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Best of Chuck & Buck 4-10 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Good morning anybody.
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  Speaker 3: No something?
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  Speaker 4: This is Chuck and Buck.
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  Speaker 2: In the morning. You people are beyond Let's go. Let's
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  Speaker 2: get the game off.
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  Speaker 5: Sports Radio ninety three three kJ r f M. It
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  Speaker 5: is the Chuck and Buck Show. And today no Chuck.
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  Speaker 3: And no Buck.
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  Speaker 5: It is Ashley Ryan, Greg Bell, Travis moger in on
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  Speaker 5: this Friday. So we're going to do things just a
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  Speaker 5: little differently than nine th This is early paradise.
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  Speaker 2: This is like my former life. This is army style. Travis,
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  Speaker 2: the board.
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  Speaker 3: On the with a shootout. What time do you leave here?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I considered sleeping.
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  Speaker 2: I will that was a good choice.
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  Speaker 3: No matter what I would have I would have slept here.
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  Speaker 5: I think I live in Mill Creek, though, where do
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  Speaker 5: you live?
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  Speaker 3: I live in like Green Lakes, so it's not too far,
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  Speaker 3: too far, but still still poor Travis.
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  Speaker 5: Every time they ask him to come in on a Friday,
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  Speaker 5: it's like the day after a Cracking game, and I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 5: this poor guy, he's just the last one out and
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  Speaker 5: the first one in.
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  Speaker 2: And they went to a shootout. It was just a
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  Speaker 2: long night.
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  Speaker 5: And they won a shootout, which is actually more of
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  Speaker 5: the story because I I went to sleep. I did
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  Speaker 5: not watch them win the shootout, and I think that
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  Speaker 5: was the key. And I apologize to Crack and fans
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  Speaker 5: all around because I should have been falling asleep for
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  Speaker 5: every shootout and then they would have won a lot
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  Speaker 5: more of your fault, I know, and I'm sorry all
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  Speaker 5: the problems.
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  Speaker 2: That Crack and I'm not sure that's one of them.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I should have figured it out earlier and maybe
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  Speaker 5: they'd have less problems. But we will talk plenty about
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  Speaker 5: the Crack in today we are. I don't know how
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  Speaker 5: you guys felt, but yesterday, obviously a Mariner's off day.
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  Speaker 3: Did you feel a little relieved?
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  Speaker 5: Did you feel a little They didn't lose exactly, And
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  Speaker 5: I was like, oh, it's kind of nice that I'm
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  Speaker 5: not one trying to schedule everything around making sure I'm
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  Speaker 5: watching the Mariners game. And too, I also think I
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  Speaker 5: needed a little bit of a break.
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  Speaker 2: Mom, you better not scheduling a Mariner's game. No, but
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  Speaker 2: I do get left.
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  Speaker 5: I know it's true, but especially because you know, with
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  Speaker 5: Bucky being gone, I feel like I've got it.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's not something I can just have on kind
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  Speaker 3: of in the background.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like I've got to be paying even more attention,
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  Speaker 5: and so I have been scheduling more things like Okay,
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  Speaker 5: well I can record, I can start late, I can
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  Speaker 5: watch this and fast forward, and yeah, it's it was
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  Speaker 5: nice to have a day off where I wasn't worried
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  Speaker 5: that everybody was going to get very angry.
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  Speaker 2: That's you're probably speaking for most of the Pacific Northwest. Yeah, right,
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  Speaker 2: when you say that, they just took a breath of Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I don't have to watch this for a minute, I.
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  Speaker 3: Know, And that's sad. Two weeks into the season.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and that's the thing, right, I mean, this is
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  Speaker 2: you talk about Groundhog Day. We talk when I had
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  Speaker 2: the show on the station for thirteen months, six of them.
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  Speaker 2: Chris and I, Chris Kidd and I talked about this.
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  Speaker 2: Are the Mariners ever going to turn around? How nervous
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  Speaker 2: are you about the Mariners? This is clockwork. Four and
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  Speaker 2: nine is the norm for this team after thirteen games.
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  Speaker 2: Now they are resetting low marks for franchises for first
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  Speaker 2: thirteen game. I can talk about this in a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: but statistically batting averages, ops, slugging. Yeah, every year over
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  Speaker 2: year they set a new low after thirteen games. Last
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  Speaker 2: year they had franchise lows of hitting and scoring. They
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  Speaker 2: just broke that this year with the first thirteen games.
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  Speaker 2: This is who they are. The American League West stinks
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  Speaker 2: right now. The American League stinks right now. So that's okay.
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  Speaker 2: The bad part is to see the Mariners have only
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  Speaker 2: played the American League so far and against the bad
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  Speaker 2: side of the Major Baseball. But yeah, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: ask you on the text line four nine with Dodge
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  Speaker 2: tech Ligne and other places today YouTube, which is new
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  Speaker 2: to me.
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  Speaker 3: I welcome to YouTube.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, But we're gonna ask is it are
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  Speaker 2: you panicked? How long will you not be panicked? When?
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  Speaker 2: At what point is the panic point on the Mariners?
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  Speaker 5: Well?
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  Speaker 2: You talking about Dan Wilson. Is he on a hot seat?
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  Speaker 3: My answer is no, No, I would agree.
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  Speaker 2: Because who picked him is still in charge. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 2: when's the panic? And I from from my experience in
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  Speaker 2: this living here for thirty plus years, maybe the All
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  Speaker 2: Star break would be the panic point. I mean only
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  Speaker 2: in April. And this team has shown eventually they have
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  Speaker 2: the pitching that if they just get a modicum of hitting,
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  Speaker 2: and this year, more to the point that fielding.
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  Speaker 5: Which is yeah, I think even to average of those
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  Speaker 5: they're gonna win.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's the history. So it's easy to say coming
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  Speaker 2: off and off day, but I wouldn't be too panicked.
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  Speaker 2: I would be concerned panicked.
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  Speaker 5: And that's the thing that's the conversation we've kind of
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  Speaker 5: been having lately, is Yeah, you can be frush, you
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  Speaker 5: can be annoyed. And again, just for all the Texters,
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  Speaker 5: for all the YouTubers, I'm not telling you how to fan.
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  Speaker 3: You can feel however you want.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just saying, you know, to save my own sanity,
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  Speaker 5: I am annoyed.
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  Speaker 3: I'm frustrated.
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  Speaker 5: I don't like it that the season starts this way frequently.
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  Speaker 5: I don't like it that we have such high expectations
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  Speaker 5: and hopes coming off last year to start this season
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  Speaker 5: this way again, when you think maybe now it's going
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  Speaker 5: to be different and then it's not.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's really freaking annoying. I get it. I'm annoyed,
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  Speaker 3: especially this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean to talk and nobody. I wrote a
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  Speaker 2: story for the News Tribute, which I'm already regretting, talking
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  Speaker 2: about what players, what fans coming to the ballpark opening day,
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  Speaker 2: and even John Stanton himself were saying World Series.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: John Stanton the day of the opener said we should
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  Speaker 2: be competing in the World Series this year. He said that, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: on live radio on this station.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He told that to Softy Jimmy's across the street from
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  Speaker 2: the park, and they go out and go four and
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  Speaker 2: nine to start that That's what makes this particular start
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  Speaker 2: even more galling. But having said that, there's still one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty games left to go, and this team, again,
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  Speaker 2: if they just get a modicum of semi average hitting
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  Speaker 2: and just field the ball like a little league team
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  Speaker 2: should be able to, and throw the ball and catch
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  Speaker 2: the ball, they will win. That's the history of the
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  Speaker 2: recent history of this pitching staff. They go with a
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  Speaker 2: one three nine era down in Texas, a team that
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  Speaker 2: did not look good to me at all when we
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  Speaker 2: watched them, and they lost all three games. I know.
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  Speaker 2: So even having said all of this, they still had
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  Speaker 2: the pitching to go to the World Series. They did
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  Speaker 2: last year, they did it to do again this year.
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  Speaker 2: So when you say panic, now the injury piece, which
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  Speaker 2: is what John Stanton caveated when he talked on Opening
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  Speaker 2: Day two, Softy, if we have the health, he said,
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  Speaker 2: we should be competing this year for the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: The injuries for the pitching staff would absolutely turn the
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  Speaker 2: whole season around. And then if you would couple that
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  Speaker 2: with the hitting in the fielding they have, you're talking
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  Speaker 2: about our last place team.
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  Speaker 3: That would be a disaster.
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  Speaker 5: Can Yeah, can we knock on all like, knock on everything.
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  Speaker 2: There's enough wood in the Pacific Northwest to knocking on
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  Speaker 2: to try to avoid that from happening. But we've already
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  Speaker 2: seen it.
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  Speaker 5: Bryce Miller, Yeah, but he also even coming off last year,
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  Speaker 5: wasn't you know, he had some struggles, some issues, some
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  Speaker 5: health that was kind of haunting them all season. So
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  Speaker 5: I don't have a fear that that's going to be
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  Speaker 5: derailing them. I think he's gonna be okay.
