because that's his number. In honor of Kyle Juszczyk,
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: I will mispronounce his name 44 times.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: No more, no less. Well, actually, this guy's getting a
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: lot of attention right now for his unavailability. Yep. For
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: this Sunday. And there aren't a lot of teams still
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: to this day that really use the fullback a lot.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Seahawks certainly have used it more in the Mike McDonald era,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: but even we don't use it to the effectiveness that
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: the San Francisco 49ers do or to the amount that
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: the San Francisco 49ers do. I mean, he's on the
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: field a lot.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: And he is the best at it right now in
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: the modern game. So for him to not play this Sunday,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: and he has been ruled out for this Sunday, this
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: is a big deal in this upcoming game. Yeah, I think.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: And they use him differently than any team uses fullbacks.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: I was watching the first couple games of the Giants season,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: that Patrick Ricard, he's just a bowling ball that runs
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: straight into the line. And Paves the way for Cam
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Scadaboo with the physicality. Juszczyk can do that, obviously, but
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: they use him kind of more like an H-back out
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: of the backfield. He can catch passes. He can kind
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: of get in the screen game with blocking and all
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: that stuff. He's such a Swiss Army knife and a
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: perfect Kyle Shanahan weapon that, like, of all the injuries
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: the Niners have right now, I think... It's probably Nick
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Bosa and then Juszczyk, number two, that's the most important
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: guy that's out for the San Francisco 49ers coming into
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: this game. So that's how big of an impact I
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: believe he has on this team.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't know how productive or how much
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: the 49ers have been able to even rely on Bosa
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: here recently. I think there might be an argument in
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: San Francisco circles that this is the bigger loss. I mean,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: when you run as much of your offense with a fullback,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan has said, We're still going to use the fullback.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: They're probably going to take a tight end. And he'll
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: know the offense. Tongus.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Tongus!
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. Tungus, as we call him. Always raiding
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: the AM-PM pantry. And also outleaping Reek Woolen for touchdowns.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: It's weird how that works. Don't remind me. But we're
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: going to probably see him, and he'll know the offense.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: But I don't think that the 49ers are going to
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: spend the week changing the way that they operate their offense.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: They're just going to accept the fact that we're going
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: to have a major piece that's not going to be
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: as good as what we normally have, and we'll make
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: the best out of it. Hawk blogger is great, Brian Nemhauser.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: We love Hawk Blogger. Of course. But all he does
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: is think about the Seahawks. I mean, all he does
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: is think about the Seahawks. His name is Hawk Blogger. Yeah, exactly.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: And I think sometimes he's a little, you know, probably
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: overthinks things on occasion. But I saw a tweet from
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: him suggesting, you know, this could be trouble because Mike
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: McDonald only has game film of the 49ers with Juszczyk.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: And if they change things this week, and he's studying
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: a team that runs 90% offense with a fullback, I mean,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: that could give them an advantage. I say no. I mean, he's...
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: You're a smart guy. You're a good analyst, HawkBlogger. But
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: I gotta disagree with you on this. Give me the
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: offense without use check.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: 100% agree.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Make them, if they want to, in midweek, against the
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: best defensive mind who's picked their pocket the last two
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: times that we faced, if they want to change... The
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: way that they structure their offense midweek, have at it, Shanahan.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I realize some people think you're a genius out there,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: and I acknowledge you're pretty damn good. But our guy
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: has your number right now. And if you want to
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: change the way that you structure your offense, if you
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: want to mess with your concepts, if you want to
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: take a 4-0 team and try to figure out a
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: way to surprise.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald, you go ahead and do that. I'll take
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: that exchange every time. This is a really good thing
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: for the Seahawks, and it is because this fullback is
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: a lot more valuable to the 49ers than what people realize.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Do you know the people that do realize it? The 49ers.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Of course. They know this is a big loss for
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: them for this upcoming week.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, do you think— this is not exactly apples to apples,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: but do you think, for whatever reason, knock on wood—
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Hopefully it's not happening. But if JSN, for God forbid,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: had to miss this game, do you think the Niners
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: would be worried because the Seahawks would be changing their
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: offense and then their defense wouldn't have the game film
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: to prepare for an offense without JSN and it could
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: look completely different?
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: No!
