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Furness Show 6-9: Joe Sheehan, John Lund, Mariners · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: Mariners tonight or today taking on the Twins or the
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  Speaker 1: Orioles again. Sorry, three thirty five got to win last night.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get into that in a second, because Andrews did
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  Speaker 1: a postcast, we get his thoughts on that. But Munoz
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  Speaker 1: comes in redeems himself. Josh Naylor grand slam one of
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  Speaker 1: the most adventurous outings ever for a relief pitcher with
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  Speaker 1: Matt Brash. Let's hit, a couple of guys walk, a
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  Speaker 1: couple of guys look like you walk in or no.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're gonna go ahead, and my guy, my favorite
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  Speaker 1: player not named Josh Naylor, Johnny Parreeda, We're gonna go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and appeal that good thing. This is why you
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  Speaker 1: keep your appeals, and you don't, you don't start appealing
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  Speaker 1: balls and strikes in the first, second, or third innings,
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  Speaker 1: gets a good one, Brash gets a strikeout and then
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  Speaker 1: gets out of the inning somehow. So really just a
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  Speaker 1: wild kind of game in that regard. But they bounce
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  Speaker 1: back get the win against the Baltimore team that had
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  Speaker 1: been doing well, had been getting a lot hotter lately,
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  Speaker 1: so it's a nice way to start off a four
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  Speaker 1: game series with that win. So we'll get into more
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  Speaker 1: of that a little bit in just a couple of seconds.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Shean's gonna join us, coming up at one to twenty.
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  Speaker 1: He's with weekly visit. Love talking to Joe. Always fun
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  Speaker 1: to get his thoughts on what's going on in the
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  Speaker 1: world of baseball. So that's coming up at one twenty,
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  Speaker 1: and then John Lunn just confirmed he will be here
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  Speaker 1: allegedly at two pm. I sent hup a picture of
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  Speaker 1: our little our little room that we do and listen,
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  Speaker 1: we joke about the room, the closet. It's a room
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  Speaker 1: here at the Virginia Mason Athletics Center that's it used
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  Speaker 1: to have all kinds of old media guides and all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: That's cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but now they've cleaned it out. It's just like
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  Speaker 1: a room. It's an empty You've been out here, it's
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  Speaker 1: an empty room. Yeah. And so I took a picture
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  Speaker 1: of it once and Len was like giving me grief,
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  Speaker 1: and then he just told me that when he was
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  Speaker 1: working for the forty nine ers flagship station K and BR,
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  Speaker 1: they put them in a room that was like if
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  Speaker 1: the wives came and stuff. They did their show, and
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  Speaker 1: so there were like kids toys, and diaper station and.
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  Speaker 2: All that stuff there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't say anything to him, but I was
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  Speaker 1: kind of thinking it was probably appropriate for who and
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  Speaker 1: what he is.
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  Speaker 2: Oh there you get different.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hey, coming up at about twelve twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: this guy is going to join us.
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  Speaker 3: Second goal down by ten. That ball was tipped, I think,
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  Speaker 3: picked off.
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  Speaker 4: The hands of McCaffrey and into the arms.
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  Speaker 3: Of Drake Thomas.
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  Speaker 1: Drake Thomas is going to join us, coming up at
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  Speaker 1: twelve twenty five in the In a year of big plays,
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  Speaker 1: Rashid she Heat had a couple, I mean you just
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  Speaker 1: go through them, especially and I'm thinking big plays especially
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  Speaker 1: in the you know that game, final game of the
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  Speaker 1: regular season, the game before that with the Rams, or
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  Speaker 1: two weeks I guess it was two weeks before that's
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  Speaker 1: Carolina before the Rams game, just the final what four
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  Speaker 1: weeks of the season, including the playoffs before the super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl where the Super Bowl had big plays but they
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  Speaker 1: didn't need him because they just boat raced them.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: That Drake Thomas interception ranks pretty high up there.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I kind of almost forget. I don't know
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  Speaker 5: if this is true for all the other Seahawks fans.
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  Speaker 5: I almost forget that the Seahawks, as dominant as they
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  Speaker 5: were for the majority of the season and in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 5: if they had lost that game to the forty nine ers,
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  Speaker 5: which until that play it was very much in question.
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  Speaker 5: If they had lost that game, they wouldn't have won
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  Speaker 5: the division, they wouldn't have gotten the first round by
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  Speaker 5: they wouldn't have had home field advantage, and that could
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  Speaker 5: have changed for everything in the playoffs. So that's a
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  Speaker 5: huge play in the season.
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  Speaker 1: It was a massive, massive play. I mean it you
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  Speaker 1: just you I mean yeah, in terms of all the
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  Speaker 1: different things that happened, that was that was right up there.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that was a guy that was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: undrafted free agent released by Vegas in August of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three, claimed off waivers, placed on the ir that
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  Speaker 1: same year by Seattle and then has re signed and
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  Speaker 1: he's here and has just become a big part of
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  Speaker 1: what he's a starting player. Yeah, great example of Mike McDonald.
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  Speaker 1: Just you just do your thing. If you're I don't
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  Speaker 1: care who you are, where you're draft or anything else,
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  Speaker 1: just you play. Uh. And and he did that. He
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  Speaker 1: did that, and and just as I mean the January third,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. That interception. You heard Joe buck on
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  Speaker 1: the call. They're down by ten, they're marching like that
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  Speaker 1: was a massive play for Seattle. I think he's a
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  Speaker 1: great story. He's listed at five eleven two twenty eight.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not five eleven might be pushing it, but I
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  Speaker 1: mean he's built a lot more like a safety, but
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  Speaker 1: he's an inside linebacker that just goes out and just
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  Speaker 1: balls out. Man. I just I'm a fan of his.
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  Speaker 1: And so yeah, well, I we'll have Drake come in
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  Speaker 1: here coming up about twelve twenty five and talk to him.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get into stores be a little bit more. God,
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  Speaker 1: there's so much hypocrisy, so much the hypocrisy of all
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  Speaker 1: these And I have to preface this by saying, in
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  Speaker 1: no way, I don't think the guys should be allowed
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  Speaker 1: to play period in a story. But the hypocrisy from
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  Speaker 1: some of these other conferences and schools in college sports
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  Speaker 1: that we're not going to schedule you, We're not ever
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  Speaker 1: gonna play you again, blah blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 2: Really this is where you draw the line.
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  Speaker 1: Really, Georgia, let me Georgia, Like, like, I just I'm
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  Speaker 1: just gonna go to the DMV and look at your
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  Speaker 1: driving record, Georgia. Ye, like, and it's it's tragic, it's horrible,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's despicable, but you're gonna draw the line there.
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  Speaker 3: Ye.
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  Speaker 1: Part of it is there's been a jealousy factor of
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  Speaker 1: Texas Tech for a while, and it's it's stretched over
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  Speaker 1: three sports, specifically men's basketball, football obviously, and even softball,
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  Speaker 1: where they're spending money like nobody's business. And all those
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  Speaker 1: folks that used to be able to do all that
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  Speaker 1: and outspend you and one hundred dollars handshakes, whatever it
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  Speaker 1: was in the SEC and the Big Ten, they're like,
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  Speaker 1: wait a second, man, we got a new kid in
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  Speaker 1: town and he's breaking the rules. The problem was is
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  Speaker 1: Texas Tech made it very easy for everyone to go
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  Speaker 1: after him. And and we'll get into that a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more coming up at at at one o'clock before
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  Speaker 1: we talked to Joe Sheen. But real quick thought, Sanders
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  Speaker 1: Mirrors game last night, nice little bounce back from Munno's
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  Speaker 1: nailed with the Big Bomb obviously to get things going
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  Speaker 1: with the Grand Slam, which was awesome. You know, Hancock
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  Speaker 1: didn't have his best He wiggled out of a couple
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  Speaker 1: of jams, bassis loaded, and Alonso just gets the one
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  Speaker 1: run on a sackfly. So and then I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what Brash was up to. That was an adventure.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was interesting because I think there might have
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  Speaker 5: been some humidity stuff with grips, because both Emerson Hancock
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  Speaker 5: and Matt Brash could not throw their sliders last Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: so maybe it's just something going on with that. I
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  Speaker 5: don't know if it's a coincidence or whatever, but both
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  Speaker 5: of them end up kind of struggling but getting through it.
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  Speaker 5: So to speak to Pete Carroll, he got through it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, God, that's one of the great lines of
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  Speaker 1: all time.
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  Speaker 5: It is right, except in this case, they actually did
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  Speaker 5: get through it.
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  Speaker 2: And you know that was Brash last night, finally got
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  Speaker 2: through it. It's true, It's true. That's exactly what Pete
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  Speaker 2: Carroll would say too.
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  Speaker 5: I do also have an update from Tacoma, and you're asking,
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  Speaker 5: why what are we getting updates?
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  Speaker 1: They played a day game today.
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  Speaker 2: They are playing a.
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  Speaker 5: Day game, and your favorite catcher, the not the little dumper,
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  Speaker 5: but the big dumper, just stayed a home run.
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  Speaker 1: So well, my favorite catcher is Johnny Parado.
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  Speaker 2: Fair enough, fair enough there, here's.
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  Speaker 1: The other catcher. Uh cal oh, I've heard of him. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he hit a home run down there.
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  Speaker 5: He did hit a home run down there. So hopefully
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  Speaker 5: his rehab stint is going well. Looks looks healthier than
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  Speaker 5: he has been all years.
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  Speaker 1: So glad he got a game, man. I mean yeah,
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  Speaker 1: although it's sunny here in Rentin right now, like the
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  Speaker 1: skies have cleared. I was telling the guy from the
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  Speaker 1: NFL films, it's here. They got the whole crew out
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  Speaker 1: here today and they said they can practice outside. I go, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this dude, this dude, this guy's different. I said, if
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  Speaker 1: there was a couple drops in the air, Petez inside, right,
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  Speaker 1: Pete's like, I'm done, man, We're not inside.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got this beautiful indoor practice facility. Why would
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  Speaker 1: I be outside. I'm inside this cat. We talked about
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  Speaker 1: this last week with Sundell, right with Jaylen Sundell. It's
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  Speaker 1: like this, I said, you guys, he goes, We're not
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  Speaker 1: practicing a side. It's just it's this guy, Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 1: and I love it because you know what, last I checked,
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  Speaker 1: there's not a roof Atlumenfield, so you may have some
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  Speaker 1: weather every now. Yeah, so, yeah, they're outside but but
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, it's sunny outside right now here. It was
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  Speaker 1: about five minutes ago and I was outside checking things out.
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  Speaker 1: So yes, we got a lot going on today. We'll
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  Speaker 1: get maybe in a touch base more than the Mariners
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  Speaker 1: coming up in a second. But I'm excited. We talked
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  Speaker 1: to Drake Thomas a couple of times last year via
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  Speaker 1: the phone and from practice when we were in the
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  Speaker 1: studio and he was out here. I haven't had a
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  Speaker 1: chance to talk to him in person, so I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to doing that again. I just think it just
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  Speaker 1: a great story. I drafted free agent and he's twenty
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  Speaker 1: six years old, he's you know, four seasons in now
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL and a guy that frankly was a
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  Speaker 1: difference maker for Seattle last season. And loved the story,
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  Speaker 1: liked the player, like the grit, and probably what you
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  Speaker 1: would define as a Mike McDonald type of guy, because
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  Speaker 1: when again, when you look at him, doesn't fit the
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  Speaker 1: bill of an NFL inside linebacker in terms of size
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  Speaker 1: and wait and all that, but you know, what he
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  Speaker 1: does makes place. And he's got a ring that says
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  Speaker 1: super Bowl Champion on it. Yeah, well so well, we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk to Drake Thomas coming up in a second. Much
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  Speaker 1: All right back of the Virginia Mason Athletics Center, Seahawk
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  Speaker 1: We're here, Softy and Fain doing their show here as well. Today.
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  Speaker 1: They'll have a guest after practice. I'll have a guest
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  Speaker 1: before practice. Drake Thomas is scheduled to join us here
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: in a few minutes, so we'll check in with the
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: Seahawks starting inside a linebacker. Should be a fun little
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: conversation with him, Andrews. I do we have news from
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  Speaker 1: our friend Daniel Kramer MLB dot com.
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: Give me it, Give it to me.
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: JP. Crawford said he underwent a CT scan this morning
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: for his right hand intusion. The ms are still awaiting
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  Speaker 1: the results on Okay, I don't buy that they know
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  Speaker 1: what the results are, right quay? He still can't grip
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: a bat, but swelling has subsided sum Okay, he wants
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: to remain with the team instead of returning to Seattle.
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: So I'm assuming that they're doing a CT scan. The
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  Speaker 1: X rays are negative, right, they must have X raisers
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  Speaker 1: were negative.
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  Speaker 5: But like you said, they would have. I feel like
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  Speaker 5: they would have told us if there was like a
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  Speaker 5: broken bone or something.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Well, the CT scan then it's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's it deeper in there, and yeah, who knows what
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  Speaker 1: they're doing there, So we'll we'll find out. It's funny,
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  Speaker 1: le we talked so much last night or yesterday beforehand
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  Speaker 1: about Young playing shortstop. Hadn't played. He played two innings
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  Speaker 1: to shortstop last season, right in a blowout game against Oakland,
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  Speaker 1: I think.
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  Speaker 2: It was, but the majority of his minor league days were.
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  Speaker 1: There, but he hadn't played. But he had not played
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  Speaker 1: since last year, right, And he did know, in fairness,
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  Speaker 1: played some spring he played short stop the spring TRAINK. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you had a bunch of innings there.
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  Speaker 7: Good.
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  Speaker 1: He only had one ball hit to him all night.
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  Speaker 2: That's funny.
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  Speaker 1: He had one ball hit to him all night long,
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  Speaker 1: and and field of cleanly as you would expect and
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: where you go. But yep, but he was clear the
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  Speaker 1: bratch thing, man, I swear that was Listen, I miss
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: the Fernando Rodney experience just because it was so highly entertaining.
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  Speaker 1: But that's sure had a Fernando Rodney experience feel to it, did.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's more just like bullpen experience, Like I
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  Speaker 5: think we kind of almost expect fans of.
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  Speaker 2: And this isn't just marin Er fans, this is all teams.
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  Speaker 5: They expect their bullpens to be perfect every single time
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  Speaker 5: they go out there, right, And the reality of the
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  Speaker 5: position is that they have one inning to pitch when
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  Speaker 5: they do every couple of days, and you know, starters
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  Speaker 5: have a bad inning every now and then, and because
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  Speaker 5: they have longer sample sizes, people kind of forget about
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  Speaker 5: that bad inning, right because they pitch three other good
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  Speaker 5: innings after that.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 5: You just don't see that in bullpens, and especially when
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  Speaker 5: you're pitching in high leverage situations, and especially when you're
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  Speaker 5: being brought on with guys on base, so one bad
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  Speaker 5: inning could mean the difference between a win and a loss.
