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7-14: New Seahawks ownership, Jackson Felts and World Cup · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: owners to allow big league players to participate in the
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  Speaker 1: Olympics for the first time in baseball in the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight games in Los Angeles. They had gotten away
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  Speaker 1: with baseball and the Olympics for a while, and then
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  Speaker 1: they brought it back. The thing is, there's disagreements with
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  Speaker 1: the players union in Major League Baseball over hotel rooms, tickets,
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  Speaker 1: and a mandatory participation agreement that have complicated their involvement
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  Speaker 1: in They I think.
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  Speaker 3: The US Baseball treats their players at a very high level.
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  Speaker 1: Ridiculous. How many Olympic village like all the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the athletes. Yes, hotel rooms, that's hilarious. Well, an archery person,
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  Speaker 1: you'd be like hotel rooms exactly.
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  Speaker 3: But when you're used to a certain level of treatment.
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  Speaker 3: I think that they're like, wait, why would I do this?
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  Speaker 1: We could represent your country doing something you can do.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously we know that, but they.
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  Speaker 1: Don't hotel rooms. I saw that. I just.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Craig, you have been experience in barracks.
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  Speaker 1: So the Olympic villages in Los Angeles won't exactly be slums.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna probably be brand new. Yeah, and I mean,
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  Speaker 1: come on, hotel rooms. Will Cup semifinals start today at
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  Speaker 1: noon Spain, France, indoors in Arlington, Texas, eleven thirty am.
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  Speaker 1: Pregame in noon kickoff Right here on ninety three point
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  Speaker 1: three KJR FAM our own Anderson Hurst and Danny Jackson.
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  Speaker 1: I saw him assembling going heading to the World Cup
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  Speaker 2: They're doing big, big work.
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  Speaker 1: That's true, that's true. A PostScript to what I was
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  Speaker 1: talking about about the hotels with the Olympic baseball Yes,
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  Speaker 1: did you know that? The and it's commonplace that the
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  Speaker 1: NHL players who compete in the Winter Olympics stay in
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  Speaker 1: their own five star hotels in the cities they go to.
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  Speaker 1: One of the many reasons the US Olympic hockey team
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  Speaker 1: became very popular in Milan this past winter is they
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  Speaker 1: stayed in the Olympic village and they did not like
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  Speaker 1: their Canadian kind of parts and others. They did not
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  Speaker 1: stay in five star hotels. But the US hockey team
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  Speaker 1: was in the Olympic Village. And when it's done really right,
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  Speaker 1: I was when I was in Vancouver, what is it
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  Speaker 1: last week or a week and a.
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  Speaker 2: Half ago, for that last weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it was for the World Cup match I went
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  Speaker 1: to see up there in Switzerland against Algeria. I went
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  Speaker 1: through the old Olympic Village. This is right across the
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  Speaker 1: river from Vcouver games that I covered. Those the Olympic
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  Speaker 1: Village then are now condominiums and apartments and they've been
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  Speaker 1: repurposed for the community and it's really nice. Good at
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  Speaker 1: some things, that's right, because there has there has been
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  Speaker 1: some grift and some just stealing from governments in the
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  Speaker 1: past of Olympics and Olympic villages and Olympic facilities that
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  Speaker 1: are just abandoned after the Olympics leave. But Vancouver, because
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  Speaker 1: it was in the center corps there, repurposed theirs into
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  Speaker 1: very very expensive I'm sure housing. Vancouver is one of
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  Speaker 1: the most expensive real estate markets in the world. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a beautiful right down on Fells Creek there, right
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  Speaker 1: on the river across from BC place. They've taken the
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  Speaker 1: Olympic village and turned them into apartments. So anyway, hopefully
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  Speaker 1: the Major League Baseball players can get around their five
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  Speaker 1: star hotel requirements for the Olympic twenty eight and participation.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I love that you said is like
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  Speaker 3: the popularity that comes with it with the hockey team
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  Speaker 3: staying there. And but if you're a part of the Olympics,
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  Speaker 3: don't you want to be a part of the Olympics.
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  Speaker 3: I always thought that was Our good friend Danny O'Neill
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  Speaker 3: used to always make this joke. Why you know, there
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  Speaker 3: was this big joke and it's been widely public so
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  Speaker 3: I'm not being crude, but they were like passing out
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  Speaker 3: condoms there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's very common, and Danny was like, don't
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  Speaker 1: do that.
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  Speaker 3: We need future athletes here, please don't do that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I've covered a few Olympics and it is odd.
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  Speaker 3: It isld wouldn't it be like the hottest people in
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  Speaker 3: the world's all stag physical condition and also like on
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  Speaker 3: a high of you know, adrenaline and everything, And I
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  Speaker 3: think it's really fun. But even if you're not participating
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  Speaker 3: in that, you are it's like going to college, Yes,
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  Speaker 3: and being in the dorms and you get to you know,
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  Speaker 3: to do whatever you want. But it's just fun and
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  Speaker 3: that is the spirit of the Olympics is obviously you're
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  Speaker 3: all in the heat of competition, but the other side
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  Speaker 3: of it just.
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  Speaker 1: Something no pun intended. Oh oh, I know you just
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  Speaker 1: said that.
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  Speaker 3: I really just walk myself right into that one. And
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  Speaker 3: I accidentally do that all the time. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: what euphemisms are at all, so I'm an idiot on that.
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  Speaker 3: But I just think that if you're going to go
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  Speaker 3: to the Olympics, be in the Olympics exactly.
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  Speaker 1: On the show today, we have a truncated show because
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  Speaker 1: we have the Olympic, the Olympics, the World Cup three
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  Speaker 1: game show on the national iHeart network right here on
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  Speaker 1: our station at eleven thirty before Spain and France kickoff
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  Speaker 1: the World Cup semifinals from Arlington, Texas at noon on
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  Speaker 1: new Seahawks owners, the Cozlas change in the stadium, a
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  Speaker 1: fan experience, training camp, the whole registering, get on a
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  Speaker 1: bus thing.
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  Speaker 2: I thought that was the greatest thing about training camp.
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  Speaker 1: Grass in Lumenfield. What do you want? They're gonna change something.
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  Speaker 1: They're not gonna spend nine point six billion, And as
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  Speaker 1: great as the Seahawks have been, and as great as
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  Speaker 1: their operation has operated in winning and profiting and in
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  Speaker 1: the Northwest, and as community minded as they often are,
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna change something. Nine point six billion dollars in
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  Speaker 1: your investment. If you coin, you're gonna do something, most
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  Speaker 1: likely on the business end. And we can talk about
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  Speaker 1: what we think. It's off the top. It's a pretty
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  Speaker 1: easy off the top what they may do to lumen Field.
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  Speaker 1: We talked a little bit about it yesterday. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about that again. But we'd like to hear from you
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  Speaker 1: on the talk back, in on the iHeart, on the
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  Speaker 1: Odge tech Lin four nine, four or five one. If
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  Speaker 1: you had your druthers, what would you like to see
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  Speaker 1: the new Seahawks owners change? And I'm not talking football coach,
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  Speaker 1: so we don't need that that should remain untouched. But
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  Speaker 1: there are things they can change, and what would you
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  Speaker 1: like to see him change. At ten twenty, we're we
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  Speaker 1: talk to Jackson Felts, our resident KJR soccer analyst and
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  Speaker 1: Sounders host on the World Cup.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if he's going to be furious.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's I heard. He's not anymore chilled out.
