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Chuck & Buck 3-25 Hour 2: 12th man news with Gregg Bell, Cal's floor and BIG BREAKING NEWS! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: We move into the second hour on this hump day
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Speaker 1: edition of Chuck and Buck in the Morning Sports Radio
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Speaker 1: ninety three point three KJRFM, and yes, we are looking
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Speaker 1: for our winning and losing songs for the Mariners season.
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Speaker 1: For those of you that listen at six point thirty,
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Speaker 1: we always play a winning song in our Mariners Morning
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Speaker 1: After segment or a losing song. So we want to
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Speaker 1: come up with the best thing that you want to hear,
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Speaker 1: not us. We want you to choose it so you
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Speaker 1: don't blame us.
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Speaker 2: That's not our fault. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Because it's a.
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Speaker 1: Six month endeavor. It's a six month commitment that we're
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Speaker 1: making with these songs. So we got to pull up
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Speaker 1: on the winning song. We're taking suggestions on the losing
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Speaker 1: song at four nine four five one, and by Friday,
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Speaker 1: our first Mariners Morning After of the season, we will
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Speaker 1: have both of those set and ready to go.
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Speaker 2: All right, good morning to you.
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Speaker 1: We've got some other headlines that we want to bring
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Speaker 1: you before Greg Bell jumps aboard in about three minutes
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Speaker 1: here on the radio program, and those headlines are brought
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Speaker 1: to you by Frost Brood Core is Light, Choose Chill,
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Speaker 1: the national basketball Association's Board of governors will meet today
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Speaker 1: this morning.
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Speaker 2: Last night they just got together and you.
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Speaker 1: Know, had pizza and just gabbed, gossip, gossiped and gabbed.
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Speaker 3: Love to get together my billionaire bodies and just gab
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Speaker 3: over some za love. It one of my favorite things
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Speaker 3: to do in the whole world.
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Speaker 2: They probably played risk they had time.
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Speaker 3: Oh, risks, shoots and ladders. I bet they'd all cheat
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Speaker 3: at Monopoly.
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Speaker 1: By the way, I have I invented a dirty version.
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Speaker 2: It's shoots and ladders. That right, I've played that in
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Speaker 2: my life, an adult version.
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Speaker 4: Wow.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'll tell you about it off the you Okay,
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Speaker 1: But yes, the NBA owners met last night. They're going
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Speaker 1: to vote today. Looks like we're going to know around noon.
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Speaker 1: That is the plan. Ian and Softy, by the way,
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Speaker 1: are both broadcasting today from Queen Anne Beer Hall, so
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Speaker 1: they're going to be there in place. We want to
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Speaker 1: react positively as a community, aggressively as a community over
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Speaker 1: this news, and so that's where they're broadcasting today. It's
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Speaker 1: not the celebration, okay, we want to make that clear,
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Speaker 1: but it would be good news today.
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Speaker 2: It's a step in the right direction.
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Speaker 1: If in fact, we get the expansion vote, we're that
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Speaker 1: much closer to the Sonics returning. So if you want
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Speaker 1: to just cheer some good news, you could even stop
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Speaker 1: by Queen Anne Beer Hall, hang out with Ian Softy
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Speaker 1: Dick and the gang, and we will certainly update you
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Speaker 1: if we get that information at any time today, but
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Speaker 1: the expectation is that we will be hearing it around
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Speaker 1: noon today whether or not that vote has passed. For
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Speaker 1: Seattle and Vegas. Some other headlines, NCAA tournament tips off
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Speaker 1: again tomorrow, Sweet sixteen round begins. Man, it really is
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Speaker 1: getting fun now, and so we've got you covered here
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Speaker 1: at Sports Radio ninety three point three KJARFM North, A
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Speaker 1: line of fans are just absorbing the fact that former
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Speaker 1: Tar Heel player and now former head coach Hubert Davis
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Speaker 1: is no longer at the helm of that program.
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Speaker 2: A significant move yesterday.
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Speaker 1: In college basketball, the Kraken man, they need wins right now,
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Speaker 1: they can't get one. At least they got a point
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Speaker 1: last night and in dramatic fashion, they were getting their
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Speaker 1: tails kicked by the Florida Panthers and then put together
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Speaker 1: a dream third period end up tying it on a
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Speaker 1: goal from Bobby McMahon. My goodness, is he a gold machine.
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Speaker 1: Tied it at four. At least earned the team a
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Speaker 1: point they couldn't get two. They lost in a shootout.
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Speaker 1: Seems like they always losing the shootout and they have
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Speaker 1: now lost four straight. But at least they got a
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Speaker 1: point out of it last night. We'll talk to al
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Speaker 1: Kiniski about it at nine thirty today. They'll be in
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Speaker 1: Tampa tomorrow to take on the Tampa Bay Lightning the TGL.
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Speaker 1: Tiger Woods made his return, not to a victory yesterday,
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Speaker 1: but he's back on a golf course ish ish. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he looked phenomenal. He looks like a Yeah, it looks
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Speaker 1: like an outside linebacker for goodness sake. But maybe the
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Speaker 1: game's not quite there. He doesn't have much time between
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Speaker 1: now and the Masters.
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Speaker 2: I hate to tell him.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think he probably knows.
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Speaker 2: Does he have a calendar? Oh, I'll send him one.
