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6-8 H2: Case Keefer Joins, Reading Your Texts & Cross Talk · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: First of all, of all the sporting events you've covered
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  Speaker 1: in your career, where does that Game three rank in
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  Speaker 1: your history?
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  Speaker 2: Well, as far as hockey, I think it's number one.
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  Speaker 3: I can't even think of one that was close to
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  Speaker 3: it as wild as that, and with the storylines and
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  Speaker 3: just everything that happened. I mean, the records were falling
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  Speaker 3: left and right. So I've been to a few Super
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  Speaker 3: Bowls that I think might be higher just overall, but
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  Speaker 3: hockey games, I don't think you can beat what we
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  Speaker 3: saw on Saturday.
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  Speaker 4: It's funny you mentioned that.
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  Speaker 1: I had a discussion online with people who said, wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute, you're saying this is the Stanley Cup Finals
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  Speaker 1: are the best sporting events in sports, better than the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl? And I said, yes, I've been to five
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  Speaker 1: super Bowls, and I think the Stanley Cup Finals are
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  Speaker 1: better because there's seven of them.
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  Speaker 4: And also, the super Bowl is so corporate. There are
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  Speaker 4: very few the Seahawks Super Bowls are at exception, There
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  Speaker 4: are very few rabid team fans.
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  Speaker 1: There are much of people that bought tickets, that are
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  Speaker 1: given tickets by corporate chills and whatnot.
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  Speaker 4: It is a very sterile environment at the super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: I think the Vegas environment was anything but sterile on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday Night.
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  Speaker 4: What is Las Vegas's embrace of the Golden Knight. I
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  Speaker 4: think I used to cover the Raiders.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's why Mark Davis decided to move the
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  Speaker 1: Raiders to Las Vegas when he saw what the Golden
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  Speaker 1: Knights were doing. But can you just talk about how
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  Speaker 1: because it was the first team, the love affair that
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  Speaker 1: your region has with the Golden Knights for the last
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  Speaker 1: nine years.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it was certainly part of it for
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  Speaker 3: the Raiders, and it's part of why we've just seen
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  Speaker 3: this explosion of every league wanting to move here now.
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  Speaker 2: It really is just wild.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the whole community is just so behind this team,
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  Speaker 3: and we were obviously having a huge debate before the NHL.
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  Speaker 2: Came is like how could hockey be the right?
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  Speaker 3: First thing is there is going to be another disaster
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  Speaker 3: sun Belt franchise, which I know it's kind of turned
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  Speaker 3: around now and these teams are doing great, but for
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  Speaker 3: a while, I mean, well we did see Phoenix move
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  Speaker 3: the Arizona Coyotes, of course, so it's kind of blown
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  Speaker 3: me away to being here for the whole nine years
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  Speaker 3: and seeing it.
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  Speaker 2: But I think it was a lot of factors.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, most fans will point right too that they
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  Speaker 3: started right after the October one massacre we had here
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  Speaker 3: in twenty seventeen, the shooting, and then the Golden Knights
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  Speaker 3: really put on a beautiful ceremony and really did all
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  Speaker 3: they could or helped the community.
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  Speaker 2: So I think there was a bond there.
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  Speaker 3: But I think the number one biggest thing is they
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  Speaker 3: were just so good right away. I mean, it's hard
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  Speaker 3: not to join in when you know.
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  Speaker 2: I think they put up one.
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  Speaker 3: Hundred and five points or something like that in their
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  Speaker 3: first season, and just night after night, right from the beginning,
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  Speaker 3: it was just like the craziest story you've ever seen
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  Speaker 3: in sports. This team of misfits they called themselves, were
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  Speaker 3: just beating everyone left and right. So I think it
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  Speaker 3: all ties back to that first year. But I see
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  Speaker 3: people now, I mean, I know they're like the villains
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  Speaker 3: of the NHL, and people complain about them, and the.
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  Speaker 2: Fan base takes some shots. I mean, I try to
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  Speaker 2: be as impartial as I can be, and I can
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  Speaker 2: tell you the fan base is a rabbit here. There's
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  Speaker 2: no way they.
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  Speaker 3: Should It's not less than just about any of these
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  Speaker 3: traditional hockey markets that they tread to strong arm everyone else.
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  Speaker 1: In my opinion, so good was the first season for
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  Speaker 1: the Vegas gold Nights the NHL teams, and then the
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  Speaker 1: league itself changed the expansion draft rules for when the
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  Speaker 1: cracking came in and said no, no, we're.
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  Speaker 4: Not going to make them this loaded like the Vegas
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  Speaker 4: Golden Knights.
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  Speaker 1: Were, and the Kraken are really fighting the Vegas Golden
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  Speaker 1: Knights what they've done first year, going to the final
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  Speaker 1: Cup final, three cup finals now in their first nine
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  Speaker 1: years of existence, and winning the Cup in their second one.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you about Bill Foley and what
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  Speaker 1: kind of presence he is either in the arena, around
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  Speaker 1: the community. It's a West Point graduate, member of the
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  Speaker 1: long Gray line like I am, so I have a
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  Speaker 1: little partiality to that. But is he a visible owner,
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  Speaker 1: is he someone who's in the locker room or is
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  Speaker 1: he a more.
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  Speaker 4: Behind the scenes bill Foley.
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  Speaker 3: It's certainly changed over the years, and not that I
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  Speaker 3: blame him or anything. He's getting older and we just
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  Speaker 3: talked about the state the franchise is in. When they
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  Speaker 3: were talking about coming here, even before they were awarded
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  Speaker 3: the team, he was probably the most visible I guess
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  Speaker 3: at that time perspective, owner you'd ever seen. He was
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  Speaker 3: at events, he was speaking all the time, giving people updates.
