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Furness Show 6-1: Chris Daniels on Melinda Gates ownership news, Mollywhop Monday, Emily Kaplan · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: Let's get right to it. Let's bring on my good
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  Speaker 1: friend Chris Daniels, COMO TV lead reporter, senior reporter, the
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  Speaker 1: guy in charge over there, and the guy that really,
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  Speaker 1: since the Sonics left in two thousand and eight, has
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  Speaker 1: been on top of this story on the television side
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  Speaker 1: better than anybody else out there is on a terrific job.
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  Speaker 1: And Chris, thanks a lot, appreciate you joining me today.
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  Speaker 2: How are you well.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad the check cash, Thanks for that, absolutely and
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  Speaker 3: good to see you. Emmy Winner. You're the Emmy Winner.
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  Speaker 4: Congratulations again, you've got some gold in your pocket, I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure over the years two but I do appreciate that thing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sad I didn't get to see you on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of people there's that's that's quite the extravaganza.
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  Speaker 1: I was walking around trying to shake hands, kiss baby,
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  Speaker 1: say hot everybody, kind of all the it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: fun to get everybody together in the television world, in
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  Speaker 1: the local area, from our state and all across the region.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, good times all the way around. Appreciate that though,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Let's let's get to this. You
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  Speaker 1: saw this story today, you saw the release from the
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  Speaker 1: One Roof Group as well One Roof Sports and Entertainment
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  Speaker 1: that Melinda French Gates, philanthropist and businesswoman, is now the
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  Speaker 1: newest minority investor pending NHL approval. What went through Chris
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  Speaker 1: Daniel's mind.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's two people that people have locally discussed
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  Speaker 3: is their dream investors, whether it be related to the
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  Speaker 3: Seahawks story or the Sonics story, and it's Mackenzie Scott
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  Speaker 3: and it's Melinda French Gates. And Melinda French Gates is
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  Speaker 3: not just investing in the Kraken, She's investing in the arena,
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  Speaker 3: She's investing in the One Roof Foundation Memorial Stadium. This
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  Speaker 3: is a bigger deal than just the Seattle Kraken. And
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  Speaker 3: I think if you are somebody who not only cares
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  Speaker 3: about the future of the Kraken, and you care about
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  Speaker 3: the future of the NBA as well, then you are
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  Speaker 3: really really excited to have her name attached.
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  Speaker 1: I think for everybody you know around here, as we've
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  Speaker 1: been waiting to see what happens in the next step
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  Speaker 1: with the NBA expansion, and I'll get to some of
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  Speaker 1: the logistics that you can help us walk through in
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  Speaker 1: a second with that in a moment. But I think
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  Speaker 1: because while waiting, there's been thoughts, Okay, well, listen, we
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  Speaker 1: know it's the one roof sports and entertainment group that's
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  Speaker 1: going to you know, be and you know, try to
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  Speaker 1: get a French Heck, they've been very open about that
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  Speaker 1: with Samantha Hallway as a lead there. But you need
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  Speaker 1: other investors. The money we're talking about is extraordinary. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: the number ends up being, we don't know what it
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  Speaker 1: will be, but it's extraordinary. So who would it be?
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  Speaker 1: Who would else would jump in? And I don't know, Chris,
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  Speaker 1: This is tells me a lot about where they are
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  Speaker 1: with this whole situation with the NBA. You mentioned it.
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  Speaker 1: There's other things involved, the development Memorial Stadium, in the
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  Speaker 1: partnership of the sale public schools, and what they're doing
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  Speaker 1: just in the in the community. But this really screams
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  Speaker 1: to me Samantha Hallway and Melinda French Gates side by
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  Speaker 1: side as the faces of not just the NHL, but
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  Speaker 1: maybe the.
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  Speaker 3: And in terms of trying to sell a potential NBA
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  Speaker 3: deal to the community and an ownership group to the community,
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  Speaker 3: as she is, I think one of the people you
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  Speaker 3: want to have in that group because she has been
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  Speaker 3: so civically engaged and engaged on a global scale as well.
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  Speaker 3: She's a global name. I think, you know, you'll look
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  Speaker 3: back at just on the Seattle Waterfront and the renovation
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  Speaker 3: of Myrtle Edwards Park and Centennial Park which is about
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  Speaker 3: to open to the public, especially with the sunshine as
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  Speaker 3: it is. You know, it was it was her and
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  Speaker 3: Mackenzie Scott that privately had a little press availability with
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  Speaker 3: the ben Mayor to say we're going to put in
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  Speaker 3: our private money into this, and never asked for anything
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  Speaker 3: else in return, and never did any sort of grand announcement,
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  Speaker 3: a lot like what we see today with the first
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  Speaker 3: report from Emily Kaplan of ESPN and The Great Reporter
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  Speaker 3: and also through the social media channels of The Kraken.
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  Speaker 3: That's probably all you're going to get from Malina Gate's
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  Speaker 3: French on this is that short amount to say, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: I'm here and I'm invested and I care about the community.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's what she said in the interview that
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  Speaker 3: she did with Samantha Holloway that was posted by the franchise.
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  Speaker 3: So I think it gives you a good sense of
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  Speaker 3: where she's coming from. And you know, it's easy to
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  Speaker 3: look up the valuation of some of these people who
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  Speaker 3: are investing in sports franchises. This is her first investment
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  Speaker 3: like this, but she is worth, according to Forbes, thirty
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  Speaker 3: billion dollars. And if you're looking for somebody who could
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  Speaker 3: be a big investor potentially with an MBA franchise, she
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  Speaker 3: would be somebody on that shortlist.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Daniels joining US COMO TV. All right, Chris went,
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  Speaker 1: when we look at the NBA process, you alluded to this,
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  Speaker 1: you need a couple of things, obviously, the financial wherewithal
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  Speaker 1: although hell, I can look to Portland and think maybe
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  Speaker 1: you don't because Tom Dundan, does that happen there? He's
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  Speaker 1: a majority owner that only have eighty percent Right now
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  Speaker 1: that franchise has been only eighty percent of it's been
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  Speaker 1: actually spoken for. They still need to find some more money.
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  Speaker 1: She has the money obviously, and Samantha Hallway and the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the investors. Maybe with the with the one
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  Speaker 1: roof sports entertainment, the money would be there, depending on well,
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  Speaker 1: probably no matter what the price tag is. You've you've
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  Speaker 1: worked on this story for years. How important do you
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  Speaker 1: think it is for the NBA? To have the optics
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  Speaker 1: of not just Samantha Hallway a female owner, but also
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  Speaker 1: potentially Melinda French Gates and that last name of Gates
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  Speaker 1: which you mentioned it. People have been talking about Gates
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  Speaker 1: or Bezos or whoever for a long long time. How
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  Speaker 1: important you think those two things are.
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  Speaker 3: I think they're important. I mean, let's think back to
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  Speaker 3: when Steve Bomber first got involved with the Soto group,
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  Speaker 3: and the NBA wanted to have Bomber because of everything
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  Speaker 3: that he stood for and his wealth and entry into tech.
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  Speaker 3: I think here there's a pidential story brewing about the
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  Speaker 3: idea of women bringing back the Sonics and a female
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  Speaker 3: led ownership group. Let's just say, hypothetically, Mackenzie Scott was
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  Speaker 3: to get involved, and I sometimes tell people I would
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  Speaker 3: like to will that into existence, to see her somehow
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  Speaker 3: get involved with the Seahawks or the Sonics. But you
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  Speaker 3: would have a powerhouse group there of women who potentially
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  Speaker 3: lead that ownership group, and I think that would be
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  Speaker 3: a story the NBA might also want to tell as
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  Speaker 3: they go down this road.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think right now, Gary Bettman's got a smile on
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  Speaker 1: his face in the NHL offices for sure, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure down the street at the NBA offices they are
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  Speaker 1: very much paying attention to this. And I think I
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  Speaker 1: tell people all the time, and you and I both
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  Speaker 1: know this. They're not going about these types of things
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  Speaker 1: in a like on a whim. These are the types
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  Speaker 1: of things that go over you know, months and months
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  Speaker 1: of planning and leadership meetings and all that. So here
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  Speaker 1: we are today where they make the announcement. Let me, Chris,
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  Speaker 1: let's go back down the road. We know that. Adam
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  Speaker 1: Silver finally kind of said, hey, a few minds back
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  Speaker 1: in March, we are going to you know, look at expansion.
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  Speaker 1: What does the process look like in your mind in
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  Speaker 1: terms of a timeline.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think you know, the announcement today should not
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  Speaker 3: be lost on anybody. There's a game that's being played
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  Speaker 3: off the court and off the ice. When you think
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  Speaker 3: about just right before Adam Silver said we've been given
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  Speaker 3: the authority to explore expansion to Seattle in Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 3: That's when you heard about the change and the ownership
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  Speaker 3: with Climate Pledge Arena and Samantha Holloway buying a bigger
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  Speaker 3: investment in the arena. That timing should not have been
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  Speaker 3: lost on anybody. And here we are right before the
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  Speaker 3: start of the NHL and NBA finals, the Stanley Cup
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  Speaker 3: Finals in the NBA Finals happening the next two days
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  Speaker 3: is when the commissioners make an appearance before the media.
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  Speaker 3: I think that the timing here is purposeful to get
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  Speaker 3: this out. This is a way of playing a card
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  Speaker 3: as well. Gives people to talk something to talk about
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  Speaker 3: at both those media availabilities, and then we start talking
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  Speaker 3: about the rest of the process, and I think it
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  Speaker 3: is more likely than not that we're talking about a
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  Speaker 3: September October decision. Adam Silver has definitely he's played his
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  Speaker 3: cards internally and externally to tell people to get their
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  Speaker 3: financing in order. This would be one way of getting
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  Speaker 3: your financing in order, is making the announcement that was
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  Speaker 3: made today.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think it could come as early as fall?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think we're looking at that type of timeline.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think it's easy to say that because of
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  Speaker 3: the cadence of the Board of Governors meetings. It's July,
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  Speaker 3: it's the summer league. We've already heard Adam Silver say
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  Speaker 3: that he doesn't believe is in the decision by then,
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  Speaker 3: So now we're looking at September October, before the start
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  Speaker 3: of the next NBA season. And that doesn't stop the
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  Speaker 3: NBA either from having a special Board of Governors meeting.
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  Speaker 3: We saw it back in twenty thirteen with the Sodo Group,
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  Speaker 3: there was a special meeting that was called to make
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  Speaker 3: that decision on the Kings versus Seattle. That could also
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  Speaker 3: happen here. And I always try to remind people that
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  Speaker 3: the last time the NBA expanded with Charlotte, that was
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  Speaker 3: a decision made in December two for an four start.
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  Speaker 3: But they definitely want to have a couple of years
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  Speaker 3: runway to start a new expansion franchise. But yeah, it
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  Speaker 3: could happen as late as December. Based on what Adam
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  Speaker 3: Silver has said previously.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think there's a chance they could go to
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  Speaker 1: thirty one if Vegas isn't.
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  Speaker 3: Ready, Yes, and I think he has said that. He
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  Speaker 3: said it in front of cameras, he set it off cameras.
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  Speaker 3: It could be one at a time. I believe he
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  Speaker 3: has said it could be zero, one or two. There
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  Speaker 3: is I think a chance here they could stagger it.
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  Speaker 3: It would give an infusion of money. It would make
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  Speaker 3: it easier for gms to plan ahead because that is
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  Speaker 3: a factor here in terms of how long contracts are
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  Speaker 3: signed with players. If you sign them to a three
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  Speaker 3: year deal knowing there's going to be an expansion franchise
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  Speaker 3: in two years and that kind of thing. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think there's a possibility that could also happen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. And I've been hearing that a
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  Speaker 1: lot as well. I think that we've all learned something.
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  Speaker 1: I think I say, I think everyone's learned something. And
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  Speaker 1: no matter what the sport from the Vegas Golden Knights
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  Speaker 1: expansion a few years ago. Gms want to be ready.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what the sport, they want to be ready.
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  Speaker 1: Owners want to be ready. Everyone wants to be ready
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  Speaker 1: right to figure out if they can. Frankly, they can
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  Speaker 1: figure this thing out. And that way they know what
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  Speaker 1: you just say, like contracts, if we got expiring contracts,
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  Speaker 1: how we want to plan the next two years ahead.
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  Speaker 1: So I think you're right, maybe a year and a half,
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  Speaker 1: two year lead up and we should be getting good
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  Speaker 1: to go. By the way, Happy anniversary of the Seattle
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  Speaker 1: super Sonics Friday, June first, seventy nine. They beat the
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  Speaker 1: Washington Bullets ninety seven ninety three. Kind of wild to
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  Speaker 1: get this news today, isn't it Chris?
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  Speaker 3: It is wild. It's wild that a Seattle kid too
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  Speaker 3: taking the taking the Oklahoma city.
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  Speaker 1: Out of the helmet. Oh day guy, miss Johnson.
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  Speaker 5: Hih.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go fella huh. Yeah, it's it's all looking up
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  Speaker 1: for us right now. The Mariner's one six in a row.
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  Speaker 1: It's all looking up for us right now. Chris, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for popping on. I know you're busy. I know
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  Speaker 1: you've got the stories to write and do all that
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  Speaker 1: for stuff today, for Como News later on this afternoon
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  Speaker 1: and tonight, so we'll look forward to watching you then
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  Speaker 1: in the meantime. Thank you very much, my friend. I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: You bet CONGRATICA mean thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I really appreciate that as well. It means a lot
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  Speaker 1: from you. Thank you very much. That's Chris Daniels joining
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  Speaker 1: us here on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline. So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: That's the news we'll get to. We'll get to the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks stuff in at the bottom of the urn next segment.
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  Speaker 1: We just kind of wrap up things real quick here, Andrews.
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  Speaker 1: So when the news came out today and when they
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  Speaker 1: and the Emily Emily Caplin. By the way, we'll join
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  Speaker 1: us a two o'clock today from ESPN NHL writer who
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  Speaker 1: had the story, I had to sit down interview, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll hear from her coming up a little bit. There's
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  Speaker 1: the Kraken element is and I don't want to diminish it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to, I don't want to take anything
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  Speaker 1: away from it. I think it's phenomenal that you have
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  Speaker 1: someone of the ILK the reputation of Melinda French Gates
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  Speaker 1: that's now going to be involved in your ownership group.
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  Speaker 1: And if you just kind of look at who's in
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  Speaker 1: that ownership group, I mean Samantha Hallaway who took over
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  Speaker 1: when her father David Bonnerman, who is the majority owner
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  Speaker 1: from the start with the crack when he passed away,
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  Speaker 1: highly regarded in the tech industry and business world as well.
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  Speaker 1: She's been phenomenal. And then you look at the other
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  Speaker 1: people involved, David Right, Andy Jassey, Jerry Bruckheimer, those are
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  Speaker 1: the main investors of this ownership group. And then you
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  Speaker 1: add them a list of French Gates to that. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: that's what one roof sports and entertainment looks like. Pretty impressive,
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  Speaker 1: like pretty impressive ownership group. All community centered people that
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  Speaker 1: want to be here, that care more than anything. Let
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  Speaker 1: me just stop right there. Let me just stop right there.
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  Speaker 1: Not all or I mean Jerry Brod Coommer is not
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  Speaker 1: from here, Samantha Hallway is not originally from here. But
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  Speaker 1: everything that they have done since day one with the
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  Speaker 1: franchise and with the building shows you that they are
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  Speaker 1: committed to this community and making the community better. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's exactly what Melissa French Gates is about philanthropist number one. Really,
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  Speaker 1: that's her main thing, yes, and cares about this community.
