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10-1: Mike Benton is in! Kraken season opens, Mariners managerial search and Farhan Lalji! · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, from the Star Reynolds Sports Desk, your 93.3 KJR
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  Speaker 1: FM Sports Headlines.
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  Speaker 2: All right, good morning. Here we go. Headlines are brought
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  Speaker 2: to you by Frostbrood Coors Light, as cold as the Rockies.
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  Speaker 2: The Kraken are back tonight. Season opener on the road
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  Speaker 2: against the Calgary Flames. Pug drop is at 6 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: Airtime is at 5.30. With me, you're going to get
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  Speaker 2: a handful of me tonight.
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  Speaker 3: The captain?
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  Speaker 2: You think I'm ready?
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  Speaker 3: A handful of the captain?
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  Speaker 2: Not just the coffee talking here, folks. Finally, it's hockey season.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like this is like the rabbit out of
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  Speaker 4: the cage in a greyhound race right now.
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  Speaker 2: You can finally let me out of the cage here, indeed.
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  Speaker 2: Ever if it's you, Al Koniski, on the call at
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  Speaker 2: Scotiabank Saddle Dome, which will also be the final ever
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  Speaker 2: season opener at Scotiabank Saddle Dome. Don't forget that place
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  Speaker 2: held the 88 Olympics, but they're going to tear that
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  Speaker 2: thing down after this year and move into a brand
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  Speaker 2: swanky new building right across the street. But I'm fired
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  Speaker 2: up here for this, and I'll tell you why later,
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  Speaker 2: not just because it's hockey season, but... There are kind
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  Speaker 2: of some underlying themes of a growing Kraken team identity.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to that soon. Seahawks will host the Chargers
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  Speaker 2: this weekend as they come off the road from what
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  Speaker 2: was a disappointing loss to the Commanders. Julian Love practicing yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: limited basis. Finally get to get him back, though, on
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  Speaker 2: the field. Nicky Manwari, full participant at practice. Ty Okada
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  Speaker 2: did not practice, in case you are wondering. Major League
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  Speaker 2: Baseball postseason wild card games yesterday. The Phillies and the
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  Speaker 2: Braves are making this one a wild one. Phillies beat
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  Speaker 2: them for three. Winner take all game three coming up.
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  Speaker 2: That series tied one game apiece. The White Sox swept
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  Speaker 2: the Astros, as Greg Bell calls them, the trash cans.
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of guys. Out
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  Speaker 2: they go. Didn't even make it to October. You imagine
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  Speaker 2: buying a sweatshirt that says, for Astros, nothing like October.
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  Speaker 2: You don't even make it to October.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, those ones are the ones that usually get shipped
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  Speaker 4: to countries that need clothes.
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of guys. 7-3,
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  Speaker 2: White Sox over the Astros. They sweep them in two.
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  Speaker 2: Yankees swept the Red Sox out of the postseason, beat
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  Speaker 2: them 9-2 like a drum last night. Padres 4-1 over
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  Speaker 2: the Cubs. They move on to the National League Division Series. MLS,
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  Speaker 2: Sounders kicking off tonight against Sporting KC, 6-30. I believe
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  Speaker 2: Danny Jackson is also on pregame for that one. You
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  Speaker 2: can listen, by the way, to the game on Seattle
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  Speaker 2: Soccer Radio tonight online or via the iHeartRadio app. I'll
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  Speaker 2: let you go with the show. Well, Greg Belton needs
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  Speaker 2: a day off because the NFL season's a long season,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know where he's residing, but I would
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  Speaker 2: hope it's off the grid. Plus, we've got to get
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  Speaker 2: to some NHL talk here for the Kraken. So, Greg,
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  Speaker 2: I hope you're resting comfortably.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I believe he's still in the air right now.
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  Speaker 4: He's going to a very important event.
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  Speaker 2: He's got the Airbus bed all kicked back. The only
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  Speaker 2: kind of Greg Bell treatment that you can maybe give
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  Speaker 2: for an airline ride.
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  Speaker 3: Cucumber slices on the eyes, do you think?
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  Speaker 5: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: I hope so.
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  Speaker 2: You wouldn't know because you're first class.
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  Speaker 4: I do get upgraded on my way to Spokane quite often.
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  Speaker 3: So, yes.
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  Speaker 2: I will never, ever complain about first class flights ever.
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  Speaker 2: Rare for me, at least. But I mean, when I
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  Speaker 2: can get them at least, you know, on the NHL
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  Speaker 2: team plane. Oh, that's a different beast.
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  Speaker 3: It is just, you know, it reminds me of that
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  Speaker 3: Seinfeld episode. Like, I can't go back.
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  Speaker 4: When he and Elaine are fighting over, you know, who
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  Speaker 4: should get the first class seat and who should go
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  Speaker 4: and coach.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, good.
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  Speaker 2: That was an all-timer.
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  Speaker 6: You've never experienced it.
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  Speaker 2: That was an all, all-timer. All right, you got Greg
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  Speaker 2: Bells out, Mike Benton in for Greg today, Jessamyn on
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  Speaker 2: the other side of the glass. A lot to get to, 10-20.
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  Speaker 2: Al Kaniski will be reporting live from Calgary. The Kraken
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  Speaker 2: are finally out of the mop balls, into the deep.
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  Speaker 2: Season opener tonight against the Flames. We're going to get
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  Speaker 2: Al's perspective on really how ready this team is because
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  Speaker 2: it was a short preseason and how they can measure up.
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  Speaker 2: Plus also 1045, we're going to shift gears a bit
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  Speaker 2: here with the Mariners manager job, a big part of
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  Speaker 2: the open conversation. There was only one name I have
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  Speaker 2: for the job, and it is a win at all
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  Speaker 2: costs proposition to get him here. I got that name
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  Speaker 2: for you coming up at 1045. 11 a.m. Farron Lodge, EFTS,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to go around the horns. Seahawks, Kraken,
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  Speaker 2: maybe a little bit of Vancouver Canucks because he is
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  Speaker 2: from those parts. And we always love poking some holes
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  Speaker 2: into Canucks land from around here.
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  Speaker 3: Respectfully. You needled him.
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  Speaker 2: Respectfully. Yeah, we're going to get to Farhan. Great conversation
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  Speaker 2: coming up at 11 a.m. because the Seahawks admittedly licking
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  Speaker 2: their wounds a bit off that loss to the commanders. But,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you want to use a phrase, it's early.
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  Speaker 2: It definitely is early, but we're going to get to him. Plus,
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  Speaker 2: also 11.30. Talk Backs, get those in right now at
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  Speaker 2: 30 seconds. We love to hear you. I love the impressions.
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  Speaker 2: I want to hear more of them. I say this
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  Speaker 2: every time. Get them in here. We're going to play
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  Speaker 4: I'm not undefeated, but everyone's mine. But my winner, my
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  Speaker 4: was our thousand dollar winner last week.
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  Speaker 2: So I think you've got some happy folks who I
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  Speaker 2: work with who might be siding with you for this
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  Speaker 2: factor fiction. Yeah, I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: I am pretty excited.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 3: 1135.
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  Speaker 2: So that's all coming up at 1135. Kraken opening up tonight.
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  Speaker 2: And again, we're going to get back to this. We
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  Speaker 2: circled with this over and over and over. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this is a hockey team that just didn't make a
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  Speaker 2: lot of moves. They made some important moves, but were
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  Speaker 2: they going to be enough here to kind of fortify
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  Speaker 2: this roster to get where they wanted to get to?
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  Speaker 2: Not many folks are picking them to make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: And that's understandable because there's expectation versus reality. And yet,
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  Speaker 2: if you ask any guy in that room, that word
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  Speaker 2: still comes up because there is some belief that despite
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  Speaker 2: all the question marks that they have, can they get
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  Speaker 2: a guy like Jared McCann to 40 goals? Can they
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  Speaker 2: get Bobby McMahon to 30 to 40? Can Matty Beneers
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  Speaker 2: take the next step? There is still belief that they're
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  Speaker 2: going to be in this mix and they could very
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  Speaker 2: well be. But again, the reality, the numbers say this
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  Speaker 2: was an offensively starved team that last year stylistically had
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  Speaker 2: no true top line forwards and a lot of guys
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  Speaker 2: that you would play line two, line three. So a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things have to go right. Matty Beneers, can
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  Speaker 2: he get to 25 or 30 goals, maybe 70 points?
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  Speaker 2: Can that make a difference? Jared McCann, can he get
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  Speaker 2: to 30 or 40? Bobby McMahon, can he get to 40?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, how much do you believe this? Tell me, 49451.
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  Speaker 2: But the most important thing is the health of this
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  Speaker 2: team because they are the sum of their parts. If
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  Speaker 2: you have one guy go down, two guys go down
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  Speaker 2: to the injury longer than a month. My goodness, does
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  Speaker 2: that put a crimp into a lot of things from
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  Speaker 2: Jared McCann to Vince Dunn to Brandon Montour? And most importantly,
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  Speaker 2: I haven't gotten this far yet, Jess, but your goalies,
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  Speaker 2: they've got to both be healthy. That's the most important thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously. But I mean, they've always had a wealth of.
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  Speaker 3: riches in that position, or they have for a while.
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  Speaker 2: And let's also be fair. Joey Decord has developed now
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  Speaker 2: into a legitimate number one goaltender. You ask anybody around
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  Speaker 2: the league, he officially is in that category. But the
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  Speaker 2: thing is, for me, you really can't overwork him, which
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  Speaker 2: is why they still have Philip Grubauer. And to his credit,
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  Speaker 2: his numbers were great. But ultimately, what's going to happen
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  Speaker 2: here tonight against the Flames, I think is going to
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  Speaker 2: be a test in toughness. Did anybody remember what happened
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  Speaker 2: last time in preseason? And in case you went, huh?
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  Speaker 2: Did you look at social media? It wasn't just all
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  Speaker 2: over the place from the NHL National Circle. John Boy
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  Speaker 2: picked up on this. With Viliota Vining coming in and
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  Speaker 2: about Taron Brennan-Othman's head off because Othman went over the line,
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  Speaker 2: running his mouth, chirping as they say in this game,
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  Speaker 2: not just from that night but the previous night, a
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  Speaker 2: bad hit that the officials said get lost to Othman.
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  Speaker 2: And then Otto Weinen just had enough and just absolutely
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  Speaker 2: pummeled him. And you have folks who are just crying
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  Speaker 2: suspension all over social media on this thing. You know
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  Speaker 2: what the NHL said? Nah, two grand final do. Two grand.
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  Speaker 3: No suspension.
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  Speaker 2: No suspension.
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  Speaker 7: Nothing.
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  Speaker 8: Nothing.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And must I remind you again? If you've watched this
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  Speaker 2: matchup over the years, there was Martin Pospisil crashing into
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  Speaker 2: a Kraken goaltender. There was Andrew Mangiapane pummeling Jared McCann
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  Speaker 2: with no response from any teammates. I potentially, from what
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  Speaker 2: I read at practice the other day, you usually skate
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  Speaker 2: through lines one through four, and that kind of gives
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  Speaker 2: you maybe a bit of a telltale sign with who
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  Speaker 2: could play. You know what I saw in one line together?