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  Speaker 3: He was readily accessible to all of them. So I'd
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  Speaker 3: say that lasted through about the first couple of seasons,
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  Speaker 3: and now he's definitely taken more of a back seat.
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  Speaker 3: He rarely draws attention to himself. He's not definitely not
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  Speaker 3: in the locker room. I know he has a good
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  Speaker 3: relationship with the players, and all of the players speak.
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  Speaker 2: Highly of him.
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  Speaker 3: But I'd say he goes out of the way now,
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  Speaker 3: very different than a decade ago, not to be seen
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  Speaker 3: too much. I know he sits with Kelly mccrimman and
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  Speaker 3: George mcpee, the kind of the two guys at the
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  Speaker 3: head of the hockey operations during every game, so you'll
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  Speaker 3: see him on TV. You'll see them reacting to the
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  Speaker 3: goals and stuff. But definitely not as not as.
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  Speaker 2: Ever present as he once was. But I also don't
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  Speaker 2: think he's that meddling. I think he kind of lets
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  Speaker 2: those guys do what they want.
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  Speaker 3: From a hockey perspective, of course, he signs off on
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  Speaker 3: the big decision, but I think he's obviously done a
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  Speaker 3: very good job This is.
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  Speaker 4: The voice of Case Kaefer.
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  Speaker 1: He's from the Las Vegas Sun talking about these epics
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  Speaker 1: Stanley Cup Finals between the Vegas Golden Knights and Carolina
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  Speaker 1: Hurricane and KGr.
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  Speaker 5: Case, after what you witnessed in Game three, do you
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  Speaker 5: think the momentum of the series shifted at all despite
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  Speaker 5: the Golden Knights having this two to one lead.
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  Speaker 2: I could see it a little bit. I feel like Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Carolina was so down after the game, but
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  Speaker 3: at the same time, part of that was there, like
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  Speaker 3: what they still feel like they could be the better team.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they came back from a four to zero
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  Speaker 2: deficit and tied it up. So I think just with
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  Speaker 2: the craziness.
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  Speaker 3: Of how that ended and all the things in Vegas's factor,
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  Speaker 3: like Braydon McNabb coming back after not flying back with
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  Speaker 3: the team and getting thirty stitches in.
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  Speaker 2: His nose, his whole nose is messed up. I do
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  Speaker 2: feel like the vive Yeah, yeah, exactly. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: an Ultimate Hockey Player story, we have a new one
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  Speaker 2: to talk about.
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  Speaker 3: So I do feel like the momentum the vibes are
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more on Vegas's side.
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  Speaker 2: Now, But we've seen all these games are crazy. We
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  Speaker 2: talked about coin flips.
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  Speaker 3: It could just easily go back the other way here
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  Speaker 3: in Game four tomorrow night, because it's another one that
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  Speaker 3: could go either way.
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  Speaker 1: John twitter up, what was your reaction was Les Vegans
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  Speaker 1: and Golden Knights fans reaction when they hired him out
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  Speaker 1: of the ESPN TV analysts the lead this season to
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  Speaker 1: get a spark for this team.
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  Speaker 4: It's worked, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm meaning some of my words. I guess I
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  Speaker 2: didn't love the move.
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  Speaker 3: I'd say the fans it was split as well, but
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  Speaker 3: I'd say they were more. I mean, the fans just
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  Speaker 3: want to win so bad. They were probably sixty five
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  Speaker 3: thirty five on getting rid of Bruce Cassidy and going
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  Speaker 3: to John Tortorella. And clearly it's turned out to be
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  Speaker 3: a great move. I just thought, on the surface, didn't
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  Speaker 3: make a ton of sense to be I mean, you
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  Speaker 3: ask anyone in hockey if who's the better hockey mind,
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  Speaker 3: especially before this run, they would have said Cassidy and
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  Speaker 3: Vegas re jiggers their team so much, you know, every offseason.
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  Speaker 3: I felt like if there were issues with Cassidy, he
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  Speaker 3: just make a few changes and he'd probably be the
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  Speaker 3: guy you want going forward, but.
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  Speaker 2: Clearly I mean that there were there were deeper issues there.
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  Speaker 3: Tortorella's really uh talked about playing freely and really just
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  Speaker 3: made great relationships and inroads with these players. So he's
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  Speaker 3: done exactly what they wanted to. I still wonder what
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  Speaker 3: the shelf life of it is. I mean, we see
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  Speaker 3: Vegas be successful year after year and still get rid
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  Speaker 3: of these coaches one after the other. The players clearly
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  Speaker 3: had a falling out with Cassidy and in his messaging
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  Speaker 3: wasn't the same. But it's not like Tortorella is any
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  Speaker 3: easier on the players than Cassidy. So it's working well
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  Speaker 3: right now. I'm sure you want to hoist the cup,
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  Speaker 3: but just talks to him signing like a three year extension.
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  Speaker 3: I still think it'd be favored that he's probably not
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  Speaker 3: the co for three more years based on the history.
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  Speaker 1: Here exactly his precedent is that he rides him hard
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  Speaker 1: and then he moves on. The players just don't want
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  Speaker 1: him anymore. This is case key for the Las Vegas
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  Speaker 1: son joining us from Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 5: Would you say Mitch Marner's arrival elevated Vegas beyond that
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  Speaker 5: twenty twenty three championship team.
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  Speaker 2: It's tough to say.
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  Speaker 3: I still think maybe the twenty Let's see how it ends.
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  Speaker 3: I guess, first of all, you know, if they beat Carolina,
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  Speaker 3: Carolina is so. I think Carolina has been a much
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  Speaker 3: tougher opponent in the Stanley Cup Final than the Panthers.
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  Speaker 3: Not to take anything away from that twenty twenty three
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  Speaker 3: Panthers team, which had.