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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball season starts tonight in San Francisco. That's right,
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Speaker 1: there is one game tonight, Yankees versus Giants, first pitch
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Speaker 1: of the season at five oh five. Of course, the
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Speaker 1: Mariners will not open until tomorrow night at home. We
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Speaker 1: are just one sleep away from the Major League Baseball
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Speaker 1: season here with the Seattle Mariners, and we will be
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Speaker 1: broadcasting tomorrow Bucky and I from Jimmy's on First. That
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Speaker 1: is an annual tradition, and so get ready for some
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Speaker 1: ball people. All right, those are your headlines. Let's talk
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Speaker 1: some football with our Seahawks insider Greg Bell.
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Speaker 6: The bell tolls, it must be seven o'clock and time
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Speaker 6: here's Greg Bell with Chuck and Bud.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Greg.
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Speaker 1: What are you gonna do for Opening Day? You're gonna
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Speaker 1: try to get to the Ballyard tomorrow. I know the
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Speaker 1: Bell family loves to get to the Ballyard if we do.
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Speaker 4: Obove, my son and wife will be working. I'm working.
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Speaker 4: I'll be covering it for the news show.
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Speaker 2: Oh okay, you're working the event.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll be out there.
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Speaker 1: Okay, got any uh you know any you know special
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Speaker 1: stories planned for You're gonna go interview? Uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: hal Bally by chance, the cal Raley.
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Speaker 4: In high demand. I'm sure, I think so. I've been
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Speaker 4: doing a fans story. I usually do a scene story,
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Speaker 4: and how this is truly the most unique Mariners opening
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Speaker 4: day they've never come off being a few outs from
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Speaker 4: the World Series, and how the expectations now aren't just hey,
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Speaker 4: let's make the playoffs and then this drought, let's win
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Speaker 4: the World Series and it's just it's different. You can
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Speaker 4: tell that the vibe around town and then the region
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Speaker 4: is that this team's not going to be satisfied with
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Speaker 4: just making the playoffs. So we'll be writing about that noon.
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Speaker 4: Is that the expectation.
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Speaker 1: MLB Network, MLB dot Com, all of their experts pulled
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Speaker 1: on who will win the American League this year and
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Speaker 1: it was the Seattle Mariners in a runaway and a runaway.
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Speaker 1: So that's the expectation as we head into this season,
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Speaker 1: and that certainly is exciting. All right, Well, let's talk
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Speaker 1: a little bit of football. We got the JSN deal
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Speaker 1: worked out here earlier in the week, and I certainly
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Speaker 1: Greg was surprised at the way that it was allowed
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Speaker 1: to be structured. That you really don't see the money
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Speaker 1: kick in for another what three seasons. That's that's quite
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Speaker 1: the interesting twist to all of this and shouldn't shouldn't
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Speaker 1: prohibit John I would think from being still aggressive this
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Speaker 1: offseason if he's able to kick that can down the
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Speaker 1: road with Witherspoon and JSN on their new deals. So
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Speaker 1: what did you make of the structure of the contract.
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Speaker 4: Well, it's a typical Seahawks structure, and you're talking about
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Speaker 4: the accounting of it, the salvary cap accounting smith and
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Speaker 4: JIGG was getting his cash up front. He's getting his
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Speaker 4: guaranteed as his signing bonus, and so for the player,
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Speaker 4: it's sign a contract, get the new money. In fact,
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Speaker 4: he gets over sixty million dollars in the first twelve
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Speaker 4: months of the deal, which is really good for an
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Speaker 4: NFL player. Giving guaranteed money upfront is king and that's
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Speaker 4: why he'd be up for this deal for the Seahawks
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Speaker 4: to be able to avoid year at the end of it,
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Speaker 4: to spread it across to the biggest thing. The reason
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Speaker 4: they're doing it now, I'll do it with Witherspoon before
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Speaker 4: this season. The biggest thing is it frees them up
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Speaker 4: for next year instead of the fifth year option, the
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Speaker 4: fifth year option they picked up on Friday's leverage, and
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Speaker 4: it buys them time to then go out and get
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Speaker 4: a multi year extension done with them, which they both
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Speaker 4: know they want to stay and the team wants to
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Speaker 4: keep them. So instead of paying the fifth year option
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Speaker 4: cap charge of a guaranteed chunk in Witherspoon's case and
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Speaker 4: be twenty one million in Smith and Jigma's case, is
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Speaker 4: be close to twenty four million. That's the number for
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Speaker 4: the fifth year option. An average, it's a complicated formul
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Speaker 4: basically the average of the top twenty salaries in the
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Speaker 4: league plus playing time and awards. Instead of having twenty
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Speaker 4: four million as the cap number for Smith and Jigman
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Speaker 4: next year, now it's eight million less than that, an
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Speaker 4: eight million the way John Schneider buys a free agency
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Speaker 4: eight millions like three players, three depth pieces and three
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Speaker 4: So that's the real value in the Seahawks here is
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Speaker 4: that they don't have the upfront costs against their cap
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Speaker 4: and allows them more buying power to buy for more
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Speaker 4: depth and more pieces down the road. And that's why
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Speaker 4: it's attractive for them to do it now. It's why
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Speaker 4: they'll do the same thing top of market with Witherspoon,
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Speaker 4: and the timing is usually in the summer. That's what
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Speaker 4: was different here. And the more I think about it
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Speaker 4: is I think they were jumping the Rams and booting
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Speaker 4: the Rams and trying to get Pook and the Koua
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Speaker 4: a new deal. And the Rams had already set the
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Speaker 4: cornerback market with Trent McDuffie trading with the Chiefs and
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Speaker 4: then giving McDuffie a thirty one million dollars deal for
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Speaker 4: four years. So that dictates the Witherspoon contract, which is
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Speaker 4: going to be thirty one million plus a year. So
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Speaker 4: now the Seahawk said, Okay, we're going to do Smith
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Speaker 4: and jig vanned, let's do it now, so that the
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Speaker 4: Rams then have to go off of our number with
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Speaker 4: Smith and Jigwa, which is now forty two point one
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Speaker 4: million per year. So I think that's some of the
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Speaker 4: timing at play here. But now Witherspoon will be next
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Speaker 4: for the same reas for Smith's and Jigba. And in
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Speaker 4: the thirty thousand foot view, this is why the Seahawks
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Speaker 4: aren't jumping in this year in the first wave, didn't
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Speaker 4: jumping in the first wave of free agency and spend
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Speaker 4: spend spend and why they didn't keep a running back
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Speaker 4: at fourteen and a half million in the safety of
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Speaker 4: fourteen and a half million year.
