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Chuck & Buck 5-27 Hour 2: 12th Man News with Gregg Bell, ABC's of the Mariners and Reckless at Breakfast. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Two one in the air out to right field. This
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Speaker 1: drifts back to the warning track where Teza is there
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Speaker 1: to make the catch. Garber is in the score. So
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Speaker 1: three run inning, second sackfly this frame for the EMPs,
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Speaker 1: it was a curse. It's like, oh, you know you're
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Speaker 1: always see in those you will never find love, eat
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Speaker 1: this apple, or you will never hit another left handle.
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Speaker 2: And then they didn't meet the apple because they were scared,
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Speaker 2: because you shouldn't take food from strangers.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and they were like, where's that lady, We need
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Speaker 1: that apple exactly. So it's as if as if, I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's been so bad it feels like supernatural. It feels
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Speaker 1: like something artificial took over our roster and wouldn't allow
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Speaker 1: them to hit left handers, like a force field was
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Speaker 1: put around left hander. Yeah, but last night jumped all
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Speaker 1: over jump gauge Jump, making his debut. The A's went
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Speaker 1: out of their way. They even told veteran Luis Severino,
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Speaker 1: who they're paying tens of millions of dollars to every year,
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Speaker 1: You're not gonna pitch tonight because this team can't hit
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Speaker 1: left handers and we have a lot of them in
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Speaker 1: the minor leagues. So We're just gonna grab our best one.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna throw them at this team that can't hit lefties,
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna still win this series. And it didn't
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Speaker 1: quite work out that way. The Mariners right handed hitters
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Speaker 1: actually did show up last night, from Victor Roblaze three
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Speaker 1: for three night to Rob Refsnyder getting on three times
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Speaker 1: and Mitch Garver getting the scoring started where they double
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Speaker 1: down the left field line. The Mariners go on to
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Speaker 1: a four to one win. Of course, that doesn't overshadow
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Speaker 1: Emerson Hancock's outstanding performance last night. He went six innings
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Speaker 1: of one hit baseball, did not allow a run. His
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Speaker 1: ERA is it two point seven to eight on the season.
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Speaker 1: He has been our most consistent starting pitcher this year.
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Speaker 1: Who would have ever funk it? Four won the final score?
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Speaker 1: Mariners went over the A's last night. They have won
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Speaker 1: two straight against the A's, which means in the statistically
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Speaker 1: worst division in Major League Baseball, the M's are just
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Speaker 1: a half game out of first place, believe it or not,
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Speaker 1: despite their disappointing twenty seven and twenty nine start to
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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six season, same two teams will play
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Speaker 1: today as the Mariners go for the sweep. Logan Gilbert
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Speaker 1: gets the start for Seattle, and the A's will counter
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Speaker 1: with another left hander. Veteran Jeffrey Springs gets the start,
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Speaker 1: and they'll start that game at noon today, high noon,
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Speaker 1: and Sacramento, Hide the women and children. It's high noon
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Speaker 1: in Sacramento. The smell of pig manure and kalmnure will
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Speaker 1: be strong and prevalent. A lot of big bugs, a
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Speaker 1: lot of big bugs. So that starts your headlines. Brought
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Speaker 1: to you by Frost Brewed Corps Light Choose Chill Mariners
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Speaker 1: a four to one win last night. Thanks to Mariner's
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Speaker 1: TV for the highlight. Now some other things, NBA Playoffs.
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Speaker 1: I swear that every time I looked up at the
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Speaker 1: OKC San Antonio Game five last night of the Western
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Speaker 1: Conference Finals, the thunder were just perpetually up thirteen points,
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Speaker 1: like every time I looked. I mean, I've never seen
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Speaker 1: anything like it, So they are just always It's like
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Speaker 1: it's like the line from that George Clooney movie, Oh
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Speaker 1: what a geographical oddity two weeks from everywhere, And so yes,
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Speaker 1: thirteen points at all times. OKAC apparently was up on
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Speaker 1: the Spurs last night. And that's exactly how it finished,
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Speaker 1: a thirteen point win for OKAC. They are up three
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Speaker 1: games to two on the Spurs. Game six will be
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Speaker 1: played in San Antonio Thursday night. I think we're all
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Speaker 1: wanting to see a game number seven, even people that yeah,
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Speaker 1: I do. Obviously people are gonna want to see game
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Speaker 1: seven here because that's the only way the Thunder can
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Speaker 1: lose horribly. The Knicks await the winner of the Western
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Speaker 1: Conference Finals. They are already they've already put the hate
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Speaker 1: in the barn. Same thing for the Las Vegas Golden Knights.
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Speaker 1: In a shocking development, they not only take the Colorado
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Speaker 1: Avalanche out of the playoffs, they swept the Avalanche. They
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Speaker 1: finished them off last night, final score two to one,
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Speaker 1: and so now they wait for the Eastern Conference Finals
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Speaker 1: to conclude Game four. Carolina versus Montreal tonight at five o'clock.
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Speaker 1: Hurricanes are up in a very tight series, two games
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Speaker 1: to one over the Canadians. US World Cup roster was said,
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Speaker 1: as we sit here two weeks shy of the World
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Speaker 1: Cup beginning here in America, Christian Rodon, congratulations to him.
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Speaker 1: He made the US roster. Jackson Feltz has already ordered
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Speaker 1: his US.
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Speaker 3: Jersey I'm sure he hash.
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Speaker 1: He made a very abundantly yeah last night for him
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Speaker 1: on Twitter. Seahawks OTAs has started yesterday, and we're going
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Speaker 1: to talk about that with our next guest. Mike McDonald says.
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Speaker 1: The phrase going forward coming off that Super Bowl year
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Speaker 1: is run it forward. And we've got an update on
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Speaker 1: Tory Horton's condition. Horton, here's a win. Oh yeah, we
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Speaker 1: heard a win. Not who he heard a win yesterday?
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Speaker 1: As in when will he next be available? Well, let's
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Speaker 1: ask our next guest all of these questions. Joining us
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Speaker 1: now is the guy that usually follows us at ten
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Speaker 1: o'clock unless he's got one of them soft schedules.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 1: And yet he's been our Seahawks insider for years. Greg
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Speaker 1: Bell joins us on the program.
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Speaker 4: Good morning, Greg, Good morning.
