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Furness Show 2-24: Mollywhop Monday, USA Hockey wins Gold · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: Here we are the they're back. They're back. Oh day, Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 1: they're back. It's probably why Bucky's off this week. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't want any part of it. I'm kidd the great
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  Speaker 1: they're back, Nathan and Chris are back. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if we're gonna do it every week until the season starts,
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  Speaker 1: but I just kind of felt like we need to
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  Speaker 1: get a little mollyo Wop session in as as was
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  Speaker 1: said to me at an event you and I were
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: at three four weeks ago, down at the hat back.
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  Speaker 1: Is that where we're at hat Back. We're in a
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  Speaker 1: different area though, Steelhead.
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  Speaker 2: Alley, right, yeah, the back part of it.
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  Speaker 1: They put us in the back room.
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  Speaker 3: Well it's better than the upstairs room. That was like
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  Speaker 3: fifty million degrees last year too.
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  Speaker 1: It was awesome. Mariners do a really cool thing. It's
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  Speaker 1: called they do a little happy hour for members of
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  Speaker 1: the media before the year and some off the record
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  Speaker 1: stuff and everyone's there and as one Mariner staffer who's
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  Speaker 1: fairly significant his role said, quote, oh, you mean your
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  Speaker 1: Monday show quote unquote, and I said to him, sir,
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  Speaker 1: you refer it to it as you should. Is the
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  Speaker 1: Molly wat Monday Show. And it's brought to you by
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  Speaker 1: simply Seattle. And yeah, so anyway, he and others can't wait,
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  Speaker 1: but we're gonna check it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it can't be angry today, No, no, no, he's angry, yes,
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  Speaker 3: and honestly, but Jack and Ash here's the thing, they
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  Speaker 3: weren't angry last year.
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  Speaker 1: For the most part. It was it was a lot
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  Speaker 1: of it was very uncomfortable at times.
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  Speaker 2: It was almost two one of them angry.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, you want to stay on brand. But
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  Speaker 1: there was nothing to be angry about. And and actually
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  Speaker 1: I joke about with this all the time. So I
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  Speaker 1: have to talk to Dathan and Chris, and they're very
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  Speaker 1: cognizant of you know, they have strong opinions and when
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  Speaker 1: things need to be called out, they do it. When
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  Speaker 1: things are going well, they're i mean, they're both Mariner
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  Speaker 1: fans at heart, which I love. And I think when
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  Speaker 1: you're a fan, you know, you always go through the emotions,
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  Speaker 1: the highs and the lows. I heard Chuck this morning,
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  Speaker 1: what did he say? You had a great I'm a
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  Speaker 1: fan of I'm a fan of the puzzles and the
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  Speaker 1: roster building or something like that, as opposed to a
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  Speaker 1: fan of a team, and I'm like and everyone fans
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  Speaker 1: are enjoy sports differently. I'm a huge college basketball fan,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm not a fan necessarily of one team because
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  Speaker 1: my one team is awful and they need to get
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  Speaker 1: rid of their coach. I'm a fan of Purdue. I
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  Speaker 1: become a fan of Purdue only because it's in the
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  Speaker 1: family with uh with with my daughter's significant other. So
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  Speaker 1: we're all Boilers now. And I find myself living and
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  Speaker 1: dying but and being a boiler Maker fan. Even though
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  Speaker 1: they're ranked and all that, and they're good that it is,
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  Speaker 1: there's a little couge to them, like there's there's there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of, you know, unnecessary disappointment mixed in. So
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  Speaker 1: it feels very comfortable. Normal.
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  Speaker 2: You're living in a place where you're very comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: And as I said, I also grew up a Mariner fan,
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  Speaker 1: and so I'm waiting for something to be not good.
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  Speaker 1: Last year it was really good until Game seven of
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  Speaker 1: the ALCS. It was awesome. And but we I think
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  Speaker 1: they will. We're gonna do that. The big thing I
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  Speaker 1: want to do. You guys did this last week, did
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  Speaker 1: a great job on the morning show. I did not
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  Speaker 1: get a chance hear a lot of it. I kind
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  Speaker 1: of went underground for a while, but I need just
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  Speaker 1: to get caught up, Like, where are we at right now?
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  Speaker 1: How's the off season? You know, what's going on with
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  Speaker 1: this baseball team? And really the big thing is is
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  Speaker 1: you know, better, worse? Same? Going into the year. What
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  Speaker 1: was the conclusion of the week now? I know going
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  Speaker 1: down to spring training? Right because I did. They They
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  Speaker 1: used to send myself my we shall not name them
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  Speaker 1: publicly on the air former co host it also hosted
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  Speaker 1: ten to one here in the show.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, who also rhymes with Chuck and Buck.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. They sent the two of us down there probably
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  Speaker 1: four or five times, I think years ago. Sometimes we'd
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  Speaker 1: go down there just by ourselves. A couple times we
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  Speaker 1: went down there in Gas and the least were doing
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  Speaker 1: shows after us. Softy was Areo a couple of times
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  Speaker 1: with us. Yeah that was well that's different, but it
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  Speaker 1: was Yea, those were the days. But I always do
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  Speaker 1: remember coming back. And this included seasons in which they
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  Speaker 1: won like, you know, seventy games coming out of spring
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  Speaker 1: training and I'm like, man, this is this team's going
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  Speaker 1: to be good. Yeah, such good chemistry in the clubhouse.
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  Speaker 1: I can just feel it down here, and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: then things will go south and you'd say, what the
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  Speaker 1: hell did we see down there? Well, usually what we
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  Speaker 1: saw was we go down there, it was you know,
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  Speaker 1: forty seven and raining in Seattle, we go down to
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  Speaker 1: Arizona was seventy five or eighty. Everything seems good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and everyone's optimistic.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's optimistic. And I'm assuming the optimism was shining through
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  Speaker 1: last week when those guys were down there for a week.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yes, And we do talk about that too, that
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  Speaker 3: because then we'll always kind of do our picks of
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  Speaker 3: how many games do you think the Mariners are going
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  Speaker 3: to win this year? And we are usually you know,
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  Speaker 3: we've got our Mariners colored glasses on because we're so
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  Speaker 3: hyped coming out of spring training. But it is really
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  Speaker 3: hard not to be hyped coming out of spring training
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  Speaker 3: this year, coming off what we had last year and
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  Speaker 3: the core back, and exactly that's.
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  Speaker 2: The thing and the exciting part.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think the biggest takeaway that we even
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  Speaker 3: talked about again today on the show was that Justin
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  Speaker 3: Hollander basically said, the second base position is Cole Young's
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  Speaker 3: to lose.
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  Speaker 1: Good. Yeah, good, I like that. I mean I listen,
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  Speaker 1: I've I think we all would have liked to seen
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  Speaker 1: a healthy hoo Hey Polanco back. Yeah. The money and
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  Speaker 1: it's not our money, and there is no salary cap.
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  Speaker 1: We get, we understand all that stuff, right, Yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, like Polonca would have been fine,
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  Speaker 1: probably not worth what they were gonna pay. What he
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  Speaker 1: got paid elsewhere, and Cole Young showed you a little
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  Speaker 1: bit something last year, and they've got to go with
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  Speaker 1: these young guys at some point. So we'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: that with the boys coming up. Yeah, I think the
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  Speaker 1: great thing about spring training is is that there is
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  Speaker 1: always optimism coming out and I think, really honestly, we
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  Speaker 1: probably felt it three years ago after the playoffs when
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  Speaker 1: the winning winning the playoff series in the wildcard round
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  Speaker 1: lost in the divisional round to Houston. But this feels different,
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  Speaker 1: I think because the team itself feels different, like you've
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  Speaker 1: got core guys in place, you know, you didn't have
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  Speaker 1: to make some massive changes in the offseason. So we
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  Speaker 1: have a reason to be damn excited about our baseball
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  Speaker 1: team here in Seattle. So we'll talk about that, probably
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  Speaker 1: do a couple of segments with the boys coming up.
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  Speaker 1: We have caught up in it's been a long time.
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  Speaker 1: And look that always they're always fun to talk to you.
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  Speaker 1: We have a ton of fun, a lot of laughs,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, that's coming up. At one twenty. Ashley will
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  Speaker 1: then leave us.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm gonna go take a nap.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. She's gonna go home and take a
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  Speaker 1: nap and then get ready to be a mom after
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  Speaker 1: that when Palmer gets home, and then and then but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and then we'll check in at two o'clock, Jackson jump in.
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  Speaker 1: I'll spend more time at two o'clock with the hockey
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  Speaker 1: and some of the things we might have miss during
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  Speaker 1: the break, a lot of the hockey. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of there's a lot there to unpack, not just the
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  Speaker 1: game and the bigger but the bigger picture. It was
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  Speaker 1: a good day for the NHL. Yeah, like a really
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  Speaker 1: good day for the NHL. And people say it's a
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  Speaker 1: great day for a good day for the sport of hockey. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: for sure, But in our country it's it's like every
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  Speaker 1: sport kind of starts and ends with the biggest league, right,
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  Speaker 1: and in our case it's the NHL. We're a new
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  Speaker 1: NHL market, and our guys didn't play in the gold
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  Speaker 1: medal game. We had two guys play in the bronze
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  Speaker 1: medal game. Coppococko scored a goal. Allie Tolnen had two
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  Speaker 1: assists in that game. I think he always coming on
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  Speaker 1: with you guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, we're trying to get him.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. I heard, I'm here rumors that Ellie might be
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  Speaker 1: on with you guys tomorrow. So he had a really
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  Speaker 1: nice and I think he was scratched in like the
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  Speaker 1: quarters or the semis. I did played again in the finals,
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  Speaker 1: but because Brandon got hurt, but he put up points.
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  Speaker 1: Copple Krocko put up points. Those guys will come back
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  Speaker 1: with a lot of confidence, yes, which is awesome. Gruby
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  Speaker 1: played well for an under man Germany team. I mean
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  Speaker 1: it was Stutsla him dry Sidle and that was about it.
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  Speaker 1: They had like had like four NHL guys, but you
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  Speaker 1: know it the sport itself and the NHL specifically. It's
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  Speaker 1: a big day for them yesterday, and I'll spend some
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  Speaker 1: time at two o'clock too. Little stick taps as well.
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  Speaker 1: For the US women, it seems a long time ago
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  Speaker 1: that they won. It was last thursday. Hillary Knight is
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  Speaker 1: just a superstar and in every sense of the word
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  Speaker 1: on and off the ice, great ambassador for the game.
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  Speaker 1: Just personality is awesome. We had a chance to have
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  Speaker 1: her on the show last year on the Krack and
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  Speaker 1: Hockey Network. I'm a huge Hillary Knight fan. I think
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  Speaker 1: I think Caleb Barr is long with us on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: I believe who scored a goal as well. So it's
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  Speaker 1: the Torrent well represented by Team US for teammateswang Team
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  Speaker 1: Canada in the Olympics, but great for them too. They're
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  Speaker 1: they're actually expecting a massive crowd on Friday for their
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  Speaker 1: first home game back. Yeah. I just saw that they've
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  Speaker 1: opened up the Upper Bowl and they're gonna They're gonna
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  Speaker 1: that place is going to be popping, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: they'll do some cool celebrations. It's just it was for
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  Speaker 1: the sport of hockey with men and women. Both winning
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  Speaker 1: was huge women. Seeing more and more young girls participate
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  Speaker 1: is so fun. Your daughter's a softball player. I just
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  Speaker 1: the more opportunities for our young girls to play sports
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  Speaker 1: the better, and whatever that sport is now, hockey is
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  Speaker 1: kind of like softball. It ain't cheap, yeah, and I
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: mean really most sports aren't cheap, but you know, you,
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  Speaker 1: you know, travel ball.