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  Speaker 1: Talked about that I the hockey team has to get better.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to be that guy because I sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I'll say stuff. If you go, oh, you're just you know,
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  Speaker 1: your employee, your a shill and all that. Listen, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna tell you right now, there is nobody listening that
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  Speaker 1: wants the hockey team to be better than the guy
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  Speaker 1: that talks about the hockey team on seventy five to
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  Speaker 1: eighty broadcast a year. Trust me when I say that
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  Speaker 1: I want them to be better, I'm not gonna pull
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  Speaker 1: Chris Crawford to demand they'd be better, because they might
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  Speaker 1: demand to have somebody else do what I do, but
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  Speaker 1: I want them to be better, and they need to
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  Speaker 1: be better on the ice. The next four weeks are
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  Speaker 1: massively important. Jason Bottrow and his staff have got to
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  Speaker 1: find a way to make this team better. There are
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: no excuses. There just aren't. But in the absence of
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: the hockey team performing better on the ice, at least
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  Speaker 1: we know that what's going on behind the scenes. You
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  Speaker 1: couldn't ask for a better ownership group. And then, oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, you know that this is so tied
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  Speaker 1: into the NBA. I'm just gonna this is just my
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  Speaker 1: opinion and pure speculation. Anders jump in after. I think
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  Speaker 1: when I saw this release today from one roof sports
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  Speaker 1: Entertainment and saw it and heard about it in our
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  Speaker 1: meeting this morning, there's it's such a no brainer. This
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  Speaker 1: to me is this solidifies the NBA coming back to Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think money is everything. She's got plenty. But
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  Speaker 1: more importantly, Chris Daniel's just mentioned this. How if the
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  Speaker 1: NBA sits there and says, yeah, twenty years too long,
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  Speaker 1: we should never have left. Whatever, But the NBA is
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  Speaker 1: coming back, and it's coming back with two women leading
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  Speaker 1: the way. How flip and cool is that? And how
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  Speaker 1: can you say, and if you're the NBA and then
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  Speaker 1: there's another event, how could you say No, I think
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  Speaker 1: we're not interested in that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think of all the kind of steps that
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  Speaker 4: we've taken towards the Sonics coming back, that's the biggest
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  Speaker 4: I think, so I really do until this point. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I think it is. And I'll ask another question of you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: would this be happening if the NBA wasn't part of
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  Speaker 4: the question, would this be Would she be involved?
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  Speaker 1: Correct? I think she might be only just because of
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  Speaker 1: what Chris mentioned and they mentioned in the release as well.
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  Speaker 1: You know what they're doing with a memorial stadium, good point,
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  Speaker 1: what they've done with all this, you know all the
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  Speaker 1: stuff they've built. They just opened up another sports court
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  Speaker 1: facility down in the South End. They're building the rink
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  Speaker 1: over in Kirkland, which will give a lot of young
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  Speaker 1: people an opportunity to play, a lot of young girls
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to play, especially with a torrent here. I
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  Speaker 1: think she would be but I'm I can't say that
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  Speaker 1: one way or the other for sure, but I think
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  Speaker 1: she would be maybe not to the same level, right
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  Speaker 1: right right, I just I mean, you're talking about those
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  Speaker 1: two and throwing a Jerry brockheimber. I mean, it's a
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  Speaker 1: pretty pretty amazing group.
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  Speaker 4: And it is funny because with all the Seahawks sale
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  Speaker 4: news and kind of like stuff. Though, oh, I don't
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  Speaker 4: want a cheap owner to come in that cuts corners
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  Speaker 4: and anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's it is.
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  Speaker 4: It gives me a great peace of mind to know
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  Speaker 4: that more likely than not, this is what the NBA ownerships.
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  Speaker 6: Can you know?
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  Speaker 1: I saw, I saw up close and personal something about
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  Speaker 1: that this weekend. I'll tell you about that next.
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  Speaker 7: Now back to and furness on your home for the
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  Speaker 1: So I was just gonna tell you before the break,
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: and then we'll we'll transition a little bit into the rams.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh boy, Bailey.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Good ownership versus poor ownership, and sometimes it's the little things.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: So the we've all heard about. And this is an
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: interesting dynamic too because we're you know, Emily Kaplan story
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: on ESPN dot comic again. She'll join us coming up
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: today too. And four nine four five one. I should
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: get that out there right now. Four nine four five
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: one is the Tacoma Dodge text line four nine four
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: five one. Your thoughts, comments, questions, concerns, Whether it's Melinda
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: French Gates becoming a minority owner for and I'm just
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: going to say this, yes cracking, but one roof sports
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: and entertainment, So that what do you think that means?
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: How excited are you? Just give you even more hope?
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: I mean I honestly, to me, I think it just
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: kind of puts a bow on the NBA, like, here
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: we go, it's going to happen, right, But that's just
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: one man's opinion. Your thoughts FO nine four or five one.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: I think it's you said it earlier. I think it's
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: a great day.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: I think it's in some ways even it's as significant,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: if not more, in some ways than what happened in
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: March when Silver said.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're gonna expore expansion, right. I think that's I
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: think that's where we're at with this.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Well, because it's something tangible you can hang your hat
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: on a little bit.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: With finances, yeah, and with the NBA, like we all
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: know that they want to but you have to have
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: the right situation. And you know, there's a lot of
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: things that Seattle can't control with Vegas and all that stuff,
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: but this is something they can't control. And you have
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: something as strong as this, and.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: A lot of people are saying like, well, who's going
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: to invest who use the money? People? Exactly, it's not
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: just Sam Samantha Hallway. It's who else is involved now,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: you know, exactly. And it's a name that everyone every
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: league has wanted to get in the last name Gates.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Not married anymore obviously, but that's the name, right, that's
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: what you wanted in there. And how import his ownership,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: it's everything, It is everything. We've on this show and
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: other shows spent some time talking about what's going on
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: in Portland with Tom Dunnan, who owns the Carolina Hurricanes,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: who are now in the Stanley Cup Finals. Yes, I'm
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: with you, and is the majority owner of the Blazers.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: But as we were told by Canzano and Dwight James
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: and others down there, his majority ownership is only fifteen percent.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: There's still only eighty percent of the team's been actually purchased.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: They still need to find more money. He's a cheap
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: ass el Chipo is what they call him, and how
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: cheap is he? This is and this is a small thing,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: but I think it just kind of highlights who and
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: what this guy is. They they the Blazers. So they
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: had the Northwest Emmy Awards this weekend. Blazers are up
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: for a bunch of stuff with Blazer Broadcasting, different things
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: that they do digitally and some other things. And their
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: broadcast is really good. Broadcasts are really good. And last
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: year when Jody Allen was still the owner of the
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: team and or the Allen estate, and previous years as well.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: I didn't go to previous years, but I know last
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: year they had like a couple of tables. They're like
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: twenty people up here. Kevin Clober was here, Jamie Hudson,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: who's on their broadcast, like they were all here, all
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: the producers. And it costs money, like three hundred bucks
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: ahead or something like that. And they collected some awards
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: this year. They collected a few, not for the main broadcast,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: our guys, did they but they were up for stuff
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: and I remember like the first thing they won this year,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: it was like season ticket campaign commercial something like that, right,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: And like looking around because I was looking for him beforehand,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: because we just a big cocktail out to get to
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: see people and say hi. And I worked for those
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: guys for a while when I did Comcast Sports in
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: a Northwest. They're not here, and to find out somebody
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: goes up there, this guy, Oh, the Blazers couldn't be
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: here tonight. Well, they couldn't be here because they didn't
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: pay for it. He's just like, that's just that's the
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: epitome of cheap. Like you didn't travel, your your practice
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: squad guys, or your your two way players, your G
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: league guys. You didn't travel, and then you let go
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: your digital reporter, which is basically the John Boyle. If
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: people know the c X dot com of the Blazers,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know how you're just gonna blow that stuff off.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: You're just not gonna do anything digitally anymore on your
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: own website. How we have two people with the Kraken,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: we have two well, two main writers. Yeah, Alison writes
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: as well, and so to a couple of other people
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: like that's Bob Condor and and Uh and Jeff Baker
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: and others do stuff. They have none, but they couldn't
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: be bothered. He couldn't be bothered to how to let
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: his people come celebrate their success and their achievements. Like
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: how cheap? Is that?
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Very?
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Is the answer? Very? Yeah? I just I thought that
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: just kind of And so when I see someone like
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Melinda French Gates involved along with Samantha Hallway, I'm like,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: that's a good thing. Yeah.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: And maybe you don't care about that stuff as a
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: fan because it doesn't really affect you in the day
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: to day it doesn't directly affect the on court or
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: on ice product.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: But I don't know.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: I'm someone who likes to feel like I'm rooting for
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: a team that does it the right way, you know
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: what I mean.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of people like that Anders Honestly,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I think I think there's a lot. One of the
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: things that was hard with the Mariners over the years
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: is having the Japanese ownership and not being here right right. Famously,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: he never he never came to a game right and
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I think I think that did bother people. Now listen,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: did they do things the right way? Debatable?
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Whatever.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: We can talk about that some yes, some know, some yes,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: some know. You know, Stanton, I don't think he's even
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: the biggest money guy with the team. Now he's just
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: a face. I think that's more Chris Larsen. But the
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: but yeah, I think that there is something to that.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: You know, if you're a Seahawks fan, when Paul Allen
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: before he passed away, when he owned the team. The
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: thing with Paul is is that we know that he
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: saved football in Seattle. He saved the Seahawks along with
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: a lot of heavy lifting from some local politicians and people. Hell,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: I'll throw the guys like Mike Astado in this radio
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: station that pushed hard to get that stadium funding and
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: everything else done. But paula like you always felt good
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: as a Seahawks fan with Paul Allen as your owner. Now,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: I know there's people in Portland that didn't agree. I'm
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: telling you right now that guy's a basketball dude, and
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: he cared about the Blazers deeply. And be careful what
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: he wished for, right, be very careful for And then
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: all the people down there you're hating on Jody Allen
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: and Burt Cole. I get that, but you know what,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: look what you got now, and you're right, do people
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: want somebody you can Yeah, we know bad ownership We've
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: had it here with the baseball team three or four times.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: We had it here with Ken Barring. You want good
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: ownership and it means the world. That means, if nothing else,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: you hire good people for the product that's on the field,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: the court, yes, ice, whatever, and then also off the field,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: people that make decisions, you know, decisions that are hard sometimes,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: like last year when the Kraken I mean they their
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: leadership group had to say, we're gonna go out and
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: we're gonna do the X, Y and Z lower prices
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: make it better for a season. Take it like that.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Stuff that doesn't happen without good, strong ownership and good
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: leadership while paying three different coaches, by the way, while
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: paying three different coaches, which is also something and you know,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I mean Todd knows about that. He fired Jim Moore. Apple, Well,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: they fired Jim Moore after one year. He had to
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: go to Paul Allen and say, guess what, I know
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: you signed this guy. You're got to pay him twenty
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: million dollars to go away. Yeah, I know you signed
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: this guy. I know we brought this guy in to
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: replace the legendary Mike Holmgren. We made a mistake and
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: it's going to cost you twenty million dollars. Okay, that's
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: what good ownerships do. Bad ownership think about this. If
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: you have bad ownership, well, just let's go back in time.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Jim Moore was a disaster as a Seahawk coach in
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: his one year. What if they didn't have the ability
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: to turf him and they had to suck it up
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: for another couple of years because they didn't want to
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: pay him. And you don't get Pete Carroll. You don't
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: get Pete Carroll, you don't get the legion a boom,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: you don't get those legendary players, you don't get that run,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: you don't get the back to back Super Bowls, including
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: the win. May not get John Schneider. More importantly, you
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: don't get John Schneider. And you don't get John Schneider,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: you don't win the second Super Bowl. I think that's
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: a pretty safe assumption. That's a good ownership. That's the
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: difference between good ownership and bad ownership. That's what the
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: difference is. So it's a good day if you're a
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Seattle sports fan, that's a good day. What's not the
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: best day in the world. Is Miles Garrett going to
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: the rams. Are you kidding?
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Wow?
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: I heard that this morning and I thought, Okay, someone's
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: got a fake Twitter account, right, somebody hacked it, or
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: the you know, the fake schefter, the fake rappaport or
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: whatever it would be, right, And instead it's the real deal. Now,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Greg and I talked about this. They got better with
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Miles Garrett. Don't make no mistake. They got better. I
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: had to give up a lot, and I'm not even
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: the full compensation package. I don't think has even been
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: it's not officially, it's not official yet. It's going to
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: be substantial. You know, Greg was talking about herschel Walker
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: like in terms of draft picks and halls and all those.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I actually do have the official return.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Okay, what do you got, Jared verse YEP twenty twenty
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: seven first round pick, a twenty twenty eight second round pick,
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: and a twenty twenty nine third round pick.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: So that's not awful. That's like in terms of the picks, right,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: because you would like next year's first round pick is
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: going to be in their eyes low in the first round.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: It's going to I mean, listen, it's not going to
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: be any It's not going to be higher than twenty seven,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: twenty eight, so it's be a low first round pick,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: second round pick the next year. Yep.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: Probably the same third round pick the following year, probably
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: you know, late third round, late day three, Day two.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Big one's Jared Verus for me, Jared Versus a big win. Yeah,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: and I know a Greg talked about how the Seahawks
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: had to I mean, this was a guy that you truly,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: truly were game planning against to an extreme defensive rookie
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: of the Year in twenty twenty four, Pro bowler each
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: of the last two seasons, All Pro his first year.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: The guy's a stud, an absolute stud. Seven and a
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: half sacks last season. He's a game wrecker. And he's
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: also young. He's just twenty five years old. Played in
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: all seventies he's played. He hasn't missed a game in
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: two years. We talked about it on draft day that
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: with rubyen Bain sitting there, how terrifying would that have
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: been if ruben Bain Jr. Would Have gone to the
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Rams and they would have paired him with Jared Verse.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Instead they took Ty Simpson. Thanked the good Lord, thank God,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: because that would have been I mean, in fisk I mean,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: they're they're loaded up front, so they did give up something.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Now they got better.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: How much better is Miles art? Okay, so.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Because je versus damn good, he's damn good.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: And I know Miles Garrett's the best defensive player in
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: the league, like, hands down.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: He is because of I mean he's thirty, he'll be
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: thirty one this year. Yeah, he is because probably because
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: of the sack numbers, right right, I mean he had
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: twenty three sacks last season.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: It's insane. It is insane for kind of not a
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: very good football team.
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: He's had double digit sacks every season except for one,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: and that was his first season, his rookie year, and
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: he only played in eleven games.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: That year.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: He had seven thirteen and a half, ten, twelve, sixteen, sixteen, fourteen,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: fourteen and twenty three, which was a league record. Defensive
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Player of the Year twice, AP First Team All Pro
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: one two three, four times, five times, he's he's damn good. Yeah,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: he's damn good versusn't him but versus a good player. Yeah,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: so they got better. How much better? We'll see he's
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: gonna be a problem.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: I didn't see the verse as part of it, and
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: I was like, oh no, that's what I thought.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: If it's Verse and Garrett, the first thing I thought
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: I thought, I thought the exact same thing. I thought
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: the exact same thing when I just heard he's going there,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, God, like for what?