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  Speaker 2: Like the historic run through the playoffs. I think they
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  Speaker 2: were the last team.
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  Speaker 3: In and beat everyone up, but they were just so
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  Speaker 3: injured by the time they got to the Golden Knights,
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  Speaker 3: like you looked at clinching game, like all their guys
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  Speaker 3: were out. Carolina is mostly about ninety five percent healthy,
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  Speaker 3: so we'll see what happened. I do feel like the
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty three team at this point was a little
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  Speaker 3: more dominant.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're probably even a little bit better defensively.
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  Speaker 2: But if they knock off Carolina, especially if.
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  Speaker 3: They do it here in quick fashion, then I'll be
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  Speaker 3: maybe willing to say Marner pushes him over the top
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  Speaker 3: and this was even a little better at least playoff team.
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  Speaker 1: Mitch Myer is about to win the con Smythe Trophy
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  Speaker 1: for what he's done here in these postseason Let me
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  Speaker 1: ask you case, do the Vegas Golden Knights expect it
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  Speaker 1: to be Bussy or Anderson.
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  Speaker 4: In Game four in goal for Carolina?
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  Speaker 3: You think, I get the sense a little bit more Bussy,
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  Speaker 3: but Carolina is doing a good job at you know.
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  Speaker 3: They never neither side ever wants to give anything away
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  Speaker 3: in the Stanley Cup Finals, and I do think that
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  Speaker 3: Rod Branda Moore's comments yesterday did cast some doubts, saying
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  Speaker 3: there would be no lineup changes, although then he did say,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the goalie decision isn't gonna come yet, So
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  Speaker 3: I think Bussy is the favorite, but I do think
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  Speaker 3: they will be prepared for both, which is interesting. Mitch Marner,
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  Speaker 3: I can't believe he admitted this after the games had
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  Speaker 3: on his penalty shot, he did not realize that Anderson
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  Speaker 3: had been pulled and it was Brandon. Bussy has a
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  Speaker 3: different club hand and stuff, so I think maybe they'll
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  Speaker 3: have a little more awareness going in the Game four.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the greatest mop up duty performance in
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  Speaker 1: Stanley Cup Final history, to say the least. Let's shift
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: here's the NBA, because we're all gog up here that
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: the Sonics are coming back, and it was announced, of
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  Speaker 1: course by Adam Silver, the NBA commissioner, that Seattle and
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas were the NBA's targets to expand with a
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  Speaker 1: potential vote this fall or if not sooner. What is
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  Speaker 1: the fervor for the NBA down there? You've got the
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  Speaker 1: A's and they're building a stadium. First of all, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know where the progress is on that stadium near
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  Speaker 1: the old Tropicana site. But what is the tenor of
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: the NBA. It has to have a new arena. It
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  Speaker 1: appears Las Vegas have a stomach for that. On top
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  Speaker 1: of the arena you have on top of a new
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  Speaker 1: A stadium. What's the vibe about the NBA coming to
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas there?
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  Speaker 3: I feel of a vibe for the NBA is like
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  Speaker 3: a lot more positive other than the A's which is
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  Speaker 3: kind of ironic since the A's of the stadiums going
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  Speaker 3: up nicely there in town this week to play a
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  Speaker 3: couple series against starting with the Brewers tonight.
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  Speaker 2: But the NBA just like that was the league.
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  Speaker 3: People that have been in Las Vegas a long time
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  Speaker 3: just love basketball. I think it probably dates back to
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  Speaker 3: the ninety and UNLV's run. They always thought the NBA
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  Speaker 3: would be first.
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  Speaker 2: That was kind of the league everyone always wanted. So
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  Speaker 2: I think there is some real fervor about this.
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  Speaker 3: Actually happening, and people are really excited with the NBA.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like it's way more split on baseball. There's
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  Speaker 3: still a lot of people that are skeptical baseball will
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  Speaker 3: work here. I guess just with the success of the
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  Speaker 3: Golden Knights, everyone's spoiled thinks they're gonna have an expansion
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  Speaker 3: team that's good right away.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're more excited about having their own team.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I'd say if we get this done and
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  Speaker 3: it happens as quickly as some of the timelines we've seen,
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  Speaker 3: I think you'll see two new rabid fan bases in
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  Speaker 3: Seattle and in Vegas with these two new teams.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe Las Vegans are just smart people who know John
• 10:35
  Speaker 4: Fisher is a snake and they don't like the A's
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  Speaker 4: for the fact that he just stole them out of Oakland. Case.
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  Speaker 4: I know you got a roll.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate you joining us, enjoy what has been an absolutely
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  Speaker 1: riveting Cup Finals, and appreciate what you do in the
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  Speaker 1: newspaper industry and journalism thank you, sir. All right, thanks
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  Speaker 1: a lot for having me case Keiefer from the Las
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  Speaker 1: Vegas Sun talking about an epic Stanley Cup final. There's
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  Speaker 1: only three games in and three unbelievable hockey games. Game
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  Speaker 1: five four tomorrow night, right here on the air on
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  Speaker 1: ninety three point three. K jar John Foresland, Eddie Olchick.
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  Speaker 1: I had Eddie Elchik on the show Friday morning when
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: I was pinch hitting for Chuck on the morning show,
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  Speaker 1: and he was just going on and on about this final.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, you know, maybe nationally people didn't think Vegas,
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  Speaker 1: Carolina was going to be anything.
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  Speaker 4: He was just blown away. And this was before game three.
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  Speaker 1: For those of you who went to the windows on
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: his Belmont Stakes, pick you, Eddie ol Edzone kind of
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  Speaker 1: steered you wrong there.
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  Speaker 4: Runnegae didn't win the Belmont Stakes on Saturday.
