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Furness Show 7-2: USA World Cup win vs Bosnia, Danny O'Neil, Chase Reid and Jake O'Brien · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 2: World Cup? US wins two nil round of sixteen. It's Monday,
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  Speaker 4: coming back Monday night of the Round of sixteen to
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  Speaker 4: the United States. Despite being down a man for half
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  Speaker 4: an hour, has beaten boss in Hertzegovina and has moved
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  Speaker 4: on to the.
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  Speaker 3: Next round of the World Cup.
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  Speaker 2: John Strong on the call courtesy of Fox Sports in
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  Speaker 2: I hear that call about Seattle coming back from John Strong.
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  Speaker 2: He is a star. You couldn't have nailed the calls
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  Speaker 2: on the two goals any better, couldn't have nailed the
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  Speaker 2: end of the game any better. And yes, the USA
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  Speaker 2: back here on Monday. Hello Anderson Hurst, How are you today, buddy?
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  Speaker 3: I'm pretty excited Ian. It was a big day yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: I feel very blessed that I was able to broadcast
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  Speaker 6: one of the biggest moments in US men's national team history.
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  Speaker 6: It's the first time in my life the US have
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  Speaker 6: won a knockout stage game. Not in my life, but
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  Speaker 6: in my soccer watching life, that they won a knockout
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  Speaker 6: stage game. And it just felt like a giant hurdle
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  Speaker 6: was cleared yesterday for the US.
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  Speaker 2: And it was a hurdle, There's no doubt. It wasn't
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  Speaker 2: just the game, but then having to play the final.
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  Speaker 2: I laugh when people say the final half hour with
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  Speaker 2: only ten men, that's wrong because the way this idiot
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  Speaker 2: who was the official last night gave time, it was
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  Speaker 2: thirty plus an extra ten plus an extra two is
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  Speaker 2: almost forty five minutes, almost an extra half hour, stop
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  Speaker 2: and stop. It felt like when it was all said done.
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  Speaker 2: I should say ten ten in another five. It is
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  Speaker 2: about fifteen minutes when it was all said and done
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  Speaker 2: with ten men. But of course the final what six
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  Speaker 2: seven minutes of that they had a two goal lead,
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  Speaker 2: still still to win in Santa Clara to come back here.
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  Speaker 2: The hurdle, the obstacles, the challenge is if that team
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  Speaker 2: had to get through everyone that was concerned, because God forbid,
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  Speaker 2: they lost a nothing burger means nothing game against Turkey. A.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully all of you are okay now, because this team
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  Speaker 2: is something we've talked about. You've talked about it a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Jackson's talked about it, Danny Jackson has talked about it,
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  Speaker 2: Peter Fee. They are resilient, They are different than past
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  Speaker 2: US teams and Andrews. They have captivated the nation. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this is what this is like. It's a dream scenario.
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  Speaker 2: Not just for US men's soccer, It's a dream scenario
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  Speaker 2: for Fox. It's a dream scenario for the sports fan
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  Speaker 2: across the country. You're hosting the World Cup, your team
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  Speaker 2: is in the round of sixteen. They provided plenty of
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  Speaker 2: drama last night before that, plenty of excitement in their
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  Speaker 2: group stage games. I just can't think of a better
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  Speaker 2: situation setting up for Monday than than what we have
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  Speaker 2: had to get us to this point.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the only pie, well, I'm sure we'll
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  Speaker 3: get to it.
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  Speaker 6: The only negative for that is that you won't have
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  Speaker 6: your one of your best players.
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  Speaker 3: But it's just fantastic.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it felt like, and I mentioned this before
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  Speaker 6: that I'm happy that the US law. I'm gonna say
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  Speaker 6: happy they lost against Turkey, but I'm happy they were
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  Speaker 6: able to go through some adversity versus Turkey because the
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  Speaker 6: first couple of games, it just felt like everything was
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  Speaker 6: going to US way and you're gonna go through these moments.
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  Speaker 6: Pete Feeling mentioned that last night he's won three national
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  Speaker 6: championships as a head coach. He knows what it's like
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  Speaker 6: to go through these runs where you need to get
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  Speaker 6: some luck, you need to you're gonna have moments that
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  Speaker 6: you feel like you're gonna wanna fold, and you're gonna
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  Speaker 6: go up against things where it won't go your way.
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  Speaker 6: And having that happened last night in the US not
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  Speaker 6: only not get not fold under the pressure, I feel
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  Speaker 6: like they got better. It's it's weird because they went
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  Speaker 6: down to ten men. I won't say they played better
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  Speaker 6: than they were with eleven, but they were still the
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  Speaker 6: better team than Bosnia even with one less player on
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  Speaker 6: the field, and they had showed it with a goal
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  Speaker 6: scoring late in the game as well. It's just it's
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  Speaker 6: so impressive, Ian.
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  Speaker 2: I think what we'll do is it at one o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Sarah's is gonna join us at one point
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  Speaker 2: twenty and Danny O'Neil at two at one o'clock will
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  Speaker 2: kind of jump more into the into the This is
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  Speaker 2: a great thing about sports, and a sport that a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people are either just learning, don't really have
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  Speaker 2: understand casual fan what have you. Is that you know,
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  Speaker 2: the red card gives us something tangible to talk about,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll get to that and I'll get your thoughts
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  Speaker 2: on that coming up at one o'clock today. But I
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  Speaker 2: think what you said there's important for this team as
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  Speaker 2: they head into that game on Monday here in Seattle
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  Speaker 2: around to sixteen against Belgium. There is they had to
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  Speaker 2: battle some adversity and it was easy. The first two
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  Speaker 2: group stage games frankly were easy, and I mean and
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  Speaker 2: then soccer terms like, it was they they were the
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  Speaker 2: better side, they had, everything was better quality. Everything was
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  Speaker 2: better in those first two games. Again, I don't care
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  Speaker 2: about the third game. You don't care about the third game.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody with any half a brain doesn't care about the
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  Speaker 2: third group stage game. But those first two were easy,
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  Speaker 2: and I was listening, you'll love this. So we play
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  Speaker 2: a weekly league, golf league game goals after work. So
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  Speaker 2: yesterday was that day. It's Wednesdays, you guys know, because
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  Speaker 2: you see me bolt out the hall, ass out of there.
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  Speaker 2: And I got lucky yesterday because the game went into
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  Speaker 2: stoppage time with Belgium. I was able to I was
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  Speaker 2: able to avoid the traffic. But so you know, we
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  Speaker 2: teed off at five o'clock and you know, our group
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  Speaker 2: we had the game. The group in front of us
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  Speaker 2: had the game on a radio. I had the game
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  Speaker 2: through the speaker and the cart on a on my phone,
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  Speaker 2: watching it and listening to it and for the whole
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  Speaker 2: basically the whole two hours. Yeah, and we're watching it
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  Speaker 2: and the ebbs and the flows, the epps and the
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  Speaker 2: downs that you know, two goals waved off for off
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  Speaker 2: sides and they were the right calls, uh for the US.
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  Speaker 2: But the frustration that comes with that, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: we'll get they got to do something like it's like
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  Speaker 2: there's been far too many goals waved off with off
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  Speaker 2: sides that weren't called initially in the in the World Cup.
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  Speaker 2: It's just you've got to be better that your offishating's
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  Speaker 2: got something's got to change because you can't have the
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  Speaker 2: celebration that you have and all because soccer celebrations are different,
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  Speaker 2: they take like five minutes. They got to do better.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway that aside, they were the right calls, the
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  Speaker 2: ups and downs, the goal when the red card happened.
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  Speaker 2: And again we'll spend i'll get your thoughts. I'll go
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  Speaker 2: a little deeper on this. At one when that was called,
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  Speaker 2: my buddy Steve Shrek, who plays was a high level
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  Speaker 2: player and still plays is old age of fifty every
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  Speaker 2: Friday night and knows the game really well. He was
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  Speaker 2: in the group in front of us and we're backed
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  Speaker 2: up into par three and I was were I'm watching
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  Speaker 2: it on the previous one, I'm like, this is I
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  Speaker 2: can't I cannot believe this, Like I literally couldn't believe it.
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  Speaker 2: I was there's no doubt because when you watch it
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  Speaker 2: in real time, I thought maybe a yellow, maybe in
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  Speaker 2: real time. I'm showing it to him. He's losing his mind.
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  Speaker 2: We get, you know, a couple holes later, we're all
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  Speaker 2: we ended up playing with like six of us because
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  Speaker 2: the two groups we were clear clear and so we're playing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm on the T box on seventeen. It's one nil
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  Speaker 2: times running up in the US as a free kick,
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  Speaker 2: and like there's five of the guys huddling around my
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  Speaker 2: phone watching in the car, and I said, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: I really hope I hope you guys are screaming in
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  Speaker 2: my backswing. And I played like absolute dog you know
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  Speaker 2: what anyway at that point, so it didn't matter. It
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  Speaker 2: was like you couldn't play worse golf in the history
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  Speaker 2: of man, So it didn't matter. I'm I'm literally lining
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  Speaker 2: the ball up and they screw because I didn't want
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  Speaker 2: to watch the freaking right and I just can't. I
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  Speaker 2: can't do it. I'm done. My mind's too stressed. And
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  Speaker 2: they start losing it. I go, you guys are just
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  Speaker 2: messing with me, and they go, no, he's scored it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, no, you're a kidding awesome. So then I
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  Speaker 2: watched the rep I like just shank one left, like
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  Speaker 2: I don't even care. Let me see what you and
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  Speaker 2: I'm watching the replay. What an incredible strike? Yes, like
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  Speaker 2: the beauty of the game is lost sometimes because too
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  Speaker 2: many of these guys think that they're you know, punters
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  Speaker 2: in the NFL or field goal kickers kicking off and
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  Speaker 2: they want to launch balls in the upper deck. I've
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  Speaker 2: never been able to fathom how people at that skill
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  Speaker 2: level can't finish it. Like you and I talked about
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  Speaker 2: the volley we saw the other day. It was incredible
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  Speaker 2: for him to put that up over and dip down
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  Speaker 2: that Daniel Lorie couldn't do a rise and a drop
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  Speaker 2: like that in her prime, like she couldn't.
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  Speaker 5: She just couldn't.
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  Speaker 2: She's maybe the best picture not named Jenny Finch ever
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  Speaker 2: and she couldn't do that. That was an incredible strike.
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  Speaker 2: And that game had everything. Unfortunately it was in Santa Clair.
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  Speaker 2: Those people don't deserve it. But what that game had everything?
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  Speaker 7: Did it not?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: I mean it's everything you want. And you mentioned that
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  Speaker 6: you don't really care about the Turkey game. I do
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  Speaker 6: in a sense that not in the result. I do
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  Speaker 6: because I think without them going through that game where
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  Speaker 6: they did have to face a team that was battling
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  Speaker 6: through some stuff, and they had to come back a
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  Speaker 6: couple of times as well, even though they end up
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  Speaker 6: losing the game, having the feeling like, okay, we need
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  Speaker 6: to fight back. There's there's a little bit of you know,
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  Speaker 6: something going against us here. I feel like that really
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  Speaker 6: helped them in the game yesterday because.
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  Speaker 2: And I agree with that when I say I don't care, yeah, results,
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  Speaker 2: the result didn't matter.
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  Speaker 6: Totally totally, I know what you mean. But the other
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  Speaker 6: thing is the way Bosnia played. They were scuffing it
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  Speaker 6: up from the beginning. They were man handling Florian Florian
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  Speaker 6: Baligan the entire game. And then the ref doesn't use
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  Speaker 6: a single card, and then the first card that comes
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  Speaker 6: out as a red on a VR review and.
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  Speaker 3: Just well again we'll get to that late, but.
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't wasn't there a And after that I forget who
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  Speaker 2: was in the box for the US. Someone got there?
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  Speaker 2: And again I'm watching a cell phone in a golf cart.
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  Speaker 2: The tugging of the jersey. Shouldn't that have been a PK?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, looked at Yes, it should have been.
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  Speaker 2: FIFA has got issues, MANIF has got issues. So all right,
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  Speaker 2: let's do this. I gotta take a quick break. Yep,
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  Speaker 2: tay a quick break. We'll come back. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: talk to the last two first round draft picks of
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  Speaker 2: August early September, because the development camp for the Crack
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  Speaker 2: and just finished up and I'm joined now. We're kind
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  Speaker 2: of making this right a passage. We did this last
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  Speaker 2: year with Berkeley Catton and Jake O'Brien the first to
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  Speaker 2: the last two first round picks for the Cracking, and
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  Speaker 2: we're doing it again this year with the wiley veteran Jacobrian,
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  Speaker 2: who joins us a line with this year's first round
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  Speaker 2: pick Chase Reid. Development camp wraps up after three days.
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  Speaker 2: The Stucky Cup is over and we got a chance
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  Speaker 2: to watch these guys on the ice and before we
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  Speaker 2: send them off for the summer. And actually a meal
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  Speaker 2: that's I heard Ribi steak, chicken and ribs are waiting
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  Speaker 2: for you guys downstairs. Jake, how's that sound?
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  Speaker 7: I thought that sounds really good.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds good. He like, get me the hell out
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  Speaker 2: of here. Talk to Ian Chase ree first time we
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  Speaker 2: got a chance. We talked to you on draft day
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  Speaker 2: as well. You've been here now for a few days.
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  Speaker 2: You've seen the facilities and everything. What's going through your
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  Speaker 2: mind after the whirlwind that's been the last six days.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean it's unreal having the opportunity to come
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  Speaker 8: play here and have all the facilities and resources possible,
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  Speaker 8: being able to talk to anyone in any situation, doesn't
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  Speaker 8: matter what it is. It's everybody's been super welcoming. The
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  Speaker 8: city's great.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait to.
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  Speaker 3: Get started, Jake.
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  Speaker 2: For you year two, so you come back and I say,
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  Speaker 2: wily veteran, but this is a year ago year in
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  Speaker 2: his position. How different is it for you? This year.
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  Speaker 2: Is it more of a comfort level? You went through
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  Speaker 2: training camp, all those How is it for you this
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  Speaker 2: second go round? Yeah, it's definitely less stressful for sure.
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  Speaker 9: Last year obviously the combine then going to the draft
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  Speaker 9: or really doing a whole bunch of stuff there and
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  Speaker 9: then not knowing where you're gonna end up.
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  Speaker 7: So it was a roll win last year.
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  Speaker 9: But this year I was a lot more relaxed and
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  Speaker 9: definitely less stressful coming in.
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  Speaker 2: Have you talked to Chase much? Have you given any advice?
