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Chuck & Buck 6-4 Hour 2: Gregg Bell, ABC's of the M's and the NBA Finals · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three to three KJR FM Chuck and
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Speaker 1: Buck in the morning with no Chuck, no Buck today.
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Speaker 1: Bucky still out on medical lead check out, taking a
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Speaker 1: couple of days off. Also celebrating his fifty fifth birthday.
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Speaker 1: Happy birthday to Chuck if he's listening. Also, if you're listening,
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Speaker 1: you should still be sleeping all right. Time for our
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Speaker 1: frost Brewed Corps light headlines, Choose Chill. The Mariners fell
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Speaker 1: to the Mets in yesterday's series finale, snapping their eight
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Speaker 1: game win streak. Seven to one loss for Seattle that
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Speaker 1: was behind just four innings of work from George Kirby.
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Speaker 1: He gave up nine hits five runs, only struck out five.
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Speaker 1: Mariners offense only managed six hits compared to fourteen for
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Speaker 1: the Mets. Four of those came from Bobashett and I
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Speaker 1: hate that name. It's an off day for the Mariners
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Speaker 1: today as they head out on a pretty long road trip.
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Speaker 1: First up, they are in ch Troit tomorrow at three
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Speaker 1: forty with Brian Wu on the mound versus Framber Valdez.
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Speaker 1: The nixt took Game one in the NBA Finals last
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Speaker 1: night in sacrament Or.
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Speaker 2: Sacramento. I wrote San Antonio.
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Speaker 1: It was a one oh five ninety five win for
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Speaker 1: New York behind a double double from Carl Anthony Towns.
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Speaker 2: Jalen Brunson scored thirty.
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Speaker 1: Although if you listened to anyone on the radio this morning,
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Speaker 1: you would have thought Jalen Brunson had the worst game
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Speaker 1: of his entire life.
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Speaker 3: Was that right? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: They were like, oh, just a terrible game for Brunson.
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Speaker 1: He made up for it.
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Speaker 2: In the end.
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Speaker 1: But I'm like, I mean, yeah, it wasn't his best game,
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Speaker 1: but it came does that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a fourth quarter player.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: It was funny Wenby put up twenty six in the
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Speaker 1: losing effort for the Spurs. Those two teams meet again
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Speaker 1: tomorrow night.
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Speaker 2: In Game two.
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Speaker 1: The Storm fell two three and eight after a seventy
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Speaker 1: two sixty eight lost to the Mercury last night. Dick,
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Speaker 1: you were there, You know something about that there? Next up,
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Speaker 1: they had to Minnesota to face the Links on Saturday.
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Speaker 1: You don't have to go to Minnesota, right, No? No, okay,
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Speaker 1: all right, all right, just making sure the NHL is
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Speaker 1: shaking things up. I'm not sure if you guys heard
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Speaker 1: about this All Star weekend going to be a little
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Speaker 1: different next year. The twenty twenty seven mid Season Classic
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Speaker 1: will feature teams representing Canada, Finland, Sweden, the US, and
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Speaker 1: then a World team made up of international players outside
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Speaker 1: of those four teams. This, of course, follows the success
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Speaker 1: of the Four Nations face Off and then the Winter Olympics.
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Speaker 1: Each team is going to have nine skaters and two
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Speaker 1: goalies that will compete in a three on three round
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Speaker 1: robin exhibition tournament. Winning team gets a two million dollar prize.
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Speaker 1: I like that the NHL keeps trying to evolve their
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Speaker 1: All Star break with the four Nations. Obviously the Olympics
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Speaker 1: wasn't the NHL's choice, but I like that they're doing
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Speaker 1: something different each time, and now that they're going to
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Speaker 1: have a true All Star game, they're going to make
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Speaker 1: it more interesting because I think everybody, especially you can't
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Speaker 1: go from four Nations to the Olympics to.
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Speaker 2: Skills Challenge exactly.
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Speaker 1: It just doesn't have the same effects, doesn't have the
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Speaker 1: same effect, although they will still have the skills competition,
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Speaker 1: but that's going to focus on the next generation of stars,
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Speaker 1: with ten players twenty five or younger competing across eight events,
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Speaker 1: so they're making everything a little different for the next
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Speaker 1: All Star Game, and the Stanley Cut playoffs continue tonight,
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Speaker 1: Game two in Carolina at five Eastern as the Hurricanes
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Speaker 1: try to even that series with the Vegas Real quick
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Speaker 1: you mention there, yeah, because I hate that he just
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Speaker 1: torments us.
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Speaker 4: Well, the dude makes forty two million dollars a year.
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Speaker 5: His combined war for the last three seasons is only
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Speaker 5: two point four well combined, and he makes forty two
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Speaker 5: million dollars a year.
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Speaker 1: And that's just because he helped them win games against
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Speaker 1: the Mariners.
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Speaker 2: That's it.
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Speaker 4: We're just not a very good player.
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Speaker 2: No, he's not. But for some reason, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it's just because bobashet of old drove me so
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Speaker 1: crazy and now I can't get him out of my mind.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, gosh, I'm sick of that guy. Sick of
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Speaker 2: that guy.
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Speaker 4: Typical Mets signing there.
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Speaker 2: It is?
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Speaker 4: What are you doing?
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Speaker 1: You know who I'm not sick of though, I'm not
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Speaker 1: sick of Greg Bell. We should chat with him.
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Speaker 2: Let's do it, Greg.
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Speaker 6: Good morning.
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Speaker 3: I'm glad you're not sick of me.
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Speaker 6: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're welcome.
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Speaker 6: A little bar.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's just Bobashett right now, that's it.
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Speaker 6: So you're saying I'm ABOVETT.
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Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, until tomorrow, and then I'm also sick of Framber
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Speaker 1: Valdez and that's who we're facing tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: So talk to me on Saturday. I'll add more people to.
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Speaker 4: Greg's war is way higher than both.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're like a ten.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, your wars out of control right now, out.
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Speaker 3: My wife what war is, and then we'll see if.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be, You're gonna be have a
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Speaker 1: lower war in your own household.
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Speaker 2: That's always gonna be. That's always the case. All right.
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Speaker 1: Well, Greg, you were out at OTAs yesterday and of course,
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Speaker 1: big news coming out of Renton. I almost said vMac,
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Speaker 1: which we're not supposed to say. Big news coming out
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Speaker 1: of Renton was that the Seahawks signed Derek Hall to
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Speaker 1: an extension. He met with with the media afterwards, and
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Speaker 1: I thought it was in I saw you post that.