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Speaker 3: Are they in a hurry to go on the Witherspoon
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Speaker 3: thing or you think it's gonna lead up to closer
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Speaker 3: to camp?
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Speaker 4: Well, I think it's different, Bucky now because of what
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Speaker 4: I just said. I don't think they're in a hurry
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Speaker 4: because the market has been set at corner. They wanted
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Speaker 4: to set the market at wide receiver and have the
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Speaker 4: Rams with Nikoua chase them. It's all in the NFL
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Speaker 4: about comps, and is in baseball too, but especially in
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Speaker 4: the NFL. It's about comps. It's about wait, this guy
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Speaker 4: got this, my guy's worth this. And in Smith and
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Speaker 4: Jigba's case, his agents could easily go to the Seahawks
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Speaker 4: and Puk and Aku, yeah all pro more catches than
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Speaker 4: my guy, but not more yards and not more Super
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Speaker 4: Bowl rings, and Puk who is not the NFL Offensive
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Speaker 4: Player of the Year. My guy deserves more than that guy.
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Speaker 4: And so now they have set this and the Rams
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Speaker 4: have to come back and counter with a Nikua deal
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Speaker 4: add or around the new market setting for Smith and
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Speaker 4: jigbe so the Seahawks sleep problem. Not so with in
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Speaker 4: the case of Witherspoon. The market's been set, so they
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Speaker 4: know the number that's going to take in what the
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Speaker 4: top of the market is and around the value. And
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Speaker 4: now the question is just how much higher do they
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Speaker 4: go or do they go about with McDuffie. A lot
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Speaker 4: of times in these deals you'll see, Okay, McDuffie's making
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Speaker 4: thirty one million, they'll sign Witherspoon for thirty one and
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Speaker 4: a half million or thirty one point twenty five, right,
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Speaker 4: just so they can have a precedent of having been
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Speaker 4: above that.
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Speaker 1: Greg Bell is with us our Seahawks insider from the
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Speaker 1: News Tribune of course Seahawk coverage twenty four to seven
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Speaker 1: throughout the year at the News Tribune dot com from
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Speaker 1: Craig and you can follow him at you Bell Seattle
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Speaker 1: on X. We had you on Monday to talk about
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Speaker 1: whether or not Jake Bobo's the future look that solid
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Speaker 1: with the Seahawks, and now we know that he is
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Speaker 1: going to be back. Were you surprised that they matched
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Speaker 1: that offer from Jacksonville.
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Speaker 4: No, I wasn't, and I told you I thought they
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Speaker 4: were going to want to keep him and then when
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Speaker 4: Bucky hit me with the numbers that I wasn't aware
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Speaker 4: of what that Jacksonville actually table. My immediate reaction was,
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Speaker 4: I don't know, I might be too rich for that. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: And then when I hung up the phone, I realized,
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Speaker 4: wait a minute, that's actually less by about a half
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Speaker 4: million dollars less than what they were committed to sign
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Speaker 4: him on the tender sheet for the restricted free agency.
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Speaker 4: They were going to do three point two five ish
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Speaker 4: million as their tender number for the right of first
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Speaker 4: refusal tender. When they took a rite of first refusal
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Speaker 4: tender on Jake Bobo, that came at a cost. The
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Speaker 4: right to match an offer is a slotted value, and
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Speaker 4: it was three point I think it was between two
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Speaker 4: point two and three point four million dollars that would
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Speaker 4: have had to pay a one year contract to Bobo
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Speaker 4: at two years and five point five, and his agent,
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Speaker 4: Steve Carrick confirmed to me those numbers. Two years and
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Speaker 4: five point five that Jacksonville had signed him under the
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Speaker 4: offer sheet was an average of two point seven five
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Speaker 4: million per year, which is actually half a million less. Right,
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Speaker 4: so they got Bobo for an extra year at less
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Speaker 4: annual cost than they were already committed to for twenty
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Speaker 4: twenty six. That's what it did. And because the cap
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Speaker 4: will go up next year because they've NFL prints money
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Speaker 4: that extra two point seven five million, they're not even
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Speaker 4: gonna the cap will go up more than two point
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Speaker 4: seven five million next year. So they're giddy in their minds.
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Speaker 4: They're getting a discount on keeping him for two years
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Speaker 4: rather than being committed for one. And there are some
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Speaker 4: fans who might just look at the back of his
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Speaker 4: his football I was gonna say, baseball card and look
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Speaker 4: at his stats and see two catches for twenty yards
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Speaker 4: for the regular season and be like, well, well they
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Speaker 4: spend in four million, two and a half million a year,
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Speaker 4: two seven to five on him for that, Uh huh.