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  Speaker 2: Jacob Melanson, who has made enough of an impression that
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  Speaker 2: he'll go in, mix things up, and even drop the
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  Speaker 2: gloves if he has to. And newly acquired 6'9, tough guy,
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  Speaker 2: drop the gloves, Curtis Douglas. We don't know yet who's
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  Speaker 2: suiting up tonight for sure. But that was telltale. Because
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  Speaker 2: if they're skating together in practice... One day before the
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  Speaker 2: Kraken go up to Calgary and face a team that
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  Speaker 2: has tried to push them around and bully them a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. That, to me, is opening the door here
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  Speaker 2: for a brand new era.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't that what we've been wanting?
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  Speaker 4: From the team exactly like we wanted just some you
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  Speaker 4: know ass kicker yes out there for a long time
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  Speaker 4: and it's that's not to say that there aren't but
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  Speaker 4: it's been like across the line like let's If that's
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  Speaker 4: the line, it makes me really excited.
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  Speaker 2: Because if this team doesn't make the playoffs, and there
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  Speaker 2: are some folks who have expectations of, I just want
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  Speaker 2: to see the young players get better. Besides that, what
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  Speaker 2: do you want? You want to see a team begin
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  Speaker 2: to evolve with an identity. How many times have they
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  Speaker 2: been pushed around for the last five years? The message
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  Speaker 2: now being sent is no more. Not just Philly out
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  Speaker 2: of Vine and jumping in in that preseason fight. Curtis Douglas,
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  Speaker 2: go back and watch the TV broadcast. He had crazy
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  Speaker 2: eyes coming out of his skull.
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  Speaker 5: I love it.
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  Speaker 4: A 6'9 guy.
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  Speaker 2: Looking at the bench, taking numbers and saying, you're next,
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  Speaker 2: you're next, you're next.
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  Speaker 5: You know what?
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  Speaker 3: I want to ask you, too.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like maybe some leverage is lost considering that
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  Speaker 4: height in hockey. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Six foot nine.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: How does someone have the dexterity.
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  Speaker 2: To skate that well? And let's also be real. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's a 12th to 13th forward, many are saying. And
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  Speaker 2: it's fair because there are limitations with how you can
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  Speaker 2: play him. You're not going to expect a guy like
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  Speaker 2: that to play maybe 70 games or more, get 10
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  Speaker 2: to 20 goals. He's in there for one job and
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  Speaker 2: one job only.
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  Speaker 5: Protection.
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  Speaker 2: Because when you have a team that has him on
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  Speaker 2: the ice or on the bench, that team collectively feels
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  Speaker 2: five inches taller. They feel 10 pounds heavier. And confidence
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  Speaker 2: grows where they can play a little bit meaner. That's
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  Speaker 2: one big step here to evolving a team identity.
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  Speaker 3: And I love that. They wanted to get tougher, is
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  Speaker 3: what I take from that.
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  Speaker 2: So I love the toughness. We're going to get to
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  Speaker 2: Al Koniski talking about this. The Calgary Flames await, and
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  Speaker 2: they're going to happen twice now, matter of fact, in
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  Speaker 2: less than a week, because the Kraken will face them
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  Speaker 2: at home coming up on Sunday to open up the
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  Speaker 2: home part of the schedule. But let's hear it. 49451,
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  Speaker 2: what do you think they need to make the playoffs here?
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  Speaker 2: What's your standard? Do you want to see them get
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  Speaker 2: above that bar for the playoffs or just begin to
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  Speaker 2: evolve with the young kids and an identity? 49451. Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: were two days out, or the three days out, beg
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  Speaker 2: your pardon, hosting the Chargers on Sunday. That's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a massive sports day here in Seattle. A little
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  Speaker 2: bit of your dose of Seahawks Chargers in the afternoon,
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  Speaker 2: then the Kraken for your dining and dancing pleasure at night.
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  Speaker 2: And for a 33-31 loss. I mean, you're facing a
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  Speaker 2: Charger team that's going to be coming in hurting collectively.
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  Speaker 2: But again, one more loss, you can pretty much pin
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  Speaker 2: curtains on them. So I'm going to get to Farhan
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  Speaker 2: Lalji's conversation at 11 a.m. And we're going to ask,
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  Speaker 2: how do they bounce back from this defensively? How does
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  Speaker 2: Nicky McMurray fit into the picture? And what do we
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  Speaker 2: make out of Jadarian Price and the handoffs he had
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  Speaker 2: and the missteps he had as well with the football?
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  Speaker 2: So that plus on the Mariners side, again, I said
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  Speaker 2: I have one name. One name where it is win
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  Speaker 2: at all costs and you look everywhere you can to
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  Speaker 2: get this man in town because I believe he is
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  Speaker 2: a man you need to push the right buttons and
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  Speaker 2: get this team over the top and finally get to
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  Speaker 2: the World Series here for the first time. Let's just
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  Speaker 2: say he's got my vote. We'll talk about this coming
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  Speaker 2: up at 1045. But again, it's a night at Calgary
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  Speaker 2: going to get ugly. Al Kaneski will tell us yes
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  Speaker 2: or no after this on 93.3 KJRFM. It's the Kraken
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  Speaker 2: season opener. Don't miss our pregame tonight at 5.30. Buck
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  Speaker 2: drops at 6. The Kraken and the Calgary Flames. And remember,
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  Speaker 2: the Seattle Kraken are anchored here. Now back to your
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  Speaker 2: home for Seattle Kraken hockey. Sports Radio 93.3, KJR FM.
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  Speaker 8: You know, the fight of our group sticking up for
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  Speaker 8: each other. We obviously need way more of that.
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  Speaker 2: Chip on the shoulder, I mean, yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, I think if you don't have a chip
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  Speaker 8: on your shoulder, not making playoffs and, you know, thinking
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  Speaker 8: that your group should be better, you definitely need to
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  Speaker 8: be checking twice, you know. So, yes, we definitely need
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  Speaker 8: to be thinking about, obviously... what we can do better,
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  Speaker 8: the reasons why we were not in last year and
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  Speaker 8: obviously fix that. I think the group has belief in
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  Speaker 8: that we can change that and we've just got to
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  Speaker 8: be consistent and playing the right way, playing hard, playing
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  Speaker 8: for each other and obviously we don't need to be
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  Speaker 8: fighting every single night but just that fight back, that
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  Speaker 8: mentality of protecting each other but Protecting each other in
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  Speaker 8: not just that way, but playing hard for each other
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  Speaker 8: and just trying to get those wins.
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  Speaker 2: That is defenseman Brandon Montour and his words from the
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  Speaker 2: dressing room. Not last month, not last week, but yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: So you tell me how fired up this team is
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  Speaker 2: to get it going for game one of 84. We
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  Speaker 2: have finally made it, hitting the ground, running Mike Benton
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  Speaker 2: again for 84. In for Greg Bell, Jessamyn here as
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  Speaker 2: well from the other side of the glass. Again, don't forget, 11.35,
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  Speaker 2: Factor Fiction coming up, courtesy Lucky Eagle Casino and Hotel.
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  Speaker 2: But we're going to be flying into this one. 6 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: puck drop here for the Kraken tonight. 5.30 airtime, I'll
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  Speaker 2: be at Tom's Watch Bar. Without further ado, this guy's
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  Speaker 2: in Calgary. That's Al Koniski joining us right now on
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  Speaker 2: the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. And Al, when I begin to
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: think of where this team's got to go from a
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: top-line standpoint, that's a big conversation. The national scene's asking,
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: where's the beef? But I ask you, at least from dinner,
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  Speaker 2: where's the beef? Did you treat yourself to Beef Wellington,
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  Speaker 2: your specialty, last night? How'd it go? Did you do it?
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely did do it. Yes!
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  Speaker 7: No better... No better place to do it than High Steakhouse.
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  Speaker 7: I enjoy visiting the nice Canadian steakhouse here in Calgary.
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  Speaker 7: We do it in Winnipeg. We do it in Toronto.
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  Speaker 7: There's a few of them across the board.
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  Speaker 2: I believe we did the one in Winnipeg last year, correct? Together?
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  Speaker 7: We did.
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  Speaker 2: We did, yes. Yeah, you are the massive Beef Wellington guy.
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  Speaker 2: I was finally going with the 12-ounce ribeye. I felt
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: as good as full for about two meals, but it's
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: good to finally get back into this. And off we
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: go here for game one of 84. This is going
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: to be the last time that the Kraken will play.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: at least one of two times that they'll play at
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Scotiabank Saddledome, and it's going to be over, it feels like,
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: in a hurry as far as this matchup. But this
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: is the last time that a building that historic is
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: going to be hosting hockey because it's going to be
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: gone by the end of the season, and the Flames
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: will get a brand-new shiny toy to... you know go
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: into move into and play right across the street this
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: next season so that's going to be a lot of
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: fun i love going to that building last year al
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: but i think again brings us back here to the
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: question road stops in the nhl what's your favorite nhl
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: road city here at this point.
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: Well, I mean, I guess you have to add some
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: context to that because if you're talking about sunshine, you're
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: obviously going to talk about Southern California stops or maybe Vegas.
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: If you're talking about food, Vegas is also a very
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: good one. But I also like the nostalgia of coming
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: into this building here in Calgary. This is one of
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: the oldest buildings, if not the oldest one in the league.
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: And I was just talking to Everett Fitzhugh on the
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: way in that It's kind of nice that an Uber
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: can drive you right up to the door and drop
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: you off and that there isn't a bag scan and
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: a wand. They just, you know, welcome you back in
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: like you're invited over to your friend's house for dinner.
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: That's all going to change next year in that new building.
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: I'm sure there'll be body scans and, you know, you'll
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: have to give blood to get into the building. So
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: it's nice to come into these nostalgic buildings, walking across
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: the top of the scoreboard, which... Calgary is the only
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: rink we're able to do that in. Oh, yes. I'm
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: sure that goes away in a brand-new building as well. So,
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: you know, I like the big cities. I like the
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: Southern California, sunny cities, and Florida as well. But I
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: also like the nostalgic ones, and this is definitely one
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: of those nostalgic ones.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Oh, I love the Southern California trips just for the
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: sake of it's not too far away from where I
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: went to school, and you just relish those trips. But, man,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: the Saddledome just hits different.
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: The old swinging catwalk. We're not going to get an
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: experience like that for much, much longer. But it's great
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: to have you out talking, cracking flames. Morning Skate's going
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: to be getting going here very soon. So we're going
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: to dive right here into things. What's your view from
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: where this team is at right now out of a
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: 3-1 preseason?
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: Yeah, listen, I think coming out of the preseason, you
• 18:59
  Speaker 7: certainly don't want to go 4-0. I don't think that's
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: good for the mindset. I think that this team had
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: some tight games. They had at least one game where.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: They were down.
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: They had to battle back.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: They had some overtimes, some shootouts.
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: So I think they had the right mix of situations
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: to get them ready for this game tonight. I think
• 19:16
  Speaker 7: that from a mindset standpoint... They're in a good place.