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  Speaker 5: So I mean it's to me, I don't have any
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  Speaker 5: worries about Matt Brash, I don't have as many worries
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  Speaker 5: about Munios as a lot of other people do.
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  Speaker 2: He looks sharp yesterday, by the way.
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  Speaker 5: Funny how that works when he doesn't have five days
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  Speaker 5: off in between pitching and he looks okay, It's funny.
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  Speaker 5: Just why don't they continue to do that? I feel
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  Speaker 5: like the Mariage Bullpen's in a better position than a
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  Speaker 5: lot of other people do.
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  Speaker 2: But that's just me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I listen outside of the stress that people were
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  Speaker 1: having about about the what you might call about Munyo's
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  Speaker 1: the other day, and I think we did a good
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  Speaker 1: job yesterday of kind of going through that a little
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  Speaker 1: bit with what was going on, you know, with with
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  Speaker 1: the lack of use.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, that.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna I'll take the body of work from Muno's
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  Speaker 1: and suffer through a few bad addings along the way. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'll take the body of work and kind of trust that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And I don't even think that even if he's not
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  Speaker 5: as good as he was the last couple of years,
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  Speaker 5: I don't think that is the case. But even if
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  Speaker 5: that is the case and he's not as good as
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  Speaker 5: he was recently, I'm still okay because I feel good
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  Speaker 5: about the other guys. I feel good about Brash, I
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  Speaker 5: feel great about Freir Bizarro has been great. Spires look fantastic.
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  Speaker 5: Like you have five high leverage guys in your bullpen
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  Speaker 5: that you feel good about. This is why it's frustrating
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  Speaker 5: when you try and get multiple innings out of Cooper
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  Speaker 5: Chris Swell in a winning situation. Because you have five
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  Speaker 5: guys that are good, use them, you don't. You don't
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  Speaker 5: have to worry about saving them for specific situations. And
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  Speaker 5: if that means using munios before the ninth inning, great,
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  Speaker 5: use it right Well.
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  Speaker 1: And Chris Well, Chris Well's a guy that should unless
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  Speaker 1: you're just you've taxed it over two or three days, right,
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  Speaker 1: he should not be in a high leverage situation, right,
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  Speaker 1: as simple as that.
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  Speaker 5: And he was great in the sixth inning, but then
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  Speaker 5: they put him out for the seventh too.
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  Speaker 3: What are we doing?
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  Speaker 1: You got these guys, but you know what, And we
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  Speaker 1: talked about Munyo's bouncing back. Chris Well bounced back yesterday too.
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  Speaker 1: He did, you know, absolutely he did, and so and
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  Speaker 1: so you know, I mean, I think it was By
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  Speaker 1: the way, Miles master Bony is now there for the
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  Speaker 1: taxi squad as well. Oh boy, as is Nick Devilia,
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  Speaker 1: who's a starting pitcher.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he spent some time in the bullpen this year.
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  Speaker 1: He'll he'll be a bullpen guy, but he's been started
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  Speaker 1: down into call my book. So so those two guys
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  Speaker 1: are there, so bullpen doesn't If you start over using
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  Speaker 1: the bullpen, you gotta have a guy there anyway. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Chris Well probably would be that guy's pitch two days
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  Speaker 1: in a row, right, so they're probably figuring that out.
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  Speaker 1: The master Bony thing obviously a guy that can play.
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  Speaker 1: He's a utility guy, you know. With with Emerson being
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  Speaker 1: scratched yesterday, I didn't see yet they do have it.
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  Speaker 2: Out on back tightness was the reason why.
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  Speaker 1: Back back again? Who hasn't had that rollless leads off today?
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  Speaker 1: Rodriguez a Rosarina Naylor ref Snyder wisdom. Third, that means
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  Speaker 1: Young's at short so you have Emerson, Hank Cold. Emerson's
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  Speaker 1: out again today, yeah, is so Bliss is back at
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: second uh and Young's at shortstop. So they were really
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: shorthanded yesterday on the infield.
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: So like I mean, I guy with Master Bony there, yeah, and.
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: With Garber catching. Garber is a guy that an emergency
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: situation can play like he's taking grounders at third yesterday. Okay,
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: I know we don't want to see that.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: But they're down, like they're down to nobody right if
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: Emerson can't go, So they're they're a little bit thin there,
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: So Master Bony's there to figure stuff out. It's back tightness.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: I got you and I both have back tightness.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: Every day, man, every time I hold my almost four
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: month old.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: I was gonna get in this all week. I'll get
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: into it now because I was gonna do it a
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: little bit later. So I watched the NBA Finals.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: Oh boy, this is not confession.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah maybe yeah, bless me father for ives. And yes,
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: bless me father for I and I did watch the
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: NBA Finals last night. You really, It's it's easier because
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: it's there's no Oklahoma City, right and the spectacle of
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden, the spectacle of you know, the president,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: the sitting president being there behind bulletproof class and MSG,
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: which is pretty funny, pretty wild. Getting booed and then
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: telling everybody afterwards is my favorite thing. I heard a
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: lot of cheers, ar al cheering from me. No, they
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: were booing.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: We heard it on the broadcast.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: But I don't know if they're booing you or James Dolan,
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: who you're saying it's fair enough, fair enough. It couldn't
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: been either one, not the most popular guy. I don't
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: care about about the Orange man. I care about Dolan.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: I don't like because he doesn't want expansion. Yeah that's
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: the other thing. So are you rooting for the Spurs
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: because of that? Yes?
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, the Spurs knocked out?
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, See there's two reasons Spurs knocked out. Okay. See,
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: so forever we're we're indebted to them, much like we
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: are to our good friend Damian Lillard yep uh and
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: number two James. Yeah. So if I was there, I'm booing.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: But I don't care about the president. I'm booing the
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: guy next to him, Moon James Dolan. I like because
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: James Dolan does not want expansion. Uh. But yeah, I
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: watched last night. God it's I have a hard time
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: with the product. And what I mean by that is
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: the officiating is awful. Like it's just it's so bad.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: It it easily and I know we're all gonna make
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: fun to see Buckner and other guys in baseball and
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: with maybe worse.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: I think it's way worse.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: I think it's way worse than baseball. Yeah, way worse.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, if i'm you know, we want to listen.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: NFL officials I think, for the most part do.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: A hell of a job, really good.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: I really, I think they do a hell of a job.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: I think it's in god, football players, bigger, stronger, faster
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: than ever before. Yeah, and but I mean football players
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: football officials. I wish they were full time. I think
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: it would take a lot of the questions about things out.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: I think you would have guys that are more physically
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: able to do the job as opposed to guys that
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: are sixty and fifty five and what have you. But
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: that aside, football does a great job. Hockey I think
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: is remarkable calling off side by a lignsman. And yeah,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: they'll miss one every now and then we'll get the appeal.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: I think you agree with me, Andrews. I watch it
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: live a lot. That's my job. It's it's remarkable how
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: good those guys are.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Oh absolutely.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: And then the fitness, the skate, I mean, those guys
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: don't get a shift off. They're just kidding the whole time.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: It's like, it's pretty remarkable. They do a great job,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: and they just do a great job. They don't miss
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: a lot. That's why you don't see a lot of
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: you know, guys going for challenges in hockey because obviously
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: there's one thing, there's a penalty. The NBA guys, the
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: lack of ability to call it travel is mind boggling
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: to me. Yeah, like it's a pivot foot. It's not
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: even taking three or four steps. It's the pivot foot
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: and shuffling around. But yet watching that game with the
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: skill levels just remarkable. Wemby's insane. Brunson struggled a little bit.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Castle was great for a Yukon star. Yeah, I watch
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: and I'll listen. I'll be honest with you.
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we're still waiting to get back from Ian. Looks
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: like he might have had some connection and connection issues
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: down on Seahawks OTAs. We'll take a quick break, come back.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: Hopefully we'll have Drake Thomas sitting down with Ian by
• 18:54
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• 18:56
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• 19:01
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• 19:05
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• 19:08
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• 19:12
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• 19:16
  Speaker 1: All right, we're back sort of. Uh this is what
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: you would call god. You know what we should be
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: used to by now anders backup power.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we should be used to that.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Oh man, let me express my frustration on the line
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: radio for a second. Oh Ry Thomas just came in.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: He's a good dude, really good dude. I wish you
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: guys could have we had a good conversation while I'm
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: trying to figure out how to get back on the radio.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: He's a really good dude. I'm just tell you that
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: right now.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Good guy, I'll take you away, Fardian, but he'll But.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: He did say he goes hey, man, he get he
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: was really he said he told me And I didn't
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: even know. Nobody knew what happened. There's a power surge
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: or outage here. Oh really the Virginia Mason Netflix Center.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: So it wasn't out It wasn't us. Really that was
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: the issue. Well it's still us because our machine now
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: is like zapped, like it just I think it just
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: got fried. I think something. I think there was like
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: a like a ballistic missile that came in through it
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: and just crushed it.
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: Electromagnetic pole scene is what it's called. Yeah, because it's.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Just dead like it's not doesn't it's looking at me
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: and giving me the middle finger. So we're on a
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: little backup plan. Luckily, I Andrews. How about this I
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: planned in advance just in case.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Well done.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So I brought some stuff in. Softy is on
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: his way. He's got some other equipment, so hopefully that
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: stuff is is going to be better than what we
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: have here that's just doesn't want to seem to work.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: But he sounds here. Yeah, yeah, hey, here we.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Are man back. Like I said, for people don't know,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: we had a we had a fire at our building
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: at on Elliott Avenue a month ago. Now, yeah, a
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: month or two months ago. It's been a while, yeah,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Like And it was a Friday, It was like two
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: forty in the afternoon. Were you there that day? I
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: was not.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: It was a day off off.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So we were on the airs, like we're going
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: into we're in the middle of text messages at four
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: nine four five one, And in the middle of the
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: text messages, we were were cruising along and the fire
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: alarms going off and the whole time and we're just
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: fighting through it. And this has happened in that building
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: a handful of times since we moved in there about
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: twelve thirteen years ago. And the last time we were
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: on the old side, remember Kevin and I shock. He
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: was doing the show. Kevin out of there and we're like,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: should we leave? And this is the this is my
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: favorite purple sheet story, one of my favorite purple sheet stories,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: just many this was a good one. He comes in
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: and says, no, you guys are fine, just stay here.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Lights are going, like, the lights are flashing all this stuff. No,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: you guys, find just stay on the air. So we
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: did for a few minutes and then they finally say, hey,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: you guys got to get out of here. So Kevin
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: flips it over to Fox Sports Radio. We go downstairs.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: We were downstairs like it was in the middle of
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: the show, right, and it was like ten minutes, like
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: ten minutes or so, and we're there downstairs and then
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: uh and then they said, Okay, it's all clear, you
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: can go back up, and so we did finish. The
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: show was fine. So when this happened a month ago
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: at our at our station. It was Jess and I
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: and it's going off and just kind of got just
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, we gotta go, we gotta go. And
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I'm like, nah, this has happened before, and it's happened
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: to a couple other times. Yeah, like now we're fine.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: That a lot of fireway going off, you know. But
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: the power went out initially, and then the fire alarm
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: went off, which was a little different when we had
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: the When we had the one where Kevin and I did,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: there was no there was no power outages. It's a
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: fire alarm started going on. This time, fuck power outage surge.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: We have backup generators, so we kind of were off
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: for like a second and we're back on and then
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: about thirty seconds later the fire alarms go off and
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: we're like, okay, we'll just power through this. In fact,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: to the point of I was like, I can't wait
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: till crosstalk because there's a guy that how would you describe.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: Him, Uh, the one Dave Softie Maller.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, with something that like that going on, like, yeah,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: fire alarms going off, things like.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: He was one of two things. It depends on how
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: severe the situation is. If if it's something he can
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: joke about, he will joke about it and make it
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: a whole thing. If it's not something to joke about
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: and it affects him personally, that's when he starts freaking out.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: And he now here's a funny thing. He was at
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Jimmy's that day.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: He was right here.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: We weren't even sure we get him on the air.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: But we're sitting there and Jess's like, we gotta go,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: we gotta we got we gotta go, we gotta go.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: And is that me? No, okay, you don't hear that
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: right now?
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: No?
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: I didn't.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Good, Yeah, okay, good. I have a YouTube video playing
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: on because I'm doing this so again we're doing this
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: sooth computer right now, so that stuff playing in my
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: ear anyway. We h So Jess like, we gotta go,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: we gotta go, Like, no, no, we're good man, we're good.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: We're all right. This happened before. Yeah, and then finally
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Rich goes gotta gotta gomes gotta go,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: all right, makes you it might have been Marshall new
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: g might have been new boss Man Marshall. Yeah, And
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I'm like, are we sure? And I looked at the clock,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: and it was like two forty and I'm like, well,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: by the time we get downstairs, and by the time
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: we get back upstairs, even if it's just like the
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: ten minutes, my week is done.
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: So I grabbed my stuff, let's get at them, and
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: I went down. We did walk down the four flights
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: of stairs get down there. In fact, then I walked
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: down next too. I'm in I'm in the pot bottom
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: parking level, Andrews I was. I'm like, now I got
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: down there and there was smoke there. Oh, now it
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: was weird smoke, electrical smoke. I guess you don't see yah. Yeah,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: but I'm thinking that's probably not good. So I jumped
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: and I don't want to lose my car because I'm
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: sure that insurance claim would take like months if he
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: like the Brendan sores be uh the Brendon stores be
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: appeal processed, like I'd still I'd still be waiting for
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: it right now. So I just I jumped in the car,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: pulled out and like everyone's out there from the whole building. Yeah, yeah,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I think I talked to I talked. I talked to
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: the firefighter like through lieutenant was there and He's like
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: what's going on down there? I go, it's smoking. Oh
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: there's smoked, Yeah, there is he is. Then he asked
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: when he asked me if the cracknery to get their
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: blank together and and if the Mariners are going to
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: get their blank together, because at the time, end of
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: the cracking season and boughtit starting and then the Mariners
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: were scuffling at the time. Yeah, I said, I don't know, dude,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: are you going to put the fire out?
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: He says?
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: He says, I don't know. I guess we're both. We
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: both were both kind of He's a good dude. So
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: I just pulled out and went home. I just said
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: I'm out of here, and I was gone. And then
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: I turned on the radio and listened to Fox Sports
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Radio until they flip softly on and with no commercials.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: It was fantastic. So yeah, we're used to this stuff.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: So yeah, now it now it happens at the one
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: place I think it would never happen at, right at
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: the Virgin Yeah, but only but they have backup power too,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: so it only affected some things like our our little unit,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: which is just it's again, it's giving me the middle
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: finger right now.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: It's still not turning on.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Huh, it just doesn't. It doesn't like it.
