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Best of Chuck & Buck 3-25 · 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.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Because it's a six month endeavor. It's
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  Speaker 1: a six month commitment that we're making with these songs.
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  Speaker 1: So we got to pull up on the winning song.
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  Speaker 1: We're taking suggestions on the losing song at four nine
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  Speaker 1: four five one, and by Friday, our first Mariners Morning
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  Speaker 1: After of the season, we will have both of those
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  Speaker 1: set and ready to go. 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. Last night they just got together and you know,
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  Speaker 1: 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.
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  Speaker 1: My favorite things to do in the whole world. They
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  Speaker 1: 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 1: It's shoots and ladders. That right, I've played that in
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  Speaker 1: my life, an adult version. Wow. Yeah, yeah, I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you about it off the you Okay, But yes, the
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  Speaker 1: NBA owners met last night. They're going to vote today.
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  Speaker 1: Looks like we're going to know around noon. That is
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  Speaker 1: the plan. Ian and Softy, by the way, are both
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  Speaker 1: broadcasting today from Queen Anne Beer Hall, so they're going
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  Speaker 1: to be there in place. We want to react positively
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  Speaker 1: as a community, aggressively as a community over this news,
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  Speaker 1: and so that's where they're broadcasting today. It's not the celebration, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we want to make that clear, but it would be
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  Speaker 1: good news today. 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. A
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  Speaker 1: significant move yesterday. In college basketball, the Kraken man, they
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  Speaker 1: need wins right now, they can't get one. At least
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  Speaker 1: they got a point last night and in dramatic fashion,
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  Speaker 1: they were getting their tails kicked by the Florida Panthers
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  Speaker 1: and then put together a dream third period end up
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  Speaker 1: tying it on a goal from Bobby McMahon. My goodness,
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  Speaker 1: is he a gold machine. Tied it at four. At
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  Speaker 1: least earned the team a point they couldn't get two.
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  Speaker 1: They lost in a shootout. Seems like they always losing
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  Speaker 1: the shootout and they have now lost four straight. But
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  Speaker 1: at least they got a point out of it last night.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to al Kiniski about it at nine thirty today.
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  Speaker 1: They'll be in Tampa tomorrow to take on the Tampa
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  Speaker 1: Bay Lightning the TGL. Tiger Woods made his return, not
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  Speaker 1: to a victory yesterday, but he's back on a golf
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  Speaker 1: course ish ish. Yeah, he looked phenomenal. He looks like
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  Speaker 1: a Yeah, it looks like an outside linebacker for goodness sake.
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  Speaker 1: But maybe the game's not quite there. He doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: much time between now and the Masters. I hate to
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  Speaker 1: tell him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he probably knows.
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  Speaker 1: Does he have a calendar?
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  Speaker 2: 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 4: The bell tolls, it must be seven o'clock and time
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  Speaker 4: for twelfth Man News with Greg Bell. Brought to you
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  Speaker 4: only with Coppola Diamond for Seco. Now with twelfth Man News,
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  Speaker 4: here's Greg Bell with Chuck and Bud.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Greg. What are you gonna do for Opening Day?
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna try to get to the Ballyard tomorrow. I
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  Speaker 1: know the Bell family loves to get to the Ballyard
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  Speaker 1: if we do.
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  Speaker 5: Obove, my son and wife will be working.
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  Speaker 1: I'm working.
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  Speaker 5: I'll be covering it for the news show.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, you're working the event.
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  Speaker 5: 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 5: In high demand.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure, I think so.
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  Speaker 5: I've been doing a fans story. I usually do a
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  Speaker 5: scene story, and how this is truly the most unique
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  Speaker 5: Mariners opening day they've never come off being a few
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  Speaker 5: outs from the World Series, and how the expectations now
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  Speaker 5: aren't just hey, let's make the playoffs and then this drought,
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  Speaker 5: let's win the World Series and it's just it's different.
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  Speaker 5: You can tell that the vibe around town and then
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  Speaker 5: the region is that this team's not going to be
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  Speaker 5: satisfied with just making the playoffs. So we'll be writing.
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  Speaker 6: About that noon.
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  Speaker 5: 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 5: Well, it's a typical Seahawks structure, and you're talking about
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  Speaker 5: the accounting of it, the salvary cap accounting smith and
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  Speaker 5: JIGG was getting his cash up front. He's getting his
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  Speaker 5: guaranteed as his signing bonus, and so for the player,
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  Speaker 5: it's sign a contract, get the new money. In fact,
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  Speaker 5: he gets over sixty million dollars in the first twelve
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  Speaker 5: months of the deal, which is really good for an
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  Speaker 5: NFL player. Giving guaranteed money upfront is king and that's
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  Speaker 5: why he'd be up for this deal for the Seahawks
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  Speaker 5: to be able to avoid year at the end of it,
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  Speaker 5: to spread it across to the biggest thing. The reason
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  Speaker 5: they're doing it now, I'll do it with Witherspoon before
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  Speaker 5: this season. The biggest thing is it frees them up
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  Speaker 5: for next year instead of the fifth year option, the
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  Speaker 5: fifth year option they picked up on Friday's leverage, and
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  Speaker 5: it buys them time to then go out and get
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  Speaker 5: a multi year extension done with them, which they both
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  Speaker 5: know they want to stay and the team wants to
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  Speaker 5: keep them. So instead of paying the fifth year option
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  Speaker 5: cap charge of a guaranteed chunk in Witherspoon's case and
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  Speaker 5: be twenty one million in Smith and Jigma's case, is
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  Speaker 5: be close to twenty four million. That's the number for
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  Speaker 5: the fifth year option. An average, it's a complicated formul
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  Speaker 5: basically the average of the top twenty salaries in the
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  Speaker 5: league plus playing time and awards. Instead of having twenty
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  Speaker 5: four million as the cap number for Smith and Jigman
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  Speaker 5: next year, now it's eight million less than that, an
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  Speaker 5: eight million the way John Schneider buys a free agency
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  Speaker 5: eight millions like three players, three depth pieces and three
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  Speaker 5: So that's the real value in the Seahawks here is
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  Speaker 5: that they don't have the upfront costs against their cap
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  Speaker 5: and allows them more buying power to buy for more
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  Speaker 5: depth and more pieces down the road. And that's why
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  Speaker 5: it's attractive for them to do it now. It's why
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  Speaker 5: they'll do the same thing top of market with Witherspoon,
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  Speaker 5: and the timing is usually in the summer. That's what
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  Speaker 5: was different here. And the more I think about it
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  Speaker 5: is I think they were jumping the Rams and booting
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  Speaker 5: the Rams and trying to get Pook and the Koua
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  Speaker 5: a new deal. And the Rams had already set the
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  Speaker 5: cornerback market with Trent McDuffie trading with the Chiefs and
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  Speaker 5: then giving McDuffie a thirty one million dollars deal for
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  Speaker 5: four years. So that dictates the Witherspoon contract, which is
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  Speaker 5: going to be thirty one million plus a year. So
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  Speaker 5: now the Seahawk said, Okay, we're going to do Smith
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  Speaker 5: and jig vanned, let's do it now, so that the
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  Speaker 5: Rams then have to go off of our number with
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  Speaker 5: Smith and Jigwa, which is now forty two point one
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  Speaker 5: million per year. So I think that's some of the
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  Speaker 5: timing at play here. But now Witherspoon will be next
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  Speaker 5: for the same reas for Smith's and Jigba. And in
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  Speaker 5: the thirty thousand foot view, this is why the Seahawks
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  Speaker 5: aren't jumping in this year in the first wave, didn't
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  Speaker 5: jumping in the first wave of free agency and spend
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  Speaker 5: spend spend and why they didn't keep a running back
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  Speaker 5: at fourteen and a half million in the safety of
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  Speaker 5: 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 5: Well, I think it's different, Bucky now because of what
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  Speaker 5: I just said. I don't think they're in a hurry
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  Speaker 5: because the market has been set at corner. They wanted
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  Speaker 5: to set the market at wide receiver and have the
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  Speaker 5: Rams with Nikoua chase them. It's all in the NFL
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  Speaker 5: about comps, and is in baseball too, but especially in
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  Speaker 5: the NFL. It's about comps. It's about wait, this guy
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  Speaker 5: got this, my guy's worth this. And in Smith and
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  Speaker 5: Jigba's case, his agents could easily go to the Seahawks
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  Speaker 5: and Puk and Aku, yeah all pro more catches than
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  Speaker 5: my guy, but not more yards and not more Super
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  Speaker 5: Bowl rings, and Puk who is not the NFL Offensive
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  Speaker 5: Player of the Year. My guy deserves more than that guy.
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  Speaker 5: And so now they have set this and the Rams
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  Speaker 5: have to come back and counter with a Nikua deal
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  Speaker 5: add or around the new market setting for Smith and
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  Speaker 5: jigbe so the Seahawks sleep problem. Not so with in
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  Speaker 5: the case of Witherspoon. The market's been set, so they
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  Speaker 5: know the number that's going to take in what the
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  Speaker 5: top of the market is and around the value. And
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  Speaker 5: now the question is just how much higher do they
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  Speaker 5: go or do they go about with McDuffie. A lot
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  Speaker 5: of times in these deals you'll see, Okay, McDuffie's making
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  Speaker 5: thirty one million, they'll sign Witherspoon for thirty one and
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  Speaker 5: a half million or thirty one point twenty five, right,
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  Speaker 5: just so they can have a precedent of having been
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  Speaker 5: 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 5: No, I wasn't, and I told you I thought they
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  Speaker 5: were going to want to keep him and then when
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  Speaker 5: Bucky hit me with the numbers that I wasn't aware
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  Speaker 5: of what that Jacksonville actually table. My immediate reaction was,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, I might be too rich for that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: And then when I hung up the phone, I realized,
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  Speaker 5: wait a minute, that's actually less by about a half
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  Speaker 5: million dollars less than what they were committed to sign
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  Speaker 5: him on the tender sheet for the restricted free agency.