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Speaker 1: He said, you know, yeah, I know I could have
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Speaker 1: taken more money, I could have waited for free agency,
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Speaker 1: but I chose to stay here. So what is it
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Speaker 1: about this team that is so special? And do you
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Speaker 1: think it just takes a special kind of player to
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Speaker 1: make the decision that Haul did and not just go
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Speaker 1: for the money.
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Speaker 3: It does, and it also takes a culture, the culture
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Speaker 3: that Mike McDonald has made in two years. This is
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Speaker 3: the price you tag. You can put on culture to
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Speaker 3: keep players here. To have Derek Hall say, well, yeah,
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Speaker 3: I know what the market is. I know, boy, Mafe
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Speaker 3: made six million more a year than the Seahawks are
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Speaker 3: offering me. I can wait till free agency and go
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Speaker 3: find my market. I'm two years younger than Mafey. I've
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Speaker 3: played better than Mafay. I can run, hold the run
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Speaker 3: and set an edge better. He fits McDonald's defense better,
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Speaker 3: which is why the Seahawks chose him and not Mafe,
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Speaker 3: because of his run stopping primarily and top of pressure
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Speaker 3: in quarterbacks. But he said, you know what, culture to
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Speaker 3: me is more important than money. He actually said that
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Speaker 3: when I had talked to him, why why didn't you wait?
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Speaker 3: I just thought, so, why didn't you wait till you
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Speaker 3: know what the market was? You saw what Mafay got,
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Speaker 3: why didn't you wait? And I knew he's gonna say
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Speaker 3: what he said, And he said that he loves coming
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Speaker 3: to work guys, rasing him and yesterday. I mean the
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Speaker 3: second he stepped on the practice field, Julian Love and
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Speaker 3: Devin Witherspoon were all over him, and they stayed on
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Speaker 3: him the whole time. The practice ended, and Weatherspoon was
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Speaker 3: still ripping him for this and rasing him for that.
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Speaker 3: And it was the roast Derek call day because he
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Speaker 3: got a new deal. Love says that no one on
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Speaker 3: the team talks more crap except he didn't say crap,
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Speaker 3: and no one gets on the team gets more crap
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Speaker 3: except he didn't say crap. Talked at him. Then Derek Hall,
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Speaker 3: he said, Derek Hall is actually louder than is Devin Witherspoon,
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Speaker 3: which is saying something. They love him. They love calls
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Speaker 3: him the most violent player on the team, and that's
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Speaker 3: the name of the game.
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Speaker 6: Blow up on defense, to blow up the guy.
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Speaker 3: In front of you and get to the ball carry
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Speaker 3: And that's what Derek Hall does. That's what Mike McDonald loves.
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Speaker 3: So they knew that. The Seahawks knew that, and they
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Speaker 3: offered him a lower than market value contract early in
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Speaker 3: the process of doing this, and he signs it. So
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Speaker 3: there's something to be said. Not every guy chases every dollar.
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Speaker 3: Now you can go on the flip side of that
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Speaker 3: and say, when you're twenty five years old in the
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Speaker 3: NFL and nothing's guaranteed beyond the year you're in, you
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Speaker 3: should probably get everything you can when you can, and
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Speaker 3: that's what agents tell you. And he did the opposite
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Speaker 3: of that.
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Speaker 5: How about Dante Fowler added to this rotation? What type
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Speaker 5: of impact do you think he'll make?
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Speaker 4: What was he got left?
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Speaker 3: Well, they're going to find that out, Dick, because I
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Speaker 3: think as of right now, he's shaping up to be
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Speaker 3: a situational third down guy and a pass rush specialist.
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Speaker 3: They thought maybe they would have that into Marcus Lawrence.
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Speaker 3: They weren't sure this time last year all that Lawrence
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Speaker 3: would give him, and they certainly didn't expect all that
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Speaker 3: Lawrence gave him at age thirty three in his twelfth
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Speaker 3: NFL season, and now he's back for thirteen at age
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Speaker 3: thirty four, looking exactly the same. I can't think that
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Speaker 3: they're going to expect that Saler's going to give him
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Speaker 3: what Lawrence did. Lawrence gave him a Pro Bowl, almost
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Speaker 3: all Pro season last year, so I would think it's
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Speaker 3: more of a third down limited thirty percent of snaps
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Speaker 3: in a game on defense until he proves he could
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Speaker 3: do more than that. But his pedigree, his demo has
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Speaker 3: been rushed the quarterback straight up field, and that's where
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Speaker 3: he's made his money. And they, of course, Mike McDonald,
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Speaker 3: of course, wants a run stuff for Red Setter that
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Speaker 3: can do more than just rush the quarterback, which is
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Speaker 3: why it looks like Foaler will have at least a
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Speaker 3: limited specialized role for now.
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Speaker 1: Greg Bell is with us from the Tacoma Who's Tribune
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Speaker 1: and of course ten to one here on Sports Radio
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Speaker 1: ninety three to three KJR as well. Of course, I
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Speaker 1: think one of the things that we've talked about a lot.
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Speaker 1: They signed JSN to his extension and now they've resigned
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Speaker 1: Derek Hall. Everyone is just waiting, when is this going
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Speaker 1: to happen with Evan Witherspoon. Are you surprised at all
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Speaker 1: that they extended Derek Hall before they extended Witherspoon?
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Speaker 3: No, because Hall took less of the market value, and
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Speaker 3: Witherspoon's going to be the top of the market, probably
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Speaker 3: the highest paid cornerback of the league, probably higher than
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Speaker 3: Terry McDuffie at thirty.
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Speaker 6: One million a year.
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Speaker 3: And when you get into that type of money. The
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Speaker 3: devil's in the details of when does the guaranteed money
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Speaker 3: come do, how much is guaranteed it's signing, how much
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Speaker 3: is against guaranteed against injury, what's the spread across the
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Speaker 3: entire length of the contract look like for your salary
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Speaker 3: cap All that takes time. Typically they are these type
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Speaker 3: of big, big ticket deals for their true foundation. Guys
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Speaker 3: come in the first days of training camp. So I
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Speaker 3: have been all along expecting for Witherspoon to sign on
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Speaker 3: or around July twenty fifth, when they start training camp,
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Speaker 3: and it's not an alarm that he's not signed yet.