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: I mean, power serious probably aren't good for those little
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: com Rex units.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: But no, they're probably not, especially when the power the
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Comerce unit's older than me and I'm almost sixty one,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's good. Uh just figured I was talking.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: I was talking Seahawks a minute ago right now or NBA,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: I should say NBA. Uh before we left, and we're
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: talking about the fishing. So once I get past the
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: officiating how bad it is, I'm watching the game itself.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: And honestly, I'm watching this as a critical eye. And
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: by no means am I. I don't know what basketball
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: guy is. Like Football's got all twenty two guys. Soccer's
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: got formation guy, yep, Jackson, Hockey's got analytical guy, and
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: and and baseball same thing. Yeah, I don't know what
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: basketball is, but basketball has that guy, right, So I'm
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: not that guy. I'm not mister mister Basketball. I'm not
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: breaking down the lock is that guy? Actually they do
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: have a lot. They do have a lot of nerd
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: stats because Lock when I every time I talk to
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: him or listen to what of was Locked on Jazz podcast?
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Is lock a nerd, nerd stat guy for basketball.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: He was.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: He was like Joe Shian he was. He was. He
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: was on the ground floor of nerdiness. Great is what
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: he was doing. I appreciate that. Yeah, so he's all
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: into it. I'm not that guy. I watched the game.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: I enjoy the game. I was lucky enough to cover
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: the game in Salt Lake and part of their broadcast
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: crew for a while with the Jazz, even though I
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: hate them as a Sonic fan. Same thing with the
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Blazers did Blazer TV for a long time. I've covered
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: the NBA for a long time. I hadn't watched it
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: the last few years. I kind of let it go.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I'm watching last night. Outside of when you get past
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: the fact that Wemby is incredible and just he's He's
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: a unicorn. That's what he is like, He's just a unicorn,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: and his ability to handle the ball and everything else.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: The one thing that just I have a hard time
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: with with this league is just so much isolation. It's
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: just so much like one guy touches the ball on
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: an offensive set, you know, and it's just it's But
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: as I'm watching the game, a couple of things jumped
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: out outside of the officiating being bad, the skill level
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: is just incredible. Like when the Sonics come back here,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: what these guys were able to do with their size,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Like you know, Dale Ellis was like a six to
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: seven three point shooter. He was remarkable and I still think,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: and I'll I'll fight you if I have to, Ray
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Allen Fans, I think Dale Ellis is the best three
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: point shooter we've had in cel, pure three point shooter
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: we've had in sel. He was sensational and I know
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: the numbers don't of all time dale as Dale was
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: crazy good. Yeah, and he was kind of a he
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: was kind of different for his generation because he was
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: built more like a kind of a more of a
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: he was a shooting guard, but he's kind of built
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: like a small forward, and in that NBA he's actually
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: almost built like a power forward, like he's a little
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: bigger next was and actually a power forward sometimes and
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: not all the times. Sometimes he played three. But you
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: get my point. The skill level is there. The skill
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: level now is unbelievable. What guys were able to do
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: in terms of shooting the basketball. And we see that
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: even at the college level, Like the college game is
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: so much better than it used to be, and even
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: with guys being younger and leaving the league, it's just
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: it's just way, way better. But watching that game last night,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: I was, you know, you asking him who was rooting for.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I was a little bit torn, and only for this reason.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: I hate Dolan. But the quote long suffering Nick fans
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: they have been suffering from.
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: If there is a long suffering fan base in the NBA,
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: it's probably them.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: And here's the thing with them. The Spurs have won
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: a lot. So I am a little bit torn, like
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: I feel like I owe the Spurs and four nine
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: four or five to one on the Tacoma Dodge text line.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: You can tell me your thoughts on this. I feel
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: like I owe the Spurs a little bit because of
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City and knocking them out. And I do like
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: watching wenby play. I love watching Castle, but I like
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: watching him in college too. I like him, but and
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: obviously Mitch Johnson, Seattle Kid, O Day Kid and all
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: those things. But here's the thing enters with them. They
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: they they being the Spurs. They've been a remarkably blessed franchise.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, to go.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Through who they like, the guys that they've been able
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: that they acquired via the draft over the years. Specifically,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: they're three bigs from Robinson to Duncan to this guy.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Like nobody's had that kind of luck. No, you know,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: nobody has had that.
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: Kind of luck.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: And they've done a good job building around them too.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: They've done a good.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Job building They've done a great job building around them, Mike,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: no mistake. Yeah, but they've they've been kind of handed
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: some stuff a couple of times through a true tank
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: in the crack. They don't exist in hockey. There's like
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: they're generator seriously, like generational players, Like you don't first
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: of all, they're you're drafting a seventeen year old, so
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: you don't know unless it's maybe it's Celebrini. But Dard
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: is behind Celebrini. I think I agree with that. Right there,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Schaeffer's there, and I didn't. We all thought he'd be good,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: not that good. But he's a defenseman. He's cal mccarr right,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: hard to find, it hard to find. And plus it's
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: he's one of eighteen on the ice on the given night,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: like one of five. It's hard. But then I'm watching
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: the Knicks and this is where I turned back and
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I said, Ian, stick with your guns, and here are
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: my guns. At this point, I just like every Tom Dick,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Harry celeb, non celeb, former player, former, this former that
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: I want to be somebody. It's worse than a Lakers.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Game that haven't watched a game all year.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and like where are the regular fans. They're not there.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: They're they're having a riot in a park down the
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: street because they couldn't have it outside, which they did,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: by the way, have a riot. And so the fact that, Okay,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Knicks fans, you want to have a riot, you want
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: to do all those things, you do you And so
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: I found myself, Yes, let's get a Spurs win last night,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: which they did, and I still want to see more playoffs.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: I want to see seven in both series. So I'm
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: rooting hard for the Spurs tomorrow, even though they're somewhat pregradually.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: But the Knicks, God, the wanna be people. Spike Lee
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: thinks he's part of the team, Like you're the movie guy.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Has he made a movie lately?
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know if he does. I haven't heard about it.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Dudes like on the floor next to officials, like how
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: is that okay? Like all these things are going on.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: I'm just like losing my mind anyway totally. But yeah,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: my confession was I watched pretty much start to finish
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: the NBA Finals last night, So I'm coming around on it,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: coming around hard. They've They've done such a having inside
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: the NBA is way better because I remember last year
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: a little bit. Do you remember last year was Stephen A.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Smith that whole Yeah, just awful pre imposed game, just atrocious.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: I don't think you need Draymond Green, Like, I don't
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: think you need him part of it. I don't know
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: why he's there. Yeah, maybe I outside of preparing for
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Charles or Shack to walk away. Kenny Smith has never
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: said anything that makes any sense whatsoever. Else. He's like
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: the Magic john You ever see Magic Johnson's sweets.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, They're so funny.
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: It's like like the most obvious statements ever.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Kenny Smith is TV version of Magic. Like
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: It's just I love that He's just like he's like, yeah,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: well you know, they really they did good jobs.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: I kind of like Draymond because I don't like.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Him because he ripped on my man.
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: Charles's noting like that, and Chuck and Shack just give
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: each other crap the entire time, though they don't actually
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: analyze what's going on.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Draymond.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: There's no analyzing. There's no there is zero analyzing, like
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, there is zero, zero analyzing in that regard
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: as well. So anyway, that was it. Okay, we're gonna
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: try to see if we can figure stuff out here
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, well, we'll see how it goes. I
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: know this. Joe Shean will join us at one twenty two.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: John Lund will join us at two o'clock today. We
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: do have the backup connection going. I need a vacation.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Do you need a vacation?
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: I do, but I'm not gonna have one for another
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: month and a half.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: So cal Gon take me away. We'll take a break.
• 33:14
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  Speaker 1: quarterback Brendon Swersby's trial against the NCAA for February eighth,
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• 35:09
  Speaker 1: and then see what's going on. There's a lot of
• 35:11
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• 35:13
  Speaker 1: of things, not just hard power search. I just found out,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: I guess kCi is without power. Oh really Cracking Community
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• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, four four five is there, but we're in renting.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: That's a whole different thing. We're ps here. Yeah, so
• 35:29
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• 35:31
  Speaker 1: City lights. So is it that? Is it windy still?
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: It was wendy when I went out there.
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  Speaker 5: We're seeing white caps on the La BA right now,
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: so it is pretty windy at the moment.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so actually might be part of the that might
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: be part of the issue along the way. So anyway,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: we're here, we're hanging out. They like like ius have
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: backup power. So we're on for now, and uh, we'll
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: get to a Joe Sheen coming up at one twenty
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: talking all things baseball lund at two pm two day,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: coming up on the radio show. I wanted to get
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: back into Brendan Soresby for a second if I could. Andrews,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: I just this whole situation. And Stuart Mandel is going
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: to join us tomorrow on the show. Our College of
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: tomorrow there it is, okay, yeah, tomorrow tomorrow. Sun'll come
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: out tomorrow. He'll join us tomorrow on the show. He
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: wrote a great column last night that I read this morning.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: The great the headline just nails it. Brendan soores Be
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: playing college football is unconscionable. That's why Texas Tech is
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: the only happy party. And in fact, on the front
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: page of the Athletic it's a great this says. Everyone
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: loses in the Brendan Soarsby decision except shameless, shameless Andrews
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Texas Tech. Shameless Texas Tech. Yeah, so listen, there's a
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: lot of things going on here. One of the things,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: and let me just set this up again. It doesn't
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: matter what sport you play as an athlete, as a coach,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: as anybody involved in a program. Now we'll just use
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: the blanket term program. Whether it's an NFL team, staff, NHL, NBA,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, or major college athletics, where you can
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: wager on games, you just cannot do that. Now some
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: of them take it even further where you know, NCAA
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: athletes aren't allowed to wager on anything allegedly. Sure and
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: especially and you know, like I brought up the Iowa
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: guy at the Iowa lignement earlier and he bet on
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: like ten dollars. I'm Greg and I were talking about that,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: the ten dollars on the on the women's basketball team
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: at Iowa like betting his team to win, and in
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: theory it seems rather benign, right, doesn't seem like it's
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: a big deal. Soores me as a different thing. We'll
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: get back and in a second. But just use that
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: for example, Dan, if you think about it, there's a
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: reason you might be dating a girl on the team, right,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: and she might have she can't wager right on her
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: own team, but she might have inside information. Hey we
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: got three points out tonight, or the team we're playing,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: here's the video, Like I mean, you just it's it's
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: like insider trading. You have too much information. You work
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: for a team, like the guys here that work in
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: this building here, you're selling tickets. You can't bet on
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: the NFL. It's as simple as that. That's what you
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: work for them. You work for the crack and you
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: can't bet on the NHL. And there's reasons for that.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: You're privy the information and things that others are not.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: And most people, most people are able to just get
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: through it and not do it and just say, you
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: know what, perfect I won't I'm not gonna wager. I'm
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: not going to do that, And and that's that's the
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: way it should be. In Sorby's case. Sorsby's case, he
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: gambled on college sports, including his own team. Like Pete
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Rose was suspended for life. He had to literally die
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: before baseball led him in the Hall of Fame. Think
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, and he bet on his own team
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: to win, you know, and and really you think about it?
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Is that really that bat Well, Yes, you're still the manager,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: you control things, but it takes out all it takes.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: It takes out all in integrity of the game. If
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Sorsby plays this season, if he plays this season, every interception,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: every fumble, hell, I think you can make the argument
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: anders every decision he makes. It's third and goal from
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: the two yard line. It's a run pass option. He
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: rolls out to his right, He's got a running back
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: to his right. Who's there? He's going to It's a
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: walk in touchdown, but Sorsby instead takes it himself, gets hit, dies,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: but scores the touchdown. What's everybody gonna say, Sorsby had
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: himself over under one and a half, you know, zero
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: point five touchdowns, right, Yeah, Like, even good stuff that
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: happens is going to be questions. There's a reason you
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: can't bet. There's a reason you can't bet and nobody.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: As Stewart pointed out, he's the first known athlete in
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: a major sport to admit to gambling on his own
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: team and still be allowed to continue playing that sport.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: The worst part about this is this to me is
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: first of all, let's remember we brought this up yesterday.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's being discussed enough. This is not
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: a Texas Tech friendly judge in Lubbock. The judge is
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: a graduate of the University of Houston. Now, unless he
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: hates his alma mater, he gave him a two game
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: suspension and swersby will be able maybe to come back
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: and play against Houston. The original judge in the case
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: was from Texas Tech. He was a Texas Tech alum.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: He accused himself, so I can't be a part of this. Instead,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: they get a guy who's an alum of a different
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: school in your same conference, who you play in a
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: conference opener, and this guy which is crazy when you
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: think about it, Like I would have thought that the
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: judge was grease here Andrews. If the suspension would have
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: been for three games.
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: Right and it would have included the game versus Houston,
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: right Instead?
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Instead, He doesn't even do that. He just says, hey, listen, man.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: The fact that they're saying that at the end, what
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: was the actual result was you can't. We're not going
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: to suspend you. We're going to overturn that suspend because frankly,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: you just want to play college football and you have
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: an illness or an addiction, and that's you know what,
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: We're just going to kind of shake our head, move
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: away and say that's fine that you know, we feel
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: bad for you. There is it's a sympathy thing that
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: sores bees getting right. Everyone's sympathetic to addiction. Gambling addiction
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: is one that there's a lot of different theories on it.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: You know, it's it's not chemical induced, it's not an
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: illness like alcoholism or chemicals and things like that, but
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: it's in your brain. And we all know in mental
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: health awareness and everything else, those things do exist. So
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: we'll give him a pass there. But you know, other
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: people have lost their jobs and lost their ability to
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: do things because of addictions, and that's unfortunate. That's really unfortunate.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Helped Steve Sarkisian got fired for an alcohol addiction. He
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: was he was an alcoholic. He got fired from USC
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: because he was an alcoholic. He tried to file a lawsuit.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: He didn't win, he lost, he lost badly. So the
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: key here for Soresby is is this the tipping point
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: for the nc DOUAA. Is this some sort of tipping point,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: because literally the entire country is Stewart points down and
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: we'll talk to them tomorrow. The entire country is against
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: Texas Tech.
• 42:13
  Speaker 7: Now.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: I do believe that there is some anti Texas Tech
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: centiment out there that have been brewing.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: Sure, like you we.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: Talked about it a little bit yesterday. They have You know,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Nija Kennedy is the pitcher right that they paid a
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: million dollars to. They literally bought a softball team in
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: the last two years. Literally bought a softball team. Yeah,
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: like just bought a softball team because they wanted to
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: win and they were awful in softball in fast pitch,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: and they bought a fast pitch team, including the best pitcher.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: There's a girl that just went in the portal today
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: or yesterday from Florida State. She's the top portal now
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: person in the country. Everyone thinks, well, if she's going
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: to Texas Tech, because they're gonna pay her Texas Tech
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: pays their basketball team a zillion dollars. They paid their
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: football team, they did last year. They bought a Big
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Twelve championship last year did the football team. This is
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: how they are and that that has rubbed a lot
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: of people, a lot of old schoolers. It's rubbed them
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: the wrong way. And I know that there's an anti
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Texas Tech sentiment out there, not just in the Big Twelve,
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: but across the country. The good old boys in the
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: SEC aren't happy. These guys are competing dollar wise with
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: everybody else, and really, what they're doing dollar wise is
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: no different, is no different than what Oregon does, or
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: what Ohio State does, or what LSU is doing, or
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: what Georgia does, or what else Alabama is not. Under
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: klen Alabama is a little bit behind the times, But
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: you get my point. They're doing what everybody else is doing.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: The difference is none of those teams have a guy
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: on their roster who bet on that sport.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: I do think there's a couple of reasons why this
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: is something that will at least somewhat be a straw
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: that breaks the camel's back, so to speak. Number one
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: is because it seems like everyone besides Texas Tech is
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: united in saying this, This shouldn't be the case. This
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: shouldn't be right. He shouldn't be allowed to play right.