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: You'd like to see Maki Samuskiewicz in the lineup. He
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: won't be tonight, unfortunately. But having said that, I think
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: from the lineup I see, it's the right lineup to
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: go against this Flames team, which had some Flames in
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: the preseason, literally, figuratively, on the ice. And it should
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: be a good one tonight.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Billy Otto Vinen made the team, of course. He even
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: told us, too, like he was kind of surprised waking
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: up next morning and seeing him all over social media.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: But I mean, man, that's what's happening. out of your shell.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: And sending a message does him to Brennan Offman back
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: in that preseason game that, you know, in hockey terms
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: can be described nothing short of a gong show. But,
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: you know, I think maybe it was a step in
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: the right direction with where this team wants to go
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: on the toughness scale. Funny enough, Brennan Offman also made
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: the Flames roster. Who knows if they will play here
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: officially tonight. But what I found very curious yesterday at practice,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: going through lines one through four, if that's telltale, line
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: four is Curtis Douglas, Freddie Gaudreau, and Jacob Melanson. How
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: likely do you think we will see fireworks tonight?
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: Well, you're going to see a fourth line, regardless of
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: who it is tonight, that's going to be expected to
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: go to battle here in this building. To be an
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: effective fourth line player, you can't give up anything offensively
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: to the other team. You've got to play solid defensively,
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: but you've also got to play physical. And if the
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: fourth line is the way it looks on a skate
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: yesterday that you described tonight, I think that's exactly what
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: that line will do.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: You have six players at age 23 or younger who
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: made this team, and just about a couple of the
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: short of what GM Jason Botterill predicted several weeks back
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: with how young that they could easily go. I mean,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Jake O'Brien's also a part of this, though. I don't
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: think really so much he counts because of where he
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: is right now on the non-roster injured side here. But
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: what young player do you think has the most to
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: gain by taking the next step this season?
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: Well, I have to think about, uh, Berkeley cat. Um,
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: you know, he's been centering that third line with a
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: Ryan Winterton and Shane Wright. And I think that, you know, the, the,
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: the unlocking of Shane Wright is also part of that
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: Berkeley cat and story as well. Um, Ryan Winterton is, is,
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: is also part of that, that, that line. And the
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: thing about Ryan Winterton is that, uh, he can force
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: those other two guys to play faster because he's probably
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: the fastest.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: Skater of those two.
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: So, um, You get a line of youth. You get
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: a line of talent that's centered by Bertha Catton. Bertha
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: Catton is the guy I'm keeping my eye on. I
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: want to see him make a big step forward this year.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Not just Berkley Catton, but I think also seeing the
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: younger players take the next step is a big piece
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: of what they need for their top line. As again,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Al Koniski joining us right now on the Beacon Plumbing
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Hotline from Calgary. And the issue has always been now
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: that there really hasn't been a proven 1C, a proven
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: top-end score, a proven guy who can be the guy,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: like in the tier... of Crosby, McKinnon, Austin Matthews, Connor McDavid,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: and even now Macklin Celebrini. And granted, those guys don't
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: grow on trees. They're more rare than common because they're
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: generational talent. But I think framing it here in this sense,
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: there's got to be totality on this roster here from
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: top to bottom for this to go right. To you, though,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: what's the bigger hurdle? Find a 40 goal guy out
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: of this or keep everybody healthy?
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: I think keeping everybody healthy is an important one because
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: I don't see a 40-goal guy in this lineup. Now,
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: before you hit the panic button, I do see a handful,
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: a small handful, maybe three, maybe four, guys that could
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: be pushing 30 goals this season. I think about guys
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: like Jared McCann, Matty Beneers, Bobby McMahon, Mackie Samuskevich. These
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: are all guys that could easily push 30 goals this season.
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: So I would say if this team can stay healthy,
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: And those four guys are pushing 30 goals this season.
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: I would take that over a 40 goal score.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: I'm going to pose this question later here, Al, to
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: our friend Farhan Laji of TSN. But let's pretend if
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Matty Beneers hits 30 goals in 70 points, how likely
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: is this team a playoff team?
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: Well, I think that's definitely a key ingredient to it
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: because I think that if he's doing that, the assists
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: that are on the assist column there are affecting his linemates'
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: goals as well. And so he's helping other guys hit
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: those marks that I just mentioned. So if Matty Beneers
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: is leading the way with those kind of stats, his
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: team's absolutely in the running for a playoff spot.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: And with that being said, I mean, there's always been
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: the move that this team is always looking around here
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: to try to add more top-end talent. I mean, the
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: question was posed last year at the end of the
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: year that, you know, is this going to be a
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: rebuilding year? And the answer, you know, in roundabout terms
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: was no, that they're just simply building. So, yeah, the
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: whole Jason Robertson thing came into play. That fell apart.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: And to be fair, not just here, which I think
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: is also a part of the unfair narrative, he also
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: turned down a trade reportedly to St. Louis and maybe
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: even New Jersey was in the mix as well.
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: You had Panarin fall through and maybe even Robert Thomas
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: as well. And then about two days ago, we saw
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: a guy that went, man, he would have fit so
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: well here. And that was Kirill Marchenko out of Columbus.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: He was dealt to Toronto. The assumption is that, and
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: from what we've heard, Jason Botterill's always looking to add.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: But I think the question now at this point, do
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: you have to customize or modify where you're looking to
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: acquire top-end talent? Because there's so much player empowerment with
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: where they're driving the bus to where they want to
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: go these days.
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah, there are just so many variables in a player deal.
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: It's not as simple as saying, hey, someone's available. If
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: I just offer the right thing from a player standpoint,
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: it's a done deal. So many times you're trying to
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: figure out what's in the mind of that player. What
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: are they looking for in an organization? What are they
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: looking for in a city? What are they looking for
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: in a coach and management? And if you... Mikey, it's
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: no different than when you go buy a car. That
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: car salesman is trying to figure out what problems they
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: can solve for you. You're like, hey, I need something
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: with two sliding doors on the side. Well, I got
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: a minivan for you. That player has problems that they're
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: not getting fixed in the city they're in. You figure
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: out what those problems are. You solve them for that player.
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: You're going to have that player on your team. So
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: it's not just about what can you pay him and
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: what can you offer in return. You've got to solve
• 26:03
  Speaker 7: those other problems as well.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Putting the spotlight back on tonight here for this first game.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: And again, the Kraken will see Calgary again coming up
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: on Sunday for the home opener. I mean, Al, we
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: saw it for about the first two nights from the
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: NHL side with games already getting going out east for
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: the last two days. I mean, sloppy hockey reigns supreme
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: at this time of year because there's just still so
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: much that teams are trying to get right, perfect, even install.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: You've got players maybe even banged up that aren't going
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: to play. Just look at Chicago and Conor Bedard. But,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, from what we know, The Kraken want to
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: play fast. They want to play relentless. They want to
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: be that kind of team. They also had a power
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: play in the preseason that looked lights out. They had
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: a penalty kill also that looked better. But then again,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: in the last preseason game showed some familiar and maybe
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: some alarming flaws. So what kind of game to you
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: do the Kraken have to bring tonight?
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that they've got to keep the mindset
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: of improving both of those in the back of their head.
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: And I think that Lane Lambert and his coaching staff
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: are doing just that. They know that the penalty kill
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: was second from the bottom of the league last year,
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: and it's going to get a lot better. They know
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: the power play has to start to be more effective.
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: And again, see above, if you've got a healthy squad,
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: you're able to staff that power play with the talent
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: that does improve those numbers. This is where it starts tonight, Mike.
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: They've got to get opportunities on the power play. They've
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: got to limit their opportunities in the penalty kill. A
• 27:33
  Speaker 7: lot of the identity of this team historically has been
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: Be a very disciplined team. Don't take penalties. But when
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: you do, they've got to get them killed off. So
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: one of the ways you kill them off is with
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: great goaltending as well. And you, Everett, and I have
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: talked about this, that a big part of this team's
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: success is between the pipes. So how do you get
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: a better penalty kill? You have better goaltending. It's not
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: just that, but goaltending is such a big part of
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: killing off penalties.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: All right, we'll look for that. Also, we'll look to
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: hear if you brought the A-game suit or not for tonight.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Did you?
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: I absolutely did, Mike.
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: I'm ready to go. Attaboy.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: I think the window pane's special. That takes care of
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: the job here for game one of 84 and game
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: one of the playoffs. And we can always, you know,
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: dream here. Maybe that's going to happen about, you know,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: roughly six months down the road. But, hey, Al, appreciate you, man.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: We'll catch you on the flip side. Looking forward to 530. And, hey, finally,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: it's go time, my man. Thanks again. Can't wait.
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: You got it, Mikey B.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: All right, that's Al Kodisky joining us here in the
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Beacon Plumbing Hotline as the Kraken again just getting morning
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: skate underway in Calgary. That could maybe leave a few
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: more breadcrumbs with who could be in the lineup. We'll
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: look to see if starting goaltending reveals anything. Joey Decord,
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Philip Grubauer pretty much had splitsville going on for the preseason,
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: but I wouldn't be surprised maybe if it is Decord
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: just based on the fact of where he was in
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: a totality for last season, the games he got as
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: well in preseason. He's the guy that's got to carry
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: this as much as he can before Philip Grubauer comes
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: in and fills in the blanks for a 1A and
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: 1B situation. But I go right back again, and we're
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: going to ask Farhan Lalji this question at about 11 a.m.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: around our Seahawks conversation with the Seahawks right now, 2-1.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: But again... The biggest issue is that you can look
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: at easily, you know, what are you doing to fill
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: in around the edges for this hockey team? Can you
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: improve goaltending? But again, it's finding a top-line guy. You
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: can trade for one, and to kind of add to
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Al's point, that will help you, but what does every
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: team have in common with a top-line guy? They have
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: largely been developed from their own draft all the way
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: to present day, and Matty Beneers has got to be
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: that guy. Maybe he is right now from where he is.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Solid second-line guy on a Stanley Cup contending team. But
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: can he find a way here to take that next
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: step and take the jump?
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: I bought his.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: Jersey for a reason because I thought he would be
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: the one that stuck.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: And if he had, say, 30 goals or 70 points,
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: I am fully putting it on you for the good juju.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Oh, that is me.
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: My first game, I went in there. I was like,
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: I need a jersey. I'm buying number 10.
• 30:28
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: So it's 100 percent for four, nine, four or five.
• 30:30
  Speaker 10: One of me.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: If you tell me if Maddie been here to score
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: 30 goals or get 70 points, will they make the playoffs? Four, nine,
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: four or five. One Tacoma Dodge text line. And again,
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: talk back. So we're taking those via the I heart
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: radio app. But again, this is a season opener that
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: I felt like an extra amount of juice just flowing
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: through my veins and The most probably ever since, I
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: would say, in three years.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: I was going to say, isn't juice always flowing through
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: your veins?
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, also blame the coffee for you YouTubers. Yeah,
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: it's going down right now. But I just think of
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: how many questions this team had. And the biggest one
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: was maybe why weren't you adding more here to the roster?
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: And to be fair, there were some pretty important additions,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: but why not more? For me, there's some extra level
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: of excitement because last year with Lane Lambert, new coach
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: coming in, you admittedly had players trying to drink info
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: like they were drinking out of a fire hydrant. Now
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: it feels different. They know what the system has to be.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: They know what kind of hockey he wants them to play.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: And they know what he wants them to do in
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: case they see a teammate who gets tuned up.