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  Speaker 2: And Emerson Hancock has proven worthy enough.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, felling for him absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: The pitching. My point is eventually the key is eventually,
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  Speaker 2: how much are you going to pay and watch and
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  Speaker 2: invest in this until eventually happens. But eventually, if they
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  Speaker 2: just hit a little bit and catch the ball like
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  Speaker 2: Image League team should, they're gonna win. Yeah, because of
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  Speaker 2: their pitching staff. And you know what else, They're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be forty thousand butts in the seats tonight because it's
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  Speaker 2: each ye Row giveaway statue night because and they're going
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  Speaker 2: to unveil the statue out in front of the park
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  Speaker 2: ye to night. And I hate to say it, but
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  Speaker 2: I've said it many years on this station. As long
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  Speaker 2: as there's fireworks, knights, bobbleheads and Eachiero statue knights at
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  Speaker 2: forty thousand people are coming to John standing. The boys
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  Speaker 2: are cool.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you just pissed so many people off.
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  Speaker 2: They are higher in profit, they are clear in profit.
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  Speaker 2: They're getting luxury tax money from the Yankees and the
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  Speaker 2: Dodgers and the Cubs of the world. Right. They are
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  Speaker 2: plus in what they do best, which is make money
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  Speaker 2: pro sports on owners own teams, not to make us
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  Speaker 2: feel good. So, yeah, it's great, and the Seahawks will
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  Speaker 2: say they do it for the fans. Billionaires own billionaire
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  Speaker 2: teams to make more billions. That's the bottom line. That's
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  Speaker 2: how they got to be billionaires. They didn't get there
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  Speaker 2: by being philanthropist. They got there by making money. And
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  Speaker 2: as long as the Mariners and John Standing the boys
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  Speaker 2: are making money, we good. And that's the frustration with
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  Speaker 2: the Mariners. And when they don't invest and they don't
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  Speaker 2: bring people in free agents, that's where fans get ticked. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and that's a a valid concern and a valid criticism
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  Speaker 2: of this team. But if you're one of those billionaires
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  Speaker 2: invested in the Mariners and you see forty thousand in
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  Speaker 2: the park for a four and nineteen that the whole
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  Speaker 2: region is pissed about.
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  Speaker 3: You could yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And that's and which is a sad thing. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I think it's interesting to see. You know, obviously, I
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  Speaker 5: think most people that are going to this game tonight
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  Speaker 5: bought these tickets before the marriage courts were on a
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  Speaker 5: four and nine.
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  Speaker 2: Start right and more part Yeah you should be celebrating, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Go celebrate Eachi ro Go see the statue, Go get
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  Speaker 5: your replica statue, and I think some of them are
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  Speaker 5: going to be autographed. I mean, very cool, fun thing
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  Speaker 5: honor the Mariners. There was a conversation on our station
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  Speaker 5: yesterday actually about we need to stop celebrating all of
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  Speaker 5: these things in the past, right, Like, and people were
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  Speaker 5: texting in yesterday, why are you talking about a two
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  Speaker 5: thousand and one team. We had Mark maclamore on and
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  Speaker 5: we were talking to him about Echiro. Why are you
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  Speaker 5: talking about the two thousand and one team that's twenty
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  Speaker 5: five years ago. Well, because it is important to honor
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  Speaker 5: our past, but also that's what we've got, right You.
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  Speaker 2: Talking about a team who never made the World Series.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what we've got. We can't celebrate our trip
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  Speaker 5: to the World Series. We can't celebrate our World Series championship.
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  Speaker 5: We can celebrate nineteen ninety five because it was an
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  Speaker 5: awesome year where nobody thought they were gonna make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 5: We can celebrate two thousand and one because it was
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  Speaker 5: an amazing regular season that ended in disappointment.
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  Speaker 3: We don't talk about that part.
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  Speaker 5: And we can celebrate our great players, and we can
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  Speaker 5: celebrate last year going to the ALCS Game seven, because
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  Speaker 5: that is what we've got, and you can't celebrate something
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  Speaker 5: you don't have.
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  Speaker 2: I've been around a few majorge parks. I grew up
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  Speaker 2: thirty minutes from Three River Stadium in Pittsburgh, I will say,
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  Speaker 2: and family in Cleveland. Get back to Detroit now fit.
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  Speaker 2: My mother and sister live in Detroit, and those cities
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  Speaker 2: have great baseball history. Yeah, Pittsburgh back to the turn
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  Speaker 2: of the nineteen hundreds, Cleveland the same, Detroit the same,
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  Speaker 2: and championships the World Series. The Pirates don't celebrate their
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  Speaker 2: last World Series like the Mariners celebrate the two thousand
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  Speaker 2: and one and ninety five team. I mean, in nineteen
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  Speaker 2: seventy nine, we are family, Willie Stargell. Pirates, they don't
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  Speaker 2: invoke that as nearly as much as the ninety five
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  Speaker 2: Mariners are around here. So they do do it a
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  Speaker 2: little bit overboard. But to your point, what what else
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  Speaker 2: are they going to celebrate?
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  Speaker 3: Right, You've got to know you got to keep reliving it.
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  Speaker 2: Because it does sell. Yeah, I mean, I mean.
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  Speaker 5: People will get annoyed. People are going to be so mad,
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  Speaker 5: why are we celebrating? I get it, But again, when
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  Speaker 5: that's what you've got, that's.
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  Speaker 2: What you got, it, it's not Sean Figgins statue Nite tonight.
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  Speaker 2: It's statue it's.
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  Speaker 5: Goodness would be mad, Yeah right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 5: And that's the thing is, you know, we are celebrating
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  Speaker 5: a great player with who's i mean, world world famous
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  Speaker 5: and what he's done for the game of baseball. So yeah,
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  Speaker 5: it's not like they're doing Brett Boone statue nite. Sorry
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  Speaker 5: for all these guys catching strays, but that's just what
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  Speaker 5: we're not doing that, you know. So I do think
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  Speaker 5: in terms of that it's important to celebrate those things.
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  Speaker 5: And it is sad that that's all we have, not
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  Speaker 5: the player part, but the games and the years that
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  Speaker 5: we're celebrating that we keep remembering. Yeah, it's sad that
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  Speaker 5: that's what we're celebrating because that's what we have.
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  Speaker 2: But it also sells.
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  Speaker 3: But it sells which it puts butts and seats in
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  Speaker 3: the park, which is the bottom line of the people
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  Speaker 3: who run the Mariners.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean I make a joke that they
• 12:15
  Speaker 2: should have Ken Griffy sleeping in the clubhouse bubblehead, and
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  Speaker 2: they should make Ken Griffy and batting practice ball. They
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  Speaker 2: should make Ken Griffy in his truck driving across Eye
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  Speaker 2: ninety and it would sell. You get forty thousand people
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  Speaker 2: to the park. He was at the.
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  Speaker 5: Kracking game last night. You could do a crack Ken Griffy.
• 12:30
  Speaker 5: You get the Kracking game bottle.
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  Speaker 2: You could get Ken Griffy sitting in his truck driving
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  Speaker 2: across Eroe ninety in Montana during a Mariner's game when
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  Speaker 2: he abruptly retired bubblehead night, and you get forty thousand
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  Speaker 2: people that would come to that. Probably, you can't blame
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  Speaker 2: the Mariners for which a job to do, and they're
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  Speaker 2: doing it very well. Yes, they are for a team
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  Speaker 2: that has never made the playoff and they made the
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  Speaker 2: World Series. Yeah, but they drove two and a half
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  Speaker 2: million people last year.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, but it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was thirty two thousand a night.
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  Speaker 3: It's pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: That's some coin.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: When parking costs fifty seventy bucks and beers cost eighteen
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  Speaker 2: bucks and hot dogs cost ten you bring a family
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  Speaker 2: of four for two hundred and fifty dollars just to
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  Speaker 2: sit in the bleachers. That's some bucks when three two
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  Speaker 2: point five million people come in. Yeah, So they aren't
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  Speaker 2: discouraged to change that, No, they aren't discouraged to quit
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  Speaker 2: the Echi Ro Statue Knights and the Ken Griffy driving
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  Speaker 2: in his truck bubblehead night because it sells. And that's
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  Speaker 2: the so frustrating part about the on field product. I mean, honestly,
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  Speaker 2: if you're driving, if you're drawing thirty two thousand people
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  Speaker 2: a night and making the money the Mariners are making,
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  Speaker 2: you damn well should be in the World Series. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you're the product you're putting on isn't matching the numbers
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  Speaker 2: they get in the revenue they're making by and large.
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  Speaker 5: Now, last year did yeah well, and I was going
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  Speaker 5: to say too, I think, you know, adding Naylor in
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  Speaker 5: the off season was a big deal and bringing in Donovan.
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  Speaker 3: I mean they did this year.
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  Speaker 5: I think off season wise was more impressive than they've
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  Speaker 5: been in a while.
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  Speaker 2: But they also had more money. They just made the last.
