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Ian Furness 10/30 H2: Be prepared baseball fans, Danny O'Neill and the Daily Power Play! · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: For being honest. Huskies take on Nebraska 5 o'clock tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: right here on KJR. Pre-game starts at 1 o'clock. I
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  Speaker 2: want to touch on just real quick on baseball. I
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  Speaker 2: made a note of this. I read a great story
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  Speaker 2: in The Athletic today. Evan Drellich, I think is his name,
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  Speaker 2: wrote the story. And it was basically your guide to
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  Speaker 2: the lockout for Major League Baseball. Major League Baseball ended
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  Speaker 2: this past, what, Tuesday? Was it Tuesday was the last game? Yeah, Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: MLB season ended with the Brewers winning a World Series.
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  Speaker 2: That's their first, right, Ashley?
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  Speaker 3: It is, actually. Yeah, I don't know if you've heard that.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: All I do know is this. This is what I think.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: This is a really important piece of information.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: They play the game the right way.
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  Speaker 4: They do. I've heard that.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard that.
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  Speaker 4: Just once.
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  Speaker 3: I've only ever heard it once.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to bring back What Bugs You Wednesday. I'm
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  Speaker 2: telling you right now.
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  Speaker 3: Because I already know what's bugging you.
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  Speaker 2: Just the dumbest. That's one of the dumbest things you
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  Speaker 2: can say in sports.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They play it the right way. Who determines what's the
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  Speaker 2: right way and the wrong way?
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah. And I want to know who do they
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  Speaker 3: think is playing it the wrong way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Is everybody else playing it the wrong way?
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  Speaker 3: I'm curious.
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  Speaker 2: Because they... Genuinely.
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  Speaker 1: Like.
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  Speaker 2: Or they've got some good players, and they've got an
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  Speaker 2: ace pitcher, and they've got a good bullpen, and they
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  Speaker 2: won the World Series. I never have quite– somebody needs
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  Speaker 2: to help me with that. I don't quite understand what
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  Speaker 2: playing the right way is, but that's me. He wrote– yeah,
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  Speaker 2: this is a great story today. We've talked about briefly.
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  Speaker 2: All joking aside, it's kind of a– It's bittersweet. The
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  Speaker 2: season ends, and really, when you're a Seattle fan this year,
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  Speaker 2: it was probably so bitter anyway because you're like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: it used to be, let's get to football season. Can
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  Speaker 2: we get to football season, right? Let's get to football season. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the last few years, the team's been a lot better,
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  Speaker 2: and it's not just been about getting to football season.
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  Speaker 2: It's been about getting to the playoffs. And this was
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  Speaker 2: a year that this team had such high expectations coming
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  Speaker 2: off what happened last year in the ALCS, and then
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  Speaker 2: we all know what happened. We move on. But you
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  Speaker 2: have a disappointing season, the season ends, and now we
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  Speaker 2: don't know when the next one's going to start. So
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  Speaker 2: we settle in. Thank God we've got a great NFL
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  Speaker 2: team because college football in this state has not been
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  Speaker 2: good this year. I mean, Washington better than Wazoo, and
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  Speaker 2: Wazoo is just in a whole different world of whatever
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  Speaker 2: the hell they're doing. And Washington, meanwhile, is ranked 17th
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  Speaker 2: to start the country. You can say what you want
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  Speaker 2: about preseason rankings. Your expectations were not to be four
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  Speaker 2: and three. So we don't even have that. We do
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  Speaker 2: have the NFL team. But with baseball, now the bigger
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  Speaker 2: question is when will they play again? And Evans' column
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  Speaker 2: in the Athletic was really well done. We've talked about
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  Speaker 2: this with Eno Saris a couple times. We might get
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  Speaker 2: Eno on maybe during the bye week or something and
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  Speaker 2: get an update. They're going to lock him out on
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  Speaker 2: December 1st or 2nd. I guess technically it'll be December 2nd.
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  Speaker 2: And we will not have more than, I mean, barring
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  Speaker 2: an absolute miracle that nobody sees on the horizon, we're
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  Speaker 2: not going to have a start to the season on time.
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  Speaker 2: We're not going to have a start to spring training
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  Speaker 2: on time. But he spelled it out really well in
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  Speaker 2: terms of what they're looking at. And this is the
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  Speaker 2: thing I can't quite wrap my arms around. And I
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  Speaker 2: never have been. I'll ask you this question, Ash. Does
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  Speaker 2: the salary cap work in the NFL, do you think?
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  Speaker 3: I think it works really well.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Because it allows teams to, well, I mean, they do
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  Speaker 3: fake math and do weird things like that and get
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  Speaker 3: around some of it. But in general, it allows teams
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  Speaker 3: to work under a certain.