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: On the ice.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: The toughness thing is a very important part of this.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: It's not strategy, but it's culture.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: That's what makes me so excited.
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: It's just a little more physicality, a little more, I
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: don't like to use this word, but bring in the goon.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Let's go.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: We didn't see a lot of the Flames lineup that
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: they'll maybe suit up here for tonight. But one thing's
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: for sure, they're a young team. They're going to miss
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: the postseason. They're back in where the Canucks are right
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: now with trying to rebuild this thing. And they want
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: to get their young core up to speed when they
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: open this new building in about a year from now.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: So this is a good exclamation point potential today.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: And the point is they're not afraid to play bully hockey.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: They're not afraid to go to the net, maybe a
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: bit overboard. And this is how Martin Pospisil injured a
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: goaltender about a couple of years ago, but it was
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: in his debut as well. Then also, I mentioned, you know, past...
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Incidents with these two teams. Let's not forget also, Vince
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Dunn took a pretty high hit about three years ago
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: that Dave Haxtell called garbage. Over and over and over again,
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: they had been the receptor of over-the-line hits, and now
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: it is time to push back. I can't wait for
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: this game for that reason. We'll see what they lay
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: out here as far as the toughness scale. Anyway, we're
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: going to get right back to things in just a
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: little bit. The Mariners, there is one manager they can have,
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: and it is the one I believe they need. I'll
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: tell you who it is next right here on 93.3 KJRFM.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: All right, Al Kadeski joining us a few moments ago.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Big thanks to him as a Kraken again getting set
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: for the Flames tonight, 6 p.m. puck drop, 5.30 airtime.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: By the way, I'll be at Tom's Watch Bar, so
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: please come on down and hang us with some unreal food.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: There's no better hang than.
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: A Benton hang.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: Unbelievable, yeah. I'm always down for fist bumps, for selfies.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: You've known this now for about five years.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: I've known it well.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: Power to the people. Power to the people. Mariners are
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: going to get deeper and deeper into the offseason. Still
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: with the question of who's going to manage this ball club,
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: I've got one thing about this. When you have a
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: team that is as talented as they are, with a
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: pitching staff when they're at their best, is among the
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: best in the game. But a manager who can also
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: infuse extra accountability with a proven resume. Who do you want?
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Who do you want right now? There are different directions
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: they can go. And there are several qualified names out there. Honest,
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: if you were to ask me, they'd check off a
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: ton of boxes. Beginning in Arizona with Tori Lovolo. I mean,
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: if you look back at his World Series job with
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks, Jess, in 2023, were they supposed to be there?
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: The answer is no. 86 wins. And Tori Lovolo got
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: them to the World Series. Now, he is, though, a
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: 500 manager. So is that going to be a bit
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: of a red flag for you, 49451, because he is
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: a safe candidate?
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: Would have been nice this year.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Maybe you could have given them that bump. Chris Negron,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Pirates bench coach. We know him from his Mariners organizational
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: ties as a part of this coaching staff. And I
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: want to point also the dial at a name named
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Kai Correa, a bench coach right now for the Mets.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Maybe on the younger scale, but many are saying on
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: the up and coming scale.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: And the one thing that I was at on Monday,
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: I was at the Jerry DePoto press conference. It's not
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: necessarily a prerequisite that they have managerial experience, but it
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: is preferred.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: So I think we're looking at people who have managed.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: So it is not a prerequisite.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: It isn't necessarily, but it is preferred.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: There is still maybe, I think, an undercurrent of where
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: he could fit. Because the resume covers everything where the
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: Mariners have apparently failed. Just from a bench coach standpoint,
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: an infield side, and we know how bad the infield
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: was last year. I mean, there's a local angle because
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: he played ball over at University of Puget Sound. But
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: the risk would be, in this case, and to your point, Jess,
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: it would be the third straight Mariners manager without a
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: full season contract. a big league managerial experience. That's the
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: red flag for me. So may I introduce to you
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: the one candidate who I believe is without full stop
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: the man that they need and the Mariners have to
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: pull out every stop to get him into town. He is,
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: I believe, a dream candidate. He is also a two-time
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: American League Manager of the Year. He is also a
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: guy who knows his coaching staff.
• 36:45
  Speaker 7: Why?
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: In the front office.
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: He was here back in 2023. So would you be
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: interested in Stephen Vogt as your next Mariners manager? You
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: tell me, because I caught up with Stephen Vogt about
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: a year ago. We've got some ties together here, and
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: that's not part of the picture here on this, but
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: I had to go back and dig this up because
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: you may be thinking, oh, well, I mean, Stephen Vaux,
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, how are you going to get him out
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: of Cleveland? Well, depending upon the money, let's just say
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: hometown roots run pretty, pretty deep. How deep right now? Well,
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: you tell me based on what he told me here
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: last year.
• 37:30
  Speaker 11: You know, I married my wife, Alyssa. She grew up
• 37:33
  Speaker 11: in Olympia, went to Capitol High School. We met at
• 37:35
  Speaker 11: Azusa Pacific University and We've lived here as a family
• 37:38
  Speaker 11: for 15 years now, so Washington State is home, Olympia
• 37:41
  Speaker 11: is home, and it always feels good to come back here.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: When you can put your work situation into a family
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: situation and tie it all together within the bounds of
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: just a few miles rather than seven or several hundred miles,
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: isn't that a little bit easier for you and your job?
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: Well, yes, but... Benton, how does that happen?
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of transit that goes on back and
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: forth right now. I've known this between Steven Vogt and
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: getting to Cleveland and being back here where he still
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: lives with his wife, Alyssa, not too far away in Olympia.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: Don't they still have a home here?
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: They have a home here. They live here in the offseason.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: They are heavily involved also in their kids with youth
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: sports in this area. So you tell me, wouldn't this
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: be easier for him?
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, it would.
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: But how does this happen logistically when it comes to acquiring?
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: I'm going to get to this because that's the big thing.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: And again, this is where I get to. You have
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: to look at everything. A win at all costs mentality
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: to get him out of Cleveland. The question, though, is
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: would he fit here as manager based on the accountability?
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: I posed this here to him just several months ago
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: in that same vein. What have you learned in the
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: last few years about what it takes to be a
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: big league manager?
• 39:02
  Speaker 11: You have to be a phenomenal teammate. It's about the
• 39:04
  Speaker 11: people around you. You have to rely on everyone around
• 39:06
  Speaker 11: you to do their jobs and need to be there
• 39:09
  Speaker 11: to be their support system. You're not there to dictate
• 39:11
  Speaker 11: and tell them what to do. You're there to lean
• 39:13
  Speaker 11: in with them and be along for the ride because
• 39:16
  Speaker 11: everyone around you needs to do their job correctly in
• 39:19
  Speaker 11: order for you to be a good manager and how
• 39:21
  Speaker 11: you do that is developing close relationships and and really
• 39:24
  Speaker 11: just pushing them to be at their best at all.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Times now just in case you may have any qualms about, oh,
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: he's a player's manager. Oh, there's going to be no accountability. Well,
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, the man won two times American League Manager
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: of the Year, basically on a shoestring budget in Cleveland.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: There is accountability that you can operate with when it
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: comes to being a player's manager. Basically, it's called pushing
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: the right buttons. And just take a look at this
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: managerial tree and tell me, is this resume pretty legit
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: with how he learned and how to push right buttons
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: in a clubhouse? The managers tied to Steven Vogt are this.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Bob Melvin, Mark Kotze, Tori Lovullo, Craig Council, Terry Francona,
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: who he took over for in Cleveland, and Bruce Bochy.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: who without question, in my opinion, was the greatest manager
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: of Azera in taking as little talent as he had
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: and pushing the right buttons. He got three World Series
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: rings out of five years in San Francisco and took
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: a Rangers team that had no business being in the
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: World Series in 2023 and got one more ring out
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: of them. So the question that you just posed, how
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: does this get done? Without question, you got to make
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: a trade.
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: You got to make a trade. Presumably, he's got a
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: multi-year deal. This was reported that he signed something after 2025.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: These are typically secret. Trades are rare, but they are possible.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: It's happened.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Must I remind you also how hometown ties have a
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: lot to do with this? Do you remember Lou Piniella
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: for Randy Wynn? Nope. Back in 2002. And why? Because
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: Lou Piniella had a longing to go home. to Tampa Bay.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: Home can be a big, big factor in swinging the
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: pendulum to get this done. You had Ozzie Guillen to
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: the White Sox or from White Sox to the Marlins
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: back in 2011. John Farrell, Blue Jays to the Red
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Sox back in 2012. So, I mean, it's all presumed
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: here that the Guardians just have no motivation to move
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: on from him unless the prize is big enough for
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: a return. So are you willing to part maybe with
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: one of your starting pitchers? For Steven Vogt, A manager
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: who can restore accountability and get this team finally over
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: the hump 4-9-4-5-1. Will it take starting pitching to get
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: this done? Is that enough to bring in your dream candidate?
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what are you willing to sacrifice is the question.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: Could be George Kirby. It could be Logan Gilbert also.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: I thought about when the Randy win for Lou Piniella
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: trade happened. Similar analytics as far as F-War happened. Wynn
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: had that compared to Logan Gilbert. It may hurt to
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: give up somebody for this, but for a potential linchpin
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: that can push the right buttons and to get this
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: team to the land that one of our dear friends
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: at 1 p.m. said, I demand a World Series back
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: in April. There is clearly untapped potential that will require
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: another mind like his to fully unlock every door possible.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: and put it into place. Steven votes my pick here
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: for this. But you tell me, 49451, Tacoma Dash text line,
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: also talkbacks via the iHeartRadio app. Mariners, you have one mission.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: Bring him home. Up next, Farhan Lajji will talk Seahawks
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: and Kraken next year.
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: 93.3 KJRFM.
• 43:07
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• 43:11
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• 43:13
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• 43:16
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• 43:19
  Speaker 2: puck drop, airtime 530. Yours truly, I'll join you from
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: Tom's Watch Bar. By the way, Everett Fitzhugh, Al Koniski
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: in the booth at Scotiabank. Saddle Dome, off we go
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: for game one of 84. The Seahawks prepping to host
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: the Chargers this weekend as they come up. That disappointing
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: loss to the Commanders. Julian Love practicing yesterday, limited basis.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: Nicky Manwari, full participant in practice. Ty Okada did not practice.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: And developing story from our own Greg Bell, who I
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: have no idea how he got this out on the plane,
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: but he did. Zach Charbonnet. The Seahawks will designate him
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: to return to practice while on the pup list. So
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: now a 21-day window is here when he can practice
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: without counting for the 53-man roster. He must miss at
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: least one more game before he could play. That is
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: a massive step for the Seahawks and their running game.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: MLB postseason. Phillies over the Braves 4-3. That wild card
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: series tied one games apiece. White Sox swept the Astros. Boo-hoo.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: Trash cans are out. 7-3 win. White Sox advance in
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: two games. Yankees swept the Red Sox in two. 9-2
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: victory last night. Padres swept the Cubs 4-1. And they
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: move on to the NLDS. Sounders against Sporting KC tonight. 6-30.