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: I didn't mention that in the headlines, but the Kentucky
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: Derby winner won the Belmont Stakes on Saturday. One thing
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  Speaker 1: we didn't talk about christ and it's been on the
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  Speaker 1: text line and we have a few minutes to talk
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  Speaker 1: about it here four.
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  Speaker 4: Nite, four to five.
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  Speaker 2: One.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, if you watch in the Cup Final.
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  Speaker 1: You should watch it on CBC sports Net channel ninety nine.
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: If you have cable here in Seattle, as I always say,
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: you're paying seven hundred dollars a month or whatever Comcast
• 11:51
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• 11:54
  Speaker 1: We use some of that money. And what is a
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: fabulous production. The noise, the in a you know, audio
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  Speaker 1: just was a getting another fantastic production on Saturday night.
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: One thing a couple of people on the text line
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  Speaker 1: wanted us to talk about. Remember we talked about Brendan Soresby,
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  Speaker 1: the Texas Tech quarterback Chris who got allegedly or it
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  Speaker 1: looked like apparently suspended for gambling on college sports. Well,
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  Speaker 1: a judge in Texas rolled this morning that he was
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  Speaker 1: going to give Soresby a preliminary injunction that prevents the
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  Speaker 1: NCAA from punishing the Texas Tech quarterback for violating its
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  Speaker 1: rules on sports gambling. Judge Ken Curry. This is from
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  Speaker 1: the ESPN dot com story on this case. Judge Ken
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  Speaker 1: Curry in Texas, maybe a Texas Tech donor for all
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  Speaker 1: we know, ruled that Soarsby's attorney's demonstrated he will suffer
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  Speaker 1: a quote, probable, imminent and irreparable injury if he's unable
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  Speaker 1: to play for the Red Raiders in twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 1: and enjoin the NCAAA. En joined meaning prohibited from practicing
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  Speaker 1: or playing this fall, So the NCAA cannot suspend him
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  Speaker 1: for the entire season.
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  Speaker 4: According to the judge in.
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  Speaker 1: Texas, Sowersby will still miss Texas Tech's first two games.
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  Speaker 1: That was the penalty that had been proposed by his attorneys.
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  Speaker 1: Sawersby had been ruled ineligible by the NCAAA after it
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  Speaker 1: was discovered he had waged approximately ninety thousand dollars on
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  Speaker 1: professional and college sports over four years, including forty bets
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  Speaker 1: involving Indiana football when he was a freshman with the
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  Speaker 1: Hoosiers in twenty twenty two. The NCAA denied Texas Tech's
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  Speaker 1: appeal for reinstatement on Friday. But now the judge instead
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  Speaker 1: is found in favor of Soreersby. And here we go
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: again we talk about the NCAA. Remember, the NCAA is
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  Speaker 1: not just his body of building in Indianapolis. It's the
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  Speaker 1: member schools and the presidents of those member schools that
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  Speaker 1: vote on the legislation and what the NCAA does. But
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: the NCAAA can't get anything done because every time they
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  Speaker 1: try to do something, they get sued or they get
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  Speaker 1: a priminary in junction in court. Let's suspend the guy
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  Speaker 1: who's betting on college sport. Nope, judge says, can't do that.
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  Speaker 1: So the whole reason that the NCAA keeps looking at
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: Congress to clean up NIL and the transfer portal and
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: just wayward crazy money that's going around college sports to
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: athletes in basketball and football, is because they know they'll
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: get sued if they do something. If they try to
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: stop a player from making five million dollars or going
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: above the twenty point five million dollar revenue share cap
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: and to try to limit that and put guardrails in,
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: they know they're going to get sued. This is just
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: another example of college sports not being able to govern itself.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: One because they have college presidents who are so greedy
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: and just the havelves want to keep getting bigger, be
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: bigger halves. And two because whenever they do try to
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: do something, the courts step in or the lawyers step
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: in and they sue them, Lawyers get paid, injunctions get filed,
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: and nothing changes. And here we are wild wild West
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: of money and lawlessness and what rules. So apparently you
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: can bet on college sports ninety thousand dollars worth and
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: still play because whatever rules the NCAA and it's member
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: schools that put in don't stand a test of the
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: local court.
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: Anyway.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: Have all the things to fix in college sports. We
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: could begin by allowing the schools to fix themselves and
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: not have lawyers in filing injunctions and court rulings that
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: who knows what kind of a partisanship is. I'm just
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: suppositioning that if you're a Texas judge's ruling this, that
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: there might be some home court advantage there. But you
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: can sense maybe a frustration on the presidents in the universities.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: What can we do, which is why they're going to Congress,
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: And know what Congress is trying to do is that
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: they're trying to have a bipartisan bill. Senator Maria Cantwell
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: here in Washington is part of a very unusual arrangement
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: with Ted Cruz, a partnership with Ted Cruz out of
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: Texas to try to get a bipartisan bill to fix
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: college sports. And even that can't get It's settled because
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: many people in Congress, Chris are the ones who want
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: to keep the halves to get even more halves because
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: they're like from the go to old boy network or
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: the Southeastern Conference or from the Big Ten. If you're
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: a Michigan Ohio congressman, you don't want to put in
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: anything that would limit the revenues and the riches from
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: Michigan Ohio State football.