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you traded Stafford for him, pooka every single first
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: round pick in their next five years.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it wasn't It ends up not being that,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: And that's not a herschel locker trade at all. Like
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: it's they're better. Listen, they were better anyway, adding McDuffie,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: adding Watson, they're better anyway, and now they're they're better
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: to defense. I do wonder how Rams.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: I know we're coming up against it here, but I
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: do wonder how RAMS fans would feel, because does this
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: make the Ty Simpson first round pick better because like, okay,
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: you can kind of stomach that now you've upgraded the
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: teams in other ways, or does it make it that
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: much more frustrating because you could have gone all the
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: f in for that.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Because it doesn't make it better because you ask. They
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: just signed Stafford to an extension, so he's here for
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: two more years. Yeah right, yeah, I mean unless he
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: decides he's if they maybe if they win it this year,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: he walks away, but they signed him. He's signed through
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty sevenaw Stafford is So that's why it makes
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: no sense, like if they wouldn't have resigned Stafford, Okay,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: but after the draft, they signed Stafford to an extra year.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: So ty Simpson at barring an injury, doesn't see the
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: field until he's a third year quarterback in the NFL,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: which you know, some people think that's perfect, right, and
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: it just doesn't make sense. But this does make a
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: lot of I mean, I'll tell you right now, would
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: you trade somebody said out there in the hall, would
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: you trade Derek Hall and you know all those picks
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: for Miles Street. Yeah, but Derek Hall's not even he's
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: he's not Jared Vers. No, he's not even close. He
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: probably have to give up something like Devin Witherspoon or
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: something like that. Yeah.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's that's the kind of comparison or making though.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: I think what it also shows they're just chasing Seattle,
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: like they're just so, what's Seattle's response? Did they go
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: get Max Prosty?
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: I think it's no. I think it's exactly what whatdrag
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: said earlier. Mike McDonald's walking around the office going we
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: don't care, we don't care, we don't care. True, we
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: didn't care. Yeah, I don't care. We're still better. We're
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: still better. Tell you break come back significant day and
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: see how sports history'll tell you about that.
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  Speaker 10: Ballard Long on top of the Key, no good readbound,
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  Speaker 10: John Johnson, Poddig, Pavot, Tuck, quick fire, four past the guts,
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  Speaker 10: put in free two won, and the Supersonic win their
• 32:06
  Speaker 10: first ever NBA championship. In the ball tales, pion the
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  Speaker 10: The horns are hooking around the Pacific Northwest, and I'm
• 32:19
  Speaker 10: sure there is there's a big round of applause from
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• 32:25
  Speaker 10: for the Workington Bullet the football teams. The last two
• 32:29
  Speaker 10: games of the series simply outstanding ball games. The final
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  Speaker 10: Seattle mighty seven and the working in Bullet.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Ninety three, June first, nineteen seventy nine, Capital Center in Landover, Maryland.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: The Sonics over the Bullets. They played back to back
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: seasons in the NBA Finals, Washington winning in seven games
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: the year before in Seattle, repaying the favorite and winning
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: the one and only title for the Sonics when they
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: were in Seattle ninety seven ninety three. The final led
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: on that day by the twenty three points of Gus Williams.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: All.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Five Sonic starter scored in double figures, DJJJ Jack Sigmulannie Shelton,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Gus Williams All in double figures, Freddy Brown nineteen minutes
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: off the bench, a smooth seven of ten from the
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: field for a fourteen point game for Downtown. Freddie Brown
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: and the Sonics get that win and get the first
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: title in team history and for many of us, the
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: only title in franchise history period that says Sonics next
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  Speaker 1: to it. On June first, nineteen seventy nine, and a
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  Speaker 1: short time later, we had a parade in Seattle, the
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  Speaker 1: first major parade we've had estimates of over a million
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  Speaker 1: people downtown Seattle. I skipped school, jumped on the nineteen
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  Speaker 1: bus and went downtown and watched people hang off of
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  Speaker 1: street lamps and party like nobody is nobody's business. It's
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: a June day. And that team filled with personalities. Guys
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: were inferred jackets and top hats. I always I compare
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  Speaker 1: this often those of us that are old enough to
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  Speaker 1: remember that Sonics team that won it in seventy nine.
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  Speaker 1: And we were lucky enough when I first started here.
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  Speaker 1: For a few years when Alisa and I were doing
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  Speaker 1: the show, we had we had Paul Silas on the
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: show a handful of times. He was still coaching in
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: the NBA, and he told some great stories. The personalities
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: on that Sonics team were so lob like their practices.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Paul Silas talked about their practices. He says they were
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: harder than almost any game we played. He said, there
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: were fights almost every every practice. They were tough. Dennis Autry,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: their backup center, was a bad man, Paul Silas, tough,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Lonnie Shelton beyond tough, DJ Tough Sigma, the Banger, they
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: called him. These guys they were, and they had massive
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: person It's it's what took them apart, like the personalities,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: free agency stuff like that. It's what's what drove this
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: team not to go back to back. Same with the Seahawks,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Same with the Seahawks. But they were something special, led
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: of course by the late great Lenny Wilkins as the
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  Speaker 1: head coach. What a special day. And here on June first,
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  Speaker 1: you know, twenty twenty six, we get the news today
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  Speaker 1: that Melissa French Gates is now involved with the One
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Roof group in Seattle, the One Roof Sports Entertainment Group,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: as a minority investor. Added to the group with Samantha Hallway,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: who's a majority owner and managing partner. And now French
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Gates will also be involved. And oh, by the way,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: what does that mean for the NBA? Probably a lot,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Not probably, it does mean a lot. Yeah, good day
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: all the way on. Oh and let's add one more thing.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: JJ Johnny Johnson starter on that Sonics team. You're small
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: forward who in the championship game had eleven points, played
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: some great defense as well, five and eleven from the
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: field in his forty four minutes of playing time, just
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: grinding away, banged out have five rebounds, six six. Such
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: a terrific underrated player was JJ. His son Mitch does
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: us all a favor ends the national nightmare. The Oklahoma
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: City Thunder are not going to go back to back.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: Thank you Wemby, but thank you Mitch Johnson, son of JJ.
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  Speaker 1: Here on this anniversary June first, nineteen seventy nine. It's
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: all coming together. This is worth the Mike Benton's all
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  Speaker 1: coming together now, all coming together now, it's just perfect
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: timing too. With all this perfect timing, yeah, and again
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: it offsets the fact that Miles Scarrett's going to the Rams.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: We can just ignore that for a second.
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  Speaker 2: Jimmy.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Oh, and the baseball team's won six in a row.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Hey nice? Okay, yeah, so two out of three ain't bad.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: That's meet Loaf one's saying, Okay, we'll take a break,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: come back. I don't know. Somebody Greg asked me this earlier.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: How are the Molly Whoppers going to react to a
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: perfect six and er week? How are they going to
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: react to a team that's two and a half clear
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: first place in the Al West? The piggyback situation seems
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: to be working. How are we going to react to that? Well,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: we'll find out, Molly. What Monday next?
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  Speaker 1: Group minority owner along with Samantha Halloway. That also is
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  Speaker 1: a group that is in line to present a bid
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: to bring the NBA back to Seattle. You're adding some serious,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: serious muscle to that group right there with Melissa French Gates.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: NFL rams trade for Miles Garrett Jared Verse, a couple
• 37:52
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  Speaker 4: Excited about that and honestly could go one of two ways.
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  Speaker 4: I could see him being really good on TV. I
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  Speaker 4: could see him being really good, but I I'm gonna
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  Speaker 9: Right.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Storm loose to Toronto on Saturday. They're now three and
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: six in the season. Take on the Dallas Wings Tonight.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: US men's national team begins a World Cup warm up
• 38:23
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• 38:27
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• 38:30
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  Speaker 1: now two and a half clear first place in the
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• 38:39
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• 38:42
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• 39:36
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• 39:43
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• 39:45
  Speaker 1: in your mind, the NBA is coming back, I think
• 39:47
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• 39:58
  Speaker 1: during the next couple of segments on a malliwap my.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Normally it's not that way because we got stuffed, we're
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: stressed out about the baseball team. We're all revved up.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: I've get text from people over the weekend or those
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: guys on Monday, and what's going to happen and really,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: with the news out of the Rams, Miles Garrett trade,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Melinda French Gates joining the Kraken ownership group, and probably
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: the NBA bid as well, we could just sit back
• 40:22
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• 40:25
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• 40:27
  Speaker 1: again to Simply Seattle, Simply Seattle dot com. Dang, what
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: a day, guys. Happy Monday to everyone. Oh and by
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: the way, the baseball team has won six straight games
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: and now they're in first place by two and a
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: half games in the Al West. We always say, hey,
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: what do you want to see him do this week?
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: And usually it's hey, you know what, you have a
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: four and two week, that'd be great, maybe five and
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: want to be spectacular. Guys. They went six and zero
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: last week. Nobody, nobody even asked for that, but it happened.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Nathan Bishop fire away opening thoughts.
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  Speaker 6: Oh man, that was well.
• 40:59
  Speaker 8: First of all, every single transaction the Rams make, it's
• 41:02
  Speaker 8: just gonna make it funnier when they don't win the
• 41:04
  Speaker 8: Super Bowl this year. So I heard, yeah, star players,
• 41:07
  Speaker 8: that's been right. It'll just be funnier and funnier. Sean
• 41:10
  Speaker 8: McVay is going to be powdier and powdier.
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: By the time of the season ends at the end
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: of this year. So I encourage all of that.
• 41:15
  Speaker 8: But for our baseball team, guys, what a breath of
• 41:17
  Speaker 8: fresh air this was. I was thinking back, This was
• 41:20
  Speaker 8: kind of the first time, you know, with the off
• 41:22
  Speaker 8: season happening and everything that I felt since September that we,
• 41:27
  Speaker 8: as Mariner fans, got the reminder that hey, when this
• 41:30
  Speaker 8: group plays to their potential, and when things are going right,
• 41:32
  Speaker 8: and when they're not blowing leads and they're not making
• 41:34
  Speaker 8: stupid airs and their lineup is actually putting together at bats,
• 41:38
  Speaker 8: this can all work out. And this really is There
• 41:40
  Speaker 8: is a reason why this team was projected to be
• 41:43
  Speaker 8: one of the two or three best teams in the
• 41:45
  Speaker 8: American League coming into this year, and they spent the
• 41:48
  Speaker 8: first almost the entire first two months, using every bit
• 41:52
  Speaker 8: of slack that the American League West was going to
• 41:54
  Speaker 8: give them.
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: But it appears that.
• 41:55
  Speaker 8: They've finally decided that it's time to start playing baseball,
• 41:58
  Speaker 8: and to be frank it's actually kind of a month
• 42:00
  Speaker 8: ahead of schedule for the way this franchise has worked forever.
• 42:03
  Speaker 8: I feel like, as long as they've been doing this show.
• 42:05
  Speaker 8: The first half of the season has just been a
• 42:07
  Speaker 8: chance for me to get up on my soapbox and
• 42:09
  Speaker 8: complain before the team goes off on some streak and
• 42:11
  Speaker 8: wins eighteen of twenty or something like that. But you
• 42:14
  Speaker 8: can see them starting to turn the tide, and the
• 42:16
  Speaker 8: great thing is to see it not only happen at
• 42:18
  Speaker 8: the beginning of the week. Last time we talked was
• 42:20
  Speaker 8: on Tuesday, they had already started just a fantastic beatdown
• 42:24
  Speaker 8: of what has been to this point their divisional rival
• 42:26
  Speaker 8: in the Sacramento As but then following it up, the
• 42:30
  Speaker 8: Arizona Diamondbacks are a solid baseball team, and if they
• 42:33
  Speaker 8: were in the American League, they would probably be leading
• 42:35
  Speaker 8: either division that's not the East. So to put a
• 42:38
  Speaker 8: hurting on them too. To see the one len excuse me,
• 42:41
  Speaker 8: one run when lost records start to stabilize and normalize,
• 42:46
  Speaker 8: it's good stuff.
• 42:47
  Speaker 5: Man.
• 42:47
  Speaker 8: It's It's the kind of week that I think the
• 42:49
  Speaker 8: fans probably needed at least as much as the players
• 42:51
  Speaker 8: in the organization. But it's a relief to be able
• 42:54
  Speaker 8: to talk about it.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Chris Crawford, in addition to Jared Versus Miles Garretten and
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: RuSHA Walker type trade. The baseball team wins six straight. Buddy,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: go ahead, bry the way it's going to be.
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: Everything Nathan said is funny until Miles Garrett runs a
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: twist and Anthony Bradford has to block him, and then
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: I'm not going to be laughing so much.
• 43:13
  Speaker 9: But I.
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: Just love the proof of concept of this last week.
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: I just love watching this team show why I had
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: this demand right why I had this demand that this
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: team go to the World Series and seeing the proof
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: of why I have that demand, because I wouldn't be
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: demanding the Colorado Rockies or the Pittsburgh Pirates or anyone
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: of that ilk to go to the World Series. Like
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: the Pirates are a lot better now, But you guys
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. The demand comes from not only
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: not going, but the fact that I believe that this
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: team has everything it needs outside of its defense, which
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: we can talk about, just everything there to be a
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: World Series team. I want to close my opening statement
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: with I'm at the Tillima Creamery right now, I am
• 44:03
  Speaker 5: in the lot. It's awesome. And guess what got recognized
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: for Molly mop one day? Molly wap Monday. Excuse me so, John,
• 44:13
  Speaker 5: if you're listening right now, thank you so much. I
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: do agree with you that Ian's statements on Portland are
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: a little bit overly, I'm but outside of the hat,
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: I agree with everything you say. And then finally, boy,
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: this place just crushes out that Cougar gold stuff. It's
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: so much fun.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Okay, first of all, stop that I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: kind of blast I think. I think two things can
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: be true. Till can be awesome, and cougar gold can
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: be awesome. Two things can be true. Two things can
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: be true. And I think if you were to head
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: to ferdinandz and the cream creamery over there in Pullman
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: at some point, you would and just just sample some
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: of the ice cream. I pay. It's funny you mentioned
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: Portland because I was thinking. Last night I watched the
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Blazer documentary Jail Blazers on Netflix. I've never seen that
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: thing was so poorly done. I couldn't even stand it.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: It was so screwed up, like beyond And I'll get
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: into that with one probably tomorrow, because the timeline was
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: all messed up like it was. And my favorite thing,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: Colin Coward. Yeah, when I'm talking to film you diver.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: You never once covered a game there anyway. I digress.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: Let's throw some let's throw some flowers. Some people's way
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: to kind of to do in this segment. We'll worry
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: about defense next and maybe even piggybacks. But let me start,
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: Chris with Luke Flippin' Rayley. Not a bad three game series,
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: five for ten, two home runs, just one strikeout in
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: the three game series. Let's just talk about Luke Raley
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: and what he means for his team. I know there's
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: a specialty role here. He's not going to hit against
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: left whatever that. But Chris, what we're seeing from Luke Rayley.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: If you're talking about team you just said you're demanding
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: them to get to the World Series, you need not
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: just your stars, but you need other guys to play,
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: maybe even above their head a little bit. Are we
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: seeing that with Luke Rayley?
• 46:12
  Speaker 5: Well, yes and no. So what we have seen from
• 46:15
  Speaker 5: Luke Rayley, I think is that the highs are incredibly
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: high and the loads can be just devastating low, even
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: if he isn't playing against left handers. But you have
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: to give Rayley a ton of credit, and you have
• 46:26
  Speaker 5: to give the Mariners a ton of credit here too,
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: because do you guys remember how terrible Luke Raley was
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: to end last year, so bad in fact, that they
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: left him off of the ALCS roster. He was struggling
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: that much, and there was even talk about non tendering
• 46:40
  Speaker 5: the dude, like not bringing him back. Well, the Mariners
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: had a more level head. He said, look at what
• 46:45
  Speaker 5: this guy does against right handers, and they put him
• 46:48
  Speaker 5: into a position to succeed. And when you put people
• 46:52
  Speaker 5: in the right places, and you know, you talk about
• 46:54
  Speaker 5: what's that phrase that luck is opportunity means preparation. Well,
• 46:58
  Speaker 5: it's not luck with Luke, but it is opportunity beating preparation.