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: If everyone is on the same page on this, there
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: can be some action done when if you're all kind
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: of behind it. But the other reason is because it's
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: no longer a college sports NC DOUBLEA issue. It's a
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: federal law issue because of what you said, insider trading,
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: which many people like you said, have lost their jobs for.
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: It's something that is strictly prohibited.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: Against.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: It's against the law.
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: So the fact that this now shows some someone blatantly
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: broke but not just the NC double A eligibility law,
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: but a federal law is that's where it's like, all right,
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: someone needs to step in and make sure that it's
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: it's highlighting how little power the NC DOUBLEA really has
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: in this situation.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: It's well the and I mentioned this to Greg the
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: only way I do find it laughable that there are
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: places that are Nebraska wants to take a high moral
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: ground right now. First of all, you're not the same,
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: you know, I laugh with the non the non Big
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: twelve school. Listen. I'll listen to Utah I'll listen to Houston.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: I'll listen to anybody in the Big twelve. I don't
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: need to listen to anybody from the Big ten of
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: the sec UH lectures on this beer, right, everyone is
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: universal on this hell. I'll just tell you this, Texas Tech,
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: you come join to join the PAC twelve, they kick
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: you out, Come join us. We'll we're filing. Come on board.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: Would you would you want Berendy SOEs to play?
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Damn you guys? Can you guys can bet on whatever
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: you want. Man, you listen, listen, I'll give you. I'll
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: get you the player's card at this will call me
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: casino right now, I'll drive I'll drive that down to
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: love it and hand it over to you. Want to
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: join the Big the PAC twelve. No, but like listen,
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: it's it's a really simple solution. You're the Big twelve.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: You just say no, like you're not You're you're not
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: playing this guy. He is by our standards and by
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: our rules in the Big twelve conference. You're ineligible. Sue us.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: That's what you gotta do. Yeah, sue us. Try to
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: fight that because it just it's I mention this before
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: Don James was penalized, and we'll Washington was penalized by
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: the conference back in the early nineties, not by the NCAA.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: There's precedent for that.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: Just do that.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: Not that hard. It just isn't that hard, right. But
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: I also don't want to hear any kind of moral
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: uprising from the Big ten they destroyed the PAC twelve
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: or the SEC and your one thousand dollars handshakes that
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: have been going on since Paul bear Bryant was coaching
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: at Alabama, stop it or same thing, moral high ground
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: with the SEC, Lane Kiffin and you know, getting poached
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the season and stuff like that.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: It is funny because those are the things that at
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: the end of the day, those types of situations with
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: you know, all the other stuff that goes on in
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: college athletics, Destroying conferences, moving changing conferences, trying to create
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: a super conference, making your own rules for the college
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: Football Playoff, all the things that are taking place right
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: now that have a slimy, gross feel to them in
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: college athletics. All of those you can somewhat justify and
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: live with. And you mentioned it this one universally. Universally,
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: everyone's saying it's wrong and so all joking aside, there's
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: no chance source we should play this year. But I
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: think it's not up to the NCAA. I don't think
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: it's up to a court. I think it's strictly up
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: to the Big twelve and up to Big Twelve Commissioner
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: Brett your mark and just say he can't play, because
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: that president of allowing him to play is more dangerous
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: than the one guy that has already uh broken those rules.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: We'll take a break, come back check in with Joshian next.
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• 47:51
  Speaker 1: Joshian Joshian Newsletter joins us Joshian dot com and uh
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: where the Virginia Mason Athletics Center is on this Tuesday,
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: first day of Seahawks mandatory mini camp. But we are
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: here today talking all things baseball with our guy Jo
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: She and hello, sir, how are.
• 48:05
  Speaker 7: You good man?
• 48:07
  Speaker 8: Busy day to day. I usually have two regular hits
• 48:09
  Speaker 8: on Tuesdays.
• 48:10
  Speaker 5: Actually the end up, yeah, sorry, I had the wrong
• 48:15
  Speaker 5: input and he said he had normally two hits. But
• 48:17
  Speaker 5: I did five of them today.
• 48:18
  Speaker 7: So okay, about.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: You're you're you you've been on Yeah it was. It's
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: we're having a little technical challenge again here today, but
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: I think we're all good and.
• 48:30
  Speaker 8: Just pushes me back four minutes now he's muting me.
• 48:33
  Speaker 8: We got a little rivalry back.
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: About exactly I've.
• 48:39
  Speaker 8: Been talking a lot today. I've been talking a lot
• 48:41
  Speaker 8: to that.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: What have you been talking about? What are other people
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: talking about?
• 48:45
  Speaker 8: Well, most of them local hits in Chicago. I did
• 48:48
  Speaker 8: u uh uh, Baltimore just been that kind of day,
• 48:53
  Speaker 8: so Cubs, White Sox, Orioles, that kind of stuff. My
• 48:55
  Speaker 8: national stuff was more focused on betting. I did vs
• 48:59
  Speaker 8: in the Vegas Sports and Mission Network. I go on
• 49:00
  Speaker 8: there pretty regularly. We're talking about the signing awards races
• 49:04
  Speaker 8: in both leagues, which you know, really complicated right now
• 49:07
  Speaker 8: with the injuries, the injury to school wel all of
• 49:09
  Speaker 8: these pitchers having great years in the National League, So
• 49:12
  Speaker 8: you know, it's a little bit of everything tonight.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: What about Colt Teverson for Rookie of the Year Joe.
• 49:16
  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah, it would be a come from behind. Typically
• 49:18
  Speaker 8: the Rookie of the Year doesn't come from behind us.
• 49:21
  Speaker 8: Rookie of the Year is usually award that's won from
• 49:23
  Speaker 8: the front by a guy who picks up a good
• 49:24
  Speaker 8: counting stats. But you know, I think that Emerson has
• 49:27
  Speaker 8: a chance, uh you know, to some extent, will be
• 49:30
  Speaker 8: you know, it's not as team dependent as the MVP
• 49:32
  Speaker 8: and in some cases, but I think that the Mariners
• 49:34
  Speaker 8: continue to play well and he has a prominent role
• 49:36
  Speaker 8: in that, that's going to be a factor. I think
• 49:38
  Speaker 8: that the narrative would be Emerson came up and then
• 49:41
  Speaker 8: they went on, you know, they ended up playing you know,
• 49:42
  Speaker 8: six hundred ball over the rest of the season. I
• 49:44
  Speaker 8: think that'd be a big part of his case.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny because Andrews asked you that question. We
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: were talking about it earlier, well last week. I guess
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: it was.
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: When I may or may not have some juice on that.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: So we we well, we were maybe were I was
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: supposed to try to do a show at the at
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: the casino that day, and I was that was my plan.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: If it that would have worked out, I would have
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: because I I think he was like plus three thousand
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: or something. Rookie Rookie of the Year in the American League,
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Kevin McGonagall. This is a poll that MLB did on
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know who they talked to, but McGonagall won.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: Murakami two, Pat Parker Messick three, Travis Pizana is like,
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: hey say his name from Cleveland, and Peyton Pole. Yeah,
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: so those are one through five. So Emerson is not there.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: So you say that that you're not usually gonna have
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: a guy unless he just goes crazy, kind of come
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: from behind that type of that type of award, or
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 50:31
  Speaker 8: It's a weak field as well, and that's not the
• 50:32
  Speaker 8: case this year. You've got you know, Trey Yes Evantag
• 50:34
  Speaker 8: who of course made the great start during the playoffs
• 50:36
  Speaker 8: last year and it's still a rookie and McGonagall, who
• 50:38
  Speaker 8: flat out you know, McGonagall belongs on MVP Ballance, you know,
• 50:42
  Speaker 8: much less Rookie of the Year. So were he to
• 50:44
  Speaker 8: fall off, I think Everson would be in the mix.
• 50:46
  Speaker 8: But Uh, you got a guy at McGonagall is on
• 50:49
  Speaker 8: pace for you know, an eight win season, a Bobby
• 50:50
  Speaker 8: whittlight season. That's that's gonna be hard to top.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: Speaking of m vps, what's the what's the word on
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge in New York? Like, how big a blow is?
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: I mean when you see things like he's out indefinitely,
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: that we expect him back this year, that tells you
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: the definition of indefinite is is not anytime soon. The
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: Yankees have one two in a row, but what does
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: that do to New York.
• 51:16
  Speaker 8: There's an uncertainty there that you'd like to not see.
• 51:19
  Speaker 8: And I think it goes to the fact that this
• 51:21
  Speaker 8: was a difficult injury to diagnose, and there's some questions.
• 51:24
  Speaker 8: You know, there was a one point it was concerned
• 51:26
  Speaker 8: about there would be a circulatory issue thoracic outlet that
• 51:30
  Speaker 8: would have put it out for the season. I think
• 51:31
  Speaker 8: right now they're going to wait and see how the
• 51:33
  Speaker 8: healing goes. One of the issues here is that the
• 51:37
  Speaker 8: Yankees are in very good good shape to have a
• 51:40
  Speaker 8: playoff birth they're seven up in the Wildcard. They're going
• 51:43
  Speaker 8: to have some of the best pitching in baseball over
• 51:45
  Speaker 8: the rest of the season. Remember, they've gotten Grek coleback,
• 51:47
  Speaker 8: They're going to get Max Freed back here pretty soon.
• 51:50
  Speaker 7: Filled most of the bullpen.
• 51:51
  Speaker 8: At the deadline. I think that the run prevention alone
• 51:54
  Speaker 8: is going to keep them in a playoff spot and
• 51:56
  Speaker 8: possibly even help them win the division. So when they're
• 51:58
  Speaker 8: looking to bring Judge back, it's not necessarily we've got
• 52:02
  Speaker 8: to get him back because our season depends on it.
• 52:04
  Speaker 8: It's we need to make sure that he's good to
• 52:06
  Speaker 8: go on October first. They're focus on getting Judge back
• 52:09
  Speaker 8: members he signed forever, so money is an issue. It's
• 52:13
  Speaker 8: just about making sure he's there for the playoffs. So
• 52:15
  Speaker 8: I could see him sitting out until into September with
• 52:19
  Speaker 8: the hopes that he can play for two weeks get
• 52:21
  Speaker 8: some reps in those last couple of weeks of the season,
• 52:23
  Speaker 8: treated as a second spring training. I don't think the
• 52:25
  Speaker 8: Yankees are worried at all as to how often he's
• 52:27
  Speaker 8: going to play in the regular season. I think they
• 52:29
  Speaker 8: know they can meet their goals in the twenty twenty
• 52:33
  Speaker 8: sixth American League without Aaron Judge for most of the year.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: Pretty amazing though that both guys that were finalists are
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: the top two guys for the Murky of the Ear
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: for MVP last in the American League. Banged up this year, right,
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: I mean Judge with the ribs and cal Rawly did
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: hit a home run in Tacoma today for his rehab
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: assignment down in Triple A Joe, but he's trying to
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: battle his way back. I still go back like even
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: before that he wasn't the real cal Rawley. We'll see
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: what he's like. Maybe he just has been banged up
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: or heard or something all year. That'll be a boost
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: for Seattle when they get back. But boy, both both
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: stars last year and one of the better debates about
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: who should be the MVP, both than hurt this year.
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: It's crazy.
• 53:09
  Speaker 8: And Trek Scobel has been out as well, so you've
• 53:11
  Speaker 8: got three of the best stars in the American League.
• 53:13
  Speaker 8: It's been just a strange year. There have been a
• 53:15
  Speaker 8: lot of injuries. We've had this strange thing with the
• 53:18
  Speaker 8: NL is playing ninety two win baseball against the American League,
• 53:21
  Speaker 8: which is causing eleven NL teams to be above five
• 53:24
  Speaker 8: hundred and ten ALE teams to be below five hundred.
• 53:27
  Speaker 8: To the point where as if the season ended today,
• 53:29
  Speaker 8: you have a sub five hundred team in the playoffs.
• 53:31
  Speaker 8: It's just a very strange year.
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: We saw Detroit over the weekend and one of the
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: things that jumped out is it kind of feels like
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: they may be getting things going a little bit. The
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: Detroit Tigers. They I mean mcgonaga, we just talked about him.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: Give me the AL Central. Cleveland still leads. There are
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: six games above five hundred. You wrote a little bit
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: about the Chicago White Sox as well. They're hanging around.
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: They're above five hundred and thirty four and thirty one.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: One of the bigger surprises, better surprises of the year.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: Give me a little handicap. Are there four teams including
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: Detroit that could win the Central? Or is it Cleveland?
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: And maybe that's it.
• 54:07
  Speaker 8: My lean is to say that the Tigers can make
• 54:10
  Speaker 8: up the ground on the Guardians. Remember the Tigers had
• 54:12
  Speaker 8: a fifteen and a half game lead that as visioned
• 54:15
  Speaker 8: at one point last year, so we know large deficits
• 54:17
  Speaker 8: can be made up. I don't sate the Royals seriously.
• 54:20
  Speaker 8: They can't hit. The bullpen has been pretty bad with
• 54:22
  Speaker 8: Lucas Carlos Estavis been out. Lucas Sar Siggi's intenth be terrible.
• 54:26
  Speaker 8: I don't think the Twins seriously because I think they're
• 54:28
  Speaker 8: still in rebuilding mode. You know, they lost Pablo Lopez
• 54:31
  Speaker 8: at the start of the year, the down Bailey over
• 54:33
  Speaker 8: now they're just not that good. So really you're talking
• 54:36
  Speaker 8: about the Tigers who were aiming for this season. Obviously
• 54:39
  Speaker 8: have miss School Baal, they missed Jackson job, Casey Miisma sometimes,
• 54:43
  Speaker 8: they've had a lot of injuries. Hobby Bias has been out,
• 54:46
  Speaker 8: Parker Meadows is out, and then you've got the White Sox,
• 54:48
  Speaker 8: who I don't really know that they have the talent base.