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  Speaker 3: Umbrella that keeps them all in the same boat.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of budgets things out and all of that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Allows people to not get paid ridiculous amounts of money
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  Speaker 3: because that, I mean, baseball treats money like it's not
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  Speaker 3: real at all.
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  Speaker 2: Some teams do.
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  Speaker 3: Some teams do.
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  Speaker 2: Now I know everyone's going to look at, well, small
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  Speaker 2: market team with a lower payroll. Two of them were
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  Speaker 2: in the world series this year. That's fine. And that
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  Speaker 2: does happen. And there is some parody in terms of
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  Speaker 2: how the league operates. I get, we understand that we
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  Speaker 2: all get that, but is the game better off if
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  Speaker 2: there was a little bit more.
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  Speaker 4: Equal.
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  Speaker 2: Throughout the thing, as opposed to the Dodgers. So you
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  Speaker 2: go into free agency this year. First of all, free
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  Speaker 2: agency is awful this year. My question for Jerry DiPoto is,
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  Speaker 2: how do you make your team better? Because you're letting
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  Speaker 2: a good player walk, apparently, in Randy Orozarena. So he walks.
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  Speaker 2: Your young guys take that step forward. And we talked
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  Speaker 2: about that with the Kraken a lot. Young guys taking
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  Speaker 2: a step forward is the reason the Kraken are better.
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  Speaker 2: Shane's better. Berkeley's way better. Matty Beneers has got better
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  Speaker 2: every year. Ryker Evans is better. All these guys. But baseball,
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  Speaker 2: you know, baseball's a sport you really are kind of
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  Speaker 2: dependent sometimes on landing a hammer, and they don't have
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  Speaker 2: that ability because there's nobody out there. The best guy
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  Speaker 2: out there or one of the top five or six
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  Speaker 2: guys out there is the guy you're letting walk. But
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  Speaker 2: Evan did a really good job writing this story because
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  Speaker 2: we may not see baseball. More than likely, we're going
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  Speaker 2: to see baseball in June, June 1st.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Because it's a 60-day window. There's a whole thing with
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  Speaker 2: the TV contract rolling over. Owners don't want to do that.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Baseball is also a good example, their players association, of
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  Speaker 2: how the richest guys that kind of control the players
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  Speaker 2: association because they don't want to see their money go away.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The bar would be raised for everybody. There's multiple teams,
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  Speaker 2: including Seattle, that would have to raise the basement of
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  Speaker 2: what they're paying guys.
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  Speaker 3: Which is good.
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  Speaker 2: That seems to be a good thing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That seems to be a good thing.
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  Speaker 3: I understand people not wanting their money capped, but let's
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  Speaker 3: be honest. You're making more money than you and the
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  Speaker 3: next four generations of your family are ever going to
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  Speaker 3: be able to spend.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Right.
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  Speaker 2: And, and, and it, it seems to work okay in
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  Speaker 2: the NBA. It seems to work okay in the NFL,
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  Speaker 2: the NHL, it works, except for they have other issues
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  Speaker 2: with their stupid collective bargaining agreement, allowing players to just say,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to play. And then I'm going to,
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  Speaker 2: I want to be traded, but I only, you can
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  Speaker 2: only trade me to these three teams. And that's just
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  Speaker 2: a whole different set of stupidity. Um, but the NHL
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  Speaker 2: sometimes goes down that road too. So, uh, but I
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  Speaker 2: guess I would, I would just recommend people read it.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good story that, uh, that was written by
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  Speaker 2: Evan Drellick today. If you're a baseball fan and you're
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  Speaker 2: kind of concerned or curious when you might see baseball again,
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  Speaker 2: the kind of the bummer thing is we won't see
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  Speaker 2: a lot going on in the off season. If you
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  Speaker 2: remember before when the lockout briefly happened in 2022, I
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  Speaker 2: believe it was, that's when the seat, remember the Mariners
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  Speaker 2: signed Robbie Ray?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: There's a bunch of signings that took place before the lockout.
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  Speaker 2: So now what you do do is you kind of
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  Speaker 2: keep an eye on it. Do you see stuff that
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  Speaker 2: happens over the next, you know, three or four weeks?
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  Speaker 2: Does Randy sign somewhere? Do all these guys sign somewhere? Maybe.
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  Speaker 2: But by and large, it's going to be probably a
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  Speaker 2: pretty quiet offseason. So it's recommended reading. We're big fans
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  Speaker 2: of the Athletic. We use a lot of their guys,
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  Speaker 2: and I thought Evan did a really good job with
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  Speaker 2: that as well. Yeah, good stuff today from Seahawks out there.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing earth-shattering yet. They might be practicing indoors, so I'm
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  Speaker 2: not even sure what these guys are. We can't see
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  Speaker 2: anything anyway. I know Greg's out there, so you can
• 8:33
  Speaker 2: check out our website to see if he's got anything,
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  Speaker 2: and then follow him on Twitter. But it's just such
• 8:37
  Speaker 2: a Monday night makes it so strange, and then tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: we kind of get lost in the shuffle. So We'll
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  Speaker 2: see what happens. Jadarian Price is the biggest question mark,
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  Speaker 2: as well as Charbonnet. But I do hold out hope,
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  Speaker 2: and McDonald left it open, that Jadarian Price could play.