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Speaker 4: He's completely more than that glue guy, locker room guy,
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Speaker 4: special teams guy, best blocking wide receiver, which becomes more
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Speaker 4: important now that Darek Jung has signed with the Raiders.
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Speaker 4: There is a lot more to Jake Bobo's value with
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Speaker 4: the team than catches and yards. Taking out three blockers
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Speaker 4: in the third and seventeen Week eighteen, and Kenneth Walker's
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Speaker 4: run for a key first down that helped clinch the
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Speaker 4: division which helped clinch the number one seed. There are
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Speaker 4: plays in a season that are hidden, plays that have
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Speaker 4: such a monumental effect on the seat. Rashid Shaheed's plint
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Speaker 4: return for the touchdown that began the rally from sixteen
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Speaker 4: points down with nine minutes left against the Rams in
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Speaker 4: the Thursday night game. Again, if they don't win that game,
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Speaker 4: they don't even get the division, they don't get home field.
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Speaker 4: So their value is say with Rashid, people say, well,
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Speaker 4: they overpaid for him. The value of Rashid and Bobo
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Speaker 4: much much more than just the straight statistics at the
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Speaker 4: wide receiver numbers, and that's why they thought that was
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Speaker 4: worth doing. And Bobo, of course loves to be here.
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Speaker 4: And this is the team that gave him a start
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Speaker 4: as an undrafted rookie free agent re member. He was
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Speaker 4: a surprise to make the team that summer when he
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Speaker 4: wasn't even expected to be on the roster. So you know,
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Speaker 4: another win win deal that seems thick win win for
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Speaker 4: both that John Schneider's been stacking up here this spring.
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Speaker 3: Greg, I think most people are in the in Schneider,
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Speaker 3: we trust Boat. And yet if there is a position
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Speaker 3: that has people concerned after Ken Walker walks or you know,
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Speaker 3: ends up going to Kansas City. I think it is
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Speaker 3: running back. They've made the one move essentially with Emmanuel
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Speaker 3: Wilson for as a piece. Are we are people just
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Speaker 3: going to need to kind of sit back and be
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Speaker 3: patient and expect that the rest of the answers for
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Speaker 3: that group are going to come draft time or is
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Speaker 3: there somebody in house that maybe they think is a
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Speaker 3: diamond in the rough that people are overlooking.
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Speaker 4: I think it's both. In all, I think that a
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Speaker 4: free agent down the road is still a possibility. I've
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Speaker 4: mentioned Naji Harris for instance, if they got and I
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Speaker 4: don't have any inside information that they are specifically targeting Harris,
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Speaker 4: but that kind of deal a veteran coming off of
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Speaker 4: an achilles injury in September that might not be healthy
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Speaker 4: until the summer, and then if he can start proving
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Speaker 4: he's healthy, the Seahawks could take a look at that
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Speaker 4: for a one year, close to minimum deal for a
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Speaker 4: former a guy who were in for four straight one
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Speaker 4: thousand yard seasons with the Steelers to begin his career.
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Speaker 4: I think that's the kind of shopping they'll be doing
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Speaker 4: during training camp. In the meantime, Emmanuel Wilson will get
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Speaker 4: a long, long look and a chance, but it may
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Speaker 4: be more of a committee. They would love George Alani
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Speaker 4: for what he's done and how he's done everything they'd
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Speaker 4: asked him to do, special teams, blocking, tackling, in the
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Speaker 4: kicking game. Oh, you need to be a third down
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Speaker 4: back in the NFC Championship game. Sure, he did that
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Speaker 4: really well too. Once Doc Sharbone got hurt the Sharbonnte situation,
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Speaker 4: does he come back September October? Remember he got hurt
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Speaker 4: ACL tear in January. There's a usual eight to twelve
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Speaker 4: month injury. Eight months from his injury is mid September.
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Speaker 4: The season will have already started by then. So then
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Speaker 4: you look at any McIntosh, how ready is he to
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Speaker 4: come back off a knee injury season NY knee injury
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Speaker 4: from last late July. The beginning of starting in training
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Speaker 4: camp twelve months from an ACL would be July in
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Speaker 4: the beginning of training camp this year. There are just
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Speaker 4: a lot of variables to still be determined at running back.
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Speaker 4: They think they have now with Wilson, Halani and McIntosh
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Speaker 4: coming back, they have a genesis of a potential committee.
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Speaker 4: What they don't have is a guy to just lean
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Speaker 4: on that they can count on and know they can
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Speaker 4: do it. Because even Emmanuel Wilson with the Packers, five
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Speaker 4: hundred yard guy who've got thirty some percent of the
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Speaker 4: snaps for the Packers, that at his best, they don't
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Speaker 4: have a proven guy yet. But we've talked about this,
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Speaker 4: that's the position the league goes cheaper on for the
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Speaker 4: reasons we've talked about the injury concerns. They weren't about
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Speaker 4: to pay fourteen plus million to keep a running back.