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  Speaker 2: It is not cheap.
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  Speaker 1: It's not.
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  Speaker 3: And then you're like, oh and we got to add
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  Speaker 3: some lessons here and there, and then yeah, you need
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  Speaker 3: this uniform for this tournament.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing is you get to know your favorite
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: spots in Washington, which would be anything named fairfield or
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: courtyard in places like Hampton, m Yeah, anywhere, which those
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  Speaker 1: of course would be in tri cities, Yack of Vegas, Spokane,
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  Speaker 1: Moses Lake, Shahelis. Yeah. So and the hockey people they're
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: going back and forth between Casey, I, So, Qualm Ridge,
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  Speaker 1: Kent and then probably a lot of times in Chilliwack
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  Speaker 1: and Vernon and the Okanagan. So it's expensive. But I
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  Speaker 1: think when you're a young kid watching, if you had
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  Speaker 1: a chance to watch these games, watch the women play,
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  Speaker 1: if you're a young girl watch the men play, you're
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  Speaker 1: probably intrigued, you know. And the sport's already growing at
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  Speaker 1: a huge, huge rate and a very fast rate. But
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk about all that coming up at two o'clock today.
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  Speaker 1: It's exciting, Okay, we're gonna take a break. Come back, Ashley.
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  Speaker 1: Your first chance to ever produce a Molly wat Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 4: The boys, Nathan and Chris coming up next. It's Monday,
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  Speaker 4: and that means one thing. It's time to Mollywap, uncensored, unscripted,
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  Speaker 4: and filled with the passion that all Mariners fans can
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  Speaker 4: relate to, and brought to you by the company that's
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  Speaker 4: all about Seattle Sports, Simply Seattle. Visit simply Seattle dot
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  Speaker 4: com for the best Mariners gear.
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  Speaker 1: Now with the Mollywop.
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  Speaker 5: Boys, Nathan Bishop with the light bet and Chris Crawford
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  Speaker 5: with my oh, why here's Ian Furnetts.
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  Speaker 1: We'll probably have some tweaking to do with all the
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: with the opens and stuff, because you know, these guys
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: always have. These guys have stuff going on, lots of
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: stuff going on with these two guys. But we are
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  Speaker 1: back Mollywap Monday twenty twenty six, edition number one, and
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  Speaker 1: for the first time ever, running the show, pushing the
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  Speaker 1: buttons and making sure it's all going to work. Behind
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  Speaker 1: the scenes, Ladies and gentlemen, Ashley say hi to Ashley,
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  Speaker 1: Nathan and Chris.
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  Speaker 6: Huh y Ashley, Hi, Ashley, happy to be here.
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: She said, I heard you guys are doing a molliwap
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  Speaker 1: today and Jess is and feeling well, I want to
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: come in and hang out with Chris and Nathan and
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: I said, well, you know what, I'm sure they'd like
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  Speaker 1: to see you as well. So here we are.
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  Speaker 7: Our heroes wear capes. That's why we appreciate that we
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  Speaker 7: were going to.
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  Speaker 8: Find a fan one of these days.
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: I told you there's a semi fan. This name will
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: not go mention on the air that referred to it
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: as quote your Monday show end quote, and I said, sir,
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  Speaker 1: that's actually called molliwat Monday. It's brought to you by
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  Speaker 1: simply Seattle. I would like you to refer to it
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  Speaker 1: in this proper terms. We're back for another year. We're
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  Speaker 1: not sure if we're going to do it every week
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: during spring training, but we wanted to get this kind
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  Speaker 1: of a reset. Let's get going here. We are spring
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  Speaker 1: trainings underway. World Baseball Classic is coming up. Chris and
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  Speaker 1: I want to chant USA for a while because of
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  Speaker 1: the hockey game yesterday as well, all that's coming up today.
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  Speaker 1: I first and foremost, guys, thank you for coming back.
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: This is we joke about it all the time. One
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite things that I do on the radio
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: station we're in it. There's a chat that we're on
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: as well. Somehow Mike Benton has snaked his way into
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: a chat with us. I'm not sure how. Yeah, and
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: you've got another one that's you know, a hockey one.
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  Speaker 1: But so I get more texts from Chris Crawford and
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: or Nathan Bishop, Anderson Hurst and Mike Benton, and I
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: do for my wife or any of my kids. But
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: that's a good thing. That's actually a really good thing
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: because usually it's highly entertaining. When did we start this?
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  Speaker 1: How many years ago? Fellas well?
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  Speaker 7: Mather's stuff was twenty and twenty one, I believe.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so it so this year five?
• 12:25
  Speaker 7: Yeah, this is year five of us pretending we know
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  Speaker 7: what we're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Ashley, What's what's year five for anniversary? Do we know?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know like in the Christmas song five gold Rings.
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  Speaker 2: So let's go with that.
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  Speaker 8: Whoa, oh, yeah, it's really you guys the gold Ring.
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: Well, or that gets us to the Ring World series Ring.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see.
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  Speaker 9: That's how far as a Mariners fan, that concept is
• 12:49
  Speaker 9: so far removed from my brain.
• 12:51
  Speaker 8: I didn't even think of it.
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  Speaker 1: Let it be known on February twenty third, twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: If we come, we will revisit this a ring a
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  Speaker 1: ring in October. Could it be? Could it be? We'll
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  Speaker 1: get to that in a second. Hey, Chris, real quick, buddy, Huh?
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  Speaker 1: How about how about Jack Hughes? Huh? How about our
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: friend Jack Cues?
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  Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, and uh. I by the way, I
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  Speaker 7: have such a man crushes, such an outdated term, But
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  Speaker 7: Zach Wrensky be called buddy like dude. That guy is
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  Speaker 7: unbelievable and that was as exciting of a hockey game
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  Speaker 7: as I have seen. And real quick, Major League Baseball,
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  Speaker 7: if you're watching this, watch the extra interest that you're
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  Speaker 7: going to get for the NHL and apply that to
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  Speaker 7: the World Baseball Classic. Don't play this thing in freaking
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  Speaker 7: early March. Take some time out of the season. I
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  Speaker 7: know there's risk. I know all of this stuff. I
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  Speaker 7: know you're gonna get old fuddy duddies who complain about this.
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  Speaker 7: Watch what the WBC could do for Major League Baseball,
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  Speaker 7: growing it internationally and domestically as well. Watch what happens
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  Speaker 7: after this Olympics.
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  Speaker 1: So okay, question about it. I want to come back
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  Speaker 1: to that in a second. That's a great point because
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  Speaker 1: I was talking about that just a little bit out
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  Speaker 1: and cross talk with MJ in the mid day and uh,
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  Speaker 1: and I was doing that, I thought, like, it's the
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  Speaker 1: only thing like Best on Best that really matters because
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  Speaker 1: WBC doesn't matter basketball. If US really wanted to be
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  Speaker 1: best on best, it wouldn't be a competition, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: other countries have great players, like a couple of them,
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  Speaker 1: like kind of it's it's like Germany has Dricytle, Stutsla
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  Speaker 1: and Grubauer and nobody else. That's cool, Like a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of the countries in basketball have like you can have
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  Speaker 1: a Wemby and you can have a couple of guys,
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  Speaker 1: but that's it. That's not best with something special. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that was that was really really cool and
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: was all of a suddenne you mentioned zach O Rinsky,
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  Speaker 1: people are like who he plays for? Columbus's like, is
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  Speaker 1: there is there a team in all of sports that
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: is less known and more of a non entity than
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: the Columbus Blue Jackets. I think the answer maybe the
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Pirates, but they had success like fifty years ago,
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  Speaker 1: so maybe right, right, I mean, that's about it. Nathan,
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: what do you think that's a good way to start
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: the WBC? Is it something and you look forward to
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: it all or not? Because we just saw the best ever,
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: best on best both men and women and at the Olympics,
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: and then baseball is going to try to do the
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: same thing, but early in the season, and not everybody
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: wants to participate. And I think that tells you all
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: you need to know. Everyone wanted to play for Team Canada.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: That was a Canadian hockey player. Everybody wanted to play
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: for the USA. If you are a USA hockey player.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: That isn't the case with the WBC.
• 15:24
  Speaker 9: Yeah, And I don't know how much of that is
• 15:26
  Speaker 9: just the WBC still feeling like a fairly new thing.
• 15:29
  Speaker 9: It doesn't have the cachet of an Olympic gold medal,
• 15:33
  Speaker 9: something that goes back over one hundred years. But I
• 15:35
  Speaker 9: do think to Chris's point, the idea of having these
• 15:37
  Speaker 9: guys up and running, I mean, we've seen once this
• 15:40
  Speaker 9: tournament gets going and we kind of get through the
• 15:42
  Speaker 9: group stage and the guys get into it and we
• 15:44
  Speaker 9: get down to that elimination phase, it can produce incredible drama.
• 15:48
  Speaker 9: I will never forget watching show. Hey Otani strike out
• 15:52
  Speaker 9: his then teammate Mike Trout to win the WBC. One
• 15:55
  Speaker 9: of the coolest things in baseball I've ever seen. And
• 15:58
  Speaker 9: Chris is right, the idea is not necessar csarily how
• 16:00
  Speaker 9: do we improve this tournament. How do we make it
• 16:02
  Speaker 9: where we're getting more eyeballs, where it has more gravitas?
• 16:05
  Speaker 8: How do we do?
• 16:05
  Speaker 9: And I don't know if that's as simple as playing
• 16:08
  Speaker 9: it in the middle of the season, or if it's
• 16:10
  Speaker 9: just this needs time to kind of create its own mythology,
• 16:15
  Speaker 9: and that is a difficult thing to kind of manufacture.
• 16:18
  Speaker 9: As much as TV executives and sports executives and all
• 16:21
  Speaker 9: these people would love to, there's something awesome about this
• 16:24
  Speaker 9: being like to the hockey point, this was the first
• 16:28
  Speaker 9: time the US had won since nineteen eighty that's more
• 16:31
  Speaker 9: than twice as old as the WBC has been in existence.
• 16:33
  Speaker 9: It's just hard to create that kind of history and legacy.
• 16:36
  Speaker 9: But I, as somebody who tends to be more puist
• 16:40
  Speaker 9: with baseball than I think a lot of people are,
• 16:42
  Speaker 9: I am all for trying to figure out a way
• 16:44
  Speaker 9: to make it work, because I think that at its best,
• 16:47
  Speaker 9: the WBC does something that Major League baseball cannot do
• 16:51
  Speaker 9: on a global stage. The way that it attracts new fans,
• 16:55
  Speaker 9: the way that it attracts people from countries who maybe
• 16:58
  Speaker 9: aren't traditionally into baseball is something that Major League Baseball
• 17:01
  Speaker 9: is never going to do on its own. So I'm
• 17:04
  Speaker 9: all for if it can grow the game globally. Let's
• 17:07
  Speaker 9: figure it out. Man, it could be really fun.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Chris. I think your point about you know, in the
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: season last year the NHL they bypassed All Star weekend
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: and instead of All Star Weekend they did the Four Nations,
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: which was a massive hit. And it was a made
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: up thing like the WBC is. There's no gold medal,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: like Nathan mentioned, but it was a massive hit and
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: everybody played like everybody wanted to play. And I'm sorry,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: baseball player, there's a little bit more risk. Maybe a
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: pitcher with an arm a little bit more risk playing hockey.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Kevin Fayalla out for the year for example, right for
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: the LA Kings got hurt in the Olympics this year.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: But maybe baseball would never do this because it's such
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: a boom economically unless you did it in one city,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: you know, like but get rid of All Star Weekend
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: and we could be done with this. Man, just get
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: rid of All Star Weekend every couple of year, maybe
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: just every couple of years, like the NHL is doing
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Chris with that.