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  Speaker 3: Past offseason well good, I'm glad they used it, right,
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  Speaker 3: but right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because they played for almost an extra month, they
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  Speaker 2: had gate revenue and interest and as I mentioned, thirty
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  Speaker 2: two thousand people per night in the stands, So they
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  Speaker 2: had a higher floor this past offseason as far as revenue.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the bottom line. How much is this is
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  Speaker 2: true of anything? The Seahawks that I cover for the
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  Speaker 2: News tributne same thing. How much are they willing The
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: NFL is different because it has a hard salary cap
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  Speaker 2: and there's a floor you have to pay a minimum
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  Speaker 2: of cash out every year. That's where the CBA. But
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  Speaker 2: how much are they willing to spend up the profit
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  Speaker 2: they got the previous year in the Mariner's case, and
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: the profits were larger last year because of the success
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  Speaker 2: they had in the longer games and packed houses for
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: two playoff rounds. That to me is the reason that
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: they signed or traded for Brandon Donovan and signed re
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: signed Josh Naylor because the floor was higher and tonight,
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: when forty thousand people come to each year Statue Night,
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: the floor stays there. When does the floor drop out?
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: As long as they have this pitching staff, I would
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: argue it's not going to because they're going to be
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: in contention. Like I said, if they can start catching
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: you throwing like a league team, they will be in contention.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: So the floor doesn't drop out. And that's why, in
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: my mind, the panic doesn't start until August. If they're
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: playing like.
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: This right well, and the panic shouldn't start. I mean,
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: well I shouldn't. I think the panic there. If this
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: is still the case at the end of May, you're
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: gonna have a lot of very panicked people, whether they
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: should be or not, because obviously there's I hate to
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: say it, still a lot of time left.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: In the season.
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: I know I won't use the it's early phrase, but
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: you know, it is funny to me that there is
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: so much anger and frustration and some panic with the
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: season started two weeks ago from yesterday.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: So is it an ugly start to the season?
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: One man? Does it feel like it was two months ago?
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: It feels really long? And I said, maybe that's the problem.
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: Maybe that's the problem is that people are like, oh,
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: we've been doing this all for months. Oh crap, it's
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: only been two weeks. Maybe that's the problem.
• 16:05
  Speaker 6: Well, I think part of the problem is that your
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: your big stars, your big bats are so cold and
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: striking out. It's very frustrating. You give Naylor this big
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: contract and he is just sucking. Yeah, and you know
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: Julio typically he's not playing well this time of the season,
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: but you still you expect more from your stars.
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: Absolutely, I will say the one thing that we haven't.
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: And I brought this up briefly to Chuck. We haven't
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: really gotten to talk about at all because of this
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: terrible start. Is that Julio has had two moments where
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: he's come up in the ninth inning and.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: Delivered a clutch hit that's tied.
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: The game and sent us to extra innings, and we
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: haven't even gotten to talk about it because everything else
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: has been so abysmal.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: One to the opposite field of all things. Yeah in Anaheim.
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and he's getting no credit because in both of
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: them they lost the game, right, And it's like, but
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: but that is one positive thing that I've noticed, But
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: then you've got It's kind of like all the positives
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: are taken over by the negative. Like Rob Refschneider, great
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: catch the other day, I can't hit.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: They don't have hit this season yet doesn't know he's
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: over for thirteen. I believe the guy who's the best
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: hitting against left handed pitching he ever created.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: And I don't think he has a hit unless he
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: got one on Wednesday, but I don't think he did
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: no hits.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: No hits.
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: Okay, so spectacular catch can't hit, Brandon Donovan can hit.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Errors errors errors in left field and at third base.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: So it's like you everything is a.
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: You know, given a take in there so that you
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: don't have any like just multiple positives to move forward
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: with because every single positive has a negative attached to it.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Right now, That's another point we're going to bring up
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: during the show about the Mariners. Brandon Donovan is their
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: best hitter right now three to sixteen, six oh five,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: slugging one point h two, seven ops, three home runs
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: and eleven starts. He is the worst third basement in
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Major League Baseball all kinds of metrics, by all kinds
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: of metrics. Leads and errors. Second most error is actually
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: worst fielding percentage. There's a saber Metrics You fucking may
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: have talked about this, maybe not. He's not a big
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: sat metrics guy. Now, range factor you know that is?
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: I do not.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: It's how big your range is in your kitchen. No
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: range factor is put outs plusis pop out? I was
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: trying to catch you there, put outs plus assists per
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: nine innings. It's an old Rick Ramo said, Rick James.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: That would have been funny. This is a saber Metrics
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: from the nineteen eighties and one of the originals, and
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: he is the worst in Major League Baseball among all
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: regular third basemen and put outs plus assists per nine innings. Wow,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: So when he gets chances, he's not converting them, right?
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: How long does that last? Who do they have instead?
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: I know that, and that's the question.
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: I mean, and you think too with Perry Hill, like
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: it's going to improve because we've seen him.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Give that gold glove infeater it's second base.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, with the Cardinals, I don't I have never played
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: baseball or softball. I just watch a lot of it.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: I don't know how hard that is to convert from
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: second to third.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: He did have one hundred I think it was one
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: hundred games in his career. Maybe it's fewer than that.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: I wrote a story on opening Day about him playing
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: at third base. He had a dabbling of it in
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Saint Louis. Yeah, most of it was at second base
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: and then some outfield as well. But he won a
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Gold glob a couple of years ago for what he
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: did at second base. I coached high school baseball have
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: and here in Seattle, and I'm in no way a
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: MAJORLYE level authority on this, but talking to guys in
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: covering used to be something you remember from my show,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: I used to be the a's beat writer in Oakland
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: for the Sacramento b and I covered the Mariners as
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: the AP sports writer in Seattle for years. They will
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: tell you that third base, of all the positions in
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: the infield, is the most difficult because of how quickly
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: the ball gets on, especially right handed batters. Yeah, and
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: that is an adjustment, and compared to second base, where
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: you are more in the middle of the diamond and
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: further back positionally in most cases. So and not to
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: mention the long throws from third to first, so it
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: is incrementally more difficult, they will tell you at third
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: base than at second base. And the marriage knew this
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: when they decided to put him at third. The fact is,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: when they let Heineo Suarez leave again, by the way,
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: they're going to trade for Suarez in July.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Probably that's just going to be a thing. Is going
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: to be your thing.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: The only two times in the last quarter century they
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: made the playoffs.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Because well, they were gonna be like, all right, in July.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: He's going to be back here, by the way, all right.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: But when they let him go, they had to make
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: a calculous decision of who's going to be a third Okay,
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: let's try Brandon Donovan here. So they had to have
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: considered the possibility that this would happen because he hasn't played.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: Regularly well, and he even talked about it in spring
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: training like, yeah, I'm nervous about this because I don't
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: have a lot of experience here.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Then now you see why.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, now you see why. All right, Well, we've got
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: a lot more to talk about with the Mariagers. We
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: got a lot more to talk about with the show.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Let's find out what is on tap?
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: What's on what's on tap?
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: So I mentioned we're going to do things a little
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: differently today. We will have the OCHO, but it won't
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: be your typical OHO. We'll just kind of continue to
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: have conversations about the bigger stories from the week. The
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: Kraken did win last night, we did mention that. So
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: we're we are going to have Todd light Wiki on
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: at seven oh five. He's gonna talk crack and note.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna talk about that that win though.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's gonna talk crack about that about.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: You know, my first question is going to be to
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Hip Dravis, How the hell are you going to have
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: an independent audit of your hockey operations led by the
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: general manager who leads the hockey operations.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they're now the new president of hockey operations because
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: they're not really filling the position.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's a great question. I'm curious about it.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: We are also going to have Elise Woodward on at nine,
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: so that'll be fun to talk to her. She just
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: got a new gig in Portland. She has been broadcasting
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: for the Storm the last few years and she's going
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: to be on the TV broadcast now for the New
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: Portland w NBA team. We do need help from you guys,
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: and we've got an awesome prize. We're going to tell
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: you all about that at six forty five. And since
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: we probably won't have a lot of time to talk
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: about the krack and we're gonna do that next.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: It's Sports Radio ninety three three kJ r f M.
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: It is time for your cores, Light, choose chill headlines.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: By the way, no Chuck and Buck.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: Today you've got Ashley Ryan, Greg Bell and Travis Moger
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: and the Masters Day two underway right now. Some of
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: the questions I saw is the pressure off Rory now
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: that he's leading day one and I thought to myself,
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: I thought the pressure was off, and when he won
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: it last year, that was all the pressure he was facing.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: There were some funny things that happened in day one.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: And I have to do that because the golfers I
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: picked all played terrible, so we got to look at
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: the funny things. Shaveley's ball landed in the fans merch
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: bag and that was pretty funny. Deshambau hit a patron
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: with his t shot and Robert McIntyre just exploded on
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: a hole and then there's photos everywhere of him flipping
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: off the hole. He was so mad. I think he
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: had a nine. Yeah, he deserved to be angry.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: He deserved to be angry.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: It is not very augustin National leg but you know what,
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: I think we've all wanted to flip off a hole
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: when we played golf and had a bad one.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: So there you go. He I was like, this is it.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Robert McIntyre, he's one of us.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: We will have Masters updates starting at twenty after the
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: hour this hour, so you'll get the latest from Augusta. There.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: Mariners back home tonight to face the Astros and try
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: to improve from a four and nine start. It's not
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: very often you look at the al West standings and
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: see the Mariners there at the bottom, but that is
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: the case right now. Tatsuya Emi gets the start for
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: the Astros. Emerson Hancock on the mound for the Mariners.