• 47:03
  Speaker 5: Luke Rayley picks up the baseball exceptionally well against right handers,
• 47:07
  Speaker 5: and he has bad power. He has the type of
• 47:10
  Speaker 5: power that can give you thirty homer seasons, maybe even
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: more than that. Unfortunately, not going to reach that because
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: he cannot hit left handed pitching. But I think the
• 47:19
  Speaker 5: Mariners deserve some credit here for number one being patient
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: with Raley and number two putting him in the best
• 47:25
  Speaker 5: position to succeed, which is hitting him not in the
• 47:28
  Speaker 5: middle of the order. You know, six is I guess
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: technically middle of the order, but you're not talking about
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: him as a three, four or five guy. Putting him
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: in only against right handers and letting him do what
• 47:39
  Speaker 5: he does best and what he's done so far is
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: really stabilized the lineup and it's made you know, the
• 47:46
  Speaker 5: loss of cal Raley, and when cal Raley was struggling,
• 47:48
  Speaker 5: you know, just having a bat like Luke Rayley play,
• 47:52
  Speaker 5: obviously not to the sixty homer pace, but being a legitimate,
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: well above average offensive threat has been just a massive thing.
• 48:01
  Speaker 5: And he's just a fun dude to watch, Like the
• 48:03
  Speaker 5: Phoebe Buffet running around the bases is one of my
• 48:06
  Speaker 5: favorite things to watch with Luke Rayley, and you know,
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: I'm so glad that so many others have picked up
• 48:11
  Speaker 5: on that. I thought that was just me in my
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: head watching Phoebe Buffet run through the park. Nope, Luke
• 48:16
  Speaker 5: Rayley and everyone else noticed. And it's just been a
• 48:19
  Speaker 5: real treat to watch him succeed because I think he's
• 48:23
  Speaker 5: one of the more likable players, not that there's a
• 48:25
  Speaker 5: ton of unlikable players, but putting him in the right
• 48:28
  Speaker 5: position to succeed has really helped his baseball team.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: Nathan I'll let you throw some bouquets at Luke Raley
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: as well. Did you notice so, I don't know, maybe
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: do you notice the little the little drop? Well, you know,
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: I was just recognized as a moiwop guy, like I'm
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: sure that happens to you and your daily travels to
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: Nathan all the time.
• 48:45
  Speaker 6: All the time. Yeah, yeah, I can barely go outside
• 48:47
  Speaker 6: my house, to be honest with you.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: I would a little the hard thing for you guys
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: doing that though, is it that can be a good
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: or bad thing depending on the week that we're talking about.
• 48:57
  Speaker 5: That's exactly right.
• 48:58
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think if anybody that worked gets their paycheck
• 49:01
  Speaker 8: for the barness sees me in public, I'm gonna have
• 49:03
  Speaker 8: to work on my forty times.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: So yeah, with.
• 49:07
  Speaker 8: Luke Rayley, I know it's a busy day with sports,
• 49:10
  Speaker 8: So I really appreciated that. I think Chris was just
• 49:14
  Speaker 8: tying in a subtle that the separation is in the
• 49:16
  Speaker 8: preparation as a way of in the Russell Wilson is
• 49:20
  Speaker 8: now going to be doing television commentary. So Chris, as always,
• 49:24
  Speaker 8: you're a pro, and I salute you for your ability.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: To do that.
• 49:28
  Speaker 8: But yeah, I've enjoyed Luke Rayley as the Seattle Mariners
• 49:31
  Speaker 8: since they acquired him. I I don't have the insider
• 49:34
  Speaker 8: knowledge to say for sure, but I heard that he
• 49:36
  Speaker 8: was dealing with perhaps something similar to what cal Rawley
• 49:40
  Speaker 8: has been dealing with this year, with an oblique issue
• 49:43
  Speaker 8: last year. That may be part of why he had
• 49:45
  Speaker 8: such a down season. But he definitely is healthy now.
• 49:48
  Speaker 8: And what I love about the guy is, yes, he
• 49:50
  Speaker 8: hits for big power. No, he's not an amazing defensive player,
• 49:53
  Speaker 8: but unlike a lot of the other Bear's big bopper
• 49:56
  Speaker 8: guys that can put the ball over the wall.
• 49:57
  Speaker 6: He's not a slow dude.
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  Speaker 8: He can run the basis, he can get around in
• 50:01
  Speaker 8: the outfield and get from point A to point B.
• 50:03
  Speaker 8: Now he's gonna try to change direction, it's going to
• 50:06
  Speaker 8: very be much much be like an Iceberg Titanic situation
• 50:09
  Speaker 8: where that's not going to.
• 50:10
  Speaker 6: Go very well.
• 50:11
  Speaker 8: But from a straight line, the guy can get around
• 50:13
  Speaker 8: the baseball field and he's a whot I like to
• 50:16
  Speaker 8: Chris's point, I mean, he just seems like a good
• 50:18
  Speaker 8: dude who's really happy to be here.
• 50:20
  Speaker 6: And the Mayors could not need it more.
• 50:22
  Speaker 8: I mean, they need that left handed power with col
• 50:25
  Speaker 8: on the bench, so it's awesome to see.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: Hey, Chris Crawford, Nathan Bishop, Mo Monday by to my
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: simply Sattle simply Sattle dot com Mollywop fifteen to check
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: out Chris Colt. Emerson has now played thirteen games in
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: the major leagues, very small sample size, but reaching base
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: safely in eleven of the thirteen, hitting two forty four,
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: three doubles, a triple, two home runs, five walks as
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: well seven RBI. I know it's a small sample size, Chris,
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: but have we seen enough from cold Emerson to say
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: this guy is a major leaguer and doesn't need to
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: find his way back to the minor leagues?
• 50:58
  Speaker 5: Look at a question, been so impressed with just the
• 51:02
  Speaker 5: plate appearances just look so good, and you know he'll
• 51:06
  Speaker 5: file fall behind in counts, excuse me, and work his
• 51:10
  Speaker 5: way back at a level that you would not expect
• 51:13
  Speaker 5: to see from a thirty year old, much less a
• 51:15
  Speaker 5: twenty year old. I've been so impressed with what I
• 51:18
  Speaker 5: have seen from him at the plate. The ability to
• 51:20
  Speaker 5: recognize span is obvious, the ability to hang in there
• 51:24
  Speaker 5: against left handed pitching like they're not platuting this guy.
• 51:27
  Speaker 5: They have another option that they could be playing at
• 51:29
  Speaker 5: their base. They're not going to do that because they
• 51:31
  Speaker 5: trust Colt Emerson against south pass as much as they
• 51:34
  Speaker 5: do against right handers. And this is going to be
• 51:36
  Speaker 5: a wonderful experience for him in the long term, because
• 51:39
  Speaker 5: the more you get adjusted to facing same sided pitching,
• 51:42
  Speaker 5: the easier it becomes. It's never easy, but it does
• 51:45
  Speaker 5: get easier, just like many things in life. I've been
• 51:48
  Speaker 5: so impressed. I think the defense has been excellent. I
• 51:50
  Speaker 5: still think he's playing the wrong position, but the fact
• 51:53
  Speaker 5: that he has just handled the hot corner with a
• 51:56
  Speaker 5: plumb the approach is so good. You've seen the power.
• 51:59
  Speaker 5: What I've only like from Emerson is it's line the line.
• 52:02
  Speaker 5: We have seen him line balls down the left field line.
• 52:05
  Speaker 5: We've seen him poll balls out of the ballpark, seen
• 52:07
  Speaker 5: him hit the ball up the middle. There is just
• 52:09
  Speaker 5: so much to be enthused about, not just for the
• 52:12
  Speaker 5: long term with coult Emerson, but what we're seeing from
• 52:15
  Speaker 5: coult Emerson right now is just a really special thing.
• 52:18
  Speaker 5: It's easy to see why so many considered him one
• 52:21
  Speaker 5: of the best prospects in baseball.
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: Nathan, how fun is this? Like? We we first started
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: this show we remind people every now and then. We
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: first started this show years ago. It was when a
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: guy by the name of Julio was coming up and
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: a former president decided he was going to take a
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: shot at him or his lack of ability to speak
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: English and then other things with Julio, and we're like,
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: wait a second, this team doesn't have homegrown positional talent.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: Let's embrace him, not you know, blank on him. But
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: now we're seeing a few guys that are homegrown talent,
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: obviously the pitching staff, but Nathan to see the guy
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: just a couple of weeks ago, was hanging out in
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Tacoma the last his last game was in the Rain.
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: I was at that game at Cheney Stadium and he
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: still looked like, Okay, this guy, this guy's different than
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: some of the rest of these guys. But watching cold
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: Emerson right now, how refreshing for a Mariner fan is that.
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  Speaker 6: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 8: I am not a person who gets very excited or
• 53:10
  Speaker 8: hyped up about prospects, even ones that graduated immediately starts
• 53:14
  Speaker 8: to produce, because I just think all it takes is
• 53:17
  Speaker 8: one little hot streak for a guy when he first
• 53:19
  Speaker 8: abutes into the big leagues and everybody gets this outside
• 53:22
  Speaker 8: view of what they're gonna be.
• 53:23
  Speaker 6: I'm thinking about William won Quiz.
• 53:24
  Speaker 8: Back in the day when he hit four fifty five
• 53:26
  Speaker 8: in September of like two thousand.
• 53:28
  Speaker 6: And four, whatever it was, when he came up, and
• 53:30
  Speaker 6: everybody thought he was going to be great.
• 53:32
  Speaker 8: And I can say that too much of my high
• 53:33
  Speaker 8: school he was not a good baseball player. But with
• 53:35
  Speaker 8: Emerson Hancock the Joy there is a couple of things. One,
• 53:41
  Speaker 8: it can't be overstated just how young this guy is.
• 53:45
  Speaker 8: He is younger than Julio Rodriguez was when Julio debuted
• 53:47
  Speaker 8: in the major leagues.
• 53:48
  Speaker 6: And Julio was a baby when he came to Major
• 53:50
  Speaker 6: League baseball.
• 53:51
  Speaker 8: This is one of the youngest position prospects the Mayors
• 53:53
  Speaker 8: have graduated into the big leagues since Alex Rodriguez and
• 53:57
  Speaker 8: King Grify Junior. It's right up there. It's a little
• 53:59
  Speaker 8: bit older than Felix Turnan is. He is precociously twenty
• 54:03
  Speaker 8: years old, and he is so polished. That's the thing
• 54:06
  Speaker 8: that I can't get over with when I'm watching him
• 54:08
  Speaker 8: play baseball. Which is just kind of a rephrasing of
• 54:11
  Speaker 8: all the accurate and smart things, Chris said, But there
• 54:13
  Speaker 8: is nothing about the game that looks like it's he's
• 54:16
  Speaker 8: got wide eyes. It is too much for him that
• 54:18
  Speaker 8: it's something that he can't handle, whether that's grinding through
• 54:21
  Speaker 8: a bat's playing out of position in order to accommodate
• 54:24
  Speaker 8: a veteran over at shortstop, and my gosh, outside of
• 54:28
  Speaker 8: all of that.
• 54:29
  Speaker 6: I just love this kid's swing.
• 54:31
  Speaker 8: That second home run that he hit, the most recent
• 54:33
  Speaker 8: one he hit against Arizona, is just such a beautiful
• 54:36
  Speaker 8: baseball swing. His hands are so quick through the strike zone.
• 54:40
  Speaker 8: There's so little head movement. It's just it's like a
• 54:42
  Speaker 8: coaches clinic kind of a left handed swing. And I'm
• 54:45
  Speaker 8: just so excited that he's here. I know the league
• 54:48
  Speaker 8: is going to adjust because this is what happens when
• 54:50
  Speaker 8: guy's breaking Divide League baseball. He's going to have slumps.
• 54:53
  Speaker 8: There's going to be times when the strikeouts probably eat
• 54:55
  Speaker 8: him up a little bit. But if he can just
• 54:57
  Speaker 8: keep from from really going into the Kilnicks, and that's
• 55:00
  Speaker 8: where you never want to be.
• 55:01
  Speaker 5: Is the kill Nick zone.
• 55:02
  Speaker 8: As long as he can keep his nose above water
• 55:04
  Speaker 8: for the rest of his calendar year, not only is
• 55:07
  Speaker 8: he gonna help the team this year, but the future.
• 55:09
  Speaker 6: Is so bright for this guy. I just absolutely adore him.
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: Chris, you you do this, you you prospect watch and
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: keeping track of such a thing as such things as
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: a bit is a big part of your your career
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: and what you do. And that's why we first had
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: you on. Can you explain to the listener, the viewer,
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: the fan, me, everyone else, how dramatic it is a
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: move from minor league baseball to the major leagues because
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: there's so many guys that are in double air triple A.
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: You think, man, there's no way this is guy. This
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: guy's a can't miss, can't miss, can't miss and listen,
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: he's gonna have growing pains. We all know that, like like,
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: we're not we're not naive, But how difficult is that transition?
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: And why is it so difficult? Because Nathan had a
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: great point there. He just looks the part, looks looks confident.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: But how hard is that?
• 55:57
  Speaker 5: Well, first of all, I do want to point out
• 55:59
  Speaker 5: that all it took when Jared Kalman getting designated for
• 56:01
  Speaker 5: assignment by four teams for Nathan to pronounce his name right.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: But the way Dick Vane still can't but.
• 56:11
  Speaker 5: It's just it's so impossible to simulate the major league pitching,
• 56:17
  Speaker 5: the day to day grind of Major League baseball. It's
• 56:23
  Speaker 5: most players. It takes time. Like the ultimate example of
• 56:26
  Speaker 5: this is always going to be Mike Trout, who is
• 56:29
  Speaker 5: you know, his career has been sidetracked by injuries, but
• 56:32
  Speaker 5: at a time was the very best baseball player that
• 56:35
  Speaker 5: I have seen before until Shoe Heyo Tony came along
• 56:38
  Speaker 5: and just blew that away. But to say that Mike
• 56:41
  Speaker 5: Trout sucked when he first got called up is the
• 56:44
  Speaker 5: understatement of understatements. He was hot, garbage. And then it
• 56:48
  Speaker 5: takes time, and we have seen this from so many prospects.
• 56:52
  Speaker 5: It takes time because you cannot simulate major league baseball.
• 56:56
  Speaker 5: You cannot simulate going from facing ninety to ninety two,
• 57:00
  Speaker 5: from organizational depths facing ninety seven to ninety nine was
• 57:04
  Speaker 5: unreal movement and the ability to put it wherever the
• 57:07
  Speaker 5: hell you want. And this is an obvious point. I
• 57:10
  Speaker 5: guess that major League baseball is hard. I think baseball
• 57:12
  Speaker 5: is the hardest game in the world, all due respect
• 57:15
  Speaker 5: to golf, and I'm sure pickleball is difficult too, but
• 57:18
  Speaker 5: it's just an impossible thing to simulate. Just how big
• 57:22
  Speaker 5: of a jump you are going to have to make
• 57:25
  Speaker 5: to be good at this game. And what Colt Emerson
• 57:28
  Speaker 5: has done has done shown the ability to potentially be
• 57:31
  Speaker 5: great at this game. We have seen the floor of
• 57:34
  Speaker 5: Colt Emerson. I know it's only a thirteen game sampler
• 57:37
  Speaker 5: or whatever, but we have seen the floor is above
• 57:40
  Speaker 5: average defense, above average power, above average hit tool that
• 57:44
  Speaker 5: equals a very solid regular who He's twenty guys. Just
• 57:48
  Speaker 5: think what his potential is here, Like, we are talking
• 57:51
  Speaker 5: about the chance for him to be a perennial All
• 57:55
  Speaker 5: Star in giving the Mariners a big three, and I
• 57:58
  Speaker 5: know caw Rally really strung this year, but I'm calling
• 58:01
  Speaker 5: it a big three of Julio Rodriguez, Colt Emerson, and Kalorally.