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to talk to the rookies, I know
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  Speaker 2: because I say that for those who't know we sat here,
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  Speaker 2: we meant Berkeley. Berkeley was kind of here last year
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  Speaker 2: and he kind of helped you out a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Are you kind of taking that same role this year?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know, maybe a little bit.
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  Speaker 9: It's kind of tough when we're both O seven, so
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  Speaker 9: it's kind of it's almost a little bit weird.
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  Speaker 2: Were roommates though, Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: We are?
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  Speaker 2: Are your roommates?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 9: But yeah, just talking to him and then just just
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  Speaker 9: asked him questions about the draft and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So so seven is just for those of you got
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  Speaker 2: enough junior fans here the everage Silver Tips fans or
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  Speaker 2: Thunderbird fans. They know what seven means your birthday year,
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  Speaker 2: and that means how old you are, So you're both
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  Speaker 2: basically you're both eighteen years old. Yeah exactly, Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and Chase has a late birthday, as they say in
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  Speaker 2: the old hockey world. So that's why you By the way,
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  Speaker 2: our math that night we were doing the show and
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  Speaker 2: Everett who's the radio play by play guy, al me
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  Speaker 2: and a TV idiot and Mike Bent I played Benton.
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  Speaker 2: We're like, oh, god, he's really young. No, no, you're
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  Speaker 2: actually a little bit older in that sense as well.
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  Speaker 2: So you've been around all right, I'm gonna go back
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  Speaker 2: for people to hear it. You played against Chase Jake,
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  Speaker 2: give us a scouting report.
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  Speaker 9: Uh yeah, well we obviously didn't play each other much
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  Speaker 9: because he's in the sue, but when we did, he's
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  Speaker 9: a he's actually an excellent skater high hockey IQ. So
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  Speaker 9: he impressed me and my teammates when we played him.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, what'd you think when Chase was drafted, Like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: that's a nice little I. Of course I slipped to seven.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody thought that would happen. We're like Hey, that's a pretty.
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  Speaker 9: Nice pick up for Yeah, obviously I didn't think that's
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  Speaker 9: what who we're gonna get at seven, But when I
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  Speaker 9: got seven, I was like, I was really hoping we
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  Speaker 9: would pick him, and we ended up doing that.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: So all right, Chase, give me the skin of report
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: on this guy.
• 15:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, not very high hockey IQ, very poised
• 15:15
  Speaker 8: with the puck, very when the puck's on his stick,
• 15:17
  Speaker 8: it's his puck, you it's it's pretty hard to get
• 15:20
  Speaker 8: it away from him. But yeah, super super dynamic player,
• 15:23
  Speaker 8: just sets up his teammates all over the ice, scores goals,
• 15:26
  Speaker 8: always finds a way to score.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: So super hard to play against. Jake Jacobriant Chase rejoining us,
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: Jake for you, you left her last at the end
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: of training camp last year and you go back to juniors,
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: What what did they tell you and what did you
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: mostly have to work on last year, not just on
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: the ice but off the ice.
• 15:43
  Speaker 9: Yeah, just being more mature in my game, being more
• 15:46
  Speaker 9: two way, lying more and and my d's on coverage
• 15:50
  Speaker 9: and being better than that way, and then also going
• 15:53
  Speaker 9: into a leadership role this year I learned I learned
• 15:57
  Speaker 9: a lot with that, especially in a room with older guys,
• 16:00
  Speaker 9: so yeah, yeah, I learned a lot to share. I
• 16:04
  Speaker 9: finally got to go on a little bit of a
• 16:05
  Speaker 9: playoff ROUNT two, so you want more than a little
• 16:09
  Speaker 9: playoff un I was pretty good. Yeah, well not not
• 16:12
  Speaker 9: not for us. We thought we were gonna go all
• 16:13
  Speaker 9: the way. But that's what kind of sucks about it.
• 16:15
  Speaker 9: But this this year has really helped me in it.
• 16:17
  Speaker 9: It'll help me for this year coming up.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: I was gonna say, like a leadership role for a
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: team with high expectations, it's it's it's like that's a
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: that's a big deal, especially for a guy. It's only
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: like for those who know not a lot of guys
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: are captains at least haven't been in the past in
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: juniors at eighteen, like that doesn't happen. So what did
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: that mean to you when you were giving that opportunity.
• 16:35
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's obviously a huge honor, and especially in the
• 16:39
  Speaker 9: room that we had. We had I think we had
• 16:41
  Speaker 9: five former captains, so just trying to take stuff from
• 16:45
  Speaker 9: them also because they were obviously captains before me on
• 16:48
  Speaker 9: other teams.
• 16:50
  Speaker 7: So I learned a lot from everyone this year.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: It is Jcobrien and Chase Reed, joining us. All right
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: for you, Chase, like your situation is interesting, you go
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: have tell the story because I think we were just
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: talking about this, was watching all the scouts and other
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: guys up Peop were watching, and two years ago you
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: were cut from a junior team in the American in
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: the USHL. Yeah how Yeah, I don't know, Jamie, you
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: believe that? Like there's guys that are sixteen playing in
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: the DUB and the O and the Q and all
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: this and that's the USHL and all due respect, he
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: as good as a as a HL, Like, how the
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: hell did that happen? Yeah?
• 17:22
  Speaker 8: I mean I went into training camp for Waterloo. I
• 17:25
  Speaker 8: didn't have my best camp, but I still thought they'd
• 17:27
  Speaker 8: give me an opportunity to go out there and just
• 17:29
  Speaker 8: maybe maybe show show my skills and go out there
• 17:32
  Speaker 8: and prove myself. But you know, they never gave me
• 17:33
  Speaker 8: the chance. I got scratched the first aid of the season,
• 17:35
  Speaker 8: got sent down to the North American League, played in
• 17:38
  Speaker 8: Bismarck for about a month and a half, and then
• 17:39
  Speaker 8: once the rule got changed, we could go from the
• 17:41
  Speaker 8: CCHL at College and made the jump to the Sioux.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: So well did it work out for the best for you.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Like sometimes like I'm sure at the time you're getting
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: your healthy scratch as a young guy, you're like, what
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: the hell's going on here? I you know, you get
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: sent down to like a tier two level whatever it is,
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: and it's like, did it work out best? And when
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: it's all said and done, do.
• 17:59
  Speaker 8: You think, Yeah, I think everything's falling into plays very well.
• 18:01
  Speaker 8: Being having the opportunity to go playing the zo and
• 18:04
  Speaker 8: that kind of environment, very big hockey town. It's about
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: the only thing to do up there if you're a
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: hockey fan. So yeah, the industry there, Yeah, Yeah, it's
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: a lot of fun. We had Jeff Carter come to
• 18:15
  Speaker 8: the rank as well, so yeah, it's super fun up there.
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: But yeah, everything planned out the perfect way could.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Jake for you in term. I know one of the
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: things that Berkeley went through this too. We talked about
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: this a year ago, sitting here, getting bigger, getting stronger,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: doing all those things. How does that work? Like is
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: it eating more calories? How does that like? Did they
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: give you a plan? And how did it cause you?
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: You do look a little bit different, Like you put
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: on a little bit of weight and stuff like that
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: good weight someone's put on bad weight, you put on
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: good weight. How did that work? Like what do you
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: do per day in terms of like just nutrition and
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: things like that.
• 18:44
  Speaker 9: Yeah, well, the past three a few years, I've been
• 18:47
  Speaker 9: working out with a trainer in Toronto.
• 18:49
  Speaker 7: That's helped me a lot.
• 18:50
  Speaker 9: So just going into the gym every day Monday to
• 18:52
  Speaker 9: Friday and then so I'll be doing that for sure.
• 18:56
  Speaker 9: But I think the nutrition is the biggest part because
• 18:59
  Speaker 9: I know I'm gonna put an effort in the gym,
• 19:01
  Speaker 9: but if I don't have a good nutrition, then I
• 19:03
  Speaker 9: won't I won't put on good way and muscle. So
• 19:06
  Speaker 9: just trying to get to four four thousand calories a day,
• 19:10
  Speaker 9: but but with good calories too.
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: So I feel like that's the biggest thing. Four a day. Yeah,
• 19:16
  Speaker 7: that's the goal. Yeah, I think.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: I'd be three hundred and three. And I could do
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: that with beer. I don't know if I could do
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: what's what's what? How do you do that?
• 19:23
  Speaker 8: Like?
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: What do you like just for be that's curre.
• 19:25
  Speaker 9: Like well, yeah, protein protein shakes and then just having
• 19:31
  Speaker 9: yeah race race and beef, race and chicken and just
• 19:35
  Speaker 9: trying to have instead of breakfast, launch and dinner. Maybe
• 19:38
  Speaker 9: you mixing another big meal in there and then have
• 19:41
  Speaker 9: another late one later in the night before you go
• 19:44
  Speaker 9: to better or something.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Chase the same thing for you as I'm sure that's
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: one of the things they want you to do when
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: you go to Michigan State.
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: Right yeah, definitely put on weight, like Jake said, chicken
• 19:51
  Speaker 8: and rice, beef and rice. You got to change up
• 19:53
  Speaker 8: the sauce that's on top though, or it gets old
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: really fast.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: But what do you go with sauce?
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: Wise, throw some tarry off on there more often than
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: not that once they go to but uh, yeah, there's
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: not much and you can put on there that's gonna
• 20:06
  Speaker 8: make it taste good.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Fellas. You guys know where you're at Seattle, Like you
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: can't walk three feet without finding a coffee shop or
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: a Terioki store like they probably you probably haven't mentioned
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: at the hotel, right, not much. Trust me. When you
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: come back for camp, well, you can't come up with
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: camp like you can't come to camp right yeah, yeah,
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: I'll be at school. You'll be a school when you're
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: back here in the future. If you like Terryaki, there
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: is there. This is like the like where you well,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: where you're from. You can't go anywhere with else seen
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: to Tim works. You probably what dunkin Donuts, that's us. Yeah,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: that's that's I'll just say that that's us for Terryoki,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: So you guys will be set in that regard. Let's
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: talk about your game. Who do you model your game after? Yeah?
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think we have a lot in common. Both
• 20:46
  Speaker 8: able to run a power play. Both both very dynamic skaters, uh,
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: very high hockey IQ love having the pock on our
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: stick and carry play very well.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, just all around very dynamics players.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Right, you've watched them play with you agree, Jake?
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I agree with that.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Lorensky light Yeah yeah, heavy shot, Yeah, pretty heavy shot.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: It excited yea.
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: All right?
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Who do you model your game after?
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: I like to say why Johnson?
• 21:08
  Speaker 9: Just the way he's poised with the puck, the way
• 21:10
  Speaker 9: he can put it back in the back to that,
• 21:13
  Speaker 9: he's obviously a very good young guy in the NHL,
• 21:16
  Speaker 9: and he's made big steps over the years and especially
• 21:19
  Speaker 9: these last two years.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: That's JC O'Brien. Chase ree with me for a few
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: more moments. The Krakens first round draft picks each of
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: the last two seasons, as far as the organization is concerned, Jake,
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: For you, the plan this year sounds like Coachella Valley.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: And for those wh don't know, the rules changed thankfully
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: probably probably thankfully right like the rules change a nineteen
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: year old again year O seven, but the draft year matters.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: You can actually play in the in the American Hockey
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: League this season. What have they told you? I'm sure
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: that's the expectation. That's probably your expectation as well as
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: to play in Coachella. What have they told you about
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: that in terms of getting ready for it? And what
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: do they expect from you down there? Yeah?
• 21:54
  Speaker 9: Well, obviously I'm gonna try to come come in to
• 21:56
  Speaker 9: camp and try to make the team like.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: That, you know what, that's you know what that's on me.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: That's that's a minus on E one hundred percent. Your
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: job is to come in here and hopefully make this roster, right,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: So let's start there. What have they told you in
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: terms that they're gonna get you a shot? Right?
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 22:09
  Speaker 9: Yeah, Well obviously it's it's up to me how how
• 22:12
  Speaker 9: I come to camp?
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: What would I do this summer?
• 22:15
  Speaker 9: So yeah, I hope to try to make the team
• 22:18
  Speaker 9: out of camp and then if if that doesn't go
• 22:20
  Speaker 9: to plan, then I think Coachelli will be a good
• 22:23
  Speaker 9: option for me. Again my first you're pro hockey, and
• 22:26
  Speaker 9: I feel like it will be a big thing for me,
• 22:27
  Speaker 9: a big step for me.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: So and you got a little taste of it in
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: the playoffs down there last year. What did you notice
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: about that level of play in the American Hockey League
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: And again you're in the playoffs, so it's a whole
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: different level compared to the Ontario Hockey League.
• 22:38
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's obviously a huge step, just the way how
• 22:42
  Speaker 9: every team is so structured, the way guys back check
• 22:45
  Speaker 9: and and and press you at the blue lines and stuff.
• 22:48
  Speaker 9: So it's definitely a big step, especially going into the
• 22:51
  Speaker 9: playoffs and stepping into the playoffs rather than regular season
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: where the speed isn't up up to uh up to
• 22:57
  Speaker 9: par as in the playoffs. So it was definitely a
• 22:59
  Speaker 9: big step, but it'll help me a lot winner this year.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Did you give you that comments like do you do
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: you step on the ice? I think the first couple
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: of games you were scratched and then you got in
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: there and got some got some game action in. Did
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: you kind of say, hey, like I can play at
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: this level? And if I can play at this level
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: right now at my age, I can play at that
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: next level as well. To kind of give you that
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: confidence heading into camp this fall.
• 23:20
  Speaker 9: I always I'm a I'm a confident player. I'm always
• 23:23
  Speaker 9: high in confidence. Obviously, it's very tough stepping in there.
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: I didn't have my best at games that I would
• 23:30
  Speaker 9: have liked, but having that experienced it definitely gives me
• 23:33
  Speaker 9: more confidence because I know I could play there.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Chase for you, uh, for those who know you're going
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: to Michigan State, there's a family connection, right. You guys
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: are all green and white Spartans. Is that the Case's amazing?
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Where's that come from?
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: I am played volleyball for Michigan State, so we've we've
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: always been green and white, and I didn't want to
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: mess it up and go to go to Michigan, so
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: it's always been Michigan State.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: I was just gonna ask you, like, was there other
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: schools recruiting you? Yeah?
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I had Penn State, Zona State, a couple of
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: Ivy League schools, a couple more Big ten schools, but
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: it was pretty much dead to at Michigan State.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Once I took my visits. There was no there, like
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: you there's no chance you're going somewhace else in the
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Big ten. No, No, not like that. You couldn't go home. No,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: like there's like there's no chance. No, Yeah, I was.