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: You get voted out office. Same at Alabama or LSU.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: It's just a it's a mess, to say the least.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: It did start by them, not the NCAAA, the college
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: presidents not wanting to do anything for fear of getting sued,
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: and now everything happens because there are no guardrails. But
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: now you get to the point where they try to
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: put in guardrails and they can't get that done either.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: It's a for those of us who love college sports.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: And loved the schools we went to, and those of
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: you who give money to athletic department programs to support
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: it and to try to make keep them competitive.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: It's.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Ay much more left before you just go, I'm going
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: to spend my money elsewhere. I'm going to give to philanthropy,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: or I'm gonna give to ballet, or I'm gonna give
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: to the symphony, or I'm going to give to the
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: science department instead of the football team. It's frustrating, to
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: say the least, four nine four five one on the
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: komodage text line in your opinions on that on Soresby
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: being reinstated by a judge in Texas. Can you imagine
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: if a U dub quarterback was suspended by the NCAA
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: and a judge in Seattle, RU We'll.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: Just think of it like this.
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: Player admits to gambling violations, but he's allowed to play
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: on Saturdays. That's embarrassing. That shows that we are far,
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: far worried about the wrong things.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: In NLI.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: Excuse me, n L, I can't get the words right.
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. In IL, yes, it's an issue,
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: but my goodness, dude just was like, yeah, I gambled,
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: excuse me, and he's gonna miss two games, but on
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: that third game he it very well be playing.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: And I don't even know what Texas Tech schedule is,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: but you can bet if the lawyers for him had
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: proposed it that they're playing West Texas A and M
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: and Abilene Private School for and then they're going to
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: play Texas A and M or somebody in week three.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: I mean that just how it works, right.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: It's sad this guy is about to Scott free after
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: doing something where if you did an NBA you're banned
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: for life. Yeah, that's right, Like we're talking about a
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: subject those are professional. I mean, these guys are basically
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: professional exactly. But when it comes down to it, we're
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: talking about a professional. Like if a NFL player had
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: done these things, it wouldn't be a question.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: He's out the league. College are like, we'll go, we
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: want to fight this.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: You get a good lawyer and you win eat, which
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: is really really bad. It's a viol it's a violation.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: You're gambling on your sport that you play in. I
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: can see you're gambling on tennis.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: It's like, what does this.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: Guy know about tennis? I mean it's not good, but okay,
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: what is it? Like how he does doesn't know about it?
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: Like that he doesn't even play it. You would have
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: a better argument there, and then I'd be like, Okay,
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: he misses two games, but that that's just that's a
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: big concern for college football.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: I'm just gonna leave it at that.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Pete Famil of ESPN reporting today that the just made
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: me chuckle quote. The general tenor around college athletics overus
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: the Soresby ruling is one of disgust. Well, yeah, because
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: if you're in college athletics, you're like, what the hell
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: can we do? We try to suspend a guy that
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: judge says, throws it out? What can we do? Congress?
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Please help? Congress is like, I like my fifty yard
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: line seats at Alabama home games. I'm not gonna put
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: in any guardrails that limit the Crimson Tide from their
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: football program, just running amuck and spending as much money
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: as it wants to. Come on, man, you want me
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: voted at office, so it goes you know who else
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: wins through this whole thing, Chris, the lawyers that charge
• 19:54
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  Speaker 5: All right, I talked about my running experience over the
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  Speaker 5: his last name right, but Dylan from and a chord
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  Speaker 5: Each year that track produces, that track me produces outstanding performances.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, that's some good stuff. Theah, thank you appreciate that
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  Speaker 4: and good to get some visibility on that.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir from the four two five Stanley Cup finals.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: Off the hook, Dan Wilson should be should ban a
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: Rosermina from ever challenging a strike ball challenge again. He
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: hasn't won a challenge since eighteen ninety three. Yeah, well
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: played there, I said, you did see.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: What you did there to the first Stanley Cup in
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: eighteen ninety three. Well done, well done. Two five three
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: says I'm a huge Capital, huge old cap letters soccer
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: fan and the World Cup as an event I wait
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: for every four years.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: I absolutely love all the games.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: However, I will not be attending games at Seattle anywhere
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: else because of ticket prices, traffic, security, and just general
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: world and local politics. The games are on TV and
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: I will keep my money. This state takes on its own, Yes,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: and no we don't. Yeah, we don't have an income
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: tax yet. For most of us.
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: From the two five to three, I'm excited the World
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: Cup is coming to the US, but personally I can't
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: stand the crowds already traffic ridden, shadow conditions, and I
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: don't want to give the FIFA cartel any of my
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: own money either.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the FIFA cartel. That's not an inaccurate statement. This
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: is go ahead, Okay.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: My biggest problem from the two five to three is
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: why does Dan Wilson feel like he needs to platoon
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: players a lot of the time.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: I don't get it because it usually doesn't work. Yeah,
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: that's that. We weren't even talking about that subject today.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: That's another one that fans are pretty excited about.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: A lot of options, a lot of opinions, I should say.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: On what to do about Muno's in the closing situation,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: there's a lot on there. One of us wants to
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: one of the four to five wants to get Luisa
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: raise from the giants, Keith Muno's monitors pitching. Hopefully we'll
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: get out of it like the Rock did. Oh, that's
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: our buddy, the coast. Guardo day guy.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: Appreciate the love well. I don't know, what do you
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: think about.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Louise, Louise Castillo, Lisa Rees. I don't know that they
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: need to add another closer candidate other than fix the
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: ones they have. I still think they should do a committee.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I think when the matchups, say the seventh or eighth
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: inning might be the highest levee.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: Bring in Munios.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Then if it's not a safe situation, so be it
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: and not in the ninth inning, and then bring in Ferrara.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: If it's favorable for a left hander to come in,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: then we know that Munos eats up right handers, so
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: if it's a right handers in the ninth, okay, if
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: the right handers are in the eighth, bring him in
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the eighth.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: That's what I would do.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Chuck two five three Chuck gave up some brought up
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: some great stats this morning that Munyos needs to pitch more,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: as the aria is below one when he has one
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: day rest and his eria is nine plus on days
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: of two or more rest. I agree that we need
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: to go back to Scott's service times and just do
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: matchups rather than have a closer. It's true service did
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: option often do that? What happens in baseball is once
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: a guy like Andre's Munos makes two All Star Games
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: as a closer and then you start paying him like that,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: then you want to pay him as a closer and
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: keep him in closer safe situations. That's what those guys
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: get paid to do. And so then you get that
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: was a different Munos five years ago or even three
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: years ago, and now that he is your closer and
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: you're paying him as one, then you put him in
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: closer situations. That that's the rationale anyway. I think their
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: job is to win games, and if the right handers
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: are in the eighth, bring him in the eighth. If
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: it's not a safe situation, so what you still pay
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: him for winning games? And if he's winning games in
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: the eighth, to win the game in the eighth. That's
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but I understand why they do it
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: the way they do it. I don't think they should
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: always do it the way they did it.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: From the five eight five.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: If a foural sweep by the Knicks happened, where would
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: you rank this Knicks team among other NBA championship teams.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: That's a fun one.