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  Speaker 3: I know no, but furious felt is the great. I
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  Speaker 3: will say that furious means passion, correct, Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Furious Fifa Felts was what they were calling him during
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  Speaker 1: the US run. Here the Sounders, by the way, play
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  Speaker 1: two nights from now back on the grass pitch against
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  Speaker 1: Portland down at lumen Field, and then the grass goes
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  Speaker 1: away and here we go back to the turf. It
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  Speaker 1: should not happen, but it's going to happen in time
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  Speaker 1: for the Seahawks to have their fan fest the first
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  Speaker 1: week of August, and then preseason the one home preseason
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  Speaker 1: game and the regular season. It's back to turf and
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  Speaker 1: the Sounders will finish their MLST season on turf, as
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  Speaker 1: will the Rain. Aaron Donald rejoining the Rams, that's a
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  Speaker 1: rumor that just won't go away. It's catching so much
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  Speaker 1: TMZ is involved.
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  Speaker 2: Oh gosh, like really, like, isn't there a Kardashian out
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  Speaker 2: there somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny how TMZ got involved. We talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: We'll also hear from Steve Whitch, our buddy, longtime guests
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  Speaker 1: of the show, longtime friend of mine and colleague in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL from NFL Network, Steve Whitch commenting. You'll hear
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  Speaker 1: from him about that about Aaron Donald joining Miles Garrett
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  Speaker 1: on the Redbuilt Rams, which is why the Rams are
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  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl favorites that Leonard Williams and others have
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  Speaker 1: noticed down at Seahawk headquarters.
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  Speaker 3: They were Super Bowl favorites last year. And this is
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  Speaker 3: something that really gets into Andrews kraw Is that they
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  Speaker 3: were the better team.
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  Speaker 2: They were the better team. Is like this, you know,
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  Speaker 2: out public feeling and all of that.
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  Speaker 3: The charbonnet step inside the ends, and they did suffer injuries,
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  Speaker 3: so we you know, we have to take that into account. However,
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  Speaker 3: the Seahawks won the Super Bowl, and he it drives
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  Speaker 3: him nuts that people think that the Rams were the
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  Speaker 3: better team less year.
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  Speaker 1: The only thing I see fire NDErs up more than
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  Speaker 1: that is to talk about analytics and baseball and how animations.
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  Speaker 1: When I talked at him about that, come in here, man,
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  Speaker 1: he went through the glass at me. He was fired up,
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  Speaker 1: and I was trying to say, well, it doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: he's listen to I'm not going to rehash it. But
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  Speaker 1: my point was it doesn't make it right just because
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  Speaker 1: that's what they do. But he was all, yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: everybody else in the rams, the Rams, Yeah. Remember eleven
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  Speaker 1: thirty we got a World Cup pregame show noon kickoff
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  Speaker 1: for the World Cup semi final Spain versus France, to
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  Speaker 1: talk about that and everything World Cup, everything soccer, including
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  Speaker 1: the sounders return. Jackson Felt is going to join us
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  Speaker 1: next on ninety three point three kJ RFM. That Granny
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  Speaker 1: Hose music means World Cup talkers are coming.
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  Speaker 2: It's a really good music that we don't use enough.
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  Speaker 1: That's sure. Remember the World Cup pregame show, the iHeart
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  Speaker 1: National Pregame Show with Anderson Hurst and Danny Jackson'll be
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  Speaker 1: right next to me in the studio and it'll be
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  Speaker 1: on your air on ninety three point three KJRF FM
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  Speaker 1: and eleven thirty leading into a kickoff right here on
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  Speaker 1: our station of Spain and France. In the first of
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  Speaker 1: two World Cup Semifinals England Argentina, same time, same place tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: right here on ninety three point three KJFM to talk
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  Speaker 1: about all of That's talk about the Sounders returning from
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  Speaker 1: the World Cup break and playing a Cascadia Cup match
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  Speaker 1: two days from now on the Thursday on the grass
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  Speaker 1: pitch at Lumenfield, the last match on the grass pitch
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  Speaker 1: before they put back the turf. Jackson Feldt's our resident expert.
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  Speaker 1: He's everyone keeps calling him furious, but I never find
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  Speaker 1: him to be that furious. He's pass tense and passionate,
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  Speaker 1: not quite furious. Hello Jackson, Greg good to be with
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  Speaker 1: you this morning. See at Wow, that was really chill
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  Speaker 1: with you as well.
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  Speaker 4: Sir.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's first all explain. I see a lot
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  Speaker 1: of uneducated or people who just don't know asking why
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  Speaker 1: is a World Cup semi final being held at three
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  Speaker 1: pm Eastern twelve noon Pacific time on a Tuesday afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Can you please explain to the masses?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, And that's kind of joined with the question of
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  Speaker 6: why are they on separate days? Isn't one team getting
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  Speaker 6: an advantage when it comes to Sunday's final in New York?
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  Speaker 6: And the question is ultimately, TV ratings and TV coverage
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  Speaker 6: around the globe. I mean really, you know, money dominates
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  Speaker 6: the whole thing, and you want viewers, you want eyes,
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  Speaker 6: you want maximization over all that and noon Pacific time,
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  Speaker 6: three Eastern and where it's being played of course in
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  Speaker 6: Dallas today, Atlanta tomorrow. It really comes down to, all right, well,
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  Speaker 6: where are we going to get the most eyes when
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  Speaker 6: it comes to the United States West Coast, when it
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  Speaker 6: comes to the United States East Coast, when it comes
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  Speaker 6: to England, when it comes to France, when it comes
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  Speaker 6: to most of Europe, and then we really don't care
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  Speaker 6: too much about East Asia, you know, in wather, Japan, China, Australia,
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  Speaker 6: you know, those countries can watch you know, early in
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  Speaker 6: the morning for them. But it really does come down
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  Speaker 6: to what time can maximize the globe, and three pm
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  Speaker 6: Eastern time, noon Pacific kind of does maximize time the
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  Speaker 6: best across the globe.
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  Speaker 1: It is at three o'clock or Eastern time today, noon
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  Speaker 1: Pacific of the kickoff of Spain and France Madrid time,
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  Speaker 1: that's nine pm and nine pm in Paris and tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: and Buenos Aires it'll be four pm or a kickoff
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  Speaker 1: Buenos Are's time, but eight pm in London and eight
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  Speaker 1: and nine pm across Central Europe. To Jackson's point, all right,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think happens today? Spain has been very
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  Speaker 1: good at not conceding goals. Their first goal conceded was
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  Speaker 1: in the round of eight, the quarterfinals the other day.
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  Speaker 1: Yet they haven't scored a lot either. And then you've
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  Speaker 1: got France who just seem to be like track guys
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  Speaker 1: on cleats in this World Cup, just out running everybody.
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  Speaker 1: And Bobby Elise to me, is a dynamic player that
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  Speaker 1: nobody has an answer for. Can Spain outscore or slow
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  Speaker 1: down and keep France from scoring?
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  Speaker 6: You think they can slow them down? I mean, Greg,
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: this is gonna be kind of like Art of War
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: two chess grand masters going against each other. This is
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: gonna be some incredible strategy that we see here in
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: about an hour and a half. Because Spain love to
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: control the ball. They're gonna want to hold onto the ball.
