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Furness Show 8-27: Brandon Montour, Eno Sarris, Brandon Funston · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Doing well.
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  Speaker 3: It's good to be back, like you said. Good to
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  Speaker 3: sleep in for a couple extra hours here and there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Excited.
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  Speaker 2: Excited. You're at the 32 today, huh?
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: We are at the 32. We've got some news we're
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  Speaker 1: going to get to coming up here in about 15 minutes' time.
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  Speaker 1: So stand by for that.
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  Speaker 2: Cracking news. Let's go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you there's a reason and a big
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  Speaker 1: reason we're here today. Not just for giggles. I was
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  Speaker 1: almost going to say, I was also going to use
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  Speaker 1: softies term.
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  Speaker 2: What is it?
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  Speaker 1: Shiggles and gets not just here for shiggles and gets
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  Speaker 1: me every time i like.
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  Speaker 3: My hand hovers over the dump button when someone says
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  Speaker 3: that so yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes so we're here today uh big news coming up
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  Speaker 1: which we'll get to here in just a couple of
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  Speaker 1: moments uh lots going on out here i'll i'll fill
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  Speaker 1: you in at 12 20 what's going on there i'm
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  Speaker 1: chuckling at some people.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway is it the captain.
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  Speaker 1: He's filling in for Greg Bell tomorrow. You need a
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  Speaker 1: fix of the captain, you'll get your captain's fix tomorrow.
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: We've got a lot to get to today. First of all,
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: let's just tell you this. Brandon Funston is going to
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  Speaker 1: join us today at 2 p.m. It's another in our
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  Speaker 1: preview series for Fantasy Football. You love it. I love it.
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: We all love it. It's the unofficial start of the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk quarterbacks... And wide receivers today. I'll
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: tell you what, everyone, this is a VIP, how do
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  Speaker 1: I want to say this? This is a big shooter
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  Speaker 1: world that we're walking in. Some guy named Mike Wickey
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  Speaker 1: just walked in.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 1: And Samantha Holloway. You might have heard of her name before.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder what's going on.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Lots going on. There's lots going on out here. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: so stand by for all that at 1220. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: going to say this. I don't know how often you're
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  Speaker 1: sitting in a, restaurants, which, first of all, there's only
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  Speaker 1: one that's adjacent to a facility here. The Mariners don't
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  Speaker 1: have that, although they've got a halfback, I guess, or
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks. The owner walks by and just says hi.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, hi.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, how are you?
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  Speaker 1: Hey, John Stan, what's going on? Hey, Coastal family, you're
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  Speaker 1: Jody Allen. What's going on? Anyway, we've got that going on. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to spend some time on everything, a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more at one. We can sink our teeth into it,
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  Speaker 1: Mariners and Seahawks. And Eno Saris is going to join
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  Speaker 1: us at 1.30 to talk Mariners with us today. Brian
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  Speaker 1: Wu struggles yesterday. Is Cal back?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: 0 for 4. We'll get to that and so much more. Again, Funston,
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  Speaker 1: if you have a question for your fantasy football draft
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  Speaker 1: or keepers or trades, 49451. We'll get to all that
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  Speaker 1: coming up at 2 p.m. this afternoon. So all that
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  Speaker 1: taking place. Let me start here. Leonard Williams re-signs with
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks. I haven't seen anything from them. I haven't checked.
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  Speaker 1: But with all the different outlets reporting it, it's a
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  Speaker 1: done deal. Three different, or a three-year extension is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: For a guy that a lot of people thought was
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  Speaker 1: probably going to retire in the next year or so,
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  Speaker 1: maybe even after this year. And this dude's sticking around.
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  Speaker 1: He is sticking around. And I think that is just
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  Speaker 1: an absolute... I think there's two things with it, Anders. One,
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  Speaker 1: it shows you the culture and who and where they're
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  Speaker 1: at right now. Like, what's going on. It tells you
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  Speaker 1: everything you need to know about the Seahawks. The guys, like,
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  Speaker 1: for example, DeMarcus Lawrence. He was going to retire. He
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  Speaker 1: said he was going to retire. Even after winning the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Wants to come back and run it back,
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  Speaker 1: try to go back-to-back, which just doesn't happen all that often.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a big one. Number two on that list,
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  Speaker 1: and I think this is really wild is I think
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  Speaker 1: you have a situation with Mike McDonald. Guys want to
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  Speaker 1: play for him, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Guys definitely want to play for him, and I think
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  Speaker 1: that's a big thing. Guys want to play for Mike McDonald.
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  Speaker 1: That's huge. We're going to talk to Brandon Montour at 1245.
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  Speaker 1: That was the story of this offseason for the Kraken
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  Speaker 1: is the fact that guys allegedly didn't want to be here. Like,
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  Speaker 1: and I say guys, one in particular in Jason Robertson,
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  Speaker 1: but he didn't want to go anywhere besides Dallas. But
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  Speaker 1: for some reason, Seattle got trashed. It comes with a
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  Speaker 1: winning culture. Going places comes with a win. I think
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  Speaker 1: the Mariners, we've talked about that over the years with
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  Speaker 1: the Mariners, right? Like, they will get some guys, but
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times they've got to overpay for guys.
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  Speaker 5: For sure.
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  Speaker 1: Hell, even a nothing burger, yeah, even a nothing burger like,
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  Speaker 1: what's his face, Rob Refsnyder. You had to overpay for him.
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  Speaker 1: They had to overpay for him. But even over the years,
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  Speaker 1: whether it be Cano or Cruz, guys like that, that
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  Speaker 1: they've wanted to get here, they've had to overpay for
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  Speaker 1: guys just to get them here. The Seahawks just have
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  Speaker 1: guys that want to play in Seattle for that organization,
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  Speaker 1: for John Schneider, for Mike McDonald, or even delay retirement
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  Speaker 1: for a couple of years. I think it's a big deal,
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  Speaker 1: not just from a football standpoint, but I think just Also,
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  Speaker 1: the leadership he provides, all those other things. It's a
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  Speaker 1: big deal seeing Leonard Williams back for three more years.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're seeing kind of the effects that the
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  Speaker 3: culture has on the team during hard knocks. I think
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  Speaker 3: you're definitely seeing why Mike McDonald and a lot of
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  Speaker 3: guys have talked about this. But it's interesting to see
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  Speaker 3: it as fans. You're seeing why they all view him
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  Speaker 3: as a very genuine head coach. You've seen all these hype-up,
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  Speaker 3: rah-rah guys that just know what to say in the
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  Speaker 3: right moment, but you can tell it's not very genuine.
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  Speaker 2: And players... They're smart.
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  Speaker 3: They know when that's kind of BS, and they're just
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  Speaker 3: trying to say something to get them hyped up for
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  Speaker 3: that moment. That's not the case with Mike McDonald. They
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  Speaker 3: know that this guy is truly believing everything that he's saying,
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  Speaker 3: and he's trying to build something special here, and all
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  Speaker 3: the players are buying into it.
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  Speaker 2: It's another example.
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  Speaker 3: I also think it shows Leonard Williams, while he's 32,
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  Speaker 3: and you could maybe think football-wise, yeah, he's kind of
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  Speaker 3: on the tail end of his prime, so to speak.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, that might not be the case, because
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  Speaker 3: you see a lot of defensive tackles play into their
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  Speaker 3: late 30s. Um, and so I think that's going to
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  Speaker 3: be something that, um, is going to be just fine
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  Speaker 3: in terms of the, the, the actual physical side of things,
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  Speaker 3: but he's a big time leader on this team. You
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  Speaker 3: see him a bunch, uh, and I'll reference hard knocks
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  Speaker 3: again after Mike McDonald had the whole, uh, OJ, um,
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  Speaker 3: talk and Leonard Williams comes up to him and was like, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: thanks for sharing us. Thanks for sharing that with us.
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  Speaker 3: And like, he's kind of a good liaison between the
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  Speaker 3: coaching staff and uh, and the players and you could
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  Speaker 3: tell how much of a leadership presence he is. So it's,
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  Speaker 3: it's very important to have that in your, uh, team Mariners,
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  Speaker 3: Gino Suarez. Um, so valuing that is very, very important.
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  Speaker 3: You could see the Seahawks do that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. The Gino thing is weird. I, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Is he, is he, what was it? 3 million? It
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  Speaker 1: would cost them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, that's a lot for one month, but, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: for God's sake.
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  Speaker 1: You make that in beer sales.
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  Speaker 3: In one week.
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  Speaker 4: 100%.
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  Speaker 3: For these guys that are obsessed on value, though. That's
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  Speaker 3: just what they are.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a funny thing. I kind of like Weston Wilson.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know you do.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know why.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why. I guess I like the little guy.
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  Speaker 1: I like him. I like Rivas.
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  Speaker 5: Rodden.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Rodden, a 29-year-old rookie. Listen, Rodden's up because Emerson's
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  Speaker 1: got surgery.
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  Speaker 6: 100%.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's be honest. But I think if you look
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  Speaker 1: around with the organization, what are they missing? If you
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: really like going for it, go get Geno. He's not
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  Speaker 1: going to play every day. He's going to cost you
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: $ 3 million. My God, in baseball terms, that's nothing. You know,
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  Speaker 1: and you have them play. You bought out Ref Snyder,
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  Speaker 1: did you not?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I did.
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  Speaker 1: You can't care about money that much.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: Like, really, it can't be that frugal. You bring them
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  Speaker 1: in for a month. Let him get rah-rah, good vibes only.
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: Maybe he hits one or two out and makes a
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  Speaker 1: difference in a game or two, and you're like, okay, cool.
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  Speaker 2: And there's no negative to this besides the money.
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  Speaker 5: Zero.
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  Speaker 3: He is a better player than Weston Wilson and Patrick Wisdom.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe the reason you like Patrick Wisdom so much, Ian,
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  Speaker 3: is he's— I don't like Wisdom.
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  Speaker 2: I like Wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, sorry, sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Weston Wilson is— wait for it— is a third baseman playing— wait for.
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  Speaker 2: It— third base. which the Mariners have not had in the
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  Speaker 2: last couple of years. Besides when they traded for Suarez, right?
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's the other thing watching him play right now.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like, yeah, JP's back, but Donovan's hurt.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Again, I know we're all shocked by that.
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  Speaker 2: Shocking to know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was a freak accident. Stuff happens and,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't want to, he didn't want to get
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  Speaker 1: hurt by any means, but dude hasn't been able to
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  Speaker 1: stay healthy all year.
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  Speaker 6: It's true.
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  Speaker 1: So like, Are you really confident he's going to stay
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  Speaker 1: healthy if you take this long run in September and
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  Speaker 1: maybe even find your way into October?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like, really? Are we sure?
• 9:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's just like... Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Ward you bring in, you're supposed to get on base.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: Has one walk as a Mariner. I'm like, what?
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  Speaker 1: And maybe checking notes here real fast, this just in,
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  Speaker 1: led the league in walks before he came here. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God.
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  Speaker 2: So wild.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: Hey, they still had a 4-2 home.
• 9:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they did.
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: And we'll touch on that a little bit more coming
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  Speaker 1: up at 1 o'clock today. And then Eno's going to
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: join us at 1.30 for some baseball conversation as well. Again,
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  Speaker 1: it's the unofficial start of the weekend. Coming up today
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  Speaker 1: at 2 o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: I need some help.
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  Speaker 3: I have not done my rankings for my fantasy football
• 9:34
  Speaker 3: leagues yet, so Funston's going to help me out today.
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: Well, if you subscribe to The Athletic, all you've got
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: to do is download the Excel sheet. I figured out
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: how to download and customize the Excel sheet.
• 9:43
  Speaker 5: There you go.
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: That's what's crazy.
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: That is crazy. That's the breaking news of the day.
• 9:47
  Speaker 2: Let's be honest.
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: If I can figure that out, anybody can figure out
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: how it works. So you can do that as well
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: at theathletic.com. So Funston's going to join us. Just dial
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  Speaker 1: in at 2 o'clock. 49451. We'll get a couple. phone
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: calls in if you like as well. But we'll go
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: through quarterback rankings and wide receiver rankings, which are always
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: big for him. This year, not as much. I think
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: he's more high in the running backs, judging on last week.
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: Quarterbacks are big, especially if it's super flex leagues. We'll
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  Speaker 1: do that with Funston coming up then. All right. Brandon
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  Speaker 1: Montour is going to join us coming up at 1245.
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: from the 32 Bar and Grill, but that's where I
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: am today. 32 Bar and Grill, Kraken Community Iceplex, hanging
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: out here today, and there's a big reason why, which
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: would be a big announcement, very big announcement, and we
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: are going to give that to you from the 32
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  Speaker 7: Now back to Ian Furness on your home for the Huskies, Kraken,
• 10:44
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  Speaker 1: Don't forget Funston at 2. 4-9-4-5-1, your questions for the
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: guru of all things fantasy football. We've prepped you up,
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  Speaker 1: ready to go. Unofficial start of the weekend. Eno Serra's
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: coming up at 1.30 today. We'll ask him what the
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: hell's wrong with Brian Wu and is Cal fixed? We'll
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: get to that at 1.30 today. But we're here today
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: at 32 Barn Grill for a really special reason. We've
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: been talking about some stuff for a while. Wanted to
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: come out here and we're waiting for everything to get
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: figured out and done and taken care of. And I
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: always like coming out here, seeing Kenny Moriarty and the
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  Speaker 1: great crew at the 32 Bar and Grill. Maybe grab
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: a bite to eat. But my personal preferences don't matter.
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: Why we're here today is much bigger than that. Sports
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: Radio 93.3 KJR FM, formerly Sports Radio 950 KJR AM,
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  Speaker 1: the longest, oldest, original sports station here in Seattle. Longtime
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: home of the Huskies, but really the home of the
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: fan in Seattle. And this goes back almost four decades
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: to the days when Keith Shipman and Rick Dupree were
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: first hosting shows. And you go through the years with
• 12:13
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  Speaker 1: and all the other greats that have come through here
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  Speaker 1: and hosted shows and have been the place where you,
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: the fan, has come to as well. And it's an
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: interesting world in radio these days. Not just sports talk radio,
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: but sports broadcasting and sports radio as a whole, but
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: just radio, period, is an interesting thing. I'm a big
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: believer in local news and local sports radio is always
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: going to have a place on your dial, is always
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: going to have a role in a community, is always
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: going to have a place that sports fans in their
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: locale can feel like, hey, that's mine. There's certain ways
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: you do that. Compelling sports talk. Hosts that you can
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  Speaker 1: relate to. Hosts that you know that have equity in
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  Speaker 1: the market. A guy like Softee who's been here for
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: 65 years. And others. But you want that. You want
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: all those things as far as sports radio and sports
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: on the radio is concerned. The other thing you want
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: on sports radio and on the radio would be live sports.
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: We are the home for the Huskies. Football and basketball.
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  Speaker 8: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: And, no, we are. And it's actually, it's one of the,
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  Speaker 1: it's for KJR. KJR made Husky football, took it to
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: a different level years ago. It left briefly. It's back
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: where it belongs. Excited for Elise Woodward, who's the new
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: voice of the Huskies this year, my former partner on
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: the radio. She gets the opportunity to sit in the
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: booth that was occupied by the Hall of Famer Bob
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  Speaker 1: Rondo at one point and then Tony Castricone as well.
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: but we're the home of the Huskies and real proud
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: to be the home of the Huskies. We have also
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: been the home for the last few years of the
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  Speaker 1: Seattle Kraken since day one. Edward Fitzhugh is the radio
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  Speaker 1: voice of the Seattle Kraken, and he's with me right now.
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  Speaker 1: I'll let you do the honors.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, it is a big day, and you talked about
• 14:11
  Speaker 9: the changing world of sports radio and sports broadcasting and
• 14:16
  Speaker 9: play-by-play in general, and this is an organization since day
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  Speaker 9: one that has always been committed to the radio broadcast,
• 14:24
  Speaker 9: to bringing every listener, every fan in our region, Washington, Alaska, Oregon, Idaho,
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  Speaker 9: parts of Montana, comprehensive Kraken coverage.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: And today we have.