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: You can hear that game on the Seattle Soccer Radio
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: tonight online or via the iHeartRadio app. All right, on
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: to the show we go for on Logi. Okay, rolling
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: on now here to our big part of the show
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: because this guy joining us now every Thursday. Always appreciate
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: his insight. This is Farhan Lalji of TSN joining us
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: right now on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. And six degrees
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: of separation, I would say, here for this area because
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: this man has been deep into the weeds with the NHL,
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: with the NFL. We're firing the NHL finally up around
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: these parts, but still a lot to talk about here
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: from the Seahawks' side. He resides though. I believe not
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: too far away from the good ship Aquilini, AKA the
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: Vancouver Canucks far hot. How are you? How are things
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: up there? I missed the Canucks waters.
• 45:28
  Speaker 7: You had to tie me in with that.
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: Didn't you?
• 45:31
  Speaker 7: You had to tie me in like thing now.
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: I know Greg would never do that. Jessamine would never
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: do that. My goodness.
• 45:41
  Speaker 7: You were off the Christmas card list.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: What's it going to happen for?
• 45:48
  Speaker 7: Well, like look, rivalries don't happen until teams get into
• 45:50
  Speaker 7: the playoffs.
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: That's going to take some time for both.
• 45:52
  Speaker 7: Of these teams, especially the one I'm closer to up
• 45:55
  Speaker 7: here in Vancouver. I will say this. It's a funner
• 45:58
  Speaker 7: group to be around. It's funner a word.
• 46:00
  Speaker 5: It is today.
• 46:01
  Speaker 7: They're just with the new president, the new GM, the
• 46:04
  Speaker 7: new head coach, there's just a different era of professionalism and,
• 46:08
  Speaker 7: and what they're trying to do culture wise. So it's,
• 46:10
  Speaker 7: They are better to cover and be around, which is
• 46:14
  Speaker 7: because when you're losing, you got to be good to
• 46:15
  Speaker 7: deal with because you can't be a.
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: Bad team and bad to deal with.
• 46:18
  Speaker 7: And they were certainly a lot of fun the other
• 46:20
  Speaker 7: night against Edmonton to open the season. If they can
• 46:23
  Speaker 7: play like that, regardless of whether they win or lose,
• 46:26
  Speaker 7: but just that level of effort. a little bit of offense,
• 46:29
  Speaker 7: just kind of sticking with it. They weren't the better
• 46:31
  Speaker 7: team that night, but they found a way to win.
• 46:32
  Speaker 7: If they can play with that kind of effort, I
• 46:35
  Speaker 7: think they'll be a lot of fun to watch this season,
• 46:37
  Speaker 7: which should be half the battle because they haven't been
• 46:39
  Speaker 7: fun for the last couple of years.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: The NHL is sloppy hockey in Vancouver, but it is
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: anything can happen hockey as far as this month. And
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: that's what we saw. We'll see what breeds out of
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: the Kraken and Calgary Flames side of things here for tonight.
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: But hey, Always appreciate you doing this here with us,
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: and I'll work here for a few minutes to get
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: back on that Christmas card list. But before I get
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: back into the NFL side of things, Farhan, just one
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: more thing with the Canucks. The biggest difference now as
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: far as the feel around this organization, then say versus roughly,
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: you know, I would say... 10 to 15 years ago,
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: different times, different players, of course. But I mean, how
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: would you kind of pay the biggest difference as far
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: as where they are headed as far with a general
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: team direction?
• 47:27
  Speaker 7: Well, I mean, you know, 15 years ago, they were
• 47:29
  Speaker 7: actually coming out of a pretty good era, right? Getting
• 47:31
  Speaker 7: to the Stanley Cup final in 2011 and having a
• 47:33
  Speaker 7: couple of good seasons after that. And then after that,
• 47:36
  Speaker 7: they were kind of kidding themselves for a long time,
• 47:38
  Speaker 7: thinking that that window was still open and we still
• 47:40
  Speaker 7: have a chance to kind of recreate that.
• 47:41
  Speaker 5: We just need a couple of tweaks here and there.
• 47:44
  Speaker 5: But we could all see which way it was headed.
• 47:45
  Speaker 5: And eventually... Um, you know.
• 47:47
  Speaker 7: It took us a dozen years before they got to
• 47:49
  Speaker 7: the point where they were, they would use the word rebuild, right.
• 47:52
  Speaker 7: They would always talk around it a little bit and
• 47:54
  Speaker 7: they would just, you know, the messaging was always so awkward.
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: And I know they felt what's the big deal. It's
• 47:59
  Speaker 5: just a word.
• 48:00
  Speaker 7: Well, and that's kind of what we felt on the
• 48:01
  Speaker 7: media side. What's the big deal. It's just a word,
• 48:04
  Speaker 7: but messaging matters. And, you know, I, I think the
• 48:07
  Speaker 7: fan base here, the owner who you tied me in
• 48:10
  Speaker 7: with before the got you off the Christmas card, like, like,
• 48:13
  Speaker 7: the owner just wouldn't have it, right?
• 48:15
  Speaker 5: Like he wasn't going to allow a rebuild because he
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: wanted playoff revenue. And now that, so then they.
• 48:20
  Speaker 7: Spun their wheels and he still wasn't.
• 48:21
  Speaker 5: Getting playoff revenue.
• 48:23
  Speaker 7: So finally he decided to give in and I think
• 48:26
  Speaker 7: the market's ready for it, right? Like they just want
• 48:27
  Speaker 7: to see some direction. They want to see some vision.
• 48:30
  Speaker 7: They want to see a plan for something sustainable, not
• 48:32
  Speaker 7: just getting into the playoffs, like they did, you know,
• 48:35
  Speaker 7: three years ago and then have two bad years right
• 48:37
  Speaker 7: after that. So I think it's, you know, again, I
• 48:40
  Speaker 7: think there's just some excitement at, Let's try this.
• 48:44
  Speaker 5: Let's try something new and let's give these guys a chance.
• 48:47
  Speaker 7: Let's not worry about wins and losses and try to
• 48:51
  Speaker 7: develop and accumulate assets.
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: Farhan Lajji joining us right now on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline.
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: And it's funny how just mindset just dictates everything and
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: it dictates a lot. And that kind of goes without
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: saying here for the Seahawks side when They went through
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: this transition. It just kind of felt like a light
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: speed turnaround going from Pete Carroll to Mike McDonald and boom,
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: right back to getting the hands on the Lombardi trophy.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: But they suffered their first loss in what feels like
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: in a long, long, long time. And to a team
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: that maybe exposed some concern with the commanders, there is
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: a turnover thing, but Farhan, I think to you, the
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: attention on the Seahawks right now, I mean, where did
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: things go wrong and how much of a level is
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: there a concern? Maybe you think with how turnovers are
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: factoring in with this football team.
• 49:38
  Speaker 7: I don't think they're going to be overly concerned. And
• 49:40
  Speaker 7: I say that because they lived this life a year ago, right?
• 49:43
  Speaker 5: Sandarno leading the league in turnovers, 14.
• 49:45
  Speaker 7: Interceptions, six fumbles, and yet they win 17 of 20 games,
• 49:49
  Speaker 7: you know, regularly. So I think that they believe they can.
• 49:54
  Speaker 5: Manage all of that.
• 49:55
  Speaker 7: I kind of want to give Darnold a bit of
• 49:57
  Speaker 7: a mulligan. The first interception wasn't really his fault, kind
• 49:59
  Speaker 7: of bouncing off an element.
• 50:01
  Speaker 5: The second one was really bad.
• 50:03
  Speaker 7: But at the same time, you kind of run this
• 50:05
  Speaker 7: risk a little bit when nobody plays in the preseason.
• 50:07
  Speaker 7: And for Sam Darnold, this was really game one, right?
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: Because.
• 50:10
  Speaker 7: You only play five games in their five plays in
• 50:13
  Speaker 7: that first game where he got hurt.
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: So this is his first meaningful action.
• 50:17
  Speaker 7: And it really wasn't Seattle Seahawks football, right? When Sam
• 50:21
  Speaker 7: Darnold has to throw the ball 45 times, I don't
• 50:23
  Speaker 7: think that's happened since he was a New York jet.
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: That's not a good thing.
• 50:26
  Speaker 7: And then I'm not saying that because he's a bad
• 50:28
  Speaker 7: quarterback and he's not, it's just a case of, they
• 50:31
  Speaker 7: want to play the game a certain way. Their identity
• 50:34
  Speaker 7: is to run.
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: The football and.
• 50:38
  Speaker 7: Action and, you know, run those West coast principles when
• 50:41
  Speaker 7: you're throwing 72% of the time.
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: In a game. And it was a game that was
• 50:45
  Speaker 5: generally a one score game, right?
• 50:47
  Speaker 7: Late after the pick six, it was a two score game,
• 50:49
  Speaker 7: but for the most part, it was a one score game,
• 50:51
  Speaker 7: but they couldn't do anything in the run game. So
• 50:53
  Speaker 7: when that happens, you put yourself in vulnerable territory. We're
• 50:56
  Speaker 7: not just talking about the fumbles.
• 50:58
  Speaker 5: It was just there.
• 50:59
  Speaker 7: Inability to effectively run the football outside of Judarian Price's
• 51:03
  Speaker 7: one fumble was very different than what we've seen from
• 51:05
  Speaker 7: this team a year ago.
• 51:06
  Speaker 5: And quite frankly, different from what we saw from this
• 51:08
  Speaker 5: team in game one and two.
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: And Judarian Price is going to be front and center
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: here of this, especially until Zach Charbonnet is back because
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: he had issues with taking care of the ball. Mike
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: McDonald says they're still going to feed him, but I mean, it,
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: I love the point that you made with preseason and
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: how this kind of factors in. Do you think it's
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: fair to even kind of look back and think, you know,
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: was it really fair to keep Price out of action
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: because he hasn't played football that long since coming out
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: of the college ranks? And here he is, as we're
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: still trying to see if he can get really dialed
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: up as RB1.
• 51:43
  Speaker 7: Yeah. Like I get it. I get why they did it.
• 51:46
  Speaker 7: And I think they did it because it was such
• 51:47
  Speaker 7: a thin running back room. They just didn't want to
• 51:49
  Speaker 7: take a chance that you've already got Charbonnet out. Now
• 51:51
  Speaker 7: you've got this guy, but it is tough because he
• 51:54
  Speaker 7: wasn't a full-time starter at Notre Dame. And now you say, okay,
• 51:57
  Speaker 7: you're going to be our starter. We're not going to
• 51:58
  Speaker 7: give you any preseason ramp up. So the first time
• 52:01
  Speaker 7: you feel professional football hits, you were the starting running
• 52:05
  Speaker 7: back in a regular season NFL game.
• 52:06
  Speaker 5: So, you know, they, they just.