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: I think there's a probably a handful of teams you
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: just in a tier of their own. I think the
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: what is it, the ninety six Bulls.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: Go ahead and give me.
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: I know this is probably unfair, but give me the
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: twenty seventeen Warriors, because KD and Stephan them boys, that
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: was I mean, they won seventy nine games, was it?
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: So yeah, well we'll fill them in there. The two
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: thousand and one Los Angeles Lakers, when Kobe and Shack
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: were just you guys. You guys remember that, and I
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: forget with Lakers team in the eighties.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: You can probably help me out with that.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Greg Worthy and Magic and that seventy nine they beat
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: the Sixers.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: That was the rookie year for Magic Johnson. But later
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: on later years though in the eighties didn't have another
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: ruly Yeah, they beat the Celtics eighty six. I think
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: it was the eighty seven.
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: So the eighty seven Lakers, I think is as one
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: of those tier one levels. Yeah, Knicks ain't in that.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: The Knicks are probably in that, you know, I agree
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: with the Wade. You know, i'd have to go make
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: a list, but I don't think they're in. I think
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: the teams that I just gave you the championship teams.
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: You just can't match those unfortunately.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: You know the story of Magic Johnson nineteen seventy nine
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: rookie season out of Michigan State.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: When Kareem got hurt in the finals he played Cell.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: You probably watched the documentary about I've read about it,
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: seen it. Yes, Yes, that was amazing to watch live.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: I couldn't.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Here's this point guard playing low posts of Kareem and
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: taking the home six months of school with the rim
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: it was. It was amazing.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: Twoo six, says moonas much pitch more. That's right to
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  Speaker 4: the point. Yeah, that's that's That's what Chuck was saying earlier.
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  Speaker 5: From the three six to oh last one for me
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: as we got the mayor on Dick. The manners are
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: like the casino. I swear I'm off, but it only
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: takes one day then I go back.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because they're always there from now until October twoo six.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: This is an interesting, interesting perspective. In nineteen ninety four,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: when the World Cup was in the United States, FIFA
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: sold tickets to the next day matches at the box office.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Walk up prices were thirty dollars. Did this do in
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: discouraged scalping Boy wouldn't that be something if you could
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: walk up prices even even with inflation, say they were
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: one hundred dollars, they would still be sold out in seconds.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: But the problem is today there's so many avenues for
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: those people to then turn around and resell them on
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: the secondary market.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: All you need are thumbs and phone and that's the Yeah.
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• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Maybe I'll ask him if he's going to a World
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Cup match. He ends up next with me next on
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• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Bellt Show at Christopher Kid Live on ninety three point
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• 29:30
  Speaker 1: We've talked about these NBA Finals, five thousand dollars to
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: get in price. Tonight at Madison Square Garden for the
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: first Infness is rolling his eyes the first finals game
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: inside the world's most famous.
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: The sporting event, I mean NBA Finals, NHL Finals, World Cup,
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: I mean, god, you got money to burn? I guess
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: that I don't. I don't fathom, but whatever, And then
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: the whole thing. There else, the fact that you can't
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: even all those Knicks fans that want to go hang
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: out and stuff can't do that because the selfishness of
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: the guy at sixteen hundred Pennsylvania.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Yes, I just we talked about the fact that there
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: will be no watch party outside Madison Square.
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: Cards. That's messed up, man, that's messed up.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: That's just not right.
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: This is like it's the super Bowl is a different thing,
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: you know, because it's football is a different thing because
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: they don't do those types of things. But NBA finals,
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: Stanley Cup finals, when people you know, because you only
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: get eighteen thousand people in the building, right, how many
• 30:27
  Speaker 7: people in New York seven eight billion, million.
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: Billion, I think million billion, whatever. Yeah, it's whatever.
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: But yeah, I just hope there's hope Antonio wins, just
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: to have a series because screaming, screaming sweep, right now.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: I'll just watch hockey and be happy with that. That's something.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Well, that one's going to go.
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: That one feels like it's going at least six or seven, right, sure?
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: Does?
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: I mean at two to one? I mean if Carolina
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: ties tomorrow and now we know where it's going, six, so.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: I'd start Bussy tomorrow. That was so fun watching him
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: the other night.
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: Good story, really good story. I'm surprised he hadn't played yet,
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: but they'd have so much. I mean, what were they
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: before the series? They were twelve and one right right
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: before this, before this series, So how do you go
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: away from him? But yeah, that no lead is safe
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: in that series, both teams have had two to nothing
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: leads and lost the game. Vegas had a four to
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: nothing lead and almost lost the game. So yeah, it's
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: it's compelling stuff for sure.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: It's really cool. Yeah you have And what's your interest level?
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: On a scale of one to ten on the World Cup?
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: Probably pseudo soccer day seven, six seven somewhere there?