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  Speaker 2: That would change. If you told me, here's what we did.
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  Speaker 2: They added Simmons, but you added an elite, well, what
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  Speaker 2: should be an elite first-round draft pick running back and
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  Speaker 2: the best offensive guard.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's a win for Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you put in Zach Charbonnet, and you're
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  Speaker 3: telling me, like, oh, so we could maybe have a
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  Speaker 3: run game that looks a little bit like last year?
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  Speaker 2: Wouldn't that be fun?
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  Speaker 4: I would love that.
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  Speaker 2: That would be fun. All right, we'll take a break.
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  Speaker 2: final pick of the week. We need a win. I
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  Speaker 2: think we're going to go local. I think we're going
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  Speaker 2: to go local. I think we're going to go local.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, are you?
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  Speaker 2: I think we're going to go local.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I know what you're going to try
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  Speaker 3: to do.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think I'm going to do something that would be,
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing well. What's up, Ian?
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  Speaker 5: How are you doing? I'm good.
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  Speaker 2: We missed you the last little while, but good to
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: have you back on. We'll get to sports in a second.
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  Speaker 2: I loved your column today. This is the kind of
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  Speaker 2: fun stuff. Yeah, you'll get mostly sports, but every now
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: and then an insight into, I don't know, real life
• 10:56
  Speaker 2: and sometimes real life in New York City. Tell us,
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  Speaker 2: before we go into the kind of the cool part
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  Speaker 2: of the story, you have a car. Not everybody in
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  Speaker 2: New York has a car. You guys have a car.
• 11:07
  Speaker 2: What's the challenge you have parking your car? Is it
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  Speaker 2: once a week?
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  Speaker 4: It's two times per week.
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  Speaker 5: We are what are called alternate side parkers, which means
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  Speaker 5: we park on the street, which in our neighborhood is free.
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  Speaker 4: But twice a week, the street cleaners come by.
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  Speaker 5: And now in most cities, you would just evacuate that
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  Speaker 5: side of the street for the 90 minutes that street
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  Speaker 5: cleaning is allotted. In New York city, because parking is
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  Speaker 5: set at such a premium. What you do is you
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  Speaker 5: go out and sit.
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  Speaker 4: In your car.
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  Speaker 5: And when the street sweeper comes by, you pull over
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  Speaker 5: to the other side of the street, let the street
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  Speaker 5: sweeper go past. So you can then scramble back to
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  Speaker 5: the spot you were in before. So I do that
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  Speaker 5: twice a week because the alternative is to get a
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  Speaker 5: garage and a garage, like having a garage spot in
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  Speaker 5: our neighborhood is it's, it's north of $ 750 a month.
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  Speaker 1: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: That's no good. Uh, I, I bring it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. So parking, parking is my highest, it's my highest
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  Speaker 5: paying gig. I guess it's my, the parking job I
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  Speaker 5: do is my best paid gig.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I love it. God, I get, you know what?
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  Speaker 2: I was going to complain about my parking situation later
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  Speaker 2: today when I go do Kraken TV. Cause I'm, I'm,
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  Speaker 2: I'm literally looking outside. It wasn't supposed to be raining
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  Speaker 2: this late in the day. And I have where we
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  Speaker 2: have our studios now, little place called the big 10
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  Speaker 2: studio network, uh, network studios at UW, uh, for Kraken,
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  Speaker 2: it's a hike from where they have us parking to
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  Speaker 2: get in. And when you are supposed to be, as
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  Speaker 2: they say, television ready, carrying a suit, all those things,
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  Speaker 2: rain's not our friend. I'm not going to complain about that. Again,
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  Speaker 2: as I look outside seeing the rain, I'll figure something out.
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  Speaker 2: It's way better than sitting in my car for 90
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  Speaker 2: minutes twice. I mean, that's just brutal, Danny. I can't
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  Speaker 2: imagine that. Those are the little things that we take
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  Speaker 2: for granted here in Seattle.
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  Speaker 4: It's not bad.
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  Speaker 5: It turns out that I can write really effectively in there.
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  Speaker 5: I can just sit in my car.
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  Speaker 4: It's not terrible. It's not as bad as you think.
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  Speaker 5: And sometimes you see a little bit of street theater,
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  Speaker 5: which is what happened yesterday morning. I watched as a
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  Speaker 5: guy who was essentially the block over from me, but
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  Speaker 5: I was staring straight at him.
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  Speaker 4: He hit a bike that was on a pole.