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think so. I mean, you've got to experiment
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: with this stuff. You don't ever want to experiment to
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: the point where you make it count for home field
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: advantage or some bs like that ever, but like ridiculous,
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: you see what the NBA is doing. Like I didn't
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: watch All Star Weekend because I didn't have a ton
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: of interest in it this year. But I heard a
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: bunch of people say the players actually tried. The players
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: were actually playing defense in the NBA this year. Try
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: stuff like that, like having something and talk about a
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: perfect situation for a four nations tournament to have like Japan,
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: the United States, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico or whatever
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: other nation you want to put in there. That would
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: be perfect. It would be a wonderful thing. But like,
• 18:40
  Speaker 7: just grow the game by expanding, Like I gotta be honest.
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: This was partially brought up because I saw Tarik Skuball
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: is just going to make one start against great frickin'
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: Britain in the World Baseball Classic either do the tournament
• 18:54
  Speaker 7: or don't. Right, we don't need him to get out
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: Nigel Bigglesby or Jeeves mccriminal pot, Like, that is not
• 18:59
  Speaker 7: what the of this tournament. And I can do that
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: because I'm Hella British by the way, I'm allowed to
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: make that joke either or those guys.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: What was the last guy's name?
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: I want to get his baseball car Jeeves macriminal pot.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah he's.
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: Special, but yeah, man, like, grow the game, and the
• 19:16
  Speaker 7: way to grow the game is these types of international
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: tournaments where it just means more for the players. But
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: it's hard for it to be taken as seriously when
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: it's being played in March, when guys are using the
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: tournament as a way to get ready for the regulars.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean it's maybe this is something I
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: think if I'm not mistaken, assuming the MLBPA still has
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: a guy leading the charge that isn't messing around as
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: long as that's happening, then that's maybe something you negotiate
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: into your labor agreement and and do that. Baseball could
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: use it. I mean it's going to be a big,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: big boost for hockey. Baseball could use that because baseball
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: and hockey are very similar in this way. They're very regionalized,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: right like you very you care about your team, and
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: kind of that's about it. National games aren't as big
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: a deal as they used to be, and all that
• 20:03
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• 20:34
  Speaker 7: It was incredible. And by the way, thank you to
• 20:36
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• 20:38
  Speaker 7: the postgame KJR festivities. Getting to record a video talking
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: about my favorite team winning a super Bowl was incredible
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: and it was just awesome. It was seventy thirty Seahawks fans.
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: Most of the Patriots fans I talked to were perfectly
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: fine if I could understand what they were saying. It
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: was remarkable and it just makes me sadder sometimes that
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: the Seattle Mariners haven't done this before.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Well, Nathan, is this the year? I'm not asking for
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: predictions yet, but let me ask you this. It was
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: a good segue. That was that's too hard to do
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: here in February. It was a perfect segue. It's a
• 21:16
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• 21:18
  Speaker 8: Great answer by me too. I really loved him.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I wish I wish people could see the video
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: because it's I met christ in our five years. That
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: might be the first time I saw that look from Nathan,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: like I I'm not sure. I don't know what the
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: hell is saying. Let me start with this, Nathan. And
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: you know we saw you know, Chuck and Buck. You
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: were down there last week and I guess on Friday.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Friday was the first spring training game, right this first,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: I get caught up with the charity game and this
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: and that. But like massive crowd, like a massive crowd,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: and the crowds down there, there's a ton of enthusiasm, Nathan,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: so I'll ask you, in just a general term, is
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: this a season that maybe you are anticipating, more excited for,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: more revved up than maybe you can remember. And I'll
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: also give you the added context of this. Ashton and
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I talked about this in the first segment. When they
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: went to the playoffs last three years ago, there were
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: some pretty good changes in the offseason, significant roster changes,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: pitching staff is still kind of a young and up
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: and coming staff. Really, the core is in place now
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: we can we'll talk about the changes they made in
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the offseason, additions, deletions. But with that said, this feels
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: different than three years ago. At least it does for me.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: What about you? It does?
• 22:31
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think that the difference is kind of some
• 22:34
  Speaker 9: stuff that had to do with the Mariners and stuff
• 22:36
  Speaker 9: that has to do with the American League as a whole.
• 22:38
  Speaker 9: But I feel like we've talked at nauseum when it happened,
• 22:42
  Speaker 9: and then I've made many.
• 22:43
  Speaker 8: Jokes, many references to it.
• 22:45
  Speaker 9: Well after the fact that the off season after the
• 22:48
  Speaker 9: twenty twenty two playoff season was, in my opinion, one
• 22:51
  Speaker 9: of the most one of the worst contextually speaking off
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: seasons this franchise has ever had, they did basically nothing
• 22:58
  Speaker 9: to get better. They got actively at multiple positions. And
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: now this offseason, while I still I could bang the
• 23:05
  Speaker 9: drum here and just do my thing and talk about
• 23:07
  Speaker 9: how this team is, you know, I think eighty million
• 23:10
  Speaker 9: dollars below the or sixty million dollars below the luxury
• 23:13
  Speaker 9: tax threshold, and there are definitely holes on the roster
• 23:16
  Speaker 9: they could have improved by spending. Sure, we could do that,
• 23:18
  Speaker 9: and if this team struggles, I'll be happy to do
• 23:20
  Speaker 9: that again. But unlike that past offseason, they took care
• 23:24
  Speaker 9: of the things they really needed to get done, and
• 23:27
  Speaker 9: that started with resigning Josh Naylor. That was a critical
• 23:30
  Speaker 9: thing that kind of set the tone for the offseason,
• 23:33
  Speaker 9: and then they kind of stagnated. But the Brennan Donovan
• 23:37
  Speaker 9: Rennovan Brendan Donovan addition really really was something that needed
• 23:43
  Speaker 9: to happen for this roster because now there's for the
• 23:46
  Speaker 9: first time, at least since we've been doing this show,
• 23:49
  Speaker 9: coming into the season, I feel like I look at
• 23:51
  Speaker 9: this roster and like I said, I see some weaknesses there.
• 23:54
  Speaker 9: I see some things that are concerning, some things that
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: can go wrong. I don't see massive Gapingannovan Solano, AJ Pollock,
• 24:02
  Speaker 9: Tomula Stella, Rowdy Talz Opening Day kind of Rochester the
• 24:06
  Speaker 9: way you can. I don't mean to put that on you.
• 24:10
  Speaker 9: It's a solid major league roster from top to bottom.
• 24:12
  Speaker 9: It's not the best in baseball. I think you can
• 24:15
  Speaker 9: make a case it's one of the best in the
• 24:16
  Speaker 9: American League. And that's what feels different. And I don't
• 24:18
  Speaker 9: want to go too long and ramble too much, but
• 24:20
  Speaker 9: I also think, as somebody who's negative about this organization
• 24:23
  Speaker 9: as much as anybody, I've tried to be very honest
• 24:27
  Speaker 9: about how I feel about this team. And I have
• 24:30
  Speaker 9: to say, when you come into it after going to
• 24:33
  Speaker 9: the ALCS, after winning the first division title in twenty
• 24:36
  Speaker 9: four years, it just feels different. It doesn't matter if
• 24:39
  Speaker 9: they're significantly better. What they've accomplished now makes me feel better.
• 24:45
  Speaker 9: I feel like I'm carrying less of a yoke around
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: on my back as a Mariners fan, if that makes sense, sure, Chris.
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: So, you know they say in baseball that it's about
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: the journey, not the destination. I don't give a f
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: about the journey this year. I only care about the destination,
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: and the destination has to be going to the World Series.
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: And I don't have expectations for this team. No screw expectations.
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: I have demands, and I demanded this team get to
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: the World Series. I demand that this team, which justifyingly so, said,
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: let's run it back. We brought back Josh Naylor, the
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: Ajohenno Suarez thing minus one golden moment, one hell of
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: a golden moment didn't really work out. Let's get a
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: higher floor player in Brendan Donovan, and let's run this back,
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: thinking our starting rotation is going to stay healthier. Well,
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: because you did that, though, and because you were eight
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: outs away from getting to the World Series, I demand
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: that you get there. And anything short of that is
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: going to be a massive disappointment for me. And that's
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: a compliment to the roster. That's a compliment to what
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: Depoto and Hollander have built. That's a compliment to how
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: good cal Ralely and Julio Rodriguez and Josh Naylor and
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: Randio Rosa and a bunch of other players and the
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: starting rotation and what I think could be the best
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: bullpen in baseball. It's possible. There's a little bit of
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: volatility there, but it's possible. That's a compliment to this roster.
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: But anything short of that is going to be a
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: massive disappointment. So this is why this is one of
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: my favorite spring trainings ever, because it's the last time
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: until March twenty sixth or twenty seventh, I can't remember
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: which that I won't have demands for this baseball team.
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: I don't give a crap. Just have fun over this
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: spring training, stay healthy, get ready to roll. But once
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: that season starts, I demand this team get to the
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: World Series. And that is both unfair and a massive
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: compliment to the roster they built. But it's that time.
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: It's that time. I demand the Seattle Mariners play in
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: the World Series in twenty twenty six.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: I'll say what I like about that, Nathan. Hearing Chris
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: say that is you know, he's what I would call
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: baseball guy, you know, and we talked about the journey
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: and not the destination and all that. But I think
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: he probably speaks Nathan. I'll let you speak for yourself,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: but I think Chris speaks for a lot of fans. Okay,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: you kick down the door of getting past the we
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: maybe we'll get to a wild card spot. Oh, we
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: finally won a Division. You kick down the door and
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: got to the Alcs, and you're just a heartbeat away
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: from getting to that first ever World Series. But in
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: this America, you don't have a Dodgers, right you don't.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I mean you've you've got the ability to get back there, Nathan.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I I love hearing Chris Crawford say I demand I love.
• 27:34
  Speaker 8: That me too. Yeah.
• 27:36
  Speaker 9: I think that's as strong as I've heard Chris come
• 27:40
  Speaker 9: in as far as his expectations for this team, and
• 27:42
  Speaker 9: I think that emotionally I align with it so well.
• 27:45
  Speaker 9: As a Marinus fan, we are like, it's beyond time
• 27:49
  Speaker 9: for this to be over with, maybe in the World
• 27:52
  Speaker 9: Series yesterday. And I think that if I had seen
• 27:55
  Speaker 9: the team just be a little bit more aggressive in
• 27:58
  Speaker 9: the offseason, I would probably feel a similar level of
• 28:02
  Speaker 9: you know, here we come. There's no failure. Uh excuse me,
• 28:06
  Speaker 9: there's no success unless we are in the World Series.
• 28:09
  Speaker 9: I think I look at the roster and I just
• 28:11
  Speaker 9: don't feel the same level of inspiration to get that
• 28:15
  Speaker 9: wound up about it because I look at things and
• 28:17
  Speaker 9: I see cal Rawley is great, the best catching in baseball.
• 28:20
  Speaker 9: He is not going to be as good as he
• 28:21
  Speaker 9: was last year. JP Crawford is precariously perched over the
• 28:25
  Speaker 9: cliff of veteran decline that could come at any moment.
• 28:28
  Speaker 9: I have no idea what's going to happen a second
• 28:30
  Speaker 9: base because they did not run it back with rage
• 28:32
  Speaker 9: Plonko because he's going to be in New York met.
• 28:35
  Speaker 9: I don't have any confidence in either of.
• 28:37
  Speaker 8: Their right fielders.