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: Would you pay? I say six to seven? I'm sorry,
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: my apologies all the kids, all five kids, It's okay,
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: six or seven? Were sure?
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: There's kids in the car? Six seven?
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: Would you pay two three to go to a World Cup? Mat?
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: I don't know what I would pay, to be honest
• 31:46
  Speaker 7: with you, I've thought about that. We talked about a
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: little bit last week. I don't know what my drop
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: dead number is. I think it would have to How
• 31:52
  Speaker 7: do I feel that day? Do I want to deal?
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: With.
• 31:54
  Speaker 7: I mean, I'm talking about you know, President Trump going
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: to to Madison Square Garden and the shoes that's causing.
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: I mean, every World Cup game is going to have
• 32:02
  Speaker 7: those same type of issues. Sure, you know, all the
• 32:04
  Speaker 7: stuff they've got put up down by I'm still calling
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: it lum and field uh and uh settle. You know, yeah,
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: I'm not beholding the FIFA. So the you know, I
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: think maybe, I mean it might be of those impulse
• 32:18
  Speaker 7: things at last minute that if I see something. And
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: the thing is is a lot of those games are
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: going on and weren't on the air. So you know,
• 32:24
  Speaker 7: a lot of a lot of our games here are midday.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: Right three three noon, starts in one eight pm the
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: last one.
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah, so I mean it's probably not going to happen
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: for me. Yeah, So I don't even probably a moot point,
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: I guess in that sense, But I don't know what
• 32:37
  Speaker 7: I mean, probably a couple hundred bucks, you know, to
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: get in, But I don't know. I just I think
• 32:42
  Speaker 7: just for the experience of going to the World Cup,
• 32:45
  Speaker 7: I think that'd be fun. I think I think, you know,
• 32:47
  Speaker 7: if you're a sports fan, whether you're a huge soccer
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: fan or not, there's events you want to. I mean,
• 32:52
  Speaker 7: I'm lucky when when we saw the Kingdome and we
• 32:55
  Speaker 7: had regionals and final fours here. I went to some
• 32:57
  Speaker 7: of those, sat in the nosebleed and three level for
• 33:01
  Speaker 7: a couple of basketball games.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: The year that UCLA beat was it Arkansas in the
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: final Yeah, And it was the year that Brian Reeves
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: of Oklahoma State ripped down the rim.
• 33:09
  Speaker 7: At the King Oh yeah, big country yeah, big country.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 33:13
  Speaker 7: I mean I I saw UNLV duke. I think it
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: was from the three hundred level. So yeah, I mean
• 33:18
  Speaker 7: that was and that was kind of just a cool experience,
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: right to do that. But I don't know, it's Olympics.
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: I've been to the you know, we went to the
• 33:25
  Speaker 7: Olympics in Salt Lake when we lived there, went to
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: we just went to one event. Actually we went to
• 33:29
  Speaker 7: a bunch of post events. They did a great thing there.
• 33:32
  Speaker 7: They did the metal ceremonies were at night, yea, in
• 33:35
  Speaker 7: a big area that they built right across from the
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: Delta Center. They had concerts there and stuff like that,
• 33:40
  Speaker 7: and we would so we would go down there and
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: hang out and just kind of get the vibe of
• 33:43
  Speaker 7: downtown Salt Lake because it was very much not like
• 33:45
  Speaker 7: normal Salt Lake. Even though it really turned into a
• 33:48
  Speaker 7: domestic Olympics because of nine to eleven, there was still
• 33:51
  Speaker 7: enough of an international flavor there that was really kind
• 33:53
  Speaker 7: of fun. And in Salt Lake they have a pretty
• 33:55
  Speaker 7: cool thing called mass transit that's actually usable and workable
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: for most people. So we would jump on that go down.
• 34:01
  Speaker 7: So we did that a couple times. Went to a
• 34:02
  Speaker 7: hockey game. I'm really glad we sat Canada Sweden hockey.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: It was awesome.
• 34:05
  Speaker 7: But even that was a pain, and part of it
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: was just post nine to eleven, all the security getting in.
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: But I'm glad we did those things. And and but yeah,
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: the middle of Cup, I don't know what the drop
• 34:15
  Speaker 7: dead number is. I now you asked me my interest level.
• 34:18
  Speaker 7: Now I'm thinking about it. On Saturday, just kind of
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: after the Mariners game was kind of out of hand
• 34:24
  Speaker 7: and what have you like? I flipped on I watched
• 34:27
  Speaker 7: the friendly between Germany and US.
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: That was some goal at the folly in the first half.
• 34:33
  Speaker 7: A goal that you don't see often enough in soccer
• 34:37
  Speaker 7: at that level most of the time, those guys, because
• 34:39
  Speaker 7: of the power and the strength they have in their
• 34:41
  Speaker 7: in their legs. That ball ends up in the upper
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: deck and the fact that he went bar down and
• 34:46
  Speaker 7: not nail that was was sensational. So yeah, I mean
• 34:48
  Speaker 7: so I watched that. In fact, I watched that and
• 34:51
  Speaker 7: they lost two to one, and I felt really good
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: about the US.
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: To Germany, a top ten team in the world.
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I thought they played top Yeah, I thought
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: they played well and that kind of I'll be excited,
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: like on Friday when the US plays. I think we
• 35:03
  Speaker 7: might have something going on with some neighbors and and
• 35:05
  Speaker 7: I'd much rather watch that than America game. Yeah on Friday,
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: because whatever where they at Friday, The US is in
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: other No, No, the Mariners where they at. They're in
• 35:12
  Speaker 7: Baltimore in Washington. Yeah, ok, yeah, give me the US game.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Anyway, we started to show off and I gave an
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: ode to Bill Stevens.