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: I was definitely playing and it's close to home. My
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: family can come watch me. Moving away for junior. Having
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: the ability for my family to come up there and
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: be able to watch me all every game is super cool.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Which is awesome. So when you go there, what's the
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: goal for you? Like, obviously big ten weight room, big
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: ten training table, you got all that at your disposal
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: and all those things. We talked about that just from
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: a hockey standpoint. What do you hope to get done
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: this coming fall?
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: Yeah, like Jake said, just maturing my game all around,
• 24:40
  Speaker 8: eventually hopefully being able to come play here at the
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: end of the season and make an impact on the
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: team and just do everything I can do to be
• 24:46
  Speaker 8: the best player I can be.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Have you guys had a chance? I'll talk start with you.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Did you have a chance? I know Lane's kind of
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: up here watching you have other guys, other people coaching,
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: the Torrent coach was coaching, and Caitlin and some other people.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: But do you have a chance of talking Lane much.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: I met him very briefly, but no, haven't talked to
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: him yet. I think we have X interviews downstairs sofa.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: What about you with Lane? You know you were here
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: last year obviously, so you got to know him. What
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: do you think like le about it came in here
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: and like he's got a way of doing things and
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: he's got a system in place. What does Lane talk
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: to you about?
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: To be honestly, we haven't really talked much, but I
• 25:17
  Speaker 9: played that preseason game last year, so I kind of
• 25:19
  Speaker 9: saw his coaching style and and we did some video
• 25:22
  Speaker 9: before the game and stuff. So I really like his
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: coaching style. I think he's a very good coach, very
• 25:29
  Speaker 9: structured and everything.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'll wrap it up with the obligatory fan
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: question afterwards for folks. There was about a couple thousand
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: people here watching the three on three actually in up
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: being a four on four tournament today, the stucky cut
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: as they're watching that. Fans are great, They're coming out here.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: It's season ticket holders, kind of an invite only thing,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: and you guys signed autographs afterwards. I'll start with you, Jake.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: You played here, you were at Climate Pledge last season
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: you kind of got a taste of it. What do
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: you think of this city as a hockey town.
• 25:56
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's obviously a big sports town the way they
• 25:59
  Speaker 9: come up to every game and sell out every game.
• 26:02
  Speaker 9: So it's a big hockey town or a hockey city
• 26:06
  Speaker 9: and in a big sports city.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: So did you throw in the first pitch last year?
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: With no? I did not know? Wow?
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: Yeah that kind of sucks.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: What the hell?
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: How did this guy get that?
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: I wish nice, nice drill. By the way, thank you
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: tell people. So you threw out the first pitch. I
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: think Naylor was the catcher right on Tuesday or Monday Monday.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: I think it's Monday, right, Monday, Tuesday, whatever, Monday Monday Day.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: So Chase got to throw out the first pitch in
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: the Martor's game, which is kind of fun. It was
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: the last time you threw a baseball in.
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: The tunnel five minutes before, but since before that probably
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: not since.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: I was like sixteen.
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah nervous.
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I was more nervous to walk up to the mound,
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: like didn't want to step on the line or slip
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: and fall or something. I was to actually throw the pitch,
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: but no, Yeah, I was definitely shaken a little bit.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: So you got the jersey, which you don't have. No,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna fix that, Kevin Martinez, if you're listening, Mariner president,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: we're gonna fix we got Jake. Get a Jake out there.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: That's that's that's unacceptable. This guy, I think got to
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on.
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know why.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: That's not good. Well, all right, so for you, did
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: you grow up a Tigers fan?
• 27:08
  Speaker 10: No?
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: Yeah, well, I mean I never really watched much baseball,
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: but always cheer for the hometown.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Okay, so now you've got a Mariner jersey. Yeah, so
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: you're gonna kind of chan Yeah. I think I got
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: a cheer for the Mariners now, okay. And theylor's a
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: hockey guy. Yeah, huge hockey guy, has a cracking jersey
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: all the time. He's an Ontario guy as well as Naylor.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: So all right, were you blue Jay fan growing up?
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: I was?
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Okay, are you still?
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: I don't.
• 27:30
  Speaker 9: I don't fallow baseball much, but perfect, that's good answer.
• 27:33
  Speaker 9: Definitely definitely still like him.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: That's well okay, Well, well you know what we're gonna
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: change that with the Mariners as well. All right, Jcobrien
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: and Chase reeed. Guys, congratulations on being first round picks
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: last year. The road ahead is gonna be exciting. I
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: think everybody here in this town is excited for both
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: you guys. Can't wait to watch you guys this season. Hopefully,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Jake you're here. If not, we'll be keeping track of it,
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: but hopefully you're here. And obviously now we gotta watch
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: a little big ten hockey with you case as well.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: So guys, thanks a lot for coming. Rib eyes chicken
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: ribs downstairs waiting for you, so go enjoy. All right,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: thankank you. All right, we'll take a quick break stick
• 28:04
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• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Now back Dean Furness on your home for the Huskies,
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  Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in thirty two, Bar and Grill,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: we are here big thanks Jacobrien and Chase Reied for
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: joining us here. And yeah, we did a little hockey
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: in July. Whatever, it's a lot I thought two things.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: One kind of fun these guys are here, talk to
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: the young guys, get a chance to get to them
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: a little bit, Andrews as well as we wrap things up, Yeah,
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: probably won't. I mean we got still free agency, trades
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: could happen all those things as as the summer progresses.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: But kind of putting a bow on the on the
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: season off early offseason, getting ready for a couple off
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: before training camp starts later on. But I'm glad we
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: got a chance to talk to those two guys.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, it's good to hear.
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: And I kind of like the little right of passage
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: thing that because he did it with Berkeley and Jake
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: last year, where you know, it's the first last two
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: first round picks, right, and Berkeley was kind of the
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: elder statesman of the group, and now he's graduated on
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: to be a part of the roster, and you know,
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: Jacobrien now kind of fills that role today.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: I want.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And when we were sitting here last year, I
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: didn't I think there was some hope that Berkeley would
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: make the team. Yes out of camp. I don't know
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: how realistic we really thought that hope was, but there
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: was some hope ye right, that he would make it. Well,
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: now maybe Jake's in that same situation.
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and you kind of mentioned that when when you
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: kind of laid out the path for him, it's like, oh, yeah,
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: what do you think about Coachella Valley? And then he
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: was like, wait, well, my first objective is to make
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: the team here, right.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: And I love that from him.
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: I love the pushback that he expects to kind of
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: push for a roster spot for the crack Yeah.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: I I And that was a bad one on me.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: I don't even know what I was thinking. I'm like, yeah,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: you gonna go down Coachella Valley. He's like, I Am,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: like really, I am. I didn't know that. But you
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: know what that's it doesn't matter what sport you're in.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: If you're an athlete, that should be your attitude is
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: like I'm not content with just staying here or you know,
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: going there, going the Miners. I you know, it's well,
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: we're gonna talk to you know, Sarahs about the Mariners
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: coming up on twenty today and I'm gonna I kind
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: of want to go down the road a little bit
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: again with him, with Kate Anderson and especially like, at
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: what point does it not do you any good to
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: be in the miners right, right. And I think you
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: could probably debate it a little bit with Berkeley Caton
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: last year, but honestly, he forced his way under this roster. Yeah,
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: they had older players down there that could have played
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: here and they didn't. Right, he was better, right, and
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: I think, you know, we'll see what it means for
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: him coming up this season. You know, all the talk
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: about what's going on here in Seattle and where they
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: are and all that. You know, part of what they
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: would hope to do is have guys like Berkeley Catton
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: take a big step forward exactly right, take a really
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: big step forward. And you know they need Shane Wright
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: to maybe do that as well, take that big step
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: forward along the way to get to that next level,
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: you know. And if they can do that, hey, who
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: knows what will happen along the way. But I'll just
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: I'll say this, I think both those kids are are
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: pretty mature. Chase Reid is, but sure, be honest, I
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: mean this kid talks like he's a pro right now.
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I noticed kind of a different They're both confident, right,
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: and I love that, but in two different ways. Like
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: jac O'Brien's almost like it thinks, you know, everything is
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: a slight against him, which we've known has been successful.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: When you know the last the last first round pick,
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: Chase Reid and the one before, Jacobrien Berkeley Catton both
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: got to throw out a first pitch of the marriage game.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: He didn't. He's like, what the hell?
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: I got to talk to Kevin marts about that one,
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: but I got to talk to I don't know what
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: happened last year, but I gotta talk. I gotta talk
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: to Martinez about that one, because he was he was
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: not happy about that.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: He's gonna stay at Blue Jays fan until that switches.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Right. Yeah, I'll go throw it to Naylor and be
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: done with it, like I do. One of the things
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: that's cool in this town and I'll just I'll get
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: off the hockey as a whole for a second. One
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: of the things is cool in this town, there is
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: there has always been a lot of camaraderie between the
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: pro teams.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I do love that.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: And you know, I know a few years ago that
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: you know, the comment was made big ugly house by
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: It was it Stanton, I guess it said it or something, right,
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: and now he was referring to a building that frankly
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: was probably never ever had announce of hope to get
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: built down in Sona, the Chris Hansen project. And part
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: of it was because a the financing didn't exist, and
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: be the financing didn't exist to actually get a team
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: right here in that regard, especially when see Bomber left.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: But by and large, the teams do get along really well.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: And I've mentioned this before that now it was different
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: this year because Ron frances this is really tight with
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Jerry to Poto. Ron obviously not here anymore, but to
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: Poto came to a ton of drafts and vice versa.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Francis would sit in the Mariner's draft room as well.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: I love that, And I know there's been some of
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: that same stuff with the Seahawks. I know the PR
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: staffs for the Kraken and the Seahawks work together quite
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: a bit, even sometimes as far as coordinating when you're
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: gonna have Hey, we're doing this press conference or this
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: event today, what are you guys doing so, which kind
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: of is nice, Like not a lot of markets would
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: do that if you're in a lot of and we're
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: a big market, Make no mistake this is a market
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: eating market twelve. There's no way that you're sitting in
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Chicago when the Bears are coordinating stuff at the Blackhawks
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: like they're not doing that right, you know.
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: I think it's more the Seahawks are saying we're doing
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: it this day, and they're like, here's our heads up.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: They're not moving for anybody exactly, but you get the point.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: There is that camaraderie, which I think is I think
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: is really important in sports. But yeah, fun to talk
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: to those two guys, and we'll see what happens coming
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: up in the fall. All right, here's what's coming up
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: in the rest of the show today. Coming up at
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: one twenty, we'll talk to Eno sarrus Manor's back in
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: action tonight. For the life of me, I thought this
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: was a day game today. Just just just told me earlier.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: I go, yeah, well, the manorer's playing on one. I
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: said they playing at twelve forty years at the one.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Ten games goes, what are you talking about? To game
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Broll think about this though it's getaway day and they
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: had yesterday off, why do they play it. I love
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: the factor of playing a night game because that means
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: I go home watch the game today and we're not
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: and we're not talking. We're not talking baseball with the
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: you know, when the miners are playing.
• 34:22
  Speaker 7: I love that.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: I'm good with that. But well, we'll talk manners with
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: EO Sarus coming up at one twenty today and then
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Danie O'Neil is going to join us at two pm.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Normally have Friday guest, but he'll join us at two
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: pm today. We'll check in with Danny about all things sports.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: I'm excited to talk to Danny about the World Cup.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: I'm really excited to talk to you about it next
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: because I think we need to get some clarity Anders.
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: On two things.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: One and I know it's it's it's not even water
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: to the bridge now with the red card yesterday, because
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: it affects you for another game. It does like it's
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: one thing. It's like, hey, bad call, you move on,
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: you won the game, who cares. That's not the case
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: in soccer. The red card means you're affected in the
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: next game. So we're gonna talk about should it have
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: been a red card? Why was a red card? I
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: thought the protocol that they went through really strange, right, Yes,
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: it's like really weird. In the sense that it's not
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: how you're supposed to use VAR, which would tell me
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: that it should have been null and void. But it wasn't.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: That's why FIFA crooked. But we'll talk about that, and
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: then we'll talk about what the ramifications are for the
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Belgium match coming up on Monday, which we'll be here
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: in Seattle. Can't wait. Should be fun and I do
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: believe just talking to people out here. Am I right
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: in this? You guys are doing pre and posts for
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: about I don't know, one hundred stations across the country
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: from Jimmy's on first on Monday.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Yes, we are very exciting, dude.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: How exciting is that?
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: I love it?
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: Seriously, it's honestly, I try not to think about how
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: many places my voice will be heard. I think about
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: just talking soccer with my buddies, whether it's Pete Feeling,
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: Jackson Feld, Stanny Jackson, Steve, Zachkwani or Brad Evans. But yeah,
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: it's fun to be able to do this for a
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: lot of people because I feel like we provide really
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: good coverage.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Would you really include Jackson and your buddies? No, coming,
• 36:09
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• 36:28
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• 36:32
  Speaker 2: is pretty simple. US men's national team World Cup win,
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: win win. Let's go baby US to Bosnia nil nil,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: first knockout stage win for the US the World Cup
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: since two thousand and two. Belgium up next Monday here
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: in Seattle, Washington.
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: Rematch of the twenty fourteen round of sixteen when the
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: US lost to Belgium.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Remind me to tell you this. I full the story.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: I'll tell it again about that one. I got in
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: trouble on that one.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: Oh no, what did you do?
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: Ian?
• 37:05
  Speaker 7: Actually?
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: I ballamee puckett. Let's see Spain Austria there at the half,
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Spain leading one nil.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: That's correct, So that's correct, sir?
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: There? Yes, Portugal, Croatia later Switzerland Algeria. Mariners look for
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: a sweep today against the Angels. They won the first
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: two games a series. They took yesterday off because there's
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: a little thing called a World Cup game Belgium and
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Segal yesterday, so they took the day off yesterday. Angels
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Mariners wrapping up tonight's six to forty first pitch. We'll
• 37:28
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• 37:30
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  Speaker 1: Now back to Ian Furness on your home for the
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  Speaker 2: Our number two of the radio show Welcome Back in
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: were the thirty two bar and Grillly in fornosced with
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: you Anderson Hurst, our host, our anchor for all of
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: our World Cup coverage along the iHeartRadio network both as
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: they say in the world, terrestrial radio and the iHeart
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: app one hundred plus stations across the country. And Andrews,
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: You've been a busy, busy dude lately. Last night had
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: to be one of the highlights US knocking off.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: Bost not sheep dirty If they were playing dirty, weren't
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: they Ian?
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: They were dirty? Yes, you know what it was. I
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: would put it this way. I don't know they're dirty.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: I think that what they're they're playing a little greasy. Yeah,
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: because they knew they couldn't compete with the US.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: Correct.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, is that a better way to look at it? Yeah?