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Speaker 3: Because Hall was willing to take less money and not
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Speaker 3: really drive them hard at the bargaining table. This got
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Speaker 3: done easily Jackson Smith and Jigbus was an anomaly for
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Speaker 3: as large as that con was, he also made it
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Speaker 3: relatively easy on the Seahawks negotiation wise, and took their offer,
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Speaker 3: which it wasn't peanuts. It was one hundred and sixty
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Speaker 3: eight million, the richest contract for a wide receiver NFL history.
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Speaker 3: Willison was gonna get done, But in the meantime, he's
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Speaker 3: not practicing. He's there, he's stretching, he's doing the initial stuff.
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Speaker 3: With his teammates, but when they start drilling and scrimmaging,
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Speaker 3: he is standing out. And that's like the mini holdout
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Speaker 3: way of hold in, way of saying I'm not getting hurt.
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Speaker 3: My agents tell him he don't even risk an injury
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Speaker 3: until you sign this new deal. And it's June. You
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Speaker 3: have a Super Bowl champion defense ats ranked number one
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Speaker 3: in the league last year. They don't need him practice
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Speaker 3: it in June.
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Speaker 5: What was the scuttle but over there yesterday about the
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Speaker 5: Miles Garrett signing our trade rather.
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Speaker 3: Okay, the Rams are coming to get us, Bring it on.
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Speaker 3: That's basically their mentality. We've reloaded. We've got forty nine
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Speaker 3: of fifty three players on our Super Bowl from last year.
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Speaker 3: We have twenty of twenty two starters returning on both
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Speaker 3: sides of the ball. We have the number one defense,
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Speaker 3: we won the Super Bowl last year. Come give us.
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Speaker 3: No one's saying that outwardly, but that's there. They are
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Speaker 3: very confident and Julian excuse me, talked about this a
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Speaker 3: little bit yesterday. Where they are mentality wise on the
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Speaker 3: field x's and o's wise and stalling wise, they're so
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Speaker 3: far ahead of even last year, which last year, they
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Speaker 3: were so far ahead of the year before because the
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Speaker 3: year before was Mike McDonald's per season. But the veterans,
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Speaker 3: the Julian Love, Devin Witherspoon, DeMarcus Lawrence, Leonard Williams, Ernest Jones,
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Speaker 3: they are so far ahead because they saw McDonald's system
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Speaker 3: work to win a Super Bowl last year, and it's like,
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Speaker 3: there's nothing that this team doesn't believe in Mike McDonald. McDonald,
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Speaker 3: in fact, is now switching up a little bit. He's
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Speaker 3: doing a little different fronts. He's changing up some blitz packages.
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Speaker 3: He's got a.
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Speaker 6: Counter to the counter that the Rams in the.
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Speaker 3: League are going to have for the Seahawks this year.
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Speaker 3: But the evolution of this program, they are quantum leaps
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Speaker 3: ahead of where they were this time last year because
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Speaker 3: now it's been proven to the veteran that this works.
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Speaker 3: The buying is off the charts. So the Rams, I mean,
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Speaker 3: they could bring in Joe Montana and Ronnie Lott, and
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Speaker 3: they could bring in the greatest players of the last
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Speaker 3: generation and the Seahawks attitude would still be the same.
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Speaker 3: The other thing they did they have been talking about
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Speaker 3: is we don't play the Rams until Christmas for the
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Speaker 3: first time, so we have a lot of other things
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Speaker 3: to worry about and do until we get to the Rams.
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Speaker 3: They're not the only thing on the Seahawks minds.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is true. That is what I think is
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Speaker 1: the benefit. Plus, you get a lot of tape to
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Speaker 1: watch of the Rams by the time you're actually playing them.
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Speaker 2: Greg.
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Speaker 1: Something else happened yesterday with a former Seahawks Russell Wilson
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Speaker 1: announced his retirement. I was actually personally looking forward to
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Speaker 1: seeing him back up Gino. I just felt like that
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Speaker 1: was really a full circle opportunity there. He of course
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Speaker 1: didn't actually say the words I'm retiring. He just said
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Speaker 1: thank you football and really hinted that he's done. How
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Speaker 1: we know how he ranks as far as Seahawks quarterbacks
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Speaker 1: go and Seahawks players go. But as far as the
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Speaker 1: NFL and Hall of Fame do you think that he's
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Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame worthy player?
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Speaker 3: He's close. He might be one yard close. The discriminator
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Speaker 3: for quarterbacks between winning one Super Bowl and two is
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Speaker 3: large as far as Canton goes. And that's the rub
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Speaker 3: with him. It's easy to have recency bias and say, well,
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Speaker 3: he's a failure. No, he wasn't right. For ten years,
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Speaker 3: he was the best quarterback the Seacks have ever had.
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Speaker 3: He's one of the best athletes and people Seattle sports
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Speaker 3: has ever had. And anyone who's lived in Seattle beyond
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Speaker 3: the day knows that, no matter how he ended it,
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Speaker 3: no matter how he forced his way out at his
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Speaker 3: best and his during those ten years, there was no
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Speaker 3: one better that Seattle's ever had in any sport, Ken
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Speaker 3: Griffey Junior included. But people don't remember that. So a
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Speaker 3: couple of years from now, a couple decades from now,
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Speaker 3: they'll look back and realize that Russell Wilson was the
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Speaker 3: best who ever did it here in Seattle got him
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Speaker 3: their first Super Bowl championship. The thing I wrote about
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Speaker 3: this morning the News Tribune is and it's something that
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Speaker 3: Wilson touched on in his video saying Goodbye to football.
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Speaker 3: His truest legacy, guys, isn't even on the field here.
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Speaker 3: What he was best at doing was he elevated people
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Speaker 3: around him. He used the platform of football to make
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Speaker 3: people better, to make Seattle Children, for instance. I could
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Speaker 3: go on and on about My wife works at Seattle Children.
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Speaker 3: She saw firsthand how he transformed families there and how
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Speaker 3: they had Blue Tuesdays instead of Blue Fridays, with the
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Speaker 3: patients and the patient's families waiting for Russell Wilson to
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Speaker 3: show up. Wilson by away the very first Tuesday he
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Speaker 3: was ever here. In twenty twelve, in the spring after
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Speaker 3: the SEAHOKX drafted in the third round out of Wisconsin,
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Speaker 3: the very first Tuesday he was here for Roockie Minicamp.
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Speaker 3: He showed up unannounced at Seattle Children's and he went
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Speaker 3: to the front desk, the visitor's desk, he said, Hi,
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Speaker 3: I'm Russell Wilson, and the guard said, who are you?