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: They're gonna want to possess, possessed, possess death, buy a
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: million cuts. It's sort of like for football, it's you know,
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: five yard pass, seven yard pass, five yard pass, seven
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: yard past, three yard run and then just do it
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: over again. That's kind of Spain's game. And they don't
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: have one guy. I mean, Oyers of Ball is their
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: lead strike or he has four goals on the World Cup.
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: But they don't have a killing embope or as you
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: mentioned there, they don't have you know, all those different
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: guys at least say and Demballe and Douet. For France,
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: they don't have the horses that France does. But they
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: have the best midfield in this entire World Cup. I
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: set it going into the World Cup. It has proved
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: true through right now that they do have the best midfield.
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: They possess the ball like nobody else. They're pinpoint accurate,
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: they ping balls to each other, they're in the midfield
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: and they have great first touches. When a midfield picks
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: up a really quick little pass, and their ability to
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: do that will halt France. It won't allow those four
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: guys and everybody behind them, It won't allow their legs
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: to open up, I think, and get them on counter attacks.
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: Spain's just two good passing wise, if Spain makes a
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: mistake and France is gone on the other end, then gobye.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: But also I.
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: Would say that their fullbacks and their defenders are very strong.
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: I mean Pedro Porol on one end in Kukarea on
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: the other end, they're two fullbacks. Those are fast, really
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: talented players and if if France want to get them
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: on the counter, I think that they'll be able to
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: cover quite well. But this game I think goes one
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: hundred and twenty minutes at least, it's just going to
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: be really tight. Spain may eventually find a goal that
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: I don't think France get their normal three plus goals
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: in this game. I think France's attack does get halted
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: by just the amount of possession that Spain's going to keep.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: They can probably have what eighty plus percent of the
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: ball and still be a tight, close match. I mean, yeah,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: it might.
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: It might be more like, you know, sixty five seventy percent,
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: but it will be a high number compared to you
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: know what you might see normally Spain. Spain loves to
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: just keep it around and then play keep away, and
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: they do it extremely well.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: What do you think about as a soccer guy, this
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: semi final being indoors in Arlington and then the tomorrow
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: England Argentina being in doors in Atlanta. I know it's
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: on grass. But are you cool with that? It's maybe
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: it's merciful to have it Dallas and in Atlanta in
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: the July and the in sores.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah, no, it's it's a good move. It's it's climate controlled.
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: You need that for sure. I mean, it's the reality
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: of the situation being played in July in the United
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: States and it's going to be hot, it's going to
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: be crazy. I mean, I'm just glad that that neither
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: of these semifinals are being played in Miami, where you know,
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: you get I mean, for what we saw in the
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: quarterfinals this last weekend where it was eighty eight degrees,
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: I want to say, a kickoff with eighty percent humidity
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: like that. These are these are I mean, these are
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: the two best semifinals to ever take place in the
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: World Cup. We've never had one, two, three, four in
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: the pre tournament rankings, all make the semifinals, and these
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: games deserve, you know, fully neutral conditions. So yeah, I
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: like the climate controlled atmosphere.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Okay, the other semifinal, Argentina has somewhat been getting by,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, albeit spectacularly, but getting by and maybe not
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: playing to their fullest potential, and Switzerland had them on
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: the ropes, and then you had England, who is just surging.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: I mean maybe probably not, maybe yes. The most impressive
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: win of the tournament was then going to Estadiosteca and
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: beating Mexico in the humidity and the rain delay and
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: all of that at seventy two hundred feet. Is England
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: going to do it? Is Argentina going to be Argentina again?
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: You know where Today's game is going to have the
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: really intense strategy and like you know, soccer stickos like me,
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: you're just gonna love it for the strategy part of it.
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: I think that Tomorrow's game Argentina England, if for for
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: every you know, for your casual soccer fan, for your
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: casual sports fan, that's going to be the game. That
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: could be three to three, and it could be three
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: to three at halftime. I mean, it's just going to
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: be back and forth. It's going to be wild action.
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: We've seen both teams give up goals goals, but we've
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: seen both teams be able to put allowed goals in
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: the back of the net. And you're right, I mean
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: England has a lot of firepower. They've showed it with
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: that really impressive win in Mexico. Harry Kane Jude Bellingham
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: are on fire right now. And then obviously Argentina has
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: the goat and they have a whole bunch of players
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: in addition to the goat. Alexis McCallister is a really,
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: really good player. He scored in this last win that
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: they got to the semi finals. So I think that
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: for these teams it's sort of it is to completely
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: contrast today's game. It's the question of how much can
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: you score? How many can you get in the back
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: of the net, because you know three may not be enough.
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: It's gonna be really fun. It's so hard to pick
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: because I think ultimately it will come down to the
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: very end of just who scores between the eightieth and
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: ninetieth minute may take it. But both teams have such
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: attacking talent and also talent in the midfield that I
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: think they're going to be able to overrun each other's defenses.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Thomas Tuckle could win the match if he just keeps
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Anthony Gordon on the pitch. Well, what did he take
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: him out for? He's been their best England's best player
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: of the last two match. Nobody can stop him. He's
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: just dominating the left side.
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: Anthony Gordon's been really really good. I would say, also
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: it's been the other wing for England. That's gonna have
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: been the question. I'm not sure why Tugall took out
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: Sokka to start this recent match against Norway. I think that,
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: you know, you put somebody in who didn't do as
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: good of a job. But I think you've got to
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: go back to starting soccer on the other wing in
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: Gordon soccer, Caine Bellingham.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: That four.
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: It's not France. I mean, France's forsome is maybe, gosh,
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: you know, I'm thinking out loud, maybe the best attacking
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: foursome ever in World Cup history. I think about the
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: three from Brazil in two thousand and two with the
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: og the better Rinaldo at the nine at their striker position.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: But I think that England's four is good. It's not
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: answers for but you know, I think that it's one
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: of those things where Anthony Gordon on once or Gordon
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: on one side, excuse me, Soka on the other, Caine Bellingham,
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: that's gonna match Argentina. Argentina is obviously, you know, they
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: have messy, they have a whole bunch of other good players,
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: but as a group, I think England is just as good.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Jack and Feltz our resident soccer guy, Sounders host, joining
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: us here on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline before Spain and
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: France kick off the World Cup semifinals right here on
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: ninety three point three kJ R at noon. Okay, I'm
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: gonna ask you two part question. One is what do
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: you think is gonna happen in these two semifinals? And
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: what would you like to have happen in these two
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: What matchup in the final would you like to see?
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Which one are you going to see? You think?
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: I would like to see Spain Argentina. I picked Spain
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: going into this tournament to win it, and I want
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: to see that happen, just selfishly. And I want to
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: see Argentina in the final because I want to make
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: Andrews happy, and I don't like it when Andrews is mad.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: But I mean.
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: I think that it will be France England. I think
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: that England is good enough defensively. They have found ways
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: to win, and great teams find ways to win. I
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: think they're strong enough with that forsome to outlast even
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: as good as Messy is I think Argentine has given
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: up some goals that they shouldn't give up. I think
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: that ultimately England has the momentum and they've really fought
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: through a lot of battles to get here. And you
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: go back to the Congo game that they had in
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: the round of thirty two where they're down one to
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: nothing and Harry Kane scores two in the seventy fifth
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: and eighty sixth. They're doing that kind of stuff and
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: I like England, but it's gonna be so close. It's
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: an absolute coin flip. France is I think the absolute
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: pick to win the thing, and you know, being objective,
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: I want Spain, but France is the best team in
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: this whole thing. They have the attacking threats that we
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: haven't seen before of that fors theme. They're good enough defensively.