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  Speaker 5: As he was backing up to vacate for the street
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  Speaker 5: sweeper to come by, he hit a bike and Because
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  Speaker 5: of the way, like when he pulled forward, the tires,
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  Speaker 5: the bike tire hitting the car tire, the bike spun
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  Speaker 5: around the pole it was locked to. It wasn't destroyed,
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  Speaker 5: but it looked like the bike was a little worse
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  Speaker 5: for wear. And so I watched all this happen. And
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  Speaker 5: then you wonder, okay, well, what's, what's, is the guy
• 13:41
  Speaker 5: going to drive off? Is he going to leave a note?
• 13:44
  Speaker 5: And what happened was the guy that owned the bike
• 13:46
  Speaker 5: came out. I don't think he saw what had happened.
• 13:49
  Speaker 5: He was coming out to resume his journey to wherever
• 13:51
  Speaker 5: he was going. And they started, it looked like arguing.
• 13:55
  Speaker 5: There was gesturing going on. There wasn't pointing or anything
• 13:58
  Speaker 5: like that. And I decided that because I had witnessed
• 14:03
  Speaker 5: the actual, it wasn't a collision, but the torquing of
• 14:07
  Speaker 5: the bike, that I would go see if my information
• 14:11
  Speaker 5: could diffuse the situation. I walked over there and the
• 14:15
  Speaker 5: guy who was driving the car, I said, is everything okay?
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: He goes, yeah, I hit his bike a little bit.
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: He's a little frustrated. We're fine. Went back to my car.
• 14:23
  Speaker 5: They continued debating, gesturing for another two or three minutes.
• 14:28
  Speaker 5: And the guy that owned the car popped the trunk
• 14:31
  Speaker 5: on his hatchback. The two of them loaded the bike
• 14:34
  Speaker 5: into his hatchback. The guy that was the bike owner
• 14:38
  Speaker 5: then got in the passenger seat and the two of
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: them drove off in the same car, presumably to have
• 14:42
  Speaker 5: the bike fixed.
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: And I found this I found.
• 14:46
  Speaker 5: This legitimately uplifting and inspiring. For one, I live in
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: a city that in New York, it's not the nicest place.
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: There's an edge to this city. You have to have
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: a protective shell. And there's a sort of dog-eat-dog world.
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: I've always said it's interesting to live in a place
• 15:03
  Speaker 5: that you know just doesn't give a crap about you.
• 15:06
  Speaker 5: And to see a little bit of camaraderie was nice.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: It was welcome.
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: It made me feel that if I did fall into
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: a gutter here and couldn't get up, somebody might stop
• 15:15
  Speaker 5: to help me.
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: And then the second part, though, is watching people.
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: Resolve conflict like adults is something that the internet has
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: certainly hurt this.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: It's impacted our ability because people just want to get
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: mad online.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: And- Getting mad is an understandable reaction. It's understandable that
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: the guy whose bike got hit by the car would
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: be angry and would be like, what the hell, man?
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: You wrecked my bike.
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: That's a human reaction. But a lot of times, the
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: venting of the anger isn't a solution to the problem.
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: It's not going to fix your bike.
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: And it might feel better for a second to release
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: some of the anger you have But even if you're
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: pointing and yelling at someone, that doesn't get to the solution.
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: And on the other side, the guy who did it,
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: he wants to find some sort of fix, but there's
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: a limit. He could have just completely abdicated. But watching them,
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: one guy that could have left but stayed, and another
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: guy who could have stayed mad. but kind of calmed
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: down and they worked their way to look, it's a
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: crappy situation.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: Both of them are inconvenienced.
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: Nobody wanted this to happen, but it wasn't deliberate.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: And they drove off presumably to the, to the bike shop.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Now I've looked.
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: Around the neighborhood to try and find the car again,
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: because I want to talk to the guy and find
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: out what happened, but I found it a little like,
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: I have, I have a little bit of hope for
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: our species, Ian.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: I do too.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: And I, I, because today, like, You know, I think
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: I'm thinking of the NFL. It feels like every Sunday night,
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Monday morning, all across social media, you see pictures posted
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: of all the fights in NFL stadiums. And, you know,
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: like conflicts that probably one guy says something, the other
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: guy says something. I accidentally spilled something on you. Next
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: thing you know, punches being thrown, what have you. And
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: it's just like we live in this world where it
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: feels like it feels as if we live in a
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: world now where there is absolutely no middle ground. There's
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: no humanities taking a step backwards. So I like that.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: I enjoyed that story today.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: I appreciate that. I found it to be quite touching
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: because the goal should be, look, we're all going to
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: get hurt. We're all going to have our feelings hurt.