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  Speaker 5: They were going to do three point two five ish
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  Speaker 5: million as their tender number for the right of first
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  Speaker 5: refusal tender. When they took a rite of first refusal
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  Speaker 5: tender on Jake Bobo, that came at a cost. The
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  Speaker 5: right to match an offer is a slotted value, and
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  Speaker 5: it was three point I think it was between two
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  Speaker 5: point two and three point four million dollars that would
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  Speaker 5: have had to pay a one year contract to Bobo
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  Speaker 5: at two years and five point five, and his agent,
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  Speaker 5: Steve Carrick confirmed to me those numbers. Two years and
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  Speaker 5: five point five that Jacksonville had signed him under the
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  Speaker 5: offer sheet was an average of two point seven five
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  Speaker 5: million per year, which is actually half a million less. Right,
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  Speaker 5: so they got Bobo for an extra year at less
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  Speaker 5: annual cost than they were already committed to for twenty
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  Speaker 5: twenty six.
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  Speaker 6: That's what it did.
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  Speaker 5: And because the cap will go up next year because
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  Speaker 5: they've NFL prints money that extra two point seven five million,
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  Speaker 5: they're not even gonna the cap will go up more
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  Speaker 5: than two point seven five million next year. So they're
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  Speaker 5: giddy in their minds. They're getting a discount on keeping
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  Speaker 5: him for two years rather than being committed for one.
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  Speaker 5: And there are some fans who might just look at
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  Speaker 5: the back of his his football I was gonna say,
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  Speaker 5: baseball card and look at his stats and see two
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  Speaker 5: catches for twenty yards for the regular season and be like, well,
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  Speaker 5: well they spend in four million, two and a half
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  Speaker 5: million a year, two seven to five on him for that,
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  Speaker 5: Uh huh. He's completely more than that glue guy, locker
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  Speaker 5: room guy, special teams guy, best blocking wide receiver, which
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  Speaker 5: becomes more important now that Darek Jung has signed with
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  Speaker 5: the Raiders. There is a lot more to Jake Bobo's
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  Speaker 5: value with the team than catches and yards. Taking out
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  Speaker 5: three blockers in the third and seventeen Week eighteen, and
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  Speaker 5: Kenneth Walker's run for a key first down that helped
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  Speaker 5: clinch the division which helped clinch the number one seed.
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  Speaker 5: There are plays in a season that are hidden, plays
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  Speaker 5: that have such a monumental effect on the seat. Rashid
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  Speaker 5: Shaheed's plint return for the touchdown that began the rally
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  Speaker 5: from sixteen points down with nine minutes left against the
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  Speaker 5: Rams in the Thursday night game. Again, if they don't
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  Speaker 5: win that game, they don't even get the division, they
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  Speaker 5: don't get home field. So their value is say with Rashid,
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  Speaker 5: people say, well, they overpaid for him. The value of
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  Speaker 5: Rashid and Bobo much much more than just the straight
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  Speaker 5: statistics at the wide receiver numbers, and that's why they
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  Speaker 5: thought that was worth doing. And Bobo, of course loves
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  Speaker 5: to be here. And this is the team that gave
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  Speaker 5: him a start as an undrafted rookie free agent re member.
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  Speaker 5: He was a surprise to make the team that summer
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  Speaker 5: when he wasn't even expected to be on the roster.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, another win win deal that seems thick
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  Speaker 5: win win for both that John Schneider's been stacking up
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  Speaker 5: 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 Wilson.
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  Speaker 1: For as a piece.
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  Speaker 3: Are we are people just going to need to kind
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  Speaker 3: of sit back and be patient and expect that the
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  Speaker 3: rest of the answers for that group are going to
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  Speaker 3: come draft time or is there somebody in house that
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  Speaker 3: maybe they think is a diamond in the rough that
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  Speaker 3: people are overlooking.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's both. In all, I think that a
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  Speaker 5: free agent down the road is still a possibility. I've
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  Speaker 5: mentioned Naji Harris for instance, if they got and I
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  Speaker 5: don't have any inside information that they are specifically targeting Harris,
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  Speaker 5: but that kind of deal a veteran coming off of
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  Speaker 5: an achilles injury in September that might not be healthy
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  Speaker 5: until the summer, and then if he can start proving
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  Speaker 5: he's healthy, the Seahawks could take a look at that
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  Speaker 5: for a one year, close to minimum deal for a
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  Speaker 5: former a guy who were in for four straight one
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  Speaker 5: thousand yard seasons with the Steelers to begin his career.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's the kind of shopping they'll be doing
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  Speaker 5: during training camp. In the meantime, Emmanuel Wilson will get
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  Speaker 5: a long, long look and a chance, but it may
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  Speaker 5: be more of a committee. They would love George Alani
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  Speaker 5: for what he's done and how he's done everything they'd
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  Speaker 5: asked him to do, special teams, blocking, tackling, in the
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  Speaker 5: kicking game. Oh, you need to be a third down
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  Speaker 5: back in the NFC Championship game. Sure, he did that
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  Speaker 5: really well too. Once Doc Sharbone got hurt the Sharbonnte situation,
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  Speaker 5: does he come back September October? Remember he got hurt
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  Speaker 5: ACL tear in January. There's a usual eight to twelve
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: month injury. Eight months from his injury is mid September.
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: The season will have already started by then. So then
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: you look at any McIntosh, how ready is he to
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: come back off a knee injury season NY knee injury
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: from last late July. The beginning of starting in training
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: camp twelve months from an ACL would be July in
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: the beginning of training camp this year. There are just
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: a lot of variables to still be determined at running back.
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: They think they have now with Wilson, Halani and McIntosh
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: coming back, they have a genesis of a potential committee.
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: What they don't have is a guy to just lean
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: on that they can count on and know they can
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: do it. Because even Emmanuel Wilson with the Packers, five
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: hundred yard guy who've got thirty some percent of the
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: snaps for the Packers, that at his best, they don't
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: have a proven guy yet. But we've talked about this,
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: that's the position the league goes cheaper on for the
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: reasons we've talked about the injury concerns. They weren't about
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: to pay fourteen plus million to keep a running back.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: Why he's Keith Walker's now Kansas City chief. The dead
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: draft is that would be one place. But they only
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: have four picks, and that's to me, at the bottom
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: of each of the first three rounds, we'll see this
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: is a team that drafts running backs in the second,
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: third rounds and they've gotten lead running backs in the
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: seventh round and then undrafted free agents Chris Carson, Thomas
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: Rawls before This is gonna be a huge undrafted free
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: agency year, big big. A lot of the thirty visits
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: you're gonna hear oute between now and the draft are
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: going to be toward the undrafted free agents. When you
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: only have four picks, you're gonna spend a lot of
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: time recruiting and wooing guys in your thirty visits. You
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: should say, hey, man, we're gonna sign you as soon
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: as a draft ends.
• 18:42
  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 5: Okay, happy baseball, Happy Sonics announcement. Well, I guess it's
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: just an incremental announcement today. Yeah, press conference and rentin
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: for Smith and jig with us. The Seahawks have been
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: of the day to announce this new deal.
• 19:04
  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. Thanks all right, Greg Bell, our Seahawks insider,
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• 20:01
  Speaker 2: I guess we're still taking it. Yeah, but we're only
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: gonna lose twelve games all season, right, so how much
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: taking it are we going to be doing out?
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's actually getting a little selfish if we're
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: only going to take it twelve times and be angry
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• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, that's sporting selfish though.
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• 20:32
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• 20:35
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• 20:39
  Speaker 1: is opening day, so one more sleep. You do have
• 20:42
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• 20:47
  Speaker 1: the over undertotal on the Mariners is a pretty significant
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: one eighty nine and a half wins, and yet feels
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: to me, I know, this show, thanks were going well
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: over eighty nine and a half. Feels to me like
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: a lot of the national guys think that the Mariners
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: are going well over eighty nine and a half. Feels
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: like a pretty easy bet to me. Maybe head on
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: over it. Maybe just make a whole weekend of it.
• 21:10
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• 21:13
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• 21:17
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• 21:20
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• 21:23
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• 21:25
  Speaker 3: It's a plan. Yeah, double down on it. Then you're
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: gonna have more March madness this weekend. I mean, you
• 21:30
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• 21:33
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• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah all right, so get it done. We will, by
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• 21:44
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• 21:47
  Speaker 1: season preview coming up today at nine o'clock. All right, well,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: let's talk about cal Raley a little bit. And I
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: got a lot of mostly obviously positive things to talk
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: about with cal Raleigh, but also I gotta start with
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: the negative on this because this is what this is
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: what was chafing me about the entire handshake gate. I
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: had to listen on the drive in to two of
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: three hosts on a show that don't know anything about baseball,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: and yet they wanted to weigh in on baseball topics,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: and the one person who actually does know something about baseball,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: she said that she put together a list of the
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: five players who've now won a World Series that she'd
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: like to see win a World Series if it's not
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: gonna be her team, and cal Raley was one of
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: the five that she mentioned. Yes, and so she's the
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: one that knows something. The other two who know nothing,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: especially the one, especially the two their reaction to this,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: and this is what was gonna bother me. Are people
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: really rooting for cal doesn't seem like he's a good teammate. Yeah,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: that was the response. Yeah, now I know they're dufices.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Then they don't know anything about the sports. So I
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: don't take it personally from a couple of ignorant fools
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: who are just popping off on radio. But the bottom
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: line is they have a platform and it's a large one,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: and I don't want it spread out there by people
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: that have a microphone and have never watched a Mariner's game,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: don't know anything about the Mariners, don't know anything about baseball,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: but because they read a headline or they followed social
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: media during the WBC are using that stage and platform
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: to spread nonsense like that Cal Rawley might be the
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: best dude to ever put on a pair of cleats
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: in baseball history, and for him now because of this
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: silly handshakegate, they got completely blown out of proportion that
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I didn't like that he didn't shake Randy's hand, but
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Randy knew he wasn't going to shake his hand, and
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: it turns into an incident, and now all of a sudden,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: there are national broadcasters who think cal Raley, of all people,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: is a bad teammate. Pisses me off. Yeah, well, yeah,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: 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 1: 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 7: I heard the same thing this morning, and I thought
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: to myself, after all of the after the points that
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: she made, and I mean she was talking about and
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: you know, I love a power hitting catcher, and all
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: the things that he did last year, all these things,
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: and that's the only thing he brought on. I was like,
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: you're not even going to acknowledge the successful season he
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: had last year. And she even brought up you know,
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: and I mean again, national people. So it wasn't our bias.