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: I just don't know if anybody is going to be
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: able to keep up with I mean, honestly great. I
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: think that the winner of today's game wins the World Cup.
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: I think Spain beats in Argentina. I think Spain beats
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: in Englhen. It won't be, you know, a blowout or anything.
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: It's just my pick to win. It's just you know
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: my take. But I think France will would run through
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: the rest. I think I think France against England or
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: France against Argentina, it's France all the way and they
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: certainly want revenge for what happened four years ago.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: So that's World Cup semifinals the next two days here
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: on ninety three point three KJR, and then on Thursday,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: the Sounders return to MLS action. They play a Cascadia
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Cup match against the Portland Timbers down at Lumenfield. Jackson
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: will be there for that here on KJR. It'll be
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: the last game on the grass pitch at Lumenfield. The
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Rain played one post World Cup game on it this
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: past weekend, and then it'll be the Sounders and then
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: they're gonna but they're not gonna rip up the grass
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: and they're not going to reinstall the turf. You were there,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Jackson and looking at the inner workings of how this
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: grass over turf thing work. Can you explain to everybody
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: what they're going to do to undo the World Cup
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: field and put the turf back in.
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah? So right now at Luman, you know what we've
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: seen previously to the World Cup was obviously the turf field,
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: and they can take the turf up, they can put
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: down the area that they put down for concerts and stuff.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Over that base.
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: They built essentially a almost two feet tall box and
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: inside of this box they have an entire irrigation system,
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: a entire system built to have grass laid on top
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: of the box. And the grass that they had been
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: growing over in eastern Washington for a long time that
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: got put over this box. And what they are essentially playing,
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: there's so much support system. It's not like you know,
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: bounce bounce on a box. It's fully supported. It's quite
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: intricate and really well done with a whole bunch of
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: plastic supports, and it's really well done by FIFA and
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: the Seattle World Cup committee to make this thing work.
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: But what you can essentially do is once this World
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: Cup is that you don't have to rip up the grass.
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: You just bring out the box and the grass comes
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: with it, and and this box gets lifted over and
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: suddenly we have the loo and field back to normal
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: with their base. The turf is down and badabing bada boom,
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: we're playing Thursday night at seven thirty.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: What is where it happens to the grass? I mean,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: it's twenty five hundred feet of world class got grass.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: What do they Is it a go go someone's yard
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: or what do we do with that?
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: I could I could use some in mind.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: I got people on the text slide say it, I'll
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: haul it away for free.
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: Ron A mylan is quite brown right now.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: No, I it's a good question.
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: I'd love to ask Peter Tomasala what the plans are
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: for that, because I'm sure there's not only is there
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: you know, people just for the for the joke of it,
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: but like that's really good grass that could go to
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: a potential cost. So I that's a good question, Greg,
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: I don't know. I have to ask Peter what they're
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: gonna do with that.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: You just gave us an idea of a guest that
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: we could have here the rest of the week.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: I think that would be fascinating.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Jos Wine, go ahead, ma'am. Oh yeah.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Jackson jessvan McIntyre here, Jackson Felt World Cup analyst and
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: obviously spectacular producer for Softie and Dick in the afternoons.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: As me as a football first American football first person,
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: I get sucked into the World Cup every single year,
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: and obviously I'm USA first, but even when they're out
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: of it, I go out.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: I want to watch these games.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: So I'm wondering, especially with it being in the United States,
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: where we're not necessarily a soccer first country, what have
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: you seen it do this year for those who are
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: out there as sports fans.
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's a it's a it's a big question.
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: It's a good question. Over you know, soccer culture in
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: the United States now compared to a month and a
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: half ago, I think certainly it's grown. I think certainly.
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: You know, we were talking to h yesterday on the
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: show Who's with Dick again today from three to six pm,
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: and one of the things that he has talked about
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: is watching these games. And part of it watching is
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: because you know, you want to be prepared. We have
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: a show coming up. But when we have, and I
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: think Hughes not alone is that. I think you have
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: a lot of casual maybe even kind of non soccer
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: fans who are now watching this because of a few reasons. A.
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: It's the big countries, it's the top four, as I
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: mentioned in this tournament going in. It's also the star power.
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: We had stars really going deep in this tournament. All
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: over and they still are there. From obviously Lionel Messi,
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: you got Harry Cannon, England, Jude Bellingham. On the other
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: side of the bracket you have you're in Boppe and
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: I think you people around the globe are now learning
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: the names of Demballe and Dewey and Olease. Say you
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: know Earling Holland was a name that fans of the
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: Premier League have known for a while place for Manchester City,
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: and now the entire world knows the name Earling Holland,
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: who was obviously a star for Norway in the Golden
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: Boot Race until this last weekend, until Norway got eliminated.
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: So I think because of the star power, because of
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: the countries, you're getting casuals to watch. Now the question
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: for United States, you know, fans and wanting to continue
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: on and be soccer fans is the big question. I
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: talked to Jerry Brewer about this for a column for
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: The Athletic that he did is are we finding a
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: seminal moment for soccer in this country that we've been
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: I mean, people have been talking about is soccer going
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: to take the jump? They've been asking that question for
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: three plus decades and once again tournaments of the United States.
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: Can this be a seminal moment? And what I told
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: Jerry was this team would have to get to a
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: quarterfinal and contend, maybe even beat a Spain to create
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: that seminal moment. Well, guys, we didn't even come close
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: to that. And not only did we not enter the quarterfinal,
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: we got absolutely our asses handed to us in the
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: round of sixteen in a embarrassing blowout to a team
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: that going into the game against that game against Belgium
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: we were better than and just to even approach that
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: seminal moment, you had to have won that game. So
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: the simple answer, Jessman is no, we did not hit
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: that seminal moment. I don't know how much soccer truly
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: grows in this country after this tournament. You know, I
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: think it will grow a bit. But are we talking
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: about MLS taking a major jump to you know, join
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: you know and established. You know, people still call it
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: the Big Four. It's not the Big four, it's the
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: Big five. But could soccer take that jump to to
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: you know, get closer to an MLB. I don't think
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: it truly took that huge jump with this tournament, but
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: you know, you know every four years they'll have a chance.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: To do that.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they do. And my and I'll be honest, I
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: watch you guys.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: I listen to them when it comes to the sounders
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: and everything, but that's because I have a personal investment,
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: because I care about you and I love listening to
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: the games that we carry. But we live in a
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: really good soccer bubble out here in Seattle. Do you
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: think that this obviously you just said that it's not
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: going to vault MLS into the next level, but maybe
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: for teams that don't live in a soccer bubble that
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: you might get a little bit more traction with the
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: local MLS teams after this.
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you will. I think that you will
• 33:30
  Speaker 6: see attendance jump a little bit. I mean, let's just
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: take Seattle Rain, our women's protein here in Seattle. I
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: did the call for them this last Sunday.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Where they'd be you sounded great.
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: I heard it, Yeah, thank you.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: There were almost fifteen thousand people in the crowd. It
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: was their fourth highest attended game in the club's history
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: of home games, and that is partially for a couple
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: of reasons, as it's because they have a new program
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: where one paying adult can bring up to five kids
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: younger to the game for free one five. It's incredible
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: rainfc dot com for those who want to check out
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: that that initiative is awesome. So that's part of it.