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Speaker 1: How are you? Where are you where?
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Speaker 4: I'm back in?
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Speaker 1: Oh, you're back.
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Speaker 4: Inanne. Yesterday, our kids and third birthday for the twins. Okay,
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Speaker 4: we don't have them together much anymore, so we gotta
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Speaker 4: jump on the birthdays when they're together.
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Speaker 1: Did you get like a cabin on the lake? What
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Speaker 1: did you do?
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Speaker 4: No? We went up for the day. Oh wow, and
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Speaker 4: we went we went surfing it's called lakeside waves, this
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Speaker 4: thing right above slide waters and those who have been
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Speaker 4: to Lando slidewater, it's been around for a while, but
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Speaker 4: there is a new thing called lakeside wave where this
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Speaker 4: is a generated wave to learn how to stand up
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Speaker 4: on a surfboard. And our daughter is being stationed at
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Speaker 4: they're here thirty days at graduationally from the Coast Guard Academy.
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Speaker 4: She's going to be stationed in Hawaii. And so my
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Speaker 4: daughter's surf before we were getting a surfboard. We got
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Speaker 4: our surfboard for a birthday, but we haven't surfed much
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Speaker 4: at all, and I'm not very good at it. So
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Speaker 4: we spent the day standing up and surfing, and we
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Speaker 4: all stood up and got across the wave and it
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Speaker 4: was really fun.
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Speaker 1: Okay, now, okay, while you were away, we talked about
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Speaker 1: you a little bit, Ashley and I. Somebody asked, because
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Speaker 1: Survivor was a big topic last week in the world,
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Speaker 1: somebody asked who would win Survivor from KJR and Ashley
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Speaker 1: and both after a long discussion, arrived at you. So
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Speaker 1: you better be able to pick up things like surfing
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Speaker 1: pretty quickly. So did you figure it out? I mean,
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Speaker 1: by the end, Were you much better than you were
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Speaker 1: at the beginning?
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Speaker 4: Yes, okay. In fact, in fact, the guys and the instructors,
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Speaker 4: the twenty something kids, they said that they never saw people.
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Speaker 1: Say that we backed the right horse.
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Speaker 3: Oh, thank goodness. I didn't want to get that wrong.
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Speaker 4: I didn't know there was so much riding on this.
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Speaker 1: There was a lot there, a lot of pressure, a
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Speaker 1: lot riding on something that will never prove. But at least, uh,
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Speaker 1: we got verification for our talent scouting.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks for that. I appreciate the faith. I didn't
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Speaker 4: know it was that was at stake.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, excellent. I'm glad you've had a good
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Speaker 1: week and a half here, and soon you'll just be
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Speaker 1: back hosting a boring old sports talk radio show, so
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Speaker 1: you might as well live it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly three hours from ends.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, ota started yesterday. You were out learning
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Speaker 1: how to surf, so you didn't you didn't go to
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Speaker 1: practice yesterday, and yet I'm sure you got your finger
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Speaker 1: on the pulse of things over there. Let's start with
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Speaker 1: a topic that I discussed yesterday at seven o five
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Speaker 1: at great length and then got a little bit of
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Speaker 1: clarification on overnight, and that is the Devin Witherspoon contract
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Speaker 1: negotiation if it's even begun. So from your perspective, what
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Speaker 1: are you hearing? Where did the Seahawks sit with an
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Speaker 1: extension for their prized cornerback.
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Speaker 4: Well, it was an anomaly to get Jackson Smith and
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Speaker 4: jig had done as early and as quickly as they did,
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Speaker 4: and they were so close to the numbers, and Smith
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Speaker 4: and jigmin his agent and it didn't take long. So
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Speaker 4: that's why I got done right after the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 4: Essentially mayde in the highest paid wide receiver in league. This
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Speaker 4: was this weatherspo. I don't know why this is a
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Speaker 4: news item because this is how the Seahawks do it typically.
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Speaker 4: When we talked at the beginning of off season. Most
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Speaker 4: likely Witherspoon will resign at our around started training camp
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Speaker 4: at the end of July, because that's when John Schneider
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Speaker 4: does all his business for his foundational player. Smith and
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Speaker 4: Jigba was an anomaly in getting done as quickly and
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Speaker 4: as easily as he did. But I wouldn't read the
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Speaker 4: fact that Smith and Jigba's got his deal and Witherspoon doesn't,
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Speaker 4: as I wouldn't read anything into that other than this
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Speaker 4: is more the Seahawks' normal course of doing business, and
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Speaker 4: they have talked and they are trying to get to
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Speaker 4: a number that will satisfy Witherspoon and make him paid
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Speaker 4: as he's played, which is as a three time Pro
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Speaker 4: Bowl player, one of the best in his draft class.
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Speaker 4: And we'll pay him before his contract ends after this season,
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Speaker 4: most likely thirty plus million dollars a year. That's thirty
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Speaker 4: one million. Is the highest paid offensive back right now.
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Speaker 4: Trent mcguffee and the Rams signed him to that deal
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Speaker 4: after they traded with the Chiefs to get him. And
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Speaker 4: I expect Witherspoon to make north of thirty one million
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Speaker 4: dollars a year to become the highest paid cornerback. And
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Speaker 4: now the Seahawks will have the highest paid wide receiver
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Speaker 4: and the highest paid cornerback in the league. And this
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Speaker 4: is the follow on and in fact, the cost of
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Speaker 4: doing business for a Super Bowl champion. Yeah, and the
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Speaker 4: Seahawks have not This is not news and this is
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Speaker 4: not going to be break the bank or unexpected thing
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Speaker 4: at all. This is what they've been budgeting for this
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Speaker 4: and they knew they had two first round draft picks
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Speaker 4: playing at the top of their positions heading into this year,
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Speaker 4: and then they win a super Bowl and there's if
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Speaker 4: this is just the cost of doing business, so nothing
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Speaker 4: to read into that. Now. If he doesn't have a
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Speaker 4: deal as the season begins, then you have something of
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Speaker 4: an issue where there's leverage on the player side and
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Speaker 4: all of that, but there's no sign that's going to
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Speaker 4: get to that point.