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: They would be happy because they weren't facing the best
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: of that position.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: So I think this is obviously not apples to apples.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: JSN has a higher impact on the game than Juszczyk,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: but it's... It's the same kind of category, right? The
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: guy that's better than anyone else at that role in
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: the NFL, I'd rather have that guy not play.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Pretty simple.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: I don't care what, you know, film preparation, what that
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: would change. I really don't.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So, yeah, we'll see. We'll talk in our roundtable
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: today about this with Greg Bell. And we will have
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: a fill-in for you, by the way, today. Eric Branch,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: who's Greg's buddy who covers the 49ers. He's going to
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: join us today at 8 o'clock. We'll talk about this fact.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: And I know we'll bring it up with you tomorrow
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: when we're out at Tulalip Resort Casino. He's going to
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: spend an extended time with us on our Friday show.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: And he brings up Juszczyk every single time we face
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: them and clarifies how big of a deal that this
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: guy is, how good he is, how much they rely
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: on him. So certainly we'll spend some time with you
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: tomorrow talking about him not being in the lineup.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: By the way, Tongas is out for the year, so
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: it will be someone else. A couple of texters. Thank
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: you for that. Appreciate that. But I don't know who
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: actually they would end up filling that role because I
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: don't think they're going to move George Kittle into that role.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: They're going to keep him where he's been successful. So
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure who exactly kind of steps into that,
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: but it won't be Jake Tongas.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Tongas!
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Yes, you're right. I misread it. He used to handle
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: the role. I misread it that he was handling the role.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: But it'll be a backup tight end. It won't be Kittle.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: It's going to be a backup tight end. They've got
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: more than one tight end on the roster. So not Tungus,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: but Tungus Light. Tungus Light. So not only do you
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: not have Juszczyk, you also don't have Tungus.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: Tungus!
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Yes. Eating Cheetos. Tungus. With licorice hair. With licorice hair. Yeah.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: In the energy drink aisle. Yeah. All right, coming up next,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: um huskies are making some changes uh up front talk
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: about uh a mid-season midweek restructure uh the dogs are
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: doing it sports radio 93.3 kjrfm so The Softwood's going
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: to join us today at 725 for his normal Thursday segment.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: We also have headlines coming up at the top of
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: the hour, and we will play some fact or fiction
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: today at 735 on the radio program. Plus, we introduce
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: a brand new game today. Oh, it's casino night as well.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: We've got a lot going on in our lives at
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: this point. What is your game of choice? I mean,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: am I going to we have to worry about coming
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: down at three o'clock? Am I going to get a
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: call from your wife like Anders hasn't come home and
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: I'm going to have to go down and see if
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: you're at the roulette wheel, you know, gambling away your
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: family's fortune?
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: No, I'm not really a huge gambling guy.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, I obviously will dabble in the sports book
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: here and there, you know, get some get some slips
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: in there. Maybe Thursday Night Football. Check it out. What's
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: going on there? You don't have a game of choice?
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: I like the classic Hold'em, you know?
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Oh! Yeah. Do you play a little poker with me?
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Of course. Of course. Yeah.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: Are you a poker guy?
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I will play at home. I'm not very good because
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: I'm terrible at lying. Yeah, me too. Yeah, so people
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: always figure me out. Yeah, that's fair. I'm just sitting
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: there like, I'm sorry, guys. I got a really good hand.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: You might want to be careful.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: Got to wear the sunglasses like everyone does.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Hasn't really worked for me in relationships or in poker.
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, being as honest as I tend to be.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: That's fair.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Very, very forthright. Kid, what is your go-to casino move?
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Where do you go when you're at the casino? Do
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: you have a game? You know, I'm not the- Blinko?
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: I would say I'm the odd one out. I don't
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: be gambling. You don't be gambling. I make bets with people.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: You can go to the restaurant. You can go to
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: a show. There's all sorts of things to do at
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: a casino. Sports book.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: I like being at the crib and just having complete.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: So you don't want to go to the casino at all?
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: I've only been. I'll go with my wife because she's
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: a better. She gambles a lot. What does she like?