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: She's like, and the Marriners are lovable and all of
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: these things, and people want to root for them, and
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: they want to root for him, and all of these things,
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: 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?
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: And that's fine. Yeah, you're in a series. He's owned you. Yeah,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: you know, And so you're trying to figure out ways
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: you don't like cal Raley because there's a rivalry. This
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: is what I was. This is what I don't like though,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: is that ignorant fools with a platform. I know there's
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: a difference between ignorant and stupid. I'm not saying they're
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: stupid people, but they're ignorant. They don't watch baseball. Yeah,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: and now because they watch saw a headline or watch
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: social media or saw this adverse reaction. The first thought
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: to I'd like to see cal Rawley win a World
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Series was he's not even a good teammate. Are you're
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: sure his teammates want him to win? That's what the response.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Yes, Softy is listening.
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: By the way, he just sent in a text call
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: 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 is just so wrong.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: 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 1: Close to that. Really, and almost everybody now is doing
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: those you know, making your predictions, and they'll they'll pull
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: the entire you know cast at MLB or MLB dot
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Com or MLB Network or CBS boor or whatever the
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: case wherever you've got a staff of people that write
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: about baseball. They're being polled right now for their predictions
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: on the season. And they are very positive, by the
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: way about the Mariners, like Runaway, they're the American League favorite, Runaway,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: the American League West favorite, certainly, but when it comes
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: to the individual awards, Julio's getting more love than Cal Raley.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: And I'm happy to live in a world where Julio
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Rodriguez puts together an MVP season, puts together a better
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: season than Cal. Yes, please, Yeah, I'm here for that
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: because I think both of their floors are very high,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: and I think it's something to celebrate that. Man, did
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: the Mariner stumble into having two superstars on their roster
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: who are still relatively young that the franchise gets to
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: build around for the future, that are both under contract
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: for a number of years. But it is a little
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: bit of you know, considering the year of Cal that
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: we had, it is a little bit surprising that Julio
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: is being considered as the bigger MVP candidate right now,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: it seems than even Cal Rawley.
• 30:08
  Speaker 8: HM.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: That's not a bad problem to have, No, it's a
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: great problem to have.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Is to have your two of your guys as what
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: like third and fourth in the MVP ratings right now
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: or what people are predicting. Vegas is thinking, great problem
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: to have. I mean, Julio still has not even come
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: close to scratching the surface. We most certainly, I think
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: found where the ceiling or darn near close to the
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: ceiling of cal Rawley is. I just think I think
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: he's a pro. I think you can get back to,
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: you know, still having very productive seasons from here on out. Julio,
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: we don't know so, and yet it kind of feels like, boy,
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: if he guy puts together six straight months of what
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: we've seen him do in spurts for two three months, yeah,
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: I 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.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd like to see forty out of both of you.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Forty ding dings, all right? Coming up next, we get
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: a little reckless at breakfast to hear on a wenzy
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. Real life. Yeah,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: this is real life stuff. It is a bit earth shattering.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: So here we go. An announcement that we were anticipating
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: getting around noon has already come in. According to Shams Sharanya,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: the new woes at ESPN who covers and breaks all
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: their stories there at the Worldwide Leader with the NBA,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: he is reporting that the NBA's Board of Governors has
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: approved a vote for the league to explore bids and
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: applicants for expansion teams exclusively in Las Vegas and Seattle.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: This starts the NBA's thirty two team expansion process. Multiple
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: high ranking officials have termed expansion as a win not
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: if situation. Now the NBA will examine Seattle and Las
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Vegas bids over the next several months and whether to
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: execute the new franchise purchases now or in a few years.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: And so there it is. This was a hurdle to clear.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: It was sort of expected. We are not technically at
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: the finish line. But as has been reported by many
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: sham Shravanna types that at this stage it does seem
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: like a foregone conclusion that Seattle is going to get
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: the SuperSonics back at a future date which is yet
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: to be determined. And this process was done before eight
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: am Pacific time for goodness sake, so not a lot
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: of haggling, it sounds like in the old boardroom. And
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: so this means that Vegas and Seattle are the only
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: cities under consideration for expansion. We're going to move forward
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: with that, and then that next vote will be once
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: they get all the bidders for Seattle ownership for Vegas ownership.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: So all of the groups will come together and then
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: whenever they feel like this is the best group, this
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: is the one that we want to go forward with,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: and who knows what boxes you got to check for that.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Then in July, those ownership groups they present their case
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: for 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 7: I will say I did not expect to have the
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: reaction that I had when I saw it, because I
• 35:16
  Speaker 7: have known that this part is seems to be a formality.
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: Everybody has been saying, you know, this part's the first step.
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: This part's going to be the easy part, and then
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: the next part is the hard part. And so I
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: kind of thought, well, when this part happens, I'll just
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: still feel the same. But my heart like fluttered and
• 35:31
  Speaker 7: got all flutter yea twit, yeah, like a little excitement.
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: And then I was like, okay, we made it through
• 35:38
  Speaker 7: this first hurdle. I'm still not going to you know,
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: jump over not the cow jumping over the moon. I
• 35:44
  Speaker 7: know that's not a sane but I'm not going to
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: you know, run around, freak out and celebrate. But I
• 35:49
  Speaker 7: am going to say that this first step is awesome,
• 35:52
  Speaker 7: 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
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: been a matter of when and not if. And I
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: said it last week that I think that Adam Silver's
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: putting together this Board of Governor's meeting eight days out
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: from out of nowhere because he already knows he's got
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: the votes. He already knows what he wants to do,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: and he had to make sure that he had everybody
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: on board for that before he started moving forward with
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: this process. And he got the owners on board. That's
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: what's clear. By today, he's got the owners on board,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: and so I think that it's going to happen. The
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Seattle SuperSonics are going to be here and we'll celebrate
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: it to all in whatever way we want. I suppose
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: throughout our broadcast day, we're going to start our celebration
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: by chatting with Chris Brussard, who comes your way next.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: He's host of the First Things First, but also longtime
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: NBA reporter, and so you know he's got some juicy
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: takes on this topic. So Chris Brussard joins us next
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. Well, we
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: got the news. It came a little earlier than we
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: were expecting, and so it lands in our laughs here
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: on Chuck ABox Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: r FM. Yes, the NBA Board of Governors has approved
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Vegas and Seattle. They will move forward with expansion idea.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: He is built around those two cities. They will take
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: bids from ownership groups and then figure out who the
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: best ownership group for the job will be. They will
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: have one last vote in July to get the final
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: hurdle cleared. And it looks very much like the Seattle
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: SuperSonics are a thing again, and we are here to
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: discuss it, potentially celebrate it. I don't even know if
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: people really know how to react right now to all
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: of this. But Chris Brusard is here to offer his expertise,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: longtime NBA reporter now host the First Things First on
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: the Fox Networks FS one, and he joins this now
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: for his reaction to our news here in Seattle. Great
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: to have you on, Chris, first and foremost.
• 38:48
  Speaker 9: Yeah, great to be on.
• 38:50
  Speaker 8: Thanks for having me. And I'm excited. I mean, I'm
• 38:53
  Speaker 8: sure you guys are, but it's great to have the
• 38:57
  Speaker 8: NBA on the road to be a bat in Seattle.
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: You know I did.
• 39:03
  Speaker 9: I've covered the league long enough to where.
• 39:06
  Speaker 8: I used to go to Seattle for games when the
• 39:09
  Speaker 8: Sonics were there, and it was always a great place
• 39:12
  Speaker 8: to go for games. The crowds were incredible, and so
• 39:16
  Speaker 8: this is fantastic.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: How should we feel in Seattle about this vote? Known
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: that this is a bit of a wounded fan base
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: up here in Seattle that doesn't entirely trust the NBA,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: but based on this vote and how it came down
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: earlier than what was expected today, so it sounds like
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: there wasn't much haggling in the boardroom. How should a
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Sonics fan feel about this news here today? In your opinion?
• 39:45
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think they should be excited.
• 39:47
  Speaker 8: I mean, obviously, if you're a basketball fan and they've
• 39:49
  Speaker 8: got tons of them.
• 39:50
  Speaker 9: Up there, it's been tough. Obviously, not only did you.
• 39:55
  Speaker 8: Lose a great team, but that team went on, you know,
• 39:59
  Speaker 8: to be a champ and then even before they won
• 40:01
  Speaker 8: the championship in Oklahoma City, they have some of the
• 40:04
  Speaker 8: best players we've ever seen in Russell Westbrook, Kevin Durant,
• 40:08
  Speaker 8: that James Harden that would have been in Seattle, and
• 40:12
  Speaker 8: obviously that that was an opportunity loss for you guys.
• 40:16
  Speaker 8: But they are bringing them back. And you know, Seattle,
• 40:20
  Speaker 8: I don't have to tell you guys, but just at
• 40:23
  Speaker 8: the high school and youth levels, it is one of
• 40:27
  Speaker 8: the best basketball you know places in the country, and
• 40:31
  Speaker 8: so I know.
• 40:32
  Speaker 9: They love the sport up there.
• 40:34
  Speaker 8: So I would hope that they're excited about getting this
• 40:37
  Speaker 8: team back, even though they still have some sore feelings.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: Chris, I mean, yeah, the shre feelings are there, and
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: some folks just flat out are not going to do
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: it until they see maybe a SuperSonics player take the
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: court in a few years, if that's how long we
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: have to wait. But I mean, from your perspective of
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: how this whole thing works. This is the vote basically
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: approving that. Now, all right, bidters, bring us, bring what
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: you want to give us, you know, let us know
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: what you got to offer. And then there's the final
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: approval vote. I mean, how much how much would you
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: say this puts you down the road towards getting them
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: versus there still is one major hurdle to cover, and
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: that might be the one that you should worry about.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Now, are we at the twenty yard line, the ten,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: the five?
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: One?
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: What yard line are we on, Chris, I.