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Speaker 1: That's one thing in the NFL. I mean, they really
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Speaker 1: do make the negotiation easy. Why the Dallas Cowboys make
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Speaker 1: it so complicated as another story, but it's pretty much like,
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Speaker 1: all right, here's the highest paid at the position. If
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Speaker 1: you've got one of those guys, give them a little
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Speaker 1: bit more, uh, and then you're done. I mean, this
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Speaker 1: should be the easiest negotiation that John Schneider has ever done.
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Speaker 1: I mean the bar has already been set, and yes,
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Speaker 1: every agent's gonna talk greg like, no, we're gonna set
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Speaker 1: the bar incredibly high. We're not just gonna take the
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Speaker 1: next brick in the road. And yet they always do,
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Speaker 1: just like JS ended a couple of months ago. So
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Speaker 1: I mean, I would think this is gonna be one
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Speaker 1: of John Schneider's easiest negotiations. It feels like everybody's on
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Speaker 1: the exact same page.
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Speaker 4: Well, the thing is, Jerry, it's never easy when you're
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Speaker 4: talking about this much money because then you get involved
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Speaker 4: in the scheduling of the guaranteed money. What's the last
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Speaker 4: year the deal looked like. How much guaranteed money is
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Speaker 4: in the first twelve months, how much is guaranteed at signing,
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Speaker 4: how much is guaranteed versus injury. There are a lot
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Speaker 4: of little nuances inside of a one and two hundred
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Speaker 4: and fifty million dollar deal, and most of it is
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Speaker 4: guaranteed money. And when the player, when the team is
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Speaker 4: offering and hasn't offered a table for a three time
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Speaker 4: Pro Bowl player still in his twenties, the guaranteed money
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Speaker 4: the team won to make it so that their salary
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Speaker 4: cap isn't hampered in years going forward. The yin and
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Speaker 4: yang of it is they all know the NFL prints money,
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Speaker 4: so the caps limit's going to go up every year,
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Speaker 4: But they don't want the contract to be so binding
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Speaker 4: by the end of the deal that a player's nearing
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Speaker 4: as thirty or passing thirty years old, and it's crippling
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Speaker 4: the rest of the ability to buy the rest of
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Speaker 4: the team. And so that's where the leveraging comes in.
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Speaker 4: The player wants guaranteed money up front. The team wants
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Speaker 4: to structure it so that they aren't hampering their ability
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Speaker 4: to go buy players. And that's why this takes a
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Speaker 4: long time. The actual Yeah, you're gonna be the highest
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Speaker 4: paid quarterback in the league. No, that's a done deal,
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Speaker 4: and that shouldn't take long at all. It'll be in
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Speaker 4: the details of the guaranteed money. The reference to the
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Speaker 4: Cowboys is a pretty apt one, actually, because from where
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Speaker 4: I sit in the league, the reason why the Cowboys
12:52
Speaker 4: have all kinds of issues getting trades done and trading
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Speaker 4: Michael Parsons and signing player is that their owner is
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Speaker 4: also the the factor general manager, and in factor general
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Speaker 4: manager is the owner's son. So there's an inherent conflict
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Speaker 4: of interest that the guy who's deciding on the contract
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Speaker 4: is also the guy who owns the team, And that
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Speaker 4: line gets blurred so often that it makes the Cowboys
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Speaker 4: often inert and causes them to get nothing done. And
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Speaker 4: Seahawks are blessed to not have any of that.
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Speaker 1: Situation said, is that of Greg Bell is with us here.
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Speaker 1: If you want to follow him, you can do so
13:28
Speaker 1: on x at g Bell Seattle or all of us
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Speaker 1: work there at the Newstribune dot com as he faithfully
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Speaker 1: covers the Seattle Seahawks for you, and we appreciate him
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Speaker 1: joining us here this morning after day number one of
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Speaker 1: OTA's also great surfer. Now, it couldn't have said that
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Speaker 1: twenty four hours ago, but now we can say it.
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Speaker 1: All right, Tory Horton, we got a little bit of
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Speaker 1: an update yesterday on his health. It has been a while,
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Speaker 1: I mean, to the point, where are we ever going
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Speaker 1: to get an update on Tory Horton? And not only
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Speaker 1: did we get one, a pretty positive one yesterday.
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Speaker 4: Well it's yeah, the most mysterious and extensive shin injury
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Speaker 4: and history of shin injuries.
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Speaker 1: It appears.
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Speaker 4: Mike McDonald called it good news about Tory Horton. He
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Speaker 4: didn't specify what that was, but he said that it
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Speaker 4: seems His quote was, it seems Tory has made great strides.
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Speaker 4: Seems like we got a lot of feedback that can
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Speaker 4: really accelerate his recovery, which is great. He deserves some
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Speaker 4: good news. He's been working really, really hard. It's one
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Speaker 4: of those things, it's like you don't have a timetable
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Speaker 4: until you do. I don't know what that means. He said,
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Speaker 4: some good good news back on Tory's front, which is
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Speaker 4: really exciting. Again, we'll have a better feel for Tory
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Speaker 4: as we enter training camp. So that's somewhat consistent of
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Speaker 4: what he said at the beginning of the off season
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Speaker 4: and that he didn't expect Horton to be a part
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Speaker 4: of the OTAs of the mini camps, but perhaps would
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Speaker 4: be back for training camp, and that sounds like that
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Speaker 4: may be the case the or the end of July.
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Speaker 4: I still think he's a candidate to start the training
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Speaker 4: camp on the physically Enable to Perform list. Not a
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Speaker 4: big deal. You can come off of that any time,
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Speaker 4: but it gives you some roster flexibility. If he doesn't
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Speaker 4: progress that by the end of training camp, you could
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Speaker 4: keep him on the pup list to begin the season
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Speaker 4: and miss the first month or so. But he and
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Speaker 4: Zach Charbonnay will be the two big injury coming off
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Speaker 4: injury stories for training camp and when the Seahawks can
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Speaker 4: get those guys back on the field, And Kenny McIntosh
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Speaker 4: is another one of course, had the knee injury the
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Speaker 4: running back at the start a training camp last year.
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Speaker 4: He said on those two fronts sharbon Ay and Penny
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Speaker 4: Mcintoshe mcdonn said, it's hard to pin down their timeline
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Speaker 4: right now. We'll probably have a better idea as we
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Speaker 4: circle back in July. So there's three players right there
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Speaker 4: who have a chance to begin training camp on the
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Speaker 4: physically enable to perform list, but in the coach's words,
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Speaker 4: are progressing and that don't need him on the field
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Speaker 4: in July, of course, but it'd begin the Charpone deal
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Speaker 4: with Nobody expects him to be on the field in
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Speaker 4: training camp. He just tour his January.