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: We're all going to suffer actual tangible losses, whether it's
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: people we know, relationships we have. It is impossible to
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: go through life without suffering harm. And when we do
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: suffer harm... It is natural to feel angry about that,
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: to feel resentful, even to vent or feel victimized. But
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: that's not the solution to it. That shouldn't be the endpoint.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: And ascribing blame to who hurt you, I'm not going
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: to say that's wrong because there are times, especially if
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: someone won't take accountability for it, that it can be
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: an important step.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: But that's not a solution.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: Like, it really isn't. And we're much better off if
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: we can sort of listen and think about where the
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: other person's coming from and find a mutually agreeable solution.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: I love it. Good stuff. Danny O'Neill joining us. You
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: can get that when you subscribe. We'll tell you at
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: the end how to do it. What'd you think of
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: the Seattle Seahawks? Week that was. They start off the
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: week on a late Sunday night football game, 8.30 for
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: your time back there, with just an absolute whooping of
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: the old Kansas City Chiefs and Ken Walker. And John
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Schneider says, that was cool. But 48 hours later, he says,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: I'm not done yet. I'm going to go get the
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: best offensive lineman that I can find and quit Nelson.
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that was the performance ranks up there with the
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: best games that the Legion of Boom put up. Like,
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: that was a Pantheon game. That was a frame it,
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: remember where it was. It was like the Monday night
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: game against the Saints. The Super Bowl against the Broncos
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: is different because of the magnitude of the game. But
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: one of those whoopings of the San Francisco 49ers, you
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: pick whether it was week, the second, it would have
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: been two games. Second to last game of the season
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: in 2012 when they just brutalized them. Or week two,
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: 2013 when they put a thumping on them in the
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: second half. this was, this was a dominant performance. And
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: then look, man, there are things that John Schneider does
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: that I know can drive people crazy. There are other
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: things that John Schneider consistently does that everybody should celebrate
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: and his willingness to spend draft picks to get guys
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: in the middle of the season should be one of
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: those things that everybody trips over themselves, thanking him for,
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: because whether it was Marshawn Lynch, whether it is, it's
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: Leonard Williams, Dwayne Brown, you go through the guys that
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: they have added mid season. The closest thing you can
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: come to a miss. And I would argue it wasn't
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: a miss at all is Carlos Dunlap. When they add
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: guys in the middle of the season, last year was
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: Rashid Shaheed.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: It makes a huge difference.
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: And look, they, they have significantly improved. What was the
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: weakest spot on their roster, which is right card.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: Because now you have gray's able moving over there and
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: going from being, having, having a problem at a position
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: to having a solution is a huge difference, especially on
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: the offensive line.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: I found the one, I found the one, two, three,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: cause I think Dunlop was serviceable right at the time.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: That was a service, but there was another one and
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: I forgot about this. And I was just looking back through,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: remember Roy Robertson Harris?
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I do.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: The defensive lineman that they brought in briefly. Yeah. But,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: but that, that didn't work out, but that, but that
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: was only, that was a desperation move. That wasn't a,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: I would say almost a stop. I mean, not desperation,
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: more of a stop gap. It wasn't a significant move,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: and I think it was a late pick. It wasn't
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: like these. They were just so decimated on the defensive
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: line that he brought that guy in. They didn't re-sign him.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: But yeah, you look through four years in a row.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: They've hammered a guy that's... Now, I'll tell you this, Danny.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: It was an interesting dynamic yesterday, and maybe they'll tell
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: me I'm full of it, and I hope I am.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's just his personality. Quentin Nelson was somewhat subdued
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: when he was at the podium. And it didn't sound
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: like he was really consulted before they made the trade.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: In the NFL, you don't have to do that. A
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: lot of other sports, they've got no trade clauses, worked
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: into deals and things like that, and they're cooked and
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: baked into those things. But in this case, that wasn't
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: what was going on. He was up there and he's like, yeah,
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: I didn't really know. My wife's staying in Indianapolis. And
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: just the overall tone was like, I don't want to
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: say he was disappointed or anything. I think he was
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: just still trying to process it. Because my initial thought
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: was what you just said. Like when they do these deals,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: there's certainly a plan, and I'm sure there is, but
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: not only a plan, but probably some conversation that took
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: place in some backdoor channels to re-sign the guy, right?
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: And I don't know if that happened with Quentin Nelson.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Hard to tell. Maybe it's just his demeanor, which is
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: what you want. You want an offensive lineman that's kind
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: of mad at the world. But it was a little
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: bit different than I thought it would be, the tone
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: at least.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's tough.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: I think it's different for him because he was such
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: a mainstay in Indianapolis. And that's the same state he'd
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: gone coming from where he went to college, having gone
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: to Notre Dame, being there.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: That might make it a little tougher, the idea of
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: a transition.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: But I also think that one of the benefits you've
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: seen is when guys come to Seattle, by and large,
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: especially veterans.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: They really like playing there.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Jadavion Clowney didn't. He came.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: He was kind of one and done after they traded him.