• 41:21
  Speaker 9: Would say the fifteen? About that?
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Okay, we're in the red zone.
• 41:28
  Speaker 8: Yeah, clearly the NBA wants the team there. The league
• 41:33
  Speaker 8: is in a great place, right, I mean, they're talking
• 41:35
  Speaker 8: about an eight roughly eight billion dollars to buy the team.
• 41:39
  Speaker 8: But the league, I mean, you look at the way
• 41:41
  Speaker 8: the franchise franchises have been growing, and so I would
• 41:45
  Speaker 8: think that you would have, you know.
• 41:47
  Speaker 9: Plenty of bidders or at least a good number of
• 41:49
  Speaker 9: bidders on this. So I imagine, you know, the league's
• 41:54
  Speaker 9: also shown.
• 41:55
  Speaker 8: That Seattle and Vegas look like they're gonna be some
• 41:59
  Speaker 8: of the top you know markets in the league. As
• 42:03
  Speaker 8: far as earning money, and so I think they'll have
• 42:06
  Speaker 8: plenty of suitors.
• 42:08
  Speaker 9: And that's really what it comes down.
• 42:10
  Speaker 8: So if you got the suitors, there's no question that
• 42:13
  Speaker 8: the team will be there.
• 42:14
  Speaker 9: I think there.
• 42:15
  Speaker 8: What were they saying twenty twenty eight, Yes, you know,
• 42:18
  Speaker 8: could it take a year longer? Maybe, I guess that's possible.
• 42:23
  Speaker 8: But right now I feel like, you know, it's right
• 42:25
  Speaker 8: on track to expand in a few years.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: Chris Bruce artist with us. He's the co host of
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: First Things First on the Fox Sports FS. One long
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: time NBA reporter, that's that's my Brew. My Brew was
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: a longtime NBA reporter. That's the guy I know back
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: in the nineties and he's joined us here on Chuck
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: and Bucket in the mornings. So I have heard some
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: of your colleagues there at Fox Sports express maybe the
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: NBA shouldn't be expanding right now. They have a few
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: issues between load management and also tanking being a big
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: problem right now in the league, that maybe now is
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: not the time. Is there enough talent to go around
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: for a couple more teams in the NBA to go
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: from a thirty team to a thirty two team league?
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: What is your response to that.
• 43:16
  Speaker 8: Yet, Look, I think there's plenty of talent now. Remember
• 43:19
  Speaker 8: and obviously the world has improved. Maybe twenty years ago
• 43:24
  Speaker 8: the world obviously wasn't as good.
• 43:26
  Speaker 9: But now you.
• 43:28
  Speaker 8: Are not just taking players primarily from the United States.
• 43:31
  Speaker 9: You're taking players.
• 43:33
  Speaker 6: From all over the world.
• 43:35
  Speaker 8: Obviously, these other countries are producing great players. And so
• 43:39
  Speaker 8: I think there's definitely enough talent to field thirty two teams.
• 43:45
  Speaker 8: And even if you look at a lot of the
• 43:47
  Speaker 8: tanking teams and it is a problem, the league's gonna
• 43:50
  Speaker 8: have to fix that. They'll have to do something with
• 43:52
  Speaker 8: you the draft lottery and things like that to get
• 43:55
  Speaker 8: these teams to stop tanking.
• 43:57
  Speaker 9: But look at a Utah for instance, they got Lowry
• 44:00
  Speaker 9: Market and they got Jared.
• 44:02
  Speaker 8: Jackson junior, they got Kante George, Like, they have some talent.
• 44:06
  Speaker 9: You know, it's not a lack of talent.
• 44:09
  Speaker 8: Washington has just been a poorly run franchise. But you
• 44:14
  Speaker 8: got Trey Young, obviously, you got Anthony Davis. Like, there
• 44:18
  Speaker 8: are teams out alex sar out there that are tanking
• 44:22
  Speaker 8: that do have talent. And I'll tell you this when
• 44:27
  Speaker 8: you cause the Western Conference has been better than the
• 44:30
  Speaker 8: Eastern Conference. I mean for the last twenty thirty years, right,
• 44:35
  Speaker 8: And a lot of it is how the franchises are run.
• 44:40
  Speaker 9: It's as simple as that, like the teams.
• 44:42
  Speaker 8: In the West generally are run better than the teams
• 44:47
  Speaker 8: in the East. Better front offices, better ownership, they don't
• 44:51
  Speaker 8: overreact to coaches in the West get a little longer rope.
• 44:55
  Speaker 8: Generally speaking, they have drafted better. Oklahoma s and San
• 45:00
  Speaker 8: Antonio look like they're gonna be the two best teams
• 45:04
  Speaker 8: in the league, you know, certainly in the West for
• 45:07
  Speaker 8: years to come. But those teams are the best run
• 45:10
  Speaker 8: teams in the league. And so that is what it's
• 45:14
  Speaker 8: not a lack of talent. Some of the front offices
• 45:18
  Speaker 8: have done poor jobs, some of the ownership has been poor,
• 45:22
  Speaker 8: but the talent is definitely there.
• 45:24
  Speaker 9: For thirty two teams.
• 45:27
  Speaker 8: But to your point, they do have to get this
• 45:29
  Speaker 8: tanking under control because.
• 45:30
  Speaker 9: Right now you might have eight teams that aren't even
• 45:33
  Speaker 9: trying to win, that are actually trying to lose, and
• 45:35
  Speaker 9: so that's not good for the.
• 45:37
  Speaker 6: End of the year.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: Along those lines, I mean, the Charlotte Bobcats didn't exactly
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: write a book on how to expand in the NBA.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: I mean it's twenty years, they still haven't one a
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: playoff series. They've even changed their name back to the
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: Hornets for goodness sake, Chris, And so I would ask,
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: is that the road that Seattle will face and Vegas
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: well face or was Charlotte just particularly bad at basketball?
• 46:06
  Speaker 9: Well, it's interesting. Obviously they didn't do a great job,
• 46:11
  Speaker 9: you know with Bob Johnson and even Michael Jordan were there,
• 46:15
  Speaker 9: and they made some mistakes.
• 46:18
  Speaker 8: But remember Charlotte was an expansion team long before.
• 46:21
  Speaker 9: That with Miami, and they had.
• 46:24
  Speaker 8: Larry Johnson and Kendall Gill and Muggsy Boats and Miami
• 46:29
  Speaker 8: you know, obviously, after some growing pains, went on to
• 46:32
  Speaker 8: have some great success. So it's really, you know, you're
• 46:36
  Speaker 8: a little an expansion team. You know, it's kind of
• 46:40
  Speaker 8: always starts in a hole, right, It's just the way
• 46:43
  Speaker 8: it is.
• 46:44
  Speaker 9: But again, if you get good.
• 46:46
  Speaker 8: Ownership that hires good front office people, then they can
• 46:51
  Speaker 8: make the moves.
• 46:52
  Speaker 9: To really, you know, turn it around in fairly short order.
• 46:56
  Speaker 8: And so I would be optimistic obviously just about bringing
• 47:01
  Speaker 8: the sport back there.
• 47:02
  Speaker 9: But if you get the right people in place, I.
• 47:05
  Speaker 8: Do think an expansion team can become competitive pretty quickly.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you. I mean, I hope.
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: So it feels like the rules to some degree kind
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: of put you behind the eight ball a little bit.
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: Is there any chance do you think that they might
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: adjust some of those just because of the I mean,
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: maybe not. You can't probably blame Charlotte's lack of competitiveness
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: just simply on the rules. I mean, some of it
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: has to do with those that were in charge, like
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: you're talking about. But is there any chance that they
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: tried to kind of shake this thing up a little
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: bit to give Vegas and Seattle if this does come
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: to fruition, a way better chance of being successful right
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: off the bat.
• 47:44
  Speaker 8: I don't think the current owners will want to do
• 47:47
  Speaker 8: something like that, But if the potential owners really try
• 47:53
  Speaker 8: to push forward, then that might that possibly could be
• 47:57
  Speaker 8: a place because clearly the league and ownership wants to
• 48:01
  Speaker 8: do this, So maybe that gives.
• 48:05
  Speaker 9: You know, potential buyers a little bit of leverage.
• 48:08
  Speaker 8: It really would depend on how big the pool is,
• 48:12
  Speaker 8: but I don't think generally the other owners are gonna
• 48:16
  Speaker 8: want to do that. One thing I guess in the
• 48:19
  Speaker 8: favor of Vegas and Seattle is the fact that they've
• 48:23
  Speaker 8: been projected to be.
• 48:24
  Speaker 9: I think both among the top ten revenue.
• 48:28
  Speaker 8: Generating cities in the league, and so with something like that,
• 48:33
  Speaker 8: maybe their other owners have a little bit of incentive
• 48:36
  Speaker 8: to help them be a little bit better.
• 48:38
  Speaker 9: But my general thought is no, but I guess it's
• 48:41
  Speaker 9: a possibility.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: Chris. All I'm asking for and I don't think this
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: is too much. I just want the Sonics to start
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: with Wimby. Can we just start with Wemby and we
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: don't need any other rules? Is that? Do you think
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: that's fair?
• 48:55
  Speaker 8: Hey?
• 48:55
  Speaker 6: He is what I said.
• 48:57
  Speaker 9: This is what I said I want, and I don't.
• 49:01
  Speaker 9: I don't.
• 49:01
  Speaker 8: I haven't seen if this has already been discussed, but
• 49:05
  Speaker 8: I want the Sonics to get obviously the.
• 49:08
  Speaker 9: Name, but all the history back.
• 49:11
  Speaker 8: Yeah, because right now that's Oklahoma City's history, you know
• 49:15
  Speaker 8: if you look at like the references and stuff. But
• 49:18
  Speaker 8: I want you guys to get all that history back,
• 49:21
  Speaker 8: and Okac's history can start in you know, whatever year
• 49:25
  Speaker 8: it was they went there. So that's what I'm hoping for.
• 49:27
  Speaker 8: You guys did it in the NFL for the Cleveland Browns.
• 49:31
  Speaker 8: Obviously it wasn't as long as a time without the team,
• 49:35
  Speaker 8: but hopefully you guys get your history back because it's
• 49:37
  Speaker 8: a great history.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: That's that's just that's just gotta happen. I mean, there's
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: not that's not even a debate.