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 28:39
  Speaker 9: And there's just there's reasons for me to be concerned
• 28:41
  Speaker 9: that this team will find ways to fall short. I
• 28:44
  Speaker 9: also don't I also need to see improvement in the
• 28:48
  Speaker 9: person that's filling out the lineup card and determining who
• 28:50
  Speaker 9: is going to play and when they are going to play,
• 28:52
  Speaker 9: and how they're Yeah, yeah, we were talking about being
• 28:55
  Speaker 9: eight outs away from the World Series.
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: There's a reason that they ended up eight out so
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: way from that.
• 29:00
  Speaker 9: So yeah, as far as the emotional demand, absolutely this
• 29:04
  Speaker 9: the Seattle Mariners should do everything that they can do
• 29:06
  Speaker 9: in order to make it to the World Series this year.
• 29:09
  Speaker 9: I'm not sure if my expectations are at that point.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll get yeah, we'll get to that coming up
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: in our you know, when we get too closer to
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: the season. We you know, one of my favorite shows
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: always as Opening Day with you guys, because that's the
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: day everyone feels good. Like we all feel good on
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Opening Day. Now, knock on wood, everything stays healthy, drinks,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: spring training and all that, you know, because there's a
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: couple of guys that can ill afford to have, you know,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: tweak anything or do anything and you know, have any
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: kind of forearms sniffness or stiffness or a we got
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: soreness in my elbow end or shoulder. I have that.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: I'm old. We don't need that from those guys that
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: throw the ball one hundred miles an. Now, all right,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: we'll take a break, come back, one more segment. That
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: little sound bite will play. We come back because you
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: mentioned like one of the holes one of the questions
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: would be second base, right, and and maybe it's time
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: though like other sports, and we've been talking about this,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: we lean on our guy Chris for this. This is expertise.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's time for some young guys to take that
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: next step up right develop from within. We'll talk a
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: little bit about that what to look for over the
• 30:08
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  Speaker 10: Cole was the youngest or second youngest regular in the
• 30:39
  Speaker 10: PCL last year, and then we brought in the big
• 30:41
  Speaker 10: leagues and he was one of the five youngest players
• 30:43
  Speaker 10: in the big leagues last year, and for a good
• 30:45
  Speaker 10: five six week stretch, he was awesome last year. He
• 30:48
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• 30:53
  Speaker 10: environment is a tough one to sustain energy. And it
• 30:57
  Speaker 10: was pretty clear as we got in September that Cole
• 30:59
  Speaker 10: was just draft a little bit, and I think he
• 31:01
  Speaker 10: took a lot of steps of saw season to make
• 31:03
  Speaker 10: sure that doesn't happen again. He's going to be a
• 31:05
  Speaker 10: really good player. I would say he's going to get
• 31:06
  Speaker 10: the first crack at, you know, the starting second basement.
• 31:09
  Speaker 10: That doesn't mean he's gonna play every day.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: There is a Justin Hollander from last week with chuck
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: and buck the money right at the end, he's going
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: to get the first crack at being the starting second basement?
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Is Cole Young for the Mariners? Chris, you're smiling. What
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: do you think?
• 31:26
  Speaker 7: Uh, it's the right call. I think that Cole Young
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: is I mean, is he as talented as Colt Emerson? No,
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: But I do think Cole Young was better than people
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: maybe give him credit for. I thought the approach was
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: really good. My concern is defensively. He wasn't great defensively,
• 31:46
  Speaker 7: and because of what Nathan was talking about at shortstop
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: with mister Crawford, my son. I'm proud of my son,
• 31:52
  Speaker 7: but his defense is no longer anywhere close to elite.
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: So and this is still a staff that you know,
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: this gets a lot of strikeouts, but good defense is
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: important behind behind any staff. So I get it. I
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: think Colt Emerson is the better player. I think Colt
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: Emerson will force his way into the starting lineup. But
• 32:13
  Speaker 7: I don't have an issue with giving Cole Young the
• 32:15
  Speaker 7: first crack at it because there were enough good moments
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: from Cole Young in twenty twenty five, despite what you
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: might see from the stat line, to suggest that he
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: can be a starting second basement.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Well, speaking of Emerson, here is Justin Hollander on that
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: particular player, christ and I set up by the way,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: absolutely wow.
• 32:31
  Speaker 10: I don't think there's any reason to put limits on players,
• 32:34
  Speaker 10: especially players is talented as Colt is. I think he's
• 32:37
  Speaker 10: got the emotional maturity to play in the big leagues.
• 32:39
  Speaker 10: He probably had the emotional maturity to play in the
• 32:41
  Speaker 10: big leagues like the day he graduated high school. He's
• 32:43
  Speaker 10: just wired differently than than most players.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Question was does he have a chance to break camp
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: with the big league club? And the answer was yes,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: So Cole Young, Colt, Emerson, both Nathan could be on
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: this roster to start the season. And feels still I
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: mean young guys. Absolutely, I still rather see that than
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Donovan Solano and what the other name is? The other
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: names that you mentioned that gave me just like a
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: pit in my stomach in the last segment.
• 33:12
  Speaker 9: Absolutely, because you always want to have players that have
• 33:15
  Speaker 9: upside and all of the guys that I was that
• 33:17
  Speaker 9: that horror show that I was listening off in the
• 33:19
  Speaker 9: last segment, there was that was the problem. There was
• 33:21
  Speaker 9: no upside with those editions whatsoever. So if guys like
• 33:24
  Speaker 9: Cole Young and Cole there's definitely that upside there. I
• 33:29
  Speaker 9: will be honest with you guys, as the resident skeptic
• 33:32
  Speaker 9: this organization, this front office has ten year, ten years
• 33:37
  Speaker 9: of track record here that we've gone off of, and
• 33:39
  Speaker 9: they've graduated two good positional prospects in Julu Rodriguez and
• 33:45
  Speaker 9: cal Raley. Obviously, those are incredible developmental wins, as they
• 33:48
  Speaker 9: are the best players in their position, but that's not
• 33:51
  Speaker 9: a very long list of successes. So it's hard for
• 33:55
  Speaker 9: me to not be skeptical for with Young for the
• 33:57
  Speaker 9: reasons that Chris just said. I'm I have not seen
• 34:02
  Speaker 9: a lot to think that he's going to be a
• 34:03
  Speaker 9: very good defensive second basement at that position, and what
• 34:06
  Speaker 9: means he's really going to have to hit. Maybe he
• 34:08
  Speaker 9: will end up doing that, I'm not sure if it
• 34:10
  Speaker 9: will be twenty twenty six this the year that he
• 34:13
  Speaker 9: does it. For Emerson, Man, I love that kid. I
• 34:17
  Speaker 9: loved him so much since the Mariner's drafted him. I
• 34:20
  Speaker 9: think he's still really young. And if you're a team
• 34:23
  Speaker 9: who has a super fan like Chris Crawford saying make
• 34:26
  Speaker 9: the World Series or bust, and you are asking a
• 34:29
  Speaker 9: twenty one year old kid to come and be a
• 34:32
  Speaker 9: very heavy contributing factor onto your roster.
• 34:34
  Speaker 8: I think that's asking a.
• 34:35
  Speaker 9: Whole lot for somebody who is a very very good prospect,
• 34:39
  Speaker 9: but not a top three, elite consensus one of the
• 34:44
  Speaker 9: very best prospects in baseball.
• 34:46
  Speaker 7: See the difference there, And I'm sorry to interrupt you.
• 34:48
  Speaker 7: And is the reason why I have a little bit
• 34:51
  Speaker 7: more confidence than Emerson and Young is because when the
• 34:55
  Speaker 7: Mariners called up kel Nick and Julio, they were asking
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: them to be the best players on the roster. You
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: just need Colt Emerson and Cole Young to be the
• 35:02
  Speaker 7: eighth or ninth best player. And if you look at
• 35:04
  Speaker 7: the roster, that's a very reasonable thing. If you were
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: asking them to be immediate first division regular sixty grade
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: players on the twenty eighty scale, I would be very
• 35:16
  Speaker 7: nervous about that, without question. But if you're just asking
• 35:19
  Speaker 7: Cole Young and Colt Emerson to hold their own and
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: to get those reps so that they can develop into
• 35:24
  Speaker 7: those first regulars, I feel a lot more confident in that.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Brendan Donovan feels what rolegang Chris. He's a platoon guy.
• 35:32
  Speaker 7: I think he's gonna be the platoon third baseman. I
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: don't know who he's platooning with, but and you know what,
• 35:38
  Speaker 7: we could see him just hit ninth against left handers,
• 35:40
  Speaker 7: and maybe he plays second base because you feel confident
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: in Colt Emerson playing third. It's where he's played to
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: start the spring, so I'll be really curious to see.
• 35:49
  Speaker 7: But boy, getting a guy like Brendan Donovan was just
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: huge because it just increases the floor of your team
• 35:55
  Speaker 7: so much. He's such a solid baseball player who can
• 35:58
  Speaker 7: play multiple positions. He could play in left field if
• 36:00
  Speaker 7: you need him. You could even handle right a little bit,
• 36:03
  Speaker 7: second base, third base. The only places I'm not playing
• 36:05
  Speaker 7: him are catcher, shortstop, in center field, and hopefully you
• 36:08
  Speaker 7: won't need to do that. Brendan Donovan just increases the
• 36:11
  Speaker 7: floor of this team considerably.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: We're not going to get a chance to talk pitching
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: or even the bullpen yet today, but let me just
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: wrap it up quickly with this, Nathan, give me one
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: thing spring training. Spring training is what it is. You
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: know a lot of guys wearing number seventy three that
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: you're never going to see again. But but there are
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: things to watch. So what's one thing? Just give me
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: one thing that Nathan Bishop's curious about watching, or maybe
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: one player in the next couple weeks.
• 36:39
  Speaker 8: Sure, I'll give you a player.
• 36:40
  Speaker 9: I'll give you Kate Anderson because I think that the
• 36:42
  Speaker 9: Marriagers are going to be dipping into the rotation depth.
• 36:45
  Speaker 9: I think that they'll probably be healthier on the starting
• 36:47
  Speaker 9: pitching side than they were last year. I certainly hope
• 36:49
  Speaker 9: that they will be, but they're not going to be
• 36:51
  Speaker 9: as healthy as they were in twenty twenty three twenty
• 36:54
  Speaker 9: twenty four, which means they're going to have to dip
• 36:55
  Speaker 9: into their depth. And Kate Anderson is the guy who
• 36:59
  Speaker 9: theoretically is just such a huge upgrade over the depth
• 37:02
  Speaker 9: they were dipping into last year with Logan Evans and
• 37:04
  Speaker 9: Emerson Hancock and no disparaging those guys that that's what
• 37:07
  Speaker 9: they were called on to do and they did their best.
• 37:10
  Speaker 9: But I think having a guy like that with that
• 37:13
  Speaker 9: mid rotation upside, who pretty much christ can correct me
• 37:16
  Speaker 9: if I'm wrong, doesn't need to develop much to be
• 37:19
  Speaker 9: major League ready at this point. Worst case scenario for
• 37:22
  Speaker 9: a guy like that, if the Mariners are the team
• 37:24
  Speaker 9: we hope they are, this is a guy you could
• 37:25
  Speaker 9: see coming out of the bullpen in October, absolutely destroying
• 37:28
  Speaker 9: people in high leverage spots with that left handed stuff.
• 37:31
  Speaker 8: So that's the guy.
• 37:32
  Speaker 9: I've already heard good that he looks really great of
• 37:35
  Speaker 9: course the spring training, because everybody looks really great. Everyone's
• 37:38
  Speaker 9: added three new pitches and throwing one hundred and twenty
• 37:40
  Speaker 9: five miles an hour, and it's all great.