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Speaker 1: Right and so the running back depth chart no doubt
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Speaker 1: written in pencil right now. But I guess they're going
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Speaker 1: on the working correct me where I'm wrong, that Price
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Speaker 1: basically fills in for Walker, and then Wilson is filling
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Speaker 1: in for sharbon Ay until sharbon Ay is fully healthy
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Speaker 1: and ready to go, whenever that might be, and then
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Speaker 1: Macintosh and Halani then are just depth pieces. Is that
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Speaker 1: where it sits right now? Or are we looking at
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Speaker 1: a full scale anybody's ballgame battle for carries in training
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Speaker 1: camp this year at running back?
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Speaker 4: Well mcdonald'll tell you it's the latter, And Emmanuel Wilson
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Speaker 4: is competing and Wilson wasn't there yesterday. McDonald said he
16:46
Speaker 4: had a personal issue he was taking care of back home.
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Speaker 4: Remember these are voluntary, they don't have to be here.
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Speaker 4: But by the way, they had a ton of participation
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Speaker 4: again by the veterans, which is a good sign that
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Speaker 4: repeat him what they had last year. But they're saying
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Speaker 4: Emmanuel Wilson is going to be here to compete. He's
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Speaker 4: on a one year contract with low money, low risk,
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Speaker 4: low guaranteed deal from the Packers. He was a five
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Speaker 4: hundred yard back, a part time back with the Packers.
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Speaker 4: But they're saying he's going to have an opportunity to
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Speaker 4: be with the ones and to get primary carries. They're
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Speaker 4: not just this is the NFL way. You have to
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Speaker 4: earn your way through depth charts and just because you're
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Speaker 4: a first round pick, they don't say you're a starter
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Speaker 4: from day one unless you're gray is able. So they're
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Speaker 4: going to make him earn it and not annoint him
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Speaker 4: as the starter. Talking about price until he starts, Yes,
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Speaker 4: the expectation his price is the number one back. George
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Speaker 4: hallani I mentioned it before. He impressed the coaches with
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Speaker 4: being pressed into second running back duty in the NFC
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Speaker 4: Championship game in Super Bowl and doing it very well.
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Speaker 4: Broke tackles, pass blocking, caught some passes and some checkdowns
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Speaker 4: from Sam Darnold, did everything they asked him. That was
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Speaker 4: the moment in the NFC Championship game in the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 4: Not too big for the form were undrafted rookie from
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Speaker 4: Boise State. I would not undersell what impact George Laaney
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Speaker 4: might have on this coming season for what he did
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Speaker 4: in the playoffs. When you step up and perform like that,
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Speaker 4: a former undrafted rookie and just say okay, sure, my
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Speaker 4: job now great and does it everything that they ask
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Speaker 4: him to do at the biggest stage. That goes a
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Speaker 4: long way with his coaching staff that's mostly back in tech.
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Speaker 1: Greg Bell is with us our Seahawks insider, So what
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Speaker 1: did you make of run it Forward? You like that?
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Speaker 1: Is that going to make a lot of T shirts
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Speaker 1: this year?
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Speaker 4: Yes, I'm sure that'll be on slogans and on the
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Speaker 4: walls of the building. Mike McDonald is huge into approach
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Speaker 4: and process and it's interesting to hear him talk about Okay,
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Speaker 4: now I've won the Super Bowl, how am I going
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Speaker 4: to change it this year? And This is his change
18:48
Speaker 4: is to say, how can we be better? As a
18:50
Speaker 4: Lucas put it, how good can we be? We just
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Speaker 4: won the Super Bowl? But okay, now what now? How
18:55
Speaker 4: much better can we be? McDonald admits it's not starting
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Speaker 4: over from scratch. He's got a defense is coming back
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Speaker 4: almost entirely intact, ten and eleven starters basically if he
19:04
Speaker 4: counts Josh Job over Rik Wohlan as a starter. So
19:08
Speaker 4: the messaging is vital to McDonald. He spends a lot
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Speaker 4: of time on this. He spent a lot of time
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Speaker 4: talking about it yesterday, But he spends a lot of
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Speaker 4: time trying to decide how am I going to approach
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Speaker 4: these guys, How's the messaging going to be fresh and new?
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Speaker 4: And in fact, Byron Murphy said yesterday, the defense itself
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Speaker 4: is new. There's new front that McDonald's putting in. There
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Speaker 4: are new schemes he's not resting on where the number
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Speaker 4: one defense in the NFL and Super Bowl champs come
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Speaker 4: get us. He's changing too, because he knows the entire
19:37
Speaker 4: league is studying the Seahawks defensive and offensive for that matter, schemes,
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Speaker 4: and he needs a counter to the counter. And so
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Speaker 4: Murphy said, he's already doing that. But as far as
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Speaker 4: the messaging goes, yes, run it forward and not start
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Speaker 4: from scratch, but build on what they did last year.
19:55
Speaker 4: And how are they going to make the process better?
19:57
Speaker 4: How are we going to practice better? How are we
19:59
Speaker 4: go going to meet better? How are we going to
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Speaker 4: make our time management? How are we going to be
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Speaker 4: more efficient? How are we going to change our game
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Speaker 4: plans in midweek and in mid game if we have to?
20:09
Speaker 4: How are those edges that McDonald talks about it's going
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Speaker 4: to change? And it all sounds like lip service in May,
20:14
Speaker 4: but it really does matter to a Super Bowl champion
20:17
Speaker 4: that's got its roster returning. It's forty nine or fifty
20:20
Speaker 4: three players coming back from a Super Bowl champion team
20:24
Speaker 4: and most of its coaching staff except for the offensive
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Speaker 4: coordinator Brian Fleurry replacing Klink Kubiak coming back. How do
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Speaker 4: you make it a new challenge? And McDonald talked about
20:34
Speaker 4: running it forward yesterday as the words he's using for that,
20:38
Speaker 4: I wouldn't dismiss it as just coach speak because it
20:40
Speaker 4: actually takes up a lot of time of what Mike
20:42
Speaker 4: McDonald's been doing this offseason.