• 49:42
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: We might we might even turn down expansion if we
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: don't get our If the Sonics fan don't get they
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: don't get their history back. Chris Brystard is with us.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: Uh uh. I'll just close with this. I mean, longtime
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: basketball fan, who is your favorite Seattle Super Sonic of
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: all time? Wow?
• 50:02
  Speaker 8: Let's see, I really liked that team that won the
• 50:07
  Speaker 8: championship in seventy nine. US Williams, Yeah, Dennis Johnson, Downtown,
• 50:15
  Speaker 8: Freddie Brown.
• 50:18
  Speaker 9: I mean, I.
• 50:19
  Speaker 8: Guess I love Ray Allen, I love Gary Peyton.
• 50:25
  Speaker 9: I'll just put it this way.
• 50:27
  Speaker 8: He wasn't obviously the best, absolute best Sonic, but I
• 50:31
  Speaker 8: would say that would probably be Gary Payton in my book,
• 50:35
  Speaker 8: But I would say just the most exciting.
• 50:38
  Speaker 9: I'm gonna say Sean Kemp yeah ye right, yeah, when
• 50:43
  Speaker 9: he was the rain Man. We know it didn't last.
• 50:46
  Speaker 8: Forever obviously, but those years in Seattle, he just I mean,
• 50:51
  Speaker 8: he was one of the greatest shows in the league.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: As just a basketball fan, your entire life. Does it
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: feel right that the Sonics get back into the league too.
• 51:01
  Speaker 9: Oh yeah, no, totally. I hated to see.
• 51:04
  Speaker 8: You know, there are some cities that just haven't you know, really,
• 51:09
  Speaker 8: I guess done right by an NBA team, you know,
• 51:12
  Speaker 8: they just didn't support them the way they should have,
• 51:15
  Speaker 8: or the team just wasn't good and exciting and all that.
• 51:19
  Speaker 9: But Seattle was none of that.
• 51:21
  Speaker 8: I mean, you guys had great teams, the fans were great.
• 51:24
  Speaker 8: It's a great city to go to for visitors, you know,
• 51:27
  Speaker 8: visiting media and visitors in general. It really felt like, honestly,
• 51:32
  Speaker 8: there was just it's unfortunate because it felt like there
• 51:35
  Speaker 8: was no reason to leave, you know, beyond you know,
• 51:39
  Speaker 8: it's always comes down the money, of course, But I
• 51:42
  Speaker 8: just I think it's great. I think it's one of
• 51:44
  Speaker 8: the best cities in the country. So it clearly is
• 51:47
  Speaker 8: a major league city. You got football, you got baseball,
• 51:51
  Speaker 8: and it's only right that you should have basketball.
• 51:53
  Speaker 9: So yeah, this is great.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: I'm glad that you feel that way, and without us
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: having paid you to say that, Yeah, that feels good.
• 52:00
  Speaker 8: Look, I don't travel as much as I used to.
• 52:04
  Speaker 8: I'm obviously in the studio every day. But I'm hoping
• 52:08
  Speaker 8: I can get back out there to Seattle for.
• 52:10
  Speaker 9: Some games because it was really beautiful city to visit.
• 52:15
  Speaker 8: I always used to love going there and kind of
• 52:16
  Speaker 8: exploring the city and stuff.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: Well, if you haven't been to Climate Pledge Arena, which
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: is where the Sonics are going to play, we're assuming
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: you gotta see it. I mean, it is an unbelievable
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: building and it's going to be perfect for the NBA,
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: just absolutely perfect.
• 52:30
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I haven't been. It was Key Arena where I get.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: To go, same location, same spot, same location, just a
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: completely different building at this point. Well, Chris, thank you
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: very much.
• 52:41
  Speaker 5: Man.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: We greatly appreciate you hopping on with us. This is
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: a big day for us this year, and you were
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: our first guest on KJAR to react to this news,
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: so we appreciate you.
• 52:51
  Speaker 9: All Right, guys, I enjoyed it, and congratulations.
• 52:53
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Thank you Chris Brusar joining us right here on Chuck
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: and Buck from Fox Sports. First things first, a lifelong
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: NBA fan used to cover the league for a living,
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: so some great thoughts on that, and there is a
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: there is a belief in that, I mean amongst players,
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: former players, I mean, this was a bit of a
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: mecca here in terms of destinations within the NBA, places
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: that people wanted to go watch a game or wanted
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: to play in Seattle, and those that played here in
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: Seattle swear by having played here in Seattle. But it's
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: been eighteen years for goodness sake, I mentioned this a
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. It's been eleven years since I've
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: moved here, and I believe it when people tell me
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: that this is a basketball town, you know, I believe that.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: I see it in the high schools. I see it
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: the way that people across the country sort of react
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: to it. But I've been here eleven years without the NBA,
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: and really without a great college basketball team, being a
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: couple of good teams in my eleven years that the
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: Huskies have put together, but for being a basketball town,
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: it's been a long time since we've been basketball relevant. Yeah,
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: and today is the biggest step toward creating that once again.
• 54:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I think most people know it, but
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: it's nice to hear it still. I mean, yesterday I
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: saw something on Twitter where Jason Kidd was talking about
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: the w NBA or the NBA's expansion vote, and he
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: kind of went off about how great it used to
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: be to come through Vancouver and Seattle and Portland, and
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: how Seattle's such a great sports town and we all
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: know that here and Seattle's big enough to be able
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: to support it. It just was obviously a couple knuckleheads
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: that decided to, you know, not keep the team here,
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: and so we've had a couple decades of not being
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: able to have it. But right now it feels closer
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: than ever to get the Sonics back. And I don't
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: think it's a secret. I think a lot of people
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: understand how big hoops are in Seattle, and it's just
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: the greater Seattle area.
• 54:55
  Speaker 7: I think it's interesting because when I look back at
• 54:58
  Speaker 7: the sports that were part of my life, it's basketball
• 55:01
  Speaker 7: that was really the most. Like my dad and I
• 55:02
  Speaker 7: would sit and watch Sonics games all the time, and
• 55:05
  Speaker 7: my parents had moved from Phoenix, so he was also
• 55:07
  Speaker 7: a Suns fan, and they would go but then they
• 55:09
  Speaker 7: were members that it was called the Pro Club, i think,
• 55:12
  Speaker 7: and all the Sonics would go there. So he would
• 55:14
  Speaker 7: come home and he'd talk about how Slick Watts was
• 55:16
  Speaker 7: sitting in the hot tub, and Slick Watts was complaining, Oh,
• 55:20
  Speaker 7: nobody respects me.
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, he had all these fun.
• 55:22
  Speaker 7: Stories of seeing these guys in everyday life, and to me,
• 55:26
  Speaker 7: they were all larger than life. And then fast forward,
• 55:28
  Speaker 7: I go to high school and I'm going to high
• 55:30
  Speaker 7: school with Fred Brown's kids, and you know, his youngest
• 55:32
  Speaker 7: son's one of my best friends, and they're playing against
• 55:35
  Speaker 7: Donald Watts, and so you're going to games and it's
• 55:37
  Speaker 7: Slick and Donald or it's Slick and Fred sitting in
• 55:40
  Speaker 7: the stands with their stoic faces watching their kids play.
• 55:43
  Speaker 7: And high school basketball at our school was bigger than football.
• 55:47
  Speaker 7: I mean you had a packed gym every year and
• 55:50
  Speaker 7: just people going nuts. And our team won state my
• 55:53
  Speaker 7: senior year, and it was like the best experience to
• 55:56
  Speaker 7: grow up as a basketball fan here. And I would
• 55:59
  Speaker 7: go if there was sporting events that our groups would do.
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: It was always going to sonic schemes. I mean, I
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: just it was.
• 56:05
  Speaker 7: It was an incredible thing, and it was so heartbreaking
• 56:08
  Speaker 7: when we lost it. So to know that there's another
• 56:10
  Speaker 7: generation that's going to get to experience that, it's pretty cool.
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's about damn time, no doubt about it.
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: And I really do, I mean is it's not even
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: a negotiation, like you get the Sonics history back. I mean,
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: if period, end of story. I don't Oklahoma said he
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: doesn't even want it. I mean, I think they've been
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: tired of eighteen years sort of having that nagging like, oh,
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: I really I do block it out and I'm not
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: going to trade my thunder away. But it really does
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: bother me that Seattle hates us so much for taking this,
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: and so I mean, I don't even think they want
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: the history. They've got an eighteen year history now that
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: they can embrace and build upon, and we can make
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: that separation and all of that Sonics history. That's the
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: first step in all of this. I mean, like I said,
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: I don't even know if we would Seattle would even
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: accept thee yeah invitation back into the league without getting
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: its history back. That's the first thing that has to have.
• 57:10
  Speaker 7: And you can retire the numbers of the players who
• 57:12
  Speaker 7: played for you that haven't been retired yet joining us.
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: Next on the radio program, we're going to reach out
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: to one of our own to hear his reaction, and
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: I don't think he'll be emotional about it at all.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 57:26
  Speaker 10: Huge breaking news this morning Seattle, as yeah, kind of
• 57:31
  Speaker 10: ripped up the old show sheet here today on the
• 57:35
  Speaker 10: news breaking that the.
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: NBA Board of Governors has approved the expansion process of
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: Las Vegas and Seattle as being the two cities that
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: they will pursue expansion franchises with. We are not at
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: the finish line that will likely occur in July, once
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: the ownership groups have been assembled and can make their
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: best pitch to the NBA and the owners, but this
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: is a monster hurdle to clear. Only Vegas and Seattle
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: will be considered for expansion, and certainly this is a
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: big news, a big step toward the Seattle SuperSonics returning
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: as an entity in our lives and joining us. Now
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: on the program, we get fresh reaction from one of
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: our own ian furness is with us right here on
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: Chuck and Buck. Good morning, sir, how are you feeling?
• 58:31
  Speaker 6: Good boys?