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Speaker 4: Why he's Keith Walker's now Kansas City chief. The dead
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Speaker 4: draft is that would be one place. But they only
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Speaker 4: have four picks, and that's to me, at the bottom
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Speaker 4: of each of the first three rounds, we'll see this
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Speaker 4: is a team that drafts running backs in the second,
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Speaker 4: third rounds and they've gotten lead running backs in the
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Speaker 4: seventh round and then undrafted free agents Chris Carson, Thomas
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Speaker 4: Rawls before This is gonna be a huge undrafted free
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Speaker 4: agency year, big big. A lot of the thirty visits
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Speaker 4: you're gonna hear oute between now and the draft are
18:32
Speaker 4: going to be toward the undrafted free agents. When you
18:34
Speaker 4: only have four picks, you're gonna spend a lot of
18:37
Speaker 4: time recruiting and wooing guys in your thirty visits. You
18:39
Speaker 4: should say, hey, man, we're gonna sign you as soon
18:41
Speaker 4: as a draft ends.
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Speaker 1: All right, Greg, awesome stuff. Thank you very much, sir.
18:45
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Enjoy opening day tomorrow, and I would
18:49
Speaker 1: imagine we'll be catching up with you very soon.
18:52
Speaker 4: Okay, happy baseball, Happy Sonics announcement. Well, I guess it's
18:57
Speaker 4: just an incremental announcement today. Yeah, press conference and rentin
19:01
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19:03
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So we got NBA expansion vote versus
19:08
Speaker 1: a JSN press conference today. All right, Greg, thanks man,
19:11
Speaker 1: appreciate you.
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Speaker 4: Thanks all right, Greg.
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21:50
Speaker 1: All right, well, let's talk about cal Raley a little bit.
21:53
Speaker 2: And I got a lot of mostly.
21:56
Speaker 1: Obviously positive things to talk about with cal Raleigh, but
21:59
Speaker 1: also I gotta start with the negative on this because
22:03
Speaker 1: this is what this is what was chafing me about
22:08
Speaker 1: the entire handshake gate. I had to listen on the
22:13
Speaker 1: drive in to two of three hosts on a show
22:16
Speaker 1: that don't know anything about baseball, and yet they wanted
22:19
Speaker 1: to weigh in on baseball topics, and the one person
22:22
Speaker 1: who actually does know something about baseball, she said that
22:27
Speaker 1: she put together a list of the five players who've
22:30
Speaker 1: now won a World Series that she'd like to see
22:33
Speaker 1: win a World Series if it's not gonna be her team,
22:35
Speaker 1: and cal Raley was one of the five that she mentioned. Yes,
22:39
Speaker 1: and so she's the one that knows something. The other
22:42
Speaker 1: two who know nothing, especially the one, especially the two
22:48
Speaker 1: their reaction to this, and this is what was gonna
22:52
Speaker 1: bother me. Are people really rooting for cal doesn't seem
22:56
Speaker 1: like he's a good teammate. Yeah, that was the response. Yeah,
23:03
Speaker 1: now I know they're dufices. Then they don't know anything
23:07
Speaker 1: about the sports. So I don't take it personally from
23:09
Speaker 1: a couple of ignorant fools who are just popping off
23:11
Speaker 1: on radio. But the bottom line is they have a
23:14
Speaker 1: platform and it's a large one, and I don't want
23:18
Speaker 1: it spread out there by people that have a microphone
23:21
Speaker 1: and have never watched a Mariner's game, don't know anything
23:25
Speaker 1: about the Mariners, don't know anything about baseball, but because
23:28
Speaker 1: they read a headline or they followed social media during
23:31
Speaker 1: the WBC are using that stage and platform to spread
23:35
Speaker 1: nonsense like that Cal Rawley might be the best dude
23:40
Speaker 1: to ever put on a pair of cleats in baseball history,
23:44
Speaker 1: and for him now because of this silly handshakegate, they
23:48
Speaker 1: got completely blown out of proportion that I didn't like
23:51
Speaker 1: that he didn't shake Randy's hand, but Randy knew he
23:55
Speaker 1: wasn't going to shake his hand, and it turns into
23:57
Speaker 1: an incident, and now all of a sudden, there are
24:00
Speaker 1: national broadcasters who think cal Raley, of all people, is
24:04
Speaker 1: a bad teammate. Pisses me off.
24:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, yeah, I'm with you.
24:08
Speaker 3: I mean, it's silly, it's a silly narrative to stick to.
24:12
Speaker 3: It's a silly narrative really that kind of even came
24:14
Speaker 3: about from the whole thing. But then again, we obviously
24:17
Speaker 3: are coming from it. We're coming at it from a
24:19
Speaker 3: perspective of we've seen the guy, and we knew that
24:22
Speaker 3: there obviously was there was any number of reasons why
24:25
Speaker 3: he didn't shake hands or give dabs or whatever.
24:30
Speaker 2: That don't lead you down the.
24:32
Speaker 3: Path of because he's a bad teammate, right, So we
24:34
Speaker 3: kind of understand it, and yet there's some people that
24:37
Speaker 3: don't get it because they don't know him to some degree.
24:40
Speaker 3: I'd just say, if cal Rawly's star continues to rise,
24:45
Speaker 3: there's gonna be haters that are gonna come out of
24:48
Speaker 3: the woodworks for again, somewhat manufactured reasons, right, I mean,
24:52
Speaker 3: as far as that they won't necessarily know him, they'll
24:56
Speaker 3: just want to cheer against him, because you know, if
25:00
Speaker 3: it's a team that's in our division per se, or
25:02
Speaker 3: if it's just somebody, he ends up hitting a couple
25:05
Speaker 3: of big home runs against your team and knocks you off,
25:07
Speaker 3: and I mean, maybe that series is what ends up
25:10
Speaker 3: finding you and your team. You're rooting interest on the
25:13
Speaker 3: outside of the playoffs looking in he's gonna basically end
25:16
Speaker 3: up being a heel or an adversary to a lot
25:19
Speaker 3: of people. And so to me, this is just it's
25:22
Speaker 3: kind of comes with the territory. Cal's gonna start having
25:24
Speaker 3: some haters. This one is kind of silly because I
25:27
Speaker 3: think it's it's unnecessary and it most certainly didn't mean
25:30
Speaker 3: what a lot of people are taking run with it.