• 37:42
  Speaker 8: But that's the guy. Kate Anderson is what I got
• 37:44
  Speaker 8: my eye on.
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: Chris I will just say who not to pay too
• 37:49
  Speaker 7: much close attention to, even though he's looked good these
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: first couple of games. Don't think that if Julio Rodriguez
• 37:55
  Speaker 7: just destroyed spring training pitching, that he's figured it out
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: and that he's gonna get off to this whale to start.
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: He's been fine in spring trainings, and don't like think
• 38:03
  Speaker 7: that this is all of a sudden, Oh he's figured
• 38:05
  Speaker 7: something out. We need to see Julio Rodriguez as the
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: ultimate Julio Rodriguez apologist. I need to see Julio Rodriguez
• 38:12
  Speaker 7: get off to a great start, but it won't have
• 38:13
  Speaker 7: anything to do with spring training. That guy can pick
• 38:16
  Speaker 7: up pitches from double A hitters and hit him out
• 38:19
  Speaker 7: of the Park in the Peoria Sports Complex. I know
• 38:21
  Speaker 7: he can do that, and I know what he can
• 38:23
  Speaker 7: do after June. But don't take anything Julio does in
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: spring training too seriously in terms of, oh, he's figured
• 38:30
  Speaker 7: it out and he's going to get off to a
• 38:31
  Speaker 7: great start. I think he will because I believe in him.
• 38:34
  Speaker 7: I think he's going to be the MVP of baseball
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: this year. But let's not base it on spring training, folks.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Well, he'll have to have a hell of a year
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: because a guy hit set a record for catcher last
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: year wasn't the MVP. Although every time, even though he
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: goes to the cracking games, I hear the chance MVP,
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: which is about every other game. I guess we won't
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: see him for a while in cal Raleigh, Chris, where
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: can we find everything you're doing these days?
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: NBC Sports locked on with Anders doing the Seahawks and
• 39:00
  Speaker 7: Seattle Mariner games. Will be doing that soon and maya
• 39:03
  Speaker 7: y please check that out. I really appreciate it on YouTube, MyH.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're not, if you haven't suscribed to myle
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Wai yet on YouTube, it's very simple. I've done it
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: and it doesn't cost anything. It's weird. It just yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just you click and it's just like that. Nathan, what
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: are you doing these days besides selling great I'm prob Yeah.
• 39:20
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm proud to announce that as after some tense
• 39:23
  Speaker 9: negotiations with Simply Seattle and kg ARE, I've signed an
• 39:25
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• 39:38
  Speaker 9: talking to you fine gentlemen and having a great time.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. Good stuff. As Chris
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: by the way, wearing my favorite sweatshirt for the Simply
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• 39:48
  Speaker 1: the Kingdom exists. I tell her now it doesn't. She goes,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: we weren't a sweater that says it does. I go, well,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: it's called a retro, honey.
• 39:53
  Speaker 7: It exists as long as we keep it in our heart.
• 39:55
  Speaker 7: Super Bowl forty nine doesn't exist, and the Kingdom does
• 39:57
  Speaker 7: exist in my heart.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: I think that we all need to live by that philosophy. Sir.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: All right, that's Chris, that's Nathan. We will reconvene as
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: needed during spring trending and they get things going here.
• 40:08
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• 40:13
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how you missed it. How could you
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: miss it? USA Hockey gold medalist first time since nineteen
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: eighty beat Canada two to one in overtime. Austin Matthews,
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  Speaker 1: an incredible moment along the way. Jack Hughes with the
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  Speaker 1: game winning goal in overtime. Sounders beat the Colorado Rapids
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: to nil Luminfields Sunday night. That opens up the twenty
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: twenty six Major League so season. I have a question
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: on that with Jackson. I'll get to that in a second.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: Jordan Morrisel went out with an injury seven minutes into
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: the match. Paul Rothrock came in. He was okay, score
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: a goal, not bad. Yeah, that worked. That's called depth,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. They now go on six straight matches
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: away from Seattle as well, including a concor CAF Champions
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Cup home match in Spokane, which I absolutely love the
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: fact they're doing that. It's playing over there. That's a
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: great idea as well. Kyle Pitts franchised by the Atlanta Falcons. Today,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: let's move into our number two. I'm gonna get to
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: the hockey here in a second. Let me I didn't
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: get this in the headlines. I should have. FIFA World
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Cup twenty six. The Seattle FIFA World Cup twenty six
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Organizing Committee announced in partnership with everyone, say everyone. That
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: includes literally everyone, City of Seattle, Seattle Center, Friends of Waterfront,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Scaltle Center's, FC Seattle, RAINFC Ray Foundation, Seattle Matters, and
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: NBA properties, they have what they call an extended expanded
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: approach to fans celebrations for the Fiefal World Cup twenty
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: twenty six. Starting on June eleventh, Fans will be able
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: to experience the fiefal World Cup excitement at a number
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: of locations along Seattle's Unity Loop, including the Seattle Center,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Waterfront Park, Pacific Place, Victory Hall in Sodo. So kind
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: of Jackson. It sounds to me kind of like what
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: they do when the All Star Game was here, Baseball
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: All Star Game was here, the Outdoor Classic is here,
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: kind of those places they just kind of took ouver
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: like Gloomenfield Event Center. This sounds like there's going to
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: be multiple spots between the Seattle Center and loom and
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Field to kind of experience World Cup excitement. Is that
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: what I'm getting out of that?
• 42:40
  Speaker 11: Yeah, the way I kind of hear that as I
• 42:42
  Speaker 11: think that you're going to have you have giant projector
• 42:44
  Speaker 11: monitors that they're showing the games at.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: All these vacations.
• 42:47
  Speaker 11: Okay, you don't have to be in the stadium to
• 42:49
  Speaker 11: be part of massive parties that I'll watch the events and.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: Just I'll I can lean on that a little bit
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: from when I was in Salt Lake and O two
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: for the Olympics and that they had all throughout downtown
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: salt Lake. They had the plaza where they did the
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: metal ceremony, they did like a metal ceremony and a
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: concert every night which was free and open to the public.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: And then there was places all around that area where
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: you could do the same thing, and they you know,
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: big screens and stuff like that. So like if you
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: couldn't afford the ticket to go watch you know, US
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: Sweden hockey or whatever it would be here, didn't want
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: to drive up to the mountains to watch downhill skiing
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: and I watch a guy fly by you for half
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: a second and go, okay, that's cool. Then you could
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: do that. And that was We went downtown a bunch
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: during the Olympics in O two and just kind of
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: had that experience and what I loved about it, And
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: this is what I think is gonna be really cool
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: about the world cut Now. Listen, we all know ticket
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: prices are through the roof and all those things come down,
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: by the way, I exactly quite a bit. Ye I
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: would say you're kind of a fool if you're buying
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: a secondary ticket now that But the one thing that's
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: that I think is really awesome about it is enjoying
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: the the influx of people from all over. And I
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: thought that the Olympics in Salt Lake, that was awesome,
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: like walking around downtown different vibe because it was like
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: a little snow here and there, and it was but
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: just you're an American in your city and yet you
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: feel like you're in a foreign town and but you're
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: not sure what town that is or a country that is,
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: because there's people from everywhere and it's really fun and
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: it's really cool, and I think that's one of the
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: better Obviously the benefits here for local businesses are huge
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: with the World Cup, but that's pretty damn cool.
• 44:30
  Speaker 7: It is.
• 44:30
  Speaker 11: Yeah, you're gonna be able to kind of you know,
• 44:32
  Speaker 11: if you think about the walk from you know, the
• 44:34
  Speaker 11: waterfront up to you know, places like Victorial, places like
• 44:38
  Speaker 11: you know, the Seattle Center that is a short distance
• 44:41
  Speaker 11: so you can watch the first half in one location
• 44:44
  Speaker 11: and then you hop on one of those transit buses
• 44:46
  Speaker 11: or even just walk and get into another location where
• 44:49
  Speaker 11: there's and a completely different, diverse community that you're walking into.
• 44:53
  Speaker 11: It's that's gonna be really cool to see all the
• 44:55
  Speaker 11: different goat go into it with an open mind and
• 44:57
  Speaker 11: enjoy it. Yeah, it's a once in a lifetime opportunity
• 44:59
  Speaker 11: for us, and I think it'll be pretty pretty cool.
• 45:02
  Speaker 11: And I just I know, you know, I'm talking to
• 45:04
  Speaker 11: my buddies at the queen An Beer Hall and the
• 45:05
  Speaker 11: Occidental Beer Hall. Of those places are jack I think
• 45:07
  Speaker 11: because the one of the Seattle Centers right by the
• 45:09
  Speaker 11: Beer Hall, and there took people to walk by. Places
• 45:12
  Speaker 11: like that will be thriving. The Occidental Hall is gonna
• 45:14
  Speaker 11: be thriving, right next to Luminfield. Just if nothing else,
• 45:18
  Speaker 11: just go out and experience one day. Just go out
• 45:20
  Speaker 11: and have a pint with somebody from a different country
• 45:22
  Speaker 11: and enjoy yourself and a whay you go. It's gonna
• 45:23
  Speaker 11: be cool, Yeah, really cool. Europeans will come over and
• 45:26
  Speaker 11: they say, where's the beer hall? Okay, they look up,
• 45:28
  Speaker 11: there's the Bear Hall that's right next to Seattle Center right.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: Almost like Justin and Juice knew what they were doing
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: along the way with that stuff. Jackson in here. Appreciate
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: him popping in. We've got some sickness, some illnesses, We've
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: got people out. Andrews'll be back tomorrow after a brief
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: paternity leave with the young and we'll talk to him
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: and catch up with him tomorrow. You know, I wrote
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: down a bunch of things when I was gone, and
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: I don't want to be that talk show host. When
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: I was gone, all these things happened and I wanted
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: to hit on. But there were a handful of things
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: that that I did want to kind of touch and
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: I'll probably get into some of these deeper as week
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: goes on. Let me, I'm going to kind of go
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: backwards a little bit in this. In this regard the
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: story came out about on All Star Weekend with the
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: Sonics or NBA expansion. You can look at it depending
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: on what your viewpoint is. And this is almost crazy.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: This is almost glass half full, glass half empty, depends
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: on what your attitude is towards the potential for expansion,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: the possibility of the Sonics coming back. I would use
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: the term probability of them coming back, not possibility, but
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: the probability of them coming back. But we're at a
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: point now it has been so long, as we've close
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: in on now eighteen plus years that this team has
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: been gone, that I think people are almost fatigued by it.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: There was aqu just a little quote in there from
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Silver and you know, like you know the you know,
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: he's committed to Seattle and what have you. I believe
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: and again that's why I use the term probability that
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: we're going to get the NBA back.