• 58:05
  Speaker 5: Having three guys who have the potential to be five
• 58:09
  Speaker 5: to seven win players perennially, that's a really special thing.
• 58:13
  Speaker 5: But to answer your question, it's just so hard to
• 58:16
  Speaker 5: simulate what you're going to face. Spring training can't prepare
• 58:20
  Speaker 5: it for you. To comb surre as hell can't prepare
• 58:22
  Speaker 5: it for you. So that's why this adjustment period is
• 58:26
  Speaker 5: so critical. We've seen him handle it with a plumb.
• 58:29
  Speaker 5: I know I've set a plumb twice. I regret the air,
• 58:31
  Speaker 5: but like this is special stuff that we are seeing.
• 58:34
  Speaker 5: I am enamored with what I've seen for Colt Emerson
• 58:36
  Speaker 5: so far.
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: Well somewhere somewhere, Eddie olchek Edze's laugh and San throw
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: your plums on the table. So that's fine, you can
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: do that. That's okay. That was that a veiled shot
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: at your national sport over there on the peninsula at pickleball,
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: Nathan he just took because that's isn't what isn't. Don't
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: you live in the birthplace of pickleball.
• 58:55
  Speaker 8: I just drove through Gig Harbor and I'm glad I
• 58:57
  Speaker 8: just crossed the city line because I am sure that
• 58:59
  Speaker 8: they're we have already got barricades, and that they're marching
• 59:02
  Speaker 8: into the streets demanding the head of Chris Crowperd before
• 59:04
  Speaker 8: the sundown.
• 59:05
  Speaker 6: So Chris watch your back.
• 59:07
  Speaker 8: I want to add on to what Chris said really
• 59:08
  Speaker 8: quick though, just just last thing on cold Emerson.
• 59:11
  Speaker 6: I think when we're.
• 59:11
  Speaker 8: Talking, not only is he facing guys who are better
• 59:14
  Speaker 8: at baseball than all the players that he's been going
• 59:16
  Speaker 8: up against his entire life.
• 59:17
  Speaker 6: To this point.
• 59:18
  Speaker 8: But the mindset in major League baseball is so different
• 59:21
  Speaker 8: than what's going on in the minor leagues, where yeah,
• 59:23
  Speaker 8: they keep score and I guess they were championships to
• 59:25
  Speaker 8: have playoffs or whatever. But the focus of the minor
• 59:27
  Speaker 8: leagues is to to develop the best baseball players you
• 59:31
  Speaker 8: can for the major league team. And then the second
• 59:33
  Speaker 8: you get to big league baseball, it immediately becomes a
• 59:35
  Speaker 8: zero sum.
• 59:36
  Speaker 6: You are here to help the team win the game
• 59:38
  Speaker 6: or we're.
• 59:38
  Speaker 8: Going to lose. And if you can't help us win,
• 59:41
  Speaker 8: you're not going to be around. It's such a different
• 59:43
  Speaker 8: level of pressure to be able to do so for
• 59:45
  Speaker 8: him to take that on and just immediately be able
• 59:48
  Speaker 8: to handle it, it's such an awesome.
• 59:49
  Speaker 5: Thing to see.
• 59:50
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  Speaker 1: So I will resume other things, Rams, Miles, Garrett, Jared
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  Speaker 1: with that. And oh, by the way, the baseball team
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  Speaker 1: pretty good, pretty darn good. Six straight wins, eight and
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: two in the last ten to two and a half
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: game lead over the A's. And I know some of
• 1:00:48
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  Speaker 1: whatever it might be. Molliwop fifteen. Let's talk piggyback Bryce Miller.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: Five scoreless innings. Yesterday, Luis Castillo piggybacked off Miller for
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: the second time, allowed just two runs. One was only
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: one was earned in that way. Okay, Chris, here's the
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: numbers in the three piggyback games. Mariner's pitching staff owns
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: a one point six to one er thirty three strikeouts,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: eight walks. As a team, Miller in those games one
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: point one five ERA seventeen strikeouts, A two walks, castele
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: two three eight ERA thirteen strikeouts and six walks Chris,
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: outside of the egos, outside of the ruffling feathers, when
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: you're gonna come in and not come in, has the
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: piggyback worked?
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 5: I don't think you can say it hasn't. And again,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 5: I think the thing is that's been nice about the
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 5: piggyback has been the short term and long term thing.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 5: Because I brought this up last week. The short term
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 5: thing here is is that you are having success with
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 5: this like Bryce Miller, and I felt bad for Bryce
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 5: Miller yesterday. He deserved to stay in. That's as well
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 5: as i've seen him pitch. Seventeen swings and misses on
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 5: seventy one pitches is elite, elite stuff. That was really impressive,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 5: and he deserved to go another inning or two. But
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 5: that's not the world that they live in. And Luis
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 5: Castillo pitched well as well. So that's the short term.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 5: And again, the long term thing here is you're keeping
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 5: these guys on turn because you're going to have to
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 5: use these guys at starters. At some point, this is
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 5: going to This is not going to be a long
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 5: term thing. I strongly believe that at some point they
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 5: are going to need these guys to be in the rotation.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 5: So yeah, it's working. It's keeping them on turn. I
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 5: know it frustrates the hell out of people, especially the
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 5: guy who comes on the air after you, but you
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 5: cannot argue with the results, and honestly, I can't argue
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 5: with the process that much either. I can't say that
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 5: it's like ideal, but I cannot argue with what they
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 5: have the hand that they have been dealt. I can't
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 5: argue with this being the right process and the right result.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: Nathan, the piggyback was just right in your wheelhouse if
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: it failed. Unfortunately for you, it did.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 8: Not, once again foiled by the manager's success. My poor
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 8: beautiful brand, Please think of me. It's well, I think
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 8: the thing I think I spoke about this last week.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 8: I'm all aboard the theoretical process of what this is.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 8: And based on the comments that came out since our
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 8: last show, it sounds like Bryce Miller and Luis Castile
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 8: were able to kind of sit down with whoever it
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 8: was the power to be whether that's Dan Wilson, Justin Hollander,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 8: the analytics team or whoever, and kind of ask their
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 8: questions about why.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 6: Are we doing this, how does it go me to work?
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 8: And if the guys are on board, that's the whole
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 8: thing for me, because I think that it makes perfect sense.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 8: And we're talking about the hand that they're dealt with.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 8: This is a good hand to be dealt with. This
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 8: is a hand of holding, you know, six of a
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 8: kind in the five card and stud game. Because they've
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 8: got much of a good thing. That's a really great
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 8: problem to have. That's like the whole thing where like
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 8: what if the you have an actual quarterback competition where
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 8: we actually have two years que quarterbacks, that'd be a
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 8: great issue to have. So I think that it's perfectly
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 8: fine that they're doing this. And my whole thing last
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 8: week was just that the way that it seemed like
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 8: it was implemented, the lines of communication that broke down
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 8: where you have a visibly frustrated Luis Castillo the second
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 8: time that they do this, sitting on the dugout with
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 8: a thousand yard stare about ready to bite somebody's head off.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 6: That's the breakdown of process. That's the air.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 8: It's not piggybacking as a concept. It's not roster construction,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 8: because it's awesome to have six starting pitchers that are
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 8: worthy of starting and getting regular innings in the game.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 8: It's just the way that they were communicating it, and
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 8: that's been the issue with the organization.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 6: I think a lot of the time.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 8: When they have solid process is trying to get the
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 8: buy in on the ground level from the guys that
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 8: are doing it. Sounds like they've got it now, and
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 8: as long as they've got it, they're getting results. I
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 8: do think it's still funny that as you're rattling off
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 8: all of those great stats of how well this has worked,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 8: it does kind of obscure that easily. The word loss
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 8: of the season is one of those games that the
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 8: piggyback happened. But as long as everyone's comfortable moving forward,
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  Speaker 8: I don't think that there's any issue here, and I'm
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 8: totally in line with Chris. This is going to shake
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  Speaker 8: itself out sooner than later where you're going to see
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 8: a normal five man rotation. I don't know exactly how
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 8: it will work. I don't know if it's trade or
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 8: if somebody has to go down to the miners or
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 8: just you know, God forbid an injury of some kind.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 8: But you're going to see a five man rotation back
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  Speaker 8: sooner than later.
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  Speaker 1: Andrews, you wanted to pipein real quick.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I don't know if you guys saw,
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  Speaker 4: but they did announce that they are going to the
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  Speaker 4: six man traditional six man rotation for.
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  Speaker 1: The road trip because of the traditional six man. Yes,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: the tradition, define tradition. Somebody defined traditional six man rotation
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: compared to a piggyback. It's traditional, let's be honest, But
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: that makes sense, like you just said, would shake out
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: because of like if you're not having an off day
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: or what have you, then you do this. But the
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  Speaker 1: traditional six G six.
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  Speaker 5: Can I just bring up one thing real quick though, Like,
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 5: here's another issue that's happening. Kid Or just threw another
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 5: five and two thirds inning scoreless on Friday. He has
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 5: a one point four to three era. He has a
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 5: sixty seven and I'm doing the little hand motion for
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 5: the kids. Sixty seven to seven strikeout to walk ratio.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 5: So this is gonna be a thing we're gonna have
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 5: to start talking about too, because at some point. I
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 5: talked about it like a couple of weeks ago being
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 5: a waste. This is now a massive waste almost to
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 5: see this guy in Double A right now because the
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 5: overwhelming of majority of organizations Kate Anderson's coming in to
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 5: pitch for them. So this is just another thing to
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 5: keep an eye on. It's a good problem to have.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 5: But at what point is Kate Anderson having a one
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 5: point four to three ERA in Double A good for
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 5: the Seattle Maria?
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Chris, who's Ryan Sloan? Why should we be paying
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: attention to him?
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 5: Oh? Ryan Sloan's really good too. Ryan Sloan is one
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 5: of the very best pitching prospects in baseball, and he
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 5: was phenomenal to six scoreless innings eleven strikeouts on Saturday.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 5: I mean, I talked about this when you were doing
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 5: your little lazy vacation and I got to cover the
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 5: draft that week. I thought they got the best prep
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 5: pitching prospect in that draft. And it is boor out
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 5: and then some fastball in the high nineties, a plus
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 5: change up, a well above average slider, throws everything for stripes.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 5: There are people who think he has a higher ceiling
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 5: than Kate Anderson. Does that Kate Anderson is the floor prospect. Yes,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 5: the guy with the sixty seven to seven strike out
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 5: the walk ratio is the high floor prospect, and Ryan
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 5: Sloan is the high ceiling one, which is so much
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 5: more compliment to Sloan than insult Anderson. But man, that's
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 5: another guy who could be ready to help you at
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 5: this point this year. And it's just creates so many
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 5: intriguing possibilities for not just this year but the future.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: All right, let's wrap it up with this. The Mets
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: are in town somewhat of a dumpster fire, although they
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: have won four straight games. As they head into Seattle today,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask this question, Nathan. Right now, the ms
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: are sitting two games above five hundred. They're two and
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: a half games clear of the A's and the Rangers,
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: by the way, only now four and a half from
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: the Astros, who are kind of getting things together. They're
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: seven and three in their last ten games. But Nathan,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: this was this question was asked last week, I think
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: on our aforementioned afternoon show. Nathan, are the Mariners going
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: to be in that spot first place in the Al
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: West the rest of the year.
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  Speaker 6: No, I don't think so, and but I think they'll
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 6: finish there.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 8: But I think that they's it's an easy thing to
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 8: say yes when they won six straight and they're going
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 8: against a colossally colossally messed up Mets team and then
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 8: just an absolute free falling Tigers team in the next
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 8: coming in the upcoming week. But I still think that
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 8: there's enough talent with Sacramento, Texas and Houston and enough
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 8: downside that we've we've seen. I think it's so easy
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 8: to say that the two months that we just saw
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 8: the Mariners kind of fiddle around and play you know,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 8: what was it eight or nine days ago that they
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 8: were four games with low five hundred, to like just
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 8: pretend that that didn't happen now that we're here. But
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 8: I still think that this team's got plenty of mediocre
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 8: base fall ahead of them. I think that they will
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 8: fall out of first place before the end of the year.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 9: Chris the Math says they'll probably fall out at some point,
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 9: But boy, I just still look and like you mentioned.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 5: That the Astros are getting a little bit better. The
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 5: Rangers have had some flashes. They've wanted three straight. Oakland
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 5: is predicted a nine. Yes, they're the Oakland Athletics until
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 5: they moved to Las Vegas. Thank you, is starting their
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 5: usual downfall, and then the Angels ten pounds of craps,
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 5: five pounds bag Patent Penning, You're very welcome, buddy. I
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 5: think that they probably are. And I'm looking at the schedule,
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 5: and I know people hate when you do this, but
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 5: like they're about to play some doldrums right now. Like
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 5: the Mets have some talent, but it's the Mets. And
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 5: then Baltimore, as you mentioned, Detroit is falling apart here.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 5: Baltimore is not a great baseball team. You're gonna be
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 5: playing Baltimore a bunch, I believe, and Detroit in the
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 5: next nine. I just feel like this is Seattle's chance
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 5: to kind of take.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: This division and just.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 5: Grab it by the cojones. I the mat says. Nathan's
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 5: right that they will fall out at some point, because
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 5: there's going to be some lulls that come after like
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 5: a six game winning streak and playing as well as
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 5: they do, but it's more insult to the division that
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 5: I'll say No, I think they're just going to stay
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 5: in first place and it'll be fun.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: I tend to agree, I think just because of the
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: rest of the division. But we'll see put your plums
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: on the table and let's get it going. All right,
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: that's it for us, Chris, Where can we find your
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: work these days?
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  Speaker 5: Male I wrote a world NBC Sports really appreciate the sport.
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  Speaker 1: And if you are a if you're buying a house
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: over in the Peninsular area, you know, go go find
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: Nathan Bishop like he'll he'll, he'll be highly entertained as
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: you're walking through and you know, looking at the deck
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: that overlooks beautiful gig Harbor or someplace like that.
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  Speaker 4: So go sayht to our friend Nate. Only if you're
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 4: gonna be nice to them.
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  Speaker 1: If come get it.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 6: I need the money, let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 5: Only if there's a pickleball court on there or something. Though, geez, Louise,
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  Speaker 5: Like I didn't know I was insulting our national.
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  Speaker 8: Does come standard, Chris, Yeah, yeah, it's it's a standard
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  Speaker 8: amenity and all.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like like, if you're in Arizona, you get a pool.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: If you're in the gig Harbor, you get a pickleball court.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: That's kind of how it works.
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  Speaker 6: That's exactly correct.
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  Speaker 5: God, if I am I kind of figured if you
• 1:11:19
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• 1:11:21
  Speaker 5: a pipe of some sort. If I'm being completely ominous,
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 5: that's that's also the case, especially Port Zero.
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  Speaker 1: trade to announce this when we've all been knowing it
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  Speaker 1: was going to happen, just waiting for it to happen. A. J.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: Brown is indeed going to the New England Patriots from
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles. So that becomes official today on this
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: June first. AJ Brown what is he?
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: One?