• 52:08
  Speaker 7: Decided that we were going to deal with injury prevention
• 52:11
  Speaker 7: ahead of anything else and um it's the risk you
• 52:16
  Speaker 7: take but the same decisions honestly i probably would have
• 52:20
  Speaker 7: right like i probably would have done what they're doing
• 52:23
  Speaker 7: because you know it was it was a thin room
• 52:26
  Speaker 7: and price got hurt missed a week of practice during
• 52:29
  Speaker 7: training camp right so that also makes you a little bit.
• 52:31
  Speaker 5: Nervous and that's you know like.
• 52:33
  Speaker 7: It we might only have a certain amount of miles
• 52:36
  Speaker 7: for a guy that hasn't had a heavy workload all
• 52:38
  Speaker 7: the way through, which probably do need to be a
• 52:40
  Speaker 7: little bit more careful. So I think it made sense.
• 52:42
  Speaker 7: Ultimately it didn't work out, but you know, we are
• 52:45
  Speaker 7: where we are because of it. And, you know, and
• 52:47
  Speaker 7: I just, I think he's going to be okay, but
• 52:50
  Speaker 7: you know, I, it, it is, they, they ran the risk.
• 52:53
  Speaker 7: I would have made the same risk, but you know,
• 52:54
  Speaker 7: there is a downside to it. We're living it right now.
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: What was your biggest takeaway with Sam Darnold being back in?
• 53:03
  Speaker 7: I thought he had such a great command of the
• 53:04
  Speaker 7: offense and I thought he had to throw too much, right?
• 53:07
  Speaker 7: Like when you throw that much and you can't run
• 53:08
  Speaker 7: the ball, the play action game becomes less effective. The
• 53:11
  Speaker 7: chemistry with Jackson Smith and Jigbo is just off the charts, right?
• 53:14
  Speaker 7: I mean, what do you have? 37% of target share
• 53:17
  Speaker 7: in that game and has similar numbers all season. The
• 53:21
  Speaker 7: fact that there were plays where he was so tightly covered.
• 53:26
  Speaker 7: And yet Darnold fit it in there.
• 53:27
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 53:28
  Speaker 7: And he doesn't need much space to catch the ball.
• 53:30
  Speaker 7: And he did that. So I think other than the
• 53:32
  Speaker 7: one to throw, I was impressed with how he, how
• 53:36
  Speaker 7: he managed the game. You just don't want to be
• 53:37
  Speaker 7: in that situation where he's got to throw it 45 times.
• 53:40
  Speaker 7: You want to get him into the low thirties for it.
• 53:44
  Speaker 7: and get a little bit more efficient with the run game.
• 53:45
  Speaker 7: And I think Darnold will be better for it. But
• 53:48
  Speaker 7: given the fact that it was his first game and
• 53:50
  Speaker 7: on top of that, he ran the ball really well, right?
• 53:53
  Speaker 7: Like when he had to scramble and extend, I thought
• 53:56
  Speaker 7: he did a really good job with that for a
• 53:57
  Speaker 7: guy that's dealing with a glute injury.
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: Sam Darnall will be getting a crack now at the Chargers,
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: who are going to be as desperate, and I mean
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: desperate with a capital D, this week because you can
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: kind of make the sense that if they go 0-4,
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: they're done, lights out, it's curtains for them under Jim
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: Harbaugh may be here for this season. I think just
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: from a general standpoint, as far as who the Seahawks
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: are facing... How likely is this kind of facing a
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: wounded duck scenario with Justin Herbert, his deep ball throwing issues,
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: but maybe as far as what the Seahawks can do
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: from a defensive standpoint to take advantage of them?
• 54:40
  Speaker 7: Look, I think this is absolute must-win territory for the Chargers.
• 54:43
  Speaker 7: So wounded or not, they're going to be desperate. That
• 54:46
  Speaker 7: is one thing that's really clear. The NFL did them
• 54:49
  Speaker 7: a bit of a favor with their first two games.
• 54:51
  Speaker 7: They have not done them a favor with the rest
• 54:53
  Speaker 7: of the schedule. When you look at what they've got
• 54:54
  Speaker 7: coming up between Seattle, Kansas City, they've already played.
• 54:58
  Speaker 5: Buffalo, but Denver, is in trouble.
• 55:03
  Speaker 7: And I said at the start of the year, I
• 55:04
  Speaker 7: didn't think they were going to be a legitimate contender
• 55:06
  Speaker 7: in that division, that the.
• 55:08
  Speaker 5: Chiefs were going to make it back.
• 55:09
  Speaker 7: But the Chargers don't have offensive weapons outside of the quarterback, right?
• 55:13
  Speaker 7: Omari and Hampton hasn't, you know, he's not that guy
• 55:15
  Speaker 7: quite yet. You've got Ladd McConkie. You don't have additional
• 55:18
  Speaker 7: receivers that can be difference makers. I mean, Matt McConkie
• 55:21
  Speaker 7: should be a receiver too, not a wide receiver one.
• 55:24
  Speaker 7: And they're feeding him. You look at Quinton Johnson, he's
• 55:26
  Speaker 7: had drop issues throughout his career going back to TCU. And,
• 55:30
  Speaker 7: you know, big drop again at a third down situation
• 55:33
  Speaker 7: in that last game. So when you look at when
• 55:36
  Speaker 7: you look at how they're constructed, I think they're, they're
• 55:40
  Speaker 7: in real trouble. And when you, I look, I like
• 55:42
  Speaker 7: Mike McDaniel a lot. I think he's a very good
• 55:44
  Speaker 7: offensive mind and I thought he was going to bring
• 55:46
  Speaker 7: the best out of Justin Herbert. But the problem was,
• 55:48
  Speaker 7: you know, when you, when you run that type of offense,
• 55:51
  Speaker 7: what are you doing?
• 55:52
  Speaker 5: You're trying to find, you're trying to.
• 55:54
  Speaker 7: Create matchups with all the motion and misdirection and all
• 55:57
  Speaker 7: that eye candy, right? They want to run the ball first.
• 55:59
  Speaker 7: They haven't been able to run the ball and you
• 56:02
  Speaker 7: might be able to get you know, pick your guy
• 56:05
  Speaker 7: isolated because he's running orbit motion. But then what's he
• 56:08
  Speaker 7: going to do with it? Because he can't separate, right?
• 56:10
  Speaker 7: It's not Tyree kill that you're throwing the ball to.
• 56:12
  Speaker 7: It's not Jalen Waddle that you're throwing the ball to, right?
• 56:15
  Speaker 7: So that creates, it creates problems. And then with all
• 56:17
  Speaker 7: that motion and I was down there at training camp
• 56:19
  Speaker 7: and I thought they were handling it well, but 10
• 56:22
  Speaker 7: procedure penalties, which leaves the league by a wide margin
• 56:24
  Speaker 7: right now. So, you know, you run the risk of
• 56:27
  Speaker 7: those types of things as well when you're playing that
• 56:30
  Speaker 7: kind of offense. So, you know, there is kind of a,
• 56:32
  Speaker 7: I don't want to call it risk reward, but, you know,
• 56:35
  Speaker 7: there's kind of a cost-benefit analysis in this particular situation,
• 56:38
  Speaker 7: because it's not about progression reads and, you know, looking through,
• 56:42
  Speaker 7: you know, one, two to three, it's get this guy
• 56:45
  Speaker 7: in space and get in the ball real quick.
• 56:47
  Speaker 5: And that's kind of not how Justin Herbert plays either.
• 56:49
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 56:49
  Speaker 5: So I'm not sure it's proven to be a really
• 56:52
  Speaker 5: good fit. Do they go out and try to get somebody?
• 56:54
  Speaker 7: I heard they're trying to, there's some conversation around the
• 56:57
  Speaker 7: chargers and Tyreek Hill, not something that's going to affect
• 56:59
  Speaker 7: them this, this weekend in Seattle, but it tells you
• 57:02
  Speaker 7: where they're at in terms of just needing to find
• 57:05
  Speaker 7: some dudes.
• 57:05
  Speaker 5: Cause they don't have them.
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and to that point, our morning show made this.
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: It was a great point as far as how Mike
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: McDaniel and Justin Herbert could be the odd couple. And
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: let's just say Mike McDaniel's an acquired taste and Justin
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: Herbert is still trying to acquire him really at this point.
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: But maybe a defense that he'll face with Nicky Manwari.
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: How important have we learned as far as what Eamon
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: Morey means here to this defense for this season. And
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: I think in your eyes, Farhan, how many snaps could
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: he maybe get as they kind of ease him back
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: after this last week?
• 57:40
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think they've got to get him to a
• 57:42
  Speaker 7: point of full load, right? He went from nine in
• 57:44
  Speaker 7: the first game to, I think it was, what, 52%,
• 57:46
  Speaker 7: 30-some-odd plays in the second game.
• 57:48
  Speaker 5: And it was not that. It was just kind of
• 57:50
  Speaker 5: how they were using him, right?
• 57:52
  Speaker 7: They weren't really taking advantage of everything he did a
• 57:55
  Speaker 7: year ago, right? He was pretty much playing at the
• 57:57
  Speaker 7: line of scrimmage. He was dropping into coverage a lot. And,
• 58:00
  Speaker 7: you know, they need to allow him to be that
• 58:03
  Speaker 7: dynamic playmaker. And talking to him yesterday, it feels like
• 58:07
  Speaker 7: he's ready, that he's hungry and wants that role again.
• 58:10
  Speaker 7: So they need to put him in that role so
• 58:11
  Speaker 7: they can be a little bit more multiple. I don't
• 58:13
  Speaker 7: want to be too down on what Seattle's defense did
• 58:16
  Speaker 7: in this last game because Seattle Well, the reality of
• 58:19
  Speaker 7: it is they didn't give up 33 points. They gave
• 58:21
  Speaker 7: up 26 because it was a pick six involved there.
• 58:23
  Speaker 7: And on top of that, they held Washington to three
• 58:26
  Speaker 7: for 13 on third down or yards per play, which
• 58:29
  Speaker 7: is a pretty good number. They were able to pressure
• 58:31
  Speaker 7: quarterback 43 percent of the time while blitzing only 17
• 58:34
  Speaker 7: percent of the time. So they didn't have to rely
• 58:36
  Speaker 7: on the blitz to get the pressure that they wanted. So,
• 58:38
  Speaker 7: you know, you look at a Chargers team right now
• 58:40
  Speaker 7: that's wounded in their interior defense.
• 58:42
  Speaker 5: Offensive line. So you might not need to do a.
• 58:45
  Speaker 7: Lot of exotic things to get the pressure that you
• 58:47
  Speaker 7: want to get. So, you know, were there a couple
• 58:49
  Speaker 7: of like in the second half, I thought they improved
• 58:51
  Speaker 7: a lot. That final drive where, where Mariota checked into
• 58:55
  Speaker 7: that jet sweep and they were able to get around
• 58:57
  Speaker 7: the edge on third and long and, and convert there,
• 58:59
  Speaker 7: you know, you'd love to have that back, but they
• 59:01
  Speaker 7: kind of guessed right. And, um, you know, when he
• 59:04
  Speaker 7: pulled the ball on the zone, read and kept the
• 59:05
  Speaker 7: ball and ice the game, you know, you want to
• 59:07
  Speaker 7: be able to do that, but you kind of get
• 59:08
  Speaker 7: why they were kind of going for it. it there defensively.