• 38:46
  Speaker 6: I think, very similar to Australia when they were in
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: Seattle too, but it was even more so because I
• 38:51
  Speaker 6: think again, we can talk about the refereeing here. If
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: the ref makes a couple put brings out a couple
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: of yellow cards early on in the game, that changes
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: the entire like game and says, no, we're not allowing
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: that extra stuff to happen anymore.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: But he didn't watch grabbing all that stuff going on.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: In jerseys, like late tackles after you make the pass, like.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Just let's let's tackle that the red card, shall we?
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah a second, let's do it. Let's do let's let's
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: tackle the red card and kind of go through that.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: So it comes with about thirty minutes left to go
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: in the match. Yes, sixty fourth minute, US is leading
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: one nil. It looked on the surface in real time,
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: like two guys going after the ball. One guy goes down.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: And this is again why people get upset with soccer,
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: sometimes writhing in pain like you know. This wasn't like
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: the kid in Canada who broke his leg by.
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: Any means to be fair. He didn get his ankle
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: stepped on and it turned and took off his cleat.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: And yeah, I think a US player did as well.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: I'm not mistake. And I think I saw a bloody
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: sock in a press conference.
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: Did I not?
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: You did?
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: Indeed, badass?
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: Did Tilman? Did Tilman not have a bloody sock?
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: He did?
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Was there a red card on that play? There was not,
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: Ian there was not, okay, just checking. So let's just
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: talk about a should have been a red card or not.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: I do not think it should have been. Really just
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: surface level the call.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: And I'm asking you, like for me as a US fan,
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: And when I first saw it, I was just outraged.
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: I watched it over and over again. If you watch
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: the you know, if you if you slow it down
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: frame by frame, here's a still shot. Yeah, foot on ankle,
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: but he first of all, he's looking the other way,
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: there's no ill intent. It's not even like an overly
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: aggressed like they're just going for a ball. Yeah, and
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: you know, like there's no intent whatsoever. It was as
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: accidental as it comes. And I know, listening to every like,
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: there's I didn't realize we had so many soccer officiating
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: experts in the world. There's like a zillion of them.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: I think it was sent you one last night. We
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: want to play that later. Yeah, but everyone, like these
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: guys that are high end officials, they're like, it's you've
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: got to everyone said the same thing, Andrews, and tell
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: help me out here, help our listeners out There has
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: to be some sort of intent, right.
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: Right, And there's multiple layers to this. The first layer
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: is the fact that you mentioned intent. That's that's the
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: easiest one to kind of decipher. You could tell, like
• 41:22
  Speaker 6: you said live time, it just looked like two guys
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: that got their legs kind of tangled together. And you
• 41:26
  Speaker 6: can tell that because the Bosnian players weren't even going
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: straight to the ref to complain about getting a red card.
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: Usually you would see that if there was any sort
• 41:36
  Speaker 6: of question that hey, I thought that was a terrible tackle.
• 41:38
  Speaker 6: None of that they were just looking at their guy
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: who was in pain, right, So you saw no appeals
• 41:45
  Speaker 6: from the Bosnian side to try and get the US
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: player sent off. So that is Number one that tells
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: me that they didn't even expect there to be a
• 41:53
  Speaker 6: red card in that situation. Number Two, the other layer
• 41:57
  Speaker 6: to this is how VAR was used, right, because going
• 42:00
  Speaker 6: into this tournament there was a concerted effort to avoid
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: the term they use is re refereeing the situation. And
• 42:09
  Speaker 6: in previous World Cups where VR has but implemented in
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: the Premier League and the Champions League and over in
• 42:15
  Speaker 6: the European leagues, the kind of criticism of VAR is
• 42:19
  Speaker 6: the fact that any fifty to fifty call would be
• 42:23
  Speaker 6: go back to the VR referee and they would really
• 42:26
  Speaker 6: try and decipher it and tell the referee to go
• 42:29
  Speaker 6: look at it again, right, and they would re referee
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: the situation. That hasn't been the case up until now
• 42:35
  Speaker 6: at this World Cup, and I think most people have
• 42:37
  Speaker 6: praised the use of it. It's been Hey, if it's
• 42:41
  Speaker 6: even close, we're going to stick with the decision on
• 42:43
  Speaker 6: the field with what the referee did. We're not re
• 42:45
  Speaker 6: refereeing the situation here. We're coming to step in if
• 42:49
  Speaker 6: there's a clear and obvious error, a miss a just
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: straight up missed call by the referee, and that's then
• 42:57
  Speaker 6: the only time that VR has been used and they've
• 42:59
  Speaker 6: had a higher threshold to go and take it to VAR.
• 43:04
  Speaker 6: And that wasn't the case last night. That was not
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: the case at all. It seemed it seemed very fifty
• 43:09
  Speaker 6: to fifty. I won't say it was a bang on
• 43:11
  Speaker 6: no penalty or no red card, because if the referee
• 43:14
  Speaker 6: had called red card on the field, I feel like
• 43:15
  Speaker 6: they would have upheld the call when looking at it
• 43:18
  Speaker 6: on VR as well, they wouldn't.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: Have overturned that.
• 43:21
  Speaker 6: But the fact that it wasn't called on the field
• 43:23
  Speaker 6: means it should have stayed as a non red card
• 43:27
  Speaker 6: after going to VR. It's just there's so many layers
• 43:29
  Speaker 6: to this that just screamed that it should not have
• 43:33
  Speaker 6: been the decision that was finally made.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's the thing. It's it's you know,
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: everyone's there's just so we won't spend any time in this.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: There's no appeal process. So that's that's a moot point.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: I know people immediately think, can you appeal it?
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there is, but it's really rare, incredibly rare, And.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: The more likely scenario would be you might actually see
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: the suspension increase exactly from one to two games. So
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: you're just like, let's just the hell out of here.
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: But but I think the one part that would come
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: into play is it because as the var was using correctly,
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: like that's I guess the only thing you would wonder if,
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: like if US Soccer is going, hey, that's like almost
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: an illegal red card in sense, right, because it wasn't
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: usually like like if we're going by the letter of
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: the law, they can't look at that, right, I was
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: thinking earlier, you know, like in other sports NFL, I'll
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: just use I'll use sports with with replay, not not
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: balls and strikes, but NFL and hockey, right, Like you're
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: not supposed to look at the big screen, right as
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: an official, I can tell you if you watch I
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: don't know, I don't know. The NFL is a little
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: more intricate because I think they're pretty good with like
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: the guys upstairs can now call down yep. But if
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: you watch an NHL game, you'll see four officials huddle
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: up sometimes, and I garret you can watch them like
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: you can see guys with the out of the corner
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: eye looking up at a replay. Yeah, and then they
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: keep talking. I'm like, okay, listen, man, here's what happened.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: It's like, okay, well the line has been called, like
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: you know, like there is a way to do that,
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: and but you're you're not really supposed to and you're
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: not going to see someone all of a sudden called
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: for a major penalty in that regard, like a lot
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: of times it's for something small. Yeah, this is it
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: just wasn't used correctly. So that's why I don't get
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: how how they could still use the red card. Here's
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: the problem, and this is the this is the part
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: that's bigger. The red card happens. You survive, you get
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: through the game, you win, it's all great and fine,
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: but now arguably you're I mean, sorry polistic. Your best
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: offensive player is now out for the round of sixteen.
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: Your best goal scorer, I would say, your best goal
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: is car.
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: Yes, so Anders, how do they survive the round of sixteen?
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: What's next for this team?
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: I think I am not as devastated.
• 45:44
  Speaker 6: I guess the word as a US soccer fan, as
• 45:47
  Speaker 6: a lot of people would be that Baligan's not playing.
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: I really like him.
• 45:51
  Speaker 6: He's been fantastic during this entire tournament, and obviously I
• 45:54
  Speaker 6: would prefer him to be playing. But I don't think
• 45:57
  Speaker 6: the drop off from him to where I think they
• 46:00
  Speaker 6: will go, which is to go to Ricardo Peppy as
• 46:03
  Speaker 6: their striker, is that large. I think it Actually in
• 46:06
  Speaker 6: some ways, he actually some parts of his game are better.
• 46:10
  Speaker 6: Obviously some other parts he won't be as good. He's
• 46:13
  Speaker 6: a different type of player that I actually think fits
• 46:15
  Speaker 6: a little bit better into the system that the United
• 46:18
  Speaker 6: States want to play. So like overall, his production might
• 46:21
  Speaker 6: be slightly down, but I think he actually would get
• 46:24
  Speaker 6: more out of Christian Polistic. I think he might get
• 46:26
  Speaker 6: more out of you know, Sergenio Desk Weston McKenney as well,
• 46:29
  Speaker 6: because he's a little bit better of a hold up
• 46:31
  Speaker 6: striker that can kind of connect passes with and combine
• 46:35
  Speaker 6: with his other forwards versus Baligan would be a guy
• 46:38
  Speaker 6: that just runs in behind and looks to score, which
• 46:40
  Speaker 6: of course is what you need. But Pepy's gonna be
• 46:43
  Speaker 6: guy that kind of connects with the other forwards a
• 46:45
  Speaker 6: little bit better, and he's a little bit better of
• 46:47
  Speaker 6: an aerial presence as well, so crosses into the box,
• 46:49
  Speaker 6: he'll be a bigger threat in that aspect as well.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: I think that's a good news if you're I mean
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: again casual fan, not casual fan, that's great news because
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: you're thinking yourself, Wow, the guy that basically scored two
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: goals one was wiped off the off the map is
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: now out and how do you survive? But what you're
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: telling us is that they have an opportunity to do
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: just that.
• 47:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and he's the guy who stepped in when Poulisic
• 47:11
  Speaker 6: was injured, right, everyone was.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: Very worried about right after good point, Yeah.
• 47:14
  Speaker 6: Right after Christian poulisk got injured after the first game.
• 47:17
  Speaker 6: He came in for the USA Australia game and performed
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: really well, and it was him and BALI.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: Better stay healthy. Then does it get little Finn after that?
• 47:24
  Speaker 6: I think it definitely does, because then you're looking at
• 47:26
  Speaker 6: someone like Gioreina, who I think is really good to
• 47:28
  Speaker 6: come off late in the game, come on late in
• 47:30
  Speaker 6: a game and provide a spark, But him playing for
• 47:32
  Speaker 6: an entire ninety minutes is a little questionable on my
• 47:34
  Speaker 6: in my head, but I have faith in Ricardo Peppy
• 47:38
  Speaker 6: to come and you know, the do the goods, so
• 47:40
  Speaker 6: to speak. But this is going to be another test
• 47:43
  Speaker 6: against Belgium because I think that this team, while they're
• 47:46
  Speaker 6: not as good, of course as the team that you
• 47:48
  Speaker 6: faced in twenty fourteen and even in years past, and
• 47:51
  Speaker 6: I still believe the US to be a better team
• 47:53
  Speaker 6: even without Florian Belligan. I still believe this is a
• 47:57
  Speaker 6: bigger test than the US has faced yet in this tournament.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: Why is Raina coming in late when you need to
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: get more defense.
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: Because it's a balance and you notice this, Yes, I feel.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: Like his dad must be like a sponsor of the
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: team or something. This is like Select Soccer and the
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: guys like we're giving him a lifetime Achievement award or something.
• 48:14
  Speaker 6: Well, I mean it's I don't know if you actually
• 48:16
  Speaker 6: were kind of alluding to something there, But his dad
• 48:19
  Speaker 6: is Claudia Reno, one of the best US and the
• 48:21
  Speaker 6: national team players.
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: I am, But I mean, Pochatino's done a great job.
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: He's done awesome.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: That's the one I don't get. I don't get the
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: rain of love late in games. I think we need
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: more of a defensive presence.
• 48:32
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: The tough thing about that though, swim hairs over that.
• 48:37
  Speaker 6: But you also you don't want to completely just sub
• 48:40
  Speaker 6: in eleven defenders, right, You need some sort of like
• 48:44
  Speaker 6: threat going forward even when you're trying to hold a lead,
• 48:47
  Speaker 6: and I think he provides that, but you just you
• 48:50
  Speaker 6: have to make sure that he's going to do his
• 48:51
  Speaker 6: running and that has been the question mark with him.
• 48:53
  Speaker 6: And that's the other thing that the US were so
• 48:55
  Speaker 6: impressive with yesterday is when they went down to ten men,
• 48:57
  Speaker 6: that's more ground for every player on the field to cover,
• 49:01
  Speaker 6: and it still looked like the US was the better team.
• 49:03
  Speaker 6: They were running their freaking socks off, and I love
• 49:06
  Speaker 6: to see that. I love and mostly counters, yes, right,
• 49:10
  Speaker 6: mostly counters. But at the same time they did press forward,
• 49:14
  Speaker 6: yeah a few times. I love that, abolutely love that.
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: And that's I think that also goes back to we
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: talked before coaching, yes, Coachatino like, it's not we're not
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: going to just sit back and wait right for the
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: clock to run out if there's an opportunity to counter.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: They did shows how coaching matters. I don't coaching matters
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: in football probably above any sport YEP, soccer and hockey
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: aren't too far behind, and maybe soccer's ahead of hockey
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: in that regard.
• 49:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's different types of coaching, right, And yeah, I
• 49:42
  Speaker 6: know I made a comment earlier on Greg show about
• 49:44
  Speaker 6: NBA and they don't have to you know, it's a
• 49:47
  Speaker 6: different type of coaching, right. You want to get the
• 49:48
  Speaker 6: most out of individual players, same with baseball, but with
• 49:51
  Speaker 6: soccer you have to have a defined game plan and
• 49:55
  Speaker 6: everyone needs to know their role, like very specifically, and
• 49:59
  Speaker 6: it has to work together cohesively. And it's so hard
• 50:03
  Speaker 6: to communicate because you don't get to talk to them
• 50:05
  Speaker 6: every five minutes coming off the field, right, you have
• 50:08
  Speaker 6: to convey the message screaming across the whole field and
• 50:11
  Speaker 6: it's all done ahead of times. So that's why coaching
• 50:14
  Speaker 6: is so so so important in soccer. And then it's
• 50:16
  Speaker 6: up to the players too. In the player leadership also
• 50:19
  Speaker 6: is a big part of that. So the captains, the
• 50:22
  Speaker 6: leaders on the field that can help convey that message
• 50:25
  Speaker 6: to other players. That's where it comes in. And I
• 50:27
  Speaker 6: think it's all been really really impressive from the US
• 50:29
  Speaker 6: so far.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: Great perspective, my friend, All right, well take your break.