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  Speaker 1: Two, three time Pro Bowler, second team All Pro on
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: three different occasions as well. If you look at his
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  Speaker 1: numbers over the years, just what he's averaged in the
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  Speaker 1: given season, eighty five catches, thirteen hundred yards, nine touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: That's his averages average average in his seven years in
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: the league. Now, he has missed sex sixty seven seven
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: games in the last two years, so he has missed
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: a little bit of time. I think there's the question
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: about AJ brown attitude at times as well. It's a
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: lot of DK Metcalf in him, doesn't he.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: I mean he's not as big, but he's yeah, six
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: one two, But yeah, there's a good production. Feel like
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: there's still some question marks, feel like there could be more. Yeah,
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: exactly exactly right. It feels like there could. He's had
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: a one to one hundred catch season. He had one
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: hundred and six catches in twenty twenty three, right, sixty
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: seven last season, seventy eight last year. Both drafted the
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: same year too.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah all they were, Yeah, they were, Yeah, they were.
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  Speaker 1: He's high in terms of touchdowns he's had. He had
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  Speaker 1: eleven and twenty twenty and he had eleven in twenty
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: twenty two. He makes them better. I mean, let's just
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: go back to last year and the Super Bowl. What
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: was the thing that didn't scare you at all about
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: New England? They're wide receivers, right like it's yeah, it's
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: that's a pretty average, pretty average group along the wayst Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: some other movement around the league, because's once you get
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: past you in first that it helps deal with deal
• 1:16:44
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• 1:16:47
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• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: What an what an NFC West? The raining Super Bowl champions,
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: You guys know that team. It's here. It's called the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, one of the most dominating defenses of all time,
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: and it's funny because the offense I think it was
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: fifth or something like that in the NFL, but it
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: was the highest scoring offense in Seahawks history.
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  Speaker 4: Right, the forty nine ers still good, still really good, Actually,
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 4: still really good. Evans got a little age.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: Going on there and coming out guys, you know, guys
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  Speaker 1: coming off the injuries Kittle and Bosa. But still a
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: dangerous team. And then oh yeah, the Rams today added
• 1:17:27
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  Speaker 1: the secondary. Yeah, so it's a it is an absolutely
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• 1:17:56
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  Speaker 1: He's gone. He's going back to Cleveland as part of
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  Speaker 4: ABC, ABC Anders has the games out indeed, and I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure a big part of that broadcast is Emily Kaplan,
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  Speaker 4: who joined us right now ESPN ESPN dot com. Hello, Emily,
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  Speaker 4: how are you.
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  Speaker 5: Hey?
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  Speaker 11: I'm doing great, guys.
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  Speaker 4: How is it going?
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  Speaker 1: It's going well. I'm assuming we will see you on
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  Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup Finals broadcast on ABC starting tomorrow.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, I am in Raleigh. It was media day today
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  Speaker 11: and I think it will be a really good finals.
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  Speaker 5: It's two great teams. So I'm excited for it.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think we're all excited for it. We're
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  Speaker 1: all trying to figure out who we're rooting for out here.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's a little Cracking Nights thing going on,
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  Speaker 1: but we're close enough to Portland to not be fans
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  Speaker 1: of the owner of the Carolina Hurricanes, So, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of investment. We're excited. It should be
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  Speaker 1: a great should be a great series. Two teams that
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  Speaker 1: just kind of rolled through the postseason. Again, that's five
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  Speaker 1: o'clock tomorrow on ABC. Emily lea part of that, But Emily,
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  Speaker 1: we got you on. We'll get a little preview in
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  Speaker 1: a second of that, but we got you on story
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  Speaker 1: breaks this morning, ten thirty three Pacific time. Melinda French
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  Speaker 1: Gates to be Seattle Cracking Minority investor. And there's far
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  Speaker 1: more to the story than that to start there. When
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  Speaker 1: did you get word of this and walk us through
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  Speaker 1: how this all kind of came together?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, a few days ago. And honestly, when I heard
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  Speaker 11: the news initially, I was like, Wow, what an incredible
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  Speaker 11: moment for the Kraken as a franchise. Obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 11: it was a disappointing season on the ice and they're
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 11: trying to figure out the best ways to build this thing.
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  Speaker 11: But off the ice, they've done so many things well.
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  Speaker 11: I think their community impact, just the way that they've
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  Speaker 11: connected with the fans, and when it all comes together,
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  Speaker 11: it's going to be really special. And the fact that
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  Speaker 11: they have someone with Melissa Melinda French Gates's stature, I think,
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  Speaker 11: one of the leading philanthropists and business people in the
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  Speaker 11: entire world. It's pretty significant. And I think what struck
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  Speaker 11: me and I got to speak to Melinda and Samantha
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  Speaker 11: Holloway is just how bought in she is to Samantha
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  Speaker 11: Holloway's vision and she really thinks this is the right
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  Speaker 11: leader to guide them through. And the fact that she
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  Speaker 11: wanted to put her name to the Kraken is an
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  Speaker 11: exciting moment, not just for your market, but for the
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  Speaker 11: sport of hockey.
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  Speaker 1: I would agree with everything you just said, and let
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  Speaker 1: me did you travel around the NHL and work the
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  Speaker 1: league on a national basis And we'll kind of get
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  Speaker 1: into the commitment into terms of winning in a second,
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: because you alluded to that in your story, and also
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  Speaker 1: just now I want to get back to that. But
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  Speaker 1: just when you talk to others around the league, what
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  Speaker 1: is the reputation? What do you hear about Samantha Holloway,
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 11: Really positive And I'm somebody who goes to these Board
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  Speaker 11: of Governor's meetings and I have to say the elephant
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  Speaker 11: in the room. She's one of a few women there
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  Speaker 11: as the principal owner. But she's there because she deserves
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  Speaker 11: it and earns it. And I think when Melinda spoke
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 11: about her is what I hear about her in NHL circle.
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  Speaker 11: She's somebody who is highly successful in tech, really innovative
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  Speaker 11: about the way that she'd used things, and has a
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  Speaker 11: vision for this franchise, and unfortunately it hasn't gone the
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  Speaker 11: way they wanted on the ice. And we can get
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  Speaker 11: into all the different reasons why. But she's competitive as heck.
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  Speaker 11: Like when we were talking in this call with Melinda
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  Speaker 11: French Gates and Samantha hollow and you know, we're celebrating
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  Speaker 11: all the things they do off the ice, like she
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 11: interrupts and is like, I just want to make it clear,
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 11: like we're not happy about the way last season ended,
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  Speaker 11: and we're doing everything. Everything is on the table to
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  Speaker 11: try to fix it. And to me, that's all you
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  Speaker 11: really want in your owner You want somebody that cares,
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  Speaker 11: that cares about your community, cares about your fans, and
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  Speaker 11: cares about bringing you a Stanley Cup, because that's the
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  Speaker 11: one thing that players and people in this sport want
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  Speaker 11: more than anything.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things. Emily Kaplan ESPN joining us here
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: on the Beacon Plumbing Hotline the Infinness with you this afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Big news coming out for the crack in for the
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  Speaker 1: One Roof group as well, and obviously there's NBA implications too.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, Emily, we've heard listen living in Seattle,
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: US out here, We've heard her name so many times
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  Speaker 1: over the years, that of course being Melinda Gates. We've
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  Speaker 1: heard her name like, hey, maybe she wants to get
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  Speaker 1: involved with ownership. Anybody with the last name of Gates.
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  Speaker 1: They've always kind of been resistant to that. What do
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  Speaker 1: you think finally, kind of obviously Samantha, but really what
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  Speaker 1: really kind of got her into the this ownership group
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  Speaker 1: and brought her on board with these guys.
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  Speaker 11: You know, I think it's a great question. I think
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  Speaker 11: about her portfolio, She's done a lot already in the
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  Speaker 11: Seattle area, and so I think maybe there was just
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  Speaker 11: waiting for some proof of concept of Okay, what are
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  Speaker 11: they doing to also invest in Seattle and does this
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  Speaker 11: align with what I've done so far? And that checked
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  Speaker 11: the boss clearly, because she was very impressed with the
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  Speaker 11: One Roof Foundation and all the access to youth sports
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  Speaker 11: and the initiatives they're doing there. But also I think
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  Speaker 11: she's just a passionate sports fan. I mean, she grew
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  Speaker 11: up in Dallas. She speaks about sports and the way
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  Speaker 11: that it can change lives.
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  Speaker 5: Obviously, she's done.
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  Speaker 11: A ton of advocacy work for women and families and
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  Speaker 11: young girls, and the access to sports can really inspire
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  Speaker 11: the next generation of female leaders. And so I think
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  Speaker 11: in seeing the krack in putting her name to it
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  Speaker 11: in a visible place of a woman involved in a
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  Speaker 11: man's pro sport, but also knowing that, hey, if this
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  Speaker 11: team reaches the places that they want to go, being
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  Speaker 11: a part of a championship team can do so much
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  Speaker 11: in inspiring the next generation, I just think it was
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  Speaker 11: a natural fit for her.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I just think, listen, I think it's a coup.
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  Speaker 10: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Mackenzie Scott is also a name we've heard over the years,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and again, you know, and Jeff Basil's ex
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  Speaker 1: wife and others, that it'd just be nice to have
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: those names associated with the franchise and with the league.
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  Speaker 1: How important is this for the league to have those
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: two along with Jerry Bruckheimer and others that are involved
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: in the one roof sports and entertainment. But how important
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  Speaker 1: is it for the league to have that female representation?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean absolutely from the female representation we're seeing
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  Speaker 11: in the Stanley Cup playoffs so far, record numbers and
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  Speaker 11: it's a record number of women tuning in, which shouldn't
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  Speaker 11: be surprising we as women are fifty percent of the
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  Speaker 11: population and the sport is just in such a great place.
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  Speaker 11: Of course, women are in tune, so what's good entertainment
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  Speaker 11: and what's valuable for our time?
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  Speaker 1: But in terms of just.
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  Speaker 11: Her stature and just you know, the way that she
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  Speaker 11: has been a global leader here, I mean, I remember
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  Speaker 11: when Jerry Bruckheimer came in and the league really wanted
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 11: to tap into him on the creative and entertainment side,
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  Speaker 11: And now I hope that they'd tap into Melinda Frenchgates
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  Speaker 11: and all of her expertise of what are best practices.
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  Speaker 11: What are you seeing in other business areas? Like what
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 11: can we do? I know the league was so excited
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 11: about bringing Ryan Smith as an owner in Utah for
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 11: that same reason, because he started his own tech company.
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  Speaker 11: Because he's young, he brings new blood, he brings new perspective.
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  Speaker 11: And again, when you kind of ask me about Samantha
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  Speaker 11: Holloway's stature around the league, I think that's her reputation
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  Speaker 11: right now is somebody who has fresh, innovative ideas and
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 11: quite frankly, as a league, if we're going to keep
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  Speaker 11: growing and keep seeing record audiences and keep reaching new fans, like,
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  Speaker 11: we need to continue that momentum, and it can't just
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 11: be the same old white man's club. It can't. It
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  Speaker 11: has to be people that are both diverse in the
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 11: way that they look and their backgrounds. And we're starting
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  Speaker 11: to get there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, when they say Hockey's for everyone, it's starting to
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  Speaker 1: become that. It still has a long ways to go,
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  Speaker 1: but that is certainly part of it. Jerry Bruckhamer, we
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: hear is music every broadcast on the Crack and Hockey Network.
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  Speaker 1: It's awesome. I mean, that's kind of a cool thing
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: for us out here. Is to have that be a
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: part of what we do and so forth. Emily Point
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  Speaker 1: is joining us here from ESPN ABC. She broke the
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  Speaker 1: story this morning that Melinda Frenchgates had joined the Crack
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  Speaker 1: and his Mind Order investor. There's also an NBA element
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: here and all of us here in Seattle. When we
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: saw your story, our interest was peaked. What can you
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: tell us about that side of it?
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  Speaker 5: For sure?
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  Speaker 11: Well, I did ask Samantha Holloway about it, and she
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 11: confirmed which I know she's already said publicly, is that
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 11: she's assembling an ownership group to bid for a franchise.
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  Speaker 11: And I know that you guys want the SuperSonics back.
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  Speaker 11: You just want the NBA back. It's such a passionate
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 11: sports city and so many people are passionate about basketball.
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 11: She sounded really optimistic, you know, she said, stay tuned,
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 11: We're really excited. There's obviously a lot going on behind
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 11: the scenes. Unclear at this moment if Melinda French Gates
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 11: would be involved or what her involvement level would be,
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 11: but I think the fact that she's aligning herself with
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 11: Samantha Halloway believes in her vision. Well, we'll see where
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 11: that all goes, but it seems like there's positive momentum
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  Speaker 11: here and I hope it happens for all of you.
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  Speaker 1: There's thirty billion reasons with Milinda French Gates that I
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  Speaker 1: think makes sense for the NBA. I we just I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it takes much to connect the dots here,
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: right Emily, You look and see Samantha Hallway owns and
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: basically operates the building with fifty one percent, so any
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: NBA franchise would have to come here. She has been outspoken,
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: as has in toddlight Wicky and others about the NBA
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: and trying to bring them back. And then you add
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: someone basically of the stature of Milinda French Gates to
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: your roster as well of investors, it just feels like, Wow,
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: you could certainly see those two standing side by side
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: bringing the NBA back. It makes all the sense in
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: the world, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 11: It does, And I think we often look at the
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 11: NBA as best in practice in terms of where leagues
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 11: are going right, the way that they've reached a global audience,
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 11: the way that they've been innovative, you know, with the
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 11: n season tournament, and a lot of ways hockey kind
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 11: of just follow suit. You know, Gary Bettman came from
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 11: the NBA background, and I often find that we're just
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 11: like one step behind the NBA. So I do think
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 11: that there's some beautiful poetry and just maybe a commentary
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 11: on where hockey is as a sport and where the
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 11: NAHL is at the league, that the NBA would be
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 11: following hockey. And Samantha said it like, if we get
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 11: the NBA back, all of those fans should be buying
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 11: their crack and friends of beer because we helped make
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 11: it happen and they set the tone. But also the
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 11: fact that they want to pull into these ownership groups
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 11: because they're best in practice is pretty cool too.
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  Speaker 1: Before the NBA comes back, you alluded to the story.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: We just talked about it briefly a second ago. There
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: needs to be some work done on the ice with
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: the crack and everything they've done. And I'm going to
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: preface this by saying, Emily, I work for the team.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: I'm on the broadcast on the TV side, and so
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: when I say that these things, I get accused of
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: you and your a shill and you're just being a
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: company guy and all this. But I can tell people
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: all the time I know the people in the organization.
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: They're not happy with the product that's been on the ice.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: They're not pleased with that. They're not just content with
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: selling games out and selling concessions and all of that.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: They want to win. You're around it. You talk to Samantha,
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: how important from your perspective, not Ian's, but how important
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: from your perspective is winning To cement the hallway.
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  Speaker 11: Again, the fact that she interrupted our interview to make
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 11: sure that that was reiterated, that I wasn't just writing
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 11: a fluff piece about the great things that they were
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 11: doing in the community. You want to make it known
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 11: that ownership is not happy with where they stand and
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 11: they're doing everything they can to fix it. I think
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 11: should speak volumes.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 11: I think it was a field good story when Seattle
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 11: came into the league. Okay, the expansion process was different
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 11: from Vegas. It wasn't as favorable. People got savvier, and
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 11: then they're trying to, you know, do it. They make
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 11: the playoffs as kind of glimpses. But right now I
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 11: think it's this inflection point of like, okay, let's just
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 11: take stock of what we were doing and how do
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 11: we do this in a much more focused and sustainable manner,
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 11: and the fact that they brought in Sportsology as an
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 11: independent consultant is a huge steps. A lot of people
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 11: don't want to look in the mirror to face these
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 11: hard questions. They want to just you know, get yes
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 11: people around them, and bringing in a third party I
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 11: think is instrumental and trying to really clinically look at
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 11: what is going on. But the proof will be and
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 11: what they do over the next few months. And I
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 11: know they have been going after big, splashy names. They
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 11: know that they don't have those difference makers that we
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 11: see now as the playoffs progress, that every team has
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 11: that level of star that Seattle Kraken either need.