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: And yes, it is Echio Statue night. Tonight, EMS will
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: unveil an Echio statue outside home plate entrance near the
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: Griffian Edgar statues. Apparently that's like the statue Walk of Fame.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: Now it's also Echiro's replica statue night. So the first
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: forty fans will fans. We're forty thousand fans. There you go,
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: thank you. We'll receive a mini version of the statue.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: And one thing we're gonna talk about later because tonight's
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: game is on King five, So we got to talk
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: about this this TV thing. You don't need to pay
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: the street. Yeah, we don't rabbit your TV tonight. You're
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: watching a Maria. It's available to everybody. But we're gonna
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: have a conversation about that at eight o'clock in the
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: oho Is.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: And again we're giving away two tickets, two pairs of tickets. Yeah,
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: the Mariners tonight game tonight against the astros.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: What do they have to do?
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: They have to text in for nine five one to come.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: A Dodge tech line or the YouTube channel comments, texting,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: you're fixed to the marriage? How would you fix the manners?
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Creative answers please.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: I saw one that suggests we just switch rosters with
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: the Dodgers. That would probably work. I don't know how
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: plausible that one is. The Kraken did something we haven't
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: seen in a while. They got to win in a shootout,
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: beating the Vegas Golden Knights four to three last night
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: at CPA. Mathematically, they've still got a shot at a
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: wild card spot in the playoffs, it's a long shot.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: Four games left, they are eight points out of the
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: second spot, which means they got to win out and
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: hope for a lot of losses for other teams. So
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: there is still a chance. You're saying, there's a chance.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: They do have another game tomorrow against the Flames. They
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: are hosting them at CPA tomorrow at four pm. You
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: can hear that right here on ninety three to three
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: kJ our pregame at three point thirty.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: All right, is Todd ready for us? All right? So
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: there's been some kracking news this week. Ron Francis stepping down.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Jason Botterol gonna take over Ron's duties and keep
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: his GM duties. And so we thought, you know what,
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: we need to reach out out to Todd light WICKI
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: and talk to him because we got a lot of
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: questions for this guy.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Todd, thank you for joining us this morning.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Good morning to both you.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Good morning morning, Tar, Good talk to him a minute.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Good to talk to you, Greg, Thank you, sir.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: Okay, So, Todd, we were just talking about the shootout
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: win last night, which was very exciting. By the way,
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: mathematically the Kraken is still alive in the playoff hunt,
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: but it would take some pretty miraculous scenarios I think
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: for them to clinch a spot with just four games left.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: And obviously, from a fan perspective, it's disappointing to see
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: that our team is most likely not going to make
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: the playoffs. But how disappointing is it for you guys,
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: for everybody in the Kraken organization to see coming off
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: that Olympic break, what's happened?
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it was. It's hard because you know,
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: we went into the Olympic break and we were in
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: the playoffs in a spot at that point in time.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: So it's been a rough patch. But you know, as
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: I said a few times yesterday, a little adversity does
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: bring some opportunity, and uh, it's a chance for us
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: to double down and kind of say, hey, what are
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: we doing really well? What do we need to do better?
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: And there's a lot of good things. Berkeley Catton is
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: going to be an incredible player for us. He's still
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: a kid. He couldn't go out and legally drink beer
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: last night because he's underage, but he's certainly deserved one
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: for an incredible goal in the shootout. And so we
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: do see things that maybe others don't see. We see
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: the youth movement. We believe in our kids. Our development
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: team is the coach Hella Valley Firebirds, and they're in
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: the American Hockey League and they're headed the playoffs again.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: So there's there's lots of good things in place, but
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: we simply have to be better. And I think you
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: know our owner, Samantha Holloway, our owners have chartered an
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: enterprise here that's done a lot of things, and I'm
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: immensely proud of the things we've done from building this
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: brain from scratch to building what I believe is the
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: most beautiful arena in the world, building out our training center,
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: building out an arena and Coachella Valley. We've done a lot,
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: but what's most important to our fans is how this
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: team goes and it's really important for us to get
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: it kicked to the right gear. And we're on it.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Todd. We all saw your press conference yesterday down at
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: the arena in the wake of Ron Francis stepping down
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: as president, and you've retained Jason Barrell as your general manager,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: and you announced in quote independent audit of the team's
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: hockey operations. And I know a lot of fans are
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: asking this. I had the same question when I heard
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: you say that, how independent can it be and how
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: new can it be? If your GM, who is in
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: the building is leading this quote independent audit, I mean,
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: will it not be a tendency to uncover what's already known?
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: And what what are you seeking in this audit?
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: Well, you know the word audit is, but you know
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: here's what we're going to do. We're going to get
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: somebody from outside the organization the lay eyes on it,
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: and that individual will absolutely work with Jason and everybody
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: else in hockey because they have the same ambition we do.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: We want to get better. But this will ultimately report
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: to the owner, and the final report will be put
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: on Samantha Halloway's desk. And it's a good thing because
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: the fact is, Jason thinks it's a good idea too.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: Everyone in the organization wants to get better, and no
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: one in the organization is satisfied not making the playoffs
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: for a third year in a row. So this isn't
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: This isn't sort of trying to trip people up or
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: see if there's something unknown. It's to say, how do
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: we take what we're doing and make it better. And
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: let me just talk about Jason for a second. This
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: guy paid his dues. He grew up in a renowned
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: Canadian family. His grandmother was an Olympic speed skater, his
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: mother was in the Olympics. His sister is one of
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: the most decorated Canadian women hockey players of all time.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: Jason won three World Juniors gold medals, the only person
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: ever to have won three medals like that. Drafted in
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: the NHL in the first round, got concussed, went and
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: got a master's degree at the University of Michigan, went
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: to the league office, went to Pittsburgh, had a heck
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: of a run, went to Buffalo, was the GM there.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: He came to us by way of Ron, and you know,
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: he is a smart, capable guy and he now does
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: take the leadership position and we go back to the
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: model we had when Ron started, where we're going to
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: have a GM, but we are going to get outside
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: eyes to look at everything we're doing and to help us.
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: And it's not just Jason, it's the owners and it's
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: everyone down and you know why, we're committed to getting better.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: And you know our track record is we've done a
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: lot of stuff here in the last eight years, but
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: we're we're going to get this fixed because to me,
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: it's one of the most important parts of everything we've
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: built here. For sure.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Todd Lawicki is with us.
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: It's Ashley, Ryan, Greg Bell, and Travis Moger on this
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: Friday Sports Radio ninety three three KJRFM. Todd, you just
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: mentioned that you're going back to the model when Ron
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: first started and just having a GM and Jason's kind
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: of absorbing those duties that Ron had. Is what's the
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: reason of going back towards that would it be. Is
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: it better to have it kind of less voices or
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: would it be better to have somebody kind of like
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: more of a checks and balances type of system.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: Well, what happened a year ago is, you know, we
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: want to There's not all teams have that president GM model,
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: but we did it, and there were a variety of
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: reasons for how we did it. I think that it
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: just feels like the right thing to do. But we
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: reserve the right too because our ultimate goal is how
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: do we get this to a better place. There are
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: a lot of things that we're actually excited about. You know.
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: There's our system. You know, we believe in our kids,
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: and we were ranked recently as seventh best in the
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: league and prospects or top third there Coachella Valley. They're
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: going to the playoffs and that is probably a leading
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: indicator of how good this team's going to be in
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: the future. And they're playing lights out down there. We
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: have cap space, we have capable veterans, we have rising stars,
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: and you saw it last night with Berkeley Caton. We
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: have four first round picks these next two years, and
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: we'll see how it finishes, but we're probably going to
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: you know, have a very high pick this year. So
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: there's lots of good things that give us lots of
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: hope and optimism. But we want to get it right
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: and we're going to do some fine tuning here in
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: the coming weeks. I'm excited about it.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Todd Lightwickie CEO of the Kracking here on your voice
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: at Home with the Crack in ninety three point three
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: KGr family last year, Ryan and Greg Bell, Todd Leige Lambert.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: You I heard him say, he did it. He's coached
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: his ass off this season, in particular in the last
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: few months, in particular through third coach in three years.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: What's his future? Is he coming back and what is
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: how are you in the organization? Samana the hallway on
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: down assess the coaching of this team.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he's I think he's coached really hard
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: this year. And you know, we won through we started
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: out strong, we won through a bit of a dip,
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: a pretty good dip, and then came back strong and
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: played really strong leading into the Olympic break. And you know,
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: I think Lane has I won't use that word again,
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: but the way my wife's like, did you did you
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: swear on? But uh, you know, I think He's worked really,
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: really hard, as has our coaching staff. In fact is
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: I think we've stood up a pretty good organization here,
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: and I think that what we're not looking to do
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: is to disrupt something that has lots of good pieces
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: with it. We're trying to make it better and there's
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: definitely some fine tuning here. But it's also a chance.