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: Good morning? How are you guys? Well, you've got a
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: show today at Queen Anne Beer Hall. Is it going
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: to be a celebratory mood out there? I mean, are
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: you gonna pour champagne over people's heads? I mean, how
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: are you going to handle news like this. I'm not
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: sure people really know what to do with it right now.
• 58:50
  Speaker 11: Yeah, it's I'm kind of I think we're all going
• 58:52
  Speaker 11: through a lot of those same thoughts. It's listen, we
• 58:54
  Speaker 11: expected this to happen. It happened earlier in the day.
• 58:58
  Speaker 11: Although it's just a leak story. We haven't hear from
• 59:00
  Speaker 11: the commissioner yet. I'll be interested to hear from him.
• 59:02
  Speaker 11: We'll carry that live I dring MJ Show at eleven thirty.
• 59:05
  Speaker 11: But I think, you know, the big thing is, this
• 59:07
  Speaker 11: is the most significant news and the biggest piece of
• 59:12
  Speaker 11: bringing back the Sonics that we've had since they left
• 59:16
  Speaker 11: in two thousand and eight. You know, we we thought
• 59:18
  Speaker 11: we were there. You know, I'll never forget doing the
• 59:20
  Speaker 11: show in I believe it was twenty thirteen, the years
• 59:23
  Speaker 11: run together. But when we got word that had a
• 59:26
  Speaker 11: Sacramento that Chris Hansen had was going to buy the
• 59:29
  Speaker 11: Sacramento Kings from the maloof Brothers, and we're thinking, all right,
• 59:32
  Speaker 11: here we go. But you know, deep down and we
• 59:35
  Speaker 11: went crazy that day, Chuck, we went nuts.
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: We were on the air.
• 59:39
  Speaker 11: And just you know, run around and chasing stuff around
• 59:42
  Speaker 11: and celebrating and.
• 59:44
  Speaker 6: And then you know, in the back of my mind,
• 59:45
  Speaker 6: I remember.
• 59:45
  Speaker 11: The think of the whole time. Well, it really doesn't
• 59:47
  Speaker 11: solve the problem. The problem was still Key arena, Like
• 59:51
  Speaker 11: that was a massive problem, was a problem that second
• 59:53
  Speaker 11: they opened that dump, you know, in ninety five or
• 59:56
  Speaker 11: ninety six, whenever it was. It just it didn't solve
• 59:59
  Speaker 11: that problem. And I know Chris Hanson had a SODO
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 11: plan and we're thinking, you know, I think wistfully that, yeah,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 11: that'll be great. We'll build this arena and Sodo once
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 11: the city council gets their act together. That of course
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 11: never happened. And really you kind of look back on it.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 11: Chris Hansen and Steve Bomber when he left a bought
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 11: the clippers.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: We have the building. Yeah, I lost you for a second.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: We're talking about Chris Hansen and your cutout for a
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: little bit.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 11: I was gonna say, you know, that was all nice
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 11: and fine, but that wasn't real. This is real because
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 11: of one thing, and that's because we have a building
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 11: climate pledge arena makes this real. And you know, the
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 11: one roof group with Sam and and company that makes
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 11: this real. And I think we're you know, like you
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 11: said in the open to bringing me in so I
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 11: will be the true celebration, pour the champagne on everyone's head.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 11: But today, yeah, we'll be at queen An Beer Hall
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 11: and we're gonna have a little however you want to celebrate,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 11: that's a you thing, and you do you and celebrate.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 11: If you want to come have a pint with Softy
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 11: and or me beforehand, then away we go. But I
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 11: think this is easily It's I'm not saying anythingbody does. No,
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 11: this is the biggest piece of news of bringing the
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 11: NBA back that we've had since two thousand and eight.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: So instead of pouring champagne over people's heads, we'll just
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: pour beer down our throats to celebrate. That's what it
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: sounds like. Oh, I've got no problem with that. I
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: fully endorsemble.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: That just makes Yeah, full blown celebration is where you
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: waste it on each other and we down your throat.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: This is just halfway there, so you just start by
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: drinking it. That makes sense one hundred percent with you
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: on that ear. How excited are you? I mean, are
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: you still tempering your excitement? I mean to some degree,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: you're saying, Hey, this is good news, best news that
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: we've had in as far as this direction of where
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: we're wanting to go. But are you still pulling back
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: on the reins a little bit, not letting yourself get
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: too crazy.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 11: No, I think it's happening, and I think it's going
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 11: to happen in twenty twenty eight. I want to hear
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 11: the Commissioner say it out of his old mouth today
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 11: that we're moving ahead. And then you know, obviously July
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 11: is the big thing. But I listen, I'm I'm confident
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 11: there's you guys listen. None of us are in big business.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 11: We're just knucklehead media people. But like to think for
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 11: a second that there haven't been backroom discussions over the
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 11: last few years. Well, I don't know since the day
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 11: they put a shovel in the ground and started, you know,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 11: making climate Pledgerina what it is today would be blindly naive.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: And I'm saying with the NBA, you.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 11: Know from day one, you know, I don't think Todd
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 11: LIGHTWICKI has done an interview since he got hired in
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 11: which he hasn't been asked about the NBA coming back,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 11: and so we this has been something that's been in
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 11: the works the group. And again I believe it'll be
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 11: you know, the one roof group with Sam all the
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 11: way leading the charge and whatever other investors are involved.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 11: That group has done everything the right way. But to
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 11: think that they haven't had discussions all, I just I
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 11: always laugh when I hear you know, oh, we'll begin discussions. Really,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 11: you haven't had any discussions, Adam Silber with really, because
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 11: that's I'm not talking governor and you know, mayors and stuff.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 11: I'm talking about the people that matter they have.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: This is way down.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 11: This is very far down the road, and it has
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 11: been for a while. I'll just go back when when
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 11: they had the season ticket drive for the Kraken on
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 11: that one day and thirty two thousand people put real
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 11: money down five hundred dollars a.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: Piece for season tickets.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 11: It was we had David Bonnerman in the studio and
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 11: Jerry Bruckheimer. We taped an interview with them, like at
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 11: eight o'clock that night.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: We ran the next day and the.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 11: Late David Bonnerman, I'll never forget it, guys. He was
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 11: I asked him point blank about the NBA. And I
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 11: know we've looked for this interview a zillion times. Hopefully
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 11: we can find it again some day because it was great.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 11: He just said, no, that is the plan. The plan
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 11: from day one, from David Bonnerman's mouth to you guys,
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 11: was to bring the NBA back as well as have
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 11: the NHL here. So this has been in the works
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 11: for a long time. David Bonnerman is a former owner
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 11: minority owner of the Celtics. He was deeply involved and
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 11: rooted in the NBA. So this has always been the plan.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 11: It feels more real today and more likely today than
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 11: ever before, and so today is a day definitely to celebrate.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 11: We're one step closer to I think get in the
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 11: NBA back here for sure.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all right, excellent stuff. So what are we
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: going to do on this specialty radio show later on today?
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: Do you do we have a master plan? Or are
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: you just wringing it out there?
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 11: We're at this point we're winging it because you know,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 11: we'll wait and see what the commissioner says and figure
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 11: out guests.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: And all that.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 11: It's you know, we're all you know how it works
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 11: in radio. We're all doing the same thing right now.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 11: We're all chasing. Okay, who can we get on today?
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 11: I think more than anything, we want to hear the
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 11: reaction of our listeners. I mean, this is I will
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 11: just I don't want to dampen the mood I've been
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 11: I don't know what you guys have got on your
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 11: text line during you know, six to ten in the morning.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 11: I've been a little surprised since this all came out
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 11: in the last couple of weeks that this meeting was
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 11: going to happen, the board governors and.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: And this vote.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 11: I've been really surprised by the lack of enthusiasm and
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 11: frankly downright negativity on just a text line and even
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 11: from some of our talk packs that we've gotten. And
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 11: I understand the frustration people have with the NBA. You
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 11: trust me on this as someone who has a son
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 11: that's now grown as an adult, and you know, we've
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 11: been here for twenty years and he didn't have the
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 11: NBA growing up, and he's a huge basketball kid. I'll
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 11: never forgive the NBA. I mean, forgiveness is something I
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 11: can never give them. But I can't happily accept the
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 11: team coming back and be thrilled for that. But there's
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 11: a lot of people you know that that are doing
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 11: the I don't care about the NBA thing right now.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 11: I think that will go away quickly, you know, once
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 11: we see a ball go up in the air. I
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 11: think it'll go quite quickly over the next two years
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 11: as the process begins and we start seeing people hire
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 11: a GM and things like that, once the team is
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 11: officially announced in the summer. But I'll be interested to
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 11: see what the what the reaction is from our listeners
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 11: today because it's been it's been kind of a doubter
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 11: to be honest with you for a while, and I
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 11: understand why. I mean, Softie still won't go to Starbucks,
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 11: and there's people in our market that still hate the NBA.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: With a passion.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 11: So I think that'll change, but it might take a
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 11: little bit of time and some healing needs to happen
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 11: for sure.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: Can we expect to see you, you know, cracking out
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: your old Sickma jersey or you know, Spencer Haywood jersey
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: out there.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 11: Well, since I would have been a weed child, I
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 11: don't think those are gonna fit. I do think somewhere
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 11: in our garage my mom cleaning out something in the
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 11: house a while ago. I do have like a Sonic
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 11: seventy nine championship T shirt that is somehow still holding together,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 11: but that wouldn't That wouldn't even come close to fitting
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 11: any of your either BUCkies, youngsters or even young Palmer there.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 11: It's I think I'll refrain from that because I don't
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 11: think people need to see that all my simply Seattle Sonics.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: Though, who are you on today?
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 6: Though?
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: Forget sure? OK, very good like it? I like it
• 1:06:41
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  Speaker 6: The magic carpet ride, Boys and girls, get on the
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  Speaker 1: So you're excited at all? I love it.
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  Speaker 6: Listen, man, listen, We've been waiting to hear this for
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  Speaker 6: eighteen damn years. The last Thotic game I went to
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  Speaker 6: right now remember that Maverick game. Kevin Durant egging on
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  Speaker 6: spineless to sit on the court, so he was up
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  Speaker 6: in his suite, big court, whole crowd chanting save our Sonics.