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: To develop them or acquire them.
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 11: And I'm really curious to see what the next few
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 11: months look like. I think they know it's going to
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 11: be along road. The Stanley Cup is probably not right
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 11: around the corner, but they're hoping it's right around the corner.
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 11: Right around the corner, and then they're heading in the
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 11: right direction.
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: Emily, what is your thoughts on the on the on
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: the audit and the Sportsology folks cut getting involved because
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: and we've heard, you know, fans going to say well,
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: is there really going to be some change? Is there
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: really going to be anything that comes out of that?
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: I know other teams have used them and done it
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: as well, but what are your thoughts on that third
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: party coming in?
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 11: Well, I wouldn't expect if I was a fan, to
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 11: see any management changes, any personnel like the people that
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 11: you know you've caught to know. I think more so
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 11: it's looking at, okay, well, like where is there disconnect,
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 11: Like it's hockey ops really in, you know, working fully
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 11: with the business side, and what's the chain of command
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 11: and how do we make decisions and what are your processes?
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 11: Because clearly they thought somewhere along the line some of
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 11: that was broken and that's why you have, quite frankly,
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 11: a disjointed team that just hasn't been able to have
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 11: sustay in success. So I think when you bring in sportsology,
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 11: from what I understand about them, they're basically look at, okay,
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 11: what are your systems, what's your management flow, and how
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 11: can we make this way more efficient and way more
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 11: three line to your actual goal, which is winning hockey.
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: When you look around the league, and we'll even use
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: the two teams that you're going to be covering starting
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: tomorrow with the Stanley Cup Finals in Vegas and Carolina.
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the blueprint to build a
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: championship team, although they're both having a chance to win
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: the title. Sixteen of Vegas as players are acquired via trade.
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: The only player in this series it was a top
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: five pick by that team is Andreys s Fetchnikov for Carolina.
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: Like you keep like we want to see teams built,
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: quote through the draft and develop your own guys. Can
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: you still do that? Do you think?
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 4: Emily in the NHL.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 11: Thinks you can still do that? And I think that
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 11: we are often a coffeecat league. And however, the most
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 11: recent Stanley Cup winner was built. Everyone wants to mimic,
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 11: but there's plenty of different ways to win, and there's
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 11: plenty of different ways to build a team. I think
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 11: the one common thread I noticed about the Carolina Hurricanes
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 11: and Vegas Golden Knights is they have a clear conviction
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 11: of their style, how they want to play, how they
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 11: want the team to look, and then they take their
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 11: calculated risks when they see opportunity. Now, Vegas safe more
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 11: risks than anyone, but Carolina does too, right, Like they
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 11: got involved with the Miko Rantin and thing that landed
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 11: them Logans Dan Covin. They went after Nikolai Eelers this summer.
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 11: They're always trying to, you know, make these big trades,
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 11: and so I think there's a lot that a team
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 11: like Seattle can learn, but it begins with again, knowing
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 11: your clear identity, and I don't think that Seattle has
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 11: had a cohesive identity to this point, and that's one
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 11: of the things that they need to address, and then
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 11: they can pick and choose their spots to be aggressive.
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  Speaker 3: I agree.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: I think they found the coach in Lane Lambert, and
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: I think that was a big step along the way,
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: and we'll see what happens. I inquiring mines want to know.
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: I had a couple people text in and say, why
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: was the story? Why'd you drop the story today? You
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: said you had it for a few days. Today, by
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: the way, is the anniversary of the Sonics winning their
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: only title in seventy nine June first, and so we're
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: all trying to kind of connect the dots. Why you
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: why was the story released today?
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 11: You know, I didn't get them until recently, so that
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 11: was definitely part of it. And I was kind of
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 11: you know, dictated by you know, some of the forces.
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 11: When you're dealing with pretty high profile future people, you
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 11: don't necessarily get some agency here. I do know that
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 11: the NHL typically doesn't like big stories like this dropped
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 11: on big games like the Stanley Cup Finals, So don't
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 11: you Tomorrow was not going to be an option, and
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 11: the weekend probably wasn't it open.
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: They don't want to take away from what should be
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: a great series, and I get that. We'll encourage people
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: to go tot ESPN dot com and read Emily story,
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: Milinda French Gates to be a Seattle crack in minority investors.
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: Obviously some NBA times in there as well. I have
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: a great series, have a great broadcast. We'll be watching.
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, Emily.
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  Speaker 11: I appreciate the time, guys, Thanks for this.
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: There you go, Emily Kaplan from ESPN, ABC, ESPN dot
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: Com joining us here on the Beacon Plumbing hotline. Yeah,
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: I'm still curious why it was dropped today. It was
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: interesting because it's I think, honestly what she said makes sense. Yeah,
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: it does. You get it out now, you get it
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: out up, you know, front and center before the Standley
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: Cup final. I know this Betman's very A lot of
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: leagues are like that. They don't want stuff coming out
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: during you know there's a timeline, yes, right, yeah, there's
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 1: a trade made today, like a minor trade and stuff
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: like that. Just get get that out of the way.
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: We want to focus in on the game starting tomorrow
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: with the game went again. We'll have the games for
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: you right here on KJR. By the way, uh to
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: I listen. The whole thing about winning, it's still you
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: have to prove it. Yes, I don't think someone like
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: Melinda French Gates, who is now involved in sports for
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: the very first time, is going to attach her name
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: to something that she doesn't believe it now, no magic
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: wand wave it. Hey, you're gonna be Standing Cup contender
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: next year. I do believe the NBA is a really,
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: really big part of this piece, though. I think there's
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: a couple of things. One, she believes in Samantha Halloway,
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: as Emily said, and rightfully so. Two she's not jumping
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: aboard a sinking ship in terms of I don't want
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: to be part of a loser, right like, And that's
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: not like they're doing what they can probably as quick
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: as they can to get better on the ice, and
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: then oh, by the way, we control the building and
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: we want to bring the NBA back. It's just it's
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: it all feels too much like a perfect fit. I
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: do like the fact that, you know, she said, Hey, yeah,
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: we're going to try to we want to build this
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: thing up. And she interrupted Emily a couple of times saying, Hey,
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: it's also about on the ice, because all the stuff
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: they do off the ice, Yeah, the sport courts, the
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: support of youth sports, everything they do, all that stuff. Yep,
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: it's great. There's eighty two nights a year that you
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: have to be better. And I just I think Samantha
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: is very, very in tune with that and aware of that.
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: And I'm sure Melinda French Gates will be the exact
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: same way as well. People at that level putting their
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: name on something, especially for the first time, don't want
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: to be involved. And oh, yes, Adam Silver, how are you, Yeah, Adam,
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: let me present to you Melinda Gates. How about Melinda Gates. Yeah,
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: you heard the Gates Foundation. You're the Gates Have you
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: heard of them?
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Quick question Ian before we get to a break.
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 4: Here a couple of questions on the text line asking
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 4: who sold their shares to Melinda Gates. I'm not I'm
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 4: sure that information may not be public, yeah, just yet.
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 4: But I just there is some curious nature too well
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 4: where it's coming from.
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: There's a bunch of Yeah, I don't know, because yeah,
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: someone would probably have to I would assume they didn't
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: release that. I'm just looking through their release again. It
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: does say and I think if you're just wondering, like,
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: who's still involved?
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 12: Right?
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: One roof is setting the standard house sports entertainment organizations
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: Inspire strength to United Holloway and the ownership group which
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: investors David Right, Andy Jassey, and Jerry Bruckheimer. So the
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: really those are the biggest names, along with Samantha Holloway, Right,
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: Jassi and Bruckheimer. They're obviously still involved. Yes, So that's
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: that's probably if that's what you're wondering.
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe it's not like one person left or one
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 4: group left. It's like, hey, we'll each kind of put
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 4: together a small portion of all of ours and add
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 4: one more to the table.
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, we've we learned this. We had
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: Canzono and last week talking about the Seahawks sale and
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: the Blazer sale through the Allen Group. You know, there's
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: a limit how many people you can have involved, at
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: least with the NBA, and I'm assuming the NHL as well,
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: and you know what they're like, the Sounders do this
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: stuff every year, right, Like Marshawn's involved, you know, and
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: he might even be involved with the Kraken to a
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: very small, small extent, right. I know there are some people,
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: I believe the Acroles have a little piece of the
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: pie as well with the Krakens. So there are those
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: involved with small minority and investments. But I'm guessing whatever
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: her investment is, it's it puts her on the same
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: playing field as the names I just mentioned with Jasse Brunkheimer. Right,
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: Samantha obviously is a lead investor. Don't overthink this because
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: the other part of it is, and Emily had it
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: in her story, the other part of it is the NBA.
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: Like that's that's a huge, huge part of it. And
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: to think that those two together with the building under
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: one roof sports Entertainment's control, that's NBA. Ready, don't let
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: anybody tell you it's not either, By the way, Please,
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: please don't let anybody ever tell you that that building
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: is not right now ready to host an NBA.
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 4: Sea season, and better than the majority of the current
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 4: NBA read I can't think of many that are better,
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 4: if any. I mean, it is right there.
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: Outside of the fact we're going to have to take
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: some of our TV equipment which is being stored in
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: the Sonic's locker room and find a different place to
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: store it. Outside of that, it's ready to go. Yeah,
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 1: that's ready to go, period, end of story. We saw
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: that we listen storms a different deal. They don't draw
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: as many people. I get that, but I think we
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: saw that even last year when we have the NCAA Tournament.
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: That's god, it's a great basketball, great basketball. I had
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 1: not been to. I mean I sat in the press
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: box just to see what it was like, like hanging
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: from the gondol. I was fine, Yeah, it was fine. Yeah,
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: I'd watch NBA games up there one hundred percent. Like
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: in fact, I'd rather be up there, to be honest
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 1: with you, Yeah, you get a little bird's eye view. Well,
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: you just don't have to deal with people. Yeah, that's true.
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 1: That's true. They treat you well, they do. All right,
• 1:41:27
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  Speaker 11: Let's see.
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: A lot of Diana Russini texts. I don't know who
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: broke the story on AJ Brown stop it. And yes,
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: actually Emily did the same thing I did, Melinda, not Melissa, Melinda.
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 1: I made that mistake earlier. I appreciate all you guys
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 1: pointing it out.
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 1: The good news is just so you know, I've got
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: a really good producer. And he pointed that out to
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: me as well.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 4: You can slip the tongue sometimes it happens. Happened you
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 4: say Tomordew, I say Tomato exactly. You say Melissa, I
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 4: say Melenda, Not.
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: That you don't know who that is.
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 4: Oh, you never know that's true.
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: But I know that that's not. It is a Monday.
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 1: It is a Monday, Okay, do do? I bet they
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: just deluded their shares without selling anyone else. Owners get
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 1: dollars and Gates gets a steak. Yeah, maybe probably, I
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 1: don't know how. Like, listen, you guys. You guys know
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 1: that we're in sports. We're in sports radio because we're
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: not business people, right, you guys know that. Let me
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: read this one two six, Ian, I understand that today's
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 1: huge day and getting the money is massive for the
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: Sonic story. But Ian, you are all kJ our hosts
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: should know that you by saying it's a done deal
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 1: brings back you all talking about the Kings being on
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 1: their way here, we're still not in the end zone yet,
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: sales sports fans of all sports fans know, you don't
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: dance until you're in the end zone. Another one, two
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: oh six, Ian, don't stick a fork in yet. The
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: deal's not done, but get the four grading in a
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: few weeks. Time to stick that fork in. Talking about
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: the NBA coming back, But this is so different than
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: than the Sacramento like that, it's just not even not
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: even close to being the same. First of all, you're
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: not moving a team, it's an expansion franchise. Second of all,
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 1: go back with Sacramento and we all went crazy. We
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: were so we were still so scarred from the Sonics leaving.
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: So when the Sacramento story broke, one of the things
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 1: that was it, One of the things that came out
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: about it was, hey, we're getting a team. Why are
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: we getting a team? Sacramento doesn't have a building, blah
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: blah blah. Well we really didn't either. We still like
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: Key arena. That was now I know that the Sodo
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 1: Arena was being talked about. That thing was never going
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: to get off the ground.
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 4: And it wasn't built, and it wasn't built like this
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 4: one is. It's done.
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 1: Takes two plus years to build a building. Yes, So
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: when we were excited, absolutely, probably well ahead of where
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: we should have been. Sure Soto was not. SOO had
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: so many challenges in question for you. Yeah, because I
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: was a little bit younger.
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, during that time, did the NBA ever make an
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 4: official statement regarding that process or was it all speculation?
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 11: Uh?
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 4: Because the NBA has said specifically Seattle and Vegas for
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 4: expansion right.
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: Well, again, it was an expansion. It was just relocation, right,
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: and they're very careful about that. I'm sure they didn't
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: say anything.
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 4: So the fact that we've gotten the NBA saying something
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 4: and now the ownership being supposedly put into place, I
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 4: think it's farther than we've ever.
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: Been two sixty And the only reason I'd be nervous
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: about sonic stuff is well, the rich old boy owners
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: actually want women owners in the club. I think it's great,
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: but yeah, I think a hundred Well you got the money. Yeah,
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: if they have the money, yeah, I think there's a
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: I think that there would be yes. I think the
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: easy answer is yes. We do have a talkback far away.
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 12: If you won't, Hey, Russell Wilson here, Well, CBS, we
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 12: got a deal. I'm hanging up the cleats and going
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 12: to the broadcast studio. It's twenty five yards long. The
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 12: separation is in the preparation. I'm bringing dangerous sandwiches for everybody,
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 12: podcast and all that. Put aside.
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: Your boys here to.
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 12: Stay three brand, good Man Brand, Let's ride, Let's build
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 12: go hawks, mister unlimited, see you soon, CBS.
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: That's good, it's really good.
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 3: Ross.
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: You got a call back. Yeah, hey see, yeah, we
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: got a deal. Oh man, uh three six.
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 2: I was a man.
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 1: I love this for the crack in the Sonnics and city.
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: See how I told my wife months ago that this
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: would be the best situation it's coming to fruition so far.
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: There's a whole world as a whole benefit greatly for
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: more women in ownership and government positions. Okay, yeah, I
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: just think getting Melinda French Gates involved is a huge deal.
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah to me, I like it is great. I think
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 4: it's a storyline. But it's thirty billion dollars getting the
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 4: right owner, period, thirty billion dollars in her uh, in
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 4: her portfolio.
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: Don't care who that is. Yeah, just getting the right owner. Yeah,
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: I you know, And you never know who the right
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: owner is until they've been on the job for a while.
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 4: I think you can't have as for someone who hasn't
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 4: been invested in sports ever, you can't have a better
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 4: track record than Melinda Gates.
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 1: No before this, no, no talking about the NFL trades
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: that everyone is etching, the Rams name and the Lombardi already,
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: Mike is gonna use that as fuel. Our guys are
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 1: gonna be jacked up for this season. Zero complacency guarantee.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: We talked about earlier. You know what, Mike mcdello says,
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 1: I don't care, we.
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 4: Don't care, kind of piggybacking off that two five to three.
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 4: Look at all these teams trying to assemble the Avengers
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 4: just to beat the Seahawks.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: And you know, are we thanos? We are thanos? Aren't we?