• 50:32
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• 50:36
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• 50:38
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• 50:40
  Speaker 2: ask you Monday's game. I think the answer is an
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: obvious Yes, it's the biggest game we've ever had in
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: US soccer history. But where does this compare to other
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: events period?
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: I think it's the I just we'll kind of get
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: a little perspective because I think what was going to
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: happen Monday here in our city is something that is
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: more significant than anything we've ever seen in our city before,
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• 52:18
  Speaker 11: Doing great? Doing great? It's been a good day.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: Well that's even better congratulation. But it can have a
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: good day. Why has it been a good day so far?
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: Can you share?
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 52:32
  Speaker 11: Well, it broke a big story yesterday, and you know,
• 52:36
  Speaker 11: it's nice to not be working so hard on it anymore.
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: You know, people tell people about that. Tell people because
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: our earlier show was teasing that. Tell people what you
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: broke and what's what's taking place right now.
• 52:49
  Speaker 11: Well, I noticed a little while back that the ball
• 52:52
  Speaker 11: was functioning differently, and Baseball publicly tracks a stat called drag,
• 52:57
  Speaker 11: and drag tells you how much the ball slowing down
• 53:01
  Speaker 11: lots in the air, and it's a good way to
• 53:04
  Speaker 11: notice that the ball is different at least if it's
• 53:06
  Speaker 11: performing differently. And one little bit of drag, like point
• 53:10
  Speaker 11: oh one of the drag coefficient change can lead to
• 53:13
  Speaker 11: five extra feet on a ball hit over one hundred,
• 53:16
  Speaker 11: So it's a big deal. The last time we had
• 53:19
  Speaker 11: drag this low that we have right now in June,
• 53:21
  Speaker 11: it was twenty nineteen. It was the year of the homer.
• 53:24
  Speaker 11: Twelve teams have team records that were in twenty nineteen
• 53:27
  Speaker 11: per homers, the league hit six hundred more homers than
• 53:30
  Speaker 11: it's hit in any other year in the history of baseball. So,
• 53:34
  Speaker 11: you know, when I noticed that, I said, oh, my gosh,
• 53:37
  Speaker 11: what is going on? And when I tweeted it out,
• 53:40
  Speaker 11: a couple people asked, me, well, you haven't heard about
• 53:44
  Speaker 11: the splotchy balls. No, no, I've not heard about the
• 53:50
  Speaker 11: splotchy balls. And so they showed me an email from
• 53:54
  Speaker 11: the league that came in February that said that had
• 54:00
  Speaker 11: made a manufacturing error and that oil was seeping out
• 54:05
  Speaker 11: of the yarns on the inside and was discoloring the ball,
• 54:10
  Speaker 11: so they were splotchy and yellow. And they said, we
• 54:14
  Speaker 11: tested the balls and we think they're about the same
• 54:16
  Speaker 11: seam height, the same weight. We think everything's fine, but
• 54:20
  Speaker 11: we're monitoring the situation and there's nothing we can do
• 54:23
  Speaker 11: about it because you need like eight hundred thousand balls
• 54:26
  Speaker 11: for a full season of baseball, and so we can't
• 54:29
  Speaker 11: just throw away these balls and start using other balls. So,
• 54:34
  Speaker 11: you know, they were like you know, and for April
• 54:37
  Speaker 11: and May it seemed like everything was fine. But in June,
• 54:41
  Speaker 11: the ball is performing wickedly different. I mean, there's the ball,
• 54:44
  Speaker 11: it's flying now, and we saw an increase in bad
• 54:48
  Speaker 11: ball distance, unequally hit balls that we haven't seen in
• 54:51
  Speaker 11: the stackcast era, like a month to month increase like that.
• 54:54
  Speaker 11: So something's happening in June. The league says it's not
• 54:58
  Speaker 11: because of the splotshy ball, but it's a little bit
• 55:01
  Speaker 11: weird to say we have splotchy balls. We have this
• 55:05
  Speaker 11: manufacturing problem and the balls performing differently than it ever
• 55:09
  Speaker 11: has before in season. So uh, real, real weird thing
• 55:14
  Speaker 11: that's going down. I wish that I could nail it
• 55:16
  Speaker 11: down to say definitively, it's because of the oil that
• 55:20
  Speaker 11: the ball is performing this way. But those two facts
• 55:24
  Speaker 11: held next to each other seemed like they have to
• 55:26
  Speaker 11: be linked.
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: I liked when I first read it the story that
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: you and Evan did. I was like yellow baseball, like
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: whether they have jaundice or something, Like anybody's said kids
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: before knows that do sometimes happens newborn and all that. Like,
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: you got a jaundice baseball here or something, put it
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: under the blue light will be fine, you know, a
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: couple of blue lights for a couple of days, you'll
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: be all good. You move on, But let me go
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: Terrek's You guys quoted Trek's Google in this as well,
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: And I'll just bring that up for a second because
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: I think and you one of the things I love
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: talking to you about is like you talk to pictures,
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: you study this stuff and tell me this A pitcher,
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: more major league pitcher probably has a feel for a baseball,
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: and if there's anything different, those guys are going to
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: know it, right, Like, not just because the baseball is
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: he said, doing weird things, but those guys would know
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: if there's something different, correct.
• 56:16
  Speaker 11: Yeah, Yeah, it was pretty interesting just going around the
• 56:20
  Speaker 11: clubhouse and you know, messaging as many people as I could.
• 56:24
  Speaker 11: They there were a consensus the.
• 56:26
  Speaker 5: Balls are weird.
• 56:28
  Speaker 11: This is the most ball like there's a normal ball
• 56:31
  Speaker 11: to ball variation because the ball is handmade and can't
• 56:34
  Speaker 11: ditched at least, and so that introduces a little bit
• 56:39
  Speaker 11: of noise. But everybody I talked to you said, yeah,
• 56:41
  Speaker 11: it's weirder this year. The balls are weirder, and a
• 56:45
  Speaker 11: lot of them, you know, some of them heard of
• 56:47
  Speaker 11: the splashy ball thing, but was there's also a weird
• 56:50
  Speaker 11: crisis community communication here, which is that like, it doesn't
• 56:54
  Speaker 11: really look like baseball. Told teams, you know, because I
• 56:59
  Speaker 11: talked to three gms. I talked to directors of pitching,
• 57:04
  Speaker 11: I talked to pitching coaches, I talked to managers. I
• 57:08
  Speaker 11: talked to all sorts of people, and they were aware
• 57:11
  Speaker 11: that the ball was weird, but they hadn't heard anything
• 57:13
  Speaker 11: about the manufacturing error. So it feels to me like
• 57:17
  Speaker 11: they they kind of told a couple of people and
• 57:20
  Speaker 11: felt like, Okay, that's good enough, you know, and then
• 57:22
  Speaker 11: they were like kind of they kind of crossed their
• 57:24
  Speaker 11: fingers and hoped that it wouldn't be a big deal,
• 57:27
  Speaker 11: and it wasn't in April and May and then June
• 57:29
  Speaker 11: was like, oh boy, here comes the story. So yeah,
• 57:33
  Speaker 11: the pitchers have said that this is this is a
• 57:35
  Speaker 11: weird ball, and especially pitchers that go down to Triple A,
• 57:39
  Speaker 11: those guys. I talked to a couple of those, and
• 57:42
  Speaker 11: they said that it's even worse than Triple A because
• 57:45
  Speaker 11: what they're trying to do is take the best balls
• 57:48
  Speaker 11: and give them to the major leaguers. And one of
• 57:50
  Speaker 11: our sources said, they're throwing away more balls before they
• 57:53
  Speaker 11: get to the picture, you know, like the catchers are
• 57:55
  Speaker 11: throwing warning more balls, and harp fires are throwing waing
• 57:57
  Speaker 11: more balls. So they're trying to select the best pitch,
• 58:00
  Speaker 11: the best ball in the major leagues and the minor leagues.
• 58:04
  Speaker 11: That yeah, more of my minor league sources had seen
• 58:07
  Speaker 11: a yellow ball or seen a sploshy ball and heard
• 58:11
  Speaker 11: about it, and then they they were like, yeah, it's
• 58:13
  Speaker 11: even worse than triple A.
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: Let's go back to something you said, eight hundred. I
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: was always wondered that eight hundred thousand balls during the
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: course of a major league season that's what they produce.
• 58:23
  Speaker 11: I don't know, it's an estimate. I mean, you need
• 58:26
  Speaker 11: you need about you need for like a lot of
• 58:29
  Speaker 11: pitches in a game, you need one hundred and twenty.
• 58:31
  Speaker 11: So I was assume you need about one hundred and
• 58:33
  Speaker 11: fifty a game, and you've got about two hundred thousand
• 58:38
  Speaker 11: regular season games.
• 58:40
  Speaker 5: Is that right?
• 58:41
  Speaker 11: No, twenty thousand regular season games or two thousand regular
• 58:44
  Speaker 11: season games, so times one hundred and fifty plus you
• 58:48
  Speaker 11: have all of spring, and you have the whole playoffs.
• 58:51
  Speaker 11: So I think maybe a better better estimate abound five
• 58:54
  Speaker 11: hundred of them for you.
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  Speaker 2: That's crazy, though, that's I mean, that's insane. So the
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  Speaker 2: drag is down in June. Somebody needs to tell cal
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: Rawley that that that's happening. Can you let can you
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: let last year's MVP runner up know that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because that would be good?
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  Speaker 11: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, he's the power is gone. I
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  Speaker 11: don't I don't, you know, I don't see anything that's wrong.
• 59:24
  Speaker 11: But you know, I have told you guys before that
• 59:26
  Speaker 11: like he gets the ball way out in front, and
• 59:28
  Speaker 11: I think that's it's just a it's a finicky place
• 59:31
  Speaker 11: to live, you know, I want.
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  Speaker 2: To I want to revisit that because if you could.
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: Somebody asked me about this the other day, they said,
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: what's what's cal doing different or what is it that's
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: costing him? You've talked about that getting out in front.
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: Explain exactly what that is. Is it different this year
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: than last year?
• 59:49
  Speaker 11: Well, you know, when you if you think about a swing,
• 59:52
  Speaker 11: you finish your swing over your shoulder right though. You know,
• 59:56
  Speaker 11: the further along in your swing you get, it's not
• 59:58
  Speaker 11: just like one. It's like the further along in the
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 11: swing you get, the more arc you get. So when
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 11: you get the ball out in front, you're it's towards
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 11: that finishing upwards, so you naturally put them You put
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 11: some arc, you put some lift into the ball. And
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 11: so when you when you live out there, you know
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 11: you you do a great job of lifting the ball.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 11: And he has good, really good bad speed, So you
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 11: know that's that's good for you normally. But you know,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 11: across the league, the best place to make contact for
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 11: powers thirty six inch thirty six inches out in front,
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  Speaker 11: and he was the leader last year in furthest out
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 11: in front, and he got it right at thirty six
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 11: inches right, So he like he was he was optimized
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 11: for power. I mean, I don't have to tell you
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 11: that he's hitting all the homers right this year. He's
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 11: actually not as far out in front. And you know,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 11: maybe that's because he wants to see the ball look longer,
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 11: make more contact. There's a relationship there, right, because if
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 11: you want to get the ball out in front, then
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 11: you have to make the decision quicker. And if you
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 11: make the decision quicker, you're going to be more wrong
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 11: about more pitches. And so you know, I think there's
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 11: something where Cal said, oh man, my my swing strike
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 11: right is up, my strike out rate is up. I
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 11: think I have to see the ball a little bit
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 11: longer to not make the wrong decision. And that's that's
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 11: taken a little bit of power, right, But that's only
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 11: that should that should be the difference between like sort
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 11: of forty five and fifty five or something, you know
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 11: what I mean. So he's still getting the ball relative
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 11: to the league fairly far out in front and I
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 11: would just say that it's it's a swamp, it's it's
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 11: it's just not seeing the ball exactly right right now.
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• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: Andrews correct me if I'm wrong. We're out of the
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: piggyback land right for a while.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, as of now, yes, but you never know, and
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: it can go back.
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  Speaker 2: We're out of piggyback land. We need aund like, hey,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: you know what, Andrews passed it along at our afternoon guy.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: It just huge jump all over and and we And
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: the funny thing is I think we we played the
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: audio for him last week. In fact, he played some
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: of the audio from you last week talking about piggyback
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: and six man rotation all that, and I'm not sure
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: if it was convincing enough. He's still mad about it.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: But yeah, you know, we do a lot of fun
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: things here. We do the tracker, the Rob Refsnyder, a J.
• 1:02:29
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• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: fewer hits? Well, listen, Jerry Jerry de Poto does a
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: lot of good things. There's he's he's put together a
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: really good base and we understand that, but he has
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: this weird thing does does the Poto every year, We've
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: got to get the you know, help me out, andrews
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: aj Pollock. Who are some of the other greats from
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: the past that we've had along the way? Hummel, Tom Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Tommy La Stella Yeah, Rob Refsnyder.
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  Speaker 11: I hear a lot of right handed, right handed bench
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 11: pieces that that.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: The numbers tell him that, hey, these guys kill it
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: against left handed pitching. Uh, and then they get to
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: Seattle and they don't.
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  Speaker 11: I think it's just really hard for right handers right
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 11: like the park is particularly hard on right handers.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: It can be, there's no doubt about that. But if
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: we go back to the pitching for a second, So
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of talk here and we're kind of
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: one ring, so you know, obviously, managing a bullpen one
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: of the key things a manager does in game. We
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: saw kind of a disastrous week last week. They bounced
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: back because the Angels are awful and they haven't had
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: to use a bullpen much in any kind of leverage situation.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: But we saw that last week we should go back.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: We've talked about it before. Six man rotation. Is it
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: the six man rotation that's hurting them right now managerial
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: decisions or is it just hey, finding a good high
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: level leverage reliever is hard, and no, Matt Brash is
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: really hurting this team at times.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it, it does.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 11: Like your your depth chart is just a little bit
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 11: shorter when you do that extra when you have that
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 11: extra starter in there, and so you know, when other
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 11: teams have somebody that can come in and soak something up,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 11: if you're using somebody that you might want to use,
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 11: I guess right now Michael Rutger is kind of the
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 11: soak it up guy.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 11: Yeah, and between and between those two guys. But see,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 11: I mean already those aren't guys. I don't think that
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 11: they had really like written down is going to be
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 11: big parts of the bullpen this year. So yeah, I
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 11: think I think Carlos Vargas and Matt Brash being hurt
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 11: affected their approach. But this is one of the things
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 11: that's easiest to do at the deadline. So you know,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 11: the nice thing is that if if they don't go
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 11: big at the deadline, they can at least try to
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 11: get a right handed bat, bench bat and and and
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 11: a reliever and not affect their bottom line too much going.