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Speaker 1: All Right, what do you got you back on the
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Speaker 1: show today.
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Speaker 4: What do we got plan? I am Bob knight and Yale,
20:51
Speaker 4: longtime baseball writer. I used to cover the Al West
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Speaker 4: with twenty five years ago in USA. Today, he's going
20:57
Speaker 4: to join us at eleven o'clock. We're going to talk
20:59
Speaker 4: about this piggybacking thing. I'm sure you've already talked about
21:03
Speaker 4: the Mariner's brass trying to meet with each of the pitchers,
21:06
Speaker 4: Miller and Castio, and it's a mass that neither guy likes.
21:10
Speaker 4: And I'm gonna see if Bob Nightingale can think of
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Speaker 4: a contending team, a former coming off of a championship
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Speaker 4: series even never trying to do something like this.
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Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think it's ever been attempted period.
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Speaker 4: I don't think so either. Yeah, I don't either. I
21:24
Speaker 4: think they're trying to showcase Castillo to trade him and
21:26
Speaker 4: that they're optimal. That's why they don't want to just
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Speaker 4: banish him to the bullpen.
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Speaker 1: I think they love to do that, but I don't
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Speaker 1: think that that's possible. I don't think anybody's gonna take
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Speaker 1: on that salary.
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Speaker 4: No, probably not.
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Speaker 1: So.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, So here you are here in this in between Yeah,
21:43
Speaker 4: but yeah, we talked about night Andgal eleven. Talk about that,
21:45
Speaker 4: and we'll talk more about seahawks. Who was at the
21:49
Speaker 4: mini camp who wasn't not alarming to some people. A. J. Barner,
21:53
Speaker 4: for instance, had offseason surgeries. He's there but not participately.
21:55
Speaker 4: We'll talk about that too.
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Speaker 1: Okay, sounds great, awesome, glad you had a great time,
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Speaker 1: and we will see you here in a couple hours.
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Speaker 4: All right, sir, Thanks Greg.
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Speaker 3: That's fair. So you don't like walk around the house,
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Speaker 1: Brash? No, that's more of B is for booze on
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Speaker 1: the letter R yesterday. I had a lot of options
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Speaker 1: here at R, but I'm gonna go with R is
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Speaker 1: for ref Schnyder. And I don't really mean I really
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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm saying this because he's out of town.
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Speaker 1: I'm not even kidding. If he was in town, I
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Speaker 1: might not even say this. Oh, but he's out of town,
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Speaker 1: so I know he's not listening. I don't think he listens, period.
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Speaker 1: I don't think ref Snyder's that kind of dude. I mean,
23:31
Speaker 1: I got to know him a little bit at spring training.
23:34
Speaker 1: Don't get the impression he gives a damn about what
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Speaker 1: a talk show host thinks. And yet I wouldn't say
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Speaker 1: this because I don't want there's a little bit of
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Speaker 1: progress he got on base three times yesterday, So I
23:45
Speaker 1: don't want to taint that progress whatsoever. If that's progress,
23:49
Speaker 1: let's just keep moving that forward here today. He's obviously
23:52
Speaker 1: struggled more than any Mariner, and I mean any Mariner
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Speaker 1: so far this season, and yet because he's not listening,
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Speaker 1: I do want to point out that maybe we did
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Speaker 1: find his greatest skill set, and that's getting hit by
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Speaker 1: pitches while not really getting hit by pitches. Because he
24:11
Speaker 1: did it twice last night. I don't know if I've
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Speaker 1: ever seen that, like two times hit by and he
24:16
Speaker 1: technically was hit by a pitch. I'm assuming that's why
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Speaker 1: the A's didn't challenge the first one, because they're like, well,
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Speaker 1: I think the review is going to show that he
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Speaker 1: might have like clicked his batting glove, but that hit
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Speaker 1: off the knob and you even saw it. Ref Schneider
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Speaker 1: was asked about it when he got to first base,
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Speaker 1: and Kotse was actually going to make a pitching change.
24:38
Speaker 1: I thought he was coming out to challenge it, and
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Speaker 1: he was coming out to make a pitching change, and
24:43
Speaker 1: Ref Schneider leans into his first base coach and the
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Speaker 1: trainer that came out to check on him, and you
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Speaker 1: could read the lip, his lips. John Boy would have
24:51
Speaker 1: a field day with this, and he just says, hit
24:53
Speaker 1: the bat. What he said, it hit the bat? And
24:56
Speaker 1: then he gets hit by a pitch later and doesn't
24:59
Speaker 1: really get hit by a pitch because your uniform is
25:02
Speaker 1: part of your body, right, and so it grazed his uniform.
25:06
Speaker 1: So he had two hit by pitches last night, and
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Speaker 1: he didn't get hit by a single pitch.
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Speaker 3: I mean that is a skill. That that is a skill.
25:13
Speaker 1: Well, if you can develop it. I mean, it's a.
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Speaker 3: He's got to work on. He's got a honus craft.
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Speaker 1: It's a good starting point for developing a skill. Maybe
25:22
Speaker 1: it was just a fluke, but the talent's there. You
25:24
Speaker 1: can see it. He's the Roy Hobbes of getting hit
25:26
Speaker 1: by pitches while not getting hit by pitches.
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Speaker 3: I believe in him. I'd love to watch the practice
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Speaker 3: on that too. Did it get you that time?
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Speaker 4: Nope?
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Speaker 3: I'm good.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you threw it way too close to my body.
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Speaker 1: You've got to like, I have no chance of getting
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Speaker 1: out of the way of this. The idea is not
25:43
Speaker 1: to get hit by the pitch. While getting hit by
25:45
Speaker 1: a pitch tried again.
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Speaker 2: Covered in bruises, because he keeps getting hit by the pitches.
25:50
Speaker 1: Take it from the top.
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Speaker 3: All right, here we go again, thirty more.
25:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, try this one right off of my ear piece. Rob,
25:59
Speaker 1: I think that's danger. Now.
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna turn my head.
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Speaker 1: We've got to work on it if we're gonna perfect it.
26:05
Speaker 1: All right, is far sensational. This is another thing I
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Speaker 1: tweeted about last night as I'm now just realizing I'm
26:11
Speaker 1: just doing my tweets in the ABC's at the ends.