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Speaker 3: We don't know who you are. And from that point
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Speaker 3: he wanted to go see the kids.
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Speaker 6: And from that point on.
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Speaker 3: Every Tuesday for ten years, in season and off and
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Speaker 3: out of season, he was there. And for those that
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Speaker 3: worked there, those who were having to be inside children's hospital,
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Speaker 3: families impacted by the life changing, life challenging events that
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Speaker 3: happened inside that hospital. For young kids, he changed their lives.
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Speaker 3: And if you can take sports and have that impact
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Speaker 3: beyond sports, you're transcendent. I could go on and on
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Speaker 3: about how much I think Russ Wilson means this community
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Speaker 3: still and I think it's a shame how his legacy
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Speaker 3: got tarnished by how it ended and then what happened
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Speaker 3: with Denver and Pittsburgh Giants on a football sense. To
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Speaker 3: answer your question again, I think he's very close, but
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Speaker 3: I don't think right now he would be a Hall
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Speaker 3: of Fame player. He could be someone who ended up
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Speaker 3: getting up in a senior committee and a second go
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Speaker 3: around typening, but I think it's going to be tough
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Speaker 3: on a modern near about for him to get in.
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Speaker 5: Well, it's interesting you brought up one yard away because
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Speaker 5: I'm not going to pound the table for Russell Wilson
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Speaker 5: to make the Hall of Fame. But if that play
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Speaker 5: goes differently, I don't think there's any question, Yeah, anybody's
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Speaker 5: so it's like, how do we how do we go
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Speaker 5: from hell, I don't know, to one play going different?
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Speaker 5: There really wasn't his fault for him being a shoe in.
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Speaker 5: I mean that that seems you know, there's got to
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Speaker 5: be some nuance in there instead of just a no
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Speaker 5: or a yes based upon one play.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's perception a two times super Bowl champion versus
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Speaker 3: a Trent Dilfer or Now he's better than Trent Dilfer.
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Speaker 3: You get my point. A quarterback who won one Super
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Speaker 3: Bowl with a great defense, But that's the perception and
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Speaker 3: then voter's mind sometimes that's what matters. You're right, it's
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Speaker 3: a pretty fine hair to split. I would take a
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Speaker 3: little exception that he did throw the ball, and he
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Speaker 3: did throw the ball to Ricardo Lockett, which is one
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Speaker 3: of the maybe fifth receiver on the options, but that
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Speaker 3: was a play call. Yes, but he threw the ball,
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Speaker 3: so there's culpability there. But I get it. Everything else
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Speaker 3: up to that point says he could be a Hall
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Speaker 3: of Famer if he completes that pass. Yeah. I think
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Speaker 3: that is true, and that's what makes his case so
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Speaker 3: intriguing and difficult for me. But I mean, if I
17:53
Speaker 3: was a Hall of Fame voter, which is a very
17:55
Speaker 3: select group of only fifty, I would probably vote him
17:58
Speaker 3: in for how big he was to the sport, in
18:01
Speaker 3: the franchise in the Pacific Northwest, and he won the
18:04
Speaker 3: first Super Bowl. But then you get into the comparisons
18:08
Speaker 3: of other quarterbacks who aren't in, and then his legacy
18:10
Speaker 3: gets his candidacy gets a little more cloud than that interesting.
18:15
Speaker 1: It's going to be a debate that we're going to
18:16
Speaker 1: have for I'm sure years, and here's in years of
18:20
Speaker 1: whether or not he's worthy. I was listening to Softy
18:22
Speaker 1: and Dick and Jackson yesterday and Jackson bringing up the
18:25
Speaker 1: idea that maybe he's heading to CBS to help improve
18:29
Speaker 1: his Hall of Fame chances.
18:30
Speaker 6: As well if they worked for Bill Kauer.
18:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's what they brought up.
18:35
Speaker 7: I don't know that's a possibility, and that's he's nothing
18:39
Speaker 7: if he's not aware of perceptions and how to And
18:44
Speaker 7: I mean, for instance, he made sure he was on
18:46
Speaker 7: every Pro Bowl.
18:47
Speaker 3: Team, even when he was an alternate, even when he
18:49
Speaker 3: probably shouldn't have been there, even when the season was
18:50
Speaker 3: too long, he took the alternate selection so that he
18:54
Speaker 3: can say.
18:54
Speaker 6: He was a ten time Pro Bowl player.
18:57
Speaker 3: But okay, so what he still is what he was
19:00
Speaker 3: for the Seahawks. He still is what he was for
19:02
Speaker 3: this community. I would argue, you have it, and this
19:06
Speaker 3: is always a litmus test for many about Hall of Fame.
19:08
Speaker 3: I would argue, you can't mention his generation of NFL
19:12
Speaker 3: football without mentioning Russell Wilson. If you talk about the
19:16
Speaker 3: NFL from twenty ten to twenty twenty five, Russell Wilson
19:20
Speaker 3: has to be in that conversation somewhere, yes, and that
19:23
Speaker 3: usually is defining trade for a Hall of Famer. That's
19:27
Speaker 3: why this is such a It is an interesting argument,
19:29
Speaker 3: and it's back and forth. But I will tell you
19:32
Speaker 3: I had an absolute pleasure of.
19:34
Speaker 6: Covering him, of getting to know him on and.
19:36
Speaker 3: Off the field, seeing him at Children's hospital first hand,
19:39
Speaker 3: when I go pick up my wife. You're talking the
19:41
Speaker 3: wrong guy to try to knock Russell Wilson.
19:44
Speaker 6: I think he is.
19:45
Speaker 3: I think he's transcendent as far as an athlete who
19:49
Speaker 3: made people better and I saw him change lives. He
19:52
Speaker 3: will always be a top rank for me.
19:54
Speaker 4: There you go.
19:54
Speaker 1: I like the positive spin. I mean again, what he
19:57
Speaker 1: did here was fantastic. It's just unfortunately way he left.
20:00
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of that his own doing. Unfortunately,
20:03
Speaker 1: had it been he just left, okay, nobody would have
20:06
Speaker 1: a problem. But it was the stuff, kind of the
20:08
Speaker 1: stuff that happened prior to that, that is, I don't know,
20:11
Speaker 1: tarnished a lot of people here. Not about his skills,
20:13
Speaker 1: just about the way it ended.