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  Speaker 11: I love this weekend. I need to love this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: That' oh, buddy, I got you. Gotta get up here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we gotta take care of Andrews. Remind me, we
• 1:06:03
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• 1:06:05
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  Speaker 11: We'll get it done for you.
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  Speaker 5: Uh you.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: You guys did a flyover on your podcast, Rates and
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: Barrels the American League. That's just an absolute muddled mess
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: of messy, middle mushy metal. Uh what do we call it?
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: The pillow fight this year in hockey in the Pacific Division,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: Anders right as a pillow fight, kind of murky middle
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: as well. Uh, how how many teams are really in it? Andrew?
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 10: Uh? You know?
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 5: Is it?
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  Speaker 2: Everybody? Really? Except for maybe the Angels and the Royals?
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, those are the two. Those are the only two
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 11: with single digit playoffs. I mean, it's wild. Even the
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 11: Red Sox, who they want to fire Craig Breslo and
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 11: they want to burn it all down, They have a
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 11: fourteen percent chance of making the playoffs. The Tigers have
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 11: had a terrible year. Everybody wants to trade Derek Scougle
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 11: to their to their favorite team. They have a twenty
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 11: three percent chance. My prediction was that the Tigers wouldn't
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 11: even sell and that they might even win that division.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 11: So it's everybody's still in it. It's going to be
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 11: hard to find sellers. It's going to be a bit
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 11: of a hard, hard slog to find sellers in this
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 11: market because there's too many teams that say, you know,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 11: we still have a one in three chance or a
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 11: one in five chance of making the playoffs. So I'm
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 11: going to hold on to that. So you know, the
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 11: way your team plays of the next thirty the next
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 11: twenty eight days, you know, is a real, real big
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 11: deal for what they're going to do at the deadline.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: How concerned should the rest of the American League West,
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: which would really only include relevant teams named Houston, Seattle,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: and Texas. But how concerns should we be about the
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: Houston Astros who are now there are three games below
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: five hundred. Normally you'd say on whatever, but and again
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: a minus forty six run differential. But it feels like
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: there's a wee biddable menum going down there in Houston.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 11: I don't know, man, I like Hunter Brown, what has
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 11: happened in the past. They used to have the stars
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 11: and they and then they were able to pumping out
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 11: these role players and their player to their player program
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 11: was so good in terms of development. Now they still
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 11: have the stars, Hunter Brown, Josh Hater, Jordan elbre is great.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 11: The role pieces are worse than they may have ever been,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 11: you know. Like I'm not saying like Christian Walker isn't terrible.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 11: I like Cam Smith's long term, but he's got some
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 11: real flaws right now. And if you look at that lineup,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 11: I think on any given night there's three or four
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 11: holes in it. If you look in that rotation, if
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 11: you've got three games against them, you're really you might
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 11: even miss Hunter Brown and then think they don't have
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 11: a good starter this series, you know, and then the
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 11: bullpen behind Hater is pretty bad. I mean, Brian A.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 11: Braid's one of the best relievers in the in the
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 11: big leagues, and he's like ninety two miles an hour
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 11: right now. So you know, I think that this the
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 11: secondary quality in Houston is worse than it's ever been.
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  Speaker 5: Great stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoy the holiday, yeah, ever, I mean there was like
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  Speaker 2: the eighties. Enjoy your holiday weekend, even if you don't
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  Speaker 2: have the junior's off, I'll have one or maybe three
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: four instead.
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  Speaker 5: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: I'll think you good. I think thanks a lot, take
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  Speaker 2: care of you know, all right?
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  Speaker 10: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: That's you know, Sarah Joni see Athletic Go checking stuff
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  Speaker 2: Andrews will tell us how big Monday really is.
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  Speaker 2: O'Neil here just a couple seconds. Andrews finished your thought earlier.
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  Speaker 2: I asked you how big? What does it mean on Monday?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's just I think it's pretty simple.
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  Speaker 6: It's gonna be the biggest sports moment, sports event in
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  Speaker 6: Seattle history. I of course, I was born in nineteen
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  Speaker 6: ninety seven, so I anything before that is before my time.
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  Speaker 6: But at least in my lifetime, this is gonna be
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  Speaker 6: the biggest moment I think for the city with any
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 6: sports like specific event. And I think it's gonna be
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 6: go really really well. I mean I said it on
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  Speaker 6: Greg Show. If maybe you're not a huge soccer fan,
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 6: and you know, maybe you're a little frustrated that there's
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 6: gonna be some craziness downtown or the traffic's gonna be
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 6: a little bit more. I'll just say for this one day,
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  Speaker 6: lean into it, just embrace it. It's gonna be such
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 6: a cool moment to see our city be showcased on
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  Speaker 6: the global stage, not just the national stage, but the
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 6: global stage. And it's gonna be recognized as in a
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 6: many not just an amazing, you know, Seattle soccer city,
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 6: but a sports city because I think you're gonna see
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  Speaker 6: kind of the atmosphere, the stadium, the people, everything's gonna
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 6: all come together, and it's gonna be such a big moment.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 6: And in terms of the US game, the game itself,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you could argue this is the biggest moment
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  Speaker 6: in US men's national team history.
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  Speaker 3: I think it at.
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  Speaker 6: Least rivals the two thousand and two World Cup when
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 6: they played Mexico in the round of sixteen to go
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 6: to the quarterfinals, and that's ended up being where they
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 6: finished up. If they were to win this game, that
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 6: would be the biggest moment in Seattle or in the
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 6: US men's nationals.
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  Speaker 2: Where was that match in O two play Korea? Yes,
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: it's this is bigger. Yeah, because it's here, and I think,
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: and i'll let you ring up Danny we'll get him
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  Speaker 2: on and get his thoughts on that as well. Danie
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  Speaker 2: Neil's get dress second. I think it's like in Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we've never won a Super Bowl in Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: We've won three NFC Championship games here in Seattle. We
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: didn't win a NBA Championship in Seattle. That was one
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: in Landover, Maryland in nineteen seventy nine, and frankly, nothing
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: else would come close to that. The ms have never
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: been to the World Series. But I just told you
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: the numbers a minute ago. This is the biggest sporting event.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 2: You could debate a lot of things in terms of,
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: you know, games that matter to more people here and
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: all that. This is the biggest sporting event that's ever
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: been here. We had the Goodwill Games back in ninety one,
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: kind of a knockoff, you know, verse of the Olympics.
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  Speaker 2: But this is this is just a different, different level.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's get to it. Danie O'Neill standing by.
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  Speaker 5: I'm good Ian pumped up.
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  Speaker 10: We got the United States of America celebrating at two
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  Speaker 10: hundred and fiftieth and bring on Belgium.
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  Speaker 2: Bring on Belgium, buddy, I love that. Bring your waffles,
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  Speaker 2: bring bring it all, Belgium, your chocolate, bring it all.
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  Speaker 5: We got you Monday.
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  Speaker 2: And that just comes two days after we celebrate birthday
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  Speaker 2: number two hundred and fifty. Can't wait?
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  Speaker 4: What for you?
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: You're watching from Afar to the Way again. It's funny
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  Speaker 2: because this is weird.
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  Speaker 5: Danny.
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  Speaker 7: You're living in.
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  Speaker 2: New York and normally the world of sports in this
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: country would center around the East coast. All the US
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: games are being played out here so far Santa Clara
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  Speaker 2: and then Seattle for a second time this Monday. How
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  Speaker 2: strange is that?
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  Speaker 10: It's awesome, especially because you hear the announcers, and it's
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 10: very clear that Seattle, I have a chance to puff
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 10: your chest out a little bit. It's weird, right, sure
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 10: that Seattle is being identified as that. Maybe. I mean
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  Speaker 10: I heard the playback player now as I say it
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  Speaker 10: last night, best home field experience that the that the
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 10: team's ever had. It's pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's phenomenal. We were just talking about this, Andrews
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: and I last couple of segments. We've had big events here.
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  Speaker 2: Three see what is it foe to four NFC Championship
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: games have been played in Seattle, all won by the
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: home team. Those are big, but they're not the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: We've never had a World Series game played here. The
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: closest they came was an ALCS last year that ended,
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: as we know, in Toronto, not in Seattle. Goodwill games
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  Speaker 2: were in ninety one. They're just kind of, you know,
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: off brand Olympics, so I mean, they were cool. I
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: I went to some of those events and covered them
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: for Como TV, but that was a little bit different.
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  Speaker 2: And frankly, if we're being honest, sorry, WNBA and MLS,
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: none of those things kind of pale. And the Stanley
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: Cup was one not on the ice, but because of
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: pandemic in nineteen seventeen. This is the biggest sporting event
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  Speaker 2: ever on Monday, isn't it in Seattle's history?
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  Speaker 10: I believe it is at a national level for sure.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 10: Maybe throw in We had the nineteen eighty four Final
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  Speaker 10: four at the Kingdome. Yeah, Akeem a log one And
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 10: I believe then he was Akeem with with the Houston
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 10: the Houston.
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  Speaker 2: Cougars, and he was the dream too. He was the
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: dream that year. He was also called the dream. So yeah, yeah,
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: that was a big deal. Oh yeah, yeah, but not
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: I mean college yeah, college though, yeah, college basketball. I
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  Speaker 2: love it. Final four great, this is just different.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, and the entire country is going to be watching,
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  Speaker 10: and it is the world here. And like watching the
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 10: game last night, Ay, that stadium looks really nice when
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 10: there's not that horrible football teams low Goo in the
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 10: middle of it. I really found myself watching it leave
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 10: my stadium last night. I'm like, that's a good looking
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 10: stadium as long as that gold is the gold in
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  Speaker 10: the in the red.
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  Speaker 11: Isn't there.
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  Speaker 10: Uh, It's just watching how excited and passionate people are.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 10: It's the idea that everybody's fired up about a bad
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 10: decision on a red card. Look, I probably haven't watched
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  Speaker 10: enough soccer.
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  Speaker 11: To give you an educated opinion.
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  Speaker 10: However, I believe that was the worst call in the
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  Speaker 10: history of soccer.
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  Speaker 6: And would you agree, yes, percent agreed? Well done, Danny,
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  Speaker 6: You're just you're you're up there with the experts.
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  Speaker 3: Don't worry.
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  Speaker 2: Anders is anchoring our coverage for one hundred states across
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: the country, so he's agreeing with you. See, daddy, don't
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: get don't sell yourself short, buddy, Like you're on top
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: of this stuff. Like you're on top of the soccer
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: thing right now.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I can even explain off sides and how
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 10: it's you have to be even with the second to
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 10: last defender, now you have to consider the goalie because
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 10: of different permutations that occur.
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  Speaker 5: It's it's fun.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 11: It's fun watching people get fired up.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 10: It is fun watching people get fired up about the sport.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I think? You know, we live in
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: such a devisive world these days, and just even in
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: our country, right it's it's you know, what what side
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: of the aisle or are you on? Do you love
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: the president, do you hate the president? Do you like
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: the governor, hate the government, whatever might be, and and
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: you know, politics and just government and so forth has
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: has really has really split not just our country but
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: the world. But just if we focus in on our country.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about this on our show a lot Danny
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: before that before it started. Sports has has an ability
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  Speaker 2: like nothing else. Music doesn't do it necessarily, movie entertainment
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: don't do it. Sports has an ability, I think, to
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  Speaker 2: unite people that are on very opposite sides of their beliefs,
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 2: whether it be religious, political, or otherwise. I don't know.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: I just feel like you mentioned it kind of in
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: tongue in cheek, but it's true. In the two hundred
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: and fiftieth anniversary of our country coming up on Saturday,
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: I feel like this men's soccer team is doing something,
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: at least temporarily. It probably won't last, but temporarily doing
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: something really important for our country.
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  Speaker 10: It's fun to watch it, it's fun to have everybody
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 10: fired up. And when I went to sleep last night,
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 10: I was in a better mood than I was when
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 10: the game started because the US won. And that might
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 10: make me a shallow and simple person, and I'm totally
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 10: fine with that, because I was really really happy. I
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 10: even found myself for a moment wondering, like, man, maybe
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 10: Trump should threaten to kick everybody out unless they rescind
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 10: glow Balligan's red card. And then I realized, okay, step
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 10: too far, step too far. We can't go invoke in
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 10: global global incidents or any calling for anything. Mostly I
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 10: didn't want to suggested on Twitter because it's possible he
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 10: might do it, like if he got window that He's like, oh,
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 10: that's a great idea. We don't need to disrupt things
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 10: that way.
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  Speaker 11: But no, I agree with you.
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  Speaker 10: It's fun to see everybody united and excited about it.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 10: I usually the soccer announcers drive me nuts, especially lawless,
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 10: but watching them yesterday is celebrating the goal was really fun.
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  Speaker 2: It's been an incredible run so far, and Monday is
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: going to be just insane here in Seattle, So can't
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: wait for that. Danny O'Neill joined us dang aposter you
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: brought to you by Northwest Handling Systems. All right, let's uh,
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: let's let's go down the petty road for a second.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: But I think it's it's it's more than just that
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: you wrote about the Diana Russini stuff, and I mean,
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: we always we bring this up, and I think it's
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: there's some couple of things important before Danny and I
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: have some fun and just discuss it actually, hopefully on
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: a more even a serious level in a second. Two things. One,
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 2: Diana started. It's funny how I look at her resume
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 2: like her house. She really started her on air career
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: here in Seattle. She was doing updates during Softy Show
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: and Softie was on ten to one and simulcast on
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: Comcast Sports Northwest right around what twenty ten through twenty
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 2: twelve or so, and they brought her out here. She
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: had no on air experience at all outside of college television.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: She was absolutely, honestly got awful on TV when she
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: first started. I held the microphone wrong. It was just
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: I've got stories upon stories. She became really good on
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 2: television and the camera loved her, and she became really
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: good on TV. But she started her career out here.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: So we've known a lot of us have known Diana
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: for a while my travels during the NFL, my years
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: traveling in the NFL, I ran into her a number
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: of times. I kept in contact with her. I always
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: liked Diana. I thought she was a hell of a
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: character and fun and just as East Coast New Jersey
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: as it gets, but also worked hard and grind it.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: But then all this stuff happens with the athletic and
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: it all comes to a head. And then we see
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: the next story that came out this week about trying
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: to bribe a police officer in a sense by face
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: timing his favorite coach and just kind of saying it's
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: kind of using the hey do you know who I am?
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: Thing to get out of jail free card? That type
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 2: of deal. That's the context. And I'll bring in Danny
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: for this for those I mean, Danny's a great personality
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: in the radio, worked at our competing station for a while,
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 2: started doing stuff with Cross and Gas years ago. But
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 2: when you were doing that, you were also a newspaper
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 2: writer and you have been a big reporter as well,
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 2: having to cover the Seattle Seahawks among other things. How
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 2: greasy does all this stuff feel? How wrong is it?