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: But also because there is this World Cup flavor, I
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: think Thursday night Sounders Timbers at seven point thirty that
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: will have more, you know, I think a nice jump
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  Speaker 6: in attendance because it's Sounders Timbers, because it is post
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: World Cup in general, I think that across the nation
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: you will see attendance jumps across the board. Is the
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: ten thousand person a big jump that I think MLS wanted.
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: I don't think we're gonna get that much, but could
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: you get an additional two three Maybe some markets get
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: four thousand extra. I think that's possible, absolutely, And the
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: key is is maintaining that you don't want your next
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: four or five games to just have a two thousand
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: person attendance jump. You want that to continue the whole
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: rest of the season and then see that plus two
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: to five thousand jump for the twenty twenty seven season
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: and the twenty seven to twenty eight season. The calendar changes,
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: by the way, so we get a six month season
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: next year for MLS. That's a whole different topic I
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: won't get into. But yeah, the element is is, let's
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: see if this slight jump that we're going to see
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: right after this World Cup is maintained a long term.
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  Speaker 1: Jackson felts, enjoy the soccer, Enjoy the Sounders return. Thanks
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: for joining us, sir, Thank you Greg, thank you, Jessemin.
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: Appreciate the time.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Jackson felts. You'll hear him on our Sounders broadcast on
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Thursday night when they return to MLS action. They play
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: the hated Portland Timbers in a Cascade Cup match at Loomenfield.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: It's your last chance to see the grass because then
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: it's going out trucking it out on those boxes that
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Jackson talked about.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: If there's any other reason to go see the grass, we.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Got to have the Seattle organizing folks on and ask
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: him that question. What happens to the grass? Twenty five
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: hundred square feet of world class grass.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: We got a lot of goats in this area. Who
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: knows we.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Should have it as the Seahawks field.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: But that is not going to happen, No, probably not.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: That's one of the things on the text line four
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: nine four y five one. You are suggesting the new owners,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: do I do the same. If they want to spend
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: money and have goodwill with their players, who have the
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: players I talk to want Grass and Luomenfield, that would
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: be one good way to make a splash as new owners.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about those new owners. We'll talk about John Schneider,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: the general manager's first impression of them, the Coosa family,
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: and your thoughts on what they should change. That's next,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Aaron Donald to the Rams, it's getting more real, so real, Well,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: we're not real. TMZ is actually getting involved in that.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: What is their noise that they make?
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: Like it's something like that beer meam all right, there's
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: a you know, a Kardashian lost an eyelash.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: We got it.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: But if they're paying attention to this, it's very outside
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: their realm.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Eleven thirty The World Cup pregame Show with Anderson Hurst
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: and Danny Jackson on our air right before Spain and
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: France is coming to you live at twelve on ninety
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: three point three KJRFM. Welcome back to the show, The
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Greg Bell Show. Jess beIN McIntyre with me at every
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: day ten am the noon on ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Remember eleven thirty World Cup pregame right on our station,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: national pregame show for iHeart Anderson Hurst, Danny Jackson from
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: the studio right next to us here on Elliott Bay
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: and Beautiful Seattle, beautiful eighty degree sunny can see all
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: the way across Elliott Bay to the Olympic Mountain, Seattle.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: And then at twelve o'clock kickoff of Spain in France
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: in the first of the two World Cup semifinal matches
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: that will be airing live here on ninety three point
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: three KJRFM. Seahawk rookies are reporting on Friday to training camp.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: A week from Friday, the veterans will report, and then
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: the twenty fifth is when training camp starts at Virginia
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Maates an Athletic Center in Renting. We will be there.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: All shows will be there on KGr from the side
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: of the field outside on the practices that Renten. Starting
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: on July twenty fifth, General Manager John Schneider in the
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Seahawks front office personnel, they've reportedly just blown away after
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: they were meeting with Venode and Neirou and Neil Cozlee
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: are the new primary owners of the Seahawks, pending the
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: NFL's approval in August twenty sixth in a meeting of
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: team owners to vote on that nine point six billion
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: dollar deal. Remember, Neil Kozle is likely to be heavily
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: involved for the longer term because he's in his mid thirties.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: His parents are seventy one. So it stands the reason
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: that the longer term frontman of the ownership team is
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: going to be the sun Neil. He's a medical AI
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: entrepreneur right now. The family is heavily into artificial intelligence,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: including Venode for a good cause, and they have done
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: it for philanthropic reasons for access to all in education
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: K through twelve education. In the case of his wife, Nero,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: who's going to be the principal controlling owner according to
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: the NFL, that means she will technically own at least
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: thirty percent of the team and maybe up to fifty
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: percent or more of the nine point six billion dollars.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: And who is Neil Kozley. Well, In two thousand and two,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Forbes named him a thirty under thirty nominee Honorey excuse
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: me for entrepreneurs. As I mentioned, he's in medical AI,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: medical assessment using artificial intelligence. He was a intern in
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: the football staff of the forty nine Ers for a
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: brief time a few years ago, and he began going
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: to forty nine Ers games way back in Candlestick Park
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: about twenty five years ago with his father. They've been
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: season ticket holders for the forty nine Ers twenty five
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: plus years now. They owned a three point They currently
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: still technically own a three point one percent interest in
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers that they will sell before they
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: become Seahawks owners. Again. I wouldn't get too alarmed about
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: that piece, because one, they're going to sell it and
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: no longer be forty nine Ers owners. And two, it
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: was to get into the club, to get approved by
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: other owners and the commissioner, Roger Goodell, to get in
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: the NFL's circle of ownership, and that happened in the
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: spring of twenty twenty five, and that gave him a
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: head start and a leg up on this process to
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: buy an entire franchise, the Super Bowl champion Seahawks. Well,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: you asked at the top of the show, and the
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: come a touch text line four nine, four y five
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: to one, what would you like to see them change
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: the owners with everything anything? About the Seahawks, the fan
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: experience in the stadium.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: We have some talkbacks already coming in.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Great yeah, training camp. Anything the grass do you want
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: to keep a grass field? That's something the owners could affect.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: There's already, by the way, an expansion of the team's
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Virginia Mason Athletics Center in the works. The team said
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: filed plans back in the spring with the city of
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Renting that it will begin work supposed to beginning work
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: this summer. Been out to the facility in three or
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: four weeks since Mini Camp, but that work was supposed
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: to begin this summer. They're gonna bump out the east
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: and the west side of the building that's the Lake
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: Washington side in the I four h five side of
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: the building and add eighty thousand square feet to the
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: two hundred square thousand square feet that already exist. And
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: they're gonna that eighty thousand square feet is going to
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: be on the sides, and it'll be three stories to
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: match the three stories that currently exist and house the
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: executives and the offices and the marketing and whatnot.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: Will it affect the breeze that we get during training camp.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: No, it's not supposed to encroach on the footprint of
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: the practice fields.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: That's amazing.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: The field, the three practice fields that have eagle nests
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: and trees and lake.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I saw six eagles one time. It
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: was magical.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: The players that have never like rookies and people that
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: recently acquired all talk about those eagles. Yeah, they just
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: are really surprised that eagles are just part of the show.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: The people come from all different parts of the country
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: where eagles aren't as right like prevalent as they are
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: out here. And I grew up in New York, right,
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: and I'm a burder bird nerd, nature nerd. Everybody knows that,
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: but I still, having lived out here, at any time
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: I see one, it just blows me away.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: That's pretty majestic. Yeah, it's pretty cool. The talk back.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: You can go to the iHeartRadio app or our website
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: nine through three kji dot com and you find the
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: red microphone button. We have a couple today on what
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: they'd like to see the new Seahawks owners do.