• 54:51
  Speaker 8: It's a two man rotation, it's a one man bullpen,
• 54:54
  Speaker 8: it's a five man lineup. I mean, there's just not
• 54:56
  Speaker 8: a lot of rosters depth there. The top twelve spots
• 54:58
  Speaker 8: are actually pretty good now when you consider where they
• 55:00
  Speaker 8: were two years ago, but I mean the back of
• 55:02
  Speaker 8: the rotation, the back of the bullpen, and it's just
• 55:05
  Speaker 8: not very good. They actually called up one of the
• 55:07
  Speaker 8: top prospects today, an outfielder they got in the Garrett
• 55:10
  Speaker 8: Crochet deal named Brayden Montgomery, so he's going to be
• 55:13
  Speaker 8: hopefully helping out the ray field's been a hole for them,
• 55:15
  Speaker 8: so hopefully steps in there. But I think the fact
• 55:19
  Speaker 8: that the White Sox are thirty four and is thirty
• 55:20
  Speaker 8: one today, I think when you look at these races
• 55:23
  Speaker 8: and say, how far would you have to fall over
• 55:26
  Speaker 8: the next six weeks to be considered out of the
• 55:28
  Speaker 8: wildcard race by the trade deadline, And I just don't
• 55:31
  Speaker 8: know that the White Sox can fall that far. I
• 55:34
  Speaker 8: don't think they can fall into a selling position for
• 55:37
  Speaker 8: where they are today when you look at I think
• 55:39
  Speaker 8: the Rangers are the cream of the crop. We look
• 55:41
  Speaker 8: at these sub five hundred teams, but if you look
• 55:43
  Speaker 8: at the rest of the group, the Jays, the Oriols,
• 55:45
  Speaker 8: the Tigers, the Royals, I don't know how many of
• 55:48
  Speaker 8: them can really make a run to bury the White Sox.
• 55:51
  Speaker 8: So that's where I think the central gets interesting. It's
• 55:53
  Speaker 8: not that I think the White Sox can catch the Guardians.
• 55:56
  Speaker 8: It's that I think the White Sox can be in
• 55:58
  Speaker 8: this really weird spot where it can't. They're too close
• 56:01
  Speaker 8: to a playoff spot to sell, but I'm not really
• 56:03
  Speaker 8: sure they're good enough to make that playoff Berth. It's
• 56:06
  Speaker 8: gonna be a very strange year in the Al but
• 56:08
  Speaker 8: I'm sorry to circle back to the question. I think
• 56:09
  Speaker 8: you've got to look at the Guardians, very very strong pitching,
• 56:13
  Speaker 8: very strong defense. The bullpen, even without Emmanuel Classe has
• 56:16
  Speaker 8: been very good. They're gonna struggle to score runs. You
• 56:19
  Speaker 8: mentioned Bizana. Him coming up has made a big difference.
• 56:21
  Speaker 8: Jase Ramirez has been hotter over the last six seven weeks.
• 56:24
  Speaker 8: They're going to score enough runs to win. We know
• 56:26
  Speaker 8: Stephen Vote knows how to play their game right consecutive
• 56:30
  Speaker 8: years Manager of the Year. They've played more small ball,
• 56:33
  Speaker 8: but just about any team in baseball, and they get
• 56:35
  Speaker 8: away with it because when you're only going to allow
• 56:38
  Speaker 8: three runs a game, you can play for four.
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: And you talk about where they're at, and there are
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: two games up there, Wildcard two by two games, I
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: mean Texas is Wildcard three. And yeah, you taught when
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: we were a month and a half away right from
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: the trade that line or whatever it is. So I
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: mean it's kind of getting to be that time you
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: start looking at how these things are shaking. I think
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: he's a great story. With the White Sox have done,
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, my god, they were just like everyone's, you know,
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: easy series win for the last few years. It feels
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: like Mark Commi's obviously helped them a lot, but just
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: seeing them kind of come up as I like that,
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: Texas is still kind of bothering me. They're right there,
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: only a couple of games behind Seattle. And you know,
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: the Mariners are a weird team. They had a they
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: had the eight straight wins. They lose one, but they
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: had all those series wins and then boom, they lose
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: one in Detroit. Nice win last night, but now you
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: lose JP Crawford, Donovan's out, Cal's still out at some point.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: Injuries kind of take their toll. I guess the one
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: thing keeping our team going Joe starting pitching is good.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, the piggyback situation. Andrews correct
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong. Seems to have worked out. Miller
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: and Castile both looking good lately. No, he's he's he's
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: sleeps during the show. Now I'm here, but I think
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong. Trust you. If I was wrong,
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: he would have corrected me.
• 57:52
  Speaker 8: I do think that that's your your killer app If
• 57:54
  Speaker 8: you're the Marriners, you're going to have the better starter
• 57:57
  Speaker 8: on the mound five days a week. You know, maybe
• 57:59
  Speaker 8: it'll be a day you run it too an ace,
• 58:01
  Speaker 8: it doesn't happen. But when you've got that kind of
• 58:02
  Speaker 8: caliber of starting pitching, when you can expect to get
• 58:05
  Speaker 8: a guy into the fifth through the fifth most nights, uh,
• 58:09
  Speaker 8: it really takes a lot of the pressure off everybody else.
• 58:11
  Speaker 8: We've talked about Dan Wilson's managing management at the bullpen.
• 58:14
  Speaker 8: I think that's going to be a story all year.
• 58:16
  Speaker 8: But one of the reasons we talk about it is
• 58:19
  Speaker 8: because it feels like the Mariners have a three to
• 58:20
  Speaker 8: one lead every night and the bullpen decisions are going
• 58:22
  Speaker 8: to come in to focus. So they got to navigate
• 58:25
  Speaker 8: this stretch of injuries. I don't I didn't see an
• 58:27
  Speaker 8: update on Emerson. I know he got scratched with a
• 58:29
  Speaker 8: back thing last night. I'm not sure he's playing. Is
• 58:31
  Speaker 8: he playing tonight, playing today?
• 58:32
  Speaker 7: Not playing?
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: Not playing tonight.
• 58:34
  Speaker 8: They again, that's a big I mean dropping off to
• 58:37
  Speaker 8: Ryan Bliss, that's that. That's a significant shit, I mean,
• 58:40
  Speaker 8: on top of everything else. So you don't want to
• 58:43
  Speaker 8: have too many of these guys out, especially you know
• 58:44
  Speaker 8: Josh Nayler. Finally he had to hit the Grand Slam
• 58:47
  Speaker 8: last night. They needed to see that out of him,
• 58:48
  Speaker 8: they'll start getting somebody's hitters back. But I just think
• 58:51
  Speaker 8: the talent gap. But I've said this all yet, the
• 58:52
  Speaker 8: talent gap between the Mariners and the other four teams
• 58:54
  Speaker 8: in that division, even the Rangers, who who are a
• 58:57
  Speaker 8: reasonably talented team. I just think that's the edge. I
• 59:01
  Speaker 8: would be very surprised if the Mariners were ever out
• 59:03
  Speaker 8: of first place again over the course of the rest
• 59:05
  Speaker 8: of the season.
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: We've been kind of saying that for a while. It
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: just feels like it's a good year to be just okay.
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: Right in the America. It's a good year to be
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: just okay, and probably a great year to have something
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: you can fall back on, like you just said, the
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  Speaker 1: pitching staff, and it gives that along the way. Since
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: we last talked, you posted something soon thereafter about it.
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: The headline is it begins and the offer and the
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: two offers. And we've talked about this before, but I
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: think it bears mentioning again, what's going on in terms
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: of labor agreement. You use the Volkswagen analogy somewhere in
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: there where are we right now with this thing?
• 59:39
  Speaker 8: They're on two different axes. It's not like they're on.
• 59:43
  Speaker 8: You know, there's one side. The owners are proposing X,
• 59:47
  Speaker 8: and the players are over here. The owners are proposing
• 59:52
  Speaker 8: a cap system, an entirely new way to structure the
• 59:55
  Speaker 8: league and pay baseball players, and the players are saying,
• 59:58
  Speaker 8: we're going to stick with the current system with a
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 8: lot of changes that are designed to enhance get some
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 8: of these teams to pay for players, maybe spread the
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 8: money around a little bit differently. They're so completely different
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 8: that there's no middle ground. It's apples and volkswagens. I
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 8: think is what I said that it is letter. So
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 8: until one of these sides moves, until the owners give
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 8: up their plan to have a payroll cap system, or
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 8: until the players accept a payroll cap system, there's not
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 8: really any place to negotiate. They're negotiating two completely different systems.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 8: So they proposed to a completely different systems. Now we
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 8: have a lot of time. It's June tenth, the CBA
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 8: expired number. First camps open February thirteenth or so. I mean,
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 8: there's a lot of time before this really gets down
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 8: to it. I like that they're starting the process when
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 8: they are. I think both sides recognize that baseball has
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 8: momentum right now that you'd like to not kill off
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 8: with an extended s workstoppage. Even a lockout in the
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 8: off season kills momentum. We saw in twenty twenty two.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 8: It also really affected the start of the season. So
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 8: let's hope they can actually reach an agreement, you know,
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  Speaker 8: sometime in the fall, sometime in the early winter, so
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 8: that we can have a relatively normal off season and
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 8: most importantly, a regular start to the twenty twenty seven season.
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  Speaker 1: Joe, I think it's important what you said there though
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: about even in the off season, a lockout, even though
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: there's not games being missed, kills momentum, because the off
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: season is where you know, you got your you've got
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: your winter league meetings, you've got your your hot stove leagues,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: you got your moves being made. But more importantly, from
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: a fans standpoint, do you not have a time during
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: the off season is when you're getting excited, You're selling tickets,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: you're getting people enthused about your team, you're introducing new players,
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: all those things. And if that's all put on hold,
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: I think we, Joe, take twenty two out of it.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: I think you even go back to twenty twenty one
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: and twenty but especially twenty twenty one when we're playing
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: in you know, weird half empty stadiums and all that.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: That sucks the life out of a fan base. You
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: find other things to do if you can't plan ahead,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: especially base baseball's like one of the great plan ahead sports.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: I'm with you. I think that the it. Let's get
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: to the end of the World Series. Hopefully we don't
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: have any anything stupid like ninety four, and then there's
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: maybe a push. Then we need to see them get
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: back on the same page. As you mentioned, you couldn't
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: be further apart right now. There probably is no reason
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: to talk at this point.
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  Speaker 8: Well, you make the great point, and baseball teams are
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 8: trying to sell two million, three million tickets a year.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 8: You have to start that process in December. You've got
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 8: to get people excited about the team in January. If
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 8: you're going to do that. The NFL doesn't have to
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 8: do that, the NBA, NHL. The number of tickets you're
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 8: selling is so much less, so much lower, that you
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 8: don't really have to get that off season excitement going.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 8: And this is the argument guys like me have made
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 8: for you want to sign free agents because you want
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 8: to win more games. The biggest factor in driving people
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 8: to the ballpark is having a winning team. The second
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 8: biggest is a new ballpark, but of course that washes
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 8: out over a couple of years. The third biggest is
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 8: did you do things in the offseason. You look at
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 8: the winter the Cadre signed Mandy Machado, You look at
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 8: the winter the Philly signed Bryce Harper, and you look
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 8: at what followed. When you sign the big free agent,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 8: you immediately start getting that investment back at the gate.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 8: You sell more tickets. You know. The contrast between the Padres,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 8: who just sold for evaluation of about three point seventy
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 8: five million, and the Twins, who couldn't get the two
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 8: million that they wanted for their sale is largely the
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 8: difference between a franchise that went out and tried and
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 8: got it city excited about its team and a franchise
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 8: that literally ian didn't make a transaction over consecutive winters.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 8: There were two consecutive winters where the Twins didn't make
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 8: a single move, and that's the difference between two million
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 8: and four million. As far as the franchise value, you
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 8: have to get your fans excited. So say, I think
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 8: MLB took the lesson from twenty two, which is that, oh,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 8: we didn't miss any games, but you missed a lot
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 8: of value not letting teams do things in the winter
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 8: and having the whole story of baseball being lockout, lockout,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 8: lockout instead of we're going to make the playoffs this year.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 8: We've got this prospect coming up, come to the ballpark.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 8: Here's a ten game package for whatever. These are the
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 8: guys you're going to see be. MLB teams need the
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 8: winter in a way that other sports don't need their
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 8: off seasons.
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  Speaker 1: I think the good examples here Andrews. If you're there,
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: you can chime in here. Yeah, an ex No, No,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: I know Colt Emerson. We spent a lot of time
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: last year talking about him in the offseason, like is
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: he gonna make the move? Is he gonna get up here?
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: Is he going to join you know, Cole Young? Is
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: it going to be part of that middle infield for
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: years to come? All that hype would have been gone.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: It wouldn't have happened because when he did come up,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: it was sensational, right, I mean, the place went nuts
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: and everything else. You need that momentum in the off
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: season and yeah, I you mentioned to the Jill. For people wondering,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: it's this isn't a thing every time there's a labor
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: agreement that they go hard to the payroll cap. The
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: last time they really went after it was ninety four,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: so it's been a while since they've really gone heavy,
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: hard after it. This isn't This isn't a normal occurrence
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: for people wondering.
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  Speaker 8: No, it's and best because the system that MLB ended
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 8: up with, well, they learned of ninety four. They we're
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 8: not going to get the players to cave on a cap.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 8: But over time, MLB teams front offices largely have learned
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 8: how to manipulate the current system in a way that
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 8: reduces the amount of money they have to pay for players.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 8: Most players in Major League Baseball right now are pre
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 8: are players making the minimum or a little bit more,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 8: or some of them are on the long term deals
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 8: like a McGonagall or the Brewers just signed another prospect
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 8: to one of these deals today. But they've learned that
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 8: they don't have to spend money on players and they
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 8: can still win. So the rules that are in place,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 8: which by the way, date to the seventies, the rules
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 8: we have in place six year free agency and three
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 8: year arbitration, and all that were set based on the
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 8: career paths of guys in the sixties and seventies. Those
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 8: rules are out of date. Those are the rules that
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 8: should be changed, not necessarily putting a tap in place,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 8: but players should have the opportunity to get to free
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 8: agency early, because not that many players get to free
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 8: agency anymore because it takes too long, and teams just say, oh,
• 1:05:49
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  Speaker 2: Did you see this second home run?
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: Grand slam? It does appear for the Big Dumper. I
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: think he's ready to come back. I think we're done.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: Can we make this move now?
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  Speaker 5: If you know what that means, Ian what it means,
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  Speaker 5: probably no more Johnny Parada.
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  Speaker 1: I like Johnny Parada, Joe, Johnny Parade is my guy.
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• 1:09:38
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  Speaker 2: They only lost a total of like three games.
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  Speaker 2: What was it doing there? Before?
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  Speaker 1: I'd be in a barge. I don't know, it's a barge.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, I'm sure it did.
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  Speaker 1: So. I was watching my friend Taylor Winkle on Fox
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  Speaker 1: thirteen news this morning. She rode the barge, a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of people riding the barge from wherever it was to
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  Speaker 1: uh Pier sixty two today. Now, I don't like the
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  Speaker 1: price tag fifty two dollars a stand and just shoulder
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  Speaker 1: to shoulder with somebody on a barge, But the thing
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  Speaker 1: looked pretty damn cool. I'll be honest with you, like
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  Speaker 1: it looked pretty cool. There's still still a little under construction,
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  Speaker 1: but the barge was making its way down and they're
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  Speaker 1: parking it today at Peer sixty two. It's I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure if i'd want to stand for what's a match
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  Speaker 1: to fifteen two hours? Fifty hours?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but it looked fun. Look it looked kind
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  Speaker 1: of cool. So and actually the best part about it.