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: She goes and puts money on games. She has parlays. Oh,
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: she's a sports bettor. She's a sports bettor.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so actually I think in two weeks we'll go
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: out there and she'll be 12-leg parlay. All right. Yeah,
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: $ 1 chance to win $ 10, 000. She goes in, guys. She's that.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay. Voting from her. How about that? It's the
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: first lesson I learned when I moved to Vegas. Don't
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: play parlay. It's true. From Dave Kokin. You will never win.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Never win.
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: Never win.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's having a tough go. That's what I wanted
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: to do. That's what I wanted to do. I went
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: out there and I'm like, well, why don't I just
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: pick three games, right? Right. And make a lot more money.
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: Don't even have to go over under or, you know,
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: just go money line.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that seems easy. Yeah. Yeah, I'm just going to
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: pick three games and I'll win them all. And look
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: how much more money I'll win, Dave. Don't be an idiot.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: You don't play parlays. It's true. You'll be sleeping in
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: a gutter by a week and a half.
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: He was kind of a Simpsons character, Dave. I can tell.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: All right. Headlines coming up at the top of the hour.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Softie at 725. We will talk about the Huskies who are,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: you know, we just talked about Kyle Juszczyk. And feel
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: free to change your structure of your entire offense because
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: you don't have your fullback, which you normally operate with.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Do that against a defensive genius. See how that works
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: out for you. Um, the Huskies though are making quite
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: the significant change. And this has, I mean, it's not
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: like this is something that has just leapt into our lives.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: It seems like it's been a work in progress for
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: a while, but considering how high Jed fish was on
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: his offensive line at the beginning of the year and
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Cody green and Cody green. And that's where you heard
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: about a true freshman. It's going to start at left tackle. Uh,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: here we sit sixth game of the year at home
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: against Iowa on Friday, three and two record. Haven't really beaten... Well,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: haven't beaten anyone of note. I'll take away the really.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Haven't beaten anyone of note. And so if last week
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: wasn't a must-win in terms of accomplishing your goals, well,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: certainly this is. Oh, yeah. At home. And, man, there's
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: just a restructuring of the offensive line in the midseason.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: John Mills is now going left tackle for good. Cody
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Green's going to slip in on the inside. Landon Hatchett
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: is finally back. And so... And then you're going to have,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: I don't think we know exactly the player that they're
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: going to play at right guard, but it's down to
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: a couple of different guys that are going to be
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: fighting it out there. So restructuring of the offensive line,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: which was supposed to be the strength. DeMond Williams seems
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: to be running for his life this season. Some of
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: that maybe is a little bit on DeMond, but most
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: of it feels like it's on the offensive line, his
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: lack of pocket for these games. And so Big, bold move.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: We'll see how it works. Talked to Cam Cleland yesterday,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: asked him about this, and he was just glowing about
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: the return of Landon Hatchett at center and how big
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: of a difference that that's going to make. But a
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: confession by the coaching staff that what we originally designed
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: is not working, and yet we're going to try to
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: use the same personnel and just kind of restructure a
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: new offensive line. Yeah, it has to be.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Probably the biggest surprise of this Huskies team. Obviously, I
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: don't think we expected them to be 3-2 at this point.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: And not even that the 3-2 record's the most shocking
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: part of it. It's about how they've looked offensively, which
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: was supposed to be one of the strengths of their team.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: And the offensive line, I think, is probably the biggest
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: culprit in that. Yeah, you could say DeMond's had a
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: little bit of underperformance, but... He like, as, uh, came
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Cleveland said yesterday, he's basically been the whole offense. Uh, yeah,
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: the running game has been shocking, but how much the
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: running game is on the offensive line to get push. Uh,
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: plus you're really, you were down two guys pretty instantly, uh,
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: in the start of the season.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: So.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: It's at least somewhat understandable about the lack of production there.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: I'd say the offensive line basically, like you said, was
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: kind of taught to be the strength of this team.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: We're going to win in the trenches. We're going to
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: be a Big Ten football team. The fact that that
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: has really been one of the biggest struggles in the
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: early season has been the biggest surprise to me in
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: this team.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll talk about it with Softie at 725. Headlines
• 36:16
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• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Greg Bell won't be with us at 7.05 today. He's
• 36:22
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• 36:24
  Speaker 1: it gives us a chance to talk about some National
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Football League stuff. We'll go over the 0-4 teams and
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: which teams need to decide right now that it's time
• 36:34
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