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah you did that. Yeah, I just wanted your thoughts
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: on Bills.
• 35:26
  Speaker 7: Just for people to know. The sports information director aka
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: the PR guy at Wazoo for Athletics for a long
• 35:32
  Speaker 7: three decades, three plus decades. Great guy, challenging job at times, yes,
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: uniquely challenging, uniquely challenging in a lot of ways. He
• 35:42
  Speaker 7: doesn't have a lot of traditional media there every day.
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: Probably was at the forefront of having guys that are
• 35:48
  Speaker 7: the I hate using the terminal use it, the bloggers
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: and the you know kind of the website guys as
• 35:53
  Speaker 7: opposed to you know, traditional media. Although he would have
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: people come down from Spokane. They have had a beat
• 35:58
  Speaker 7: writer for the Spokesman. But at the same time, the
• 36:01
  Speaker 7: challenge is how do you promote a product that's in
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: a small market. And then the challenges he had over
• 36:08
  Speaker 7: the years with the different coaches he had. I mean,
• 36:11
  Speaker 7: you know it's he you know, from Mike Price awesome,
• 36:15
  Speaker 7: but you know, quirky to Dobe's the nicest guy on
• 36:19
  Speaker 7: the planet. The Paul Wolf era was awful, so was
• 36:22
  Speaker 7: most most so were most basketball eras, although he was
• 36:25
  Speaker 7: never the primary basketball guy, but outside of Tony Bennett
• 36:29
  Speaker 7: and a year of Kyle Smith, basketball was a challenge.
• 36:32
  Speaker 7: But then he had to deal with the pirate and
• 36:35
  Speaker 7: and I think he was the perfect guy for Mike
• 36:39
  Speaker 7: Leach in a lot of ways. I think he was
• 36:41
  Speaker 7: one of maybe the perfect guy because Bill's demeanor is
• 36:44
  Speaker 7: so mellow and and Leech is so out out of
• 36:48
  Speaker 7: the box wild. I was gonna tell a story later
• 36:50
  Speaker 7: this week. We'll do a little something good for Bill.
• 36:52
  Speaker 7: But I just had one of the greatest things is
• 36:55
  Speaker 7: he a handful of times went over there and kind
• 36:58
  Speaker 7: of combined with radio and at Fox doing stuff, and
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: every time Bill's like, Okay, he's got to be here here.
• 37:05
  Speaker 7: So you got this amount of time and it never worked.
• 37:07
  Speaker 7: And it wasn't because of Bill. It was because of
• 37:09
  Speaker 7: Leach on his own on schedule, right, Yeah, and uh,
• 37:12
  Speaker 7: and you know he dealt with Rollovich and the COVID thing.
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: That was a nightmare. Yeah, for the school.
• 37:18
  Speaker 7: And for Bill and for everybody the athletic department. So
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: departures of athletic directors, you know, the way the guy
• 37:23
  Speaker 7: left Bill, the way Bill Moose left in the middle
• 37:25
  Speaker 7: of the night to go to Nebraska.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: The disintegration of the PAC twelve right and kicked it
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: basically kicked Washington State in Oregon State to the curve.
• 37:33
  Speaker 7: And at the same time, months later, had to deal
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: with his athletic director just bailing on the school and
• 37:37
  Speaker 7: having to kind of pick up the pieces from that
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: to go to a rival school. So yeah, it's it's
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: he's had some challenges and he's done it with nothing
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: but class and and Wazoo was better off with Bill Stevens. There,
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: I know who's taken over. And Bobby's gonna do a
• 37:49
  Speaker 7: great job. And much like you know what, Jeff does
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: a great job. Jeff Beck told does a great job
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: you does. You know, we're lucky in that. I've worked
• 37:55
  Speaker 7: with a lot of athletic directors a lot of different markets,
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: and I can tell you that that whether it be better,
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: I told it you to Bill at Wazoo. Those two
• 38:02
  Speaker 7: guys were in illeague.
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: Of their owns. You're here, ye, friend of mine? What
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: do you get today?
• 38:06
  Speaker 7: We're going to get into a little bit of the
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: rough story again. Mike Sandel's going to join us at
• 38:10
  Speaker 7: two o'clock. He wrote a great column in The Athletic
• 38:12
  Speaker 7: you reference to day on your show about Russ and
• 38:14
  Speaker 7: the Hall of Fame manners obviously coming up Molly Wap
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: at one o'clock we'll get into that. How much blame
• 38:20
  Speaker 7: is on Munio's how much blame is on the lack
• 38:22
  Speaker 7: of usage for Munyos? Yeah, I don't know, like it's
• 38:26
  Speaker 7: I think there's some more people that are culpable than
• 38:29
  Speaker 7: just the guy that couldn't throw strikes, So we'll get
• 38:30
  Speaker 7: into that a little bit. And then the college sport.
• 38:33
  Speaker 7: I just wrote this down on my notes. College sports
• 38:35
  Speaker 7: are broken. Oh thanks, tips, really thanks. We'll get into
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: that a little bit too. The Brendon Soaresby situation, and
• 38:42
  Speaker 7: watch you weave it into something here down Montlake as well.
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: We'll do that all coming out. Oh, I bet you
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: have a pleasure doing that.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: And Forness will do that with Anderson Hurst, who has
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: a team USA.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: Is that a roll Don jersey on? No name on
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: the back? Oh, no name, Yeah, just a jersey. I'm
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: a fan of the team on the shuter back.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Thank you, sir, Anderson Hurst is USA World Cup jersey.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: They join you next, Chris Kid, Greg Bell, appreciate you listening.
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: We'll do it again tend a noon.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: I'll be at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center with Ian
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: tomorrow for the start of Seahawks' training camp on ninety
• 39:15
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• 39:19
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