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Speaker 1: S is for sensational. Cole Young's play last night in
26:19
Speaker 1: the Hole was sensational. And I try to point these
26:24
Speaker 1: plays out on occasion because the networks that make the
26:29
Speaker 1: highlight packages, they always put something where somebody is embellishing.
26:34
Speaker 1: Like I timed out my dive so that I could
26:37
Speaker 1: look really cool. Yeah, oh, or you know I got
26:40
Speaker 1: my uniform dirty. You know, I rolled in the grass
26:44
Speaker 1: so that it looked more impressive than it is. I
26:47
Speaker 1: used to I tell Mike Cameron this all the time
26:49
Speaker 1: when I see him. You didn't make the highlight packages
26:52
Speaker 1: like Jim Edmonds did in his day because you took
26:55
Speaker 1: better roots to the ball, You got there faster, and
26:58
Speaker 1: you took away in the alley, and you made it
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Speaker 1: look you made it look easy. You did it on
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Speaker 1: both feet. I mean, anybody will tell you at first
27:08
Speaker 1: base you run through the bag because if you dive
27:11
Speaker 1: for the bag, it actually slows you down. Well, the
27:14
Speaker 1: same thing. I mean, there are times to dive for
27:17
Speaker 1: a baseball you have to, but a lot of the
27:20
Speaker 1: times if you just run through the ball, you just
27:24
Speaker 1: run through the fly ball, you're gonna get there faster.
27:26
Speaker 1: And Mike Cameron was as good as anybody I've ever
27:29
Speaker 1: seen doing that. Jim Edmonds every single time wanted to
27:33
Speaker 1: be on the highlight film, and the highlight film makers
27:36
Speaker 1: would fall for it every sing this looks cooler. So
27:39
Speaker 1: we're gonna go with this one. That's the highlight. Not
27:41
Speaker 1: the better play made by Mike Cameron last night in Seattle,
27:45
Speaker 1: where he took a triple away without even leaving his feet. Well,
27:50
Speaker 1: Cole Jung had a similar play last night, ball in
27:53
Speaker 1: the hole. If you remember, late in the game between
27:55
Speaker 1: first and second, he got a great jump on it.
27:59
Speaker 1: Here a lot of ground and a short amount of space.
28:04
Speaker 1: It was a very tricky hop. I mean, Aaron and
28:06
Speaker 1: Angie keep talking about how spongy the field is. So
28:09
Speaker 1: he's even on a field which is spongier than what
28:12
Speaker 1: he's used to, probably spongier than what God should allow,
28:16
Speaker 1: and he still makes a play on a very tricky
28:19
Speaker 1: hop look easy while on the run, plants his feet
28:23
Speaker 1: while he's pretty much down the first baseline, down the
28:26
Speaker 1: right field line, and still squares up and throws a
28:31
Speaker 1: solid strike to Josh Naylor that hits him right in
28:34
Speaker 1: the chest when our shortstop can't do that on a dare. So,
28:38
Speaker 1: I mean, that was a sensational play as predicted, not
28:42
Speaker 1: on any of the highlights. There are a lot of
28:44
Speaker 1: people that like that tweet. I mean hundreds of replies
28:48
Speaker 1: to that, and all they did was like the tweet.
28:50
Speaker 1: They didn't nothing snarky. There are a few people like
28:53
Speaker 1: I brought my son into the room, which I appreciate
28:56
Speaker 1: because I think everybody recognized that as an excellent play.
29:00
Speaker 1: And yet even on the broadcast last night, I don't
29:02
Speaker 1: think they made a big enough deal out of it,
29:04
Speaker 1: because that was a phenomenal baseball play.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he just gets you.
29:09
Speaker 2: Every time he does something cool, You're like, Okay, I'm
29:11
Speaker 2: really excited for what he can do, and then he
29:13
Speaker 2: does something a little cooler and last night was great.
29:16
Speaker 1: That was a great point. That was a great play,
29:18
Speaker 1: just didn't look like it because he didn't dive, he
29:20
Speaker 1: didn't get dirty.
29:21
Speaker 2: No, but I mean, you know, stretched and kicked.
29:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, because he's fifty, he did all the other things.
29:29
Speaker 1: Finally, teas for Tricky, because I loved this play last
29:32
Speaker 1: night too, and he almost.
29:34
Speaker 4: Pulled it off.
29:35
Speaker 1: But Josh Naylor, Kevin Seiitzer told us at spring training
29:39
Speaker 1: and I asked him about Josh Naylor said, I've never
29:42
Speaker 1: seen anyone play baseball with better court awareness. And obviously
29:47
Speaker 1: they don't play on a court. That's usually a phrase
29:49
Speaker 1: say for basketball players, you have court awareness. And this
29:53
Speaker 1: was Kevin Sizer, who, by the way, I had a
29:55
Speaker 1: really long, successful playing career before he became a very
29:58
Speaker 1: successful hitting co for years for decades in Major League Baseball.
30:03
Speaker 1: So Kevin Seitzer's seen a thing or two. Kevin Seitzer
30:05
Speaker 1: was George Brett's teammate for goodness sake with the Kansas
30:08
Speaker 1: City Royals, and that's one of the greatest players of
30:11
Speaker 1: our lifetimes. And so for him to say in a
30:14
Speaker 1: very short period of time, Josh Naylor might have the
30:17
Speaker 1: best quart awareness of anyone that I've ever been around. Boy,
30:20
Speaker 1: did we see that on display last night? And he
30:22
Speaker 1: didn't quite get away with it. And I love the
30:25
Speaker 1: facial expression that he made, like did I get away
30:28
Speaker 1: with it? But he went over to the net and
30:32
Speaker 1: he positioned his glove such that if he pushed the
30:38
Speaker 1: net back, he might create more space in order to
30:42
Speaker 1: make the catch against the net. I mean, obviously, if
30:45
Speaker 1: you're gonna go try to make a catch against the net,
30:47
Speaker 1: you probably are gonna go higher and get up. But
30:50
Speaker 1: he knew, no, it's gonna hit the net. So I
30:54
Speaker 1: got to push the net away first, and in order
30:57
Speaker 1: to create more space, I need to hook my glove
31:00
Speaker 1: around and catch it on the inside. That was one
31:04
Speaker 1: of the smartest plays that you will ever see made
31:08
Speaker 1: by a first baseman. And to have the hand eye coordination,
31:11
Speaker 1: I mean that's like, that's two things. That's literally multitasking
31:16
Speaker 1: right there. I could never do that. I can't do that.