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  Speaker 9: Announced a multi-year extension with the Kraken Audio Network, KJR,
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  Speaker 9: iHeart as well, to continue being the flagship home for
• 14:46
  Speaker 9: Seattle Kraken Hockey. So all of our Preseason games, all
• 14:49
  Speaker 9: of our regular season games, all of our coming postseason games,
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  Speaker 9: the first run to the Stanley Cup final, hopefully in
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  Speaker 9: the next not-too-distant future, will all be heard right here
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  Speaker 9: on 93.3 and all across the 23-station Kraken Audio Network.
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  Speaker 1: Fitz, it's significant for us, selfishly at the radio station
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  Speaker 1: and at iHeart, to have this extension done, to continue...
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  Speaker 1: being the home of the Kraken for what will be,
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  Speaker 1: I guess when it's all said and done, at least
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  Speaker 1: a decade and hopefully a lot longer. But how significant
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  Speaker 1: is this in today's NHL? It's massive. I would say
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  Speaker 1: not just today's, today's NHL, NBA, everywhere. Well, I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 1: number one, it's huge. When you have five teams in
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: the NHL right now that are simulcasting their television and
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: their radio broadcasts, on the radio.
• 15:43
  Speaker 9: It's a completely different game. When you look at the NBA,
• 15:46
  Speaker 9: a number of radio broadcasters don't travel with their teams.
• 15:50
  Speaker 9: You have a team in the Seattle Kraken that is
• 15:52
  Speaker 9: not only committed to the radio side, they are committed
• 15:55
  Speaker 9: to putting their games on the radio, they are committed
• 15:57
  Speaker 9: to putting as much energy and effort and time into
• 16:01
  Speaker 9: their radio product as they do their TV products.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: And it shows.
• 16:05
  Speaker 9: And Terry Ryan, our engineer, one of the best that
• 16:09
  Speaker 9: we have in the city, definitely, but in the NHL
• 16:13
  Speaker 9: as a whole. I mean, there is no broadcast that
• 16:15
  Speaker 9: sounds better. There is no broadcast, I think, that is
• 16:18
  Speaker 9: promoted better in the NHL than the one that we
• 16:21
  Speaker 9: have right here with.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: iHeart and KJR.
• 16:23
  Speaker 9: So this is massive because you've got teams who are
• 16:27
  Speaker 9: going away from radio. And now Sam Holloway and Todd
• 16:31
  Speaker 9: Lewicki and the rest of Kraken Management are and ownership
• 16:34
  Speaker 9: are showing their commitment to the radio side of things,
• 16:37
  Speaker 9: to making sure that everybody in this region has access
• 16:42
  Speaker 9: to these games.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: KJR became a station and put its name on the
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: map as the home of the Sonics for forever, for
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: a long, long time. And that was, in fact, we
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: all talk about it, the beginning and the end of
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: the Sonics was in 2006 when they moved their radio
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: broadcasts off of KJR and onto a conservative talk station
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: with a signal that probably couldn't be heard from here
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: to the end of the practice rink here. And that
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: was it. But it also showed the lack of commitment here.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: It showed the lack of commitment to the fans. I
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: think that's what this is. This is for the fans. Now,
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: I'm very biased. I personally believe certain sports, if done right,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: are great on the radio. Baseball, for sure. And tip
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: of the cap to the great Rick Riz who's going
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: to step down after this season. A long time, 41
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: years as a radio voice for the Mariners.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: Give them something.
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: I mean, win one for the Rizzer, right?
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Win one for the Rizzer. You've got to get to
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: the playoffs for him. But, I mean, I grew up
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: listening to Dave Niehaus and then Rick as well. And
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Gary Hill, shout out to him, does a great job.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Baseball and radio is a little different than any other sport.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: But it's the sounds of summer, but it's done well.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: I think if you have a really top-notch basketball team,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Play-by-play announcer, it can be done well. It can be
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: done great. Kevin was that way. Kevin did simulcast, but
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: he was more concerned with the radio call than the
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: TV call and was phenomenal at it along the way.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Brian Wheeler, the late, great Brian Wheeler down in Portland
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: who worked at KJR, was the Blazers broadcaster. I listened
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: to a ton of his games. Brian was great. Right
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: corner three, boom, chuck-a-luck of the whole thing. He was great.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: You do a great job on our broadcast, and I
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: think hockey on the radio, if done right, with a
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: great play-by-play guy and the commitment to have a full-time
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: color analyst.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: And a studio host.
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Sounds awesome. And you mentioned what Terry Ryan does and
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: how the sounds of it, it pops. It pops. And
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: I think it's important. It's a great conduit because, listen,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: over here on the KHN side, on the TV side,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: not everybody's home at 3 or 4 o'clock.
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Not everybody's home at 7 when they're driving their kids,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: going all over the place, right? And going to get, like,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: we need hockey on the radio, and I think it's
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: done right by you guys.
• 18:55
  Speaker 9: And the one word that you said multiple times was commitment, right?
• 18:59
  Speaker 9: It is a commitment not only from, iHeart, not only
• 19:02
  Speaker 9: from KJR, but also from management here with the Seattle Kraken.
• 19:07
  Speaker 9: Everywhere in this building, there is that commitment to excellence,
• 19:11
  Speaker 9: whether it be on the radio, whether it be on
• 19:13
  Speaker 9: the television side. Getting this product into the homes of
• 19:17
  Speaker 9: as many people as we can, into the ears of
• 19:19
  Speaker 9: the devices of as many people as we can is crucial.
• 19:23
  Speaker 9: And the one thing that I've noticed, and you mentioned
• 19:25
  Speaker 9: all of the greats that we've had here in Seattle.
• 19:28
  Speaker 9: I'm not a Seattle native. I'm from Detroit. But this
• 19:31
  Speaker 9: is now my home. And I've had the privilege of
• 19:34
  Speaker 9: living in Chicago. I've lived near Cleveland. I've lived in Cincinnati.
• 19:38
  Speaker 9: I've got friends all over the country. There are very
• 19:41
  Speaker 9: few markets where sports radio not only moves the needle
• 19:45
  Speaker 9: in those communities, but it drives the conversation.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: People like yourself.
• 19:50
  Speaker 9: And Softie and Chucky in the morning literally drive a
• 19:54
  Speaker 9: lot of the sports conversation in this entire city. Sports radio,
• 20:01
  Speaker 9: sports talk radio, sports play-by-play matters here. For myself to
• 20:04
  Speaker 9: be able to be in the same city as a
• 20:07
  Speaker 9: Rondo and as a Riz and as a Niehaus and
• 20:10
  Speaker 9: as KC and even Castricone, a guy that I've gotten
• 20:12
  Speaker 9: to know pretty well, Elise Woodward, who I've gotten to
• 20:14
  Speaker 9: know throughout her time, my time here. There are some
• 20:19
  Speaker 9: great voices in this city, and you're right.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: You do it right.
• 20:22
  Speaker 9: The fans appreciate you. I have been very fortunate that
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: I've gotten nothing but love and kindness from the folks
• 20:29
  Speaker 9: here in Seattle and all over our region since the
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: day that I stepped foot in the city with my
• 20:34
  Speaker 9: wife and And now we've got a family here, and
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: this is our home. My son is a Seattleite. Last summer,
• 20:39
  Speaker 9: for the first time, when someone said, hey, where are
• 20:41
  Speaker 9: you from? I said Seattle. You know, I stopped saying, oh,
• 20:44
  Speaker 9: I'm from Detroit, but I moved. No, I'm from Seattle.
• 20:47
  Speaker 9: This is my hometown now. So it's an honor to
• 20:50
  Speaker 9: be here. It's an honor to work for the Kraken,
• 20:52
  Speaker 9: and it's an honor to be a part of KJR
• 20:54
  Speaker 9: and of the iHeart family to continue doing what I
• 20:58
  Speaker 9: love and bringing the game that I love to life
• 21:01
  Speaker 9: for so many people.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: How ever fits you with me again, Kraken and, uh,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: and I heart media, KJR radio sports radio, KJR, uh,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: announcing an extension, a multi-year extension with the team. So, uh,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Kraken hockey will continue to be here on 93.3 KJR
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: FM fits. I think the thing I just keep going
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: back to is this. It's a weird world we're living in,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: in the, in the business of broadcasting, uh, across, I mean, Vancouver,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: British Columbia, just, lost its final sports radio station. Calgary
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: as well. Calgary as well.
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: How do you have two Canadian NHL markets without a
• 21:36
  Speaker 9: functioning sports radio station?
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: The only game in town that matters in Vancouver would
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: be the Canucks, and that team doesn't travel its radio
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: broadcast team, and now that radio broadcast team is no
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: longer on a sports station. Instead, they're on a, they
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: call it, well, we have a station, Jack FM. It's
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: a play-everything-anytime-anywhere station. odd all the way around. How important
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: is it for the Kraken to have this where it's
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Mike Benton is doing 30 minutes pregame. You guys are
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: doing the game. We're doing an hour postgame on the radio.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: How important is that, especially compared to the rest of
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: the league?
• 22:06
  Speaker 9: I think it shows that legitimacy. It shows that hockey
• 22:11
  Speaker 9: isn't an afterthought. It shows that hockey does have a
• 22:14
  Speaker 9: place within our market, within our sports psyche. I'll go
• 22:20
  Speaker 9: back to the word again, commitment, right? Committing, putting the dollars,
• 22:23
  Speaker 9: putting the manpower behind making this product available, making it
• 22:29
  Speaker 9: a big deal. This is going into year six of
• 22:32
  Speaker 9: the Seattle Kraken, and we already have the second, third
• 22:35
  Speaker 9: largest radio affiliate network in the entire NHL. We're larger
• 22:40
  Speaker 9: than Detroit.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Speak on that for people who are wondering what that means.
• 22:41
  Speaker 9: So what that means is we have more affiliates now
• 22:45
  Speaker 9: around our region our region is larger geographically as far
• 22:49
  Speaker 9: as along with stations so land mass as well as
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: number of stations that broadcast our product there are only
• 22:59
  Speaker 9: two teams in the NHL that do more than we
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: do and that's Minnesota and that's Pittsburgh the Kraken have
• 23:05
  Speaker 9: more affiliates than Toronto they have more affiliates than the
• 23:08
  Speaker 9: Rangers then the Bruins then Detroit then Vegas name any
• 23:13
  Speaker 9: team outside of those two teams that And the Seattle Kraken,
• 23:16
  Speaker 9: our reach is wider and our reach is heavier than
• 23:20
  Speaker 9: all but two teams in the entire league. And we
• 23:23
  Speaker 9: just finished year five.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: And that's just the radio over the air terrestrial radio.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: That's just the radio over the air terrestrial radio. We've
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: got multiple affiliates in Alaska. We've got multiple affiliates in Oregon.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: We've got an affiliate closer to San Jose, the Sharks Market.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: than it is to Seattle. We've got affiliates all over Idaho.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: The western part of Montana, you can get Kraken hockey
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: in there as well. So again, we've taken this footprint,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: this Kraken media footprint, and wherever there are people, wherever
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: outposts there are, wherever major metro area, Spokane, Portland, Boise,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Kraken hockey, last I heard, we can be
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: heard in about 99% of this market. Literally every Kraken
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: fan within our footprint can hear these games. And of course,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app allows that to reach to be even broader.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I think the one thing, you know, on the TV side,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: we're the same way. It's like when Todd made the commitment,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I like that word, to leave Root Sports. Saw the
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: writing on the wall. Root Sports no longer exists. We're
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: out of here. And partnered up with Tegna and King
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: TV and then all the affiliates, all those states you
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: just talked about. Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, And across this state,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: whether it be Spokane, what have you, the Kraken Hockey
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Network on TV, it's the same thing. Like what we've
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: done broadcast-wise for this organization, what they've done for this organization,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: it's amazing because if you're in this huge geographical mass
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: that you just talked about, as most people think apparently
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: around the NHL is South Alaska, you can hear or
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: see Kraken Hockey and then obviously the Amazon deal if
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: you're in the footprint as well. which makes it awesome.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: That's all great. Everything off ice has been fine. On
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: the ice, we want to see, hopefully, some big improvements
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: this season, and we're hoping to see all those things happen.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Brennan Montour is going to join us here in about
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: 10 minutes' time. We'll talk to Monty and see what
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: he's got on his mind. I think the one thing
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: that I do see is the commitment of players.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: They're here. Yeah.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: They're here working out. Earlier than any.
• 25:27
  Speaker 9: Year six, and we have seen players trickling in, starting,
• 25:31
  Speaker 9: I think, the first player got in town July 18th.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: July 19th, and guys have slowly been trickling their way
• 25:39
  Speaker 9: back into town. I think the full complement of players
• 25:42
  Speaker 9: are going to be here right after the holiday. So
• 25:44
  Speaker 9: I'd say maybe the 8th, 9th-ish is when everyone will
• 25:47
  Speaker 9: be back. But there was a captain's informal skate this morning,
• 25:52
  Speaker 9: and there were probably 8, 12 guys on the.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Ice this morning. It's August.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: It's August.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: It's beautiful outside. Guys want to be at their lake
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: homes or wherever they want to be. That does show commitment.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: What do you think of Lane Lambert?
• 26:06
  Speaker 9: I think Lane Lambert brought something that was missing from
• 26:11
  Speaker 9: this team, and I think it was the discipline. I
• 26:13
  Speaker 9: think it was the ability to, even though you don't
• 26:18
  Speaker 9: have that blue-chip aircraft carrier, as you call it, there's
• 26:21
  Speaker 9: no McDavid, there's no McKinnon, this team has always been
• 26:25
  Speaker 9: a team that has relied on their depth. Defensively, if
• 26:29
  Speaker 9: you can play to your strength, You're going to win
• 26:31
  Speaker 9: hockey games. And we saw that last year. A couple
• 26:34
  Speaker 9: of years ago, I remember me and Al and going
• 26:36
  Speaker 9: back to Dave Tomlinson, we would talk about how this
• 26:39
  Speaker 9: team could not win a 2-1 game, a 3-2 game.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: To save their life.
• 26:42
  Speaker 9: It was always a 4-1, 5-3 game, whatever the case
• 26:46
  Speaker 9: may be. I think Lane Lambert has tightened that ship
• 26:48
  Speaker 9: up a lot. And I also look at last season.
• 26:51
  Speaker 9: You talk about the ending of the year wasn't where
• 26:53
  Speaker 9: they wanted. I think the Kraken were, what, 5, 10,
• 26:55
  Speaker 9: and 2 in their last 17 games. But the Kraken
• 26:59
  Speaker 9: were in a playoff spot until game 75, 78, something
• 27:03
  Speaker 9: like that. I think they were mathematically out of it
• 27:07
  Speaker 9: with about five or so games left. They weren't fully
• 27:09
  Speaker 9: healthy until game 55. And they were in a playoff
• 27:13
  Speaker 9: spot within three to five points of the division lead,
• 27:16
  Speaker 9: within two to three points of the wild card, pretty
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: much all season long. And that goes a lot to
• 27:22
  Speaker 9: lane lambert and what he instilled here in this team
• 27:25
  Speaker 9: i i think that now you have a another year
• 27:28
  Speaker 9: under your belt you have a summer under your belt
• 27:30
  Speaker 9: guys know what they expect out of lane lambert they
• 27:33
  Speaker 9: can now go back home wherever they're from they can
• 27:36
  Speaker 9: train the way that lane lambert wants to coach and
• 27:38
  Speaker 9: it's been a rough couple of years because you you
• 27:41
  Speaker 9: lose dave hackstall you bring in dan bilesma then you
• 27:44
  Speaker 9: lose dan bilesma you bring in lane lambert so now
• 27:47
  Speaker 9: That coaching carousel has finally stopped, and guys can kind
• 27:50
  Speaker 9: of breathe a bit of a sigh of relief. It's
• 27:52
  Speaker 9: like college football, right? I was recruited by Ian Furness. Well,
• 27:55
  Speaker 9: now Ian Furness is going somewhere else. I don't know
• 27:58
  Speaker 9: what to expect from this next coach coming in here.