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  Speaker 1: I think sometimes and I'm as guilty as anybody haven't
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  Speaker 1: grown up here. I think a lot of us are.
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  Speaker 1: I think sometimes we take it for granted, what how
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  Speaker 1: beautiful the city can be. I know it's got its issues.
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  Speaker 1: It's got a lot of issues. Every city does. We've
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  Speaker 1: got issues. New York has issues. We all have issues.
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  Speaker 1: But sometimes you got to take to take a step
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  Speaker 1: back and go, wow, this place is. It's pretty damn cool.
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  Speaker 1: Like when you can look out over the water and
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  Speaker 1: on a clear day, off the distance over over behind
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  Speaker 1: the two stadiums, you can see Mount Rainier and Elliott
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  Speaker 1: Bay all in one, just like just by glancing out
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  Speaker 1: and oh, by the way, there's a soccer match going
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  Speaker 1: on on a barge with a big party going on.
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  Speaker 1: I and Andrews has mentioned this a couple of times.
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  Speaker 1: The revenue from that as well goes to is it
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  Speaker 1: the Rave Foundation? I think it is.
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  Speaker 5: It's a charity with the Sounders head, so it's a
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  Speaker 5: really good cause.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So, I mean, with all of that being said,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's pretty pretty damn cool.
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  Speaker 1: So get down there and enjoy it. We have a
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  Speaker 1: first game coming up on Thursday. We're gonna do actually
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a round table at some point
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow with Jackson Anders and is it Danny Jackson?
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  Speaker 5: Jackson Ye, voice the Sounders, the fan of the Sounders,
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  Speaker 5: the voice the fans of the Sounders, I should say,
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  Speaker 5: and Jackson Felts And then whoever you want to call me,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: You're kind of the Captain Kirk of this this World
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  Speaker 1: Cup Enterprise on iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: I don't put that much pressure on me. Let's let's
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  Speaker 2: dial it back a little bit.
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  Speaker 7: There.
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  Speaker 1: I'm here and there's a lot of pressure on you.
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  Speaker 2: I know there is.
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  Speaker 1: I'm here and there's a lot a lot of pressure
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  Speaker 1: on you as well. Somebody said, I just got Jeremy
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  Speaker 1: sent a text and I don't know if there's news
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  Speaker 1: out there. Somebody said who's the new bidder for the Hawks.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to while we try to bring up
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  Speaker 1: one here in a second. I I if there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot going on out here today. I'm just going to
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  Speaker 1: say that there's I mentioned this to Greg earlier. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot going on. We got here to NFL Films
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  Speaker 1: is here. I think it's kind of the NFL network.
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  Speaker 2: Alon getting geared up for Hard Knocks.
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  Speaker 1: No, because it's that would be HBO, right.
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  Speaker 5: That's true. I don't know if it's like there's some
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  Speaker 5: crossover network coverage.
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  Speaker 1: No, but there's a bunch of like there's a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of big shooters out here, like in terms of like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. There are a lot of big SUVs
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  Speaker 1: out front. A lot going on, So I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe Ro.
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  Speaker 1: No, he's not listen. It's mandatory mini camp for.
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  Speaker 2: Some it's not for him.
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's not mandatory mini camp for the commission.
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  Speaker 1: But but yeah, I don't know who the the new bidder.
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  Speaker 1: I've I've heard a lot of rumors. I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to mention the name on the air. Greg knows that
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot. I mean, there's an obvious name that's
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  Speaker 1: being mentioned out there. That would be if that particular
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  Speaker 1: name came in. Oh screw, I don't care. Uh, Steve
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  Speaker 1: Bomber his name has been there's like a little rumblings
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  Speaker 1: about Steve Bomber's name out there, and I would just say,
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  Speaker 1: can you imagine a time or a situation where your
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  Speaker 1: ownership group in Seattle would include the two women in
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  Speaker 1: Samantha Holloway and Melinda French Gates owning the hockey team
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  Speaker 1: and probably the basketball team as well. Yep, Steve Bomber
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  Speaker 1: owning the football team with all of his wealth, because
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  Speaker 1: that's the biggest concern we have, which I'll get back
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  Speaker 1: to in a second, Like that's a pretty big power
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  Speaker 1: trio for those three teams. Mariners are still Manners aren't
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  Speaker 1: going anywhere. Stanton Company is still going to own the team,
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  Speaker 1: Chris Lars and all those guys, and really, frankly, if
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  Speaker 1: we're being honest, I don't think we should have any
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  Speaker 1: complaint about ownership right now with the Mariners right now.
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  Speaker 1: Not right now. There's fifty years of history, and out
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  Speaker 1: of those fifty years, there's enough years that we could
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  Speaker 1: probably complain about ownership with the base baseball team, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think we can. I don't think there's anything relevant
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  Speaker 1: to complain about right now.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and especially when you can pay to the rest
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  Speaker 5: of the league. They're at least in the upper half
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  Speaker 5: in terms of ownership situations across Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, at least in the upper half.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I I so, I think
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  Speaker 1: if you could, like that would be a hell of
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  Speaker 1: a group running and owning teams in our market. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I could, because I just Melinda Frenchgates has never own
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  Speaker 1: a team before, but her background, her resume, who she is,
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  Speaker 1: and who Samantha Holloway is, and the fact that they're,
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  Speaker 1: you know, running in tandem along with probably the NBA team.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna be fine there, and you're gonna be fine there.
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  Speaker 1: Balmer owning the team here would be sensational.
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  Speaker 5: Well, and like, I'm not hugely aware of how close
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  Speaker 5: he and Paul Allen worked when they were at Microsoft,
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  Speaker 5: but it would be pretty cool. As far as I know,
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  Speaker 5: they had a good ish relationship. I don't know, but
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  Speaker 5: having like Balmer take over for basically Paul Allen in
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  Speaker 5: his estate would make a lot of sense for the Seahawks,
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  Speaker 5: and it would feel like a gesture of not just
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  Speaker 5: you know, a grand significance, but of goodwill too, that
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  Speaker 5: you want to keep going with Paul Allen's legacy that
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  Speaker 5: he built here in building the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you're almost keeping in a family, is what
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  Speaker 1: you're saying.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean just think about like, I'm also very rich
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  Speaker 5: and I can own a sports team, but I want
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  Speaker 5: to take over for my best friend because this was
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  Speaker 5: something that he was very passionate about. And I can
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  Speaker 5: because I have the wherewithal to do that. So it's
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  Speaker 5: someone that you know is going to come and do
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  Speaker 5: it the right way, I guess is the best way
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  Speaker 5: that I can describe it.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what I hears as I say that,
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  Speaker 1: there's actually a story that was posted by a Bob
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  Speaker 1: Candatta from the Seattle Times an hour ago. Third potential
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  Speaker 1: bidder for the Seahawks maybe on the horizon, according report
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  Speaker 1: from whatever this is, billionaire financer Todd Bowley. Oh no way, now,
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  Speaker 1: who is? I have no idea?
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  Speaker 7: Who is?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? So he oh Chelsea.
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  Speaker 2: Football, cl Chelsea and Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: Whoa yeah, whoa yeah, he's Well he'd have to have
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  Speaker 1: some help. He would have to have some help. He's
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  Speaker 1: listed as having a net worth of nine point three billion,
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  Speaker 1: so he would, I mean he he would need to
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  Speaker 1: have some help along the way. Sure, it's interesting Lakers, huh, interesting, Dodgers,
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers Dodgers rather. Oh, he's also part of owner of
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  Speaker 1: the La Sparks of the WNBA. M is with this guy,
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  Speaker 1: he's fifty two years old. What do you know from
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  Speaker 1: about with Chelsea?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, he took over. No, it's one of my best
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  Speaker 2: friend's teams.
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  Speaker 5: Though he took over I think three or four years
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  Speaker 5: ago from a Russian who you know, ran the team
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  Speaker 5: in a very specific way. He is very eccentric in
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  Speaker 5: terms of how much he spends every single transfer window,
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  Speaker 5: which is basically off season, to try and make the
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  Speaker 5: team better. And some people think it's a little too
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  Speaker 5: much and over the top. They just keep spending and
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  Speaker 5: spending and spending and spending and spending. But he wants
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  Speaker 5: to get it done the right way. So I don't know,
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  Speaker 5: there's a couple of different ways you can look about that.
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  Speaker 2: I know, owning a.
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  Speaker 5: Soccer team over in england's a little bit different than
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  Speaker 5: owning an NFL football team. But he is well regarded
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  Speaker 5: with his time with the Dodgers. I'll put it that way.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I mean, and if so, you're saying
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  Speaker 1: he's aggressive too with.
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  Speaker 2: Chelsea, absolutely so very aggressive.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, he would just need he would just need
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  Speaker 1: more money. Yes, is all like I mean, it's he's
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  Speaker 1: not going to give up his entire wealth for an
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  Speaker 1: NFL to along the way. So then be hanging out
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  Speaker 1: there and you know, living in an apartment or something. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all right, let's do this. Let's take a quick break.
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  Speaker 1: We'll come back. We'll try to track down Lund, get
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  Speaker 1: him on next segment. If not, we'll check in with
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  Speaker 6: Welcome Dean's weekly visit with John Lund Unleashed. He's a
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  Speaker 6: Bay Area media icon who's known Ian for over twenty
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  Speaker 6: five years. But don't let their age, Jane Europe, you
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  Speaker 6: know them. John takes you through the Bay Area and
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  Speaker 6: the NFC West and dupes it out with the in over,
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  Speaker 6: the Niners and the Hawks.
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  Speaker 1: So let's unleash it now with John One.
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  Speaker 3: Here's Ian all right?
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  Speaker 1: Better late than ever. Although I did get a text
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  Speaker 1: here just moments ago from the two oh six, says
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  Speaker 1: ha I had the Calshi market lund over two ten
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  Speaker 1: appearance on the show. I am a winner.
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  Speaker 2: I've met that every time. That's a pretty good chance
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  Speaker 2: will happen the.
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  Speaker 1: Two oh six area code bag. You are a winner?
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  Speaker 1: You are? Are you still doing that? Are you still
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  Speaker 1: filling in with the hatches station down there? Is what
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  Speaker 1: you're doing? Still?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: But I I I'm uh, where in the world is
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  Speaker 7: Carmen San Diego. I'm in the Bay Area. Covered the
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  Speaker 7: Niners this week because we were coming up here anyway
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  Speaker 7: as a fam So I thought, well, you know what,
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  Speaker 7: I'll check in and I'm just doing it for you
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  Speaker 7: because I don't need.
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  Speaker 3: To do this.
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  Speaker 9: But I'm just you know, I thought I would refuse
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  Speaker 9: so that.
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  Speaker 7: I have accurate information.
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  Speaker 9: So that's what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 7: I'm working.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know what, you are a giver?
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  Speaker 3: Really?
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  Speaker 1: I mean I think that's the way it's.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's what You're very concise. That's what I was
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  Speaker 9: trying to say.
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  Speaker 7: I'm a giver. I'm late for you.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: So, so what's the story with the forty nine ers,
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  Speaker 1: Who's who's working out, who's not? How does how does kittle?
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  Speaker 1: How's his hair looking, how's his achilles looking?
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  Speaker 7: How we do there? Hey? Yeah, yeah, the achilles. He
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  Speaker 7: keeps he's going on the tour this week and trying
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  Speaker 7: to and he's saying he's gonna be ready for week
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  Speaker 7: one against the Rams. I don't see it. He's running
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  Speaker 7: around on the side. I saw him today. He's running
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  Speaker 7: around on the side.
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  Speaker 9: And he's he looks a.
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  Speaker 7: Lot better than when he got hurt. But I think
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  Speaker 7: it's really really optimistic. And look, you guys know him,
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  Speaker 7: and it's hard to hate Kittle, just like there's guys
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  Speaker 7: in the Seahawks, even if you're a Niners fan. I
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  Speaker 7: think it's hard to hate certain guys. And he's he's
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  Speaker 7: as hard a worker as you're ever gonna find. But
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  Speaker 7: we know how this works. I mean the doctors. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 7: the player can say whatever he wants. This isn't the
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  Speaker 7: old days. I can't remember the doctor for the Raiders
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  Speaker 7: who wrote the book, but basically, you know, tape an
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  Speaker 7: ashron to it get back in there. These doctors have
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  Speaker 7: to be one hundred percent, especially at Kittle's age at
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  Speaker 7: thirty two. He's not older and he keeps himself in
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  Speaker 7: really good shape. But like the Niners like every other team.
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  Speaker 7: There used to be teams like this, but now everybody's
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  Speaker 7: like this. You're not gonna go out and push a guy,
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  Speaker 7: especially a guy like Kittle who's getting a little bit older,
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  Speaker 7: and the way that he plays, the style he plays,
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  Speaker 7: and because he says he's coming back week one, that
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  Speaker 7: doesn't mean he's coming back week one.
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  Speaker 1: Well, like the whole the Pat Mahomes thing is kind
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: of the same thing, right, Like It's like there are
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  Speaker 1: like most injuries, medical science tells you it takes you
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: X number of months to come back from. And I
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  Speaker 1: think I think sometimes in the media and like I
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: hate when we all jump lump each other in together. Right,
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  Speaker 1: But like the little story, I mean the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: Look at Mahomes. I mean, if anybody can come back
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  Speaker 1: sooner than anybody, whit whit is his? Is his body different?
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  Speaker 1: Like does he have different biology than the normal human being?
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  Speaker 1: Like is he a Martian? Is an alien?
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  Speaker 6: With?
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  Speaker 1: Like what do you mean anybody? You're right, because you're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna no doctor is going to allow a guy
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  Speaker 1: out there because that's his ass at that point, especially
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  Speaker 1: some of the level of Mahomes or even a guy
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  Speaker 1: like kill You're not go to let a guy go
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  Speaker 1: out there.
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  Speaker 7: No, And it's such a great gig to have, So
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 7: you know, if that happens, what are they gonna do.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 7: They're going to turn around to the medical staff. And
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 7: we scrutinize everything now as media, as fans. We know
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 7: who the doctors are, we and who everybody is. So
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 7: if somebody does come back and a player then reinjures
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 7: himself that doctor's probably gone. So they do have the
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 7: power more than ever to say, look, the guy's not
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  Speaker 7: coming back. So look, is kittle ahead a schedule? Are
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 7: they saying the right thing? Sure? But you know this,
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 7: everybody knows this. When it comes down to actually getting
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  Speaker 7: cleared to play, there's a head of schedule, and then
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 7: there's what exactly is going to happen to most athletes,
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  Speaker 7: which is we're just not going to rush you back.