• 59:11
  Speaker 7: So again, I just, I don't think they were as
• 59:14
  Speaker 7: bad defensively as what that number looks like. And I
• 59:17
  Speaker 7: think they're going to be fine against an offense. That's
• 59:20
  Speaker 7: really trying to find itself right now.
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: Farhan what's more telling to you, the Niners at three
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: and O or the Rams at one and two.
• 59:28
  Speaker 7: Yeah, the Rams are surprising, right? And actually, to be honest,
• 59:31
  Speaker 7: both are because I did think that the injuries that
• 59:34
  Speaker 7: the Niners were dealing with were going to affect them
• 59:36
  Speaker 7: a little bit more earlier.
• 59:36
  Speaker 5: Now, you know, you're going to be without Nick Bosa
• 59:38
  Speaker 5: for a little bit. We'll see what that looks like
• 59:40
  Speaker 5: this week.
• 59:40
  Speaker 7: But so, yeah, I'm not sure which one surprises me more.
• 59:44
  Speaker 5: I think when we did our.
• 59:45
  Speaker 7: Preseason prognostications, I don't think any of us expected Miles
• 59:48
  Speaker 7: Garrett to be hurt that quickly. Yeah. But obviously he
• 59:51
  Speaker 7: was dealing with a lot during training camp. And one
• 59:54
  Speaker 7: of the things that I find absolutely bizarre with the
• 59:56
  Speaker 7: Rams right now, why would you invest $ 45 million in
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 7: two corners, Trent McDuffie and Jalen Watson, and you play
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 7: zone as much as you're playing it?
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 5: Right now like what are you.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 7: Doing especially on the third down in those looks so
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 7: I think I'm obviously really impressed with San Francisco I
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 7: didn't think they'd be a legitimate contender at this stage
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 7: well you know we'll see what it looks like as
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 7: the schedule gets a little bit tougher for them but
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 7: Brock Purdy's playing at a incredibly high level so you
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 7: know good for him but you know what we'll see
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 7: right like for the both of these teams I think
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 7: sustainability is going to be the key I don't think
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 7: the Rams are going to be this bad for so
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 7: long and I think the Niners at some point will
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 7: come down to earth to.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: A point Farhan Laji joining us right now on the
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: Beacon Plumbing Hotline. Going to be a crazy Sunday here
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: with the Seahawks and Chargers duking it out. And then
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: you have all of a sudden Seattle Sports' landscape transitioning
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: right into the Kraken and the Flames here for the
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: Kraken home opener. So if you love to party, you
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: better be around town all day long. It will be
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: a 5 p.m. puck drop. And I think when we
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: look at the Kraken Farhan in the same eyes as
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: the Canucks, there's that transition period we've been discussing. The
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: Kraken don't want to use the word rebuild. They just
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: prefer the word, you know, build here at this point.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: So I think from a Pacific Division standpoint, you know,
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: you had Connor McDavid calling this a pillow fight last year.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: The Flames won't do much, maybe. The Canucks have fully
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: admitted that they're into a rebuild. Where do you see
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: the Kraken fitting into this picture for this season?
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 7: Well, the Kraken are going to have to get a
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 7: little bit more out of some of these younger players.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 7: They're going to have to ascend to a slightly higher level, right?
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 7: I mean, you've got Shane Wright. I think there was
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 7: so much expectations around him coming into his career. And
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 7: then he has the good year two years ago, and
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 7: then he takes a bit of a step back last year.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 7: And then you hear his name in trade talk and
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 7: things like that. So I know that there's some nerves
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 7: because they acquired assets in him and Matty Beneers. But
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 7: are they the level of player that they want right now?
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 7: So I think both of them are capable of a
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 7: little bit more. And then I want to see how
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 7: a guy like Mackie Samaskevich, who they picked up from Florida,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 7: what he turns into. Because he's a guy that's been
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 7: a bottom six guy. He's produced an okay clip, but
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 7: now they're paying him and they want him to be
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 7: a different player.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 5: And I'm not sure what he really is, right?
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 7: Because, yeah, you think he's going to score more with
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 7: more opportunity, but you're also going to wind up with...
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 7: more difficult matchups right so i want to see what
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 7: he does in a in a bigger role right now
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 7: because um you know i think there's some question marks
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 7: there right so i think they've got some good young
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 7: talent i think their defense is a little bit in
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 7: transition right you still have montour and larson as kind
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 7: of your main guys and vince dunn none of those
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 7: guys are getting any younger right so they've got to
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 7: figure that out and um you know they're going to
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 7: require a lot from the goaltending right which was up
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 7: and down last year so i think there's some um Uh,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 7: I think there's some, uh, challenges there, but I think
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 7: there's some talent and some ability there as well. Right?
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 7: Like they, they're, they're probably a year or two ahead
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 7: of the Canucks, right? Because their core players are in
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 7: their early twenties, whereas the top players are younger than that.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 5: So, um, you know, but like, they're going to be
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 5: battling for the eighth spot, right?
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 7: Like they're not going to be, they're not going to
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 7: be battling for the division lead or anything like that.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 7: They're going to be battling for, you know, the final
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 7: playoff spot. I think they're capable, but they're going.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 5: To need to be better in goal.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 7: They're going to need to be better on their special
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 7: teams and maybe get, you know, 5% more out of
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 7: some of their top players.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: A big part of the conversation, a big part is
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: still the lack of a true superstar player. And we're
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: talking in level of production. That's been proven. So let's
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  Speaker 2: try this exercise on for size here, Farhan. If Matty
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  Speaker 2: Beneers has 30 goals and 70 points, do you think
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  Speaker 2: they are a playoff team?
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  Speaker 5: I do. Yep.
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  Speaker 7: You know, and I think if he does that, he
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  Speaker 7: probably drags Shane Wright along with him because a certain
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  Speaker 7: amount of that is power play points, right? And so
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  Speaker 7: then they can get more, a little bit more out
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  Speaker 7: of their special teams. So I think if they can
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  Speaker 7: get him to that number, I think you're probably going
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  Speaker 7: to get a bit more out of Shane Wright as well.
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  Speaker 7: And now you can, you can get close to that
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  Speaker 7: eight spot, but yeah, 70 points is probably.
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  Speaker 5: The right number.
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  Speaker 2: So cheers here to the first Kraken and Canucks matchup
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  Speaker 2: very soon. Are we back at the Christmas card list now, Farhan?
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  Speaker 4: You are.
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  Speaker 5: We just got to get these two teams to play.
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  Speaker 7: And we got to, you know, we got to get
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  Speaker 7: them to play in the playoffs at some point. And
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  Speaker 7: the problem with that is one of them has to
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  Speaker 7: like win the division and for the, you know, to
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  Speaker 7: face the other team. I think they're so far from that,
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  Speaker 7: but right. You know, rivalries are always built in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 7: So hopefully they can get there at some point.
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  Speaker 2: Man can dream. Man can dream.
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  Speaker 7: Farhan.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, appreciate this. We'll talk to you soon again. Appreciate you.
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  Speaker 12: In Lou Piniella's last game I recall I believe that
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  Speaker 12: he started Jay Buhner in right field now that was
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  Speaker 12: the kind of choice that sort of player-centric choice that
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  Speaker 12: is embodies Dan Wilson's management Lou Piniella screwed up.
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  Speaker 6: Okay and it was good.
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  Speaker 12: That we traded him finally getting a left fielder but
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  Speaker 12: the managers don't make a difference. No, no on vote.
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  Speaker 6: No, we don't trade a pitcher.
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  Speaker 13: Somebody mentioned yesterday that they wanted to see Jay Buhner
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  Speaker 13: as the Mariners' new manager.
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  Speaker 2: That's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 13: But I could totally see Jay Buhner as an assistant
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  Speaker 13: bench coach whose only job is to play pranks in
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  Speaker 13: the dugout and locker room and argue with the umpires.
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  Speaker 13: I mean, that'd be really cool to see Jay throw
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  Speaker 13: in his hat, kick in the dirt, and Taking one
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  Speaker 13: for the team so the manager can stay in the game.
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  Speaker 10: Still going to watch baseball, even though the Mariners underperformed
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  Speaker 10: greatly and didn't do a damn thing. But it gets
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  Speaker 10: me to thinking how the Yankees are playing without Judge
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  Speaker 10: and how Cal got screwed last year in the MVP voting.
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  Speaker 10: It's not MPP, most popular player. It's most valuable. They're
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  Speaker 10: winning without his ass.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, not only that also, but I'll point out to you,
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  Speaker 2: you're watching Padres Cubs. And may I remind you of
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  Speaker 2: a player by the name of Ty France and how
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  Speaker 2: he's doing.
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  Speaker 6: I know.
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  Speaker 3: Such a nice dude, too.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder what it would have liked to have a
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  Speaker 2: guy like Ty France up here. Oh, wait, he was
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  Speaker 2: already here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we had that. We had our chance.
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  Speaker 2: Chance with France. 49451, Tacoma Dodge text line. 714 said, yes,
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  Speaker 2: trade for Steven Vogt, no brainer. I would start by
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  Speaker 2: offering a prospect, but if needed, I would part ways
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  Speaker 2: with George Kirby or even Logan Gilbert. We are bound
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  Speaker 2: to lose one of them anyway, so let's get a
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  Speaker 2: proven manager in return. 206 saying trading one of our pitchers, starters,
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  Speaker 2: for nothing more than a manager would be incredibly careless
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  Speaker 2: and stupid no matter who it is. At this point,
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  Speaker 2: I disagree. Starting pitching, yes, I see the value.
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  Speaker 3: But again, we had that value for so long.
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  Speaker 2: And where did it get us? Everywhere from injuries to piggybacks.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is a button pushing issue. It's not
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  Speaker 2: the only issue, but it's a button pushing issue.
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  Speaker 3: And who is pushing those.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: 206.
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  Speaker 2: 206 wants Jerry as a part of the trade package.
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  Speaker 5: I have a.
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  Speaker 4: Feeling that it's not going to be a great return
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  Speaker 4: on investment on that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: 360.
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  Speaker 2: Some water resident. My daughter played basketball with Stephen Vogt
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  Speaker 2: and Stephen's wife. He would come to all the games.
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  Speaker 2: Most unassuming player you could imagine was very gracious, courteous
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  Speaker 2: to everyone around him. I would trade Kirby for him,
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  Speaker 2: by the way. I mean, the hometown thing's a real thing.
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  Speaker 2: If you can make it work, the hometown thing's a
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  Speaker 2: real thing. So, yeah, Stephen Vogt gets my vote, but
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  Speaker 2: but we haven't seen that next step that he was
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  Speaker 2: projected for. Is he the Kraken version of Julio? Just
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: a really good player at this point. That from the 206.
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  Speaker 3: It is my pick today. And I always go NFL.
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  Speaker 4: And I am taking Detroit minus three and a half
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  Speaker 4: at the Panthers. And I just believe a lot more
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  Speaker 4: in Detroit than what has been shown.
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  Speaker 3: I believe less in the Panthers.
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  Speaker 4: They got absolutely hammered by the Bears in week one.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that was a basketball game. 59 to 37.