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  Speaker 6: Kevin Durant throwing his hands in the air, egging the
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  Speaker 6: crowd on. Is a rookie to have that kind of
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  Speaker 6: juice at nineteen twenty years old. To do something like
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 6: that as a rookie in front of his owner made
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  Speaker 6: him a legend for life. In my opinion. It was
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  Speaker 6: eighteen years ago. And how many people have been robbed
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  Speaker 6: of moments like that in the last two decades. How
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  Speaker 6: many fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, aunts and uncles,
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  Speaker 6: brothers and sisters, best friends have been robbed of an
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  Speaker 6: opportunity to go to an NBA game in Seattle and
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  Speaker 6: watch the Sonics play. I don't blame you for being pissed.
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  Speaker 6: I heard you talking about all the reaction you're getting
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 6: on the text line. Some people are bitter, some people
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 6: are angry, some people are deftical, some people are excited.
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  Speaker 6: I don't blame anybody for any emotion that they have
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 6: regarding this thing and how they want to deal with
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  Speaker 6: the last twenty years. All I'll say is this, and
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  Speaker 6: I study yesterday and I'll say it again. I just
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  Speaker 6: want our town to have the goddamn option of going
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  Speaker 6: to an NBA basketball game, to have the option again
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  Speaker 6: of seeing the Sonics play. Whether you want to go,
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  Speaker 6: whether you don't want to go, that's entirely up to you.
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  Speaker 6: But the point is this town is too big, our
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  Speaker 6: history is too rich, and the DNA is not complete
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  Speaker 6: sports wise in this town without having NBA basketball and
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  Speaker 6: the Seattle SuperSonics back in the mix. So I am
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 6: absolutely beyond thrilled about this news that came out today.
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  Speaker 6: I was actually kind of secretly, guys hoping that maybe
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  Speaker 6: it would be a surprise at the press conference, that
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  Speaker 6: maybe we would get Adam Silver to tell us exactly
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  Speaker 6: what's happening and the word would not leak. But it's
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  Speaker 6: twenty twenty six and that kind of stuff doesn't happen anymore, man.
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  Speaker 6: And so look, I'm logging onto simply Seattle. I'm buying
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  Speaker 6: new Sonic gear. I'm going through the closet. I'm seeing
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  Speaker 6: what fits, what doesn't fit. I'm going through my rollerdecks
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  Speaker 6: trying to hook up with a bunch of ex players.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 6: Just got off the phone with olden polonies, by the way,
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  Speaker 6: Percy Hawkins, Vinnie Ascue, Steve Scheffler. Last time I saw
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  Speaker 6: to get on the air today at three o'clock this afternoon.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm just so excited. Man. I'm fired up for
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  Speaker 6: the town. I'm fired up for us, and you know what,
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  Speaker 6: I'm freaking fired up for me. I'm fired up for
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  Speaker 6: me because we deserve this.
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  Speaker 9: Man.
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  Speaker 6: There's no city in America who has lost the professional
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  Speaker 6: team and has been this passionate about bringing them back
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  Speaker 6: eighteen years later. Not Kansas City when they lost the Kings,
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  Speaker 6: not Montreal when they lost the expos. Nobody, nobody has
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  Speaker 6: been this passionate for this long about the return of
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  Speaker 6: a professional basketball team, and we fricking deserve this, man,
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  Speaker 6: I don't mind saying that, we absolutely do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well I'm with you, man, and I can I
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  Speaker 3: can hear the passion. So there's no I mean, no, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: just a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I thought that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean the idea of now, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the people at least in one ownership group that's gonna
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  Speaker 3: throw their hat in the ring. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 3: to the lol wiki's and that whole group, the oak
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  Speaker 3: View group and and and all of them, and so, uh,
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  Speaker 3: what's your thoughts there are you're gonna be uh reaching
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  Speaker 3: out to them to I don't know. I mean, I'll
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  Speaker 3: put five bucks in on it if that'll help done.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, man, you know what, we can do a gofund
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  Speaker 6: me whatever it takes to get this thing done. But yeah,
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  Speaker 6: we're gonna have pot on today. He'll join us, I
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  Speaker 6: think at three o'clock this afternoon. And you know, Bucky,
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  Speaker 6: it's funny that you mentioned that about you know, maybe like, hey,
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  Speaker 6: you know other groups getting involved. You know, people remember
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 6: back in the day, and actually, I know you got
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 6: a great relationship for a long time Fred Brown's family
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  Speaker 6: and grew up on Mercer Island and Freddie was a
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  Speaker 6: big part of my life as a kid. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: you know, going to the JCC and Wally and you know,
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  Speaker 6: Jack and Fred and Gus and Denny our dj excuse me,
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 6: would all work out there back in the day when
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 6: players would just mingle with the general public. In those
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 6: days are kind of over. But Fred Browns tried to
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 6: build an arena. He wanted to build an armadillo looking
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 6: egg on the port on the pier to bring the
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  Speaker 6: NBA back to town. And you know, people kind of
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  Speaker 6: laughed at him, man, But you know what, all those
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 6: guys deserve pats on the butts, every single one. Chris Hansen,
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  Speaker 6: Fred Brown, Wally Walker, anybody who lifted a finger to
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  Speaker 6: try and attempt to get this thing done and to
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  Speaker 6: right or wrong deserves a pad on the butt, no
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  Speaker 6: matter how stupid, no matter how landish.
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  Speaker 9: No matter how ludicrous it sounded.
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  Speaker 6: Anybody who got off their ass, and I'll mention Chris Hansen, man,
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  Speaker 6: that guy deserves a big pat on the butt. Anybody
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  Speaker 6: who got off their ass to make this thing happen,
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  Speaker 6: to get the ball rolling deserves some kudos, but Bucky,
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  Speaker 6: I gotta tell you, I don't know if I want
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  Speaker 6: anybody involved. Todd Lwiki is absolutely the Grand Pooba of
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  Speaker 6: Seattle sports. I mean, look look at what the guy
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  Speaker 6: did for the Seahawks hiring Pete Carroll, look at what
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  Speaker 6: the guy has done for the arena for the Kraken,
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  Speaker 6: and out look what him and his brother Tim are
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  Speaker 6: about to do for the NBA. So I want it
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  Speaker 6: to be them. I want it to be Climate Fledge Arena.
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  Speaker 6: I want it to be like Wiki and Cement, the
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  Speaker 6: Holloway and the entire group over there with the new
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  Speaker 6: one roof foundation. I want it to be them because
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  Speaker 6: they deserve it. They're the ones that stepped up and
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  Speaker 6: built the arena. They're the ones that paid for the
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  Speaker 6: arena when the city government wouldn't hand over a penny
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  Speaker 6: to get this thing back. And by the way, I
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 6: find it laughable at every politician now that's trying to
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  Speaker 6: jump on the wagon and take some credit for this.
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  Speaker 6: Why don't you guys shut the hell up, sit it out,
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  Speaker 6: and let the people in charge get this thing done.
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  Speaker 6: It makes me sick how many politicians are trying to
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  Speaker 6: take credit for this and glob onto this thing. So God,
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  Speaker 6: I want it to be that group, because they're the
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  Speaker 6: ones that go to the arenas. They're the ones that
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 6: have been waiting, They're the ones that have the money,
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  Speaker 6: They're the ones that have been working their butts off
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  Speaker 6: be them.
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  Speaker 1: I love that it's not just pats on the backs,
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  Speaker 6: Watch the whole thing, man, Whatever you want, whatever you want,
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  Speaker 1: Pal Softie with us here this morning, reacting to the
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  Speaker 1: approved the expansion pursuits of Seattle and Las Vegas to
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  Speaker 1: try to get franchises back in the National Basketball Association.
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  Speaker 1: And I've heard your promo. I'm I'm with you. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's a done deal, and yet we're not at
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  Speaker 1: the finish line. So do you how do you resign
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  Speaker 1: yourself to that as a sports talk show host over
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  Speaker 1: the next couple of months. It's believing that this is
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  Speaker 1: done and yet knowing that it's not.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm just I'm just not concerned about it.
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  Speaker 5: Guys.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I know, maybe I should be. And look,
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 6: you know, technically, it ain't done until it's done. And
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  Speaker 6: we all get that, we all understand that we've waited
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  Speaker 6: eighteen years. We can wait another four or five months,
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  Speaker 6: right for this thing officially to get done. But guys,
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 6: I gotta be honest with you that that arena was
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 6: not built. As much as we love the crack in,
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  Speaker 6: as much as we love the shows and the concerts
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 6: and everything happening the NCAA tournament, that arena was built
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  Speaker 6: with the NBA in mind, all right, I mean it's
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 6: NBA ready to day. You guys know that the locker rooms,
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 6: the loading docks, everything was done with the NBA in mind.
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  Speaker 6: Everything was done to get to this point today and
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 6: then rubber stamp this thing hopefully later this summer, if
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 6: not early fall. So I'm not that concerned about it.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 6: I mean, look, obviously there's you know, unforeseen things that
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 6: can take place financially. People could potentially have to bow
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 6: out and you got to find someone new to step in.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 6: But I also think that there's other options, you know,
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 6: of the you know, for investors that to step up
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 6: and join the group that's been put together. I think
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 6: there's a list honestly of people that would love to
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 6: get involved and be a part of this. So I'm
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 6: not that concerned about it. I've been telling people for
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 6: the last six to nine months that you should start
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 6: saving money for tickets. I mean, if you haven't been
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 6: to an NBA game in eighteen years, you're going to
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 6: be surprised at how much tickets are. I mean, they're
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 6: not cheap, man, So I would I would start throwing
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 6: a couple of coins into a into a you know,
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 6: piggybank or whatever you got there, and start saving some money,
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 6: start getting your sonic gear from places like simply Seattle,
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  Speaker 6: and get ready. Because I feel very confident and I
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 6: feel very comfortable telling people this is happening. And you
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 6: know what, if it doesn't for some reason, chuck, if
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 6: disaster strikes, there's no town in America that's more prepared
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 6: to deal with that heartbreak than we are. Okay, So
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 6: I'm not I'm not focusing on that at all.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, well, hopefully we don't have to test our
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 3: resiliency in that front.