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: You know, I said yesterday, a little bit of adversity
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: can bring real opportunity, and the opportunity here is to
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: look at everything we're doing and say, how do we
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: make it better? And we're excited to do that, and
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: we've spent time this week doing that. I also do
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: want to pause here and acknowledge the work that around
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: Francis didn't standing this thing up, And you know, I've
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: had to walk down memory lane here a little bit
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: this week. And when you think about what we walked
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: into here, it was highly improbable we could do what
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: we said we were going to do, that we could
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: take arena that was almost left for dead. No one
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: thought that anything meaningful could happen at that arena. And
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: you know, we somehow found a way to hold a
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: forty million pound roof up and build a brand new
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: arena under it, and everything has happened that has played
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: there has had huge success. We're a now a leading
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: concert venue in North America. The Storm has made an
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: incredible home out of it, and the Torrent leading the
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: w the Professional Women's Hockey League, and attendance our fans
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: have been incredible and guess what, We're poised for another
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: team to play there. So's we have and I'm so
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: proud of what we've done with our brand, with our
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: commitment to community. We're working on a project Memorial Stadium
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: that is one of the greatest things I've ever done
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: in my life. We took a stadium that probably should
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: have been repaired but certainly replaced in recent years, and
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: worked with both the city and the school district to
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: develop a plan. We spent years doing this, but in
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: about eighteen months UH what will be complete is one
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: of the finest community stadiums in the land. We went
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: out and raised tens of millions of dollars. We concepted,
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: we designed, we cost estimated, UH, and we're now leading
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: the construction and it is going to be an incredible
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: shot in the arm for Seattle Public Schools. For the
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: forty seven thousand students for the Metro League, but also
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: for our city, and those are the sort of things
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: we took on. So as you hit a bump in
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: the road, you got to keep it, keep it all
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: in perspective. I'm proud of this organization. We're capable true excellence,
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: and we're gonna we're going to push for excellence on
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: the ice as well. Here in this offseason is mainly
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: ever coming back on. Yes, I fully anticipate Lane comes back,
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: and I think that Lane has actually worked hard and
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: done a heck of a job. And and you saw
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: last night we were playing a very very refined team
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: and the team did rise up, you know. But one,
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: you know, an interesting dynamic is looking at the minutes
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: of our young kids. And these are the things that
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: coaches struggle with because on nights where you're playing a
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: great team, there is a tendency to play your veteran players.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: But we really believe in our kids. So for instance,
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: Berkeley getting into the shootout last night, that is the
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: rarefied air often reserved for veterans, right, and the kids
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: steps in and he made a brilliant move. And so
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: you know, Lane's been asked to do a lot he's
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: certainly disappointed in what happened since the Olympic break, but
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: leading up to the Olympic break, he had this team
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: playing well. And you know, we still think there's upside.
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: We think we need to give him a little bit more,
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: and we're going to this offseason for sure.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Todd. You I've known you since you were the CEO
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: of the Seattle Seahawks and must have been in town
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: a day or two. Know that from two thousand and
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: three to two thousand and seven, you're the man that
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Paul Allen dispatched to get Pete Carroll out of USC
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: and come and change the fortunes of the Seahawks. You've
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: been an executive with the Vancouver Canucks, up the road,
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: down the road, working with the Golden State Warriors, Tampa
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Bay Lightning. In your experiences as a professional sports executive,
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: what will you lean on and remember to get out
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: of what you are trying to fix with the Krack
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: And what are those experiences? What have they taught you
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: that will aid you in this whole thing?
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, this isn't a crisis, and so I've
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: dealt with lots of lots and lots of tough issues
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: by the way, I think it was. I arrived in Seattle,
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: I think in two thousand and two, and I was
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: here through twenty ten. There were significant issues there, Greg,
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: and you're in your first hand. You covered it, you
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: covered it seven days a week. But we fixed it.
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: And I think that for me, you know, and this
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: is going to say a little corny, but every time
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: I go to the building and I'm around our fans,
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: I find deep, deep inspiration. And I think Seattle is
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: blessed with some of the greatest sports fans in the world.
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: Pound for pound, there are no better sports fans in
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: the world than what we have here. And they have
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: never let me down. They became again resurrected the twelfth Man,
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: or the twelves as they call them today. They were
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: They made the sounders the showroom of the ms, and
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: they have given life to the crack. And so when
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: I go in the building, it's not as you know
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: this is. These are all things that are certainly within
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: our grasp to fix and improve and get us to
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: the point of where we believe we should be, which
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: is a perennial payoff team. But the pressure doesn't really
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: come from any other real source than wanting to serve
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: our fans, and they've been incredible. They believed in this
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: before other people believed in it. They didn't know the
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: team name, and they stepped in and said I'm there,
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: and last night they roared. We have incredible fans. And Greg,
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: when you stand back and look at the totality of
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: what we've built, this is not this is far from
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: uh you know, the greatest challenge we faced. And I
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: like our track Urcherd, and I like our chances because
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: we already had plans what this offseason is going to be,
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: and there's so many good things. We have really good
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: prospects in the system. We're super excited about our kids
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: down in Coachella Valley. And last night, if you look
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: at the minutes of plague, a lot of our young
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: kids saw meaningful minutes and played their hearts out and
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: we beat a dang dang good team. I almost swear
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: it again.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Your wife has influenced Todd.
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: One more thing before we let you go, and thank
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: you so much for joining us this morning, I just
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: have to ask.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: You this one question before we let you go. Scale
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: a one to ten.
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: How confident are you that in October of twenty twenty eight,
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: it will be a basketball team plane at Climate Pledge Arena.
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: Well, you know what, I'm glad you asked it, and
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: I know you get to go to a commercial break,
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: so I'll try and keep this brief. But when I
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: came back eight years ago and we dreamt about what
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: could be, and I looked at that building which was
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: in dire need of something, most people never thought that
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: we could take that building and turn it into one
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: of the most beautiful arenas in the world. And I
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: say that and it's true. Yeah, that's not some projection,
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: that's actually fact.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: It is a.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: Spectacularly beautiful building, a new building under a historic roof.
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: We dreamt eight years ago about a day and it
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: was a huge part of why we did it, because
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: I was here when they left and it was wrong.
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: It was wrong. They should have never ever left. But
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: it took a bold idea and a big solution, and
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: it took a privately funded arena, and we did it.
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: And now we're poised and the table is set, and
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: I believe that you know first. Only time will tell,
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: but the NBA is certainly certainly taking steps to bring
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: this to a head. A year ago we weren't certain
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: we were going to be that they were going to
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: select Seattle as one of the target cities. Well that's
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: now been resolved. They're focused on two cities. Are we
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: putting our best foot forward every single day and time
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: will tell. We're going to let this process play out.
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: But I work for Samantha Holloway. She is an incredible
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: owner and when you look at the track record of
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: this ownership group, we are poised to lead this. We
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: will not get in front of the league on it,
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: but if they say game on, we're doing it. We
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: are ready. And I personally am very optimistic. When when
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: would you use and what and what a day that
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: will be? Yes, what a wrong that will have been righted?
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: And that historic roof will have hosted the Beatles, the
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: Sonics and the new iteration of the Sonics, and how
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: great that will be. And you know what, I have
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: such confidence in the Kraken that I believe that under
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: that roof we're going to see incredible, incredible moments too.
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: And you know, with our prospects and how we feel,
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: we do believe that we're going to become a contending
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: here in the not too distant future. And the great
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: days are going to happen for them as well, Todd.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: Real quickly, fans will want to know one roof sports
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: and entertainment, the entity you formed to potentially lead the Sonics,
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: when would you submit a bid timeline to the NBA?
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: When would that might all start getting in motion.
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: Well, there's there's a whole process, and Atom laid it
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: out pretty clearly in his announcement. But you know, we're
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: not a group too, We're not a flat footed group.
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: The things we've taken on that we've done indicate that
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: we're going to be ready for this moment too, and.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: We will be so that has an album and we.
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: Work the process there. The NBA has announced that they've selected,
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: you know, a firm that's going to lead this and
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: it is game on. And I will share this every
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: single day we work on it. They're just not you know,
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: maybe maybe Sundays we take off, but but uh, there
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: are Sundays we work on it too. So it's uh,
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: it's it's a happening thing. And uh, you know I
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: told I told your afternoon guys that you know, they
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: asked me the same question. I was optimistic and I
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: gave them an affirmative answer, and I'll give you the
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: same answer.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm optimistic, wonderful, bring them back, Todd, appreciate you.
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us.
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: Thanks and I will just say this, give me one
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: more second. Yes, when they come back. If you go
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: into a bar, if you're a Sonics fan and you
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: go to a bar and you see a cracking fan
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: or someone wearing a cracking hat, buy them up here
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: because we will bend the krack and fans that actually
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: they gave life to the arena and they put us
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: in this DECI And if you asked me, would we
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: have otherwise been in this position if we hadn't fixed
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: the arena and privately built, privately built an arena, No,
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: we wouldn't have been in this spot. So thank the
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: cracking fans when you see him, because they were fundamental
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: to creating the optimism I have about the Sonics coming back.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: Well said, thank you so much Todd for joining us.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Todd, you talk to you again, all right?
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: That is Todd Liwikie CEO of the Crack.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: If you missed the news, he said, Lane Lambert is
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: coming back. Yes, he was much more unequivocal with us
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: than he was yesterday. In his press conference. He also
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: said that he doesn't want to disrupt what's working. Yep,
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: we'll talk more about what Todd Liwicki said here and
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: coming up. But that's the takeaway Lane Lambert's coming back.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: He doesn't think coaching is part of the problem.
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: I don't either. I don't either.
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: All Right, we got to get to Augusta and an
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: update on the Masters.