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  Speaker 4: And then, you know, the Falcons are whatever they, they
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  Speaker 4: smoke them.
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  Speaker 3: That's fine. But it only took them. They only beat
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  Speaker 3: the Browns. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: They lost the Browns in a three point game in
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 4: that was in Cleveland. So I'm looking at the lions
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  Speaker 4: to go in there. So I'm talking from the Panther
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  Speaker 4: side of things. I'm looking for the.
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  Speaker 3: Lions to go in there and absolutely demolish them by
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  Speaker 3: more than a field goal.
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  Speaker 4: They're going to win by more than, Then a touchdown
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  Speaker 4: or a touchdown or more, I should say. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: just I don't see it. I mean, I know that
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  Speaker 4: they didn't have the greatest go against the Jets, which
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  Speaker 4: is my team who I picked against last week.
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  Speaker 2: But I just got through it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we got through it. Thank you, Pete Carroll. We
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  Speaker 4: got through it. I think the Lions are going to
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  Speaker 4: break it open in this game. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 4: the first quarter of the season. This is the final
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  Speaker 4: game of the first quarter of the season.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that they're just going to demolish the Panthers.
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  Speaker 3: I really do. I don't care if it's on the road.
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  Speaker 2: So your pick is the Lions at.
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  Speaker 3: At the Panthers, minus three.
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  Speaker 2: Minus three and a half. Just as the Lions at
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  Speaker 2: text FICTION to 49451. I mean, hey, for me, Carolina's
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  Speaker 2: got their top two cornerbacks out. J.C. Horn, Mike Jackson.
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  Speaker 2: Horn's one of the best around. Dave Canales said, quote,
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  Speaker 2: there's no replacing J.C.
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  Speaker 5: Horn.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there isn't. He's phenomenal.
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  Speaker 2: And now you've got to fill the void at cornerback,
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  Speaker 2: Brown and Williams. Good luck. Good luck. This is a
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  Speaker 2: Lions game here. I mean, Carolina's got mounting injuries where
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  Speaker 2: it just shows that they're just biting off way more
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  Speaker 2: than that they can chew at this point.
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  Speaker 3: I'm surprised that the line is that close, to be honest.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, me too.
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  Speaker 4: Three and a half points, especially because the Panthers are
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  Speaker 4: at home, right? So usually that's three points that you
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  Speaker 4: get for being at home.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we're talking about just how down bad the
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: Chargers are right now. Panthers are in one, just insane.
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  Speaker 2: A skeletal collapse waiting here to be laid to rest. Again,
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  Speaker 2: Jess has got the Lions at minus three and a half.
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  Speaker 2: mayor of Maple Valley. Well, it's October 1, so I
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  Speaker 2: kind of call this the passing of the torch from
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  Speaker 2: one Kraken guy to another Kraken guy. You're looking sprite.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Out of the mottles.
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  Speaker 6: Appreciate it, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Snazzy Kraken Hockey Network half zip.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Weather vest.
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  Speaker 6: So I don't spill anything on my shirt.
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  Speaker 2: That's what the cool people get.
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  Speaker 6: It's a don't spill something on your dress shirt.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still all decked out. I live in Radioland, so
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  Speaker 2: I'm still decked out in the Filson hoodie.
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  Speaker 6: Radioland is... There are... There are a lot of days
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  Speaker 6: that I really like Radio Land. Most days I like
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  Speaker 6: Radio Land. There is a version of me for the
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  Speaker 6: San Diego Padres. He had a great video of the
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  Speaker 6: radio version of me versus the TV version of me
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  Speaker 6: because he does some hits down there for TV. The
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  Speaker 6: radio version of him, like when the Padres were on
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  Speaker 6: the road, he's just in hat, hoodie, the whole thing.
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  Speaker 6: The KJR spring, summer, non-cracking game day version of me,
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  Speaker 6: as you well know, is a baseball hat, sweatpants, hoodie.
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  Speaker 6: And away we go. I'm not wearing a hat, not
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  Speaker 6: wearing a hoodie. And I walk in and big boss
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  Speaker 6: CrossFit guy down there, old Mark, he says, oh, it
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  Speaker 6: must be a TV game. You got the TV hair going.
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  Speaker 3: I always know.
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  Speaker 6: I had to go, I had to go, I had
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  Speaker 6: to like do an inventory yesterday. I go, damn, I
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  Speaker 6: think I need some hair. I don't know anything. It's
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  Speaker 6: been like six months since I had to pull a
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  Speaker 6: dress shirt out of the closet. So yeah, here we go.
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  Speaker 2: Put on the makeup. It's finally hockey season.
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  Speaker 6: Here we go, hockey season. I think it was you
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  Speaker 6: earlier that said something that really kind of made me smile.
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  Speaker 6: or maybe it was, I don't know if it was
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  Speaker 6: you or the morning show, made me smile to think
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  Speaker 6: that it's October 1st. And the Houston Astros are not
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  Speaker 6: playing baseball in October.
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of guys.
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  Speaker 6: Of course, nobody in the American League West is playing
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  Speaker 6: baseball in October.
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  Speaker 2: I said this. That's all right. I think it is fanatics.
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  Speaker 2: They're selling hooded sweatshirts. Every team is wearing the same
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  Speaker 2: brand of sweatshirt. I think last year it said built
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  Speaker 2: for fall. And now it's like nothing like October. Astros baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Are you watching on the couch? Nothing like October, kids!
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  Speaker 6: Hungry kids. They'll send those to a third world country somewhere.
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  Speaker 6: Because they're not playing in October either. They're playing as
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  Speaker 6: many games. They played two extra games. They got what
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  Speaker 6: they deserved. The empty ballpark.
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  Speaker 5: The booze.
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  Speaker 6: Didn't we just see what happened? That's karma. We just
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 6: saw that the American League West was indeed really awful.
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  Speaker 6: That was the best we had to offer in this division.
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  Speaker 6: They're the NFC South. You know, like where one and
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 6: two is going to get you in the playoffs, right?
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  Speaker 2: I see Dick's point of this. He brought this up,
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  Speaker 2: and this is kind of in comparison to, well, when
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  Speaker 2: you come out of the brutal schedule the Mariners had,
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  Speaker 2: and you had the Angels, the A's, the Rockies, and
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  Speaker 2: you're thinking, oh, it eases up. But Dick's like, well, yeah, well,
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  Speaker 2: this team sucks too. But still you think, you get
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  Speaker 2: in with that kind of pitching staff. Isn't it just
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  Speaker 2: a little bit different? Well, you will. A little bit different.
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  Speaker 6: We'll never know.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 6: We'll never know.
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  Speaker 5: But.
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  Speaker 6: The starting pitching wasn't as good as it was in
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  Speaker 6: the past. I mean, we talked about that yesterday, Joe Sheehan,
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  Speaker 6: you know, we'll have, you know, Sarah's on our last
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  Speaker 6: visit with, you know, coming up today. And it's like this,
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  Speaker 6: this starting pitching staff was not lights out.
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  Speaker 5: By any means.
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  Speaker 6: Like they weren't, it's not 2024 level. Like if you
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  Speaker 6: were voting on a Cy Young, not one of those
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  Speaker 6: guys to get a vote.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Like, which we're all talking about. Like, I mean, there
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  Speaker 2: might be three or four guys that could get Cy
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  Speaker 2: Young votes. Not this year.
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  Speaker 5: No, not this year.
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  Speaker 6: So, We move on. We move on to football. We got,
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  Speaker 6: you know, Huskies have a huge one on Saturday against USC.
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  Speaker 6: And basically, that's like a loser leaves town match as
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  Speaker 6: far as the college football playoff is concerned.
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  Speaker 2: Like the old school wrestling. They could easily win just
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  Speaker 2: one more game, maybe. Who, Washington?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Purdue?
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  Speaker 6: Well, they'll beat Purdue.
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  Speaker 2: They'll beat Purdue.
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  Speaker 6: I think.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody else? My point exactly.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: Well, because the thing, like, you would chalk up, I
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  Speaker 6: don't know, do they play Maryland or Rutgers? I don't
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  Speaker 6: know if they play those teams. These are awful.
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  Speaker 2: But here's the thing.
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  Speaker 6: Like, you would have, normally, you'd chalk up certain teams,
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  Speaker 6: like Iowa. You'd think, oh, you could probably take Iowa
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 6: at home. Iowa looks great. And that's here next week. Like,
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 6: the Saturday game, there's more pressure on USC, probably, because
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 6: Lincoln-Riley situation. Although, with the buyout, I don't think they
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 6: can afford to buy this guy out, so.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, yeah, we'll see.
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  Speaker 6: We got, we got, we have three hockey games in
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  Speaker 6: four days.
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  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Calgary twice. And oh, by the way, our, our, our friend,
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: our friend, who made this schedule? We, we, we, we
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: have some friends, some moles up there who got to
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: look at the lineup from a morning skate. It looks
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: like indeed Curtis Douglas and Jacob Melanson suiting up.
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  Speaker 6: Jacob Melanson just grew six inches. He's like the Grinch.
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  Speaker 6: His heart grew.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait for this. I said that this might
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  Speaker 2: be the most excited I'd been for a home opener
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: or for a season opener in maybe three years.
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  Speaker 6: Well, they're going to play a different style with that
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  Speaker 6: fourth line. We'll see how much ice time that fourth
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 6: line gets, but you would think that they would play
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  Speaker 6: a little bit different.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: I don't want to be overbearing or overextensive on the
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: impact of, say, Curtis Douglas. I mean, he is who
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  Speaker 2: he is. If you're looking to say he hasn't played
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  Speaker 2: 70 games, it's probably not going to happen. But he's
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: there for one role, and one role, period, is protection.
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  Speaker 6: Well, and just hold guys accountable and make everybody else
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 6: bigger on the ice.
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  Speaker 2: That's a step ahead, man.
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  Speaker 6: Hopefully the young guys like Berkley Catton and others have
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 6: taken a step forward. We'll find out here in six hours.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 6: You gave yourself a great show, man. Have a good one, Mikey.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 6: By the way, we've got Brennan Funston coming up. Your
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 6: text available starting at noon. Not a second before.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 3: I miss Brennan.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 6: Brennan Funston, fantasy football at noon, or at 2 o'clock,
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 6: but your text starting at noon. We'll get to those.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: Just kicked my rear last week. I'll be listening.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 6: Oh, I sure did. I'm smoking people. We've got a guy,
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 6: Ross Tucker, coming up at 1220 today. Weekly visit with Ross.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 6: Can't wait for that. The return of Steve Palazzolo. Talking
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 6: all things NFL. Check the Mike podcast. We've got Steve
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 6: coming on. 33rd team at 1 o'clock. Eno Saris' final
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 6: visit of the year. And then, as mentioned, Brandon Funston.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 6: Plus Factor Fiction. Actually, he's got a pick today. All
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 6: that coming up in the next three hours.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 5: Let's go.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: All right. You and me, Broadcastapalooza. Go Kraken. Big thank you,
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: Al Koniski, Farhan Lalji, your techs, your talkbacks. Greg's back
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: soon for Jessamyn.
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  Speaker 13: I'm Mike.
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  Speaker 2: See ya. Ian, up next.