20:15
Speaker 2: Greg. I appreciate, and.
20:16
Speaker 3: He absolutely engineered his way out of here. Yeah. Yeah,
20:19
Speaker 3: And the way it ended absolutely tarnishes his legacy. But
20:22
Speaker 3: I'm just saying that I think you can look back
20:25
Speaker 3: as a whole.
20:26
Speaker 1: Yes, there was a lot of positives that he did
20:28
Speaker 1: before that. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Greg, thank you so much
20:31
Speaker 1: for joining us this morning. You are on ten to
20:33
Speaker 1: one today. What's on your show?
20:36
Speaker 3: We'll talk NBA finals. I talked with a writer who
20:39
Speaker 3: was there last night in the building about Jalen Brunston
20:42
Speaker 3: just taking over the fourth quarter. I'll mention I'll talk
20:44
Speaker 3: more about this Russell Wilson, what his true legacy was,
20:46
Speaker 3: and we'll talk about Derek Hall. We'll talk about what
20:49
Speaker 3: I saw on the field yesterday, who didn't practice, Devin
20:51
Speaker 3: Witherspoon's stance, which really isn't that big a deal.
20:55
Speaker 6: I'll talk about everything I saw practice yesterday too perfect.
20:58
Speaker 1: All right, that is Greg Bell. He will be on
21:00
Speaker 1: your airwaves ten to one or tend to noon. Sorry
21:02
Speaker 1: right here on Sports Radio ninety three three KJR.
21:05
Speaker 4: Thank you, Gregg.
21:08
Speaker 2: Greg has gone, he said, thanks. I could hear it.
21:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's out, he is done.
21:13
Speaker 4: Two and a half hours.
21:13
Speaker 2: I've had enough of you fools.
21:15
Speaker 1: All right, we are going to be back to talk
21:16
Speaker 1: a little bit more Mariners with the ABC's coming up
21:19
Speaker 1: at Sports Radio ninety three three KJRFM. But the ABC's
21:24
Speaker 1: at the MS it is a daily segment. It doesn't always,
21:27
Speaker 1: you know, fall in.
21:28
Speaker 2: Line with what happened in the game the night before.
21:31
Speaker 1: Today's is going to fall in line with what happened
21:33
Speaker 1: in the night in the game the night before, just
21:34
Speaker 1: because the alphabet predicted, like I met the mercy of
21:37
Speaker 1: the alphabet.
21:38
Speaker 2: I don't make this stuff up, right, Yeah, we all are.
21:41
Speaker 1: It's true. I think about that all the time, Travis.
21:43
Speaker 1: I think about that all the time. It is brought
21:46
Speaker 1: to you by Sunset Chevrolet, and if I had the copy,
21:48
Speaker 1: i'd read the whole thing. But I will tell you
21:50
Speaker 1: that Sunset Chevrolet is great and people do like it.
21:53
Speaker 4: I know that's their tag.
21:55
Speaker 2: That's their tagline.
21:55
Speaker 1: So I know I got that part, all right, Well
21:58
Speaker 1: I got half of it. We're going to start at
22:00
Speaker 1: the letter J because that is where we left off yesterday.
22:04
Speaker 1: Jay is for Josh as in nailer boy. I think
22:06
Speaker 1: we can all agree we love Josh Taylor, like great
22:09
Speaker 1: addition to the team. We're happy he's here, but we
22:12
Speaker 1: can also agree we aren't seeing that same exceptional defense
22:15
Speaker 1: that we saw when he got here last year and
22:16
Speaker 1: throughout the playoffs. I did go back and look, so
22:19
Speaker 1: his war right now minus point two overall, So that's
22:23
Speaker 1: taking into account his offense and his defense. It was
22:25
Speaker 1: two point two when he was with the Mariners last year,
22:28
Speaker 1: So second half of the season it's actually point zero
22:31
Speaker 1: seven or zero point seven, No, minus point seven, minus
22:36
Speaker 1: point seven when you look at just his defense. That
22:39
Speaker 1: was a point three defensively for the Mariners. So he
22:42
Speaker 1: did have a positive war defensively in the second half
22:45
Speaker 1: of last year when he was with the Mariners.
22:47
Speaker 4: He was picking everything like.
22:49
Speaker 1: It was actually his best defensive performance that he's had
22:53
Speaker 1: in his career. So when we say it was like,
22:56
Speaker 1: we weren't expecting to get that good of a first
22:58
Speaker 1: basement and we got him, it was because that was unexpected.
23:03
Speaker 5: Because I just remember him everything coming at him. He
23:07
Speaker 5: was grabbing like wild throws, stretching out. I was like, wow,
23:11
Speaker 5: you're like Dumby even though you're five nothing.
23:13
Speaker 1: I felt like he was Spider Man like. Things just
23:15
Speaker 1: stuck to him. I was like, I don't know what's happening.
23:17
Speaker 1: This is incredible. This guy's amazing. He does the splits
23:20
Speaker 1: at first base like every other throw to him, And
23:23
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's that now we've got I mean,
23:27
Speaker 1: he had Cole.
23:27
Speaker 2: Young there last year.
23:29
Speaker 1: But I wonder if you know, there's just been some
23:31
Speaker 1: changes to the infield, if that's what it is, if
23:33
Speaker 1: it's that, because you know, JP's arm isn't what it
23:36
Speaker 1: used to be, and we've seen improvements in col Young,
23:39
Speaker 1: but those aren't those you know, that's not necessarily falling
23:42
Speaker 1: on Josh Naylor.
23:43
Speaker 2: But yeah, but we see.
23:44
Speaker 4: Some of those throws from Crawford Wemby couldn't get right.
23:47
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and then like there was the throw from
23:50
Speaker 1: cold Everson that hit him in the thigh. I mean,
23:52
Speaker 1: he's like ready for it out here and it's just
23:54
Speaker 1: beams them in the.
23:55
Speaker 2: Side of the thigh. So it's you know, there's certain
23:57
Speaker 2: things that are out of his control.
23:59
Speaker 1: But last year Josh Naylor would have made all of
24:03
Speaker 1: those guys look like superstars because he.
24:05
Speaker 2: Was, as you said, picking everything.
24:08
Speaker 4: Could you imagine Wemby at first.
24:11
Speaker 5: Well, fifteen foot radius, you just have to throw the
24:14
Speaker 5: ball somewhere in this fifteen foot radius and it's going
24:17
Speaker 5: to be an out.