• 28:01
  Speaker 9: Now you have an opportunity to really figure out what
• 28:05
  Speaker 9: it takes to be successful. This team was a playoff team.
• 28:08
  Speaker 9: For all intents and purposes, this team was a playoff
• 28:11
  Speaker 9: team for two-thirds of the season last year. They were
• 28:13
  Speaker 9: in it game 70. They were in it game 75.
• 28:16
  Speaker 9: Now this year they have to win game 70, game 75,
• 28:19
  Speaker 9: game 82 to get back into the playoffs. But I
• 28:23
  Speaker 9: don't believe this team is as far away as so
• 28:27
  Speaker 9: many people seem to think they are. I still think
• 28:30
  Speaker 9: this is a wild card contending team. I think this
• 28:34
  Speaker 9: team currently as constructed is going to be challenging if
• 28:37
  Speaker 9: they can stay healthy, but that's everywhere else around the league.
• 28:39
  Speaker 9: If they can stay healthy, they can challenge for a
• 28:42
  Speaker 9: playoff spot. I do think there will be some excitement.
• 28:44
  Speaker 9: There will be a lot more to be excited about
• 28:47
  Speaker 9: this year from this team than folks think it will be.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: I'll let you go after this final one. Just you
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: want to throw a little flowers to your two buddies.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Mike, where's Mike? Is he back there?
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: He's back there.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Mike and Al. He's on a 10 today.
• 28:58
  Speaker 9: He is fired up. I will say this. Those two guys,
• 29:02
  Speaker 9: Al Kodisky, Mike Benton, make this job so much fun.
• 29:04
  Speaker 9: It's not even a job. I show up. I get
• 29:07
  Speaker 9: to talk hockey with my buddies. Mike Benton, Nobody, no offense, Ian,
• 29:12
  Speaker 9: nobody works harder than Mike Benton.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: I agree.
• 29:14
  Speaker 9: Nobody in this industry hustles the way he does, is
• 29:19
  Speaker 9: as creative with his content and how he wants to
• 29:22
  Speaker 9: get things out. I mean, we're talking daily podcasts. We're
• 29:26
  Speaker 9: talking he's up at 2 o'clock in the morning to
• 29:28
  Speaker 9: get guests. He's up at, you know, whatever the case
• 29:31
  Speaker 9: may be, whatever it takes for this organization, for this network,
• 29:34
  Speaker 9: he'll do it. Al Kaniski comes in, didn't have a
• 29:38
  Speaker 9: ton of broadcasting experience, but his thing is he's eager
• 29:40
  Speaker 9: to learn. He wants to learn. He knows the game.
• 29:43
  Speaker 9: I've learned so much from him just about life and
• 29:46
  Speaker 9: about hockey and the stories that he is told. He
• 29:49
  Speaker 9: is so much fun to work with. Like myself, he
• 29:52
  Speaker 9: takes the job very seriously, doesn't take himself very seriously.
• 29:55
  Speaker 9: And that's what makes this such fun. a fun partnership.
• 29:59
  Speaker 9: We found the magic secret sauce, I think, that is
• 30:03
  Speaker 9: the three of us. And I'm excited to go into
• 30:06
  Speaker 9: year four of all of us together. And now year
• 30:11
  Speaker 9: six as an organization.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: We've got some big things in store.
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: We're excited for it. That's awesome.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Kraken Audio Network, Mike Benton, Al Kaniski, and Everett Fitzhugh,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: and a contract extension with iHeartMedia. We'll talk to Brennan
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Montour coming up next.
• 30:27
  Speaker 7: Now back to Ian Furness on your home for the Huskies, Kraken,
• 30:31
  Speaker 7: and the 12th man. Brought to you by Seattle's closest
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: Snoqualmie Casino and Hotel on Sports Radio 93.3, KJR FM.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: All right, back here at the 32 Bar and Grill.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Ian Furness with you as we're sitting down. And big
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: news just a few minutes ago for just joining us,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Everett Fitzhugh with me. And very cool for all of
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: us here at iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia, and the Seattle Kraken as
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: our contract extension team. Announced four-year extension with iHeart, 93.3
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: KJR FM, and the Seattle Kraken. So four more years
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: minimum of hockey here on KJR. Everett, Al, and the captain,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Mike Benton. They do a great job on the radio side.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: You like that, the captain? Brandon Mott's here with me.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: You like that? Oh, I love that. He's the captain
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: of the Kraken Audio Network.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: Hey, I mean, the work that he does, you know.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: One of a kind, this guy.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: Hey, the three of those guys are great.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: They are very good. How are you?
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: I'm good.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: I'm good.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: Excited. Had a long summer, but excited to be back.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: You don't like long summers. Hockey players don't like long summers.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: No.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: You know what? You learn. Obviously, I was fortunate to, again,
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: before I got here, long playoff runs, short summers, no playoffs.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: You tend to get home, and the weather's still so-so.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: So we're on a nice lake, and... You know, for
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: a reason we picked it, it's beautiful in the summer.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: But for the first three, four weeks, we look at
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: the water. But you can't put your boat in. You
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: can't hop in the water because it's cold. So, hey,
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: the game plan is not to show up that early anymore.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: That's the incentive for the playoffs. That's the incentive for
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. One of the cool things I've noticed, like,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys. It is, what is this,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: August 25th or something like that?
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Maybe later than that. There's a lot of dudes here already. Yeah,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: you know what?
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: So I talked to Botsy and Lane a little bit
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: in the summer, just about. Obviously, the year's longer, a
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: couple more games, the camp's shorter. I was coming in
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: a little earlier. I obviously have a big family, three
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: little ones. So we came in. We love our neighborhood.
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: So we wanted to get back. Obviously, like I said,
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: summer was long. We wanted to come back a couple weeks,
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: honestly a little bit, not even a week and a half,
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: two weeks earlier than we usually do. I told them
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: I'm going to reach out to guys that I think
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: would obviously consider at least coming in early. I didn't
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: force the envelope, but I just told them, hey, I
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: sent a text out and said I'm coming out at
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: this date. If you guys want to come out, I'm
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: not pressuring you. I know obviously you enjoy the rest
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: of the summer, but if we can get a good
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: group together, There was two or three guys before I
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: got here, and there was probably last week I got in,
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: Wednesday night, and there was probably five of us last week,
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: and then now guys are rolling in. I mean, there's
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: a couple of us younger guys, so maybe Botty pushed
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: the envelope on that aspect. But, yeah, we're middle of,
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: you know, I guess not even September yet. We've got
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: a group of, I think, 13, 14 guys are out
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: here today, so that's great.
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: What does that say?
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: What does that tell you?
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: Hungry you know i mean it's uh it's exciting that
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: guys want to be here early obviously it the place
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: is incredible so i mean for weather and stuff you
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: know you can't complain about that um so enjoying that
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: um yeah guys are excited to get back i got
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: a couple texts saying um the rentals aren't there until
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: you know next week so i mean they can't push
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: that so that's tough but they would be here so
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: i mean that's also great we could have more guys
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: here um But it shows that guys want to get
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: back together and start this thing on the right note.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: We talked at the end of the season at that
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: time where nobody knew what was going to happen, what
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: the offseason would bring. One of the things it did
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: bring was the re-signing of Bobby McMahon. You and I
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: talked about that, too. And you talked about the importance
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: of bringing Bobby back. How big is that?
• 34:25
  Speaker 10: For sure.
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: I mean, he gelled so well with us, again, as
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: a new guy. I think that was his first time
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: getting traded, right? Going into free agency, a lot on
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: his mind probably, a lot on his plate, picking.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Here, there, here, there.
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: I'm sure he was probably, I would assume, a hot commodity.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: Probably pretty busy with his wife and the rest of
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: his family deciding what to do. But obviously fit in
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: right away, played well, scored a bunch of goals for us. Obviously...
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: We would have liked to win more when he joined
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: our squad. I don't know what the record was, you know,
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: at that time. But, again, for him to decide to
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: stay longer term, I think was great for us, obviously,
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: and great for him. So I'm happy for that.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: The other big addition, Mackie Samuskiewicz, you should know him, right? Yeah, yeah.
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so Mac down in Florida, he was young. He
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: might have, I don't even know, a handful of games
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: maybe with us.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: For the most part down in Charlotte. But, yeah, I mean,
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: heck of a player. Obviously, the opportunity, there's a lot
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: of bodies up in Florida that, you know, he might
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: not have got as much as he would have liked. Again,
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: he's so young still. What's his second year? Yeah. Third
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: year maybe full time. Right, right. um so i'm excited
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: obviously you saw the talent when i was in florida
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: with him um and they were excited about having him
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: there so um to have him on our side here
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: um more opportunity i hope i would believe that would
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: be the case um and just skating with him a
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: little bit the last couple days here you obviously you
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: know i'm excited to see what what he can bring
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: with with more with more time.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah i i know he's here i one of the
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: things we heard about, he's got some speed, right? Like he's,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: he's got, he's got a little get up and go.
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: He's, he can get, he can scoot. He can scoot.
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: And he's a little, he's got a little nastiness to him. So, um,
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: obviously loves to play with the puck. He's got a
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: ton of skill, can shoot a puck, um, but can
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: skate and he's got a little bite. So, um, hopefully,
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: hopefully we can, we can get them some more and, and,
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: and get involved like that.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: This, this organization went through, it felt like the ringer
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: for some reason this summer, like I beat up a
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: little bit, uh, in media and nationally and social media
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: and other things. And, It's funny because, as it turns out,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: the guy that was there, he didn't want to go
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: anywhere besides Dallas. How would you characterize it? When people
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: ask me, and I did shows for other people across
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: the country, I said, A, I think it's unfair. I
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: think it's also uneducated. I don't think people understand what
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: players have here. I said, all you have to do
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: is talk to current guys like yourself and others. But
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: how would you as a player characterize the summer?
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it's one thing, and you can go on,
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: you can talk about this forever, but obviously it comes
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: with play and winning and the excitement in that. Obviously,
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: we haven't done a good enough job as a team,
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: as players, to get us, you know, to get guys
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: excited about coming. Obviously, I mean, again, a guy, for instance,
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: like that, there's definitely multiple teams that put offers out.
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: For some reason, Seattle was the only team that kind
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: of came out. Obviously, the Panarin deal. I'm sure there
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: was other teams that he said no to, too.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Well, the part where that was, just to interrupt, the
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: part that pissed me off about that is the story
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: ended up being his wife's high is way into the
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: fashion industry. Like, she's a big, that's her world. It
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: was New York or L.A. Like, she wasn't going to.
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: It's a no-brainer. And I think with, again, I don't know,
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: you know, I feel like with Russian players at least, it's,
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: you also need a connection of some sort too.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: Like we don't have other Russian players, I don't think.
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: And like, um, so again, whatever it did, that didn't
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: make sense. And, but it got out there like Seattle
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: was this bad place, you know, like, yeah. And even
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: in the summer, I've told multiple people, it's like, I'm
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: talking to players and we got that bad rap because
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: of those things. And they're like, what's wrong with, and I,
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: and I tell them, obviously they're like, we're not winning. So,
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's number one, you know, um, But I mean,
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: I've told them since I've been there, it's, and they
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: don't get it because we go on like, and I
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: had the experience when we first got here, it's like
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: we'd be on the road and I'd be coming from Florida.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: So we'd come into Seattle, middle of winter, it's dark
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: gray or rainy and we're downtown and you don't get
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: to experience anything else.
• 38:42
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: You know, me being here and experiencing the last two years,
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: it's like, we're here early. We love it. You know,
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: my wife's from the West coast, so she obviously loves
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: it being closer. Right. We're on the water. You can't complain.
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: The facilities, the ownership, everything is here. We just got
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: to find that way to keep pushing and getting better results.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Brennan, I'll wrap it up with this because we'll talk
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: plenty during this year. Lane Lambert, what Botts did, first
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: of all, I know you believe in Lane. I think
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: a lot of people do. The team on paper, You're
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: kind of banking on guys taking a step. You've been
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: through this even in Florida. Guys had to take a step, right? Now, obviously,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: you had some big names and did some things down there.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: But let's just, in general terms, young guys, whether it
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: be a new young guy like Mackey, maybe Berkeley taking
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: that next step, whatever Maddie's next step is, Capococco, they'll
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: go through the whole list of guys. Maybe it's Oscar
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Fisker-Mulgaard comes up. You're with these guys every day. You've
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: watched their work ethic. You've watched them develop. Are you
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: confident that these young guys can take that next step?
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: For sure, and just seeing them. I mean, last year
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: you said some names. For instance, like Berkeley, he's kind
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: of like a wow, wow kind of season of like,
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: I'm here, you know?
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: Even Oscar, he played a little bit, but you can
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: tell he's got it. You know, he definitely has, like
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: he's just young. He's going to be a great player. Berkeley,
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: same thing. Capo, finding his way, but still, like he's
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: got that experience, maybe more opportunity. You know, like he's
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: just going to keep, he's second overall pick for a reason. Maddie,
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: same thing. But yeah, I mean, I think with that
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: regarding even in comparison with Florida, it's like aggressiveness of
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: getting these big players. And if that doesn't happen, this is,
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: you know, we have some talent that's coming and talent
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: that's here that obviously for us to get better, they
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: need to take that step. So hopefully that is this year.
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: I mean, the guys look good so far on the
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: last couple of skates. And again, opportunity. obviously trusting with
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: Lane and them to get more ice time, kind of
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: finding that way. If it hasn't worked out in the past,
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: so let's keep getting these young guys in here and
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: playing and getting that confidence, and that's how the Seattle
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: Kraken are going to get better.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: That's how they got to the playoffs a few years ago,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: and hopefully that's the case again this year. Thank you.
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: Enjoy your rest. Hopefully that sun will come out. Look
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: at that.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: The sun's coming out right now. You were talking about
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: how the weather's great here. It was kind of cloudy
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: this morning, but it's getting better right now.
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, our plan was to get on a boat this weekend,
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: but today, Sonny, I'm going to go get my three-year-old
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: a full set of hockey equipment, so he's dialed in
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: for the year.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Dialed in. I love that. I love that. Random Montour
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: will take a break. Come back with more Eno Saris
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: in the 1 o'clock hour. Fun sit at 2 on
• 41:31
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• 41:35
  Speaker 7: Now, from the Star Reynolds Sports Desk, your 93.3 KKRFM
• 41:40
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• 41:43
  Speaker 7: Shoes Chill, Seahawks, Leonard Williams. Three-year, $ 90 million contract extension,
• 41:50
  Speaker 7: $ 56 million guaranteed.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: Great news for the Seahawks, great news for Leonard Williams
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: and his bank account, but good news all the way around.
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: Good signs.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Big Cats sticking around for three more years after this.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Mariners lose the final game of their series to the
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: Phillies yesterday afternoon, 6-0, just two hits in the game.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: They'll start a series against the Blue Jays in Toronto tomorrow.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: Gino Suarez cleared waivers. Could have been picked up by
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: any team, including Los Marineros, but he's going to return
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: to Cincinnati. They'll decide what they want to do, keep, release, DFM,
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: what do they want to do. Away we go, we'll
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: figure that out. It would have cost them $ 3 million
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: for the rest of the season. And in the news,
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: just announced a short time ago here at the 32
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Bar and Grill, The Seattle Kraken and iHeart Media, 93.3
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: KJR FM, have announced a contract extension, a multi-year agreement
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: extension to keep Kraken hockey on 93.3 KJR FM and
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: the iHeart Media Network and Kraken Audio Network for many
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: years to come.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: Here we go.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: Hour two.