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  Speaker 1: John Lennon with us, what are those guys saying, what's
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  Speaker 1: the what's the word down there? We talked about Miles
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: Garrett last week and you, yeah, Arizona at the time.
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  Speaker 1: What's the word from your friends in the forty nine
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  Speaker 1: ers world media or otherwise?
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  Speaker 7: I think that Trent Williams, who never wears anything with
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 7: sleeves and is a massive man and even in his age,
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 7: is as good as there is a left tackle. Summed
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 7: it up perfectly and succinctly.
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  Speaker 9: It mean, that's what he said about my life.
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  Speaker 7: That sucks, like he just you know, because look.
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  Speaker 9: It's it makes it harder for everybody.
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  Speaker 7: And now we're hearing today Chef's saying that it's it's
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 7: more likely than not that Aaron Donald comes back. And
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 7: at thirty five. It's not that I think Aaron Donald's
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 7: gonna play every snap, but he's gonna probably be played
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 7: twenty to twenty five key snaps. And then at the
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 7: end of the season, if you see him in the
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 7: playoffs like the Hawks did in the NFC Championship game,
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 7: he's gonna play a lot more snaps than that. So
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 7: you know, it's it's not great. But I will say
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  Speaker 7: this that every it just seems I have no evidence
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 7: in this, which is pretty much the case every time
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 7: I open my mouth. But when they put together superstar teams,
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 7: it always doesn't work out. I don't I don't know.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 7: It's just it's getting so ridiculous what the rams are doing.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 7: And I'll give you a great example that that everybody
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 7: can there, I think can relate to because we were
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 7: covering this team, and we mentioned the Blazers last week
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 7: when Bob Witzett put together the super team and they
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 7: couldn't beat Shaq and Kobe and I think it.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 9: Was one, and they blew that thirteen point fourth quarter lead.
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 7: Then they go out and they trade your Neil and
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 7: they think and they get Dale Davis and they make
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 7: all these moves and they get the Superstar team and
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 7: it didn't work out because chemistry was kind of messed
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 7: up and everybody's got egos and there's all these kind
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 7: of things, and injuries in the NFL happened. I'm not
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 7: saying that right now. Power rankings, which are stupid and
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 7: don't mean anything unless you're in college football. Power rankers
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 7: are so stupid, but we all click on it. Okay,
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 7: in power rankings, the Rams are number one. Well, what
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 7: does that mean? I can guarantee you and you're right
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 7: there in the closet, So you tell me, I think,
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 7: which is I can't believe you're in the closet. But
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 7: the Nighters did us worse. We're in the little kids room,
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 7: like I told you, with toys and everything. And we're
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 7: the flagship and we're sitting there with toys. It says
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 7: kids room, And there we are, whereas in Arizona was
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 7: there like two weeks ago, and I'm I'm broadcast, We're
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 7: the flagship. I'm broadcasting from like a castle, and they're
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 7: bringing players in. I'm like, are you kidding me? They're
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 7: serving a stake anyway, whatever, They're just trying to curry
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 7: favor because the Cardinals stink. But yeah, really smart movie
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 7: because we're like, oh, we love these guys. We're not
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 7: going to ask. By the way, we had Gardner Vinshew
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 7: on last week, which the whole nother story, but I
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 7: gotta tell you about that. But uh but yeah, I mean,
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 7: I just I think from a perspective of everybody handing
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 7: the Rams everything, Let's see, let's see how Stafford's back
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 7: holds up. Let's see what Puka Nakua does because he
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 7: doesn't have a contract yet, and all these receivers, you know,
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 7: are getting paid. I mean, I'm not gonna hand them
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 7: anything because I think, like I said, you're sitting right there.
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 7: I think Mike McDonald is loving this that everybody's talking
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 7: about the Rams, that nobody's talking about the Seahawks that
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 7: nobody's given the Seahawks credit. Mike McDonald and that team
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 7: can use that all year long. Guys, they don't believe
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 7: in us. Guys, we won the Super Bowl. We're getting
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 7: no respect. Like they're going to use that and it's
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 7: going to be effective.
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah. We had Jalen Sndell, the starting center on last
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: week when we're sitting out here in the closet and
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: he said, you know, basically he said what McDonald said
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: last year. He goes, you know, we did not care whatever.
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: That's fine, like it it. McDonald does a good job
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: of doing that. Now he's you know, his team is
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: pretty young. You get a guy like Trent Williams. I
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: do kind of appreciate Williams saying yeah it sucks, Like
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: I kind of appreciate that, a guy that's like yeah,
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: like because that that's true. Yes, he's gonna see him
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: twice a year, including week one in Australia.
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, it's not gonna be I mean in terms
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 7: of great guy, you'd love him if he wasn't a Niner.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 7: I mean, he's just he's just very much that way.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 7: You get a little bit older and you just don't care.
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 7: And there's some forty nine ers media like trying to
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 7: write analytics and everything, like losing Jared Versus a big deal. Look,
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 7: it is Jared Versus really good, but he's not Miles Garrett.
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 7: Miles Garrett first Battle Hall of Famer. And if you
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 7: put I think the top I don't know five greatest
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 7: defensive players, Aaron Donald, Lawrence Taylor. You know, whoever you
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 7: want to put on that list, you you might have
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 7: to put him on that list. I mean it's you
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 7: might have two of the top five defensive players of
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 7: all time. On paper, it looks great, but lots of
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 7: times teams put together super teams and for some reason
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 7: or another, it just doesn't work.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: Jean lad joining us weekly visit here on nine three
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: point three KHTERFM with the Virginia Mason Athletics Center. All right,
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: tell me about your visit with h with my guy Gardner.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: How'd that go?
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 7: First of all, he's just awesome. He's living in the
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 7: motor home. He he's just like whatever, you know, there's
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 7: three quarterbacks down here. He really doesn't care about what
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 7: was funny as my co host said something, and I've
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 7: never I'm not gonna say he was mad, but he
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 7: was kind of missed a little bit by it. So
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 7: the guy says to him, Hey, Gardner, you're a bit odd,
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 7: and he meant to say it in a positive way,
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 7: like you have your odd guys. And the guy that
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 7: asked the question is a former special teamer. He might
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 7: know him. His name is Ron Wolfe. He played for
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 7: the Cardinal for years. And he was trying to give
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 7: him a compliment like I'm like you and I was
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 7: a wedgebuster and I was a little bit odd. And
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 7: Gardner wasn't having it, like he wasn't having like what
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 7: do you mean I'm odd? Like he just kind of
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 7: flipped and like what are you talking about? What do
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 7: you mean odd? He was just so funny, and you
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 7: know me, I'm like, oh, I'm sitting this one out, man.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 7: I just said, burry this thing. It was great, man, because,
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 7: like I said, the guy asked the questions, he's a wedgbuster,
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 7: he's a little bit ODDI he does have a screwers
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 7: And he was trying to explain to Gardener like he
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 7: meant it in a good way and you could be
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 7: a wedgebuster and everything. And Gardner's like, I'm not having
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 7: it like, no, I'm an NFL quarterback, dude, I'm not
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 7: a wedgebuster. Like it was just it was one of
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 7: those things where like it was really good radio, but
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 7: it was really awkward kind of a thing. But I
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 7: love the guy. I mean, you know him better than
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 7: I do. So I was like, people don't like to
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 7: be called odd, and I don't mind.
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: It's maybe not the term you use, like you yeah, exactly.
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of other terms you probably
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: you can yeah, because because because he's listen eccentric, I
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: guess maybe it is a I mean, if you're around
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: him at all, you know that, Like that's kind of
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: what That's why he was perfect for there at that time,
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: right because it's it's six months after uh Tyler Junsky suicide.
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: The campus has got a kind of a lull over it.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: I mean and literally it did. Certainly the football program
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: did as well. And you know, they had a couple
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: of guys that actually want him end up be having
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: a great year the next year when he played. But
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: On had a cup of coffee in the NFL, but
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: really they needed something and and he came in and
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: his jorts and paired up well with the leach and
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: then even since he's been in the NFL, he drives
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: his winn a bag go over the play like he
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: is a little different, There's no doubt about it, but
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: probably coming from a guy that he doesn't know. And
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you exactly and I love the fact that
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: you just talked out buddy, well done on your.
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 3: Well that's what you do.
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 7: Like, hey, here's the one thing I think you would
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 7: agree with me on this. Whoever you're doing the show with,
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 7: like you want to help him everything they make a mistake.
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 7: But if you dig a whole, you got to dig
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 7: yourself out of the hole. Like you know, you know,
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 7: if you and I were doing a show and there
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 7: was you know, I'd certainly dive in at one point.
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 7: But I mean it was kind of a hole that
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 7: this guy Doug, and I thought, well, you're digging out
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 7: of that hole. The one thing, by the way, that
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 7: I did not know about him, and I mean this
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 7: in all sincerity. He is incredibly smart. Like we were
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 7: just talking ball and thinks about things. I got off
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 7: the air and he was talking about the the Laflor system,
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 7: which is the Shanahan system, which is the system that
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 7: Seahawks are going to run, which is kind of you
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 7: know what everybody does, right, and man, he is just
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 7: like he is verse man backwards forwards, back of your hand,
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 7: like he knows the stuff. And it was really, it
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 7: was really really impressive. And down there, you know, Jacobe
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 7: Brissette is holding in right now, which is hilarious for
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 7: a guy who went one on eleven and twelve starts
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 7: last year. I'm holding in. Okay, good luck with that.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 7: But but I wouldn't be surprised if Minshew started, just
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 7: because you know, they got Carson back. He's okay, but
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 7: like you don't it's redundancy to have Brissette and Minshew.
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 7: And they're really impressed with them in Arizona, and and
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 7: I can see why, Like he can really talk the game.
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 7: He's smart. He wasn't he going to be a coach
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 7: or something Alabama, and then he got the opportunity to
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 7: watching State, Like you could tell he's gonna be a coach,
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 7: He's gonna be a he was gonna.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: He's gonna be on saving staff. That was a whole
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: that was his plan. He was going to be on
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: saving staff. And then things obviously went sideways and everything
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: happened in Pullman and so then he ended up going.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: And you know, not everybody could play for the Pirate
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: for sure, right, you'd have to, no doubt. No, you
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: tell anybody ron Wolfson.
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 7: Like him, like they're very similar that way, right.
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: But he's really smart and he'll be a coach, he'll
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: be what is Brissett? What the hell's he thinking? Who
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: does he think he is?
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 7: He's got it. He doesn't have an agent. That's the problem.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 7: He doesn't have an agent. And these guys like I know,
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 7: Richard Sherman did his own stuff and everything like that. Yeah,
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 7: Wagner like guys like that, they get it.
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 9: But the thing is is that it would be so.
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 7: Tough because this has happened to me too, because I
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 7: had an agent that I didn't And then they tell
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 7: you to your face like this is why you suck.
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 9: And it's really really hard on your ego to be like.
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 7: You know, this is why you suck, and it's like,
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 7: that's why you have an agent. Man, your agent takes
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 7: the bullet and then you know, they go back at
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 7: you know what I mean.
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 9: But if you don't have an agent, and this is.
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 7: What's happened with Jacobe we said, like, dude, you were
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 7: one and eleven and if we like paid you ex like,
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 7: why would we pay you extra money? You have zero leverage?
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 7: Like absolutely, Like there's not a starting job for you
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 7: out there. You're competing for the starting job here. And
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 7: in fact, what Arizona wants to do is just like
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 7: the Jets due just like the Browns do this year,
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 7: I think there was tanking in the NBA. This quarterback
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 7: class is going to be really, really good. And so
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 7: these three teams, at least the Browns, Jets, and Cardinals
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 7: are racing to the bottom. They want to get either
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 7: Manning or more or whomever. So they don't even want
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 7: to be good. So Jacobe Ressett sit there going, we'll
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 7: pay me more money for what Like I guess we'd
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 7: pay you more money because you were one and eleven
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 7: and we want to lose on purpose here and get
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 7: the first pick in the draft. But why would we
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 7: give you any more money?
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: You have no leverage, zero, there's no reason to Like
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: you just said, you put Martin Minshew or Carson Beck
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: in there, and you see what happens next year in
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: the draft. Like you, you don't want to win if
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: you're Arizona, Like, you don't want to win, so why
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: would you pay a quarterback more money who can't win anyway?
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: Which makes no sense because a guy can't win anyway.
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 7: Yeah, so he's doing a hold in. Uh, it's just
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 7: it's a it's the weirdest thing.
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: I was.
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 7: I was there right before I left him in the
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 7: barrier now, but I was there right before I left,
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 7: and and they're like, yeah, he's holding in, And I'm like,
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 7: I understand certain players holding in, but you know, by
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 7: the way, the last holding I was I was a
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 7: part of is uh Brandon Aiyuk, which he's a nice
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 7: story too. He is. He's a piece of work. I've
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 7: never seen a team. I've never seen a team hate
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 7: a player more than the forty nine ers hate this guy.
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 7: Like they won't release him. They just they don't have
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 7: to because he's not on their books and they took
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 7: away all his guaranteed money. And so he's going on
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 7: social media and ripping the team. He's wearing a commander's hat.
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 7: Well the Niners are just like, well, just let you're on.
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 7: I mean, this is an old dal Davis trick. He
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 7: did this to Marcus Allen and others. They're not paying
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 7: him anything and they don't have to release them, so
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 7: they just sit there and they let the guy rot
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 7: and he's taking shots at the niners. He got You
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 7: probably know this story. He's so stupid that he videotaped
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 7: himself going one hundred and ten miles per hour by
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 7: Levi Stadium and the cops got the video and they're
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 7: charging him. And it's his own video. That's what he
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 7: showed himself going one hundred. No ask him for it
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 7: was a forty five.
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 9: He's going one hundred and ten anywhere they know that.
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: I know that stadium in that area. Will Where the
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: hell was he get going one hundred ten miles? Now?
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 7: Right in front it's Tasman. It's called Tasman and it's
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 7: the it's the street right in front of the stadium.
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 7: You've been there. It's like where our studio is, where
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 7: you've joined in that studio. It's right in the front
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 7: there by the train tracks, and it's about a it's
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 7: a forty five mile power zone. He was going one
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 7: hundred and ten and he puts his phone down on
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 7: the you know, speedometer or whatever, and he's going one
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 7: hundred and ten and then he shows himself on there
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 7: and he said, you know, he said something or whatever stupid,
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 7: and the cops got the video and went, oh, okay,
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 7: that's pretty goo evidence.
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 9: You're going one hundred and ten in a forty five and.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 7: They charged him.
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I was reckless too. That's that's that area.
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: You could kill yourself and other people too.
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 7: Yeah, there's construction. There's you well know and you guys
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 7: know that there's construction everywhere. So there's always construction because
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 7: they're building stuff across from the stadium so that they
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 7: can do with all you know what, all the owners
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 7: want all this different stuff. So there's it's in a
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 7: construction zone. So he's going like one hundred and ten
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 7: in a forty five in a construction zone and he
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 7: did it to himself.