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: Seattle wanted to bring him back, and he kind of
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: doesn't like off-season training.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: But for the most part.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of isn't the word, Danny. He doesn't like
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: off-season training. That's a kind of way to put it.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: He just doesn't. He's like, I am on the school
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: teacher schedule.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: September is not even the school teacher.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: I'm on a half year. I go one quarter, September
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: to December. That's all you're getting me for.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: Um, but with, so, but I think it's that, that
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: idea of having a transition and getting used to a
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: new place. And all of a sudden he's at a
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: team that is in a different part of the country
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: and his wife is staying back there.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: That's a lot. That's a lot to, to kind of
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: bounce on the fly.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: In terms of his performance, the fact that he is
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: in a contract year is going to, he's got every
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: incentive to go out there and just be the butt
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: kicker that he's been. And I think that sometimes just that,
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: that upgrade that comes there, there's a thought that, that
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: defensive line and the offensive line in the secondary are
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: what are called weak link positions.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: In that your group is as strong as the weakest link.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: Because when you've got somebody that's deficient, that person can
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: be pinpointed and targeted. And, and it's clear, it's clear.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: Secondary is that way. And, and I think offensive line.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Can be too.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: And, and they did this move addresses their biggest weakness.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: And if everything goes, how everyone hopes they're quitting, quitting
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: Nelson should fall in love with this.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: And I think that, I think like John Benton is
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: so highly thought of the offensive line coach by all
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: the guys. that are in that group. They just rave
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: about him. I think it's also safe to say that
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: when you look at Mike McDonald, the culture they've built there,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: you mentioned it, what John Schneider's built there. Leonard Williams
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: addressed that actually today in his media availability. So yeah,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: I think that'll be it. Danny, before I let you go,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Danny O'Neill joining us, weekly visit. Big thanks to Northwest
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Handling Systems. They bring us Danny O'Neill every week. Danny,
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: the Huskies play at Nebraska tomorrow. And we were bringing
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: this up earlier. There's a lot of storylines. I'll get
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: more of the deeper college football storylines as the days
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: go on. But everyone that has anything remotely to do
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: with Washington football has had their say. I'll let you
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: have your say. There's a decision that Jed Fish, I'm
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: sure he's already made it. I don't think that's even
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: a debate. He's made the decision. Who starts at quarterback
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: or do they split time? What do they do? Is
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: it DeMond, the $ 4 million man that they, you know, basically,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: I'm going to say this and I don't want people
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: to get, They basically forced him to stay. He wanted
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: to leave, and they held him to his contract that
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: he sold. Oh, yeah.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: You don't have to qualify that.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: That's the truism.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: And they're paying him $ 4 million, or someone's paying him
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: $ 4 million, or Elijah Brown, who, by the way, is
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: not playing for free. He transferred from Stanford. Okay, so
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: let's make that perfectly clear. I don't know what he's making.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: We don't know. I'm sure somebody knows. Maybe Safi will
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: text me and go, hey, he's making $ 100, 000. That's it.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: But he's making something. He didn't leave Stanford, an ACC school,
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: not a group of six school. He didn't leave Stanford.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: And wait for it. It's Stanford. He didn't leave that
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: for free, but he ain't making $ 4 million. So Jed's
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: made his decision. What should Jed do?
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: Jed should start Elijah Brown.
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: And if Jed doesn't start Elijah Brown in this game,
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: that is going to be supremely disappointing to me because
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: all of the data you have at this point points
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: to that the offense ticked up immediately. immediately once he
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: stepped into the game. I don't know if Elijah can
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: handle being the long-term starter. I don't know if he's
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: the guy that you are happy to have going into
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: next year. The three turnovers that he committed against Purdue
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: were somewhat concerning. Like that's not, that's not going to
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: be sustainable against, certainly not against a defense like Nebraska's,
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: but it's very clear all data points that sort of
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: steer toward the reason that this offense has been so
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: frustrating has been the play of the quarterback. I don't
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: have any reservations about how Jed has handled it.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: I don't want or need him to make any declaration.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: If he spends the next three weeks saying, Hey, it's
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: just a matter of Demond getting healthy and we're waiting
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: until he's a hundred percent healthy and we don't ever
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: get any clarity on it.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: I'm fine with that.
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: But Until Elijah Brown's performance gives you some reason to
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: think that he shouldn't be the starting quarterback for this team,
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: he should be the starting quarterback going forward.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: I don't care how much anybody's making.