25:32
Speaker 3: But I think you're just gonna have to end up
25:33
Speaker 3: realizing there's gonna be some people are gonna vilify you
25:36
Speaker 3: simply because you're not a Marata fan.
25:38
Speaker 5: I heard the same thing this morning, and I thought
25:40
Speaker 5: to myself, after all of the after the points that
25:42
Speaker 5: she made, and I mean she was talking about and
25:44
Speaker 5: you know, I love a power hitting catcher, and all
25:46
Speaker 5: the things that he did last year, all these things,
25:48
Speaker 5: and that's the only thing he brought on. I was like,
25:51
Speaker 5: you're not even going to acknowledge the successful season he
25:55
Speaker 5: had last year. And she even brought up you know,
25:57
Speaker 5: and I mean again, national people. So it wasn't our bias.
26:00
Speaker 5: She's like, and the Marriners are lovable and all of
26:02
Speaker 5: these things, and people want to root for them, and
26:04
Speaker 5: they want to root for him, and all of these things,
26:05
Speaker 5: and then that's all he says.
26:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not being sensitive to it, like no, I
26:10
Speaker 1: mean the Blue Jays don't like cal Raleigh.
26:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, or should they? And that's fine. Yeah, you're in
26:15
Speaker 2: a series. He's owned you.
26:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, And so you're trying to figure out
26:20
Speaker 1: ways you don't like cal Raley because there's a rivalry.
26:25
Speaker 2: This is what I was. This is what I don't
26:27
Speaker 2: like though, is that.
26:28
Speaker 1: Ignorant fools with a platform. I know there's a difference
26:32
Speaker 1: between ignorant and stupid. I'm not saying they're stupid people,
26:34
Speaker 1: but they're ignorant. They don't watch baseball. Yeah, and now
26:37
Speaker 1: because they watch saw a headline or watch social media
26:41
Speaker 1: or saw this adverse reaction. The first thought to I'd
26:45
Speaker 1: like to see cal Rawley win a World Series was
26:49
Speaker 1: he's not even a good teammate. Are you're sure his
26:51
Speaker 1: teammates want him to win? That's what the response.
26:54
Speaker 2: Yes, Softy is listening.
26:56
Speaker 5: By the way, he just sent in a text call
26:57
Speaker 5: the the sob out who is it?
27:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, That's what I'm talking about. I mean, I hate
27:03
Speaker 1: that for cal because it.
27:05
Speaker 2: Is just so wrong. Yeah, yeah, it was wrong all right.
27:10
Speaker 1: So in our last couple of minutes here, let's talk
27:13
Speaker 1: about some of the positive I think there's there's a
27:15
Speaker 1: I think I think there's a realistic expectations. I don't
27:18
Speaker 1: think any of us are expecting sixty home runs out
27:21
Speaker 1: of Cal this upcoming season. But he's being left out
27:25
Speaker 1: a lot of the who's going to win the MVP
27:27
Speaker 1: kind of votes this year. I think that most people
27:31
Speaker 1: are expecting quite a bit of a drop off. What
27:34
Speaker 1: is Col's floor, Bucky at this stage, certainly it's not
27:38
Speaker 1: sixty homers.
27:39
Speaker 3: What's Cow's floor for a successful season home run wise?
27:42
Speaker 3: Thirty five? I mean, I think I think he's well
27:45
Speaker 3: over thirty. Thirty home runs is not I mean, it
27:49
Speaker 3: is a big deal, but it's with the fact that
27:52
Speaker 3: there's a lot of guys that are just relying on
27:55
Speaker 3: on bringing the cheese in there. I mean, to run
27:57
Speaker 3: into thirty ball or sit on off speed. If you've
28:02
Speaker 3: seen that this guy's getting into a rhythm or some
28:05
Speaker 3: sort of trend showing some trends when it comes to
28:07
Speaker 3: how he's pitching you to run into thirty balls, I
28:09
Speaker 3: don't think is hard. I think that the floor of
28:12
Speaker 3: his average is going to be higher than it's ever been.
28:15
Speaker 3: I think his on base percentage is going to be
28:17
Speaker 3: higher than it's ever been because I think that he
28:19
Speaker 3: understands he's gonna have to take some walks or bow
28:24
Speaker 3: or how ball, He's going to have to come up
28:25
Speaker 3: to the plate in order for him to get some pitches.
28:27
Speaker 3: I think that he gets that, and so he'll be
28:31
Speaker 3: fine with if the power numbers are down a little bit,
28:34
Speaker 3: if he still is finding a way to help the team,
28:36
Speaker 3: you know, get into some scoring opportunities. So I mean,
28:39
Speaker 3: I think I think a lot of his numbers are
28:40
Speaker 3: going to go up, even though his his home run
28:42
Speaker 3: numbers probably aren't going to be sixty or or even.
28:45
Speaker 4: Close to that.
28:45
Speaker 1: Really, and almost everybody now is doing those you know,
28:48
Speaker 1: making your predictions, and they'll they'll pull the entire you
28:52
Speaker 1: know cast at MLB or MLB dot Com or MLB
28:57
Speaker 1: Network or CBS boor or whatever the case wherever you've
28:59
Speaker 1: got a staff of people that write about baseball. They're
29:02
Speaker 1: being polled right now for their predictions on the season.