• 42:42
  Speaker 7: Now back to Ian Furness on your home for the Huskies, Kraken,
• 42:46
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• 42:57
  Speaker 1: All right, cruising along here, hour two of the radio show.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Ian Furness with you and Anderson Hurst back in the studio.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: I'm at the 32 Bar and Grill. We did announce
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: that big contract extension a short time ago. Very cool
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: for all of us here at iHeart and with the
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Seattle Kraken, so great news. Anders, good news for the Seahawks.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: Ian Osiris will join us, by the way, at 1.30.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: We'll talk Mariners baseball with him. Brandon Funston at 2,
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: the unofficial start of the weekend for you. That's coming
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: up a little bit later, so stand by for that.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: Your fantasy football questions will be answered as you get
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: ready for your draft. We're going to talk wide receivers
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: and quarterbacks with Funston today. Let's talk a little baseball, though,
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: shall we, sir?
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: We shall.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: Should we talk a little baseball?
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: Let's do it.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: Yesterday, not what you would want yesterday by any means.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: Good homestand, though. So let's start with the good. A
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: homestand in which you go 4-2 against two really good teams,
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: the Phillies and the Cubs.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: That is fantastic.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, we all would have taken that.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: 100%.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: And it's hard to, you know, in the baseball world,
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: it's hard to find many blemishes when you have something
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: like that, right? Like, that's good. The Brian Wu thing yesterday,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: four innings, six runs, all earned, five hits, two home runs.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: He had a walk, struck out five. He threw 76 pitches,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: 55 were strikes. In that game, he just got rocked
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: in the first two innings, two in the first, four
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: in the second. uh, Grand Slam being the big one,
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: but it, it, you know, Wu had been great at
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: home this season. He had had one bad outing at
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: home until yesterday. We know his road troubles. And the
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: funny thing is his last two road starts have been good.
• 44:35
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: Did he switch? Did road Brian Wu switch with home
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: Brian Wu?
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Road Brian Wu turned into home Brian Wu yesterday for
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: some reason. I don't know. It was just, that was,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: I think you just kind of chalked that up as
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: a one-off.
• 44:47
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Uh, The thing with Seattle's pitchers, and Miller was ready
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: to go in the bullpen yesterday, by the way, but
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: they didn't use him. Woo, Miller, every time there's an
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: outing like that, you ask yourself, what's the health issue?
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: Is there something wrong?
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: Especially because they had to push him back a couple days, right?
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Right, and that was the thing. He was supposed to
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: initially pitch last Saturday, and that was what Kate Anderson
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: got that start. So then they go to Woo on
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: a Wednesday, so... What is that?
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: Four or five days later, however you want to count
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: the days, and he wasn't good. So you kind of
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: cross your fingers and you hope that there's no issues
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: there with Brian. We'll see if he saw anything yesterday
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: at 1.30. The Cal Raleigh part of the thing, that's
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: the story, right? If we're being honest, the story of
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: this particular homestand was Cal Raleigh and what he was
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: able to do. And I'll throw this at you and
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: then I'll give you my thoughts, but Cal Raleigh in
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: this particular homestand felt like he was getting it back.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he's 100% back being Cal, but
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: he felt like he was getting back.
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's more than just the home runs, right?
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: Because you and I have said this before, he's going
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: to run into one every once in a while. it's
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: the fact that the eye test that you, that you
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: look at and you see that he's seen the ball
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: much better.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: His swings look so much more comfortable.
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: And the fact that he was doing it from the
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: left side of the plate also is another big reason
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: why you can be excited about that. And hopefully that's
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: kind of the, the catalyst for this team. Cause you
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: saw how much almost everyone else in the entire team
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: felt a sigh of relief when Cal Raleigh was starting
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: to hit the ball because the, He's more than just
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: the emotional leader on this team. I think he's the
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: guy that everyone turns to when they're struggling. And like, hey,
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: can you carry us out of this? And when he's
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: been literally the worst hitter in baseball up until this point,
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: when that's the case, it puts so much pressure on
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: everyone else that aren't expected to be in that situation.
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: And it's tough. So when you see your guy going,
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: it takes pressure off other guys. And I think it
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: has a really... a big domino effect on the rest
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: of the team. So is he fixed?
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: We have to see it for a long period of time.
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: But at least eye test-wise, I saw a different player
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: than I had up until that point.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he ends up being 7 of 20 in the homestand,
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: which is a. 350 average, 5 runs, 5 homers, 8 RBIs,
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: 4 walks, 6 strikeouts because of yesterday. But the 22
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: total bases and the 24 plate appearances, that was the homestand.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: The thing before that homestand, this is the only thing,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: and this is where I'm a little hesitant to say, hey,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: this is Cal. Cal's here, right? But the previous road trip,
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: he was 2 for 24 before they came home. So
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: 2 for 24 on the road, 7 for 20 at home.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: And we've had four months of bad Cal.
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: Divish wrote the story today in the Times, the little
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: adjustments he's making or did make, and he actually talked
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: about those tangible adjustments to what he was doing at
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: the plate in terms of his swing and everything else.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: The road trip will be big. Now, the good news
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: is they go to Toronto. And last I checked, that's
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: like he's a Toronto killer, is he not?
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: He is, very much so.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: That's a place he likes to go before they go
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: to Boston. So that's a good thing that's there. I
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: think what we saw, Anders, more than anything is that
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: With this team, and yes, it's not just the home runs,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: but the home runs do matter in a big way.
• 48:31
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: Hell, we saw that yesterday, right? Yeah. With what Wu
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: gave up. But I think what we saw with Cal
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: is that that dude has the ability to single-handedly carry
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: a team.
• 48:43
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: On his back. And he did that on this homestand
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: at times. And that's awesome to see because I don't
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: know if... They've been messing around. We've talked about it
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: on this show. We'll get to the playoff situation in
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: a second. But I think, you know, I mean, Julio
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: didn't have a great homestand.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: He hasn't really had a great year. Let's be completely honest.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: Hasn't had a great year, which we'll get to him
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: in a heartbeat. But this team, because of most days
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: the pitching giving you a chance, could do some damage
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: if the guy behind the plate is... good. I'm not
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: going to say great. Last year he was great.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: If he's good, they're going to be a hard out,
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: and especially in this year's American League. You mentioned Julio.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: I know you guys probably talked about him a lot
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: on the morning show the last couple weeks when you
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: were on with Chuck.
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: For sure.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: I just don't get it.
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: I don't get it.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Like there's too much talent there. What's missing? What is
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: missing there?
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: He's not taking the next step. I think he's a
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: victim of his own expectations, right? Where we compare him
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: to who he should be instead of other players around
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: the league, right? But the thing is, you saw it
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: his rookie year in 2022. You saw, and yes, you
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: could say that his numbers have declined, right? But He
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: just looks like the same player who hasn't gotten any
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: better in five years now. So that's going to be
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: the big thing for me. It's these things that he
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: can go on extremely hot stretches. And I still think
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: he has possibly one of those left in this season.
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: But why can't you put it together for a full season, man?
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: And I get it. You go through slumps as a hitter.
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: We're seeing it with Cal Raleigh, right? Obviously, you have
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: bad seasons here and there. But he still has yet
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: to put together a full season. season of consistent good baseball.
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: And we talked about Randy Rosarena, who's kind of the
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: opposite of that. The dude has just been consistently good
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: all year long. And I don't know. It's frustrating because
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: you see how much talent he has, and I just
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: wish he could put it all together because I think
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: more than anything else, yes, when Cal's going, this team
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: is really good. This team takes another step. when Julio
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: is playing to the level that he can.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: Your best players have to be good.
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: They just do. The best players have to be good.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: Except for maybe this year.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: This year might be the exception.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: This is the reason why they're where they're at, though.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: Their stars aren't playing like stars.
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: But you lucked out because this particular season, the American
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: League is so damn bad.
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: It's so bad.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: That you have an opportunity with a minus 57 run differential.
• 51:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: The worst of the three playoff contending teams in the
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: AL West. Now, again, it's been bloated by a couple
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: massive blowouts along the way, but a month or two ago,
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: they were plus 31. So it's not just, it's like,
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: that's part of it. You're four games out of a
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: wildcard spot. You're two and a half out of first
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: place behind the Astros. The Rangers are a half game out.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: The Rangers are off today. Seattle's off today. Houston plays
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: at New York. Are they playing right now? might be
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: uh but you've said it a lot this year on
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: our show and i tend to believe you i i
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: think i think it's it's division or bust yeah i
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: don't know i just there's so much traffic in front
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: of you in terms of the american league in terms
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: of the wild card i do i i'm kind of
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: with you i think it's division or bust and i
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: still like their chances in this division yeah i and
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to dance necessarily, and if it ends
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: up coming to fruition, good. I'm not going to dance
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: so much, honestly, Anders, with the schedules incredibly easy in September.
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: This team just beat the two best teams, or two
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: of the three best teams in the National League.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: Right, but the other thing is this team, like when
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: we say, oh, it's such an easy schedule because you've
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: got the A's and the Angels and so forth. Well, yeah,
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: but you're also under 500. You're six games under 500.
• 52:53
  Speaker 7: 100%.
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: It's not like you're a hammer team.
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: Well, that's where I almost draw the conclusion of maybe
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: this team, there is some aspect of they get up
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: for the big games when they know they're playing against
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: a good team. And that almost worries me more about
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: who they're playing in September with all these crap teams. Now, hopefully,
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: the moment of, hey, we're in the last month of
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: the season and we're in a playoff chase will kind
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: of even that out, so to speak. But this team
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: plays up to its competition and plays down to its
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: competition almost more than any other baseball team I've seen.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, 28 games left to go. for these guys. 28
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: games left in the regular season. They are, let me
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: do the math, 28 games, so they've got 64 wins, right?
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: So, let's see. What do you think gets them in?
• 53:42
  Speaker 6: 82?
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: Probably, yeah.
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: So, can they go 18-10? They can. Because 18-10 gets
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: you to 82 wins.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: This is a And we talked– I talked about it
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: on the show a couple times this weekend or before
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: you came back. Baseball is an interesting dynamic. It doesn't–
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: like in football, if you look at that right-hand column,
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: that loss column, you can't get past in the NFL
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: seven losses.
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: Like you just– like that's the– and even honestly– Seattle was, what,
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: 10-7 the first year for Mike McDonald?
• 54:17
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 54:17
  Speaker 4: And they didn't get in.
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: So really it's six and a half on the right-hand column.
• 54:21
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: And you're not going to get in. And I'm just
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: talking wild card at that point. I'm talking about division.
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: But baseball, you don't have that magic number most of
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: the time. Now I think you do. Now I think
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: you do. I think you have that magic number. I
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: think if you look at it, if you go 18-10,
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: you get to 82 wins, you're probably in.
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: Because whether it's division or, hell, I just said you
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: can't get in the wild card, you might get in
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: with a wild card with 82 and 80. Yeah, you might.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: You might get in. So I think that's kind of
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: what your goal is. If you're kind of counting at home,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: almost look at it that way. I think I look
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: at it that way. I look at it like, if
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: you can go 18 and 10 and you finish 82
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: and 80, the Astros are going to have to have
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: a nice little heater going on because they're a game under.
• 55:04
  Speaker 9: 500.
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And Texas is two games under. 500. So both
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: those teams are going to have to improve dramatically as well. Otherwise,
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: you're going to win the division. This division could be
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: the damn NFC South from last year. You could have
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: a seven and... What is it? You know, I mean,
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: you could have that.
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: I could see the Rangers or Astros also going 18
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: and 10, though. Like, that's not this crazy....
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: Well, you have series against both.
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you do.
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: Series against both.
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: And you've got to take advantage of them, right?
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: Like, if... I think it's safe to say if you
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: win both of those series, although one series is two games, right?
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: Isn't the Rangers a two-gamer? No, it's the Astros.
• 55:38
  Speaker 5: Astros is a two-gamer?
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: If you take both those from the Astros and you
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: win two of the three from Texas, I think you're in, too.
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: I think you'd have to really fall apart against the
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: other teams. But I'll just go back. I think the
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: magic number might just be 18 and 10. Yeah. I
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: think 18 and 10 gets you there. I think 18
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: and 10 and 80. Because even, like, let's just... Again,
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of traffic in the wild card. Your
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: best bet is still the American League. But your wild
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: card leader right now, the Cleveland Guardians, are just two
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: games above.
• 56:09
  Speaker 4: 500.
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: And that's because they've won seven straight games. It's true.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: They were five below. They've won seven straight, so they're
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: two above. That can end any time as well. So
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: all those things are taking place. By the way, the
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: Yankees are in... Four o'clock. 4 o'clock game.
• 56:25
  Speaker 6: It's later.
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: And the Blue Jays are right there, too. So the
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: team you're about to play in this weekend.
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: Well, we discussed this briefly yesterday. This series is fun
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: for a couple reasons. A, it's Toronto, so we love them.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, let's just be honest.
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: It's fun.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: It's fun with the Blue Jays. The other part of
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: it is this. This is a team that is exactly
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: a mirror image of their ALCS counterparts last year. Injuries
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: and their superstar hasn't been good. Yeah.
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: It's just simple.
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: Like, honestly... They're very, very similar in that regard. Like,
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: they're a big horse in the lineup, much like the
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: guy here hasn't been good, and they've had a lot
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: of injuries. They were caught at... Now, I think Seattle
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: never lost hope. Part of the thing, Toronto would lose
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: hope because they've had no chance of the division.
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: That's where you lose hope if you're Toronto. But Toronto's
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: sitting there three games back. They're one ahead of Seattle.
• 57:15
  Speaker 4: They are.
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: What are they thinking this weekend? Actually, I'm doing a
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: hit with those guys tomorrow, with the guys at Sportsnet. Yeah,
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: I'm curious because... they're like, hey, this is a huge series.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: I think that they're thinking pretty simple. We take two
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: or three from Seattle, or God, man, we sweep Seattle.
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: We're going to put them to bed. That's what they're thinking.
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: This is a big series. This is kind of a pseudo,
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: I don't want to say elimination series or anything like that.
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: I think it is. I think wildcard-wise, I don't know
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: if it's not truly an elimination series, But I think wildcard-wise,
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: it's pretty damn close.
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: You can put Toronto's playoff hopes to bed.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: If one team gets a sweep this weekend, if Seattle
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: were to sweep Toronto and Toronto is now 65-72, they're
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: going to buy the same token. Seattle comes out of
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: that series nine games under.
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: 500 at 64-73.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. I think a sweep this weekend would
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: kill one of those two teams' hopes.
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: It's just so hard with over a month left to
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: really have a three-game series.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: It would kill your wildcard hopes.
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, and then it would truly be division.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: Toronto, it would kill their playoff hopes because they can't
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: win the division.
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: It's true.
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: Seattle would still have, hey, we're going to try to
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: win the division. One final thought before we get to Eno.
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: I was just playing golf with my buddy Murph yesterday,
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: the former UW baseball player, and.
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: We were talking, and it was just what they threw
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: out there yesterday as a lineup.
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, God, yeah.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: I don't... I'm not going to say you gave up.
• 58:53
  Speaker 5: You punted.
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: You punted the game.
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: But you kind of punted.
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: Didn't you? Yes, 100%.
• 58:58
  Speaker 5: Did you kind of punt?
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: How do you feel if you're Brian Wu in that situation? Like, oh,
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: all right, this is what.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: You're throwing out for me? I heard Softie talking about that.
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess if I'm Wu, I'm thinking, well,
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: if I get a couple runs, I'm fine. I think
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: when he fell behind 6-0, it was over. He knew
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: it was over. But why was Canzone not in the lineup?
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: Canzone, Naylor, Cole Young.
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: Naylor I can almost live with. But no, like no Canzone,
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: no Naylor, no Cole Young. You have a day off today.
• 59:30
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: Hell, Anders, did they not burn a bunch of their
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: bullpen yesterday anyway, just knowing they had a day off today?
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: So, like, those guys weren't getting a rest.
• 59:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: It was just.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: Like, I thought that was just a complete tap out. Like,
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: we're just, yeah, we're not going to win this.
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: And participation awards. Oh, we got to give Weston.
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: Wilson some time. You know what it was? It was, hey,
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: we took, we had a, we have four wins on
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: this homestand, a four and two homestand is great. We
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: beat the Phillies in two of three. Let's just rest
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: everybody and go to Toronto. We did exactly what we
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: needed to do.
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: No. Be better than what you needed to do, right?