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: I don't care what sort of commitments or sort of
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: pledges people think that they've made. The results point to
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: him being the best quarterback for this team right now,
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: and he should play.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: You know, with Elijah Brown, his sample size before Washington
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: is limited. He played nine total games for Stanford. In
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: those nine games, six touchdowns and five interceptions. And with Washington,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: seven touchdowns and three interceptions. I think you can put
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: a little asterisk next to the one touchdown that came
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: as time expired in garbage, truly football garbage time against Iowa.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: But nevertheless, 13 touchdowns and eight interceptions in his career.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: But he's completing 74% of his passes with the Huskies.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: The turnovers are a problem. There's a very sad. It
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: kind of feels like a Sam Darnold situation here. It's
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: yes or no, a touchdown or interception, one or the other.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: What are you going to hit us with? But yeah,
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: that's the question. And I think it's, to me, it's
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: sort of a litmus test for college football, Danny. Like
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: I think Washington, I think the rest of college football
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: is probably has a little bit, you know, if truth
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: be told, maybe not the national pundits that only care
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: about five or six schools, but I think if your
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: coaches and administrators, boosters, what have you across the country,
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: I think Washington is an interesting litmus test this weekend.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: What does Jed Fish do? Because... Now, they've kind of
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: had that issue down at Cal with JKS with their
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: talented sophomore quarterback, although he's been hurt. And kind of
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: like DeMond, he's been hurt. So you kind of use
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: that as an excuse at times. But what do you
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: do with the high– any other position really doesn't matter.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: But what do you do with the high-priced quarterback that
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: you have committed to and all this kind of– what
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: do you do with him? And I think there's a
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: lot of schools and probably a lot of people across
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: the country that are probably quietly keeping an eye on this.
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: As a football coach, you run into huge problems when
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: you start letting status, and that can be draft status,
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: it can be salary, or it can be perception of
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: how a player is. When you start letting status and
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: not performance dictate playing time. Now, the one time you
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: can get away with it it is when you're talking
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: about someone being a young player who you have to
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: grow with. And hey, we're going to take some bumps
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: in the road, but that requires some messaging from the
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: coach to get everybody to understand the situation.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: Jed Fish did not build this as a rebuilding year.
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: And when you start playing guys... and the decision appears
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: to be based on status as opposed to actual performance,
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: you run into real problems.
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  Speaker 4: The measurement has to be.
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: And that's especially true in college football, where it's essentially
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: year-to-year contracts at this point. It has to be on
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: how are you able to play for my team right now.
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: That's who should be getting the playing time.
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  Speaker 2: That's what should happen. I agree.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: That's what should happen. There's a lot of things, Danny,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: you've covered college football. There's a lot of things in
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: college football that should happen. That should happen.
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: I will quote the Simpsons now.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: In theory, even communism.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Works.
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: Lots of things work in theory.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: I think someone at the Seattle City Council just heard
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: you and said, yeah, damn right it does. Or socialism.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: Don't give them any ideas.
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  Speaker 1: Wait.
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  Speaker 3: Cue the angry text.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, God.
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  Speaker 2: What am I doing to myself on a Friday? Why
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: did I say that out loud? Sometimes you just need
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: to stop. Okay. Danny, tell people about the dang apostrophe, sir.
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  Speaker 2: times written in a car waiting for a street sweeper
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  Speaker 2: to go by.
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  Speaker 4: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: That's true.
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  Speaker 2: That will happen on occasion.
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• 31:55
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• 31:57
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• 32:00
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• 32:01
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• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Brandon Montour scored the game-winning goal Wednesday against Toronto. He's
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: now riding a season-long four-game point streak. Five games, or
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: four games, five points, though. Yeah, that was a hell
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: of a finish. You weren't watching that, though, were you?
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: That game?
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: I was not. I was immersed in the Sounders broadcast. Immersed,
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: fully immersed.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was something else. They gave up the tying
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: goal with about 91 seconds left. Austin Matthews and then
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Brandon Montour decided, what the hell? I'm going to end
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: this thing. I've got no desire whatsoever to play overtime.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: I'm done. I need to go home. I've got to
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: see the kids, see the wife. Get the hell out
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: of here. We've got to fly the next day to Calgary.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: That's where they are tonight. Kraken playing in Calgary. It's
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: the final game for the Kraken in team history. The
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: short history is six years. In Scotiabank Saddledome on Friday evening. Now,
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: I bring that up for this. They're building a new
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: building in Calgary. Good for them. They needed one. Do
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: you know what the Saddledome was originally built for?
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: Can I take a guess?
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: Rodeo. That's a great guess because the Calgary Stampede is
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: a huge deal. That's a great guess. 1988 Calgary Olympic Games.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, really?
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: It was the venue for figure skating and the hockey
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: finals as well. The figure skating. And that was when
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: hockey was still the amateurs. So it wasn't quite the
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: same level it is now as the NHL guys. But
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Katarina Witt.
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: Remember her?