• 47:00
  Speaker 8: We all know.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: The question is when and how is it going to
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: truly be expansion. There's some out there. Bill Simmons, popular
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: podcast guy, former ESPN guy, he had a big thing
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: last week where he said, you know, I'm herely hearing
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of pushback, especially from the James Dolans
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: and others of the world, for expansion. I've mentioned this
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: to Mark a bunch of times in crosstalk conversations because
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: I know he's a big NBA guy. He brings it
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: up on him and Chris bring it up all the time.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: I still truly believe until they actually award us a
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: franchise as an expansion franchise, I still believe that there
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: is a true and I mean a true push and
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: a true feeling around the NBA circles that Seattle is
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: more valuable as a chip as a commodity when they're
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: trying to get other deals done with current franchises. Now
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: I know that they it was downplayed the possibility of
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: relocation during those meetings. If we go back over time
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: and had a timeline built and this could start back
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: in two thousand and four when you know, or two
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: thousand and five when Hurricane Katrina had and then they
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: had to relocate for a while to do Listen, relocation
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: is not something any any any league wants to do.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: The NHL just did it recently and it's been a
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: fabulous success going from Arizona to Utah. It would be
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: the same here. Utah wasn't even on the radar screen
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: two years ago for the National Hockey League. Building wise
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: and everything else. Ryan Smith buys the Jazz all of
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: a sudden, He's got all his money and it's like,
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: you know, let's bring a team here with the NHL.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: He's probably it's funny. He's probably the NHL's favorite owner.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: He's probably the NBA's the least favorite owner, just judging
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: how they treat his team. You know what the Oklahoma
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: City dictate when they get when they get fine, we're
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: gonna find you because Oklahoma City is upset, like okay,
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: the NBA has a lot of problems. We'll wait and
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: see how it plays out. March is the next thing.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: The Board of Governor's meeting. Is there actually gonna be
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: something tangible said? Because remember the two committees that are
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: kind of looking at expansion to this day. Those two
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: committees aren't expansion committees or financial committees, two separate types
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: of financial committees. I do worry that the James Dolans
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: and others of the world, they don't want to share
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: the revenue, even though the billions of dollars it would
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: be pumped into the league via those expansion franchise fees
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: would seem like it would trump anything you're gonna have
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: to worry about in terms of splitting revenue two more ways.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: Instead of thirty it's thirty two. The NBA is an
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: odd duck. The NFL is not expanding past thirty two.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: That's just not on the table. Major League Baseball is.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: I just mentioned Salt Lake. There's a big story today.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball is very very much looking at expanding
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: and thinking that they're going to expand. Salt Lake's right
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: at the top of the list. They got this new
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: complex they're building. It's they've got state money, They've got
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff going on. Major League Baseball understands
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: the need to expand and the reason to expand. The
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: NHL will go from thirty two to thirty four in
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: the next five or six years. It's just going to happen.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: It's inevitable. I don't understand the NBA. It's also probably
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: what's wrong with this league. In a lot of ways.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: It's a very short sighted league. It's a league that
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: is petty in a lot of ways. It's a league
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: that doesn't quite this is a very broad term, get it.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: But they don't get it. They worry about little things
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: like a last place team sitting somebody in the fourth
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: court of a game that they won and finding them
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: five hundred thousand. Yet load management is still a term
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: that is used on a daily basis in that league,
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: load management. If you use a term of load management,
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: it's okay. If you sit a guy in the fourth quarter,
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: it's not okay. Becau's tanking. They're the same damn thing,
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: exactly the same thing, and they understand. Teams understand that
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: sometimes home court advantage doesn't mean what it used to mean.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: So final will sit our guy out in the fourth quarter,
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: sit him out for an entire game. Never mind the
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: fans that are spending exillion dollars to go watch a
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: league that is driven by frankly superstars. The NBA is
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: a league of half and have nots. But how do
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: you get people to go to the games with the
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: have nots that are out of the playoffs by the
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: first of December. You have superstars playing, but when those
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: superstars sit out, it ain't any good And that's just
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: that's just not good for business. And that's what the
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: NBA worries about and said, it's just it's it's an odd,
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: odd thing. I'm so down on the league right now,
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: and yet in the back of my mind, I'm so
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: just waiting for it to come back. Yeah, it's just
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: it's it's like a love hate relationship at its pinnacle.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: And so what I what did we take out of
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: what happened last week and then a week and a
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: half ago whenever it was with the meeting with with Silver.
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: It's kind of business as usual. Yeah, one note I
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: would put out there there there is a lot. There
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: is a lot of I don't know pressure is the
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: right word.
• 51:48
  Speaker 7: There's a lot.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: There's a very very large concern with some of the
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: local professional teams. I don't know if the Sounders would
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: fit into this. You can tell me more in terms
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: of salaries. But the so called millionaire tax is something
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: that has teams in this market, professional sports franchises a
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: little bit sideways. And when you hear that, the one
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: thing when you hear that, the NBA does have a
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: concern with that. Remember, everybody in the NBA is going
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: to be taxed. That's a million dollars, Like you're not,
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: you know, like I kind of chuckled, even like even
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: in the NHL, Like you know, your lowest paid guy
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: is making seven to fifty. Well, if you think the
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: millionaire Tacks is always going to be a millionaire, nuts,
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: it's not. It's going to go down every single damn
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: year once you open up that Pandora's box. And there
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: is a big concern because one of the things that
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: we had here in Seattle as an advantage is no
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: income tax, no state income tax. And so there is
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: some pressure. There is some stuff going on behind the
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: scenes with with our people talking to Bob Ferguson, who
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: I'm a sports fan, Okay, you are when you can
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: go and be in a parade or something like that,
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: or where a Seahawk jersey or the Marigers win with
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: the World Series or do that anyway, that is that
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: is a real thing. The sale of the Seahawks I'm
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: assume that was a big topic last week. Oh yeah,
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: I think Softie said it best. I saw him tweet
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: something once, and I think him and I have had
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: this discussion. I think with the sale of the Seahawks,
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: the one thing that that just comes into play for
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: me is I've been here for I'm old. I've been
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: here for a long damn time. Ownership does matter, even
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: in a salary cap league. It matters because it matters
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: in terms of decisions being made on who you're hiring,
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: both on the field, in terms of coaches off the field,
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: in terms of GM, even your front office staff. Seahawks
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: had great ownership with the north From family when that
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: thing was that It's pinnacle. The Norse Froms were great.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: They sold it to Ken Barring and it was a
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: disaster from day one. They hired a GM who was
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: who was convicted of murdering a a coworker or a
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: rival businessman in Mike Blatt. He was a sports agent.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: That's how things got started with Ken Barring. Then he
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: brought and then he got rid of Chuck Knox and
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: Mike McCormick and brings in Tom Flores. It was just
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: an unmitigated disaster Mariner ownership. Listen, we can say what
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: we want to say, and people want to say what
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: they want to say about Stanton and Chris Larson and
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: the current ownership. It's fine, it's okay. It's not great,
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: but it's okay. It could be worse, could be better.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: It's okay. We've also seen far worse. I mean, I'll
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: just point you to the name George Ardoris and walk
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: away at that point, because he wanted to and tried
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: to and wanted to get rid of this team and
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: move this team at the time to Tampa Bay. I
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: believe it was. We've seen horrible ownership in that regard
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: the Sonics. I don't need to go any further than
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: just saying the Sonics ownership matters. I look and see
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: what the ownership is with the hockey team. It's stellar.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: It's been sensational. They don't spare expense, They understand what
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: the fans needs are Ie, let's go over the air.
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: We'll lose some money, not lose, but well, we're not
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: going to get as much money in a right spee
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: or whatever that we would from an RSN. Although as
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: it turns out that RSN went bye bye probably because
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: part of it was the last of the hockey team.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: But they decided, you know what, it's better for us
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: in our business model to go over the air. Maybe
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: we won't have the same right fees from King and
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: Kong and everybody else, but go over the air. They understand.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: They went out, Hey, coaching isn't working people. It's funny
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: when people criticize him about going through three coaches in
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: three years. I think they found the guy. I think
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: they found the guy in Lane got it right, Like,
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: they found the guy. Well, they went out there and
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: they made that move and said, okay, we're going to
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: pay two coaches not to coach here right now. That
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: that's good ownership. So whoever buys the Seahawks, And I
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: don't even want to dance down the aisle of what
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: the hell it's going to be this guy or that
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: guy or what. I just I don't even go down
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: that road right now, because, frankly, I think it's like
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: talking about trade deadline stuff and trying to speculate who's
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: going to get traded or who who you might pick up,
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: Like you like I know who the Kraken. I think
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: we all know who the Kraken. Might trade draft picks
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: and Shane right, I have no idea who they're gonna
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: bring here. There's at half the time there's guys that
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: come and you get in a trade and you're like,
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that guy's available. We see it in
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: baseball every year. So speculator, who's gonna buy the team?
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: I know, let's listen, it's a short list because you've
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: got to be a bazillionaire. But to go, oh, it's Bezos,
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: or it's this, or McKenzie, is mackenzie Scott, what have you?
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: I just hope whoever it is. And I do trust
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: the NFL more now than say in the late eighties
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: early nineties, with the bearing situation. I believe they'll do
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: the due diligence. They've gone through the Dan Snyders of
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: the world. They understand what bad ownership is. So I
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: do believe we should be good. But I just want
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: somebody to buy the team and leave a status quote.
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: Let John do his thing, Let Chuck Carnill do his thing,
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: and move along.
• 56:47
  Speaker 12: That's the hope, right, I mean.
• 56:49
  Speaker 11: I was listening to Mike Florio's Pro Football Talk this
• 56:51
  Speaker 11: last weekend and he was talking about how the way
• 56:53
  Speaker 11: that this is structured, the team will simply go to
• 56:56
  Speaker 11: the highest bidder, and obviously you have to approve it
• 56:58
  Speaker 11: from the rest of the NFL, and that's that's the
• 57:01
  Speaker 11: very very key thing. But the person that goes to
• 57:04
  Speaker 11: that vote, it's simply going to be the highest bidder
• 57:06
  Speaker 11: because the way it's written into you know, basically just
• 57:10
  Speaker 11: says we want the most money to go to the
• 57:12
  Speaker 11: foundation and to go to that, you know what, what
• 57:14
  Speaker 11: Paul Allen wanted the money to go towards. So I'm
• 57:17
  Speaker 11: extremely worried that that some rich bazillionaire will buy it
• 57:22
  Speaker 11: to just for a toy and change the culture and
• 57:26
  Speaker 11: and do what you said.
• 57:27
  Speaker 12: I mean, I'm very worried about that.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: There's a fine line too between I heard Chuck talking
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: about this Morning and The Morning Show. You know, like,
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: you want a guy, you want someone that's going to
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: treat it with enough attention that things don't slide and
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: slip through. But at the same time, does that person
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: you don't want him going Jerry Jones on you, right
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: and deciding he's going to run everything. You also don't
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: want to have somebody that's just it's let it be
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: a ruddicless ship. Yeah, because they've got so many other
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: things going on in their world as a as a billionaire. Right,
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: there's that fine line, that little dance you've got to navigate,
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: you know. I think people were surprised when they heard, Oh,
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: Jody Allen meets with Mike McDonald every Monday, and people
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: were surprised by that. I'd heard that a while ago,
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: that she's been involved since twenty eighteen when Paul died,
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: that she has been very involved. In fact, a couple
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: of times I asked the question on the air, like, oh,
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: what's going on there? And I was told immediately no, No,
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: Jody's involved. Jody's involved, but quietly behind the scenes involved
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: per there was accountability, i e. They got rid of
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: Pete Carroll, which think about how that is. It was
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: a very good balance along the way. It was a
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: really really good balance along the way. That organization needs nothing.
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: It needs to stay status quo. The GM knows how
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: to build a championship team. He's proven that not once
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: but twice. They definitely have the right coach. There is
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: no doubt about that. Yeah, right, I mean it's there's
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: like four or five coaches in this league that you'd say, Okay,
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: if Mike wasn't here, would you trade him for that guy?
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: Okay McVeigh shanahan. I mean, I I mean like, and
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying anybody I like, but I mean I understanding, like,
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: if if it wasn't our guy, like he's in that
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: He's in that category, right, He's in that category. So
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: hopefully it's status quo along the way. It's just I know,
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: and I'll wrap it up this people, we have to
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: break and we'll talk hockey on the other side.
• 59:21
  Speaker 6: The whole.
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: There are some out there in the media, and I
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: say media, kind of fringe media, independent media, that are
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: trying to make it well, I'd be worried about moving
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: and blah blah blah. Yeah, Listen, in the back of
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: everyone's mind, we have the Sonics, and I understand that.