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: Be better in that regard. Be better in that regard.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Now with Ian, here's Eno.
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  Speaker 1: Eno Saris from The Athletic joining us right now on
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  Speaker 1: friends at Georgetown. I should have a mayor IPA update
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  Speaker 1: as far as what it looks like for supply coming
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  Speaker 1: up in the next segment. I've got that line in
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  Speaker 1: the water, so I'll let you know. We had a
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: great week last week. Eno joins us right now, and
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: we've got a lot to get to. Eno, how are you,
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  Speaker 1: my friend?
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  Speaker 6: Doing well. Thanks for having me on.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you popping by, as always.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Let me start with Cal Raleigh. And I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: actually get your Rates and Barrels podcast. I think the
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: recent one is the one that's talking about the AL
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: playoff picture, which we'll get your thoughts on that in
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  Speaker 1: a heartbeat, too. But Cal Raleigh has this great homestand. Hits. 350,
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  Speaker 1: five home runs. Is that right? Did I have that right?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's six.
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  Speaker 1: Six home runs over the six games. Three in the
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  Speaker 1: one game on Monday. maybe has found it, maybe not.
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  Speaker 4: I say that.
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  Speaker 1: Then yesterday, he finishes off 0-4 the previous road trip.
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  Speaker 1: He was 2-4, 24, something like that. Eno, is one
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  Speaker 1: three or four game sample size enough for Mariner fans
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: to be encouraged about Cal Raleigh?
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  Speaker 6: I saw a couple things that I really liked, and
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  Speaker 6: we talked on this show about his plate approach and
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  Speaker 6: how he's being too passive in the zone. I wrote
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  Speaker 6: about that for The Athletic, but a lot of you
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  Speaker 6: readers will have heard my analysis there, which is just
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  Speaker 6: that you know, approaches, not swinging at balls, but also
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  Speaker 6: swinging at strikes. And he'd become passive in the zone.
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  Speaker 6: There'd been too many called strike threes where he's just
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  Speaker 6: looking at something down the pipe. I saw, I had
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  Speaker 6: a couple videos in there of three, one takes where
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  Speaker 6: it was just a fastball down the middle. And he
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  Speaker 6: just looked befuddled. He was expecting something else. So, you know,
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  Speaker 6: what they've done is they've, they've upped the number of
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  Speaker 6: cutters that they've thrown him. They're throwing them inside more,
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 6: especially the left-handed hitter. And they're just messing with his
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 6: head and he's been messed up. And the two things
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  Speaker 6: that I pointed out was be more aggressive in the zone.
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  Speaker 6: Since last Monday, he swung at 75% of the pitches
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  Speaker 6: he's seen in the zone. That's good. The homers were
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  Speaker 6: in the zone. That's good. The other thing that I
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 6: noticed was since they're trying to fill him up inside
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  Speaker 6: and his natural power is once he gets his arms extended,
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  Speaker 6: you know, I was like, what if, we solved two
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  Speaker 6: birds with one stone by looking for pitches outer half
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  Speaker 6: and really just outer third of the even up, down, whatever,
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  Speaker 6: just outer third. That will make you more susceptible to
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  Speaker 6: breaking balls and off-street stuff down and away, but it
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  Speaker 6: will make you at least aggressive on pitches you can drive,
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  Speaker 6: you've driven in the past. That three-homer game, all three
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  Speaker 6: pitches were on the outer third of the zone. So
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  Speaker 6: those two things, I think, are good signs. He's now
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  Speaker 6: locked in on something where he's hunting instead of being hunted.
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  Speaker 1: I like that. I'm interested, too. You mentioned he's swinging
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  Speaker 1: at 75% of the pitches that were in the zone.
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  Speaker 1: What's a good number? You said that's a good number.
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  Speaker 1: What's a really good number?
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  Speaker 6: Well, the difference between how often you swing at the
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  Speaker 6: zone and how often you swing at balls is the
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  Speaker 6: big number. But 75% in-zone swing is something he did
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  Speaker 6: last year. Last year, he swung at 76.9% of the
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  Speaker 6: pitches he saw on the zone. And this year, 71.5,
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  Speaker 6: the worst of his career. So, you know, he's becoming
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  Speaker 6: more like he was last year, which has got to
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  Speaker 6: be a good thing. I mean, for every guy, it's
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  Speaker 6: a little bit different. Like, for example, if you've really
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  Speaker 6: got a great pencil zone, like Taylor Ward, right, he
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 6: knows exactly. Like, he never swings at balls, right? then
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  Speaker 6: you don't want him to be too aggressive. You'd rather
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 6: he take those walks. But if you don't have a
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  Speaker 6: great sense of where the zone is, then you should
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 6: be more aggressive and be aggressive in the zone so
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  Speaker 6: that you don't just watch strike three go by. You
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 6: don't tell Luis Robert to stop swinging and stop being aggressive.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't work.
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  Speaker 6: You can't tell a guy who's super aggressive to, oh,
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  Speaker 6: don't swing at balls. What are you telling him to do?
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  Speaker 6: Just imagine that as a hitter. If someone's like, oh,
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  Speaker 6: you're a super aggressive guy, don't swing at balls, though.
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  Speaker 6: Then you're up in the plate being like, don't swing
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  Speaker 6: at a ball, don't swing at a ball.
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Ward used to be good at taking walks. Is
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  Speaker 1: that true he only has one with Seattle?
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  Speaker 2: I think he has two now. I just looked it up.
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  Speaker 1: Two now?
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness.
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  Speaker 1: Come here.
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  Speaker 6: You've heard this before, but new guy playing in Seattle,
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  Speaker 6: strikeout rate is up.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, never heard that before. Yeah, really?
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: That's a new, that's a new, that's a new, that's
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  Speaker 1: a new policy here for our major league team. That's,
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  Speaker 1: that's wow.
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  Speaker 2: Hitters, you know?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's never happened. Uh, you know, Sarah's joining us for
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  Speaker 1: the athletic rates and barrels podcast. You know, when I
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: look at, uh, when I look at our pitching staff
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  Speaker 1: right now here in Seattle and you're watching, you know, the,
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  Speaker 1: the now six guys and we'll, I'll, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: table Cade for a second. I'll let you riff on
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  Speaker 1: him in a minute. Uh, I feel like I can
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  Speaker 1: only really trust Logan Gilbert. I don't know if that
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  Speaker 1: sounds weird. Like Brian Wu, road Brian Wu was bad,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: then road Brian Wu has two great stars and he
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  Speaker 1: just is awful yesterday. Bryce Miller, there's something off there.
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  Speaker 1: Is there any concern with the guys not named Logan
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  Speaker 1: Gilbert or Kate Anderson?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, obviously. I did look at Brian Wu to see
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  Speaker 6: if there was any injury concerns. The B-low was the same.
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  Speaker 6: The spin was the same. Those are traditionally numbers that
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 6: teams look at as big markers for big injury. The
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  Speaker 6: thing that really pops off the page was it was
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  Speaker 6: his worst location plus, his worst command numbers on the
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  Speaker 6: thinker of the year. And that can be fickle. There's no...
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 6: There's no trend there. I can look back 12, 15 starts,
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  Speaker 6: and he has a tremendous command of his sinker. So
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  Speaker 6: I would just assume that this is one of those one-offs.
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  Speaker 6: He had some games that were close to this at
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  Speaker 6: Houston early in the season, at San Diego early in
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  Speaker 6: the season. It is a little bit worrisome in concert
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  Speaker 6: with some of the things that he said about shoulder
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  Speaker 6: weakness or feeling something in the shoulder. So I don't
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  Speaker 6: like that aspect of it, but at least the stuff
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  Speaker 6: was there. I do agree. like, you know, there is
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  Speaker 6: that whole concern about home and away. Bryce Miller, again,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 6: it's a command thing. The command on a slider is
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  Speaker 6: game to game, and the fastball too. And that worries
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  Speaker 6: me because last year, and he never got rid of
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  Speaker 6: these bone spurs, but last year he told me, you know,
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  Speaker 6: the thing that's annoying to me is that I've always
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  Speaker 6: had great fastball command, and that's not there. So I'm
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 6: worried that the bone spurs are hurting him in a
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 6: way that is affecting his fastball command again. The one
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  Speaker 6: thing that I can't tell you that's fun is that
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 6: I think that George Kirby's cutter might be a big deal.
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  Speaker 6: I think that the cutter he used in the last
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  Speaker 6: start could be something that could really help him.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. I love that. What did you think
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  Speaker 1: of Kate Anderson?
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  Speaker 6: It's really interesting. The slider and the changeup in the
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  Speaker 6: curve are really excellent, perhaps near elite pitches. That's why
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  Speaker 6: he got so many strikeouts in the minor leagues. There
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 6: is a bit of a negative, which is that the
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  Speaker 6: fastball doesn't have great shape nor does it.
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  Speaker 2: Have great velocity.
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  Speaker 6: So what that does is it's going to put pressure
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  Speaker 6: on his command of the secondaries because he's going to
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  Speaker 6: have to pitch backwards a little bit. He did in
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  Speaker 6: that game. And, you know, listen, you could have taken
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  Speaker 6: him out in the fifth and it would have been
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  Speaker 6: a different story. Everybody would have said, oh, what a
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 6: great debut, you know?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So, you know, and then when I also know that
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  Speaker 6: over the course of a game, as a player gets tired,
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 6: command goes before stuff. So, you know, I put those
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 6: two together, and if I'm managing Cade, he's going to
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 6: have a quick hook for me early in his career,
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 6: and he'll have to sort of prove that he can
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 6: go deeper into games. Because if you're pitching backwards, you know,
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 6: the old adage was establish a fastball early, and then
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  Speaker 6: you get to show all the secondaries later, and that's
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 6: how you turn a lineup over. And that makes sense
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 6: because they haven't seen all those shapes. But if you're
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  Speaker 6: going to pitch backwards and be Kate Anderson, they're going
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 6: to see your slider, your curveball, and your change early
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  Speaker 6: in the game. So you don't have as many tricks
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 6: to go to later in the game. So, you know,
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 6: that's why I would maybe have a quick hook on him.
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  Speaker 6: The other thing that you can do is what a
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 6: lot of other teams have done, add the cutter, add
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 6: the sinker, have three fastballs if one fastball isn't that great.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 6: I'm sure they've tried that on some level, and maybe
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 6: that's just not an option for him. But he can
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 6: also look to the left and the right in the
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 6: major leagues now and talk to these guys, and they
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 6: can say, hey, I'm George Kirby. I just added a cutter.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: I'm Brian Blue.
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  Speaker 6: I throw three fastballs. That's what I do for a living.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 6: He's got guys that can kind of teach him the
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 6: intricacies of having three fastball shades. That's going to be
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 6: good for him because what we know from watching these
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 6: guys is they learn from each other.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: You've talked about that. You've talked about that, right? The
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: cohesion and the camaraderie amongst his starting staff. You've talked
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: to those guys about that.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and they learn a lot from each other. So
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 6: I'm assuming, and it's been a couple generations, Logan Gilbert
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 6: came up first and Wu came up next. So Gilbert
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 6: and Miller are maybe the tightest, but they've already taken
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 6: Wu into their mix. I think that they're going to
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 6: welcome Cade in, and I think that their inquisitiveness as
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 6: a group is really going to treat Cade well. So
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 6: Cade probably went through the minor leagues. He had some
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 6: of the best results we've seen in the minor leagues
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 6: in years and years. So, you know, maybe he didn't
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 6: feel like he had to change anything. You get to
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 6: the big leagues, you realize, okay, all right, I did
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 6: some good things. Some of my pitches are definitely major
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 6: league quality. And then, you know, maybe there's also ways
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 6: I can still improve up here.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: Before I let you go, you know, Sarah Stewart is
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: from the Athletic Race and Girls Podcast. I'll encourage people
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: to listen to the podcast about the AL American League
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: playoff picture and your thoughts. But give me a little teaser.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: We brought up this. So the weekend series here with
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: Toronto is really interesting, and Anders and I were talking
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: about this in the last segment. So, like, right now,
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: for Toronto, it's wild card or bust. For Seattle, it
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: feels like you have a better chance to get in
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: winning the division than the wild card, only because of
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: all the traffic around you. But if one or the
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: other of these teams... get swept this weekend, if Seattle
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: sweeps Toronto and they drop to 65-72, or if the
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: Mariners get swept and they drop to 64-73, would that
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: basically eliminate one of those teams from the wild card
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: and then at that point you're only thinking division if
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: you're Seattle?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know, man. I think it'll get real tight
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 6: at the end. You know, there's a lot of teams
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 6: that we noticed have finished up with, like, the Royals
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 6: and the Rockies. You know, there's some teams that get
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 6: the A's at the very end. I think this will
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 6: go down to the last week, and I think there
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 6: will be many teams in on it. And, you know,
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 6: I do want people to listen. I do also want
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 6: people not to be angry with us. I think the
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 6: Mariners to win the division, so not because of that, but–
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 6: We disparaged the AL West.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: As well you should. As well you should. As well
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: you should. No one's going to be upset about that,
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: trust me. We've been doing the same thing all year,
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: all right?
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 6: We said the Mariners could win the division because anybody
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 6: can win the division. The Astros are leading the division
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 6: and they're under.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 4: 500.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 6: Come on, somebody turn it on. Somebody just turn it
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 6: on for the next three, four weeks.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: And do it.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. Rates and Barrels podcast, you can
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: get it wherever you get your podcasts. It's fantastic, and
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: the latest episode is exactly it.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 4: You know what?
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: If you're a Manor fan, you want to listen to it.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: Just whether it makes you angry or not, take a peek,
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: take a listen. Eno and the guys do a great
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: job with that. All thanks to Georgetown Brewing. We'll talk
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: to you next week, my friend. Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: All right. Thanks for having me.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: That's Eno Saris from the Athletic and Rates and Barrels podcast.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: We'll take a break. We'll give you an update. Of course,
• 1:15:06
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• 1:15:07
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• 1:15:16
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• 1:15:18
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• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: we had Fitz on earlier, Everett Fitzhugh. We announced that
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: the Kraken have extended their relationship with KJR and iHeartMedia.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: That means the captain himself, Mike Benton, the great Mike Benton,
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• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: on the radio, Al Koniski in the booth. Multi-year contract extension.
• 1:15:40
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• 1:15:49
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  Speaker 5: Food's phenomenal.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: Atmosphere's great. Great spot. Love this place. Anyway, that's number one.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: Here's the other something good. It's bittersweet in a sense, Anders.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: We are getting close to selling out the Mayor IPA.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: This will be the second fastest it's ever... It's sold out.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: Since the first year, right?
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: 2020, a little thing called COVID, a little pandemic situation.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: The only way you got good beer, because you couldn't
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: go to a restaurant, you couldn't get anything off a
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: tap anywhere. You'd have to go buy growlers to go
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: at your favorite place. That was the first year we
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: brewed it because the golf tournament got canceled. The great
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: folks at Georgetown said, hey, here's what we're going to do.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: We're going to make a beer. We're going to still
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: raise money for Jordan Morris Foundations. Avery Huffman Foundation, and
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: Holinsky's Hope. So, we brewed it that year. People flocked
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: down there because they were selling growlers like nobody's business. Oh, yeah.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: We went, hey, let's be honest. 2020 through 2021, we
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: went hard.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: We needed some. We needed it.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: We all went hard. It sold out in five days.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: Last year, in the next few years, it was probably
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: in the two-week range. Last year, it sold out in,
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: I say, eight and a half days because it went
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: on sale Friday. By 1130, an hour and a half
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: after the open on Sunday, it was gone. So not
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: even eight and a half days.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: Just checked with my man Dave down at the Georgetown
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: Brewing Company, the tasting room. My guy Dave Forrester. Shout
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: out to Dave, big Kraken fan. Here's what he says.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: We think it will be available till midday Saturday. Likely
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: selling out Saturday at the latest. There's an outside chance
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: it sells out by the end of the day tomorrow.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: So, if you want the Mayer IPA, if you haven't
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: picked up your growler yet, if you haven't had your
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: pints yet down there at the tasting room, basically today, tomorrow,
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: you can take your chances with Saturday to get down there.