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: I am inevitable?
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 4: We are thanos?
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: I love it. We're the villains of the league.
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 4: Now let's go.
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 1: I remember the villain. I know this because the Super
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: Bowl itself was bad. Yeah, like not entertaining for non
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: Seahawk fans, Like, if you were in Seattle was great,
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: the game was phenomenal. Yeah, if you were not, you
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: didn't care.
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 4: I have first hand experience with that because I took
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 4: my wife, who really never watches football, and her family,
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 4: who had never seen football in their life, to go
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 4: watch it with my family, and one of them was
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 4: a was a huge football fan as a Niners fan,
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 4: and he kept saying the whole time, I swear, it's
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 4: not this boring. I swear it's not this boring this game,
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 4: and was trying to sell football, saying that the game
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 4: was really really boring.
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I didn't mention this earlier, and I'm I
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: should have. College Football Hall of Fame nominees announced today.
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  Speaker 1: Couple local ties Greg Lewis Husky running back, Ingram high
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  Speaker 1: school guy, Metro League player love that also part of
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  Speaker 1: the Hanks. He's on the ballot this year, as is
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  Speaker 1: for the first time Mike Leach. They adjusted the the
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  Speaker 1: rules a little bit. Basically, to get Mike in, you
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  Speaker 1: had to have a sixty percent winning percentage.
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  Speaker 4: What do you have, like a fifty nine point three
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  Speaker 4: fifty nine point six I think or something like that
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  Speaker 4: crazy man as like he's either point six or point
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  Speaker 4: four away when that which is when you think about
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  Speaker 4: it's really dumb because that would eliminate anybody who took
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  Speaker 4: a bad program and built it up, which he did
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  Speaker 4: twice with Texas Tech and Wazoo, Like in the Wazoo job.
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  Speaker 4: Was what he did there coming off the Paul Wolf era. Remarkable,
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  Speaker 4: like remarkable.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like so like you say, oh, the only way you
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  Speaker 1: get in is you have sixty percent, Well, yeah, because no,
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  Speaker 1: no coach worth his salt's going to go take I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you really got it. And he took that job because
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  Speaker 1: he got fired from Texas Tech. He rebuild his career.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, if guys that are programmed builders, which should
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  Speaker 1: be really important in that regard. So and I hope
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  Speaker 1: Greg gets it. He was an All American nineteen ninety
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  Speaker 1: with Oskis just I watched him play. He when you're
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  Speaker 1: a first team All American, you're playing for a great
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  Speaker 1: team like that, I just that's that should be. I know,
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  Speaker 1: like for players, you got to be like an All American.
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  Speaker 1: So hopefully I got one more. Where's my Keith Miller? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: there was a really good one earlier.
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  Speaker 4: I got to find it here. Hang on a second,
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  Speaker 4: I scrolled. We've got a lot of texts.
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  Speaker 2: I got it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Keith Miller.
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  Speaker 4: Last word isn't quote unquote rams fans an oxy moron,
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  Speaker 4: similar to calm softy or loyal Faine. I love that.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's right though. I think he's right so true.
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  Speaker 1: They don't exist. They don't exist.
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  Speaker 4: Calm softy and what doesn't exist loyal foyal fain?
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  Speaker 1: Why what is faine?
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  Speaker 10: Was it?
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  Speaker 1: What is wor why is fane not loyal? Help me
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  Speaker 1: out there? We should ask? All right, Well, that's softy.
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  Speaker 2: What that means.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a reason behind. I'm sure there is.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe fame turns on teams too quick, or the fact
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  Speaker 1: that he gave any sort of praise to Okay, see,
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  Speaker 1: oh he did, didn't he did? Yeah, that's what you
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  Speaker 1: build a team. H Nope, no thanks, we will take
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  Speaker 1: a break. Come back, Softy. I believe he's down to
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy's on first. I've been ready for the I mean
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  Speaker 1: nothing screams a big series like the Mets in town.
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  Speaker 1: We'll check in with him coming up next. All right,
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  Speaker 1: I almost forgot about this. Got some tickets give away?
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: You want to go see the Mariners of the Mets tonight?
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  Speaker 1: Four one texting.
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  Speaker 2: Tickets tickets needs tickets first.
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  Speaker 1: Last tickets, first and last name and your email address.
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  Speaker 13: And Andrews will send somebody to Glomo Goldstein. Yam a
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  Speaker 13: boy at gmail dot com.
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  Speaker 1: First and last name, email address. God, I'm fine, damn
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  Speaker 1: softy ball.
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  Speaker 2: Hey wait a minute, time out? Now, time out, time out?
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  Speaker 2: Just for a second. What uh? We gotta do something
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  Speaker 2: here at the bar? Hey, would you guys mind doing
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  Speaker 2: me a favor?
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  Speaker 13: Ram applause for Emmy Award winning and four NASA wings
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  Speaker 13: where you class waves.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you. Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, they're all excited for that. There's like six people here.
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  Speaker 13: They have no idea who you are or.
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  Speaker 4: Who I am, or what we're doing here or what
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  Speaker 4: an Emmy is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: But I saw the look on your face in that
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  Speaker 13: video that you put on Instagram when you won the Emmy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 13: it's like you found out. You were like, you know,
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  Speaker 13: I don't know, free and clear of something.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, thank you. I was thinking about I was thinking
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  Speaker 1: about the thirteen dollars Gin and Tonic. I was going
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  Speaker 1: to have moments.
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  Speaker 13: So your first nomination was in nineteen ninety one, Yes,
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  Speaker 13: when the Huskies won the national title. Correct, And here
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  Speaker 13: we are thirty five years later.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know who Susan Lucci is?
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  Speaker 2: I do.
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  Speaker 1: I was the Susan Lucci of local Emmys.
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  Speaker 2: How many nominations before you finally won Big Boy?
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  Speaker 1: It was five?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, we're very proud of you here at the
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  Speaker 2: radio station.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 13: It just goes to show that doesn't take a lot
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  Speaker 13: of talent to have success in this business.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody can do televisions. That's what I show you, or
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  Speaker 1: what it shows you, is that when you work with
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 1: really smart and talented people, you can just ride their coattails, and.
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  Speaker 4: Those don't exist here. Just ride their coattails, just ride
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  Speaker 4: their coattails.
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  Speaker 13: I mean, that really does bring up a great question.
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  Speaker 13: Whose coat tails would you ride? If you had to
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  Speaker 13: ride somebody's coatails here?
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  Speaker 2: JR KJR? Right, I mean, what the hell, man, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sure. If there's a wagon, I want to hitch
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  Speaker 2: my horse too.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: To be honest with you, like right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to think, because I guess you, I guess
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  Speaker 1: I'm I I'll go with the Dave Softy Maller world.
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  Speaker 2: Well you're gonna go off a cliff man.
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  Speaker 1: If that's well, you know whatever, it's fine, that's fine.
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  Speaker 1: We'll live with it.
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  Speaker 2: So I congratulations, We're very very happy for you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it, thank you, thank you. And I mentioned
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  Speaker 1: this earlier, almost forgot I saw that your guy Greg.
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  Speaker 2: Lewis, Yes, has he got that?
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  Speaker 1: Has he been on the ballot before?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 13: I mean probably not, because if he was on the
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 13: belt before, he would have told you.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's a very good right, that's a very good point.
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  Speaker 2: Hey man, You know I'm on the ballot for the
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  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah I do, buddy.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, you know what his nickname was and in like
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 13: high school when he played basketball. It actually may have
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 13: been in like a junior high in middle school. And
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 13: he's told the story on the year before he used to.
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  Speaker 2: Wear a jersey. Uh you know what the back of
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 2: the jersey said.
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  Speaker 5: What was it?
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  Speaker 2: All World?
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  Speaker 4: Come on, it's not just all Metro. I'm all World,
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  Speaker 4: baby of the pride of Ingram High School. Right, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's right, because Ingram still have a football team.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I have.
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  Speaker 2: No idea good question.
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  Speaker 13: Maybe when Greg Lewis makes this Hall of Fame speech,
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 13: he can shout out Ingram High School.
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  Speaker 1: I mean yeah, because that feels like one of the
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  Speaker 1: most nondescript programs in the state. And when I mean.
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  Speaker 13: The Rams, right, Ingram Rams A right Rams getting there, right,
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  Speaker 13: somebody will text.
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  Speaker 1: It, well we got anyway.
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  Speaker 2: So what's going on?
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean it's a quiet day, it really is.
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: There's not much going on today. I was I laughed
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: with with Greg Bell earlier, so I'm driving in in
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 1: the course of in the span of eight minutes, during
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: the Greg Bell extravaganza, right, Miles Garrett get traded to
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: the Rams, and Melinda French Gates becomes well probably the
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: NBA face, but a minority owner with the kracking all
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: the yeah, right, in the matter of like nine minutes
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  Speaker 1: on a Monday, you know.
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  Speaker 13: And then on top of that, Russell Wilson, you know,
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  Speaker 13: apparently I guess he's retiring. I mean, he can always
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 13: go act, but he's gonna go do TV operations. Preper
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 13: imagine being so bad if you're the Jets, that Russell
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 13: Wilson would rather go work in TV than play for you.
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 1: Well, let's okay, here's a thing you've made. You've made
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 1: a zillion dollars if you're Russ I know, I know,
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 1: and that there might not be a better gig in
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 1: broadcasting than the studioed gig for the NFL.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, well that's a great gig. What's the over under
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 13: on cliches? In week number one? We got to have
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 13: a Russell Wilson cliche?
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 1: Meeter, do we not like a counter? We need to counter?
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 2: On breaking game? I'm cliche you hear from Russell Wilson.
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 1: I'm with Anders. He's either good, he's either going to
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 1: be really good or he's going to be really bad.
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 1: There's no one between. He might be really good. I
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 1: think he think he.
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  Speaker 2: Can be I think he can be really good.
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  Speaker 13: And I just think if you're if you're the CBS executives,
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 13: you say, look, dude, all you got to.
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  Speaker 2: Do is just say things.
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  Speaker 13: Don't say cliches, right, like tell stories and talk about
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 13: the game itself, and talk about throwing motions and talk
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 13: about details of the finer points of a passing game.
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 13: Give us your thoughts that nobody else can because nobody
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 13: else has been in your shoes and nobody else has
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 13: been in the huddles that you've been in. So if they,
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 13: if they, I mean, look, he's very good on the
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 13: air as far as his delivery, right, we all know
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 13: that he's always been a phenomenal interview. He's very comfortable
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 13: behind a microphone in front of a camera. That's not
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 13: a problem with him. The problem has always been he
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 13: is Rousseau Wilson. I'm going to telling you, I'm about
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 13: to comb it's a come on, dude, enough the robots,
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 13: well be an actual person.
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: How many how many shows in will he tell us
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 1: that the NFL field is fifty three and third years.
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 2: Oh god, dude, I just want to hear this out
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 2: of it.
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, pregnant trying to take a photo?
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 2: Can you imagine? No first game? No, no, my god, no,
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 2: what the hell Drake may doing?
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 1: His wife's pregnant, is handbraided, he's the weekend?
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 13: Oh god, well, are you ready behind that expensive offensive?
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: Expensive share too? First of all, thank you Russ. That
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 1: is so weird. Give me another Russ that sounds like
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 1: Russ's limited? Do we have like a real Russ? Is
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: there anything in that is him actually finish?
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 2: For ye?
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 1: Let's go.
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 13: He's got like eight different accents. You know, I've noticed
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 13: that just I think he wakes up and just spins
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 13: the wheel. Who don't want to sound like today?
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 4: Who do I want to sound like? I'm going to
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 4: sound like this guy fifty three?
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  Speaker 13: But anyway, the point is that that could have been
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 13: a story, that could have been a Sarriners obviously are
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 13: a story. Yes, the Miles Garrett thing is a story.
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 13: The Melinda French Gates thing is a story.
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 13: And oh, by the way, how about those clowns from
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 13: the Midwest getting knocked the hell out on Saturday? That's
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 13: unfortunate by San Antonio. So unfortunate.
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, is that not a story?
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 1: So unfortunate?
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 2: Right? I think we've got like six different things to
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 2: pick on the end.
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: Today is the anniversary, of course, of the Sonics winning
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 1: the title in seventy nine, correct, behind a twelve point
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 1: seven assists game from JJ.
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 2: That's right? Well, you know what tomorrow is, by the way,
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 2: tomorrow's what's tomorrow?
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 13: Tomorrow is the thirtieth anniversary of Game seven against Utah. Oh, tomorrow,
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 13: Kevin Collaboro will join us tomorrow.
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 2: I love talk about that.
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 7: I love that.
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 1: Are you ready for Melinda French Gates to stand there
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 1: and say, yeah, the Sonics are back. I wrote a
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 1: check today and handed it over to Adam.
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 13: So here's what I want to hear from Melinda French
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 13: Gates the day that she signs off to be the
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 13: new majority owner of the Sonic expansion team.
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 3: You that'd be great, you know.
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 13: What, I think, it's fabulous. There's one little thing about
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 13: that that I would have liked to.
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 2: Have seen done differently. Tut that Can she buy the
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 2: Mariners too?
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 12: Oh?
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 4: Give me listen, dude, She's worth thirty billion dollars.
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 2: She could spend like a maniac. If she bought the Mariners.
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 1: A third of that may go to the NBA.
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 13: So sheez man, I know, come on, somebody step up
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 13: and buy the damn baseball team.
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 2: Let's go crazy.
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 4: Let's let's don't be that much different if there's a
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 4: salary cap.
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 1: All right, what do you and Richard Lle have coming
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 1: up today?
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 13: Richard ELL's not here, He's doing a Storm game today. Okay, yeah,
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 13: what did you guys call Richard Ell in the last song?
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 1: What doesn't mean?
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 4: As a text Keith Miller say, he said rams fans
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 4: quote unquote.
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 1: Isn't that an oxy moron? Like calm, softy and loyal fame?
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 2: See, I don't get that crack Is that a a
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 2: Zaga Crackett fan?
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 1: I'm just reading the text. I think it might. I
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 1: think like you're more of a Gonzaga fan than you. Maybe,
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 4: He did give the Thunder some love. He did give
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 4: Thunder love, Yes, he did do that. In fact, the
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 4: day you were gone. I was not here that day.
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 1: That day that you were gone. He and furious felt
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 1: for loving on the on the Thunder.
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 2: No Felts was not for sure back can.
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 1: Back that I would hope we'd expect more from Jackson,
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: So totally all right, So what are you doing today?
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 13: Humilin is going to be with us run off the
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 13: Gate talking about the Miles Garrett deal. Lindsay theory on
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 13: the Rams perspective will join us as well today. Logan Gilbert,
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 13: I guess, is going to hop on the show bout
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 13: this afternoon. How about half from across the stree to
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 13: t Mobile Park. Bill Krueger will join us at five,
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 13: and then Jason Minnix, who covers the Spurs for ESPN.
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 13: I think because of what the Spurs did for the
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 13: city of Seattle, speaking of loyalty, we should all stand
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 13: behind them and they're endeavor to win a championship and
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 13: root for them against the Nicks.
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 1: You think that's a given. That is an absolutely turning
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 1: the favor. So they have a lot of they should
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 1: have everyone in Seattle rooting for him.
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 2: So hell, hell yes, baby, hell yes.
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 1: We could put a Wemby statue in a midst Johnson's
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 1: statue next to the Damian Rods statue from a few
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 1: years ago.
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 2: The kids like to say, preach, preachy and.
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 1: Preach That's what I do.
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 2: I preach, preach, all right, all right, mister I heard
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 4: Marginally objectionable the Inverness this is paddle day saying so
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 4: long everyone,