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: And yeah, I'd like that people are passionate about it
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: and from what's coming in. It has nothing to do
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: with football, and I love that nobody is criticizing football
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: from what I've heard so far.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: But keep coming in.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Is there any worth playing?
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: We are, We're going to play them next Okay, yeah,
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: one of.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Two O six is one of the differences with football.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: As the platform is able to support soccer's players running
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: on me in the field, can it support a ton
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: of pile of football players lanning on it? And there
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: are a couple people on the text line mentioning that
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: they don't think the soccer grass would fit up to
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: standards of NFL players in their cleats. There have been
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: when the end when the Seahawks have played overseas, both
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: in Wembley on the grass against the Raiders in twenty
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: eighteen and again a couple of years ago in Munich.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: In Bayern, Munich stated in the Loons Arena, I was
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: at both of those games right sitting right on the
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: field covering it and they were slipping and the grass
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: was loose and all of that. Yes, but I will
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: tell you the players would rather have that than turf.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: I know they would. And the Players Union has said
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: that it will come down to whether the Players Union
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: want to draw a line in the sand and collective bargaining.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: It appears or else. No owner is just no. I
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: shouldn't say no. There are owners who are willing to
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: spend the money on grass meting. We talked about Pittsburgh
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: replacing its grass a couple times each season, So there
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: are owners that are willing to spend the money, but
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: many owners are not because billionaires become billionaires by keeping
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: their billions and not spending it, and they want to
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: have the ability to maximize revenues. Is that aren't NFL
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: games tractor pools, concerts and bring them in stages and
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: dirt and without having to ruin the grass and replace it.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: That is, in essence the reason you can talk about
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: the rain here and see that that's not the reason
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: there is. They can absolutely if they spent money, maintain
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: and replace grass fields through the rainy season in Seattle.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: They just don't want to because they don't have to.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: Nobody's telling them they have to, which is why I
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: believe collective bargaining is the only way for the NFL
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: players to get what they want with grass.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: Let's give a little preview and hopefully we'll get a
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: few more in once we get to the next segment.
• 44:35
  Speaker 7: But here, honestly, the only thing that matters to me
• 44:39
  Speaker 7: is lowering food and beer prices, and then I'll maybe
• 44:43
  Speaker 7: go to a game. Other than that, new ownerships not
• 44:48
  Speaker 7: really news or concerning or even interesting to me.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: He's not alone. There are a couple of people who
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: think that on the text line as well, and I've
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: heard that around town. Three or six os is that
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: the Falcons can sell cheap food on game days. Arthur Blank,
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: the home depot baron owns the Falcons. If the Falcons
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: can sell cheap food on game days, so can we.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: For nine point six billion of six dollars, hot dogs
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: should be more than possible at Lumenfield.
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: I think that would make it more accessible because, especially
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: if you're going.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: As a family, that the deal on that stuff, the concessions,
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: the parking, that's that local revenue piece I talked about yesterday.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: All NFL teams share the national revenue, the media rights,
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: the licensing and the media right. I mean it's billions
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: of dollars.
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: The delta between teams in revenue is in the local revenue.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: What you can get out of your stadium naming rights,
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: what you can get out of concessions, parking, the team
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: buy and large There are some agreements with cecific municipalities
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: where there's a split or sharing of it, but buy
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: and large the team keeps all that. And so when
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: you have a fifteen dollars hot dog, that the Mariner
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: and the Mariners for that matter, but any team gets
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: most of that profit. The hot dog probably costs a
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: dollar to produce and cook.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: Look at Costco they do it right.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, bring Costco's crew and hot dogs into lumen Field.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: But it's those margins, those edges, as Mike mcdonaldould say,
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: that's where these new owners could have an impact and
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: how they because they control that local revenue and how
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: they price things. Another thing is seventy thousand seat stadium
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: that is one of the benchmarks for hosting a Super Bowl.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: It's sixty eight in some change at Lumenfield right now
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: as the official capacity. We talked yesterday how the open
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: ends the downtown side with those open ends in the
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: corners could easily become closed like the south end is,
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: and that would add a couple thousand seats. If you
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: put permanent stands from well just above field level at
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: that plaza up to the top of the Hawk's nest,
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: you would have a couple thousand seats there to get
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: to seventy.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: Thousand, would we want a Super Bowl?
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: Well, then there's other issues. The NFL requires they require
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: thirty five thousand parking spaces within a mile the stadium fronts.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: We don't have that in Seattle, which is kind of
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: odd because you can't drive it to a Super Bowl anymore.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: By and large. You have to park way off you
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: and I experienced that in San Francisco. You have to
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: take a bus and then take five hours.
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: So glad you were my ride and die that day.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: Let's go it is gone. Or the days you just
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: pull up, get out of your car and walk into
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: the stadium. Nine to eleven did that. But then there's
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: hotel rooms. You're supposed to have thirty five percent of
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: the stadium's capacity available in hotel rooms within an hour's
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: drive of the stadium. That would for us would be Everett, Tacoma,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: and Seattle an hour's drive maybe at midnight, but that
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: would be What the NFL would also use is the
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: number of hotel rooms, and that in the past has
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: been an impediment to things like the Army Navy game.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Every time I go back to the Army Navy game,
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: I said when are you gonna have it in Seattle?
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: And they say, well, worry about the hotel rooms and
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: we'll worry about the cost of traveling the core Cadet
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: and the brigade of midshipmen.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: So that's a huge thing.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, not an insignificant thing either. Up next, Aaron Donald
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: ram Back. He's thirty five you hit from Steve Wish,
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: our friend from NFL Network, talking about that eleven thirty
• 48:06
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• 48:09
  Speaker 1: and France live right here in your era on ninety
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: three point three KJRFM. Welcome back, Greg bel Jasin McIntyre
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: with you on ninety three point three KJRFM. A truncated
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: show today for this Tuesday, because at the bottom of
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: the hour eleven thirty the iHeart National Radio pregame show
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: the World Cup Semifinals, Anderson Hurst and Danny Jackson'll haved
• 48:53
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• 48:55
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• 48:58
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• 49:00
  Speaker 1: the station and across the iHeartRadio app and our website.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: Spain and France live the only place you can hear
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: it on the radio over the Seattle market is on
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: ninety three point three kjrf M. You may have heard
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: the Rams are Super Bowl favorites, even though the Seahawks
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl and beat the Rams twice.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: Don't let and here, don't let him in here.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: The Seahawks themselves have noticed that. Leonard Williams was talking
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: during the mini camp last month about yeah, yeah, we
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: see it, and it's kind of odd that we're the
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl champions that we're not even favorites of our
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: own division. Well, the reason for that, of course, is
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: what the Rams have done this offseason. They've shored up
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: the most troublesome spot on a team, their secondary, including
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: they got two new starters they signed, including All Pro
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: cornerback Trent McDuffie. They gave a thirty one million dollar
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: contract to after they traded with the Chiefs to get
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: them thirty one million a year. That's the contract that
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: Devin Witherspoon's agents are eyeing, and he's probably going to
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: approach or eclipse that here in the next coming weeks.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: I expect that deal to be done on about the
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: first few days of training camp, plus or minus July
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: twenty fifth, But then they also traded for Miles Garrett
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: the Rams. Did you were about to say, Jessmin.