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: It is a great beer. Absolutely fantastic beer. Bright, golden,
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: unfiltered flavors and aromas of fresh-cut oranges, pineapple, lime, and
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: papaya from the Columbus Citra, Mosaic, and Simcoe hops. And again,
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: every cent, not a portion of the proceeds, every cent
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: from every pint and every growler goes to those three foundations.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: Anders was down there with Jess and me last week
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: for the kickoff party. You had it.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 5: I did.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: You enjoyed it. You're a beer guy. Thoughts on it?
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: It's fantastic.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 3: I got two growlers, and they're already gone, and now
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 3: I'm worried that I need to go today or tomorrow
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 3: to get it.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: You do.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: You do.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: And I don't have any, I have no ability to
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: help you here. Like, there's no inside, hey. Hey, I'll
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: save some for you.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 7: Nope.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like, I can't do that. This is their beer.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: They do it. Right, right. And so, yeah, get down there,
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: get your growlers to go. Growlers, fresh-filled growlers. The way
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: they fill the growlers, it's not like if you go
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: to your local tap house, they put it on, they
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: spit a tap on. These usually last about 10 to
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: 12 days. Yeah, unopened they do. Yeah, unopened. So you
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: don't have to drink it that night to buy it
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: if you go down there and get one of those.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: So just head on down. Go pick it up. Enjoy yourself.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: And I'm thrilled. I just want to... And I'll say
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: this even more over and over again. I can't thank
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: everybody enough who goes down every year on our kickoff day,
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: which was last Friday. And we got so many listeners
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: down there. Purple Sheet, Rich, was asking me about it
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: the other day because he was out of town.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 4: He goes, how was it?
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: I go, it might have been the best event we've
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: had yet.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: Don't you think? It was so much fun. So many...
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: We got there... I got there at 9.30 in the morning.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: We had our ceremonial toast and then opened at 10.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: From basically 11 o'clock on, Anders, that place was jammed.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: I think I finally, we left there around 5.36. And
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: it was jammed the entire time. Not everyone there for us, obviously.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: I'm not that guy. But there were a lot of
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: people there, a lot of listeners there, a lot of friends,
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: a lot of family, a lot of supporters of the foundations.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: And then a lot of people just, hey, it's Georgetown.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: It's a Friday. We're going to go get a beer.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: Right before the Mariners game, right?
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: Before the Mariners game. And then people taste it going,
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: I've got to try this beer thing. Honestly, I'm good.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: So it was just a great day and I can't
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: thank you guys enough because every dollar that we raise
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: means a lot for those three particular foundations. It really does.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: It's very meaningful for those foundations. And I think that's
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: important to know because, you know, honestly, you hear a
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: lot of times a portion of proceeds and different things
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: like that. No, it's every dollar.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 4: And I'll.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: Like, here's the thing. The growler is only $ 12.
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great deal.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: Like, and you don't have to bring your own growler.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: They have growlers there. They don't sit there and go, oh, hey,
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: we need to take this out, blah, blah, blah. No, no.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: Growlers are $ 12 film. So get on down there. Please
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: get it. We're going to sell this damn thing out very,
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: very soon.
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: So let's go.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: Let's go. Have some fun.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 3: If you haven't tried it, you need to. It's probably
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 3: my favorite beer. And it packs a punch, too. I'll
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 3: tell you.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 4: That.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: 6.9%, baby. We got some stuff. We got some planning
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: to do because this is selling out too fast.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: Now we got issues.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 5: It's too good.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. It's just too good.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 4: Now we have issues.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:21:21
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• 1:21:24
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• 1:21:28
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• 1:21:30
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• 1:21:32
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• 1:21:35
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• 1:21:37
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• 1:21:39
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• 1:22:32
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• 1:22:37
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• 1:22:41
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• 1:24:00
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• 1:24:03
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• 1:24:08
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• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: that time, is it not? We are in that time.
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• 1:24:21
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• 1:24:25
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• 1:24:29
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• 1:24:31
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• 1:24:34
  Speaker 11: I'm up to my neck in it right now. I'm
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 11: actually starting to do some drafts. I always push mine
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 11: as late as possible.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 11: And so now I'm starting to actually– I'm in a
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 11: slow draft right now, and I got my two big
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 11: local leagues coming up.
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 5: So that's when I start to get really excited.
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 11: But, yeah, it's been a lot of talk and much
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 11: ado about all this stuff, and it's nice to finally
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 11: get into a draft room and start getting going on it.
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: Let's get– I'm going to hit through just a couple
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: position groups, and then in a stunning development, we have
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: a ton of texts, and also in a stunning development,
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: we have phone calls. We'll get to all those as
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: Brandon gets you prepped for your draft, maybe your keepers,
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: maybe a trade, or maybe a regret after a trade.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: We should mention, cut-down day, by the way, in the
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: NFL is Sunday. So by Sunday, you will know the
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: initial 53-man rosters. Now, there's always tweaking to those. If
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: we're being honest, because that's what every beat writer likes
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: to bring, oh, it's like me tweaking. Yes, there will be.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: The guys that are tweaking, you don't care about. If
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: you do, then you're going to be like me, and
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: you're going to have to pay some sort of punishment
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: at the end of the year because you're not going
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: to do well in your fantasy league. We'll leave it
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: at that. My board of governors meeting, by the way, Brandon,
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: for that league is Sunday at my house. One of
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: the guys, he won the silent auction of a small
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: keg of Mayor IPA. I think I'm going to need
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: about four or five pints just to get myself through
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: that thing with those knuckleheads.
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 5: That's a smart call on the Board of Governors, though.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 11: We always try to do stuff the day of, or
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 11: we try to meet stuff out in text, and it
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 11: never works well. I think getting people down for the
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 11: sole purpose of just like, are we doing anything different?
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 5: What are the potential things we want to.
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 2: Do this year?
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 5: I think it's a great call.
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: I would strongly urge, if it's possible, to have a
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: separate Board of Governors meeting. Now, ours is, if I'm
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: being fair— Most of us are all in the same, like,
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: walking distance neighborhood. I mean, sitting in my patio, I
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: make smash burgers on the old Blackstone. Like I said,
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: there's a small keg of mayor coming. And it's just
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: kind of an excuse for us to get together and
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: hammer some beers. But you're right. It makes draft day
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: so much better because you already know what's going on.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: You're not arguing over, do we do this? Like, we've
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: got a couple guys that can't figure out injured reserve lists,
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: and they get fined every year. I'm talking to you,
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: old Fallon. and others so yeah it's it's it's a
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: fun thing to do all right i want to get
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: through a couple position groups today sure let's start with
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: quarterback now let's just let's differentiate if you have a
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: super flex league when do you draft a quarterback uh
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: you know good versus a non-super flex league uh non-super
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: flex league you're going probably third round for josh allen
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: if you can get him there somebody might reach for
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: him in late seconds um But probably third round, and
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: then you're probably waiting even a little bit longer.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 11: I think the problem in a one-quarterback league is Josh
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 11: Allen is cost certainty. It's okay, I think, to go
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 11: third round on Allen or even late second because he's
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 11: literally been the first or second quarterback every year he's
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 11: been the full-time starter. But last year is a good
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 11: example of why you don't go for somebody else early
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 11: at the quarterback position because you had Drake May, Matthew Stafford,
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 11: and Trevor Lawrence as the two, three, and four finishers
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 11: at quarterback.
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 5: And you can get them way late. And kind of
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 5: like you're always seeing that.
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 11: So you kind of, you know, you pound the other
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 11: positions if you don't get Josh Allen, if that's who
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 11: you want. And, you know, or maybe somebody in the
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 11: top five goes a little bit later and you can
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 11: go there. But a lot of people are waiting to
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 11: just kind of cherry pick somebody in that, you know,
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 11: in that later top 10 that has a chance to
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 11: run up and be in the top five this year.
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: All right. If you don't have a super flex or
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: if you do have a super flex, you draft probably
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: in the first round.
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I took Josh Allen 1-1 in the one super
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 11: flex that I've already done so far. You know, Gibbs
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 11: or Bijan was tough. But after that, there's probably three
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 11: or four quarterbacks that go in the first round, same
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 11: amount go in the second round. I haven't seen people
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 11: go crazy on just like have to get my two
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 11: quarterbacks right away so far. I feel like the quarterback
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 11: position in super flex is ambivalent. out a little bit
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 11: slower this year than it has in past years if.
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: We're doing court like your buddy mike sando with the
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: athletic does the quarterback tiers if we're doing fantasy football
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: quarterback tiers yeah josh allen is a decided tier one
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: what's tier two how many guys are in that second
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: tier I.
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 11: Would probably say Lamar Jackson, Jaden Daniels, Drake May, Jalen Hurts,
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 11: Joe Burrow. To me, it's either a combination of the
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 11: running quarterback that can throw a bit or just, in
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 11: Burrow's case, just a real high passing upside. And he
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 11: can run a little bit, but Burrow's kind of on
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 11: the edge because he just hasn't proven that he can
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 11: stay healthy year in and year out, so there's a
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 11: little bit of concern there. But that's what I'd probably
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 11: put as my second tier.
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: What's the drop from Tier 2 to Tier 3? And
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: is Tier 3 just like the middle class that really
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: there's not a lot of difference?
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I think Tier 2 and Tier 3 aren't that
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 11: far apart because, like I said, I just mentioned Trevor
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 11: Lawrence wasn't the top four quarterback last year. I mean,
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 11: a lot of that was just a lot of rushing touchdowns,
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 11: which those can tend to regress pretty easily for quarterbacks.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 11: So that's why I'm kind of like– hesitant to really
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 11: just buy in him fully, but he's right up there still.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 5: Dak Prescott, Justin Herbert, Matt.
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 11: Stafford, for some reason he's still going outside the top 12,
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 11: and he was an MVP last year. He had 46 touchdowns.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 11: Even if he regressed by 10 touchdowns, 36 touchdowns could
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 11: still lead the league.
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 5: Brock Purdy is there, Caleb Williams, Jackson Dart.
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 11: There's a bunch of guys I just mentioned right there
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 11: in the quote-unquote third tier that who would not be
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 11: shocking if they finish in the top five at the
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 11: quarterback position, which gets to the point of most times
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 11: the prudent choice is just to wait on quarterback in
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 11: one quarterback leagues.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: All right, before I get to a couple phone calls
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: and some texts as well, let's talk wide receivers. Your
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: buddy Jake Seeley at the Affleck, you're his big boss,
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: so you tell him what to do, hopefully. But along
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: the way, These are subject to change. It feels like
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: they change as the wind changes and the weather changes.
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: He's got Puka 1, JSN 2, Jamar Chase 3, Amon
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: Ross St. Brown 4, Justin Jefferson 5.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 4: Do you agree?
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 11: I actually have the same first four, but I have
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 11: Jefferson down at 7. I have CeeDee Lamb and Drake
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 11: London ahead of him. I think I talked about this
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 11: last week. Kyler Murray is an upgrade from J.J. McCarthy,
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 11: but for For me, Justin Jefferson getting back into the
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 11: top five, he needs a bigger upgrade than Kyler Murray
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 11: because Kyler Murray has not been a wide receiver's best
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 11: friend throughout his career. DeAndre Hopkins had one anomaly year
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 11: with Kyler Murray, but for the most part, wide receivers
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 11: have not eaten with Kyler Murray as the quarterback. We're
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 11: talking more of a late-stage career, Kyler Murray at that.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 11: My My Russell Wilson vibes comment last.
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 5: Week, I'll just reiterate it.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 11: I just think Kyler Murray has a problem throwing to
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 11: all parts of the field. Justin Jefferson can work all
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 11: parts of the field, but he can't if he doesn't
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 11: have a quarterback who can tie into that.
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: Let's go to the tiers again. How much difference is
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: there between the top four guys you mentioned? Even how
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: much difference is there between one, two, three, and four?
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: Let's just start there. Puka, JSN, Chase, and Amal Ross St.
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 2: Brown.
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I've seen Amon Ross St.
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 11: Brown get dropped down into the second tier. But to me,
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 11: he's a tier one. He's been the number three receiver
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 11: each of the last three years. And to me, if
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 11: you're getting the certainty that you get with Amon Ross St. Brown,
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 11: then he belongs in that upper tier with those four.
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 11: I think the question mark becomes right at that, is
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 11: it Justin Jefferson?
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 5: Is it Drake London? Is it C.D. Lamb next?
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 11: I'd put all three of those guys in the next tier,
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 11: and probably that's what I would call the second tier
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 11: after that.
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 5: You get AJ Brown, Chris Alave, people.
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 11: Like Nico Collins, Pickens, Pickens is going like a wide
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 11: receiver 10, which is kind of in this range. Like
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 11: I said, people like Nico Collins, he looks like an alpha,
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 11: but my problem with him is he's hurt every year.
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 11: He's never had more than 80 catches, never had more
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 11: than eight touchdowns. And he's like in season six. So like,
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 11: it's not like he's necessarily still on the rise.
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 5: I mean, he's, He's got to prove that he can
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 5: stay healthy.
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 11: He's also got to prove that he can be like the,
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 11: you know, just the go-to chain mover, volume target hog.
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 11: And he'll have a chance because they lost Jaden Higgins.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 11: So that number two wide receiver spot in Houston is
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 11: a little suspect right now. They traded for Kayshaun Booty,
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 11: but it's not an obvious number two. So Collins should
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 11: get a chance to maybe pump up his receptions total
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 11: this year if he can stay healthy.
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: All right. Real quick, just Pickens and CeeDee Lamb. Any
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: concern with those two guys taking stuff from each other?
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 5: Not really.
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: With a 1,200-yard rusher on their team?
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 11: But it's going to be a– it's predicted to be
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 11: a pretty high-scoring offense, predicted to be a team that
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 11: will be among the leaders in pass attempts. And there's
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 11: not like a bunch of guys beyond those two that
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 11: are demanding the ball in the passing game. There's Jake Ferguson,
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 11: Ryan Flournay. There's not like a– a guy that you're
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 11: worried about taking from those two. So there will be
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 11: plenty for those two to work with there.
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: Here's what we're going to do. Anders, I want you
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: to look at the text that came in like in
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: the noon hour.
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: And then I'll look at the latest text. But before
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: we go to the text line at 49451, we do
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: have a couple phone calls. Are they all the ones
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: you texted me?
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: Are they still there, Anders? Well, here we go. Mike
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: and Edmonds, how are you?
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 8: Hi Ian.
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  Speaker 2: Hi Brandon. Hey Mike. Good to hear your voice.
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: This is really good to hear your voice, Mike. Really
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: good to hear your voice, buddy.
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 8: Oh, I didn't want to go into, you know, you
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 8: got to do some training. So you got to have
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 8: a preseason. You know, this is like preseason training.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 6: I love it.
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: What do you got for Funston?
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 8: Well, I had a concrete question, but I have a
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 8: theory question first. Um, Everybody knows there's tiers. There's tiers
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 8: of running backs, tiers of, you know, tiers all over.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 8: But the main thing people focus on in the first
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 8: few rounds of a standard PPR league is running backs
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 8: versus wide receivers. And when do you switch from going
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 8: through your tier one running backs to your tier one
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 8: wide receivers? You know, that's kind of the crux of
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 8: the draft right there. And then I got an actual
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 8: concrete question for you.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean we do a great– Jake Seeley, who
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 11: Ian always does a great job of mentioning at The Athletic,
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 11: he does these draft chasms of doom pieces, which shows
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 11: like when you jump away from a position to another position.
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 11: There's basically these– if you're projecting out players for the year,
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 11: there's value gaps, which will show like, okay, once these
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 11: wide receivers are empty, there's a decent gap here. You
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 11: don't just– just because– the the number 12 wide receivers
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 11: available after the number 11 there might be a way
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 11: bigger gap between 11 and 12 than there is from
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 11: 10 and 11 so you so i that that's how
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 11: you kind of manage your draft early is you jump
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 11: to the pockets of value and you you make sure
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 11: that you're not just drafting out a position when when
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 11: the value is if that makes some sense when the
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 11: value is better at the running back position you jump
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 11: back over there and you kind of move around but
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 11: if you If you're able to get onto the athletic
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 11: and read that, read that.