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: I think we all understand that that's the case, like
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: we have we understand the perils that can come with
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: a pro sports franchise. And I guess you never say never,
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: but I'm gonna say this is as close to never
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: as you're ever going to get. Never mind the least
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: that goes through thirty one plus the options. Remember why
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: the Sonics left, and it goes back not to two
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: thousand and six or two thousand and five, it goes
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: back to ninety four when they decided that that's how
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: they were going to renovate at the time, the Seattle
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: Center Coliseum into a very cheap version of an upgrade
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: called Key Arena. That was when it started. That building
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: from the second it opened was outdated. And I say
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: that building being Key Arena. They moved, did the Sonics
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: because of a building issue created in the mid nineties
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: that never got rectified, wasn't going to get rectified by
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: the city or state funding. The NBA got upset, and
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: the owner got upset, and the owner sold it to
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: somebody not local. He didn't care. He sold it to
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: somebody that had full intentions of moving, had a building
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: in place, had a fan base in place from the
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: year before when the Hornets were there. It's a different situation.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: A Super Bowl champion, the most successful franchise in the
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: NFC over the last twenty years. No, no, no, stop it,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: stop it. I understand why we would be worried. Of
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: all the things I worry about in sports, that's about
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: number three hundred on the list, all right, I'm a
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: Cougar fan, so I might have tw hundred ninety nine others.
• 1:01:15
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• 1:01:32
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• 1:01:35
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  Speaker 1: line in just a couple of seconds four nine four
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: or five to one. So I sat today. Five point
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: three million people watched the women's gold medal game on Thursday,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: which took place. I believe it started at about eleven
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: in the morning. Eleven ten thirty eleven in the morning, uh,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: Pacific time, so mid afternoon Eastern time zone. Such a
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  Speaker 1: massive number for that time of the day, like as
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  Speaker 1: the most watched women's game ever, most I think is
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: most watched, is the most watched women's sports event. I
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: don't know if there might have been a final four
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: with Caitlin or somebody that was up there, but massive
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: number for that. I haven't seen the numbers yet for
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: the men's yesterday, which was a kind of a goofy time.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: I did chuckle. I mentioned this earlier, Jackson. It's so
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: people of the East coast complaining, oh my god, it's
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: so early. It's eight o'clock in the morning. Okay, it
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: was five here, and if If and we on the
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: West coast have dealt with Seahawks a Seahawk game in
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: Germany that was at six am, right, so don't give
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: me the oh my gosh, it was at eight am.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: It was still bloody early. I know they had the
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: closing ceremonies and that's when they schedule it. They probably
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: need to look at changing that a little bit. And
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: I think it's in France next, right, as other Olympics
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: are France. That sound right anyway. All that aside, incredible
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: two weeks for the sport I told Mark this earlier.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: I think more importantly, incredible two weeks for the NHL.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: This is the thing when it's best on best and
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: the three teams that medled all were filled with entirely
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: NHL rosters. Finland as well. The Finland's beat the Slovaks
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: on Saturday, Slovaki only had a handful of NHL players
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: Finland top to bottom, including two members of the Crack
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: and Elie Tolvenin who had two assists in the champion
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: the bronze medal game and Coppococo had a goal, and
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: then I mean everyone else was an HL player, obviously
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: the Canada. In the US, there are people talking about
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: it was the greatest game ever. It was. If you
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: want to just look at it saying the two best
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: teams that have ever taken the ice in terms of
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: talent and skill, then probably yes, I think that's it. Listen,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: We're at a time, and as the old guy in
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: the station, I can say this, We're at a time
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: where athletes are just bigger, stronger, faster, more skilled in
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: whatever sport they're doing. It doesn't matter. It's whatever sport.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: They're bigger, stronger, faster, better conditioned. Everything about what they do.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: The scouting's better. The two best teams in the history
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: of the sports stepped on the ice yesterday and they
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: played sixty minutes to a draw, and then they went
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: to a three on three and Canada lost the US one.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: A lot of chirping north of the border and I get.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 12: It, Oh yeah, but hurt.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: You guys also won the four Nations last year, which
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: was a big deal because it was the first best
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: on best tournament we had zillion years. You won that
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: in a three on three. It was fine, both teams
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: have a chance to win, US did, and away you go.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: But that's how close the game was. Is there a
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: better way to decide it? Maybe? Maybe? Maybe if it's
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: a gold medal game, I understand. And for people to wonder,
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: why listen. In the regular season they go three on
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: three because they play eighty two games compact to schedule.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: You don't need to go five on five for another
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: like a playoff game for another two hours.
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  Speaker 11: I mean, you just let them. As a soccer person,
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 11: hockey has it good. Don't end it in penalty shootout, right,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 11: and the shootout in the regular season. It's fine, it's fine,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 11: it's the regular season.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: You know what. Just win an overtime then don't don't
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: complain about that. And I say that for working for
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: a team that is absolutely awful to shootout like just
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: not good. But the three on three in the Olympics,
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: the reason they did that is because there were windows
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: like they did not need. This isn't the Stanley Cup playoffs.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: Guys are playing back to that game. They needed to
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: get it done. They had other games. It's not like
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: they had eighteen sheets of ice over there. They had
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: a couple of arenas they use and that was it.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: They needed those games. Then go a metal game, maybe
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: go longer, whatever, doesn't matter. The game yesterday was. It
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: was sensational. Connor Hellbuck unreal narratives. Change can't win the
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: big one? He did. Austin Matthews, captain of the tm USA,
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: places for Toronto. You know what, you can't win in
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: Toronto because of Toronto. Okay, hello Blue Jays, I'm talking
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: to you. But what we saw yesterday was epic. It
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: was awesome. It also shows the beauty of the game.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: It was physical, it was fast, and all those guys
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: are coming back and getting back on the ice on Wednesday.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: There will be no load management. There will be guys.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: Although although there are guys sitting out I did see
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: I think I think the crack can get a break.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: I don't think any of the stars had a whole
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: bunch of Olympians. I don't think any of those guys
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: are playing on Wednesday. So that's a nice little boom.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much on that as well. So let
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: me get some text four nine four to five one
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: Keith Miller. I don't want to sound like Chicken little
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: at the Seahawks sale, but I never had thought our
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: sons would leave it is I kind of explained that though.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: I just think it's apples and oranges, right, It's just
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: apples and oranges. Yeah, I don't know.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 11: I was gonna quickly go back and just say, you
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 11: know what that game yesterday is gonna do. I think
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 11: for NHL and hockey fans and getting more people to
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 11: watch it. That's what the United States men's national soccer
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 11: team needs to do in the world, because I, for one,
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 11: I watched that game yesterday morning when it was replayed,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 11: but I watched it and I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 11: watch more hockey now because that was legit. And I
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 11: think you're gonna get see a lot of Americans who
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 11: feel the exact state.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: Well, and when you talk about the US soccer team,
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: I ventured to I don't I know this is a fact.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: I don't even have to look it up. I don't
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: have to fact check myself. I know there's more American
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: boys playing soccer than they are playing hockey. Yeah, and
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: yet we're the best of the world of hockey.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 12: It doesn't translate because we don't.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 11: I don't think our best athletes go to soccer, right,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 11: And it's just that's the reality of the situation is
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 11: soccer is just overlooked by I think the best athletes,
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 11: well or some of the best athletes play it, and
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 11: then they go to other sports, right, Like you know,
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 11: like Nate Burlison and others have talked about how much
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 11: soccer they played growing up and then they went to
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 11: a different sport along the way. There's got to be
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 11: a way though, to get to like, listen, I'll just
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 11: say this, if we're hockey in places like Sweden and Finland.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: I know smaller group of you know, smaller population bases Sweden, Finland, Czechia, Slovakia,
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: et cetera. Canada. It's it's they can win and in
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: the US is better than them, right, you can find
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: a way, Yeah, like you need a USA soccer needs
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: to find a way. I hope they represent themselves well.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 11: This summer dream scenario would be for them to do
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 11: for soccer what the US just did for hockey yesterday,
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 11: because that was awesome.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: Let's see eating them up in Canada ski trip. There
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: are a lot of pissed off Canadians, mainly the not
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: called too many men on the ice to believe that
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: gets called they win the men the too many men
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: on the ice, I think he's referred to as the
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: end of the period. And the puck wasn't touched until
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: the clock hit zero, so and that would have been
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: looking man, I'm all for I'm all for too many men.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: I get it. Let's call it. It's And there was
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: a couple of egregious calls. I thought the officials yesterday
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: were over their skis and they're both NHL guys. There
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: was an off side that wasn't an off side back
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: and forth they had a guy from Denmark. It was
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: one of the ligne'smen. Not they should have just had
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: four NHL guys doing it. Doesn't matter where they're from.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: They don't care. It's you know, just have it done.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: But I thought I thought it got too fast for
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: the officials at point that point, which also speaks to
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: where the level of the game was that it got
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: too fast at times for the officials, Like it was
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: just it was crazy.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 6: Ian.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: Do you think the crack of Ownership group will be
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: interested in buying the Seahawks Aubrey from Ballard? Yes, Uh,
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: they'll be involved. I mean I don't think that's a secret.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 12: Right, there's a lot of money there, and you wonder
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 12: if more people.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: Have although they'll be in one people not just gonna
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: be Sam. Then we won't just be Sam. Yeah, yeah, won't
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: just be Sam. All Right. We got Chris fired off
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: during ma WAT Monday about he demands to get to
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: the World Series this year for five The demand is
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: to get to the World Series. Is not unfair at
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: the MS. Don't get to the World Series, there'll be
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: a massive disappointment.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 12: Wow that's quite a jump degree.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: No, not at all.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 11: I mean, like let's let's be honest here. Toronto got
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 11: better in the off season. I think a lot of
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 11: teams got New York. If the Mariners go to six
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 11: seven games in the ALCS again and fall to a
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 11: Toronto or New York that are just as good, you
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 11: can't you can't be disappointed in that because they're pretty
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 11: damn could baseball teams right alongside.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: Us very good. Actually, uh, somebody wants to get Lindsay
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: Knight on the show captain or cl Torrent. I don't
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: know who she is, but Hillary Knight is a captain
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: of the Torrent. I think someone's working. We're trying to
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: get her on working. Yeah, I think we're trying to
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: get her on. I mean, she's the problem with the
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: players especially is they're on their way back and it's
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: just it's they got a game on Friday. Eddie Oldchak's
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: going to join us tomorrow, who was on the call
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: for NBC yesterday and was very emotional at the end.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: Uh so edso part of our crack and Hockey Network.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: He's going to join our show tomorrow, which I'm excited
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: about as well. That should be a ton of fun.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: Let's see Ian check this out. Dan Patrick's staying on
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: his show. They should have done three on three in
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: overtime in the Olympics, he said, doesn't like it. They
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: should be doing something else. A lot of people are
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: saying that, I'll just go back it. Both teams have
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: the same opportunity to win. It's it's that simple. And
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: Canada won in the Four Nations last year. Seattle or
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: keep seing the sale. The US won yesterday. It the
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: best part about how that happened. If you're a cracking fan,
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: you remember the playoffs a couple of years ago. You
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: know who cost him really cal mccarr.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 12: Yeah, he was the defenseman.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he tried to pinch up and make a
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: play and poke a puck away and he missed, and
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, a man rashia the way. That's unfortunate.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: H that's that's unfortunately.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 11: When I was back here, just a booze that rained
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 11: down whenever he was even around the buck.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I see uh, I see that, And I had
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: a and I was torn. I've always been a Team
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: Canada fan growing up. I was really torn yesterday. I think,
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: honestly for the sport and for the NHL. US winning
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: was the best possible scenario. The fact that men and
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: the women won was the best possible scenario. It worked
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: out well, It worked out really well. Canada's pissed off
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: right now. Good. I would just say, be better. You
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: should be better, make I don't know, make better roster decisions.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: The fact that you had Devin Ta's out there instead
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: of just so, he's Klee mccarr's partner in Colorado. He
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: was a not a fan. I'm not a fan. Matthew
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: Schaeffer should have been there. Conna Badar should have been there.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: But you know what, be better? Do you better?