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: Because we can all kind of have fun with it
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 2: and mess around, But how wrong is this? What's going on?
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  Speaker 10: And what she did well for Diana and I have
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 10: run into Diana over the years, and I did meet
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 10: her when she worked at KJR back or what she
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 10: was doing the Comcast Sports Northwest updates. She's always been
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 10: a lovely person and I know a lot of people
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 10: friends I have who are good friends with her, And
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 10: I feel bad the way that how public this has
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 10: all been, because it has to have been very, very hard.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 10: That said, she crossed what is a bright red line
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 10: in the industry of journalism. You that you're not supposed
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 10: to have personal relationships. It's with people that you're covering
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 10: that will compromise your coverage, that would make you less
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 10: than objective. And the idea is, if this person is
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 10: your friend, if this person is in the case of
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 10: Mike Rabel, there photos indicating that there may have been
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 10: something more than just friends going on, that you do
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 10: things to benefit that person, that your objectivity is compromised.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 10: So to me, there's a bright red line there that
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 10: I think the issue, the bigger issue that I've had,
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 10: is that there are a number of people who cover
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 10: the NFL who have personal relationships with the people that
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 10: are coverage that are not being scrutinized or we're like,
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 10: they're okay, I'll bring up one dig Lazier gig Lazier
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 10: trains various NFL players at an mmagen that he also
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 10: serves as a reporter. That is a conflict of interest,
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 10: like having personal relationships, and so much of the business
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 10: of being a sports reporter, these national reporters, which are
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 10: the most prominent and the highest paid positions, so much
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 10: of it depends upon personal relationships, and it makes it
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 10: really hard. And it's just that the entire environment is
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 10: right for having personal relationships that come in whether it's
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 10: Jordan Schultz who's sending coffee machines to NFL executives that
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 10: he's trying to call, or inviting Patrick Certain to go
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 10: join him on his family's vote in the Dominican republics,
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 10: or Diana Rassini an inapropriate relationship with one of resources.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 10: But the thing that I've found most entertaining about the
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 10: camp footage of Diana Receiving talking the way out of
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 10: a ticket, with how much she sounded like an insufferable
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 10: NFL reporter in the conversations that used to drive me crazy,
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 10: with the name dropping, the humble bragging I broke such
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 10: and such stories. And I'll say, I'm sure that there
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 10: are times that I've sounded just like that of this oh,
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 10: flex on who's in my contact list, and you know
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 10: what she told me, And it's just the most insufferable.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 10: And I know that there were times I was insufferable.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 10: It's an awful and obnoxious part of.
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  Speaker 2: The business, one hundred percent. And what you said, I mean, listen,
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 2: the great, the late great John Clayton was that way.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 2: He would always tell you when he broke the story,
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: you know, and we all love John, and John did
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: his thing, and you know, but there was that they
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 2: Diana just took it to such a different, weird level.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: But let's go back to what you said. This is
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 2: an interesting You brought up an interesting couple guys that
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: are interesting. Jay Glazer is I think he's truly insufferable
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: in a lot of ways. But you brought up Jordan Schultz,
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: Howard's kid, who has made a living as an insider,
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 2: not just the NFL but some other sports as well.
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 2: But how he gets is there? How much different is
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: is Jordan Schultz offering up his penthouse in Manhattan for
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 2: guys to come stay in when they're in town, or
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 2: as you mentioned, a vacation for players and developing relationships
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 2: basically with that. How how much different is what he's
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 2: doing than what Diana was doing with Rabel.
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 10: Well, it's a it's a it's a matter of a
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 10: different type or a different way, but it's not more
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 10: or less unethical. They're all crossing line, and I think
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 10: that's the bigger thing of I don't I don't think
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 10: and I don't think that that Diana was seeing if
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 10: there was a relationship with Brabel, it was some sort
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 10: of exchange so she could get information. I think it's
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 10: just overly personal relationships, which in that case became potentially romantic.
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 10: But it's this entire web of personal contacts. But when
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 10: you read national level NFL coverage, you very rarely see
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 10: a person quoted as saying anything. It's all anonymously sourced quotations.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 10: And that doesn't mean that every insider is crossing these
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 10: sort of boundaries, but it becomes very hard to tell
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 10: who is and who isn't. I think Ian Rappaport does
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 10: an exceptional job. I've known Ian for more than probably
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 10: going on twenty years at this point. I think he's great.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 10: But all of those things you don't. You can't really
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 10: make these these statements because so much of it is
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 10: being done sort of below surface level. I think Adam
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 10: Schefter works as much as he's an information broker as
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 10: much as he is a reporter at this point. And
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 10: for someone like me who that's not why I got
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 10: into sports journal and watching the direction that the industry
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 10: increasingly took in in terms of information and that being
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 10: the commodity, it definitely has changed what that business looks
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 10: like compared to when I started in nineteen ninety nine.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think she's ever going to get a job
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 2: again in sports media?
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 10: It depends on what she wants. She certainly could work
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 10: in sports media again. I think Dave Portnoy of Barstool
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 10: Sports even came out and said, hey, I'd hire her
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 10: in a second. I think the challenge she would have
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 10: is that could she become could she re enter as
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 10: a reporter, as a media member without sort of the
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 10: potential affair with Rabel being part of her professional identity
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 10: and if I don't know if she can do that,
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 10: if she was willing to even address that or say like, hey,
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 10: I realized that that's what people are going to say,
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 10: But that would take such a you would have to
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 10: be so hard, and I don't know what she wants.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 10: She very well might feel that does does she want
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 10: to be in a public facing job again, because look,
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 10: whatever you want to say, I affairs happen like there
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 10: that it is a reality of life. And it's not
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 10: saying that they're to be excused or that they're but
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 10: affairs do happen. It just so happens that hers is
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 10: become almost unbelievably public, and and that that's just got
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 10: to be really, really hard for someone who is by
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 10: all accounts, I've not encountered anyone who's ever thought that
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 10: Diana is a bad person or or or difficult.
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 5: To be around.
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 10: She's like, she's really agreeable, and it's I'm not I'm
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 10: not saying she's a victim in this, because it's definitely
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 10: she crossed what is a clear, clear line. But at
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 10: the same time, I think if we all agree, has
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 10: the attention accorded this particular incident, does it match the
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 10: significance of it?
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 11: I think the answers clearly know.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 10: But we're we are we are uh uh uh a
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 10: environment a nation that loves thee lear and that includes
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 10: me who's writing about it exactly.
• 1:29:21
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  Speaker 2: a call four two five two five five zero five
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 2: hundred before I let you go. You wrote this week
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 2: about the Maritters, Danny, They've they've beaten the Angels twice.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 2: Do they still have a pitching problem or a Dan
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 2: Wilson problem?
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 10: I think we can feel a little better about the pitching.
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 10: We also got Josh Naylor irritating Hedges, which was which
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 10: was very funny. I just I don't, I don't. I
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 10: don't want to see the piggybacking. I it's clearly they
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 10: can't stick to it. So I don't think I want
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 10: to see it. Well, we'll see, man. The best thing
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 10: they've got going for them is that the American League
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 10: in general, in the Al West in particular, not very good.
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 10: So the door is wide open there.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's we just had our baseball guy, you know,
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 2: Sarah's on an hour ago. Like the American League is
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 2: just such a muddled, messy, gross mess right now right,
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 2: it's just so disgusting. There's I mean, I don't know,
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 2: like you, it feels like you could kind of sleep
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 2: walk your way through the playoffs. But lo and behold,
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 2: here come the Astros, here come the Texas Rangers. You know,
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 2: you start having to think, Okay, you got to hold
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 2: off those two teams and a little wildcard. We talked
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 2: about this with you know, I think they've got a
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 2: cal rally problem. Like I hate to say it, I
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 2: think they got a cal rally problem. He just you know,
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 2: whether it's health or not, what have you. Maybe he
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 2: got worn down last year. But they need him if
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 2: this team is going to do what they want to
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 2: do this year, and it's not just get into the playoffs,
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 2: it's actually take a run of the playoffs. I don't know,
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 2: God forbidden year fifty get to the World Series. I
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 2: think I think it's safe to say they need Big
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 2: Dumper to be better.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 10: You certainly need a better second half from him. And
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 10: that was pointed out to me when I wrote about
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 10: the pitching. Was Okay, the team goes more than two
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 10: weeks without scoring more than three runs a game, But
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 10: the issue is how Dan Wilson is handling the pitching staff.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 10: Fair point, fair point. I can't blame Dan for anything.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 10: That's going on with the offense though, and that that's
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 10: probably the bigger what what what is the issue? They
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 10: cal Rawley needs to have a better second half and
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 10: from a from a personnel standpoint, you've got to find
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 10: another alternative, uh than than Rob Refschneider. And maybe that
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 10: is just letting Dom Canzone hit all the time, because
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 10: it certainly looks like that is the better option given
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 10: what we've seen. Lead.
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 2: Yes, I think I think you're right. I'm just looking
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 2: at the lineup tonight. Canzone is your d H Crawford,
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 2: Julio Canzone, Rosa, Raina Naylor, Raleigh Raley. I mean the
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 2: fact that you see cal Raley batting? God, does he
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 2: six seven eight nine? Yeah, he's spent in six tonight?
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeay.
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 2: But that's I guess what that's all you gotta do.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 2: Like he hasn't given you the opportunity to put him
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 2: Hireh in the lineup right now?
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 7: That's nuts.
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 10: Yeah, it's it is. It's a story that we've seen before,
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 10: and I don't think anybody expected cal Rawly to replicate
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 10: twenty twenty four, but none of us have taught going
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 10: off like a off a cliff like this either h.
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 2: Tell folks about the dang apostrophe.
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 10: Sir, well, it is something that is hanging around, hanging around.
• 1:32:32
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• 1:32:39
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• 1:32:41
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• 1:32:45
  Speaker 10: bit of video additions.
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 2: Do I thought I saw a little video the other
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 2: I saw. I thought I saw your smiling face. I
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 2: wasn't sure to click on that or not. I didn't
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 2: know if that was spamed.
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 5: Okay, you hear enough from me once.
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 2: I don't. I don't. I don't need, like all of
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 2: a sudden, you know, my computer to start making weird
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 2: noises and flashing and stuff like that. If I click
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 2: on your face and I'll just I'll leave it be
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 2: for now. Let other folks tell me all about it. Listen,
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 2: have a great holiday, grade fourth of July celebrating two
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty. How'd you start out two hundred and
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 2: fifty years? Murica is in the sweet sixteen.
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 11: Let's go on, here we go, let's go take it
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 11: to Belgium. Make them a.
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 2: Awful Thanks buddy, I'll talk to you sooner.
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 11: Take care, take care.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: That's Danny O'Neil, dang apostrophe. Great stuff with Danny is
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 2: always terrific stuff. Love having him on every week. And yeah, good,
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 2: good all the way around. Yeah, the Diana we I know,
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 2: Softy talked about it quite a bit the other day.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 2: It's I don't know, Andrews, it's a it's a it's
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 2: a bad story.
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 6: It's just it's in well and for guys like you
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 6: know Softy and Moger and I don't know if you
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 6: worked with her ever.
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 2: I worked for her a lot.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 6: Okay, Yeah, the guy I who know her right and
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 6: kind of I mean, maybe not as much recently, but
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 6: still you know who she is. That must be a
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 6: really weird situation for you guys.
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 2: Well, I just always yeah, there was, I mean there
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 2: were rumors before from Scott mccluan's wife in d C
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 2: and and uh yeah, I mean I I worked with
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 2: her on the Blazer stuff because she did after she
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 2: was doing Softy stuff, she did some stuff with the
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 2: Blazers broadcast on Comcast Sportsnet and then ran into her
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 2: quite a bit over the years when she was an
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 2: anchor in DC before she went to ESPN, and and
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 2: then even after that with ESPN, I always liked hers
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 2: had fun. I just it's Danny's right. You know, there's
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 2: a lot of affairs out there. Yeah, but not all
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 2: affairs are.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 6: Created equal, right, And I like the distinction that he
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 6: made because there's a lot of like casual friends who
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 6: are coming up to me. I was like, what is
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 6: this dyninga resiting story? So she had an affair, Why
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 6: is that a big deal? And I'm like, well, it's
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 6: because of what her job is, right, I think I
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 6: think it's.
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 2: The same in a sense of the guy and the
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 2: executive or the CEO that was in the suite watching
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 2: a concert. And remember of the HR the HR lady
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 2: was Era or whoever it was, and they were together.
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 2: Obviously they were together, right, And and it's like I said,
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 2: not every affair is created equal. Like if you know,
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 2: if you're if you have an affair with your neighbor,
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 2: that's probably really bad. Like it's bad anyway, it's even
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 2: worse because it's your neighbor. If you're having some you know,
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 2: doing something with a subordinate co worker really bad. If
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 2: you're doing something to further your career, probably you know,
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 2: then compromising some you know what what we would call
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 2: journalistic integrity, it's really bad.
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 8: Uh.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 2: No, affair is good. They're all different and they're all created.
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 2: You know, they're not equal, and some are more damaging
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 2: not just to your personal life, but also your professional life.
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 2: And I think that's what that's what hers is. It's
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 2: it's it's in that regard. So uh yeah, I mean
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 2: it's it's a sad world in a sense when barstool
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 2: may be your only option as as a woman coming
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 2: back from this, if she even wants to.
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 2: If it was me and I could find something else
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 2: to do, probably not making eight hundred grand a year,
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 2: but find something else to do, I think I'd be out.
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 2: I don't think i'd want to be in the public
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 2: eye again. I think that's that'd be no fun. But
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 2: let's just be four nine four to five one to
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• 1:36:09
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• 1:36:11
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  Speaker 5: All right, let's go down.
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 2: We got all bunch today.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 5: Oh, you got a lot today, Get a lot.
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 2: Why weren't the baseball's helping the Mariners? That's from the EO.
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 2: Sarah story that he wrote. Uh, oh, they're not helping
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 2: cow or Julio in the month of June, which crazy
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 2: because that's the month. All of a sudden, there's no
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 2: drag left, right, so it should be helping you should
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 2: be helping, helping you along the way. All right, let's see, ude,
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 2: let's see. Oh, you know what's funny By the red
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 2: cart Bosnia football officials footpage trying to defend it. It
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 2: was baking US fans. The thing with the red card
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 2: is it should be a non story, but the problem
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 2: has become because they won right right right. The fact
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 2: is though it's a red card, which means it's still
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 2: a story because you're gonna miss the next game, right,
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 2: that's the unfortunate. Yeah, it would have been nice just
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 2: to move on from it, but you can't. So then
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 2: you have to go and we're all gonna break it down.