29:06
Speaker 2: And they are very positive, by the way about the Mariners.
29:08
Speaker 1: Like Runaway, they're the American League favorite, Runaway, the American
29:12
Speaker 1: League West favorite, certainly, but when it comes to the
29:16
Speaker 1: individual awards, Julio's getting more love than Cal Raley. And
29:21
Speaker 1: I'm happy to live in a world where Julio Rodriguez
29:25
Speaker 1: puts together an MVP season, puts together a better season
29:28
Speaker 1: than Cal. Yes, please, Yeah, I'm here for that because
29:32
Speaker 1: I think both of their floors are very high, and
29:35
Speaker 1: I think it's something to celebrate that. Man, did the
29:40
Speaker 1: Mariner stumble into having two superstars on their roster who
29:45
Speaker 1: are still relatively young that the franchise gets to build
29:48
Speaker 1: around for the future, that are both under contract for
29:51
Speaker 1: a number of years. But it is a little bit
29:53
Speaker 1: of you know, considering the year of Cal that we had,
29:58
Speaker 1: it is a little bit surprising that Julio is being
30:02
Speaker 1: considered as the bigger MVP candidate right now, it seems
30:06
Speaker 1: than even Cal Rawley. HM.
30:08
Speaker 3: That's not a bad problem to have, No, it's a
30:10
Speaker 3: great problem to have. Is to have your two of
30:13
Speaker 3: your guys as what like third and fourth in the
30:15
Speaker 3: MVP ratings right now or what people are predicting. Vegas
30:19
Speaker 3: is thinking, great problem to have. I mean, Julio still
30:23
Speaker 3: has not even come close to scratching the surface. We
30:25
Speaker 3: most certainly, I think found where the ceiling or darn
30:28
Speaker 3: near close to the ceiling of cal Rawley is. I
30:31
Speaker 3: just think I think he's a pro. I think you
30:32
Speaker 3: can get back to, you know, still having very productive
30:36
Speaker 3: seasons from here on out. Julio, we don't know so,
30:38
Speaker 3: and yet it kind of feels like, boy, if he
30:40
Speaker 3: guy puts together six straight months of what we've seen
30:43
Speaker 3: him do in spurts for two three months, yeah, I
30:46
Speaker 3: mean it's MVP stuff.
30:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd like to see that. I'd like to see
30:50
Speaker 2: a hot April for Julio, let's go. Yeah, I'd like
30:52
Speaker 2: to see forty out of both of you. Forty ding dings,
30:56
Speaker 2: all right?
30:56
Speaker 1: Coming up next, we get a little reckless at breakfast
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Speaker 1: to hear on a wenzy sports Radio ninety three point
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31:05
Speaker 1: It is a bit earth shattering.
31:07
Speaker 2: So here we go.
31:10
Speaker 1: An announcement that we were anticipating getting around noon has
31:13
Speaker 1: already come in. According to Shams Sharanya, the new woes
31:17
Speaker 1: at ESPN who covers and breaks all their stories there
31:21
Speaker 1: at the Worldwide Leader with the NBA, he is reporting
31:25
Speaker 1: that the NBA's Board of Governors has approved a vote
31:28
Speaker 1: for the league to explore bids and applicants for expansion
31:31
Speaker 1: teams exclusively in Las Vegas and Seattle. This starts the
31:39
Speaker 1: NBA's thirty two team expansion process. Multiple high ranking officials
31:45
Speaker 1: have termed expansion as a win not if situation. Now
31:49
Speaker 1: the NBA will examine Seattle and Las Vegas bids over
31:53
Speaker 1: the next several months and whether to execute the new
31:56
Speaker 1: franchise purchases now or.
31:58
Speaker 2: In a few years. And so there it is.
32:02
Speaker 1: This was a hurdle to clear. It was sort of expected.
32:06
Speaker 1: We are not technically at the finish line. But as
32:11
Speaker 1: has been reported by many sham Shravanna types that at
32:15
Speaker 1: this stage it does seem like a foregone conclusion that
32:19
Speaker 1: Seattle is going to get the SuperSonics back at a
32:24
Speaker 1: future date which is yet to be determined. And this
32:28
Speaker 1: process was done before eight am Pacific time for goodness sake,
32:33
Speaker 1: so not a lot of haggling, it sounds like in
32:36
Speaker 1: the old boardroom.
32:37
Speaker 2: And so this means.
32:39
Speaker 1: That Vegas and Seattle are the only cities under consideration
32:43
Speaker 1: for expansion. We're going to move forward with that, and
32:46
Speaker 1: then that next vote will be once they get all
32:50
Speaker 1: the bidders for Seattle ownership for Vegas ownership. So all
32:55
Speaker 1: of the groups will come together and then whenever they
32:58
Speaker 1: feel like this is the best group, this is the
33:01
Speaker 1: one that we want to go forward with, and who
33:03
Speaker 1: knows what boxes you got to check for that. Then
33:07
Speaker 1: in July, those ownership groups they present their case for
33:12
Speaker 1: inclusion in the NBA, and then they will vote again.