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 12: Canada?
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 9: Be better?
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 10: Soon?
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: He didn't play? Okay, whatever, All right, that's it. Fame
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: with us today. Yes, Richard L. Fane will join us
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: coming up next.
• 1:12:50
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• 1:13:03
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• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: I did discover something the other day, and I'm watching
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: something that's now confused me a little bit. But maybe
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: someone much smarter can explain.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: I'm confused all the time.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: Okay, So we have Comcast Infinity Acunity comcast here at
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: the radio station right. This is channel six twenty seven
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: that's up there right now, which is the old Root Sports,
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: the old Root station. Yes, now six twenty seven are
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: watching as scintillating Brewers Padres pre season game in Peoria.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: But I guess this is the Padres broadcast, so but
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: it says MLB TV, so maybe. And I did think
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: I saw the Mariners on six twenty seven the other
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: day when they had a televised game.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so maybe it'll be on the same I think
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: it was channels last year.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: The question is the question is if you have Infinity,
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: is it part of your sports here, which I assume
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: it is, although it's spring trainings was probably free. But
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: we have the sports tier here, right because we have
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: Golf Channel and all that stuff, so right, and that
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: was part of it before, so it go first.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 6: So you're saying for so cable subscribers, nothing will change, essentially.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: That's what I want to know. I don't know if
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: we have to pay extra on top of that, or like,
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: do we have to pay the nineteen dollars a month
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: if you already have the sports here. That's what I'm
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: curious about. I don't know, and I haven't heard an
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: answer to that, so maybe we'll find me. You know,
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: Jackson and I are Fubo men. You'll still pay your
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: nineteen a month. We'll just say nineteen and that's dumb.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: It's twenty bucks. It's nineteen ninety nine. Yeah, so we'll
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: just we don't not pay these anymore, right, you know,
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: we decided, Jackson and I we had this debate last year.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 5: At this time.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 6: Jackson was like, I'm gonna I'm gonna do it now
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 6: because I want to watch spring training, and I was like,
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 6: I really don't want to watch spring training, so I.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: Am going safty, oh softy, I want to do it here.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 11: I maintained this is that the mirrors and everybody else
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 11: on social media do a good enough job posting highlights
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 11: right after they happen that I'm just not going to
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 11: pay the money until I know that they're in it.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: And when they got in it and you didn't even
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: watch the regular season, I.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: Just kept kidding. So when were they in it?
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 11: And let's well, I think it was the first full
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 11: month I subscribed with September. But also there's a there's
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 11: there's uh the air or Jackson.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 6: You should probably watch some of the games if you
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 6: would let me, if you let me finish myself.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 11: There's other places you can watch the Seattle Mariners and
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 11: all sports events. I mean, like listen. I watch a
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 11: lot of European and global soccer. And to get global soccer,
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 11: sometimes you need to find places that are they call.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: That the dark web, Jackson, dark web.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 12: It's it's not dark web, it's not anything. It's just
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 12: it's just unconventional places to watch.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: I got, I got, I got you so, but you
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: didn't really subscribe until September.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 12: The first full month I paid. With September.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: Wow, that'd be like the last month i'd paid. It's like, hey,
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: football started exactly exactly.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 5: No.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 6: I think on opening days Soft and I both went
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 6: hit the button well because and I did the same.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: In fact, Opening day, uh this year. Last year was
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: the cracking plate because it was it was Opening Day.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: Was the cracking play that night, and I remember I
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: think it was a it was a national game or
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: might have been a Lindic game. Anyway, I remember going
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: to the press box and watching in the at CPA
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: through the root app and it didn't work. It was
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: all remember the first couple of days all screwed up
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: and it was it was all messed up. But then
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: I realized I don't need the root app because I'm
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: already paying for it through comcasts. So it was fine.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: But I'm with Softy, probably with you preseason.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: Preseason everything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I forget about it. I threw this up on
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  Speaker 1: his background noise today. Yeah, because there's no golf tournament
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  Speaker 1: and I don't my guy didn't make the cut anyway,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't want to, you know, I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to just pay myself by watching a recap in the
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  Speaker 1: Genesis cut sam Burn only like ten guys missed the cut.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: Sam Burn is one of them. Good job. But Dick
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  Speaker 1: and I we both do fantasy golf. But I I
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: didn't want to relive the Genesis. So I flipped this
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  Speaker 1: up and it's like I would only watch his background.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: I think what we were talking to Nathan and Chris,
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: we did our first small WAPs thing today. Now I
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: do like the challenges are doing challenges. That's gonna be Yeah,
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: So I did as they say, like, let's not worry
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: about what we're seeing in the And it's the same
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: with football, it's the same with hockey. It's same with basketball.
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  Speaker 1: It's like preseason is a waste of time. I think
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  Speaker 1: outside of baseball, guys getting their arms amped up and
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 6: I will say, I think Jackson's generation and younger realize
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 6: how pointless this time of year is, whereas the older
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 6: like we grew up thinking, oh my god, every pitch
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 6: of spring, what did that pitch mean? Yes, what did
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 6: you're you know, it only means something that they grab
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 6: their arm. Remember Nick Reid for the Seahawks. Nick Reid
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 6: was going to be the next freaking defensive lineman that
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 6: goes with the Hall of Fame from the Seattle Seahawks.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: There was always training camp.
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  Speaker 12: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 11: I think honestly into the early couple months this season,
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  Speaker 11: it's just the reality is we know that this team
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 11: is going to this is the cold cliche. Win sixty games,
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 11: lose sixty games. What happens in the other forty two?
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  Speaker 12: Right?
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  Speaker 11: So, I mean at the end of the day, those
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  Speaker 11: other forty two really come into effect in the months
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 11: of August September, right, So that's the months where you
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 11: watch every game.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's one.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 6: Of the problems that team that sports like baseball and
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 6: basketball are happy. That just the fact that what Jackson
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 6: just said April May, June, Baseball, November, December, January, NBA,
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 6: it's just like.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a process.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 6: It's a it's a just get some wins and yeah,
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 6: just get some wins and losses and see what happens
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 6: and then let's put the gas down with the last
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 6: twenty five games to go.
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  Speaker 1: The problem the NBA has is the players think the
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: same way, right because the load absolutely is a term
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: load management. You know we're talking about today, Like like you
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: never hear that term with the same eighty two games
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: the hockey place, eighty two games. You never hear the load. Man, Now,
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: you don't never ever hear. Now. You'll see on Wednesday
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: and Thursday this week in the NHL comes back, there
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: will be some of the Olympians that don't play, Like
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: there will be guys like the Stars have already anounced,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: like scales got nice, Like Stars are gonna have a
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: few guys sit out on Saturday on Wednesday. Rightfully, so
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: I can't tell you that, but okay, yeah you're not
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: allowed to the Stars are, but the Stars are sitting
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: some out. But really that's that's I mean, that's an
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: extreme example. It's the Olympics, right right, And it depends
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: on when your team. But like Coppococca and Ellie toven
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: and will play. They got they finished up on Saturday,
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: right right, and Gubauer finished it flew back, I guess
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: on Saturday. And Grubauer he was back on Saturday in Seattle,
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: so they gave him a couple of days off. But
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: so like those guys will play. But if you play
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: for US or Canada, yeah you'll probably take the time off.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: But the NHL doesn't think load management. They play eighty
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: two is everything right? The NBA has that issue. The
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: thing with the baseball is like I'm watching a guy
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: pitch for the Potter for the Brewers right now, wearing
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: number sixty six. He looks like he's twelve. He'll be
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: in single a ball like who cares? Like, you know,
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: it's like that that guy is that guy? But uh, anyway,
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: how are you doing? How's ever going?
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 6: Everything's going good. I just flew in this morning, California.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 6: I was down down with the kid. Yeah, down with
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 6: the kid in the tournament. So yeah, down there and
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 6: joining some such time watch it. It was nice it was.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 6: It was a little chilly, and like each day we
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 6: were there, I got gradually warmer, and so I got
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 6: like the backs of my arms are burnt, the backs of.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: My legs are burnt because it got speed.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 6: To you man, yeah, you know it was really it's
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 6: really hard bad for you, you know, standing around a
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 6: golf course, walking around a goll I played a couple
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 6: of rounds with them, and then and then the tournament started,
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 6: so I don't get to play those.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 2: I am.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 12: I'm a little bit.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: I'm past the age requirement for those.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: It would have been nicer than I hit golf balls
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: yesterday and it was forty nine the balls, yes, you
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: know the odd one that you don't hit two square
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: And it feels like when you're a kid playing literally
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: growing up, and you hit that ball off the handle
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: in now March, you know, your first couple of practices
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: and your hand hurts for like a week.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 6: I am almost a club longer down there than I
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 6: am down here, and I am here.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: Almost I love Wait is it the marine layer?
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  Speaker 8: It is?
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  Speaker 2: The marine layer?
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: Is that's my first By the way, is the mark
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: that that is a F three pm? My first reference
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: to marine layer for the twenty twenty six s.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: We're gonna have it.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 6: The next four months is gonna be nothing. Ma Marine Layer.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: It's all Marine and Layer and Julio hitting twelve. Julo's
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: gonna hit three. N Chris said, this thing bea is
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: you watch He's gonna tear it up in spring. It
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: was gonna he's gotta all figured out. He's all figured out,
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: and then he's gonna come back up to Seattle. He's
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: gonna have his typical first month or two of the season.
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: Panic will set in and then you looked at it at
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: the end of the year. Oh, people will be mad.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 6: Which people will be mad when he makes the All
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 6: Star Game, which I was one of the weirdest things
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 6: that Seattle sports fans did last year.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: One of the weirdest.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 6: Things was let's get mad at Julio for making the
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 6: All Star team.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: That was just bizarre. Meanwhile, the NBA guys don't want
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: to play in the All Star Game. That's right. I
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: want the time off.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 7: It's right.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 6: It's like, although there's a couple of NBA games this weekend,
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 6: if you saw him, they were freaking awesome.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: I'm on the I refuse to watch list until Philip Matters.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 6: The Laker Clipper game was unreal. The next game was unreal.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 6: Oh alright, we got coming up today.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: Oh we got a ton so well, you and I
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 2: are going to.
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 6: Talk about the Uh we're going to compare nineteen eighty
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 6: to twenty twenty six.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 12: Howbout that we'll.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: Do that day at the outset.
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: That'll give you that.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: If you will fire it.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: Chris Eagan was there, Yes, he is coming on.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 6: Love it at three twenty right, Jackson, three twenty Chris Eagan,
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 6: who was in the building.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 2: That's awesome for the gold medal game. So that is
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 2: going to be really cool.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 6: Our first uh fora with Mike de Corsi talking college basketball.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 2: We had a basically like a Final four this weekend.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: Yes, we did.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: Michigan Duke Arizona.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 6: Houston was ratible game, absolutely fantastic. So we'll talk to
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 6: the course at four o'clock. John Wilner moves to today
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 6: at five.
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: We've got a lot going on Austin, Kansas tonight.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 6: Oh yes, ever fits you at six as well to
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 6: get his take on so we got lots of going on.
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  Speaker 11: Richelp thanks for the mild mannered and marginally objectionable the Inverness.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 12: This is paddle Day, saying so long everyone