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 5: Series, it does a good job of explaining that. So anyway,
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 5: what was your, what was your question?
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  Speaker 9: Yep.
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 8: So in Chicago in particular, you have Roma doing say
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 8: Luther burden and Colston Loveland.
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 8: And there's only so many, and I don't know if
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 8: I trust Caleb Williams completely yet, but how do you,
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 8: do you view those guys subtracting from each other, adding
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 8: to each other? How do you rate those three guys?
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  Speaker 1: Good question. Great to hear your voice, Mike. Thank you.
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, and another part of the problem is that Ben
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 11: Johnson wants to run about 50% of the time as well.
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 11: So they're not going to be a super high-volume team.
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 11: The one thing that could push the volume is that
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 11: defense is not expected to be good, so they could
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 11: be playing in some high-scoring games.
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 5: And it's another thing. I've been going after.
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 11: Roma Dunzey because Luther Burden has just been steamed up
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 11: He's one of the guys that's been steamed up at
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 11: the wide receiver position the most this offseason. And I
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 11: actually like Roman Madunzi a little bit better, and you
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 11: can get him for cheaper. Loveland I like because he
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 11: does have number one tight end upside, but you're getting
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 11: him kind of after McBride and Bowers. And so like
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 11: an early tight end value, you're getting him later than
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 11: those guys sometimes by a couple rounds.
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  Speaker 5: So I do like that. I do think there's going
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 5: to be enough.
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 11: There for all of them to do well again it's
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 11: it's not like there's a third receiver there that you're
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 11: worried about too much they throw to deandre swift a
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 11: little bit but it's not a huge amount again i
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 11: also think the defense is going to be bad and
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 11: there will be some high scoring games there so but
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 11: i would stay away from burden just because i think
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 11: you know he's better he i think rome's better in
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 11: all situations um as an all situations receiver but we
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 11: i don't like to pay the expectant price on somebody
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 11: who's never done it before that's why you The Jeremiah Loves,
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 11: the Ashton G.T.s, where they're a top-five running back pick,
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 11: and then you're like, oh, I've got to draft.
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 5: Him, even though I've never seen him run in the
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 5: NFL before. I've got to draft him in an elite spot.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 5: It's always tough.
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 11: With Burton, it's like you're drafting him right at the
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 11: top 20 of wide receivers, and he just had a
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 11: very small sample size last year.
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: All right, I'm going to bang through two quick calls,
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: make them quick, guys, because we've got a bunch of
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: texts we're going to get to. Steven Hensalton, what's going on, Steven?
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: Is Steven there?
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 6: Can't get rid of.
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: There we go. Hey, Steven, what's up?
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 12: Andrew, I need to cut two players for the draft
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 12: on Sunday. Andrew Schultz, Pittman, Travis Hunter, or Kyle Pitts,
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 12: Hunter Henry. I have to get rid of two of
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 12: them somehow.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 5: Kyle Pitts, Hunter Henry. So probably Hunter Henry.
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 11: I'm a little bit curious to see how Dalton Schultz
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 11: does with the injury there at wide receiver and Texans. Probably,
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 11: if it's not an IDP league, I'm probably cutting Travis
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 11: Hunter as well. I'm not seeing him get drafted at all.
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 11: I mean, if they play him at receiver, they don't
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 11: really need him too badly. They're not going to probably
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 11: play him a ton. I might have missed a player
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 11: or two that you ran down there. I had Schultz, Pittman, Hunter,
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 11: Hunter Henry, and I don't know if I missed somebody else.
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 2: That's fine.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 12: Hunter and D.J.
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 2: Moore.
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 5: Oh, there you go. I would definitely keep D.J.
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 8: Moore.
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 5: If it's a Mark Andrews, I'd keep him too.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: Alright, let's do this. Let me get to real quick.
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: We'll stay in Salton. Derek in Salton. I love the
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: Salton two-step.
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 4: That's awesome.
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: Derek, real quick. Quick question.
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 2: Fire away.
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 5: What's up, guys?
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 13: Thanks for taking my call. My question is, I got
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 13: the sixth pick this year, and it looks like I
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 13: might get Puka. I don't really want Puka at all.
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 13: Do you trust Puka this year to be the WR1, really?
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 13: And would you pick him over JSN?
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I have him ranked over JSN. To me, Puka's
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 11: the the guy I at least want to play in fantasy.
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 11: He scares the crap out of me. He's probably, you know,
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 11: there is a little suspension concern, but from everything I'm hearing,
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 11: it could just be one game. He missed one game
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 11: last year and he was still the number one guy,
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 11: a little bit of an injury concern, but man, I
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 11: just think, I think the Rams are hell bent on
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 11: winning the, winning the super bowl this year.
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 5: They have the Seahawks in their, in their mouths.
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 11: Every time it seems like there's a, you know, there's
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 11: a news conference from anybody on the team.
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 5: They seem very bitter and very intense.
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 11: So I like their focus this year, but I think
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 11: Puka has, with such a, you know, just a rough offseason,
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 11: I think going out and just showing.
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 5: Out on the field would be something that would go
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 5: a long way for him.
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 1: All right, let's do this. Hit the music, Anders. Let's
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: get a couple texts in, 49451. We'll do these as
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: fast as we can so we can get a punch in.
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: We've got a ton, shockingly, a ton of texts. Nick
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: Allen takes care of me and my neighbors, and so
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: you know what? You get the first one. I'm going
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: to fire off Nick's question. Choosing my keeper, Brennan, one
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: of these four, Javante Williams, Zay Flowers, Emeka Ibuka, and
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold. He gets to keep one of those guys.
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 5: It's down to the receivers.
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 11: I'm probably going to go Emeka Ibuka just because a
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 11: little better passing environment, a little bit younger if you're
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 11: talking keepers.
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: There you go, Nick. It's a buka. Jim Johnson says, hey, boys,
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: Superflex League with two keepers. I've got Josh Allen for one. God, really?
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: But need to decide between Drake London and Jalen Hurts. Superflex.
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 5: Superflex. Dias Keeper.
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: Oh, man.
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 11: I'm probably going to go Drake London.
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 5: I love Drake London.
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: It's close.
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 5: I mean, you could.
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 11: It's a pretty dominant quarterback group if you go with Hurts.
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 11: They are going to be under center a lot more.
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 11: It's going to be a little different environment. Jalen Hurts
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 11: has got to prove himself a little bit more as
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 11: a passer this year. So it's a little concerning. So
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 11: I'll probably go Drake London.
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 5: 2-5-3.
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 1: I have the ninth pick, 10-man, half-point PPR lead. Would
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: you double dip on running backs in rounds one and two?
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: So snake back, running back, running back. Half-point PPR lead.
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I'm seeing running backs go out early.
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 11: And I tell you what, once you get down to
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 11: like Jeremiah Love and then like Josh Jacobs where there's
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 11: suspension and injury concerns, it's like.
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 5: It gets really hard.
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 11: So the more and more that I've kind of been
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 11: looking at drafts, the more I feel like if I
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 11: can get two of the top 12 to 15 running backs,
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 11: I feel like that's peace of mind there.
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 5: And then there's still some decent receivers you can go after.
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: Anders, fire away. You got three or four.
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, early on.
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 3: One second after the 12 o'clock hour.
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. Yeah, love to see that.
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: Mr.
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 3: Funston, for PPR, who are you seeing as having a
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 3: better year than the other forecasting sites are predicting?
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 5: Ooh, like a little sneaky sleeper.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 2: Generic. Yeah.
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, okay.
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 11: And so I mentioned DJ Moore. To me, he's like
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 11: Stefan Diggs. I mean, they're very similar.
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 5: I like that. Diggs had 100.
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 11: Catches over a hundred catches over average, like 1300 yards
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 11: and like 10 touchdowns in his three years with Josh Allen.
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 5: I think they just fit really good. So he's one
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 5: of my favorite targets and drafts this year.
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 3: Two, five, three is spatial tootin worth a late fourth,
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 3: early fifth as a number two back.
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 5: Uh, I'm kind of generally been passing on him.
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 11: He's a little bit leaving something to be desired and
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 11: imagination in the way he runs, but it sounds like
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 11: it's going to be a straight platoon. Chris Rodriguez was
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 11: with Liam Cohen at Kentucky college last, And he's probably
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 11: going to be the early down guy. So I'm a
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 11: little bit leery on the draft price on Tootin' right now.
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 3: Last question, Ian. 4-2-5, fourth pick and a PPR 12 man.
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 3: Torn between hero running back or wide receiver, wide receiver start?
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 11: This probably comes down to PPR. It probably comes down
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 11: to if you can start four wide receivers. I've mentioned
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 11: this a couple times.
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 5: Like if you can get.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 11: If you get four wide receivers into your lineup, you
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 11: probably need to go like Amon, Ross, St. Brown, or
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 11: JSN there if they're available. But certainly Jonathan Taylor and
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 11: Christian McCaffrey. Christian McCaffrey at that spot at number four.
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 5: Probably get 100 catches.
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: Not a bad way to go either. I'm going to
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: fire one more off just from Ryan at Scottsdale. He's
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: a huge listener, listens on the iHeartRadio app. You, by
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 1: the way, can download that for free, so we love that. Funston,
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: all caps, best time of the year. He's in his
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: first ever super flex league. Is it a no-brainer to
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: pick a quarterback first pick no matter what?
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 5: Absolutely not. I'm seeing it all the time.
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 11: It's like four quarterbacks have typically been going in the
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 11: first round. If you don't get Josh Allen right away,
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 11: I think you're going after Gibbs and Robinson or the
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 11: top of the wide receiver class, and then maybe you're
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 11: starting to look back at Lamar Jackson, Jaden Daniels.
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 5: Drake May as it gets towards the end of the
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 5: first round, early second round. But I would... Hammer those
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 5: top running backs and receivers after Allen.
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 1: Okay, this is brutal because this guy, I think this
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: is the guy that did the tequila, weed, and Georgetown
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: beer last week. So this is the last one. Funston,
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: full PPR. Need to keep one. DePoto or Dan Wilson?
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: Give me DePoto. Give me DePoto. How do we.
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 11: How do we make the playoff but get rid of
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 11: Dan Wilson in the process?
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm struggling with. There we go, Brandon. There's
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 2: my guy.
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: Between that and the guy from the 4-2-5, just well
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: played all the way around. Funston, and I tell people this,
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: but I'll let you tell people. There's no better fantasy
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: football pre-coverage and in-season coverage than the Athletic.
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 5: Tell people about it. Yeah, I appreciate that. Yeah, we
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 5: have just a ton of stuff.
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 11: Like I said, I've been swimming in it all last
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 11: few weeks, but– Some great new riders, rankings updated all
• 1:46:05
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• 1:46:07
  Speaker 11: get ready for your final drafts of the preseason before
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 11: we get things going for real.
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: Man, great stuff. We'll talk to you next week. Buddy,
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: it's here. Here we go. This is stress time. I'll
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: give you an update on the Board of Governors meeting, too,
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: that we're having this week, and I would urge people
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: to do the same thing. Find a patio. Find some
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: Georgetown beer, get everybody together, yell and scream for a
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: half hour, then have some food, and away you go.
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: So we'll talk to you next week.
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 5: I'll be interested to hear what comes out of the beer.
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: Haze of that. Yeah, exactly. It's always interesting. I'll talk
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: to you then. Take care. Thanks, guys. We'll check your
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: text next.
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 7: Now back to Ian Furness on your home for the Huskies, Kraken,
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 7: and the 12th man. Brought to you by Seattle's closest
• 1:46:47
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• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: That last fantasy question for Funston was just fantastic.
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 2: It's a photo of Wilson. You only have one.
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 5: You only have one.
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's see. Got a couple texts in here.
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: One of them, I got to go.
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 4: 2-5-3.
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm not a beer drinker, but is a growler
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: a size or a taste? Please let me know. Oh,
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: by the way, football is starting, so who cares about
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: the M's this year? They'll still lose, and next year
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 1: is a lockout anyway. Go Hawks, go Huskies from Lifetime
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: Fan in Ashford.
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 4: That's Roger.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: Okay. A growler is not a taste. It's 64 fluid
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 1: ounces of liquid gold is what it is. That's true.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: It's basically roughly four pints is what a growler is.
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 5: That's what a growler is. A taste, you can get it.
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 1: Now, by the way, if you go to Georgetown, you
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: can get like a 4-ounce or 10-ounce taste of the
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 1: mare if you want to try that. But a growler
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: to go, that's like a big, just think like the
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: big jug is what it is.
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 5: And, yeah, it's basically just about 4.
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 2: It's close to a gallon, right?
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's about 4 pints is what it is, which
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: would be a gallon. So, yeah, 32, 64. I think
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: it is 64 ounces.
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay.
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: I should know that. But, yeah, it's 4. Well, here's
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: the thing. It's 4 pints. That's 64 ounces.
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 4: Boom.
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there it is. Let's see.
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 1: David wants to know, do the new owners have to
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: agree to these contract extensions or is it still in
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: the Allen Trust? Allen Trust is still in there. They
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: don't take over. officially until they were approved. They haven't
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 1: taken over officially because the financials have to be approved.
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 1: I don't think Schneider can even call them and say, hey,
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: we want to sign Leonard Williams.
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 2: They're not doing operations yet, right?
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: I have seen a lot of stuff about... Wow, are
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: they still going to spend money on these contracts and
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 1: this and that and the owners? Guys, it's the NFL.
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: You spend to the salary cap. It's not like baseball
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 1: where you make up your own salary cap and your
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: own budget. Now, I'm not talking about how you run
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: the football operations side in terms of what you invest
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: in nutrition and how many dietitians. Like the other night
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: we saw the Seahawks assistant dietitian. Andrea is the lead dietitian.
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: She's been there for years. She's great. I think Russ
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: tried to get her fired, too. Anyway, they have the
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: two dietitians, at least. I think it's the two of me,
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 1: so they've been there forever. Stuff like that. Do we
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 1: need two or do we need one? The Kraken just
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: hired a new dietitian, nutritionist, what have you.
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 9: Full-time.
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 1: That's the stuff that you have to approve. Player salaries,
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: in a salary-capped league, you know what you have to spend.
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 3: Even the Cardinals, who are trying to lose, have to
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 3: spend up to the cap.
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't have to, but they'll come close. I'm
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: not ready to give credit or take credit away for
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: an NFL team that's going to spend money on player salaries.
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: Player salaries. Now, if we're talking coaching staff, salaries, and
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: all that stuff, how you travel. If you watched Hard Knocks,
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: did you watch it?
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: See, this is always one of the things I was
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 1: amazed with, and I like this when people got a
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: chance to see it. So they're going on a road trip, right?
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 1: And they're jumping on the plane for what would be
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 1: about a four-and-a-half-hour flight over to Nashville. And as they're
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 1: doing so, you see them leaving, and they're getting on
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 1: before they get on the bus. The breakfast they have,
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: but then before they get on the bus, they're having smoothies.
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: They've got the liquid IV. They've got all this stuff
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: laid out for these guys, right, as they get on
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: the bus. Then they show them on the plane.
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 2: They get on the plane.
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: They're eating again. they're always constantly fueling. I've watched that
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: for years when on road trips, because when we do,
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: when we did our Fox 13 postgame show for road trips,
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: you guys always saw us. We were always in the hallway, right?
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: Right outside the locker room. And it's right next to
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 1: where the players walk by on the way to the buses.
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: And there's these long lines of table and the two nutritionists,
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: the dieticians do a great, they had everything laid out.
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: They had smoothies, they had fruit, they had high carbs,
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: all this stuff laid out. They get to the hotel, uh, Basically,
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 1: the players' floors, you get off the elevator, they got
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: these tons of Gatorade, all the stuff you need. The
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: amount of money that's invested in player nutrition and player
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 1: performance is amazing. That's what you don't want to see
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 1: ever cut back. Good teams spend money on that. We
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 1: just went through the audit out here with the Kraken, right?