24:18
Speaker 1: I'd say, actually, it would be either the best or
24:20
Speaker 1: the worst thing ever, right, because he'd either just catch
24:23
Speaker 1: it all. But you have to think those granted he'd
24:27
Speaker 1: have a glove. The glove would be huge, glove would
24:29
Speaker 1: be huge, jose Al Tuve could sleep in it. But
24:35
Speaker 1: or it would be the worst because he's just so long.
24:38
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. I'm just presuming that he
24:40
Speaker 2: could catch.
24:41
Speaker 5: I guess if he could catch like a big league
24:43
Speaker 5: first baseman and he had the arms of when, now I.
24:45
Speaker 2: Want to see it.
24:47
Speaker 1: Now, I want to see it. We got to get
24:48
Speaker 1: Wemby in a celebrity softball game at first base. Someone
24:50
Speaker 1: make him a glove. Someone make him a glove. So
24:52
Speaker 1: I don't know, I just hope we can find some
24:55
Speaker 1: of that magic.
24:56
Speaker 2: I don't expect Naylor to be as nails as he
24:59
Speaker 2: was last year.
25:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, because obviously, looking at his career, that's
25:03
Speaker 1: just not the kind of first basement he is. But
25:06
Speaker 1: I also don't expect what we're getting from him right now.
25:09
Speaker 1: I agree, So hopefully we're we can.
25:13
Speaker 5: I think the whole defensive team is going to just
25:17
Speaker 5: kind of lock in a little bit more and make
25:19
Speaker 5: it look more like it did last year during the
25:22
Speaker 5: end of the season than it has in the first
25:24
Speaker 5: couple months.
25:25
Speaker 1: I mean they have to, right, if we're going to
25:26
Speaker 1: get to the playoffs. Yes, yeah, because that would all right? Kay,
25:30
Speaker 1: See again, this is the alphabet. This is not for me,
25:32
Speaker 1: but it is in align with game last night. Kay
25:34
Speaker 1: is for Kirby. George through four innings last night, giving
25:37
Speaker 1: up nine hits, five runs, four of them earned, so
25:39
Speaker 1: one unearned, and only striking out five. So we aren't
25:42
Speaker 1: seeing that fully dominant Kirby that we.
25:45
Speaker 2: Are used to seeing.
25:46
Speaker 1: But I feel like we never really see him just
25:50
Speaker 1: start to finish dominate, right. He does have some of
25:53
Speaker 1: those blow up games. We do see angry George at times.
25:56
Speaker 1: We have seen some of the flashes of the dominant
25:58
Speaker 1: George we've seen, And so I'm torn because we're having
26:02
Speaker 1: this whole conversation about the six man rotation versus the
26:05
Speaker 1: piggyback versus all these things. I mean, we've got people
26:07
Speaker 1: suggesting George go to the bullpen, which I disagree with.
26:10
Speaker 1: But he he has tended to be our most reliable
26:15
Speaker 1: picture as far as going length in a game. But
26:19
Speaker 1: he also has the highest era, So I think I
26:21
Speaker 1: wouldn't mind seeing the piggyback next time we come around.
26:24
Speaker 1: If we do with Kirby and Castillo, how would you
26:29
Speaker 1: guys feel about that?
26:32
Speaker 5: I'd be okay bouncing Castillo around different guys. I don't
26:36
Speaker 5: know if I just like necessarily say I want Kirby.
26:38
Speaker 1: That yeah, okay, one of the Yeah, I would yeah,
26:41
Speaker 1: bouncing him around. But I wouldn't mind seeing Kirby in
26:43
Speaker 1: that role because it has I mean, I think it
26:46
Speaker 1: could help.
26:47
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I think.
26:48
Speaker 5: I mean it's it's worked for Miller and Castillo thus far.
26:50
Speaker 5: I'm not angry about what George has done this year, No,
26:54
Speaker 5: but I'm curious to.
26:55
Speaker 4: What I did there.
26:56
Speaker 2: Yes, I do that was good.
26:57
Speaker 5: I'm curious to see We talked earlier about the right
27:00
Speaker 5: Out to Walk ratio that has been plummeting for George
27:02
Speaker 5: Kirby over the last few years. And what's different about
27:05
Speaker 5: this year is like the games are kind of clunky.
27:09
Speaker 4: They're not like blow up games for Kirby.
27:11
Speaker 5: They're just kind of clunky going through, whereas last year
27:14
Speaker 5: he was like nails, nails, nails, nails absolutely horrible, right, nails, nails, nails,
27:19
Speaker 5: nails absolutely.
27:20
Speaker 4: I kind of rather have that George Kirby where.
27:23
Speaker 5: I know that four out of five times, Yeah, you're
27:27
Speaker 5: probably gonna win.
27:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, because he's so good.
27:30
Speaker 1: You knew if you got the one bad one, that
27:31
Speaker 1: wasn't going to be repeated the next game.
27:33
Speaker 5: Exactly, Yeah, exactly. And this year he's kind of stacked
27:35
Speaker 5: them a little bit, especially lately.
27:37
Speaker 1: Would you feel comfortable doing piggyback with not you personally
27:41
Speaker 1: piggybacking with Kirby, but Castillo and Kirby.
27:44
Speaker 4: It would not be a good strategy.
27:45
Speaker 2: No, that would not work out.
27:47
Speaker 8: Well, I think it's a good idea, Personally, I'm kind
27:50
Speaker 8: of worried about what it would do to the clubhouse
27:53
Speaker 8: or to the mental state of George. Yeah, because of
27:56
Speaker 8: what we saw happen with Castillo, although in the end
27:59
Speaker 8: it did like a fire under his ass and he
28:01
Speaker 8: started pitching his you know, pitching lights out.
28:03
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm for it.
28:05
Speaker 8: I don't think I don't necessarily think they're gonna keep
28:08
Speaker 8: messing with the rotation like that.
28:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, and I will say that's the thing,
28:13
Speaker 1: especially because we have seen George have some trouble with
28:15
Speaker 1: his emotions and things like that, He's gotten so much
28:17
Speaker 1: better at being able to control him, but I wonder
28:19
Speaker 1: if that would be more difficult. But I just think
28:21
Speaker 1: in the spirit of competition, right, like, let's make I
28:25
Speaker 1: mean to quote the great Pete Carroll, always compete.
28:28
Speaker 3: Yes.