• 44:50
  Speaker 7: All right, thank you, great bell with us here. Well,
• 44:53
  Speaker 7: we're getting ready to leave the cold and head down
• 44:55
  Speaker 7: to the desert helping on the team plane. Here, tell
• 44:58
  Speaker 7: me your perspective on this week. The defense played well
• 45:01
  Speaker 7: last week against USC you shut him out in the
• 45:02
  Speaker 7: second half, But this is a whole nother challenge. Air
• 45:04
  Speaker 7: Arizona's really good and savaging thirty seven points a game.
• 45:07
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a big test, at least for the pass rush.
• 45:10
  Speaker 8: That's something that they haven't had consistently all year. But
• 45:12
  Speaker 8: it's a big opportunity for guys like Josh Shirley, guys
• 45:15
  Speaker 8: that Andrew Hudson and the.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: Schemes that Justin Wilcox likes to do.
• 45:20
  Speaker 8: He hasn't really been able to do pass rush wise
• 45:22
  Speaker 8: the last three weeks because Stanford, Oregon USC have all
• 45:25
  Speaker 8: been run first offenses. So here's a big chance here
• 45:28
  Speaker 8: and next week with Oregon State to get the pass
• 45:30
  Speaker 8: RUSS going, and they're gonna get many chances to do it.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: Fifty.
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: That is Elisee Woodward with Greg Bell from win twenty twelve.
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: Twelve twenty twelve. I love that at.
• 45:43
  Speaker 5: Least Woodward, at least Woodward is joining us. Now what'd
• 45:45
  Speaker 5: you think of that?
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, triple James.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: We do back to some husky trips and airplane and
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: bus rides and well.
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: Look it off you both come.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: I love it absolutely, Greg.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: It's great to talk to you.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: That's the same. It's all a circle.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: It is. The last time I saw you in person,
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: we were on the side. We were in the end
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: zone pregame at the National Championship Game in Houston, Washington
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: and Michigan of course a couple of years ago. And
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: now you just a great gun since I've seen you.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: Bring that one. You got to bring that one up, Greg,
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: you bring it all down.
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: I was thinking the same thing I could have done
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: without that.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: I was making the point that she has done great
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: gun since then, and now you're part of the great
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: Portland Fire that you even the Seattle Storm broadcast team
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: with Dick Fame and going down to congratulations.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: Thanks you. I'm really excited about it. It's it's an
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: organization that's I know how much you like the analytics
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: and innovation, and that's what they're all about. It's gonna
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: it's I'm really really excited about the opportunity.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: How'd you get involved? Do you know the Bethals, the
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: siblings who owned them, or what was the relationship or
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: how did you know about this?
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: No, you know, I have never met that. Actually, and
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: I grew up in Oregon. I'm a North Eugene Highlander.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Let's go proud Highlander. And uh, it's quite ironic. I
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: spent most of my summers in high school living in
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: Portland because that's where all my AAU, all the AAU
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: basketball was when I was trying to get a scholarship
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: somewhere and yet to play, and it was all in
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: the Oregon City area, in the Portland area. So I
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: have friends that I reached out to. I'm like, can
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: I bunk up with you again in the summertime like
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: the old days? But the one of the directors Kimberly
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: Veal used to work for the Seattle Storm. I know her,
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: which is my only contact really with the organization. But
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: you know, they needed somebody to do play by play,
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: and I said I want to do it.
• 47:54
  Speaker 5: So here we are, Alice, what word is with us?
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: And yes, you were on the Storm broadcast for nineteen years?
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: Is that right? Nineteen years?
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: You know I lost count.
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: Okay, it's a lot, we'll just say a while, but.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: I think it's nineteen Yeah, you saw I'm just gonna say,
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: you know, somewhere around two decades.
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: Yes, Okay, yeah, you saw a lot. You saw a lot.
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: And now you are headed to Portland to be the
• 48:15
  Speaker 5: play by play TV person for the new Portland Fire
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: expansion team.
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: I know a lot of our listeners.
• 48:21
  Speaker 5: Are gonna wonder and I did ask you this question,
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: but I'll let you answer it for them as well.
• 48:25
  Speaker 5: Does this mean she's not doing Husky Husky games anymore.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: Yet?
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: No, the seasons do not overlap at all, which is great. Yeah,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: the same exact schedule as what it was with the Sallestorm.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: So now I will absolutely be doing Husky football. Looking
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: forward to the spring game in a couple of weeks,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: so I've already been. Kim Grinnold's the wonderful Kim Grinold
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: who shot to me today and He's like, where you've
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: been a practice? And I'm like, I have been at
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: the Sweet sixteen, I are in the Final four, and
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: I'm going to the expansion to the Draft. I've not
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: been a practice yet, but I'm going to be there
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: next week. So looking forward to.
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: That at least when word with us.
• 49:05
  Speaker 5: And I do have a question, Actually, you just brought
• 49:07
  Speaker 5: up the Sweet sixteen in the final four on the
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: women's side, and seeing the two matchups the Yukon South
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: Carolina and how hype that was and then it was
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: a blowout there for South Carolina and then seeing the
• 49:19
  Speaker 5: finals go just a blow out by Ucla. Do you
• 49:22
  Speaker 5: think that basically that Yukon South Carolina match was so
• 49:25
  Speaker 5: hyped up that South Carolina just kind of had been
• 49:28
  Speaker 5: deflated by the time they got to the final or
• 49:29
  Speaker 5: was Ucla just that much of a better team.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: I think it was a really good matchup for UCLA.
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: I think people because it's on the West Coast, I
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: think people slept on Ucla all year long. That makes
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: it could have very easily been the number one overall seed.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: They were the number two overall seed. It's still top seed,
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: but I just they beat sixteen opponents this year ranked
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: in the top twenty five, and they blew them out.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: In the Big Ten, the Big Ten had twelve teams
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: on the women's side that made the NCAA Tournament, and
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: most of those advanced into the second round. In putting
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: you dub it was a Galtland. It's the best that
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: the Big Ten has ever been. That you were facing
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: an NCAA tournament team every single weekend and most nights,
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: and they not only did they go undefeated, they never
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: had one time where they slipped in Big Ten play,
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: but they rushed opponents. Their average margin to victor I
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: think was around twenty eight points. So it doesn't I
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: think South Carolina deservedly. So they've won three national championships
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: under Don Staley. They have a huge national name and recognition,
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: and Don Staley was a flag bear in the Olympics,
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: and like for all the reasons, people know South Carolina
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: and so they have a you know, just bigger name recognition.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: But when I looked at the line came out Texas
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: was really good and it's the only loss for these
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: real season long. When the line came out that South Carolina,
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: I know, was favored by four and a half points
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: over UCLA, I was like, that is nuts to me. Yeah,
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: people just don't know how good UCLA is and they
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: all really really good. They're going to have five five
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: players invited to the WNBA Draft this week. It was
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: it was a great team.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: This is the familiar voice of at least what were
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: you hear on the sidelines? That are a husky broadcast
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: here in ninety three point three kids are She is
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: also longtime Storm broadcaster who was not moving to Portland
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: to be the Portland Fire expansion teams very first inaugural
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: season played by play on radio TV. I was going
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: to ask you something about the WNBA new labor deal
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: at least, but first I'm going to ask you about
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: college women's college basketball, the growth you've seen in it
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: in just the last five years, the Caitlyn Clark effect
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: or whatever you want to call it, Angel rees. But
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: the ratings for the television broadcast are like eightfold over
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: what they were a few years ago. What do you
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: think the tangible aside from nil in the transfer portal
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: and what that's done to college But what do you
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: think the growth of women's college basketball, the tangible effect
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: of it on the court and in the programs, what
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: it has it done.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: Well. I think watching the growth the big thing for me,
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: and I was actually glad in the CBA that they
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: didn't address the fact that college basketball on the women's
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: side is a four year commitment most of the time.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: And then the WNBA you cannot go to as an American.
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: You cannot go to the WNBA unless you're already twenty
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: one years old in your senior season, or you graduate
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: from college, or your class is graduated from college. So
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: I think the reason for the popularity in the rise
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: is that I'm always so sad when there's great athletes
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: on the men's side and they're one and done. It's like,
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: I hardly knew you. You don't you don't even get
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: a chance to grow with them and to see them,
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: you know, develop as people. There's so many things that
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: we love as fans as a freshman and you say,
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: oh my god, but wait till next year. And on
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: the women's side, we get that you get four and
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: five and because of COVID, and that's going to be gone.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: Now there's no more COVID kids. It's six year players
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: that you got to see. And really that's how you
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: so many fans fall in love with players is watching them. Oh,
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: I knew you when you were a little baby freshman.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: On the women's side, you got to see that Ayalen
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: Clark was really good as a freshman. But by the
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: time she was a senior, people had followed her for
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: four years and they fell in love with her and
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: the growth and the past. And you know, look at
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: the dub women's program, and you know, you look at somebody,
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: you know, Ana Stein's or El Ladin or you know
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: that group of seniors that you they changed that program
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: because they were there for four years in a row
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: and you got to fall in love with their trajectory
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: and what they can and become and all of those things.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: And so I think the huge jump of popularity for
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: the women there's a lot of different reasons, but I
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: think one of the major ones for me is just
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: that on the women's side, you really get to know them.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: Fans want to feel like they're a part of a process,
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: and it's really hard when it's one and done. It's
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: really hard to transfer portal. It's it's really hard when
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: you just it's you don't even get a chance to
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: know their story before they're gone. And so that's I
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: think why the women's in i L is important too.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: And and for them, look they can think, look there's
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: many transfers, there's people in and out, and same thing
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: on the women's side as the as the men's side.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: But at least the really top level players, they're not
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: leaving after one year, and so you can really get
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: you know, invest the system in more ways than one
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: and feel really good about it.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: That's a really good point. I had thought about the
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: difference and the women's side and the speaking w NBA
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: lease that seven year Collective Barning Agreement tenant of agreements
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: still need to be ratified by the Board of Governors,
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: settled this week at least the agreement between the league
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: and its players union twenty percent revenue sharing model, a
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: five x increase in the salary cap from one point
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: five million to seven million per team in twenty twenty six,
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: salaries going from two hundred and seventy thousand up to
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: one point four million, which is a supermax now and
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: chartered fights for teams things they've been fighting for for
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: a long time. What at least, what would you love
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: about the WNBA news labor deal and what maybe don't
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: you like in wish they had included.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: I think they did a phenomenal job, and I'm ecstatic
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: that both sides understood the importance of getting a deal
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: done and not striking looks. You know, we were Greg,
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: you and I were there when the NBA went on
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: strikes and how it affected everything in the league after that.