31:19
Speaker 1: I am incapable of doing that. Like how much science
31:23
Speaker 1: do I have to use with my left hand? And
31:24
Speaker 1: then how much do I have to use with my
31:26
Speaker 1: right hand? That's split in your brain in two to
31:29
Speaker 1: pull that off? Plus having the mindset of seeing it
31:33
Speaker 1: before it happens, like to be able to come up
31:35
Speaker 1: with it, because that ball's not in the air very long.
31:37
Speaker 3: No, it's a split second choice and no one.
31:40
Speaker 1: Has ever made that decision in the history of baseball, Like,
31:43
Speaker 1: how do I catch this ball with that net? And
31:46
Speaker 1: he thought of my strategy while it's in the air
31:50
Speaker 1: and still almost pulled off the play. I loved that
31:55
Speaker 1: play last night, even though I think they were right.
31:58
Speaker 1: I think it did scrape the net, and I think
32:00
Speaker 1: they made the right play and he knew. He knew
32:02
Speaker 1: it too, Yeah, even though he did a tremendous job
32:05
Speaker 1: trying to play it off.
32:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, he would have been real angry if it hadn't.
32:08
Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean, but he is smart. And it's
32:11
Speaker 2: the same thing when he's out there stealing signs quote unquote,
32:15
Speaker 2: because half the time he's probably not. He's just throwing
32:18
Speaker 2: them off of thinking that he knows what throw, what
32:20
Speaker 2: pitch the pitcher is gonna throw, and that throws him off.
32:24
Speaker 3: I mean, he's just his head is always in the game.
32:25
Speaker 3: He's so smart.
32:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, very smart player. T You're tricky, You are tricky.
32:30
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna keep my eye on you, and then
32:32
Speaker 1: he had that like cheshire cat grin of his where
32:35
Speaker 1: it's like, did I get away with it? Yeah? What
32:38
Speaker 1: do you I think I did it? Did I do it? Ah,
32:41
Speaker 1: you're gonna review it. I'm not gonna stick around for it.
32:43
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go put my bad Gulls on. I'm gonna
32:45
Speaker 1: act like I did it. I'm gonna really play this off.
32:48
Speaker 1: And then they're like, no, we reviewed it, we're gonna
32:50
Speaker 1: overturn it. He's like, yeah, I knew all the way. So,
32:56
Speaker 1: so two tremendous plays last night that maybe they weren't
32:59
Speaker 1: talked about the post game show. That's what the Abcson
33:02
Speaker 1: d m's are for, to point out some different things
33:04
Speaker 1: that maybe weren't discussed after the game last night. All Right,
33:07
Speaker 1: we're gonna get reckless at breakfast next. Another unique thing
33:11
Speaker 1: to this radio program. We do it every Wednesday around
33:14
Speaker 1: seven forty five, and we're gonna get reckless at breakfast
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33:24
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33:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, I called him up before the holiday weekend and
33:33
Speaker 2: I was like, what should I bring to a barbecue this?
33:35
Speaker 1: Oh you went to a barbecue? No I didn't. Oh.
33:38
Speaker 2: I was like I could have called Matt to you know,
33:41
Speaker 2: say like, hey, any suggestions.
33:42
Speaker 3: What do you bring to a cookout?
33:43
Speaker 4: Yeah?
33:44
Speaker 1: Hassleback potatoes? Yeah?
33:45
Speaker 4: What did your bran?
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Speaker 3: Obviously?
33:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, at a hassleback get together?
33:48
Speaker 3: That's what.
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Speaker 2: That's just the kind of friends we all are now,
33:50
Speaker 2: you know, like advice exactly.
33:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, after we hang out all week and long,
33:55
Speaker 1: mind coming on the radio show. Yeah, yeah, that'd be
33:58
Speaker 1: great exactly. So he's going to do today at eight.
34:00
Speaker 1: It's eight to eight. Yep, it's back for a little
34:03
Speaker 1: special offseason addition. And so we're gonna talk to him
34:07
Speaker 1: about the Seahawks coming up at eight o'clock and excited
34:09
Speaker 1: about doing that. But right now, time to get a
34:11
Speaker 1: little reckless at breakfast. And there's a lot of talk
34:14
Speaker 1: about college football expansion here these days. And although I
34:18
Speaker 1: think I'd like to see it at twelve, and I
34:20
Speaker 1: can't believe here we are. Actually I can believe because
34:23
Speaker 1: I've predicted it for thirty years that they would drag
34:27
Speaker 1: their feet, drag their feet, not give us what we
34:29
Speaker 1: all wanted, which was a real postseason in college football,
34:32
Speaker 1: a sport that so many of us love and yet
34:35
Speaker 1: feel so dissatisfied at the end of every year for
34:38
Speaker 1: most of our lives because of the college football playoff
34:41
Speaker 1: format that they had previously. Now we have an actual,
34:45
Speaker 1: real tournament. It seems to be a success, and yet
34:50
Speaker 1: they're already tinkering with it. They've already chosen to expand it.
34:53
Speaker 1: We've already gone to twelve now they're talking about going
34:56
Speaker 1: to as many as twenty four, and it seems to
35:00
Speaker 1: be a really hot button topic with the conferences, particularly
35:04
Speaker 1: the two big conferences, the SEC and the Big Ten.
35:07
Speaker 1: As the SEC has had their meetings this week. So
35:11
Speaker 1: here at Reckless at Breakfast, something we talked about a
35:13
Speaker 1: lot is the college football playoff. And so I'm going
35:17
Speaker 1: to go ahead and confront expansion and I'm going to
35:20
Speaker 1: accept the fact that that's going to occur, but I'm
35:24
Speaker 1: going to try to come up with an ideal plan.
35:27
Speaker 1: And I'm stealing from somebody, I'm stealing for. I mean,
35:31
Speaker 1: this format was pointed out to me by our listener
35:33
Speaker 1: Nick Allen, I don't know if he came up with
35:35
Speaker 1: it on his own or if he got it from
35:37
Speaker 1: someone else, because it does really seem to be like
35:39
Speaker 1: the hot button topic of conversation right now in terms
35:43
Speaker 1: of how are we going to expand? So it is
35:46
Speaker 1: a sixteen team tournament going forward, but not how you
35:51
Speaker 1: would envision it. And this is the one I'm going
35:53
Speaker 1: to endorse. This is the one when it does come
35:55
Speaker 1: to a vote and all of us college football fans
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Speaker 1: get to vote, when we all get to vote for election, yep,
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Speaker 1: you know it's coming soon.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, those ballots are should be out soon.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, this will be the sign in from my front yard.