28:28
Speaker 5: Can you imagine though, like what the fan base would
28:31
Speaker 5: do if Dan came out and said, yeah, we're gonna
28:34
Speaker 5: piggyback Castille with Kirby. Now, yeah, the fan base would
28:38
Speaker 5: be like, are you just trying to screw everybody up?
28:41
Speaker 4: I mean, that's at least what the That would be
28:43
Speaker 4: the perception.
28:44
Speaker 1: Right, But that may work, but you have to look
28:46
Speaker 1: at what's actually happened with it and what happened with
28:49
Speaker 1: Castillo when he was forced into that role, and so
28:52
Speaker 1: then you kind of have to at least be curious
28:54
Speaker 1: about it. There you go, Oh god, I didn't even
28:57
Speaker 1: mean to do that one. All right, we'll go quickly.
29:00
Speaker 1: LS four L. The Mariners got their first L in
29:03
Speaker 1: nine games yesterday.
29:04
Speaker 6: Yeah.
29:04
Speaker 2: That was hard, wasn't it.
29:06
Speaker 1: They needed all of those ws to get the ship
29:08
Speaker 1: righted after an ugly start to the season. So now
29:10
Speaker 1: after the eight game win streak and the L, they
29:12
Speaker 1: are thirty three and thirty. I think I got that right,
29:15
Speaker 1: three games over five hundred and first place in the
29:17
Speaker 1: AL West, two games ahead of the A's and where
29:20
Speaker 1: we actually feel like they should be and where they
29:22
Speaker 1: should have been a month ago. So let's keep this
29:26
Speaker 1: train rolling on the road trip. There you go. That's
29:28
Speaker 1: the ABC's of the MS, A daily segment, a daily
29:31
Speaker 1: Mariner segment, not always in relation to the game, but
29:34
Speaker 1: today it just worked out to kind of flow that way.
29:38
Speaker 1: One other thing happened yesterday. I mean, there were a
29:40
Speaker 1: lot of things that happened yesterday, but one other big
29:42
Speaker 1: thing happened yesterday, and that was the.
29:44
Speaker 2: NBA Finals Game one.
29:45
Speaker 1: We're going to talk a little bit about it coming
29:47
Speaker 1: up at Sports Radio ninety three to three KJRFM. Sports
30:00
Speaker 1: Radio ninety three to three kJ r FM. It is
30:03
Speaker 1: Ashley Ryan, Dick Vane, and Travis Moger in this morning
30:06
Speaker 1: for Chuck and Buck. Yes, both Chuck and Buck are fine.
30:09
Speaker 1: Chuck is just taking a couple days off. Bucky still
30:12
Speaker 1: out on medical leave. And we had Game one of
30:15
Speaker 1: the NBA Finals last night in San Antonio.
30:18
Speaker 2: I really thought San Antonio was.
30:20
Speaker 1: Gonna get the game one win, and maybe that was
30:23
Speaker 1: just because that's who I wanted to get the game
30:25
Speaker 1: one win, although at the same time, I don't know
30:28
Speaker 1: that I really care now that Oklahoma City's out of it.
30:30
Speaker 1: If I care who wins, I'm like, as long as
30:33
Speaker 1: it's ab OKC anyone but Oka see And that has happened.
30:36
Speaker 1: So we've had the Spurs in the Knicks matching up
30:38
Speaker 1: in game one and the Knicks was there.
30:41
Speaker 2: Was it their twelfth win in a row?
30:42
Speaker 4: Yes, twelfth win in a round forty three days without
30:45
Speaker 4: a loss.
30:46
Speaker 2: So that's been the big thing.
30:48
Speaker 1: Can the Knicks keep up playing how they had been playing?
30:52
Speaker 1: And apparently they could at least for one more game?
30:56
Speaker 1: What I guess What were your thoughts on watching that game?
30:59
Speaker 1: Are you surprise the Spurs lost? Are you surprised the
31:02
Speaker 1: Knicks were able to continue that win streak?
31:04
Speaker 5: You know, I thought the Knicks would get one in
31:06
Speaker 5: San Antonio. I have got San Antonio in seven. But
31:10
Speaker 5: I think the Knicks match up really well with San
31:13
Speaker 5: Antonio because they can throw so many different bigs. They
31:16
Speaker 5: can throw annanubi at at Wemby, they can throw Mitchell
31:19
Speaker 5: Robinson at Wemby.
31:20
Speaker 4: They can they can throw cat at Wemby.
31:22
Speaker 5: I mean, they got the guys that they can that
31:25
Speaker 5: they can throw, and it really wore him down. And
31:27
Speaker 5: so the adjustment's going to be on the load of
31:30
Speaker 5: Mitch Johnson on how they can get him more free
31:32
Speaker 5: And because I thought Wemby also looked tired, he looked fatigued.
31:36
Speaker 5: There was a there was a play in the third
31:38
Speaker 5: quarter there was a long rebound.
31:41
Speaker 4: Wemby was on the wing.
31:42
Speaker 5: And he was I thought it was one of those
31:46
Speaker 5: where Wemby, I thought, was gonna sprint ahead of the ball,
31:49
Speaker 5: take his take the ball the third at the three
31:51
Speaker 5: point line, make one dribble and dunk it, and he
31:54
Speaker 5: just kind of downshifted and just kind of floated to
31:59
Speaker 5: the corner and didn't run the floor on us like
32:01
Speaker 5: that looks like a guy that is used to playing
32:05
Speaker 5: twenty five minutes a game, that has been forced to
32:08
Speaker 5: go seven games against OKAC, one of the games playing
32:11
Speaker 5: fifty one minutes. Yeah, turning around in seventy two hours
32:15
Speaker 5: and coming back and playing a game one here, and
32:17
Speaker 5: I just it didn't look like the same guy. And
32:19
Speaker 5: so the question is are we gonna get that same
32:22
Speaker 5: guy back or is he just gonna be Is he
32:25
Speaker 5: gonna have to watch his fatigue level the entire series,
32:27
Speaker 5: because if that's the case, then the Spurs are in trouble.
32:30
Speaker 3: Yeah.
32:30
Speaker 1: Well, and it is interesting because we've seen Wemby struggle,
32:32
Speaker 1: and I mean, this isn't the first game that he
32:34
Speaker 1: struggled in the playoffs, right, We've seen I mean, he
32:37
Speaker 1: threw elbows and got in trouble earlier in the playoffs
32:40
Speaker 1: because he was so frustrated with how he was being guarded.