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 2: And people that know soccer don't know soccer. I'm looking
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 2: up like I'll look it up right now. And we
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 2: mentioned earlier it's the most watched soccer match in the
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 2: history of our country in English. In English thirty one
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 2: million it peaked at. It's a massive mass.
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 6: I mean for Fox to put it in perspective Game
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 6: seven of the World Series between Toronto and la huge,
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 6: like Dodgers going for the repeat Toronto massive, right, Yeah,
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 6: it was like twenty six million, I think it peaked at.
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 6: So having that be what six millions, five million, even
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 6: more than that, it's crazy to me.
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 3: And that's just throughout of thirty two we got more.
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 2: Hi Ian, What do you think, Nick Locatta many of
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 2: his other City of Seattle older board members would have
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 2: to say about the World Cup here and say that
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 2: where they take credit. Remember they're stayming about professional sports
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 2: and no benefit to the city. I believe this World
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 2: Cup is truly making a difference in the United States
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 2: and the world. I think it's making a difference a
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 2: couple of ways. First of all, like I mentioned to Danny.
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 2: It like I'm looking up here, I see you guys
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 2: at will Baum and Cornheiser, right, yep, Like the first
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 2: four topics they had on their goofy little show to
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 2: pardon Me show, it was all soccer. Yepan god, are
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 2: you kidding?
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 2: I've been bringing the country together. The celebrations we're seeing,
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 2: you know, bro barge and waterfront and I mean just
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 2: drive along the waterfront even on the non game day.
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 2: And the out of town influence is huge. I there's
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 2: a story that Fox thirteen and I love you guys,
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 2: my old station, I love you guys. They keep running
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 2: the story about how the International District in Chinatown is
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 2: really just they're they're sad because and they're they're disappointed
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 2: because they're actually down a little bit in business. Well,
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 2: of course, first of all, give your head to shake
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 2: a little bit of people. It's they're the opposite direction
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 2: of the stadiums. They're not where you would go necessarily
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 2: to watch a wait for it, sporting events.
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 3: It's not sports bars.
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 2: I mean that's a treasure. That International District is a
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 2: good treasure in our city. There's that was never going
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 2: to be the case where people we are going to
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 2: go from out of the country, are going to go
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 2: to our Chinatown in Seattle, right opposite the stadiums. You're
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 2: not walking. It's if it was on the if that
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 2: was looking on the waterfront or something. If it's story,
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 2: just it's not a story. Everybody else is thriving right now.
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 2: I mean everyone else. I talked to guys like I said,
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 2: I talked to my guys at the Queen Anne Beer Hall,
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 2: Occidental Hall, but the halls of three halls justin and
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 2: they say, it's unreal. It's off the hook what they're doing.
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 2: Twin Peaks. They've had a couple of their biggest days ever.
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 2: Everybody Brad down there, that Safty, here's Safty doing spots
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 2: for them. They the first Mexico game, they had their
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 2: biggest night ever Mexiceto, and they have huge UFC events there.
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 2: That's all the time. They basically packed the place out.
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 7: That's great.
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 2: I can't even fathom what the US does here the
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 2: thirty two bar and grill kind of quiet time of
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 2: the year. It's not really hockey season. I mean, there's
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 2: a ton of kids on the ice right now playing
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 2: broomball and learning how to skate. But really effectively kind
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 2: of every US game and a lot of the other
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 2: games they've been packed, like Belgium the day packed in
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 2: here not for the Belgian game last.
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 3: Night, but any place that has a TV that has
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 3: the game on.
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been great. So Yeah, Nico Locatta and others,
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 2: you guys probably hating life because everything you said before
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 2: is sounding foolish, right, true. Let's see, it is all
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 2: Caps the biggest sporting of they never hosted in the Seattle.
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 2: Even though sports provide close to serra cultural value, people
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 2: are just going to happen lost time with the NFC Championship.
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 2: As such, the guy and Nomaha, Nebraska doesn't really care
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 2: about the outcome, but many more Americans here all over care.
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 2: More people around the worldcare as well. Yeah, I think
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 2: I think you're right.
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 5: Two six.
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 6: I know the World Cup deserves all the talk today.
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 6: Don't forget it's now eighteen years to the day that
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 6: we lost the Sonics.
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 2: I usually do something on this day and I decided
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 2: not to this year. Yeah, I've done something with it
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 2: for probably the previous seventeen Yeah, you've been You've been
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 2: with me for a couple of though. I have and
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 2: and I'm not doing it today. We're two years away
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 2: from actually we're a year and a half from getting
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 2: the thing back.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 3: So it's a positive day to day. Let's lean into that.
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah, after what happened yesterday and then what we're talking
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 6: about about how it's booming here in the city and
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 6: we're hosting such a cool event on Monday.
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 2: So why does everyone in the local media have to
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 2: sugarcoat everything before they rip someone?
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 5: Just rip them.
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm not gonna go I mean, listen, she made
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 2: her own bed, so to speak. Yeah, sorry, bad pun,
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 2: but I I'm just disappointed because I know that she
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 2: worked hard to get to a certain point, did Diana,
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 2: because I talked about her like, listen, this isn't ripping her.
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 2: This is the reality. She wasn't good when she first
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 2: started on the air soft Deal'll tell you that too.
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 2: We did it. We did a U dub Oregon State
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 2: baseball game at T Mobile Slash Safego Park Safego Field
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 2: back in probably twenty eleven ish something like that. Oregon
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 2: State coming off a College World Series all that is,
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 2: and the booth was Softy Me and Jeff Nelson, and
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 2: there was a Pack ten game organ state was an
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 2: absolute power. It was pretty good that year. So we
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 2: did a game for Comcast Sportsnet. Diana was doing kind
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 2: of the dugout interviews. She she literally would ask a
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 2: question with the mike pointed out the person like she
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 2: was just over her skis, Like we're in the booth going,
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 2: what the hell she doing? Three years later, she's two
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 2: years later, she's an anchor, the main anchor at the
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 2: Washington d C affiliate. I think it was the ABC affiliate,
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 2: which is a it's a top ten market, Like that's
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 2: not a job you just get for fun, like you've
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 2: got to be good. And then she's on ESPN. She
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 2: worked hard, like worked really hard to get to where
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 2: she did, and then she just lost her way through
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 2: it away, and that's that's on her. But I I
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 2: don't dislike the person. I don't and I don't know
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 2: like other people like I don't know Glazer. I don't
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 2: like Glazer necessarily on the air. I think there's a
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 2: greasy element to him too. Kind of a note. But
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 2: I've known rap forever. Ian Rappaport, like Dania, Dania like,
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 2: I like Ian Rappaport, and I know he works hard.
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 2: I know who is his contacts? Are they the same
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 2: as schefters? They're agents and gms, and every agent and
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 2: every GM has an agenda and they want to get
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 2: stuff out there.
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 3: Right, it's a professional relationship.
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 2: It's nothing professional relationship.
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 7: Absolutely.
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 2: I'll read this one finally to wrap it up. Hey,
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 2: I and I have to disagree with your take on
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 2: all affairs being bad.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 5: Some are very very good.
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 2: Uh sure?
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 5: Why not?
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 2: Sure?
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 2: Manh yeah, yeah, some might be good. I don't know,
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 2: that's a you thing.
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  Speaker 7: They could be.
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  Speaker 2: I don't, I don't all, I gotta go.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 2: He and I have a solution to your transportation problem
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 2: on money. Call up your old friend Brian Abker and
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  Speaker 2: have him fire up Chopper nine fifty to.
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  Speaker 5: Get you there and back.
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  Speaker 3: Bob him solved.
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  Speaker 2: Chop for nine fifty. Did you ever hear those I did? Yes,
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 2: those were We couldn't do those today. There's a lot
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 2: of things from radio a decade or more ago that
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 2: you could not do today. The bigger dances at the
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 2: top of the list. That's number one. David Locke Sloppy
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 2: Seconds is number two, and coming into the close number
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  Speaker 2: three would be Chopper nine to fifty and I think
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 2: we've looked back. I don't even think we have the
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 2: air checks anymore. It's too bad because those things were
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 2: kind of like kind of like Almost Live. I don't
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 2: know if you ever seen Almost Live. I'm not actually
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 2: Old King show is kind of like a local version
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 2: of Saturday Night Live. A bunch of skits like high
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 2: five and white guys, a valor driving school things like
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  Speaker 2: that was awesome anyway, that like you can bring some
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  Speaker 2: stuff back chapter nine fifty. That would that would get
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  Speaker 2: a sold fire.
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 5: That would get a fire.
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  Speaker 2: And frankly, I wouldn't trust the captain to fly me anywhere,
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 2: to be honest, Nope, not a chance. Softy joins us.
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 2: Next jointing gets right, where are you at today? Buddy?
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 2: Where are you at? I know you're on the rock. Yeah,
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 2: I'm talking to you. I'm talking.
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Let's see where am I at? Let me let
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 5: me wake up for a second here.
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  Speaker 12: Oh I'm a Jimmy's Yeah, I've been Jimmies on first
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  Speaker 12: across the Tea Mobile Park, getting ready for the Mariners
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 12: and Angels tonight, still picking up the pieces from the
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 12: Belgium Senegal game yesterday. I'm looking ahead that Monday at
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 12: at five with the Belgium US game.
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  Speaker 2: Are you?
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  Speaker 5: Are you a? Are you a?
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  Speaker 2: Jimmy's on Monday as well.
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  Speaker 5: No, I'm off Monday. I'm off for two weeks starting tomorrow.
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 5: I'm getting that. Oh you you people can deal with it?
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 2: Who you people?
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 5: People? You people?
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 2: Softy out? God?
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 5: You talk about this? Did you talk about the Stephen A.
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 5: Smith thing and all the day in his show?
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: No?
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 2: I ignore him? What do you do?
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 5: You didn't hear what he did?
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 2: I honestly, I honestly did not. And I don't know
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 2: what did he do?
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 12: Yeah, he came out and basically said there's no way
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 12: the Lakers are gonna win anything with three white guys
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 12: as their biggest stars.
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 5: Oh my god. And people are giving him prap for it. Oh,
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 5: it's so hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 12: Which you know, Hey man, I mean, I get it right,
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 12: but let's not have a double standard here.
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 2: Oh can you imagine? Can you imagine?
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 5: Just and whatever? I mean? It's like, you know, well,
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 5: I think what you're talking about.
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 12: It like if I went on the air the Crack
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 12: and had three African American players as the top three
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 12: guys and I said they're going to try to win
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 12: with three black dudes.
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 5: I'd be fired tomorrow if I.
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 2: See you'd be fired that day, right, it wouldn't be tomorrow.
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 12: That's where people are just kind of like, hey man,
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 12: there's a little bit of a double standard here, and
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 12: I mean there is.
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 5: I mean, life is.
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 12: There's a lot of hypocrisy in life, right, There's a
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 12: lot of hypocrisy in art society. There's a reason why
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 12: the term double stand standard exists because people have double standards,
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 12: and Stephen A.
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 5: Smith is taking a lot of heat for that.
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, I heard your conversation with Dick the other
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 2: day in Jackson about just the whole Caitlyn Clark thing, right, like,
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 2: that's it makes everybody uncomfortable. But I mean there are
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 2: some that you can connect the dots with Caitlin Clark.
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 2: It's not that hard to figure that out, right, sure
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 2: of course.
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 5: Well did you see did you see today? I don't
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 5: know where this came from.
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 12: They put out some kind of a poll or whatever,
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 12: and part of the voting results for those it was
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 12: the voting for the All Star Game. So voting results
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 12: for the twenty twenty six All Star Game, because the
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 12: fan ranks, media rank and the player rank, and then
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 12: there's a weighted score for everybody. Well, Kaitlyn Clark amongst guards.
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 12: The total combined score was third behind Page Becker's of
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 12: Dallas and Olivia Miles of Minnesota, but the players had
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 12: her number eleven overall. So, look, they don't like her,
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 12: you know, I mean, it's obvious, man, they don't like her.
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 5: Are you kidding me? I'm not even sure if her
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 5: coach likes her? For God's sakes?
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 2: They like do they like the charter jets in the
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 2: in the new CBA?
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, like people.
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 12: We think that that's because of them. They don't want
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 12: to give her any credit. So anyway, we'll talk to
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 12: Jerry Brewer at five o'clock tonight. He's gonna wait on this,
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 12: and I kind of want to hear what his what
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 12: his thoughts are on it?
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 2: Man, So yeah, how about Hey, how are you gonna
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 2: talk red cards today? Yes?
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 5: One percent? We are. I'm gonna, I'm gonna.
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 12: I am gonna just grace you with my soccer knowledge
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 12: coming up at two o'clock this afternoon.
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 2: You're known for your soccer knowledge, and so I'm looking
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 2: forward to that. I am looking forward to that. All right,
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 2: We better go. We're limping to the finish.
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 5: I know you are. I know you are a big boy.
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 2: Hey boy, how a good have a good vacation my friends. Hey,
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 2: don't buil your hand off on Saturday. A right, those
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 2: days are long gone. I did that. I did that, girl,
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 2: I know I did that growing up in Magnolia. I'm good.
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 2: I'm all yeah, we're all good.
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 12: Yeah, you're not going to take a big fire cracker
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 12: wheel and rolling down the hill and have it come
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 12: to a stop underneath the car like we did back
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 12: in the day.
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 5: We did that.
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 2: That was that was down the three Hills in mcgrawayday
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 2: and down to the Magnolia village.
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 12: Yes, that happened. I said to myself, I am so screwed.
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 12: I am going to get my past beat by my
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 12: dad when I got home. And luckily nothing happened, Nothing
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 12: of significance happened.
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 2: It was It would have been forty five years ago
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 2: that I did some of that stuff. But I'm still
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 2: not going to talk about it because I don't know
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 2: what what what the what the what? What the limit
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 2: is there?
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 5: So I wonder what happens if I fired those bottle
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 5: rockets in my pants?
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 2: Well, your friends at the EQC back in the day
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 2: were selling M eighties and M one hundreds and those things.
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 2: You know what they are. They're waterproof, that's right.
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 12: Boom City Man, Boom City up. And Mary's going back
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 12: in the off a basketball full of gunpowder.
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 2: Or I drink too many beers and when I'm smoking
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 2: our port button meat on Saturday, I can't do that
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 2: explosive stuff anymore.
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, see it for.
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  Speaker 2: The mild mannered and marginally objectionable e infinous. This is
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 2: Paddled Day saying so long everyone,