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: Oh, I was gonna say, go kooks, because I thought
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: you were going to talk about Jalen Watson.
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: Jalon Watson is the other big corner acquisition for the Rams.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: Go Cooks. And now we have to talk about Jalen
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: Watson a lot more in the show now that Jessmin's
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: with me. Yes, So Jalen Watson and McDuffie are fixing
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: their biggest problem spot in the secondary. And then Miles
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: Garrett traded from Cleveland to the Rams. Of course we
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: know that deal they got, Well, they lost Jared Vers
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: to do it, and the Seahawks coaches I've talked about
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: how much they planned and game planned against Jared Verse
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: when he was here with the Rams first couple of
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: years of his career. But now could Aaron Donald be
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: joining Miles Garrett? Remember I told you TMZ is involved
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: in this. TMZ got a hold of footage, as they
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: often do, from something they pay people e That's how
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: their journalism if you call it in journalism and air.
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: Quotes for the YouTube pit, it's not and they know
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: it's not, and they just lean into it.
• 50:57
  Speaker 6: They do.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: They paid somebody to provide video, like a schmo that
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: lives across the sturt down the street from the RAMS
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: facility in Wooden Hills, southern California, to peer over the
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: fence and shoot some iPhone video over the top of
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: the fence of Aaron Donald working out on the field
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: in pads, working out, grinding, as TMZ put it, working
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: out till he was gassed.
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: Yah, oh my gosh, working out does that to you?
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: What a hot take? But it was not just in
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: the training room yet it Yeah, I just don't like them.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and journalists in fact don't because that's just not
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: the way you're supposed to do journalism. But the news
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: coming out that Aaron Donald was at the facility and
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: knowing more than just lifting weights, and it was on
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: the field in pads working out, I mean, like trying
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: to see if we're gonna give this a go. Remember
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: the All World DEFENSEI attacker retired after the twenty twenty
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: three season. He just turned thirty five in late May.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: Our buddy Steve White from an NFL network based in
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles, he's noticing this too.
• 51:57
  Speaker 8: Well and he wasn't just lifting weights, right, he was
• 51:59
  Speaker 8: out there doing drills, some with pads on, checking out
• 52:03
  Speaker 8: the conditioning, seeing how his body felt. Things like that
• 52:05
  Speaker 8: is different than just lifting weights. Aaron donalds been lifting weights.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: He's ten years old.
• 52:09
  Speaker 8: He's probably gonna lift until he one hundred and ten
• 52:10
  Speaker 8: years old because that's just how he's built. But the
• 52:12
  Speaker 8: fact that now he's kind of doing some football related
• 52:14
  Speaker 8: drills shows you some of the thought process that he
• 52:18
  Speaker 8: might be going through.
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: That.
• 52:19
  Speaker 8: Again, that's different than he's showing up with the facility
• 52:22
  Speaker 8: and working out. Now we know all this conversation started
• 52:24
  Speaker 8: when the Rams acquired Miles Garrett to add Aaron Donald
• 52:28
  Speaker 8: to that defensive line that's already got Braydon fitz k
• 52:31
  Speaker 8: and Kobe Turner a lot of other good players right there.
• 52:33
  Speaker 8: So he could be rotational and speaking with somebody with
• 52:35
  Speaker 8: the Rams earlier this summer. The one thing that I'd
• 52:37
  Speaker 8: be intriguing because they would love to have him back.
• 52:39
  Speaker 8: They have to work out a contract that's friendly enough
• 52:42
  Speaker 8: for them to get Pooka and the kupa done and
• 52:44
  Speaker 8: things like that.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: Is Aaron Donald's weight.
• 52:46
  Speaker 8: Remember, he plays defensive tackle, and if he's around two
• 52:49
  Speaker 8: sixty two to sixty five. He might have to put
• 52:52
  Speaker 8: on a few more pounds, but they're not worried about
• 52:54
  Speaker 8: that too, because Aaron Donald Mike could be more of
• 52:56
  Speaker 8: a rotational player than someone who's out there for eighty
• 52:58
  Speaker 8: percent of the snaps.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: That's Steve Wisch from NFL Network, a long time friend
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: of mine and colleague on the West Coast, cover again
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: the NFL about Aaron Donald.
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: He and Omar Ruiz are two that actually showed up here,
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: and you know there would be national people that would
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: dip in and out and then try to know everything.
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: Steve is a gem and he knows the Seahawks.
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: Yes he does, and Omar does as well. Omar and
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: I have been covering the Seahawks. He comes quite a
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: bit to the Seahawks headquarters in renting for practice, not
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: just for games. The other thing to consider, it's a
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: minor consideration. I believe I don't know Aaron Donald personally,
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: but his Hall of Fame clock would start over if
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: he does retire. He's three years into a five year
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: wait before you're eligible for Hall of Fame eligibility. Now
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: he's only thirty five years old, but he's more than
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: halfway there, So if it comes to that he'd have
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: to go, that would start over. I don't know. Again,
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know Aaron Donald personally and I haven't talked
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: to him or interviewed him about that aspect of it.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: But Steve, which is right. It wouldn't be a primary
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: seventy snaps a game roll. He'd be coming back for
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: a rotational role in the defense, especially with Miles Garrett there. Anyway,
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: that's part of the reason the Rams are getting them
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: even more attention as we get into training camp. When
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: you got TMZ paying dudes to shoot videos over the fence.
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: Had Aaron Donald on the practice field, okay, they could
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: do that at the Seahawks if somebody walked up on
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: the berm or the top of the.
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: They could jet ski Man did that too.
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: I saw Richard Sherman do that. He punked all the
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: rookies during camp and he showed up on a jet ski.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: Those bushes and trees at the edge of the practice
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: field at the Seahawks facility used to be tiny shrubs
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: when they first moved in there, and you could easily
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: see it from.
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: The They were long growing privacy shrubs.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: Now yeah, now, they are full on trees that you
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: can't really see as much. You can just see in
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: one corner of the field from the lake where people
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: still pull up.
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: They might have an osprey nest. And the nickname for
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: an osprey is a seahawk.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that.
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: Well, okay, you learned bird news with me every single day,
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: lot of bird news with you.
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no actual bird that is named a seahawk.
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: But and even though the logo looks more like an
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: eagle because of the cur whatever I can get into it,
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: the nickname for a an osprey has always been a
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: seahawk because they are seagoing birds.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: I had no idea of that. Thank you. I'm so sorry.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: So Blitz is an osprey a walking to osprey.
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: Well, technically he's a seahawk because he's adopted into whatever
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: they made that into because the logo and everything that
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: they do is not osprey looking.
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: It's more eagle looking.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: So that the bird that takes off at the start
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: of the every game is an ospry.
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: That's an auger hawk. Actually, beleep, I asked, and I
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: know it's an auger hawk.
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: Damn jes, I didn't know any of this I've covered
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: a team for twenty years. I didn't know any of this.
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's still the same one. I
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: believe its name is yeah, yeah, but yes, no, that's
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: an Auger Hawk. The second I got out here, I asked, Wow,
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: that was just curious things that make you go, Yeah,
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: that definitely.