33:16
Speaker 1: And most people believe that again, when you're going to
33:20
Speaker 1: go through that big of a filtration process, that you're
33:24
Speaker 1: going to end up with an ownership group that's going
33:26
Speaker 1: to be improved by the end of the by July
33:29
Speaker 1: coming around, and so it also kind of feels like
33:32
Speaker 1: a foregone conclusion. But yes, there will be another vote
33:36
Speaker 1: before we can officially celebrate that the Seattle SuperSonics are
33:39
Speaker 1: indeed back. But this is obviously big news toward getting
33:43
Speaker 1: that done.
33:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's it's big news and so exciting news,
33:48
Speaker 3: and yet it feels like it's news that we were expecting,
33:51
Speaker 3: or I was expecting. I know, you were expecting a
33:53
Speaker 3: lot of folks are you know, a little bit hesitant
33:56
Speaker 3: about you know, counting the chickens before they hatch, and
34:00
Speaker 3: understandably so been burned before. I feel like this is
34:02
Speaker 3: a step in the direction where Okay, you're further down
34:06
Speaker 3: the list or further down the line than you have been, different,
34:10
Speaker 3: different path than twenty thirteen when you were thinking about
34:13
Speaker 3: possibly getting somebody else's franchise. But this to me, as
34:16
Speaker 3: far as expansion, getting your team back the way that
34:18
Speaker 3: you want it to be done, I think you're closer
34:21
Speaker 3: now than you've ever been. Now to me, the next
34:23
Speaker 3: step of you know, we know that there's at least
34:27
Speaker 3: one group that we know of, and probably we're hearing
34:29
Speaker 3: rumors of another group that's going to throw their hat
34:31
Speaker 3: in the ring as to as far as wanting to
34:34
Speaker 3: own a team or throwing a bid out there to
34:36
Speaker 3: the NBA and the rest of these boarder governors. And
34:39
Speaker 3: yet this to me is the bigger step. You got
34:41
Speaker 3: it because you're gonna have to come with something that
34:43
Speaker 3: is money, right, it's not. This is the Yeah, we're interested,
34:46
Speaker 3: we're interested in giving you guys a franchise. Let's see
34:49
Speaker 3: what you got, Let's see what you can bring to
34:51
Speaker 3: the table. Well, we know the one group with Sam
34:55
Speaker 3: Holloway and the Leiwiki's and that Oakview group, they got
34:58
Speaker 3: their ducks in a row, they got a they got
35:00
Speaker 3: an arena, state of the art arena. They have proven
35:03
Speaker 3: that they know how to do this kind of from
35:05
Speaker 3: from A to Z, and so I think that everything
35:08
Speaker 3: is pointing in the right direction. But now it's you
35:09
Speaker 3: got to kind of put your money where your mouth is.
35:11
Speaker 5: I will say I did not expect to have the
35:13
Speaker 5: reaction that I had when I saw it, because I
35:16
Speaker 5: have known that this part is seems to be a formality.
35:18
Speaker 5: Everybody has been saying, you know, this part's the first step.
35:23
Speaker 5: This part's going to be the easy part, and then
35:25
Speaker 5: the next part is the hard part. And so I
35:27
Speaker 5: kind of thought, well, when this part happens, I'll just
35:29
Speaker 5: still feel the same. But my heart like fluttered and
35:31
Speaker 5: got all flutter yea twit, yeah, like a little excitement.
35:35
Speaker 5: And then I was like, okay, we made it through
35:38
Speaker 5: this first hurdle. I'm still not going to you know,
35:41
Speaker 5: jump over not the cow jumping over the moon. I
35:44
Speaker 5: know that's not a sane but I'm not going to
35:46
Speaker 5: you know, run around, freak out and celebrate. But I
35:49
Speaker 5: am going to say that this first step is awesome,
35:52
Speaker 5: and I am excited to see what happens.
35:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I don't know, I don't really know what
35:56
Speaker 1: to tell you, how to react, how to conduct yourself,
36:00
Speaker 1: how much celebration you should be doing right now. I mean,
36:03
Speaker 1: we're going to have broadcast today. Ian's going to do
36:05
Speaker 1: his show from Queen Anne Beer Hall, Softy and Dick
36:08
Speaker 1: are going to do their show from Queen Anne beer All.
36:10
Speaker 1: So they're kind of welcoming you to come there and
36:12
Speaker 1: celebrate on your terms how you want to do, and
36:15
Speaker 1: they're certainly going to be talking about it a lot
36:18
Speaker 1: during their broadcasts today. I will just tell you I
36:22
Speaker 1: think it's done that I think that it has always
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Speaker 1: been a matter of when and not if. And I
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Speaker 1: said it last week that I think that Adam Silver's
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Speaker 1: putting together this Board of Governor's meeting eight days out
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Speaker 1: from out of nowhere because he already knows he's got
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Speaker 1: the votes.
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Speaker 2: He already knows what he wants.
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Speaker 1: To do, and he had to make sure that he
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Speaker 1: had everybody on board for that before he started moving
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Speaker 1: forward with this process.
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Speaker 2: And he got the owners on board. That's what's clear.
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Speaker 1: By today, he's got the owners on board, and so
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Speaker 1: I think that it's going to happen. The Seattle SuperSonics
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Speaker 1: are going to be here and we'll celebrate it to
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Speaker 1: all in whatever.
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Speaker 2: Way we want. I suppose throughout our broadcast day.
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Speaker 1: We're going to start our celebration by chatting with Chris Brussard,
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Speaker 1: who comes your way next. He's host of the First
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Speaker 1: Things First, but also longtime NBA reporter and so you
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Speaker 1: know he's got some juicy takes on this topic. So
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Speaker 1: Chris Brussard joins us next on Sports Radio ninety three
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