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Speaker 1: This format, I think they're calling it the four four
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Speaker 1: two two one formats. A lot of numbers, too many numbers. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but the idea is that it's sixteen teams, but it's
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Speaker 1: not sixteen versus one, fifteen versus two like we're accustomed
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Speaker 1: to seeing. This is going to and this is for
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Speaker 1: the group of cherish the regular season, group which we
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Speaker 1: all want to cherish the regular season.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it should matter.
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Speaker 1: It should matter, maybe not as much as it used to,
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Speaker 1: where we're just gonna pick two teams and vote for them.
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Speaker 1: And they're going to be our champion. Maybe not like that,
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Speaker 1: maybe it's not that much, but I think that it
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Speaker 1: should matter significantly. And so the idea would be that
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Speaker 1: you have four of your teams. They get to advance
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Speaker 1: past the first two rounds of the playoffs entirely, so
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Speaker 1: they are already advancing to the SEMIFI your top four
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Speaker 1: ranked teams in America as determined by the selection committee.
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Speaker 1: And I would assume there have to be some sort
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Speaker 1: of conference championship attachment to that, but who knows.
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Speaker 4: I don't.
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Speaker 1: I think don't think we would marry ourselves to that.
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Speaker 1: So they automatically get to round three of the tournament,
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Speaker 1: We're gonna go ahead and put them in the Elite
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Speaker 1: eight right off the bat. And so then you would
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Speaker 1: have four more teams that are going to be in
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Speaker 1: that previous round that will be the second round, not
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Speaker 1: of the play ins, but you got four more teams
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Speaker 1: the next four teams ranked, and those teams would get
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Speaker 1: a buye through the first round of the playoffs and
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Speaker 1: await the winners of round number one. So, in other words,
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Speaker 1: the tournament starts with eight teams kind of in a
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Speaker 1: play in format. Those eight teams that are chosen by
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Speaker 1: the committee. They're going to play four games in the
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Speaker 1: first round of the tournament, and then when they win,
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Speaker 1: they advance on to take on seeds five through eight,
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Speaker 1: and then they play the following week, and then those
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Speaker 1: winners advance on to the it would be the quarterfinals,
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Speaker 1: not the semifinals, the quarterfinals to face the top four
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Speaker 1: ranked teams in America. So the idea of being, yes,
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Speaker 1: let's go to sixteen, but we also want to give
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Speaker 1: a built in advantage to those top four, especially if
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Speaker 1: they're not going to get a home field advantage. If
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Speaker 1: we're going to do home field advantage for rounds one
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Speaker 1: to two and then we're going to go to the
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Speaker 1: actual bowl games from that point forward, then we're going
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Speaker 1: to give the four best teams a huge advantage by
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Speaker 1: not even having to threaten their playoff existence in the
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Speaker 1: first two rounds of our playoffs. So if you're just
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Speaker 1: getting in by the skin of your teeth, and there's
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Speaker 1: people in Florida State saying it's a crime that they
38:52
Speaker 1: got in ahead of us, or whatever the case may be,
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Speaker 1: then we're going to give major advantages to There's no
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Speaker 1: doubt they're a tournament team and then then a second
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Speaker 1: wave of there's very little doubt that they're a tournament team,
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Speaker 1: and then those that are on the bubble or the
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Speaker 1: next eight, well, you're gonna have to earn your way
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Speaker 1: to even facing the four best teams in college football.
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Speaker 1: Then let rust versus rest rule the day, because that's
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Speaker 1: what we'll discuss going forward. But that's how I'd like
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Speaker 1: to see it. It's just it's adding another round of playoffs,
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Speaker 1: but it's also adding another obstacle for the teams that
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Speaker 1: there is doubt whether they should be in versus those
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Speaker 1: who undoubtedly should be in. We're gonna go ahead and
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Speaker 1: usher them all the way to the Elite eight and
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Speaker 1: make everybody else have to fight for the chance to
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Speaker 1: play them in the quarterfinals of the playoffs. So that
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Speaker 1: seems to be where they're leaning toward it. If it
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Speaker 1: is a sixteen team format, If it's a twenty fourteen format,
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Speaker 1: I don't even want to participate in that practice. Does
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Speaker 1: it makes me want to throw up?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's gross.
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Speaker 1: But if it is a sixteen team format, that is
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Speaker 1: the one that I will endorse. I think that's rather interesting,
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Speaker 1: And we can also, by the way, get rid of
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Speaker 1: conference tournaments. That way, we could even use that first
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Speaker 1: round as conference championship playing round. So that's that's the
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Speaker 1: one that I would vote for if in fact it
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Speaker 1: came to the floor.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I would agree sixteen is okay, twenty four not.
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Speaker 2: I'll know, there's no there's too many teams.
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Speaker 3: I don't want it. It's too long of a season
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Speaker 3: at that point. Sixteen is the max.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, sixteen, I think I think we got to face it.
40:34
Speaker 1: It's inevitably going to go to that. I think it's
40:37
Speaker 1: inevitably going to go to twenty four. I hate that,
40:39
Speaker 1: I really do. I don't know if there's any stopping it.
40:43
Speaker 1: But if I were to vote and we had to expand,
40:47
Speaker 1: then that's the format that I would prefer. Is that
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Speaker 1: one going forward? But we shall see right now, I mean, goodnight.
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Speaker 1: I heard this morning that the SEC is so upset
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Speaker 1: by not being the dominant team right now. They were
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Speaker 1: even the dominant conference right now. They were even having
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Speaker 1: a discussion this morning on a major network about whether
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Speaker 1: or not SEC teams would secede out of the conference
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Speaker 1: to get where they could get more so they can.
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Speaker 3: Just make their own national championship, so they can always win.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's kind of crazy, but yes, the
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Speaker 1: NIL has not been kind to the SEC's dominance like
41:28
Speaker 1: many people thought it was going to be all right.
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