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: There was a negative call over the product for a
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: long time, and he had a guy like Sean Kemp
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: had put on, you know, thirty pounds and then was
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: never the same player after the strike or the lockout
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: or whatever it was. And we were doing I remember
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: we had a triple header. The Sonics had a triple
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: header three games in a row to fit all the
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: games in the season. Anyway, nobody wanted that, and it
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: did stop the momentum at that time of the NBA,
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: and the WNBA has such great momentum right now. And
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: I was just like, please, you guys figure it out
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: on both sides, right It takes two to tango, And
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: so I think they both understood that there could not
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: be a workstoppage, and so I'm thrilled about that. I
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: think it's absolutely the league is you know, you're negotiating, right,
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: and so it was a tough negotiation on both sides.
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: But I'm thrilled that the players who are the best
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: in the world at what they do that are driving ratings,
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: that are driving revenue. The expansion franchises right now are
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: going for a quarter of a billion dollars. There's money
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: to be made in women's basketball, and I'm glad that
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: the players who and some of the ogs they didn't
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: make anything at all, and so it's like, I think
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: they need to take a point of pride that they're
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: helping this next generation. They didn't get the bag, but
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: this generation is going to get more of a bag.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: And I hope that in ten years the next generation
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: is going to get double back. But these players, they've
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: proved you have. It's such a new league. It's just
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: a baby league compared to these other ones. I was
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: there when it started for the w I was there
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: when the ABL folded, and so I do have some
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: PPSD about when the ABL folded In the Seattle rain
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: seland Innis who was a young mom four days before Christmas.
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: It was like, sorry, we don't have the money to
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: support your league. You're out, You're unemployed, four days before Christmas.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: So I have that, like I have all these memories
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: of how hard it has been in the struggle to
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: have women's basketball players get paid to do what they do,
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: and now to get paid what they're worth is for
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: me amazing to look in the stands and see it's
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: soul to have the people that care. And it takes
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: time to develop rivalries, and it takes time for fans
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: to understand. You know, you can't understand history when there's
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: no history. So now there's three decades of the WNBA
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: and it's just growing and it's going to continue to grow,
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: and just watching it evolve before my eyes has just
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: been It's been one of the coolest things for me possible,
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: because I feel like, in some little way just being
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: a broadcaster that my whole goal and intention is to
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: help grow the game and tell the stories of these
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: great athletes and bring it to life. Why you should care? Like,
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: why should you care about this? There's so many great
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: stories in the WNBA, and so I'm I'm absolutely ecstatic
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: that we're going to have a season. We're going to
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: go and the game is going to continue to grow,
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: and these women that are the best in the world
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: are going to get paid and I love it.
• 59:17
  Speaker 5: Alice Woodworth, Woodworth is with Elise Woodward is with us.
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: I can't speak today. It's Friday.
• 59:22
  Speaker 5: You can hear on the Husky broadcast and soon to
• 59:25
  Speaker 5: be on the voice of the Portland Fire, the expansion
• 59:28
  Speaker 5: team there in Portland.
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: She will be leaving the.
• 59:31
  Speaker 5: Storm, which we are sad to not have you on
• 59:32
  Speaker 5: our broadcast anymore, but excited for maybe a new rivalry
• 59:36
  Speaker 5: there for the Storm and Portland.
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: Because the old rivalry also.
• 59:41
  Speaker 5: Might be coming back between the Blazers and the Sonics.
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: How you feeling about what's going on in the NBA?
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's Kevin Collabora used to say on the call.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: It's the Montagues and the capureg It's a rivalry. Bring
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: it on. So I mean there used to be that
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: Portland on the WNBA side had a team for three
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: years and I remember they would thus fans up and
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: they'd get off wearing they're red at the Old Key Arena.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: Oh God, and you guys, we know how it is.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: With the Sounders and the Timbers, and we know what
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: it was like with the Blazers and the Sonics. It's
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: it's what we all want, right we want that. And
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: I was I was thinking about the I five rivalry
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: and other than soccer, there's no there. It's only the Mariners.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: There's no MLV franchise, it's only the Seahawks. There's no
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: And it used to be the NBA and then that
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: went away, the w NBA, that went away, and so
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: it's it's going to be lit when it gets back
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: for the w NBA and the NBA. And that's what
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: it should be, right Like, that's what fuels people's passion.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: It's it's you know, you can drive two hours and
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: forty five minutes or wherever you're at. It's beending on
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: traffic and uh, you know, go catch the game.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: I love it at least what is all So the
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: sideline reporter for Washington Husky's radio broadcast here in ninety
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: three point three KJRFM, she's done it for a long time.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: I was going to ask you about Jed fishing, but
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: you're still a company gal, so I'm sure you'll say
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: he's doing a great job and everything's great over there.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: But I wanted to ask you a bigger macro picture
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: of you've watched college football. You know, I don't know
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: what company, guy, I've been there. I used to work
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: for them. I did it. But I'm gonna ask you
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: no more, Macre.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: My honest opinion on Jed. Is that what you want?
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: You want me to hear my honest opinion.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: Greg, I'll call you later.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: So I'll tell you like watching for I am he
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: has done an absolutely phenomenal job building that roster. It's
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: unbelievable what he was handed with the transfer portal, like
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: all of that. The roster was absolutely decimated. That guy
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: can recruit, and I mean it's unbelievable what he has
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: been able to turn. He's done a fantastic job recruiting
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: and and building a roster that is competitive. And you know,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm inside of it this year. You know,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: it's year three.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: Let's go. But I was going to ask you. I
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: believe you, I know you long enough. I believe you,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: But I was gonna ask you your mother and a
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: mother of student athletes, and what do you think of
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: college football in particular? Now? For me, I've been in
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: college football. I have college athletes still I have a
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: college athlete. It just makes me sick. I'm all four
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: players getting paid, but how they have no guardrails, and
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: how they're all waiting The presidents aren't stepping up, They're
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: waiting on Congress to step in, which isn't going to happen.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: From your view, which is front road and center during
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: Saturday games. What's your opinion about the state of college
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: football and how sustainable and sustainable this is and how
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: you'd like to change.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think it's sustainable. I think that there
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: are issues that it is. The pendulum has swung way
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: to the other side and it's not going to It's
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: not going to work as it's in the current state.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: There's no question. I think, just like everything, there needs
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: to be a contract that is binding. And I one
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: hundred percent believe that players should have the ability to
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: leave one time, no question that you just don't know
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: what you don't know, and I think it gives the
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: athletes the ability like it's just not working. Why are
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: you going to force them to stay somewhere that they're
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: not happy? Why are you going to force them to stay?
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: Sometimes things just don't work right, you know how many
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: people have jumped into a relationship and you're like, oh god,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: I thought that was marriage material. No that I'm going
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: to you turn on that one. It's the same, like
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: you just don't know. These are eighteen year old kids.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: They don't know when they're one time. Absolutely, you should
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: be given the ability to leave, and anytime there's a
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: coaching change, the ability to leave. But I think like
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: the I call the game the other day and on
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: my board in front of me, I always put like
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: where you know what year they are, where they've come from?
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: You know, do they transfer in there? It was their
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: sixth school in six years.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: Oh god, I.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: Didn't have the ability on my board. I was like,
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: well that's a new.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 4: One for me.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: It's ridiculous, Like, come on, but there should My personal
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: opinion is that you should be given a one free transfer.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: Absolutely for nil deals, you should be held to the contract.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: You should if you leave before you signed, you know,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: like if it's a two year deal, you don't get paid.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: If it's just there has to be some uniformity with
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: these athletes getting paid across the board. And the problem
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: is that there's no commissioner for NCAA football. Everybody's playing
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: by different rules and that that's a problem. But you know,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: I think one free transfer for sure, and then maybe
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: there's some some sort of a penalty. It's just it's
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  Speaker 1: so hard too for these athletes. I can't imagine because
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: it doesn't when they're transferring. It doesn't like mesh with
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  Speaker 1: the academic calendar. Yeah, I don't. I don't understand how
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  Speaker 1: they're doing that all like they're coming in mid semester
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: and I don't know. It's it's a wild, wild thing.