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 1: They just did that. And one of the things they
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: brought up was player development, which includes nutrition and all
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 1: those things. Well, one of the things that the hockey
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: team did... Now, remember, they've got one-third of the size
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 1: of the roster of an NFL team. Because the NFL
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: team's 70. These guys have 22 here, 23 here at
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: the max. But one of the things they did is
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 1: they went out and they hired a new full-time dietician, nutritionist.
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 1: They hired a third full-time strength and conditioning coach, etc. So, like,
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: those are like... Like, when people say they didn't do anything,
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 1: they took a step forward and did that. They invested
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 1: in those positions, which will cost more money not just
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: because of the position, but also... Are we fueling these
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 1: guys upright? Are they doing all that stuff and all that?
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: That's where the ownership for the Seahawks, hopefully when they
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 1: come in, they're never going to cut any of those
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: things back. I don't think this guy is. Listening to
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 1: his press conference yesterday, this dude's not a frugal dude.
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he does not seem like the cut back to
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 3: save money in this aspect sort of guy.
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 1: This is not Tom Dundon, people.
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 2: No.
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: God, what an idiot.
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: What an ass.
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 3: Look, I'm not blaming fans for thinking that way, right?
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 3: There's obviously going to be worries about that kind of
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 3: stuff when you're getting a new owner coming in, but
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 3: it's just not the case.
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's definitely not the case. All right, we've
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: got a couple more questions about the beer.
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 4: I have 425.
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 1: Hey, Ian, I'm still doing the final keg at Imbibe
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: in Maple Valley. What is the date? Do you know?
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 1: The answer is yes, we are, and no, I'm not
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: sure yet. We're working on that with my good friend
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 1: Angie out at Imbibe, and so I'm going to try
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: to find that out. I was waiting for To be
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: honest with you, the NHL schedule and the NHL national
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 1: TV schedule to come out, which did yesterday.
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 1: So perhaps over a glass of Mayer tonight when I
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: get home, I'm going to try to get that done.
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: But we will have a final keg party at Imbibe
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 1: in Maple Valley sometime in the next month, month and a.
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 2: Half or so.
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 4: Love it.
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 1: So stay tuned for that. How did Ian get the
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: nickname Mayor of Maple Valley? That's a good question, actually.
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 1: That's a nicer question than the guy last week that says,
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 1: I've been to Maple Valley. I'm always in Maple Valley,
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: and there isn't a soul out there who knows who
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 1: Ian Furness is.
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 5: Oh, jeez.
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 1: I think it's insulting that he calls himself the mayor
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 1: and da-da-da-da-da just has torched me.
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 2: Jeez.
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 1: First of all, you're not from Maple Valley. You're a visitor,
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: so we don't like you, and we're going to check you.
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: Next time when you try to get across the Maple
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: Valley border, we're going to have somebody there to make
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 1: sure you can't get in. I'll make sure Border Patrol
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: is there standing by.
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 1: Second of all, I didn't give myself that.
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 1: Like, I'm not that guy. Nobody gives a, like, please
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 1: don't think I'm that guy. Years and years ago, this was, like,
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: in the old building. This was at 351 Elliott. Is
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: that what it was? Yeah, 351 Elliott. So this was, like, 12, 13,
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: 14 years ago. Somebody called. We were doing the show middays,
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: and somebody called in, and we were talking about Maple Valley,
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 1: and somebody goes, oh, you're, like, the mayor of Maple Valley.
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 1: And it stuck.
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: To the point where, like, a few months later, The
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 1: true mayor at the time of Maple Valley is a lady.
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: I forget what her name was. And Maple Valley's mayor
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: is basically just one of the city council people.
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 6: Sure.
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: And it's all part-time positions. They have a city manager.
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 1: If you know politics, that means a city manager. She's
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 1: a figurehead, what have you, leads the city council. But
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: she emailed me, and she was sideways. She was sideways,
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 1: kind of like this guy was.
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right?
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: She was sideways because, like, you're calling yourself the mayor.
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 1: You're not the mayor.
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 4: I'm the mayor.
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: I don't see you in any city. I haven't seen
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: you at any city council meetings, blah, blah, blah, all
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 1: this stuff. It just went off on me. I'm like, lady,
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 1: first of all, it's a radio bit. It's a bit
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 1: on radio, on sports radio. Second of all, it's a nickname.
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 1: Third of all, why do you care? Fourth of all,
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 1: who are you again? Because I've never heard of you either.
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 1: That's what it was. That was like my email response.
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 1: I never heard from her again. She's long gone. By
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: the way, the real mayor of Maple Valley on the
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 1: city council, Sean P. Kelly, is a good dude, and
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 1: he actually loves the fact that that gets– he says
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 1: sometimes that he can just divert issues to me. As
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 1: I pointed out to him, that's not a great idea
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 1: because when I have issues in my life, I do
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 1: one of two things. One, I point them to the little.
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 4: General, a.k.a.
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 1: My wife.
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 1: You saw her last week. She runs the show. The boss. Yeah,
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 1: the boss lady.
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 4: The general.
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 1: We call her the little general. I send them to
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 1: the little general, or if it's something work-related or otherwise,
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: Jessamyn McIntyre at iHeartMedia.com. Anders, I usually spare him of
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: those issues. I just send them right to Jess.
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 2: That's a good call.
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: She's a problem solver.
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she gets stuff done.
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: Now, we have talked about politics over a few beers
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: at Imbibe and running for office. If I did so
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: I would have a chief of staff. I would be
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: purely a figurehead. But I would have a chief of staff.
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: And that chief of staff, you met my chief of staff.
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 1: You know who it would be?
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 2: Who? Your son?
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 8: No.
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 2: Come on. The scoffing of that.
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 1: You know what that guy's worried about right now?
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 2: What?
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 1: That guy's worried about getting his girlfriend through the last
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 1: two years of law school and then finally make sure
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 1: she gets a job in a nice law firm and
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 1: playing golf.
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 2: That's all he cares about right now. Can I ask
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 2: a quick question, by the way? Yeah, yeah. Your wife
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 2: calls you the little general? No, I call her the
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 2: little general.
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 5: Okay, good.
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 1: Hey, hey, by the way, by the way, we don't
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: call her that to her face.
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 2: I got you.
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 10: I'm just imagining Tammy waiting in your bedroom for the
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 10: little general.
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 1: No, no, no.
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 4: No.
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 1: You know what he's called? The major.
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 5: The major.
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 2: The whopper. The king, baby.
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 1: He's a major. But yeah, no, we have issues. See,
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: same thing with Softie. If you have an issue, I
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 1: just send them to Jess. I just send people to Jess.
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 2: I bet he sends them to Jackson. That's what he does.
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: You know what the other thing I was going to
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 1: say running for office? You know who my chief of
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: staff would be? Cliff Clavin. My buddy Cliff Clavin.
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 2: There you go. There you go.
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 5: Darren.
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 2: So there's actually somebody dumb enough to think that you
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 2: were claiming to be the mayor of Maple Valley.
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: 12 years ago, she sent me a– I don't know
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 1: if I– I tried to keep the email, but we
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: got them flushed out for a while. She was sideways.
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Can we do this next segment, guys?
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 1: We've got a break. Oh, yeah. Let's take a break.
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 2: Softie joins us next. All right.
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 1: All righty, he's back. He was there. He gave his
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 1: little tease.
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the tease. The captain and the little general, baby.
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 5: The captain and the little general.
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 2: The little general. When's the little general going to come
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 2: on in here?
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 1: Kiefer calls her the little general.
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 2: See, that's just weird, man. There's got to be some
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 2: context here.
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 2: You've got to explain.
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 1: Everything to the audience. Most people's minds don't go directly
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 1: where they go to you.
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 10: Well, look, I would think if you're on the air
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 10: and you're talking about your wife and your little general,
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 10: most people would make that leap.
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: I can see that. Most people would make that leap. better.
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 5: Anders, help me out here.
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 2: Am I wrong? Tell me I'm wrong. You're not wrong.
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 1: But Anders was there. He was there when we called
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 1: her little general.
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 4: Whoa!
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 2: To her face? What is going on here?
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 1: No, I think it was behind her back. Hey, I'm
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 1: telling you, the only person that can call her that
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 1: to her face is her baby. Her baby.
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 2: Her baby.
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 1: Her baby can do that. None of the rest of
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 1: us can. I was telling a story about you yesterday
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 1: when I was playing really bad golf, actually. I'm not
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 1: going to get into the details of where I was
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 1: on Saturday and what I was doing. You do know.
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 2: I know where you were on Tuesday.
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 1: No, but this was Saturday.
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 2: Are you talking something else? Gotcha. All right.
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Saturday. You know my fun Saturday.
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 2: Yes, I do.
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 1: Yes, I do. So I'm sitting there with the general.
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 1: And I get a couple texts from you, and they're
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 1: your typical softy texts.
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: And she's like, who's texting you? What's going on?
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 4: I go, it's softy.
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 2: She goes, what do you want?
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 1: I go, she goes, give me your phone. I go, no, no, no.
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 3: So obviously she doesn't listen to the show.
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 1: No, buddy. Come on.
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 10: You're talking about the text that I sent you that
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 10: you did not respond to.
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 1: And she's like, let me see your phone.
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 2: Now I know why you didn't respond. Oh, Jesus.
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 1: Don't think I didn't see it, buddy. I appreciate that stuff.
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 2: Good Lord, man.
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 1: There's certain things that the wife, when your friends text,
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: they just can't see. That was near the top.
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 2: Of the list.
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 10: Do you get the, Anders, I don't know if you
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 10: get this a lot, Ian, on your phone. It sounds
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 10: like you might get it too, Ian. Who were you texting?
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 10: Who were you talking to?
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 1: That was it. No, that was it.
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 2: Do you get that a lot, though? No, my wife
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 2: doesn't care.
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 7: Really?
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 2: She doesn't care.
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 3: She already knows that I couldn't do any better than her.
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 3: That's a good point.
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 2: I think all three of us can say the same.
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 1: I think that's a unanimous decision.
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 10: By the way, if for whatever reason, and I'm sure
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 10: that you agree with me, Ian, if it never worked
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 10: out or something happened and, God forbid, I ended up
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 10: on my own again, that's it.
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 2: I'm done. Like, I'm finished.
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 2: Finished, finished, finished.
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 2: All right? I might even go to the other side.
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 2: I got to be honest with you.
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 10: And just find a buddy.
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 2: I got a buddy of mine.
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 5: All right? Good sample.
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 1: You do your thing, man.
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 10: I got a buddy of mine. And let me tell
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 10: you something, man. This guy has it all figured out.
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 10: Him and his husband, they got it all figured out.
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 2: It is tremendous. Tremendous relationship. It's perfect. There's a lot
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 2: of it that is... Very, very attractive. I'll be told...
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 2: You ever see... Southie's Envious.
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 10: What's the movie with Kevin James and Adam Sandler where
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 10: they got married to each other to avoid paying taxes
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 10: and whatever?
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 2: The hell is that movie?
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 1: I don't even want to venture to guess a name,
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 1: to be honest.
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 2: Somebody knows what I'm talking about. It's not Grown Ups,
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 2: is it? No, it's not Grown Ups.
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, Grown Ups.
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 2: Is it Kevin James and Sandler? Is that who's in it,
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 2: or is it somebody else? I don't think so.
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: They're in Grown Ups, though, aren't they?
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 2: It's not Grown Ups. I now pronounce it Chuck and Larry. Anyway,
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 2: you're saying... I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry.
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: Okay, so you're saying.
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 2: You ever heard about that?
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 1: I know that the movie rings a bell.
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 10: Firefighter buddies who enter a domestic partnership and fake being
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 10: gay to get married.
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 2: Hilarious movie. Right, Jackson? Hilarious.
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 1: So what you're saying.
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 2: If it doesn't work out for you, it doesn't work
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 2: out for me.
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 1: If Gina puts you on waivers.
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 2: And Tammy boots you to the curb.
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 1: It could happen any second.
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 2: Would you marry me?
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 6: Probably.
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, listen, do I get to share the
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 1: country club membership?
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 2: You can do whatever you want. That's the thing.
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 1: You can do whatever you want.
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 2: You can have your own room, whatever you want.
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 1: I don't care.
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 2: Whatever you want.
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 1: I just want to go to the country club. That's
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 1: all I want to do.
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 2: As far as Uncle Sam's concerned, I love you, man.
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 1: I love you, too.
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 2: I love you, too.
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 1: That's great.
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 2: I now pronounce you Dave and Ian.
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 1: Problem is, that's my middle name, so what do I
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 1: do here?
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 2: It's also my brother's name, too, by the way, which
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 2: would be really weird. Really weird.
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 1: This has just gone down a really dark place today.
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 2: Your middle name is David. My brother's name is Ian.
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 2: We got problems, man.
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 1: And we got married just like that on the air.
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, God.
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 1: I could marry us. Little do you know, I'm ordained.
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 1: I got that license.
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 2: Get you guys married right now. Do it.
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 1: No, I got the license.
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 2: I can do it. Say the word. You take him,
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 2: you take him. Boom, it's done. See you later.
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 1: It's done.
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 2: Meet me on number one. Mazel tov.
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 1: Oh, God. Oh, geez. If my wife was listening right now,
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 1: she'd probably go, yeah, that's a good idea.
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah. See ya. Thank God. You're out of here, man.
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 2: You are out of here.
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 1: You're out of here. Yeah, who's texting you? Who are
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 1: you texting?
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 2: Who are you talking to?
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: We got other stuff to do right now. Don't worry
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 1: about it, hon.
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 2: I'm good.
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 1: Don't worry. Don't worry. It's just David.
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 2: David who?
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 10: I have figured out and I have learned it's just
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 10: best just to be honest and just answer in a
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 10: calm demeanor.
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 2: Honey, I'm talking to Ian.
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 10: Honey, I'm talking to my boss or Jackson or whatever.
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 2: Blah, blah, blah.
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 4: That's all I'm doing.
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 2: Just be calm, and then the storm will pass.
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 1: My go-to one is this. I go, I just got
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 1: cracking stuff. I've got to deal with some cracking stuff.
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 1: There you go. Cracking TV.
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 10: Because that could happen any time. Because that does happen
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 10: any time. I want you to try something. Next time
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 10: it happens. All the guys out there listening, your wife says,
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 10: who are you texting?
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 2: You know what? None of your business. Calm down. Try
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 2: that and see what happens.
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 5: In that accent?
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 2: Exactly. None of your business.
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 5: None of your business.
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 4: Calm down.
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 1: I thought you were going to say to me, just
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 1: tell her the truth. Say, Softy was texting me something
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 1: that you would consider to be inappropriate.
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, God.
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 10: How about when Chuck Norris died? All the Chuck Norris
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 10: memes and all that stuff that were coming out. Chuck
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 10: Norris once told a woman to calm down, and she did.
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 2: Good luck with that, man. All right.
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 1: What are you doing today?
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 2: What's today? Thursday, Rick Neuheisel makes his debut for 2026.
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 10: Courtesy of Taco Time. In about 25 minutes from now,
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 10: we'll talk some college football with Rick Neuheisel, Jerry Brewer
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 10: at four, and Brett Boone at five. Coming up, did
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 10: the Mariners make a mistake on not grabbing Eugenio Suarez
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 10: to play third base for them? Because he cleared waivers
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 10: when he's going back to the Reds. So we'll talk
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 10: to Booney about that.
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 1: Let's keep Patrick Wisdom instead. By the way, big thanks
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 1: to the folks here at 32 Bar and Grill, Kenny
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 1: Moriarty and stuff. Once training camp starts, you can watch
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: the practices, have lunch, look outside, go check things out.
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 1: In the meantime, hey, Softy, I love you.
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 2: I love you too, man. See ya. For the mild-mannered
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 2: and marginally objectionable Ian Furness, this is Paddle Day saying
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 2: so long, everyone.