32:43
Speaker 1: So but the Spurs obviously were able to figure that
32:46
Speaker 1: out and they were able to you know, counteract, and
32:49
Speaker 1: he has had a great rest of his playoffs. So
32:52
Speaker 1: I'm just curious, Yeah, who is that Who's gonna win
32:54
Speaker 1: that battle?
32:55
Speaker 3: More?
32:55
Speaker 1: Is it gonna be Mitch Johnson coming up with a
32:57
Speaker 1: plan and Wemby coming up with a.
32:58
Speaker 2: Plan to allow him to be Wemby?
33:01
Speaker 1: Or is it gonna be that the Knicks have figured
33:02
Speaker 1: out this formula that apparently nobody else could figure out
33:05
Speaker 1: all year.
33:05
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I think that another thing that was interesting
33:09
Speaker 5: was how poorly Jalen Brunson played and then he was
33:13
Speaker 5: unbelieved he was Jalen Brunson in the fourth quarter. I
33:15
Speaker 5: remember watching a game in the like it was in
33:18
Speaker 5: February and I was down in California with my son
33:21
Speaker 5: and we just we went to a sports bar to
33:23
Speaker 5: have a have a burger, right, and the next game
33:25
Speaker 5: was on and we were and we were watching like
33:27
Speaker 5: the third quarter of the next game.
33:28
Speaker 4: My son was like, Brunson looks terrible, and I go.
33:31
Speaker 5: Dude, wait till the fourth yeah, because that's when he
33:34
Speaker 5: turned and that's just what he does. And he ended
33:36
Speaker 5: up with like fourteen points in that fourth quarter and
33:38
Speaker 5: they came back and won, and like, this is what
33:40
Speaker 5: Jalen Brunson does.
33:41
Speaker 4: He is gonna be a two for nine guy.
33:45
Speaker 5: And then the fourth quarter's gonna come and he's gonna
33:47
Speaker 5: score twelve points and dish out three assists and he's
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Speaker 5: gonna pull them out of the fire. I mean, he
33:52
Speaker 5: is whatever Jalen Brunson is now in New York, which
33:56
Speaker 5: is already legend status, Like he's already being talked about,
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Speaker 5: is the great nick of all time right now without
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Speaker 5: a championship, greater than Patrick Ewan.
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Speaker 4: That's what they are talking about in New York.
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Speaker 5: If he wins a championship, he's gonna be a sports
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Speaker 5: god in New York City.
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Speaker 1: Well and okay, so that is a good question, or
34:15
Speaker 1: that brings up a question because he obviously left the
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Speaker 1: game last night when he got hit and the knee
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Speaker 1: and then had even the small ankle scare are the
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Speaker 1: knixt like if he's out, Like, if something happens and
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Speaker 1: he's out, is there do they have any chance because
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Speaker 1: it seems like they're so reliant on him. Yeah, they've
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Speaker 1: got great supportive players. I mean, kat is a star
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Speaker 1: on his own, but yeah, no, he's the strawest of
34:40
Speaker 1: the dream.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I mean, if if Wemby is not nearly one hundred
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Speaker 5: percent Wemby, they're gonna lose. And if Jalen Brunce is
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Speaker 5: not nearly one hundred Brunson, they're gonna lose.
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Speaker 1: Which is Yeah, that's how you want it in a championship.
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Speaker 5: It's kind of typical. I mean, you play, you play
34:53
Speaker 5: the way your superstars play. The interesting thing is that
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Speaker 5: Jalen Brunson is not thought of nationally as anyway voted
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Speaker 5: first team All NBA either, he was a second team
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Speaker 5: All NBA. He's not When you think of, okay, quick
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Speaker 5: name the best players in the NBA, you're probably down
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Speaker 5: to ten or more before you get to Jalen brunts. Yeah,
35:11
Speaker 5: so that's what's unusual about if we're the.
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Speaker 4: Knicks were to win this championship, I'm not gonna call him.
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Speaker 5: A superstarless team because I would still kind of qualify
35:22
Speaker 5: him as a superstar and Kat as a star level player,
35:25
Speaker 5: almost a superstar. But so it's not like the you know,
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Speaker 5: the Four Pistons or whatever with truly no superstars, but
35:33
Speaker 5: it would be the least amount of true superstars that
35:37
Speaker 5: have won a championship in a long, long time, And
35:39
Speaker 5: so they're gonna have to overcome that. Meanwhile, the Spurs
35:43
Speaker 5: have to overcome their youth. I mean, guys don't win
35:46
Speaker 5: championships as the number one overall player at twenty two
35:49
Speaker 5: years of age. That just doesn't happen.
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Speaker 1: And coaches don't win championships in their first full five coaches,
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Speaker 1: that's right.
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Speaker 5: So you've got these huge hurdles that both these teams
35:57
Speaker 5: are trying to overcome. And the nixt additional hurdle is
35:59
Speaker 5: the fact they played nobody for three weeks in the playoffs,
36:04
Speaker 5: a month and a half. I guess it was they
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Speaker 5: played they played nobody, they skated through and I think
36:08
Speaker 5: I was one that thought, okay, the strength the schedules.
36:12
Speaker 5: Now it's cool that you're beating the Cardinals and the
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Speaker 5: Browns and you know, now you get the Seahawks and
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Speaker 5: the Rams and we'll see how you do.
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Speaker 4: And so far they passed the first test.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so far they did.
36:22
Speaker 1: We did get a text on the Tacoma Dodge text
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Speaker 1: line that said, I want New York because I want
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Speaker 1: san Antonio to be hungry to beat OKAC again. I
36:29
Speaker 1: do like that theory. There you go, but I think
36:32
Speaker 1: they'll always be hungry for more.
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Speaker 4: Like I think Okay sees days are over.
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Speaker 1: I would because of san I I think, like the
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Speaker 1: most beautiful thing that you've ever seen.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I did not think it was going to
36:44
Speaker 5: be this year. I thought there was going to be
36:46
Speaker 5: one more year that OKAC did it. But san Antonio
36:49
Speaker 5: showed that they are the better team than Okay see
36:52
Speaker 5: and they're only getting better.
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Speaker 1: You brought tears to my eyes, Dick thing, What a
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Speaker 1: glorious morning, What a glorious morning. All right, Well, we
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Speaker 1: got a big, big sporting event happening here in North America,
37:03
Speaker 1: here in town, and it is only a week away.
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Speaker 1: We are going to talk World Cup with Anders coming
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Speaker 1: up at Sports Radio ninety three three KJRFM,