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  Speaker 1: But no, I think the the players that are like
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: holding their university's hostage with the nil deals like that
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: needs to go, Like get paid, have a contract, just
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: like everybody in a working world does. Like there's non compete,
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: that's what it's called. Like if you leave, great, you
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: can get paid, but you're not going to be able
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  Speaker 1: to play it the next place. So I mean, there's
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: things that need to be put in place so that
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: it's not it's going to turn fans off. And that's
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: what I don't want to see is fans just being like,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: you know, I can't follow this and it's not about
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  Speaker 1: the team. I don't ever want it to feel like
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: it's not about supporting the university and playing for that's
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: what college sports is about. It's a huge thing. So
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: that's my concern is just I don't want fans to
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: get turned off and say, forget it. This isn't about
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: you know, it's not a collegiate feel anymore. And I
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: think it's trending that way, and so that's my major concern.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like we've definitely started to get there.
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  Speaker 3: At least. I appreciate you joining us today.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 5: I wish we could talk to you because I knew
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 5: we were gonna have a lot to talk to you about,
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 5: and I feel like we didn't even get to half
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 5: of it. The WNBA preseason gets underway on the twenty fifth,
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 5: so you will be at CPA as the Portland Fires
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 5: face the storm on the twenty ninth, on the opposite
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 5: side enemy territory.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get this rivalry.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: Going, let's go. Yeah, I'm going to be there, just
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: moving down a few chairs on the on the table
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: to the other side of the UH broadcast. But yeah, no,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: I'm really excited. Yeah, how about the news that Mekagumak
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: is out, She's going back to l a crazy Yeah,
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: I just I just went, yeah, I just went down
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  Speaker 1: this morning.
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  Speaker 3: That breaking news from release.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: Ye well there you go. Uh it's not confirmed, so
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: check your sources. That's just me waking up. But yeah,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: so it's going to be a wild, wild free MCY
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: period and in the draft on Monday for the w NBA.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what, Seattle the one thing that's
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: just like oh man, I I I will miss watching
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: the growth and the development of don along as she
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: is an absolute baller. I love her. She's going to
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: throw down some hammer dunks this year for the storm.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: So you know, just better not be on Portland.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah right, maybe you'll get a great view of it. Well,
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: thank you again for joining us.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: I don't want to call it don dogs guys.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: I mean maybe just one or two one or two.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: Sure may all right baby, all right, well.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you so much for joining us. Congratulations on the
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 5: new gig. We are looking forward to seeing the Portland
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 5: Seattle vitalized.
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  Speaker 2: Great to talk to again.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, thank you soon, Yes, talk to you soon.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 5: We are going to be back with how we're going
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 5: to fix the Mariners, which is very exciting for everybody.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 5: I'm sure that is right after an update from Augusta
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 5: Sports Radio ninety three three kJ R F m Ashley, Ryan,
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  Speaker 5: Greg Bell, Travis Moger wrapping up a Friday with you.
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  Speaker 3: Chuck and Buck are out.
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  Speaker 5: Chuck will be back on Monday to tell you all
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 5: about his adventures today getting his pipes cleaned. Yes, and
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  Speaker 5: we we are here to award a winner two pairs
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  Speaker 5: of tickets.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 3: That's what we've got to tonight's.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 5: First I should say this is we're just we're replacing
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 5: booze news.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 3: I'm not actually like doing booze news.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 5: We're just drinking while we award Mariners tickets.
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  Speaker 3: So this is what we're drinking.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 5: It's Yellowstone Cocktails, old fashioned. It's a pre mixed cocktail
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 5: made with bourbon bitters and blood orange natural flavors.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna try it here.
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember the last time I had an old
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: fashion at nine fifty in the morning. Oh, it's pretty
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: ever like the coug at the coop. Don't they don't
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: make old fashions at the coug.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 3: That's pretty good. Not gonna lie get used to that, Okay.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 5: So we've got two pairs of tickets to tonight's Mariners
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  Speaker 5: game the Echi Ro Statue Night and we are we
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 5: ask people to text in all day, all show long,
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  Speaker 5: telling us what they would do to fix the Mariners.
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  Speaker 5: So our first winner is gonna go to two o six.
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  Speaker 5: No more pinch hitting. Until everyone on the roster is
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 5: hitting two thirty or better, no one can get in
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  Speaker 5: a rhythm. Don Can Zone should not be part of
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 5: a platoon.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know why.
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  Speaker 5: Every time I read it, I'm saying it weird. Donovan
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  Speaker 5: should lead off every day. Can Zone should be d
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 5: H every day unless Cal is coming off from catching,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 5: or less cal is off from catching. Raleyan refsinator should
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  Speaker 5: be the only platoon at right and I repeat, no
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 5: pinch hitting based on bullpen subs, platoon based on starter,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 5: and leave them all in or leave them in all game.
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  Speaker 5: There you go, Congratulations, you have won the first pair
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  Speaker 5: of tickets to the Mariners.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: Some of those things makes sense about, especially the pinch
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: hitting thing, because they are so wedded to lefty righty.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Oh, they overthink it all the time. Oh gosh,
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: it's like their eyes.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: They don't trust the eyes that they've watched the bat
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: bets in the game at it.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, all these guys grew up playing baseball against
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 5: left and right handed pitchers. They didn't only play in
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 5: high school because there was a right handed pitcher.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 3: It didn't happen.
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  Speaker 2: And the opponents know it. And there are times there
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: Mariner games that they switch pitchers just to get a
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: batter out of the lineup because they know that Wilson
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: is going to come in and change the go to
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: the opposite handed batter. Yeah, they use it. I agree.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: That was the best part of that answer that I liked.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so if two tickets on us, there you go,
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 5: So send us a text with your name and well,
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 5: I've got your phone number and an email address, and
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 5: we will get those tickets to you as a p
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 5: our second winner.
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  Speaker 2: We will cross check to make don't just everybody said no, we.
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  Speaker 5: Know what number it came from. We can make sure
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  Speaker 5: it was the same text. So yeah, nice try though
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 5: our next winner. And this one my favorite text of
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  Speaker 5: the day. This also from the two six. My twelve
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 5: year old daughter believes we should swap out the visiting
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 5: team's big league chew with some laxative gum that she
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 5: is calling big league poo. The batters will have to
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 5: poop so bad they'll swing it everything just to get
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 5: back to the dugout, they'll be trying to hit home runs,
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 5: but instead they'll just have the runs. That is from
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 5: Aaron in Lakewood and his daughter Juniper. Excellent job, Juniper.
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  Speaker 5: That's my winning plan. I think we need to get
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 5: the big league pooh to the Astros right now.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 3: What flavors do they have? That's a great question, I'll
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 3: ask Chuck.
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  Speaker 4: Right now.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he probably knows.
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  Speaker 2: I think Juniper's dad has two.
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  Speaker 5: He does, yes, because Una also had any. So you've
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 5: got a choice to make, sir, I know, yeah, you do,
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 5: he does.
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  Speaker 2: He could just put both girl girls on the light
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: rail and get them to the game.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 5: There he goes, find other people will watch Yeah, other
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 5: people will watch out for him. Aaron did send in
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 5: his daughter UNA's idea as well, And since we gave
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 5: Juniper some love, we should give Una some love as well.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 5: Her idea She hates the Astros, she said, which I
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 5: already love. She says, at a fifth base between first
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 5: and third, someplace the Astros are too stupid to realize
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 5: it and will be less likely to score. Then JP
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 5: can discreetly grab that base when they come back to
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 5: the dugout between innings.
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  Speaker 3: There you go, I love these I love these girls, right,
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  Speaker 3: I know who knew that twelve year olds were going
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 3: to fix baseball?
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  Speaker 2: We just created a problem for Pops though.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we did it. And I apologize.
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  Speaker 5: If I had an extra ticket, i'd give it to
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 5: you so you could take them both. I don't, So
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 5: it's gonna be like Sophie's choice for him. He's got
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 5: to figure out which Kido to take to the game.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but thank you to everybody
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 5: who submitted ideas today. That was really fun and there
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 5: were some very there were some great ideas, like actual
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 5: good ideas.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: We get a couple hundred texts, Yeah, how about this?
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, people have a lot to say about the Mariners,
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 5: and that's not surprising. Hopefully they can improve on this
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 5: four and ninth start, and at least I don't even
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 5: want to say split the series because I want to.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 3: I want a series win. This weekend, that's it King
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 3: five again tonight.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: You don't need you don't need Hulu, you don't need Amazon,
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: you don't need whatever the hell else they've been putting
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: on the air. It's King five Rabbit Ears TV tonight,
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  Speaker 2: first of ten over the air broadcast on Friday Night
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: for the Mariners Astros six forty at the Yard Echi
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: roa statue night.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and when Emerson Hancock's on the mound, you best
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 5: be watching, that is for sure.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 5: Well, thank you to both of you for being here today.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 5: Greg Bell and Travina Smoger in with me for Chuck
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 5: and Buck. We had a fun time and we've got
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 5: MJ and Christopher Kidd coming up next. It's Sports Radio
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 5: ninety three three KJRFM.