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  Speaker 1: Again.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is I mean, it's if it does
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  Speaker 3: go through later on this summer, whenever they figure out
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  Speaker 3: the you know how much they like Todd Lewickian group
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  Speaker 3: and the cording that they do, and this thing goes through.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, are you about as pumped for twenty twenty six?
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  Speaker 3: I mean you started it off with a Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 3: Is twenty twenty six going to be the greatest year
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  Speaker 1: Wow?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll go ask your buddies at T Mobile Park,
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  Speaker 6: all right, Yeah, I mean tell them to finish the
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 6: damn job for God's sake. Okay, Right, that's next on
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  Speaker 6: the radar. I mean, the Sonics are we think on
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 6: the way home and we're still kind of tapping our fingers,
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 6: you know, waiting for the boys in Blue or to
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 6: get us to a World Series for the first time
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 6: in our life. And you know, honestly, guys, I think
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 6: it makes it even more special when you lose something
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 6: like this and then you get it back. That's an
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 6: emotion that a lot of sports fans just simply put,
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 6: don't get to experience, Like, you know, what was it
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 6: like in Cleveland when they lost the Browns and got
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 6: them back? What was it like in Baltimore when they
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 6: lost the Colts and then got the Ravens and got
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 6: the NFL back In Houston when they lost the Oilers
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 6: and then got the Texans. I mean, we're going to
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 6: get to and I think there's a positive to that
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 6: that it just puts you in a situation where you
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 6: want to remind everybody the day they officially announced this,
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 6: Bucky that the Sonics are coming back. Can we just
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 6: not do this again?
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  Speaker 5: Please?
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 6: If you have an NBA franchise and you have a
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  Speaker 6: baseball team and a football team and a hockey team,
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  Speaker 6: there's cities all over the country that would get on
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  Speaker 6: their hands and knees to have something like that, And
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  Speaker 6: we need to realize how special these things are. And
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  Speaker 6: I don't think that people like Greg Nichols back in
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  Speaker 6: the day, Frank Chop back in the day. May he
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 6: rest in peace, but I'm still pissed off at him.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think those people realized how special it was
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  Speaker 6: to have one of thirty professional basketball franchises at this level.
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  Speaker 6: So I really really hope that we as a community
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  Speaker 6: when this happens and they come back and just promise
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  Speaker 6: that the next generation will never have to go through
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  Speaker 6: the craps that we went through. So let's not do
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  Speaker 6: this again.
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  Speaker 1: Huh yeah, yeah, Yeah, I'm with you softy with us
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  Speaker 1: here on the radio program. So what are you gonna
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  Speaker 1: wear to celebrate on your big show at Queen Anne
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  Speaker 1: Beer All today? A were gonna pack out a moutely.
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  Speaker 6: Nothing, just nothing nothing. Wow, there's there's moments in life,
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  Speaker 6: Buck and Chuck that called for it. Think a three
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  Speaker 6: piano Queen Anne Beer Hall, you want to see it naked, Saftie,
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  Speaker 6: I would be there at the bar.
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  Speaker 1: Is a total nudity occasionally vomited.
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  Speaker 6: No, dude, I've got I've got jerseys. You know. Here's
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  Speaker 6: the thing. Michael Cage.
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  Speaker 1: You got a Michael Cage jersey somewhere.
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  Speaker 6: I don't have a Michael Cage jersey. I got a Peyton,
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  Speaker 6: I got a camp I got a shrimp. What else
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  Speaker 6: do I have? I think I have a Hawkins in
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  Speaker 6: there somewhere. I got a lot of jerseys, man, a
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  Speaker 6: lot of them. But I'm not a big jersey guy anymore.
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  Speaker 6: And that's fine. I mean three years old, Yes, what
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  Speaker 6: shirts do you stovers? I'm more about comfort over style
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  Speaker 6: at my age. To be honest with you, I'd wear
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  Speaker 6: a green and gold garbage bag if it was comfortable.
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  Speaker 6: So yeah, we're gonna be decked out and Sonic gear today.
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  Speaker 6: Ian's gonna be there at one at the beer Hall,
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  Speaker 6: Queen and Beer Hall. We'll be there at three. Cod's
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  Speaker 6: gonna hop on. We got some other deaths. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: it's gonna be just chaos.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 6: People be jumping on the phone right and left, saying
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 6: hello and sharing their thoughts on this. But it's kind
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  Speaker 6: of weird because it's like, it's like you have this
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 6: dream of going to Disneyland right as a kid, and
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  Speaker 6: I feel like mom and Dad just parked the car
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  Speaker 6: and now we're walking to the front door to buy
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  Speaker 6: a ticket, like we're not quite there yet, but damn,
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  Speaker 6: do we feel pretty comfortable that it's okay to start
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  Speaker 6: tracking a smile because we are well on our way.
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  Speaker 1: Well, all right, well, I'm glad that you're soul pumped
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  Speaker 1: for it. I'm gonna say congratulations. I know we're not there,
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  Speaker 1: but nonetheless I love your enthusiasm for it, and so
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  Speaker 1: I hope it's infectious. I hope you have a great
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  Speaker 1: broadcast out there today. And man, how about we chug
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: a beer at the first Sonics game in twenty twenty eight?
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  Speaker 1: What do you say?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, one of you start saving you're buying baby, Okay,
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  Speaker 6: guy buys it. So far you're the new guys. So
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 6: what the hell? Look, man, I mean, I just this
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  Speaker 6: is exactly why we do this right on this radio station,
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 6: you know, for moments like this. I mean the rallies
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  Speaker 6: that we had at the Courthouse Occidental Park that Chris
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  Speaker 6: Hansen organized back in the day. The amount of people
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  Speaker 6: that have hung on to this dream and hung on
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 6: to their sonic Memorabiley, and hung on to their you know,
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  Speaker 6: jerseys and hats and sweatshirts and you know trading cards
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  Speaker 6: that the you know, King County Police Department used to
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 6: pass out back in the day. How many people like
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  Speaker 6: us in our forties and fifties have been hanging on
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  Speaker 6: to this dream for the last eighteen years. And to
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  Speaker 6: see it realized, it's it's overwhelming, man, it really is overwhelming.
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  Speaker 6: And the fact that we're going to actually probably do
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 6: this is I think a testament to every sports fan
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  Speaker 6: in this town, because I don't think this happens without them,
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  Speaker 6: I honestly don't. I know. There's a financial incentive here.
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  Speaker 6: It's an investment opportunity for a lot of people that
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 6: have a lot more money than we do. But the
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  Speaker 6: I mean you mentioned the infectious enthusiasm that comes from
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  Speaker 6: the fan base, and I mean it when I tell you, Chuck,
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  Speaker 6: I don't know of any other city in America, North America,
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  Speaker 6: Canada that has hung onto this dream for as long
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  Speaker 6: as we have and not let this go. I know
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  Speaker 6: I've mentioned simply Seattle a couple of times. Jamie Munson,
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 6: the owner, I was talking to him the other day.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 6: His entire business was built on the backs of Sonic fans. Actually,
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 6: he created this sports empire because of the dream of
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 6: getting this basketball team back.
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  Speaker 5: Man.
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  Speaker 6: So it's pretty amazing how this fan base has hung
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  Speaker 6: in there and now they're about to be freaking repaid.
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  Speaker 1: You're the man. Thank you very much. Have a great
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: show today, I boy and girl, Pip, Yes, David Softy,
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: mall of joining us here on the radio program. And
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: so Leah, I mean look, I mean, everybody's gonna have
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: different reactions to it. It's a little bit of an
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: odd thing to react to, and you are entitled to
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: whatever your reaction is. But whatever you do, please don't
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  Speaker 1: doubt that flame that I just heard.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, well, don't tulls anyone.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let him Let that Sonic fan that has been
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: waiting for this for eighteen years, and even though they
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: feel just as jilted and angry as you do about
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: having this taken away from them in their lifetime, that
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: person exists out there that is treating this as I've
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: been waiting for this. I have shed tears over this
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  Speaker 1: as a grown ass man, and here I am, eighteen
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: years later, ready to celebrate. I think they're back, and
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: I can't wait to go through the process of getting
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: them back these last few stages. So just don't blow
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: out that guy's candle. Please. You know, however you feel
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: about it is your space. But don't blow out that
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: guy's candle. Because I love hearing that. Yeah, I do too.
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  Speaker 3: And yet there's people that are going to try to
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 3: just tell somebody, I mean, that they're wrong for being
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 3: as excited as they possibly are. I mean, I get
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 3: to some degree, actually said her stomach kind of fluttered, obviously.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 3: I think I don't even know what fluttered on Softy everything,
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 3: everything fluttered on him. Mine became a little bit more like,
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 3: oh my god, we're over over that hurdle and now
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 3: just one more hurdle. Almost a little bit of anxiety
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 3: because of it. And yet I'm I'm pretty much in
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 3: the boat of I think it's going to happen. And
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 3: yet now it's just your one step away, one final step,
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 3: and it's going to take a minute for you know,
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 3: everybody to kind of get their bids in and for
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 3: the NBA to choose. But I'm feeling about as good
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 3: as possible, and yet now it's like being right on
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 3: the doorstep of it. It brings a little bit more
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 3: anxiety to me.
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  Speaker 7: I just love that he yelled I'm fired for me,
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 7: and I was like, yeah, you should be.
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  Speaker 2: Get it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he deserves a pat on the butt too, by
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: the way, he's got hard to get back and very vocal. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we don't wright gonna pat each other on the backs
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: for this thing. We're gonna pat each other on the butts.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: You have to say good game after that. I hope
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: everyboy understand. So you will get in trouble, all right.
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: Joining us next on the program, and you know, there's
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: a thought that we just go all sunics till the
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: end of the show here today, But we do have
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: Al Koniski on the radio program, and we now look like,
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: for the first time ever, are going to have basketball
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: and professional hockey in the town at the exact same time,
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  Speaker 1: so I think I'd like to hear Al's perspective on that,
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  Speaker 1: and we can talk about the Kraken and their state
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: of affairs as well, So we'll do that next on
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  Speaker 1: Chucking Buck Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.