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: Let's get to a couple more texts, by the way,
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: or I'm sorry, talkbacks, because a couple of them relate
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: to the question that you had asked earlier.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: Where you go, what do you want to see the rag?
• 56:28
  Speaker 5: Greg Hey, Jasmine, mac and Dyre. Yes, what we want
• 56:33
  Speaker 5: to see from the new Seahawks owner?
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: Nothing?
• 56:37
  Speaker 5: Just write checks, stay in the background, do what you
• 56:41
  Speaker 5: gotta do to make it a comfortable experience, maybe even
• 56:46
  Speaker 5: lower ticket prices. I mean, how much more richer.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: Do you need to be? That's what I would like
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: to see. And maybe maybe, just maybe.
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: I think you've ran out of time, but we get
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: this point.
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: Wow, we run a cliff there. Just maybe what.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: Maybe we can fill in the blank, maybe just maybe, Yeah,
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: I'd like the inference to do nothing.
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: Yes, football wise, absolutely.
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: Maybe that's exactly get us a little better prices on food,
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: maybe some in my mind, maybe some more family friendly packages.
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: I don't think they need to pack the stadium anymore
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: because obviously people are coming in droves, but make it
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: a little more accessible to like a family of four.
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: Wing pricing two family packages.
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: You know, it costs one thousand dollars at the end
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: of the day if you bring a family of four
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: or five to a game, and five is hard and
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: odd numbers hard too.
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: They'd have to resell the tickets that already sold. That's
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: the thing about the Seahawks that they've been waiting us
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: for their season tickets.
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: So it's just season tickets. I'm talking about packages that
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: people can.
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: But they leave they they have so many singles, so
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: few i should say single game tickets available because of
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: their high ticket season ticket based and then you go
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: into the secondary market and all of that.
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: We've seen what the Mariners have done with the outside
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: the stadium experience, yes, where they have brought up some
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: properties and.
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: You can be there and maybe big screens, maybe watch
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: the game.
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: It's almost like if it was an away game and
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: you're watching there, but you're all you're experiencing it. Because
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: I have watched games outside that stadium and heard everything
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: that was going on from the fan perspective and then
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: watched it on the screen and it's not the same.
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: But maybe there's some things they could do like that.
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: I'm in the stadium. But is it true that there
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: are games broadcast inside T Mobile Park Seahawk games. Oh,
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: I don't know that, but I see people going in
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: there when I'm going in at eleven am on a
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: game day, a Sea Hockey Sunday.
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: They have done that, but I think it's playoffs. I
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: think it's postseason or clinching games. They have done that.
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: I know they do, and they have during playoffs and
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: maybe even the Super Bowl. They do viewing parties. They
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: did it on their magnificent.
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: What do you call that. It's not a jumbo tron,
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: diamond vision or whatever.
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: They call it.
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: The big scoreboard, Yes, the big the big scoreboard. Hold on,
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: we have one more.
• 59:20
  Speaker 9: Well, good morning, gregan Es, big Carroll, you you know.
• 59:24
  Speaker 9: And so I just want to touch basin. Let you
• 59:27
  Speaker 9: guys know, I'm still in the area from time to time,
• 59:29
  Speaker 9: and I still got the juice, so you know, I
• 59:32
  Speaker 9: can get with the kids, you know, teach them a
• 59:34
  Speaker 9: few things or two. And I'm really into Philanthrope P.
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: Two.
• 59:37
  Speaker 9: So I got a lot in common with the new owners.
• 59:40
  Speaker 9: And if you're either of you, they're in that building
• 59:43
  Speaker 9: over there at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center, my old home,
• 59:46
  Speaker 9: my old office. You let them know, but as always,
• 59:49
  Speaker 9: go Haks.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: Miss Thanks Pete. I think Pete's on the north shore
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: of o Wahu right now. Actually, do the Rams have
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: a different CAT number than other teams? The four two?
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: Remember we talked when they signed, when they traded for
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: Miles Garrett, how tradable that contract was because of the
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: very low base salaries here the next couple of years.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: Now it gets back voted and comes a cropper here
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: in a couple of years. But for now, that's a
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: very very low base salary that counts towards the salary cap.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: And then if Aaron Donald were to come back and sign,
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: you would figure he would take something not that expensive
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: because of his loyalty to the Rams and the fact
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: of course he doesn't need any more money. But he
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: wouldn't make it cap problem for the Rams. I wouldn't
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: think or else this wouldn't even be an option. I'm
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: sure he's already given them a number in mind, Fortuo
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: VISs Costco lose his money on the food court Androtisserie Chicken.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: They are meant to get you in the store to
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: buy more stuff. About the hot dogs Costco prices.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well obviously they know what they're doing.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: For to five, I asked for one thing and one
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: thing only from the new owners to fix never ever
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: ever use those god awful lime green uniforms ever again.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: Oh gosh, isn't it a rave? And then they change
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: it to nuclear dazzo?
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: Green is what it is? The Flintstones. Yeah, let's get
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: rid of those. You remember Gazoo from the Flintstones. That's
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: what colored that is.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: Yes, I do, but yeah, it didn't occur to me
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: until right now.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: That's what it reminds me of. I have to wear
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: sunglasses and night games inside Luminfield to watch the game.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: When they wear in those uniforms, they're hideous. I totally
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: get those more retro uniform games of four two five
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: says that's an NFL issue. They limit the number of
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: retro uniform games you can have each season to try
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: to limit or create the demand.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: I should say we do have some corrections, I guess,
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: but an update that it is very awesome at T Mobile.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: How do you guys not know about this?
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: Because I'm in the stadium covering the Seahawks.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: I'm traveling back from koops games most of the.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: Time and trying twenty years at games, I don't know
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: what happens.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: But anyway, I'm looking at this and I guess according
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: to the text line that it's every home game and
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: they only charge a buck to get in.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: But the Mariners do that, So yeah.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: That Mariners take at T Mobile and so every home
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: game you can just go across the street. I knew
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: that a couple different times when I was cross pollinating
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: covering Mariners and Seahawks and I was going to park
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: in one garage and I was like, I don't know
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: what works here, what game is it? So I didn't
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: know that they did it for every home game. That
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: thank you, thank you from the two five, three.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: Two six. What will US Soccer the US soccer team
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: be doing for the next three years beside the World
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: Cup in twenty thirty, I assume one year will be
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: the Olympics. What about the other two? Well, actually, the
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: qualifying for the twenty thirty World Cup begins next year
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: and they have international windows of breaks from the clubs
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: that they go play regional games to start its concer
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: caf here in this part of the world, and you
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: have to go through qualifying rounds. That's where the US
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen lost to Trinidad and Tobago down in
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: Trinidad and they didn't make the World Cup because of it.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: But you got to win those before you can advance.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: It's not automatic, so it's just not The US still
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: has to win through their qualifying matches to qualify for
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: the twenty world thirty World Cup in Morocco, Spain, Portugal,
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: Uruguay and a bunch of other countries commenoratively.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: I just think that it's insane how quickly the qualifiers start.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's spread out over multiple years, that's right, and
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: then there's possible playoffs and yeah, it takes a while.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: Up next to your radio, we are the only outlet
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: here in the Seattle and in the Pacific Northwest that
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: has World Cup on the radio. It's France and Spain
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: in the first World Cup semifinal from Arlington, Texas. That's
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: a noon kickoff and coming up next in pregame show
• 1:03:50
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