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: Plus he's a power lines that I'm surprised something didn't
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: happen because he the power lines people's tendons, right.
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, the injury, the injury. Yeah, he could have
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 7: gotten injured just driving by that.
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: Surprised that his brake line didn't just snap or something like,
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: you know, he'd be fly with no breaks, that's what
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: would have happened.
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 7: So honestly, why imagine like, go ahead, yeah, why is it?
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: So he's not on the look because how did they
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: get out of.
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 7: That because he didn't rehab the So the Niners said, okay,
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 7: he gets the torn acl in twenty twenty four and
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 7: they said, you've got to do ABC and d well,
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 7: he just quit doing it and he quit showing up.
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 7: So he quit rehabing with the team. He quit actually
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 7: he just left and he didn't show up anymore. And
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 7: so the Niners had repeated warnings to him, like you
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 7: got to show up so that you can get your
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 7: money and so that you can rehab that knee, and
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 7: he didn't. He just did it on his own or
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 7: did it with his own guy, and so the Niners
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 7: kept giving him warnings and he said no, and so
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 7: they pulled the guaranteed money and so he's on the whatever,
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 7: some kind of reserve list, but they're not paying him
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 7: any money, so he can just sit there and rot.
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 7: And they're so mad at him for all the things
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 7: that he's forced because remember that they didn't even want
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 7: to give him the contract in the first place. And
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 7: then they wanted to trade in New England. He said no,
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 7: they wanted to trade in Cleveland. He had a write
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 7: of refusal. He said no because he was going to
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 7: have to sign an extension Pittsburgh they had to deal
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 7: with he said no, and they were only going to
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 7: get like a second round pick for him. They weren't
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 7: going to get you know, his value as a first rounder.
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 9: And for some reason, he just got disgruntled with the organization.
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 7: They gave him the contract he wanted, they gave him
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 7: the guarantee, They made him a top at that time,
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 7: top five paid wide receiver, which he didn't deserve to be,
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 7: and he just decided he didn't want to play for
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 7: the Niners anymore and quick showing up for his rehab.
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: Good for them to just say screw you man, Like
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: that's the best part about it, because why let up?
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: Because I mean if he if he was healthy and
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: got his head screwed on straight, he could go somewhere
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: and help somebody, right, So, yeah.
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 7: You go to Washington with he Yeah, he played with
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 7: Jay McDonald's at Arizona State before McDonald's went to LSU,
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 7: So he wants to play there.
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: But and the.
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 7: Niners know it, and they're like, well, why would we
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 7: hand you to our to a conference rival we're not
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 7: going to do that until we absolutely positively have to.
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 7: So they're letting him twist in the wind. It's actually
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 7: pretty hilarious, fantastic.
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: Are you on uh on Westwood One again this week? Yeah?
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 7: This weekend? In fact tomorrow morning. And he often and
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 7: this is crazy, I get there like one thirty in
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 7: the morning, but all this week I'm on from three
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 7: to six in the morning, which I don't know if
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 7: if your sister station carries us in the morning, but
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 7: I'm on before you, So I'll be on before your
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 7: morning show. Any early commuters love to have you on
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 7: it because, like I said, we're growing. I'll tell you
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 7: this every week, we're growing it. We're growing that thing
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 7: with the Seattle listening base.
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: I love the fact they put you on at three
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: in the morning Pacific time.
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 7: My god, you know what happens. This is no joke.
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 7: I get up at like one in the morning, I
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 7: leave my house at like one, I get to the
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 7: studio at two o'clock in the morning.
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 9: Ninety nine percent of the time.
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 7: I don't even remember driving it, Like it's just like
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 7: it's a blur, like I can't even remember. Like the
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 7: other day I was like how did they even get
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 7: here once the show starts. I'm okay, but and I
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 7: can't go to bed early, so working on like two
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 7: and a half three hours sleep, that's not my jam.
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 7: It's not great. That's all about Well, I'm not videoing it.
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 2: I can tell yourself.
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 7: Yea, I'm not filming myself, but doing it.
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: What absolute dipstick that guy is? I love it all right,
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: saying I'm smart.
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 7: God.
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: Uh, our listeners tune in on the weekends, or tune
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: in tomorrow morning early for we have people going to
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: work early here. It's you know, boeing and all that
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: kind of fun stuff.
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 7: So yeah, like the last you know, you can maybe
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 7: the last hour like five to six, probably catch me.
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: Give one to call. He loves talking to people in Seattle,
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: and give him a hard time.
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 3: Huh.
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: Give him a shout, give him a shout. I'll talk
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: to next week. Thanks buddy, take care see it, Thank you, John.
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: Great stuff is always with lun. We'll take a break,
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: come back soft, he's here. He'll join us next.
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 7: Maybe.
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: All right, here we go stop stop, we're just mess No. Well,
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, it's mandatory mini camp, so it's mandatory
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: you're here, sir, Yeah, well.
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 3: Is everybody out there?
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 4: By the way, did you go through the roster and
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 4: check off all the players?
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 3: By the way, I say, I'm hot, Andrews thinking very much,
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 3: very appreciate that.
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: Hot, hot, hot hot.
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 3: The only time I hear that is from you. By
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 3: the way, my wife never says that to me.
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 1: It's weird. He told he said I was hot earlier too.
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 4: Just Tammy ever say that to you? You ever come
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 4: home and tell he says, you know what, you're a
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 4: good looking guy.
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 3: I haven't heard that in years now.
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: It's been a while.
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 4: You know what I hear by the way out of
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 4: my wife when I wake up. You don't look good, mother.
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 4: That's what I hear from my wife. Okay, by the way.
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to say it.
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 4: And I can only show this to you because you're
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 4: the only one sitting here. Yes, this is the kind
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 4: of stuff you talk about when you're about to be
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 4: fifty three years old. So I had the little stent
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 4: put in last year, and I want a blood thinner,
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 4: yes right, you know you don't want a blood clot
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 4: forming in your art where the stent is. One of
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 4: the downsides to a blood thinner. Is that you have
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 4: thin blood. You bruise easily. Look at this, dude, look
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 4: at all that. Oh my god, isn't that horrible? And
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 4: on that side to you right there? Oh, how did
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 4: you get that that nasty?
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: Are you boxing these days?
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 7: Guys?
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 3: Body shots or fights from my dog?
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: Oh? Like if you just get touched.
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 3: You Bruce, Yes, horrible, that's not good. And my wife
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 3: beats me at the same time.
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, she has her reasons.
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 4: Okay, every now and then, you know, you go to
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 4: the golf club or you come here, Hey, buddy, how
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 4: are you a bank? Oh that's gonna bruise. It doesn't
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 4: hurt at all. But like, am I only guy that's
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 4: got that problem in a blood thinner?
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: Well, I've been checked the text checked the text line.
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 4: I'm sure people you should have seen me what I
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 4: look like after Game five against Toronto, the one where
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 4: Gino hit the Grand Slam.
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 3: I look like Mike Tyson kicked.
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: Because guys were just every's high five and banging into
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: each other.
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 3: Everybody pump it into each other. Dude, it was horrible.
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: What are you gonna do? They win the World Series?
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: You'll you'll just be one big bruise. I'm just gonna
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 1: you'll be just black and blue. Check into a hospital.
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 4: Seriously, I mean you have to check into a rehab
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 4: clinic anyway after that.
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 4: So, yeah, you go out there, checked them and there
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 4: where's your roster? You know it's I borrow Curtis Crabtree.
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 4: So he just marked everybody. I just marked them all off.
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 4: I said, they're all here. Here's got mad at me.
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 4: He's like, oh, I have to do this. Look you don't,
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 4: you really don't.
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: This is the third time I've been out here in
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. Actually fourth time. Three OTAs
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: into this or something. No, I'm just gonna tell you. Okay,
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: here's here's what I do. I go out there, look around. Hey,
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: they're practicing, right.
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 4: Okay, it's like the analogy I use. And Andrews, you're
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 4: probably too young to understand this movie analogy.
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 3: You're a movie guy though.
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 4: National Lampoon's Vacation the first one, Yes, when they're trying
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 4: to get the hell out of Dodge Ship and Chevy
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 4: Chase checks out the Grand Canyon and it just takes off.
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 2: That is a good Don't.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 4: You want to see the Grand canyon. He's like two
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 4: seconds and I'm done. You walk outside, you say you
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 4: were there.
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: It's a big hole, practice big canyon.
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 3: And check it off the list. And now you feel good.
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 3: You're not lying when you're on the air.
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: We're here.
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 3: You come in here and you can tell the world.
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 3: I was there. I saw Mini Camp. Here's kang.
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: Here's what I had to catch myself doing.
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 3: One's eating too much candy.
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: No, then this is the first time they put candy out,
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: only only Mini.
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 3: Camp candy bulls gone.
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 1: Oh no, that one. No, I don't go see Bailey
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 1: out there. Yeah, that's addictive.
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 3: You got to stay away from the sugar free stuff.
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: That's that's addictive.
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 3: It gives you a diarrhea. I tell you.
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 7: So.
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: Here's what I did. Here's what I did. I think
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: it was the first day of OTAs I went out there,
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: I watched You'll be Shocked, a taped interview. Yeah, and
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: we were out there watching.
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 3: Change your name to tape out.
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 1: Today would have been a good day to happen about.
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: They would have been a good day to have taped interviews. Anyway,
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: I walk out there and I watched Carlos or Elijah Royal, Right,
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: make a couple of plays. I saw Jdarian Price catch
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: like five balls, like all they're throwing the ball and
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: I like hate yeah, and then wait, wait a second,
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: yeah wait, I said, I had to put the brakes
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: on myself, right. I said, it's it's June. Guys aren't
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: able to defend them, that's right. And we've seen a
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 1: lot of guys look really good in June. So I
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: just put the brakes.
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 4: Well, I was all fired up. I was gonna tell
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 4: you at three o'clock today my top fifteen things.
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: I'll be listening. I'll be listening. I'll be in the
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 1: car listening. I'll be in the car listening. So what's
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: the number? What's number fifteen? Bo Steven's wearing Max Hunger's
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: old number, got number sixty, that's number fifteen.
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 3: It's right. Apparently only white guys that play interior.
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 4: Offensive lineman can get number sixty on this football team.
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 4: That's the first. That's the last thing on my list.
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 4: You ever seen the movie Billy Madison? Yeah, one of
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 4: my favorite and yours? Have you seen Billy Madison?
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: Marco? That's my favorite?
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 3: Slippy likes chocolate. Jadarian Price drives a Honda I'm gonna do.
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 3: I'm that's the kind of information I'm gonna get.
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: Only you have that inside information, only you.
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 4: If Donald collects Pokemon cards, really, I'll be right, I
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 4: don't know, I'll be reporting.
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 1: I'm going with I'm going with that.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 3: That's the thing. I can make all this up and
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 3: you wouldn't even know I would.
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: I'm believing it. I'm going with it.
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 3: Make it all up, man, I'm going with it. Donald
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 3: had a tuna sandwift.
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: And then somebody asked for He says, we didn't care.
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 4: John Schneider is at Dino's right, Well, how about if
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 4: he's got like a live feet of practice just sitting
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 4: over their corner watching practice.
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 3: But he's like us, I just want to say it
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 3: was there, dude.
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, what about what do I say? Brother? You
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: can't do anything.
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 3: I can't do anything right now, that's right.
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: Can't hit anybody. It's a fun challenge, man, Mini camp
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 1: stop being fun. When they got in trouble, I don't
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: mind anything. Am I just need more fights. That's what
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: I need.
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 4: Right when Pete Carroll was here and they got us,
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 4: didn't like you're talking about. Yeah, we get a little
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 4: too physical.
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 3: We need it.
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 4: We need a little seahawk on Seahawk cried, well, separate
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 4: the men from the boys.
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: Apparently the NFL frowned upon it when Camp Chances was
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: taking guys heads off at Mini caamp.
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 3: That's ridiculous.
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 4: You know what, if it works for them, it works
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 4: for me.
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: I don't think we had a fight last year.
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 4: I don't think we've had a fight in years here
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 4: at Mini Caamp or training camp.
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: McDonald's not into that. Well, Pete kind of didn't care.
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I loved when I got in Russell's face and
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 4: told him how much he sucked.
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 1: Man, you suck well, you tripped him to this earl,
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: but you couldn't understand what he said. Looks back to
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: cure that of Man, it's like my friend from Boston.
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: You didn't understand.
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 3: All right, where's my aderall man?
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: What are you doing today? That was besides your top
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: fifty guy from Boston? What language are you speak?
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 3: Do you hang out with anybody under eighty? By the way, No, okay,
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 3: this Jack, well, actually he's good. You want to be
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 3: the young guy in the group.
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: He listen, I've been around your friends. Yeah, they're all
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: younger than me.
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 3: I know the problem. Nobody, my angel, hang out with me.
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: You're you might be the best.
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 3: Look at I am the oldest.
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 4: Oh that's a low bar. That is a low freaking bar.
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 4: What's happening today? What John Wilner is going to be
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 4: on normally at five, but we have hockey tonight? Game
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 4: four still the Cup finals?
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 3: Who do you like tonight? By the way, because you're
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 3: dead wrong on game three?
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: So give me a winner in game I think either
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 1: the Keynes or the Nights will winter.
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 3: Okay, good call, good call. Imagine going to a sports book.
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: My name is not Brendan Soorsby. Yeah.
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 4: Well, John Wilner will join us at three twenty and
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 4: talk about that exact story. You saw the Big twelve
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 4: at a conference call today. All the Big twelve commissioners
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 4: are eighty except for one, Every single one except for one.
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 3: Guy wants the guy banned. Yeah, and that's the guy
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 3: that runs Texas tick you know. Yeah.
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: By the way, do you hear the rumor?
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 3: What's the rumor?
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 1: Pac twelve is going to bring Texas Tech on board.
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 3: I'd do it.
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: We're on board with absolutely. He think he can play well.
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 4: The Big ten A can have played Texas Tech anymore
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 4: or the sec or who's leading the charge on that,
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 4: by the way, for the Big ten Troy Danon, same
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 4: guy tried to me and Dick Toss out of a
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 4: press conference, is leading the charge to get.
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: Texas Tech off ever Nebraska, right, Yeah, he's in Nebraska. Yeah, Well,
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: he wants them out their ethics over the years. Richie
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: Young in Cognel and others. Yeah, yeah, he may want.
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 4: He may one long time ago, but he may want
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 4: Nebraska may want to sit this one out anyway. John
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 4: Willner will join us and Julian Love will join us
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 4: after practice around four.
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: O'clock before and top fifteen takeaways.
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 4: Yes, I will give those to you today. Yes, Ernest
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 4: Jones has not seen Mendo and Groovy, which, by the way,
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 4: I heard stunk. If somebody can confirm that for me
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 4: and confirmed it, terrible, terrible, So just wait until it
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 4: comes out on the app. You're saying, don't waste the
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 4: fifty bucks to go watch a movie.
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 6: We got a car for the mild mannered and marginallyness.
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 3: This is paddle Day saying so long everyone