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Uh-huh, I do.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: She was the gold medalist that year, so kind of
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: an iconic building in a lot of ways. Brian Boitano
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: was the men's gold medalist in figure skating.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Doesn't it feel like back then, like 80s, 90s, early 2000s,
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: like the Olympic Games, like the figure skating, those were stars.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but they also felt older. And I wonder if
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: it was because we were younger, but now I look
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: at them, I'm like, these are just like kids.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: They were like 18, 19. Yeah.
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: But they looked like adults to me.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, Calgary Olympic games were phenomenal. They, they, there's
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: a lot of stuff that happened in there. They, the
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: flying fan, the ski jumper and Maddie neeking in and
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: different things, but yeah, that the Katarina vits and, uh,
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: but the saddle dome was built for the Olympics in
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: 88 and it was an iconic building for so many years,
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: but they, uh, they're building a new building. They're actually,
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: it'll be ready for next year. So last time the, uh,
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: the Kraken will play there. They've had good success. against
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: the Flames in their games lately. This is what scares me.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: I'm that guy. Kraken have won four straight against Calgary.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: They're 2-0 this season. I'll score them, as you pointed
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: out in the update headlines that you wrote up for us.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: 12-2 this season. They've got points at nine of the
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: last 11 against Calgary. 8-2-1 in that span. Feeling good,
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: except Calgary's playing better. Got to get this win tonight.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: And they play Calgary next. Then they're off. I don't know.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: Two days off? What the hell am I going to do?
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: They're off until next Wednesday. They'll be back here at
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Climate Pledge Arena next Wednesday, and then a matinee against
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: the Rangers, and then... Mike Benton jumps on a plane
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: with Everett and company and they head to Finland.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's right. Finland.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: And I will say, too, they're also, after these two
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: games against Calgary, they're done with Calgary for the entire.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Rest of the season. Which is weird.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: It was so weird that they made them play four
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: times so early. Four times within a month.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: Your own division. It's weird.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you'd think they'd have like two early on and
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: two later on.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: The good news is, to me, the good news is this.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: I'd rather see Calgary as Seattle's trying to build itself
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: up this year than, say, Edmonton.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, for sure. It didn't go very well when
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: we played Edmonton the one time.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: Not great. It hasn't gone on well ever.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, there's that.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: I hate them.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: They have good hockey players. Eh, well, screw them. Two
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: guys that are really good. Anyway, Chandler Stephenson, six-game point
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: streak as well. Vince Dunn's had great success against Calgary
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: with four points in the two games. I mean, everything
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: points to Seattle having a solid game tonight and getting
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: the win. And then taking a few days off, getting
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: rested up, have Calgary again, and then away we go.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: And thank you very much. Thanks for coming. So, yes,
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: 4.30 pregame tonight with the captain, Mike Benton, will be
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: with you.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: Step into his box, the Bento box.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: The Bento box, which will be right here. Fane will
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: be taking it. Oh, that's the Daily Power Play on
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• 37:31
  Speaker 2: point this out before we get to the top of
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: the hour. We've got Bren coming up as well. I
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: don't want to mess up. Dick Fane is doing the
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: show from 3 to 4.30 today. And then he'll be
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: back on the air tonight at 10 with Varsity Football Live.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: which is just awesome. And Greg Bell did a really
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: good segment today on, he does them every Friday, but
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: he is opening segment today. He does talks to coaches
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: on Fridays, but his opening segment today, he did a
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: great job on just talking about kind of the state
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: of high school football and athletics in our state. There's
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: a bill that I'm not going to touch for the
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: 10 foot pole that is on the, that's out there
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: for you guys to vote on vote, you know, election
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: days on Tuesday. Well, however you vote, just vote, just vote.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: That gets all the attention. To me, the bigger issue
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: is what Greg brought up today in high school sports.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: And it's the disparity in terms of the haves and
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: the have-nots and the transfers and kids going to play
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: and these super teams that are being formed. He mentioned
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: O'Day beat West Seattle last night 48-6. And I thought
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: to myself, that's it? But then, as Greg pointed out,
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: he was doing the game. Monte Kohler had a bunch of,
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: you know, his JV kids are playing like second half,
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: which is good. That's where you should do it. There's
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: other games that aren't that close.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: So really, we're going to do something that Greg and
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: I texted after the show today. We're going to do
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: something with that down the road and kind of get
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: more into that along the way, because I think there's
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: a lot, there's some meat on the bone with high
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: school sports. Again, there's a very popular bill that you, well, popular,
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: very polarizing bill that's out there. Everybody can talk about
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: and vote on on Tuesday. To me, there's other issues
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: in high school sports that affect more than like a
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: dozen people. So we'll, we'll take a look at that
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: later on down the road, but Varsity Football Live tonight,
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: 10 o'clock. Some great games. Final weekend of the regular season,
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: so huge matchups. Fane will have that for you. It'll
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: be a ton of fun. I think it's one of
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: the best shows out there. I love what they do,
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: so go check that out later on today. We'll take
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: a break.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Come back.
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